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Meiwaku Podcast

(upbeat music)

Okay, of course, instantly
confused by settings in OBS,

but we’re here, we’re ready to go.

Let’s get it on.

Useful Japanese lesson for this week is

may waku gagukjin. No.
Gagukjin is foreign person.

It’s the, actually more
polite version of Gaijin,

which is the more common way to
say it, which can be done insulting.

I take all, you know, positive negative
phrases, depending on how they’re intended.

So if it’s intended negatively, it
doesn’t matter how polite the word is,

if it’s said in a rude way,
intended to hurt your feelings.

But yeah, you should know, you
should know the difference technically,

and then you can interpret the actual
expression as it is presented to you.

Maywaku is a form of nuisance.

So maywaku gagukjin
is a nuisance foreigner.

This shouldn’t be a term,
but I guess as far as terms go,

it’s actually not the
root, is this is Japan.

So these still fairly polite
sounding things are still insults.

This came into the news, it
was used in the news today,

because there’s a lot of overtourism,
there’s a lot of foreigners in Japan.

There is a sort of meeting spot in Shibuya.

There’s a conveni that is
like the dead center of Shibuya.

This is where people go.

They meet their friends there, and
then they go off to bars and stuff,

or they drink there while
talking to their friends,

and then they go off to other
places, this is where they make plans.

Who knows?

There are a lot of foreigners who hang out

right out in front of this
one conveni in Shibuya.

Last week, a crowd was standing
around in front, as I have just explained.

A dump truck, not a dump
truck, a garbage truck.

A garbage truck slows down
and starts to try to return.

There’s a whole bunch of people in the way,

so it sort of honks gently, I
don’t know, it honks at them.

And then of course, the two foreign guys

who are probably drunk
have a really good idea.

Since the giant garbage
truck is going very slowly,

it would be the perfect
thing for us to climb on.

So they climbed on it.

This, of course, upsets Japanese people.

You’re not supposed to do this.

It gets put on the news.

This gets put on the news.

And this is just to
make foreigners look bad

in the hopes that
they will behave better,

but I’ve met a lot of foreigners
and a lot of them make us look bad.

And I’d really like them to stop.

I think that might be the shortest version
of this story ever is stop embarrassing.

You represent me in a
way, because I’m a foreigner,

so people see me and
they see a foreigner.

And then they, you behave
badly and they look at

me go, oh, he therefore
behaves that way as well.

I’ve spent a big part of my
time in Japan, I have spent a big

part of my time in Japan trying
to dispel some of the stereotypes,

but I mean, I can really only
do it one person at a time

and even then, I can honestly
say, I haven’t been successful.

(upbeat music)

So we had our scandal news from last week

where Nakai, a member of
SMAP, had done something,

paid a girl off 90 million yen to
keep her quiet and then had to retire,

essentially from show
business altogether, because

he lost all his sponsors,
he lost all his TV shows.

I mean, there’s nothing you can do anymore.

He could be a streamer,
he could go on YouTube.

I actually bet if he just
like did something by

himself, he would still
be relatively successful.

People would still follow
him, he still has fans

and whatnot, people will still support
him just because he had so many fans.

It’s certainly not going to maintain
the status of what he had before.

And that might be too much of a step down.

I always thought, like when
these guys get in trouble,

why don’t they just retire
and just live a quiet life and not

be bothered by any way, he
has millions and millions of dollars.

So he doesn’t have to work anymore.

I did something just dang.

That is not the only scandal
that’s happening in Japan.

It was probably just the biggest one.

I’m interested in the fallout.

So saying famous person abused their position
and assaulted someone or did something

sexual to someone, that is
not actually that interesting

inherently, like there is
the titillating aspect of it.

I could stuck on the first
part of that word, maybe.

The titillating aspect
of it, but that actually,

like when you hear the
story again and again

and again, kind of
loses any sort of impact.

So I don’t really find
much interest in that.

I actually find interest in
the punishment, the results.

Do they lose their position?

Do they get their position back?

This kind of like rise
and fall aspect of it.

It’s the hero’s journey is
really what I’m looking for in life.

A comedian was reported
to have grabbed a girl in 2015.

So 10 years ago, this
guy may be grabbed a girl.

I mean, we’re going to go ahead and
assume he did because he probably did.

He defends himself in a weird way.

Yeah, there’s a lot of weird bits
about not knowing what happened.

It was also a decade ago.

He invited her to a hotel.

I’m assuming they mean love hotel.

She didn’t want to go.

So he grabbed her arm and pulled her.

Now, we have no idea
what that actually means.

Did he pull her down the street?

Did he just grab her arm and pull her once?

How bad did we have no context to
really understand what actually happened?

But he was denied and
he tried to coerce her.

And that’s maybe all you need
to really take away from this.

As a result of this
singular action 10 years ago,

he, because it came out and
because it’s coming out on the heels

of this nakai scandal where
he lost all his advertisers,

he has had every scene of his from a drama
that’s come out, removed from the drama.

So he actually made a show.

He went through the effort.

They filmed a show.

He’s in the show.

And then they’re like,
we’re going to go back.

We’re going to edit it again and
take every bit with him out of it.

There was a scandal of a guy.

It was one of the yakuza video games.

And he was found two of done drugs.

I think it was cocaine or
stimulants or something.

And then they took his scenes out.

Oh, no, they didn’t take a
season because it’s digital.

They swapped his face with some other guy.

So they had some other actor come in.

I assume did his lines again.

And then just swapped his face.

So he was removed
from a video game digitally.

I bet that was a very smooth process.

But taking, going back and re-editing
a show, that is so much work.

It’s almost insane.

But this is because now the Fuji
president of Fuji TV stepped down.

He retires, based on the nakai scandal.

There’s another scandal.

It was a guy suing a
magazine for defamation.

But then he had to drop it.

And he hasn’t been back on TV since.

So now that there are multiple scandals,

these other scandals
coming out of the woodwork

from the past are now
having real world implications.

It’ll be interesting to
see, have we hit sort

of the initial wave of
scandal punishments?

And it looks like you
can go back 10, 15 years.

And you still get the same punishment
now as if you had just done it yesterday.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Drink a bunch of water before I started.

I really have to burp.

Usually I get coffee and
stuff, not coffee, but coffee.

C-O-U-G-H-Y coffee
or a sore throat or a

rough throat after the
second or third story.

Now I feel like a big burp brewing.

I don’t want to burp mid.

I generally have a pretty good
control over my burp function.

So I could force it.

I’m not going to do that.

That’s maybe not the best idea.

I can tell you why I’m never going
to get on professional news television.

I will never be an actual news anchor.

Probably because I’m too old.

I mean, there’s more realistic reason

is I would stop in like burp
midway through the show.

All right, that’s just extra.

Let’s just cut that.

[MUSIC PLAYING] Two teens.

And again, I think
when I started a story

with that, I was like,
this story is awesome.

These are two young people
who have made bad decisions.

Love young people making bad decisions.

I made lots of bad decisions.

I’ve talked about previous episodes.

Some of the dumb stuff
I did when I was a teen.

I don’t expect them to
mature any time soon.

And yet, my experience with teens in Japan
is they are tend to be overall more mature.

And maybe it’s because
they have to study so much.

They don’t actually get so much free time.

I had tons of free time to mess around.

And that is when my mind
went off with my friends

and flights of fancy and was like,
what’s the dumbest thing we can do?

One of the dumbest
things we could do was

get eggs and throw
them at a police station.

In Japan, they have police boxes.

These are not– it’s not like a box.

It’s like a two, three person police station
mini-police station for the community.

So instead of having just
one large central police

station for a city or a prefecture
or an area or something,

they will have a big police
station and then a lot of little ones.

They’ll have three, four,
maybe five cops in the my town,

has a police station
and I think it’s like

six people tend to
stay– tend to staff it.

And that’s for the whole city, though.

So it’s actually very small still.

But I could still go
towards the train station.

I bet I could be able to
find a police station with

like two guys who hang
out in it most of the time.

You’re out.

You’re 15, you’re 16 years old.

You’re with your friend.

You want to like be stupid and impress each
other, which is what was going on here?

Like the dumber stuff you
can do will impress your friends.

You have some eggs.

I don’t know if they go buy eggs.

This is another question of preparation.

I, as a teenager, doing dumb stuff,
never went fully on the preparation phase.

We never like pre-planned this.

It was like always in the moment stuff.

These guys had eggs.

So they either went and bought
eggs or as someone got eggs

from home either way, that
level of preparation being

increased makes it
actually like a little worse.

They get the eggs.

They go to the police station.

What are you going to do?

You’re going to throw the
eggs at the police station.

So the cops are sitting
inside the police station.

They hear something
hitting the outside wall.

They go out.

They see broken eggs.

They’ve egged the car and
the outside of the police station.

What does a police station have?

It has police inside, yes.

So maybe the police don’t see you.

It’s very hard for them to prove.

What else do they have?

They have surveillance cameras.

I mean, every single one has
a camera facing the outside.

Every single one has
cameras probably inside as well.

If any place is going to have cameras
on it, it’s going to be a police station.

So of course, they have video
footage of these kids doing it.

They track them down pretty quickly.

They are suspected in a similar situation

where another police car got
egged at some point in the past.

I’m going to go ahead and say they did it.

Last week, I was lamenting the
lack of sexiness of the Yakuza stories.

All the Yakuza stories
I’ve had, since I started in

his newspaper, they’ve
been bland, low-level stuff.

And so my information about Yakuza
primarily has come from movies and media.

So in the movies, they were
always like international drug dealers.

They were trafficking people.

It was always like really big things.

And they had massive amounts of money.

The stories we get are them doing what I
would consider honestly low-level crimes.

Three members of the
Yakuza were arrested recently

for breaking into a mobile store
and stealing 31 cell smartphones.

L-O-L anyway.

Back to the Yakuza
from Eggs and egg prices.

That’s the smooth transitions
you get at Nintendo’s Japan.

The segues here are perfect.

You won’t even notice them.

We’ll just be into the next story.

Anyways, back to the Yakuza.

But I think the reason this stuck out to me

was stealing cell phones is not my
image of what Yakuza should be doing.

And it’s because again, all
of my information comes from

movies and video games where
they’re doing really big things.

These guys breaking into a store,
stealing– like, even 30 isn’t enough.

Like, it was 30,000.

It was a truck, a
trailer full of cell phones.

That would be Yakuza level.

Ceiling 30, I think I
could steal 30 phones.

I think I could break into
a place of steal 30 phones.

There have been 10 similar thefts.

So now we’re getting up in the 300s.

But still, it would be like, if you’re

going to do petty theft, I guess
each phone might be $1,000.

Like, the Galaxy phones and stuff?

They’re like $1,000.

So I guess this could actually
be quite technically a big crime.

It just doesn’t feel that way to me.

Like, they’re not stealing gold.

10 similar thefts in two prefecture.

So maybe these are all connected, and
they’ve stolen like 300 phones at $1,000.

Yes, that’s a fair sum of money.

Still not Yakuza numbers in my mind.

This is like petty crime
still on the grand scale

of what the Yakuza as a family
organization should be doing.

It’s just not glamorous.

That’s really what I want.

I want my Yakuza to be
doing big glamorous crimes.

Last week, we had the Yakuza
buy a private road and then

coordinate off and then try to
charge everyone for using the road.

And then they got arrested
not for the attempted

extortion of the people
who live around this road.

It was– they were
arrested for being Yakuza.

Something that they’re not Yakuza.

But has the same feeling to me, Starbucks.

Starbucks, Japan, is going
to start location-based

pricing, which I weirdly
am not surprised that it–

like, I actually, this
is the kind of thing I

would have assumed
they had already in place.

Do you remember it was like
a year ago or two years ago,

they were going to have
the menus dynamic pricing?

So if it was a peak of time, your
hamburger, whatever would cost more.

And then if you went,
I’d like to, o’clock in

the morning, the
hamburger would be cheaper.

I’m surprised that didn’t take off more.

Because I know there
were some machines in

Japan that were going
to try some machines.

We’re going to do like spike pricing,
dynamic pricing, that kind of stuff.

This is different.

And then what they’re
saying is if your Starbucks has

like a prime location, the Starbucks
is going to cost more in the store.

That feels more Yakuza like to me somehow.

That feels like a large
national network scheme

that’s going to bring
in millions of dollars.

That feels like the
Yakuza, but it’s Starbucks.

I think maybe in my mind, I need to switch.

It’s the Yakuza are doing
all this garbage crap stuff.

I had my sentence just fell apart.

So I’m just going to cut that part.

From February 15, 30% of the
1,991 stores will change prices.

So not all of them.

It’s going to be with ones in
Tokyo, Osaka, that kind of stuff.

They’re going to be the downtown stores
that they’re going to increase their prices.

If you go out to the
countryside, so where I

live, there’s not actually
a Starbucks out here.

That’s how small the town I live in is.

We have a McDonald’s.

That’s like a big point of pride.

And my understanding is
they’re going to open a KFC.

Ooh.

You can see how my tiny towns becoming
a big city when we finally get a KFC.

Service areas and airports
are going to go up by 6%.

So places where you’re locked in.

So you’re at the airport.

You can’t really leave the airport.

They’re going to increase
all their prices by 6%.

If you’re in a service area, so a
place you’ve driven, there’s no options.

There’s only so many places you
can buy from in a single service area.

They’re going to
increase their prices by 6%.

Tokyo, Osaka, Fukuoka, and other major
cities, the major city I work in is Nagoya.

And they didn’t mention that one.

They’re going to increase their
prices by 4% in those locations.

This is supposed to be for
sustainable store management.

But we know that Starbucks is
already a massively profitable company.

So that’s not what this is about.

This is just about seeing if
they can gouge more money

from people because
they’re locked into an airport

or they work downtown, and they
don’t have any other coffee options.

Everyone forgets Nagoya.

Everyone forgets Nagoya.

Nagoya was voted the most boring
city in Japan multiple years in a row.

And I actually agree.

But to me, the most boring city in Japan
is why it’s the best place to live in.

The exciting cities
have lots of stuff to do.

But if you have to live there, it’s always
like Tokyo’s always packed full of people.

Osaka’s very busy.

Man, there’s stuff to do in there.

No, no, there is stuff to do in Nagoya.

It’s just it’s location and stuff.

It’s smaller and quieter, which
is why it seems boring to outside.

It’s like if people are going
to come and do tourism,

I would say, yeah, go
to Tokyo, go to Osaka.

If you want to live,
you come live in Nagoya.

Nagoya is a great place to live.

I live in the suburb.

Wow, I live in a different prefecture.

But I live in essentially
a suburb of Nagoya.

And it’s awesome because
I can get to Nagoya.

And from Nagoya, I can get anywhere.

Like I can go to Tokyo in a day.

I can do day trips all over Japan.

Being centrally located,
I think, is really good.

And that is your message
from tourism to Goia.

Ninja, Ninja, Ninja, Japan,
big fan of living in Nagoya.

But don’t come to visit.

Keep your fucking
tourist ass away from here.

Was it Maywaku?

Don’t be a Maywaku guy, Goku Jin in Nagoya.

Go to Tokyo and bug them.

All right, I’m going to do the song again.

That’s probably all we need to cut to.

There was a sinkhole in Saitama.

And a truck didn’t manage to
get away from it and it fell in.

And the driver was in the truck.

And he’s been locked in
there for at least three days.

This actually story is a little dark.

To be honest, when I saw other foreigners,
I was like, TF is this foreigner.

No, I kind of feel the same way.

In my town, in my town, my understanding
is there’s one other white person.

And so people honestly
think that we must be friends.

Because there’s the one other white guy in
the city is very, again, very small city.

They think that we must know each other.

We must hang out and stuff.

And I’ve seen him once at the liquor store.

And I honestly never went
back to that liquor store.

Because he didn’t seem like my type of guy.

He literally walked up to me.

This is really off-putting.

Because I’m out in public,
a very conservative person.

He walked up and he’s like,
what are you doing here?

Like this was his introduction of
himself as a person to want to talk to me.

Like I was going to
respond positively to that,

which showed me that he
was already socially inept.

So I just ignored him
completely and walked away.

So what he saw was he made a statement

towards someone in that person
just turned around and walked off.

What I saw was someone
who doesn’t know how to talk

to other human beings,
trying really hard to break

down a social barrier
and completely failing.

Because my walls went up immediately.

But enough social talk.

Anyways, there’s a sinkhole in Saitama.

It was huge driving down the road.

A truck actually fell into it.

And the driver was trapped in the truck.

It came from a damaged sewer
pipe ate away at the surrounding soil.

So basically eroding underneath the road

to the point where
when a truck went over it,

the road actually
collapsed into this big hole.

The driver’s still in there.

Now, this is actually a tough story.

Because I followed it for days.

Again, I wanted to see,
do they pull them out?

Do they get the truck out?

What happens?

Then, as they’re trying to
dig away sort of the material,

like this is taking a full day,
they lose contact with them.

So we don’t know if he’s
actually still in the cab of the truck.

They don’t know if he’s OK.

Another sinkhole forms
nearby than those two sinkholes

actually join together and
become a much larger sinkhole.

At this point, they’re actually
like this is day two now.

They’re actually saying, maybe
people need to evacuate their houses.

We don’t know how far this is going to go.

They’re trying to scope out the area.

They’re still trying to get
this guy out of this sinkhole,

but they can’t bring heavy
machinery into this area

because they’re
actually unsure as if the

ground underneath is
actually stable or not.

So you want to bring a big crane
in and lift up the truck to pull it out.

But you can’t bring the big crane in, because
maybe it’ll collapse the road under it,

because you don’t actually
know how big the sinkhole is.

They tried to construct
a slope to get down

more smoothly into
the ground to get them.

That started filling up with water.

Three days later, they’re still
saying that everything’s unstable.

They’re asking city residents in this area
to not take baths or showers or do laundry,

try to minimize all that so that
they don’t have water flowing

through these pipes, which is actually,
again, exasperating the situation.

They’re searching for more risks.

This is actually like now
they’re actually more concerned

about the people in
the property around the

sinkhole than the actual
sinkhole they’re doing in.

Three days after this happened, the
news about the driver just stopped.

So my assumption at this
point is they never got him out,

but they didn’t actually want to report
it and it just kind of stopped altogether.

But I really would like
to know what happened.

And now they’re talking about like,

how much of this
infrastructure do we have

to rebuild to keep
Saitama in the city safe?

How many other areas
are there like this in

Japan has become a
pretty significant question?

(upbeat music)

So we had the sexy
advice giver who was using

a AI generated sexy female
avatar to advertise his

give you dating advice and
investing advice practice.

So he would do videos and it was an AI girl

and she was super hot
and she was bouncing around

and doing girl things
that are attractive to men.

And then say, if you want
dating advice, send me money

and then you’d send the
money, it would go to this guy.

He would give you dating advice.

The question was, is this fraud?

Because you were paying
for dating advice and getting it.

It just wasn’t coming from the source.

You thought you were getting it from.

My actual feeling is the fraud is these
guys who were giving this AI avatar money

wanted to talk to the AI
avatar and not this guy.

They didn’t really care about the advice.

This was just their opportunity to talk
to what they thought was a really hot girl.

Rule 34 plus AI and anime is going to be
the combination that destroys the earth.

Two men were arrested for
generating sexy anime posters.

So it seems like nothing is actually safe.

I think that’s for the next little while AI

is going to try to
like, it’s going to be

prodding at different
things in different scams

and different copyright
violations in this case.

Other light crimes to see how far it can go
before it actually causes any real damage.

I think it’s going to cause
damage sooner or later

and that’s when actually
something’s going to come of it.

But we’re going to
see a lot of little stories

where someone employed AI to do a
thing that they weren’t supposed to do.

They were generating
posters for Evangelion,

a Yu-Gi-Go, and other
anime from about this period

which immediately gives away their time.

That was actually something that I thought.

It was like, as soon as I was
like, those aren’t modern anime.

That’s anime that I know
and I’m a really old person.

So they must be pretty old.

Turns out these guys were 36 and 40.

They’re both being arrested
for copyright violation.

One man made 10 million yen off
his sexy anime AI-generated posters.

And another man made 5.7 million yen.

We don’t know if they
were working together.

This may have been just like a coincidence
that these two guys were arrested.

36 is old now.

I’m sorry to have to tell you,
if you’re over 30, you’re old.

Now that I’ve hit my 50s, I
understand death is looming.

And I knew immediately,
okay, here’s an interesting story.

30 is old.

When I came to Japan, I was 28.

I think I was 28 or 29.

Okay, dinosaur, WTF.

I am a dinosaur.

I’m okay with it.

I’ve accepted who I am
and what I am at this point.

And that’s why I’m so confident in myself

and maybe why I haven’t committed
the crimes the other 50 year olds have.

But when I came
to Japan, I was 29

and I was very
attractive and I dated a lot

and I had many different excursions and
whatnot and women were attracted to me.

I can honestly say that with unbiased.

The day I turned 30, it was
like a pheromone went out

or a hormone or something
and everyone knew I was 50.

The attention stopped dead.

And I couldn’t explain what happened.

Like I was dressing the same
way as I had the week before.

I was acting the same
way I had the week before.

But suddenly a week before it was
really cool and sexy and charming.

Now it was like creepy old man grow stuff.

So yeah, 30 is the cusp.

It’s when you become old.

I have maintained that youthful spirit.

I do speak for myself.

I still pull.

I’m sure you do still pull.

I think if I tried really hard, I could.

It’s just now I’m so old, I don’t try.

You can tell that since I wear the same
sweater every single week in this episode,

you can tell I’m not trying
very hard on certain fronts.

Anyways, yes, I’m sorry
to have to tell you this.

If you’re over 30, you’re old.

You’re almost dead.

You might as well just give up.

I’m not advocating
for that kind of thought.

All right, 5.7 million yen,
the other man made as well.

We don’t know if these
guys were working together.

That’s actually a very interesting aspect.

The cyber patrol of
Japan who basically just

goes on the internet
and looks for crimes.

They’re like patrolling the internet.

I mean, pretty good job to be honest.

Sitting on your computer all day,
looking for things that may be illegal.

I mean, we’re on the internet.

There’s a lot of illegal
stuff on the internet.

I think maybe the biggest
thing to me was 10 million yen.

A guy in one year made 10
million yen selling AI posters.

If you had the desire for
an AI poster, you could just

go to an AI thing and just
have it generate it yourself.

Like, doesn’t that seem
like the better solution?

Like, instead of paying that guy to do it,

why don’t I just go on AI
and get AI to do it for me?

Probably for free or very little money.

And then I could, you know, you have
to have like a good printer or whatnot?

Nah, that’s more work.

Is it though?

This is the internet.

Like, AI is everywhere now.

It’s generating all this stupid stuff.

If you want the stupid stuff,
have a generator for you.

I’m guessing maybe he had some kind of large
printer to actually make a large poster.

Maybe something like that.

Maybe you worked at a
print shop or something.

I don’t know, but there has to be a reason

that they went to this guy
instead of doing it themselves.

But people are buying them.

That to me is the most shocking thing.

Like, people are buying
shitty, weird, generated

AI art from anime
that’s like 40 years old.

Since we’re talking about old and cool,
this is the perfect segue into this story.

70 year old, 71 year old
man, he wanted to look cool.

I mean, I still would
like to be seen as cool.

I would like people to think I’m cool.

I think now when you hit my age,
you’re only cool if you do cool things.

Like, it’s not looks in
appearance or attitude anymore.

It’s like, oh, he does, he does cool stuff.

He does, he’s a neat guy.

That keeps you cool.

The coolest I’m ever gonna be is
knowing that I’m not cool and not trying.

The not trying is the element
that keeps me the coolest.

I’m not gonna say cool.

The coolest I can be is that I don’t
go out of my way to try to be cool.

Because my cool days are behind me.

Also, I don’t know if I was ever cool
because I never had enough money.

I think a big part of being
cool is doing cool things

and doing cool things
often cost a lot of money.

So this 70 year old man
had the same thinking.

He wants to be cool and he
goes to expensive sushi bars

and he would be like, hey,
people in the expensive sushi bar.

It’s on me tonight.

I’m picking up the tap.

I’m buying for everybody.

Raw fish all round.

Which sounds really great.

That’s everyone in the
place really appreciated.

I mean, the coolest thing
you can do is go into a bar

and be like, this rounds on
me for everyone in the place

and everyone’s gonna cheer
and be really happy about it.

Sometimes the sushi bar tab was 300,000 yen

for the average person who’s Japan.

And that’s like a months salary.

So he’s really dropping coin
to look cool in the sushi bars.

Between 2023 and 2024, he funded
this by robbing 63 houses and he made 9.

3 million yen.

So actually pretty good haul.

So one of the things I talk
about is like it has to be worth it.

And if you got 10 million yen
in a year like our poster boy

from the previous story,
like that’s not a bad salary.

Like that’s really, really good in Japan if
you’re making that salary 10 million yen.

This guy targeted houses that were
rural so they were mostly farmers.

And the idea is that the farmers
would be out tending to their farms.

Their houses would be empty.

He’d break into their house.

Farmers are also kind of
people who would keep a certain

amount of cash in like
actual cash in their house.

So one of the times, a
couple of times I’ve said

like people have had 20, 30, 40
million yen stolen from their house.

And my question is why are you keeping that
much actual physical money in your house?

It’s still a very old fashioned
Japanese thing to do.

I think I spend all my
money using my phone now.

I don’t think I actually carry any
cash with me in any significant sum.

I might carry 10,000 yen
just in case for an emergency

but any normal purchase for me in a
normal day is gonna be through my phone.

There’s no money in my house.

It’s broken to my house.

The most expensive thing you could steal

probably on this little
shelf behind me right here.

So you’re not getting
much of a haul from that.

He, when he was arrested, he
claimed his welfare in pension

wasn’t enough to keep him
sort of in the lifestyle he desired

which was, you know, to be cool and go into
sushi places and buy sushi for everybody.

He literally said to the
police, the motivation

I had to do this was
because I wanted to be cool.

(upbeat music)

(upbeat music)

(upbeat music)

[MUSIC PLAYING]

Impersonating a Podcast

(upbeat music)

Masahiro Nakai is a member of SMAP.

And I always forget what it stands for.

Smuddy,

masculine, you just say random words.

I know it’s sports,
music, maybe, and people.

SMAP, Japanese band names
don’t tend to make a lot of sense.

SMAP was the biggest boy band ever.

They’ve lasted in Japan for
like 30 years, maybe more.

They’re all in their 50s now.

They started when they were teens.

There was a time when I
came to Japan in the early

2000s when there was
literally a SMAP hosted show.

So a member of SMAP hosted a
show on every channel on Japanese TV.

So you could switch
channels and actually just

see like, oh, SMAP member
hosting a cooking show.

SMAP member hosting a chat show.

SMAP member hosting a clip
show or something like that.

And they all had like
six, seven shows each.

So these guys were like
massive money makers in Japan.

So they’re all insanely rich.

Masahiro Nakai is one of them.

And there was a dinner arranged.

It was Fuji executives arranged a dinner.

And it was a whole bunch
of people, him and a woman.

And then something happened.

And that’s the scandal.

The scandal is something happened.

We don’t know what happened technically.

But we do know that
he paid 90 million yen to

the woman to have her
not say anything about it.

And she’s not saying anything
about it because it includes an NDA.

And then I’m assuming
if she says something,

she’ll lose some of that
money, if not all of it.

That’s problematic in itself.

But that’s, she’s decided she wants
to keep the money and stay quiet.

We’re not judging her at all.

But this was, the arrangement
was a whole bunch of people

coming and then they all
started canceling canceling,

canceling, and then it was
just two of them at the table.

It’s clearly a setup.

It’s like this is a romantic
comedy or sitcom kind

of premise for an episode.

Like it doesn’t work in those shows
because it’s deceptive in its own way.

So why do they think it’s
going to work in real life?

This just makes me
think of like rich people.

They get to a point where they’re so rich.

They actually don’t think things through.

They don’t understand how
the real world works anymore.

So something happens.

And he’s paid 90 million
yen to keep a quiet.

And he kind of got
away with it for about six

months or a year but
then this story broke.

And then all these people
are like, is it acceptable

for someone to commit
some sort of sexual assault?

Pay a lot of money.

And then just continue his career on TV.

Is that morally acceptable?

And everyone’s like, no,
sponsors certainly didn’t think so.

So all his sponsors pulled their ads.

So we’re talking Nissan
Toyota, which to me?

Okay, conflict of interest.

If you do ads, you do
ads for Nissan and Toyota.

I assume in both ads you’re
saying that this car is amazing.

I guess it is technically possible

for two different car
companies to have amazing cars.

But it’s almost like
you should just pick one.

The Toyota is the amazing car.

Or the Nissan is the amazing car.

And that’s the one I support.

It feels kind of like double dipping.

Yeah, I don’t know how I feel about that.

It’s almost like, again, I believe there
should be some sincerity behind what you do.

I guess I’ve never been
in this situation where like,

Toyota is like, here’s a
million dollars to do ads.

And then Nissan comes over like, we’ll
also give you a million dollars to do ads.

And I’m like, why would I say no?

I don’t care about either
car ’cause I have BMW.

‘Cause I’m stupid, rich.

I should have chosen a better car
than a BMW, but we’ll just let that one go.

A Shcedo, which is a makeup company.

7-11, a life insurance company.

50 companies pulled
their ads that involved him

because they didn’t wanna be
connected to this sex scandal.

And this is kind of how
Japanese media goes.

Like these people, we know they’re
all doing dirty, gross, awful things.

But when it comes out, everyone pulls
their funding and you get sort of canceled.

Fuji TV said it did an internal
investigation and found nothing wrong.

Fuji TV, the executives
of which set up this meal

where all the other people canceled,
where all the other people disappeared

and just left, Nakayin, this
unnamed woman together,

they found that there was no
wrong doing in that situation.

Like, oh, it’s just a circumstance.

And this is one of the interesting things

about the whole idea
of internal investigations.

The people doing the internal investigation
work for the executive who do the thing

that set up the situation
that caused the sex scandal.

A week later, Nakayin retires.

So I, this started about two weeks
ago, and I was reading the stories,

but I didn’t wanna do it until I
actually saw like the actual fallout.

Does nothing happen,
which is actually very

possible because he was
that rich in that famous.

Or does he end up quitting or
does he end up trying to fight it?

‘Cause there was one guy in the comedy duo.

He sued for defamation and then dropped
when he had got caught up in a sex scandal.

And I was interested to
see if he went that route.

All TV shows and sponsors
ended their contracts.

That’s how he said it.

He did a press conference
he said, like I’m gonna retire.

All my TV shows and sponsors
have ended their contract.

So basically he just got fired
from everything by everybody.

Because, and then he
trying to justify his position,

he said, because the
money was paid and an NDA

was signed, he’s not
gonna say what happened.

And he fully expects the
woman not to say what

happened, which
again, feels really gross.

What, of course, he’s
obviously a really gross guy.

That’s how we got into this
situation in the first place.

There is a sidebar here of if
you are one of the most famous

dudes in a country and you’re super rich,
is it that hard for you to get a girl?

Like, I don’t know, there’s
gotta be a layer here

that I don’t understand
as a normal poor person.

Because if I really, really wanted to,
I could put a little effort into myself

and I could go out and I could probably
charm a person into spending time with me.

I could be nice enough to people
to get them to spend time with me.

If you add a layer to that of,
I’m super rich and super famous,

I bet it would be very easy to
get someone to spend time with me.

So why does he have
to go through this process

tricking someone into having a meal
with him and then sexually assaulting them?

Then at the end of
his statement where he

said, okay, he’s all his
sponsors and TV shows

have ended their contracts
and he’s not going to say anything

because of the NDA, he said
he will deal with it sincerely,

which I think if you examine his immediately
in previous statements isn’t true.

Fujitv will have a third party investigation
now, the station lost 75 of its sponsor.

So half of its sponsors actually
said, we’re not even going to

have our commercials on Fujitv
at all because of this scandal.

And they were discussing if
the Fujitv president should quit,

which is last night when I was making my
notes and then when I woke up this morning,

I looked through my feed really quickly and
it said the Fujitv president has desired.

The Fujitv president has decided to retire.

Little while ago we had
a guy on in the story was

that he was using AI to
pretend to be a woman

so that he could get
people to subscribe to him

and give him money to give them
dating advice and financial advice.

And there was a very gray
area as to how illegal this is

because they were paying for this
advice and he was giving this advice

but he was using an avatar to sort of say,
I am this attractive woman but he wasn’t.

So is that fraud?

Because you get the thing you paid for,

it’s just not from the source
you thought it was coming from.

I think the actual fraud
was a lot of these guys

who were paying for this
service were hoping they could

get into direct contact with
this very attractive AI woman.

Well, a 29 year old posed as a
high school girl on dating apps.

He would arrange to meet with a person

so they’re thinking
they’re going to meet a high

school girl and say, you
shouldn’t molest minors.

How much sincerity can you show me?

The market rate is 3 million yen.

So he’s saying, I’ve caught
you, your pedophile of sorts.

You’re trying to attract
or date underage women,

pay me 3 million yen
and I’ll keep it quiet.

He gets arrested.

He gets arrested because
he talks to a guy who

says, give me 3 million
yen and that guy says,

I don’t have 3 million yen.

So he calls his family and
says, can I borrow 3 million yen?

And then the family’s
like, this seems really

suspicious and probably
our sons and idiot.

That’s why he’s calling us
and asking for 3 million yen.

So they immediately called the police

and say, look, we think our
son’s being scammed right now.

Can you go check it out?

They go check it out and
they immediately arrest this guy.

He says, when he’s being arrested,
I didn’t say anything about money.

My goal was to make them
aware of what they were doing.

So he’s a vigilante of sorts.

He’s a beacon in the night
trying to protect young women

by pretending to be a
young woman on a dating app

and meeting these guys who are
creepy and telling them, don’t be creepy.

I just went into sort of
mental detective mode.

The first thing I would do
is check his bank account

and see if he’s got any 3 million
yen deposits into his bank account.

And continuing with our impersonating
other people theme, a 17 year old son,

impersonating people seems
to be a younger man’s game.

I don’t remember how old the guy
pretending to be an AI woman was online.

I think he was a little older.

He wasn’t enough to be able to
afford some very good AI avatars.

But last guy, how old was he, 29?

Yeah, 29.

So maybe 30 is sort of
your impersonating age.

And when you get into your 50s, you just
go like, ape shit and do whatever you want.

That’s most of the stories
you’ve done recently.

This is a 17 year old guy.

So he’s just like learning how
to be the criminal he wants to be.

The 17 year old
impersonated a police officer

because he wanted
to interrogate people.

He had a forged ID.

He got sort of a police
uniform off the internet.

He forged his ID.

He got like a fake Tokyo one and then
changed it to say Kyoto where he lived.

He said, I admired the
coolness of the police officers.

I wanted to act as a real
detective and question people.

He tried questioning a group
of teens who were hanging out

in a park and he wanted
their names and addresses.

Now the thing, he’s 17 and
I’m going to go ahead and guess.

I haven’t actually seen his picture.

I bet he looks 17.

And then a group of
other like 15, 16 year olds

are going to look at him
and go, he’s not an adult.

He looks more like us
than he does like them.

I think this is in a real police officer.

This is an interesting point of view.

Go back to the old TV show.

Jump street toward 21 Jump
Street where the police officers

were pretending to be high school
students and going into high schools.

And it was very obvious that
everyone in this police unit

was at least in their
20s probably in their 30s.

It’s amazing that show went
for as many years as it did

because again, you would age
out of that role very quickly.

This guy has the opposite problem.

He probably doesn’t look old enough to be
a cop and these other kids sniffed him out

and they started calling
the police and going,

we think there’s a guy
who’s here trying to get

everyone’s names and
addresses interrogating everybody.

We don’t think he’s really a cop.

So he bought a fake handbook in
Tokyo and he modified it to Kyoto.

He had handcuffs.

He bought a baton and he had an air pistol.

So he had a gun.

He had all the gear with him.

He said he did it three or four times.

The Tokyo Sunshine Aquarium.

Four people have been arrested.

One is the current deputy
director and a former director

of the Sunshine Aquarium
because they inflated the number

of endangered tortoises so
they could get government funds.

The staff gave away 10 of the tortoises

to private people, which
you’re not supposed to do.

That’s illegal.

Because of the space they had was limited,

but they continued to claim to have
all the turtles they gave away tortoises.

I got to get it right tortoises.

They gave away, so they
were reported to having 23

when they only actually
had 13 because they

took 10 and gave them
away to private people.

From 2002 to last year,
2024, they collected 1.

89 million yen and you’re
like, well, that’s not really

worth doing that fraud
over like two million yen.

Yeah, that’s a fair sum of
money, but it’s not enough.

And then you also think over 20 years,

that’s not very much
money to actually be getting.

Is it worth actually doing
this fraud and taking the risk?

Well, they weren’t taking
the risk to make a profit.

They were making a profit, but
that’s not why they were doing it.

The motivation was very interesting.

They didn’t do it for money.

They did it to hide the
managers in an aptitude.

So basically, the manager hadn’t
planned for having this many tortoises.

It’s like, god damn, we
have too many tortoises.

Let’s give some of the
tortoises away, but I don’t know

what everyone to know
that I gave away the tortoises.

So let’s just pretend
we still have those

tortoises and collect
that government money.

Yeah, I get it’s illegal to collect money
for things for tortoises we don’t have,

but we just won’t tell anybody, and
it’ll be fine, and there’ll be no problem.

And it went on for 10 years.

So actually, in a way, he
kind of got away with it.

It was just going to catch
up with him eventually.

It is illegal to own and
breed the tortoises.

Some other people, some other private
people who have them, may also get arrested.

(upbeat music)

The guy’s 46 years old, so
he’s on that early ’50s cuss,

but that we’re now very,
very aware of an industry panel.

He calls an ambulance at 6.50 in the
evening, because he has stomach pain.

Perfectly reasonable, perfectly
reasonable reason to call an ambulance.

I have stomach pain.

I need to go to the hospital
and call an ambulance.

Paramedic show up, and he’s really drunk.

Now, that already puts a
question of suspicion on the fact

that he’s got a stomach pain,
because maybe you have a stomach pain

because you’ve been drinking all day,
and they look them over and they say,

you don’t need to go to the hospital,
but you maybe just need to just drink less.

The guy got angry
at them for saying this

to him, and he threatened
them with a knife.

He grabs a knife, he goes,
I have a stomach pain.

I have to go to the hospital.

You have to take him to the hospital.

And yeah, I’m drunk, but
that’s just an extra bonus.

So somehow he got away from
them, and got to their ambulance first.

I would like to know the scenario.

So I assume they went into his
house, or he met them out the front.

There’s, again, this is
not in the story, so this

is me speculating what
actually how this happened.

Because if I say I have a stomach pain on
him in my house, I will call the ambulance,

and then I will assume they
come to my house and maybe

come into my house and then
take me out into the ambulance.

So they’re in checking
him over in the house,

and then he gets angry at
threatening them with a knife.

So maybe if he got
between them in the door,

but he goes outside, he gets in
their ambulance, and he drives away.

So there’s drunk guy who had stomach pain,

thinks the best solution to the
problem he’s having right now

is to steal the ambulance
that came with him.

The paramedics, I’m assuming, are just
standing gobsmacked in his living room,

and then they pull out their
smartphone really slowly and

call the police and go, hey,
guy, just stole our ambulance.

Can you go get him, please?

They found him 100 meters
away in a drugstore parking lot.

Didn’t even get that far.

Now we are lucky because,
again, this guy drunk driving.

He’s very dangerous.

So him going 100 meters and just parking
is the best possible end to this story,

because he could have
gone out and gotten hurt.

When arrested, he said, I thought I
would go to the hospital by myself.

A 55-year-old, yeah, Kuzal
leader and three other people,

but I’m gonna focus on
the 55-year-old, yeah,

Kuzal leader because
he’s now fitting my criteria

for insane people
when they hit their 50s.

This isn’t so bad.

This actually just takes
some of the shine off

sort of the yeah, Kuzal
lifestyle, as I believe it,

because all my real information
about yeah, Kuzal is very small.

It’s all from media, it’s all from the 1980s
when there was a Yakuza boom in movies.

Every action movie, the
back guys were the Yakuza,

the Yakuza were very rich and
very sexy and they handled things.

And that might have been true in the 80s,

but now whenever we
see a Yakuza oriented

story, it’s always some
really low-level stuff.

Stuff that I would be like, I don’t
see this as being a worthwhile

crime to perform, and certainly
doesn’t live up to the legend

that is the Yakuza
family clan kind of lifestyle.

These guys came up with a plan.

Now there are private roads in Japan,
and there are public roads in Japan.

I actually have my house
has essentially a really long

driveway that is shared between
my house and the house next door.

That really long
driveway is a private road.

So I cannot deny access to my
neighbor because they technically own,

I think it’s the far side of the road
and I own the inside of the road.

That just came as part of our property.

And it’s to ensure that we
don’t block each other off,

which is a hint as to
where the story’s going.

But we could come to an agreement and put
a gate at the end of our very long driveway

and say no one’s allowed in
because this is private property.

Now I can’t deny them entry,
they can’t deny me entry,

but if we agreed on it together,
we absolutely could put a gate there.

If we wanted to, we could charge people
to use that pathway to come to our house.

We wouldn’t be able to get
mail anymore, things like that.

There would be other
problems that might arise.

It’s also not worth it.

This for an hour situation is just, if
there’s an earthquake or something

and there’s damage to that road, this
city doesn’t have to pay for that road.

That’s actually the reason they did it.

It’s not to benefit me.

It’s not so that I have this
extra land that has extra value.

It’s just so the city
doesn’t have to pay for it.

I don’t mind owning it.

I have earthquake insurance
and all the other insurance.

As since that’s my land, it’s included in
sort of owning my house and other stuff.

It’s a very interesting piece of
information about living in Japan.

I very technically own a tiny, tiny road.

These guys found a private road that
was part of a town for the last 50 years

and it was used by residents
of the town for a very long time.

And they thought, “Ha, here’s
a plant, let’s buy that road.

” They bought that road.

They put barricades on the end of the road
and they’re like, “You cannot use this road

“unless you pay us 10,000
yen a month per household.

” So if you had two cars and
you paid 10,000 yen per month,

you could actually two
people could use the car,

but you’d have to be able
to prove it to the Yakuza.

This is, in this case, a form of extortion,
but it is a very legal form of extortion

when it becomes the problem.

So how did the police
arrest and stop these guys?

Because they’ve taken what was technically

the private road that was being used
publicly, it was being used by the whole town.

And again, for the last 50 years,

so people didn’t even know
it was a private road properly.

They distributed written
notices to the residents

of the town, saying, “If
you want to use this road,

“it’s gonna cost 10,000 yen
per month to use this road.

” Now, that probably set off a bunch of
people who probably call the police and go,

“Is this okay, is this legal,
is this allowed to happen?

“Hey, I’m angry, this is a
road I need to use every day

“to get to work or
something like that.

” They could not actually arrest
them for the attempted extortion

of people using this
road because it is a

private road, and they
are allowed to do that.

What they did do was arrest
them for violating Japan’s

organized crime punishment
act, which means you’re

not allowed to be part of
an organized crime family.

You’re not allowed to do things
as organized crime members.

So they didn’t arrest them for the,

we don’t know if they actually
extorted any money, the

proposed extortion, they
arrested them for just being Yakuza.

(upbeat music)

You’re at home, you’re sleeping, you know.

I’ve actually been sleeping
a lot lately yesterday.

I woke up at 11, which
is really late for me.

And then today I woke up at nine.

So either I’ve been really tired,
maybe doing the gym too much,

or it’s just that sort of like winter,
doldrums thing, I’m not really sure.

Really, really sleepy lately.

Just want to sleep all the time.

It was really hard for
me to get started today,

but a woman is sleeping
at either eight or nine a.m.

depending on how badly
you think my handwriting is.

She was awoken because her roommate
was attempting to stab her in the stomach

through her futot now for non,
for people who don’t know about

Japanese culture, futon is
just an incredibly thick blanket.

You throw futons down to act as mattresses.

Maybe you, I always have to stack
two ’cause they’re a bit too thin for me.

And then you put a different
futon on top to act as a blanket.

So it’s almost like a really heavy blanket.

But I mean, I didn’t think futons
were thick and strong enough

to stop you from getting
stabbed in the stomach.

So they said a knife, they
didn’t say how big the knife was,

but almost all these
stories, it’s a kitchen knife

because knives are not a very common thing
to have people around the house in Japan.

So let’s say she got a kitchen knife and
she’s stabbing her roommate in the stomach.

It doesn’t get all the way
through and stab her in

the stomach, but it is enough
to wake up the roommate.

She wakes up, she kind of like, there’s
no information of a struggle or anything.

So it seems like she
just got up, got out of bed

and the roommate who
was attempting to murder her

was like, oops, that wasn’t
what you thought it was

or something like that,
like making excuses.

Nothing actually seems to have happened
after the initial attempted murder.

And we aren’t given any information.

We know that she was
sleeping in her futons.

We know the other one, the
roommate was standing over her

stabbing her in the
stomach when she woke up.

It did not even penetrate the skin.

She called the police,
the woman was arrested.

She said, I stabbed her with a kitchen
knife, but I didn’t intend to kill her,

which brings up the question
of when you stab someone

in the stomach, what do you intend
to do if it’s not trying to kill them?

There has to be some
other stuff going on there.

I’m gonna follow the story as
much as I can’t see if there’s

a follow up, but I don’t
think there will be this again,

because no one actually
got hurt in any real way.

She got caught right away.

The motivation probably won’t come up.

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So for our final story, the title
was enough of a draw for me.

You don’t even need the story after that.

A polygamous ex fortune teller on trial for
sexual assault dies in a parent suicide.

You don’t need a story after that.

You could just unpack that sentence.

A polygamous ex fortune teller.

So he used to, as a job teller, fortunes.

He’s now about 76 years old.

So, well, he was about 76 years old.

The polygamous party.

He lived with 13 people.

He lived with his wife
and eight former wives.

They all lived in the same
house and three children.

I wouldn’t be able to date
two girls at the same time.

I always sort of fascinated by
how these guys can manage this.

Like, are they that charming?

How do they get women
to just live together?

This is not the first polygamy story
we’ve had on the engineer’s Japan.

We had one, I think it
was about six months ago.

And it was the guy living
in a house with four women.

He was married to one, and
he was dating the other three,

and they all just lived
together and contributed.

And he didn’t do any work.

Like, they all just paid for him to live.

I am not that charming.

This maybe is the thing I’m realizing

is I have missed out on
a certain level of charm

where I can actually, I can’t even
get one woman to pay for my life.

He was arrested in February 2023,
and being accused of sexual assault.

He’d been arrested four
times before for the same crime.

So, the next one that he’s been charged
with the one in 2023, it’s probably true.

I mean, he’s already
been arrested four times.

This is clearly a pattern of behavior.

He was 76 years old, he was
found collapsed by his wife,

and it does bring into question
the fortune telling aspect of it.

Because I don’t believe in fortune telling.

But if you believed in fortune telling,

you think you’d be able to see
some of these arrests coming?

I guess people want to believe something.

I don’t want to talk about this

because I know I’m just gonna
get off on really weird content soon.

I, before I left for Japan, my mother
arranged for a little party for me

and my friends to say goodbye,
and she actually hired a fortune telling.

I don’t believe it, she doesn’t
believe it, but we do find it fun.

So, like, I used to read my horoscope.

I didn’t believe my horoscope,
but I was actually reading

it to see what level of
accuracy or accuracy it held.

The fortune telling was
kind of the same thing.

She’s like, let’s just see what
she says, and then as we go

through our lives, we can
track what she accurate and not.

She was so wrong.

She should have gotten more
things correct by accident.

Like, every single aspect of
what she said to me was incorrect.

So, I think if we look at
this case and we look at my

personal experience, we can
say, be aware of fortune tellers.

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(upbeat music)

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Podcast Harassment

[music] Harassment.

The breadth and variety of
harassment I have discovered on

Engineers Japan doing all these
stories over the last few years,

has been impressive, and yet I keep finding
new ones, new ones that I didn’t think

about or didn’t know about, and as some
are justified, some are not. I mean, I’m

basically working on podcast harassment
right now, where it’s either would be a guy

who has a podcast, tells you about his
podcast all the time, or podcasts are just

annoying you. I think it would be the guy,
because it has to be a person that harasses you.

Harassment has to come from
someone and lead to something else, so it

would have to be, yeah, that guy who
has a podcast, who’s constantly telling

about his podcast, trying to take you to
check out my last podcast. I try not to be

that guy, but it happens, because sometimes
we’ll talk about something, let’s say, in

my office, and it’ll be something I did
talk about on the podcast, and I want to

either say the same thing, but I want to,
like, if you’ve already heard the podcast,

I don’t want to tell you it again,
because you know my thoughts and ideas.

But then I worry I bring it up too often,
but I think the fact that I worry that I

bring it too often, I think the fact that
I bring it up too often, which is a fact,

shows that I’m probably not bringing
it up too often. I hope that’s my goal.

My hope, my desire, is to not bring things
up too often when it comes to the process.

I don’t want to be one of
those podcast guys, when I am

absolutely definitely one
of those podcast guys.

Lots of stories this
week, thematically.

I was drawn after I did a couple
of harassment stories in my notes.

I was drawn towards
the harassment.

Pretty good. There’s
some other stories,

but harassment is our
main theme for today.

I normally, for people who
are viewing on the internet,

try to keep the notes
a bit farther away, so

it’s under the camera,
so I’m actually usually

holding it like right
here. I’m half blind now.

I don’t want to get
into my personal issues,

but if I hold my notes
too far away, not only is my

handwriting messy, I just
can’t see them anymore.

So you’re going to see
a lot of me reading the

notes whether relatively
up close to my face.

It is the sad development
of the constant degradation

of the human body, which I
am experiencing in real time.

I’m okay with it though. You know
what’s shitty though, the worst part.

So right now, my
right eye, it’s fuzzy.

And if you want the
story, I’m going to tell that

story in the Seeming
Bee, so if you want the

actual story, which has
some honestly traumatic

elements, you can listen to that episode
that’s going to come out after this one.

But I, it’s not, I’m blind.
I’m fuzzier than normal.

So my eyes are already
garbage. I’ve been wearing

glasses since I was 16,
but my left eye basically

can’t focus right now.
So what it’s doing is

my right eye can’t focus.
My left eye is now doing

all the heavy lifting.
I’m pretty sure that’s

what was happening before
anyways. But as a result,

everything’s a little
fuzzier and I actually

would be easier if I just
had a patch and couldn’t

see. Like that, I actually
would be better visually.

Like if I just had this eye closed and it
was just reading or doing normal stuff,

it’s actually clearer
than having this eye open.

But I’m pretty
sure that’s also bad.

There’s no good thing here.
There are no good things here.

Dave is here.
Dave’s a good thing.

Dave is sleeping my lap.
He’s been very annoying today.

I think I’ve started this
a half hour later than

I normally would have because Dave
would not leave me alone. Harassment.

It’s, it’s, pet harassment.
I’m going to be trying to

frame everything in
some kind of harassment.

Some of the harassment
I’ve learned about there

was a maternity harassment.
So you’re having a baby.

You want to go
on maternity leave.

So they harass you. You get
pregnant and they harass you to quit.

There’s men going
on paternity leave.

They harass you not to take the paternity
leave that you are legally obligated to.

But we’re going to get
some interesting ones today.

The first one and this
is again, this was new.

So I do enjoy new things
in direct power harassment.

And so this, what is
it? It’s actually the kind

of the first question.
What is indirect power

harassment? This is when
you’re forced to watch

verbally abusive behavior
towards a subordinate

which causes you
emotional distress.

So basically you’re in
an office. Most Japanese

offices are open concept. I
work in an open concept office.

I fucking hate it.

I understand the idea
of the concept office.

I don’t think the
reality matches the idea.

I think the idea is that we’re
supposed to be like collaborating

and working together.
But really what happens is

I’m trying to get some
work and the dude behind

me is having a conversation
on his phone and his

voice is way too loud
when he’s on the phone.

The people are in the table,
the desk across from me

are having a different
conversation and they’re

speaking in normal tones. But
that’s just now cross volume.

There’s a dude in the far corner and he’s
decided that this is the perfect time to

open an incredibly crunchy
plastic bag where he’s

going to pull out Sembe
and eat the Sembe as loud

as humanly possible,
eating with his mouth

open, filling the office
with a smell of shrimp,

this powdered shrimp, I
also hate, honestly makes

me feel sick, and then some
there’s some drama somewhere else.

That’s the reality of
the open concept office.

I think the second
part is the open

concept office means that your
boss can see everybody in one go.

So it’s not like a micro-managing thing,
but it’s kind of like if I can see you,

you can’t be fucking
around too much.

If I was going to fuck
around, I would just get up and

relieve the office and
look busy. The interesting

thing, if you’re working
on an open concept

office and you are constantly
in meeting rooms and

conference rooms and
stuff, they think you’re but

this is not advice. Although
you could take it as advice.

If you are constantly
in meeting rooms,

watching YouTube videos
or TikTok or working on your

novel, other people will
see you in that room at

a computer writing,
working. You’re a busy guy.

I’m not saying anyone
has ever done that, but

there’s if you walk around
with paper in your hand

or a notebook and you
walk with determination,

people think you’re busy.
People thinking you’re

busy is more important
than actually being busy.

As long as you get you
or all your work done,

all that extra time
that could be like filled

time, what the fuck
am I talking about?

This guy worked at a
company. It was a government

inspection agency and
he said it was painful

to feel complicit. So
he basically, he’s working

on an office, his boss is
standing behind him with

these bosses subordinate
and his boss is just reaming

this guy and he’s sitting
there in silence and he

says that complicity
caused him pain because he’s

like, I didn’t stand up
for him. I just sat there

and that caused me
emotional distress.

April 2021, he said he
witnessed daily abuse.

The boss was calling
this subordinate a rotten

human and he said he
should give his salary back

because he doesn’t
do any real work.

And then he said like you
should quit or it would be faster,

you should just go hug a
female passerby or expose

yourself below the belt
and get caught by the police.

There’s a couple
of interesting things.

These are very, these
are Japanese insults.

So Japanese insults,
they don’t tend to actually

say anything like that you
would consider directly offensive.

It’s how you talk to
people, not what you say.

So him saying
like you should give

your salary back. I mean,
that’s that’s a lot of pressure.

You’re a rotten human being.

That’s insulting, but not
terrible. But this last one is

like, let’s expedite, expedite
your removal from the company.

Just go commit sexual harassment

and then we’ll be done with
each other and get arrested.

It does lead you to his interesting point
is if you’re the guy sitting in the chair,

what do you do? Do you
stand up for the guy or

do you just like accept
it? So this guy basically

he’s saying, I just sat
there and that caused me

stress that indirect
harassment caused me enough

stress that I’m suing
this government agency.

He filled in a report in
December and by January,

the harassment stopped.
So actually, this guy

who’s making this claim,
he took action and he

didn’t like step in
because I think stepping in

just puts you in the
target. So that’s actually

probably not actually
the best way to house.

He sent in a report. There
was an investigation in

the harassment stopped.
So this boss got in trouble,

but what happens to you?
Well, his evaluation that

year, which was normally
an A, which I assume is

the best, went down to a
B and he says this was an

unfair evaluation and
it’s because he put in

this report to stop the
harassment and everyone’s

going, no, no, no,
no, that’s a fair, fair

evaluation of your work
and your efforts and stuff.

So he’s in a tough spot
and he says, look, he

was treating this indirect
harassment caused me stress.

I had to report it
and then because of

that report, I got a lower
evaluation, that lower

evaluation, of course means
less of a bonus or whatever.

I’m losing money.
So the government

court case isn’t finished
yet, but it is interesting

because I think there
are some valid points

here because it’s not
when you like scream at an

employee in an open office thing, it’s not
just the employee that has to take it on.

It’s the other people like
they get that stress, they get

that sort of reflected
stress. And what do I do

and how do I handle this?
That is all problematic.

So indirect stress, I actually
think there is a validity to it.

I don’t know, I think the problem is like
two people could have an argument, like a

legitimate argument, a
disagreement, whatever,

and then I’m in the
room, do I then claim that

that is indirect harassment because it
caused me stress because I heard them argue.

So then you could see where
it could be taken sort of out of

context, but I think this
case when you get down

to the details because
this guy filed a report

and then it came back on him
and directly everything was in direct.

That’s a very Japanese
way to handle stuff.

It was all indirect.
The boss couldn’t

harass him anymore, but he can
mark him down on his evaluation.

He says this is all unfair.

I think this might be a legitimate
case. I started, I read that title.

I was like, there’s no
way that’s a real thing.

You just got to like buck up and

stuff that happens to another people
you ought to ignore it. And I was like, no,

I work in an open concept
office. I want to murder

half the people in that
room half of the time.

It says 25% murder rate. I
guess if I was successful,

I don’t really want
to hurt anybody.

I just want silence working in the
same place for as long as I have.

I now notice the
quirks of other people

so much that the very
innocuous things set me

off. I’ve always hated
the open concept office.

I don’t think cubicles
are better because I

work with a team and I should
be able to work with my team.

I don’t necessarily think
we deserve an office.

So there is an interesting problem because
for me, the cross chatter, the noise and

stuff, I’m sensitive to it,
I guess. It really bugs me.

I find it very hard to
concentrate. And then we’re

also in a situation where
if I stick on headphones,

I’ll get in trouble. Like
if I stick on just my

noise counseling headphones,
not even listening to

music, they would probably
complain about that.

But in, I’m interested to
see where this case goes.

I’m pretty sure he’s
going to win something.

I don’t think he’s
going to get that much.

The problem is, does
he have to go back to his

office? He wasn’t his
50s. So he might be like

changing sections or retiring
soon or something like that.

I don’t know. But it’s a very tough
position to be in it. It gave me a lot to

think about because I
started out thinking like

indirect harassment. That
sounds like some just wuss stuff.

And then when I actually got the deals,
I’m like, no, because he actually felt he

had to take action and
write a report and then

was kind of punished for it. I do think
this might be legit. More harassment.

This, I think we all
know this. We’ve seen it.

It’s basically Karen’s. They’re
calling it customer harassment.

And I think we’ve
all experienced this

via the internet. So this
experience was not a surprise.

I don’t think this
is a new thing.

But this was about companies
being like, we have to

set up guidelines when
people come into our

stores as customers
and act as at like assholes.

How do we deal with
them? So a lot of them

are like, well, you get
the manager and stuff.

But these are, these are,
okay, we have to define

it. And that’s actually
was the bit to me that was

most interesting is how
do you actually go about

defining what constitutes
harassment? Because

also it’s all conceptual
and about feelings and stuff.

So that makes it a
little more difficult.

It’s essentially
customers losing their shit.

They did a survey in 2017
of 50,000 people. That’s

a pretty good sample size. These were
all people who worked in customer service.

70% said they had
experienced some form of the

following harassment,
most of it being verbal.

So it’s people just
talking, shouting, getting

super angry at some
customer service person.

And this is always bugged
me. I did customer service,

but I had a very positive
experience overall.

I’ve mentioned this before
when I was university.

I sold dog food in
a dog food store.

We didn’t keep dogs. We just sold food.
So dog food cat food, other kinds of food.

People would come in, people with pets,
people would bring in their dogs mostly,

and they were super
chill. You give their dog a

snack, a cookie, and the
owner was really happy.

Everyone who came in, 99% of the people
was super chill. I didn’t have any of these

care and experiences that
you see on the internet.

But I think the dog
food selling industry,

it’s a different customer
base. And as long as

you treat their animals well,
they’re super happy about it.

In Japan, it got to
like people throwing

money at the person and
them crying as they pick it up.

That was one of the
stories that was in there.

And there were several demands that people
get down on their knees to apologize.

Like the bowing sort of you’ve
seen in a movie, bowing to the

emperor, seza, kneeling
bow. I’m sorry, put

your head on the ground kind
of thing, which is demeaning.

It’s supposed to be
and not something

that a customer service
person should have to do.

Because as we all know
deep down in our hearts,

that minimum wage
employee has no power.

They’re doing as they
are told, they’ve been

told what they can and
cannot do and it’s mostly can’t.

And you’re angry at them and you’re
angry at them because you’re not getting

instantaneous
satisfaction for anything.

And you think, oh,
Japan’s very polite society,

Japan’s a very great
place. It’s got its fair

share of shitty people
and those shitty people,

it turns out are a specific demographic.
One that if you’ve watched an industry

in Japan before, you will know what
is coming next. There was a statement,

“Someone grabbed me by the
collar and threatened to kill me.

” So that’s problematic.
The 2020 survey

found that men are
75% of the offender.

So I think in the west,
because of the internet primarily,

we have an image of the
Karen. It’s an older female

who is trying to assert
her power in the world.

In Japan, I think it’s an older
Japanese man, 75% and over 40.

So it’s 40 plus where
most of the people

I think it’s different.
I think they’re trying

to hold on to the power
of they’ve gotten so

entitled because now
they are an older man and

the hierarchy of the
world has built around them

in such a way and
respect and whatnot.

So at any time, they can fly
off the handle and they think

they should just
be forgiven it for it.

They should they think they
should just be forgiven for it

because I’m an older
man and everyone should

respect me and do what I
want and make me happy.

That is the the
patriarchy in action.

90% of the people who do this
kind of behavior are over 40,

75% of total are men.
So not a surprise to me

that older Japanese men
are acting like shit when

they get pissed off.
Because yeah, they have

been raised in a society
where they get to this

point where they think
everyone should do what

they want if they
don’t do it instantly.

They think that’s a problem. I think
some people need some ass cakings.

It’s the final harassment
for today, which is very nice.

A GSDF member, so
a ground self-defense

force member, a member
of the Japanese military.

He was forced to write a 10,000 character
paper reflecting on his self as a penalty.

This was interesting. So he’s
in the military and they’re like

you’ve done something bad.
I kind of want to hold back

on what the bad bit is.
You’ve done something bad.

I want you to reflect on
that. So I’m going to make

you write an essay like
a child in high school.

That is your punishment.
He joined the military in 1986.

This incident happened in 2017.

So if he joined when
he was 20, this incident

actually happened.
He would have been 51

when the incident happened.
The commander was angry

that he had gained
weight. So this guy who was

51 years old in the
ground self-defense force.

His commander was angry at
him because he gained some weight.

I don’t know what
they didn’t say

how much weight. He might have
been a chubby guy, might not be.

This guy claims
they were trying to

get him to quit. He had a
bum leg probably because

he was in the military
and did activities and got

hurt and that hurt never
really healed properly.

I as someone who’s done
judo my whole life have

several injuries that
never really healed properly.

So he’s got a bum leg.
His room was on the

fifth floor with no
elevator. So he had to take

five flights of stairs
every single day up and

down to get to his room.
And they knew he had a

bum leg and they put
them there anyways.

And then they’re like, hey,
you got a bum leg, clearly,

you’re not going to
be able to exercise as

much as you used to
when you were 20, you 50,

one year old piece
of shit. You fat fuck.

So I’m going to make you
write an essay. They wouldn’t let

him leave until he’d
finished the essay.

So he had to work on
this for nine hours straight.

They wouldn’t let
him go to sleep.

And he’s saying like this
was all just different kinds of

harassment to try
to get him to quit.

The government argued
that this was a legitimate order

despite the fact that
like they’re just nigh him

sleeping stuff and they
know he’s got a bum leg

and they’re doing
all this other crap.

He’s suing them for 1.5 million
yen. The court has been like,

absolutely, this is
power harassment.

You know he’s got a
bum leg. He’s 51 years old.

He’s with a bum leg, which
means yes, he’s going to gain some

weight because he can’t
exercise like he used to.

He’s not a 20 year old recruit anymore.
You guys have put him on the fifth floor.

Fuck you guys.
1.5 million yen to him, please.

Shouldn’t you be able to leave the
JSTF after a set number of years?

I mean, you should be
able to leave, but I think

this guy was he probably
done X amount of years

and wanted to stay because
he wanted his pension.

I don’t know. I don’t
know this system because

it’s not the same as
the military in America or

other countries. So
he could have retired.

Yes, but I bet he was
wanted to stay and this has

been his whole life.
Like this was clearly

if he’d been there for 31
years, this was his first job.

I bet to a degree
for most of that,

he liked being in the
ground self defense force.

And he wanted to hit
where he was getting, he’s 51.

He’s like X 65 is
going to be retirement.

He’s going to hit
that retirement age.

And then he’s going
to get a bigger pension.

And then I bet these
commanders like you,

I don’t like you. You’re not like as active
as the other 20 year olds running around.

He probably hasn’t
gotten to this highest level.

Again, and my mind
keeps going back probably

because he was injured.
He couldn’t just do stuff.

So he got a desk job and
he worked as a desk job.

Maybe he was competent.
Maybe not. I don’t know.

They wanted him out.
The thing is weird to me is

the pension set by
the government it’s paid

for by taxpayer money. It doesn’t negatively
impact these the commander of the base.

It doesn’t make him look bad
if this guy hits retirement age.

That’s the weird part to
me. The only reason the

commander of the base
would have done this is

because he did not like this
guy. And that is power harassment.

That is it. Like I’m
in a position of power.

I don’t like you. So I’m going to make
your life worse. He could have quit. Yes.

At 51, though, in Japan,
you’re probably not

getting a different job.
So unless he’s ready and

financially capable
of retiring, because 1.

5 million yen, because we
use the M word, the million,

sounds like a lot. If you
put that into American

money, that’d be about
$10,000. That’s money,

but it’s not life
changing money.

It is pretty shit. I think the
more I read into it and the

more sympathetic I came
to be towards this guy.

Because I bet he was,
again, that fifth floor bit,

that’s one of those little
like just every single day.

He’s got a bad
knee list to run him

down, run him down, run
him down. And that’s years

and years and years.
He lives in that dormitory.

So I don’t know how
much money he has, but

$10,000 while it is a
significant sum of money,

it’s not going to be enough to retire for
the next, let’s say, 20 years of your life.

You’re not living
off that for 20 years.

Prime Minister Kishita, he is pissed.
So they wanted to have a party.

What is it? The LDP, the liberal democratic
party. They have all the junior members,

they’re like, “Hey guys,
welcome to the democratic party.

” You guys are
awesome. We’re all going to

get together, have a
little party. Some of those

are going to dip out,
but you have a good time.

Then, so all these
young junior members of

the LDP are having
drinks this, like I assume,

fancy hotel, curtain
goes up, what happens? A

bunch of go-go dancers
come out in their underwear,

and then the party gets started.

And they got these young
politicians putting thousand

yen notes in their
mouth and holding it out

to the dancers and the
dancers taking it from

their mouth with their
mouth. So you know what

kind of party it was. Now,
this doesn’t really have

the optics that the LDP
really wants to be putting

out in the world.
Japan is suffering from a

lot of like, “Hey, maybe
our patriarchy bullshit

isn’t cool anymore,
maybe we got to stop that,

maybe we got to be
inclusive, maybe we got to

good people, we got
to stop fucking around.

” Back to the old men
issue. We got these old men

who grew up in the
60s, 70s, and 80s who are

still running stuff and
they don’t understand

the world has changed.
And so they’re still doing

dumb shit, like, “Hey,
let’s have a party where

people can take pictures
and have go-go dancers come

out, have them party
with the junior members

where people can take
pictures.” And you know,

that’s not going to get
out and cause us any

problems because we’re
all men having a good time.

So Kishida, the prime minister, gets up and
is like, “Guys, what the fuck? Seriously?”

“What the fuck is wrong with you guys?”
So the two guys who organized the party,

they had to resign.
They were out already.

So two guys who already
lost their jobs over this,

he’s actual statement.
He didn’t stand up and say,

“What the fuck guys?” I
would be a great politician

in that I would literally
stand up and go like,

“Guys, what the fuck?
What are you doing?”

What he said in no way
is this consistent with

the diversity the cabinet
aims for. So he’s like,

we’re trying to be
inclusive. We’re trying to

show that we are
equitable, that we care about

all the people of society, that
we don’t treat people poorly.

So objectifying
women is really just

not on the docket here. You
guys got to chill this shit out.

And since these old
dudes with money,

they don’t think they’re going
to get in trouble for anything.

They don’t think they
do anything wrong.

Guys had to sit down.
They had to sit down and

have a meeting to
organize this party like,

“Hey, two, three, 70-year-old,
60-year-old Japanese

men sitting in a conference
room like we got these

young guys out here. We want to
have like a welcome party for them.

” And then these old dudes are like, “Hey,
you know be awesome for a welcome party?”

Because let’s not even
take into account that at

this time, female
politicians, junior members

might not just all be dudes.
Because back when they

started, it was only
dudes. So they’re like

not in their brain. They
can’t even comprehend

that there might be women included in this
and this might be off-putting for them.

You don’t be a great party.
Back in my day in the 80s.

We had these ladies come
out and they were wearing

like basically nothing.
It was awesome.

They did a little “no,
no, no, no, no, no” for you.

And then we put money in our mouth
and it’s good money over our mouth.

And I was incredibly sexually
frustrated for like days afterwards.

The image is bad. Again,
two guys lost their job.

I’m just to imagine that
meeting that at the end of the

meeting, they’re all like
high-fiving each other

with what this great
plan they came out with.

And then when that first
picture hit the internet,

my god, the surprise
that like, whoa, people

are unhappy about this?
This thing that we did,

the way our government
has run, the only saving

grace of this is they
didn’t use taxpayer money.

This was actually all privately funded. So
at least the taxpayers didn’t put the bill,

which has been a
problem in the past.

All right, since we’re just
sort of talking about sexy,

sexy stuff, there was a
couple of surveys done

about the sexless nature
of Japanese relationships

and so we’re talking
about the birth rate is

incredibly low in Japan.
The step before birth rate

is the sex rate and that’s
something people are

not generally comfortable
talking about, but it is known now.

A lot of young
people are just losing

interest in relationships. So a lot of
young men aren’t going after relationships.

A lot of young people are
not getting into relationships.

A lot of young people are
staying virgins later into life.

This is all problematic because it means
those relationships are not developing.

They don’t know what they’re
doing. They don’t form solid

relationships and that’s why
they don’t have marriages,

marriage rates, also dropping.
There were two surveys done.

So this is why the
numbers don’t match up.

It’s interesting. They did not give the
number of the sample size, which could skew

things very wildly one
way or the other, but 48.

3% of married couples
do it zero times a month.

That’s it. So you’re married
and you just do not have

sex. This is a 16.4%
increase in the last 20 years.

So there’s always
couples. Maybe they’re

not particularly passionate.
They don’t have sex often.

They get a little
older. They decide that

it’s not really worth it.
It’s too much mental stress,

something like that.
There is an understandable

amount of people who
just don’t have sexual

relationships with their partner.
But nearly half is an amazing.

Oh, Dave’s making very
cute sounds down on my lap.

Oh, Scruffy. Oh, USA.

Really? Sexless. Okay, whatever.
Dave, you, Scruffy is not mad, Dave.

This is Dave. He is on
my lap 90% of the time.

Oh, he’s just stretched
his sexy legs out.

Check this out. Oh, you
get a little leg action there.

Okay, young people
don’t get married, but they

have sex all the time.
Once they get married,

Yeah, that’s weird. Okay,
you ask. Because it means

when you’re young, you
are a sexually active person,

getting married
should not inhibit that.

I could understand it the
number going down, like go

ahead from every day to
once a week or something.

Sure, that’s a significant decline, but
still, you’re doing it. I find it weird.

If I’m attracted to someone
being physical with them,

increases that attraction to me.

But anyways, let’s get back
onto the surveys. This is a very

survey heavy podcast
in general. So if you like

your surveys, this is
the place to come 13.

9% do it once a month. So
you have 48.3% or never doing

it all stick on top of that 13.9%
or only doing it once a month.

So that is 50 60% of people are
doing it less than twice a month. 24.

3% of men say their partner
has no response to them.

So basically they try to
get romantic or maybe they

don’t even know how anymore
because it’s been so long.

And their partner does
not respond positively

to their advances. 12% of the
men say they lack motivation.

So they’re too tired from work.

They come home. They
see their wife and like, I don’t

even want to right now
whether she wants to or not.

It seems like in these
sexless marriages, both

parties are in the
same situation where the

the men’s like, I don’t
have the motivation.

The women’s like, well,
neither do I. So there we are.

22.6% of women say
that it is mendoxy.

So mendoxy is the japanese
for troublesome or a hassle.

It is annoying. There’s a
couple of ways you can

interpret mendoxy, but
mendoxy is always negative.

There’s no good mendoxy.
It’s troublesome, too

much work, a hassle. So
like homework is mendoxy.

I don’t want to do
it. It’s too much work.

Living your life for a company
is mendoxy. It’s troublesome.

I don’t want to do it.
So they’re saying having

sex with their partner,
22.6% of women are saying

that is mendoxy. It’s
too much of a hassle to

actually have sex with
them. 20.8% say they’re too

tired from work. So that
there is 40% of women,

20% are saying it’s just
I don’t like it anymore.

It’s just too much work
and the other 20% are

saying I’m too tired.
And my argument about

the birth rate in Japan, I many times on an
engineer’s pan have directly linked that to

the work-life balance
culture in Japan because

they don’t have energy to
do things other than work.

They put all their
energy to work.

It means you don’t have
these other relationships.

These other aspects of
your life. A different survey

was done in 2024
and found that 64.

2% of married couples were
sexless. So that’s one survey saying

48.3% about 50%. The
next one is saying 64.2%.

So that is shockingly different.
That is a shocking number

because now we’re getting
65% of people who are

married just don’t have
sex. And that is normally

considered an important
part of relationship.

But to me, there’s the
other side of it where the

cheating culture in
Japan is so almost blatant

because love hotels exist.
Love hotels they claim

are because we
live in family units.

You got young people
who live with their families.

They can’t just have
sex in their apartment.

So they go to a love
hotel with their partner.

But realistically, that would
not sustain an industry.

So it’s got to be
married people having sex

with other married
people for the most part.

It’s that’s a bit shocking.
12.9% of students

who went to universities
abroad are sexless.

Compared to 53.4% of graduates
from Japanese universities are sexless.

So there is an
exposure to foreign

cultures that actually
increases maybe your drive

or understanding or
desire to have sex.

So it seems like having
experiences outside of Japan

broadens your view, which
also includes your view

of sexuality, which is
a very interesting note

and another sort of
commentary on where Japan is

struggling because if
Japan wants to fix anything,

it’s going to have to
fix its birth rate because

otherwise Japan just
isn’t going to exist anymore.

Erotic Google Drive

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Update on the Johnny’s
and Associates scandal.

Oh, just to update what the story is,
Johnny Keetagawa founded an agency

that does little pop idol bands, mostly
boys, and he was diddling a bunch of them.

Then he died and then people found out,

which actually, this is maybe
the bit that pisses me off

is that he doesn’t, they’re
actually not blaming him.

Seems somehow wrong.

Like it’s almost like
he died and lived his life

in the horrible way he wanted
to live, but he got away with it.

Whereas the people
now, I don’t know how

guilt, I mean, a bunch
of them are complicit.

So they should at least
be fired, probably arrested,

other things like that, but
it’s not gonna happen either.

Johnny’s and Associates is
going to rebrand into smile up.

So if you were abused by Johnny Keetagawa,
just smile up and everything will be fine.

The new company, smile up, is going
to focus on compensating the victims,

which I assume, I mean, that is
probably one of the better outcomes.

At least they’re doing something
they’re obligated to do something.

But it’s okay.

So the next bit is that there’s a new
talent management company will be created.

So Johnny’s and Associates
was a talent management company.

They’re saying we’re taking that
company and making it into smile up,

which is going to compensate
the victims of Johnny Keetagawa.

Then we’re going to make a
new talent management company.

So they’re not, they’re
making a new company in the

hopes of distancing themselves
from Johnny Keetagawa.

They’re saying the company
we have, we’re going to rename.

And that company is going to focus on.

the recompense.

Yeah, a little torn.

I feel like this company
should not be allowed to exist.

But it’s only because I
don’t know who’s in charge.

Like if they got rid of everyone
and swapped everyone out

and like, okay, we’re
going to make a company

to fix the things and make a new company
that manages pop idol bands with oversight.

Maybe that’s okay.

There are still young men who
want to grow up and be pop idols.

So they shouldn’t have
their dreams crushed,

but they also shouldn’t be diddled
by old men like Johnny Keetagawa.

And that’s the bit that needs to
be said more than anything else.

Johnny Keetagawa was diddling little boys.

He was an abuser.

He was taking advantage of his position.

He was a horrible, horrible man
and deserved to be shamed in life.

He deserved to feel his whole
world come down around him.

And that did not happen.

So that to me is the core injustice

that is not being addressed
because we can’t because he died.

So it’s bugging me
that he got away with it.

So all these new companies and
stuff, they don’t mean anything to me.

So the new talent management company,
they’re like, we got to get a name.

And then the guy who’s
president is like, well, we

should be one of like,
maintain the founders element.

Like he’s like, maybe he
wants to put Johnny in

it, which I’m like, dude,
you should be saying.

Johnny Keetagawa was
a disgusting human being

who did old little boys
who wanted to be famous.

And he’s like, no, no, we want to do that.

And then the statement, this
actually statement piss me off.

What is important is that
it represents the energy

and pride that the
performers have cultivated.

But, again, what you’re
saying is like saying this

guy who abused his
position, who abused people,

that’s not as important as these performers
cultivating all their energy and stuff.

It’s like they’re trying
to pass, okay, this is it.

They’re trying to pass by the issue.

They’re trying to just like pretend,

oh, Johnny Keetagawa’s dead, so
I guess it doesn’t matter anymore.

He wasn’t the only one.

I mean, there are more than one victim.

If you want to know exactly,

there were 478 victims, 325
are seeking some kind of redress.

Ah, man, I don’t know.

If they would stand up and say, Johnny
Keetagawa is gross, horrible, awful.

I think I would be more okay
with what they’re doing now.

But the fact that they
are not addressing the

core issue, they’re
letting the core issue go.

It’s really not sitting right with me.

So like your new company, I
don’t know, what does it represent?

Does it represent what
Johnny Keetagawa represented?

We don’t know because you’re not
denouncing what has already happened.

You’re not taking responsibility for it.

I don’t know what I actually expect.

It’s an entertainment company
and they’re inherently abusive.

But when you have kids, people
try to ask you challenging questions.

They’re usually really stupid.

And my daughter wanted
to, for a little while,

she wanted to do like
not like an idol thing.

She wanted to do like modeling
in like magazines and I said,

no, and it’s not that the modeling
in magazines is inherently abusive,

but the people who are attracted
to that are abusive people.

It’s like the argument like video
games make people violence.

I have played video games my entire life.

It has not made me violent.

I think violent people
will be attracted to

video games because
there is violence there in.

Just like a girl wanting
to be in a magazine and

model and stuff, isn’t
inherently manipulative,

but manipulative people are going
to be attracted to that industry.

So that was my concern.

If the industry had integrity, I wouldn’t
have problem with it, but this is it.

The Johnny Kitagawa scandal
shows that the industry,

because everyone was
complicit, doesn’t have integrity,

which is why I wouldn’t
want my kids or anyone

kids to actually go
into it on their terms.

If there’s another way
you could do it on your

terms, then I actually
think it would be fine.

(phone ringing)

This is a little more
uplifting, which is nice.

(laughs)

(laughs)

Ah, Q-Shoo.

On September 28th, so it’s been a very
hot month, that’s not actually important.

Solar power exceeded the need of the
area and some places got free electricity,

and it may continue into
October and November afternoon.

So, Q-Shoo, very bright place, very sunny.

So the perfect kind of
environment for solar panels,

where I live, I don’t know if
it’s good or not, but not Q-Shoo.

Q-Shoo is a very, very sunny place.

Supply and demand have to be balanced.

This is something I didn’t know.

If supply is higher, and
they have to shut down

the machines, that actually
damages the equipment.

So the ideal for solar
panel is that the supply

and demand are equal
as equal as they can be.

There’s also the issue of the inability

to really store the electricity
generated for long term.

So this is maybe to me,
the issue with solar power

at the moment is solar panels
are great, but we need a solar

panel battery so that the
light, the energy it collects

can be stored for use
when it isn’t as sunny.

It’s actually the reason that in Q-Shoo,

they also use nuclear
power plants, the supplant.

So they’re like flip back
and forth, depending on need.

Houses have smart meters,
and they help with distribution.

It’s really important that the smart meter

can tell you how much
they’ve used in the

past, so they can
actually kind of calculate

how much you’re probably
gonna use today, tomorrow.

If they can do that for the whole city,

they can make sure that everything
is in balance and maintain this stuff.

But it is nice to see something
like solar power being successful.

I think it was in Scotland.

I forget what, there
was a different story,

’cause it wasn’t an
English-used pen story.

Didn’t write it down.

I’m pretty sure it was Scotland.

One of their wind farms created
an excess of electricity as well.

So these green power solutions,
as they improve over time,

are becoming more efficient, are becoming
more, I mean, they’re filling the needs,

and they’re not doing it by
destroying the environment as much.

Again, there’s always some to create

all the facilities, the
wind I’ve been in the past,

very serious about the
difference between a windmill.

And it was solar and
in a wind power turbine.

There you go, my words were gone.

In a wind turbine, I’ve
actually been very technical

on that because of an
activity we do at work.

And suddenly wind turbine
was gone from my head,

so I guess I can’t be
as judgmental in the

future, but I’m gonna
be because that’s my job.

As nice to see these technologies moving
forward, supplying enough energy for areas,

and that plus other energy
sources is gonna be amazing.

Hopefully it will fix some of the problems.

Japan just had the hottest
September on record.

It was up an average of 2.6 degrees,

and that I know people are still
trying to argue climate change.

I guess the argument has changed.

It used to be climate change is real.

Now they’re saying, well,
the climate change is all

the time, and there’s
nothing we can do about it.

And there absolutely is
something we can do about it.

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Nagoya City in Japan.

So we talked about this before.

They’ve tried to encourage
people not to walk up and down

escalators while they’re in motion, ’cause
they’re worried about people falling down.

They get off balance and stuff, so
what they want is you to stand on it,

hold onto the rail, go up to
the top, everyone’s happy.

Nagoya has begun a city-wide ordinance,

making you are not allowed
to walk in the escalator.

They have done a very Japanese
thing, so they’ve made a rule,

but if you break the rule,
there is no punishment.

So if you come to Nagoya
and you walk up the escalator,

maybe an official will come to
you and go, no, no, don’t do that.

Maybe someone will look at you in a dirty
way, but you won’t actually be penalized.

Maybe that maybe a cop
would talk to you and say,

do you know it’s a rule
that you can’t do that?

And you just say no, and they’ll be
like, well, it is, so don’t do it again.

It is the first city in Japan
to make it an actual ordinance.

They do have many rules in
Japan that come with no punishment,

which makes it very hard in
my mind to enforce the rule.

It’s not like I think it should have a
heavy punishment or anything like that,

but if you have no punishment, then people
are not going to really respect the rule.

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The Japan government is seeking to
dissolve the unification church in Japan.

It’s primarily because
of a probe into donations

that ruin families,
and they had a story

about trading kids and
other questionable practices.

But the one, so the trading kids
one is actually very hard to prove,

because the parents who raised the
kid are gonna just say, that’s my kid,

and you can’t force DNA
tests in their free society.

I was about to say,
unfortunately, but I guess it’s

fortunate I don’t want people,
I don’t know what I want.

I live in this weird, I live in this weird

in between world, where when
you know it’s bad and they’re

doing bad things, I want you
to go and be able to prove it,

but then also I want them to follow
rule of law and not break the law.

So I guess if I had to have
the debate in the argument,

I would actually fall
on the side of the law,

prove the things you can
actually prove, we should

not be like, er, civil
rights and stuff at all.

Jeez.

Anyways, this all stems from Prime Minister,
former Prime Minister Abe being shot,

and the guy who shot him
was angry about the unification

church, his mother had
given massive donations

to the church and ruined
his family financially.

He didn’t actually intend
to attack the Prime Minister.

He thought there was going
to be a unification church leader

at the speech where the Prime
Minister was and there it wasn’t

one, so he decided, well,
here’s my opportunity, he does it.

So this is the scary part,
this is actually the scary part.

It actually started a
probe into the church.

His story came out and then people started
looking at the church and looking at this.

And then people started
coming forward and saying,

“Yes, the church does abuse donations,
“they do pressure you, they do all.

“these things, they do manipulate people

“into taking all their
money, they do ruin families.”

And now the government’s acting on it,
so in a weird way, and I actually feel like

you shouldn’t say this
out loud, he was successful.

As he got the government
to look at the church

and now the government
is looking at the church

and they’re talking about
dissolving the church.

What this means is that
the church is dissolved,

it means it will
lose its tax benefits.

So it just becomes a corporation, but
it has to pay taxes, and for a religion,

the free money, the non-taxable
money, is how they survive.

It’s why these churches
are so focused on money

’cause they can get as much
as they can, they can hoard as

much as they can, and they
can create programs and whatnot

to actually expand their
church and get more money.

So that’s what it’s all about.

I don’t let people tell you otherwise.

Historically speaking, the
reason the Japanese government

can dissolve a religious
group is it’s clearly found,

it has clearly been found to do
harm to public welfare substantially.

So you could do a little public
harm and you wouldn’t get in trouble,

but if you do a lot of public
harm, substantial public harm,

they can dissolve you,
you lose your tax benefits.

Historically speaking, only two
cults have been dissolved so far.

The most famous one was the Alm Cult, AUM,

back in 1995, they did
the Sarin Gas Attack.

It was a Dunes Day Cult,
so they released this gas

onto a subway and it
killed a bunch of people

who made a bunch of
other people really sick.

I read a book on it, it’s pretty horrible.

The people who survived, so the Sarin Gas.

The problem is they suffer from

essentially like pain and
headaches and stuff all the time.

And initially everyone
was very sympathetic.

This was maybe the weirdest
part of the book for me.

Everyone was very sympathetic at first.

Then two years later when you’re like,

I have a headache because of the Sarin
Gas Attack that happened two years ago.

People have lost their sympathy.

They’re like, well, I was two years
ago, you must be over it by now.

But it is a chronic result
of inhaling the Sarin Gas.

Nothing can do about it.

And then so these people are like, my life,
in a weird way has been ruined because

there’s no physical,
you can’t look at me and

say, yes, he was attacked,
something happened.

I can feel internal pain
from now until the day I die.

And that is terrifying to me.

And then the people around
you, they were sympathetic.

But first, oh my God, you
were part of this horrible thing.

And then a couple years later, like,
could you just shut up and aches?

And I understand both sides.

It is, that is an absolute nightmare.

The Prime Day is a big
important Amazon day.

I think we’ve all partaken.

Partook.

We have all partook in
Prime Day in the past.

I’m not a homers know sure.

Partake.

You have partaken, I
guess, would be the problem.

Partook is quite fun to say.

33 workers have decided to halt deliveries

because of non-payment
of Prime Day incentives.

Of course, Prime Day means
there are more packages.

Usually in this area, they average
about 90 packages a day back in 2021.

It kind of went up during the pandemic

because people were
ordering more stuff online.

On the busy days, like, Prime Day,
they can get 200 packages a day.

So more than double
the regular amount of work

they have to do, they have to bust out
in the day to make sure people are happy.

They were supposed to get benefits.

So you incentives to work this day.

And then there was non-payment
from, this is a subcontractor.

So you can’t blame Amazon directly,

but also, I mean, because
Amazon’s been in the news,

because there are people
who want to strike and there are

people who want to unionize
and is being problem clearly.

Things connected to Amazon.

This is what I’m noticing.

So the Johnny Keetigawa
story from the beginning

of the story in this
story, it’s these big

companies and just
the tendrils that go out.

They infect other companies.

And these other companies like, oh,
well, I’ll take the incentive for Amazon.

I won’t pay the subcontractor workers.

They’ll just get the regular
pay and I get to keep that extra.

There’s a complicit nature in these
other companies to profit and benefit.

And they don’t want
to take care of a worker.

We live in a shit world.

I’ve done a couple of CMEBs on
capitalism and not anti capitalism,

but I don’t think the
capitalism we live in right now

is real capitalism, because real
capitalism needs to be controlled.

And that’s actually the problem.

It’s not.

These people talk about free capitalism,
but free capitalism leads to monopolies.

And these monopolies,
the FEC, I don’t know.

F’s, federal trade
commission, FTC in America,

they’re actually accusing Amazon of
being a monopoly on the online space now,

because there’s no company
that come up and take its place.

So they might break them up
or talk about breaking them up.

And that is the natural state.

Companies, they try to gain as much power

and push other companies
out and create a monopoly.

But that’s when it’s not capitalism
anymore, because there is no competition.

Capitalism, the fundamental
aspect of it is competition.

So the government actually
needs to step in and regulate,

essentially how big
these companies can get,

but they’re not doing that because
of our capitalist society and whatnot.

And then these companies
are now paying the politicians.

You know, the deal.

I don’t know if I really
have to explain this again.

But I think what we’re living in at
the moment is not real capitalism.

And that’s maybe the issue.

Because real capitalism, I
guess there’s no real things.

Like true communism, true capitalism,
those things don’t really happen.

We always get some bastardization of it.

But you can’t have true
capitalism without a significant

amount of regulation,
which seems antithetical,

but it’s necessary to make sure
that you don’t get monopolies.

Oh, we’re getting into creepy news,
which is super fun for everybody.

Japan users have begun reporting
that their Google Drive accounts

are getting banned, restoring
erotic anime and adult content.

I didn’t even think about it.

Like I have a Google, I
have a Google Gmail account.

You can send a message to
chunkwithbeefchest@gmail.com.

It will come to me.

It comes with a Google Drive.

So you get whatever the 2, 3, 15 gigs.

I forget how many gigs it is.

It’s just free.

So of course you’re going to use it.

And if you want to like,
I don’t want to keep this

dirty, dirty stuff,
that’s essentially illegal.

Because you got to remember like
uncensored stuff is illegal in Japan.

The erotic anime probably is uncensored.

And that’s illegal in Japan.

So I don’t want to keep
that on my computer.

So I’ll keep it in my Google
Drive where no one can look at it.

But Google probably has spiders and
bots and things searching through it.

So I bet a person– maybe
the bot would report back like a

suspicious thing and then a
person goes in and looks at it.

You agree to that in
your terms and services.

This is just stuff I hadn’t thought of.

So this was very interesting to me.

Because if I was going to keep erotic
material somewhere, it wouldn’t be on my PC.

It would be in the cloud
what I would imagine

to be secure that other
people couldn’t access.

And then I realized, oh shit,
there’s the company could access it.

And they don’t want to get
in trouble for storing child porn

or adult content that’s illegal
like in Japan uncensored porn.

That’s a bad place to keep it.

There was a helpful user on Twitter.

I should start switching over to X.

There’s a company in Florida
called X that is suing Twitter.

And so it’s going to
depend how that rules out

whether or not we end
up calling it X or not.

So this user on X decided to like, just
make sure everyone knows what’s up.

So Google do not use it for storing
your erotic anime and adult content.

Drop box.

Not safe for work material is OK.

It’s a long established company.

So it seems like the good choice.

There is a storage site called
Mega, not safe for work materials OK.

But how long will the company last?

It’s one of those considerations.

Like it’s not a long founded company,

which doesn’t mean it’s
going to last for a long time.

P Cloud is expensive,
but it lasts a long time.

So essentially you buy space on P Cloud.

You can keep it forever.

It’s not safe for work.

He put questionable so their
policy isn’t super clear about

whether you can store not safe
for work material on their servers.

There’s a company called Box.

It’s expensive and you
cannot store not safe for work.

So this was interesting.

So this guy actually did the work.

He’s like, oh, I’m going
to find all the services

where you could
store stuff on the cloud.

And then can you store erotic anime there?

And you have to pay how
long is the service going to last?

How respectable is the service?

And then he said, just a helpful tip.

A helpful tip for our
porn friends out there.

Don’t forget to zip and password
protect your data, which is good advice.

I mean, I’m being really honest.

And again, this is someone who
cares a great deal about their data.

And in a weird way cares about your data.

So of course, zip– he actually
said, double zip and password protect.

And I was like, wow, that is a lot of work.

Because I probably at this stage
wouldn’t be storing stuff online.

I would just find it online.

And then it’s not as
directly connected to me.

Now I’m thinking about how to do it.

You get a VPN so it
doesn’t keep your location.

And you just go on to Reddit or Twitter.

And I mean, let’s face it, the foundation
of those websites is pornography.

You probably don’t think about it.

Like, if you don’t go to Reddit for porn,

you probably don’t realize 50%,
60% of that website is pornography.

And Twitter is the same.

You probably, if you don’t go there
for porn, you don’t see any porn.

But if you start looking
for porn, there’s tons of it.

I would say that’s actually half.

Not a kind of one.

How much of Reddit is pornographic?

Safe for work– Oh, stop it.

Safe for work is 78%
not safe for work is 22%.

So that– OK, that’s a
lot less than I expected.

But it is showing you a significant portion
of that website is actually pornography.

13% of Twitter is pornography.

13% of all tweets–

they can’t monetize those tweets
or a sell or put ads or whatever.

That’s what I mean.

I actually thought those numbers would
be higher, but it’s still significant.

If you creep you creep you person and you
want to keep your creepy, creepy images,

you have to be really
careful about doing

it with, I assume, a
creepy, creepy company.

The new Johnny’s an associate’s
company might be the right place for you.

OK, our last two stories.

They’re kind of– the
stories themselves are

just, again, gross
people doing gross things.

But it was the reasoning that I enjoyed.

Because, again, an
unexpected theme popped up

when I started looking at
the dirty stories this week.

The police knew the tenant.

It was decided on a bus and
he was sitting there so late.

And he brushed his arm past
her and he touched her booby.

And then he’s like, hmm, I’m going to
keep my hand here on this lady’s booby.

And the lady was like,
well, that’s not cool.

So she gets off the bus and
that even he calls the police.

She’s like, this guy touched my booby.

They went on to the bus.

The bus had a camera on
it and they found his face.

They found his train pass.

I see card thing and they could
trace where he was figure out who was.

Lieutenant in the police.

They arrested him, brought him in.

He was requested to resign.

So he was given the initial punishment

of a one-tenth pay cut for three
months, which is fucking nothing.

They didn’t want to fire him.

They requested he resign.

He did resign.

But when he was
arrested, he said, I felt

happy when my arm
touched the woman’s breast.

So I maintained that position.

It’s the– maybe the warped idea
of, well, this is making me happy.

Therefore, it’s OK.

Or this is making me happy.

Therefore, I assume it’s
making her happy because

I’m the most important
person in the world.

I don’t– I would like–
there’s something I want

to drill down into the
minutiae of that mentality.

Of this makes me happy.

Therefore, it’s acceptable.

Or this makes me happy.

Therefore, it’s not a bad thing.

Or this makes me happy.

I like it.

Therefore, they should be OK
with it, even if they don’t like it.

Something like that.

I’m a little torn on what.

I would like a little more explanation.

But I found that to be the weakest
excuse or reason for doing something

because, yeah, there’s lots of
things that would make me feel good.

Make me happy.

But if it doesn’t make the other
person happy, that’s why it’s illegal.

You think a police lieutenant
may understand that.

All right.

So 4am.

It’s 4 o’clock in the morning.

What are you doing?

I’m– I’m never up at 4am.

This is another reason
I’m not going to ever

be like the master
criminal I aspire to be.

Because I think to really
do good crime, you got

to be like a 3, 4, 5am
person, which I’m not.

I would have to like
re-organize my life in a

completely different way
to be a really good criminal.

4am, this guy’s like, what I want
to break into a high school gym.

We did.

Now, the alarm went off the
police arrived and he was arrested.

Turns out this is the
third time he’s been

arrested for breaking
into high school gyms.

The other two times, he stole
some high school girl shoes.

There have been other break-ins
and gyms where shoes have been stolen.

Police are connecting these.

Pretty logically, again,
good detective work.

And they’re trying to see if he’s
done this more than three times.

There’s three times he’s been caught.

But they’re thinking maybe
it’s been more than three times.

He was arrested and they were like,
hey, you’ve been punished for this twice.

Why do you break into high
school gymnasiums and steel shoes?

And he said, because
I like high school girls.

And honestly, I can’t
really argue with his logic.

Have you covered this guy before?

Have you covered this guy before?

It is very possible.

Is this the school desk guy?

No, the school desk guy is different.

This guy, so the school
desk guy, what he wanted

to do was recreate a high
school classroom in his home.

And then he didn’t just buy stuff online.

He wanted authentic high school stuff.

OK, now we all know this
is creepy, creepy stuff.

This is creepy dudes being creepy.

I thought the thing
to did, the high school

recreation in his home, which is
like serial killer level psycho stuff.

He’s in there alone.

So he’s not doing
something in the classroom.

So to me, the terrifying
part of the guy who

wanted to seal the
desk, get them into his

room to create a high
school room is that he

then would have needed
a next step to finalize

whatever his fantasy and his
mind was, which is terrifying.

This guy stealing shoes exclusively.

So I’m going to assume
that he’s taking them

home and satisfying
himself with, again,

I’m going to go ahead and assume the smell
of the shoe is kind of what he’s into.

I may be the touch of the feel.

I don’t know.

I don’t want to get into it.

Ignat’s put into the chat, washing them.

He gets, he just goes
in, watches the shoe,

breaks into the gym
again and puts them back.

Awesome.

That is a criminal I can get
behind somebody who comes

in and just cleans up for
you and then gets away.

His statement, so we
have the police lieutenant

before who said, basically, I was touching
her boob and I liked touching her boob.

Therefore it’s okay.

This guy’s like, I like high school girls.

Why wouldn’t I break into a
gymnasium and steal their shit?

Which is, there’s sort of a mental bit to
this that I think needs to be dealt with.

The fact that the
first guy is a police

lieutenant made that a
little more shocking that

he didn’t understand
sort of the why of the law.

It’s not really about
how he feels about how

the other people feel, but then I
could see like you see this excuse.

It’s when these excuses
come up in tandem that this

guy who you just go straight
up, he’s stealing shoes.

He’s a psycho.

He’s using the exact same reasoning as this
is Luke Tenant, this police lieutenant.

I want to conclusion.

It’s like I want to wrap
up like a sitcom and

have like a lesson
we’ve learned at the end.

Maybe I have to organize it that way.

So we have to learn a lesson.

The lesson we learn
from these two, maybe

creepy guys, is because
I like it or I want it.

That’s not enough to make it okay.

Doo-doo-doo-doo.

I’m kind of like little
chime to help you

know you realized
you’ve learned a lesson or

maybe the audience goes, “Ugh,
we’ve all learned a lesson together.”

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Mori and the ladies

Ninja News returns. This is just a quick update to get me back in the mode of making podcasts, then another new episode tomorrow to make sure that the news isn’t stale.

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