Why China Took the US’ Pandas

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  • @ExileOnDaytonStreet
    @ExileOnDaytonStreet 5 месяцев назад +2325

    Referring to two pandas as "idiots", the plane being called the Panda Express... man, there's a lot of gold in this script.

    • @underscoredfrisk
      @underscoredfrisk 5 месяцев назад +163

      Well, the FedEx Panda Express is its actual name painted on the plane. Sam didnt do it, the jokes just write themselves.

    • @emmanuelroyhipe8181
      @emmanuelroyhipe8181 5 месяцев назад +76

      Just aslo thought that Pan-Dee and Pan-Dah are HAI jokes but it was their real name.

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer 5 месяцев назад +20

      @@underscoredfrisk I wonder if the restaurant chain named Panda Express made use of that free marketing tool.

    • @underscoredfrisk
      @underscoredfrisk 5 месяцев назад +6

      @@emmanuelroyhipe8181 Most creative 11 year old

    • @hbkmog2766
      @hbkmog2766 5 месяцев назад +9

      @@sirBrouwer Yes Panda Express is actually one of the sponsors and donors to the panda in Mexico City at least.

  • @RolandHazoto
    @RolandHazoto 5 месяцев назад +1932

    Whoever wrote Japandaplomacy deserves a raise

    • @erni2619
      @erni2619 5 месяцев назад +53

      I wonder if this is a similar feeling to how German compound words feel to Germans xD

    • @buckyjames1898
      @buckyjames1898 5 месяцев назад +42

      Common Amy W

    • @norude
      @norude 5 месяцев назад +24

      @erni2619
      no.
      German compound words are the same as English noun phrases, except they're written without spaces:
      "panda diplomacy" translates to "Panda-Diplomatie"
      "birthday present" translates to "Geburtstagsgeschenk"
      English noun phrases *act* as nouns, but in German they *are* nouns.
      If we add spaces between roots we get:
      "Geburtstagsgeschenk" = "Geburt‿s‿tag‿s‿Geschenk"
      (the "s"-es there don't mean plural, like in English, but are just joining the nouns, so it's easier to say. In the first example, the "-" is used with the same intention)
      So
      "Geburt" means "birth"
      "Tag" means "day"
      "Geschenk" means "present"/"gift"
      notice how in English, the noun phrase "birth day" became a single noun - "birthday"
      That should really give you a feel for german compound words.
      The same thing happened with
      "to day" -> "to-day" -> "today"
      "web site" -> "web-site" -> "website"
      and many others

    • @rogink
      @rogink 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@norude OK, so Panda Diplomacy in German is just two hyphenated words, not a single compound word. What about the Danube steamboat company?

    • @bsadewitz
      @bsadewitz 5 месяцев назад +2

      ​@@erni2619 That's intriguing. I'm not to confident about it, but my guess is "a little".

  • @thisiszeev
    @thisiszeev 5 месяцев назад +1491

    When I was studying in China, someone gave me this riddle.
    Q. What does Panda want, but Panda can't ever have?
    A. A color photograph.

    • @inility5772
      @inility5772 5 месяцев назад +39

      This .... this made my day. lol.

    • @underscoredfrisk
      @underscoredfrisk 5 месяцев назад +5

      Riddle lanterns or just a plain riddle?

    • @scoon2117
      @scoon2117 5 месяцев назад +2

      ha

    • @BrentWard-tv2lh
      @BrentWard-tv2lh 5 месяцев назад +1

      What a cold joke

    • @ThePaperKhan
      @ThePaperKhan 5 месяцев назад +4

      Why would it want a color photo? Makes no sense. Should at least make some sense

  • @shangerdanger
    @shangerdanger 5 месяцев назад +191

    I grew up in san diego and there was always a huge line to see the pandas. All they did was hide and sleep. Never wanted to wait in line and never saw the pandas lol

    • @phokos
      @phokos 5 месяцев назад +20

      the reason that is the case is because those pandas are so mistreated and out of shape. Check the ones anywhere else and you wont find it like this

    • @odzergaming
      @odzergaming 5 месяцев назад +4

      that’s pretty much what pandas so all day

    • @Phlegethon
      @Phlegethon 5 месяцев назад +1

      Now you never will lol

    • @jane-9578
      @jane-9578 16 дней назад +2

      SaveFubao #PROTECT FUBAO
      please pay attention to fubao.. please help Fubao.
      please listen our voice about fubao. help Fubao

  • @akitadakid6326
    @akitadakid6326 5 месяцев назад +633

    I actually like this idea instead of going to full out war, let’s slightly inconvenience each other with petty get backs till the beef gets squash

    • @adhiwicaksono6149
      @adhiwicaksono6149 5 месяцев назад +10

      it helps that the americans can't really took care of the Pandas either. Just like how nobody there have a home while Chinese people have four different apartment in all tiers on all different cities

    • @thatdamncrow9197
      @thatdamncrow9197 5 месяцев назад +64

      @@adhiwicaksono6149i had a stroke reading this
      If your referring people and the housing crisis shanghai literally has the worst price to wage ratio for homes last i checked
      And people in china tend to live with their parents until they like marry

    • @touch_me.
      @touch_me. 5 месяцев назад

      ⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠​⁠@@adhiwicaksono6149you do realize that china heavily censors any information that makes them look bad… right?

    • @davidjennings2179
      @davidjennings2179 5 месяцев назад +10

      ​@@thatdamncrow9197Mate, feel free to have a stroke to whatever you like (it's the internet after all, rule 34 exists) but you don't need to tell us all about it 😬
      Agree on the china housing crisis though. Whilst there are lots of empty homes they're also overpriced for most people and built to continually inflate that housing bubble.

    • @anokata-kd8oc
      @anokata-kd8oc 5 месяцев назад +1

      Certainly, but first give my something useful and second don't lend it, gift it. I don't need useless leases.

  • @playgamepark
    @playgamepark 5 месяцев назад +157

    Majority of the public: “China is taking back our local pandas”
    HAI: Here is how they will do it… logistically

    • @birdyashiro1226
      @birdyashiro1226 5 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/video/l4NDTEGlFYY/видео.htmlsi=wx-9ABvAGuqE8A5B

  • @fetzie23
    @fetzie23 5 месяцев назад +65

    So the first pandas loaned to the USA essentially got named the "Panda McPandaface" of the time?

  • @FernandoGonzalez-hu3id
    @FernandoGonzalez-hu3id 5 месяцев назад +197

    I was a little kid when the chapultepec zoo panda was born, and it was such a big deal that even a pop song was writen about it... i never understood why, but i guess, "it is the one panda not own by China" kind of justifies it

    • @Toastybees
      @Toastybees 5 месяцев назад +6

      Nope, if you ask China literally all pandas are owned by them regardless of where they were born.

    • @4rtie
      @4rtie 5 месяцев назад +23

      ​@@Toastybeesbut, legally speaking, that is not the case. The Chapultepec panda is the child of gifted pandas rather than loaned ones, and there is no contract binding it to China.

    • @FutianMarket
      @FutianMarket 5 месяцев назад +3

      Yuri - Osito Panda lol.

    • @user-ul2br7sg4d
      @user-ul2br7sg4d 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@4rtiehowever, it still belongs to China😅

    • @jane-9578
      @jane-9578 16 дней назад +2

      SaveFubao #PROTECT FUBAO
      please pay attention to fubao.. please help Fubao.
      please listen our voice about fubao. help Fubao

  • @joebleasdale5557
    @joebleasdale5557 5 месяцев назад +58

    Things that excite Sam:
    - Planes
    - Logistics
    - F1
    - Buc-ee’s
    - *Pandas*

  • @DrSamIAm
    @DrSamIAm 5 месяцев назад +188

    So Pandas are basically like the ultimate coffee loyalty card.
    Trade a trillion dollars five time with China to unlock a panda on your 6th purchase.

    • @sirBrouwer
      @sirBrouwer 5 месяцев назад +13

      but in this case you have to maintain the loyalty points on the card or you will have to return the product.

    • @sdizzzzzy3509
      @sdizzzzzy3509 5 месяцев назад +5

      @@sirBrouwerloyalty points and dont forget your social score

    • @LineOfThy
      @LineOfThy 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@sdizzzzzy3509 wait until that's actually a thing first.

    • @birdyashiro1226
      @birdyashiro1226 5 месяцев назад

      ruclips.net/video/l4NDTEGlFYY/видео.htmlsi=wx-9ABvAGuqE8A5B

    • @kristoffer3000
      @kristoffer3000 5 месяцев назад

      @@sdizzzzzy3509 You mean the thing that never actually existed and was just a western propaganda fever dream?

  • @theillytellez3761
    @theillytellez3761 5 месяцев назад +234

    Hell yeah Mexico mentioned!! Also I didn't know the panda we have here is actually ours, what a privilege!! He got here before I was born but fun fact the panda had a song written about him that even now 30+ years later makes us cry. He's a complete delight and the star of the zoo

    • @teejayman215
      @teejayman215 5 месяцев назад +8

      Maybe you need to pay attention more. They literally just said it's a she.

    • @Dwtdman
      @Dwtdman 5 месяцев назад +9

      It's a cartel panda with fent trade

    • @ItsTomcatTuesday
      @ItsTomcatTuesday 5 месяцев назад +33

      @@teejayman215 oh no! someone misgendered a panda! we're doomed!

    • @chrrycola2717
      @chrrycola2717 5 месяцев назад

      @@looseNjoocylol get out of here bootlicker

    • @clementpoon120
      @clementpoon120 5 месяцев назад

      ​@@teejayman215you have better things to do than this

  • @Mannyveros
    @Mannyveros 5 месяцев назад +160

    Aint no way that plane is actually called Panda Express thats hilarious

    • @AltonV
      @AltonV 5 месяцев назад +7

      It is called panda express

    • @dindog22
      @dindog22 5 месяцев назад +24

      @@AltonV they should paint a picture of General Tso's Chicken on the side of the plane

    • @GreatJO
      @GreatJO 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@dindog22 I am a 30 year old Chinese, the first time I heard of General Tso's Chicken was from American TV series.

    • @bsadewitz
      @bsadewitz 5 месяцев назад +2

      @@GreatJO I had always assumed that it was an American-Chinese dish (?) I really don't know, but this is another data point.

    • @siljeff2708
      @siljeff2708 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@dindog22 When a panda isn't on the plane, the name reverts to Orange Chicken Bowl

  • @dapeach06
    @dapeach06 5 месяцев назад +770

    As someone who used to work at the national zoo, everyone in every exhibit other than the pandas hated the pandas, the exhibit I worked at, the i
    Invertebrates house, which represents 97% of all species, got closed permanently while the panda enclosure got expanded.

    • @underscoredfrisk
      @underscoredfrisk 5 месяцев назад +115

      Well, pandas are a pawn in US and China diplomacy, so it is what it is. Sorry for your invertebrates house. My favorite invertebrates are octos, pistol and mantis shrimp, and those ninja camo insects, especially the flower praying mantis. Have a nice day!

    • @Pwn3dbyth3n00b
      @Pwn3dbyth3n00b 5 месяцев назад +1

      As a DMV resident I hate how much funding gets diverted to Pandas and the political leverage theyre used for meanwhile China continues to destroy their habitat causing them to become more endangered while we waste money on their breeding and conservation programs as China continues to push them to extinction.

    • @bsadewitz
      @bsadewitz 5 месяцев назад +261

      Invertebrates have always had the numbers; perhaps it's time they grow a spine and advocate for themselves.
      I had to. I'm sorry--I just had to. It's a personal problem. You're right about everything. I just couldn't help myself.

    • @underscoredfrisk
      @underscoredfrisk 5 месяцев назад +29

      @@bsadewitz OH MY GOD

    • @bsadewitz
      @bsadewitz 5 месяцев назад +9

      @@underscoredfrisk it hurts so good

  • @gaeun0624park
    @gaeun0624park 16 дней назад +11

    Please pay attention to Fubao.
    In China, where pandas are said to be a national treasure, they have not opened their fubao to the public, only causing controversy. Please protect Fubao #savefubao

  • @a_b_c1234
    @a_b_c1234 5 месяцев назад +39

    he seemed so exited in the intro that i thought it was an ad

  • @j.p.obregon1415
    @j.p.obregon1415 5 месяцев назад +82

    The two adult pandas here in Atlanta are actually still ours until late 2024, not this December.

    • @Sandy33569
      @Sandy33569 5 месяцев назад +2

      Yeah I think some are still looking at some of the earlier news and I see just last month there was an update that it will be sometime in 2024.

  • @metazoinqb3rt299
    @metazoinqb3rt299 5 месяцев назад +8

    My girlfriend's dad works at the memphis FedEx headquarters! He was the person in charge of the line maintenance checks for the airplane carrying these pandas! He was very proud of himself for helping get these pandas where they needed to go safely!

  • @ricequin
    @ricequin 5 месяцев назад +24

    Edinburgh Zoo has just returned its pair after a three year delay because of the pandemic delaying their scheduled return in 2020.

  • @timothy8009
    @timothy8009 5 месяцев назад +196

    So many amazing pundas in this video. Well done Sam & team!

  • @dndboy13
    @dndboy13 5 месяцев назад +30

    my favorite thing about xi's visit to california was him apparently inviting some friends to a private dinner, friends he made in Iowa when he was a relatively minor official over there in the 80s. Iowa just charms the pants of communists i guess, Khrushchev also had made some buddies in Iowa

    • @ericw.1620
      @ericw.1620 5 месяцев назад +9

      Makes sense, Communists are supposed to be all about the working class.

  • @Flint_Ironstag
    @Flint_Ironstag 5 месяцев назад +156

    A number of years ago the Henry Doorly Zoo in Omaha, Nebraska was next on the list of American zoos to get pandas. They went through the process but the Chinese authorities kept making increasingly large demands. Around that time, a delegation from Taiwan was going to visit Nebraska to sign a letter of intent for grain purchases Nebraska’s Governor. The Chinese side told the Omaha zoo that if they didn’t get the Governor to cancel the signing then they wouldn’t get the pandas. The Henry Doorly Zoo had enough by that point and gave up trying to get pandas.

    • @frayzard
      @frayzard 5 месяцев назад +16

      I actually live near that zoo, I remember going there around 2015 and seeing all these signs and construction, there was this huge red banner announcing the pandas. Obviously they never came so now the area has some savanna animals, the main feature are elephants iirc

    • @greatplainsman3662
      @greatplainsman3662 5 месяцев назад

      Awesome zoo!

    • @taralynn3868
      @taralynn3868 5 месяцев назад +4

      @@frayzardthat was actually to announce the red pandas, which are now in that big “Asian animals” area near the back!

    • @noirekuroraigami2270
      @noirekuroraigami2270 5 месяцев назад

      Ahh china should have sued in US courts, it would have got a lot farther

    • @youarebeingtrolled6954
      @youarebeingtrolled6954 5 месяцев назад +1

      That's why nobody cares

  • @Chewbaccafruit
    @Chewbaccafruit 5 месяцев назад +31

    Went to the national zoo this summer as part of a DC trip, got a last look at the pandas without even knowing they were on their way out. It's sad they're going but it's more sad that all the infrastructure and devotion of the team at the zoo might be wasted. People don't work in zoos for the money, they do it for the passion. It sucks that they might lose out for politics.

    • @tessat338
      @tessat338 5 месяцев назад +1

      I'm pretty sure that we'll get more pandas eventually. We had a gap for a year after Hsing Hsing died. Eventually we got Tian Tian and Mei Xian, who went on to produce four healthy cubs who are all now back at Wolong.

    • @ABC1701A
      @ABC1701A 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@tessat338 Some of your fellow countryfolk might have jinxed that though with their social media posts in regard to the Memphis (I think) pandas claiming that they were being abused and demanding China take them back - seemed to be something to do with internal politics given the number of times politicians names were mentioned - democrat and republican - and the pandas were a means to an end. Seems to have ceased once they returned to China and China confirmed that they WEREN'T abused, the male died from natural causes and the female was suffering from a relatively commons skin complaint which the zoo had been successfully treating (says something when China has to come to the aid of a US zoo who were being accused of abusing animals and all by know-it=alls on social media who DON'T know what they are talking about anyway). That certainly seemed to put a damper on things and it left a nasty taste in the mouth as well reading all the abusive comments on the internet.

    • @6Euphoria6
      @6Euphoria6 3 месяца назад

      Oh rlly? Than why is Xiao QiJi so scared of the zookeepers? Ive never seen a cub scared like that. Just look at Everland zoo. FuBao loves her grandpas! MengLan cried and refuse to eat when he reunited with his childhood nanny. Why is Xiao QiJi scared?

    • @6Euphoria6
      @6Euphoria6 3 месяца назад

      ​​​@@ABC1701A China NEVER confirmed ur lies. Memphis CLAIMED they weren't. YaYa's transformation after going back to China is evidence. Even ur ally Taiwan thinks ur abusing pandas

  • @ElessarofGondor
    @ElessarofGondor 5 месяцев назад +42

    I feel like the National Zoo should devote more resources towards other animals. With the amount of tourists visiting there should be a bigger celebration of North American wildlife. Not to mention how many first class zoos do just fine without Pandas.

  • @supervideomaker9136
    @supervideomaker9136 5 месяцев назад +42

    I am from San Diego and I was so sad when the pandas left our zoo. I miss them. The exhibit now doesn’t feel the same

  • @anowell1845
    @anowell1845 5 месяцев назад +53

    Thanks Sam im feeling jet lagged due to my flight to Boise, Illinois from Seattle, washington so this really helped me

    • @tncorgi92
      @tncorgi92 5 месяцев назад +2

      We're there any pandas on your flight?

    • @bigfish3846
      @bigfish3846 5 месяцев назад +11

      Jet lagged from a 1 hour difference?

    • @Omegatonboom
      @Omegatonboom 5 месяцев назад

      What is happening? 😂

    • @unw2000
      @unw2000 5 месяцев назад +5

      GUYS HE SAID THE THING

  • @username65585
    @username65585 5 месяцев назад +8

    In the mid-6th century CE, two monks, with the support of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I, acquired and smuggled living silkworms into the Byzantine Empire, which led to the establishment of an indigenous Byzantine silk industry that long held a silk monopoly in Europe.

    • @TheRealPentigan
      @TheRealPentigan 5 месяцев назад +4

      Unfortunately I do not believe pandas will be able to fit in a walking stick.

  • @user-sm4kw8fg1f
    @user-sm4kw8fg1f 16 дней назад +15

    해외 판다들은 워싱턴조약에 따라 계약기간이 끝나면 모두 중국으로 돌아갑니다. 아기 판다들은 4살 전에 가야 하구요. 그런데 국보인 중국에서 반환된 판다들을 학대, 접객, 비위생적인 관리를 하고 있습니다. 4월에 중국으로 간 한국판다 푸바오도 학대와 접객을 당하고 있습니다. 언젠간 우리의 판다들이 겪을 고통을 멈추게 할 글로벌 서명에 참여 부탁드립니다. "save fubao"

    • @user-fk1df9jt8d
      @user-fk1df9jt8d 15 дней назад

      bloodly shit

    • @ethanchen8936
      @ethanchen8936 14 дней назад

      韩国人最会造谣了,福宝好得很,动物园都澄清了,欢迎你有空去成都看看福宝。

  • @crabser2253
    @crabser2253 5 месяцев назад +27

    I saw the menphis pandas only a month or two before they left. They looked depressed.

    • @tncorgi92
      @tncorgi92 5 месяцев назад +13

      I lived in Memphis once. I can totally understand.

    • @6Euphoria6
      @6Euphoria6 3 месяца назад +1

      The transformation YaYa got after going back to China!

  • @zappababe8577
    @zappababe8577 5 месяцев назад +21

    You can't ignore the fact that Pandas do look adorable.

    • @CTY547
      @CTY547 11 дней назад

      Red Pandas are better

  • @dalegaliniak607
    @dalegaliniak607 5 месяцев назад +30

    This sounds very similar to how dolphins and whales are shipped as well. Something also to add is that the time of actual moving of the animals is usually kept as a pretty close secret except to those people who are directly involved in it, mostly due to organizations like PETA. It also usually happens in the middle of the night, both to help avoid getting stuck in things like traffic jams, which could distress the animals, as well as to make it harder to attract protesters.

    • @Matt-bp5vy
      @Matt-bp5vy 5 месяцев назад +7

      Well imagine what would happen if PETA instead of just killing pets would actually kill a panda.

  • @unknownrocketeer9289
    @unknownrocketeer9289 5 месяцев назад +2

    you started this vid out with so much energy I had to double take haha

  • @Peytona
    @Peytona 5 месяцев назад +2

    Absolutely love your videos and I learn SO MUCH from you. Not all would be strictly relevant as I'm in Europe (Ireland) but great none the less. One thing I will never ever understand is how metric (mm's) can ever be viewed as more complicated than imperial. I understand a lack of familiarity but there just is no argument that a decimalized system (1000mm = 1meter, etc). I can't see the USA ever upgrading though, if only due to people's lack of familiarity / fluency! Thanks again for all your great content

    • @ABC1701A
      @ABC1701A 5 месяцев назад

      At least if we want to see a panda or dozen there are plenty of other European zoos that have them although Scotland's have just returned to China. It would be nice if Dublin or Cork got pandas but I suspect the cost would outweigh any added income. Thinking about a visit to France shortly, they had a baby panda born recently.

  • @kevinfitzpatrick444
    @kevinfitzpatrick444 5 месяцев назад +9

    5:22 I like to think I'm used to the animation comedy going on on this channel, but that cursor yeeting a panda out a tree broke me

  • @RyanTaylor03
    @RyanTaylor03 5 месяцев назад +7

    Scotland lost our 2 pandas this year :( guess that’s the way things go with Pandaplomacy though

  • @Chualeilei
    @Chualeilei 5 месяцев назад +1

    When you mentioned panda ambassador and played the slow mo clip of the guy with the panda mask dancing, I almost fell off my chair. Thank you.

  • @robertviragh6527
    @robertviragh6527 5 месяцев назад +10

    Solid and fact-filled 7 minutes 36 seconds of video. I didn't know about the subject of Panda diplomacy and now feel I have a solid understanding, thank you for sharing this highly interesting subject. Perhaps it will become very important at some future point.

  • @finchhawthorne1302
    @finchhawthorne1302 5 месяцев назад +4

    Feels like the editors had fun with the stock footage and pandas on this one.

  • @theoriginalshew
    @theoriginalshew 5 месяцев назад +3

    A Wendover AND a HAI video uploaded within 2 hours of each other? Is it Xmas again?

  • @MeLoNarXo
    @MeLoNarXo 5 месяцев назад +1

    The start was the first time I heard Sam sound happy

  • @AllPinck
    @AllPinck 5 месяцев назад +2

    I love a story with a happy ending, whole video made me laugh and had me super intrigued. The FedEx Panda Express... jokes really do write themselves

  • @Nighthawk1000
    @Nighthawk1000 5 месяцев назад +5

    Sam sounds so much more animated in this video.

  • @deepfriedlettuce851
    @deepfriedlettuce851 5 месяцев назад +47

    This video completely missed the massive situation at Memphis zoo where a panda died and a second was in terrible condition. That was the reason why China took the pandas back.

    • @zoltek9001
      @zoltek9001 5 месяцев назад +9

      That was more an excuse. If China cared about the condition of the pandas they would have recalled them long ago, and only the ones having problems. This is entirely political.

    • @dan-bz7dz
      @dan-bz7dz 5 месяцев назад +33

      @@zoltek9001 Maybe they did not know the gravity of the situation until one of them died. But yeah, you hate China. I get it.

    • @jason200912
      @jason200912 5 месяцев назад +2

      If they cared then they'd have visited the dang panda and ask how much bamboo they buy per shipment

    • @jason200912
      @jason200912 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@jamiefitzpatrick4377 they means the zoo, not the panda filling out an order form

    • @mecha37000fighter
      @mecha37000fighter 5 месяцев назад

      No rational thought allowed when it comes to "enemy" nations

  • @thatcherdavis8939
    @thatcherdavis8939 5 месяцев назад +1

    So, Washington D.C. is Cordelia and San Diego is Goneril? Even though King Lear is my favorite Shakespeare play and I appreciate the reference, as a San Diegan I’m not sure I like the comparison. But, I’m glad we might be getting the pandas.

  • @laratheplanespotter
    @laratheplanespotter 5 месяцев назад +1

    Never been this early. I love you, Sam! Fab channel. Thank you

  • @puma7727
    @puma7727 5 месяцев назад +4

    I already knew most of this, but all of the PUNdas were so worth it lol

  • @Asianevermore
    @Asianevermore 5 месяцев назад +4

    Heh heh Panda Express… orange chicken any one???

    • @tncorgi92
      @tncorgi92 5 месяцев назад

      I like the Kung Pao Chicken

    • @rateater598
      @rateater598 5 месяцев назад

      fart huffer

  • @bagel29
    @bagel29 5 месяцев назад

    5:41 Oh hey my family has that exact SD Zoo map as a placemat from when we were there in 2011

  • @qo3398
    @qo3398 5 месяцев назад +2

    US weaponizing everything in its power to crush China and its economy:🥰
    China taking back their pandas, US: 😨

  • @DudeBro76
    @DudeBro76 5 месяцев назад +3

    I’ve actually never heard Sam be happy before

    • @Keylevitation
      @Keylevitation 5 месяцев назад

      He sounded so squeaky that for a second I thought it was a completely different person

  • @poloMpolo
    @poloMpolo 5 месяцев назад +10

    Funny anectode about Pandas - The first Czech prezident V. Havel (in office 1989 - 2003) was huge friend of Dalailama and whenever Dalailama came to visit him in Prague, Tibetian flags would flood the whole of czech republic, people would put them in windows and even some cities would officially put them out. So we got no Pandas from china. Then in 2013 big populist Babis became prime minister and said that he will get us pandas. Instead of solving huge problems which our country had and still has. He and his Mayor of Prague that time Krnacova kept both promising how they will get us some pandas instead of focusing on real politcis. And when Chinesse dicta- I mean president came to visit Prague in spring of 2016 it looked really promising. Krnacova stated that "There will be Panda in Prague". But guess who came to visit the Fall of the same year. Thats right, in the fall of 2016 (half a year after chineses dictator) the Dalailama himself came to visit Prague ones more - for the last time actually. And a huge wave of pro Tibetian and pro dalailama sentiment rose up. Our goverment at the time tried to put our officiall statements how "Czech republic respects Chinas whole-state policy" and stuff like that. And they treid to make up with China as they could but it was too late. China was furious and stated that this is outrageous and so on and so on. And they did what China is ussually doing. But the Czech pro dailalama mood was too strang. Many of the Czech reasonable politic figures met with his holiness and took pictures. Many Tibetian flags were flying high. And a huge wave of solidarity with Dailalama and Tibet was present in the public space.
    And guess what happened with the Pandas. No Pandas.
    Babis was sad (not really, he stole bilions for his enterpises) and Krnacova was sad. Our prezident at that time Zeman (pro chinesse/russian puppet) even flew to China. But it was no good. China doesnt like Czech republics view of the history. So we have no Pandas:) And we are very happy so 💪🇨🇿🌄

    • @lagrangewei
      @lagrangewei 5 месяцев назад

      why are you such a hater? it not good to be racist.

    • @noirekuroraigami2270
      @noirekuroraigami2270 5 месяцев назад

      Czechs suck

    • @ims3312
      @ims3312 5 месяцев назад

      So, what is the Czech‘s view on history?
      And what kind of animal is Dalai Lama? Is it cute?

    • @kristoffer3000
      @kristoffer3000 5 месяцев назад

      So you get fed a distorted view of history instead of objective reality, gotcha.
      Are all dictators democratically elected and do none of them hold absolute power? Because that seems to be the Anglosphere view of dictators

  • @emily0071000
    @emily0071000 5 месяцев назад

    I grew up within walking distance of the UK’s only pandas in Scotland (only saw them about twice) and now after 13 years they’re gone

  • @jordanmcgrory2171
    @jordanmcgrory2171 5 месяцев назад +2

    The UK doesn't have a panda as of the upload of this. They were returned on 4 December 2023.

  • @psychopathetic5341
    @psychopathetic5341 5 месяцев назад +5

    I thought the coin shit was some inside joke Sam threw into the video. Damn, the bots are fucking ruthless. RUclips really needs to do sth sbt it.

    • @Nooticus
      @Nooticus 5 месяцев назад

      for real

  • @vinniechan
    @vinniechan 5 месяцев назад +4

    I think an issue is that the Panda costs a lot in upkeep
    I read from somewhere that zoos need to import bamboo to feed them
    Itd be alright when times are good which isnt necessarily true now

    • @UncommonElevators
      @UncommonElevators 5 месяцев назад +2

      No, bamboo can grow in most parts of the US and is considered an invasive species. Sam mentioned in the video that volunteers grow it in their backyards.

    • @ABC1701A
      @ABC1701A 5 месяцев назад

      @@UncommonElevators But pandas can be picky eaters and if they don't like the bamboo that is in season - such as now in Korea at least - then the keepers have problems.

    • @user-wx5dl1mc3v
      @user-wx5dl1mc3v Месяц назад

      One million dollars per panda per year plus paying for bamboo vet and else.

  • @YouInDaWaeMF
    @YouInDaWaeMF 5 месяцев назад

    By the time this was recorded they were grounded at my city in Alaska due to weather it was crazy and was a big deal when it took off

  • @13thravenpurple94
    @13thravenpurple94 5 месяцев назад

    Excellent video 👍 Thank you 💜

  • @TheRealMycanthrope
    @TheRealMycanthrope 5 месяцев назад +4

    Holy shit, I have *never* seen SO MANY bots in one comment section

  • @jane-9578
    @jane-9578 16 дней назад +5

    SaveFubao #PROTECT FUBAO
    please pay attention to fubao.. please help Fubao.
    please listen our voice about fubao. help Fubao

  • @shanepaynter5591
    @shanepaynter5591 5 месяцев назад +1

    Saw the panda Express in HNL a couple weeks ago

  • @0pTicaL
    @0pTicaL 5 месяцев назад +1

    Anyone who saw how the Memphis Zoo treated their pandas would call for the return of all pandas from the US.

  • @kwowka
    @kwowka 5 месяцев назад +18

    We’ve never had giant pandas in our local zoo, but we have red pandas, which are cuter, climb trees and regularly just leave the enclosure because there’s no actual thing stopping them from walking off, and going to hang out with the otters.
    Not as bad as the orangutans, who in theory are contained, but in practise view any barrier as a challenge and have broken out of not only the enclosure but the zoo, more than once, and in total kidnapping one toddler (I think she wanted her baby orangutan to have a friend?? They got a kilometre away)

    • @bepamungkas
      @bepamungkas 5 месяцев назад +4

      Orangutans are adventurers, they love to roam because apart from seeking out diet variety, it also help them maintain their dexterity which is detrimental in their survivability.
      But the fact that they kidnap a toddler shows that they already considered the zoo their home. So there's that.

    • @wilh3lmmusic
      @wilh3lmmusic 5 месяцев назад +3

      Fun fact: red pandas were called panda first

    • @kwowka
      @kwowka 5 месяцев назад +1

      @@bepamungkas ‘oh yeah they stole a baby from their parent’s arms but hey! They consider the zoo home! :)) ‘
      Doesn’t surprise me though they were all born there.

    • @ims3312
      @ims3312 5 месяцев назад

      Do you know how the red panda attacks? They make a French military salute.

    • @ABC1701A
      @ABC1701A 5 месяцев назад

      @@wilh3lmmusic Panda basically means ''bamboo eater'' hence the defining red, black and white or brown and white.

  • @user-zr5kf4ii6t
    @user-zr5kf4ii6t 16 дней назад +8

    Save Fubao
    Help Fubao

  • @kikiwg2264
    @kikiwg2264 5 месяцев назад

    I am pretty certain Canada also has leased pandas, although it doesn't show on the highlighted map

  • @fabiopolancoe
    @fabiopolancoe 4 месяца назад

    I'm feel like the videoclip at 1:33 is from the Zoológico del Centenario of Mérida, Yucatán in Mexico. I think I've seen that habitat before

  • @theprinceofinadequatelighting
    @theprinceofinadequatelighting 5 месяцев назад +63

    You sure know how to panda-r to your audience with cute animals, Sam.

    • @joseville
      @joseville 5 месяцев назад +5

      Do you feel bamboozled?

    • @Derf1OO
      @Derf1OO 5 месяцев назад +3

      @@joseville I can’t bear these puns

    • @brightlineflorida1221
      @brightlineflorida1221 5 месяцев назад

      😂😂😂😂

  • @flagsaver6873
    @flagsaver6873 5 месяцев назад +4

    Is it because I have no sleep or does he always sound like this

    • @Selunei
      @Selunei 5 месяцев назад +1

      You're not alone. I came to the comments to see what was up because in the beginning he sounded like someone else. He must be sick.

  • @SkoddieAltair
    @SkoddieAltair 5 месяцев назад

    The Ben Doyle energy in the intro is exemplary. And to think, it’s just the tip of the bamboo.

  • @synergy021
    @synergy021 5 месяцев назад +2

    Minecraft is about to lose its pandas.

  • @Cucumber_Dragon
    @Cucumber_Dragon 5 месяцев назад +34

    There was also rumors that alleges the Memphis Zoo did not take care of the pandas properly, where it was shown the pandas were as thin as a carpet

    • @KesiIshtar
      @KesiIshtar 5 месяцев назад +7

      I used to live there and I swear they kept them in their feeding rooms way more than they should have. They always looked kinda...ratty? And I never once saw them in the outdoor play enclosure even though I went to the zoo all the time (my art school was right next to it)

    • @deepseer
      @deepseer 5 месяцев назад

      Chinese authorities debunked this rumor but some netizens refuse to believe.

    • @mentalchild360
      @mentalchild360 5 месяцев назад +1

      Idk whenever I saw them, they looked normal

    • @Cucumber_Dragon
      @Cucumber_Dragon 5 месяцев назад

      @@mentalchild360 well, on the Chinese social media BiliBili, there were videos being shared around which the pandas is…y’know

  • @michaellou7101
    @michaellou7101 5 месяцев назад +7

    China should have never sent any panda out. They are too precious. Given the plight of YaYa in Memphis zoo you can see that sometimes they are victims of melicious treatment too. Glad YaYa was able to return to China and happily rehabilitated. Shame on Memphis zoo.

  • @61rampy65
    @61rampy65 5 месяцев назад

    The "Eats Shoots, Leaves" headline sounds like an angry restaurant patron.

  • @AndrewBarsky
    @AndrewBarsky 5 месяцев назад +1

    Imagine paying for factor? That’s hilarious. It’s kind of like a fancier presentation of the same freezer food you get from the freezer section for 4-8x the cost😂😂of

  • @radiantgale
    @radiantgale 5 месяцев назад +4

    Holy hell the bots are making comments unusable...

  • @jeromefitzroy
    @jeromefitzroy 5 месяцев назад +3

    To be fair. China thinks Taiwan belongs to them, so technically to China it’s still theirs!

    • @kristoffer3000
      @kristoffer3000 5 месяцев назад

      The US also thinks that, much like the rest of the world apart from a handful of micronations and people that have been fed nothing but propaganda all their lives and lack any form of critical thinking skills.

  • @AdamSmith-gs2dv
    @AdamSmith-gs2dv 5 месяцев назад +1

    Glad I went to see the ones in Atlanta before they leave

  • @fabip1510
    @fabip1510 5 месяцев назад +1

    Hey H3 and the Ethan and frenemies are now HAI Lore nice

    • @Nooticus
      @Nooticus 5 месяцев назад

      LITERALLY i thought no one else noticed!! the H3 and Wendover/HAI crossover clearly isnt very big lmao

  • @denysolleik9896
    @denysolleik9896 5 месяцев назад +5

    I only watched half of the video.

    • @AnonymousFreakYT
      @AnonymousFreakYT 5 месяцев назад +1

      Was it fully interesting, or only a quarter interesting?

  • @mrkripo6227
    @mrkripo6227 5 месяцев назад +3

    "You lost your panda license privileges"

  • @iancosgrove8069
    @iancosgrove8069 5 месяцев назад +1

    Panda exhibit at San Diego zoo was great

  • @g0ast
    @g0ast 5 месяцев назад +2

    Pandas are so rare that they make front page news any time a new one is born. For a day at least it's world wide Pandamonium.
    I'll see myself out.

  • @meep706
    @meep706 5 месяцев назад +4

    Quite sad to say that Australia’s only two Pandas, Wang Wang and Fu Ni at Adelaide Zoo, are set to be returned in late 2024. Hopefully we can work out a lease renewal or something but that’s already happened once and our relationship with China here is about as up and down as it is for the US.
    🐼

    • @ymhktravel
      @ymhktravel 5 месяцев назад

      Why are the West and USA so obsessed with pandas? I've been to the Chengdu Panda Reserve in China to see all I want and that was enough. I don't need to visit a 2nd time unless I so happen to be there again. So I never visited my own country's zoo to see the leased panda because I've already done it in its original home in China.

    • @iampetz
      @iampetz 5 месяцев назад +1

      ​@@ymhktravel A lot of people don't have the opportunity to visit them in their natural habitats, so zoos are their only ways to witness one "irl".

    • @redhongkong
      @redhongkong 5 месяцев назад

      @@ymhktravel i think most ppl dont even have a passport. if i remember correctly, theres like more than 50% of north american who never travel abroad. hence the reason why they are so bad at geography

    • @ABC1701A
      @ABC1701A 5 месяцев назад

      @@ymhktravel You think the west is obsessed, most of Japan's pandas recently returned to China and their fans make a monthly pilgrimage to visit them while fans in Korea of the most handsome male black/white panda in the world not to mention the most beautiful Ai and her equally beautiful daughter Fu (who returns to China later this year, she is 3 and a chunk now) plus her absolutely adorable twins (Rui and Hui born last August/September time) put the west to shame. Mind you, a fair few of us from outside Korea (basically from the rest of the world) also follow the Bao family online so the interest seems to be universal. But did you know there are two separate species of panda (black/white and brown/white), there is only one brown/white bear in captivity (found badly injured as a baby and handed in to the local zoo), that the black/white pandas have the skull shape of a normal bear while the brown/white panda skulls are feline in shape and one has smaller teeth but a stronger bite/jaw and the other species has larger teeth but a weaker bite/jaw.

  • @schnitzelsemmel
    @schnitzelsemmel 5 месяцев назад +7

    I assume Taiwan is cooking up some kind of breeding plan to establish a competing Panda leasing business

    • @shiyian
      @shiyian 5 месяцев назад +6

      They are kind of notoriously difficult to breed

    • @dan-bz7dz
      @dan-bz7dz 5 месяцев назад

      @@shiyian And they only have two. Inbreeding isn't gonna work

  • @ktburger659
    @ktburger659 5 месяцев назад

    The stock footage of the guy with the panda head sent me

  • @diam8829
    @diam8829 Месяц назад

    This is definitely my new conversation starter. No more brainstorming and ice breaker fun fact

  • @riverdoge
    @riverdoge 5 месяцев назад +11

    Everyone ignore all the comments about AMS49K, it's just bots trying to scam you.

    • @ohkatehadley
      @ohkatehadley 5 месяцев назад

      I just reported every single one in this comment section.

    • @zwerko
      @zwerko 5 месяцев назад

      Almost reported your comment 😅 I imagine HAI will do search & delete / block on that keyword at one point. It's wild that YT can't figure out how to keep these bots outside of their platform... I guess important things like removing the dislike button always take a precedence...

  • @edbuscus360
    @edbuscus360 5 месяцев назад +6

    I like how they’re so concerned about their pandas but absolutely TRASH the atmosphere and don’t give a second thought to it.

  • @ryanohoro3764
    @ryanohoro3764 5 месяцев назад

    The vibe on this video is Half As Wendover. (respectfully)

  • @lunarvisions7
    @lunarvisions7 5 месяцев назад +1

    I didn’t expect to come out of this video with knowledge that the panda from my childhood zoo is one of the four free pandas in the world lol

  • @wontononionslicer1004
    @wontononionslicer1004 5 месяцев назад +3

    those are CN's Pandas, NOT US!

  • @plumjet0930
    @plumjet0930 5 месяцев назад +3

    I wonder if this video is about panda’s

  • @everythingman987
    @everythingman987 5 месяцев назад

    The first few seconds of the video reminded me of "BOATS BOATS BOATS" from How I met your Mother

  • @chad_b
    @chad_b 5 месяцев назад +1

    So what would happen if they simply decided not to return them?

  • @rayoflight62
    @rayoflight62 5 месяцев назад +10

    Thank you Sam for this video, which is fully interesting instead of half, as advertised in the name.
    Here in London there isn't even a remote possibility to see a Panda Bear.
    I don't agree with the act of loaning Panda bears on the basis of a political tuning between the CCP and the Nation hosting the animals.
    Also, I don't understand why no-one else in the world isn't breeding Pandas.
    Happy New Year, Sam!
    Anthony

    • @Bigrignohio
      @Bigrignohio 5 месяцев назад +7

      How can they breed pandas . . . without pandas? And to GET pandas they have to agree to the terms.

    • @rennoc6478
      @rennoc6478 5 месяцев назад

      Because china owns them all excluding 4

    • @barryfraser831
      @barryfraser831 5 месяцев назад +5

      Frankly its partially because pandas are almost impossible to breed. Pandas have extremely low libido and thus takes extreme effort to force them to actually make a baby panda. So even breeding pandas isn't super possible.

    • @livwake
      @livwake 5 месяцев назад

      They tried IVF in Edinburgh for 13 years but nothing took

  • @user-xq8ph8pw3t
    @user-xq8ph8pw3t 16 дней назад +6

    울 푸바오 살길이라 생각되네요

  • @penitent2401
    @penitent2401 5 месяцев назад +1

    seeing how hard it is to keep them alive, pretty sure the species wants to die out at this point.

  • @douglasboyle6544
    @douglasboyle6544 5 месяцев назад

    I think I have to read King Lear again, apparently, I missed all the Pandiplomacy on my first read-through.

  • @godlugner5327
    @godlugner5327 5 месяцев назад +6

    The scariest thing about the spambots is they're using stolen accounts from hacked users.... Reporting them is even more important now

    • @All2Skitzd
      @All2Skitzd 5 месяцев назад

      Too busy shadow-banning real comments.

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 5 месяцев назад

      I'm trying, but this AMS49K is everywhere. What's the use of reporting a post every few seconds for ten minutes when the spammer can make hundreds of posts a second around the clock?

    • @zwerko
      @zwerko 5 месяцев назад +1

      Google/YT could easily tackle that problem, not really sure why they won't do it... I sense a Solomon solution: they'll start charging for API access, this would severely maim the bots ability to spam, but also alternate ad-free versions of the YT app, killing two birds with one stone...

    • @vylbird8014
      @vylbird8014 5 месяцев назад

      @@zwerkoAPI access isn't essential for spamming. A spammer can just reverse-engineer the web interface.

  • @chocobell77
    @chocobell77 16 дней назад +8

    #SAVE FUBAO

  • @SavedPdf
    @SavedPdf 5 месяцев назад

    They do dabble in getting along... dont they

  • @Pr0toPoTaT0
    @Pr0toPoTaT0 5 месяцев назад +2

    THE PANDAS ARE LEAVING