WEBVTT - Fakers, Fraudsters and Phonies: Everything's A Lie Now! 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.720 Ridiculous crime. It's a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.640 --> 0:00:10.720 Elizabeth Burnett. Oh yeah, what's up? Well? I was just 0:00:10.760 --> 0:00:12.840 sitting in here talking to the interns, going do you 0:00:12.840 --> 0:00:14.239 think she's gonna show up today? And all of a 0:00:14.240 --> 0:00:17.400 sudden you breeze in and everyone's all happy to see Elizabeth. 0:00:17.480 --> 0:00:19.639 Yeah, I go, you know what, it's a beautiful day. 0:00:20.239 --> 0:00:23.439 But it's not the heat. It's the pepperoni. That's what 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:24.720 we like to say in the biz. 0:00:24.760 --> 0:00:27.040 I'm sorry, I ate my pepperoni pizza in the studio. 0:00:27.400 --> 0:00:29.280 Get used to this, like. 0:00:29.160 --> 0:00:30.560 A nineteen eighties round table. 0:00:30.840 --> 0:00:33.320 Yeah right, and they're kind of good. The red plastic 0:00:33.320 --> 0:00:35.960 cups are by my touch to make it feel authentico. 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:38.560 It does. It does a picture of root beer, please. 0:00:38.479 --> 0:00:41.080 I got a question for you. Yeah, along with your 0:00:41.080 --> 0:00:43.400 picture of root beer? Do you know what's ridiculous? 0:00:43.400 --> 0:00:47.640 You sure do? I sure do. This isn't ridiculous. Independent 0:00:47.680 --> 0:00:48.960 baseball leagues. 0:00:48.880 --> 0:00:51.000 Oh yeah, yeah. I love them because. 0:00:50.760 --> 0:00:53.720 They're not affiliated with MLB, which I'm not a fan 0:00:53.800 --> 0:00:54.680 of these days. 0:00:54.840 --> 0:00:56.440 Oh, because you're as. 0:00:56.200 --> 0:01:01.360 Yeah, but they're more fun. It's like more immediate, authentic baseball, 0:01:01.720 --> 0:01:04.520 and so the you know, there's like the Savannah Bananas 0:01:04.560 --> 0:01:07.000 are part of that coastal league. It's like a collegiate 0:01:07.120 --> 0:01:14.440 league Oakland Ballers or Pioneer League. And then there's this team, 0:01:14.720 --> 0:01:17.440 the uh Madison Mallards. 0:01:17.760 --> 0:01:19.640 Don't know them, I'm assuming Madison. 0:01:20.160 --> 0:01:22.959 I wasn't. Yeah, I wasn't familiar with their game. And 0:01:22.959 --> 0:01:26.080 then a bunch of a bunch of rude dudes were. 0:01:25.920 --> 0:01:26.759 Like, hey, look at this. 0:01:27.160 --> 0:01:31.760 Okay, we are Oh so it's not a mashupdes but 0:01:33.480 --> 0:01:35.959 it is a lot it's similar. It's one of those 0:01:35.959 --> 0:01:36.959 weird promotions. 0:01:37.040 --> 0:01:38.520 You hook me and you're no. 0:01:39.240 --> 0:01:43.240 So the Madison Mallards for their July eighteenth game had 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.880 this thing where if you buy a ticket and you 0:01:46.120 --> 0:01:49.360 enter in this promo code for twenty one dollars for 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:53.040 a grand stand ticket or forty eight dollars for the 0:01:53.120 --> 0:01:57.800 bush light duck blind okay section the duck line, you 0:01:57.960 --> 0:02:01.000 can get this promotion thing. So you know, with like 0:02:01.040 --> 0:02:03.720 the a's used to get like bubble heads or little 0:02:05.000 --> 0:02:09.160 mini bat night not a good idea, like little blankets, 0:02:09.200 --> 0:02:13.639 I don't know, garbage stuff anyway. Yeah, so the Mallards 0:02:13.960 --> 0:02:20.200 they're giving away a Wiener wallet and it's a belt 0:02:20.440 --> 0:02:22.959 with a holster on it where you put. 0:02:22.840 --> 0:02:25.640 A hot dog alster like a gun on the side. 0:02:26.080 --> 0:02:28.560 There's a picture. We'll have them put that on Instagram 0:02:28.600 --> 0:02:31.200 for it. And so yeah, it's like on the side 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:33.080 where you it looks like a gun holster, but you 0:02:33.080 --> 0:02:34.600 put a hot dog in there, and then there's a 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:38.519 little pouch next to it for your squeezes of ketchup 0:02:38.600 --> 0:02:43.880 mustard whatever. Yeah, so it has an expandable belt because 0:02:43.919 --> 0:02:46.080 they said it fits no matter how many wieners you 0:02:46.120 --> 0:02:50.919 put down. They there's the condiment pouch, blah blah blah. 0:02:51.160 --> 0:02:53.160 And so they said, what can we use it for? 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:55.600 And then I'm glad you asked and they have like 0:02:55.680 --> 0:02:59.239 an f a Q wiener wallets are perfect for And 0:02:59.280 --> 0:03:02.600 I'm going to read you the list please. Times when 0:03:02.919 --> 0:03:08.359 you want to wear your worst wu rs apostrophe, don't 0:03:09.440 --> 0:03:11.639 when you got to have another red hot at the ready, 0:03:12.280 --> 0:03:14.720 When you need a place to park your pork sword, 0:03:15.440 --> 0:03:18.040 oh god, see yeah, if you need a holster for 0:03:18.080 --> 0:03:20.680 your hot dog, when you need to tuck away your 0:03:20.680 --> 0:03:24.520 tube steak, if you're looking for a carrier for your coney, 0:03:25.280 --> 0:03:28.720 if you feel like a Frankfurt or fashionista, when you 0:03:28.800 --> 0:03:32.360 got to gather your grease missiles when you're out of 0:03:32.360 --> 0:03:35.520 places to grip your glizzies, and when you want a 0:03:35.560 --> 0:03:37.760 pocket full of pigs in a blanket. 0:03:37.520 --> 0:03:39.360 So when you want to keep that foot long on you, 0:03:39.480 --> 0:03:40.000 you keep. 0:03:39.880 --> 0:03:44.640 That thing on you. Yeah, so that's what they have. 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.080 If you're in that area, try and score a ticket 0:03:48.800 --> 0:03:51.360 that you can't buy them. It's a promotion attached to 0:03:51.400 --> 0:03:54.880 the ticket. And uh yeah, wiener wallet. 0:03:54.640 --> 0:03:56.480 You cased meats. 0:03:56.800 --> 0:03:58.400 Well that's kind of why I brought it up. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.440 Oh well, thank you. If you're looking out for me. 0:04:01.520 --> 0:04:02.080 I think. 0:04:03.560 --> 0:04:08.520 Every day, just stay strapped exactly. Well, I'll give you that. 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:10.920 That is ridiculous, and thank you for your dudes for 0:04:10.960 --> 0:04:15.080 not letting that be a full mash up. Ely, Well, Elizabeth, 0:04:15.160 --> 0:04:16.240 I got one for you. 0:04:16.320 --> 0:04:17.240 Sure I'll take it. 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:20.320 Now. I have a modern version of the children's cautionary 0:04:20.320 --> 0:04:22.559 tale Peter and the wolf kind of looks at the table. 0:04:22.760 --> 0:04:24.920 Aolved not in this. 0:04:25.480 --> 0:04:28.359 But pretend there are just imagine them, so you know. 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:31.520 Peter claims he was attacked by an unseen wolf. Paul 0:04:31.640 --> 0:04:34.920 Village is an uproar, but the wolf claims he was framed. 0:04:35.600 --> 0:04:38.320 This always happened after a brief investigation. Please claim Peter 0:04:38.440 --> 0:05:02.719 did it for clout or perhaps a quick payout. This 0:05:03.040 --> 0:05:08.080 is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast about absurd and outrageous capers, 0:05:08.160 --> 0:05:14.120 heists and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:21.200 and one hundred percent ridiculous. Yes, Oh, Elizabeth Saren. You 0:05:21.800 --> 0:05:25.080 are a woman with many interests. Sure, some of them 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:27.320 we often touch upon on this show. Yeah, such as 0:05:27.360 --> 0:05:30.720 your love of gardening, sure, your love of RuPaul's Drag Race, 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:35.080 British TV shows, Scottish detective novels, and of course, for 0:05:35.160 --> 0:05:39.640 longtime listeners, your love of trains. Sure. But we also 0:05:39.680 --> 0:05:41.480 have touched upon your love of bears. 0:05:42.040 --> 0:05:43.240 I do love bears like. 0:05:43.240 --> 0:05:46.640 You, legit love Alaska's Fat Bear. We do. You talked 0:05:46.680 --> 0:05:48.560 about this in an episode on the Fat Bear Week 0:05:48.680 --> 0:05:52.120 vote rigging scandal. Correct, now, I did. You've often told 0:05:52.200 --> 0:05:54.839 me that you would like to one day hug a bear. 0:05:55.480 --> 0:05:58.560 I would love to hug a bear nuts. 0:05:58.480 --> 0:06:00.760 Which is why I thought of you, And I also 0:06:00.839 --> 0:06:02.960 thought you might remember this story. So when I was 0:06:03.000 --> 0:06:04.200 reading it, I thought of you, and I thought, you 0:06:04.200 --> 0:06:06.840 know what, Lizbeth might remember this. Over in China, there 0:06:06.839 --> 0:06:09.119 was a story about a sun bear at a Chinese zoo. 0:06:09.360 --> 0:06:12.000 Oh, there's like kind of light brown. Yeah, sun bear. 0:06:12.640 --> 0:06:14.839 Now do you remember this news story from twenty twenty 0:06:14.839 --> 0:06:17.080 three about a fake bear that was in an exhibit 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:19.680 at a Chinese zoo in eastern Hong Shiao City. 0:06:19.839 --> 0:06:21.120 I have vague recollection. 0:06:21.320 --> 0:06:24.080 Okay, lay it on me. When folks caught sight of 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:28.880 videos circulating online, people were convinced that the alleged sun 0:06:28.920 --> 0:06:31.359 bear in a Chinese zoo is actually a man in 0:06:31.400 --> 0:06:35.719 a bear suit right now, According to the Associated Foreign 0:06:35.760 --> 0:06:38.279 Press back in twenty twenty three and I quote, a 0:06:38.400 --> 0:06:41.040 Chinese zoo has been forced to deny that its sunbear 0:06:41.120 --> 0:06:43.559 is actually a human in a costume after a video 0:06:43.600 --> 0:06:46.840 of one standing on a tined legs raised online accusations 0:06:46.839 --> 0:06:50.680 of a furry impostor. Now, in case you don't quite 0:06:50.680 --> 0:06:53.440 recall what the alleged sun bear looks like, here is 0:06:53.480 --> 0:06:56.320 an image of the suspected man in a bear costume. 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.760 Yeah, that does look like a dude in like he's 0:06:58.800 --> 0:07:01.120 got his belly out, looks like his hands are on 0:07:01.200 --> 0:07:03.280 his lips. I don't know. I'm not wearing my glasses 0:07:03.320 --> 0:07:05.360 and you're holding that up and I'm doing my best. 0:07:05.200 --> 0:07:08.479 Also noticed like the wrinkles around his posterior. Yeah, it 0:07:08.560 --> 0:07:11.480 kind of looks like, you know, is is that a 0:07:11.520 --> 0:07:15.080 bear suit? Because of how it just droops around, you know. 0:07:15.160 --> 0:07:19.120 Missing judge, that's I see. You're doing a lot of 0:07:19.120 --> 0:07:20.320 body shaming for that bear. 0:07:20.720 --> 0:07:22.640 You should have more thickness to him. 0:07:22.720 --> 0:07:23.680 Yeah. 0:07:23.720 --> 0:07:25.720 Well, I got to ask you, and you don't have 0:07:25.720 --> 0:07:27.680 to answer right away. I'll give you more time on this, 0:07:27.760 --> 0:07:30.200 And so what's your call? Is this a real sun 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.400 Bear or is it a person in a bear costume? 0:07:32.520 --> 0:07:34.120 Saren? I think I need more information. 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.600 I think you do too. It's debatable. I mean, honestly, 0:07:36.880 --> 0:07:38.880 if you look at the loose, wrinkled skin and the 0:07:38.880 --> 0:07:40.920 way it sort of bunches oddly around the bear's butt, 0:07:40.960 --> 0:07:44.240 as I've pointed out, it's you'd suspect, right, but this 0:07:44.360 --> 0:07:46.480 could easily be like a person in a bear costume, 0:07:46.520 --> 0:07:49.200 But it could just as easily be an actual sun Bear. 0:07:49.360 --> 0:07:50.000 Yeah. 0:07:50.120 --> 0:07:53.600 Now, despite all the online overnight bear experts in their 0:07:53.680 --> 0:07:56.800 opinions that it was not a real bear and instead 0:07:56.840 --> 0:07:59.480 it was a pathetic hoax that was giving fake bear, 0:08:00.120 --> 0:08:02.880 officials at the Zoo insisted at the sun Bear was 0:08:02.880 --> 0:08:07.200 a real, actual factual Bear the Bear debate crossed the seas, 0:08:07.240 --> 0:08:09.400 and eventually The New York Times had to weigh in 0:08:09.800 --> 0:08:11.480 on whether or not it was a real sun bear 0:08:11.640 --> 0:08:13.480 or a person in a bear suit. As The New 0:08:13.560 --> 0:08:16.760 York Times reported quote. The confusion appeared to begin in 0:08:16.840 --> 0:08:19.400 late July when a video surfaced on the Chinese social 0:08:19.440 --> 0:08:22.920 media site Webo of a sunbear named Angela standing on 0:08:23.000 --> 0:08:26.160 a rock and its zoo enclosure with ramrod posture on 0:08:26.240 --> 0:08:29.280 its hind legs. Okay, so now we got a name 0:08:29.440 --> 0:08:30.560 Angela Angela. 0:08:31.200 --> 0:08:32.000 That's incredible. 0:08:32.080 --> 0:08:34.960 So what's the truth. Is Angela the Sunbear reel or 0:08:35.040 --> 0:08:38.000 is Angela more like a college mascot? Well, folks in 0:08:38.080 --> 0:08:40.600 China had good reason to doubt that Angela the sun 0:08:40.640 --> 0:08:43.839 Bear was real. I mean, there have been multiple zoo 0:08:43.840 --> 0:08:46.640 hoaxes in China reported in the past. 0:08:47.080 --> 0:08:49.400 Could they could be saying, yeah, it's a bear, but 0:08:49.440 --> 0:08:53.679 it's really like a very large hairy man inside the costume, 0:08:53.760 --> 0:08:55.120 so technically it's a bear. 0:08:55.000 --> 0:08:59.360 In a costume. They're not lying your heads had now. 0:08:59.400 --> 0:09:01.960 Back in twenty thirteen, there was a zoo in the 0:09:02.280 --> 0:09:05.760 Hanan Province in China that claimed to have an African 0:09:05.800 --> 0:09:08.439 lion on display, but it turns out the purported lion 0:09:08.559 --> 0:09:10.040 was actually a Tibetan mastiff. 0:09:10.559 --> 0:09:12.400 Oh, they kind of do a click lions. Did they 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:13.480 have like a wig on it? 0:09:13.679 --> 0:09:15.400 Well, they kind of like, you know, they cut the 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:17.440 main to look a little bit. Yeah. So at the 0:09:17.480 --> 0:09:21.240 BBC report at the time quote Chinese media reports said 0:09:21.240 --> 0:09:24.120 the zoo had replaced its genuine lion with a Tibetan 0:09:24.120 --> 0:09:27.520 mastiff dog. A zoo official and Hanan province said the dog, 0:09:27.600 --> 0:09:29.679 owned by one of the workers, was put in the 0:09:29.720 --> 0:09:31.880 cage when the real lion was sent away to a 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:36.000 breeding center. Outraged visitors to the zoo and lu Ouhu 0:09:36.440 --> 0:09:38.280 City said they had been cheated. 0:09:38.880 --> 0:09:40.959 That those are those dogs. I've seen the videos of 0:09:41.000 --> 0:09:42.199 those dogs getting grooms. 0:09:42.280 --> 0:09:43.760 Oh yeah, but they had just their first of all, 0:09:43.800 --> 0:09:45.760 they're normal, enormous. It is one of the biggest dogs. 0:09:45.760 --> 0:09:48.480 And then the hair situation is just crazy. See I 0:09:48.520 --> 0:09:50.360 can see if you shave down the body and left 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:50.720 the top. 0:09:51.000 --> 0:09:54.880 I pay to see that the grooming all of it 0:09:55.120 --> 0:09:57.120 or the end result. Okay, well for the. 0:09:57.080 --> 0:09:59.800 Grooming the after as long as they're treating the dog. 0:10:00.000 --> 0:10:01.400 Oh yeah, I'll give you five bucks. 0:10:01.440 --> 0:10:03.520 I'm with you on that now. The way the deception 0:10:03.600 --> 0:10:05.199 came to light was kind of fun to picture. The 0:10:05.240 --> 0:10:07.480 story goes a mother brought her son to the zoo 0:10:07.520 --> 0:10:09.720 to check out the animals, like young kid, and she 0:10:09.800 --> 0:10:11.959 was having fun introducing her child to all the animals, 0:10:11.960 --> 0:10:14.840 and she was educating her son on all the different 0:10:14.920 --> 0:10:17.760 sounds that animals make. And then when they approached the 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:21.120 enclosure with the alleged African lion, they watched this animal 0:10:21.160 --> 0:10:23.280 for a while and the mother's like, you know, doing 0:10:23.320 --> 0:10:25.840 the distinctive lion roar for her son. She's like, soon 0:10:25.880 --> 0:10:28.160 he's going to do that, But instead, when the alleged 0:10:28.160 --> 0:10:31.880 lion finally did make a sound, it barked. The kid 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:33.560 looked at it up his mom like, why are lying 0:10:33.679 --> 0:10:36.200 to me? The mother, knowing what a lion should sound like, 0:10:36.320 --> 0:10:39.000 was obviously shocked, and so this is when the deception 0:10:39.240 --> 0:10:42.960 was revealed, or rather confirmed. So zoo keepers admitted that 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:45.400 their real African lion was away at the moment, and 0:10:45.440 --> 0:10:49.160 they'd subbed in a Tibetan masta, you know, and it's like, look, 0:10:49.240 --> 0:10:51.240 I know, it looks a lot like a lion, right, 0:10:51.440 --> 0:10:54.000 And she was like, my child, So the deceived mother. 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.760 She's pissed, right, she told the local press quote, the 0:10:56.840 --> 0:10:59.520 zoo was absolutely trying to cheat us. They are trying 0:10:59.559 --> 0:11:02.720 to discus dogs as lions. 0:11:03.240 --> 0:11:05.920 I give him credit for it. Look, lady, you can 0:11:05.960 --> 0:11:08.280 either go and have a sign that says, you know, 0:11:08.440 --> 0:11:11.679 exhibit closed, or you can go and see a cool 0:11:14.400 --> 0:11:15.079 your choice. 0:11:15.600 --> 0:11:18.240 All the kid's not gonna remember a good point. Now, 0:11:18.280 --> 0:11:20.719 she may not have been wrong to level such accusations, 0:11:20.720 --> 0:11:23.560 because it wasn't just the African lion that was fake 0:11:23.600 --> 0:11:26.480 in the zoo. There was also a fake leopard. Visitors 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.200 who looked closely at the animals stalking in the so 0:11:29.280 --> 0:11:34.000 called leopards den would notice it was actually a white fox. Yeah, 0:11:34.000 --> 0:11:36.360 it's a big difference totally. And in the enclosure that 0:11:36.400 --> 0:11:41.599 purportedly held a wolf, it was also a dog. The 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:45.160 zoo in question, they claimed the two cages were simply mislabeled, 0:11:45.240 --> 0:11:47.000 which I find a little hard to believe. 0:11:47.160 --> 0:11:47.600 Yeah. 0:11:47.720 --> 0:11:50.920 Yeah, Plus, there were other incidents in China of doubtful 0:11:51.000 --> 0:11:54.520 wild animals going down, like for instance, uh. Unlike with 0:11:54.559 --> 0:11:56.720 that zoo, the other incidents did have good or at 0:11:56.760 --> 0:12:00.800 least reasonable explanations. For instance, there was a reserve in 0:12:00.840 --> 0:12:04.000 the Sechuan Province and the panda keepers. They would often 0:12:04.160 --> 0:12:07.400 zip up a human sized panda costume and then they 0:12:07.440 --> 0:12:10.840 would join the pandas in the enclosure. Yeah, in this case, 0:12:10.880 --> 0:12:12.720 it wasn't meant to fool the humans because it was 0:12:12.760 --> 0:12:15.040 clearly like, that's not a panda. It was meant to 0:12:15.040 --> 0:12:18.240 trick the pandas because they want the zoop keepers. They 0:12:18.280 --> 0:12:21.480 wanted to like slip on the panda costume to alleviate 0:12:21.520 --> 0:12:24.800 the panda stress and if they got moved, or also 0:12:24.840 --> 0:12:28.160 to help them overcome any like attachment with their human caregivers, 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:30.040 so they wouldn't be going up to people going do 0:12:30.080 --> 0:12:31.120 you have bamboo shoots? 0:12:31.160 --> 0:12:34.080 Well, you've seen the thing of the little baby panda 0:12:34.200 --> 0:12:38.520 that makes a snarling face when breaking. Oh yeah, because 0:12:38.559 --> 0:12:40.880 he learned not from an adult panda but from the 0:12:41.000 --> 0:12:43.839 zoo keepers how to snap the bamboo. But everyone have 0:12:44.000 --> 0:12:46.640 like a pained look on their face as they exerted 0:12:46.679 --> 0:12:49.480 to snap the bamboo. Yeah, so this little panda bear 0:12:49.720 --> 0:12:50.719 like snarls. 0:12:51.360 --> 0:12:52.880 It is a rough one. 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:55.000 So they got to be careful. I see why they 0:12:55.080 --> 0:12:56.760 do it. They're so sweet innocent. 0:12:57.000 --> 0:13:00.959 Oh yeah, just little I love pandas. The by the 0:13:00.960 --> 0:13:04.840 way the zip up panda costumes. They were often visually 0:13:04.880 --> 0:13:07.839 troubling for visitors to the panda reserve. And you can 0:13:07.840 --> 0:13:09.760 see why. This is what a human in a panda 0:13:09.760 --> 0:13:10.680 costume looks like. 0:13:11.160 --> 0:13:13.679 That is disturbing. I feel like if he turns around, 0:13:13.800 --> 0:13:15.280 the butt cheeks are like cut out. 0:13:16.640 --> 0:13:19.800 That's just it looks like a slender Man costume, but 0:13:19.840 --> 0:13:20.640 for a panda. 0:13:20.679 --> 0:13:23.800 Well there's no padding and it's yeah, it's very droopy. 0:13:23.920 --> 0:13:29.040 Yeah, exactly, It's just it's a low effort. It looks like. 0:13:29.080 --> 0:13:31.280 Those seventies Halloween costume. 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:32.319 Yes, you know. 0:13:33.880 --> 0:13:38.280 They would give kids like a plastic front, only mass 0:13:38.480 --> 0:13:42.559 hard hard plastic, and then like a garbage bag that 0:13:42.720 --> 0:13:45.559 had a like the outfit printed on it. 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:46.959 But only the front because the back would be a 0:13:47.000 --> 0:13:47.440 solid color. 0:13:47.559 --> 0:13:49.520 And if I'm sure that if it got caught on 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:52.000 a jack land and it would go up like like 0:13:52.040 --> 0:13:53.040 a Roman candle. 0:13:53.160 --> 0:13:56.200 Pretty much everything in the seventies was flammable. It's very true, yeah, 0:13:56.320 --> 0:14:00.240 especially if it was for children. For children. So way 0:14:00.280 --> 0:14:02.640 back to Angela the sun Bear, we need to resolve 0:14:02.679 --> 0:14:05.959 this right, Yes, thanks to the fake lion, the fake leopard, 0:14:06.000 --> 0:14:08.000 the humans in a panda suit. You can see why 0:14:08.160 --> 0:14:11.240 Chinese zoogoers might have their doubts, sure right, and come 0:14:11.240 --> 0:14:13.120 to believe it was a person in America. 0:14:12.760 --> 0:14:14.359 Houl bitten twice, shy. 0:14:14.320 --> 0:14:16.880 Totally, It's totally fair and on their part, I'm not, 0:14:16.960 --> 0:14:20.120 you know, slighting them for being doubtful, suspicious, what have you. 0:14:20.360 --> 0:14:21.520 I'm not gonna victim blame. 0:14:21.640 --> 0:14:23.560 What's the truth. Was it a real sun bear or 0:14:23.560 --> 0:14:25.760 a zoo keeper in a bear suit? What's your call, Elizabeth? 0:14:26.120 --> 0:14:26.800 Why not both? 0:14:27.120 --> 0:14:30.360 Oh? Like that? I live in very diplomatic. 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:32.600 Yeah, it's live in the gray. 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:36.640 So it turns out it was a real sun bear. 0:14:36.960 --> 0:14:40.760 It was are so the zoo claimed. One of the 0:14:40.800 --> 0:14:43.600 zoo keepers took to social media to defend Angela, and 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:46.000 they posted that quote, of course it's a real animal. 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:48.440 It's definitely not a person in disguise. Our place is 0:14:48.480 --> 0:14:51.760 a state run facility. Such situations won't happen here. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.560 But I could see where they're like, we're not some 0:14:53.680 --> 0:14:56.880 fly by night private But oh they're also like, Okay, 0:14:57.040 --> 0:15:01.960 Angela's got a weird body. You guys don't like, don't 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.800 accuse her of being human. She's a real bear. She's 0:15:04.840 --> 0:15:05.840 one hundred percent bear. 0:15:06.160 --> 0:15:08.760 Now that same zoo worker also offered some reasoning as 0:15:08.760 --> 0:15:11.200 to why I couldn't be a person in a bear suit. 0:15:11.440 --> 0:15:13.600 They reasoned that it was way too hot in the 0:15:13.640 --> 0:15:15.800 summer to throw on a bear costume just to con 0:15:15.800 --> 0:15:18.040 some tourists for a couple of dollars or you know 0:15:18.160 --> 0:15:18.600 you want. 0:15:19.360 --> 0:15:22.360 If anyone's ever been to like Disneyland or a theme park, 0:15:22.800 --> 0:15:25.320 you know that no one cares. The owners of places 0:15:25.400 --> 0:15:27.440 don't care how hot. Oh yeah, they'll put you in 0:15:27.440 --> 0:15:28.640 a big old sweatsuit. 0:15:28.760 --> 0:15:30.680 Yeah, as long as that sweaty stink doesn't come out 0:15:30.680 --> 0:15:32.760 of the suit. They don't care what's going on inside 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:33.400 the exactly. 0:15:33.480 --> 0:15:36.080 So that you know what, I discount that point. Give 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.320 me your next argument, Chinese zoo. 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.200 Well, the zoo keeper wrote on social media, if you 0:15:41.200 --> 0:15:43.400 were to wear a suit, you definitely couldn't bear it 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:45.640 for more than a few minutes. You'd have to lie down. 0:15:46.080 --> 0:15:47.440 So fun puns aside. 0:15:47.640 --> 0:15:49.760 Does that pun translate from Chinese? 0:15:49.960 --> 0:15:51.000 I wondered that too. 0:15:51.280 --> 0:15:53.640 It's really interesting. Yeah, I don't think it does. 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:55.160 I don't think so. I think it just happened to be. 0:15:55.240 --> 0:15:57.320 It just lined up in English. But I could be wrong. 0:15:57.840 --> 0:16:00.200 Maybe they're ready. I don't know. You know what, Now 0:16:00.240 --> 0:16:02.280 I feel like we've blown this whole thing wide open. 0:16:03.200 --> 0:16:08.400 I feel like that's a problem because was he writing 0:16:08.400 --> 0:16:09.320 it in English? 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.880 No, It's written in Chinese as far as I can tell. 0:16:12.160 --> 0:16:17.480 And then translates like perhaps if Chinese speakers can clarify 0:16:17.520 --> 0:16:17.920 for it, it. 0:16:17.920 --> 0:16:20.120 Could be the translator introduced the pun. 0:16:21.160 --> 0:16:23.840 Oh took some liberties again. Now I'm just not I 0:16:23.880 --> 0:16:25.640 don't know who to believe anymore, Sar, I don't know 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:26.920 what what's fake. 0:16:28.280 --> 0:16:30.400 Well, all this gave me an idea. Whenever you finally 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:32.360 open your strip club for ladies who just want to 0:16:32.400 --> 0:16:35.400 lie around on couches and robes slots, you should open 0:16:35.480 --> 0:16:38.720 a roadside zoo attraction that's just people lying around wearing 0:16:38.760 --> 0:16:42.680 half zipped bear costumes. Okay, right, just so for the outside, 0:16:42.720 --> 0:16:44.240 you know, it's like kind of like you're like, hey, look, 0:16:44.240 --> 0:16:46.160 we got a roadside attraction to bring in the truckers. 0:16:46.200 --> 0:16:50.560 Sure, but I'll put the I'll put the fellows outside 0:16:50.640 --> 0:16:50.880 in the. 0:16:51.200 --> 0:16:55.240 Yeah, totally outside exactly, and the lady's gonna be inside 0:16:55.240 --> 0:16:56.760 with the air conditioning robes. 0:16:56.960 --> 0:16:59.640 Yeah, girl, Ladies to the front. Girls to the front. 0:17:01.440 --> 0:17:04.440 So back to Angela that maybe or maybe not Sunbar. 0:17:04.560 --> 0:17:06.840 So what is the truth? Well, in order to convince 0:17:06.880 --> 0:17:09.240 the public that Angela Sunbear was a real bear, the 0:17:09.320 --> 0:17:12.760 zoo put out a press release allegedly written by the bear. 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:15.440 I don't now convince. 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:18.800 Okay, So now who tells the truth around here? 0:17:19.280 --> 0:17:22.320 Well do you check this statement? And I quote? Yesterday 0:17:22.320 --> 0:17:24.719 after work, I received a call from the park manager 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:26.919 asking me if I was slacking off and had a 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:30.800 biped replace me. Much to my surprise, I'm just sitting 0:17:30.800 --> 0:17:33.200 in the mountains and I go viral on the internet. 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:35.960 Some people think I look too human when I stand up. 0:17:36.240 --> 0:17:39.520 It seems you really don't understand me. Previously, some visitors 0:17:39.560 --> 0:17:41.639 even thought I was too petite to be a bear. 0:17:41.960 --> 0:17:45.720 I want to emphasize again, I am a Malaysian sun bear, 0:17:45.840 --> 0:17:49.560 not a black bear, not a dog, a Malaysian sun bear. 0:17:50.320 --> 0:17:53.960 So that was the press release allegedly written by Angela 0:17:54.000 --> 0:17:56.880 the sun Bear. It's not helping quell any of the doubts. 0:17:56.960 --> 0:17:59.639 So if that didn't convince you, Elizabeth, we also have 0:17:59.720 --> 0:18:02.679 test the money from Charles Robbins, director of research at 0:18:02.720 --> 0:18:05.280 the Washington State University Bear Center, which I'm sure you 0:18:05.280 --> 0:18:07.760 should follow on social media, and according to The New 0:18:07.840 --> 0:18:11.480 York Times, Robbins assessed the bear question it offered his take, 0:18:11.600 --> 0:18:14.560 saying that in his professional opinion and I quote, it 0:18:14.600 --> 0:18:17.800 looks like a sun bear to me. Presumably the bear 0:18:17.880 --> 0:18:21.240 has been rewarded with food by the crowd for standing, 0:18:21.359 --> 0:18:24.479 so it learned very quickly to do just that. So 0:18:24.720 --> 0:18:26.719 that's the whole he's getting rid of the standing part now. 0:18:26.800 --> 0:18:29.960 Robin's also addressed the posture of the sun bear, adding 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:32.560 the quote, I have a grizzly bear that will stand 0:18:32.560 --> 0:18:35.280 and walk two legged. So now he's just like bragging 0:18:35.320 --> 0:18:35.960 on what he got. 0:18:36.160 --> 0:18:38.520 Yeah, and I'm just okay, so what's it? Is he 0:18:38.600 --> 0:18:39.520 in their pocket too? 0:18:39.880 --> 0:18:42.560 No, but he's the deciding factor in this one. So 0:18:42.720 --> 0:18:46.560 there you go in the sun Bear innocent. Which brings 0:18:46.600 --> 0:18:48.760 me to another big bad bear story where the nature 0:18:48.760 --> 0:18:50.719 of the bear was in question. When this story hit 0:18:50.760 --> 0:18:53.400 the press recently, a number of rude dudes reached out 0:18:53.400 --> 0:18:54.879 to us and sent us this story. 0:18:55.000 --> 0:18:55.280 Yeah. 0:18:55.320 --> 0:18:58.040