This week Aiden reports back his findings on Japan's housing market, Atrioc tells us which movies are woke, and DougDoug explains why we can't trust anonymous people on the internet anymore.Recorded on: March 27th, 2025Clips Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCurXaZAZPKtl8EgH1ymuZggAudio Listeners can hear us:Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Yz44z9z3t8VQu4WRmsrs6Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lemonade-stand/id1799868725Amazon: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/7d7e1f54-49a3-4082-81e8-f70bfe1ace63/lemonade-standiHeart: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/269-lemonade-stand-269417962/Follow usTikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@thelemonadecastInstagram - https://www.instagram.com/thelemonadecast/Twitter - https://x.com/LemonadeCastThe C-suiteAiden - https://x.com/aidencalvinAtrioc - https://x.com/AtriocDougDoug - https://x.com/DougDougFoodEdited by Aedish - https://x.com/aedisheditsSegments00:00 Normal Podcast Prep00:24 Aiden is back from Japan!03:53 Japan's Housing Market12:33 How does Tokyo seem "affordable"?20:38 DougDoug the builder26:10 A home would be nice30:35 Why woke is killing movies44:03 China doesn't need Hollywood49:30 The landscape has shifted57:39 Death of the Monoculture1:02:08 AI Version Fatigue1:07:54 ChatGPT is now bad at math1:11:03 Scammers are replaceable1:15:07 Can we moderate this?1:21:35 DougDoug in the villain seat1:26:18 A final noteNew takes on Business, Tech, and Politics. Squeezed fresh every Thursday.#lemonadestand #dougdoug #atrioc #aiden
Chapter 1: How affordable is Japan's housing market?
Aiden, you got back from Japan like 15 minutes ago.
About. How long?
I mean, I landed like three hours ago.
And then by the time, oh, beautiful LAX. By the time I walked to the Uber parking lot, got into the Uber, and then got here, it was about 15 minutes ago. All right, well, I did just get back from Japan. And I thought it would be nice to pick a nice, exciting topic related to Japan.
And one thing that was going through my head a lot while I was there, because we actually went out into the countryside, and I've never done that before. I've been, or at least not in like mainland Japan. I've been to Hokkaido and I've done a little road trip like while it's snowing and I've been to Tokyo, but I've never been into like the countryside that you kind of see.
Do you consider yourself an honorary Nihongo?
No, I'm basically Japanese. We were calling Nick Yingling the chopped hus the entire time, if you know what that means, in Japanese the whole time we were there. We'll move on from that. A big headline that I have seen in our media in recent years is about how you can get free houses in Japan. Anyone can buy one. Literally one or zero dollar homes.
And the catch being that these homes are often very broken down, old, abandoned. But it did make me want to look a little more into why housing in Japan is so relatively cheap at a time when everywhere in the world, developed countries, big cities, prices of real estate are generally going up. People are getting priced out of living places. Yeah. And that's not like an American thing necessarily.
No, like Canada, Australia, UK. It's all over the world. So the first thing I took a look at was, and as you've explained to me in the past, is Japan had this gigantic asset bubble that like largely included real estate. When their economy was exploding, they went through this huge inflationary period of assets in the country. And then I think it was in like- 89.
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Chapter 2: What makes Tokyo's real estate market unique?
Barbenheimer, Avengers, like some things break through and they still do great.
And they do amazing. It's very Feaster family. So it's like proof that that still can break through in the current time.
And then on the other end of it, I feel like I'm taking a very like pull yourself up by your own bootstraps approach to movie watching, which I acknowledge that a big part, it's like, well, the average person isn't fighting through that many layers of friction to go see an original movie that they may or may not like. Like I recognize that.
And I think part of like changing the culture in the movie industry is like, well, maybe two decades ago, you went to the theater or you might think about going to the theater and the movies you happen to be available when you finally decide to go are a wider array of original stuff. Like 20 years ago, we're deciding to go see a movie and it might just be The Departed, right?
But now- You're six years old 20 years ago. You are not allowed to see The Departed.
I'm allowed to see The Departed. I would see it. I want to see it. Small, small side thing.
Tell me more about this wonderful society 20 years ago.
I went to, I'll never forget this. I was on a date. It was a bad date movie, by the way.
I was 16. I was turning 17 in a week. And I was going out with a girl who was a year older than me. And we went to go see the wolf of wall street and we were buying our tickets. And I went up to the guy second and he had just seen like my, my date by the ticket before me. And I'm like, please, please let me buy this ticket. And then he just said, you're good homie.
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Chapter 3: Why are young people in Japan apathetic about politics?
For every grandma in America, 100 scammers. You know the whole learn to code thing? Learn to scam. Yeah, you won't need to code with how good these models are getting. You just tell it who you want to scam and how to do it. You don't have to tell how to do it.
This is so interesting. Something I reflect on a lot is the first time I ever heard of OpenAI, I was sitting in an arena in Seattle at the International Games.
And I saw the open AI crew sit down and set up a computer on the stage. And they were like, this is our new AI. And then it beat Dendy in 1v1 Dota. And that was in 20... I think that was in 2017. And now it's this. It's a lot more than beat Dendy in Dota now. I think, yeah, that is the main... I mean... My main worry is the scale at which this is deployed to hurt people.
I wasn't even thinking of scams necessarily. I think the thing that always pops into my head first is misinformation. It's like your ability to just make some official looking video with a real politician sound and make claims.
I have a specific example of where this is bothering the shit out of me and I want to bring it up. So I talk about a lot of like, I don't know, contentious topics on stream. I cover current events or news, which means you're going to get comments that are pushing back on you or whatever. And I've always dealt with those and it's fine. And you have a conversation.
Sometimes you learn something from them and they learn from you. But I'm seeing it more and more every month where the comments are clearly AI generated and their response to my response is like they put my response into ChatGPT and asked it to write comments a response to what I'm saying.
So you're saying it's not literally a bot. It's a human being engaging in the argument with you. But using the AI to do its work of arguing with me.
Like you're a college professor.
Yes.
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