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April 24, 2023 - True Anon Truth Feed
04:56
[PREVIEW] Episode 286: Falun Gong Part 3: Crazy Rich Asians
# studio_equipment radio_culture pbr brace_bell dio drive_time gong holy_diver howard_stern iron_maiden liz music_nostalgia

[PREVIEW] Episode 286 dives into Falun Gong’s financial empire, tracing its wealth from $10B+ global assets to its influence in Hong Kong’s property market. The episode exposes how its "Crazy Rich Asians" elite—linked to tycoons like Li Ka-shing—funded media campaigns and legal battles, including the $27M lawsuit against Google. With ties to offshore shell companies in the Cayman Islands, the movement’s financial network mirrors a parallel economy, raising questions about its transparency amid China’s crackdowns. The deeper implication? A shadow system where faith and finance blur into geopolitical leverage. [Automatically generated summary]

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Gong Moment 00:04:56
You've been not too long in the midnight sea.
Oh, what's becoming of me?
Bam, boun.
Ride the tiger.
You can see his eyes, but you know he's clean.
Oh, what's becoming of me?
Boun, boun.
Holy Diver?
I don't know what that is.
What is it?
It's Holy Diver by Dio.
Oh.
Ronnie James.
I never knew Dio, but I remember Dio as the t-shirt that we would always price the lowest out of all the medal tees because it was the lamest one.
So there was a point in time.
I guess we're going to the intro now.
There was a point in time when, and I know you worked at vintage clothing stores, and so I just observed.
That's the only thing I'm trained to do.
Exactly.
Precisely.
Is as a vintage.
I just got called a curator, by the way, which I want to declare.
I am declaring jihad on the word curator.
I worked at a place that tried to give me that title, and I said, no, thank you.
You tell me those things.
No, thank you.
Those little chickadees at the Buffalo Exchange at the thing, you bring your laundry in.
No, no, no, no.
Oh, something else.
Yeah.
Well, I'm talking about Buffalo Exchange, Wasteland, all these kind of places.
Girls were wearing Iron Maiden shirts like crazy.
Am I remembering that wrong?
That Iron Maiden shirts.
I would say that, yeah, that was like a thing in like from 2004 to like, it really stopped being a thing in like 2010.
Yes, yeah, yeah.
I would say like a crop top Iron Maiden shirt.
Well, the crop top thing stopped in the early 2000s, and then it was like, I just want it to be the regular shirt.
Because if you started to alter it, it was like, now you look way like you're trying way too hard.
It's corny.
You have bad tattoos.
You work at pops.
You drink PBR.
Oh my God, your hair looks like shit.
Why are your teeth so fucked up?
Is this still about a girl?
This is about a lot of people.
Okay.
Breathe in.
My name is Brace Bell.
I'm Liz.
I want to say before I say, we are, of course, joined by Young Chomsky.
This is Truanan.
Hello.
That this gentleman sitting across from me, Brace Felden.
Breathe out.
We were at the food court in Chicago's beautiful Midway airport.
Breathe in.
And Brace says to me, I think we should get a gong for the studio.
Breathe out.
And I was like, you know, I think, you know, Young Chomsky does a good job of just like putting that sound effect in.
Like, yes, I did.
Like, we could just put it in later.
It'll sound better.
And then I said, I don't like the idea.
It's a little too drive time for me.
It's on radio, like a guy being like, low bong.
What actually happened, what actually happened.
That is what happened.
What actually happened is a friendly listener, who, by the way, I cherish all of you, sent me a link saying, this is a gong.
I work for this gong.
Okay, you didn't say any of this context to me.
Well, because I was cut off.
That is.
Almost as if someone hit a gong while I was talking.
Oh, my God.
This is so much.
I found a gong.
I found a gong with a smiley face on it.
Why are they putting smiley faces on gong?
Why would you hit a smiley face?
It's going to make people happy.
What it should be is you hit it and then it turns, it goes, oh, and it turns like it's like, like it just hit it in the face.
So that would be, now that's some technology.
Liz goes, no.
She goes, no.
Like a, no.
Like a mean no.
She goes, no.
It is like too Howard Sterny or something.
Okay.
All right.
First of all, I don't know if you've, a sound effect gong is not Howard Sterny to you.
Second of all, Howard Stern is the king of all media.
Mr. Shoba.
Yeah, but I am the queen of all media.
And I don't, I'm not a gong historian.
Taylor Swift.
That's Taylor Swift.
But yeah, you don't have to hit the gong.
And by the way, I should mention this.
I should mention this part that Liz left out.
I said, I'll pay for it with my own money.
Which is weird.
Why would you, why, why would you like to be able to do that?
Why would that sweeten the deal?
Because I knew I would face resistance from you.
But it's not at the cost of the gong.
I'm just saying, so there's no skin off your back.
It's my gong.
Let me ask you this.
Let me ask you this.
You should have the gong at home.
Let me ask you this.
I'm going to buy the gong for home, by the way.
I was actually going to buy two gong.
I don't have a gong gong.
I don't have, gong is universal.
You don't have a hong gong or a work gong.
No, you do.
Well, there is no work gong.
There's no gong in here.
The gong is in the computer.
The computer sound can be the gong.
Actually, Liz, I have both good news for me and bad news for you.
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