19th Century Squid Porn | Feudal Japan (Part 3)

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1:25Welcome back to Vindas History. I'm drawn by Horatio Gould. we're moving towards the heat part of japan um where this is this series really is the yeah um how did we get the story of japan yeah exactly exactly with a nuclear bomb explosion at the front yes on the on the cover night night straight to bed yeah uh supper this is the long sushi no sushi straight to bed no sushi this is the long road to the night night bomb the the winding road to squid porn. The long and winding night night. That's how that song goes. It's part three of our feudal Japan series. I've been having a good time actually going through feudal Japan.

2:09It's lovely. Absolutely lovely. They're kind of our sort of people. It's a home away from home. It is a home away from home. Scotland on sea. The most Scottish place in the world is Japan. Well you think about it they make whiskey. They love suicide. Yeah. Like the good fish. Yeah. I mean, it's Scotland. They don't know how to cook fish. They don't know how to cook. So we left off. We're in Scotland. We're in Japan. It's about 1588. Hello. It's 1588. And Tomato... What's his first name? Or his last name? It's upside down. Thomas. It's Ian. It's not Thomas Hideyoshi. Thomas Hideyoshi. Thomas Hideyoshi.

2:51Yeah, Brian Hideyoshi. Yeah. Brian Hideyoshi has outlasted Odu Nobunaga. Sorry, Ian Nobunaga. They've got some very pretentious names. Toyo Tomato Hideyoshi. It's part three. I don't know anymore. There's so many fucking weird names. Yeah, his name's Tomato. Tomato Hideyoshi has issued... Toyotomi. Toyotomi. Hideyoshi. Hideyoshi has issued some sweeping edicts. You ever issued a sweeping edict? Not yet, but I do hope to. It's on my vision board. I issue some sweeping statements. Yeah, sure. I wouldn't say they're edicts. An edict is that, can you make them an edict or is that how they're received?

3:30I think it's - Can just like a pissed tramp - Make an edict? Yeah. I don't think so. No, you can't. I think it's - Just because you say it, it has to be - It depends on the status of the person making the edict. Yeah, yeah. So his famous edict is a sword hunt. We should explain who, just a recap on Hideyoshi. Yes, we should. Who's basically like, he was a foot soldier, a peasant who was - The dirty gypsy monkey man. Exactly. Not my words. In a very rigid classist with Japan where there was really no social mobility because of Oda Nomenaga being quite a maverick who believes a bit more in meritocracy.

4:02Fuck you, mum. Fuck you, mum. He's a Japanese emo. He really went for that. I was there. Part three. He's gone for it. He's all in now. I can't believe it. They think it's all over. It is now. The podcast is now. They think the podcast is over. It is now.

4:23he climbs through the ranks and then in a stunning turn of events he defends we need to be you know we should be painting this for our listeners that's yeah that's a Japanese man with a speech impediment yeah with a lisp

4:47but he manages to not only come back and defend his former master's honor, Novanaga, but he defeats all of the rival contenders in the power vacuum. So he is the second of the three unifiers and in the thing, pounded the rice, he bakes the cake and we're not yet the person who eats it. So he's the cake baker. He's baking the cake. And that's not a homophobic slur. No, although, maybe he was doing some... What did our researcher call us? She called us cootie catchers. which i think is an hr issue anyway so he issues his 1588 he's been in power for about five years or so he issues a sword hunt like an easter egg hunt no it's not like an easter egg hunt he's hidden a couple of swords around japan and if you find them you get chocolate no it's not that um and it's not like pokemon go right walking through victoria park find a snorlax on the bridge some other virgins don't call me that i've done a lot of work to undo my nickname from school um bowser and snorlax um say you've done a lot of work you've just grown i've just grown taller you've been stretched out my eating habits are the same i've just grown taller genetics kicked in thank god um that's what they mean by privilege well it's like hand-poured noodles right yeah i guess at the beginning there's this big pot and then he gets stretched into sort of yeah yeah anyway a sword hunt is not an easter egg hunt it's where weapons are taken from farmers peasants anyone common weapons of minimum destruction minimum yeah yeah swords yeah and they're uh basically become you have to be a samurai to have a sword really so he's kind of he's taking it's like the gun amnesty after dunblane yeah or poor arthur to make an australian reference um so hideyoshi declares that all the collected weapons would be melted down and make a big fat buddha statue yeah so he's he's doing virtue signaling it's kind of it's quite woke isn't it give me your weapons i'm gonna smelt them down and make a big fat body positive one or something like that and so he he outlaws uh warfare by daimyos independent warfare yes so he can he can he's the only one that can authorize military campaigns indie warfare yeah so no indie warfare isn't done it's major label warfare um it's like emi yeah and he banned soundcloud yeah no soundclouds out of it and this stabilizes the realm somewhat so there's this huge samurai order charlie's googling yoshiport but there's a huge large laughing fucking hell so anyway um if this were the football team yeah we'd have absolutely no one protecting the defense Yeah.

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10:45They'll do the impossible. I got you. And get home. Heart of the Beast is an uplifting triumph. You're the greatest dog ever. Bread. I'll get you home. Heart of the Beast. Friday. Ready PG-13. Maybe inappropriate for children under 13. So there is a huge class of samurai who have been warring for 150 years. They're a warring society. It's all they know. There's a military industrial complex in Japan. Right. Yeah, of course. And so... It's the only way you can... It's a way of acquiring honour. So this is why they have to keep doing it. because they're so obsessed. It's been, what, four or five generations all they've known as war.

11:18So he needs an outlet for this war. And so what Hideyoshi does in 1592 is he goes, do you know what? I'm going to have a crack at the Chinese. And this is the first great Chinese civil war. Yeah. It's a war between China, Japan, and Korea. So just different regions of China. Yep. And I don't think we should get involved. I think we should let the Chinese people decide and work itself out. The right to self-determination of the Chinese people. i'm not getting involved this is a civil war anyway so hideyoshi launches an invasion from japan which is obviously a province of china to another province he wants to go through korea which is another problem to china to get to mainland china uh anyway so uh what he does what he does i don't know i think yeah is this one 1592 his invasion of korea is the biggest amphibious assault in world history until d-day yeah i read that on the way in it's crazy it's crazy 200 000 um chinese people in boats 200 000 japanese i guess well i guess both from japan and the uk that both came from similar sized islands so i guess that's probably why but i don't know in my head it was shocking but i don't know what else would compete with it really no but amphibious assaults i mean even when we get to d-day like the whole idea of a amphibious assault yeah is something that's only ever really been done properly at d-day right i mean they do it here but as in like until that point it was kind of impossible to right right ground invasion overseas yeah um now the korean uh have what's called the righteous armies okay which is like it's fragmented twitter mob twitter mob yeah it's a white mob it's pitchforks um and they are led by a guy called um guac jay u different names now we're getting into a different sort of sound different area of china yeah um guac jay u and he dyes his coat red with the menstrual blood of virgins which will give them magical protection yeah nothing to see here i think that's completely normal i too have a coat dyed with the menstrual blood of virgins yeah somewhere in the bottom of the closet somewhere oh no no pride of place that's my car coat that's what i drive in to protect me from crashes the menstrual blood of virgins wow i mean how many virgins do you think it'd take to dye the coat or is it one with a heavy flow well um japan the japanese are very or they're Korean very small people aren't they five foot so you had to use loads sorry so you had to use loads of virgins well they're small people so it wouldn't take that many where are they taking the blood from oh I see yeah well it's menstrual blood Charlie from the fanny fanny

13:52he says forlornly menstrual brackets from the fanny he says in a somber tone from the fanny from the fanny I see bushy clad from a bushy clad it's from a bushy clad yeah anyway the Korean menstrual blood virgin Superman he leads a guerrilla uprising against um so korean ninjas sort of yeah but but this is this is one of the original this is the original korean war maybe is one of the original ones but anyway the the japanese actually get all the way up korea they take um like busan and pyongyang and seoul same country at this point right yeah and similar vibes but interestingly what's he called hideyoshi yeah he wants to divide korea into two spheres of influence a chinese sphere and uh well another chinese sphere yeah a japanese sphere oh really so he's already thinking about dividing okay so it's already been like a um and when squid game is that when does that come in i think this is this is squid game i think uh in the and the guac ju the period guy he attacks all the supply lines and there's a famous battle at a river where they first defeat hideyoshi's army right by like ambushing them while they're in a river and because the samurai got such heavy armor right all these like um ninjas they come out and they yeah and this is during the mong china ming china sorry the ming china dynasty mong china yeah sorry no ming china too close what too close for comfort ming china i think right mong china is too it's just there it is there but the mong china was when genghis khan invaded wasn't it right there's too many chinas anyway but China enters the war and sort of grinds it into a stalemate so the Japanese were overstretched which is what happened with the Korean War yeah genuinely so the Japanese are overstretched their supply lines all the little fellas that's what I'm calling the Koreans guerrilla attack oh look at these little fellas look at these little fellas that's what the Japanese are going and Hideyoshi well the average height is five foot one yeah that's what I mean so they really are they're little fellas and it's interesting like these warriors these with amazing swords huge armour Do you think with our diet of, you know, steak and eggs in a way that...

16:00This is the Korean War. I do often think how you'd stack against a great warrior from that period if they're that much smaller than you. Yeah. Because there's so much... You have so much... Well, they talk about a box of reach. Yeah, weight and height are such big distinguishers. Yeah. So you're just imagining you're just like... Well, Genghis Khan was like 5 '3 or something. It just really changes the vibe, doesn't it? Yeah. Just a little fucking tiddler. So anyway, Hideyoshi, at this point, is kind of going mad. He may have syphilis. Right. He's fucking a lot. Yeah. He's got a lot. Of course, I mean, he can't believe it.

16:36He was a peasant farmer and now he's the king. He's a disgusting monkey gypsy boy, not my words. And now he's fucking everyone. Yeah. And he's the king. Anyway, so he... You can get away with a lot if you say not my words. Yeah. It's a nice get out of frame. But also, these are someone's words. Yeah. Maybe, I don't know. Long China, not my words. Not my words. My words. I know those are my words. Anyway, Hideyoshi is ill-informed or mad, and maybe the reports are being sugar-coated, but he thinks that he's actually winning the war when he's not. All the little fellas are there winning. So there's this humiliating episode in Kyoto where he basically thinks he's won the Korean campaign.

17:13Because he's mental. Because he's mental. So he then sends his emiracy to China, demanding to split Korea into two spheres of influence, north and south. The Chinese refuse and come to his court to ask for his submission to them, right? And then Hideyoshi is so annoyed that he orders a second invasion of Korea purely out of revenge. Even though he's already won the first one in his head. He's like, why are we doing this again? But it's just, it's like all the daimios who had pledged their men, they're losing thousands and thousands of men. It's an absolute disaster. The big problem with Hideyoshi is that there's a hair crisis, not like your hair crisis, which you could just go to Turkey and fix it and collect some pills.

17:50He's got an air crisis, which is that his infant son sunamatsu yeah again stupid name uh he dies yeah and so he uh designates his nephew he did hide his making them up at this point yeah they're just they're just pulling this out of a fucking barrel um his favorite concubine lady cha-cha fair enough she sounds brilliant she sounds british um he then has a son called hideyori yeah and thus the nephew hidey sogo uh becomes expendable but he'd already offered the line of succession to him so then he uh forces hidosugus to commit seppuku fucking nonsense and i'll be like oh no you can have it then no no i don't want it no no you've got to kill yourself i wish i accepted it then yeah don't accept anything i think if you're in free law japan just don't say yes to anything because you never know if someone's going to is and then not only that but 31 women and children so all hidosugus family they have to commit spook well they are they executed oh that's different it's different right yeah spook is like brilliant execution's terrible yeah yeah children don't do only samurai do spook women don't do spook no no no they couldn't couldn't possibly they do though don't they i think women do they try but he's the wrong a real a real woman used yeah but they use the wrong spoon doing it for a tent yeah just doing sapuku for attention oh come on love if you leave me i'm gonna speak myself you'd be so lucky have i given you permission um so there's even the formidable um date masamune who is called the one-eyed dragon masapune um not masapune um he blah blah survives only because of tokugawa ieyasu's intervention right more on him in a bit the korean disaster drags on hideyoshi's health collapses and they create a council of five elders to govern until the young hideyuri is the one that decided to take over becomes of age so he yeah they're sort of pretending they're propping up pretending he's still alive they got like the well he's an old fucking geezer and they're pretending he's they don't they say they hide his death yeah he dies in 1598 yes and so they had he has a five-year-old son but they're like he's still they've got his corpse they're going oh yeah but then he so then he says there are five regents that are looking after my son until my son comes of age to take ownership of and this is what uh shogun is based on is this setup oh right it's the five regents looking after a young boy okay so this is where shogun starts yeah okay and this is what happens next is real richard iii princess in the tower it's very similar a lot of this it is um so officially hideyori who's hideyoshi's son he's ruling but in reality the power is balanced between these rivals yeah uh regions one of whom is tokugawa ieyasu yes who's the third unifier who's going to eat this fucking cake finally exactly because it could all fall apart very easily so it's very rice flour it's very soft very delicate thing so many daimyo are now quietly readying themselves for some kind of reckoning yeah um and once again at any point just cut to the emperor and he's just making tea yeah like it's just completely irrelevant at all points so anyway now let's get to tokugawa ieyasu who is the ultimate unifier the man who's there at the end of it all the guy who outlasts it and the first shogun of the edo period yeah um he's uh he sort of maneuvers himself into position as the guardian of the air right so classic princes in the tower kind of thing and there's a battle in 1600 called the battle of segigahara right um which is decisive because it ends this 120 30 years civil war in a single day right and this is like the battle of bosworth but japanese okay yes in that there are three different factions three different armies uh it's ieasu fighting some other cunt and then there's a third army who are who are one of the They both pledged allegiance to...

21:55He's pledged allegiance to both. I was waiting to see who's going to do better. He's waiting to see who goes better. And he comes in at the last minute on Ieyasu's side. I'd like to think that's how I'd be. Well, the guy that's just scoped it out. Just wait. Just out on the hill. Just... All right. Yeah. Where do we want? Yeah. Another one. Tokugawa. What's his face? Ieyasu. He defeats whoever. I don't care. And blah, blah, blah. 21st of October. It's one of the largest battles in Japanese history. Damn. There's a lot of people involved at this time. 160 ,000 troops. Yeah, it just feels like the biggest amphibious.

22:26I didn't know there were so many people in Japan at this period. And Ishida, that's the guy. Ishida's forces collapse and Ieyasu wins a decisive victory. And so then what he does, he doesn't kill the little boy. Okay. He beheads a few people, obviously. But the little boy is sent to, I think it's Osaka Castle. 1603, Tokugawa Ieyasu is formally appointed the shogun by Emperor Go-Yuze. Yeah. and the shogun a shogun literally means that the general no it's the barbarian quelling generalissimo right that's what it actually means the barbarian barbarian quelling generalicia yeah that's beast and so Ieyasu is the first person to move the government of Japan to what's now Tokyo to Ido Ido and Ido is in the centre of Japan it's not really do you like Tokyo I love Tokyo you're an Idophile yeah I'm an Idophile yeah you're an Idophile yeah yeah i uh so edo at this point you do it's is it a nothing place and it just gets decided to become the capital he builds he builds edo castle sort of from nothing yeah so it's got no history really before no nice so uh and what he does he moves with the government there and then he says that the emperor can stay in kyoto but the government's going to be in edo but apparently there's so many earthquakes in Kyoto so just always just collapse and they just built it so they just they just rebuild it really quickly because it's so easy to rebuild them even though they all fall down i think it's another part of the Japanese psyche that leads to things like seppuku and bukake is that it's the same thing isn't it um seppuku becomes a ritualized thing under the Edo period and becomes Bukkaki eventually.

24:15I have dishonored my family. It's a similar thing. I must dishonor my family. Yeah. Bukkaki is the only way that you can make up for social football. To be fair, Bukkaki, Sabuku, that combination is a nice one too. I'd watch that. Because you dishonor your family and then you make up for it by killing yourself. That's it. Yeah, it'd have to be. Yeah, you wouldn't do it the other way around. well charlie would but well yeah charlie would to figure himself and then five planks to come on his face yeah instead of the second head thing yeah this guy chopping head off it's just a guy coming on your face yeah anyway edo castle becomes the largest fortress in japan and although it's a small castle town over the course of this 250 year period which is called the edo period yeah uh it becomes the largest city in the world which is kind of crazy people living there and this is policy of isolationism okay it's coming throughout but this is we'll get i think we'll get to that sort of come in during this yeah so in 1605 um ieyasu resigns in favor of his son tokugawa hididata

25:24yeah uh ensuring a kind of hereditary succession yeah um and in 1614 though continuing to wield influence as the ogre show which is a retired show that's kind of the dream isn't it to be just a retired boss man so in 1614 there are tensions rising because Hideyori who's Hideyoshi's son who's still alive not too confused with Yakitori not too confused with Yakitori which is a skewed chicken no that's you cannot get Hideyori on the Wagamama menu Hideyori comes of age in Osaka Castle right so he casts off his ninja pedo master Yeah, yeah, he throws, he thrusts. No more. I'm going to have sex with women now.

26:06I'm ruined. I've been ruined. And so what he does, because it's like a banner for discontent to the regime, he just goes in there and tortures the place. There's a big siege, goes on for like months. Eventually he defeats Hideori and blah, blah, blah. Yeah, the second, 16, 15, he forces Hideori and his mother to commit seppuku as the castle's on fire. Although they never, the bodies are never found. So there's kind of rumors as to whether they're alive. They might still be alive. Well, this is 1615, so. Well, where are the bodies then? Blue zones, isn't it? So you just don't know. These people live a long time.

26:48All that raw fish and friends, crucially. They're mates and they eat raw fish. So they could still be alive today. Charlie, what's the oldest? Can you find out what the oldest Japanese person ever is? Oh, it's going to be up there. I'd imagine, I think Japan is in terms of the longest living people. A fishy old woman, I'll tell you that. A woman who's eaten raw fish every day of her life. Oldest Japanese person ever, go on. 119 years and 107 days. Right, now let's get oldest person ever. Let's just see how that stacks up. French. Damn. She's 122. So not too much. Now, this is an interesting one.

27:18What country has the youngest oldest person? Scotland. Can we find that out? Surely it's Scotland. Will they have that? Because that would be really... Whoa, Morocco. the oldest person ever who lived in Morocco was 56 no that can't be right here we go can you set it by age yeah yeah and I've got the opposite yeah yeah there we go Fiji makes sense now that makes sense I've long said that Fijians have the worst most disgusting diet of anyone on this earth yeah they do and they're the most obese country basically all of those islands are the most obese people in the world by a long shot in Fiji they hollow out a loaf of bread fill it with ice cream and honey and then that's their breakfast so that's why they got the youngest old person 105 105 is a good inning not bad so clearly but then would you say that that sorry can you go back to the league title there he is that's Betu Prasad Betu Prasad would you say that that's actually that's more of an achievement because he had ice cream and bread every day where's the UK I want to see how high that UK is so what 160 Ethel Caterham living she's still alive let's get her on the pod Ethel this is like one of Charlie's mates what charlie's doing on the weekend hang on hang on hang on go back to it's the world's oldest verified living person oh damn shit she's the oldest person in recorded history she's still going no no it's not verified living living person yeah she's that's what i mean every day she's getting us up higher up that table come on ethel come on ethel keep going push through give that old woman some fish and some mates now.

28:51She needs mates. She needs olive oil. Charlie, get in there. I mean, Charlie's what's going to keep these women alive. Charlie, break into Ethel Caterham's house, but not in a way that gives her a sudden shock. Pump her full of olive oil, bust some fags, and you've got to take the French off the fucking... Fuck the French. I cannot believe the French are winning that. Are you joking? Hashtag come on Ethel. No. Do not come on... Well, to be fair, maybe that's Japan's secret his bukkakis oh look at her she's smoking that's not Ethel this is the oldest French woman yeah I know she's smoking if they're smoking I don't believe it 117 busting fags she's fake it's fake fuck her she's been accused of fraud a recent Russian study claimed that she had in fact died in the 1930s Géant Calment they claimed her daughter assumed her identity in order to avoid paying inheritance tax that's French that's French fraudulence right Ethel Caterham my god that doesn't look like a life there Ethel Caterham this podcast will now be sponsoring Ethel Caterham's bid to keep living let's send money to Ethel where is Ethel based?

29:59where is Ethel based? is it in Caterham? was that just her surname? yeah she is in a care home in Surrey Surrey? she's nearby which care home? uh don't know apparently the reason she's lived so long is because she never argues listens and does what she likes She's a good woman. That's a good woman. I could do an Ethel catering in my life. Right. Ethel, wherever you are, we're behind you. I don't care what quality of life you have. You keep fucking going. And you do it for Britain. You do it for Britain. You've got... How many more years has she got to live before we oust the French? I mean, the French is fake, I think.

30:33The French is fraudulent. But we can still beat it. I've got to beat the Japanese. Six more years? Six more years, Ethel. Six more. Come on. Okay, right. You've made it this far. You can do another six. We need to organise regular music nights. Cliff Richard tribute act. Yeah, yeah. Bingo. I'll go down and do some of my crusty jokes for the troops. We've got to keep Ethel Caterham alive. I will not rest until this podcast has sponsored the oldest living British woman to beat the fucking French. And once she's beaten the French, then she commits a buku for an honourable way out. The only way she can die is to commit a buku.

31:09Because isn't that awesome to what would be fucking amazing? She's 123 years old, oldest woman ever commit suicide. How powerful would that be? So good. Because it's like, not only... It's retiring after you won the World Cup. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. Still on my terms. On my terms. The greatest to ever do it. Messi wins the World Cup. I'm retired now. Done. That would be amazing. Come on, Ethel. Anyway, what the fuck are we on about?

31:37Oh, yeah. 16-16. Tokugawa Ieyasu dies with an air. His shogunate is now fully secure. And thus begins the true beginning of the Tokugawa shogunate, the Edo period. How long is the Tokugawa shogunate last? 250 years. Damn. And so you have 150 years. So is that like the Plantagenet sort of? It's like an era. Well, what's amazing about this is that you have 150 years of civil war and that is finished. 150 years? Yeah, the Sengoku period, which is war and war and war. Oh, it's the one we've just been... Yeah, I guess that's just been... What we've been talking about. Yeah. And then that ends and then you have 250 years of peace.

32:13which is that in world history is kind of unprecedented for one country to have 250 years of no war at all. Internally? Both. That's kind of amazing, isn't it? I guess so. How long have we had internally? But then I guess both. Yeah. Falklands, World War II. Yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Yeah. 250 years. Amazing. Yeah. So damn. Anyway. Because this is the two sides of Japanese culture because even though as much as we say it's the night-night bomb that released they have always had the dual personality yes it's always been samurai and tea like they've they've they've had like the the love of peach blossoms and poetry as well as like fucking chopping heads off yeah exactly it's throughout the whole of their history they've had it's shoving an octopus up your fanny yeah and then it's also starting or growing your own business can be intimidating and lonely at times your to-do list may feel endless with new tasks and lists can easily begin to overrun your life.

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34:55What in the night? This Friday. It's just you and me, boy. Two soldiers bonded for life. Made it! Made it! 58 miles no one's coming for us when anyone else would quit they'll do the impossible i got you and get home part of the beast is an uplifting triumph you're the greatest dog ever bread i'll get you home part of the beast friday pg-13 may be inappropriate for children under 13 um you know committing not cooking that octopus and play on a piece of rice or it's like um don't fart at the table or you kill yourself with or if you show appreciation of eating noodles you have to make a lot of noise I think that's more Chinese I think no it's Japanese as well the noisy eaters Charlie when you were in Japan did you have to show to show appreciation of the food do you have to eat loudly well I had to quite often ask for a knife and fork because I can't really use chopsticks spoons it was embarrassing I made I had a lot of barbecues I made friends with some Japanese families they took me under their wing and they took me out in Tokyo yeah they took me to like not the red light district but like the tiny little you know the the covered area the cupboard area the covered area there's a little area that's like loads of cupboards basically and i went in there with tiny bars and you have like yakitori grills yeah yeah i went in there with like with some families i met but japanese are very different cultures to chinese which shocked me uh but the chinese are quite rude loud and they shit in the street and the japanese are very polite kill yourself if you do it uh yeah hygienic and stuff and yet squid porn hentai it's the dual nature of Japan yeah inside Japan is too do you think if you're having anal in Japan to show appreciation you have to fart a lot

36:41now is that is that showing appreciation I don't know if that is showing appreciation oh he's liking this yeah I guess so I guess that's showing appreciation it's polite isn't it I guess it's polite I don't know you were raised right weren't you this isn't my this isn't my wheelhouse Charlie is that is that I don't think it's very polite to fart on the winning well in Japan it might be we just can't know we can't know we can't we couldn't know hey no we couldn't we couldn't possibly know we could go over I think I'd google it before I went over I reckon I'd trial and error it over there yeah let one rip I don't know about the anal physics of doing such a thing i'm just wondering if they want you to naturally fart because air will leave your bum right but then it was it depends how you define it yeah is it any air leaving your bum a fart we can't know anyway let's let's crack on to life in edo japan sometimes you wish you didn't have google just to let the mystery you know we don't want to be able to google some of these things well that's why we've got charlie there's some things we can't know it feels like we're living in fucking 1997 we might as well be we are doing this podcast from the 70s because we don't have any technology oh goodness me um yes it counts as a fart to release air from your bum to simply what did you google does it count as a fart if you simply release air from your bum i wonder if ai is developing like i think ai must be upset with like pissed off at us because then what we we make this super intelligence do we've said it back years machine learning has gone back years with what charlie's doing it yeah it does count thank you regardless regardless of whether or not you tried but it's more it's more about if it's polite in japan when receiving anal to fart to show your enjoyment i think it isn't i think i'm gonna and also i'd rather leave that as a mystery i don't think we need to know let us know in the comments if you're japanese let's let's get back we can't

38:57ai overview being so polite and thoughtful generally farting on a big is not considered polite tasteful or desirable in a sexual encounter however whether or not a specific act is acceptable is entirely dependent on the boundaries comfort and preference of the individuals and the nations the cultural wars of the nation we might forget we're talking about japan it's an alien culture to men in the west you're meant to you're meant to eat your food loudly you're meant to be bummed fartily maybe i don't know we can't know we can't know anyway so the piece that yasu has established means that edo japan flourishes and this is the real this is arguably this is where brand japan sort of really flourishes cool japan begins yeah yeah cool japan yeah yeah yeah so um uh now there are because the amount of japanese influence on culture now is too much you reckon i think it's too much yeah but it's extraordinary because you kind of it's so much that you forget you think about the american hegemony on all things globally it's probably japan's second oh yeah what you've got pokemon you've got pokemon you've got nintendo you've got sony you've got that's good porn um sony yeah any sort of animated stuff yeah studio ghibli but then even even fashion even taking uh something like whiskey or watchmaking they make the best yeah like uh mid-range stuff the key features of edo japan include a strict social hierarchy, which we should go through because it's quite funny.

40:30The rigid social hierarchy, now this is developed under the third shogun who's called

40:38Iemitsu. Ian. He's called Ian. Thank you, Charlie. Yeah. They've gone away with the pretentious names now, finally. The Shinokosho system. Sorry? Ian Itzu. Ian Itzu. He founded Itzu. Yeah. The Shinokosho system sort of minimal social mobility, just as I like it. So the samurai is about 8 % of the population. Peasants about 80. Intermarriage between classes. It's funny they don't really come to the story at all, the peasants. They're like nearly all the people. Yeah. Intermarriage is restricted. They also ban peasants from eating rice and they saved that for the samurai. Yeah. They weren't even allowed to eat rice.