Drugs (and Worse) Openly Sold in China

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  • Опубліковано 18 вер 2024
  • We found a town that is completely gone now. They put in a huge dam project in this area of Hunan, so what you see in this video has not only never been documented, but doesn't even exist now. We hope you enjoy our travels through China, and decided to make some cozy videos about what we see, and feel, and our observations of the area, and translations of the signs etc. We will be heading north soon!
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  • @ADVChina
    @ADVChina  3 роки тому +96

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    • @treetheodore6906
      @treetheodore6906 3 роки тому +2

      "Unity through nervousness." Thanks for translating for people who do not have a platform.

    • @medx1553
      @medx1553 3 роки тому +1

      Your video full of LIES

    • @mikespike2099
      @mikespike2099 3 роки тому +4

      Proper China experience - much better than all the CCP Shills filtered view

    • @johnrichardson5858
      @johnrichardson5858 3 роки тому +1

      Here one must not question lockdowns and vaccines nor Fauci, nor any Leftist trash!

    • @SuperCuteAnimeWaifu
      @SuperCuteAnimeWaifu 3 роки тому

      ^Wumao. Deflection doesnt fix your societies problems.

  • @pilgrimm23
    @pilgrimm23 3 роки тому +844

    Graffiti has been a source of cultural information since Pompeii. If you want to know a culture, study their profanity..

    • @marcellinechoisne5627
      @marcellinechoisne5627 3 роки тому +19

      so true!in Lascaux caves was graffitis,and under influence (booze due to the lack of oxygen!)

    • @TWRehab
      @TWRehab 3 роки тому +80

      Its one perspective on a culture, valid but not complete. It would be like using Twitter to examine western culture.

    • @2ndchookie919
      @2ndchookie919 3 роки тому +20

      Egyptians are known to have scribbled on walls, and then Romans defaced some centuries later with their own graffiti.

    • @mpforeverunlimited
      @mpforeverunlimited 3 роки тому +1

      How did they even write back then?

    • @smitmiras
      @smitmiras 3 роки тому +15

      @@mpforeverunlimited I think with their hands!

  • @mostlypeacefulrowan8747
    @mostlypeacefulrowan8747 3 роки тому +555

    In NZ its racist to say meth comes from China. A journalist went to china over 10 years ago and bought a sack of ingredients for meth over the counter. No questions asked.

    • @lonelygod6629
      @lonelygod6629 3 роки тому +105

      That is true because there is almost no control on medicine in China. You can buy the ingredients and cook the meth yourself. But China also has very strict punishment on drugs: if you cook you can be in prison for whole life or be sentenced to death; a celebrity uses weed, he can ruin his whole career and his name is never to be shown on the media; any movie showing drug use or cook will be forbidden so you cannot make a Chinese version Breaking Bad......

    • @alexcarter8807
      @alexcarter8807 3 роки тому +58

      It's just a chemical. Of course China being the leading world manufacturer is going to have lots of ... chemicals.

    • @DrSAM69
      @DrSAM69 3 роки тому +56

      Meth has always been an epidemic in most of Asia alongside heroin, but meth has overtaken opioids there cause many addicts use it to work more.
      One ingredient comes from a very common plant in asia, Ephedra or Ma Huang in chinese but synthetic ephedrine and pseudoephedrine are widely used in medicine around the world. Chinese criminal organizations have a big share on the production and distribution of meth in asia.
      I would say though that bath salts and RCs are almost exclusively produced in chinese labs that offer custom synthesis, but their clients who ask for such molecules in bulk are almost always foreign privates.

    • @zszyTW
      @zszyTW 3 роки тому +86

      What isn't racist in New Zealand?

    • @mostlypeacefulrowan8747
      @mostlypeacefulrowan8747 3 роки тому +18

      @@zszyTW lol if you think everything is racist then you should go back to where you came from because no one likes you

  • @All-shall-say-Jesus-is-Lord
    @All-shall-say-Jesus-is-Lord 3 роки тому +945

    This video should've been labeled something like "Footage from a small town in China that's gone". This is now a historical document of a place that no longer exists. :'(

    • @TSZatoichi
      @TSZatoichi 3 роки тому +49

      Yes! It looked like they were already preparing for the lake by cutting down the trees and knocking down old buildings.

    • @DB-vd3vy
      @DB-vd3vy 3 роки тому +37

      I lived in Hunan. We all know how it goes in Hunan. 没办法

    • @EsaiasP
      @EsaiasP 3 роки тому +17

      @@DB-vd3vy I don't, tell me, how it goes?

    • @bernardo00124719
      @bernardo00124719 3 роки тому +10

      @@DB-vd3vy yeah how it goes?

    • @NiSiRewinD
      @NiSiRewinD 3 роки тому +16

      This kind of stuff is catalogued by others and the way SerpentZA operates, he probably has all his footage stored somewhere safe, in case something would happen. No need to use UA-cam as platform for historic documents, this is just "content".

  • @scottmactavish9716
    @scottmactavish9716 3 роки тому +47

    My nephew spent a year in China, teaching and traveling with a friend by motorcycle, much like this. The photos he took are spectacular. He also had a tooth infection, in which all these stories about the healthcare system is absolutely true.

  • @100RAmen
    @100RAmen 3 роки тому +185

    22:56 you guys hit a jackpot here! the left side says “团结 紧张” "unity nervous" , the right side of the building says "严肃 活泼" "solemn vivacious". you read them together 团结unity 紧张nervous 严肃solemn 活泼vivacious, Mao wrote this done as the school motto for one of the first CCP military schools. it shows up all over the walls of Chinese military bases.
    of course, it makes no sense as the words literally contradict each other. there was a great film scene by 王朔 about a child questioning his teacher about how does one do something both nervous and nervous but somehow vivacious. a masterpiece for sure couldn't find the movie for now.

    • @laowhy86
      @laowhy86 3 роки тому +23

      Thank you!

    • @alphabetazeta5373
      @alphabetazeta5373 3 роки тому +3

      Thank you!

    • @PatchyE
      @PatchyE 3 роки тому +4

      as someone else has pointed out tense/being on alert is a better translation than nervous here.

    • @meinbherpieg4723
      @meinbherpieg4723 3 роки тому +2

      @@PatchyE Unity through vigilance?

    • @PatchyE
      @PatchyE 3 роки тому +2

      @@meinbherpieg4723 "through" is a wrong translation. It's just a juxtaposition of four words, no preposition between them.

  • @jackiejiaqiyu7294
    @jackiejiaqiyu7294 3 роки тому +770

    团结紧张严肃活泼 is what Winston was seeing... it means “unity tense seriousness and cheerfulness” it’s the paradigm of double think but what they trying to convey is “you need to be unified and finish the work in the commune and then you can have a little fun”

    • @laowhy86
      @laowhy86 3 роки тому +103

      Thank you!

    • @AY-qf4pg
      @AY-qf4pg 3 роки тому +50

      Like 'we're all in this together'. 'Staying apart, keeps us together'

    • @ZhangZechary
      @ZhangZechary 3 роки тому +15

      How mental dissociation is that

    • @zilun
      @zilun 3 роки тому +29

      I have been speaking mandarin my whole life. Still doesn’t make any sense to me.

    • @prolotherapy
      @prolotherapy 3 роки тому +44

      Now we know where the Demonrats get their inspiration from " you just need to be united and steal the elections and then you can have a little fun selling America to the ChiCom bastards".

  • @owenraybould7930
    @owenraybould7930 3 роки тому +250

    I taught English in Hunan in 2001, and was driven out to lots of places like this, I see they haven't changed! I was sheltered from a lot of the vice of course, my impression is that it is worsening though looking at this. Well done for all the documenting you are doing about China. I have such fond memories of the people I met there, but I had the same conflicted feelings about a lot of the social structure back then, even in the days before things like social currency etc. The locals then had NO freedoms, and couldn't even travel in the way that I was able to. Few of my students had ever seen the sea, or knew how to swim. One of the days the campus where I taught was empty of students and they came back telling me they had all been to an 'exhibition'. I was later told the truth that it was public executions. We has some visitors to the campus and I had no idea who they were, but was asked to give a speech about the value of study (or something like that), I spoke in English as I was newly arrived. I later found out they were a govt propaganda team going around the country preaching against Falun Gong. Had I known this of course I would not have participated. But the vast majority of humanity in China are decent and kind people, there is an enormous amount of talent in the country. The students there had hard lives but were very impressive. On a visit to one place with another colleague, another foreign English teacher who was older than me at the time, he became friendly with some small children who all took to him. On leaving he tried to give them money through the car window, and they ran alongside the car, proudly returning it back through the window. Not one of them was older than 6. I left a racing bicycle outside of a high street shop in the town where I worked, leant against a post, and then on leaving, I got in a taxi to go home, forgetting I had arrived on the bike. I was probably hungover or something. I remembered it three days later, and went back for the bike. It was still there except someone had slightly moved it so it was out of the way.

    • @c1h2r3i4s56987
      @c1h2r3i4s56987 3 роки тому +11

      Stories like this will save humanity Keep Sharing

    • @ianchandley
      @ianchandley 2 роки тому +27

      Generally speaking in my experience, most people are really awesome and kind, no matter what country I’ve been in.

    • @marktn9851
      @marktn9851 2 роки тому +1

      U taught English is already not a credible way to start off when one kept reading yr post… so sorry

    • @wen771127
      @wen771127 2 роки тому +1

      @@marktn9851 lol, i thought i was the only one who thought that, and i'm not a native english speaker.

    • @rolux4853
      @rolux4853 2 роки тому +7

      @@wen771127 anybody with elementary school skills can teach english in China.
      They don’t care about grammar, they just want to learn how to talk.
      Being a real expert is something unwanted in China.

  • @OrbitalAstronaut
    @OrbitalAstronaut 3 роки тому +633

    This episode has lots of deep lore.

    • @laowhy86
      @laowhy86 3 роки тому +41

      That's what we thought! Glad you liked it

    • @imcarlosjr4898
      @imcarlosjr4898 3 роки тому +1

      Totally 💯

    • @KabobHope
      @KabobHope 3 роки тому +2

      Oh it runs deep, all right.

    • @haxmax213
      @haxmax213 3 роки тому +4

      I liked the episode with the pirate arc better. It sucks that they killed off the supporting character th@ soon tbh.

    • @x7j4
      @x7j4 3 роки тому +8

      And this episode has a lot of BS and exaggerating too. As usual, these losers are trying to make money by lying, by taking some kids Graffiti and extrapolating that to an entire rural population. Just more crazy crap by two guys who got kicked out of China. Their video used to be quite good, but gone way downhill now with their perpetual grudge.

  • @xyz7572
    @xyz7572 2 роки тому +35

    I love these videos where you go back and explain what we’re looking at, because there’s so much that we as viewers learn that would have just passed over our heads otherwise!
    It’s so cool to see the footage through the eyes of people who can interpret what we’re seeing :)

    • @pixpusha
      @pixpusha 2 роки тому +2

      I wish they could deconstruct my life as if it were go-pro footage. Life would be so much simpler.

  • @tenshi414
    @tenshi414 2 роки тому +6

    i appreciate both of your works, i've been binge watching both of you the past month and i love how genuine you guys are. keep up the wonderful work

  • @Izzyknight15
    @Izzyknight15 3 роки тому +95

    More of these videos please, the spontaneity is genuinely charming

  • @cincinnatea8978
    @cincinnatea8978 3 роки тому +216

    Love this format. Nice to get the feeling of exploring China while getting commentary of the ride - even prefer it to the talk-and-ride format of previous videos.

    • @MrAnimason
      @MrAnimason 3 роки тому +3

      Wouldn't go that far but this is much appreciated.

    • @MrsLovelyPendragon
      @MrsLovelyPendragon 3 роки тому +1

      Agreed! Loved this!

    • @MrMduchesne23
      @MrMduchesne23 3 роки тому +1

      this is how I travelled through Nigeria in the old days, with family and locals. I was always asking about the signs and graffiti because I spoke English and french but couldn't read french or speak/read the local language.

    • @qwerpasdf
      @qwerpasdf 3 роки тому

      Yeah this is great

    • @elijah6756
      @elijah6756 3 роки тому

      sell drug will be executed in china

  • @BlackwingXElite
    @BlackwingXElite 3 роки тому +11

    Seeing everything you have talked about exist in practice gives me a much deeper appreciation for everything you guys have mentioned so far.
    Keep it up and stay awesome👍

  • @paulsenkans3401
    @paulsenkans3401 3 роки тому +6

    I love these documentaries from ADVChina and Serpentza. Cheers!

  • @joecoupon8299
    @joecoupon8299 3 роки тому +26

    I like how you two get "in character" with your riding jackets to view past footage.

  • @radicalveg00
    @radicalveg00 3 роки тому +330

    It never ceases to amaze me how the two of you are able to speak and read Chinese fluently.

    • @smokeemifyougotem9662
      @smokeemifyougotem9662 3 роки тому +59

      They did spend years there. It's one thing to learn it without any exposure but when you're around it all the time how do you not learn it? It's like people here who don't know English despite being here for over a decade.

    • @BilianaBiBiShiBiBiShaN1111
      @BilianaBiBiShiBiBiShaN1111 3 роки тому +9

      Not fluently. No stranger can speak Chinese fluently. They can interpret.

    • @TheRibbonRed
      @TheRibbonRed 3 роки тому +39

      @@smokeemifyougotem9662 the 白猴 youtubers that Winston talked before are the "impossible people" you're talking about though. Living in Mainland China from 3 to +9 years without ever learning Chinese, and becoming _very_ pro-CCP because all they consume is translated state media like CGTN.

    • @holboroman
      @holboroman 3 роки тому +45

      @@BilianaBiBiShiBiBiShaN1111 Stop inflicting limiting beliefs on us all!

    • @gasaholic47
      @gasaholic47 3 роки тому +31

      @@BilianaBiBiShiBiBiShaN1111 That’s an ignorant comment. You really have no clue how language acquisition works, do you?

  • @IlBoscoPrimavera
    @IlBoscoPrimavera 3 роки тому +14

    Yes, please do more of these. I find it incredibly interesting to see the video (with your narration, or reminiscing, whatever) that didn't make it into the Conquering China docos, or your semi-weekly posts when you were still living in China. These pieces add a depth of insight that I'm very grateful for.
    Thanks you!

  • @londonviking3801
    @londonviking3801 3 роки тому +22

    Hey! Discovered you (serpentza) a couple of days ago as caught the Saffer accent. I grew up in Cape Town and spent 20yrs there but have lived in London UK since '98. I find your vids on China completely fascinating as I've never been to the east. Will be doing some binge watching soon.

  • @richardcrook2112
    @richardcrook2112 3 роки тому +12

    I love these buddy movie scenarios. It's always a really straight guy and his more maverick, loose cannon sidekick. A compelling archetype.

  • @bamdadkhan
    @bamdadkhan 3 роки тому +7

    this is awesome. please do more. i'd even buy it as a laid back semi-documentary with commentary. seriously.

  • @stegi9315
    @stegi9315 3 роки тому +71

    Seeing those towns always gives me that creeping sense of self awareness. Like there are people living there, making the best out of their lives in that rough country

    • @netdude1984
      @netdude1984 3 роки тому +3

      They are rough people. They belong just there.

    • @ligametis
      @ligametis 3 роки тому +4

      They look bad, but why everything is so gloomy, like no sun exists in those towns. In sunny day nature around should make things bearable.

    • @marksmith4452
      @marksmith4452 3 роки тому +10

      Get ready, it’s coming to America under the new green deal. Thanks Soros and his workers in our government, big business, professional sports, media and big tech. You’ve sold us out. And by the way, Jeffrey Epstein didn’t kill himself and joe potato head buydim didn’t win the election. He and his masters cheated and stole it.

    • @kenleebu6414
      @kenleebu6414 3 роки тому +1

      @@ligametis as you know the BBC spooky filter applied by these 2 weirdo who love to make China as their ingredient and talking nonsense about it

    • @kneesnap1041
      @kneesnap1041 2 роки тому +2

      @@netdude1984 disgusting. They didn't choose where they were born or how the society around them was built, they just had to do the best with what they got. There's nothing wrong with the people it's how their society is organized, something they have no say over.

  • @williamlloyd3769
    @williamlloyd3769 3 роки тому +52

    Epic MC trip. Enjoyed your analysis of local signage and showing how local inhabitants deal with being displaced from their homes.

  • @glennvastine4118
    @glennvastine4118 3 роки тому +47

    Could you imagine a Chinese version of this for Chinese audiences? Driving through Detroit or Chicago pointing out the drug contacts, former Democratic leadership symbols and sketchy neighborhoods buried in poverty and lawlessness? I’m sure it would be a hit in Shanghai and Beijing lol....

    • @alliwishis2652
      @alliwishis2652 3 роки тому

      This is typical for American for someone who's not American but what makes this strange is this is just new and recent

    • @mstone-wd7kc
      @mstone-wd7kc 3 роки тому

      Lol what

    • @Detroittruckdoctor55
      @Detroittruckdoctor55 3 роки тому +4

      I live in detroit. Graffiti is gang territory. Not drug sales.

    • @glennvastine4118
      @glennvastine4118 3 роки тому +1

      @@Detroittruckdoctor55 we can agree it’s both. Gangs sell drugs AND kill people.

    • @ShineThePath
      @ShineThePath 3 роки тому

      Imagine if someone went traveling around some Batustan and repeatedly saying "capitalist architecture is dreary".

  • @kurtiswithakayy
    @kurtiswithakayy 3 роки тому +3

    I really enjoy you guys narrating your footage like this and talking about it!

  • @vixenator7657
    @vixenator7657 3 роки тому +2

    Really like these tours with the candid commentary. It's amazing what you guys are picking up on looking at it a second time. Very insightful.

  • @farahjama2332
    @farahjama2332 3 роки тому +18

    you guys are amazing! you have travelled and documented in and out in china! you can also talk about it forever! what a life!

  • @sskyles
    @sskyles 3 роки тому +56

    22:58 “團結緊張” goes together with “嚴肅活潑” at the other end of the building. It is a saying from Mao's Red Book. Here, 緊張 isn't really "nervousness", it's more a call to remain alert or conscientious. So this saying is a call to emulate four qualities: Unity, Conscientiousness, Earnestness, and Liveliness.

    • @laowhy86
      @laowhy86 3 роки тому +6

      Thank you!

    • @sheiyo6638
      @sheiyo6638 3 роки тому +2

      Agree. The 緊張 here is more like asking people to beware of something...

    • @typython6999
      @typython6999 3 роки тому

      在澳大利亚政府创造、想出 be alert but not alarmed和if it doesn't add up speak up之类的口号。

    • @deusexaethera
      @deusexaethera 3 роки тому +1

      I was going to say, "nervousness" seems like it could also be translated as "alertness" or "attentiveness".

    • @theuglyman275
      @theuglyman275 3 роки тому

      good good study, day day up

  • @FonKii
    @FonKii 3 роки тому +54

    “Unity through nervousness/paranoia” is one of Mao’s quotes

  • @ludwigmalone5239
    @ludwigmalone5239 3 роки тому +5

    Beautifully done video from the first to the last! I really appreciate you two. Have watched a number of your videos and liked every single one, you combine beauty in China along with the not so and I feel you do it with a feeling of both affection and exasperation. As I'll never get there I am glad to be able to see it thanks to you.

  • @grapsietv
    @grapsietv 2 роки тому +2

    I found each of your channels separately, and until now, I had no clue you both shared a channel. I love the content you both put out and I'm glad to say I'm subscribing to this channel as well. Keep up the great reporting and best of luck with your future endeavors :)

  • @TrangleC
    @TrangleC 3 роки тому +16

    My ex-fiancee was from Zhuzhou. I only visited her once there to be introduced to her parents and we then took a train from Zhuzhou, over Wuhan to Shanghai, to visit a common friend, the guy who had introduced us to each other.
    That was in 2005, before there were those high speed trains everywhere, so the trip took a very long time, I think 26 hours or something like that. It was grueling, but I got a good look at the Chinese countryside for the first time.
    What I remember the best is how weird many of the villages we passed looked. The houses basically all looked the same, 2 to 3 story concrete boxes, but what was weird about them were the windows. In one village all the houses had blue tinted windows, in the next village all the windows were pink tinted, then in the next village another color and so on.
    I can't imagine living in a house where all the windows are blue or green or yellow, so that seemed really alien to me. I also hadn't seen anything like that in Qingdao, where I spent a year as an intern and where I originally met the girl. So I guess that might be a thing unique to Hunan and Hubei?

    • @HimmelsDaemon
      @HimmelsDaemon 3 роки тому +4

      Huh... I wonder if they weren't tinted but that was the colored film of whichever manufacturer made the window glass and never got taken off like off the garage shutters. Now that'd be a question for Winston and C-Milk, or etc...

    • @smokeemifyougotem9662
      @smokeemifyougotem9662 3 роки тому +1

      My hunch is who ever sells the windows only has access to those colors and they put windows in for all of town, and or, the government does it for sorting purposes.

    • @TrangleC
      @TrangleC 3 роки тому +1

      @@HimmelsDaemon Possible. I think in that case I should have seen that film peel off of the windows, which I don't remember, but my memory could be shoddy. It was 16 years ago, after all.

    • @TrangleC
      @TrangleC 3 роки тому +3

      @@smokeemifyougotem9662 Maybe, but I rather got the suspicion that it was a fashion thing. It seems common in China that one wealthy dude will do something gaudy to stand out from the crowd and then other people will copy him, to look as wealthy and hip as the first guy.
      This is not unique to China of course. There are many anecdotes from history that show that it was like that in other parts of the world too.
      A funny story is how, I think it was Queen Elizabeth 1 of England had black, rotten teeth and that became a fashion. People at court and the rich elites would actively blacken their teeth to look more like the queen.
      Another example is when princess Pocahontas was brought to England and because of her it became fashion for a while for the queen and all the noble and rich ladies to walk around topless.

  • @Maxime_K-G
    @Maxime_K-G 3 роки тому +40

    I love this style of video! Analysing and explaining every little detail in a clip.

  • @denni7173
    @denni7173 3 роки тому +36

    One of the best videos you guys have ever done! Loved this! Fascinating to see the more dingy and rural areas

  • @shelidorin6531
    @shelidorin6531 8 місяців тому

    Really glad to see a fresh perspective on your content. I used to watch religiously a few years ago on a different account. Really nice to get a deeper dive on what was going on at the time.

  • @nihaomatilda5727
    @nihaomatilda5727 3 роки тому +9

    So interesting guys how cool that you know that about the license plates! Loved this episode, it was like a mini vacation ;) Whenever I miss China I just watch some of your episodes (and am cured lol no need to go back anytime soon though I wish to do so for travel)!! You’ve guys been everywhere it’s so cool 😎 thanks for sharing your experiences and insights, love from NL

  • @shan_navi
    @shan_navi 3 роки тому +4

    So happy y’all did another one of these videos. Some of my favorite stuff y’all have done

  • @givemepizzaorgivemedeath3983
    @givemepizzaorgivemedeath3983 3 роки тому +6

    Once again, excellent new format.

  • @StereoSpace
    @StereoSpace 3 роки тому +13

    I miss Vivi and Hu. I'd really like to hear more from them. It's always interesting hearing their viewpoints and comments.

  • @NMjack2000
    @NMjack2000 3 роки тому +8

    I remember looking inside a Opium Den in Kowloon China back in 1967 when the US Ship I was assigned had a port call in Hong Kong. It was a stinking place with a thick sludge on all the walls in a drug den over in Kowloon.

  • @vtechk
    @vtechk 3 роки тому +2

    Wow. What a place! Never going there. Your videos are enough.

  • @lindapuccio9029
    @lindapuccio9029 3 роки тому +185

    I feel bad for the Chinese not theCCP ! 🙏 Great job doing this video

    • @GeoScorpion
      @GeoScorpion 3 роки тому +4

      lol!

    • @ryanp8925
      @ryanp8925 3 роки тому +29

      I used to feel the same but I don't feel bad for the Chinese anymore. They are all over UA-cam these days. They say the worst inhuman things, not one of their countrymen will call them out, but actually like what they say. I saw on the Nuance channel some dude said that he wished more people would have died in the 9-11 Twin Tower attack and it got 4k likes. I have lost total respect for mainlanders.

    • @GeoScorpion
      @GeoScorpion 3 роки тому +3

      @@ryanp8925 Really? Your experience seems utterly opposite of mine and your bitterness ...

    • @reb9977
      @reb9977 3 роки тому +6

      @@ryanp8925 I wished china was still in the century of humiliation.

    • @songchao854
      @songchao854 3 роки тому +1

      Thanks

  • @rufusray
    @rufusray 3 роки тому +7

    This style of video rocks, keep them up periodically at the very least.

  • @AshkenaziChristian
    @AshkenaziChristian 3 роки тому +5

    LOVE these videos and your commentaries. Keep up the excellent work.

  • @johnc2438
    @johnc2438 3 роки тому +2

    "B-roll" footage is wonderful. Especially the narrative details you add to illustrate essential points. Thanks! Valuable stuff. Hope you do more of these. 👍

  • @robd951
    @robd951 3 роки тому +2

    This was like a drive through tour. I really liked this style of video. Hope to see more like this.

  • @hopfrogg9599
    @hopfrogg9599 3 роки тому +70

    Man I'd pay a ton of money to watch a video of Nunce and Graylow sitting side by side interpreting Chinese road signs on the fly.

    • @GeoScorpion
      @GeoScorpion 3 роки тому +2

      LOL! Sorry, but that was kinda funny!

    • @hopfrogg9599
      @hopfrogg9599 3 роки тому +4

      @@GeoScorpion "I recognize the symbol for beer on that sign"

  • @Moloko_b
    @Moloko_b 3 роки тому +14

    Looking back at your old footage, doesn’t it depress you guys knowing that most of the areas you filmed are no longer there? Loving the stories and the history as well ❤️👍🏻

    • @strongerstone9651
      @strongerstone9651 3 роки тому

      that's also why their footages are extremely valuable.

  • @bathurkhan1367
    @bathurkhan1367 3 роки тому +11

    严肃紧张Yan Su jin Zhang, It means be serious and active or 认真。 P.s this was by far one of your most!!!!! entertaining video

  • @deuteronimus750
    @deuteronimus750 3 роки тому +1

    I was delivering furniture for Sears Roebuck Company in Austin, Tx. in the mid 1980's to an older Chinese married couple who didn't speak English. The husband apparently didn't like the quality of it, and was expressing his dissatisfaction with it to me at very great length. After a while his wife interrupted to offer my helper and I each a plate of the same filled pastry that you showed in the video along with a cup of tea. We finally left but I will always remember the food and her gracious hospitality.

  • @surrender2thewhitewidow967
    @surrender2thewhitewidow967 3 роки тому +2

    Thank you guys so very much for touring China and sharing it with the world. I am in America and it is great to see the various areas, ways, economics and more. Joe in Detroit, Michigan U.S.A. (I can see why as an old man myself now that my Dad said we were very rich). Wow.

  • @dwu67
    @dwu67 3 роки тому +7

    thanks guys, I really enjoy seeing these parts of China! Precious footage indeed!

  • @billhartnett6413
    @billhartnett6413 3 роки тому +8

    I liked those people & their homes / way of life across the wooden bridge in Conquering Southern China. Rural China is awesome, the people have little money but always happy, friendly & helpful.

  • @karban82
    @karban82 3 роки тому +7

    Guys, i love your videos, anyway i have a suggestion for improvements - you are reading some signs and telling interesting things about it, but for the non-speakers, we have no idea to what building or part of the video you are refering. How about drawing a red circle to that place, or just a mouse pointer? Thanks for considering!

  • @classifiedinformation6353
    @classifiedinformation6353 3 роки тому +3

    Geez guys, now I'm depressed. But educated. Sometimes knowledge is not easy to take in.
    John

  • @garsonliu8736
    @garsonliu8736 2 роки тому +1

    The first emperor of China (Yu) wasn't crowned because he built a dam, but the opposite. He divided the flood and filled up marshes for farmland and residential. However, this myth may be proved to be wrong because archeologists found out the flood may happen centuries after Yu was crowned.

  • @Sonex1542
    @Sonex1542 3 роки тому +7

    This was an excellent video. So much more information than rag chewing on bikes. Do this again please.

  • @Mishn0
    @Mishn0 3 роки тому +6

    The NATO reporting names identified the Soviet aircraft back before the west knew the actual Russian nomenclature. It also "encoded" information about the aircraft. One syllable means prop aircraft and two syllables means a jet. The first letter of the name described the type, F for fighter, B for bomber, G for SAM, S for surface to surface missile... so "Farmer" indicated a jet fighter while "Bear" indicated a prop driven bomber.

  • @liamkirk5258
    @liamkirk5258 3 роки тому +5

    Been watching for the past 3 years . Can't wait to see you guys start travel again 🙂

  • @snippen1
    @snippen1 3 роки тому +1

    Love watching u go through these clips. Watching u guys traveling around China was what brought me to the channel in the first place so this is almost nostalgic :)

  • @MissesWitch
    @MissesWitch 3 роки тому +7

    Glad I'm not the only one who's suffering not being able to sleep from noise.. when it gets you in your heart that's really the worst.. and what I've always felt.

  • @smokeemifyougotem9662
    @smokeemifyougotem9662 3 роки тому +59

    I love this new series. Also sad those nice wooden houses were flooded. The people seemed nice offering you a drink and inviting you in especially when foreigners in those area's have to appear like vampires to them.

    • @laowhy86
      @laowhy86 3 роки тому +10

      They were very sweet

    • @davidburroughs2244
      @davidburroughs2244 3 роки тому +3

      It is very cool. I'm wondering if it is some kind of cross between every one of them felt like a disadvantaged minority in their own area or if part of it was is some one is recognizing and being nice to us so I'm going to be nice and converse with them. The kindest is apparent.

  • @gto11520
    @gto11520 3 роки тому +4

    you guys have some unique videos. good job keep the content rolling

  • @emale01
    @emale01 3 роки тому +1

    Your videos are amazing. I learn so much about China watching them. Thank you.

  • @WillKumler
    @WillKumler 3 роки тому +1

    I like how you guys discuss the lawlessness there with such nonchalance. "Oh yeah, the cops are totally in on it, or on the take..." Priceless! :D

  • @daboo2
    @daboo2 3 роки тому +8

    These look-back narrated rides are great. More please!

  • @judosailor
    @judosailor 3 роки тому +11

    Love this footage from China, and hearing you guys speak and read Chinese. I’m currently trying to learn and love being exposed to it.

    • @一只野生袍子
      @一只野生袍子 3 роки тому

      You'd better not learn from them. As a Chinese, I can't understand their Chinese very well

    • @judosailor
      @judosailor 3 роки тому

      @@一只野生袍子 Yeah, judging by your comments you don’t like these guys very much. I can’t judge their chinese but you just seem to be a hater.

    • @一只野生袍子
      @一只野生袍子 3 роки тому

      @@judosailor I don't like them very much, because I am from Hunan, and their content is not objective. And I really can't understand their Chinese. Do you think if a South African speaks Chinese and the Chinese can't understand it, does he really understand China?
      If you want to learn Chinese, you might as well ask me

    • @一只野生袍子
      @一只野生袍子 3 роки тому

      @@judosailor In addition, they haven't even even drink milk tea茶颜悦色and eaten小炒黄牛肉. Basically, it can be said that they didn't come to Hunan.

    • @judosailor
      @judosailor 3 роки тому +1

      @@一只野生袍子 Look, I have followed these guys for a long time, a period of some years. Even back when they were still living in China. I’ve seen their content, I’ve followed their channels. And look, you’re barking up the wrong tree here. You’re not gonna convince me that these guys are liars and can’t really speak Chinese. I mean I don’t know how good it is, but they clearly can speak it. And they clearly can understand it. Let’s just say I trust them far more than I trust you, a random anonymous Internet person. So, you’re wasting your time here.

  • @Igeeckow
    @Igeeckow 3 роки тому +6

    Love this format

    • @H0B0J03
      @H0B0J03 3 роки тому

      Yeah this is awesome!
      Dudes, you should review more of your old footage like this- it's really interesting

  • @mattpeters4700
    @mattpeters4700 3 роки тому +2

    this series rocks I cant wait to see more.

  • @delakvold1895
    @delakvold1895 3 роки тому +2

    Love this channel. My favorite town is farther to the west, Dali. Old Town was nice and prostitution was open. We went backpacking further to the west and the country is beautiful. On the way to our hiking area long stretches of the road were covered with rice. They used half of the paved area to dry their rice. We hiked through an area that was covered with walnut farms. Beautifully terraced lands. A farmer let us sleep in his house and what I found odd is he had a 6 foot tall poster of Mao behind his TV.

  • @navidpey194
    @navidpey194 3 роки тому +34

    Hunan - “my hometown “
    Every factory sales girl ever.

  • @LostInThe0zone
    @LostInThe0zone 3 роки тому +39

    This is the sort of cultural analysis that I really appreciate.

  • @Geoduct123
    @Geoduct123 3 роки тому +18

    I love it. Get diagnosed for a cheap price. Something you would hear on futurama

    • @pozloadescobar
      @pozloadescobar 3 роки тому

      Something you'd hear in America today too! lol

  • @FallingPicturesProductions
    @FallingPicturesProductions 3 роки тому +5

    'Drugs and worse openely sold in China'
    Great Britain: Hey, I've seen this one before!

  • @TheRuph100
    @TheRuph100 3 роки тому +2

    Love those kinds of videos! Takes us back to the old China days and also gives a really deep insight into what life all around China is like. You two are doing great work with all of your channels. Please don´t ever stop producing videos, stay away from the wu maos and STAY AWESOME!

  • @johndgabriel
    @johndgabriel 3 роки тому +25

    团结. 紧张. 严肃. 活泼.
    tuan jie. jin zhang. yan su. huo po.
    My wife said these words were always on the wall at her school and also all over her city of Shenyang 25 years ago. Of course she knows the meaning of these 4 words - Unity, Tension, Serious, Lively - but she doesn’t really know why they were displayed as no one ever explained it. She said that it always made her nervous when she saw these words.

  • @yimmy7160
    @yimmy7160 3 роки тому +55

    unified in fear is what they mean, but cannot say without persecution or torture

    • @Joso997
      @Joso997 3 роки тому

      Tnx

    • @benghazi4216
      @benghazi4216 3 роки тому

      So it's anti government slogans? In public? In Huhan province?

    • @mariusvanc
      @mariusvanc 3 роки тому

      I'd think it would be something like alertness.

  • @holboroman
    @holboroman 3 роки тому +23

    Interesting show, lads. The graffiti and signs really tell a lot about the level of thinking of the locals. In Bali, Indonesia, two signs I saw were “No pissing except for dogs” and “Only non guests are not allowed to not pay to use the pool”.

    • @deathproofbum0197
      @deathproofbum0197 3 роки тому +1

      Why would a sign be needed in the first place, it's like stopping to read a sign which tells you how much further would you be if you hadn't stopped to read this.

  • @porsche9302
    @porsche9302 3 роки тому

    One of the best videos you've done. Haven't seen them like this in a while. Love seeing the old China I used to walk around in. I love those old towns and seeing real people. Old town and the beautiful scenery. Places like this in Japan are what postcards are made to look like. They keep them cleaner. You can find great home cooked food in these little towns in China. Some people get suspicious of why you are there but others are happy to see you and talk.

  • @dannyslammy4379
    @dannyslammy4379 2 роки тому +1

    making houses out of mud has a long and proud tradition both in the west and the east

  • @Bufekana
    @Bufekana 3 роки тому +4

    Hi guys! Nice video as always👋😊

  • @_0______00__________0_______0
    @_0______00__________0_______0 3 роки тому +15

    Any time I travel anywhere I imagine what my life would be like if I were a baby there.

    • @AnniePBeautyDefyingAge
      @AnniePBeautyDefyingAge 3 роки тому

      i do the same thing. How life could of been so different. Its not like we choose who to be or where we come from

  • @user-ru3ne9br2b
    @user-ru3ne9br2b 3 роки тому +7

    This video didn't lift my spirits but all I was feeling was high, so there's that.

  • @TheSwordfish009
    @TheSwordfish009 3 роки тому +1

    The idea of buying and selling drugs in China is TERRIFYING.

  • @fineartco9793
    @fineartco9793 2 роки тому +1

    It does NOT mean "nervousness", it means 'vigilance'; "unity through vigilance". Got it?

  • @holboroman
    @holboroman 3 роки тому +4

    The celery by the river is simply beautiful.

    • @holboroman
      @holboroman 3 роки тому

      I meant the scenery.......my tablet does not allow me to edit for some strange reason.

  • @ReviveAndDrive-mk1
    @ReviveAndDrive-mk1 3 роки тому +7

    Wierd UA-cam removed me from this channel!! But i subscribed again ofcourse 💖

  • @lonelygod6629
    @lonelygod6629 3 роки тому +5

    My grandpa and grandma just live in a small town like that in Hunan. The young adults all moved to big cities for a better life, leaving the elders and children behind. The few leftover people in the countryside easily ends up in traps of drugs and prostitution. It is definitely a part of China today.

    • @andthereisntone3454
      @andthereisntone3454 3 роки тому

      Do you know if methamphetamine is a huge problem in China?

    • @lonelygod6629
      @lonelygod6629 3 роки тому

      @@andthereisntone3454 Unsure, I only heard that China exports huge amounts of meth to US. Actually weed, meth or other drugs are never seen in normal people’s life. I only knew one man used heroin when I was a child. That became a breaking news in the whole community, and his whole family lived with a big shame.

    • @andthereisntone3454
      @andthereisntone3454 3 роки тому

      @@lonelygod6629 I actually googled it after I asked you; apparently China is a huge producer of meth (and MDMA), and most of it is for domestic consumption (within China).

    • @lonelygod6629
      @lonelygod6629 3 роки тому

      @@andthereisntone3454 China can be the biggest producer and market on anything considering its population. According to the official data, 0.16% of Chinese people use drugs so I think it is not so critical comparing to other problems.

    • @andthereisntone3454
      @andthereisntone3454 3 роки тому

      @@lonelygod6629 0.16% sounds very suspiciously low.

  • @babylon5reimaginedseries
    @babylon5reimaginedseries 2 роки тому +1

    My mom was a North Dakota farm girl growing up and she ALWAYS had a vegetable garden at every house we lived in. Even when we lived in Fairbanks, Alaska!!! Of course she was born during the Great Depression.

  • @mariocaserta6276
    @mariocaserta6276 3 роки тому

    Great job guys. Yes please continue to post even these old video reals and discuss your findings. You are teaching the world, and we need to know. Again - Thank You 🙏

  • @skyblueiiii
    @skyblueiiii 3 роки тому +8

    Insightful and enjoyable.

  • @eccentricthought4511
    @eccentricthought4511 3 роки тому +18

    Truly a modern day Louis and Clark

    • @joego7924
      @joego7924 3 роки тому

      Lois and Clark Kent!

  • @Alexander-vo4gv
    @Alexander-vo4gv 3 роки тому +4

    Another great and informative video! :)

  • @FredPilcher
    @FredPilcher 3 роки тому +1

    Really enjoyable guys! It's like you're back touring China! Please do more.

  • @deathproofbum0197
    @deathproofbum0197 3 роки тому +1

    I really miss the past videos where you uploaded your adventures through China which i would look forward to, it feels like it was decades ago now funny enough, so although this isn't quite the same, it's very interesting still to watch you both commenting on footage which you have decided to go over now.

  • @lokeandreashelheim9421
    @lokeandreashelheim9421 3 роки тому +9

    "This is the RICH area" 🤣🤣

  • @MrsLovelyPendragon
    @MrsLovelyPendragon 3 роки тому +25

    MORE 👏 OF 👏 THIS 👏 PLEASE 😎❤️👍

  • @357Addict
    @357Addict 3 роки тому +6

    I find it very interesting that they use non Chinese script on the license plates, and that English letters have been assigned meanings.

    • @scotth9990
      @scotth9990 3 роки тому

      People in mainland China know the English alphabet because of it's use in Pinyin. Pinyin is basically how the Mainland Chinese learn to pronounce characters. For example, 加油's Pinyin would be jāi yóu (the lines one the a and o represent the tone).

    • @357Addict
      @357Addict 3 роки тому

      @@scotth9990 So the next question then is why they put English words on signs and banners.

    • @Sarablueunicorn
      @Sarablueunicorn 3 роки тому +1

      There's no such thing as English letters. It's roman alphabet.

    • @357Addict
      @357Addict 3 роки тому +1

      @@Sarablueunicorn Do you feel better now?

  • @heinrichb
    @heinrichb 3 роки тому +1

    Winston, the reason why NATO classifications for Warsaw Pact/Chinese fighters seem to be random words starting with F is just that - all fighters go under F like Fishbed or Fagot, all bombers go under B like Blackjack and Bear, etc. This is true for aircraft only and other vehicle classes like submarines went under a different classification entirely.

  • @ICY69HOT
    @ICY69HOT 3 роки тому

    Food for thought everyone... I"m a student of History and after watching the news this morning realized this little bit of history.
    The Opium Wars in the mid-19th century were a critical juncture in modern Chinese history. The first Opium War was fought between China and Great Britain from 1839 to 1942. In the second Opium War, from 1856 to 1860, a weakened China fought both Great Britain and France. China lost both wars.
    Now we have had two major Bio-warfare virus attacks upon this country and the world in general. China is also the largest supplier of Fentanyl in this country... I view this as a two-pronged attack with the additional buying off of politicians..