This is a bit rushed.
Normally I record tomorrow.
I don’t know if I’m going
to be able to get this
episode out early, but
this is going to be the
only opportunity I have to
record. So I’m going to record today.
Try to edit tonight
and tomorrow.
Who knows? Just want to
get the episodes out on time.
I have to work tomorrow.
So I’m a bit flummoxed,
confused, out of sorts because I’m just,
it’s not my regular schedule. I really like
keeping a regular schedule.
But to make me happy,
we got a message on speakpipe,
speakpipe.com/tongueveachas.
It means I get to
hear your voice.
And that is actually very
exciting for me to get to hear some
of the people who actually
have another podcast.
Let’s hear what Gray
has to say from the peak.
Fuck off from the speakpipe.
I just wanted to say,
bro, the discord link is
dead on your link tree.
Please update.
That would be sick.
So I have already updated
that. So if you go to the link tree,
Chongveveachast, now
you do get a links to a whole
bunch of stuff that you
probably are not interested
in, but it does have a
discord on it that I’ve
really set up ages ago, but
only started using recently.
So if you want to join
the discord, you can
go to the link tree,
join the discord there.
A tech support request. It’s
not a tech support request.
It is actually just helping
me out because there’s
no way I can keep track of all the links
and stuff that are across social media.
And let’s be honest, I hate social
media. I hate taking care of it.
I don’t mind doing it.
I don’t mind interacting. I
actually like interacting with people,
but the maintenance
that goes into social media,
it was just never for me. I
want to sit here and make stuff.
I want to put it out
there on the internet.
I want to make podcasts. I
want to make videos whatever.
I don’t want to promote
them maintenance is a pain.
That’s actually the thing.
I need a promoter. I don’t
can’t offer any money.
So the best I can offer is
beard oil. I have a five pack here
started using, am I
advertising? If I was getting
a sponsorship, then I wouldn’t
have to go to work tomorrow.
Here’s a deal. Is
near mile beard oil.
I have promoted your
product for free, but I would
love to quit my job. So if
you want to sponsor this
podcast, giving me enough
money so that I don’t
have to go to work
tomorrow, not even forever,
just tomorrow because this is,
I’m recording Monday morning.
I usually record
Tuesday morning.
I’m recording Tuesday
morning. Fuck, I’ve already
affected the sounds up.
I’m recording this morning
because I have to work
tomorrow because I have
a full-time job. So
I’m a bit out of sorts.
So this is the fifth or
sixth start to this podcast
episode and it’s not
going well. I’ll be honest,
but I’m very excited to
have a message from Gray.
I do appreciate anyone
pointing out any issues
because that’s the only
way I’m going to find them
or be able to try to fix
them. I have an RSS feed
issue going on right now.
I have stat tracking issues
going on right now,
knowing that the discord link
was old or not working.
It’s actually super helpful.
So I really appreciate
that. Let’s just get a
little bit more from Gray
and then we’ll move on to
the actual episode. And,
uh, two, uh, thank you so
much for making the
podcast. It’s nice to listen to
you before I end the
bed. I find it very weird
that people listen to
this before they go to bed
because as the podcast
goes, there is a structure to it.
Uh, the dirty or more
violent stories are
at the end, which means
while you are drifting into
sleep when you are when
you are mind is sort of
your body is closing, but
your mind is opening is
when I start talking
about the dirty weird stuff.
Um, I don’t know if that’s what
you should be falling asleep to.
Secondly, um, I think we should
be falling asleep to your voice.
I think Gray is a
way better of what
basically I’m saying why
is why am I podcasting?
And he’s not, he clearly
has a nicer sounding voice.
So if I was going to
fall asleep to a voice, my
own or his, I would
choose his, I think every
time is they got that
sort of nice timber to it.
It’s a little deep. It’s nice.
It’s better than my man.
Uh, secondary proposal,
I could write the podcast.
You could record the
what you could do the voice.
And then we’d maybe actually
this might go somewhere.
Yeah, I would like
to show up on one
of the segments. So it
would be cool to fuck around.
And it would be
cool to fuck around.
I don’t know exactly what you’re
saying, but I’m open to anything.
Uh, if you would
like to join, so we’ve
been doing quizzes and
the quizzes, I’m already
trying to change them
a little bit last week.
We didn’t do a quiz.
We did essentially a little
Japanese lesson. Uh,
my friend Tom joined and I
showed him a couple of
words that were sort of
new Japanese words.
He took them back to his
students and he tried
them on his students.
They knew Mofu Mofu, but
they didn’t know the other ones.
And it’s like, Hey,
maybe you guys need
to update your Japanese
and he’s saying that to
like a group of like young
people, which is pretty funny.
So I’m not going
to just do quizzes.
Quiz is was a great
format to start with, but I
want to expand it into
like every idea I can have.
And I want to do it with other people.
So if you would like to join the podcast,
send an email to
chuggavelefchest@gmail.com.
You could drop a message and
speak pipe like gray is just done.
Uh, you can join the discord,
which is in the link tree.
And we can arrange to record.
I usually do it over zoom
and I just record the audio.
So you don’t have to
be on camera or anything
like that if you don’t
want to, but we can try
to fit it to your schedule
because I recorded
outside of the live
recording that we do on
Twitch, usually on Tuesdays,
but today is Monday.
You can tell that’s
really resting on my mind.
I’m just not getting
anything right.
Let’s start the show.
Now I’ve already now
that we’re into the format
I’m comfortable
with that I’m used to.
I’m actually already
a little bit more calm.
We have an update.
We have the story.
So there was God fucking discord.
We have an update on a previous story.
We have the NHK
does national news and
they do it in multiple
languages and they do it in
Chinese and they had a
guy doing the national news
in Chinese and he decided
to sort of just go off
script for a bit. He
switched to English.
I found that part really
interesting. And he made a couple
of statements like the
Senkaku Islands belong to China.
Uh, he said, don’t forget about
comfort women and the rape of non king.
So he was basically saying
like we have to remember the
awful history of Japan
and there are these disputed
islands between China and
Japan and they belong to China.
He’s just making a staunch political statement
right out the gates. That’s a problem
when your radio show
represents the government of
Japan because it’s a
national broadcast system.
So it’s actually, it’s not
pro government, but you
certainly are working
for the government.
An executive had to quit
to take responsibility for this.
Two other executives had their
pay cut because this happened.
And I actually in
the last episode when
we talked about it said
like this seems unfair.
The executives, unless
they were sitting there
with like hovering
their finger over a mute
button with a seven
second delay or something,
they had no control over this. And they had
hired this guy to read the news in Chinese.
He decided to go off
script. So I was thinking it
was only he should be
punished. I said that was unfair.
The contract with that agency
that hired that guy was cut.
So that guy and
many of his co-workers
actually lost their jobs in
Japan if they were in Japan.
They might have been
doing it from overseas,
but that contract was
ended. So that guy killed
that contract for multiple
people, which I think
ah, that’s what that’s
what actually would happen.
So his friend should
be angry in him.
The executive quit, this
is a very Japanese thing
is you, there’s a problem
in your company and you
quit and you say, I
take responsibility for it.
I quit. I’ve always found
out a weird system.
We went through a period
around 2010 in Japan where there
were 10 prime ministers.
Because anytime there’s a
problem, the problem
would be like the prime
minister say, oh, it’s
my responsibility as like
punishment or whatever. I will
quit and then they would quit.
I realize that doesn’t
fix the problem.
You’re just moving the
problem onto the next guy.
You’re saying, okay,
you can blame me and I’ll
step down and then the
next guy comes in clean.
He’s still has to fix the
problem. So I think you
usually have to fix the
problem and then quit if
that’s the way it’s going
to work out or maybe
just fix the problem. If
you fix the problem really
well, maybe nobody
has to quit. I don’t know.
This is slightly different.
I thought it was weird
that the executive
quit, but then it turns out
two weeks later, he was rehired by the NHK.
They said they rehired him because of his,
they said they rehired
him because of his
experience as an overseas
journalist. So he’d worked in Russia.
He’d worked in China. He’d worked in a
couple of different places and they said that
experience was valuable. But
then it seems very convoluted.
So why did you let
him let him quit in the
first place or just don’t
let him resign or to say,
look, yeah, it is
responsibility, but we’ll just
keep you in the job. It
doesn’t say if he was rehired
is the same job,
which I find interesting.
I’m pretty sure he
was. It just seems like a
convoluted way for him
to take responsibility by
resigning, but then
not actually taking any
responsibility because
he got hired back on.
So it’s like an agreement
was made. Hey guys, this
bad thing happened. I’ll quit.
You hire me again in two weeks.
So I’m just going to
take a two week vacation.
And then you can say like someone took
responsibility for this thing happening, but
then also none of us in this
room right now get punished.
Although those two other executives
did get a pay cut for a couple of months,
but I’m assuming they’re
making enough money
that it’s not really negatively
impacting their lifestyle.
I did have a secondary question. As
soon as this seemed like a scheme,
I started going like, oh,
has his contract changed.
So when he was he quit and then he was
rehired, was he rehired at the same salary?
Was his salary improved?
Did what changed?
And then none of the
details came out in that.
But it being NHK, I was
like, oh, this might actually be
public information. So
I kind of started going
to look for it, but I
honestly just don’t know
what to look for. So I
am going to do some
research because I’m
wondering if in a weird way
this Chinese announcer
saying a very political
thing so that this guy had
to take responsibility for it.
So he quit and
then he came back.
If that actually worked
out is him getting a raise.
We’re living in the
future. It’s 2024.
Although some aspects of
Japan, if you’ve lived in Japan,
do not seem like
living in the future.
There are some bits
that are super futuristic.
There are some bits
that just you’re like, again,
so I live in a Japanese
house and the heating,
cooling system of Japan
as a country just has not
caught up with
anywhere else I’ve lived.
Korea had the heated floors.
Amazing, the heated floors.
Japan basically has air
conditioners in each individual
room, which means this
room will be cool or hot,
whatever I set it to.
And then I go out in the
hallway and then either
all the cold air, all the
hot air goes out as
soon as I open the door.
And the hallway is either
super hot or super cold.
And you just get these like
shocks to your system constantly.
I was on the train
the other day.
It’s getting to the end of
September. It’s still very hot in Japan.
But a lot of the
community is cut.
But I got on the train the
other day and the heat was on.
So I’m thinking it
was an accident.
But they turned on the heat.
I guess coming up to October
is officially fall. I
think it’s officially
fall now, but it still
feels like summertime.
Yeah, man. Japan has
this very weird thing where
people will change
their clothing and stuff
depending on the
season, not on the actual
weather outside. So
it’s like it’s still hot,
but it’s now fall. So I’m
going to start wearing
my fall warmer clothes,
even though it’s still
quite warm outside. And
I’m sweating all the time.
But anyways, that’s not
the story we’re talking about.
I’m talking about soft bank.
Soft bank is the first company
in Japan to offer digital salary.
So some companies when
crypto kind of went through
its boom, we’re saying,
we’ll give you crypto
as part of your
salary. I think it was an
investment, but it had
to be a very small amount.
There’s some legal
issues with paying with how
you pay your employees.
Pay pay is one of the
payment systems in Japan.
I actually had a conversation
with this with some
friends last night about
and they know there
is no Venmo in Japan.
It’s not recognized by
the Japanese government.
There is no cash app in Japan because
Japan has its own Japanese systems.
Japan is very insular and
pretty much everything.
So they don’t want other systems to come
in and kind of assert the ones that are
being used in Japan. I don’t
know if they’re better or worse.
I use pay pay. I
used to use line pay
because everyone had line
and if you needed to share
money or send money,
it was very easy.
That was kind of the main
reason I did that one and it was
already on my phone.
Pay pay took over line pay.
They’re going to be the
same company next year.
So I switched over to pay
pay early because why not?
I was scamming them
for double points for a
while because I used my pay
pay credit card in my pay pay app.
I used my line pay credit card in my
pay pay app. So I got points on pay pay
and I got points on line
pay but they shut down
that system very
recently. So now I just use
pay pay exclusively.
But with the government
approval, you can pay a
salary up to 200,000 yen
in pay pay directly. So it would mean on
pay day in my phone, in my pay pay account,
the 200,000 yen would
just show up. Now let’s say
I get paid more than
200,000 yen, which is very
likely if you have like
a regular full-time job.
The rest of that money
has to go to the bank.
So you can get part
of your payment up to
200,000 yen in pay pay
as a system. And if that’s
where you’re using all
the time, it makes sense.
You can split it. You can
decide how much like I
want 100,000 yen of my pay to
go into my phone every month.
That can happen as
well. 300 companies
have already contacted
pay pay about adopt about
adopting digital payment
systems. And I’m guessing
because at the end of the
day, it happens automatically.
You don’t have to deal
with banks in the same way.
It’s faster and I bet it’s
actually also cheaper.
A nursing nursing
home care worker.
So I mean these are
people who are taking care of
old people in Japan. It
has a grain population.
There’s a lot of old
people. There’s a lot of
demand for this job.
So there’s a lot of people
who can get jobs in
this kind of care system.
They were arrested for
assaulting 105 year old patient.
I don’t know that one
was like 105, like any
sort of assault is going
to be significant if the
person is 105 years
old. So that is crazy.
It turns out they also
assaulted three other patients.
The youngest being 94.
So these are like 94 year
old people end up. And
this guy is like getting
frustrated with them and
punching them in the face.
The actual statement
was I was so frustrated
with caring for them.
I couldn’t help myself,
which makes it very clear
that you should not be
working in this industry.
The home care facility
they were working
at was for exclusively
patients with dementia.
So you I mean dealing
with old people can be
frustrating dealing with
people my age can be
frustrating. Dealing with older
people who also you know
have dementia is going
to be extra frustrating.
If you’re going to get so
frustrated, you then think
punching him in the face
is the acceptable
response. And that’s going to
somehow make things better.
You probably shouldn’t be
working in that industry.
I think if you’re sort
of a punchy person all around,
you shouldn’t be in care work.
That’s just this is going to be one of
those statements that engineers depend for
moats out there. If you’re
a punchy kind of person,
you shouldn’t go into
care work. Staff noticed a
bruise on one of the
patients. So they decided
to go check the security
camera. And it turns out
the bruise the patient had
wasn’t related to the assault.
But because they checked
the security camera,
saw the assault take
place giving maybe different
injuries, different bruises.
So the person got caught.
So I’m like this other
person absolutely should
be in health care because
they’re like oh that guy has a bruise.
I should just go
check just to be
safe because again we’re
dealing with dementia patients.
We’re dealing with older people.
Maybe they fall down. Maybe
they get bruises all the time.
Maybe they bruise very easily.
This is all totally on board. It
would be very easy to ignore.
But they’re like, you
know what? Let’s bruise.
I should just go check
the security camera.
Goes and sees these
older people getting
assaulted and then is
able to call the police.
So that second person
should get a raise.
But care workers are
not appreciated and that is
probably not going to
happen. Since we’re talking
about people punching
people who should not be
punched, I guess no
one should be punched.
I mean you go into boxing.
I do. I practice due to
I get punched in the face. I
think it’s actually quite funny.
But that’s voluntary.
So that voluntary aspect
changes the whole atmosphere of
the getting punched in
the face. If you are an
old person in a home
care place, I don’t think
you expect or deserve
to be punched in the face.
I mean, okay old
people can be shitty too.
Sometimes they might
deserve it. But that doesn’t
mean you can do it.
There’s lots of people I
see dated to oh god now
we’ve got to do who you
should be allowed to
punch or not, which is
going to be a big book.
There are people I think
I should be able to punch just
me exclusively, not anyone else.
Because I think I
have good judgment.
All right. A teacher in
Shiga, since we’re going
to go to the other end of
the spectrum, we’ve now
talked about punching
old people on the face.
Let’s talk about punching
young people on the face.
A teacher in Shiga was
arrested for hitting an
elementary school age
boys about 10 years old
in the right eye. So he
decked a kid in the face.
He was reported to
police the same day.
So the kid went home
probably had a black eye because
he got punched in the eye
by a full grown adult teacher.
The parents called the cops.
Absolutely, 100% exactly what I
would do. Police are investigating
the reason for the assault.
Now, I am not saying
it’s okay to punch
little kids in the face.
But I can absolutely
tell you the reason.
Without even meeting this
kid, without even knowing the
situation, he was being
a mouthy little shit.
Now, kids are mouthy
little shits. This is one of the
things having had
experience teaching kids,
having dealt with kids.
I’ve dealt with kids in
education situations. I’ve
dealt with kids judo classes.
I’ve dealt with kids
just out in the street.
I’ve dealt with kids when I took my
kids to the park when they were younger.
I understand, in general,
kids are mouthy little shits.
I’ve never punched
one of the face.
So in all those situations as a teacher,
as a guy doing judo teaching kids judo,
as a guy in the park,
as a parent, I have never
punched a kid in the
face despite the fact that
they were being mouthy little
shits and probably deserved it.
But again, deserving it and actually
getting it aren’t always the same thing.
That’s what kids do. So this
is the same as the care worker.
If you can’t handle little kids getting on
your nerves, you shouldn’t be a teacher.
It’s really that simple.
We’ve had a couple of stories
where teachers
just kind of lose it.
There was a couple maybe a
month ago. Kid was mocking his
teacher and copying
him and the teacher just
goes over and tackles the
kid. You shouldn’t be a teacher.
That’s just straight up.
Don’t go into that industry.
They’re going to figure
out you have a weakness.
They’re going to
get under your skin.
That is, again, what kids
do. Hello, Dave, Dave.
I’m God damn it. God, I’m
going to settle you down.
You get this little puff here sometimes.
Hello.
I would like to angle the camera down
just a little bit so you can get his head.
But then when I do that, he
spends a lot of this time sleeping.
Then you would just
be looking at my nose
down and a sleeping
dog, which actually still
think would be aesthetically more
pleasing than what you’re seeing right now.
Kids are going to get your
weakness. They’re going
to figure it out. So let’s
say I’m self-conscious.
I wear a hat because
I’m losing my hair.
But I’m not that self-conscious,
but if you make fun of it,
I’ll make fun of it. But
if a kid understands
that it is sensitive to
me, they absolutely 100%
will make fun of it
constantly until I break.
A man was arrested for
violating stalking laws for
sending six text messages
to his ex-girlfriend.
And I was like, “Oh,
that’s a weird title because
that doesn’t sound too
bad.” Like he sent six,
usually the text messages
stalking stories are,
I sent 500 messages a
day. It’s always, I sent
thousands of messages over the
course of a month or something.
So it’s always a lot.
And I was like six,
the number stuck to me, stuck
out to me as being very small.
Like this was like an
insignificant amount of text.
It would be very easy to ignore.
Then of course, we got
to see the content of some
of the texts like, “I’ll
never break up with you.
Breakups don’t have
to be too sighted.
” So she broke up with
you, then you’re broken up.
You don’t get to really
decide. I was like, “That
has an underpinning that
maybe we’re not a big fan
of. I’ll come and get
you.” That contextually,
since you’ve been broken
up, has a very different
meaning than like if I’m
going to come get you
as an pick you up and
drive you somewhere and
be a good guy, that’s
great. But since she’s broken
up with me and made
it very clear she doesn’t
want to speak to me
anymore, I’ll come and get you.
It takes on a very
different meaning.
Again, being an outside
reader of this, we have
to sort of like try to
be as neutral as possible.
So once you get context,
that makes a big difference.
I’m trying to sometimes
try to think like a cop would.
So I see this message.
I’m like, “Well, that can be
interpreted two ways we need to
understand the situation.”
But the situation is
that she had blocked him
on all the ways they had
talked to before and then he
started sending these messages.
So I will come and get you.
Yeah, that’s a threat. So
I’m coming to your home.
I do like that this guy
is not explicit in violence,
but everything he’s writing
doesn’t apply violence.
Like this is actually a
fairly well crafted threat
because you could say
once you get arrested
because you’re going
to get arrested for this,
you could say once
you get arrested that you
were not threatening,
you were just giving facts.
Like I’m coming to your
home. I’m coming to get you.
Like what does that
mean? That means I’m
like going to come and
pick you up or I’m going
to come and take you
somewhere. I think maybe
this guy was smart
enough that he was banking
on that working, but
any reasonable outsider
like myself would go,
“No, you’re threatening this
woman because she
blocked you and dumped you.
” The woman broke up
with him at the end of August
and having now seen
the way he’s responded to
being broken up with,
“I can’t fathom why she’s
such a charming personality.” It’s
clearly he’s got like sort of anger issues.
He can’t handle rejection
or he can’t handle being told
he doesn’t get what he
wants or something like that.
These, this response
demonstrates why he was
dumped in the first place.
And so he’s not taking
a moment to reflect
and be like, “Maybe I have
to improve myself as a
person.” He’s like, “No,
I’m going to lean into
it and be even worse.
” And that’ll get her
back. He said he was angry
at being ignored because
she had blocked him previously.
So I’m assuming
he got a different
phone or a different phone
number or something like that.
So he can start sending
text messages again.
Which again makes it
very clear the way he
must behave while
they were actually dating.
He said when he was
being arrested, I thought if I
send her scary messages,
she wouldn’t respond.
And that’s why I
used a strong language.
So he’s again, he now he’s
trying to say like, “I wasn’t
threatening her. I was just
trying to get her to react to me.
” Which again kind of demonstrates probably
why he was dumped in the first place.
“80 year old man goes into the bank.” And
he’s decided, “I’m going to rob this bank.
” At 9.25 a.m. on a
Tuesday, which I was like,
“Ah, I don’t think he’s
planned this very well.
” I don’t know when banks
have the most money in
their cash drawers. But
that is the kind of thing
you, if you’re going to rob
a bank, you should check.
So they’re going to have
ways of dumping the money.
They’re going to have ways of
taking money back to the safe.
They’re going to have
ways of taking the
money from the safe to a central
location or something like that.
So you need to figure out the peak time to
rob a bank. And I bet banks have actually
figured this out as
well and they try to like
randomize the times.
So that you never really
have peak money in
the cash, in the tills.
But at the same time,
they have to have a
certain amount of money
on hand. He held up the
teller, he took a gun
out, and he held up the
teller demanding cash, and
then the teller hit a silent alarm.
So again, I don’t know if this guy
had really done his planning. He’s 80.
Maybe he’s basing this on what
banks were back like when he
would have been like in
his youth, so 40 years ago.
So maybe he’s 80 years
old and he’s basing his
knowledge of how banks
are run back 40 years ago
when he was in his 40s
when he was just like
a regular adult. And
he doesn’t realize like
everything has been
updated. Like maybe he doesn’t
know that there are
silent alarms, the police
as soon as you start
watching movies, you actually
gain a lot of information
by watching like
heist movies and stuff and
know that silent alarms are a thing.
The police showed up and caught him
before he was even able to leave the bank.
It turns out he had a toy
gun. No one was injured,
but again, also probably because he
was 80 years old and using a toy gun.
Now I kind of ended that
last story with a gentle
joke, a jai, but the
fact that this man was
80 years old and therefore
not much of a threat
and he had a toy gun.
Well, we immediately have
another story of an 81
year old man who is a threat.
So I guess even if
you’re 80 year old,
we shouldn’t underestimate
your ability to threaten
or hurt other people.
A tax official started
going to this guy’s
house. He had to because
there was a claim against
him, so he hadn’t been
paying his taxes or something, or
he’d done something a little shady.
This guy needed to deal with some
tax issues. So a tax official shows up to
this guy’s house. The
guy, the 81 year old man,
attempts to run the tax
official down with his car.
In his car, he also
had a hunting rifle.
He had license for hunting
rifles. So he had, when the
police arrested him, he
had foreign the house,
I want to get more
details about this guy
because this guy, 81
years old, sounds hard core.
So I’m wondering what the, I’m betting
he just decided not to pay taxes anymore.
Is he 81 years old? He’s like,
I’ve paid a taxes for 80 years.
I’m not paying taxes anymore.
You guys go screw
yourself. Tax official shows
up. He’s like, you know
what? I’ve got to run
him down with my car. I
got a hunting rifle in the back.
Whatever. Like, who’s
going to stop me?
I’m 81 years old. I go to
jail. How long do I go to
jail for a life? Life could
be like three more years.
Guy’s going to be arrested
for driving without a license.
So that’s not a very big thing.
Like he get in
trouble. You get a fine.
I don’t know how much trouble
you actually get in for driving
without a license. He was
driving a car and a motorcycle.
Technically, two
different licenses.
But again, I think it
would just be rolled into
one thing, driving
without a license.
You pay a fine. I think
that’s pretty much it.
The police know where this
guy is. So they show up to a hotel.
He’s staying at with
a girl. They show up at
7.20 a.m. I think that’s
perfect time to show up.
I mean, that is like the
guy’s up and he’s around,
but he’s not really
aware and ready for like a
kerfuffle, which is exactly
what’s going to happen
when the police show
up. Please bang in the door
like hey, where the
cops cut lettuce in.
He decides in his underwear to
jump off the third story balcony,
hit the ground and run
away. There is so much
in that sentence,
though. So first of all,
he’s in his underwear.
And he’s like, I don’t have
time to put on anything
else. I’m just going to go.
I’m on the third story.
I can make that jump.
I’m like, that would already
be a hesitant thing for me.
I know three stories
isn’t technically that
much, but it’s also a
lot at the same time.
I’m assuming he’s hitting
the ground. Even if it’s a
grass, it’s not going
to be like cushiony soft.
That’s going to be
really, really rough.
But then he gets up from
the jump and just runs away.
So no twisted ankle, no
broken foot, no nothing
that either that or
his adrenaline so high,
he’s able to run through it. I’m just
kind of shocked by the whole deal here.
He was suspected of being
part of under you under you is
a semi organized
group of criminals now.
I actually had her story last
week where we talked about a
semi organized gang. And I was
really unclear on how that works.
This one I’ve heard of before.
This is basically a loose
gang of individuals who
are willing to commit
crimes and what they do is
connect on social media
when they are in the same area.
They commit a crime
to it with each other
and then they separate.
So it’s very hard for
the police to track down
the entire gang or any sort
of network because the
network is always changing
because I commit a crime
with you and then I move
on to another thing. And
then on the social media
I connect with someone else.
I commit a crime with them.
And then I get
the support I need.
I get to commit the
crimes. But then none of
us are actually tied to
each other too closely.
So it actually depends
on how active you are,
how dangerous you are.
So he was suspected of
being one of these guys.
They didn’t actually have
as much proof, but they
did have proof that he
it was driving without
a license. So that’s what
they were going to pick
him up for because he was
a member of this disorganized organized
crime, which is a great way of saying it.
11 cops were waiting
for him. Now the thing
is, what do you do?
You surround the building,
you sort of get sort
of people in the area,
that kind of thing because
you only need two or
three cops to take
one guy into custody.
When he jumps out the window
off the balcony, off he goes,
there were no cops out there.
They did not expect him to
jump out the balcony and get away.
So they had no cops
sort of around that side
of the building. I guess
they were all around
the front door expecting
him to use the front
door very politely as
they just walked him out.
He got away. There were 11 cops waiting
for him and he still got away. Secondary,
the cops all they have to do is put out an
APB on guy running around in his underwear.
And it’s going to be pretty obvious.
Like they should be getting calls.
Hey, I just saw a dude run
down my street in his underwear.
Hey, there’s a guy
in his underwear in
this convenience store
buying pants or something.
I can’t, can you buy
pants? I think you probably,
you can buy t-shirts
in underwear and socks.
I don’t know if you can buy
pants. Maybe you can buy shorts?
I don’t know. You can
buy almost a full thing
of clothing and it can
be in the store in Japan.
That is how Japan
convenience stores aren’t
literally more convenient
than anywhere else.
But at the end of the
day, this guy got away
and I got to say like
I rip on criminals a lot
of ninja news Japan. But
I got to tell you, I do have
some respect for this
guy who if he’s going to be,
he’s one of the better
criminals we’ve had on the show.
Okay, December
15th, a body was found.
It has been drowned. The
police suspected suicide,
but then they turned out
there was no real motive.
Like this guy didn’t
seem particularly
depressed when they
started looking into his life.
They’re like, there’s
no real reason for
this guy to have killed
himself. So now they’re
like, we got to figure
out if maybe there’s some
foul play at hand 10 days
after his death, a friend
of his takes 160,000 yen
out of his bank account.
That’s like a thousand
bucks, let’s say.
So the police are like, Hey,
why do you have access to
his bank account? Why
are you taking money out
of his bank account?
He’s been dead for 10 days.
That seems a little
suspicious. The man claims
he held the bank card
and obtained consent
before taking the money
out. He had the bank
card for sure because
he had to have the bank
card to actually get it,
but did he obtain consent?
This is now when it
gets really suspicious.
Why are you, how do
you have consent to take
money out of this dead
guy’s bank account?
Did you get consent
before or after he died?
That kind of thing. He did have
the number and he claims to
have been managing
this guy’s finances for
quite a long time. So
there’s actually like,
this is again, very
good crime if it’s a crime
because we actually 100%
don’t know if it’s a crime.
So this is to me, one
of the more interesting
bits of this, they say
they became friends 30
years ago because
they both like baseball.
So they were at baseball
games, they saw each other,
they started talking, they hung out, they
watched baseball at the same bar, whatever,
they became friends
over baseball 30 years ago,
they’ve been friends
for a very, very long time.
The friend was the beneficiary
of the dead man’s life insurance.
Life insurance doesn’t often pay
out if you commit suicide though.
So that’s actually a sole other
sort of issue. If he murdered
this guy for the life
insurance, then he had to
make it look like an
accident, whereas the police
immediately assumed suicide
because he was pushed into a river.
So that’s kind of the
first issue that I have.
I’m like, this is, is it murder or was it
an accident? Because it was a murder,
it wasn’t planned out
well enough, whereas this
guy seems to have had
access to everything else.
So it seems like he would
have been in a position
to make a good plan. They’ve
been friends for 30 years.
He trusts him completely.
He did actually seem to
trust him with his finances.
It actually would have
made more sense to rip
him off bit by bit since you
have access to his finances.
And then if you were going to try
to kill him for the insurance payout,
pushing me into a river
does seem like suicide in
Japan because it’s going
to be like jump in front
of a train, jump into a
river. These are pretty
fundamental ways to
kill yourself in Japan.
One month before the
man drowned, the friend
asked how he would
collect on the life insurance.
So that’s another very suspicious thing
to ask immediately before someone dies.
So this is, again, this pushes
it more towards murder.
But at the same time, the
guy had so much control over
the other guy’s life, the dead man’s life.
It seems like it’s, there, there’s so much
accessibility. It
seems suspicious.
But what if he actually
is doing the thing he said,
and the thing he said was like he was helping
take care of this guy as he got older,
he was getting out of shape. So we used
to go down to the river, work out together.
I, because he stayed at
home and never did anything.
I took care of his finances.
I helped no, he sounds like during
the 30 years, he was a very good friend.
And then near the end of the time, it
becomes suspicious because if this was an
accident, the suspicion
would naturally lay
like go towards this guy. To me, the most
suspicious aspect of this is that the man,
they were apparently
seeing each other all the time.
This man dies, and the
friend wasn’t the one
who called the police.
To me, that is the one that
pushes it towards murder
more than anything else
because it was 10 days
after the death, he took money
out of the bank. That
means he hadn’t had contact
with his friend, he loves and
manages his finances and whatever.
Over the last 10
days, that’s a very
long period of time not to
have contact with someone
you’re so close with and
then not get suspicious
and call the police. So
if he wanted to do this
murder correctly, he needs
to play into the fact that
he was essentially a
caretaker of his friend for the
last X amount of years,
and he is the one who would
be most likely to report it
to the police and therefore
get the police on the
track. But the problem is
then you are opening the
case. Maybe he was just
hoping he would disappear
and nobody would notice.
But then again, how
do you collect on the life
insurance if no one
knows the guy is dead?
So there’s a lot of question marks in this
one. I am going to follow up on this case
very carefully as
much as I can because I
actually think there might
be enough doubt here
that the man doesn’t get
prosecuted, which in the
case, he would still have
access to the bank accounts.
I don’t know how that
gets shut down in Japan or
not, but he could take out
as much as he wants now.
I guess the police probably at this point
have already taken the cash card away.
But it seems like he
has messed up this plan if
he actually did it, but
there is a big question mark.
Maybe he didn’t
actually do it, which is
what great murder
mysteries we’re all about.
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