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Does Macau Have an Underworld?

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0:00 [Music] careful boys today we have the outcast service wow welcome is a super candidly powerful question is it easy to get drugs in the cow wow easy in Hong Kong dang girl I just hear this just hear it yeah yeah yeah okay we're on the street word on the street word on the street is but uh but yeah some people will like try to smuggle from Hong Kong to maau but lately has been really strict because you know Thailand is um legal Now Thailand oh we is legal thereal legal in Thailand now and So like um they're more strict now as in like oh

0:51 people coming from Thailand especially like residents and stuff they will like test them they come in um but now they know the smell of weed in m so like people get in trouble um I actually have a friend that's that's vegan it's funny cuz you said vegetarian and earlier and going in the Army and but he he was caught and got arrested and he's vegan can you imagine being vegan in prison oh you're jzo John yeah can't eat anything yeah no yeah so there um not very easy to get weed in myow Kong but it's such a like it's such a place where so many rich people are you you got to get some kind of like link yeah there's got to be my uh friend's a race car driver and he teaches like Royals in Southeast Asia how to like Drive uhuh

1:41 and then he was telling me like the crazy world that they live in where these are countries where if you get caught with like a dust of crack you die yeah you die and it's like hella controlled whatever but he says like the the Royal the the the people that are on top they're just like us like they do whatever the ████ they want they could just phone call and at any hotel like yeah I want this this and this somebody comes delivered they just party all night and then he's like it's crazy cuz like if they were caught with this their citizens would have I me their normal citizens would have died but all those guys he's like dude it they just go hard like just regular American party kids yeah yeah damn I know I know in China it's the opposite like the higher up you are in status the

2:34 way less likely you're going to do any of that stuff like Jackie CH cuz you'll get way more put on example you you have way more to lose and you could lose everything yeah and you're going to be made an example kind of thing dang yeah cuz also the higher up you are in general the more connected you might be to like government official type stuff oh so you make everybody else look bad yeah so everything's like way crazy yeah there is this like uh huge Casino guy that like opened a lot of um like the casinos in maau he got really in big trouble and got arrested in China because he opened casinos in China like underground you're not suppos oh fake casino and so he got arrested and like I think two years ago and so he's like in charge of like the VIP that comes through and stuff so it's like a lot of

3:24 money got like lower from casinos because he was arrested so you're right like he he was put on make yeah really big examples of stuff to like basically make sure nobody else can do things wow so what is when someone's saying um like when someone talks about macau's underworld what does that look like yeah they got mafas for sure they call black society what what's that I don't know it's just is it like Triads yeah are they Chinese M yeah yeah I think they're Chinese um have you you if if you saw someone walking on the street like would you be able to go oh that guy is probably like a gangster or a mafia I don't know I I don't think so maybe if they're super rich and you're like wondering where's their money coming from type of thing like uh so they're not like visibly a gangster they just

4:16 look like they could be a regular person but they're involved in those type of things yeah and you would know maybe like through friend of friend sometimes yeah like some of them would be connected yeah it's like it's like those type of people like if someone crosses you they would like um what that they would just call um people a van would come out and just like people would bats and like yeah I've seen this like downstairs the club was like what happen I'm leaving you saw that happen yeah W there was this one time see especially downstairs in the taxi lines it's like just out of nowhere you just cross one wrong person and a van shows up with people with bat and stuff yeah I ████ call that number and a van comes but it's a bunch of clowns that jump out on after the other actually in uh in elementary we have friends that were like associated with rumor I didn't know

5:08 that was true dud they're fighting all the time like it's like they like you know they're they're also kind of like sensitive it's like you look at them a little like wrong M huh and I'm like I'm sorry my eyes are just big like I that means what are you looking at what are you looking at why is that the truth no matter where you are in the world gangsters are so ████ sensitive yeah what the ████ you looking at I'm like you look cute like bro you look looking cute diffused I love your shirt yeah that's how you diffuse a fight yeah I love your Shir just want to kiss you man what the ████ you looking at your fashion bro has anyone told you has anyone told has anyone told you I come to like organized crime that's

5:59 mainly just that's the at the highest level it's probably Chinese people I think so yeah and then is there like a lower level like thug where they're like like Filipinos fos are like we I feel like Filipinos would be too scared to be get deported you know nobody's causing trouble like in a group that's not Chinese not that I know him bad yeah like JR this guy like he's very hot-headed like if if someone is going to like try to beat him up like he would like come on guys let's go beat him up and it's like but in the end and then all the Filipinos get decimated in one go right they're both they're all small so you know everyone's small they can hide easily get in the cracks so it's okay it will be a fair fight but um yeah and uh there was this actually really sad thing like um you know like if you're um

6:51 mafia's EX for example and like and like someone was flirting with you and you would end up you could be end up dead like one time jealous yeah well a guy from like Portuguese schol like he he passed away because of this type of jealousy and like but this was years ago like decades ago I don't know about now now it's more like suicide because of um oh yeah during Co it was bad yeah oh yeah suicide suicide or because gambling too much in depth okay in dep like a lot of that reason yeah during Co because like everything was so shut right like and and so there's just a lot of like mental health issues but for sure like um um you know like it's just uh under like you don't really see it if you take out like the murderous part of like the jealousy like it's so romantic it is it

7:41 is he it's like oh my gosh he would kill for me or just run back with him too hard that's like so romantic it is pretty convenient that like that much gambling happens on a place that small that you would have to like you'd be stuck there if you were trying to run away from your debt yeah like Vegas you can just go anywhere you just leave yeah but then like there how do you get out of there if you owe money to people yeah exactly it's like it's so small so small yeah Vegas they still hunt you down though yeah but you got a lot of ways out if you can it's only one road out what and in now I have to go through pum it's only one rooll only one but if you're on an island no look at the map dude Peninsula a peninsula dude if you look at the map one coming

8:33 here one coming here they're talking about maau we're connected to China border imigration didn't even know that between us and China how cool yeah border so there's actually a lot of uh students like that goes to local schools in maau from China they would cross every morning really cuz like how like apartments and stuff are cheaper in China and then maau maau Hong Kong so expensive like man like it's like New York type of price right yeah and yeah is there a lot of people that's like I don't want to live in China anymore and then they swim to maau and then they just want to actually I think that was even though we just learned you could drive you just do I'm just curious what what Happ there's the Ste police what do they do when they catch you they they shoot you like our friend's parents age there was there was the thing where that

9:24 that's the thing like people cuz it's close it's like people would his that was one of them he swam to Hong Kong Kong Hong Kong back then it was e yeah you back then they came from Hong Kong to here wow he swam from Hong Kong to here what one go one go one road you went underwater the whole time at the Gulf of Mexico he took a breath ████ Aquaman pops up in America Chinese Aquaman dude didn't you say he went twice or like he went back hey to him for he's TR with Iron Man he tried to beat his time how long do you think the swim is from China that's so crazy how long is

10:14 the swim from Hong Kong to La went through the M the mountains I don't even know is Hong Kong attached to China or one part of it it is it's kind of yeah it yeah one part of it right cuz it's a cluster of Island that's so crazy right no no he he uh went through the it's 3 to 6 miles ████ swimming from Hong Kong to China that's so crazy Hong Kong I me China depends on it that's manageable oh no three miles bro most people ████ life depends on it I think most people drown was your dad ████ training for a swim way dad my dad and his brothers are actually really good at swimming though really I thought they had like a r good because of the plan just the training yeah do they train do they he he grew up on the river and so he told me like one of the their favorite pastimes they would always just bring a plastic bag cuz if they wanted to go like up town they

11:04 would just take their clothes off put in a plastic bag and just swim up the river or follow the current like and like that's their that's their like taxi what what the ████ so him and his brothers like are all really good at like his other brother played water polo like they're all really good at swimming no way the current as a freeway is crazy wait he played water polo in in in China yeah yeah for real that's crazy yeah so they were good swimmers yep his dad was a wet back and Ma will just straight up shoot you well if you try to go in they shoot you no back in the day if you're illegal immigrant I now now too I don't know I guess I gu to pick you up and leave I guess maybe leave no because there was an area in maau where like our friends parents age that used to like people would see sometimes dead bodies there oh yeah trying towi so yeah wow they don't

11:54 even pick them up they just leave them we'll get them in the morning the tide will get them that's what I heard thing is there like a maau trump where they're like we don't want these Chinese immigrants yeah how's the politics over there I feel like everywhere we go there's always going to be someone like like people like that yeah like minority and and but like a president like maau that's like no more chines we get the Prime Minister don't we like no uh not prime minister mayor even vote I don't remember Emperor I love Governor um du I oh we learn in we learned things in C so we would be like what's the English word for special Administration um chief of admin something lot of titles yeah I don't

12:46 think like they are chosen by China so they they're like you know they respectful but when you were when you like born there Cho up and they still go I'm going to get rid of all these Chinese when you guys were like born and raised there was it still under Portuguese rule actually when it cuz I think it was few years after so right after we were born 1990 oh yeah I think four years after we were born they hand yeah so it was like in the transitioning time okay to to but there's the signs are still like Chinese Portuguese forms are in Chinese Portuguese still even until now Google says it's chief executive chief executive we get Chief Executives but they're not very like you know they don't yeah like Trump is everywhere like you know they not doing rallies and stuff meet and greets going back to M

13:37 everybody's like is it really that crazy there in America like with with Trump and stuff like what only you go to certain areas does it feel crazy for you yeah there's a lot of space so I don't really see it crazy yeah I mean our parents always listen to just like the bad news sometimes it's like be careful like when you go out like did you think everyone here was going to everywhere you go really we were the ones like it's not that bad where we live at least like and maybe if you go to like New York City maybe you see more things like that but where we live it was suburban and it's not too yeah in Florida I mean like sometimes when we drive back then we'd see like yeah like people would trumps Trump flags and I'm like don't they have work like what like they would just be so free don't they have work I'm like wow did you guys start driving here or back in maau uh you drove in maau I drove in maau I

14:28 started driving here cuz so much cheaper to get a driver's license here yeah and and it's so easy to get a license here you get pass so easily in Singapore if you want to own a car you got to pay way more money because they don't want to crowd the road with cars do they have that well the driver taking the driver's license itself you pay an instructor and you pay for the course and it's so expensive and if you fail once you got to next year you they make you slim to back to China they make you wait the the next year and you got to pay again so you can choose like automatic or manual but like my my dad is like hi P just just do automatic like don't don't do manual you wanted to do manual just pass cuz I want to be cool oh yeah the Grand Prix is there you know every year the Grand Prix and

15:18 everybody there is like so car focused and I was like I want Tobe and I always thought that phased out I didn't know people still thought it was cool to like your dead cars too that's why like the new the new generation I didn't think New Gen people thought it was cool with the drive stick dri I feel like they don't even know what stick is it's an anti theft thing an theft that's why it's Grand Theft Auto not manual all right that was good trying to steal the car I like it Grand Theft manual how do I get this car moving it's just an instruction book oh okay okay are the cars their left-and drive cuz I do they I saw shifting with your right hand oh yeah yeah it's the other side that's why like uh it took me like a whole year to want to learn again here because I was

16:09 like oh ████ what if I like accidentally go on the other side and you know the uh turn on right like you know red light that thing like turn right on R turn right on red imagine like you don't know and they're like you got a BG I would have no idea you know stuff like that but they wouldn't say that at the school like the Driving School here they teach that well I mean some of them not all of them are the punishments for crimes actually like very severe in maau compared to like they Whip and stuff like if you get caught stealing what happens yeah they chop off your hand oh my God here they catch you and they release you right they just go to like yeah a it like like 10 years for something small or um let's say you like rob a house when no one's home kind of

16:59 deal you get caught what are you looking at is that a big thing over there though they deport you to China five five 10 years I think it's like the same like similar but actually uh Hong Kong CB if you get caught with even CBD you get like full life like CBD oil I remember hearing that in the immigration like what poor people who have to sleep yeah they they just have to drink some alcohol or something I don't know well they won't be poor because they'll never know that what it is you know I think the pain of uh not having something is when you've had it before yeah oh you get a taste of it yeah but if you've grown in a life where it's like oh yeah you're going to die if you do this I'll never tell I don't know what that is and it's always been like that that's true yeah I

17:51 think so I don't remember hearing a lot of crimes growing up locals kind of get like a little smack into the wrist if you like you know like I know someone that got caught um um with trying to get in with weed and then like all he had to do well he spent uh two days two nights in the jail sale but then like all he had to do is admit guilty and then pay like 200 bucks 200 bucks yeah it was like really cheap amount and then like $200 worth and then yeah they go back but that's just that one time you know and but plus it depends how much you have if you're intend to sell then it is worse obviously but it sounds like there's like locals are like the citizens and everyone else are second class it's crazy oh yeah true I me that's what I felt my whole life it's like cuz whenever we had like field

18:43 trips or something program like I would have to pay like I would have to and I wouldn't have to because I have the and then I and then my classmates like oh why I thought you were like my I'm not like oh so you you're here illegally no kind of like like what we did to you oh my gosh yeah it it feels like that and wow and does it does it feel more comfortable living here like do you feel less you feel like America does it feel more like equaled out a little bit for sure I mean like yeah it's just America is like so mixed it's what we are we're mixed like it's like very it feels so much easier to to fit in oh good you feel the freedom and then the eagle just on your back going that makes us proud of feel American oh

19:36 yeah and you stand with your right hand over your heart while saluting at the same time and in the Pledge of Allegiance which is stands American flag under the nation under [Laughter] God here and last question does it feel like uh cuz maau you can't have a gun right I know so here do are you like tempted to like no I probably would shoot myself accidentally you know like I'm I'm too clumsy well you need to is Florida dude so in Florida do you see people do they carry concealed I think they I don't know if they're constitutional care they might be like I don't see anybody but in South Carolina cuz like my in-laws live there like I I would see was that like a weird site like I be like oh okay but they look friendly yeah like like ma'am yeah they

20:27 always yeah ma'am gotcha welcome to town okay okay yeah I know one time like my coworker brought his piece let say peace right like yeah we were at um like a work thing and then we went to a my our boss's boat like he's like insurance for a big boat like and then we're just like chilling there he's like oh man I forgot to leave my piece at home and I'm like he okay he holds his piece like a purse yeah right like and he starts like just talking about like stories like yeah this this one time at the bar like he he was like there's this guy was like trying to fight me and I swear to God almost like you know went for my piece and then my girlfriend held my hand that's probably what we all sound like like yeah tough boy so I'm just

21:20 like okay yeah yeah that's my experience with guns I guess very good welcome to America free show your

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