Episode 33 - Yukio Mishima and the Suicidal Crossfit Cult

Lions Led By Donkeys Podcast

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Comedy

4.6 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2019

⏱️ 98 minutes

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On this episode Joe and Rich talk about Yukio Mishima, one of the greatest writers Japan has ever produced, as well as a psychotic devotee to the Japanese Emperor who created his own right wing militia based around working out in thongs and fucking. Support the show: https://www.patreon.com/lionsledbydonkeys buy some merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/lions-led-by-donkeys-store Follow the show @lions_by Follow Joe: @jkass99 sources: https://www.stonebridge.com/sbp-blog/death-in-mid-autumn-the-art-and-artifice-of-yukio-mishima-s-final-moments https://www.tokyoreporter.com/japan-news/breaking/scarred-memory-ex-gsdf-member-remembers-sword-attack-by-yukio-mishima/ http://www.rochester.edu/College/translation/threepercent/2013/02/04/persona-a-biography-of-yukio-mishima/

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0:00.0	Mishima himself had samurai ancestry and he was extremely proud of it.
0:07.0	You can easily find two contradiction characteristics of Japanese cultures or Japanese characters
0:16.8	One is elegance, one is brutality, but these two characteristics are very
0:22.2	territory combined sometimes and our brutality I think comes from our emotion.
0:28.0	It is never mechanized or systematized like Natchez's brutality.
0:35.0	And I think the brutality might come from our feminine aspects.
0:40.0	And elegance comes from our nervous side.
0:45.0	Sometimes we are too sensitive about
0:49.0	defining or elegance or sense of beauty of beauty such aesthetic site.
0:54.2	And sometimes we are tired of it.
0:57.8	And we need sometimes a sudden explode.
1:01.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of Lines Live by Donkeys podcast I'm Joe and with me today is Rich
1:07.4	Hi guys
1:08.3	Nick is still in Japan as we were recording this I think he's supposed to be back next week or something.
1:13.4	Hopefully, back by Christmas.
1:15.1	Yeah, I don't, I don't believe or trust it.
1:17.6	So, uh, I wrote an episode about Japan, uh, that he could not be on because he's in Japan I feel like that's fitting
1:25.9	and I brought you on because along with being a true crime
1:30.9	Officionado and junkie you're also really into cults.
1:35.0	If there's anything I love more than serial killers, it's cults.
1:38.2	Yeah, and so I guess I'll let you be the judge at the end of this if this really was a cult or something else
1:46.5	We're going to talk about how a strange group fitness class turned into something of an imperial death cult and try to take over a country.
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