The podcast unveils a captivating exploration of cultural nuances and humorous anecdotes, centered around the intriguing life of Chunk McBeef Chest, a notable guest from Japan. He and the host embark on a lively discussion that delves into the complexities of living in Japan, touching upon everything from judo to the peculiarities of local news, including some eyebrow-raising tales of societal behavior.

The episode also highlights the significance of community in the digital age, particularly through the lens of streaming platforms like Twitch, where interaction transcends geographical barriers. As they banter about the absurdities of pop culture and delve into the psychology behind social norms, listeners are treated to a blend of wit and insight that keeps the conversation engaging.

With a light-hearted yet thought-provoking tone, they navigate the intersections of culture, media, and personal experiences, making this episode a delightful auditory journey worth tuning into.

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Takeaways:

• The podcast features engaging discussions about cultural differences between Japan and the U.S., allowing listeners to broaden their understanding of both societies.
• Chunk McBeef Chest humorously addresses the unconventional topics in Japanese news, including peculiar crimes, giving listeners a unique insight into the quirks of Japanese culture.
• The conversation around Twitch streaming highlights the importance of community interaction and authenticity, emphasizing that personal connections often trump mere numbers in building an audience.
• Listeners are introduced to the concept of the Dunning-Kruger effect, illustrating how self-perception can distort reality, and encouraging a more humble approach to personal skills and knowledge.
• The hosts delve into the humorous side of pop culture debates, such as hypothetical scenarios involving superheroes, showcasing their wit while also engaging listeners in thoughtful analysis.
• The episode underscores the value of consistency in content creation, as the hosts share their experiences and strategies for maintaining an engaging online presence amidst a sea of digital noise.

How low can you go?

Oh, oh, oh.

Hey.

Yeah, we're live.

I knew, I knew.

Don't worry, man.

I know, I know, I know.

Hey, welcome to Knowledge.

This degree here, Blind knowledge, yo.

It's 2am on the east coast, but that's okay.

In Tokyo.

Tokyo.

I have no idea what time it is, but we have a very special guest tonight from Tokyo.

His name is Chunkman Beef Chest.

And I have so many questions.

It's going to be riveting.

It's going to be informative.

It's going to be indubitably awesome.

With All Ado, I just want to make sure we give a special shout out at this point in time before we bring on Chuck McBeef chest, which I know you're pumped about.

I am too.

I gotta give some props, man.

I gotta give some love.

You know, Blind Knowledge, we're really a collective, you know, we're a company.

Yeah.

We are publishing content.

Yeah.

We're gonna have an awesome, super duper website.

Yeah.

But we're also kind of a family, kind of a collective, if you will.

You know, we're a team.

We're a Halo team.

But, you know, in all seriousness, we all look out for each other.

We all represent this thing.

That's Blind Knowledge that just kind of has come out of nowhere organically.

This wasn't my original idea, but I love it.

And I gotta take some time.

I gotta give some love over to the Way Podcast.

Bill over there, the host of the Way Podcast over in Rhode island, he's a huge Yukon Huskies fan.

Straight up, shout out, stretch out for Bill over at the Way.

You can hear the Way.

You know, everywhere you hear your podcast, you can hear it on Spotify, you can hear the Way on Apple podcasts, you can hear the Way on Google.

Pretty soon you're gonna Hear it on blindknowledge.com definitely.

Check it out.

It's informative.

He talks about and gets into these discussions with these professional, educated, intellectual folks that know a damn thing about a damn thing.

And props to you, Bill.

Thank you so much for being a part of Blind Knowledge.

So again, that's the way.

Check it out on Spotify app and everywhere else.

Now, folks, without further ado, I know, I know it's been painful.

I know you've been waiting.

You've been harnessing this energy.

Well, don't worry, we're bringing them on now.

This man is a legend, man.

The man's all beef.

He's Chonk McBeef.

Chess dude.

Thank you for joining me.

I'm so pumped to have you.

How are you?

I'm really good.

Today is a national holiday in Japan and I don't know which one.

It's probably respect for some old people.

Respect for old people in Japan.

Now, anyone that doesn't know I am located on the east coast of the United States of America.

America.

Fuck yeah.

Anyway, Chunk or Mr. McBeef, he is over in Japan, near Tokyo, somewhere over there.

I live close to a city called Nagoya.

It's the third city, biggest city in Japan.

It was only destroyed in one Godzilla movie, so it's kind of got a lot of catching up to do.

It's an industrial hub though, because they, they have a port.

So it's where all the boats come in and out for the country.

All right.

And pardon me if I get some things wrong.

No worries.

You know, I'm just trying to learn.

We're trying to educate here.

A knowledge's degree and you are the ninja news Japan man.

So we have to, I gotta, you know, I got lists of questions for days because I know nothing about it and I want to learn.

I want to learn.

We should all know.

I have so many questions here.

I should, I should have, I should have put them in different colors.

Have you ever been to the U.S. let's start there.

Oh, yeah, yeah.

I lived in, I lived in Vancouver, which is.

No, no, no.

But it, like it's a day trip to go to Seattle.

And so it's the kind of thing you do all the times.

Let's go to Seattle for the afternoon.

Oh, oh, okay.

That makes sense.

Yeah.

So that's, that's.

Most of the big cities are really close to the border.

I lived in Ottawa, which is about a six hour drive from New York.

I lived in Vancouver, which is again, maybe three hours if you're not pushing it, to go to Seattle.

And so I went around.

And back in my university days when I did judo pretty seriously, I would do competitions.

So I did, I did a competition in Colorado.

Pretty good at judo.

I was, I don't know if I am now, but I mean, beef chest,.

Throwing down some haymakers.

I, I was the first foreign person to get his black belt in Aichi, which is like the state I'm in.

Wow.

I need a sound effect for that.

Chocolate beef Chaz.

That's cool as hell.

No, that's, that's noble.

That's.

So if you came to Japan right now to where I live and did a black belt test, they would give you a sample form to copy.

That's My form.

It's.

It's your form?

Yeah, because they just.

They just cut out bits of my name.

But they're like.

It's in English.

So if you're a foreign person here, you need to fill out this form.

Here's.

Here's an example.

It's.

It's my example.

Interesting.

You're the template.

Yeah, it was cool.

That's very cool.

Is judo like Mu Muay Thai or is it more like karate?

No, it's.

It's more.

It's throwing and wrestling.

So karate and Muay Thai?

Yeah, karate and Mai Thai have, like, punching and kicking.

That's kind of their.

Their main thing.

Judo would almost be the antithesis to that, where you're grabbing and throwing and tripping and then if they hit the ground, you wrestle and then they do, like arm locks and chokes and stuff.

That makes sense sometimes.

I need that clarification.

You got mma, UFC wrestling call amateur wrestling, you know, you got judo, Muay Thai, all that.

So how long did you do that McBeef chest?

It's been about 40 years now.

I started when I was 10.

I did it all through university when I was, like, big, I was pretty serious and I thought.

I went to the Canadian nationals and broke some fingers and that was the end of that aspect of that career.

Would you try to break some wood?

No, no, no.

So you grab each other and the guy took my fingers and pulled them backwards to get my hand off, which is illegal.

But it was just an accident.

I don't know.

I. I want to say it's an accident because I don't want to disparage him, but part of me always goes,.

We're looking for him.

We'll be looking for him.

We can.

We can find him.

He didn't go.

He didn't go very far after that.

It wasn't going to work out for him.

He was never going to be that guy.

Is that well respected over in Japan?

Oh, yeah, yeah, absolutely.

It's.

It's not the.

Sumo is the national sport, but judo's the one that everyone gets in the Olympics.

I mean, that's.

That's where they win all their medals, is in the Olympics in judo.

So that's cool.

Yeah.

I wish we had more of that influence over here, honestly, you know, more.

More of that.

Like, I don't want to.

I don't want to mark you, but like, more like namaste kind of thing.

And I'm not.

Yeah, I don't want to take.

I don't want you to take that the wrong way?

Because I don't mean it that way.

No, it's discipline.

I mean, namaste is a philosophy, but it's all about even yoga.

Like, yoga is.

People make fun of it because it's all hippie stuff, but it's actually discipline.

And you're stretching and getting to these poses.

I have a great deal of respect for yoga.

It's tough.

It is tough, man.

It's hard.

It's hard.

If you've ever hurt your back, though, and this is to everyone out there listening, if you've ever hurt your back, Swimming, yoga, and just running were the only things that helped me.

Running.

I always felt better.

Like, I'd run like four miles.

I used to run a lot.

I used to be in good shape once, and I still am.

You can't see it.

I'm just puffed up with a pillow.

But anyway, I, I, you know, I'd run four miles and then I just collapse.

I used to actually sleep on the floor.

I didn't have a box spring.

And Is it like that over there?

You guys, it seems like things.

Maybe it's stereotypes, but you guys, you know, you take your shoes off the tables lower.

Are the beds lower?

Yeah.

Generally, people do still sleep on, like, tatami mats.

Like, that's not unusual.

That's just a mat.

Like, if you just imagine like a mat in a.

In a Japanese, like, again, your stereotypical image, that's accurate.

In this case, the tatami mat is just.

Is just a mat.

They fill up rooms with it.

All right, sorry, my dog's freaking out.

Just give me a second.

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Let me tell you, man, we got some good podcasts.

That's okay, McBee.

If I went into a promo.

Oh, the other thing I'm learning is no one can hear this music.

Right?

So I'm just gonna shut that off.

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You know the name Chunk mcbeef Chest.

First of all, every time I think about it, I say it, I type it, I laugh.

Yeah.

And I just.

That's the goal.

Why chunk McBeef chest?

It just has a great ring to it.

And I always picture, like, this pudgy black and white cartoon character that's just like Chunky meme jazz.

Like, I am king of the mountain.

I am king of the schoolyard.

I am chunky beef chest.

Big beef chest.

And I gotta know, man, you don't look like a chocolate beef chest.

No, I totally.

I think chunky beef chest is an attitude more than anything else.

Certainly an attitude I carry with me everywhere I go.

I dig that, man.

So why Chuck McBee chest?

Give us some background.

And what they would do is take old, really bad, usually TV shows.

They had three characters sat in the front row in a pretend theater and they ripped on the movie.

So it was just a comedy thing.

And it was one of my favorite things in the world.

Started public access, got onto Comedy Central, just it went on for like 10 years.

And so it was on Comedy Central.

It was on Comedy Central for the last three or four years it existed.

And then all those guys went off and did different versions of the exact same thing.

So there's a website called Rift Tracks where you can download their commentary to play over the.

The movie you're watching.

So if you want, like, more modern movies and stuff, that's cool.

They did one episode called Space Mutiny, which is again, sort of showing the quality of film that they're talking about.

It was like an action 80s movie on a spaceship, but the spaceship was clearly just like a brewery.

My kind of spaceship.

But that's what they did in the 80s, right?

Like, it looks like a factory.

So now we'll call it a spaceship.

Every time the main character came on screen, they gave him a new name and it was this rhythm.

So it was da da, da da.

So I got.

So there's.

I put it up on the screen in the back for me, there's Slab, Bulkhead, Fridge, mclarge, Meat, Punt, Speed, Chunk, Butch, Deadlift.

You can see, like they've just found a pattern.

That's funny.

So, like, all of those I enjoyed, but I wanted.

When I was coming up with a screen name, I wanted to come up with my own, but I wanted to use that sort of rhythm, that.

That sort of feeling.

And so chunk McBee chess just kind of like ended.

I don't know even know how I got it.

It just was like, this sounds right to me.

And that became the thing.

We gotta.

We gotta talk about the gaming.

You're a big gamer.

I am.

Basically, it's my.

My social aspect of life now that we can't really go out and do stuff anymore.

So it's taken.

Since the pandemic, it's taken a much more forward step.

And I started streaming.

It wasn't even that long ago, like six months or a year ago, but it's.

It's basically my friend and I decided every Friday night we were going to do a co op session.

So we just play a game together and we just.

It's just talking.

Yeah, it was just us talking though.

And then people drop in.

We got a guy in Saudi Arabia, he seems to drop in every time and just talk to us.

He just loves hanging out.

And this is it.

It's building that small community.

The Twitch has been really good for that.

It's been a lot of fun.

We've had people join us in games.

We have people who come and watch regularly.

And so that's been growing.

It's not massive growth, but again, I think target demographic of Twitch and this don't match up very much, but they get some good banter between me and my friend and that's maybe what people end up hanging around for once they see it.

Yeah, that's cool.

Yeah, it's all about community too.

And it's a great way.

I joke about Halo, but I remember we used to play.

I was in this band in high school, high school band, like legit garage band.

We did pretty well, actually.

We're a lot of fun too.

So much fun.

And when we were done practicing or done with the show, you know, we didn't party, we didn't drink.

I was like 16, 17, and I was like a good student.

Like went to Catholic school, all this, all boys school, tuck in your shirts, shave, you know, all that.

You know, after band practice or after we would play a show or whatever we did normally we'd hit Wendy's, get four junior bacon cheeseburgers each, definitely, obviously.

And then we would usually go to my house because my mom used to work nights, and we'd set up four TVs in four different rooms and run Land Land games.

And it was just so, so much fun.

And it sounds like now in this new, this new realm of gaming, this Twitch thing, you know, it sounds like you found some momentum in that.

Well, we were playing anyways, and so we.

And then I was looking to turn my podcast to video, which I hadn't done yet.

So I podcasted for about four and a half or five years.

I hadn't done any video.

Everyone's telling me, I'll put it on YouTube, put on video.

I didn't really want to because again, I didn't really want to stick my face on camera.

But Twitch seems like a good.

I was like, I gotta record it.

I might as well stream it.

So that's when I started Twitch.

And then I'm like, well, I'm already streaming the software and everything's already set up, so I might as well stream my gameplay sessions sometimes.

Again, there was no intent at the beginning.

Yeah, it.

We'll just do it live.

That's.

That's really.

That's my attitude, at least.

So don't screw up.

I'll just screw up in front of everybody.

But then that's what it is.

But then I could download the video and edit it into little video clip videos that are way more fun because it's only the good bits and it's just me and my.

You.

90 Of it's me and my friend ripping on each other and making stupid jokes.

But again, that is kind of why people are there in the first place.

I'm certainly not.

They're not there for the gameplay.

Well, I've seen some clips.

I mean, I'm not much of a gamer, but I laughed.

Like, when you ran into the train, I thought that was pretty cool.

It was awesome.

Yes.

Especially after being warned, don't run into the train.

And then just directly right into the train.

That's how it goes.

It was like.

It was like a new.

It was like a puppy dog trying to.

Still learning how to, like, get trained.

Yeah.

Figuring stuff out.

Sit, sit, sit.

Bolts.

Another dog down the street.

That's cool, man.

That's cool.

Have you always been into video games?

Big Nintendo guy, you know, Japan, Nintendo.

Well, so this is.

I think my father made a huge mistake because I. I got a thing called a Gemini, which was supposed to take Atari cartridges and some other cartridge.

So I.

But I had a paper route and I saved up, like, months and months and months and months.

This thing was like a hundred dollars, and I bought it myself.

My parents were really against me getting a video game system because they thought this was a waste of time and money.

Now, this being some weird knockoff Chinese product, in, like two weeks, it broke.

And I didn't understand warranties or that I could get it back or anything.

My dad's just like, well, that's what you get, you know, you shouldn't have bought it in the first place.

That's what you get.

But I think that made me obsessed with getting consoles and games and stuff in the future, because if he had just let me play games were so shit back then that I would have Got bored of them because I had the Empire Strikes Back, which was a little ship and then it flew forward.

And then you found a walker and you went.

And then you just did the next one.

And that's it.

It was just looped.

This is on Gemini.

This was.

This was the UNOLD Atari game.

But it's boring as it was.

So boring.

That's the thing.

Yeah.

Space commanders and it's all the same game.

If you just let me play those.

I would have been like, well, this isn't fun.

I would have quit, but because I had this gap until I got to like university, when I started getting computers and money and stuff and I could buy things.

By that time I was like, the most amazing thing in the world is to own video games.

So I actually think my dad disciplined me, disciplining me.

Made a mistake.

That's what he did.

He actually set an obsession in motion.

I mean, I got in my house, so there's an Xbox 360, a PlayStation 3, a PlayStation 4, a Switch.

Like we got.

Everything you can get is just.

Yeah.

And it's.

It's just lifestyle now.

Yeah.

So when you stream, you're doing PS PlayStation 4.

Yeah, yeah.

I was a big Atari guy, you know, when I was 3, 4.

But I remember having an Atari.

We had like a couple games and then I had a Nintendo and then I had a Super Nintendo because my cousins, I'm big Irish family dude, you know, things can pass down.

Ended up with like three big boxes of super Nintendo games.

More than I would ever be able to.

To even understand.

But we used to have this big.

And I don't know if you remember this.

You might.

No one ever does.

But there used to be this game called Short Order Explode.

No, I don't think so.

Because again, that might be the gap now for me is that the game probably came out when I wasn't playing.

I don't know if it.

I can't remember and I Google it, but I don't wanna.

I'm not touching anything, let's put it that way.

But sure.

Explode.

It was either on the original Mario.

I'm sorry, the original.

Original Mario.

It was either on nes, the original Nintendo, or it was on snes.

And it might have just been nes.

But nevertheless, Short Order Explode.

Basically there was a mat.

You.

You had this mat.

And the mat was used for another game too.

It was like this athletic game where you could run up and down and it was like 4x4 on the button.

It's kind of like Dance Dance Revolution.

Yeah.

Yeah, it's basically.

It's the same mat.

It's almost like they take.

They took the idea maybe, and basically you'd run and you'd have to, like, jump to, like, a 4:1, you know, almost like Twister, but, you know, Dance Test Revolution style.

And it was.

You had to make the sandwich so you'd have the bun, the lettuce, the tomato.

That.

It was more interactive.

And it.

It's Where I'm going with this is like, we've gone from that step and that stage to, like, the arcades.

I don't know if you guys had arcades, like, in Japan, in Canada.

Yeah, that.

So there was that community interaction.

That was the community, you know, and then we kind of went up to, like, Halo kind of thing.

Like, I was talking about where we just have four TVs and all these teenagers running havocly when my mom would work nights.

Sorry, Mom.

But now you're, you know, you have this Twitch thing going.

I see you on there all the time.

And.

And, you know, we have a lot of people in Blind Knowledge, and there are just a lot of people out there probably watching right now that love Twitch.

Do you have any advice for these folks?

Because I know you've only been on it for a little while, but it seems like you have kind of the steady growth, and, you know, you're on there and you have, like, a good setup.

You're ready to go.

You know, it's always.

You always get McBeef.

You know, I know beef is coming on.

I got an alert on my phone.

I check it out.

It's McBeef.

And that's really, you know what.

What you want any advice out there for someone just listening, like, wow, I could be McBeefy.

I could do that.

I think.

I think really all these things, people got to really understand why they're doing it.

Like, I never went into Twitch or anything expecting to grow or make money.

It was just a way for me to interact with my friends.

And then if other people drop in and become friends, that was great.

So there's no loss.

And that.

That's maybe one of the bigger things is people go in.

I was like, I want to get a thousand people subscribed to me in a couple months, and I want to make money.

I want this to be my job that is like rock stars and stuff.

Like, you cannot expect that to happen.

And like you just said, growth is so slow because discoverability on all these things is so small.

Like, unless you're starting to put yourself out there.

How do you even put yourself out there on Twitch?

I wouldn't even know.

Multiple platforms, I would guess.

Yeah, multiple platforms and then.

But if you do want to grow.

So the reason people keep coming back to the ones I do is I'll talk to people.

And the guy I stream with most often, he joins in the conversation.

So we're not.

You're not.

It's not me and him talking, it's me and him talking to you.

That's what I'm saying.

People stay for that.

Like they come, they drop in, they talk, but they, they keep coming back.

Is like, oh yeah, I come on on the same time almost every night.

We play for like an hour, maybe two hours before bedtime.

That's basically like 10 to 12.

That's basically my, my window for when the kids are doing their stuff or going to bed and I have some quiet time.

And he's the same.

So.

But consistency means like, oh, I know.

Like in an hour they're going to be playing a game, they're gonna be talking to each other like they're idiots, they're gonna be insulting each other, they're gonna rip on someone for not being good.

But it's fun to watch.

And then if I jump in and make a comment, they, they respond to me like I'm, I'm there.

And that makes a huge difference.

I can't relate, unfortunately, but I can relate kind of podcast style and podcast wise, like every Friday at 10, my favorite podcast gets released.

But yeah, consistency is so important and you're probably not even doing it to be, to be consistent.

It's just like, I just want a game.

Well, I got, I got a couple hours a day when I can do what I want.

But this is a, I have a friend who's in the same situation.

So it's like with we, we set times and we do it and then it's consistent and then the family doesn't bug us because they know all he's got is two hours or his hour of game time.

What's your wife think about it?

It's interesting because she's come around.

At first she was one of these people who thought video games was a waste of time.

So I ran an experiment on her which, like your dad.

Yes, but she didn't understand it first.

She was one of these people like, how can you play that for two hours?

And the thing is, when I'm playing a video game for Two hours.

She was watching Japanese dramas for two hours or some television, which is not bad, but in my mind, more passive.

So it.

To me, it's not worse, but it's like, you can't really say one's better than the other.

You can't complain about me playing a video game if you're watching tv.

So, yeah, I. I played video games for an hour, and then I. I marked when she actually said something like, oh, you've been playing that all day or something.

And then I watched.

No, no, no.

I wrote it down.

I did an Excel sheet.

Oh, you're already.

Oh, you don't.

You don't.

You don't insult me, man.

I. I will.

I will excel you into next week.

So then I watched a TV show, and then I marked down when she said anything, but she didn't say anything because TV in her mind was acceptable.

And then I sat staring at a blank screen, and she didn't say anything.

And then I brought her.

I made a PowerPoint and I said, look, here's your reaction time.

This is clearly a bias that you hold that is no longer accurate.

It's not fair.

I don't see how the value of a Japanese drama that I can predict the ending of because they're so formulaic is better than me doing something that's interactive.

And she.

And she didn't.

She.

She saw that my point was valid and we didn't have an argument.

She actually says, it's very hard to argue with me.

You are.

You are.

You know, your man.

I'll collect data before I argue with you.

And it's data on you.

I'm the same way.

I'm the same way.

If.

If there's.

If it's an argument or a disagreement that I don't know.

This is common life lesson.

I'm younger than you, but I've learned you're better off being quiet and.

And not being the loud guy, especially if you don't know what you're talking about.

If you know what you're talking about, go for it, dude.

It's your time in the sun, in the spotlight.

Go for it.

But if you don't know what you're talking about, don't try to it.

Look it up, research it, figure it out, and then come with the smoke.

Come at him with it, man, because then at least you can cite and you know what you're talking about, and you can, you know, make.

Make an honest and truthful effort.

What you run into most of the time is people actually suffer from the Dunning Kruger effect, which is a study they did, it's a psychology study.

And they found the problem with most people is they think they know more than they do.

So they did a.

They basically, if you have a hundred people and you say, are you above average, intelligent?

Almost all of them say yes, which is statistically impossible.

You're all average intelligence.

I'm actually very, very high intelligence.

I always click that box.

But that's, that's what I mean.

Like, if you were smart, you would know what the criteria for being smart is.

So you would actually probably scale down, be like, I know you have to be able to do A, B and C to be.

Call myself smart.

They did it with people who just math.

Are you good at math?

And people would say yes.

And they would say, well, now you're going to do a math test.

And they would do really poorly.

And then they would always blame something else, something external.

But really the core issue is you don't know what you're talking about.

The hardest thing to do to a person is convince them that they suck so bad that they then start to improve because once they realize they're bad at something, they can start making steps to correct it.

But your self image, two ways to.

Go with that, McBee.

McBee McChes.

But your self image is built on that.

And that's the problem.

Knowledge is degree.

My name is Joey B.

Before I give any more info on that and before we bring back the chunky one, I just want to give a special shout out over to my boys.

One's in Germany, we have the lady over in India and all the folks over at the Abbey Normals podcast.

Yo, you gotta check out the Abbey Normals.

If you like Zeus and, and, and, and Odysseus and Greek mythology, the, the id, the Iliad and all that kind of historical slash, not real stuff, I guess.

Maybe it was real, maybe it isn't.

Probably not.

So definitely.

Check out Abby Normal's podcast.

Spotify, TW Music.

What do you guys got over there in Japan, McBee?

If you guys got Spotify, Apple, basically everything.

Well, Spotify is the biggest platform for listening to music and stuff, so that would be the biggest one.

Apple's pretty huge.

Japanese people love the iPhone.

It's, it's pretty big.

Google is not the biggest product, so Yahoo's still a thing here.

I hate Yahoo.

You can't get away from it.

It's a massive company in Japan.

I know, I know I can't get away from it.

McBee.

I've been trying for Years and years of my life, you know, they were great.

You know, they were the thing.

I still have my Joey B email.

Fantasy football is great now.

They just creep up on you now.

They just randomly switch my browser.

I'm on Yahoo.

I can't find anything.

Not like I can find anything on Google anymore either, but that's beside the point.

Sorry for ranting.

I. I just.

It's so great.

I'm not a fan of Yahoo either.

Okay, good.

Fuck Yahoo.

Why is it big over there?

What's.

What's the deal?

Well, they.

So in most countries they were just like some kind of Internet provider and stuff or Internet services.

Here they actually have gotten into smartphones and stuff.

They actually produce smartphones in Japan.

So it's, it's a massive communications company.

So like the Internet will be a Yahoo company.

There's Softbank is a big communications company that's basically a Yahoo company.

There's why mobile.

It's mobile Internet.

So they, they've.

Japan is often referred to as a sort of a Galapagos situation because just the environment, the ecosystem is always just isolated and different.

And so things survive here that just don't survive anywhere else or things happen here that just don't happen anywhere else.

And so people run away.

Google.

I'm sorry, not Google, but people like Yahoo run away from the US To Japan for prosperity, it sounds like.

But I mean the companies.

Yeah, it's going.

How does that happen?

Why is Japan like kind of have its own.

I mean, you guys have a great economy.

Yeah.

You have a lot of good things happening.

Money wise.

But yeah.

Why does that happen?

It's like a shell.

It's like Japan is its own thing.

They, they just, it's just, they just chalk it up to culture.

The culture is a bit isolated.

It's an island, it's separate.

And the Japanese people in general consider themselves different from everyone else.

Different.

How are you Japanese?

I am not.

You're Canadian, aren't you?

I was born in the UK and then we moved to Canada when I was a little kid.

Now it was UK to Toronto, Ottawa, Vancouver, Victoria.

I've spent some time in Europe and then I went to Korea and then I came to Japan.

Why the bouncing around?

Were you army brat?

I was doing judo.

Are you traveling?

Doing judo?

Yeah.

So after university I, I decided, I was like, okay, I can't get to the Olympics because my hand messed up.

It ended my career.

But I can still go to all those places and do it.

So I went around, I went to Ireland, England, And Spain and France and did judo there.

And then I went to Korea and did judo there, and then I came to Japan.

I didn't intend to stay.

I was like, I'll do two, three years in Japan.

Get that?

That's the final experience.

And then got married and stuff.

So I had a really good lifestyle here.

Oh, Mr. And Mrs. McBee.

Wow.

That's actually pretty cool, man.

So you.

You met the love of your life.

Now you're just stuck in the bubble that is Japan.

Yeah, but it's.

It's.

It's maybe not stuck.

Maybe you're just the Internet.

You want to be stuck.

Yeah, I'm happy here.

Yeah.

Well, the Internet has made.

Everything is just like.

Like, thank God this conversation we can have right now.

I'd never have met you, dude.

Let's talk about your podcast, dude.

You do two podcasts.

You do Chuck McBeef chest.

You also do Ninja News Japan.

Yes.

Well, let's start with Chugging Beef Jest.

What premise?

What do you do on there?

What's up with that?

So I.

Every couple months, I have an idea for a new podcast, and I want to do it.

And then I realized, like, you can't make 50 podcasts, because there was a time I was actually running five at the same time.

Oh, you can.

You'll never sleep again.

Oh, yeah, but that's what I mean.

I got to do other stuff as well.

So I was like, okay, chunk me, Beef Chest.

It's actually shortened to C McBee on the.

On the website, but C McBee McBee.

It's easy to remember the.

The first podcast I made, the problem was no one could remember the name.

And so I was like, I'm gonna.

I'm gonna rebrand.

I'm gonna do it, right?

C McBee, Chuck McBee chest.

No one forgets those.

So what I wanted to do was I really wanted to do multiple podcasts, but knew it just wasn't gonna work out.

So I decided C McBee was gonna be three podcasts, but just in one feed.

So the first week is a topic, and so far, it's been mostly pop culture stuff.

Like, one of the first questions that a friend sent me was, if Bruce Banner put on Adamantium pants and turned into the Hulk, what would happen?

Would the pants explode?

Because.

But Adamantium is the strongest substance in the Marvel universe, or would he be crushed?

So I answer that question that.

Why?

Hold on.

Sorry, I know I keep interrupting, but what was your answer with that one, dude?

Well, the problem is the first question is, what Kind of pants is he wearing?

Are they jeans?

And then how.

I talk about how the stitching would have to work.

There's a bunch of things you got to consider before you can actually get to the answer.

And then does he expand all at once because he's only wearing pants?

It actually would make most sense that the pressure would push him out through the pants.

So what if.

What if he has a full.

A full bladder versus That's a.

That's a different thing.

When the Hulk transforms, there's a really interesting question is where does all that mass come from?

So my theory is actually it has to come basically from water out of the air, because most of your muscles in your body is actually mostly water.

So his expansion.

Would he pull water out of the air?

And then he can expand.

The thing is, though, when he turns back into Bruce Banner, he should either pee extensively or vomit.

Like, that mass has to come back out again.

So where does it go?

Where it has to.

Yeah, it has to go somewhere.

It doesn't disappear.

But then I decided we need to change the premise.

So I put Bruce Banner in an adamantium box that was sealed.

And that.

That's how you get it.

And then you actually would end up.

He would continue to get angry, continue to expand, and then collapse in on himself and create a black hole.

And that is the answer.

Wow.

I mean, that's it.

You have something.

It'll collapse on itself if it keeps expanding.

So he becomes a black hole.

What is it?

Antium.

Adamantium is like what the Wolverines claws are made of.

Oh, yeah.

Badass.

Yeah.

So that's.

That's.

That's the.

That's the stuff that covers.

Wolverine's a whole different thing.

If all his bones are covered in adamantium, why doesn't he have silver teeth?

That's a good question.

They didn't cover his teeth for some reason, which is ridiculous.

Yeah, that's.

Okay.

I never thought of that.

No, no one does.

Teeth are what?

They're bones.

They're.

Teeth aren't bones.

They're teeth.

It's calcium.

It's the same stuff.

Yeah, yeah, that's.

Well, but if you're coating a skeleton in metal, you don't not coat the teeth.

That just doesn't make sense.

Yeah.

And how does Wolverine go to a dentist?

Yeah, well, I. I assume because he regenerates, he just pulls it out and a new one grows in.

He's got.

He's.

He doesn't need.

See, this is.

This is the C McBee podcast right here.

That first week is just give me a question.

I will go at it so hard.

But Wolverine could do a lot more good if he actually, like, cut out his liver and donated it to science every week.

He could just.

Because he just regenerates another one.

So why isn't he saving people who have liver problems?

Go to a hospital and donate everything, Grow it back, donate everything.

He's got to be a universal donor.

Like, he would be the universal.

So Wolverine's kind of a dick, kind of a douchebag.

He's not saving people he could be saving.

He's, He's.

He's.

He's got to be the top character.

Marvel, probably.

He's the Canadian one.

So, yeah,.

That's what it is.

Americans don't like that.

They don't like that he's Canadian.

They tried to retcon that at one point.

I don't.

I don't know.

I don't get into all that.

I just know Wolverine's badass.

What's the one that shoots the lasers out of his eyes?

Is that Cyclops?

Cyclops, yes.

Yeah, that guy's badass, too.

So that's week one, and then mostly, like, pop culture light stuff.

The second week I did see McBee reads, and CMCBE reads is just a basically different format where I take something before it was.

I took something and just read it off the Internet and then did the same thing, like analysis and make fun of it.

But this is the third or fourth week of me reading a free Amazon book called Caveman Aliens Ransom and Caveman Aliens Ransom.

Yeah.

So they.

They picked up some girls off Earth and dropped them on a planet with dinosaurs and cavemen.

Of course they did.

Yet we were about to get to a sex scene at the end of the chapter I was reading last time.

And then I don't know if I'm comfortable reading it is the problem.

I might get all, like, flustered.

Ooh, I already am.

And then the.

The third week is C. McBee thinks, and it's just going to be current stuff from the Internet.

So cmc.

Yes.

It's going to be scenic.

B topic.

CBP Reads.

CMC B Things Topics, reads and things.

Yo, check out the podcast C. McBee.

Is it chunky Beef Chest or Just See Me?

It's because it's done by Chunk mcbeef Chest.

Whichever one you search for will come up cool.

SIMCBY is so chill.

So hip.

Yep.

Cool.

Yep.

But chubby beef chest, too.

So that's podcast numero uno.

So what about numerous.

How do you say?

Two in Japanese doors.

See?

Yeah, so you got two.

So you got CMP and then you have Ninja News Japan, which I think is fascinating.

Yeah, I basically just read the news all the time.

So I'm in Japan.

Japanese news.

Oh yeah, yeah.

It's.

It's that week.

Like there's nothing if it's more than a week old.

I'm not touching it.

I'm trying to get a broad range of news.

I don't want to just do like.

Because of course, Covid.

It's Covid.

Covid.

Covid.

I've actually put like a little kibosh on that.

I'm not going to do Covid news unless it's particularly interesting because I think.

We're all kind of done with COVID.

Yeah, people want to get away from it.

So I collect some, some.

Maybe some politics, maybe some international politics.

I do like skeevy crimes.

They're the most fun.

Just last week, Japanese crime.

Oh my God.

You know, this is where Japanese people are the worst.

Because the story that I ended off with just last Tuesday was a 50 year old man walked up to a high school girl who's browsing in a store, got down on his hands and knees and started licking her sneakers.

Yeah, yeah.

He got arrested for that.

And it's like again, my take on it is like, what did you think was going to happen?

You think she'd be like, oh, well that's nice.

And just be like, he didn't know her.

No, just stranger.

He just.

His fetish overtook him and he got down, just started licking her shoe.

Yeah, it's insane.

So like panty theft is a pretty common issue in the summertime.

Yep.

Really dudes?

Just Japanese dudes or just people that live male in Japan?

Yep.

Skeevy Japanese dudes, man.

They.

They Japanese is taking panties because they don't dirty.

They don't?

No, no, they're clean because they don't use dryers.

They have laundry machines, but they don't have dryers in Japan.

They hang dry everything.

These guys will climb up on your balcony, take a little underwear, run off.

It's a really common crime in Japan.

Why they throw them on their heads.

Do they fucking wang off to them or.

I think there's two groups there.

I think there's the people who do like touch them and then there's the people who like would like.

The stealing of it is the thrill.

There's the tactile people.

Right.

And then there's the people who.

It's the crime itself.

The concept of stealing it is what appeals to.

That's gotta be it.

Okay, okay, okay.

All right, let me just try to summarize here.

We got some skeevy Japanese dudes.

Yes.

Or they are just living males that live in Japan.

Yeah, it's usually.

It's usually older guys before I get.

All of Japan hitting me.

All right, so we got some older generational males that basically they.

They take the women's undergarments, if you please, and they just kind of.

Just kind of.

I think.

I think it's.

Yeah, the feeling is what gets them going.

So we got the touchy feely dudes, and then we have the ones that just do it for the rush.

I think it's.

I think a lot of the.

The gross crimes that I do talk about.

And again, I do talk about, like, why would you do this?

Or what's the psychology behind it?

We never get an answer.

But it's the interesting part.

Some people, it's just like, I'm doing something that's socially unacceptable.

I'm committing.

I'm doing the thing that I know is wrong.

It's.

I can see teenagers having that.

That kind of thing.

At least here in the U.S. like, there's always a rebellion stage.

I think.

I think the.

The repressive nature of Japanese culture is.

Is it breaks you over time.

This is why these old men, they're like, I can do whatever I want now.

I've passed all that.

And then they don't realize, no, you can't do whatever you want.

So they just have.

The old men, they're just like.

They have the case of the fuck.

It's.

And they just get down on their knees and start licking sneakers.

But also, we're gonna need to know, have you researched or looked into the inquiry that I had about the massive new King Burger or Burger King?

Yes, it.

Burger King V. It's like a pound burger.

It's like four patties.

It's four patties to make one pound of beef.

Yeah, it's.

It's basically.

And it's got Gouda cheese.

I looked into it a bit.

It's got Gouda cheese and some.

It's actually two kinds of cheese.

And then it's got pickles and some mayonnaise.

And they don't have a Burger King within a reasonable distance of me.

It's actually a pretty rare restaurant in Japan.

We're gonna have to get something over to you, McBee.

Yeah, you would have to go to Tokyo or something, which is just too much of a trip.

But there is a website called Rocket News 24.

That's actually pretty good.

They do.

They sort of.

The Venn diagram of what I do, and they do overlaps a lot.

They sent someone out to go eat one and see if they could finish it.

Was the.

Was the story.

That's what I was.

I was hoping for you.

I just wanted, like, a hookup on, you know, how big is that monster?

Because that thing.

So big.

It's almost.

It's almost.

But that's advertising.

Advertising is always so deceptive.

So I actually bet it's big, but not as big as it seems.

Have you.

Have you.

You probably have.

But have you researched and read into, like, commercials for.

With burgers and fries?

You know, it's not real food.

Yeah.

Yeah.

So the.

The one of the ones I really liked was pizza.

They actually screw it down so that the other slices don't come up when they lift the one piece.

And they put glue in the cheese to make it stretch longer.

So when they pick it up, it stretches the beautiful, like, link of cheese.

But then none of the other pizza raises up because that's actually screwed into the table or whatever.

They're sitting it on.

Chunk McBeef chest here.

My name is Joey B.

And I no longer like pizza.

I think this is the best way, actually, to describe any kind of content, any kind of entertainment medium.

We have C. McBee, which is the two.

Which is the three parts, rather, which is hilarious.

Check it out.

See McBee podcast everywhere.

Spotify, Apple, Blind Knowledge.

And then you have Ninja News Japan.

And the reason why I like Ninja News Japan so much, and I like both.

If I didn't like them, then I, you know, I'd skip over this interview.

It would be a boring conversation.

If you didn't like them, it would be.

Yeah, you'd be talking to yourself, basically, Pete, you know, you have the two podcasts.

You have the Velocity pot.

That was the Velocity.

Velocity podcast was the first one.

Yep.

Which I dug that.

I. I thought that was great.

But I see why you wanted to kind of revolutionize, kind of bring it 2.0 with McBeef or C. McBee, the spicy, chunky McBeef.

So.

But getting back to Ninja News, like, over here in the U.S. dude, I don't know what's going on in Japan.

I'd love to know you.

I was just watching something on India the other day, and I just kind of got, like, sucked into the wormhole.

Like, that's some cool.

The.

The news over here in the US Right now is atrocious.

It's absolutely atrocious.

And it's part of the reason why I started Blind Knowledge.

It's like you just get this repetitive all sing all day for eight hours.

Man, I'm working over here.

Work from home, you know, six, seven hours I think it was.

Same, same, same story.

The same story for like six or seven hours.

I'm not really watching.

It's in the background.

I get the music on but it's just like this visual thing.

Then I'll look up and see it, you know, just like subconsciously and it's the same thing.

And it's just like this, like who the cares about Stormy McDaniels or Stormy Daniels and her lawyer and her big tits and Trump and blah blah blah.

No one gives a man.

Let's talk about how leukemia is being, you know, cured right now.

We can use some info on that.

So getting back to you, McBeef, Chucky McBeef and you know your podcast Ninja News Japan, you're giving us some insight over here that you may realize that you may not.

Because I would think like for me if I did a U.S. current Events News thing, you know, Joey B with the news, the U.S. you know, you probably either already heard it or you don't care, you know, or it just wouldn't go the same way.

And maybe that's true, maybe it's not.

But nevertheless, like I myself and people educated, especially people with degrees and schooled and just, you know, some smart fellows and women and in our non identifying friends as well.

We love you.

People like to think, people like to hear different perspectives.

People want to know what's going on outside the U S Ninja News Japan Chuck McBeef Chest Knowledges Degree we have been talking for a minute.

Thank you so much for joining me, Pete.

Peter Martin 2 podcast C McBee Ninja News Japan we should make this more regular thing maybe.

Absolutely, we can do it.

We're gonna call it a night y', all, because I don't know what time it is, but it's late here on the east coast.

Yeah.

What time is it in?

It's about 5:30 in the afternoon on Wednesday.

5:30 In the afternoon, Wednesday.

Chuck McBeef chest from his boat in the middle of Japan hanging out.

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All the links are in the, all the links are in the description.

We want to thank you very much for joining us on Facebook, on Twitter, on Twitch, on, you know, wherever you found us.

Pete, thank you so much for joining me.

Yeah, thanks man.

It was fun.

Excellent.

Excellent.

We're gonna let you go.

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Yeah, do whatever you want.

C McBee or Chuck McBeef chest.

Also Ninja News Japan.

I'll say it 20 more times if we have to.

It's great.

It's on Spotify, it's on Apple.

It's gonna be on blind Ellis.

My name is.

My name might be Joey McBeef chest at the end of this.

I. I don't know.

I don't even know what time it is, but I had such a great time.

I hope you did too.

We'll see you next time here on Blind Knowledge.

This is knowledge's degree.

And yeah.

Hope you have a great night.

Be healthy, be safe.

Thanks.