0:00 thank you [Music] meet the Japanese man who gets paid to do nothing yeah his name is how much does he get paid oh that's like the Japanese Prince he just stands there for ceremonial activities no definitely not that he's a 38 year old Tokyo resident he charges 71 in Americans with 10 000 Yen wow per booking to accompany clients and just hang out with them as a companion dude I could do that wow so he talks us does he say anything he talks and stuff he's a good he's a good hang that's how he's doing something well some are arguing that he's not really doing anything at all yeah he's not providing like a service like a late skilled labor but Joe didn't you say in
0:50 Japan some people are like really lonely yeah so this is a good service because so there's like a um there's a Consulting service because there's like this phenomenon that's going on where like people just ████ become Hermits and they don't go out they don't do ████ their parents can't get them to leave the house and so now there's this like big sister service where like big sister huh they'll come suck their dick whoa well they they'll it's like they ease them into society but they have the role of like being a big sister like hey did you eat anything today like you want to hang out reminding them of stuff and then they'll just yeah and then they'll come in and it's like non-threatening like big brothers can be threatening but like older sisters like it's more nurturing
1:40 more nurturing and it's like hey uh why don't we try going to the park today or whatever right and then like they'll start to integrate into society again so it's like they have a pretty good success rate but their services like that trying to help these people that are like yeah it's like taskrabbit things for like social yeah yeah wow I don't know if this is what this is how did that happen how did that like phenomenon what do you think caused that ████ Japanese people are home bodies you know I watch something but I forgot it so I don't want to make up the reasons so you have unlimited amounts of really ████ quality video games and porn it's got to be video games so you're jacking off all day and you're playing games all day like the wow kids and you're just like why the ████ would you go out that's true wow kids become wow adults right not exactly wowing women
2:32 and then they have like wild kids and they're even worse because they're probably just stuck inside yeah yeah wow uh so he's yeah he's he's made like 300 G's in the last year right 300 G's or in the past four years but he's he's booked 4 000 sessions so far you could do like rent a family you could do like there's a lot of funny rent a friend Services out there that are kind of trolley so it's not serious but then they play along with it because they do like a lot of role playing that's fun though yeah so it's like the you know how like it's like half jokey doing it okay so it could be one of those things too yeah yeah that's interesting well um apparently a quarter of his so he has he has a quarter million followers on Twitter where that's where he finds most of his clients right and roughly a quarter of them are repeat customers including one his his most
3:22 um um booked customer hired him 270 times holy ████ dude imagine they've become best friends on the job so when he's off the clock he's like nah ████ get away from me like because he's like it's only a professional thing like you're we're not really friends he doesn't want to ████ with his income yeah you want to be nice give me some money it might be nice right now yeah what if that's what it's like he just turns it on for like I wonder if it's friendship yeah yeah or if it's do they did they specify the service or is he obligated to companionship it's just hanging yeah oh um his job has taken him to places such as a park with the person who wanted to play on a seesaw so that's a little weird that's weird uh they should just ████ you know that'd be less weird he also um this one this one got me this one actually got me last night when I was reading about this he uh he was hired to stand outside of a train
4:14 window and wave at a complete stranger as they get taken oh that's sad that means that person just wanted to feel like cared for like that he'll be missed he should be missing man that's crazy that's such a simulated so empty yeah not crazy yeah imagine he just like ████ you want it no sorry can I hire you don't keep me up so I know like a lot of the kids these days they have their own iPads and stuff right so that's like one thing that keeps them inside and then if you live in like a big city then you're not really going out to play like in the suburbs right so I feel like that that combination is a huge one where they barely go outside so
5:04 um if you have kids that are raised like that then when they have kids their kids are even like more hermit I guess because like this type of phenomenon like I see not just in Japan but I see it here too so it's kind of happening all over the world what if it corrects itself like several Generations later because when they realize like wait what there's an outside world and then it's like the Matrix all over again and they break so stupid I remember something now um it has this like Failure to Launch like fear of adulting kind of thing so like it's like it's pretty easy for them to kind of stay home and then like going out and doing the responsible ████ job relationships all those things are like too ████ scary so they stay home yeah but I I don't blame them though because
5:54 like once you learn about how the world is working it's like ████ do it do I really want to work for the rest of my life when I can just be a streamer that's also why one of the reasons of the low birth rate because they're like why the ████ would I wanna talk about kids and do more ████ yeah so they actually have a point but it's like it's the birth rate also so the ████ rate is low too extremely low oh so yeah even just like you confirmed it's low not necessarily so like apparently it's a small percentage of dudes having a lot of ████ sex but then um generally the overall I guess percentage is like relationships are low too so like just like monogamous standard traditional like that kind of stuff is not really existent and people
6:45 are hooking up and isn't there a problem you said with like people don't want to move to Japan from the outside to live there like it's hard to so it's a very homogeneous like pretty racist old-school Society there's a chick there's a chick who uh hired him because she had a Dr an Indian dress called asari that she wanted to wear but she didn't want to embarrass her friends and so she hired him to just hang out with her while she wore the sorry so she could wear it out in public wow that's very complex but it's pretty cool I guess yeah yeah I guess do you think it comes from I like how engaged he is with what's going on he's like I don't care dude he's milking this yeah he's he's pretty tight do you think it's because it's a very suppressive like culture like you're not supposed to do this well I know I know they don't have any shame in um having compartmentalized services that's one and then like another thing
7:36 is um they're not as open as we are with friends and family as far as like having these conversations everything is a script or like everything is like what do you call them pre-rehearsal no it's like um like the mores or no no it's called when you have like the way you conduct yourself with each interaction so like we have these when we walk up to a cashier right and then we bring like products right they go how was your day today there's like there's like those it's etiquette right so so traditionally there's that depending on who you address okay and then so you're never like comfortable in the sense of what's allowed here so out here it's more like there's there's true freedom and how you
8:26 have friendships how you speak you speak from your heart all that stuff what I know of it is like the younger generation is getting a little bit better but traditionally they never say what they feel because it's shunned and it's just a different world where like people don't even know themselves because they were never allowed to be themselves so it'd be weird if you like went up to a cashier and you're like hey what the ████ really going on man yeah yeah you could you get real with me you're like [Laughter] no no my Insider perspective and this is just like my view of the culture just from like growing up in it and everything right is like the way I see it is you have a lot of geniuses creating systems of culture
9:16 like like of the infrastructure the building way things should be and then you have a really disciplined idiot group that will just follow without thinking so then it they appear smart because everything is orderly right but what it really is is they're just obedient yeah so then everything's on time everything works but they can't really think outside of those parameters so when you go out there and you try to like customize your meal you try to do all this ████ like they'll just malfunction and be like I don't know how to do that they only know how to follow a system that some genius created yeah so then when you have a society like that you're taught how to conduct yourself in these interactions with other human beings this is how you address friendships this is how you address whatever so then when it diverts from that and you're like oh ████ um I
10:07 don't know if my friends would accept this so I'll do it this way so it kind of makes sense in that structure because they're not used to just being like hey you want to ████ do this real quick it is generally speaking right there are people that divert out of that but like yeah do you think that the birth rate problem is a is a backfired effect of the rigidness of society hell yeah dude it it it's like everyone gets the ████ in at the bargain so like if you come from an older generation who just follows right the new generation is smarter so they're they're they're they're they're more Global they're like ████ connected to the internet and it's kind of the same way here right where we're like saying man ████ that I'm to work for like a company and give my like I want a better work-life balance or whatever for them it's like it's worse in Japan because you have people overworking and dying right yeah there's that phenomenon happening there
10:57 they see like once especially for women so like once they become married they're still expected to do the traditional gender role stuff of like running the household and whatever but it's a modern capitalist Society where both people work so so they're the women are still expected to raise the children clean the house do all that the guys don't have to do it so the women are like so they're double duty yeah I'm gonna still work while I have to do this ████ and then the guys are like well once I become a father so the life goal of being that is so unattractive because the expected roles of Parenthood is like now you become a father and all of your life is dedicated to your children you don't have a personal life anymore and then the guys are like I'd rather be a kid and ████ play video games so what's the point of integrating into society is just more work that makes sense and then
11:48 there's no hope for um advancement in lives yeah well that's ████ lame it is it's like slavery right so like but before people were ignorant so you had an obedient group of people that'll just fall in line but now they're like seeing like people making it on YouTube and all these other things so they're just like but it's not as free and entrepreneurial is out here so I think that's still frowned upon probably why they're like ████ that I'm gonna opt out of this Society dude they just need to not give a ████ I think it's slowly getting there though the younger generation is gonna be like I don't care anymore they're just gonna be more casual and it's gonna end up probably like here you know like where people I think that I don't care is them just staying home all day and not working and doing ████ it's like anti-society but it'll spread you know as like yeah like yeah no no no no Bobby 100 says it's
12:38 over for us but how does this all relate to Anthony [Music]
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