Forbidden City

Other times Forbidden City came up

1. It's the most Googled TV show of the year 2018, despite the fact that Google is largely banned in China. That's how hugely popular it is. All across Asia, lots of other countries as well. It's been streamed 15 billion times. It's about the rivalry between concubines in the Forbidden City. Concubinging is actually a perfect word for watching this show. 15 billion, that means everyone on earth on average has watched it twice. I know.

   No Such Thing As A Bouncy Asteroid, 2019-02-08 · listen ⏱ 00:29:37

2. This was the last emperor of China known as Puyi and after having the phone installed he went through a phone book he found one of his favorite opera singers a guy called Yang Xiaolu and he called him up and he said is this the great operatic singer and he said yes and then he just giggled and hung up. He hadn't developed the pranks by that point. No, that's not Bart Simpson level. The second one is closer to sort of teenage pranking. He would call up local restaurants and he would order a bunch of food to an address that wasn't the Forbidden City. Here's a question. It sounds like everyone in the country had telephones apart from him. Possibly.

   572: No Such Thing As A Simon Cowell Bell, 2025-02-27 · listen ⏱ 00:35:40

3. You had your base level concubine and then it went to higher rankings all the way up to your the Empress. Boss level. Exactly. There were about 20,000 by the Qing dynasty. 20,000 concubines. Concubines, consorts. Yeah. Blimey. Where are they? 20,000 women in the forbidden city. 20,000 women. I'm just trying to work out the timings of this. What? How? Let's say. How many you can have sex with in that amount of time? Got it.

   255: No Such Thing As A Bouncy Asteroid, 2019-02-08 · listen ⏱ 00:22:43

4. It's been published by the South China Morning Post, but it's in collaboration with the Forbidden Palace Museum. I would so recommend it, they've done a series of chapters detailing life in the forbidden city. This is about, yeah, so there were these concubines who lived in the forbidden city with the emperor. To become one, you had to, well, first of all, every single Manchu woman in the kingdom had to apply to become a concubine.

   No Such Thing As A Bouncy Asteroid, 2019-02-08 · listen ⏱ 00:18:47