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Vaguely Inconsistent
Navigating the Japanese Red Light District: Cultural Insights and Travel Plans
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The countdown to Japan has officially begun! After a full year of planning, our trip to the Land of the Rising Sun is just days away, and this episode captures all the excitement, nerves, and final preparations before we embark on this long-awaited adventure.
We kick things off with a fascinating deep dive into Japanese culture, particularly the country's unique approach to adult entertainment districts and the fascinating legal distinctions that create an entirely different experience than what Western travelers might expect. This leads to a broader discussion about cultural differences we're anticipating and looking forward to experiencing firsthand.
Travel logistics take center stage as we meticulously review our packing strategies (surprisingly minimal!), transportation plans utilizing Japan's world-class public transit system, and accommodation details. We share insider tips on navigating Tokyo efficiently, using Google Maps offline, securing affordable mobile data through eSIM options like Airalo and Saily, and coordinating our Star Wars Celebration Japan experience. From botanical gardens and baseball games to izakayas and hidden local gems, our itinerary balances iconic tourist experiences with authentic cultural immersion.
What makes this episode special is the genuine enthusiasm that permeates every minute. There's something magical about that moment just before a major journey begins—when anticipation reaches its peak and possibilities seem endless. Whether you're planning your own Japanese adventure or simply enjoy travel stories, you'll find yourself caught up in our excitement and perhaps inspired to start planning an international journey of your own.
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Boom.
Speaker 2:Boom Got some Doing it wrong. Hello everybody.
Speaker 3:Oh wait, hang on, there we go.
Speaker 2:Three. Unless you're Japanese, then three is like I can't even get my fingers. Look at my fingers shaking.
Speaker 3:I can't even do that shit. You're so nervous. You're so nervous you're going to then. Three is like I can't even get my fingers. Look at my fingers shaking. I can't even do that shit. You're so nervous. You're so nervous you're going to get called out by somebody.
Speaker 2:Your fingers are like, oh perfect, no problem at all. He's going to come back from Japan with a.
Speaker 1:Parkinson's prescription.
Speaker 3:He's doing this and this means three. This means fuck you in Japanese, and he doesn't even know it.
Speaker 1:He's like oh, shit, baka baka ching ching.
Speaker 3:I think, that's what. Duke's dad said, yeah, I still got to figure out what that is he's like. Did you find out? And I said, sure, Dad, and it meant I'm not going to say it to anybody because I don't want to get slapped. Oh, you won't get slapped. I'm like maybe 45 years ago I wouldn't have gotten slapped I'm gonna save it for the red light district, yeah, yeah yeah, exactly probably appropriate down there.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I was watching the video and this guy was like hey, so this is where you want to say. He's uh rating everything on um, accessibility, uh, atmosphere and something else I forgot. But he's their name, but he kept saying Red Light District. I'm like that means something different, right? No?
Speaker 2:It turns out, as long as there's not actual intercourse.
Speaker 1:them hoes can do what they want.
Speaker 3:No, so okay, so this is how it was explained to me.
Speaker 2:What about you?
Speaker 3:Was that you go to the Red Light District and you go to these clubs. Yeah, sex, the birds and the bees. Guys, here we go. We're doing Japanese birds in the bees right now Is that there's an area in town where there's like a bunch of clubs. You go to the clubs, you pay like a cover fee and then there's a bunch of girls in the club and you go and kind of pick the girl that you want to hang out with for a while and then you either walk back to their hotel room or you walk back to your hotel room and while you're talking you have conversation. Thus you get to know each other and it's no longer prostitution, because now you're friends and you're going to go. You know, have a good time.
Speaker 2:Do what friends do.
Speaker 3:Right, exactly. And it just so happens, there's money on the nightstand at the end of the evening, right, like you know, and it would be stupid of her to just leave money on the nightstand. If you're dumb enough to leave money on the nightstand, right.
Speaker 2:Like how much money is left on the nightstand for these type of events.
Speaker 3:Oh, I'm guessing the nightstand's empty, your wallet's empty. Your credit card probably has several charges from the different restaurants and bars that you had to take her to to become friends. Right, you can't just you know Prostitution is illegal. Having sex with your friend Not illegal. That was how it was explained to me.
Speaker 2:Blowjobs also not illegal.
Speaker 3:Yes, blowjobs also not illegal.
Speaker 2:Handjobs not illegal. That didn't make me feel bigger since I'm just a little Asian one.
Speaker 1:I'm like, yeah, that's what I'm saying, imagine an Asian midget.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, my head would explode. Both of them Exactly.
Speaker 3:We'll have to talk later, Lou, but I think we have a date for when the midget strippers are coming back to Portland.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 3:You might need to come up for that. You might need to take a long weekend. I think it's like the end of July or something.
Speaker 2:Comic-Con weekend. What the?
Speaker 3:hell, let me find out, it might be August. If it's August, you might be clear. I also have a date.
Speaker 2:As long as it's not the end of August. That's when Colorado Springs Comic Con is. Oh, okay, but either way, that's something to look out for For sure.
Speaker 3:Worst case scenario. There'll be some interesting pictures in the text thread.
Speaker 2:For real, and I'm still waiting for my answer. Do we have a going rate for a service?
Speaker 1:If I'm Japan rich like.
Speaker 2:Right, like am I getting a blowjob for 20 bucks? Like what is going on here 30,000 yen.
Speaker 1:Whoa hold on man.
Speaker 3:No, $12 is way too much for what you're doing 30,000 yen. Unless you give up the butt, and then that's like 200 bucks. That's still not a bad price. I'm just saying.
Speaker 2:No, compared to Vegas, it rates at 400 an hour. I mean so I've heard Allegedly that's crazy. You're right I mean, I can't.
Speaker 3:A little bit less than that, but whatever so the interesting part when this was being explained to me. The interesting part of it is that I guess other females are not allowed.
Speaker 2:Welcome, yeah, yeah, because he was because when he was talking to me he was like, yeah, so we could take our one friend, but his wife can't come because it just gets. I did see that.
Speaker 3:So I'm guessing Jack will have to fly solo that night.
Speaker 2:Yep did see that, so I'm guessing jack will have to fly solo.
Speaker 3:That night, yep ended up crashing in our room because he ain't gonna be let back in his own. No shit, the second he leaves she's going downstairs and changing the key card changing.
Speaker 2:she gonna change rooms, new hotels. But yeah, I read that or saw one of the videos, probably back in January, about that. It was like, oh wait, girls aren't allowed, it's supposed to be a guy's thing, and their relaxation it's all about them. And then there is the same thing for women as well.
Speaker 1:Yeah, very similar.
Speaker 2:Probably, not Probably not Some women like their pretty boys, though. These white women Been out here watching anime for five years and now it's like I want one of these Japanese pretty boys, and then they'll do it.
Speaker 3:And when you guys get to that point Of the white lotus with the greatest monologue ever, I'm curious. So is he of the white Lotus with the greatest monologue ever?
Speaker 2:Um, it's curious, yeah, well, so is he and I will leave it at that, fair enough. Um, so well, yeah. Then I saw their like love hotels, uh, where you can get rooms by the hour and shit. Yeah, like okay. And there are actual you know brothels there. Yeah, the hour and shit. Yeah, like okay. And there are actual you know brothels there. Yeah, it does not just go to the club and then. And then they have the uh, oh my god, what's it called? It's? It's kind of like a show-off party where, like, you're the main event but you don't do anything, with the people like the girls going after like a bachelorette party and they have the pretty boys show up and all that, but they don't anything.
Speaker 3:It's just all you do is drink If we need a pretty boy, we got him Covered. I mean you're going to have to bring the headphones, jack, because nobody's going to talk to you unless you have Vader and Yoda on your list.
Speaker 2:I agree, man, if I can get a couple of midgets named Vader and Yoda, they can be in my head too. Oh shit, oh man, couple of midgets named Vader and Yoda, they can be in my head too. Alright. So what do you guys have? Do you guys have anything planned? You know why I'm leaving Sunday night on the night bus and World's Fair on Monday and Bullet Train back. Do you guys have anything set? Nothing set, I mean.
Speaker 1:If you're going to be gone, then and bullet train back, you guys have anything set. Nothing set, I mean just ideas. Yeah, if you're going to be gone, then I mean we'll probably do hello Kitty land then. But, um, we're definitely going to the the the castle, like the the emperor's castle and shit. So I know you're down with that.
Speaker 2:So if you go to the castle, you do that because you don't leave until Tuesday night, right, correct? So we can do that Tuesday. That way all of us can go to that one. And then, duke, are you going with them to Hello Kitty? Are you going with me down south? Even though you're coming up from down south already, you'll be there. Are you going to do your own thing on Monday?
Speaker 3:Monday's when Ben and Jen leave. So I think that'll be when my friends leave, so I might end up. I mean, if all the stuff, if we can have a conversation and all of us say, okay, let's do the castle that day, right?
Speaker 1:Well, Lou won't be there Monday.
Speaker 3:And they want to do the castle. Lou won't be, there Monday? Oh yeah, because he's gone and they're coming back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm not back until like 10 o'clock Monday night.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I think they leave in the afternoon or something like that. Yeah, my friends will figure when we get into town on Wednesday. I think we're getting into town late Wednesday night in Tokyo, not Thursday. Again, I'm trying to build as much flexibility in the trip as possible. So I say Wednesday now, but if we end up spending an extra day in Kobe for example, then it won't be until Thursday.
Speaker 3:So the plan for us, I think, when we get into town Thursday, is to go to a baseball game on Thursday night, because that's when the majority of the people who might be interested in that will be there is there a game Thursday night?
Speaker 3:yeah, okay, so not not the, not the Star Wars game, but just a game, but not but also not the the big team. It's one of the smaller teams. They're in the same league, but it's a smaller stadium. I don't think it's as big of a stadium, but the tickets were also super cheap.
Speaker 2:The other one was basically the Tokyo.
Speaker 3:Dome one was basically sold out.
Speaker 2:It's like going to watch the A's play, where there's plenty of seats everywhere.
Speaker 3:And I don't know anything about the secondary market and how that works Like if you guys were coming here and was like, hey, we want to go see a soccer game, like I would know, okay, we got to go here here here. I don't know anything at all about the secondary market, or even if it exists, right, I don't know how that's they might they might like lock your account.
Speaker 3:Like you know, you might not be able to transfer the tickets, Like. I don't know how any of that works. Uh yeah, so where I think the plan is, we're going to go to the other game. I think it might be a little bit further out, but not too bad. But they also are wrapping up a homestand on Thursday, and then the rest of the weekend is kind of just up in the air.
Speaker 2:Like it's Friday. Did somebody in your group rent a car, or are you all taking public transit?
Speaker 3:the whole time. Public transit. None of us rented a car. I guess, guess my, from what I was told, like the smaller cities, it's really hard actually to drive a car around. Like some places it's the big cities it's. I guess it's okay to drive cars around, but once you get out of the main cities there's some places that it's it's a challenge, like once you get off the freeways. Uh, so we're just going to take public transit. It's going to be easy, there's enough of it and we're not going. At least me and my my friend that I'm going to be traveling with aren't going to go anywhere that isn't off of a main train line.
Speaker 2:It'll be a 15 minute bus, right it's either a train or bus, right and I guess and I guess uber and lyft do like the versions, the japanese versions of that exist. It it's a taxi, but yeah, yeah, yeah but. I mean a Japanese Uber is a taxi, so. But taxis are expensive though.
Speaker 3:But I mean again, if we're in an area where we just need to take one and we want to just get there as quick as possible, still relative, it's not that expensive.
Speaker 1:Japan rich bitch.
Speaker 2:Yeah Well, I mean still relative. It's not that expensive. Japan rich bitch. Yeah well, I mean relative, I guess. I guess that's true from for, like I, I keep looking at the stuff for us flying into narita and then going to tokyo and that's like 150 cab ride right, and I was like wait, we're taking a train for six bucks, screw that well, and and again.
Speaker 3:I mean here, for example, portland charges. There's an airport fee. So if you get picked up at the airport by a taxi or an Uber, or whatever there's a fee, but if we're in between, not near an airport, and we're just catching it from, like the train station to 10 miles down the road, that we just don't feel like walking or waiting for the bus, I think it's a lot cheaper.
Speaker 2:Well, sort of like that. Like, if you haven't already done it, get the go taxi app. Okay, that's one of the ones that the videos I've been watching they're talking about. If you're going to for the best rates and all that in Japan, the go taxi app, because then they'll show you also because there's late night, extra charge for taking a taxi and then, like you said, airport extra charge for taking a taxi.
Speaker 2:So well, with your dude, with your friend um, the one that sent that email, who's there, I imagine he knows the public transit system very well. You guys are just going to train bus, train bus, train bus.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah and that's. And I mean we spent like a week ago, week and a half ago, we spent like two hours, you know, in chat, just like OK, we're going to go here, we're going to go here, we're going to go here.
Speaker 3:Oh, let's do this because this makes more sense to just take a bus back and forth than to stay way up here and then come back. You know, like there's a couple of days where it's like, ok, it makes more sense for us to stay in Osaka and just take the bus up to where the viewing platform is that we want to go, instead of staying up there. It would be cool to stay up in that area, just because it would be super off the grid. It wouldn't be a big city, but we're also going to be there for two to three days. We want to be somewhere close that it's at the end of the night and we're like, okay, we want to get back home. We don't want to be on the bus for three hours, right, like, um, so, so those types of things we all figured out um, super excited to go to the town of the ninjas, I don't know. That seems like something super cool.
Speaker 3:That probably doesn't get a lot of uh, a lot of traffic right, it's one of those kind of unless you know somebody who lives there, probably not something that's going to come up in your normal conversation.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah, there was one like three hours west of Tokyo. I was like frick if it wasn't so far like again, that's just killing the day. I was like I kind of want to, but and then the timing would be like in between hotel swaps and like, okay, I'll just skip it.
Speaker 3:Next time. Well, and that's the thing I mean, just because I mean this whole thing for us, to me, is kind of a trial run, right? Do we like Japan? Do we want to go back? Like you already said, you're going back at some point. Like already said, you're going back at some point, like do we tag along with you and then, you know, do the stuff that we didn't get to do the first time around, right?
Speaker 3:maybe you guys don't do everything at disneyland that you want to do, because it's fucking bonkers right, that type of stuff that then we could go back and and kind of like, catch all that stuff that we didn't originally yeah, I was um talking with my oldest and, um, we're sinners up.
Speaker 1:She really wanted to see that and all the reviews have been really good on it. I'm like, well, we can go watch it in Japan. I'm just like I don't know. I'm like it's in English, with Japanese subtitles, you'll be fine. But then I'm like, do we want to spend three hours at a movie theater when we could be doing cultural shit? It'd be kind of cool to see a movie, but I could also go do some other cultural shit, like another museum or another garden, yeah.
Speaker 2:Especially if you get the theater though. That has the. I was looking at it again yesterday watching a video. It's like Theater A or B and somewhere in Tokyo where they do the 4D motion and all that shit. So they have that. I don't know if Sinners is going to have that.
Speaker 1:They're just still there. I was mad at.
Speaker 2:Sinners man. Their last trailer gave away too much, though Sinners pissed me off with that last trailer. It's the.
Speaker 3:It's the Bug's Life or the Honey I Shrunk. It's the Bugs Life or the Honey I Shrunk the Kids. So I was trying to load up the Star Wars Celebration. Japanese Japan app. Send a code. Where the fuck is the code.
Speaker 1:I didn't even try that. I didn't even try that part yet. Oh, I did, it was easy. I thought you needed the badge to do it.
Speaker 2:You sent a code. Where the fuck is the code?
Speaker 1:I didn't even try that. I didn't even try that part yet, oh I did.
Speaker 2:It was easy. I thought you needed your badge to do it. All you needed was your name and email address, so mine's good to go. That was pretty easy. What do you guys got for packing that you think you might need?
Speaker 1:How much clothes are we bringing? Are we doing laundry there?
Speaker 2:I'm doing laundry there. I'm doing that you too. Yeah, yeah, the hotel we're staying at, jack, it's like 50 yen for a box of soap, for one load, or something like that, and it's like 100 yen to wash, 100 yen to dry or something. It's super cheap, it's like two bucks. I looked at the hotel stuff yesterday. I went through all their frequently asked questions all fucking 80-something questions and it was like, oh, this is pretty easy. They don't have a bunch of shit, so that makes that easy. And they got a bunch of shit, so that makes that easy. I'm like, all right, they have laundry facilities on site.
Speaker 1:Half a week we. I figured like half a week I mean, cause we're going to buy shirts at celebration, that's, I mean.
Speaker 3:so that's.
Speaker 1:We're obviously bringing our three Roosevelt, Um, probably a couple other shirts, enough drawers to last you through what you think laundry day is, and maybe an I always yeah, it gets delayed.
Speaker 3:Hey you know what Accidents happen. We're going to be eating weird food.
Speaker 1:That our body. You'll be like oh boy, this is going to be a nasty part. Maybe I don't like octopus. Maybe my butthole doesn't like octopus, no that'll be fine, we'll just stick there and just be dangling out. Man for real, I'll hold that in the sock, will just stick there and just be dangling out.
Speaker 2:Man for real Hold that in it's real name, is Taki Yucky. I probably keep a pair of drawers in my bag just in case at all times.
Speaker 3:You never know, A pair of drawers and socks. In case you got to break the socks out to help you know.
Speaker 2:For real, you got to break the socks out to help. Uh, you know, for real, you gotta, you gotta, wipe with a sock man, you might have to wipe.
Speaker 3:Wipe with a sock. Why does your? Why does your bag look lighter? Oh, I just threw my underwear and socks out in the trash can on the way out yeah, don't worry about that it was better for everybody on the bright side.
Speaker 2:You're one more back, that's right. No trash, can. You're just holding it the whole time? Yeah yeah oh, that'd be.
Speaker 3:You take 45 minutes. People walk in. You're scrubbing your underwear and the bidet. You're just like come on, give me five minutes, I'll be fine, that's the best part. You got the bidet to clean up. I just need the volume to go up for the flushing sound.
Speaker 2:I need so much pressure on my ass while that water I'm fucking coughing it up through my mouth? Clean this shit up, lou.
Speaker 3:I haven't seen you drink water all day, but I've gone to the bathroom five times so I am fine, I am hydrated. I'm good Yep, it's the best way to drink water by the way, because it immediately gets into your system.
Speaker 1:I'm absorbing it differently, like those college kids soaking their tampons in vodka and sticking them up their butt Yep.
Speaker 2:Exactly.
Speaker 3:I will say that's a myth.
Speaker 2:I have tried it multiple times, I mean my friend has tried it multiple times that does not work, just so y'all know, only if it's Kettle One.
Speaker 2:Oh shit. So I'm bringing my little three outlet for a plug. You plug in one, you get three. I'm bringing that because I heard it on the plane. Sometimes the outlets don't always work, so if I'm in one that doesn't work, I can still share with the neighbor and have that going. Obviously, I've got my brick. I've got USB C to A and A to C converters, two of each. Obviously, my brick, my charging cords, all that shit. I'm using doggy bags for my walk-around trash. Yeah, so that way I can just take a couple and throw them in my backpack each day. Um, so I'll have that. Um, not, I mean, obviously I have my headphones, stuff like that, basic shit like that. But don't need, don't need a, a power converter, cause it's like, uh, a hundred and a hundred volts there and our shit is 110, so I'm not worried about that. But the plugs, I am getting a different adapter just in case. I didn't even check and see what kind of shit I had to plug in. But you know how? They have the little two slots In America.
Speaker 1:one of them is the fat end, and one of them is the thinner end.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's only double thin ends in Japan. So I'm like, oh well, let me make sure I get a converter, in case I need something to plug in all your ship before.
Speaker 1:So if you even need it, like what are you bringing, plug in yeah, that's, and then, yeah, all my stuff.
Speaker 3:I had a little tiny speaker and that was my last micro usb device and I finally replaced that. So now I am USB-C across the board. So I just have one plug with one cable, because I'm like, at night I'll charge my, I'll charge the phone, during the day I'll charge whatever needs to be charged before.
Speaker 3:I leave for the day type of thing. I plan on bringing like one pair of khakis in case we do like a nice dinner or something, one pair of jeans, and I'm probably just going to wear shorts the majority of the time. Um the what the weather looks like it's going to be yeah, like 60s 70s, upper 60s, 70s. Yeah, low, like high 60s, low 70s during the day, high 50s, low 60s at night, like tokyo what do we got? Um, I'll probably bring like a light jacket, yeah I'm bringing my sabine hoodie yeah it's going to rain.
Speaker 2:I'm bringing an umbrella. Looks like it rains the day we leave, tuesday, but my forecast only goes to the Wednesday we arrive, and the Wednesday we arrive is partly cloudy and high of 71, so it's fantastic. Duke's not in Tokyo, so I don't know what Osaka's weather looks like. I've just been looking at Tokyo, so I mean just kind of using that as kind of a baseline. It's a very different climate.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, but I was just kind of using it as kind of a baseline just to get an idea, you know.
Speaker 1:And their air quality is 37. We're going to get high off of their oxygen down there, I know, huh.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I mean it's going to. I think you know I'm pretty excited to try out the new bag. I think it'll go well. I ended up they sent me like the rubber slide you know it's the loop and I don't like those at all because I don't like. It's weird, it's a tactile thing for me. So I went and I bought like some leather luggage straps that I replaced them with I don't know. Two people on the two people who listen to this are going to understand it, nobody else is.
Speaker 2:I'm all like I don't even know what you're talking about.
Speaker 3:I wish I would have brought it in here. I'm not, I won't go get it now, but yeah, um your, your luggage. You want a different, so I got the new luggage tags that I showed you guys a couple weeks ago.
Speaker 2:Oh the tags.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but they came with like a rubberized ring that you like loop through the handle. And I don't feel Secure. Yeah, and so I went and I bought some like leather buckle ones that I'm going to tape. You know that I'm going to tape the uh, the end of the, the end of the strap down. So then, that way, the strap on and uh that's also. I'm also bringing a strap on, just in case again you never got to be prepared for anything.
Speaker 1:You never know. You're going out with your friend one night and you just don't know.
Speaker 3:I've seen Hostiles, I know what that's all about.
Speaker 2:Or you know what that refractory period's. A bit you want to go again, but you've got to have that strap on so you can pleasure her or him.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then when you're done, and then she goes, wait, where did it go?
Speaker 2:No, you've got to be careful which one you use first.
Speaker 1:Like it's bigger the second time, baby.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then the third time it goes back to normal.
Speaker 2:Third time it goes to an any. I can't get to the third time.
Speaker 3:Cialis be damned.
Speaker 2:Right, it's like man, we are failing this gentleman. Yes, yes, you are, there's not a sandwich. I think you should be paying me for just giving you a break, oh my god, but I can't think of too much other like oh, specifically for japan, bring this. You know, there's not a whole lot of worse.
Speaker 1:We can probably buy it. It's like we're going to the fucking boonies or something, right, I mean?
Speaker 3:exactly I'll have a day bag because I don't want to carry my backpack around necessarily. My backpack's primarily just going to be for the flights there and back um and then to just have, like some you know, jacket that type of thing like. But I'll have like a little day bag that'll be able to hold my underwear and socks that we already established earlier.
Speaker 2:I'm confused. Wait, you're not going to have luggage.
Speaker 3:No, I will. I'm going to have a carry-on bag that I'm going to check. I'm going to have a backpack and then I'm going to have a small day bag that, when we go out for the day, I'll use that instead of the backpack.
Speaker 2:Why? What's wrong with the backpack?
Speaker 3:The backpack's big. It's a bulky backpack.
Speaker 2:I just don't want to carry it around with me all day. I thought you were using it, like you're going to take your backpack and use that as your bag when you buy shit. It all goes in your backpack.
Speaker 3:I might do that for a celebration, but day-to-day I don't anticipate throughout the rest of the trip buying enough stuff, yeah.
Speaker 1:You just might get addicted to capsule machines and you're just going to fill that bitch up quick.
Speaker 3:The little day back every day. I'll talk to them more about it when we meet up in holy shit like three days. Dude, we've been talking about this shit for a year, you realize that Like how wild is that, it's crazy that it's finally happening.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was Exactly man. I was talking to a girl at the symphony today and it was like, yeah, then Duke leaves in a two days. It registered. I was like, oh my God, he's on a plane in two days.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I was a week from two days.
Speaker 2:I mean, it's crazy.
Speaker 3:Yeah, it's my last week of work.
Speaker 2:I mean yeah this guy, I'm working all the way through Tuesday and then I, then I come home. Uh, uh, come home, any last minute shit, and then right to the airport.
Speaker 3:Now I'm super happy to not think about work for two weeks, especially with everything that's been going on.
Speaker 2:Just it'll be so nice.
Speaker 3:I mean to be honest with you, like my phone is going to be in my pocket like 99% of the time if I'm not taking pictures and stuff I don't actually outside of maybe watching an episode or two of TV. Like I plan on just completely disconnecting for the next two weeks, like oh yeah, outside of kind of coordinating plans and that type of thing, yeah, using it for the various things translations, but as far as like, as far as like looking at the news or whatever, I'm like nah, I'm good, like this is a.
Speaker 3:This is going to be like a big reset, like for me at least nutritional reset, kind of digital reset, I thought I was yeah, we are. I'm sure they have healthy just because I'm doing a nutritional reset doesn't mean I can't eat bullshit they have a teriyaki whopper there and I want to try that.
Speaker 2:I want to get the Royale with cheese Wait. Shit. I did I got your coverage Cool. I want the Wendy's takoyaki freaking burger and I want the teriyaki burger from Burger King.
Speaker 3:And we got to go to KFC. I mean, we got to hit all the big ones right. At least take pictures in front of them.
Speaker 2:Dude. What is with japan and these flavored kit kats? Right, everybody's talking about these damn flavors yes, it's like okay, I guys look it worked. I'm curious enough that I want to know what it's about. So but every time I look up and somebody's doing a video of go to the whatever it's called the daibo or something, the dollar the hundred yen store, basically, which.
Speaker 2:Which is what? 67 cents for us, 70 cents. I was like man, I'm going to walk out there with $1,000 worth of shit. What'd you get? All this and a suitcase, that's what.
Speaker 3:I got, is it Daiso? Something like that.
Speaker 2:DAI, dybo Daiso. We actually have those. We actually have those.
Speaker 3:They've been actually opening them up here. There's one in Portland and one up in Vancouver, and it's weird.
Speaker 1:It is, we got one over.
Speaker 2:I'm not converting my shit to yen when I go visit. We got one over here by Kohl's.
Speaker 1:We've been in there a couple times. It's got some weird stuff in there.
Speaker 3:I mean it's cool, but it's weird Like it's, because it's so much different than even like the Dollar.
Speaker 1:Tree or whatever.
Speaker 3:Like you walk into a Dollar Tree and you're just expecting shit just hanging off the walls. There everything is so clean and just fucking like. Everything's like hung, All the stuff's wiped down Like it's, and yeah, it's very bizarre.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it makes me uncomfortable, that spot, that seven eight-story Don Quixote in Tokyo, hitting that place up, and that's the place that has the teriyaki Whopper. There's a Burger King on the third floor or second floor or something like that. So I'll be doing that. That reminds me. The hotel is weird too. It's like I don't know if I'm reading their shit right, If 5F means fifth floor, if it doesn't mean that I don't know what it means, but the hotel lobby is in 5F, and then there's shopping on 1F, and then there's I would think the
Speaker 3:skyscraper there, so who knows?
Speaker 2:This will be interesting.
Speaker 3:Well, and oftentimes the hotel, the videos that I was watching. It'll be the hotel above businesses. It'll be like a three-story hotel, but it'll be in an eight-story building and it'll be, five, six and seven. The other floors are all different types of businesses and stuff.
Speaker 2:That's how this one is yeah, that's how this one is Again reading all the facts. I was like no, we don't serve lunch or dinner, we only eat breakfast. And it was like okay, and it's like but there's like a Lawson's. You know, there's a Lawson's. Family Mart and 7-Eleven, I think, are the three big convenience stores, was it what they call it, conby's or Knieby's or Conby's, whatever?
Speaker 3:And there is a Lawson on site there and then a 7-eleven around the corner. I'm like all right, and and just because they don't, they don't serve dinner because there's five million places to eat dinner within three blocks of where we're staying.
Speaker 2:That is exactly correct. I did that too. I'm like man, I don't expect to be here for dinner anyway. Uh, but what if? And then I hit the. You know, you're on google, just hit restaurants and then I okay, we're good, let me get off of this page.
Speaker 3:Your map caught measles, because there's 5 million locations. Oh Lord it did.
Speaker 2:I was like, okay, food will not be a problem in Japan. Yeah, oh my God, it's crazy as small as Japan is, they have more restaurants than the United States combined.
Speaker 3:The thing that I noticed when I'm watching these videos too, is I was like oh, you'll see a storefront. It looks like a storefront and it's actually four stores, but here it would be one storefront, but they're all. It's almost kind of like Like a convention Store cubicles, right.
Speaker 3:What's it called Like a consignmentignment almost or wrote like row houses, like when you're in san francisco and it's like you got the four houses on one little tiny yep. That's what, that's what it feels like, because you're like, oh you're, you're looking at it and he's walking and he's like here's, I'm going to eat at this restaurant today and he walks in and it looks like he just picks a random door to open up, but there's doors literally two feet on either side of it that are different places. I'm like bizarre, excited to experience that kind of stuff too, yeah, I'm looking at a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2:I'm trying to look at as well are the hidden gems, all the ones where the locals go to or the back alley shit it's like go to, or the back alley shit. It's like go to this izakaya and they only seat 12 people. But it's fantastic. I'm like all right you know, I'd rather do that than some of the main street.
Speaker 3:Don't be wrong, I am gonna do some of the main streets, like with the big what was it?
Speaker 2:shibuya is that? What is the where the big cat thing is, and the godzilla hotel and all that, oh, that, that and the big crosswalk we're all doing that right, Okay.
Speaker 3:And Jackson, I make sure he has a red umbrella so when he's crossing he can jump on somebody and start attacking them. And then all of a sudden we're in Resident Evil.
Speaker 2:Only way I'm going to finish it is by watching it live. We're going to the home, don't give him sake Wait.
Speaker 3:Don't give him sake, don't give him sake, before we do that. Lou did you say finish it or finish on it?
Speaker 2:Yes.
Speaker 3:I just see Lou over in the corner. Yeah, jack, eat her up, eat her up Get them red rings bro.
Speaker 2:We talk about eating. Now I'm pushing somebody out the way. That's my meal. Lou is devouring her. That's my meal.
Speaker 3:Lou is devouring her.
Speaker 2:That's not how you do it, buddy. I see you found the clit, I'll spit it out.
Speaker 3:I feel so bad for the.
Speaker 1:AI, it's the.
Speaker 3:O-virus.
Speaker 1:I feel so bad for the AI that has to summarize all this.
Speaker 2:Job security Shit. Ai is taking all the jobs anyway, whatever.
Speaker 3:Yeah, super excited to see you guys a week from Thursday.
Speaker 1:That's going to be awesome.
Speaker 3:That's going to be awesome. That's going to be so wild. Right Texts and pictures and shit.
Speaker 2:Yeah, 11 days. Oh, that reminds me. Are you guys going with the AT&T? Well, for you, I guess, jack AT&T, and for you, duke, the international plan for your service as well.
Speaker 3:I was talking to my friends who were already there and he said there was an app that it was significantly cheaper.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's. Aerolo is one and Saley is another.
Speaker 3:I think, Saley is the one that he's using.
Speaker 2:Yeah, basically, jack, you might want to look into this if you haven't already did your international plan. One of the videos I was watching yesterday was talking about Erlo, and a previous video I already had in my notes talked about Saley, and it's like a 10-gig for seven days. Yeah, 10-gig data, for I was like, and we're going to be on Wi-Fi at the hotel, likely at the convention center too.
Speaker 1:No, not at the convention center.
Speaker 2:Not at the convention center. Okay, I haven't checked to see if they have it. No, I saw something on the Facebook group.
Speaker 1:Somebody asked and they're like nope.
Speaker 2:And they said no, okay, well, at the very least, the hotel will have it.
Speaker 3:You're way too trusting about the Facebook group. Sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 2:Luke, no, those dumbasses. No, they posted a screenshot from Celebrationcom.
Speaker 1:so it's legit. Okay, okay, okay.
Speaker 2:That's different. That's different. But anyway, it was like you get one day for Aerlo. Anyway, I haven't looked in Salee's prices yet, but Aerlo is like you get one free day and is like you get one free day and then you get seven days for $6.50 or something like that. I'm like, well, fuck, for $15 it'll cover the whole two-week trip. So you get to add on. So I'm thinking about just doing the eSIM and I'll set it all up before I leave, because they're like set it up before you leave and then as soon as you land, turn it on and then you're good to go.
Speaker 2:I'm like, okay but it seems way cheaper than the one 20 that you were going to do, or?
Speaker 3:whatever it was you were going to do. You can buy the block and then it doesn't activate until you actually go and switch it.
Speaker 2:Yes, so, so. But yeah, I'm again, I'll, I'll look at, say, say Lee, also in the next week and a half but so far Erlo is the one I'm going to lean towards.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and we're using like my group is using Signal, so I mean it's fine if we don't use Signal, because I'm going to be just talking to you guys, like I mean we'll probably keep the same thread, the same text thread that we always had.
Speaker 2:What is Signal?
Speaker 3:Signal is a messaging app, so if you want to talk to your friends or find out what future us war plans are, that's what you use. That works so. But that was so then, to make sure that it's because you know I mean, cell phones are wonky like you're like in a text message and you're fine, but then all of a sudden, like it switches to like sms or mms or something, and now all of a sudden you're roaming and you're like no, no, no, no, no, I don't know, fuck roaming. So they were like I guess WhatsApp and Signal are like the two big. I guess there's a Japanese based chat app that a ton of people native to Japan use, but it's not something that is used worldwide. But Signal and WhatsApp, I guess, are really popular in Japan for communication because a lot of people just have data plans Not Discord.
Speaker 3:I'm guessing I mean again Discord, I think, is one of those that's finally coming up, but it hasn't. I mean we could start a Discord server too. That would be fine too.
Speaker 2:I was going to say. I've been on Discord with our Magic buddies for like five years.
Speaker 3:I mean, we could start up a. Different topics you can throw in there too, so you can mute one at a time. Yeah, we can do a vaguely inconsistent Discord. And then throw the three of us in there, because I mean, you guys are going to be doing a ton of stuff together, so it's like I'm going to be yeah, so we'll just have to the three of us. I think will be good enough to stay in chat for that Right, for the most part.
Speaker 2:I would think so. I mean we're all going to be together, you know, for the most part Thursday through Sunday, until until you head out, and even Thursday. Thursday is going to depend because we land and then we have to get through customs and get to the hotel and then get to the convention to get our badges.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, any of those work, but, um, if, as long as, as long as customs immigration isn't a bitch, uh, then I'm going to be with the four of them and we'll just get to the hotel, check in and take our time to get over. Uh, as long as we get to the hotel. If we get to the hotel by 6, 6, 15, because it's basically check in, drop everything off back out to the train, because their trains run like every 15. Cause it's basically check in, drop everything off back out to the train, cause their trains run like every 15 minutes.
Speaker 2:So it's not like it's that big of a deal, uh, but it's going to be a ASAP. Uh, get out there. Uh, worse, obviously worst case scenario all that shit fails and, um, I'll just pick it up. Thursday I'm going to be out there early. I plan on going out there early. I wasn't kidding. I plan on Friday, saturday, sunday, 5.30 breakfast and then jump on the train as soon as I'm done eating. So if the schedule works out, because Jack, what I expect might happen is oldest will be with us and then the other two will show up afterwards, right, disney?
Speaker 1:is not too far.
Speaker 2:We saw what happened last time at 22. Disney is not that far and it's not that expensive where you could just buy your tickets.
Speaker 2:Well, I guess that hotel wouldn't, but yeah, exactly so unless they sold out and I think you can still buy tickets right now, like like, I don't think that anything sold out, so um for for especially since people are expected to be at Celebration, so I don't expect it to sell out, but if she goes on, if they go on Friday, they might be like okay, did it, I'm over it. Saturday and Sunday, I'll be at Disney.
Speaker 3:I would not be shocked to hear that. I mean, mine isn't Disney, but mine just might be. I've done everything I want to do between going with you guys on Friday and doing all that stuff and then going on Saturday with new people, which I'm actually super excited to go with new people who have never been to Celebration before. It's like taking Blue to Disneyland, right.
Speaker 2:Honestly, yeah, I was thinking the exact same comparison. I was like probably how y'all felt when y'all took me two years ago.
Speaker 3:Because they've never done anything. I mean, they've never been to comic-con, They've never done, they've never done Rose city. They've never been to San Diego Emerald city, They've never been to celebration before Like.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm glad you said that. Uh, the Rose city. What order do you guys want to go with these shirts?
Speaker 3:I mean we can figure it out right now, which three shirts are we taking again the beach?
Speaker 2:shirt, beach Sabre and the Rose City.
Speaker 3:I'm fine with that order.
Speaker 1:Beach, Sabre Rose City, yeah.
Speaker 2:Actually I think so am I, because I want it. No, I want Rose City on Saturday, because that one's more rare.
Speaker 1:So we can show off a little more.
Speaker 2:So Saturday's the bigger day, because I want it, I want it. Beach, no, no, no, I want Rose City on Saturday, because that one's more rare. Yeah, so we can show off a little more.
Speaker 3:So Saturday's the bigger day, so more eyeballs will see us on Saturday. So let's do beach Rose and then Rose, and then Sabres.
Speaker 2:And then Sabres. Okay, yeah, and that's the Sabres.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the black one we just got. Yeah, the black one we just got. Yeah, the lace one, we got. Yeah. I wore my Deadpool Wolverine shirt yesterday. We were doing things for my friend's birthday. We went and actually did the Shanghai Tunnels and stuff and I got at least a half a dozen people like, oh, that's a cool shirt man. I was like, fuck, yeah, it is I still don't know how to take compliments.
Speaker 1:I'm just like $70. You know I had that cause.
Speaker 2:I had three people, uh, appreciating my shirt today at the symphony, so I was, all you know, like all last year's bad-ass. I'm like thanks, man, I appreciate it. That's it, Thanks, I appreciate it. And they keep on walking.
Speaker 3:So, unless you cute, I'm never expecting it, I'm never. The problem is I'm never expecting it, so it just happens like yeah, but yeah, but that's your default.
Speaker 2:Oh, thanks, I appreciate that. And then you keep walking. Thanks, I appreciate that. Wait no, exactly Appreciate that.
Speaker 3:Fuck off. Oh, as an FYI, I just created a vaguely inconsistent Discord server. So I sent you guys the link to join, so we can use that for while we're in Japan and then that'll be. So just make sure you have Discord on your phone.
Speaker 2:Yep, I already do.
Speaker 3:The nice thing is that I think posting pictures and stuff on it too is, and it has a voice chat. So if we decide to jump into voice chat instead of trying to call each other or coming in here or whatever, we can just jump into voice chat real quick.
Speaker 2:We use that for our fantasy football draft. Sometimes If, like, everybody can't make it or whatever it's like, all right, let's go to the voice chat and we're doing our auction draft part of it.
Speaker 3:If we're trying to like figure out stuff for the day or whatever and just, or where people are at or whatever, it might be easier to just call and say, hey, I'm over here or doing this or whatever.
Speaker 2:So um, what else? Tuesday, I think I think two Tuesday the only thing I had on my list and I and I can do it Wednesday Awesome, so there isn't like a set on this one, but I want to do it before I leave is the botanical gardens. There's like five that I want to hit around Tokyo, like Tokyo's here, and then there's five surrounding it, so I'll hit one, then walk to the other one. So I'll let you guys know once I had that, once I had that locked down in case you guys want to go with, because that may coincide with the museum stuff that, jack, you talked about.
Speaker 3:If they talked about, uh, if they're all around, might be bouncing and just hang all, just hit them all shit, because a ton of the gardens are attached. What I realized when I was going through the map is a ton of the garden type stuff or the parks are attached to the museum or the castle or what like the temple of that town, yeah like.
Speaker 3:So so you can just go walk through the whatever it is, whatever garden park, and then you're at whatever the central museum or whatever the building is, or whatever Castle or whatever.
Speaker 2:So, yeah, I haven't done the deep dive enough to know what's there. I just saw. This is when my niece gave me the list and it was like, oh cool. And I was like, okay, let me just map these real quick. I'm like, oh my God, it's a circle around Tokyo, this is perfect. 5. Oh my God, it's a circle around Tokyo, this is perfect. 5.30 breakfast. Then we go walking Monday, rather Tuesday, wednesday, thursday, friday, saturday. I honestly don't give a rat's ass. Whatever happens happens Like the Botanical Gardens. My goal is to hit the five in the circle. However, the benefit of that is they're all walking like a mile or two apart, so if I see something in between there that pulls me away, I'm fucking doing it yeah, well, and and that's the thing like I would in my head I'm like, okay, let's go with lou on.
Speaker 3:I'm just going to say tuesday, right tuesday lou wants to go to the botanical garden, right, um, cool, that's a three quarter mile hike or a mile walk from the hotel. And we're walking and then all of a sudden, maybe we see something on the road. Then we're like, oh hey, let's duck into here real quick and check it out, right, you know.
Speaker 2:I'm all about that. Yeah, I'm all about that. Because here's the thing. Let's say I don't hit all five of these on Tuesday. That because here's the thing, let's let's say I don't hit all five of these on tuesday, I'll go on wednesday, I'll go on saturday. You know what I mean. It's like not a big deal, or I don't go at all, it's fine, because whatever we sidetrack to is going to be just as good. That's the thing, right. So so that's no no issue with that.
Speaker 2:It's basically start there and then let's see how the day goes.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so yeah, I'm definitely the goal. The goal is to do this, but it's not set in stone. Right, exactly, yeah.
Speaker 2:The only thing I might have set in stone quote unquote set in stone will be by the end of the night and the night at an Izakaya every night. That's one of my things I want to do, like let drinks and the appetizers they do with the izakayas before we go back to the hotel. That that would be kind of fun so I know the person.
Speaker 2:That's all if we can, right, that's only if we can't, because what if we have so much shit that we bought, like at celebration? We just got to dump all that stuff. We have to go back to the hotel and just dump it then that even then that works we can find something around the hotel, right?
Speaker 3:yeah, well, like the friend I'm traveling with has a home bar, so I think at some point you know, I mean at some- point in the trip.
Speaker 2:Last night he was in Tokyo.
Speaker 3:Yeah, At some point during the trip. I'm sure we're going to go there, you know, because, again, this is his. I want to be part of his world too. I don't want to just be like sorry, you only do shit. I want to do Like. If he's like, let's go to my bar, I'll introduce you to my girls and we'll get a blah, blah, blah.
Speaker 3:whatever the experience is, yeah, your beard will get shaved for the second time during the trip. I don't know your lower beard. Yeah, exactly, that's why I'm not touching it. I'm like, wait a second, I got a beard you can trim, not this, but Go trim that one. I got Manscaped, sponsored by Manscaped. I have a lawnmower 3.0.
Speaker 2:Matter of fact, she could throw a BJ in there and you'd still be legal.
Speaker 3:I mean, she's already down there.
Speaker 2:Yeah, right, there you go. Suck on this Shave, this Call it a day.
Speaker 3:Do what you need to do down there to make sure that you enjoy it. I want both of us to enjoy it, she's just making sure there were no leftover hands.
Speaker 2:I'm doing this for you.
Speaker 1:With her tongue. Yeah, SG stands up going.
Speaker 2:I didn't do a good job. I got your miso right here, miso honey.
Speaker 3:Just call me Luke Skywalker.
Speaker 2:Luke, luke, luke, oh man.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and I mean for the next podcast. I will try to make myself available on Sunday.
Speaker 1:Yeah, if it works, if it works. If not, then it'll be me and Luke fucking off. Yeah, I know You've got to be sweating it.
Speaker 3:Worst case scenario. I'll duck in for a few minutes and just update you on where things are at and what's going on, and then I'll be like have fun talking about sports boys, have fun talking about hockey.
Speaker 1:Ovechkin just beat Dwayne Gretzky.
Speaker 2:Hello, gretzky's record just dropped.
Speaker 1:That's huge news.
Speaker 3:I saw something where he passed up an open net, so then he actually did it he's like I'm so good, I'm just going to give it to my buddy for the open net goal, because I'll just get it tomorrow, it's fine.
Speaker 2:I'll get my shit legit. Thank you, that dude's ridiculous.
Speaker 1:I mean good for him for breaking the record, but fuck him because he doesn't play for the Knights yeah, and his team beat us in the final the first time we were in it year one.
Speaker 2:So good job, good job. Oh my god alright before we move on yeah.
Speaker 3:I mean yeah, we're here, we're doing it. I mean soon, in two weeks or three weeks, we're gonna have to figure of anything else for Japan before we move on. Yeah, I mean yeah, we're here, we're doing it. I mean soon, in two weeks or three weeks, we're going to have to figure out something else to talk about.
Speaker 1:No, because so we're going to miss? What two episodes maybe?
Speaker 3:No, no, no.
Speaker 1:Podcast, or is it just one? I guess we could do it while you're here.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was going to say we could do it while you're here. Yeah, I was gonna say we could do it while I'm still there Sunday Cause I don't leave till Monday, so we could still do it. Let's get an AI episode so it's only realistically the one Cause I was gonna say I'd do it on the damn train, but that's bad etiquette.
Speaker 1:I need to be loud and shit.
Speaker 2:Dude, I wasn't kidding. When they saw that they were like to be sure and everything and earn a scene etiquette just use your library voice. And I was like I'm so screwed.
Speaker 3:And you know that would end up being the Lou's like guys, I'm on the train, and then we'd be like, okay, let's talk about Trump.
Speaker 2:Oh man, let's talk about Trump. Man, it's real loud.
Speaker 2:It is real loud man that's what I think about the Democrats, exactly, exactly. A bunch of idiots protesting for nothing. They ain't gonna get them anywhere Fucking destroying cars, and they're so stupid they don't realize that destroying cars just means their insurance has to buy another Tesla, so you put another Tesla on there. It's like you, god. The Democrats are so stupid. Let's damage cars because we hate stuff Like oh, that's very peaceful, very, very, very inclusive of you all. Good job. We're the group of peace and love and inclusivity, as long as you agree with us, you fucking dumbasses. That's a dumbass group of people.
Speaker 1:So anyways, movie trailers.
Speaker 2:So back to Japan. So hold on. I just want to make sure Are we locked up with Japan?
Speaker 3:Yeah, I mean yeah, we're good. I think we're good we got travel.
Speaker 2:What to bring. Like I said, I'll look more into the eSIM to confirm that before I just pay my $12 a day or whatever it's going to be.
Speaker 3:I think the eSIM is definitely the way to go, regardless of what app you go with.
Speaker 2:It does seem it.
Speaker 3:But I mean again, I'll have a lot of that stuff. I think kind of sorted out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go here, do this. And then in every freaking YouTube video I watched talking about google, google maps and how easy it is because you obviously it knows where you are.
Speaker 1:You put in where you want to go it tells you I did that which train to take which platform? From our hotel to the convention center. Oh my god, it tells you exactly like what. Walks over here and get on this train yep and get on this platform 10.
Speaker 2:and over here you're going to transform. Get on this train. Yep and get on this platform 10. And over here you're going to transfer and get on platform three. I'm like God damn, they got it really locked down. Good job, google. I got that transit app. I'm like I'm not even going to use it. I'm going to end up using Google the whole time.
Speaker 3:Well, make sure you do the offline maps too, so then you always have them. I would say go and download the, because you can do the offline maps and you can do regions and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:So I have no idea what you're talking about.
Speaker 3:So in the Google Maps app you can download the maps, so that way, if you don't have a cell reception or don't have a network connection, your GPS still works on your phone. The maps will still work and direct you. Oh, that's cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah so it'll save the maps locally so okay, all right, I can I'll. I'll send you a link on how to do that and I was gonna say, do I have to be there? Because you said locally you have to.
Speaker 3:You could just type in the city and then you can download that region. So like you can do, like, if you're in la, you can download, like southern california and it will download the Southern Cal the maps, current maps of Southern California.
Speaker 2:So I'm going to shout out to Rand McNally right there. But most of y'all don't get that joke. That's okay. You're too young. You're too young, All right. Well, if we got Japan locked down? Uh, trailers? Is it trailer time, or is it too late? It's already an hour and a half.
Speaker 1:Well, I mean, we'll see what I can edit out, okay?
Speaker 3:well, let's do it then, yeah, cut it down all right, so um did you guys get a chance to watch all? The trailers I sent over. I think I did. Um, there are a couple trailers that uh came out after or I didn't add, so we'll put those at the end okay to talk about, because I think we'd already had conversations light conversations about them.
Speaker 3:Um, I think all these are new. I don't think any of these. I don't think any of these we had talked about previously. So the first one that I put in the list was the live-action Lilo and Stitch. I watched that and I was like, okay, this is the first live-action Disney movie in a very long time. That was pre-existing. That I was like, okay, this might not be awful, it doesn't look horrible, I think.
Speaker 1:Stitch looks really good. He looks like.
Speaker 3:Stitch. Yeah, they did a really good job with Stitch. The little girl looks exactly like her. For me it was fine.
Speaker 2:Yeah, she was a chubby little girl and she's not a chubby little girl in that trailer.
Speaker 3:Well, as far as the face, as far as the face, as far as convincing me that she could be Lilo, I was like, okay, I'm on board with that. What did you guys think? I like it.
Speaker 2:I thought it was fantastic. I saw it in a theater recently. I can't remember what I saw on Tidewad Tuesday, but I saw it. I was like this is pretty happening. And then I saw Lilo and I was like where's the love to the little chubby girls?
Speaker 1:Because she was a little chubby girl. It's not cool to be chubby anymore, Lilo.
Speaker 2:And I needed her to be a little chubby girl and other than that I thought it looked pretty good, pretty pretty good. I was hoping they'd get Ving Rhames to come in and do the CIA guy they still might, you don't know. Well, no, because they had that Vance whatever the guy's name is from NCIS. They showed him in the trailer something Vance Jr, whatever his name is. No, you're right, that could be a different guy. And then Ving Rhames shows up later. But I was like, okay, that's a little different, but yeah.
Speaker 1:I love the marketing for it, with him just tearing up the different franchises.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, I saw one with him when he had a lightsaber.
Speaker 1:So I'm like that's cool.
Speaker 2:So yeah, they did a lightsaber, so I'm like that's cool. So, yeah, they did a good job.
Speaker 1:So I'm definitely on board, even though I don't like the skinny Leela, you should take your little one to go see Illus, since she's never been to the movies before, ever Ever.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that's a thumbs up.
Speaker 3:Next up was the full Final Destination Bloodlines trailer. Love it. When is that coming out? That is coming out June, may 16th, so that so, Lilo and Stitch. I think is later in the year, right Summer time I thought it was fall.
Speaker 2:Oh, may 23rd, is it really? I thought it was fall.
Speaker 3:Oh, May 23rd.
Speaker 2:Is it really? I thought it was fall.
Speaker 3:So Lilo and Stitch's May 23rd Final Destination Bloodlines. I enjoyed the trailer. It's one of those things. I think it did a good job of introducing you to all the main characters and at least kind of gave you an impression at least it was going to happen to one of them. But I think it kept enough of it kind of obscured that some of the, when the rest of the people get slaughtered mercilessly, it'll still be uh, surprising mercilessly. But this to me, is one of those ones where I don't want to see another trailer from this what did you see?
Speaker 1:the original teaser in the tattoo shop?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, yeah. So you'll see. I mean, we don't actually see if he dies, we assume he dies. But uh, he might just get burned severely and then go into the hospital where they accidentally pump air into his bloodstream and his eyeballs pop out, you know like I think, I think the tattoo shop scene is a um, uh, a red herring. I don't think he dies in the tattoo shop, I think he dies later.
Speaker 1:He backs up and then that bus comes. Maybe he gets hit by a bus.
Speaker 3:I don't think the bus hits him. I think it's one of those where it gave the impression that the bus hit him, but the bus is still behind him Because he's talking shit. Oh, nothing's going to happen to me. That's the trailer moment, right?
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 1:What'd you guys think? I loved all those. I mean, especially once they started the reboot after 3, when they restarted with Final Destination.
Speaker 2:Back in 5, when they went back to the plane Final.
Speaker 1:Destination.
Speaker 2:I liked most of them. I didn't like when shit got more uh poltergeisty and it's like the water going backwards and like the third movie or something like that. It's like no shit needs to just come off more accidental look at, make it embarrassing so but this one, I I think, I think I'm all right. I'm all right with it. I was a little skeptical, wasn't sure, but now I'm good.
Speaker 3:I think is it the third and fourth one were done by different people, right? The first two were done by one group of writer, director, producers, and then some other people took over three and four, and now they're back to the original group which I think is why a lot of horror people are excited and, like you said, we don't talk about three.
Speaker 3:Cool, so that will be the end of May. The next one was the I'm hoping the final trailer for the Accountant 2. We may have talked about this one before, with the original trailer A long time ago.
Speaker 2:It's coming out April 25th.
Speaker 3:So that will be right after I get my title, oh shit. I didn't go back and watch the first one.
Speaker 1:I remember enjoying it, but I need to go watch the first one again.
Speaker 2:I saw the first one a few months ago, knowing this, like, I think, maybe when the teaser dropped or when I found out that it was finally coming out in June, or whatever it was and I enjoyed the first one. Again. I'm on board already. I was on board already and I'm still on board.
Speaker 3:With weird Ben Affleck.
Speaker 1:He's autistic. They're not weird, they're autistic.
Speaker 2:Spectrum Affleck is fine.
Speaker 1:For.
Speaker 3:Max.
Speaker 2:He's straight up autistic.
Speaker 3:Next on the list is F1.
Speaker 2:That's Thor.
Speaker 3:No, Brad Pitt.
Speaker 2:Brad Pitt okay.
Speaker 3:So Brad Pitt as an older race car driver.
Speaker 2:Who's the one he's teaching, though he's teaching somebody.
Speaker 3:You're thinking of the one with Sylvester Stallone and Chris Hemsworth? That?
Speaker 2:one was, but he's teaching somebody in this one too.
Speaker 3:Well, it's the new up-and-comer guy.
Speaker 2:Chalamet? I don't remember, I just saw the damn thing too.
Speaker 3:I don't think it's Chalamet, let me see. Okay, but what did you guys think of the trailer? Either way, it looks fun.
Speaker 1:I thought it was fine.
Speaker 2:It's another race car movie, exactly. I'm not. I don't have anything like, oh great, I can't wait, this looks different.
Speaker 3:I'm like no, I'm just I think it'll be interesting because they actually drove like the people drove, like they were on the F1 tracks during the races, so they actually went to the different locations. So I think it's going to be a little bit more interesting than maybe a lot of the other ones where they don't have Ford vs Ferrari is the standard.
Speaker 1:That movie was amazing, so you need to impress me more than that for me to be like hell. Yeah, let's go.
Speaker 3:This is Brad Pittitt, javier bardem, um young kid. Who's the young? Tobias mendez, and does he? I think he's the young guy okay he looks kind of like mark zuckerberg. I mean he. I mean I'm not. I don't mean that in a derogatory way, but I'm just saying no, no pictures that they have up for him.
Speaker 3:He has like super, he has like super super short hair like Zuckerberg does and he kind of has that squint that Zuckerberg has. So that's all. Yeah, I think that'll be interesting to see in like a screen X or something like that. Seeing the scene in a Screen X or something like that, where the screens are all around you Going into a scene that normal, I think, would be, for F1.
Speaker 3:Next is Happy Gilmore 2. That is coming out July 25th. What did you guys think of Happy Gilmore 1? Are you interested 10 years later, 15 years later? Are you interested in a movie without Chubbs?
Speaker 2:I thought it looked actually pretty good for what they had to work with. But I was like, okay, this is a movie that probably never, ever needed a sequel, but it seems like they've got a good plan for it. It's like, alright, this is kind of cool, a lot of good cameos, just like the last one had.
Speaker 1:so yeah, I one had. It's on Netflix, so you don't have to pay for it.
Speaker 2:That was my first time seeing the trailer. When you sent this over.
Speaker 1:I watched it a couple weeks ago, I think.
Speaker 2:I was like all right, cool you.
Speaker 3:I'm in Glad it's on Netflix. Definitely was a fan of the Sandman back in the day when I was in high school, I think uh Billy Madison, out of his whole uh set of movies during that time, was probably my favorite.
Speaker 2:I enjoyed Happy Gilmore but I was way more of a Billy Madison guy?
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, I watched it over and over it was a wee laugh.
Speaker 3:Um, yeah so, yeah so. But yeah, happy, happy that we're going to, happy that we're actually getting a sequel for a preexisting IP. That I'm not like, why? Like, speaking of preexisting IP sequels, the next one is Megan to make it 2.0. Sorry, that is coming out June 27th, so I think that trailer just hit while I was putting the lists together.
Speaker 2:No, not this new one, not the new one, the one that makes it look like Terminator 2.
Speaker 1:I was like did.
Speaker 2:I yeah.
Speaker 1:No, I have to go see it because little one loves. Megan, but I mean it looks like Terminator 2. I'm shocked. It looks entertaining enough.
Speaker 2:Yeah, this one. I was on board once I saw the teaser trailer because I thought the first movie was pretty entertaining.
Speaker 3:It looks like they're definitely leaning more into the humor of the character than the original.
Speaker 1:It's like Terminator 2. It's an action movie.
Speaker 2:They kind of like own that they knew that they were Sharknado, so they're just going to roll with. It is kind of how I, how I thought about it. I was like, oh, they recognize who they are. They're just going to go with it. I'm like, good, good for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, do it again. I mean again, it's 824, isn't it, or no? It's Blumhouse, blumhouse.
Speaker 3:Sorry.
Speaker 2:Is it Blumhouse or?
Speaker 3:A24? It's Blumhouse, I think.
Speaker 1:They know what their lane is, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 3:Yep. Next we have the final trailer for the John Wick ballerina movie. Which I think went through a title change, because I think it was originally ballerina in the world of like ballerina called the world of John Wick. Like I don't remember it being John Wick colon the ballerina for the world of john wick. Like I don't remember it being john wick the colon the ballerina for a while.
Speaker 3:I don't think, I don't yeah, it was from from the world of john wick ballerina and now they cut off the so but all they learned from harley, the harley's last, harley quinn's last movie to get rid of all that long you have to to have his name in there for people to go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, there's only one movie that needs a long-ass name and that's Don't Be a Menace that one can keep its long-ass name. Everybody else I ain't trying to tongue-twist and get tired and shit just from saying it.
Speaker 3:I think we might have talked about the original trailer for this months and months ago as well, it's coming out at the end of the year or some shit.
Speaker 1:Isn't it coming out at the end of the year?
Speaker 2:No, it's like end of August, if that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, beginning of.
Speaker 2:June, june 6th or something.
Speaker 3:The description didn't have the date in it. Usually they do, but the release date for that is June 6th, so we have a little over two months.
Speaker 2:Two months from today.
Speaker 3:Then I got into kind of a. I was digging through the pile of stuff, the trailers, and just was like, oh, these are kind of like ones that are a little off the beaten path, but I was like, oh, I'm kind of interested. The next one was the Uninvited.
Speaker 2:Oh hold, on hold, on hold, on hold, on Back up on Ballerina. I did not like that the trailer had freaking the two of them fighting each other. I was like, don't put that in the trailer. Let that be the surprise. I mean, come on now.
Speaker 3:I think when I watched the trailer I actually did get upset.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I think we talked about that because the last trailer had John Wick showing up and we're like why you don't need to see his face.
Speaker 2:I thought he was there to help.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we don't need to see his face.
Speaker 3:Well, I'm sure he does right. I'm sure at some point he does help her, but I think this is also going to be like her jumping off point to her own, depending on how it performs, of course to her own saga, right?
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah for sure.
Speaker 2:That she'll have her own series, but it was just unnecessary, that's all.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, again, it was it. It gets to the point of showing too much yes, right, yeah, so yeah.
Speaker 2:That was my only downside. The rest of it I thought it was great. That was my only downside.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean, I'm looking forward to it. Don't have my anticipation. Level isn't as high as it was before. Does that make sense?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's still there. I will still probably watch an opening weekend. I will probably not wait till Tuesday, but still, there's a step down.
Speaker 3:Like now. I already know the surprise isn't going to be there, which is disappointing.
Speaker 2:It probably went from Thursday night for me to Saturday matinee. That's what I mean.
Speaker 3:The next one again, the next couple of ones, and we're a little kind of off the off the beaten path, but mostly just for the, mostly for the, the people who are in it. The next one's titled the uninvited. It's good Um the cast on that looks fantastic, I am.
Speaker 1:Pedro done. I don't care what it's about.
Speaker 3:And.
Speaker 2:Pedro, that's what I said.
Speaker 3:Yeah Baby Billy and yeah the zaddy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I don't even care what it's about you got those two in the same movie. I'm there.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm really glad that Pedro Pascal is living his fucking best life too. Can we talk about that for a second? That motherfucker always looks like he is so fucking happy every single time. I see him doing whatever, and he'll show up to a red carpet wearing thigh high leather boots not giving a fuck. That guy doesn't give a shit about nothing, he's just like whatever. If you don't like me, I don't care. I mean. So respect, respect, respect to him.
Speaker 2:From the world of Game of Thrones.
Speaker 3:Yeah, exactly the next one. Oh and I, when does that come out? Wait, why does it says it came out on March 11th. I don't remember. I don't remember at all.
Speaker 2:Popped already.
Speaker 3:Wait, hang on. I feel like it might have gotten moved, because I just saw the trailer and the trailer hadn't been out for very long. I didn't see the trailer until you sent it April 11th, so it was at South by Southwest on April 11th.
Speaker 2:I didn't see it either until.
Speaker 3:So April 11th is when it comes out, so next week.
Speaker 2:Friday.
Speaker 3:The next one is, I think, going to be interesting. It's called One Battle After Another. Paul Thomas Anderson, leonardo DiCaprio, sean Penn, benicio Del Toro Saw that trailer.
Speaker 2:Actually last Tuesday in the theater.
Speaker 3:Why do they not put the release dates in their descriptions? God damn it. Actually last Tuesday in the theater, I don't it doesn't say. Why do they not put the release dates in their descriptions? God damn it. This one looks like it's going to be very, very weird. But also very, very Paul Thomas Anderson, like Magnolia, yes.
Speaker 2:That one. I'm going to grab my popcorn, I'm going to grab my squishy and I'm going to have a good time watching it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, this one September 26th, so we got a little ways out for that.
Speaker 2:I'm waiting for that one.
Speaker 3:We'll have five more trailers that will give away way too much.
Speaker 2:Was that one theater or Netflix? I think it was theater, that one's theater.
Speaker 3:Netflix, I think it was theater, that one's theater. Okay.
Speaker 2:The next one.
Speaker 3:I put in the list just because my understanding is that this was the last time. This was his last recording. So it was the anime movie for Devil May Cry and I believe that they're saying it was the last time that Kevin Conroy actually recorded anything Like this is all him, it's not AI generated or anything like that. From the jump you click on the trailer and all of a sudden you're like that's motherfucking Batman, like you know.
Speaker 2:I thought it looked. I don't know the Devil May Cry story and I know they have a series on anime and everything and all that, so I don't know too much about it.
Speaker 3:There's a video game.
Speaker 2:Yeah, video game, first right, and then they made the anime after the video game and then now they have the movie after that. I don't even know if the movie ties into the anime or ties into the video game directly or none of the. I don't know how it's done.
Speaker 3:Not gonna lie, I for not knowing shit about it. I thought it was interesting. Yeah, I mean, I thought it was a it was well.
Speaker 2:The trailer was well done.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I've seen a lot of anime trailers and I'm just like I have no fucking idea what's happening, like I'm super lost, but it helps you, yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they did a good job. I don't know the story here, but this is I'm. I'm in, whatever this, whatever's going on.
Speaker 3:And that that's when you have a property like this, where there's a small niche of people and I say small being several million people around the world who know it but you have to cut a trailer that's going to make three guys doing a podcast go. Oh, that looks interesting Above and beyond. Hey, we cast Kevin Conroy in his last credited role before he passed. Yeah, I would definitely be down to watch this like uh. And then the. The last one that I have on the list is the extended superman trailer.
Speaker 3:I think they did a oh yeah, it was supposed to be it was a tat. Well, it was going to be attached to a movie that, yeah, yeah it was going to be attached to Minecraft. I think we were talking about it last week. We were like this is bullshit, that we have to go to Minecraft to watch it. But then I saw it on Friday and I was like oh, okay, cool.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they dropped it at CinemaCon as well and they put it online right afterwards. So all right, cool, they're not getting my money for Minecraft. That's not happening. Yeah, they're not getting my money for Minecraft.
Speaker 3:That's not happening, so thoughts on the extended trailer.
Speaker 1:I like it. Even when we saw Minecraft last night and they showed it, those fucking Gen Z kids were like Nah, fuck that guy Fucking Witcher forever. I'm like. He looks like a good Superman to me. Cavill's fine, but Cavill's the best, but Cavill's the best. Okay, get off his nuts. Have you seen that man? Have you seen that?
Speaker 2:man, I'm not getting off his nuts Ever.
Speaker 3:Ever. He is going to be Wolverine. It's fine. He will still exist in our superhero universe.
Speaker 1:He's Superman, but this kid looks fine. I don't know any other roles he's done.
Speaker 2:I don't know how good of an actor.
Speaker 1:he is, but he looks like a scrawny kid from fucking Kansas.
Speaker 2:He looks like a better Clark Kent than he does a better. Superman, though, but again we'll see. Henry Cavill. So I'm not going. No, I'm not that, I'm just saying he was a better. Superman, I like the super bots For what I know, and I don't know anything.
Speaker 3:I thought the super bots were pretty funny, the one with the dry sense of humor of like he's like. Thank you, oh, I don't.
Speaker 1:I have no response to that. I mean, it was Alan Tudyk, so what are you going to do?
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I thought the extra footage was fine it didn't give away enough.
Speaker 1:We don't know who kicked his ass still, except for Crypto Crypto kicked his ass a little bit.
Speaker 2:Crypto is still a little shit.
Speaker 3:Like he was in the comics you weren't laughing in the theater when that shit went on. And he just runs over and he's just like let's play. And you're like, oh damn, he's fucking about. I like how many of those entries were because of crypto. Yeah, I know shit. You now have bruised ribs, a collapsed lung.
Speaker 1:No, I thought it was fine.
Speaker 2:So you definitely had a collapsed lung.
Speaker 1:I'm looking forward to it, yeah it looked fine, you know, but again I don't need another trailer now, oh no leave it alone, I'm good.
Speaker 2:You got my money already. That is true. Don't give away more than what's already there.
Speaker 1:Like fucking kaiju everywhere and everything Cool. I don't know. We know Lux.
Speaker 3:Luzer's in it. That's all they need. I do like that. Superman was enough of a pimp that a kaiju is coming through and destroying. Metropolis and he's like hang on, I gotta kiss my girl before I roll Bam. Okay, I'm out, let's go.
Speaker 2:I'm curious what that's about.
Speaker 3:Did he not notice at first?
Speaker 2:I think it's a dream sequence or something. But, at the same time, you saw Green Lanterns, you saw the green out there fighting. So it's like what are you doing, buddy?
Speaker 3:Well, they're gonna have the Justice League.
Speaker 2:Well, I mean according to what I've read, the Green Lantern character is supposed to be a giant D-bag?
Speaker 3:Well, he is. He is in the comics, yeah. So I'm guessing he's like I got this, you go do whatever you need to do, or whatever, and then he's going to get whopped on.
Speaker 2:I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker 3:I think it'll be great. I love the fact that they kept the theme or brought the theme back.
Speaker 1:You can't beat John Williams, you can't beat. John Williams.
Speaker 2:We'll say that electric guitar was fire in that first trailer.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so the ones that I didn't put on the list but we did talk about in chat were the first was the Naked Gun sequel, I guess. I think it's just called the naked gun yeah, it's called yeah um starring liam neeson, which 44 and a fourth totally.
Speaker 3:But I guess it kind of falls in line because leslie nielsen before naked gun was like a super serious actor, like he had like a legacy in movies and TV shows of being very serious, and Airplane, well, no, not very serious, but I think Naked Gunn came out before Airplane, but both of those, no, no, buddy. But regardless, airplane was where he started to become funny, because he was a serious actor for a long time before he got to the point of I't know that.
Speaker 2:I just think he's too old to be his son. You know, it's like he's not done.
Speaker 3:They're gonna explain it away with some stupid sight gag or something like that. But uh, the oj thing was pretty funny uh all of them are on this row, where everybody's dead oh god but I mean again, if you're gonna make something funny and you're gonna turn the page and say we're introducing this whole new cast and make them, but make them all related to everybody who's ever been in naked gun.
Speaker 3:They all happen to work at the same station they're all friends, yeah, and have the same and have the same title. You know, captain is still going to be Captain?
Speaker 2:Yeah, for sure, making fun of the movies that do that. You know, this is my kid, it's like we're just going to own it and go right into it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, didn't realize Liam Neeson was hung that much, so we got that, I guess.
Speaker 2:I didn't realize he was two feet tall as a little girl.
Speaker 3:I'm guessing that was Qui-Gon's lightsaber, that wasn't his junk. It'll be interesting to see. I'm sure they will lean 100% into his. They flew me to Rome so I did the movie because they put my family and I up in a really nice hotel for six months while I filmed this movie. But I don't think that had a release date on it.
Speaker 1:I mean, it came out of nowhere. I didn't even know they were making another one.
Speaker 2:Oh, really I did yeah. And then I knew it was Liam Neeson because people were like, how is he going to play that comedic role? Because that was the talk, god that was probably November when I heard that.
Speaker 3:Um August 1st for the.
Speaker 1:Naked Gun Wow.
Speaker 2:That's quick. Four months, Damn alright.
Speaker 3:Yeah, liam Neeson, paul Walterhauser, pamela Anderson, kevin Durand yeah.
Speaker 2:Like the basketball player.
Speaker 3:No, the guy from Lost and he played one of the. He was the big guy from Abigail.
Speaker 2:Gotcha. I enjoyed Abigail. Why can't?
Speaker 3:abigail gotcha I enjoyed that he always plays like the big german or big european yeah you know, your zangief character yeah, yeah, yeah, uh.
Speaker 3:And then the last movie, uh. So like two days ago, the first trailer for tron aries dropped. So what did you guys? That soundtrack was fucking fire. I am super happy to be able to put that into my rotation. I think them coming to the real world is going to be super interesting. I think it's definitely. I'm excited that, instead of them just going to the grid and having the battle in the grid, I thought the VFX that we saw were done really well. I was pretty impressed with them. The light cycles in real world look fucking dope as shit.
Speaker 3:I think if I'm going to have a weird Jared Leto, I would prefer him to be in some sort of Blade Runner tron. I feel like this is his niche that he can excel in, because he can be super fucking weird and it works, you know. So, yeah, I was. I was on board with it. I really enjoyed watching it.
Speaker 2:So as soon as I saw that thing drop, I was like what I forgot about this. Let me go watch this. And I was like, oh shit, this is like how Disney doing something good yeah, that was my honestly, my I was like I was like this is still doing something good. Honestly, I was like this is still Disney. Right, disney does crap these days.
Speaker 1:Holy shit, I'm on board, I'm looking forward to it, I'll have to watch the other two movies. Oh shit, they brought Jeff Bridges back.
Speaker 3:Good for him.
Speaker 1:He was there at CinemaCon. Him and Jared came out together to introduce it, I think.
Speaker 2:I'm with you. I'll have to watch it or two again.
Speaker 3:Release date October 10th 2025.
Speaker 2:So we've got six months to watch the first two. You know what?
Speaker 3:though To me, this is the perfect window for releasing a trailer. Awesome, I have six months. It's not a fucking year and a half when we're going to get 12 trailers and 15 behind-the-scenes stuff Six months. That's super tight. You might release one, maybe two more trailers and some behind-the-scenes stuff. I'm okay with that.
Speaker 2:Then we'll get the Japanese trailer, the German trailer, the other European trailer, the Brazilian trailer. It's like, oh my god.
Speaker 1:Just different enough.
Speaker 2:By the time all these trailers are done. I've seen the movie.
Speaker 3:The Brazilian trailer is going to be really nice and tight though, so you know.
Speaker 2:It really will be.
Speaker 3:It's going to be very clean.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:That's actually. I would actually be interested more so to see the trailers and stuff like that in a Japanese movie theater than just to circle back full circle to closing out this podcast. So if we do end up going to the movies, I would be interested to see how the trailers are presented. If they have a Japanese, maria Menoudos that's been doing trailers for 35.
Speaker 1:No, it's just Maria Menoudos, but she speaks Japanese and she has a different. She speaks Japanese.
Speaker 2:They shrunk her to 5'1" and we're good to go.
Speaker 3:It's Maria Menoudos with subtitles.
Speaker 2:I'm going to go pay for a movie just to walk in for 15 minutes and then leave.
Speaker 3:Hey, you almost did that for the Superman trailer.
Speaker 1:I will say Minecraft is not as bad as the trailers made it out to be. I actually did laugh a lot Trailers were horrible. It was actually pretty funny. I laughed a lot. Trailers were horrible. It was actually pretty funny.
Speaker 2:I laughed a lot. Alright, I mean good enough for me. I just didn't play the game, so it's hard for me.
Speaker 1:I mentioned that when. I was talking to my oldest today because we took her friends with us. It was their idea to go see it last night and that shit was sold out dude.
Speaker 2:Multiple screenings two different theaters, right yeah?
Speaker 1:because I checked suncoast and santa fe. Shit was sold out everywhere multiple showings. It's gonna make bank, but they explain enough of minecraft that you don't have to know. You know what minecraft looks like, right yeah, I got, I know I got the cubes. I've got the cubes to push stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you got your door that the black ice, whatever comes that door transports you to this. Yeah, so I get the concept. I just never played it so I wasn't sure if it mattered. It was still.
Speaker 1:I was very entertained. I'm not mad, we saw it at all. I laughed a lot. Momoa was hilarious. I might be him for Halloween this year.
Speaker 2:Was he like Fast and Furious? Hilarious yes.
Speaker 1:He was very not Momoa, usually get him Khal Drogo kind of.
Speaker 2:Yeah, maybe I'll have to do a freaking. I guarantee you won't be mad If you don't like it kind of yeah, maybe I'll have to do a freaking, do a Taiwan season.
Speaker 1:I guarantee you won't be mad. If you don't like it, I'll give you $5.
Speaker 2:Done. Hey, wait, save it for Japan. We're Japan-berate because that $5 goes a long way out there.
Speaker 3:Whoa, whoa, whoa Whoa. Just as an FYI, it looks like a Minecraft movie made $157 million yeah.
Speaker 1:I told you that shit was sold, the fuck out.
Speaker 2:Already outproduced Snow White.
Speaker 3:Well, snow White's probably not even going to break 100 mil, it's only at 77.
Speaker 2:Oh domestic. Well, it's only at 77. Oh domestic, what's international?
Speaker 3:Yeah, this is just low.
Speaker 2:Wait, wait, wait Minecrafted 157 domestic only.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Dude, I told you that shit was sold the fuck out. We almost didn't even go steep.
Speaker 2:Let me look at international that doesn't mean it's only in two theaters instead of six, but obviously that's not the case. They actually freaking, did it.
Speaker 3:Worldwide. So far, a Minecraft movie has made over $300 million $301. Snow White Worldwide $168. There's a movie called Needle oh my God. There is a movie called Niza 2. It is. Where is it from Take?
Speaker 2:that Rachel Zegler.
Speaker 3:Give me one second. For 2025, there's a Niza 2 with Chinese. For 2025, there's a Niza 2 with Chinese. So there's, there is a movie. The number one movie worldwide right now For 2025, through April 5th, is a movie called Niza 2 and it has made 1,898,000,000.
Speaker 2:Oh wait, hang on All it takes is everybody to go with later half a time. But if everybody in the country saw it that's pretty good.
Speaker 3:Hundreds, thousands, millions, billions, yeah, $1,898,000,000. So it's almost at $2. Billion is how much it's made. That's wild. So everybody in China has done it twice.
Speaker 2:Well, unless it's a government movie, then you're required to go watch it.
Speaker 3:I mean, that's fair.
Speaker 2:That's how China works.
Speaker 3:Domestically, though it's only. Where are these fucking numbers coming from? Oh, China, Yep. China is gross is $1,862,453,000. But that's, I mean that's a crazy number regardless, right Like that's yeah.
Speaker 2:Everybody's talking about it. If you didn't watch it, you'll get arrested. If you're talking out of the cooler tomorrow in China, you don't know what they're talking about, I didn't make it out of the house.
Speaker 3:Well, guess what Now? You're never going back to your house because we've sold it and you're going to prison Makes sense. Shit Sunday. A Minecraft movie made $39 million.
Speaker 2:Dude that is crazy.
Speaker 2:$60 million, dude, that is crazy $60 million on Saturday and $58 million on Friday. That means I need to book my ticket now. A lot of times I'll wait until the last minute and get a ticket on Tuesday, but in these good movies it's hard to get those until three weeks later for Tuesday. When we're done here, I may just book a ticket. Luckily I'm on my work laptop so I can pull up to see what meetings I have this week. If I don't have one on Tuesday, I'm just going to book it, screw it.
Speaker 3:Real quick Jack.
Speaker 2:It's only $10.50 for two tickets.
Speaker 3:Did they Did Roosevelt announce their Star Wars celebration? No, they haven't even done their ECC celebration.
Speaker 1:Or whatever C2E2 is coming up. Yeah, they haven't even done C2E2 yet. That's next week, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah, they haven't even done.
Speaker 1:C2E2. Yet that's next week, right Dude?
Speaker 2:I just looked at the 520 showing for Minecraft over here on Tuesday Damn, just the end's open, alright. It sucks to have to read.
Speaker 1:I laughed a lot.
Speaker 2:Why did Dude Cinemarks, pissing me off, they make me sign in?
Speaker 1:every time. They did that to me last night too. What?
Speaker 2:the fuck.
Speaker 1:Look at my face Face ID.
Speaker 2:It's like what the hell.
Speaker 1:Look at me, you know who this is.
Speaker 2:Password. What do you mean? Wrong password?
Speaker 1:They did that to me me too, in the app. But so I went to the website and I was like oh yes, that is your password. I think the app is just janky, right now.
Speaker 3:Thank you for confirming it.
Speaker 2:Right, I know my password is y'all just idiot. Y'all just a bunch of idiots. I'll look later, so I'll just go online and get him go online and get them.
Speaker 1:Also, I only need 33 more tickets to be platinum. This year it's only April, you know that right, yeah, exactly. I'm like dang, we went to the movies that much already.
Speaker 2:Apparently.
Speaker 1:And everything else coming up.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what mine is. Apple won't let me log in.
Speaker 3:What else?
Speaker 2:we got.
Speaker 3:I think I mean we just pressed it two hours boys, so well done.
Speaker 2:Oh, is that why my bladder is busting?
Speaker 3:Jesus Christ.
Speaker 2:I'm over here like rocking back and forth in the pee-pee dance. I was like why Look Lou? I know you're on the spectrum, but stay the fuck, still no, I got to pee. My dick is also on the spectrum, but stay the fuck, still no, I got to pee.
Speaker 3:My dick is also on the spectrum, the spectrum of needing to pee.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 3:Shit.
Speaker 2:I'm already half unzipped, so I'm ready to go.
Speaker 3:Shit. Oh, I thought your girl was there.
Speaker 2:I'm hanging out over the damn couch right now. It's like we're good.
Speaker 3:I'm actually peeing.
Speaker 2:I just unrolled it. I got my bottle. I'm good.
Speaker 1:While we were chatting, they put out a Peacemaker Season 2 trailer. Lovely, let's go watch that in a minute.
Speaker 2:Oh damn.
Speaker 1:That'll be next.
Speaker 2:I mean in a minute.
Speaker 3:We'll talk about that, all right, duke?
Speaker 2:Safe travels.
Speaker 1:All right, that's when you land.
Speaker 2:Enjoy six hours in Hawaii.
Speaker 3:Yeah, well, I'll be on the way back, so I'll see you guys before. But yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2:Oh, I thought you were stopping in Hawaii on the way there Two hours, two hours on the way there, five hours on the way back, which?
Speaker 3:I actually am fine with, because that'll give me enough time to pee, refill my water bottle, maybe, grab a snack and be ready to go for my next flight.
Speaker 2:And get back on.
Speaker 3:The five hours on the way back is fine, because if customs is fucked then I'm still good to go Right.
Speaker 2:You can clean it. Time to settle that.
Speaker 3:Smart Alright boys. Next time I see you I'll be halfway around the world. It'll be probably 2 am or something. Right now I don't know what time it is, but it's going to be early and late.
Speaker 2:Let's see Japanese time right now would be noon tomorrow.
Speaker 3:There you go. I can easily do a podcast. 10 am tomorrow, 10 am. It is 10 am tomorrow 10 am on Monday, I can do that 10 am on a Monday, assuming you're awake.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I mean you let us know when you're ready and we can Exactly that's the thing.
Speaker 2:It's like you can change the schedule. You know our schedule, so anytime, realistically anytime up to 11 or 12, 12 is kind of pushing it, but anytime in the morning is going to work.
Speaker 3:Okay, yeah, we'll talk about it. When we get closer We'll be in chat. Yeah, we'll talk about it when we get closer. We'll be in chat, otherwise boys. In Discord, otherwise boys. I will see you halfway around the world.
Speaker 2:Peace, peace.
