1 00:00:04,960 --> 00:00:07,440 Speaker 1: Welcome to it could happen here a podcast that, for 2 00:00:07,600 --> 00:00:11,440 Speaker 1: the first time ever is being recorded on an earth 3 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:13,560 Speaker 1: that I no longer have to share with that fascist 4 00:00:13,600 --> 00:00:17,279 Speaker 1: rap bass or chinzawabe and with with me, with me 5 00:00:17,320 --> 00:00:23,280 Speaker 1: to celebrate this occasion is Garrison Davis. Hi, hello and James, 6 00:00:23,320 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 1: have have we actually have we like introduced you? Introduced you? 7 00:00:27,040 --> 00:00:29,880 Speaker 1: Yet I didn't think so. No, I just pop up 8 00:00:29,920 --> 00:00:34,800 Speaker 1: talking about three D printed guns and people who hate butterflies. Yeah. Yeah, 9 00:00:35,600 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 1: this is this is truly a dark day for democracy. 10 00:00:38,880 --> 00:00:45,519 Speaker 1: I'm saddened by the horrible loss of a great leader. Um, 11 00:00:45,880 --> 00:00:51,240 Speaker 1: A hero to feminism and women. Um. And I guess 12 00:00:51,640 --> 00:00:54,440 Speaker 1: a hero to those who defend war crimes. So I 13 00:00:54,440 --> 00:00:59,000 Speaker 1: guess before before before wefore we get into one of 14 00:00:59,000 --> 00:01:01,800 Speaker 1: the funniest things that's happened in maybe twenty years. Um. 15 00:01:02,200 --> 00:01:04,000 Speaker 1: You do you want to like talk about who you are? 16 00:01:04,120 --> 00:01:06,600 Speaker 1: Because you are now one of us and I'm very 17 00:01:06,640 --> 00:01:09,840 Speaker 1: excited about it. Yeah, I'm one of Yeah, I'm now 18 00:01:09,840 --> 00:01:13,279 Speaker 1: a podcast Yeah. Um? So who I am? I am 19 00:01:13,319 --> 00:01:19,040 Speaker 1: a journalist, I guess, uh, and a historian and I 20 00:01:19,080 --> 00:01:21,320 Speaker 1: wrote a book about the first week of the Spanish 21 00:01:21,360 --> 00:01:24,560 Speaker 1: Civil War and my PhD is in the history of 22 00:01:24,560 --> 00:01:30,280 Speaker 1: international anti fascism, building international anti fascist alliances through physical culture, 23 00:01:30,959 --> 00:01:34,760 Speaker 1: which is very nerdy, but yeah, I love that stuff. 24 00:01:35,160 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 1: What else? I'm British if that had not been made 25 00:01:37,640 --> 00:01:41,399 Speaker 1: abundantly clear by my accent, and I live in southern California, 26 00:01:41,720 --> 00:01:45,960 Speaker 1: which means this is a Now, this episode is a 27 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:53,280 Speaker 1: majority Commonwealth episode. Really exciting. We made it? Yeah, well 28 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:55,200 Speaker 1: we do in the national anthem in a minute here 29 00:01:55,240 --> 00:02:01,440 Speaker 1: and we'll all just stand up. Uh so, ex Prime 30 00:02:01,480 --> 00:02:06,160 Speaker 1: Minister kind of he's not around anymore, is he? No? 31 00:02:06,400 --> 00:02:10,360 Speaker 1: He is dead as fuck? So all right we should 32 00:02:10,360 --> 00:02:15,120 Speaker 1: I guess I guess we should explain who Shenzo Abe is. Yeah, um, okay, 33 00:02:15,120 --> 00:02:18,239 Speaker 1: if if you want a really really long account of 34 00:02:18,280 --> 00:02:22,520 Speaker 1: what the Japanese Liberal Democratic Party is, because they are 35 00:02:22,680 --> 00:02:28,880 Speaker 1: some of the worst people who've ever existed democratic, how 36 00:02:28,960 --> 00:02:32,840 Speaker 1: can this be? So? The very short version of this 37 00:02:33,000 --> 00:02:35,400 Speaker 1: is that the Liberal Democratic Party is a party that 38 00:02:35,440 --> 00:02:38,000 Speaker 1: was founded by Nobusuke Kishi, who is one of history's 39 00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:41,720 Speaker 1: worst war criminals, person like personally responsible for enslaving hundreds 40 00:02:41,720 --> 00:02:44,679 Speaker 1: of thousands of people in China. Uh he's the guy 41 00:02:44,720 --> 00:02:46,880 Speaker 1: who basically he's the guy who was in charge of 42 00:02:46,919 --> 00:02:49,679 Speaker 1: the economy of the fascist war machine, like like in 43 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:54,400 Speaker 1: Japanjua War two. He was the guy who ran like 44 00:02:54,440 --> 00:02:57,440 Speaker 1: the sort of fascist puppet state called Manchuqua that was 45 00:02:58,360 --> 00:03:03,760 Speaker 1: run by Japan after they conquered it. Uh. Real war criminal. 46 00:03:03,919 --> 00:03:08,240 Speaker 1: Also just like personally raped a like extremely large number 47 00:03:08,240 --> 00:03:10,600 Speaker 1: of people. I think that, like I was almost never 48 00:03:10,680 --> 00:03:14,720 Speaker 1: discussed when people talk about him, almost like like a 49 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:21,160 Speaker 1: shockingly high white number. Yeah. It's of sex crimes, it's wild. Yeah. 50 00:03:21,160 --> 00:03:23,800 Speaker 1: And he's also I mean, he's involved with the Japanese 51 00:03:23,800 --> 00:03:25,919 Speaker 1: military sex slave program, which you were here referred to 52 00:03:26,000 --> 00:03:28,799 Speaker 1: as comfort women, and I refused to call the comfort 53 00:03:28,800 --> 00:03:32,959 Speaker 1: women because that is a fucking horrifying euphemism for again, 54 00:03:33,040 --> 00:03:36,240 Speaker 1: a program of military sex slavery. Uh. He also was 55 00:03:36,280 --> 00:03:38,720 Speaker 1: one of the people who signed off on Unit seven 56 00:03:38,760 --> 00:03:41,880 Speaker 1: thirty one, which was Japan's chemical weapons testing unit where 57 00:03:41,880 --> 00:03:46,280 Speaker 1: they fucking like purposely infested, infected and tested chemical weapons 58 00:03:46,440 --> 00:03:51,160 Speaker 1: on prisoners. Uh. Yeah, he's one of the worst people ever. 59 00:03:51,320 --> 00:03:53,400 Speaker 1: And then he got a bunch of CIA backing and 60 00:03:53,440 --> 00:03:55,200 Speaker 1: so backing from the y Aakasa because the CIA is 61 00:03:55,240 --> 00:03:59,600 Speaker 1: working with the yakuza on early uh fifty Japan and 62 00:03:59,640 --> 00:04:02,120 Speaker 1: she's a will basically to force all of the other 63 00:04:03,240 --> 00:04:06,560 Speaker 1: conservative like people to join his party, and the sort 64 00:04:06,600 --> 00:04:08,680 Speaker 1: of the merger of the of the Liberal Party, Liberal 65 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,440 Speaker 1: Party and the Democratic Party is now the Liberal Democratic Party. 66 00:04:11,640 --> 00:04:14,560 Speaker 1: This is Keishi's party. He founded it, he drags everyone 67 00:04:14,560 --> 00:04:17,159 Speaker 1: else into it. He does an immense amount of corruption. 68 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:21,160 Speaker 1: He tries to bring fascism back. He narrowly fails. Shinzo 69 00:04:21,200 --> 00:04:25,679 Speaker 1: Abe is his grandson. Uh the LDP Liberal Democratic Party, 70 00:04:25,800 --> 00:04:29,480 Speaker 1: Yeah has Yeah, it sucks. It's like like nothing. The 71 00:04:29,520 --> 00:04:30,800 Speaker 1: way that I've been thinking about, like how do you 72 00:04:30,800 --> 00:04:32,719 Speaker 1: explain this to people who don't who don't have like 73 00:04:32,720 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: a background in like Japanese like war crime stuff is 74 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:39,600 Speaker 1: like imagine if like one of Hitler's generals had like 75 00:04:39,960 --> 00:04:42,200 Speaker 1: survived World War Two and then the CIA made him 76 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:45,560 Speaker 1: made him the prime Minister of Germany and then and 77 00:04:46,080 --> 00:04:49,800 Speaker 1: he got more fascist because people were saying mean things 78 00:04:49,839 --> 00:04:51,800 Speaker 1: about his grandpa. He's like, oh, I don't like that 79 00:04:51,800 --> 00:04:54,240 Speaker 1: they're calling him bad names. I'm going to get more 80 00:04:54,279 --> 00:04:59,400 Speaker 1: fascist now, so like ill be abbe himself. He's car 81 00:04:59,640 --> 00:05:01,880 Speaker 1: He's been carrying out a lot of the same things 82 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:04,320 Speaker 1: that that she was trying to do. Kishi was trying 83 00:05:04,360 --> 00:05:06,680 Speaker 1: to sort of restore the sort of full fascist power 84 00:05:06,680 --> 00:05:09,320 Speaker 1: of the police. Abe has been doing a whole bunch 85 00:05:09,360 --> 00:05:12,760 Speaker 1: of shifts of centralizing power in the executive and spatting 86 00:05:12,760 --> 00:05:15,080 Speaker 1: the police's power should just arrest whoever the funk they want. 87 00:05:15,720 --> 00:05:18,440 Speaker 1: Um So. One of one of the other things about 88 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,159 Speaker 1: Japan is that like legally in their constitution they can't 89 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,040 Speaker 1: go to war, and like both Kishi and Abbe like 90 00:05:25,120 --> 00:05:27,320 Speaker 1: this is like they're big fucking things that they want. 91 00:05:27,320 --> 00:05:29,320 Speaker 1: They want to fully rearm Japan. They want Japan be 92 00:05:29,360 --> 00:05:31,279 Speaker 1: able to go to war because they want to do 93 00:05:31,320 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 1: the fucking empire again. And you know, so this has led. Yeah, 94 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:40,240 Speaker 1: Abe has been doing that. Um He also the thing 95 00:05:40,279 --> 00:05:43,480 Speaker 1: he's probably most famous for in terms of like the 96 00:05:43,520 --> 00:05:46,240 Speaker 1: reasons people think he's bad because he is he's like 97 00:05:46,600 --> 00:05:51,159 Speaker 1: just actually a monster. Is he's just like a like 98 00:05:51,360 --> 00:05:54,960 Speaker 1: unfathomable degree of war crime denial like he he pulled 99 00:05:55,200 --> 00:05:58,279 Speaker 1: so Japan in the nineties had admitted that they fucking 100 00:05:58,360 --> 00:06:02,120 Speaker 1: kidnapped and enslaved like an enormous number of people from 101 00:06:02,400 --> 00:06:05,200 Speaker 1: of people from Korea, people from China, and I think 102 00:06:05,240 --> 00:06:07,320 Speaker 1: they also did they did in the Philippines and Indonesia too, 103 00:06:07,320 --> 00:06:10,200 Speaker 1: although there's less sort of coverage of that, and like 104 00:06:10,240 --> 00:06:12,360 Speaker 1: turn them into military sex slaves, did things to them 105 00:06:12,440 --> 00:06:18,320 Speaker 1: that are like, I fucking unspeakable. Um And so the 106 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:20,200 Speaker 1: Japanese government the nineties had admitted they did this and 107 00:06:20,240 --> 00:06:23,600 Speaker 1: apologized for it, and Abe was like, no, funk that 108 00:06:23,600 --> 00:06:26,080 Speaker 1: that's that's wrong. He's also a part of this group 109 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:30,120 Speaker 1: called Niponka guy, which is like a fascist group. And okay, 110 00:06:30,120 --> 00:06:32,240 Speaker 1: so this is this is this is according to a 111 00:06:32,360 --> 00:06:36,160 Speaker 1: US congressional report, what they believe quote Japan should be 112 00:06:36,160 --> 00:06:39,520 Speaker 1: applauded for liberating musch of East Asia from western colonial powers, 113 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:43,720 Speaker 1: that the Night Tokyo War crivate stripe units were illegitimate, 114 00:06:43,960 --> 00:06:46,560 Speaker 1: and that the killings by Japanese troops through the nineteen 115 00:06:46,600 --> 00:06:50,680 Speaker 1: thirties seven Nujing Massacre were exaggerated or fabricated. Oh boy. 116 00:06:51,000 --> 00:06:53,280 Speaker 1: They also openly yeah, yeah, yeah. They they also saw 117 00:06:53,279 --> 00:06:57,760 Speaker 1: the nudging denialists. They're they're they're sex slave denialists. They 118 00:06:57,880 --> 00:07:00,120 Speaker 1: openly call for the restoration of the monarchy and the 119 00:07:00,160 --> 00:07:04,800 Speaker 1: institution of Shinto as a state religion. Umb Like ab 120 00:07:05,120 --> 00:07:09,600 Speaker 1: Like has continuously said that the sex slave like did 121 00:07:09,640 --> 00:07:12,840 Speaker 1: it were like did were there voluntarily? Does another thing 122 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:17,000 Speaker 1: that but but but but Hillary Clinton just tweated that 123 00:07:17,040 --> 00:07:20,120 Speaker 1: Pregns was a champion of democracy and a firm believer 124 00:07:20,240 --> 00:07:22,960 Speaker 1: that no economy, society, country because achieve its full potential 125 00:07:23,080 --> 00:07:26,720 Speaker 1: if you leave women behind. Why you know, she to 126 00:07:27,880 --> 00:07:31,480 Speaker 1: be fair, to be fair, to be fair, both Abbe 127 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:34,680 Speaker 1: and nobody. She did in fact believe in using women 128 00:07:34,720 --> 00:07:39,200 Speaker 1: to fuel the economy, just not in that way. He also, 129 00:07:39,480 --> 00:07:42,440 Speaker 1: there's there's neverthing that so probably these most like famous 130 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:45,440 Speaker 1: most controversial thing was So there's the shrine called the 131 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:49,000 Speaker 1: um Yasukuni Shrine, which is is the shrine is dedicated 132 00:07:49,040 --> 00:07:52,400 Speaker 1: to soldiers who like died serving the Japanese emperor and 133 00:07:52,800 --> 00:07:55,440 Speaker 1: in in this so there's this thing called the Book 134 00:07:55,440 --> 00:07:58,200 Speaker 1: of Souls that has like lists of names right of 135 00:07:58,320 --> 00:08:01,600 Speaker 1: just like the other people who died, and a thousand 136 00:08:02,120 --> 00:08:04,480 Speaker 1: sixty eight of the people who were of the people 137 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:06,520 Speaker 1: in that book are people who were who were convicted 138 00:08:06,560 --> 00:08:09,680 Speaker 1: of war crimes. And there are also at fourteen Class 139 00:08:09,680 --> 00:08:12,120 Speaker 1: A war criminals who either died or were executed who 140 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:14,920 Speaker 1: are considered martyrs. There and Abde fucking like visited there 141 00:08:14,960 --> 00:08:19,240 Speaker 1: and like braid and ship and this piste off everyone. 142 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:20,720 Speaker 1: And I mean this is like there are lots of 143 00:08:20,720 --> 00:08:22,680 Speaker 1: people who have gotten mad and me already for celebrating 144 00:08:22,680 --> 00:08:26,040 Speaker 1: Abby's death and my, my, my, My official line on 145 00:08:26,040 --> 00:08:27,680 Speaker 1: this is, if Ab didn't want me to celebrate his 146 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:29,800 Speaker 1: fucking death, maybe he shouldn't have celebrated the lives of 147 00:08:29,800 --> 00:08:34,000 Speaker 1: the people who killed my fucking family, So fuck them. Yeah, 148 00:08:34,440 --> 00:08:37,720 Speaker 1: so he's not not not a great dude. The real 149 00:08:37,800 --> 00:08:43,120 Speaker 1: pack and automatic the every thing we should mention too 150 00:08:43,240 --> 00:08:45,040 Speaker 1: before we go into sort of like the details of 151 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:48,040 Speaker 1: the shooting is that there is an election actually but 152 00:08:48,200 --> 00:08:50,920 Speaker 1: but but by the time this episode drops, I think 153 00:08:50,960 --> 00:08:56,360 Speaker 1: the election will have happened, um, where there is a 154 00:08:56,480 --> 00:08:59,200 Speaker 1: real chance that the Liberal Democratic Party is going to 155 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:02,160 Speaker 1: sort of lie just fucking sweep it. Because Liberal Democratic 156 00:09:02,200 --> 00:09:04,679 Speaker 1: Party immediately starts to blame me the left for this. Uh, 157 00:09:04,720 --> 00:09:07,480 Speaker 1: there's a whole bunch of I mean just absolutely horrifying 158 00:09:07,559 --> 00:09:11,120 Speaker 1: stuff where they're blaming Korean people who live in live 159 00:09:11,120 --> 00:09:13,959 Speaker 1: in Japan, which if you know anything about Japanese history, 160 00:09:14,240 --> 00:09:17,960 Speaker 1: when that stuff starts happening like in in In after 161 00:09:18,000 --> 00:09:20,720 Speaker 1: the Canto earthquake, h a bunch of people just started 162 00:09:20,760 --> 00:09:23,560 Speaker 1: blaming Koreans for the whole thing, and they fucking literally 163 00:09:23,559 --> 00:09:27,280 Speaker 1: exterminated almost the entire Korean population in several major Japanese cities. 164 00:09:27,800 --> 00:09:31,559 Speaker 1: And so this stuff is very scary. Uh, It's possible 165 00:09:31,559 --> 00:09:34,280 Speaker 1: that this is going to set off like an incredible 166 00:09:34,320 --> 00:09:38,000 Speaker 1: right wing lrici of Japanese politics, and there's a chance 167 00:09:38,080 --> 00:09:40,360 Speaker 1: that this, this this could be the actual thing that 168 00:09:41,160 --> 00:09:44,920 Speaker 1: like full on triggers Japan like we are being and 169 00:09:45,080 --> 00:09:46,560 Speaker 1: you know, going back into sort of just being a 170 00:09:46,559 --> 00:09:49,560 Speaker 1: pure fascist empire. So this is not Yeah, that that 171 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:53,160 Speaker 1: part is really bad. The motivation for the assassination is still, 172 00:09:53,679 --> 00:09:57,360 Speaker 1: at least at time of recording, still slightly unclear, very unclear. 173 00:09:57,800 --> 00:10:01,280 Speaker 1: According according to some politics Asians and news media, we 174 00:10:01,320 --> 00:10:05,320 Speaker 1: do know the suspect is Hyo Kojima, that you can 175 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:09,400 Speaker 1: you can infer a little bit fased on. So yeah, 176 00:10:09,520 --> 00:10:13,880 Speaker 1: there's there's like French politicians and a Greek news channel 177 00:10:14,080 --> 00:10:18,760 Speaker 1: who are using pictures of video developer Hideo Kojima and 178 00:10:19,520 --> 00:10:24,920 Speaker 1: passing them off as the shooting suspect, which is really funny. 179 00:10:24,960 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: It is funny pictures of Kachima like inside like a 180 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:33,520 Speaker 1: Russian like communist hat fucking thing, pictures of him wearing 181 00:10:33,600 --> 00:10:37,440 Speaker 1: a joker shirt and standing in front of a Jacobara picture, 182 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:41,480 Speaker 1: and they're using this as proof that it's via left 183 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:51,280 Speaker 1: wing terrorist and it's actually video game developer Kojiba. It's yeah, So, like, 184 00:10:51,400 --> 00:10:55,400 Speaker 1: I guess what we know about the actual shooter, Um, 185 00:10:55,440 --> 00:10:57,720 Speaker 1: we don't know that much. Is a forty two year 186 00:10:57,760 --> 00:11:00,920 Speaker 1: old guy who was a former veteran of the of 187 00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:02,760 Speaker 1: the Japanese Self Defense Force. He was he was a 188 00:11:02,840 --> 00:11:07,160 Speaker 1: Navy guy, which I guess partially explains why he can 189 00:11:07,160 --> 00:11:12,560 Speaker 1: shoot a gun. Um, but yeah, the details are really murky. 190 00:11:12,800 --> 00:11:15,800 Speaker 1: What we've got at time of recording is the Japanese 191 00:11:15,840 --> 00:11:18,760 Speaker 1: police saying that it wasn't because of a political thing, 192 00:11:18,960 --> 00:11:20,640 Speaker 1: and that it was because of a group that he 193 00:11:20,760 --> 00:11:23,440 Speaker 1: was that I was a member of. Who the funk 194 00:11:23,520 --> 00:11:26,000 Speaker 1: knows what that means. That can mean any number of things. 195 00:11:26,320 --> 00:11:29,600 Speaker 1: I I'm not going to speculate live on here because 196 00:11:30,040 --> 00:11:37,000 Speaker 1: I I don't know. Yeah, but also it was extremely 197 00:11:37,080 --> 00:11:40,560 Speaker 1: funny and we should we should talk about the weapon 198 00:11:40,760 --> 00:11:42,760 Speaker 1: that was Yeah, this is why this is one of 199 00:11:42,760 --> 00:11:45,160 Speaker 1: the reasons why it's extremely funny, and we we should 200 00:11:45,600 --> 00:11:47,920 Speaker 1: probably gonna hands over to James because James is a 201 00:11:48,000 --> 00:11:50,679 Speaker 1: bit a bit more of an expert in this type 202 00:11:50,679 --> 00:11:57,880 Speaker 1: of uh D I Y weapon rate of So what 203 00:11:57,880 --> 00:12:01,040 Speaker 1: what the fund is going on with this home made gun? Yeah? 204 00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:04,200 Speaker 1: This ship, Yeah, this ship is fucking this ship. This 205 00:12:04,240 --> 00:12:09,720 Speaker 1: is crazy. Um yeah, it's extremely funny. It's extremely funny 206 00:12:09,800 --> 00:12:12,360 Speaker 1: that all these people with fifty thou followers on Twitter 207 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:16,599 Speaker 1: who quote and quote do ocean like immediately label this 208 00:12:16,679 --> 00:12:18,760 Speaker 1: is a three D printed gun, which is not. It 209 00:12:18,840 --> 00:12:22,640 Speaker 1: does not look this gun is being held together with 210 00:12:22,760 --> 00:12:25,720 Speaker 1: duct tape like that. That is that. That is the 211 00:12:25,800 --> 00:12:27,480 Speaker 1: kind of weapon that we're dealing with you. This is 212 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:30,800 Speaker 1: this is a homemade gun, like held together with fucking 213 00:12:30,880 --> 00:12:33,679 Speaker 1: duct tape. It is extremely It is like he got 214 00:12:33,720 --> 00:12:37,600 Speaker 1: blowed up by an electric blunderbuss. It is. Yeah, like 215 00:12:37,800 --> 00:12:40,160 Speaker 1: there could very well be three D printed parts in 216 00:12:40,400 --> 00:12:43,480 Speaker 1: like around it. But it is. But it's not. It's 217 00:12:43,480 --> 00:12:45,360 Speaker 1: not looking. It's it's it's not like it's not like 218 00:12:45,440 --> 00:12:48,880 Speaker 1: an f DC nine or anything. Um, it's it's a 219 00:12:48,920 --> 00:12:55,080 Speaker 1: weird like electronic pipe duct taped together shotgun. Yeah, it's 220 00:12:55,200 --> 00:12:57,200 Speaker 1: I think perhaps if people don't understand, we should like 221 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:00,600 Speaker 1: break down how firearms work broadly and and how this 222 00:13:00,640 --> 00:13:05,080 Speaker 1: one works specifically, right, So, like, and there's no reason 223 00:13:05,120 --> 00:13:06,760 Speaker 1: why you should be familiar with this, but like you 224 00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,199 Speaker 1: need something to explode, something to make it explode, and 225 00:13:09,280 --> 00:13:11,199 Speaker 1: something to go at the end, and a way to 226 00:13:11,280 --> 00:13:14,600 Speaker 1: make sure it only goes in one direction. Right. Uh. 227 00:13:14,800 --> 00:13:18,319 Speaker 1: So what this character has done is seemingly it's yeah, 228 00:13:18,360 --> 00:13:21,520 Speaker 1: it's like a blunderbuss or a musket in that it 229 00:13:21,559 --> 00:13:25,000 Speaker 1: seems to be like muzzle loaded from the front. Uh. 230 00:13:25,040 --> 00:13:28,080 Speaker 1: And uh, I'm looking at it now and it really 231 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:31,720 Speaker 1: is just covered in duct tape. I tweeted a picture 232 00:13:31,760 --> 00:13:34,960 Speaker 1: of it. It's a gay. Yeah, this ship is is 233 00:13:35,040 --> 00:13:37,160 Speaker 1: very old fashioned. He seems to have made his own 234 00:13:37,160 --> 00:13:39,439 Speaker 1: powder to like it was very very smoky, which you 235 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:40,800 Speaker 1: can do. I'm not gonna tell you how to do it, 236 00:13:40,840 --> 00:13:45,559 Speaker 1: but it's the thing that is possible. And so essentially 237 00:13:45,559 --> 00:13:48,000 Speaker 1: from what I'm seeing here, it looks like it's like 238 00:13:48,040 --> 00:13:51,920 Speaker 1: a piso electric ignition which then ignites this homemade powder 239 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:56,800 Speaker 1: that he had. Uh. And then he's put something in 240 00:13:57,240 --> 00:13:59,320 Speaker 1: a shotgun means it doesn't have rifling, right, so it 241 00:13:59,360 --> 00:14:02,640 Speaker 1: doesn't imparts been on the projectile. So he's basically got 242 00:14:02,679 --> 00:14:06,520 Speaker 1: two pipes a pierzo electric ignitis, some homemade powder, and 243 00:14:06,559 --> 00:14:08,960 Speaker 1: then he could have put nails in there. He could 244 00:14:09,000 --> 00:14:13,839 Speaker 1: have put a castlet ball, anything, bolts, And this wasn't 245 00:14:13,880 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 1: the only homemade weapon he had. The police rated his house. 246 00:14:18,880 --> 00:14:22,920 Speaker 1: He had a whole bunch of supplies that looks it 247 00:14:22,960 --> 00:14:24,920 Speaker 1: looks out of like it looks like it's out of 248 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:27,840 Speaker 1: like fallout or something. It is like there was one 249 00:14:28,120 --> 00:14:32,680 Speaker 1: like blunderbust that had nine different barrels, all duct tapes together. 250 00:14:33,560 --> 00:14:38,880 Speaker 1: It's like exposed wiring, exposed circuit boards, like it's it's 251 00:14:38,920 --> 00:14:44,960 Speaker 1: like it's extremely JANKI yeah, it's like I'm not entirely 252 00:14:44,960 --> 00:14:48,320 Speaker 1: sure that the nine barrel one the central barrel isn't 253 00:14:48,360 --> 00:14:51,280 Speaker 1: touched by the by the structural duct tape, and I'm 254 00:14:51,280 --> 00:14:53,360 Speaker 1: not sure that it wouldn't have moved in one direction 255 00:14:53,440 --> 00:14:57,760 Speaker 1: or the other when he fired it. In Yeah, I 256 00:14:57,760 --> 00:15:00,520 Speaker 1: think that's a that's like a yoga. I can't he's 257 00:15:00,560 --> 00:15:02,600 Speaker 1: put something on the He's made a butt stock with 258 00:15:02,640 --> 00:15:05,000 Speaker 1: that one, so like he can be shoulder it, I guess. 259 00:15:05,040 --> 00:15:06,680 Speaker 1: And I don't know if that's like a piece of 260 00:15:06,720 --> 00:15:10,440 Speaker 1: tire or what. But yeah, yeah, this is not a 261 00:15:10,440 --> 00:15:14,480 Speaker 1: precision weapon. Wooden boards. There's like some type of like 262 00:15:14,600 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: reflect It looks almost like a smartphone's attached to some 263 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:22,360 Speaker 1: of the wiring, or like there's something reflective screen that 264 00:15:22,520 --> 00:15:25,280 Speaker 1: looks like it's like like an electronic control box, which 265 00:15:25,320 --> 00:15:28,320 Speaker 1: could could just be like an old smartphone or something. Yeah, 266 00:15:28,520 --> 00:15:30,560 Speaker 1: I wondered if he could, because that's what you use 267 00:15:30,680 --> 00:15:33,800 Speaker 1: for for an improvised explosive device, right, it's a it's 268 00:15:33,840 --> 00:15:35,600 Speaker 1: a cell phone to actuate it. So it could be 269 00:15:35,760 --> 00:15:37,520 Speaker 1: maybe he had a plan to just put it near 270 00:15:37,600 --> 00:15:39,200 Speaker 1: where are they was going to be and then call 271 00:15:39,240 --> 00:15:44,440 Speaker 1: it and then that would be well, I mean, this 272 00:15:44,640 --> 00:15:47,160 Speaker 1: is a this is a much better assassinated it has 273 00:15:47,200 --> 00:15:49,560 Speaker 1: the stock, So I'm guessing. I'm guessing would he beginning 274 00:15:49,600 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: to hold it because otherwise there's no reason to put 275 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:55,000 Speaker 1: the butt stock there? Yeah, but who knows, Like this 276 00:15:55,000 --> 00:15:58,680 Speaker 1: guy is operating on a different level. We have no 277 00:15:58,720 --> 00:16:01,320 Speaker 1: way to know what he was saying gig at least 278 00:16:01,360 --> 00:16:03,840 Speaker 1: at least at least not at the moment. What he 279 00:16:03,920 --> 00:16:06,000 Speaker 1: was thinking was I want to kill shinzo Abe with 280 00:16:06,040 --> 00:16:10,760 Speaker 1: my pipes and planks. He did it. He's exactly whatever 281 00:16:10,840 --> 00:16:13,440 Speaker 1: you think of him. This man didn't successfully kill Shenzo 282 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:16,840 Speaker 1: Abbe with a gun held together by duct tape. It's 283 00:16:17,120 --> 00:16:19,320 Speaker 1: it's pretty impressive, Like I think the everything about this 284 00:16:19,320 --> 00:16:22,080 Speaker 1: is kind of impressive. Is a he so so he 285 00:16:22,160 --> 00:16:24,360 Speaker 1: there were there were two barrels on it that each fired, 286 00:16:24,960 --> 00:16:27,640 Speaker 1: and he managed to hit him from like a pretty 287 00:16:27,680 --> 00:16:30,800 Speaker 1: good distance away. Like we don't have there's there's no 288 00:16:30,920 --> 00:16:32,760 Speaker 1: video that directly well at least not that's out yet 289 00:16:32,760 --> 00:16:34,640 Speaker 1: that's like directly shows the shooting. We have a lot 290 00:16:34,640 --> 00:16:37,080 Speaker 1: of video because ib is giving a speech, right, so 291 00:16:37,160 --> 00:16:39,600 Speaker 1: we have a bunch of video of like filming Abbe 292 00:16:39,640 --> 00:16:42,640 Speaker 1: and it's and because of where it is coming from 293 00:16:42,640 --> 00:16:45,160 Speaker 1: off screen, like that was a pretty good distance. And 294 00:16:45,200 --> 00:16:47,240 Speaker 1: as best I can tell, he only hit Abbe. I 295 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:48,800 Speaker 1: don't I don't think. I haven't seen any reports of 296 00:16:48,800 --> 00:16:52,800 Speaker 1: anyone else getting hit. So I yeah, impressed. That is 297 00:16:52,800 --> 00:16:55,840 Speaker 1: Actually that is actually kind of slightly surprising. Yeah, there was, 298 00:16:56,120 --> 00:16:58,480 Speaker 1: there was no one else hit. It's like he just 299 00:16:58,560 --> 00:17:01,000 Speaker 1: got the guy he was. It's like that that that 300 00:17:01,120 --> 00:17:04,239 Speaker 1: is genuinely pretty rare, and assassinations like like basically like 301 00:17:04,320 --> 00:17:11,480 Speaker 1: a homemade blunderbust cannon was like surprisingly surprisingly controlled that accurate. Yeah, 302 00:17:11,800 --> 00:17:15,080 Speaker 1: I just found a picture of it with the Cyberpunkies 303 00:17:16,520 --> 00:17:22,400 Speaker 1: seven logo underneath you, which is pretty great. Yeah, that's rule. 304 00:17:22,960 --> 00:17:25,040 Speaker 1: Yeah he did manage to cause it kind of just 305 00:17:25,080 --> 00:17:28,639 Speaker 1: put like a large, massive lead ball in it, I guess, 306 00:17:28,920 --> 00:17:32,880 Speaker 1: and yeah, whatever, because I don't think it. I don't 307 00:17:32,920 --> 00:17:35,320 Speaker 1: think it was one thing. So that one of the 308 00:17:35,359 --> 00:17:37,160 Speaker 1: one thing I could say about the that we guys 309 00:17:37,240 --> 00:17:39,920 Speaker 1: we know about the EMMA was that like there they 310 00:17:39,920 --> 00:17:41,840 Speaker 1: were like a bunch of like they're they're one of 311 00:17:41,840 --> 00:17:45,200 Speaker 1: the much of the reports about the injuries that he suffered. 312 00:17:45,280 --> 00:17:47,400 Speaker 1: We're talking about like he got hit in the back, 313 00:17:47,440 --> 00:17:51,919 Speaker 1: but they're also holes in his neck. So my guess 314 00:17:51,480 --> 00:17:53,239 Speaker 1: from a lot of there's a lot of blood from 315 00:17:53,240 --> 00:17:55,840 Speaker 1: a lot of different places. Yeah, I guess there wasn't 316 00:17:55,880 --> 00:17:59,520 Speaker 1: one thing then, But I don't know. Everything that is 317 00:17:59,560 --> 00:18:01,679 Speaker 1: kind of interest about this is like the extent to 318 00:18:01,720 --> 00:18:04,439 Speaker 1: which Okay, so like he was like it was like 319 00:18:04,760 --> 00:18:08,360 Speaker 1: very clearly dead, like people people had like reported him 320 00:18:08,400 --> 00:18:10,800 Speaker 1: at the scene is having no vitals and they were like, yeah, 321 00:18:10,840 --> 00:18:14,000 Speaker 1: his heart stopped and they helicoptered at him to like 322 00:18:14,000 --> 00:18:17,520 Speaker 1: what Tokyo, Yeah, tokyo. But the Japanese government did a 323 00:18:17,600 --> 00:18:19,159 Speaker 1: very good job of making sure the press had like 324 00:18:19,240 --> 00:18:21,840 Speaker 1: no information, and so there was just like there was 325 00:18:21,920 --> 00:18:24,800 Speaker 1: like many many many hours where they were like pretending 326 00:18:24,840 --> 00:18:26,879 Speaker 1: that he wasn't dead and like wouldn't confirm that he 327 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:29,240 Speaker 1: was dead. And he's like this, this man is clearly 328 00:18:29,320 --> 00:18:32,680 Speaker 1: dead as ship. Like he has gotten blown up by 329 00:18:32,720 --> 00:18:36,479 Speaker 1: a blunderbus like in the back. His next gone. He's like, 330 00:18:36,840 --> 00:18:38,560 Speaker 1: I mean, he's not not gone like his his next 331 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:40,640 Speaker 1: his next been shot. His heart is stopped and they 332 00:18:40,680 --> 00:18:44,080 Speaker 1: just sort of like keep it there for for a 333 00:18:44,960 --> 00:18:47,040 Speaker 1: pretty impressively long long time. And that's the only thing 334 00:18:47,320 --> 00:18:53,080 Speaker 1: we we know very little about what happened and why. Um, 335 00:18:53,480 --> 00:18:55,399 Speaker 1: the press has been keeping the government's be keeping a 336 00:18:55,480 --> 00:19:09,280 Speaker 1: very tight lid on information about the shooting so far. Yeah, 337 00:19:09,280 --> 00:19:12,080 Speaker 1: I guess we want to pivot into the gun control 338 00:19:12,119 --> 00:19:15,879 Speaker 1: side of this. Um, I guess. Okay, So the I 339 00:19:15,880 --> 00:19:19,160 Speaker 1: mean like there was a mayor shot a few years ago. Yeah, 340 00:19:19,240 --> 00:19:22,879 Speaker 1: just Yaka is a guy shot the mayor of Nagasaki, 341 00:19:23,000 --> 00:19:25,240 Speaker 1: so like, and like there's a there's been a lot 342 00:19:25,280 --> 00:19:27,600 Speaker 1: of people like journalists and people who are like supposedly 343 00:19:27,640 --> 00:19:30,400 Speaker 1: japan experts who are like, oh, this is really rare 344 00:19:30,400 --> 00:19:32,880 Speaker 1: in Japanese culture is like no, it's not people get assassinated, 345 00:19:32,960 --> 00:19:35,440 Speaker 1: like like the Japan has a very low rate of 346 00:19:35,440 --> 00:19:37,960 Speaker 1: gun violence, but of that gun violence and the number 347 00:19:38,000 --> 00:19:40,640 Speaker 1: of politicians going to get asassinated it is like unbelievably high. 348 00:19:41,760 --> 00:19:44,200 Speaker 1: And you know, I mean like that there have been there, 349 00:19:44,240 --> 00:19:45,880 Speaker 1: There's been a lot of us. I mean like Abe's 350 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:49,399 Speaker 1: like grandfather, it was a yakishi like got stabbed right 351 00:19:49,440 --> 00:19:52,199 Speaker 1: after we left office, like and he only didn't die 352 00:19:52,240 --> 00:19:54,920 Speaker 1: because the guy who stabbed him claimed that he wasn't 353 00:19:54,920 --> 00:19:57,480 Speaker 1: trying to kill him, he was just stabbing him, which 354 00:19:57,520 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: is one of the weirdest things I've ever heard. Like 355 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:03,040 Speaker 1: I don't know, I suspect some yaks of bullshit was 356 00:20:03,080 --> 00:20:08,399 Speaker 1: going on there. But yeah, like Japan has assassinations. Um it. 357 00:20:08,760 --> 00:20:11,399 Speaker 1: There's there's this weird thing where people think Japan is 358 00:20:11,440 --> 00:20:15,600 Speaker 1: this place that's like like no violence happens, like it's 359 00:20:15,600 --> 00:20:17,879 Speaker 1: a completely orderly society. It's like all this all this 360 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:22,520 Speaker 1: like weird stuff famously past Japan. Yeah, it's like like 361 00:20:22,600 --> 00:20:25,600 Speaker 1: this this is a country, like this is a country 362 00:20:25,760 --> 00:20:28,639 Speaker 1: where people like like even in like the seventies and 363 00:20:28,800 --> 00:20:31,679 Speaker 1: like if through the eighties, people would charge like rb 364 00:20:31,800 --> 00:20:34,920 Speaker 1: convoys with sticks and like fight them. Like. This is 365 00:20:34,960 --> 00:20:40,240 Speaker 1: a country that like like people, they have a sort 366 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: of ape ship switch that just like, Yeah, they have 367 00:20:42,880 --> 00:20:47,960 Speaker 1: their fair share of like cults that do acts of 368 00:20:48,080 --> 00:20:51,360 Speaker 1: violence like this, fair share of political streamists that do 369 00:20:51,480 --> 00:20:55,360 Speaker 1: as violence like this, and like everywhere else in like 370 00:20:55,359 --> 00:20:59,679 Speaker 1: like everywhere else in the world, stuff just happens sometimes. Yeah, 371 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,400 Speaker 1: I think it is interesting that like Japan has extremely 372 00:21:03,440 --> 00:21:09,800 Speaker 1: strict gun control, right, like licenses, test background checks, prohibitions 373 00:21:09,800 --> 00:21:12,720 Speaker 1: on most people learning and carrying. But like it's kind 374 00:21:12,720 --> 00:21:16,000 Speaker 1: of interesting that this is more of a like a 375 00:21:16,080 --> 00:21:19,240 Speaker 1: First Amendment question, I guess in American terms, right, Like, 376 00:21:19,440 --> 00:21:22,960 Speaker 1: if you're on the internet enough, I'm sure it looks 377 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:25,359 Speaker 1: like this person has just googled how to make gun 378 00:21:26,359 --> 00:21:29,199 Speaker 1: and like this is what came up. And so I 379 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,920 Speaker 1: think it's kind of fascinating that that this person has 380 00:21:32,960 --> 00:21:37,720 Speaker 1: been like aside from their possible connection to any criminal networks, 381 00:21:37,760 --> 00:21:40,600 Speaker 1: but like, I know the Yakuza were selling guns to 382 00:21:40,640 --> 00:21:42,520 Speaker 1: people in me and Mark pretty recently, so they have 383 00:21:42,560 --> 00:21:45,879 Speaker 1: access to this. Yeah, and like the mayor who got 384 00:21:45,880 --> 00:21:47,879 Speaker 1: whacked by yaks, a guy like if the Arkansas is 385 00:21:47,880 --> 00:21:49,680 Speaker 1: going to do like, I don't know if yours is 386 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:51,920 Speaker 1: going to do a killing like they like they they 387 00:21:51,960 --> 00:21:53,800 Speaker 1: have access to web, they would use a real gun, 388 00:21:54,520 --> 00:21:59,360 Speaker 1: were abductive together. Okay, so like probably, but also like 389 00:21:59,800 --> 00:22:02,240 Speaker 1: I wouldn't completely rule it out because I wouldn't rule 390 00:22:02,280 --> 00:22:04,760 Speaker 1: out them just finding some guy and doing this thing 391 00:22:04,800 --> 00:22:06,560 Speaker 1: the FBI does and it's like, hey, you're gonna go 392 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,400 Speaker 1: do an attack now, Like it wouldn't. It wouldn't surprise 393 00:22:10,440 --> 00:22:12,159 Speaker 1: me if if they did that as like a plusable 394 00:22:12,160 --> 00:22:15,480 Speaker 1: an ideally thing, but like we don't know. Um, I 395 00:22:15,520 --> 00:22:17,600 Speaker 1: still don't think we can rule out that head out. 396 00:22:17,680 --> 00:22:21,199 Speaker 1: Kajima is the mastermind behind this, um and it's all 397 00:22:21,240 --> 00:22:25,919 Speaker 1: I know, right, it's it's just employed to play his 398 00:22:26,040 --> 00:22:29,359 Speaker 1: next game. UM, just have to add a few like 399 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,320 Speaker 1: nonsense names to the all the all the people involved, 400 00:22:33,440 --> 00:22:38,760 Speaker 1: like Blunderbustman, and then it's just it's it's easy, easy. 401 00:22:39,320 --> 00:22:43,080 Speaker 1: But yeah, it's fascinating that this person was seemingly like 402 00:22:43,280 --> 00:22:46,080 Speaker 1: maybe had other plans or had tried several other like 403 00:22:46,200 --> 00:22:50,800 Speaker 1: craft firearms, and settled on this one. But yeah, they 404 00:22:50,840 --> 00:22:52,880 Speaker 1: have access to a lot of pipes, that's for sure. 405 00:22:56,040 --> 00:23:04,640 Speaker 1: M did you guys see the yuk as a guy 406 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:08,800 Speaker 1: who was arms dealing to me and Ma. No no 407 00:23:09,920 --> 00:23:15,159 Speaker 1: oh for fucking wild. So he was like extensively stung 408 00:23:15,240 --> 00:23:18,240 Speaker 1: by the Feds. To this guy, he was yuck as 409 00:23:18,320 --> 00:23:21,800 Speaker 1: a He was part of it like a ongoing sting 410 00:23:21,840 --> 00:23:26,240 Speaker 1: operation for like several years where he was selling like 411 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,280 Speaker 1: basically like trading guns for drugs, trading guns to buy drugs. 412 00:23:30,320 --> 00:23:31,600 Speaker 1: He was selling to a couple of groups in Me 413 00:23:31,720 --> 00:23:35,440 Speaker 1: and Ma. He was two groups in like the Tamil 414 00:23:35,560 --> 00:23:40,760 Speaker 1: region and a couple of other people and he uh, 415 00:23:40,840 --> 00:23:43,600 Speaker 1: he was at least one of the people he thought 416 00:23:43,920 --> 00:23:47,160 Speaker 1: was a buyer was actually a fed And they've captured 417 00:23:47,240 --> 00:23:50,800 Speaker 1: all of these amazing conversations where they call the guns 418 00:23:50,840 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: like cake and ice cream. Like one of the one 419 00:23:56,080 --> 00:23:59,040 Speaker 1: of the things in the in the criminal complaint, it's 420 00:23:59,040 --> 00:24:02,680 Speaker 1: a picture of him just with like a a law 421 00:24:02,760 --> 00:24:04,920 Speaker 1: like an anti tank weapon and he's just like giving 422 00:24:04,960 --> 00:24:07,000 Speaker 1: it like the V sign, and he's wearing these like 423 00:24:07,080 --> 00:24:11,080 Speaker 1: yellow aviators and a leather jacket. Like. The way they 424 00:24:11,160 --> 00:24:14,480 Speaker 1: arrested him was at a steakhouse I think either in 425 00:24:14,480 --> 00:24:17,880 Speaker 1: New York or New Jersey, but like they lured him 426 00:24:17,880 --> 00:24:20,480 Speaker 1: into a steakhouse meeting and then he got busted by 427 00:24:20,560 --> 00:24:23,879 Speaker 1: the FEDS. But yeah, these guys were trafficking like serious 428 00:24:23,880 --> 00:24:26,840 Speaker 1: stuff like surface to our missiles some things. They have 429 00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:31,880 Speaker 1: access to some pretty heavy equipment. Yeah, that's a that's 430 00:24:31,880 --> 00:24:36,600 Speaker 1: a pretty old Like the octicer has been sort of 431 00:24:36,640 --> 00:24:40,320 Speaker 1: like I don't know how you describe it, like a 432 00:24:40,400 --> 00:24:43,200 Speaker 1: kind of like para arm of the Japanese state in 433 00:24:43,200 --> 00:24:45,240 Speaker 1: a lot of ways for a very very long time. 434 00:24:45,560 --> 00:24:48,200 Speaker 1: Like there are there have been like the acts of 435 00:24:48,200 --> 00:24:51,359 Speaker 1: people with basically special forces training. Um, they they at 436 00:24:51,400 --> 00:24:54,199 Speaker 1: one point like kidnapped and killed the Empress of Korea 437 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:57,440 Speaker 1: as part of like a thing to like justify starting 438 00:24:57,440 --> 00:25:00,879 Speaker 1: a war. So they are they're very well hooked up. 439 00:25:00,960 --> 00:25:03,920 Speaker 1: I I I don't know, it's still unclear to be 440 00:25:03,920 --> 00:25:06,320 Speaker 1: because like that's the obviously everything again, like they're the 441 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:13,960 Speaker 1: LDP has a lot of Yakuza connections because kind of okay, 442 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:17,560 Speaker 1: partially kind of everything is, but partially also because the 443 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,560 Speaker 1: Accusa were like I sort of founding like political block 444 00:25:20,600 --> 00:25:22,800 Speaker 1: of the l d P in the first place. So 445 00:25:23,119 --> 00:25:27,320 Speaker 1: who knows, Like LDP people have gotten like attacked by 446 00:25:27,359 --> 00:25:29,800 Speaker 1: Akas people before. It could be that it could be 447 00:25:29,840 --> 00:25:34,639 Speaker 1: something else. We sort of just don't know yet. Um, yeah, 448 00:25:35,000 --> 00:25:37,679 Speaker 1: there's nothing identifying this guy. Like I'm just looking at 449 00:25:37,680 --> 00:25:39,959 Speaker 1: a picture of him, and there's nothing particularly sort of 450 00:25:40,359 --> 00:25:46,720 Speaker 1: identifying his clothing or anything like that. Yeah, I guess. 451 00:25:46,760 --> 00:25:52,800 Speaker 1: I guess that's the deficians of extremely critical support to 452 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:56,919 Speaker 1: Hideo Kajima and all of the other freedom fighters. Oh, 453 00:25:57,000 --> 00:25:58,520 Speaker 1: I guess I guess we could talk a little bit 454 00:25:58,560 --> 00:26:02,320 Speaker 1: about the international response to this, Yeah, because people have 455 00:26:02,359 --> 00:26:05,399 Speaker 1: no idea what's ethnic. Yeah, I mean, like so like 456 00:26:05,720 --> 00:26:08,080 Speaker 1: all the Americans are sorry of like are doing the 457 00:26:08,080 --> 00:26:10,240 Speaker 1: all American liberals sort of doing like, oh my god, 458 00:26:10,359 --> 00:26:11,880 Speaker 1: he was a good guy. It's like, no, he wasn't. 459 00:26:11,880 --> 00:26:17,000 Speaker 1: This guy was a monster. Um okay, I will say this, 460 00:26:17,640 --> 00:26:20,600 Speaker 1: both the Chinese and the Korean embassies are being surprisingly 461 00:26:20,640 --> 00:26:24,399 Speaker 1: diplomatic about it, as in, no one they haven't no 462 00:26:24,440 --> 00:26:29,000 Speaker 1: one has actively insulted him yet social media wise. Likely 463 00:26:29,040 --> 00:26:32,720 Speaker 1: that's a good move for like inter country relationship. But like, 464 00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:37,360 Speaker 1: I okay, like try Japanese relationships with Korea, with South 465 00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:40,280 Speaker 1: Korea and North Korea are really bad, And a lot 466 00:26:40,280 --> 00:26:42,320 Speaker 1: of the reason why they're really bad is specifically because 467 00:26:42,359 --> 00:26:44,880 Speaker 1: of Chang Sawabe and because of all of his bullshit. 468 00:26:45,880 --> 00:26:48,640 Speaker 1: They're happy, but they're not gonna like Rubb it. I mean, 469 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:51,600 Speaker 1: it's it's not clear to me that they wouldn't have 470 00:26:51,640 --> 00:26:53,120 Speaker 1: done this if this had happened to like the two 471 00:26:53,119 --> 00:26:59,480 Speaker 1: thou Tangs, Like these guys really hate each other. Um. Yeah, 472 00:26:59,800 --> 00:27:02,680 Speaker 1: there's been some sort of like people people are trying 473 00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:04,800 Speaker 1: to do a Taiwan angle on this because Obb is 474 00:27:04,840 --> 00:27:09,440 Speaker 1: like a Taiwan supporter, But I don't Yeah, I don't 475 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:11,240 Speaker 1: think there's actually that much. The Peo people want this 476 00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,679 Speaker 1: to have much more geo political like significance than it 477 00:27:14,880 --> 00:27:22,760 Speaker 1: probably actually will. Um yeah, yeah, well it's meantime. Yeah, 478 00:27:22,800 --> 00:27:27,160 Speaker 1: fascist is dead. That's always funny. It happened Uh yeah, 479 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:30,760 Speaker 1: it did in fact happen here. Well it happened over there, 480 00:27:30,800 --> 00:27:34,760 Speaker 1: but you know what I mean, Um, it could happen here. Sure, 481 00:27:35,840 --> 00:27:42,680 Speaker 1: statistically we are we are about to do Yeah, yeah, 482 00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:46,240 Speaker 1: you wouldn't need to to deductate model in America. No, 483 00:27:46,359 --> 00:27:48,080 Speaker 1: with the amount of firearms here. It is kind of 484 00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,800 Speaker 1: a little is sometimes a little surprising how little stuff 485 00:27:50,840 --> 00:27:53,320 Speaker 1: like this actually happens. There's obviously a lot of work 486 00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:56,200 Speaker 1: that goes into like preventing it, but but still sometimes 487 00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:58,720 Speaker 1: it's it's kind of it's kind of shocking. Um yeah, 488 00:27:58,800 --> 00:28:00,360 Speaker 1: Like I think, I think. I think if you look 489 00:28:00,359 --> 00:28:03,040 Speaker 1: at the last twenty years, I think more Japanese politicians 490 00:28:03,080 --> 00:28:06,359 Speaker 1: have been assassin to the American politicians. Like I'm trying 491 00:28:06,400 --> 00:28:08,680 Speaker 1: to think of an American politician because because they do 492 00:28:08,840 --> 00:28:11,399 Speaker 1: a lot more American politicians and a lot of guns 493 00:28:11,560 --> 00:28:16,240 Speaker 1: they killed. They killed when they went after Gabby Giffordge 494 00:28:16,280 --> 00:28:20,040 Speaker 1: they killed someone, I think. But yeah, I don't. I'm 495 00:28:20,040 --> 00:28:25,919 Speaker 1: trying to think of anyone else other than that, um 496 00:28:25,960 --> 00:28:28,480 Speaker 1: not in recent memory. The guy who showed Reagan is 497 00:28:28,480 --> 00:28:32,359 Speaker 1: now touring. Yeah, but he didn't even kill him. That's 498 00:28:32,359 --> 00:28:35,840 Speaker 1: not even assassination. That's just an asassination attempts, like a 499 00:28:36,040 --> 00:28:41,360 Speaker 1: very bouched one. Yeah. Yeah. Cross that crossover between John 500 00:28:41,440 --> 00:28:46,200 Speaker 1: Hinckley and Hideo Kajima. It's possible that will be the game. 501 00:28:46,600 --> 00:28:49,600 Speaker 1: I'm just gonna keep referring to the suspect of Hideo Kajima. 502 00:28:51,680 --> 00:28:54,680 Speaker 1: It's worth noting that like he did have armed God, 503 00:28:54,800 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 1: so were um God's present that you can see their 504 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:01,040 Speaker 1: guns in their health series. They take down the person 505 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,280 Speaker 1: who shot him, but they they were not on their 506 00:29:04,320 --> 00:29:07,520 Speaker 1: a game that day. Yeah, that you can see in 507 00:29:07,560 --> 00:29:09,520 Speaker 1: the video there's like one of the guys I think, 508 00:29:09,520 --> 00:29:12,280 Speaker 1: trying to like get a bulletproof briefcase in between Abbe 509 00:29:12,360 --> 00:29:14,040 Speaker 1: and the guy and just doesn't work. It just it 510 00:29:14,160 --> 00:29:18,880 Speaker 1: just it just fails completely. They had one job they 511 00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:23,440 Speaker 1: didn't yeah, like the operation meat Shield. They weren't just on, 512 00:29:24,200 --> 00:29:26,760 Speaker 1: they weren't just not on their A game. They completely 513 00:29:26,760 --> 00:29:33,040 Speaker 1: failed that. They're over. Ye. Yes, it's not like the 514 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:35,040 Speaker 1: guy even tried to run away. He just like stood 515 00:29:35,080 --> 00:29:38,240 Speaker 1: there and got arrested. Yeah. Yeah, he did not really 516 00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:39,840 Speaker 1: put much of a did not put up much of 517 00:29:39,840 --> 00:29:45,000 Speaker 1: a fight. Yeah, yeah, he know he didn't. Yeah, he 518 00:29:45,240 --> 00:29:46,960 Speaker 1: he went down pretty fast. I guess he went with 519 00:29:47,000 --> 00:29:48,880 Speaker 1: like this small again, maybe to conceal it, because it 520 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:52,040 Speaker 1: looks like he was pretty close. Yeah, that is that 521 00:29:52,160 --> 00:29:56,360 Speaker 1: is very likely. Well, a very dark day for democracy, um, 522 00:29:56,560 --> 00:30:05,880 Speaker 1: dark day for feminism um, as Hillary Clinton said, Uh anyway, yeah, yeah. 523 00:30:05,960 --> 00:30:08,400 Speaker 1: Luckily they have Rama Manual as ambassad to a pan 524 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:10,600 Speaker 1: to comfort them in its difficult the the the l 525 00:30:10,680 --> 00:30:12,600 Speaker 1: d P are the only people on earth who does 526 00:30:12,640 --> 00:30:16,920 Speaker 1: who actually deserve Rama Manual. So look, if if you 527 00:30:16,960 --> 00:30:18,240 Speaker 1: if if you didn't want to have to deal with 528 00:30:18,280 --> 00:30:20,320 Speaker 1: Rama manual. You should have taken all that's your money? 529 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,800 Speaker 1: Is this this is now their curse? Well, I'm sure 530 00:30:24,800 --> 00:30:26,760 Speaker 1: we'll talk more about these types of homemade weapons and 531 00:30:26,800 --> 00:30:28,200 Speaker 1: all that kind of kind of stuff in the future 532 00:30:28,200 --> 00:30:30,440 Speaker 1: because it is. It is interesting, and you know, places 533 00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:33,960 Speaker 1: where places where like actual firearms are hard are harder 534 00:30:33,960 --> 00:30:35,840 Speaker 1: to get. We're seeing more and more ship like this 535 00:30:36,040 --> 00:30:39,400 Speaker 1: popping up. Yeah. Yeah, and that'll that will definitely be 536 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,720 Speaker 1: worth be worth getting into along with three D printed weapons. 537 00:30:44,040 --> 00:30:47,960 Speaker 1: All right, anything else to add? Does that? Does that? 538 00:30:48,000 --> 00:30:49,840 Speaker 1: Does that? Do it? Yeah? I think that's a wrap. 539 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:53,840 Speaker 1: All right. Well, follow the show on Twitter, Instagram, But 540 00:30:53,920 --> 00:30:57,120 Speaker 1: Happened Here pod and cool Zone Media, Uh see you 541 00:30:57,160 --> 00:31:05,160 Speaker 1: next time, and critical support to Hideokachima. It Could Happen 542 00:31:05,160 --> 00:31:07,480 Speaker 1: Here as a production of cool Zone Media. 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