A Japanese man has been arrested
because he had too
many girlfriends.
>> Let him go.
[LAUGH] >> Okay, so there's a
little more to the story than that.
But the Telegraph is reporting that
this man intentionally had dozens
of girlfriends at the same time
because he wanted to get a steady
flow of gifts, birthday gifts,
specifically.
>> Man, this is a complicated scam
for a tiny amount of money,
as you'll see in a second.
But that's a lot of effort, man,
35 girlfriends.
I don't envy the guy.
>> All right, I hadn't given
the specific number yet, but
thank you for stepping on my lines.
>> Sorry.
>> I'll go ahead and
present the rest of the story.
[LAUGH] It's okay, all right.
[LAUGH] >> So, Takashi Miyagawa
is his name, part-time worker is
being investigated for
allegedly defrauding at least 35
single women through his work
by pretending he was serious about
each of their relationships and
receiving hundreds of pounds worth
of gifts from them.
So okay, let's pause for a second.
Maybe it's not as extreme in
most cases,
when stuff like this happens.
But I would venture to say that
this type of behavior happens
all the time across the world in
many different dating contexts.
Like wanting to go out and
be treated to a nice dinner
is sometimes the thing,
so you'll say yes to a date, right?
>> Yeah. >> You might not be
serious about pursuing this person
for a relationship, but
they asked you out on a date,
you're like all right,
I want to have a nice dinner,
and you go for it.
So, in that case,
are you defrauding that person and
should you be arrested for it?
>> No, this totally [CROSSTALK]
>> This is insane.
Look, I'm a woman,
I don't like to be lied to,
don't get me wrong.
Poor women, right?
But arresting him for
this is insane, it's just crazy.
>> Look, when they said hundreds of
pounds, I was like, man, this guy,
but like he waited?
Jesus, how many gifts did he get?
Did he fill a room with it?
Is this a treasure chest?
What is this?
No, they just mean as in British
pounds.
That's not that much money at all.
>> Yeah.
>> That's not even
a thousand bucks.
>> $766 worth of gifts,
>> Who cares?
$766?
And by the way, at first,
you hear it and you're like 35
women at once, respect, right?
I don't know if I'm allowed to
say that anymore, but I'm like,
wow, right?
>> Who the hell can manage
that, though?
>> That's the second thing
you think.
What, are you nuts?
>> I don't want 35 men in my life,
that sounds awful.
[LAUGH] >> Well, I hear you,
definitely.
Have you met men?
So, but look, the idea of trying to
keep up with 35 partners,
that's crazy.
That's impossible.
And all you got in return was 766
bucks of gifts?
And by the end, I started to think
he went from hero to an idiot.
He wasted all that time.
By the way, if you just focus on
one, if you thought the whole scam
is about getting gifts,
just pick the richest one and
they probably would have
given you 10 times that much.
>> If your end goal is $766 worth
of gifts.
>> Yeah.
>> I would argue good time
management skills would require you
to find a side hustle where you
work a few hours or whatever,
maybe a few days, and you make that
money and you buy yourself whatever
the hell you want.
It's far more easy to do it that
way than have
35 different partners that you're
lying to simultaneously.
And besides which, when you have
that many people involved in
the scam, you need Jack involved,
you need some spreadsheets, right?
[LAUGH] >> I know,
how do you keep up?
>> How do you keep up
with all of it?
>> So you understand,
he at least thought through.
I don't want to be overwhelmed on
my actual birthday because then I'm
going to have to run between all
35 women.
So, he gave them all
different birthday.
>> Yeah, yeah, yeah.
>> So, he would get
presents through out the year.
But then, Anna's right,
you totally need a spreadsheet to
remember all the lies.
Did I tell her April 17 or May 17?
Which one was in June and
which, I mean, Lord mercy, this is
the worst scam in world history.
>> He told this 47-year-old woman
that his birthday was on February
22, a 40-year-old woman that his
birthday was in July, a 35-year-old
woman that it was an April.
However, his real birthday is
believed to be, it doesn't matter.
It doesn't matter when his
real birthday is.
It doesn't matter even
a little bit.
>> Why, are we going to send him
a gift on his actual birthday?
>> Yeah, exactly.
No, but here's the other thing.
Love languages exist, people have
different love languages.
And receiving gifts, for
some people,
is like the ultimate love language.
My mom is like that, right?
For me,
it's take out the trash for me.
I'm the happiest person.
Little tasks, right?
Those little tasks demonstrate to
me how much you love me, right?
So, everyone's got different thing.
I would say,
my second love language is telling
me that you love me,
saying sweet nothings, whatever.
I forget what the word is,
or the phrase is, for
that type of love language.
In this case, this guy loves gifts.
I would be annoyed if 35 different
people that I'm not scamming gave
me a gift on my birthday.
I don't want gifts.
It's clutter, it's junk,
please keep it for yourself.
Spend the money on yourself or
your family.
It's amazing how different
people are.
>> 100%. It's a great point about
the different love languages.
If you haven't heard about that,
you should really look into that.
There's different ways that people
communicate love to one another,
and if you communicate love in
different ways in a relationship,
you might get really frustrating.
You keep waiting for,
fill in the blank right?
Gifts, and the other person never
gives gifts because to them, that's
not expressing love at all, right?
So, you're going to be shocked to
find out I'm more verbal.
I care more about talking and
I care less about taking out
the garbage.
[LAUGH] >> But that's why, to me,
I agree.
The 35 gifts?
I don't even want them.
>> Yeah.
>> I barely can muster up,
if somebody says to me what do
you want, it takes me five
years to figure out a gift I want.
So, I mean, I'm lucky, right?
And I just don't care.
So, he spent so much time and
effort, even the smallest part-time
job would have gotten that.
And if you were going to do it,
do it right.
Find someone who's pretending to be
a billionaire but
has a lot of money,
has set up a lot of companies,
they've all gone bankrupt, so he
obviously can't run his businesses.
You'll be easy to take a lot
of money from him.
Wait for him to become president,
then rearrange your prenup so you
can get the most out of him, and
then divorce him fairly soon after.
That hasn't happened yet.
And I don't know who I might be
referring to.