Nightmare - Devastating Earthquake Exposes China's Horrific Building Quality - Episode #256
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Welcome everybody to episode 256. Yes, you know what that is? 256? Your favorite state. Alabama. Shout out to our boys and girls in Alabama. We love you.

Hopefully make it down there at some point. We have quite the show for you today. I know I always say that, but we've uncovered something very big today. Yes. Can we give a little hype to this? Because the way this show is segmented is you'll probably see on the thumbnail there's like buildings falling down. That's true. Massive tragedy and it happened. Horrible. Just happened in Thailand and Myanmar. And unfortunately, it's very much tied to China directly. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, they didn't cause the earthquake. No, no, the damage here. Yes. In fact, the only buildings we saw fall down were, in fact, as you'll see. We'll tell you about that later. The point of this, though, is that that's the thumbnail, that's the title, and that's what you're here for, and you're going to get all that in very good detail. But there's something more important as far as propaganda is concerned that we've uncovered. If you guys, and we'll tease this in a second, but you guys thought last week, which was like a big expose, there's a victory there.

Number two, this one's much bigger. Much bigger. Much bigger than last week. So definitely if you're considering sharing this on your social, go on X or Twitter or whatever, all those, consider putting this out there. Help to get this to people's feeds. This is going to be a big one. Let's get right into it, guys. We're going to saunter right into it with what's new. And this is where we discuss what's new, specifically with regards to China. But first, what's happening here?

This is important. You didn't pause it. You didn't pause it, bro. You didn't pause it. I didn't pause it. I'm sorry. It's okay. Just in time. Okay. So I'll go back a little bit. Well, I'll go back a little bit. What will he do? Okay. I'm trying to spoil it, but I won't. Okay. We want you in the comment section to tell us what you think this old man's about to do. And I'll read some. Okay. What do you think he's going to do? Like in the scene, uh,

You've got a nice flashy new motorcycle there on the street, and this old man walks up to the motorcycle. What do you think he's going to do? It might not be what you think. Yes. I'm not just saying that to devil's advocate. It's actually probably not what you think. Yeah, like you can see... Well, get us out of there. What will he do? Okay, can you read some things? A lot of trash everywhere. I just want to say, Adam Kahn, thank you very much. Qualit1203 says...

Setting up the Yumcha segment is brought to you by South Africa's most famous Omar Rusks. Yes, Omar Rusks. Excellent. And Augusto says, guys, I made a short. It's in the Discord server. Yeah, but I mean, like, what are people saying about... I'm waiting for it to populate. Oh, it's not popular? We're way delayed, dude. Okay. Yeah, we're delayed. Yeah, sorry. What is it going to be? Steal it. Steal gas. Push it. Pee on it. Steal from the trunk. There is no trunk on a motorcycle, guys. Yeah, what kind of motorcycle do you have? Okay. Molested. Let's find out, shall we?

Hump the bike. Okay, let's see. So he walks up. I'm going to have to get us out of this for this, okay? Give a thumbs up if he's going to hump the bike. Sure. Here he goes. All right. What's he going to do? He, like, feels around. He's like, hmm. All right. He grabs the stand.

That is really the opposite of pick up the bike. Yeah. I don't know about you, but as a motorcycle rider and owner, this makes me cringe. It makes me angry. Very mad. I can feel my blood pressure rise. Because, okay, this is a new motorcycle. And in China, to get this kind of motorcycle is very expensive. Okay? This is $5,000. Yes. In China, that's crazy expensive. Exactly. Since you can buy a $200 bike. Yeah.

You can, I guess. So anyway, that's a special stand for motorcycles that don't have kickstands. Okay? So it's very... It's like whoever owns this motorcycle cares a lot about it. Let's see what happens. So he dropped the bike, right? And then he's like, oops. Now he's going to go... What's he doing? He's just picking up some garbage, you know? And then he's like...

Oh, yeah. Might as well take that. Do you know why he did that, guys? That's what he wanted. Yes. Yes. He wanted the aluminum that's in the bike stand. So he literally caused this nice brand new motorcycle to fall over, dent the tank, twist the handlebars, do all these terrible things, break the levers, everything, smash a mirror so that he could take the aluminum stand so he could recycle it for like 50 cents. Right.

Somebody said, it's okay. It's just a CF Moto, guys. It's not. It's a Benelli, dude. But close enough. Yeah, close enough. Hey, I'm not. Actually, you know, you're right. It's the same freaking thing. No, it's not. I mean, $5,000 is $5,000. So is the CF Moto. Yeah, yeah, you're right. They're the same quality. They're both Chinese bikes, fully Chinese. Now it is, yeah. Like they bought them and then changed them. But anyway, can you imagine you're proud of your motorcycle, you park it on the street, and some...

old piece of crap guy comes and ruins your motorcycle so he can steal the stand holding it up. My favorite thing is he went to get the recyclable bottle before getting it. He's like, you know what? I will take that stand. He was probably waiting to see if someone came out from the noise. Anyway, let's move on. What a horrible old man. Can you explain this? I can if you pause it.

So these old ladies are getting shooketh. They are shooketh. Shaken. Yeah. Well, it's because I actually went on one of these machines. Yes. I filmed my dog meat documentary. Okay. I'll go back to that. Let me just play it so people can see it again because it's kind of bizarre. These shaking women are getting their backs straightened. They're getting kinks out of their back. Now, this doesn't do anything, by the way.

by the way it's just wildly uncomfortable okay but yeah this is something you will see around china probably gets your circulation going your heart rate up you know because you're like what's going on just walk just just take a freaking walk i guess so give a thumbs up if you would uh not okay and if you would too all right crazy uh this is almost related to the the main topic of the buildings and stuff because i'd like everybody to take a look

at what's going on here. Here you've got a street. Obviously, this is a security camera. You've got all the tiles on the road. This is a typical urban setting where you walk down the street. You'll go buy something from that shop. But then all of a sudden, out of nowhere, something's going to happen. If I press play. One, two, three.

Look at the guy in the shot. That happened real quick. Yeah. It's crazy how it bursts out from under the road. Yeah, in the beginning you could see the tiles lift up and everything. Yeah. That's nuts. I mean, this is actually something you'll see a lot in China. And that's because... And I noticed, especially when I was up north in a very dry area. I lived in the next to Gobi Desert, right? Yeah. And...

When it would rain, this kind of stuff would happen and it would cause pure chaos. There's no drainage in China. Yeah. The drainage sucks. In fact, a lot of the storm drains are actually just not... They don't need it anymore. They're just grass. It's...

Yeah, it's bad. Also, don't forget the infrastructure is not very good. So like the pipes underneath that are supposed to be there for drainage, they're often blocked or they don't exist or they weren't installed correctly or whatever. Things like this happen. Invest in China. Invest in China and let them make your infrastructure projects in your country. Do it.

This is a little bit, you know, honestly, okay, this is quite serious because we all remember that terrible flood that killed everybody in the subway station. Yes. You know? Yes. We're talking about like these flashy cities that people go to on TikTok and whatever. And they're like, whoa, look at the lights. Look at this nice new street or whatever. Yeah, in Chongqing or whatever. Yeah.

Meanwhile, they fall apart. Yeah. You get into the subway and you're like, whoa, it's such a clean subway. And then if the rain comes, everyone drowns to death. And then it gets covered up. Yeah. And they ship the actual train carts out with blacked out windows so nobody could see the bodies inside. It's bad, right? Yeah. You can shine something up and make it look fancy, but safety is unfortunately not priority. Safety not guaranteed, dude. Yeah.

We have a quick update. Remember last time we had Genocide Dundee, you know, the Australian guy doing the Xinjiang genocide denial? Well, I'm not going to comment anymore because you removed it. Yeah. Well, he must have seen the show because he's removed his second Xinjiang video, which is a positive thing. So good on him. He's obviously, you know, making sure that no comments are left because, you know, I saw some comments. I went to go check his videos.

I saw some people leave comments, but they were immediately deleted. By the way, we didn't tell any of you. No, never. In fact, I just want to clarify. If we show you something, we're not ever telling you guys to go over there and like brigade or leave comments. No, no, never. We're very much against that. Never. Just want to point out propaganda when we see it. And I must say, it's good that he took those down. Yeah, no, and shout out. Seriously, like you did the right thing and that's good. And I think I genuinely think they didn't know what they were doing when they did it. Wow.

Or didn't do enough research, I should say. I think they kind of knew something must be off. The Chinese government is taking them around. They met all those people. Not to that degree. You have to do some research, and it's very easy to find. Yeah, because we did find out who they met and who set the set, because we didn't know how it all works. And those are not savory people, and you should know. Yeah, we'll do a little research before you work with people. Yeah, pretty much. Anyway, that's aside. I'm an American, and I went to a Chinese hotel.

We're going to be showing you something later in the show, which is even bigger. Yes. Oh, quite a bit. Quite a bit bigger, and it's tied to some very powerful people. Okay, we're going to be showing that to you later after we cover all the rest of the topic. So stick around for that for sure.

Okay. What's happening here? It's too loud. We don't even barely need audio for any of this stuff. Just a little bit. A little taste. Okay. So this guy, he found an infinite money hack, really. He basically ordered...

Why am I? So delivery? Yes. So this is his dish, right? So he orders it to his house, right? Yeah. So he knows where the restaurant is. He obviously lives right, or he's working right next to the restaurant. He's right next to the restaurant, or maybe he was sitting in the restaurant or something. Well, no, he works next to it. Okay. If you work next to the restaurant, he knows that the delivery driver is going to pull up. So he gets a free ride. He goes, hey, you're going to deliver this to my house. Can I just get on the back?

That's pretty sick. Oh, interesting. So yeah, can I just get a ride back? Yeah, with his food. It's like a free taxi. It's a free taxi. Kind of, kind of cool. It's clever, but I hope he gives him a tip because adding that extra weight is going to drain the dude's battery more. I would hope so. You better give him a tip. I would hope so. Yeah, but that is quite an interesting idea. Think about it. It's like I know this one scumbag who whenever he buys a car...

He buys like broken cars and then he pretends that he's broken down and calls the AA and says, oh, I broke down. Can you fetch me? He calls Alcoholics Anonymous. AAA, sorry. You know what I mean. He's like, oh, I broke down. You know, can you come fetch me? Meanwhile, he's just bought a broken car. You know? To bring it to the mechanic? To bring it to his house. Oh. You know, rather than pay for a tow truck. Oh.

So he registers it all on his app or whatever? Yeah, no, he goes, he's like, oh, my car broke down. Can you come fetch it? He's like, guy turns up, there's literally a car without an engine in it or whatever, but he'll be like, oh, it broke down. Oh, the engine flew out. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, I'm not really on board with that, to be honest. Do I know this person? Yeah, you do. I'll tell you later. Anyway, changing gears here. Okay.

I would like everybody to try and take a guess as to what is inside these green buckets over here, because you can see this woman is taking whatever's in the green buckets and throwing it all over the police.

And these are not just normal police. These are riot police. Yes, riot police. So they have responded to an incident where people will be disappeared because that means there's an uprising against something that they don't want. I'm just curious what people think that could possibly be. Let's have a little guess. This is happening in the Hawaii of China, by the way, as it's called. I know. I would call it that. Come on. I know. Come on. It's an insult to Hawaii. Anyway...

I'm going to read it. Okay. Manure, horse manure, Chinese wine, manure, dung. Well, that means they're kind of right. Horse piss,

AIDS. Whoa, guys. Dude, relax. I like how this guy takes a bucket of it and he's going to like... You know what that is? It's human feces. That's human poop. Yes. They're throwing their own poop. Yeah. In fact, our previous thumbnail, which we A-B tested with our patrons, you guys helped us choose. Yeah, on the Discord server. Shout out to you guys. If you want to be part of that, join our patreon.com slash ADV podcast. But...

what we did was we actually originally made it. It was like they're throwing their own poop at the place because it's true. Yeah, it's night soil. Night soil? Can you explain night soil? Night soil is basically, you know... It's not, I promise, it's not a synthwave band. No, it's not. If it was, I wouldn't listen. Night soil is basically when it's human feces used as fertilizer. So in the rural areas, the farmers will urinate and defecate in their fields in order to add fertilizer.

Okay. Because you don't see a lot of cows around there, do you? No, just those water buffalo. Well, water buffalo. So, you know, when it comes to fertilizer, the easiest thing to use is your own poop and pee, which is what a lot of the Chinese farmers use. Made a video about that myself. I said my Chinese parents-in-law want my urine or something. My Chinese parents-in-law try to tell me that I have to urinate on my flowers and stuff, you know, to give them...

nitrites or whatever. I'm like, no, I'm not going to go in my garden and piss all over my plants. Thank you very much. Especially vegetables or growing vegetables. I'm going to eat that. I'm not going to do that. I'm sorry. Well, when it's growing season, I'm going to come over and see. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, so what's happening is

They were growing betel nut, okay? Yes. And some other crop. Betel nut is like a mild stimulant. It's a very addictive drug, and I would hardly call it mild. It really Fs you up for about 15 minutes. Yeah. Okay, so it's a stimulant. Yeah.

Yeah. Chew it. And it's very popular in many Asian countries. Especially Hainan. Yeah. Taiwan. And what happens is people chew it and it gives you a high and it's kind of like speed. It keeps you awake. So taxi drivers, truck drivers love it. Makes you real dizzy too. Yeah. So yeah, it doesn't sound very safe, does it? No. Anyway, it's very popular and it's a cash crop. You can sell it for quite a lot, right? Yeah, for sure.

Yeah, that's true. Like if you did it pound for pound, it'd go for a lot of money. So all these farmers are growing betel nut. And then the local government decided, okay, we're just going to take the land where you're growing the betel nut because we want to do something with it. Yeah, betel nut's not illegal by the way. I don't want people to think they're getting like drugs confiscated. No, it's totally legal. Anyone can buy it.

But the government just came along like, we're taking your land and we're going to destroy your crops because we want to use the land for something else. And you can imagine they weren't too happy. No one got hit with that. So stop. Chill the F out. Come on, YouTube. It was a poop war. It was a poop war. So basically, because they've got their fertilizer there anyway, their night soil for the betel nut.

they started throwing it on the riot police to get, you know, basically stop them from destroying their crop. Of course, it didn't work. My favorite thing about this, well, I should say Lisa, they have a SWAT team there, by the way. Yes. My

My favorite thing about this, well, least favorite thing is these people will, the people that did this are going to disappear. Yeah. It will be, you won't see them. Number two, my favorite thing about this is that these people have their crops, have their stuff where they have to live off of this. This is substance farming. Yes. Substance farming. Substance, yeah. They have to grow these crops to stay alive. Yes. And the government goes, we're going to have this now.

We're going to have all this land. It's ours anyway. That's why it's so important to understand the distinction between China and America and other countries. Like the ability to own, whether you own land or not, it's a different story. But the ability to own land is incredibly important. Yes. China, you cannot own one slice, not one grain of sand. You just can't. Why do you think there's so many illegal, you know, marijuana grows run by Chinese illegal immigrants in Oklahoma? Right. Because, you know, you can buy the land. Right.

It's just one of those things. But yeah, it's very unfortunate and there is no recourse. That's the problem. Their land was taken. Their crops were destroyed and they can't do anything about it. All they could do is throw poop on the cops and hope that they leave them alone. But of course, that never happens. No, they're absolutely screwed. They rounded them up. What the... Do we have a baller group?

I think we have a bullet report. Can you turn it up? Yeah, I'm going to turn it up. Please click like for those poor beetle nut farmers. Yes, click like for them. Also, I'm going to have a little shout out to anybody out there who doesn't like saying click like all the time. I know who you are. It's very simple. You guys are the smart ones, the ones that don't like it when Seamux says click like. I know you guys are going to click like anyway. You don't need to be prompted for it. I actually think they probably are not clicking like because I'm saying it.

They're actually rebelling against you. No, I'm saying that those of you, you smart guys. Oh, I see. Yeah. Reverse psychology. Honestly, you smart guys. I know you would have clicked like already. You don't need to be told to do it because you've already done it. Right. Yeah. And you would do it anyway. Yeah, you would do it anyway. You're smart. Show us a little bit of support. Let's see. Wallet Report.

Yes. Okay, so once again, bollards have been set up and hastily all over China to stop these ramming attacks that happen very often, these revenge against society attacks. And it is, it's dangerous, never mind just the ramming attacks, just the chaotic nature of traffic in

can be quite dangerous as you're walking next to the road. Like a person can swerve and hit by mistake. There's all sorts of like brake failures, all that kind of thing. The mass murders are probably the biggest. That's the reason why they put them there. But I'm saying, you know, I just don't know how effective they are because this man seems to be sexually molesting one of them. Either that or it's part of his workout routine. Oh yeah, okay. I mean, if you can do that with a bollard though. It's not very effective, is it?

Can we see that again? That guy is having a little bit too grand of a time. I honestly think he's just doing his daily workout. In the road. Because he looks like your average gym boy, wouldn't you say? He's about to do that pose. You know, get his phone out in front of a mirror. Stretch real hard. You know, look at him. Buff is all out. Oh!

That was our bollard report. Now, that bollard did seem incredibly light. Yes. That's not stopping a car. Can you pull this out of here? I don't know what this is doing up here. This is a part of the thing, but why is it afterwards? I don't know. I mean, we can watch it if you want. Yeah. Okay, they're harassing like an old lady. That's what we affectionately call benders in China. Is that a better term?

You know, we used to ride through China on our motorcycles and we'd come up with nicknames for just what you see around you. We'd have Tina Turners and those are the people that do a U-turn without any notice right in front of you and almost kill you. We'd have poppers or the people that just jump out of the side of the road without looking. And it's a real thing. They don't look left and right. They'll ride a motorcycle. They'll ride a tractor. They'll drive a car directly out into the road without looking ever. On purpose. Yeah. It's insane. Like if you're riding. Yeah. They believe in fate.

And then we call these guys benders because they're so bent over. And it's actually, it's very heartbreaking. When you're in the rural countryside, you'll see ancient people, like in their 90s, toiling away in the fields and carrying heavy loads. And they're so like...

bent over from all the hard work very sad it's like a pack mule that's just been like overburdened its whole life but it's a human yeah you see benders everywhere and like to see them harassing this poor woman because they're going to steal her crops these are her crops here you know those police and and uh they're plainclothes police so she's fighting she's fighting with them yeah yeah

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He's smoking. And that's China in a nutshell. That really is. If you were to freeze frame that right there. Yes. That guy laughing, not being bothered at all. Yes. While having a job to do something officially. And breaking the rules. And breaking it in front of people as he's supposed to be on the clock. Yes. Is China. That's China. It is. The rules are there. The signs are there. But they're never enforced. And they're badly enforced. And they're selectively enforced. Yes. Yes.

It's like the rubbish bins that have a recycle bin and a normal bin, but then when you throw it in, it goes into the same receptacle. Yes. It's just there for show. I think that, you know, the perfect law example of that, there's a law, I don't know if you guys are new, you probably wouldn't know, but there's a law in China called picking quarrels, starting quarrels and picking trouble or whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And basically that law literally means anything. Yeah, picking quarrels and provoking trouble. Provoking trouble. It can be used on anything.

If you wear clothing that they don't like, that's it. If you protest against the government, make a noise, you do anything, then you're a political opponent or you're a political dissident or something, or you mildly criticize the government. They'll get you for that and you'll go to jail for five years. Yeah, exactly. It's crazy.

So this is a little bit of a snapshot, isn't it? It really is. I love it. And props to that guy. He's having a good time. Oh, yes. Dude, does that look comfortable to you? In fact, this is the most dystopian nightmare of non-reality that you can't do. I think it's mushrooms mixed with slices of grapefruit. We have the lamest YouTube names ever. He is not the victim. But he's a flowery public thing. I mean, she had a lot of space to go...

Take a dump in the back there. We've got nice questions. Okay, pleasant questions. In the black bag, we've got nasty questions. How would you explain your kinkiest impulse to your grandma without her disowning you if she were alive? Wow.

Yeah, yeah. That was really, really difficult to answer those questions. So we had a show where we talked about China's van life phenomenon. It's really obnoxious and bizarre. Fake van life. It's weirdly sexual, too. But you know what's interesting about that is that we covered the real ones and then the fake ones, these people taking advantage of this van life thing. But in the process, we also devised a game. Yes. And so the live tiers, yeah, hey, buy, die, black, white bag, it's called. Yes.

The top tier there, that $20 tier, they were able to participate. The half-priced tier was able to watch it afterwards. So no big deal. But the $20 tier, they got to participate in whether, and we randomly chose people in the audience, whether they're going to pick the white bag or the black bag. And the black bag was the bad questions. I got to ask some real tough questions. We didn't plan this. There's like 100 of them in there. And the funny thing about this was, is we devised a rule. If you pick the white bag...

Then one of us has to answer one of the white bag questions. Those are nice questions. Therefore, you, if you chose that, there's no punishment for you. You don't have to do anything. If you pick the black bag, then it's a nasty question for one of us. And we have to answer it. But because you chose the black bag, you have to as well. So it's kind of this weird, you're in this weird situation. And it got, it was to the point, I'll put it to you this way.

Where people in the audience said that was one of the most entertaining videos you've done yet, ever. But I don't know if I'd do it again because it was incredibly uncomfortable. I felt, I was sweating for you. Yeah, I got the bad question. You answered that question. Yeah, I answered all the bad questions. Honestly, too. Yeah, of course. So if you want to see what he said to those, it's Sue's torture.

Yeah, it was very bad. It was very funny. But you'll also get access to every other episode we've ever done. Yeah, if you join the Patreon, you know, on any of the Xiaoban Ho tiers, you can scroll down. There's like 140-odd, 145 you can go through. There's tons and tons of interesting ones. Why did you make the black bag the bad one and the white bag the good one?

Well, that's how it works. It's a coincidence. You tell a white lie, you know, whatever, you know. Anyway, let's not get into the black lie. It's completely coincidence. Anyway, so you get access to all the episodes we've done 100 plus. I know you're trying to fight for another pun and I'm not going to let you do that. I'm not going to say it. Because I know what you're going to say. Yeah, I'm not saying nothing. I know what you're going to say. I'm not saying nothing. It's an acronym. Yes. It's half price right now.

If you do the half price here, you're not going to be able to be there live to vote on everything and do all the fun games and stuff. But right after it goes live, you're able to watch it. Yes. So there's a little incentive. We're going to do more interactive games going forward because it was so much fun slash horrible. It was horrifying, but it was still fun. But again, we do tons of good stuff on that show. It's not just random stuff. Correct. Our episode coming up this Monday, I believe, is what?

You'll have to look it up. Ah, well, I don't have to look it up because I already know that it is. You're going to have to look it up. What's our episode coming up? I have it right here. I literally have it right here. It is Delivery Driver Corps. Yes. Which is quite interesting. I knew that. I was just making sure. You know that delivery driver thing you saw? Yeah. Yeah, you pause it.

So there's this whole phenomenon of content about delivery drivers in China, and they've gone from this weird propaganda element to purely sexual. This weird stuff. It's out of control. So we're going to be covering... It's a multifaceted topic. We're going to be covering every angle of it, the whole knight in shining armor, the whole incentive to try and get people into doing delivery driver as a career, and also the weird kind of the pizza guy. It's sort of... Think of...

The delivery driver with a yellow clothes is now the pizza delivery guy. Yes. And there's a lot of content. Or the pool guy or whatever. Or the pool cleaner. Yeah, exactly. You know, that kind of stuff. Anyway, it's time for us to... Thank you, by the way. Time for us to hit SubPower Hour. This is where we tell you how China is trying to change the opinion of the world through propaganda and so on. Now, unfortunately...

Absolutely horrible earthquake. What was it? 7.7, I believe. Yeah, and it happened in Burma, right? Yeah, and Thailand. Yeah, so Burma got the brunt of it. Even parts of China, Yunnan? Even parts of China, Yunnan, yeah, because it borders Burma. But this building in particular made the rounds. You can play it. Yeah, so, okay. We wanted to show you, this is a building that is obviously still under construction, but the main structural part of the building is up. So...

the tons of architects started pouring in the comment sections of all these these things experts were called in they said in no way shape or form under this earthquake even though it was huge should this building have fallen down yeah which makes sense when you see the other building yeah let's take a look let's have a look this is bangkok you're like why are we showing thailand we'll show you in a second yeah

This is really poetic, like, when you think about China's imperialism around the world. Yeah. Turn it down a little bit. Sure.

You don't like to hear the shouts and screams? No, I mean, I just think it'll probably get a little much. Look at that cloud coming in. Isn't that crazy how fast that was? Yes. And people died from that. I just want to point out that, look, the building structure is there. They've already started to put the cladding on. It's got rebar. Yeah, I mean, like the actual glass outside cladding is already being put on the building. So that means the main structure of the building is complete. Yes. You know? Down she comes. I mean, that must be crazy. Run. Run.

Yeah, I mean, that's incredibly scary. Isn't that nuts? Yeah. Also, like, look at the crappier buildings in the foreground. They're totally okay. Yeah, they're fine, right? They didn't fall. And tall buildings, too, which we'll show you in a second. Oh, I mean, this was insane.

But you know what wasn't insane? What? This was the proof of who built this. Yes. So I'll get us out of there for a second so you can see. Warmly celebrate the successful completion of the main body of the Audit Bureau Office of the China Railway 10th Engineering Group Limited Thailand Project. You know what this is? It's the Belt and Road Initiative.

China's a neo-imperialism around the world that goes and builds shit structures, part of my language, shit infrastructure projects and gets these countries to be in debt to them for the rest of their existence. The way they do it as well is horrible because what they'll do is they'll come in to say, for instance, an impoverished African country and say, listen, we're going to help build schools and railways and all this kind of stuff for you.

And it's going to be great because it's going to make local jobs and, you know, it's going to be good for the economy and all that. Once it's all signed off on, they actually end up not creating any local jobs because they bring in cheap labor, like slave labor from China. Correct. Make them live in horrible conditions, forced to work 24-7, you know, doing these long shifts, building this stuff. They build it to very low quality. By the time all is said and done, the African country now owns millions or billions in debt. Right.

And they have a crap project that doesn't last long, starts falling apart, never really worked in the first place and didn't create local jobs. You said it well. When you have buildings being built in Asia, you want to hire the Japanese because they care about quality. Correct.

Correct. Number two. Or the Koreans. Or the Koreans. Oh, yeah. Okay. Any country other than China. Pretty much. Because at this point, I mean, you could make an argument that Chinese buildings are so, so advanced they deconstruct themselves. Sure. But anyway, they're like globally sustainable, you know. Oh, no need for that anymore. Yeah, exactly. Anyway, jokes aside, I'm tired of joking about this because I don't know when the world is going to wake up because this happens all the time. Yeah.

And it seems like in whether it's in Serbia, in Africa, in Thailand, in Laos, in Montenegro, we can rattle these off, right? Over and over and over again. And every time we see some sort of massive infrastructure failure, like the, in Addis Ababa, like the, what the, the Metro, right? All of these massive, massive projects,

Fall apart, don't work, don't pay themselves off, or are not completed. Sri Lanka, right? I can name these off all day. Can you look up, can you check if it was Zambia where the river got completely destroyed? You just say like Zambia River. There was one in Montenegro, right? Yeah, yeah. The mine disaster, yeah. A Chinese mining operation dumped coal.

chemicals into the river, which corroded and destroyed a dam. It was actually acid. It was an acid spill. You heard an oil spill? Yeah, it's an acid spill. Destroyed a dam, which then spread until it killed the river. Just killed it, like overnight. And I'm not talking about the...

the drug that makes you see stuff on the wall. No, like actualize it. It's dangerous to put your trust in Chinese construction. That's my point is I could rattle this off all day. I'm tired of making these PSAs. I just don't understand the appeal other than local corrupt politicians that cannot, they just want the Chinese money. That's it. And that's always, in Africa, that's what it always is. You know what you get when you have a Chinese building? It falls down. Yeah. All right. It falls down, your dams burst, your acid spills.

Yeah. Your environment is destroyed. Yeah. Your fish are gone. Think about it this way. If China doesn't care to pollute and destroy its own environment. Its own country. Why would it care about your environment? It's like in Star Wars, the huts, right? They polluted their own planet and had to go elsewhere and do pollution, right? You'd think your own, you know, if it is a master like empire or whatever, you're going to keep your own place very pristine. Sure. That's what China used to do. I mean, we showed you the pollution guy last time with, you know, the trash in the ocean and all that. Yeah.

If China, you know, none of the water is drinkable in China, anywhere in the country. I'm not talking about Flint, Michigan. I'm talking about the entire country. There's a huge country. Not one area you go north, south, east, west, can you find drinking water that you can drink out of the faucet. Not anywhere. No. They've destroyed the land when the majority of the land is contaminated. Why do you think they would care about your African country or your Southeast Asian country or whatever country it is? True. You know, it just doesn't make sense. However.

You choose China, you do get chemical fire waterfalls. True. Remember that clip last week? Yep. Anyway, they had the great unveiling that had a rock quote on it that says, Dotsie! Yes, yes. That's what a rock trader said. So here's a little insight into some of the things you might find in Chinese construction. Like maybe why this happened. Yes. Like fake rebar. Yeah.

Guys, this was a new clip, by the way. Pause that real quick. Yeah. The rebar is... This was not in that building, by the way. This is a D-bar. Yeah. You can D-bar this rebar. No, no. I'm saying this is the kind of stuff you find in China. Fake books. In building material. Yeah. Because...

There's a lot of shortcuts. China is the land of shortcuts and facades. And if there's a way to make money, there's going to be money made by like taking shortcuts, putting in some substitute for an expensive building material. You know, it's crazy. I'm looking at chat right now. People find this insane. Like they find that rebar insane. We see that and we're like, yeah, of course. Yeah. We lived in China for 10 years. Of course it's like that. We just wanted to show you some of the other massive buildings during this earthquake and

In Thailand, there are a lot of these buildings that have swimming pools on top because, you know, Thailand's got a big tourist industry. A lot of guys, you know, go there and do their nonsense and, you know, go to the beaches and whatnot, right? So you've got a lot of swimming pools and it's quite fascinating to see all the swimming pools, you know, like spilling. But those didn't fall down. But this bridge, that's... That's crazy. Connecting the two skyscrapers. That's like the bridge podcast over there. Yeah, exactly. It's...

Just call him. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, good. That was a... Yeah, I mean... This is crazy to see. Would you want to be on top of that build? Imagine seeing that while the earthquake's happening while you're on the top. Dude, it's terrifying. Dude, that's crazy! Yeah. Everything about this...

This whole situation is terrifying. Earthquakes, natural disasters, horrible. There's the Chinese building. Yeah. But it seems like it's only the Chinese building that fell down. That's what I find fascinating, is that you have all these other buildings in a relatively poor country that stand. They do not fall. Yes. Pools collapse. Look, other buildings, you saw that one over there. That was another building under construction. It didn't fall. It didn't fall? Yeah. The Chinese building, BRI building fell. Yeah.

And I'm not surprised at all. No. Are you? No. Not even in the slightest. No. In fact, it would be weird if the Chinese building didn't fall. You know what I mean? At this point. At this point. But yeah, anyway, like it's still a horrible disaster. I know there's still rescue efforts happening. Yeah. And I just really hope that as many people can be saved are saved. Absolutely. Absolutely. All right, guys. Here's the big one. So are you ready for another expose? Yeah.

All right, Slopaganda time. ♪ Laced it, yeah she laced it ♪ ♪ She can taste it ♪ - I'm an American and I went to a Chinese hospital. Here's my experience. The doctor's appointment was so easy to book. I just booked on the machine and a kind staff member came to help me. After I got my appointment, I was able to see the doctor very quickly. In America, sometimes it takes months just to get a specialist appointment. But here, I was able to do it in one day. The doctors were very professional.

and they work extremely hard. The appointment was $4 without insurance. In America, this would cost at least $300 without insurance. Unbelievable. In the hospital, every worker knew what they were doing, and they didn't make any mistakes. Everyone is playing their role to absolute perfection. Considering China has so many people, I'm very impressed by how efficient the healthcare system is.

My source is that I made it the fuck up. I'm in a. Yeah. OK, so for those of you who didn't catch this, this is massive propaganda. And you might think, like, what is this dopey clip? But OK, it was shared out by a massive Twitter account. Yeah, it was this Wall Street. We're not familiar with this account. Can you can you read the description? Yeah.

Over there, what does it say in that tweet? American goes to see a doctor in China. He describes the process. No appointment needed. Just walk in. You don't need to see a primary care doctor before seeing the specialist. Appointments and test results are same day. Cost was $4. Something is very wrong in America. You know what that reminds me of? The American.

This is what we call ABP, America Bad Party, when America's bad at all costs. The problem I have with this is I don't know this account, right? But what we did find later is they didn't create this clip. Can I tell you how many views this particular clip has gotten? Last time I checked this morning, 5.6 million views. Okay. Now, there is something wrong with America's healthcare system, but you don't use fake Chinese propaganda to prove that. How about we use facts and logic?

Yes, okay. There's so many things to break down in this particular video. And this, okay, this is right in my wheelhouse. You know why? Because I know this hospital. You know why? Because I've worked at that hospital. Do you guys remember I used to train doctors in China? That was what I did for a living before I became a full-time YouTuber.

Well, I happen to work in this particular hospital. So I know a lot about this and I know that this guy is talking a lot of crap. And so we're going to have to break this down. So let's do it. Everyone is playing their role. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Oh man, this guy just irritates me. Let's skip. Perfection. Considering China has so many people, I'm very impressed by how efficient the healthcare system is. My source is that I made it the f*** up. I'm an American and I went to a Chinese hospital.

Okay, so it's very easy to find out what hospital it is because I used to work there. Well, you know, I've done work there, I should say. Because, you know, what I do as part of a medical training company is I go to all the hospitals around Shenzhen and I do either medical terminology, hospital etiquette, English, all these different things that I would help to train the doctors, specifically doctors that were going to be part of these courses where they do like an internship in Australia and Germany. It was mainly those two. So I've been here before. So it's very easy. I was like, I know that place.

All right. So it's the Nanfang Yike Daxue Shenzhen Yuan. Yeah. Okay. So let's take a look. Let's go look at this hospital. Okay.

This is what it looks like on the outside. For those of you who are not familiar with this, because if you saw the footage that he put out, it's so saturated and overdone. It looks unreal because it's been saturated to the max. This is what it really looks like. Okay. What I've done here is I've superimposed...

And kind of distorted one of the clips from his video to show you that it's the same building. That's it. As you can see there. Yeah. Also, I wanted you guys to notice there's a little URL. And this is very important. You're going to explain that a little later. I will, yeah. But there's a URL embedded in this video that was shared by this big account. We had a bit of teamwork sleuthing here. Yeah, of course. We've maybe exposed something very large. Yeah. Can you take a look at mytree.com? Just remember that. Don't go there. Don't go there, but just remember that. Just remember it, yeah. So...

This is from my own Google Maps. You can see I've got lots of starred areas from places where I used to visit or important places around Shenzhen that I used to go to. And surprise, surprise, one of them happens to be that very hospital. Okay. So let's do a street view. We're going to go to that street view. Beautiful. Beautiful, yeah. Okay. Well, I mean, you don't see this in the propaganda, do you? No, you wouldn't. That's behind the hospital. All right.

Let's see this $4 no appointment hospital. Yes. Okay. Because this is the important thing. Because remember, no appointments. You can see a specialist straight away. Costs $4 for the whole thing. Take a look, by the way. They've got clothes hanging. What kind of a hospital has clothes hanging outside the windows? Chinese hospital. Yeah. Just so you know. Yeah, exactly. Just so you know. Because people walk away impressed with this crap. But there you can see the front of the building. You can see it's the same building. See? Yeah.

Yeah. Okay. We found it. We found it. In fact, pretty sure I superimposed. You can see there's his video. There's the building. Yeah, there's definitely that. So I recognize it straight away, like I said, because I've been there. This particular hospital is in the Baowan District, but it's right on the outskirts of Nanshan District. For those of you who don't know, Shenzhen is a very expensive city. It's one of the four first tier cities in China. So this is like top of the pop. This isn't representative of hospitals in China at all. Yet we're still going to debunk it. Yes, exactly. It's not...

It's kind of like going to a hospital in downtown LA or something like that. The most fanciest hospital you can think of in America. Yes. You know, it's like top. The best. And in fact, this hospital, when it opened in around about... Wasn't it like top three? Yeah, in 2015 or 16 when it opened. I remember I was there for the whole opening ceremony and stuff. Yeah.

It was part of a big special thing, like kind of an international hospital drive thing. It's a very special hospital. It's not normal. I think it's top three from what I remember. I remember it's very special. Anyway, let's go take a look. You can see it's the same building.

Here's my experience. The doctor's appointment was so easy to book. I just booked on the machine and a kind staff member came to help. You know, the thing is that wasn't actually hospital staff. That was some... It's a volunteer program, Shenzhen specific only, by the way. And it was set up for the university aid back in the day. Now...

Let's see about his appointment. After I got my appointment. What was that? No appointment needed?

He had to go book an appointment. He booked an appointment. Somehow all of his information was already in the computer. One thing, you see him walk up to that kiosk. You don't just go like, I want an appointment and get an appointment. You need to have all of your details in the medical system. Now, in the olden days and in most hospitals still, you have a little book. It's like a little medical book. And in there, it's got your details. And then when you see the doctor, they'll staple in or stick in little stickers or whatever, whatever test you need to get.

In some of the bigger hospitals, they've made it digital now. But it needs to have your passport information. It needs to have everything about you. It takes a facial photo recognition of you and everything. You don't just go bleep, bleep, bleep. You go in and you have to put all your information into that thing. And then you have to pay first, by the way. Something most people don't realize. You have to pay before you can go see a doctor. You in China...

will die on the street and they will forcibly remove you to die bleed out if you cannot pay first yes you will never ever not once be treated before you pay you have to pay so that's one thing they didn't show this guy had to go pay for his appointment first and then he got his appointment apparently no appointments needed though you know what i'm saying after i got my appointment no appointment needed after i got my appointment i was able to see the doctor very quickly

Very quickly. In America. Okay. One thing that's very annoying to me, again, is he's gone to one of the fanciest, most expensive hospitals in the city.

Okay. For this propaganda campaign. For propaganda. To pretend it's normal. He's just an actor. Yeah. When you go to hospitals in Shenzhen, and I've been to all of them, right? Most of them are jam-packed all the time. It's chaos. It's horrible. Okay? Maybe you guys don't know, but my wife is a doctor, and a doctor from Shenzhen-

who worked in a clinic and a hospital. I've been to all of these. It was my job. That's where I met my wife, actually. It was through my job. I've been to all these places. So it makes me very annoyed when it's misrepresented like this. It's not. If you're a rich person, you go to this hospital. And it's usually going to be quite crowded anyway. So it's just... Well, that's why I'm so glad that you did what you did, which you'll find out soon. Yeah, exactly. To disprove this. This is a bad one. Yeah. Yeah.

So this guy, he's a South African, by the way, dual nationality South African, is going on about how America is somehow terrible and China is great. Let's see. Sometimes it takes months just to get a specialist appointment. But here I was able to do it in one day. The doctors were very professional and they work extremely hard. How can you surmise that, by the way? Yeah. Also, you pull them. I don't know if he saw a specialist appointment.

We'll find out. Yeah. Because like he went and now he did go to see a doctor because, you know, you get your consultation, which he paid. He's paid for his consultation. He went to go get his consultation, right? After he paid for his appointment. But to say they work very hard, he literally went to the technician to draw blood because he's obviously getting blood tests done. That's such Chinese English, by the way. He's reading a Chinese script in English. Yes, yes, exactly. Or an AI voice. And he says...

Okay, so let's take a look.

So this is at the Nanfang Yike Da Xue Xian Jian Yu Yuan. Do you know how I got these numbers? I actually got a hold of some of the people who work there and I asked them. Because I used to work there myself. This is called fact checking. I asked, okay, what's going on here?

Give me a couple of basic facts here. So the registration fee is indeed $4. Okay. And that's when you walk up to that machine. Once all your information is in the system, you pay the 25 RMB and that allows you to get your appointment to go and see a doctor. But to get a normal examination and by examination, I mean the consultation when you sit down with the doctor. Okay.

For a GP, just for average stuff, like if you've got the flu or a cold or whatever, it's between 100 to 500 RMB, so $13 to $67. If you want to see a specialist, like if you've got a special problem and it depends if it's cancer or if it's an STD or whatever. This is just to see. This is not treatment. Yes, just to see. The specialist examination, they start at 200 RMB and they go into thousands of RMB. So it just depends. It can be quite expensive for your actual consultation. A hundred bucks, yeah.

This is not including any prescription or any drugs or anything like that. Okay. The tests. So if you're going to get your blood tests done, the very lowest, cheapest tests you can get are 50 RMB. And that's not a full panel. No, no. That's $70, $70, $7, sorry. But, you know, the tests can go up to 42 RMB. And I'm talking about like a full panel of drug, you know, blood tests, right? Yeah.

So the lowest cost that your appointment can be is $25. The average cost is $73. Correct. Okay? So this whole idea that, oh, you walked in there without an appointment and it only cost him $4 is complete bullshit. Yeah. Okay? Because the lowest you're going to pay is $25. This isn't the gotcha moment, by the way. No, no. Okay? The average cost is $73. Okay? Let's move on because this is just your, like...

or whatever. This is not a treatment or anything like that. Okay. We decided, okay, he said it's going to cost $300 in America. All right. Let's see. We asked AI to give us this answer, and it's between $75 and $200 on average. Without insurance. For urgent care. If you just have a consultation. So we're just comparing apples to apples, right? Yes, absolutely. Without insurance. And I mean, there is a thing called urgent care. I've used it myself.

in the past you know my kid was sick and so on and you don't need an appointment you go in to the hospital all the hospitals here have it in America that I've seen you walk in you don't have to pay no you pay after the fact so if you got the flu or your kid's sick or something you can go to or you're dying yeah then you go to ER yeah

I'm saying either one, you don't have to pay first. Yeah. You can just walk in. You don't need to wait months for a specialist or you walk in. They have specialist stuff there. You go to urgent care. You say, I need to see a doctor because I'm, you know, sick or whatever. And they're like, okay, go sit here or go sit there. You wait for like 10, 20 minutes, depending on the hospital can be an hour. Hmm.

And then you go see a doctor and then they prescribe stuff to you. That is, you know, something I think everybody in America knows. And if you're in urgent care and they said that's a serious problem that you need a specialist, you know what they do? They don't book you out three months in advance. You go to ER. They send you to the ER and you go see and get all those tests done. And they'll treat you and save your life and not kick you outside and let you bleed out. Because that's what they do in China. I'm just trying to, you know, we have to do apples to apples here. Okay? Okay.

So anyway, you can see it up here. In the hospital. By the way, I am not defending the American medical system. There are lots of problems. But do it right. If you criticize, do it right. Yeah. Medical insurance is very expensive here. But if you work for a company, that's usually taken care of. Okay.

Okay. Every worker knew what they were doing and they didn't make any mistakes. How does he know that? He doesn't speak Chinese. You walk it around, check it if doctors are making mistakes. He went on a clipboard and he's like, did you make mistakes today? Yeah. Did he go into like an operating theater and he's like, oh, yeah, no mistakes here. It drops a freaking mint in the guy's mouth. Yeah, exactly. That wasn't a mistake. He meant to do that, you know.

Traditional Chinese medicine. Everyone is playing their role to absolute perfection. Considering China has so many people, I'm very impressed by how efficient the healthcare system is.

Yes. So like I said, I reached out, there's me. Okay. You can see there I am when I was younger and thinner. Okay. I used to train these doctors. I used to interact with them. I used to go and drink with them. I used to hang out with them. Okay. Have meals with them. I know these people. So I reached out to some people I used to work with at that hospital to find out just how much some of the common procedures would cost. Okay. Without insurance.

Because I think we have to be fair. Let's go through this. Because this is the unfortunate side effect of propaganda. Now you've got 5.6, who knows, 6 million people out there. Probably Americans. Yes, Americans looking at this Twitter post, watching this stupid video, thinking that it's free or really cheap to go to the hospital in China. And they're like, why is America so bad? China's got it all sorted out. You know what I mean? And it's on purpose. It's to cause chaos in America. So let's take a look. Kidney stones. Kidney stones.

So this is what you asked them? Yes. I asked these guys, okay, here are a couple of basic things. How much do they cost? And they gave me a dog eye. So if you want to get kidney stones sorted out, if there's nothing like serious and it's just a quick procedure, it'll be $279. But it goes up to $5,500 to treat that, okay? Yeah.

That's US dollars. Yes. Okay. A broken leg can be anywhere from $5,500 to $11,000. That's if it needs surgery. Yes. If it's like one of those horrible where you see the bone coming out of your skin, it's going to be $11,000. Okay. Appendicitis, anywhere from $2,000 to basically $3,000. Heartburn.

Heart attack treatment, $11,000 up to $209,000. Okay. And one thing that really amps the prices up, by the way, is they have to import the specialist medical goods. From America.

You can get the local Chinese one, but people would rather get the imported ones, which costs a lot more. The fact that your friends at the hospital told you most people here at this hospital because everyone going here is relatively wealthy because this is not indicative of China. No, and remember, this is one of those special, it's got like an international certification for meeting certain standards. It is a special hospital. It's not normal, right? It's not normal in China.

Heart surgery, anywhere from $7,000 to $100,000. Okay. Then we've got diabetes. So that's like a full course. Yes. Full treatment. $20,000, $21,000. If you get a stroke, anywhere from $21,000 to $70,000. Okay. A single course of cancer radiation is $11,174.

Okay. Single course of chemo and radiation is $16,000, basically $17,000. And advanced cancer treatment is anywhere from $112,000 to $210,000. Okay. So now some of you Americans out there will be like, well, compared to our prices, that's cheap. Okay. But most people in America that are going to get these kind of surgeries don't have some kind of medical insurance. Hopefully, yeah. If you don't, if you're poor...

you're normally taken care of to a certain degree. To a certain degree. To a certain degree. Okay. I know there's a lot of problems. There's a lot of bad stuff. I know there's a lot of problems in the American health system. But also, there's one thing that you have to understand is you might look at this and say, hmm, yeah, okay, whatever. $210,000 to treat my heart attack is cheap compared to America. Right.

But do you understand what people make for a living in this city? This is the most important part. What, like the actual salary people earn, because maybe compared to your salary, you might think it's, you know, comparatively cheap. I mean, no one thinks $200,000 is cheap, but you know what I'm saying? You might think, oh, this seems kind of reasonable compared to American numbers.

But that's because you're earning American dollars. Okay? The people that live in this city, in this particular area, well, we decided to take a look and see exactly what sort of salary they earn so that we can give you a bit of an idea. Right? Okay. The salary in Baohuan, Shenzhen, the middle class, is anywhere from $620 to $1,100 a month. Okay? So...

Here's your kind of top end salaries, about $1,100 a month in that area where that hospital is. The reason we chose that is that Shenzhen is pretty much the best city in China, just like New York City would be like the best city in America. It's one of the top four. A good neighborhood of that city, Bawang, is like Brooklyn, a good neighborhood of New York City. Yes, it's not downtown. It's just outside.

Salary in Brooklyn middle class is $5,000 to $6,250 a month. Okay. So 88% higher salary in the USA, just so you know. Yeah, just from comparable places. So again, bear in mind, if you're earning $1,100 a month. On the high end of middle class. Yes. Okay. Let's go back to those numbers quickly. So if you're earning $1,100 a month, does anything here look like it's even slightly affordable? No.

The social programs in America are...

like way more deficient than the ones in Europe. Yeah. The social programs in America compared to China are an absolute communist paradise. Yeah. It makes China look like a horrifying wasteland. I mean, seriously. So if you get a broken leg, I just want to show this. If you get a broken leg, you have to pay half a year's salary, half a year of your earnings to fix that broken leg in that hospital. If you live in that city, in that area where the hospital is. Mm-hmm.

if you're earning money there. So you have to take that into consideration.

And it really boils my blood when you've got these people posting this false propaganda. It's lying by omission with a lot of the stuff. And it's just outright lying as well, okay, with so many things. So again, just had to point that out. You always have to take into consideration. If you were working there, if you were a Chinese person and you were in that area, you were earning your salary of 1,100 US dollars. That's the top, by the way, a month.

and you had to go to that hospital, you'd think it's just as bad as people here in America going to see those crazy bills in the hospitals here. It's the same deal. It's not better. It's cheaper because that's just how it is. You're in China. So let's take a quick look again at the genesis of this. Okay. Well, actually, no.

Can you explain what this is? So this Wall Street Bets, what is it, Wall Street? Apes. Wall Street Apes account was not the first to share this. So this wasn't made for Wall Street Apes. No.

This is just an account that picked it up and it got lots and lots of traction on there. This is where it gets very sinister. So what I did was I tracked it. I did a reverse image search and I was looking around at the different accounts that started putting this video out. It turns out it was from a week before it was posted on this Wall Street Apes. Yes. So I wanted to find out the genesis of it. I wanted to find out where this was coming from because this was being spread around by tons of Chinese propaganda amplifier. Yes, all these things you can see here. It's like a video, I guess. Okay.

It came from TikTok. It came from all these places. But these are all Chinese propaganda amplifiers, right? Yes, yes.

So it's looking like when I'm going through this that I did find the genesis of it because the date of this particular video was the earliest one. And it made sense because it was posted on this Mitra.com. Remember we told you to take a look? It checks out because this time, this watermark is floating around the video the entire time. This is Mitra.com. So I find the genesis account that posts it about a week and two days or something before the Wall Street April.

account. Yes. And I look at this account and it says, I am Li Liang working in foreign trade and hope to make, meet more friends. This is literally a CCP account. This is when you go through those like think tank things like Aspie and stuff. And they do those reports on these accounts that only push Chinese propaganda and are completely fake. That should be removed from these platforms like TikTok, like Twitter.

Yep. These accounts proliferate on things like Twitter. And if this wasn't proof that Twitter is a piece of shit, I mean, not Twitter, TikTok's a piece of shit. Yeah, TikTok, yeah. If this is not... You're not wrong about Twitter. If this is not proof to you, then I don't know what to tell you anymore. Yeah, exactly. But basically, there's thousands and thousands of these accounts that TikTok says, no, there's no Chinese propaganda accounts on our...

platform. So this account is relatively new and all they do is pump out People's Liberation Army propaganda, Xi Jinping propaganda. Yeah, you can already see. Look at all this. America's horrible propaganda. Don't they put out like a hundred videos a day or something? Something, I mean like a lot. Yeah. Right. An absolute metric shit ton of videos they're pumping out every day. This is not a human being behind this. No, it's a bot. These are bots, right? So...

This video looks to have originated on said account. Yes. Well, it did. It did. It absolutely did. So, yes. Because it's got the watermark. What I'm trying to say is when I was looking at it, I was like, it looks like this. Turns out it is. So the first time this is posted is on this account. It's this guy, this South African-American guy, right? Yes.

and they go they go and post this and it serves as a platter to serve all the amplifiers they go we got some hot fresh bullshit propaganda here that the chinese government paid for america bad china good yes the chinese government pays for these videos they go and get someone to do the video for them so they'll have a crew just hold a phone yeah and then they'll have somebody in the propaganda department that said we got an order from the top from

you know, whatever department in the CCP. We really want to push this idea that America's medical system is bad because we know Americans are pissed off with their medical system. Yes. So let's do a video where we lie about how awesome China's horrible medical system is. Yes. We'll say how cheap it is. We'll come up with all these bullet points. We'll even ask Deep Seek. Yeah. We'll say, well, ask Deep Seek what pisses off Americans most about their medical system and we'll do counter propaganda. Yeah. So we'll go get an American guy.

We'll get him to go do this, read this script, right? Yeah. Very clearly a script. This guy didn't come up with it. This guy, I'm looking at you right now, Daylo. Yeah, exactly. Sick song, by the way. But Daylo, he didn't come up with this script. He's reading a script. Yeah. So when you go through, you see the Chinese grammar. You pick up on things. If you're a Chinese speaker, you start to- They were so perfect and didn't make any mistakes. I mean, it's the dumbest shit ever. They're so hardworking. And come on, no one makes that up by themselves. The problem is, is I go through this account. Yes. Right. Right.

I start to see some very, very bad worrying things. Now, the thing on the left is just absolutely outlandish. We have to show you this. So before we get into the bad stuff, I want to show you this AI video of a fake American soldier and what he says on this account. Because we're trying to figure this out. We're trying to figure this out. Help us out with this. Can we watch this? Yes. Okay, let's see. I thought we needed some humor. Yes. I mean, I...

I made a list. We'll do the bad one. We'll do the bad one first. This is not AI. This is real. So this... Can we watch the clip first? Okay. There is a list. There is a list.

So the type of message that this pro-US propaganda is spreading as truth is that the United States is generally a paradise. That everyone has high income and that there is a relatively very low cost of living. Was that? Yes. This is very important. Do you know why? Why?

When this whole red note, remember this TikTok refugee thing where they open up red note? It was quite interesting because there was this whole flood of people going there and saying, wow, China's much better than we thought. We've been lied to. Chinese government did this on purpose. Yes. They're like, China's amazing. And like, you know, it's great there. And why did we never know this? But it was a double edged sword because Chinese people were interacting with Americans for the first time, really. Yeah.

And when they started to ask basic questions like, how much do you earn? And Americans were telling them their basic salary. Chinese people were shocked at how much Americans were making. Because China's not cheap anymore. But they were literally shocked. They were like, holy crap, you're in like an entry level job. You're like flipping McDonald's burgers and you're earning way more than like a top engineer. Than a PhD. Yeah, exactly. And they were like, what's going on here? So...

Very quickly, the censors had to come out and shut down those conversations. In fact, what we saw was on Red Note that you were allowed to say you're a poor American, but they would literally shadow ban you if you said that you earned a lot of money. And if you said you were a poor Chinese, they would shadow ban you. If you said you're a rich Chinese, you were allowed. This was a huge ploy. Now, why is this important to this clip? I don't know who you are. I'm speaking to you on the screen right now.

This woman here is reading a Chinese script, and I can tell you, I can prove this to you. The subtitles are actually the same, but are a little bit different because they're supposed to be going towards a Chinese audience. Yes, and it says, 很多中国人, but then she says, like, lots of people. Yes, she's not actually saying the exact words on there. And the grammar, by the way, I love how people think they can get away with this.

Yeah. She's pretending to be like, I made a list. You didn't make a list. You didn't make shit because you got paid or incentivized by a Chinese person in the Chinese government to do this video. Cause it lines up perfectly with that date of when this was happening. Number two, you're saying Chinese grammar. So unless you go, you went and you're born and you lived in China and now somehow you have a perfect American accent and you're now reading English. You, for some reason decided to choose completely Mandarin Chinese grammar. You can't fool a, uh,

English and Chinese speaker. Yes. You're speaking Chinese in English, right? Yes. So you didn't make this up. You're reading a script. And I want to give you an out because we don't want to start digging in. I mean, we do like to start digging because that's how we end up with these videos. We dig. But I don't want to start digging too much into this if it can be easy. I would love to know. We would both love to know who did this. We'll keep you anonymous. Find a way to reach out to us. We want to know who sent you this.

Who is behind this? Because this is just the tip of the fricking iceberg. Yeah. We're getting these Americans to go read these anti-America pro-China scripts. Yes. Definitely a Chinese government campaign. We would love to get to the bottom of it. If we can make it as easy as possible, we can do more. Yeah.

So we would love to know. We'll keep you anonymous. We don't know what your account is because you're just being posted on these amplifiers for Chinese government. You are on, whether you like it or not, you are on a Chinese government amplifier account right now. This is where this video is from. And the whole purpose why they paid you or incentivized you to read this script anyway is so that they could use you as anti-American propaganda as you are being used right now. So just bear that in mind. If you ever get an opportunity like this,

You might be the one up on the screen right now reading some script and being used as a tool of the Chinese government's propaganda machine. And it would be super helpful to be able to see who's behind this nefarious campaign. Yeah, reach out. So anyway, as I went through this account, I saw stuff like this. I also saw absolutely ridiculous things. Can we see this ridiculous thing? They also believe that we have lots of welfare and lots of really strong social programs.

Well, guess what you do in America? Stronger than theirs. Yes, it is stronger than theirs. Theirs are pretty strong. I heard from a Chinese- Okay, wait, wait. Okay, this, this, guys, please, help us out here. Help us out. This is on the same channel. His friend, that smashing a haunted toilet can bring me financial freedom.

But it should be noted that such a statement has no scientific basis and smashing facilities may also cause property damage and violate relevant regulations. And I want to give it a try. You want to give... Smashing a haunted toilet...

Yeah, first of all, what is going on? I got weird images in my head. Yeah. Smash your past toilet. Like this ghost toilet. This ghost toilet. You're playing smash your past with toilets on Halloween. Oh, man. Anyway, there's an AI fake soldier, American soldier, trying to smash a toilet. But he uses the Chinese phrase relevant regulation. Yes, exactly. Which is very funny. Anyway, that's a joke. That was on there. But it's a very bad account.

This is a very, very bad account. TikTok's obviously not doing anything about these Chinese propaganda accounts, anti-American accounts. What they do is this amplifier account that we found, the Mitra, is the genesis of the clip that was shared by Wall Street Apes. It's the genesis of that. It is a propaganda amplifier account directly from the Chinese government. So what we found is that other amplifiers, and we've seen this, there was actually an article the other day about how China's using AI to translate things into Spanish to target...

Latino Americans. Yes. So that they hate America and then signed with China. And there's a huge campaign. And the fact that this was used in that means that this bro, Deilo, you're being used in like a really nefarious campaign. Yeah, look at this. Aseso rapido. Yeah, yeah. It's the same talking points have now been completely translated into Spanish. Yes.

Moving on, we got a little deeper here. And I wanted to point this out. I was able to track down this other video, which was on another account. There are tens of thousands of these accounts pumping out stories

sewage, straight up anti-America pro-Chinese campaigns, right? It's very funny. They hired the same guy to do another one about how he went to a traditional medicine. Traditional Chinese medicine has always fascinated me as it's a practice that has been around for thousands of years. Once I saw the doctor, he checked my tongue, felt my pulse, and studied my visual appearance.

After that he did acupuncture on me for an hour. He also placed some type of contraption on my back. Can anyone tell me what this is? Overall the doctor was very considerate. He sent me home with some traditional herbal tea. I just came back from my treatment and I feel very relaxed. Now

It's kind of dubbed, isn't it? Okay, first of all, when you see this American guy experiences traditional Chinese medicine, that's one of the telltale signs that this is propaganda. When they're like, America doesn't have this, but China does. Or Americans shocked, Chinese train station or whatever. You know what I mean? So whenever you see this very blatant America versus China type propaganda, you know it's propaganda. Yeah.

Now, I'm going to say best case scenario, this guy tried to make his own propaganda videos because he wanted to go viral or something. And it was picked up by the propaganda departments and disseminated. I'm just giving him like a, what? I'm saying best case scenario. No, it's impossible because it's a Chinese script. Yeah, okay. It is literally impossible. He doesn't speak Chinese. No, he doesn't speak Chinese.

Um, and you're right. It's, I just said best case scenario. You got to give him an hour. That's like a 0.001%. Yeah, exactly. 0.001. No, not even one. Just keep going. Point, point recurring. Yeah. Zero, zero three. Okay. Anyway, the fact of the matter is, um,

This is pure propaganda. Personally, I'm really interested by traditional Chinese medicine and looking forward to learning more about it. What is your experience with traditional medicine? So I'll tell you what that is. That's the Xi Jinping campaign. Yes. So they're trying to, as part of Jiang Hao, to push Chinese medicine amongst foreigners and to get it to export across the world. In fact, there are some sick corporations.

corrupt stories going on right now across even America with this influence. Yeah. So that's part of that. It's not, it looks like some sort of innocuous thing. It's not. Yeah. It's always from the top and it's always something bad. It's to disrupt the U.S. and push Chinese soft power. Yes. And the reality of the situation is this guy's probably in a bunch of these

I've already gotten inklings that he's trying to find, like, dig his way out of this, as we've seen somewhere else. Yes, exactly. Point is, I don't really care. What I care about is the reality. And the reality of the situation is, in China, the healthcare system is abysmal. In fact, it's one of the worst ones I've seen in my whole life and I've been to, like, 30 countries. It is the worst medical experience I've ever had. I lived there 10 years. I had doctors smoking in my face.

I had people prescribing me antibiotics for breaking a bone. I had people prescribing me antibiotics for breaking my heel. I had doctors that had literally no clue what they were doing. They supposedly went to medical school and didn't know any terminology. It is the worst thing I've ever seen. I used to train doctors, so I know. And in fact...

In the best city. Dude, there was a big, this big university games for the university games. It's like the Olympics for universities. It's called the University Aid in 2012, I believe. And a big part of the preparation is I was going around to test the different clinics to see if they were ready in case a foreign athlete got hurt. And they had set up in the athlete's village a very high-tech clinic with like one of those x-ray machines you sit on and it moves you around to help them test all the equipment and stuff. And

Part of the whole process is I had to pretend that I had sprained my ankle. Whole process democracy? Yes. So I walk in there and I'm limping in and, you know, I have to pretend, right? So because, you know, I used to train all these guys, but I limp in and these guys come and they're like, oh, you know, how can I help you? And they're very broken English type thing, trying their best. And then the ladies take me up to the doctor who like takes my pulse and looks at me and stuff. And I'm like, oh my, and I had to pretend I can't speak Chinese. My ankle's hurting and stuff.

He prescribed me antibiotics, but not only did he prescribe me antibiotics, he prescribed an antibiotic that I'm allergic to. For a hurt ankle. For a sprained ankle. He gave me something that if I had taken it would have killed me. Okay. And this is like when you've got billions, I'm talking billions of dollars were thrown at this. They built stadiums for this. Okay. Huge thing, big, massive. And the doctor wanted to kill me.

And you know what? They were so lucky because during that entire University Games, the only thing that happened was someone got heat stroke. That was it. Let's see this footage about the reality. Okay, this is the reality of Chinese hospitals. So in China, that's a great story to prove that. I'll tell you, it's 10 times worse than that when you leave a major epic city. Oh, of course. Like the U.S.

And in fact, it's incredibly crowded. The cacophony of noise. The people, you are going to wait a long time. In fact, you could die in the process of waiting. It is a vile experience. It is a...

nauseatingly long process to be seen by a doctor. This, by the way, we got this footage fresh. This is brand new. Fresh off of Douyin, which is Chinese TikTok. I've got my own footage which can corroborate this from all the hospitals I used to visit. It hasn't changed. This is, by the way, just people posting, oh, I'm at the hospital. Yeah, this wasn't like people complaining. This is just like, oh, my visit to the hospital. Yep.

This is more a realistic view because it's not propaganda. Also in nice cities. They're not going to show you the bad rules. No, for sure. Now, the problem is that in China, if you find any of these Chinese government apologists, and they have a medical problem, 100% of the time,

These people leave China to fix their problems. And I dare you to prove me wrong. Pick the top shills, and I'll tell you, they go and they try to go to the doctors and specialists around China, and all of them go abroad for medical treatment. Yeah, first they go to that Hong Kong University specialist hospital in Shenzhen. And then from there, they end up going abroad. They either go into Hong Kong or they go somewhere else. Somebody I knew had a stomach problem. They cut out 80% of his stomach, and he ultimately...

I mean, more or less succumbed to his injuries. Well, succumbed to the screw-up that they did. The screw-up that they did. My point is there was complications afterwards because of that. When he visited the hospital system in the U.S., do you know what happened? What? The doctors told him that surgery was completely unnecessary in China. Yeah. That's what he had done. Yes. This is the situation. Yeah.

People don't know what they're doing. It sucks. It's dirty. It's crowded. It's loud. And it's miserable. Okay, so now listen, guys. I'm sure we've made our point that that video that was posted is bullshit. Okay? You can see a bull over here, you know? I mean, you called the freaking hospital.

Yeah. I used to work in that hospital. I know it's bullshit. You can't pull the wool over my eyes because I was there. Okay. That's the city I lived in for 14 years. It was my profession. All right. So I got a very personal connection to this and it made me mad when I saw this guy going in there pretending like it only cost him $4 to do everything. And America's bad. And America's bad. This guy is clueless, doesn't know what the hell's going on. But what made me even more mad is the fact that mainline doctors

Chinese propaganda coming from Beijing to destabilize America, paint America as a baddie and China as a goodie and China as far ahead and far more advanced than America is being posted by massive accounts like this that are followed by the most richest man in the world, some of the most powerful influential people in the world and getting millions of views by people. People look at this kind of account and they trust what they see.

because their influences, the people that they look up to follow this account. This is not some rinky-dink little place that's like putting out Chinese propaganda. Not one of those little propaganda amplifiers that we showed you earlier, but this massive account is sharing mainline Chinese communist propaganda.

And it pisses me off because it's gotten to this point. It's not fact checked. Yeah, it's gotten to the point now where it's no longer just like a tinfoil hat thing or, oh, look, here's a little college student who believes Che Guevara was cool sharing something. We're talking about the mainstream is taking bullshit Chinese propaganda and shoving it out there, platforming it without knowing anything, saying, saying that you don't need an appointment.

saying that you get all your tests done in the same day and you get to see a specialist and all this kind of crap without waiting and it only costs $4. China's a paradise. It's way better than America. America has problems. Bullshit. Everything in that tweet is garbage.

Right? You can get your blood tests done in the same day in a Chinese hospital. Yes, I've had that myself. Guess what? I've had that here too. When I go get my lab in the morning, I go into my little portal, my blood results are there on the same day. In many cases, you can talk to your doctor and see if you need to go see them. Yeah, exactly. Get on a telehealth call. You can do it. It's very convenient, right? Not to say that isn't wildly expensive and a lot of people can't afford it. It's horrible. Yeah.

But don't use Chinese propaganda to prove that point. That's my problem. As a foreigner that came to America, I got to say that the healthcare system in America...

is one of the biggest problems. Not the healthcare itself. It's actually the best in the world. Oh, yeah. In terms of quality. When you actually go in there, you, I mean, they have to do a good job because you're paying so bloody much. And if you didn't, if you didn't get like perfect service, I'd be rioting in the streets. Okay. Because like, you've just taken half my salary every month to do what, you know? But quite honestly, they give you the best care.

You have access to the best medical system in the world here. It's incredibly expensive. And that's a prohibitive thing. And this whole health insurance thing, it's like a big mafia kickback BS. But that's a debate for another time. What I'm here to do is point out Chinese propaganda and point out the fact that trusted big accounts are now sharing Chinese propaganda.

And people are taking it seriously. That's really scary to me. And it's not okay. It's really scary to me because we can see through Chinese propaganda. That's what we're experts at, right? Yes. Don't share that stuff. And by the way, I do want to throw something out there. Just because you follow this account doesn't mean you endorse it. My problem I have with is that when they're sharing it, it's going to those people. And maybe if they don't know any better, you might think it's ridiculous.

That's my problem. Of course it does. Because if you're a normal dude and you don't know much about China, you're not paying attention and you go to an account which is followed by the people that you trust, the people that you know, the people that you follow like Joe Rogan and whoever else. And you're like, hey, look, this account,

I can trust it, right? Because all these other big names follow it. And then they put out Chinese propaganda. Of course you're going to trust that. You're going to look at this stupid guy walking around pretending like it's paradise to go to a hospital in China. And you're going to be like, wow, America sucks and China's great. Unfiltered breaking news. Please fact check. And when you put something out, maybe just don't... I guess I have a problem with putting out adversarial propaganda. Yeah. Like...

I know you're not going to go as an account, like I'm not talking to this account, but any account, they're not going to go out and call the hospital like you did. They're not going to go out and like talk to the doctors. I understand that. I used to work in that hospital. Listen to me, listen to me. You know? I get they're not going to do that. I don't even expect that. Sure. That's what we do. Yeah. But don't just put something out at face value, right? I wouldn't go put out something like, I mean, we're unaffiliated with anyone, right? Sure. But I wouldn't go put out something that's like,

some random video of someone glazing the US government or something. No, of course not. Without looking into it myself, right? Yeah. So anyway. Let me just quickly go back to the original tweet so that we can look at what was said about this Chinese propaganda. Mm-hmm.

American goes to see a doctor in China. He describes the process. No appointment needed. Just walk in. You don't need to see a primary care doctor before seeing the specialist. It's the same when you go to urgent care. Appointments and test results are same day. Cost was $4. Something is very wrong in America. All of this is not factual.

And do you see how damaging this is? Because this is just propaganda. This is the definition of propaganda. Well, China, the Chinese government made this video. Yes. That's the problem. This is the definition of propaganda. If you're going to put out fake stuff, please don't put out an adversarial government's propaganda from their top government.

Yes. That's my problem. I agree. Don't put that out for Americans, please. Yeah. And I mean, you're sharing a clip that has a URL in it. And if you did a little bit of fact checking, you would see that that URL, that mitra.com is literally...

Chinese PLA like spam bot that puts out like how much better the fighter jets of the PLA and more stuff and like terrible things about disrupt the US. Yeah, it's that that's who you're endorsing. You didn't even take the URL out. I mean, like you're literally endorsing a propaganda. Whatever it is, amplifier. And we could do this all day. This is happening across the board. Yes, we're doing this across the board. It's not just this account. It's a lot of accounts. Yeah, it's just unfortunate. It is, you know,

I'm actually just sorry if I got a bit heated there, but this this propaganda infiltration from China is pissing me off. And it's pissing me off that trusted sources are now sharing out garbage propaganda from China and people are believing it. You know what I mean? Like, what does this world come into? You know? Anyway, worldview, guys. This is where we talk about everything in the world, specifically with regards to China.

And, yeah, this is your thing here. Yeah, this is very, I mean, it's cool in that, like, go USA. Okay. In fact, Pete Hegseth, I believe, has visited with President Marcos in the Philippines. Great visit because it seems like the U.S. is going to continue their support of our support of the Philippines. Very important because this missile system, which doesn't have any missiles yet, it's just the system. Mm-hmm.

is a bit of a leverage chip for the Philippines because if China plays ball, they can remove it. If they don't, well, let's look at the map of where this would cover. I'm excited to find out all the follow-ups on Signal. Stop. Stop. What? Let's look at this. Okay, sure. Stop. Get out of here. I have. I'll be checking my group chats. Get out of here, libtard. Shut up. I'm being serious. Philippines. Here. See this? Sure. See that circle around the Philippines? Mm-hmm.

Do you see that giant radius? I do. See where that goes?

Yes. Quite literally all of China's main military targets. I'm pretty sure this is kind of like the Cuban Missile Crisis, but it's like the opposite. I can see why China wouldn't like this. This is great. And I'll tell you why. This is great deterrence. And deterrence is very key. Deterrence is what keeps the world safe, right? Yeah. So I was actually a little bit worried that this would be used as a bargaining chip in some way. The fact that Hegseth actually went to go visit the Philippines in continued support, I was actually over the moon in

over the... to see that. Because if we continue to keep the Philippines safe, we keep Japan safe, we keep Taiwan safe, we keep the whole area safe. We need to deter China, who is patrolling and

Building artificial military islands all around the South China Sea. Yeah, look. This is good. All jokes aside, this is very important because China is building up that massive military presence in order to attack Taiwan. Something like this would make them think twice before calling the invasion. Yeah? Yeah, yeah. So this is fantastic. Agreed. From that perspective of maybe stopping war. Yeah.

um this is just sad this is just sad china lost to japan again i believe six zero they despite billions of dollars despite all the fifa trying to get in bed with fifa yeah despite they hire like the best coaches best coaches the best players they have one of the worst teams in the entire world at soccer

Truly one of the worst teams in the world. I remember when they lost against like a high school football team. Yeah. I am starting to think that this is one of the greatest analogies of all time for the reality of the Chinese government. I'll tell you why. I'm actually thinking about doing a piece on this. You should. And I don't want to spoil it, but I do have a theory. And I think I can prove it.

The soccer, the sport of soccer proves that in reality, China sucks. Okay. I'm not talking about like Chinese people or the culture. No, no. I'm talking about China as a power. The Chinese government, yes. As a government power. Yes. Sucks. Because it's the first time and really the only time

That it actually can't prove through its own bullshit figures that it is good or bad. In China, if they release statistics on crime or economics, GDP population, everything, demographics, right? Yes. Employment, unemployment, social welfare benefits. They literally, when you have a government that's eight out of 100 on the Freedom House ranking, can make anything it wants to, puts it out there, actually deletes all...

full opposition so that everyone only sees its own image of itself, which is an authoritarian government, right? When you have a soccer game, you can throw all your corrupt money. You can have every political leader make a visit. You can do everything possible to try to cook those books, to try to massage the numbers, to try to make it the world's elite soccer team.

But the proof is in the pudding. Sure. You suck. Yeah. And you keep losing over and over again. It's devastating to Chinese fans because they're supposed to be the most powerful country in the world that is the best at everything when the reality is you lose six to zero. Every time. And I think that's an analogy for so much in China. Yeah. Yeah. For sure. And I don't think they've ever won. No. No.

It's unfortunate. And it's a strange thing because, you know, when you get the individual sports in the Olympics, like diving and whatnot, they excel. They do very well. What does that tell you? China's never good at playing in a team.

It's not good at teamwork. Because they're trying to put their finger... They're trying to control something. Yes. Anything the Chinese government controls kind of sucks. Yeah. Despite what people say. I read this economist the other day. He says, everything China touches always works out. Wait, what? The Chinese government, right? Oh, really? Whenever they get involved, it works out. It's like, bro, you're high. Look at the buildings. Look at the infrastructure projects. Look at the economy. Look at the unemployment. Mm-hmm.

It sucks. It does. You know what I mean? Yeah. Anyway. All right, guys. So time for our Q&A. It's Yamcha time. This is where we answer your questions and you question our answers. Now, it's Friday after all. So, you know, after a long, hard week of...

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You know? Yeah. People are asking about what that whip sound was, and I don't know either. Who knows? Some people keep... I just want to address something real quick. Some people keep saying, and this happens all the time, like, you should get that sign LC... What is that guy? Sign... Oh, yeah, the advertising guy. What's his name? I don't know. Sign LC or something? What is it? It was just here. It was like a... Oh, LC sign guy? Mm-hmm. Okay. Okay.

Why? As a guest. No, I mean, like, I don't... He's funny. Like, people think he's very funny. He's a very talented guy. I do want to make a little... I want to make a point. Okay. Skits are funny. Gets a lot of international attention. In fact, he's probably one of the most viral people in China. Yeah. Shout out to his success. Shout out to his jokes. Shout out to all the people he's managed to be able to interface with. He got on big channels and that kind of stuff, right? Best of luck to his business. Why is he allowed to advertise here and I'm not allowed to advertise there? Well...

There's a little point I wanted to make. Okay. Tony. Shout out to Tony. Great guy. Seems like a great guy. Does a lot of jokes about political humor, making fun of political figures and stuff, right? A lot of people say, wow, brazen, bold, right? Okay. I'll agree. He can make a joke about Xi Jinping. That's what I wanted to say. Okay. Yeah. Everyone pays to get their sign made to make a joke, right? And that's fine.

You can make fun of Trump. All right. A little tired, to be honest. Make fun of Trump's a little tired. Sure. Make fun of Biden. Make fun of Biden. A little tired. Like him. Yes. Well, he's old. Exactly. Make fun of whatever political figure you want. Right? Yeah. Go ahead. That's your joke. That's what you want him to do. Make fun of Xi Jinping. Yeah. Let's see.

And it's not a dare. It's just to call him bold, to call him brave, to call him he's crossing all these boundaries. He's not brave, dude. You know what? It's the least brave thing in the world to criticize America. It's the easiest thing in the world to do. I don't have a problem with it, though.

Well, I mean, not only is it easy to do, you will get a lot of support to do it. You know, like you'll get a lot of people who agree with you, Americans especially. So if you criticize something about America, you will find support abroad and at home type thing. Everybody will be behind you. Sure.

Try criticize China, however, and you're suddenly attacked from all corners. It's interesting that I've not. And again, it's comedy. I don't care that much. It's just the people keep saying, hey. That's a good perspective. It's a good point, right? Because it is kind of unfair. He can't make fun of China. He cannot make fun of the Chinese government. No, he's not allowed to. But he does a lot of political humor. And again, I'm fine with it. Yeah. Just a little bit of a double stand.

Yeah, well, it is a double standard. I think you'll realize that it's all one way. I did give him props, Hazy Days. Tony is funny, give him props. I did. My point is, political humor, people keep saying, hey, have him on, have him on, have him on. Do you think he would be allowed to be on our show? Do you think that? I just want you to have some critical thinking for a second. Do you think the Chinese government would let him go on our show? I don't think so. I don't think so either.

Let's be real, guys. You go to jail for the rest of your life for making jokes like that. This whole using America as a punching bag in modern discourse, it gets a bit boring when it's one way. We should be able to do it the other way. Why can't we do it the other way? It's like when people mock one religion. They won't mock all religion or something. They're very careful about what they do. I just think

If you're going to be stunning and brave and you're funny and that's great, but don't do it. I don't want him to risk his career, his life for freedom. Dude, he will actually just get arrested if he made a Xi Jinping joke. I'm not doing it. And I think that's the commentary here is that when you see this kind of thing, a Chinese person is allowed to mock another government and another leader from another country, but never allowed to mock China.

He's limited by his country and government, and I don't blame him for that. I just think that people need to see it from that. I think what it is is to enjoy his content. He's funny. He's a good guy. But also understand that he can't do those things, and the reason for that is very important to understand.

Also, like the propaganda we showed you earlier, it's okay to put that into America and to spread it around Western social media. But you cannot make propaganda that shows America as being better and put it into China. No. It's not allowed. You saw what happened when that red note thing, because the Chinese internet is so controlled that when the red note thing happened and it slipped through, the people were actually earning decent money in America. They had to now...

hire propagandists to say, no, it's not true. That's why you saw that script. And that's why it was, it actually was for Chinese people, not for Western people, that particular script. Yeah. Wow. Yeah. Anyway, I hope you guys saw through some of the crazy propaganda today. I hope, I hope it was as important as I feel it was to get it out there. And again, maybe because I'm personally attached to the whole hospital thing in China, maybe because I've got friends

friends that work in the hospitals there. And I know that they get paid nothing and they have to work really hard and that it's an incredibly expensive thing for locals to go to. And that that whole propaganda was absolute bullshit. Maybe I just got a bit worked up, but I really hope that you guys saw a little bit of value in sharing the truth about the hospitals in China. And also pointing out how easily swallowed and guzzled down this propaganda is by big accounts that you think would know better.

You know what I mean? Yeah, it sucks. Yeah. Adam Khan, thank you very much. Sorry. Qualitool03 says, this Yamcha segment of the China show is brought to you by South Africa's most famous Omar Russ. I already read that. Thank you for the gifts from Gunfox. Augusto Bracho says, guys made a short. Okay, we'll go check it out. Masheda, thank you very much. Anthony Saints, guys as usual, great show. Train Rider. Train Rider. Oh, Train Rider? Oh, Train Rider. Train Rider. It's what I want to say to that, like, propagandist.

Yeah, yeah. Oh, they do their job perfectly and precisely.

Yes. It's like, shut up, dude. L.E. The Final Metamorphosis. Lei's Real Talk is a YouTube channel that covers China. She thinks the population is now at 300 million. Are you seeing... I think you might have gotten that number wrong. Can you do me a favor? Can you go to her channel and say, the China show is a channel that covers China. They say this. What? This kind of basic internet etiquette is like...

You know, you don't go to a mechanics channel and tell a mechanic, hey, there's this great mechanics channel over there. It's fine. Look, I got nothing against other YouTube channels. And in fact, I think Glaze Real Talk is a great source. If you want to go watch this stuff, please do. But I think it's a little weird to, you know, be shouting out channel names and go check out. But if you're going to do that test, please do that on her channel too.

Or don't. I'm just saying. I just want to say. I just want to question this guy's numbers. I highly doubt, ladies, real talk, who would have said 300 million population. No. Maybe they've lost 300 million over the main figure. That's ridiculous. I mean, Shenzhen has like 17 million people in one city. Yeah. Okay. That's...

And that's real. Yeah. So I just don't think I, maybe, maybe someone misunderstood. Maybe, maybe, maybe anyway, Andrew Thorson is that gutter oil I keep hearing about. Yes. Yeah. Uh,

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I think you need water too. How do you think you make that human fertilize in the first place? You have to get the water first, right? Texas Panda says, it is the real number stated. Maybe, okay, some people say it's probably a typo. Yeah.

Ivan says, we had Jack Emmering within the building of the Hampton by Hilton every day destroying the conference room. Is this normal? Yes. Oh, yes. 100%. Big Bay. Nope. Okay. Got one charge. You got one charge. All right, fine. You got one charge left. Yeah, you got one charge. That's fine. Okay. Peter Edwards says, ni hao from Area Code 256, Coleman, Alabama. My wife and I love your work. Thank you. Now for my birthday. Yay.

Happy birthday, Juni Shinrakoala. Yes. Happy birthday. Yes. Happy birthday. Happy birthday. Can I get a moon by Fidel Castro Oil? Fidel Crisco. It's Fidel Crisco, but yeah, I love it. I love it.

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So many people, so many bollards. Canto Robot, please. We don't have Canto Robot. We don't have it. We should have it. You're right. It's so funny. I guess I'm just going to give you this. Oh, my dear Chocolato. Oh, my dear Chocolato. Yes. I could go for a Chocolato right now. Yeah, me too. Yeah. I could go for a lager, to be honest. Nice. I could go for a Pilsner myself. Take my pills. Yes, exactly. Yeah. I'd take my pills.

Ryan M. You know what sucks is lion lager, though. I don't know what that is. It's pretty bad. Is it? Are you just lying? Oh, I see what you did there. That's kind of clever, but no, actually in real life it sucks. I don't know what it is. Yeah, my grandpa used to drink it. It was his favorite. You know what my grandpa's beer was? What? Becks. Becks. He's a Becks drinker. I don't know Becks. What is it? It's a German beer. Oh, okay. It's kind of like Heineken. All right. Yeah, it's not bad. Sounds good.

Lion's not though. It's not? No. Why is it so bad? It just sucks. Just sucks. One of those. Yeah. It's a sucky beer. It's like, you know, when I was growing up, I was always looking forward to like drinking it because my grandfather used to like it so much. And then when I drank it, it was truly awful.

It tastes like the inner liner of a bottle cap. You know, like when you... Oh, yeah. That metallic... Yeah, it tastes like that. Oh, that's a bad sign. Yes, it tastes like that, but bitter. It's a bad beer. Please sponsor us. Yeah. I'm just joking. We'll only sponsor what we use. You know what would be so sick to get a beer sponsor, though? That would be amazing. But why don't we? I don't know. Can some... By the way, we have a very large live audience. Maybe. Can somebody...

In the audience watching this right now, if you have any connections to a beer company, especially an American beer company. As long as it's not called Great Wall Breweries or Great Leap Forward. Actually, I'll say this. A American brewing company. That'd be great. I think, because we'd like to support America. Sure. Please put us in touch or please get us a pitch or something. We would enthusiastically drink your beer on air and promote it because we love beer. Yes. Please do. Make that happen. That'd be great. We also need to be paid.

But that's how sponsorships work. Vanessa, your weekly pen charge, two charges. Excellent. Thanks. Thanks for that, I guess.

Adam Khan says, viva la pig bait. Nope. Okay, I got one left. Oh, man. That's how this game works. Okay, all right. You can do another sound effect if you want. Yeah, I'll do another sound effect. I'll give you a... That's not going to lighten anyone's day. No, definitely not. Patch Zero. I don't know why I think of rotten fish every time I see that dude. That's gross, and I don't know why. I mean, I kind of get it, though. I do kind of get it. Patch Zero says, tour guide looked at me weird because I got happy when someone cut my line.

Okay. I went because of you. Oh, cool. You do a better job than official channels because you are authentic. Thanks. Appreciate it. What are you talking about?

We went to Shanghai, remember? Oh, that's a follow-up. I was about to say, like, what? Yeah. Okay, yeah. Thank you. Mike Stewart, China Railway 10 Engineering Group Limited. Limited lifespan. Nice. That's pretty clever, actually, yeah. It's not even a year old. Sadly had to miss the show on Wednesday due to the work in the night shift. Please do it again. Sounds like a lot of fun. Yep.

Yep. Retired life. Thank you for the truth about the reason this building is no longer standing after the quake. I didn't see anyone talk about that in the news. No. Why didn't anyone bring that up? I don't know. It's a bit weird. It's pretty important. It's kind of an important detail. Yes. Who made the building? Yep.

People are probably worried about offending someone. Lane Kendall, I'm afraid that China can use influencers like speed this effectively because they have a big advantage in the information game, especially younger Americans. The work you're doing is more important than ever. Enjoy some brews. Hey, we do what we can. Thank you. We will. And look, remember, it's all one way. Yeah. Because it's very, it's for someone to go over there, first of all, to film in public, you need permission. Oh, it's all arranged. Yeah.

I would like to ask you a question, just a thought process. Why is someone like Speed who's going there to do live streaming, why are they allowed to live stream on a platform that is blocked and banned that local people are not allowed to use? Because you're allowed to do stuff if it benefits China. Yeah. But why are local people not allowed to, by their own government, forbidden to do what he's doing? Doesn't that kind of give you an idea of what's going on there? Yeah.

And of course, you're not allowed to show anything bad, but in America, you can show the bad stuff. Oh, it's encouraged. Yeah. I'm tired, honestly. This is unrelated to that thing. I am a lid, and I'll take it as an American. I'll take it all day because that's what the First Amendment is. Sure.

I'm tired of being the world's punching bag. For sure. Because I think you should be proud to be American. I think you should be proud of this country. And I'm tired of other countries just using it as like a spittoon. You know what I mean? I'm just kind of tired of it. Dude, it's just jealousy.

I guess. For the most part. And I mean, you should be proud of being American. There's a reason why I decided to raise my family here and not anywhere else. You know what I mean? Yeah. There's a reason why I want to live here and be here rather than anywhere else in Europe or in Asia or anywhere. I decided America is the place because it is the best place to live. It is. You know what I mean? So, and yes, it is kind of what I'm tired of is deceit.

That's what I don't stand for is the Chinese propaganda is deceitful. It's a lie. They lie, blatantly lie. And they also lie by omission. And they also don't allow you to see the bad side on purpose. But they continually point out the bad side of America and the West. And it gets really annoying because it's all about lying and cheating. Yeah.

And that's something I don't stand for. And that's why we'll never stop. That's my issue with China is it's just such a malicious government that is doing everything it can. Did you see that whole... To destroy the US. Yeah. You know, we've got that proof of the MCNs in China asking people to, you know, foreigners that are in China to point out the drug addicts in America, for instance, like they actually pay them to do that. It's just that kind of thing. It just sucks. It does. We'll get into that in the future.

One less Pig Bay, please. One less. What do you mean one less? Oh, okay. YouTube recommend... Yeah, I just read that. Stun's done. Pack. Yes. RDE Josh, after many years of being a Xiao Qi Gui fan, I finally became a half-price ho a couple weeks ago. Wow. Oh, thank you very much. Very generous of you. I'm very excited to watch the black and white bag episode. Yes, yes. It's...

Wow, this is cringe. Qualit 1203, can I get a crisp HD soundbite of an angry guy yelling in the train? You certainly can. Let me find it first. Oh, wrong way. You son of a...

Scarlett says, can I apply for the Wheel of Foshan if I don't make the live patron show but I'm still a member? Oh, yeah. You don't have to be there live to be on the Wheel of Foshan. If you are a live tier member, all you have to do is send us a DM and we'll put your name on there. Yeah. If you're a live tier member, send it over. DM.

Dr. YouTuber, your moderation team dynamics are not getting cold, but are just working out. Okay. No idea what's going on there, but yeah. I guess they're working out. Yeah. Just working out. Our mod team is our legends. Yeah. And they are like a surgical knife. And they're fantastic. Yes. Yes. Good job.

They're not overbearing. No. No. Haunter 1. This woman reminds me of Red Note Soupy Barbecue, please. Yeah, it's pretty similar. Delicious. Drinks on me. I'd recommend... Thank you. You got it? Got it. You did it? Got it. Gotcha. Yeah, not getting me this time. I had a good night of sleep. That was a close one, though. I was tired that time. Yeah, you were. It was five times I fell in for that. Mm-hmm.

Tokyo Bobcat. In 2020, I was diagnosed with a lung disorder. I went to Guangzhou's top lung hospital. Keep in mind, that's the top tier city. Yes. Treatment for an eight-day stay, biopsy, CT, PET scans, tests, and meds, costs $37,695 RMB, plus $3,000 a year for two years of follow-up scans and medication with insurance. Yeah. There you go. It's not free, guys. And that's the thing people don't understand. Yes. Dude, like...

Foreigners fall into this trap and I'm not going to name names, but there was a specific guy who had a stroke in Shenzhen. He was a DJ and he was, you know, like in the party scene and there's a lot of foreigners that go there to teach English and they don't really take life seriously. So they don't have insurance or anything like that. And they're like, China's cheap or whatever. If I get injured, I'll just go to the hospital. It's cheap. They had to have an emergency fundraiser to try to raise enough money to treat this guy. Okay.

He's earning a salary, he's a DJ and all this kind of stuff. He had money, money, you know, but he couldn't afford it. A foreigner.

Remember we had that friend who had a motorcycle accident. He was working for a big university, had a big salary, decent salary. He couldn't afford it. Everybody had to crowdfund to try and pay for this guy's treatment. Now that you mentioned it, most foreigners that had a problem in China had to crowdfund from their students, from their Chinese friends, like everyone to try to pull in. Why? Because it's unaffordable. It's very expensive. People don't realize that it's very expensive. If you're earning a Chinese wage specifically,

And yes, as a foreigner, you earn a lot more than a local person, but it's still a Chinese wage. You cannot afford like a broken leg is devastating. It'll wipe out your savings. People don't understand that. And they see videos like that crap and they think, oh, it's so free and cheap. I'll just walk in there and it's a couple of dollars. Yeah, true. Do you notice the guy didn't get treated for anything? Yeah.

He didn't, I mean, not that we know of. Why? Because it was a freaking Chinese propaganda video. We don't even need to analyze where it came from. It's from the state. Yeah, it's true. Besides, yeah. You make good points. You do.

Tokyo Bobcat, thank you for that. Chainsaw Octopus says, hard agree about the importance of fact-checking. I've seen accounts like that posting all a matter of malignant BS, so thank you for calling that out. This is what we want, I assure you. Yes. This is definitely what you want, I assure. I hope people appreciate that we spend so much time trying to find the truth. Yeah, and I mean, come on. It's a lot of work. And these big accounts, like, make a correction. Yeah, I mean, and no. If you can, remove it. Honestly, maybe they will, you know? And that's one.

We find this across the board. Now, I'm not talking about Republicans and Democrats. I'm talking about all

All across the board on social media, I am seeing Chinese propaganda get reposted now. Yeah. And it sucks. I mean, look, at the very least, that thing should receive a community note. Yeah. And you know what? It's probably not that difficult to go online on the Chinese internet and find pricing from that hospital. Actually, yeah. You don't even need to call your friends. Yeah. You could probably just go find it. Or you could call them. I mean, the hospital itself has a website. They might have stuff up. Yeah. I don't know. Okay.

Much love to you both. I'm here with you from Topher. Appreciate it. Joe says, can I have the Sarah AI body pillow to replace my wife who left? She's younger and beautiful. Sarah body pillow is very important. It stays with us here in the office. Chris says, checking a yingling lager for sponsorship. We drank a lot of yingling, but guess what?

You guys help us get those because we simply have tried to reach out to these kind of brands and we just don't hear anything back. We suck at that. We suck at that. And we're just not that good at it.

Doc Southey did an old doc back again. Have a good weekend, everyone. See you chubs on Monday. Absolutely. We will on patreon.com slash ADV podcast. It's going to be one of the best shows ever and you're going to love it. It's the best way to support us too. Yes. Delivery driver call and we got another interactive game. Ooh, we have another game. Is it like Hey, Buy, Die or is it a little different? Something different. Okay. But it's in the same line of being slightly humiliating, I'm assuming. It's risky. Ah, boy. Ah, boy. We'll see about this. Unknown person.

What? True. That migrant workers are returning home. Yes. Yes, that is a phenomenon that's happening because of unemployment. It's true, but it's always been like that. Yeah. Migrant workers come and they work in a big city for a couple of years. Sure, sure. Maybe two, three years, five years max, and then they just go home and they float by because, you know, when you're living in the middle of nowhere, you can float by on your wages then. True. For like years. Delta Heavy says, did you guys see all that hype on Twitter over the Xiaomi SU7?

That streamer wrote in one and they're saying it's... iShowSpeed wrote in one and they're saying it's better than Western Cars. I mean...

Everyone was getting to do that. That was all over the internet. It's been all over. They've been pushing that for ages. I mean, what's it... Who's that? Like, this is a... Oh, Doug DeMuro. Did he do that one? He did that too. Everyone's done it. Did he glaze it? Yeah, I didn't watch it. Oh, okay. They always push... Like, that's one of the big ones they've been pushing for the longest time. We've covered it on the show. Oh, yeah, yeah. You know, I mean... That's the one that the airbags don't go off when it crashes and it's got all these issues and like the brakes are too small. From Chinese people filming it, by the way. Yeah, Chinese, obviously. Yeah.

You know, it's all from Chinese sources. There's that very famous like race car tester guy. Remember he took it around the track and the brakes failed because they were too small and overheated. I mean, it's not amazing. It's like any other EV. Maybe it's better now. Who knows? Yeah. Travis Compton, I feel Huawei is siphoning their people like people money like Apple does, but the Chinese people don't have the level of expendable income in the U.S.

Yeah, I mean, it's true. They, you know, for the nationalism, they always sell them the latest Huawei Mate Pro, whatever, and they spend everything and then it's a crap phone and then they just buy an iPhone anyway, you know? Adam Kahn, viva la second, Big Bay. Well, you know what? I'll grant it. Yes. Makes me irritated.

I get a kick, bay, charge, count, just people that give a track. Do I have two or one? You have two. Okay. Daisy, this episode is brought to you by Plastic Rebar, the quality building materials for your high-rise needs. Yes. Can you give me a rock intro? Yeah, sure. There you go. Wait, that's probably too loud. Let me bring it down. This episode brought to you by Plastic Rebar, quality building materials for all your high-rise needs. This is definitely what you want. I assure you.

This is definitely what you want, I assure. Nice, I thought that was a good little ditty. Dragonilla says, I'm happy to see Skinnypen is back. Yes, I have missed her, and I want her to know that she's an integral part of the show and has many simps. She does, and she is a beautiful thing. Fatpen is still in the room. Somewhere. I know where he is.

SkinnyPin has made a return, and this is fantastic that she can hold charges as well. Nathan, did anyone pick up the bike from the beginning of today's show? Can I get a big bang? Yeah. No, never. You're taking it away? Okay. All right. One left.

World Eater 359, my buddy's own Turning Point Brewery here in Texas. Sweet. I'll see if they would sponsor. They make a New England IPA and a bunch of other craft stuff. That'd be fantastic. Yay. We'll try it out for sure. What are you yaying? Do they have any lagers? Oh, I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm sure. I'm sure. They're not going to only make IPAs. I don't know. I feel like whenever...

Like if it says American and brewery after the word American, I think they do not make lagers. That's not true. There's a bunch of crafts that make all kinds of good stuff. I mean that you like. Yeah. But very often when they say they make a lager, it just tastes like an IPA though. You have to learn your different styles of beer because there'll be some that are not for sure. Yeah, for sure. Yeah.

You like light beer. Maybe they will class it as like world-class lager or something. No, you like what you like. You don't even like all lagers. Some can be very hopped. Sure. You like American adjunct lager. That's what you like. American adjunct lager. Yeah. It's less hopped. There's almost no hops. You know what I find very interesting is, you know, like I have a Firebird, right? It has a transmission. The gearbox is a T5. Mm-hmm.

And it's rubbish. But you know what? They also make what's called the world-class T5, which is less rubbish. But it's for export? No, it's for America, but it's almost as good as...

Other transmissions from abroad. And I'm not even joking. It's called world-class. The world-class T5 transmission is better than the normal T5. But America does make good transmissions. Just that one sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, from that era. Yeah, from that era. Yeah. Let's be honest. American cars from that era are pretty terrible. They are. They look cool. Yeah, they're awesome. I mean, I only have American cars. Yeah. We're big fans of America. I love American cars. We know a lot of American shit sucks. Oh.

I will be the, by the way, don't ever think I'm glazed in America for no reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When I gave my little impassioned speech, American shit sucks sometimes. The healthcare does need to be sorted out. And that sucks. But don't compare it to China. Don't you dare. Don't compare it to China and don't lie. Yeah. Number two, the quality is excellent. Yes. Of that. And America does make some absolutely world-leading, amazing research and amazing products. Two.

Sure. It's a dichotomy. Yeah. It's kind of interesting. Alstom, excellent work, Winston. Thank you. Seamilk, Pig Bay. Stop. Got it. Nice. The Devastator says, play me a random sound on the soundboard, my fellow cultured gentlemen. Great. There you go. You got a great. It's been a while.

You know what we haven't seen for a very long time and I don't know where it went is... What's this? Unbelievable! Not that one. Here, this one. Nice. Oh, a nice. That's a bit of a rare deep cut. Yeah, we used to use that one a lot. Yeah, yes. Great and nice have really taken a back seat these days. They have. They really, really have. Poor old Jaunty. Poor Jaunt.

Just people going on and on about cars. I do like a lot of American cars. Oh, they're my favorite. Yeah. I mean, they are what they are, and that's the best thing. To me, they're the coolest cars, for sure, especially from the 70s. Oh, for sure. They're the coolest. They're absolutely the coolest cars in the world, no doubt. And they're simple. I love V8s. I love V8s. No, there's some stuff I absolutely love. I absolutely love. American V8s, you can't beat it. No. They're not the most sophisticated. No, but they're sick. And the quality is a bit...

NAF in a lot of them, but you know what? They're great. Honestly, though, some of the American simpler cars, they're built very well. Well, I mean, the fact that my 1978 Trans Am is still going strong. For sure. It's older than me. I'm more thinking about that 90s era...

That's terrible. It's a little rough. That's the worst. The late 80s, early 90s. Those will never be okay. Those are bad. Those are rubbish. Those are bad times. Yeah. Bob Smith, thank you very much. Ah, crap. What? No. You missed it? Chippy Wiesk. I understand internet etiquette, but as far as northern China issues... What?

Yeah. Yes, I got you. Chippy, I got you. That was close. That was close. I'm on fire today. I missed both of them. You guys tried to make me say bad stuff and I didn't. Jennifer Marco, what happens if someone's in a major accident and they're unconscious? Will they end up at the hospital? Do they just not treat you? They have to find someone to pay first. Yes. We've seen this in real life.

You have to pay first. It's horrible. And you get sculptors. That's something we don't talk about. But you'll get middle-aged people that got no job, nothing to do. They'll go in early and they'll get the wait tickets. Because it's like if you go to a bank, you get a ticket. And then if you come in there, there's a long line and the sculptor's like, here, I'll sell you this ticket so that you can get ahead in the line. It's kind of crappy. You guys must be the biggest US chills out there. I don't think so.

You have no one to shill for because we're completely independent. Yeah, that's the best part. And America has got massive, absolutely regarded problems. Horrific, dumbass problems. But it doesn't mean I don't love my country and it doesn't mean I don't stand for American ideals and beliefs. Here's the thing. You can like a country without being a shill. Yeah, that's the difference. That's called being transparent, which is what we are. Yeah.

We're the China show. We're going to criticize. This is the problem I think people have. They go, well, you don't criticize America enough because we're the China show. Number one, we'll criticize America all day. We do it all day in our own time.

But China and America aren't the same thing. Yes. China is so apocalyptically worse than America in almost every facet. Correct. So they're not like, oh, that's bad, so you've got to say that's bad too. They're not the same. You're not the same age. Yeah, you can talk about one thing without the other. You don't always need to have a comparison. That's whataboutism. That is a tactic that was made up by the Soviet Union.

And it's still used by China today. It's like if you point out a problem, like if you see someone being stabbed and you're like, that person's being stabbed, let's help him. And then the person's like, oh, yeah, well, you're...

Your friend over there stabbed someone 10 years ago. It doesn't stop the fact that that person needs help right now and is busy being stabbed. It's this stupid idea that you cannot point out a problem with China without pointing out a problem with America. It doesn't need to always be tit for tat. My point is to go even further, is to say that when people do make that argument, you're being dumb if you think that China isn't much, much worse. Yeah, it's true. In almost every element. Because it'll be like China is stabbing...

30 million people right there. Right. And you're like, hey, all these 30 million people are being stabbed. They're like, oh yeah, well someone, your uncle once stubbed someone's toe. Right. You know, like a hundred years ago. You're like, come on, dude. Like, you know, get over it. Yeah. It's pretty wild. Yeah. Jennifer Marco says, what happens if someone, I just read that. Yeah.

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Yeah. And again, the best way to support us. It's a completely different show. It's not like this. It's not about the news. We take topics and we just dig deep into them and have fun. And it's very interactive. So we can't wait to see you guys there. Please join us if you have the means, of course. We understand it's a bit of an ask. Sure. But we'd love to see you there. Anyway, thank you for sitting through today. I think today was an important topic. I do hope that you can discuss this with people and maybe just...

you know, alert people to the fact that a lot of this stuff going around specifically about China, comparing China to America, the majority of that stuff is propaganda. The majority of it is false where they're lying by omission. And, you know, you really, you wouldn't know unless you lived there. You wouldn't know unless you actually understood how it works. You wouldn't know unless you'd actually been to Chinese hospitals and

Many times, just like we did, you know, your one child was born in a hospital. You went through that whole process. You, you know, broke a leg, went through that process. I had to go all the time. I used to work in the hospitals there. I know what it's like. So for somebody who's never experienced it, you look at a propaganda like that and you're like, wow, China is amazing. It's not true. Please dig a bit deeper. Please educate people that this is not how it is. Stay awesome. Have a fantastic weekend. Best weekend ever. And we'll see you next week on Monday.

And yeah, we're probably going to be releasing some of our own videos this weekend as well. So it'll be fun. Anyway, guys, stay awesome. Time for me to not cut myself off. Let's do it. Thank you, Josh.