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We have a lot of updates to old stories, which is cool.
The last couple of weeks we’ve had the Kai-ten terrorism Sushi.
It says Sushi terrorism, I think is what they were calling it.
So it’s the Kai-ten Sushi restaurants.
We had some kids act like Dix.
They lost a Sushi dough, one of the biggest Kai-ten Sushi chains in Japan.
A ton of money, ’cause their market share went down.
Another market share, their stock went down like 5%.
Caught some 12 billion yen in value.
So they’re having a reaction, they’re trying to like, we gotta step it up.
My family actually went to Sushi dough last week.
My father-in-law gave my wife money.
and just so that we could go out for dinner.
So went to Sushi dough, ’cause kids eat a lot now.
You could not, there was nothing on the,
so is the rotating conveyor belt.
There was nothing on it.
There was little placards with things you could order.
Basically it was just rolling advertisements.
Then we would order on the touch pad,
which is basically like a tablet.
And the Sushi would arrive on the conveyor belt.
We didn’t have any, there was no borders or anything,
but you could see like people were kinda checking.
I didn’t expect anything to happen, because again, this is a national story
that essentially involves three team boys.
So you gotta take that into like context.
Okay, anyways, the other companies are like,
again, this is risking their whole livelihood, the existence of the company.
So they wanna put up sort of guard barriers.
Only orders will come through,
that’s exactly the experience I just had.
There’s a company called Kura Sushi,
and they wanna put up cameras that use AI to scan for suspicious behavior.
So they’re getting super high tech.
The weird thing was the AI, if it sees something suspicious,
like I put my hand in and out of the
conveyor belt, let’s say too many times,
the AI will notify the head office.
The head office is then going to contact.
the individual restaurant where the suspicious behavior has happened.
Which I found to be a bit convoluted,
because you could cut out the middleman.
It sounds like you have a head office where
there’s a giant bank of television screens
that are being AI monitored, forces, suspicious behavior.
And then like a red light goes up over here in some city,
and then some guy gets on the phone and goes,
you gotta touch her!
Something like that.
I’m not sure what they would say.
They would probably come up, Sushi tetto, and something like that.
It seems like the AI could just notify the restaurant itself though.
So the staff could like walk around and check on stuff.
I don’t see the need for the head office,
or maybe they’re making a judgment call,
like they’re gonna review the video
and then call if they feel it’s necessary.
I don’t know about that.
I was just sitting there going like, just notify the restaurant,
cut out the person in the middle.
There may be a reason for it.
They didn’t explain it very well.
Like beyond that, so yeah, I can’t say that much.
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We also have a former pro gamer and streamer
who has not been around for the last year,
because it’s actually more complicated than the story made it out to be.
Basically she said, she went on stream and she said,
men under 170 centimeters have no human rights.
And what had actually happened?
So I don’t agree with, you know, shitting on people like that,
although I should on people all the time.
So maybe I should.
I think if you pointed out my behavior or something, I would be like, sorry.
I don’t know, or not.
I mean, often I think like apologies make it worse.
I’m just going around in this circle.
A guy delivered food to her apartment, like
a door dash or a Uber eats or something.
And the guy recognized her and immediately started hitting on her.
She took negatively to that, went back to her stream
and basically started insulting the guy.
I bet as like a pro gamer, streamer girl,
she gets hit on by guys all the time and she doesn’t like it.
But at the same time in Japan, especially
you’re using that sort of like sexuality,
the attractiveness to gain your audience in the first place.
So the idea that they wouldn’t hit on you is almost unreasonable.
I don’t know, I don’t know where I land on that one.
If you use sex to get a primarily male audience
and then the male audience takes the initiative
and tries to talk to you, should you be offended?
She was.
So she said a couple of really shitty things about the guy
and he was maybe not that tall.
She likes tall guys.
So she started insulting him and then her gamer base got really upset.
I keep falling into these things where I’m like,
I flip flop back and forth like she’s getting hit on.
She doesn’t want to get hit on.
It’s annoying.
She just ordered some food, leave me alone.
That guy’s not being professional.
He’s delivering food and he sees someone.
He shouldn’t be hitting on them.
But then she shouldn’t go in like rip on him on stream.
It’s a very tough situation.
I think maybe everyone’s a little bit at fault
but she probably got the worst fallout.
She disappeared for years.
She was fired from her pro team
and she hasn’t streamed in the last year.
She tried to make a return to streaming.
She did come on and say it was my fault
for making discriminatory, discriminatory remarks.
We just fare.
So she’s saying, like I said some stuff,
I do think the context changes it a bit.
I think the guy showing up at her house
and then immediately hitting on her is also
wrong and he’s not getting any fallout.
So if there was fallout on both sides, maybe I’d be okay with it.
I’m sitting here wondering like,
is it okay to shoot your shot?
But I think I know the difference.
If I was the Uber Eats guy and I showed up your door
and you showed interest in me,
you still shooting shoot your shot.
No, as soon as I get to that point, it’s like,
I kind of want to start this whole story again.
He should not have hit on her.
That’s basically the idea.
I was trying to think back to when I
was a young man and I would hit on girls.
And if I ever like cross the line, I’m sure I did.
I’m sure every young man,
’cause you don’t understand boundaries yet.
And you learn the boundaries as you get older
and then by the time you’re old enough and mature enough
to not break those boundaries, you’re probably done.
Shooting your shots at girls like you either have
a long-term relationship or you know what you want
or you know how to get what you want or something like that.
And it’s not a big thing anymore.
I’m very torn.
I maybe need some input from other people.
I didn’t think this was gonna be such a gray moral zone.
I am falling firmly on the guy should not have hit
on her at the door.
That’s actually vaguely threatening.
She’s in her home.
So that’s really, really bad.
Should she have gone on stream and shit on ’em?
I actually I’m kind of okay with that.
Only because of the negativity of the way I view.
that initial experience.
Maybe she shouldn’t have said men under 170 centimeters.
Maybe she just said this guy and just kept it specific.
Like this guy just hit on me.
It was really gross.
It was really unappealing.
I think maybe I’d be okay with that.
As long as she didn’t like get him in trouble or docks him or something.
I don’t know.
I looked up a lot of it.
She said a lot of dumb shit.
So this is clearly how she talks.
I think maybe this guy set her off,
but she took it too far.
I don’t think she need to.
Again, these companies, they gotta fire people
if they’re gonna say dumb shit like that.
Once you become a professional and you represent a team,
you just can’t say things.
You can think ’em, you can feel ’em.
You can’t say it out loud.
That’s something that famous people gotta think about.
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There’s irony abounding.
There’s irony abounding.
Dozens of people who were taking a digital literacy course
had their private information exposed to the Internet.
Why not exposed to the other people in the course?
Via LACS security, which I assume would have
been less than one is make sure you have
sort of network security.
So one of the students found that using this like procedure,
they could look at the text file with all the other students’ information.
And being able to do that,
they then had access to their email accounts and stuff.
So they pointed it out.
They got the names and emails of everyone else who was taking the course.
They pointed out, “That student passes the course.
“Digital literacy, they’ve got it, they’re doing it,
“they’ve got it right, they win.”.
The company on the other hand, unless this was the test,
this could have been one of those sort of meta tests.
We’re gonna expose your information, the students who find it,
who find out what we did and try to stop it.
They’re the ones who pass,
“I get the odd feeling that’s not what they were doing.”
And it’s just one of those really crap,
digital literacy courses that doesn’t mean anything.
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We have two island oriented stories, which I found.
It’s always a weird convergence.
‘Cause if you said, “Hey, find two story news stories
“that are relevant and current about islands on any week.”
I probably couldn’t do it.
But here then they just two of them flopped into my lap.
There’s a company we talked about, I think last week or the week before,
and they were taking investments for.
a non-existent company that promised a
4% return every month on your investment.
Eight people were arrested for this fraud.
And the problem is, what they wanted to do was take the money
and buy a private island and create a resort on the island.
So it wasn’t even like they were just gonna buy a private island
for themselves and then just stay there.
They were actually gonna use it to try to make a business.
They wanted to buy a private island and a cruise ship
and then build a resort and then like,
they would drop people out to the resort.
It would be private, very exclusive, very expensive.
And then, but I was like,
“Wait, they got people to invest in their fake company.
“Couldn’t they just get the same people “to invest in their actual plan
“to buy a private island and cruise ship?”
‘Cause clearly the people investing in the fake company
where the fraud was committed are investing, they’re looking for things.
This as a business plan, we’re gonna buy a private island
to make an exclusive resort.
It’s actually not a bad plan.
The interesting thing to me, finding an uninhabited island,
so it just would be down around Okinawa.
There’s a bunch of little islands.
You can buy an island for 80 million yet.
That’s $610,000.
My image of buying a private island was in the millions,
just inherently.
You had to have millions and millions and millions of dollars.
I think that’s how Nicholas Cage ended up
getting into trouble with the tax and stuff
as he bought islands and he was just spending too much money.
That’s why he makes like 20 movies a year now
to try to pay off the taxes and stuff.
I don’t know if he still has a private island.
$610,000 seems achievable.
Like, if I didn’t have kids,
I would have not that much money, but I’d have a lot of money,
and if I invested that money properly, it looks like I as an individual.
might be able to buy a private island.
I would still have to build a house on it and stuff,
but if I had to have my own island.
Can you imagine this podcast if I was
literally in the middle of a deserted island?
Like doing it outside.
So I’d have to get like satellite Internet or something.
It’d be awesome.
So like I sit in my little room actually,
I would build a house that’s about the size of this room
plus a kitchen in like a shower area.
That would be the size of my, the scope of
my mansion would be like three tiny rooms.
I’ve realized I don’t need much more than that.
My mind is such an expanse that physical limitations mean nothing anymore.
I’ve gone off on private island man thinking,
which is the island is a relevant item on the island in myself.
Anyways, the eight people were arrested for the fraud.
They didn’t get the private island.
I still think that the issue was don’t try to cheat people
to get them into investing a company that doesn’t exist
so that you can take that money and transfer it to another business scheme,
introduce them to the original business scheme.
Maybe that’s it.
Maybe people are like,
why would I invest in a private island cruise ship combo
when I could just invest in this company
that’s promising 4% return every month.
That 4% return every month is a lot
because you think that rules over every month.
It’s cumulative interest that kind of thing.
So that’s maybe they were over promising
it’s sort of a Ponzi scheme then
because they’re gonna take your money and invest it elsewhere.
And then maybe if they make enough money, they’ll pay you back probably not.
Anyways, I found out the price of a private island.
I was shocked at how cheap they were.
I know I don’t have enough money to buy a private island
but I was shocked at how cheap a private island was.
Second island oriented story.
So there was a woman went on social media, a Chinese lady.
And she was on an island.
And she said, hey, everyone look at this island that I now own.
Now there’s a couple of issues there.
Chinese people in China are not allowed to own land.
All land in China is actually owned by the government.
So land ownership is a very big deal.
So she was like getting Max cloud for this post.
So what has actually happened?
She didn’t buy an island.
There’s a very difficult for foreign people to buy land in Japan.
I own the land that my house sits on but
because I’m married to a Japanese person
and have two Japanese kids,
clearly when I die, that land is going to still be part of Japan.
I’m not gonna like try to take it away
or do something with it that was nefarious.
Japan is very worried about Chinese companies
buying Japanese land because they’re worried about like,
if they buy X amount of property, is that now part of China?
That’s kind of the underlying thinking.
I don’t know if that’s how it works but that is the underlying thinking.
So she went on social media said she bought an island in Okinawa.
It’s actually a company that was run by a relative bought the island.
This was very unusual.
So the beaches are owned by the government.
That consists of about 50% of the island.
The core island itself was owned by a holding company.
That holding company sold it to another
company that sold it to another company
that eventually sold it to a Chinese company.
So this is how the Chinese company got in
and was able to actually buy an island in Japan
which they’re probably not supposed to be able to do
is that it passed through so many hands.
I don’t know if this was quicker not but
because it passed through so many entities,
maybe the government lost track of it or maybe they’re just like,
well, this is just being passed around as an investment
and they weren’t paying as close enough attention.
So this woman is technically correct.
The core of the island is her.
The government maintains ownership over the beaches
which is going to be the most attractive part of the island.
It is a question of what are they gonna do with the core island?
Is she just gonna live there by herself
which would mean no one comes to the island
to play on the beaches, which means she has essentially private beaches
even if they are owned by the Japanese government?
Or is the Japanese government going to take the island away
from the holding company, the media company.
that has bought the island that is allowed her to use it?
That is a very interesting question.
I am very interested in this story because is this low-key racism
or is this Japan protecting itself from foreign investors?
Because foreign investors can be very dangerous
if you have a small country with not much land and they buy up all the lands
so the Japanese people can’t buy it.
So I’m interested in where this ends up
because it’s caused a stir in China because this woman now owns an island
which is a very attractive thing.
It’s caused a stir in Japan because
whoa, it’s China subtly trying to buy up all the islands
and all the bits of Japan that they can so that they can actually own Japan.
That is honestly a real concern for the Japanese government.
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Balloon news.
I guess this was inevitable.
So over the last week, there was the balloon
that was floating around America, the Chinese spy balloon
and it was shot down.
And then it came out that over the last few years,
there’s been a whole bunch of Chinese spy balloons floating around America.
And then a couple days ago, America
shot down a Chinese spy balloon over Canada
and the Canadian military was going
out to try to find the bits of the balloon.
And China’s like, “Hey, give us our stuff back.”
And everyone’s like, “Fluid over our country.”
It’s not your stuff anymore.
So there’s a little bit of a tip there.
Japan came out admitted, “Yes, there have been balloons.
floating around Japan in the same way.”.
Primarily around the islands, just like we’re talking,
“This is technically a third island story.”.
But that’s where the military bases are.
So America has military bases in Japan.
China has been flying the spy balloons around them.
Now, legally speaking, because of Japanese
laws in airspace, they say that they can
shoot the balloons out of the sky.
But then came up to the practical issue.
of could they shoot the balloons out of the sky?
‘Cause this was interesting, ’cause the defense minister
said the first problem is you have to get permission.
So the self-defense force in Japan,
it’s gonna be really long and difficult for them
to get to the point where you can use weapons.
Because the whole point of the self-defense force,
the constitution that was written after World War II
is that Japan cannot have a military.
So the whole point is that they’re not
supposed to really do aggressive stuff.
Shooting stuff out of the sky is seen as really aggressive.
This is also part of the controversy over the last few weeks
where the Japanese government’s like,
self-defense lets expand the meaning,
which means we can shoot stuff in other
countries, as long as we don’t leave Japan.
That’s a really, really interpretive view of what self-defense means.
But what the practicality is, because the self-defense force does not enact
a lot of these things, the self-defense force
may not have the skills to actually shoot a balloon
out of the sky, which I didn’t think about.
‘Cause I saw the video of the American airplane
shooting it out, ’cause you just see the balloon pop.
You don’t even see like bolts or anything,
’cause of course this is like hypersonic stuff.
They’re saying that maybe Japanese pilots,
maybe Japanese weaponry doesn’t have the same skill level,
so they might actually not be able to do it.
Whether or not they want to or not becomes a secondary issue.
So I was thinking they should get the AI cameras.
from the Sushi restaurants and aim them
up with the sky, and if they see something,
they can actually notify the head office
of the Sushi restaurant, and then the Sushi restaurant,
the cough ruined my joke.
Well, sad now.
Since this is not scripted, I didn’t actually
know where that joke was gonna end up,
but I’m sure it was gonna be better if I didn’t cough,
so I’m just gonna abandon that joke now.
Just like Japan’s abandoned shooting down Chinese spy balloons.
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A gibbon is a kind of monkey.
I’m not gonna get too deep into the details of what a gibbon is,
but anyways, there was a gibbon in an isolated enclosure,
and in February last year, 2021,
Momo, a 12 year old gibbon, got pregnant.
She was in the enclosure alone.
How does that happen?
Is this like one of those Jurassic Park things.
where life finds a way?
We have to figure out what happens, ’cause we wanna make sure,
I mean, it’s great that the gibbon got pregnant, to be honest,
because this is being kept in enclosure because of endangerment.
I just totally forgot that word for a second.
Turns out that at the time of pregnancy,
there was a male gibbon, Ito, was in the next enclosure.
Turns out there was a nine millimeter hole between the two enclosures.
They did a DNA test of the baby, so they
know that the baby is actually Ito’s child.
So Momo and Ito got up towards this nine millimeter hole
between the two enclosures and managed to do it.
Now, not particularly complimentary,
since we’re gonna do some penis shaming,
to Ito there on his member, but Momo was up for it.
Let’s just be factual.
Momo was up for it, backed up to the glory hole, they both got the job done.
There’s no way that didn’t happen without cooperation.
So this was a case of completely consensual sexual intercourse,
resulting in a child that is going to be loved
because the zoo is very happy that his baby’s out there.
It is problematic because you have an absent father.
And I think the reason of that is that Momo
was 12 years old, Ito was 34 years old.
So that age gap is significant.
So maybe we have a lot of different issues.
going on here at the same time.
There’s the age gap, the absent father.
The fact that this was conceived through a glory hole essentially.
What kind of environment is this baby being raised in?
Is really the question, but still people seem happy.
And if you wanna rip on a given,
I was, I mean, the instinct is to make a joke about a nine millimeter hole
and getting your penis through there, but at the same time,
man, he probably had sex more than I did that year.
There was a guy in Japan, I didn’t write down his name.
He designed a Ferrari.
So he was one of the primary designers of this style of Ferrari.
He owns the Ferrari that he designed.
No.
Guess what he was arrested for?
It was not obstruction of his.
He was speeding.
He was arrested for speeding.
He was given an eight,
oh, I think it was, he was given eight months or four months
in jail time, but a suspended sentence.
So basically if he doesn’t get in trouble again, he’ll be fine.
He was doing 128 kilometers an hour,
going 88 kilometers over the speed limit.
The speed limit’s probably only 80.
So he was like easily doubling what the speed limit should have been.
And he goes to court and I was like, this guy,
clearly he designs fast cars, he loves fast cars,
he’s out in the open, he’s driving around in the car he designed,
he wants to open it up, lay it flat, see what happens.
I totally understand what really happened here.
As does the judge, but you don’t want to go into court
and go like, dude, I designed this car to go as fast as humanly possible.
I wanted to see how fast it would go.
You got to give him a story.
So the story he gives through his lawyer is he wanted to expose
the engine to fast moving air to cool it down,
which is a very technical engine oriented thing to say
and sounds almost plausible until you take into account.
or you could just slow down and the car would cool off.
It’s Valentine’s Day.
It is Valentine’s Day this day, the day of recording.
It is Valentine’s Day February 14th, 2023.
They have a practice in Japan called Gidey Chocol.
So basically you work in an office
and every woman in the office is obliged to give a tiny chocolate
to every man in the office.
Just says like, say, face, it’s just like a show.
So whether you like ’em or not, you kind of have to do it.
And then next month there’s White Day, the
men are supposed to reciprocate, but again,
because it’s obligatory chocolate, they probably don’t.
I always thought this was stupid.
Like if you like someone, not like in a sexual way
or a lover kind of way, you just like someone as a person,
I thought that would be cool, give ’em some chocolate,
and then next month they give you some cookies.
It’s just a friendship thing.
I was cool with that.
But the pandemic has had a lot of people work from home.
They sort of like, you know,
they don’t have as much contact as they did.
So it’s changed some of the mores and values
and it’s actually exposed some of the
cracks in the Japanese traditional systems.
A obligatory chocolate has fallen to the wayside over the last few years.
And 83% of women do not want to give gidi gidi choco this Valentine’s Day,
which I 100% am up and I’m bored with.
I don’t want chocolate that people don’t actually.
want to give to me, which is, again, also a weird thing they’re saying.
When people in Japan go on holiday, they
buy like boxes of chocolates or cookies
or some kind of souvenir from the place they went to,
and they give one to everyone in the office.
And I often don’t want them.
Like if someone goes to America and comes
back with like a peanut buttercup, 100%,
I will be eating that.
But a lot of this stuff, I’m just like,
I don’t want your dry fish cake from somewhere in Japan.
You can just keep that yourself.
But yeah, the tradition of obligatory
chocolate seems to be going to the wayside.
Maybe they’re not gonna be doing it as much anymore.
8.2% of women will give the gidi chocolate this year.
So that’s guaranteed.
That’s only 8% out of all the people they surveyed.
74.5% in the low 20s age group.
said they don’t want to.
As they got a little older, so in their late to 20s or early 30s and up,
it went to 80 to 90% said no.
70 year olds, so basically the older women get,
the less they wanna give gidi gidi chocolate, which I totally understand.
61.4% of men are not happy to get it anyways.
So you have more than half of the men are like me
and don’t want your gidi gidi chocolate.
You have a mass majority of women don’t wanna give it.
This seems ripe for, let’s just get rid of this practice.
This seems really silly that we’re still doing it at all.
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It’s almost like it wouldn’t be in Indonesia, Japan, without a creepy story,
but this one had a lot of elements.
So I have honestly not stopped, but a less
creepy guy’s story is because most of them
are not giving me anything interesting to talk about.
We’ve actually hit, you have to do something really weird
now for me to actually notice.
Once we got to the 50 year old men section
for it was like six months or something,
it was 50 year old men doing something creepy,
we had the guy get down on his hands and knees and lick a girl’s shoe,
just like apropos of nothing.
That’s now my new barrier.
If you can’t be weirder than that, you don’t get on the show anymore.
So someone, some 50 year old man out there
is really like, well, what can I do to get really weird
to get on the Indonesia, Japan?
A polyamorous 74 year old man,
he has eight ex wives in total who all live together.
So I assume in the same house.
Didn’t kidnap a girl, they attempted to brainwash a girl.
There was a bit vague on the age.
So that makes me feel like she’s probably under 18.
This was in order to commit sexual assault at a later date.
So they convinced this girl that they were psychics.
and they said, come to our house to consult a fortune teller.
They lured her into the house and showed her images of aliens
and told her that she would be abducted by aliens.
if she didn’t comply.
The girl believed them said, I will come back at an undisclosed later date.
Talk to her family about this experience she had
and how worried she was probably about getting abducted by aliens
and she had to go back and bang this 74 year old man
to make sure the aliens don’t abduct her.
Family and friends are like, maybe that’s not true.
You should call the police.
She did and then the police showed up.
I don’t know enough about brainwashing to know how this works.
I think luring the woman in to consult a fortune teller
already demonstrates a certain mindset of believability
because if you said Peter, come get your fortune told.
I might do it for entertainment but I would not believe it.
Whereas this sounds like this young woman actually believes
in fortune telling which means she’s equally likely to believe
in other fantastical things like aliens.
in which case she maybe is more susceptible to being brainwashing.
But this didn’t even sound like brainwashing.
It sounded like they’re like weird threats,
weird vague threats and if you don’t come back.
And again, I would like to know my first question would be like,
how does banging you the 74 year old man
stop the aliens from coming to abduct me?
Just explain the relationship there.
Is something you do to me make me make the aliens averse
to abducting me in the first place?
Do you imbue me with a chemical or some kind of super power shield
that stops the aliens from abducting me?
It seems like banging a 74 year old man isn’t going to stop aliens
from abducting me at all.
It seems like these two things might not be related.
I’m glad that she didn’t get abused.
I mean, they were already pushing it just getting her in the house
was already really risky and stuff.
But I think the sentence polyamorous 74 year old man
who lives with 8X wives and his current wife, 9 women in total,
I don’t want to take a look at him.
Is he stylish?
Is he cool?
Because a lot of times these like cult
leaders, this is one step away from cult.
These cult leader dudes, they’re all shaggy and weird looking.
But they must be convincing.
They must be charming somehow.
Oh, have you seen the picture?
I guess it’s 74 year old.
Just not pulling like you used to.
I guess if you hit the point where you have to brainwash people.
Mr. Warman’s just putting the chat, he’s fat bald and ugly.
I mean, you just described me.
It is the charisma element.
I’m always interested in that part of these stories.
Because what is it about them that makes them attractive?
The 8X wives are still hanging around.
That is already too weird to me.
That you would have 8 women who all finds you attractive enough
just to stay in your presence.
Because normally there would be tension between the women.
I don’t know if they’re as or not.
I don’t know what his household is like.
And yet here he is having these women
help him bring in more women to the fold.
So I’m interested in what that.
I said about it being like a cult to my wife too.
Yeah, it has to be.
I kind of want to know what the cult leaders do.
Because this story is so fantastical that it’s inconceivable to me
that someone would believe it.
But here we have a clear example of someone who did believe it.
And I think yeah, the opening the door is if you believe in fortune telling,
you’re going to believe a lot of stuff.
So then we can see how far we can push it
and see how easily you can be manipulated.
In the future, basically what I would like to say is aliens are real.
A fortune telling is not real.
So if someone tries to lure you with that, I just say no.
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