Reviewing our Chase footage
Dante and I raced home on a little electric bike to stop the whims of a murderous ghost. Our topspeed was about 20/30 km/hr. So Richard (left) is on this bike trailor, lugging Leo (our cameraman) this bike we rented from a Chinese peasant for 50 kuai. And he is just chugging away, like an animal, and we're rolling through these alleyways and busy narrow Shanghai streets. Just total maddness. But Richard comes alive, totally gung ho. Tired of just keeping tabs on our budget, this was his moment to cut loose. He's out there screaming at the Chinese people in our path "Get out of the way!!!!" "Coming through!!!!" It's all hilarious. The best part is that he is on his back on the dirty ground every five minutes, putting the chain back on because it keeps falling off. Chinese faces are in a blank stare at this strange, inspired foreigner, whose arm is caked in black grease, pedaling a peasants bike, probably used to lug scrap metal. Hilarious.
For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more 
