0:05 Welcome back to another episode of the Careful Boys, where yo, there's this Japanese city, aka Osaka. Osaka me? Osaka me? Osaka bin Laden? It's crazy. Um Bin Laden? They received 21 gold bars with the instructions to fix their water pipes. There's a an anonymous donor. Is that some Yakuza ████ Do do they do that? I have no idea. 21 gold bars? >> That's a speculation. Uh That's so much money. >> Worth more than $3 million. Uh Don't the Yakuzas also like take care of their own? So if they're like, "F███, this has been ████ up. Here, go fix it." >> They want to be known that it was them. >> Oh. >> Because it's a um it's like good PR. Oh. For, you know,
0:57 See, they're Robin Hoods, dude. That's But then how do they credit it? Cuz if you just say the Yakuza helped me, that doesn't identify you. It'll be that No, it'll be that family or that group. You They all have headquarters. But the do Yakuzas nowadays are they like does everyone know that that's a Yakuza, or do they just think that's just a corporation? They've always known that that's them. No, dude, they can't tell anymore. Everybody's got tattoos. >> But they're uh it's illegal now. So they broke them up. So a lot of them don't have the power that they used to. But no, they all It's kind of like All right, so you know like the the Triads, right? So there's Yeah. one called the Tongs. So in every Chinatown, you'll see like the Hop Sing Tong organization. You'll be like, whatever. It's very similar, where like they have headquarters, an office, they have business cards, they have their thing. >> Yeah. And then they're all in open. So like people know who they are. >> But what's the like how do you know the
1:47 difference between like that's just a company and that's a Yakuza? Yeah. You ████ look at the dude and he's a gangster. No. But is it obvious? >> tell. You can't there's what do you call it? There's like the enforcers and then the ones that are outward facing and then there's the ones that are also like like a secret agent that infiltrate companies and ████ So, some people work in Toyota and all that stuff and you have no ████ idea until they're caught up in the Epstein ring. You know what I mean? >> Yeah. Is there Yakuza guys who are like the head of Nintendo or ████ >> Yeah. A lot of them in Now though, I heard that a lot of them got like they had they have their own like RICO laws kind of stuff that helped bring down the mafia here. And there's just like they created new laws to break them all up. So, they
2:38 don't have the power that they used to. >> feels like it blended together over time where like if Yakuza's upgraded to kind of being like white-collar big corporations and companies and big corporations and companies also criminally steal from you, Yeah. they're all kind of the same, right? >> They're all they're all >> Yeah, they are the same. >> if Boeing can kill you, >> Yeah. right? A lot of the cartels like they're all in white-collar business. >> Exactly, yeah. Yeah. >> They're ████ avocado farmers. But it's the type of business that they do that they control. So, like they don't want to ████ go out there and like make a lawn mower business. Like they're involved already in prostitution, loan sharking, owning bars. >> Yeah, and they they traffic the girls for like >> Yeah, international trafficking, gun trafficking. They do all that. So, they're like, "I'm already busy working this. I don't want to run 7-Eleven, you
3:29 know?" >> Mhm. Yeah, but >> And pay taxes on Yeah. But they do work with all those corporations to handle business in the dark side ████ >> Yeah, yeah, yeah. This particular person though or I guess unknown person I I I think a lot of speculation comes down to more that maybe it's like a retiree or somebody that's like about to pass and they just happen to have their savings in gold. Gas prices. Um, but the thing is the whole initiative is for them to like kind of start a little bit of momentum in that they want to fix the water piping and plumbing out there because they have a old water system that's uh causing certain people issues. There there's lots of like complaints in the city about like chlorine leakage uh that's going through the pipes and whatnot cuz this is a really old post-war um
4:19 plumbing system. And they need if they were to really replace and fix the pipes out there in Osaka, there would be over like 560 km of pipes. Whereas ironically this 3 plus million dollars or 21 gold bars worth of pipe fixing might only be like 1.2 km. 1.2 km. >> Think about like digging up old God damn, bro. Right? And street and stuff like that. Mexican? Gavin Newsom. Oh my god. >> And then he'll come over there and then the he'll make use of the 3 million dollars like crazy. He's like, "This is not enough. We need to We need to raise more money." >> trillion actually. >> "Hey, can we Can we burn down this neighborhood? And then we'll have a a profit before profit concert."
5:10 Damn, burn down this neighborhood and have a for-profit concert is so crazy. It's a play that works. And then they but they were like, "Oh, we don't have money for the wildfire people, so uh oh well." I have to >> like you've been to Osaka. >> to Osaka. I've been to Osaka. >> We went We went too, right? Yeah. Yeah, we went that one time. It's a It's a ████ dope ass city. >> your favorite city of the of what you visited in Japan? >> I I want to stay longer. I haven't been long enough like to really absorb the culture, but um they're the home of takoyakis. It feels more chill than Is that a baseball player? Way chill. For sure more chill. Pitcher for the Dodgers. >> It's more chill, but they they also have more like uh personality in a weird way. So, like Like they're just the way that they talk. You know, it's like it's like more Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like Tokyo is like New York,
6:00 and Is that Is that legit? Is that in Osaka? Oh, they have their own like like >> They got their own iced tea, too. Does this sound like more Korean or more Cantonese sounding? More Chinese sounding? Wow. I have a theory that a lot of Osaka is um Cantonese culture. They're not actually Japanese, right? Technically or whatever. Oh, no, that's Okinawans. That's Okinawan. They have one of the biggest Chinatowns in Japan, and it was a big trading port, and I think that like a lot of Chinese immigrated there and became Japanese cuz it's so similar to Cantonese culture. Like they're like They're more expressive. They're like more louder. They're more like I don't know. They're more like open and like What if they're just faking more ████ >> Yeah, yeah. >> just imposters? They've been Chinese this whole time. >> They could That's my theory, dude. I
6:50 think a lot of Yeah, yeah. Cuz they did that They did that ████ in the Philippines. Yeah, they look different, too. Yeah, that's my That's my theory, though. They do. Watch out. I'll just transform right in front I'm a chameleon, dude. Become a Jew right now. That looks like Mongolian still. Hard gay is from? HARD GAY. I DON'T KNOW WHERE WHERE HE'S ACTUALLY FROM, BUT like okay, Osaka's known for like fire ████ like food. Like okonomiyaki, like Oh, they made okonomiyaki >> Yeah, like yakisoba, Oh, yeah. That's Chinese food, you know, like ████ yeah. Like chow mein pretty much. Like And then they have their Chinese food is fire. Like they have a really big Chinatown. Like dude, I love Osaka. Yeah, it's a it's it's like the the
7:40 culture's there like So, yeah, Tokyo's like New York. I love the Chinese part of Japan. Old New York, like that ████ right? But it's like it's like proper and like different. And then Osaka's like partying and like big expressive people and then like a lot of comedians come out of there, a lot of like entertainers and singers and like yeah. >> Is that where Takashi Miike came from? Who that? I don't know. >> the the ████ Battle Royale teacher. Takashi >> Oh, Tak Yeah, oh wait, yeah, I don't know if he's from part of George Takei George Takei No, no, no, no. I think you're talking about the Guruguru 99 guy. >> yeah. He's from He's in Anarchy too, right? That movie, the same guy? Anakin Skywalker Maybe. It's the dude who has like a eye like this. >> Oh, Aniki? Yeah, yeah. Uh This guy. Same dude, the teacher. The karate guy?
8:31 The student Oh, that's the grandpa from 3 Ninjas. >> Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. No, dude. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TWO JAPANESE MOVIES. THAT guy's Korean. This guy is not the 3 Ninjas grandpa? That's like great >> Remember the Takeshi's Castle guy and he has a fan and he keeps hitting the other guy and then everyone laughs? I don't remember. >> Takeshi's Castle Spirited Away The ████ are you saying right now? I'm This guy's in 3 Ninjas. Did you go for It's NOT THAT ████ GUY. NOT THAT ████ GUY. >> That's Big Trouble in Little China, dude. Not him, dude. Shu hard, that's not fair. That's samurai outfit, right? >> It's Egg Chen, dude. He's wearing like white feudal Japan ████ Yeah, and then he has a fan and he's the teacher in Battle Royale that makes the kids like fight, basically, yeah. Yeah. That's Ta-
9:21 Takeshi >> from. Takeshi's Takeshi's Takeshi's some ████ Cuz he's actually a comedian or started out >> Mifune? He started out as one. Mifune, the freaking samurai guy? Hey, did you know Takashi 69's not really even Japanese, right? That's who WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. THAT'S WHO I'M THINKING ABOUT. ████ YOU, DUDE. BROTHER. THAT'S YOUR THAT'S YOUR OLD man doppelganger. Bro, that does look like you. >> That looks like you. What's his name, dude? Grandpa. No, what is it? Three Ninjas Grandpa. That's you Bro, that's you later. >> Golden Child too, with Eddie Murphy. He's He's the guy when Pat Morita is not around. He's the guy. Mori Tanaka. That's not his name, dude. It's Chinese. What the hell's his name?
10:12 Victor Wong. Victor Wong. Where did you get Mori Tanaka? That's his the name in Three Ninjas. Grandpa Mori Tanaka. You're so dumb. The funny thing is his body double They should have just used him, but they didn't. Oh, my bad. It's Takeshi Kitano. OH! BEAT TAKESHI. Beat Takeshi? Can you put Beat Takeshi? Beat Takeshi? Takeshi. Yeah, my bad. My bad. My bad. My bad. Dude Dude's a ████ G, remember this dude? Oh my god, dude. That's freaking He's a G, dude. >> Beat Takeshi. He's the Aniki guy. Hold on, I got to find the right photo, but I'll All right. We want uh This guy is hard. Look at this photo right here, dude. What? He's always playing like gangster roles. What about this guy, though? From
11:02 Adachi City. That dude's a comedian first. He was first a comedian I think, yeah. You talking ABOUT THIS GUY? NO, DUDE. PAT MORITA WAS A COMEDIAN FIRST. He was from Hawaii, yeah. Get this guy Egg Shen. I like him. I like how they couldn't afford Pat Morita, so they got this guy. I type in Raymond Wong, dude. So we're typing in old Chinese guys. The dude The The guy from Return of the Dragon, and he's like kind of gay and effeminate, you know, he's in all the Bruce Lee movies. You said type in Victor Wong? Raymond. No, we said Victor Takeshi. Be Beat Oh, that's from Golden Child right there. That gold That ████ gold robe. Oh, this guy, Raymond Wong. Okay. Victor Wong, right? >> That dude, right? The pretty guy? No.
11:52 Why? >> god. I don't know. He just He said Victor Wong. That's who's Victor Wong? This is Victor Wong. >> He Takeshi. That's his name in what movie though? No, this is real name. Type in James Wang, SGV lawyer.
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