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Japanese Village Stages Puppets Around Town to Cope with Depopulation

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0:00 you think some of them went in the puppets oh yeah for sure dude that's quick come on man Japanese what don't [Music] we so we've talked about this before we've talked about and I know Joe's very pass very passionate about it um there's a population Decline and there's areas of Japan that you know the the amount of people over 65 like highly out Blue Zone blue zones sure blue zones BR but there yes we do but there's a spot called icho you know ich icho that means number one no no no no I like it's itchy mispronounced as ity ity it sounds like a small town

0:50 don't scratch no no it no no don't do it so it's such a small town that it has fewer than 60 residents 60 fewer than 60 and the whole point is it's such a small town that whatever children that there there were there they're encouraged to go into the bigger cities to like make a living itself but that means that after a long period of time and many decades now it's basically just super old people not enough young people to like refill the they have to ████ within the city yeah the old guys have to yeah yeah yes but then that's why they go ich no no because we don't want the intermarriage of of a family exactly every everybody I love that we're just popcorning the news yep sick here um so what they've done to cope with the low population so that they still feel like there's a sense of community is that

1:41 they've started creating a bunch of Puppets that just exist in the space so if you just look around you see what looks like a filled space of sh to the point now the puppets outnumber the actual amount of residence kind of creepy that seems so sad that feels post-apocalyptic like ew dude that's ████ weird dud people are weird that's that's a ghost movie waiting to happen that's a ich no you think some of them went and ████ the puppets oh yeah dude for sure dude that's quick come on man Japanese what don't we ████ that's a good question it's good slogan true people Japan what don't we ████ Japan you know that guy that's creepy bro you know that guy why would you I know that guy I mean if you're like really old and like you can't ████

2:32 though like but the the that's just a mindset issue no but the teenagers like they oh yeah they went to Tokyo to get a job yeah cuz I heard that Tokyo and Osaka is growing because of that reason all the people from small towns are moving A to B oh yeah continue what happened to you dude please keep s hiling please keep s hiling what happened just said something H real on me just trying to no that's way more important that's our B no no keep dosing so there's not that much of a culture of going back huh cuz I feel like in America we kind of have a similar thing dude where like you go to the big city right you go to like like let's say you would go to Silicon Valley

3:22 to pursue Tech yeah once you in your 20s and 30s and then you move back to your hometown or to your suburb to kind of settle down or whatever 60 is crazy you're not going back to a town of 60 especially people like that a literal Ghost Town town of 60 is crazy that's like one complex that has like 300 people no but that's really fun if you play hide and seek you know what I mean at night time that's scary where am I there's not enough people to look for you they'll never find you so imagine they stop looking what if in 20 years right everyone dies out you're the last person in that town and everyone else is just puppets and you're interacting with these puppets dude that's Will Smith I'm Legend remember when you got all emotional talking to that chick at Blockbuster she was hot though yeah she was touche you know what I mean yeah

4:12 they're all wil these are not hot all crying he's like why don't you just say hot backman I know that was very emotional that that was that was when Will Smith was still like yeah up here mhm but after after he slapped Kevin Hart now he's up here Kevin yeah he he slapped Kevin Hart so so hard after that happened peace dude nobody liked them anymore yeah man but is it okay to make mistakes or no yes not if you not if you slapped sha Ed four or whatever his name never never never Eddie Murphy how you slap Eddie Murphy in the Golden Globes you can't slap the guy from 12 Years to save that's just keep mixing him up I went to um this isn't a brag it's about to be get ready D can you ever go to a local place and have an experience do you

5:03 always have to fly let me put like money on me so I could feel like what Anthony feels like dude that's about $200 right there brother thison here comes I like how you're showing the one the most I went to uh Romania of course you did of course you did and top G Oh no you're going you're going to kind of enjoy this oh good and uh here's the thing in Europe and and places like Asia they don't have the same cultural uh appropriation like Concepts that like we in America kind of like emphasize at a high level you're about to do it again I was about to throw it out there yeah they wh less we're very racially conflicted already super super high like de racially conflicted with everything so there's a huge thing about like cultural appropriation even in like competition so if like somebody's wearing a doag we had talked about this with the with the some people call it a wave cap a wave cap but if you wear a do-rag sometimes a judge at a

5:53 competition might be like do we how do we like penalize or dock off points for that me person I I'm like you do whatever you want that's not my place to make call off you you dock some judges will for accessories right but like I'm just not that type of person because it's not my culture that I feel like is you know it's being plus when I see like a European team that's there's nobody Asian there but they're all wearing like Kung Fu GES and stuff and doing like St to me I'm like hell yeah dude let's go anyways but there was one there was one show that got us all just we stopped judging because all us what and literally this nobody's black on his team they come out and their entire theme is Black Panther so they do a Black Panther theme show but they're coming out full African Garb Spears sound effects and they're doing all

6:43 stuff and we're like no way this is black face or no but is it really authentic or no no oh but it's entertaining are they good though at all they're okay are they laughing they're not going to win first just on 100% okay that's fair 100% And then a dude comes out in a full black panther outfit but the thing is he wasn't like fit or anything he like a little short and like slightly tubby and he's like shorter than the main female lead and we and it's also hard because as judges you can be seen you have like a judges line on you so you try your best not to crack up and ████ too oh my God no but that's also just the mode where it's like how do you how do you score this but that's that's just a thing that some people what did you score it well for me this is just the honest truth if there's like cuz you go to those competitions there's often times a 100 teams oh wow when you have 100 teams you got beer and you only

7:33 give a top three oh my God there's no point in having like the most accurate score this is a cheat for anybody who actually cares in the dance scene but you're not going to give like the most accurate scores everybody you're going to give decent scores so that nobody gets like a just absolute zero what if they go up to him after the competition they're like why did you score us so low what are you doing what if they were South African what gives you the right what if they were South Africans who why you do this to me who are you to give me they were they were actually Africans sure were not little harsh Anthony three out of 100 trippy though they were like that committed to the bit they're like the Mad TV of Romania basically that would be tight there would be someone about to that side one time what is it about the score that you'd like didn't you get the joke the main character wasn't even

8:24 fit did you not see that's a part of the joke they're oh dude for sure they'll know a joke cuz he's not fit yeah this guy doesn't know satire he has no pectorals how do you tell them though it's a score sheet you know what I mean no but if they came up and was like hey well this is the problem when you're like that's a bad situation when you're a judge of a competition you're also um kind of a politician so you have to find the most right way to say something that's inspiring that they can walk away with versus they got to have something yeah you can't just be like used suck you're whack so there are people there are people that are for sure not going to win but they might have a really good concept but you'll be like hey your concept was good but compared to the people won first second and third your execution was not there so work on the movement quality and foundation and then you can bring those

9:15 ideas to life in a much cooler way how would you have improved the uh Black Panther uh performance improve it like not tell them to change it yeah like make it better what can we do that makes better and we don't want to change the theme make it way more clearly satire don't do it so serious you know put more boings in the track yeah up more zany sounds yeah dude I don't knock people off for it I'm just like it's it's just funny because it's a Hot Topic right now cultural appropriation in Artistry especially in the dancing is a Hot Topic but if it's Marvel I feel like it's mainstream because Americas are are more so credible and like the traveling International choreographers they're almost like the dictators of where the culture goes in different places many

10:06 other countries that don't have the same type of access they're like looking for the constructive criticism to see where they need to go to win the competitions the following year dude but that's so funny is like if you're a Romanian dance crew and you're like dude we just love black panther like we just that's our favorite ████ and they're just trying to play homage you know yeah but meanwhile in America they'd be like what the ████ are you doing yeah cuz they don't even have the they don't even understand the cultural issue they're just like this just a sick movie and I want to be it yeah they see it if they were Iron Man one time we were in a in Tulum and you know like sometimes when you go to Tulum there's like these guys that dress in the Indigenous like costumes of like like the area and they want to take pictures with people and we had these two black ladies on our tour and they just they want to take pictures with them and afterwards this one guy looked at the black ladies and they're like wakanda forever you know like trying to

10:57 relate like likeo it was like you could tell it's coming from a good place but the execution was like it's pretty bad yeah oh me and Tiff are like ah don't do that but like you know it comes from a good place but he did that to her yeah to them but he's trying but he didn't speak English so he's trying forever it's like all he knew that's all they knew to like try to bridge that Gap and they were like ironically though I wonder if like an actual like from Africa African person went there and would not be offended I wouldn't know you know cuzz a lot of people in Africa don't see that the same way American offended no yeah I don't I really don't think let's try it out Jason man on the street let's just go find some African folks yeah I don't think like a Asian from Asia going to a tourist place and then seeing like Asian references and those people being like super Asian I don't think they find the same hell no dude it's different yeah it is an

11:47 American thing to do they might they might just not even understand like if if a white guy went to up to a Chinese guy and was like Shan Chi y just like okay good that's true yeah they just won't even understand they're just like whatever Shan CH no that's over here hey come over Shan but Asian-American might get offended like for sure what the fu ████ Nick shark man yeah yeah I think when you like for a Philippines Filipino I feel more likely that I might offend them than like a white guy because there's a lot there's a lot of ways that I could act that might look like I think I'm better than him but then like a white guy's just doing his best he could strike out and it's still fine it's like oh it's

12:38 adorable you're really trying to relate but like I might be completely innocently talking and I just seem like I'm oh who's this who the ████ is this guy think he's oh you think you're better yeah exactly yeah oh you think you're better that's more likely to happen than like oh what this guy called me Pacquiao like that's he's relating because you're from to me you think you're better than me I've never heard Downey like that I know I didn't know that that's a cool Point Pride though just because you're from Downey yeah

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