Tag: prediction

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So Ninja Ninja Japan is here.

We have not disappeared.

We have not disappeared because we
have not been crushed by an earthquake.

We haven’t been crushed by an earthquake
because the prediction by the mangaka

that on the 5th, the 4th, 5th, I
forget, that’s how unimportant it is.

On the 4th or 5th, that there was
going to be a massive earthquake.

So if you remember in the last episode,

we talked about there was
a manga and in her manga,

this woman had dreams and
she would just draw her dreams.

And she predicted the Fukushima disaster.

She predicted the earthquake
and it would be a big, big disaster.

Then she predicted that this year on
the 5th, there was going to be another one.

And it was going to be at
four o’clock in the morning

and it was going to make
Fukushima look like nothing.

Well, guess what happened?

Nothing.

So this is maybe one of the problems
is when people make predictions

and those predictions
are coincidentally accurate,

other people see that as
something they should believe.

People from Hong Kong, specifically in
Taiwan, were canceling their flights to Japan

because of this prediction that was made
in a manga that this weekend on the 5th,

there was going to be a massive
earthquake and destroyed Japan.

Like the way it made it sound like
Fukushima was just like the warmup.

This was going to be the big event.

And then nothing happened.

But people don’t remember the prediction
where it doesn’t actually come true.

They just move on and
they look for the coincidences

and the prediction
where it actually happens.

So what you should do is
not believe any predictions or I

should just make a new job
where I start making predictions.

And eventually you make enough volume.

You’re going to get one
or two that are accurate.

And then people will think you’re prescient

and you can actually
tell the future and stuff.

That’s really dumb.

Don’t believe any of that.

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That being said, don’t
believe in something.

I don’t believe in like
tarot cards or readings.

I don’t believe in astrology
or any of that stuff.

It’s very hard to say
that like everyone born

at the same time has
the same personality traits

because I have met people
born within the same timeframe

who did not have the same
personality traits as I do.

But one of my students actually said
that she has a friend who can read auras.

And I’m really interested.

So I said, can you take my
picture and then have my aura read?

And then I tried to make sure
I had a completely flat face.

No emotion, no expression at all.

So that I could get a completely
neutral reading of my aura.

I’m very excited to see what
my aura actually ends up being.

I don’t know how long this will take.

This is certainly not going to
be a priority in my student’s life.

They may just forget.

They might look in like I
have a really weird picture

of my teacher on my phone of him
just staring blankly at the camera.

But should that occur, I’m very
excited to find out what my aura is.

I have, I did for a while.

The problem was I actually
watched one on TikTok.

It had a tarot reading where they’re
like, oh, if you came across this video,

it was just, it was the
universe reaching out

and has a message for you
and they’d read your tarot.

And I found that interesting,
completely inaccurate.

So I don’t know if I
actually get the results.

Should I get the results?

I will share the one in his new
Japan, and I’ll let him actually said this.

And then if you’ve listened
to an in his new Japan

for the last 350 episodes
or however many we’ve done,

you can then say like,
I’ve gotten this sense

of what Chonk maybe have
just is as a person who he is.

And then is the aura reading
accurate in my opinion or feeling?

Or maybe it like brings
out some dark inner secret

that you don’t actually know about.

That would be
interesting in itself as well.

It is the beginning of a political
season in Japan and Japan.

They do their politics in, there’s
good points and bad points.

The good points is it’s
a very short set period.

It’s like a couple weeks.

You can do sort of your speeches.

You can put up your posters.

You can do it during
this period and not before,

and not after, and
otherwise it’s sort of illegal.

That is good, keeping it limited.

So in America when it’s
like a two, three year long

process leading up, it
means like politicians

who are supposed to be
in doing their jobs politically

are actually like campaigning
and stuff half the time.

That means they’re not doing their job.

So Japan’s kept it down to a couple
weeks a month or something like that.

But the bad side is it
means they give speeches.

Those speeches tend to
be standing on top of a van

make with loudspeakers just completely
annoying everyone around them.

I’ve actually been in
the office where I work.

The way the political
speeches work in Japan,

they get on top of a van,
they get loud speakers,

and they just boom,
those as loud as they can.

Because almost seems like
there’s no noise laws in Japan.

Because I’ve been in my
office in like three blocks away,

you can hear the speech happening on
the corner with some low level politician.

Also, they drive around
and they don’t say speeches.

They have these vans, they drive around

and they just say the politicians
name over and over again.

And they go like,
“Toshio Suzuki.

” “Toshio Suzuki.

” “Toshios,” they just do that
over and over and over again.

And again, with these,
we’re incredibly familiar.

This is the closest I’ve
wanted to come to getting a gun

to shoot something ’cause I
would love to shoot those speakers.

I guess the idea is that if they
can get a name into your head

when I go to vote and I
don’t have a particularly strong

political stance, I’ll just vote for
the name I remember the most.

I’m hoping that’s not how politics works,

but it does seem to be, since a
lot of the parties are very similar,

it does seem to be like
the very small differences

between the differences
between the groups.

But since we have
speech time, the other good

point for an engineer’s
Japan as a podcast means

we have comments by
politicians trying to get attention.

And I don’t have to finish most of these.

I could just start them
and that would be enough.

And weirdly, all the controversial comments

seem to be coming from the
right side of the political spectrum.

But we have the Democratic
Party for the people.

I find the names of the
parties to be kind of dystopian.

It’s almost like if I was going
to write a dystopian future story

and I needed political party names,

I would use the names sort of
like the ones they have in Japan.

The Democratic Party for the people leader

was asked why his party
receives little support from women.

I don’t think I need to go much further
for you to actually like fill in the blanks

for what a Japanese traditional
conservative right-wing person

is going to say, but
we might as well say

it ’cause we might as
well get it out there.

I think our policy is good, not
only for men, but also women.

But I think it’s very difficult
to understand for them.

So, so the dude is saying, why
don’t women support your party?

And he goes, well, ’cause
they’re kind of dumb.

And then he wonders why this is a problem.

So of course the next day he had to come
up with a apology saying he like misspoke.

I regret that I used a poor expression.

I had no intention of being misogynistic.

Well, it’s an interesting
thing ’cause I don’t

think misogynists ever
intend to be misogynistic.

I think that’s just where they go.

He did say I’m not good in English.

So he does have a little out.

These comments specifically
were made in English.

And he’s saying he’s not good in English.

So he’s actually made a mistake.

But I’m gonna go ahead and
say, if you’re not good at English,

you should not be making political
statements with any sort of subtlety.

But let’s move on to
some other political parties.

We have the leader of the Sensato Party.

And he decided to one up our previous
friend from the People’s Democratic Party.

He was saying that only
young women can have children.

When I say it, some people call
discrimination, but it’s just biological fact.

This is a very Japan first party.

They are against
immigration and they are very

worried about the decline
in population in Japan.

Now it was interesting.

They had a YouTube channel going
and as he started making these comments,

the YouTube channel
just went to a colored bar.

So it’s like they had
an issue with their feet.

But then what it actually, they claim
it was because of the extreme heat

because they were
actually filming this outside.

And it’s very hot in Japan.

I actually just said, I’m
very hard trying to start.

I’m very hard trying to start.

I’m very hot trying to
start the podcast today.

Of course, they came to follow up.

I think this might have been just a court
some controversy to get some attention.

That’s actually what I feel happened there.

So he started making
controversial comments.

They cut it off.

Made it seem like maybe
someone else cut them off.

But then of course,
someone came up a reporter

came and actually
challenged him a little bit

and he said, you know, with
modern medicine and care,

women into their forties can
quite easily still have babies.

Four women in their 60s and
70s, it remains extremely difficult.

Which I would say is factually correct.

There is another issue.

I don’t know.

I don’t want to speak for
women in their 60s and 70s,

but certainly as someone in their fifties,
I do not want to start having children now.

If I had a child now, I would be in
my 70s when that child turned 20,

which means you know,
throughout my 50s and 60s,

I’d be doing the young
energetic time for children

and the teen times
when it’s maybe difficult.

If I was in my 60s and 70s, that’s not
when I would want to start having kids.

So again, I don’t want
to speak for other people,

but I think a lot of people at the same
age might be sharing a similar opinion.

Now pop that baby out, make that happen.

• Dude, it was just, it’s the
  exhaustment, the exhaustion, exhaustment.

I’m not even doing English good today.

I’m like that guy in the previous story.

It’s the exhaustion of
having newborns and babies

and little kids in the
energy that goes with it.

I don’t think people in their 50s,
60s and 70s want that anymore.

I want to just relax.

I’m really glad my kids are of age
where they’re leaving the house now.

The interesting part is,
even though he’s doing this

in a horrible way, he actually
had some points I agree with.

And the points, and this is again, trying
to differentiate, you know, controversy,

opinion, reality, fact, things like that,
he was saying, we need to make a society

where young women are
comfortable having babies.

And I think that’s true.

I just want to take out the young part.

I think if you want to have babies,

we need to make a
society where you are

comfortable and feel
supported in having babies.

I agree with that aspect of his statement.

I just don’t agree with what or how
he was saying any of the other stuff.

Let’s move on, NHK party.

NHK party has been a fan favorite on Ninja
New Japan because they created a party.

It’s kind of a 50% joke
party, 50% serious party.

So they’re always doing stuff.

The leader of the party
last year was attacked with a

machete, not by a foreigner,
but by a Japanese citizen.

He said, oh, he put on a mega hat.

So that’s already giving
you a sense of where he is

in the world, and he started his
speech with, “I’m afraid of foreigners.

” There’s a problem now.

I realize if I’m doing quotes

and someone clips the bit
with the quote and no context,

I could actually get in trouble,
but I’m afraid of foreigners.

You might not feel as
much fear with white people.

So that was like his intro to his speech.

You know it was gonna
get better after that.

It’s scary when groups of black people

or people with Islamic
background gather and frolic

in front of the station, I do have
to admit, I like the word frolic.

I mean, I gotta admit, people
frolicing sounds like a good time.

He says they don’t understand Japanese,
you don’t know if they understand Japanese,

so it’s scary to have those kind of
people hanging around the station.

This is a man who has
promoted genocide as a solution to

overpopulation, but he’s also
part of a non-serious party.

So it’s really hard to take
any of his statement seriously.

I think again, he just courts controversy

by just saying whatever
he thinks he can say

and get away with, just
saying stuff to see what sticks.

This is the same group
that last year was like,

let’s put up porn posters instead of our
regular posters to try to get more attention

and they sold their sort of
advertising space to people

who just wanted to put up
pictures of their dogs and stuff.

And that actually created a new law
where you’re not allowed to do that.

So that actually might be the strategy.

Let’s just see how far we can push the
limits and then see what happens after.

One more speech we have
to look at and that is the

conservative party of Japan
talking again about foreign people.

There is a big concern.

And the big concern is
that the Japanese population

is in decline and we
need to fix that problem.

But the one thing we don’t
want is foreigners coming in

and actually intermixing
with Japanese people

and Japanese culture and
having babies and stuff like that.

They don’t want me because I came
to Japan and I produced two offspring.

So if you take myself and
my wife out of the equation,

we’ve actually produced one child
to replace my wife and one child extra

because I don’t count
because I’m a foreigner.

But we have increased
the population of Japan

and they’re like,
that’s not the solution

because those kids,
they’re not pure Japanese.

They don’t understand Japanese culture.

This is the irony is that
these kids who are born

and raised in Japan are
as Japanese as kids get.

That’s not the point of
what we’re talking about.

The conservative party of Japan

really bland title compared to
all the other ones, but whatever.

Foreign people disrespect Japanese culture,

ignore the rules, assault
Japanese people, and steal.

In Northern Kanto, there
are towns that are no gosones.

I now absolutely want
to find one of these no

gosones and go to them
because as a foreigner,

I might be able to go there
and go to the no gosone.

But these statements under Japanese law

because they are so clear actually
can be construed as hate speech.

So the leader of the conservative party may
have committed hate speech in his speech,

which may actually end up getting
him in real trouble down the line.

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It’s good to learn about scams.

It’s good to learn about scams because
know that what scams are out there

and how the scams work
and how they kind of get you.

So there is a, it’s called the
adult site cancellation fee scam.

And I hadn’t actually heard about this one.

So what happens is a man saw a thumbnail
on his smartphone and he pushed the button.

And that was probably his first mistake.

And you can only go, you can go to
trusted sites if that’s what you’re into.

I’m not actually like King
Shaming or judging anyone

for their sexuality or
their viewing habits.

If you wanna look at
that and it’s all legal and

above board, I got zero
problems with it, you do you.

But gotta be careful.

The adult site cancellation fee
scam means you’ve pressed a pop up.

Oh, you’ve pressed a
thumbnail and then there’s a

pop up and the pop up
says registration completed.

Now, in that there is also another sub
button that says accidental registration

and then you click that button
you’re provided with a number.

Well, that number and
you say I have accidentally

registered at your site
to cancel your registration.

You have to temporarily register

and then you can sort of
unregister your registration.

And this costs 450,000 yen.

Now, I would take a pause right there

because if I pushed a
button on the, on my phone,

there is a, I guess a suspicion that
maybe they got my credit card number.

But there’s no way they’re
gonna get a 450,000 yen

charged through and then there’s a promise
of a full refund after the processing.

So basically you give them 450,000 yen.

They then cancel your
membership that you just

created and then you
get your 450,000 yen back.

If it’s 450,000 yen, that must
be the best porn in the world.

So I actually, if I was getting
told that this is a 450,000 yen

thing that I’ve just registered for
and I haven’t actually paid anything

and I could call my credit card company
and I actually blocked that payment.

I might wanna take a look around
and see if there is any actual porn.

Worth 450,000 yen in that
website, which I’m betting or isn’t.

But what of course happens then?

The victim goes through the
450,000 process, sends them e-money.

So again, they didn’t ask for
money, they didn’t ask for credit card.

They were like, go to
the convenience store,

get Apple pay cards or some
other kind of Amazon pay cards.

450,000 yen worth and then read
us the numbers over the phone.

So if anything, if they’re not
doing through credit cards,

I think that’s it ’cause they
don’t have your information.

If they need you to go buy
a card and then send you the

information on that card, they
don’t have your information.

So that should be the
first piece of information

we send out into
the world right there.

If a scammer, you don’t know their
scammer, you think they’re legitimate.

But if they’re asking you
to send them money via

cards, it means they
don’t have your information

which means they can’t
get any money from you.

There’s also the question of like, if
an older person or this person comes in

and goes to buy 450,000 yen worth
of cards from a convenience store,

the staff should be like, whoa
dude, you’re getting scammed.

Now there’s been a couple of
really sort of feel good stories

of convenience store workers
or banker workers and stuff

and they’ve actually
stopped scams this way.

Yes, unfortunately a lot of
older people fall for these,

but that means if an older person,
again, we can’t make people do this.

But if an older person
came to a convenience store

and said, hey, I would like
450,000 yen and Apple pay cards,

you might wanna stop and go,
hey, I know it’s none of my business,

but what for because
I think you really need

to rethink who you’re
sending this money to?

Now the reason the porn scam
works more than anything else

is because the porn scam
comes with the shame

of anyone finding out
that you look at porn.

I once got one of those
emails, when it was a

new thing, I got one of
those emails that said,

hey, we accessed your
webcam while you were jerking off

to porn, we have the
video if you don’t send

his Bitcoin, we’re going
to release the video.

I actually told to my wife
saying, look at how bad this is,

and she goes, yeah,
because if they actually got

a porn video of you jerking off to porn,

you would have no problem with it
being disseminated on the internet.

Like, there’s no way I’d pay for that.

I actually might actually tell my friends,

hey, I got caught in this
porn, everyone check it out.

So she actually was like, yeah,
they’ve tried to scam the wrong person

with the wrong thing because you’re
just like, yeah, go ahead, man, I’m down.

I would just post the link on the internet.

It would be in my link tree the next day.

I have thought about
putting an engineer’s

Japan on only fans,
’cause I stream it, right?

And I can do a stream.

I stream on Twitch and Kick.

I have actually been thinking like,

maybe I should like try
stream Twitch Kick in OnlyFans,

which would just be funny, not because
I think I would actually get footing there.

I don’t get footing anywhere, but it
would be funny just to have that happen.

Maybe someone watches on OnlyFans.

It would be fun to have only fans account.

I think that’s actually more than anything.

Maybe I should drop, ’cause I
don’t wanna overwhelm my internet.

That’s actually the thing that I
would be most concerned about.

So I should stick with Twitch,
’cause I have a core group of friends

that are actually on Twitch,
that I actually do enjoy talking to,

not Carson Uw, I’m not
really done with that guy.

But starting an OnlyFans and
have people come in from OnlyFans

would be really funny, but
we’re not gonna do that right now.

It is something that’s popped
into my head more than once,

so you know that actually
seed has been implanted.

They call back the next day saying
they haven’t received the refund.

The next day, the scammer
demanded 400,000 yen saying

they had been registered
at a different site,

so they actually had to
make an account on that site

so then they could process the refund
and then get them the actual refund.

This is one the guy was like, look,
I’m clearly being scammed at this point.

Maybe the first one was legitimate,

but then just asking again
and not giving my money back

before, I’m being
scammed, goes to the police.

The problem is, they can’t catch him.

Because he sent the codes from the cards,

there’s no way they
can actually trace that.

So in this case, the
person actually got away,

I don’t want to embarrass
the person who actually was

the victim of this kind of
crime of victim of scams,

but I think it is really important for
scams to be disseminated information-wise,

so everyone can recognize
when a scam is occurring.

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Another way to recognize a
scam is when you’re talking

to an incredibly famous
person and then they ask you

for money because
it’s weird if they’re that

famous and have that
much more money than you.

A man and a father posed as Shohei Otani

to try to scam an 80-year-old
woman out of money.

Shohei Otani has more money
than anyone else in the world.

That’s not true, it’s an excited,
but you know what I mean.

Shohei Otani is probably one of the
highest paid baseball players in the world.

So him asking you for any
kind of money is problematic.

There’s no way he’s going
to be asking you for money.

He doesn’t need money,
he doesn’t need your help.

So the way they did this,
they found her on Facebook

and then they connected to her via Facebook
and then got her to move over to line.

Line is the chat system on your phone.

They talked to her over several
months, so they were putting the work in.

I mean, most scammers are very lazy and
they bailed really quick if it doesn’t work.

But, someone is willing to put in the work.

I mean, you gotta have a little
respect for the dedication to the scam.

They said, as Shohei
Otani, I’m the best in the

world, so my insurance
premiums are really high.

I’ve paid tens of millions
of yen, but it’s not enough.

I want you to pay me 1
million yen in premiums.

Why would Shohei
Otani ask an 80 year old

woman for a million yen
to cover his premiums?

It just doesn’t make sense.

Now, there’s older woman,
don’t know her situation.

She might just be enjoying the attention.

She might actually believe it.

She might be in some stages of dementia.

There’s no way we
know the actual situation,

so I have a lot more
sympathy for the victim

in this place because it might
have just been the connection,

the attention that she
was just desperate for,

which is how you get a
lot of these older people.

She called him.

She, so online has a telephone
function, so you can actually call people.

She tried to call him multiple times.

They would avoid it by
saying the game is about

to start, so I can’t answer
the phone right now,

because of course, these
were not Japanese people,

so maybe their Japanese
wasn’t going to be as perfect

as Shohei Otani, so if they
actually got on the phone

and she heard their voice,
this scam would be up

because it’d be like, “Hey, you’re
clearly not a Japanese person.

” Maybe these big
Japanese really really well,

but they’re gonna have
an accent or something,

and they were very scared
to actually get on the phone.

This got so far that they
said, “We’re going to send one

of my managers to your house
to pick up the million yen,”

and then that’s how they got caught,
because when the guy showed up,

one of the relative was around the area and
saw something going on and went to check,

and then they called the
police, and the police were able

to pick up this person, turns
out to be a guy and his son.

It was the son doing this scam,

but the father supported
him because they had to

trade off the phone, I
guess, every now and then.

The father and the mother are
the owner of a Nepalese Curie shop

that since COVID had
sort of decimated the

business, and they were
in great financial straits.

This is the big problem
for them as a family.

We don’t know if the mom was involved,

but the father and son
obviously came with this scam

to try to supplement their
income and have been arrested.

(upbeat music) A Lamborghini.

That’s already already,
like Lamborghini, man.

If you have enough money
to buy a Lamborghini,

don’t get in trouble
’cause you’re a stupid car.

I tried to get in and out of a Lamborghini,

I’m quite tall, so getting into a
Lamborghini was really difficult.

I did not enjoy the experience.

And then getting out, I look really stupid.

I’m never going to be able to just,
like, cooly step out of a super car

’cause they’re so low to the ground,
especially my knees are not getting better.

A Lamborghini was modified to
shoot flames out of the tail pipes.

I mean, if you’re the kind of person
who goes to buy a Lamborghini,

I bet you think flame shooting out your
tail is really important, so they did that.

They also did the undercarriage
lights, which of course,

I didn’t actually think realized
those are actually illegal in Japan.

Shooting flames out of your car
is an illegal modification to Japan.

Japan’s very strict about it,
like tinted windows and stuff.

They are very strict
about that kind of stuff.

But then the undercarriage
light kit is also illegal in Japan.

Six people ended up
getting arrested for this,

which is crazy how
many people got arrested

for the modifications, but it’s
because this car was brought

to an inspection site, and
so passing the inspection

means there was fraud committed on
the manager of the inspection site shop.

There’s the guy who put in the illegal mods

and probably his crew, and
then there’s the owner of the car.

So you’re looking like four
people just right up there.

There’s the owner of the
car, the modification guy,

the guy who does the mod,
and I assume one or two

of his employees, and then
there’s the guy who owns the shop

that does the inspections, and
he just was like writing stuff off.

And this is all fraud for bypassing
the regulations on cars in Japan.

If you have enough money, they’re probably
able to pay the fines, but I’m wondering

if they’ll pay the fines for everyone else,
or if you actually lose your licenses.

This being Japan, I bet they end up
losing their licenses and their stores.

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So there’s a really famous night
view place on top of a mountain.

So if you’re the city, you want
to encourage people to go there.

This brings tourists to the place.

They can come and go
up and look at the lights

of the city on the
top of this mountain.

It’s very romantic, but you
also want to make it kind of fun.

Maybe I have something for the kids.

What you do is you create
a 30 meter slide, 30 meters.

It’s like 60 feet.

I’m just going to go with quick
double, but that’s not correct.

Anyways, a 30 meter slide sounds super fun.

Turns out they had to close it
because four people broke bones on it.

So not very romantic, not really fun.

Turns out one employee
used it before it even opened.

So if you have an employee’s like, hey,
I’m going to go test out the new slide.

Maybe they weren’t supposed to do that yet.

Slide down and they break a bone.

That might have been
an indicator right there.

Maybe we shouldn’t be opening this slide
that’s breaking people’s bones and bodies.

98.5 feet.

Do you want to make that into slang terms?

Is that a ton of feet?

So there should have
been already a question.

Before we’ve even
opened this up, a couple of

our crew tried it and
one of them broke a bone.

Then it turns out a two
year old being held by a sister,

they went down the slide together,
a two year old broke his bone.

A 70 year old man went down
the slide and he broke a bone.

This came to light
when a tourist in their

30s went down the
slide and broke their shin.

So I don’t know if
this was too steep or it

went too fast or like
you stopped too suddenly.

They don’t actually
say, but four people got

done by this slide and
they had to close it down.

It was getting everybody
because it hit all the demographics.

It hit employee, which I don’t
know what that person was.

It hit a female tourist in her 30s.

It hit an old man in
his 80s and it hit a little

kid in the twos hadn’t
even hit broken double

digits yet, but they had
already broken a bone.

October 2023, a live
streamer got drunk and

fell asleep in the street
and then was sleeping.

But the stream was still going
and then some thieves came along

and stole a smartphone
with the stream still going.

Then they went and they
reported back to their boss,

that they had stolen this
phone and been really successful

and stealing from this guy
who was sleeping on the street,

which counts as a confession
because it was captured on stream.

Now, the police didn’t
have who these guys were.

Maybe they didn’t like turn
the camera to their own face

or anything, but they
do have, they are thieves.

They know who sort of they were talking to.

They had a lot of information.

They were able to connect this to a crime.

The priming that was broken this year.

So this is 1.5 years later,
you’re actually getting this

information was being
held on to so they could

then connect a couple
of different crimes.

Just recently, the head of a
crime syndicate was arrested

because he was leading a group
that targets passed out people.

And this is, okay, so my views,
yeah, who used to be very romantic.

I was grew up in the ’80s
watching movies in the IKEA

who were like a really
consistent set of bad guys.

And they were all super powerful
doing really big scary crimes,

lots of drug running and people
trafficking and stuff like that.

And so like stealing smartphones
off drunk people who’ve fallen

asleep in the street, really
sort of like overdoing engineers

Japan, in my opinion of the
IKEA has diminished significantly.

But this is the kind of
thing it makes me go like,

should you even really be calling
yourself IKEA Coos anymore?

So what they would do is
they’d find past out people.

They would take their
wallet and their smartphone.

And if they could, they
would use the wallet.

Oh, sorry, I got to take a
break and watch Dave settle in.

I like him settling it
under his own portrait.

Doo doo doo doo doo doo.
Oh, oh, oh, go the other way.

Come on, buddy. Oh, there you go.

Settle. All right.

What they would do is
they would take the cards

and try to use the cards
and then buy luxury items.

And they were maybe
buying items from their

own pawn shops just to
get money moving around.

Then they would try to open
other cards based off those cards.

So trying to like open new credit cards

so they could use those
as quickly as possible.

It was interesting because we
got a bit of a Japanese slang.

So the people who were
falling asleep in the street

were referred to as
maguro, maguro is tuna fish.

And it’s sort of what you use for sushi.

So maguro is a kind of sushi.

But these then referred
to themselves as fishermen.

So they were maguro fishermen going out
finding the tuna and stealing from them.

Just I found that really just a cultural
point that these guys use that terminology.

The police when they were
able to connect these guys

to the live stream from
a couple of years ago,

then had enough evidence to be
able to go in search of their houses.

They found items stolen from 456 people,
which means they were keeping the stuff.

So I mean, this is one of those things

where once you’ve used
it, you gotta get rid of it.

Again, Ninja Ninja Pan, quite
famous for giving advice to criminals.

So if you are a thief
and you’re stealing things,

if you are a maguro fisherman and you’ve
been successful, don’t keep the stuff.

Like you gotta get rid of it.

So if you steal cell phones,
get everything you can’t

off the cell phone and then
get rid of the cell phone.

If you’ve got the credit
card, use the credit card,

but once you can’t use
it anymore, get rid of it.

They seem to have been keeping
these like trophies, which is ridiculous.

Do not keep stuff from your crime.

But then again, there’s a
reason I’m not a criminals

’cause I would have thought
of something like that.

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This should be maybe
the warning, the last

story is always the
weirdest, gross, sexual one.

So if you’re not into that, stop now.

But of course, if you’ve come to
the end, you’ve probably come for this.

There was this girl live streaming.

They don’t say on what,
so I’m like Instagram

or TikTok or something,
live streaming on.

They said social media.

Live streaming in Japan
usually is Instagram or Twitter.

I guess I should start saying X.

Or maybe one of the Japanese sites.

I have no idea.

They just said streaming on social media.

A spiritual medium sent
a message to the woman

who was watching streaming on
social media and said in the comments.

So I never get the comments like this.

You are possessed by the living spirit
of a man and are in a dangerous situation.

It is surprising that you are still alive.

You cannot be exercised in
an ordinary temple or shrine.

And then of course, made an
offer that I will exercise you.

They then made arrangements for the man,

the spiritual medium to meet at
her apartment to perform an exorcism.

So let’s just be clear.

If you’re on social
media, if you’re streaming

and people start making offers and
whatnot, don’t let them come to your house.

Don’t let them come to your apartment.

If you’re going to do an
exorcism, do it somewhere else.

Somewhere public.

I mean, let’s face it.

Since you’re already into streaming,
you might as well stream the exorcism.

That’s 100% what I would do.

If someone said to me,
“Hey, shall I leave chest?

” You’re possessed by a spirit.

You need to be exercised.

I’d be like, great, let’s meet somewhere

and let me stream the exorcism
so we can actually happen.

What I want to do is
actually go to one of those

McDow Joe martial
arts things where they do

the no touch kung fu and
actually take the guy on.

I would 100% want to do that.

No, the camera will interfere,
but you don’t tell them.

This is the schemy part of me.

This is where I am
able to give advice to

criminals because I do
have the criminal mind.

I just know the crime is
not worth it most of the

time because you just
can’t make enough money.

So it’s not worth actually doing the crime.

But I do have that element
and that element put together.

I could be the scam buster.

I wish I had more time and I had enough
money to actually do stuff like this.

Because I would love to go get
someone to try to exercise me

and I would, you know, set it up.

And yeah, the camera will continue.

You hide the camera.

So she’s already made a ton of mistakes

in the social media landscape
because you don’t have strangers

from the internet come to
your house for any reason.

So you started out reading sutras.

Now, if you’re not spent any time in
Japan, not familiar with Japanese culture.

Sutras are when the
priests in the temple go,

another saying stuff, I do
not have the Japanese skill

to hear what they’re saying,
but it is something that you do.

I remember when I had a
child and we took them to

the temple and we had
them blessed and they went,

did they read some sutras and then in
the sutras you could hear your kid’s name.

So the only bit I could
pick out is when they said,

said my son’s name,
which was really interesting.

And they wave some like
branches over their head and stuff.

It was a bit weird because
they blessed my child.

And then went over and
blessed a minivan, which I felt

sort of diminished the value
of the blessing on my child.

So it’s one of those
things like, if you’re gonna

bless children, get a new
branch to bless the car.

I mean, just ’cause, I
don’t know why it’s just,

it took a down a notch for
me and then I leaned over

and I asked my wife, can
you get anything blessed?

And she was like, yeah, I
mean, it’s just a blessing.

So it doesn’t really matter what it is.

And I was like, so can I bring in
my PlayStation and get a bless?

She’s like, you pay them
the money, they will bless it.

And I was like, I could have
the priest come over and go,

“Shall my name, no head shots, head shots,
some run, no, no, “Choke McBeaf Chest.

” Get back to the story.

He was reading sutras
and then started sexually

assaulting the woman saying
that I can’t exercise you,

I can’t exercise the
spirit unless I use my body.

So he was hoping she
was so locked into this.

She would actually let him do
whatever he wanted to do to her body.

She was not pleased by this.

Apparently he tried like three or four
times and she rebuffed him multiple times.

And then called the police,
when he was arrested,

he said, I left salt in
the house and read

sutras, but I never
engaged in sexual acts.

Now, here’s the semantic aspect of this.

I bet he could mentally justify it by
saying, those were not sexual acts.

It was part of the exorcism.

It was a religious act.

And that’s the kind of
semantics that these guys

sort of like used to justify
all their behavior because

the police are saying, “Did
you commit sexual assault?

” He could say, “No.

” I committed a religious act.

And let’s just be clear.

If anyone wants to
exercise a spirit from me,

we can meet in the park, but I’m gonna
video it and you can absolutely try to,

I don’t think you can absolutely
try to sexually assault me.

I’m dumb.

That’s not how I wanna end this episode.

What am I gonna say?

I’m gonna cut that, cut that, cut that.

If you wanna exercise a
spirit from me, I’m ready.

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