What the Hell Is Going On: WTH Does a Chinese Billionaire Need 100 American Children? Charles Hilu Explains.

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4.4 • 652 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Blame it on American individualism or a political aversion to regulation, but the United States has become a striking outlier in its failure to regulate the assisted reproductive technology industry. As a result, individuals from other countries have begun engaging in quasi–birth tourism through American surrogacy contracts, and not in small numbers. Chinese billionaire Xu […]

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0:00.0	This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute.
0:03.1	If you like what you hear, please subscribe, rate, review, and share.
0:07.1	Thanks for listening. Here's our show.
0:08.7	What the hell is going on?
0:10.5	What's really going on?
0:12.0	We said, what the hell happened?
0:13.5	You don't have to know what the hell is on it.
0:15.6	They see what's going on.
0:16.7	I don't know what's going on.
0:18.0	What is going on?
0:20.0	We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on.
0:28.7	Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka.
0:30.9	I'm Mark Tiesen.
0:32.1	Welcome to our podcast.
0:34.2	What the hell is going on?
0:35.5	I almost forgot my name again.
0:37.3	What the hell's going on, Mark? What the hell is going on? I almost forgot my name again. What the hell's going on, Mark?
0:39.1	What the hell is going on is you have dementia.
0:41.0	Apparently.
0:44.9	Yes, indeed.
0:46.1	What the hell is going on is we are, this is, if there ever was a what the hell, this is the what the hell episode to end all what the hell episodes.
0:55.1	So what the hell is going on is there is a Chinese billionaire named Shu Bo, who is a Chinese video game developer.
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