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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Hey, everybody, it's time for Josey and Manda's cutting room floor.
What's on the cutting room floor today?

Speaker 2 (00:13):
Do you remember a couple of weeks ago we talked
about a thing in Japan where particularly women of a
certain age, older women were choosing to go to prison
because they hadn't know where to live. Life is expensive
and life is lonely. So these women there's a rule

(00:34):
where if you offend twice I think it is, you
go to prison. So these women were stealing small bits
of bits and pieces so that they'd be sent to prison.
And there's a whole community of these women in prison,
and that's where they liked to be. It's kind of sad,
but it's all about community. And if that's we have
to go to find your community.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
But if you're an elderly person in a terrible retirement
home or something like that and you can't afford it,
it's better that you're in prison. Well, if something happens
to you medically or whatever, we the people, the government
has to look after you. Well.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
In Japan, I don't know if they have the culture
of going to retirement homes. And if your family don't
look after you, where do you go. So there's another
prison story that I found interesting. This is in South Korea.
They've turned a prison into a retreat. It's called a
Prison for Relaxation. It invites guests to pay for a
period of voluntary isolation that serves as a mental reset.

(01:28):
Inspired by this, by his own experience of relentless work,
this lawyer developed this concept as a disciplined escape from
digital distractions. We're a point in our lives that people
are spending so long being distracted by their digital items,
whether it's a television, a phone, or computer. So he's
launched this in Soul and visitors have engaged in two

(01:49):
day sessions. It involves spending up to twenty hours a
day in a quiet cell. Wow. I've noticed in White Lotus,
the latest season of White Lotus, and we spoke about
White Lotus on our podcast yesterday that this resort encourages
you to put your phones away. They are a non
phone resort in this TV show. Whether it's in real life,
I don't know. Would you choose to do that?

Speaker 1 (02:10):
Yeah? I would, Yeah, I think I find the phone.
It's like crack. Your phone is like crack.

Speaker 2 (02:18):
But I would say that to my children and they
would say, it's not all negative crack. Some of it's
positive crazy, some of it is that's where you read,
that's how your brain winds down, it's not just revving up.
Sometimes if you're in a working environment, you may need
to be away from your phone. But I relax at

(02:38):
night by doing wordle on my phone, by flicking through
recipes on my phone. The phone isn't always a negative thing, no.

Speaker 1 (02:46):
Now, But it's like the car. The cars are on
a negative thing. But it does kill a lot of people.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
But would you go on a relaxation weekend and refuse
to drive.

Speaker 1 (02:56):
Well, you might go on a relaxation weekend and there's
no cars on the island. Perhaps, unless you're on fantasy
island and mister Rooke and Tattoo come along in one
of those little golf buddy things.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
How cool they were? There no cars on that island.
Don't you get to live out your fantasy? What if
your fantasy is that everyone has a car?

Speaker 1 (03:12):
Hey, mister Rook, can you rustle up some cars? I'm
a here frock.

Speaker 2 (03:16):
Actually, you watch that show? Is the premise that you
live out the fantasy you want, But it ends up
that that isn't the fantasy you want.

Speaker 1 (03:21):
Exactly So, you want a life of a race car driver,
for example, on Fantasy Island, and they break their policy
and have a race car for you, and you live
the life, and then all of a sudden you get
caught up in a fiery crash or everyone happened to you.
Maybe your girlfriend gets killed in a fiery crash. And
then that's where you learn and you go back to

(03:42):
your old life and you're happy.

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Right, So Fantasy Island is all about selfish people who
want things that they shouldn't have.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
Yeah, it's a bit of come up.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
And and also do you think he put that suit
in Napisan? It was always white. The island had a
very good launch.

Speaker 1 (03:57):
Great maybe and if you wed a lot of there
in your fantasy was to be in a very nice
place with a nice laundry. What happens then he'd give
you a pair of andes. Get the skitties out of this.

Speaker 2 (04:13):
The plane, the plane that's the for to day that
was Jo'll

Speaker 1 (04:18):
See the name of this gun room from back tomorrow
for some more