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We don’t really have
anything we can say about

Johnny Smolley anymore,
because he’s been detained.

He’s gonna get arrested.

He’ll probably just get deported.

He’s probably gone.

He won’t be coming back
to Japan anytime soon.

So of course, YouTube hates a vacuum.

YouTube streamers hate a vacuum.

There’s a power vacuum there.

There’s one less puckered
asshole in the world.

So of course, someone else has to step in.

This YouTuber had a plan
to travel from Nagasaki.

all the way to Al-Mori
without spending any money.

So the way he did this
was riding on the bus

without paying the fare,
which is a crime, it’s illegal.

He snuck onto the shink on send somehow

and he hidden the bathroom when the
guy came around and checked the tickets.

When they caught him,
he pretended to be sick.

He asked other people to pay for him,

like just harassing
people who are sitting

on the shink on send
trying to go somewhere.

He asked them to pay.

And then he also hid in hotels and
stole from their breakfast buffets.

The thing that I don’t think these streamers
realize is they’re filming their crimes.

I’ve, in a new Japan now
has become a foundation

for giving criminals advice and these
guys should probably check something.

I don’t know.

They should realize filming
your crimes make it very easy

for the police to just wait till
you’ve committed enough crimes.

Something I had realized,
something I learned about

a little while ago, was that
stores with self checkouts,

like they’ll let you steal
until you get past $1,000

so it’s a felony crime now because you’ve
stolen more than $1,000 worth of goods.

And then arrest you so
that it’s more impactful.

And this is maybe what the
Japanese police are doing.

Like they’re aware because of social media,
they’re aware of these crimes taking place

and they just wait for
you to build up enough

so that they can do what
they’ve done to Johnny Smully,

they can arrest you, hold
you, and then release you

and re-arrest you and hold you and re-arrest
you and hold you and then send you away.

Sneaking onto the
shinkansen, not paying for your

ticket, not paying for
your ticket for the bus,

these would not be probably
big crimes in America in Japan.

They are obstruction of business.

I can’t ding for that one because he
hasn’t actually been charged with it yet.

But these are obstruction of business,

which is the rule they
use to lay everyone out.

Like everyone gets screwed by this.

And it’s just a matter of time.

I’m assuming he’s either
gonna leave or get arrested

before he leaves, but
these guys get popular

and they can’t let go of
that fame, that popularity.

And then they end up just
going too far, getting arrested

and ending up like Johnny Smully,
which is great ’cause then they’re gone.

I’m wondering how many
times this has to happen

before people actually start to move
on to another country or the thing is,

they move on to another
country, maybe they’ll end up with

harsher rules like Thailand,
Singapore, and stuff, man.

If I was gonna go to a prison,
Japanese prisons are not nice.

I mean, I actually don’t know of anyplace,

I guess I’ve heard about Iceland and
Finland and stuff having nicer prisons,

but I don’t think
there’s any prison in Asia

that you would want to
go to over another one.

I think they all suck pretty bad.

Asia still has very much that prison
is punishment, kind of mentality.

So Japanese prisons I know are not
heated or not cooled in the summer.

So you’re really
uncomfortable all the time.

Which actually takes us to,

I guess very smoothly to our next story.

This wasn’t the order I had
them in, but hey, here we go.

China has stopped
imports of Japanese seafood

because of the release
of the Fukushima water.

It’s radioactive, they
release it into the ocean.

They’re saying if you’re doing that,
we’re not gonna buy any of your seafood.

They used to catch the fish and seafood.

I’m saying seafood because it’s
gonna be mostly about shellfish.

They used to catch the seafood
and then send it to China directly.

And then it would get processed.

But now that processing
element isn’t happening.

So they have to figure out something else.

The cheapest labor
they could find, prisoners.

So prisoners are now going to
be spending significant amounts

of their time, peeling shellfish
or deshucking, shocking.

Is it, you suck shellfish, you suck clams.

And then I guess you peel shrimp and stuff.

Anyways, they’re gonna
spend a lot of time doing that.

There are, in 2022, there were 512,000 tons
of shellfish that needed to be processed.

That was all done primarily in China.

And that’s now gonna
be done primarily in Japan.

I am hoping this is gross in selfish

because I just would like
the world to be a good place.

But I’m kind of hoping that
the price of fish and stuff

just drops and that can become
sort of a more sustainable

food supply for me.

A woman scammed her rental
boyfriend out of a million yen.

So maybe we’ve got to get into
the concept of a rental boyfriend.

This is a out service you call.

You say, hey, I want this
guy to hang out with me.

I will pay you 90,000 yen.

I’ll pay the guy 90,000 yen.

I’m sure the company takes a cut of that.

And he hangs out with you is
my understanding of the concept.

I don’t know how much
of a sex thing this is,

which is kind of what I
wondered more than anything else.

So the initial cost for her was 90,000
yen to get the boyfriend to come out.

She never paid that.

Then she borrowed 300,000
yen from the rental boyfriend

to entertain what was
called a rich Chinese boss.

Then she started living with the man and
had him pay for accommodation in meals,

which added up to 700,000 yen,
which is how you get a million yen.

I’m a little confused and shocked
as to why the rental boyfriend

would give her anything.

Like I guess the idea is to keep her
around so that she keeps paying you.

But if she hasn’t paid her initial fee,

if she hasn’t paid the
initial rental of your time,

again, I’m not sure how
intertwined these two people become

by the end of it, but she
ended up living in his place.

If I was a rental boyfriend, you would be
paying me up front to come into my house.

And I doubt I’d have you
come into my house and have

you rent an apartment and
we would stay there together.

So essentially you’d be putting me up.

I think the rental boyfriend may not
have been the smartest guy in the world

because I have a lot of
sympathy for scammers.

I got scammed once myself in the past.

I know it can happen,
but if your job is to

spend time with someone
then they have to pay you

and they start borrowing money from you,

you shouldn’t be spending
any time with them.

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So Shibuya has started a campaign.

We actually mentioned that
the mayor of Shibuya said,

like we don’t want people
coming here for Halloween.

The last couple of years, the
Halloween parties got out of hand.

They were vandalism, they
tipped over some cars and stuff.

It’s anarchy.

It’s basically just a ton of drunk people

doing dressing up slutty
and doing drunk people stuff.

There’s a lot of drinking,
there’s a lot of vandalism.

It’s been escalating every year.

So they decided to go to social
media and do a tweet, a little video.

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On Halloween night, everyone
should stay away from Shibuya.

Some people live in Shibuya.

Violence, drinking on the
street, smoking on the street,

traffic violation, you can’t choose
how your action will affect others.

You can’t choose to be
a victim or a assailant.

No smoking on the street,

no drinking on the street.

This is all prohibited in this area.

From an until when, it’s prohibited
from October 27th to October 31st

during the times of 6pm
to 5am of the following day.

While they did something
really weird there,

they actually had, for those
people who weren’t watching

the video, it went 18
o’clock, which is 6 o’clock,

to 29 o’clock, which is 5am in the morning.

They have manipulated the 24 hour clock,

so it doesn’t work right.

That is, that weirdly to
me is the most recommend.

So you’re not allowed to drink,
you’re not allowed to smoke.

That’s fine.

They’ll have cops around to enforce that.

I doubt it’ll be successful, because if
you have a million people in 100 cops,

the people decide what is legal
and what is not legal at that point.

They used an AI voice,
they didn’t get a voice actor.

This is the demise of the voice
actor for the foreign person in Japan,

if they just start using AI for everything.

And that’s, man, there
was a lot of stuff about that.

That was really weird to me.

The 2900 hours was the
one that got me the most.

‘Cause if you’re using a 24
hour clock, and you get to

24 and you don’t flip over,
does it just keep going?

Like 29, what’s 30 hour, 6am?

Well, then we just keep going.

And then the time never ends,

but the reality is the time never ends.

I’d watched the first part of the video.

I hadn’t watched the whole thing, so I
hadn’t seen that 29 o’clock until just now.

My mind is just racing
with the implications

of 2900 hours, 5am in the morning.

When did they switch over if
they’re gonna use that timeframe?

That doesn’t make any sense.

They’re trying to stop.

I don’t think a social media campaign

telling you to stop is
actually gonna stop anybody.

That’s actually one of the big issues.

Shibuya gets advertised as like,
this is the place to party on Halloween.

I will be interested to
see if it’s less people,

if it’s no people, if nothing happens,
if they move to another area,

because what they
might actually end up doing

is just moving the
party to another area,

the problem being right
now that Shibuya is so

famous for partying, it
would make perfect sense

for every club, every
person who likes to party

to go there to continue
the thing they’ve been doing,

the whole time they’ve
been in Japan probably.

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Since the AI voice was in
that, we have the first in Japan.

I don’t know, I was kinda looking
around to see if this had been done.

I know this has been done elsewhere.

I know it’s been done
on the Internet a bunch,

but this is the first AI
celebrity ad created in Japan.

So it was an ad that ran on television
and they didn’t have an actress.

They actually had an AI
model instead of an actress.

And she was promoting green tea.

It’s the first ad in Japan
to use an AI performer.

So a lot of people were
like, oh, she’s very pretty.

I’m gonna look up who she is and then
they found out she’s not a real person.

The drink is green tea and it’s
in the theme is a healthy future.

Sounds good.

The packaging was also created with AI.

So clearly the company
that was making this was like,

let’s integrate AI, be future
conscious, create a healthy future.

I think is how many people
didn’t get to do any work,

which is not a very
healthy future for them.

If this is how it goes.

I don’t know, I’m a little torn on AI.

Creating the packaging
with AI is said what they said

was they were able to look at like 300
different designs instead of maybe one or two.

So they were able to look at a
lot more like packaging designs,

which is fine, but that’s putting
a lot of artists out of work.

The people who like actress and stuff,

I don’t know how much
sympathy I have for them

doing commercials in
Japan is incredibly lucrative.

So as someone who puts
out a video every week

and gets no money for
it, my sympathy is mixed.

I want people to get
paid for their work though,

but I guess before that I
want people to get work.

So that’s maybe one of the issues
I have here is you’re taking junk,

but then there’s computer
guys and they are getting work.

This is sort of the horse
transition to the car,

where everyone’s like,
oh, you’re putting all these

horse people out of work, but then
the car industry came up in its place.

We’re putting all these like
actors and things out of work,

but then there’s all these computer
things are going to come up in its place.

It would be a new industry
creating and modifying.

and looking at AI jobs.

I don’t know.

I’m at the tail end of this, life-wise.

So I’m 50.

AI is going to take over
the next couple of years.

I’m going to see stuff
happen, but I’m not–

I wonder how quickly the industry changes.

is an interesting question.

So do we get more and more AI stuff?

Do we get more pushback
as the big strike in America

right now is about
using AI to write scripts,

and all the scriptwriters
are like, we can’t do this.

And then it’s using
your face and perpetuity.

Like if you’re a background
actor and you get famous,

they can actually in
the contract use your

face and other things
because they’ve basically

licensed your face because
of when you were basically

a student intern and you
did a background scene.

So it’s companies getting greedy for sure.

It’s one of those things
like if the companies would

treat people fairly, no one
would mind the use of AI

because it would be supplementing work, not
supplanting it, I guess, is the problem.

I don’t know.

It’s not a very exciting
commercial, if I’m being really honest.

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Everything’s being videoed.

I guess this is a positive.

I don’t know.

This again, technology
is changing everything.

Everything’s being videoed.

That’s why we can see
so much stuff, though.

Like we can see things happen to people

where see people do things because
everything’s being videoed all the time.

A dash cam showed a man
run up behind a stationary car

and do what they
were calling a flying kick.

He dented the car.

The car was only one week old.

So the owner of that
car, man, that’s painful.

He called the police.

The guy was arrested.

He then admitted to doing it.

But they didn’t give a reason.

And I was like, oh, why?

Why did you see the car
and just think, like this is my

opportunity to run up and
just kick a car as hard as I can?

That’s a bit insane.

I’m betting he goes
with stress of some sort.

The same week, there was a man
sitting on the train with a box cutter.

So like a razor blade cutter thing.

And he was just cutting
the seats on the train.

And he was arrested for that.

And they were like, why did you do it?

And he said, I was trying
to relieve stress from work.

I kind of understand that sentiment,
but I don’t see how these crimes,

so like vandalizing seats on
the train or kicking a parked car.

How does that really relieve your stress?

Because you still have to go back to work.

The core, this is it.

It’s looking at what is
the stressor in your life.

And if the stress in your life is work,

cutting up the seats
on a train, kicking a

parked car, isn’t going
to relieve your stress.

So you’re not dealing with the source.

You’re kind of dealing with a symptom.

Like I feel stressed, I’m
going to get that stress out.

But then I have to go back
to work, build up more stress.

I got to cut more seats
on my way home tonight.

Like it doesn’t make any sense.

This is because this is
such a common statement.

I did this bad thing, A,
because of stress from work.

Japan’s youth are going to
have to start dealing with it.

We’ve had this conversation a million times

that the work culture in
Japan needs to be adjusted

or changed or fixed or
something in the next generation.

Otherwise, everything’s just going
to get worse and worse and worse.

But things might have to get
worse before they get better.

I don’t know.

I don’t know how I feel about that.

A little torn.

I feel bad for the guy
who’s like weak old car,

got a big dent in it just because
some guy was probably stressed out.

The nugoia mayor, I’m just giving a speech.

We’ve done a couple of
politicians giving speeches

and not thinking
through their statements.

This is interesting because
this is a guy who made

a statement, thought
it through was like shit.

I should not have said that
and tried to backtrack it.

Usually it’s say something.

People point out it was wrong because, of
course, a lot of these old politician guys,

they don’t think they
ever can do anything wrong.

People point out it was wrong.

And then they do a false apology.

The nugoia mayor was giving a speech.

And they were talking
about documents and stuff.

And they’re like government
buildings are open less

than business hours, how are people supposed
to come and get important documents?

And the nugoia mayor said
that wives certainly have

the time to pick up official
documents on weekdays.

So we don’t need to be
open late into the night.

We don’t need to be open on
weekends because wives have this time.

The actual question was, shouldn’t we

be able to print important
documents at a convenience store?

In Japan, they have that kind of thing.

Is, to just put in, is this the same nugoia
mayor from a few years ago, he sucks?

I do believe it is.

I actually didn’t check carefully enough.

So I have to be really honest.

I’m not 100% sure.

I think it is the same guy.

This is the same guy who
some medalists came in.

And he took the medal and he bid it.

And then if you want
to give him some credit,

when everyone called
him out for a biting the

medal, they’re like,
dude, it’s coronavirus.

This is terrible.

Don’t do that.

He paid to have a new one made.

But at the same– and he was
saying, like I was overwhelmed.

The follow up, he says wives can
go and pick up official documents.

He’s showing this very
sort of traditional idea

of what the family unit
is and what people do.

And he’s not taking into consideration
the changes in the world around us.

So the reporter says, what about
single mothers who don’t have time off?

And he said, that’s the
national government’s fault.

So somehow he’s blaming single– the
single mother’s not having enough time

to go to an official building,
like a government building

during work hours, as the
government at largest fault.

That they should figure
that out when really being

able to print off your documents
that a convenience store

actually is a very good, very cheap, very
good solution for this kind of problem.

He should have actually said, OK, so
I’m going to put myself in that position.

I’m going to go in there.

And he’s very against tying
documentation to the my number card.

So this is actually, I think, the
core issue of what’s going on here.

And someone says to me,
like, why can’t you do that?

You go, oh, you know,
that’s an interesting idea.

I’ll take that under consideration.

And then you don’t answer the question.

I’m not saying I’m going to do it.

I’m saying I’m going to think about it.

And then you don’t answer
the question you move on.

No controversy.

No me getting in trouble
for being part of the

patriarchy or misogynistic
or any old fashioned

or any of the things that
politicians get in trouble for.

All you have to do is not give your opinion

and say I’ll think about
it and then move on.

And people would figure
out really quickly like that.

You ask him any question
that he disagrees with.

He’ll just say he thinks about it.

And then either they’d stop
asking me tough questions

or they’d try to nail me down to
be interesting little rodeo there.

Later in the same conference in the
same speech, he started backtracking.

And he goes, you might
be able to take my words.

I want to take my words back because
it could cause a misunderstanding.

And I think the problem is no
one ever misunderstands the words.

He said it could be construed as a
miscommunication or not what he meant.

But halfway through,
imagine you’ve done a meeting.

You’ve made a statement.

You’re very confident in your statement.

You move on a little
bit and then you’re like,

oh wait, they’re going
to get me on that.

And then you try to roll it back.

That is not going to work out for you.

So he’s been called out on this.

He’s an old man.

This is it.

We got to just get old
people out of government.

I think this is the same
problem America has right now.

Imagine failing how to talk like
a politician and someone on one.

It’s weird.

My belief is that all the
problem with all these guys

is that they’re too old.

And I need to retire.

And the retirement age for public
officials should be the retirement age.

So if the public officials retirement age,

they’ve said it at 65, that
should be the end of their career.

So let’s say I get elected at 65.

That would be my last
term of whatever I’m doing.

So if I become president in 65, I can
go until I was at four years in America.

So 69.

And then I finish.

And you can make jokes
about being 69 when you finish.

But these guys who were in their 70s
and 80s like in Japan and the president

actually, like all the
presidential candidates,

all this year, these ones,
they’re all in their 80s.

These guys shouldn’t be running government.

What was the guy who froze up?

Mitch McConnell.

He’s frozen up like two, three
times, just stood there blankly.

I had that happen to me for the first time.

See, Jade gets it.

I’m frequently 69 when I finish.

That is the joke I’m saying that
we could put out there in the world.

We could build jokes into our government
and then everyone would be happier.

But, now I’ve lost my train of thought ’cause
I’m now thinking about Jade doing a 69.

I’m sure I had a really salient cogent point
and it’s gone now because of a 69 joke.

Which is kind of how the joke should go.

But yeah, if there’s a retirement
age, I think politicians should be held

to the retirement age ’cause
they set the retirement age.

And they said it at 65 or whatever.

I mean, if they decide to up at the 70,

then it’s hard to argue with
the retirement age being 70.

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The last story, creepy guy’s story.

It’s not as bad as the other creepy
guy’s stories but it is still pretty bad.

67 year old junior high school coach.

All right, there you go.

I have to finish the story.

65 year old, 67 year
old, junior high school.

You just put those in the same sentence
and you know it’s already bad and gross.

He’s the coaching track and field.

And he said to you, this is, it’s
the context I’m having trouble with.

Junior high school coach
track and field already grows.

So the context for this is difficult.

’cause he said there’s a male student
and he says to the male student,

if you get a really good score in your
exam, I will be so happy, I will hug her.

So there’s a female student
on the track and field team

that he has threatened,
has promised to hug.

So I think what’s happened is
he’s like, there’s an attractive girl.

This is now me doing some assumptions.

There’s an attractive
girl on the track team.

And he’s talking to a
boy and he’s making a joke

and he’s saying, if you do
really good, I’ll be so happy.

I will hug her.

That could be played off as a joke.

Like, ha ha ha, because
she’s so attractive

and everyone loves
her, I will be so happy.

I will get out of my comfort zone
and actually sexually assault this child.

Which you know, again,
in some context as a

joke, I could actually
see that coming off.

But in this situation
where he’s talking to a group

of high school kids who
don’t have the same level

of authority or social power, he’s
now threatening this little girl basically.

So he was reported, some of
the other students reported him.

He was questioned and he said, I
meant I wanted him to get a good grade.

I was just joking.

But the students said it was disgusting
and they were very put off by it.

And they should have been.

And this is it.

There’s a difference
between, like if I made

that joke in my social
group, it might be okay.

If I play it off, if I know
my friends and I know the

people I’m talking to, I
could play that off as a joke.

If I’m a teacher in and among students
that does not play off, that does not work.

So that’s maybe where this
67 year old man fell apart.

He did the right thing.

He was told he was gonna be
suspended and he’s like, I’ll just quit.

I mean, I’m obviously not gonna be
able to rebuild this relationship now.

So that, because he
kind of did the right thing

after, like look, I’ve
ruined this relationship.

I’m gonna stop.

He makes me think
he really was just joking.

He just wasn’t very good at jokes,
which is another problem with older people.

Because I can make jokes.

And I know my younger
coworkers won’t find them funny.

Because I’m using jokes sort of
from my mindset from my age group.

My jokes may be being outdated or more
sexist than is acceptable in modern times

or more offensive than is
acceptable in modern times.

So knowing your audience is the
biggest part of making a good joke.

I recently had to do a speech
at work and I did a fairly good job.

I made some good jokes,
but I had to be very conscious

of what I was saying
and who I was saying it to.

‘Cause I’m really speaking to the
most sensitive person in my company.

And if I can not offend
them, I’m doing a good job.

Whereas I’m out drinking with like my three

or four closest friends, I
can basically say whatever

I want and they all know
what I actually mean.

Even if I don’t express myself very well.

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(chill electronic music).

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Public Service Announcement.

We’re gonna start with a public,

a little bit of a little bit
of a little bit of a little bit.

We’re gonna start with a public service
announcement with this very, very important.

On September 23rd,
so two days ago as of

recording of this pod,
you know, city called Koga.

Twenty men at two o’clock in the afternoon,
were seen running around the city,

10 were nude and 10
were wearing garter belts.

The police have warned
people to remain vigilant.

I mean, I just, (groans)

20 dudes running around naked and
10 of them are wearing garter belts.

So they’re nude, they’re
completely nude, 100% nude.

I think we’re gonna have
to say the word nude a

couple more times, just
to emphasize 20 naked men.

So nude, nude, nude, nude, nude, nude.

Garter belt, garter belt, garter belt.

I’m gonna start again.

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A public service announcement
in a city called Koga in Japan.

The police have issued a warning that
20 men at two o’clock in the afternoon,

were seen running around
the city, kind of them

were nude, and 10 were
just wearing garter belts.

The police are saying remain vigilant.

I think you should always remain vigilant

against 20 naked men running
around streaking in the streets in public,

but there is a secondary
issue, and it’s more,

the engine of Japan loves the
psychology of the criminal mind.

I was going to do one of the SVU shows.

It would be the guy,
the criminal mind’s one,

whether you get into
the mind of the criminal

and you kind of like embody
the criminal for a while.

So I was like, well, okay, I’ve tried to
have five people come over to my house

for a barbecue,
and it was difficult.

It was difficult to organize.

It was difficult to organize, because
organizing groups of people is difficult.

They have different schedules.

They have different things.

They have different things.

Organizing 20 guys to get
together is already difficult.

Let’s just be honest, ’cause
everyone has scheduling-wise.

I’m wondering if the pool
of people, the organizer,

’cause there had to be
like a leader in organizing.

The pool of people he was organizing from

would be willing to get naked
at two o’clock in the afternoon

on a specific day and run
around the city, was larger than 20.

That is my literal first thought.

How big was the pool of
people he was drawing from?

To get 20.

To me, it seems like it would
actually have to be very large.

Anyways, it’s got a core
group of 20 hardcore people.

Ten of them were wearing guardbells.

Now, is that a signifier of any sort?

Is that an important detail?

Were they two groups who
independently decided to run around

naked in the city of Koga at
two o’clock in the afternoon?

One completely naked, another
group was the guardbell group.

And then they just happened.

The universe coalesced in such
a way that they came together

and were like, lost souls
who had found a community.

So they were like, oh yeah,
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You’re naked.

And they’re like, oh, you’re naked too.

We are wearing guardbells,
but you know, essentially naked.

Let’s do this together.

And then they get up and they
run around the city together.

Like what?

It’s the morning.

It’s always the morning of is a bit.

I always run through my head,
but we talk about any sort of crime.

I build a little background
story of that morning

because this clearly had
to be planned in advance.

Whether we’re email,
texts, chains, whatever.

There was conversations, there was schedules,
there was calendars set up for this.

There was there was
meeting places and times.

Where are we going to ditch our clothes?

Who’s driving?

Are we taking public transport?

All these things had to be workout.

People I’m assuming got
there independently met

at a certain place,
stripped down their clothes.

So there’s a pile of clothes somewhere.

I would also assume hidden.

And then they just start
running their little hearts out.

Do you wake up in the morning?

Pick up your phone most of you.

I’m guessing you do.

Pick up your phone and
see if you have any messages.

Today’s the day.

Your calendar, your
Google calendar sends you

a message to go, day
is guard or belt day.

Like, it’s right.

I ordered my special
harder belts for today.

And you put them on and you
feel, none of that thrill of preparation.

I used to do judo competitions.

And just getting your
stuff together in the morning

and you arrive at the place and
putting on your judo and stuff like that.

There was a moment
there where it felt like, okay,

this is doing something that
not everyone in the world does.

So there’s a thrill and organized.

Part of the organization
is actually the anticipation,

the preparation for the actual
act you’re going to be doing.

This is going to be thrilling.

And there’s going to be adrenaline.

It’ll be amazing.

And then you’re on
the train, you’re in your

car, and you’re on
the way to the destiny.

All that is important.

All that’s part of the experience.

Then, the 20 men, I’m going to
just assume it’s not two groups of 10.

20 men get together.

They’re all standing around.

Some of them are wearing their guard.

10 of them are wearing their guard belts.

But while you’re all
dressed, they don’t know.

So they’re all just standing around.

They’re talking, you know, a good morning.

It was very hot today.

Oh, yeah, but the
weather is kind of broken.

It’s not as hot as it
was last couple weeks.

Oh, it’s been a brutal summer.

Oh, yeah.

It’s a good time for
us 20 men to get naked.

That is what they’re saying.

So the 20 men, then, the leader– I want to
know who the ring leader is and what kind

of style of leadership is
he’s a supportive leader?

He’s sort of a more
authoritarian dictatorial type.

Boys, I’m going to get naked.

So they all stripped down.

And you can see who’s wearing a
guard belt, who’s not wearing a guard belt.

It’s a 50/50 split.

So if you’d laid bets
before, you’d actually,

you know, Blackjack
always been on black.

That’s a classic.

So then these 20 guys, 10 wearing
guard belts, and 10 completely naked.

Like, OK, we’re going to run.

Did they plan a route?

Or did they just have the leader in front?

And it was like a gaggle of geese.

And they just followed the leader.

Yes, I want to know the motivation.

I do always, every crime thing we hear

that’s really weird in strange is
the motivation is the important part.

How do you organize 20 men to
run through a city naked successfully?

I don’t think I could do that.

Like, I started at the
beginning of this little PSA.

I tried to have like 10
people come over to

my house for a barbecue
and I didn’t work out.

And I’m giving them free food.

What is the motivation for these
guys to organize themselves so well?

Or is it this is it?

This is their one
chance, 20 of us together.

We’re going to run through
the city of Koga naked.

Naked.

This is a dream come true.

So they’re not going to miss this chance.

The police are right.

You should be vigilant.

Always be vigilant that
there are 20 men in the world,

10 wearing guard belts, and 10 completely
naked, preparing to run through the city.

Because apparently that’s
the thing that happens.

And that’s happened.

And let’s just hope– I
don’t know what I hope.

I hope they get caught.

Because I don’t personally–
I don’t care if people

run around the city naked,
from being really honest.

There, I understand why it’s illegal.

I do.

And I wouldn’t take the
position of arguing against making

it illegal to have 10 men
run through a city naked.

But the motivation– I do
want to know the motivation.

Why did they do this?

The problem is, now
having done an engineer’s

Japan for several years, there are several
stock answers that I would be expecting.

It’s not going to be the true
dig down inside and find out

what was driving these
men, and wearing guard belts,

and 10 not wearing guard belts, that
actually runs through the city naked.

Ignance is just in the chat.

I’m very proud 10 men
running through the city naked.

10 naked, 10 more.

So 20 in total, 10 more
wearing only guard or belt.

So there’s an interesting
question then, the US viewer,

which is either more pleasing
or more disturbing to you,

a naked man running
through the city just naked,

or a naked man running through
the city with just guard or belts?

Because to me, somehow, the just
guard or belts makes it little weirder.

Getting naked and running through the
city, again, I don’t have that instinct.

I don’t have that urge.

I don’t have that desire.

But the extra equipment, the little strap

that they throw on the guard or belt,
that changes it somehow, makes it weirder.

Is it anything where you
start including equipment

makes it a little more complicated,
and that little extra step of complication

adds that sort of psychological layer
to it, like why did this become part of it?

Why was this necessary?

A guard or belt added
an uncomfortable element.

Now, say, I read that, and
I’m like, for them or for you.

Guard or belt?

I never wore a guard or belt.

Are they uncomfortable for me?

Are they uncomfortable for you?

Because I think it’s
uncomfortable for everyone.

But discomfort to a
degree is part of the thing.

So anyways, public service
announcement, if you live in the city of

Koga, be aware that 20
men have thought it was

perfectly susceptible to
run through the city naked.

Ten of them felt not
totally naked was the answer.

We’re going to strap up and
throw on some guard or belt.

[MUSIC PLAYING]

We have a series of updates.

This is primarily from last week’s episode.

So if you haven’t listened in the last
week’s episode, you’re missing three jokes.

It’s not a big deal.

The iguana, there was
a two meter long iguana.

And there’s a very cool
60-year-old woman had this

iguana as her companion
running free in her house.

That escaped the house.

It was found in a tree two
kilometers from her house.

The police and some very brave
civilians joined the attempt to

recapture the iguana
the two meter long iguana.

Again, a lot of sort of Americans
may not know what two meters is.

I am six feet tall.

I am 184 centimeters.

I am shorter than the
entire length of this iguana.

This is a very big iguana.

The iguana resisted being taken
in, which I support the iguana.

The iguana wants the freedom.

It loves the freedom.

It wants to be in the tree.

I think the iguana doesn’t understand
that winter is coming in Japan.

And this is not his natural habitat.

The tree saw it probably felt really nice.

It was nice to be out in a tree.

It was hot during that
period when it escaped.

That was all probably pretty cool.

There’s lots of bugs around.

I bet it’s a pretty happy iguana.

I don’t think you realize
like if you don’t get

back to your home, things
are about to go real bad.

The Johnny’s sex scandal.

I wasn’t talking about the
sex scandal specifically.

I was talking actually more
about the financial side last time.

I’m talking about
companies that had dropped

Johnny’s because the
scandals had become public.

I actually think those companies
were partially complicit in the scandal.

So they’re distancing themselves
from the thing they helped support.

I don’t believe that those
companies didn’t know that this kind

of stuff was going on, but my
personal opinion is not proof.

Though we’re going to drop it there.

65 companies.

32 of them have now cut ties completely.

So I almost half the companies
that were using Johnny’s talent

in their advertising or whatnot
have now dropped the company.

The company is considering
changing the name because

Johnny’s and Associates
is named after Johnny

to Gawa who is the
founder of Johnny’s who was

one of the, uh, didlers
or no sexual abusers.

He was an abuser.

And now they’re saying like
the name is now connected

to that and shouldn’t be connected to
the artist and there’s new management.

So we’re going to change the name.

The problem is the name
has so much history in Japan.

The problem is all that history is
now connected to, connected to SA.

I don’t know what you want.

I mean, I actually think the
problem here is that your company

was doing horrible things
for the last 30, 40, 50 years.

And now you’re like,
well, how do we fix this?

I don’t think you do.

I don’t think you fix this.

I think you now suffer through the
pain of having your whole world fall apart.

The, the real issue is
that Johnny, the actual

worst person in this, he
died a couple of years ago.

So he’s off scot-free.

He lived his life.

I haven’t been talking
about Gassy recently.

He’s been in, in holding.

He’s been taking him to court.

The accusation was that he was harassing
famous people’s celebrities online.

He was released the other
day on 30 million yen bail.

He is admitted to the charges.

He is apologized.

The charges, again,
harassing people primarily.

He apologized for causing huge
psychological pain and economic damage.

Weirdly, he was right.

Okay.

So the thing about Gassy, I haven’t
talked about Gassy in a long time.

So people might not remember.

Gassy was, he did scandals
on YouTube in Japan.

So famous people, their
scandals, he talked about them.

He made accusations.

Apparently he was like getting
videos and like, lack mailing people.

He got a lot of, got a lot of heat.

He started, he went and lived in Dubai.

Somehow decided that that wasn’t enough.

Living in Dubai, making money
off YouTube wasn’t enough for him.

So he decided to run for government.

He wanted to be like a minister
in Japan, a part of the diet.

Did it from Dubai, he tried
to do it remotely from Dubai.

Then they’re like, well,
if you don’t actually show

up to any of the sessions,
you can’t vote remotely.

You actually like to show up.

He’s like, well, if I show up,
the police are going to arrest

me because of all these things
that have happened in the past.

He tried to make it seem
like it could spare us a

theory because he was so
powerful and knowledgeable.

Turns out he was right.

As soon as he showed up in
Japan, he was arrested, but it wasn’t

because he was so like knowledgeable
and powerful and it was conspiracy.

It’s because he was
being a dick the whole time.

So I guess the lesson
there is don’t be a dick.

Last update.

This is the most interesting
one because we have

sugar baby Liri Cha
or itadaki Joshi Liri Cha.

We talked about her.

She wrote a book on how to scam
lonely men and take all their money.

I don’t know.

Scamming people’s not good.

Abusing whatever.

She’s been given some fresh charges.

She took a man for 27
million yen using a dating app.

She was on the dating app
and the story she was giving him

is that she had borrowed money
from an associate to open a…

It says an apparel business.

I don’t know if that’s
making clothes or selling

clothes or opening your
clothing store or something.

A apparel business was a bit vague.

I actually want to know.

Because I want to know
the details of the scam.

A, so that as everyone says
it to me, I was like, “Whoa, you

can try to scam me or like how
much detail go into these scams.”

I bet keeping it vague is important.

When you get scam emails,
apparently they’re always

like misspellings and some
weird sentence structures.

Apparently that is on purpose to filter out
the people who are knowledgeable or aware.

So you are so naive
and hopeful that you read

this thing full of spelling
and grammar mistakes.

And it says send us money that you’re willing
to overlook that because you’re naive.

Whereas someone who’s a bit more like
critical will be like, “Well, this is supposed

to be sent to me from the government
or a Nigerian prince is the classic one.”

It’s full of spelling mistakes.
I don’t believe it.

So that’s not the person
you want to target anyways.

You want to target the naive
people who would go for it.

So I’m actually wondering if
she was giving specifics or not.

Her story was, a borrowed money from
an associate to open an apparel business.

If I can’t pay it back, I’ll have
to sell my body in a brothel.

The hint there is that she’s
willing to sell her body for money.

So the guy on the dating app, if he sends
her enough money, she will sleep with him.

So I think that is sort of
the loop he tries to create.

The hope that if you spend enough
money on me, I will have sex with you.

And then keep that going
and go like, “But you don’t

know how much money it is
and I need x amount of money.

I need 10 million, 20
million, 30 million yen.”

And then it just keeps going in
a loop and then she gets more

and more money until the guy
that runs out of money or gives up.

Or she’s decided she has
enough and finds like a better Mark.

She’s done this dozens of times so much,
so successfully she wrote a book on it.

She has dozens of
victims with a total of, and

this was a bit
mind-blowing, 160 million yen.

That is 1.08 million dollars
he has taken from her scams.

So criminals, we are now in
Ninja Ninja Pan criminal advice.

When you make enough money
to live for an extended period,

what you actually have to do
is stop and let the heat cool off.

This is not what most
criminals do. They’re like, “I’m on

a hot streak. This is like
gambling. I’m on a hot streak.

I’m going to keep going. I keep going.
I keep going. I start losing.

Well, if I just keep going,
I’ll start winning again.”

I’m like, “It goes in and
you lose everything.”

She, once she hit the
million dollar Mark, could

have lived four years,
there is a secondary issue.

I just thought of.
And that she’s selling her youth.

She’s banking on her
attractiveness and in Japan

a lot of attractiveness
is connected to you.

So maybe she’s actually being smart
and thinking, “I have a finite amount

of time to make X amount of
money to live for the rest of my life.”

But then they talked about her spending
habits. What was she spending this money on?

And she used the money
for travel and host clubs.

So she wasn’t keeping her
saving the money for a future plan.

I guess scammers in general
aren’t long-term planners.

So this is, again, the
reason I’m not a criminal is

because I would be like,
“Well, I have to be conservative.

I have to plan for the
future. I have to plan

for a point where I’m
actually going to stop,

or I’m going to make so much
money in the next little while,

and then stop, let the heat
cool off and then do it again.”

Probably in a different location.

In an attempt to keep it going long-term.
These are the issues you’re running into.

Because that’s also why I’m not a criminal.

If you’re going to do it
my way, you might as well

just get a regular job,
which is exactly what I have.

I have a regular job
that I go to where I —

there is no risk of me
getting arrested that.

I’m not going to be doing
something shady that I don’t

know about, and they
might end up pinning it on me.

Now I know what I’m doing when I
go in to work tomorrow is making sure

that I do not get tagged for some
crime that my company is committing.

Go through computers
and just check everything.

But, re-reach on, being each
on, is never really going to be

successful because she was
always going to push the limit,

or scam more and more men to the point where sooner
or later someone was get the police involved, sooner

or later she’s going to pass this point where it’s
like, “How does this girl have this much money?”

Then get caught, which
is exactly what happened.

“Drive News, interesting
crime news, fun crime news.”

This guy, I have a house.

And then I was like, “Oh, it’s time to
renovate part of my house. I’m going to

hire a contractor who’s going to come in.
They come in and they see your house.”

Then they might see like your collectibles.

Now, I don’t have very expensive
collectibles, but you might be

the kind of guy who collects
common writer transformation belts.

I have to explain what a common
writer is and a transformation belt for the

people who have never lived in Japan or
never watched common writer kids’ shows.

I’m going to use Sailor Moon as the base.
She has a transformation scene. She goes

from young girl to spins, lights, things,
close change, changes into Sailor Moon.

This happens very regularly in a
lot of superhero things in Japan.

There’s common writer. He generally
has a motorcycle. Often bug-themed in his

mask and whatnot, but the transformation
is unique in that he is wearing a belt.

He will do something with the belt.
Every season they change common

writers, so every season they
update the belt and what he has to do.

I remember one, it was a ring. He took off his
ring, put it in the belt and spun something.

There was a razor blade and he spun the razor
blade in the belt. They always make a sound.

There was one, it was like starting like
a chainsaw, so he pulled it out the back.

And then the transformation
happens and he’s in

his power armor or
whatever you want to call it.

They do this every year so
that a collector or a fan or a

new crock of kids buys the
new product every single year.

My son had two common
writer belts when he’s youth. This

show has been going on for
decades and decades and decades.

They’re designed for kids, poised
to sell to kids. Now, the thing is,

there are a lot of adults who
grew up with this and still like it.

They make electors edition
adult belts. These are more

expensive, they’re more
detailed, they’re more valuable.

This contractor came
in and he saw that this

man had white a lot
of belts on display.

That must immediately imply that
these belts are valuable. What’s he

going to do? He’s going to take seven
of them that were worth 130,000 yet.

The problem is, again,
my problem with stealing

certain objects is almost
any object is how to resell.

If you take the two upon shop
or something, oh, yeah, I don’t

know how much you’re going
to get for it. That’s the issue.

I have likened the theft of Pokémon
cards to a new form of art theft where

you need to be a fan, a collector, to
know the value of what you’re stealing.

If you put me in a room
with a bunch of plastic belts,

I wouldn’t know which one
was the most valuable one.

I might steal a couple. It would be at
random. It’s almost like a lottery. Do

I get the good one or not? Who knows?
Except the guy I tried to sell it to.

He might realize really quickly, I don’t
know the value of this thing. He undercuts

me. I’ve actually risked jail time or a theft
and still not gotten my money out of it.

That’s one of the problems with stealing
collectible items. The guy is like, I’m a nerd.

I’m at home. People don’t come over to my
house very much. No one’s seen my collection.

I had this contractor over. He and
then it disappeared. The contractor didn’t

show up again. It didn’t take a particularly
good detective to figure this out.

Since I mentioned Pokemon Fest, there has been a new type. For a
while, it was breaking into the store. Just take all the valuable

ones and run away pretty basic. Then there were some cat thieves
who were sneaking into the store, taking all the valuable ones.

Again, they knew which one the valuable ones were. They knew which cards
to steal. The latest scam. Actually, I thought this was pretty good.

This shows the creativity of these people if it was applied in a
different field, it could actually be very successful in a different one.

I would like to see this Pokemon
card. It is worth 798,000. He says,

distracts the person who says, can
you show me this? Can you show me this?

As they look away, he puts
a new price sticker on it.

Then walks out. Customer
B comes in 20 minutes later.

The store clerk has been very careful.
All the cards I’ve shown him are still

here. I showed him 5 cards. All 5
cards are still here. I’ll put them away.

Customer B comes in 20 minutes
later. I would also say, also, because

I’m a completely new customer.
I’m not in cahoots with anybody.

I would like to see this
Pokemon card. The price on this

Pokemon card. The price on
this Pokemon card is now 498,000.

They’ve committed, so he buys
the card for that price, essentially

having committed a 300,000 yen
theft without anyone being anybody.

That is a good scale. I have to give some credit
to them. That’s a good piece of work on their part.

They had to pay 500,000 yen, but they are going
to be able to sell it for a 300,000 yen profit.

That’s a pretty solid day’s work. I
have to give some kudos to them.

They are probably going to get
caught because there is CCTV in it.

Johnny Somali is a YouTuber.
He’s actually on kick.com,

which is the competitor
to Twitch at the moment.

I didn’t talk about him in
the past. He basically just

did some really offensive
stuff. He got on the train.

The first viral video he
did, he got on the train, and

he was like, “Hiroshima
Nagasaki will do it again.”

He’s saying it to Japanese people.
In English, they understood the

city names, but I think if you put
those, you pair those two together.

People kind of know what
you’re doing. He was clearly being

a dick. Other people, English
speakers approached him.

They were like, “This isn’t cool. Don’t do
it.” He got popular off that viral video.

I didn’t talk about it
because there wasn’t much

to talk about. Guy comes
with Japan being a jerk.

There’s a second guy,
I don’t know his name

yet, but I’m pretty
sure I will in the future.

He was deeply offended that
there were women’s only cars on

trains, and then he walked
through the train going, “Yup.

I’m a woman inspector.
I’m checking for women.”

Yep, they’re all
women. It wasn’t funny.

But of course, that went
viral because everyone

hates on them, but that’s
how they get attention.

They wasn’t purposely avoiding them.
There just wasn’t much to say.

He’s like a tension seeker live
streamer people being shitty and awful.

Isn’t something I want
to spend a lot of time

on because there’s
not much to say about it.

Hey, look, this guy who’s getting
attention for being shitty and

awful is being shitty and awful,
and I’m giving him more attention.

Not much to say.
Why am I talking about Johnny Somali then?

He harassed some women, he got
punched in the face, he took it too far,

so I’m Japanese youtubers came,
showed up and threatened to beat him up.

He apologized and left Japan. I guess
he felt like he wasn’t getting enough

attention wherever he was because
he kind of fell off the map for a bit.

Decided that the best way to revive his
career would be to come back to Japan.

I’m assuming if he did
the same stuff in America,

he would get really beat
up regularly and or killed.

So this is one of the things Japan
attracts a certain person who wants to push

the boundaries because there’s a certain
safety level of doing an independent.

You’re less likely to get beat up,
you’re less likely to get shot and killed.

The police aren’t going
to destroy your life or

are they? Maybe that’s
where the story is going.

He came to back to Japan. He decided
his thing was going to be trespassing.

He went into construction sites, he went
into some hotels and stuff where he wasn’t.

He went into the areas
he wasn’t supposed to go in.

He had a guy follow him.

Thing is in Japan, the rules
are really different than America.

I’m actually betting
he didn’t take the time.

If you’re going to be a harassment streamer,
you should look up the laws around public

activity and harassment to make sure you
are pushing the line, but not crossing it.

Of course, trespassing is it
breaking the law. He crossed the line.

He was followed by cops.

He noticed that the cops
are following him, so he starts

messing with the cops, obviously
again how his brand works.

But this isn’t a good idea because
the cops are just waiting for him.

What they were actually
doing was making sure

they had the right guy
following him for a bit.

Then he comes out of convenience
store and there’s like three, four cops.

They’re holding him, they give us
your phone, he’s saying, “Hey, it’s okay.

Die job, who died job, who
doesn’t speak any Japanese?”

He’s actually trying
to be friendly with them

and make jokes, but
they’re not taking it.

They’re like, “Just give us your stuff.”

Then they’re like, “Stop talking.”

Two detectives show up.

So now he’s got like eight,
nine cops at this point.

They get a woman on the phone to translate
and then they tell him he’s being arrested.

Then you can hear a
change in his voice where

he’s like, “Hey, call the
embassy, call a lawyer.”

So I’m not free sure.

I’m not so aware.

Can I speak for the embassy?

Somebody call the embassy, “All
right, call the embassy, call the embassy.”

Call an embassy, call a lawyer.

He knows he’s now in trouble.

So he’s being charged with
trespassing that has a hundred

thousand yen fine and/or
up to three years in prison.

They, as you’ve listened
to Ninja Juice Pen

for many episodes, you’ve heard me
talk about how they can hold you on.

So he has the trespassing charge.

That’s one.

He has the obstruction
of police duties charged.

That’s two.

He, I’m assuming
interfering with a business,

so obstruction of business,
that’s going to be thrown in there.

They’re going to hold him
until he overstays his visa.

So that’s 23 days, 23 days, 23 days.

They can hold him so that they
can hold him for 60 some days.

He has a visa.

So they can actually hold him until he
overstays his visa and then charge him with

overstaying his visa, which
is a really shitty thing to do.

Normally, I would be very
opposed to this, but in this

case, because I just don’t
like the guy, I think it’s funny.

This is the problem with these
draconian rules is applied to most people.

It’s wrong, implied in certain instances.

It’s quite funny.

So the base charge, he’s
looking at three years in prison.

Now, are they going to put him in prison?

Probably not.

They’ll probably make
him overstays his visa,

send him home and
then never allow him back

in the country, which
means Johnny Somali

might have to find either
another country to go to.

My bet is okay.

So again, I don’t know, but my bet is
that they just wait till his visa expires,

deport him and then just you
can’t get back in the country.

He would then go to Korea and start again.

This ports are an interesting thing is I’m
pretty sure they share that information.

Have you ever been arrested?

They’ll actually arrest
him so they can ensure

that he’s not allowed
back in the country.

That goes on sort of his passport record.

What countries would and would not allow
you in after that will be interesting?

I’m sure he’s going to
pop up again in a very

small instance and
then disappear forever,

because he’s going
to do something stupid,

like go to Thailand or
Singapore, mess around,

they don’t care in the same
way that Japan or Korea would.

Japan and Korea, I think
would just send you back.

Thailand and Singapore, they
would love to throw you in prison.

And I don’t think there’s much you
could do to convince them otherwise.

So the embassy is going to be
like, fire man, Singapore’s really strict.

You shouldn’t have done that.

You actually already had
learned your lesson technically.

So we’re going to back off
this and I can see Johnny Somali

ending in prison for a good,
in a country other than Japan.

So let’s lay the bets on that.

You can bet completely nude.

He’s not ever going to get in
trouble again or you can bet on

guard or belt that he is actually
going to get in trouble again.

If you are right, I don’t know.

I should have thought.

I didn’t, this is a
problem with thinking of

things in the
moment, doing like an

improv-oriented news
podcast, which is not a thing.

I have thoughts in the moment that I
don’t have time to organize the thoughts.

But there is a game there.

We could bet, Carter or nude.

50.

Is he going to get arrested again?

I think he’s going to
get arrested again in

different country and
actually do prison time.

I think Japan is going to send him away.

So there could be two bets there.

That was a bit messy
at the end, but we’re all

happy that this guy
is not on the Internet.

[MUSIC].

[Music].

Alright, so a lot of people, they
want to come to, okay, nerds.

I should just start with nerds and
just any kind of new story, just nerds.

But, nerd stuff and
Japan stuff go together.

I think that’s pretty fair.

Anime voice acting is a
dream for a lot of super nerds.

It’s the kind of thing they want to do.

It would be like a dream
job for a lot of people.

The anime industry is tough.

It is incredibly tough and
is incredibly tough because

the margins are razor thin,
they have to produce so much.

It’s not the dream job
most people think it is.

It’s a lot like drug
dealing where there’s a

very small minority at
the top of the pyramid

that is making a ton of money and then
you have everyone else who’s making below.

McDonald’s sort of
staff wages in the hopes

that one day they’ll be part of that
incredibly small upper percentage.

The government has
introduced a new invoice system.

It goes into effect in October.

969 voice actors were surveyed.

77% of those said this
new invoice system is

going to become an
income decrease for them

and 27% said they may actually
have to quit voice acting altogether.

So this system is clearly incredibly
detrimental to the voice actor.

It’s being introduced to simplify taxes
for the companies and to prevent fraud.

Now those are good things.

You want to simplify taxes
for companies because

companies pay a lot of
taxes if they do a good job.

You want to reduce fraud,
reducing fraud is a good thing, but

it seems like it pushes all the
burden onto these voice actors

independent artists
essentially because a lot

of them are not employed,
salaried employees.

In some cases it pushes the
corporate rate to the actor

or artist because they are
not technically employees

or the tax will increase for the
companies reducing work for some artists.

So basically let’s say
you employ me as a voice

artist and I don’t do
this tax invoice thing.

The tax will increase
for the company so they

can employ me or they
can go with someone else.

But if they go with me and then I have to
provide that invoice, my tax rate goes up.

Most voice actors actually supplant
their income already and so all of these

taxes that they were going to have to
pay were going to come out of pocket.

Which means voice acting as
a career is a less viable option.

So if I issue the invoice and
pay the tax I have less income, if I

don’t do the invoice I’m going to
get less work from the companies.

Also the other side part that
they didn’t actually mention

very much is this is also
going to be more paperwork.

So that paperwork is going to have
to be done for done by the artist.

If it’s done by the artist
they actually spend that time.

Then you might think
oh it’s just taxes, it’s a

little invoice you have
to fill it out for every job.

And a voice actor might be
doing X amount of shows for one

company, X amount of shows
for a different company, different.

So they would spend a
significant amount of time if

they’re actually a busy
voice actor that is unpaid time.

I work for a company.

My company essentially does all my taxes.

I have to fill out basically
one or two forms a year.

It’s really just making
sure I sign a piece of

paper that says I still
work for this company.

My salary hasn’t changed
or it has changed whatever.

And the company takes care of it.

I basically do almost nothing
for taxies which is amazing.

That’s not going to be the case
for these independent voice actors.

And it seems like it’s going to be very
detrimental to the voice acting industry.

NURDS!

Maybe I should just
start every story like that.

I could do that.

It could be the thematic beginning.

It could be nerds and then perverts.

I wonder which one I’m going
to end up yelling more often.

Let’s try to get that.

So it’s nice on Dave is the star show.

Okay.

So there was a sex scandal.

Perverts and nerds.

Oh my God.

Johnny and Associates.

Johnny and Associates is a talent agency.

They have made some of the biggest band.

Biggest band boys.

The biggest boy bands.

You can see how deep I am into this world
when I can’t even get like the words right.

Johnny and Associates
has a sex scandal going on.

Where the executive
class of the company was

sexually abusing
members of the boy bands.

And of course you had to succumb
to this in order to get into the

band and be famous and get your
job and honestly fulfill your dreams.

So that’s awful because this is abusive.

Now the abuse in the idol
industry is sort of an open secret.

I think it’s one of those things
that everyone knew it was going on.

But now it has come to the light.

Some whistleblower has come forward.

Dave said this is what’s happening.

This has been happening
for years and years and years.

Johnny’s is in trouble.

McDonald’s will not renew its contracts.

It used to use a guy named Kim Taku.

Kim Taku is probably one of
the most famous people in Japan.

He was part of SMAP, which was
one of the biggest boy bands in Japan.

It’s weird to call it a boy band because
they’re all in their 40s and 50s now.

At least 50s and 60s at this point.

Kim Taku is one of the
richest dudes in the country.

Probably.

I don’t know how much money he makes.

The way I actually know him and would have
any sort of affection for him as a person,

although everything I’ve read
makes him seem like pretty awful.

He is the star of the judgment
or judge eyes video game series.

So if you play that
game, you’re probably like,

oh, they just made
this guy look like this.

That’s not the case.

They took one of the most
famous dudes in Japan and

they put him in his own,
Yaku is a style video game.

Kim Taku, from what I’ve read, he’s
basically the reason his boy band broke up.

So he went to the executives at
Johnny and Associates and like,

Ratted out the other guys
were going to go independent or

something or were looking at
other contracts or something.

I broke up the band so
that he could stay famous.

I never watched, they
all had like TV shows.

So they’re like four of those five members.

I think they all had TV shows.

There was a period where
you would flip channels

and there was a TV show
with one of the members from

SMAP on almost every
channel, which was disturbing

if you think about how
much they were making.

When they broke up, the thing
is, every show has a production

crew, that production crew, you
know, massive amount of people.

We’re not talking about one show, we’re
talking about like 5678 shows overall.

All those production
crews ended up losing

their jobs, millions,
not millions of people,

but thousands of people,
millions and millions

of yen were lost when
this group broke up.

Kim Taku seems kind
of like a piece of shit.

He seems like he sucks the corporate teet as much as humanly
possible, although I’m complicit in my guilt in that I will still play

those video games because I really love Yakuza video games and
that style of video game and I love how weird and stupid they are.

Nerd, I get a self nerd on that one.

So other companies now, now that the sex scandal
is public, I’ve decided to start dropping

Johnny and Associates, which is an interesting
thing because I think they knew it was going on.

But now that it’s public, they
have to act like they are outraged.

And that’s the bit
finding it a bit hypocritical.

Like you can’t be outraged by
something you inadvertently supported.

Which again, should I play judgement?

I’ve already paid for
the game, so I guess I

mean my complicit
nature in this is already set.

I can’t undo that.

I guess I can’t return the game.

I bought it digitally.

So I’m going to play
that game and then am

I going to play other
ones if they come out?

Probably.

I’m a hypocrite.

You’re probably hypocrite too.

hypocrite.

So we got nerd, pervert, and hypocrite.

I can call them out in succession.

And I can do self callouts.

I can see where I’m being a
piece of shit just like everyone else.

But at least I’m not abusing
young boys who want to be famous.

I mean, I can take a step
back from that at least.

This is the Howard who runs 100 feet.

Shouts at the the coward.

All’s the the coward who runs 101.

Eat a coward.

I don’t there’s a saying there.

I don’t remember what it is right now.

I’m a bit lost to my own
words at the moment.

Other companies that are
dropping Johnny Associates.

These are masters.

McDonald’s was one of the first ones.

Asihi group, which makes Asihi super dry.

They are a drink company and
alcohol company and beer company.

They’re dropping the other companies.

They are a drink company and
alcohol company and beer company.

They’re dropping them.

Suntory is demanding improved governance.

So this was the other side of the issue.

Well, let’s get through the drops first.

Japan Airlines is dropping them.

Nippon life insurance is dropping them.

Suntory is demanding
improved governance, which

actually implies that
what they’re saying is.

If you get rid of all your executives who
are doing all this abuse, we’ll keep them.

Because I am thinking about
the young up-and-coming stars.

Currently, who may be remiss
treated, but do they deserve

to be punished because the
executives were pieces of shit?

I actually think it’s fair for
the big stars to get in trouble.

They lose their contracts
because they were complicit

in that they didn’t speak
up in defense of anyone else.

This whole thing broke when a couple of
them were like, “I can’t let this continue.

I can’t let this happen to other people.”.

I have a great deal of respect for that.

They went through it, they
came up, they got famous, and

I’m like, “I can’t let someone
else suffer the same way.”

The media also remained silent on
these issues when these stories came up.

They remained silent on it because
they had to maintain access to the

stars because this is where all
their entertainment news comes from.

This group is so big and so powerful.

If they block off your access
to the stars of their group,

you’re going to lose out on
news stories, which is problematic.

I don’t want to see
these young guys who are

just trying to break
in get punished for it.

I do think it’s fair that the guys
who sort of profited off it get punished.

The guys who called it out are
actually the most noble people in this.

They suffered, they
went through it, and yet

they tried to make it
better for other people.

They’re better than me and my
desire to play the “Eckusa” video game.

“Eckusa” video game.

More nerd, more idle news.

This is a more entertaining one.

It doesn’t involve the… it involves
abuse but in a more entertaining way.

“NURTS!”.

An agoya-based, idle underground idle group,
which I don’t really know what that is.

I guess underground idle group
just means not popular yet.

“Pulsar, LUMACS.”.

“Bired one of the members.”

The member is called “Riri and
Osono” or her complete lack of humanity.

This is on the other side.

It’s not the management of
using the teams, the members.

The members abusing fans.

It’s hard to tell.

“Riri took some time off for stress.”

She’s feeling tough, tough life.

I Grant that it is a very tough thing
to have to keep doing all the time.

She needed a couple weeks off.

She took a couple weeks off.

Management’s very kindly, very
sensibly came in to check on her.

When they came to
check on her, she appeared

with two men carrying
her on their backs.

So I really want an
explanation of what that means.

Like is it she on both shoulders?

It says on their backs, are they bent over?

And she’s riding them like
some kind of weird horse?

Are they piggybacking her?

But in the middle, I can’t
tell what it actually means.

Anyways, they asked quite sensibly,
“What the fuck are you doing?”

And she replied, “It’s bothersome to walk.

It’s too bothersome to walk.”

So basically, I’m assuming these are fans.

She got these fans
because they are such big

fans, they’re willing to
do anything she wants.

She said, “I don’t want to walk.
I want you to carry me.”.

Management was so deeply offended by this,
they’re like, “I’m sorry, you’re fired.”

Turns out she was also lying to fans
about the other members of the group.

So she’s not even like smart enough
to not abuse the other members.

This is a thing.

She’s underground.

So she’s not that popular.

But I think in her head,
she’s so popular she can do

whatever she wants because
he has these core fans,

probably like a bunch,
will do anything she asks.

Now, if she’s no longer
part of the band is that going

to continue, does she have
enough clout to go solo?

I doubt it. Is she talented enough?

These idle groups don’t tend to hire people
based on talent by being really honest.

So she was fired.

She was fired for her
complete lack of humanity,

which is a great
reason to fire someone.

And now they are looking
for a new fourth member.

And I think I know someone who
has no musical talent, who’s a big

white dude, who would really bring
a new demographic to your market.

Who’s really old and doesn’t fit the mold.

But this is it.
It’s time to break the mold.

I’m not going to make two
people carry me on my back.

I would actually
probably try to carry two

people on my back because
that would be funnier.

And then break my knees.

And I would be a member, the first
50-year-old, foreign member in a wheelchair.

of an idle group ever.

And think about the records
you would be breaking.

I immediately think like, the fans.

Fans are so gross.

So she’s an awful person.
She was doing awful things to people.

And she was punished for it, which seems
like the way that story is supposed to go.

Bears.

So nerd.

Over hypocrite.

Bears.

A few weeks ago we did a story on OSO18.

Also 18.

This giant bear who is killing
and partially eating cows.

And they were very worried
about it attacking people.

And they actually had
to put them down, which I

was really sad about
because giant bears are cool.

Even if…

Yeah, it doesn’t matter, man.

Giant bears are cool.

That’s just what they are.

But the bear community
is decided to get revenge.

They’re actually on the brink of a war
between humanity and bears in Japan.

There have been 54 bear-inflicted
injuries since the end of July.

And this is the most, the
highest since 2007, which

makes me go, “What the
fuck happened in 2007?”

That there was some
sort of peak in bear attacks.

So I was thinking, “Yeah, the bears,
their leader, also 18, was taken down.”

And they’re like, “No,
we gotta get revenge on

these humans for hurting
our master and lord.

The biggest bear who ever went.”

Because you know bears are
going to do it based on size.

That is just going to be how it is.

It’s not talent or charm.

It’s just going to be
like, “Biggest bear wins.”.

Well, it turns out it’s not
because of revenge for OSO18.

It turns out there was a really
bad beach nut crop, which is one of

the main sources of nutrients,
main sources of food, for these bears.

So back in 2007, there was also a really
bad crop of beach nuts, which means the

bears are now coming down into sort of
human settled areas, trying to find food.

Trying to find food means
they encounter more people.

They freak out and they attack the
people, which is perfectly understandable.

This is all again, a secondary
result of climate change,

which means the human
bear war will occur very soon.

Maybe I should just switch to animal news.

I don’t know.

A two meter long iguana
is loose and cute shoe.

It escaped from a woman’s house.

This woman, in her 60s, kept a
two meter long iguana, and she

just let it loosen her home,
which honestly is cool as hell.

I don’t think I would do that.

I don’t think I have two.

I am 1.84 centimeters.

I’m almost too, not, no, I’m
20 centimeters off two meters.

We’re going to round off.

I’m also old, so I’m probably shrinking.

I think I went from
184 to 183, but we don’t

need to report that
small piece of news.

But there’s women in her 60s.

She’s like, “Oh man, I
gotta have a companion.

I’m gonna have a giant
iguana to be my companion.”

That’s amazing.

It escaped.

So now there’s a manhunt
for the two meter long iguana.

The iguana is said to be very timid
and gentle, which sounds very nice.

But I think maybe it’s a
co-conspirator with the bears that

is decided to rise up, and
if it can become big enough,

because again, size is what
matters in the bear world.

If it can become big enough,
it can lead the bears, and we

can get some kind of
iguana bear hybrid animal

that will decimate
the human population.

Thus, we won’t be producing as much.

Climate change will correct itself.

This iguana bear hybrid is going
to be what fixes climate change.

The Mayor of Shibuya Ward says,
“Don’t come to Shibuya for Halloween.”

We did a report on Shibuya last week,
and they started eating a little bit of a

issue in more complaints,
more tickets and whatnot.

There increased police presence.

Because people are getting out of hand.

They were getting 200 complaints a day.

He said something similar last year.

Now last year was deep in the pandemic.

Now, technically the pandemic’s not finished,
but we are acting as though it were.

The pandemic is not a
thing anymore as far as

people and governments
and whatnot is concerned.

You do have to be careful though.

My son’s school was shut down
for three days because of COVID.

I think my son got it
and got over it in a day.

But him being young and very
healthy, it didn’t impact him very much.

He also was vaccinated.

So I think all that helped.

I didn’t catch it or I caught
it and spread it around

and just never noticed,
which is very possible.

They are very worried about the
accident that happened in Seoul last year.

So in Seoul Korea last year during
Halloween, there’s an area called E-Tae-Won.

Thousands of people went to E-Tae-Won.

They thought there was a famous person.

There was this huge rush and a
whole bunch of people got killed.

They were just crushed to
death or trampled and stuff.

They are really, really worried about
something similar happening in Shibuya.

Traditionally, that’s not what happens.

They, people get drunk, they
get out there, they’re all walking

around, then they start flipping
over cars or smashing stuff.

It just becomes sort of a little riot.

They need more police.

What they’ve decided to do
was hire 100 security guards.

They will be deployed and they
will probably be absolutely useless.

Security guards don’t have
the authority to do that much

other than turn around
and go like, “Hey, stop it.”.

And then a drone person
when you say, “Hey, stop it.”

It really just encourages them to do more.

You have police currently in Shibuya issuing
citations and it hasn’t really curved

the amount of negative behavior they’re
talking about that they’re trying to stop.

I think what’s going to
happen is people are going

to go to Shibuya for
Halloween just like the year.

They’re going to be drunk
just like every year and

they’re probably going to
set cars on fire and stuff.

Smash them up just like
they do every other year so far.

[Music].

Maybe in-in-nep to governance.

In-in-effective police.

Maybe I could just do that.

I’m going to have to sit down
and actually work out my call-outs.

Just like the last story, I found
that the parallel between is very funny.

So the mayor of Shibuya is saying,
“Don’t come to Shibuya on Halloween.

My prediction is a whole bunch of
people go to Shibuya for Halloween.”.

The police last week, when
the Huncheon Tigers, which

is based on Osaka, when
or if the baseball team wins,

what they’re saying is, “Please don’t jump
in the river that goes downtown, Osaka.”

So this is something that
happens whenever they win.

It’s sort of good
locker, it’s your addition.

You jump off the bridge into the river.

In 2003, there had been an 18-year
sort of losing streak for the team.

They broke that in one in 2003.

5,300 people jumped into the river.

They’ve put signs up on Bridges.

They have a larger police presence.

And then yesterday, it went into effect.

The Huncheon Tiger… oh wait, 2005.

That doesn’t matter.

And then yesterday
there was a baseball game.

September 15th, this Tigers fans jumped
into the river to celebrate their victory.

They did try to arrest
as many as they could.

So they had police presence on the bridge.

You couldn’t jump off the
bridge, but there’s still the canal.

People were jumping
off the side into the canal.

They arrested some escape,
but again, the police saying,

“Please don’t do this thing
you’ve been doing for years.”

That’s not going to work.

I don’t know.

I honestly, as an interested side party,
don’t know how you would fix this problem,

it is an interesting problem for police
to fix because you have this tradition.

It’s a bit dangerous.

People have died in the past.

What, how do we stop it?

Do we corn it off?

Do we have enough police?

You can’t put… We don’t have enough
police to like line the entire canal.

You can arrest people.

How many do you arrest?

When do you go too far?

When do you cross that line?

I have no answers for this.

I would have to honestly sit down
and see how many police they have.

How many people show up?

Is there… What kind of like
resources or finance do they have?

So they could actually put it to
implement some sort of defense.

I bet they just sheer
volume of people who

are idiots overwhelmed
the police every time.

Weirdo!

A 50-year-old man, Neat.

What is Neat stand for?

Yeah, let me actually just look that
up really quick before we continue.

Not in employment, education, or training.

So this is basically just another.

Neat is a phrase for unemployed people.

They’re not even training or
going to school or anything.

They are just not doing anything,
so they’re staying at home.

These aren’t shutters.

He-Komori is a different thing.

He-Komori is…

You have some sort of trauma.

You have an issue with society.

You stay shut in your room all the time.

These are these people who don’t work.

This dude is 50 years old.

He’s clearly being fully supported by
his father, who lives in the same house.

He was arrested for setting fire.

He was father’s clothing
and the building they

live in, which seems
like a really bad idea.

If you live in a building, it’s not a
good idea to burn down the building.

You live in if you can’t afford to
pay for living in a different building.

He started with the laundry.

And then the laundry fire that
he set expanded to the house.

He started spreading a
lot faster than he expected.

He panicked and then he put it out himself.

But then of course by that time, the police
had arrived, the fire trucks had arrived.

They arrested him and they
said, “Why did you set the fire?

You weirdo moron.”

He said he wasn’t happy with
the dinner his father had made.

So basically his father had made bad food.

He had been supporting
him in this completely

individual lifestyle where
he doesn’t have to work.

The food wasn’t good.

So he decided that the appropriate response
would be to set fire to the laundry.

Jesus Christ, dude.

You clearly don’t
understand your situation.

Weirdo perverts.

Weirdo perverts is the final
story of every new student.

I actually noticed I’m doing a
lot less weirdo pervert news.

And I realized it’s
because it’s repetitive.

Weirdo perverts don’t
tend to be that creative.

I have realized I’m doing
less and less news because

now it has to either
the interesting or

surprising so that I have
something to comment on.

Now we’ve done the same
like stole panties from a balcony,

stole a thousand pairs of
underwear, stole something.

I guess volume would still
get me interested, but at

the end of the day most
of the weirdo pervert news.

We’ve hit a saturation point
where most of it’s not interesting.

This one was kind of interesting though.

So it made the list.

I’m now very discerning in my
choice of weirdo pervert news.

A phone was found in a gutter.

It was face-stuffed and recording.

And this was a woman
who steps across the gutter.

There would be a few frames of film.

I guess we don’t call it film anymore.

I guess it’s still the phrase.

It’s the verb, two film.

A few frames of film would
catch an up-skirt photo.

Seems like not the best way to do that.

But I’m not going to give advice on people
on how to take better up-skirt photos.

A woman saw the device.

She called the police.

The police dug it out.

They weren’t able to unlock the phone.

So they started searching the area.

And they found a man in a ditch.

And they’re like, “Hmm, using
my incredible detective skills.”

I think we have found
a link because we have

a phone in a gutter
and a man in a ditch.

There, while correlation is
not causation, it does seem

like there is a unnatural
link between these two cases.

And we should investigate that further.

This is good police work.

I think maybe I should start
narrating the way police think.

So they found a man in a ditch.

And they started to use some really,
really powerful investigative skills.

They walked up to the man and
they said, “What are you doing?”

The man in the ditch looked up at them and
said, “I was trying to look up her skirt.”.

Here, my incredible detective skills.

Find a secondary link.

One, in the interest in
ditches and low-dug places.

Second, in the desire to look up skirts.

So then they arrested the man
and they said, “Is this your phone?”

And I went, “It is.”

So my investigative instinct.

Now, why was not making assumptions?

Let’s be very clear.

Man, he really gave that up quick.

Yes, he gave that up so fast.

This was actually one of the bits that I
found most interesting about this story.

The police are like, “What are you doing?”

And he goes, “I’m committing a crime.”.

And it’s a crime immediately
linked to a previous crime.

So that’s actually two crimes he’s
been committing sort of at the same time.

You’ve got to give the man
some credit for efficiency.

He has doubled his crime
capacity and creepiness all in one go.

So I’m assuming he was
going to go back retrieve the

phone and then go home
and try to extract still images.

I don’t know how to campy good video.

I weirdly have realized that the
quality of the film is important to me.

So this wouldn’t do it for me as a pervert.

I need a higher quality perversions
to satisfy my perverted inclinations.

Anyways, he was arrested.

They were able to unlock the phone.

I was assuming they just took his, they
said, “Hey, can you unlock this phone?”

And he just stuck out his finger or
they were like, “Is this your phone?”

And he just went, “Yup.”

Because he is.

As Jade said, “Giving it up real quick.”.

Turns out he has a record he was arrested
for the exact same thing 10 years ago.

Not being in a ditch,
literally getting into the gutter

laying down so his face was
sticking up out of the gutter

so that when a woman walked
over he could look at her upper skirt.

I left 90s Aerosmott
quality behind the 90s.

Right?

I’m wearing 4K now.

If it’s known 4K, I don’t want to see it.

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