(upbeat music)
So I think it’s maybe getting
time for a new theme song.
So I just decided to try out
one of these AI generator things.
Just to see if it was any good.
So my prompt was news
intro, drums, and trumpets.
‘Cause you know, pretty much every new
show starts with like bam, bam, bam, bam.
(humming)
There you go, I should do it in my mouth.
Why am I, why am I getting AI?
When I have the natural
instrument of my body.
It was horrible.
Like every song was absolutely atrocious.
I had to do about eight
or 10, and not one of them
sounded even close to
what I would call music.
So musicians, you’re safe for
the next little while, at least.
I mean, I bet AI could at
this point generate the script
for this show, although almost
impossible because I don’t script it.
But you know what I mean?
If you fed all the ninja
news Japan’s from the past
into AI, it could
generate, if you take the,
I must be able to take
the news, take my style
of speaking and put it
together, clone my voice.
The podcast is automated now.
I don’t actually have to do anything.
But the theme song, you’re safe.
I’m still thinking about what to do.
I wanna pay people to do
it, but I don’t have money.
Like I’m not rich.
This is an update on a
story from previous week.
So we had our two gentlemen who
decided to graffiti Yes, Kuni Shrine.
I’ve talked about why.
Yes, Kuni Shrine is a controversial place
for people from primarily China in Korea.
We’ve talked about graffiti.
Is it bad?
And overall, basically, yes.
This guy, he sprayed, what did he spray?
It was dog poop, actually
could go back into my old notes.
I should’ve checked.
He sprayed what I would consider like
grade two level thoughts onto the shrine.
He was a little more honest about it.
The first guy was like,
this is a political statement.
The second guy’s like, I don’t like this.
I actually kind of
appreciate the honesty there.
He escaped back to China.
And so in my report, last time I was
like, he’s not going to get arrested.
No, he’s going to happen to him.
Chinese police do not care if
you’ve committed a crime in Japan.
You can read into that a
bunch of different ways,
but at the end of the day,
it is a fundamental truth.
But he did get arrested.
So I said he wasn’t going to get
arrested, but then he did get arrested.
But the reason he got arrested
for a different crime, of course.
So there is sort of a karmic
version of justice happening here.
He committed a crime
and he is being punished.
He has committed two crimes.
He’s being punished for one.
Does that count for both?
I think the criminal justice
system in China is pretty harsh.
So I’m going to go ahead and say yes.
The graffiti in Japan,
honestly, graffiti, how bad is it?
I don’t think you should graffiti
vandalize things, whatever.
But in the end of the day, how
many people are I still getting hurt?
You got to clean it up.
I would basically make the criminal
clean up the thing they graffiti.
That’s a pretty fair punishment.
He was arrested on suspicion of extortion.
He was threatening people involved
in online streams for shopping.
So China is very popular to have shopping
streams where you bring products out.
You talk about them.
You move it on people can buy that product.
And he apparently was trying
to intimidate these people
into getting them to put
money into a bank account.
So just essentially just
extorting them for money.
While I, of course, would judge
someone for graffitiing something.
I couldn’t understand the
politics behind graffitiing.
That’s a coony shrine.
I really can’t.
I wouldn’t do it, but I can understand it.
But when you get into extortion, it’s pretty
clear you’re just a bad person anyways.
And so there is not a lot
of a redemption arc here.
And I’m sure that Chinese justice
system is absolutely going to bury you.
So good luck to him.
A Japan Postman, I say
Postman because it’s a guy.
So I’m not trying to be sexist biased or
use my sort of older misogynistic style.
I was speaking.
It’s an actual Postman.
But also could be Postboy
because this Postman
was a teenager and I was like, wow, I
never thought about the age of Post people.
It’s kind of a neat thing.
But because I never thought about it
because in my image, they’re just adults.
But I don’t want to insult
people, male carriers.
And skill wise, you need to be able
to deliver male to certain addresses.
That is about it.
I’m sure there’s more to it.
Again, I feel like I’ve
already insulted someone.
I’m sorry.
I think it’s valuable job.
I think it’s important.
Japan Post is dedicated.
I once did an online thing.
It was probably for t-shirts or something.
And because the website, I put my
name in Japanese and Chinese characters.
So in Kanji, on the form, it
showed up as question marks.
So the Chinese script
wasn’t on the server
side of the system they were
using the payment system.
I guess they were set up for
only English perfectly makes sense.
They still sent it out because I assumed
the whole system was just automated.
Two months later, this package shows up.
All it has is my name in English and the
postal address and they still got it to me.
So that level of
dedication made me really,
really appreciate Japan Post as
a group of very dedicated people.
But now we get this story
and it’s a team who is hired.
So already it’s like,
maybe that’s the
problem, but also I
don’t think it’s like teens
are inherently lazy or
not capable or anything.
I don’t look at young people that way.
I look at individuals.
So this individual, the fact that it is a
teen, I think, is what got it to the front
of the news because it’s sort of playing
into people’s presuppositions about youth.
A teen Japanese postperson
dumped 2,378 letters
and 449 parcels in
seven different locations.
So over the course
of mid-June to July, so
that’d be about six weeks, just
like I can’t deliver all this mail.
So I’m just going to take it here.
I’m going to dump it.
I’m going to take it over here and dump it.
I’m going to take it over here.
1049 parcels, though, okay.
You’re a mail person.
You’re supposed to deliver the mail.
You decide you’re not
going to deliver the mail.
You start dumping the mail.
You have the parcels.
If you’re going to commit, this is a crime.
I’m pretty sure this is a crime.
Just dumping the mail.
You have the parcels.
You might as well steal the parcels.
I know I every
regularly say I should not
give advice to criminals,
but then immediately
sorry giving advice
to criminals, but it’s
because I’m like the police officer
who gets into the criminal mindset.
I just want to be in their thought, but in
my head, I’m like, well, if you’re going to
throw it away, you might
as well profit from it.
There may be some
good stuff in the parcels.
Keep them.
You might as well even take
the mail home and open it.
Maybe someone sending
someone some money or something.
I’ve now realized that if
I became a postperson,
if I decided to just
start dumping stuff,
like I didn’t want to deliver the
mail, I didn’t want to do my job.
I would be like, well, let’s
take it home and I’ll go through
it and see if there’s anything
valuable that I could keep.
Less likely to get caught.
So the fact that he was dumping
it in seven locations outside.
So the report came in on July 31st.
Someone found mail
and parcels in between
house and a river, so
I didn’t write it down.
They found it, they
basically found one of
the places that the kid
was dumping the mail.
They called the post office and the police.
The post office talked to the
guy, he admitted to doing it.
He just said, I can’t
deliver all this mail.
You guys are crazy with all
the mail you expect me to deliver.
It’s too much.
Clearly should not have been a mail person.
So what they’ve done,
they didn’t arrest the kid.
I’m finding this the interesting part.
He’s not been arrested.
The post office is filing
for damages and that
means he’s going to have
to pay the equivalency
of whatever that all that stuff was
worth, so they have to work that out.
They found pretty much all
the mail could still be delivered.
There were three parcels
that were so damaged
probably because of rain or something
that they couldn’t read the address.
There’s three parcels
will not get delivered.
They’ve put the message out there.
If you are missing a parcel,
you can contact the post office.
Maybe they haven’t for you.
But at the end of the
day, it actually seems
like after 2,000 pieces
of mail go missing.
Someone should have
noticed a little sooner.
Japan, we’ve done a
lot of things about Japan.
Battening down the hatches.
There’s some good sailor talk
that I’ve learned from my father.
They get stricter.
Japan does not get
looser in its laws and rules.
They get stricter.
So what has happened?
Electric scooters became available.
They immediately started making
rules about electric scooters.
About a month ago, we did a story about
those little motorized suitcases you can sit
on and go through the –
supposed to be through
the airport, but some people
were riding them in the streets.
If you ride them in
the streets, they fall
under motorized vehicle
rules and you have to
have all these modifications to
make it legal to go on the streets.
Cycling, very common in Japan, you –
it’s a very convenient way to get around.
Because the trains are great,
but trains don’t go everywhere.
So if you take a train
somewhere, it’s often
more convenient to take a bicycle to your
final destination, not the movie franchise.
Why?
That didn’t even make sense.
Just as soon as I said final destination,
the movie comes into my head.
I have even watched those movies.
I know they’re all about like people
dying and they know they’re going to die.
I don’t care about that.
I don’t know.
I like horror movies.
I like movies.
I never cared about the
final destination series.
Maybe I should – maybe
I should be my – maybe
I’ve been overly judgmental
about something I haven’t seen.
So I gotta make some amends and
maybe actually go watch one of those.
There’s like six.
That’s a bad sign.
Anyways, cycling is very common.
So they have decided
to get a little stricter
with the rules for
riding your bicycle.
And it’s going to
be people riding their
bicycle drunk and people riding their
bicycle while looking at their phone.
So if you are cycling
while using your phone,
you can now get fees, fines,
not fees, fines and jail time.
If you are a repeat offender, you
have to go to bicycle safety school.
I go quite like that.
I bet it’s not very good.
I have the gold driver’s license
- Japan has a tear system.
So if you have no reasons,
I don’t drive very much.
So I have never had accidents.
I’ve never had a ticket.
So I have gold.
My wife got one ticket.
She has blue.
It actually really bugs her that
I have gold and she has blue.
When I renew my license, I have to go in.
I think I have to just go in, change
it, maybe watch a 10-minute video.
But if you have blue, you’ve
got to watch the long video.
That’s literally punishment.
I love it so much because as I just
said, someone I know has to do it.
I don’t.
If you are a repeat offender,
you have to take a safety course.
I bet that course is miserable.
If you are found using
your phone on your
bicycle, it can be up to six months
in prison and a 10,000 yen fine.
If you found our
phone to be a threat to
pedestrians, so if you’re just riding
looking your phone, that’s a cry.
If you’re riding looking
at your phone and
you almost hit people, it can be
one year in prison and 300,000 yen.
So that’s a significant jump up.
So if you’re in danger in
other people, that’s a big deal.
If you’re drinking
and bicycling, it might
used to be, you’re not
allowed to drive drunk.
So riding your bicycle drunk
was therefore acceptable.
Now the only way acceptable to
travel while drunk would be walking.
It’s probably a good idea,
even that might be dangerous.
But if you’re drunk and you’re riding your
bicycle, it can be punished by up to three
years in prison and
half a million yen fine.
So they have decided that not
only are you going to be careful
on your bike, you’re going to
be sobering careful on your bike.
There are four options.
Okay.
So the story itself is
there is a reporter, a
lady reporter for
business sort of daily thing.
She was arrested for breaking stalker laws.
She texted a reporter
at another paper 64
times between August
17th and the 25th, which
I was like 64 sounds like a lot,
but that’s only eight texts a day.
That’s dedication.
I don’t know.
Eight texts.
I think if you and I had
a chat, it would be 50.
I guess it was just 64 initiating messages
where the guy didn’t really respond.
Anyway, like if it’s
on the session, 64 isn’t
it, but then if it’s 64 just you,
messages in a row, yeah, that’s a bit much.
That’s crazy.
Okay.
But that those 64
messages came after she
had been warned by the police not
to attempt to contact the man again.
So now you can see that 64 is way too many.
It is.
So the police show up and
they’re like, hey, don’t text this guy.
Okay, and all anymore.
And she’s like, okay,
well, just 64 more times.
The way she sent
messages, so this actually
implies to me because
the information was not
in the paper in the
news story, was not
overlined or a traditional
text messaging thing,
which would imply maybe
that he’s blocked around that.
She would send a message
via pay pay, the payment system.
She would send him
like one or two yet and
then the message she connected to it was
I want to see you or something like that.
So she sent 64 messages
through pay pay a payment system.
So for the American listeners
or whatever, it would be
like Google pay sending
it like a couple of pennies.
And then you can send why you sent
those pennies is like, I want to see you.
So she was actually paying
extra for each of those messages.
She’s pretty serious about it.
So her reason, so your job
is now to guess her reason for
continuing to send messages
after she had been blocked.
So I have four options.
One, I want to see you, but she
meant professionally, not personally.
B, it’s a payment app and
therefore they are not messages.
C, he didn’t block me, so like
he didn’t block me on pay pay.
So it must have been okay on pay pay.
Or D, it was for a story on stalking.
Man, so I don’t know how this story yet.
Good.
Because if you hear the
story, it kind of ruins the quiz.
This has been my biggest concern.
It hasn’t happened yet.
But my concern is I
start the quiz, get to
the quiz part and
they’re like, oh, but I’ve
heard this story and know the answer and
they haven’t like cut me off, in which case
I would have to abandon
the whole thing anyway.
But okay, you can ask
questions about the four options.
And again, the three that are not true, I
will try to make up real sounding answers.
Do you remember the options?
She basically got a restraining
order against this gun.
It was one step lower.
So the police warned
her that if you continue,
you’re going to be
breaking stalking laws.
He hadn’t officially
gotten a restraining order.
So there is maybe a little
legal wiggle room, but I
think the message was
very clear you need to stop.
The police had warned her, that’s yeah.
She’s clearly gone through pay pay,
just keeps sending messages, I don’t think.
I don’t know.
And I don’t know.
I’m walking on a mental gymnastics with
this level three still to go, be doing.
Does he see what do you have?
Okay.
So C was he didn’t block me
therefore, it must have been fine.
So he didn’t block me
on pay pay specifically.
Or it was for a story
I was doing on stalking
and just wanted to get
into the mind of a stalker.
Be is also pretty good mental
gymnastics, why is that right?
Yeah, it’s a payment app.
So I wasn’t sending messages.
I was sending payments
and you have to
connect a message like a thing to
the payment, like a receipt almost.
So the receipt was a I want to see
you, you can ask a couple of questions.
It’s hard to ask questions on this
one because it’s just guessing, I guess.
So the person she was
sending, the pay pay messages,
I don’t know, messages
to, is he also a stochist?
Is he also what is he also in
the same kind of a fashion?
Oh, he’s a reporter.
They are both reporters.
They work at different publications.
So I’m going to assume that they met
professionally somehow, like at the same, they
were at the same story
or at the same location
or a conference or something,
professionally, they overlapped personally.
They did not.
And I think I’m good
with D. D, it was for a
story I was doing on
stalking, is incorrect.
When she was arrested,
the statement she
made was, it’s true
that I sent him messages,
but I thought I’d been accepted
because he didn’t block me.
I’m not concerned by
the accusations, oh, I’m
sorry, I’m not convinced
by the accusations.
So she’s saying the police told me to stop.
He hadn’t blocked me
on pay pay, so therefore
I’m not convinced
he’s told the police.
So the police are just interfering
in her personal relationship.
They aren’t.
It has nothing to do with the guy.
She thinks that the police are
jealous of her relationship or something.
Well, they might, but
I mean, what other
logics are like, the
police have come and told
you stop messaging this guy, and she’s
like, well, wait a minute, he hasn’t blocked
me on pay pay and I
can send him messages
and then he gets those messages
and he hasn’t said anything.
Therefore I’m not convinced
that he told you to tell me to stop.
I see.
It was the line of mental gymnastics.
That was a, it’s a lot.
I mean, she’s gone
through the three or four
different justifications
to get to the point
where it’s like still acceptable for
me to send messages to this dude.
On pay pay pay, that’s the fact that it’s
on pay pay, a payment app really solidifies
to me that this, she
was not either he didn’t
give her his contact information
or he had blocked her elsewhere.
But because she saw
this one opening that did
you ever see the German
guy who was in love
with like a kpop band,
it was a video online.
That’s probably like pre
pandemics for like five, six years ago.
He’s, he’s doing
his justification, he’s
basically been given a
restraining order and he
says, ah, this restraining order wasn’t
given to me by the woman I am stalking.
It was given to me by
the management company.
So it’s the management
company trying to stop me, not her.
It’s sure that Naio
likes me and that she
wants me to come back
to Korea and here is why.
So first of all, at the start of this
year, I received a restraining order.
At this restraining order was not from
Naio, it came from JYP Entertainment.
It did not come from Naio
and JYP Entertainment
tried to destroy my image
and tried to intentionally
scare Naio away from me because they feared
that Naio might neglect her job if me and
Naio start a relationship,
but obviously that
would not be the case
because I would obviously
support Naio’s job as
an idol and stay with
her in Korea so that she can still
focus all her time for her career.
Secondly, I always have treated Naio with a
lot of respect and I truly, truly love Naio
with all my heart and I am working really
hard all the time trying to make Naio happy
and trying to make her
realize that I truly love her.
So why would she hate me
that would not make any sense?
I know one time I
accidentally leaked Cheyong’s
phone number and I admit it was a
mistake and I apologized for that already.
And I know that there
are a lot of fake news about
me on the internet
created from unprofessional
news outlets who
try to gain views with
click-pake titles and fake
rumors to make money out of it.
But Naio is smart enough
to know that there are
a lot of fake news
about me on the internet.
Naio knows that I am a
good person and Naio knows
that I am in love with
her for almost years now.
So like he is convinced in his head that
the girl does love him back or would accept
him but it is the management
company that is interfering.
Yeah they are just
going to stop us getting
together, the management companies and
scares that I am going to take her away.
That does seem like
it and so this seems
like on the same kind
of thinking, it is like
the police are trying to
stop us from getting together.
Why?
So in the other one, the management
company would be losing an asset.
So she falls in love
with this guy and they
disappear and she is not
going to do music anymore.
But in this case, the
police, why would they
bother to interfere with
a personal relationship?
They do not care.
If you ever get a message
on pay pay from me
and you don’t block
me, I hope you realize
what you have actually
done is just open that door.
I mean yeah, pay pay is also a
messaging app, it is time to figure.
I actually did an interview with another
podcast this morning called Requiem Radio.
So that should actually be
out this afternoon or tomorrow.
So if you are listening
to this, you want to
hear another two hours of
this noise coming out of my face.
You can listen to that as well.
He had another two hours of just me
and another guy we are talking about.
We talked about movies
and comics and anime
and we talked about Japan and
we talked about YouTube and stuff.
So some new interesting insights into me.
If you don’t get enough of listening to my
voice every single week, multiple podcasts
and YouTube channels
in Jesus, I bet it’s a lot.
Anyways, feel free to
check out Requiem Radio.
You get another two hours
of chunk of beef chest.
Don’t know why that popped into my head.
I think I had a link that has
now gone because I was talking.
There’s a city hall and they
were keeping Excel sheets.
Japan loves Excel sheets.
They use Excel sheets inappropriately.
Like they use Excel sheets
that should be Word documents.
I don’t know why, but just Japan, Japanese
companies, something about it, something
about Excel, really is attractive
to them as the catch all document.
Maybe it’s the cells.
I don’t know.
I find it frustrating
not because it’s wrong
or bad, but I’m like
this actually would
be more comprehensible as a Word
document than it is in Excel sheet.
And then the Excel
sheets I often get at work
are gigantic, like
incomprehensibly large.
So how am I supposed to actually
get any information out of this?
They don’t seem to understand that Excel
sheets are used to contain information.
And then make that
information more digestible.
That seems that last step, the
step that makes Excel sheets in
my mind useful is the one they
don’t seem to have adopted yet.
It’s very relevant.
Like most Japanese
offices, this city hall was
keeping an Excel sheet
on staff performance.
Between 2020 and 2022,
it was called Progress
Report and it was
delivered to the department
head every week or two so that they
could check the progress of employees.
This was about a specific employee.
There were multiple
categories, like words and
actions, so I guess if they said
inappropriate or appropriate things.
In the sufficient abilities, quite
direct, but stuff you’re not good at.
The marks were then
put into the Excel sheet,
making fun of one of the
employees’ appearance.
So one of the statements was, the
back of his head looks like a bird’s nest.
Another statement was, his underwear can
be seen from under his polo shirt’s hem.
It’s disgusting.
It took me a moment
because was that, at
first I was like, is that
you’re tucking your
shirt into your underwear and the
underwear hikes up out of your pants?
I was like, no, because
it’s from under the
hem, so it sounds like the polo shirt is
too short and you can see his underwear.
Anyways, someone felt
that that was inappropriate,
instead of speaking
to the man, put it
into an Excel sheet that would go
as a report to the department head.
The thing is, this was
on a public network
within the city hall,
which means eventually,
of course, the man,
in this case of the
victim, found it, found the comments,
and then saw it as power harassment.
He reported the
harassment, the conclusion of
the investigation was
the document itself was
a measure necessary for smooth and proper
performance and therefore not harassment.
So what they’re saying is, this document’s
intent, so keeping track of things people
do well, keeping track
of things people do not
do well, so that we
can give them feedback.
That is appropriate.
They do continue, though.
However, it contained
sentiments unrelated to
duties, so his hair looking bad, his
underwear are sticking out of his pants.
That does not impact his actual ability to
do his job, like whether I like it or not,
is irrelevant and therefore,
that did constitute harassment.
They did meeting with the department head.
The department head, at
first, he said, “It’s just facts.
We only put facts in there, but the
back of his head looks like a bird’s nest.
That’s an opinion.
In May or May not, I don’t know why I would
have to see a picture, and then you have
to show me a picture of a bird’s nest and
put them together to actually see if that
is factual, but his
underwear is sticking up
also, I guess that is
technically a fact, but
I think he was trying
to cover it up, but
then they said, you
know, let’s dig into it.
This is harassment.
When it became out
that this was harassment,
it kind of changed
his tune a little bit
to claiming he did not know
about the tab with the comments.
So he’s claiming that he was given this
Excel sheet every single week or so, that it
had comments added to
it every single week or so.
He claims that this
thing he was sent every
week with new added
comments every single week.
He didn’t know that there was
this one tab, just the one tab.
I looked at all the other
tabs, didn’t look at this one
tab that had the harassment
in it, so I didn’t know.
So I think maybe he’s
being a little dishonest.
I think maybe this guy actually has a
case that this is a former harassment.
Now, the department
head would have been very
justified in sitting down, have a
conversation with him about his appearance.
You just have to be
very sensitive about it.
And you have to realize
like, does this matter?
So in a lot of jobs, how you look will
not negatively impact your performance.
This is what work from
home is actually taught us.
Like if you’re working on a computer,
let’s just say software programming.
If you’re in your pajamas, it does not
negatively impact your performance.
In some cases, being
comfortable might even
increase your performance,
but it’s irrelevant.
So I think this might
be a case where could
they have dealt with
this more deftly, probably.
What they could have
had is really sincere
conversation, maybe
constructive criticism of
how we could help you in the future,
maybe we can make some recommendations.
Maybe when you’re
underwears hiked up, we
could actually suddenly
take you to the side
and be like, hey, you
might want to pull your
shirt down and your
pants up or something.
It’s about 11 p.m. and I’ll always 20/3.
And a guy works for Yomi
Udi, he’s a cameraman,
and he’s out at this
time, he’s working.
So he’s riding on his
bike, and he goes to a
place where he needs
to take some pictures.
And there’s some guy skateboarding
there, and he’s like, fuck these guys.
So he starts a fight
with three skateboarders,
and I’m going to assume the
skateboarders are younger.
Skateboarders do tend to be younger.
But one of the things I
know as a former skateboarder
myself, when I was in
my teens, skateboarders
band together and they have big pieces of
wood with metal tight, like stock to them.
So it’s never a good
idea to mess with us
skateboarder because
the other skateboarders
are going to join in
to defend their friend,
and they have big
pieces of wood with metal
screwed into it, that
they can then hit you with.
The cameraman then kicked
one of the skateboarders.
Now the skateboarders,
good boys to be honest,
they did not retaliate,
they just chased
them down, they did
not like attack them, he
tried to escape, he ended up getting
caught, no one else got hurt any further.
The police show up and they’re like, hey,
you’re not allowed to kick skateboarders.
I know some people
might consider them a
lower class of citizen, but you’re
still not allowed to kick skateboarders.
He said it’s not fair
that I’m working while
they’re playing, while
others are playing.
So he’s saying that because I
have to work at 11.30, no one
else should be allowed to have
a good time at 11.30 at night.
If I’m working, everyone else should be
working, no one should be having any fun.
That is unreasonable, and not a
reason to go around kicking people.
And I actually think he might be lucky he
got off as light as he did, because I think
what’s going through his
head, like how frustrated he is.
One of the things we
talk about is work life
balance, and again, yeah,
this guy is working at 11.
30 at night, when he doesn’t
clearly want to be working,
is what’s setting him off,
attacking other human beings.
He just, he got to set limits,
he can’t work all the time,
but then I guess that’s again
the Japanese work life style.
Okay, we’re getting into the darker stuff.
I’ve decided, okay, I
did a Seamig B episode,
and it was about murder
in Japan and on YouTube,
it got like 20 times more views
than any other video I post.
I usually get like
double digit views on the
podcast, because this is an audio format,
and that’s where most of the audience is.
It was never really
taken off, because I think
anyone who listens
to this, they’re listening
on podcasts, but to
try to make it worth
listening to, I had like
comments and stuff.
I used to not do any
murder on this, because
I tried to be so
flippant, and I realized
I’m not actually that
flippant, I just talk
and then give my opinion
and maybe make a joke.
So I did this episode
of Seamig B on murder,
and it got like triple
digits, 450 or 60 was
the last number I saw, which is
a huge increase from let’s say 25.
So I was like, well, there’s
no reason to shy away
from murder if that’s what
people want to hear about.
So in Indonesia, Japan going forward,
basically no topics off the table.
I just think if it’s got murder, I
probably will just make less jokes.
It will just be more fact stated,
maybe an opinion here or there.
But if that’s what
people enjoy, I mean, I
was hesitant, because I wanted to make
jokes, but I’m like, ah, still make jokes.
It actually is very obvious.
Here I am 300 in whatever
episodes later, just
figuring out I can
decide not to make jokes.
I can decide not to be flippant.
It’s a revelation for me.
I always feel like you have to, you have
to make jokes, you have to be flippant.
There’s a ferry that connects Japan
and South Korea, it’s about 200 kilometers.
It’s a passenger ferry.
So you get on in Japan
and you take this nice
boat ride, it’s probably
about a few hours,
and then you get off in
South Korea, you go on
holiday, Koreans do the same
thing, they come to Japan.
And I actually think it’d probably be on
a good weather, very nice way to travel.
And staff member was returning to
her room, and she found her door open.
Now she thought, ah, I closed my door.
Then she found her underwear
drawer open, she’s like, that’s weird.
Clearly if she thinks
she’s closed her door,
she’s the kind of
person who closes things,
not like my son, who now has gone into this
weird habit of just leaving drawers open,
which I’ve asked him
to close the drawers and
he looked at me and he
goes, no one’s going to die.
My immediate response was of
course, you will, if I see this open again.
That’s parenting.
So this is a room, a
birth on a boat, so the
bed has a curtain around it so
you can block out light and stuff.
She pulls back the
curtain and she finds a
30 year old man, first engineer on
the boat, attempting to hide in the room.
First of all, I’m going to be
really honest, terrible hiding spot.
There’s not going to be a lot of
places to hide in a room on a boat.
They’re going to be small
and very tightly packed.
But closing the
curtain to the only really
usable piece of furniture
in the room, I assume,
is not a good hiding
place, you get under the
bed, get behind the
bed, get above the curtain
maybe even, I don’t
know, something like that.
Then maybe you’d have a chance, I’m not
even, they’re still not successful, they’re
going to catch you,
but imagine just pulling
back the curtain,
there’s just like this
30 year old man, they’re going,
hmm, kind of just stole your own D’s.
He kept in game and could talk into and he
admitted to doing it, he quit the next day.
So they were like
saying, let’s not involve
the police, please no
charges, they actually
talk to the girl and they
said, please don’t press
charges, he’s going to quit,
he’s off the boat, he’s gone.
She was a little torn
because he’s like, we’re
worried about the
reputation of the boat,
we’re worried about
the duties, operations of
what’s going on, this is
going to negatively impact us.
So they were trying
to pressure her into not
pressing charges to
try to keep it quiet.
I think that’s really it.
I had a whole other idea though, if they
press charges, is this international law?
Is it maritime law?
Is it the South Korean jurisdiction
or the Japanese jurisdiction?
Because I believe it’s a Japanese
boat in South Korean waters.
So is it the Japanese
boat means they should
report to the Japanese police because it’s
Japanese citizen who would get arrested?
It was a South Korean staff
member who had her underwear stolen.
So should they report
to the South Korean
authorities that a South Korean person
had had a crime committed on them?
Should they call interpol
and solve it that way, just have
interpol international police
come in and just deal with it?
Should they do maritime law?
Now, I didn’t look up
maritime law for theft.
I actually do enjoy maritime law
because often it’s very, very logical.
So maritime law does
have a lot to do with intent.
So there’s float some in jetsam in this.
So basically your boat is
sinking, you throw stuff off.
If you threw it off, it becomes salvage.
If you threw it off with the intent
to come back for it, it’s not salvage.
So salvage you if you come across
it, you can find it and just take it.
It’s not salvage, you have to
give it back as maritime law.
So intent became the most important factor
when it came to float some in jetsam.
There’s also the stuff that syncs.
I forget there’s two names for that too.
Again, for the same,
some has been abandoned
and there’s no
expectation that it’ll come
back and then some they
intend to come back and get it.
That actually makes a huge difference as to
whether or not you are allowed to keep it
because some is salvage,
some is not salvage.
In this case though,
the Japanese guy clearly
intended to steal, so
that makes him a pirate.
So he should be treated like a pirate.
Now he didn’t do any of
the swashbuckling cool stuff
to escape because he should
have been able to escape.
So I think he should
be treated like a pirate
and how do you balance
it out to make it fair?
Yeah.
Walk the plank.
It’s the only answer.
Oh, I did the song too, sir.
I didn’t know what keel hauling was.
Keel hauling is when
they would drop you
over the front of the
boat and then drag you
under the entirety of the boat and then you
got to think there’s barnacles and stuff.
The stuff they scraped off.
Barnacles are sharp.
They cut you and then
this was before engines
and then you would come
up the backside of the boat.
If you’re still alive, that
was your punishment,
but most people
died in that process.
They could keel hauling
him but see, there might
not be barnacles because
of modern technology
but there is a big frickin
propeller engine at the back.
So if he survives that,
then God is on his side.
Anyways, we’ve got to
move on to the last story.
In 83 year old woman living in a care
facility in Fukuoka, she entered her room and
she found a stranger, someone sleeping
in her room and she became furious.
So she decided to do
the only logical thing.
She walked up and
started just punching her,
leading to the woman’s
death because it was
another older woman who
was sleeping in her bed.
Now it turns out the 83 year old
woman had entered the wrong room.
That is a very, very interesting
set of circumstances for this death.
So she’s walked into a room.
I’m going to give her
that it’s night in its
dark because the other one was
already sleeping in her own room.
If she had looked
around, she might have
noticed that this isn’t
my stuff, but at the
same time if it was dark, maybe
she didn’t because it’s a care facility.
So every room is probably
set up basically the same way.
So it would be a pretty easy mistake
to make, but I think it’s very clear.
You see someone sleeping in a
bed beating them is not the answer.
She should have gone
and gotten security and
then gotten them to check and
get the person out of the room.
And then she could turn around
because you make the same assumption.
Maybe that person came
into my room by accident
and went to sleep because these are
all older people they might get confused.
They might have sort of early
onset dementia or something like that.
Who knows?
But immediately going to
fist a cuffs on a sleeping
person who is defenseless
is an unreasonable reaction.
So the beating led to
this other woman’s death.
She was arrested.
into introducing murder
as a story into the podcast.
So I cut it off pretty quick.
I don’t want to talk
about it too much until
I get comfortable with where I want
to go and how much I want to say.
You can see this is a slightly
new direction for the podcast.