WEBVTT - Thinking Sideways: The Monster with 21 Faces 0:00:04.320 --> 0:00:15.840 Thinking sideways. I don't know, you never know. The story 0:00:15.960 --> 0:00:20.799 is of things we simply don't know the answer too. Hey, 0:00:20.880 --> 0:00:25.200 everyone thinking excited was podcast as always. I'm Devin, joined 0:00:25.200 --> 0:00:30.159 by Joe, Steve and Steve and Steve and Steve and 0:00:30.320 --> 0:00:38.440 Joe and Joe and Den you know the trio the Scoobies. 0:00:38.760 --> 0:00:40.440 If you can tell, we're already trying to pad this 0:00:40.479 --> 0:00:44.239 episode up. It's going to be a quick one. We 0:00:44.400 --> 0:00:46.120 I hope. I mean every time we say it's going 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:48.240 to be a quick one, it ends up being actually 0:00:48.320 --> 0:00:50.360 like much longer than we think it's going to be 0:00:50.360 --> 0:00:54.160 because you guys ramble on endlessly. Listen. Sorry everyone, Okay, 0:00:54.240 --> 0:00:57.959 let's Joe won't stop talking and get shocking. So we're 0:00:57.960 --> 0:00:59.880 going to talk a little bit about the monster with 0:01:00.000 --> 0:01:03.040 twenty one faces. It's got a bunch of different like 0:01:03.360 --> 0:01:04.959 a k s. But we're just going to call it 0:01:05.000 --> 0:01:08.560 the monster with twenty one faces. YEA cool, cool cool. 0:01:08.800 --> 0:01:13.640 So our mystery starts mysteriously like, but we are going 0:01:13.680 --> 0:01:15.880 to do a little background first. Have you ever have 0:01:15.959 --> 0:01:17.840 you guys ever had pocky? You know, I never have, 0:01:18.319 --> 0:01:22.399 I've seen it one of my favorite snacks actually at work, 0:01:22.560 --> 0:01:25.040 Sometimes people are like, hey, we're gonna get pocky and 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:26.720 I'm like for me, and they're like, no to sell, 0:01:26.800 --> 0:01:29.840 and I'm like, ah, but I want to eat it. All. 0:01:30.040 --> 0:01:32.319 That's the worst. So it's um. For those of you 0:01:32.400 --> 0:01:35.120 who don't know what pockey is, google it probably is 0:01:35.160 --> 0:01:38.920 the best way. UM. But it's these like kind of 0:01:39.560 --> 0:01:44.120 biscuit sticks that are dipped in chocolate, the best way 0:01:44.160 --> 0:01:47.039 I can describe them. Sometimes they have sprinkles and other 0:01:47.040 --> 0:01:51.000 little silly or they're dipped in like you know, creamy 0:01:51.320 --> 0:01:56.360 caramel or or strawberry flavors or you know whatever. It's 0:01:56.360 --> 0:02:00.960 a confection in what country? Yeah, Japan and made in Japan. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:04.360 Um and the company that makes it is called Isakai 0:02:04.880 --> 0:02:08.920 Glico Leko is how I would say that word? My 0:02:09.120 --> 0:02:11.920 Japanese is not on point, I will be honest with you. 0:02:12.040 --> 0:02:14.040 So I'm going to be mispronouncing a lot of these words. 0:02:14.080 --> 0:02:16.600 I apologize in advance, and I can't remember how we 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:21.200 decided we were going to pronounce. This is marian Ghana 0:02:21.560 --> 0:02:28.240 more Naga is another large confectionery producer and Japan, And 0:02:28.280 --> 0:02:31.280 I'm not I couldn't tell if they actually export to 0:02:31.840 --> 0:02:34.720 America or not. A lot of their stuff was labeled 0:02:34.760 --> 0:02:38.480 in English, but I couldn't. I would imagine if they're 0:02:38.480 --> 0:02:42.160 putting it in English, they're probably selling it in this country, 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.919 but I can't totally, so I couldn't tell. I mean, 0:02:45.919 --> 0:02:49.840 I've been to huge there's huge Asian markets store supermarkets 0:02:49.880 --> 0:02:52.600 here in in our city, and I see a lot 0:02:52.639 --> 0:02:55.200 of this stuff there. So I've got to imagine that 0:02:55.360 --> 0:02:59.200 it's probably labeled in both for export for those kind 0:02:59.240 --> 0:03:04.119 of situations. Sure, sure, um. And as an other side note, um, 0:03:04.200 --> 0:03:06.799 the monster with twenty one faces has never been identified, 0:03:07.280 --> 0:03:09.480 so for for all we know, it could just be 0:03:09.560 --> 0:03:14.320 one person. Um. But I'm I'm going to go ahead 0:03:14.320 --> 0:03:16.320 and just for the purposes of this story, I'm and 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:18.120 assume that it was more than one person and use 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:25.040 plural pronouns just to like throw that out. That makes sense, Okay, 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:29.280 So here we go, mysterious start every already? All right, 0:03:29.680 --> 0:03:35.240 March eighteenth, night four at nine am, two masked men, 0:03:35.480 --> 0:03:37.880 one armed with a pistol, the other armed with a rifle. 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:41.720 Enter Cotson, how do you say that? How would you say? 0:03:48.320 --> 0:03:51.440 They tied Ezekai's wife and daughter up. Believing the two 0:03:51.480 --> 0:03:55.760 men were just like regular robbers. Isazekai's wife tried to 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:59.800 negotiate them for her freedom and her daughter's freedom and 0:03:59.840 --> 0:04:02.800 its change for money, but they said, no, that's not 0:04:02.880 --> 0:04:05.600 what we want. They cut the telephone lines and stormed 0:04:05.640 --> 0:04:08.880 into the bathroom where Eazakai and his other two children 0:04:08.920 --> 0:04:12.680 were hiding. The two men abducted Eazakai only and held 0:04:12.760 --> 0:04:15.160 him captive in a warehouse. And I know I didn't 0:04:15.280 --> 0:04:19.040 mention this before, but Eazakai is of Easakai Glico Fame. 0:04:19.760 --> 0:04:24.000 He is the president of at least he was then. 0:04:24.200 --> 0:04:27.159 He's the dude. He's the owner, the CEO, the grand pa, 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:33.440 the candy man. He is the candy man. So the 0:04:33.480 --> 0:04:38.400 next morning, the director of Glico was contacted, and the 0:04:38.440 --> 0:04:43.120 people who contacted him, presumably the kidnappers, demanded a ransom 0:04:43.279 --> 0:04:47.600 of one billion yen and a hundred kilograms um. That's 0:04:47.640 --> 0:04:51.000 just over two and twenty pounds for our American listeners 0:04:51.480 --> 0:04:56.480 of gold Bouleon. And let's just go ahead and say, 0:04:54.960 --> 0:05:02.280 I not yeah, you can't make soup out of it, fair, um. 0:05:02.279 --> 0:05:03.920 And I'm gonna go ahead and say that, like there 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:06.520 are a lot of places around the Internet that say 0:05:06.560 --> 0:05:13.080 it was ten pounds or noms um, but Wikipedia says 0:05:13.120 --> 0:05:15.840 it was a hundred and as we all know, Wikipedia is, 0:05:17.560 --> 0:05:19.520 so we're just going to say it was What the 0:05:19.520 --> 0:05:23.400 hell doesn't matter. Obviously, the director could not act immediately 0:05:23.440 --> 0:05:26.479 because that's a whole mess of everything. He couldn't just 0:05:26.520 --> 0:05:28.560 like in a day produce all those things. So it 0:05:28.560 --> 0:05:30.240 took him a couple of days. She would like to 0:05:30.240 --> 0:05:34.120 have just like hanging out would be awesome, It would 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:38.240 be pretty awesome. Yeah, the foundation of my house blow away? 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:43.720 Oh man, where do you live again? Some other place? Okay, 0:05:43.800 --> 0:05:48.440 So because it took the director so long, um three 0:05:48.520 --> 0:05:51.599 days later, on the twenty one of March, Isazekai actually escaped. 0:05:51.920 --> 0:05:53.920 And actually it turns out that perhaps he could have 0:05:54.000 --> 0:05:56.640 escaped the whole time because he was literally just sitting 0:05:56.680 --> 0:05:59.080 in a warehouse. Like he wasn't tied up, he was guarded, 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:03.120 It wasn't locked up by any records that anybody can 0:06:03.200 --> 0:06:06.680 kind of. These guys are really terrible at hostage taking. Well, 0:06:07.080 --> 0:06:10.200 they're really great at hostage holding. Because it took him 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.400 three days to figure out that he wasn't being guarded. 0:06:12.839 --> 0:06:16.799 That's that's that's really weird. Yeah, I've got to admit 0:06:16.920 --> 0:06:20.440 that's really weird. We're gonna put you in this room. 0:06:20.560 --> 0:06:25.600 Do not try the door handle. I know it says exit, 0:06:25.880 --> 0:06:29.440 but don't touch that handle. Well, I think most reasonable 0:06:29.520 --> 0:06:32.760 human beings, upon being kidnapped right and threatened with guns 0:06:32.760 --> 0:06:36.400 and stuff, probably then like thrown into a warehouse, are 0:06:36.440 --> 0:06:39.240 just going to assume that they're locked, or assume that 0:06:39.279 --> 0:06:40.960 somebody is standing on the other side of the door. 0:06:41.279 --> 0:06:43.280 And when you know, three days, you probably don't want 0:06:43.279 --> 0:06:46.039 to make your captors angry with you. Yeah, of course, 0:06:46.240 --> 0:06:51.400 but well he did. Actually, you know, if I had 0:06:51.400 --> 0:06:53.080 been him, though, you know, I wouldn't have wouldn't have 0:06:53.080 --> 0:06:54.799 come and said, yeah, yeah, they just left me unguarded. 0:06:54.800 --> 0:06:56.239 I would have said, yeah that was I was tied 0:06:56.360 --> 0:06:59.760 up and as handcuffed, miraculous, and yeah if I found it, 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:01.799 pin line on the floor and I picked my cuffs 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:03.200 even though there behind my back. But a tok me 0:07:03.240 --> 0:07:05.000 a while, and then then I had to clock that 0:07:05.000 --> 0:07:06.680 I had to clob or a guard, and I had 0:07:06.720 --> 0:07:08.600 to snatch a weapon from another one and hold them 0:07:08.600 --> 0:07:10.239 a bay while I made a break. Can you remember 0:07:10.240 --> 0:07:14.360 how we were talking about these episodes being really long. Yeah, 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:16.880 I'm just saying she should have made up a better story. 0:07:16.920 --> 0:07:18.480 You get kids have to escape, you want to come 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:22.960 up with a better story than that. Yeah. So, actually 0:07:23.040 --> 0:07:27.520 the kidnappers were not pleased. So a couple of days later, 0:07:27.520 --> 0:07:32.640 on April tenth of the same year, three vehicles were 0:07:32.680 --> 0:07:36.640 set on fire at one of Glico's test facilities. Um 0:07:36.680 --> 0:07:39.520 and shortly after on the sixteenth, so six days later, 0:07:39.680 --> 0:07:43.200 there was a tub plastic tub or I guess kind 0:07:43.200 --> 0:07:48.920 of bucket container full of hydrochloric acid that was accompanied 0:07:48.920 --> 0:07:53.120 by a threatening note quote unquote was attached to it. 0:07:53.160 --> 0:07:58.200 Were left somewhere, it's not totally were it was found 0:07:58.400 --> 0:08:02.520 near a Glico test stility. I want to know, what 0:08:02.760 --> 0:08:05.800 is a test facility for a candy man? Yeah, I 0:08:06.600 --> 0:08:09.040 could think of a munitions company. They have a test 0:08:09.080 --> 0:08:12.040 facility where it's concrete walls, so nothing he blows up, 0:08:12.040 --> 0:08:14.560 but it's candy. Yeah, but you got to test all 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:16.480 the products. You've got to make sure that it's not toxic. 0:08:16.520 --> 0:08:20.560 You want to make sure that like the sugar contents testing. 0:08:20.680 --> 0:08:23.080 I imagine they probably have it's like, you know, it's 0:08:23.120 --> 0:08:25.320 like it's any testing anything they've got these laboratories that 0:08:25.320 --> 0:08:28.160 are filled with kids that are like in cages, this 0:08:28.280 --> 0:08:32.679 stuff reping this stuff like you know, massive quantities NonStop, 0:08:32.720 --> 0:08:35.959 you know, for you, yet what it does to them, 0:08:36.720 --> 0:08:39.280 I thought it was like Willy Wonka's test facility. Yeah, 0:08:39.320 --> 0:08:42.520 that's probably it. Yeah, moving on. So anyway, so after that, 0:08:42.600 --> 0:08:46.079 what happened on May tenth, so, like you know, a 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:50.200 little less than a month later, Glico began receiving letters 0:08:50.559 --> 0:08:54.320 from the Monster with twenty one Faces. And you know, 0:08:54.360 --> 0:08:57.400 because it's Japanese and it's can it's a monster with 0:08:57.679 --> 0:09:00.360 one faces is sometimes translated as the missed three Man 0:09:00.440 --> 0:09:02.559 with twenty one faces or the Phantom with twenty one 0:09:02.559 --> 0:09:06.640 faces in that name. They didn't just make that up. 0:09:06.800 --> 0:09:11.120 Isn't it from a comic or some series. It's from 0:09:11.120 --> 0:09:15.080 a non or from a fiction novel, um. But I 0:09:15.080 --> 0:09:17.160 think it's like the way I would compare it is 0:09:17.200 --> 0:09:19.559 that like if somebody in America had picked a villain 0:09:19.600 --> 0:09:22.440 from a Stephen King novel and decided to take that. 0:09:22.520 --> 0:09:26.960 It wasn't like some huge Japanese mythology that everybody would 0:09:27.000 --> 0:09:30.280 be like saying, and this letter is signed by the 0:09:30.360 --> 0:09:34.559 Tommy Knockers. Yeah, I don't know who. The Tommy Knockers are. Pokemon, Yeah, 0:09:34.600 --> 0:09:37.840 something like that. Tommy Knockers are a Stephen King novel 0:09:38.360 --> 0:09:42.320 about a group of really creepy aliens. See, apparently that 0:09:42.360 --> 0:09:46.760 works out great. They're green, they're mean, they have a spaceship. 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:51.640 Let's keep going. Read that one. You totally read that one. 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.720 We've talked about the Tommy Knockers because you know what. Okay, 0:09:55.720 --> 0:09:58.640 we're way off topic. Keep going, please have it. So 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:01.480 in the in the letter, the monster with twenty one 0:10:01.520 --> 0:10:05.679 faces claimed to have laced certain Glicko products with potassium cyanide. 0:10:06.400 --> 0:10:09.800 That's not it's not great. I just like for the 0:10:09.880 --> 0:10:14.280 general knowledge of everybody listening, in case you don't know, cyanide. 0:10:14.320 --> 0:10:21.400 Both potassium and sodium cyanide essentially render your body unable 0:10:21.440 --> 0:10:24.520 to use the oxygen in your blood. It kills you. 0:10:24.559 --> 0:10:27.800 It kills you pretty quickly. You suffocate quite quickly. Yeah, 0:10:27.800 --> 0:10:31.000 and it's tasteless and odorless and dissolves just like sugar does. 0:10:32.160 --> 0:10:37.000 Uh So, Glicko, being at least a mildly decent company, 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:41.160 pull literally all of their product off of the shelves. Um. 0:10:41.240 --> 0:10:44.559 This resulted in a twenty one million dollar or yen 0:10:44.679 --> 0:10:48.280 I can't, I don't know, really lost and a layoff 0:10:48.400 --> 0:10:51.720 of about a hundred four and fifty workers, right because 0:10:51.720 --> 0:10:53.719 they lost so much money, they couldn't afford to pay 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:56.160 their people to keep working. And they were all part 0:10:56.160 --> 0:10:58.400 time people. I think, yeah, they were all part time people. 0:10:58.400 --> 0:11:00.240 I don't know. I mean, you know, it does best 0:11:00.240 --> 0:11:01.960 five part time people. I don't think that makes it 0:11:02.000 --> 0:11:05.920 any less bad. They probably got hired back. I mean, essentially, 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:08.960 you know, when you pull your products off the shelves, 0:11:08.960 --> 0:11:11.280 you're not gonna immediately restocked them. Probably you're gonna you're 0:11:11.280 --> 0:11:13.080 gonna suspend production for a little bit un till you 0:11:13.080 --> 0:11:15.160 figure out what's going on. And so they probably got 0:11:15.240 --> 0:11:19.000 hired back. Maybe UM the Monster with twenty one faces 0:11:19.040 --> 0:11:23.359 at about the same time wrote a letter UM threatening 0:11:23.559 --> 0:11:26.400 to say that they had more of that tampered product. 0:11:26.800 --> 0:11:30.000 They had purchased a bunch or however, procured a bunch 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.960 of the tampered with products, and that they were going 0:11:33.000 --> 0:11:36.280 to place it back on the shelves once Glicko restocked 0:11:36.720 --> 0:11:39.520 the shelves. They also sent a letter to the media. 0:11:40.320 --> 0:11:43.880 The letters to the media were handwritten and in a 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:48.880 very distinct Osaka dialect, which was different than all of 0:11:48.920 --> 0:11:51.920 the letters that Glicko had been receiving. They were all 0:11:52.000 --> 0:11:57.120 typewritten on a typewriter. Here's some of the examples of 0:11:57.120 --> 0:11:59.240 what we're on the latters. Yeah, they're they're really kind, 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.720 they're really beau of full dear dumb police officers. Don't 0:12:02.800 --> 0:12:05.400 tell a lie. All crimes begin with a lie, as 0:12:05.440 --> 0:12:08.360 we say in Japan. Don't you know that? Other letters 0:12:08.360 --> 0:12:13.439 were written two police stations that kind of related similar messages. Uh, 0:12:13.520 --> 0:12:16.760 This one that is often quoted says, why don't you 0:12:16.800 --> 0:12:19.400 keep it to yourself? You seem to be at a loss, 0:12:19.840 --> 0:12:21.800 so why not let us help you. We'll give you 0:12:21.800 --> 0:12:24.560 a clue. We entered the factory by the front gate. 0:12:24.600 --> 0:12:27.079 The typewriter we used was a pan writer. The plastic 0:12:27.080 --> 0:12:29.840 container we used was a piece of street garbage, monster 0:12:29.880 --> 0:12:34.160 with twenty one faces, basically taunting. Oh yeah, here's here's 0:12:34.240 --> 0:12:36.720 here's how we did part of it. Don't worry about 0:12:36.720 --> 0:12:42.120 finding that out now, try and find us. So and 0:12:42.360 --> 0:12:43.920 it might have been more than taunting. You might have 0:12:44.240 --> 0:12:46.880 you know, it could be somebody who actually is having 0:12:46.880 --> 0:12:48.800 a little fun with them because they're so close to them. 0:12:48.840 --> 0:12:51.600 Actually working for the company whatever. They're basically telling the truth, 0:12:52.360 --> 0:12:54.880 not just taunting them, but actually giving them, giving them 0:12:54.880 --> 0:12:57.200 big old clues. Yeah, that turns out the monster eventually 0:12:57.240 --> 0:12:59.720 got bored with their extortion of Clicko because they weren't 0:12:59.720 --> 0:13:04.720 getting anything. And so that was kind of where I 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.040 was going to go. But keep keep going. But so 0:13:07.120 --> 0:13:10.520 on June of the same year, so like within the 0:13:10.520 --> 0:13:13.600 span of just a couple of months, um, they released 0:13:13.600 --> 0:13:17.760 a media statement that said we forgive Glico exclamation point 0:13:18.120 --> 0:13:21.160 and turned their attentions elsewhere. And as a side note, 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:24.200 the deeper we at this point really, I mean we've 0:13:24.240 --> 0:13:26.959 read a couple of the letters getting the sense of 0:13:27.000 --> 0:13:29.840 the monster with twenty one faces. The deeper we get 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:34.360 into this story, the less believable it becomes. You know. 0:13:34.400 --> 0:13:36.559 It was kind of like discussing the story with some 0:13:36.600 --> 0:13:40.000 people and they were like, Wow, the monster with faces 0:13:40.080 --> 0:13:43.080 sounds like it's a five year old. Like some of 0:13:43.120 --> 0:13:45.760 the letters that are written to the police, especially as 0:13:45.800 --> 0:13:49.360 we continue on, sound like it's like a five year 0:13:49.400 --> 0:13:51.679 old or you know, like a teenager that's like, oh, 0:13:51.760 --> 0:13:54.520 I see this in the movies. That will be perfect. Yeah. Well, 0:13:54.559 --> 0:13:57.800 and and and the thing is is they say we 0:13:57.880 --> 0:14:02.440 forgive Glico. That to me indicates that Glicko got some 0:14:02.559 --> 0:14:06.000 letters that they didn't spill the beans on and paid 0:14:06.080 --> 0:14:11.120 out saying stop screwing with us, stop messing with us, 0:14:11.160 --> 0:14:14.040 and we'll pay you money as possible. I actually I 0:14:14.040 --> 0:14:18.880 suspect that Glicko Iseka, the president of the company, was 0:14:18.880 --> 0:14:22.280 probably behind this whole thing so used to it's just kidnapping, 0:14:22.360 --> 0:14:26.280 and he arranged for all the notes everything, because this 0:14:26.280 --> 0:14:28.360 gave him a great way after you know, after you 0:14:28.440 --> 0:14:30.760 got the forgiveness letter, then he can go harass all 0:14:30.840 --> 0:14:33.640 his competitors and cost them huge amounts of money and 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:36.520 also extort lots of lots of money from them fair. 0:14:37.360 --> 0:14:39.640 So I also want to go ahead and mention another 0:14:39.680 --> 0:14:43.400 thing that happened quickly before we move on. A surveillance 0:14:43.480 --> 0:14:47.120 video caught a man wearing a Giants baseball cap. Giants 0:14:47.200 --> 0:14:51.080 the baseball team, not a Giant baseball cap. No Giants 0:14:51.160 --> 0:14:54.360 is in the baseball team from America. He was wearing that, 0:14:54.560 --> 0:14:58.560 and they caught him placing Glico candies onto shelves of 0:14:58.600 --> 0:15:01.320 a supermarket. And the I said that letter had threatened 0:15:01.360 --> 0:15:04.800 to do call him. The video tape man. Right, do again, 0:15:05.000 --> 0:15:09.640 it's this whole like, the whole story just sounds like 0:15:09.680 --> 0:15:13.000 a bad anime or something. Right, It's like, oh, you know, 0:15:13.080 --> 0:15:15.360 as we go into this more right. The suspects are 0:15:15.440 --> 0:15:18.960 the video tape man, the Fox side man, Yugio. I 0:15:19.000 --> 0:15:22.240 saw the video tape man down the street. Let's go 0:15:22.440 --> 0:15:24.680 get him. It does a little bit sound that way, 0:15:24.880 --> 0:15:26.920 the video the video tape man. The first thing I 0:15:26.920 --> 0:15:28.520 thought of was I thought about those times when you 0:15:28.520 --> 0:15:31.200 go to the store and you pick up something. It's like, oh, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.000 I guess I'll indulge myself, you bag of candy or whatever, 0:15:34.040 --> 0:15:36.160 and then the other on you think maybe not, you 0:15:36.240 --> 0:15:39.240 go back and you put it back on the shelf. 0:15:40.040 --> 0:15:42.120 Could have been well, it was my understanding that he 0:15:42.160 --> 0:15:45.120 was putting like a fair amount back on. It wasn't 0:15:45.200 --> 0:15:47.280 like just a bag or two that it like he 0:15:47.400 --> 0:15:49.320 was pulling it out of his pocket, not out of 0:15:49.360 --> 0:15:52.520 his basket. I didn't see the video. I haven't seen 0:15:52.520 --> 0:15:57.160 the video. The video we only see stills. Yeah, and 0:15:57.240 --> 0:16:00.520 I guess the footage was released at one point. But again, 0:16:00.560 --> 0:16:02.560 this is you know, the eighties, so it's not like 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:08.040 we have the internet to like, yeah, yeah, so in 0:16:08.080 --> 0:16:15.080 October of the same year, UM the media of Osaka 0:16:16.320 --> 0:16:18.840 received a letter addressed to the moms of the nation, 0:16:20.200 --> 0:16:23.760 which was of course from the Monster with twenty one faces. 0:16:24.280 --> 0:16:27.800 This time it claimed to have laced twenty packages of 0:16:28.680 --> 0:16:33.359 Oh my gosh, I've forgotten how Rinaga chocolates with sodium 0:16:33.360 --> 0:16:38.200 cyanide instead of you know, they do the same thing. Okay, 0:16:38.240 --> 0:16:41.520 they're just as bad. They're both, they're both awful. After 0:16:41.560 --> 0:16:49.880 receiving this letter, the police search stores in cities of Tokyo. Yeah, 0:16:49.920 --> 0:16:53.160 in that kind of in the Osaka, a western Japan 0:16:53.200 --> 0:16:56.200 area basically well, and you know Japan is like five 0:16:56.280 --> 0:17:00.440 or six different islands, but right on the yeah, anyway, um, 0:17:00.680 --> 0:17:03.720 and they found over a dozen of lethal packages of 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:08.159 cocoa balls and angel pies before anyone was poison and 0:17:08.160 --> 0:17:12.520 these packages had actually been like relabeled like stickers Edmond 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:16.360 put on them to say like danger contains toxins or 0:17:16.520 --> 0:17:20.359 something similar, which is really you're not trying to hide 0:17:20.359 --> 0:17:23.280 what you're doing. At that point, if we think about 0:17:23.400 --> 0:17:27.199 things that people have done, remember was it the the 0:17:27.320 --> 0:17:31.800 aspirin scare Thailand all scared they were saying they they 0:17:32.200 --> 0:17:35.360 they injected it into the mix, and so you couldn't 0:17:35.440 --> 0:17:38.760 tell which ones. But this is this is very open 0:17:39.320 --> 0:17:43.280 and in your face, whereas the Thailand all scare was 0:17:43.920 --> 0:17:48.800 very insidious because you did not know. Yeah. Actually actually 0:17:48.840 --> 0:17:50.680 the time all thing was just somebody trying to murder 0:17:50.720 --> 0:17:53.080 his wife. He went back and put some on the 0:17:53.119 --> 0:17:55.800 shelves in the store, just right. I know. But I'm 0:17:55.840 --> 0:17:57.920 just saying, it's like, you can't yeah, you can't tell. 0:17:58.000 --> 0:17:59.320 I know, It's like and I think, you know, if 0:17:59.320 --> 0:18:01.879 this would continue, they might have eventually started putting them 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:04.080 on the shelves without putting labels on them. Well, and 0:18:04.119 --> 0:18:06.480 that was my impression of like the Pockey for instance, 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.160 was that it had been part of the mix. They didn't, 0:18:09.160 --> 0:18:13.119 you know, say, oh we tampered with twenty of these boxes. 0:18:13.240 --> 0:18:14.879 It was just kind of like a bunch of your 0:18:14.880 --> 0:18:18.520 stuff is bad. Uh. So they actually continued to search 0:18:18.560 --> 0:18:21.480 for them, and more tampered confections were found in February 0:18:21.600 --> 0:18:26.680 of nine, five the year later, which meant that they 0:18:26.720 --> 0:18:30.800 found twenty one um of these products about a four 0:18:30.880 --> 0:18:35.480 or five month period, which again twenty one monster with 0:18:35.920 --> 0:18:39.520 one face. Whatever, It's fine, No, I see the correlation. 0:18:39.560 --> 0:18:44.760 There's very sneaky somehow, and it's it's really not important 0:18:44.840 --> 0:18:49.240 how because why would it be important. How a deal 0:18:49.359 --> 0:18:51.960 was made with a monster with twenty one faces with 0:18:52.080 --> 0:18:59.040 a certain other confectionery producer, and basically the monster with 0:18:59.440 --> 0:19:03.080 faces would stopped grassing them for five million yen and 0:19:03.119 --> 0:19:07.920 the arrangement, I'm sorry, fifty million, adding zeros all over 0:19:07.960 --> 0:19:10.680 the place. It's fine. That's why the show is doing 0:19:10.680 --> 0:19:13.760 so well. It's I keep adding zeros to our numbers. 0:19:13.760 --> 0:19:17.280 It's fine. So the arrangement was made that an employee 0:19:17.280 --> 0:19:21.720 of this company would toss the ransom money, like in 0:19:21.760 --> 0:19:26.600 a briefcase or whatever, huge bag that would contain fifty 0:19:26.600 --> 0:19:29.520 million in Actually don't know how much that would weigh 0:19:29.680 --> 0:19:31.840 or how big it would be. Yeah, you'd have to 0:19:31.880 --> 0:19:36.720 put it in yen notes. Yeah, well the end notes 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:40.560 kind of coming big denominating. Yeah. Yeah, so I guess 0:19:40.560 --> 0:19:43.160 it was like a suitcase or something. So he would 0:19:43.240 --> 0:19:48.680 throw it onto a local train heading towards Kyoto. When 0:19:49.080 --> 0:19:54.000 a white flag was displayed from a certain location, it's 0:19:54.160 --> 0:19:57.439 it's again. It sounds kind of like a teenager being like, 0:19:57.440 --> 0:20:01.080 oh I see this in the movies. Yeah, So an investigator, 0:20:01.080 --> 0:20:04.240 a police investigator that was disguised as an employee of 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:07.920 this company, was following the drop instructions instead of actually 0:20:07.960 --> 0:20:11.480 sending an actual employee. What makes sense again, it does? 0:20:11.520 --> 0:20:14.320 It does sound just like it's a movie, but fine, whatever. 0:20:14.720 --> 0:20:17.919 And he was following the instructions and he spotted a 0:20:17.960 --> 0:20:21.359 suspicious man who he said was observing him when he 0:20:21.440 --> 0:20:24.240 was writing the train to the drop spot. The man 0:20:24.400 --> 0:20:28.320 was described as a large, well bit, well built man 0:20:28.640 --> 0:20:32.840 wearing sunglasses, with his hair cut short and permed, and 0:20:33.080 --> 0:20:38.119 quote eyes like those of a fox unquote. I was 0:20:38.160 --> 0:20:40.359 able to see his eyes. I think I was wearing sunglass. Listen, 0:20:41.080 --> 0:20:45.919 the how is not important with so much of this story, 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:52.240 the how was just not important. Sunglasses, right exactly. I mean, 0:20:52.320 --> 0:20:53.840 you know it comes back to a little bit like 0:20:54.080 --> 0:20:57.600 earlier right where we say, well a deal was struck, 0:20:57.680 --> 0:21:00.720 but like nobody had an address for the monster with 0:21:02.000 --> 0:21:03.959 you know, it's not like they could be like corresponding 0:21:04.040 --> 0:21:06.760 via letters. And at this point, you know it's you 0:21:06.760 --> 0:21:09.320 couldn't do encrypted email, so it wasn't like an anonymous 0:21:09.359 --> 0:21:14.000 email address or like an anonymous phone number, I assume. Anyways, 0:21:14.480 --> 0:21:17.840 as I said, the how is not important, Okay, so 0:21:17.960 --> 0:21:21.639 this is the fox Side Man. He's it's the videotaped 0:21:21.680 --> 0:21:23.639 man and the fox side Man or the two people 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:27.440 who are kind of referred to as suspects. Yeah, these 0:21:27.440 --> 0:21:31.399 are are two main characters we know. Okay, now the 0:21:31.840 --> 0:21:33.800 fox side Man on the train too, you know, isn't 0:21:33.800 --> 0:21:36.680 it true that he um, he was sitting there staring 0:21:36.720 --> 0:21:38.440 at this cop the whole way, which is, by the way, 0:21:38.480 --> 0:21:41.000 not good trade craft. And then and then they get 0:21:41.040 --> 0:21:43.239 to Kyoto I think, then they both get off at 0:21:43.240 --> 0:21:47.399 the station, and then the the policeman eventually gets on 0:21:47.440 --> 0:21:50.440 the train going back to Osaka or wherever they were from, 0:21:50.480 --> 0:21:52.880 and this guy hits on the train with him. I mean, 0:21:53.080 --> 0:21:55.880 why at that point didn't the policeman arrest him. Well, 0:21:55.960 --> 0:21:59.080 that he was still undercover, I guess. But there was 0:21:59.119 --> 0:22:01.960 another investigator he had somehow communicated with the rest of 0:22:02.000 --> 0:22:04.000 his team and he said, Hey, there's this dude who's 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:07.680 the Fox Sided Man, and he's following me. So other 0:22:07.760 --> 0:22:11.560 investigators were assigned to follow the fox Side Man, and 0:22:11.600 --> 0:22:14.840 he evaded them because of course he did. Yeah, it's 0:22:15.119 --> 0:22:19.600 it's this weird skullduggery. Oh, there's a guy who is 0:22:19.640 --> 0:22:23.800 wearing sunglasses and staring at me. I've been on the 0:22:23.840 --> 0:22:27.280 train and I've been looking at somebody. Everybody is that 0:22:27.320 --> 0:22:30.640 guy staring at me? And then half an hour later 0:22:30.720 --> 0:22:34.800 I realized that guy is actually asleep. He's just sitting there, 0:22:35.240 --> 0:22:40.320 spacing out, not paying attention. And then goes, oh man, 0:22:40.400 --> 0:22:43.040 I missed my stop. I gotta go back. I gotta 0:22:43.160 --> 0:22:46.240 go back to stop. Oh man. Yeah, so this is 0:22:46.240 --> 0:22:48.920 simplifying the heck out of this. But no, I mean 0:22:49.000 --> 0:22:52.600 it's it's that's fair. Um, so police actually got so 0:22:52.760 --> 0:22:54.920 they lost him that first time, right, but they got 0:22:54.920 --> 0:22:58.520 a second chance at the fox side man November of 0:22:59.560 --> 0:23:03.680 eighty five, UM investigators were on their way to make 0:23:03.720 --> 0:23:06.840 a drop of more ransom money. Again, the how is 0:23:07.040 --> 0:23:10.200 just not important? Um when they saw the fox eyed 0:23:10.280 --> 0:23:14.240 man wearing a golf cap and dark glasses, always a 0:23:14.359 --> 0:23:17.840 dark glass. I'm not totally sure what it is. Isn't 0:23:17.840 --> 0:23:20.320 that like what Tiger Woods wears. That's a base that's 0:23:20.320 --> 0:23:24.399 a baseball golf cap, like one of those sports caps, 0:23:24.440 --> 0:23:27.920 like that's got the beret with a little bill. Yeah, yeah, 0:23:28.040 --> 0:23:33.320 that's basically cap is an Irish golf course. In my mind, 0:23:33.359 --> 0:23:36.200 that's true too, Okay, um. So there was a cash 0:23:36.240 --> 0:23:40.399