Fear& - Why We Had To Run For Our Lives | Fear&

Episode Date: November 24, 2025

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Starting point is 00:00:51 No way. He's running! He's running! He's running! He's just all on camera. We got to run. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of the Fear and podcast. We are live here from Hong Kong, China, on our last day of this marvelous.
Starting point is 00:01:29 trip. Yes. I am joined by my fellow co-host, Will Neff and Hassan Piker. Yes. For another great episode, and as you can tell, we are dressed to the nines. We're dressed Chinese. We're dressed. Yeah. We're dressed all Chinese. We're Chinese now. It's official. We're fully Chinese. Right. We're China maxing. We have China maxed. Yes, we have maxed out on China. You guys just reminded me of that, like, that one, have you guys ever seen Major League? No. where he's like doing the ad reads and he's like today's game brought to you by Coca-Cola and they're like Pepsi and he's like who gives a shit you guys are both tapped out no no we are tapped in I'm tapped in for the pod
Starting point is 00:02:09 but I am definitely tapped out I've been it's been 13 days of like 15 to 17 hour streaming right I think because like at least you guys start at like 10 a.m. I'm starting at 4 a.m. every day, which which made things which made, yeah, for sure, but you know, this is an expensive trip, okay? I'm selling like Austin now.
Starting point is 00:02:37 It's an expensive trip. We got, no, I mean, I, there was a lot of news to cover. I have to do that. Otherwise people are, we'll lose their fucking minds. Yeah. No. People do lose their minds, even when I do it for four hours and then do four hours of, I do four hours of news coverage and then four hours of IRL and people are just like, why aren't you talking about this or that? I'm like,
Starting point is 00:02:55 I'm a human being. Like I'm in China. I want to live life and I want to enjoy things. Look, it's been a marvelous trip. Yeah. I think I came in here with expectations that the United States
Starting point is 00:03:06 was the greatest country on earth. Right. And I leave with that. But... But, no, no. In all seriousness, I leave with a little jealousy that we are not better
Starting point is 00:03:20 in many areas, but I still do have hope for our future. Yeah. And I think we, it, China has showed me what we could be in many areas. Obviously, you know, realistically, I think there are some things that I do miss about home. Like, like, we will be out of China by the time this airs. You can say whatever you want. All right, I'll tell you.
Starting point is 00:03:40 I miss the ability to go on the internet and freely go to any app that I'd please without being restricted and censored. Okay. Right? I think that that's a fair critique. Other than that, shit, I don't know. I don't really know. Okay, that's like a... I also, oh, you know what I missed?
Starting point is 00:03:57 This is really good. You know what's really good about this? Because it's like an insane trade-off when you think about it, where you're like, I asked Irene. Yeah. I think Will was with me after we went and we got our Chinese luggage. I turned around to Irene and I said, Irene, you're around our age. I want to ask you a question that I don't think, like,
Starting point is 00:04:17 I think it's going to come across as strange to you. Do you have any issues with affordability? like the way the the the way things cost and she was so confused like it wasn't like a mistranslation like she speaks perfect English she was just like no why would that be an issue
Starting point is 00:04:36 like it was a whole different world for someone who is our age living in China it's not like she's bawling you know she's not like a content creator or anything like that she's not super wealthy or anything and it was just so outside of her realm of understanding the notion that she would have
Starting point is 00:04:53 any issues with rent or any issues with like purchasing things whatsoever. And I feel like that's the tradeoff. It's like, yeah, you can't have the apps, which is, which sucks. I agree. But then also everything is way cheaper and you have a home. Yeah. Well, we already have homes. We're in the top one percent of wealth in America. I know. Obviously it's not a problem for us, but I'm saying for the average person. I'm going to be honest. Both you guys have never experienced
Starting point is 00:05:24 the level of Chinese that Marsh and I were today. If you at home, don't know, Marsh and I went on a one-hour tour that turned into a five-hour trip to go get these suits. Right here.
Starting point is 00:05:34 Okay, first of all, you also had to get your second fitting done for also your custom-made suit that I got for you. Don't act like it wasn't... It wasn't just for the... I think that's the reason
Starting point is 00:05:45 why you had to go. Yes, you literally physically had to be there with March so that they could give you a second fitting. In fact, I think they would have probably delivered them to Hong Kong. But we do appreciate... Thank you for getting the suit.
Starting point is 00:05:59 The fact that you did that. Thank you for... Thank you for... Thank you for spending five hours. No! Oh, my God. You're rubbing your ass on my Zhongshan suit. Only these two pieces of shit could receive a favor
Starting point is 00:06:18 and then be like, no, we did you a favor by making you go on a five-hour trip on your last day. You had to go because they had to literally physically... Right. Did I ask for a suit? You didn't want a suit? Now you sound like me! That's what I would say. If you didn't want a suit, then that's fine.
Starting point is 00:06:33 The people were fantastic. I'm glad we went, but let me fill my story now, you cock suckers. We, Marsh and I became more Chinese than you will ever be because we did like a Tijuana-style day trip to mainland China. We ate duck neck and kidney and crawdads in the subway. In the subway, we had tea with a Chinese family that were, oh, my God, they are the sweetest genuine human.
Starting point is 00:07:05 The Taylor, right? The Taylor. They took us into his home, and I'm telling you, that was it. That was the moment where I became Chinese. Irene even said, you are white Chinese today. respect. Right. Good.
Starting point is 00:07:19 And that was a big moment for me. And I don't know if you two ever achieved. It's like going Super Sam, right? Yeah. You are like the Vigita mode of it. Like you thought that you achieved white Chinese, but you'll never understand what it means to be white Chinese. You know what?
Starting point is 00:07:34 I'll give it to you because I don't think I'll ever be that. But you can have it. Which I, you know, I don't know. I just, I don't think I'll ever be Chinese. Well, no. Since you're so Chinese, you already know what is about to start here. A little grain alcohol. Little motel.
Starting point is 00:07:54 There is a chance that because we get fucked up, that's from my minibar. I'm just going to cover our bases. This might be the Patreon episode because if the Patreon episode slaps because we're already tanked, I'm going to put it as the main episode. Okay. That is my... Thank you. This is, what I just cracked open, how much does it cost, Christian?
Starting point is 00:08:12 You want to look at it in the mini bar? I'm sure it's on the menu over there. You pulled it out of the mini. Yes, this is already a very... Brothers and sisters. I'll pay for it. We could have Uber eats that. It's still like, this is...
Starting point is 00:08:27 I want to know how much it costs on this mini bar, specifically. Worst case, I'll bring mine down for my... This is $115. That's actually... Actually, it's relatively affordable for how expensive this is at the store. Yep. Because
Starting point is 00:08:42 these things, they're tiny. but they have an unimaginable alcohol content it's 53% this is 50 milliliters and this is the best version of it I think the motai actually I don't even know
Starting point is 00:08:58 if this is the best version of it but this is Kwai Chow Moti Crack that shit open Firewater Chinese fire water Crack it open Do we have little cups
Starting point is 00:09:08 To drink this out of like the You have to be careful Because it's very deadly What we should probably measure it because they told me like just a fraction of it could get you just
Starting point is 00:09:21 if I drank that whole thing it would kill me when we went when we were in Beijing at the peace and love ceremony fucking hotel or whatever the peace hotel
Starting point is 00:09:31 I don't no no no that was in that was in Shanghai but I'm saying the first one yeah no no the where we went to the Beijing duck the Peking Duck
Starting point is 00:09:40 that was a Hilton Hotel that was a Hilton Hotel but it was like a like a special conference room And when they served this, after two shots of this, I was already... It wasn't even a shot. It was like this much. It wasn't even a shot.
Starting point is 00:09:53 It was like a baby shot. Just that much. This is very high alcohol content, 53% volume, but like overall... What? Caroline Kwan is here. What? Oh, she's picking up here for the twink. Okay.
Starting point is 00:10:11 Yes, thank you. She said the suits were lovely. Do you like it? She said it's amazing. and she said, Austin, you particularly look the best. Yeah. What, the socks? Oh, those are the fan that gave us those socks.
Starting point is 00:10:28 Should we just sip on it? Yeah. Okay, yeah, we'll sip on a little bit. So I will be monitoring your sipping, though, because I want you to drink this. Yes, I'll drink a little bit. So I have something to, okay. Dumbay. Bambai.
Starting point is 00:10:44 I have something to tell you guys. that you already know but I'm going to share for the podcast audience anyway I got catfish yep for the first time
Starting point is 00:10:53 in history I got catfished so if you if you don't know um Austin Austin I watched no
Starting point is 00:11:05 go keep going you're faking it you're faking it have to down it quick. The more it stays in your mouth, the worse it gets for you. It is very high alcohol content. My lips are burning. Yeah, I think we just, I think it's easier to get at it if we all sip out of this.
Starting point is 00:11:31 Oh, you're gonna, you're, you're downing all of it. Yeah. Wait, that's all there is in. Yeah. Oh. I mean, I did take a rip-oroni. I'll be honest with you. I'll be honest.
Starting point is 00:11:43 I'm going to be plastered off of that one little. sick. I'm telling you. I feel so warm. I'm telling you. Yeah, the Patreon is going to become the main one and the main one's going to become the Patreon. All right, we'll see. We'll see how it goes. So, um, I got catfished. You're going to drink three-day old champagne.
Starting point is 00:12:01 Okay. Smart. Austin, go on with your story. So I got catfished, all right? So as you may know or may not know for those at home, um, I used a gay hookup app called Grindr. Okay. And I'm,
Starting point is 00:12:15 met somebody on Grindr who I perceived to be very attractive and their photos did look worked a little bit. You know, I think we all you know, there may be a little filter you know, yeah, it's very common to do this. And I was like, okay, I see the photos but I was like, you know what, I can't picture a version of this person
Starting point is 00:12:34 that isn't attractive. Like I just, I think they're very good looking. I don't see anything that I can't perceive as attractive. So I'm like, okay, what do you want to do? And he's like, well, I'm going out to a why don't you meet me out of the club with my friend and we can, you know, see where it goes from there. I'm like, perfect. So I, uh, and we had made a commitment to like.
Starting point is 00:12:54 Was this for a three way? Yeah. Yeah. So we had made a commitment to, I'm just specifying for the viewers. Thank you, thank you, thank you. We had made a commitment that it was going to go down. Right. All right.
Starting point is 00:13:06 And that was the commitment. It's going to go down. Contractual or? Not contractual. Handshake agreement. Right. Got it got it. So I'm like, okay, it's going to go down.
Starting point is 00:13:15 and, um, and I, uh, I'm just, I, my ADHD is atrocious and Marsh coming in there to pour the, I just got distracted. So, oh, yeah, no, I'm just gonna keep. There's very little left. There's there's go. Finish it. Down it. Down it. There you go. That's not too much. That's not too much. What's on? Oh, what's on? That's too much. No, it was very little. Mmm, yummy. So anyway, I was on. I'm going to puke. So anyway, verbal agreement to meet up.
Starting point is 00:13:53 So time approaches. I go pick up supplies from the local store and I'm like, okay, it's going to go down. So I meet him out at a gay bar. Right. And I walk up and I see him from a distance and I immediately go from 500 feet away. I can look and I see him and I go, oh, fuck. This person does not look like I thought he did. was it can you like you need to describe us in great detail because i didn't even recognize him
Starting point is 00:14:22 to a point where look was he a bad looking person no but he wasn't my type anymore wait wait wait wait explain in great detail what you had previously thought he looked like a model a model okay but like skinny uh facial features i I think his body probably was... I couldn't tell because he was like... He was in a fucking sick ass fit, though. His outfit was insane. So what was it?
Starting point is 00:14:54 I don't even want to say he was chopped. He may see it. You never know. Fear and is huge here. I asked you if he knew who you were and you said he had no idea. I don't think he knew who I was. But he didn't tell me that. But people don't necessarily do that.
Starting point is 00:15:10 Anyway, regard... Y'all, this alcohol is fucking me up. Good, that's why we made you drink it Uti Anyways, so Baito His face was just not what I thought it was It was tuned, he was wearing
Starting point is 00:15:26 A lot of makeup Which is fine I support you Wait, you wear makeup Was he wearing makeup when he met you? Yes Was it like Was it the makeup that you didn't like?
Starting point is 00:15:37 His face just didn't look like it did He just didn't look like He did you show me what this dude Looks like on the app No, we're no longer associated with each other. Blocked them. Instant.
Starting point is 00:15:49 You saw it though. No. So, Austin, you didn't take screenshots? No! What was I gonna do? I was fighting for my life. Hassan.
Starting point is 00:15:59 So I approached, well, let me get into it. I just need to know what kind of... Because, like, look, we're not being weird about this, but like Chinese beauty standards are very different. Like, if you...
Starting point is 00:16:10 When I first went live on BDBD, they literally had this filter on my face. like their auto filters they have on BDBD he looks cute immediately like makes your face smaller and makes it pointier and your eyes bigger
Starting point is 00:16:22 like that's the type of that's the type of shit they're doing out here the photos that looked online did not look like they had those features like the photos didn't look like they were throwing like it was a reverse filter situation
Starting point is 00:16:33 photos made him look not like that and he walked up looking like an anime character is that reason? No his photos looked like they were I didn't even perceive them to be Photoshop but they looked good were highly obviously in retrospect they were highly edited but then i met him in person and i was
Starting point is 00:16:48 like oh no you know yeah anyway i don't want to say this man was ugly i think a lot of people may perceive him to be attractive a lot of people may perceive him to be attractive i don't think he was ugly at all i think he was a good looking guy okay you did not you just did not like him i did not find him i did not find him personally attractive but he's probably something for somebody because this guy was not an ugly person he was probably something for somebody is the worst way to describe someone while simultaneously trying to make it seem like he is like traditionally or conventionally handsome. It wasn't going to work.
Starting point is 00:17:21 Okay. And I went in there and I was like, hey, nice to meet you. I gave him a hug. And I was like, well, let's go inside. And I was thinking to myself, I was like, I've never been in this situation. Was he Chinese? Yes. Well, no, I don't know.
Starting point is 00:17:33 He was Asian. It said he was mixed ethnicity is what he, what is profan. Okay. So he was Asian? you think? I don't know. I don't know. I didn't ask. I didn't ask. Oh, you didn't even get to that level. I didn't think it was appropriate. What are you? You know what I mean? Who's asking that?
Starting point is 00:17:50 Dog, you're about to be inside of him in like 15 minutes. You think that's a prerequisite to be like, excuse me. Before I enter you. No. What is your... It's not a pre-requisite. I'm just saying all bets are off at that point. He literally strolled downtown, gotten a fucking red cab, probably got into almost a car accident on the way over here.
Starting point is 00:18:10 For the record. For the record, he was going out anyways. I was not, him going out had nothing to do with me. I just want to make that clear. I don't know, man. I already had a family. I already had a family emergency. I think what we're going to do right now is I'm going to alleviate you from any stress you're feeling about not being political about this situation.
Starting point is 00:18:30 You've stripped it of any of its humor by being so political about it. So I'm going to tell it from my perspective. No, I've been trying to needle. in the comments. I need to finish my story. Okay, please do. I need to finish my story. Okay, but you're like, I'm at this nondescript male. I'm not assuming his gender. He told me. He could have been handsome to most people. Yeah. This nondescript male, I will not be giving you a hype. Just not my type. Yeah. Well, because I don't know, like people. I'm not the best looking guy on the planet. You know, baby. People don't think that I'm their type. I love using Sikh geek. Me too. Oh, me too. I love going to concerts and listening to music. It's favorite past time. And when I do listen to music famously, I love using C-Geek. Sometimes I just go on C-Geek, and I just look at the music I could be listening to.
Starting point is 00:19:21 Oh, it's so fun. Department shopping. Yeah, basically. I'm just scrolling through, I'm like... Yeah, what's your favorite music? Charlie X-CX and Taylor Swift. And Taylor Swift. And those are not the artist that we named in the Patreon episode that is in my...
Starting point is 00:19:39 Maddie Healy of the 1975. You got the year right. Oh, your third fave. Yeah. And also, uh, deaf punk. They are broken up. They are not doing. That's not.
Starting point is 00:19:52 Seekek is good, but so if you love music like Hassan Piker, what are you waiting for? Take out your phone. Open the Seatgeek ad and add the code fear 10 to your account to make sure you get 10% off your next set of tickets. That's code fear 10 for 10% off any tickets. on seat gig So anyways
Starting point is 00:20:16 I go into the now that's out of the way I go into the bar Joe Biden
Starting point is 00:20:20 five minutes stand up set that it can offend absolutely no one do you folks
Starting point is 00:20:26 like ice cream vanilla is my favorite but other flavors are good too so
Starting point is 00:20:35 look I go in the bar I meet him I go in the bar and he introduces me to his friend.
Starting point is 00:20:44 Right. And you mentioned that the friend puts you off almost as much as he did. More almost. Because she was white, which is totally fine. Ooh. Right. And he says to me, I said, hello, nice to meet you. And then he goes, she doesn't speak
Starting point is 00:21:00 English. So I immediately go, Privyat. And then she goes, she looks at me and he's like, no, no, she only speaks Chinese. And I go, okay. Great. So you met. Someone in Hong Kong who was white, like, we're talking white white, like, yeah, like White, like Will White. Will White only spoke Chinese. I don't know why we're using me as a yardstick, but that's fine. Then I go, Nihau, and she goes, she just looks at me deadpan and won't even shake my hand. Well, that's because she probably speaks Cantonese. Yeah, she probably speaks Cantonese, yeah. But he told me she only spoke Chinese. Right, you spoke Mandarin to her. You're in a Cantonese region. Yeah. And people from Hong Kong get real. Joe Biden, the press doors falling apart.
Starting point is 00:21:48 The man whose life mission is never to offend anybody immediately comes in and goes anyhow. She's like, this motherfucker just got the wrong Chinese. No, no. Wait, wait. I thought it was, I thought Chinese and Cantonese were two separate things. No, Mandarin and Cantonese are different versions of the Chinese. No wonder she didn't respond to me.
Starting point is 00:22:11 I learned something today. I learned something today. I learned that every region in China actually has its own regional dialectic and Mandarin and Cantonese are just the most affluent. That kind of have taken on a bunch of the other... Okay, so I fucked up.
Starting point is 00:22:27 No wonder she didn't say anything. There's also like, there's also political drama surrounding it too. There's political drama surrounding it because like Hong Kong wants to... Keep Cantonese. ...maintain like the Hong Kong identity is a separate thing from China.
Starting point is 00:22:40 It's offensive if you speak. to a Cantonese speaker in Mandarin. So she's sitting there and then she excuses herself and leaves and then it's just him and I'm like, you know, I'm thinking I'm like, I've gotten this far, I feel a lot of pressure, I feel like maybe I can drink my way through this.
Starting point is 00:22:55 Okay. So I order a vodka soda. Right. And then I keep talking to him and I'm like, I can't drink my way through this. So immediately I'm like, I don't know what to do. So I need to excuse myself. So I said,
Starting point is 00:23:10 excuse me, I am going to go have a cigarette outside. Austin does not smoke. I don't smoke. Well, he carries cigarettes, though. I do. And I immediately got outside, and I was like, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do, I don't know what to do. And then all of a sudden, I felt free, and I just started running.
Starting point is 00:23:33 Yes. I just started running. And I was like, I need to get out of here, and I started running. And I was like, you know what? I have free will. I don't have to do anything. Right. I don't owe anybody anything.
Starting point is 00:23:45 That's right. So I started running. And I just kept running. And I was running. And I was running and running and running. And I ran and I ran. Yeah. And finally, I felt free.
Starting point is 00:23:59 And I said, God, get me into a car. Get me into a taxi. I need to leave. And that's what happened. And we're about to do this Momento style. You got Austin's chain of events. Now I'm going to give you the. opposite side of this, ready?
Starting point is 00:24:14 Boom. Christopher Nolan, two different editor styles. Karras, if you're watching this. I'm ready for the fan at it. All right, here we go. I'm out with the ladies and Marsh, and we're getting absolutely fucking rip shit.
Starting point is 00:24:27 I'm 10 drinks deep. And Christian turns to me and goes, oh, Austin and I are going to a gay bar tonight. And I go, really? It's 11 o'clock at night. I feel like Austin would be no, Austin's in the bathtub. And I go, this is unusual.
Starting point is 00:24:44 This is unlike my best friend. Once he's in, he's usually in. But then we receive something even more mysterious. A FaceTime call from Austin's show, not in the bathtub. However, walking out of a Chinese convenience store and the tumblers, they start to click. No, he's not in the bathtub. He's procuring supplies. Wow.
Starting point is 00:25:08 How did you know? How did you know? And I said to Christian, I said, you guys are going to go have a three-way. And he said, no. And I said, watch this. And I put his phone on the table face up. And then I took your phone. And I said, are you meeting a third tonight?
Starting point is 00:25:23 We're watching the ellipses. We're watching the ellipses. Yes. And I went, man, do I know my best friend? He's up to no good. Yes. So when you guys are going to the gay club, we have each had about five leachie martinis. and we are going to walk to a restaurant,
Starting point is 00:25:43 a Burger King, and slam some fast food. But Christian's like, oh, would you guys walk me into the gay club? And I was like, yeah, I want to see Austin. I maybe want to see this person they're meeting up with. Let's all walk. So we are walking, and we're walking,
Starting point is 00:25:55 and it's about a 15-minute walk, and about three minutes. Christian stops dead in his tracks. Oh, my God. Guys, look at this. I go over, and it says, SLS, I've just been catfished. And I go, oh my God.
Starting point is 00:26:13 And at this point, it's a secret because I don't want to reveal anything. But the next message that comes through... Was it really a secret? It was a secret. Because I have additional information on this. Wait, just listen. Just listen. Within the next 30 seconds, a second message came through.
Starting point is 00:26:31 That changed the situation. Oh, my God, I need to run. I'm running. When I receive the message, oh, my God, I need to run. I am running. I immediately thought that Austin's show was in peril. Immediate peril. Well, he was.
Starting point is 00:26:51 He was. But also, he was liberated. He was free. He was liberated. So we start beaming down the street. And editor, please cut this in. We see an Austin show. This is on Caroline Kwan.
Starting point is 00:27:05 Yeah, I saw the video. We see. And Hussain Bolt version of Austin's show. Usain. Shows. Naurito running. Pinned back, absolutely cranking out of the darkness like the gay flash. I was.
Starting point is 00:27:21 No way. He's running. He's running. He's just all on camera. We embraced him. How long did you run? I don't know. I don't know.
Starting point is 00:27:36 Well, the craziest. The craziest part is before I left the bar, I couldn't find the door. So I was running around in the bar. I started running in the bar. And I was like immediately, I ran into the smoking section. I think I was in the kitchen at one point. I was looking for the door trying to get out because it was a gay bar and it's Hong Kong. I don't know what the fuck.
Starting point is 00:27:55 They had it like blocked off or something. Oh my God. And I finally got out. They probably didn't have it blocked off. We just had no idea where the door. I don't know where the door was. Anyway, regardless, look, I got out, and look, I, you know, in hindsight, maybe I should have pulled the gentleman aside and said, hello, it's not going to work. You know what?
Starting point is 00:28:16 But if someone catfishes you, I don't think you owe that to them. I know, I don't even know, but it was definitely the same person. It was just like an unrecognizable, like the photos were, like, significantly edited. I just don't understand what that means. Like, I still, I can't. I want to visualize it. You know, I think it's like a romance novel. We have to just picture it in our mind.
Starting point is 00:28:36 Yeah, that's true. Yes. So, anyway, that's my story, and I will be doing more checks in the future. Right, right? More checks. How could you check to not get caffish? What would you do? You could have them.
Starting point is 00:28:49 Passport. You could probably have them send you a live photo. You could add them on like a quick video app. You could FaceTime them. Ooh, I'm so excited for our three-way. Please send me a brief video of you holding today's newspaper. While he was running, while he was running, the cogs were turning in his head thinking, like,
Starting point is 00:29:10 how can I avoid this in the future? I mean, yeah. I mean, how can I avoid it in the future? And let me tell you something. Grindr is like high stakes gambling. Okay. It's like high stakes gambling because you're sitting there. You obviously want to get laid.
Starting point is 00:29:22 You have a myriad of options and you're trying to go from one option to the next and you don't and you know these people are doing the exact same thing that you are and you don't want to commit because what if something better comes along, right? And so a lot... What? That's what you're thinking? No, no. I think everybody is thinking this.
Starting point is 00:29:40 Okay. Everybody is thinking this. Because you don't want to make a commitment because you're like, well, what if something else is more my thing? And that's something that I'd like to do. And so you're dealing with all of this. But in a certain point...
Starting point is 00:29:49 Have you ever heard of the adage? A bird in the hand is worth two in the butt? What? What does that mean? I think you might have modified that a little bit. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. What does that mean? What you possess is always worth more than what you could.
Starting point is 00:30:04 possess. So basically you should take what you have in your hand. Yes. Always. And last night I had something in my hand. There you go. Well, you had another hookup planned and then you switched it for this guy? The other one was planned.
Starting point is 00:30:22 Wait, you had another hookup plan? Yeah. What? There's a story here. But, I'm a night shamanla. But, but, but I was a little wishy-washy on the community. commitment to that one, but he also ghosted us. And he didn't respond within a good amount of time, so I made a commitment to the other one.
Starting point is 00:30:43 So can I tell you something? I have an update on this. Okay. So you know how you said, oh, it was like, it was private. Like, this was a private moment for Austin. Right. It was not a fucking private moment for Austin because I woke up to people pinging me in my disc. No, it was on stream. That was on stream. It wasn't private because they caught me running on stream No, but before Did you, I typed it in the chat after they all knew Oh, okay, because I thought you told Will
Starting point is 00:31:15 Like, I'm being catfished or whatever And then you, and I couldn't tell it you No, no, no, Christian, okay, let me give you the order of events Christian pulls the phone up Towards his chest and goes, come look at this So I knew it was a message that I had to read off stream And as I am reading it, the message I need to run
Starting point is 00:31:35 I am running comes through and that's when I was like oh my God yeah because I have the message that he sent in Discord you sent a message of Discord in my Discord in my Discord
Starting point is 00:31:50 I was traumatized he wrote it's got to be here somewhere hold on it's got to be the Comrade Board I suspect Well while you're searching for that our next topic is one that I think you won't be pleased
Starting point is 00:32:03 with. Austin show your recommendation of the Ritz Carlton. Amazing, fantastic. Oh, yes. What an accommodation. The gym, I've spent so many fantastic hours atop the world, drinking a protein shake, having a coffee, eating a banana. I mean, you really chose a fantastic place, and I'd like to give you your flowers for that. Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, we are sitting on the 116th floor. Two floors above us is the world's tallest bar. In the world. Yes, the world's tallest bar And we are looking out over Hong Kong I was able to secure
Starting point is 00:32:40 An upgrade for the team Yes Wait, wait, okay You're jumping You're jumping into our next topic You're jumping into this topic Every rose when I give you your rose Has it's thorn
Starting point is 00:32:51 I want to sell some things I sell everything I own constantly Because I always want new things So I have to sell my old things Out with the old and with the news Yeah, and you know what, doesn't hold me back being stupid and dumb? Because sometimes I'm stupid and dumb, but even a dummy like me can figure out how to use Shopify. Me too.
Starting point is 00:33:13 I'm also stupid. You're not in this conversation. But I also use shop at a buck. You've never sold anything in your life. I sell so much merchandise and Shopify. You wish you could sell like I do. Sorry, you were saying something. So anyway, I sell everything I find.
Starting point is 00:33:26 Sometimes I find sand dollars and I take them home and I think, freak, you know who would love this? They're small mollusks. Yeah. Okay. The mollusks would like it back and they're able to buy it on my Shopify.com website. You're kidnapping the children of mollocks and selling them at Shopify. I don't know why you're always making this about you. What is he doing?
Starting point is 00:33:44 What is he doing? Anyway, turn those what ifs and why not and keep giving those big dreams your best shot with Shopify. That's awesome. And I have big dreams to return all of the sand dollars to the mollusks if they want to purchase them from me. And you can sign up for your $1 per month trial. Start selling today at Shopify.com slash fear. Go to Shopify.com slash fear. That's Shopify.com slash fear.
Starting point is 00:34:08 Would you like to talk about... Hold on. The upgrade situation? Let's set the scene. Let's set the scene. We travel... I'll be Austin's show. You be Hassan.
Starting point is 00:34:18 Okay. We are traveling from Chengdu to Hong Kong. Okay. And after an entire day's worth of travel, we finally get to the Ritz Carlton. Austin's show has petitioned... Let me get to the desk for. Austin's show... I need to work my magic.
Starting point is 00:34:35 Austin show is petitioned to come to the Ritz-Carlton. I find out while we're arriving at Ritz-Carlton, that Ritz-Carlton is actually a Marriott property. Yes. This will be relevant later. We walk up. Austin sees the nativity scene and he says, Oh!
Starting point is 00:34:51 Wait, wait. What a great nativity scene. I feel at home. Let me explain the situation we're facing, though. We are one sweet short. Yes. We are one sweet short. So Maricio doesn't have a suite.
Starting point is 00:35:05 Yeah. And we thought it would be nice for Maricio to have a sweet. But none of us are high maintenance if we don't have a suite. If I don't have a suite, if I don't have a suite, it's okay. And Austin graciously does, let me talk to him. Because what did he say? No, no, no. No, no, let me correct the record.
Starting point is 00:35:20 Let me correct the record. We all wanted a suite. All of us wanted a suite. I said out loud that I was okay without a suite. Okay. Well, Marsh and I said out loud that we were not okay without a suite. Okay. So Austin says, I'm an ambassador, I'll speak with them.
Starting point is 00:35:37 And I go, oh, you can use, this was the first indication, something. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I go, oh, you should use some of your upgrade points. He goes, no, those have cash value. I can't. Yeah, he also believes personally that he can be the first point billionaire and purchase a Marriott property one day with just the points that he has from Marriott. And he's like, I'm an ambassador.
Starting point is 00:35:59 I got this. It's true. And he, we walk up, we walk up to the 113th floor. Where the lobby is or, no, the lobby at first. And Austin, and I walk up and I'm about to hang my place where Austin stops me. Yep. And says, hold on. Well, because he was.
Starting point is 00:36:16 I got this. He was going to fuck it up. Yeah. He was going to fuck it up. He was going to fuck it all up. By checking into my room. He was going to fuck up the whole thing because once you check in, it's done. Okay.
Starting point is 00:36:28 Once you check in, you've accepted. accepted what they've given you. There's no going back. Well, Austin... It's like signing a contract. Austin intercepts. Once you checked in, it's over. You've got to do everything before you check in. Austin intervenes. Okay, he dives in front of me and he starts
Starting point is 00:36:44 talking to the front desk. And then they take us up to the club lounge. This is now, we're now at, we went from 113 to 116. The world. Yes. And we are mesmerized by the beauty of Hong Kong. We're thinking. We're
Starting point is 00:37:00 thinking, wow, we waited in long lines. Dazzling lights. I'm a little bum because I don't have my visa arrangement, so I can't even go to Shenzhen the next day, but it's all right, because Hong Kong is beautiful. We're going to down some butter chicken and rice, and we're going to sit here as
Starting point is 00:37:16 Austin handles all of the details for us. And gets a free sweet out of them. Austin comes back. What does Austin say? Go ahead. Well, Austin comes back. to the table with a halfway grin
Starting point is 00:37:34 and a look as though he knows he's about about to be chastised. No, no, his chest was puffing as though he had done something. It was both shades. So go ahead, awesome. Well, I sat down at that desk and I looked her straight in the eye and I said, look, we've got five rooms here. We're spending a tremendous amount of money. We want an extra sweet. And I know as an ambassador, I am loyal to your brand. And I believe we should get that for free.
Starting point is 00:38:05 I'm the, I'm the reception desk employee. Okay, are you ready? Yeah. Mr. Show. We're in Hong Kong, so I have a British accent. Mr. Show. You have 1,250,000 points.
Starting point is 00:38:21 No, no, no. As a Mary-Ott ambassador. This is you don't, you can't be laid at the desk as you use. Would you like to use any of your points? You can't use the points. On an upgrade. To potentially upgrade. They are not eligible for a point.
Starting point is 00:38:34 They are, he doesn't even fucking know. You can't use your point. This is, look at it. No, Mr. Show, you are very capable of using your points. You are loyal. You have no account or anything. You don't even know how the program works. Right.
Starting point is 00:38:50 You can use points for an upgrade. What are the points for? What are the points for? You can buy, you can, you can book hotel stays, but that's got to be done through the app. It's got to be done beforehand. There's like, there's like, there's like a deter. a predetermined amount. You can't like, it's just like the airlines.
Starting point is 00:39:03 You can't just use points willy-nilly. You can just choose. It's not like currency. Given your ambassador status, we've decided you can use the points. They told me this. They said, well. Please use your points, Mr. Show. You've created a crisis.
Starting point is 00:39:18 It's like the Satoshi Bitcoin. You can't use you many points. There's a finite amount of points, Mr. Show. You cannot. First of all, it's 1.5 million points. You will tank the number. number of points available for the rest of us. You cannot use your points for upgrades.
Starting point is 00:39:35 Hand on the Bible. Swear on my mother. Okay. You cannot use version of upgrade. No, I think he's being truthful. So she says, fucking joking. She does not fuck around about this shit.
Starting point is 00:39:44 She says to me, it's very disrespectful. Very disrespect. So she, she tells me, she says, she says, well, I'm so sorry, sir, but this is above your thing. And I said, okay. Well, wait, wait, they said this is above your pay grade? No, she said, she said, well, because you're an ambassador, we can't give it to you for free,
Starting point is 00:40:06 but we can offer it to you a significant discount. Okay. Wait, but hold on. There's a point system that means that there's someone above you? No, no, no, no. What she meant was, even though you're an ambassador, which is the highest status, it doesn't make you eligible for any upgrades beyond the suite that you already are booked in. Okay.
Starting point is 00:40:24 Okay, and this is like a higher-level suite. I bet you there's a higher status. No, there's no. There's not. They don't give you complimentary upgrades into this sweet level, which I think is ridiculous, and that's something that I'll discuss privately. But regardless, she said, well, I can give it to you at a significant discount as a gesture of goodwill. So Austin comes, you know, pacing back to us.
Starting point is 00:40:50 And he goes... No, no, no. It was so kind of him to reach down into his own wall. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, hold on. To pay for his upgrade. No, oh, wait. Will, that's not what happened. happened because Austin paces back to us and he's he's his proud grin at his face but he's also a little bit worried about how this is going to go and he says to us guys I did it
Starting point is 00:41:13 I got all of us a sweet isn't that amazing at which point he received a round of a pause we're like oh my god awesome you did it finally a Marriott ambassador you pulled through this is your moment in The spotlight. Bitch did it. Austin. There was only one complication. I had to pay $3,000. No.
Starting point is 00:41:39 No. No. Will? No. We. We, all of us, had to pay $3,000 extra dollars. Well, I were Austin to get a room upgrade.
Starting point is 00:41:59 I have news on that front and I've waited to the podcast to provide that news. Okay. The evening that I checked in right. My shower wasn't working. Okay. No, no, no. You're advancing. Hold on. Hold this thought for a second because in that very
Starting point is 00:42:17 moment, we went from excitement to so you're making all of us pay for your room upgrade. No, it wasn't, it was a community upgrade because Marsh got his Marsh got his room upgraded And so we had to
Starting point is 00:42:33 It was the only choice It was the only choice we could make It was the only one I would have stayed in the normal room Well you should have been more vocal about it Yeah But no but the beautiful part about this was that Austin came over to us
Starting point is 00:42:46 And was like Like you guys should be so thankful That I spent everyone else's money Including my own To upgrade my room For those of you who are listening It would have been $10,000 but I got it down 70%.
Starting point is 00:43:00 And he was like, dramatic. I got it down about 60%. Right. Okay. But like, but he was like, yeah, it wouldn't have happened if I wasn't an ambassador. And we were like, Austin. Well, listen, you know, I can stomach it because ultimately the room was flawless. Yes.
Starting point is 00:43:17 Yeah. And we're using it. Wait. And we're using it for the podcast. Wait. The room was flawless? Well, my room had some issues. Oh.
Starting point is 00:43:27 I got here. And I went to go take a shower and the shower didn't work. Well, first, no, before you got into the room, we, we FaceTimed each other. Yeah. And we realized that everyone had quite similar sized suites, which created a moment of panic and crisis in Austin. There was no panic in crisis. I was happy. I was relieved that you guys got a similar experience.
Starting point is 00:43:55 We were all walking around our suites. FaceTime on showing the rest of the room and coming to the conclusion that Austin's room actually wasn't all that different from any of our rooms. Except for the fact that his shower didn't work. So my shower doesn't work. So I called down the text come up and they said the guy, then the manager calls me and he says, Austin, it's going to be, it's going to be an hour. And it was midnight.
Starting point is 00:44:26 And he said, what we can do is we can offer you another room to show. shower in. And I said, well, you know, we have, my bag is 82 pounds. Right. And we would have to lug all our stuff to the next room. And for those of you who are watching and they're like, Austin, that's, that's such, whatever, you're defending the interests of capital. True. Defending the interest of capital. You're sitting there and you're being like, oh, we don't do that. They try to, they try to help you. But no, once something goes wrong, you as a consumer, have an opportunity to get what you paid for. And we paid for a sweet. That's what Carl Marr said that. Right. He did.
Starting point is 00:44:59 Famously. We paid for something and we are going to get that value. So what happened is, he said, that's an hour. And I said, look, sir. Carl Marks, customer is always right. I did the thing that any man would do. And I said, sir, I'm not upset. I'm just disappointed. And he said, my dear
Starting point is 00:45:18 friends paid for this. No, hold on. Wait. So he said, he said, well, you're right. They would want me to shower. You're right, sir. I have another suite for you. Oh. it's even bigger and it's a corner room would you like that as an upgrade and I said that would be a good tradeoff so he comes to my room
Starting point is 00:45:39 and he comes in and I've got my bags ready and he said sir I've got some terrible news that shower also doesn't work so it's best that you stay here and they fix it and I go okay you should have been like why don't they fix that one So I say, okay, well, certainly there's something you could do for this inconvenience.
Starting point is 00:46:04 Yes. And he said, well, when are you going to the airport? And I was like, no, no, no, no, this is worth more than a free ride to the airport. Yes. Right? So I said, he said, well, maybe we can give you a ride to the airport. And I said, we already have a car and ride to the airport. And he said, okay.
Starting point is 00:46:24 And I said, look, this is very. disappointing to me because I feel like, you know, we expected this whatever. That's a Marriott ambassador. We go in and out over and over again. He said, you're right, sir. So just water. So, he said, you're right, sir. I will comp this evening.
Starting point is 00:46:45 Nice. Oh, so that just the one evening? Yes. So one of the nights in this suite. So how much did you knock it down further? I, well, it was just the upgrade fee that I got comped for the first night. So $1,000 away.
Starting point is 00:47:03 Well, Austin, I have to... So still $2,000 extra dollars that we all pay from the pocket. Divided by five, that's... I have to say, you make my life so much more vibrant and fun. Oh, thank you.
Starting point is 00:47:14 And that cost is a pittance compared to the joy you bring me and the joy that this room brought you. Oh, thank you. It did. Last night, I said there... But know that you're not getting shit for Christmas.
Starting point is 00:47:27 What? You ain't getting a fucking thing. Oh yeah. No, this is your Christmas give. What? This is my Christmas.
Starting point is 00:47:33 Merry Christmas. Merry Christmas. But we love you. God, we love you. This is way more than what I would have bought you for Christmas. No, I really like my creature
Starting point is 00:47:41 comforts. Last night I took a nice hot shower. I got in a robe. And I yeah, they did. They fixed a shower. I got in a robe. I pulled that chair up to the window
Starting point is 00:47:51 and I turned a little lamp on, turned the rest of the lights off. And I Got down, and I got a little cup of coffee, and I got my cheesecake. He drank coffee at night? It was just... Decap.
Starting point is 00:48:05 Decaf, yeah. And I just sat there and looked at the view in silence, and I turned on a little Engelbert Humperding. And I looked out the view, and I just enjoyed myself in my little slippers and my robe. And I just... And Christian was asleep, so I had some peace and quiet. And he was just... Except for Engelbert.
Starting point is 00:48:25 Yeah. Except for Inglebert. Binglebird Humperdink. Yeah. And I just sat there and I really appreciate it. And I had such a wonderful time in this room. I really did. It's fantastic.
Starting point is 00:48:34 And thank you to all of you at home. Truly. Truly. It wouldn't be possible without you. God, this trip was so fucking funny. And us who paid for the upgrade for the room. I still kind of think that it's like, yes, I did receive the upgrade. But is it like we all.
Starting point is 00:48:56 But I feel like we all, because Marsh got a sweet. You got a sweet. We all got a sweet. So it was a community upgrade. Which we paid for. And then also the upgrade for your suite? No, no. Marsh's suite did not.
Starting point is 00:49:06 Well, yes. But we all, all of our upgrades were paid for through the podcast. Yeah. Mine was just a little bit more. Yeah, around. Relatively speaking. Three thousand extra dollars. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:49:17 Well. Who's counting? Yeah. Who's counting? We don't even know what the extra bill is going to look like with all the, all the drinks that we've been consuming that were not a part of the initial tab. Yeah, in a couple days We're going to see another tab From the agency that we're working with
Starting point is 00:49:31 Which is why it's so funny When people are like, Hassan You're getting paid by the government of China It's like, bitch, I've been paying China We are funding the government of China I've been stimulating the Chinese economy We are funding the entire government of China Okay
Starting point is 00:49:46 Also, I got to say something Right now, I can only think about one thing Marsh, look at me in my eyes hours in Japan I'm going to drive to a combini preferably I'm going to crack open an egg sando
Starting point is 00:50:03 I'm going to lay a fami chickie across it's slutty hot crispy and I'm going to take a bite and it's going to fucking fill my mouth with a pleasure that neither one of you have ever experienced in your entire fucking lifetime
Starting point is 00:50:17 I've had that and I'm going to come no dude it's like it's like when you dream of a former love You can never, you, that's the, the most recent one is always the best. I could easily just experience it by also flying in China. You couldn't, you couldn't. But I will not be.
Starting point is 00:50:33 I'm going to. We need more beves. I'm going to Shanghai. Wait, yo, Mark. Yo, hold on, hold on, hold on. You could just like go to the club lounge down the road and they have, they have beers. Beer. You get like a hundred beers.
Starting point is 00:50:53 55 French fries, 55 hamburgers, 55 tater tots, 55 nuggets. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dump all the, dump all the, I brought that for you guys. That is, you're going to go down with a bag. I love this. Okay, yeah. Go, we are hitting the Rift Carlton right now. Yeah, just go take as many as you can.
Starting point is 00:51:09 Dog, we upgraded for this fucking room. By the way, I got to tell you something. Marsh and I talked to the tailor today. You'll think this is funny. We asked, did you have to use a lot of extra fabric? Oh. or Hassan's suit. What did he say?
Starting point is 00:51:25 Give us an exact figure. How much? You use 33% more fabric than the average human being. I asked if it would be easier to cloth a horse. She's silently not. Yes, I'm a big boy.
Starting point is 00:51:44 What do you want? It's fine. They told me I wasn't the biggest person. They've actually... There is one other person. I think they were an American. It had to be Yao. No, no.
Starting point is 00:51:56 They didn't, I don't think they did Yao Ming. But there was one other person that they've actually done this for that was like wider than myself. And that person was very rotund, like a sumo wrestler. So I'm the second largest person that they've ever clothed. I'm going to miss you. I'm going to miss this one. I have had the time of my life. I've had the time of my life.
Starting point is 00:52:19 Right. Like I have not laughed. as hard as I have laughed in the last few weeks in my entire life I have laughed from the moment we hit that airport at LAX
Starting point is 00:52:30 two weeks ago or three weeks ago two weeks we have been laughing I've been laughing my ass off and it has been an emotional journey we have we have been
Starting point is 00:52:41 we're tired exhausted eyes low eyes and lows but ultimately I'm going to look back on this and be like man that was fucking awesome Yeah.
Starting point is 00:52:53 I know what we can all agree on, too? We miss cutie Cinderella. We do miss cutie Cinderella. We miss cutie Cinderella. We do miss cutie Cinderella tremendously. We miss the fourth Power Ranger. Yes, we do. And we wish, we wish one day my dream is that she will travel with us and experience these things with us.
Starting point is 00:53:12 One day, I dream. Well, I think we have to get the Madden Bus for the next trip. And we have to go to, like, Tijuana. No, I think we drank daughter. We just hit her with her. We can't Trank Garger. But you did it anyway? Did they give you a look?
Starting point is 00:53:29 Ah, God, I love you, Marisi, Miranda. Sneakily, sneakily, sneakily, sneakily, sneakily. This is the beer that the guy drinks. Paiso or whatever his name is. Wait, you only got us three? Did you not get us a, is there not a bottle opener? No, there's one in your room. Okay.
Starting point is 00:53:46 But, um, I will say this. And I wonder if you guys agree with me. I think you will. We went to China. The People's Republic of China. We really shouldn't have gone, but we did. Yeah. Mainland.
Starting point is 00:54:04 Right? Mainland, China. That's right. We went to Beijing. Sad. Shanghai. Chongqing and Chengdu. And traveling from Chengdu, this is probably the most shocked I have felt.
Starting point is 00:54:19 in this entire China trip traveling from Chengdu back to Hong Kong made me feel like I went through a time traveling machine because I think Chungdu and mainland China in general the tier one cities that we went to and the unofficial tier one cities that we went to were so far advanced
Starting point is 00:54:44 that I feel like Hong Kong is stuck in the past. in a way that is almost in a way that's not this similar to Tokyo where it's like Tokyo has a lot of elements of I mean Tokyo is beautiful it's a beautiful city and so is Hong Kong and there's this sense of nostalgia and you're like wow you know this is like this is a poppin city like this is a real vibrant city can you give me the bottle opener too please yeah but I just I feel like mainland China and the places that we went to we're just, it feels like it, is it a different caliber?
Starting point is 00:55:23 It's interesting that you feel that way. Do you disagree with that? Yes. Why? I don't feel that way. You don't feel like Hong Kong is chaotic, but also simultaneously like backwards in many ways. It's just, I mean, for me, it's just such an apples and oranges.
Starting point is 00:55:38 I got a weird theory. Yeah. China, everything's new. Let's give it 20, 30 years. Crazy. No, this is, I mean, I understand what you're saying. It's a little copium because I'm going back home. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:55:53 But maybe give it 20, 30 years. No, Hong Kong just feels like such a different beast. It just feels like such a different beast. It's a different beast, but I don't like it as much as I like mainland China. That's fair. That's fair. You've been in chaotic circumstances the entire time that you've been in Hong Kong. Right.
Starting point is 00:56:11 You had a fucking anxiety attack. Yeah, some under my control, some not. Yeah, but I'm just saying, like, it's just. The vibes are definitely different here, but I feel like the vibes were a little bit better in Chengdu. I hate to say it. I hate to say it. I'm going to tell you right now. Go ahead.
Starting point is 00:56:27 I preferred mainland China to Hong Kong. It's hard because I'm a little. I mean, can I be honest? I'm a little, I'm a little, some locations. Some locations I prefer to Hong Kong for sure. Mm-hmm. Beijing. No, no, no, no.
Starting point is 00:56:44 Beijing doesn't count. Beijing does not count. You're right, you know. Beijing does not count. No. By the way, I was talking to Irene, our amazing. Loveliest, incredible tour guy. Fabulous.
Starting point is 00:56:53 And she was talking shit about your itinerary. What do you mean? What? She was like, he requested a bunch of things that I would never take anybody to. Like what? Like, there's a lot of fun stuff that I wanted to do that we just didn't get to. Like what? The Great Wall.
Starting point is 00:57:12 I wanted to do the Great Wall. Why didn't we? Do you think I was like, let's not do the Great Wall? In fact, you did. No, I didn't. Because it conflicted with something else we had to do. You want to guess? That's what it was?
Starting point is 00:57:27 How the hell can you, how can they police an entire wall? We absolutely could stream the Great Wall. Speed did it too. There's no fucking shot. No, that's ridiculous. We absolutely could have streamed the Great Wall. Just like we fucking streamed the Calhoun Park today. And it was incredible.
Starting point is 00:57:42 And Irene fucking said we couldn't stream it. And I was like, fuck it. We should still go and stream it. Just like we streamed the fucking. fucking pandas. I'm telling you, they are far more restrained with their suggestions. And if it wasn't for March, because we spent three fucking whole months, mostly March and David, setting up that itinerary and the initial itinerary that they sent us was far worse than the one that we actually experienced. So when Irene says, oh, this stuff is so boring or
Starting point is 00:58:11 whatever, yeah, there was stuff in there that I wanted to do. There was stuff in there that I thought was like entertaining and interesting that I know my audience actually appreciated quite a fucking bit. But ultimately, the reason why we got this itinerary was mostly because they were doing the boring old person tourism tour for us. That wasn't us. We actually made it more vibrant and dynamic. True. You can't even have input. Neither of you can have input in this because he's the only one who added stuff. No, I said it was true. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:58:49 I said it was true. I also, I knew the itinerary from top to bottom. Most specifically, I knew where we were staying. And let me tell you, I will say this. This hotel, unlike anything. That's one thing Hong Kong. Hong Kong killed.
Starting point is 00:59:09 This was the best hotel we've stayed in. I don't think so. Oh, you want to disagree with me? Yeah. Chung do, I think, was better. except for, let me tell you, Chung do is
Starting point is 00:59:18 shangu was fantastic but there's multiple variables that go into this Okay, no badez was a major L nobody is
Starting point is 00:59:25 that's not the other God, we sound so ridiculous but yeah we might have cut some of this nah no no
Starting point is 00:59:32 we're spoiled I'm talking about the view of this hotel is is yeah but this is insanity Shanghai view
Starting point is 00:59:43 was pretty sick I mean all the I mean You can walk around. Gross Refuse was kind of ass because it's just Beijing. Guys, I just want to let you know, I go walk up to the window and put my dick on the window and nobody's seeing it. Not because it's small. Like you'd give it a good tug beforehand is what you're saying.
Starting point is 01:00:06 Because if you were, if you were to put it, if you were to press your, I could jerk off. If you were to press your flaccid cock on the cold window. Yes. ain't nobody going to see that because I'm so high up is what I was saying right I could walk around naked right I could put my butt cheeks against the window nobody is going to see it because I am so high up that's what they do have telescopes in the rooms I mean ultimately aside from all that I was so impressed mainland was fantastic I had a fantastic time opened my eyes telling Marsh I think ultimately the locations the events hotels the shopping for me it all pales in comparison some of the people I think that was the best part for me
Starting point is 01:00:54 tremendous was the people because trust out the penny ultimately my girl penny so much fun with the people I met and that's what I really felt today when I went and picked up your suits and got my measurement apparently I didn't need to pick up your suits I wish I would have known that
Starting point is 01:01:11 but interacting with that Taylor and his family felt like such a privilege to just sit down and be invited into their home. And it was awesome. It was a humbling experience. It was an enriching experience. And I recommend if you come to China, go interact with the people.
Starting point is 01:01:30 That's what really won. Yes. My favorite straight up, hands down, my favorite experience was basketball. And my favorite experience was basketball for that exact same reason. Because out of all of the things that we did,
Starting point is 01:01:44 that was the one time where we were unrestrained, unrestricted, straight up hanging out with the locals. They barely spoke any English, but it didn't matter because we were still communicating through like playing competitive sports with one another. And that was my favorite experience for that exact same reason because we were just hanging out. We were just chilling with those guys.
Starting point is 01:02:08 And I don't know how it translated on camera. And we did end up losing both of those games of basketball, but ultimately that was my favorite experience for that reason. That and the the wonton dumpling shop where I got to engage in the
Starting point is 01:02:25 ancient Chinese tradition of what is it called busking? When I was busking people yeah, when I was getting people to come into the store. That video of me fucking sweating it out in the kitchen is so goddamn my stream. Fantastic.
Starting point is 01:02:44 My stream that I planned. We will be talking more about your stream that you planned and other things that we've done in China behind the paywall at patreon.com slash fear. And thank you so much for your support. It is actually what funds Austin's hotel upgrades. So please subscribe to patreon.com slash viran. And on this very special occasion, you are going to get so many additional content. the moment that March actually starts uploading said additional content to the Patreon
Starting point is 01:03:15 Why fuck me though Gabe no I literally gave the drive I put the drive is in there He said he edited the video He It's in the drive that you gave me I can look I can show you
Starting point is 01:03:32 Austin Austin has uploaded the videos of the drive I swear he literally texted me And said Gabe said Well that's neither here We'll figure out the logistics of it, but content abound, headed your way from China and beyond. Thank you so much. You guys, we'd be something like this, but once in a lifetime, and that rare occurrence, that blue moon is thanks totally in part to you and your loyal viewership and patronage.
Starting point is 01:04:02 And we promise you we're going to spill tea behind this paywall. So thank you to our viewers on YouTube. Thank you to our Patreon support. and I already told Irene we'll be back in this country within the within a fortnight. Oh yeah, we'll be, we'll be here probably next year 100%. Yep. By the way, Marsh and I figured out that we both were given 10-year visas. Okay.
Starting point is 01:04:32 We jacked. We have 10-year visas. No, mine's a year. No, your visa, it has the date, the end date on it. Right. It's 10 years from now. Wait, really? Yeah. You guys already have... Yeah.
Starting point is 01:04:47 No, it's not a 10-year visa. Yeah. Wait, I'm... Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, okay, yeah. All right. Well, anyway, that's it for us. We'll see you behind the paywall. And if not, we'll see you back on U.S. soil.
Starting point is 01:05:00 Thank you so much. We appreciate you. We love you. And that's it for fear. He hit us with the Gail Godot. Yeah. Calais, no. God, no.
Starting point is 01:05:12 No. Do not buy my fence. No, it's so fucking, it's such bullshit. It's like the same energy as him being like, Caroline, I'll get out. If you insist. If you insist. When Austin says, if you insist,
Starting point is 01:05:27 know that he has no ambition of changing his situation. And that you must insist. Yes.

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