Vaguely Inconsistent
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Vaguely Inconsistent
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Step into our first-ever international podcast as we broadcast live from Japan! Duke takes us on a vivid journey through his first week exploring the Land of the Rising Sun, sharing authentic experiences that go far beyond typical tourist tales.
From navigating the organized chaos of Japanese customs (complete with an unfortunate child getting sick in the queue) to the sublime experience of genuine Kobe beef that cost a jaw-dropping $600 for four people, Duke's observations capture both the expected and unexpected sides of Japanese travel. His adventures through Hiroshima's sobering peace memorial, the ancient stone foundations of Himeji Castle with its impossibly narrow stairs, and the surprising spectrum of flavors in Japanese Mountain Dew paint a multidimensional portrait of this fascinating country.
Cultural insights abound as Duke describes being a head taller than most locals, the extreme politeness that makes confrontation nearly impossible ("You don't have beef with people in Japan because they're too nice"), and the delightful discovery of themed bars tucked away in urban corners. His practical tips on understanding the Shinkansen ticket system, selecting convenience store meals, and planning efficient sightseeing routes provide valuable information for future travelers.
As Duke prepares to meet up with Jack and Lew for Star Wars Celebration Japan in just a few days, the anticipation builds for even more adventures. Whether you're planning your own Japanese journey or simply enjoying vicarious travel, this episode delivers both entertainment and practical insights into one of the world's most fascinating destinations. Join us again soon as our Japan saga continues with Star Wars Celebration coverage and more cultural explorations!
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Konnichiwa from International Japan
Speaker 1Wait, hang on, I can't. I only have one hand, so Konnichiwa oh wait, Konnichiwa Oha gozaimasu Si.
Speaker 3So we are filming this internationally.
Speaker 1Yeah, I think this is our first remote broadcast, right, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2Yeah, that would be smart.
Speaker 3You'll notice Duke's background is different because he is in tomorrow, it's Monday where he's at Monday morning.
Speaker 1I couldn't figure out how to get this little shade up, or else I would show you what's behind me. Jack dropped his ice cream. No, no, just a spoon. This guy man.
Speaker 2I'm getting prepared to watch Last of Us, season 2, so I'm gonna get a knife to eat with just a quick side note.
Speaker 1Japanese Mountain Dew, so we're gonna try that during the pod. Have you tried it yet?
Speaker 3nope, this will be the first time. I wonder if the caffeine quotient is the same. I heard it pop.
Speaker 1You know what the nice thing is? I can't read any of it, so none of it's bad for me.
Speaker 2That's how I understand the rules.
Speaker 1If you can't read it, it's not bad for you, so it's good. Pop a like I approve.
Speaker 2Is there a difference? Yeah, there's there a difference.
Speaker 1Yeah, pepsi difference. There's definitely a difference. There's hardly any aftertaste at all. The flavors are. It's actually really like American Mountain Dew is like kind of like there's one taste and that's all you get. The whole time this feels like there's it's different.
Speaker 3It's different flavors, a spectrum of flavor.
Speaker 1Yes, so I approve.
Speaker 3I'm on board Good job You're going to have to do your your Papa go app and translate it and be like this just has water and sugar in it. Crazy yeah.
Speaker 1Where's the?
Speaker 3polycarbohydrate yellow number five.
Speaker 1Yeah, Yellow number five. I think that's a lot of it. Not all that stuff is out of it. Nope, I approve. We are in Kobe right now. I am international today. Are you getting beef? That was two days ago. It was very, very expensive but also totally worth it.
Speaker 2Who'd beef, who'd you fight with? Dude had beef two days ago.
Speaker 1You're supposed to wait for us. Here's the thing you don't have beef with people in Japan. You don't have beef with people in Japan because they're too nice. Go on.
Speaker 2What happened to Lou was going to be the one getting in a fight.
Speaker 1You know what, lou? I've been here almost a week and I'll say it will take you a lot to get into a fight with someone.
Speaker 2Probably, Because if they bump into somebody or throw a plastic bottle they'll probably be all apologetic and just bowing down the whole time It'll be their fault that you threw a water bottle at them. Yep, it would be, and I'm really like, alright, I can't fight with that person. They're so polite about it, oh my god.
Speaker 1No, I mean I've been here since last Wednesday. So, we're creeping up on a week. Right now. It'll be a couple days before I see you mugs in person.
Speaker 2So, yeah, three more, three more days.
Navigating Japanese Customs & Travel
Speaker 1Yeah. So Go ahead so, yeah, three more, three more days, yeah, uh. So it's okay to me, it's a right guy, go ahead the. The trick that I found, at least for me, was just staying up for the most part. Um. I dozed on the first plane, stayed awake for the most part on the second plane, um, I'm glad it was only two planes.
Speaker 2If you're up for 11 hours you didn't watch anything.
Speaker 1No, I watched Rogue One and I watched V-Hulk. So on the second flight, when I got on the plane, it was one in the afternoon, hawaiian time, because I flew from Portland to Honolulu and then had a two-hour layover, and then from Honolulu and then had a two-hour layover, and then from Honolulu to Tokyo, to Haneda. When I first got on the plane, the twins were playing, so I watched baseball. It was nice because I was able to doze and not really feel like I was missing out on a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2And the twins at that, so it's like the twins were there, baseball was played although did you see what happened to the Dodgers? They got stomped dude says the guy who's a Dodgers fan and lost 16-0 at home it was for like the first time in franchise history or some shit well, it was the record. They've been shut out at home before. That was the largest shutout loss Anyhow.
Speaker 1So yeah. So then, after the game was over, I was like, well, I still have six hours to kill or whatever. So I ended up watching Rogue One. And then after that I was like, well, I mean, we're here, Might as well watch A New Hope.
Speaker 2Definitely support that.
Speaker 1That got me until about 15 minutes before we landed, so I figured it was perfect timing.
Speaker 3How was customs? Did you have your QR code?
Speaker 1Oh my God, Just breeze through. I mean no. Well, I think part of the problem was that I showed up at rush hour and, according to my friend Travis, who lives here, he said something like 15 or 20 flights all landed at the same time, that we're all international, and so it took me probably an hour, hour and a half to get through customs, and 95% of that was just in the cattle call line. Once I actually got to the front of the line, it was maybe 20 minutes.
Speaker 3The QR code helped out a lot. Was somebody stealing my bag and shit?
Speaker 1No, I mean it was crazy. They have like a half a dozen. Are you guys flying into Heneda? No we fly out of Heneda, we fly into Narita.
Speaker 1Yeah, okay, I'm guessing they're probably going to be kind of similar. So when you get to the front, you're going to go through like this queue where this guy is going to point you into a direction. Once you get through, you're going to walk up, give the guy your passport, do your index fingers on the screen have it, take a picture of you which looks amazing after you've been on the plane for 19 hours. Yeah, exactly, yeah, you want my index fingers. Here you go, there you go. So then after that, then you get your bag, then you go through the process again, but this time you're just to get a kiosk and then they check your QR code and password.
Speaker 2Oh, hold on, Hold on again. You got back up, you get to that first group, then you get your bag.
Speaker 1Yeah, so you go through the first you go through the first time and actually interact with a live person and they check you out and make sure you know, stamp your card or stamp your passport the whole nine yards.
Speaker 1Make sure you're not, and then you go and get your bag and then, once you get your bag, then you go to a kiosk. It's like a final checkout and I'm not too sure why it's like that, why you don't just get your bag and do it once, but it's just a way that they have it set up. So then once you go through the kiosk, you basically go through a set of plastic gates. They'll put you in a line and then you go through a set of plastic double like plastic gates. You know they'll put you in a line and then you go through and then you're out. So the queue sucked. There was a kid right in front of me fucking kids. Dude, I don't know how you do it, jack were they coughing?
Speaker 1all over you. Is that what you got to say? No, no, he straight threw up, straight threw up. We're halfway through. We're halfway through the queue. We're halfway through the queue, we're in the middle of the fucking dead zone where there's no staff, there's nothing. And all of a sudden I see the kid's head jerk and I'm like okay, either he's going to throw up or this is where fucking 28 days later begins. And he just goes and I'm just like God damn, I really hope there's no reactionary. And I'm just like God damn, I really hope there's no reactionary. All that popped into my head was fucking Stan. All that popped into my head was Stan by me, and I was just like God damn it, it's just a line.
Speaker 5What.
Speaker 1Yeah, and then he did it again like 20 minutes later and the kid was so embarrassed and the parents, because everybody in line knew who it was Because then they were like who threw up? And they were like who threw up? And they were like it was him and I'm like boy that he is, he is gonna have to go to therapy now because that yep, that kid got scarred just for being sick, like being in line, well, and what's. And what was weird was they were pulling like families out of line to go put them through like a family line, so that way. Because so just be aware of that, jack, if there's like I think there's I don't remember what it was titled, but it was like family something, so that way, because so just be aware of that jack, if there's like I think there's, I don't remember what it was titled, but it was like family something.
Speaker 1So the way things are phrased here is sometimes it's really weird and doesn't make a lot of sense. But if, if you see something that says like families or something like that, there'll be like a medical emergency. So if you're in a wheelchair or you have some some reason that you can't be in the queue, for some reason they have a line for that. And then they have a line for families. So at least for Jack, take a look.
Speaker 2Oh, that's cool yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, fuck you, fuck you Lou.
Speaker 3This is our man. He has to come with us.
Speaker 2Our tickets are all bought together, so I'll follow you there, there you go there you go. Brother.
Speaker 1Right, I'm uncle, uncle Lou.
Speaker 2Hold on, y'all keep going. I got to. I got to check something real quick because I'll show, if it works out, what, what I, what I'm about to go to my door and get. I'll be showing to everybody else later on, cause I am bringing it to the trip.
Exploring Hiroshima's History
Speaker 1Let me go handle this real quick while you guys keep talking about Ooh surprises, oh, he's muted his camera and taking his headphones out and everything. You kind of muted yourself, bro, shit, so yeah. So then Travis was waiting. So Travis is, he works with Ben. Ben and Jen are the couple that I came with to Japan and Travis works with Ben, who, uh, ben and Jen are the couple that I came with to uh, to Japan and, uh, travis works with Ben. And so Travis was waiting for me at the uh, at the gate, so met up with him, went in, uh, he showed me his, uh, his little neighborhood. We went to his, his apartment. Um, he said oh. He said, oh, I got you a futon. I was like, oh, okay, cool. We walk into his room and I'm like where's the futon? He's like it's in the closet. I'm like, how'd you fit a futon in the closet? Turns out, in Japanese, futon means dog bed.
Speaker 3Did you go around in circles before you laid?
Speaker 1down. Yeah, I did, I did. I patted all around, I sniffed his to make sure that I didn't need to mark my territory, but I mean it was surprisingly comfortable, I mean. But again, it might have been because I was up for almost 24 hours.
Speaker 2Yeah, at that point a dog bed, don't matter.
Speaker 1Yep, yeah, so, yeah. So we went and got some food, so we went to a place near his house that had Wagyu beef and a bunch of stuff, and so we did a thing called courses, which is you basically pay like a set amount and they bring out it's uh, it basically is like a korean, the korean barbecue, so they have like the grill in front of you, uh, and they brought out all the raw, the different raw meats and stuff like that. So uh turns out beef tongue's not terrible. I I had no idea. So trying to leave myself open to uh trying things I haven't tried before, Just ask afterwards.
Speaker 3What was it Cock? Yeah, sir, I've had cock before that was different.
Speaker 2I'm in Colorado. I've even had walls before.
Speaker 1They actually bring out awful at the end, which is pretty crazy. It'll be liver and stomach and stuff like that that are not part of the normal actually that's kind of funny.
Speaker 3You say that because, um, I I was working on the, um the ai episode for next week, right. So one of the times when duke is, where we asked duke about the food, he said I've had sushi, ramen, some kind of mystery street skewer that was probably octopus, and I have zero regrets. Tin, tin, what's you again?
Speaker 1I'm not saying the street food's what fucked me up. I think it was more the 17 flights of stairs and almost 40,000 steps in two days Hell yeah, so you don't even need your diabetes medicine. Not even a little bit, not even a little bit. So. So then we went to oh sorry, go ahead Luke.
Speaker 2No, no, no, no. I was going to make a joke. I was like met foreman, go to hell Cause that's what I have, and Cause that's what I'm not bringing it.
Speaker 1I, you know, yesterday I'll get to it, but I didn't need it. I didn't take it yesterday because I was basically in bed all day and didn't eat anything. So I'm like you know what I'm. Just I don't want to deal with the fallout of restarting it again, cause my understanding is, every time you restart it it's two or three days in. All of a sudden you got bubble gut like big time and I'm like you know I will deal with that when I get home. I don't want to be a hundred percent.
Speaker 1I don't want to be at celebration and all of a sudden be like oh, oh, oh, sorry, guys, I'll see you. Sorry, sorry, oscar, sorry, oscar Isaac, oh, sorry, you're not the one person a panel at Celebration is not. The one actor who had a panel at Celebration is not even going to be there the Boba Fetts are doing a panel.
Speaker 3You can go to their panel. One of them is an actor.
Speaker 2Tamora and Daniel. One of them is still an actor.
Speaker 2I'm just trying to picture Duke at that. And that happens. Some issue happens in a panel, and then they do the news. So how was the panel? It was very shitty panel. And then they do the news so how was the panel? It was very shitty, so then uh, travis wait, backing up, you just think it's more of it. It wasn't like cold or flu, it was exhaustion, like that type of stuff I, I, I don't know dude or the exhaustion we can this immune system to get the cooties I mean
Speaker 1well well, so then. So just to rewind a bit. So then Travis took me to his local cowgirl bar. So themed bars are a huge, huge, huge thing here.
Speaker 2Is it Kaya?
Speaker 1Or just a bar. So yeah, well, no, this was a cowboy themed bar so where he goes all the time. He knows all of the girls who work there and everything, so so we went and hung out for a bit and I got to meet the the people that he hangs out with and has talked about in the past and stuff like that, and of course you know somebody new. So they're all doting and all of that kind of stuff, because that's what they do, right yeah, somebody new comes in and also with being with travis.
Speaker 1Being with Travis, you're in with somebody who likes to come in and spend money. No, don't give him the credit.
Speaker 3It's the beard, Dean. Come on. Ain't nobody in Japan rocking a beard like that?
Speaker 2Nobody in Japan has that beard, unless you're like some sensei at a kung fu or karate. That's a good point.
Speaker 1Yeah, at the end of it, Monday after celebration, I'll be able to do that.
Speaker 2Yeah, now you're talking.
Speaker 1And then that was that. So that was Wednesday. Thursday we got up early, got breakfast, popped on the Shinkansen and rode out to Bullet train people, bullet train, if you didn't know on the Shinkansen and rode out to.
Speaker 2Bullet train people. Bullet train if you didn't know what a Shinkansen is.
Speaker 1Yeah, so which was actually it was interesting? It was definitely fast, was it a?
Speaker 2pretty easy process to get to the Shinkansen and board and all that pretty straightforward.
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean, the nice thing is that a lot of the stations, especially in the big cities, like everything goes through them, so you can go to one station and get on the Shinkansen, or you can get on a local line, or you can get on a bus, like there's. It's not like you have to go over here to get in the Greyhound bus, you have to go over here to get on this, you have to go over here to get on this uh, you know, subway and you have to go over.
Speaker 2You know like they're different.
Himeji Castle and Stair Adventures
Speaker 1It's all in one central locations are the thing. Yeah, so the stations are shibura station.
Speaker 2All the different stations yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1So all the big, all the larger stations are um there. There are multiple uh ways to travel. It's not like the shinkansen line is its own thing gotcha, gotcha, it'll show up at a regular train station. Yeah, there's giant signs all over the place that direct you to where you need to go, so if you were by yourself, without Travis, do you think you could have made it on your own?
Speaker 2OK? Eventually, I think All right, because you're smart and can read.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, Well, well. So getting the IC card was pretty straightforward, but getting the One thing I will say is unless you have the JL card. So the JL card, so the Shinkansen has green seats which are like the first class seats. Well, so you can get like a jail wine card which will put you on any, which will allow you to get on multiple different trains, but you won't ever get reserve seating. It'll be whatever is available, right.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1Or you can buy a reserve seat or there's like it's almost like a business class, um, where you get like kind of your own train and according to travis it's like two stories, so a lot of them are just one one story, but you get more room, there's less, there's less seats, that type of thing. So, like I said, it's more I. I was, I think of it more of like a business class OK. So when we went through and got our, got our tickets, we accidentally skipped the part that said like, when we were clicking through, we clicked just the reserve seat. So then when we tried to go through the line, it aired out because we needed to buy the ticket for the Shinkansen as well.
Speaker 1So you have to get like a general ticket and then, on top of that, get your reserve seat. So so just something to keep in mind when you're going through the line. The next time we went through it and bought one, it was way more obvious, but the first time through we were kind of it was like, oh, and then we're trying to go through and it keeps airing out. And then finally we went and talked to somebody and they went, oh, go back and get, you have to get the pass to get through the gate, basically. So just something to keep in mind that you want to buy the pass and the seat.
Speaker 2Yeah, that's what it was when I did mine for after World's Fair, after Expo, that was mine. I went online and it was the package together from Osaka to Tokyo, to Shinkansen, back, and it was like, okay, I get it. Now I got to get this and I did the reserve seat as well. I didn't do the green card.
Speaker 3I don't know that Shinkansen is on our green card.
Speaker 2It was part of the reason, like the whole expo, because obviously, right four years ago, when I thought about going three years ago uh, that was on my list to do the world's fair, and I was like, ah, timing it's, it's down south. I'm like, well, screw it, take the night bus down there, take the bullet train back, and I can cover all that. I get to try a night bus, I get to try world's fair and I get to try try Bullet Train. So not too late. Actually, what you could do, though, jack, is because I might do this and we can talk about this all later. But I may take a Bullet Train again up north, because the cherry blossoms have basically already hit bloom and they're probably petals falling off or going back to green now, but up north Japan, they're still starting and blooming out there, so maybe on Tuesday, japan, they're still starting and blooming out there, so maybe on Tuesday, wednesday, something like that, wednesday maybe, unless Duke wants to go take the bullet train up north a little bit just to see the cherry blossoms.
Speaker 3If we do go up north, that is where Cat Island is.
Speaker 2Just saying, just saying Something to think about. And you get your bullet train fixed. That's true. It doesn't have to be down osaka, we can just go up to hokkaido area.
Speaker 1So thoughts we'll say to think about yeah we'll submit it to the committee we yeah, we'll talk.
Speaker 2We'll talk about it while we're waiting in line at celebration right, exactly no.
Speaker 1While you're waiting in line at customs, oh, dude, for real. Oh, my god but I mean, but I've also heard the customs is real quick to get through if you come in at an off time. A lot of people.
Speaker 3It's 50-50 based on the people on the celebration. They're like yeah, no, I was in and out in 20 minutes, bro, I've been here for two hours. It fucking sucks.
Speaker 2Exactly, I was in two and a half hours, dude 20 minutes. What are you talking about? What time? 20 minutes? What are you talking about? So that timing? What time did you land again? Um, because ours is 5, 30, 2, 40 in the afternoon.
Speaker 1So you, should you, I. I think you'll be a little bit better because you're a little. I was like right in the heart of your heart.
Speaker 2Rush hour everybody coming. That's the other thing, dude.
Speaker 1That that's the other thing, dude. So many fucking people, so many fucking people, like all over all the time, just crazy, crazy amounts of people just all running around it's. It's. It's like a bunch, it's like watching ants, it's. And it is because I'm taller than everybody, so you know yeah, I was gonna ask you about that.
Speaker 2You know, I lived there back in, you know, 83 to 86, but I was 10 yeah, so I'm short back then yeah, so I don't remember a lot, I remember a lot, I remember a lot of it. I just remember like that type of connection. So is it really? Are you really a giant amongst the people? Yeah, yeah, I mean no joke, all right, All right yeah.
Speaker 1Head taller than most of them, like most people here. So it's really easy to find Travis. I mean Ben's short and it was real easy to find Ben in a lot of places. So you hear that Travis. I just slammed Ben on the podcast. What?
Speaker 2Did you guys? All get there around the same time I mean obviously Travis lives there, but did they get there?
Speaker 1So Ben and Jen actually came the weekend before because they went to the F1 race.
Speaker 2That's right.
Speaker 1So there was an F1 race up north west, and so they came on Friday and did the F1 race and then went and did what Travis and I are going to go do now. So then we met. So just to go back real quick to the trip, so then Travis and I took the Shinkansen and met Ben and Jen in Hiroshima, hiroshima.
Speaker 2Hiroshima.
Speaker 1Hiroshima. There we go, and that was pretty sobering. They have a really nice well I don't want to say nice, but well set up museum.
Speaker 3No, you're good, You're good. Okay, I'm just throwing something on the Discord. It's hilarious.
Speaker 1I was going to say they have a really nice park and everything, so the whole area was nice, nice, but that's kind of like like I was making the comment. I made the comment during while we were there, I go, it's really weird how this place has like hundreds and hundreds of years of history.
Speaker 1Right, I mean the the city has been there since right, you know, yeah, yeah, the city has been there since since the 1500s, if not earlier, right, depending on where you're at, but yet everybody remembers it for this one particular event, right?
Speaker 2Rightfully so.
Speaker 1Yeah, and everything that they have is all dedicated to that one event. So it's kind of weird where you go to a town and you go and like you expect to see the history, but all the history is wrapped around this one moment in time. So that was kind of like I said, it was sobering right, like you go there and you just realize how fucked up that whole event was and how all the events that got us to that point and it actually really didn't even need to happen know, we could, uh, sure, my understanding is that basically, japan was, at that point, was already ready to surrender or was ready to to, you know, have peace talks and america was kind of like well, fuck you anyways like good, ready to uh, now ready, ready to surrender unconditional surrender, and japan wasn't ready to unconditionally surrender.
Speaker 5There you go.
Speaker 4There you go, do it right. And 100% Lou's on board with you. You should have surrendered.
Speaker 2This is how it is. No, okay, let's do this. Matter of fact, we're going to do it a second time.
Speaker 3In case you missed the first time.
Speaker 1In case you didn't hear me Lose like one empty water bottle didn't bug you, it's fine. I got a second one. How pissed off are you now?
Speaker 2Exactly All you had to say okay, we concede, you know mercy. Nope, nope, you want to play these games. Fine, exactly.
Speaker 1So, but I Exactly, it was all really interesting, but it's all wrapped around this one event and everything. The fact that they didn't understand what radiation and stuff was to me is one of those. It's hard to wrap your head around today.
Speaker 3It's always been around, since we were kids.
Speaker 1It's something that, by the time we by the time we were in school and everything everybody understood, right, but back then they didn't.
Speaker 2They were like, oh yeah we were all born 15 years, 20 years later so yeah yeah, I mean after the 60s that travis was talking about.
Speaker 1So so, uh, that being said, the day that we had in, uh, the, the day we had there, the weather was super nice, it was you, you know, it wasn't super busy, so, like, we were able to wander around and kind of get through everything and not not feel like we were rushed or that we were missing anything, and so we stayed. We stayed there two nights. Then the second night, we, we, we picked up stakes and we, uh, moved on and saw our next stop was imagine where they have the one castle in the entire country that has not been fully rebuilt. Wow, every other castle, every other castle in japan has been fully rebuilt in the last. Yeah, like has been completely fully rebuilt.
Kobe Beef Experience and Bar Hopping
Speaker 1But you go into himeji castle and like, there's parts that are still like og, from the very first part of the castle, right, um, so, so, yeah, with hiroshima we did 20 000 steps and I was like, I was like, uh, no, no, I don't like that. And then we went to himeji castle, where they're like, oh, just do this tour and it's an hour and a half, and it ended up taking. Hour and a half was just for the one part of the tour. The whole tour itself was something like four hours and somebody in our group didn't understand that and was like it's fine, because we were only planning on being there for a couple hours and yeah. So then went all the way up seven floors, seven flights of tiny, tiny stairs, multiple. Watch your head signs as you're getting higher and higher. The back of my calves going down the stairs, the back of my calves were black and blue from hitting every single step on the way down, because the stairs are I mean, the stairs are literally maybe eight inches wide.
Speaker 5There's space for people who are like 12 feet tall.
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, so that was pretty interesting just because that one there was a lot of people. So that was pretty interesting Just because there was a lot of people. It was actually kind of bizarre Because there were periods of time where it was very busy and then there were periods of time when there wasn't anyone around us. But I think they were doing a lot of. They didn't want people on the stairs. So there were multiple Announcements throughout the day of hey, right after we got in. They were basically like hey, we're stopping people from coming in because there's too many people and if something happens, security and safety is a really big thing here.
Speaker 1Well, they didn't have OSHA back then, so yeah, yeah, but I will say the castle itself was super interesting. Yeah, yeah, but I will say it was. The castle itself was super interesting. The fact that it was you know, some of these, some of the parts of the castle were like hundreds and thousands of years old, and the fact that they still are, are there and you know, basically functional, right, like, and just some of the, you know.
Speaker 1It kind of goes back to having the conversation about the pyramids, like you see some of the you know it kind of goes back to having the conversation about the pyramids, like you see some of these, uh, you see some of these, uh, these again, I think what they're called the uh, not the landmark the walls where they're building the foundation.
Speaker 1There we go, where they feel like a stone foundation below, below a building or below the wall, and the fact that it's completely flat, like you look, and it's a and it's a 45 degree angle the whole way up and you're like how did somebody do that with random stones, right, like, because because if you look at the wall, it's all like random stones with little stones poked in between them right and um, so you're, you're trying and then getting the exact angle that they knew we had. The footprint has to be this big in order for us to, when we get to the top, be able to build a building on top of it. That's this that has the footprint of this big right. Like the mathematics and stuff like that involved in all that, I was like it's kind of mind blowing a little bit.
Speaker 3They invented math. It's fine.
Speaker 1Yeah, but but no, it was that. That was very cool, but also very, very exhausting. That one was 17 flights of stairs.
Speaker 5I think, but that one was another team reported, so we did probably double that.
Speaker 1Yeah, so 17 reported and, and then, and then, and then 25,000 steps. So then, after we got done with that, we got back on the train and made our way to Kobe. And then we made it to Kobe and then we immediately, kind of refreshed, splashed water on our face and headed out to go find some Kobe beef, because we were like I wasn't about to fuck around with that. So we went and found. It was actually kind of it's one of those, you see, the customer service. So we went into one place that looked interesting and the guy was like oh, we don't have any room here, but we have like five.
Speaker 1It wasn't a chain, but it was like the same owners owned like five different restaurants in the same area and they said but we have room on this one. So he called over and made sure they had room and everything and he's like OK, you're going to go in the elevator and you're going to go out and around. And we're like, ok, cool. So we get in the elevator, he, he starts to come on the elevator with us and then he stops and we get to the bottom of the escalator, the elevator, the door is open and there's a chef from that restaurant, waiting for us at the door to take us to the restaurant, and we were like what's happening right now? This is. I've never had this happen to me before.
Speaker 2Right now they're making exactly.
Speaker 1I'm gonna give you extra money, but I can't because it's rude and it's not done here. And then, when the bill came, we went. Okay, I don't feel so bad now Saw that bill Kobe, yeah, yeah, so we, yeah, no shit. So we there was, there was, yeah, there was the four of us. We had one round of drinks and one round of food and it was 600 bucks, damn. So not something that we would do. Yeah, I think it's definitely a one and done.
Speaker 3That would be a lot of shit too. I'd be like can we bronze this motherfucker?
Speaker 1Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, this is my Kobe shit right here.
Speaker 2That explains why he brought the chef over to make sure he got that bill. Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1We don't want you to get lost and go in somewhere else because we know you're america, you're dumb americans, you're just going to order stuff and not even know. But it was a very cool experience again. It was like most, like it was multiple courses, like, I guess, a lot of these. It seems like that's kind of the way it is with a lot of these restaurants where you know you get a salad, you get, uh, you get a salad, you get your main course, you get tea afterwards, like you know, there's yeah, I'm thinking about that.
Speaker 2I was like it's four of you, that's 150 bucks a person. 150 bucks a person for probably, like going to a ruth, chris or whatever. Morton's that's probably not actually perfect. I mean I saw a video today in Ginza where I'm ready to drop 85 on a seafood buffet. They got king crab legs at this buffet. I'm just saying.
Speaker 3We got king crab legs at home.
Speaker 2Not for 85 bucks for everybody, the sushi that you cook at your own spot, ginza hoppo.
Speaker 1It was a very cool experience regardless, right, yeah?
Speaker 2yeah.
Speaker 1What's your goal? And then we get to yesterday and we get back to the room. Call it a night. Travis goes out into the dark, as he does every night after we're done walking around. Oh, so then, after the Kobe beef dinner we're like well, let's go find a bar. And that took probably way too long, but it's fine. It was one of those ones where the experience destination was worth the journey. Right, we ended up walking around way too long, but we found this super cool. It was like Underground Records. Is that the name of the Underground Gallery? Yeah, underground Gallery was on the second floor, so it was funny how it was an underground gallery, but it was a little tiny place. It had maybe 10 seats, but it was a full bar. They were playing super cool music.
Speaker 5I used to be in a music collective in Detroit called.
Speaker 1Underground, did you hear that? So so, but he lives in Japan now and so it's just him and one person, super, super, fucking cool, like very, very old school. But like you walk in and he just has a bunch of albums that you can pick out and have them play for you. So I was like, ah, purple rain, let's do that. And then he comes in, cause he hadn't shown up yet. There were a couple other people. There were 10 seats in the entire place. Oh, 15 minutes, 15 minute check, so, um, so there was, yeah, but there was probably 10 seats in the place and we went in there, ordered a round of drinks and she's like I'll put on. You know, if you want an album, we'll, I'll put it on for you. And I was like and he had, the whole sound system was was fucking dialed in Like it sounded actually really, really good for the space. Considering what he said.
Feeling Sick and Travel Plans
Speaker 1Um, so we listened to like the whole Purple Rain soundtrack, which was pretty awesome. While we got, we sat there for probably two hours drinking and talking and whatnot. And then he shows up, the owner shows up, and so Travis and Ben spend some time talking to him and hanging out.
Speaker 2Super cool guy did they know him at all or no, I mean he just happened to show up.
Speaker 1Ben and Travis are both very gregarious guys, only in Japan. We were there for I don't know two, two and a half hours, then we called it a night. I got not really bad chills that night in bed, but it was chills right, it was enough to keep me awake. And I woke up in the morning and I was like I feel like shit and took my temperature and it was, you know, as I showed you guys. So this was yesterday, as of yesterday morning, you know, with your phone.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, that's cool, I had that same.
Speaker 1Yeah, I had that same question actually yeah, yeah, so my the, the, so the new Pixel phone actually has and I didn't even think about it because I was like man, my head feels super hot right now but I don't know. But then I remembered oh yeah, they have like an infrared camera.
Speaker 2Oh, I thought you had to put your phone in your butt or something Like a baby, I mean, I did.
Speaker 1It wasn't required, but I did it anyways, for thoroughness.
Speaker 1And so that's when I sent you guys the screenshot of the 105, and I was like, oh my god, what the hell? And then, in hindsight, I probably picked a good day to be sick. Sick because I heard rain hitting the window of the hotel room the entire day and Travis, ben and Jen went up on this walk, went up on this mountain, and they were on a ropeway and they were like it would have been funny to see you on the ropeway, but you would not have liked the ropeway because it was. It got pretty windy, but but yeah, so the weather today is, as you can see, the weather today is. It looks nice outside blue sky, so yeah, so I'm feeling much better today. Still have like a cough and like still kind of a little weak, but I also haven't eaten anything in like 36 hours at this point. So after we wrap up this, we're going to grab some food and we're actually going to hop on the train to head to Nara, where the deer, the park deer, are. They'll come and eat right out of your hands.
Speaker 3And that was the place in the wardrobe.
Speaker 1No, not Narnia, Nara, that's another bullshit.
Speaker 2They're freaking gender swapping, never mind.
Speaker 3That's not this podcast, lou, save it for later.
Speaker 2Yep, yep. Later I could get mad about them swapping that shit out later.
Speaker 1That gets us caught up to today. We're staying in Kyoto for a couple of days. Um, we're probably going to head into Osaka for one of the evenings to get some food and and take. Supposedly, osaka has some of the best nightlife in, uh, in Japan. So we're going to go, uh, check that out, um, and then we're doing that for two nights and then we're heading to a place called Hanoke with Hakone Damn it, you're so white, fucking embarrassing. Yeah, I know, so white, so white, so they're known. That area is known for their onsens, so they so looking forward to onsenning it up.
Speaker 3You can go boil that.
Speaker 1Rona out of you. Yeah, exactly, I'm just going to go sit and I'm just going to sweat it out. Whatever's going on, just don't put your head in the water. And then, thursday, we head back to Tokyo, and then that's when you motherfuckers are going to be there.
Speaker 3Yeah, part day time. Yeah, that's when you motherfuckers are going to be there, hey there heart date time.
Speaker 1That's when the real party starts.
Speaker 2Alright, lou now it's time for your questions, q&a section. First, all the talk about Family Mart Lawson 7-Eleven snacks. Have you had a chance to go into it and is it legit? All the good food they have?
Speaker 1Yeah, I mean I haven't tried the food yet. I'm going to probably try it today. On the traveling, but yeah, it's legit. Travis has gotten in trouble multiple times because of being so close to a 7-Eleven and or Lawson's while he's been here it's the same. It's kind of variations of the same thing, but supposedly the lawson's chicken is better, family family, the family mart chicken sorry, family mart chicken is better. Yeah, but also depends on what you want. So they all have very. They all have variations on like so what you're saying? Is chicken nugget. That's what I mean exactly.
Speaker 1I mean the only way to know, the only way to know, the only way to know is to do your own testing.
Speaker 3It's obviously an opinion.
Speaker 2So what about the, uh, the whole? Who does?
Speaker 5what was that?
Speaker 2one more time I said japanese salarymen live on convenience store yeah, there you go so upper management lives like I mean just watching videos it seems like there's not like a whole lot of proper breakfast places. Everybody just goes to a convenience store and grabs food. There's a lot of bakeries.
Speaker 1There's a lot of bakeries around, so that's really the closest. It's the hotels, and the bakeries, I think are the big breakfast places. There's not a ton of breakfast breakfast places. A lot of the restaurants will open up at 11.30 for lunch and then close again at 2.30 and then open back up again at 5 and be open till 10.
Speaker 2So you're eating at the 7.11 because of that.
Speaker 5This is your ramen you get at 5am or you're drunkenly settling home to the first drink.
Speaker 2Yeah there you go yeah, the onion looks pretty. Looks pretty good too. The whole no trash can thing. Take your trash with you. Is that pretty legit too?
Speaker 1Yeah, no trash cans. There's hardly any trash cans around. Most places will take your trash, though, so if you're in a store and you have, you know, an empty bottle or an empty bag or something like that convenience stores do like 7-eleven has trash cans. Yeah, so the, the markets all have trash cans, but as far as like out on the street itself, there's no so they also they also care about their uh, the areas in front of their shops and stuff.
Speaker 1so you, in the morning, when you're walking around, you'll often see people sweeping the leaves and sweeping the dirt up and stuff like that, which is pretty cool Because, again, if you have a clean front of your shop, it means that the inside of your shop is well maintained too.
Speaker 2Curb appeal gets you in the door.
Speaker 4Have you guys had a ramen, yet I have not had ramen.
Speaker 2yet have we had ramen?
Speaker 1yet, yet I have not had ramen yet. Right, have we had ramen? Yet we have not done ramen. No, we've not done ramen yet We've been eating fancy. We've been eating fancy, so Ben and Jen have definitely been making us pick the higher end. Ramen is kind of the. It's fast food. Yeah, ramen is the fast food here, exactly, I still want to try a. Burger King burger. Just to like say, I tried a Burger King burger.
Speaker 2Bro, I saw videos where there's a teriyaki Whopper and like a teriyaki Big Mac. I'm going to McDonald's and Burger King.
Speaker 1Yep, yep. So but yeah, this morning will probably be us just probably grabbing some quick stuff out of the market and grabbing, heading down to the train, and then I think we have an hour Hour or so to get to Nara. Yeah, and then we'll go from there.
Speaker 2Does your? Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 1I said, the nice thing is the next couple of days are super flexible as far as what we do and whatnot. Like I said, I don't think I'm back to 100% yet, but I definitely feel way better than I did yesterday.
Speaker 5I'm still going to try to make you ride a road bike.
Speaker 1He's still going to try to make me ride a road bike.
Speaker 1Well, that's kind of the plan. So where we're staying is it's like a 45-minute, excuse me. So right outside of north of Kyoto there's a giant lake it's the biggest lake in Japan called Lake Biwa, and they have a really, really nice observation deck up on the hill that you can actually see like the whole lake from it. So that was one of the things that we may try to do. We'll see. So that was one of the things that we may try to do. We'll see. We'll walk up and see how big the ropeway structure is, and we'll have to check the weather to see Pick up some grass, Mr Jack you got anything before I ask my next question?
Speaker 3No, I'm good.
Speaker 1Red.
Speaker 2Light District. How's that? We're waiting for you. Red Light District. We're waiting for you. Well district.
Speaker 1We're waiting for you. Well shit, that's good looking now, bro. Yeah, I'm not. I mean, I'm not gonna. I want that experience to happen with all of us. I don't want to just experience this myself for the first time. That sounds gay he sounds shot.
Speaker 2Yeah, any, any tote stuff. Like you know the whole. They're trying to pull you into whatever has. Have you had that happen yet?
Speaker 1not yet nobody's trying to bring you in.
Speaker 2I mean a lot of them it's.
Speaker 1It's actually where we've been has been very passive with the um. It's just a bunch of uh girls standing out holding up a sign that indicates like where they're at uh, the most the so far. The funniest story is that we did walk in front of a maid cafe and the girl started waving at us and ben started waving at her and then the girl started waving with both hands and then ben started waving with both hands and then he kept walking and we're like dude, that's just fucking rude, that's so fucking rude, dude. But it was also the funniest. That was also that he had the biggest smile on his face while he was doing it and we were just like man, that's fucked up.
Speaker 1But he's like what do you mean? It's like dude, she wanted you to come in and there's no way he would have been able to go in there because he would have been disemboweled. But the fact that he was like the look on his face while he's waving at her, while she just it was like yeah, it was one of those moments that you'll never be able to replicate. But you were. You're so glad you were there for that, because then his wife was just like yeah, I mean, I suggest that we go in, yeah.
Speaker 2Tell her to be more secure.
Speaker 1Also also here's Travis everybody. Our first guest on the pod.
Speaker 5The thing with the touts I try to warn everybody with is that generally like, if they're standing in front of the stores holding a sign or maybe waving at you, then it's fine. But in Osaka and like Kabukicho and Tokyo, there'll be people who very aggressively like come up to you. And it's the people who come up to you and kind of really try to push on you that you'll still probably get what they're offering. You're just going to probably pay three or four times what they're telling you that you're going to get right.
Speaker 2Alright, alright. Last question I have for you, then, because you got like a minute you seen any black people there yet?
Speaker 1Black people. The owner of the bar.
Speaker 2He's from Detroit, he's from Detroit, so come on now.
Speaker 5Sadly, a lot of the touts in Kabuki Cho are Nigerian for some reason. Oh, damn there's a Nigerian to Japan pipeline.
Speaker 2I'm about to get a bad rep.
Speaker 5You've got a lot of foreigners japan pipeline I'm about to get a bad rap. Foreigners, I feel like you see, uh, more black people kind of like in yokohama, uh, or you know kind of how you see them around tokyo. You see them outside of tokyo, closer to where the bases are, um, but there's a very strong like love of hip-hop and rap culture here. I think think that came in through the American military.
Speaker 3Jack, you're good to go Start brushing up when you're not like us there you go, there's a big club in Shibuya called Harlem.
Speaker 5What was that?
Speaker 1one more time.
Speaker 5There's a big club in Shibuya called Harlem, a big club in Shibuya called Harlem, that's probably where I've seen the most black people in Japan.
Speaker 3Lou just wants to know so he can avoid them. Yeah, that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2I want to leave with all my identification and credit cards, All right. Dean. Hold on before you log out. So here. So I got a gift from old girl but she's like, oh, oh, you're going, you might want this. So it finally arrived today. It was supposed to arrive a while ago. You gotta have to tell me if it shows up on screen. Nice so that's the gift, that that's awesome so yeah they're into baseball, I figured you know, and I'm a Dodgers fan. It's like what the hell? Just go all out and do it.
Speaker 1Oh, when we were in Hiroshima, we were walking through the market district and there was a place that had a giant sign that said Otani S and it said what was it? It was female exams or something like that.
Speaker 1Oh yeah, and I was like and I'm like, okay, that's somebody who's riding Otani's dick right now. It's like his brother, Steve, or something like that. And they just put the S in. So you show up and you're like I need to get another mammogram from Shohei. And they're like, sorry, Shohei's out, All we have is Steve. Like now Shohei has 12 more brothers and sisters than he did before he was.
Speaker 2Oh my.
Speaker 1God.
Speaker 2Top of the hour.
Speaker 1buddy, Don't get in trouble, don't get in trouble, don't get in trouble thank you all right boys for all that I will uh four more days.
Speaker 2Can't wait to see you. Uh travis, thank you for jumping in on this, appreciate it is he gonna be with us for some of this?
Speaker 1for some of this when we're there he'll be with us for some of it.
Speaker 2Yeah, he'll join us he's gonna join us at least for sure on saturday, for but yeah, he'll be around, he'll meet us, yeah, dinners and is a guy. Yeah, hell yeah.
Speaker 1Yeah, we're all in the same. He's in that. We're all in the same general area, so and it's only a 15 or 20 minute train ride to meet up, so sweet. But yeah, we'll talk on. We'll definitely talk on Thursday when you guys get close and figure it out. I will effort to get my badges and stuff like we talked about.
Speaker 3But we'll talk about that more offline. Yeah, just see what the shirt is Shit, if it's even worth it. Yeah, see if it's worth it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, we'll know.
Speaker 2I think Tuesday was when you can first start getting them. So we'll know. Well, you'll know tomorrow, once we start seeing stuff posted online, and if it's worth a damn great, we'll get it, if not, it's like I'll pass.
Planning the Tokyo Adventure
Speaker 1Yeah, alright, boys, I'm going to drop off if you guys want to keep going, awesome, otherwise I'll see you guys. Thursday Yep, later Peace. How do I say goodbye in Japanese Sayonara For? You it'd be matane.
Speaker 2Matane there we go, done Peace Now I really want to get going. You're off. I got to do work still, although, let's be real, I'm going to work tomorrow because I got a meeting Tuesday. I'm going to be checked out. I'm going to be checked out on Tuesday. I ain't doing shit on Tuesday.
Speaker 3What's important today?
Speaker 2I'm out. I'm going to get to work Tuesday morning. I'm going to get whatever emails. I have to get done.
Speaker 2I'm going to put my out of office on at like 9 am and I am done for the rest of the day. I know exactly how it's going to be, especially today after watching the Uenoeno district, that one that I sent you with the food and ginza. So I was doing ginza, I was doing uh, was it shibuya? And then the other one, that's what, the shinkura, whatever something with the k. So shinjuku, that's what it was, shinjuku, shibura, ginza, and then ueno, ueno, slash, uh, akihabara, because they're right there. But watching those back to back to back, I was like man, this is getting me going. But I ain't lying dude.
Speaker 2I saw that Ginza Hoppa that I talked about 20 minutes ago and that seafood buffet looked fantastic and steak and all the stuff you could get with it too. Cook at your own station and I was like man $85?. I'm going gonna eat ramen and right, I mean I'm eating ramen and cheap shit the whole time, because all the videos I'm watching try this street food, try this street food, try this street food. But when it comes to like a restaurant, because obviously the buffet but I'm not getting served like that that was the so far.
Speaker 2That has been the first one that I finally saw that say I'm going there yeah, the wife says she wants to make sure we hit a Michelin star restaurant.
Speaker 3Oh, snap, okay, because they have the most Michelin star restaurants in the world in Tokyo.
Speaker 2Okay, all right, good to know. Does she have any in mind? Is she looking or just kind of figure?
Speaker 3it out. When we get there, she's just kind of along for the ride, I think. So Just kind of figure it out. When we get there, she's just kind of along for the ride, I think.
Speaker 2So, whatever we want to do I think she's whatever Maybe what we do is we ask our concierge at the hotel yeah.
Speaker 2Or whether that's where we are first hotel or second hotel closer, I think the Disney hotel might be a better idea and maybe do that Wednesday night, have a nice ass dinner before before Disney on Thursday. So we check in on Wednesday. Ask them, cause that's the other thing, if we, if we do go to that buffet, uh, the video said that, the reservation and with a Japanese number. So the hotel is probably going to make the reservations for us anyway. Unless I get the table log, uh app, I can do it through them. Yeah, but I'm going to ask the concierge to see if they'll just book it for us, because I'm like, oh, I saw that it's like 12,000 yen, done Shit, don't even care. Oh, I meant to ask him about the Suica card. Like, has he been using it for everywhere? Yeah, right, because all the videos say it. I mean I can't believe. Celebrations, even exciting that card?
Speaker 2yeah, it's like oh okay, but I could have swore from the videos I saw. It only maxes out at 20 000, like you can. Only you can't put more than 10 000 at a time. Yeah, and it maxes that 20. I'm like dude, I'm gonna use that the first couple days, right shoot, especially if it's taken everywhere, between the trains, the buses, the convenience stores. Now Celebration, it's like God dang, I'm going to have to seriously max. Luckily for us, though, because you can top it up at the station Exactly, we're going to be at the station twice a day, every day, so not that big of a deal. And then cash. I'll max out cash the first time. I think 100,000 yen or something like that is the cash you can max out at the ATM. They're like well, I'm going to spend that eventually. I may as well save myself the fees, the transaction fees each time. Can't stop the 3%, but I can stop that $250 every time I use an ATM.
Speaker 2So just do it.
Speaker 3We actually have one that has no international fees.
Speaker 2Actually, I don't have a debit card that way, but I have a credit card that's zero international. I was like, well, I know it's credit card I'm using. As soon as it's funny, I went through my credit cards, uh, probably two weeks ago specifically to do that, yep, so I'm looking at mine. It was like I've got two of them at 0%, two of them at one at 2% and three at 3%. I'm all like you. Three percenters can stay here. Yep.
Speaker 3I don't even want to be tempted.
Speaker 2Nope, I'm looking, I'm like okay, so the two zeros and the two ones, those are the only ones I'm using the whole time there. So that was kind of cool. I was like and I did all my international travel notifications.
Speaker 3My bank doesn't even have that anymore. That's like whatever, Just go.
Speaker 2You know what? My debit card for my US bank. They didn't say like, yeah, we don't do that.
Speaker 2Yeah, two of my credit cards, though, I did have to put in the international information and dates and it was like, oh, just put in Vegas too, in case I buy something while I'm in Vegas. I don, I want to risk it, but I have the backup card, so if something happens, I at least have the back and I'll have the cash on me if something happens. And apparently I'll have a Suica on me too, in case a Suica if that happens, because who knows Shit? Oh my God. And then, travel-wise, I picked up. Did you see the Facebook group that had those little coin holders for the six different types of coins and yen? I picked up Hang on a second, you gotta see this, okay. So I happened to buy these. Like two days before I saw somebody in the Facebook group say, oh, these are great to help organize your coins and everything. So it's, oh, that's cool. No, oh, these are great.
Speaker 2They'll help organize your coins and everything. So it's the. Oh, that's cool. No, I see it. Yeah, so this thing, and it was a three-pack, so I'll have a couple extra. Yeah, bring those for sure. Oh hell, yeah, so. Yeah, so you can organize your coins. I'm taking cargo pants, so if I can just put all my coins in that and then just drop that in my cargo pocket or my backpack, whatever, I thought it was very well done. I was like, oh well, shit, I'm doing that. And then two days later it was so funny the day these arrived somebody posted to Facebook group oh my God, this coin thing is fantastic, Get one of these. I'm like, got it covered. And the best part is, if you need more, we have a lot of coins, they is. If we need more, let's say we have a lot of coins they sell them at the dollar store?
Speaker 2well, the Daiso. Yeah, they sell them at the Daisos in Japan, so we can always pick up some while we're there. We ain't gonna have coins.
Speaker 3Oh, look at that Darth Vader fucking capture machine. Gotcha, yep, yep, I need to get the whole set.
Speaker 2I think there's a.
Speaker 3Monk, a Vader and a Palpatine. Then there's a Grogu series, so you get a bunch of different Grogus. You get. Ig-11. And then you put Grogu inside. Ig-11. Yeah.
Speaker 2Now we ain't going to have no coins. I saw that 400 apiece, and they only take 100 yen coins, so that was interesting to know. But they all have 1,000 yen breakers, right, so 1,000 get. They all have thousand yen breakers, right, so a thousand get 10. So all the stores have that. So that was super cool. But um, uh, I'm trying to think of the little travel. Obviously, my phone stand.
Speaker 2I've got two power banks now, cause my cat one showed up yesterday. Uh, I chart matter of fact, I charged them both over the weekend. So the big one, the one we've had forever, uh, that fucker took a day and a half to charge.
Speaker 3Yeah, yeah. That's why I got out of mine. I'm cause it hardly worked anymore for me. Oh really.
Speaker 2Okay, Mine still works. I just think the day and a half charge cause it's so big, but it still worked great. So I'm taking both um with me when I likely. I don't how it goes, because I'll get an idea of how much I'm using my phone after a couple days. It may just be the one. Either way, I have to carry it on anyway. I'm not allowed to check that, but I don't know if that one we just got, how well is that going to do?
Speaker 3You know it works pretty well. We've been using those for a while, oh, okay, well, I may just not bother.
Speaker 2Then, if that's the big one, I just may not bother with the big one, the cat one.
Speaker 3It works really well. I've been able to charge all three of our phones at Disney, okay, cool.
Speaker 2Yeah, I may just do that and then charge it every night. Recharge it overnight.
Speaker 2Okay, because the other one is heavy. Exactly, it's kind of a pain in the butt. It's heavy. So I may just not even bother then and just bring the little one, because the weight is probably it's probably a sixth of the weight of that big ass brick, um. And then I picked up some usb a to c, c to a converters, because just because I don't know what I'm gonna have, I was like you know what these things are? Small, uh, no big deal. There I have all my cables. I'm using my my phone case, for my phone is the magnetic kind, uh, so I'll bring that with me, so if I'm walking around I can put in my backpack not to worry about cables getting undone, like, just put it in this little pocket, magnet on it all of the day yeah, we went to um target.
Speaker 3We got doggy bags poop. I was like that's a good-ass idea though, so we got those. I got a multi-adapter, a multi-plug thing with USB A and C to go in it and then we were going to they needed deodorant and shit and we walked by the Vitamins and behind the Vitamins is where all the vibrators and shit are. Oh yeah, I'm trying to keep a little one looking at the vitamins, she turns around. I need one of those for my feet. I'm like nope, we out, we're done. Target's done, we're out.
Speaker 2Be ready to make some OF fetish videos. It is on, I'm going to use this and feet. Oh my god. She did so well. She bought the house next to you. Yep.
Speaker 3I checked her meds. There's a little blurb it's a psychotropic as long as it's under a certain amount. You don't need permission, you don't need a doctor's note, nothing.
Speaker 2Hers is way under Nothing, and hers is way under so. Alright, well, that helps, Because I was like man, that would have been shitty.
Speaker 3I think there'd be enough there, because Japan looks very ADD to me. She would have been.
Speaker 2That's a good point.
Speaker 3That shit looks very ADD to me. She would be entertained by everything going on.
Speaker 2You pick any one of those shopping touristy districts and it's just like what the fuck.
Speaker 3Also, we do need to eat in Piss Alley, just to see what we did.
Speaker 2I think I agree with that. Yeah, yeah, that's the thing.
Speaker 3I want Little One to go home and on school on Tuesday to tell everybody that she ate at Piss Alley.
Speaker 2She will have no problem sharing Nope that she ate at piss alley. She will have no problem sharing nope at all at all.
Speaker 3oh my god um, but yeah, we'll have to seriously look into it. If you guys want so much that we want to do, I'm just gonna have to figure out what works. What's close?
Speaker 2that island. That island might be a thing. Like I said, if you're like, oh, we don't have the bullet train on the list, okay, we'll add it to the list and we'll do it where it's useful, not just to take it. Just to take it, it's like, well, fuck it, let's just take it and get the cherry blossoms up north so we can actually see the bloom and knock off Cat Island at the same time. So we'll have to do some research on that.
Speaker 2Luckily we have time, though right, it's like between now and time we leave, plus we have the Thursday, friday, saturday, sunday, Monday that we're there Exactly.
Speaker 3Yeah, we can still plan there, because we already have that locked out Exactly.
Speaker 2That's already locked up.
Speaker 3Yeah, so then we can start narrowing down. Like okay, we're here. Trains take so long to get here.
Speaker 2You know, maybe we can do this area and this area on one day, and especially if there's, like, I think, if the, if I'm not mistaken, if the train I'm not the train goes west or north, where, where? This is that wisteria thing, the great wisteria, that big purple hanging tree, uh, have you seen that? Yeah, that thing looks, that thing looks pretty badass. So if that's on the way cat island and the in the sakuras going north, well then, hell, that just even works out any better. Yeah, because as of right now, tuesday, wednesday are still open days. So all I know is what's happening Thursday to Monday night. After that it's just whatever comes up. So if that's what comes up, then so be it.
Speaker 2So, again, we'll see how it plays out, what works best, because we still have to do the hotel transfer from tuesday and wednesday, so that's a thing. Uh, I'm still on board with the luggage forwarding on tuesday, on tuesday, and then that way we can check in at our leisure on wednesday.
Speaker 3Um, so, and then we should still be able to just pack the little suitcase and big suitcase by then too. I don't see us being out of room and suitcase till after Disney.
Speaker 2Exactly, especially for y'all, y'all especially after.
Speaker 3For me, most of my shopping will probably be celebration Unless you get a Hot Toys, though I don't see you filling up your suitcase Everything you're like, oh, I'm going to buy this. I'm going to buy this. They're all fucking pens it. I'm going to buy this.
Speaker 2They're all fucking pins it's this big yeah exactly, There'll be a lot of them, but that's still exactly. You're not filling up a suitcase, it's going to fill up a shoe box, is probably what.
Speaker 2I'm going to fill up when all said and done, all the pins, everything, blind box, I don't save the boxes, so all the blind boxes that's not true into one box. I was like man, I'm going to have so many pins. I'm like, wait a minute, they all fit in smaller less than a shoebox when all is said and done. Even though I went apeshit, I'm curious how it's going to be. Everybody's all nervous, the Facebook groups, they're all nervous about the crowds and how many people are going to be there. I'm like if I can get into the store, I think I'll be okay Once I get into the store, once I don't care If we only end up in the store once and then our Lightning Lane 2 later in the weekend.
Speaker 2I'm probably okay with that Exactly, I think it'll be fine, it'll be interesting. We're just like, oh my god, there's supposed to be a hundred and something thousand people.
Speaker 3I'm like there's no way, there's no celebrations. Have that many people?
Speaker 2no, it's supposed I think 70 was the biggest, or something like that. There's 140 000 people at opening of expo, so I can't imagine there's going to be that many. Yeah, we're not bigger than an anime expo in japan.
Speaker 3No, no, because I think it's not expensive to be there. It's expensive to get there and that turns people off, because the first thing you look at is plane tickets. You're like fucking, fifteen hundred dollars each. Nope, we're out. You don't even look later, be like, oh, but the hotels only cost me 300 bucks for the weekend right, right, you're not looking at that as well.
Speaker 2That's a way to average it out and it's like oh wait, the whole trip was, you know, 200 a day or whatever, including hotel and flight. If you look at it that way, it's like, oh, I would have totally right, so so.
Speaker 3I don't know, I don't see it being that big. It's not going to be as big as either of the Anaheim shows. No, definitely not the one um in 15 was force awakens coming out.
Speaker 2Yeah, this is a non-movie celebration.
Speaker 3It's hardly even celebrated in anything, even though it should be. Force Awakens and Revenge of the Sith. But the biggest thing they have is Andor coming out that weekend. I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 2And you don't have a lot of the actors showing up either. Granted, I still compare shit to Episode 3 and Celebration 3, where it was a ridiculous amount of people there actor-wise. You look at the list and it's like are there even 15 people that are going to be there?
Speaker 3Yeah, exactly, the autograph hall is going to be so small and everybody's going to be in line for Hayden.
Speaker 2Uh, yep that sounds about right, which is fine.
Speaker 3Cause, then they're not in line with the stores.
Speaker 2You know I'm, I'm just I support that. Yeah, I looked at the map. Hot toys booth looks pretty big. Uh, that's probably where I'm going. I've got some stuff to get from there, the little small figures and all that.
Speaker 3It's like do I do Fig Pin Hot Toys Roosevelt.
Speaker 2Dude, exactly I think Roosevelt I don't think will sell out right away, because even Comic-Con didn't sell out until the next day. So I'm not worried about Roosevelt, the way I used to be.
Speaker 3Well, not at this show. At Comic-Con, you still got to worry about it. Yes, yes this show.
Speaker 2Not so much, yeah, but even Comic-Con it didn't sell out until the next day. That's true, it didn't sell out until the next day. So I don't know if they're going to. I assume they're going to do the ticket thing again. Roosevelt's Get a ticket line. So if I'm in there I'll get a ticket line and all that. But all Now, sunday is different. Sunday I can go to the exhibit hall floor first because for me I have a 1030 Lightning Lane for Sunday at the store. So I'm definitely going to exhibit hall floor first on Sunday. Friday.
Speaker 2Saturday. It's going to be Celebration Store on Friday, for sure Saturday will be. It depends on how the Celebration Store goes.
Speaker 3Yeah, how well do we do on our?
Speaker 2pens Exactly, especially if there's a limit on the blinds, like they were. Remember it was a two to six, it was six, it was a six pack, because we were getting six packs yeah. So if they do that again, okay, fine, but if I get what I need, okay, then I'm good to go.
Speaker 3But if I need to go back, if I'm going to start two sets and a bunch of loaf cats Cool.
Speaker 2Done Exactly, and that's the other side of that coin too, loaf cats. Is it only going to be in the store for staff trading or are they going to be all over the floor for staff trading? So these things that I've got to figure out. That's going to affect what I do on the floor, but I have a feeling it's going to be Friday celebration store, saturday will be probably celebration store and then the floor, and then Sunday is floor and then Celebration Store, lightning Lane. So I think because of Sunday is why I'm okay doing the floor on, I mean, the store both Friday and Saturday. First, yeah for sure, and then because I can do the floor on Sunday first and I'll be in line early.
Speaker 2Like I told you, it's going to be 5.30 breakfast. I'm assuming it'll be you and Big One. Whether the other two show up later that's fine, but I assume it'll be the three of us. 5.30 breakfast, 6 o'clock train, and then we're in line at 6. By that time it's about 7 o'clock in line, so two hours early, and we will learn if on Friday morning, if we need to be there earlier on Saturday morning.
Speaker 3So maybe we got to skip breakfast. Hit up the convenience.
Speaker 2Exactly, I was thinking the same thing. Like it's going to be skip breakfast and just hit the Family Mart or Lawson's that's in our hotel building. I think there's a Lawson in our hotel building. Let's just hit that on our way to the train. So if Friday turns out like, oh okay, getting here at 7, 2 hours early wasn't good enough, well, we need to get in later. But again, having the accessibility, we'll see if that helps and just makes it easier. Because if the accessibility helps on Friday, then we know we're like, okay, we still enjoy our breakfast, still Go from there. But yeah, definitely super excited as we're getting closer and closer, less stressed over, like, okay, my Amazon stuff came in, so that's good to go. I still haven't figured out what I'm going to pack. Like I know I'm taking four pairs of pants, three cargo pants and a pair of jeans. I know I'm taking that I got all new socks, so I'm taking my shoes off everywhere.
Speaker 3I had Target too. I was like oh, my socks and then I had to make sure little one had socks, because they don't want you wearing mismatched socks, and she's into that right now. Oh, I didn't see anything about that, yeah, no, we were watching a video about um eating at the, um jacuzzis or whatever the fuck they are izakaya, yeah and yeah. And they said it's not like oh shit, you're like you know Scarlet Letter, You'll get looks. It's not normal, Okay. It's bad enough for white, so let's not be that much weirder.
Speaker 2Shit you. I wish I watched these videos. I'm like there ain't no black people. I was like Japanese people aren't really friendly with black. I'm like, oh, they're not like the Italians are with black people, but I'm like this is going to be interesting. However, with my hair, they might think I'm like Indian or something.
Speaker 3So they might not even look at me as a black person. Yeah, you're not rocking an afro and cornrows and shit.
Speaker 2Exactly, I show up with cornrows or a pic in my hair. Then they're like they're going to see me in a star Wars gear. He's like, oh, he's nerd. Exactly, say no, get to come show me your Decepticon.
Speaker 3You're like nah, I love Japanese.
Speaker 2It's like you're right.
Speaker 2It's like he can't be better than that. But yeah, going through, I gotta figure out, like, like I know I'm gonna buy a t-shirt, probably at the expo, at least I know I'm gonna buy probably three at celebration. It's like, do I even want to bother? Like I'm seriously not consider, like the the may 20, the may 4th shirts we just got, that might be the only t-shirt I bring. Like, seriously, yeah, because we got the good, think about it. Friday, saturday, sunday, my shirt's already picked. Monday I can wear the May the 4th shirt or whatever I buy from Celebration at that point, because at that point I'll have shirts but I'll have obviously more Roosevelt shirts.
Speaker 2Then I'm going to have whatever t-shirts that the Celebration store is going to have, because that Vader shirt is obviously one of the ones I'm getting, and then I'm going to have a shirt when I get to osaka for the expo. So at least one or two shirts from there. And then, like I said, laundry is on tuesday for me, so it's like I don't, I don't really think I need to bring.
Speaker 2I could probably get away not even bringing that may the fourth shirt uh because whatever I buy a celebration or you know what I do, I wear that on. I wear that on tuesday on the plane. So I'm going to do laundry the following Tuesday. Anyways, I could wear it again while I'm there. So I think I wear it on the plane and then not even, not even bring another T-shirt. Why, why waste the space when I know I'm going to be coming back with probably eight to ten new shirts? Let's assume a day each for Roosevelt, that's three. Osaka is going to be and you'll know.
Speaker 3Well, I guess we won't know before we leave if the Roosevelt's so that's three Osaka is going to be one and you'll know. Well, I guess we won't know before we leave if the Roosevelt's will be.
Speaker 2I don't know. We might, we might, they might have it announced they might have it announced by then. Because, C2E2's over. Uh-huh.
Speaker 3Yeah, we might, we might. There's a chance. And then you'll know, am I?
Speaker 2buying all three or or even if I just buy one, I'm still getting probably at least three shirts from the celebration store. Yeah, I know of one for certain that I'm getting. Yeah, so, so, worst case scenario, that that'll be my monday shirt. So I buy one. If I don't take any extra shirts, well, that's my monday shirt, and then when I go to osaka that's my tuesday shirt, and then tuesday I'm doing laundry, so I could get away with that. A matter of fact, I think I want to save space just for more collectibles and souvenirs to disney, and most of the shit's not going to be for me anyway. We both know that. Uh, let's be real. Uh, the way you're shopping, the way you're shopping for little one, I'll be shopping for mine over here. So, uh, I fucking swear man, it's, it's that list is like oh, that's cute. I'm like like I hear that's cute one more time because that translates to buy that for me that's exactly what that means.
Speaker 2It's like okay, okay. And there's some stuff like we're watching videos today and it was I'm looking, I'm like and all I look. It's like oh my god, all right, so now I have to go to the ikea.
Speaker 3I have to go to the ikea store wife said she wants to go to Ikea.
Speaker 2So oh, my God.
Speaker 3OK, well, that's happening yeah.
Speaker 2There's an exclusive purple and gray bag that Shut the fuck up Like the shopping bags.
Speaker 3Yeah, the blue one.
Speaker 2No, it's purple and gray Right, like the ones we have.
Speaker 3Yes, that get purple on there I'm going to tell my wife about that, she'll be like, yep, we're going Just so we can go to Ikea and be fucking bougie. I put it on my.
Speaker 5Wicked mom, purple bag Exactly.
Speaker 2I can't remember if it's Shibuya or the other one, but it's not Ginza, I know that much. I think it's Shibuya. Either way, I think it's Shibuya, it's Ikea. I think it's called Ikea Shibuya, it's like that. So that's on the list, cause I have to come back with that bag.
Speaker 3I wonder how their Swedish meatballs are there.
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Speaker 2It's probably Takoyaki. It's like it's round yeah, whatever, that's how they, that's how they plan on doing it. Oh my God, yeah. So that's how it went. And it's like ooh, that's cute, Ooh, it's like oh my God, yeah, yeah, okay, do I need to add that? Yes, do I need to add that? Yeah, I'm like man. I swear each T-shirt I don't bring is something I can bring back for her Right? It's like why do you need that many socks? You can do laundry twice.
Speaker 3Wash your socks in the sink and hang them to dry while you're at the show For real what are you doing?
Speaker 2You can just rotate these socks every day.
Speaker 3Not that you need two pairs Wear one and dry the other ones.
Speaker 2Man, these aren't Air Force Ones. Girl, Come on. Only some of y'all are going to get that joke.
Speaker 3That's okay, though I don't know it's gonna be a little overwhelming, I think. Just trying. I like the way that we are, though. We have this big, huge fucking list and if we don't get to it, cool I mean it's obviously we rank stuff right, like you have to go to world's fair. That's your jam exactly I. We're going to have our things. It has to happen. Cat Island. Okay, maybe it happens, maybe it doesn't. The Cherry Blossoms. Cool if we, you know. Everything else is it's going to depend on.
Speaker 3how does UNO Park do us? Are we going to every fucking museum up there? That's possible.
Speaker 2They're saying three hours per museum minimum. The videos I'm watching, like you want to spend three hours minimum at each museum and the way we are with museums, we would be there, all three hours, we would be there the three hours.
Speaker 3Even my oldest is exactly like we are. She has to read everything and see everything. So, I don't know, maybe that ends up taking the whole fucking day and we don't do anything else.
Speaker 2That tricks me out that those museums are like six bucks to enter. I was like are you, are you kidding me? Six like four, four buck, six hundred yen, four bucks yeah, four bucks for this one. And six bucks, like what right? How is that so cheap? Child under 11, free right? Like oh, cool yep it's like dang.
Speaker 2But yeah exactly, we're gonna have some stuff that we have to do. Then everything else will be like we want to do and then we'll see how the day takes us If we have a plan to go here and we see this cool ass thing over here detour.
Speaker 3Yep, that's just how it is. Maybe it doesn't take us, maybe our detour doesn't take as long. We still get to do everything. Yeah, we still do do it yeah, but let's throw it out there like, like I might have a few like now. The ikea store is on the list. Hey, I just told you it's on my list so, which worked out anyway.
Speaker 2So, and then, while we do that, I, I, I know, are you doing the google maps thing where you find a spot and you, just I'm doing the save.
Speaker 2Uh, japan tourists say I made a folder for japan it's a google map I've got like I've got, yeah, so so what you do is when you're, when you're on your map and let's just say you put in the IKEA or whatever when you go, you can slide over this, I guess, finger from right to left. So slide left and there's that little bookmark looking tab. Hit that for save and you can put in a folder. I created a folder that's called Japanese or Japan tourists, so all the points that I want to see are in this folder. So if we happen to be someplace and you look at your map.
Speaker 2I'm like, oh, this is nearby and we can go check that out, so that's why we're doing this. So when you go through, you got time tomorrow. Whatever you're doing, just go through what videos you're watching. That's what I did today. I'm sitting here watching videos with my phone app and the google map app, like, oh, that looks cool, do, do, do, do, do, save japan tourists, wait to know. Like, nah, I'm not interested on it. And like three, three to four things each video. I was able to mark something okay. So when we do go to shibuya crossing and all that, I'm like, oh, by the way, this is over here, this is over here, the mega don quixote store is over here there's over here.
Speaker 3We watched a video the other day.
Speaker 2Wife was like yeah, we're going there, that's happening mega, that, yep, we do shibuya, and the thing is, because I'm marking these things, it'll be efficient. So it's like, okay, the next one's here, the next one, as we work our way walking towards mega don quixote, so okay so yeah, if you get a, you get a chance start start marking that.
Speaker 2It's super easy to do. I was like I saw somebody else doing that on a video I watched. I was like, oh, that's cool. I didn't realize you could do that. So I was just, you know, just like okay, mental note I gotta go to this park like uena, everything around uena park, so it's like yeah, it's like everything the park itself, all the fat, all the street food around in the park.
Speaker 2That's easy one. Then I saw a video yesterday. There's like some island with, uh, there's the way, there's a cat island, there's like a bunny island or something like that also, and then there's like a spot where just check out the I'll tell you what's interesting uh, one of the things that I'm really not interested in.
Speaker 3I'm not saying I'm gonna do it, but I'm not really interested on that all the shrines if we go buy one cool, yep, I will check it out, but is it on my list? That won't that? The the touristy one with that big ass paper lantern maybe? Oh yeah, if I was to say we had to do one, it would be that one, just because, like the touristy, it's when you see on TV all the time Like, oh, I've been there, oh yeah, but no, I mean.
Speaker 2I don't know, but that's how it's, I think, and I was explaining this earlier.
Speaker 4Well, where you went, I mean, there's a bunch of shrines.
Speaker 3We're like oh cool, oh yeah.
Speaker 2I mean it's there, yeah. Yeah, I'm trying to explain to Ogre earlier was there are so many shrines, it kind of takes away the glory of it. You know, if there was like this one shrine or five total, and all you know, it's like, oh my God, I need to go to this. But there's like, oh, there's a shrine here, there's a shrine here you go to the back alley.
Speaker 3there's a shrine there and it's like oh, there's I.
Speaker 2If it's, if it's the 7-11 of touristy spots, and why am I gonna buy, you know, what I mean.
Speaker 3It's like there's so many there's one.
Speaker 2You turn around, oh there's a shrine. Go down that alley, there's a shrine.
Speaker 3Okay, yeah, yeah like I said, the big, huge one cool, but no, it's. Those are not super on my list. I want to see the museums there's that, uh, see the museums there's that uh it's like some technical uh park museum, a team lab one. Yeah yeah, that was trippy as fuck dude with the lights.
Speaker 2I was. I was, it was on my list. I'm not saying it's, I'm not saying it's off my list, but it was higher up because evie told me about it. I was like, oh, that looks pretty badass. There's little silver globe things they had going. I'm like that looks super sweet. And then me and old girl was looking at it and she's like you know part of that, you're standing in water right.
Speaker 3I'm like, oh, I'm out when I was watching the video I was like I don't think lou would do that. You gotta take your shoes off and roll your pants up a little bit and you gotta walk through water oh, I was.
Speaker 2Yep, you called it.
Speaker 3I was like well, so much for that I might not be on this list anymore.
Speaker 2Unless I can skip that route. You know what I mean, If I can get away.
Speaker 3I'll see you guys on the other side.
Speaker 2Right, it's like hey, is there like a bridge or something that I can just go around? Can I get some sloshers? Right, you've got a ferryman. I got a 100 yen coin, 500 coins, you got a fair, something exactly. But yeah, once I was like, oh, because this is this, is this, was us watching the video? Literally, it was just, oh man, that place looks badass. Oh, my god, blah, blah, blah. You know you have to get in the water, right, you're stepping it like wait what? And it popped up and like, oh, it's probably clean water.
Speaker 3It's not, you know, it's not like the beach.
Speaker 2I tell a bunch of people have all their damn toes up in it. You don't know what fungus. They got it's like again. I'm not saying I won't do it, it's just less higher on my list now.
Speaker 3No, I'm gonna make you do it, just so I can videotape your face.
Speaker 2I'll say like, yeah, you're like, I'm going to look like Ice Cube the whole time. I'm just going to walk through this water looking like this.
Speaker 3You'd be like, look, something just went by my leg.
Speaker 2Tuck it in the water. But if we are going to, we've got to pick a time, because that one I think you do need reservations for.
Speaker 3It did seem like yeah, the video I watched on it. He was like, I picked the late reservation, when nobody would be there. I was wrong.
Speaker 2He said the same thing. I'm the fan of going later with less people and all that, but if we're going to do it, that's one thing we're going to have to do Again.
Speaker 3It's on the list, it's must do. Right, I think tuesday, wednesday, is going to be. Can we do it so free flowing on? Yeah, I just okay. Which part of which do we take the train north? Are we going more east, more west?
Speaker 2to. I think I think you're right, though, and I I think I think tuesday would be a better day for that right, because here's why this is kind of a kind a self, not say self-serving, but it's the Disney thing If we do all that Tuesday, we can do some local stuff like Wednesday around whatever, I was thinking that too.
Speaker 3And then if we want to go to Disney in the evening, I was thinking that, too, we should do the further travel figure out where we're going. The furthest one needs to be on Tuesday. I was thinking that too, I'm like we should do the further travel of you know like, figure out where we're going.
Speaker 3The furthest one needs to be on Tuesday, and then, Wednesday I want to stay near ish, because worse comes worse. We want to go to bed early ish on Wednesday so we get up early for Disney rope drop, yep. So I'm like if we're going somewhere far that's tuesday, wednesday we can stay tokyo proper ish right that that could be the shibuya stuff.
Speaker 2Yeah, exactly um, because like you want to like way north, or like north of tokyo well, it's, it's, it's north, for actually it's actually almost straight up where we're staying at the hotel, versus going in west or uh shibuya, which is an other, like basically the other side. So, like they're not, we're not doing those two the same day yeah exactly.
Speaker 2It's unlikely we're doing that. So, yeah, wednesday makes more sense to do, honestly, tuesday going and that's assuming we even bother. Like if we, if we don't do, uh, the bullet train going north, the, the cherry blossoms going north, the Cat Island going north, if we don't do that, then we're likely going to be doing the Shibuya and all that the stuff that's west Tokyo, and then Wednesday we do the stuff that's northeast in Tokyo, like the Ueno. So I think, whether or not we want to do the bullet train and cherry blossoms and cat Island, that will determine what will happen on the rest of Tuesday.
Speaker 3Like I said, submit it to the committee. We'll see what happens.
Speaker 2Yeah, exactly, we'll read it later. But we, we, we just want to get an idea of like okay exactly this. If we do the bullet train, like, for example, if let's say Cat Island and all that stuff, if that's something we can get done in. I don't want to say a half day, because I consider a half day like till four or five o'clock.
Speaker 3Exactly, yeah, like noon.
Speaker 2Yeah, but if we get to early evening and be back, we can still hit the other places when we come back in town. But we just have to take the very first bullet train out to maximize our time. So, so, bullet train out to maximize your time. I'm probably looking at that later this evening as well, or tomorrow I'll be at work half-assed paying attention. My stuff for my meeting is already good to go, so I don't have to worry about that. There's nothing else on my calendar. It'll be me checking out Japanese shit tonight and tomorrow at work. Basically no problem admitting that, because that's what's going to happen. Then it's like, oh, here's what's going to happen. And then it's like I was like, oh, here's what I found out. If we do the bullet train from here to here, we can get the cat, we get the cat island. While we're out there, we can see the knock off two birds, one stone.
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Speaker 2we get the cherry blossoms while we're out there because we're going to be seeing those because the timing and okay, blah, blah, blah, and then okay, and then we can be out there for a few hours and then we take the bullet train back. We're back in downtown Tokyo by 4 o'clock. I'm like, oh well, in that case let's go to Tsubuya after that and then boom, and we knock them both out. So we'll see how that plays out. Yeah, we'll see. And then again, that's Tuesday. So I don't know, duke may not want to go with us because he has his flight that day. But if we're back on, coming back at 4, my flight's not until 8 or whatever the time is, then he may join us. So we'll see how that goes.
Speaker 3Like I said, committee, we'll see what happens.
Speaker 2Oh yeah, Don't worry about tripping.
Speaker 3So, yeah, we'll wrap it up. As I mentioned earlier, we'll be AI next week. It's only like six minutes. I didn't want to mess with it too much, but it's. It's pretty funny, uh, what it's been out so, and then after that, we will probably have a good month of reminiscing on this for content, honestly.
Speaker 2So give you all the heads up now. Yeah, I mean, but between japan, just j, and then celebration also. So at least the celebration will get you pop culture ones going.
Speaker 3But I'll be posting our pictures to our Facebook. Whatever pictures we take. Check out our Facebook, our Insta. You can keep up with us, Live vicariously.
Speaker 2Right through us, just the way Duke's food went through him.
Speaker 3He better be better by the time he shares a room with you. Put that motherfucker in the bathroom, or something.
Speaker 2Oh my God, thank you, bidet, he's going to need it. I can't even talk man With my gallbladder issues who knows how this food is going to affect me. I can't even talk man With my gallbladder issues, who knows how this food is going to affect me. So there's so many food and so many dishes with the soft-boiled and the egg is the one thing I know. Egg yolk, well, runny egg yolk, but I don't know soft, Because I've had ramen and no problem, the egg they put in the ramen that soft-boiled I'm good to go. So I think it's just the runny, so I'm going to avoid that the whole time. But you never know different food different seasonings so there's going to be a lot of.
Speaker 2Wherever we go to eat, I'll be looking like where's the bathroom? Okay, there it is, there it is. So I don't know, that's cool, rather, uh. So I, I know I'll have that down. Uh, just to make sure my gallbladder doesn't mess with me. One.
Speaker 3It'll be, fine, I am looking forward to it though.
Speaker 2Yeah, it's going to be a blast.
Speaker 3I can't wait, all right, but you will not hear our voices for a while. Don't pray for us.
Speaker 2Argentina. Am I a Russian woman again, or am I this time?
Speaker 3Yeah, no, you're still the British chick yeah, oh, the British chick.
Speaker 2Yeah, yeah, that was good, I remember that. Or German, whatever, I was the first time.
Speaker 3We tried German, the accent was too sick.
Speaker 2I think it was German, yeah, so I switched it up.
Speaker 3I'm an Australian dude in Duke's Black.
Speaker 2Yes, Sounds like a plan.
Speaker 3I'll be listening to Osaka Yep yep, yep, I want you to post by then.
Speaker 2Oh my God, too funny, too funny All right All right, y'all Matane.
Speaker 3Sayonara.
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