Chinese Celebrities WISH They Weren't FAMOUS

so we're currently in one of the most famous places in the world i'm sure everybody's heard of the sunset strip what is that some sort of steak yeah i mean it even says fame up there it is there yeah look at that look at that fame apparently hollywood is where people come to find fame and fortune you guys want to see some really sick footage though here is uh la in the 1950s and on the sunset strip okay and it's actually a really cool aside is that things haven't changed that much no no they have which is really neat to me specialty carpet whoa full gt things wow yeah things get gentrified you know uh things get like you know updated there's hustler yeah they're interesting this is crazy yeah things get updated things like that you know sure but at the end of the day the original flare and feel is still there you can go back to this really awesome footage from back then it's the same play yeah i know it's kind of interesting so yeah the reason uh we've come to sunset strip hollywood where now you know everybody knows sunset strip and we're going to see a lot about uh hollywood we're going to be talking a lot about hollywood is there's a huge difference in the way actors famous actors are perceived in china and chinese actors compared to western actors sure [Music] sure so i got to tell you straight off the bat my idea of a western that's a nice car yeah okay my idea of a western actor okay a hollywood actor is usually a sanctimonious piece of okay okay but quite seriously no there are tons of actors that i adore and i'm sure everybody has their favorite actors so one thing that you kind of expect from an actor is a lavish lifestyle sure that's why so many actors are always going to rehab and they're always caught up in drugs and alcohol and ridiculous scandals and but you love to party i mean what's not to love how do you measure when you see how i party man it was epic the run i was on made sinatra flynn jagger richards all of them just looked like you know droopy eyed armless children yeah it's kind of par for the course there are a couple of squeaky clean ones sure but you also expect you know every actor has like 10 wives or husbands or whatever yeah yeah i gotcha it's it's kind of the life of excess yes however in china that's like forbidden okay if you're an actor you have to be pure as the driven snow you know yes yes maybe you can expand on that a bit so yeah first of all i wanted to throw something out there yeah it's not just us that's banned from china all right sure we have some very famous people you know probably from around this area yeah that join our ranks and i want to give them a little i want to give them a little shout out today so my favorite being harrison ford okay something to do with the dalai lama and the pla going into tibet sure seems to be a it's a basic thing what what who else you got who joins our ranks well obviously brad pitt because he made the seven years in tibet movie right because he acted in that movie he's like you're not allowed into china sure then we have sharon stone i remember because i was there when she got banned okay but remember there was this like awful earthquake in 2008 yeah in sichuan yeah the citroen earthquake that killed like 800 000 whatever million people it was a stupid amount of people died um and she during an interview said that it was karma you know it's like china's karma for doing all the bad things to to tibet or whatever right sure obviously that's a super stupid insensitive thing to say awful but yeah yeah but she said that and because of that she's banned sure who else miley cyrus why it's just too provocative i guess okay i'm also joining those ranks is lady gaga right but she's so famous very famous but apparently banned from china yeah um bjork because she said free tibet during a a live concert yeah that's something china that's great by the way but they can't handle because it's live they can't censor right i didn't think about that yeah so it was you know it's kind of cool i like all the graffiti or whatever you call murals and stuff yeah yeah it's awesome down here yeah richard richard gear because he met the dalai lama yeah yeah martin scores daisy didn't he do bad stuff i don't know i think it was about the dalai lama oh okay i think it was i think he was i'm thinking roman polanski okay yeah yeah anyway my point is we have people joining our ranks yeah join our ranks who didn't sell out to the ccp yeah and you know we're we're in their stopping ground right now sure so you were talking about how you got to be a squeaky clean mofo yes in china right so yeah there's this idea here in the us i mean you get squeaky clean actors like the you know the people like my mom and stuff would be like i really like him because he's a nice man like my mom yeah i i'm a chargers fan right the previous quarterback his name is that the bagel the bagel looking croissant croissant sorry it's just a croissant anyway i'm an la chargers fan okay and a a very big one our previous uh our previous quarterback was very unlike other quarterbacks a lot of quarterbacks you know they're the poster child of the team just like actors in america they're basically celebrities right right there's sightings of them they get paparazzi yeah but they're also usually you know they live an exorbitant lifestyle so the amount of money they make but philip rivers was like a chris a catholic boy going to church all the time he's eight kids okay so my mom like loved loved him right right and she was like yeah so she was happy as a chargers fan but she only liked him because he was a good person so you get people that like squeaky clean actors but by and large let's be honest yeah people get famous for the drama and the tea right well they get famous because they look good okay well my my point is they continue being famous because of the drama right the addiction the you know the beefs yeah who cheated on who cheated on who and that this is we're in the epicenter of that right hey youtube what is that it says repair oh man look at the supercars oh crap that's a i wish i'd gotten that properly oh well anyway uh yeah there is a certain stigma about famous people within within the u.s right right just how it is and there's also some tent people unsecured internet [Applause] thank you we use a vpn every single time we get on the internet not only does it keep our internet data safe make sure that people aren't snooping in on what we're doing it also gives us the peace of mind that when we're hopping around the world or we're in places with unsecured wi-fi that people aren't getting access to our information like credit cards and identity and things like that so the vpn that we choose is nordvpn thank you to nordvpn for sponsoring this episode and we really want to say thanks to nord for making such an awesome vpn that's so easy to use we use it to hop around to different servers around the world to get around region locks as 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they have to be oh nice interesting it's in terrible shape though it's like a 73. so they have to follow the rules they have to make sure that they are to a t yeah to a frickin t making sure that they don't speak out against the government or say anything that the government deems bad and i'm talking about down to making sure that they're not public uh seen a public drinking yes they're not seen in public uh with a tattoo or ear piercing not allowed to have a tattoo if you're a famous celebrity and if you do it better be covered up at all times right uh you're not allowed to cheat yes you know so you can't be caught up in a scandal where you're unfaithful yeah so when it by the time i mean it happens so when it by the time it hits like the weibo and all those blogs what's with this whoa what's wrong with this road by the time you by the time it hits all the internet airwaves yeah um you're screwed right the government has to denounce you and stuff there have been so many celebrities that have either been to their careers are overturned or they're they lose their job or they go to jail yeah or they get fined yeah or they have to move and leave china right there's a lot of people because if you don't if you're not in the straight and narrow and following the ccp at all times yeah then you're in big trouble whereas it's the polar opposite here right yeah if you're a rebel you're a celebrity you're a rebel you're a little bit different than the rest of the people you stuck out from the crowd james dean kind of you know which kind of defeats the purpose in china of why a celebrity exists a celebrity is supposed to be different than everybody right but it's really boils down to how does someone get famous in china well okay look a celebrity in china well usually obviously if it's a woman they get famous because of their looks and that's pretty much the same everywhere they have to be unique in some way she's a very pretty or very uh exotic or outstanding type thing sure um and as a man well you know again looks play a big role but it's also how patriotic you are and who you know and sure you know that kind of thing it's very important for you to be patriotic in order to be famous in china because sure at the end of the day celebrities are seen as role models okay and we can argue that celebrities in the west are role models too sure people look up to celebrities and they they try to emulate them and follow them right sure and it's unfortunate when you have like a reckless celebrity who does a bunch of really bad things and you know tries to get all political and stuff people will tend to follow them right yeah and get sometimes the wrong message is put out to the youth or whatever sure and that's what china really cares about the most their celebrities have to be these sparkling examples of the best chinese patriot you could ever have sure and that's what leads to the fact that well you don't need to look far because all these celebrities are often co-opted into doing all these communist party propaganda pieces all the time right right right you've got a good example don't you the holiday woman the holy day so china this is hilarious to me yeah china oftentimes likes to try to emulate stuff that goes viral in the west yeah and one of the most telling examples before was when a gangnam style came out yeah i remember so when gangnam style came out china was like we need our own gangnam style because they were so they were so surprised yeah that's um what's it called that south korea managed to go so viral right they're like what the heck china has this this is a good little cultural tidbit mainland china communist china right yeah has this very very bad inferiority complex to where you'll hear like if you talk if they talk about japan oftentimes it'll be called xiao ruben yeah xiaorub that means small japan and they have to throw that in there they have to throw the adjective in there because they want to make sure people know that it's small in comparison to big china yeah yeah because they know that japan's much more developed yeah it's much more respected country internationally exactly when you look at south korea they always talked about south korea as kind of like a little version of china you know it's just oh it's just south korea they do have cultural experts but they didn't expect a cultural export to be so massive to take over america like that right exactly so you had gangnam style which was this huge viral success yeah right and china goes you know what we're gonna we're gonna do our own weird asian viral thing we can do that too right yeah so cool alleyway by the way yeah we're currently heading to uh the walk of fame yeah everybody should know about that i think they do yeah anyway yeah it takes off and they go like we got to do our own version of that scientology oh nice nice hopefully that's in focus we'll find out scientology that's like a like an ad for scientology yeah bizarre i like that sign it says remember we all have we all have tough days like it's okay yeah that's nice uh anyway long story short yeah um they they have to find their own pop stars right so they find these like party connected pop stars yeah and they're like let's put out some crazy viral hits and they do and it's always just so freaking cringe right yeah because it's not gonna be a viral hit it might go a little bit viral but it's people will be cringing out be like what a ripoff of gangnam style you know you can't emulate something that was so weird and funny yeah you know to someone else right or to a different audience or to you can't emulate something that's so weird and funny and off offbeat you know sure of course you can just make that kind of it was unique and that's why that's that's why it was a success you know so they're trying to help make this happen with this woman named roland wong and they she did all these like semi-viral hits or whatever that didn't even come near like gangnam style but you can see it's in that same vein they're like what can we do that's so quirky unfortunately kami is china it's very hard you can't just uh make up creativity you can't just make creativity happen right it doesn't come out of thin air you can force a viral by making sure that like something gets put sure but this was stunned to people's phones during the news feed so you can make something this was for the western audience though right anyway so these things flop they don't go supervisor whatever yeah but uh later on they use her again and she does a she had to do a rap where she's reading from a script with this other guy that's another like musician or pop star whatever where they have to do a video about the diaoyu islands oh man okay so we're talking about the senkaku islands those contested islands that china claims that japan claims right yeah taiwan even claims him you wouldn't see tom cruise doing like like acting on behalf of the u.s government tom cruise singing like a patriotic song about land reclamation yeah like america mexico to go get like the philippines back or something something like that but that's what happens in china is they force these celebrities to do this stuff yeah to do this ridiculous kind of government you know party stuff yeah which is crazy and this that's the difference is that you are a celebrity you're rich you can you can do all this kind of crap right yeah um you guys look they're the same stars yeah that's awesome yeah check out that dinosaur the mask yeah very very period correct yeah it's a different world when you can't go to look at everything's boarded up yeah the mcdonald's and everything yeah also the protests and stuff my point is at the end of the day what happens is the chinese government needs things that's the tcl chinese theater oh it's a tcl owned yeah they change ownership all the time the thing is it doesn't matter how famous you are yeah at the end of the day the government can use you as is propaganda and often times it will yes oftentimes it will literally find the most influential people and force them to parrot party narratives narrative and that's just the unfortunate nature is that most celebrities here will be counter culture or at least pretend to be counter culture yeah and they might endorse a political party or a political candidate but that's of their own volition right sure and they'll be the ones that are like completely the opposite and they butt heads of those people and like they have their own opinions whereas in china if someone could try to stay like be really cool let's say they're a rap artist sure they could be really cool or whatever and like a lot of kids like look up to them they think they're awesome but unless they leave and get a radio like a record contract kind of like higher brothers did yeah outside of china then you will be forced when the government thinks you're too influential or too big or too powerful or too popular yeah they'll use make sure they'll use you to be very uncool make sure that they take all the cool out of you and then make sure that you're being used for propaganda purposes oh yeah and if you get get too big for your boots they'll smack you down i mean look what happened to to fun being right you know she was supposed well she's supposed to be the most powerful celebrity sure sure um so yeah what actually happened if i'm being well she got disappeared sure and nobody knew where she went nobody no one no one none of her relatives anything there was just like it was radio silence right okay and i mean it's scary that you can take a big celebrity like that right and just bam suddenly she goes missing from social media she goes missing from all her friends and family and uh they basically put her in like a black jail you know detention because of some tax evasion we always have to remind people that black jail is not a jail for black people yeah i know i know here in america people are always saying oh the population of black people in jail what are what it is anyway we're not talking about that no it's a blackjack in-n-out burger sure is a hell of a queue holy mother of pearl why i mean we get in and out all over california but holy crap is it crowded here yeah anyway so fun being being was disappeared for a tax for taxi tax region it could have been anything yeah it could have been she's getting too big so they basically put her in her place and made everyone know that you're never untouchable yes the communist party of china they can do what they want yes you are still the thing is party to them they after she was disappeared for months they made her come out and do pro ccp stuff yeah you understand they made her come out and make pro communist party china statements and her quote was i'm glad that this happened to me it helped me be more grounded like i learned my lesson which is obviously words being forced china operates kind of like the soviet union or nazi germany they'll make an example out of someone and they have to actually like apologize they can be completely you can be like a citizen journalist yeah that's trying to cover like the juan pandemic and then when they catch you they'll make you go out there and be like i lied and i was wrong yeah and you could see that i've learned to listen yeah behind their eyes because they threatened to kill their family yeah the chinese government threatens to kill your family yeah literally will threaten to kill your family and and disappear you and just destroy your life until you say what they want and that's what happened to the family being look at what's happening with ma you and jack ma right now yeah he's been disappeared absolutely and the problem is he got too big for his britches yeah there's a certain threshold a certain peak you can get to in china if you're a famous person it's not like here where you get ultimate wealth you're getting all these gigs people give it every time forgiven anytime he screw up you know oh man he's back on the drugs he's back in rehab it's like oh it must be so hard it's such a hard such a struggle you know living in like massive mansions and stuff right so that's where we're at right yeah so at the end of the day um the very big difference uh being a celebrity in china is that you can never be more powerful than somebody in charge of you yeah so you can never you have people you cannot supersede the the government even if you're not speaking out against the government has nothing to do with that anyone who has too much power is seen as a threat right and so they get taken care of right and put in their place and you'll see this time and time again like any counterculture stuff like i said a good example is the higher brothers you have rappers that leave china they're not political they're very approachable even they're even pro-ccp yeah right but when they leave and go get a la record contract because then they're they're not forced to go do uncool stuff no i i hate to say this and a lot of a lot of you might think that a lot of the kids in china are nationalistic they they might be but nobody wants to see their favorite celebrity be doing ccp propaganda it's not it's not it's not fun is that they hate their government it's just not cool right no no it's just it's kind of lame and cringey right so they don't a lot of celebrities would like to avoid that but when you get caught up in that you have to do it it's not of their own volition so if you see a chinese celebrity that's being ultra nationalists and crazy and all this kind of stuff it they're probably being put up to it yeah indeed what is the crossroads of the world i don't know what is the crossroads of the world no idea that guy over there probably tell us but he's speaking in tongues yeah yeah you probably would yeah very interesting uh area yeah i feel like we're gonna get coronavirus just by peeing here though well hence the moss people always give me crap about why are you wearing a mask in your car well look everybody it's an open top it's a t-top right so you know coronavirus can come in here yeah okay when we're next to like a homeless dude who's coming up to you you want to be able to just quickly like flip it off yeah just so you have mine down here yeah yeah anyway uh yeah is there anything you want to tell our subscribers before you sign up i just thought it would be an interesting topic to talk about the difference between it's something so benign that you might think just like the the wealth topic we did you might just think rich people are rich people celebrities are celebrities they're not simply just not the case it's wildly different absolutely there's a whole different you know culture to explore over there so hope you guys enjoyed that if you did um you know what do you guys think down below maybe you guys actually in the comments if you know any more uh celebrities that got banned from china yeah please let us know see who joins the ranks yeah so whether or not you're one of those guys who reads like celebrity gossip magazines or not we love you all the same until next time you know the drill kind of like sunset boulevard in hollywood stay awesome

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Length: 22min 7sec (1327 seconds)

Published: Mon Feb 15 2021