 There's a mysterious Chinese balloon that's floating over America right now, but people can't decide whether it's a spy balloon or it's just a scientific weather balloon that got pushed way off course. Oh my gosh, you know, this is just an atmospheric pressure balloon from Lonzo. At first, we're trying to measure the best conditions for Lonzo Lamian. And then it just flew way off course. Oh, this is a terrible misunderstanding. I'm so sorry. Alright, so the official statements from the Pentagon go like this. They said we are not going to shoot it down because that could cause a whole mess and a bunch of debris and it could fall on citizens down below. Also, we do think it's a spy balloon, but it is not posing an immediate threat. Okay, so that's what the Pentagon said and then China said, hey guys, our bad man. That's a weather balloon that just got off course. The westerly winds pushed it, you know, went through the top of Canada and came down. Don't worry about it. So obviously a lot of people are skeptical about what China says, but we're going to go over the multitude of responses, everything from the very serious emotional responses to the funny responses people had. And then we'll talk about whether as citizens you should care about this. Is this a big deal or not? Let us know in the comments down below and check out other episodes of the Hot Pop Boys. Like, subscribe, turn on your notifications. Andrew, when we're talking about an article going viral, especially amongst the older crowd, this is like as viral as it gets, man. Some of these Yahoo News comments is like 20,000 comments in the comments section. Let's get into the main reactions. Of course, it was showed it down, man. That's the American way, man. Even if my neighbor has a balloon flyover on my property, I might shoot it down. What's going on, man? Did something change? How come we can't shoot it down? Yeah, yeah. How do we have trillions of dollars in missile defense systems, but we can't do nothing about this balloon here? Why don't we take a big net and just capture and bring it down and then... Yeah, maybe we spend all the money overseas so we don't even have the needle anymore, apparently. You know, just pop the balloon with a needle. Someone said, well, actually, guys, you know, we kind of spy on each other. This is kind of a thing that countries do, so probably out of diplomacy, we're probably not going to blast it out of the sky. Come on, guys. Come on. Everybody knows, man. They got something else in that balloon, man. They got something else in that balloon, man. It's going to spread some crazy. Someone said, wait, wait, wait. How do we even know that it's Chinese? Like, why couldn't it be the Russians? And honestly, why couldn't it be a UFO? It could be the aliens, dude. Long story short, man. I think that there's a lot of people, obviously, that don't like this. I think it's completely fair. I do not think Americans should like this. But of course, the way that people are taking this either low, middle, or high, it sort of depends on, like, their perspective, you know, and how, like, locked in they are to the old days. Of course, Andrew, as is with anything in the internet nowadays in 2023, there was a bunch of funny responses as well. You can't fool me. That's Team Rocket. Someone said, yeah, actually that thing's just, that thing's going to pop. And then, and then it's going to make all the agriculture into soy plants because China wants more soybeans. And then, and then we'll become soy boys in it. And then it's going to increase the estrogen in all our men and then they can't fight wars. It's a ploy. Someone said, yeah, man. I can't believe they needed even those balloons when they already got TikTok. TikTok is a big spa balloon in your hands. And yeah, somebody said, man, how come we don't have the technology? Just go up there and bring it down. Oh, I know why we don't have the technology because China has the technology. Someone said, man, egg prices are as high as that balloon is right now. Somebody's got to do something about the eggs. A foreign power has not entered our airspace for over 70 years. Well, actually, the aliens do it every day. Well, how'd you know it was a Chinese balloon? Well, clearly it was because look how badly it was driven. I actually believe them because, man, if there's one thing that the Chinese are bad at, it's driving. Well, actually, this balloon was just surveying all the new Chinese investment properties. So, you know, just watching over its own stuff. Yeah, this balloon's about to pop. And then it's going to be the biggest Chinese gender reveal ever. Hey, guys, actually, this balloon was just taking takeout orders that asked me if I wanted pork fried rice. Yeah, I just thought it was a gigantic crab ring in the sky. So I said, yeah, well, this is what happens when China owns half your country due to treasury bonds and us just printing more and more money because we want nice and cheap things from China. So, yeah, I guess so be it. How come all those highly trained operators in Montana, like the gravy seals and meal Team Six didn't take it down? I mean, overall, listen, at a time like this, I can understand why people are very emotional about it because they're feeling like, hey, this is an aggressive move. And then some people are literally seeing it the opposite way and saying, how is this an aggressive move? It's a balloon. They have satellites on us already. We know this. We actually know that they have satellites on America. So why are we worried about a balloon that's not going to do anything to us? Yeah, I think that it really does. First of all, I think it's a medium tier issue at least. So it's absolutely something that everybody should be taking serious. But in terms of sort of the emotional responses to it, I think a lot of it comes down to like a lot of people are sort of displeased with the direction of the country. Just like when Trump was in office, like half the people were displeased. Now that Biden's in office, half the people are really displeased and sort of like saying that they wouldn't be displeased if their leader was in office. Yeah, maybe this balloon is spying on our politics because they're just like, oh man, America's so crazy. It seems like half the country hates the other half. Every single time the president change, it's kind of weird. All right, you guys, let us know what you think in the comments section below. Is it a big deal, a medium deal or a small deal? I mean, man, right now, if you made me analyze it, I think it's like a very high tier deal to some of the country and it probably is a medium deal, but other people are taking it like a low level thing, you know what I mean? But realistically, if I was to put my opinion on it, it's medium. Yeah, and I think this just joins a really long list of things that a lot of like, I guess traditional patriotic Americans don't like to see. They don't like to see America just sit here and watch a balloon from China float over their land, right? They don't like to sit here and see this and that. They don't like to see how this is being ran, how Miss Universe was bought by this person or how the police are this or those riots or even January 6th. It's like all these things. There's just a lot of older people in America who are just on their phones and see all this media because media is just so ubiquitous now, right? You can consume this 10 different ways. And then everybody's just like, man, I hate this. So I guess it's, yeah, I think it's a bigger news and being more talked about amongst the older generation of Americans. But I do think it's a thing that it is notable. Yeah, for sure. Like geopolitically, it's got to be addressed. Yeah. So I'm not saying it's nothing, guys, but I'm also saying like we still don't know the facts because the fact that the Pentagon doesn't want to do anything about it and China denied it, I don't know. What else are you supposed to do as a citizen? Yeah. I mean, hey, guys, you know, we talk about silly things, serious things here on the hot pot boys. Let us know what you think in the comments section below. And yeah, I guess more stuff will develop. Anyway, let us know what you think till next time. We out. Peace.