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0:00Hello everyone and welcome to the John
0:01Pang Show. In this episode, we're going
0:03to talk about what's new in my life, a
0:05movie I saw recently, a spider movie,
0:08and the first time I HAD SPICY HOT POT
0:12and I almost pooped my pants. [laughter]
0:16Stay tuned.
0:20Hello everybody and welcome to the John
0:23Pang Show. I am so happy to have you
0:27back. Welcome all my friends. If you are
0:30new, well, you are in for quite a ride.
0:33All right, so ladies and gentlemen, we
0:36are currently at I want to say nine or
0:4010 episodes. I am losing count. And like
0:44I told you before at the beginning of
0:45the year, my goal is I'm going to keep
0:48at this. We got to get to 100.
0:52We got to get to 500, 1,000. I am going
0:56to do this for the rest of my life. or
0:59until you don't like me anymore.
1:00[laughter]
1:01Okay, so
1:04I'm so happy to have all of you all
1:06here. Uh if you're new again, let me
1:08tell you how this podcast works. So
1:09first of all, yes, I am an English
1:12teacher. Yes, I do teach English, but
1:14this podcast is not necessarily an
1:16English teaching podcast, but it is an
1:19amazing English listening uh learning
1:23resource for you because I'll be talking
1:25to you in my naturally uh my natural
1:29charismatic uh native speaker English.
1:31All right? And I'll be talking to you
1:33about life stories, funny stuff and and
1:36and all types of funny things and and
1:39interesting things that I hope that you
1:40will enjoy. All righty. So, our format
1:44again is we kind of catch up on what's
1:46been going on recently and then we kind
1:49of talk about a main topic or sometimes
1:50we need to just talk about anything and
1:52everything. All right, my friends. So,
1:55with that said, let's begin our show.
1:58So, currently, uh again, I always got to
2:00talk about our progress because I feel
2:02like if you've been listening, uh with
2:04me right now, if you're a listener right
2:06now, I feel like you're you're part of
2:08this growth. Again, you probably know me
2:12from my English teaching account. And
2:14so, you know that this is kind of like
2:15my new project, my my new adventure in a
2:19sense. And honestly, it's been scary.
2:22It's been fun. It's been tough. It's
2:25it's been uh very gratifying. And
2:27there's been a lot of growth to it
2:28because I'm learning something every
2:30day. As an example, before I turned uh
2:34this this camera on, if you're watching
2:37right now, before I started recording, I
2:39spent literally the last two or three
2:41hours messing around with lights, with
2:44audio, with video. And again, I
2:47apologize if there are any issues with
2:49the the visual quality or the audio
2:52quality. Trust me when I say I'm still
2:55learning and I'm glad you're here with
2:57me. Please forgive me. But if you've
3:00been here since the beginning, uh we've
3:01made great improvements. We got a new
3:03camera, we got a new mic. There's still
3:05a few things I need to do auto uh with
3:07the audio, I definitely need to fix. Uh
3:10but we're slowly getting there. And uh I
3:13hope that you can let me know if you
3:14have any feedback. Uh for example, you
3:17think the background could be a bit
3:18better, a bit cooler, you think the
3:20audio could be more full, if it needs
3:22more work, if you hear some issues here
3:24and there, uh please let me know.
3:28Somebody was complaining that sometimes
3:30when I talk I have too many um a
3:34eh
3:36you know uh there's a few words I say
3:39too much uh for example I say for
3:42example too much I say okay too much I
3:46say you know a lot too much and I am
3:50actively trying to fix that but I am not
3:53a perfect human being so bear with me
3:56ladies and gentlemen all right I'm just
3:58I'm human just like you. [laughter]
4:01All right, so let me tell you uh what's
4:05been going on with me recently. So um
4:09lot of interesting family stuff
4:11recently. Um if you don't know, I'm
4:13based in China. Uh I'm Americanborn
4:16Chinese. I have Chinese family and I
4:18also have uh family in the USA as well.
4:20Uh most of my immediate family is in the
4:23USA and I've been living in China now
4:25for over 20 years. And you know, it's
4:30interesting
4:32a as you get older when you start to
4:34think about how you keep in touch with
4:36people and, you know, how important they
4:39are to you and and you kind of think
4:42about as people get older, as you know,
4:45people unfortunately maybe get sick or
4:47pass away that time just goes by, how
4:51important it is to to keep in touch with
4:53with people. And for me, honestly, I try
4:58to go back to visit my family twice a
5:00year. And I try to stay, you know, for
5:03at least uh, you know, a week and a half
5:05or two weeks. Honestly, as much as I
5:08love being with my family, when I go
5:10overseas, uh once I hit the two week
5:13mark, that's where I kind of get a
5:14little like I need to get back to my my
5:17my my my main habitat, my my home, you
5:21know, my home again is in China. But,
5:24you know, I I do it because it it makes
5:26my family happy. Um especially my
5:29mother. my I'm very very close to my
5:31mother and you know she always says like
5:35I I'm like her her her her her arm like
5:37a part of her body a part of her soul
5:39and and when I'm not with her she
5:41doesn't feel complete so honestly it
5:43it's it's a way for me and for her kind
5:46of like to to fill our hearts to fill
5:49our our spirits and I guess kind of just
5:52live our live our lives normally from
5:54there because I don't know it's it's
5:55hard to be away from them and so I I
5:58mean for you too. I I mean you can also
6:02tell me do you live away from your
6:05family? Uh did you ever for example
6:08immigrate overseas? Uh how often do you
6:12visit them? How often do you keep in
6:13touch? I I think about all these things
6:16a lot especially as I'm getting older
6:17because I feel like especially when you
6:20meet some older people like as an
6:21example I have a uh uh some uh I guess
6:25older aunts and uncles where they're a
6:29bit older you know in their 80s uh 70s
6:3280s and still doing very well but you
6:35know the the kids have moved overseas or
6:37they're not around they're not in their
6:39immediate location so it just becomes
6:42this this thing like What do you do when
6:45you get to that age? Um, you know, how
6:47do you spend your time? Do you think
6:49about your family? Does your family
6:51think about you? And and I feel like
6:53sometimes it's not necessarily that
6:57we
6:59don't care or don't love our family.
7:02It's just life gets in the way, right?
7:05You get so busy doing your thing. You
7:08get so busy with your routines, your
7:10work, the things you have to do, your
7:12your your life, school, your career, you
7:16know, maybe you fall in love with
7:17somebody, maybe your new uh boyfriend or
7:20girlfriend or husband or wife, this is
7:22like now your main thing. It's not that
7:25your family isn't important. It's just
7:28there's only so much time in the day.
7:30So, I've been thinking about that a lot,
7:33you know, just just life, work, and
7:36career balance. And I hope as time goes
7:39by I can get better at it. I hope I can
7:41talk to people more, call people more,
7:43uh keep in touch more. You know, you can
7:45also let me know some better ways that I
7:48can improve that for myself cuz I'm
7:50working on it, ladies and gentlemen.
7:53I mean, honestly,
7:55I feel like every single day I'm trying
7:57my best to be a better man, a better
8:00man, a better person, a better content
8:03creator, better at my career, a better
8:05friend.
8:06And
8:08sometimes it's just hard. You know,
8:10there there's only so much you can do in
8:13the day. But I will say that I try to
8:17control a few things. You know, one I
8:19always try to control the way I talk to
8:21myself. We call the selft talk. And
8:23selft talk basically is
8:26the way you talk to yourself is very
8:29important. The voice inside your head
8:33dictates who you will be, what you will
8:36do, and what you will think. So if you
8:39are constantly telling yourself in your
8:41mind, I suck, I'm a loser, I can't do
8:45this, I'm a failure, what generally
8:48tends to happen is that you start acting
8:52upon those thoughts and that voice in
8:56our head is very very very dangerous.
8:59It's dangerous because it is so
9:01impactful. It's dangerous because it's
9:03in our head 24/7. It's the closest thing
9:06we will hear. So I urge you your inner
9:11voice, your self-t talk. If you are
9:13constantly being hard on yourself,
9:15you're being negative with yourself, try
9:17to speak to yourself better. Try to talk
9:22to yourself better instead of telling
9:24yourself you're a loser. You suck.
9:26You're not worth anything. You're you're
9:28dumb. you're a failure. Tell yourself
9:30you're a winner. You work hard. You are
9:34disciplined. Tell yourself that even if
9:36you're not at the goal you want to be at
9:39right now, you are working towards it. I
9:42am working on my goals. I'm trying to be
9:45better. I'm going to be more confident.
9:47I am confident. These things are very
9:50very very important. Please please speak
9:53to yourself better and I will help you
9:55with that. I will also talk to you
9:56better as well because I tell me let me
9:58tell you something right now. If you're
9:59watching this podcast, if you're
10:00listening to this podcast, you are a
10:03winner. [laughter]
10:05Okay.
10:08Now,
10:10I apologize. Um I I know a lot of people
10:13sometimes they they watch this podcast
10:15and they're like, I I want to laugh. I
10:17want comedy. I I want things to be
10:21funnier. Why are you being so serious?
10:24Because man, because ladies and
10:28gentlemen, I'm I'm a complex guy. I've
10:31got a lot of stuff going on in this
10:33head. I can't always be one way. I'm a
10:35human being. And so I I hope that if
10:38anything that when you're watching this
10:39podcast, if you're listening to this
10:40podcast, what you can get from it is my
10:43most natural self. I want to feel like
10:46um how do I say this? I want my podcast
10:48to feel like
10:50it's just you and me. We're friends.
10:52We're talking. Uh, we are shooting the
10:54uh we're shooting the t I can't say
10:58it. Sorry, I can't curse on our podcast
11:00because uh this is a family-friendly
11:02podcast, not an explicit podcast, but
11:03you get what I'm saying. All right,
11:04that's a useful phrase for you. All
11:06right. Now, uh recently I also saw a
11:12movie. I saw the new Spider-Man. H I
11:15don't know how many of you are actually
11:16like superhero uh if you like superhero
11:20comics or movies or things like that. Uh
11:23I've always really really loved DC. DC
11:27if you don't know has the superheroes
11:29like Batman and Superman,
11:32uh Green Lantern, blah blah blah. And
11:35then you know the other one is Marvel
11:37which has like Spider-Man, Iron Man,
11:39Thor, etc., etc. And I got to say that I
11:44thought The Last Spider-Man, I'm not
11:45going to give away any spoilers,
11:47anybody. Um, you know, I I don't want to
11:49ruin it for you. I I hate when you watch
11:51a video or you listen to a podcast and
11:54they just like ruin everything. I always
11:55skip forward. I'm not going to do that
11:56for you. But I will say that I felt like
12:00this newest Spider-Man,
12:03I saw it in IMAX, first of all, which
12:05was amazing. Like a true IMAX, like a
12:07huge, huge, huge screen. I felt that
12:12there's a lot of weird plot holes. Not
12:15not plot holes, but like a lot of things
12:17like why did that happen? Huh? That was
12:20convenient. Um, all I'm going to say is
12:23that what happens to Spider-Man in the
12:26end of the movie? It made me say, well,
12:29if it was that
12:31[laughter]
12:33I got to stop myself. I said no
12:35spoilers, but I I said no spoilers. I I
12:37I almost gave away the spoiler. All I'm
12:39going to say is that if it was if it was
12:42that easy to
12:45uh to affect Spider-Man that way,
12:51why not just do that all the time, like
12:55247? That'd be the easiest way to get
12:57rid of him, right? Okay, that's all I'm
12:59going to say. I apologize if I if I gave
13:02any spoilers away. You can you can guess
13:04at at what it means. All right.
13:06[laughter]
13:09But, you know, it it is interesting
13:11because even if you don't really care
13:14about uh superhero movies or or
13:16superheroes in general, there's there's
13:18a there's an interesting phenomenon.
13:19It's called superhero fatigue.
13:23And what that means is that people are
13:25just kind of like sick of superhero
13:28movies, right? Since the first Iron Man
13:31movie and actually even before that, you
13:34know, that's the thing. People don't
13:35realize that Iron Man was not the first
13:37superhero movie. There was way more
13:39before that. There was uh uh Blade.
13:42Um there's obviously more. I'm I'm
13:46sorry. I There was the Hulk, the the old
13:49one there. There's more. I'm sorry. It's
13:51off the top of my head. I can't remember
13:52them. But anyways, since that was a long
13:55time ago, you know, so I think like the
13:57the first Avengers was like what over
13:59over 10 years ago more. Time flies,
14:04right? But since then, there's just been
14:07so many superhero movies, shows,
14:12cartoons, and this and that. And so what
14:15that means that people have superhero
14:17fatigue. And that means that when a new
14:19movie comes out, when a new show comes
14:21out, people are kind of just like,
14:26whatever. I'm not that excited anymore.
14:28But
14:31Spider-Man I think was like I believe is
14:34what like the one of the biggest
14:36openings of all time now like more than
14:39the Odyssey which is also a movie that
14:41just came out and coincidentally is also
14:44is has um Tom Holland is also starring
14:46not I don't know if he's a star but he's
14:47also in that movie as well. I think
14:49they're all both actors, all three
14:51actors are in the same movie. But
14:53anyways, so it does tell me that either,
14:58how do I say this? Either people are not
15:01sick of superhero movies or people just
15:03really really really
15:05love Spider-Man. I I I don't know what
15:08it is. People love Spider-Man. It's
15:10true. Every time there's a new
15:11Spider-Man movie, it's like it always
15:13does so well at at the movie theater,
15:17you know? Personally for me, I'm not the
15:19the biggest Spider-Man fan. Um I do
15:22prefer Batman. Batman and Superman,
15:24these are my guys. Uh in terms of
15:26superheroes, um I don't know what it is.
15:30I think that
15:33um how do I say this? Batman for me, you
15:37know, I think it's just it's just, you
15:38know, the common man. Something about um
15:43the way he presents himself. He's cool.
15:44I think there's a lot of people love
15:45Batman as well. I even love Superman as
15:48well. You know, it's funny because I
15:49think that for me I'm like, well,
15:51Superman is just doesn't have any
15:53weaknesses, you know, except for Krypton
15:54obviously, but um he's just the way he
15:58presents himself, what he stands for. Um
16:02I don't know. I I I think those are just
16:03things that that that really um that I
16:06really gravitate towards. Um you know,
16:08not only I think in terms of
16:11superheroes, but also in terms of people
16:13as well. And maybe that's why people
16:17like superheroes because for them, well,
16:21that's their Superman, right? Maybe for
16:23a lot of people in their daily lives,
16:25their personal lives, they don't have a
16:28a very strong figure in their lives.
16:31Maybe they don't have like someone that
16:32is their hero or a prominent person they
16:35look up to. So, we have our superheroes,
16:37we have our cartoons, we have our
16:38fictional characters. you know, it's not
16:40only just comics, but it's also anime,
16:43it's also TV shows, you know, cartoons,
16:46and, you know, I think it's great, you
16:48know, um I think I for me, I don't think
16:51I'll ever grow up in that sense at all.
16:53Always kind of like be into video games,
16:55be into comics and these things. But
16:58that's a topic for another day. Okay, I
17:00apologize. Many of you probably like,
17:02"Dude,
17:04I don't even care about superheroes,
17:06man." [laughter]
17:08I'm like, I'm a grown man. I'm a I'm a
17:11grown woman.
17:13I'm sorry. My bad. Okay. I'm a grown
17:15man, too, but I'm allowed to be a kid.
17:17All right. [laughter]
17:19All right. [gasps]
17:21So,
17:23what I wanted to talk about today, uh,
17:25after I've talked to you about so much
17:27already, uh, was actually some some more
17:30China stories. But I think in my in my
17:31last episode, um, a lot of people really
17:35got a kick out of, uh, me talking about
17:37scooters and how bad traffic can be in
17:39China in terms of like, uh, you know,
17:41especially for pedestrians, uh, walking
17:43on the sidewalk. If you haven't heard
17:44that episode, obviously, it's the last
17:46one. We're going to continue a little
17:48bit about that today. But, uh, actually,
17:50I want to talk about something more I
17:52think is interesting, and I want to
17:53share a story with you about the first
17:55time I had really spicy Chinese food. So
18:00this is a global podcast. We have uh
18:04people listening the USA, we have
18:07Americans, South Americans, Africans,
18:10Middle Eastern, Asians from all over the
18:13planet, everybody. So I want to say to
18:14everybody, I'm so happy to have you
18:15here. And I will say, okay, if I had to
18:20tell you the my
18:23my top three spiciest dishes I ever had.
18:29Okay,
18:31the spiciest food I ever had was uh this
18:36weird Thai curry. Okay, I got to put
18:39Thai as the spiciest food I've ever had.
18:43I remember I was with my friend and we
18:45were having some some u really good food
18:48and she was like try this. It was some
18:50like like a shrimp dish like I don't I I
18:53think it was like a raw shrimp dish or
18:55something like that. It had chilies uh
18:58you know like all these great seasonings
19:00and she's like it's hot be careful. I'm
19:03like h whatever I can handle some spicy
19:05dude this was the spiciest thing I ever
19:08had in my entire life. I put it in my
19:11mouth. Immediately my lips start
19:13burning. My nose starts running. I start
19:16sweating profusely. She's like, "Are you
19:19okay?" I'm like, [laughter]
19:20"It's all right. Not bad." I immediately
19:23just down to beer. And it it did not
19:25help at all. All right. So, Thai food
19:27for me definitely the spiciest. The
19:30second one for me has got to be some
19:33Chinese hot pot, which I will talk about
19:36more in a second. Chinese hot pot
19:38definitely is my number two. Uh there
19:40are many different types of hot pot in
19:43China. Uh but the one I'm talking about
19:46particularly is I think some hot pot I
19:48had in Chungdu once. Um
19:51how do I say this? It's it's very it's
19:54very oily and when it's it's in when you
19:58see it for the first time. So, so the
20:00one I had was called it's called like I
20:02think it's called like in Chinese we say
20:04neoyo and it's like um I don't know if
20:07this is the right I don't know if it
20:08really is called like cow oil [laughter]
20:11cow oil or beef oil. How do I explain
20:14this? So I don't know exactly what it is
20:16but basically [snorts] it's a spicy
20:19seasoning. So beside all the chili
20:21peppers and all that stuff it's like a
20:23spicy season. It's it's thick. It's like
20:25a block of spice and they put it in the
20:28hot pot. And this stuff this spice mix
20:31is is so thick that if it if it gets on
20:35the table, it'll it'll thicken and get
20:37hard. Um it's got to be I don't know if
20:42you're from this part of China from
20:44Sichuan uh or as the as people from
20:47around the world call it suan. Uh you
20:49can tell me what exactly it's made of.
20:51Again, this Sichuan hot pot is so thick,
20:55oily, and spicy. And the first time you
20:57have it, it is brutal. It is brutal.
21:00Especially if you're not used to like an
21:02oily kind of spicy. All right. Third
21:06spiciest thing I ever had before. Uh
21:08just like some I guess like some uh like
21:12some chili peppers or some jalapenos.
21:14Jalapeno is like a like a like a I think
21:17like a Mexican chili pepper. I don't
21:18know if it's Mexican, but I just for me,
21:20I've had it the most when I have like
21:21Mexican food and yeah, those will kick
21:24your butt. All right, but as I was
21:27saying, you you can tell me
21:29you can tell me what the spicy food you
21:31ever had was, let me tell you about my
21:33adventure having this spicy food for the
21:35first time. So, if you don't if you
21:38don't know anything about me, uh I'm I'm
21:40mixed, okay? I'm mixed Chinese. All
21:42right? Uh so my my my on on my father's
21:46side of the family I believe my my
21:49grandpa yes he is from Sichuan again
21:53Sushuan is a province in China and uh if
21:57you don't speak Chinese you probably
21:59pronounce it as Suan I think it's
22:01spelled like sce something like that
22:03right and so um I have like this this
22:07this such blood in me And
22:12Sichuan people in Sichuan, they they
22:14they generally eat spicy food. That's
22:16usually what they're known for. Sichuan
22:18is usually known for pandas, right?
22:19Pandas and spicy food. Actually,
22:22interesting enough, uh Sichuan is also
22:24known for hiphop as well. And correct me
22:26if I'm wrong, but yeah, there's a lot of
22:28uh a lot of uh rappers that live that
22:31are in Changdu, I believe. And yeah,
22:33they're very cool. Very awesome. I wish
22:35I could be a rapper. I'm just not cool.
22:36I'm just an old bald guy. [laughter]
22:39Okay. But it's okay. Some people some
22:41people like me. It's all right. So, um
22:44I have a friend that is from Chungdu,
22:49Chungdu province. And one day I said,
22:52"Hey, you know, I would love to go visit
22:54her." And I went to go visit her and and
22:56and just kind of see Chungdu, you know,
22:57I wanted to see the pandas. I wanted to
22:59see all the amazing things. It really is
23:02an amazing place to visit. Now again,
23:07they love their spicy food in Changdu.
23:11And honestly, every meal we had, I kind
23:16of feel like every meal, although not
23:18all of them were crazy spicy, all of
23:21them had like, for example, like maybe
23:23like a little bit of like chili pepper,
23:24maybe like at least a little bit of
23:25chili oil like in the noodles, like a
23:27little bit at least. like almost as if
23:29like I it's it's the we don't eat spicy
23:33all the time, but if I don't have a
23:35little bit, I just don't feel
23:36comfortable, you know? And so you can
23:39imagine me like not really being uh that
23:44into spicy food at the time. I love it
23:46now, but also like not being used to it.
23:49This was brutal. So the first meal I had
23:55in Chungdu was again I told you a big
23:59old Chungdu hot pot, a spicy hot pot.
24:03And so this big cauldron I remember like
24:08it's like it looked like lava. It looked
24:11like cuz it's in a pot. The fire is
24:13going again. Sorry, let me explain this.
24:16If you don't know what hot pot is, my
24:18friends, and again, it's a very
24:19international audience here. Hot pot is
24:22basically like uh is a Chinese dish
24:24where it's like you have a pot, a big
24:26pot, and you have like broth in there.
24:29You could have broth, you have tomato
24:30flavor, you could have like a spicy
24:32flavor, uh whatever. You could have
24:34mushroom flavor, whatever you want. And
24:36then you basically take like raw meats,
24:38raw vegetables, uh and you just put it
24:40in there, you cook it, and you dip it in
24:42a sauce, and you eat it. It's very good,
24:43very delicious. You should definitely
24:44try it sometime. All right. Um, and so
24:48I remember this big
24:50spicy
24:52lava
24:53volcano of a pot and I was like,
24:56"Whatever, dude. I can I can handle some
24:58spicy, man." I get my meat, I dip it in,
25:04I take a bite.
25:07Oh my
25:09dude,
25:11it's so spicy. and also
25:16numbing. Okay, this is a big one. So,
25:19uh, mala. All right. Uh, actually, if
25:23you're in if you're overseas, you
25:25probably heard the term mala as well.
25:27Mala, how mala is is this? There's um I
25:31forget the word. It's like a it's like a
25:32I think it's a a a Sichuan pepperc corn.
25:35I think it is. It's basically like a
25:37pepperc corn, I think. Correct me if I'm
25:40sorry if I'm getting this wrong. I'm
25:41sorry about that. All right. and you put
25:44it in the dish and it makes the whole
25:45dish like a peppery numbing feeling.
25:49Like your mouth will go numb, but not
25:50not like in a bad way. Not like in a oh
25:52MY GOD, I CAN'T FEEL MY MOUTH, but like
25:53a ooh, that's kind of that's kind of
25:56nice, right? And so this numbing feeling
26:01is usually accompanied with this spicy
26:03feeling as well. But if you're not used
26:05to it, you're just like, "Oh my, oh my
26:08god, my mouth is spicy. My mouth is on
26:13fire. My mouth is numb. I'm sweating.
26:16I'm sweating. I just begin sweating
26:18right away. I'm starting to sweat so
26:20bad. The sweat is going on my shirt.
26:23It's going in my soup. Dude, it was so
26:27so spicy. Now, [snorts] usually how you
26:30combat this this spice is well, you
26:33could you can drink something with it.
26:34So, you know, you could have a beer, you
26:36could have some water, whatever, right?
26:37You could have there's different sauces.
26:39So, uh, the sauce I like is like a a
26:42like a sesame oil sauce, a little oyster
26:44sauce, some garlic in there. Delicious.
26:47Right. Throw some cilantro in there,
26:49some parsley. Yummy. Right. You dip it
26:52in there. That kind of like gets rid of
26:54the spice a little bit, right? But I I
26:55was too far gone. And then, you know,
26:59you can have with some dessert, but the
27:01the problem is though, it's like once
27:03the spice is in your mouth, you just got
27:06to keep going, bro. You you you can't
27:07you can you can stop and pause and then
27:10then you're like oh man like I'm
27:12[snorts] hungry right but I'm hungry but
27:14this hot pot is spicy hot pot is brutal
27:18it's killing me right so I remember that
27:21first night just having this hot pot
27:24just eating it I'm just like dude I'm
27:26dying here right now I survived I
27:30survived the dinner yes I did right Now,
27:37remember when I told you about that
27:38neo-yo, right? So, this hot pot was that
27:42like that [laughter]
27:43I don't know if it's called cow oil or
27:45beef oil. I don't know what it's called,
27:47but it's it's it's a little oily. It
27:48gets thick, right? So, this hot pot was
27:51like that uh that that that beef oil
27:54style, right? And remember, I told you
27:56it gets really thick. You put it falls
27:58on the table, it thickens up, right? And
28:01I imagine that that night for dinner,
28:05that spice, that oil, well, it decided,
28:09hey, I'm going to thicken up right in
28:11your gut as well.
28:13Dude, that next morning, remember I
28:17talked to you about a volcano?
28:19That suchan spicy hot pot had my butt
28:25like a volcano as well. Dude,
28:33[screaming]
28:35dude, dude, dude. The pain,
28:39the suffering. I remember, dude. I was
28:43fighting for my [laughter]
28:47I was fighting for my life on the
28:49toilet, man. Like
28:52I had such bad di No, hold on. I had bad
28:57diarrhea, but not not like diarrhea
29:01because the food was bad. No, no, no.
29:03Don't hold on. Don't get me wrong. I was
29:05not having diarrhea because the food
29:06was, you know, rotten or bad or or I I
29:09was sick. No. I was having flaming hot
29:11poo because this this this this this hot
29:14pot was extremely spicy and all this
29:17spice in my belly. Well, remember
29:19everybody, what goes in must come out.
29:22[laughter]
29:26So, I remember that first day at that
29:30morning after I'd be like GRIPPING THE
29:33TOILET LIKE OH GOD
29:37MAKE IT STOP. [laughter]
29:41DUDE, it was like a flamethrower. Like
29:44fire shooting out my butt. [laughter]
29:49I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Everybody, listen.
29:52I listen. You could say right now, this
29:56is very inappropriate. This is so
29:58inappropriate. What? My kids are
30:00listening. Listen to me right now. Don't
30:02lie. Don't pretend like you have never
30:05had diarrhea before. Don't pretend to be
30:07like you never had something spicy
30:08before and you were suffering fighting
30:11for your life the next day. Okay, that
30:13was what happened to me. Okay, that
30:16spicy hot pot freaking whooped me so
30:21bad. All right, and I remember like I
30:23would go I'd come back. I'd be on the
30:26bed like [groaning] I could feel like
30:28the the the chilies just just just
30:31surging courarssing through my gut and I
30:33had to go back again. I went back like
30:35six different times, right? And the
30:38worst part, of course, right? Fire, what
30:42does fire do to you? Fire burns, right?
30:44Fire burns. And so that fire was burning
30:48my ring, if you know what I mean.
30:50[laughter]
30:54[laughter]
30:59My ring was on fire. All right. It was
31:02so it was so painful. It was so Oh, it
31:06was so sensitive. And it just kept
31:08happening and happening. I remember
31:10finally after round six,
31:14finally after I got everything out, the
31:17pain had subsided, but it was brutal.
31:22And I remember I remember after that
31:25like just like kind of like laying on
31:26the bed just like comeomaos after such a
31:29such a crazy incident. Like I called my
31:32friend. I'm like dude I I I feel so bad.
31:34I you know everything hurts. She's like,
31:35"Oh, I'm sorry. What happened?" Like,
31:37"Oh, that spicy food really kicked my
31:39butt." "Oh, okay. Don't worry about we
31:40we'll get some we'll get some uh like
31:42noodles like you know, just some regular
31:44noodles in." Okay. No, no crazy spicy
31:45stuff. We go to the restaurant and
31:48[snorts] like I told you, people in
31:51Chungdu love their spicy stuff, right?
31:54We go to this place like it's not spicy.
31:56Don't worry about it. I get a soup
31:58noodles and there's spicy chili oil in
32:01it. But, you know, granted, it's like a
32:03it's like a light. It's It's more like
32:05chili oil for like, you know, flavor,
32:07but it's still spicy. My poor stomach.
32:10My poor my poor r [laughter]
32:16my poor belly. I was like, "Oh my spicy
32:20stuff." I whatever. I just, you know, I
32:22power through and I figured I figured
32:24maybe I could build an immunity this
32:25way, right? So
32:29later that day, you know, I go back and
32:30rest. I think I had like some I I think
32:32I had to go to like a a a a a market to
32:35get some bread just to like coat my my
32:36my my insides. Again, I always tell
32:39everyone I'm not saying that, you know,
32:41Chungdu Citron food is is is bad. I'm
32:44just saying that if you can't do spicy,
32:47well, you better be prepared. It's it's
32:48a place of spice, right? Lots of spice
32:50over in that place, right? Lots of spicy
32:52cuisine. Now, the funniest thing I
32:55remember is that [laughter]
32:58excuse me. So, I remember uh we went to
33:03another restaurant and on this trip I
33:06actually uh went with my friend. I I
33:08brought my friend with me. He's a white
33:09guy, okay? And [laughter]
33:15he was with me, too. He was suffering
33:17that morning, too. He was definitely
33:20having some issues as well, right? And I
33:24remember that
33:26I was kind of okay like like my diarrhea
33:30had I'm not going to call it di I'm
33:31going to call it flaming poops. Okay.
33:33I'm going to call it uh flaming volcano
33:34butt. My volcano butt had already kind
33:37of like calmed down so I could like
33:39continue eating some more. Right. But he
33:41was like not doing good. Like he he was
33:44still getting it. Like he was still like
33:46I he had to go. He had to go. He had to
33:47go. Right. And so
33:50we were at this restaurant
33:53and
33:55I don't know why. Okay. So
33:59in China and I'm sure around the world
34:02as well, but you can tell me as well.
34:03Right. So actually in China, not every
34:08place has a a a regular toilet. And what
34:12I mean by that, I mean like a toilet you
34:13could sit down on, right? Actually,
34:16there's a lot of what we call like
34:17squatters. Uh, what does that mean? It's
34:19just a it's a toilet, but it's it's not
34:22it's not a hole. Well, it is a hole, but
34:24it's it's like it's in the ground,
34:25basically. If you need to use it, you
34:28squat down and you you use it that way.
34:30It's like it's like a regular toilet,
34:31but you squat down basically. Now,
34:33here's the thing. The funny thing is
34:36that
34:38that's good for you. actually squatting
34:41to use the bathroom, especially if it's
34:44number two, is normal and healthy.
34:47That's the way humans used to do it,
34:50right? Because it doesn't like, you
34:51know, bend everything, right? So,
34:53squatting is actually is very healthy.
34:56And, you know, they actually sell like
34:57little stools and chairs now for people
35:00that have issues using the bathroom,
35:02right? We're going number two. And so,
35:05you know, honestly, I don't mind them.
35:07I'm I'm I'm used to them, but you know,
35:10of course, preferably I would prefer a a
35:13a a regular I guess you could say like a
35:15western toilet for sitting down. Right
35:17now, here's the problem.
35:20[snorts]
35:21At that time,
35:23this was about like 15 years ago. At
35:26that time, the fashion was skinny jeans.
35:31Skinny jeans, right? Tight everything.
35:34Tight shirts, tight pants. The
35:37[clears throat] tighter, the skinnier,
35:38the better, right? And that's what I was
35:40rocking as well. The problem is if
35:42you're wearing skinny jeans, if you're
35:45wearing skinny jeans and you have to use
35:47a squatter toilet, [laughter]
35:51you're going to have some issues, right?
35:53So,
35:56my friend, we're at the restaurant and
35:59my friend, he's gets up. He's like, I
36:02got to use the bathroom right now. I'm
36:03like, okay, bro. Why are you just go?
36:06Oh, you don't you don't need to tell me,
36:07right? My friend again, he was still
36:10suffering from that that that that spicy
36:12hot pot we had the night before. So, he
36:15goes to the bathroom, you know, and we
36:19continue eating. I don't hear from him
36:21for an hour.
36:23[laughter] Okay. Just like an hour. So,
36:26I'm like, I call. [laughter] He doesn't
36:30answer the phone. I text. He doesn't He
36:32doesn't answer his text.
36:34Finally, I go to the men's bathroom.
36:36There's just there's like one bathroom
36:37there, one one stall basically. I knock
36:40at the door and he comes out and I'm
36:43like, "Dude, what's wrong? Are you
36:45okay?" He's like,
36:48[laughter]
36:49he's like, "That was one of the worst
36:52experiences of my whole life." I'm like,
36:54"What's wrong?" So, he had like again
36:59really bad diarrhea from eating that
37:02spicy hot pot. and he had the tightest
37:05skinny jeans on. So when he went to use
37:08the bathroom, he had [laughter]
37:11when he
37:13when he tried to squat down, he couldn't
37:16get his pants on
37:20[laughter and gasps] the pants were too
37:22tight. So when he tried, he couldn't get
37:25out.
37:28He couldn't get out of them. And so he's
37:31trying to take them off and they got
37:33stuck on his legs. And so he had to
37:35stand. And so he told me what he did is
37:38basically he told me what he had to did.
37:40He he [laughter] he
37:43had to [gasps] he had to take off his
37:45shoes, [laughter] take his pants off
37:48[gasps] because they're too tight.
37:51[laughter]
37:52And he hung the pants on the door. And
37:55then he used the squatter with no
37:57[laughter] pants on.
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41:16butt and hurting my ring [laughter]
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