What China's Hiding Will Blow Your Mind! - Episode #254
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Welcome everybody to episode 254 of The China Show, The Real China Show. Shout out to Waco, Texas.

It is, yeah, because it's 254. That's the area code. Yes. I didn't want anyone to think... Not for any other reason. I didn't want anyone to think that was a different meaning. No, no. I will say this. This episode is dark. It's also very...

very angering. Yeah. We've thrown in good stuff too, though. Don't worry. No, that's what I was going to say, but it's also going to be hilarious. Going to have some hilarious clips. We've got a good slapaganda. We got a great slapaganda. I'd say this is an intense piece of investigative journalism we did today. Yes. Um, and it really talk about a, uh, mask off moment for China in this case. Yeah.

I would encourage you guys to please click like. A lot of people right in the beginning of this episode said they did not get a notification of this episode. We don't know what's going on. I'm not going to point any fingers. I'm just going to say let's try to increase the visibility as much as possible. Just click the like button. We have seen that when that happens, it tends to go out to more people. We'd appreciate it. We do have some pretty incredibly interesting things happening in this episode. We're going to be doing segments that we've never done before on the show. Yeah.

Yes. So anyway, I can't wait to get right into it. So let's saunter right into it, shall we? With what's new. Probably helps if I open up the media pack. What do you say? It probably does. Okay. So let's saunter right into it with what's new. This is where we talk about everything that's new specifically with regards to China. So we're going to show you a couple of clips here. Okay.

What do we got going on here? Well, we've got the Grab Hags doing grab haggery in a different way this time. Duck haggery. Yeah. I mean, you might think that the whole idea of jumping over the subway thing is only a New York subway thing. Yeah. But no, don't worry. It happens in China too. It's just a completely different demographic. It is. It's the old people. It's the old ladies. It's not like some young athletic dudes jumping over like, woo, yeah, with a hoodie. Right. Here it's just a bunch of old women trying to escape paying the fare. Yeah.

I do love to see that. That is hilarious. And they are almost so short that they can kind of get away with it. They can just get underneath, yeah. They can claim to be like, well, I'm under a certain height. I don't have to go through it. I used to get quite annoyed because going into the Shenzhen Metro, you'd often find people that like try to follow you through on your scan. Yeah, yeah. If they get real close. Yeah, then they tried it. So I'd always like purposefully like go slow and like.

You know, frustrate them. Oh, yeah. This is interactive. Speaking of grab hacks and grab haggery, there's a certain generation in China, we call them the lost generation. Well, Chinese people call them the lost generation. And they're all this kind of age. So we wanted to know, because something incredible happens in this particular...

little clip we wanted to ask you our audience put in the chat what do you think is going to happen okay i want to see every single person right in chat and if you're not watching live write a comment yeah of what you think is about to happen you can validate yourself yeah okay so you've got two two women over here they're you know together um friends and you've got one in the stripy thing with a green scarf and the other one in the puffy black jacket

Okay, and they're chilling out at this... There's a store selling... What would you say? Like poultry goods? It looks like ducks. Yeah, bits of ducks, bits of, you know, I guess fried and cooked things. In the middle, you can see all the parts, right? There's the duck's feet and the duck's necks and things like that. You know those duck stands? Let's be honest, we know those ducks. Yeah, we know the duck stands. It's got like the cartoon duck or whatever. Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

I want everyone to put what they think in the chat and also click like because if you're going to the chat to type something, it's very easy to click like. So what will happen? Leave it there. I want to read some of these. Okay, yeah. Please read some of them. Takes a bite, puts it back. You said it was something incredible. I actually don't know what happens. This is what makes this even better. Exactly. I have no clue. You did this part.

Five Finger Special, Feel the Food, Stealing, Take a Bite, Grab Food, Run Away, Sneeze into the Food, Taste Testing, Take a Sample, Take a Whole Plate of Food, Duck Wang, Woo. Nice. Duck Wang. Okay, anyway, shall we show? Take All, Take Bite.

Okay, some people seem to have got the idea. Look, she's very cautious. No, it's not a J.D. Vance meme. Oh, dude. Oh, man, that would be great. We should have done that. We should have done that. Yeah, we should have. I'm sorry. Thank you for giving us that idea for next week, though. Okay, so let's take a look. Um...

Yes. That's your incredible outcome? So you did troll the audience. I did. It's literally a woman stealing a duck. No, but, okay. That's news? No, no, no, no, no. But what does she steal, though? Okay, so her friend is, like, running interference, right? Well, there's a duck that looks like that on the right. Looks like she takes two things. That's a duck.

Doesn't it look? I think it's a split. It's split. You think it's a split duck? Yeah, yeah, it's a split. It's not the whole thing. It's split like where the thighs are. Oh, you think so? Yeah, like chopped down the middle. It's not just like two things that she just grabbed? No, you think, you know how like in China when they take the butcher knife and they chop it in half? It's like that, I think. Okay. So it's like a... It's like a split duck? It's like a split duck.

Yeah. That's the stupidest clip I've ever seen in my life. That's not news. I just wanted people to get in a jovial mood. All right? Is that jovial? Yes. Imagine this is the audience's first time. They're like, I heard about this Chinese show. They do some really excellent exposés, and it's a woman stealing a duck. That's how we started the show. It's basically like a middle-aged woman crime syndicate going on over here. Crimes.

You know like when you get medium to well on a steak? Yes, yes, yes. So this is more like, I'd say they're actually well done. Anyway, there they go. Oh, and she still grabbed something to eat. So those of you who said take a bite, you're right. Those of you who said steal, you're both right. Click like, you have to click like if you are right. Yeah, so not only does she steal a whole split duck thing, she also grabs and steals something off the side. Off they go.

What a oh, so they were working together. Yes. It's a crime syndicate. This is not click likable with this this scenario Yeah, no, this this is pretty bad. This has been going around Okay, and this is in rural China. There was a Graveyard and it was being leased the lands being leased from the government and of course the payment wasn't made on the lease And so the government just came in and tore down all the graves, which is not what you want Yeah

Those are Chinese graves, which, by the way, it's very conflicting about burials in China because as far as I know, you're not allowed to do that anymore. You have to be cremated. Yeah. Well, no, no, no, no, no. What's the deal? No.

If you have special permission from your local area where your hukou is, you can be buried. If they have the land appropriation for it. Yeah. You should be cremated under normal circumstances in China. Yeah, you're not wrong. Okay. You can get... Yeah, no, I'm still a bit confused. I had to go visit ancestor graves, you know, from my family. It was in the mountain. We had to go clean it and like chop off leaves and vines. You didn't dig them up. I mean, that's a bit close to home for me. No, but the problem...

Yes, exactly. And I'm not a grave digger over here. No, quite honestly, though, it was kind of a crappy situation because they are doing development in that area. And so they have actually demolished a bunch of graves in that area. Oh, I see what you're saying. In order to just put some real estate. Anyway, now this is one of the most Chinese clips you'll see all week. Yes. All right? Yes.

Now, let's take a look. There's an arrow pointing to the back and you'll see why in a minute. Let's just see what's going on, okay? In the foreground, come and sit down at his table there. So we're supposed to be watching. But, yeah, in the back, something's going on. Why are they so agitated? Pause. Go back to the beginning of the clip. I think people missed the intro.

I want you guys in chat to guess. I do want to take some guesses. I think this is a great interactive. So it's another, it's another guest clip, so to speak. So they're at hot. Everyone's at hot pot. That's the, we need to set this up. Yeah. What do you think is going to happen? Yeah. Why is the table at the back suddenly? So, so agitated. Why do you think? Well,

So there was a main character dude walking in first, right? And she looks like she's looking at him. Yeah, yeah. Why is she so pissed off? Yeah, why are they agitated? And you'll see. We'll pause it. Now she tells the dude sitting at her table, hey, look at that guy over there. He's husband of another woman. Rats? Cheating? Cool hand Luke? What? Maybe he's a celebrity? Phone dropped?

Chill broth. Peeing in the hot pot. That's very relevant. It's coming on later. Look, now the guy's taking his phone out to take photos. And he's cracking up. They're both cracking up. So what do you think's going on here, guys? Let's find out, shall we? Yes. Okay. He's like hiding. He's like collapsing. What's going on? He's dying. He obviously has to go over. He's like, bro.

You're at the wrong table. Bro is on his phone. Yeah. He was so locked into his phone. So oblivious of where he was. He sat down at someone else's table. Yeah. So people can see like when he walks in. And he didn't notice, but you know, we were looking at this clip earlier and you, you pointed something out. Yeah.

Why did the couple at the table not react? So because he goes to the I'm sorry. This is very distraught. Yeah, it's very like the guy walks in. He's on his phone. He's like, I'm sitting down at my table and they look at him and they're like, they're like, what? They smile a little bit. Like what's going on? The guy doesn't. They just ignore him. Yeah. Why wouldn't, what would you do? I'd be like, can I help you? Excuse me? Yeah. That would be me. No, I'd be like, you okay there, bro? You okay, bro? Like wrong table, bro? Yeah. What's happening? What's your name? Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

But they just go on. They just continue eating and he's just on his phone. I mean, do you think this would happen to you? No. Because I don't do that on my phone. I also have situational awareness. Yes. Yeah. Whoops. Oops.

It's funny. Yeah, it is funny. It's also very dystopian. Oh, yeah. Like, this is where we're at as a human civilization. Try not to be that stuck in your phone. Yeah, because China's, like I said, about five years ahead on the phone addiction thing. Yeah. They've already gone full dystopia. Yeah, yeah, for sure. Okay, this clip has been going around. I know it's your favorite clip in the world. Can I preface by saying I...

cannot stop thinking about this clip and I hate it so much. How much do you hate it? Like...

Oh my day. It's like Shackalotto level. Yeah. I thought as much. Okay. I will have another soundbite for you to play after we play it. Okay. Sounds good. Anyway. So, uh, let me set this up. There is a, um, Chinese foreign student in the UK. Uh, for those of you don't know it, when it comes to foreign students in, uh, British universities, Australian universities, Canadian universities, American universities, huge, huge amount of Chinese students. We'll still probably know that. Yeah. And that's, you know, when, um,

The rich parents want to send their kids to study overseas. Also, CCP members send their kids to study overseas. Many reasons. Education. Think Kim Jong-un, you know, studied abroad, that whole thing. CCP officials in China do the same thing with their kids. It's a couple of reasons. It's not just about a good education. Of course, to send your kid to study in a UK university or a British or American or whatever. Yeah, it's about prestige.

But it's also once they're there, they can set up bank accounts, trust funds, get your corrupt money out of there, you know, like buy real estate. By the way, this is not everybody. No, I'm just saying. This is a trend. It's a trend. It's a trend. And it has nothing to do with her necessarily. Yeah, we don't know that. No. Yeah. Anyway, she is a Chinese student in the UK. Yes. All right. And she does this thing where she is very annoying and wakes up very early and pisses off her neighbors. But we'll just show you the clip first, okay? Oh.

Good morning, my neighbor! Sunshine! Sunshine in the UK! Okay, now wait. I'm going to stop it right there. Because that's annoying, right? That's...

I don't want to be caring about this, but don't wake up at like 5 a.m. and scream out the window in your shit British accent. Yeah, but, okay, this is a lot more sinister. Yes. Because she's not just doing that to piss off her neighbors. She's doing this. She's not doing it once either. No, she does it a lot. Like there's quite a few. It went under her account. Yeah, she does it quite a lot. Tons.

But specifically in this instance, she's doing it because she's trying to destroy the international image of Japanese people. How does that work? Because that's confusing. It is confusing. Take a look.

So, sumimasen. Go back and let's do it again. Yeah. As you know, in Japanese, sumimasen means excuse me or, you know, sorry, basically. And so what she's trying to do is pretend to be Japanese so that the locals, in her mind, so that the locals will be like, those Japanese people are so rude. Japanese people are so uncivilized. There's two things here. Number one, that is the most,

immature piece of shit thing to do. To pretend to be a different nationality. To do something rude. To make everyone mad at a different country even though you're the one doing it as a Chinese person. The second thing is

no one is going to walk by here in some piece of shit London neighborhood and go, damn, I bet she's Japanese. They're just like that bloody insane bird. Yes. Yes. I think she's Chinese. I mean, there's,

There's no way anyone's going to go, oh, sumimasen, I know that word in Japanese. Maybe 99% of people walk by and be like, what's that Chinese bird doing up there screaming at 5 a.m.? Exactly. I'm bloody hungover. Exactly, yeah. That's what's going to happen. You're right, you're right. But, you know, this has kind of had the opposite effect, though. Yes. Because by trying to make Japanese people look bad, she's actually inadvertently made Chinese people look bad. Yes.

Like even worse, though, because it's not just a Chinese mental patient in the morning making noise. It's a Chinese mental patient trying to make Japanese people look bad. So then that makes them look even worse. It does. It's actually double bad. It's double bad. And number two, Japan's social media ran with this. And they're like, F this girl. And you've got Japanese social media influencers being like, this just shows you. China's just one big mental asylum, and they're letting their inmates out.

The only thing you've done is make China look bad internationally and ruin the relationship between China and Japan, which China is desperately, desperately trying to repair now on a diplomatic level. And here's the deal. American can go abroad and make America look bad, and the leadership in America doesn't give a shit. It has nothing to do with it. It's your own thing, right? Get a rude American tourist or something. Yeah.

But China doesn't allow that. If you go abroad and represent China and you make China look bad, you are in big trouble. That's right. So I guarantee she's going to get in trouble. Well, she's at least going to have to remove her clips and stuff. Can we get tortured one more time so we can play our new soundbite? Sure, why not? Good morning, my neighbor! Sunshine! Sunshine in the UK! Send me buses!

She looks at the camera as such a main character syndrome. Yes, exactly. That's more appropriate. You see how she looks at the camera? Yes, me too. Yes, I think that. We finally got the sound bite. Yeah, we did. We finally got a reason. Anyway, just. You see how she looks at the camera though? You know when you're like, you know, you're kind of doing something cheeky or bad. She looks, she has that crazy look. She looks at the camera like, oh, I'm going to do something bad.

Look at me. I'm making Japanese people look bad on behalf of the nation. You know what it reminds me of? The motherland. It's like when someone tries to be funny and you just want to die inside for them because they're overly confident in what they're doing. It's not just embarrassing. It's like the overconfidence is so put on for a reaction that it makes you feel like secondhand embarrassment. And it reminds me of like in the 90s and early 2000s and everything's like, you know those music videos like, put me in a straitjacket. I'm crazy. I'm going to go. You hold me back.

back you know it's kind of like that vibe it's very annoying so wild and so crazy exactly it's super annoying all the time yeah it's terrible it's

It's gross. Yeah, it's gross. Anyway, I mean, don't try to pretend to be another nationality. If you're going to do something bad and irritate people, at least own it. At least be like, hey, look, I'm a wacky, crazy person or whatever. Put it on yourself. First of all, don't put it on your nation. Now, you've just made Chinese people look bad. Do you think that's fair to the legitimate Chinese students that are there? Sagi Sandwich says, I can fix her. Sure, sure, sure. Good luck, my friend. Good luck. Go ahead.

Yeah. All right. What's that? Oh, this is, this is. Okay. So what is going on here? Well, at first I couldn't tell because of that resolution is so bad. It's always shit. Shit ADP out of China, dude. There is, there is a policeman about to go help this old woman standing in the middle of the crosswalk.

Yeah, just leaving her in the middle of the crosswalk. Just leaving her there. It would be very dangerous to do this right now because there's so many of those errant drivers in China right now running over pedestrians. But anyway, that aside, there's a guy in T-shirt and shorts that is filming the whole thing. Well, that's the whole point. It's a setup, right? So this kind of thing doesn't actually naturally happen in China. No. Okay, see now they're setting up this heroic shot where he runs out to go and help this old lady across the street.

It's very funny. And I just wanted to point that out because in China, from our own observations, okay, anecdotally, you don't see this kind of thing happen. You only see it on the news. And they always portray, just like all these travel videos you see coming out of China, they always portray like China is something that it isn't actually. Or on Red Note. Yes. It's like, oh, look, they've got such kind and wonderful traffic police. You're right, dude.

Go there and have a look. Go look. Yes, you'll see it. We're not endorsing you to go to China, but if you did, you'd have quite a wake up call. Yeah, yeah, exactly. You'll see this and you're like, oh, they're so nice, but that's just propaganda. Least charitable country in the world. I love this. This flies in the face of this red note bullshit these days. So there is this copy pasta that was going around back, you know, when they banned, when TikTok was going to be banned and China tried to push everyone into Xiaohongshu red note and it's just chock full of propaganda, right? Right.

Part of this copypasta was America's bad. You should overthrow your country. Uh,

It's bad because in China, we don't have to pay for our housing or food. We're old. We have Medicare taken care of. Got good social programs, which isn't true. China doesn't have social programs. It's a cutthroat, poor capitalist society. Don't listen to people that are uneducated and have seen something on Red Note or something. Because in reality, it's very difficult. That's why the family unit is so important in China.

That's why your parents come and live with you when you get married. Correct. Okay. It's very difficult. You have to rely on your family as your retirement, basically. The government does not take care of you. No. And how about this? This is legitimate propaganda that's going around these days. And it says having three children is good. Yes.

Then the state doesn't have to care for you when you're old. It literally says that. That's what it says. Yes, don't need to young those Lao, you know what I'm saying? This banner is across the whole country, by the way. It's on old style propaganda or it's on paint. It's on new style banners. It says have three kids now.

Yes. Trying to get rid of the one child policy. Have three kids now because then the state won't have to raise you. That's correct, which is in complete contrast to what was up a few years ago. Yes. We literally thought this was fake. Yes, we thought this was not. But then we started seeing it everywhere. Yeah, we started to look it up. And the banners are appearing all over China. So it's real propaganda. So here it is, again, outside a school, I think, or some kind of government building. But basically...

What they're trying to tell you is like, well, you don't even need to put a burden on the state if you've got three kids. You don't need to worry about the state looking after you because it won't anyway. By the way. What? We've got a big... It's funny that it happened now. Yeah. But when you put this up, you know, this propaganda banner, a shit ton of trolls came into the chat. Makes sense. So I want everyone to say hi to the trolls. Sure. In the chat. Welcome them. We had a lot of great USAID comments. Yes. NPC comment. Yes.

By the way, if we are getting USAID funding and it's been cut off now, then why are we still on YouTube, my friends? Yeah, why are we still making our shows? We need your money more than ever. We're independent. Anyway, shout out to the trolls. That's really good. We're getting good engagement. Click like if you want to say welcome the trolls. Show them that this episode deserves more eyes on it. Yeah. You know what really annoys me about this, right? Is it just proves how crappy the Chinese government is. It thinks that people in China cannot think for themselves. They have to be told what to do. Yeah.

Right, because it was only a couple of years ago. When I first got to China, they still had the one-child policy. Yes. They still had the one-child policy propaganda. There were still murals up on buildings saying, having one child is glorious. Yeah. And showing the stupid thing about like a family in the park with...

A camera and stuff to show that you can be wealthy if you only have one child, you know? Yeah. Or wealthier. It shows you that it's like a switch that they just turn on and off. Just showing you that this is widespread around the country. It's not just one instance of one banner that was printed out. It is all over the place, right? Yeah. But it's like having three children is good. Then the state will not have to take care of you. When you're old. When you're old. Yeah. Yeah.

Back to fires. But hang on a second. This is not like the usual fires. Don't worry. You're not going to see... What's his name? Huo Guo Peng Wang. Okay. There's something else going on here. Solar panels are causing fires because of the photovoltaic...

inverter thingy, the box thing, the converter thingy, you know, you know what I'm talking about? Chinese solar technology is very safe and high quality leader of the world. He quality quality. Um, but basically if you know, you know, you've got your, your solar panels and you've got like a little inverter box thingy on the back of the solar panel. And then the cables go down to your, uh, battery and all that other stuff. Okay. Which is separate. So, you know, you don't have the batteries on up on the roof, but whatever that, uh,

The electronic package that's on the back of the solar panels, there have been quite a few of them catching on fire, as you can see, which is quite concerning, especially when you consider that China brags about having the best solar in the world, the most amount of solar in the world.

I don't know about you, but I wouldn't feel very happy if I found out I've got a cheap Chinese solar panel on my roof right now. Yeah. Or an inverter box or any components, really. Sure. Yeah, it's a good point, isn't it? But you've seen these...

Yes, you can see it here as well. You've seen these big like fields of solar panels where they put them on mountains and stuff in China, right? They're always lauded as being so incredible and like ahead and forward thinking. It's hot. Yeah, it's hot. But there is an issue. Just because you make the most of something doesn't mean you're a leader or the best at something. I think this is a poetic example of that. Yeah.

Because that's the most. Yeah, you can make the most of something. You can make the most of something and it's probably the worst of something. Yeah, so I just want to give an analogy here. If you have two bakeries next to each other, one builds artisanal cakes and it takes maybe a day for them to make one cake, but it's really nice and the best ingredients and it always turns out good. And you've got one next to it that just pumps them out, like low quality crappy cakes that are

like rock hard and they're dry and they don't taste good but you know there's still a cake that's a good analogy when China how China approaches almost every single industry right the cakes suck yes there's a lot of them but they look nice it's got a good glaze on it

So it's the same. Exactly. It's the same with like solar panels and stuff. They'll be like, we're the world leader in solar panel production. Yeah, sure. But they're not great, are they? Quantity over quality. You know, that type of thing. That's just a quick analogy. But anyway, just to show you that these things are not exactly the safest thing in the world. Leader of the world. Yeah, exactly. Yeah.

Now, we have had some more ruination, by the way. But it has been another week of fires, as usual. Yeah. I'm not going to show you, like, little apartment fires. I mean, this is starting to become, like, a stuck record. It's like every week, you're like, oh, look, here's a bunch of fires in China. Yeah.

Oh, take a look. Another factory or another. This is a bridge on fire. Yeah, a lot of infrastructure on fire. We've seen multiple ones of these. This is another fire waterfall. It happens on bridges. Dude, it's pretty amazing. Can we see that? Yeah. It's these fire waterfalls. It's usually a truck carrying chemicals that catches fire that causes this. Oh, that makes it sound like you're trying to downplay.

Oh, it's just that. Yeah. It's just a truck spilling noxious chemicals. You've got fire water. Oh, it's just that. Yeah, that's all. Oh, no big deal. No big deal. Okay, but... There is some serious ruination going down. Yes. Do you have the clip of the workers on the roof? Okay. It's kind of like fiddlers on the roof. That's after this. It's after this? Okay, I thought we were going to play that before. All right, well...

This is Beijing Nanjiang. And for those of you who don't know, it means Beijing South Station. What happens in the Chinese constitution if you have a gripe?

If like, you know, your rights are being trampled on, the local governments come and like, I don't know, demolished your house without you asking or... So remember China on the Freedom House scale is eight out of a hundred, right? It's one of the worst countries in the world. However, in the Chinese constitution, by comparison, America's 84 out of a hundred, by the way. Just in case you've been watching Red Note too much. Yeah, sure, sure.

I did see a video pop up on my feed today that said China is like this American found out China is truly like free or something. Anyway, 8 out of 100. If you go or if you have a problem with the government in China, technically in the Constitution, it says you can go physically. You have to go physically. Physically. Physically go to the People's Hall in Beijing. Yes. And you petition your gripe. So let's say a factory is polluting your town and everyone got cancer. Happens every day.

Sure. Let's say a road bridge collapsed in your city and your family died. Yes. Let's say you think the government should relax regulations on certain things.

You technically can take this petition and go, knock, knock, knock, people's hall. I want to talk to the government, file this petition. And that is a Soviet rule, by the way. This is a copy of a Soviet rule. It's the idea that it's a people's government, the People's Republic of China, so therefore you can address your problems to the government directly. You don't need to go through bureaucracy like in these other democratic countries, right? It's bullshit. In fact, it is so illegal...

off paper to do this, that you will destroy your life if you do this. Oh, yeah. It'll affect your social credit score. So when I translated the social credit score documents, the first ones, the one that was put up by Rongjiang, a city that we actually visited, it's a model communist city in northern China. Fascinating place.

Very potty-mouthed old ladies that shuck oysters, by the way. Well, I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a model of what? Concrete? Yes. Anyway, sorry. Rongjiang had the first documents of the social credit system, so I translated them. One of the most...

heinous crimes that actually takes your base score of a thousand drops you down. So your kids can't go to school. You can't get any social programs. You can't buy a high speed rail ticket. You can't buy a high speed rail tickets. You got to take the slow train with all the other peasants. Yeah, exactly. The, one of the biggest things that contributes to your score dropping is if you go to petition to Beijing, something in the constitution, it says, if you exercise your right, you, your score in life will drop. Yeah. You will, you're, you're done. Well, here's the thing.

People still do it because, I mean, you've got this propaganda blasted down your ears and your throat every day in China saying, you know, you have the right. We have a constitution. You can petition the government. You know, our government's fair. If you do try to go and petition the government, they know about it because you would have talked about it with your friends or you would have, you know, probably contacted the government or something. And this is a clip of petitioners arriving in the Beijing South Station and plainclothes police.

violently taking them away. So yeah, I would say this is, if you could pause it on a keyframe there.

This is emblematic of when you go past what I just said. When you've already lost your social credit in your town, right? So in the whole grand scheme of things, you are now locked into a system where you can't participate in society. Let's say you do it. You still do it. You want to use your rights. They will hire the equivalent of a plainclothes police officer, some sort of intelligence, to whisk you away from...

And potentially disappear. Well, okay. Here's the thing. Again, in my own life in China, my wife's friends did some kind of peer-to-peer lending scheme. It was very popular in China about 10 years ago, eight years ago, I'd say. Did this massive peer-to-peer lending thing and they all lost money. Okay. So they were all part of a group on WeChat.

And they were all discussing about going to Beijing to petition because they want the government because this is they're told the government's always got their best interest in heart. Everyone learns this. Yeah. So they want to go to Beijing because they want to go, hey, listen, these peer-to-peer lenders have ripped us off. They ran away with our money. Can you help us? Because they expect the government to step in and force them to pay the money back. That's what their mindset is. And that's what they're discussing in their little group. And what happened was people in that group got called like not them personally, but their bosses personally.

Where they worked were getting calls from the government to say, "Tell your employee if he comes to Beijing to try and petition that he will lose his job."

The government called his employees, one of the guys. A couple of them managed to make it to Beijing and they weren't allowed to get off the bus. The plainclothes police were there. It's just insane. They don't want this. It's one of those things. Oh, sure. Of course. Anytime. Come talk to me anytime. But meanwhile, no way. If you try that, you're in trouble. You know where this is really indicative? What? It's when you see like, let's say a

local government bulldozes a bunch of people's houses and people fight back with fireworks and they're like clashing people die sure

The protesters, right? The people that are rising up against the government will say things like, They'll say, And you're like, you watch that and you have dissonance. You're literally fighting with weapons against the thing, you know what I mean? Yeah, the thing that you're cheering on. Yes, but you're cheering it on because the dissonance is there. Like you said with your wife's friends, they've learned that...

that the government has their best interest in mind, the central government. Yes. When in fact, it's the central government employing these loans. Yes, exactly. So kind of in the same vein, we've got a group of workers here demanding their wages. And this was what, like three days ago? Yeah. What was the name of the company again? I have it here. Let me just pull it up. This is called the Guangdong Foshan Geometry Ceramics Company Limited. Okay. They slept on the roof for three days. Yeah, you can see they've got all their...

some like mattresses and stuff, but they stayed on the roof for three days to demand wages. They're not getting paid. Why are they not getting paid, Winston? Well, because the Chinese economy at the moment is actually in dire straits. It's not good. You wouldn't think that if you keep listening to all the bullshit glazing that people are doing about China right now. Yeah. Why don't you talk to the workers?

Yeah. You can glaze China, go talk to the workers, see how they're faring, see how the unemployment is right now. That's how you can really tell if China is doing well or not, is if the sort of low level factory workers are actually surviving or not. Yes. You know, you look at their conditions and then you can tell because that's your canary in a coal mine. Yes. You know? And do you know what happens when they don't get paid?

Well, you're about to find out. As we've been telling you every single week, multiple factories have been completely destroyed. They have. But before we show you this absolute devastating ruination, we are going to do a super chat goal. And this one's actually really fun. I'll tell you why. Yeah, we've got to lighten the mood here a little bit, guys. Okay. We actually made a little mini documentary over on Xiaobanhou probably a year ago. Yes. No? No.

And so we've decided if we reach today's super chat goal, we're going to release it for free right now in the chat, in the description so that everybody can watch it. Yes. I'm just going to write it here. I'm making the goal. So basically if we get more than 30 super chats, everyone will get a link to this only in the chat. If you're live, by the way. Yeah. But we'll also put it in the description for, of course, of course, but you'll get it here live today. If we hit the goal documentary. Yeah.

Let's hit it. Then we'll show everybody what it's actually all about so they can decide whether they want to contribute. I do want to say it's about a cult that started in China that both you and I have very personal experience with. And it was an English speaking cult. And this is nuts. Look at the first promo material. Let's take a look. We'll show you. Show you what we're talking about here. Superjack Goal 30. It's a great one. It's very interesting. Good insight into China. Mm hmm.

oh this is a long the goal is life now by the way yeah this is a very long uh well you know just absorb it take it in guys it's very 90s love it love it love it a lot yeah but it's taking too long it is i think it may be frozen no it hasn't frozen oh okay well we're just enjoying this delicious graphic i'm gonna have to fast forward this like how long did you make this there it is okay i'll back up okay here it comes finally okay finally

No, we can watch it more now. Why is it so long? Don't do this. Let everyone know that they can participate in the Super Chat if you give us Super Chat. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill. Kill.

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Yeah. Hold on. There's a little more. Oh, there is? They granted a divorce on the grounds of domestic violence to American Kim Lee and Lee Young. Yes, so we have a Super Chat goal. If you hit 30 Super Chats, you will get the link to that for free. We did a full-on investigative journalism episode. It's probably about almost two hours long. Yeah. It's a good one. We went to the beginning of the cults.

Went to the peak of its popularity, talked about the effects on Chinese society because it was massive. And don't forget that when we first got to China, it was still in full swing. I ran into a lot of this when I first got to China. In fact, I'd say up until like 2014 or something. Used to get people accosting me on the street with this nonsense. It's crazy. We told all those stories. Crazy English. It was such a weird cult. And it was...

Tens of millions of people were in this cult. Yes, yes. And it's weird how quickly cults do take off in China. Yeah. But it's really, really interesting. It's gone now. There's remnants of it, and there's like a smoldering wreckage. Yes. And we cover it. We managed to find the little pieces that are still left over, and the people involved are weird. So we did the whole thing from beginning to end. Yeah. So.

So if we hit our Super Chat goal, we will be releasing this entire mini documentary for free here in the live chat and in the description. We'll read your Super Chats later during the Q&A. Yes, absolutely. Anyway, let's move on from this because, okay, back to the poor workers stuck on the roof. Yeah, what happens when they don't get paid? Well, they generally get disgruntled. ...to American team Lee and Lee Young...

No, they get disgruntled and set factories on fire. Yes. And how many times is it going to happen every week? Again, if this is American news, if a factory that was responsible for a massive amount of GDP output was to burn down on purpose, it would be on major news. There is no news of this.

No, of course not. I mean, don't forget, we've been showing you guys this sort of thing every single week. Again, don't want to be a stuck record here. Just have to gloss over this quickly because we've got a lot more to cover in the show. Because it keeps happening. It keeps happening. We just have to keep telling you, this is the reality in China right now. It's not like, look, the 22nd floor on the ground floor. No.

And a train going through a building. It's more like a fire going through a building. Yeah, were those guys talking to Glaze in China, right? Some of those YouTubers that were Glaze in China in those incentivized tourism videos, they'll go around the rest of the world and say, look at how shitty this is, but then go to China and say it's absolutely amazing. They don't cover what's actually happening. No, they don't. It's disingenuous. It's unfair. By the way, this bear, we like this bear. You know why? Why?

He's Alaskan, by the way. He's in Alaska. He's an American bear? Here in America, what do we do? We fix the bike. We pick up the bike. That's what we do in America. We know you guys. By the way, if you're new here, we showed a clip. Can you pause it? We showed a clip of a

a Beijing street scene and there's a bike in the middle of the road and we're like, it's actually on the road. It's fallen off the sidewalk. It's like half on the sidewalk, half on the road. It's blocking the sidewalk and the road. We're like, if we were walking by, we'd fix the bike. We'd pick up the bike. And so we pulled the audience. 60% of you said they would pick up the bike. 47, 40% of you said they,

We were very disappointed. However, we explained why. It's a good thing to do. It's the right thing to do. It's an analogy for all of life. Once you see something wrong, you address it. You have the confidence to actually stick up for somebody that needs help. You pick up the piece of garbage that's in the way. You stop the annoyance that's annoying everyone else. You do something about it.

And that's our motivation for doing this show, to point out China's wrongdoings in this world that no one will do anything about. There's almost no one talking about this stuff. We'll also show you the cool things about China, too. Of course. Which we have coming up, by the way, a cool fish thing. We do. Very cool. Very cool. But you pick up the bike. It's an analogy. And look, even bears in America will pick up the bike. Bears are cool. Yeah, bears are cool. You are right. You're true. Thank you. Thank you very much. We already hit goal!

Holy crap. What the? Hang on a second. We hit gold. Give me a second. Give me a second. Yay!

Dude, that's three minutes. I got to make the goal better. No, no. This is great. Thank you, guys. I'm saying I got to make the goal higher next time or else there'll be nothing to achieve. You guys are amazing. No, that's incredible. Are you going to release it now? May as well. Yeah, sure. We hit goal. For sure. All right, guys. We're going to put both in the description, so don't go and leave the show now to go watch that nonsense. You can load it up. We're going to put it in the description. We're going to put it in the live chat. Load it up for afterwards. You will enjoy it if you haven't seen it. You'll follow me, okay? Yes. Can you do that?

Okay, of course I can. You'll follow me, okay? All right. And by the way, everyone say thank you to the people that contributed to the goal because now you have the link. I will pin it. Okay, please do. I actually wonder, and this is a little sausage inside the sausage factory thing. You said put it in the description for the people that aren't live.

It might be an incentive to join live, not just to pay Super Chess because everyone got it for free if they're in chat right now. Sure. Maybe you should be here for live for the Super Chat goals. Maybe next time. Yeah, I'm saying next time. Maybe next time. I'm going forward. I think it's a good incentive. We want you guys here live. It's fun. It's a party. Yeah, that's the whole point. Anyway, let's continue, shall we?

And by the way, thank you for your generosity, everybody who contributed. Yes. You've now managed to give everybody something interesting and fun to watch after the show. Crazy life. And by the way, we're still taking super chats because we will be answering them in the Q&A. Of course we are. Yeah. Why would we not? I'm saying don't be like, oh, they're not open anymore. They're still open. We have a word. We do. We have a word. Okay. So guys, you know what? It's time to get healthy. If you're not healthy, you got to do something about your health.

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Most of the bulk of the years to come. Okay. Yes. Sure. That's good news. Yeah. You know, I like that idea. It's kind of like a procrastination thing. You're like, oh, it's only just started. So, you know, I can deal with things later. Next minute, it's November. And you're like, ah, actually, maybe I should start taking this year seriously. But get into one now. Sure. No. Don't put it off. Yeah. Okay. So we're going to show you something very cool from China. This is sweet. Beyond the Great Firewall. You translated it. This is your segment. Yeah. But don't forget, we've got a hilarious Slopaganda. But it's not just hilarious coming up. It is...

Really? Investigate journalism. If you're going to stick around. I'm proud. I'm proud. If you're going to stick around for one thing, it's going to be the Sloppy Gander later. Which feeds into South Power Hour. Yeah. It's a real expose. It's crazy. Okay. Beyond the Great Firewall. Take it away, Beyond the Great Firewall dude. So that's where I take you inside the Chinese internet. This is going around. This dude, can you take us out? Yeah. I'll set it up real quick and then we'll just play it. Okay. This dude, he's our age. Yeah. Right?

He went back to his hometown, which is Zunyi in Guizhou. We've both been there. Yes. And it's very cool. There's a lot of caves in the area. This is an old communist stronghold back when they were trying to hide. By the way, did you know that 300 or 600 million people in China still live in caves? It's less now, so it's probably closer to the... 300? Yeah, and a cave is a very loose, very, very, very loose definition. I did go to the cave homes.

There's the ones that are famous in Shanxi, but I went to the ones in Inner Mongolia near Shanxi. And there will be like a dwelling and then their house, right? Yeah. But I mean, it's still a hole in there. Yeah, sure, sure. This guy took a cave, a proper cave. Would they be classified as cavemen?

Yes. Okay. All right. Just check it. This guy took a proper cave. He's about our age. And he built a house facade in front of it. Yes. But realized the water was so beautiful and pristine inside. And it would be because it's hard to get fresh water in China. How do you buy a cave? I feel like you can't buy land in China. No, I mean, he bought the... He leased the area. Inside, it turned out to be this huge...

huge, beautiful fairy tale cave of crystal clear spring water coming down the mountain. Not from factories or anything. So it's actual pure fresh water. And he goes, what am I going to do? I'm going to resurrect the Chinese sturgeon.

Which is a very, very, you know, endangered fish, right? Right. Because it's, you know, everything in China is overfished. That's right. People take the piss, right? So this guy did a great thing, and this is one of the coolest things I've seen recently. Well, let's take a look, shall we? I'm curious. Let's go. Okay. So that's a novel.

Yeah. They raised tens of thousands of fish in the cave and they made a whole cave like a fairy cave. So you see the house facade? How long have you lived here? Go ahead. I'm more interested in what he's wearing. Like seriously, what is he wearing? Cute bear. It says cute bear. It's a full on like fluffy outfit. I love it. I actually love it. That's pretty cool. It's comfy. You know what I don't like? What? Oh,

Oh, these stupid railings. He's got them up in the house too. It looks like wood, but it's concrete. It's made out of concrete. It's so horrible. You know what I mean? It's like fake wood. Yeah, you see it all over China. That's why I said I hate it because it's like it's literally something you go buy, right? So you can go buy it in a Home Depot type thing. Get your fake concrete wood fence here. Now let's play this unadulterated. Okay, sorry. But I love his cute bear. All men dwell with the knot and cage. Dude, yeah, okay. Yes. Yeah, let's go. I love cute bear though. Yeah, cute bear.

He lived here almost 10 years. How's the environment here? He said, in terms of daily life, this place is comfortable to live here. It's warm in the winter and cool in the summer. It's always warm in here because it's obviously cut off, right? Sure. It's got a constant temperature. So when it's hot out, which it is in the summer, it's still cool in there. Cave life. This is hashtag cave life. Yes. So this is the house. It's like, it's a small facade on the outside and you can see the cave behind it, right? Yeah. Um,

his whole family lives there, right? He's got a kid and his wife. And they have like a little shop set up in the front because obviously if you're coming through the road, you're going to stop by by some local baijiu. They make baijiu. Oh, okay. Because, you know, in Guizhou, as you know, it's the biggest baijiu makers. Yep, exactly. And it's cool. See this like,

fake plant thing. You go up here, it actually enters the cave. And I actually was, I was overwhelmed because I thought this was going to be shit. Yeah, because it looks crappy concrete staircase. It's awesome. He's got the rope lights. Dude, it's like Elon Musk's tunnel. It is, but he's actually doing something with it.

It's true. It's true. He's actually helping nature. See, he's making his own baijiu there. That's cool. See, all these stalactites are all intact. He kept everything intact. So he built these stairways through the whole thing. So it's a proper cool cave, right? Yeah, that's pretty awesome. What's even cooler is this spring water, which he does for free of charge supply to the entire town, by the way. That's excellent, yeah. Which is really cool. Because you need that. Everything's poisoned in China. It is. He's helping out the community. Yeah.

Look down here. See the sturgeon? That's actually super cool. They prefer to live in caves because they're almost blind, and they like to be away from light. I mean, and it's a controlled environment, temperature controlled. And it's pristine water, right? So you're not getting carcinogens in that water. Yeah, look at the size of those. Those are awesome. They're big, right? Yeah. And he's raising them, so they're not endangered anymore, right? He's actually bringing back the population, which is fantastic. You don't see this very often in China. No, you don't. You see a lot of stuff go extinct. Yeah.

So look at this waterfall. Yeah, that's cool. And see how the fish are, they're trying to get the oxygen from the waterfall, so they hang out under there. Yeah. See how high this goes up? Dude, that staircase doesn't look very like structurally sound to me. I never said it was. I never said it was. It's like one concrete little twig holding it up, yeah. But you see how the pools in the cave are like on each level? It's multi-tiered. Yeah, it's very cool. Look at all the sturgeon in here. Let's take a look.

Isn't that cool? That is very cool. Very cool looking fish. Prehistoric fish, by the way. Yeah. So it's kind of like you're raising dinosaurs in a way. Yeah. Very, very neat. And sometimes they weigh eight caddies. Yeah, which is a gene. So that's about a pound. It's very cold. These are cold water fish. And yeah, he gets this spring water here, which is from the mountain water, right? Yeah, yeah.

And he actually pipes that through that pipe. So it's not the one the fish is in. It's coming from the source and he pipes that to the town. The town has fresh water. Yeah, he just said that there. So they'll stop by and they'll actually come and fill up their water buckets and stuff. Very cool. I just wanted to applaud such a cool effort. Me too. It's good. Like when you see something positive like this...

Absolutely, we're going to put it up here on the show. It's very important. It is Slopacandita. I'm sorry. After all, we've got, you know, Hua Guopenguang over here. Yeah, it's coming in to reign it in. Click like. This is going to be a good one. I promise. This is a proper... This took us a long time to put together. Yes. Okay, so some of you might remember a guy called Commie Dillon. But if you don't, here's a little refresher, just a very quick refresher of who he is. Do you remember... Turn it back up.

Oh, yeah. We have a first time guest, China Daily colleague and member of the Communist Party USA, Dylan. Thank you for joining us. Gulag Stalin, death starvation. So now he's back in his heads, his own show. So he got upgraded. Yeah. Radical revolution cadre, mode of production bourgeoisie. Stalin is my aphrodisiac. Proletariat, I just seize the means of production. Doesn't this place look familiar?

It's often called the Chinese Santorini. But if I had to choose, I'd pick this place right here. What? Okay. This is the Zhongguorini, China's fake Santorini. I'm sorry.

Okay, so... Do you guys know what Santorini is? Yeah, we'll show you in a second, but I think everybody knows. It's that place in Greece. You know, just so you guys know, it's those white houses with the blue domes. It's a beautiful seaside thing. It's Greece. And this guy is trying to tell us that he'd prefer to be here. This is China's Santorini. We're going to show you why I strongly don't believe he believes that. Yeah, I mean, I'm sorry, but can you just look at what we're looking at here?

This footage is unedited. Yes. This is China. I can't remember if it was China Daily or Xinhua, whatever. One of the CGTN, one of the big state medias put this nonsense out.

But they're trying to say that this is impressive and you would rather go here than Santorini, to China Santorini. Wait till we take you inside. Yeah, wait till you really see what this place looks like. I'm sorry, they should not have done this. They should not have done this. This is a bad one. Yeah, let's have a quick look, okay? I love what we did. Yeah, yeah. That looks horrible, by the way. This is the real one. This sounds like a persona song. It does. Yeah, it does, definitely. That's Santorini. That's Santorini.

Oh, yeah. That's a better day. Oh, you picked up different footage. Yeah. Yeah. It looks really nice there, right? I'm sorry, but doesn't that look really nice? I would love to be there. I'd love to be sitting there. I would look in that view and you're getting really good fresh food and it looks amazing. Yeah, that looks great. Sorry.

This is their footage. This is state media. Yeah, I'm sorry, but that restaurant compared to this? Look at the curtains in the background. Okay, come on. You're not going to believe what the streets look like. Yes. So, okay, what you're seeing here is China's state media. Because this particular village, you'll see why, but it's very hot right now. Yes, because it's for a sinister ass reason.

But it's being put out by Chinese state media as the Santorini of China. And there are multiple videos all around the internet trying to show off how amazing it is. So this footage is from one of those propaganda videos trying to show you how cool it is. And this is what they show. Anyway, sorry, let's carry on.

What is this, North Korea? Yep.

So now we know why they're there. They also made him wear a stupid hat. They always do. Have you noticed it doesn't matter how much of a shill you are, you can be a Communist Party member of whatever, and you come there, they're still going to dress you up like a fool. This guy studied Chinese his whole life.

you know he goes to china as this communist party member he's still just a white monkey yeah it's really frustrating it must be so bad for these guys yeah he speaks fluent chinese he dedicated his life to i actually feel bad for him yeah not even joking he dedicated his life to communism basically right well i don't feel bad about that but i feel bad about like them still ridiculing you yeah you know i mean come on dude you look like a tit

Bro got a woven nipple on his head. Yeah, it's like, what are you doing, bro? Bro wearing an areola. Pretty much. Anyway, the fact of the matter is...

This is China's most beautiful fishing village. You heard him say it himself, right? This is considered China's most beautiful fishing village. Okay, by the way, the Xi Jinping visit makes this incredibly relevant and important. If Xi Jinping goes somewhere, it's just like if Kim Jong-un goes somewhere. It gets blessed by the Midas touch. Every dollar will be thrown at it. It will be groomed to be perfect to the outside world. Because it has to show that this was Xi Jinping's idea. Yeah, correct. Yeah.

Okay, so let's carry on here for a little bit, shall we? Look at that place. It looks like a communist grid. It's my first time seeing people do live streaming sales. Bullshit. Yes, 10 years. It's so cool. Welcome to our Xiao Wu. It's a sea area near the Aujiao Fishing Village in Dongshan Island, Wujian, Zhangzhou. It's a deep-sea fishing village produced by our own fishing ship, Laosi.

Wait, am I actually a capitalist? Oh no.

Oh no, yeah, he's a communist member of Communist Party USA, isn't he? Yeah, he is. Now he's doing live stream sales. He's doing live stream sales. That's like the most capitalist thing you can do. He's really like betraying his roots here. Karl Marx is not happy. No. Anyway, let's see where it goes. During my stay in Aojiao Village, I came to understand why it's called the most beautiful fishing village in China. Its charm isn't just in the stunning scenery or the picturesque village setting.

Let's zoom in. What do you think? Yeah, because... This is where they effed up. Yeah, because I'm like, okay, they keep going on about how picturesque and beautiful this village is. First of all... It's like trying to make fetch happen, dude. This is Chinese state media. This is a propaganda video. They're going to take the best shots they can. They're going to portray this in the most beautiful, most amazing way possible. But even then, it looks crappy.

This is where they effed up. Yeah, this is where they really effed up. Because this cannot be ugly. It's not allowed because the great leader went there and said this is like a symbol of our success. Yes. I mean, let's look. Okay, we will. I just zoom a little bit out again to this big wide shot. Even before we go anywhere.

Is that not the most boring cookie cutter, like communist grid that you've ever seen? There's nothing beautiful. Like when you think of a fishing village, it's usually a little bit like... Well, it's Santorini. Yeah, it's Santorini. It's not like, let's build a grid 10 by 10, you know, with concrete buildings. Okay. Can we zoom in finally? I'm itching. Yes, I'm sorry. But we decided to zoom in because one thing that they forget is that Baidu, just like Google, has a street view option. And we found the street view. Oh!

It's so pretty. Yes. Isn't this so wonderful? But don't worry. It gets much better. That is a beautiful time.

I just love what they did. This island is gorgeous. Wouldn't you want to go here? Yeah, look at that building over there. Isn't that wonderful? The most beautiful fishing village. It's Santorini. Yeah. Wonderful. China, you got to start hiding stuff a little better. Yeah, exactly. Oh, I see the Xi Jinping propaganda on the side there. Of course, you wouldn't be China without it. Yeah. Ah, look at that. That's gorgeous.

gorgeous what even is that just like Dylan said I don't know about you but I choose this one not Santorini no no I mean this is clearly superior but wait it gets better because you go a little bit deeper because this is an island right it's just a little island right you go a little bit deeper and you see just how bad this place really is okay let's get past yeah okay this is a little further like just down the road like probably about a kilometer away from where we started yeah

There's a motorcycle repair shop. I'm sorry, but like, what are we looking at here? This is hideous. This is the most beautiful village in China. The most beautiful fishing village in China. Look.

Look at the walls of that building. They're rotting and this rusty horrible thing. It's just so they're using a banner to make rain go off. Yeah, like a roof. They're soaking their house and turning mold. Look at all the mold. Everything's falling apart. Look at this school. That is a middle school. Imagine. Pause that real quick. Okay.

Look at next to it. Imagine you invite someone over to your house. It's like a bomb. What is that? You walk out of your school and that building over there is right next to the entrance to your school. What happens in there? It looks like a... It looks like a torture facility. It looks like a torture facility and a butchery in one. You know those people that were petitioning Beijing? This is where they end up. Yes, yes, they do. I love the fact that this is a middle school. There's some kind of poster with...

There was. Propaganda on it. And they haven't even bothered to like clean it or paint it or do anything. It's all just falling. What is that sign up there? The green sign. What is happening here? Beautiful Santorini. See that green license plate? Good thing they got EVs there. At least the EVs are there, right? Dude. Come.

Commie Dylan, get bent. What is this? What the hell is this? It's on the main road. What's going on? This is like a... It's like a bomb went off, dude. And this is what was left. Is this Gaza? It may as well be. Look at this. Oh my... And this is the most beautiful... This is China's most beautiful fishing village, guys. It's not just like egg on face about the beautiful village. This is...

100% priority of the central government to visit here and make sure this is emblematic of China's success. Dude, okay. People are living there, right? Yes. The sign used to have a banner up there that just ripped itself apart and rotted away. Still, they haven't bothered. These other things have faded. To quote Dylan, this is where I choose.

I choose this one. I love the filthy clothing hanging out the windows with the rust coming down from the air conditioner units up there. You know, the thing is, we know this place because we've seen this over and over again in China. This is what China looks like. China does look like this. When you're not on Red Note, reality is this. Guangdong, Fishing Village, every one of them. We've got footage of going through the exact same places. You know, I got excited when Dylan was like, this is so beautiful. It's China's Santorini. I was like, maybe they've changed. So we're like, let's zoom in. Yeah. Nope.

No, this is... Nothing has changed. It's a lie. This is that Aozhao village on... What is it called? What's the island? Yeah, Dongshan Dao. Is it Dongshan Dao? This is it. This is that. I love that. Swan Labar. Swan Labar. Look at this bar. Can we analyze this bar? Yeah, let's take a look at the bar. There is no paint on it. It is molding.

And it has a pile of trash in front of it with a dumpster. It says DVD MP3 on that side. By the way, that's a funny name for a bar. Swanla just means like forget about it. Forget about whatever. Forget about a bar. And bar, ba, sounds like ba. Swanla ba means like whatever. So they have a ramshackle bar and they call it whatever bar. It's kind of perfect. You know what's a really clever name for a bar but then everybody used it is 98.

Bar 98 because Geobar. Oh, Geobar. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Geo means alcohol and bar is bar. So it's like alcohol bar, Geobar. You see that in all those like Lonely Planet type places. Do you want to buy CDs and DVDs? I don't want to go to this bar. Like I don't know about you. I like, by the way, I do like that they try to give it that seaside vibe with these like tires. You see the tires? I see the tires. Do you think Dylan went here?

Maybe Dylan went here for his, like, you know, to go out in the town afterwards. I'd still there if I had to be there. Yeah, he's like, hey, man, I'm here in the Chinese Santorini, the most beautiful fishing village in China. I'm going to go to Swan Labar after I'm finished here doing my propaganda shoot. So bad. Go lick the mold of the wall over there. Yeah. Like, come on, dude. This is just disgraceful. Keep going. There's more. Yeah, okay.

I mean... Hey, they've got a Pac-Man. They've got a Pac-Man. You see those kind of restaurants everywhere. You get little dumplings and stuff. They're actually from Fujian. Yeah. And you get those fish balls with the thing inside. Those are nice, actually. I mean, this looks horrendous, but the food is not bad. You're looking at a war sea.

I love the cables. It's like, come on, guys. China, try a little harder. Xi Jinping, what are you going to this village for? Xi Jinping's going to this village. Oh, look at how it looks at some seafood or something. Everyone's like, whoa, this is the best place in the world. And then everyone buys it. Yeah. That's what's wild. Xi Jinping ain't got no standards. Well, he didn't get to see this. No, he didn't get. They probably like hair dropped it right down to the grid.

Yes. You know? Definitely. Definitely. Wow, that's rough. I mean, it's just, it's actually worse than I even thought. Yeah, it's bad, dude. It's so bad. But guess what? It gets way worse. It gets way, way worse. Why do we have to listen to a communist employee white guy? Yeah. Why don't we actually listen to a Chinese guy? Yeah, listen to an actual Chinese man who cares. So this was the groomed, beautiful fishing village, right? What about the fishing village ruins?

right next to it on the same coast of Fujian in fact it's in the same city yes it's the same so you know like the the city that this particular fishing village falls under yeah what is it yeah there's another fishing village like just up the road also in yeah yeah same same prefecture okay so let's see so this goes into subpar we're going to take you into the reality of the situation this is messed up yeah so this is why this was so important

He proposed that.

That was his idea. Hey, guys, if you live in the mountains, use the resources in the mountains. Guys, if you live next to the sea, use the resources in the sea. Do you think they didn't know that? They were like, holy crap, I've been hiking like 10 kilometers to go get some dirt from a neighboring village. I was so stupid. I was up there, traipsing around in the snow on the peak of that mountain, trying to sell mahi-mahi, and it just wasn't working. Exactly. I just couldn't do it.

Exactly. I'm trying to plant crops in the ocean. It's not working. It sucks. They float away. It's just banana tree. I put it into the sea and it just floats. Yeah. Come on, guys. This guy is like dumb. It's like, I thought this up. Wow. And everybody takes this at face value and they'll like put this slogan on the walls. They'll teach this in school. Oh, really? It'll be calligraphy. Yeah. I'm not joking. Yeah. And they will teach this in school to kids. Xi Jinping said, if you live in the mountain, use the resources of the mountain. If you live

By the sea, use the resources of the sea. And they'll be like, what a great man. He is such a visionary. Wow. Amazing. Wow. So good. I bet Rick would say that. Oh, he would. Wow. So good. Okay. So let's get into their reality. Yeah, let's get into the reality. Let's look at the fishing village right below it. So there is in 2018. So yeah. There was an issue with this fishing village. Remember, this is the same city. By the way.

You can see it looks almost exactly the same. Xi Jinping didn't go to this one down the road. No. He went to the other one. Even though this is in the same city. Yes. It says, in the past, all our domestic waste had to be transported off the island for treatment, which took a long time and was inefficient and inevitably had a certain impact on the environment on the island and in the sea. Now that our

island has its own waste incineration plant the situation will effectively be improved mr tai said a villager in wuyu village happily told reporters shall we look at it and so this is 2018 yes shall we see how it's improved after the incinerator and now in 2025 uh literally the other day sure you know you will know when you see this scene

This is the seaside. The garbage is directly discharged to the sea. Such a large amount of garbage. I've been picking up garbage on the Yangtze River for many years. I'm really powerless in the face of this kind of scene. This guy's a hero. I'll still call and report it and see what they reply. Hello, this is 127. How are you?

Hello, Zhangzhou City. How can I help you? So Zhangzhou City is where this Aojiao Island, the one that we saw with Commie Dylan, and this one are both part of that city. By the way, can we just take a look at this mound of garbage? Yeah. That's just being pushed into the sea. Yeah.

Wonderful, isn't it? It's disgusting. How can I help you? I would like to complain about a pollution problem. Where and what situation is this? There's a kid in the background on her phone. Wu Yu Village, Gang Wei Town, Longhai District, Zhangzhou City.

Judging from the scene, it's garbage from the village. Look at how much garbage that is. Yeah, yeah. Look at that. That's him. Yeah, he's on top of the garbage pile. It wasn't disposed or transported. It was directly poured into the sea. So the garbage wasn't taken away. It was going straight to the sea? Yes. It's mostly this village's garbage. I'll reply to this request of this phone number. Thank you. Thanks for your call. I wish you a happy life. Goodbye.

What is that? That's ominous. It is. So this massive, this just sheer mountain of garbage was dealt with in 2018. Yeah, well, they said they built an incinerator. China doesn't do shit. No. China doesn't do shit.

And even the places that get all this lavish attention from the government look like shit too. Yeah. And this is the problem with dictatorships. This is the problem with one-party states. This is the problem when you have a government that arrests people for complaining, right? Do you know why I say that? This number that he called, this is in Fujian, right? Yeah. This woman in the next clip, she also called this number. She called this number to complain about something. You want to see what happened to her? Yeah, we've got another clip to show you. Before we do, I mean...

We looked this up on Google Earth and you can see the garbage pile from Google Earth. You know, we actually looked it up. Next to this building he's standing next to. It's pretty insane. Again, this is right down in the same city as Ao Zhao Village. China's most beautiful fishing village. What is it? Frickin' Santorini? Yes. China's Santorini. The hell?

This is the people glazing China and saying like they got it all figured out and everything's free and they have social programs and it's clean. Full of shit, dude. Yeah. You're full of shit. Green technology. Sorry. We live there over a decade and we've never seen anything actually work out to be honest. This is why when China promises things like, oh, we're going to improve the environment. We're going to stop bringing emissions down or whatever.

You know, the UK is like we're gonna partner up with China now because oh cuz Trump's not good for the environment Whatever. We're gonna partner up with China. We're gonna partner up with China Yeah, we're gonna partner up with this pile of shit garbage is what you're saying again You can look at every single promise every five-year plan that China has promised to do None of it has ever been held like they've never ever kept their promise. No, so, you know, I

Every time you see China's going to do this, China's going to do that, it's nonsense. They make a big hoo-ha.

Well, it's great for bureaucrats that just want the stats delivered by the government, that they've done this and that and this and that, EV and solar this and garbage this. Exactly. They say, hey, listen, there's a problem. We're cracking down on it. We're putting in an incinerator. We're going to fix it. And then that's how they work. Then everybody's attention is taken away because they're like, oh, good. It's been dealt with. Then they go look somewhere else. And then they never do it. Yeah.

And if they do it, they do it for a minute and then leave it because it's too much hassle. And the problem still persists and it gets worse. But because they made a big hoo-ha about it, everybody already thinks that the Chinese government's great and they're capable of taking care of problems. They didn't do anything. Anyway, yeah, this woman... So this is also in Fujian. Yes. We want to keep this all local. So this is Xiamen, which is a big city. Nearby. Nice city, been there. This is Xiamen nearby. This woman called because she was having trouble with the urban management department.

Urban management are the guys that walk around and enforce signage on the roads and you can't put things on the road. So she called that number to complain. So you remember we just watched that phone call, right? So she called the number to say urban management have been rough and not nice and they're doing bad things or whatever. So what do you think happened? Let's have a look. Let's see your one-party state. Okay.

The police took her away. Yeah, the police came and roughed her up and took her away because she phoned to complain. To complain about law enforcement. Yeah, that's how it works in China. You don't get rid of the problem. You get rid of the people that are exposing the problem. Correct. Just like that hero. So that guy, he does a lot of amazing work. He goes around China and finds out if the government programs are working. Are they getting rid of pollution? Are they getting rid of the cancer villages?

Are they getting rid of the pollution or the garbage, right? And he goes and does this. And I have a lot of clips of him. I follow him. I love this guy. He's doing great stuff. But I'm worried about him too. Me too. Me too. By the way, just so you know, this kind of site that you're seeing here is fairly common. The reason why we can say it's fairly common is we've come across it ourselves a lot. We've traveled around all of China. Okay.

I'll show you this on red note. No, except for Xinjiang and Tibet. Those are the only two regions we haven't been. Every other region, you will find scenes like this in the rural areas. It's very common. Very. Yeah, so we just want to splash a little bit of reality on everybody who's been inundated by Chinese propaganda these days. Yeah.

Speaking of which, gutter oil. You know, they dig up oil from, used oil from the troughs and the gutters of China and then they repurpose it, right? This is how it's done. This woman is watching people at night, not in restaurant uniform, in the middle of the night digging out oil from a grease trap in the street. Because, you know, restaurants will have a grease trap to prevent the grease from going and they are supposed to be cleaned out properly. Mm-hmm.

But when you've got clandestine people coming in the middle of the night to steal the grease, you know it's not legit. No. Okay? So what they do is they take the gutter oil, as it's called, sewer oil.

And they take it to be repurposed in these gutter oil factories. Which jams it full of carcinogens and, of course, bacteria and things like that. Yes. But the thing is… Here is one of those processing plants. So this is what you saw in the thumbnail, right? This is what's still happening. And this was a perfect example. And this is directly related to that garbage pile we're talking about. They made a law now, well, 10 years ago in China that you get the death penalty.

If you are caught making gutter oil, because it was so embarrassing for China. Yes, it's a huge embarrassment. They are still doing it en masse. It has not gone anywhere. Of course not. Faced with death, China doesn't do shit. Yeah, they don't care. Because there's a profit to be made. If you go and you take that DGoyo, as it's called, the gutter oil, from literally the sewers, and you go and sell it to these processing plants, and as you can see, it's not exactly very clean.

You'll make a profit. You'll make a decent profit. Now, there are proper ways to dispose of it. Like it can go to become industrial lubricants and things like that, but they don't do that because there's no profit in that. No.

Selling it back to the restaurant because let's say you pay $100 for a big jug of oil. You're now paying $10. It does the same job. Exactly. Gives it a certain amount of flavor as well. We've had gutter oil a lot in China. Here's the thing. Most Chinese cooking involves oil. And that's maybe why people maybe don't understand why it's such a big thing. But pretty much all of the cooking in the restaurant, it's all fried in oil. That's how Chinese people, they either steam or they fry things. So there's no ovens. Nothing gets baked. No.

All right. So there's a huge amount of oil that's used and it is a massive cost for restaurants. It is. So for them to go and buy this used gutter oil, it saves them a lot of money in the long run. It does. Even in the short run. It does. So again, you know, top down policy, not doing anything. They haven't fixed it. Yeah. You know. Yeah.

But this is directly, honestly related to this too. Yeah, but before we even get onto that, I just got to say, if you go to a street stall in China on the street to go buy some street food, there's a very large percentage that you are eating gutter oil. Yeah. Very large. Just be aware. Because those guys make such little profit. It's really cheap. You know, when you buy some fried noodles on the side of the road, they don't have the money to go buy a nice...

high-grade cooking oil. They're getting DiGioio. They also reuse their own oil over and over for like years or whatever until it's like solid. But you know, the thing is they will be buying DiGioio. So you're probably eating DiGioio if you eat from a street vendor in a rural place. And even big restaurants have been caught and are still doing that. So just be aware. So this has been in the news, right? And the reason we're bringing this up is it's very related. China's taken issue with Trump's move to link tariffs to fentanyl. They're getting pissed off. In effect, if you go to the next...

The next picture, this is the real crux of this. This is in state media. What does this say? China has never exported fentanyl-related medications to North America. Shut up. Just stop. Exactly. Because this is the select committee on the strategic competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party. This is an official report, right? You know what they found?

The CCP's role in the fentanyl crisis. You know what they found? Well, the CCP is giving tax breaks for companies that are exporting fentanyl. So China, bald-faced, is now going out there saying this tariff stuff is unfair because we actually never even sent fentanyl to America. Yeah.

and quite literally was giving tax breaks to companies to do it. Well, they're giving tax breaks for these companies to create these fentanyl or chemicals that are part of the whole fentanyl drug processing thing. They give them tax rebates and subsidies so that this stuff could be sent. Yeah, if you get this out of there, you can see that.

Here's the export rebate subsidies for fentanyl. Yeah, export rebate subsidies. And other chemicals. So there was more than just fentanyl. Yeah, exactly. There was other drugs too. It's almost like they're trying to poison the US. So the government's like, hey, if you export fentanyl, we'll pay for that. Yeah.

That's it. Not only do they supply it, they're like, have a tax break. Yeah. We're going to not, we'll basically with subsidies means they're actually just paying for it. Yes. We want you to do this more. Yeah. Yeah. The Chinese government is subsidizing fentanyl production. Yeah. Simple as that. And the export of fentanyl. So go sit and swivel China.

That was another rebate. Yeah. Anyway, the document's in the description. Yeah. If you want to go read up on it, the full document's in the description. But we all know that China is behind supplying the fentanyl to the world, and they've been pushing it really hard. And as I've said before, I do think that it's a misguided revenge for the opium wars and the century of humiliation, as they call it. Actually, two centuries of humiliation. And you will not hear the end of it when you live in China. Yeah.

School children are taught this. Everyone's taught this. They won't shut up about this century of humiliation. It's one of the biggest things that they're taught to feel inadequate. Peter has a good point. He says, question of China, why the Fentanyl War? We are not Britain. Yeah, exactly. What do we do as Americans? But again, when you live in China, you'll understand that the West

It's just the West, yeah. And it doesn't matter. There's no difference between France or Germany or England or America or Brazil or anywhere. It's just that's the West. They're the outsiders. That's why they call everybody Weigoren. Yeah. It's literally just foreign person. Yeah. And it annoys the crap out of me that they call me a Weigoren here too. In America? Yes. But you are. No, but I mean like...

But when they're a tourist... They don't know that. No, they don't. It just annoys the crap out of me, doesn't it? They call me a foreigner in my country. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. It's quite rich. Remember when we went up to the skiing slope or whatever? Yes, yes. And they're like, oh, these Weigoren wear this or whatever. And you're like, what the hell are you talking about? You're a tourist. I said, when I reply in Chinese, it always gives them quite the scare. Yeah, exactly. It's like, who's the foreigner now? Yeah, exactly. Anyway, just had to bring this up because it's quite crazy. Speaking of the...

China and drugs. This is quite an issue. You know, Oklahoma has a huge problem with Chinese criminal gangs. Yeah, apparently the land for illegal grow-ups or fraud, like fraud grow-ups for marijuana is very cheap in Oklahoma.

And the rule is you can get, if you're an Oklahoma resident for two years, I guess you can make your own grow up. So what they'll do is they'll get people that are residents and then these Chinese gangs will run these grow ups. These very dangerous criminal gangs. I mean, just everybody knows by now that, you know, marijuana pot is legal in many states in America. It's fairly legal, right? It's not a huge deal.

But that's not what this is all about. This is about there are these illegal Chinese gangs and they operate on the black market and they want to grow and sell this marijuana to make a profit. Yeah, it's business. And the way they do it is in an illegal way because they are. They're illegal. They bring in illegal people that are not. Illegal immigrants. Yeah, illegal immigrants. You'll see if you read these articles that a lot of them have been detained and are in immigration. Yeah, yeah. And so what happens is they'll approach –

A scumbag who lives in whatever area and they'll be like, we just need to use your name because you live here. We'll pay you a certain amount. The guy's like, okay, he signs papers. Now he's the boss. He's complicit. Of course he's complicit. This guy was arrested, this particular guy. So he's like the boss, but he doesn't do anything. He never even goes on site, never sees anything. They build these factories. They start farming marijuana using illegal drugs.

trafficked slave labor from China. And they operate on this, there's this underground pipeline between the East Coast and the West Coast where they distribute these drugs everywhere, make a huge profit, of course, to fund their other illicit activities. And it's a big problem. And it's a big problem in Oklahoma, as you can see. Yeah. And to move it along, the irony here is that China has a massive drug problem.

problem too. We've seen it everywhere, especially with heroin and methamphetamines and stuff. Oh, and by the way, just the idea of growing marijuana, if you were to do that in China, that's it. You're done. Yes. Death penalty if you try to do it as a business. Right. So here's some, you know, drug addicts in China. Yes. Go ahead and in Yunnan. We saw this a lot, especially across the borders in Yunnan and stuff. Yeah. And

And Guangxi as well. And the thing is they take it incredibly seriously. They execute people every day for this kind of stuff. They take down massive organizations. They take it deadly seriously. And I thought you guys might be interested in some like anti-drug posters. I think it's kind of interesting because I think most people have this skewed idea that drug addicts are – it's kind of an American problem. Yeah. Oh, no. It's a big problem. Oh.

ladies used to try to sell us meth in the street. Exactly. But when it comes to like drugs and China, people seem to think that China has it under control and that there aren't drug addicts there. That's not true. Well, they do take it seriously. Not so much the addicts. Like the production and stuff, they'll have like a big bus and they'll put it out for show. Like I said, so they don't take it seriously abroad.

They're like, go commit your crimes abroad. That's fine, dear citizens. We're going to take care of it here, even though there's a massive drug problem, right? I thought it was kind of interesting. Do you know that the drug problem is so big in China that every single time you go to sing karaoke, you are bombarded with these horrendous videos in front of the karaoke before you start. It shows all these...

horrible like side effects of drugs and stuff and they're like don't take drugs because they know everybody takes drugs it's like if you went to go play mini golf yeah and they made you they pulled down a screen every time they're like don't shoot up heroin while you play mini golf they do that every time you go to KTV by the way KTV is ubiquitous across China everyone of every age goes and does yeah so a little kid goes in there and yeah

It's like, don't take... It'll show like an army guy and like a dead person and all this horrible imagery. They'll be like, we'll execute you if you take drugs or steal, you know, like distribute drugs and stuff. It's pretty bad. So, I mean, we just wanted to, again, splash a little reality on everybody. Yes. China isn't a utopia where there are no drug addicts. Oh, no. I mean, they just hide it. Yeah. It's just hidden. Yeah.

Although it's not hidden when you're there. No, no, this stuff's everywhere. Yeah. Of course, if you're a foreigner that is shilling for the Chinese government and you don't know much, you probably can't read these. You look at them, you're like, what's that crazy? Is it a banned poster? Yeah, exactly. I mean, honestly, if you are just a foreign shill and you saw a poster, an anti-drug poster...

Except for this one that you can kind of make out of marijuana leaf. You probably wouldn't know what it is. No. Like you say, is it a poster for a band? You don't know. Is that like an album cover or something? It's like, ooh, Puppet Master. Right. You know? Yeah. It's just the Chinese knockoff Metallica. It could be. Like a shit Metallica.

Yeah, but yeah, that's the idea, right? Yeah, absolutely. Just wanted to get that out of the way. And now it's worldview where we talk about everything in the world, specifically with regards to China. Yeah, we'll try to rip this through this one. Okay. Big business there. You know those medicines that Americans are taking a lot? Ozempic and Wegovi and all those things like make your appetite go away and then you lose weight. They work, right? Okay.

So China's catching on. Turns out, I thought this was crazy, China's obesity, people think of China as probably some thin country. This is not Japan, it's not Korea. China's obesity crisis is a sizable profit opportunity. More than half of Chinese adults are overweight or obese. Half! Half! A figure expected to hit two-thirds by 2030. That's nearly 900 million people. So think about that market, right? So these companies, I want to get in there with these weight loss drugs. Makes sense. Makes sense, right? I just thought that was a wild stat. People don't think of China like that.

I think it's also quite different the way Chinese people carry weight. Yeah. So they don't look as fat as they are. Does that make sense? Yeah, but it's snowballed since we left. No, I understand. And you also didn't spend enough time up north where a lot of people are wicked fat. You are right. You are true. You are true. Even when I lived there. You are true. When I went to up north, I did notice that the people were much heavier up there. Yeah, yeah. And that's hundreds of millions. Yeah, absolutely.

This was super fast. All these are down below, by the way, if you're new to the show, all of our links are down below. This is a fascinating article in New York Times. They went back and looked at some, you know, the zero COVID thing, the worst lockdown in the history of mankind in China where people starved to death. Destroyed businesses. Pets. Yeah.

They killed your pets if you had pets. They literally took children away from families. And put them in metal boxes. Yes. It was the most horrific thing ever. The fact that China always manages to do these terrible things and then pretend like nothing happened, it kind of makes me mad. It makes me so crazy that people aren't still talking about this. Obviously, they are with this. But the majority of the world should still be up in arms that they literally destroyed the psyche of hundreds of millions of people. You thought you had it bad?

By the way, if you're some kind of like an anti-vaxxer or something, blame China. Yeah. You wouldn't have to even think about a COVID vaccine if it wasn't for the Wuhan lab. That's true. By the way, German spies are now pretty much confirming that. Well, yeah, the German intelligence all along, they've said... I mean, they're saying. Yeah, now they're saying... They've all along said that it came from the Wuhan Institute of Virology or Chinese lab.

But it was never made public. Now it's coming out public. Of course, I mean, it's the most logical thing. Occam's razor, right? Occam's razor. Can you click this? It's interesting. They went back to some of these neighborhoods, right? And they shut down all these businesses. So look, they're still shuttered up. And the reason is they said, oh, your businesses were too close to each other. So you're done. We're shutting you down. And people weren't allowed to go out and people weren't allowed to operate businesses during that time anyway. You know what's rich though? Now you're not allowed to talk about that.

So they have this economic fallout of how horrible these lockdowns were, but now you can't talk about it. COVID's a not... You can't talk about COVID anymore in China. It's not a thing. They tried to completely...

They said nobody died of COVID. It's done, by the way. Shut up. Don't talk about it. Remember these protests? Yeah, remember when they took those signs down? I took them down. You know what's funny is that these police cars that are there for surveillance are there since the protests and they never got rid of them. And they never will. They'll stay there now to make sure nobody goes back to that road. Yeah. Yeah.

Never forget what China did to you. Now, look what they've done. They've changed the COVID testing booths. You can see it's got the sink. They've turned them into postal stalls where they sell magazines and things. Everyone in the country multiple times a day had to line up in front of these and get tested in a crowd of other people that probably had COVID. Which was the stupidest idea. Oh, we want to test you for COVID. Let's all go get together rather than stay isolated. You don't do it? You go to jail. Yes. They will literally drag you out in hazmat suits and throw you into a metal box.

Yeah, dude, it was bad. It was very bad. This is a fascinating article. China could rewrite history using AI and control the future. We're seeing this happen right now. Dude, you know what? Give an example. Okay, guys, I'm going to get a speaker. We'll probably go straight to our Q&A after this, right? Yeah. I'm busy putting together a video, right, the other day for my channel. And I searched, where was the first glass bridge introduced or made? And it comes up with...

in the Zhangjiajie or whatever it is. Which is wildly true. There's a famous bridge there. I think it's the longest glass bridge and the highest glass bridge. But I'm like, hang on a freaking second here. Because I asked, when did the first one come out? And they came up with that, the AI thing in Google. So then I was like...

Again, who invented the glass bridge? And it came up with that same Zheng Zhe, whatever the hell, sorry, Zheng Zhe Bridge. I can't even remember where it is now. I don't really, I haven't retained that knowledge because it wasn't important at the time. Zheng Zhe, yeah. It's Zheng Zhe, okay. And I said, who invented the glass bridge? And it came up with that bridge. I'm like, hang on a second here. When did this bridge open? 2016. So I'm like, hmm, pretty sure there are glass bridges before 2016. Okay.

So I'm like, okay, I know a couple of notable ones. I know there's one in, I think the Tower of London Bridge. There's like a London Bridge one that's glass. I'm like, when was that? That was like 2014. Okay. Then I'm like, what about that Grand Canyon Skywalk? That's a glass bridge. It is, a big one. Yeah, that was 2007. So why are they lying? And I keep finding bridges, glass bridges that were invented before that one. Right.

And Glass Bridges, by the way, the guy who did that one in China is an Israeli architect anyway. It's not a Chinese-made thing. It's just like they paid a guy to do it. But the fact that Google is – it's impossible to find out the truth anymore. When I search, when did the first Glass Bridge –

come out. And who invented the first glass bridge? When was the first glass bridge unveiled? It keeps going back to that Chinese one. Right. And this is one of thousands of things that we've run into. Yeah. But it's like that Chinese one from 2016 where there's, I know from my own knowledge that there are glass bridges that came out like a decade before, like that Grand Canyon one. No, this is an issue because like we're running 50 to 100 queries a day. Yeah. Right. When we're doing research for stuff and compound that over years now. Yeah. Now with this AI thing,

we've noticed that it started quoting as fact Chinese sources. And some of these Chinese sources are AI written articles which are controlled by the Chinese government that lie about data. And we've talked about this before, but now it'll come up as fact that the Chinese average salary is like $41,000 a year when in fact it's like $10,000. Even in China, they admit that it's like $10,000.

Which is massively skewed to the rich, by the way. Yes, yes. So most people are making a shit ton less than that, right? So it's now factual because China made a factual article that now feeds into these language learning models. It's bad. It's very worrying because even with my long history of using the internet, since I was dialing up to BBSs before the internet, I know how to search for something. And I could not...

easily find out when the first bridge, glass bridge was ever made. I couldn't. It kept coming up with China. All the top articles, all the AI stuff, everything's trying to tell me that the stupid bridge in China is the first glass bridge and it's not. Now to make this worse is take that logic that you have and apply it to the Uyghur genocide. Apply it to Tiananmen Square massacre. Apply it to the erasure of Tibet.

Apply it to China's never fought in any conflicts in the past 60 years or whatever. All of these lies are now entering actual American dialogue. I'm hearing it come out in big, big, big media sources where big commentators are talking about how China's never had an armed conflict. And you're like, where's the Vietnam invasion? What about the Soviet Union? What about the Soviet Union war?

What about when they took over Tibet? Do you think you just achieve land of a sovereign nation, by the way, by just asking them for it? They invaded and killed everybody. What about the border skirmishes? What about all the border skirmishes? Taking over the South China Sea. What about the neocolonialism in Africa? China has... Oh, but China's peaceful. Constant conflicts. Here's my biggest issue, okay? We both have kids. Yeah. I...

I dread the day when my daughter has to look up for a book report or something and she goes and looks up in Google to try and find out some stat. Yeah.

And she gets fed some lie from China that's been manipulated. That's where we're at already. We're already there. And so she makes a big book report and her entire worldview will be skewed by this idea that China built the first glass bridge. Yeah. Okay. And that China's like amazing this and that and the next thing in America sucks or whatever. Meanwhile, it's a pile of garbage. Yeah. Meanwhile, it's false. It's freaking false. Yeah.

And I can't stand that. I can't stand the fact that it's, you know, you tell a lie long enough until people believe it's the truth. I'm telling you. It's like that. And it's so freaking annoying. It's like that now. Yeah. People in the audience, can you please tell me when the first glass bridge was invented? Yeah. You figure it out. I would like to know. And if it's at all possible, if you can, if you've got the means, if any of you guys are

or technicians or you're really good or you know how to flag and report things. Can you try and fix that? Because it's not true that the first glass bridge is that stupid one in Zhangjiajie. Searching glass bridges from Sydney still says Zhangjiajie. Yeah. Isn't it crazy? This is an issue. This is, again, it sounds like a silly thing, but it's indicative of everything that's happening.

Yeah. The glass bridge is indicative. And if you look at what we showed you earlier, if you were to watch a Communist Party fluff piece about that horrible village. Santorini, Tungwurini. That gross village. And let's be honest, it is gross. Yeah, it's disgusting. You would think because of that fluff piece, it's like, oh, the most beautiful village. It's amazing. And it's like the Chinese Santorini. And in your mind, you'd be like, wow, China has got this great, beautiful place to go visit. Meanwhile, it's like fallout from a war. Yeah.

Okay, it's not nice. It's rubbish. It's bad. It's empirically bad. It's worse than any fishing village you can go to pretty much anywhere in the world. It's dirty and ugly. Yeah. So it's the opposite of what is being shown. Exactly. Is that not indicative of everything China's doing right now? Yeah. And it convinces world leaderships to partner up with it. Yeah. That's the problem. The world's fucked.

If that's the case. I'm sorry for lack of better words. If you're following China's leadership on this stuff, get ready to live in China's Santorini. Yes. That's your future. If you want that, yeah. Just imagine going to, as a Chinese person, you go to Santorini like, ah, we got this. Yeah.

Don't worry. We've got this at home. Yes, yes. That's what happens, you know, in the car. It's like, Mom, I want to go to Santorini. We got Santorini at home. And meanwhile, it's just like horrible wasteland with garbage in the ocean. Un-Santorini. Yes. Unsanitary.

Yes, unsedatory. Unsedatory. Dude. Okay, sorry. Rant over. I know it went on a bit too long. But this Glassbridge thing really pissed me off. It really pissed me off because it's not true. Well, it's indicative of everything we're dealing with. Anyway, it's time for us to hit Yamcha, guys. This is our Q&A section where we answer your questions. You question our answers. For those of you who are watching live or sticking around over the weekend...

Excellent. Let's get into it. For the rest of you, stay awesome. We'll see you next week. Thank you for hitting our goal, guys, by the way. Yeah, thank you. That was fantastic. Give them another goal because I'm going to pull it. Well, hang on a second. I've got to bring this up here. That's freaking awesome. You guys are weird. You're very generous, and we would just like to extend our appreciation to you because you've now gifted that mini documentary to every viewer of this show. It's pretty cool. Yeah.

by the way, go check out a dragon. Ella's video on Panda diplomacy. Oh yeah. I have a little clip of it here. Oh yeah. Let me bring it up while I'll read these. Uh, Megatron says the Hills are alive with the sound of burning world leader. Three 59 ER boy says, hi trolls. Like and subscribe is the best way to protest China show. Keep the super chats up too. Please. You all have to do our part. Yeah. Thank you. Uh,

Apply cryogenics. Mouse thought is pooping in troughs and eating meat-scented sawdust. Yeah, okay. And before we continue, Dragonella, who's a big part of the Discord server, a big part of the show, friend of the show, she put out a video all about panda diplomacy, which was actually really good. We usually picture fluffy black and white ambassadors of wildlife conservation. They're the logo

of the World Wildlife Fund and a beloved zoo attraction worldwide. But beneath that cuddly exterior lies a complicated reality, shaped by decades of environmental devastation, lack of animal protections and the strategic use of pandas as political and diplomatic tools.

Surprisingly, a clear example of how Panda's soft power works can be found in the pages of a beloved Swedish kids magazine, Bamse. Let's have a look.

So basically China scammed Sweden and they learned all this commie propaganda, but then she goes deep into how panda diplomacy is a big sham. Yes. Really good. Go check it out. It's in the description. Please go check it out. And also for those of you who don't know, we did a live collaboration, our first ever live stream collaboration with China Uncensored Live. That's right. Which, well, it was actually with China Uncensored. Yes. And we discussed how YouTube is...

in the process of potentially like censoring what we do. And it was a good discussion. It was a great discussion. Hopefully you guys can go watch it. You go to China Uncensored's channel at China Uncensored and click on the live tab and you'll see it. Yes. It might be their most popular live stream. At least recently. Yeah. In recent times.

It's a good live stream. In ancient times. Yes, exactly. Please go check it out. It was a good one. It was fun. Good stuff. All right, tell them the China show sent you. Yes, that'd be nice. Leave a comment. Hey, China show sent us. Yeah, on both Dragon Island and China. Yes, we'd appreciate that. We've got to take creds. Got to take some creds. Get that street cred. Yupio, Yupio, the Fire Nation is attacking. Dude, if you've ever watched, you haven't watched Avatar. I watched a little bit of it. Okay. Not the blue people shit. Well,

No, not the lanky blue people. Yes. Shout out to David Chung, by the way. He also hates Avatar. The blue people. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Now, the cartoon Avatar is fantastic, and it's funny. I always put it off. I was like, I'm not watching that crap. My daughter is watching that. Me and my wife sat down. We're like, this is so good. It's fantastic. Anyway, China's the fire nation in the show. Yeah, and in real life. Yeah.

It's true. Antonio Campa, new segment, stuff on fire. This is getting... Guys, I understand. There's going to be fatigue if we keep showing fire. But it happens. It's not just random. It's factories. Every week. China's economy is on fire.

Who else is going to talk about it? True. You know, step up guys. Maybe you should start making content too. Everyone should spread awareness about if you, if you understand China, you got to understand China. Oh yes. You got to understand China. Oh my gosh. That segment, by the way, made me so mad. It made me want to die. Which one?

The trash. Oh, the trash. Yeah. It's just insane that it gets glazed. China's getting glazed every day. Well, China empties the seas, like rapes the sea life out of the entire ocean, dumps the most trash in the sea. It just turns up everywhere. Exactly. And then they go ahead and everyone's like, oh, great green technology. China's a leader. I just saw the UK wants to partner up with China on carbon issues or something. Yeah.

Oh, you want to partner up with the worst carbon emitter in the world of everyone combined who's currently making coal plants? Yeah. Am I crazy for thinking that's nuts?

Are these guys a bunch of reguards? Yes. Seriously. Honestly, I don't think the UK government's too switched on. But you know what? These days, I don't think many governments are switched on. I think we're kind of in the medieval time. We had the Dark Ages. I think we're kind of hitting that now. Who knows? Maybe we're on the world stage. Maybe we're actually hitting the best ages. Maybe things are going to turn in our favor and everyone's favor. Like the Light Ages? China will get isolated and turn into a democracy because they have to.

Wouldn't that be fantastic? That'd be great. Who knows? Let's see if we all make it through this. Chad Simplicio says, thanks for adding the angry train rider clip to the sound bite. You better. Yes, finally, I got it done. Where is it? Peter! Stop! I love that guy. That little kid. Yeah, exactly. I mean, don't we all feel like that guy sometimes? We do. Oh my day. Chocolato. Chocolato.

He needs a subtitle. Oh, yeah, I'll put a subtitle for next week. At least I did it, right? Yes, and speaking of which, happy St. Patrick's weekend. Oh, is it? By the way, on Xiaoban Ho, can you please play this? It's very important. What am I playing? Our Xiaoban Ho teaser. Oh, yeah. There's a reason for this. Ah, yes. We have a very, very, very big, big, big, big, big thing. Actually, I got a prop. You can play it first real quick. I wanted many props. Okay. Grab some props. Props to you, bro. Props.

I don't want to go over and get those other ones. Yeah, that would be an interesting choice of things to do. We are going to be on our Shabbat Hill, but last week we had a very interesting video, didn't we? We did, but I'm trying to... You just passed it. You literally passed it. I watched it go by. I know, but you didn't put the thing. It's right there. Yes, I did. All right. Yeah.

Let's take a look. You're fighting me. Fighting me. Yeah. We can look at some warships in the meantime. No, you can look at them. The audience can't see them. I hate them. What is your experience with soap operas? They suck. Okay. Can you pause that real quick? Bro can't even walk in showing his nips. Yeah. Free the nipple. Oh, no. The foreigner is supposed to be like a monkey on TV. We have to act excitedly over every little thing.

Oh, by the way, I wanted to point that out. We all know Hayes Runner, right? You'll follow me, okay? So sad. So sad, yes. So we actually found an archived interview with Chinese state media of him. He studied Chinese. He's fluent in Chinese, by the way. He studied Chinese and he's been an actor and stuff in China for a long time. But they've always made fun of him. Yes.

And it's the worst thing ever because he's one of those guys who actually studied the culture and he learned... He's so fluent. Yeah, he's really like... Way better than us. He's like a weeb for China. But he really studied. He's really into it. And then they make him do stuff like they tell him he has to pretend like he doesn't know anything about China. He has to pretend that he can't speak Chinese. A white monkey. Yeah, he has to use like a stupid accent to say, Oh, what would you tell you? You know, like, I don't know how to do this. And the worst thing is...

Is they really like make fun of him. They had this character. He's supposed to be Nicholas, right? But they made him like pronounce his name in Chinese, like as if he's a stupid foreigner that can't pronounce Chinese, which means Nicholas shit. So then everyone's like calling him like kids in the street are like, yeah, poop, man. Yeah, that kind of thing. Like very demeaning. So we found, yeah, we feel real bad for him, but he's always been like our favorite shill. Yes.

Except for John T. Yeah. Yeah. But anyway, he's always been our favorite Jill. But if you want to learn about it, that's what we discussed last week in and amongst this really horrible Chinese soap opera. We'll play the rest and then we'll show you what it's about. Yeah, exactly. Let's take a look. He looks creepy. Look at the TV in the background. Yes, look at the TV in the background.

See how it gets weird bros an expert of Chinese the utter language opera

Yeah. He's dedicated his life, won a scholarship, and he's walking around. People are calling him shit. All right. So these are the soap operas we've covered. This is what we covered on patron.com slash AV podcast. We covered these homemade soap operas that are taking off. So China blocks everything, right?

They're making their own homemade like cell phone soap operas and they're mad racy and dicey and very creepy. Very creepy. You're going to want to check out patreon.com slash edvpodcast. It's currently half price. It's Shabon Ho. Every single Monday we have a show called Shabon Ho. We covered creepy homemade soap operas in this episode. Yes. Also the Haze Runner thing. Yeah.

And it's awesome. They're actually, these are just some clips from some of them, but we translated them and explained them to you. They're very weird. But you're definitely going to want to check it out. They all follow this bizarre premise of the bed man. Man with bed. Yes, the club man.

But there's also the creepo one about the massage parlor. Very weird. Very interesting insight into what's popular in China right now. But go check it out. Pause it here. Xiaobanhou is half price right now. It's half price. $10 a month. You'll get access to all the 100 plus episodes we've done. Yep.

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There's a lot of amazing elements. If you like the China show, what you just saw today, you're going to like Xiaobanhou even more. Correct. It's more interactive. Yep. Anyway, time to continue with our Q&A. Please consider helping us out. Yeah, we would really appreciate it. And you'll get access to these dicey game shows and all kinds of absolute insanity. Yes. Like Chinese food. It's fun. If you liked what we did with that village today. What we're going to be doing on Monday, though, is something very different. Yes. So the reason I'm holding these beers, you can make as big, it's fine.

Okay. You didn't put in the pictures? I didn't, no. Sorry. Yeah, that's what I was talking about. Yeah, sorry. I'm holding some random beers here. Yeah. There's a Guinness here. There's a Coors Banquet here. There's a Budweiser here. The reason I'm holding these is we have... Well, because it's Friday. Yeah.

That's yours. We have three Chinese beers. Yes. From different regions of China. Yes. We have three American beers. Yes. And we have three European beers. Yes. We are going to be blind on St. Patrick's Day this Monday, which is fortuitous. Yes. We're going to be blind taste testing all of them and ranking them. I'm probably blind drunk by the end of it. Probably. We'll see. S tier all the way down to F tier, right? Mm-hmm.

With no bias. So we have beer from Southern China, Northern China, Eastern China. We have beer from all over America and we have beer from all over Europe. Three different European countries. We pick the three most popular beers in each country. Not stuff we like. No, just the three most popular. And we think that makes the most sense. And we've posted, it's public on the page. And if you want to go to patreon.com forward slash ADV podcast, you can see it. We've posted pictures of the beers that we're going to drink. So that you yourself can join and be a part of it. Yeah, if you want to buy them at home, you can.

We verified that you can get the Chinese beers in most Asian supermarkets, even some of the bigger like alcohol. Someone told us total wine was good for them. We managed to find it in our local Asian market. Yeah. But, you know, we've got Qingdao. We've got Jujang, like Pearl River, Cheer Day, which is also sold as Lucky Buddha here. Lucky Buddha here. So we've got the three Chinese beers. We've got three European beers, three American beers. And we're just going to like try to test them and rank them. Blind.

You guys can join in at home. That's why we put it out there. We want you to go get the same ones. It's kind of like the World Cup for beer, too. It'll be interesting, especially with all this trade war tariff stuff. Is America going to come out on top? Is Europe going to come out on top? Is China going to come out on top? It'll be interesting. Yeah, and it'll be a fun St. Patrick's Day thing to do, guys. So to do that, go to patreon.com slash ADVpodcasts. Join at least the sale tier right now, the half price tier.

Yeah. You won't be able to watch it live, but right after it's live, it'll go live. That's correct. For you guys. And then the live tier will be able to join us live as we do it. We would love to see you there. It's going to be a festive occasion. Yes, it's going to be a lot of fun. It's going to be fantastic. Anyway, guys, let's continue. Super chat time.

Happy St. Patrick's weekend, Matt and Winston. Great show. And I admire your work. I appreciate that. Irish podcaster here trying to raise awareness of the CCP and their shenanigans in Ireland. Cheers, Neil. Excellent stuff. Cheers, Neil. By the way, maybe our next goal should be we have to chug Guinness because we hate it. Yeah. You know, our next super chat goal?

Oh, yeah, we'll see about that. Because we hate it. Yes, it says best enjoyed poured into a glass. Yeah, because you don't want to drink that all in there. Best enjoyed poured into a glass. It's like infinity. It is. Bob Hunter, the Chinese population now under 800,000 depopulation. Well, Bob, I don't think that's the case. If that was the case, there'd be a serious issue if there's only 800,000 people in China. Yeah, it's just... Lower than the population of...

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Love the work you guys do. Keep it up. Thank you. Elstrom Cara, thank you very much. Shippy Wisk, give me this crazy doc. You got it. The documentary is pinned, by the way. You guys won it. Yes. After that super chat goal. Vaughn Wicket, thank you very much. Chiardi Kaname, great work, guys. Thank you very much. Thank you. VGK702, that's crazy.

uh, David pay. I never understood why they could strain their, how they can strain their voices. Uh, they would literally hurt their vocal cords quarreling at each other. Yeah, I know. Uh, world leader three 59. There's a lot of talk about pre COVID population was like 700 million and post COVID is like 350 million. How true do you think this is? I think millions of people died in China. Yeah, absolutely. They did. Uh,

If America lost a million people, then China lost millions. Again, remember the crematoriums were 24-7. 24-7. And huge amounts of cell phone subscriptions suddenly weren't renewed. Yes.

But again, lots of people died and they just put it down as pneumonia or something else and didn't mark it down as COVID so that they could not have that stat. Correct. But yeah, we'll never know the true extent, but it was a lot. Yeah, we won't really. They'll never admit it. It was devastating. Especially old people. Yes. Yeah.

Mr. David Lopan, Black Magic, Space Wizard. China's so advanced, the buildings can even deconstruct themselves. Can I have a protester? You certainly can. Protests coming your way. Hunter Oxley, thank you very much. Milva C. Bandit says, hey guys, I've been watching for five years now, and Friday's my weekly highlight. Thanks for saying awesome, guys. Thank you, you too. Lucius Faith say, let's do this, Richard. Keep up the good work.

Okay. Okay. Okay, Richard. Luna, Co-Orbis says, crazy super chat. John Wayne, thank you very much. Thank you. LNJ Mackie, love you guys. Thank you. Andy Lee, you guys are doing great work. Keep it up. Tastidious Yabby, crazy love. Teari Deos, crazy game. Mike Stewart, I need AI Roberts. AI Roberts. Yeah, we don't have that here. I haven't put that in there, but I'll just give you a... Oh my day. Check. Check.

jackalotta yep tmd waterfalls matt thank you i do have to be miss soy sauce says go china show thank you honey moose says super chat platypus 12 thank you very much matt peter says i would love if you guys could look into our own government willfully going down the path of authoritarianism regardless much love for michigan well we are the china show but when it ties together we can just yeah don't worry we're keeping a close eye on that especially the potential ties with china and

When things start to go that way, we'll be very vocal about it. Of course. And hopefully they don't. Yeah. Jesse Gillespie. I don't think so. Jesse Gillespie. Love what you guys are doing. Dragonilla, crazy frog cult. Yeah. Yes. You're a big guy. Man, I hated that crazy frog thing in the, like, 90s. Or was it early 2000s? Crazy frog, early 2000s. You know that thing? And I remember people used to pay for the ringtone. Oh.

Did you ever have that? Yes. It didn't take off that much here, but I saw a YouTube video of ads of, in the UK, people paying for those ringtones. People used to pay for the Crazy Frog ringtone in South Africa. It was like such a phenomenon. I couldn't handle it. It was like a club hit as well. That makes me want to die. Yeah. I want to die. I couldn't stand it. No.

I'll bite crazy life. Red letter. Free the documentary. It's freed. It's free. Uh, Alstrom care. Hell yes. Chat. John Wayne. Just Lloyd lost, uh, join the cult of lost crazy. Seemail grab. Let's go. Deplorable diva Haynes. This show is super crazy and I totally love it. Thank you. Dave says free documentary. I'm over the moon. Okay. I'll find it. I'll find it. Here it is. Freddie. Egwin. Egwin. Aga. Meat buns. Okay. Uh, Antonia Kampa. Crazy. Everything.

Dr. YouTube, I'm Richard from England. Is Richard from England already getting cold or is he just working out? I think he's just working out. Just working out. Let's hit the goal from Edgy. We hit it. Copo55, thanks for the entertainment. Important information as well. Neil's Rain here for that portion of Hot Pot.

Yeah, some dudes pissed in the hot pot in Haidilao. Oh, yeah, we didn't put that in. It's in there. We didn't have time. We did put it in, but yeah. Grant, thank you very much for the fire. Gellstrom, what do you mean release a cult expose for free? You should talk about the CCP cult for free every single China show. We do. We do.

TMD, it needed super chat, not subscriptions. Jan Ziska, hello from Kentucky. Thank you very much. Shout out to Kentucky. Just me says thank you. Doc Southington says no gentle reminders this week. I'm downright demanding everyone to have a good weekend. Don't make me get out of my chair. See y'all for the beer test. That's going to be fun. It's going to be super fun. I can't believe the outreach we got, by the way, on the Patreon I posted. I was like, this is going to be really fun. I was like, I hope people like it. Talk.

Tons of comments. People are buying, I just bought all the beers you got. I managed to find everything, helping each other find them on Discord. Make sure you make them chill and cold. Put them in your fridge. What if they like them? Warm. Then they're not allowed to participate. Actually, some Europeans in the comments said, I'll be having mine warm. Then you're not allowed to be a part of it. I'm sorry. They can do whatever they want. Yeah, I'm just joking. But yeah, that's horrible. Warm beer, especially like the...

Lagers. Yeah, well. Anyway. And yada, when will you ride motorcycles again? We always do. Yeah, I still ride whenever the weather permits. Yes. Honeymoons. Do you know that my Kawasaki tires are rotted? Yeah, you showed me. I'm like, what the hell? I feel like I just bought that bike. And I'm like, what? It's got dry rot cracks in it? I'm like, this is ridiculous. The temperature changes. Yeah. You know, it freezes and then it thaws and you don't have a heated garage. Yeah.

Honey Moose, my fiance and I really love you both. Stay awesome. Thank you. Jesse Gillespie, Winston, favorite Japanese words? Favorite Japanese words? Wow, that's a tough one. I don't know, really. Atsumete. What? Atsumete. What does it mean? You got to say what it means. It's like collect, I guess.

Why would that be a good word? It's random. Oh, I thought you were going to pick something. I can't think of a favorite word. Why not? I mean, Japanese is a very expressive language. I really like it. It's cool. Because it goes from zero to like a hundred and just like this. Yeah. You know? Yeah. It's just like a kind of a, it's be very nice chat. And then it's all of a sudden it's like, you know, you know, something like that. It's come out of nowhere. You're like, whoa. Yeah.

Yeah, very expressive language. I do like it a lot. Yes. Brought to you by my gains at Berkshire Hathaway from Steve. What does that mean? No idea. Sean Wayne says, say this, 吃葡萄,不吐葡萄皮。

Eat grapes. Don't spit the grape skin. I guess it's like... Yeah, it's a tongue twister. It's like that 10 stone lions one that we did on the Shaban Ho, remember? Nathan says, good morning, crazy. Timothy Brown, super chat, help the cause, love your contents. Thank you. I love... I used to share your videos on X until I got permanently suspended. Well, thank you for doing that. Thanks for spreading the word. Turtle, thank you very much. Bob Hunter says,

It says Papillon is a 1973 Dave Hoffman and Steve McQueen. Yeah.

Papillon, you don't know? It's about the escape from the prison island. It's very famous. Oh yeah, I never watched it. World Eater 359 says, keep going guys and make... I just don't know why that's relevant to the Supercast. Neither do I. Keep going guys, so they have to stay an hour longer. It's me, even a bear can tell right from wrong. See? That's the point. Mark Jackson, here we go. Let's make this happen.

You guys did it in literally three minutes. It was amazing. It was pretty amazing. Yeah, you guys are awesome. Ray West, thank you very much. Classy Pete, thanks for the weekly streams. Great content as always. RGTH5433, greetings from Finland. Hey, tervetuloa. You are doing incredible work.

I hereby grant you one pig blocker for your magic pin. Nice. Video isn't available anymore from TMD. What? Don't do it. Someone needs to request it. I can request a pig bay. Shoot.

Oh man. I wasted it. What the hell? Video isn't available anymore. That's not true. Which one? The one that we're on, I guess. Saucilus. Thank you very much. PB. Bollard bear is the best bear. We're going to have a bollard report next episode. Yes, we actually do have a bollard report for next week. Don't worry.

Applied cryogenic says Mao Zedong's thought is swindling one's own mother. I won't read the rest. It's bad. John Wayne says 5,000 super chats for 5,000 years of history. No, not happening. We're not doing that. Where are we here? Brothel Toad, please write my name in Chinese.

Ulsterm Care. Keep up with the excellent work, guys. Angry Train Guy clip. Angry Train Guy clip is coming up. JB00. Dr. YouTuber says, if all of China is one big cave, COVID close lid.

Okay. Joseph, too much China show made me have a dream that she was giving a speech in really shit broken English for a flat cap McDonald's type propaganda shill video. That'd be funny. How good is Ryan English? Ryan's English anyway.

I mean, he had an English teacher. Probably not amazing, to be honest, because he doesn't have to use it. Yeah. Who knows? Yeah, it's really hard to say. Timothy Brown, have you watched Katie Hopkins' documentary, The Killing Fields, The Massacre of White Fiat Farmers in South Africa? No, I haven't. I'm very well aware of the whole situation, being a South African myself.

Haunter one, the CCP excuse would be that you're smearing it and Santorini didn't look as good 200 years ago. Yeah, I don't understand China. Yeah, maybe. But don't call it the Santorini of China. You gotta understand China. I have this massive gripe.

Every single time they've got the China, the Grand Canyon of China, you know what I mean? The Hawaii of China, the Santorini of China. But nowhere else in the world is there like the Jiangjiajie of Spain. Yeah, the Jiangxi of California. The Sanya of Brazil. You don't hear that because China is always like trying to, I don't know, they just don't have anything good enough, do they? Yeah. They've got great spots, but like, I don't know, man, it's just...

Just be proud of your own thing. Stop trying to compare. Stop trying to have a knockoff. Yeah, it sucks. Because you cannot. That is not the Santorini of China. That is the concrete garbage of China. Yeah. It's not nice. In fact, Megasense1492 says, Century of Humiliation is over with Santorini 2.0. I think that Santorini clip is going to give them another Century of Humiliation. I know. At least a week. A week. Yeah. Dragnella says, Every CCP promise is like a New Year's promise.

Yes, that's like a New Year's resolution. Haunter1 says, Pig Bay doesn't look either. Pen recharge. Yes. What? Ah, come on. One more charge. ChinaLake100, several months ago, you guys were talking about a gross root vegetable from China. Yes. But you couldn't remember the name. Have you found the name yet? Yes, it's...

Zhigen. Zhigen. Zhigen. Z-H-E-G-E-N. Zhigen. Zhigen. Zhigen. Yeah. Zhigen. It's an R as well. Z-H-E-R. But we had it in the south, so it would have been just zhi. No, no, no. It's not. It's not an R like that. It's not that kind of R? Well, I mean, it's a necessary R. It's not an additional R. Oh, okay. It's Z-H-E-R.

E-R-G-E-N. Jargon. Yeah, exactly. Okay. It's like jargon. Yes, yeah, exactly. That is so bad. It's the worst food in the world. Yep. Grant, it's also poison. Grant Yoss says, just wondering if you guys have seen the Colombian YouTuber, Carrie Kiberga, that goes to Chinese deforesting crews and interviews them.

No. No. That's interesting. Dr. YouTuber, it's not gutter oil, but the Chinese remake of Grease. Angry Bear, PRC, not mainland, but continental China to Paraguay. What?

World leader 359, I've lost 15 good friends defensible. It's horrible. Horrible, yeah. Yeah, it's a huge issue. And again, China's very gleefully rubbing their hands as they send that stuff over because, hey, they can have this plausible deniability and say, well, you know, if you guys weren't addicts, it wouldn't be a problem, which, you know, there's truth to that. But at the same time, they're enabling it. It's

It's like giving an abusive alcoholic, here, drink this whiskey. Here, here's whiskey. I'll give it to you for free. There you go. Enjoy it. Lane Kendall says, did you see Marco Rubio announced sanctions on the Thai officials for deporting the Uyghurs? That's great. I'm pumped about his handling of China so far.

How would you grade this administration's China policy? Too early to tell. We'll keep you up to date. Yes. I've got some hope with Rubio. Yeah. Lucius Faith, they act like they don't have drug problems. Yeah, they do. Philip says, that Chinese naval ship came close to Australia. I got close enough to see the captain. He was Starfish Hitler. Oh, he was? That's pretty good. Where is that? Hitler! If I had a ship,

You know, I would get like a ship for every, I get a mannequin of starfish Hitler and put it behind the wheel. Yeah. He's a bad guy though. Starfish Hitler. Yeah. But I mean like it's the stupidest thing ever. It is. CCB propaganda is one hell of a drug from Michael Turner. Uh, Yens says Tulsa King two season plot is China. We'd grow Bay. Oh, okay. PH bridegroom King Yamsies says, Eddie Calderon, uh,

was a journalist who interviewed cartel members and tells China selling fentanyl to teach them how to use it. Hunter 1, Serpens Today rips wheelies over glass bridges. Chinese AI is great, I assure from Platy. Hunter Oxley says, Ask Grok instead of Google. Google is tainted. Chainsaw Octopus says, Late contribution here. I'm excited to see the clip I sent to Winston. Great show. Can I get a Subway Wonder Man? Certainly can. Let's see. Do, do, do.

Hey, do I look like a subway woman? That's good, eh? Jim Flagg says, first Glass Bridge was made by the Romans in the 17th century. Te Rai Deus, talk about Glass Bridges. So many articles in my college library filled with articles that are written by Chinese directly the CCP. Yeah. Terrible. John Diamond was hoping this would be your unreported, unregulated fishing episode. I'll be patient. That was last week. Yes, last week we did that. Go check it out.

Mish, have my support. Kioni Borge. Was it last week or the week before? No, it was last week. Okay, yeah. Kioni Borge, Lamau Zedong. Yep. Josh Stuckberry. I believe the West is under attack in an incredibly profound way. Oh, yeah. Big time. The worst part is how oblivious everyone is. Thank you for all your...

Sorry, it's... Yeah, I mean, look, at the end of the day, this is just the unfortunate side effect of being human. And I can say this for sure. You know, when I visited South Africa, the only time since I left was in 2007, late 2007. And I was there for about a week, maybe a week and a half. And I can just remember, you know, like when you leave a place, you start to see things on a grander scale. Mm-hmm.

And people were, and I went back, were griping and moaning about the most irrelevant crap ever. It's very localized. You know what I mean? Moaning about the petrol price and moaning about like relevant things in their life. Yeah.

But having gone abroad and had a bigger picture of what was going on in the world, to go back and see people groaning and moaning about and focusing on stupid little nothing burgers, basically, you know, that's human nature. And so you'll find like here in America, everyone's focused on, you know, domestic politics and things. They don't see the China's out eating their lunch. Nope.

They don't see the interference from China and Russia everywhere because they're just stuck in their own little world, worried about this and that. And that's human nature. You can't do much about it. The best thing you can do is educate people. And hopefully enough people will understand the danger

that the world is facing because of China before it actually physically touches them. Yes. You know? Yeah. Because it will. Yeah. Let's rip here. Okay. Matt says, do you think you'll ever build small displacement bikes again? Any future for Werther's Whips? I hope so. I looked into that and, you know, if I can find a cheap, because I don't want to build out a secondhand stuff. It's not reliable. If I can find a cheap, good little Honda or something, I might start.

Steve Leo says, the first one is Grand Canyon. According to Wiki, entry for glass bridges. Give me a bow massage. Chippy Wisk, shout out to environmentalist. Caught myself. Caught myself. Got it, Chippy. Yes, you got it. I got you. That was good. You found it. You've done it. Mando Prez, are Chinese educational TV shows any good? No.

No. No. Quality 1203, wishing everyone here a great day, a great pie day. Like the number pie, 3.14197 or whatever the hell it is. By the way, can I get a puke, man? You can. I like raspberry pies. Wait, what did I just press? Yes! Yes!

Didn't come up, so it's fine. Anyway, let's rip. Yeah. I found a glass bridge on Timu. I bought the super chat instead from Kate. Thank you, Kate Tater. Excellent. Daniel Kung. Thank you very much, Daniel. It's nice of you. John Wayne says, 2012 Detroit was the China city of America. Drop apologies. Loving the show, guys. Can I get a pig bay? And I'll let you have it. I'll save the charge. Yeah, it's about time.

Stuart says, I need some Dandong Dynamics AI Roberts. Good stuff. And Joe, no, you cannot. What did he want? He wants to reverse charge the pen with an extra pig pay. You cannot reverse charge the pen. No. Greetings from Germany. I'm planning to take a trip to Taiwan. Oh, thank you. So reach out.

Reach out to us on Patreon. I'll give you the Taiwan master list. Yes, we have a list of all the good things to do there. It's an incredible place. It's lovely. I wouldn't transfer through Chinese airports if you're concerned about that, if you're a critic like you are apparently. Thank you, Corey Stu. That was very generous of you. And thank you to everyone that participated today.

Yeah, and to reach the goal. That was fantastic. That was awesome. Don't forget to put the link in the description, by the way. I will. Yeah. Guys, thank you very much for joining us for this very important conversation we have every week. Hope you enjoyed the show. Hope you learned something. We cannot wait to see you next week.

Can't wait to see the Shab-An-Ho Chubs and Hoes on Monday. It's going to be so much fun. We're really going to have the best time ever. We're all going to have a big beer drinking party. Even if you don't drink, even if you're a tea totaler or a coffee totaler, join us anyway. It's going to be a lot of fun. We'll have other stuff too. Of course. Patreon.com slash ADB podcast. Can't wait. Yeah. So stay awesome, guys. And I'm not going to cut myself off this time. Let's do it. Five.