WEBVTT - Classic RC: Let's Take to the Sea! 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.720 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:06.440 --> 0:00:09.480 Hi producer Dave, then the interns. Can someone pick up 0:00:09.520 --> 0:00:09.920 the phone? 0:00:10.840 --> 0:00:11.200 Listen? 0:00:11.480 --> 0:00:14.080 Zaren and I were on the podcast or commuter bus 0:00:14.520 --> 0:00:16.639 this morning and the driver kind of flipped out and 0:00:16.680 --> 0:00:18.720 took us all to the beach instead of dropping us 0:00:18.760 --> 0:00:21.520 off at headquarters, and then she ran away with the 0:00:21.600 --> 0:00:24.279 keys to the bus. So Zaren standing in line for 0:00:24.320 --> 0:00:26.600 an ice cream cone with Katie Kuric right now, and 0:00:27.080 --> 0:00:29.840 all the podcasters are trying to record episodes on travel 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:31.800 mics and they're all talking at once and it is 0:00:31.960 --> 0:00:35.720 driving me nuts. So I'm hiding under a park bench, 0:00:35.920 --> 0:00:37.120 just trying not to get a sunburn. 0:00:37.440 --> 0:00:37.800 Listen. 0:00:38.320 --> 0:00:40.360 I hope that someone there is checking. 0:00:40.080 --> 0:00:42.840 These voicemails and it's not the person who checks the emails. 0:00:43.800 --> 0:00:46.960 Can you run a classic episode for us, maybe something. 0:00:46.680 --> 0:00:48.519 About escaping in the ocean. 0:00:49.200 --> 0:00:53.080 Thanks, guys, I owe you one. 0:00:55.200 --> 0:00:58.200 Elizabeth Dunton, Zaren Burnett, I'm so glad to see you. 0:00:58.240 --> 0:00:59.120 I am glad to see me. 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.639 Hi, Ben, I've been good. Good nice pants, thank you much. 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:03.920 These are my crazy pants. 0:01:03.960 --> 0:01:05.960 Yeah, it's all crazy, you know, it's ridiculous. 0:01:06.280 --> 0:01:10.200 I do what is it? Listen? Listen to this uh 0:01:10.480 --> 0:01:11.160 game freak. 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:16.679 That game freak is the creator of pokemonka, which I 0:01:16.720 --> 0:01:20.960 always like to call Pokemon, Pokemon, Pokemon, mister Pokemon. Nothing 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.840 irritates little kids more than when you refer to it 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:26.640 as Pokemon. You guys got them Pokemon cards. 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:27.960 Yeah, you do it like real quick, like it's a 0:01:28.040 --> 0:01:29.600 name like Pokemon, mister Pokemon. 0:01:29.760 --> 0:01:32.479 I think the whole things are. There's like the Pokemon 0:01:32.640 --> 0:01:35.839 Go where you just go, you play. 0:01:35.720 --> 0:01:36.720 It outside, you walk around. 0:01:37.720 --> 0:01:41.240 Sure, you just go. But you know, I love a 0:01:41.280 --> 0:01:44.720 good collaboration. So take a guess. 0:01:45.360 --> 0:01:48.640 What do you think you could mash up with Pokemon 0:01:48.800 --> 0:01:49.520 crab traps? 0:01:50.160 --> 0:01:59.480 Yes, totally ll bean Pokemon Pokemon. No, let me tell 0:01:59.480 --> 0:01:59.920 you something. 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:01.440 Glass hammers. 0:02:01.880 --> 0:02:05.640 If these are designed with a crystallized quality, close crystal, 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:11.200 they're iconic and are iconic. They're exclusive styles in eighteen 0:02:11.240 --> 0:02:15.600 carrot yellow gold with diamonds or with oxidized sterling silver. 0:02:15.760 --> 0:02:17.040 Yeah, you're moving away from my answer. 0:02:17.480 --> 0:02:21.120 It's Tiffany and Company what you can get, and it's 0:02:21.120 --> 0:02:27.760 based on them. This man, Daniel Rsham, he does Pokemon sculptures, 0:02:27.760 --> 0:02:31.200 Pokemon sculptures, the Pokemon Yeah, he had a whole art 0:02:31.240 --> 0:02:34.519 exhibit called a ripple and tyme, I didn't even bother 0:02:34.600 --> 0:02:36.040 to look it up because quite frankly, I. 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:38.200 Didn't need that in my life. Better as a book, right, 0:02:38.360 --> 0:02:42.880 and so that is a good book. AnyWho. 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:46.880 So yeah, so he does these Pokemon sculptures, the Pokemon's 0:02:47.040 --> 0:02:49.520 and he's made them into Tiffany necklaces. 0:02:50.040 --> 0:02:51.000 Does Tiffany know this? 0:02:53.320 --> 0:02:54.880 Tiffany, has anyone told you about this? 0:02:54.919 --> 0:02:58.160 So if you want an eighteen cater you will just 0:02:58.160 --> 0:03:00.920 blink avec Damon's. I'm trying to open it up and 0:03:00.919 --> 0:03:02.600 it won't let me. I don't know how much these things. 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:06.600 I don't think that they're If you want to get one, 0:03:06.680 --> 0:03:10.280 you have to sign up for SMS updates. No spoiler alert, 0:03:10.400 --> 0:03:12.680 I signed you what those are? 0:03:12.800 --> 0:03:13.480 Did you get one? 0:03:14.040 --> 0:03:15.760 You're supposed to say where my phone is? 0:03:16.080 --> 0:03:18.480 Well, when you find it, you'll get a text from 0:03:18.880 --> 0:03:21.240 Tiffany and Pokemon and they're going to say do you 0:03:21.280 --> 0:03:21.600 want some? 0:03:21.800 --> 0:03:23.960 And you have to hit why or yes, You're such 0:03:24.000 --> 0:03:26.040 a good friend. I am such a good Thank you 0:03:26.160 --> 0:03:26.640 so much. 0:03:31.480 --> 0:03:34.680 You know it's also ridiculous. Tell me, okay, well, this 0:03:34.800 --> 0:03:37.240 is just a truth, a truism. Whatever you want to 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.160 call it a fool on a mission. Right, they will 0:03:40.320 --> 0:03:43.280 likely go far further than anyone would have predicted a. 0:03:43.280 --> 0:03:45.520 Fool on a mission. A stolen commis right? 0:03:45.720 --> 0:03:48.960 You you know the fools? They are my people. Yes, yes, 0:03:49.120 --> 0:03:51.680 So that's why I'm going to call this one. Let's 0:03:51.680 --> 0:04:15.440 take to the sea. This is Ridiculous Crime, a podcast 0:04:15.440 --> 0:04:20.360 about absurd and outrageous capers, heists and cons. It's always 0:04:20.440 --> 0:04:27.960 ninety nine percent murder free and ridiculous game freak. Okay, Elizabeth, 0:04:28.600 --> 0:04:30.560 this first story I have for you today. It's like 0:04:30.600 --> 0:04:33.240 a short story that Kafka would write, just throwing a 0:04:33.320 --> 0:04:38.360 jet ski. Okay. So the year's twenty sixteen dateline China. Now, 0:04:38.400 --> 0:04:39.880 I think this is our first story that ever takes 0:04:39.880 --> 0:04:41.159 place in China. Am I right about that? 0:04:41.360 --> 0:04:41.680 I don't know? 0:04:41.760 --> 0:04:43.599 Okay, I think so. But anyway, it's about a Korean 0:04:43.640 --> 0:04:47.200 man try to stay with me. His Chinese name was Kwanping, 0:04:47.680 --> 0:04:50.040 but he never liked that. He preferred his Korean name, 0:04:50.080 --> 0:04:52.080 and that's the one he would like to use online. 0:04:52.120 --> 0:04:55.240 So his Korean name was Kwan Peong, and we're gonna 0:04:55.240 --> 0:04:58.160 call him Kwan Peong, so my man Peong. He lived 0:04:58.160 --> 0:05:00.719 in northeastern China. Now that's where he liked to hop 0:05:00.760 --> 0:05:04.880 online and openly mock the Chinese Communist Party that runs China. 0:05:04.920 --> 0:05:05.760 That's a little dangerous. 0:05:05.839 --> 0:05:07.560 Yeah, that is what we in the Living to See 0:05:07.560 --> 0:05:12.680 Tomorrow business call a bad idea. He primarily posted on 0:05:12.800 --> 0:05:15.320 English language outlets, right, there were ones that were forbidden 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.640 in China, so that kind of minimized his damage he 0:05:17.680 --> 0:05:20.080 was doing to the party. He would post on Twitter 0:05:20.120 --> 0:05:23.080 and on Facebook. Now both of those are blocked on 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:26.360 the Chinese Internet. You cannot just hop onto Twitter from China. Yeah, 0:05:26.440 --> 0:05:28.640 you have to be able to navigate the dark web 0:05:28.720 --> 0:05:31.240 and access those types of sites. He could do that, right, 0:05:31.320 --> 0:05:33.960 So he's going on Twitter, and that's where Piong. He 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:38.479 described himself as quote a perpetual student citizen dedicated to 0:05:38.560 --> 0:05:39.599 overturning communism. 0:05:39.800 --> 0:05:41.000 Was he a citizen of the world. 0:05:41.040 --> 0:05:43.400 Oh, you better believe a sister. Now, how did he 0:05:43.440 --> 0:05:45.159 plan to overturn communism? 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:48.280 You ask, h how did he plan to overturn communism? 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:52.120 I ask great question, Elizabeth, thank you. Was he organizing 0:05:52.160 --> 0:05:55.360 young people? Was he fostering underground networks? Was he using 0:05:55.360 --> 0:05:58.400 his hacking skills to wage war against the Chinese censors 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:02.240 and online firewells. Did he connect with dissidence and help 0:06:02.320 --> 0:06:07.120 them to avoid detection online? No? No, no, and no. 0:06:07.400 --> 0:06:09.919 Did he post gift reactions on Twitter? 0:06:10.120 --> 0:06:12.320 What my man did was hop online and post a 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:17.320 selfie of him wearing a shirt of Jijienping. The shirt 0:06:17.360 --> 0:06:22.400 called gi wait for it, Hitler like Zitler. Right yeah, oh, 0:06:22.720 --> 0:06:25.320 I may be not saying that exactly correct, but Hitler 0:06:25.320 --> 0:06:26.760 with G in front of it, you get. 0:06:26.600 --> 0:06:27.200 It, Sitler. 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.560 So my man, after thoroughly mocking the General Secretary of 0:06:30.600 --> 0:06:33.960 the Communist Party aka the Supreme Leader of China with 0:06:34.040 --> 0:06:38.159 his clever T shirt Piong, he captioned his political selfie, 0:06:38.560 --> 0:06:42.080 Let's work together and topple this invisible wall. Something's about 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:44.880 to get toppled. Brother, Yeah, right now. He posted his 0:06:44.960 --> 0:06:48.160 Zitler selfie and his provocative caption not on Webo, which 0:06:48.200 --> 0:06:50.560 is the Chinese language version of Twitter. 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:51.320 Yah. 0:06:51.600 --> 0:06:55.320 Now, as you know Webo, it's heavily censored and it's 0:06:55.360 --> 0:06:57.760 not easily We can't just hop onto Webo, right sure, 0:06:58.040 --> 0:06:59.920 but that's where you would think woman would want to 0:06:59.920 --> 0:07:02.800 be talking to people trying to take down Chinese communism, 0:07:02.880 --> 0:07:05.640 But not him. He's like, ah, I'm gonna go pop 0:07:05.680 --> 0:07:08.400 on Twitter. So why, Elizabeth, why did my dude Peong, 0:07:09.160 --> 0:07:12.160 who is basically the literal definition of a keyboard warrior 0:07:12.280 --> 0:07:14.840 against communism at this point, decide to take to Twitter. 0:07:15.080 --> 0:07:18.320 I don't know to get this straight, you know, I 0:07:18.320 --> 0:07:20.080 do know, And I don't mean to mock this guy 0:07:20.120 --> 0:07:20.360 as like. 0:07:20.360 --> 0:07:23.040 A political existential question. 0:07:23.120 --> 0:07:25.880 Yeah, no, it's just a curiosity. If you will, I'll 0:07:25.880 --> 0:07:28.480 tell you the answer though, right, because well, first let 0:07:28.480 --> 0:07:30.600 me say this, I don't mean to mock this guy. Right, 0:07:30.680 --> 0:07:33.120 he's far braver than I am. Or no, I'll put 0:07:33.120 --> 0:07:35.280 it this way. He's willing to do stuff I would 0:07:35.280 --> 0:07:38.960 never do. Okay, okay, better. So the reason Peong was 0:07:39.000 --> 0:07:42.520 so western, mind is that he studied in America. He 0:07:42.560 --> 0:07:45.800 came here for college. He attended Iowa State University. That's 0:07:45.840 --> 0:07:48.240 where he got a degree in aerospace engineering. Good head 0:07:48.240 --> 0:07:51.040 on this kid. He returns home to China, starts working 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:53.400 in the family business, but he stayed on Twitter. Right, 0:07:53.480 --> 0:07:55.200 He's like, oh, that's where I talk to my friends. 0:07:55.280 --> 0:07:56.600 People can't get off of Twitter. 0:07:56.760 --> 0:07:59.240 Right to this point, the year was twenty fourteen, right, 0:07:59.280 --> 0:08:01.800 So he's back in China, he's graduated in my Manpiong. 0:08:01.880 --> 0:08:04.280 He gets his life set up in a city called Yanbien. 0:08:04.960 --> 0:08:08.840 Now it's the central hub for a very sizable Korean population. 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:11.040 I didn't know any of this. When I was researching, 0:08:11.080 --> 0:08:14.000 I learned that this is this the Yanbian is basically 0:08:14.000 --> 0:08:16.280 a major point of focus for Korean investors right now. 0:08:16.320 --> 0:08:17.920 They're all trying to, like, you know, scrape some of 0:08:17.920 --> 0:08:20.080 that money out of the massive Chinese economy, and this 0:08:20.120 --> 0:08:22.480 is where they can do it. And also I didn't 0:08:22.480 --> 0:08:25.080 know this, Elizabeth, but yon Bien is the main city 0:08:25.240 --> 0:08:29.480 of the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture. Oh okay, So this 0:08:29.560 --> 0:08:32.520 whole area, it was historically part of Manchuria, which was like, 0:08:32.559 --> 0:08:34.880 you know, the region more than a country. Right now, 0:08:34.920 --> 0:08:38.240 in the nineteenth century, there's this sudden massive influx of 0:08:38.320 --> 0:08:41.640 Korean immigrants and over time the population grew to about 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.400 two million people. So they have two million people all 0:08:44.440 --> 0:08:48.040 either Korean immigrants or Korean people of Korean descent, right, 0:08:48.320 --> 0:08:51.520 So then you have boom boom boom. Communist revolution comes around, right, 0:08:51.840 --> 0:08:54.760 So that complicates the picture because these people came are 0:08:54.760 --> 0:08:58.280 for opportunity, not for communism. So the thriving business community 0:08:58.320 --> 0:09:01.600 population drops in half, right, so about one point two 0:09:01.600 --> 0:09:04.440 million people are left. They're stuck in communist China. They 0:09:04.480 --> 0:09:07.960 get rewarded for their loyalty with their own autonomous zone. 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.839 Right nineteen fifty five, the region gets an upgrade to 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:15.160 Ethnic Autonomous Prefecture. The folks living there today they exist 0:09:15.280 --> 0:09:18.200 under modern Chinese communist rule Elizabeth right, which means you know, 0:09:18.400 --> 0:09:21.920 they still have the their autonomous zone. Now, for some populations, 0:09:21.920 --> 0:09:25.200 like the Wigers, their autonomous zone comes with re education camps. 0:09:25.960 --> 0:09:28.240 In yon Bien, the population, from what I've learned in 0:09:28.240 --> 0:09:32.200 my research, they still largely are Korean, which they speak Korean, 0:09:32.559 --> 0:09:36.200 but they've also assimilated into Chinese culture. They speak Chinese, 0:09:36.400 --> 0:09:39.040 and thus they don't have a re education camp. So 0:09:39.120 --> 0:09:42.000 forth right, they're largely left alone. And of course that 0:09:42.120 --> 0:09:44.920 is unless they provoke the Sleeping Tiger down in Beijing, 0:09:45.320 --> 0:09:47.920 which my man Peong's like, hey, let me get the good. 0:09:49.080 --> 0:09:51.520 So back to my man Peong is Zitler shirt. So 0:09:52.120 --> 0:09:55.320 that wasn't his only provocative post. And another prior post 0:09:55.400 --> 0:09:58.280 he'd spoken about drinking tea. Now I don't know if 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:00.040 you know this, but that's not a reference to like 0:10:00.120 --> 0:10:03.240 spilling the tea. Right, it's not like doing gossip and stuff, right, 0:10:03.640 --> 0:10:06.000 and it's not a Chinese twist on drinking the kool aid. 0:10:06.000 --> 0:10:08.280 And you know it's not that either. So the expression 0:10:08.360 --> 0:10:11.160 drink the tea it refers to a Chinese language euphemism 0:10:11.200 --> 0:10:15.000 about speaking with the Chinese authorities. So yeah, you're being 0:10:15.080 --> 0:10:17.480 questioned basically, right, So apparently they are for you tea. 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:20.320 I don't know anyway, my man Young, he posted, if 0:10:20.360 --> 0:10:22.080 I have to drink tea again, I won't be shy 0:10:22.080 --> 0:10:24.920 and nervous. I'll very clearly declare my views as bright 0:10:25.000 --> 0:10:28.520 as a banner opposing the Communist Party. That's my attitude. 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:31.080 I won't seek out trouble, but if it comes to me, 0:10:31.360 --> 0:10:34.800 I'll live with it. Elizabeth, it was like Trouble was 0:10:34.880 --> 0:10:38.200 doom scrolling Twitter that day because old Trouble came and 0:10:38.240 --> 0:10:41.400 found him. Yeah, so, my dude, he had planned to 0:10:41.400 --> 0:10:44.240 wear his Zitler shirt out on October first, which, if 0:10:44.280 --> 0:10:46.960 you didn't know it, that's China's national day. So he 0:10:47.040 --> 0:10:49.920 told his friends that online and he's you know, this 0:10:50.000 --> 0:10:53.680 guy said he wasn't seeking trouble, but you know, anyway, 0:10:54.080 --> 0:10:56.000 this choice was a problem for him. Of wearing the 0:10:56.080 --> 0:10:58.760 Zitler shirt to China's National Day because old trouble came 0:10:58.800 --> 0:11:01.760 and knocking on his front door. September thirtieth, just a 0:11:01.840 --> 0:11:05.000 day before China's National Day, my Man Pieong sent a 0:11:05.000 --> 0:11:08.560 message to his friends in Korea. There's trouble now. The 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:11.680 Chinese authority said, come to his door. They performed a 0:11:11.800 --> 0:11:15.240 magic trick. They made my Man Peong disappear. Oh no, 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.040 it's just like that, like a rabbit gone. So no 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.120 one hears from him, all right, not his friends, not 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:24.080 his family in China, nobody. Finally word comes out. His 0:11:24.120 --> 0:11:27.160 family learns he's being held by the police. They've arrested him. 0:11:27.160 --> 0:11:31.080 This is like early twenty sixteen October. He's resurfaced. Now 0:11:31.440 --> 0:11:35.079 he now has a newly hired lawyer. His family tried 0:11:35.080 --> 0:11:37.600 to hire lawyers, but China's like, no, will lock him 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:39.800 in prison. That should get a different lawyer. So they're like, okay, 0:11:39.880 --> 0:11:42.120 here's a different lawyer. It's like a whole thing, right. 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:44.880 So his new defense lawyer, he gave a rationale for 0:11:44.960 --> 0:11:47.280 his client's actions to and he told the press he's 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.760 from a younger generation that's absorbed ideas about democracy and freedom. 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:53.960 They have a clearer spirit of opposition. So he's basically like, 0:11:54.160 --> 0:11:55.960 he's a younger man, Yeah, what are you gonna do? 0:11:56.040 --> 0:11:56.120 Right? 0:11:56.400 --> 0:11:58.800 So the charges against Pyong they were serious. He was 0:11:58.840 --> 0:12:01.199 facing one and a half years long prison sentence for 0:12:01.280 --> 0:12:05.640 quote inciting subversion, basically don't wear that shirt anyway? Trial 0:12:05.720 --> 0:12:09.360 lasts how long? One day, speedy trial with justice. He's 0:12:09.400 --> 0:12:12.920 of course found guilty, off to prison. He goes now 0:12:12.960 --> 0:12:15.160 that real big bad trouble had found him, what would 0:12:15.160 --> 0:12:18.800 my man Peong do? Elizabeth run away? No, he did 0:12:18.880 --> 0:12:21.960 his stretch in prison. Yeah, he's like a big dog, 0:12:22.040 --> 0:12:24.199 went in there, went into Chinese prison and said give 0:12:24.240 --> 0:12:27.400 me my eighteen months? Did him standing up? Right? Afterwards? 0:12:27.400 --> 0:12:30.360 He gets released from prison, and what is he now 0:12:30.400 --> 0:12:33.120 ready to do? He's still prepared to do symbolic warfare 0:12:33.200 --> 0:12:36.760 against the communist rulers. So the Communist Party they continued 0:12:36.800 --> 0:12:39.960 to closely monitor his activities. And fast forward to this 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.360 last year, twenty twenty three. My man Peong he contacted 0:12:43.360 --> 0:12:45.320 a human rights activists in Korea, right, and he asked 0:12:45.320 --> 0:12:47.160 for help in gaining asylum. He's like, what can you 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.880 guys do for me? I'm of of Korean descent. I 0:12:49.880 --> 0:12:51.760 want to come back to Korea, and they're like, oh, 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:53.360 He's like, I'm planning to making a break for it, 0:12:53.360 --> 0:12:55.920 just just fleeing China. Would you guys get me asylum. 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:59.120 The two people hadn't spoken in years. He just contacts 0:12:59.160 --> 0:13:01.040 him out of the blue with this crazy request asking 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.040 for asylum, my man Peong. He doesn't wait for confirmation 0:13:04.280 --> 0:13:06.280 of this asylum. He decides, you know what, I'm going 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:09.839 for it. Yeah, exactly. One dark and moonless night, he 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.319 went down to the water's edge. He pushed a jet 0:13:12.360 --> 0:13:15.520 ski into the sea and he climbed aboard the watercraft. 0:13:15.559 --> 0:13:18.120 And then the thirty five year old political prankster he 0:13:18.160 --> 0:13:20.599 did another little magic trick. He turned himself into a 0:13:20.640 --> 0:13:24.520 political refugee. For his next magical trick, he made himself 0:13:24.559 --> 0:13:28.640 disappear from China. So he took off from Shandong Peninsula 0:13:28.679 --> 0:13:30.480 and all he had with him was a life jacket, 0:13:30.679 --> 0:13:33.600 a helmet, and for navigation, he had a compass and 0:13:33.600 --> 0:13:34.280 a telescope. 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:37.040 That's pretty good, right back the helmet in the lifetime, I. 0:13:36.960 --> 0:13:39.559 Thought you would. So he also had fuel because it's 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:41.920 going to be a long time. He had five containers 0:13:41.920 --> 0:13:44.360 of fuel he attached to the jets ski. It was 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.439 going to be, I said, long ass journey. So he's 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:49.680 looking at a two hundred mile passage across open ocean 0:13:49.679 --> 0:13:50.840 waters at night. 0:13:50.720 --> 0:13:51.640 On a jet ski. 0:13:52.360 --> 0:13:53.920 All told if he would if he made it, it 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:57.000 would take fourteen hours. Wow, I was going to repeat 0:13:57.000 --> 0:14:00.280 this for a fect. My man Peong's plan was to 0:14:00.320 --> 0:14:04.040 take a jet ski loaded down with five containers of gasoline, 0:14:04.280 --> 0:14:07.320 then ride that jet ski across open ocean to Korea, 0:14:07.440 --> 0:14:12.080 crossing two hundred miles in the dark alone for fourteen hours. 0:14:12.920 --> 0:14:16.960 Can you even imagine doing one hour of that trip? Okay, 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:19.280 he takes about five and a half hours to drive 0:14:19.280 --> 0:14:21.880 from Oakland to Los Angeles. Right, you could drive from 0:14:21.920 --> 0:14:25.760 Oakland to LA, turn around, drive back to Oakland, and 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.240 you'd still have three more hours at night in the 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:29.960 open ocean on that jet ski to go. 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:33.000 I hate driving to LA. And it's not because I 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:34.880 don't like LA. I just don't like to sit in 0:14:34.920 --> 0:14:35.760 the car that long. 0:14:35.880 --> 0:14:41.040 Exactly. Imagine you're like, bang, bang, right, you can't fall off, 0:14:41.040 --> 0:14:42.000 you can't fall asleep. 0:14:42.160 --> 0:14:47.920 Yeah, seagulls are hitting me in the face. Seagulls at night, Yes, 0:14:48.320 --> 0:14:49.200 they come out at night. 0:14:49.440 --> 0:14:52.880 So what do you think he made it through the seagulls? 0:14:52.920 --> 0:14:54.240 You imagine you do? 0:14:54.480 --> 0:14:57.600 Yeah, I guess he did, Elizabeth, can you believe that 0:14:57.800 --> 0:15:01.880 if you said that he didn't survive? Like, wow, that's bleak. 0:15:01.960 --> 0:15:05.000 Thanks for that story. 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:07.720 Next one, he made it to Incheon in Korea, and 0:15:07.760 --> 0:15:10.479 the Korean Coast Guard they found it by dude, stranded, 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.240 laid up in a mud flat jet ski, had a cast, exhausted, 0:15:14.280 --> 0:15:16.400 He's like, where's his lips? 0:15:16.400 --> 0:15:20.800 Were chapped? I guarantee, And that is so uncomfortable. 0:15:22.480 --> 0:15:27.640 Chap lips worse, it's always prison cheeks. Oh they crack. 0:15:27.960 --> 0:15:29.680 I forget about it. So what do you think happened 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:31.440 to him now that he's made it after this insane 0:15:31.480 --> 0:15:32.720 jet ski trip to Korea? 0:15:32.920 --> 0:15:33.680 He's famous. 0:15:33.840 --> 0:15:38.240 No, he's properly arrested, man, because it's against the law, Elizabeth. 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.640 You can't just show up in Korea like that. They 0:15:40.640 --> 0:15:44.800 have rules. They have convinced Korea perverseed you go through customs. 0:15:44.880 --> 0:15:46.320 So oh yeah, I could see that, my man. 0:15:46.800 --> 0:15:49.360 He was charged with violation of the Immigration Control Act 0:15:49.440 --> 0:15:52.120 and he remained in custody for months. So he ran away, 0:15:52.160 --> 0:15:54.800 escaped on a jet ski and boom still in prison. Wow, 0:15:55.440 --> 0:15:58.240 I'm sorry, shouldn't laugh, but it's just that already gets me. 0:15:58.480 --> 0:16:00.600 But at least he was in the Chinese ranch pation camp. 0:16:00.640 --> 0:16:03.640 Better prison, yeah, exact, totally much better prison. So finally, 0:16:03.640 --> 0:16:06.240 in this past August, he was released from custody. The 0:16:06.360 --> 0:16:09.120 Chinese dissident of Korean descent who had evil nieveled his 0:16:09.160 --> 0:16:12.160 way from China to Korea. He was freed on a 0:16:12.200 --> 0:16:15.080 suspended sentence of one year in jail and two years 0:16:15.080 --> 0:16:17.640 on probation. So now he can wear all the Zitler 0:16:17.680 --> 0:16:20.360 shirts he wants he had free Elizabeth. 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:22.880 Okay, did he how did he? Did he have this 0:16:22.960 --> 0:16:24.840 printed up like as a one off shirt? 0:16:24.920 --> 0:16:26.960 Or did he is your question? How did he get 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:31.200 you know, how like when you don't think he can 0:16:31.200 --> 0:16:36.600 get a shirt in China, you're kidding, novel one off? 0:16:36.840 --> 0:16:38.800 So did he have like a ton printed? Did he 0:16:38.840 --> 0:16:39.640 buy it at a store? 0:16:39.680 --> 0:16:41.240 You think he like sol screented it at his house 0:16:41.280 --> 0:16:44.000 by himself, he was a screen. 0:16:44.840 --> 0:16:47.040 Or he just got a marker on a white T shirt? 0:16:47.080 --> 0:16:51.320 Totally the ultimate, like just sharpie drawing it and the mustache. 0:16:51.600 --> 0:16:52.560 Just imagining that. 0:16:52.920 --> 0:16:53.960 I like your imagination. 0:16:54.080 --> 0:16:54.800 Thank you, so much. 0:16:54.840 --> 0:16:56.760 Well, let's tell your imagination cool off because I got 0:16:56.800 --> 0:16:58.760 another crazy one for you. Let's take a break and 0:16:58.800 --> 0:17:23.479 we'll be back after the moment. Elizabeth Zarin, all Right, 0:17:23.840 --> 0:17:26.440 the story I really wanted to tell you today is 0:17:26.480 --> 0:17:28.760 about a man who called himself Captain Bubble. 0:17:28.920 --> 0:17:30.240 You didn't want to tell me the other one. 0:17:30.280 --> 0:17:31.840 I did, but that was just to kind of what 0:17:31.960 --> 0:17:34.240 your appetite gets your mind going. It seemed to work. 0:17:34.359 --> 0:17:36.520 It's yeah, it, But I really wanted to tell you 0:17:36.600 --> 0:17:37.600 about Captain. 0:17:37.280 --> 0:17:40.160 Bubble, Captain Bubble, the monkey. 0:17:39.960 --> 0:17:42.840 The Captain Bubble affair. That's this next story. Captain. So 0:17:43.119 --> 0:17:45.679 Captain Bubble that was not his birth name. Mary did 0:17:45.720 --> 0:17:48.240 not named him captain Now, that was his street name. Elizabeth. 0:17:48.520 --> 0:17:52.480 Dude's government name was Raisa a ka Ray Balucci or 0:17:52.520 --> 0:17:57.760 blukych Bluky blue che blue Chee. So the Captain Bubble, 0:17:57.840 --> 0:18:00.440 as I said, he has two street names as Ray 0:18:00.680 --> 0:18:03.159 and Captain Bubble. Now he may have more. I don't know. 0:18:03.160 --> 0:18:04.680 I don't know the man, but you know what, let's 0:18:04.680 --> 0:18:06.840 get to the story. The reason we're talking about him 0:18:06.920 --> 0:18:08.960 is that earlier this year, he tried to run from 0:18:09.000 --> 0:18:10.399 Florida to England. 0:18:10.040 --> 0:18:11.840 I'm going to give him another street name. Right now, 0:18:12.160 --> 0:18:14.320 what's that pretty boom boom, pretty boom boom. 0:18:15.160 --> 0:18:19.520 Where Yeah, you may be thinking, is Aaron I just 0:18:19.560 --> 0:18:21.640 did the math on that. That's impossible. You can't run 0:18:21.720 --> 0:18:25.200 from Florida to England. Okay, Like there's still something called 0:18:25.200 --> 0:18:28.840 the Atlantic Ocean. Run really really fast, good point, like 0:18:28.880 --> 0:18:31.119 a Jesus lizard just right on top of the water. 0:18:31.200 --> 0:18:31.720 Exactly. 0:18:31.960 --> 0:18:34.880 Yeah, we're with the physics. You're looking at his little legs. 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:35.800 Run exactly. 0:18:35.960 --> 0:18:38.600 Well, that little something called the Atlantic Ocean that's in 0:18:38.640 --> 0:18:41.600 between us in England. It's not a problem if you 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:42.680 properly prepare for it. 0:18:42.760 --> 0:18:43.320 Yeah, exactly. 0:18:43.440 --> 0:18:45.320 Yeah. Some people that, oh, I'm gonna take a plane, 0:18:45.359 --> 0:18:47.040 I'm gonna take a balloon, like there's ways to get 0:18:47.040 --> 0:18:48.800 over it. But he's like, I'm gonna run over it, 0:18:48.840 --> 0:18:50.920 and you're like, you can't run on water. Man, Well, 0:18:50.960 --> 0:18:53.240 my man Raisa had an answer. He was going to 0:18:53.320 --> 0:18:57.800 run inside a giant inflatable hamster wheel. Wait see, now, 0:18:57.840 --> 0:19:00.480 don't you feel silly? Elizabeth feels so silly, added my 0:19:00.480 --> 0:19:01.760 man raised when he had a plan. 0:19:01.840 --> 0:19:04.880 Hall doesn't have any like paddles on it. It's just it's. 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.880 No. I'll show you a pictures in a second. Imagine 0:19:08.880 --> 0:19:11.560 like if Wileye E Coyote had an ACME brand sort 0:19:11.600 --> 0:19:13.880 of plan to get to England's I put myself in a. 0:19:14.000 --> 0:19:15.120 There a big rocket on the back. 0:19:15.320 --> 0:19:18.560 There's red inflatable. It's like a ring. It looks like 0:19:19.440 --> 0:19:21.080 it doesn't matter. I was gonna use like a physics 0:19:21.160 --> 0:19:24.639 like a bund of the it doesn't matter. But anyway, 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.520 so just imagine like two rings and they just I'll 0:19:27.520 --> 0:19:31.439 show you the picture. So this Elizabeth is what my 0:19:31.480 --> 0:19:32.120 man was rocking. 0:19:32.880 --> 0:19:36.480