Ghostrunners - 433 - The China Episode

Episode Date: May 7, 2025

Jake is back from China and has lots to say! The boys also partake in a shmores of strange food in China that Jake ate. Check out Good Ranchers and use code GRKC http://bit.ly/3KV86YU Check out Main Street Roasters and use code GRKC at check out for a 10% discount! https://mainstreetroasters.com Ghostrunners merch: https://bit.ly/399MXFu Become a Patron and get exclusive content from Jake & Brad: https://bit.ly/2XJ1h3y Follow us on Instagram: http://bit.ly/33WAq4P Leave us a voice memo and ask a question: https://anchor.fm/jake-triplett/message Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Happy Wednesday, ghosties. I am back from communism and everyone wants to know time and how's the new place. Yeah. It's going well. Nothing to report. Nothing to report. Oh, come on. How's the landlord?

You know, like you always hear about landlords in your apartments. Actually, Kelly's great. Oh, you know, Kelly. Male Kelly? No, girl Kelly. That's my bud. That's a fair question these days though, bro. That's true. Fair question. There's a lot of guys or landlords. A lot of, a lot of landlords. Yeah. Yeah. She's, she's not

the promptist email responder we've discovered, but I haven't had to do that much communication. Yeah. Wait, what are you emailing? Being moved in. We haven't had to, but like beforehand, like the back and forth. Sure. Yeah. It was, but you know, the back and forth of the landlord, how it goes. Pre move in. Yeah. Back and forth landlord. Yeah. What kind of stuff are you getting after? So I don't even know what like the landlord title, if that's what Kelly is, but she's just like the person we've talked to about, like she works at the apartment complex.

Yeah. She like, you know, she took our proof of like, that we make money and all that type of thing. Oh yeah. Wow. Yeah. You send her this video, send her a YouTube link for your proof concept. our proof of like that we make money and all that type of thing. Oh yeah. Wow. You send her this video. Send her a YouTube link for your proof, proof of concept. You tell me if I'm fit to live here. Yeah.

Maybe she isn't the landlord and that's why she doesn't email you back that often. I'm not. Yeah. She just like lives there in the unit. Could be. She might live in that office. She's just next door. Like if you need anything, let me know.

Yeah. But it's going great. I made myself breakfast a couple of times. Whoa. Pretty crazy. I bought bacon and eggs and toast or and bread. I didn't buy toast. Yeah. You just buy the toast.

It gets soggy real quick. Too much work. One day only. It expires quick. It's pretty much work. Okay. Bacon, eggs and toast. Yeah.

Very Ron Swanson of you. It's beautiful. You make it for Graydon as well or just yourself. Just this morning, just myself, but I've shared some. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You got to find that line between like, Hey, what's, what's mine? What's yours? And what's ours? Right. You know? Yeah. Like condiments. No problem. Yeah. Oh, that's a good point. Yeah. Yeah. Like, yeah. Have as much ketchup as you want. I never run out of ketchup. It's like if I have a 12 pack of soda in there. Yeah, thank you. You can have like a couple. Okay.

But I think it's absurd to have more than half of what I paid for. For sure. For sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. True or false, Harrison dominated some of your drinks. Oh, I don't know. I don't even remember actually.

I just know that Harrison can, as far as drinks go, I think Harrison's the only person that keeps up with me as far as like he could drink six cans of La Croix. Like, yeah. Probably can. I don't know. Most of my memories of Harrison are shaving his head or having COVID.

So that's mainly what I remember. That was a good time too. Or Stephen Curtis Chapman, Netflix documentaries or whatever that was. Yeah. All right, anyway, we'll get onto the episode. Now that we got Timon's thing, Timon texted us and was like, hey, I'd really like to talk about the apartment. Yeah. All right. Anyway, we'll get on to the episode now. We got time. It's thing. I mean, Texas was like, hey, I'd really like to talk about the apartment.

Yeah. Let's be honest. It's all about me. He's what you bring up the groceries. I was asking that for that specifically. Yeah, we did it. All right. Let's get into it.

Oh, I do. I think this type means that it's going down with some random thoughts and white me to Midwest. Best friends eating fast food on repeat. So come along. Let's have some fun and go ahead. Alright, from the top, Brad, you said you didn't really, you haven't really seen my interim stories or anything. I have Pete a few times, so I know a little bit, but for the most part, I know nothing. Like I have seen a few of your things recently and there was one time I think you posted something yesterday or something. I was on my iPad and I had Instagram and I clicked and you're like, one more time showing

this video that everyone loves. And I saw Isaac and I didn't watch it. I was like, I'm not watching it. I want to be surprised. I want to talk about it with Jake. All right. Well, let's say let's watch it now then. Okay.

That is a video that I specifically thought of you. I was like, this just feels like a video. Brad's really gonna like. So I'll send it to the group right now. I've taken, I mean, I don't know, a million pictures since I left, so it's kind of hard to find stuff. But yeah, that one, and I also really thought of you when, I don't know if you've listened to Matt and I's interview,

but he described Scott as an 18 year old and a 13 year old's body. I think Brad's really gonna like that. That was great, yes. So I'm still scrolling here. This is a good start to the- Yeah, yeah, yeah, sorry. Recap.

No, no, no, I'm glad you didn't watch it. I'm glad you saved it. Yeah, like I said, I've seen a few things on Facebook. I've done some context clues. I've heard the Matt interview. So I'm like, I kind of know a little bit, but like for the most part, I am in the dark. Okay. I text it. We'll have time and play it whenever it comes in. Um, yeah, this was our first

day in China. The guy in the green shirt, uh, is the like general manager of the ball facility. We're going to be making balls. He's like the landlord of the ball facility. He's like the Kelly of like where they make balls. Okay. Can I watch it now or should I wait? Yeah. Yeah. Go for it. Okay. They lost their minds. Did you, did you, did you hear what your dad said about like Isaac is going to be a king over in China? Oh, yeah, I was joking with people. I was like, they're going to start praying to them after they saw that They're gonna tell their kids they met Larry Bird or Luca Donge. I don't know what they're Oh my god That is so funny there was really no build up to that It wasn't like we'd been showing off a little bit, you know, it was like all right now it's time for the donk

it was just like someone brought it up and he's like, I got to pick a ball and yeah, just these like rainy chippy, like weird Chinese courts. Dude, this area was really interesting as we drove up into these hills. Can I reenact that with him with like the baggy shorts and everything? Okay. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. We should do that. As we're driving up to these pickle wall courts, there was, I actually took a screenshot cause I wanted to Google this later and I forgot. It was like, they, they said it was a high school, but it was like maybe a movie. What Hollywood thinks a high school is this was like a college or something. So like the most impressive high school I've ever seen.

And then to the right was this like Dutch village. They had like windmills and like, it just looked like the Netherlands. And they're like, oh yeah, that's like an amusement park. I go, wow, that's crazy. And then we go like a switchback turn. Now we go up the hill and there's just cattle in the street. I was like, what is China?

I mean, this was like actually a crazy like 30 seconds. I'm just like, how are all these right here? And then we just kept going up and there's a music park and there's agriculture right by it. Like, yeah, it was like, I don't know. Like it looked like what Stanford looks like as a high school. Wow.

All in like the same spot. Okay. Couldn't tell you where that was in China though. I have no idea where we were, but anyway, that was fun. So yeah, I don't even know how to recap this trip. I did a decent job of writing stuff down. I also have some trivia questions for you guys. So it's not just me talking the whole time. Great.

And I've also prepared a schmores for us to do. Okay. Where you guys, the word bank are just things that we ate in China. And so you're going to choose your schmores based on how you think the taste is. Okay. We'll let everyone else kind of. My thought is like, we're not going to get all through this in one episode is my thought. And so it's like, let's just set a time limit more or less on this episode and just assume

Monday and maybe even Wednesday, we talk more about this stuff. That's a good point. You know, I have, cause I have things to talk about, but I'm like, I don't want to talk about them right now. I want to talk about China. So it's like, I do have like some random thoughts if we ever want to like segue into them. But that, once again, we can do whatever. Okay.

But I think, yeah, like I said, let's not try to like, feel like we got to hurry through this thing. Let's like talk about everything. Cause I think it sounds like you have quite a lot of things to talk about. Okay. So maybe it's just like have quite a lot of things to talk about. Okay. Maybe it's just like talk through the beginning of it first. I mean, obviously that's a good place to start, right?

Let's see. So there was the flight to Asia. It was, it was great. It was, everything was smooth. As soon as I was Kansas City, San Francisco, landed San Francisco, boom, the pilot recognizes me. Going to be a good trip. You know, it's immediately he's taking selfies.

One of those vague ones. Like, I love the videos. I'm like, does Isaac need to be in this then? I can't, do you know? I don't think so. You guys are a hole in one. But you have a lot of holes in your pickle balls. It's like, oh, oh.

40. But then the flight was good. I was, you know, I spent, you know, weeks of prep to beat the jet lag, had so much caffeine because it was like an 11 p.m. flight and the goal was to stay up for the first six hours or so. So how much is so much, what'd you do for the caffeine? I Googled it and it said a little bit over and over

and over again is the best way to do it. Rather than just a huge. One energy drink or something. Okay. And so yeah, that was kind of a fun Instagram story. Just like every hour, just like some random thing. Cause you're in the international side of the airport. So you're starting to get into Asia anyway, a little bit.

Oh really? Like international terminals. If like you don't see Chick-fil-A's anymore. Really? Payway is kind of, they're doing all right. You know, more Panda Express is less, yeah. So yeah, I think I had some like energy bars, a soda, then an energy drink.

Then I went up to this barista, it was like 10 PM. And he was like, what can I get for you? I was like, can you make me a, I want like a latte, but with like a lot of protein in it. I said something like that. Like I want a lot of protein and caffeine. Yeah, and not too much milk I don't want to get sick and he was like no one's ever asked for this before But he whipped it up and it was pretty good a barista had protein. Yeah, really? Okay. Yeah

There were some other things on the menu with protein in it. So I was like, he could probably figure it out throw it in there Was it good? Yeah, I look like this It looks like dirt. Yeah, yeah. A couple of you all responded. Yeah, it was. Cold? Yeah, it was. It was cold.

Nice. See, I was just pounding it. But it worked. I feel like I stayed awake for the first part, slept for the most of the last part. I peed probably eight times on one plane ride. Eight times? Yeah, yeah.

I didn't like, I don't know, I guess it was just all the caffeine I had and all the drinks I had, but wow. Relatable or not, dude, I can hold it, can hold it, can hold it, and then once I go once, it's like, it's time to go six more times. Do it on a plane or just in general? Just in general.

Like I could drink a lot of liquids and I don't have to go to the bathroom right away or anything. But then all of a sudden it's like, once the floodgates are released, it's like, I should probably go again in like an hour. This was kind of like Isaac on the trip, but with pooping because he was the last one to go. And then once he did, he didn't stop. I mean, even like last night, like we landed the Kansas City late last night and he was like guys I'm sorry like I have to go to the bathroom. Really like yeah the airport. He hasn't pooped solid in like four days At least dude at least it's crazy and we're all eating the same stuff. So I don't really know. Yeah, what's happening? Yeah, we'll get into the food later. I have some theories on what's happening, but Okay, so yeah eight times. Yeah, I've never seen a food later. I have some theories on what's happening, but. Okay, so yeah, eight times. But yeah, I've never seen an airplane bathroom that much in my life.

It was great. And I got to stretch, walk around a little bit. So good, good, good airplane ride. It then landed in Hong Kong at like 4.30 a.m., their time. Okay. And it was pretty cool drive in. It was like almost sunset. their time. Okay. And it was pretty cool drive in. It was like almost sunset. So it's kind of that blue lighting.

Almost like. Hong Kong has like the most skyscrapers in the world. I think like their city does. So it looked really cool. Cause it's like very like the only lighting is like industrial lighting on like their ports or like their like construction. It looks like very ominous.

Look at a movie set. Really? It was really cool like coming into Hong Kong that way. Yeah, like what compare it to New York? Like, did it feel like a different, did it feel like, I don't know. Like I've seen like Rush Hour, you know? Was it like, did it feel like Rush Hour? Like, did it feel like?

They, Hong Kong is, pretty sure they were left side of the road driving. Just weird because we got to China, Vietnam. Yeah, I think they kind of were for a little bit. OK, now they're kind of like Chinese own. We talked to an Uber driver there at one point. It was very like. Kind of just like sad, just like how much like they used to be free

and now they're not, and they really don't like China and Say a lot of people don't like Trump It's pretty understandable about politics, but you you were like, oh that was crazy at this same driver Who's complaining about China? He said I wouldn't say what I'm saying now outside of the car. Oh, wow. It's crazy He's like I can't say this outside of the car. But yeah, I'm like unhappy about this. I don't like this I'm not free anymore. Wow Dude, I don't know but he's like seriously. Yeah. Yeah people are listening to that. Don't drag me into this dude I got cookies on my phone, dude

My e-sim in it Okay, but people don't like Trump Yeah, and we kind of saw it firsthand like once we got into China and our manufacturers driving us around, he was like, you see all these buildings? Like these are all factories and no one's working in them right now. Wow. So I think like the tariffs kick in and who knows?

I mean like 10 million people are just like out of jobs in China for the time being. Like that's a reason not to like somebody. Yeah, it's like it makes sense. Yeah. Yeah. We went to our the ball facility and we're testing out all these different balls and our manufacturers kind of testing stuff for us. They'd eight the ball facility and we're testing out all these different balls

and our manufacturers kind of been testing stuff for us. They'd eight different pickle balls that they're trying out. And we were like, how are you keeping them straight? And they showed us the other side of it. They'd written Trump one through eight on them because they were like, feel good to smash Trump. So that was their way of getting back at him. We will hit Trump over and over.

Trump too fly really well. Yeah. That's great. It was funny. Like it was initially like, oh, that's so funny. But then like it became so normal. That was just the nomenclature for the next like four hours. It was like, toss me Trump five again.

Do Trump eight plays pretty well. You said that's the cheaper one. You know, and like that was just normal. So like we're still texting about Trump eight and Trump six. Trump eight's got some pop. Yeah. I think we're gonna come out. Trump 8's got some pop. Yeah. I think we're gonna come out with Trump 8. That's great.

Yeah. That was kind of funny. Uh huh. Anyway, but yeah, the ride into Hong Kong, I guess it felt like, yeah, I guess probably like New York City. It basically had like around the same amount of people and like, I think a similar size to New York City.

So it's massive. How intimidating was it? Did you feel that at all? I think most of the international airports we were at, like the taxi service, it's not like New York City, you know, like taxi, and then you're trying to negotiate. It was like, there was like a person, there was like a hostess who was like,

would you like a taxi? And then like, all right, we can get you one. Now they don't speak like that, but it was implied. Dude, that's one thing I wrote down. They love, this just goes for Asia in general. East Asia, they love to gesture. Oh. There's a chance it's maybe because I'm white

and they're trying to like over explain, but it really seemed like they really liked to gesture. Like even just like our Chinese airport had like a, our Chinese hotel had a elevator like attendant, just there at all times, just like work the elevator. And he was very big on like, like he would press the up or down. And the door would open and he would like,

he would go from standing in front of it to standing to the side. I'm like, it's open now. It's like, yes, I see. I see. Here is where you'll leave. Here's open now. It's like, yes, I see, I see. Here is where you'll leave. Here's your exit this way. I was standing two feet away from like,

I'm in the hotel lobby from like a little coffee bar they have and a guy who doesn't speak English is just like, hey, hey, hey, yeah, yeah. Gesturing and I'm like, stand, stand here. And then he's pointing to like the coffee. I'm like, oh here, and then he's pointing to the coffee. I'm like, oh, no thank you. I thought I needed to stand. It's just a lot of that.

So you're gesturing back. It's okay. Wipe it away, just wipe it off. Sorry, I thought I needed to stand here. You were kind of gesturing to a side that said express checkout. I thought, I don't know. But yeah, a lot of gesturing.

But yeah, Hong Kong was cool. So we finally probably get to our hotel and everything at like 5.30, we're checking in. Immediately from what I remember, thought she had a pickleball racket or pickleball paddle. Man, I'm so Asian now, I'm calling it racket. They call it racket? Yeah, they do.

Pickleball paddle, but it was one of those electric fly killers or whatever. But it looked like she was just waiting on us with a paddle. Hey, Friday, guys! But no, she was just killing bugs because there were a lot of bugs in the interior of the hotel.

Oh, really? In the lobby, yeah. Was it hot? It was humid, yeah. Okay. Humid city. Vietnam, very humid. This was more just like,

probably like here in the summertime, humid. Like middle of summer here, Hong Kong, so I already at it. Vietnam's like the jungle, right? Yeah. Yeah, it's like, it would be like the southern tip of Mexico, like in North America, like that's their like latitude or whatever.

I see. I know southern tips of Mexico. Right. Does that make sense? I do like knowing that, because it's like, What's the equivalent? In my head, it'd be like, I don't know, it's probably like in Vermont.

Like it's just up there in that area. Yeah. So I just kind of fun. Pretty first out. But yeah. So a lot of bugs, a lot of bugs in the hotel. And Matt had just got in late the night before. Okay. And so I was like, why don't want to like our room wasn't ready until 3 p.m. And Matt has a room like I'm not, I don't want to like go and wake him up at 6 a.m. Like Matt, we're here. Like he should sleep. Let's go explore. So I was going to go to McDonald's across the street. OK.

And that's a good first stop. Yeah, I'm not trying to get too crazy at 6 a.m. My body thinks it's 7 p.m. Slow. Yeah, slowly immerse, you know, and the menu right away was awesome. I'm trying to remember. I put it on Instagram, but it was just like, yeah, is it Chinese? It was like noticeably different. McDonald's. Yeah.

Scrambled eggs burger. I like that. Wait, wait, wait. Oh, go ahead. Yeah. I mean, it's just like they took the McDonald's hamburger burns that you know and love and then just put a patty of cheese, or it's just like a thing of cheese, scrambled eggs, and then mayonnaise. I mean, I would like some meat in there,

but that's not terrible. Hot local milk tea. What? I don't really know what that was. Hot local milk tea. Local. Good for them, you know? McDonald's, support local. One that looks pretty good, but it was just

morning time. Grilled chicken, twisty pasta meal with chicken broth. Twisty the chicken's twisty or the pasta's twisty? I think the pasta's twisty. I don't know. Isaac did end up going with the scrambled egg burger. didn't hate it. I mean, it's not it's it's kind of a low risk as long as you don't hate eggs and bread. Yeah, it's familiar ingredients. Nice. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't turn that down. Mind it one bit. He was like, it's kind of weird. Like your your mouth first hits and you know that is a McDonald's burger. Like, you know, those are bonds and then to bite in and scrambled eggs is a little weird, but. Interesting. Yeah, he didn't mind it. So was that all in English or did you have to like have like a translate? That was in English actually. That was nice. And they had Isaac was freaking out. They had, I'm not going to remember the name of it, but they had, he was like, dude, that's

a $90,000 espresso machine right there. Oh, like the, yeah. Like the Ferrari. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Something like that. I think he couldn't believe it. So he was like, we got to get coffee. It's like, okay.

Really? But that McDonald's was one of the gotta get coffee. It's like, okay. But that McDonald's was one of the worst things I've ever smelled in my life. I think it's kind of like a homeless hub. It opens at 6 a.m., they all go in there. Totally homeless. And so do we. So that did not smell good.

And that was kind of the theme of Hong Kong. I will say, I don't think we were in the nicest part of Hong Kong, but so after that, I was gonna just walk around a little bit till Matt wakes up and every five minutes you would get a smell that was like, what could that even be? And it's so new, like, well, that's different than the last smell.

And sometimes it would be good. Sometimes it would not be. Sometimes it's like, let's follow that smell. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It smells like Cinnabon. Truly. And other times it was like, that smells like Cinnabuns. I've never been in a city that smelled so Yeah, yeah, yeah. It smells like Cinnabon. Truly. And other times it was like, that smells like Cinnabuns.

I've never been in a city that smelled so just differently every few streets. Interesting. But so we just walked around. So it was like Sunday morning at 6.30 AM, but it was weird. It was like, where are the people? No one's here.

Sunday morning, okay. Something's going on. I think they were just asleep though. Yeah. But turns out that their culture sleeps as well. I was like, I don't know, like 8 million people. I think we'd see some of them. Some of them got to be awake. New York's the city that never sleeps. Oh, that's right. So every other city has to sleep. So I guess with that logic, that makes sense. That is funny though. It's

just like, why aren't more people out here? Yeah. I'll send you a picture right now. This is just like a very normal, just like picture, just, the only ones on the street right there. That was taken at 7 a.m. Okay, yeah. I mean, you guys, surely you weren't in that bad of an area if you were at a double tree hotel, right? Yeah, good point.

Then again, I mean, everything around us, I mean, it was like pretty grim. Really? Yeah. Yeah, so, yeah, and later on we went to like a nicer part. Like, oh, okay, this looks good. Okay. Let's do first trivia question.

Okay. Isaac and I were standing in one spot. This was like, we weren't seeking this out. We weren't trying to find this, but I just stopped at one point and I was like, oh my gosh. Okay, without moving, without like, just on one street, so I only have two rows of businesses to find this, but I just stopped at one point and I was like, oh my gosh. Okay, without moving, without like, just on one street, so I only have two rows of businesses to work with,

how many foot massage places could I see from where I was standing? Foot massage? Yeah, feet specifically. I'm gonna guess six. Okay. I'm gonna guess as many toes as you have, times two, divided by three,

which would be seven plus how many big toes you have, which would be two, so nine. Shouldn't have added the big toes. I think it was seven. Good guesses. Holy cow, really? But yeah, just standing in basically one spot with not a lot of businesses to work with. I was just like, holy cow, there's feet

kind of all around us. This is the feet district. Yeah. This is the feet district. Scott would love it. Holy cow, you're right. It really is like. It's like every other shop is foot.

So is, did you notice that a lot or was that like, did it really, did this really feel like it was that? I think that was like our third time being like, well, there's kind of a lot of massage places here. And then it was like, whoa, stop. They're all right here. I gotta get a video of this. Yeah, it's massage central.

Foot capital. That's crazy. Wow. So just stuff like that. Yeah, it was just like, this is kind of unique. So we walked around probably an hour, it started to rain a little bit. And so we went back to the hotel,

waited for Matt to wake up, and then we hit the town, hit the city. There's this pretty popular tourist thing, like you take a tram up to Victoria's Peak, something like that, and you just kind of overlook the city. We got to the top of the tram, and I've never seen an advert,

like they were so upfront, good for them, about going up to the observation deck being non-refundable, that like, you know, they have issues with this. So basically it was just so foggy that they were just like holding, they were like picketing. Non-refundable.

I remember this story. Just so everyone knows. Yes. You can't have your money back. It sucks up there. It is, oh, you don't want it. You do not want to go up there. It's almost like a tourist attraction

to like see the picketers more than it is to see like the actual view. I mean, yeah, they're like multiple, they're like, and by the way, it's not refundable. Okay, we're good. And then you go to the next person and did he tell you it was not refundable? Cause just making sure you know,

like not even if it's like, if you can get shot up there, doesn't matter. I guess our money. It's not just fog. It's anything. Yeah. But no, I fog, it's anything. But no, I mean, they had a whole chart in like eight different languages that said non-refundable and they had like signs of rain cloud

and signs of like stuff. So it was like, clearly they deal with this a lot. We're like, well, we came all the way here, we're only in Hong Kong next like few hours, eight hours or whatever, like let's go to the top. And yeah, it was just like, I mean, you couldn't see a thing. I'll text you that picture.

I mean, it was pretty comical. It was like, I- You'd go all the way up there just to be in the cloud. Dude, we were so in the cloud. I texted you. I mean, it's pretty hilarious. It does. It looks like you just have like a white screen around you.

Oh yeah, that's amazing. Yeah. It's like, how long did you spend up there? I mean, probably 20 minutes. Just to feel like maybe you could- It'll clear up. Yeah, it's like you like how long did you spend up there? I mean probably 20 minutes Just like maybe you like maybe you can clear up. Yeah Yeah, your face is like no way That's so great not so you get down to the bottom you're like hey I don't know if if there's a possibility I get a refund for this but I couldn't see a darn thing up there

Really foggy up there. Yeah, that's great, dude. There was a friend of mine, Megan, who joined us on the limo trip just for some of the Arizona adventures. And I think I've told the story before about when we got to, we got to the Grand Canyon at midnight.

We had some poor time management. And she replied to my story and was like, it looks familiar. And I was like, you're a hundred percent right. The grand Canyon at midnight and the victorious peak in the fog. I mean, you just, you're Googling it being like, I can kind of see. Yeah. No, I think that's the big one right there. I think, uh, yeah. Kind of hear it.

No. Yeah. I that that, oh yeah, that's cool. Yeah. You're, you're like, so I think this is where we're standing right now. So imagine it should be the two big ones. Yeah. You can just feel different though, when you're like, so I think this is where we're standing right now. So imagine it should be the two big ones. Yeah. You can just feel different though when you're in this altitude. I think it's good for your skin to be like exfoliating in the whatever. Yeah. So it was just kind of fun.

All right. Next trivia question. So this is a, at this point in Hong Kong, you know, we've been there four or five hours. The only two like chains that I've seen American chains are McDonald's and Starbucks But at the top of this like mmm, I like tram. There was one restaurant. Okay, I'll give you each three guesses Like what restaurant do you think was at the top of this tram in Hong Kong? I'm going right now first one off the bat getting this bad boy. You ready for this? Go for it Domino's pizza Dang it. Domino's pizza. Okay.

Dang it, no? There was a, believe it or not, there was a Taco Bell there. Okay. Okay. You ignorant. Domino's wasn't it. I was really, Domino's like way more popular

in the world than I think we realize. KFC? Good guess. They do have KFCs in China, but that was not it. I like any dominoes. Had Domino's Australia. It was a little weird, a little different. I like the pizza, but maybe there was a pizza hut at the top of this.

Yes, is incorrect. But good guess. This feels like since it's a trivia question, it's going to be a little bit out there. So excuse me if this is too crazy for you guys. You're like, Brad, you wasted a guess on this, but smoothie King. Okay. That's a good guess too. You're on the right track. It was three. It's a trivia question. It's cause a little odd. Yeah. Okay. But we do know it. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Okay. Little odd jumping catfish.

Warmer though. Really? I actually don't know if time has even heard of this restaurant. Okay. Okay. Okay. Warmer with that popular. I've don't know if time has even heard of this restaurant. Okay. Okay. Okay Warmer was not that popular. I've only seen this in like Chicago and New York, I think oh interesting. Oh, I need I need more guesses than because I like I like I'm zeroing in We're not I mean jumping cat. Oh You said New York and so I was like Times Times Square. There's a bubblegum shrimp at Times Square. Yeah, I've seen like two of them my whole life. I don't even know where they're at.

But there's one here in Hong Kong. It was closed. Couldn't have it. It was closed. Apparently people were asleep. Also, I've heard of it. You have? I've seen Forrest Gump.

I've... Okay. I think there was one in Tennessee when we were there. Really? Yeah. I've never ate at one. Like I don't even really know what it is. Other than just like, I guess a seafood restaurant. Shrimp spot. Yeah.

I feel like it's like Red Lobster kind of. Okay. But that's great. Yeah, that was kind of shocking. Man, that's funny. That was the only thing up there. It was one of like, I mean, they had a bunch of stuff. Dude, they love, this is like a Chinese culture thing,

maybe Japanese, but they love their arcade games. Okay. There's a whole room dedicated to claw machines. Wow. The claw machines? Yeah. I taught Bowen Rosie, or Bowen Hattie about the claw machines the other day.

Oh, fun. I'll tell you later. This is a China episode. But I just taught them, I was like, do you know what a ripoff is? And I was like, these things are ripoffs. And then we used them and we tried them and I was like, you got ripped off. That's how they learn. Yeah, no sympathy for him. All right. Just seeing your video. This is like right below. This is like one of the escalators

below Bubba Gump shrimp. It's just like three kind of like retail spots just for arcade games. Wow. They aren't even not even good. Not not even like and also I kind of expected them to be like a lot of different like brands of arcade games. I was like yeah this looks kind of all the same. Same like color scheme. If 12 people at the same time all needed to use the claw machine they could. And they wanted to use the same one. Yeah they didn't want to diversify. That's that's funny. So yeah you could find an arcade or like a miniature Whatever you would call that and like a lot of places just like yeah How Vegas will put a slot machine anywhere like China like toss a claw machine your way? Yeah

Yeah, while you wait to go to the bathroom. It's like it's not we don't need vending machines. We need more club. Mm-hmm That's amazing. So it's kind of the morning of Hong Kong. I think from there we went to went to lunch at like a dumpling spot. And we were looking for some dim sum. You know what that is? I've heard of it. I have no idea.

Tell me. I don't even know. I think it's actually the type of way to eat dumplings. Could be wrong about that. Okay. Either way, Matt, this was his first of many lessons of him trying to get us to learn how to use chopsticks. Cause I didn't think about that like,

oh my gosh, we're in East Asia. Sure. I got to figure this out. Can I get some forks please? Yeah. And so he was trying to teach us and I'm trying to like look around and never got that good at it.

It's really hard. Really? I don't know how, where you're at with chopsticks. Oh, C plus maybe. I'm not great, but I think I, I think I'm naturally all right at it I just don't use them ever really yeah like the only time I use them is when we go sushi places, but Yeah, I think there's certain food. It's hard like rice obviously rice and noodles. Yeah

Something that just stab it and just call it good just skewer it Yeah, that's fair got the job done. Yeah Okay, so you're only in Hong Kong for a short amount of time just like one day. Yeah, it was basically The cheapest flight there gotcha And so then I even talked about this previous on the podcast like the whole like I had to call the Chinese consulate in Chicago We're trying to like okay I don't think you need a visa if you go from a to B to C those all being three different countries like if we go From Hong Kong to China, straight to Vietnam, you know, we've all called double check, triple check.

That night in Hong Kong, Matt's like, I'm just going to like quadruple check that like we're good to go for tomorrow. He realizes the way we are going to get in the train we are going to take, which is going to be so fun, dude. It was going to be dang. I realize I'm ruining one of my trivia questions. Oh, well, we were going gonna take a high speed bullet train like all the way to our manufacturer. It's gonna be so sweet. And then we realized that train station

is not technically a port of entry into China. It's like, oh boy, back to the drawing board. We leave in the morning, talking to our manufacturer. We figured out, we ended up going to China via boat. Took a ferry to China. Even though Hong Kong is connected, we basically went out into like the sea and then like did like a little loop around

and went up to China. Lootful. And that was like the easiest way we could figure out in the time like to get into China. Wow, good thing he quadruple checked. I know, would have sucked. What would have happened? I think they wouldn't have let us on the train, luckily.

Okay. So we get on this ferry ride. We're trying to figure out like, they're like, do you want a business class? How much? And it came out to like $4 more US. Sure. Okay. And then we got like the top row of the ferry to ourselves.

Just kind of fun. Okay. I mean, it was still a ferry, very slow through the ocean, but it was still cool. My seat reclined a little bit. They gave me some mixed Chinese nuts. Ooh, Brazil nuts. That's fun.

That was cool. What's a ferry ride, 45 minutes? Less? I think it was like an hour and a half ferry. And then our manufacturer picked us up and it was like a three hour drive to like the ball facility. Trying to think, landed in. No bullet train.

Yeah, no bullet train. Cause every now and then you'd see them and they were just like zoom and pass. How fast those things go? I don't know. You want to kilos or no? I mean, it looked like they were on like 80 miles an hour. So maybe.

In my head of like bullet train 200 miles an hour. They're in a flat. Yeah. Yeah. Let me look through my notes. If I missed anything in Hong Kong. Oh, I, this is the first of me learning that personal space is a little like different in Asia

because I've never been so bumped into in my life in Hong Kong. That kind of bothered me a little bit. I kind of liked my space. You realized you're a little more of a bubble guy than you thought? Yeah, I just, I feel like I'm always trying to get out of people's way. I like value spatial awareness.

It's like, I mean, people just like cutting you in lines and just like, we're all waiting in line. We clearly can't go anywhere. It's like a 20 minute wait to board this thing. But like, they're still like touching my backpack. I'm like, chill. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Don't, ah.

Well, and then you wonder, you watch oceans 11 and you see how Matt Damon pickpockets people bumping into them. And you're like, how am I getting pickpocketed everywhere? Yeah, we did. We were wondering about that. Yeah. Yeah. I don't think I got pocket picked. You want to put the wallet right up here in the breastbone. Yeah. Come and take it. Yeah. Come and get it. Yeah. I think, don't you feel like, let's just, let's just call it what it is. Thank you, China, for the blessing of COVID. Thank you for AirPods.

And AirPods. COVID really helped people have some space in line. Like now, if you go to a Chipotle and there's four people in line, you could go from the front of the store to the back of the store. Oh yeah, you're spaced. No one's getting real close.

Whereas before, I think we were always kind of tighter. Maybe. China, they were. I don't know if they had COVID in China. I wonder what it was like over there for them. I don't know. Probably super chill. Great. Just the two big ones. Big ones.

I'll give you two big ones. Two big reasons to order from Main Street Roasters. All right, what's the second one? The second one is they have a 10% discount with promo code GRKC at MainStreetRoasters.com. Yeah, not convinced. What's the first one? The first was you're ordering from a wonderful company

called Main Street Roasters that is a wonderful family-owned company out of small town Nappany, Indiana. I'll give you a third one. Please. I was just in Nam and the whole time there, I'm inside, Vietnamese coffee, Vietnamese coffee, this, that, that. I took just in Nam and the whole time there I'm inside Vietnamese coffee, Vietnamese coffee, this, that, that. I took one sip and I go, gross. I said it to their face. Gross. You're a disgrace to America. Vietnam. Vietnam. Yeah.

Somewhere. Yeah. Take me back to the rolling hills, the, the beautiful snow cap mountain tops of nap and knee. And yeah, you say Vietnamese. I say Vietnam street. Take me, take me to the, to the white sand beaches of nap and knee. Yeah. You say napalm. I say nap, nap on me. It smells like nap and knee. And I love the smell of nap and knee in the morning. That's what we say with mainstream roasters that they have. Uh, so go to their website now to get high quality coffee at a, I was gonna say a low quality price.

Well, that's how you look at it. It's amazing the prices in East Asia versus America as far as that kind of stuff goes. And it's actually way cheaper here because Napanee and Main Street Roasters. And just in case we do have any Vietnamese listening, this is gonna set you back hardly any dong. Okay. All right. This is this is some of your dong goes pretty far at

Main Street Roasters. That's what we've always said. So yeah. What? No matter where you're listening. Yes. But mainly Vietnam. You'll understand that. Yeah. Majoros.com. So the guy who like runs like the manufacturing facility, he was like the one picking us up, which is kind of cool. We thought he was like the lead engineer, but then come to find out like, oh, he owns not just ours, but like multiple ones. He's the guy. Yeah, he's the guy. And he was very, very humble, very great guy. But we were curious, like, how do you like how do you own

five manufacturing plants? Like, what'd you do? And it pretty cool story, just like the summary of it. He basically said in, he used COVID to like, basically start his own, he was kind of like a middle man between like AliExpress and like Americans basically. He's like, because of COVID, people couldn't like, come check out the facility or anything. So he's basically like, I just led them to believe that I was the manufacturer, and that's how I made enough money to then actually become my

Manufacturer so he's like pretty brand new to this. Yeah, he's only been there like five years Hey, and we're still curious like but I still don't know how you own like five of these. Yeah, I've been pretty quick How did you do with the names of these guys? Like what's this? I think they gave us American names or something Kenny or something. Yeah, dude Oh, we got to talk about Kenny. What there's a guy named Kenny. Yeah No way Kenny. I just threw out the name Kenny Kenny. I'm so glad you brought that up I'm like Kenny was one of the biggest characters the whole trip. That's that's Vietnam. No, just only forget about Kenny Okay. Okay. Kenny was in how'd you do that bread? I

Don't know wild. Yeah, I well I I? I don't know. I, well, I, I, I truly, I don't know because I was like, my dad, we always had international students come to our house as a kid and they were always like, I'm Chris. I'm whatever. Yeah. I don't know why I thought Kenny was the one to use. So yeah, Kenny was Vietnamese. Okay. But Chinese names. I'm trying to think there was like, Did you do a Chinese name for them? I did. Yeah. Yeah. Xing. Thank you. Cause we're fast. Su Dong.

Xing. Xing. Yeah. Daddy. Leo, Vic, Mr. Lu. Mr. Lu. Michael. Okay. Those are about the only guys I met in China. That'd be pretty fun. Like you recognize what these people like in America based on their name, like LeBron,

like okay, must be a basketball fan. That would be funny. Like Vin, like, oh, you're a fast and furious guy. Probably. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Whatever stuff like that. Guy. It's like, oh, Guy, you're a culinary guy.

Yeah, total foodie. Yeah, foodie. Foodie. That's probably happening. But yeah, we really only talk to the few people that speak English in our facility, because not many people do speak English there. So they drove us around, they did everything for us. Anyway, so yeah, drove into, oh no, one last thing.

I remember Hong Kong, ferry ride, get into China, and it's just kind of crazy a little bit. It's like, dude, we're like, the Chinese flag is right there. Like we actually are here. There is a, they pull us into this like side room. We're like, hopefully this is protocol. I don't know.

Pull your pants down. Yeah. They said, rake your stuff. I was like, okay. Got it. We know exactly what that means. Yeah. I raked. I was like, okay. Got it. We know exactly what that means. Yeah. I raked, they were polite.

And then they took us through like immigration. This was pretty funny. They had like a dog sniffer there. It was just like this old overweight, like beagle or something. It was like a dog that you see at the pound. You're like, Oh, that poor thing's going to die here. That, that, that the guy's seen some stuff and that dog was employed in China.

It was just pretty funny. It was just like, what is this dog going to do? That's great though. Like the, the, the old government employee that's been there too long is kind of disheveled, but he knows all where all the files are, you know, he's got his own way of sniffing heroin. The new dogs don't do that. Yes, yeah. Some things you can't teach. You can't teach old dogs new tricks. You can't teach new dogs how to sniff people's bottoms

for drugs. I wanted to like film the dog, but they were pretty big on not filming. And I was like, I'm not trying to get in trouble right away. So I didn't film the dog. Yeah. I did take my shirt off in that spot pretty quickly afterwards though. Cause I wanted to film this video. I needed a different shirt off in that spot pretty quickly afterwards though,

because I wanted to film this video, I needed a different shirt on. Yeah, there's a pretty funny video. I didn't think much of it. I was like, whatever, I'm just going to pop the top real quick. And Matt's like head is in his hands. He's like, oh my gosh, what am I doing?

And at the same time, I didn't realize, because I just come out of the bathroom, but some guys had come out to swap out like the money and like the currency exchange machine. Well, they take it pretty serious there. They had four armed guards there, like with helmets, like World War I helmets, and like machine guns, like just swapping out ATM money.

And I didn't realize it, but yeah, I kept my shirt off and I'm like, all right, what do I got here? So why did you change your shirt? I'm doing this video over the course of like months and months and months where I want to be wearing the same outfit every time basically. So I wanted to get the right shirt on and get the right paddle and everything. Nice. Um, that's something I think Isaac has that video. I don't think I have it, but anyway, so in my head, Isaac's always the person that's going to make people like embarrassed. Like, what is he doing? But yeah, right off the bat, it was you.

Most of the time it was Isaac for sure. But yeah, I was, I was the first to do it. Um, yeah. Then we got in the car with our manufacturer. We got in this minivan dude. What was the name of it? It was so sweet. Voila.

V O Y A H. Okay. It was nicer than anything like-Y-A-H. Okay. It was nicer than anything like Tesla or Rivian or anyone has here. It's like this. Oh, is this what we were damning about a little bit? Is that what you sent me a picture of with the big screen? Yeah.

That was sick. Massive screen came down. The captain seats in this minivan, each had their own cell phone size tablet. They could control the massage preferences in your seat, how your seat lays back. It could control like so many things. The TV.

Do you have any video? We're going to need time is going to have to add some stuff. This episode. Yeah, I think just like include all the stuff as that sounds. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All of a sudden these two, it was really impressive. The TV came down and they put friends on.

Okay. I was like, Oh, that's kind of fun. They're like trying American stuff for us. And I'm pretty sure this was an accident because they were it was clearly just like a bootlegged like I think they were live streaming it because there were just comments across the top. People were just like, oh, like, what is all this? I go, there's people commenting. But it happened to be a friends episode where Ross had just gotten back from China

and had brought this Chinese girlfriend back with him. Oh, yeah, Julie. Oh, wow. See, I don't even know friends well enough But I was like, I think I know what's happening That's a good one. That's a classic. That's like one of the first seasons. Is it? Yeah. Yeah, it's kind of funny Yeah, that's awesome Holy cow. Yeah, this is like a beautiful Van it was amazing. Oh, yeah outside was so nice. The inside is like super advanced

Amazing. Oh, yeah. The outside was so nice. The inside is like super advanced. I was like, how much are these? And how much does it cost to get one to America? This is really impressive. Do you think it was a hybrid or like electric? It was for sure at least a hybrid, maybe fully electric.

No, we stopped for gas. So I guess that'd be a hybrid. It felt like there was some. So this is like the owner's van? Yeah, he said company car. Okay. Heck yeah. That was so fun.

Yeah. In my head, I'm like imagining China, like, I don't know, like just crammed trains everywhere. And instead it's like, no, we took this unbelievably cool van. Yeah. You know, there were a lot of aspects. It's like, oh, they're ahead of us in this. I can't remember what else, but math, math, science and mini vans. I think technology is big over there. Stem. The M stands for many van. Yeah. Technology

is so cheap over there. That van, I think is like $7, like eight things of rice. Yeah. Just like, just, just fast to do intermittent fasting. You can afford that. The drive into China was pretty cool. Like obviously we're getting to know these people we've been working with for a while, but also they're kind of back being tour guides and showing us stuff. Like we went to this one city, I don't remember now, but they were like, Hey, pretty much every air pod in the world is made like right over there. Really?

Oh, cool. Wow. Right on. That's crazy. Yeah. They're like, yeah, there's cities. That's air pod village over there. You hear that? They're testing them right now. Yeah. Yeah, they're like this city is known for

Like really small electronics. So they make like a lot of little stuff like that. Yeah, maybe the watch too or something cool Yeah, it was pretty cool. Did you did you get anything? Any any like I asked you to give me something I don't know if you would have had time anyway. But I remember a few times my cousin as a kid, or when he was a college student, his friend went to China and got these unbelievable jerseys for like $5, you know, whatever. Nowadays it's easier with AliExpress

and stuff to do that kind of thing. But back then it was unheard of. That's a replica Jerry Rice jersey and he got it for like nothing. How is that possible? Powder blue Bojacks. Look at that. Yeah.

Didn't know if they just got some AirPods that were unmarked. That would be cool. Five bucks. China was like all business. Like we didn't go anywhere touristy. We didn't do anything. Vietnam, I bought a bunch of stuff for Rachel,

which is fun. But so yeah, it was just like fun. And dude, China's crazy, because like a billion people live there, but I've never really thought about like, okay, if a billion people live there, like there's so many cities you've never heard of that have more people than New York City.

Well, that's the whole idea of the office episode when they talk about China, right? It's like- Oh yeah, doesn't he? Well, it's largely agrarian. I remember that being like an argument. Yeah, it's agrarian. Yeah.

Yeah, like totally. I have no, being like a very. Yeah. Yeah. Like totally. I have no no, like very little knowledge of China. I would get a 20 percent on a test if they asked me multiple choice Chinese questions. I'm like butcher some of these like Guangzhou.

Oh, there you go. Wow. It's like one of the only like cities that I know that I feel like is not that popular to me. That's that's like a big, big city. Yeah. You're saying. But like it's not Shanghai or Beijing. Exactly. Yeah. So it was the only two, you know, in Hong Kong is my city or is it just, I don't know, kind of its own thing. Yeah. Beyond that,

I don't think I could name Guangzhou. Yeah. So that is like 20 million. Obviously. Wuhan's big, big town. Is it? Yeah. Big, big town. Big town. Yeah. Lovely folks out there. Good markets. So yeah, Wuhan has 8.8 million. I mean, what, that's like how big is Chicago or something or New York city maybe. Yeah. Um, it's just like a forgotten city in Chinese. No, I'm not sure. Like Shenzhen where we flew out of 18 million million people. What, 18 million? That's crazy. Guangzhou, 14 and a half million people. Okay, give me a comparison.

Oh, Guangzhou's metro is 70 million. Okay, give me the metro of New York or LA or whatever, because I have nothing to even compare that to. Okay, it's right at Shenzhen. New York City is like eight and a half million. Metro? Yeah, I think so at Shenzhen. New York City is like eight and a half million. Metro? Yeah, I think so. That's crazy.

Because I feels New York City feels like there's plenty of people there. So did it feel like that to you? Like, did you feel like this is crazy? There are people everywhere. I can't breathe consistently. So it sounds like you went to these factories that are, I'm sure, large and open. Yeah, I mean, so much of China was just in the factory, really, like they're just driving through the cities. My main observation was just like, there are so many buildings.

So it wasn't like there's so many people or like the highways are so crowded, like nothing felt that different other than just like the buildings. Like I guess people live in all these, but it's kind of hard to wrap your head around like, these can't all be apartment complexes. But I guess they are.

You know, like it's just, yeah, it was just people and apartments everywhere. Yeah. Let's see. We got to the ball factory and- So you guys making balls? Yes, gonna come out with them soon. Okay. Yeah.

Cool. That's kind of fun. Yeah. They unfortunately weren't making pickle balls when we were there, but they're making tennis balls. Was that kind of fun to watch? Yeah, it was. Yeah, it was crazy. Yeah.

It smelled like rubber in there. Like the good like tennis ball rubber? Yeah. Yeah, that was nice. That is a small joy. Yeah. It's cracking open that top down to this ball Bottle Yeah, so like I've only been to one

I'm trying to think of other factories of it I've been to like I've taken a tour of like a beer factory like a Anheuser-Busch Yeah, in st. Louis. I think that's about the only factor. I've ever seen. Yeah running. So what was it? Like how many people are at this factory? Let's see. I mean like 20 or 10 or a thousand the ball factory there weren't a ton people working there maybe like 30 to 40 people total and there you know, maybe like three stories And that was nice. It was cool to see but it was like the paddle factory This is really why we came and so that was like three hours away

So we only did the ball factory the first day. Okay, go back to our hotel do the paddle factory, this is really why we came. And so that was like three hours away. So we only did the ball factory the first day, go back to our hotel, do the paddle factory the next day. How was that? But after the ball factory was our first real dinner, actually it might've been lunch. Either way, it was our first day having food in China. And so they told us, I will say one thing, they gave us the study guide before

the test because the main guy was basically like, you know, in China, it's very common that business deals happen around tables like this. He was like, you sit, you drink, you sign contract. Love it. It's wrong. Keep that in mind. Got it. Yeah. This is where it's going down. Yeah. So like, Hey, in the last night we sit, we drink, that in mind. Got it. Yeah. This is where it's going down. Yeah. So like, hey, in the last night, we sit, we drink,

we signed contract, everybody on the bed. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so, yeah, I think what we've kind of learned since then is like every lunch and every dinner, they took us out to like a restaurant and we ate, but I don't think that's super common. I think these are like nice meals. So what they are is like, you sit around a massive table

with like the biggest lazy Susan you've ever seen. Like a round table. Yeah, and then they will just like waitresses will slowly come out and just add things to the lazy Susan and just the whole meal that thing is going in. It's like on a motor and it just circles on its own. That's fun. But when the Americans come with their chopsticks,

you hold the table and like, wait, hold on, sorry, I'm having some trouble. All right, they can go again. Oh, I see, cause you're like picking them off. Oh, I missed it. I'll get it next time. Like dribbles on down. Yeah, that was tough.

I mean, yeah, high stakes, chopsticks situation, but yeah, they just held the table. Like, hold on, let me get this. But yeah, this was the part of China that was a little tough. The traditional Chinese food. I think a little tough the traditional Chinese food I think we started with the traditional Chinese meal and then the next three were traditional Cantonese meals. Tell me the difference Figure that out eventually. All right. I'm texting you

This is a list that Isaac made of different food that we consumed at some point in this trip, all right? I want you to now, we're gonna do a schmores of our favorite traditional Cantonese food. So just what you think would probably taste the best will go Brad, Tymon, me. Okay, okay. And knock some of these out. All right.

So this is basically my way of showing you guys what we ate while we were there. Okay. All right, so I get to go first? Yeah, what do you think? Okay, easy, easy one-one for me. A lot of people kind of downgrade this side of the, you know, torso or whatever.

I, I, my one-one is pig face, easily. I knew you were gonna is pig face easily. I knew you were going to take pictures. Yeah. I had to get it first. Cause I, if not, I knew that there was going to be, yeah, the pig face was on my list. Yeah. It was very little pig face. I think, uh, that's just, that's just a hot number one. I mean, easy. Yeah. Funny, especially if you get some spicy brown mustard with big face or

something just magical about it. Yes. Yeah. I wish I would have had my spicy brown mustard with pig face or something just magical about it. Yes. Yeah. I wish I would have had my spicy brown mustard. I would have taken anything. Yeah. Pig face was something that, um, Isaac had already taken a bite of and then as what is this?

It was like, I wish I didn't ask. I think it's, if it tastes all right, then don't ask. Yeah. That's a good rule. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good rule. Yeah. Yeah. It's a pig face. Okay. By the end of the trip, Vic, I would sit next to Vic

and he would type out what it was in China and show me on Google Translate. And he would only show me like while Matt and Isaac are eating it, he would show me and just start giggling cause he like knew it was absurd. He like understood. He would just be giggling. He's like, don't tell, don't tell.

Okay. So do you think that they're getting you ridiculous things or such chance? I think they were like hey lay it on them Yeah, like really give it to them. Yeah, cuz I would do the same thing like if they came to America I'd like give them the greasiest hamburger. It's like yeah, give them the funnel cake. Don't get a salad like It's America. We were joking with them like you guys have to come to America. We'll get you a hot dog You gotta come you'll love it. get you a hot dog. You gotta come You'll love it. Get you an apple pie. It's awesome All right, this one. Okay people sleep on this just because the name it's like it's different than it sounds like the slimy whitefish It's insane

Slimey whitefish That's one of the only ones I'm seeing here that has an adjective before it. Yes. Um, that was one that when Vic showed me his phone, that's what it translated to. So I don't know what type of fish it is or like it's called the whitefish. I don't know. Whitefish is a type of fish. I think.

And slimy is kind of how it's known. I don't know. Was it slimy? Yeah. Did you have some? Oh, they're all slimy. Did you eat all these? A lot. They like their pork in Asia, which kind of saved me a little bit. So I, I was able to have some of these, which we'll get to, you know, that. Yeah.

All right. Good, good pick time. Thanks. Yeah. Good. Uh, slimy white fish. I'm going to go with some of the things I was able to eat. I'm gonna go with turkey foot. I had a little bit of the turkey foot and just another example, I mean, all their meals, it's like a mad lib. It's like, all right, give me an animal and then a body part you would never eat. Yeah. They're not wasting a single inch of that animal.

Yeah, because originally they told me it was chicken foot, which made sense, because that's what it looked like. Took a bite and they're like, oh, actually it's turkey foot. I was like, somehow it got worse. Yeah, yeah. Somehow I would have preferred the chicken foot, I think. I don't even know, like how bony is this? You can eat a, can you like?

That's what I'm saying, like what is it? You're just eating the toenails? Yeah, I mean, that's a lot of the stuff where it's like, why would you choose this? There's no meat on it. You're just like eating like a little tendon next, I mean like eating's a lot of the stuff where it's like, why would you choose this? There's no meat on it. You're just like eating like a little tendon next. Am I like eating their Achilles? And they're like, hmm.

That doesn't make sense at all. That's strange. Wow. Okay. So it was, are any of these, like, was that good? There was one on here. There was a couple that weren't bad. Okay. Yeah.

I'm gonna go with one that, boy did I get excited when I heard it. Chinese pizza. Yes. I thought, now there's something. Now there's something I've heard of before. And I said, what is that on, is that, is that like a mozzarella, is that margarita?

Yeah, is it like melted cheese on there? What is that? And Vic said, oh, that's oysters and eggs. And I said, me out of that. That's me. No one knows. Turkey feet. Oh, that was our last meal. Yeah. There is Chinese pizza. You're like, finally the universally loved. Yeah, here we go. Okay. All right. Time. This next one I've actually heard of because we've given it to our dog as a treat. Pig ears. Pig ears. Yeah. Yeah. That's actually people don't, people don't talk about pig ears as much as they should. They're pretty good. They're cute. How, how obvious is it that you're eating pig ears?

Like when you're eating them, like do they look like, that's a pig ear. Like folded pink little like cartoon ears. No, I mean, it just all looks like just like mystery. Like it's just like, this could be fish, this could be goose. Like chopped up or are they like flat? Like some, it's a little chopped. I mean, there was times Isaac almost like chipped his tooth

because it was like, there was just like a, it was just like a fish. Like clearly like the fish head has been, it's like off to the side, like, you know, showing off a little bit. But the rest just looks like a like a fish. Clearly the fish head has been off to the side, showing off a little bit. But the rest just looks like a chopped up fish. You're like, oh great, takes a big bite. Well, they didn't like, it's bone-in fish.

All they did was just, I think quite literally, put it on the grill, chop, chop, chop, here's your fish. And so a lot of it is not super changed. And do you feel like this is a a high end place that you're at? I mean, with the lazy Susan and... We got the idea. These are pretty nice meals. They don't normally like eat and drink this way.

I think this like they were showing us a really good time. It's very interesting though. It's very, China was very nondescript. At least the places we were at, like we would go into a place, let me see if I can find this picture. And you're just like, man, I did not think this was a restaurant on the outside. There's like almost nothing on the outside.

The branding is not powerful. And then even on the inside, you go to like your table, where your table is its own room. There's no one else in there with you. And it's just like white walls. There was like very much a lack of like decor or like culture, maybe would be the right word.

I don't know. It was very interesting. Personality, yeah. Personality, yeah, very nondescript. All right, you can do your pick. I'll find the picture of the outside of this building. Sure. I'm in between, oh, I guess I get to do two.

So I am gonna do, it's kind of like a thunder and lightning, you know, bash bros pick, you know, one, two punch. I'm gonna go go. Um, I'm going to go with, uh, The intestines I'm going to go pigs large intestine as well as the goose intestine. I think that sounds awesome. Like I Mean how often are you hearing like hey there the probiotics are actually in the intestine Like you need you need that for the micro enzyme stuff. Jake, you're so right about, yeah, think of an animal and the part you would hate to eat or just that sounds bad.

The picture I texted you, that was like the first spot we had lunch. Okay. You know, it's just like, oh, it just doesn't look like what I thought a restaurant would look like. It looks like the side, it looks like the service entrance to an Apple store. It's like, maybe we go in here, like if we just want to drop our thing off and then we come pick it up. I have a genius appointment. Yeah. There's my, there's my guy in the green shirt.

Yeah. We only saw him that day. I was, I'm vibing with him. Never saw him again. He was a good time. He was, he was fun. Did speak English, but he was fun. That makes it even more fun to like. Yeah. Oh my God. All right. Goose intestine and goose intestine and pigs, large intestine. So did you, is goose a free game for you? I threw down some goose. Okay. Yeah. Roasted goose, goose intestine. Yeah. Couple of goose on chicken. Goose on chicken. couple of turkeys watching. Yeah, exactly. Pig on duck. Couple of pig ears.

Who knows if a pig got in there? Yeah, what was, once again, I have no idea what these things even look like. Like in my head, an intestine is like a balloon. Like you're just eating a, I don't know. Most of the time the intestine stuff, like it was just kind of, like kind of worst case scenario, just like a slimy like thing of meat.

You're like, oh yeah, that kind of makes sense. Wow. Yeah. All right, time when you get big, I'll try to find more. All right, I'm gonna go with black tofu. Well, I love some black tofu. You think the white stuff's good? Yeah.

Wait till you try black tofu. What makes it black again, do you remember? I don I don't know is it's the sea is it seasonal it's a smog Okay, yeah, it's a smog. They just put it outside. It's aged aged tofu That's yeah, that sounds rough. Yeah Black tofu because I've had tofu and like miso soup little white chunks Okay tofu is and I don't mind that. It's flavorless. To me though, like so much of food is the texture.

Yeah. And so like tofu is like that spongy, slimy, I don't know. That's what sounds like a lot of these are just rough. So what are we looking at here, Jake? I was trying to remember. It's the video of Isaac eating something crazy. Okay. He said in the video.

Let's see. Very good. of Isaac eaten something crazy. Okay. As he said in the video, let's see. Pretty good. Is this, do I have, is this it? He just says, is this it? I took a pretty big bite. Isaac. Yeah. You can tell it's really gross cause Isaac, I don't think is like the most sensitive

guy with that kind of stuff. And he looks like he can barely even be polite about it. That might have been pig face. I think what I just showed you a video. It looks like it was fried maybe or something. Like was there some breading? It was like something, something or something. There was something. Was it crunchy or was it like? Not a lot of crunch. Then again, I mean, some of this stuff like, oh, I'll just go, my next pick, pigeon. I thought we'd seen it all. I thought we'd eaten everything,

and then we're like, oh, I think I might get this. What is it? Pigeon! Pigeon. Oh, wow. Sweet. Wow. It's just crazy, it's just like, they will,

I posted it to my story last night, but I was like, say that again, I got on camera and he goes, China we eat everything. Yeah, the other guys do it this bird So they know they know it's like yeah Everything but yeah, just like of all the animals. I just I don't think you need to eat. I think we're good There's other birds that are better So go pigeon and then something I had my very first meal there Got a video of it.

Sea cucumber soup. The broth wasn't bad. Didn't eat the broth, but whatever the sea part was, whatever I was eating. Sea? You know, Urchin or something, who knows? Sea bass or sea bass perhaps? I briefly read that and I was like,

oh, it's like a cucumber soup. That sounds nice. But I think sea cucumber is like, yeah, it's like a sea creature. That's good But I think sea cucumber is like yeah, that's like a sea creature That's all a sea cucumber is like a slug type thing in the ocean or like that would not surprise me Oh good. So I was thinking yeah cucumber soup sounds refreshing light No, no, maybe a cucumber soup. Yeah Yeah, that this is me having the cucumber soup and like being like giving Isaac the signal of like you don't even have this But then everyone's like how was it? I'm like two thumbs up. Oh, yeah

People please are like oh so good. Oh man Don't do it dude Yeah, what are you drinking over those like you got some wine and something else. Beer? Oh no, that's just tea. Just iced tea? Hot tea? Hot tea. Lukewarm tea? It's tough to get water there.

They serve tea at like all the meals. Interesting. So you just got to throw down a bunch of like hot tea to like, you know, hydrate yourself. Nice. I love those spoons though. I was hoping they'd have those spoons because that's what you have like a sushi place.

Yeah. I like the shape of those spoons. You always hope that like it's, it's like it isn't in the restaurants here. All right. Hey, you've been in China. You've been in Nam, you've been in Hong Kong and a little Taiwan. It's time to come back to America and give us one good old fashioned rebel yell for,

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I'm like going through what sounds the best to me. Roasted goose. Oh yeah. That was my favorite thing on this list. Okay. Yeah. That wasn't bad. Just more than regular goose. Yes. That was my favorite thing on this list. Okay. Yeah, that wasn't bad. Just more than regular goose. I got goose and roasted goose. Do you remember a difference?

I have to talk to Isaac about that. I'm not sure, but yeah, I think we only had the roasted version. Yeah. Yeah, it wasn't terrible. And there was one meal where they had like a sweet and sour sauce going around the circle. And I think I like every time it came around,

I would scoop more onto my plate and dip the roasted goose in there. And that was actually not bad. Okay. Sauce really, yeah, can forgive some sins in the food world. All right, last one. I'm just, I got four hall of fame picks here,

all-star picks. I gotta go finless eel, just right off the dome on the top. I can't believe I got this in the fourth round. Finless eel. Like it's one thing to get an eel. I mean eels are, but to find one, but to find one, Sons fins that had been defend. This is the most so far they've modified a food. They took the fins off. That was kind of endless. Or was this just like a very rare eel that they found? They caught this way. Like they catch 85 eels a day,

but they only get one finless and that's who they get. So. Yeah, that was one that Vic showed me privately. It was a giggling, you're eating this. I didn't want to tell him. Like, what is it? I was like, you don't even want to know what he said. Eel is one of the grossest things in the world.

Yeah, just as an animal in general. So, okay. Let's read off all the honorable mentions because there are some amazing things in the world. Yeah. Just as an animal in general. So okay. Let's read off all the auto role mentions because there are some amazing things on this. Yeah. What else do you have on your list? Uh, I had, let me ask. There was one more thing on this list that Isaac actually kind of liked. It's like some little weird squid. You're on squid. I mean, I've had duck before and duck is nice. If you, if it's made the right way. This was a pig neck, pig neck. Isaac kind of didn't eat the pig neck.

Can I get a little more that next please? Okay, I mean, it's pig like there's got to be some part of it that tastes good. And that's what you're thinking. You're like bacon lives on this animal somewhere. Yeah, there's got to be a flex of bacon on the intestine. Like two feet away from the bacon. How bad can it be? And it's bad. Yeah.

It's just a little different thing. So it was in the preparation, I think. But yeah, pig neck wasn't awful. Okay. As I said. Duck. How was the duck? That we had our dinner in Hong Kong.

And I thought it was fine, but I don't think I would ever eat it again. Okay. Let's see a couple of other honorable mentions here. Actually is one I think pig kidney soup bone in. Yeah, that's what it translated to. He said it's, it's a pig kidney soup with bone. Okay. Goodness. Goodness.

Really just soups in general. I'm more nervous about than for whatever reason. Cause like you add broth to the sliminess and all of a sudden it just feels slimmer to me. It's like swimming in the ocean. Like I don't know what's under me. I don't know what's down there. It's murky. Yes.

Who knows what it could be. All of a sudden you slurp to struggling and you get a big chunk of something. Yeah, I think boba tea. Yeah, exactly. Okay. That's pretty much everything on there. That's crazy.

Yeah. So I mean, that is we in hindsight, we would have spent more time in China and less time in Vietnam, just because there was more work to be done there, I think. But at the same time, that is a list from only four meals in China. You know, we were only there two days. Oh, really? You're only there two days. I don't know.

I don't know your schedule at all. That's crazy. Yeah. Wow. I think we had four meals in China. Like with them we would eat like continental breakfast and then yeah. Lunch and dinner, lunch and dinner. And that was it. 17, 18 different crazy things. Oh yeah. They do go around and around. That's so fun though. Like on one level it's like, yeah, that stuff was nasty. On another level it's like if you're going to China, you got to have some stories like that. That's the thing. Like if we were to go back again in like a year or so, which I think is possible, I think

we would like do all like, let them take us out to dinner. Let's eat the Cantonese food for a couple of days and show him. And then you and Isaac be over there. Scott's like, I don't see anything wrong with it. He ate the big foot. Another big thing, I think, because they're like celebrating daddy being in town, which they did call him that to his face plenty.

And I think they do know it's funny because our manufacturer also does a ton of business with a beach tennis rackets. I think that sports are really popular in Brazil. So he was like, I have- That's a sport, that's not a brand. Yes, he's like, I have American daddy. Also Brazil daddy. I guess who's big client in Brazil buying beach tennis rackets.

So he's got, he said he has five daddies. Um, a big thing because they're, they're taking us out and they're celebrating is like kind of just the drinking culture there. And so they would cheers. They were saying cheers, but I think in China, it translates to like, finish your drink basically. Yeah, bottoms up. Bottoms up. And so they would do that 20 times a meal. I don't know if you saw that Instagram story, but I was like, I filmed every single time we cheers.

And as I started posting 13, 14, then I just like stopped. I was like, it's kind of, I don't know, I think it's played out. Like you get it at this point. We're gonna be cheersing every few minutes. So that was kind of the culture, just like, and I think it's kind of, I don't even think that it's played out, like you get it at this point. We're gonna be cheersing every few minutes. So that was kind of the culture, just like, and I think it's also a big cultural thing not to let anyone's drink be empty.

It's like the main guy would come around and refill all your drinks. So it's like, you just drank something and then this, you know, you were forced to, which I will say, it felt like I was back in high school again, because there's so much peer pressure. And at the time I didn't know it was cultural, maybe I would have partaken more, but right away I was just like, oh no, thank you.

And then they kind of stopped asking. It was kind of like high school. I was like, well, if you just say no, then they stop bugging you about it. Oh, but Isaac and Matt, oh, they just, I felt so bad for them. Come on, one more, come on. Isaac's like, no, no, no, Matt's making up stuff.

My doctor says I can't, my doctor says I can't. One more, your doctor not here, one more, come on. Isaac's like, no, no, no, Matt's making up stuff. My doctor says I can't, my doctor says I can't. One more, your doctor not here, one more. My doctor said I can't. I'm scared of you right now. Yeah, they were just keep going. Isaac's like, all right, this is it though, this is it. This is my last one. Tell them last one.

He gets done, by the time it's on the table again, they're coming over. No, no, no, he's putting his hand over it. They're just pouring it on his hand. No, no more. Halfway, halfway, little. What was it? Most of the time it was just like shots of beer.

So it wasn't like they're getting plastered, but still it was like, we just don't want this. That's amazing. Yeah, it was so funny. Matt's like, my doctor, my doctor. He's like the healthiest guy I know. He's 27 years old. My doctor said I can't.

That's so funny. But I will say on the last night we did, once again, Isaac and Matt really took one for the team. They did enough, I'll tell you off the podcast, to negotiate some deals. It was awesome. Really? It was awesome, yeah.

Isaac was even getting a little mixed. He's like, all right, if I do this, will you do this? Oh, yeah, they were like, yeah Is this really how we're like, that's gonna save us a lot of money. That's their easy. You're true to their word Yeah, there is crazy pretty loose right now. Yeah, but also like they told us this is how business is done You shouldn't have told us night. Let's go. That was kind of wild. Okay. I texted the whole rest of the Friday group chat. I said, Matt is currently Wolf of Wall Streeting them and I've got a front row seat.

That's amazing. It was awesome. Okay, so I didn't realize, yeah, you were going to like do business. I thought you were just like going to look at the business basically. Really? Yeah, that was a little part of it,

but that's what was so cool about the manufacturing aspect. Like we did some stuff that would have taken weeks to do right back and forth Yeah, you just like we're wanting to change our grip a little bit. Yeah, and so we asked him like hey Can we sample some grips? He's like, yeah, follow me We go two doors down and there's just a room full of paddles with different grips on them It's a we were just touching different grips in five minutes, but like we like these two He said great that would have taken three or four weeks, Like, they ship us some, we don't like them. They ship us more, we don't, you know.

So it's like, we can get so much done when we're here. We like made some prototype paddles ourselves, like in the facility, not ourselves really, but like we're kind of doctoring them up ourselves. Like make it this way, add this, try this. They're done in an hour. And then we played with them that night. You know, like how quickly is that process going?

Like that was really cool. That'd be really cool to be like, that was just made. Like we just- Yeah, these were raw materials two hours ago. Wow. And so yeah, we got to experiment and make some cool stuff. And so you can get a lot done in really quick amount of time when you're there.

In addition to like all the content we got as well. Yeah. So yeah, I wish we had more time in China. Cause the big, we only had one day at the paddle facility and I'm trying to get so much content and they take us out to this two hour lunch, it's like 2 p.m. and I haven't filmed, I haven't talked to the camera yet

because they're kind of like, first let's just show you around so you can see everything. All right, great, get my bearings. And then we come back, all right, let's get my bearings. And then we come back like, all right, let's get ready to film. And then they're like, well, we have to have tea. Yeah, of course. And so it's like, I guess this is what they do.

And man, I was getting so agitated. Just like, we only have so much time here. Like I have to, this is my one chance to film videos in China. It's like 3 p.m. and then they're taking us out to tea. It's an hour long tea. And I was like, oh my God. I was kind of stressed.

It's like the American in you is showing. Like I know. Just like I'm hectic and I'm, yeah. Want to get stuff done. And I think there was a little bit of a miscommunication. Like I think they were there to celebrate us. And we were there to work. Yeah.

You know, like really get a lot done. So now we know next time we'll be a little more clear. That's amazing. Yeah. I still think we got a lot of good content and it was fun. Who knows if those mics worked. I filmed the whole podcast with these new mics I got and they didn't work the whole time. Nope.

I didn't think so. Yeah. Um, but I think they worked weird. I don't know why they wouldn't have worked for the podcast because I got halfway through. I'm interviewing man. I'm like, the light is not on on his mic. That's probably not good. Whatever.

Just keep it going. But okay. Yeah. You probably not good. Whatever, just keep it going. But okay, yeah. You probably go to some like village that you're passing. Like that's where all the mics are made. Yeah. Go get another one. DJI is a Chinese brand. So I'm sure we probably passed it.

Yeah. Let's see. I guess what I'll do, this will just be like the China episode maybe. And then Monday I can talk Nam. Nam. Vietnam was so sick, dude. Vietnam was awesome awesome so I did see a few things from Vietnam and it did look sick so like where you were in China was also did ever feel like you were in the

country or anything like that or was it like no we were always just going from one city because you were like a 10 minute stretch where it's like oh it's kind of like hilly and like foresty a little bit. But it didn't last long. I'm guessing most of like central and Western China is like all farmland maybe. I think so. I think it is.

It's on the East side and it's mainly massive city to massive city. Okay, gotcha. Trying to think what else. I saw this was mainly in China. You know how like in America, someone will have a Chinese tattoo and maybe people joke like,

you know that says dog crap, right? Or you know something like who knows what that says. I saw the opposite of that in China a couple of times. One would be instances of like a girl just had a t-shirt on that just said like a weird combo of like cuss words. And I'm like, I don't think she knows what that means. That's kind of funny.

And then other times would just be misspelled. Where like I walked by a girl one time and her shirt was like, first of all, it's funny to think of like wearing a basic shirt like this in China, but it was in English and it said, um, it was something like, I didn't wake up today to be Madoker. I guess it's supposed to be mediocre. That was kind of funny. And then I saw this boy who had like,

basically like Nike shorts. I think they weren't Nike, but it was supposed to say this like phrase on the bottom of the shorts. And it was like, I didn't want to take pictures little boy, but it was a lot of writing and like cool block letters, but it was like, why ball tomorrow?

Cause I go hard next time we tip off or something. It was like kind of just basketball words. They didn't make any sense in English. So it's like, it's like translate this to, yeah. Yeah. So that was every now and then you'd see things like, oh, that's too bad. That got translated kind of funny in English,

but they don't know. Yeah. There's a basketball shorts. I do. I know what you're talking about. Cause I feel like I've seen stuff like that before. It is funny. Like, yeah.

It's interesting. Cause I feel like English isn't as pretty to look at. Like I feel like a lot of the reason that people would just have like a Chinese tattoo is cause it's like a beautiful, like written language. Yeah. It's like a picture almost. Ours is pretty basic and not like that cool looking.

But maybe they think it's cool. Maybe it's like the block lettering is cool. It's so simple. You know, rather than like the Chinese is like more like flowy. Right. I don't know. Yeah. Cursive is cool. Or maybe it's just like, yeah, to be like, oh, I'm cultured in a different way. Right. Yeah. We're American stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I know. I know what Nike is. My mom works at the factory. So, um, I think that sells from China. Let's see if I have any trivia questions for you guys

before we get on to Nam. This is for the trip as a whole. How many times do you think I read on the trip? This is for the whole trip. How many times did I read? Read a book. Yeah, like how many times did I, like how many times did I read a book?

One, two. How many times did I sit down and like read? So I brought my Kindle. Okay. And you, yeah. In China? This is for the whole trip. Whole trip.

Flight there, China, Vietnam, flight back. I guess first? Yep. Okay, because I'm picturing, I'm guessing not much in China because, you know, kind of a lot of tea happening, not a lot of time there but Vietnam from, from the looks of some stories, you were like at a fun resort, maybe I had some kind of chill. I'm guessing you got like, you got four good, like little reading sessions in.

Yeah. Yeah. Four sessions. Put me down hardcore for zero. Yeah. Zero is the correct answer. Yeah. I had a couple of books loaded just in case I finished the first one. Follow question. How many times did I consider reading though?

How many times I think about it? A zero. Okay. It feels like it feels like that's going to be harder to quantify. So no, there was a there was a time. Three, there was one time I thought about it. There was one time when we first got to Vietnam, I was like, we will go to the beach and read. Ah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Didn't have happening. But yeah, so I almost read once. That's that's what I'm talking about though. It's like you think of yourself, like when you're packing, you think like I'm this great version of myself is going to come out because I'm changing the atmosphere of where I am. Yeah. I'm going to be a reader on this trip, you know? And doesn't usually happen, but that's funny.

But hey, you were prepared. I was prepared. Yeah. I was very prepared. If you had to read, you could have. I could have. If I had like a hankering for English, I just needed English.

I could have found it. Social media was okay over there? Like eSIM and everything worked? Yeah, it's so interesting. Isaac didn't do Like eSIM and everything worked flawlessly. Interesting. Isaac didn't do any of that stuff. And his just like international plan worked. He just got to China and just like T-Mobile just worked. Instagram, YouTube.

Okay. Like, oh, what is this great firewall everyone's talking about? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's pretty easy to get around. I had issues. I just had bad service the whole time, but I could like access what I needed to. I see, but you couldn't like,

it was, it was noticeably laggy and stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I can watch most videos and stuff, but it's all good. Um, all right. True question. What did about 40 people on Instagram say I was using incorrectly on the trip? So you guys think it's got to be something that at least like people would know how to use. It can't be too like Chinese first thought is chopsticks. That was what I thought too. But I feel like we've talked about that enough.

I don't know. Well, what else would he be using incorrect? And you've seen my Instagram story. So, you know, it was something that was posted on Instagram. Was it back? We've talked about this a bit too. And I am curious. We haven't diagnosed it yet. The neck pillow?

That is correct. Oh! Really? That's crazy. You're so good at this. Yeah, how was the neck pillow? Oh, it was great. Everyone told me to turn it around, though.

What do you mean? How do you have it? There's no way the way people are telling me to wear it is the right way to wear it. Well, OK, here's how you wear it, in my opinion way the way people are telling me to wear it is the right way to wear it. Hold on. Okay. Here's how you wear it. In my opinion.

Yeah. I think I'll agree with you. Go say what you say. Let's say it's a toilet bowl top, right? What? Horseshoe? I'm comparing it. Yeah.

It's a horseshoe toilet bowl. Whatever. The opening is right here on the Adam's apple. Thank you. Yeah. Yes. They're saying the other way. So many people were like, they were saying like, choke yourself. Yes. I mean, at least 30 people replied to my story and it was like, you're, you're wearing it wrong. You got, you have

to turn that around. If I'll go get it right now. I have like a thick one. I posted a picture. I mean, it's massive. It's already like up my neck as it is. Will you please go get it? I want to try the way they're suggesting. So many people, I got off the flight and I'm like, Isaac, am I doing this wrong? I'm like asking Matt and like, there's no way. That does feel like too many people to suggest it to think it's not.

Cause they were like, yeah, that way your head doesn't fall down. You want me to get it? I don't sleep that way. We have cameras around you. Actually, yeah. Whereas a little tight today. I think it's just right here.

Okay. Right by the bags. Cause I sleep with my head back. So like that's exactly where I'd want the cushion. That's so strange. I was prepared to be like, oh, like, why do you, why'd you do that? Why'd you have it backwards?

Oh, not, not that bag, not that bag. He went to the, he went to the pickleball bag. Understandable, it's a pickleball trip. I also learned when I'm wearing a hoodie, it's kind of a, kind of a lot going on you got a you got a dehood yourself Throw it back. There's no way there's no way. They're insane. But yeah, like I said, they have these things in there Yeah, once you throw 30 people in there, you're like, well, maybe I am doing something wrong. All right, so oh Did you have to do this too? I don't yeah. Yeah

Tighten it up a little bit. Oh really you like the tight? Okay You'll take some more mixed nuts, please business class on the ferry Pig neck. Thank you. I Had a bad car accident. Okay, so they're saying this feels wonderful. First of all, it feels great. It feels like I was supposed to wear it. It also feels like it like adds like 30 pounds to you. It kind of just pushes up all your skin. I don't feel like I was flattering. I don't feel like I look great right now.

Okay. So like, I have no qualms with this at all. It seems like it's exactly how you're supposed to wear it. I'm assuming when I turn it around the other way I'm going to suffocate myself. Yeah, you'll be mouth taping yourself. No, I'm not. There's no way. There's no way. There is no way. This is pointless. That looks like decently somewhat comfortable, but you look like a dork. I it's not. It's not comfortable. OK, it's what's it's supporting unless I'm like, imagine these words, my sleep, how blown these people's minds will be when they put on the right way, they're like, this is actually comfortable.

I always hated. I think maybe if you're like, if you want to sleep like this. Or maybe like a smaller neck pillow, maybe cuz that one's just so tall It's not comfy to have your chin there. I also don't think I need a pillow if I'm gonna try to sleep that way Like so many people responded that I was wearing it wrong. I am I can't I mean nine and a half out of ten comfort right here This is the way to wear it. I think You just have too many followers. So 30 people, you know, you're going to get some just odd balls. That's

like 0.01% of your followers. Like I'm pretty comfortable just like this forward. This though. Yeah, dude. I don't know. Yeah. So that's that you want to try it time? Sure. I'll probably catch it first try while a time when puts that on a wanna try it, Ty? Sure. I'll probably catch it first try. While Ty would put his head on, unfortunately, I kind of have to wrap this up. I gotta go do two Correct Opinions episodes, but I feel great. I got in, I walked in my house last night at 1.30 a.m.,

slept, and I have dominated jet lag. I've made myself miserable the last few days to beat it, but I did beat it. So like two nights ago, I only slept from 3 a.m. to 7 a.m. because I needed myself to be really tired yesterday. And I was, And you were. Basically slept twice.

I slept for six hours on the flight, was awake for like six hours, and then slept another like full night of sleep. That's impressive. Did you use any drugs? I thought about it. I had it, but I didn't need to. I was like, if I'm having trouble falling asleep,

I'll use it, but what do you think? Having some trouble over here. This feels like, is this correct? Yeah, but tighten it up a little bit. Okay, great. Get it on your jowls. Yeah, I was doubtful about the tightening of it too, but I think it is necessary.

This is tough. It is tougher than you think. Thank you. You love yourself. The hoodie is a little tough. hoodie yeah constraints of it. I like this though. Yeah Yeah, you're good right there. Oh, yeah, hey now turn around look like an idiot. Okay great. Yeah, oh like a fool oh Jake that actually doesn't look that actually kind of looks right to look at that. There's a contour Hold on you see the contour for the neck my chin here the chin my big ears

But how tall do you have to be for that to be comfortable? Yeah You gotta be big bird Neither is bad. It seems it seems uh, what's it like a reversible like it seems like that is okay Or else they wouldn't have that contour Yeah, it seems like personal preference because this is good, too Actually hold on. I mean like the strings are in the back like it's sleepy Strings are I kick it over. Let me get sleepy

This is right here. I like keeping track of my mind of how that felt Dude, this is like testing pickleball paddles. They all feel like the exact same. How do I remember? I got bad news. I think I might have liked this. You did look cozy with that front thing. This? It's a neck by neck basis. This supports mother back of my head a little bit.

Maybe I didn't tighten enough. Tightened, it's nice. I think I could go with both. But I definitely have never heard of doing it this way. Assuming I could go with both. If you go on your- But I definitely have never heard of doing it this way. Assuming you order on Amazon. Yes.

Will you go to the Amazon link real quick? I know we gotta wrap up, but I'm like, how are they doing? I think the Amazon link is gonna show us both ways. That would be neato if they did. I don't think it's gonna say, you fool for doing it with strings forward. Wow, I don't wanna take this off. you fool for doing it with strings forward. Wow. I don't want to take this off also

He's locked in All right, I finally found it Um, but my one of the week is that I dominated jet lag. Yeah, and I and I beat it I beat jet lag I'm a survivor. I'm a survivor Do you think I feel like jet lag might hit you more tomorrow next day kind of thing like we'll record again on Thursday two days from now And uh, we'll see we'll see how you're doing then Luckily, I have a busy day today that will keep me on schedule

Like I gotta go do two more episodes right now and a volleyball game tonight and we're like grabbing dinner after volleyball tonight Yeah, so I might be miserable. Okay first girl. She's got strings in front strings in front vacuum compressible memory foam Did we know that's what I bought? Yeah, I didn't you You didn't know that right off the bat. I only I'm only seeing strings in front Yeah, this is a this is a good foam now that I'm like feeling it. It's a it's a quality Yeah, 2399 comes with a sleep mask. Dang. Did you use that? Actually did first time ever? How was it? I got it. Why not? It was great slept through the chicken sandwich would have loved to have had that That was gold yeah, what a killed for a chicken sandwich

For those four more those in my bag man My boy the week is Jake's home. He's safe. Thanks. I am safe. Yeah, I feel great I I wasn't truly worried but also it was like, I mean, I don't know that many people that go to China. So I was like, if anybody's going to be fine there, it's going to be Jake. If anybody's going to, you know, not be fine there, it's going to be Isaac. So it's like, I'm glad that they're home. But no, it was, it was, it was funny. We, uh, assumingly like, Hey, you know, Rachel's assumingly like, you know, Rachel's gonna be, you know, kind of lonely without Jake.

Like we should try to hang out with her. Catherine tried. I think she saw her once for like 30 minutes, you know. She was pretty busy when I texted her. Plenty social. Yeah, it seemed like she was always doing something. Yeah. So.

Thanks for trying. Yeah, sure. I always, I've been trying to honk every time I go past your house now. I do like that. I like that a lot. Catherine's like, why are you honking? I was like, just saying hi. No, it. I always, I've been trying to honk every time I go past your house now. I do like that. I like it a lot. Catherine was like, why are you honking? I was like, just saying hi.

No, it's like a small town thing. I love it. I'm like just very lightly tapping 20 times. Beep, beep, beep, beep. And I kind of like lightly tap until I find that it's actually working. Duh, duh, duh, duh, duh, duh. Thank you.

But yeah, I still did that for Rachel. Just to say hi. I love it. Keep honking. So I really like it. Anyway, that's my way of the week is Jake's home. I know it's boring. Still the apartment though. No, that's great. It's not boring. What do you move out of your childhood home? Yeah. Yeah. Still just riding that feeling. It's pretty cool. Yeah. Yeah. Good. I talked with Scott last night because he picked us up in the airport and I Was I kind of invited myself? I was like, oh, I'll come over tomorrow with Scott But I realized I'm getting a mole surgery on my back tomorrow. So hard to keep up with all that, you know

I'm never gonna work out again. Just every two weeks. We're still going come over. You're welcome to when I'm done. Is that we said? Yeah, all right Straight from Serge. I can't wait. I'll go live from time. It's a part of it. That'd be fun. Oh, that'd be awesome Cool. All right, Jake. Yeah, we'll talk more about this trip. I'm excited to I can't wait to you about Kenny on Monday I can't believe you said that name dude Kenny. It's so funny I've had some good guesses today Kenny and then I also cuz have you mentioned Kenny on the like Instagram story? No, no one knows about Kenny. Okay, cuz I was like, I truly have like seen maybe 10% of your stories. If that like very little. It's, I want to prove to you though, like this is, this is truly

just a coincidence. I said, yeah, no one knows about Kenny. Did you see my close friend's story about the Vietnamese currency? Oh dude. So I did see a few of those. Yeah. Do you want to just do it? Yeah, Monday we'll talk Kenny and we'll talk Dong. Great. Just set the stage. Did you guys? Kenny's Dong? Oh, uh, maybe. Kinda. Yeah. Yeah. The Dong we got for Kenny. Yeah. Okay. Good. All right, guys. We love you. We'll see you Monday. Ni hao. Ni hao. Ghost from the Spot Cam. Ghost from the Spot Cam. Every Monday morning we're taking back Ghost from the Spot Cam. Ghost from the Spot Cam.