All's well in downtown Dubai, everything looks fine, people
outside, no big deal. So I don't know what the fuss is
all about on social media where people think it's a war zone.
It's absolutely not. It's perfectly safe out here.
I love it. Thanks for the report SO.
So we soon sort of found out. I mean, I don't know, sort of, I
say I have to say sort of because we don't know exactly,
but it seems to be Jared that Dubai is paying him to some
degree because he was with a bunch of other Dubai influencers
that are from different countries and posted a picture
of himself with that group. And he's been posting nothing.
But like how I don't know whether he's exactly paid or
like what the relationship is, but he's been posting a lot of
direct like Dubai is great. He's he even posted something
like Dubai tourism is going to jump off as soon as this war
ends. It's really crazy.
It's actually quite and then people government officials be
like, thank you, Ian, you are great.
Like in these replies. It's it's it's actually it's
actually like mind boggling. I don't know how.
This could be it would be funnier if the government.
Like some kind of magic life in Dubai.
It would be way funnier if the Dubai officials were replying to
him and being like, Sir, you are Malaysian, what do you know
about Dubai? How could you possibly know
anything about Dubai? Why are you so interested in
tourism? Oh.
Oh my God. So he posted this this
extraordinarily dystopian video. Yeah, I would play audio, but
it's it's really a visual. Experience it.
You can't where he was trying where he's where he was supposed
to be looking cool and he's like smoking a a hookah with like
this dead eyed fake cool guy expression.
It's just, I don't know how to do it.
It just looked like his version of a cool guy expression looks
like someone took a fresh turd and kind of waved it in front of
his nose for a little bit and just asked him to like, don't
react, don't react. You know, it's like Jared's
doing it, but you can't. Yeah.
It's just sort of like he's just sweating it out until the turd
moves away and he's doing this. And then there's this like
absolutely crappy band. I don't know if there's this
like weird brand. I can't remember.
I don't know if they're Indian or what.
And they're like playing some jangly thing.
And there's some guy who's like his friend.
I don't know if he's another like poster associated whatever
with this union of of Dubai posters.
And he's just like on his phone looking bored.
It is. And he and Chong was just like,
it's 3:00 AM in Dubai. It's like supposedly
everything's bad outside, but we're just keeping it real over
here or whatever, he said. Dude, you, you're forgetting the
best part. So it's him smoking the hookah.
It's his friend, just like staring down into his phone
looking like he's about to fall asleep.
And then it's workers at the club showing up with like,
bottle service with a sparkler shooting out of the bottle and
just being like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
You know. Oh my God, yes, it did.
Yeah. Yeah.
And he's like, yeah, that's to him.
He's like, yeah, we got the we're living the fucking life in
Dubai. We're living the life.
And and you know, we don't know if someone is paying him there.
Who knows if they set him up for that.
Like, we'll, we'll buy you a table service with some bottles
and like, you can get some hookah for free and just just
post about it, buddy. We just want to like, make Dubai
look good as Iran bombs various locations there because Dubai
also relies very heavily on tourism.
Yeah, yeah. I mean, the tourism port does a
lot of that stuff, right? Yeah, exactly, exactly.
It's it's there's a lot of people, like a lot of people
pass through there, a lot of, you know, for tourism or also
for travel from one place to another.
So this is important to them. So so they need they're like,
you know what we need to do? We need to get Ian on this.
We need to get Ian like the double O 7 type thing.
It's like Mr. Bond, like M calls him in the M of Dubai and is
like, we have a mission for you should you choose to accept it.
Yeah. OK.
So the the key, the Keith Woods, the Irish white supremacist,
you're familiar with that gentleman.
Of course. Yeah, you know, when Jared takes
a long time, he knows what I'm talking about.
He he referred I hate to I, you know, I, I, you know, I don't
want to hatch him already, but he referred to the video as
Lynchian. So that is how it.
Is yeah, it kind of yeah. It's it's like a.
It's like. A a deleted scene of Twin Peaks,
you know. Yeah, that is how it's landing
with. That's how that is how it's
landing with his target demographic on X.
And then, you know, after everybody made fun of it, which
everyone did, I mean, it seems like people on the right piled
on it even more than, I mean, there's not many people on the
left, you know, left of it. Yeah, I mean, you, you, you hear
so much about like how divided this country is, but it's
moments like that where it's like, you know, actually we're
all like 11 Nation 1 website. We can all make fun of you.
We can. We can all make fun of you in
for a minute. Anyway, so he had the audacity
to to quote, tweet this and and write, you know, something to
the effect of like, oh, this, this cringe, this cringe post is
you know, it, it worked exactly as planned, Like it really took
off, which is a that's a that that's what we call a cope.
Which I feel, but I feel like that also could add to the
theory that maybe the tourism board in Dubai or something had
paid for this. And he's like, he's like, damn,
I got batshit engagement. That's all they care about.
Like. Yeah, I mean.
One OA. Yeah, my strong recommendation,
because I am not getting paid by any Dubai tourism board, is do
not go there right now because bombs are literally falling from
the sky and, you know, pretty soon one of them is going to
kill somebody that could be you. So that's my that's my personal
take on that. Then he posted that I mentioned
that picture with all the different influencers and we got
to look for the first time like. His crew dog.
Yeah, we, we his crew and also him and he's a, he's very
diminutive. But the interesting thing and I,
I don't, I really don't want to scrutinize somebody's appearance
too much, but I just, I had to point this out.
If you look at the thing, Ian looks like he's like 4 foot 10
and everybody else is is is 5/8 or taller and and everybody's
shoes look like they're size 10 or bigger and Ian's look like
they're size 12. So he looks like he's like 4
foot 10 with like size 12 shoes in the picture.
That is my take of it. When I saw it, I wrote on on
blue sky. I hate to quote my own thing,
but I'm I'm not going to get better material of this, which
is Ian Miles Chong has the look of the Star Wars junkyard
Muppet. The protagonist reluctantly
barters with to repair their jump speeder, which he does.
He really does look like a a Star Wars muppet that that tries
to get you to to get a few rations or something so he can
fix your jump speeder. Yeah, I'm just leaving this
photo again. I have it pulled up.
His pants don't fit. You should buy pants that fit.
But he's living his best life. Like it's, it's a weird thing to
say, which is like Ian Miles Chung used to like anger me so
much because it was like, Oh my God, like during the first
trumpet measure, I'll be like, this fucking guy is in Malaysia
and he's always fucking with our politicians.
But like something about it now there's some sort of charm to it
now because he, I feel like he has no influence over American
discourse anymore. And now he's just like this
Internet freak. He's just this weird like
creature that a. Website personality.
Because he's a, well, he's a, he's a website personality.
If ever there's been a motherfucking website
personality, he may be the greatest website personality of
all time. He may be, he may be the, he may
be the like, he's like, yeah, he's like the Wayne Gretzky of,
of website personalities. He's he's he's a record-breaking
website personality. Well, Mike, I do want to remind
you that when I reached out to him, he did say he would be open
to joining us for an episode of our show sometime.
We should do it while the bombs are falling.
It's just, I want to hear like, like, like, just like, just.
I want to have him like. Surviving.
I want to have him on only to talk about Dubai.
What's he like to do? I don't want to, I don't want
to. I don't want to blow up this
reporter's spot, but I sent it the I, I sent the Chong thing
around at the time it first happened.
And, and the reporter said to me, Iran has an opportunity to
do the funniest thing, which I don't think is inappropriate.
I don't want to. I'll let him spit, say, say it
using his own name. Well, it's not Andrew.
Andrew Tate's in Dubai too, right?
No, isn't he, is he a name Dubai now?
I thought, isn't he like, I don't know, he's always in a.
Director in the UAE baby. No, he's in US.
Where Where is he? I don't know.
We we we did not cover this prop.
We did not do our research on the Andrew Tate.
You just brought it up. I don't know.
Whoops. I don't think he is.
I don't think he's in UA now, but I do.
I do think, you know, it would be great to get Chong on the
line. Well, only when the bombs are
falling. I want to hear.
I want to hear him justify his up.
Like I'd be like, Sir, what do you know about the North
Carolina primary? But well, I'll tell you what
just. Pick some random post about
American politics that he's posted in the last week and ask
him a single follow up question. See.
If he see if he knows it all. I wonder how it would feel if if
like you were going to die and you were in Miles Chong.
I mean, you knew like the walls were closing in due to due to
bombs, right? And stuff like to be like I
posted for 10 years about this president in the country I
didn't live in and then I and then I like and.
Then that president. Killed me in Dubai.
Oh, it's terrible. No.