Ulaanbaatar

making a good-looking yurt or modern-looking yurt.

And I think this example reminds me of one building in Ulaanbaatar.

So that's from the other side of the border in one of the GER districts of Ulaanbaatar, a small community building called GER Innovation Hub.

So it was finished in 2020 by Rural Urban Frameworks, a practice based in Hong Kong.

So from the outside, nothing about it looks like a yurt.

And the relationship runs the other way, I think.

So for example, think about the cases we have already talked about.

The community hub in Ulaanbaatar has no Mongolian motifs, and it becomes Mongolian places through how it's arranged and used.

These are long-term relationships, sometimes marriages.

Perhaps the most famous example involves Xi Peipu, a Peking opera singer whose two-decade relationship with Bernard Briscotte, who worked on French diplomatic missions in Beijing, and Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia drew Mr. Borchotte into spying for China.

Both were arrested in France, at which point Mr. Borchotte learned his lover was a man.

In 1986, they were convicted of espionage.

The highway is literally lined with data centers up and down the entire street or highway.

Off a major highway on the outskirts of Ulaanbaatar in the Chinese province of Inner Mongolia, Hereford cows roam through cornfields scouring the ground for any dried up remains of the recent harvest hovering over this landscape.

are shiny new transmission towers linked by power cables that stretch along the plateau for as far as the eye can see.

Well, they had

I

walked onto the airplane and it was literally like a light switch as I'm walking down the jetway in Nashville about to go to Atlanta, to Seoul, to Ulaanbaatar.

I'm like, what the F have I done? I'm going to get

embarrassed.

And I personally have 300 ships and goats combined.

So you grew up, you were born in the frozen hospital, you move around four times a year, eventually you moved to Ulaanbaatar, and then you graduate college at 18.

Yeah.

And then you make your way to Oxford.

Where are your parents now?

They're in Mongolia.

They're in Ulaanbaatar.

They're in

Do you know what? I criticise PGL all the time on this podcast but this deserves so much respect because this is really funny.

So obviously next year Blast are hosting one of their opens in Ulaanbaatar and they're making a huge deal out of it being the first tier one event in Mongolia.

And then PGL have today announced that their event that's in China, a month before the Ulaanbaatar event, will no longer be in China.

And they're just moving it to Ulaanbaatar, which I know I just said it, is a month before the Blast one.

The Blast for Marketing is the first tier one event in Mongolia.

It's just really funny.

It's rogue.

Yes, yes, yes.

hey, I need you to open up a new plastics factory in Mongolia.

You can say, well, I've never set foot in Ulaanbaatar before.

I have no idea what a manufacturing plant needs to be to operate.

And by the way, I've never studied plastics in my entire life.