Austin Show, Will Neff, and Hassan Piker recount their chaotic Hong Kong finale, contrasting mainland China's vibrancy with the city's anxiety-inducing stagnation. They detail a $3,000 Ritz-Carlton upgrade fee after points failed, a shower malfunction negotiation, and an awkward Grindr encounter that forced Austin to flee through streets. While criticizing tour guide Irene for boring itineraries, they praise unrestricted basketball and busking, noting Hassan required 33% more fabric for his suit. Ultimately, the hosts express deep affection for China's advanced feel, missing companion Cutie Cinderella, and promise a return within a fortnight or next year. [Automatically generated summary]
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Welcome To The Fear Ann Podcast00:14:30
No, no, no.
He's up.
He's this way.
Oh, this way.
He's this way.
There he is!
No way.
He's running!
He's running!
Why is this all my camera?
We gotta run!
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of the Fear Ann Podcast.
We are live here from Hong Kong, China, on our last day of this marvelous trip.
Yes.
I am joined by my fellow co-hosts, Will Neff and Hassan Piker.
Yes.
For another great episode.
As you can tell, we are dressed to the nines.
We're dressed Chinese.
We're dressed all Chinese.
We're Chinese now.
It's official.
We're fully Chinese.
We're China maxing.
We have China Max.
Yes, we have maxed out on China.
You guys just reminded me of that, like, that one.
Have you guys ever seen Major League?
No.
Where he's like doing the ad reads and he's like, today's game brought to you by Coca-Cola.
And they're like, Pepsi.
He's like, who gives a shit?
You guys are both tapped out.
No, no, we are tapped in.
I'm tapped in for the pod, but I am definitely tapped out.
It's been 13 days of like 15 to 17 hour streaming.
Right.
I think.
Right.
Because like, at least you guys start at like 10 a.m.
I'm starting at 4 a.m. every day.
Right.
Which made things.
Which is, yeah, for sure.
But this is an expensive trip.
Okay.
I'm selling like Austin now.
Yeah.
It's an expensive trip.
There was a lot of news to cover.
I have to do that.
Otherwise, people will lose their fucking minds.
Yeah.
No.
People do lose their minds, even when I do it for four hours and then do four hours of, I do four hours of news coverage and then four hours of IRL.
And people are just like, why aren't you talking about this or that?
I'm like, bro, I'm a human being.
Like, I'm in China.
I want to live life and I want to enjoy things.
Look, it's been a marvelous trip.
I think I came in here with expectations that the United States was the greatest country on earth.
Right.
And I leave with that.
But.
But.
No, no.
In all seriousness, I leave with a little jealousy that we are not better in many areas, but I still do have hope for our future.
And I think China has showed me what we could be in many areas.
Obviously, you know, realistically, I think there are some things that I do miss about home.
But like.
We will be out of China by the time this airs.
You can say whatever you want.
All right.
I'll tell you.
I miss the ability to go on the internet and freely go to any app that I please without being restricted and censored.
Okay.
Right.
I think that that's a fair critique.
Fair.
Other than that, shit, I don't know.
I don't really know.
Okay, that's like an...
But I also, oh, this is really good.
You know what's really good about this?
Because it's like an insane trade-off when you think about it, where you're like, I asked Irene.
Yeah.
I think Will was with me after we went and we got our Chinese luggage.
I turned around to Irene.
I said, Irene, you're around our age.
I want to ask you a question that I don't think like I think is going to come across as strange to you.
Do you have any issues with affordability?
Like the way things cost?
And she was so confused.
Like, it wasn't like a mistranslation.
Like, she speaks perfect English.
She was just like, no.
Why would that be an issue?
Like, it was a whole different world for someone who is our age, living in China.
It's not like she's balling.
You know, she's not like a content creator or anything like that.
She's not super wealthy or anything.
And it was just so outside of her realm of understanding, the notion that she would have any issues with rent or any issues with like purchasing things whatsoever.
And I feel like that's the trade-off.
It's like, yeah, you can't have the apps, which sucks.
I agree.
But then also, everything is way cheaper and you have a home.
Yeah.
Well, we already have homes.
We're in the top 1% of wealth in America.
Obviously, it's not a problem for us, but I'm saying for the average person.
I'm going to be honest.
Both you guys have never experienced the level of Chinese that Marsh and I were today.
In case you at home don't know, Marsh and I went on a one-hour tour that turned into a five-hour trip to go get these suits.
Okay.
Okay.
First of all, you also had to get your second fitting done for also your custom-made suit that I got for you.
So don't act like it wasn't.
It wasn't just for the, I think that's the reason why you had to go.
Yes.
You literally physically had to be there with March so that they could give you a second fitting.
In fact, I think they would have probably delivered him to Hong Kong otherwise.
But we do appreciate that you did.
Thank you for going.
Thank you for spending five hours.
No, well, oh my God.
You're rubbing your ass on my Zhongshan.
Only these two pieces of shit could receive a favor and then be like, no, we did you a favor by making you go on a five-hour trip on your last day.
You had to go because they had to literally physically ask for a suit.
You didn't want to sue?
Now you sound like me.
That's what I would say.
Okay, if you didn't want to sue, then that's the first time.
The people were fantastic.
I'm glad we went.
But let me tell my story now, you cocksuckers.
Marsh and I became more Chinese than you'll ever be because we did like a Tijuana style day trip to mainland China.
We ate duckneck and kidney and crawdads in the subway.
In the subway.
We had tea with a Chinese family that were, oh my God, they are the sweetest genuine human.
The Taylor, right?
The Taylor.
The Taylor.
Okay.
They took us into his home.
And I'm telling you, that was it.
That was the moment where I became Chinese.
Irene even said, you are white Chinese today.
Respect.
Right.
Good.
And that was a big moment for me.
And I don't know if you two ever achieved it.
It's like going Super Saiyan, right?
Yeah.
You are like the Vegeta mode of it.
Like you thought that you achieved white Chinese, but you'll never understand what it means to be white Chinese.
You know what?
I'll give it to you because I don't think I'll ever do that.
But you can have it.
Which I, you know, I don't know.
I just, I don't think I'll ever be Chinese.
Well, no, since you're so Chinese, you already know what is about to start here.
A little grain alcohol.
A little motion.
There is a chance that because we got from my mini bar.
I'm just going to cover our basis.
This might be the Patreon episode because if the Patreon episode slaps because we're already tanked, I'm going to put it as the main episode.
Okay.
That is my.
Thank you.
This is what I just cracked open.
How much does it cost, Christian?
You want to look at it in the mini bar?
I'm sure it's on the menu over there.
You pulled it out of the mini bar.
Yes, this is already a very brothers and sisters.
I'll pay for it.
We could have Uber Eats that.
It's still like, this is, I want to know how much it costs on this mini bar specifically.
Worst case, I'll bring mine down for my.
This is $115.
That's actually, actually, it's relatively affordable for how expensive this is at the store.
Yep.
Because these things, they're tiny, brothers and sisters, but they have an unimaginable alcohol content.
It's 53%.
This is 50 milliliters.
And this is the best version of it.
I think the Mow Tai.
Actually, I don't even know if this is the best version of it, but this is Kwai Chow Mow Tai.
Crack that shit open, Laura.
Firewater.
Chinese fire water.
Crack it open.
Do we have little cups to drink this out of?
You have to be careful because it's very deadly.
What?
We should probably measure it because they told me just a fraction of it could get you just plastic.
If I drank that whole thing, it would kill me.
When we were in Beijing at the Peace and Love Ceremony fucking hotel or whatever.
The Peace Hotel.
I don't know.
No, no, no.
That was in Shanghai.
I'm saying the first one.
Yeah.
No, no.
Where we went to the Beijing duck, the Paking Duck.
That was a Hilton Hotel.
That was a Hilton Hotel, but it was like a special conference room.
Yep.
And when they served this, after two shots of this, I was.
It wasn't even a shot.
It was like.
It wasn't even a shot.
It was like a baby shot.
Just that much.
This is very high alcohol content, 53% volume, but like overall.
What?
Caroline Kwan is here.
What?
Oh, she's picking up her for the twink.
Okay.
Yes, thank you.
She said the suits were lovely.
You like it?
She said it's amazing.
And she said, Austin, you particularly look the best.
Yeah, she did say that.
What, the socks?
Oh, those are the fan that gave us those socks.
Should we just sip on it?
Yeah.
Okay, yeah, we'll sip on it a little bit.
Yeah.
Mu Tai.
I will be monitoring your sipping, though, because I want you to drink this.
Yes, I'll drink it.
I'll drink a little bit.
So I have somebody.
Dumbbey.
I have something to tell you guys that you already know, but I'm going to share for the podcast audience anyway.
I got catfished.
Yep.
For the first time in history, I got catfished.
So if you don't know, Austin, Austin, I watched you.
No, go keep going.
You're faking it.
Yeah, you have to down it quick.
The more it stays in your mouth, the worse it gets for you.
It is very high alcohol content.
My lips are burning.
Yeah, I think we just, I think it's easier to get at it if we all sip out of this.
Oh, you're going to, you're, you're downing all of it in there.
Yeah.
Wait, that's all there is in there?
Yeah.
I mean, I did take a rip of Rooney.
I'll be honest with you.
I'll be honest, Hassan, I'm going to be plastered off of that one little sip.
I'm telling you.
I feel so warm.
I'm telling you.
Yeah, the Patreon is going to become the main one, and the main one's going to become the Patreon.
All right, we'll see.
We'll see how it goes.
So I got catfished.
You're going to drink three-day-old champagne.
Okay.
Smart.
Austin, go on with your story.
So I got catfished.
All right.
So as you may know or may not know, for those at home, I used a gay hookup app called Grindr.
Okay.
And I met somebody on Grinder who I perceive to be very attractive.
And their photos did look worked a little bit.
You know, I think we all, there may be a little filter, you know.
Yeah, it's very common to do this.
And I was like, okay, I see the photos, but I was like, you know what?
I can't picture a version of this person that isn't attractive.
Like, I just, I think they're very good looking.
I don't see anything that I can't perceive as attractive.
So, I'm like, okay, what do you want to do?
And he's like, well, I'm going out to a club.
Why don't you meet me out at a club with my friend and we can, you know, see where it goes from there?
I'm like, perfect.
So, I, uh, and we had made a commitment to like, was this for a three-way?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So, we had made a commitment to specifying for the viewers.
Thank you.
We had made a commitment that it was going to go down.
Right.
All right.
That was the commitment.
It's going to go down.
Contractual or not contractual, verbal, verbal agreement.
So I'm like, okay, it's going to go down.
And I was just, my ADHD is atrocious at Marsh coming in there to pour the.
I just got distracted.
So, oh, yeah.
No, finish it.
There's very little left.
Finish it.
Down it.
Down it.
There you go.
That's not too much.
Hazard.
What's on?
That's too much.
No, it was very little.
Yummy.
So anyway, what's on?
I'm going to puke.
So anyway, verbal agreement to meet up.
So time approaches.
I go pick up supplies from the local store and I'm like, okay, it's going to go down.
So I meet him out of the gay bar.
Right.
And I walk up and I see him from a distance.
And I immediately go from 500 feet away.
I can look and I see him and I go, oh, fuck.
This person does not look like I thought he did.
Was it?
Can you like you need to describe this in great detail because I didn't even recognize him.
Wow.
To a point where, look, was he a bad-looking person?
No.
But he wasn't my type anymore.
Wait, wait, wait, wait.
Explain in great detail what you had previously thought he looked like from the photos.
A model.
Okay, but like skinny, no, he would eat facial features.
I think his body probably was.
I couldn't tell because he was like, he was in a fucking sick ass fit, though.
His outfit was.
Oh, shit.
So what was it?
I don't even want to say he was chopped because he may see it.
You never know.
Fear and is huge.
Higher.
I asked you if he knew who you were, and you said he had no idea.
I don't think he knew who I was.
But he didn't tell me that.
But people don't necessarily do that.
Anyway, regard, y'all, this alcohol is fucking me up.
Reverse Filter Reality Check00:05:05
Good.
That's why we made you drink it.
Anyways, so Bai Joel, his face was just not what I thought it was.
It was tuned.
He was wearing a lot of makeup, which is fine.
So support you.
Wait, you wear makeup?
Was he wearing mega when he met you?
Yes.
Okay.
Was it like, was it the makeup that you didn't like?
His face just didn't look like it did.
He just didn't look like he did.
Bro, can you show me what this dude looks like on the app?
I need no, we're no longer associated with each other.
He blocked him instantly.
You saw it, though.
No.
Fuck.
So you didn't take screenshots?
No.
What was I going to do?
I was fighting for my life.
Hassan.
Austin.
So I approached.
Well, let me.
I just need to know what kind of.
Because, like, look, we're not being weird about this, but like, Chinese beauty standards are very different.
Like, if you, when I first went live on BDBD, they literally had this filter on my face.
Like, their auto filter they have on BDBD immediately like makes your face smaller and makes it pointier and your eyes bigger.
Like, that's the type of, that's the type of shit they're doing.
No, no, no.
The photos that looked online did not look like they had those features.
They, like, the photos didn't look like they were three.
It was a reverse filter situation.
Photos made him look not like that.
And he walked up looking like an anime character.
No, he no, his photos looked like they were.
I didn't even perceive them to be Photoshop, but they looked good.
They were highly, obviously, in retrospect, they were highly edited.
But then I met him in person and I was like, oh, no.
You know?
Yeah.
Anyway, I don't want to say this man was ugly.
I think a lot of people may perceive him to be attractive.
A lot of people may perceive him to be attractive.
No, no, no, I don't think he was ugly at all.
I think he was a good-looking guy.
Okay, you just did not like him.
You did not find him.
I did not find him personally attractive, but he's probably something for somebody because this guy was not an ugly hero.
Who's probably something for somebody is the worst way to describe someone while simultaneously trying to make it seem like he is like traditionally or conventionally handsome.
It wasn't going to work.
Okay.
And I went in there and I was like, hey, nice to meet you.
I gave him a hug.
And I was like, well, let's go inside.
And I was thinking to myself, I was like, I've never been in this situation.
Was he Chinese?
Yes.
Well, no, I don't know.
He was.
It said he was mixed ethnicity, is what he, what it, what his profile is.
Okay, so he was Washington, you think?
I don't know.
I don't know.
I didn't ask.
I didn't ask.
Oh, you didn't even get to that level.
I didn't think it was appropriate.
What are you?
You know what I mean?
Who's asking that?
Dog, you're about to be inside of him in like 15 minutes.
Do you think that's a prerequisite to be like, no, it's not a prerequisite before I enter you?
No, what?
It's not your precision.
It's not a prerequisite.
I'm just saying, all bets are off at that point.
He literally strolled downtown, got in a fucking red cab, probably got into almost a car accident on the verge of the record.
He was going out anyways.
I was not, him going out had nothing to do with me.
I just want to make that clear.
I don't know, man.
I already had a family emergency.
I think what we're going to do right now is I'm going to alleviate you from any stress you're feeling about not being political about this situation.
You've stripped it of any of its humor by being so political.
I'm trying so.
So I'm going to tell it from my perspective.
No, I've been trying.
I've been trying to kneel in the comments.
I need to finish my story.
Okay, please do.
I need to finish my story.
Okay, but you're like, I met this nondescript male.
I'm not assuming it's gender.
He told me.
He could have been handsome to most people.
Yeah.
This nondescript male, I will not be giving you a high.
I'm not a high type.
Well, because I don't know, like people, I'm not the best looking guy on the planet.
You know, maybe people don't think that I'm their type.
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So, anyways, I go into the, now that that's out of the way, I go into the bar.
Joe Biden, five minutes stand-up said that it can offend absolutely no one.
Do you folks like ice cream?
Vanilla is my favorite.
But other flavors are good too.
So, look, I go in the bar, I meet him.
I go in the bar and he introduces me to his friend.
Right.
And you mentioned that the friend puts you off almost as much as he did.
More almost because she was white, which is totally fine.
Drinking My Way Through Drama00:02:24
Oh.
And he says, he says to me, I said, hello, nice to meet you.
And then he goes, she doesn't speak English.
So I immediately go, priviette.
And then she goes, she looks at me and he's like, no, no, she only speaks Chinese.
And I go, okay.
Great.
So you met someone in Hong Kong who was white, like we're talking about.
Yeah, like white white.
Will white.
Will white only spoke Chinese.
I know I would use me as a yardstick.
Then I go, Nihao.
And she goes, she just looks at me deadpan and won't even shake my hand.
Well, that's because she probably speaks.
Yeah, she probably speaks Cantonese.
Yeah.
But he told me she only spoke Chinese.
Right.
You spoke Mandarin to her.
You're in a Cantonese region.
Yeah.
And people from Hong Kong get real.
So Joe Biden, the press tour's falling apart.
The man whose life mission is never to offend anybody immediately comes in and goes, Nihao.
She's like, this motherfucker just got the wrong Chinese.
No, no.
Wait.
Wait, wait.
I thought it was, I thought Chinese and Cantonese were two separate things.
No, Mandarin and Mandarin and Cantonese are different versions of the Chinese.
No wonder she didn't respond to it.
I learned something today.
I learned something today.
I learned that every region in China actually has its own regional dialectic.
And Mandarin and Cantonese are just the most affluent that kind of have taken on a much better.
Okay, so I fucked up.
No wonder she didn't say anything.
There's also political drama surrounding it.
There's political drama surrounding it because Hong Kong wants to maintain the Hong Kong identity as a separate thing from China.
And why it's offensive if you speak to a Cantonese speaker in Mandarin.
So she's sitting there and then she excuses herself and leaves.
And then it's just him and I.
And I'm like, you know, I'm thinking, I'm like, I've gotten this far.
I feel a lot of pressure.
I feel like maybe I can drink my way through this.
Okay.
So I order a vodka soda.
Right.
And then I keep talking to him and I'm like, I can't drink my way through this.
So immediately I'm like, I don't know what to do.
So I need to excuse myself.
So I said, excuse me.
I am going to go have a cigarette outside.
Need To Run Outside00:07:52
Austin does not smoke.
I don't smoke.
Well, he carries cigarettes, though.
I do.
And I immediately got outside and I was like, I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do.
I don't know what to do.
And then all of a sudden, I felt free and I just started running.
Yes.
I just started running.
And I was like, I need to get out of here.
And I started running.
And I was like, you know what?
I have free will.
I don't have to do anything.
Right.
I don't owe anybody anything.
That's right.
So I started running.
And I just kept running.
And I was running and running and running.
And I ran and I ran and I ran.
Yeah.
And finally, I felt free.
And I said, God, get me into a car.
Get me into a taxi.
I need to leave.
And that's what happened.
And we're about to do this Memento style.
You got Austin's chain of events.
Now I'm going to give you the opposite side of this.
Ready?
Boom.
Christopher Nolan, two different editor styles.
Karis, if you're watching this, I'm ready for the fan edit.
All right, here we go.
I'm out with the ladies and Marsh, and we're getting absolutely fucking rip shit.
I'm 10 drinks deep.
And Christian turns to me and goes, Oh, Austin and I are going to a gay bar tonight.
And I go, Really?
It's 11 o'clock at night.
I feel like Austin would be, no, Austin's in the bathtub.
And I go, this is unusual.
This is unlike my best friend.
Once he's in, he's usually in.
But then we receive something even more mysterious: a FaceTime call from Austin Show, not in the bathtub.
However, walking out of a Chinese convenience store and the tumblers, they start to click.
No, he's not in the bathtub.
He's procuring supplies for a three-way.
How did you know?
I said, How did you know?
I said to Christian, I said, you guys are going to go have a three-way.
And he said, no.
And I said, watch this.
And I put his phone on the table face up.
And then I took your phone and I said, are you meeting a third tonight?
We're watching the ellipses.
We're watching the ellipses.
Yes.
And I went, man, do I know my best friend?
He's up to no good.
Yes.
So when you guys are going to the gay club, we have each had about five Lychee martinis.
And we are going to walk to a restaurant, a Burger King, and slam some fast food.
But Christian's like, oh, would you guys walk me to the gay club?
And I was like, yeah, I want to see Austin.
I maybe want to see this person that I'm meeting up with.
Let's all walk.
So we are walking and we're walking and it's about a 15-minute walk.
And about three minutes from the club, Christian stops dead in his tracks.
Oh my God.
You guys, look at this.
I go over and it says, SLS.
I've just been catfished.
And I go, oh, my God.
And at this point, it's a secret because I don't want to reveal anything.
But the next message that comes through.
Is it really a secret?
It was a secret.
I have, because I have additional information on this.
Wait, just listen.
Just listen.
Within the next 30 seconds, a second message came through that changed the situation.
Oh, my God.
I need to run.
I'm running.
When I received the message, oh my God, I need to run.
I am running.
I immediately thought that Austin Show was in peril.
Immediate peril.
He was.
He was.
But also, he was liberated.
He was free.
He was liberated.
So we start beaming down the street.
And editor, please cut this in.
We see an Austin show.
This is on Caroline Kwan's.
Yeah, I saw the video.
We see an Hussein Bolt version of Austin Show.
Hussein Showuto running.
Pinned back, absolutely cranking out of the darkness like the gay flash.
I wasn't.
No way.
He's running.
Get the fuck out of here.
He's running.
Why is this all my camera?
We embraced him.
How long did you run?
I don't know.
I don't know.
Well, the craziest part is before I left the bar, I couldn't find the door.
So I was running around in the bar.
I started running in the bar.
And I was like, immediately, I ran into the smoking section.
I think I was in the kitchen at one point.
I was looking for the door trying to get out because it was a gay bar and it's Hong Kong.
I don't know what the fuck they had like blocked off or something.
Oh my God.
And I finally got out.
I probably didn't have it blocked off.
We just had no idea where the door was.
I don't know where the door was.
Anyway, regardless, look, I got out.
And look, you know, in hindsight, maybe I should have pulled the gentleman aside and said, hello.
It's not going to work.
You know what?
But if someone catfishes you, I don't think you owe that to them.
I know.
I don't even know.
But it was, he was definitely the same person.
It was just like an unrecognizable, like the photos were severe, like significantly edited.
I just don't understand what that means.
Like, I still, I can't.
I want to visualize it.
You know, I think it's like a romance novel.
We have to just picture it in our mind.
Yeah.
That's true.
Yes.
So anyway, that's my story.
And I will be doing more checks in the future.
Right.
Right.
More checks.
How could you check to not get catfish?
I think you could have them.
You could probably have them send you a live photo.
You could add them on like a quick video app.
You could FaceTime them.
Ooh, I'm so excited for our three-way.
He sent me a brief video of you holding today's newspaper while he was running.
While he was running, what do you think?
The cogs were turning in his head thinking, like, how can I avoid this in the future?
I mean, yeah.
I mean, how can I avoid it in the future?
And let me tell you something.
Grinder is like high-stakes gambling.
Okay.
It's like high-stakes gambling because you're sitting there.
You obviously want to get laid.
You have a myriad of options and you're trying to go from one option to the next.
And you don't, and you know, these people are doing the exact same thing that you are.
And you don't, you can't, you don't want to commit because what if something better comes along, right?
And so what?
That's what you're thinking.
No, no, I think everybody is thinking this.
Okay.
Everybody is thinking this.
Because you don't want to make a commitment because you're like, well, what if something else is more my thing?
And that's something that I'd like to do.
And so you're dealing with all of this.
But at a certain point, have you ever heard of a bird in the hand is worth two in the butt?
What?
What does that mean?
I think you might have modified that a little bit.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
What does that mean?
What you possess is always worth more than what you could possess.
So basically, you should take what you have in your hand.
Yes.
Always.
And last night, I had something in my hand.
There you go.
And you had another hookup planned, and then you switched it for this guy.
The other one was planned.
Wait, you had another hookup planned?
But what?
There's a story here.
But, but I was a little wishy-washy on the commitment to that one, but he also ghosted us.
Oh.
And he didn't respond within a good amount of time.
So I made a commitment to the other one.
So can I tell you something?
I have an update on this.
Okay.
So, you know how you said, oh, it was like, it was private.
Like, this was a private moment for Austin.
Right.
It was not a fucking private moment for Austin because I woke up to people pinging me in my disc.
No, it was on stream.
That was on stream.
It wasn't private because they caught me running on stream.
No, but before.
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Did you?
I typed it in the chat after they all knew.
Oh, okay.
Because I thought you told Will, like, I'm being catfished or whatever.
And then you, and I couldn't tell anyone.
Christian, let me give you the order of events.
Christian pulls the phone up towards his chest and goes, come look at this.
So I knew it was a message that I had to read off stream.
And as I am reading it, the message, I need to run.
I am running comes through.
And that's when I was like, oh my God.
Yeah.
Because I have the message that he sent in Discord.
You sent a message in Discord?
In my Discord.
Let me hear it.
In my Discord.
I was traumatized.
He wrote, it's got to be here somewhere.
Hold on.
It's got to be in the Comrade Board, right?
I suspect.
Well, while you're searching for that, our next topic is one that I think you will be pleased with.
Austin show your recommendation of the Ritz Carlton.
Amazing, fantastic.
Yes.
What an accommodation.
The gym.
I've spent so many fantastic hours atop the world, drinking a protein shake, having a coffee, eating a banana.
I mean, you really chose a fantastic place, and I'd like to give you your flowers.
Thank you.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are sitting on the 116th floor.
Two floors above us is the world's tallest bar.
In the world.
Yes.
The world's highest bar.
And we are looking out over Hong Kong.
I was able to secure an upgrade for the team.
Yes.
Wait, you're jumping.
You're jumping.
You're jumping.
You're jumping into our next topic.
You're jumping into this topic.
Every rose, when I give you your rose, has a thorn.
Would you like to talk about the upgrades?
Let's set the scene.
Let's set the scene.
We travel.
I'll be Austin Show.
You be Hassan.
Okay.
We are traveling from Chengdu to Hong Kong.
Okay.
And after an entire day's worth of travel, we finally get to the Ritz-Carlton.
Austin Show has petitioned.
Let me get to the desks.
Austin Show.
I need to work my magic.
Austin Show has petitioned to come to the rest of the story.
I need to work my magic on them.
I find out while we're arriving at Ritz Carlton that Ritz Carlton is actually a Marriott property.
Yes.
This will be relevant later.
We walk up.
Austin sees the nativity scene and he says, oh, what a great nativity scene.
I feel at home.
Let me explain the situation we're facing, though.
We are one suite short.
Yes.
We are one suite short.
So Mauricio doesn't have a suite.
Yeah.
And we thought it would be nice for Mauricio to have a suite, but none of us are high maintenance if we don't have a suite.
If I don't have a suite, if Mauricio doesn't have a suite, it's a big deal.
And Austin graciously goes, Let me talk to him.
Because what did he say?
No, Let me correct the record.
We all wanted a suite.
All of us wanted a suite.
I said out loud that I was okay without a suite.
Okay.
Well, Marsh and I said out loud that we were not okay without a suite.
Okay.
So Austin says we know Hassan says, I'm an ambassador.
I'll speak with him.
And I go, oh, you can use this.
Was the first indication something was wrong?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I go, oh, you should use some of your upgrade points.
He goes, no, those have cash value.
I can't.
Yeah.
He also believes personally that he can be the first point billionaire and purchase a Marriott property one day with just the points that he has from Marriott.
And he's like, I'm an ambassador.
I got this.
It's true.
And we walk up.
We walk up to the 113th floor where the lobby is.
No, the lobby at first.
And Austin, and I walk up and I'm about to hang my passport.
Austin stops me and says, Hold on.
Well, because I got that.
He was going to fuck it up.
Yeah.
He was going to fuck it up.
I was going to fuck it up.
He's going to fuck it all up by checking into my room.
He's going to fuck up the whole thing because once you check in, it's done.
Once you check in, you've accepted what they've given you.
There's no going back.
Well, Austin.
It's like signing a contract.
Austin interviews.
Once you check in, it's over.
You got to do everything before you check in.
Austin intervenes.
Okay.
He dives in front of me and he starts talking to the front desk.
And then they take us up to the club lounge.
This is now, we're now at, we went from 113 to 160.
World.
Yes.
And we are mesmerized by the beauty of Hong Kong.
We're thinking, wow, we waited in long lines.
Dazzling lights.
I'm a little bummed because I don't have my visa arrangement, so I can't even go to Shenzhen the next day, but it's all right because Hong Kong is beautiful.
We're going to down some butter chicken and rice, and we're going to sit here as Austin handles all of the details for us and gets a free suite out of them.
Austin comes back.
What does Austin say?
Go ahead.
Well, Austin comes back to the table with a halfway grin and a look as though he knows he's about to be chastised.
No, no, his chest was puffing as though he had done something.
It was both shades.
So go ahead, Austin.
Well, I sat down at that desk and I looked her straight in the eye and I said, look, we've got five rooms here.
We're spending a tremendous amount of money.
We want an extra suite.
And I know as an ambassador, I am loyal to your brand.
And I believe we should get that for free.
I'm the reception desk employee.
Okay.
Are you ready?
Yeah.
Mr. Show.
We're in Hong Kong, so I have a British accent.
Mr. Show, you have 1,250,000 points.
No, no, no.
As a Marriott, you can't use it.
Would you not ask?
Would you like to use any of your points?
You can't use the points on an upgrade.
They're potentially upgrading.
They are not eligible for a point.
He doesn't even fucking know.
You can't use your point.
Look at it.
No, Mr. Show.
You are very capable of using your points.
You are loyalists.
You have no account for anything.
You don't even know what to do.
I bring up the points of four, Mr. Show.
You can't use points for an upgrade.
What are the points for?
You can buy, you can, you can book hotel stays, but that's got to be done through the app.
It's got to be done beforehand.
There's like a predetermined amount.
You can't like, it's just like the airlines.
You can't just use points willy-nilly.
You can't use it.
It's not like currency.
Even the ambassador status, we've decided you can use the points.
They told me this.
They said, well, please use your points, Mr. Show.
You've created a crisis.
It's like the Satoshi Bitcoin.
You can't use it.
You own too many points.
There's a finite amount of points, Mr. Show.
You cannot.
First of all, it's 1.5 million.
You will take the number of points available for the rest of the day.
You cannot use your points for upgrades.
Hand on the Bible.
Swear on my mother.
You cannot use verses for upgrades.
No, I think he's being truthful.
So she says, she does not fuck around about this shit.
She says to me, it's very disrespectful.
Very disrespectful.
So she tells me, she says, well, I'm so sorry, sir, but this is above your thing.
And I said, okay.
Wait, wait.
They said this is above your pay grade.
She said, she said, well, because you're an ambassador, we can't give it to you for free, but we can offer it to you at a significant discount.
Okay.
Wait, but hold on.
There's a point system that there's someone above you?
No, What she meant was, even though you're an ambassador, which is the highest status, it doesn't make you eligible for any upgrades beyond the suite that you already are booked in.
Okay.
Okay.
And this is like a higher level suite.
I bet you there's a higher status.
No, there's no.
There's not.
They don't give you complimentary upgrades into this suite level, which I think is ridiculous.
And that's something that I'll discuss privately.
But regardless, she said, well, I can give it to you at a significant discount as a gesture of goodwill because of your loyalty.
So Austin comes pacing back to us.
And he goes, it was so kind of him to reach down into his own wall.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
No, hold on.
No.
Oh, wait.
Will, that's not what happened.
What happened?
Because Austin paces back to us and he has this proud grin in his face, but he's also a little bit worried about how this is going to go.
And he says to us, guys, I did it.
I got all of us a suite.
Isn't that amazing?
At which point, he received a round of applause.
Yeah, we're like, oh, my God, Austin, you did it.
Finally, a Marriott ambassador.
You pulled through.
This is your moment in the spotlight.
Bitch did it.
Austin.
There was only one complication.
I had to pay $3,000.
No.
No.
No, Will.
No.
No.
We.
We, all of us, had to pay $3,000 extra dollars for Austin.
Hold on, Tommy.
I have news on that front.
And I've waited to the podcast to provide that.
Okay.
The evening that I checked in, my shower wasn't working.
Okay.
No, no.
You're advancing.
Hold on.
Hold this thought for a second.
Because in that very moment, we went from excitement to, so you're making all of us pay for your room upgrade.
No, it wasn't, it was a community upgrade because Marsh got his room upgraded.
And so we had to.
It was the only choice.
It was the only choice we could make.
It was the only way.
You could have stayed in the normal room.
Well, you should have been more vocal about it.
Yeah.
But no, but the beautiful part about this was that Austin came over to us and was like, you guys should be so thankful that I spent everyone else's money, including my own, to upgrade my room.
For those of you who are listening, it would have been $10,000, but I got it down 70%.
And yeah, and he was like, I got it down about 60%.
Right.
Okay.
But like, but he was like, yeah, it wouldn't happen if I wasn't an ambassador.
And you were like, Austin.
Well, listen, you know, I can stomach it because ultimately the room was flawless.
Yes.
Yeah.
And we're using it.
And we're using it for the podcast.
Wait.
The room was flawless.
Well, my room had some issues.
Oh.
I got here and I went to go take a shower and the shower didn't work.
Well, first, no, before you got into the room, we FaceTimed each other.
Yeah.
And we realized that everyone had quite similar sized suites, which created a moment of panic and crisis in Austin.
There was no panic and crisis.
I was happy.
I was relieved that you guys got a similar experience.
We were all walking around our suites, FaceTime on, showing the rest of the room and coming to the conclusion that Austin's room actually wasn't all that different from any of our rooms.
Except for the fact that his shower didn't work.
So my shower doesn't work.
So I called down, the techs come up, and they said the guy, then the manager calls me and he says, Austin, it's going to be an hour and it was midnight.
And he said, what we can do is we can offer you another room to shower in.
And I said, well, you know, we have, my bag is 82 pounds.
Right.
And we would have to lug all our stuff to the next room.
And for those of you who are watching and they're like, Austin, that's, that's such a whatever.
You're defending the interests of capital.
True.
You're defending the interests of capital.
You're sitting there and you're being.
We're Chinese and we don't do that.
They try to, they try to help you.
But no, once something goes wrong, you as a consumer have an opportunity to get what you paid for.
And we paid for a suit.
That's what Karl Marx said that.
Right.
He did famously.
We paid for something and we are going to get that value.
So what happened is he said, that's an hour.
And I said, look, sir.
Carl Marx, customer is always right.
I did the thing that any man would do.
And I said, sir, I'm not upset.
I'm just disappointed.
And he said, my dear friends paid for this.
No, no, so he said, he said, well, you're right.
They would want me to write.
I have another suite for you.
It's even bigger.
And it's a corner room.
Would you like that as an upgrade?
And I said, that would be a good trade-off.
So he comes to my room and he comes in and I've got my bags ready.
And he said, sir, I've got some terrible news.
That shower also doesn't work.
So it's best that you stay here.
And they fix it.
And I go, okay.
You should have been like, why don't they fix that one?
So I say, okay.
Well, certainly there's something you could do for this inconvenience.
Yes.
And he said, well, when are you going to the airport?
And I was like, no, This is worth more than a free ride to the airport.
Yes.
Right?
So I said, he said, well, maybe we can give you a ride to the airport.
And I said, we already have a car and ride to the airport.
And he said, okay.
And I said, look, this is very disappointing to me because I feel like, you know, we expected this whatever was.
This is a Marriott Ambassador.
We go in and out over and over.
He said, you're right, sir.
So just water.
So he said, you're right, sir.
I will comp this evening.
Nice.
Oh, so that just the one evening.
Yes.
So one of the nights in this suite.
So how much did you knock it down further?
Well, it was just the upgrade fee that I got comped for the first night.
So $1,000 away.
Well, Austin, I have to do that.
So still $2,000 extra dollars that we all pay from the podcast.
Divided by five, that's.
I have to say, you make my life so much more vibrant and fun.
Oh, thank you.
And that cost is a pittance compared to the joy you bring me and the joy that this room brought you.
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Oh, thank you.
It did.
Last night I said.
I know that you're not getting shit for Christmas.
What?
You're not getting a fucking thing.
Oh, yeah.
No, this is your Christmas gift.
What?
This is my Christmas.
I wanted to say that.
Merry Christmas.
But we love you.
God, we love you.
This is way more than what I would have bought you.
I did.
No, I really like my creature comforts.
Last night, I took a nice hot shower.
I got in a robe.
Yeah, they did.
They fixed a shower.
I got in a robe.
I pulled that chair up to the window and I turned a little lamp on, turned the rest of the lights off, and I got down and I got a little cup of coffee and I got my cheesecake.
You drank coffee at night?
It was just decaf, yeah.
And I just sat there and looked at the view in silence, and I turned on a little Engelbert Humperdink, and I looked out the view, and I just enjoyed myself in my little slippers and my robe.
That's phenomenal.
And I just, and Christian was asleep, so I had some peace and quiet.
And he was just except for Engelbert Humperdink.
And I just sat there and I really appreciate it.
And I had such a wonderful time in this room.
I really did.
That's fantastic.
And thank you to all of you at home.
Truly.
Truly.
It wouldn't be possible without you.
God, this trip was so fucking funny.
And us who paid for the upgrade for the room.
I still kind of think that it's like, yes, I did receive the upgrade.
Why is it like we all received upgrades?
But I feel like we all, because Marsh got a suite.
You got a suite.
We all got a suite.
So it was a community.
Which we paid for.
And then also the upgrade for your suite.
No, no.
Marsh's suite did not.
Well, yes, but we all, all of our upgrades were paid for through the podcast.
Yeah.
Mine was just a little bit more.
Around relatively $3,000 extra dollars.
Who's counting?
Yeah.
Who's counting?
We don't even know what the extra bill is going to look like with all the drinks that we've been consuming that were not a part of the initial tab.
Yeah, in a couple days, we're going to see another tab from the agency that we're working with, which is why it's so funny when people are like, Hassan, you're getting paid by the government of China.
It's like, bitch, I've been paying China.
We are funding the government.
I've been stimulating the Chinese economy.
We are funding the engineering.
In meaningful ways.
Okay.
Also, I got to say something.
Right now, I can only think about one thing.
Marsh, look at me in my eyes.
In a few hours, I'm going to land in Japan.
I'm going to drive to a Combini, preferably a Fannie Millie Mart.
I'm going to crack open an egg Sando.
I'm going to lay a Fami Chicky across it, slutty, hot, crispy.
And I'm going to take a bite.
And it's going to fucking fill my mouth with a pleasure that neither one of you have ever experienced in your entire fucking lifetime.
I've had that.
And I'm going to come.
No, dude, it's like when you dream of a former love, you can never.
The most recent one is always.
I could easily just experience it by so flying.
You couldn't.
You couldn't.
But I will.
I'm going to.
We need more bevs.
I'm going to Shang.
I'm going to Shanghai.
Wait.
Yo, Mars.
Yo, yo, hold on.
You could just go to the club lounge down the road.
And they have beers.
Beer.
You could get like 100 beers.
55 French fries.
55.
65 tater tops.
65 years.
Yeah.
Steal them.
Dump all the.
Dump all the.
I brought that for you guys.
That is crazy.
You're going to go down with a bag.
I love this.
Okay, yeah.
Go.
Go take as many.
Yeah, just go take as many as you can.
Dog, we upgraded for this fucking room.
By the way, I got to tell you something.
Marsh and I talked to the tailor today.
You'll think this is funny.
We asked, did you have to use a lot of extra fabric for Hassan's suit?
What did he say?
Gave us an exact figure.
How much?
You use 33% more fabric than the average human being.
I asked if it would be easier to cloth a horse.
She silently not.
Yes, I'm a big boy.
What do you want?
It's fine.
They told me I wasn't the biggest person.
They've actually.
There is one other person.
I think they were an American.
It had to be Yao.
No, no, they didn't.
I don't think they did Yao Ming, but there was one other person that they've actually done this for that was wider than myself.
And that person was very rotund, like a sumo wrestler.
So I'm the second largest person that they've ever clothed.
I'm going to miss you.
I'm going to miss this trip.
I have had the time of my life.
I've had the time of my life.
I have not laughed as hard as I have laughed in the last few weeks in my entire life.
I have laughed from the moment we hit that airport at LAX two weeks ago or three weeks ago.
Two weeks.
We have been laughing.
I've been laughing my ass off.
And it has been an emotional journey.
We have been, we're tired, exhausted.
Highs, lows.
Highs and lows.
But ultimately, I'm going to look back on this and be like, man, that was fucking awesome.
Yeah.
You know what we can all agree on, too?
We miss Cutie Cinderella.
We do miss Cutie Cinderella.
Cutie Cinderella.
We do miss Cutie Cinderella.
Tremendously.
She's the fourth Power Ranger.
Yes, we do.
Emotional Journey Of Highs And Lows00:06:39
And we wish one day my dream is that she will travel with us and experience these things with us.
One day, I dream.
Well, I think we have to get the Madden bus for the next trip.
And we have to go to like Tijuana.
No, I think we tranked Arder.
We just hit her with the...
You can't trank Darter.
But you did it anyway?
Did they give you a look?
Ah, God, I love you, Marie.
Sneakily, sneakily, sneakily.
This is the beer that the guy drinks.
Paizo or whatever his name is.
Wait, you only got us three?
Did you not get us a...
Is there not a bottle opener?
No, there's one in your room.
Okay.
But I will say this.
And I wonder if you guys agree with me.
I think you will.
We went to China.
China.
The People's Republic of China.
We really shouldn't have gone, but we did.
Yeah.
Mainland.
Right?
Mainland China.
That's right.
We went to Beijing.
Sad.
Shanghai.
Chongqing and Chengdu.
And traveling from Chengdu, this is probably the most shocked I have felt in this entire China trip.
Traveling from Chengdu back to Hong Kong made me feel like I went through a time traveling machine.
Because I think Chengdu and mainland China in general, the tier one cities that we went to and the unofficial tier one cities that we went to were so far advanced that I feel like Hong Kong is stuck in the past in a way that is almost in a way that's not dissimilar to Tokyo, where it's like Tokyo has a lot of elements of, I mean, Tokyo is beautiful.
It's a beautiful city, and so is Hong Kong.
And there's this sense of nostalgia, and you're like, wow, you know, this is like, this is, this is a popping city.
Like, this is a real vibrant city.
Can you give me the bottle opener too, please?
Yeah.
But I just, I feel like mainland China and the places that we went to were, we're just, it feels like it is at a different caliber.
It's interesting that you feel that way.
Do you disagree with that?
Yes.
Why?
Because I don't feel that way.
You don't feel like Hong Kong is chaotic, but also simultaneously like backwards in many ways.
It's just, I mean, for me, it's just such an apples and oranges.
I got a weird theory.
Yeah.
China, everything's new.
Let's give it 20, 30 years.
That's crazy.
No, this is, I mean, I understand what you're saying.
It's a little copium because I'm going back home.
Yeah.
But maybe give it 20, 30 years.
No, Hong Kong just feels like such a different beast.
It just feels like such a different beast.
It's a different beast, but I don't like it as much as I like mainland China.
That's fair.
That's fair.
You've been in chaotic circumstances the entire time that you've been in Hong Kong.
Right.
You had a fucking anxiety attack.
Yeah, some under my control, some not.
Yeah, but I'm just saying, like, it's just the vibes are definitely different here, but I feel like the vibes were a little bit better in Chengdu.
I hate to say it.
I hate to say it.
I'm going to tell you right now.
Go ahead.
I preferred mainland China to Hong Kong.
It's hard because I.
Well, I mean, can I?
I'm a little, I'm a little, I'm a little.
Some locations.
Some locations I prefer to Hong Kong for sure.
Beijing, absolutely.
No, Beijing doesn't count.
Beijing doesn't count.
Beijing right here.
No.
By the way, I was talking to Irene, our amazing love.
Yeah, incredible tour guy.
Baby.
Because she was talking shit about your itinerary.
But she was like, he requested a bunch of things that I would never take anybody to.
Like what?
She's like, there's a lot of fun stuff that I wanted to do that we just didn't get to.
Like what?
The Great Wall.
I wanted to do the Great Wall.
Why didn't we?
Do you think I was like, let's not do the Great Wall?
In fact, you did.
No, I didn't.
It conflicted with something else we had to do.
Well, that's a guess.
What?
That's what it was.
How the hell can you, how can they police it?
We absolutely could stream the Great Wall.
Speed did it too.
There's no fucking shot.
No, that's ridiculous.
We absolutely could have streamed the Great Wall.
Just like we fucking streamed the Kowloon Park today, and it was incredible.
And Irene fucking said we couldn't stream it.
And I was like, fuck it.
We should still go and stream it.
Just like we streamed the fucking pandas.
I'm telling you, they are far more restrained with their suggestions.
And if it wasn't for March, because we spent three fucking whole months, mostly March and David, setting up that itinerary.
And the initial itinerary that they sent us was far worse than the one that we actually experienced.
So when Irene says, oh, this stuff is so boring or whatever, yeah, there was stuff in there that I wanted to do.
There was stuff in there that I thought was like entertaining and interesting that I know my audience actually appreciated quite a fucking bit.
But ultimately, the reason why we got this itinerary was mostly because they were doing the boring old person tourism tour for us.
That wasn't us.
We actually made it more vibrant and dynamic.
True.
You can't even have input.
Neither of you can have input in this because he's the only one who added it.
I said it was true.
Yeah, I said it was true.
I also, I knew the itinerary from top to bottom.
Most specifically, I knew where we were staying.
And let me tell you, I will say this.
This hotel, it's unlike anything I've ever seen.
That's one thing Hong Kong.
Hong Kong killed.
This was the best hotel we've stayed in.
I don't think so.
Oh, you want to disagree with me?
Yeah, Chengdu, I think, was better.
Except for Chengdu was true.
Chengdu was fantastic, but there's multiple variables that go into this.
Okay, no bidets was a major L.
No bidets.
No, but that's not the other.
Oh, God, we sound so ridiculous.
Yeah, we might have cut some of this.
No.
No, no.
We're spoiled.
I'm talking about the view of this hotel is.
Yeah, but this is insanity.
Chung Hai V was pretty sick.
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I mean, all the, I mean, I can walk around.
It was kind of asking because it's just Beijing.
Guys, I just want to let you know, I could walk up to the window and put my dick on the window and nobody's seeing it.
Not because it's small.
Like, you'd give it a good tug beforehand is what you're saying.
Because if you were, if you were to put it, if you were to press your, I could jerk off.
If you were to press your flaccid cock on the cold window.
Yes.
Ain't nobody going to see that because I'm so high up is what I was saying.
Right.
I could walk around naked.
Right.
I could put my butt cheeks against the window.
Nobody is going to see it because I am so high up.
That's what they do.
They do have telescopes in the room.
I mean, ultimately, aside from all that, I was so impressed by China.
Mainland.
It was fantastic.
I had a fantastic time.
Opened my eyes.
I was telling Marsh, I think ultimately the locations, the events, the hotels, the shopping, for me, it all pales in comparison to some of the people we got to meet.
Oh, I think that was the best part for me was the people.
Trust out the penny.
Ultimately, my girl Penny.
I had so much fun with the people I met.
And that's what I really felt today when I went and picked up your suits and got my measurement.
Apparently, I didn't need to pick up your suits.
I wish I would have known that.
But interacting with that Taylor and his family felt like such a privilege to just sit down and be invited into their home.
And it was awesome.
It was a humbling experience.
It was an enriching experience.
And I recommend if you come to China, go interact with the people.
That's what really is.
Yes.
My favorite, straight up, hands down, my favorite experience was basketball.
And my favorite experience was basketball for that exact same reason.
Because out of all of the things that we did, that was the one time where we were unrestrained, unrestricted, straight up hanging out with the locals.
They barely spoke any English, but it didn't matter because we were still communicating through like playing competitive sports with one another.
And that was my favorite experience for that exact same reason because we were just hanging out.
We were just chilling with those guys.
And I don't know how it translated on camera.
And we did end up losing both of those games of basketball.
But ultimately, that was my favorite experience for that reason.
That and the wonton dumpling shop where I got to engage in the ancient Chinese tradition of, what is it called?
Busking.
When I was busking people.
Yeah, when I was getting people to come into this.
Dude, that video of me fucking sweating it out in the kitchen is so goddamn funny.
Yeah.
My stream.
It's a fantastic stream.
My stream that I planned.
We will be talking more about your stream that you planned and other things that we've done in China behind the paywall at patreon.com slash fear and thank you so much for your support.
It is actually what funds Austin's hotel upgrades.
So please subscribe to patreon.com slash fear and on this very special occasion.
You are going to get so many additional content the moment that March actually starts uploading said additional content to the Patreon.
Why fuck me, though?
Gabe, no, I literally gave the drive.
I put the drive is in there.
He said he edited the video.
It's in the drive that you gave me.
I can look, I can show you.
Austin has uploaded the videos of the drink.
I swear he literally texted me and said, Gabe said, well, that's neither here nor there.
We'll figure out the logistics of it, but content abound headed your way from China and beyond.
Thank you so much, you guys.
We get to do something like this, but once in a lifetime, and that rare occurrence, that blue moon is thanks totally in part to you and your loyal viewership and patronage.
And we promise you that we're going to spill tea behind this paywall.
So thank you to our viewers on YouTube.
Thank you to our Patreon supporters.
And I already told Irene, we'll be back in this country within a fortnight.
Oh, yeah, we'll be here next year 100%.
Yep.
By the way, Marsh and I figured out that we both were given 10-year visas.
Okay.
We checked.
We have 10-year visas.
No, mine's a year.
No, your visa, it has the date, the end date on it.
Right.
It's 10 years from now.
Wait, really?
Yeah.
You guys already have.
Yeah.
No, it's not a 10-year visa.
Yeah.
Wait, I'm going to.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Okay.
Okay.
Yeah.
All right.
Well, anyway, that's it for us.
We'll see you behind the paywall.
And if not, we'll see you back on U.S. soil.
Thank you so much.
We appreciate you.
We love you.
And that's it for Fear.
He hit us with the Gale Goodone.
Yeah.
Kamal, no.
Hassan, no.
No.
Do not fight my best.
No, Hassan.
So fucking such bullshit.
It's like the same energy as him being like, Caroline, I'll get out.
If you insist.
If you insist.
When Austin says, if you insist, know that he has no ambition of changing his situation.