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Dangerous Doctors

(upbeat music) So it is 2025.

We have a new year, a new song.

Thank you to Jesse, Jayce Thomas
who made that new theme song for me.

This is an original theme song.

This is something that
I’ve wanted for a while.

I’ve gone to a couple of, so
there’s a whole epic story behind it.

I think I did it in a
C-McB where I did a thing

for work and I got a guy
to make a rap song for me.

I’ll Fiverr and then I wanted, oh, I
want a new theme song for C-McB.

Because I don’t want to find out that
that music is being used somewhere else.

Because it’s not really
than my song for my show.

So I had one for C-McB and
then for another whole year,

I was like, I kind of need
a song for an engineer’s

Japan, an engineer’s
Japan needs its own song.

I was gonna go on Fiverr
but then I realized like,

if I’m gonna give money
to someone I don’t know,

I should first give money
to someone I do know.

Jesse, Jesse Thomas, he’s done albums.

You can find out Spotify.

He’s done music for video games.

And now he’s done a theme
song for an engineer’s Japan.

Thank you, Jesse, for this amazing
new theme song for an engineer’s Japan.

Chef’s Kiss.

For those of you
listening to the only audio

version that sound
was the chef’s kiss me.

Don’t need to explain it.

I think you know what a chef’s kiss is.

Let’s get to the news.

(upbeat music)

So a new theme song, new transition beat.

Very happy about that as well.

This is an update to
C-McB episode 109 murder

in Japan three, how
to raise a murderer.

So I was thinking because I’ve
done this, I did an experiment.

I did some very serious,
dark, true crime murder

stories on C-McB
experiment to do I say it well.

Can I tell the story well?

Can I be sensitive enough to it?

And ’cause I mean, the whole
C-McB and engineer’s Japan vibe

is me talking and it’s often
very light and very flippant.

These are heavy topics.

I don’t want to treat them too casually.

But at the same time, I do
want to make them entertaining.

So I did three episodes of C-McB

just doing murder stories in
Japan, feeling at how I do it.

So I actually think that
last one I might release

this week as a bonus
and engineer’s Japan.

But if you want to know what’s going on,

C-McB is essentially where
I’m going to be experimenting

with different formats and
different things and different ideas.

Just random stuff.

And then the engineer’s Japan has a format,

but I think now I’ve gotten
comfortable with the idea

of how to present a
very serious murder story.

When the engineer’s Japan started,

I had to rule no murder ’cause
I can’t really make fun of it.

But there’s an update to the story.

So later this week, I will
release the full episode

from C-McB explaining the
whole case as it is up to now.

This is the story of a woman
who tracked down a guy,

brought him to a love
hotel and decapitated him.

And now the mother and father are
being arrested for aiding this crime.

The father has bled not guilty in his
role in his daughter’s beheading of a man.

So full episode C-McB episode 109.

But when you listen to
that episode, you’ll have a full

understanding of how
complicit he is in this crime.

He bought the saw, the saw
that was used in the beheading.

He bought the suitcase
that the body was put in.

He drove her to the place
to help stalk the victim.

So the murderer and the victim
knew each other in this case.

But she was hunting for him.

She was looking for him.

She’s like, let’s go to this club.

Let’s go to this place.

I know he hangs out here.

The father was the one driving her around.

He drove her from the crime scene home.

He also helped by simulating the murder.

So she tied him up, BDSM style.

She covered his eyes with
a blindfold and stuff like that.

And then she practiced the
action of slitting his throat.

She practiced the action of stabbing him.

She would say, how does this feel like?

How do you feel now?

She did her research by
watching horror movies.

So she watched something in a horror movie

and then she wanted
to try it out real life.

Sort of a dry run with her father.

Her father was complicit in this.

He helped her practice.

He helped her essentially train for this.

He helped her get to and from the crime.

He is about as complicit as someone gets.

He’s claiming he’s not guilty because
he didn’t actually know what was going on.

So I’ll be interested to see
why he did not do anything

directly connected to the
actual physical action in the crime.

He did everything leading up to it.

And he did everything helping cover it up.

So I’m really interested
to see, where does the

Japanese court system
land on this kind of story?

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The Prime Minister, Prime Minister Ishiba.

He is apparently a heavy smoker.

I didn’t know any of this.

I don’t look into the prime ministers.

I don’t actually take a great deal
of interest in the prime ministers.

Much like the Japanese populace at large,
he’s finding being prime minister difficult

because he doesn’t have
time to take breaks to smoke.

So he admits that he only
gets several cigarettes a day.

He actually didn’t admit this.

I guess it was sort of his assistance.

And the people who work
with him, they’re saying

like, this dude was like
a couple packs a day.

He’s down to only a few cigarettes a day.

In a weird way, actually good for you.

But I’m sure that’s
because of the added stress

of being prime minister means
you don’t get these breaks

and those breaks might
be what he needs to survive.

He told Parliament
he will need a little time

to quit smoking, which
I found very interesting

because he’s saying to the
government that I essentially

promised to you the
government that I will quit smoking.

But is that something that
the prime minister has to do?

I remember Obama was a
smoker and he had to hide it

from everybody and it was
like a really shameful thing.

I was like, but as long
as he’s just smoking,

which is perfectly illegal,
what is the actual problem?

I guess they want to see the president
as someone who doesn’t do anything bad,

which of course we all
know was very unrealistic.

Once the prime minister of
Japan said that if he had to choose

between drinking and smoking,
he would definitely quit drinking.

So between drinking and
smoking, he would choose

smoking every time because
he loves smoking so much.

His wife is a non-smoker, so
in the prime minister’s house,

there is no smoking and in every government
building, smoking has been banned.

So this is a guy who has
to, during his prime ministerial

duties, find a corner
where he’s allowed to smoke

and then take a quick puff
and then head back to work

and he’s finding that really difficult
and is really causing a strain on him.

And I actually think
if that’s your biggest

problem being prime
minister isn’t that hard.

So a guy woke up and he’s
like, “I want to have a good day.

” So I’m going to hang out on my balcony,
which I actually think is really nice.

Japanese balconies don’t get used enough.

Japanese balconies tend to be
used primarily for hanging laundry,

which is too bad because I
have a balcony outside my house.

And if we put some table
on the chairs out there,

it’d be very nice to spend
sort of spring autumn evenings.

This guy had sort of a similar feeling
to mine only that I would go out there,

or maybe have a
cocktail, maybe drink

something, maybe just
read, maybe have some tea.

Who knows?

I’m just going to relax.

That’s what it’s all about.

This guy decided to add a little more
stress into his and other people’s lives.

He might be claiming that
this was to reduce his stress.

That is a pretty common defense
for negative actions in Japan.

But he decided that
the best thing he could

do was to hang out his
second story balcony.

And then when someone
walked by, throw a knife at him.

The knife landed four to five meters in
front of the man, who he threw the knife at.

So the victim, so
nothing actually happened.

But the victim stood there.

Basically, you’re walking down the street

and then a knife comes
flying from a building in lands.

Four to five meters in
front of you, so first of all,

we’re all very lucky that this guy
was not like a movie ninja kind of thing

where he’s throwing and
actually hitting anything.

He threw it, missed
about his belly as good.

He was technically anticipating,

’cause you know when you’re
trying to shoot something,

you don’t shoot at them, you shoot in
front of them so where they’re going to be.

He overcompensated and threw too far.

So that you’re walking
down the street one day.

And then just a knife
sort of clangs in front

of you about four
meters in front of you.

What do you do?

Well, you look up and you see the balcony

where the guy’s standing,
probably looking back at you.

And I just think of the awkward
moment where you sort of lock eyes.

And he’s like, the question, the unsaid
question “Did you just throw a knife at me?

” And that guy’s eyes are saying,
“Yeah, I just threw a knife at you.

” Kind of sorry I missed.

I don’t know how I feel right now.

And so the man pulls out his cell phone
very slowly and dials the police and says,

“Hey, I have just been a
victim of attempted murder,

“very clumsy, very lame, attempted murder,
“but attempted murder just the same.

” So the police show
up and arrest this guy.

He hasn’t said why he has done this yet.

I’m going to go ahead and bet
that he didn’t have a reason.

He just gave in to his darker instincts.

He just let those intrusive
thoughts sort of come

through and through
the knife without thinking.

(upbeat music)

Japan has 2,820 homeless people.

The Ministry of Health and Welfare
has done a survey, which is interim.

So my first feeling was 2,820 homeless
people in the entire country of Japan.

They didn’t actually survey Ishikawa

because they had suffered
from the earthquakes and stuff.

So they were like, we can’t honestly
don’t, we don’t know if these are people

who don’t have homes or their homes
have been destroyed and something.

So it didn’t really, it
wasn’t really applicable.

But overall, Japan has about
less than 3,000 homeless people,

which seems like a
very little small number,

but this sure is, let me get on my little
soapbox and be a pundit for a minute.

You know, this is like
social welfare, health care.

All these things are taken
care of people with, honestly,

maybe not a lot of
money, have found a way to

survive and not be
homeless at the same time.

That’s actually a very good thing.

It sort of like speaks
to these social programs.

Anyways, the Ministry of
Health and Welfare did a survey.

40% of the 2,820 homeless people surveyed

said they were satisfied with
their current living conditions.

Part of the survey was
where these people are staying.

So 25.2% live in city parks.

So they’re city parks, they set
up a tent or something like that.

They do a little sort of thing, village.

I should have looked at this one
more carefully from my language.

25.2% live in city parks.

So they usually set up tents
or coverings in city parks.

And they’re almost in a little community.

23.8% live along the side of roads.

So I’m not, I’m assuming not in
ditches, but maybe under bridges

and stuff like that where they
have a certain amount of cover.

22.6% prick them.

22.6% live along rivers.

So very similar to living alongside roads.

Maybe they live close to
bridges or under bridges

to get some cover and then
set up some kind of shelter.

6.2% live around train stations.

Which has got to be a lot
harder because you’re not really

allowed to to loiter or stay
around train stations at night.

So that might be where the
police sort of push you along.

You have to move along.

That’s why that number is a lot lower.

But basically city parks
and along major thoroughfares

are where almost all the
homeless people in Japan live.

34.4% of the homeless
people in Japan are 70 or older.

So these are people who
have hit retirement age

for whatever reason do
not have a home to live in.

But 40% of those people are saying they’re
satisfied with their living conditions.

Like the tent I live
in under this bridge

along this river, I’m
actually fine with that.

Which was a little shocking
because you think about it.

But then also you’re living your life.

There’s been a couple
of video games and stuff

where they do like
talk to homeless people.

I guess that’s not real.

They’re just talking about
like the freedom they have.

They’re outside the system.

Yeah, I don’t know
what to think about that.

That’s actually the biggest
issue because I’m looking at this

from someone who has never
actually interacted with these people.

So my opinions of what’s
going on there is based on media

and that’s an unreliable
source of information.

So I shouldn’t make any judgments.

This is a good way to think about
things for the rest of your life.

Is should I make this judgment or not?

No, I don’t actually have
any accurate information.

The rest of the information, we got 2,575.

So that is almost all of them are men.

172 are women and 73 of
them were gender indeterminate.

Primarily because they were
wearing like winter coverings,

like so much clothes that there was, it
wasn’t obvious to tell what their gender was.

It’s not that they wouldn’t reveal it.

It’s just the, I guess the
person didn’t want to ask,

are you a man or a woman
or how do you identify?

Well, Saka had the
most homeless people at

856 Tokyo with second,
which is a big surprise

because there’s a massive amount of
the population of Japan lives in Tokyo.

So you would think a
massive amount of the

population of homeless
people also live in Tokyo.

That’s not the case.

They only have 624.

17.5% said they wanted to
find a job and get an apartment.

And 12% said they wanted
to find an apartment

and use welfare and then
find some kind of light work

to sustain themselves for
the rest of their life in Japan.

It was interesting that
40% of the homeless people

in Japan surveyed, which
was apparently a majority

of the homeless people in Japan were still
satisfied with their living conditions.

I would love to know
why they were satisfied.

Like what was it about their life?

This story is broken my brain.

I would like to talk to some of the
people and find out why how their life is.

‘Cause maybe that’s the bit I’m actually
missing is maybe they’re living okay.

Maybe they have minimal
means or minimal desires.

And that’s why it’s okay.

Whereas I don’t live that life.

I have to have a PlayStation.

(upbeat music)

A 58 year old doctor.

We have a couple of doctor stories.

A 58 year old doctor.

It seems in these late 50s is when
the doctors really lose their shit.

A 58 year old doctor
missed a call for a flight.

So you wanted to get a
flight from one city to another.

It was called like please board now.

He missed it.

He walks up to the front.

He says it was never called,
which is a very doctor thing to say.

Like not I missed the call.

Is there any way he can get on board
or get on the next flight or something?

He claims he was never called.

So he goes to the front desk where
he was supposed to catch his flight.

He starts berating the
person working there.

So the ground staff that’s
actually working there.

Of course has no control over
whether or not he heard it or showed up.

You know it was called ’cause it’s probably
an automated system for part of it.

And then it’s like, hey,
last call, get on the airplane.

He slaps the staff twice
completely unhinged.

Like why you think slapping
someone a service person

is going to be in any way
beneficial to your situation.

He probably said like
get me on another plane.

They’re like, we can’t do that right now.

(whooshing)

Didn’t get exactly what
I wanted right away.

I’m a 58 year old man.

Do what I say or you get slapped.

He was, therefore, immediately arrested.

(upbeat music)

A 59 year old doctor.

So this is my point.

So I always talk about
like every now and then

the themes come through,
the themes come through.

It’s not intentional on my part.

Like I start looking for 50 year
old doctor slapping people’s stories.

It’s just like suddenly in
my feed of news stories

that I collect, there are multiple
doctors and the word slap come up.

And I’m like, oh, well, I’m
going to stick those together

and see if there’s like a trend
over the next couple of weeks.

59 year old doctor was on the train.

So he’s standing on the train and there’s a
man seated around him who was coughing.

So he dealt with it.

And of course, you know,
doctors take the Hippocratic oath.

I will do no harm.

He wants to deal with it.

He’s thought like back to
like all my bedside manner

and I became a doctor because
I care so deeply for humanity.

He took that and through
all that out the window

and said, if you
cough again, I’ll kill you.

And to just put it like an exclamation
point on that, he pulled out an ice pick.

The man he was threatening.

So he said like if you cough one more time,

I’ll kill you and point
it a nice pick at him.

The man he was threatening through sitting
down was a member of the Japanese military

at self defense force who then
in that in quotes detained him.

So I’m assuming just grabbed the ice pick

and then threw him to the ground,
held him until the police arrived

and then said, this dude just pulled
an ice pick out, threatened to kill me.

Please deal with that.

The man, the doctor.

So they get highly
educated person who has, you

know, we tend to esteem
doctors as being smart.

But the more I see about
the way doctors behave,

at least in Japan, I think a lot of
them, they might be good doctors.

So that doesn’t mean they actually
understand the rest of the world.

The God complex maybe
comes into play here like, I can do

whatever I want, but you
can’t go threaten military dudes

and then expect to just like
walk away with no problems.

No claim that he was
hurt, but he was detained.

So again, this is an athletic person
who’s in the military versus a doctor

who probably walks around and
tells people to do stuff all the time.

Police arrived, he was arrested.

He admits to taking out the
ice pick, but to nothing else.

So he’s saying, yes, I was on the train.

No, I did not tell the
man to stop coughing.

No, did I did not threaten to murder him.

I just took out my ice pick
to admire it for a little while.

As you do, when you’re
on the train, you’re bored.

You have time.

You take out your ice pick, you admire
the sharp edge, the long sort of shaft.

You sort of stroke a little bit.

This is what people do on the train.

That was about to get way worse.

I’ll just stop right there.

So I think he’s actually
undermined his own argument

by the very fact that he admitted
that, hey, he has been carrying

an ice pick with him, because
who carries an ice pick with him?

Doctors certainly not.

If he had a syringe or
a scalpel in his pocket,

while that would still be
a little weird and shaky

and like, he could say, oh,
yes, I had this scalpel at work.

I put a cover on it or
something, and I just put it

into my pocket and then
forgot it was in my pocket.

Still probably not
believable, but far more likely

than I’m a doctor at a
hospital or I’m a doctor at home,

and I put an ice pick in my
pocket just to hang out and be cool.

And then I got in the train and while I
was on the train, I was just like bored.

So I was like, hmm, let’s take a look
at the ice pick that I’m carrying with me.

Obviously, he did threaten this guy.

He did threaten him with the ice pick.

I think if you don’t say anything, let’s
take away the verbal threat of murder.

If you and I were standing
on a train and I took out

the ice pick and I just
like held it or pointed

out you, that is
inherently threatening.

So I think his, even his counter
argument that he didn’t say anything,

still the underlying feeling
there is guy was coughing.

You were clearly annoyed.

You took out a nice pick.

There is an unspoken threat, and
that is what he should be arrested for

because it’s exactly the
same as saying it out loud.

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54 year old man.

How were 50 year old?

I’m 52.

And I’m like, again, I’ve said this before.

We went through a whole
summer of 50 plus year

old man doing the
weirdest sexual crimes ever.

Now it’s 50 year old
man just being unhinged.

Like that’s the, we seem
to have shifted from, it’s a

sex thing to just like, I’m
an angry, violent old man.

This guy wasn’t angry
or violent, but he still was

expressing those tendencies
is how I feel about it.

54 year old man had a hobby.

That’s a good thing for a 50 year old man.

You’re only a few more
years before you go bananas.

I’m looking forward to saying it.

Also true.

I mean, this is, this is now my concern.

I’m now conscious of my behavior.

Is my behavior going
to just like click off I go?

Now I’m like, is it a weird sex crime?

I’m assuming I would lean towards violence.

Having practiced judo my whole life.

Violence would be my more natural tendency.

I’m wondering when and
where it’s gonna happen.

The train is a hide stress situation.

It’s always when you’re in your worst mood.

You get on the train, but it’s
also like when you’re happy.

So you are on the train for your peaks
and troughs, your valleys, not troughs.

But like you know what I mean?

Like if you’re in your worst
moment, you probably still have

to get on the train and go home
and then someone annoys you.

I can see that happening.

But I so far my hobby is in
sitting this room and make content,

and which is the movie reviews
and podcasts and stuff like that.

It’s very hard for me to
hurt someone else from here.

And I think that might be the key to me not
getting arrested between now and sort of,

these guys all seem to be,
it seems to be in their 50s.

So it seems like past
60, it happens a lot less.

So if I can get through
the next eight to 10 years

in this room, basically never leaving,
I think I’m not gonna get arrested.

But let’s get on to our 54 year old man.

He has a hobby.

I have a hobby and that takes up my timing.

It means I don’t get into
trouble with other things.

This guy chose the wrong hobby.

I think that’s what we’re
really gonna learn from this.

My hobby is make content
people don’t like the content.

Maybe people do like the content.

That’s fine.

No one gets hurt either way.

He likes building things he
likes working with his hands.

Very admirable.

I think it’s really cool when
someone can build something

from scratch and he’s decided,
“Well, I’m technically skilled.

“I know how to make things.

“I’m going to make weapons
that are illegal in Japan.

” And that’s the first problem.

He was arrested because
he had a fully functional pen

that shot a gun that was
lethal to a human being.

So it had enough capacity or
power that you could shoot the

pen at a person and it would
most likely kill that person.

The police got an anonymous tip.

And as I said in our last episode, if
you’re gonna do illegal weird bad things,

you have to keep the
people around you happy.

So you can’t be off putting
in weird and unpleasant

if you’re going to commit
crimes or do bad things.

Because the anonymous tips are the ones

that are getting these
people in trouble lately.

These anonymous tips to
government lines or the police and

stuff are the ones that are
getting these guys arrested.

So this guy, I don’t know.

He had been making
these things for a while.

We will see in a minute because
of the volume of stuff he had.

No one said anything.

So he must have pissed
someone off at some point.

And that person
decided to call the police

anonymous tip and then
they show up at his house.

And they’re like, “Hey,
do you have a gun pen?

” He’s like, “Sure I do.

” And he holds it up
and shows it to him.

I don’t know if that’s how it happened.

They didn’t actually
say how he was arrested.

He actually had a YouTube channel where
he was showing off the things he’d made.

Like the anti-tank gun he built himself.

No, it’s a bit of his exaggeration.

It is a replica of a World
War II anti-tank gun.

It has a big shield and a big cannon.

It actually has wheels and it’s like
connects to, has like a trailer hitch.

So it connects to a truck or
something else to get it around.

It looks exactly like a miniature
version of an anti-tank thing,

but when I say miniature, I
mean like a one to four scale.

So it would go up to
like my shins or my hip.

That’s what it’s very hard to see
’cause I’m just watching on video.

But he was using an indoor and
he was shooting Rubik’s Cube.

So it was essentially a really
big, powerful, compressed air gun.

But if you put something sharp in there,

you have a gun that could kill a human
being, which is, again, illegal in Japan.

So he had his YouTube channel
where he’s showing this off,

shooting a stack of Rubik’s Cubes, which
doesn’t seem very threatening until again,

you take those extra steps to what could
he do if he modified this even further.

The police come in search of his house.

They find his workshop
where he has 90 other firearms.

Now, most of these look like guns,
but I’m assuming they’re actually air guns

’cause he said 16 of these weapons
violate the firearm control law.

So he’s probably got things that look
like real guns that are not real guns.

They’re like air guns or they
make noise or something like that.

He’s got other things he’s
made himself or he’s taken the

air guns and modified them
so they shoot actual stuff.

Maybe not just pellets
or something like that.

But because he was
making these things himself,

he’s also in violation of the
weapon manufacturing law.

  • Oh, one, don’t do crime.

Rule two, don’t talk about
our failure self doing a crime.

Rule three, don’t post about
said crimes on the internet.

Fully agree with.

Your dude did break all three.

The problem is these guys do this.

They think, ah, wouldn’t it be cool for
everyone to see the gun I made at home?

I’m gonna film it and put it on
YouTube and be really popular.

And then someone’s gonna say, it
actually could have been someone

who didn’t know him, who
wasn’t annoyed with him.

We just saw, here’s a Japanese
dude making a cannon at home.

I think this is wrong and called a police.

But again, don’t film it.

When we went through the hole, it
was like all the harassment streamers

and they were filming themselves
and then they all got arrested.

That was always like, dude, if you weren’t,

like if you’re harassing people, that’s
bad, but filming it and putting it online,

that’s just guaranteed
you’re gonna get arrested.

But because he was building these,

he’s also in violation of the
weapon manufacturing law,

which I’m actually betting is more
serious than just having like, possessing,

is bad, manufacturing is worse.

This is like trafficking drugs is bad,
producing and trafficking drugs is worse.

When he was arrested,
he said, I should have

thrown it away if I had
known this would happen.

Which I guess all I can say is correct.

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Lost my Beer Money

(upbeat music) Yoshi Zawaj Yo.

It was a famous Japanese guy.

I’ll be really honest.

I don’t know who he is.

I had to look him up.

Just because I don’t keep
track of famous people generally.

So he was in common ride
or Gintama, bleach, kingdom.

A lot of movies, dramas,
but the real money in

Japanese media, if you
are famous, is in advertising.

So you can get on TV.

You won’t make that much more.

You can get movies, you
won’t make that much money.

They don’t put as much money into
TV and movies as they do in advertising.

You can watch shows and the ads just have
a higher quality editing video quality.

It’s just everything about it’s just better
than the actual show you’re watching.

And it’s not an unusual experience.

You get used to it pretty quick.

One of the things people notice when
they come is there’s a lot of panel shows

where it’s people sit down and there’s
a topic and they talk about the topic

and then they have a
conversation and there’s a comedian

and they say funny stuff and
there’s these famous people

and they say maybe just serious
stuff or maybe they’re funny who knows.

Why are there so many of those shows?

Well, they’re very cheap to produce.

You can sit down with that group of people,

film for two hours, change
their clothes, film for

two hours, change their
clothes, film for two hours.

That’s like six episodes in one day.

You could do the same thing
over the course of a week

and film an entire season of
people just doing chat shows.

That is why those shows are popular.

The other very popular show that foreigners

when they come to Japan are very
shocked by is the amount of eating on TV.

The irony for any sensible
media consumer is the

knowledge very quickly that
they can’t say the foods bad.

So if you are on a Japanese
TV show, you’re gonna go into

a ramen restaurant with
someone else, probably comedian.

I sit down and you’re gonna order
the ramen, especially and you’re like,

“Oh, this is the most
amazing ramen I’ve ever seen.

” “Oh, it smells so
good than you idiot.

” “Ah, this is the best.

” And they freak
out every single time.

It’s not a problem, it’s just
as a foreigner, as a Westerner.

It gets very boring and
very repetitive, very quickly.

So I stopped watching a lot of Japanese TV

because I don’t need to see
someone eat ramen and say it’s good.

I would like to see someone
eat some ramen and go,

“This is fine, this is
mediocre, this is not very good.

” That’s not what
the show is doing.

It’s really just a filmed chat
show in a different environment.

So that’s kind of Japanese media.

So if you wanna make money
in Japanese media, pop culture,

whatever, you have to
do ads, beer, ads, car ads,

insurance ads, whatever,
ads are where the money is.

So this guy, Yoshizawa Ryo, he got drunk.

Yeah, it happens, people get drunk.

I get drunk on occasion.

I’m very much a day drinker now.

Like, I don’t drink at night.

And I realize I enjoy drinking
in early day, not morning.

It’s a bit risky, I think.

I tend to be a lunch
drinker and then in the

afternoon, if I can feel
like a headache coming out,

I was like, “Oh, I’ll
just drink some water.

” And then I don’t wake
up with hangovers anymore.

And I realized this is a
much more sensible decision,

which is the kind of thing
you do when you’re old.

Make sensible decisions
even for your drinking periods.

But you should try it.

Like, next thing you’re
like, “I’m gonna get ripped.

” Get ripped in the
mid early afternoon.

Eat lunch and get ripped while
eating lunch and then do your thing.

And then as you start to come down, you
be like, “I’m just gonna drink some water.

” And you’re not pounding water
to try to get rid of the headache.

And then you get to a nice sleep.

I guess I shouldn’t be
recommending day drink.

You shouldn’t be
recommending drinking in

general, but at the same
time, you’re gonna drink.

It was this guy, obviously, did
not have the same self-control I do,

or that I have just recommended
from an interview with Japan.

On December 30th, he went into the
wrong apartment and the dorm was unlocked.

It’s funny that a lot of people
started to come to his defense.

Like, well, the door was unlocked.

How is he to know that
it was not his apartment?

He just like was he drunk?

He went into an apartment.

He laid down and go, “Slee,
we shouldn’t punish him for that.

” I’m like, “Mm.

” The fact that the
door was unlocked

is not made that this was
now an accessible apartment.

Does not mean it was okay to just
go in and like make yourself at home.

If I leave my door unlocked and you come
into my house, there’s a beaten happening.

I don’t know if it’s gonna be you or me,

but I’m gonna do my best
to make sure it’s on you.

I have been told that perhaps I
leave the door open on purpose

and the hopes that someone
will intrude into my house

so I get to fight them so that I can test
my skills and that may or may not be true.

I actually think I just
don’t think about it

because I don’t mind if we have to
go there at some point in the future.

I don’t know what this
conversation just happened.

Riosi Zawa gets drunk, goes into
the wrong apartment, gets in trouble.

Fair.

He loses his advertising deal with Asahi.

The makers of Asahi, he’s super dry.

I think he had a special drink he was doing
with them, like a certain drink campaign.

Who cares?

It’s just all shit beer.

Beer companies make beer
and then they make light

beer and then they
make beer adjacent drinks.

That’s the big push right now
for beer companies is things

that are not beer that could take
the beer space that used to be.

They’re not gonna be successful.

Beer has an image that goes with it.

I’m not a big beer fan, but
that’s, again, I’m not judging

people who do drink beer,
although I absolutely do judge them.

They are looking for the thing.

So this was supposed
to be one of the methods

is they get this guy,
he’s a fairly popular actor.

I don’t know what their base, they were
demographic they were trying to appeal to.

I also don’t care.

You can’t have your
beer ironically associated

with someone who gets in
trouble while they’re drunk.

I think that’s the
whole irony of this story,

is that this alcoholic beverage
is being represented by

clearly a fan of alcohol, by
clearly a user of their product.

Now, I actually generally, if I know
someone who advertises something

as an actual user of that product,
their opinion would go a little further.

If they came up and they
were advertising a phone

or a car or something and
I knew they had that phone,

I knew they had that car be like,
well, they believe in that product.

And introduced a pen,
doesn’t really do any

advertising, ’cause I don’t
have that moral dilemma,

but I’m pretty sure I would
sell out almost instantly.

My morals are very shaky when
it comes to the need for money.

And I think that’s actually
true of most people.

So if, but I actually,
this is not an opportunity

that’s gonna come
my way anytime soon.

But if I actually was
gonna advertise something,

I’d wanna use it
and if I didn’t like it,

I think the tone of the
ad might get that through.

So that would be something.

I consider the people listening
to News, Japan to be like,

they have a more subtle
understanding of media consumption.

And they would get the message that
I really use this product versus I don’t.

Like I think someone
goes, I really use this.

That’s actually like, do you?

Or are you just saying that?

Because you really don’t use it,
but you need people to believe you do.

Anyways, irrelevant.

So he’s lost his beer money.

I don’t know if this has gone so
far he’s gonna lose his other money.

We have another guy, one of the
guys from SMAP, just gotten trouble.

It turns out he paid 90 million
yen to a woman to solve troubles.

No one’s gone so far as to
say what the troubles are.

I’m sure that’s gonna
come out in the next week.

So that’ll probably be
in next week’s episode.

But it’s one of those
things where people are like,

okay, this guy’s losing
all his shows is that okay.

And it’s like, well, the fact that he,

perhaps, again, we don’t
know what actually happened,

but it’s bad enough that
he felt it was acceptable

to pay 90 million yen
to keep this woman quiet.

Is it okay for someone
who’s famous just to do

bad things and then pay
money and then stay on TV?

And this is a real moral quandary
because the companies he’s famous,

a lot of people around
him are getting paid.

Do those people deserve to lose their job?

No, they can get other jobs for whatever.

This guy has enough money.

If he’s been sensible with his money,
he has way more than 90 million yen.

That’s nothing to him.

There is a question
coming as to how much

this guy loses and
therefore deserves to lose.

It’ll be one of the
conversations sort of Japanese

entertainment news over
the next couple of weeks.

I know he’s going to be removed from shows.

The question is, is he going
to be removed from shows

for a couple of weeks, a
month, years or forever?

That’s actually the way it goes.

There was this story.

Are you getting a lot of
reminiscing of old Japanese stories?

Becky was very famous.

She was on every TV show for a little while

and then she just disappeared
and I didn’t know why.

And it turns out that she
had been having an affair

with a very famous
guitarist who was married.

So she was the mistress.

The guy, so this is two
people, did the exact same thing.

He cheated on his wife.

You could even say that Becky was
more innocent because she wasn’t married

and you could maybe pretend
she knew, she knew he was married.

But she was the other woman.

She lost everything.

She lost all of her shows.

She lost all of her contracts.

She couldn’t do anything anymore.

She was just gone that week.

The guitarist, gone for
about two, three weeks

and then came back
as if nothing happened.

And that was one of those things that sort
of tells you a lot about Japanese culture

and society and the patriarchy and all that
stuff is still alive and well and going.

I think it is changing, but
it’s a very slow process.

I think if she was punished that much,
she should have been punished that much.

I just think the punishment should have
been equally distributed and it wasn’t.

And that was, even again, with
my own personal biases, I was unfair.

I never liked her so I don’t miss her.

Asi had to put out a
statement and they said,

“The Yoshizawa Ryo
incident isn’t a fact

as an alcohol company
of which we can approve.

” If this guy who’s representing
our alcoholic product

is going to get drunk and then
walking to other people’s houses

and then something sooner
or later something worse

is gonna happen, we can’t
have that reflecting back on us

so we’re gonna cut ties with him,
which is a very understandable position.

I do still part of my brain goes,
but I know he was an avid user.

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There’s a new lot.

We’ve spent this year, 2024.

The last part of 2024
talking about host clubs a lot.

There were rules changes,
other laws that were

crackdowns, there were
things, a lot of people,

a lot of stories about people
getting involved with hosts.

Dee Dee Cha, the whole deal.

She made millions of the
yen off ripping off people

and scamming and stuff
and she gave it all to a host

so she didn’t even make
any money off that in the end.

Okay, so this is a huge
problem in Japan and there’s

been under, in the CD
underbelly of Japan as a culture.

Well, now it’s starting
to catch up with them

because what happens is
the host gets you into debt.

And they say, if you wanna get out of debt,

you have to do this like
essentially adult services.

If you wanna get out of
debt, we’re gonna make

a movie, we’re gonna
sell you to other people.

They’re basically doing
their best to get these

women into debt so they
can then abuse them more.

So now there’s a new
law targeting specifically

host and host as
clubs, host clubs mainly.

Businesses suspected of engaging in romance
trade could be shut down completely.

Romance trade is now the term
that they’re going to be using

for I get into, I’m a host and
we start to form a relationship

or professional one as
the host and the customer.

And then I trick you
into falling in love with me

and I try to exploit you with dangling
the idea that you could be my girlfriend

or we could have a relationship
or something like that.

That is now going to be
classified as a scam or a crime.

It hasn’t actually been classified yet,

but it could get the entire
establishment shut down.

So it means all the
other host lose their jobs.

All the management, they lose their jobs.

They get shut down for that.

A criminal penalty will be attached to
this for coercing customers into sex.

This doesn’t mean sex with the host.

It will be into like any sort of sex work.

So this could be pornography.

This could be selling them to people.

Anything like that, any
sort of sex work will be at

least six months in prison
and one million yen fine.

Now that actually doesn’t sound like much,

but again, this is supposed
to be the first step

in a deterrent and it should
stop it from happening.

But then they’re also
talking about shutting down

the establishment a whole
bunch of people will lose their jobs.

This might make them more cautious,

or at least give the police more
ammunition to go after them.

A 55 year old civil servant was fired.

That’s not an unusual story.

What did he do?

Well, let me tell you.

He left his shift to go to
the gym and like that’s bad.

You shouldn’t leave your working
hours, you shift your job to go to the gym.

I think we can all agree with that.

I mean, you go on your lunch break.

It’s your breaks.

You’re not really at work anymore.

So obviously he was
leaving during work hours.

An anonymous call was made
that this was happening regularly.

So they had found out
he kind of did it once.

There was a phone call.

The anonymous call is
coming up fairly regularly.

Let’s not often, but it happens at
regular intervals where we get these like,

this person was reported
by an anonymous phone

call and then the
company or in this case,

the government did an investigation
and found out some awful thing.

Like it’s always been like, the last
one I remember was this teacher

was working at a soap club or
this employee in the government

has a second job that
is a little bit suspect.

So they get an anonymous phone call,
which made me realize a long time ago.

Like if you’re going to work
one job and they do something

else that would inhibit that
first job, so any sort of sex work

or any sort of ripping
people off or anything,

you have to keep the people
around you really happy.

You can’t piss them off because
they’re going to rat you out

because they have this anonymous
system where they can call in

and just get you in
trouble, get you reported.

You have to keep everyone around you happy
somehow to make sure this doesn’t happen.

Because to me, the anonymous
phone call actually means

one of his coworkers who
either has to pick up his slack

and then it gets pissed
off and gets the guy fired.

Or one of his coworkers like
need something or need some help

in this guy just like disappears
for a couple hours a day.

Then he doesn’t, then
he has to do more work.

He’s burdened by that.

You have to make sure that
guy stays happy somehow.

Or he notices you’re screwing off and then
he doesn’t really care for a long time.

So he doesn’t report you,
but then you piss him off,

you say something rude or
you’re condescending or something.

Then he reports you that is
always going to screw you over.

So if you’re going to, this is maybe my,
I need advice to criminal jingle, I think.

This is not really crime, but my,

the Ninja New Japan advice segment,
maybe I need to create something for that.

If you’re going to do
anything, even a little suspect,

you have to be very polite, very kind
and very helpful to the people around you.

And that might be
counterintuitive to the whole fact

that you’re scamming or committing
a crime or doing something untoward.

But it’s important because that anonymous
phone call could be your downfall.

As it was in this case
for this 55 year old men

and a 55 year old dude getting
fired from the government,

it’d be very hard for
him to get another job

because he’s got another
decade before retirement

age and he’s like
pension and stuff kicks in.

So he’s got to find other work,
which is going to be very difficult.

The investigation went back to 2021 to 2024

and they found he went 633
times to the gym in 800 days.

So my first image is like,
this guy must be huge.

Like he must be like, he
gets up, goes to the gym,

goes to work, goes to the gym, goes to work,
goes home, goes to the gym, goes to bed.

Like his whole life is the gym.

He must be super jack, 55 year old dude,

must be in great shape or
maybe he’s like a marathon

runner, he’s on the treadmill,
going, no, he spent a majority

of that time soaking in
the bath or stretching.

So they have on the
sands, they have bath tubs.

He went, he would stretch,
he would get in the bath

and that’s how he would
spend his hour at the gym.

So he wasn’t even working out in
my concept of version or working out.

I know stretching can
be considered a workout.

Yoga is very good for
you, that kind of thing.

He wasn’t even doing that.

He was maybe doing a
little of that 10, 15 minutes

then getting in the bath for the rest
of the time, then going back to work.

I’m sure at work he was a very relaxed man
or because he wasn’t in the bath relaxing,

he was actually really pissy at work, which
is how the anonymous phone call happened.

They calculated this
was 633 times in 800 days.

So that’s giving you a sense
he was going almost every day

to the gym and not to work
out to just sit in the bath.

So he wanted to sit in the
bath in the gym every day.

He said because he had numbness in
his arm and it really helped with his arm.

I bet you could get a
doctor’s note of some

sort to get some sort of
accommodation for that.

If it was true, I don’t know if it’s true.

I don’t want to make
aspiration cast aspersions

towards this man because
I don’t know enough.

I only got the information
from the article.

But they calculated to
658 hours and 36 minutes.

So he was going about an
hour every time he was going.

He’s gotten fired, it’s not like a crime.

So he’s not going to
get charged with anything

but the company could
sue him for the lost wages.

So he has to pay back 1.8
million yen for the hours he was

being paid while at the
gym soaking in a bath.

His statement at the end was, I overdid it.

I regret it talking again
about doing too much.

A 21 year old woman was arrested for
making 670 calls to the fire department.

Now the last few times we’ve
had this, it was the person was

lonely or wanted to talk or
didn’t feel anything or was bored.

They tended to be older people.

So older people, they got this
time, they don’t know what to do.

So they start calling emergency services
to get attention or something like that.

This woman, she had a different reason.

She would call up and say, you’re noisy.

If you come again, I’ll kill you.

I’ll crush the ambulance.

I don’t know how big or strong
this 21 year old Japanese woman was

I’m going to go ahead and bet
she couldn’t crush an ambulance.

Sometimes she would make silent calls.

She would just call up and
just stay silent on the phone.

But this inhibits the
ability for other people

to actually make phone
calls to the fire station

or emergency services to get
the help they might actually meet.

So she’s obstructing business.

She sometimes made up to 50 calls a day.

It’s not hard.

They can trace phone calls.

So I mean, it’s not a hard thing to do.

I actually thought like when
the calls became an a nuisance,

like when she started calling, I
was like, how the fire department

guy should have gone, OK,
tell us where your house is

and we’ll make sure to turn
off the siren when we go by.

And then if she goes, oh, that’s good.

She’ll tell you her address.

And then you actually know where she is.

So you can just call the police.

It is awful that they had to
wait till it got to like 670 calls

before they actually could
get something actually done.

I’m wondering if that’s
because her calls were

too short or they
weren’t able to trace it.

I don’t know enough
about actually tracing calls.

So that’s actually maybe the first issue.

But it sounds like it’s actually
slightly harder than it is on the TV.

Final story for today.

I’m actually doing this a little early
because today’s a national holiday.

And I have to work tomorrow to
make and I’ll make that day up later.

But that later won’t be Tuesday.

So I won’t get an episode
in Engineers Japan out.

And I know you are desperate
for your Japanese news.

And just to hear my voice
for the few people who I know

listen to this when they
go to sleep, you know, I’m

trying to keep an even
tone and not get too excited.

But just so you get that sound in your
ears when you go to bed, my appreciate you.

This is an update.

We had this story.

I actually may have done
this on a Seamick B though.

So I actually have to check which episode.

If you want to go back and
get the all the details, I’m pretty

sure it was a Seamick B.
This was a very serious story.

There was a group of girls who beat
up and abused and bullied another girl.

And then they got to the point
where they got her on a bridge

and they pushed her off
the bridge and killed her.

This case was being investigated.

Now it’s a murder.

It’s a homicide.

But it wasn’t being
investigated by the homicide

department, which
is already suspicious.

And it turns out the cop
investigating the murder was

involved with one of
the girls involved in this

group who was doing the
bullying and the murder.

The girl, she’s already on trial.

This police officer has lost his job.

This is just a really short update
as to what happened to him.

He was having a relationship
with the suspect in a murder

investigation and the case was
investigated by not the homicide

department, which is
already to me like he’s pulling

strings to try to get her
out of the investigation.

So she doesn’t give, he’s
essentially trying to cover up a murder.

The cops that parted
with her, so basically she

worked at a bar and all
these cops went to this bar.

They’re saying she was
actually a confidential informant.

She was like a CI.

She was giving them information.

And this cop who was working
with her got too close to her.

And I was like, that sounds like a bunch
of cops trying to cover for another cop.

But he was found out
because one of the cops

in this group actually
reported his behavior.

So there were some
good cops out there being

like, dude, I think this
guy’s going too far.

And then when the murder investigation
comes up, it’s like holy crap.

Now you’ve gone way too far.

I need to report this.

The police officer was
married with children.

So that just adds another
layer of Iq to this whole story.

They’re saying she was a CI.

They got too close.

They were working together.

And then he sort of, but
the fact that a lot of these

police were involved in making
sure this didn’t get to the

right department to the
homicide department that this

wasn’t investigated properly
shows that there is sort of a

level of corruption that was
going on in the department, which

I actually think that would be
the next step of investigation

because all those other cops are
going to be like, take a step back

and be like, well, now that he’s been
caught, we had nothing to do with it.

And they’re all just saying,
oh, she was a CI and stuff.

I don’t believe any of that.

I believe they were covering
for that guy they work with.

The thing is he hasn’t been
prosecuted for anything.

So there’s no, it has he committed a crime.

That’s actually the
question that I’m left with.

So he’s been fired.

He’s no longer a police officer.

But he was part of a cover up.

Maybe he interfered with an investigation.

Absolutely.

But is that provable?

So that becomes a whole
other set of questions.

Again, we don’t have
the information for this.

But it does seem like
this cop interfered with an

investigation has a crime
occurred or has he just

made some bad choices
ended up losing his job?

We don’t know.

It would have been better if you went to
the gym and just spent his time in the back.

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November 1st, Dog Bay.

International Dog Day?

I don’t know.

It’s Dog Day in Japan.

I didn’t do my research.

I didn’t do my research on this because
Dog Day would be one of those days

that I do not consider
a significant in any way.

This is coming from
someone who has forgotten

their own birthday more
than was in their life.

So days don’t mean much to me.

I like special days.

They’re not special,
just every day is special.

Every day with you.

Anyways, November 1st is
Dog Day to celebrate this.

A small town decided we’re
going to make a dog, Mayor.

So a golden retriever
was made mayor for a day.

A five-year-old public relations dog.

A five-year-old public to really, mmm, mmm.

This is why I could never do actual news.

I couldn’t actually get
through it without stumbling.

A five-year-old public, a
five-year-old public relations dog.

A five-year-old public relations dog.

For a conside guide dogs
was made mayor of Kenayoka.

There was an awards ceremony.

They took the dog
around sort of the city hall.

They took some pictures.

But what they did not take
into account was the air-bud rule

because if it’s not in the
rule books, then it can be done.

We’ve learned this from
the entire air-budiverse

where we have the air-bud
series itself, where he plays

basketball, football, several
other sports that I don’t recall.

There is an extended universe of
movies where it’s like air-bud puppies.

So we know that it can be done because
we have seen it done by dogs many times.

This dog then declared
himself mayor in perpetuity

so that no one could ever
take the position after him.

This dog then seceded that city from Japan

and it is now an independent
nation ruled by dogs.

The new prime minister in Japan is Shiba.

He is getting some flak.

He hasn’t really done anything yet.

He hasn’t had a chance to
really mess up anything politically,

but he now is being
scrutinized and watched.

And that in itself is kind of a problem

because what’s happening now is people
are noticing he has really bad manners.

He’s a very rude man and he’s very crass.

Not in any sort of the way he speaks or
anything vocalized, but just his general.

Okay, the first one, every
Japanese politician’s an old dude.

Fine, they’re old.

It means they fall asleep though.

And they fell asleep
while they were discussing

whether or not he would
become prime minister.

He seems to have fallen asleep.

He said in that instance, he was
because of cold medicine he’d taken.

It made him very sleepy.

Then he went to the Apex
summit and instead of standing

to greet other world leaders,
he just sat in his chair.

The world leaders came over to him.

He, we shook their hand, but he didn’t stand
up which would be considered be polite.

These are other world leaders.

These are other very important people.

He was sitting there with like,

he’s the important guy
everyone has to come over to him.

He was doing this something very
similar who was watching a dance.

Now these are performances.

It might not be your thing.

Like I get that.

He was sitting with his arm
cross looking very displeased

looking very bored at this like dance
performance for, you know, world leaders.

Where you do have to fake interest.

You have to feign pretend that you actually
care about the thing you’re watching.

These cultural events.

Like I would be exhausted by that part.

The actual politics part
maybe I could handle,

but they’re like, hey, go smile
and shake hands and put on a show.

That would be the bit that
would be exhausting for me.

So I think I understand
where this guy’s coming from.

The problem is, as prime
minister it is part of your job,

you have to pretend to be
interested in the cultural event,

the dance, whatever you’re seeing,
whatever’s being presented to you,

just to show sort of
your thankful for the effort

that’s gone into it
more than anything else.

The last one though is probably
the most unforgivable one.

He took an onigiri for the listeners
who don’t know, is a rice ball.

They’re usually triangular
shaped, but it’s called a rice ball.

I am a six foot man
with a fairly large mouth.

And for me, a rice ball is three bites.

Now those are pretty big bites, but it’s
not with like difficulty that I’m eating.

Now bite it to swallow, bite to
swallow, bite to swallow, bite to swallow.

That would be a whole onigiri.

Mr. Ishiba, he undid
the plastic from an onigiri

and then shove the
whole thing in his mouth.

And then so his lips
protruded as he tried to hold

the whole onigiri in his
mouth, as he was chewing,

making enough space in
the inner part of his mouth

to then sort of pull in
the rice from the front part

of his face, making him look like he was
a camel chewing or something like that.

And a lot of people found it really gross.

Probably because it is.

So I think the interesting part going forward
is, is our new Prime Minister in Japan

going to make good political decisions
that overshadow his craft nature

or is his craft nature going to
overshadow his political decisions?

Yes, Kuni Shrine was graffitied.

I think we actually
reported this last time.

They were looking for
a young man who did it.

They’ve put out an arrest warrant.

So this is pretty serious
’cause they’re now

actively looking for the
guy, but it’s pretty clear

that he’s actually
already left the country.

So I think the reasoning
for this is that they put out

the arrest warrant so that
he can’t come back to Japan

because if you enter
Japan on your passport,

you’ll get flagged as
having an active arrest

warrant and then they’ll
arrest you right there.

So really, I don’t think they’re looking
for him the way the article sort of implies.

I think what’s actually
happening is like he’s gone,

we’ll just make sure he doesn’t come back,
then we don’t have that problem anymore.

It was kind of similar with
the Johnny Somali thing

where they arrested him, they held
him, they got him out of the country.

It’s now a travel ban, he’s
not allowed back in the country.

So they don’t actually
have to deal with him

and his problems that
come with him ever again.

The reason that I found this
interesting is I learned two things.

One, they referred to the
youth as in his tens, not teens.

So that would imply he’s
either 10, 11, or 12 years old.

He’d come to Japan
on a trip with his mother.

His mother would take
him out of the country.

So there’s a big question of
whether the mother actually knows

that her child went and
did this graffiti on this.

Again, very politically
controversial, internationally

site, but it is still
a religious site.

So is it acceptable to vandalize that?

Is it an acceptable way to
express your political views?

I actually think this
might just be a copycat.

I think he saw the internet stuff that
the guy who came before, Iron Dong,

and he wrote toilet on it
and he wrote some stuff on it.

And then he escaped.

I think this kid probably
saw the same things like,

I’m gonna do that ’cause
that guy’s on the internet,

he’s cool and therefore
again, being in his tens,

he thinks I should do
the cool thing as well.

So I actually think this is more of a
copycat crime than a crime in itself.

I don’t know if that lowers
or increases the damage done.

There’s an interesting thing.

Like, if I’m doing a copycat, is it like
a lower level of responsibility or more?

Like, I’ve seen it, I’ve seen the
results so I know exactly what I’m doing,

or is it I’m being influenced by someone
negative and that has changed how I behave.

Do I take more or less
responsibility for the action?

You would be an
interesting topic to examine.

What he wrote was toilet, which is
again, why I think this is a copycat.

Writing the same word as
the person previous to you

shows that you knew what
the previous person wrote

which shows that you were
sort of invested in this story.

But also wrote SB.

This is the other bit I found that
was interesting, so something I learned.

In Chinese internet slang, SB means stupid.

So he wrote toilet and stupid, very much
like a 10, 11, 12 year old thing to write.

This is damaging property,
disrespecting a place of worship.

He posted pictures of himself with
the already graffitied wall behind him,

thus making him more
clearly culpable for the

actions, making him
more apparently guilty.

But it is already known
he’s left your pants.

So I think really the
arrest warrant was put out

just so that this kid
and his family probably

wouldn’t be allowed back
in Japan in the future.

A 56 year old woman was arrested
for stealing 74 million yen in cash

from her 84 year old
boyfriend’s second house.

There are so many things going
on in that just initial sentence.

That’s the initial statement
as to what’s actually happening.

56 and 84, it’d be interesting to
see if that look a real relationship.

But I think if you’re
stealing from your boyfriend

and you’re not with your
boyfriend because you love him,

I think you’re with your
boyfriend because he has money.

If he has 74 million
yen in cash in his second

house, that’s a due
to has a lot of money.

I think it was last week I kind of
broke down a little bit because I’m poor.

Compared to some of
the numbers we talk about

and these people are
just wasting money.

It was like an investment
scheme thing and I’m like,

if she had just given
me some of that money,

my life would be changed
forever versus she’s

just throwing that
money away on a scam.

I do have another thing,
it’s the classic of why

are Japanese people still
keeping cash in the house.

Like you don’t get
any interest in the bank,

but at least it’s the money’s
there and it’s insured.

You’re not gonna really lose the money.

There’s something going on there
that I would like to understand better.

Why are they so averse
to keeping cash in the bank?

Why do they keep so
much cash in their houses?

‘Cause your house burns down,
you don’t get that money back.

That money’s, I don’t
think it’s insured properly.

I don’t know if you’d be able
to prove that you had that much

cash in your house if there
was an incident in your house.

She broke into the house at least twice,

but it sounds like it was
1231 day and 1pm the next day.

So breaking in in the afternoon, I makes it
sound like she had a key, but she didn’t.

She actually had to break a window.

So she was actually full on
breaking into his second house.

A security camera outside
of the house got her on,

breaking into the house
so they know it was her.

When she was arrested, she
said, I stole some money, but

I didn’t steal that much,
which would be very interesting.

‘Cause what if this gentleman knows
his girlfriend is stealing from him?

So he sets it up so that he can catch her.

And then when he catches her and he says,

she stole way, way more money than she
actually stole to kind of screw her back.

‘Cause she might actually have to
pay back that money in the future.

It would certainly increase
the punishment she would get

if it was 74 million yen
versus 1 million yen.

The man found a broken window and told
police, she knew where the money was kept.

After the robbery, she
bought a house with cash.

So I think that shows just how
much money she actually stole.

So she says, I stole money,
but I didn’t steal 74 million yen,

but she stole enough
money that she was perfectly

comfortable going and
buying a house in cash.

I don’t know how much a
house goes for in Japan.

I actually have a house, but
I’ve had a mortgage for so long.

I forget what our initial payment was
and I forget how much we’re paying overall.

To be honest, I pay my
monthly mortgage payment.

I got about six more years on that.

And then I actually own a
house, again, 74 million yen,

a total change in my
whole lifestyle right there.

But it’s enough money to
go and purchase a house

and I assume have extra
money left over in cash.

4,472 people nationwide were arrested

for what is called dark
or black part-time jobs.

These are internet forums where you
go on and you basically apply for a job,

but the job is gonna be
doing something illegal.

It’s gonna be some sort of fraud,

it’s gonna be theft, it’s gonna be some
kind of crime, you’re gonna be involved in.

The idea is very interesting,

because Japan in the
past has been plagued by

organized crime, the acoustic
syndicates and whatnot.

But organized crime means it’s organized,

which means it’s easy to figure a lot of
stuff out, like you connect people together.

And then they have individual
crimes where I committed

a crime by myself and
therefore I’m getting punished

and there’s no one else we
really have to worry about.

These are disconnected
people coming together

to commit a crime and
then disconnecting again,

which means over three or four
crimes, I might have involvement in one,

someone else has
involvement with one or two,

but we’re not actually
connected in any real

way, so it’s very hard
to put us all together.

It actually makes investigating a
lot of these crimes more difficult.

Each person is assigned
a role for each crime,

there is no connection and
no solid MO for the crimes,

which again makes it more
difficult for police to trace.

We do have a breakdown of the
crimes that occurred last year.

1,515 were money fraud bank transfers.

That’s probably saggy, it’s
probably when they call you up

and say, oh my God, I’m in
trouble, please send me money

and then you try to get an
older person who like panics,

thinking like one of their
children or grandchildren

is in trouble and they send
money without thinking about it.

That’s a very common crime in Japan.

Or just trying to get people
to send you money again,

last week we were talking
about money fraud, scams

and crime investments,
fraud and things like that.

There’s a lot of money
transfer fraud going on there.

1,284 was just straight up fraud,

so that might be coming to
your house and lying to you,

but other ways of committing
fraud, not just directly

connected to transferring
money through the bank.

427 were arrested
for drugs, 398 for theft.

So there’s actually, kind
of look at these numbers

and as of course 1,400,
500, that’s a lot of people,

but then I look at other
countries and how many crimes

you can be like, that’s
actually not that many people.

Then we get into the
smaller, more interesting ones.

89 are arrests for immigration
law, so I don’t know if that

is like importing people or
helping people get around laws.

It’s very unclear.

I’m actually betting that’s
just over staying your visa.

Now that I think about it, that’s
probably the most common one in Japan.

76 were arrested for adult entertainment.

57 were arrested for extortion.

49 were arrested for gambling.

So gambling is very,
very legislated in Japan.

Casino is essentially illegal,
but they’re trying to find

ways around it or only do
it in certain places and stuff.

They see the possibility of having casinos,

but they’re very worried
about organized crime moving in,

but now if you have this
disorganized crime moving in,

that actually might end
being a bigger problem.

Because the police are
stuck in this situation

where what you do if
you have organized crime,

you arrest someone and you try to
work your way up the ladder making arrests.

In this, you can’t do that,
you can arrest someone.

He doesn’t know anyone up the ladder.

There is no ladder to work up.

So it’s causing police a lot of problems
and it seems like a growing issue in Japan.

They actually have
disorganized organized gangs

who move around and
then connect with each other

and then disconnect and
then go to another city and

then connect with other
people through these job sites.

That’s how they’re organizing
their criminal practices.

We actually talked about this,
but it didn’t have a name yet.

Or at least I didn’t know the name.

I’m sure it had a name already, but
it was called touchless harassment.

We talked about the guy.

It was an older man, 48-year-old man who
stood really close to a high school girl.

I think it was on a trainer
of bus and he sniffed her hair.

Now he’s invoking the, I didn’t
touch you as a, am I bugging you?

I didn’t touch you rule,
which is a universal, I think.

But clearly he’s causing
distress to another human.

That in itself is possibly a crime,
but therefore very difficult to define.

He didn’t touch anyone, he
didn’t actually do anything.

You could say I was
on a really crowded train.

I didn’t have a choice, I was just
breathing and I happened to smell her hair.

Maybe I took a deep sniff
because it smelled good.

Have I committed harassment?

Well, that’s again, we get into a difficult
issue of was it intentional or not.

There was an anonymous tip.

So someone else, not the high school girl,
actually called the police and said like,

this guy is on the train, he’s
on the bus, he sniffing girls hair.

It’s really gross, please tell him to stop.

The police stop him and give him a warning.

And I think for the same
sort of reasoning I’m using,

like we don’t actually
have anything we can prove.

He hasn’t touched anyone,
he hasn’t actually done

anything that we can
actually like call him out on.

But if we warn him and
he does it again, then it’s

intentional, then it’s
something we can arrest him for.

So they gave him a warning.

He was a repeat offender and he was
arrested and given a 400,000 yen fine.

When he was arrested, he said the smell
excites me more than physical contact.

He didn’t think it was a crime.

The problem there is that he
was issued a warning by the police.

So once the police come to you and say like,
hey, here’s something we’ve seen you do

or we know you are doing,
we want you to stop that

because it is a crime
if you continue to do it.

And then you do it again,
then you do know it’s a crime.

So that’s just a straight up
bullshit that he’s saying there.

But what are touchless harassment crimes?

So this is good to have some definitions.

This was the part that I
actually kind of was excited about.

Not in the same way he was.

It includes blowing on the
victim on their neck and ears.

I don’t like that they specified.

I think if you blow on a victim anywhere,

like if you had your hand out
and I just went on your hand,

I think that’s just as bad is
blowing on your neck or ears.

But I think maybe just neck
or ears are being specific

about what would be the most
common things that happen.

Sniffing the hair, as
we’ve seen, is now illegal.

Staring at someone too intently
could be considered harassment.

Sending inappropriate images via air drop.

So we’re on the train and I have a phone.

I’m sure Android has a similar system.

You do an air drop.

It’s a personal image of a phallic nature.

That is harassment.

I think that’s absolutely fair.

Whispering obscene
words into someone’s ear.

But that again, saying it’s obscene.

I think if I was just up close to
your ear and just whispering stuff,

even if it wasn’t necessarily obscene,
I would still call that harassment.

If I was like, hey, you
look really good today.

I think you look with, you know, you
have very lovely braid in your hair today.

Something like that, it’s
not necessarily obscene.

I think my voice is.

But the words themselves are not obscene.

So there’s no reason
to take that off the table.

It’s just as bad as blowing in the rear.

If blowing in your ear could
be considered a harassment,

then whispering in someone’s
ear, when they don’t want you to,

I think that should also be
harassment, regardless of what they say.

They did a survey of university students

and one in five women say they
have experienced touchless harassment.

But in most cases, because
there’s nothing they can really

prove because it’s touchless,
they don’t bother to report it.

So this is one of those crimes.

It’s probably very, very common,
but actually no one knows about it

because it doesn’t get
reported because they just

kind of suck it up and
move on, which is terrible.

The authorities recommend, if
something like this starts happening to you

that you start taking video, which is
very interesting ’cause a lot of places

are like, you can’t take
video, but this is probably

happening on the train,
which is a public place.

But there is a rule in Japan, you’re
not really allowed to video people

without their consent, but if he’s
committing a crime, you’re allowed to video.

So the authorities are
granting you the ability

to video someone who is in the process
of committing harassment towards you.

I think that’s a good thing
for women out there to know.

If you come to Japan and you
experience something like this,

the authorities have said
it is acceptable for you

to video that person so that you can
catch them later and get them in trouble.

In Hong Kong, police made 35 arrests
in an international prostitution ring,

which is very interesting
’cause you have Japan,

Singapore, and Macau all work
together to try to catch these prostitutes

who are going internationally
from country to country,

servicing fans, and I
say fans specifically,

because a lot of them were actual
AV stars, porn stars from Japan.

So these women, they get into the porn,
they stand, they gain a little popularity

and they can actually make
more money going overseas, going

to where fans are, and
prosecuting themselves to fans.

In 2018, a 19 year old,
Medu, began her porn

career in 2019, and she
won Best New AV Actress.

This prostitution ring
mainly focused on Japanese

AV stars and making
them available to fans.

It cost 150,000 Hong Kong dollars for
one session with one of these porn stars.

That is 3 million yen,
which with 3 million

yen, right now at the
exchange rate is $20,000.

That is $20,000 for one evening

with a former Japanese porn
star to satisfy your desires.

And then we get back into the money thing.

It’s not having like, I
don’t want to have sex with

a porn star, but man, I
would love to have $20,000.

I could just throw away.

It does bring up a very
interesting question

of how much would you pay
to have sex with that person?

So a famous one, let’s just not
worry about porn stars or whatever,

but to have sex with the
person of your dreams,

how much money would
you be willing to put forward

to do that would be a very interesting
question, ’cause I don’t have a lot of money.

And I don’t think I would
value a sexual event that much

that I’ll actually spend
that much money on it.

The group used telegram to communicate,
and last year they may have made,

so they haven’t confirmed
this, 400 million yen.

Ayaka Nishimura was also arrested.

She actually disappeared
from the AV scene back in 2022.

So she was a porn star, she
was a porn star until 2022.

She just stopped suddenly,
and then she seems to have

gotten involved in this
international prostitution ring.

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So since people are willing
to spend so much money,

now I wanna know, would
anyone spend any money there?

No, no one wants to spend any money to
have sex with somebody who posts a podcast.

And that’s just a given.

There is a company in France that ranks

a romantic and sexual
happiness in different countries.

So Japan is on this list.

They did 31 countries were surveyed.

They did an online survey of
24,269, nice people from 31 countries.

It’s weird it’s not number, ’cause
it’s supposed to be about partners.

So it should be an even
number, I just noticed that now.

Maybe one is broken up since then.

Ah, maybe they were
dating, and they only

interviewed one of the
partners, not the other one.

But that seems like a fair,
you should get both sides.

Japan ranked lowest in all 31 countries
surveyed, and basically everything.

It measures, are you satisfied with your
love life, your romance, your sex life?

Do you feel loved and are
you satisfied with your partner?

So when it came to sex, this was the one,
of course, I was the most interested in.

Are you satisfied with your sex life?

India and Mexico had
the highest ranking in 76%.

That are two cultures
would enjoy spicy food.

So I think I see something there.

That maybe introduced a
little more spice into my food.

Maybe introduced a little
more spice into my life.

Japan ranked at 37%.

Are you satisfied with
your partner or spouse?

Japan has moved up one place and
is now second last over South Korea.

South Koreans are now the least satisfied
with their partners in their love lives.

And yet Japan is producing
the most sought after porn

starts, but the people are willing to
spend $20,000 to spend an evening with.

A man broke into a woman’s apartment
40 times, looking for her underwear.

I don’t like the way they phrase
that because he found her underwear.

It sounded, when I read the article’s title,
it sounded like he was breaking in again

and looking for her
underwear and couldn’t find it.

She was hiding it somewhere
where it was like some kind

of really difficult to open
chest of drawers or something.

But he just broke in 40 times
and he would look at her underwear.

He didn’t actually steal it.

So maybe that’s what it is.

Looked at her underwear is maybe
the phrase they actually wanted to use.

A 55 year old man broke into his
subordinates home, a woman in her 30s.

What had happened is at work
he took the key from her bag.

He made a copy back in July
and then since July has gone

into her apartment 40 times
to look at her underwear.

He took photos of her underwear and he
installed many cameras around her home.

He was caught taking
videos that a game center,

which would imply that he was
taking images of younger people.

And then when the
police searched his phone,

they found the underwear
videos and pictures on his phone.

He admitted I did go into
her apartment because I liked

looking at her underwear but I
never planned to steal anything.

I had feelings for her.

But my man, if you had feelings
for her, you shouldn’t have

been stepping out to take
voyeuristic videos of other people.

So the fact that you’re in a game center,

taking these videos of
other people in the world

is that you don’t really
have feelings for her.

You’re not a loyal man.

You’re not dedicated to one cause.

You’re just out there throwing it around.

So I don’t even believe this loyalty
aspect you’re throwing out there.

I don’t think you have feelings for her.

I think you just have feelings for yourself

and those are the ones
you’re trying to satisfy.

And so that should be added
as an extra crime to the police.

Not only is he a creep
taking pictures of underwear,

not only is he a creep
taking obscure photos

wherever he was doing
in the game center, he is

also not loyal and that
should be a crime in itself.

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Sleepily Dangerous Podcast

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  • What was allergies last week, I believe,

has turned into a cold
and I’m just getting over it.

So, if this is your podcast
you listen to before,

you go to sleep, the voice
is gonna be a little lower,

a little less energy, a
little softer because I can’t

get too excited because
then my voice gives out on me.

But we’re almost close
to being healthy again,

which shouldn’t be
as hard as it is, I think.

But first story is an update.

The lady who is throwing
eggs at her neighbor’s house.

She was throwing eggs from
her window to her neighbor’s

window, smashing the eggs
on her neighbor’s house.

They were falling down
on all the gross stuff,

egg yolk and whatever
covering the house.

The eggs would sit out there and rot.

The thing that got me is
she was punishing herself

as much as her neighbor
because she has to smell it too.

She lives right next to the place
she’s creating all this mess and stink.

So, the original story, the neighbor,
who was the victim in this case said like,

I don’t know why this lady’s hook and
eggs in my house, she set up a camera.

She got video of her
sniping out her window, 360

Nova scope, out her
window and hitting the house.

She was doing like a carton
of eggs a day sometimes.

They said up to 80 over a couple of
months, but they know it was way more.

These are just the ones
they like have a record of.

The secondary thing, she’s paying for eggs,

eggs in Japan or not
the cheapest commodity.

If I was going to try to ruin
someone else’s property,

I wouldn’t do it with
something I have to pay for

consistently that I could
eat a high protein source.

I would find something
else that was way cheaper,

way messier and didn’t
negatively impact my life as well.

So, not someone who thinks through
the consequences of their actions.

I think that’s normal of a
lot of criminal enterprises,

but in this particular
case, it shows itself so well.

I really found it in an interesting case.

She has been sentenced to jail.

So, I thought it was going to be a fine,
maybe clean up fees, that kind of stuff.

They haven’t given us the exact
amount of prison time she’s been given.

It’s basically come to a conclusion.

They’re probably still trying
to figure out the details.

Does she have to pay money, clean up fees,

that kind of stuff, still
coming down the line.

But, conclusively, she is going to prison
for an indeterminate amount of time.

A very interesting
thing I would actually like

to know is what people,
so other than myself,

think would be an
appropriate amount of prison

time for how can eggs
eat your neighbor’s house.

Now, it’s not just like once
and then never do it again.

It’s like consistently over
months and months and months,

creating like an ecological
biohazard near her house.

One of the things that never came out was,

why she was doing this,
the victim again said,

I don’t know why she was
throwing eggs in my house.

We never really had
a picture of a close

relationship, but we never
had any sort of conflict.

The lady said that she threw the eggs
because of insults being hurled at her daily.

I’m pretty sure the victim
here, the lady who had

received the egg throwing,
wasn’t insulting her daily.

It actually seems like she was primarily
trying to not interact with her much at all.

Maybe that was the
insult that you didn’t come

and bend the knee to
me when you moved in,

or they’d lived together for
years and years and years.

And this was a very
sudden thing that started.

It seems like she just
had a bit of a mental break.

Probably saw something
that she thought was

insulting and just
interpreted it that way.

And then now considers it a daily
insult that it has not been rectified.

I don’t know, that’s all supposition,
but it pushed her over the edge

and she thought the only solution I have
is to throw eggs at my neighbor’s house

despite the fact that
it’s right next to my

house and I have to
suffer right along with her.

A French artist.

The self-proclaimed artist.

So this is an interesting thing.

The newspaper articles
have been very clear,

so I’ve read three or four
articles with the same story.

They all say self-proclaimed.

So he’s calling himself an artist.

When do you actually
adopt the title of artist?

It’s a very interesting question.

When do I call myself an artist?

And it’s just self-proclaimed when
does someone else call me an artist?

And then it’s sort of a title that sticks.

It’s like Esquire.

You’re not supposed to
give yourself the Esquire

title someone else is
supposed to give it to you.

I guess it would be very easy
for me to call myself a podcaster

because it doesn’t come with
any sort of sense of grandiosity.

It is just something people
do in their rooms alone

when they’re very lonely
and want to talk to people

and they don’t get a chance to
talk to people and they’re very sad.

Anyways, that’s not
actually the relevant part.

This guy, self-proclaimed French artist

was arrested for drawing
facial hair on campaign posters.

So this is an election season.

They have campaign posters up.

They do it in Japan.

It’s very organized.

They have like a big panel.

It’ll have numbers like 16
boxes and then you buy one of

those boxes and you put
your campaign poster up there.

We did have a controversy
in Tokyo a little while

ago where people were
putting up dirty posters.

People were buying it and saying like just
promoting their SNS and things like that.

That’s not really what this story is about

but it shows that like
these have become an

interesting target for
people to pay attention to.

This guy walked up.

It says facial hair.

So I’m assuming mustache,
goatee, maybe a beard, who knows.

I can honestly say I have
walked by and then had the

same urge where I’d be
like, oh, it would be funny.

I could draw some
funny things on that face.

But then I didn’t do it because I had
somewhere to go and I’d be better things to do.

This was destruction of property because
they pay for that poster to be up there.

They own that poster.

They own that space.

You vandalizing it, putting graffiti on it.

That’s destruction of property.

Police check security cameras
after they saw the goatee

or the mustache or whatever was drawn
on the poster and found them very easily.

That’s just what it comes down to.

He’s believed to have
defaced several other posters.

So this isn’t the first charge.

This is probably the
first of several charges

he’s going to get because
now they’re going to

check the other posters,
was he in the area?

Maybe does it match his artistic style?

There would be an interesting
thing to try to nail someone on.

You conclude that their art style is unique

and therefore we can then pin all these
other ones on you even if it’s not true.

And then is he happy that his art is being
recognized or does he end up suffering?

Because I didn’t actually draw those.

He can’t ascribe those to me.

Those are the same level of
art that I am creating when I

do graffiti, facial hair, like
a 12 year old on a poster.

So cycling in Japan.

We’ve had a lot of stories about
like updated road rules in Japan.

There was rules about
those riding suitcases.

And if you want to take them out, I
would say that essentially the airport,

you’re probably not even
supposed to ride them in the airport.

But if you want to ride
them, they have to be licensed.

You have to have a driver’s license.

They have this for anything electric, so
an electric bicycle, an electric scooter.

You’re actually supposed
to be licensed for that.

You have to wear a helmet, it has
to be like, all this has to be legal.

Japan’s just getting tired
of people getting drunk

and smashing stuff and they’ve
decided to get really strict on the rules.

Cyclists on their
smartphones are now looking

at six months in prison
in 100,000 yen fight.

So that six months in
prison for riding your bicycle

while looking at your
smartphone is pretty serious.

But I can honestly say
I’ve seen it happen a lot.

It’s mostly young people that I’ve seen.

That’s not to say that that’s correct.

Again, I live out in the countryside.

It’s generally very, very old people and
very, very young people live around me.

So the very, very young people are giving
me the ones riding on their smartphone.

The older, older people
probably not so much.

But that’s only where I live.

If you’re in Tokyo where
a lot of people commute,

and this actually like
really increased in 2020,

to 2023 when people were
worried about coronavirus

and didn’t want to
take the train so much

anymore, bicycle usage
increased significantly.

People spend time riding their
bicycle, weaving in and out of traffic,

and/or people while looking at
their smartphone, that’s problematic.

They’ve decided to make it a
criminal offense, six months in prison.

If you get drunk and ride your bicycle,

Japan is getting stricter and
stricter about people being drunk

because there’s a lot of
drunk people, a lot of the time.

You can get five years in prison and up to
500,000 yen fine if you cause an accident.

Oh, if you cause an accident, well drunk.

So that’s just if I ride my bicycle drunk,

I can get five years in
prison and a 500 yen fine.

If I am drunk and I cause an accident,
I can get another year on top of that

and 300,000 yen more fine on top
of the five years and 500,000 yen.

This is all because in 2023,
there were 72,000 bicycle accidents

and it’s already risen
higher than that in 2024.

2024 is not finished, but they’ve
already got more than that.

They’re like, this is
something we have to deal with.

We have something we have to take care of.

Hours after this law was passed,
two men both drunk ran into each other.

So both had an accident.

So both of them could be facing five
years in prison and a 500,000 yen fine.

And both of them could actually be facing

the extra one year and the extra 300,000
yen fine because you could technically say,

maybe they both caused the
accident because they were both drunk.

A 38 year old man is at a store.

That’s not that unusual.

And then he gets really, really upset.

And the reason he’s
upset, he starts shouting,

why didn’t you ask if I
needed a plastic bag?

Now, I actually think it’s quite normal
not to ask if people need a plastic bag now

because a lot of stores are actually banning
plastic bags for environmental reasons.

They’re not actually
handing out plastic bags.

If you want a plastic bag,
you have to ask for one.

That’s become the norm in a lot of places.

I don’t expect places to
offer me a bag anymore.

Like when I go to the convenience
store, when I go shopping

for groceries, I don’t
expect them to offer me bags.

If I want one, I have to ask.

This guy clearly has
not changed that mindset.

And he got really upset at the cashier.

Another man, just tries to step
and he’s like, hey, let me intervene.

Let me try to calm the situation down.

First guy gets really upset, pushes the man

and then gets behind him
and puts on a choke hold.

The man will take 10
days to heal from the injury.

So the choke hold.

We don’t know if it was the push or the
choke hold that actually caused the injuries

because let’s say he pushed him down
and he hit his arm or his leg or something.

That could have been an
injury that needs to heal.

10 days, it’s probably
just a really bad bruise.

But a choke hold, you could
actually bruise your esophagus.

It could be quite serious.

The amazing part, and this
shows sort of like the mindset

you have to get into when
talking about these stories.

The guy who did the choking,
who created the kerfuffle

in the beginning, he’s
the one who called

the police, claiming
that the victim hit him.

So he gets upset.

So this is again, the
mindset you have to be in.

He gets upset because
he wasn’t offered a bag.

A guy comes in and says like,
hey, maybe you need to chill out.

He pushes that guy,
hits that guy, knocks that

guy down, gets around,
chokes him from behind,

then calls the police and
says that guy attacked me.

And that’s something
that I think getting into

the mindset of the person
actually reveals a lot.

He feels perfectly justified
in attacking other people

and then blaming them thinking
he’s gonna get away with it.

This is an interesting
thing because I’m interested

to see how much
trouble he actually gets in.

It’s probably gonna
depend whether or not the

victim in this case
presses charges or whatnot.

But it’s kind of that Karen
mindset that’s taken over

the internet where people
like they just go and go and go

and then they call the police, expecting
the police to come back them up.

That seems to have now started in Japan

and I don’t wanna see
hundreds of these videos.

After we’ve gotten past
sort of all the videos of people

like YouTubers and streamers and
stuff, causing trouble to get video clout,

I’m really hoping that the
next step isn’t just people

taking on that whole internet Karen
mode and going crazy in Japan as well.

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Another 38-year-old man, two 38-year-old
men in two stories, that’s crazy.

He was a salesperson but not a salesperson
for the incident that we’re talking about.

He was pretending to be a
salesperson going house to house.

He visited an older couple and they’re
in their 80s and he gets into their house

because he’s a door-to-door salesman of
some sort or at least he’s pretending to be.

He gets in their house and he
finds a way to give them sleeping pills.

So I’m assuming they had tea together
and he got sleeping pills into their tea.

When they were drowsy, he stole 26
million yen in cash and a Boston bag.

I’ve had this conversation before.

Why do you have 26 million
yen in cash in your house?

Older people in Japan,
they still seem to hoard cash.

Why is it not in a safe?

Like if you’re gonna have
that much money around,

have a safe, put it
in the safe, lock it up.

They haven’t obviously in a box or something,
26 million yen, like I know the yen

isn’t the same value as the American
dollar, but it’s still like $20,000.

That’s $200,000.

26, what is it?

5 million yen is about 50,000 bucks.

So 20 million yen, yeah, that’s $200,000.

Why do you have 2,000?

See, this is it, like the math
is sort of boggling to me.

Why would you just keep
that much cash around?

Like you don’t need that
much cash to buy anything.

You’re not gonna go buy a car with cash.

Regularly enough to keep it in your house,

put it in the bank, it’s
safe, it won’t go anywhere.

You’re not getting any interest on it.

Japanese bank’s interest rate is
really low, but you’re not gonna lose it.

You’re not gonna have a guy
coming to your house and just take it.

It’s not insured or anything, so that’s it.

The Boston Bank, I don’t
know enough about bags,

I’m assuming Boston
bags are very expensive.

The part where this
really goes over the top

is when he left, so the
older couple is drowsy,

they’re sleeping, he’s
taking the money, he’s taking

the Boston Bank, and then
he sets the house on fire.

A neighbor noticed the fire
and called the fire department

other neighbors went into the house and
woke up the older couple and got them out.

So then no one actually
died, no one actually got hurt.

There was some lung, some
smoke inhalation, the son of

the parents got, and he had
to go to a hospital check out,

but he’s okay as far as I can
tell from the articles I’ve read.

I guess when you take the money,
the older couple, when they wake up,

we’re gonna know who you are, and
that is it, you have to have no witnesses.

And then the money would have
technically burnt up in the fire,

but yeah, this is just, now
this is a double attempted

murder theft and some sort of
fraud and calling going on with it.

This guy is in a heap of trouble.

When you get in a taxi, and the driver,

so let’s say you just
had dinner, you call a taxi,

and you get in the taxi,
and then as the taxi goes,

the driver looks back and he
says, you know, you look sick.

Here are some pills, do you take them?

My answer is no, I am
not going to take any sort

of medicine from someone
who is driving in a taxi,

not because I have anything
against like sort of the

capacity of a taxi driver to
diagnose my illness, but I just

don’t know who you are, because
you’re a random taxi driver.

What has happened is a young
girl came out of a restaurant,

got in a taxi, and then the
taxi driver, while he was driving,

looked back and said, you
look sick, here’s some medicine,

take the medicine, she
took the medicine, she

took the pills, and
they were sleeping pills.

So this is the second case of sleeping pills
being used in one week that we know of.

Four and a half hours later,
she’s found a sleep in a parking lot.

The urine tests, she
was staying in the hospital,

they did a urine test, they
found the drugs in her system.

So they know that she was drugged,
they try to trace back her steps,

they know she was in a taxi,
they find the security cameras

from the area, find the
taxi, they find the taxi,

it has an SD card in it with
the cameras, that’s gone.

So they think the taxi driver,
of course, is trying to, you know,

hide any evidence of him doing
any sort of any wrong doing,

but it was quite easy to find
him once they had sort of the

basic evidence of where she
began, where she ended up,

but they know where she was,
they know where she got in the taxi,

and they know what
was going on in that area,

they could check security
footage, they found the taxi driver.

They have had several reports of
people who have lost their memories

after taking a taxi,
which is very concerning.

So there’s our good piece
of advice, final piece of advice.

I want to make a little short
one today just because again,

I’m not feeling great, I
don’t have the energy

to keep going for hours
and hours and hours.

I wanted to do some more
stories today to be honest,

but hopefully we’ll get a longer one
next week when I’m feeling better.

The Ninja Ninja is Japan,
final piece of advice,

from Chunkman Beef Chest,
your host, to you, the listener,

or the viewer, or
however you’re seeing this.

Hey, I love you.

Just put that out there,
make sure you remember that.

There is someone in the
world who does care about you.

And be, don’t take
drugs from a taxi driver.

(upbeat music)

(upbeat music)

See, as soon as I start
streaming, if you, yep, okay.

He’s moving around.

Let’s see what Dave
does before we get started.

(upbeat music) Yep.

Whoa, what was that?

Just trying to, trying to
storm down some space there.

My concern is once I start,
he’s going to start complaining.

Singing up, and then
I’ll take you out again.

Dave, it’s okay.

Yeah, relax.

It’s weirdly hot in my room.

Okay, there you go.

Let me get some nice Dave,
ooh, stretch his leg out, sexy.

All right, let’s get started.

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Punchy People

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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That might be the
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And thank you for listening.
Thank you for giving me your time.

And if you listen to this one, you’re
going to sleep. It’s creepy, creepy time.

Mental Gymnastics

(upbeat music)

So I think it’s maybe getting
time for a new theme song.

So I just decided to try out
one of these AI generator things.

Just to see if it was any good.

So my prompt was news
intro, drums, and trumpets.

‘Cause you know, pretty much every new
show starts with like bam, bam, bam, bam.

(humming)

There you go, I should do it in my mouth.

Why am I, why am I getting AI?

When I have the natural
instrument of my body.

It was horrible.

Like every song was absolutely atrocious.

I had to do about eight
or 10, and not one of them

sounded even close to
what I would call music.

So musicians, you’re safe for
the next little while, at least.

I mean, I bet AI could at
this point generate the script

for this show, although almost
impossible because I don’t script it.

But you know what I mean?

If you fed all the ninja
news Japan’s from the past

into AI, it could
generate, if you take the,

I must be able to take
the news, take my style

of speaking and put it
together, clone my voice.

The podcast is automated now.

I don’t actually have to do anything.

But the theme song, you’re safe.

I’m still thinking about what to do.

I wanna pay people to do
it, but I don’t have money.

Like I’m not rich.

This is an update on a
story from previous week.

So we had our two gentlemen who
decided to graffiti Yes, Kuni Shrine.

I’ve talked about why.

Yes, Kuni Shrine is a controversial place
for people from primarily China in Korea.

We’ve talked about graffiti.

Is it bad?

And overall, basically, yes.

This guy, he sprayed, what did he spray?

It was dog poop, actually
could go back into my old notes.

I should’ve checked.

He sprayed what I would consider like
grade two level thoughts onto the shrine.

He was a little more honest about it.

The first guy was like,
this is a political statement.

The second guy’s like, I don’t like this.

I actually kind of
appreciate the honesty there.

He escaped back to China.

And so in my report, last time I was
like, he’s not going to get arrested.

No, he’s going to happen to him.

Chinese police do not care if
you’ve committed a crime in Japan.

You can read into that a
bunch of different ways,

but at the end of the day,
it is a fundamental truth.

But he did get arrested.

So I said he wasn’t going to get
arrested, but then he did get arrested.

But the reason he got arrested
for a different crime, of course.

So there is sort of a karmic
version of justice happening here.

He committed a crime
and he is being punished.

He has committed two crimes.

He’s being punished for one.

Does that count for both?

I think the criminal justice
system in China is pretty harsh.

So I’m going to go ahead and say yes.

The graffiti in Japan,
honestly, graffiti, how bad is it?

I don’t think you should graffiti
vandalize things, whatever.

But in the end of the day, how
many people are I still getting hurt?

You got to clean it up.

I would basically make the criminal
clean up the thing they graffiti.

That’s a pretty fair punishment.

He was arrested on suspicion of extortion.

He was threatening people involved
in online streams for shopping.

So China is very popular to have shopping
streams where you bring products out.

You talk about them.

You move it on people can buy that product.

And he apparently was trying
to intimidate these people

into getting them to put
money into a bank account.

So just essentially just
extorting them for money.

While I, of course, would judge
someone for graffitiing something.

I couldn’t understand the
politics behind graffitiing.

That’s a coony shrine.

I really can’t.

I wouldn’t do it, but I can understand it.

But when you get into extortion, it’s pretty
clear you’re just a bad person anyways.

And so there is not a lot
of a redemption arc here.

And I’m sure that Chinese justice
system is absolutely going to bury you.

So good luck to him.

A Japan Postman, I say
Postman because it’s a guy.

So I’m not trying to be sexist biased or
use my sort of older misogynistic style.

I was speaking.

It’s an actual Postman.

But also could be Postboy
because this Postman

was a teenager and I was like, wow, I
never thought about the age of Post people.

It’s kind of a neat thing.

But because I never thought about it
because in my image, they’re just adults.

But I don’t want to insult
people, male carriers.

And skill wise, you need to be able
to deliver male to certain addresses.

That is about it.

I’m sure there’s more to it.

Again, I feel like I’ve
already insulted someone.

I’m sorry.

I think it’s valuable job.

I think it’s important.

Japan Post is dedicated.

I once did an online thing.

It was probably for t-shirts or something.

And because the website, I put my
name in Japanese and Chinese characters.

So in Kanji, on the form, it
showed up as question marks.

So the Chinese script
wasn’t on the server

side of the system they were
using the payment system.

I guess they were set up for
only English perfectly makes sense.

They still sent it out because I assumed
the whole system was just automated.

Two months later, this package shows up.

All it has is my name in English and the
postal address and they still got it to me.

So that level of
dedication made me really,

really appreciate Japan Post as
a group of very dedicated people.

But now we get this story
and it’s a team who is hired.

So already it’s like,
maybe that’s the

problem, but also I
don’t think it’s like teens

are inherently lazy or
not capable or anything.

I don’t look at young people that way.

I look at individuals.

So this individual, the fact that it is a
teen, I think, is what got it to the front

of the news because it’s sort of playing
into people’s presuppositions about youth.

A teen Japanese postperson
dumped 2,378 letters

and 449 parcels in
seven different locations.

So over the course
of mid-June to July, so

that’d be about six weeks, just
like I can’t deliver all this mail.

So I’m just going to take it here.

I’m going to dump it.

I’m going to take it over here and dump it.

I’m going to take it over here.

1049 parcels, though, okay.

You’re a mail person.

You’re supposed to deliver the mail.

You decide you’re not
going to deliver the mail.

You start dumping the mail.

You have the parcels.

If you’re going to commit, this is a crime.

I’m pretty sure this is a crime.

Just dumping the mail.

You have the parcels.

You might as well steal the parcels.

I know I every
regularly say I should not

give advice to criminals,
but then immediately

sorry giving advice
to criminals, but it’s

because I’m like the police officer
who gets into the criminal mindset.

I just want to be in their thought, but in
my head, I’m like, well, if you’re going to

throw it away, you might
as well profit from it.

There may be some
good stuff in the parcels.

Keep them.

You might as well even take
the mail home and open it.

Maybe someone sending
someone some money or something.

I’ve now realized that if
I became a postperson,

if I decided to just
start dumping stuff,

like I didn’t want to deliver the
mail, I didn’t want to do my job.

I would be like, well, let’s
take it home and I’ll go through

it and see if there’s anything
valuable that I could keep.

Less likely to get caught.

So the fact that he was dumping
it in seven locations outside.

So the report came in on July 31st.

Someone found mail
and parcels in between

house and a river, so
I didn’t write it down.

They found it, they
basically found one of

the places that the kid
was dumping the mail.

They called the post office and the police.

The post office talked to the
guy, he admitted to doing it.

He just said, I can’t
deliver all this mail.

You guys are crazy with all
the mail you expect me to deliver.

It’s too much.

Clearly should not have been a mail person.

So what they’ve done,
they didn’t arrest the kid.

I’m finding this the interesting part.

He’s not been arrested.

The post office is filing
for damages and that

means he’s going to have
to pay the equivalency

of whatever that all that stuff was
worth, so they have to work that out.

They found pretty much all
the mail could still be delivered.

There were three parcels
that were so damaged

probably because of rain or something
that they couldn’t read the address.

There’s three parcels
will not get delivered.

They’ve put the message out there.

If you are missing a parcel,
you can contact the post office.

Maybe they haven’t for you.

But at the end of the
day, it actually seems

like after 2,000 pieces
of mail go missing.

Someone should have
noticed a little sooner.

Japan, we’ve done a
lot of things about Japan.

Battening down the hatches.

There’s some good sailor talk
that I’ve learned from my father.

They get stricter.

Japan does not get
looser in its laws and rules.

They get stricter.

So what has happened?

Electric scooters became available.

They immediately started making
rules about electric scooters.

About a month ago, we did a story about
those little motorized suitcases you can sit

on and go through the –
supposed to be through

the airport, but some people
were riding them in the streets.

If you ride them in
the streets, they fall

under motorized vehicle
rules and you have to

have all these modifications to
make it legal to go on the streets.

Cycling, very common in Japan, you –
it’s a very convenient way to get around.

Because the trains are great,
but trains don’t go everywhere.

So if you take a train
somewhere, it’s often

more convenient to take a bicycle to your
final destination, not the movie franchise.

Why?

That didn’t even make sense.

Just as soon as I said final destination,
the movie comes into my head.

I have even watched those movies.

I know they’re all about like people
dying and they know they’re going to die.

I don’t care about that.

I don’t know.

I like horror movies.

I like movies.

I never cared about the
final destination series.

Maybe I should – maybe
I should be my – maybe

I’ve been overly judgmental
about something I haven’t seen.

So I gotta make some amends and
maybe actually go watch one of those.

There’s like six.

That’s a bad sign.

Anyways, cycling is very common.

So they have decided
to get a little stricter

with the rules for
riding your bicycle.

And it’s going to
be people riding their

bicycle drunk and people riding their
bicycle while looking at their phone.

So if you are cycling
while using your phone,

you can now get fees, fines,
not fees, fines and jail time.

If you are a repeat offender, you
have to go to bicycle safety school.

I go quite like that.

I bet it’s not very good.

I have the gold driver’s license

  • Japan has a tear system.

So if you have no reasons,
I don’t drive very much.

So I have never had accidents.

I’ve never had a ticket.

So I have gold.

My wife got one ticket.

She has blue.

It actually really bugs her that
I have gold and she has blue.

When I renew my license, I have to go in.

I think I have to just go in, change
it, maybe watch a 10-minute video.

But if you have blue, you’ve
got to watch the long video.

That’s literally punishment.

I love it so much because as I just
said, someone I know has to do it.

I don’t.

If you are a repeat offender,
you have to take a safety course.

I bet that course is miserable.

If you are found using
your phone on your

bicycle, it can be up to six months
in prison and a 10,000 yen fine.

If you found our
phone to be a threat to

pedestrians, so if you’re just riding
looking your phone, that’s a cry.

If you’re riding looking
at your phone and

you almost hit people, it can be
one year in prison and 300,000 yen.

So that’s a significant jump up.

So if you’re in danger in
other people, that’s a big deal.

If you’re drinking
and bicycling, it might

used to be, you’re not
allowed to drive drunk.

So riding your bicycle drunk
was therefore acceptable.

Now the only way acceptable to
travel while drunk would be walking.

It’s probably a good idea,
even that might be dangerous.

But if you’re drunk and you’re riding your
bicycle, it can be punished by up to three

years in prison and
half a million yen fine.

So they have decided that not
only are you going to be careful

on your bike, you’re going to
be sobering careful on your bike.

There are four options.

Okay.

So the story itself is
there is a reporter, a

lady reporter for
business sort of daily thing.

She was arrested for breaking stalker laws.

She texted a reporter
at another paper 64

times between August
17th and the 25th, which

I was like 64 sounds like a lot,
but that’s only eight texts a day.

That’s dedication.

I don’t know.

Eight texts.

I think if you and I had
a chat, it would be 50.

I guess it was just 64 initiating messages
where the guy didn’t really respond.

Anyway, like if it’s
on the session, 64 isn’t

it, but then if it’s 64 just you,
messages in a row, yeah, that’s a bit much.

That’s crazy.

Okay.

But that those 64
messages came after she

had been warned by the police not
to attempt to contact the man again.

So now you can see that 64 is way too many.

It is.

So the police show up and
they’re like, hey, don’t text this guy.

Okay, and all anymore.

And she’s like, okay,
well, just 64 more times.

The way she sent
messages, so this actually

implies to me because
the information was not

in the paper in the
news story, was not

overlined or a traditional
text messaging thing,

which would imply maybe
that he’s blocked around that.

She would send a message
via pay pay, the payment system.

She would send him
like one or two yet and

then the message she connected to it was
I want to see you or something like that.

So she sent 64 messages
through pay pay a payment system.

So for the American listeners
or whatever, it would be

like Google pay sending
it like a couple of pennies.

And then you can send why you sent
those pennies is like, I want to see you.

So she was actually paying
extra for each of those messages.

She’s pretty serious about it.

So her reason, so your job
is now to guess her reason for

continuing to send messages
after she had been blocked.

So I have four options.

One, I want to see you, but she
meant professionally, not personally.

B, it’s a payment app and
therefore they are not messages.

C, he didn’t block me, so like
he didn’t block me on pay pay.

So it must have been okay on pay pay.

Or D, it was for a story on stalking.

Man, so I don’t know how this story yet.

Good.

Because if you hear the
story, it kind of ruins the quiz.

This has been my biggest concern.

It hasn’t happened yet.

But my concern is I
start the quiz, get to

the quiz part and
they’re like, oh, but I’ve

heard this story and know the answer and
they haven’t like cut me off, in which case

I would have to abandon
the whole thing anyway.

But okay, you can ask
questions about the four options.

And again, the three that are not true, I
will try to make up real sounding answers.

Do you remember the options?

She basically got a restraining
order against this gun.

It was one step lower.

So the police warned
her that if you continue,

you’re going to be
breaking stalking laws.

He hadn’t officially
gotten a restraining order.

So there is maybe a little
legal wiggle room, but I

think the message was
very clear you need to stop.

The police had warned her, that’s yeah.

She’s clearly gone through pay pay,
just keeps sending messages, I don’t think.

I don’t know.

And I don’t know.

I’m walking on a mental gymnastics with
this level three still to go, be doing.

Does he see what do you have?

Okay.

So C was he didn’t block me
therefore, it must have been fine.

So he didn’t block me
on pay pay specifically.

Or it was for a story
I was doing on stalking

and just wanted to get
into the mind of a stalker.

Be is also pretty good mental
gymnastics, why is that right?

Yeah, it’s a payment app.

So I wasn’t sending messages.

I was sending payments
and you have to

connect a message like a thing to
the payment, like a receipt almost.

So the receipt was a I want to see
you, you can ask a couple of questions.

It’s hard to ask questions on this
one because it’s just guessing, I guess.

So the person she was
sending, the pay pay messages,

I don’t know, messages
to, is he also a stochist?

Is he also what is he also in
the same kind of a fashion?

Oh, he’s a reporter.

They are both reporters.

They work at different publications.

So I’m going to assume that they met
professionally somehow, like at the same, they

were at the same story
or at the same location

or a conference or something,
professionally, they overlapped personally.

They did not.

And I think I’m good
with D. D, it was for a

story I was doing on
stalking, is incorrect.

When she was arrested,
the statement she

made was, it’s true
that I sent him messages,

but I thought I’d been accepted
because he didn’t block me.

I’m not concerned by
the accusations, oh, I’m

sorry, I’m not convinced
by the accusations.

So she’s saying the police told me to stop.

He hadn’t blocked me
on pay pay, so therefore

I’m not convinced
he’s told the police.

So the police are just interfering
in her personal relationship.

They aren’t.

It has nothing to do with the guy.

She thinks that the police are
jealous of her relationship or something.

Well, they might, but
I mean, what other

logics are like, the
police have come and told

you stop messaging this guy, and she’s
like, well, wait a minute, he hasn’t blocked

me on pay pay and I
can send him messages

and then he gets those messages
and he hasn’t said anything.

Therefore I’m not convinced
that he told you to tell me to stop.

I see.

It was the line of mental gymnastics.

That was a, it’s a lot.

I mean, she’s gone
through the three or four

different justifications
to get to the point

where it’s like still acceptable for
me to send messages to this dude.

On pay pay pay, that’s the fact that it’s
on pay pay, a payment app really solidifies

to me that this, she
was not either he didn’t

give her his contact information
or he had blocked her elsewhere.

But because she saw
this one opening that did

you ever see the German
guy who was in love

with like a kpop band,
it was a video online.

That’s probably like pre
pandemics for like five, six years ago.

He’s, he’s doing
his justification, he’s

basically been given a
restraining order and he

says, ah, this restraining order wasn’t
given to me by the woman I am stalking.

It was given to me by
the management company.

So it’s the management
company trying to stop me, not her.

It’s sure that Naio
likes me and that she

wants me to come back
to Korea and here is why.

So first of all, at the start of this
year, I received a restraining order.

At this restraining order was not from
Naio, it came from JYP Entertainment.

It did not come from Naio
and JYP Entertainment

tried to destroy my image
and tried to intentionally

scare Naio away from me because they feared
that Naio might neglect her job if me and

Naio start a relationship,
but obviously that

would not be the case
because I would obviously

support Naio’s job as
an idol and stay with

her in Korea so that she can still
focus all her time for her career.

Secondly, I always have treated Naio with a
lot of respect and I truly, truly love Naio

with all my heart and I am working really
hard all the time trying to make Naio happy

and trying to make her
realize that I truly love her.

So why would she hate me
that would not make any sense?

I know one time I
accidentally leaked Cheyong’s

phone number and I admit it was a
mistake and I apologized for that already.

And I know that there
are a lot of fake news about

me on the internet
created from unprofessional

news outlets who
try to gain views with

click-pake titles and fake
rumors to make money out of it.

But Naio is smart enough
to know that there are

a lot of fake news
about me on the internet.

Naio knows that I am a
good person and Naio knows

that I am in love with
her for almost years now.

So like he is convinced in his head that
the girl does love him back or would accept

him but it is the management
company that is interfering.

Yeah they are just
going to stop us getting

together, the management companies and
scares that I am going to take her away.

That does seem like
it and so this seems

like on the same kind
of thinking, it is like

the police are trying to
stop us from getting together.

Why?

So in the other one, the management
company would be losing an asset.

So she falls in love
with this guy and they

disappear and she is not
going to do music anymore.

But in this case, the
police, why would they

bother to interfere with
a personal relationship?

They do not care.

If you ever get a message
on pay pay from me

and you don’t block
me, I hope you realize

what you have actually
done is just open that door.

I mean yeah, pay pay is also a
messaging app, it is time to figure.

I actually did an interview with another
podcast this morning called Requiem Radio.

So that should actually be
out this afternoon or tomorrow.

So if you are listening
to this, you want to

hear another two hours of
this noise coming out of my face.

You can listen to that as well.

He had another two hours of just me
and another guy we are talking about.

We talked about movies
and comics and anime

and we talked about Japan and
we talked about YouTube and stuff.

So some new interesting insights into me.

If you don’t get enough of listening to my
voice every single week, multiple podcasts

and YouTube channels
in Jesus, I bet it’s a lot.

Anyways, feel free to
check out Requiem Radio.

You get another two hours
of chunk of beef chest.

Don’t know why that popped into my head.

I think I had a link that has
now gone because I was talking.

There’s a city hall and they
were keeping Excel sheets.

Japan loves Excel sheets.

They use Excel sheets inappropriately.

Like they use Excel sheets
that should be Word documents.

I don’t know why, but just Japan, Japanese
companies, something about it, something

about Excel, really is attractive
to them as the catch all document.

Maybe it’s the cells.

I don’t know.

I find it frustrating
not because it’s wrong

or bad, but I’m like
this actually would

be more comprehensible as a Word
document than it is in Excel sheet.

And then the Excel
sheets I often get at work

are gigantic, like
incomprehensibly large.

So how am I supposed to actually
get any information out of this?

They don’t seem to understand that Excel
sheets are used to contain information.

And then make that
information more digestible.

That seems that last step, the
step that makes Excel sheets in

my mind useful is the one they
don’t seem to have adopted yet.

It’s very relevant.

Like most Japanese
offices, this city hall was

keeping an Excel sheet
on staff performance.

Between 2020 and 2022,
it was called Progress

Report and it was
delivered to the department

head every week or two so that they
could check the progress of employees.

This was about a specific employee.

There were multiple
categories, like words and

actions, so I guess if they said
inappropriate or appropriate things.

In the sufficient abilities, quite
direct, but stuff you’re not good at.

The marks were then
put into the Excel sheet,

making fun of one of the
employees’ appearance.

So one of the statements was, the
back of his head looks like a bird’s nest.

Another statement was, his underwear can
be seen from under his polo shirt’s hem.

It’s disgusting.

It took me a moment
because was that, at

first I was like, is that
you’re tucking your

shirt into your underwear and the
underwear hikes up out of your pants?

I was like, no, because
it’s from under the

hem, so it sounds like the polo shirt is
too short and you can see his underwear.

Anyways, someone felt
that that was inappropriate,

instead of speaking
to the man, put it

into an Excel sheet that would go
as a report to the department head.

The thing is, this was
on a public network

within the city hall,
which means eventually,

of course, the man,
in this case of the

victim, found it, found the comments,
and then saw it as power harassment.

He reported the
harassment, the conclusion of

the investigation was
the document itself was

a measure necessary for smooth and proper
performance and therefore not harassment.

So what they’re saying is, this document’s
intent, so keeping track of things people

do well, keeping track
of things people do not

do well, so that we
can give them feedback.

That is appropriate.

They do continue, though.

However, it contained
sentiments unrelated to

duties, so his hair looking bad, his
underwear are sticking out of his pants.

That does not impact his actual ability to
do his job, like whether I like it or not,

is irrelevant and therefore,
that did constitute harassment.

They did meeting with the department head.

The department head, at
first, he said, “It’s just facts.

We only put facts in there, but the
back of his head looks like a bird’s nest.

That’s an opinion.

In May or May not, I don’t know why I would
have to see a picture, and then you have

to show me a picture of a bird’s nest and
put them together to actually see if that

is factual, but his
underwear is sticking up

also, I guess that is
technically a fact, but

I think he was trying
to cover it up, but

then they said, you
know, let’s dig into it.

This is harassment.

When it became out
that this was harassment,

it kind of changed
his tune a little bit

to claiming he did not know
about the tab with the comments.

So he’s claiming that he was given this
Excel sheet every single week or so, that it

had comments added to
it every single week or so.

He claims that this
thing he was sent every

week with new added
comments every single week.

He didn’t know that there was
this one tab, just the one tab.

I looked at all the other
tabs, didn’t look at this one

tab that had the harassment
in it, so I didn’t know.

So I think maybe he’s
being a little dishonest.

I think maybe this guy actually has a
case that this is a former harassment.

Now, the department
head would have been very

justified in sitting down, have a
conversation with him about his appearance.

You just have to be
very sensitive about it.

And you have to realize
like, does this matter?

So in a lot of jobs, how you look will
not negatively impact your performance.

This is what work from
home is actually taught us.

Like if you’re working on a computer,
let’s just say software programming.

If you’re in your pajamas, it does not
negatively impact your performance.

In some cases, being
comfortable might even

increase your performance,
but it’s irrelevant.

So I think this might
be a case where could

they have dealt with
this more deftly, probably.

What they could have
had is really sincere

conversation, maybe
constructive criticism of

how we could help you in the future,
maybe we can make some recommendations.

Maybe when you’re
underwears hiked up, we

could actually suddenly
take you to the side

and be like, hey, you
might want to pull your

shirt down and your
pants up or something.

It’s about 11 p.m. and I’ll always 20/3.

And a guy works for Yomi
Udi, he’s a cameraman,

and he’s out at this
time, he’s working.

So he’s riding on his
bike, and he goes to a

place where he needs
to take some pictures.

And there’s some guy skateboarding
there, and he’s like, fuck these guys.

So he starts a fight
with three skateboarders,

and I’m going to assume the
skateboarders are younger.

Skateboarders do tend to be younger.

But one of the things I
know as a former skateboarder

myself, when I was in
my teens, skateboarders

band together and they have big pieces of
wood with metal tight, like stock to them.

So it’s never a good
idea to mess with us

skateboarder because
the other skateboarders

are going to join in
to defend their friend,

and they have big
pieces of wood with metal

screwed into it, that
they can then hit you with.

The cameraman then kicked
one of the skateboarders.

Now the skateboarders,
good boys to be honest,

they did not retaliate,
they just chased

them down, they did
not like attack them, he

tried to escape, he ended up getting
caught, no one else got hurt any further.

The police show up and they’re like, hey,
you’re not allowed to kick skateboarders.

I know some people
might consider them a

lower class of citizen, but you’re
still not allowed to kick skateboarders.

He said it’s not fair
that I’m working while

they’re playing, while
others are playing.

So he’s saying that because I
have to work at 11.30, no one

else should be allowed to have
a good time at 11.30 at night.

If I’m working, everyone else should be
working, no one should be having any fun.

That is unreasonable, and not a
reason to go around kicking people.

And I actually think he might be lucky he
got off as light as he did, because I think

what’s going through his
head, like how frustrated he is.

One of the things we
talk about is work life

balance, and again, yeah,
this guy is working at 11.

30 at night, when he doesn’t
clearly want to be working,

is what’s setting him off,
attacking other human beings.

He just, he got to set limits,
he can’t work all the time,

but then I guess that’s again
the Japanese work life style.

Okay, we’re getting into the darker stuff.

I’ve decided, okay, I
did a Seamig B episode,

and it was about murder
in Japan and on YouTube,

it got like 20 times more views
than any other video I post.

I usually get like
double digit views on the

podcast, because this is an audio format,
and that’s where most of the audience is.

It was never really
taken off, because I think

anyone who listens
to this, they’re listening

on podcasts, but to
try to make it worth

listening to, I had like
comments and stuff.

I used to not do any
murder on this, because

I tried to be so
flippant, and I realized

I’m not actually that
flippant, I just talk

and then give my opinion
and maybe make a joke.

So I did this episode
of Seamig B on murder,

and it got like triple
digits, 450 or 60 was

the last number I saw, which is
a huge increase from let’s say 25.

So I was like, well, there’s
no reason to shy away

from murder if that’s what
people want to hear about.

So in Indonesia, Japan going forward,
basically no topics off the table.

I just think if it’s got murder, I
probably will just make less jokes.

It will just be more fact stated,
maybe an opinion here or there.

But if that’s what
people enjoy, I mean, I

was hesitant, because I wanted to make
jokes, but I’m like, ah, still make jokes.

It actually is very obvious.

Here I am 300 in whatever
episodes later, just

figuring out I can
decide not to make jokes.

I can decide not to be flippant.

It’s a revelation for me.

I always feel like you have to, you have
to make jokes, you have to be flippant.

There’s a ferry that connects Japan
and South Korea, it’s about 200 kilometers.

It’s a passenger ferry.

So you get on in Japan
and you take this nice

boat ride, it’s probably
about a few hours,

and then you get off in
South Korea, you go on

holiday, Koreans do the same
thing, they come to Japan.

And I actually think it’d probably be on
a good weather, very nice way to travel.

And staff member was returning to
her room, and she found her door open.

Now she thought, ah, I closed my door.

Then she found her underwear
drawer open, she’s like, that’s weird.

Clearly if she thinks
she’s closed her door,

she’s the kind of
person who closes things,

not like my son, who now has gone into this
weird habit of just leaving drawers open,

which I’ve asked him
to close the drawers and

he looked at me and he
goes, no one’s going to die.

My immediate response was of
course, you will, if I see this open again.

That’s parenting.

So this is a room, a
birth on a boat, so the

bed has a curtain around it so
you can block out light and stuff.

She pulls back the
curtain and she finds a

30 year old man, first engineer on
the boat, attempting to hide in the room.

First of all, I’m going to be
really honest, terrible hiding spot.

There’s not going to be a lot of
places to hide in a room on a boat.

They’re going to be small
and very tightly packed.

But closing the
curtain to the only really

usable piece of furniture
in the room, I assume,

is not a good hiding
place, you get under the

bed, get behind the
bed, get above the curtain

maybe even, I don’t
know, something like that.

Then maybe you’d have a chance, I’m not
even, they’re still not successful, they’re

going to catch you,
but imagine just pulling

back the curtain,
there’s just like this

30 year old man, they’re going,
hmm, kind of just stole your own D’s.

He kept in game and could talk into and he
admitted to doing it, he quit the next day.

So they were like
saying, let’s not involve

the police, please no
charges, they actually

talk to the girl and they
said, please don’t press

charges, he’s going to quit,
he’s off the boat, he’s gone.

She was a little torn
because he’s like, we’re

worried about the
reputation of the boat,

we’re worried about
the duties, operations of

what’s going on, this is
going to negatively impact us.

So they were trying
to pressure her into not

pressing charges to
try to keep it quiet.

I think that’s really it.

I had a whole other idea though, if they
press charges, is this international law?

Is it maritime law?

Is it the South Korean jurisdiction
or the Japanese jurisdiction?

Because I believe it’s a Japanese
boat in South Korean waters.

So is it the Japanese
boat means they should

report to the Japanese police because it’s
Japanese citizen who would get arrested?

It was a South Korean staff
member who had her underwear stolen.

So should they report
to the South Korean

authorities that a South Korean person
had had a crime committed on them?

Should they call interpol
and solve it that way, just have

interpol international police
come in and just deal with it?

Should they do maritime law?

Now, I didn’t look up
maritime law for theft.

I actually do enjoy maritime law
because often it’s very, very logical.

So maritime law does
have a lot to do with intent.

So there’s float some in jetsam in this.

So basically your boat is
sinking, you throw stuff off.

If you threw it off, it becomes salvage.

If you threw it off with the intent
to come back for it, it’s not salvage.

So salvage you if you come across
it, you can find it and just take it.

It’s not salvage, you have to
give it back as maritime law.

So intent became the most important factor
when it came to float some in jetsam.

There’s also the stuff that syncs.

I forget there’s two names for that too.

Again, for the same,
some has been abandoned

and there’s no
expectation that it’ll come

back and then some they
intend to come back and get it.

That actually makes a huge difference as to
whether or not you are allowed to keep it

because some is salvage,
some is not salvage.

In this case though,
the Japanese guy clearly

intended to steal, so
that makes him a pirate.

So he should be treated like a pirate.

Now he didn’t do any of
the swashbuckling cool stuff

to escape because he should
have been able to escape.

So I think he should
be treated like a pirate

and how do you balance
it out to make it fair?

Yeah.

Walk the plank.

It’s the only answer.

Oh, I did the song too, sir.

I didn’t know what keel hauling was.

Keel hauling is when
they would drop you

over the front of the
boat and then drag you

under the entirety of the boat and then you
got to think there’s barnacles and stuff.

The stuff they scraped off.

Barnacles are sharp.

They cut you and then
this was before engines

and then you would come
up the backside of the boat.

If you’re still alive, that
was your punishment,

but most people
died in that process.

They could keel hauling
him but see, there might

not be barnacles because
of modern technology

but there is a big frickin
propeller engine at the back.

So if he survives that,
then God is on his side.

Anyways, we’ve got to
move on to the last story.

In 83 year old woman living in a care
facility in Fukuoka, she entered her room and

she found a stranger, someone sleeping
in her room and she became furious.

So she decided to do
the only logical thing.

She walked up and
started just punching her,

leading to the woman’s
death because it was

another older woman who
was sleeping in her bed.

Now it turns out the 83 year old
woman had entered the wrong room.

That is a very, very interesting
set of circumstances for this death.

So she’s walked into a room.

I’m going to give her
that it’s night in its

dark because the other one was
already sleeping in her own room.

If she had looked
around, she might have

noticed that this isn’t
my stuff, but at the

same time if it was dark, maybe
she didn’t because it’s a care facility.

So every room is probably
set up basically the same way.

So it would be a pretty easy mistake
to make, but I think it’s very clear.

You see someone sleeping in a
bed beating them is not the answer.

She should have gone
and gotten security and

then gotten them to check and
get the person out of the room.

And then she could turn around
because you make the same assumption.

Maybe that person came
into my room by accident

and went to sleep because these are
all older people they might get confused.

They might have sort of early
onset dementia or something like that.

Who knows?

But immediately going to
fist a cuffs on a sleeping

person who is defenseless
is an unreasonable reaction.

So the beating led to
this other woman’s death.

She was arrested.

into introducing murder
as a story into the podcast.

So I cut it off pretty quick.

I don’t want to talk
about it too much until

I get comfortable with where I want
to go and how much I want to say.

You can see this is a slightly
new direction for the podcast.

Things Getting Sadder

(upbeat music)

So, is your population getting too old?

I mean, that’s happening
in a bunch of countries.

So, it is actually very possible.

You’re living in a country that is graying.

Population is skewing
to the older generation.

So, there’s a very simple solution to that.

And Japan has come
up with it, which is great.

You just redefine what old is.

So currently, elderly is defined
as someone to 65 and over.

So, the retirement age.

And they’re saying, hey, what we can
do is just redefine that as 70 an older.

And then, we got less old people.

And those people can keep working.

Doesn’t matter how they feel or if
they want to retire or anything like that.

They can keep working ’cause
you know, they’re not old anymore.

The government’s actually
promoting re-skilling for all generations.

And of course, this
is specifically designed

as this new generation of people
who were old who are not old anymore.

Now, they’re not saying specifically
what they’re gonna reskill them too.

So, right now, you’re 65
years old, you’ve worked your

whole life in one industry
or two industries, let’s say.

You’ve probably worked in one
industry, maybe multiple companies.

How are they gonna reskill you as
actually very interesting question?

I’m wondering, yeah, ’cause
what that mean to me,

reskilling is taking
someone who doesn’t know

how to computers and teaching
them how to use computers.

If you’ve ever tried to get older
people to use new technology, it’s tough.

Like, I tried to stay up on technology.

I can see there are elements
and parts that fall away,

certainly like there are
apps where, you know, people

who do use them regularly,
show me how to use stuff.

I was like, wow, I didn’t
know that was in there.

I am approaching the first
old, and then as soon as

I get there, they’re gonna
move it to the second old.

I can tell you, I don’t wanna work now.

Well, I don’t wanna work five more
years after working my whole life.

And I don’t wanna be reskilled.

I’m already, this is very
bleak looking for me.

The government is predicting
a 1% economic growth

as a result of this
scheme, if it is successful.

I’m wondering how much
push back they’re gonna get.

They do talk about
Social Security and stuff,

which, you know, the
only way to keep Social

Security robust is to
have people pay into it.

So if you have too many people
retired and not enough young people,

they’re not paying enough
money into it to support the

old people, and then they
get nothing when they retire.

So I do see that the
Social Security is a big issue,

but I don’t think redefining
old, but making a bunch of

people who’ve retired start
working again is the way to do it.

‘Cause what they’re
actually talking about is,

if you’re 65 and you start
getting Social Security

and they redefine old,
then you might lose it for

five years and have to go
back to some sort of job.

And as a prospect, that makes me very sad,

which makes perfect
sense for our next story.

Global Happiness Report 2024.

The fact that you have to
make a global happiness report,

like you just can’t assume
everyone’s happy has already a bit.

Man, Japan is on a downward trend.

A lot of countries are.

So this isn’t just picking on Japan.

Japan’s a group, a country
of depressed people.

This is a lot of countries
are on a downward

trend, but it has dropped
13 points from 2011.

So the worldwide survey,
this was interesting.

This survey only surveyed
2000 respondents in Japan.

So the entirety of the
Japanese collective happiness

index is based on the
feelings of 2000 people.

There are millions of people in Japan.

If you’d only surveyed last week,
they surveyed like 1,800 foreign people

and used that to represent
all foreigners in Japan.

And I was already like, that
seems like a poor sample size.

Sampling 2,000 people from the country

seems like not enough to
actually call it a fair answer.

So I’m very, I’m gonna put a
big asterisks on the end of this.

I don’t think this is a good survey.

It may not be representative.

Unless, of course, the
other millions and millions

of people in Japan are just
too depressed to answer.

In which case, this is
really, really accurate.

57% said they were very
happy or rather happy.

There were four categories.

There was very happy, rather happy,
somewhat unhappy, and then just miserable.

The happiest country in the world.

Oh, I should have done a quiz.

I gotta work my quizzes in advance.

Bit busy this week.

But what do you think the
happiest country in the world is?

This would be the quiz question.

So I’m gonna pause.

Please lock in your answer now.

Oh, Ignat’s is in the chats.

Let’s do it.

Ignat’s.

What country do you believe is
the happiest country in the world?

They have an 85% of the people who responded
said they were very or rather happy.

It’s one of those scannability places.

It’s one of those scannability places.

I don’t know what scannability means.

Scandinavian, it makes way more sense.

You are on the right track.

Please name a Scandinavian country.

There is a second place
that is very not Scandinavian,

but also, well, I was
gonna make a joke about

that, but please name
a Scandinavian country.

And if you can name, I mean, you’re
gonna get partial points for Scandinavian.

You are correct.

Norway or Sweden?

Norway or Sweden is not
correct, but again, you’re very close.

It’s a good guess.

I didn’t get the whole list.

I only got like the top two in
the bottom few and stuff like that.

So I don’t actually know where
Norway or Sweden rests within this.

The Netherlands, 85% said they
were very happy or rather happy.

83% in Mexico.

Now, my stories, my news
media input from Mexico is all

cartel stuff and murders
and people dying and stuff.

But people in Mexico, 83% said
they are very happy or rather happy.

And I guess if, like, I eat
burritos almost every day,

if you’re eating Mexican food every
day, you’re gonna be pretty happy anyways.

So that’s pretty good.

Japan was 28th on the list.

The lowest two were South
Korean hungry and hungry.

They tied for 48%.

So if you wanna go to, see, I
don’t think this is representative.

If they’re getting these low numbers, 2,000
people don’t represent a whole country.

But I do know that South Korea has
the worst work-life balance in the world.

And that’s gotta say something.

Again, my thing about Japan as a
country has been work-life balance.

I’ve been saying it for years and years and
years and years doing these, news Japan.

The thing to fix the country
is to fix the work-life balance

and then all the other stuff would
start to fall into place afterwards.

But who’s gonna listen to the
number two news Japanese news

entertainment podcast
in the world other than

not politicians ’cause they’re
not smart enough to listen.

Although I do rip on politicians a lot.

I bet no politician would
actually wanna listen to this

’cause if their name came
up, they’d be like, “Ah, he’s

gonna make fun of my apology
“and retracting my statements.

” There is a global trend right now
towards the happiness index going down.

So I would be interested in
checking out the happiness index.

What kind of questions
they actually ask you.

But looking at the
results, not enough people,

but weirdly accurate
for what I would assume

are the countries with
the worst work-life balance.

February 2005, we’re gonna
get all the surveys up from.

I do enjoy my surveys
and my numbers and stuff.

February 2005, survey was done.

Should we have a female emperor?

87% people said yes.

We should have a female emperor

because as I’ve stated
in other emperor-related

stories in the past,
they don’t do anything.

So the fact that it’s a man or
woman does not matter anymore.

That went down to 72% in
2006 when a prince was born.

So they’re like, “Hey, we have a male heir.

“Maybe we don’t need
these ladies anymore.

” I went down to 68% in 2017.

30% of the people back
in that survey in 2017 said,

“We should take someone
from the former imperial lineage

“that left sort of the royal
family line after World War II.

“There is a relationship there though.

“There’s a reason those
people left the royal family

“after World War II, and it might be one of
the reasons “why we don’t want them back.

” Because right now, what
does the emperor’s family do?

They work with the Red Cross.

They do make countries
nice with each other.

They do charity work.

I think that’s great.

I actually think that’s good
work and it’s good to be done.

I just think these people should
have to have jobs and stuff as well.

This year, a different
survey was done last month.

And so it’s related because
the topic is the same,

but it was done, again, I
didn’t want to get too much

into the weeds, but it’s done like different
numbers, different amounts of people.

A different survey was done last week.

81% of those people
said bring on the ladies,

we want a female emperor, or we’re
comfortable with a female emperor.

And I think, yes, either
take whoever is next in line.

I don’t care about
their gender, male, or

female, or any other
aspect of their personality.

They are just part of the royal family.

If you’re gonna have a royal
family, just deal with them.

Do not overcomplicate this.

Or, do maybe the more sensible
thing and just get rid of them?

Like, how are tax payer
dollars being spent on this?

Well, we’re talking
about in our first story,

raising the age of
retirement from 65 to 70?

Like, why are we paying for a royal family
when you have 70 year olds having to work?

Because I’m already done.

I was done probably a few years ago, but I
gotta keep working until I get my pension.

This is like one of those cult movies

where it’s like the day before
my pension kicks in and I die.

It’s the day before my pension kicks in,

they change the rule and I have to
keep working for another five years.

It’s a nightmare.

Those should be horror
movies at this point.

If your country is considering

moving the definition
of elderly from 65 to 70

to keep those people working
and re-skilling those people, which

would mean training, which
mean you have to pay for training.

Maybe the money we spend
as a country on the royal family.

Is it really worthwhile?

It’s like the whisper.

I do like whispering every now and then.

It really brings the tension
in but down in a soft way.

There was that town,
talked about last week.

They installed a big black barrier to
cover a loss in that was undermount Fuji

because visitors, tourists were coming
and they were flocking to this place

and taking this iconic picture
and they were standing in the road

and they were causing problems
and they were being dirty and stuff.

All the stuff they’re complaining
about over tourism right now in Japan.

What has happened as a result?

Well, a lot of people are like, “This
isn’t great because it’s kind of an ice or,

“but, taxi drivers said
the traffic is better.

“It’s a lot safer.

” And what has actually happened is
people have, as I would have guessed,

moved to another loss in location that
is similar in taking a similar picture.

So now you’re gonna
get everyone in this area.

Every loss in this area is
gonna have to put a black barrier.

They are talking about solutions ’cause
this odd view is an imperfect solution.

It has worked for this one location ’cause
people end up moving to other locations

but you’re just taking
the problem in moving

it to some other town
or place that is similar.

They’re saying what
they’re gonna do is put up

the big, a QR code on
the big, big black barrier.

Let’s see if I can say
that five times fast.

Big black barrier, big black barrier,
put a QR code on the big black barrier.

If I practice, it’s not bad.

They wanna put a QR code on the big black
barrier and that will guide you to places

where it’s appropriate to take good pictures
of Mount Fuji, like tourist locations

and stop bothering
locals who are actually

trying to get to loss
and to get their one cup.

It’s interesting, so the complaint now
that this thing has actually been erected

is that the locals are
saying we have a problem

and it’s that we don’t
like the big black barrier.

So they’re talking about replacing
the barrier with a different color.

I did originally say a green
screen, which would be super

problematic because all the
influencers would go there.

Take a video and then put something else
like their anime loss in the foreground

and then take a picture
of them in front of

their anime loss and
in front of Mount Fuji.

Charge ’em for it and
then we have a solution

to the thing that I don’t have
to now retire at 70 instead of 65.

Now all that money
should go into a fund for

me so that I can go
into early retirement.

So they are talking about a different
color to make it more appealing.

But putting this thing
up costs 1.3 million yen,

which came out of the town’s coffers,
which came out of the town’s money.

So they’re like, is this really the solution
to spend more money to get a new barrier

that’s a different color after spending
all this money put up in the first place?

There is no simple solution to any problem.

This is something I’ve found, I
become hyper fixated on solutions.

So the best example from me, is I needed
a bag, a backpack for my judo clothes.

So I wrap up my judo suit and
I measured it and I found the

perfect measurements and I
was like, okay, this would be great.

So I went online and I found a
backpack, I actually have it here.

Right, it’s a sling
black, it’s a sling back,

it’s rated hazard
four, which is the super

durable, it says it
could inhibit a bullet.

It’s not, it can’t say it’s bullet proof
because a bullet would go through it,

but maybe it would slow it down
and it would do less damage to me.

I’m certain there’s a
lot of factors in there.

So I bought this bag, it’s very expensive,
gonna last me for years, I’ve done it,

I’ve got the perfect bag and I put
the judo suit in and it fits perfectly.

I’m hyper focused on the
solution that I immediately

go, I need a water
bottle and that doesn’t fit

because the measurements
are exactly to the judo suit,

not the judo suit plus water bottle and
there’s stuff on top of that, water bottle

and change of underwear
and change of pants,

t-shirt, whatever, like I
go in one set of clothes,

let’s say my work clothes,
I want to come home

and maybe more casual
and more comfortable clothes.

I’m still probably sweating,
so I want to put on a t-shirt

or something, so I
got to bring the t-shirt,

I got to bring a towel ’cause
I want to take a shower, I got

to bring a water bottle, I got
to bring underwear and stuff.

And then if there’s anything
else I need to bring that day,

a notebook, something else like
that, it has to go in there as well.

So I was hyper fixated on a single solution

and I didn’t take into account
the bigger picture around it,

that is a very common
chunk of beef chest way

of having a mistake is I’ve
actually solved a problem

so perfectly, I failed to take into account
other things surrounding that problem.

This is kind of what
they’re doing, we’ve put up

a barrier, we’ve solved
this individual problem,

but we’ve actually just
made different problems.

Now locals are saying that
this thing, this barrier is ugly.

Now locals are saying like, a local’s
in a similar location, maybe close by,

are going, all you’ve
done is move those

people to where we
are, that’s not a solution.

Do I have a solution for it?

No, tear down melt Fuji.

This is very interesting, now we’re gonna
get into news, there’s no more surveys.

So if your survey porn has not been
satisfied, you gotta go somewhere else.

A teacher was being brought to
trial for sexual crimes in real Oklahoma,

we’ve actually done this
kind of story dirty teachers,

I actually have kind of shied
away from dirty teachers

because there’s not much to
make fun of, it’s just gross and awful.

And I do want to be relatively
flippin’ about the stories I talk about.

So I’ve actually not touched these as
much because there’s no joke factor.

The Yokohama school board brought staff in
to the courthouse to occupy all the seats

so they would keep
the public out of the trial.

Now why do you think they did that?

You want, you have a teacher who’s on trial

for doing something dirty,
dirty, dirty, bad and gross.

So you bring in all your staff, and
they’re going to fill up all the seats

so the public can’t take
part or can’t watch this trial.

They have done this
eight times for eight trials.

Well, I guess it’ll be multi
trials in just a single event.

So eight trials, which would be multiple
days, they had 371 staff members.

They used up to 50 at a time to
make sure that all the seats were taken

and they did this for, this
could be 50 people per trial.

The school board even paid travel expenses

for the staff to get
to the trial to take the

seats so the public
couldn’t see the court case,

which means the tax money in
Yokohama that goes to education

is going to pay to keep
the public from seeing

the trial of the teacher
who abused a student.

That’s a lot going on
in one single sentence.

The board of education,
when this was brought

to their attention,
said that this was done

at the request of the victims
to protect their reputation.

Now I think there’s a word
you should swap out there.

If you said the board of
education said this was to,

was done at the request of the board
of education to protect their reputation.

I think that might be more accurate.

They then vehemently
denied, they admitted it

was excessive and they
apologized for doing it.

They did not say they’re going to stop.

So that is an interesting thing.

The school board has
decided to make sure the

public does not have
access to public trials

and they’re claiming it’s for the
victims benefit not to protect themselves.

59 year old man got arrested,
oh, love my 59 year old man.

As soon as I say that phrase, now
we’ve said a tradition in Indonesia, Pat.

If I say 50 something year old man got
arrested, you know it’s gross and dirty.

This isn’t as bad.

It’s interesting though,
he’d been drinking.

So there’s the combination
of 50 year old man,

plus alcohol and you know he’s not
elderly, he’s still defined as a young man.

He wanted to confront his neighbor
about parking in their property.

So his neighbor’s parking
maybe in their parking lot

or going over the middle
line or something like that.

It’s a very get off my lawn scenario.

And I’ve gotten to that age where I’m
like waiting for someone to come out.

So I can charge out and be like,
yeah, my drive, I don’t have a lawn.

I got to drive way.

Get out my drive way.

You can’t park over a rubber.

I don’t know why my accent
changes when I do that.

That’s a certain, I guess that’s the change

from old to elderly is a
significant accent change.

His wife stopped him.

He said, look, honey, your drunk,

you’re being unreasonable, don’t
go confront the neighbor about this.

Let’s maintain some neighborly relations.

We’ll have a conversation with him
when you’re in a better state of mind.

He’s like, no.

And he, he hit her with a banana peel.

Now here’s the problem.

The only bit of information that’s
lacking in the article that I want.

Did he throw the banana peel and
the banana peel hit her in the face?

Or did he actually slap
her with a banana peel?

They’re both funny, but
they’re funny in different ways

because you could throw a banana
peel and it could just sail over them.

But if he threw a banana peel and he sniped
her, that’s actually kind of awesome.

If he slapped her with a
banana peel, it’s like you

want to slap someone but
you don’t want to hurt them.

Did he do it for a hand or backhand?

Did he bit slap her with a banana peel?

Because now what I want
to do more than anything else

is getting to a gentle
argument with someone,

a confrontation, and
then backhand them with a

banana peel, which I
think would be really funny.

The wife on the other hand
didn’t think it was funny.

She calls the police.

The police show up and like, your
wife says you hit her with a banana peel

and he’s like, yeah, I hit
her with a banana peel.

Is that a big deal?

And then he gets arrested for it.

While he’s being arrested, he
said, is this considered violence?

Couples experience this level of violence.

No, actually they don’t.

I’ve never hit any partner
I’ve had with anything.

I’ve never hit any of my
partners in the entirety of my life.

So that is not true.

But at the same time, I’m
kind of, I’m not on his side,

but it seems unreasonable
for her to have called

the police over him hitting
her with a banana peel.

Because the banana peel didn’t hurt.

Because whenever they
have any sort of these assault

or violent statements,
they talk about how long

it takes the victim to
heal from their injuries.

And there’s no mention
of that because getting hit

in the face with a banana
peel doesn’t actually hurt.

So there’s nothing to recover from.

But there is also the
question of escalation.

So once you hit someone with a banana peel,

the next step is obviously
hitting them with a watermelon.

50, 50, 50, 55-year-old man arrested.

Yep.

Two in a row, he was
coming back from Thailand.

I watched a video just
the other day of two British

tourists in Thailand just
getting the crap beat out of them

by some security guards because apparently
they had hit one of the service workers.

I actually don’t know what kind.

I don’t know if it was legit or a
red light district or that kind of thing.

But there was enough
of an area where they

have security workers
and there’s the ladies.

The bar ladies are trying
to stop the security workers

from beating the crap out
of these two British dudes.

But there’s something very satisfying
of watching British men get beat up.

If they had done it with banana
peels, now this is my new high standard.

If you’re going to beat
someone up, you beat them up.

You know, fizzly bump, bump, bump,
bump, bump, and knock them down.

And at the end, you backhand
them with a banana peel.

You can oil you want.

You would get the same
satisfaction of watching two

British tourists get their shit kicked
out of them by Thai security guards.

I guarantee.

I did.

Yeah, there you go.

Yeah, there you go.

I do it.

Everyone, British people
have the same feelings

everyone else about watching
British tourists get beat up.

If you said they were Canadian, I’d be
like, oh, but Canadians are nice people.

I hold this stereotype where my
default stance is Canadians are nice.

And then you would prove
to me that they were bad

people, and they’d be
like, oh, they deserve it.

There is the default is that
British tourists deserve it.

And in Thailand, again, you kind of know.

You kind of know.

I know nothing about
them, but you kind of know.

They deserve it backhand
with a banana peel.

All right, so this guy,
Japanese dude, 55 years old,

he gets on an airplane, he’s
coming back from Thailand.

He’s drunk.

Allegedly.

I can literally guarantee
you this man was drunk.

I don’t need to do any detective work.

While he was on the airplane, he was
yelling and trying to hit other passengers.

I mean, I’ve never been on a
flight where that’s happened.

Everyone’s actually been very–

I guess that’s why those
end up videos on the internet.

I wonder if I would hit him back.

If someone tried to hit
me, would I hit them back?

I probably wouldn’t.

Like, I have a great deal
of violence within me,

but at the end of the day, I’m
like, I don’t want to get in trouble.

I don’t want to go to prison.

I don’t want all these problems.

But I guarantee if one
of those dudes hit one

of my kids, I would
just go ape shit on him.

I’d be like a Thai security guard on
a British tourist with a banana peel.

So he was moved from wherever
he was sitting to a different set place.

Now, I’m wondering
if he was in first class

and was moved back to
economy or vice versa.

I don’t know, because how many places can
you actually move someone on an airplane?

But he was moved.

He was then, he then tried to do
lewd acts towards the flight attendants.

And it says several.

He was hugging and trying to kiss
one flight attendant for up to 10 minutes.

And that is a long time.

And they couldn’t do
anything about it, it seems.

So he was taken off the airplane
when they landed, and he was arrested.

His statement was, I don’t
remember because I was drunk,

which is one of the most classic
Japanese defenses of bad behavior ever.

I do have a counter for
obstruction of business.

I was thinking some of these other
ones I should start a counter as well.

I don’t remember because I was
drunk should be one of them, for sure.

If you have listened to
any of the back catalog

of Ninja News Japan, and you have any
recommendations for a counter we should keep.

Because I’m happy with keeping
counters is actually quite fun.

I think I don’t remember because
I was drunk should be up there.

That is absolutely one that should go in.

We haven’t had a lot of
obstruction of businesses lately.

So I’m waiting for a
tsunami, a wave of obstruction

of business crimes to
come up in the future.

But also, if we could start the trend
if hitting people with banana peels,

I think that’s something
we should actually start.

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  • Man stole a forklift and he
    decided the best use of this

would be to crash it
into a convenience store

that was closed and
steal 100,000 yen in cash.

Now 100,000 yen, it’s
about a thousand dollars.

I mean, we’re just gonna go
with the simplest math on this.

It’s about a thousand dollars.

My dealings with criminality in doing an
international panther as long as I have,

so let me to understand
the things have value.

Forklift in itself has value.

I’m pretty sure a forklift, even a
used one, it’s worth a lot of money.

So I went to decide to look it up online.

What I found was that a used 3,000 pound
electric forklift at the low end is $9,900.

At the high end is $28,000 with
an average selling price of $17,200.

We don’t know what kind
of forklift this guy stole.

We do know he stole a forklift.

And we know that an
expensive forklift, let’s say a

15,000 pound pneumatic, the
low price for that is $43,000.

The high price is $91,000.

And the average price is $62,800.

So that tells me that after he had gone
through the effort of stealing the forklift,

it would have been more
financially viable for him

to resell the forklift as
opposed to smashed into

a convenience store and
get only $1,000 in cash.

And that $1,000 in cash
is what led to the arrest.

So I bet he could have
stolen, sold that forklift

and then skipped
town, that pin’s got free.

Keep in mind though, some of the listings

we took above number to
not include paint in the price.

So if you need to paint your
forklift, that’s gonna cost more.

So maybe he’s gonna steal the forklift,

give it a fresh coat of
paint so it looks different.

Sell that forklift.

You can charge extra for that.

I mean, that’s the benefit of
having a paint job on your forklift.

You can actually up that price a little
bit and maybe get more of the high end

and less than the low end,
you know what I’m saying?

All I’m saying is, as
soon as I read the story

about a man crashing a forklift
into a store to steal $1,000, I was like,

I bet the forklift he was sitting
on was worth more than $1,000.

Oh my God, put some thought into it.

That’s all I’m saying.

The Tokyo Metro Police have
filed charges against a student

who took an engineering
exam for a university.

Now what did he do?

That’s a very good question you ask.

That’s probably why you’re here.

He was wearing smart glasses and
sending pictures of the exam to X.com.

And here’s the thing, okay.

It turns out he had his
smartphone in his pocket.

So he was sending pictures to the internet,

trying to get people to
answer those questions for him.

And then when they sent
the answers to the responses,

he would check the
smartphone in his pocket.

That is partially how he got caught.

There’s actually an interesting thing here.

So I read multiple stories again,
trying to get my sources straight.

There are actually two
versions of how he got caught.

But I want to actually
get to the main point.

This was an engineering exam.

He had smart glasses on.

He was using the smart glasses to take
pictures of the exam to send to the internet.

My theory is, if he had built
the smart glasses himself,

so they had a camera
in it where fully functional

took pictures and sent the
pictures to the internet successfully,

that should be enough to
pass the engineering exam.

I actually think that would
be enough engineering,

a practical exam, let’s
say, and he should pass.

And then my second thought was, why
don’t they make that the engineering exam?

Like you have to take the exam,
so you can take the exam as it is

and do it the way the
traditional way in filling the exam

answer the questions, you
know all that boring stuff.

Or if you can engineer a way to cheat

and that engineering
is well constructed

enough, then you pass
the exam automatically.

I think the failure point
here is that he got caught.

And it seems like he got
caught using a smartphone,

not actually the sunglasses he was
wearing that had the camera in them.

But my feeling is if he’s a good enough
engineer to make glasses that take pictures

of some of the internet, that he’s already
passed the exam, he doesn’t need the exam.

And so we need to look at
different ways to do exams.

Now, different people
have different skills.

There’s different kinds of intelligence.

This is something I’ve
always proposed and believed.

Ever since I first learned about it, I said
there are different kinds of intelligence

and different people are
smart in different ways.

And maybe he isn’t a paper smart
guy, but he is a mechanically smart guy.

Maybe he’s not.

Maybe he’s just bought smart glasses
and used them to try to cheat in that,

in which case he’s getting
exactly what he deserved.

So the way he got caught
is that someone responded

to his questions online and
then notified the university.

He was well, say to university one of
the most famous universities in Japan.

The school called the police when officials
noticed the camera in his glasses.

So there are two, not
contradictory stories,

but I think it might be two people
claiming that they caught the guy cheating.

I think the person who
found the questions online,

and that was answering
the questions and then

realized, this is from
an exam and an exam

that might be happening right
now and contacted the university.

That seems more reasonable.

They probably contacted the
university, told one of the officials,

the officials went and found the guy
with the glasses, and then he’s like,

but here’s a chance for
me to take credit and he did.

In which case, that guy’s cheating,
and that guy should get in trouble too.

And so I was actually thinking
of it as which is more likely.

It’s actually, if he was got into the exam

with the glasses on, started
taking the exam with the glasses on,

I actually think the camera must have been
subtle enough that he wouldn’t notice it.

You’d be more likely to notice the
smartphone in his pocket him pulling out,

’cause he has to check it for the answers,
in which case that’s when you would notice.

So someone noticing
the camera in his glasses,

it would have made more sense if they found
that early exam, not later in the exam.

So to me, story wise, it makes
more sense if it was the person online,

realized this person
was using the internet

to cheat, and then
contacted the university.

The Foreign Minister of Japan is a
woman, and we have a little quiz today.

So last week, I sort of
felt out the theory of maybe

we could do some quizzes,
maybe some fun stuff.

This week, I decided to try to employ that.

So I got a good friend
of mine, Mr. Warm Hands.

He’s going to join us in the podcast

and take the Foreign
Minister’s quiz with us today.

I have to make some kind
of like fireworks or something.

Phew, phew, phew, phew,
phew, phew, phew, phew, phew,

the Ninja New Japan, Ninja
New Japan, Ninja New Japan.

Quiz, something like that.

I’m not gonna make
any of that ’cause I don’t

have time ’cause I have
to do all this in one day.

Should I introduce you, does anyone care?

You’re just another voice in the world.

  • Yeah, I mean, you can
    do it on the actual podcast.
  • Okay, yes.
  • Right now.
  • So the female Foreign
    Minister of Japan said,

this is three options,
so it’s multiple choice.

  • Okay.
  • The female Foreign
    Minister of Japan said,

A, foreigners are diluting
the purity of Japan.

B, women are only women if they give birth,

or C, equal pay for women
will damage the equality.

  • Ah, sure.
  • Equal pay for women
    will damage the economy.
  • Oh.
  • So we can have a little
    chatter if you want clues.

I’ll try to–

  • All three of them are pretty viable.
  • That’s the problem.

I think I’ve actually done enough news

that I now my quiz questions are gonna
be super hard ’cause they’re all possible.

  • Equal pay for women
    will damage the economy.

Women are not women unless they give birth.

  • And foreigners are
    diluting the purity of Japan.
  • Ah, and this is the minister for–
  • The Foreign Minister.
  • The Foreign Minister for Japan.
  • The female Foreign
    Minister, she is a woman.
  • It is a woman.
  • It’s a, oh god, that
    doesn’t really help much.
  • It actually doesn’t.

She is old.

That actually I think is why
these statements came out.

It’s always the same thing.

It’s this old form thinking
that I’m always going on about.

  • If it was a man, everyone in
    statement might be more likely.
  • I think B would be
    more likely if it was a man.
  • Women are only women
    if they give birth, okay?
  • Yeah, but I’m not ruling it out.

‘Cause I know a lot of old women
who are like very gender roles.

  • It’s not, it’s not even a Japanese thing.

It’s just like you have to give birth.

You have to give birth and
you have to maintain a house

and you have to manage the boss
and it’s so much of that and it’s crazy.

  • That tread wife.
  • I actually was watching a video.

It was one of these
trad wives who’s like

head quit and she’s
like, I regret it so much.

It’s so horrible.

  • Well, but even my wife’s mother
    gives her shit because I do stuff.

They say, well, this so ass backwards.

  • Yeah.
  • She’s like, your husband’s doing stuff.

I can’t believe you’d let that happen.

(laughing)

  • ‘Cause my father-in-law, he’s old.

He saw me just get up
and wash some dishes once.

He was like, whoa, you can do that.

And I was like, I didn’t say anything,
but I think his attitude changed.

She’s like, oh, actually,
maybe I could do stuff.

‘Cause I made dinner
and I cook and I cleaned.

So on the days I cook, I actually
like, my wife won’t wash that.

I don’t want, she doesn’t wash the dishes.

I do everything.

So it’s like, she has at
least one day with nothing.

But okay, you have to make your choice.

A, foreigners are
diluting the purity of

Japan or unless you
wanna ask some questions.

B, women are only
gonna take a birth or a C,

equal pay for women
will damage the economy.

  • So B seems the most
    misogynistic view about his coming

from a woman, which
is, I feel like it’s that one.

  • All right, it is correct.
  • Oh, that’s what I think,
    ding, ding, ding, ding, ding sound.
  • She said, women are
    only women if they give birth.
  • Jesus Christ.
  • Her actual statement was, how can we
    call ourselves women without giving birth?
  • So the next day, you know she
    got in trouble for this, the next day.
  • Oh, of course she did.
  • Again, three choices, A,
    she gave us sincere apology.

B, she said her statement
didn’t convey the

correct meaning or C,
I retract my statement.

You know that’s my favorite one.

When they retract statements, I’m
like, it doesn’t really retract any, right?

It’s still there.

The statement you made still exists.

  • So the first one was apologize.
  • A sincere apology.
  • sincere, okay, oh, well,
    that’s definitely not happening.
  • Mm-hmm.
  • Okay, B, her statement didn’t
    convey the correct meaning.
  • You guys are too dumb
    to know what I meant.
  • Mm-hmm.
  • Or C, I retract my statement.
  • Oh, come on, right,
    so, then if it was a man,

I want 100% to go with
retract because I feel

like they just like, this
might get outbound.

I can say what I want.

  • I can say whatever I
    want in the next day, I’ll

be like, well, you know,
you guys interpret it.

  • I apologize for you
    misinterpreting my words.

(laughs)

  • Yeah, I feel like like female politicians
    are a special breed of like evil.
  • In Japan, yes.
  • No, not just in Japan.
  • I was thinking about like a
    UK even, like Thatcher, like in–
  • Thatcher has ruined it for
    every other female politician.
  • Yeah, I’m pretty sure there’s
    some good ones out there.

But at the chance of Germany
was, she seems all right.

  • Yeah, she seems like reasonably
    down to a– – I kind of like her.
  • And then the prime minister
    of New Zealand, she was cool.
  • Yeah.
  • Yeah, people tried to dunk on her
    for like having a party, I remember that.

Like just talking about a party.

  • Yeah, it’s like, and had a full month.
  • Shut fun.
  • Like AOC, I really like AOC.

In America, there’s a Katie
something and she’s awesome.

All she does is take
like business men to task.

She had the president of Pierce Moore,

like JP Morgan, some giant
investment hedge fund bank thing.

And then she was like, I found out
how much like your tellers get paid.

They don’t make enough to survive.

Can you reconcile that with me?

And he’s like, basically like, how can
you justify not paying a living wage?

And he’s like, he started
to try to talk his way out.

And he’s like, no, no, no,
this is how much she makes.

Like I talked to this woman.

How do you think that’s fair
that you get what you pay?

Yeah, you get your pay.

  • Yeah.
  • I see your pace out of hand.
  • Yeah.
  • Oh, come on.

I think I’ve found my niche now though,

is coming up with quiz
questions based on the news.

  • Okay, this is here apology.

You guys are idiots.

Oh, attraction.

  • Retraction.

I’m just gonna take it
back and think it privately.

  • Oh, come on.
  • Oh, I’m gonna see.

She retracted it.

  • She retracted her statement.

Both B and C.

She actually, she did all three,
but it was not a sincere apology.

She A, apologized.

B, said that her
statement didn’t convey the

correct meaning and C,
retracted her statement.

  • So she went, I’m really sorry.

You guys too stupid to
understand my reaction.

  • Well, I do say so, I take it back.
  • So maybe if I say I didn’t say it, you
    guys will believe it ’cause you’re so dumb.

(laughing)

She said her comment was meant to emphasize

the power of women and
she meant that she was born

into the house of
representatives in a year

2000 by the power of
women voting for her.

And I was like, that is not
how that phrase has ever,

  • No, it would never convey
    that meaning, bit ridiculous.

They think they come up with some
profound saying, some profound soundbite.

And then everyone’s like, what?

  • I think they take 10 seconds and
    think about her trying to backtrack this.

It’s like that doesn’t even make sense.

That makes less sense
than your original statement.

  • That’s what you’ve said.
  • Oh dear, good.
  • And that’s the first
    news news panic was, yeah.
  • Yeah, I think it’s so
    trackers all the way away.
  • Quiz, quiz, quiz, quiz, quiz, quiz, quiz.
  • I need, I need.
  • Ninja, Ninja, Ninja, Ninja, Japan, the quiz.

(laughing) – So as you heard in the
quiz, she did not necessarily apologize.

Her statement was how can we call
ourselves women without giving birth?

She then said on the next day,
when she was doing her apology,

I accept the possibility
that my words could be

misunderstood and have
decided to retract the statement.

That is one of the most
annoying political statements.

‘Cause again, my problem with retracting
statements is they don’t make them go away.

It actually just means
I said a shitty thing

and now I want you to
forget, I said a shitty thing.

I’m not actually going to
change my behavior or anything.

I’m not gonna try to improve myself.

I’m not gonna think about what I did.

I’m just gonna say,
sorry you were offended.

Please forget the thing I said.

She then went on to say her comment
was meant to emphasize the power of women.

So how can we call
ourselves women without giving

birth was meant to
emphasize the power of women?

Now I studied English literature, I
have an English literature degree.

Now I don’t consider
myself particularly adept

at interpreting the
language, I can do it.

I don’t think of the statement she made,

how can we call ourselves
women without giving birth?

I don’t see how that relates to
emphasizing the power of women.

And I think that might be
where the words she used

could be misunderstood
’cause I think the words

she used don’t mean the
things she says they mean.

She said, she went on to say,

she meant that she was born
into the house of representatives

in the year 2000 by the
power of women voting for her.

Which is not anywhere
implied in the statement,

how can we call ourselves
women without giving birth?

This is a classic example of a
politician saying something dumb

and then trying to recreate
a narrative around it,

trying to remold that sentence
that everyone understood

into some other meaning so that
they hopefully can get away with it.

A bill has been introduced to Parliament.

And the roughest way of
saying it is that it’s designed

to take away permanent residents
from people who live in Japan

if they have intentionally failed to
pay taxes or social insurance premiums.

This has been a problem in the past

where people who live in Japan
don’t pay their taxes and stuff.

I think it’s a problem in every country.

They’re claiming it’s
only for malicious cases.

Now this is one of the problems.

This was the TikTok ban.

My problem with the TikTok
ban wasn’t banning TikTok.

It was how could that
legislation be interpreted later

to ban other companies that
are essentially not American.

This goes way back to
my experience as a young

man when they
introduced the Patriot Act.

And it was supposed
to be just for terrorists.

And it’s just gonna be
for catching terrorists.

And then they expanded
the definition of terrorists

they could redefine a
criminal as a terrorist

and then use the Patriot Act to
do whatever they want to them.

And this is one of the problems
with legislation that’s vague.

And they are saying that the
problem with this legislation

in Japan about permanent
residency is very vague.

Kishida said the plan
would not affect the

vast majority of former
permanent residents.

But it was based on inconclusive data

that shows 10% of permanent
residents don’t pay taxes.

Now this survey was done of 1,825 people

where there are 890,000
permanent residents in Japan.

So they’ve taken a small sample size,

taken that sample size
and extracted a piece of

information then
extrapolated that information

to the totality of the population
that they’re talking about.

And that’s what a lot of
people are saying is problematic.

So then they didn’t actually explain
how much of that 10% of the 1,825 people,

how much of them would be this
sort of like, let’s kick them out group.

How many people would
fail the stringent requirements

of malicious refusal to pay
their taxes or social insurance?

And then another politician piped up with,

and this is a statement
I really enjoyed was,

there are more unpaid taxes by Japanese
people than there are by foreigners,

which is a very interesting
way of looking at it.

He’s like, why are we going after
these foreign permanent residents

when we have so many Japanese
people that we could be going after?

These bridge people who are hiding money.

‘Cause that is actually a story we’ve
done and introduced Japan in the past.

We have rich people who
are refusing to pay their tax,

who hide their money, who put their
money in other countries, things like that.

And they don’t pay their taxes fairly,
whereas a majority of the permanent residents

pay their taxes, just because they’re not
here, because they’re super rich people,

they’re here ’cause they have
normal jobs and a lot of normal jobs.

Your company actually
pays taxes through your

company for you, so it’s
actually very hard to cheat.

All right, so last story of the day.

It’s usually a dirty, dirty man, but I have
a dirty, dirty couple, which is exciting.

An engaged couple, and this
is actually just kind of show

that they’ve been together
for a while, I think that’s

why they specifically put
an engaged couple in there.

An engaged couple have
been arrested for posting

unedited as in, I believe, uncensored,
explicit videos on social media.

So basically you have a
couple, and they’re doing it,

and they’re videoing it, and
they’re putting it on social media.

It’s paid, it’s like behind a pay while.

I’m thinking they’re talking
about Patreon or one of

these other, like, fansly or
some of these other sites.

The bid I was most interested
in is how much money

can you make, boinking
your partner, filming it,

and putting it on the
internet, because… (mumbling)

They earned 100 million yen through
subscriptions based on social media sites.

So again, they’re keeping it vague.

I want to know which social media sites,

and I want to know what
this couple looked like.

The first thing I did
was go look for a picture

of the couple to see if
they were attractive or not,

which is kind of gross on my part, but it
was, I think, a very natural kind of thing.

They’ve been doing this for two and a half
years, and they have made 95 million yen.

And that makes me think
that maybe I’ve made some

bad choices in my career
options, ’cause here I am.

I work a 40 hour work week.

I make podcasts for fun, and
I do not have anywhere near

95 million yen for just filming
myself and putting it on the internet.

And I realized, you know,
I got some gnarly feet.

I could maybe put something on
Wikipedia, maybe get some money that way.

I don’t think people
would actually want to pay

very much for this,
but that’s one of the

secondary reasons I
wanted to see this couple.

I was like, if I could
measure their attractiveness,

if I matched that
attractiveness level,

maybe I could make 95 million
yen over two and a half years.

The problem is they were
making unedited videos,

so in Japan, you do have
to censor the private parts.

They have mosaics is the most common way.

So they weren’t doing that, and that’s
probably how they were making their money.

So either I would have to put the mosaic
on, and I’d probably put it on my face,

’cause I think you would actually
rather see not my face than anything else,

or I’d have to change
countries before making this new

endeavor, which is going to be NJ,
which is new to Ninja News, Japan,

where I sit here and
do the news in the nude.

So I guess we could just
get a flesh colored t-shirt,

and that would actually be giving you
pretty much the whole effect right there.

Sprinkle some hairs on it randomly.

That’s pretty much the
aesthetic I’d be going for.

So if you, the viewer or
listener, would be interested,

and again, this is an
audio format primarily.

It seems like it would
make no difference to

you, but maybe if you
paid that extra money

and you get the nude version of Ninja
News, Japan, nude Ninja News, Japan, and J.

Maybe just the knowledge
that I’m reading the news

to you naked would
enhance the experience for

you, and there’s only
one way to find out.

That would be to go to our new Patreon, the
new Ninja News, Japan dot slash Patreon,

I don’t know, I don’t actually have
a Patreon, don’t actually go there.

You can go there,
you’re just not gonna find

a new Ninja News, Japan
site, which is too bad.

But if you wanna send me some money,
I will do a private recording, naked,

and I will send it to you,
and it’ll be audio only,

but I promise you, I’ll be
naked, how about that?

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Ninja News Japan Quiz

He touched you Wagyu beef has a problem.

You’ve probably heard of Wagyu
beef, it’s very expensive beef.

I actually had an
experience over the golden

week vacation of eating very, very expensive
food and it does not agree with me.

I am just too low class for that.

So the thing is about Japanese
expensive food always has a lot of fat.

And that was problematic because I
don’t eat a lot of food with a lot of fat.

So the fat kind of did a number on me.

So I actually realized I don’t
enjoy a lot of expensive food.

He touched you Wagyu beef has a problem.

It’s not the problem that I
don’t like fatty, fatty food.

But Wagyu beef does tend to have a lot
of like marbled, has a lot of fat in it.

Not my thing.

But that’s not the problem.

The problem isn’t my
preference, the problem isn’t

my preference, the problem isn’t my
preference, the problem is a different problem.

The problem with touchy
Wagyu beef and the

kanji, the Chinese characters they
use for that, young people can’t read it.

It’s an expensive item.

It’s based on its brand.

It’s based on its name.

But if young people can’t read
the name, what happens then?

So kanji, the Chinese characters,
people in their 20s, 57% cannot read.

He touchy Wagyu, 43% of
people in their 30s could not read.

He touchy Wagyu.

And he got older, he got better.

So 33% in their 40s couldn’t read it,
35% in their 50s, and 22% in their 60s.

So the kanji maybe
was more common in the

past, or maybe people
were better at reading kanji.

A lot of people are saying just like smart
phones are making it harder for people to

write like, I was of
the age where I learned

cursive in school, I don’t
think kids learn that anymore.

And in fact, I think
typing might be a more

valuable skill, but you still should
learn how to write with a pen and stuff.

But kids just can’t do stuff.

And it’s not, I don’t
think this is, again, this

is not a judgment, this
is not a negative thing.

This is like the world changes.

But people typing
everything out on their phone

means they’re never
actually writing the kanji.

They just pick the appropriate
kanji for the word the writing.

So they don’t learn how to write it.

And then in some cases,
they don’t learn how

to read it properly,
because they just assume

that the computer or the phone
or whatever is telling them right.

I actually had a student
who couldn’t type,

because they only used their phone,
they typed everything out on their phone.

So when they had to type something out
on a keyboard, it was really hard for them.

So they gave me the keyboard
and I typed down what they said.

And they were shocked at how fast I
could type it was like an amazing thing.

Just like I was shocked at how fast they
could type with two thumbs on their phone.

But again, it’s just what you grow up with.

You grow up with touch pads.

You learn to use touch
pads really effectively.

The Hitachi kanji is used different ways.

Iberaki Iberaki is a prefecture
within it used to be called Hitachi.

It’s very confusing.

So as I was reading this, I
got more and more confused

and I realized why I
gave up on studying kanji.

So I speak Japanese at
a, I would say intermediate

level would be generous, but an intermediate
level I can do conversations and stuff.

But I am essentially illiterate.

And I’m illiterate because
when I started studying

kanji, I was like, I’m
too old to be studying.

I don’t want to study anymore.

And I give up.

And I kind of just gave up on
it, which is not the right attitude.

But you do get tired of studying
when you’re old and I am old.

So Iberaki is the prefecture.

It used to be called Hitachi.

The kanji has been used different ways.

It is therefore very confusing for people.

And that’s why the
younger people now, they

haven’t grown up with
history or the understanding.

So they understand it less than
those people in their 60s, 22%.

It was actually to be 88%
could read it 22% still couldn’t.

So it’s still confusing
to that group that we

would assume actually grew
up with this more logically.

It’s used different
ways, which means some

places like Hitachi
Nakasidi, they’ve decided

to just do away with
the kanji altogether.

And when they write the name of
their city, they just use Hitagana.

Hitagana is the base
phonetic version of Japanese.

And it shows that the
use of kanji, even in

modern Japan, is a
confusing and difficult thing.

Again, sort of just justifying
the fact that I quit studying.

It’ll be interesting to
see how language now

evolves in Japan, like where this
is going to take us in the future.

Are they going to use less kanji or are
they going to adopt other things or they can

do start using English alphabet, even
for Japanese words, that kind of stuff.

It’ll be interesting to
see where this goes

because as young people
grow up finding it harder

and harder to read
kanji, is kanji the way

you want to go forward
or do they want to sort

of double down and force
more people to learn kanji?

I actually think doubling
down is very much a

Japanese way of dealing
with this sort of issue.

Sister cities are great.

I mean, it’s a cultural
exchange between

your places and you do class trips,
your high school is going to go somewhere.

They’re going to go to this place
and then you can go back down.

It’s wonderful class.

I think sister cities are great.

Cultural exchange is great.

It also will involve politicians
and older politicians.

And if you’ve ventured
to an engineer’s

Japan before, you kind of
know where this is going.

When I say the words
old politician, there

was a government meeting
and it was the mayor

and the government people
from Dubo City in Australia.

Dubo?

I’m not sure how to say D-U-B-B-O-Dubo.

I’m going to say double.

It’s so Australian to
make it a word like double.

There’s a city called double.

It’s the sister city.

They’re over the visiting.

They’re like, let’s have an after party.

There’s a 71 year old deputy
speaker and he’s doing some karaoke.

Now, I’m trying to work on a
new segment, a new thing to do.

I’m not just going to
just tell you the story.

I was like, ah, you know what we should do?

Just make a quiz.

You’ve listened to an
engineer’s Japan in the past.

You know the kind of
things that we end up

coming up, the kind
of things we talk about.

Three options before I give you the answer.

I haven’t figured out a way to do this.

I would like to get maybe
a listener or someone

to talk while we do this at the same time,
but we’ll work that out in the future.

This is still the sort of testing phase.

Three options.

What did the deputy speaker do to the mayor
of Dubo’s daughter while singing karaoke?

Option number one, he
did a lap dance while singing.

Option number two, he
started to strip off his clothes.

Number three, he held the
mic up to her private parts.

So now I would need
like some thinking music.

Please have submitted your answers by now.

So again, this is where I don’t, I
kind of maybe need a little interaction.

I need someone have
someone on like the line

and do the quiz with
them so they can guess.

But if you guessed number three,
ding, ding, ding, ding, you are correct.

Now they didn’t explain it very
carefully, like very thoroughly.

So I don’t know if he was serenading her
vagina, or if he was holding the microphone

up in the hopes that
he would start singing.

All we know is that he
while singing got very

close to her private
parts, which is gross.

I mean, that’s I think that’s a
fair statement we can make.

That is gross.

He therefore, again, apologized.

He said, I’m ashamed
that I could not respond

appropriately on the spot
or apologize the same day.

He like, I think they were partying.

He didn’t figure out what
he did, I guess, because

they were drinking and
stuff until the next day.

And he’s like, Oh, I’m sorry.

I waited so long.

I was trying my best
to make it into a party.

It’s an interesting
statement because when I

want to make something into a party, I
want to get, you know, everyone involved.

I want to get people doing stuff.

I don’t immediately
gravitate to someone’s

groin and start singing to it
or trying to get it to sing to me.

That’s not my first instinct.

I have not thrown any
blockbusters of parties,

though, if we’re being honest, like my
parties are very sedate and maybe that’s it.

Maybe I don’t do enough crotch
singing to really get the party started.

So I’m waiting for some rapper to come out
with a song about getting the party started

by crotch singing either from the crotch
or to the crotch either way works for me.

He’s sorry for the discomfort he caused.

Nobody from the, nobody
from double has responded.

So this guy is apologized, he’s put that
statement out there and no one apologized.

Apparently there is a
picture of the mayor’s

daughter looking
incredibly uncomfortable,

which is very appropriate when a 71
year old man starts singing at your crotch.

There’s a restaurant
called Tamate Baco and

this is not the only
one, an open last month

in Shibuya and it’s an all-you-can-eat
seafood buffet kind of thing.

So it’s a tabihodai.

So basically tabihodai,
hodai is all-you-can

and then tabay is eat and then there’s
no mihodai, which is all-you-can-drink.

And you go, you pay
a set amount of money,

you can eat for an hour and you
just order as much as you want.

You have to eat it all within the hour.

That kind of thing.

It’s pretty normal.

The way the article
presented it is that they

have decided that foreign tourists should
be charged more than Japanese people.

So if you want to go for lunch just on a
regular day, if you’re Japanese, it’s 5,478

yen and if you are a
foreigner, it is 6,578 yen.

So basically 1,100 yen more.

Friday being a more
popular day, so like Friday

dinner, that’s going to be
the most expensive time.

If you are a Japanese
person, it’s 7,678 yen.

If you’re a foreigner, it’s 8,778 yen.

So again, 1,100 yen more
for not being Japanese.

The interesting way
they worked around this

was they said the
higher price is the actual

official price and then if you’re
Japanese, you get a discount of 1,100 yen.

So it’s not that they’re
charging foreigners

more, it’s that they’re
actually charging

Japanese people less,
which was an interesting

way to try to get
around the racism or

the discrimination that they’re
actually putting out there.

The discount counts for
Japanese people and residents.

So very technically,
if I went into this

restaurant and I ordered
this meal and I could

show them my residence card,
I should get the lower price.

So is it biased then?

That’s the interesting thing.

The justification for
this is the yen is very

weak, so Japanese
people, their money isn’t

going as far, where
foreigners are coming

in, they’re getting more yen for their
money, so they should be charged more because

they’re not paying
taxes and things like that.

It’s a very thin argument.

The governor said
foreign travelers are

Japan’s guests, which
I think is a pretty fair

statement to make and therefore they shouldn’t
be taken advantage of, they shouldn’t

be charged more, they
shouldn’t be treated in this way.

I was interested though, because if I went,
would I get asked if I was a resident or

not where they just
assumed that I’m a foreigner

because, you know,
very foreign looking

in Japan and would they just
then charge me the higher price?

I don’t know.

It’s an interesting question.

I don’t tend to find out because I actually
don’t think this is a nice practice.

I think you just choose
a price and you make

that the price and
you charge the price.

So there’s a guy who dresses up in a black
suit and he puts on sunglasses and he goes

out into the street,
so again, this could be

another opportunity for our
quiz, so let’s try out our quiz again.

There are three options.

What do you think he does?

He dresses up in a
black suit and sunglasses,

so he’s trying to look
pretty cool while he does it.

So number one, option number
one, is he a Batman-like vigilante.

He goes out and delivers vigilante justice.

Number two, he’s going out and obstructing
traffic on his bicycle or number three, he

rides his bicycle and he grabs
women as he rolls down the street.

So we need again a clip,
some music, some thinking time.

If you guessed number
two, which I would be

surprised if you did,
because I think if you’ve,

again, you’re watching
the engineer’s Japan,

you’re listening to
the engineer’s Japan,

you’re thinking, is it going to be
the butt grabbing on the bicycle?

No, he rides out and
what he does is he rides

in the middle of traffic and he
swerves into oncoming traffic.

Now, this is to freak out the drivers,
to play a little chicken, to risk it.

No one really knows why.

He swerves into oncoming traffic
and they’re saying to annoy drivers.

He was arrested and they
suspect he is responsible

for 42 similar incidences
they’re investigating now.

He has claimed that he is not this
person, he denies all the accusations.

There is film of him doing this weaving in
an out of traffic, which I will put up in

the corner if you watch the YouTube video.

The police have given
a nickname, and I think

criminals with nicknames is
always a very interesting thing.

Police have named him
the pop-up cyclist because

he comes out into
traffic and then weaves

into traffic, popping
in and out of traffic,

popping up out of nowhere, I
guess they didn’t call him disc-spring.

Very bad man ask.

That’s where I got the first
sort of option from the back men

vigilante because he just sort
of disappears into the night.

They searched his
apartment and that’s where

they found the same black suit
and sunglasses he wears in the video.

Which I think makes him a pretty
much guilty, it’s a really chan reversal.

So the last like three weeks I’ve talked
about in any chan and I’ve actually thought

like I think we’ve done enough
until she goes to or gets out of prison.

There’s not really much
more to say about any chan.

I just again I find her fascinating
because she has a work ethic.

She just applied it to
crime whereas if she’d

applying the same
work ethic to something

else I think she would
have been really successful.

She clearly was able to do stuff.

This is a guy who she was taking,
she was a sugar baby at TV chan.

So she was doing sort of compensated
dating and then frauding men of money.

This is a guy who is
defrauding sugar babies.

So I’m calling it the atiti chan reversal.

This guy swindles women who
are looking to become sugar baby.

So he meets people
online and he says hey, if

you meet me I’ll give you
200,000 yen for a date.

That’s actually pretty good.

Like that’s half a month to a
month salary for some people.

So he connects with them on a
matching app and then he says I’m a vet.

And it was an
interesting choice because

apparently being a vet is
very successful because

you work with animals and
no he works with animals

but also you’re a doctor
so it’s very appealing.

So you have the appeal
of being a doctor but also

someone who works with
animals all at the same time.

That seems to be a very attractive profession
and so he shows that very carefully.

He says let’s meet at the
zoo, the zoo where I work.

So they meet at the zoo and then he
walks around he says you know what?

He seems very proud
of the zoo while they’re

talking you know
what but a lot of people

know me around you so let’s just
get out of here and they go to a hotel.

After talking for
about two hours, I don’t

know if that’s at the hotel or
later because again the story jumps.

The story actually
said go to a hotel which

would imply they go and
have intimate relations

but then they immediately jumps
to after talking for two hours.

So I don’t know I would not go
to a hotel to talk for two hours.

I would go somewhere else if we were just
going to talk but he talks about his family

and his love of boxing
and then he looks

very serious and he says
I’ve left my wallet at home.

Could you give me 20,000 yen for tickets
so that I can buy tickets for boxing?

And the woman has been promised 200,000 yen
so 20,000 yen on top of that to get paid

back is not very much
so they go to the ATM

they get 20,000 yen
they give to the guy and

then he says like
great I’m going to go buy

tickets I’ll see you
again for a second date.

I’ll you know the Japanese version of Venmo
you the money so it’ll probably be like

a line or pay pay or
something like that and I’ll pay

you back and then they
never hear from them again.

So he’s not doing the
scale of Viti Chiang

but he’s working on low
numbers of money but

large numbers of
women so trying to get a

little bit of money out
of everybody as opposed

to just getting two or three whales
and getting money out of them.

The woman never heard
from them again and

then she tried to contact
the zoo and the zoo

says there is no such person here but we’ve
had similar calls which made the woman very

suspicious so she called up the police
and said I believe I’ve been defrauded.

Now if 20,000 yen he
was banking on 20,000 yen

not being very much money
and the embarrassment

of them saying I want
to be a sugar baby to

be enough to get them to
stop from contacting the police.

So this lady was like no I’m contacting the
zoo and the zoo I maybe she actually liked

them because she
actually came out in her

part of the interview she was actually
saying she was quite embarrassed about being

defrauded this way but
it’s just like those men

I have sympathy for who were
defrauded millions of yen by Viti Chiang.

So I feel kind of bad for her.

He says he’s met about 50
women this way so again if you got

20,000 yen from each of them
that’s pretty fair some of the money.

After the rest he said
sorry you know I feel

bad for taking advantage
of these women.

He’s actually not a vet.

He’s actually a day
laborer and then he said

this was a bit that actually
kind of really struck me.

I have always disliked
animals so the construction

of him being a vet was
a very conscious choice.

I don’t like actually
like animals but women

will like a man who
likes animals so I’m

going to pretend to be
a man who likes animals

so much so that it’s
become my profession

and that will appeal to women
and apparently it was successful.

He was given two years,
six months in prison

but it’s been suspended
for four years so

if he doesn’t commit any more
crimes he will be Scott free.

There again did not mention
giving back any of the money.

I actually am now very interested in how
much and how do they give back to the money

of these women do they give back the money
of these women because this is one of those

weird things where
the fraud it’s done

voluntarily and again this
case it’s a very small sum.

So is it worth suing over like if you sue
the guy for 20,000 yen you’re going to pay

probably a lawyer more than
20,000 yen just to follow that suit.

Leena Chaunay on
the other hand she took

millions so getting a
lawyer and suing her would

make perfect sense because you want to get
all your money back but I actually bet it’s

all gone because she
gave it all to host and

she doesn’t have any
money so they’ll just

be like if she ever
works they’ll be docking

her pay for years or something I
have no idea what’s going to happen.

Again her situation the consequences of
what she’s done are the interesting thing is

it’s just going to take a decade
to find out what actually happens.

So maybe Ninja News
Japan ends at some point

because I just you
know run out of content

or run out of time or
whatever but I promise

you in nine to ten
years I’m going to come

back if we leave these chaun pops up again
if I’m still alive and give you the ending

of that story like what has she done what’s
happened since then because I’m interested

in it and I don’t think I’m
ever going to let this go

but it seems like being a
sugar baby or sugar daddy.

There’s a lot of
fraud involved so it’s

probably not going to
work out the way you want

it to so I would say
take all that initiative

take all that effort and put
it towards something else.

I’m thinking of a
suggestion to make right

now that would be
really positive and helpful

for the world and I
can’t think of any I

really can’t I don’t
do what I’m doing right

now this is previous no
money whatsoever but

I haven’t committed
fraud at least I’m not

making money honestly and that
is the Ninja News Japan mission.

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Big Tuna

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Okay, in chunk of beef
chest, we have beef nation.

That’s all the people who
like chunk of beef chest.

An individual would be a chunk.

And I was like, oh, how do I
refer to a fan of Ninja News Japan?

And I was like, it’s
actually really obvious.

It’s a ninja.

A news ninja? I don’t know.

I think just Ninja is
not descriptive enough.

It’s not clear that you’re talking
about a fan of a certain thing.

I’m attempting to do
this so that I can appeal

to you directly because
my eye is still messed up.

And I’m finding it very
difficult to look at screens

and read and podcasting is
very much using the computer,

which is primarily a large screen and
reading my notes already a problem.

As you’ve seen in the
last 190 some episodes

that I do not take the time
to write properly, clearly,

cleanly, so that I can
read my own handwriting.

We’ve had that issue multiple times.

Fuck, I’m not happy about this at all.

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It’s over at Seamik B, the podcast.

We got chunk of beef chest, beef nation.

And a fan of that is called a chunk.

And I was like, oh, we need a name for
someone who’s a fan of Ninja News Japan.

The honestly much
bigger of the two podcasts.

And I was like, well, I
mean, you could just say

a ninja, but it’s actually
not very descriptive.

And it’s just the way I
could address the audience

directly to make appeals
like I’m about to today,

’cause today’s episode very
likely is going to have some issues

because I still am
functionally blind in one eye.

So not only do I make poor notes,

it’s hard for me to look at
screens for an extended period

and since I can’t see very well
my notes that are already messy,

I mean, we’ve hit that issue multiple times
where I can’t read my own handwriting.

I’m so dedicated to all the
little news ninjas out there

that I was gonna skip this
week and not put out an

episode and I was like,
no, no, I’m gonna do it.

It might be shorter and it might be
shit, but they’re used to that by now.

That might be the only
way I can start this is

it’s pre-excusing a lower-quality problem
now is that if this is a good episode.

So it’s October, 2023 and
you’re out in Yokohama,

you’re drinking and you do
what everyone does when they

go out drinking, you’re like,
I’m gonna livestream this.

‘Cause everyone wants to see
my drunk ass out in the world,

real life IRL streaming.

Never actually been a
big fan of IRL streaming,

probably just ’cause I’ve
never tried it, never done it.

I don’t think I do anything
interesting enough to stream live,

but he fell asleep on the train.

So this guy’s live streaming
himself, he falls asleep on the train.

Then a gentleman sees an opportunity
to take advantage of the situation.

So he does what he does
and he steals the man’s

wallet and phone
while it is still streaming.

They then leap into a car
where there are two other people,

those two other people accomplices.

I did learn some
interesting Japanese today.

They start having a conversation,

the whole conversation is
being broadcast live on stream.

I was immediately thinking like, there’s
two people talking, do I do voices?

I hadn’t decided yet.

Thief, hello, good work.

I just got a tuna with
a set of mobile phones.

Tuna is slang for
stealing from drunk people,

I guess ’cause they’re
just flopped out on

the, on the bench or
on the seat of the train.

So if they’re passed
out drunk, thieves refer

to them as two in us,
which I learned that.

I was really happy to learn that.

So if I want to pretend to be a thief,

I now can use a cup a
little bit like, you know,

jargon that’s applicable
to the industry I’ve chosen.

The theft is a bank debit card.

And I heard that if it’s
attached to a phone,

you can figure out the pin.

This is a very thief way of thinking,

like I heard that if you have
A and B, you can figure it out.

Other people may be us not so much
because we’re having the conversation

if we knew how to do it,
we’d already be doing it.

So later, they meet at a hotel
and the live stream is continuing

and they discuss the
contents of the wallet.

And so the accomplice says,
well, there are a lot of money.

And he says, there’s hardly any money.

But if I tried buying, but I tried buying,

of course, IQOS is, I’m pretty sure that’s
doing a vaping gesture on the stream.

I know, I know if you
took away the sound,

it would have looked like something else,

but that’s because it’s
your dirty mind, not my.

I, of course, is I believe a
tobacco product or a vape.

They’re a little like charger
things that you can buy

at a convenience store, I don’t smoke.

I know they’re for smoking.

I don’t smoke, so I don’t actually
know what they are specifically.

But I tried buying an
IQOS, IQOS, IQOS, IQOS,

IQOS at a convenience store
with this cash card and it worked.

And then they picked up the smartphone.

This lot, it says something
about making a report.

And then the live stream abruptly ended.

So I hope you enjoy my
first foray into voice acting.

That was thief number one and accomplice.

Who is a couple steps away from goofy.

But here’s the problem.

At least in this case, unlike
many of the other cases

we’ve talked about in the last few weeks,
the live streaming, it was unintentional.

They didn’t intentionally broadcast
their crimes on the internet.

Whereas actually 90% of the
crimes we’ve been talking about

lately have actually
been purposely broadcast

to try to get internet fame
and led to arrests or fines

or any of the number of other things.

So these guys are just average criminals.

They didn’t know it was streaming.

The phone was on.

I mean, what are you going to do?

You just, that’s the situation.

So they were arrested.

I am interested
in, am I? I’m not.

I mean, they were arrested.

They deserve it.

That’s pretty much it right there.

See, I’m on the way here.

Wrong transition.

That is because I can’t
see that far away right now.

Since you’re talking about
streaming, there was a teacher who

thought, you know what, I,
you know, I teach full time.

It’s my full time job, but I
have a dream, a big dream.

I actually kind of relate to this.

I have a big dream.

I want to be a streamer and
I want to quit my teaching job

in just a stream full
time and do wacky antics.

I don’t know.

He was streaming while he was working.

So he was in the teacher staff room.

He would turn on a stream
and then stream himself working.

I assume just doing like admin
work, which does not seem

like a very interesting
stream to me, but I fall into this

old category where I want to see people
do stuff or talk about interesting things.

And then I see what gets popular.

People sleeping.

People eating massive amounts of food.

Like I found that
fascinating for a day or two.

But then after that, I
was like, I don’t really need

to see people just eating
massive amount of food.

I don’t, I don’t see the
appeal in it more than once.

The TikTok NPC thing,
did not get it at all.

Like I understood it as an
oddity, something I would see once.

I couldn’t see myself watching
it for an extended period.

Watching a teacher in a staff room
do his work seems really boring to me.

The problem is the live stream
was also picking up ongoing

conversations around
the teacher, which those

people hadn’t agreed
to have this on stream.

So there’s some privacy issues there.

He also was streaming the athletic field.

Now, they’re not saying if
anyone was on it, but that could

be super creepy because it
could be like, oh, I’m going to

stream the underage people
running around the field.

Maybe my intent is not
sexual, but then the people

who look at that stuff
might turn it sexual.

And that’s always the problem.

Like you might intend
it in an innocent way.

Here’s an interesting
slice of life day in a

Japanese high school
or junior high school.

I actually didn’t say it probably
didn’t one of the articles.

So I didn’t write it down.

Anyways, this is a school.

These are kids.

They should not be filmed
without their permission.

You shouldn’t be filming kids
and throwing it up on the internet.

The reason he was
streaming at the school was to

increase his streaming time
to gain some service perks.

So I stream on Twitch and you
get so many hours and then they’ll

let you keep your vod
longer or something like that.

Basically, if you show
a commitment to the

platform, the platform
will give you certain perks.

This is just people who stream
ones or twice and then just give up.

Don’t, you know, you
don’t give any sort of

storage space to them
for any length of time.

I get it.

The reason I related to this is
because I also tend to stream

in my free time.

But I never thought like would anyone
want to watch me at my desk working?

I don’t see that.

This is maybe my biggest
problem like Instagram.

I don’t look at something and
think I should take a picture of

that and post it on Instagram.

So my Instagram is basically empty.

I don’t look at a lot of things
in real life and go, this would be

of interest to other people
when, of course, that is often the

content that is super
interesting to other people.

So I need guidance.

So if you have something you would
like to see in Japan, let me know.

I probably will forget to do it
because that’s how I live my life.

What happened to this teacher
was students found live streams

reported to the school.

He received a 10% pay cut.

So he didn’t lose his job.

And I guess I think that’s pretty fair.

I don’t, it doesn’t sound like he was
doing anything malicious or creepier weird.

He wanted to boost his
amount of time streamed.

And then just was like,
well, I’ll have to take

it with me to the
places and I go the place.

I go all day, every day is work.

So I’ll have to stream from work.

It was pretty selfish.

But it didn’t seem like he
was intending to hurt anyone.

So I think I think a 10%
pay cut is pretty fair.

Still so close to being super creepy.

We have talked about part time terrorism.

I learned that the phrase a few
weeks ago, because we talked about

food terrorism for a long
time, that there’s also part time

terrorism as kids at part time
jobs last week was the kid who

picked his nose and
wiped it in the pizza dough.

And then the domino swap team
came down on that store, like the

rage of Odin turns out
there’s insurance for that.

This is another whole other
aspect of the world that I’m

interested in, things
you can get insurance for.

I’m very interested in contracts
and contract negotiations,

primarily famous people who
have like interest in contracts or

things in their contracts that a
normal human being like me would

not have or even consider
insurance, things you can ensure is

another subject that I find
vaguely interesting, because you

can ensure that, oh, that’s
weird, I immediately reminds me of

like things you can get blessed in Japan.

So like if you build a house,
you can have a priest come

to bless your house, that
seems pretty obvious, you

can take things to the
temple and get them blessed.

So I had a child took the child
to the temple and they wave

the leaf over his head.

Great.

You know, it’s just for
me, not being religious.

It was a fun, interesting
cultural experience.

Then the guy, the priest, not
just the guy, the priest goes

and he starts wiggling
the leaves over a van.

And I’m like, what is he doing?

He’s blessing the van.

Oh, he’s blessing the van, what are
you just asking him to bless anything?

They’re like, I mean, basically,
yeah, you pay the, the, the

temple money, the priest is
going to bless whatever you want.

And my first thought was like,
could I get my PlayStation blessed?

Like have him wiggle the,
the, the, the leaves over the

PlayStation and be like headshot,
headshot, headshot, something like that.

And basically it turns out if I gave
them the money, they would bless it.

So now we could run
a scientific experiment.

We could have two play stations.

One that has been blessed
and one that has not an alternate.

I think a fairest would be week to week.

So one week you play on the
blessed PlayStation, the second

week you play on the cursed
place, PlayStation, PlayStation,

and back and forth.

And then track the statistics
of each one and see if your

performance improves
on the blessed PlayStation.

Very interesting concept I just
had, uh, should I have enough money

to a pay for a blessing
and a second PlayStation.

And I have enough time to
make that worthwhile study.

I will do it.

Uh, you can send your
contributions to science.

If you want, please
don’t send money for that.

Cause if you sent me
enough money to buy a second

PlayStation, I wouldn’t
buy a second PlayStation.

I buy something else.

And then I would feel
like I’m ripping you off.

And the last thing I want, the
ninja news is, do you need a name?

I need a name for, for people
who watch nineties news Japan.

The little ninjas, little
ninjas was a video game.

I really enjoyed it was a kid’s game.

And once you’d played it
and you knew everything you’d

finished in like six hours,
I played a multiple time.

It was super fun.

You played as a very
small ninja, ergo the title.

Anyways, talking about
insurance, the part time.

Terrorism that goes on.

So these kids, they get bored
at their convenience store job.

It’s two o’clock in the morning.

They’re making dominoes pizza dough.

They get bored.

They start doing dumb teenage stuff.

I absolutely would have
fallen into this category.

I worked in dog food and university.

I can tell you that I’ve probably
eaten every type of dog food that was

available in just to
see what it tasted like.

I did not do anything
particularly bad, but

it’s hard to mess with
dog food in a fun way.

And then back when I
was at that age, we weren’t

videoing everything
and streaming it online.

And so there was far less
incentive for me to do stuff.

The worst thing I would do is probably
like lay out and make a bed of 40 kilogram

dog food things and
just lie down for a bit.

But I was young.

So I had a lot of energy.

So I actually spent a lot of time reading.

It was a great job.

I got to honestly say selling dog
food because customer service sucks.

Selling dog food.

I mean, basically people
bring their dogs into the store.

Give the dog a cookie.

The dogs really happy.

The owners that really
happy their dog is happy.

Their way more chill to deal with,
it was very rare to have a high,

strong, worked up dog food
owner dog food, a dog owner

come in and buy dog food
and like give you a hard time.

So that’s something just in my mind.

I was like, yeah, you know, of the
customer service jobs is probably best.

So it didn’t mean we had zero problems,
but I would say compared to like any

other industry customer service way,
way fewer because you could just pay off

the dog and the owner was happy.

And you’re, I mean, again, you’re getting a
ton of this stuff for free from the companies.

They want you to
promote their cookie.

So you’re getting out
that cookie that week.

So what you can get insured.

So you have a part time employee,
they mess around on the job.

You can have the insurance
that will cover the reputate.

Oh, it’s called reputation
expense insurance.

And it was started in April 2019.

So this has been going
on for like five years now.

It covers the cost of crisis
management consulting.

So they actually offer a secondary
service where they help you try to figure

out how to fix the issue.

So there was the story I remember the most.

I don’t know why and it was the kid.

It was in the summertime.

He opened up the thing that
has all the ice cream he got in.

And then I assume another his friend of
the other employee closed it and took a

picture of it as he was like
comfortably resting in the ice cream thing.

And then the one from
last week where the kid

picked his nose and
put it in the pizza dough.

How do you fix that?

It covers the cost of lawyers because you’re
going to have to like sue the family or

sue the kid or have lawyers to protect
yourself and have everyone’s got a lawyer up

the removal of online postings.

And I actually realize like
that’s going to be the hard part

because once these things
go viral, they go like spread out.

You need like a team
sending out DCMA things,

uh, just trying to like
quell it as hard as they can.

So that’s going to be a
whole team working on that.

And then help in the apology
press conference because of

course in Japan, even when
you were technically the victim.

So I like again, no big love for
companies that an engineer is Japan.

But companies can be the victim.

And in this case, it’s the
employees messing around.

They’re making the company
look bad, but the company

still has to apologize
because this is Japan.

So you have to stand up and say
like, sorry for the trouble we caused.

We’re going to train our employees better.

We’re going to make sure
this doesn’t happen again.

A reputation is hurt
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

I’ve seen a billion apologies.

It’s essentially a script, but you have to
follow the script if you work for a big company.

They had 20,000 customers in 2023.

So that means 20,000 companies
have reputation insurance in 2023.

And with these things hitting the
news more, more often and much bigger.

Because like you got shows like the
engineer, Japan, who like, this is our

bread and butter, this is the stuff we
enjoy because this is the weird news.

This is going to become
a bigger and bigger thing.

I’m going to help propagate it.

So really, the insurance kickbacks should
come back to me so that I keep promoting this.

I think I’m very money focused today.

It’s a bit capitalistic.

I apologize.

The future technology has been a
very technology oriented episode today

with live streaming and
the insurance being basic.

Again, it’s part of viral videos.

Japan’s pushes itself towards the future.

It has certainly has an image.

I mean, there was a story that
I’m not doing this week about them.

Government agencies putting
away floppy disks forever.

They’re actually mandating that
you can’t use floppy disks anymore.

There are entire generations of people
who’ve never even seen a floppy disk.

So that is how weirdly
backwards Japan can be.

And yet also it tends to be at
the forefront of a lot of technology.

There was a city that wanted
to set up a drone delivery system.

That drone delivery system failed because
they had zero orders for the last year.

Now, their idea was I’m, I’m unable
to leave my house for some reason.

So I’ll call this office.

It’s kind of like a main train station.

They’ll have someone go
out going to the local shopping

area, load all those
shopping things onto a drone.

The drone will go to a designated area.

That was my first thought.

This is the problem.

They’re not bringing it to your house.

So if I can’t leave my house, the drone
system doesn’t help me because I still

have to leave my house to go to
the designated delivery area, which I’m

assuming is basically an open field, which
might be really far away from my house.

So the whole convenient aspect of a
drone delivering to you cannot happen

because of safety issues, the
drone is going to have to be massive.

Because let’s say it’s I buy a 40 kilogram
bag of dog food has going to have to be

able to carry that X
amount of kilometers away.

It’s not going to be able
to land outside my house.

Maybe the drones too big.

Maybe it would impede traffic.

Who knows what’s going to happen there?

So since it could only go from point
A to point B, it is then less viable

system for the actual
convenience and purpose of it.

So they had zero orders, which once
I learned about the system, I was like,

of course they did because I’m going
to go with the person who actually

brings it to my door, which is the
whole point of trying to get something

delivered is, is it too bad?

I don’t know if it’s too bad.

All the money that was going to the
drone delivery system is now going to go

to electric vehicle van delivery
systems, which I’m on board with.

I do, I know that there are
everything has its problems.

So like the nickel mining and
stuff in the lithium that goes

into batteries is not thing,
but again, it’s transitional.

It’s important to take steps
to try to improve things.

And I think electric vehicles is a
very good step in the right direction.

So let’s keep going with that.

So I’m glad the money is going
towards deliveries that’ll actually work.

And, yeah, of course, if I
have to leave my house to

go to the drone, I might
as well just go shopping.

It’s not a creepy, creepy story,
but it’s out of touch politicians.

I did have an idea.

So I was thinking about doing,
I did a series for a little while.

It wasn’t a series.

It was like every now and then I
would do international politics, but

like as high school students.

So it would be like Kim Jong-un,
Kim Jong-il, one of the Kim Jongs,

talking to president of a country
and they’re back and forth.

And I was, I was affecting sort of
what I would consider as essentially

Californian valley girl accents.

So it really snied towards each other.

But I was like, you know, it
would be really interesting.

It would be do international
politics as a kids show.

So like the actual countries
are represented by characters.

You get in trouble because if you did
Winnie the Pooh for Xi Jinping in China,

he didn’t like that very much.

But I was like, if you want
to, one of the problems as

international politics so
complicated, we need to simplify it.

The best way to simplify things is
to do it like you’re talking to kids.

It relevant to what I
was just talking about.

It was just a thought that happened to
enter my head at this moment in this time.

There were, there was a government
sort of conference and they were talking

about ways to tackle the
gender inequality in Japan.

And this is a big thing.

It’s actually a very big problem in Japan.

Gender inequality and pay
and everything is still very real.

They might say it’s
not real in other places.

I don’t know whether that’s true or
not because I don’t know statistics.

But in Japan, man and
woman does the same job.

There’s a very good chance the man
is getting paid more than the woman.

Miei is a prefecture in
Japan is not is eighth in the

country for city employees
getting paid if you’re a man.

It’s 24th for city employees getting
paid if you’re a woman, which implies

that the man is getting two, three times
more money for doing the exact same

job as a woman in Miei, which is
problematic because that’s exactly what

they’re talking about
saying we need to fix.

The mayor of one of the cities in Miei
had his own opinions about how to fix the

gender inequality problem and his idea
was to start a campaign and that campaign

would be live rich by marrying
a high earning man from Miei.

Now, you can, if you were, let’s
say one of the more female oriented

members of this conference, see some
of the core issues with that as tackling

gender inequality. One of the other
people there was like, it sounds like

you’re saying that women should rely
on men and he’s saying, well, what would

happen is with the population decline,
women from other prefectures would come to

Miei, they would marry a man in
Miei and have more babies and then the

population would go up and Miei would
be a better place and that’s a quality,

right? So I think I think the actual
core issue here more than anything else.

I don’t think this guy actually knows
what gender inequality is and I don’t

think he knew what the problems were.
So he just started saying stuff that was

going on in his head and he was trying
to make Miei sound good. So he tried to

make it sound good by like, hey, the
men in Miei make a lot of money, not

realizing what he’s saying is women
in Miei do not make a lot of money.

So if you want to be a happy woman, marry
for money, not love. So marry a man from

Miei, it’s just, it’s a tragedy in his
inability to understand what was actually

going on around him in the moment
at the time. And that is politics.

I mean, that’s it right there. A lot of
the, in seeming to be the last couple of

episodes, I’ve done a couple of Senate
hearings. And one thing I’ve noticed is

they constantly seem to not actually
talk about the issue that’s on the

docket, the thing they’re supposed
to be talking about in that day.

The last one I did was the president of
TikTok who as a person, I find him quite

interesting. I think I quite like him. I
don’t know him well enough to actually know.

He may be really evil. And that’s
part of the charm of evil people.

So you gotta be careful. But it was
about his social media dangerous for kids.

I think core element, you could probably
say yes. But they kept asking him if he

was communist and if he was Chinese, which
has nothing to do with protecting children.

I guess I could twist that. This is
where my brain starts to do the work.

You could twist that so you were
protecting children from communism.

And that is why I host my own podcast.

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