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The Taipei Bus Driver Crying Has Spawned a Whole Sub-genre

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0:05 A double or perfection. Welcome back to another perfect episode. Uh the careful way is uh >> Well, dude, that's good. >> Well, I'm just excited. >> That was good, dude. >> God, you do you do better for me. >> You must BE PERFECT EVERY TIME. EVERY TIME. >> DOES YOUR DAD HAVE A high voice, too? >> He has a deep voice. >> Oh. >> EVERY TIME IS A PERFECT-O. >> It's Japanese. Just who who gets louder. That's all. So, uh there's this there's this video of this Taiwanese bus driver having a meltdown uh because >> It's not funny. It's not funny. I don't know why. >> because the customer was like yelling at him and it's just like the last straw. >> I cannot take anymore. >> Dude, bus drivers have it tough, bro. >> Is that the start? Yeah? Bus driver >> I do I do feel for them, man. >> Well, at least the ones in LA, bro. Some of these bus drivers, they they get harassed and

0:56 >> I don't know about Taiwan bus drivers. >> He's crying? Oh my god, he really is crying. >> A lot of people are talking about this video of a bus driver here in Taiwan appearing to melt down during an argument with a passenger who supposedly yelled at him >> over a missed stop. You want to get off this bus? I did tell you, look, I tapped my card. He's like, "Well, you didn't. You didn't press the button." So, how would I know if you want to get off? I completely didn't know. Don't bully the driver. >> A lot of support for the driver in the online comments like >> Hey, the buzzer didn't go off, dude. >> It didn't, but damn, if that's

1:46 >> What is he saying? Double news it. I want to finish now. >> Don't let a white guy explain Asian issues. >> Yeah, I don't like that, dude. Next shark, get on this, man. >> He's saying that people are divided online because they just feel really bad for the bus driver. >> bus stops and passenger safety at the same time. One person says it's a misunderstanding and the driver is one of the acting. It's a fact bus drivers here in Taipei face tough >> You know the way that the bus works is that if you want to get off on the next stop, you have to scan your card. >> I guess. Yeah, you guys can >> Look, dude, I think if you're a bus driver or you're a public servant sometimes, you get one mental break, dude. You got one mental break maybe a year. >> It's I rather have him do that than crash his bus. >> You get one like that, it's good that you just cried. That's okay. >> There's a lot of public servant crash outs, yeah. >> Guys will maybe drive their car off on

2:36 the road. I don't know. I don't know what people do. People react crazy and well >> US postal workers >> He said what? >> US postal workers didn't have They had a bad reputation for that for a long time. They would Yeah, they would crash shootings and stuff. >> That's why they would call going postal. >> Yeah, that's where the expression came from. >> So >> I didn't know it was such a hard job. Did your dad have a hard time being a post office man? >> No, he wanted to be a post office man. So he applied when he when he retired and sold the dry cleaners, right? And he applied and he wanted to do it cuz it was just chill and easy like for me he needs to still do something. If he doesn't do something, he literally is going to off himself. He's like that kind of guy. So he's like, I need to do something. So he applied for this thing and they gave him a position by Big Bear. Why? >> Big Bear? >> They could send you far away like that? >> Yeah, so it's up to you if you want to take that like commuters route. And so he's like, no, I can't do that. >> So he So he would have to live in Big

3:27 Bear? >> Or commute. >> That's ridiculous. Who's going to do that? Do people do that? >> So there's there's some postal guy >> All the way up the freaking mountain pass to do just to deliver >> Some people do live there or >> I'll do it there in the winter. >> That's crazy. >> I would do Big Bear during the winter. >> But you'd live there during the winter, right? >> Just yes, I could snowboard and then I'll do my mail and then I'll snowboard. brother. >> But that's a good life. >> But he might be on the money slope. >> More of a skier. He likes skiing better. >> Depending on how fresh the powder is. >> Does winter sports. >> He's from South Vietnam. He doesn't do winter sports. >> do fishing then. During the summer he could fish in Big Bear. >> He's an Eagle Scout. He's adaptable. >> Yeah, he likes tying knots. >> You know, I the more that I'm thinking about the bus driver, I'm thinking like this dude probably gets it from all the

4:17 like old aunties. The old aunties probably light his ass up every day. >> Yeah, with large stories about his mom. I'm just thinking about Imagine dealing with 50 of them every day. >> I think that's what killed him at the end. It's just dealing with the amount of aunties. >> Surprised by how much he was talking though. You know how like when people are really over it out here, they don't want to say as much. But then he's like really trying to like flesh it out. >> like one obviously from this the what he was saying. He's probably bullied when he was a kid. Right? He's probably bullied. He's He's like the little alarm didn't go off. I bet it didn't. And that's why he's like, "No, but I'm doing it the right way. You're still you know what I mean? What the f███?" He you know, he's sensitive He's sensitive lad. >> I feel like you're a little bit of neurodivergent. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. >> he's like so logically trying to come to a solution. Whereas most workers are just like, "Didn't go off. Sorry."

5:08 >> It does You're You kind of nailed it. I think he is a >> He's like very like hysterical about explaining moot points. >> Cuz that's law in his mind. It's like if the thing didn't go off, then I can't stop. >> Brother, you say moot points. That's his whole life every day. >> Yeah, but it's moot in the way they already passed the stop. So it's like the solution's either stop now or carry on. Yeah. You really like talking about it trying to hash it out isn't doing anything. You're getting further from where she was supposed to get off. >> And they're just arguing with each other. >> Yeah, it feels like like overly like He just He just doesn't seem like a a neurotypical guy. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He could be a little autistic. >> Those guys make the best like >> No, I agree. I agree. >> convinced cuz they'll be like on time perfectly every single time. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. He followed but that's why I feel like to him, he did it right and she's not listening.

5:58 >> Exactly. That's why he's like >> He's like you're bullying me. That's why he's victimizing. He's like, yo, you're the one that's ████ up to me actually. >> I feel like he reached a higher emotional peak whereas most people would just feel kind of apathetic like >> All right, whatever. Sorry, dude. I'll pull over to this next one. ████ >> a civilian to like complain about it, it's tough because like you said the moot point I think is more on them. It's like do you think that the bus is going to turn around to drop you off in the right place? It's like it's it may be s█████ and maybe you pushed it or maybe you didn't but that's how it is. >> But I also expect an old auntie like that to argue with the bus driver about it, you know? Like you could see that happening where you go, oh yeah, that's a reaction that I would normally see. >> expect her to be around long enough to know that you can't change it. ████ just looks like easy mode to me compared to like you seen that video real recently where the the bus driver had to get into

6:49 a gun fight with a passenger and they were both shooting at each other and then he chases him out and he's running after him shooting and they've both been shot. Like >> What? I finished my route. >> I would have videoed this ████ guy. You know what I mean? Like >> Was that Brazil? >> No, it was here in America. >> gosh. LA I used to I used to train a couple bus drivers and the stories they would tell you about just homeless people being crazy on the bus like trying to stab you in the back. You're trying to drive this ████ thing on top of like and like you hit you do anything that's ████ up, it's always your fault, you know? So like these dudes are under so much stress. Everyone's constantly ████ with them. That's why at the end of the day sometimes they're like, you don't got money, just get off the ████ bus, bro. Let's go. Like cuz arguing with them is nothing. It's worthless. >> I'll really sad fact. So like there's a guy that you actually know this guy too but he works for the transit for this

7:39 town and he said that now that the now that they're allowed to remove disorderly people from public transportation, they didn't used to. They just had to deal with it. Now that they can remove them, he said like on record it's I think like I think he was he wasn't exaggerating, but it was something like a hundred thousand removals a month. Some ████ LIKE THAT. >> WOAH! >> He said that the reported removals on public transit all around Vegas. It's some crazy high number like that. >> I believe it, bro. >> That's how many times they have to tell somebody to get off. >> I believe it. >> For any reason. >> Like a cop pulls over >> Cuz every time well, no like let's say you're a bus driver, right? And then you yeah, you're on the you're on the bus and somebody's acting up and you have to stop and be like get out. That goes on record. So every time anyone on a bus or or even the bus station, the train, the

8:30 train station, anything that's a public service and someone's being crazy and they got to tell them yeah, they have to like log it. And he said the number's like astronomically high. >> That's crazy to think that like we weren't doing that for a while and now that we are. >> Yeah. >> Like before there was order. Now cuz it feels like everything's lawless now, dude. >> If people weren't going on a bus trying to piss on them >> Yeah. I don't I don't know, dude. The homeless stuff is crazy. Because that's what it mostly is. >> bus driver where he was getting robbed and then he closed it on the guy. So he was like half of his body was out and he had a bat and he kept ████ beating his ass while he was getting whacked in his arm, yeah. >> Like imagine doing all that as a bus driver and also having to deal with like the potential of that happening. >> Yeah, like an auntie yelling at you just feels like I mean, I get that's probably hard mode there and whatever last straw

9:20 on the camel's back that was is tough. But god damn, at least you ain't having to carry a gun. >> Imagine being a bus driver in America. >> to be armed as a bus driver? In Detroit? >> You better have an extendo mag. >> That ████ sucks. >> Yeah, it's scary. >> And that was over nothing. Did you see that video? >> Whose side are you technically on in that >> I'm on the bus driver's side. I feel bad for him. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, I'm on the bus driver's side, but that fool needs some stress management. >> He's definitely autistic, dude. >> You got to learn some empathy, Ryan. >> all day than American bus driving where you got >> No, for sure. >> Yeah, dude. I'll take mean aunties, yeah. >> Dudes start fighting on a bus, half of them dies. >> And that And the reason The reason that guy shot him, that that uh bus driver here in America, the reason he did that

10:11 is cuz he told the bus driver stop and it wasn't a stop. And the bus driver was like, "I can't. This isn't a stop." And then that dude took his gun out and was like, "Stop the bus." And then so this The bus driver took his gun out, started firing at him immediately. They're separated by bulletproof glass. >> And the thing Things just getting bullet-riddled. And then the There's just other passengers just driving >> Yeah. And then one bullet got through, hit him in the arm. This guy hit him in the leg. And then they have a gunfight running on the road. >> What if the bus driver started crying like that? And he says, "Why are you bullying me?" "You know I can't stop it." He starts doing that. You think that guy would have still pulled his gun out? >> I know. >> I don't think so. >> See? Maybe there's a method to his madness. >> I want to watch it. >> Maybe it's a theory for him to stop violence on the bus. >> If videos like that reach Asia, then like that must be what it's like when we're watching their factory videos of them getting smashed by ████ You know

11:02 what I mean? Where we're like, "How the ████ did that happen?" >> no OSHA. That's >> so funny, right? We have OSHA, but we have like some war zone kind of crime. >> Because you know why? Cuz someone's ████ Like if someone gets sued at their company, if someone falls on them, they have to pay for it. So they're like, "We have to make sure this is good." >> We have good health codes. Everything's clean. >> I know. >> Nobody ████ around. Don't put your hand in the machine. >> It must be like an equivalent wonder of like, "Whoa." Like when we see the guy flipping around on a cylinder. >> Yeah. >> I I want to see those videos, dude. I hate those videos. >> Look at that ████ and you're like, "What world is that?" >> Yeah. >> Uncivilized, they still have human trafficking. >> Or like the Indian guys working with burning hot metal, they have no shoes on. It's like ████ like that. They probably look at our shooting videos and they're like, "Get over it, guys. Stop doing that to each other." >> They're like, "You're so stupid."

11:54 >> Yeah, they must think we're ████ cavemen, dude. >> We clown on Indian street vendors and then they watch all of our robbery videos at liquor stores and they're like, "Damn, America's crazy." >> spelling bees do you do?

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