(upbeat music)
I have a bit of a rough throat today.
So this may be shorter.
I may not be getting
too into it, or I may just
start coughing, so it might
be some very weird edits.
I’m just giving you a
warning ahead of time.
Some people have actually found
that when I have a rougher voice,
when I’m in a tough spotter,
I’m sick and I do the podcast.
They actually like my voice better, which
makes me sad and happy at the same time,
’cause I’m happy you like my voice
when it’s rough and I guess more manly
and like I’ve been chewing glass
and smoking cigarettes my whole life.
But also, I’d rather be healthy.
I think that’s a pretty normal
state of affairs for most people.
I should have started
smoking earlier and then quit,
and then I would have that
great raspy voice that people like.
I’ve had a couple of people know,
tell me that they listen to this
before they go to sleep and
they fall asleep to my voice.
And that’s also a mixed
blessing because it’s like,
A, you find the voice you’re
hearing right now relaxing.
It’s gentle enough that it eases
you into a place of slumber,
which I actually was thinking that’s a
really nice thing to do for other people,
but also it means you’re not
listening to have the episode.
So all the effort I put into the latter
half, honestly, the problem I have though,
is if you listen to this
when you’re going to sleep
and you fall asleep,
let’s say at the midpoint,
I usually put the dirtier and more
violent stories at the end of the episode.
So if you’re doing that, it means
your subconscious mind is now getting
all that dirty, awful information put into
your brain while you’re sleeping directly.
I’m just hoping that doesn’t
make you a worse person.
Usually I’m hopefully balancing it out
with my very sensible opinion, who knows?
That’s it.
All we have to do is this is an experiment.
If you wake up one day and
you just feel more violent urges
or you feel like a worse person, listen to
the whole podcast before you go to sleep.
So you can get the logic
part of your brain kicked in,
so you know you’re not just sending
yourself some blemole messages.
I did actually discuss
with a friend the other day.
I should just do a podcast
where I talk about nothing,
which is pretty much all the podcasts
I do anyways, but like literally nothing.
Like nothing you would need
to actually bother to take in
or listen to a process because then you
could listen to that while you go to sleep.
And I know there are like sleep podcasts
out there that people like you turn it on
and you listen to this sort of
gentle voices that talks to you.
The story I had in mind
from my first episode
of my sleeping podcast, we’re
gonna get to the news soon.
Was the story of how I
bought three of the same jacket.
So you see I had this
jacket that I really liked.
It was an under armor jacket.
It’s actually hanging on the
back of my chair right now.
And it was very comfortable.
It’s sort of that light jacket level.
It’s two, you wanna have something
with you when it gets nippy in the evening.
So this would be like sweater
weather, but I gotta go to work and stuff.
I don’t want something
that I can put in my bag.
There’s this sports jacket,
it’s not heavy in warm,
but it will cut the wind and it’ll
keep you just just warm enough.
But it’s light enough and small enough that
you can fool it up and put it in your bag
and carry it with you during
the day when it is warm.
So yeah, I thought this is one of
the most perfect jackets I’ve ever had.
Men love a good jacket.
I don’t wanna speak for anyone else.
So I was really in love with this jacket
and especially because it was just
fulfilling so many needs I didn’t know I had.
And then I thought, oh, I couldn’t
find it one day and I thought I lost it.
So I gave it a couple of weeks.
I looked around the house.
I did some cleaning and stuff
and I was like, I’ve lost that jacket.
Very unusual for me to lose things.
So, but you know, it was worth it.
I’ll go online and I’ll buy another
one of the exact same jacket.
Almost, it just, it’s the
same jacket without a hood.
So I bought this other jacket
and I got it very happy with that.
I’m wearing it for a couple of weeks.
And then my son goes, oh yeah, I moved
this into my room or somewhere by accident.
Here’s your jacket pack.
Now I have two of the same jacket.
Then, have you fallen asleep yet?
This would be around the time when I expect
you to fall asleep in my sleep podcast.
I haven’t come up with a name yet.
It’s gonna be like Peter
murmurs or something.
They’re chunk with beef chest murmurs.
Seamick bee murmurs.
I’m hitting the titles now.
So then I’m online and I’m
looking at jackets because
men, as we’ve established,
they love their jackets.
I can’t stop looking
at jackets and watches.
I have, I think, got a final
cap on the watch problem.
I’m not really looking at
watches like I was before.
I think I found the one for me.
The last watch purchase I made.
But we’re not talking about that right now.
We’re talking about the jackets.
So I was online.
I saw this jacket.
I’m like, ooh, ever last.
That’s a brand I’ve always enjoyed.
It’s fun.
I actually rare to find a
good labeled ever last product
because most of them
that ever last is too big.
I don’t like the gigantic logos.
I wear that ironically.
I won’t wear a t-shirt
with a giant logo on it.
But I like my branding to be a little
more subtle if there’s branding at all.
Ever last is one of those
sort of classic brands
that I enjoy, but most
of them are too loud.
And so when I find a subtle one, I got it.
I have a hat that has an ever last on it.
And this is a jacket with an ever last.
I bought that jacket and I
was very happy with that jacket.
It was on sale.
That jacket arrived.
I realized it was literally the exact
same jacket as the previous two jackets.
Only I had ever last instead of
under armor on the chest piece.
That’s it.
So that is the story of how I ended
up with three of the same jacket.
And I hope you are
sleeping peacefully right now.
Let’s get back to the news.
Should I do the intro again?
I feel like I’ve just
done a sample podcast.
The irony is Ninja News Japan came out
as a segment from the old Velasa podcast.
So I did it as a segment
every couple of weeks.
And then it just got
grew and grew and grew.
And I’m like, it should be its own podcast.
That’s where Ninja News Japan came from.
This new sleep podcast may
start as a joke or just a segment.
But then it could grow
into its own podcast.
If that’s what people
want, I mean, I’m a whore.
I’ll just do whatever people want.
Or’s do it for money.
So in a way, I’m worse, because I
do it and I don’t make any money.
Anyways, let’s get to our first story.
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It’s kind of an update.
It’s not.
So Rititia, sugar baby Rititia.
I have been kind of
obsessed with her story.
Because it’s the pinnacle of scam stories
and then this great fall from Grace,
where she had millions
of dollars available to her
was spending it recklessly
and then got arrested.
So her story is just
this like rise and fall.
She has a scheme in its
working and then she goes too far.
She flies too close
to the sun as she falls.
She’s been arrested.
She’s gotten nine years in prison.
So why am I talking about her?
Again, there’s really
not going to be anything
to say about her until
she gets out of prison.
If Ninja News Japan is
still going in nine years, I
absolutely will cover her release
in what she does after that.
But there’s been an interesting development
in that they have decided to take the
DDchan story and make a movie out of it.
Now, I only saw the article in Japanese
and I read it very shallow read of it.
So I don’t actually know the details yet.
There was a slight implication
that there was a slight implication
that they’re going to make her a more
sympathetic character than I would make her.
So I think what they’re
going to do is say like,
here’s this person and
she’s in this situation
and the only thing she could
do to get out of this situation
was to scam men, whereas I
would make her the evil genius.
She came up with this plan.
She capitalized on it.
She thought, I’m going to
capitalize this even further
by writing a book and
posting that book on
the internet so that
other women can scam men
and they can make millions
of dollars the same way I have.
And so I would present her in a more evil
light because she knew what she was doing.
Her scheme was solid and she
was going forward and then she was
trying to expand it to hurt
more people almost in a network.
So I’m wondering, I don’t think
this is going to be a good movie
but I’m really interested
in how they’re going to be
presenting the main
character Sugar Baby DDchan
because are they going
to make her sympathetic
or are they going to
say like she’s a scammer
and she used her youth and attractiveness
to scam these older lonely men.
I’m really torn because
if they do try to paint her
as a sympathetic light
and she ends up in prison
and that’s a sad thing, I think maybe
they’ve missed the problem or the point.
I think maybe they’ve missed
the point of the problem
that she presents as
an actor with in society.
You can tell that was not scripted.
I do want to look into it more though.
J.R.
West has created a knife proof umbrella.
Now they say umbrella,
it’s not actually an umbrella.
It’s not like I would be walking
around with this umbrella
outside and protecting myself
from the rain and/or knives.
It’s a defensive shield that
they want to keep on trains
because last summer
there was a knife attack
on board of train and
three people were injured.
One staff member and
two passengers were
injured by a knife
attack and so they’re like,
we have to do something
to try to give the train staff
something to defend themselves
with when it comes to someone
gets on the train with a knife because
it’s a very difficult thing to stop.
This shows actually
the level of care they’re
putting in in Japan that
would not be elsewhere.
Three people were injured and then J.R.
West decided
we’re going to take some
action to make sure that
we can’t stop this from happening
but maybe we can give people
a position where they can defend
themselves and not get hurt in the future.
They developed an umbrella
shaped defensive shield.
It’s basically this big open thing.
It becomes this, well it’s an umbrella.
And it’s knife proof material.
So I don’t know, knife
proof doesn’t mean it’s
going to, I guess it’s
nothing’s impervious.
If you keep hitting it, I
assume it’s going to break
the shield sooner or later,
but it’s going to give the ideas
to give people behind
you a chance to escape.
The shaft that would normally be the umbrella
shaft is longer than a normal umbrella.
So again, this is not an umbrella.
It’s just when I say umbrella
you immediately know what shape
it takes and therefore
because it can be collapsed
like an umbrella, it’s
much easier to store.
Protective shields used up to
now were close range and heavy.
We’ve devised a shield
that’s easy for female
employees to use
because the problem is, yes.
Let’s say you do have a
large ballistic shield available,
but it’s this big heavy thing
and it’s only right in front of you
that maybe isn’t the best use
for all people who work for you.
I don’t think it’s
necessarily just females.
Weaker males might have the same problem.
I’ve never used a shield
before so even though I’m
let’s say a big healthy male,
I might not use it correctly.
The umbrella, the idea is to make it safe
and keep some distance
between you and the assailant.
I think that’s actually a pretty good idea.
They are going to put
1,200 umbrellas on 600 trains.
That’s going to be two on every train.
I assume it wanted to either
end where the staff tend to spend
most of their time, so it’s
easily accessible to them.
So they could get to the car and
try to defend against a knife attack.
A 22 year old unemployed man
met a woman via social media.
I don’t engage in social media.
So I actually find it always when they
say like met someone over social media.
Like how do you form a relationship
over Instagram or Twitter or something?
I have not ever been able to do that.
I’ve had short conversations,
but they always die out.
And again, it’s because of
me, I’m bad at social media.
So this is where I feel like my
I have fallen behind the times
of how sort of
relationships are formed now.
But anyways, this couple, they
start dating and then he moves in
to the house or the
apartment where this
woman he’s met is
staying with another woman.
So there’s now two women
and one man in the house.
He then made up a character and sent the
two women 2,000 emails threatening them.
He made them believe that they
were being targeted by hostile forces.
So there’s a lot of questions I have there.
Like why would I as just a regular
person be targeted by hostile forces?
Where do these hostile forces come from?
Why would they be targeting me?
If I’m just a normal
person because they don’t
say anything about this
sort of pair of women
that would make them honestly
particularly unique, that’s not an insult.
They’re just normal people, but normal
people don’t get targeted by hostile forces.
So that would be if I was in the same
situation, so I’m one of these ladies.
And then some guy moves into
my house and they start saying like,
I start getting all these
emails and he goes,
you’re being targeted
by hostile forces.
I’d be like, that doesn’t make sense.
What do I have that hostile forces
who even want in the first place?
He made demands as the hostile forces
and then he said he would protect them.
And then they bought him a car.
I read two versions
of this story, one where
they bought him a sports car and then
another one where they bought him two cars.
So these two women being
targeted by hostile forces
to protect themselves,
bought this guy, two cars.
They also started transferring
money to his account.
So he got them to a
point where he’d convince
them that they could
not leave the apartment.
That would be too dangerous for
them to leave where they were living.
They had to give him all the money.
He would take care of everything.
He needed the two cars
to be able to travel around.
I don’t know why he needed
two if it’s only one guy.
But he convinced them
to stay in the apartment
because it was
dangerous to go outside.
One woman, a gamer,
was playing games, talking
to one of her friends
online said like,
you know, I’m being held
here, essentially against my will.
I’m not able to call the police.
I don’t know why she
wasn’t able to call the police.
I’m not able to call the police.
So could you call the police for me?
Her friend calls the
police and the police come
and they’re like, hey,
none of this is true.
You’re under arrest.
He’s arrested.
And he says that he had
brainwashed them so that
he could live his life
as freely as possible.
So he was unemployed,
met a girl, brainwashed
her, and sort of her
friend into giving up
their lives so that he
could live his life freely.
There is the question that went around
as soon as I saw this comment and stuff.
And I have the admit question
immediately, right, why?
How are these two girls
making money from home?
I assume they work from home.
I assume their programmers are
something and they’re working from home.
But for them to not be
able to leave the apartment
and still make money is actually
still a very unusual thing in Japan.
Work from home jobs are rare in Japan.
They would have had
work from home all the time
to be able to make money to
continually give this guy money.
Just thank God that one of them was
a gamer and had internet gaming friends.
It’s almost like to
me, I was like, the
gaming mentality may
be primed them to believe
that the hostile forces
weren’t real thing.
But the fact that she
had friends online meant
she had someone she
could speak to and those
friends online put her
in a position where she
could ask for help, which that
is why video games are good.
A 27 year old woman called an ambulance.
The thing is, she called the ambulance
more than 200 times over the last year.
Last week, she called the
ambulance, but the police showed up.
So what has happened
is she would say I’m sick
and call the ambulance from April
2023 to now, she’s called 251 times.
When the police showed
up and said like, you’re
calling the ambulance too
much, she said, I don’t remember.
I just called because
I wasn’t feeling well,
which is perfectly
reasonable thing to do.
When you don’t feel well,
you call an ambulance, right?
There’s some other details that came out.
Sometimes she would
collapse in the street so
that other people would
call the ambulance on her
behalf, but then when
the ambulance showed up,
she would refuse to be taken to the hospital
because, hey, I’m just taking a break.
I read a third version
of this story where she
took up to three hours
of the paramedics time,
so that she was, I don’t know, talking
to them, say, having them check her out.
She was wasting massive
amounts of paramedics
time when she wasn’t actually
sick or actually feeling ill.
There is one story.
So I read three or four of the same story.
One version says she tried to
pressure the paramedic into dating her.
So I don’t know if that’s
true or if that was interpreted
some way because it didn’t
show up in all the other stories.
So I don’t like to claim
something’s true unless
I have like two or three
sources saying the same
thing, but this does
seem like if you’re willing
to collapse in the
street to get ambulances
to come to you, if you
call the ambulance 200
times, just because you’re not feeling
good, it seems like you’re starved for the
attention that the
paramedics will give you,
pressuring one of the
paramedics to date,
you doesn’t seem like
out of hand compared to
everything else that’s
going on in this story.
She’s been arrested on
obstruction of business for
taking up too much of
the ambulance cruise time.
This is a classic.
This is a Japanese movie.
I forget what it’s called now.
It’s really famous like a Kurosawa film.
And they show, they do
the same story like three
times from the different
perspectives of the
different people, like the
person who is accused
of the murder and then
the person who is judging
the murder and stuff, it’s a very
interesting way to tell a story.
This is sort of a similar
thing, only it went to court.
An Australian man says he
smells gas as walking past a building.
So he climbs up onto the balcony to the
window in an attempt to alert the resident.
He shouts, “Go to the
door and can you walk?”
An older man comes to the balcony window,
opens the door, and then a struggle ensues.
The man, the Australian man, picks up
a shovel like a basically a little spade.
That was on the balcony
and hits the old man
with it, jumps off the
balcony and runs away.
So in that version of the story, he’s a
hero trying to hero and being thwarted by
the communication issue or misunderstanding
because he’s speaking English.
The other version is a
guy climbed onto a balcony
and then tried to rob an
older man by saying, “Go to da.
” So here’s your
Japanese lesson for today.
“Go to da,” translated into
English means, “This is a robbery.
” And then his second
phrase was, “Kinwadoko da.
” So “Kinwadoko da”
is, “Where’s the money?
” So he’s saying, the
Australian man’s defense is
saying that, “Go to da” is
actually him saying, “Go to the door.
” “Kinwadoko da is can you walk?
” So, I have a
co-workers Australian.
I didn’t get a chance to
do it, I actually should do it.
I wanted him to record those two phrases
in the strongest Australian accent possible
and then get a Japanese
friend to record the
Japanese version and
see how similar they sound.
Because “Go to da,” and “Go to
the door” is actually not too bad.
“Kinwadoko da,” and
“Kinwadoko da,” and “Kin you walk.
” I know that the Australian can and
“Kin” actually would be pretty close,
but the rest of the phrase
doesn’t quite work out.
So that’s where it got
a little thinner for me.
Your first choice was good, your
second choice, I wasn’t a big fan of.
The judge sort of fell into my view of
thinking that this might not be the truth.
It was incredible, but it was unclear
as to what was actually happening.
So he said, “I can’t prosecute you.
I can’t punish you based on
the crime of attempted robbery.
” But I can punish you
for trespassing and assault.
So he’s saying, “Look,
maybe you were speaking
English, maybe you
were speaking Japanese,
so maybe you were trying to
rob the man, maybe you weren’t.
I can’t take a
definitive line from that.
” But definitively, I can say you
did climb onto the man’s balcony.
That’s trespassing.
I can definitively say that you picked up
a spade and you hit the old man with it.
That is assault.
So you are getting punished for both those
two crimes and not the crime of robbery,
or attempted robbery, and you
are getting two years in prison.
A lot of people said
this was way too lenient,
but there are lots and
lots of crimes in Japan,
and we’ve done an indigenous
Japan a dozen times.
Lots and lots of crimes in Japan, where you
get punished, but it’s a deferred sentence,
so if you don’t actually
commit another crime within the
two-three-year period, you
actually get off scot-free.
So him not getting a
deferred sentence is already,
especially as like a first-time criminal
in Japan, is already harsher than usual.
Him getting straight prison time.
Yeah, he’s being punished for it.
Female campaign staff
supporting lower house candidates.
This election just happened.
There’s other elections for lower
and upper houses going all the time.
You see a lot of campaigning in Japan.
How is this newsworthy?
This guy has women campaigning for him.
Because there are women
campaigning for politicians all the time.
There’s female politicians.
I mean, that’s not even
an unusual thing anymore.
Well, in this case, one wore a mini skirt.
No.
I can say one wore a mini skirt and
you’d be like, “Well, that’s not anything.
” I mean, women are allowed
to wear what they want.
I agree.
This was butt cheeks hanging
out flapping in the wind mini skirt.
Like, she could not lean forward without
her entire buttock area of being exposed.
So I saw a put picture of
her just standing up normally,
and you could see the
bottom of her butt cheeks.
So this was demonstrative.
I think is what they’re talking about.
In another set of pictures, the
female, the female campaigner is
wearing short shorts
with fishnet stockings.
And I think maybe the
complaints were coming
across as this is sending
a very distinct message
or this is trying to appeal to a
certain segment of the population,
especially in Japan
where this stuff is almost
honestly still perfectly
acceptable to a lot
of the older males, which would be
the people you’re trying to appeal to.
Some people complained online that the
candidate may have encouraged this attire.
So saying like, you’re
not campaigning on policy,
you’re campaigning on the fact that I get
the chance to see a girl in a mini skirt
and actually check out
like half her butt all the time.
The candidate said it was not my directive.
We agreed on lime green jackets.
They did wear like sort of
neon bright lime green jackets,
a very attention catching
that was the whole point.
Without regulations below the waist.
So he’s saying like, I didn’t tell them
what to or not to wear below the waist.
We only talked about jackets because
that was going to make sure that you
are connected to me, which actually ends
up being the problem because this woman who
now he’s saying has
made her own very
provocative choices is
directly connected to him.
He says, I regret my lack of oversight.
So I should have told them
to put on pants or shorts
or underwear or something
that was more covering.
The staff said when
spoken to, she said, it’s hot.
This is how I dress and
the candidate said it’s fine.
So what’s the problem?
And I was like, there is
clearly a salacious element here
that is being exploited that I
personally would never exploit.
I’m not going to put a picture up in
the corner of a girl with her butt hanging
out of her mini skirt
so that hopefully that
will be the thumbnail
of the YouTube channel.
So the guys come by
and see the YouTube
thumbnail with a girl’s
butt on it thinking, hey,
if I watch this one
episode of this podcast,
maybe I’ll get to see
a girl’s butt hanging
out of her mini skirt, that would
be dishonest and disingenuous.
And of course, I would never do it.