0:00 [Music] there's this man who was born in yunnan in china and was abducted by a neighbor before being trafficked to hunan province nearly 2000 kilometers away right the man had spent a lifetime trying to keep alive this memory of his hometown and now this this dude has found his biological mom using a hand-drawn map 33 years after shut up whoa wait how where's the hand drawer map come from did he ████ did it as a kid with crayons ████ no he he just kept the memory in his mind and recently drew it out and it was able to actually help determine where he was from oh that's some like arya stark ████ you know like every night before she goes to sleep like whoever whoever so she like lists everybody that she's gonna kill he's probably like every
0:50 night he can make a left at the river they're across the river do you know did he get kidnapped yeah he was kidnapped so he was just remembering yeah so this guy's 37 year old chinese man who was abducted at the age of four he found his biological mom drawing a map to his of his home village was genius oh my god if i got kidnapped at four i'm i'm a different person that's that's it just draw a dick memory as a child yeah so zanjo on that helped police locate where he was born and eventually helped him reunite with his birth parents um and he who does not even remember his birth name was born in this uh the yunnan province which is in southwestern china but when he was kidnapped by his neighbor he was trafficked to the central area of china which is why that was 2000 kilometers away where he told uh where he was told or when he was sold to the family that
1:48 as a kidnapped kid i mean like like like a family just wanted to adopt a kid yeah i guess so that's ████ they just raised them like because every time i think of a kidnap situation i thought people just wanted to ████ ████ children steal them and use them for like slavery or something i didn't think it would become a warm loving family that just wants to buy a kid nobody said warren loving we don't know from the black market yeah or was it like additional farmhand help because that's how i see like if they're being bought and sold i feel like it's usually not for the kids best you're thinking like a businessman i think these people just wanted to raise a kid and they maybe probably couldn't have one they said they're sterile they didn't have enough money and they're like we only have a bag of beets and they're like well i have a child most optimistic steve's been all day just saying like you know you to think about that too yeah this guy's name lee who has his own
2:38 family now provided a blood sample to the authorities and began drawing what he could remember of the home village wait the chinese cops actually helped him yeah he and he asked some clues online about where it could be after you drew it and the police eventually narrowed it down to a village near the mountainous city and you're not named i don't even know how to pronounce it as jiaotong the authorities found a woman who was probably the mother and the dna test using the blood later confirmed that lee was her son and the two uh met on january 1st 2022. but they don't but they don't get along yeah they hate each other there there goes the optimism they don't see either eye on anything and then one of them what if it wasn't even a kidnapping she's like i'm so happy to see you oh you found me son and it was never reported so it wasn't a kidnapping she just sold her kids yeah he's like mom you have the nicest house in the village this is incredible in here how'd you make your fortune oh
3:28 glad you asked i think we did a similar article to this last year uh which was interesting because uh um he said he was inspired to begin looking for his biological family after learning about the high profile stories of guo gan tang and sun hyung two famous abduction cases that ended in reunions last year in 2021 oh yeah i realized i could not wait any longer because my parents should be getting older now i worried that when i figured out where i'm from they might have passed away and his father had passed his 18th birthday his adopted family's like hey we could tell you some ████ watch at four how did how does he know like hey can we see that map again not totally sure it's like hey we bought you dude it's crazy huh he is a father um now let me see let me see because he said he's 37 that's crazy he remembers
4:18 being kidnapped and then he was awake during the during the whole time and then i don't remember any directions at four years old like bro i couldn't get back from my house from costco last week but also too it must have been a very traumatic situation for him as a four-year-old so i'm sure once again he probably remembers everything yeah that's the map this is his village yeah is that what he oh so it wasn't directions to how he got out it's just this is how i remember the village he's got a 2000 kilometer directional map oh that's what i thought it's like this whole remembered he left bread crumbs and ████ because i make a right here and then i left here at this temple turn right on ethan allen yeah eat the melon costco the chinese ethan
5:09 allen oh yeah i think i could have mapped not my not my neighborhood but i could have mapped out my block at four and like because i remember like all the different homes that i was at so like that little the home like the like what do you call it like um the multi-unit property that we first lived in um i was like up to up to three years old there and then like the the cul-de-sac that i lived in until like i was six i i remember like all the different houses there but a whole village that's pretty complex that's true that's a really good painting drawing too he said it hurt when he later went to school and read articles about family gatherings but as time went by he became immersed in work and later was busy getting married and having his kids so he didn't really think about it too much um he didn't he did not mention what he hoped would happen to the couple that raised him recently the abducted
6:00 children have been reluctant to prosecute parents who raised them as they often have a good relationship with the family that they grew up so it was like a family that was just like i want kids yeah one guy was like i could get one for a district yeah there's a kid's plug in the village yeah yeah you want some kids just in a coat well i feel like they they've been there photos in china they buy kids like farm animals like hey anyone want a golden retriever like you know you go to the ████ parking lot the chinese dude has like a golden retriever and he goes you want a puppy ████ mexican dude puts out a ████ palette cart we have puppies that's how downtown la is now uh fashion district they have all kinds of cool dogs that's how i got my dog my chihuahua yeah yeah it was in the back of a home depot and riverside dude had a bunch of childs they look ████ super malnourished uh the the parents were chained up just looking like super dead and he was just holding this cute little dog and i was
6:50 like what are you doing man i was telling you what was that damn and then i was like how much was it well the thing is uh he was on for 150 what and then um but me i'm a very i'm a very stories guy i was like selling dodger tickets at the time i was doing like marketing for them and i was and i saw a dodger sticker on the back of his truck and i was like are you a dodger fan he's like yeah why and i was like dude this be a sick story i was like trade your tickets for this dog right he's like how much did i like show them like thing so we trade and i'm like ████ yeah sick story and then like 20 minutes later i'm calling my sister in total regret and panic because i'm like i have a ████ chihuahua in the back of my car i don't know what i just did and why but i ████ have a dog now and i haven't ████ traded dogs for dodger tickets yeah and that's why i named it dodgers like cars for kids easy dude don't ████ get that jingle on my head easy man they say as of november more than 8 300
7:42 children who went missing over previous decades have been found under an initiative called tuan yuan which that sucks because 83 children 8 300 children who have been found means there's probably like tens of thousands of you know what children mean like that's gotta be crazy damn dude kids man can't be selling kids can you tell the kids let's start with that yeah i mean i guess it's good stuff if you're in the market for kids right like like if you're out there and you're just like i can't care i'm a kid but i want a kid like this family right and i'll be one of the good kid buyers like i'll raise them right i'll be one of the good ones you know like i'm not like a kid toucher like i'm the only touching is hugging right and loving in in a in a family way right so like this family and then like but like yeah i still don't
8:34 understand why they think it's okay to buy it from a underground kids circuit just from a guy yeah it's like yo you got any kids like i got a ████ real cute boy for you you know i was like like why don't they just go don't they have adoption centers in china don't they have or maybe that's what it is like in my head i'm like what if they went to an orphanage or adoption place and they were like none of these ones is going to work and then they have like a special guy that goes out and gets you the one that you ideally specialist yeah because they're like a car broker yeah like a bounty hunter yeah and he'll go what are you looking for i don't know some four-year-old whatever and they're like let me call someone and see if we have some someone in something in the back let me check my stock yeah it could because they maybe they just don't know any bigger they just give you profiles like hair color it's like a ████ avatar that you're
9:24 building on nintendo wii when somebody takes that information just drives around looking for something that fits the description like looking more from 1995 this row of kids is like obviously no one's gonna adopt them and then they just always go out and get the one but they are used though that's my thing about it because i would want it to be like actually from the birth canal let's go yeah oh yeah brand new one but maybe you know not everyone can afford a new car a new house so maybe somebody has to get a refurbished kid like a discount like a poncho bravia yeah it works yeah yeah it's a poncho yellow sticker on it and then you rip off the sticker and it still has the smudge and you're like well whatever it's like kid bay right and there's ratings like like new you know new new mint condition that one's expensive those are really expensive mid condition kit yes
10:15 some have salvaged title salvage title broken hearted how much do you think this kid was sold for oh ████ dollar wise was it a sale like that's what it was 37 something years ago too it was probably cheap yeah make sure you account for inflation what if you drop your kid on your way out of the store and it comes back and you're like yo this kid got a ████ head injury like how you dropped your cold stone yeah you're like sir come on i didn't even get to my car with this thing can we just like you know yeah scoop me out another one please cause this guy bumped into me and i dropped like you keep that one it's on the house there's another one oh okay okay that's better on the house yeah okay because if i was that family trying to trying to get some kids i'd be like dude what the ████ where did you get this dude that's crazy right like even you ask like wait where's what are you doing here with the chihuahuas like you had
11:05 the decency to ask in question i gave you 50 off how do you get the kid to not talk about what happened uh don't tell the kid anything i'll give you 25 percent that's true because a four-year-old's gonna be like i want to see my mommy yeah are you the yeah what are you gonna say not a new kid i am your mommy now like the ████ that's probably what they say that that's that's what blows my mind is this family they went on with it and they're okay with that unless they like jacked him from a a family so insanely poor that his education is that low that he can't even articulate he was kidnapped you know it could be oh yeah four years old i kidnapped the puppy yeah i mean we already know we all kidnapped the puppy or their parents right and when it comes home what does it do the first night cries like a ████ yeah and i'm
11:55 pretty damn sure a kidnapped kid who's smarter than the puppy is gonna do the same ████ kidnap the puppy dude yeah same thing though right yeah they'll cry don't cry until they get comfortable because there's no nothing else to do because no matter what they can't take care of themselves so the second they recognize uh the new almost central authority that feeds them that they have to rely on that's the relationship you want something funny about well i guess this isn't funny but about puppies on craigslist now you know how they do it now where they because it's illegal to sell puppies like on offer up yeah really yeah yeah the way they do it now is they tell you they're selling something else and they just put a puppy next to it yeah oh like like tennis racket and then there's like a golden retriever s███████ of puppies next to that tennis racket and then they know you're going to ask about it how come you can't do that anymore like the penny's favorite they're breeding they don't want people to just make dogs to
12:46 sell them because there's some weird ████ that goes on with that yeah the dogs come out all ████ x-men and ████ yeah that's great yeah because the second dog i got um we called the house right and then my parents you know during the time they have a thick ass accent whatever and then like when we got there they're asking these weird questions and i was just playing with the dogs they're like oh thank god it's a family yeah we were just scared that you guys were going to buy them for the restaurants and stuff and whoa ████ because during that time they were reporting how asian restaurants were ████ serving dogs so then this family so they bought into that ████ thing yeah and it was just on cnn and ████ and we were being judged by this like straight up like white trash trailer ████ like straight up they were like hella ████ up cars in the back and all these
13:37 junkyard dogs were coming out and they were just trying to protect their dogs they're like oh thank god it's a family yeah you know with everything going on we just didn't know and then yeah oh my god you know i was just like and you're like i'm not gonna eat this until it gets bigger so that's how they file it if you go on offer up you'll see it say dog cage or puppy food so that when you write dog or puppy you'll still get the hit and it'll be it'll show like a little ████ already open bag of pedigree who's gonna ████ buy that but there's a puppy right next to it and i'll just say inquire ask ask inquire ask but don't you guys remember on the back of all the like panty savers all the all the craigslist or whatever right hella people are just giving out free dogs yeah yeah yeah all the time free dog free dogs cause there's like unexpected litters yeah we gotta get rid of them yeah i remember that in the paper all the time too as a kid always free animals somewhere yeah too
14:28 bad they don't do that anymore with kids because they did in the great depression oh they gave away freaky oh because they feed my kids because they couldn't yeah so they'll be though there's pictures of like uh ladies outside with like three four kids and they have a poster that they made like like one of those like protest posters yeah free kids yeah yeah i mean are kids really free though that's true they cost lots of money dude it's a little misleading especially they ████ like spiderman and ████ ████ man or they're like peta and they're like they're part of the free kids movement but all the kids kept on getting jacked and like what the ████ we're trying to try to put this message out there to free the kids people don't get it [Music] uh
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