Hey, Barstool listeners, you can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. I start my first day at school, and I found out that I'm the only foreign teacher at the school. So my, like, first week or two, I wake up in the morning, I walk to school, I teach my kids. And this is what I'm teaching, like, preschool. And I asked before, I was like, I speak zero Chinese.

How am I going to? walk to school, I teach my kids. And this is, this is what I'm teaching like preschool. And I

asked before, I was like, I speak zero Chinese. How am I going to be able to like teach these kids?

They're like, oh, dude, you're, you're teaching preschool. You're pretty much just like a clown.

Welcome back to another edition of drop a pen today. I'm excited because I think most of you, if you're following

Donnie's YouTube channel, you came across his stuff because of his unbelievable excursions in

China. We've been doing this show for a little over a year now, and we haven't really got into

China except for a little bit with Chef Donnie. Today that ends. Today

Donnie is going to walk us through some of his early days in China. I'm looking forward to

hearing about it. If it's anything like the Kung Fu Cantina, I mean, we're in for an absolute

ride. Yeah. No, I mean, a lot of people only know me as Donnie does China. Yeah. But that is not the case anymore. I'm all over the place. But I started off as just a China guy. Yeah. And I still, like, I run into a lot of fans. Like, dude, I was following your stuff from even before you worked for barstool. A lot of YouTubers that we've interviewed has said that too, that you're one of the OG travel people on YouTube.

And I think these China episodes are going to become a reoccurring series.

Yeah, there's just so much stuff that you did in that period of time that doing just one episode would not do it justice.

No, we're just going to have to slowly start chipping away. I mean, on this episode,

we're going to go way back before I even released my first video. Because I was in China for a

full year before I started putting out content. And that's kind of my like lost year that most people don't know about.

And that year, that year got dark, but it was also one of like the happiest years of my life, too.

It looks dark on paper when I talk about what I was doing.

Yeah.

But it was, it was a great time.

Yeah, dude, I feel the same way about Fallujah.

I don't know. We can compare my year in Guangzhou China to Fallujah. Sure you can. It was terrible. It was dark, but I mean,

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