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what do you think is the biggest city in
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the world Shanghai Tokyo Mexico City no
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there's one place bigger than all of
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them both in terms of area and
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population the first place belongs to
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the city you may have never heard of
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Welcome to Chongqing
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chunting is a fascinating City I think
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I've never seen more weird things
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concentrated in one place but before we
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dive into this Chinese megalopolis and
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check out all its wild
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Curiosities let me explain to you how
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the heck this city became the biggest in
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the
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world the story of this Chinese Mega
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city starts and also kind of ends in
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1997 back then chuning was just a big
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city somewhere in southwestern China to
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boost economy and make Administration
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smoother Chinese government added three
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districts of fing wangan and Chang Chang
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to chuning it's really hard to pronounce
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these words excuse my Chinese I'm
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working on it this step made chuning the
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biggest city proper in the world with a
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population of 32 million people and the
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area of 82,000 Square kilm which is
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about the size of Austria nowadays
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certain areas of the city are so densely
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populated that original solutions to
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urban planning had to be
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made there's the train it's coming it's
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coming Peter you're inside yeah man I'm
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here are you sure what you're doing is
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safe come on man don't be such a chicken
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where's the brave Peter I know I think
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he's sitting in the train get ready it's
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happening
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soon in chong ching A train passes
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directly through a hole in a 19-story
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residential building if you're feeling
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sorry for the residents don't the
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building was designed with noise
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reduction features not only can the
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resident sleep without disturbance but
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they also never missed the train wow
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that was such a quirky thing but a train
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passing through a residential building
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is not what makes chuning so unique to
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show you its most captivating quality we
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have to leave the LBA station how do we
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get out of
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here which floor are we
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on which floor are we on that's a
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question a newcomer will ask all the
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time in chunting
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well thank you very much Winter thank
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you so much you see this city has such a
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crazy topography with its mountains and
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rivers that it is spread out over a
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bunch of different levels you never know
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which floor of the city you're on it may
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seem and feel like you're on a ground
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level while
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actually you're on the 20th
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floor yeah in chuning the concept of
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ground floor is pretty flexible with its
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multi-layered roadways and buildings
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that seem to sprout from The Cliffs it's
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easy to lose track of where you are the
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boundaries between indoor and outdoor up
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and down are often blurred and
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navigating the city can feel like a
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journey through a maze so if you find
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yourself in chuning be prepared for a
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little chaos and a lot of surprises here
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every step is an adventure and getting
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lost is just part of the fun right we're
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in a hospital because vlad's having some
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ongoing stomach problems and we entered
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the building and then the elevator
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thinking that we're on the ground floor
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one would presume we're on the ground
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floor but turn out we're on floor nine
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look nth
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floor is also the ground floor this is
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the street we're on the eighth floor of
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the hospital so we're basically
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underground but at the same time we're
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not underground I presume we're on a
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ground level and we have just like we
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reach three dead ends so far I don't
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know the maps are not working nothing
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makes sense here how the hell do we get
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there we reached a dead end on these
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stairs I don't know like nothing makes
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sense in the city nothing that's our
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hotel we're on a lower floor and we need
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to get one floor up and we don't know
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how five floor or maybe F we don't know
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you never know how many floors up yeah
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that's probably five floors
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okay so we're on the fourth floor and
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we're leaving the shopping mall but
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there are many exits we looking for exit
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number three being on the right floor is
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just part of the success you also need
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to find the right exit so that's
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probably our hotel it's so hopeless
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seeing your final destination and not
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being able to reach it Shopping Mall
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exit / entrance fourth floor or ground
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floor
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now and our hotel and let me tell you
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the game is not won yet because we still
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need to get to our room let me
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explain so this building is a smaller
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version of chuning it's a freaking
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Labyrinth so we're staying at floor 33
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are the elevator zone so the Zone one
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our elevators going to the second
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and 5th to 9th and 11th to 19th and 21st
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to 28th and the zone two of the
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elevators go they get it they get it
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they get it they're probably having
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headache the first step is to get to the
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22nd floor those two are going to the
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21st
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uh I don't know this goes only to the
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19th
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what the well I'm pretty glad we're not
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entering this
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one okay oh yeah this one goes to the
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21st to 28
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21 yes
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21st they're not they are not because
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they live on the fifth floor
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all right and now if I remember
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correctly yeah I think this way this way
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new zone of elevators are you sure um
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not wasn't I think we were supposed to
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go to some kind of a reception to the
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lob okay the lob is there the lob is
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there yes this is it no no no that's not
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our lobby that's not our that's a
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different Lobby we're not acting here
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we're truly lost it's our second day oh
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this is our lobby right our perfect and
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so now we have to go to the Which floor
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uh 30th 30th but this one doesn't go to
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the 30th this one goes to just
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20
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uh okay so to the 30th floor and this
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one goes to the 30th floor but why is it
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written here that it goes to 20
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number 30 all right another
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Lobby and now another elevator area
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these elevators go up to floor 43 thank
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you very much we're not as stupid as we
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look 33 we're finally getting to our
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floor at least this hotel
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room and this
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view compensates for all the trouble
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look at that Chun Ching extremely
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perplexing but extremely beautiful and
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you know what the price for one night in
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this luxury is
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$50 chuning really feels like a dream
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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what can make your coffee better than
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cofy bars the biggest rodents in the
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world are lounging around this quirky
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Cafe in the center of chuning there's no
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special reason behind this unusual idea
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the owners just love caparas chinchillas
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parrots ducks and Corgis they adore
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their animals and let them roam freely
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among the guests but perhaps they should
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teach them some manners first
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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the ancient practice of ear cleaning is
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Alive and Well in chunin middle-aged men
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with a handful of metal tweezers and
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tongs roam parks and street corners
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looking to sit you down and scrape out
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your ear wax this tradition isn't just
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about hygiene it's a relaxing ritual
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that can make you feel euphoric some
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even claim it can make you orgasm this
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feels super weird you just cannot
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imagine how ticklish this is
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this oh so this is supposed to make me
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orgasm I cannot be further away from an
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orgasm at this moment oh that reached my
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brain what the hell is going on
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[Music]
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here that's like a fly inside my ear so
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the ear wax of us westerners is quite
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different from the ear waxs of Chinese
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people we Western people have wax it's
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something in between liquid and solid
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but what Chinese people have is dust
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it's a black dust is super fascinating
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look how sweaty I am a yeah that finally
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feels
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good what about my feet what's going on
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with my feet
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acupressure is a traditional Chinese
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healing technique it targets specific
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pressure points to enhance the body's
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Natural Balance of energy prior to my
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session they prepared a food bath
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infused with citrum pepper and chilies
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to reduce excess humidity and fluid
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retention they warned me it could be
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painful but they were wrong it was
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excruciating oh I'll stop with
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that please oh hell that
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hurts this is worse than a dentist a
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hell hell stop with that
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for
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this you can also tell sometimes like
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what parts of your body are weak based
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on the which acupressure points feel the
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worst for you I'm probably dying based
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on the
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reaction stress and stairs that's life
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in chunin in this city acupressure is
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not only a practice but a necessity each
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acupress point on your feet corresponds
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to an organ in your body body making it
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possible to heal your entire body
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through your
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feet I'm never getting food poisoning
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ever
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again Li is problematic yeah I'm going
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to stop drinking I promise
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I'm downloading Tinder tonight Paul
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Google nearest
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broel yes that's the Finish
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okay thank you so much
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if you can't sleep at night there's no
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better Chinese City to
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[Music]
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hit then of course
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chuning chuning is a city that never
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sleeps with people heading out to eat or
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drink at any hour seriously you won't
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find a time when there isn't a
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restaurant or a bar open across China
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chuning people are known as folks who
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truly save her life they love
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socializing eating out and one more
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activity I never fully understood
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China's favorite nighttime activity so I
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thought why not test it and see why it's
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so popular in the city of never-ending
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fun tonight we're going to SN karaoke
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with some female companions and also
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with a hidden camera inside my glasses
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because obviously cameras are not
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allowed there
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[Music]
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karaoke with girl companions was a wild
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experience they keep pouring drinks and
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partying with you after a while you stop
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caring about the language barrier or
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what song is playing
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it's my
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life I
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never
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I the more you drink the more fun it
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gets until the bill
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[Music]
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arrives crackers and some weird stuff
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welcome to the food market of chuning
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we're looking for a street food that was
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once very cute and now is absolutely
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terrifying the food we're looking for is
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a specialty of the Sichuan region we're
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currently in and I think I can already
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see
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it all right ladies and
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gentlemen rabbit's
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head she chose a bigger one for you
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thank you very much I really appreciate
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it you want no I don't want a Doug's
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head I'm into different kind of
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heads what is this this a glass oh it
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looks like a a
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condom thank you very much condom thank
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she heard that I'm in different kind of
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heads and gave me
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a not suitable for
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[Music]
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YouTube covered in oil and sesame seeds
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and it smells like exactly like night
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markets all around China so I guess it's
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the it's the green pepper from Sichuan
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the Sichuan pepper
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okay cheeks are pretty good very tasty
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and tender see that a rabbit
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Tong
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oh M surprisingly good very well
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seasoned I'm going to eat the eye yeah
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that's the eye that's the eye rabbit's
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eye pretty chewy
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that's like a chewing gum yeah ah
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probably skipping the other
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one am I getting to the brain how to get
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inside rabbit's head should I talk to
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other rabbits to make it jealous no more
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meat this is
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just the skull super hard I guess I'm
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not finishing the rabbit's head with its
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brain and I'm pretty glad I'm not doing
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it and that concludes our Ching episode
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what an amazing City it is and we're
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nowhere where near done exploring the
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city there's one more episode from the
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city coming and we're going to have some
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close to death experiences thank you so
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much for watching hit the like button if
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subscribe I love Chon Ching so far let's
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see how long will my love last
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