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Punch the monkey kind of went viral he got famous because he was abandoned by his mother

and the zoo keepers gave him this like orange orangutan from ikea stuffed toy he hung on to it

it’s very cute very sad this poor little monkey hugging the little toy monkey and everyone loves

punch i actually understand it i get it punch was very cute punch has grown up a little bit but he’s

become a viral sensation which means a lot more people go to that zoo so he’s almost like a

celebrity now for that zoo that draws attention and if we’re on ninja news japan you know that

attention is not good attention originally when i read this it said a man in a yellow suit climbed

into the monkey enclosure and now i thought the curious george man in the yellow suit with the man

with the yellow hat that whole deal which i’m like don’t climb into monkey enclosures that’s

shitty don’t do that but at the same time part of my brain went and i kind of get the the yellow suit

and climbing into the monkey enclosure and trying to make friends with punch and that’ll that’ll be

some kind of viral video a prank thing i don’t know this is obviously not the life i choose then i saw

some pictures and videos and it was way worse because it was a big circular head in a blue suit

the head was yellow and the suit was blue and it was for a crypto company so there was one man got up

in the sort of mascot uniform this big yellow head like a coin in a blue suit with a red tie and then

climbed into the monkey enclosure and i don’t know what their plan actually was because as soon as he

climbed into the monkey enclosure all the monkeys ran away they’re not used to giant yellow headed men

in blue suits climbing into the monkey enclosure they know the keepers of the monkey enclosure

they’re friends they’re cool this is not what they’re used to so they all just like they said monkey

mountain so i’m assuming there’s like a hill in the monkey enclosure they all ran up to the top of

that kind of huddled together like whoa this isn’t cool some zoo staff come in and they kind of

restrain the man they say detain him until the police arrive the police arrive and he is promptly

arrested with his cohort who is filming who initially claimed they were not together so he was like trying

to throw his friend out of the bus and get away with it i was just here innocently filming this strange

person but it turns out it’s two americans in their 20s and this is obviously some kind of weird

crypto promo thing i don’t know man like is this where we are how much did the crypto company pay them

was it there because they’re in their 20s it might even be their crypto company and they thought this

was a really good idea and they do it in japan and they think uh in japan nothing’s gonna happen no

one’s gonna give us a hard time i don’t know i don’t know what they’re thinking because if you think

about this the only thing that’s going to lead to is arrested now i went to a website that i often go to

called bengoshi .com which is lawyer .com and there they talked about this incident and they said what is

the crime that’s been committed because the zoo is a public place and yet the enclosures are private but

they’re open because again he quite easily climbed over the edge so what law is he breaking is it

trespassing and this is actually forcible obstruction of business which is the catch -all crime in japan

get a ding and that was primary for giles forcible obstruction of business because they know they’re

not supposed to trespass there is sort of like a given rule that you are not supposed to engage in

you’re not supposed to like climb over anything you’re not supposed to go into any enclosure i mean

they’re actually lucky the monkey didn’t attack them because you think all these monkeys are little

tiny things monkeys are terrifying like they are way stronger than they seem to be for their size

and they can be very vicious and i think yes i could take on punch the monkey by himself give me 20

monkeys i think i might be in a lot of trouble vtuber agency rimi resu rimi resu vtuber agency rimi resu

has fired two vtubers for breaking the no dating rule now usually for idols it’s dating fans that’s

dating so it’s often fans or another artist or something like that but they have in their

contracts they’re not allowed to date i think this is archaic i think the idea of managing people’s

personal lives so they can’t form normal human relationships is bad vtubers it’s almost extra

weird because you’re not getting a real person on the screen in front of you you’re getting a

persona like the whole vtuber idea is i’m not putting my face on it i’m not putting my actual

personality out there i’m putting on a persona i’m putting on a fake thing but everyone understands

the the social contract that this is not a real thing i’m looking at there’s a real person back there

but i’m not in love with them i’m in love with the character i’m in love with the character they’ve

created maybe or at least that’s what i would think it’s two vtubers who are dating each other so

this to me seems like it would have been a very easy thing to keep secret because they’re vtubers

so no one knows what they look like so people don’t generally or not successfully go hunting for

them out in the street like they would with like famous people in japan you’re not going to catch

them coming out of a hotel together or coming out of each other’s apartments because you shouldn’t know

what they look like i mean they might end up figuring that out in real life but that seems like a

thing you could keep quiet but still in vtuber land unless the characters were dating which would be a

great social experiment like would people get upset if the two actual vtuber actors dated

versus would they be as upset or more upset or lesser upset if the two vtuber characters started

dating i think i have an experiment we need to run in the future hanadei ruka and baku baku have both

been fired because they were dating each other the agency said they caused anxiety and damaged trust

again i don’t necessarily agree with i think two people dating is not part of the company’s business

if they want to date like they might my only hope is they get to maintain the character persona like

they get to keep the baku baku character or whatnot so that they can then use it on their own channels

because if they’ve already built up an audience it’s not going to make a huge difference you just

won’t get the same like support you would from an agency i just i don’t like the agencies in japan

thinking they can control every aspect of your life ruka said it was their own fault and ruka then

said the agency was supportive with them and showed them the utmost courtesy so they’re trying to leave

on good terms which again shows that these vtubers like they understand what they did they also want to

live a real life and they’re still being respectful on their way out i don’t know they seem like good

people i hope they get to keep dating i went to bengoshi .com second mentioned today a woman found out her

husband was having uh cheating on her with another man oh that’s exciting in japan you can

sue the affair partner so if i find out my wife is cheating i can sue her the i can sue the person

she’s cheating with and vice versa if i cheat on my wife my wife could sue the person i was cheating on

now the problem is both men were married to women and so both men who were cheating on their wives if

the wives wanted to sue the other person she was saying like isn’t it a problem would it just

nullify the effect like if i sue them for three million yen and then they sue me for three million

yen there’s no point to it because then we both at some point lose three million yen now that is

interesting because they’re talking about if it’s shared assets so if one person has all the money

they would have to pay the damages uh she doesn’t actually probably want to sue the other woman she

just wants to sue then punish the man when you do this kind of suit uh you can usually get between

one and three million yen but it depends on the circumstances and i didn’t know about the

circumstances so what they think about compensation is determined by the length of the marriage the

length of the infidelity and how often they met so if you had a short relationship but had very many

meetings that might be worse than having a short relationship and only meeting once or twice if you

had a very long relationship and only met a few times is that better or worse so they didn’t get into

too many of the details but you can see what they’re taking into account is how long has the

marriage been going on how long have they been cheating and did they meet a lot like how much

damage did they do to the marriage that kind of thing in this case the two men had been meeting for

two months and it seems like they only met two times so the lawyers predicted that if you did sue

successfully and you won you would probably get a million yen which is the low end of the one to three

million yen scale but then the other woman could sue you back for the exact same amount of money

the claims are treated completely independently and so that’s it it really comes down to if you have

shared assets and the other person has shared assets it might not actually be worth doing but

then yeah if you’re just suing someone and then they sue you back and you actually end up having to

pay the same amount of money either way it just sort of is a zero -sum game so it’s 6 a .m and you get

woken up and you get woken up because there’s a strange person in your house and this guy wakes

up and there’s a lady in his house so he gets his phone out and he calls the police and he says

there’s a woman in my house and that woman isn’t supposed to be in his house so he’s actually asking

the police come please remove this woman from my house the woman right after the phone call slaps

him in the face so you’re standing in your living room i’m trying to imagine this scenario i’m standing

in my living room it’s really early in the morning there’s a strange woman in my house

and then i call the police i’m like i’m assuming he asked her to leave he gave her the opportunity

like hey you’re in the wrong house door’s that way you can leave right now but then she didn’t so

he’s like i’m gonna call the police if you don’t leave she didn’t so he picks up the phone he calls

the police like hey there’s a lady in my house can you get her out and then she slaps him in the face

i’m wondering if she slapped him in the face because she was offended that he called the cops or is

she’s offended that he asked her to leave or if she had just come in to slap him in the face in

the first place she was immediately arrested which makes perfect sense uh she said she admitted to it

she said there is no mistake i slapped him uh he didn’t claim to have an injury he didn’t like try

to like make this worse than it was he said there was he was not injured uh nothing has been stolen

and he has no relationship to the woman they don’t seem to have any relationship at all so there’s just

this weird question of why did this woman go into his house and why did he think it was okay to slap

him in the face we don’t have any answers and this is another an into news japan mystery why would you

walk into someone else’s house and again no violence they’re not even threatening you it seems his phone

call to the police was relatively you know calm and then you could have just left and you didn’t and

then take it upon yourself to slap him in the face yeah i don’t know what’s going on there

41 year old unemployed man called the cops 100 plus times saying things like come right now come

bust me so he’s like calling out the police challenging the police he often would call them

up and say there was an incident like i was beaten by a police officer police are obligated to come and

investigate these kind of claims so they come and claim and find out it’s not true i don’t know how

they didn’t arrest him for false like accusations or a false police call or a false i mean there’s a

lot of false things he actually seems to have done here in which case you think they could have arrested

him sooner this is japan the cops honestly are often trying to give people a fair shake and overall i

think that’s a good thing it seems like after the 50th time maybe you could take it more seriously

they were finding it difficult to get any work done so he calls them up he got arrested on arrest he said

i made the calls they were all justified so he was calling them for incidents that didn’t occur he

thinks that was justified he was calling them daring the police to bust him and then when it happens he’s

like whoa guys what’s going on here this is all confusion all my calls were justified uh he at the

end of the day i think he actually got what he wanted a cop in saga was going to sort of move on

they didn’t make it clear if he was moving on within the police force if he was moving on to

something else but he was moving away from the station he was working at now we know that at

least and so the station was throwing a farewell party which is very nice it shows your co -workers

have a certain amount of care for you it shows that you are appreciated in your role the restaurant

got a call in the afternoon and the call said look at the entrance well that’s that’s very suspicious

let’s go look at the entrance so go look at the entrance and there’s a handwritten letter which i

i don’t know i find that’s a nice touch you know we don’t get a lot of handwritten stuff anymore

so there’s a handwritten letter employee found a note that said there was an explosive device in

the restaurant now if you’re going to threaten to bomb a place threatening to bomb a place where a

whole horde of police officers are going to be uh it’s probably not the best choice so this criminal is

making a really bad choice the police of course lots of them show up for their farewell party and the

restaurant’s like hey we can’t actually have the farewell party because we’ve gotten told that

there’s a bomb on the premises your guys are coming to check it out so the cops immediately

start investigating leads back to the guest of honor for the party so when he was confronted he said

i didn’t want to attend the farewell party and then instead of moving on to whatever he was going to

move on to if it was within the police force he voluntarily quit his position uh all because he

didn’t want to go to a party now i am not a social person really i spend most of my time in front of

my computer if i can uh i hang out with my dog i don’t go to social events very often i find them

very draining i’m one of those kind of people but i also understand you just go there sit it out for

a couple hours leave early and everything’s fine like you go you have your three or four obligatory

drinks you say thank you to everybody and you just say i’m sorry i have another appointment i gotta go

uh don’t threaten to blow the place up especially if it’s a whole bunch of cops who are going to track

you down immediately and just even if you’re got like a socially inept person like i am on the same

side of the spectrum as this guy this is not the best way to get out of things since we’re on the

topic of bombs 27 year old man was arrested for sending a bomb threat to nintendo headquarters i don’t

understand why uh like they don’t explain what the frustration was but he was clearly really annoyed

with nintendo the company and so he sent a mail he mailed him a letter again another handwritten letter

quite nice uh and it said i will bomb you bastards i have already planted bombs at nintendo headquarters

so of course this is another forcible obstruction of business the last one was also a forcible

obstruction of business uh that one didn’t get put in this is shows a little bit of a bias towards

the police officer the police officer wasn’t charged with anything and then had to quit his job

but this guy who said did the exact same thing sent a bomb threat to a company forcible obstruction

of business and he’s being arrested is that fair treatment i don’t really know i think nintendo is a

bigger company but the threat is exactly the same that the crime is exactly the same so there’s a

certain amount of injustice going on here but how badly did you lose at wii tennis to actually

threaten to blow up nintendo headquarters since we have been talking about criminals getting arrested

uh criminals have the right in japan to not answer questions just like america the fifth amendment i

believe it is you have a fifth amendment right to not incriminate yourself not say things that might

accidentally be misinterpreted a bunch of stuff like that i agree with it i think it is the i have

always said it’s like the police and the prosecutor’s job to prove points it’s the detective’s job to go

out and detect you as the criminal you commit the crime but you don’t help the police get you in

trouble i think that’s absolutely fair so it’s the criminal’s right to not answer questions it is the

prosecutor’s job to try to get them to answer questions so this could be very frustrating as a

job i could actually see how frustrating this could be because here you are sitting with a guy for

probably hours and you’re asking him questions about the crime that you know he knows the answer to

you know he did it but then every time you ask a question he doesn’t answer the question doesn’t

answer the question straightforwardly it’s not that simple and then uh well god that’s frustrating

this goes on and on and on and on it could go on for hours or days a solar power company president

was being indicted for fraud uh probably fraud connected to the solar panels or something like

that or stealing money from someone i don’t know they don’t get into the actual details of the

crime at first the president denied the charges and said he would remain silent for the rest of the

interview so the prosecutors are allowed to interview him but he’s like look i didn’t do it

i’m not going to say anymore again not my job to help you prosecute me you do your job i’ll do my job

my job right now stay silent the prosecutor ended up getting frustrated with this because he wasn’t

answering the questions he wanted answered and he said to be hostile to the prosecutor’s office

means you are an antisocial person completely now that doesn’t sound too bad in english uh calling

someone antisocial you know it’s not nice but i think in english it’s i mean i’m a technically

antisocial because i just said i just sit on my computer all day doing nothing i would do everything

and i can everything i can to not go to parties and whatnot but i would still not go so far as to

threaten to blow a place up so i get it it’s frustrating but antisocial doesn’t seem to hurt that

much but then you realize in japanese the term antisocial is generally only used for yakuza and

organized criminal organizations organized criminal organizations criminal organizations

organized criminal organizations it’s for the yakuza it’s a way they refer to the yakuza and then

this guy’s not a yakuza so being referred to as a yakuza in that kind of derogatory term

has more impact in japanese so that’s the thing you gotta know so the prosecutor basically is saying

this guy’s a yakuza if he doesn’t answer his questions uh the defense team then lodged a

complaint saying the prosecutor had made insulting remarks uh judges went yep you’re not allowed to go

around calling people yakuza uh without proof and you’re a prosecutor and you should know that kind

of stuff so you’re a bad boy and then they spanked his bottom this is the biggest news story that has

happened in the last couple weeks uh apparently because it showed up in my feeds i have about 20

feeds that i monitor regularly for news and i look into stuff and it showed up at least two or three

times in every feed and so that is like 30 versions of the same story i ended up having i good it’s good

because i get a lot of sort of different takes on it i get a lot of different details from the

different articles so i can present to you in japan the problem is the word is naphtha

naphtha n -a -p -h -t -h -a naphtha now i don’t know if i’m saying that right actually let’s look it up on

the internet right now let’s add a new section to ninja news japan naphtha oh so it looks like i was

kind of getting it right naphtha so naphtha is a petroleum product that goes into ink and that’s

really important if you do any sort of graphic design or you package things or you make uh garbage

bags stuff like that it’s in all of the stuff that has sort of ink included in it because of the

administrative hormuz issue and supply chain issues that’s become a very rare commodity

uh and so the most exciting version of the story is there’s a chip company called kalbi and they had

an orange and yellow uh bag and for their chips and they’re changing it to black and white because of

the inability to get this ink they’re changing it to black and white from may 25th so i’ll actually be

going out to my local convenience stores and actually seeing if we can find the black and white chips the

chips themselves are staying exactly the same now i thought okay so there’s a change you could have

done anyways because why not just use less ink and stuff uh if this stuff’s going to be rare or

expensive or difficult to get it’s time to change our practices this whole administrative hormuz thing to

me has shown that why countries like japan should go to solar panels there’s some country i can’t

remember which country it is it might be australia there’s a country and they’ve started to make

every single parking lot has to have solar panels on it so not out in fields over parking lots in cities

because that’s just open space but what you get is shade for the cars and extra energy in the middle

of the city which is actually one of the harder places to do it’s actually a really good idea i want

to put solar panels over my driveway i want to put solar panels on my house i would love to do that

i think this should be mandated by countries that every parking lot that’s just open so if you think

about like every shopping mall has a giant parking lot every costco every walmart whatever has a giant

parking lot that’s just covered in solar panels that you can drive in and under and it’s going to

be nice and shady for you on a hot day it’s going to be nice and shady when you’re parking your car you

get back to your car it’s not going to be all heated up like it is in the summertime and then it’s

going to be free power for the city i think that’s an amazing idea that the strait of hormuz has showed

us this this this this uh political issue has showed us that we can’t be reliant on other people’s oil

so let’s find self -sufficient ways to do it america could do it canada could do it japan could do it

all these countries can start shifting because like we need to rely less on other countries because

of the political instability caused by trump and all our stuff is going to be black and white now we’re

going to go back to the 1920s black and white era for all our products because ink is going to be too

expensive i thought that was it because everyone was using the calby example because it’s very dramatic

yellow and orange to black and white is a very big change it’s going to be very dramatic to see on the

shelves it’s actually probably a big boon to their advertising because idiots like me are going to go

buy a bag where we normally wouldn’t but there are other companies have been infected as well

wellna is removing ink from the little uh strap that holds spaghetti bundles in the package you usually get

like five in a package of spaghetti each one is like wrapped up as generally a single serving of

spaghetti that had some writing on it that writing is being removed kagome is going to put less

tomatoes on the label for their tomato ketchup so right now it’s going to be the label and like let’s say

a whole bushel of tomatoes to make it look like how many tomatoes are in their ketchup

they’re going to reduce the number of tomatoes so they can use less ink miral biscuits can’t afford

packaging and they are going to actually shutter their whole operation which i think that’s

that’s sad that a company needs to shut down because they can’t afford packaging anymore

big camera it’s a big electronic store but they have lots of hobby stuff they are going to be

limiting model paint purchases to one per person so it’s becoming more expensive it’s going to become

more rare they don’t want people reselling it so it’s going to be one per person now for paint

and garbage bags have been selling out and the government’s been like don’t panic buy garbage bags

they’re not being threatened but because everyone thinks about garbage bags in japan if there’s any

sort of emergency toilet paper garbage bags are the first things that get like panic bought the

government’s like yeah there is some of this ink in there but they’re just bags so don’t worry about it

but then everyone’s still doing it anyways all i can really say is thanks trump

Grossing Podcast

I bought a bicycle about two months ago in Japan has gotten very serious about his bike’s little

rules all of a sudden so I don’t know if it was I did it I don’t think I’m that famous or popular

yet uh what has happened though is they haven’t really changed the rules they’re just going to

enforce them and they’ve introduced fines for bicycle violations so it’s called the blue ticket

system and I think it’s just a different kind of ticket specific for bicycles so if you use your

phone while riding your bicycle it’s a 12 000 yen fine that’s the biggest one if you run a red light

if you don’t come to a complete stop if you like zip past pedestrians on the sidewalk and stuff

if you cause trouble you’re going to get in trouble and you’re going to get a fine you get one of these

blue tickets I mean I think it’s actually pretty reasonable I bought a helmet I know not every

prefecture in Japan actually has helmet laws but I bought a helmet not because I was worried about

safety but more because I was like I don’t want the cops to stop me and give me a hard time about

not wearing a helmet what they want to do then is promote this and advertise this and make sure

people know what’s going on now you’re in Japan what is the best way to introduce information to

the citizens of Japan you make a mini anime and you put it on the internet it’s called forever safety

doki doki cycling doki doki is the uh your heartbeat doki doki doki doki it’s a youtube video and they

got the dragon ball z voice actor to play three different roles all sexy cops basically this is

supposed to be like one of those visual novels and I think if it was a game you would choose like which

cop you end up dating but it’s just sort of giving the premise she rides her bicycle she commits a crime

sexy cop stops her and has a talk with her about how you shouldn’t be committing crime baby you

should be making love to me and then she goes and commits a different crime different sexy cop shows

up and then gives her a little talk about how she shouldn’t be committing crime she should be spending

time with him again I’m not against this I think laws should be enforced and I think if you want to

find people for breaking laws there are two issues that have come up the first one is single mothers

who maybe don’t have multiple modes of transportation they might just have a bicycle

and if you have more than one kid you got to put a kid on the back and a kid in the front that’s

illegal so now there’s these poor women who want to get their kids to say daycare or school so that

they can go to work or something and they’re not legally allowed to get them there on their bicycle

which is a very common way of transporting children in Japan if you are a mom but it’s also brought up a

secondary issue of if you’re going to be fining people for breaking rules you have to make

accommodations for people so they don’t have to break the rules so this is leading people in Japan

to demand sort of bicycle lanes and I will tell you I am quite happy to ride on the sidewalk in Japan

I’m careful I’m not going to go too fast I’m not going to scare pedestrians I would be absolutely

terrified to ride on the road along with traffic because Japanese drivers at least the area the area I

live in is famous for really bad drivers and they scare me I walk from my house to my train station

and I would say once a month I almost get hit by a car and I almost get hit by a car because

these are people who lived in this area for a long time their whole life maybe 60 70 years

and they’re like I know these roads and they’re barreling down the roads they do know the roads

they know the turns they know the bumps they know all these little things about them but they don’t know

if someone’s standing on them around a corner and they take corners and they just barrel down these roads

it’s terrifying I would say once a month I come close to dying because old people are just

overconfident in their driving abilities in the roads on a bicycle along with traffic yeah I just

I don’t I don’t trust them a bicycle lane would be minimum I actually would prefer a larger sidewalk

so I could ride on the sidewalk away from the cars I’m just too scared of the cars there was a list

published of the most profitable media franchises of all time at the time of publishing because

GTA 6 is going to come out I don’t know if that’s going to be included it wasn’t video games

specifically like a specific thing it was sort of a all -encompassing thing because we have 12 the top 12

number two it was just surprising how many of these are actually Japanese properties so the number 12

was Dragon Ball now Dragon Ball I assume includes the cartoon the video games merch other cards whatever

everything else they’ve made that’s connected to Dragon Ball to get it to this level number 11 was Wizarding World

which is a Harry Potter Wizarding Wizarding World sounds very specific I guess they produce Harry Potter stuff

or is that the actual Harry Potter amusement park I’m not 100 % sure number 10 is Jump Comics so that’s going to be

Jump Comics the base comic where they produce the content the animes that spin off those or copy them

the merchandise that then is expanded from that universe so you can see how they have multiple

properties within the umbrella of Jump Comics number nine Marvel I mean that’s pretty much given

number eight Disney Princess so I don’t know I guess that’s all the princesses included in one thing

I guess I’m not 100 % sure because if it’s just Marvel I guess it’s every Marvel property included

number seven I was actually very surprised by this it’s Anpanman Anpanman is a Japanese superhero for little

little kids he’s been around for like 50 years maybe longer I hate him I hate everything about him I think

he teaches kids really bad lessons I don’t think this is the kind of show you want to show your children I

banned it in my household my kids were not really allowed to watch Anpanman and I was very against Anpanman from the

beginning because his solution to every problem is to punch biking biking man is his uh nemesis his

his his opponent in all these stories uh he’s doing something nice um uh biking man wants to destroy it

or he’s building something vice versa and they’re always at odds functionally what the show is is

Anpanman goes around and helps people and then biking man’s well I want some of that too so I I’m just

gonna go take it and really if Anpanman oh and then Anpanman punches him in the face and that’s it

end of the story but if Anpanman just gave biking man some of the food like he’s giving everybody else

he runs into problem solved so his kindness extends to everyone except biking man and that seems to be

the core issue I do not not a fan of Anpanman it teaches kids to punch their problems which I disagree

with number six Mario which I think would be Nintendo but I guess it’s the Mario franchise

specifically this is what I would like a little bit of explanation as to what is included in this

because to me Mario would be part of Nintendo Nintendo therefore would be number five or lower

because they also include other things but number six sorry number five was Star Wars number four

Mickey Mouse number three Winnie the Pooh I’m surprised Winnie the Pooh was that high it’s been around

forever but I’m surprised it’s as large as it is number two also very surprised by this one Hello Kitty

and number one not a big surprise Pokemon that list of 12 items six half of the top 12 are

Japanese franchises so I I think the reason I wanted to go over this list is because half of the top 12

franchises media and enterprises in the world are all Japanese which was a bigger surprise than I thought I was like oh there’s gonna be a couple I didn’t think

Hello Kitty was gonna be as high as it was I didn’t think Anpanman was gonna be as high as it was because we’re talking about the world but having

half of the top 12 franchises come from the same country is pretty impressive a man in his 70s was defrauded of 320 million yen including

cash gold bars gold coins in a row in a romance and investment scam and I feel really bad because

he’s in his 70s which would lead me to believe if he’s falling for this kind of scam he’s very lonely

he’s probably very bored he has a lot of money but he’s not doing anything with it so

yeah I feel bad because it’s it’s that isolation of maybe age that has made helped him fall into this trap because he just wants to have something happening in his life

he gave 21 gold bars and 16 gold coins total side story here I have no idea where to buy gold bars or gold coins and if I had gold bars or gold coins I would have no idea what to do with them

it’s one of those things where like

conceptually it seems like oh yeah you have gold bars and they’re valuable but if you don’t know how to sell them they’re not valuable anymore I don’t know what to do with a gold bar I don’t know how to get a good good price

and 23 million yen in cash he made 10 payments over a variety of times so a combination

he was on his phone or computer and he clicked on an internet ad and he started talking online line is the messaging system that’s really really famous in Japan

to a woman named Sato now we would have to put woman in quotes because we don’t know if it was really woman

this being the internet my base assumption creepy dude but the creepy dude is leading him on he’s sort of catfishing him

and this 70 year old man has ended up developing feelings for her because he enjoyed the conversations

he enjoyed the attention again it sort of leads me to believe he was very lonely and isolated and which is a big problem

she introduced him to an AI investment system and he then downloaded a fake app that displayed profits

so basically he would put money into this system and then it would change would grow he would get more money every time

and he was like wow this is amazing but it was just like a gift that someone had produced or I don’t know if it was being

manipulated in real time or what or it was just updated irregularly or it was just like an AI app that

will just like let’s just keep the number going up but it was fake it was not connected to anything real

they then convinced him that it would be better if a representative came to collect the gold personally

and they’re saying he could get three billion yen in profit if they gave him x amount of gold

it would require a service fee so if you gave him the gold plus a little bit of cash then we’ll put

that in you’ll get this massive payout a little while later when he was unable to withdraw any of

his returns that’s when he got suspicious so he went and he was on the app and he’s like you know what

I have millions of yen in here I just give them a lot of money it’s time for me to withdraw a little

money because I got to buy something I got to pay for something or I got to like fix up something in

the house couldn’t withdraw any money and that’s when it became a realization that yes this is a

scam he went to the police honestly there’s not much the police can do about it which is really sad

this is an ongoing problem in Japan a lot of the scams are targeting older people and they’re

more easily manipulated because they want to have this interaction they want to be entertained they

want to have connection with humanity and and that is the bit they’re exploiting which makes it you know

extra gross I made a quiz for this but okay I had a really bad night last night I got home from work

I went to bed I don’t think anyone in my family taking Dave out so I went to bed Dave sleeps next

to me Dave wouldn’t go to sleep he was up every hour or so making noise so I didn’t sleep very well

I get up in the morning my son’s taking my lunch I got really like I was furious it’s unreasonable

he saw food that was wrapped up for lunch he took it for lunch when I think about it logically it’s

fine but in the moment emotionally I was like he stole my lunch like a bully um so I was in a bad mood

but I’m getting it back together again it’s one of those things it’s moods emotions they’re just

something you have to learn to control yourself there’s not much you can do about it but

I forgot to set up someone to talk to me to do the quiz that I’d set up I was doing quizzes for a

while and they were really good and then I got really busy and I just wasn’t having that forethought

to organize someone to join me for a quiz I would I enjoyed doing that I want to do it again if you

listen to an introduced pen and you would like to participate in a quiz you can send me an email

at chuckmabeefchest at gmail .com or you can send me a voice message at speakpipe .com slash chuckmabeefchest

and I will arrange a time we can have a discord call or a zoom call and you can answer some goofy

questions we can have a talk about where you’re from and what you know about Japan what you like

about Japan the conversation is the best part I had a really great conversation before we talked for

like 40 or 50 minutes and I only took 10 minutes because the quiz part and put it in on the stuff

that was relevant to Japan but had a really great conversation about where that person was from

really really enjoyed it if you would like to have a similar conversation I would love to have you as a

guest on the show but I’ll include the quiz and you can kind of try to guess the

answer and then we can move on so 9 p .m. this should be a crossing the famous should be a crossing

I talked about it last time or the time before where some lady had like veered right and like

body checked a little girl onto the road it was really awful a man in his 50s walks out into the

street and he puts a piece of cardboard down he pours a liquid on it and here’s the quiz a starts

rolling in it b starts removing his clothes c sets it on fire or d walks away and people start to slip

on it that was a pretty good quiz if you didn’t know the story uh it would be really hard to guess

because as soon as I say 50 year old man and you’re a fan in English news Japan you’ve been listening for

a while you know it should be something weird and sexual but in this case it wasn’t it was c is the

correct answer he sets it on fire you know what happened after that it was actually quite a large

flame so the liquid he poured on it probably kerosene or something like that it seemed like

it wasn’t gasoline gasoline tends to go up very violently this went up quickly he walks away police

show up and they douse it with fire but kerosene or whatever liquid he used doesn’t mix with the

water so that actually just spreads the flames out and then other cops out puts more water on it

spreading the flames even further so in my view everyone’s kind of failing at the job because

there was something written on the cardboard but because he threw it down and set it on fire

no one could actually see what was written on it which means you’re failing you had a message you

want to deliver and you’re failing at delivering your message the police come they want to put out

the fire and they end up spreading the fire they failed at their job then 30 minutes later the man

turns himself in to the police and they think something was written on the cardboard now the next

day we found out something was written on the cardboard because this guy’s x account was found

and they showed that he made preparations it was like uh something .com i think it was his name .com

and then it said japan has been taken over now we have to assume logically speaking he’s talking about

foreign people have taken over japan we don’t know because his sentence isn’t actually complete enough so

japan has been taken over could be aliens it could be foreign people it could be uh

capitalism who knows but i think if you’re going to do your manifesto you can do a single like a

manifesto in one or two sentences it has to be a complete sentence with a full idea you can’t just

say something’s happened you have to say who and the why so foreigners have taken over japan good

maybe the problem or maybe he was being smart because saying that might actually be hate speech

whereas you just say japan has been taken over and you’re vague about it it’s not technically hate

speech because you’re not attacking any group or individual or anything like that that actually

might be what happened here maybe he’s smarter than i’m giving him credit for he’s a 50 year old

man i don’t give 50 year old men in interviews japan stories any credit at all because i just

immediately default to creepy old dude creeping doing creepy old dude things we do know that he’s a

member of san seto san seto is the right wing political group in japan that is trying to basically

say foreigners out we don’t want foreigners here we want to go back to traditional japanese values

make japan a great gate make japan great again all those kind of things are included in the san seto

message it’s pretty predictable this guy being a part of that turned out to be also a bit of a

surprise because his job is hip -hop teach a teacher at a hip -hop academy now the only reason that

surprised me because if you appreciate hip -hop there’s a certain segment or population that would be

given sort of i would say more credit for the creation and the dissemination of hip -hop maybe at

this point it could be like k -pop other stuff they all use hip -hop elements but if you like hip -hop i

think you have to appreciate a certain element of the population so him being embracing that cultural

aspect of the world and then rejecting foreigners in japan seems very contradictory to me so how can you

go around saying you want traditional japan traditional japanese stuff but you also want to

do hip -hop and you listen to urban music it might be the most white way i can say that but you know

what i mean like it’s it’s like there’s a dichotomy going on there where he’s like got this international

flavor to the thing he does but he’s also got these very conservative views but that also might just

because he’s 15 he’s been hitting the head too much in his life and he’s gone slightly insane

because it seems like every japanese man at 50 has gone slightly insane a 44 year old junior high

school teacher was arrested for uh groping this is chika uh groping a woman on the train

uh now that in itself is not much of a story uh we see this kind of story all the time but often the

guy gets away because it’s very hard to prove only recently do i know like i’m not even sure if they

have cameras on all the trains but i knew like most of the trains i took didn’t have cameras on

them and i it was one of those things i wanted to i would have been a proponent for i’d be like you

got to put cameras on the trains so you can catch these people so they can actually get in trouble

because they would do like grabbing ladies all over the place uh they would go on the internet and get

a whole bunch of these creepy dudes together and they would all like crowd around a woman at the

same time like it’s terrifying stuff that they’re organizing this into like a little wolf packs of

perversion in this case there is a silver lining to the story because the woman he molested was an

undercover cop so it’s a lot harder to say anything or do anything when the person is a personal

authority in your society identified herself as a police officer said you’re under arrest for

molestation i have no recollection of pressing my crotch against the woman so it turns out my image

is the creepy dude sidles up to a woman and either pushes his body against her or like touches her

with his hands it seems like this guy bent his knees at an awkward angle and tried to push his crotch

up into the woman’s butt so you got to imagine it’s really hard to imagine just this is the problem with

this being an audio format i would stand up and show you on the video but there’s no point i 99 of the

people who listen to ningenew japan they listen in audio format so he’s doing a partial squat into

the woman standing in front of him i would really like to know how busy the train was because if it

was empty this would look particularly weird but it’s also i don’t know i do always end up in the

position of like what did he expect to happen did he expect her to go like oh i like this this is fun

i mean in pornography that is what would happen that’s what pornography would teach you is like you

you push yourself into the woman and she’s like oh this is nice and then you know something happens

uh the woman the police officer is part of the anti -groping patrol so maybe cameras are good i

think anti -groping patrols even better uh this happened at 8 25 in the morning i mean it’s i’m

never horny at 8 25 in the morning because i just it takes me a long time to get started like i’m not

going to be creepy and horny until after 10 o ‘clock i think that’s pretty much fair and i don’t drink

coffee so it takes i have to you know get warmed up naturally uh for seven minutes so this is a seven

minute semi -squat i mean okay we’re gonna give everyone credit for when they do something that’s

pretty impressive he did a seven minute squat he bent his knees to push against her and he probably

thought if he didn’t use his hands he might get out of it so there might be a secondary implication

of like he has his hand holding on to the ring up for balance and he’s not touching her with his

hand maybe he has his hand in the pocket and then if he rolls with the train he bumps into her and he

could say it was accidental it was my supposition there’s no nothing to actually say that’s what

actually what he was thinking she followed him off the train he was arrested and i would like to see

a lot more arrests like this because i actually think it’s funny kumamoto city worker so he was in

the in the local government he’s suspended for four months uh because he spent 93 hours watching porn at

work and manga but i think the porn might be the more important thing uh he also would be at home

and download videos or images off the internet put them on a usb and then bring that to work put the usb

into his computer at work and then watch that at work so i don’t know if he was so obsessed he was

watching at home and work or if he was like curating a selection from home to bring to work so he would

have a better more productive day he had his pay cut in 2018 for browsing non -work work he had his pay

cut in 2018 for browsing non -work related sites the excuse is the excuse i now basically there is one

all -encompassing excuse for any sort of negative behavior in japan he said work related stress and

lack of ethical considerations there was a blurring of personal and professional life but if you’ve

already been caught for something and you’ve already got in trouble for something and then you do it more

and i think av is more noticeable so your co -workers are going to notice you’re looking at this your

co -workers are going to be uncomfortable by this that’s really you’re going to get caught and you’re going

to get in trouble i think if my whole thing about um doing stuff at work that you’re not supposed to do

is you can’t inconvenience anyone else a lot of the stories we do in japan about people in the

government specifically getting in trouble for stuff doing stuff at work that they’re not supposed

to do is because someone reports them and that someone who reports them is probably in my view been

inconvenienced by them or disgusted by like so maybe they’re very anti -pornography they would be

disgusted by this behavior that is where you have to you have to make sure everyone around you is

at least ambivalent it would be better if they were satisfied with you as a co -worker but at least

ambivalent they don’t care about you or what you do and then you have some boundaries you can push but

if you push too far past those boundaries you’re going to get in trouble and if you piss off your

co -workers you’re absolutely going to get in trouble so at least buy your co -workers lunch or something

i don’t know what would balance the scales in this instance but this guy clearly just was in his own

world and his own world was just full of naked ladies youtuber nana has a fan page from 500 yen a

month this will include diary and illustration so if you’re a fan of this vtuber you can you know see

her fake diary entries i don’t know if they’re real or fake but i’m just going to assume if you’re doing

a vtubing thing you’re creating a character that creator that character has a diary and in that

diary you you make up stuff that happens every day uh but there are different tiers like patreon and

stuff there are always different tiers for subscriptions the cheapest one is 500 yen the

most expensive is 100 000 yen a month and it’s called the idle girlfriend plan you get one -on -one

calls i don’t know if they’re video calls or just phone calls with nana you get exclusive gaming

sessions so you can play video games with nana and currently there is only one slot available so

to make it rare they’ve made just one slot so one person can become nana’s fake boyfriend who’s paying

for it uh this they are considering adding more slots because of course there are a certain amount

of people who are interested in it once one person sort of opens that door and one person does it

other people are more likely to do it other people are more likely to do the same thing or spend the

same amount of money because they see it as a viable option the only problem was like if i was

paying 100 000 yen for the girlfriend experience i would want my girlfriend to be sort of exclusive

so once i found out she was getting 100 000 from someone else like i understand the money situation

she needs to make her money i’d be like no but you’re not really my girlfriend anymore you’re just

everyone’s girlfriend and i’d be a little sad and i guess that’s when she could up the price

so you could get it to a certain point where okay five other guys want to have the girlfriend

experience if you’re willing to pay six million six hundred thousand yen then you get exclusivity

because you’re paying for the slots those guys would have taken and maybe she could spend more time

doing it and i’m wondering now if it’s a team or other people who just make it all seem

like it’s exclusive uh this is a waste of money please don’t do this

a senior female manager has gotten in trouble for sexual harassment and this is just so refreshing

in news japan we have so many 50 year old men who have this just story that i’ve now actually

it’s become a blasé thing a woman in her 50s has been reprimanded she dressed up this was like sort

of an event a party for her division and a couple other divisions that were close to hers uh in the

government she dressed up as myaku myaku which is the very weird virus looking mascot from expo

uh there will be it’s like a ring a red ring with multiple eyeballs it is very off -putting

she was dressed up as that at the company party oh this wasn’t government this was a company party

there were 30 employees from multiple divisions she made a male subordinate put on a costume like a

skin -tight costume with bells and strings now there was a certain area emphasized uh you could say the

string might have been more like a bow and it was a certain area and then the bells were placed very

specifically so that it would look like a certain thing then she directed other employees to go up and

worship his lower abdomen uh that people didn’t want to uh but they felt uncomfortable they felt forced

a department director was also recommended for not stopping her so he was in the room he saw her doing

this and he didn’t get up and stop her so he’s also gotten in trouble but she did this and i again

what is going on in your head that you think this is a good idea i’m going to dress up one of my

co -workers i’m going to make them i’m going to make other co -workers come up and worship his crotch area

that has now been dressed up with like string and ribbons and bells to emphasize it uh and this is

team building i don’t know so maybe we’re going to have a ninja news japan meetup a party and at that

party we’ll do something similar and we’ll see if we all feel more connected or really grossed out

and i can tell you which one if i’m wearing the costume i can tell you which one it’s going to be you

Arrested Citizen

(upbeat music)

It’s a company called Hollow
Live and they produce VTubers.

So VTubers, I mean if I watch
some, it’s people play video games

and they have, instead
of putting like my ugly mug

on the screen, they
put on a cute anime girl.

I actually had the idea, I don’t
think it was particularly original,

of using a cute anime
VTuber girl, instead of my face.

And then just, but not
altering my voice or anything.

So it’s like clearly 50 year
old man’s voice, cute anime girl.

Oh, the discrepancy between
my feelings of what I’m hearing

and what I’m seeing, the emotional
discord is too much for me.

Didn’t do it ’cause
didn’t have the software

to make the hollow thing
and the skills and the talent,

which is usually the problem I
run into is lacking skills and talent.

But Hollow Live the company
had record profits this year.

Then income of 2.3 billion
yen, which is a 162% increase,

which makes it very clear
that I should have done the idea.

I’ve had a lot of ideas
and I don’t do them.

And I think like, it’s
’cause it’s a dumb idea.

And then I realize the dumb ideas

are how people make money.

I mean, a lot of people
are making a lot of money

doing often things that I wouldn’t
do because I consider it stupid.

I’m not against VTubers.

I’m actually thinking more like other,

like prank videos and stuff.

VTubers are fine.

I never wanted to put my face on screen.

That actually is why I wanted to do
a, I was tempted to do a VTuber thing.

They had 1.65 billion yen in
profit, which is 154% increase.

1.65 billion reasons why I
should have done the thing

I was thinking in the first place.

I guess I’m not being
produced by Hollow Live.

They get advertising
and promotion and stuff

and they cross promote.

Still, maybe they would have
picked me up if I had done a good job.

They have 51.23 million subscribers.

That’s up 16.7%.

I have three more than the
last time I made a podcast.

304 million views per… No, no.

304 million yen per VTubers.

That’s, I guess, I’m an average.

It’s not like every VTubers
making the same amount of money.

They’re gonna have the most popular
ones and then the least popular ones.

That’s the end I would be in.

Still, 51.23 million subs in Japan,

28.12 million subs from
English-speaking countries.

They just grouped them up because
it’s gonna be like the UK and I mean,

it’s interesting to know
that a huge percentage

of their following or
actually English speakers

’cause most of the
Hollow Live, not all,

but most of the Hollow
Live VTubers are Japanese.

So they’re speaking in Japanese,

but some of them are actually
hired as English speakers.

9.3 million subs in Indonesia.

So basically, if I could get this podcast

to be popular in Indonesia
by being cuter, I could get 9.

3 million subs and then I
actually quit my day job.

So let’s just be clear that in Indonesia,

Japan will be shifting to a
VTuber format from now on.

Audio only listeners, you might like,
“Well, I won’t notice the difference

’cause I don’t see your
dumb face anyways.

” Well, I have a natural
ability to do a very cute voice.

It’s kind of like stitched
from Zililo or instead,

and you might think I’m
using a voice changer,

“I’m not, I can just
do this naturally.

” And I can do it for the entire podcast,
which I’m pretty sure you would hate

with every fiber of your
being, but the enjoyable part is I

can use this voice, and I can
say horrible, horrible things.

And because it doesn’t
strain my throat at

all, I can just keep
going so I can talk about

pushing their head down and
choking the life out of them

and watching the life
drain from their eyes.

The satisfaction I’ll get
isn’t the last moment of their

existence when they realize
they aren’t coming back.

So that’s something to look forward to.

So this is a first in Japan.

It’s a first arrest.

I’m actually one of the things I enjoy
the most about doing this podcast

and talking about the
news is being aware of firsts.

Firsts are really important.

This is the first arrest in Japan

for installing malicious
code into a shopping website.

So this is light skimming, so you
know when they take a machine

and they put it on a bang machine, so
you put in your ATM, you put in the card,

it’ll skim your card, and then when you
put in your pen, it keeps trying the pen.

So they can get all your information.

This is called web skimming.

They go into a legitimate shopping site.

So Amazon, in Japan,
Maricari, something like that,

you skim the information so it’ll
take off your credit card information

and anything you put in there.

This is a violation of the installment sales
act, which is a lie I’d never heard of.

Don’t actually even know what it, I could
have looked it up, but I didn’t bother.

Basically, they hacked into
a ticket sales site in 2022,

so like a ticket master,
that kind of thing.

They hacked into the site,
they put in their malicious

code and they were
pulling credit card numbers

off that site for an
entire year, basically.

Police found credit
card info on the dark web.

This is another interesting
thing that you learn

is that the police are
monitoring the dark web.

So they’re basically on the
dark web, looking for credit

card information, looking
for all this other stuff.

And there you go.

It’s pretty impressive.

I think that’s it, ’cause
I almost thought like,

maybe I got some malicious
things on my credit card.

I reported to the police

and then the police open investigation.

This is the police in Japan
being active about trying

to track down credit cards
and things on the dark web.

Well, I found that very interesting.

The most dangerous aspect of this is
that you are going to a legitimate site.

So you’re going to an Amazon,
you’re going to ticket master,

you’re going to some site
that you know is a real website,

you went to the website,
there’s no fishing involved.

Usually scams on the Internet is like,

hey, I’ll send you an email, come to this
website and then put in your information.

This is you saying, I’m gonna type in
the actual name of the website I know.

Go to that website, I go to that website

and then I put in my
information and it gets stolen.

So that’s a bit scary.

Websites are going to
have to figure this out.

The police then open an investigation
and a man has been arrested

and this is the first arrest
for web skimming in Japan.

I don’t know about other countries.

This is one of the hard parts is because
I focus exclusively on Japanese news.

I don’t get like, it’s the first in Japan.

Is it common elsewhere?

How many court cases has been?

I’d like to look into it
as just time limits me

to focusing on one thing
and that one thing is Japan.

But here’s another first for Japan.

So last week we had a citizens
arrest YouTuber get arrested.

So again, this was another
thing I’d learned about.

I didn’t know that citizens
arrest YouTubers were a thing.

We had the Johnny Somalis in the all foreign
people coming here and causing trouble.

That was pretty common.

I understood that as a concept.

Citizens arrest YouTubers
are people who go and try to

find people doing bad things
and then do a citizens arrest.

A lawyer has come out and talked about
it and said the accusation is defamation.

So if you make an accusation, so
you accuse me of committing a crime,

that is defamation if I haven’t
actually committed that crime.

If there’s no crime, if there’s no proof.

Showing my face on camera
and I haven’t committed a crime

is also against the launch of
panic, but against privacy laws.

The lawyer clarified when a
citizen’s arrest is appropriate.

So this was part of the inner thing.

I found interesting.

‘Cause when can you
actually do a citizen’s arrest?

We have all this idea.

Like you just walk up
to someone and you go,

citizens arrest and that’s
supposed to mean something.

Well, of course it doesn’t really.

In Japan, so again, this
is the rules for Japan.

You’re in a different country.

The rules will be
different in your country.

If you actually ever
want to do a citizen’s

arrest, this is something
you should look into.

‘Cause if you cross a line,
you are now committing a crime.

And that’s something
important to think about.

The lawyer has clarified when
a citizen’s arrest is appropriate.

So the crime has to be in progress.

So this guy who was making accusations.

So last week, the citizens
arrest YouTuber said,

this girl in the street,
she’s scalping tickets.

She’s reselling tickets.

She wasn’t reselling tickets.

So the crime wasn’t in progress.

So he actually wouldn’t have been able
to make a citizen’s arrest there already.

You must immediately hand
the person over to the police.

So this citizen’s arrest guy, he’s like,

ah, I’m gonna video it
and put it on my YouTube

and get a sensationalized
video out of it.

He’s actually breaking the law by
not immediately going to the police.

So take the person,
take them to the police.

You could still be liable
for assault if it goes too far.

So let’s say they try to run away and you
grab them and they fall down and get hurt.

You could be liable
for assault in that case.

If they do not resist and you
like push them, that is also assault.

So physical interaction in
a citizen’s arrest in Japan

is problematic because they basically have
to fight you and you have to fight back.

Being a foreigner who lives in Japan,

I actually have an extra
set of rules I have to live by.

I essentially cannot fight back.

If a Japanese citizen attacks me, I
cannot defend myself, I can only run away.

If I fight back, I am
actually breaking the law.

I will probably get my visa revoked.

Realistically speaking, if someone was
attacking me and I just pushed them away,

like didn’t actually fight them or hurt
them, I probably would be okay with that.

I like the police wouldn’t
give me a hard time for that.

But if I fought back and
actually hurt another person

in a Japanese citizen, I actually probably
would get in trouble for that as well.

They would get in trouble, but I would
also get in trouble for defending myself.

So that’s, again, it’s the
kind of thing you need to know

is when is it acceptable
to defend yourself?

Because the most extreme cases
are Florida’s standard ground laws.

And if I am standing still and someone
walks towards me, I’m allowed to shoot them.

That’s a pretty extreme rule,
but you have to know that.

So if you turn around and walk away,
is that okay, is it still threatening?

These are all things you need to know.

We’ve seen the court cases that doesn’t
always work out the way it’s supposed to.

Posting the video online
afterwards is also defamation.

Because the person has not gone to court,

because they haven’t
been convicted of a crime,

because they’re not technically guilty
until they have been convicted of a crime.

They are in that case, in
a sense until proven guilty,

which means if you put
the video on the Internet

before it’s proven guilty,
you are slandering them.

You are committing a crime.

The mayor of Togo, Togo
is a small city in Japan.

During his meetings, he said to his staff,

I’ll kill you guys or die,
which, as the leader of a group,

I think that’s not really the
appropriate way to speak to people.

So maybe that’s just
a clear one right there.

During meetings, he
said, I’ll kill you guys or die.

And then he came back later
after a whole bunch of people

complained, he said, I was
making the comments as a joke.

I was in a temp to light in the mood.

Now, here’s an interesting thing.

An attempt to lighten the mood.

Now, I understand jokes.

I actually work with other people.

We make jokes, we make fun of each other.

It has to be pretty light.

If I went into the office
tomorrow and I went to my team

and I went, hey, you
guys, I want you all to die.

That would not lighten the mood.

Even if it wasn’t joke, it
would not lighten the mood.

It would be a pretty heavy joke.

So there’s two possibilities.

One, the mayor of Togo
doesn’t know what a joke is.

Or number two, which
is the more likely one.

He was angry and he
didn’t actually mean it.

He actually meant to say
like a die, not maybe literally,

but he was like really angry and
saying, you guys should go die.

And he wasn’t making
a joke, which I think is

the more likely one of
him being really honest.

He also hugged a female staff member
who was wearing sort of a mascot costume.

And that is a form of sexual harassment
because he did not accept the hug.

His response to that accusation
was it could have been a guy.

So since I didn’t know if it
was a guy or a girl in the suit,

it couldn’t have been sexual harassment
because men cannot be sexually harassed.

This is the very classic
heteronormative thing.

If I hug a girl, that could
be sexual harassment

because I’m sexually
attracted to her.

If I hug a man, it can’t be
because I’m not attracted to him.

It’s actually interesting.

This is again, a mindset.

What you think as the
harasser doesn’t matter.

It’s actually the harassee,
how they feel is what matters.

So if you walk up to me and
just hug me and I don’t like it,

that is sexual harassment.

The mayor got in
trouble, had to get up on

TV, had to do a very
classic Japanese thing.

He had to apologize.

He didn’t really take any responsibility.

Normally in these cases,
you would step down.

He is saying he’s not going to step down.

He’s going to continue.

He’s apologizes for the words.

He apologizes for the thing he said.

He’s going to do a better job.

I don’t believe it.

I think two weeks from now, he’s
going to be back telling his staff to die.

And then he’s actually
going to get in trouble again.

And then probably get fired.

A company executive was
arrested for dumping 50 kilograms

of P in bottles, which I don’t–
OK, yeah, this is what I don’t get.

So he had 37 plastic bottles.

And I was trying to work out
how many plastic bottles do

you need to make
50 kilos? So it’s 37.

So are they 500 millimeter
bottles or 750 milliliters?

One liter bottles?

I didn’t take the time to find out, because
we don’t know if they were all full.

So he said he used to dump
them in a park in the bushes

in a park for several years.

So for several years, he
was peeing into bottles,

carrying to a park, and then
throwing them in the bushes.

Years.

So someone else had to be
picking these up and throwing away.

Otherwise, there’d be this giant
mountain of P bottles in the park.

He recently decided that that was too
much trouble going all the way to the park.

So he started dumping them
around his own apartment.

This is, of course, the
poor criminals methodology.

If you’re going to commit a
crime, don’t be lazy about him.

Like, is there a crime?

Yes, littering, just the plastic bottles.

But I’m sure human excrement being included
in that he is also some other crime.

The thing is, he was in his
apartment, peeing in a bottle,

then carrying the bottle
outside and dumping the bottle,

carrying the bottle to the
park and dumping it in a bush.

That to me seems like more work
than getting up and going to the toilet.

So this was his statement.

I found it troublesome to go to the
bathroom at night, so I used bottles.

When I flushed the bottles
down, another pee down my toilet,

it gave off a bad smell, so
then I threw them away outside.

So what he’s saying is,
instead of getting up and walking

to the toilet to pee,
he would get up at

night, pee into a bottle,
put it on the ground.

Then, take the bottle to
the toilet and pour it in.

And he’s like, oh, that
smells bad, probably from the

bottle because of the
remaining pee in the bottle.

I don’t like that.

So instead of actually
dumping it in the toilet,

I’m going to take it
outside and throw it away.

He seems to escape the step
where he could have actually

still gotten up and gone
to the toilet and just

peed in the toilet, and
then slashes the toilet.

There would be no smell.

Like he seems to say that
the reason he was doing this

was because of the smell,
but if he wasn’t peeing

in the bottles in the
first, it’s just the logic.

The logic in his mind,
this makes perfect sense.

In my mind, I cannot
conceive of how this is easier

than just getting up
and going to the toilet.

Like, is he just not
even getting out of bed?

Is he rolling off to the side
and then peeing sort of half

and there will bottle and then
close it up and go to bed again?

I just don’t see how this system is easier.

Like, I get getting up at
night, going to the toilet sucks.

As you get older, maybe
you have to do it more often.

That also sucks.

Pying in a bottle, disposing of the
bottle just seems like more work to me.

That’s it.

If someone could explain
to me, I’d love to hear it.

This guy, he’s given his explanation.

His explanation does make any sense to me.

I think it would be easier to
just get up and go to the toilet.

So Takafumi Hoteiye.

He’s the founder of LiveDoor.

It was a big website in Japan for a while.

Then he lost it because
of securities fraud.

He decided to take a stand.

So this is obviously a very
famous business manager.

Pan, famous business men get listened
to because they’re very important.

They made a lot of money.

If you have a lot of money,
you’re very important.

That’s an important thing.

He decided to take a stand about
Japan using mosaics and porn.

And it’s like, at this point,
is that worth taking a stand?

Oh, Dave’s going to bed.

He’s going to take a pause
and let Dave go to bed.

There you go, buddy. Good stuff.

Mainly, I understand his logic.

So the last guy I didn’t get the logic.

Hoteiye, at least in this case,
I understand what he’s saying.

He’s saying, because the
Internet is basically open

to the world, it lets you
visit non-Japanese sites.

So if I’m in Japan, it’s very tight.

If I go to a non-Japanese
pornographic website

and look at the uncensored
pornography, that’s a crime.

I’m not supposed to do that.

But since I have the ability to
do that, as does everyone else.

And we’re not really being
monitored that closely.

Basically, anyone can go see
uncensored porn even if you live in Japan.

So he’s saying, for the
sake of Japan’s economy,

because all these people
are visiting overseas sites

and not Japanese pornographic
sites, all the taxes those companies pay.

Because they’re doing
advertising and doing

some kind of revenue
to keep those sites going.

They are paying taxes.

Of course, we all know corporations.

This is stuff we’re not honest.

Hoteiye certainly knows that
because he committed securities fraud.

But they are paying a
certain amount of taxes.

He’s saying those taxes are going to
other countries, and not our country.

And we have superior porn.

If you go back to an old
episode of Seamig Bee,

where we talked about the
porn hub breakdown of the year,

what we were talking about
was the most popular categories.

Japanese was always in the top three.

So he’s like, people love Japanese porn.

We’re not getting the
taxes from Japanese porn.

This is damaging the Japanese economy.

His statement was the
national wealth is bleeding.

Tax money is being drained away.

I’m being serious.

It’s always a problem when
you have to say I’m being serious.

If I’m being serious, you
should know I’m being serious.

I shouldn’t have to tell you.

If I had to tell you what
I’m being or feeling in

any moment, I’m probably
not doing a very good job.

But I guess it’s because he’s talking
about something that’s kind of ludicrous.

It’s a silly, funny topic.

The porn in Japan is covered in mosaics.

We shouldn’t do that for tax
purposes and make more money.

But he is actually serious.

Japan could be making
more money off their

pornographic output if
they took away the mosaics.

I’m being serious.

I mean, we’re all watching videos without
the mosaic anyways with the mosaic removed.

So he’s saying like everyone is watching,
even Japanese pornography, but they’re

watching it on other websites, international
websites, where there is no mosaic.

So why don’t we just take away
the mosaic and get that money?

Which I kind of understand.

Like I mean, logically
speaking, he is making sense.

Japan’s putting itself– it
is producing pornography.

It is very popular.

They are not making the
money they could be making off it.

Why not make the money off it?

Because that money would
stimulate part of the economy in Japan.

Stimulate.

Whenever you get to
talk about pornography

and get to use the word stimulate in a
non-related way, it’s always very satisfying.

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First arrest in Japan.

I do enjoy first arrest.

It’s actually like–
this is to me, weirdly.

One of the things I
take great pleasure in is

knowing when a first
has happened in Japan.

Because I followed the news very closely.

This first arrest in Japan was from installing
malicious code into shopping websites.

So it’s a kind of skimming.

So you know like on machines,
you put a bank machine,

and then people will try
to put a skimmer on it.

So when you put your
card in, it reads the card,

and then it keeps track
of your pin or whatever.

This is the same theory.

It’s web skimming.

So what they did is found a legitimate
shopping site installed code on the site.

Stop yapping.

I think you’re missing the
whole point of a podcast.

if you really want me to stop yapping.

I mean, quite legitimately, I think
you’ve come to the wrong place.

This is literally a news podcast.

What is wrong with you?

A podcast is just yapping.

Yeah, but then your first
message was stop yapping.

So why would I stop?

I think you’re, I think I’m doing the right
thing and you’re doing the wrong thing.

I think you’re in the wrong place.

If I’m being really, really honest,

I think maybe you’re confused
as to what’s going on here.

What’s not stopping me from
sending stop yapping message?

What’s not stopping me?

What’s not stopping me from not
sending a stop yapping message?

Well, nothing’s stopping you.

I mean, honestly, nothing.

You can send that message.

It just seems pointless because then
you’re just interrupting the podcast.

I mean, is that what you want?

So.

Yeah, I’m from America, boy.

I have the rights to give my America
and I have the right to give my opinion.

I am also from North America.

I’m Kenna and I have the right
to block you, which I just did.

Oh my God.

Look at that.

Look at how successful that was.

You came in, you tried to be disruptive.

I blocked you.

I could have banned you.

Now you don’t, I don’t want to ban you.

I want you now and I have the knowledge
that you can still see this stream.

But you can’t send stupid messages anymore.

How does that feel?

So I’m going to go back
and I’m going to actually

start this story again
without the interruption.

So transition sound
and then we’re back to it.

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Yup.

It’s got a lot of updates.

Before I actually do that, we
have just started my summer break.

The kids around summer
break for like a month.

My work is me two weeks off.

So next week, this is the first day.

So I was able to record today
because basically nothing’s happened yet.

We haven’t organized anything yet.

But next week, I don’t
know if I’m going to get

an episode out or I
might get one out later.

I’m going to try.

I don’t know.

It’s a holiday and I don’t
feel obligated to entertain you.

That’s just the straight-up truth.

Now if I can entertain
you, I would love to do that.

The reality is, am I not?

Anyways, two weeks from now,
there will be a regular episode.

It will be back on.

It will be all awesome.

I’ve actually just inadvertently
implied that the holiday episode

I record will not be awesome,
but I’m sure it will be fine.

So let’s get to some updates.

I’m just letting you
know that maybe your

free entertainment may
not be available next week.

It may be.

Maybe if you pray
hard enough to the right

God, I will have enough
time to do the thing.

And then record it for you.

Now I don’t want to start.

I want to berate you in a
weird way to the point where

you now feel obligated
to pray to some annoying…

You’ve been playing Assassin’s
Creed Valhalla, so I think Odin.

Odin might be the guy before.

I’ve always been a big fan of Thor, both
the original version and the MCU version.

God, Chris Hemsworth’s body.

I know it’s all fake
because he’s he’s Jack

downstairs, but I’m damn
with that man takes his shirt off.

I respond and I’m a heterosexual male.

Still kind of respond to that in a
positive way if you know what I’m saying.

Alright, so I actually do the podcast now.

That wasn’t too much of a distraction.

I got to put on updates,
which I’m pretty happy about.

Last week, I talked about barbinheimer.

So that was the hashtag
that they came out

because Barbie and the
Oppenheimer movie are

coming out the same day and everyone’s
like, “Oh, we’ll make a double feature.

It’s so quirky and
ironic because one’s

super light comedy fun movie, the
other one’s very heavy and serious.”

I created the barbinheimer hashtag.

Now, Barbie is coming out in Japan.

Oppenheimer currently is not
slated to be released in Japan.

The Warner Brothers Japanese account issued
an apology for the barbinheimer hashtag as

it being relatively, you know, instant, not
instant seer, insensitive to, you know, the

historical reality of
what’s happened in Japan.

The Internet being the Internet, Internet
citizens were not super happy about that.

Internet people are always classy.

Let’s put it that way.

I spent a lot of time on the Internet,
stream, video games, do podcasts.

I spent a lot of time on
the Internet just for fun.

Yeah, I’ve run across some of
the joyous aspects of the Internet.

Always classy, always fair, always honest.

So in retaliation to
the lack of apology from

the American Barbie account, that’s
very specific is what they’re doing.

Because the Japanese account apologized
and they said, “That’s not good enough.

The American Barbie account is still
not acknowledging that this is insensitive.

It’s still not acknowledging
how gross this is.”

So because what they
were doing, if you go

in search barbinheimer,
you will find Barbie.

The one I found the first one,
which I did actually think was

pretty solid, was Barbie with
her hair as a mushroom cloud.

Okay, and it’s all pink.

The Internet was like, “Japanese” and
it was like, “We could play this game too.”

So they started shopping?

I guess shipping might
not be the right word.

I was about to say photo
shopping, which is the right word.

But then I thought maybe they’re
shipping to use some younger parlance.

9/11 images in Barbie
pink or with Barbie

overlaid or things like that, creating
their own memes in retaliation.

I don’t know how I feel about that.

I didn’t care about
barbinheimer because, sure,

whatever, people are putting
two disparate things together.

Whatever.

I didn’t take it too seriously,
but again, I’m not Japanese.

I mean, people are also like,
“You gotta be able to talk about it.”

But again, I guess it
is for them, it’s serious.

My feelings on it, I’m
torn, is what I’m saying.

I find the 9/11 memes they’ve made in
portace, but at the same time I find the whole

barbinheimer thing in
sort of in portace as well.

I do understand the marketing of it.

Those people jumping on, like,
“Hey, this memes happened.

It’s promoting both our films.

Let’s get on that.”.

I get why that happened.

I guess I just live in a real
world where gross things happen

and you kind of just let it go so
you can move on, move past it.

Not so for Japanese people in this case.

Not, I don’t want these people to
say that this is Japanese people.

They don’t represent all of Japan.

Most people in Japan
probably don’t even

know this is going on because
it is very much an Internet thing.

I talked previously about a YouTuber who
was playing essentially a visual novel, a

Stein’s Gate visual
novel and he spoiled the

ending and they sued
him because they’re saying

that this is giving away
the ending of a story.

Therefore people are
going to be less likely

to pay for that story
in the future if you

spoiled the ending
because people the whole

point of doing one of these
things is to get to the ending.

He wants two years in prison plus
like a million years or something.

And they said that
he must be punished

severely to prevent the
decline of the content industry.

The verdict came out yesterday,
but hasn’t been announced yet.

I was looking for it this morning.

It being August 8th as I recorded this.

So the verdict was supposed
to be brought down August 7th.

I don’t think he’s going
to get two years in prison.

But I could see a hefty fine.

Prosecutors being
prosecutors, they always ask

for massive, massive punishments
and they’re going to get less than that.

I think that’s kind of the strategy.

But yeah, it is
interesting that this visual

novel has had such an impact because to
me visual novels are really small things.

But again, it’s a whole industry in Japan.

People pay a lot of money for these things.

So ruining it for other people,
you’re ruining it for the company.

They’re going to take you to
court and I think they’re going to win.

So this was a very interesting development.

Over the last, it’s probably
like five, six months.

Sushi terrorism has been an ongoing theme.

There was the kid and he drank
from the soy sauce bottle directly.

So he licked it and stuff.

Then you put it back.

Other people use that
disgusting that went viral.

His friend recorded it
put it on the Internet.

Now these were just kids.

They were doing dumb stuff and recording
it and putting it on the Internet.

There was some other
kids who were licking and

touching the Sushi that was
going by on the conveyor belt.

Sushi, the conveyor
belt Sushi company is

saying like we had to change
our entire system because of this.

Our stocks dropped billions of yen.

This has cost us so much money.

We’re suing the kid.

They wanted they were suing
the family because he’s underage.

So they actually have to
sue the mom for 67 million yen.

I can guarantee that this person does not
have 67 million yen just in liquid assets,

they were able to spend on the fact
that his son licked a soy sauce container.

They have reached a settlement but
released no details, which is killing me.

Because I think what’s
happened is the company,

Sushi, they wanted
to make a lot of noise.

They wanted to make
sure everyone knows that

if you do this and we
catch you, we’re going

to come after you and they
took it all the way to the limit.

Then they said, look,
we don’t actually want

to ruin this lady’s
life for the fact that

her son, a teenager,
is just a bit of an idiot.

Every teenager is,
I was, might still be

sometimes, but I absolutely
was a bit of a dick and

an asshole in a dummy when
I was like 16, 17 years old.

The boy admitted
responsibility and they

have reached a reasonable
agreement, is what they’ve said.

I do want to know what the
reasonable agreement is, but because

he’s underage, I bet no
details are going to be released.

But I’m betting they got
to pace enough money

that it hurts the family, but
doesn’t ruin them completely.

Or there’s a payment
plan or something like that.

They’re not going to
take all 67 million yet.

This was just a show to stop other
people from doing the same thing.

I think.

And I think that’s
actually a fair thing to do

because Sushi does, they
got lawyers on retainer.

They can do this forever.

They can try, if she tried to
fight back, they could ruin her life.

Not being reasonable, normal human beings.

They decided not to
go that far, but they

still want to get the
message out there that

if this happens again,
we will go that far.

Try to think is a very
fair thing to be able to do.

It’s got to add on.

I’m actually quite happy
Sushi Rho didn’t fuck him.

They could have.

And you think of corporate people.

I think this is again a
Western image of corporate

people just being like absolute
bastards, ruining people’s lives were fun.

In Japan, yeah, they’ll go far,
but I think the level is different.

The attitude is different
and people are people still.

Like I’m sure there are
massive corporate assholes.

We actually have some other stories
going on that I didn’t actually write down.

There’s a car company
and they killed all the

trees outside of their
car dealership because

they were basically the trees were
obstructing your ability to see the cars.

Of course, all that’s illegal.

And then they got pulled up on getting in
trouble for scamming and lying and stuff.

That’s pretty standard
car dealership stuff.

It’s a bit shady as far
as an industry goes.

It has a reputation for a reason.

But I would say the
average executive maybe

is dumb in the way executives
are, but is not a complete asshole.

From what I’ve seen on the
Internet, I don’t know these people.

I don’t run in those circles.

I know that the president of JAL for the
last like 10 years has not taken a salary.

He literally said, I’ve made enough money.

I can survive for the rest of my life.

I will not take a salary.

I just want to make this business
the best business it can be.

You’ll support the workers and stuff.

So all the money he
would have made went

back into the company
into the employees and stuff.

And I thought, man, that’s awesome.

That is a completely
different form of corporate

thinking, which I can
get on board with.

And I guess maybe that’s also not
called, I don’t know which is more common.

Although Sushi Do in
this case didn’t go out

of their way to destroy a family just
because a kid was being a fucking idiot.

They did want to get a message
out, which I think they did successfully.

I’m going to have to
run my transition sound

again because I have
to get to the next story.

World Heritage Sites being
vandalized, is that like an Internet trend?

So we had the guy
vandalized the call of CO.

And then we had a kid named
Justin vandalized a temple in Japan.

And now I’ve read about two
more instances at the call of CO.

And the call of CO once, you
can get five years in prison for that.

Well, one of the most
famous temples, super

famous because I know
the name of the temple.

That’s how famous it is.

Not like I’m like a temple fan.

Toadaiji Temple was
vandalized with a picture

of a fairly poorly rendered cat, believed
to be scratched into a door by a finger.

Now, this is wood that is
literally thousands of years old.

So pushing your finger into
it is going to leave a Mark.

You don’t even have to use a nail.

Justin that little shit before, he actually
used his nail to scratch his name in.

Now I do want to give us some
credit to the vandal this time.

They didn’t write their name.

Actually, one of the
previous episodes I

was like, what you
should do is you’re going

to vandalize something
is don’t write your name.

Someone else’s name and then they’ll
be like, hey, Chuck, the beef chest.

Did you vandalize this?

I’m like, well, no, that says Brad Pitt.

So Brad Pitt must have been
here vandalizing it, not me.

So they drew a cat.

So unless a cat did
it, no, here’s the thing.

The height of the cat had like where
they did it was about 180 centimeters.

So I’m going to say,
let’s say someone who’s

slightly under six foot lifted
their arm up and drew a cat.

That’s how they got to 180 centimeters.

So the best we could say is this is someone
who is approximately six feet or so.

Because either they’re
six feet and they were

drawing at eye level
or they were less than

six feet and they were
drawing a little bit of

bum or they were like seven
feet and drawing but elite them.

Woo.

So we could have a seven
foot vandal on our hands.

They’re not doing the
CSI stuff where they’re

taking footprints and
then calculating by

the impression of the footprint and
how heavy the person isn’t stuff like that.

But it seems like
because of those initial

reports, it’s now in the
mindset of people visiting

these places and it’s
being, it’s like a thing.

But the fines for this are hardcore.

So like again, the ones
in Italy, five years in

prison, a couple million
dollars or whatever.

I actually think it was like
a few hundred thousand

dollars, but a few
hundred thousand dollars.

I don’t have that.

I can’t pay that.

No one’s in the Japan.

It’s the same.

It’s like millions of yen
and possible jail time.

Absolutely not worth doing.

Like again, I want, if
I’m going to do a crime,

I want them to be a benefit
for me and my legacy is not it.

Like I want money.

If I’m going to commit a
crime, it’s going to be for money.

It’s not going to be so
that I become famous

because that kind of
fame isn’t what I need.

I need money.

I should have started
dropping in like ways

you could donate money
to you right after that.

I need money and then do the donation.

That actually would make sense.

Still not doing it.

I’m not going to come out here and beg.

Look, okay.

So you want to support the
engineers Japan, tell other

people to listen to it, get
other people to download it.

The rate review thing that actually
helps with algorithms and stuff.

I would love that.

I’m not even going to ask for that.

All I want is people who
are interested in it to listen.

And if you really, really want to make
me happy, send me questions and stuff.

So I have more things
to I can gain Gauge with.

So I can follow up on
stories or answer questions

about being in Japan or
my opinions or whatnot.

Your questions and
comments are easily the most

motivating factor to doing an
engineer’s Japan and see me.

So if you want to support the
podcast, don’t send me money.

I mean, send me money, but don’t
send me money by a see me B T shirt.

That would be all right.

Because then you get
something out of it too.

But send me stuff that I can talk about
or react to or we can have an interaction.

That to me is the peak.

You can go to speak pipe.com/chocolateweefchest
and leave a voicemail, which I can

then drop into the episode
and then use as a segment.

So now that I’ve said that,
we’re going to move on.

This is maybe my pre
holiday begging for interaction.

Just a bit sad, isn’t it?

I’m so lonely.

16, 99% of people in their
30s and 40s never watch

Vtubers, which to me is
a surprisingly low number.

I actually would have thought hardly
anyone in their 30s and 40s never

watches Vtubers just because
Vtubers became a thing fairly recently.

So I would assume older
people aren’t aware of them.

It’s not like they hate them or something.

I consider doing this podcast as a
VTuber, but I just didn’t have anything

set up and by the time I started doing
video on Twitch and stuff, there was no

point and going through
another process to set it up.

Although I still think a
VTuber, a super cute anime girl

and me not changing my voice
at all would have been funny.

And then every time I say
that, people get this like shitty.

I had to lose been done before.

You want a list of things
that have been done before?

It’s fucking everything, man.

The only thing I can claim to be completely
original was Montana, L.D.A.B.L.O.

The audio podcast
choose your own adventure.

And the only thing, the only reason I think
that was original is because I may have

just been the first person to
organize it and put it together.

And it was a huge pain in the ass.

I have tentatively started working on
a second one, which hopefully would be

better, but sitting down and just writing
for hours and hours and hours is pretty.

Pretty hard to find that time in my life.

But that is probably, and then
even then, people will like, you know,

choose your own adventures
have been done before.

Adult ones that are supposed to
be funny have been done before.

It’s like, if you actually went by
things that have been done before,

there would be no reason to do anything.

And let’s face it, Montana, L.D.A.B.L.O.

It’s fucking better than
all the other ones anyways.

All right.

No, no, I’m not going to, I was going to
do this sound again and restart the story.

I’m not going to do that.

I’m just going to keep going.

I’m going to power through.

Okay, so people in their 30s
and 40s, one to two times a week,

13% watch V2 or three to four times
a week, four percent, every day, 14%.

It’s more men than women.

I think that’s just
generally on the Internet,

you tend to find more
men doing dumb shit.

watching V2 versus isn’t dumb.

It’s fine.

V2 versus are great.

That’s it.

I just, I actually
thought 69% they’re like,

whoa, it’s, it’s,
that’s not a surprise.

I thought it would have
been the 80s or 90s.

Because again, just older
people, not that in tune

with what’s going on on
the Internet and the stuff.

A 14 year old Turkish boy was arrested for

throwing a smoke bomb at security guards.

And what he said was, uh,
okay, so let’s give it a story.

He claims that he had been scolded before
with his friend, oh, but not his friend.

So his friends and him were
sitting outside this building.

They were playing loud
music and smoking cigarettes.

He’s 14 years old.

So he’s not supposed to be doing that.

Uh, and then he came and then a security
guy came out and scolded him specifically,

but not his friends, but
he claimed was discriminate.

discrimination.

So he said, don’t
discriminate against foreigners.

I’ll blow you up and then
through a smoke bomb.

And if I can give you a list of things
you should not do, smoking is number one,

uh, being playing loud
music in public is not great.

But I guess I’d give a pass on that
because there’s no law against it.

Claiming discrimination is possible, but
you’re not going to improve your case.

by throwing a smoke bomb at someone right
after saying don’t discriminate against me.

I’ll blow you up.

I’ll blow you up is a threat of
violence, which again is illegal.

So he’s committed multiple crimes.

Now he’s 14 again.

He’s underage.

He’s not going to be
going to jail or anything.

But he was arrested for our favorite
crime, forcible obstruction of business.

All right.

This is, I don’t know if
this is Saturn at 10 years

in a row, the demand for
rice has dropped in Japan.

It is 100,000 tons down to 6.81 million
tons of rice needed or wanted this year.

It’s the lowest since they
started keeping track in 1996.

It’s weird that they only
started keeping track in 1996.

I don’t know why that was one of
the bits to suck out on me in this story.

In 1996, they started keeping
track of how much rice they eat.

I think that would
have been like ancient

times, how many barrels
or bushels or whatever.

I don’t know how rice is measured.

Grains of rice, I guess just wait.

Tons of rice.

People eat.

Like it’s sort of one of those things.

It’s a staple of the country.

The Ministry of Agriculture
is encouraging farmers

to switch to other crops like soybeans or
wheat because they are more in demand.

So I’m wondering this is partially because
of the population of decline in Japan.

So it’s representative of
there being less people overall.

It is also partially demonstrating a
change in dietary wants or needs.

So people generally are eating less rice.

I would like to see a breakdown.

This didn’t give me enough information.

I would be really interested in
what the breakdown of that is.

Is it because there
are just less people and

therefore less people
eating rice or is it because

there are more people eating other
diets than just a rice-based diet.

Like is keto taken off in Japan?

I kind of looked at that a
little bit but didn’t find anything.

particularly demonstrable of what’s
actually happening with the diets in Japan.

But it’s a weird thing to see.

You think of Japan, you
think of Asia, you think of rice.

And Japan is a country
just eating less rice overall.

It’s very interesting.

That’s it.

I’m going to go eat some rice now.

I don’t know.
I’ll try to pop up the country.

I, again, just at the end, I want
to make sure everyone knows.

It’s summer holiday.

I’m going to try to get an episode
out next week if I have time.

It might be late.

It might not happen at all.

So I’ll see you in two
weeks worst-case scenario.

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