1 00:00:00,240 --> 00:00:03,760 Speaker 1: Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the 2 00:00:03,800 --> 00:00:07,840 Speaker 1: Texas Trend Saw Massacre. Oh that one courtesy of New 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,159 Speaker 1: Chris on the discord. My name is Jack O'Brien. That 4 00:00:11,280 --> 00:00:16,600 Speaker 1: over there is great. Oh there you go. He didn't 5 00:00:16,600 --> 00:00:19,560 Speaker 1: scream great? Yeah, I didn't. I didn't want to go 6 00:00:19,600 --> 00:00:21,760 Speaker 1: too hard. You know, it was that too. 7 00:00:22,360 --> 00:00:25,000 Speaker 2: No, you're loving co host Jack and the Loving Father, 8 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:28,440 Speaker 2: and you're I felt I felt warm. It felt warm, 9 00:00:28,440 --> 00:00:31,120 Speaker 2: It didn't feel didn't feel shitty, it didn't feel too droopy, 10 00:00:31,360 --> 00:00:33,280 Speaker 2: no be or floppy. 11 00:00:33,360 --> 00:00:36,480 Speaker 1: No, all right, jam packed episode. We're gonna talk about 12 00:00:36,479 --> 00:00:38,080 Speaker 1: some news and then later on we have a very 13 00:00:38,080 --> 00:00:41,000 Speaker 1: special guest to talk about some things outside of the 14 00:00:41,120 --> 00:00:43,920 Speaker 1: United States, uh, and how they affect the United States 15 00:00:43,960 --> 00:00:46,479 Speaker 1: and how they're related to the United States, because we 16 00:00:46,560 --> 00:00:50,320 Speaker 1: are an American centric yeah, and full transparency. You know. 17 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:52,680 Speaker 2: Being Japanese, I have a bit of an interest in 18 00:00:52,680 --> 00:00:53,600 Speaker 2: what's happening in Japan. 19 00:00:53,680 --> 00:00:56,120 Speaker 1: So you got a dog in this fight? Got a 20 00:00:56,200 --> 00:01:01,280 Speaker 1: dog in this fight? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, sure, sure not. Hey, 21 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,360 Speaker 1: I mean I don't even care. I don't care, dude. 22 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,759 Speaker 1: I really want to hear about what the latest fashions 23 00:01:07,800 --> 00:01:10,280 Speaker 1: are that I can vulture onto. 24 00:01:10,319 --> 00:01:12,920 Speaker 2: Jack, your clothes are not nearly as baggy as they 25 00:01:12,959 --> 00:01:14,080 Speaker 2: need to be if you wanted to finish. 26 00:01:14,560 --> 00:01:18,240 Speaker 1: Yeah, I noticed I was over there and skin tight clothes. 27 00:01:18,440 --> 00:01:21,399 Speaker 2: Yeah, well, skip your clothes would see even though you're 28 00:01:21,400 --> 00:01:24,399 Speaker 2: not wearing like painted on jeans, even just your normal 29 00:01:24,480 --> 00:01:25,840 Speaker 2: jeans would look normals. 30 00:01:26,319 --> 00:01:27,959 Speaker 3: Yeah, the fashionable Japanese you. 31 00:01:28,200 --> 00:01:31,560 Speaker 1: All right, let's get it into some news. The White 32 00:01:31,560 --> 00:01:34,600 Speaker 1: House and Ice are doing a fun thing. Is this 33 00:01:34,760 --> 00:01:39,320 Speaker 1: is this for Halloween? They're using Halo imagery to promote 34 00:01:39,319 --> 00:01:39,960 Speaker 1: their stuff. 35 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:46,280 Speaker 2: So fucking Master Chief Trump as Master Chief in front 36 00:01:46,319 --> 00:01:49,680 Speaker 2: of the White House is unbelieve. I mean again, it's 37 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:53,040 Speaker 2: all AI slop nonsense. It's just power to the players, 38 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,440 Speaker 2: because it is that Game Stop that says that. I'm 39 00:01:57,480 --> 00:01:57,960 Speaker 2: pretty sure. 40 00:01:58,960 --> 00:02:00,680 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're asking the right guy. 41 00:02:01,240 --> 00:02:03,120 Speaker 2: I know, and I don't need to be modest, Jack. 42 00:02:03,680 --> 00:02:05,640 Speaker 2: I know how you are with that alienware. Yeah, I 43 00:02:05,680 --> 00:02:07,080 Speaker 2: know you Atwitch. 44 00:02:07,160 --> 00:02:10,400 Speaker 1: I can confirm based totally off of my memory of 45 00:02:10,560 --> 00:02:11,160 Speaker 1: Game Stop. 46 00:02:11,560 --> 00:02:14,360 Speaker 3: And incidentally, Victor happened to text you something about that. 47 00:02:14,440 --> 00:02:17,720 Speaker 1: Oh yeah, look at that. Victor confirmed it. Game okay, okay, yeah, 48 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:22,799 Speaker 1: thanks Victor. Yeah, but yeah, he's he's standing there looking Shredsville, 49 00:02:22,960 --> 00:02:26,960 Speaker 1: saluting the flag, holding halo weapon in his left hand. 50 00:02:27,480 --> 00:02:28,840 Speaker 1: It's it's sick. 51 00:02:29,040 --> 00:02:31,959 Speaker 2: There's another one with them in a wart hog destroy 52 00:02:32,160 --> 00:02:33,720 Speaker 2: the flood there. 53 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:39,920 Speaker 1: I mean, oh that one's not good. Oh no, yeah, 54 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:44,440 Speaker 1: joint destroy the flood, join ICE dot gov. Yeah. Yeah. 55 00:02:44,639 --> 00:02:46,639 Speaker 2: Look, they're doing everything they can. I mean they're I'm 56 00:02:46,680 --> 00:02:49,600 Speaker 2: sure they're like, hey, Steve Bannon said something about gamers, 57 00:02:49,639 --> 00:02:55,440 Speaker 2: maybe we can get them, yeah, famously in peak physical condition, 58 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:56,560 Speaker 2: all of us gamers. 59 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,519 Speaker 3: As a gamer myself, have they seen my arms? They are? 60 00:03:00,960 --> 00:03:02,280 Speaker 2: I don't know if I can do any kind of 61 00:03:02,280 --> 00:03:04,480 Speaker 2: real street work out there. I can, I can maybe 62 00:03:04,560 --> 00:03:07,000 Speaker 2: choke somebody out for saying they went they left anger 63 00:03:07,080 --> 00:03:08,720 Speaker 2: management early theater. 64 00:03:09,120 --> 00:03:11,280 Speaker 1: As long as as long as they're in middle school 65 00:03:11,400 --> 00:03:15,200 Speaker 1: or below. Yeah, as long as it's unsuspected and as 66 00:03:15,240 --> 00:03:18,119 Speaker 1: long as they're not they're not ready for it. Yeah, 67 00:03:18,600 --> 00:03:21,200 Speaker 1: that is your move, which also seems to be like 68 00:03:21,240 --> 00:03:23,959 Speaker 1: the Ice strategy. There. There's a video of a young 69 00:03:24,000 --> 00:03:27,920 Speaker 1: woman walking into a store and Ice two Ice agents 70 00:03:28,040 --> 00:03:29,840 Speaker 1: just like roll up on her from behind with like 71 00:03:29,880 --> 00:03:34,160 Speaker 1: a fucking Jesus Halloween cost like just scary asque like 72 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:38,760 Speaker 1: full black mask over their head with like goggles or 73 00:03:38,840 --> 00:03:41,680 Speaker 1: like are you from here? Where were you born? Are 74 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:46,400 Speaker 1: you from here? No? Heroes? Heroes is what we call them. 75 00:03:46,520 --> 00:03:52,000 Speaker 1: But do you the flood? That feels hmmm? Yeah? Is 76 00:03:52,040 --> 00:03:54,560 Speaker 1: that a reference to anything? Is that? Yeah? Yeah? That 77 00:03:54,680 --> 00:03:55,240 Speaker 1: is from Halo? 78 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,440 Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, that is like they're lucky that there 79 00:03:58,560 --> 00:04:01,120 Speaker 2: is the flood in Halo. They're truly just trying to 80 00:04:01,120 --> 00:04:04,680 Speaker 2: be like, hey, man, is it Halo? Just like immigration, 81 00:04:04,920 --> 00:04:08,400 Speaker 2: y'all come on naturally in Halo? 82 00:04:08,080 --> 00:04:11,120 Speaker 1: Who is the flood? What is the flood? It's a 83 00:04:11,160 --> 00:04:14,320 Speaker 1: life form that's like the main bad guy, right, which 84 00:04:14,360 --> 00:04:19,800 Speaker 1: are like pretty insectoid, right, They're ard, they're gross, they 85 00:04:19,800 --> 00:04:23,520 Speaker 1: look like very Nazi vibes. To be comparing immigrants to 86 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:28,200 Speaker 1: the parasitic organism from Halo, I feel. 87 00:04:28,120 --> 00:04:31,360 Speaker 2: Of course, but are people connecting it are with our 88 00:04:31,480 --> 00:04:34,400 Speaker 2: educational system? People might be like, wait, Trump was in Halo. 89 00:04:36,720 --> 00:04:38,919 Speaker 2: That's all Trump Halo collab. 90 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: I mean I think they're trying. 91 00:04:40,760 --> 00:04:45,920 Speaker 2: Obviously, the recruitment is been bad despite the bonuses, because 92 00:04:46,000 --> 00:04:48,039 Speaker 2: the people that are willing to do this work are 93 00:04:48,080 --> 00:04:51,280 Speaker 2: just like there aren't many of them, and the ones 94 00:04:51,279 --> 00:04:53,359 Speaker 2: that are just not even close to doing it the 95 00:04:53,400 --> 00:04:55,919 Speaker 2: way they need to is brutally, I guess, considering the 96 00:04:55,960 --> 00:04:58,320 Speaker 2: firings that have happened at ICE. But I think they're 97 00:04:58,360 --> 00:05:00,040 Speaker 2: just trying to get as many of these messages to 98 00:05:00,080 --> 00:05:02,800 Speaker 2: resonate with all the different weirdos out there. Because there's 99 00:05:02,839 --> 00:05:06,120 Speaker 2: also like the new ICE posters that are done in 100 00:05:06,200 --> 00:05:10,680 Speaker 2: the very explicit like Nazi aesthetic of like knights, because 101 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:13,360 Speaker 2: I was like the Nazi propaganda back then was depicting 102 00:05:13,400 --> 00:05:16,800 Speaker 2: them as knights and like their their their conquest to 103 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:20,080 Speaker 2: retake Europe sort of things. So there's Ice imagery now 104 00:05:20,120 --> 00:05:22,680 Speaker 2: that's putting people like in sort of night armor. 105 00:05:22,760 --> 00:05:26,560 Speaker 1: Also, yeah, I mean it's not a secret. The like 106 00:05:26,640 --> 00:05:31,920 Speaker 1: once teenage mutant Ninja Gebels like did his speech modeled 107 00:05:31,960 --> 00:05:37,479 Speaker 1: on a Nazi speech after Chargers. Yeah, that was a 108 00:05:37,480 --> 00:05:41,240 Speaker 1: pretty good sign that it's mask off where we're Nazis. 109 00:05:41,320 --> 00:05:45,520 Speaker 1: We admire the Nazis, we want to borrow their iconography 110 00:05:45,680 --> 00:05:46,680 Speaker 1: as much as possible. 111 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:48,840 Speaker 2: Do you get like how like they're trying to wink 112 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:51,000 Speaker 2: right and they're like like if you know, you know 113 00:05:51,120 --> 00:05:52,120 Speaker 2: bro Loo who we're doing? 114 00:05:52,279 --> 00:05:52,479 Speaker 1: Sure? 115 00:05:52,480 --> 00:05:55,040 Speaker 2: But then also is that as effective for I would 116 00:05:55,080 --> 00:05:58,280 Speaker 2: say most of the population isn't up on the semiotics 117 00:05:58,320 --> 00:05:59,200 Speaker 2: of Nazi Germany. 118 00:05:59,760 --> 00:06:01,880 Speaker 1: Yeah, like would be like, oh yeah, dude. 119 00:06:01,920 --> 00:06:03,720 Speaker 2: But I guess maybe they're just like in the same 120 00:06:03,760 --> 00:06:06,920 Speaker 2: way the Weimar Republic is like, well, yeah, nights we can. 121 00:06:07,000 --> 00:06:10,520 Speaker 1: They're also un original and have bad esthetics, and so 122 00:06:10,640 --> 00:06:13,440 Speaker 1: I feel like that, you know, their second option might 123 00:06:13,480 --> 00:06:17,880 Speaker 1: have been comic songs. You know, like they probably just 124 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:20,279 Speaker 1: are using it as a crutch to be like that 125 00:06:20,320 --> 00:06:24,000 Speaker 1: shit looked cool, you know, Jesus Christ. 126 00:06:23,720 --> 00:06:25,599 Speaker 3: Well, yeah, the mask is off. 127 00:06:25,720 --> 00:06:28,000 Speaker 2: And guess what, Donald Trump is actually a master chief 128 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:28,960 Speaker 2: now that the mask is off. 129 00:06:29,160 --> 00:06:33,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, I still go back to like the ship that 130 00:06:33,880 --> 00:06:37,400 Speaker 1: Steve Miller must say behind closed doors that like Trump 131 00:06:37,480 --> 00:06:39,800 Speaker 1: was like, you know, I don't want to know what 132 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:41,920 Speaker 1: he really thinks, or I don't want him to say 133 00:06:41,920 --> 00:06:44,359 Speaker 1: what he really thinks. That might be too much like 134 00:06:44,560 --> 00:06:46,640 Speaker 1: Jesus man, what the fuck when? 135 00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:49,480 Speaker 2: Yeah, when the guy who hadn't mind camp by his 136 00:06:49,600 --> 00:06:52,680 Speaker 2: bedside table is like, this guy's a little too much, 137 00:06:53,520 --> 00:06:55,360 Speaker 2: a little too much dip on his chip. 138 00:06:56,000 --> 00:06:59,719 Speaker 1: In worst news for him. Maybe I don't know he 139 00:07:00,120 --> 00:07:03,000 Speaker 1: maybe it's bad news for us because it seems like 140 00:07:03,080 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 1: he had forgotten that he wasn't allowed to run for 141 00:07:05,560 --> 00:07:08,520 Speaker 1: a third term and just find out about it. Yeah. 142 00:07:08,720 --> 00:07:11,760 Speaker 2: Yeah, So like on Sunday we were talking about that 143 00:07:11,800 --> 00:07:15,080 Speaker 2: flight on airfare air Force one where he was what 144 00:07:15,200 --> 00:07:18,440 Speaker 2: a flight man? He like, there was the I dare 145 00:07:18,440 --> 00:07:20,240 Speaker 2: you to see if your brain is as damaged as 146 00:07:20,280 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 2: mind challenge that went out to AOC and Jasmine Crockett. 147 00:07:23,040 --> 00:07:26,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, he described as like, I'd like to see how 148 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:29,280 Speaker 1: they do on this advanced IQ test that I took 149 00:07:29,400 --> 00:07:32,680 Speaker 1: and A and it was I was like connect the dots. 150 00:07:32,960 --> 00:07:36,160 Speaker 3: Yeah, it was like if A is one and B 151 00:07:36,440 --> 00:07:37,840 Speaker 3: is two, what is C? 152 00:07:38,400 --> 00:07:42,880 Speaker 1: Right? Uh? Lion swish now. 153 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:47,240 Speaker 2: So he told on that flight, the first one he 154 00:07:47,280 --> 00:07:48,679 Speaker 2: was sort of like, yeah, you know, he was talking 155 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 2: about a third term. 156 00:07:49,600 --> 00:07:51,480 Speaker 3: I was like, here he fucking goes again. But he's 157 00:07:51,560 --> 00:07:52,480 Speaker 3: changed his tune now. 158 00:07:52,520 --> 00:07:55,080 Speaker 2: So on the next flight headed to Korea from Japan, 159 00:07:55,640 --> 00:07:57,280 Speaker 2: he told reporters on air Force one. 160 00:07:57,840 --> 00:08:00,360 Speaker 3: Quote, it's pretty clear exeus. 161 00:08:00,160 --> 00:08:03,760 Speaker 2: I'm burping because I'm I don't know, sorry. I had 162 00:08:03,800 --> 00:08:05,440 Speaker 2: a hot dog for breakfast. 163 00:08:05,720 --> 00:08:07,840 Speaker 1: You had a hot dog for breakfast? Look, Jack, what 164 00:08:07,920 --> 00:08:09,920 Speaker 1: the I'm trying to read Romney's book. 165 00:08:09,960 --> 00:08:13,920 Speaker 2: I'm reading Rodney's biography and I'm trying to mimic the 166 00:08:14,040 --> 00:08:16,400 Speaker 2: people that I want that I aspire to be, And 167 00:08:16,440 --> 00:08:17,320 Speaker 2: that was his routine. 168 00:08:17,440 --> 00:08:19,520 Speaker 1: That's not that's not too far off from scramble. 169 00:08:19,920 --> 00:08:24,600 Speaker 2: Yeah, but he said, quote, it's pretty clear that he 170 00:08:24,600 --> 00:08:27,200 Speaker 2: can't run again, and then he added, yeah, I guess 171 00:08:27,200 --> 00:08:28,240 Speaker 2: I'm not allowed to run. 172 00:08:28,880 --> 00:08:32,240 Speaker 1: Which is I guess I'm not allowed to run? Is 173 00:08:32,280 --> 00:08:34,960 Speaker 1: it really feels like he just found out? Yeah, like 174 00:08:35,040 --> 00:08:37,760 Speaker 1: you didn't fucking know? Or are they scolding you? 175 00:08:37,840 --> 00:08:39,760 Speaker 2: Sound like a scolded cha, Like, I guess I'm not 176 00:08:39,800 --> 00:08:43,600 Speaker 2: allowed to mix the ammonia in the bleach. That's what 177 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:46,560 Speaker 2: mommy said, can't do that because of the toxic cloud. 178 00:08:47,040 --> 00:08:50,079 Speaker 2: He did add though his trademark, but we'll see, as 179 00:08:50,080 --> 00:08:53,120 Speaker 2: he always says, with everything, But he wasn't. He was 180 00:08:53,200 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 2: just kind of like, yeah, not not really committed to 181 00:08:56,440 --> 00:08:59,040 Speaker 2: that bit. And people said that this kind of happened 182 00:08:59,480 --> 00:09:02,560 Speaker 2: maybe right after he had a call with Mike Johnson, 183 00:09:02,760 --> 00:09:05,440 Speaker 2: who he said had spoken to him about quote, the 184 00:09:05,480 --> 00:09:07,120 Speaker 2: constrictions of the constitution. 185 00:09:07,440 --> 00:09:09,600 Speaker 1: Hmmm, so maybe Mike. 186 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,560 Speaker 2: I don't know if Mike Johnson's like, hey, dude, there's 187 00:09:11,679 --> 00:09:15,120 Speaker 2: fucking no path here for this unless you're fully just 188 00:09:15,160 --> 00:09:16,400 Speaker 2: breaking everything down. 189 00:09:16,320 --> 00:09:18,600 Speaker 1: Based on what we know from history. And I'm having 190 00:09:18,640 --> 00:09:22,560 Speaker 1: to look way back to the Biden administration on this one. 191 00:09:22,600 --> 00:09:25,920 Speaker 1: But the people who are working with a president who's 192 00:09:26,640 --> 00:09:30,840 Speaker 1: you know, suffering from dementia are way more aware than 193 00:09:31,080 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: the general public about like what's what's going on behind 194 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:37,400 Speaker 1: the scenes. So this might be the one case where 195 00:09:37,440 --> 00:09:40,480 Speaker 1: like the people around him are just like buddy, But yeah, 196 00:09:40,559 --> 00:09:43,680 Speaker 1: I don't know that that's them's the rules unfortunately, Yeah, 197 00:09:43,720 --> 00:09:45,040 Speaker 1: you know, not guessing them up. 198 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:47,840 Speaker 2: Just trying to mister president Twitch it to jd Vance. 199 00:09:48,200 --> 00:09:50,520 Speaker 2: He's like, look, man, your donors from Silicon Valley. You 200 00:09:50,559 --> 00:09:52,840 Speaker 2: know they want jd Vance as your vice president. 201 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,800 Speaker 1: You know why? You know why? No? All right, all right, 202 00:09:56,840 --> 00:10:00,720 Speaker 1: well let's go get let's go take another I test 203 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:06,040 Speaker 1: and another brain scan real quick. Halloween story, like a 204 00:10:06,080 --> 00:10:08,199 Speaker 1: story that seems like it's out of a horror movie, 205 00:10:09,440 --> 00:10:12,560 Speaker 1: and I think that might be why it's happening. So 206 00:10:12,760 --> 00:10:15,440 Speaker 1: there's bad news and then there's aggressive monkeys infected with 207 00:10:15,559 --> 00:10:20,960 Speaker 1: covid hepatitis C and herpes have escaped news. A truck 208 00:10:21,040 --> 00:10:24,960 Speaker 1: containing a cartload of Reese's monkeys from research center affiliated 209 00:10:25,000 --> 00:10:29,320 Speaker 1: with Two Lane University crashed in Mississippi, leaving a hole 210 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:33,160 Speaker 1: just large enough for the primates whose cages were broken 211 00:10:33,280 --> 00:10:36,960 Speaker 1: during the cash to escape into the Mississippi valleys, multiple 212 00:10:37,000 --> 00:10:41,440 Speaker 1: Mississippi valleys, at which point law enforcement just started shooting them, 213 00:10:41,840 --> 00:10:46,360 Speaker 1: which would make sense except apparently nobody investigating the case 214 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:49,960 Speaker 1: or reporting the story actually checked with the university, because 215 00:10:50,120 --> 00:10:53,920 Speaker 1: the university has claimed that the monkeys aren't infectious, and 216 00:10:54,360 --> 00:10:57,599 Speaker 1: they're sending a team of animal care experts to assist 217 00:10:57,920 --> 00:11:01,600 Speaker 1: the cops who have been busy shooting the monkeys. But 218 00:11:01,640 --> 00:11:05,240 Speaker 1: I do feel like this might just be the US 219 00:11:05,280 --> 00:11:08,400 Speaker 1: media being like, we need a horror movie scene and 220 00:11:08,559 --> 00:11:11,520 Speaker 1: stat yeah for this Halloween news cycle. 221 00:11:11,920 --> 00:11:16,679 Speaker 2: Herpies, monkey spill in Mississippi monkey spilling. That's that's an 222 00:11:16,679 --> 00:11:18,720 Speaker 2: inciting incident if I've ever heard one. 223 00:11:19,080 --> 00:11:19,560 Speaker 1: Yeah. 224 00:11:20,280 --> 00:11:23,240 Speaker 2: I like how the cops are like, uh, the driver 225 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:27,800 Speaker 2: said the monkeys were dangerous, so we had to just 226 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:29,200 Speaker 2: fucking blast them. 227 00:11:29,400 --> 00:11:32,719 Speaker 3: I mean, already testing on animals is so fucking fucked up. 228 00:11:32,760 --> 00:11:35,760 Speaker 2: But on top of that being like, yeah, I gotta 229 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:40,160 Speaker 2: shoot them now, cool? Cool, they aren't even what what 230 00:11:40,440 --> 00:11:44,400 Speaker 2: Amazing Outlet gave us a headline aggressive monkey infected with 231 00:11:44,480 --> 00:11:47,800 Speaker 2: COVID and sgis running loose in Mississippi. 232 00:11:47,200 --> 00:11:49,160 Speaker 3: After transport trunk overturns. 233 00:11:49,400 --> 00:11:52,120 Speaker 1: A little disappointed that by how literal it is, because 234 00:11:52,120 --> 00:11:55,960 Speaker 1: it is, of course the New York Post. You'd think 235 00:11:55,960 --> 00:11:57,679 Speaker 1: they would have been able to come up with something 236 00:11:57,679 --> 00:12:00,520 Speaker 1: a little bit better than that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they 237 00:12:00,520 --> 00:12:03,800 Speaker 1: were just going for straight fear, straight adrenaline. 238 00:12:03,920 --> 00:12:08,280 Speaker 2: Yeah, aggressive, Like what where is that even? I mean, yeah, 239 00:12:08,320 --> 00:12:12,480 Speaker 2: because they've been caged. The charts on the aggressive scale. Yeah, 240 00:12:12,520 --> 00:12:16,000 Speaker 2: because we've we're locking them up in cages and making 241 00:12:16,040 --> 00:12:16,559 Speaker 2: them sick. 242 00:12:16,800 --> 00:12:21,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, these monkeys are real assholes. Like that's essentially the 243 00:12:21,360 --> 00:12:22,080 Speaker 1: equivalent of what. 244 00:12:22,240 --> 00:12:24,240 Speaker 2: I'm surprise the New York Posts didn't like connect us 245 00:12:24,400 --> 00:12:26,040 Speaker 2: to like Zoramumdani or something. 246 00:12:26,120 --> 00:12:30,120 Speaker 1: In some way, it feels like it because they're keeping 247 00:12:30,120 --> 00:12:32,000 Speaker 1: their powder dry on that one. They're they're gonna have 248 00:12:32,040 --> 00:12:34,120 Speaker 1: a big, a big news story on Sunday. 249 00:12:34,440 --> 00:12:36,880 Speaker 2: Yeah, Brian, the editor points, isn't this how Yes, weren't 250 00:12:36,880 --> 00:12:39,960 Speaker 2: there the monkeys were infected with rage? I believe, yes, 251 00:12:40,240 --> 00:12:43,560 Speaker 2: in that opening scene and they got but as Brian like, 252 00:12:44,080 --> 00:12:47,920 Speaker 2: they just got Sti's man, you know, yeah, they just 253 00:12:47,960 --> 00:12:49,120 Speaker 2: need some antibiotics. 254 00:12:49,200 --> 00:12:51,400 Speaker 1: Hey, that'll put anyone in a bad mood. Let's take 255 00:12:51,400 --> 00:12:59,360 Speaker 1: a quick break. We'll be right back with our special guest. 256 00:13:04,720 --> 00:13:08,360 Speaker 1: And we're back, and we're thrilled to be joined in 257 00:13:08,440 --> 00:13:12,319 Speaker 1: our second act by a very special guest, a brilliant artist, translator, writer, 258 00:13:12,559 --> 00:13:15,360 Speaker 1: and podcaster here to talk to us about what's happening 259 00:13:15,400 --> 00:13:18,720 Speaker 1: in Japan. And I gave the most recent election. Yes, 260 00:13:18,920 --> 00:13:24,439 Speaker 1: also a bestower of the Aka laureate title. Yes, coming 261 00:13:24,520 --> 00:13:27,560 Speaker 1: to general, coming to us all the way from Japan. 262 00:13:27,679 --> 00:13:30,600 Speaker 1: Welcome back to the show. Iami Shinazaka. 263 00:13:31,040 --> 00:13:34,440 Speaker 4: Hello, Hello, Hello, happy to be back. 264 00:13:34,800 --> 00:13:36,840 Speaker 1: Oh no, that's so good to have you. It's been 265 00:13:36,920 --> 00:13:39,560 Speaker 1: too long for those who don't know. 266 00:13:39,679 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 2: I look, if y'all on the discord and you're in 267 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:45,600 Speaker 2: that AK and titles submit, uh, you know room putting 268 00:13:45,640 --> 00:13:48,199 Speaker 2: in the titles and and you know if you're trying 269 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:49,520 Speaker 2: to get that, if you want. 270 00:13:49,360 --> 00:13:51,800 Speaker 3: That yellow label, you got to hit up Ayumi. 271 00:13:51,920 --> 00:13:52,720 Speaker 1: That is the person. 272 00:13:52,840 --> 00:13:55,560 Speaker 3: So look, it's great to have Youami, and thank you so. 273 00:13:56,280 --> 00:13:58,240 Speaker 1: Or just like, let your words speak for itself and 274 00:13:58,440 --> 00:13:59,600 Speaker 1: leave Ayumi alone. 275 00:14:00,240 --> 00:14:02,280 Speaker 4: I've noticed a lot of times it is it is 276 00:14:02,360 --> 00:14:06,079 Speaker 4: old heads who who tag me to give someone else 277 00:14:06,320 --> 00:14:06,720 Speaker 4: the role. 278 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:08,840 Speaker 1: So I love it, you know what I mean. It's 279 00:14:08,920 --> 00:14:11,920 Speaker 1: a thriving community in there and the elders, and we 280 00:14:12,000 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 1: love you all with the elders like I'll have arms 281 00:14:16,240 --> 00:14:22,440 Speaker 1: like Christmas Hams, connect us to the overall, to the overalls. 282 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:24,120 Speaker 1: I just want to do that real quick, and then 283 00:14:24,120 --> 00:14:26,600 Speaker 1: we'll get into the specifics. But I feel like there 284 00:14:26,720 --> 00:14:31,600 Speaker 1: is a global wave of conservative movements happening. 285 00:14:31,680 --> 00:14:31,840 Speaker 4: Yes. 286 00:14:33,040 --> 00:14:36,960 Speaker 1: My sense is that it comes from a really of 287 00:14:37,840 --> 00:14:43,040 Speaker 1: neoliberalism aka like the old trust corporations and global free 288 00:14:43,040 --> 00:14:45,760 Speaker 1: trade to solve all our problems. People have been like, 289 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:48,080 Speaker 1: is this seems like it might not be working. It 290 00:14:48,120 --> 00:14:53,640 Speaker 1: seems like they might be mean and bad, and in 291 00:14:53,680 --> 00:14:56,560 Speaker 1: America because the only two options are that, you know, 292 00:14:56,920 --> 00:15:02,960 Speaker 1: just a neoliberalism corporatocracy and fat Americans have chosen fascism. 293 00:15:03,720 --> 00:15:06,760 Speaker 1: Surely that can't be happening in Japan the place where 294 00:15:07,160 --> 00:15:10,240 Speaker 1: I went recently, and the streets were very clean and 295 00:15:10,360 --> 00:15:13,760 Speaker 1: night So I feel like you guys have figured out 296 00:15:14,320 --> 00:15:15,280 Speaker 1: over to you. I am. 297 00:15:18,840 --> 00:15:21,880 Speaker 4: Oh, I have a few tastes about the cleanliness the 298 00:15:21,920 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 4: secret behind all that, But in any case, yeah, so 299 00:15:25,880 --> 00:15:29,080 Speaker 4: things have been I mean, things have always been conservative, right, 300 00:15:29,160 --> 00:15:32,080 Speaker 4: Japan has been a conservative country for a long time, 301 00:15:32,200 --> 00:15:34,960 Speaker 4: and we've had the LdB in power, the Liberal Democratic 302 00:15:35,000 --> 00:15:39,080 Speaker 4: Party for a long time, you know, thanks to one 303 00:15:39,280 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 4: Shinzo Abe. May he rest in Actually I can't even 304 00:15:43,080 --> 00:15:46,320 Speaker 4: say rest and piss anymore because piss has become positive. Yeah, yeah, 305 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:48,520 Speaker 4: but you know what I mean, Yeah. 306 00:15:48,320 --> 00:15:49,960 Speaker 1: Yeah, you're out there, you're out there. You don't know 307 00:15:50,000 --> 00:15:51,640 Speaker 1: if he's a piss pig. You don't know if he's 308 00:15:51,680 --> 00:15:55,080 Speaker 1: like just luxuriating in that piss that he's resting in. 309 00:15:55,440 --> 00:15:56,400 Speaker 1: Catch too. 310 00:15:57,480 --> 00:16:01,440 Speaker 4: But yeah, so like it's you know, it had always 311 00:16:01,520 --> 00:16:04,000 Speaker 4: been that way, but like as you said, Jack, like 312 00:16:04,200 --> 00:16:06,240 Speaker 4: things are getting more and more to the right, and 313 00:16:06,320 --> 00:16:09,840 Speaker 4: so honestly, it's like it kind of felt almost out 314 00:16:09,880 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 4: of nowhere this year if you were like really weren't 315 00:16:12,040 --> 00:16:14,440 Speaker 4: paying attention, which honestly, I think is the case for 316 00:16:14,520 --> 00:16:17,040 Speaker 4: the lot of folks, I mean anywhere in the world. 317 00:16:17,040 --> 00:16:21,120 Speaker 4: It's not just a Japanese thing. But you know, basically, 318 00:16:21,480 --> 00:16:25,240 Speaker 4: what we've seen is we've gone from the right to 319 00:16:25,680 --> 00:16:31,600 Speaker 4: further right thanks to one group called Sanseeto. So so 320 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:34,720 Speaker 4: this year we had a pretty big election in July. 321 00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:39,440 Speaker 4: It was for half the seats in the House of Counselors, 322 00:16:39,480 --> 00:16:43,400 Speaker 4: which is the upper house of the diets, the you know, 323 00:16:44,120 --> 00:16:50,560 Speaker 4: parliamentary group in Japan. Yeah, basically basically, but it also 324 00:16:50,680 --> 00:16:53,400 Speaker 4: has like the you know, it's population based as well. 325 00:16:53,480 --> 00:16:56,280 Speaker 4: So like I live in Toshigi Prefecture, we have only 326 00:16:56,360 --> 00:17:01,160 Speaker 4: one counselor, while Tokyo has six seats. So like it's 327 00:17:02,720 --> 00:17:04,720 Speaker 4: you know, so it's it's It was a very obviously, 328 00:17:04,880 --> 00:17:08,440 Speaker 4: very big election. And in Japan. One thing that I 329 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,560 Speaker 4: really think that you know, other places, especially the US, 330 00:17:11,680 --> 00:17:14,119 Speaker 4: might want to take into consideration is the campaign system 331 00:17:14,200 --> 00:17:15,440 Speaker 4: is a very short lived thing. 332 00:17:15,880 --> 00:17:17,679 Speaker 1: Ye, this is wild. 333 00:17:18,080 --> 00:17:22,080 Speaker 4: Yeah, So like basically you don't hear anything about whatever 334 00:17:22,200 --> 00:17:24,560 Speaker 4: is coming up in the election until just a few 335 00:17:24,600 --> 00:17:28,199 Speaker 4: weeks before it happened. So they announced the candidates in 336 00:17:28,240 --> 00:17:31,840 Speaker 4: this time around on July third. The election was July twentieth, 337 00:17:31,880 --> 00:17:32,680 Speaker 4: So like. 338 00:17:32,680 --> 00:17:38,320 Speaker 1: What happened to the candidates seventeen? Yeah, yes, yes, fucking 339 00:17:38,520 --> 00:17:41,439 Speaker 1: rule right, right, I mean there. 340 00:17:41,280 --> 00:17:43,600 Speaker 4: Are people who are like obvious, like incumbents and stuff 341 00:17:43,640 --> 00:17:46,119 Speaker 4: like that, right, people who you know, are the usual 342 00:17:46,160 --> 00:17:48,679 Speaker 4: candidates for the parties, you can assume they're going to 343 00:17:48,680 --> 00:17:51,560 Speaker 4: be the candidate again, right, stuff like that. But as 344 00:17:51,560 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 4: far as like the official declaration everything that's going to 345 00:17:54,440 --> 00:17:57,040 Speaker 4: be like at that time they start putting up. The 346 00:17:57,359 --> 00:17:59,920 Speaker 4: first thing is like flyers, you know, up in every 347 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:02,480 Speaker 4: holy area, there's going to be a big banner where 348 00:18:02,480 --> 00:18:05,040 Speaker 4: people put same sized flyers for all parties. 349 00:18:05,600 --> 00:18:06,240 Speaker 1: Standardized. 350 00:18:06,400 --> 00:18:09,199 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, it's very very standardized. So you know you 351 00:18:09,240 --> 00:18:11,679 Speaker 4: can go past and like actually look at all the 352 00:18:11,720 --> 00:18:15,239 Speaker 4: candidates and like and because there are so many parties, like, 353 00:18:15,359 --> 00:18:18,000 Speaker 4: it's really easy for people to switch around and choose 354 00:18:18,240 --> 00:18:21,320 Speaker 4: someone else. That being said, in couments are more likely 355 00:18:21,400 --> 00:18:24,720 Speaker 4: to get re elected, you know, that's that's pretty common. Yeah, 356 00:18:24,800 --> 00:18:28,520 Speaker 4: Tochigi's one was elected a third time. Though. That being said, 357 00:18:28,560 --> 00:18:33,280 Speaker 4: the Constitutional Democratic Party, which is the major left party 358 00:18:33,320 --> 00:18:35,919 Speaker 4: in Japan, did get the second most votes, so that 359 00:18:36,040 --> 00:18:37,280 Speaker 4: made me a little bit hopeful. 360 00:18:38,440 --> 00:18:41,800 Speaker 1: But so over over the CenTra Like so shinzo Abe 361 00:18:42,160 --> 00:18:45,480 Speaker 1: would be like a somewhere between like a Bill Clinton 362 00:18:45,960 --> 00:18:48,879 Speaker 1: slash George W. Bush figure. Is that like where he 363 00:18:48,960 --> 00:18:52,880 Speaker 1: stood on the kind of political study, I mean kind of. 364 00:18:52,880 --> 00:18:55,520 Speaker 4: I think it's it's yeah, that's kind of fair, Like, 365 00:18:55,640 --> 00:18:58,440 Speaker 4: I mean, he has a whole system. There's Ebanomics is 366 00:18:58,520 --> 00:19:00,439 Speaker 4: named after him, and the thing that's like that's an 367 00:19:00,480 --> 00:19:02,879 Speaker 4: English issue word, but it's in use in Japanese right 368 00:19:02,960 --> 00:19:06,399 Speaker 4: up in the mixes, so it's it's definitely like a 369 00:19:06,440 --> 00:19:09,639 Speaker 4: thing that's like very similar, I would say, to something 370 00:19:09,680 --> 00:19:10,879 Speaker 4: like a RA economics or whatever. 371 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:14,400 Speaker 1: They did not win. They came in third that that 372 00:19:14,480 --> 00:19:17,640 Speaker 1: group of people came in Yeah, okay. 373 00:19:17,600 --> 00:19:20,280 Speaker 4: Yeah, So like the thing about the counselors is so 374 00:19:20,320 --> 00:19:23,479 Speaker 4: in my case, the incumbent was actually LDP but in 375 00:19:23,480 --> 00:19:28,400 Speaker 4: in Tojiki Prefecture, but in other places. What made Sanseeto 376 00:19:28,680 --> 00:19:32,000 Speaker 4: scare everyone is that they seem to come out of nowhere, right. 377 00:19:32,040 --> 00:19:36,120 Speaker 4: This is a group that was started through a YouTube channel. 378 00:19:37,160 --> 00:19:40,040 Speaker 4: You know these guys, these three guys started this YouTube 379 00:19:40,080 --> 00:19:42,760 Speaker 4: channel back in twenty nineteen that was like, here's how 380 00:19:42,800 --> 00:19:45,639 Speaker 4: to make a political party, and then in twenty twenty 381 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:49,480 Speaker 4: they actually did it, and Sanseeto the name, the official 382 00:19:49,600 --> 00:19:52,440 Speaker 4: English name, is the do it yourself party, right because 383 00:19:52,440 --> 00:19:55,800 Speaker 4: Sanse's like participation. The idea is like you can also 384 00:19:55,920 --> 00:19:59,160 Speaker 4: do the thing in government, and their idea was like, well, 385 00:19:59,280 --> 00:20:01,880 Speaker 4: none of the other parties have good options, so we're 386 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:04,960 Speaker 4: going to make our own, which sounds wild when you 387 00:20:05,000 --> 00:20:06,240 Speaker 4: have so many parties, but. 388 00:20:06,280 --> 00:20:10,760 Speaker 1: Sure, great. It's like if the politics were good, I mean, 389 00:20:10,800 --> 00:20:13,800 Speaker 1: it doesn't sound I will say, based on my experience 390 00:20:13,800 --> 00:20:16,440 Speaker 1: with DIY projects, that's not good. You know, you don't 391 00:20:16,480 --> 00:20:20,919 Speaker 1: want DIY associated with running my hand like someone who. 392 00:20:20,800 --> 00:20:22,879 Speaker 4: Is currently wearing a sweater I made by hand. I 393 00:20:22,920 --> 00:20:27,080 Speaker 4: do feel very personally offended, so like you know, yeah, yeah, 394 00:20:27,320 --> 00:20:32,040 Speaker 4: I mean thank you, but the yeah, like I've noticed 395 00:20:32,080 --> 00:20:34,720 Speaker 4: in English they still use sanse Dola, but the official 396 00:20:34,720 --> 00:20:38,959 Speaker 4: English name is DIY Party whatever. So actually, honestly, maybe 397 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,320 Speaker 4: using that might make them sound a little bit more 398 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,200 Speaker 4: silly in English. I'm sure. So this okays to think 399 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:44,560 Speaker 4: about it. 400 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,080 Speaker 2: It's like an ultranationalist, it's like my worst nightmare as 401 00:20:48,119 --> 00:20:49,359 Speaker 2: a half Japanese person. 402 00:20:49,359 --> 00:20:51,200 Speaker 3: I'm like, this is all this shit, this is it? 403 00:20:51,320 --> 00:20:53,520 Speaker 2: Like, I mean, my mom left Japan for many reasons, 404 00:20:53,880 --> 00:20:56,479 Speaker 2: chiefly because of how misogynistic the culture is. 405 00:20:56,640 --> 00:21:01,160 Speaker 1: Absolutely and that's still continues to this day. 406 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:03,879 Speaker 2: But like with sun Satal and like a lot of 407 00:21:03,920 --> 00:21:06,639 Speaker 2: the ultra nationalists, right, there's like all I mean, and 408 00:21:06,680 --> 00:21:09,439 Speaker 2: even with the LDP, there's this like insistence of taking 409 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:13,479 Speaker 2: the domestic sort of defense force and like fully militarizing it. 410 00:21:13,520 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 2: And that's definitely with the encouragement of the United States also, 411 00:21:16,560 --> 00:21:18,960 Speaker 2: and that is leading a lot of people and be like, oh, guys, 412 00:21:19,160 --> 00:21:21,240 Speaker 2: you know, there's a reason why Japan doesn't have a 413 00:21:21,280 --> 00:21:24,480 Speaker 2: standing army, and that's gonna might bring up a lot 414 00:21:24,480 --> 00:21:29,680 Speaker 2: of weird memories in the region because of its imperialistic history. 415 00:21:30,160 --> 00:21:33,400 Speaker 2: But yeah, like with Sunset Tol, I remember first being 416 00:21:33,440 --> 00:21:36,639 Speaker 2: like Jesus Christ, like, the far right is also gaining seats. 417 00:21:36,680 --> 00:21:38,679 Speaker 2: But also I think it's important to like look at 418 00:21:38,720 --> 00:21:42,640 Speaker 2: the context of Japanese politics too, because the LDP has 419 00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:46,960 Speaker 2: basically been in power continuously since nineteen fifty five for like, 420 00:21:46,960 --> 00:21:50,040 Speaker 2: like there were two short blips where they weren't fully 421 00:21:50,040 --> 00:21:53,960 Speaker 2: in control, but basically for since nineteen fifty five they've 422 00:21:54,000 --> 00:21:57,480 Speaker 2: been the like it's been one party rule essentially. Yes, 423 00:21:57,600 --> 00:21:59,960 Speaker 2: And also it's important to point out that the LDP, 424 00:22:00,760 --> 00:22:03,760 Speaker 2: which has again been in power for this long. You know, 425 00:22:03,840 --> 00:22:06,439 Speaker 2: they came to power because after World War Two, like 426 00:22:06,560 --> 00:22:10,600 Speaker 2: conservative and socialist parties, they were rising in popularity and 427 00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:14,240 Speaker 2: looked like they were going to gain control. And guess 428 00:22:14,320 --> 00:22:16,520 Speaker 2: which country came through with a bag full of cash 429 00:22:16,560 --> 00:22:21,400 Speaker 2: to sway the election towards the LDP. The United States obviously, 430 00:22:21,920 --> 00:22:24,000 Speaker 2: and the man who worked with the US on this 431 00:22:24,040 --> 00:22:26,560 Speaker 2: plan was none other than Abishinzo's grandfather. 432 00:22:26,920 --> 00:22:28,320 Speaker 1: So like just to give you an. 433 00:22:28,200 --> 00:22:31,720 Speaker 2: Idea of like how where Abshinzo comes from. And there's 434 00:22:31,760 --> 00:22:35,159 Speaker 2: a lot of ill will or you know, ambivalence towards 435 00:22:35,119 --> 00:22:36,960 Speaker 2: the lb LDP because. 436 00:22:36,760 --> 00:22:39,040 Speaker 3: They're like they've been in power so long and ye. 437 00:22:39,640 --> 00:22:41,720 Speaker 4: Changed, and I'm like, well, what's the It becomes a 438 00:22:42,359 --> 00:22:45,240 Speaker 4: I think because voter turnout was looking at the numbers, 439 00:22:45,320 --> 00:22:48,719 Speaker 4: like voter turnout is is still like it's like dropping 440 00:22:48,800 --> 00:22:52,679 Speaker 4: year by year, right, It's it's hovering around between fifteen 441 00:22:52,680 --> 00:22:55,200 Speaker 4: and sixty percent, which is like fairly normal, but it 442 00:22:55,320 --> 00:22:57,719 Speaker 4: used to be a lot higher. And so it definitely 443 00:22:57,760 --> 00:23:01,480 Speaker 4: feels like it especially I feel like after twenty like 444 00:23:01,520 --> 00:23:04,440 Speaker 4: from my experience, after twenty twenty, like you know, once 445 00:23:04,520 --> 00:23:07,520 Speaker 4: Ave resigned, like he was just he became so unpopular 446 00:23:07,640 --> 00:23:11,520 Speaker 4: during like COVID, like he totally screwed up everything. The 447 00:23:11,560 --> 00:23:15,280 Speaker 4: economy was in shambles, and so that like there was 448 00:23:15,320 --> 00:23:17,880 Speaker 4: like no way for them even after they got new 449 00:23:17,960 --> 00:23:21,000 Speaker 4: leaders in power to like kind of bring back the 450 00:23:21,720 --> 00:23:24,399 Speaker 4: you know power, like the interest in the LDP. So 451 00:23:24,480 --> 00:23:26,400 Speaker 4: it kind of makes sense. I guess if you are 452 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:29,960 Speaker 4: conservative to go further right or like pick someone else, 453 00:23:30,040 --> 00:23:32,800 Speaker 4: even if I don't personally understand that, but whatever. And 454 00:23:32,880 --> 00:23:36,520 Speaker 4: so yeah, like seeing the shock of Sanseeto getting so 455 00:23:36,600 --> 00:23:39,360 Speaker 4: many seats in the House of Counselors this year really 456 00:23:39,440 --> 00:23:41,080 Speaker 4: woke a lot of people up to like what the 457 00:23:41,080 --> 00:23:45,160 Speaker 4: hell is going on? And like cause it was so short, 458 00:23:45,200 --> 00:23:47,320 Speaker 4: and you know, I talked to I don't live in Tokyo, 459 00:23:47,320 --> 00:23:48,760 Speaker 4: but I have friends there, and I talked to them 460 00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:51,440 Speaker 4: about their experience, and for them, it was also very 461 00:23:51,480 --> 00:23:54,560 Speaker 4: sudden to see all of this stuff going on. And 462 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:56,200 Speaker 4: not all of their seats are in Tokyo, of course, 463 00:23:56,200 --> 00:23:59,720 Speaker 4: it's like all over Japan. But like it was just like, wait, 464 00:23:59,760 --> 00:24:02,280 Speaker 4: what's going on? Why are we suddenly talking about like 465 00:24:02,359 --> 00:24:05,919 Speaker 4: the invasion of foreigners and stuff, like foreigners make up 466 00:24:05,920 --> 00:24:09,320 Speaker 4: three percent of the population. And honestly, if you like 467 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:12,440 Speaker 4: look at all the different talking points from the right, 468 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:15,000 Speaker 4: it sounds exactly the same as what you hear from 469 00:24:15,000 --> 00:24:17,640 Speaker 4: Republicans today, like it's just it's. 470 00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:20,840 Speaker 1: Just one playbook, yeah, yeah, no matter what, whether it 471 00:24:20,880 --> 00:24:23,400 Speaker 1: applies or not. And you know, in the United States, 472 00:24:23,440 --> 00:24:26,919 Speaker 1: like states where that don't have a border with a 473 00:24:26,960 --> 00:24:30,399 Speaker 1: foreign country or some of the have the the most 474 00:24:30,440 --> 00:24:33,360 Speaker 1: people who are terrified of like invasion. 475 00:24:32,840 --> 00:24:35,000 Speaker 2: From well and then also just being an island nation. 476 00:24:35,240 --> 00:24:37,919 Speaker 2: Like it's just it's like you're it's doubled, like that 477 00:24:38,040 --> 00:24:38,720 Speaker 2: idea of like. 478 00:24:38,720 --> 00:24:39,920 Speaker 1: Who's coming in here? 479 00:24:40,280 --> 00:24:42,160 Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think the other thing worth pointing out 480 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:44,320 Speaker 2: too before we get into you know, because a lot 481 00:24:44,359 --> 00:24:45,200 Speaker 2: of people all being. 482 00:24:45,040 --> 00:24:48,440 Speaker 3: Like, oh, wow, Japan has its first woman as prime minister. 483 00:24:48,680 --> 00:24:51,919 Speaker 2: And you're like, well, maybe yeah, before we start doing 484 00:24:51,920 --> 00:24:54,320 Speaker 2: the girl Boss golf clap to that, maybe let's look 485 00:24:54,320 --> 00:24:57,399 Speaker 2: at the policies. But like before getting into that, Like, 486 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:01,040 Speaker 2: I think the thing with foreigners is really being it's 487 00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:06,280 Speaker 2: it's easy to really sort of gin up like frustration 488 00:25:06,440 --> 00:25:09,679 Speaker 2: and anger about that because they're the amount of I 489 00:25:09,680 --> 00:25:12,200 Speaker 2: think there's a difference between tourists and the people who 490 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:13,520 Speaker 2: actually reside in Japan. 491 00:25:14,119 --> 00:25:15,520 Speaker 1: I think there's a huge. 492 00:25:15,359 --> 00:25:19,480 Speaker 2: Part of because tourism has gotten red hot again since 493 00:25:19,480 --> 00:25:22,960 Speaker 2: the since Japan reopened and because of the week yen, 494 00:25:23,480 --> 00:25:25,640 Speaker 2: a lot of people come in. They're spending their money, 495 00:25:25,720 --> 00:25:28,840 Speaker 2: and that has also caused prices to rise for local 496 00:25:28,920 --> 00:25:32,160 Speaker 2: people who have wages that are also not going up 497 00:25:32,480 --> 00:25:34,640 Speaker 2: just like like most nations. 498 00:25:34,280 --> 00:25:36,760 Speaker 1: Would it be safe to say that everybody's working for 499 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:42,440 Speaker 1: the weekend other this guy says, oh, sorry, you guys 500 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:49,439 Speaker 1: can go forward myself out. You know what, sight like 501 00:25:49,600 --> 00:25:50,560 Speaker 1: the tourist thing is so. 502 00:25:50,640 --> 00:25:54,080 Speaker 4: True because like I mean, it even gets viral like 503 00:25:54,240 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 4: in the US, right obviously whichever one of the pop 504 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:58,359 Speaker 4: pros it was that like you know, went to the 505 00:25:58,359 --> 00:26:01,560 Speaker 4: suicide for everything like that was also very viral in 506 00:26:01,640 --> 00:26:05,800 Speaker 4: Japan obviously very offensive. Uh, there was a viral video 507 00:26:06,000 --> 00:26:08,480 Speaker 4: over the summer, I think, oh no, actually no, it 508 00:26:08,520 --> 00:26:12,320 Speaker 4: was like in September of an Australian tourist going to 509 00:26:12,720 --> 00:26:15,720 Speaker 4: a grave site where someone had left an offering of 510 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:19,800 Speaker 4: can of alcohol. Like clearly I guess that deceased person's 511 00:26:19,800 --> 00:26:20,800 Speaker 4: like their loved ones. 512 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:25,560 Speaker 2: Oh yeah one or something, yeah like that, right, and 513 00:26:24,400 --> 00:26:28,000 Speaker 2: they they drank They just like cracked it open and 514 00:26:28,040 --> 00:26:30,679 Speaker 2: drank it just for the lulls of the chiktok or whatever. 515 00:26:31,000 --> 00:26:33,760 Speaker 4: And obviously, yeah, that stuff enrageous people. There's like so 516 00:26:33,880 --> 00:26:37,119 Speaker 4: many stories of really rude tourists and obviously that is 517 00:26:37,160 --> 00:26:39,879 Speaker 4: a problem. But the people who get affected are the 518 00:26:39,960 --> 00:26:43,240 Speaker 4: ones who live in Japan who are always following the rules. 519 00:26:43,280 --> 00:26:45,320 Speaker 4: And that's the other thing that you hear all the time, 520 00:26:45,400 --> 00:26:47,640 Speaker 4: and like all these things, like people will be like, oh, well, 521 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:49,840 Speaker 4: you know they're coming to Japan. If they follow the 522 00:26:49,920 --> 00:26:52,520 Speaker 4: rules and stuff, then everything will be okay. But it's 523 00:26:52,560 --> 00:26:56,960 Speaker 4: like they are though, like most people are doing really well. 524 00:26:56,960 --> 00:26:59,720 Speaker 4: They're like working, like you know, like all the people 525 00:26:59,760 --> 00:27:02,040 Speaker 4: I that I interact with the most to our foreigners 526 00:27:02,119 --> 00:27:07,120 Speaker 4: are they're primarily from South Asia in my area, primarily Nepal, 527 00:27:07,400 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 4: and they're working you know, service jobs more than anything else. 528 00:27:11,359 --> 00:27:16,160 Speaker 4: They're also often in school or working multiple jobs and 529 00:27:16,200 --> 00:27:18,680 Speaker 4: like you know, trying to help out their families back 530 00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:21,600 Speaker 4: home and stuff. Like it's a very familiar story. Yeah, 531 00:27:21,840 --> 00:27:24,520 Speaker 4: very clear, Like these people are not the problem. And 532 00:27:24,560 --> 00:27:26,679 Speaker 4: also like again they're such a small part of the 533 00:27:26,720 --> 00:27:29,760 Speaker 4: population and they cannot vote, so what on earth do 534 00:27:29,800 --> 00:27:32,239 Speaker 4: they have to do with like whatever's going on in 535 00:27:32,280 --> 00:27:34,120 Speaker 4: the nation, like as a whole, right. 536 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:37,240 Speaker 2: Very difficult to be a foreigner living and working in Japan. 537 00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:40,280 Speaker 2: Just yea ready, you know what I mean? Yes, And 538 00:27:40,400 --> 00:27:42,360 Speaker 2: like to your point, it's like a lot of things 539 00:27:42,400 --> 00:27:44,239 Speaker 2: like well, like they're taking the jobs, like you're going 540 00:27:44,280 --> 00:27:45,960 Speaker 2: to work at a kombini, like you're going to work 541 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:48,320 Speaker 2: at a convenience store in the same way American people 542 00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:50,960 Speaker 2: are like, do you know the jobs that these people 543 00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,160 Speaker 2: are taking? And on top of it, the demographic crisis 544 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,120 Speaker 2: in Japan is like a whole other thing we can 545 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:56,760 Speaker 2: get into. 546 00:27:57,320 --> 00:27:58,359 Speaker 1: I'm curious though, too. 547 00:27:58,680 --> 00:28:01,159 Speaker 2: Before we started talking, you were saying a little bit 548 00:28:01,200 --> 00:28:03,320 Speaker 2: about like the person, because I think going to Japan 549 00:28:03,480 --> 00:28:04,800 Speaker 2: is so popular right now. 550 00:28:05,280 --> 00:28:07,440 Speaker 1: Every fucking month there's someone be like, Hey, I'm going 551 00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:08,960 Speaker 1: to Japan. Do you think you give me some tips? 552 00:28:08,960 --> 00:28:11,040 Speaker 1: And I'm like, yeah, I'm always like yeah, man, all 553 00:28:11,080 --> 00:28:13,080 Speaker 1: the time. What's like? 554 00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,080 Speaker 2: And I think there's a perception of people that go 555 00:28:15,119 --> 00:28:19,159 Speaker 2: to Japan and don't really understand what's there because on 556 00:28:19,200 --> 00:28:24,120 Speaker 2: the surface, everybody's calm and ready to take from eminem down. 557 00:28:24,359 --> 00:28:28,600 Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, you see some moms spaghetti on people' sweaters. Yeah, 558 00:28:28,640 --> 00:28:30,160 Speaker 1: for sure, you see it out there, and you know. 559 00:28:30,160 --> 00:28:31,919 Speaker 2: What's going on, But like, what do you how do 560 00:28:31,960 --> 00:28:35,200 Speaker 2: you sort of like you you were saying, you kind 561 00:28:35,200 --> 00:28:36,760 Speaker 2: of had a little bit to talk about on that 562 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:38,400 Speaker 2: on that part of it of just sort of the 563 00:28:38,520 --> 00:28:39,960 Speaker 2: perception versus reality, So. 564 00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:43,000 Speaker 4: Like, yeah, I love I mean, I'm always happy when 565 00:28:43,160 --> 00:28:45,000 Speaker 4: people can come to visit. Chris one thing, I can 566 00:28:45,040 --> 00:28:46,920 Speaker 4: hang out with them whatever. Sure, I live close enough 567 00:28:46,920 --> 00:28:49,080 Speaker 4: to Tokyo, I can go down there whatever. But like 568 00:28:50,040 --> 00:28:53,520 Speaker 4: it's like, you know, there's I'm so I'm glad that 569 00:28:53,640 --> 00:28:55,800 Speaker 4: like people want to come visit. Like I would say 570 00:28:55,920 --> 00:28:59,720 Speaker 4: most tourists are not assholes, yes, you know for sure, 571 00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,520 Speaker 4: and that's great, But like there is definitely like a 572 00:29:04,560 --> 00:29:08,200 Speaker 4: frustration of yeah, like trying to like make sure like 573 00:29:08,280 --> 00:29:12,440 Speaker 4: things go well whatever because like these days. Oh the 574 00:29:12,480 --> 00:29:14,440 Speaker 4: other thing I guess that's like really important that I 575 00:29:14,480 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 4: think is like one of those it like it feels 576 00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:19,240 Speaker 4: really obvious, but then like is not just because of 577 00:29:19,280 --> 00:29:21,440 Speaker 4: the nature of the internet and stuff. Like one thing 578 00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,160 Speaker 4: that people take super seriously in Japan is like recording 579 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:28,080 Speaker 4: videos without like permission and stuff. And there is a problem, 580 00:29:28,280 --> 00:29:31,240 Speaker 4: especially from what I've seen in Tokyo in particular, of 581 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:34,560 Speaker 4: like nursery schools and preschools having to put out signs 582 00:29:34,600 --> 00:29:37,040 Speaker 4: in front of the schools in English saying please not 583 00:29:37,160 --> 00:29:40,239 Speaker 4: record videos of the children at the school because like 584 00:29:40,400 --> 00:29:42,440 Speaker 4: that's and that's insane to me that that that's the 585 00:29:42,440 --> 00:29:44,600 Speaker 4: thing that has to happen. But like there's so much 586 00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:45,720 Speaker 4: of that like of like. 587 00:29:46,400 --> 00:29:50,200 Speaker 2: Nelu you fuck because they're they're all wearing the same 588 00:29:50,280 --> 00:29:51,920 Speaker 2: backpack and have the same. 589 00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:57,240 Speaker 1: Yeah I always see this have manners, yeah, like them alone, 590 00:29:57,920 --> 00:29:59,000 Speaker 1: like and. 591 00:29:59,080 --> 00:30:01,320 Speaker 4: It's just like yeah, like it's there's all this like 592 00:30:01,360 --> 00:30:04,320 Speaker 4: dehumanizing stuff going on there, right, and it's just like 593 00:30:04,640 --> 00:30:06,800 Speaker 4: you want to live out your anime dream or whatever. 594 00:30:06,960 --> 00:30:09,120 Speaker 4: Like I get it to a certain degree. And you know, 595 00:30:09,440 --> 00:30:12,280 Speaker 4: having worked, especially as an English teacher for a long time, 596 00:30:12,560 --> 00:30:14,520 Speaker 4: I have dealt with the people who come to Japan 597 00:30:14,560 --> 00:30:16,680 Speaker 4: because they just want to hook up with Japanese people. 598 00:30:16,720 --> 00:30:20,080 Speaker 4: That's all over story. But like it's like, yeah, it 599 00:30:20,160 --> 00:30:23,960 Speaker 4: just like feels like it's it's I understand from like 600 00:30:23,960 --> 00:30:26,360 Speaker 4: a pop culture perspective, wanting to come here, but it's 601 00:30:26,360 --> 00:30:30,000 Speaker 4: like we got we are also people and so like yeah, 602 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:31,400 Speaker 4: I don't know. And then there's just like the fact 603 00:30:31,440 --> 00:30:35,360 Speaker 4: that like the average Japanese person doesn't watch anime and 604 00:30:35,400 --> 00:30:37,960 Speaker 4: like like because it's like statistic show's about a third 605 00:30:37,960 --> 00:30:40,280 Speaker 4: of us I watch anything animated and that can include 606 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:43,320 Speaker 4: like stuff that's from abroad also, so like yeah, the 607 00:30:43,360 --> 00:30:45,960 Speaker 4: average person's like I don't understand like why people are 608 00:30:45,960 --> 00:30:48,360 Speaker 4: here what they're doing over there, like what are there? 609 00:30:48,400 --> 00:30:50,560 Speaker 4: What they're dressed as or whatever? Like why is there 610 00:30:50,600 --> 00:30:52,200 Speaker 4: cosplay in the middle of the street. Like it's just 611 00:30:52,240 --> 00:30:54,920 Speaker 4: like there's all this stuff. It's very disruptive. And again, 612 00:30:54,960 --> 00:30:56,600 Speaker 4: people are just trying to live their lives and they 613 00:30:56,600 --> 00:30:58,680 Speaker 4: have a billion other problems that you know, have nothing 614 00:30:58,720 --> 00:31:01,440 Speaker 4: to do with the foreigners. But foreigners aren't necessarily make 615 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:03,680 Speaker 4: it easy when you know they're just trying to live 616 00:31:03,680 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 4: their lives. I don't know. It is like a very 617 00:31:05,640 --> 00:31:10,040 Speaker 4: complex problem I don't understand, but also like it's not 618 00:31:10,200 --> 00:31:13,680 Speaker 4: but anyway, like okay, so actually I have an anecdote. 619 00:31:13,720 --> 00:31:16,120 Speaker 4: I guess the other day, So I have a I 620 00:31:16,120 --> 00:31:18,200 Speaker 4: have a day job where I work at a supermarket 621 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:22,360 Speaker 4: right now as a cashier. It's actually really been a 622 00:31:22,360 --> 00:31:24,320 Speaker 4: good job for like getting to meet a lot of 623 00:31:24,320 --> 00:31:26,960 Speaker 4: people and I like that a lot. But the other 624 00:31:27,040 --> 00:31:30,000 Speaker 4: day I it was like really busy and this you know, 625 00:31:30,280 --> 00:31:33,840 Speaker 4: one old Japanese band that I helped, he like came 626 00:31:33,920 --> 00:31:36,000 Speaker 4: he like pulled me aside for a second and was 627 00:31:36,080 --> 00:31:38,800 Speaker 4: like like, aren't there too many foreigners working here? And 628 00:31:38,840 --> 00:31:42,240 Speaker 4: I was like what the fuck? And like because like wow, 629 00:31:42,440 --> 00:31:44,960 Speaker 4: question to ask in general, because what am I supposed 630 00:31:45,000 --> 00:31:47,400 Speaker 4: to do about it as a cashier, But also like, 631 00:31:48,120 --> 00:31:50,360 Speaker 4: you know, a lot of Japanese people because I am 632 00:31:50,560 --> 00:31:53,240 Speaker 4: you know, also mixed, like they don't necessarily always know 633 00:31:53,320 --> 00:31:55,200 Speaker 4: that I am Japanese when they first meet me. So 634 00:31:55,240 --> 00:31:57,479 Speaker 4: it's like, does he think like I'm like one of 635 00:31:57,480 --> 00:31:59,200 Speaker 4: the good ones? What's happening are. 636 00:32:00,160 --> 00:32:04,600 Speaker 1: Face right now? Support? Yeah? Foreigners? 637 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:07,360 Speaker 4: It's like it's like either that or you like things 638 00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,760 Speaker 4: that I would be comfortable with, like agreeing with him 639 00:32:09,840 --> 00:32:11,800 Speaker 4: or something. But it was like I look around and 640 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:15,880 Speaker 4: only like two of our visibly brown cashiers were working, 641 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:18,120 Speaker 4: because I'm like, what the fuck is going on? But yeah, 642 00:32:18,160 --> 00:32:20,000 Speaker 4: it was just like the people. The fact that like 643 00:32:20,040 --> 00:32:22,320 Speaker 4: people are starting to like be more open about these 644 00:32:22,560 --> 00:32:24,720 Speaker 4: weird things is just like really scary. 645 00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:27,440 Speaker 2: That's one thing I've noticed too, just growing up in 646 00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:31,160 Speaker 2: the Lapan all the time, is going from like just 647 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,760 Speaker 2: seeing tourists everywhere and then hearing people be irritated like 648 00:32:34,760 --> 00:32:38,240 Speaker 2: oh Guijinga like saying like, oh my god, there's so 649 00:32:38,240 --> 00:32:42,600 Speaker 2: many foreigners here, Like that's becoming there. 650 00:32:42,640 --> 00:32:44,440 Speaker 4: They're not they're not being nice about it, right. 651 00:32:44,600 --> 00:32:47,360 Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely not. Yeah, I thought that was 652 00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:49,640 Speaker 1: the fun nickname they had given me when I traveled. 653 00:32:49,680 --> 00:32:54,400 Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, hey hey guy, nice g it's me. 654 00:32:54,520 --> 00:32:55,600 Speaker 1: I think they're like my jeens. 655 00:32:55,640 --> 00:32:59,800 Speaker 2: No, they're calling you Geijing like fine, but before we go, you, 656 00:33:00,040 --> 00:33:03,640 Speaker 2: I just do want to touch on the historic, historic, yes, 657 00:33:04,280 --> 00:33:08,520 Speaker 2: ascendency of Taksana who is the Japan's now first prime 658 00:33:08,520 --> 00:33:11,760 Speaker 2: minister or woman prime minister. And again I think it's 659 00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,800 Speaker 2: one of those things, much like with the Nobel Prize 660 00:33:13,840 --> 00:33:15,960 Speaker 2: and like, oh, that's got to be fans like, well, sure, 661 00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:19,600 Speaker 2: look look at the person's politics a little bit and 662 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:23,520 Speaker 2: begin to understand that this person's idol is Margaret Thatcher 663 00:33:24,240 --> 00:33:27,400 Speaker 2: and she comes from the exact same machine as Abashinzo. 664 00:33:27,560 --> 00:33:31,600 Speaker 2: She also is you know, she she deals with likenon 665 00:33:31,680 --> 00:33:34,760 Speaker 2: Kaigi also who's like the you know, the most far 666 00:33:34,960 --> 00:33:37,600 Speaker 2: like they want to like erase Japanese history to be 667 00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:39,760 Speaker 2: like nothing happened to World War two or before that 668 00:33:39,880 --> 00:33:40,280 Speaker 2: or anything. 669 00:33:40,440 --> 00:33:43,200 Speaker 3: Okay, stop talking about it, stop bringing old ship up. 670 00:33:43,600 --> 00:33:47,040 Speaker 4: That's where they're very big gat again for. 671 00:33:47,000 --> 00:33:50,600 Speaker 2: Sure, And then you know, people call her Japan's Trump 672 00:33:50,640 --> 00:33:52,640 Speaker 2: also like in the way that she can like she 673 00:33:52,760 --> 00:33:55,720 Speaker 2: knows how to talk to him. Is you know the politics, 674 00:33:56,280 --> 00:34:00,400 Speaker 2: you know, somewhat overlapped, but enough that clearly Trump had 675 00:34:00,440 --> 00:34:03,000 Speaker 2: a good time and I think she she like has 676 00:34:03,080 --> 00:34:05,000 Speaker 2: enough in common and knows how to appeal to his 677 00:34:05,160 --> 00:34:07,680 Speaker 2: vanity that it seemed like a good trip where she 678 00:34:07,720 --> 00:34:09,719 Speaker 2: gave him gold and it was like go golfing. 679 00:34:10,040 --> 00:34:13,799 Speaker 1: So simple. Yeah, how does she figure these Trump whispers? 680 00:34:13,840 --> 00:34:16,120 Speaker 1: How do they figure out how to him? 681 00:34:16,360 --> 00:34:18,640 Speaker 2: They also gave him gold also, and he's like, oh 682 00:34:18,680 --> 00:34:20,120 Speaker 2: this is brown. 683 00:34:20,760 --> 00:34:25,000 Speaker 4: Yes, oh my god. Yeah, is like so, I mean, 684 00:34:25,200 --> 00:34:27,919 Speaker 4: it's not shocking that people would like just not look 685 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:29,759 Speaker 4: past the fact that she's a woman. But it's just 686 00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:32,640 Speaker 4: like it's very frustrating. I mean, yes, she's bringing back 687 00:34:32,680 --> 00:34:36,360 Speaker 4: like we're rewriting fascism into fascism. It's like, what the 688 00:34:36,400 --> 00:34:42,239 Speaker 4: whole thing? But yeah, they like okay. So one of 689 00:34:42,239 --> 00:34:44,879 Speaker 4: the main when it comes to there are a lot 690 00:34:44,920 --> 00:34:47,800 Speaker 4: of problems obviously with misogyny in Japan, as you already mentioned. 691 00:34:48,760 --> 00:34:50,600 Speaker 4: One of the main things that are is still being 692 00:34:50,600 --> 00:34:53,960 Speaker 4: fought about now is the fact that legally when a 693 00:34:54,000 --> 00:34:57,080 Speaker 4: couple gets married, first of all, still no same sex 694 00:34:57,120 --> 00:35:01,920 Speaker 4: marriage like overall, but also if you get married, one 695 00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:06,640 Speaker 4: of these spouses must change their surname and most of 696 00:35:06,680 --> 00:35:10,360 Speaker 4: the time it's the woman that does. So Takaichi actually 697 00:35:10,400 --> 00:35:13,680 Speaker 4: interestingly is against this, like she does not want like 698 00:35:13,719 --> 00:35:16,640 Speaker 4: she doesn't want the women to be able to keep 699 00:35:16,800 --> 00:35:19,920 Speaker 4: their surname, which is the main fight right now. Takaichi 700 00:35:20,080 --> 00:35:23,799 Speaker 4: is no longer her surname. She married and kept her 701 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:27,920 Speaker 4: maiden name publicly, but that's not her surname anymore legally, 702 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:32,480 Speaker 4: so like she is going against her own whatever. So 703 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:34,839 Speaker 4: like that's like the start of it. But also, yeah, 704 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:38,400 Speaker 4: she's against same sex marriage becoming legal here and like 705 00:35:38,440 --> 00:35:40,800 Speaker 4: a whole bunch of like you name it, she's against 706 00:35:40,840 --> 00:35:42,040 Speaker 4: it like that, any any. 707 00:35:41,920 --> 00:35:45,200 Speaker 3: Cool YaST like overtime limits like that. 708 00:35:45,440 --> 00:35:46,799 Speaker 1: Again, it's very much. 709 00:35:47,719 --> 00:35:51,000 Speaker 4: We have a word in Japanese for death by overwork, 710 00:35:51,160 --> 00:35:54,680 Speaker 4: Like what are we doing? It's so it's so. 711 00:35:54,680 --> 00:35:59,600 Speaker 1: Wide storied culture addressed the rising cost of living in 712 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:02,239 Speaker 1: her first speech, so you know she's not gonna do 713 00:36:02,320 --> 00:36:05,600 Speaker 1: shit about it. I can predict anything. 714 00:36:05,320 --> 00:36:07,560 Speaker 4: That happens, yeah, yeah, yeah, well. 715 00:36:07,480 --> 00:36:09,520 Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll just let you work harder. 716 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,480 Speaker 4: Like the main So I guess when it comes to Kastavlion. 717 00:36:13,480 --> 00:36:16,840 Speaker 4: There's a lot of things, right, Stagnant wages for like decades. 718 00:36:17,600 --> 00:36:17,920 Speaker 1: Same. 719 00:36:18,880 --> 00:36:22,000 Speaker 4: The main thing that's like big here is that the 720 00:36:22,040 --> 00:36:26,640 Speaker 4: price of rice has doubled in the past year, which 721 00:36:26,680 --> 00:36:29,160 Speaker 4: is like obviously really huge. I don't know if you've 722 00:36:29,200 --> 00:36:31,520 Speaker 4: heard about Japanese cuisine, but we kind of like to 723 00:36:31,520 --> 00:36:34,000 Speaker 4: eat rice a lot. It's kind of a daily staple. 724 00:36:34,080 --> 00:36:35,720 Speaker 2: I thought it was all my mom was a weirdo 725 00:36:35,800 --> 00:36:38,000 Speaker 2: about it, but it turns out everybody. 726 00:36:37,800 --> 00:36:40,800 Speaker 1: You guys, try making everything out of corn, including this. 727 00:36:42,120 --> 00:36:42,959 Speaker 1: That's the next step. 728 00:36:43,880 --> 00:36:45,399 Speaker 2: I mean, there was a whole thing where they're bringing 729 00:36:45,400 --> 00:36:47,040 Speaker 2: in foreign rice, and that was a whole thing. 730 00:36:47,160 --> 00:36:48,000 Speaker 1: There was actually a. 731 00:36:47,960 --> 00:36:50,160 Speaker 4: Thing I could bring up about corn. I don't know 732 00:36:50,560 --> 00:36:54,200 Speaker 4: when exactly this happened, but over the past few years 733 00:36:54,480 --> 00:36:59,040 Speaker 4: there's been a rise in popularity of corn tea in Japan. 734 00:37:00,920 --> 00:37:03,560 Speaker 4: So it's you can you can either get it like 735 00:37:03,680 --> 00:37:05,840 Speaker 4: the tea bags, or you can buy like a cold 736 00:37:05,960 --> 00:37:08,239 Speaker 4: drink that's already made quarantine but in the store, and 737 00:37:08,280 --> 00:37:12,000 Speaker 4: there's like several brands. I don't know why that's become 738 00:37:12,040 --> 00:37:14,400 Speaker 4: a thing, but it feels very connected to America. 739 00:37:14,480 --> 00:37:17,920 Speaker 1: Yeah, it's called evolution, it's called Ford progress. In America, 740 00:37:18,000 --> 00:37:20,160 Speaker 1: it's called corn syrup and mountain. 741 00:37:20,320 --> 00:37:24,720 Speaker 2: Eventually everything will become corn like here in the United States. 742 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:27,600 Speaker 1: Well, Amy, it's such a pleasure having you on the show. 743 00:37:28,320 --> 00:37:30,920 Speaker 1: It's great to hear from you. Thank you for your 744 00:37:30,960 --> 00:37:33,120 Speaker 1: service in the Discord. Thank you for coming on and 745 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:38,000 Speaker 1: telling us about things happening outside of the United States. 746 00:37:38,360 --> 00:37:41,240 Speaker 1: Where can people find you besides the Discord? 747 00:37:42,160 --> 00:37:46,560 Speaker 4: Great question. So I like finally removed x everything up 748 00:37:46,600 --> 00:37:48,799 Speaker 4: from my phone a few weeks ago and it's been 749 00:37:48,840 --> 00:37:51,560 Speaker 4: done doing wonders for me. But technically you can still 750 00:37:51,600 --> 00:37:57,160 Speaker 4: find that account and Instagram and Blue Sky. I am everywhere. 751 00:37:57,200 --> 00:37:59,880 Speaker 4: I'm at IU she knows a y U sah k 752 00:38:00,040 --> 00:38:03,520 Speaker 4: and ows you mentioned at the top. I am an artist. 753 00:38:03,920 --> 00:38:07,520 Speaker 4: As of this recording, I currently have no commissions, but 754 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:10,359 Speaker 4: usually the most commissions I get is around this time 755 00:38:10,400 --> 00:38:13,480 Speaker 4: of year because it is gifts giving season. So if 756 00:38:13,480 --> 00:38:17,600 Speaker 4: you want a painting of your favorite person or a pet, whatever, 757 00:38:18,719 --> 00:38:21,880 Speaker 4: I'm always down for that. I also sell prints of 758 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:25,040 Speaker 4: my past artwork and all that good stuff, so you 759 00:38:25,080 --> 00:38:27,800 Speaker 4: can find me all over the place there and my podcast, 760 00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:31,160 Speaker 4: So my main podcast is Sparkleside Chats with Magical Girl. 761 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:34,200 Speaker 4: I you That's where I talk to people about magical girls. 762 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:37,320 Speaker 4: That is stuff like Sailor Moon or most recently K 763 00:38:37,440 --> 00:38:40,320 Speaker 4: Pop Demon Hunters is the big one right now, of course, 764 00:38:40,400 --> 00:38:42,640 Speaker 4: but there are still tons of other things. You know, 765 00:38:42,719 --> 00:38:44,720 Speaker 4: dozens of series come out every year in the genre 766 00:38:44,800 --> 00:38:46,319 Speaker 4: and it's awesome. So if you want to know more 767 00:38:46,320 --> 00:38:48,680 Speaker 4: about that or else to watch, if you want your 768 00:38:48,760 --> 00:38:50,840 Speaker 4: kid to watch more than just K Pop Human Hunters, 769 00:38:50,920 --> 00:38:54,160 Speaker 4: check out that podcast and my next podcast coming out. 770 00:38:54,200 --> 00:38:56,239 Speaker 4: The feeds are open, but the first episode is not 771 00:38:56,320 --> 00:38:59,520 Speaker 4: quite yet is called charm Point Radio, which is about 772 00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:01,799 Speaker 4: idle media and now what I'm actually doing with two 773 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:05,759 Speaker 4: friends Leon and Aaron, who yeah, they're just like me. 774 00:39:05,880 --> 00:39:08,480 Speaker 4: We love talking about idle media, which actually Kate Pop 775 00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,000 Speaker 4: Peven Hunters is also included in that but of non 776 00:39:11,040 --> 00:39:14,719 Speaker 4: magical variety. Typically though, our first episode is going to 777 00:39:14,760 --> 00:39:17,640 Speaker 4: be about zombie idol, so it's gonna get It's gonna 778 00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:18,680 Speaker 4: be an interesting ride. 779 00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:21,919 Speaker 3: All right, perfect, yes, all the time. 780 00:39:22,400 --> 00:39:23,239 Speaker 4: Check those that as well. 781 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:27,280 Speaker 1: Go check i Amy's work. Very cool, Go commission something 782 00:39:27,440 --> 00:39:30,360 Speaker 1: so really really awesome. All right, you bad is going 783 00:39:30,440 --> 00:39:34,000 Speaker 1: to do it for us. We are back tomorrow with 784 00:39:34,040 --> 00:39:36,400 Speaker 1: a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be 785 00:39:36,520 --> 00:39:39,440 Speaker 1: kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your 786 00:39:39,480 --> 00:39:42,479 Speaker 1: vaccines whey you still can get your flu shots, don't 787 00:39:42,520 --> 00:39:45,000 Speaker 1: do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to 788 00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:48,400 Speaker 1: you all tomorrow. By The Daily Zeite guys as executive 789 00:39:48,440 --> 00:39:49,640 Speaker 1: produced by Catherine. 790 00:39:49,320 --> 00:39:53,680 Speaker 2: Law, co produced by Bae Wayne, co produced by Victor Wright, 791 00:39:54,080 --> 00:39:57,799 Speaker 2: co written by j M McNabb, and edited and engineered 792 00:39:57,840 --> 00:39:58,880 Speaker 2: by Brian Jeffries. 793 00:40:01,080 --> 00:40:04,120 Speaker 1: A throw back to pat cont