0:00 [Music] ikea is renting out tiny tokyo apartments for under one dollar a month ikea ikea are they furnishing these apartments for people to come and see the they are furnishing them so swedish furniture company ikea's offering a tiny home apartment in tokyo for the price of less than a dollar a month for one year ikea said the 107 square foot apartment in shinjuku district will be rented out on one year lease for a price of 86 cents per month not including utilities what's the square footage you said 107. whoa so we're talking tiny 107 it's not bad still like a 10 by 10. that's one way to look at it yeah i mean bro if you've got a roof over your head for one for one dollar a month obviously
0:50 yeah that's not bad yeah and you can live in tokyo that's pretty sick yeah you just go there to sleep i said shinjuku's like well i think that's like party city a lot of optimism here i like it yeah we all have asian mentality that's why we're all like we're like yeah it's all good it's a good deal you know what i see the resources that's actually cheaper than a capsule hotel yeah it's bigger yeah because capsule hotels are like 20 bucks a night i like tour bus beds dude i don't hate it you do what you got to do yes i'll rent four of them for four dollars make one my living room one of them my bedroom one in my kitchen you did it bro bart's just gonna break the wall you know what i'm gonna do i'll rent the whole building for 36 dollars yeah man just goes to one guy he's like come on man don't be a dad that's not what
1:41 we're trying to do applications from prospective tenants who must be at least 20 years old we should all do it let's do it let's just do it as a group let's just all apply why wouldn't we all of us for one room no we each apply for one room and then we knock down the walls and then you sublease at a premium price and then for two dollars oh and then we could we could lease it to a youtuber for like a hundred thousand dollars a month yeah a hundred thousand x gains think about what we could do that's good it's good so the apartment is being furnished with ikea products it's all good to me one of the keys is to make good use of the vertical space the company said on its website by capturing the room three-dimensionally new possibility possibilities open up in limited space you know what's funny is if you just rent it take chuck out all the furniture put pier one and creighton barrel stuff in there
2:32 but the room only has just one it cost you a million i'm like hey can we can we upgrade to restoration hardware on this one yeah you fancy a little rh in there yo bro i'm not i'm on tv bro i love it yeah it's that patel money you know my new bag is for furniture it's so ████ expensive i haven't afforded one thing but it's okay i like looking at it yeah soho home what's that i gotta check it out it's so you know soho house yeah yeah they have soho home which is their furnishing sector wow and if you are a soho house member you get discounts but if you're not then it's just ridiculously expensive that's the like a price of a coffee table or a couch or something probably four grand yeah that's more than rh we're about to
3:22 say yeah it's ████ expensive but they're sick as ████ because if you've been to tell the house everything's just like bougie and nice and weirdly like cool yeah right yeah because you're paying for it you are paying for it yeah you are paying for a subscription ikea is promoting this tiny home with a series of videos featuring a person in a shark costume portraying a real estate agent videos feature the shark named blog are they in the apartment they take that is such a japanese marketing tactic his name is blahaj b-l-a-h-a-j does that even have to do with anything you got a suit on bro no seriously can we do this what's the shark like why wouldn't i is that the room that's the room that looks kind of cool dude i'd go to japan and live there for a month for one dollar
4:12 i've never been yeah then i don't spend any money on logic and it's safe as hell too so oh i'd ████ love it dude it's supposed to be like their kind of like dodgy area but it's like well that's why it's what's dodgy dodgy for them it's like beverly hills first [Laughter] [Applause] oh you said that you said there's brothels and ████ are they one dollar also yeah he's like wow yo ikea sponsored brothels for a dollar well you only get the mouth or the hat but but it's still a shark if it's a shark you got a shot i'm intrigued i'm intrigued their bad area is still like our good area so it's it's kind of hard that area
5:02 is our fantasy yeah yeah that's true it's a utopia as long as criminals stay in jail they're a bad area is what our politicians campaigned for we'll be like the bad parts of japan i'm voting for this guy what yeah what are the major problems going on in japan right now from like a civilian point of view isn't it like uh nobody's having kids yeah i mean like underpopulated too much stress from their parents yeah clean cars the economy hasn't recovered since the 80s but it's still the top threes still this is working on fukushima fukushima they're like guys our sushi reputation was really ruined by fukushima we got to bring it back but everybody's still eating these radioactive fish that's okay yo you know that movie uh dreams of
5:52 uh europe yeah i hear people say that sushi's not even that good who said that for her my mom i told her about it you should stop yeah because you should stop value by baby stop buy one get one feed promos on postmates do you guys remember sushi boy that fast food chain yeah i remember sushi boy it was just now okay it was like your mom said uh the girl places yeah when that documentary came out i was like oh have you seen jira you know she goes oh yeah that old guy and i'm like apparently by the time the documentary came out on netflix i mean was it netflix yeah yeah and the world got it yeah it's been out for a while for them it's already old and then so the the hot spot was actually zero suns so they're like because out there they're like why would you want old ████ so like we want the traditional real
6:42 ████ right like everyone outside of japan old ass fish but my mom over there like i want the cutting edge new school ████ i don't want this old ████ grill girl yeah i want a philadelphia roll what the ████ she's like more cream cheese more cream cheese eel sauce sad bro bust out the blowtorch because remember we were gonna do it we were uh remember we're gonna do a trip out there and i was like oh maybe we could get um you know like like we could get a booking so i was trying to tell her about that i was like oh you want to go mom like we would go get a ████ booking i thought she'll be like excited and she goes that old place she's like i raised you wrong oh like what what do you mean ████ up and she goes ah that fool doesn't change he's stubborn you gotta get some new stuff i'll take you to a place with french fries on me that's what i want baby i want a four
7:33 michelin star that's where they just deep fry everything four michelin stars baby everything's deep fries that's a lot of hot now yeah when i went to japan i think the only thing it wasn't about like who or what uh like or what restaurant you went to in the city it was just about going to the tsukiji fish market at like 6 a.m which i missed out on it's like as long as you go there and i remember waking up butt crack at like 4 a.m early trying to get to the ████ sushi spot you walk through the market everybody's killing these giant tunas and ████ like that and then any ████ of the small-ass spots that have long lines that are right next to the market you just gotta wait in that line for like an hour and then once you get in they're hurting you get like 20 minutes to eat you don't get to pick what you eat they're just like you sit down a small spot they ████ give you what they give you the second they finish giving you to give you the check tell your ass to get out i went to the market and then i went i saw i witnessed a fruit auction and i saw a cantaloupe
8:23 sold for three hundred dollars just one what you know the place that you guys went to they moved it so so that chance like i missed out on the the that fish market that that was there for like a hell of a long time it's now it's i mean it's not the fish market i mean the locations change so they move the whole thing is are those guys mafia iran because a lot of dudes are tatted the ████ up like driving the fish truck system i mean yakuza yeah i was like oh sure i'm like these japanese guys look different refer to them in the right offices in japan a lot of bronx transplants in tokyo anybody want to use guys better buy it can i go ████ you'll pass me the tuna it's not the wrong tuna i want a
9:13 mozzarella on my tuna that's like kind of kind of seattle fish market maybe at best where they throw them where they throw the food yeah yakuza in seattle for sure everywhere dude joe might be yakuza we don't know no all right well now we know where are we there's your chance to admit it take his word for it you know i like the whole like tiny living and like tiny homes van life uh miniature ████ it's like a weird uh minimalist society nowadays right subculture i feel like i remember hearing about that kind of stuff out of like uh necessity upwards building and vertical like it used to be called homelessness yeah yeah and yeah living out of your car because you're down and out whereas now in america it's like a trend imagine how people in hong kong feel about that ████ that they're seeing people in places that are huge
10:05 america's like look at this tiny home i built with all this land that i have and everybody in hong kong is just like what the ████ this is like the best we got you know what i mean yeah they're pissed they're watching hgtv saying ████ that's all they do you really want to depress yourself just drop like a random pin on zillow in the middle of the united states oh my god and you're like what the ████ i can own a 19 bedroom house on 82 acres with 48 cows for like half a million dollars or they're giving it away i can get one tire in los angeles like i can get one tire for my car for the same price it's not even real estate it's not even real estate it's wheel estate yeah it's like everybody that lives in montana we'll give you a parking spot we'll give you one parking spot i have a buddy that lives in montana and
10:55 he was uh recording this i was watching stories and he goes like oh cool look at the deer drinking from my creek i'm like what the ████ dude time to go ████ himself we got a homeless man drinking from the sewer dude i'm getting emails every other weekend about like homeless people fighting outside of my apartment building i'm like what the hell is going on it's a comment dude it sucks a homeless guy took a brick from my house and threw another homeless guy who stole his bike in front of my house no yeah did you hit the brick back nope i literally don't know where it is and it was a cinder block did you at least take the bike no he took it and he ran off he ran he took a bike and he ran instead of ran off with it and the guy was chasing him it was crazy crazy but if you have a dope house in the meta verse doesn't matter that's true there's no metabolism homeless people in the metaverse though just to keep things sleeping how'd you get in here
11:46 well because we live in los angeles it's cheaper for me to buy vr than to buy my own they just gave it to him i decided to just join the metaverse it's squatting on your nft land [Music] you
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