Fear& - SYKKUNO & HASANABI INFILTRATE JAPAN TO PAY CDAWGVA A VISIT | Fear& x Trash Taste

Episode Date: February 27, 2023

This week we are in Japan hanging out with our good pal Connor, Sykkuno fills in as guest/cohost. fights got delayed so the setup is a bit scuffed but hey we got it out on time and it looks alright and sounds good so fk it hope you guys enjoy this one ok love u bye bye now🎉BONUS CONTENT🍾 🌟PATREON - https://www.patreon.com/FearAnd🎧 AUDIO PLATFORMS - https://linktr.ee/fearand♥ follow our guest! ♥Connor - https://twitter.com/cdawgvaSykkuno - https://twitter.com/sykkuno✰ follow Fear&! ✰Hasan: https://twitter.com/HasanthehunWill: https://twitter.com/TheWillNeffMarche: https://twitter.com/MarcheFear&: https://twitter.com/FearAndPod Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's like gunshots. Okay. All right. Yes. Fear end is both myself and will neff okay and soon to be cutie sinrella wait really march's 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 gonna happen i can't crouch like a you you had that down there and i was like, that's impressive how you put that down there. Are the audio levels good when I'm afar?

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 do what you do. Okay. All right. We're waiting on Sykuno to come up as well. Is he a diva? Where is he at? I don't know.

We're just chilling. I'm just always like, I'm ready to go whenever I turn out to a place. I'm filming. I'm just like, let's do it. I'm ready. Yeah, me too. I feel like I'm like I'm filming I'm like I'm ready I feel like my on is not that impressive though so maybe it's more impressive you're very energetic

like last time we hung out I was impressed at how much you just dude you can talk oh yeah I love talking I never shut the fuck up it's not great actually no that's great for everything you do that's fantastic that's what you need to do, right?

That's your job. I feel like if you need me to stream for 13 hours and talk, I can do it. But, dude, I don't know. It's not good talking. What we need you is wearing tighter Bruce Lee outfits as you use your cock to break 50 bricks in a row. Why is this what you want to talk about? 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 Ann, we're out here. We're in Tokyo. Sorry about that. I apologize. Sumimasen. Sumimasen. Dies of cringe. He's not daijobu right now, let me tell you I'm fucking daijobu

I am on crack cocaine 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 because I want to get arrested I live here

my goal is to get arrested so I stay here like forever 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 a nice-ass housing for the American prison, which is like... It's probably not as bad, but it's just like...

It can't be. I feel like we had the exact same discussion the last time we hung out, where I said it's pretty bad, and you were like, no, American prison is 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 pretty, 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? Why do you just move here? Why do you have to get arrested? Too long? It's like cooler. Yeah, it's like fast. Okay, all right. is. 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 changed the rules recently so that if you're wealthy, you can kind of just come in a lot easier, which you're obviously not wealthy, right? 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. Everyone was like, that's not helpful at all. That only applies to like a few thousand people at most. That was called a PewDiePie provision. Yeah, they changed it for him. They were like, let's make it happen. Yeah, it was like COVID as well.

They eased the regulations to come into japan if you were coming by private jet um which is uh oh thank god so yeah you you're good right first of all how the fuck do you fly into japan with a private jet you can't do that from america uh 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 that. 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 had to get a private... I'm just talking. I thought you knew because you guys are homies.

Be honest. You're tight. You're tight with him. You're tight with Pewds. You call him Felix. Everyone calls him Felix. You call him Feely Feel. Be honest.

You're the godfather. You're the godfather. You're the godfather of a child. Breaking news right here, right now. Connor Dog, Virginia. What are you trying to get me into? God parent to Felix Kjellberg. I'm trying to disrupt the Gaijin Network. Why?

I don't know. We have a good thing going on. I know. network why i don't know we have a good thing going on i know you guys like you guys so i was saying this earlier on stream but it's like um this is a meme and um or at least like this is something i've also observed with my black friends in america but in predominantly white spaces when you know 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 gonna 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 yeah white guys are like ugh fucking yeah 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 move from America to LA, right? America to LA? Sorry, sorry, fuck, the UK to, sorry, America to LA. Well well it's still very different um if i'm 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 so you don't say so i think that uh 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, 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 cramped. 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 a conversation

with Japanese people. Dude, he's so fucking annoying. Oh, my God. But we did have a great time. Literally, when we were in San Diego, he would do that. Wait, what? Literally, he was like, dude, okay, we're at TwitchCon

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 ubers i do like the scooters. I know it's bad because they're terrible. He was just scooting around everywhere. We went to a local place and it was

surrounded by fans. He didn't even get the local experience of San Diego, whatever the fuck that is. I kind of want that too. My point is, in Japan I feel like that's acceptable. When are you taking me to local bars? You said you don't drink much there. I feel like that's acceptable. Yeah. So when are you taking me to a local bar? You said you don't drink much, though.

I'll fucking drink, dude. Okay. I'll drink. Yeah, Golden Gai. What's that? It's a very famous area where there's a ton of tiny bars shoved into this one square block of streets. Can we stream it? You can.

Some places won't let you in. Some places might. So you can try. 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, すみません、配信いいですか?

配信いいですか? 配信 is live stream. Okay. 配信いいですか? いいですか is like, is it okay? Yeah. すみません、配信いいですか? Dude, come on. Come on, I'm hitting that like I'm doing voiceover work. Is it okay? Is it okay? Is it okay?

Dude, come on. I'm hitting that like I'm doing voiceover work. Oh, Jesus Christ. For Crunchyroll. You know what I mean? Indistinguishable from a real Japanese person. All right. Damn. Okay.

Yeah. If you say that, some will be like, no. 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 uh no if you say live stream they'll all say who if you if you do that they'll be like i'm sorry what can you speak japanese please um yeah a lot of them will say no but occasionally you'll get people who really chill and say yeah that's kind of how it is here you have to kind of a lot of trial and error a lot of rejection you 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 it's not 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 normie 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 pointed 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 um but that's that's how it is here you just gotta 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 that he's like man i feel like such an idiot all the time because i don't understand anything um 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 it's it's a lot it takes a while for me i i don't know i mean i i i get that anxiety a little bit but i'm i don't know as a big dude even in america i don't want to be a nuisance so i'm always like over over the top being you know courteous or trying to be courteous

that's the way to go yeah get in we already just started you're right here i've never right i've never seen a podcast where they'll just 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. In order to understand Japan better, we went to a white guy. He speaks it.

I speak it a little bit. I speak enough to get by. A lot more than us, though. You were spitting, dude. The fucking Starbucks barista was like, oh my god. The Starbucks barista was like, oh my God. The Starbucks barista was like, nani? Poro? She said, she said,

sugoi. She literally did say that. That's not even 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 and does well. Why haven't you done that? Because no one cares in Japan if you speak Japanese. You should do one of those, like white boy swag videos. No, because it's like... Listen, listen, listen.

What is that guy's name? Shaolin or something? Okay, let's flip it, right? If a Chinese guy comes to LA and starts speaking mildly good English, no one's like, whoa! This man speaks English? Leave it to a Welshmanman that is true that is actually colonialism and why english is considered the common language on the planet but like you

know what i mean like we don't fucking react no one cares because it's like nice you've that's we really appreciate that and japan's just like but like cool thank you for making an effort thank you for learning that's damn so you're saying like japan literally is on the same wavelength as like america's being like, of course you're gonna speak Japanese bitch Well, I think it's more Like that I think it's just like they don't expect you to speak it and when you do that like just pleasantly surprised They're not gonna because I don't react Like damn nice, thanks, man. 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, damn, nice. Thanks, man. I appreciate it. You made my job easier. Occasionally, I've had taxi drivers that have been like, oh, my God, thank God. They're like, thank you for speaking Japanese. I'm like, I'm in Japan. I feel like I should. It's just going to make me anxious to ever take a taxi now. They get very anxious sometimes. Me and Hassan 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 just like i still don't know he wants to flex like i don't know if you call an 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 um 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 well like not very good in comparison to everything else but like it's not very like centralized i guess 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 don't take 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 yeah 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 i want to go back to the uk and i try and get the trains and they just don't work and i love it 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 all you got. It's very bad because it's not, it doesn't go everywhere. It's not on time ever.

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're done'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 get gone. Yeah, you pretty much need your own car, or you can take expensive Ubers. It's crazy. Yeah. It was insane. It's pretty crappy. Not a fan of the tipping, that's for sure. Oh, yeah, yeah.

That's so funny. 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. Connor said they're all poor. Not poor. Not poor. I didn't word it like that. He said none of them. Call him out. He said, you know, finally.

His words were none of them make a lot of money. Yeah, you don't. He said they're fucking broke, boys. I was like, Omega Law? No. And taxes are like disgusting here. Oh, God. 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%. In California, it's a little bit. You get like income tax

and then you have residence tax, which is all like tacked on, which is also income. It's all fucked. So the reason why people 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. But also, with higher taxes come better amenities,

which is why you can live on wages that you would otherwise consider to be impossible to live in the United States of America. The taxes in California are actually almost the same the same at about 50 for the maximum so exactly the hilarious part about it is that like 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 yeah for the most part which makes it not great um for but'm rich, so I don't give a fuck. Where I grew up in the UK, 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 it actually broke down.

And it's expensive. It was a lot as well. And by the way, to clarify the way to clarify like just hop on and not pay sometimes if you oh no way you couldn't do that in wales stuff and there's like four people it's obvious you got on the bus actually yeah the rest are sheep so you're the only non-sheep here what the fuck no what i 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 like you're not taking advantage of the amenities regardless right right right i just wish that like they would still you know 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 yeah if you pay yeah yeah like if you 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 suppose 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 what do they do they'll always choose the most conservative way of doing it which sometimes is better

which is sometimes better 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 searing pain and they won't give you anything and procedures procedures that would normally be performed uh under uh like anesthesia yeah yeah in any normal country in japan they'll be like no like if you had like a like a catheter that's great you just put a fucking towel in your mouth you go bite into it well if you had like a friend of mine had uh he had to get a catheter tube put up his thing no painkillers what is that for like the peeing or whatever some people some people do pay for that privilege well in america you pay to win

right you could it's called it's called sounding it really is what you're describing what you're describing is a sexual act also known as sounding do not google that i found this out about i had planned on it i found this out about a week ago. I found this out about a week ago. It was disgusting. When you take that fucking... What is it? A metronome? March, you're a music guy. What? What's the thing that you...

Ding! It's like a... A triangle? No, it's not a triangle. It's like a stick that you put through your urethra. A tuning fork. Yes. You put through what? You take a tuning fork and you put it through your cock. It's so a it's like a stick that you put through your urethra for yeah Yeah, you put through what you're tuning for me put it through your car so nasty from the from literally the Joke back on health remember we came off the airplane uh-huh they were telling us how expensive it would be yeah if we got injured Insurance insurance. That's why. We didn't know how much money it was. No, it's nothing. It's not much. It's 750 yen.

Yeah, 750k or something. That's a lot of money. That's like 6,000 USD. That's a lot of money. 750,000. Yeah, that's what it said. They said if you broke your ribs, broke your neck, and got hit by a car. Dude, that's like free in America. $6,000 for all that?

Here's the thing. That was actually... One thing that people don't understand is that Japan is also hyper-capitalist. Yes, there's a lot of amenities and whatnot, but they certainly do love their private... There's a lot of pay-to-win stuff here. Yeah, there's a lot of pay-to-win here.

There's a lot of private shit. 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 help. We should go gamble. We can go do claws. Like with the claw machine?

Or you mean... Oh, you want to do pachinko? Wait, what's different? I don't even know what it is. Claw machines aren't gambling. That's the one where you just drop the thing and it 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 that's going to cost. I didn't know wooden teeth. I'm kidding. Every time I've gone to the... 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 cringe. The doctor's a fucking zoomer. It's cringe, you Connor. Do 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 packets of Chinese medicine. Conor said 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 a mixture. I kind of fuck with that. I like that. Just give me the drug. Give me the pill. Give me something

I can feel naughty about. This is why you're a guy. That's not very DiGiovo of you. I guess so. I guess so. Is this kind of seating common here? I feel like my back posture is slowly getting worse and worse. Yeah, this shit sucks.

I hate it, but you get used to it. The more I'm sitting here. Yeah, I blew my fucking back out already, but it's fine. 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 cracked 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, Wagyu, 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... Can they let you do it?

If you pay to win? I was actually going to tell you. Yeah, probably. No, kidding. Yeah, no. You can't do that. Yeah, that does sound a little crazy. Maybe if you buy the cow first, and then... They consider that like a very illegal thing to do.

They don't even let you near them. 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? I love that. It's in 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 strongest... 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. Their best cows. It's like sending your finest beef. I feel like if you go to... Any A5 in Japan is going to be better than anything you eat in America.

Like... Yeah, I mean, most of the beef you'll eat here is imported. So, like, all the good stuff is, like, the like the wagyu is like that's all the cows they grow but a lot of meat they import chicken lamb yeah beef so much of it's imported from like ireland australia wait really yeah so much yeah wait i thought the the food the the meat quality here is like excellent in comparison to other countries um i did not realize that they like fucking straight up that's like that's like if it's the good stuff right like yeah like obviously fish is there 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 uh for way cheaper um 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. I want the fucking Katsu Sando. I want the... Okay, yeah, you should go to, there's a store in Shibuya called...

You had one of those this morning. You're gonna have a good one. The Sando's I had was like 7-Eleven shit, which, by the way, speaking of Sando's, Sando's, 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. Do you have it here? 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 fucking awful. Why would I want that? Dude, you never had it. It sounds like it's the best flavor. Yeah.

Hisan told me it's a traditional Japanese classic flavor. It's not the classic flavor. Everyone loves it's the best flavor. Yeah. Hisan Tomy is a traditional Japanese classic flavor. It's not the classic flavor. Everyone loves it in Japan, apparently. They hate sandwiches so much that they just start putting cream and fruit in it. It's disgusting. Wait, that's exactly what it is. Yeah, that is what it is. I think that's exactly what it is.

It's so nasty. And they cut the crust off. I hate that. You like the crust? I love the crust. That's weird, bro. What the fuck? It's the best part.

Because then you get that little tug. You get that little bite when you bite into the sandwich. I don't dislike the crust, but it the crust. That's weird, bro. What the fuck? Because then you get like that little tug, you get that little bite when you bite into the sandwich. I don't dislike the crust, but it's not like something I look for. Yeah, what the fuck? It's like something you abide by. You're like, yeah, whatever. You Americans don't know bread.

It's kind of like, if it's there, it's there. If it's not, I'm not going to go on my way. That's crazy that you say 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. Well, that's America.

I want the crust. You guys don't know bread. You'd be like bullied in high school if you were like, give me the crust, please. Well, that's America. I want the crust. You guys don't know bread. You should feel at home here because the bread's also shit, too. You should go there and join it. I'll have you know, sir, I watched Paolo's Pankow factory owner video, and

it seems like the bread is excellent. The bread's trash here. That's crazy. Actually, you're right. Asian cultures, for the most part, I feel like their bread is lacking. They don't know how to do bread or cheese. And chocolate. Their bread's lacking.

Yeah, the chocolate that we had. I know cheese isn't super bad. Cheese is so bad here. So bad. It's weird because 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, 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. Our homeowner

graciously left us some fruits. Yeah, Isetan fruits. The expensive fruits. This is a very, very Japanese thing. Bro, fruits have fucking cards that come with them like Pokemon. Are these like the good fruits? Do you know these?

No, I have no idea what this is. But it's very common, right? Because in Japan, there's a lot of anxiety about everything. If you're buying someone a gift, it's like, oh my god, I don't know what they need, right? You get them fruit. So you get them fruit because everyone's like, oh, everyone knows fruit's expensive, everyone knows it's high quality,

and 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? No one else is going to be able to contest. I saved you.

I saved you the trouble. You're so honorable eating all the chocolate. What were we going to do before you ate that chocolate? I don't know how I would have known. I have the kiwi and pineapple sando for you. I'm ready to try. I'll try. I mean, I'll try anything.

This is a massive apple. So yeah, I was going to say 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 apple.

And I do want to try it. Like I want to try it. This is what a normal sized hand. I'll hold it because in his hands it doesn't look like a normal sized apple. And I do want to try it. I want to try it if there's... This is what a normal sized apple looks like. I'll hold it because in his hands it doesn't look like a knife.

Yeah, like in his hand it looks small. In a plate. And we'll try it. That's 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 $30. The box is $30 for fucking four fruits. It's like around like eight bucks.

Yeah. Which is... Just around eight bucks. Which is crazy like $8. Just around $8. Which is crazy because you know this is the perfect apple. It is perfectly spherical. It has a sticker on it. It looks like an apple

you'd see in one of those staged... Which is why I'm excited to try it out. It's going to 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, but like marginally. 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 remember, there's a lot of probability at play there when you're growing fruits. I've seen a square watermelon. You ever see that? I've never had one. I've never had one either. You've never had it? No.

I don't even know. I've never seen them for sale. There's like seedless ones too. Yeah. Oh, wow. Here we go. Thank you, sir. Oh, my goodness.

Take this off. Is Azan going to cut it up? Yeah. Arigato. Azan? Did I do that right? Yeah, it was good. I feel like Azan's got a cool name is Azan going to cut it up? Yeah. Arigato. Azan. Did I do that right? Yeah, it was good.

I feel like Azan's got a cool name. Azanabi. Azanabi. Azanabi. Isn't that, isn't that cool to say? 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 had called him. Yeah, they'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. It seems like a very sharp knife. All right. Seems like a knife. Can we zoom in on Hasan cutting this? 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 it's gonna be all right it's gonna be all right and then a lot of people like to cut out that center like diagonal diagonal yeah i'm gonna do that i don't know if i'm describing this i'm just trying to it's like a hunter how many times do you think Cassandra's cut an apple? I feel like you've never cut an apple before. That is what I was going to say. It's the first time I've ever cut an apple. That is what I was going to say,

but I didn't want to be. You just bite 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 myself.

I don't eat much fruit either. I eat vegetables, but not fruit. Oh, yeah. Yeah. I almost cut my finger. All right, Peter, Cassandra's hands, dude. Oh, God. yeah All right, Sean sounds oh God oh

Yeah, it's four pieces. Yeah, well just let's give me a little don't want him to hurt This is normal This is so normal. I mean, it's a good Apple though. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, 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. It 100% is the price that it is because of its shape and color. Mm.

Because it looks good on a... I mean, it's a good apple. Mm. 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 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 and the shape. Are we going to be trying all of these? No. Okay. That's for 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 not an onsen. It's a little sauna thing. Legally, to be an onsen, I have to have a bunch of minerals and stuff. They're very strict about it.

Legally, you have to have a bunch of minerals. It's all about the minerals. A bunch of naked salarymen. They're fucking dong hanging out. 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 sento, which means public bath. 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 sento, which means public bath. And I was like, okay. I was just kind of just asking where the bath was at. I don't know why 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 sulfuric onsen. And when you come out of the bath, like, your skin goes already pink. And all the oil gets stripped. So, like, you touch your skin like this. And you just, like, it won't move. Because there's no oil. Like, no natural oil left.

So, why would you want to do that? Is that a good thing? Like, is this good? Yeah. I just figured, fuck it. Like, why not? That's probably, like, the deepest cleanse I'll ever have in my life. Yeah, I'll just step in some acid.

Yeah, what the fuck? I'll just go step in some acid. When I came out, you could see his red fucking muscle and sinew. The top layer of thin oil and skin just gets destroyed. It's like one of the Titans from Attack on Titan. Yeah, steaming. Steaming and acidic. Steaming and skins off.

It was cool. It was a nice bath. You just brought up anime, which is, of course, an important sub-job. It's sort of Connor's specialty. It's not mine. Out of the Trash Taste podcast, I know the least. I know the least. You want me to cut it?

You go. All you. I'm not a big Apple guy. It's too starchy. You are a anime connoisseur. An otaku. If you will. I don't know about that. You have a whole podcast? We don't know about that. Yeah, you're not an otaku?

Do you have a whole podcast? We don't talk about anime. We never talk about it. What we do... People say 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. Why did you name it Trash Taste? Because you have bad taste? Yeah, because we all have terrible opinions. What's your worst opinion on anime you have bad taste? Yeah, because we all have terrible opinions. What's your worst opinion on anime? My worst opinion?

Yeah. Shit, I gotta think about anime you might know about. 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 D. Like the 86 initial D? No, no, no. 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,cha anime. No, it's not. Yes, it is.

No, it's not. Okay, the lolly thing was a joke. The lolly thing was a joke. I will debate Trash Taste on this. I mean, I guess they're sort of piloting the Titan, I guess. I have PowerPoints ready to go. You know what mech means, right? PowerPoints.

Yeah, a mecha. Mecha. Is it like a mechanical mech? No, no, no. Listen, listen. Listen. Hasan was ready for this. You can tell by the look on his face. He was ready Is it like a mechanical mech? No, no, no. Listen. Listen. Hassan was ready for this. You can tell by the look on his face.

He was ready for this response. Should I wait? Should I wait for your podcast? You can wait for fresh days 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. That's really interesting you say that because they are also organic. But they're mainly robotic. Interesting. Attack on Titan is a flesh mecha. Yeah, it could be a flesh mecha. Yeah, it's a flesh mecha.

It's a mecha anime. Conceptually speaking, it is a mecha anime in the same exact way that 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 going to pivot to something.

No. I'm so outrageous. I could survive in politics. My shit takes on less than anime. To be fair, 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 to me about the nuance of mecha anime. There's nothing weebier than mecha anime. He's out of his mind. He's just saying that. I am 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 me. You tell me you watch Vinland Saga.

You were naming off shows a lot. You have to be an anime fan. Trigon Remastered is really good. Nobody watches Trigon unless they're an anime fan. It is so good. You're a weeb. You're a fucking weeb. No, you're a weeb.

You're getting this out of me. It's weird. This is why you came to Japan. Okay, you tell me if the Crunchyroll 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 you're talking about.

That's a bash on Thailand. Thailand'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. You are an anime fan.

There you go. I wouldn't go. You are an anime fan. I would not go because I'm not a fan fan. You are an anime fan. There you go. I wouldn't go. You are an anime fan. I would not go because I'm not a fan of anime. I am not Daichobu. You're such a weeb. 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 a weeb. You want to cut it?

I'm just going to eat it. Okay. Damn. Must be a good apple. What are you doing? You're just leaving. Must be a good apple. Who just left?

He just left to eat the apple off camera. He'll be back soon. He doesn't think it's worth a markup, but it's a good apple. None of the fruits are worth a 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, like, you want me to be cringed like you. What do you think is the top three anime? I actually don't know. I was thinking about this because Ludd, I think, was, like, winning. Like, he was going to get toys for everybody or something. Like, he asked me, like, what are your top three anime? He was doing my crane game video. Yeah.

Against YouTubers. And he fucking did not give me anything. I don't think. Cause I told him my top three are like pretty basic. Uh, I said, uh, Samurai Champ Blue.

Okay. I said, uh, Cowboy Bebop, obviously. Okay. Good choice. And then fuck,

what was the other one? What? No, I wouldn't say full 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. It's such a weave. 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's good. I like Mob Psycho. What else? But it wasn't in my top three. I can't remember my third one. They didn't have any of these figures. They had none of these figures.

Well, 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 blue head anime maid you see everywhere? No. She always, in the crane game places, she always has a figure.

It doesn't matter what time of year, what anime is hot, she always has a section because she just sells. And also of year, what anime is hot, she always has a section because she just sells. And also, 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, like,

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 um i do like the politics though yeah i mean it's it's definitely the most political of most of the anime genres because like slice of life is like nothing and most shonen doesn't have any um yeah just like people being

perverted and killing demons yeah it's normally how it is. It's like titties and superpowers. Yeah. The two things. So, you know, those things do really well in Japan. Yeah, I know. I definitely, I mean, it does. I like it. It's crazy, right?

Because like Chainsaw Man is considered like a show for like teenagers and kids. And that shit is like horny. Yeah. I feel like if American politics. Yeah. If that was, 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, let's 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,

they're not talking about that. They would lose it. They would, they see video games. Oh, my goodness. Yeah. I mean, that's partially what a lot of weebs in America say they like anime over because they're like, oh, it's not corrupted by Western liberalism. That's why I like it because 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 fine yeah i mean there's there's there's been uh a few famous cases where stuff like that has happened. Yeah, wasn't Rurouni Kenshin's author? I'm not too familiar with it, but I believe so. I don't know, though.

I didn't keep up with it much. There was a recent really popular manga that got cancelled called Act Age. It was about acting, and they turned it into a battle manga. It was about acting and auditioning and stuff. 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 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 a train? I'm surprised it might have been I think it was pretty much

I don't know if it was worse folks Japan is going woke we gotta fact 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 jujutsu kaisen uh yes the main bad guy uh he i believe uh is not they're not repricing 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 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, you're saying they actually are firing him.

They're firing him because he 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 you may not know this about Japan, but I don't know if this is all of Asia, but Japan has a really weird cheating culture

where cheating is kind of like, I suppose in our Western sense, 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 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 kind of a brothel. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. Sorry, there's so much weird stuff to talk about. No, I love this, dude. Give me more of this shit. Yeah, because in Japan, prostitution is illegal. It's legal?

It's illegal. Oh, it's illegal. But there's just so many ways to get it. Is it illegal in most places? There's a lot of places you can get it, and they advertise it. It's really interesting because, I mean, escorting, which is technically a form of places you can get it, and 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. Yeah, geishas are, but even, I think, modern geisha are, from my understanding, are not, don't do any of that kind of stuff anymore. Yeah. No, it's more like like a therapist almost from what i understand they just entertain you they like they're supposed to be good at singing dancing 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 like i wanted to see if i could like possibly stream it even maybe i i know

they're very very uh 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. A lot of money. At least five to six figures, I think, to hire one. Wait, what? Jesus. What the fuck? Okay, that's like yen?

We're talking yen? No, in dollars. From my understanding. Again, I've never done it. I've never even tried. Personally, I don't find the whole geisha aspect very interesting. It's not something i really care about much i i care about it from i mean i 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 okay no no interviewer Just go to the show plan. Just check it out.

No, no, no. Not like that. I mean, I've been to, like, I'm very open about this. Like, you know, I've been to, I mean, I dated a porn star. I dated a sex worker.

So, like, I'm very open-minded about that sort of thing. I do think that, like, you know, there needs to be regulation surrounding it, definitely. Well, it's kind of like a, you know, it's like a hush, hush,

don't talk about it. Yeah. Like, they know it. Everyone knows it exists 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 boyfriend for a day how much was he wait no no it's just he ran a boyfriend his name was ludwig yeah we held hands no yeah i rented one um uh because there was a company the one that uh have you ever watched that conan video uh not the 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 um they'll hold your hand they'll do all that stuff my understanding is

that um 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 so i asked us uh i did a video i worked in a host club as well, and I spoke to these guys. You asked them how much to fuck you. No, because they were 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 going to ask you everything. And anything you don't want to tell me, you just say no, right? And I asked the guy, I was like, so how does it work with like, you know, 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 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 that 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'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 they have clubs here yeah yeah um what's that like have you ever been I've I've never been no I don't think about no I've never been to one I've been to gotta be men there's them because it's more popular it's way more popular to have uh 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 uh that one's oh that's so normal a typical girls 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'll be like 60 bucks for an hour but then you get all you can drink in that time

and the idea is this was to talk to you and kind of interact with you and flirt with you and make you you know they'll be like wow it's Hasan, so beautiful. You're so attractive. But they probably would say that to you. Yeah, he gets to have a free. 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 you chose yourself. I was feeling like, how do you end up in this place? I'll send you the links later. If I'm just feeling really bad with a serious face like we don't know.

I'm like, man, I wish I felt cool. Is that the feeling like people go away? They just gas you up. I guess neither of you guys understand. Neither of the Jigga Chads here understand. Connor doesn't get it either. He definitely doesn't.

He's the Rizzler, I've heard. He has white boy swag. We've already established that. I still don't know what that means. Think about it. You are a 55, 60-year-old Japanese man, right? You have 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 feel like if I was married with kids. No, no, that's totally normal. No, you weren't 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, right? Yeah, honestly. And you can talk to you. And again, this is nothing sexual as well. Like, these are very common bars. They just like gas you up, right? Yeah, it's honestly like, and you can talk to them about your problems and stuff. It's basically,

wait, what? I haven't 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 you can uh 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 like hire sex workers for what purpose

um i i don't know what the exact terminology is but basically if you have like a disability like you're you're paraplegic or you have like some kind of even i think even like ptsd and different kinds of like uh chronic uh chronic mental disorders. You can literally hire sex workers who are willing and able to consensually do this sort of thing. And the government actually subsidizes it. They give you money for it. And that's an insane concept to think about from where we're standing,

because you're like, what the fuck? That's wild. Yeah, it definitely sounds crazy. Yeah, it sounds crazy, but when it becomes so ingrained in the culture that 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 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. No, I mean, I did go to the Netherlands. I didn't try it out because I don't see it as... It's not for me. I totally understand people and why they would do it. I have been to brothels before.

Like I said, I dated a sex worker. I've dated sex workers and I do it. I have been to brothels before. Like I said, I dated a sex worker. I've dated sex workers. I get it, but I don't personally... I don't think it sounds a little weird for me. It's just not for me, but I'm not in the business of being like,

you can't do it either. Especially if people are consenting to do it. There's a tailor level for everything you want here. Like if you want more intense floatiness and potentially more, then you can go to like a host or a hostess club. And that's typically a lot more floating. Whereas the girls' bars are just more chatting.

It's a lot more chill than it sounds. It just sounds kind of scummy. It's a girls' bar. It's a girls' bar. Yeah. It kind of does. But it's fine. It's just a bar and it's chill.

How common are they? Oh, everywhere. There'll be so many of them. Would we's fine. It's just a bar and it's chill. How common are there? Oh, everywhere. There'll be so many of them. Would we just walk to one or something? Yeah. 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 trying to figure out how prevalent it is. He's like, accidentally, I don't want to. He's like, accidentally, I don't want to walk into one. Are there more of them than Starbucks or something? Yes. I feel like the fact that you even think about it is already surprising to me. There'll be areas where it's hundreds within a two-minute walk. That's cool from a fascination perspective.

I do find that fascinating. The Red Light District 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 a different color. They're just waiting on the window, and then someone hires them for 15 minutes or whatever. They fuck,

and then they clean it up, and then the guy walks out. Next person in. Just go back in the window. Which is so streamlined and so crazy for me, looking at it from the outside, but it's just part of the culture. Yeah. I mean, I think more regulation is never a bad thing. Make it safer

for everyone involved. Obviously, that'll never happen here. They're too conservative. Bro, they won't even fucking uncensor the pussies and penises in Jav. I don't even like Jav.

What does that even mean? Japanese adult video. It's all blurred. It's all blurred. All the penises and vagav dude it's fucking i i don't even like jav i even mean japanese adult video it's all blurred okay it's all blurred all the penises and vaginas are blurred in jav 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 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. I got to come here. Stuff doesn't change. I want to come here and talk to the politicians and be like, listen, this is what it's called an earmark. You just secretly add that into a tangential bill. Slip it into another bill, yeah.

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. 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... Oh, 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 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 the fuck? That's wild. You can't have dual citizenship. 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. 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 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, you get it. Yeah. If you're born in America, you get it.

Just like me, baby. Wait, what? I'm anchor baby for life. Let's go. Is that what it's called? But it makes sense, right? Because it seems fucked up to have like,

if you could raise a whole kid here, it could speak the most fluent Japanese, as Japanese as it can get. And then they're like, yeah, no, sorry, man. The Japanese do not like white boy swag is what we learned. Yeah, they don't.

They don't like white boy swag. Which is funny to think because it would genuinely improve the birth rates. No, for sure. What does this mean? What do you mean? Japan has a legitimate... I know they have a low birth rate.

They have a very big problem. How does white boy swag fix that? Oh, if they made it so that the restrictions on what it means, like how difficult it is to become a Japanese citizen, that is an automatic way to immediately improve your birth rates and also immediately uh you know improve your your population age yeah like your median age because japan has a very high medium oh it's super they have a very old population you know which is normal like i mean that that's literally a consequence of like uh being an overdeveloped country right but for example a country like america has been able to uh you know avoid that by having a lot more immigration into the country and having

uh 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 young population here. A lot of young people are unhappy. Because it's like, if you're born into Japan right now, right, your prospects are not that great. The economy sucks.

Just like in the US, where you'll never buy a house. 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 gotta they gotta 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 um there's like dude there's this guy i can't remember what he's called a friend of mine was here uh 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

I'm pulling it up right now a Yale professor this happened this happened this past week this is literally one of the

talking points that I wanted to bring up and it's pretty weird because a lot of people in Japan know this guy This is literally one of the talking points that I wanted to bring up. This is so funny that you mentioned it. It's pretty weird because a lot of people in Japan know this guy. This is a Yale professor. His name is Yusuke Narita.

He's Japanese. He lives in the US. 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. 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 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, like, if someone is, like, 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. Which is why in France they want to increase the retirement age to right 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 um 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 on 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. But there's a lot of people who are above like 65. Yeah. They're 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 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, especially if you're in the countryside. Birth rate going down. Yeah, yeah. And a lot of schools have shut.

A lot of schools have to join, have to make one mega school for all the schools that have shut down. It's really sad. And then you have those scarecrow villages. You've seen those things? No, what's a scarecrow village? 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. And so their solution was to make scarecrows of people and just plant them all around the village. Why? To make it seem like it's a bustling village?

Yeah, but... That's psychotic behavior, man. Actually crazy. I think it has the inverse effect where 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. It's weird that that's right there.

It's not a good solution. Sounds really weird. So people live in the scarecrow villages still? They live in them, yeah. And they'll just be scarecrows of kids. Do they talk to the scarecrows? I'll be like, hey, Bob, how's it going again? They'll have little kids modeled in scarecrows, and they'll just be scarecrows 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 realistic are the like are they very realistic scarecrows or like just a scarecrow i feel like

sticks from league of legends kind of scarecrow it's a scarecrow so it's like it's a bunch of rags and they put okay so it's not very realistic it's no but they put clothes on them and they draw faces and so like from behind you might, 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. If you're really far away. 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. It's literally a byproduct of a capitalist organization of the economy where your productivity is the most important asset.

Your contribution to the productive forces is 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 um 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 instead of like you know reorganizing the economy in a way that like uh 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

like it is just 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 like some of the nationalistic sentiment is still a sense of pride. And a sense of like 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 like all of the all the things that you see under a capitalist organization the economy like the the

panko factory going back to the paolo video you fucking love this panko i fucking love paulo why do you like this okay i i'm gonna be honest with you i'm gonna be honest with you i i was trying to get paulo on the podcast 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. But she turned it on, but I think it turned off again. I think she's so slow. Oh, yeah. This is what happens when you get a fancy-ass house. Yeah, this house

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Oh, yeah? Yeah, I'm behind. I'll come on your stream. I don't know what to do, though. I've 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.

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How do we say bye in Japanese? You can say matane. Matane. Matane. Did you just do a peace sign? Yeah. Yeah, me too. Yeah.