October 29, 2025 • 40 mins
In this edition of The Texas Trendsaw Massacre, Jack and Miles discuss Master Chief @ the White House, Trump: "It's too bad" he can't run for a 3rd term, an ape escape on a Mississippi highway, and a chat with Ayumi Shinozaki about Japan's struggle with creeping fascism!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Texas Trend Saw Massacre. Oh that one courtesy of New
Chris on the discord. My name is Jack O'Brien. That
over there is great. Oh there you go. He didn't
scream great? Yeah, I didn't. I didn't want to go
too hard. You know, it was that too.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
No, you're loving co host Jack and the Loving Father,
and you're I felt I felt warm. It felt warm,
It didn't feel didn't feel shitty, it didn't feel too droopy,
no be or floppy.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
No, all right, jam packed episode. We're gonna talk about
some news and then later on we have a very
special guest to talk about some things outside of the
United States, uh, and how they affect the United States
and how they're related to the United States, because we
are an American centric yeah, and full transparency. You know.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Being Japanese, I have a bit of an interest in
what's happening in Japan.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
So you got a dog in this fight? Got a
dog in this fight? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, sure, sure not. Hey,
I mean I don't even care. I don't care, dude.
I really want to hear about what the latest fashions
are that I can vulture onto.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Jack, your clothes are not nearly as baggy as they
need to be if you wanted to finish.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, I noticed I was over there and skin tight clothes.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, well, skip your clothes would see even though you're
not wearing like painted on jeans, even just your normal
jeans would look normals.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, the fashionable Japanese you.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
All right, let's get it into some news. The White
House and Ice are doing a fun thing. Is this
is this for Halloween? They're using Halo imagery to promote
their stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So fucking Master Chief Trump as Master Chief in front
of the White House is unbelieve. I mean again, it's
all AI slop nonsense. It's just power to the players,
because it is that Game Stop that says that. I'm
pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, you're asking the right guy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I know, and I don't need to be modest, Jack.
I know how you are with that alienware. Yeah, I
know you Atwitch.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I can confirm based totally off of my memory of
Game Stop.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And incidentally, Victor happened to text you something about that.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh yeah, look at that. Victor confirmed it. Game okay, okay, yeah,
thanks Victor. Yeah, but yeah, he's he's standing there looking Shredsville,
saluting the flag, holding halo weapon in his left hand.
It's it's sick.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
There's another one with them in a wart hog destroy
the flood there.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I mean, oh that one's not good. Oh no, yeah,
joint destroy the flood, join ICE dot gov. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Look, they're doing everything they can. I mean they're I'm
sure they're like, hey, Steve Bannon said something about gamers,
maybe we can get them, yeah, famously in peak physical condition,
all of us gamers.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
As a gamer myself, have they seen my arms? They are?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I don't know if I can do any kind of
real street work out there. I can, I can maybe
choke somebody out for saying they went they left anger
management early theater.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
As long as as long as they're in middle school
or below. Yeah, as long as it's unsuspected and as
long as they're not they're not ready for it. Yeah,
that is your move, which also seems to be like
the Ice strategy. There. There's a video of a young
woman walking into a store and Ice two Ice agents
just like roll up on her from behind with like
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a fucking Jesus Halloween cost like just scary asque like
full black mask over their head with like goggles or
like are you from here? Where were you born? Are
you from here? No? Heroes? Heroes is what we call them.
But do you the flood? That feels hmmm? Yeah? Is
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that a reference to anything? Is that? Yeah? Yeah? That
is from Halo?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Okay, yeah, yeah, that is like they're lucky that there
is the flood in Halo. They're truly just trying to
be like, hey, man, is it Halo? Just like immigration,
y'all come on naturally in Halo?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Who is the flood? What is the flood? It's a
life form that's like the main bad guy, right, which
are like pretty insectoid, right, They're ard, they're gross, they
look like very Nazi vibes. To be comparing immigrants to
the parasitic organism from Halo, I feel.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Of course, but are people connecting it are with our
educational system? People might be like, wait, Trump was in Halo.
That's all Trump Halo collab.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I mean I think they're trying.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Obviously, the recruitment is been bad despite the bonuses, because
the people that are willing to do this work are
just like there aren't many of them, and the ones
that are just not even close to doing it the
way they need to is brutally, I guess, considering the
firings that have happened at ICE. But I think they're
just trying to get as many of these messages to
resonate with all the different weirdos out there. Because there's
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also like the new ICE posters that are done in
the very explicit like Nazi aesthetic of like knights, because
I was like the Nazi propaganda back then was depicting
them as knights and like their their their conquest to
retake Europe sort of things. So there's Ice imagery now
that's putting people like in sort of night armor.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Also, yeah, I mean it's not a secret. The like
once teenage mutant Ninja Gebels like did his speech modeled
on a Nazi speech after Chargers. Yeah, that was a
pretty good sign that it's mask off where we're Nazis.
We admire the Nazis, we want to borrow their iconography
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as much as possible.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Do you get like how like they're trying to wink
right and they're like like if you know, you know
bro Loo who we're doing?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
But then also is that as effective for I would
say most of the population isn't up on the semiotics
of Nazi Germany.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, like would be like, oh yeah, dude.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
But I guess maybe they're just like in the same
way the Weimar Republic is like, well, yeah, nights we can.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
They're also un original and have bad esthetics, and so
I feel like that, you know, their second option might
have been comic songs. You know, like they probably just
are using it as a crutch to be like that
shit looked cool, you know, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well, yeah, the mask is off.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And guess what, Donald Trump is actually a master chief
now that the mask is off.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, I still go back to like the ship that
Steve Miller must say behind closed doors that like Trump
was like, you know, I don't want to know what
he really thinks, or I don't want him to say
what he really thinks. That might be too much like
Jesus man, what the fuck when?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, when the guy who hadn't mind camp by his
bedside table is like, this guy's a little too much,
a little too much dip on his chip.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
In worst news for him. Maybe I don't know he
maybe it's bad news for us because it seems like
he had forgotten that he wasn't allowed to run for
a third term and just find out about it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, So like on Sunday we were talking about that
flight on airfare air Force one where he was what
a flight man? He like, there was the I dare
you to see if your brain is as damaged as
mind challenge that went out to AOC and Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, he described as like, I'd like to see how
they do on this advanced IQ test that I took
and A and it was I was like connect the dots.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, it was like if A is one and B
is two, what is C?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Right? Uh? Lion swish now.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
So he told on that flight, the first one he
was sort of like, yeah, you know, he was talking
about a third term.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I was like, here he fucking goes again. But he's
changed his tune now.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So on the next flight headed to Korea from Japan,
he told reporters on air Force one.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Quote, it's pretty clear exeus.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm burping because I'm I don't know, sorry. I had
a hot dog for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You had a hot dog for breakfast? Look, Jack, what
the I'm trying to read Romney's book.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I'm reading Rodney's biography and I'm trying to mimic the
people that I want that I aspire to be, And
that was his routine.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's not that's not too far off from scramble.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, but he said, quote, it's pretty clear that he
can't run again, and then he added, yeah, I guess
I'm not allowed to run.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Which is I guess I'm not allowed to run? Is
it really feels like he just found out? Yeah, like
you didn't fucking know? Or are they scolding you?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Sound like a scolded cha, Like, I guess I'm not
allowed to mix the ammonia in the bleach. That's what
mommy said, can't do that because of the toxic cloud.
He did add though his trademark, but we'll see, as
he always says, with everything, But he wasn't. He was
just kind of like, yeah, not not really committed to
that bit. And people said that this kind of happened
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maybe right after he had a call with Mike Johnson,
who he said had spoken to him about quote, the
constrictions of the constitution.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Hmmm, so maybe Mike.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I don't know if Mike Johnson's like, hey, dude, there's
fucking no path here for this unless you're fully just
breaking everything down.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Based on what we know from history. And I'm having
to look way back to the Biden administration on this one.
But the people who are working with a president who's
you know, suffering from dementia are way more aware than
the general public about like what's what's going on behind
the scenes. So this might be the one case where
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like the people around him are just like buddy, But yeah,
I don't know that that's them's the rules unfortunately, Yeah,
you know, not guessing them up.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Just trying to mister president Twitch it to jd Vance.
He's like, look, man, your donors from Silicon Valley. You
know they want jd Vance as your vice president.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You know why? You know why? No? All right, all right,
well let's go get let's go take another I test
and another brain scan real quick. Halloween story, like a
story that seems like it's out of a horror movie,
and I think that might be why it's happening. So
there's bad news and then there's aggressive monkeys infected with
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covid hepatitis C and herpes have escaped news. A truck
containing a cartload of Reese's monkeys from research center affiliated
with Two Lane University crashed in Mississippi, leaving a hole
just large enough for the primates whose cages were broken
during the cash to escape into the Mississippi valleys, multiple
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Mississippi valleys, at which point law enforcement just started shooting them,
which would make sense except apparently nobody investigating the case
or reporting the story actually checked with the university, because
the university has claimed that the monkeys aren't infectious, and
they're sending a team of animal care experts to assist
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the cops who have been busy shooting the monkeys. But
I do feel like this might just be the US
media being like, we need a horror movie scene and
stat yeah for this Halloween news cycle.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Herpies, monkey spill in Mississippi monkey spilling. That's that's an
inciting incident if I've ever heard one.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I like how the cops are like, uh, the driver
said the monkeys were dangerous, so we had to just
fucking blast them.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I mean, already testing on animals is so fucking fucked up.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But on top of that being like, yeah, I gotta
shoot them now, cool? Cool, they aren't even what what
Amazing Outlet gave us a headline aggressive monkey infected with
COVID and sgis running loose in Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
After transport trunk overturns.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
A little disappointed that by how literal it is, because
it is, of course the New York Post. You'd think
they would have been able to come up with something
a little bit better than that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they
were just going for straight fear, straight adrenaline.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, aggressive, Like what where is that even? I mean, yeah,
because they've been caged. The charts on the aggressive scale. Yeah,
because we've we're locking them up in cages and making
them sick.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, these monkeys are real assholes. Like that's essentially the
equivalent of what.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I'm surprise the New York Posts didn't like connect us
to like Zoramumdani or something.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
In some way, it feels like it because they're keeping
their powder dry on that one. They're they're gonna have
a big, a big news story on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, Brian, the editor points, isn't this how Yes, weren't
there the monkeys were infected with rage? I believe, yes,
in that opening scene and they got but as Brian like,
they just got Sti's man, you know, yeah, they just
need some antibiotics.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Hey, that'll put anyone in a bad mood. Let's take
a quick break. We'll be right back with our special guest.
And we're back, and we're thrilled to be joined in
our second act by a very special guest, a brilliant artist, translator, writer,
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and podcaster here to talk to us about what's happening
in Japan. And I gave the most recent election. Yes,
also a bestower of the Aka laureate title. Yes, coming
to general, coming to us all the way from Japan.
Welcome back to the show. Iami Shinazaka.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Hello, Hello, Hello, happy to be back.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Oh no, that's so good to have you. It's been
too long for those who don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I look, if y'all on the discord and you're in
that AK and titles submit, uh, you know room putting
in the titles and and you know if you're trying
to get that, if you want.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
That yellow label, you got to hit up Ayumi.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That is the person.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
So look, it's great to have Youami, and thank you so.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Or just like, let your words speak for itself and
leave Ayumi alone.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I've noticed a lot of times it is it is
old heads who who tag me to give someone else
the role.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So I love it, you know what I mean. It's
a thriving community in there and the elders, and we
love you all with the elders like I'll have arms
like Christmas Hams, connect us to the overall, to the overalls.
I just want to do that real quick, and then
we'll get into the specifics. But I feel like there
is a global wave of conservative movements happening.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
My sense is that it comes from a really of
neoliberalism aka like the old trust corporations and global free
trade to solve all our problems. People have been like,
is this seems like it might not be working. It
seems like they might be mean and bad, and in
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America because the only two options are that, you know,
just a neoliberalism corporatocracy and fat Americans have chosen fascism.
Surely that can't be happening in Japan the place where
I went recently, and the streets were very clean and
night So I feel like you guys have figured out
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over to you. I am.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Oh, I have a few tastes about the cleanliness the
secret behind all that, But in any case, yeah, so
things have been I mean, things have always been conservative, right,
Japan has been a conservative country for a long time,
and we've had the LdB in power, the Liberal Democratic
Party for a long time, you know, thanks to one
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Shinzo Abe. May he rest in Actually I can't even
say rest and piss anymore because piss has become positive. Yeah, yeah,
but you know what I mean, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, you're out there, you're out there. You don't know
if he's a piss pig. You don't know if he's
like just luxuriating in that piss that he's resting in.
Catch too.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
But yeah, so like it's you know, it had always
been that way, but like as you said, Jack, like
things are getting more and more to the right, and
so honestly, it's like it kind of felt almost out
of nowhere this year if you were like really weren't
paying attention, which honestly, I think is the case for
the lot of folks, I mean anywhere in the world.
It's not just a Japanese thing. But you know, basically,
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what we've seen is we've gone from the right to
further right thanks to one group called Sanseeto. So so
this year we had a pretty big election in July.
It was for half the seats in the House of Counselors,
which is the upper house of the diets, the you know,
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parliamentary group in Japan. Yeah, basically basically, but it also
has like the you know, it's population based as well.
So like I live in Toshigi Prefecture, we have only
one counselor, while Tokyo has six seats. So like it's
you know, so it's it's It was a very obviously,
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very big election. And in Japan. One thing that I
really think that you know, other places, especially the US,
might want to take into consideration is the campaign system
is a very short lived thing.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Ye, this is wild.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah, So like basically you don't hear anything about whatever
is coming up in the election until just a few
weeks before it happened. So they announced the candidates in
this time around on July third. The election was July twentieth,
So like.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
What happened to the candidates seventeen? Yeah, yes, yes, fucking
rule right, right, I mean there.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Are people who are like obvious, like incumbents and stuff
like that, right, people who you know, are the usual
candidates for the parties, you can assume they're going to
be the candidate again, right, stuff like that. But as
far as like the official declaration everything that's going to
be like at that time they start putting up. The
first thing is like flyers, you know, up in every
holy area, there's going to be a big banner where
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people put same sized flyers for all parties.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Standardized.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Yeah, yeah, it's very very standardized. So you know you
can go past and like actually look at all the
candidates and like and because there are so many parties, like,
it's really easy for people to switch around and choose
someone else. That being said, in couments are more likely
to get re elected, you know, that's that's pretty common. Yeah,
Tochigi's one was elected a third time. Though. That being said,
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the Constitutional Democratic Party, which is the major left party
in Japan, did get the second most votes, so that
made me a little bit hopeful.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
But so over over the CenTra Like so shinzo Abe
would be like a somewhere between like a Bill Clinton
slash George W. Bush figure. Is that like where he
stood on the kind of political study, I mean kind of.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I think it's it's yeah, that's kind of fair, Like,
I mean, he has a whole system. There's Ebanomics is
named after him, and the thing that's like that's an
English issue word, but it's in use in Japanese right
up in the mixes, so it's it's definitely like a
thing that's like very similar, I would say, to something
like a RA economics or whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
They did not win. They came in third that that
group of people came in Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Yeah, So like the thing about the counselors is so
in my case, the incumbent was actually LDP but in
in Tojiki Prefecture, but in other places. What made Sanseeto
scare everyone is that they seem to come out of nowhere, right.
This is a group that was started through a YouTube channel.
You know these guys, these three guys started this YouTube
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channel back in twenty nineteen that was like, here's how
to make a political party, and then in twenty twenty
they actually did it, and Sanseeto the name, the official
English name, is the do it yourself party, right because
Sanse's like participation. The idea is like you can also
do the thing in government, and their idea was like, well,
none of the other parties have good options, so we're
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going to make our own, which sounds wild when you
have so many parties, but.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Sure, great. It's like if the politics were good, I mean,
it doesn't sound I will say, based on my experience
with DIY projects, that's not good. You know, you don't
want DIY associated with running my hand like someone who.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Is currently wearing a sweater I made by hand. I
do feel very personally offended, so like you know, yeah, yeah,
I mean thank you, but the yeah, like I've noticed
in English they still use sanse Dola, but the official
English name is DIY Party whatever. So actually, honestly, maybe
using that might make them sound a little bit more
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silly in English. I'm sure. So this okays to think
about it.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
It's like an ultranationalist, it's like my worst nightmare as
a half Japanese person.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I'm like, this is all this shit, this is it?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Like, I mean, my mom left Japan for many reasons,
chiefly because of how misogynistic the culture is.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Absolutely and that's still continues to this day.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But like with sun Satal and like a lot of
the ultra nationalists, right, there's like all I mean, and
even with the LDP, there's this like insistence of taking
the domestic sort of defense force and like fully militarizing it.
And that's definitely with the encouragement of the United States also,
and that is leading a lot of people and be like, oh, guys,
you know, there's a reason why Japan doesn't have a
standing army, and that's gonna might bring up a lot
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of weird memories in the region because of its imperialistic history.
But yeah, like with Sunset Tol, I remember first being
like Jesus Christ, like, the far right is also gaining seats.
But also I think it's important to like look at
the context of Japanese politics too, because the LDP has
basically been in power continuously since nineteen fifty five for like,
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like there were two short blips where they weren't fully
in control, but basically for since nineteen fifty five they've
been the like it's been one party rule essentially. Yes,
And also it's important to point out that the LDP,
which has again been in power for this long. You know,
they came to power because after World War Two, like
conservative and socialist parties, they were rising in popularity and
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looked like they were going to gain control. And guess
which country came through with a bag full of cash
to sway the election towards the LDP. The United States obviously,
and the man who worked with the US on this
plan was none other than Abishinzo's grandfather.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So like just to give you an.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Idea of like how where Abshinzo comes from. And there's
a lot of ill will or you know, ambivalence towards
the lb LDP because.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
They're like they've been in power so long and ye.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Changed, and I'm like, well, what's the It becomes a
I think because voter turnout was looking at the numbers,
like voter turnout is is still like it's like dropping
year by year, right, It's it's hovering around between fifteen
and sixty percent, which is like fairly normal, but it
used to be a lot higher. And so it definitely
feels like it especially I feel like after twenty like
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from my experience, after twenty twenty, like you know, once
Ave resigned, like he was just he became so unpopular
during like COVID, like he totally screwed up everything. The
economy was in shambles, and so that like there was
like no way for them even after they got new
leaders in power to like kind of bring back the
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you know power, like the interest in the LDP. So
it kind of makes sense. I guess if you are
conservative to go further right or like pick someone else,
even if I don't personally understand that, but whatever. And
so yeah, like seeing the shock of Sanseeto getting so
many seats in the House of Counselors this year really
woke a lot of people up to like what the
hell is going on? And like cause it was so short,
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and you know, I talked to I don't live in Tokyo,
but I have friends there, and I talked to them
about their experience, and for them, it was also very
sudden to see all of this stuff going on. And
not all of their seats are in Tokyo, of course,
it's like all over Japan. But like it was just like, wait,
what's going on? Why are we suddenly talking about like
the invasion of foreigners and stuff, like foreigners make up
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three percent of the population. And honestly, if you like
look at all the different talking points from the right,
it sounds exactly the same as what you hear from
Republicans today, like it's just it's.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Just one playbook, yeah, yeah, no matter what, whether it
applies or not. And you know, in the United States,
like states where that don't have a border with a
foreign country or some of the have the the most
people who are terrified of like invasion.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
From well and then also just being an island nation.
Like it's just it's like you're it's doubled, like that
idea of like.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Who's coming in here?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, And I think the other thing worth pointing out
too before we get into you know, because a lot
of people all being.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Like, oh, wow, Japan has its first woman as prime minister.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And you're like, well, maybe yeah, before we start doing
the girl Boss golf clap to that, maybe let's look
at the policies. But like before getting into that, Like,
I think the thing with foreigners is really being it's
it's easy to really sort of gin up like frustration
and anger about that because they're the amount of I
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think there's a difference between tourists and the people who
actually reside in Japan.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I think there's a huge.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Part of because tourism has gotten red hot again since
the since Japan reopened and because of the week yen,
a lot of people come in. They're spending their money,
and that has also caused prices to rise for local
people who have wages that are also not going up
just like like most nations.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Would it be safe to say that everybody's working for
the weekend other this guy says, oh, sorry, you guys
can go forward myself out. You know what, sight like
the tourist thing is so.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
True because like I mean, it even gets viral like
in the US, right obviously whichever one of the pop
pros it was that like you know, went to the
suicide for everything like that was also very viral in
Japan obviously very offensive. Uh, there was a viral video
over the summer, I think, oh no, actually no, it
was like in September of an Australian tourist going to
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a grave site where someone had left an offering of
can of alcohol. Like clearly I guess that deceased person's
like their loved ones.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Oh yeah one or something, yeah like that, right, and
they they drank They just like cracked it open and
drank it just for the lulls of the chiktok or whatever.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
And obviously, yeah, that stuff enrageous people. There's like so
many stories of really rude tourists and obviously that is
a problem. But the people who get affected are the
ones who live in Japan who are always following the rules.
And that's the other thing that you hear all the time,
and like all these things, like people will be like, oh, well,
you know they're coming to Japan. If they follow the
rules and stuff, then everything will be okay. But it's
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like they are though, like most people are doing really well.
They're like working, like you know, like all the people
I that I interact with the most to our foreigners
are they're primarily from South Asia in my area, primarily Nepal,
and they're working you know, service jobs more than anything else.
They're also often in school or working multiple jobs and
(27:16):
like you know, trying to help out their families back
home and stuff. Like it's a very familiar story. Yeah,
very clear, Like these people are not the problem. And
also like again they're such a small part of the
population and they cannot vote, so what on earth do
they have to do with like whatever's going on in
the nation, like as a whole, right.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Very difficult to be a foreigner living and working in Japan.
Just yea ready, you know what I mean? Yes, And
like to your point, it's like a lot of things
like well, like they're taking the jobs, like you're going
to work at a kombini, like you're going to work
at a convenience store in the same way American people
are like, do you know the jobs that these people
are taking? And on top of it, the demographic crisis
in Japan is like a whole other thing we can
(27:56):
get into.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I'm curious though, too.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Before we started talking, you were saying a little bit
about like the person, because I think going to Japan
is so popular right now.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Every fucking month there's someone be like, Hey, I'm going
to Japan. Do you think you give me some tips?
And I'm like, yeah, I'm always like yeah, man, all
the time. What's like?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
And I think there's a perception of people that go
to Japan and don't really understand what's there because on
the surface, everybody's calm and ready to take from eminem down.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah. Yeah, you see some moms spaghetti on people' sweaters. Yeah,
for sure, you see it out there, and you know.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
What's going on, But like, what do you how do
you sort of like you you were saying, you kind
of had a little bit to talk about on that
on that part of it of just sort of the
perception versus reality, So.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Like, yeah, I love I mean, I'm always happy when
people can come to visit. Chris one thing, I can
hang out with them whatever. Sure, I live close enough
to Tokyo, I can go down there whatever. But like
it's like, you know, there's I'm so I'm glad that
like people want to come visit. Like I would say
most tourists are not assholes, yes, you know for sure,
(29:00):
and that's great, But like there is definitely like a
frustration of yeah, like trying to like make sure like
things go well whatever because like these days. Oh the
other thing I guess that's like really important that I
think is like one of those it like it feels
really obvious, but then like is not just because of
the nature of the internet and stuff. Like one thing
(29:21):
that people take super seriously in Japan is like recording
videos without like permission and stuff. And there is a problem,
especially from what I've seen in Tokyo in particular, of
like nursery schools and preschools having to put out signs
in front of the schools in English saying please not
record videos of the children at the school because like
that's and that's insane to me that that that's the
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thing that has to happen. But like there's so much
of that like of like.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Nelu you fuck because they're they're all wearing the same
backpack and have the same.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah I always see this have manners, yeah, like them alone,
like and.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
It's just like yeah, like it's there's all this like
dehumanizing stuff going on there, right, and it's just like
you want to live out your anime dream or whatever.
Like I get it to a certain degree. And you know,
having worked, especially as an English teacher for a long time,
I have dealt with the people who come to Japan
because they just want to hook up with Japanese people.
That's all over story. But like it's like, yeah, it
(30:20):
just like feels like it's it's I understand from like
a pop culture perspective, wanting to come here, but it's
like we got we are also people and so like yeah,
I don't know. And then there's just like the fact
that like the average Japanese person doesn't watch anime and
like like because it's like statistic show's about a third
of us I watch anything animated and that can include
(30:40):
like stuff that's from abroad also, so like yeah, the
average person's like I don't understand like why people are
here what they're doing over there, like what are there?
What they're dressed as or whatever? Like why is there
cosplay in the middle of the street. Like it's just
like there's all this stuff. It's very disruptive. And again,
people are just trying to live their lives and they
have a billion other problems that you know, have nothing
to do with the foreigners. But foreigners aren't necessarily make
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it easy when you know they're just trying to live
their lives. I don't know. It is like a very
complex problem I don't understand, but also like it's not
but anyway, like okay, so actually I have an anecdote.
I guess the other day, So I have a I
have a day job where I work at a supermarket
right now as a cashier. It's actually really been a
(31:22):
good job for like getting to meet a lot of
people and I like that a lot. But the other
day I it was like really busy and this you know,
one old Japanese band that I helped, he like came
he like pulled me aside for a second and was
like like, aren't there too many foreigners working here? And
I was like what the fuck? And like because like wow,
(31:42):
question to ask in general, because what am I supposed
to do about it as a cashier, But also like,
you know, a lot of Japanese people because I am
you know, also mixed, like they don't necessarily always know
that I am Japanese when they first meet me. So
it's like, does he think like I'm like one of
the good ones? What's happening are.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Face right now? Support? Yeah? Foreigners?
Speaker 4 (32:05):
It's like it's like either that or you like things
that I would be comfortable with, like agreeing with him
or something. But it was like I look around and
only like two of our visibly brown cashiers were working,
because I'm like, what the fuck is going on? But yeah,
it was just like the people. The fact that like
people are starting to like be more open about these
weird things is just like really scary.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
That's one thing I've noticed too, just growing up in
the Lapan all the time, is going from like just
seeing tourists everywhere and then hearing people be irritated like
oh Guijinga like saying like, oh my god, there's so
many foreigners here, Like that's becoming there.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
They're not they're not being nice about it, right.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely not. Yeah, I thought that was
the fun nickname they had given me when I traveled.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, yeah, hey hey guy, nice g it's me.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I think they're like my jeens.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
No, they're calling you Geijing like fine, but before we go, you,
I just do want to touch on the historic, historic, yes,
ascendency of Taksana who is the Japan's now first prime
minister or woman prime minister. And again I think it's
one of those things, much like with the Nobel Prize
and like, oh, that's got to be fans like, well, sure,
(33:16):
look look at the person's politics a little bit and
begin to understand that this person's idol is Margaret Thatcher
and she comes from the exact same machine as Abashinzo.
She also is you know, she she deals with likenon
Kaigi also who's like the you know, the most far
like they want to like erase Japanese history to be
(33:37):
like nothing happened to World War two or before that
or anything.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Okay, stop talking about it, stop bringing old ship up.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
That's where they're very big gat again for.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Sure, And then you know, people call her Japan's Trump
also like in the way that she can like she
knows how to talk to him. Is you know the politics,
you know, somewhat overlapped, but enough that clearly Trump had
a good time and I think she she like has
enough in common and knows how to appeal to his
vanity that it seemed like a good trip where she
(34:07):
gave him gold and it was like go golfing.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
So simple. Yeah, how does she figure these Trump whispers?
How do they figure out how to him?
Speaker 2 (34:16):
They also gave him gold also, and he's like, oh
this is brown.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Yes, oh my god. Yeah, is like so, I mean,
it's not shocking that people would like just not look
past the fact that she's a woman. But it's just
like it's very frustrating. I mean, yes, she's bringing back
like we're rewriting fascism into fascism. It's like, what the
whole thing? But yeah, they like okay. So one of
(34:42):
the main when it comes to there are a lot
of problems obviously with misogyny in Japan, as you already mentioned.
One of the main things that are is still being
fought about now is the fact that legally when a
couple gets married, first of all, still no same sex
marriage like overall, but also if you get married, one
of these spouses must change their surname and most of
(35:06):
the time it's the woman that does. So Takaichi actually
interestingly is against this, like she does not want like
she doesn't want the women to be able to keep
their surname, which is the main fight right now. Takaichi
is no longer her surname. She married and kept her
maiden name publicly, but that's not her surname anymore legally,
(35:28):
so like she is going against her own whatever. So
like that's like the start of it. But also, yeah,
she's against same sex marriage becoming legal here and like
a whole bunch of like you name it, she's against
it like that, any any.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Cool YaST like overtime limits like that.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Again, it's very much.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
We have a word in Japanese for death by overwork,
Like what are we doing? It's so it's so.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Wide storied culture addressed the rising cost of living in
her first speech, so you know she's not gonna do
shit about it. I can predict anything.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
That happens, yeah, yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yeah, we'll just let you work harder.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Like the main So I guess when it comes to Kastavlion.
There's a lot of things, right, Stagnant wages for like decades.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Same.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
The main thing that's like big here is that the
price of rice has doubled in the past year, which
is like obviously really huge. I don't know if you've
heard about Japanese cuisine, but we kind of like to
eat rice a lot. It's kind of a daily staple.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I thought it was all my mom was a weirdo
about it, but it turns out everybody.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
You guys, try making everything out of corn, including this.
That's the next step.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I mean, there was a whole thing where they're bringing
in foreign rice, and that was a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
There was actually a.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Thing I could bring up about corn. I don't know
when exactly this happened, but over the past few years
there's been a rise in popularity of corn tea in Japan.
So it's you can you can either get it like
the tea bags, or you can buy like a cold
drink that's already made quarantine but in the store, and
(37:08):
there's like several brands. I don't know why that's become
a thing, but it feels very connected to America.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah, it's called evolution, it's called Ford progress. In America,
it's called corn syrup and mountain.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Eventually everything will become corn like here in the United States.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Well, Amy, it's such a pleasure having you on the show.
It's great to hear from you. Thank you for your
service in the Discord. Thank you for coming on and
telling us about things happening outside of the United States.
Where can people find you besides the Discord?
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Great question. So I like finally removed x everything up
from my phone a few weeks ago and it's been
done doing wonders for me. But technically you can still
find that account and Instagram and Blue Sky. I am everywhere.
I'm at IU she knows a y U sah k
and ows you mentioned at the top. I am an artist.
(38:03):
As of this recording, I currently have no commissions, but
usually the most commissions I get is around this time
of year because it is gifts giving season. So if
you want a painting of your favorite person or a pet, whatever,
I'm always down for that. I also sell prints of
my past artwork and all that good stuff, so you
(38:25):
can find me all over the place there and my podcast,
So my main podcast is Sparkleside Chats with Magical Girl.
I you That's where I talk to people about magical girls.
That is stuff like Sailor Moon or most recently K
Pop Demon Hunters is the big one right now, of course,
but there are still tons of other things. You know,
dozens of series come out every year in the genre
and it's awesome. So if you want to know more
(38:46):
about that or else to watch, if you want your
kid to watch more than just K Pop Human Hunters,
check out that podcast and my next podcast coming out.
The feeds are open, but the first episode is not
quite yet is called charm Point Radio, which is about
idle media and now what I'm actually doing with two
friends Leon and Aaron, who yeah, they're just like me.
We love talking about idle media, which actually Kate Pop
(39:08):
Peven Hunters is also included in that but of non
magical variety. Typically though, our first episode is going to
be about zombie idol, so it's gonna get It's gonna
be an interesting ride.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
All right, perfect, yes, all the time.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Check those that as well.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Go check i Amy's work. Very cool, Go commission something
so really really awesome. All right, you bad is going
to do it for us. We are back tomorrow with
a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be
kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your
vaccines whey you still can get your flu shots, don't
do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to
(39:45):
you all tomorrow. By The Daily Zeite guys as executive
produced by Catherine.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Law, co produced by Bae Wayne, co produced by Victor Wright,
co written by j M McNabb, and edited and engineered
by Brian Jeffries.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
A throw back to pat cont
Hello the Internet, and welcome to this episode of the
Texas Trend Saw Massacre. Oh that one courtesy of New
Chris on the discord. My name is Jack O'Brien. That
over there is great. Oh there you go. He didn't
scream great? Yeah, I didn't. I didn't want to go
too hard. You know, it was that too.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
No, you're loving co host Jack and the Loving Father,
and you're I felt I felt warm. It felt warm,
It didn't feel didn't feel shitty, it didn't feel too droopy,
no be or floppy.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
No, all right, jam packed episode. We're gonna talk about
some news and then later on we have a very
special guest to talk about some things outside of the
United States, uh, and how they affect the United States
and how they're related to the United States, because we
are an American centric yeah, and full transparency. You know.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
Being Japanese, I have a bit of an interest in
what's happening in Japan.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
So you got a dog in this fight? Got a
dog in this fight? Yeah? Yeah, yeah, sure, sure not. Hey,
I mean I don't even care. I don't care, dude.
I really want to hear about what the latest fashions
are that I can vulture onto.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
Jack, your clothes are not nearly as baggy as they
need to be if you wanted to finish.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
Yeah, I noticed I was over there and skin tight clothes.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Yeah, well, skip your clothes would see even though you're
not wearing like painted on jeans, even just your normal
jeans would look normals.
Speaker 3 (01:26):
Yeah, the fashionable Japanese you.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
All right, let's get it into some news. The White
House and Ice are doing a fun thing. Is this
is this for Halloween? They're using Halo imagery to promote
their stuff.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
So fucking Master Chief Trump as Master Chief in front
of the White House is unbelieve. I mean again, it's
all AI slop nonsense. It's just power to the players,
because it is that Game Stop that says that. I'm
pretty sure.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Yeah, you're asking the right guy.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
I know, and I don't need to be modest, Jack.
I know how you are with that alienware. Yeah, I
know you Atwitch.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
I can confirm based totally off of my memory of
Game Stop.
Speaker 3 (02:11):
And incidentally, Victor happened to text you something about that.
Speaker 1 (02:14):
Oh yeah, look at that. Victor confirmed it. Game okay, okay, yeah,
thanks Victor. Yeah, but yeah, he's he's standing there looking Shredsville,
saluting the flag, holding halo weapon in his left hand.
It's it's sick.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
There's another one with them in a wart hog destroy
the flood there.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
I mean, oh that one's not good. Oh no, yeah,
joint destroy the flood, join ICE dot gov. Yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
Look, they're doing everything they can. I mean they're I'm
sure they're like, hey, Steve Bannon said something about gamers,
maybe we can get them, yeah, famously in peak physical condition,
all of us gamers.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
As a gamer myself, have they seen my arms? They are?
Speaker 2 (03:00):
I don't know if I can do any kind of
real street work out there. I can, I can maybe
choke somebody out for saying they went they left anger
management early theater.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
As long as as long as they're in middle school
or below. Yeah, as long as it's unsuspected and as
long as they're not they're not ready for it. Yeah,
that is your move, which also seems to be like
the Ice strategy. There. There's a video of a young
woman walking into a store and Ice two Ice agents
just like roll up on her from behind with like
(03:29):
a fucking Jesus Halloween cost like just scary asque like
full black mask over their head with like goggles or
like are you from here? Where were you born? Are
you from here? No? Heroes? Heroes is what we call them.
But do you the flood? That feels hmmm? Yeah? Is
(03:52):
that a reference to anything? Is that? Yeah? Yeah? That
is from Halo?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Okay, yeah, yeah, that is like they're lucky that there
is the flood in Halo. They're truly just trying to
be like, hey, man, is it Halo? Just like immigration,
y'all come on naturally in Halo?
Speaker 1 (04:08):
Who is the flood? What is the flood? It's a
life form that's like the main bad guy, right, which
are like pretty insectoid, right, They're ard, they're gross, they
look like very Nazi vibes. To be comparing immigrants to
the parasitic organism from Halo, I feel.
Speaker 2 (04:28):
Of course, but are people connecting it are with our
educational system? People might be like, wait, Trump was in Halo.
That's all Trump Halo collab.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
I mean I think they're trying.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
Obviously, the recruitment is been bad despite the bonuses, because
the people that are willing to do this work are
just like there aren't many of them, and the ones
that are just not even close to doing it the
way they need to is brutally, I guess, considering the
firings that have happened at ICE. But I think they're
just trying to get as many of these messages to
resonate with all the different weirdos out there. Because there's
(05:02):
also like the new ICE posters that are done in
the very explicit like Nazi aesthetic of like knights, because
I was like the Nazi propaganda back then was depicting
them as knights and like their their their conquest to
retake Europe sort of things. So there's Ice imagery now
that's putting people like in sort of night armor.
Speaker 1 (05:22):
Also, yeah, I mean it's not a secret. The like
once teenage mutant Ninja Gebels like did his speech modeled
on a Nazi speech after Chargers. Yeah, that was a
pretty good sign that it's mask off where we're Nazis.
We admire the Nazis, we want to borrow their iconography
(05:45):
as much as possible.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Do you get like how like they're trying to wink
right and they're like like if you know, you know
bro Loo who we're doing?
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Sure?
Speaker 2 (05:52):
But then also is that as effective for I would
say most of the population isn't up on the semiotics
of Nazi Germany.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
Yeah, like would be like, oh yeah, dude.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
But I guess maybe they're just like in the same
way the Weimar Republic is like, well, yeah, nights we can.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
They're also un original and have bad esthetics, and so
I feel like that, you know, their second option might
have been comic songs. You know, like they probably just
are using it as a crutch to be like that
shit looked cool, you know, Jesus Christ.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Well, yeah, the mask is off.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
And guess what, Donald Trump is actually a master chief
now that the mask is off.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Yeah, I still go back to like the ship that
Steve Miller must say behind closed doors that like Trump
was like, you know, I don't want to know what
he really thinks, or I don't want him to say
what he really thinks. That might be too much like
Jesus man, what the fuck when?
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Yeah, when the guy who hadn't mind camp by his
bedside table is like, this guy's a little too much,
a little too much dip on his chip.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
In worst news for him. Maybe I don't know he
maybe it's bad news for us because it seems like
he had forgotten that he wasn't allowed to run for
a third term and just find out about it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:08):
Yeah, So like on Sunday we were talking about that
flight on airfare air Force one where he was what
a flight man? He like, there was the I dare
you to see if your brain is as damaged as
mind challenge that went out to AOC and Jasmine Crockett.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Yeah, he described as like, I'd like to see how
they do on this advanced IQ test that I took
and A and it was I was like connect the dots.
Speaker 3 (07:32):
Yeah, it was like if A is one and B
is two, what is C?
Speaker 1 (07:38):
Right? Uh? Lion swish now.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
So he told on that flight, the first one he
was sort of like, yeah, you know, he was talking
about a third term.
Speaker 3 (07:49):
I was like, here he fucking goes again. But he's
changed his tune now.
Speaker 2 (07:52):
So on the next flight headed to Korea from Japan,
he told reporters on air Force one.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Quote, it's pretty clear exeus.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I'm burping because I'm I don't know, sorry. I had
a hot dog for breakfast.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
You had a hot dog for breakfast? Look, Jack, what
the I'm trying to read Romney's book.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
I'm reading Rodney's biography and I'm trying to mimic the
people that I want that I aspire to be, And
that was his routine.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
That's not that's not too far off from scramble.
Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, but he said, quote, it's pretty clear that he
can't run again, and then he added, yeah, I guess
I'm not allowed to run.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
Which is I guess I'm not allowed to run? Is
it really feels like he just found out? Yeah, like
you didn't fucking know? Or are they scolding you?
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Sound like a scolded cha, Like, I guess I'm not
allowed to mix the ammonia in the bleach. That's what
mommy said, can't do that because of the toxic cloud.
He did add though his trademark, but we'll see, as
he always says, with everything, But he wasn't. He was
just kind of like, yeah, not not really committed to
that bit. And people said that this kind of happened
(08:59):
maybe right after he had a call with Mike Johnson,
who he said had spoken to him about quote, the
constrictions of the constitution.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
Hmmm, so maybe Mike.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
I don't know if Mike Johnson's like, hey, dude, there's
fucking no path here for this unless you're fully just
breaking everything down.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
Based on what we know from history. And I'm having
to look way back to the Biden administration on this one.
But the people who are working with a president who's
you know, suffering from dementia are way more aware than
the general public about like what's what's going on behind
the scenes. So this might be the one case where
(09:37):
like the people around him are just like buddy, But yeah,
I don't know that that's them's the rules unfortunately, Yeah,
you know, not guessing them up.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Just trying to mister president Twitch it to jd Vance.
He's like, look, man, your donors from Silicon Valley. You
know they want jd Vance as your vice president.
Speaker 1 (09:52):
You know why? You know why? No? All right, all right,
well let's go get let's go take another I test
and another brain scan real quick. Halloween story, like a
story that seems like it's out of a horror movie,
and I think that might be why it's happening. So
there's bad news and then there's aggressive monkeys infected with
(10:15):
covid hepatitis C and herpes have escaped news. A truck
containing a cartload of Reese's monkeys from research center affiliated
with Two Lane University crashed in Mississippi, leaving a hole
just large enough for the primates whose cages were broken
during the cash to escape into the Mississippi valleys, multiple
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Mississippi valleys, at which point law enforcement just started shooting them,
which would make sense except apparently nobody investigating the case
or reporting the story actually checked with the university, because
the university has claimed that the monkeys aren't infectious, and
they're sending a team of animal care experts to assist
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the cops who have been busy shooting the monkeys. But
I do feel like this might just be the US
media being like, we need a horror movie scene and
stat yeah for this Halloween news cycle.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Herpies, monkey spill in Mississippi monkey spilling. That's that's an
inciting incident if I've ever heard one.
Speaker 1 (11:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:20):
I like how the cops are like, uh, the driver
said the monkeys were dangerous, so we had to just
fucking blast them.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
I mean, already testing on animals is so fucking fucked up.
Speaker 2 (11:32):
But on top of that being like, yeah, I gotta
shoot them now, cool? Cool, they aren't even what what
Amazing Outlet gave us a headline aggressive monkey infected with
COVID and sgis running loose in Mississippi.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
After transport trunk overturns.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
A little disappointed that by how literal it is, because
it is, of course the New York Post. You'd think
they would have been able to come up with something
a little bit better than that. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, they
were just going for straight fear, straight adrenaline.
Speaker 2 (12:03):
Yeah, aggressive, Like what where is that even? I mean, yeah,
because they've been caged. The charts on the aggressive scale. Yeah,
because we've we're locking them up in cages and making
them sick.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
Yeah, these monkeys are real assholes. Like that's essentially the
equivalent of what.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
I'm surprise the New York Posts didn't like connect us
to like Zoramumdani or something.
Speaker 1 (12:26):
In some way, it feels like it because they're keeping
their powder dry on that one. They're they're gonna have
a big, a big news story on Sunday.
Speaker 2 (12:34):
Yeah, Brian, the editor points, isn't this how Yes, weren't
there the monkeys were infected with rage? I believe, yes,
in that opening scene and they got but as Brian like,
they just got Sti's man, you know, yeah, they just
need some antibiotics.
Speaker 1 (12:49):
Hey, that'll put anyone in a bad mood. Let's take
a quick break. We'll be right back with our special guest.
And we're back, and we're thrilled to be joined in
our second act by a very special guest, a brilliant artist, translator, writer,
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and podcaster here to talk to us about what's happening
in Japan. And I gave the most recent election. Yes,
also a bestower of the Aka laureate title. Yes, coming
to general, coming to us all the way from Japan.
Welcome back to the show. Iami Shinazaka.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Hello, Hello, Hello, happy to be back.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Oh no, that's so good to have you. It's been
too long for those who don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:39):
I look, if y'all on the discord and you're in
that AK and titles submit, uh, you know room putting
in the titles and and you know if you're trying
to get that, if you want.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
That yellow label, you got to hit up Ayumi.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
That is the person.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
So look, it's great to have Youami, and thank you so.
Speaker 1 (13:56):
Or just like, let your words speak for itself and
leave Ayumi alone.
Speaker 4 (14:00):
I've noticed a lot of times it is it is
old heads who who tag me to give someone else
the role.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
So I love it, you know what I mean. It's
a thriving community in there and the elders, and we
love you all with the elders like I'll have arms
like Christmas Hams, connect us to the overall, to the overalls.
I just want to do that real quick, and then
we'll get into the specifics. But I feel like there
is a global wave of conservative movements happening.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
My sense is that it comes from a really of
neoliberalism aka like the old trust corporations and global free
trade to solve all our problems. People have been like,
is this seems like it might not be working. It
seems like they might be mean and bad, and in
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America because the only two options are that, you know,
just a neoliberalism corporatocracy and fat Americans have chosen fascism.
Surely that can't be happening in Japan the place where
I went recently, and the streets were very clean and
night So I feel like you guys have figured out
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over to you. I am.
Speaker 4 (15:18):
Oh, I have a few tastes about the cleanliness the
secret behind all that, But in any case, yeah, so
things have been I mean, things have always been conservative, right,
Japan has been a conservative country for a long time,
and we've had the LdB in power, the Liberal Democratic
Party for a long time, you know, thanks to one
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Shinzo Abe. May he rest in Actually I can't even
say rest and piss anymore because piss has become positive. Yeah, yeah,
but you know what I mean, Yeah.
Speaker 1 (15:48):
Yeah, you're out there, you're out there. You don't know
if he's a piss pig. You don't know if he's
like just luxuriating in that piss that he's resting in.
Catch too.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
But yeah, so like it's you know, it had always
been that way, but like as you said, Jack, like
things are getting more and more to the right, and
so honestly, it's like it kind of felt almost out
of nowhere this year if you were like really weren't
paying attention, which honestly, I think is the case for
the lot of folks, I mean anywhere in the world.
It's not just a Japanese thing. But you know, basically,
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what we've seen is we've gone from the right to
further right thanks to one group called Sanseeto. So so
this year we had a pretty big election in July.
It was for half the seats in the House of Counselors,
which is the upper house of the diets, the you know,
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parliamentary group in Japan. Yeah, basically basically, but it also
has like the you know, it's population based as well.
So like I live in Toshigi Prefecture, we have only
one counselor, while Tokyo has six seats. So like it's
you know, so it's it's It was a very obviously,
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very big election. And in Japan. One thing that I
really think that you know, other places, especially the US,
might want to take into consideration is the campaign system
is a very short lived thing.
Speaker 1 (17:15):
Ye, this is wild.
Speaker 4 (17:18):
Yeah, So like basically you don't hear anything about whatever
is coming up in the election until just a few
weeks before it happened. So they announced the candidates in
this time around on July third. The election was July twentieth,
So like.
Speaker 1 (17:32):
What happened to the candidates seventeen? Yeah, yes, yes, fucking
rule right, right, I mean there.
Speaker 4 (17:41):
Are people who are like obvious, like incumbents and stuff
like that, right, people who you know, are the usual
candidates for the parties, you can assume they're going to
be the candidate again, right, stuff like that. But as
far as like the official declaration everything that's going to
be like at that time they start putting up. The
first thing is like flyers, you know, up in every
holy area, there's going to be a big banner where
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people put same sized flyers for all parties.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Standardized.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
Yeah, yeah, it's very very standardized. So you know you
can go past and like actually look at all the
candidates and like and because there are so many parties, like,
it's really easy for people to switch around and choose
someone else. That being said, in couments are more likely
to get re elected, you know, that's that's pretty common. Yeah,
Tochigi's one was elected a third time. Though. That being said,
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the Constitutional Democratic Party, which is the major left party
in Japan, did get the second most votes, so that
made me a little bit hopeful.
Speaker 1 (18:38):
But so over over the CenTra Like so shinzo Abe
would be like a somewhere between like a Bill Clinton
slash George W. Bush figure. Is that like where he
stood on the kind of political study, I mean kind of.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
I think it's it's yeah, that's kind of fair, Like,
I mean, he has a whole system. There's Ebanomics is
named after him, and the thing that's like that's an
English issue word, but it's in use in Japanese right
up in the mixes, so it's it's definitely like a
thing that's like very similar, I would say, to something
like a RA economics or whatever.
Speaker 1 (19:11):
They did not win. They came in third that that
group of people came in Yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (19:17):
Yeah, So like the thing about the counselors is so
in my case, the incumbent was actually LDP but in
in Tojiki Prefecture, but in other places. What made Sanseeto
scare everyone is that they seem to come out of nowhere, right.
This is a group that was started through a YouTube channel.
You know these guys, these three guys started this YouTube
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channel back in twenty nineteen that was like, here's how
to make a political party, and then in twenty twenty
they actually did it, and Sanseeto the name, the official
English name, is the do it yourself party, right because
Sanse's like participation. The idea is like you can also
do the thing in government, and their idea was like, well,
none of the other parties have good options, so we're
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going to make our own, which sounds wild when you
have so many parties, but.
Speaker 1 (20:06):
Sure, great. It's like if the politics were good, I mean,
it doesn't sound I will say, based on my experience
with DIY projects, that's not good. You know, you don't
want DIY associated with running my hand like someone who.
Speaker 4 (20:20):
Is currently wearing a sweater I made by hand. I
do feel very personally offended, so like you know, yeah, yeah,
I mean thank you, but the yeah, like I've noticed
in English they still use sanse Dola, but the official
English name is DIY Party whatever. So actually, honestly, maybe
using that might make them sound a little bit more
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silly in English. I'm sure. So this okays to think
about it.
Speaker 2 (20:44):
It's like an ultranationalist, it's like my worst nightmare as
a half Japanese person.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
I'm like, this is all this shit, this is it?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
Like, I mean, my mom left Japan for many reasons,
chiefly because of how misogynistic the culture is.
Speaker 1 (20:56):
Absolutely and that's still continues to this day.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
But like with sun Satal and like a lot of
the ultra nationalists, right, there's like all I mean, and
even with the LDP, there's this like insistence of taking
the domestic sort of defense force and like fully militarizing it.
And that's definitely with the encouragement of the United States also,
and that is leading a lot of people and be like, oh, guys,
you know, there's a reason why Japan doesn't have a
standing army, and that's gonna might bring up a lot
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of weird memories in the region because of its imperialistic history.
But yeah, like with Sunset Tol, I remember first being
like Jesus Christ, like, the far right is also gaining seats.
But also I think it's important to like look at
the context of Japanese politics too, because the LDP has
basically been in power continuously since nineteen fifty five for like,
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like there were two short blips where they weren't fully
in control, but basically for since nineteen fifty five they've
been the like it's been one party rule essentially. Yes,
And also it's important to point out that the LDP,
which has again been in power for this long. You know,
they came to power because after World War Two, like
conservative and socialist parties, they were rising in popularity and
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looked like they were going to gain control. And guess
which country came through with a bag full of cash
to sway the election towards the LDP. The United States obviously,
and the man who worked with the US on this
plan was none other than Abishinzo's grandfather.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
So like just to give you an.
Speaker 2 (22:28):
Idea of like how where Abshinzo comes from. And there's
a lot of ill will or you know, ambivalence towards
the lb LDP because.
Speaker 3 (22:36):
They're like they've been in power so long and ye.
Speaker 4 (22:39):
Changed, and I'm like, well, what's the It becomes a
I think because voter turnout was looking at the numbers,
like voter turnout is is still like it's like dropping
year by year, right, It's it's hovering around between fifteen
and sixty percent, which is like fairly normal, but it
used to be a lot higher. And so it definitely
feels like it especially I feel like after twenty like
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from my experience, after twenty twenty, like you know, once
Ave resigned, like he was just he became so unpopular
during like COVID, like he totally screwed up everything. The
economy was in shambles, and so that like there was
like no way for them even after they got new
leaders in power to like kind of bring back the
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you know power, like the interest in the LDP. So
it kind of makes sense. I guess if you are
conservative to go further right or like pick someone else,
even if I don't personally understand that, but whatever. And
so yeah, like seeing the shock of Sanseeto getting so
many seats in the House of Counselors this year really
woke a lot of people up to like what the
hell is going on? And like cause it was so short,
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and you know, I talked to I don't live in Tokyo,
but I have friends there, and I talked to them
about their experience, and for them, it was also very
sudden to see all of this stuff going on. And
not all of their seats are in Tokyo, of course,
it's like all over Japan. But like it was just like, wait,
what's going on? Why are we suddenly talking about like
the invasion of foreigners and stuff, like foreigners make up
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three percent of the population. And honestly, if you like
look at all the different talking points from the right,
it sounds exactly the same as what you hear from
Republicans today, like it's just it's.
Speaker 1 (24:17):
Just one playbook, yeah, yeah, no matter what, whether it
applies or not. And you know, in the United States,
like states where that don't have a border with a
foreign country or some of the have the the most
people who are terrified of like invasion.
Speaker 2 (24:32):
From well and then also just being an island nation.
Like it's just it's like you're it's doubled, like that
idea of like.
Speaker 1 (24:38):
Who's coming in here?
Speaker 2 (24:40):
Yeah, And I think the other thing worth pointing out
too before we get into you know, because a lot
of people all being.
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Like, oh, wow, Japan has its first woman as prime minister.
Speaker 2 (24:48):
And you're like, well, maybe yeah, before we start doing
the girl Boss golf clap to that, maybe let's look
at the policies. But like before getting into that, Like,
I think the thing with foreigners is really being it's
it's easy to really sort of gin up like frustration
and anger about that because they're the amount of I
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think there's a difference between tourists and the people who
actually reside in Japan.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
I think there's a huge.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Part of because tourism has gotten red hot again since
the since Japan reopened and because of the week yen,
a lot of people come in. They're spending their money,
and that has also caused prices to rise for local
people who have wages that are also not going up
just like like most nations.
Speaker 1 (25:34):
Would it be safe to say that everybody's working for
the weekend other this guy says, oh, sorry, you guys
can go forward myself out. You know what, sight like
the tourist thing is so.
Speaker 4 (25:50):
True because like I mean, it even gets viral like
in the US, right obviously whichever one of the pop
pros it was that like you know, went to the
suicide for everything like that was also very viral in
Japan obviously very offensive. Uh, there was a viral video
over the summer, I think, oh no, actually no, it
was like in September of an Australian tourist going to
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a grave site where someone had left an offering of
can of alcohol. Like clearly I guess that deceased person's
like their loved ones.
Speaker 2 (26:20):
Oh yeah one or something, yeah like that, right, and
they they drank They just like cracked it open and
drank it just for the lulls of the chiktok or whatever.
Speaker 4 (26:31):
And obviously, yeah, that stuff enrageous people. There's like so
many stories of really rude tourists and obviously that is
a problem. But the people who get affected are the
ones who live in Japan who are always following the rules.
And that's the other thing that you hear all the time,
and like all these things, like people will be like, oh, well,
you know they're coming to Japan. If they follow the
rules and stuff, then everything will be okay. But it's
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like they are though, like most people are doing really well.
They're like working, like you know, like all the people
I that I interact with the most to our foreigners
are they're primarily from South Asia in my area, primarily Nepal,
and they're working you know, service jobs more than anything else.
They're also often in school or working multiple jobs and
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like you know, trying to help out their families back
home and stuff. Like it's a very familiar story. Yeah,
very clear, Like these people are not the problem. And
also like again they're such a small part of the
population and they cannot vote, so what on earth do
they have to do with like whatever's going on in
the nation, like as a whole, right.
Speaker 2 (27:34):
Very difficult to be a foreigner living and working in Japan.
Just yea ready, you know what I mean? Yes, And
like to your point, it's like a lot of things
like well, like they're taking the jobs, like you're going
to work at a kombini, like you're going to work
at a convenience store in the same way American people
are like, do you know the jobs that these people
are taking? And on top of it, the demographic crisis
in Japan is like a whole other thing we can
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get into.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
I'm curious though, too.
Speaker 2 (27:58):
Before we started talking, you were saying a little bit
about like the person, because I think going to Japan
is so popular right now.
Speaker 1 (28:05):
Every fucking month there's someone be like, Hey, I'm going
to Japan. Do you think you give me some tips?
And I'm like, yeah, I'm always like yeah, man, all
the time. What's like?
Speaker 2 (28:13):
And I think there's a perception of people that go
to Japan and don't really understand what's there because on
the surface, everybody's calm and ready to take from eminem down.
Speaker 1 (28:24):
Yeah. Yeah, you see some moms spaghetti on people' sweaters. Yeah,
for sure, you see it out there, and you know.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
What's going on, But like, what do you how do
you sort of like you you were saying, you kind
of had a little bit to talk about on that
on that part of it of just sort of the
perception versus reality, So.
Speaker 4 (28:40):
Like, yeah, I love I mean, I'm always happy when
people can come to visit. Chris one thing, I can
hang out with them whatever. Sure, I live close enough
to Tokyo, I can go down there whatever. But like
it's like, you know, there's I'm so I'm glad that
like people want to come visit. Like I would say
most tourists are not assholes, yes, you know for sure,
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and that's great, But like there is definitely like a
frustration of yeah, like trying to like make sure like
things go well whatever because like these days. Oh the
other thing I guess that's like really important that I
think is like one of those it like it feels
really obvious, but then like is not just because of
the nature of the internet and stuff. Like one thing
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that people take super seriously in Japan is like recording
videos without like permission and stuff. And there is a problem,
especially from what I've seen in Tokyo in particular, of
like nursery schools and preschools having to put out signs
in front of the schools in English saying please not
record videos of the children at the school because like
that's and that's insane to me that that that's the
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thing that has to happen. But like there's so much
of that like of like.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Nelu you fuck because they're they're all wearing the same
backpack and have the same.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
Yeah I always see this have manners, yeah, like them alone,
like and.
Speaker 4 (29:59):
It's just like yeah, like it's there's all this like
dehumanizing stuff going on there, right, and it's just like
you want to live out your anime dream or whatever.
Like I get it to a certain degree. And you know,
having worked, especially as an English teacher for a long time,
I have dealt with the people who come to Japan
because they just want to hook up with Japanese people.
That's all over story. But like it's like, yeah, it
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just like feels like it's it's I understand from like
a pop culture perspective, wanting to come here, but it's
like we got we are also people and so like yeah,
I don't know. And then there's just like the fact
that like the average Japanese person doesn't watch anime and
like like because it's like statistic show's about a third
of us I watch anything animated and that can include
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like stuff that's from abroad also, so like yeah, the
average person's like I don't understand like why people are
here what they're doing over there, like what are there?
What they're dressed as or whatever? Like why is there
cosplay in the middle of the street. Like it's just
like there's all this stuff. It's very disruptive. And again,
people are just trying to live their lives and they
have a billion other problems that you know, have nothing
to do with the foreigners. But foreigners aren't necessarily make
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it easy when you know they're just trying to live
their lives. I don't know. It is like a very
complex problem I don't understand, but also like it's not
but anyway, like okay, so actually I have an anecdote.
I guess the other day, So I have a I
have a day job where I work at a supermarket
right now as a cashier. It's actually really been a
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good job for like getting to meet a lot of
people and I like that a lot. But the other
day I it was like really busy and this you know,
one old Japanese band that I helped, he like came
he like pulled me aside for a second and was
like like, aren't there too many foreigners working here? And
I was like what the fuck? And like because like wow,
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question to ask in general, because what am I supposed
to do about it as a cashier, But also like,
you know, a lot of Japanese people because I am
you know, also mixed, like they don't necessarily always know
that I am Japanese when they first meet me. So
it's like, does he think like I'm like one of
the good ones? What's happening are.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Face right now? Support? Yeah? Foreigners?
Speaker 4 (32:05):
It's like it's like either that or you like things
that I would be comfortable with, like agreeing with him
or something. But it was like I look around and
only like two of our visibly brown cashiers were working,
because I'm like, what the fuck is going on? But yeah,
it was just like the people. The fact that like
people are starting to like be more open about these
weird things is just like really scary.
Speaker 2 (32:24):
That's one thing I've noticed too, just growing up in
the Lapan all the time, is going from like just
seeing tourists everywhere and then hearing people be irritated like
oh Guijinga like saying like, oh my god, there's so
many foreigners here, Like that's becoming there.
Speaker 4 (32:42):
They're not they're not being nice about it, right.
Speaker 1 (32:44):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely not. Yeah, I thought that was
the fun nickname they had given me when I traveled.
Speaker 2 (32:49):
Yeah, yeah, hey hey guy, nice g it's me.
Speaker 1 (32:54):
I think they're like my jeens.
Speaker 2 (32:55):
No, they're calling you Geijing like fine, but before we go, you,
I just do want to touch on the historic, historic, yes,
ascendency of Taksana who is the Japan's now first prime
minister or woman prime minister. And again I think it's
one of those things, much like with the Nobel Prize
and like, oh, that's got to be fans like, well, sure,
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look look at the person's politics a little bit and
begin to understand that this person's idol is Margaret Thatcher
and she comes from the exact same machine as Abashinzo.
She also is you know, she she deals with likenon
Kaigi also who's like the you know, the most far
like they want to like erase Japanese history to be
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like nothing happened to World War two or before that
or anything.
Speaker 3 (33:40):
Okay, stop talking about it, stop bringing old ship up.
Speaker 4 (33:43):
That's where they're very big gat again for.
Speaker 2 (33:47):
Sure, And then you know, people call her Japan's Trump
also like in the way that she can like she
knows how to talk to him. Is you know the politics,
you know, somewhat overlapped, but enough that clearly Trump had
a good time and I think she she like has
enough in common and knows how to appeal to his
vanity that it seemed like a good trip where she
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gave him gold and it was like go golfing.
Speaker 1 (34:10):
So simple. Yeah, how does she figure these Trump whispers?
How do they figure out how to him?
Speaker 2 (34:16):
They also gave him gold also, and he's like, oh
this is brown.
Speaker 4 (34:20):
Yes, oh my god. Yeah, is like so, I mean,
it's not shocking that people would like just not look
past the fact that she's a woman. But it's just
like it's very frustrating. I mean, yes, she's bringing back
like we're rewriting fascism into fascism. It's like, what the
whole thing? But yeah, they like okay. So one of
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the main when it comes to there are a lot
of problems obviously with misogyny in Japan, as you already mentioned.
One of the main things that are is still being
fought about now is the fact that legally when a
couple gets married, first of all, still no same sex
marriage like overall, but also if you get married, one
of these spouses must change their surname and most of
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the time it's the woman that does. So Takaichi actually
interestingly is against this, like she does not want like
she doesn't want the women to be able to keep
their surname, which is the main fight right now. Takaichi
is no longer her surname. She married and kept her
maiden name publicly, but that's not her surname anymore legally,
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so like she is going against her own whatever. So
like that's like the start of it. But also, yeah,
she's against same sex marriage becoming legal here and like
a whole bunch of like you name it, she's against
it like that, any any.
Speaker 3 (35:41):
Cool YaST like overtime limits like that.
Speaker 1 (35:45):
Again, it's very much.
Speaker 4 (35:47):
We have a word in Japanese for death by overwork,
Like what are we doing? It's so it's so.
Speaker 1 (35:54):
Wide storied culture addressed the rising cost of living in
her first speech, so you know she's not gonna do
shit about it. I can predict anything.
Speaker 4 (36:05):
That happens, yeah, yeah, yeah, well.
Speaker 1 (36:07):
Yeah, we'll just let you work harder.
Speaker 4 (36:10):
Like the main So I guess when it comes to Kastavlion.
There's a lot of things, right, Stagnant wages for like decades.
Speaker 1 (36:17):
Same.
Speaker 4 (36:18):
The main thing that's like big here is that the
price of rice has doubled in the past year, which
is like obviously really huge. I don't know if you've
heard about Japanese cuisine, but we kind of like to
eat rice a lot. It's kind of a daily staple.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
I thought it was all my mom was a weirdo
about it, but it turns out everybody.
Speaker 1 (36:37):
You guys, try making everything out of corn, including this.
That's the next step.
Speaker 2 (36:43):
I mean, there was a whole thing where they're bringing
in foreign rice, and that was a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (36:47):
There was actually a.
Speaker 4 (36:47):
Thing I could bring up about corn. I don't know
when exactly this happened, but over the past few years
there's been a rise in popularity of corn tea in Japan.
So it's you can you can either get it like
the tea bags, or you can buy like a cold
drink that's already made quarantine but in the store, and
(37:08):
there's like several brands. I don't know why that's become
a thing, but it feels very connected to America.
Speaker 1 (37:14):
Yeah, it's called evolution, it's called Ford progress. In America,
it's called corn syrup and mountain.
Speaker 2 (37:20):
Eventually everything will become corn like here in the United States.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
Well, Amy, it's such a pleasure having you on the show.
It's great to hear from you. Thank you for your
service in the Discord. Thank you for coming on and
telling us about things happening outside of the United States.
Where can people find you besides the Discord?
Speaker 4 (37:42):
Great question. So I like finally removed x everything up
from my phone a few weeks ago and it's been
done doing wonders for me. But technically you can still
find that account and Instagram and Blue Sky. I am everywhere.
I'm at IU she knows a y U sah k
and ows you mentioned at the top. I am an artist.
(38:03):
As of this recording, I currently have no commissions, but
usually the most commissions I get is around this time
of year because it is gifts giving season. So if
you want a painting of your favorite person or a pet, whatever,
I'm always down for that. I also sell prints of
my past artwork and all that good stuff, so you
(38:25):
can find me all over the place there and my podcast,
So my main podcast is Sparkleside Chats with Magical Girl.
I you That's where I talk to people about magical girls.
That is stuff like Sailor Moon or most recently K
Pop Demon Hunters is the big one right now, of course,
but there are still tons of other things. You know,
dozens of series come out every year in the genre
and it's awesome. So if you want to know more
(38:46):
about that or else to watch, if you want your
kid to watch more than just K Pop Human Hunters,
check out that podcast and my next podcast coming out.
The feeds are open, but the first episode is not
quite yet is called charm Point Radio, which is about
idle media and now what I'm actually doing with two
friends Leon and Aaron, who yeah, they're just like me.
We love talking about idle media, which actually Kate Pop
(39:08):
Peven Hunters is also included in that but of non
magical variety. Typically though, our first episode is going to
be about zombie idol, so it's gonna get It's gonna
be an interesting ride.
Speaker 3 (39:19):
All right, perfect, yes, all the time.
Speaker 4 (39:22):
Check those that as well.
Speaker 1 (39:23):
Go check i Amy's work. Very cool, Go commission something
so really really awesome. All right, you bad is going
to do it for us. We are back tomorrow with
a whole ass episode of the show. Until then, be
kind to each other, be kind to yourselves, get your
vaccines whey you still can get your flu shots, don't
do nothing about white supremacy, and we will talk to
(39:45):
you all tomorrow. By The Daily Zeite guys as executive
produced by Catherine.
Speaker 2 (39:49):
Law, co produced by Bae Wayne, co produced by Victor Wright,
co written by j M McNabb, and edited and engineered
by Brian Jeffries.
Speaker 1 (40:01):
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