Fear End and Hasanabi infiltrate Japan to visit CDAWGVA, debating racial dynamics, hyper-capitalist healthcare, and the "PewDiePie provision." They analyze controversial topics like the cancellation of Act Age due to sexual harassment allegations, double standards regarding infidelity in anime voice acting, and the complex landscape of sex work from geishas to "Soap Land" brothels. The discussion extends to restrictive laws prohibiting dual citizenship and joint custody, which they argue exacerbate Japan's depopulation crisis, culminating in a grim reference to Yale professor Yusuke Narita's suggestion that elderly citizens should commit mass suicide due to social welfare strain. [Automatically generated summary]
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Life in Los Angeles00:14:16
It's like gunshots.
Yes, Fear End is both myself and Will Neth.
Okay.
And soon to be Cutie Cinderella.
Wait, really?
Marches podcast.
Yeah.
I thought that was like a meme.
You picked that microphone up so quickly.
I did.
I realized right away.
I was like, this is not going to happen.
I can't crouch like a...
You had that down there, and I was like, wow, it's impressive how you put that down there.
Are the audio levels good when I'm far?
Yeah, you can fall.
Also, the second question is, how bad is the echo?
If we hold it this close, it shouldn't be too bad.
Yeah.
Also, remember, your job performance relies on this.
As a one-third owner of the podcast.
Damn, that's very nice.
Yeah, this should sound okay.
I mean, the echo's pretty terrible, but you know, you do what you do.
I'm learning the levels right now.
Okay.
All right.
We're waiting on Saikuno to come up as well.
But he's a diva.
Where is he at?
I don't know.
I'm just chilling.
I'm just always like, I'm ready to go.
Whenever I turn out to a place, I'm like, I'm filming.
I'm always on.
I'm like, I'm ready.
Yeah, me too.
I don't know what.
I feel like my aunt is not that impressive, though, so maybe it's more impressive.
You're very energetic.
Yeah, last time we hung out, I was impressed at how much you just, dude, you can talk.
Oh, yeah, I love talking.
I know you do.
I never shut the fuck up.
It's kind of not great.
No, that's great for you.
For everything you do, that's fantastic.
That's what you need to do, right?
Like, that's your job.
I feel like I, if you need me to stream for 13 hours and talk, I can do it.
But, dude, I don't know.
It's like not good talking.
What we need you is wearing tighter Bruce Lee outfits as you use your cock to break 50 bricks.
Why is this where you want to talk?
No, let's just get started.
Let's get right into it.
Fuck the monetization.
We're talking about Connor Dog, Virginia's penis.
That's right.
Ladies and gentlemen, fear and we're out here.
We're in Tokyo.
Oh, sorry about that.
I apologize.
Sumi Masen.
Sumi Masen.
Dies of Carrie.
That's right.
Dies of crimp.
He's not Daijobu right now.
But let me tell you, I'm fucking Daijobu.
I am on crack cocaine.
Okay, wow.
That's right.
I snuck it in.
The Japanese police have no fucking clue.
I am doing crack cocaine in Japan.
Why am I saying this?
Why are you saying this?
Because I want to get arrested.
I live here.
My goal is to get arrested, so I stay here forever.
Okay, well, I don't think you'll stay in a house as nice as this.
That's for sure.
And then, well, that's true, but to be fair, Japanese prison probably is like a nice ass house in comparison to the American prison, which is like.
It's probably not as bad, but it's just like, I feel like we had the exact same discussion the last time we hanged out where I said it's pretty bad and you were like, no, American prison's way worse.
And I think Japanese prison is bad.
They just like probably don't do anything.
They probably don't help you.
They don't give you enough food, probably.
It's probably pretty bad.
Yeah, well, regardless, that would still imply that I'm staying in Japan, which I'm on board with.
Whatever it takes, okay?
Whatever it's fucking.
I'm sorry.
Why do you have to get arrested?
Too long?
It's like cooler.
Yeah, it's like fast.
Okay, all right.
It's a fast pass.
Well, they just like, they've changed the rules recently.
So if you're wealthy, you can kind of just come in a lot easier.
Which you're obviously not wealthy, right?
Because that's like that's good for me, I guess.
Yeah, they did this whole song and dance.
They were like, guys, we've made the visa requirements easier.
And everyone was like, whoa, really?
They're like, yeah, yeah, you just have to be really rich.
And everyone was like, well, that's not helpful at all.
That only applies to like a few thousand people at most.
That was called the PewDiePie provision.
Yeah, they changed it for him.
They were like, let's make it happen.
Yeah, it was like COVID as well.
They used the regulations to come into Japan if you were coming by private jet, which is oh, thank God.
So, yeah, you're good, right?
Wait, first of all, how the fuck do you fly into Japan with a private jet?
You can't do that from America.
Unless you have like Drake's private jet, which is a 747.
I mean, I've never flown a private jet, so I don't know, but I assume it's possible.
Private jets oftentimes are not as large as commercial aircraft, so they don't have enough fuel to fly to Japan.
I don't think you could do like a 12-hour flight on like a regular private jet.
I'm pretty sure PewDiePie did, though.
It must have been some kind of fancy one.
I have no idea.
It's all foreign to me.
Why do you know about how PewDiePie flew into the country?
He did a whole video about it, talking about how he has to get a private.
Yeah, I'm just dogs.
I thought you just knew.
I thought you knew because, like, you guys are homies.
Be honest.
You're tight.
You're tied with them.
You're tied with PewDiePie.
You call him Felix.
Everyone calls him Felix.
You call him Feely Phil.
No.
Be honest.
You're the godfather.
You're the godfather of his child.
Breaking news right here, right now.
Connor Dog, Virginia.
What are you trying to get me into?
Godparents.
Felix.
No, Dad.
Jellberg.
I'm trying to disrupt the Gaijin network.
Why?
I don't know.
We have a good thing going on.
I know.
So I was saying this earlier on stream, but it's like, this is a meme, or at least this is something I've also observed with my black friends in America.
But in predominantly white spaces, when two black dudes see each other, they go, they give each other a nod.
And I feel like that's kind of like that in Japan where white guys, they see each other, they go, so.
No, it's more of a disdain.
I was just about to say, but that's what I thought was going to happen.
It's not.
Every time Japanese people are like looking up at me, like, what the fuck's going on here?
What is this guy doing?
But like fascinated.
White guys are like, ugh, fucking fucking Gaijin.
I think there's definitely that kind of aspect of like, you moved out here and you're kind of like, you know, you feel like you're something special because it's so different and so much harder to kind of live here than it would be in like, you know, another, if I moved from America to LA, right?
America to LA.
Sorry, sorry, fuck, the UK to, sorry, America to LA.
Well, it's still very different.
If I move from like London to LA, right?
It's like, it wouldn't be that steep of it.
I think there's some kind of like people do want to feel a little special because I think a lot of people make it their whole identity around living here as well.
You don't say.
So I think that there is that kind of thing where it's like, you just, you suck.
You wouldn't know.
But it's like when I took Ludwig out to some bars and in certain, it was like a touristy area, which you should go and check out.
It's really fun.
You will not fit in any of the bars.
They're very like cramp.
I wouldn't really, if I saw like tourists in there, I'd be like, no, no, no, we'll go to a different one.
Just because like if when you, if you kind of want to, because he really wanted to experience like a conversation with Japanese people.
Dude, he's so fucking annoying.
Oh my God.
But we did have a great time.
Bro, literally, when we're at San Diego, he would do that.
Wait, what?
Yeah, no, literally.
He was like, dude, okay, we're at TwitchCon.
Okay.
In San Diego, which is like an hour away from where we live, literally.
Yeah.
And this motherfucker was like, yeah, let's go to like a local place.
I'm like, bro, we're not in fucking Tokyo.
Like, what do you mean?
A local place.
So we did.
We did go to a local place.
And he loved like using scooters instead of like using Uber.
I do like the scooters.
I've never been scooting around.
He was just like scooting around everywhere.
And like we went to a local place and it was surrounded by like, you know, fans.
And so he didn't even get the local experience in San Diego, whatever the fuck that is.
But I kind of want that too.
My point is, in Japan, I feel like that's acceptable.
Yeah.
So, when are you taking me to local bars?
You said you don't drink much, though.
I'll fucking drink, dude.
Okay, I'll drink.
Okay, yeah, Golden Guy.
Yeah, this is a good bar.
It's a very famous area where there's a ton of tiny bars shoved into this one like square block of streets.
Can we stream it?
You can.
Some places won't let you in.
Some places might.
So you can try.
It's pretty much you just ask.
You just say, hey, is it okay if I come with the camera?
How do you say that in Japanese?
Well, if you're streaming, you'd be like, and then they'll be like, Haiishin is live stream.
Okay.
Haishin Idesuka.
Idueska is like, is it okay?
And then Haishin I desuka.
Dude, come on.
Come on.
I'm hitting that like I'm doing voiceover work for Crunchyroll.
You know what I mean?
Indecipherable.
Indistinguishable from like a real Japanese person.
All right.
Damn.
Okay.
Yeah.
If you say that, some will be like, no.
Most of them will say, most of them will say no.
But occasionally you'll get some that like.
What do you mean if I say that I'm indistinguishable from a real Japanese person?
No, if you say I live stream, they'll all say who.
If you do that, they'll be like, I'm sorry, what?
Can you speak Japanese, please?
Yeah, a lot of them will say no, but occasionally you'll get people who are really chill and will say yeah.
That's kind of how it is here.
You just have to kind of a lot of trial and error, a lot of rejection.
Get used to it.
Yeah.
Okay.
I mean, they were everywhere we went today in like the wealthier business district, they were very chill with like live streaming.
They didn't even think about it.
I feel like it's almost like a thing that happens often.
Yeah.
Whereas like in Los Angeles, people have made up their minds on whether it's allowed or completely not allowed.
I felt like where we went to today was just like such a normy area that they were just like, yeah, whatever.
Yeah, I mean, it's, I think it's if you're pointing the camera at yourself and you're not showing them, then I think that people don't care as much because they can clearly see that like the camera is looking at you.
And then they're way less stressed about that.
I think if you point it at them, there's obviously like grounds for them to be like, hey, can you stop?
And can you get out of the store?
Yeah.
But that's how it is here.
You just got to not be a nuisance.
I'm sure you've...
But it's hard because when you don't understand Japanese, you probably feel like, I know Ludwig said this.
He's like, man, I feel like such an idiot all the time because I don't understand anything.
But it's fine.
It's kind of hard to get used to it.
But, you know, I've been here for three years and there's still some things I fuck up.
So it's a lot.
It takes a while.
For me, I don't know.
I mean, I get that anxiety a little bit, but I don't know.
As a big dude, even in America, I don't want to be a nuisance.
So I'm always over the top being courteous or trying to be courteous.
That's the way to go.
Yeah, get in.
We already just started.
You're right here.
That's right.
I've never seen a podcast where they'll just start it.
This is, oh, yeah, we always do this.
We always roll, dude.
We always roll, baby.
And there he is.
We got Saikuno in the building as well.
Hello.
That's right.
Saikuno, this is your first time in Japan.
This is my first time in Japan.
We got Mr. Japan right here.
I don't know about that.
Yeah, we went.
In order to understand Japan better, we went to a white guy.
Just like literally everyone else.
Everyone else could.
I speak like a little bit.
I speak enough to get by.
A lot more than us, though.
Yeah, bro.
You work.
The fucking Starbucks barista was like, oh my God.
The Starbucks barista was like, nanny?
She said, she said, Sugoi.
She literally did say that.
That's not even just on camera.
She said that.
Whenever anyone speaks a little bit of anything, it sounds way more impressive when you don't understand it.
That's why those YouTube videos of people speaking like barely anything is impressive in Duzwood.
Why haven't you done that?
Because no one cares in Japan.
You should do one of those, like white boy swag videos.
No, because it's like, all right, I think we're like, okay, okay, listen, listen, listen, listen.
What is that guy's name?
Like, Shaolin or something?
Okay, let's flip it, right?
If a Chinese guy comes to LA and starts speaking like mildly good English, no one's like, whoa.
This man speaks English.
Leave it to a Welshman to forget about colonialism and why English is considered the common language on the planet.
But you know what I mean?
Like we don't fucking react.
No one cares because it's like, nice.
We really appreciate that.
And Japan's just like, but like, cool.
Thank you for making an effort.
Thank you for learning.
That's great.
Damn.
So you're saying like Japan literally is on the same wavelength as like America is being like, yeah, of course you're going to speak Japanese, bitch.
Well, I think it's more.
Wait, what?
Yeah, exactly.
That's what I mean.
Exactly like that.
I think it's just like they don't expect you to speak it.
And when you do, they're like just pleasantly surprised.
They're not going to, because they don't react.
They're not going to go, sugoi.
Yeah, they're not going to go, whoa.
They're just kind of like, they're like, damn, nice.
Thanks, man.
I appreciate it.
You made my job easier.
Occasionally, I've had like taxi drivers that have been like, oh my God, thank God.
They're like, thank you for speaking Japanese.
I'm like, I mean, I'm in Japan.
I feel like I shouldn't.
It shouldn't make me anxious to ever take a taxi now.
They get very anxious sometimes.
You know, me and Asan are going to be like, wait, if we take a taxi.
You can just Uber.
Oh.
Well, yeah.
Is there a reason you take taxis over Uber then?
Because the Uber wait time is slow.
He's got white boy swag.
That's why.
He just like, I still don't know.
He wants to flex like that.
If you call Uber, it might take 10 minutes to arrive, but every main road will have taxis constantly in Japan.
It's like, okay, well.
You know, it's like, it's very similar to European cities as well.
Like, Uber is worse off in European cities than taxis or just public transit in general.
We, we, March, and I went to the area that we went to by way of the subway, which you ironically said was actually like a really shitty stop.
Yeah, it was.
Like, not very good in comparison to everything else, but like it's not very like centralized, I guess.
It doesn't have enough stops.
But like, for me, that experience was incredible.
Yeah.
Because it's so clean.
It's so quiet.
Distinctly does not smell like piss, which is wild.
That is a huge.
Wait, it doesn't?
No.
I would say in public transit in San Francisco, the BART, it's called smells really.
And when it rains, it's really, really bad.
Yeah, it's not good.
And I mean, I guess you kind of just get used to it.
Like, after a year or so of just doing it, you kind of stop realizing how special it is and you just become like, this is my, this is like normal.
Yeah, you should never stop feeling like it's special.
Honestly.
Yeah, I mean, when I go back to the UK and I try and get the trains and they just don't work.
I love that, dude.
Even UK is like incredible in comparison to Los Angeles.
Anything's incredible to Los Angeles.
Yeah, I don't think Los Angeles has anything.
It has your own car.
I think it's really like very bad because it's not, it doesn't go everywhere.
It's not on time ever.
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It's just like super underfunded.
I did realize when I was in LA, I was like, God damn, like, there's like, you know, if you don't have a lot of money in Japan or the UK, you can still kind of get around and it's not bad.
But in LA, I was like, shit, you just.
You pretty much need your own car or you can take expensive Ubers.
It's crazy.
Yeah.
It was insane.
It's pretty.
It's pretty crappy.
I'm not a fan of the tipping.
That's for sure.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
That's so funny.
I'm not a fan.
Yeah, I'm so used to it.
I don't give a shit at this point.
But like, yeah, in other places where they like actually have living wages for the most part, you're not expected to.
I mean, wages aren't great here.
Yeah, but Connor said they're all poor.
No, not poor.
Not poor.
I didn't word it like that.
None of them.
Call him out.
Finally, his words were none of them.
They're fucking broke.
They're a lot of money.
You don't.
He said they're fucking broke, boys.
I was like, Omega law?
No.
Taxes are like disgusting here.
Taxes are so bad here.
So even when you do get money, you get taxed out the ass from like tons of different things.
What's the highest tax?
Like 55%?
California.
You get like income tax and then you have residence tax, which is all like tacked on, which is also income bet.
It's all fucked.
So the reason why people like make less money in countries like Japan or in countries like the UK in comparison to the United States is because they do have higher taxes.
Yeah, but also with higher taxes come better amenities, which is why you can live on wages that you would otherwise consider to be impossible in the United States of America.
Our taxes in California are actually almost the same at about 50% for the maximum.
It's exactly the hilarious part about it is that even when you live in a place like California, you're still paying like European social democracy taxes, but you're just getting zero amenities for the most part, which makes it not great.
But I'm rich, so I don't give a fuck.
No, where I grew up in the UK, there was like we had a bus that would turn up every hour and maybe it would show up on time.
And most of the time, it just didn't.
So it was kind of like if you didn't have a car where I grew up, it was just fucked.
It's like that in the States, too.
Yeah.
I took a bus once and actually it broke down.
And it's expensive.
It was a lot as well.
And by the way, to clarify, like...
You got to just hop on and not pay sometimes if you couldn't do that in a lot of stuff.
There's like four people.
It's obvious you got on the bus.
The rest are sheep.
So they're like, you're the only non-sheep here.
What the fuck?
No, what I meant by like, I'm rich.
I don't give a fuck is like, well, in California, if you're the highest tax bracket, it doesn't matter because you're not taking advantage of the amenities regardless.
Right, right, right.
I just wish that like they would still offer something for people who need those amenities.
Yeah.
I mean, health insurance is pretty good here.
You get it with your employer.
Ours is pretty good too if you give it enough money.
Yeah, like if you pay a lot, it's good.
I mean, one of the concerns that a lot of friends have here is that, you know, there's a lot of skepticism about if medicine and general, I guess, the way you get treated here is good.
There's a lot of horror stories, a lot of doctors that maybe don't want to, because they're very risk-averse in Japan.
They never want to take risks.
So maybe surgeries they should do, they won't because they don't want to risk it.
They're just messing something up.
Yeah, yeah.
And also.
So what do they do?
You just say, nope.
They'll always choose the most conservative way of doing it.
And they'll often.
Sometimes it's better.
Which is sometimes better, you know, because they don't over-prescribe medicine.
If anything, they under-prescribe.
I've heard a lot of friends who've had surgery who are in like searing pain and they won't give you anything.
And procedures, procedures that would normally be performed under anesthesia.
Yeah.
In any normal country.
In Japan, they'll be like, no.
Like, if you had like a catheter.
It's crazy.
They just put a fucking towel in your mouth, you'll bite into it.
Well, if you had like a friend of mine had a, he had to get a catheter tube put up his thing, no painkillers.
Is that for like the peeing or whatever?
Some people do pay for that privilege.
Well, in America, you pay to win, right?
It's called sounding.
It really is pay-to-win.
I just found out about this like a lot of people.
What you're describing is a sexual act, also known as sounding.
Do not Google that.
I found this out about a woman.
I had that planned on it.
I found this out about a week.
Actually, Google it.
Because when you take like that fucking, what is it, a metronome?
March, you're a music guy.
What's the thing that you?
You're just like a dick, right?
Like, it's like a...
A triangle?
No, it's not a triangle.
It's like a stick that you put through your.
You're like a tuning fork.
Yeah.
Yes.
Wait, you put through what?
You took a tuning fork and you put it through your cock.
It's so nasty.
From literally the dickhole.
Back on health.
Remember we came off the airplane and they were telling us how expensive it would be if we got injured.
No, it's not.
That's bullshit.
No, no, no.
They were trying to sell insurance.
That's why.
Oh, yeah.
So that we didn't know how much money.
No, it's nothing.
It's not much.
$75,000.
$750K or something.
That's a lot of money.
Like $6,000 USD.
That's a lot of money.
$750,000.
Yeah.
That's what it says.
You said if you broke your ribs, if you get hit by your neck and got to get it out of the way.
Dude, that's like free in America.
$6,000 for all that?
Here's the thing.
That was actually...
So one thing that people don't understand is that Japan is also hyper-capitalist.
Like, yes, there's a lot of amenities and whatnot, but they certainly do love their private.
Oh, there's a lot of pay-to-win stuff here.
There's a lot of pay-to-win here.
There's a lot of private shit.
Claw machines.
Wait, really?
You can pay to win those?
Well, I assume if you swipe enough, if you put enough money in, you can start asking them for health.
We should go gamble.
We can go do claws.
I want to do that.
Oh, you want to do pachinko?
What is different?
It's boring.
I don't even know what it is.
Claw machines aren't gambling.
That's the one where you just drop the thing and just goes down.
Yeah, it's just like a ball.
You literally just see your money drop down into the drain.
Okay.
Yeah, there's a lot of pay-to-win aspects of Japan.
You know, whenever I go to anything that's medical, they'll be like, hey, we can give you like the wooden teeth implant covered by your insurance, or we can give you like an actual good one.
It's going to cost.
I didn't know wooden teeth implanted.
Every time I've gone to the George Washington.
Yeah, every time I've gone to the doctor here or dentist or anything, they always, the first thing they'll be like, is like, this thing's covered by your insurance, but nobody gets that.
It's cringe.
Get this thing.
And I'm like, it's crazy.
Doctors are fucking zoomed.
It's cringe you can.
Dude, they prescribe like so much useless medicine as well.
I mean, I don't know.
Because they prescribe Chinese medicine a lot of the time here as well.
Yeah, is that cringe?
They'll give me like five.
Connect Chinese medicine is cringe.
That's crazy.
They'll give me like an actual medicine that's like, I can Google it and it's good.
And then they'll give me like five things that's like they like brew this in tea and drink it.
And I'm like, what?
Oh, they do like holistic.
So they do like mixture.
Yeah, and I'm like, I'm going to fuck with that.
I like that.
Give me the pills, man.
Give me something I can look.
I can feel naughty about it.
This is why you're guiding.
Okay.
This is like, that's not very digital of you.
I guess so.
I guess.
Is this kind of seating like common here?
I feel like my back posture is slowly getting worse and worse.
It sucks.
I hate it.
But you can watch it.
Yeah, I blew my fucking back out already.
I think my back posture is just getting worse and worse from this.
I'm taking a shitload of painkillers that I got over to the counter.
So we're fucking racked out.
I saw him do it.
Is there any kind of foods you really want to try while you're here?
I'm curious.
Dude, Wagu, okay?
I want Wagyu.
I want to fucking bite into the ass of a.
I want to go to Kobe.
Okay.
Okay.
And I want to fucking bite into a cow's ass.
You know, actually.
Do they let you do it?
If you pay to win?
I was actually going to tell you.
Yeah, probably.
Oh, no, kidding.
Yeah, no, you can't do that.
Yeah, that does sound good.
Maybe if you buy the cow first, I feel like this.
Do you consider that like a very illegal thing to do?
They don't even let you do it.
I would assume they, yeah, I would assume they would.
You know, the best beef is not actually in Kobe, though.
There's another area that's won the Beef Olympics multiple times.
Which one is it?
It's called Miyazaki.
It's in Kyushu.
It's way further down.
And every five years, they have the Beef Olympics where every area will send their shit.
Is that where the olive one is?
The olive wagyu?
Isn't that like a thing?
That's a thing as well.
Yeah.
I think they, I don't know where they grow that one, but they send, you know, every region will send their best fighting.
We're talking into your five dogs.
I feel like if you go to any A5 in Japan is going to be better than anything you eat in America.
Yeah, I mean, most of the beef you'll eat here is imported.
So like all the good stuff is like the Wagyu is like, that's all the cows they grow.
But a lot of meat they import, chicken, lamb, beef.
So much of it's imported from like Ireland, Australia.
Wait, really?
Yeah, so much.
Yeah.
Wait, I thought the food, the meat quality here is like excellent in comparison to other countries.
I did not realize that they like fucking straight up.
That's like if it's the good stuff, right?
Like obviously fish is the thing they care most about in terms of like, you know, if you go to the shittiest sushi place, you'll get great sushi.
Like way better quality than anything you'll get in America or the UK, obviously, for way cheaper.
But meat, you know, a lot of the cheap meat that you get is imported.
But the really nice stuff, the wagyu all that, that's all Japanese.
Yeah, that's what I want that.
Want the fucking katsu sando.
I want the okay, yeah.
You should go to there's a store and should be able to do it.
You had one of those this morning.
Well, the sandos I had is like 7-Eleven shit, which by the way, speaking of sandos, sandos, I got one that I want you and all of us to try.
I do not want to try it.
It's a pineapple kiwi one.
You had a water.
You have it here.
Yeah, I do have it here.
We'll bring it out in a second.
And we'll try it out together.
It's getting awful.
Why would I want that?
Dude, you've never had it.
It sounds like it's the best flavor.
Yeah.
His san tomi is a traditional Japanese, the classic flavor.
Yeah.
This is not the classic.
Everyone loves it in Japan, apparently.
They hate sandwiches so much that they just started putting cream and fruit in it.
It's disgusting.
Wait, that's exactly what it is.
Yeah, that is a crazy thing.
I think that's just so nasty.
Yeah.
And they cut the crust off.
I hate that.
You like the crust?
I love the crust.
That's weird, bro.
What the?
That's the best part.
Because then you get like that little tug.
You get that little bite when you bite into the sandwich.
And I don't dislike the crust, but it's not like something I look forward to.
Yeah, what the fuck is this?
It's like something you abide by.
You're like, yeah, whatever.
You Americans don't know what it is.
It's kind of like, if it's there, it's there.
If it's not, I'm not going to go there.
That's crazy that you said you prefer the crust.
That's weird.
Crust is the best part.
You'd be like bullied in high school if you were like, give me the crust, please.
I want the crust.
I want the crust.
You guys want the crust.
Yeah, you should feel at home here because the bread's also shit, too.
You should enjoy it.
What the fuck?
I'll have you know, sir.
I watched Paolo's Panko factory owner video, and it seems like the bread is excellent.
The bread's trash here.
It's so bad.
That's crazy.
Actually, you're right.
Asian cultures, for the most part, I feel like their bread is.
They don't know how to do bread or cheese.
It's like the and chocolate.
Yeah, the chocolate that we had.
I know cheese isn't super bad.
Cheese is so bad here.
So bad.
It's weird because, like, if you go a little bit more west, like Mongolia and onward all the way to fucking Turkey, all the Turkic cultures, incredible cheese.
Because like, we grew up with cheese.
You put, well, not even cheese, but like yogurt.
We put it in everything.
Like all the nomadic tribes that...
I mean, it was also just a, I guess, in that kind of geo area, it's like, how do you preserve all the milk you had?
You just turn it into cheese because it lasts forever as cheese.
Speaking of which, we got some stuff here.
Okay.
Our homeowner graciously left us like some fruits.
Yeah, Isatan fruits.
Yeah, yeah.
The expensive fruits.
This is a very, very Japanese thing.
Bro, fruits have fucking cards that come with them, like Polomon.
What the fuck are those?
Like, do you know these?
No, I have no idea what this is, but like, it's very common, right?
Because in Japan, there's a lot of anxiety about everything.
And so what's the, you know, if you're buying someone a gift, it's like, oh my God, I don't know what they need, right?
What's the one thing?
So you get them fruit because everyone's like, oh, everyone knows fruit's expensive.
Everyone knows it's high quality.
And, you know, they'll eat it.
So you don't have to worry if it'll go to waste or if it's a bad gift because they'll probably eat it.
This chocolate was dog shit.
I'll tell you that right now.
The sucker chocolate.
I ate all of it.
You ate all of it.
So no one else is going to be able to control it.
I saved you.
I saved you the trouble.
I was so honorable eating all the chocolate.
What were we going to do before you ate that chocolate?
I just don't know.
I have the kiwi and pineapple sando for you, which I'm ready to try them.
I'll try.
I mean, I'll try anything.
This is a massive apple.
So, yeah, I feel like the way they package this means it's expensive.
Yeah, right?
I've seen it.
I've seen like videos of everything.
That is a huge.
And I do want to try it.
Like, I want to try it if there's a lot of stuff.
This is what a normal sized hand.
I'll do it because in his hand.
Marsh, if you can bring us like a knife in his hand and a plate, and we'll try it.
This is massive.
This is like an incredibly expensive apple.
I think, what is it called?
You asked your friend how much it was.
Yeah, it's a three-foot.
The box is $30 for fucking four fruits.
It's like round like eight bucks.
Yeah, which is just around eight bucks.
Crazy because I like you know this is the perfect apple like it is perfectly spherical.
Okay, like I don't know how to it has a sticker on it.
Yeah, I mean it looks just like it looks like an apple you'd see in like one of those staged yeah which is why I'm excited to try it out.
It's gonna taste like an apple.
Do you think it'll be better than a regular like just the apple we go to the grocery store?
It's like a dollar.
Maybe slightly better, but like marginally like not like 500% increase on price.
But it'll be better.
I think it's more so the shape of it that makes it so expensive.
Because like remember, fruits, there's a lot of probability at play there when you're growing fruits.
I've seen a square watermelon.
Do you see that?
I've never had one.
I've never had one.
You've never had it?
I don't even know.
I've never seen them for seven.
There's like seedless ones too.
Yeah.
Oh, wow.
Here we go.
Oh, my goodness.
Take this off.
Is Azan going to cut it up?
Yeah.
A regato.
Azan.
Did I do that right?
Yeah, it was good.
I feel like Hassan's got a cool name.
Azanabi.
Azanabi.
Hasan San.
Isn't that cool to say?
Hey, yeah, what do you do in that situation?
My name is Hassan.
Hassan-san?
Like, what the fuck?
No, you don't call yourself San.
No, I mean, but if someone else said, I'll say like Hassan-san.
Yeah.
Hassan San.
Which is actually kind of a mouthful.
Yeah.
Or normally, if you're being very, very formal, they'll say your last name.
There's a sound.
It seems like a very sharp knife.
Right.
Seems like a knife.
Can we zoom in on Hassan cutting this?
Yeah, I'm going.
That didn't seem safe, but...
Like Zeus cracking open a small child's head.
You know, most people put it on the flat.
Yeah, like, like, yeah, yeah, I'm just trying to make sure you don't hurt yourself somehow.
Kind of thing.
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It's going to be all right.
It's going to be all right.
And then a lot of people like to cut out that center, like diagonal, diagonal.
Yeah.
I'm going to do that.
I don't know if I'm describing this.
I'm just trying to.
It's like, I can hunter, how many times do you think Hassan has cut an apple?
I feel like you've never cut an apple.
That is what I was going to say.
This is the first time I've ever cut an apple.
That is what I was going to say, but I don't.
I don't buy into it or you just don't eat apples.
I don't eat any fruit whatsoever.
I hate fruit.
I'm a veg guy myself.
What?
I'm a vegetable guy.
I don't eat much fruit either.
I eat vegetables, but not fruit.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
RIP Hassan's hands, dude.
Oh, God.
I fear enough.
Oh, it's four pieces.
Yeah, we'll just let's see.
Give me a little.
Don't want him to hurt himself.
Bottom one?
Thanks.
All right.
Itadaki mas.
That was a good one.
That was good.
That was good.
Thank you.
Yeah, this is a normal.
This is normal.
That's a good apple.
This is so normal.
I mean, it's a good apple, though.
This is literally just a normal apple.
This is so normal.
100% is the price that it is because of its shape.
And color.
Because it looks good on a.
I mean, it's a good apple.
It's a good apple.
I don't know if it's worth.
It's a juicy apple.
It's a good apple.
It's very girthy.
That's probably important.
I'm telling you, it's the size of it.
I'm not going to drink all of these.
No.
Okay.
That's where the Patreon paywall content where we're going to try it naked in the onsen.
Okay.
What?
Do you have an onsen?
I'm sure.
That's a sauna.
The little sauna thing.
Legally, to be an onsen has to have a bunch of minerals and stuff.
They're very strict about it.
Legally, it has to have a bunch of minerals.
It's all about the bunch of naked salary men.
One time I was in a hotel and I was like, oh, where's the onsen at?
And she freaked out.
She's like, no, it's not an onsen.
It's just a center.
Which means public bath.
And I was like, okay.
I was just kind of just asking what the bath was at.
I don't know why they're, yeah, they really care about it.
I went in an acid one one time.
It was a pH of two.
What?
An acid one?
It was a very like sulfuric onsen.
And when you come out of the bath, like your skin goes already pink, and all the oil gets stripped.
So you touch your skin like this, and you just like it won't move because there's no oil, like no natural oil.
So why did you get it?
Like, is this good?
Yeah.
I just figured, fuck it.
Like, why not?
That's probably like the deepest cleanse I'll ever have to do.
I'll just Stefan some acid.
What the fuck?
I'll just go Stefan.
So when that came out, you can see his red fucking muscle and like the top layer of like thin oil and skin just gets destroyed.
It's like one of the Titans from Attack on Titan.
Yeah, steaming in the city.
Steaming and skins off.
That's cool.
You just brought up anime, which is, of course, an important subject.
What's sort of Connor specialty?
Not mine.
Out of the Trash Taste podcast, I know the least.
I know the least.
You want me to do that?
You go, you go.
All you.
I'm not a big Apple guy.
It's too starchy.
Yeah.
You are a honeyme connoisseur.
An otaku.
If you will.
I don't know about that.
Yeah.
You're not an otaku.
We have a whole podcast.
We don't talk about anime.
We never talk about it.
After the fifth episode, they stop talking about anime.
The name of the podcast is Trash Taste.
I'll be on it as well.
I'll be coming out later.
Why was the name Trash Taste?
It'll be out in a while.
It's a Trash Taste because you have bad taste?
Yeah, because we all have terrible opinions.
What's your worst opinion on anime?
My worst opinion?
Yeah.
I got to think about anime you might know.
You secretly like Lolly.
Okay.
No, no, no.
What's next?
What's the second worst?
Have you seen 86?
I didn't like 86.
I said it was bad, and people didn't like that.
People got really angry.
What is 86?
It's a political anime about.
Oh, that was initial deep.
Like the 86 initial?
Oh, yeah, I guess so.
What is a political anime?
It's about how there was a civilization that was at war, and they didn't realize they told the civilization that the people were fighting, that mechs were fighting for them.
You're literally describing Attack on Titan.
Yeah, but it was literally just people in the like a different race of people fighting in these robots.
They didn't want to let them in the city and they made them fight in the robots.
You want to know something that I always say that I 100% believe is like truthful and yet it freaks anime people out?
What?
Attack on Titan is a mecha anime.
No, it's not.
Yes, it is.
I'm willing.
Okay, Lolly Thing was a joke.
The Lolly Thing was a joke.
I will debate Trash Taste on this.
But I guess they're like, they're sort of mechanical.
I will call it Lolly.
I have PowerPoints ready to go.
You know what Mech means?
Power points.
Yeah, a mecha.
Mecha.
Is it like a mechanical mechanical?
No, Listen, listen.
Listen.
Hassan was ready for this.
I read by the look on his face.
He was ready for this restriction.
Should I wait for yourself?
You can just wait for Trash Taste if you want to save it.
I'm just going to give you some of the talking points ahead of time.
All right, go ahead.
Okay, what about Evangelion then?
That's a mecha anime.
Interesting.
Because they're mechs.
That's really interesting you say that because they are also organic.
But they're mainly robotic.
Robotic.
Interesting.
Attack on Titan is a flesh mecha.
Yeah, it can be a flash mecha.
It's a flesh mecha.
It's a mecha anime.
Conceptually speaking, it is a mecha anime in the same exact, in the same exact way that like Gundam.
Did you start your Twitch career talking about anime and then it wasn't working out and then you're like, fuck, I'm a pivot to something I can do?
No, but it's so outrageous.
I could survive in politics.
My shit takes a bit of time.
To be fair, like that is my one weeb-like quality is that I just have these opinions and they're very strongly held.
Are you afraid to admit you're a weeb?
I'm not a weeb.
I don't know why you're saying that.
You are a fucking weeb.
You're sitting here talking about that.
There are lots of mecha anime.
There's nothing weebier than mecha anime.
He's out of his mind.
He's just saying that.
I'm so cool and not a weeb at all.
What's wrong with admitting you like anime?
I don't understand.
Just admit you like anime.
Just say you like anime.
I don't even like it.
I watch it at gunpoint.
People are forcing you.
You tell me you watch Vinland saga you watched.
You were naming off shows a lot.
Like you have to be an anime fan.
Trigon remastered.
Nobody watches Trigon unless they're an anime fan.
Dude, it is so good.
You're a weeb.
You're a fucking weekend.
No, you're a web.
You're getting this out of me.
That's why you came to Japan.
Okay, you tell me if the Crunchville Anime Awards was hosted in like, I don't know, Thailand, you'd go.
No, you wouldn't go.
You're like, it's in Tokyo?
Let's go.
I don't know what it is.
It's a bashful on Thailand.
Town's amazing.
I'm just trying to name a city.
I'm just, I don't know what you're talking about.
Exactly.
I would definitely go.
No, I wouldn't because I'm not an anime fan.
There you go.
I wouldn't go.
You are an anime.
I would not go because I'm not a fan of anime.
I am not.
It's okay.
You're in the home of the weebs.
You're allowed to admit it.
Yeah, I don't know what you're talking about.
It's such a cliche, but also, yes, 100%.
No, it's a meme.
It's a meme.
I joke about how I'm not a weeb, even though you certainly are.
Yeah, you want to cut it?
I'll just eat it.
Okay.
Damn.
Why are you good at it?
What are you doing?
You're just leaving.
Must be a good act.
Second.
He's just left to eat the apple off camera.
He'll be back soon.
He doesn't think it's worth the markup, but it's not a good idea.
None of the fruits are worth the markup.
No.
Ever.
Where were we talking about?
Oh, yeah.
I'm not a weeb.
And it's, you know, it's fine that you're just saying that because you want me to be cringe like you want to.
What do you think is the top three anime?
I actually don't know.
I was thinking about this because Luda, I think, was like winning, like he was going to get toys for everybody or something.
He asked me, like, what are your top three?
Yeah, he was doing my crane game video against YouTubers.
And he fucking did not give me anything, I don't think, because I told him my top three are like pretty basic.
I said Samurai Champ Blue.
Okay.
I said Cowboy Bebop, obviously.
Okay, good choice.
And then, fuck, what was the other one?
What?
Full metal?
No, I wouldn't say full metal.
Full metal is great.
Full metal is great, but I wouldn't say it's on my top.
I think, what do I really like?
I think I said mob psycho, but he was like...
Mob Psycho is good.
I like Mob Psycho.
What else?
But it wasn't in my top three.
I can't remember my thing.
They didn't have any of these figures.
They had none of these figures.
It was mainly all Dragon Ball, REM.
Rem is always, always available, which is good because I like REM.
Rem?
Rem from ReZero.
Do you know ReZero?
No.
You know the bluehead anime mage you see everywhere?
No.
She always in the Kran game places, she always has a figure.
It doesn't matter what time of year, what anime's hot, she always has a section because she just sells.
And they'll say, obviously, Chainsaw Man, there's so many chainsaws.
Oh, I said Attack on Titan was my last one.
That's a good choice.
Oh, you like Attack on Titan?
Is it because it's super political?
Yeah, I mean, I like it because it's the only mecha anime that I can actually enjoy watching.
I actually hate mecha anime.
Yeah, I mean, mecha is probably one of the least popular categories because it's often very drawn out, very political.
I do like the politics, though.
Yeah, I mean, it's definitely the most political of most of the anime genres.
Because Slice of Life is like nothing and most show animals doesn't have any.
Yeah.
It's like people being perverted and killing demons.
Yeah, it is normally how it is.
Yeah, it's like titties and superpowers are the two things.
So, you know, those things do really well in Japan.
Yeah, no, I definitely, I mean, it does, I like it.
It's crazy, right?
Because Chainsaw Man is considered like a show for like teenagers and kids.
And that shit is like horny.
Yeah.
If that was, if, if, like, I feel like if American politics actually figured out what anime was, we'd be having like Senate meetings being like, in Chainsaw, man, Makima lets Denji touch her boobs.
Is this really what we want our kids to be watching?
You know what I mean?
It's good.
It's good that they're not talking about it.
Lose it, they would, they see video games.
Oh, my goodness yeah I, I uh.
I mean that's partially what a lot of like weebs in America say.
They like anime, uh over because, like they, they're like oh, it's not corrupted by western liberalism, like that's why I like it, because it's not, it's not liberal bullshit.
And it's like yeah, you're just a pervert dog like like you're just, you're just saying, like you want, like an anime, possibly made by a pedophile, like convicted well, not really convicted, but like a pedophile, that's what you like about this.
It's fine.
Well yeah, I mean there's there's, there's been uh, a few famous cases where stuff like that has happened.
Yeah, wasn't Raronic Engines like author?
Uh, i'm not too familiar with it, but I believe so.
I, I don't know, though I I didn't keep up with it much like there was a recent really popular manga that got cancelled called Act Age.
It was about like acting and like they turned it into like a battle manga.
It was about acting and auditioning and stuff um, and then the guy I believe i'm not 100 sure he either sexually harassed someone on a train or tried to do something, and then they just cancelled the manga.
That's it for sexual harassment on the train.
I'm surprised it might have been.
I think it's pretty much.
I don't know if folks check it.
Japan is going too woke.
Okay, somebody needs to stop this.
There is like weird double standards.
Like a voice actor in um, have you seen Jiu-jitsu Kaisen?
Uh yes, the main bad guy uh he, I believe uh is not.
They're not reprising his role because he found out that he was cheating on his wife or something.
Oh that's, I mean.
I mean like obviously not great, but yeah, but they let other crimes kind of slide and it's kind of weird how they decide.
Well, I say other crimes, not even a crime, but it's obviously not socially acceptable.
Oh oh, you're saying they actually are, are firing him.
They're firing him.
So you cheated.
That's crazy.
They were like you cheated on your wife with an adult woman, you're fired.
Which I want to point out and and you may not know this about Japan, but like I don't know if this is all of Asia, but Japan has like a really weird cheating culture uh, where cheating is kind of like I suppose in our western sense uh, it would be considered cheating, but sometimes they don't see it as cheating.
It's really weird.
It's such a bizarre conversation sometimes, you know, because a lot of men will, will go to Soap lands, if you know what that is, and they don't see that as cheating.
What is a soap?
What is it?
Soap Land?
It's a kind of a brothel.
Oh okay uh, with bridal yeah yeah sorry, there's so much weird stuff to talk about.
No, I love this dude.
Give me more of this.
Yeah because um, in Japan uh, prostitution is illegal.
It's legal, is illegal oh, it's illegal, but there's just so many ways to get.
Is what illegal in like, most places?
There's a lot of places you can get it and they, they advertise it.
It's really interesting because like, I mean escorting, which is like technically a form of sex work, is also like revered, though at the same time no, like geishas don't?
They're not, it's not sexual, but geishas, geishas are, but even I think modern geisha are.
I, for my understanding, are not, don't do any of that kind of stuff anymore.
Yeah um no, it's more like a, like a therapist, almost.
From what I understand, they just entertain you.
They like they're supposed to be good at singing, dancing and and all that stuff, and then they just drink with you um, and you pay a lot of money.
Have you done one of the uh, the things I wanted to see if I could like possibly stream it even maybe I.
I know they're very, very protective Yeah, very protective about everything with anything to do that, and also they're normally booked up a lot and they're very expensive.
I'm like a lot of money, like at least five to six figures.
I think yeah, what wait?
What Jesus, what the fuck?
Okay, that's like yes no, in dollars.
From my understanding, I again, I've never done, I've never been tried, because I personally I don't find the whole geisha aspect very interesting.
It's not something I really care about much.
I care about it from.
I mean, I'm very pro-sex work, I care about the history of it, I care about the culture surrounding it.
That's why I was like fascinated and and wanted to yeah um, wanted to yeah, possibly interview someone.
You should go to the Soap Land, just check it out, just no no no no, I've been to like I'm very open about this.
Like you know, I've been to Britain.
I mean I dated a porn, I dated a sex worker.
So like I, I'm very open-minded about that sort of thing.
I do think that, like you know, there needs to be regulations surrounding it.
Well definitely, it's kind of like a, you know they kind of.
It's like a hush hush hush, don't talk about it.
Yeah, like they, they know it, everyone knows it exists.
But you can also hire like a friend for the day.
Oh yeah yeah, I've done a video where I've rented a boyfriend for the day.
You rented a boyfriend for the day, rented a boyfriend for a day.
How much he loves you.
Wait no no no, it's just, he rented a boyfriend for the day.
His name is Ludwig.
We held hands.
No yeah, I rented one.
Um uh, because there was a company, the one that I don't know.
If you ever watched that Conan video uh, not the Conan video, but I have seen.
I have seen rent a boyfriend, rent a girlfriend videos in Japan.
Yeah, you can, they're pretty open about it.
They'll do it.
It's kind of expensive, they'll hold your hand, they'll do all that stuff.
My understanding is that and this goes with like, because they have host clubs as well is that you, you can't like, you can't explicitly pay for sex, but the, the expectation is that if you work and you keep hiring up their services for long enough, it's like a sugar daddy eventually.
Yeah, it's.
It's like a whole weird thing, because I asked.
I did a video where I worked in a host club as well and I spent these guys you, you asked them how much the fuck you know I was.
Because they're really, they're really candid.
Right, and when you meet someone who's really candid and open, in Japan it's very rare.
So more often than not it's like, okay, I'll take the opportunity, I'm just gonna ask you everything and anything you don't want to tell me.
Just, you just say no, right?
And I asked the guy.
I was like, so how does it, how does it work with?
Like you know, if you if, because the girls will come to the host clubs and they'll spend lots and lots of money and more often than not, the guys will then take the girls out for dates a lot of the time.
And he's like, yeah, sometimes if you have a client you really want to keep, you have to.
You have to keep giving stuff in the hopes they keep coming back.
It's very predatory, it's very weird, it's so odd, because their whole thing is they try and get you to fall in love with them, but they're still paying you.
It's so odd.
It's so odd.
Yeah, I mean, it's like it's, it's like I I, what what's actually odd about it is that there's fleet female clientele and the men are doing it, because usually what you're describing is like sugar babies and sugar daddies, like it's very commonplace, even in America, where prostitution is also illegal yeah and, and like way more illegal than Japan is.
I would say in the sense that um well, I guess there's strip clubs.
Do you, do they have strip clubs here?
Yeah, Yeah.
What's that like?
Have you ever been?
I've ever been.
No, I don't think I've no, I've never been to one.
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I've been to be mid.
There's them because it's more popular.
It's way more popular to have girls' bars, which are just bars where I guess attractive looking girls.
So is the muscle girls bar like, would that fit under that category or is that different?
That would, ah, that one's so normal.
A typical girl's bar works is that you rock up and they'll say, hey, this is the price for an hour.
And that includes the drinks.
So it would be like 60 bucks for an hour.
But then you get all you can drink in that time.
And the idea is that this was to talk to you and kind of interact with you and flirt with you and make you, you know, so I'll be like, wow, Ahsan, so beautiful.
You're so attractive.
But they probably would say that to you there.
Khan gets that for free.
Yeah, yeah, he gets that for free.
Yeah, I was going to say this.
But let's say you're a, let's say you're a 55-year-old man.
Let's say you're me.
Oh, yeah.
A person that girls certainly don't say that about.
You chose yourself.
I was feeling like, how do you end up in this place?
I'll send you the latest.
I'm just feeling really bad.
Insane that you're just saying this right now.
With a serious event.
I'm just feeling really weak at all.
I'm like, man, I wish I felt cool.
Is that the feeling like people go in?
I guess so.
Yeah.
I mean, they just gas you up.
I guess neither of you guys understood, right?
Neither of the jigga chads here under.
Yeah, Connor doesn't get it either.
He definitely doesn't.
He's the Rizzler.
Yeah.
I've heard.
The Rizzler.
He has white boy swag.
We've already established.
I don't know what that means.
Think about it.
Like you are a 55, 60-year-old Japanese man, right?
You have like two kids over one because you're in Japan probably.
You have kids and you're going to...
Maybe you hate your job.
I think that's literally the clientele.
Is that not weird?
I think if I was married with kids.
No, no, that's totally.
No, you are describing the target market for someone who would probably purchase these services.
If you're married with kids, you go to these bars and pay for that.
The girls will just talk to you.
And again, this is nothing sexual as well.
These are very common bars.
They just like gas you up.
Yeah, it's honestly like.
And you can talk to them about your problems and stuff.
It's basically not.
Wait, what?
I've never done that.
Everything I've read up on this, and I've done certainly a lot of reading on this because I think it's fascinating considering the long history of it.
Yeah, I mean, it's very ingrained in the culture to have this kind of stuff you can purchase.
Like, I'll give you guys a crazy example of this.
In the Netherlands, the government subsidizes sex work where as a social good, you can offer your sex work services to someone who is disabled.
And the government literally gives people who are disabled money to be able to hire sex workers.
For what purpose?
I don't know what the exact terminology is, but basically if you have like a disability, like you're paraplegic or you have like some kind of even, I think even like PTSD and different kinds of like chronic chronic mental disorders, like you can literally hire sex workers who are willing and able to consensually do this sort of thing.
And the government actually subsidizes it.
Like they give you money for it.
When that's like, and that's an insane concept to think about from where we're standing because you're like, what the fuck?
Like, that's wild.
This definitely sounds crazy.
Yeah, it sounds crazy, but like when it becomes so ingrained in the culture that like it is seen as yet another service that you can purchase.
And a lot of people find that to be distasteful or they get angry at it.
And it's like hard to even comprehend for many.
And I'm fascinated by it personally.
I think that that's like.
So you would try it out if you were there.
I mean, I did go there and I did.
No, I mean, I did go.
I did go to the Netherlands.
I didn't try it out because like I'm, I don't, I don't see it as like, it's not for me.
I totally understand people and why they would do it.
I have been to brothels before.
I, you know, like I said, I dated a sex worker.
Updated sex workers and um I I, I get it, but I don't personally um, I don't think it sounds a little weird for me too.
It's just not for me, but i'm not, but i'm not in the business of being like oh dude, you can't do it either.
You know what I mean?
Um yeah, especially if people are consenting to do it, there's there's like a tailor level for everything you want here like, if you want uh, more intense flirtiness and potentially more, then you can go to like a host or hostess club and that's typically a lot more flirting uh, whereas the girls bars are just more chatting.
It's a lot more chill than it sounds.
It just sounds kind of scummy because it's girls bar.
Oh, it's a girl's bar yeah, kind of does, but it's, but it's fine, it's just a bar and it's chill.
How common are there?
Like oh, everywhere they'll be so many.
Would we be like, would we just walk to one or something, like it's that close, okay?
So you're now asking like you want to try it out.
Oh no, I don't want to.
I'm just i'm trying to figure out how prevalent it is, like he's like accidentally I don't want to accidentally, I don't want to mean like, how common is like like, are there more of them than like Starbucks or something?
Or like yes, I feel like the fact that you even think about it is already like surprising to me.
I mean, there'll be areas where it's like hundreds within like a two-minute walk.
That's kind of.
I mean, that's cool from a fascination perspective, like I.
I do find that fascinating, like the red light district was, was I would definitely put it as like a very interesting experience in Amsterdam where you're, like where you're walking, and there are windows full of sex workers.
That's kind of crazy and there's light designation.
Uh, not a lot of male sex workers there, but there are some trans sex workers, for example, that have like a different color, um and uh, they're just, you know, waiting on the window and then someone hires them for like 15 minutes or whatever.
They fuck, and then they clean it up and then you know, the guy walks out next person, which is so streamlined and so crazy for me, like looking at it from the outside.
But you know, it is just, it's part of the culture.
Yeah, I mean, I think more regulation is never a bad thing.
You know, make it uh safer for everyone involved yeah uh, but obviously that'll never happen here.
They're too conservative bro, that they won't even fucking.
Oh my god, they won't even fucking.
Aging Society Scarecrows00:09:54
Uncensor the, the pussies and penises in Jab.
Dude, it's fucking.
I I don't even like Jab, I even mean Japanese adult video.
It's all blurred.
Okay, it's all blurred.
All the penises and vaginas are blurred in Jaz.
Uh, Japanese adult video.
It's really funny because, like it's one of those things where, like no one's gonna step up and be like we should uncensor this.
You know what I mean?
Who the fuck is gonna be the politician to be?
Like i'm running on, i'm running on uncensoring the dicks and pussies in Jab, but like I feel like everyone universally would be like yeah no, that's actually a good idea, but no one will come out and say that they should do that.
Uh, I gotta come here.
Stuff doesn't change.
I want, I want to come here and talk to like the the uh, the politicians be like listen, this is what it's called an earmark.
Okay, you just secretly add that into a tension bill yeah, in a larger comprehensive, like anti-censorship bill right, and then you put that in there sneakily and then you let it slide that way.
Boom, all of a sudden.
Don't they do that?
I feel like they have bigger laws.
They need to fix a bigger, like, yeah, they have a lot more problems.
That's the one Hassan's that'll change his life the most.
There's some other stuff they got, like, there's no dual custody laws in Japan.
What does that mean?
Like, if you divorce, like, for kids?
You can't, one person gets to have it.
Oh, why am I saying it?
So, one person just gets smoked.
One person just gets the gets to the child.
Yeah.
That's insane.
There's also.
There's no joint custody.
No, no joint custody.
What the fuck?
That's wild.
There's no...
You can't have dual citizenship.
So if you are raised in Japan, you can't hold two passports.
If you have a Japanese passport, you're legally not supposed to have another passport.
So it's illegal for you to have a different passport if you're a Japanese citizen.
Yeah.
You're supposed to give up one or the other.
Which is also a really odd law that is very Japanese.
Very xenophobic.
Yeah.
Also, if two foreigners have a baby in Japan and the baby can't get Japanese citizenship, even if it's raised, born and raised here, because none of the parents are Japanese.
Yeah.
Interesting.
Whereas in America, to my understanding, if you're born in America as well, you can't.
You're born.
And most countries.
Most countries have like me, baby.
Wait, what?
Anchor baby for life.
Let's go.
But it makes sense, right?
Because it seems fucked up to be have like, if you could raise a whole kid here, it could be speak the most fluent Japanese people.
As Japanese as it can get.
And then they're like, yeah, no.
The Japanese do not like white boy swag is what we learned.
Yeah, they don't.
They don't notice that.
Which is funny to think because like, you know, it would genuinely improve the birth rates.
No, for sure.
What does this mean?
What do you mean?
Japan has a...
I know they have a low birth rate.
They have a very big problem.
Swag, fix that.
It's tough.
Oh, if they made it so that the restrictions on what it means to be, like, how difficult it is to become a Japanese citizen, that is an automatic way to immediately improve your birth rates and also immediately, you know, improve your population age.
Yeah.
Like your median age, because Japan has the very high median age.
Oh, it's super cool.
Yeah, they have a very old population, you know, which is normal.
Like, I mean, that's literally a consequence of like being an overdeveloped country, right?
But for example, a country like America has been able to, you know, avoid that by having a lot more immigration into the country and having way less restrictions, even though there are plenty of restrictions in America too, less than Japan, certainly.
Japan is one of the more restrictive countries on the planet.
There's a lot of tension, though, between the elderly population and the younger population here.
A lot of young people are unhappy.
Because it's like you, if you're born into Japan right now, right?
Like your prospects are not that great.
Like you, the economy sucks.
Just like in the U.S., where you'll never buy a house in LA.
Yeah, you definitely can't afford a house.
Your job prospects.
Yeah, right.
Your job prospects suck.
And then also you have to pay so much welfare and taxes for the sheer amount of elderly people.
Oh, because they're being taken care of by this.
So they got to be taken care of somehow.
And so it's kind of like, you know, you don't really feel like you have a fair shot.
There's like, dude, there's this guy.
I can't remember what he's called.
A friend of mine was here and he's a journalist and he was like, hey, do you know this guy?
And he linked me to this guy on Twitter who had 500,000 followers.
And one of the most famous things that he proposed was euthanizing old people.
Are you kidding me?
I'm pulling it up right now.
A Yale professor.
Yes.
This happened this past week.
This is literally one of the talking points that I wanted to bring up.
Yeah, this is a lot of people.
Which is so funny that you're mentioning that.
And it's really weird because a lot of people in Japan know this guy.
And he's a good person.
He's a Yale professor.
His name is Yusuke Narita.
And he's Japanese.
He's Japanese, but he lives in the U.S.
He lives in the U.S. He's a Yale professor and he suggested mass suicide for old people in Japan.
The article is so funny because the title is a Yale professor suggested mass suicide for old people in Japan.
What did he mean?
They were like, why did they let him cook?
I just feel like it sounds crazy.
He's very popular.
Yeah.
Very popular.
Yeah, you mentioned, yeah.
It sounds crazy, though.
I think that just goes to speak to like how annoyed young people are here with just feeling that like, man, it just feels like there's no hope.
Apparently, he faced fierce backlash and he walked back some of his comments.
I'm not surprised.
So this actually is a problem in France as well.
Well, it's not a problem per se, but it's seen as a problem because the economy under capitalism is considered a zero-sum game.
So if someone is taking up all the resources and not a productive force anymore, the other people that are productive with less job opportunities are seen as taking on the shittier end of the bargain.
So which is why in France they want to increase the retirement age to, I believe, 75.
And that has caused a lot of chaos in France where like people are fucking burning down streets and shit.
Yeah.
Understandably.
Wait, so they want it to be lower or well, yeah, they wanted to keep it at 65.
I mean, like, they're like, I don't want to fucking work till I'm 75.
It's bullshit.
Oh, that's true.
Same in Japan as well.
They're trying to raise it because people just don't die.
And it's really, I mean, there's a lot of people who are above like 65 are just not going to work for the next like 20 years.
Yeah, but people generally, even though they can retire, a lot of people won't.
They'll still keep working.
You know, I think there's a lot of pride in working in Japan.
And you might get bored.
Yeah, and you might get bored, right?
And more often than not, you don't have as many relatives because a lot of the people move or they, especially if you're in the countryside.
Birth rate going down.
Yeah, yeah.
And like a lot of schools have shut.
A lot of schools have to join, like have to make one mega school for like all the schools have shut down.
It's really sad.
And then you have those like scarecrow villages.
You seen those things?
No.
No, what is their scarecrow?
That's where they are.
There's a few of them in Japan, which is weird that there's a few of them.
Basically, because the depopulation is so bad, the locals are like, right, let's do something.
So their solution was to make scarecrows of people and just plant them all around the village.
Why?
To make it seem like it seems like it's a bustle.
But it's like you're mad.
And actually, I think it has the inverse effect, right?
It just makes it creepier.
And I asked a guy who lived right next to one.
I was like, what do you think about that scarecrow village right there?
He was like, dude, it's fucking weird.
That's weird that that's right there.
Sounds really weird.
So people live in the scarecrow villages still.
They live in them, yeah.
Yeah.
And they'll just be scarecrows.
When they talk to the scarecrows, I'll be like, hey, Bob, how's it going?
They'll have like little kids modeled in scarecrows and they'll have full.
How realistic are the, like, are they very realistic scarecrows or like just a scarecrow?
I feel like.
It's like sticks from League of Legends kind of scarecrow.
It's a scarecrow.
So it's like it's just a bunch of rags and they put it on.
Okay, so it's not very realistic.
No, but they put clothes on them and they draw faces.
So like from behind, you might actually think it's a person.
Like rural areas depopulating, everyone moving into cities, the younger generation having less job opportunities, older people not dying out as they normally would and continuing to be a burden, I guess, on the social welfare system.
I don't consider that, by the way.
I don't think that that's the case.
Is literally a byproduct of a capitalist organization of the economy where your productivity is the most important asset.
Like your contribution to the productive forces is like literally the most important part of your existence, which is really interesting.
And there's really no solution to it, which is why you see in a place like Japan where capitalism is on like super drive.
Yeah.
You have people coming out with these incredible ideas such as, why don't we just kill a bunch of old people?
Like, hey, old people, you guys should all kill yourselves.
Yeah.
It's like instead of like, you know, reorganizing the economy in a way that like, you know, we, it's, it's more need-based.
It's hard because you Japan is just a country where it's very hard to change things.
It is just so much.
But there's some good.
Like the cleanliness aspect is unironically a byproduct of Japanese culture.
You clean your own space when you're done with it.
That is actually a very collective understanding, a collectivist understanding.
I would go so far as to say some of the nationalistic sentiment is still a sense of pride.
And a sense of contributing to your community is still very much a collectivistic understanding.
For sure.
And all of that have, I think, been very positive aspects of Japanese culture that has remained in the face of all the things that you see under a capitalist organization in the economy.
Like the Ponco factory, going back to the Paulo video.
I fucking love this pancake.
I fucking love Paolo.
Why do you like this Panko factory?
I'm going to be honest with you.
I'm going to be honest with you.
I was trying to get Paolo on the podcast.
Nationalistic Pride vs Capitalism00:02:05
I couldn't, so that's why you're here.
I believe it.
I believe it.
I believe it, man.
Oh, my God.
Yeah.
I just wanted to come and look at my bathrooms.
Is it not on?
He turned it on.
It was on.
I think it turned off again.
So slow.
Oh, yeah.
This is what happens when you get a fancy ass house.
Yeah, this is how it's.
Fancy controls.
You have controls in calligraphy.
Oh, it's fucking talking to you.
Uh-oh.
Yeah, I feel like my room is really warm.
Oh, here we go.
Wait, what did you press?
Also, how many hours are we at?
We're at one hour and two minutes.
Oh, let's move on to the paywall portion then.
How long is the paywall portion?
30?
Just not that long.
It was like 45 minutes or so.
Why do you want to leave?
No, no, I'm just wondering.
You're trying to fucking get what are you doing later?
Are we going to hang out?
I can get dinner, but I got to work later as well.
I think I'm out of stream.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, I'm behind.
I'll come on your stream.
I don't know what to do though.
I got to figure out what I want to do.
Oh, are you leaving?
Huh?
Are you going to leave?
Oh, no, yeah.
Here, we'll cut this and then come back in here.
Okay, well, I believe that will be it for the non-paywall proportion of the broadcast of the fear and podcast.
Thank you.
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Paywall and Goodbyes00:00:31
That too.
That one's a good thing.
Yeah, RVA.
Let's go.
Saikuno, what about you?
Where can people find you?
What do you want to plug?
Well, since I'm contracted by YouTube now, only YouTube Saikuno.