# #139 世界からHelloが消えた - Show: kemioの言わせて言うだけEverything - Published: 2026-09-18 - Canonical: https://podc.club/en/episode/1728211655_e1a07fb4909f.html - Audio: https://anchor.fm/s/f0e04264/podcast/play/125854441/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-8-17%2F432057566-44100-2-a47799816dec1.m4a - Source: Edited from a machine transcript of the first 30 minutes of the episode. Not an official summary. Recorded during kemio's stay in Japan, episode #139 of kemio no Iwasete Iu dake Everything runs a listener-survey segment themed around the "○○ Police" — things people want to crack down on in everyday life. From kemio's own fury at subscription traps and impossible cancellation flows to listener grievances covering bad breath, elevator gate-crashers, shinkansen shoe-removers, chronic lateness, and ignored greetings, eight listener "arrest warrants" are worked through one by one. The episode closes with kemio's theory that everyday greetings are vanishing from the world — illustrated by being blanked 80% of the time while saying "ciao" to hikers in Sicily, Italy. ## What this episode answers ### Why has kemio poured more budget and energy into this year's Halloween production than ever before? He is putting more budget and energy into this year's Halloween production because he wants to top last year's Edward Scissorhands look, treating it as the essential lead-up event before Christmas. ### Signing up for subscriptions takes seconds — so why is cancelling so hard, and how did kemio fight back? Subscriptions are designed to sign up in seconds but require navigating a 'cancellation labyrinth' (e.g., no in-app cancel button, phone-only cancellation with out-of-hours messages); kemio fought back by publicly venting about it and calling for a legally mandated cooling-off period. ### What is the core frustration of the movie-theater worker listener who wrote in about customers who don't wait for the full answer? The listener, a cinema part-timer, is frustrated by customers who walk away before he finishes answering their question, then come back and ask the exact same thing again. ### What did kemio confess about themselves while venting about people who are chronically late? kemio confessed that he also only reads the opening of a message and assumes he's understood it, meaning he catches himself doing the same thing as people who don't wait for full answers/information. ### What possibilities does kemio raise to explain why everyday greetings are disappearing from modern life? kemio raises the possibility that people who don't respond to greetings aren't unfriendly but simply unsure how to reply, alongside noting that greetings like 'ohayou gozaimasu,' 'konnichiwa,' 'konbanwa,' 'hello,' and 'hi' are simply vanishing from daily life. ## Article ## The Mariah Carey Defrost Meme and a Halloween Declaration of War The episode opens with the annual internet ritual: the "Mariah Carey defrost meme" — the phenomenon in which "All I Want for Christmas Is You" surges back up the charts the moment September tips into autumn. kemio uses it as a launchpad to declare war on Halloween's behalf. "The event that comes before Christmas is Halloween, right?" he insists, revealing that this year he has committed his largest-ever budget to video production, aiming to top last year's Edward Scissorhands look. Full details are coming in the weeks ahead, and he signs off the tangent with a self-aware nudge: "Look at me with gentle eyes, like, 'this person is really excited about this.'" ## kemio Arrests "Subscription Hell" and the "Cancellation Labyrinth" The first grievance kemio raises himself is the relentless subscription-ification of everything. His example: security cameras that can no longer simply be bought, installed, and used — they now require app registration and a monthly fee. His heavier artillery, though, is aimed at the "sign up in seconds, cancel through a labyrinth" problem. A gym and a movie service he joined in New York had no in-app cancellation button; a phone call was required, but every time he called he got an out-of-hours message, forgot to try again, and found three months had quietly slipped by. He also declares flatly that he has never once managed to quit a service within its "first week free" trial window. The segment ends with a genuine cry for help: "Someone should legislate a cooling-off-period law — consumer-affairs centres, please help us." The anger spills over into online advertising: close buttons are deliberately tiny and off-centre so that a millimetre of drift sends you to the advertiser's page (GigaFile is cited as an example). He also calls out X (formerly Twitter) for its auto-scroll that whisks away the post you were trying to read, and criticises the platform's search function for becoming useless in emergencies — including its inability to search across Japanese and English simultaneously. ## Listener Police and the Small Rages of Everyday Life Eight listeners submitted their arrest warrants. Takoyaki-san (age 20, male), who works part-time at a cinema, wrote about customers who walk away before he finishes answering their question, then return and ask the exact same thing again. kemio sympathises: "I catch myself doing this too — reading just the opening of a message and thinking I've got it." He asks listeners to consider what it costs a service worker to answer the same question a hundred times a day. Pendemuringo-san (23, female) complained about people who wedge a bag in the elevator doors and force their way in. kemio's response: "I always hold the open button for everyone — that's just who I am." Yurika-san (32, female) targeted the middle-aged man who removes his shoes on the shinkansen; kemio confessed with disarming honesty: "I used to do this on planes without a second thought — I've started becoming that man." On public flatulence, kemio delivers a verdict — "terrorism" — before immediately showing empathy: "They've probably convinced themselves that if it's silent it's fine." Maitan no Tenpura-san (27) brought up people who never return borrowed clothes unless you ask; kemio's position is firm: you should dry-clean it before giving it back. On chronic lateness, he argues it signals a failure to respect other people's time — then cheerfully confesses he showed up ten minutes late to this very recording session. He broadens the discussion with a cultural note: at New York parties with a 5 p.m. start time, nobody ever arrives at 5 p.m., which makes the ethics of lateness genuinely complicated. ## "Greetings Have Disappeared from the World" The final listener, Eminiin-san (30, female), submitted a "Greeting Police" entry, and it unlocks kemio's most passionate monologue of the episode. He argues that "ohayou gozaimasu," "konnichiwa," and "konbanwa" have all but vanished from daily life — and now even "hello" and "hi" are going the same way. As evidence, he describes hiking in Sicily, Italy, and saying "ciao" to every person he passed; roughly 80% of them ignored him completely. Yet he also offers a counter-reading: "When a stranger greets me, I feel seen — it genuinely makes me happy." He wonders aloud whether the people who don't respond aren't unfriendly, just unsure how to reply. He closes with a note about Japanese show-business culture, where "ohayou gozaimasu" is used as a universal greeting regardless of the time of day — a small reminder that greetings are, at their core, an act of acknowledgement. ## Takeaways - kemio argues that making subscription sign-ups instant while engineering cancellation to be deliberately painful has reached the point where consumer-protection legislation is genuinely needed. - Whether the subject is lateness, unreturned borrowed clothes, or condescending one-upmanship, kemio repeatedly identifies the same root cause: a failure to respect other people's time and feelings. - The episode's conclusion is that everyday greetings — from 'ohayou gozaimasu' to 'hello' — are fading from modern life, and that consciously reclaiming the habit of acknowledging strangers is worth the effort.