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Vaguely Inconsistent
The Land of Rising Fun: Our Epic Journey Through Japan
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The magnetic pull of Japan finally materialized as our long-discussed trip became reality, sparked by Star Wars Celebration Tokyo serving as the perfect excuse for our cross-Pacific adventure. From touchdown at separate Tokyo airports to navigating perplexing train systems, our journey unfolds as a masterclass in cultural immersion and adaptability.
Jet lag proves itself an unforgiving companion—more brutal on the return journey than we anticipated. The surreal experience of landing in LA an hour after takeoff thanks to the International Date Line creates what we dub "the longest Saturday ever." Our bodies struggle to comprehend the temporal gymnastics even days after returning home.
Deep-diving into authentic Japanese experiences, we discover the true meaning of "futon" (spoiler: it's essentially a dog bed), navigate restaurant reservation systems that politely refuse service through elaborate performances rather than direct rejection, and embrace the cultural adventure of onsen bathing—where communal nudity initially challenges our American sensibilities but ultimately delivers a uniquely therapeutic experience.
Japan's convenience store culture emerges as an unexpected highlight—Lawson's becoming our daily ritual with astonishingly good food at reasonable prices. The absence of tipping culture, paired with service standards that consistently exceed expectations, creates a refreshing consumer experience. Each neighborhood exploration reveals architectural contrasts where modern skyscrapers neighbor decades-old family businesses that refused to sell to developers.
From Hello Kitty Land's inscrutable ride narratives to Shibuya's shopping districts where we discover exclusive merchandise, each day delivers new sensory experiences and cultural revelations. The language barrier creates humorous misunderstandings but never prevents meaningful connections. Our journey leaves us forever changed—with thinner waistlines from walking six miles daily, newfound appreciation for Japanese efficiency, and memories that will fuel our conversations for years to come.
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You get tired eyes and Tired eyes.
Speaker 2:Hello everybody.
Speaker 1:This is Welcome to my tired eyes, yeah yeah, this week we're changing the name of the podcast to Jet Lag is Real.
Speaker 3:Lou acts like we were up for 48 hours yesterday or something. We got back to 48 hours. That was the longest Saturday ever.
Speaker 2:Mm-hmm, mm-hmm, mm-hmm we got back that was the longest Saturday ever.
Speaker 1:I landed a whole hour after I took off. How about you guys?
Speaker 3:so we landed in LA. We left Tokyo. When was our plane lose? 630? 625. Yeah, we landed in LAX about noon and I'm like we're still in Shibuya right now. 625, yeah, 625.
Speaker 1:We landed in LAX about noon and I'm like we're still in Shibuya right now.
Speaker 3:I'm at the Disney store in Tokyo right now, minus six and a half hours. Yep, we didn't even get on our plane yet.
Speaker 2:When we landed in Vegas, we were just getting on our plane.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it was. It was weird to live saturday twice.
Speaker 2:Yeah, longest day ever although I will tell you this much, flying out there seemed a lot longer than flying back I understand it was like an hour maybe 45 minutes of actual flight time difference, just because the tailwind and all that, but the trip seemed way shorter flying back but yeah, but the trip there I feel like I didn't pay as much of a toll like getting there and then getting rolling with stuff.
Speaker 1:I was never like I never felt super out of sync as far as my sleep schedule. Coming back. It's been four days and I'm still like where am I, who am I, what?
Speaker 2:No, that's no joke. I agree with you. We got there late because our flight was late and we had to turn around because of electrical issues. So we didn't get out to like five hours later than we were supposed to heading out to Japan. But having landed, got to the hotel, checked in, sleep, everything, it was good to go. There was like zero jet lag whatsoever. But coming back, y'all can see my eyes I'm just like I've probably slept 10 hours since I woke up today Woke up originally at like 4. I woke up and went back to sleep so many times today and I'm still not caught up yet.
Speaker 1:But those watching the video, you notice Lou's in a different environment right now because he is in the casita.
Speaker 3:Yep, he's on the couch in the casita.
Speaker 1:So we have two local remotes. So he, he's remote, but he's also local.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because he's my wife's like why don't you guys just record together? I'm like one gang two for editing purposes we need separate audio tracks and I don't have that splitter thing to can do that with two mics or whatever.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, obviously we're not that advanced, or else we would have actually done a podcast from japan, yeah, while we were there. Yeah, and it would have been amazing.
Speaker 2:If magic cereal had sponsored us, we'd have that already, right, hey? Or roosevelt, since y'all just rock roosevelt shirts the old duke anyway, the whole time.
Speaker 1:I don't think he brought any other shirt no, I did not bring any other shirt but roosevelt's shirts the whole time. I don't think he brought any other shirt no, I did not bring any other shirt but roosevelt's shirts the whole time and I had just the right amount that I had that I didn't have to do laundry twice, so I timed that shit right on great is that?
Speaker 2:because you you bought shirts there and could wear them no, okay, okay, that was my.
Speaker 1:Uh. My shirts I bought are still in the baggies. Even the one Celebration Japan shirt I bought is still rolled up. But we're not talking about this week, we're going to save.
Speaker 3:Celebration for next week, for May 4th. It'll be our Star Wars-centric podcast. This is a little new and different for us. We don't do a whole lot of Star Wars.
Speaker 2:At all. I mean nobody's wearing anything Star Wars related.
Speaker 3:Not at all. It's kind of a nerd thing we didn't go watch episode 3 today.
Speaker 1:At all. Nope, I mean Lou didn't sleep through episode 3 today.
Speaker 2:I did stay awake for that. Jack's wife did not. Nope, she was awake for like the last five minutes.
Speaker 3:She saw the 20th Century Fox logo and then she woke up to Vader's helmet getting put on.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that is fact. I was sitting next to her. I can confirm this.
Speaker 1:Real quick how full was the theater. It was just checkable. It made a shit ton of money this weekend, did it really? It was like number three. It made like $20 million this weekend. They were saying it was going to possibly push it into four digit territory as far as money. Again, wow, they were saying it was going to possibly push it into four, like four digit territory as far as, uh, money overall.
Speaker 2:So you hear that snow white just want another dig at you oh, the funny speaking of that, I saw something on reddit was.
Speaker 1:So I I'm part of like a data hoarders or people who, like you know, when there's a website that's going to go down, like people are like go save the website. So somebody posted some. Some movie company in LA dumped a shit ton of film canisters with, I'm guessing, with film in them and was like everyone go and get them. And then people are like what are they? And then some people were like maybe it's all the physical editions of Snow White. And I get just totally derailed into just this super weird people just being funny. But the jokes were pretty good.
Speaker 2:I was like okay, Can you reuse the film? Yeah?
Speaker 1:exactly what else can we put on here?
Speaker 2:yeah, exactly like. What else can we put on here? Um, I'm gonna tell you later paper. But no, if it ain't a bidet, I ain't having it.
Speaker 1:I know you know like so. So jack, did you call and have them installed while you were on your way back?
Speaker 3:no, my wife, uh, did order one, though after we got back from uh from the movie.
Speaker 2:Oh, that happened. You said you were looking. I didn't know. You actually ordered, no, no.
Speaker 3:No, she looked. She's like where's my Lowe's card? I need the CBC number, hell yeah. So, yes, that is happening. Yeah, one, wait, just one. Yeah, just one so far. Fuck your kids, fuck your kids.
Speaker 2:Well, I was just thinking a casita, yeah, priorities. Now that you're pooping it again, I got no interest whatsoever. I'm neutral party here.
Speaker 1:I'm just saying no, the problem with that is Wait, you're neutral potty.
Speaker 3:Yeah. Yeah, I'm a neutral potty he only uses gender neutral bodies. No, the problem with that is they didn't put an electrical outlet in the Xita one out here. Oh yeah, so you'd have to rewire it. So eventually, once you guys get upgraded to staying in the house, that one does have an electrical outlet, so you can still get upgraded Once we get upgraded to staying in the actual house.
Speaker 2:What did Duke up to? He's? Pooping again, Like really yeah, he cut that shit off. What's Duke up to he's?
Speaker 1:pooping again. Oh, I did nice, I did not. It was never been so warm. Right, it was very lovely. Yeah, it was rough. Uh, well, I mean, we'll get to it, but so yeah, so uh, japan boys uh, it finally happened.
Speaker 3:I mean, should we've been talking about since this podcast was conceived, it seems like it was like probably one of the first things first couple episodes and we were talking about it.
Speaker 1:I feel like it was one of the first things we talked about, like after we got through all the like how we know each other stuff.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, and then it wasn't what.
Speaker 3:Three months later, we bought tickets yeah, so no, it's just crazy that it actually happened. You know that it led up to it, the we were there and now that we're back home already, still it's going to take like a week and a half to process it, probably. Yeah, we just saw so much just even like getting on the airplane to go out there long as, uh long as, trips the flight was a joke.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it was my longest trip I've ever taken before.
Speaker 2:That I'm aware of.
Speaker 1:We might have done camping and that type of stuff when I was a kid, but I had no concept of time back then. Right exactly, and I felt it dude. After like day eight I was fucking homesick as shit. I was like man. I missed my bed, I missed my motherfucking shower. I'm like why?
Speaker 2:am I in this room?
Speaker 1:Why am I in this room with this black man? How did I get here? What did I do wrong? Are we in El Salvador? Is this a prison right now? What's happening?
Speaker 1:But no, it was like day 7 or 8. There was a couple things where I was just like but again, the longest trip I'd ever taken was 7 days, so I've never had to go longer than that Without being back home and having my entire wardrobe To pick from, and not just the 7 things that I, 7 shirts that I brought. But but, as far as timelines go, I had some friends that went a few days before, so I left on the 9th, which was a tuesday, and that was right, the 9th was a tuesday. Yeah, uh, flew through honolulu, which was awesome because, because, like, really like, out of all the options between here and there, honolulu to me is like the best option.
Speaker 1:Like because I heard like I had some of the friends that I met. They went from here to Seattle to like South Korea, then to Japan, and it was like like, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I was talking to him on the way back and he was like, yeah, it was kind of upsetting to go from there to South Korea and then fly back over Japan to go to see him. He's like we were just there two hours ago.
Speaker 3:There's Shibuya down there.
Speaker 1:Exactly hey donkey. So yeah, you down there. Hi, exactly hey donkey, um. So uh, yeah, um.
Speaker 3:And then you guys flew in like a week later that was the wednesday after you left. So, um, yeah. So we flew up to from vegas to san francisco. Everything was going good. We're about an hour and a half into our flight and lou and I were trying to watch Penguin right, but the monitors and the lights and everything kept cutting out. And then the pilot's like, ah, sorry y'all, we got some rats in the electrical outlet or some shit, so we got to go back. We had to circle to burn off fuel, so we didn't blow up when we landed. And then the next plane left like two, three hours later. So we were late as fuck, getting in it, messed up, picking up our badges, trying not to train the first night like we wanted to.
Speaker 1:Um, but that still worked out. Fine. It it did, I mean it was annoying.
Speaker 3:It didn't ruin anything, though. I mean, you know, I'm saying we made the celebration on Friday, right? That was the point.
Speaker 1:Right, Sir, in 34G. Please unplug your Kindle. You're screwing up the electrical for everybody. We need to turn around.
Speaker 2:It really did work out, though it was super inconvenient in the sense that we were supposed to land just before, before three o'clock, um, so we can make a celebration, test the train system, do all this stuff. We didn't land until eight o'clock, so it was a when all was said and done. It was a five hour difference, but the point was to test the train system and to get our badges. But, like jack said, when all was said and done, we did all that friday morning. We were there early enough friday to get our badges and it did not change anything about us entering the Celebration Store, because that was the first goal was to get into Celebration Store and all that. None of that changed. We were still like the first five minutes when the store opened we were in.
Speaker 1:Boo In the day. Yay Boo yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, I mean yeah, so annoying, but it didn't change anything.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we probably would have been in the exact same spot in the line at the store, like where we were at the store line. It wouldn't have made a difference if we you guys would have, if we would have gotten all the badges the night before or not 100% agree.
Speaker 3:They might not have even had our pin shed stuff ready yet so I mean yeah I would have to go back later to pick them up later, so it was fine one of the people that met us there.
Speaker 1:He didn't even pick up his stuff till sunday. They like sent him an email on like friday night, saturday morning saying oh yeah, you better be down here, bro bro, it never showed up. It hadn't shown up yet. And so yeah, there was a. Then, I think there was a bunch of stuff from the store itself that didn't show up, but we'll talk about that later.
Speaker 3:That's next week's problem.
Speaker 1:That being said, your flight delays didn't.
Speaker 2:No.
Speaker 3:The train eventually was able to be figured out. I think that come yesterday when we left, we were pretty damn good at the train once. You know, we had a couple of hiccups, wrong train going back home at night once or twice, um, but it was a quick it wasn't even wrong train.
Speaker 2:It was getting off in the wrong stop.
Speaker 1:Yes, well, that's the thing that I realized. I mean living here. When you go to get on a train, it's like the same train at the same station all the time. Right, you go and you're at the station. Whatever train that shows up next, you get on because it's going to the exact same thing. Yep, that is not the fucking case in japan at all, you know. You're like, if it says on google maps, wait five minutes, and a train pulls up, and you get on that train, you're done, fucked up. Yep, and you're about to find out because all of a sudden you'll be like wait, this name does not matter and then you have to get off the express train that isn't stopping for 15 more stops because it's skipping all those stops.
Speaker 3:You're like shit, I was supposed to get off on TR3, but now I'm getting off on some blue line at JS5.
Speaker 2:Oh my god, that is so funny. On my way back to the airport yesterday because we had some time to kill, so I went back downtown for a few hours. On the way back I did get on an express train. It was one of the first times I had done it, so it didn't stop after seven or eight minutes. I'm like did I fuck up? I didn't look down.
Speaker 1:I said lose in Osaka, Wait, what the fuck.
Speaker 2:How did I get there, dude? I had no idea what was going on. But then the announcement kept saying it's only going to stop at stops 11 and 15 or 16. And I needed 16. So I'm like, okay, this is fine. But for 10 days I've been stopping every three to four minutes, so it kind of threw me for a loop. So that is so true, like you're on the blah blah blah express, I'm like, okay, that explains why I'm not stopping. I can just stay still. I'm good.
Speaker 1:The other part, though, is you've got to make sure that you're on the like TR-16 and not the KS-16 or whatever.
Speaker 2:This one was the KK-16. Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, I was one K short of being fucked there and on my way to the airport.
Speaker 1:I mean, you guys, I think, basically took the same way I did to the airport. I sat on that train for fucking 55 minutes and I'm just like, is this right? I hope this is right, like I took the normal train.
Speaker 3:We didn't have to take a train to go to the airport Because we were at Disney, at the Disney hotel. There was a bus stop outside and you get an airport limo. Oh nice, you pay the driver cash or your IC card. He picked us up, picked up our luggage. It was what? $1,300?.
Speaker 2:Yeah, under $10.
Speaker 3:The little one was like $650.
Speaker 1:Nice yeah.
Speaker 3:Okay, nice, yeah, okay, all right, it was super easy. Yeah, we didn't have to get on there with all our fucking luggage and stuff.
Speaker 1:So that worked out super well. Nice, yeah, all right. Well, that's a good bonus that they don't have a us-based disney anymore. Man, I missed that bus at disney world about to ask you anymore. That was the thing. There used to be a bus that would pick you up at disney world and then it was a nice ride.
Speaker 1:The guy would load you all your luggage, he'd pull everything off. They got rid of that. I don't know half a dozen years ago. I did it once when we stayed on on property for a celebration and it was super nice because you just basically walk out, you look for like the the Mickey Magical Express bus or whatever, and then you go like if you could you show them your ID and they say, oh, looks like you're going to disneyland, you're staying at this hotel, get on bus two. You get on bus two and you just it drives he, they drive you right to the lobby.
Speaker 1:It's actually all right, it was very cool yeah, so that's cool that they have that in in tokyo for you guys like, because I know what I love.
Speaker 2:I'll be the first to admit, we're a little bit stressed and now like, how are we going to get all this? Do we need to go and get a taxi? The big ass taxi paid the 200 bucks to to go. So Jack was looking up stuff. Uh, when, when, at the end of the, the Tokyo sea night and shopping night, I was back at the hotel and he I went to guest services on our end, I'm like, hey, here's the situation. And the lady pulled out a little sheet like a quarter sheet of paper. I'm like, oh, an ADA. I'm like, yeah, she's like, oh, here's the schedule. You pay the driver $1,300, two bags per person, blah, blah, blah. I'm like, oh well, shit, we're good. And there was like 10, 12 different times you could take throughout the day and it was like, okay, problem solved, we're good yeah, and then in the morning the homegirl just walked us right out there.
Speaker 3:She abandoned her post on the disneyland hotel and just walked us to the bus stop dude, they do that.
Speaker 1:They straight abandoned their post in japan. They'll be like. We want to make sure that you have the best experience between my desk and the curb. Yep yeah that happened that happened multiple times where we would be in like a lobby or something and they'd be like, oh, you want the shuttle, let's, let's get you out to the shuttle. And they would like walk you out and wave and like you were like damn, like what did I? Yeah?
Speaker 2:Both hands.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so, yeah. So I landed like a week before you guys did so. I was already.
Speaker 1:I had already done a bunch of shit and been sick and gotten better in the window of time before you guys even got there yeah, exactly, exactly, with multiple times saying I live here now because nothing in Japan is built for a person of my size yeah, I don't know how Jack, being fucking 10 foot tall and like Lou and I being larger Americans, like, yeah, I don't know how I would, I would have a hard time, I think, living there Like it would, because there's just enough of like a size, like building out difference.
Speaker 2:That Bro, you would walk so fucking much. You would lose half your weight in a year.
Speaker 1:I would be disappeared, dude. I'd become the mechanic fucking Christian Bale and just be like.
Speaker 2:I literally my belt buckle thing.
Speaker 1:I actually moved the knots by the end of my trip. Yeah, mine was at the end. I couldn't tighten it anymore and it was falling down, which is weird. I don't have a dicky-do belly anymore.
Speaker 3:I looked down and I'm like, oh hey, buddy, it's been a minute.
Speaker 2:Long time no see.
Speaker 1:In Japan for two weeks. All right, so I guess that's our uh weight loss uh diet program I just traveled to japan for two weeks every six months and we'll reset, reset everything eat all that healthy food and walk everywhere like six miles a day.
Speaker 2:Man, it was fishing rice, I'm good.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah.
Speaker 2:I'm not kidding. When I get back to Colorado, that might be a thing I'm just like. Well, I'm already used to walking six miles. Comic-con's coming up, I may as well just keep walking it. Nah, look, hey, it sounds good.
Speaker 3:It's a goal.
Speaker 2:It's like, at the very least I'm not going to gonna lie. I probably will do the simple shit like the one mile walk to the movie theater like on on tightwad tuesday. As long as the weather's okay, I might just walk there and back.
Speaker 2:There's two miles right there because again, I don't have the the, I guess, the watch thing to let me know how much steps and all that. But I'm fairly certain that last day was, I think. I think jack said he did, uh, almost six miles that day. I'm pretty sure I did the same thing they did, just walking around hitting different magic shops and whatnot. Yeah, and honestly I can't say I felt it.
Speaker 3:It was like all right, I'm just walking here, walking there, the end of the night, I think just with everything piled up, I'm like, oh yeah, I guess my feet do hurt a little bit. Oh, at the end of the night, I think just with everything piled up, I'm like, oh yeah, I guess my feet do hurt a little bit.
Speaker 2:Oh, at the end of the night for sure, but during when it was happening, during the day it was like, okay, I need to walk here, need to walk to this station, need to walk here. It was like, okay, but you're right end of the night. It was like, oh yeah, I walked a lot today.
Speaker 1:I'm glad I don't work like I bought a free pack of cushions for my team before I left and yeah, they got used At the end of the night when we're sipping on our lime sour or our Yazoo sour Yuzu.
Speaker 2:Yuzu. Yuzu there we go Yuzu fruit yeah.
Speaker 1:Hey, this is lemon. Nope, it's not lemon, it's grapefruit. No, it's lemon, no, it's grapefruit. We were having like fucking rap battles At fucking one in the morning.
Speaker 2:Right, the lemon had a baby with the grapefruit and that's what a user food is. But yeah, I think we tried a different beer every night.
Speaker 1:They do love their sours. Oh, and the white beer, the beer that was just named white.
Speaker 2:It literally is a curian or whatever it was. White beer is like all right, I don't mind. I don't mind a white woman on my lips, because I can handle a white beer too.
Speaker 1:Let's do this I think that was night number one actually. Yeah, yeah, I bought that for you when, uh, I was waiting for you guys to do this. I think that was night number one actually. Yeah, yeah, I bought that for you when, uh, I was waiting for you guys to show up. I think are you were you guys?
Speaker 2:you needed the ice for no, that was the sour. Yeah, that was the sour, you bought it. You bought it when I met you down the very first night.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, because he wasn't there yet, because we had checked in and he's like oh no, I'm right, I'll see you in the morning.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, glad I'm here.
Speaker 2:Bye, good night long day traveling with kids. I'm going to bed.
Speaker 1:Got to get up early okay, yo yo, because somebody made the plane late and I couldn't do stuff in the morning um, but yeah, uh, so my, I guess we'll just kind of like we I'll talk about what I did before and then you guys can talk about what you did after celebration, because celebration there's the whole reason we made the excuse to make this trip in the first place. Lou, I think was already kind of talking about it, but this like firmed up dates and firmed up a window for us.
Speaker 2:It forced a hand. Yeah, I was going to Japan no matter what, but I had no idea when and no real plan of how that was going to happen. Then, once London in 23 said hey, so next celebration in Japan, it was like locked in. I guess now I know where I'm going.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, and within a couple of couple weeks we'd all decided that that was the, that was the jam. Yeah, I guess, like two years ago really, right, we kind of started talking about it but I mean, we didn't actually start like making plans and buying plans yeah, we went, so we got tickets and shit.
Speaker 3:So yeah, it wasn't real.
Speaker 2:real until that May 4th weekend when the tickets went on sale on 23rd yeah.
Speaker 1:So yeah, so my flight went through Honolulu, I had a couple hour layover. I landed in Tokyo, at Haneda. We actually did both airports, which is pretty crazy. Again, that's something that's different, right. I mean, if we lived in New York or we lived in a couple other the big cities like we, might know what it's like to have like multiple airports. But the fact that you guys flew into a completely different airport in the same city and both of them were international airports, to me was pretty, uh, was pretty wild.
Speaker 3:Um, so I flew into.
Speaker 1:Haneda. You guys flew into Narita right. Then I had my friend that I was going to stay with the first night pick me up. We went and got food. I was good I'm like let's go get some food, let's go do whatever. We went to his local bar and hung out that Lou got to experience at the end of the week. So we could talk about that when we get to that point of your converse, of your part of the story. Sorry, jack couldn't join us. I think Jack would have had a good time there too Next time.
Speaker 3:That was hella kitty day, bro. I was done.
Speaker 1:No, I know, I and that was Hello Kitty Day, bro, I was done. No, I know, and that's what I'm saying Like you would have had fun, but there's no way in hell you would have. Like that was not in the cards. And it turns out our definition of futon and what their definition in Japan of futon is completely different. They should just refer to it what it is, which is a dog bed. I walked in my friend's apartment Probably 250 square feet, maybe 300. And I'm like where's the futon? Cause I'm expecting to see a futon like a chair, a couch and stuff. And he's like it's in the closet. I'm like, brah, you ain't fitting a futon in that closet. And he opens it up and he pulls out this plastic bag and I'm like the fuck is that? And he's like that's a futon. I'm like that's bullshit, that is not a futon. So he unrolls it and zips it all up and does all this stuff and I'm like mother mug, that's a fucking dog bed, that is not a fucking futon.
Speaker 3:I work at pet smart sir.
Speaker 1:I used to sell these fucking things but I will tell you after you've been on a plane, been up for almost 24 hours, it doesn't really matter, I still slept fine. Yeah, that's fair. But yeah, you know, you get to a point where a dog bed acceptable. I'm okay with sleeping on a dog bed it could have been an actual dog bed.
Speaker 1:Yeah, exactly, it would have been the same. It was like a dog bed with a pillow, and it was a shit-ass pillow at that. And he's like ah, sorry, I meant to get a better pillow, but I didn't have time. I've been playing this trip for two years, fucker. Yeah, exactly. And you're like oh, I didn't have time to buy a pillow. I'm like motherfucker, I told you about this shit when you moved over here right, bro.
Speaker 2:You've been here six months. You had six months to get me something I could sleep on and not treat me like your pet.
Speaker 1:I wake up in the morning and he's like good boy and I'm like no.
Speaker 3:I think you just pissed on the carpet.
Speaker 1:Exactly I had to mark my territory. He woke up to me, throwing up and looking at me. Alright, sorry, all right, sorry that the entire, the entire podcast is my first night in tokyo.
Speaker 3:Oh, it looks like we're out of time, guys. Um well, we touched on a lot of your stuff.
Speaker 1:Um, last time we did a free one too, so um, yeah oh yeah, because I was remote yeah, yeah, so yeah yeah, so I mean yeah, so we did that on Sunday, so I still had a few days. Yeah, you still had three more days before we showed up Four more days.
Speaker 3:What did, we do Okay.
Speaker 2:Well, you slept.
Speaker 3:You said you slept for like a day or day and a half or some shit.
Speaker 1:When you were sick, yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So then after that I had like a few days where it was like a good day, bad day, type of thing. So after the last podcast two weeks ago that we did, holy shit, it's only been. It feels like forever. Like it feels like it feels like us doing the podcast in the, in the hotel room, was like a long ass time ago. Yeah, um, two weeks, yeah.
Speaker 1:So I I think at that point I had slept like 36 hours. I don't think I'd eaten anything in 36 hours, like I was my body like 50 000 steps and 16 plus flights of stairs. My body was just like, oh, you done, fucked around, fucked you, you fucked up. But now you're gonna find out is really what it came down to, because my, that shit was shut down. Um, I barely held it together for the podcast. To be honest, like after the podcast, I'm like bro, I'm so tired, like that was exhausting to talk on a camera for an hour and a half, um, but then, uh, we wrapped. Uh, so then we had one more night In Kobe, so we stayed in that hotel.
Speaker 2:I was going to say not there, though, because you had to check out, remember? Yeah, that's why you had to check out.
Speaker 1:Yeah, we moved on To Osaka. We stayed In this kind of. It was a very interesting Place. So it was like this it was a building for, uh, people with disabilities, where it was like it was an old building, had been there for a long time, but a guy had bought it and then him and his I'm guessing his wife, significant other something I I couldn't read the story, but there were two of them that were both in wheelchairs, and so they had completely reconditioned the entire building to be accessible Right, which was pretty cool, because there's a lot of places in Japan that aren't just because of the way that they're built.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, a lot of steps and I mean a lot of doorways that are narrow, a lot of like buildings that are small. Putting a wheelchair and having it actually be able to even turn around like 360 degrees not gonna happen. But this guy had like re, like he had money so he had redone the entire building. It was very cool and then was open. It was like almost like a community center and they had built like a room with a bathroom in the back that you could rent the room in the bathroom. So it wasn't like a hotel necessarily. It was basically just a place to sleep and leave your clothes, which, again, like we're out and about. So it's fine, you know, and the money that you're paying is going towards helping support them to develop the building and develop programming and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:We met some guy who had like an automated wheelchair and he had like he had built all of his like his. His chair did like a bunch of shit because he had built stuff into the chair himself, like even though he was, he was disabled. Um, he was like again, he was fine in his head, like his head, he was, he, he could hold a conversation and everything, but he was just physically, uh was not, was not able-bodied and so, but he had made his wheelchair like he had built stuff and installed it on his wheelchair to help him do things like communicate and that type of stuff using like nfc and uh, that type of like he could pull up to the computer and the computer would log him in type of thing because it knew it was him which I thought and he had, but he had done all of this on his own, like I mean, again he'd had help, but again his brain he was like no, no, I still can do all, like I know what I want to do, right, and uh, and so it was.
Speaker 1:It was really cool. It was kind of one of those things where you don't it's not an experience you would have gotten just in a normal, like going and staying at a hotel, right, and so yeah. So then that night we had our second or third, um, do you have a reservation? Which, again, because you can never like in Japanese culture you're never wrong, you know, they're never going to get upset with you. We went to this place, restaurant's completely fucking empty. We walk in and they're like do you have a reservation? And we're like no, but like there's two of us. And then the guy's's like looks at the tablet and he's like hold on, and he goes and he gets, he goes and gets the manager, and the manager comes out and he's like do you have a reservation? We're like no, and then he does, he's like looking around the room and he's like can you make a reservation?
Speaker 1:And we're like like, dude, it's fine, like this was well, no, this was them telling us that they weren't going to seat us, basically, like they. But they won't go and just say, hey, no, sorry, like, they're like, well, we don't, we don't really have room because we have other reservations. Right, because there was a whole thing. Right, it was the teppanyaki place, so it had the grills in the middle and the chef would come out and do that. So I think they didn't want to have a chef come out and do all the fucking bullshit for just the two of us. Right, like, and we were like, no, it's fine, like, we're cool, like all right, but they'll never just tell you like no, we don't, we, we basically we're not going to serve you. Right, like, but they do all of this like theater. This happened a couple of times while we were in Japan, where they would do all of this theater to like make it seem like man we have we have.
Speaker 1:We have done everything we can to get you seated and you know you just go okay. So that happened a couple of times, but that was the first time where it was pouring rain and you're like, motherfucker, I just want to drink at a fucking hamburger steak. How hard is that. But that did push us into going to a Teppanyaki or a Yatsukaya, which ended up being awesome Because it was one of those nine seats in the back alley, halfway down an alley. You would never see it from the street, like you. You had to like know it was there to go there. Uh, the guy was super cool. I was sick of shit, but they had the best french fries fucking a dude jap, japan has the best fucking french fries.
Speaker 2:I don't even know what it is out there?
Speaker 3:dude, but dude I and they were just regular french fries.
Speaker 1:They weren't crinkle cut, they weren't like julian they and they were just regular french fries. They weren't crinkle cut, they weren't like julienne, they were just french fries.
Speaker 3:You didn't eat for 36 hours either, so that could have been shit, and you were just fucking hungry.
Speaker 2:Because that was us in San Francisco.
Speaker 3:No yeah, when did we eat Lou? Oh yeah, it was when our plane got delayed, so we're fucking hungry. And they and we had oh yeah, it was when, uh, our plane got delayed, right, so we're fucking hungry and, uh, they gave us airport credits or whatever.
Speaker 2:We're sitting there they brought out the ketchup for our fries that hadn't come yet. I'm like that ketchup smells good as fuck. Oh, holy god that ketchup like it was the best thing in the world. Like they literally I'm I'm not smelling it, but they are all of all, four of them, and they're just like, oh, that I can smell the ketchup. I'm like, smell the ketchup jack's, jack's like.
Speaker 1:All right, I'm giving it five more minutes and my little one's only gonna have one arm for the rest of her life. Because because I'm gonna be that shit with some good, I'm just pouring ketchup I'm gonna not raw, I don't care man.
Speaker 2:I actually forgot we went to that place actually.
Speaker 1:Jack is making lines of ketchup on the table and just snorting it Just like, oh, put it in my veins.
Speaker 2:Rubbing ketchup on his gums, but yeah.
Speaker 1:So, and then the following day we went up to Nara, which the thing that Nara is known for is they have a giant temple and then around the temple they have a bunch of parks that are all kind of one big park, but they're all kind of broken up because of the streets and stuff, so it looks like a bunch of parks, but it's one giant park and they have a ton of mildly domesticated deer, so it's a giant park, um, and they have a ton of like mildly domesticated deer, so they have it's a deer park. Basically, when you get there, uh and so we did that the following day and that was, uh, that was pretty cool, like walking up and there's just like a fucking little half a dozen deer just like laying on the ground just hanging out, you know did they bow to?
Speaker 1:you no. But there were signs all over being like motherfucker, these guys are these? These, uh, young guys, the, the boys, are all growing their horns and getting ready for mating season. So there was like yellow and red signs everywhere saying like don't fuck with these guys. Like they will fucking wreck you, like just if you see them and they're aggressive, just move away. Like, just don't.
Speaker 1:And because people are dumb man, people are fucking dumb like with, especially when it comes to wild animals, like they walk up thinking it's going to be a dog or something and like no bitch, this is a deer. Like he doesn't, he will fucking wreck your world, like if you wanted to like you right, well. And then they were showing pictures and some of these deer, like in mating season, have giant antlers and I'm just like man, I would hate to be like. And then there was like articles in the paper of people who had gotten like trampled and had gotten like gored and shit because they just fucked around and found out they would be like trampled and had gotten like gourd and shit because they just fucked around and found out they would be like fucking around and being like here, here's a fucking ice cream cone that I'm not gonna eat. And they're like bam. And then your fucking hand has a fuck, is bleeding, and you're like what the fuck? But it's a fucking deer. These aren't like. This isn't the zoo, right, people?
Speaker 2:I don't know cafe.
Speaker 1:Yeah, people don't, people, just People. I don't know. Yeah, people don't, people, just don't I don't know. Dude, it was wild to just see how some of these people acted around there was like they were all color, everybody, like nobody.
Speaker 1:Like like Travis and I were just walking around, like how are people treating them like this, like I don't know. Like there were a few people who were respectful, but a lot of them, and I'm like also, like, where we're at, like have some fucking respect, like you're on sacred ground for somebody right, like there's somebody's religion who has, like that you're on their property right now, like have some respect who's? Yeah, but it was super cool to see them. Um, at one point somebody ran, somebody rang a dinner bell and they all started running, which was really cool. I don't know if Pavlov had deer. Well, we were like I didn't hear shit, so it must have been. It was either the time of day or it was like they did a dog whistle or something like that, because then, all of a sudden, we saw a bunch of them running through a parking lot that was a couple blocks away from where we were, and then all of them that were around us like started standing up, like what's going on? What's going? Oh, oh shit, it's about time. And they all started, all of them started moving. So then, of course, what happens? All the idiots start going into the herd and I'm like no, just fucking stand. Like you, fucking idiots, like they. By the way, if you start, if, if your kid gets knocked over, they ain't gonna be like, oh sorry, let me walk around them. Nah, they're just gonna be like like morons. So log is a child, yeah, no, it'd be like jurassic park and you're hiding behind the log as everything.
Speaker 1:But that was an exhausting day, because that was really the first day that I had done anything since being sick. So then the following day I was like it was a quiet day. We did laundry, got up in the afternoon and did it was. It was a text message of OK, I started laundry. Ok, I'm getting ready. Ok, laundry's done. Ok, I'm getting ready. I put my pants. I have one pant leg on, I'm almost there. So what did we do that afternoon?
Speaker 2:Was that?
Speaker 1:onsen day no, that was a couple days later. Oh, that was the day we went around. So that day we went around the biggest lake in Japan. So there's a lake in Japan, it's Lake Biwa, but it is the biggest non-oceanic lake in Japan and we originally were going to go to a observation deck that you could go up to and then see the entire lake, but it was closed because a bunch of stuff was closed around there, because I think there's a couple of big Japanese holidays coming up, like golden week and something else, and so a lot of them are closed like the week or a couple of weeks before to do all the rehab for that, because basically the entire country shuts down, like kids are out of school, nobody goes to work, yeah, so the observation deck was closed, so we just ended up taking the train all the way around the lake, which was pretty cool.
Speaker 1:We stopped at a random port city somewhere I don't know the name of it, went into a big temple, went into, like this like there were these giant building, I mean, and this is just like how Japan is. Like you walk up and there's these giant office buildings and there'll be this little like mobile, home-ish type building and it'll be something where they just didn't sell the sell to the developers and they had a restaurant that was open and they'd been there for 50 years, you know. So we went and had lunch there and walked out to the, walked out to the actual port, which was windy and cold and rainy, which I was like why are we doing?
Speaker 1:You know how many times I heard hey, it's just a couple blocks down the road here. And then 45 minutes later going like brah, come on, stop lying to me. Well, google maps said it was only a couple blocks. I'm like uh-huh, um. So then there was that uh. After that, we, uh, we made our way, I think. Then at that point, yeah, it was like wednesday, and so we went to Hanake after that and that was where the onsens were and that was.
Speaker 1:That was an experience. If you've never been to an onsen before, it's definitely. I mean, I would say everybody should try it once. Just to say that they've done it. We rented a private onsen to start with because I eased my way into that experience, and then we did the hotel onsen. Just an FYI, if you're used to showering in your room, if you're in a town with a bunch of onsens, there are no showers in your bathroom because you're expected to shower afterwards. Yeah, you're expected to shower afterwards. Because I walk in and I'm like buddy, where's the shower? And he's like no, that's at the onsen. And I'm like what are you talking about, willis? Because I was like I'm like no, like I get up in the morning and I shower, I get like that's my, that's my jam, like I don't get up and go downstairs and get naked with a bunch of dudes and then shower like that changes, that changes in college anymore, yeah, exactly exactly.
Speaker 1:I haven't done that in 20 years. Like, come on, I will say the onsen, though, like when you get into the water and you're just chilling and it's in a way it's like so, basically, an onsen is just a hot, it's like hot springs. Hot springs that you're not, you don't wear, you're naked. That, uh, you're not you, you don't wear, you're naked. Um, and I will say, like, when you first walk out there, you're, it's a little, there's like a level, a layer of like awkwardness. But then when you realize, oh, like, nobody gives a shit, everybody's just here to get in the hot water and hang out, literally, um, but where's your? Hey, hey, come on. But where's your hey, hey, come on.
Speaker 1:I wasn't ready for it, I wasn't ready for it. Um, you, you go, oh, okay, like it's actually a it's kind of a cool experience, like where you're just sitting there and you're just like you know, you're looking up at the trees or the, the, the sky, or you're just, you have your eyes, balls, yeah I didn't know it was a full moon already, um, but no, I mean but, but again, you like don't 3 pm.
Speaker 1:Yeah, but you just like it's like that, once you kind of get past your own awkwardness, like it's like whatever, like um and I say I'm a grower, not a shower, in Japanese. Hang on, let me look that up here. It's cold in here.
Speaker 2:I just got out of the cold. Seinfeld there's this one episode.
Speaker 1:So, um, I mean, the water got up to like 145 degrees, which was fucking hot as shit. But then they have like a plunge, like a cold plunge pool which, after you've been in 145 degree water, like going because you're supposed to like it's a thing, right, like you do it to like process, yeah, right. So you, I put my feet in and I was like okay, the cold, the cold fucking sucks, this is the worst. And travis was like well, you gotta sit down, and so like it. I was in like an area where it was like three inches of water which was just enough for the balls to like hit the. So I sat down and like my balls, just like I dipped my balls in it, and it was like no, no, no no, this is my balls for testicle cancer.
Speaker 1:Hold on Exactly. I'm like hang on, Let me just. Yeah, they, they were not happy and I lasted about 30 seconds and I'm like I shot out of there like a rocket.
Speaker 3:Grow or not a shower Stop.
Speaker 1:Literally. Please just believe me, just say, validate me. But uh, we did. I was kind of interesting because we did all three levels. So there's like jacuzzi, basically jacuzzi tubs that you can rent at a lot of the hotels that are private, that are, you know, just basically a small hot tub, and then most of the hotels in the city have their own onsen that are just for hotel guests, and so it's usually smaller. It's it's almost kind of like a bigger hot tub with a right, with kind of night it's a nicer sauna type environment. And then there are public ones, and the public one we went to was actually built out of like this side of a hill, so there was a lot of rocks you could actually walk up to. Like they built like a couple, a couple smaller pools up above in the rocks, which was pretty cool.
Speaker 1:All like the it's segregated, so the women go off to the right or the left or whatever, and the men go the opposite. So you're not like I'm trans as often. Well, I guess there's a few of them that are still segregated or not, that are unsegregated, and they encourage the women to wear uh like small swimsuits or bikinis, uh at those, but that's still completely optional for them. But not the men. Not the men. Nope. For men it's you, for men it's you know, men it's like there's no, and also like tattoos are also like a big deal, like they don't like tattoos. And so when we walked in they said do you guys both do either of you have tattoos? And we're like no, and they're like okay, good, because they don't, I bought one. If a bunch of people show up and they have tattoos, I guess there's a possibility they won't let them in, or all of them.
Speaker 2:Yeah, when I was looking ahead of time on some of that stuff, they all have like two inch by two inch patches. So if you have a small tattoo, you can cover it up with that. Because I was looking at mine, because I I basically have a couple of one and a half inch, uh by one and a half inch, tattoos on my arms and I was like, well, if I did do it, I'd have to find one of the ones that allow the patching yeah, yeah, or I mean again, if you're by yourself, you're not with it, I think.
Speaker 1:I think it's a bunch where they just didn't want again. It's like when you go into a like in la, there's a bunch of places where you can't wear blue or you can't wear red, right, like that type of thing. Like they just don't want a bunch of people with you know certain types of tattoos to show up at the same time because that could be intimidating to everybody else, type of thing, you know, um so my darth vader back piece just doesn't fly.
Speaker 1:Then I mean it would, if it would as long as you're not with Lou, because then you both got Star.
Speaker 2:Wars. You're a gang at that point.
Speaker 1:And then we went down and picked up the badges that afternoon, on that day or picked up the badges that I could pick up, yeah, it was, you know ran into some 501st guys on the bus and was like, ah good, glad to see that even internationally you're still a bunch of d-bags. But, um, uh, yeah. Then we picked up the badges and then the stuff that happened next week or stuff we'll talk about next week, all happened. And then, uh, then monday, you guys, lou, had left sunday night to go to osaka and then you guys had went to uh hello kitty, hello kitty world sanrio poro land
Speaker 1:uh, and then I just hung out and then went and met up with travis in the afternoon we did some stuff that won't be talked about on the pod, and then we met up with Lou and took Lou to a Chinese restaurant that we had found, because, again, the places we'd gone to that was the thing.
Speaker 1:Either we got reservation or the times on Google Maps were always wrong. I think only once or twice did we find a place that we went to that was actually open. When Google Maps said it was open, it was like our first, like middle of the day, we were in Hanukkah and we're like this place looks really good. It has like pork ramen, blah, blah, blah. It's like 4.7 stars in the town. So we walk all the way up there, which is probably three quarters of a mile up the main road. We walk up there middle of the day, closed windows are dark, shades are drawn and we're like really the fuck, come on. That happens so many times to places that we try to go to because they don't update their hours on their website. They don't update their hours on their website.
Speaker 1:They don't update the hours on google maps, it's just um. And then we met up with lou. Lou met up. Well, lou met up with us. Uh, we ate chinese food and went back to travis's bar and hung out.
Speaker 2:So lou got to have that experience, which is pretty cool they were quite polite and picked the spot where I was, like after my, after my bullet train. I had one train stop to to make and I was not even five minutes around the corner from them.
Speaker 1:They picked a spot that was nearby, so yep, I said nope, let's, let's meet somewhere, let's get somewhere where lou doesn't have to take three trains and walk for 45 minutes, and so, thankfully, where we were in tokyo, that that was pretty easily done. So the following day, uh, you guys, I think had left to go to uh, bueno, and the interstate, yeah, and then the intersection. Right, you guys went to the busy intersection. We did you know, and that was wednesday I think right, what did you guys do on tuesday then was?
Speaker 2:it just.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was a one day thing dude and we still could have spent another day, day and a half there.
Speaker 1:Honestly, yeah, yeah, yeah that shit was cray, um, and then uh packed up my bag. I didn't I didn't go with you guys to wano because I'd already been there, but uh hung out at the hotel, packed up up my bags, went and took the hour-long train ride, which was fine. Again, it was one train. I took, the one train that we always had to take from the hotel to that main station, narita.
Speaker 3:Nishifunabashi.
Speaker 2:Nishifunabashi, nishifunabashi and then hopped on a Next cat's name. Yeah, yep.
Speaker 1:And then hopped on one train that took me from that spot all the way to the airport. It changed names like three times, but it was just like stay on the train, stay on the train. I'm like, okay, I'm here, I'm not moving. Um, uh. Then I had like a five hour layover in my. My flight left at eight 30. Uh, I had a five hour layover in Honolulu. We had a cargo bay door thing that delayed us for an hour and a half, so I didn't even get back into portland until 11 30. But it was the same day, which was really weird that it was only three hours after. Right, like I left at 8 30, landed at 11 30 on tuesday and I'm like I don't know, I don't like this at all how was your customs experience coming into honolulu?
Speaker 2:I have I had global.
Speaker 1:So it was cake. Like the problem is that they I like we were in, like I felt like it was like a haunted house, like we were in some part of the airport that hadn't been opened in like 30 years. Like we were at like the end. Like there weren't even gates. Like we got off the plane and had to walk like it was probably 20 minutes through, like where all the doors had been shut and locked, none of the gate. They. There was like places where there were gate signs at some point, but they'd all been like stripped, like the the stickers had been stripped off of them and the only thing we were going off of where these, these, uh, arrows that were taped to like various walls and stuff saying customs, and then an arrow and I was like like where in the fuck are we? Like it was like the part of the airport right, you're flying home from tokyo.
Speaker 3:I want to play a game.
Speaker 1:But but it was no, seriously like there was. We were walking and walking and there were no, it was the carpet was old and the it was still all dark like 70s brown paint everywhere, like it was some part of the. It was some part of the airport that like hadn't been renovated at all, like since the airport was set up. It felt like uh, but as far as like the actual rest of the customs thing was, it's like my. The biggest thing that pissed me off about customs is all the idiots who were like oh, I signed up for global. And then they're like did you scan? There was for global. You basically have you walk up to this machine and it scans your face and basically says you're good to go. You go to like up to a girl or a guy or a window. You give them your passport. They scan your passport, do you have anything to declare? No, and then you're on your passport. They scan your passport, do you have anything to declare? No, and then you're on your way like there's no interview, there's no, nothing, it is, it is cake. Strongly suggest for anybody who has the ability to do that through a credit card or whatever to just sign up for it, because global also gets you tsa pre, which means you're not waiting in the line with all the pours every time you go to the airport. In in uos, um, you don't have to, you don't have to take your shoes off, like you don't got to take your fucking laptop out of your bag.
Speaker 1:Every time it's yeah, um, so, yeah, so like the four people in front of me were like oh, I signed up. And they're like did you do the interview? And they're like uh, no, what interview? And I'm just like motherfucker, like read the fucking emails that they send you like, come on, like I. That's one thing I don't understand is I feel like every time I go to the airport I'm literally the only one that's ever been to an airport before, because nobody else seems to know anything. You walk up the. They tell you there's. They make fucking announcements please bring your passport and boarding pass up to the window when you're get on the plane and people be like walk up with their boarding pass and they're like sir, where's your passport? Oh, hang on, hang on, I got to get it. It's in the bottom of my bag. And you're like fuck it, god damn it, just listen to what they're fucking telling you.
Speaker 1:Well, it's just so infuriating because they're fucking telling you what they want. Like, I just don't like.
Speaker 2:Yeah, we were looking for it. I can tell you right now, when we're coming back, we're like because at one point they just wanted our boarding pass. At one point they just wanted our passport. So we were coming back, we were listening to see what they wanted and we heard the announcement that said they want passport and boarding pass.
Speaker 1:So we turned around and told whoever else hey guys, they want both this time and we were good to go, yeah, but just like I don't, like it's not hard, yeah, just have For better tourists than everybody else, just have both of them out and when you walk up they'll tell you what they want, even if you're not listening before. But so many people would be like, oh, hang on, let me unlock my phone, let me. And I'm like motherfucker, have you never flown on a plane before?
Speaker 3:come on fuck, now look for celebration.
Speaker 2:A lot of these people did not that is true, I mean, I believe I mean we'll get to it next week, jack, but I believe you said 70 first timers man.
Speaker 1:Well, yeah, and that was I, if that was my first time going to a celebration, sorry. So next week we'll talk about that. We'll have our bullet list, bullet point lists of complaints that we've that we're gonna.
Speaker 2:That's your teeth for next week, people.
Speaker 1:Yeah uh, so, yeah. So then that was my trip. I landed 11 30 on tuesday night and I'm still suffering with, uh, the jet lag. Uh, back to work on wednesday, and yeah, so, okay.
Speaker 2:So then any, any particular thing. I mean, celebration notwithstanding, any particular thing stand out for you, and I'm gonna guess it's gonna be the onsen, because you bought a damn robe.
Speaker 1:I did buy a damn robe. No, the robe was super comfortable. I'm very. I will wear that on a podcast. It would be, it's so.
Speaker 3:I know it's to that form. Yeah, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Express an oil. Would you like to express oil?
Speaker 2:Express oil.
Speaker 3:Allegedly.
Speaker 2:What do you mean, duke? I'm not following, neither did I.
Speaker 1:Neither did I. That was the problem. I'm like uh, uh.
Speaker 3:Um, what's the highlight here? No, I mean there was, there was a few things um no, I think it was the highlight of your. No, I mean, I mean there was there was.
Speaker 1:I mean, there was a few things like the food was all. I mean, there wasn't any bad food. I never had even the food that was like mediocre, like where it was just like ramen where maybe they could have done some. But yeah, even like the ramen where you're like I probably would have done some more to this, I didn't hate it. There's times when I eat food here that I'm like this is fucking disgusting. Do you even know what you're doing?
Speaker 2:But there I did not have one meal where I was like, no, I'm good. Well, when half the noodles are from Lawson.
Speaker 1:that makes it easy. They do have five types of chicken nuggets and we tried them all. We did try them all. Also, all the prices of everything. Amazing, the price of the food.
Speaker 3:We checked our bags, right, because we had to check out a Disney at 11, right? So we're like let's go to the airport, we'll check our bag, we'll put them in the locker or something, right, they didn't have lockers. For what do we have like seven, eight? Nine, nine bags so we they have like kiosks. So the one dude was full. He sent us somewhere else and we're like fuck, it doesn't even matter what it costs, right, because we got, we want to go do shit, so lose up their handling. He's like dude.
Speaker 2:That was like 50 bucks yeah, it was 700 yen per bag for for like nine bags, so basically five bucks a bag, and was like done, yeah, easy it was. It was more expensive because after, after we were done with that and we were roaming around, we did see some lockers. The lockers were just about 600 yen or whatever, it was for one and it was like wait, five bucks a bag. When he said I was expecting I don't know 1,500 yen or something, you know 10 bucks or whatever, he said 700 yen per bag.
Speaker 1:I'm like we got nine here's 50,000 yen. It was so, so easy. What else did I like about japan? Uh, the fact that there's no tipping, I think, is amazing. Like the, the, the receipt shows up and that's what you fucking pay.
Speaker 3:There's no like you trying to figure out how good the person did, or anything like that I will tell you that did make me uncomfortable a couple of times At our first hotel when we were looking into luggage forwarding. To send our shit to Disney the way their forms were she had to fill out one for each of our bags. Originally I'm like we need to give her like 20 bucks or something, dude, yeah. And then Homeboy drove our bus from Disney to the airport. He loaded the bus, he unloaded. Like we have a five to give him.
Speaker 2:this is weird yeah, it was, I'm gonna drop it. After all that we land, we're chilling in la for three hours for a delay and I go to carl's junior and there's the automatic. You know how much you want to tip me for.
Speaker 1:I was like get the hell out of here with that yep, when I was in honolulu, I went to a restaurant because I had a five-hour layover. I'm like, well, I should get, I should get a meal right. Uh, the food on the airplane wasn't bad, I will say that, but it also wasn't a lot like it was.
Speaker 1:It was small, like very small portions, yeah, um, and so I went and I got like, uh, steak, uh, steak frites, the steak and fries. And I got a drink. Uh, at the end of that it was 50. And then the receipt comes and it's like, oh, how much would you like to tip? And I like look at the people next to me and I'm like motherfucker. And they're like what? And I go, I haven't paid a tip in over two weeks where they wouldn't even take a tip, like they would push it back at me. And now I'm sitting here, I'm like I'm in a fucking airport and I just spent more money.
Speaker 1:Fifty dollars would have paid for like two days worth of food in japan everything at lawson's dude more than two days you know like I could yeah, I could have bought every. I could have been like houses on me and it would have been fifty dollars. You know, like I think we?
Speaker 2:I don't think we spent 50.
Speaker 1:I don't think we spent $50 on that night. We went to seven 11 and had the three fucking giant bags of food that we took back to the hotel.
Speaker 2:I mean it's. It was one of those things where our like, like we talked about earlier. When Duke showed up, we would check into the hotel that first night. And then Duke met me an hour later. We went to Lawson right there, connected to the hotel, and there was a guy in front of us who tried to tip the cashier. I guess he helped him. We weren't paying attention, but he helped the guy with something and the guy tried to give him a small tip and the guy was just backing, was like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He was very the whole thing, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. He was very the whole thing, no, no. And it was like wow, that's so legit, because you see videos of that stuff. And and this person was like not having it.
Speaker 1:So he was like back against the wall, like I did.
Speaker 2:He backed up, he was robbing away from the way, from the counter it was literally back away from the counter to get away from this guy.
Speaker 3:You feel sorry for his mama, or something.
Speaker 1:He was reverse robbing him. I'm trying to put money in your register. No, get out of here.
Speaker 2:Right, it was like and again, that was my first experience because it was airport, you know you take the shuttle to the hotel. I went in and unpacked a few things. Duke told me he was there. We went downstairs my first actual, real interaction at the at the convenience store and dude, right, there we go, buy our stuff, we're in line and damn, that happens again and their cashier is like no, no, no, no, no, no no no it's wild how every single 7-eleven, 7-eleven of adjacent store which is Family Mart and Lawson, Family Mart, Lawson and 7-Eleven, I think, are the big three convenience.
Speaker 2:Fuck Family Mart though F-Family Mart, though Lawson's. What's up Wait?
Speaker 3:No, that's how they do, like seven. I learned that you have seven.
Speaker 2:That's a good point.
Speaker 1:They would do five, then put six seven they would do it this way but, but the fact, but the fact that all of them, like you, would walk into just a random one in the middle of nowhere and they would have a giant hot case full of fucking chicken and like skewers and they had hot drinks.
Speaker 3:My wife gonna get like a hot chai every night before bed when she figured that out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you see the hot plate of drinks.
Speaker 1:I will say the Himeji castle was pretty stunning. Like they had done a very good job and the fact that they hadn't rebuilt a lot of it.
Speaker 1:It's the one castle that had not been completely rebuilt in Japan. It's been around since the 1500s. They did a very good job of setting all that up. That was like 25,000 steps that day. It was a lot. Also, being there when the cherry blossoms were in bloom, I got some fucking amazing pictures of the property with the trees all yellow and pinked out yeah, pinked out. So I mean I'm very happy I did the trip. Overall. There were highlights. You know, even like Hiroshima was pretty. You know I shared that with you guys at the podcast a couple weeks ago but even Hiroshima was pretty moving, like there was a lot of memorable stuff that happened. So I'm glad that I did it.
Speaker 2:Hell yeah man. Hiroshima was the bomb.
Speaker 1:You already used that in the text chat Lou.
Speaker 3:Not here, though. He's sending out worldwide.
Speaker 2:Too soon, lou, too soon. You had a very explosive time. It was awesome. We're gonna get shadow banned. It'll give me a lot of fallout from those jokes, lou.
Speaker 3:We're going to get shadow banned.
Speaker 1:We're going to be a lot of fallout from those jokes, lou, like we're not already shadow banned, lou Come on, but you haven't already gotten a shadow ban somehow.
Speaker 2:Oh man, You're the one with the cock out in front of a bunch of other strangers.
Speaker 1:That sounds like jealousy to me.
Speaker 2:That's beside the point.
Speaker 3:This is Lou, right now Green as fuck.
Speaker 1:Yep Lou, I want to do that.
Speaker 2:I want to be able to do that and not get arrested for indecent exposure.
Speaker 1:It was one time. Be able to do that and not get arrested for indecent exposure, uh. So yeah, I mean, overall, I think the experience was was pretty amazing, even getting sick in the middle of it and stuff like that and being able to kind of power through. Um, yeah, I mean the star wars stuff, to be honest, was not. I mean it's not, it's on the list but it's not. I don't even know if it's in my top five. Like to be honest with you as far as, like, stuff that happened while we were there. So, yeah, all right. So then you guys showed up Thursday. We did Disney. I ended up going my way. You guys were there for like another week.
Speaker 3:So what week? Uh? So what? Uh? What happened after our after, well, from your perspective, your trip. So, monday, the girls and I got up, we took a. It was like a two-hour train ride or something.
Speaker 3:One or two switches I don't this was after, this was after so yes yes, this is monday after celebration who had already left on his creepy night bus and to go to Osaka. So we took a two hour trip down to um Sanrio Pearl land, which is a Hello Kitty theme park. It was in this big shopping mall. There's a hospital there and if your children are born there, they'll give you a Hello Kitty themed birth certificate. Fyi.
Speaker 1:Real quick Cause I'm looking at the receipt right now is uh, uh, this motherfucker went up in the fucking Skytree. What's?
Speaker 2:up, yeah, and was 80 feet away from the window Shut up.
Speaker 1:I was still up there. God damn it, that's all that matters.
Speaker 3:He was like cool, I'm going back down.
Speaker 1:Yeah, no, the last Second to last night. So Sunday night we went to the Skytree, which is like the tallest Thing in Japan or in Tokyo, and so you go up at elevator 3.
Speaker 3:Well, since I left, yeah, since you left.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and again, that's only when you're growing Right, just gotta jump in real quick. But 350 feet is the one elevator. Then you take a second elevator to go up to 450 feet. That was. That was definitely an experience. There was a tell me it was a glass elevator, no outside, so no. So here's the funny part. So the first elevator they're like you're fine, because it's all enclosed. They have like video monitors that are showing things like what it looks like outside and stuff, but it's all. So you get up to the first 350 foot platform and they're like okay, let's go to the 450, which you actually had to pay more for. Like there was two layers, like you could pay to just go up to the 350, but then you had to pay like a combo price to go up all the way so.
Speaker 1:So I'm at the front of the elevator, by the doors, as we're going up to the 450. And all of a sudden, like we hit this window where I am just looking like, looking down, and I'm like you motherfuckers, and of course my group was like oh sorry, sorry, we forgot that that that part of the elevator was was glass, and I'm just like I fucking hate all of you so much right now. I didn't even know, I've never been here, I don't care, I still fucking hate you. Little kids were crying because I was just like fuck off, like um, but I mean it was pretty like. So the weirdest part about that is you get to the 450 level.
Speaker 1:There's an anime that's super popular right now called Detective Conan, which I believe is a guy.
Speaker 1:It's a detective who gets put in like a little boy's body and then he has to try to figure out how to reverse the spell, which he can't do, and so he ends up just being it's Quantum Leap, yeah, basically. And so you get to the 450 level and there's guys walking around with signs saying no pictures, no video, stuff like that. I'm like what the hell is going on? They have all these TVs that are on like they're at the top of the floor and they all start showing like this exclusive footage or something of maybe the next season or whatever of this detective. And I'm like that is so surreal that you're like 450 meters in the air and like they're doing like some sort of weird promotional thing with this anime, where, like they're like, don't look outside, watch the videos. Like it was just they had like standees set up that you could get pictures with and stuff. It was just very weird, because here you wouldn't go up in the Empire State Building and expect to see an alien Earth marketing.
Speaker 2:Thing.
Speaker 1:You're going to go up there and look at the skyline. So to go there, and yeah, sorry, I just saw the ticket, so I I forgot to share that when lou was asking what my favorite part was not my favorite part, but it was still a pretty cool. I mean, it was still. You know, it was still pretty cool to like, even from 80 feet in the elevator peeking out through the doors. Um, it was still pretty cool to be able to see like all of tokyo. Like that was kind of like that was kind of a trip. Um, so yeah, so jack, you went to sanrio land.
Speaker 3:Yes, um, so it's a hello kitty theme park. I think they were trying to compete with disney at one point when they opened it. Um, there's only like three rides. I think the best way to describe it is probably one of those casinos in Prim where they Buffalo Bills probably, where they have an amusement, or Circus Circus. There's this big play area, but you're like, if I go around the corner there's going to be slot machines. I know it.
Speaker 1:There weren't though that would have been hilarious. Yeah, pachinko and uh slots um, but it was cool.
Speaker 3:The first thing we did was, uh, the most popular thing there, it's a boat ride. I have no fucking idea what the story is. There's this, uh, bunny dude that's pretty cool, named cinema roll. He's like making cinnamon rolls and shit, and then like he gets an invitation to like hello kitty's coronation or something. So then the boat ride takes you through all these, all the hello kitty's friends as they're getting their invitation to the coronation, and it ends at hello kitty's coronation. I guess she's a princess or some shit. I don't know, I don't speak the language. And the second ride was like a car ride. You rent a car from the Hello Kitty with the black hat, karami, karami. I have no idea what happened with that one. I asked my big one, like dude, what happened. It was like Hello Kitty dude's popping out. They're saying some shit. Another one pops out. You're like all right, cool. I guess I'm glad that, uh, these aren't ticketed rides, because I have no fucking idea what's going on um, they give you a quiz at the end, so right like you can buy souvenirs if you can explain what happened like I'm leaving it up to you thank you souvenir shop is
Speaker 1:completely full because, nobody understands. Even people who understand the language are like what the fuck is going on here?
Speaker 3:The third ride they had was Cinema Roll Again, and he built this plane that shrunk and then you're flying around. So it's kind of like Star Tours, honey, I Shrunk the Kids and fucking Buzz Lightyear Astro Blasters all rolled into one. So you're flying around. So it's kind of like star tours, honey. I shrunk the kids and fucking buzz light, your astro blasters all rolled into one. So you're sitting in this seat. It's a motion seat, it's moving around. You got this light, this magic wand thing. It's like shooting at shit and then again you end up at a fucking party and everybody's happy. I don't know what happened how long was the wait?
Speaker 3:for these rides. Um, so when we first came in, the first thing we did was, uh, the boat ride right, it was like 40 minutes. That shit got up to like two hours at one point. Wow, yeah, wow is right, yeah. Um, there's a lot of kids there. Um, in the middle there's a big tree where they do all their live shows, like this girl out there dancing and shit. I don't know, it's fun to watch. I guess I don't know if there's a hamster out there and a fucking rabbit and like. I guess we had to cheer and clap and dance so she could power her wand up, so everybody could go back home, probably to another fucking party.
Speaker 1:Um, jack, you should have been, you should have, you should have been on something when you were there, because that would have been amazing but I mean they open at 9, 9, 30, close at 5.
Speaker 3:We were there from open till about 3, 30, 4 o'clock. I mean there was enough to do that also. We ate there as a buffet. I had fucking Hello Kitty bao buns that had Hello Kitty's face on them. There were these potato cakes that had Hello Kitty's face on it. They had curry and desserts.
Speaker 1:It was amazing. And that was included or was that?
Speaker 3:No, you had to pay separate. But again, japanese price, it was like a thousand yen or some shit.
Speaker 2:Except you were in Japan, so it didn't cost you anything, yeah exactly.
Speaker 3:It was the first place I we've been to that you just keep getting refills on drinks. Finally, hydrate, because at first I was a little adverse to just getting water out of the vending machines that are everywhere. I'm like what I have to pay for water everywhere because there's no free water anywhere in japan. Yeah, luckily it's all cheap and it's all at all. The vending machines, every dark alley you go down you're not going to get raped because Homeboy probably just wants to get a Picari Sweat out of the fucking vending machine.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah, oh, that was the thing. So the first night I bought Lou a Picari Sweat and he's like is this Gatorade? I go, nah, it's not like Gatorade. He goes it looks kind of like Gatorade. I'm like no, it's not Gatorade. He's like I hate Gatorade, I'm probably not gonna like this. And I'm like I think you'll like it because it's good. And then he's like oh shit, oh shit, this is really good it was.
Speaker 2:I love myself so much it was sweet water, uh, and then I think I got jacked. I think I got jacked trying it.
Speaker 3:A couple things I kept seeing, kept seeing it, I'm like that's actually good, Like what is it? And Lou's like no, it's good, it's like a lemon sweet kind of water. I'm like, fine, I'll try it. I'm like, oh, that shit's legit.
Speaker 1:And then you read the little paragraph that describes what it is, and it was like scraped from the bodies of beautiful people's skin.
Speaker 2:And then it mixed with it.
Speaker 1:You're like what are?
Speaker 3:we what's going on right now Don't know don't care, it's yummy.
Speaker 2:I think every time I went to Lawson and I didn't have a bottle, I bought a bottle.
Speaker 1:It was like I had it on me at all times. There was always a bottle in the fridge, Yep it.
Speaker 2:Sure the hell was Hell. I even left a half bottle in the disney hotel because I forgot it was there, yeah, but yeah, I had it almost every time. Matter of fact, even even today. We went to uh here in vegas and I picked up a bottle. I went back to the cool arm blue. They got it. They got carter's foot back here.
Speaker 3:I went back to the cool arm, Lou Lou, they got it. They got the car. You split back here.
Speaker 2:Sure did. And I was like, oh OK, anon Shalani just walked around the corner, grabbed it and went back to the candy aisle and ran back to the candy aisle.
Speaker 3:Can I get a case of this when?
Speaker 2:do you?
Speaker 3:guys keep it. But yeah, souvenirs were bought at Hello Kitty Land. Obviously, if you know my children and my wife even she got a lot too After Celebration. I was pretty much done buying shit. I did not buy much after Celebration. Yeah, there was a lot of stuff.
Speaker 2:I don't think I did either.
Speaker 3:actually, I was just very satisfied with what I bought at Celebration. I you know Wait wait, wait, donkey.
Speaker 2:Okay, we'll get to that. I didn't buy much, I'm like wait a minute, wait a minute, don't forget about Donkey.
Speaker 3:So again, the theme park was like in a strip mall kind of thing. So they had a Taito Arcade Taito like the video game company, right. So I'm like, well, let's go check it out, right, and that was the first time we had seen like a bunch of, uh, gotcha machines. My little one, just that's all she wanted to do the whole time we were there. So we stayed down there. We got a couple, I got a, I found the star wars one, so I got a vader out of one of them, um, but I didn't have a lot of cash change on me that it wanted to change at that point. So we we didn't get too much. And then we took the train back.
Speaker 1:I only found one Star Wars gacha the entire time and I looked at a hundred gacha machines. I was looking at every single bank that we walked by. What airport did you fly out of to go home? I was going to say an airport.
Speaker 3:Bruh. Fifth floor floor departing, they have a whole store. It was just all gotchas. We spent like an hour in there because I was like cool, I got cash, let's get rid of it.
Speaker 1:So you I thought you guys flew out of narita, so did you fly?
Speaker 3:out into narita out of finna.
Speaker 1:So we got to see buzz I I didn't have by the time I got there and I had to walk out to my. So first the first announcement was like oh, you're going to be at gate 22. And I'm like, oh, that's right here. And then my phone buzzes and it's like oh, gate changed 143. And so I had to walk. It was literally the last fucking gate at the airport because I'm walking and I'm fucking walking. And then the stores. When you get to the point where the stores are closed because nobody's fucking out there, and I'm like come on, what did I do wrong to end up at the end of every single fucking airport? I have my IC card. Where is the train at? Yeah, exactly. So I didn't have time to like go through the airport and go and do those things because I was just like I had to walk did you use up your ic balance or cash?
Speaker 1:I think I have 200 yen on it. So we did well. We did well. What about cash? No, I didn't have any cash. I gave you guys all the cash.
Speaker 2:You gave me, like your last, 3 or 4 thousand yen. I don't remember that much.
Speaker 1:And then you guys got the money for the hotel, so I paid you guys back for that. So Sorry, jack.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so we went back. After that Shit. That was Monday.
Speaker 2:I didn't know what we did for dinner. I remember you texting at like 5.45 and said you were on the train back.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think we just went back after that?
Speaker 1:I don't I thought you said 7-Eleven dinner or Lawson's or something because you were done while we were at the bar, I think.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then Tuesday was when we went to Lou would come back by then. That was Ueno, yeah. So then we went to Ueno Park. It was only an hour train ride, which wasn't bad Everything's about an hour train ride from where we were, honestly, so that was kind of cool. It was like a big ass park. They had the biggest koi pond I've ever seen in my life. Fish were everywhere we went to. There was a little shrine in there, so we went in there, checked that out.
Speaker 1:At the end of the food.
Speaker 2:Took your shoes off.
Speaker 1:There was the yeah.
Speaker 2:Well, I didn't step up there?
Speaker 1:Was that the one that was like at the end of, like the food carts, like you had?
Speaker 2:to go down this giant. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:This giant row of food carts and then you're like, oh, the shrine. Yeah, that's the one. It's a really nice park. I like that park a lot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, we walked around a little bit. One of the friends was walking his monkeys, bro, he had two monkeys on a leash. That happened.
Speaker 1:It was the weirdest thing and you didn't send me any pictures.
Speaker 3:A little one. She's like can I pet the monkey? And he's like nah Monkey, no like people, Yep.
Speaker 2:He did say that. He said it like that too.
Speaker 3:He said monkey no like.
Speaker 1:Bad date? Yeah right, this monkey will fucking poison you.
Speaker 3:So then we went into the natural not yeah Natural History Museum, tokyo National Museum. Yeah, so they had a bunch of like shit they got, yeah, so they had a bunch of like shit. They got from china, like a bunch of buddhist stuff. They had stuff in there that was like 35 000 bc dude, this is probably the oldest thing I've ever laid my eyes on. I mean, it's just like little like tools or some shit, but even the uh, all the carving and stuff of buddha and everything. It was like pretty pretty bc, honestly. Um, then we got up to the samurai exhibit. That was cool as fuck. I don't know why the swords didn't have handles on them, though my, you know what I thought about that.
Speaker 2:My guess is that these were older ones, they dug up and not transferred. Whatever the case may be, it's because the material just deteriorated and only the metal survived.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that was my guess yeah, I think that's a good answer. Good answer, good answer.
Speaker 3:That was cool to see, like actual katanas and stuff.
Speaker 2:The long sword, the katanas, the short swords, all of it.
Speaker 3:Yeah. I was disappointed that the one samurai armor they had was a replica, though I want to see real samurai armor. Yeah, that sucks.
Speaker 1:It was cool looking, but I want to see the real stuff motherfuckers at the check-in booth at the airport were fucking checking in swords like they would check it and they would just put the tag on it like your bag, and then just put it like in a bin that then they would send off to the. I'm like what the fuck? Like put it in a box or something. And they're like, nah, we're just gonna tape, we just tape the handle to. And they're like, nah, we're just going to tape the handle to the scabbard and then we fucking just tag it and put it on its way.
Speaker 2:Well, those replica ones and all that, you can do that. But I looked into actual katanas and that would take weeks to months to properly ship there's paperwork. You have to fill out all the stuff you have to do, Because I was like, huh, I wonder, yeah, it'd be like Fort Rand If you want a Hattori Hanzo sword.
Speaker 1:you don't fuck around and he doesn't just do one for anybody. You've got to have some vengeance on your mind for him to make you a sword these days.
Speaker 3:But yeah we were at that museum until they closed. Yeah, they kicked us out, dude, and that was just one museum.
Speaker 2:And we didn't even finish it.
Speaker 1:We didn't even finish that one museum. Because the motherfucker in the middle has got to read every sign.
Speaker 3:No, my oldest one was like that too. At one point she just ditched us and did her own thing because she just wanted to take her time and read everything. She's like no bye guys, and you know what. Strangely enough, in Japan I didn't feel bad about that, like if I lost sight of the girls I was like meh, it felt very safe there. Like even when we were walking around like the dark alleys at night and shit looking for food, I was like I don't feel like I'm going to get raped or anything, yeah.
Speaker 1:I mean Maybe mobbed the.
Speaker 2:The dark alleys that reminded me when Duke was talking about that. I swear. Just roaming around, there were alleys inside of alleys, inside of alleys. It was crazy. It's a damn maze. You walk down an alley and you turn left. There's another alley, there's more shops down here, more restaurants down here. Okay, let me get back to where I came from. Oh, I made a wrong turn. And then another alley with more shops and alcohol and it's like what the hell? After a while, especially that sunday night when I was in shinjuku, I was like let me just pull out my mat because I don't know where the hell I'm going.
Speaker 3:I made a wrong turn in one alley now.
Speaker 2:Okay, now I'm back to the touristy section I'm good.
Speaker 1:Oh, and the cigar bar. The cigar bar was also really nice.
Speaker 2:Oh, oh yeah that was their second night. That was the first stop before the cafe that he knew, the bar that he knew.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sorry, please go on, jack. So you spent the day at Ueno and the natural museum, the National Museum of Japan.
Speaker 3:And then shit. What did we do After that, lou?
Speaker 1:That would take you up to Wednesday.
Speaker 2:No, no, no, I'm trying to finish. What did we do after Tokyo Museum?
Speaker 3:Oh, that's where we went to the anime district.
Speaker 2:Oh, akihabara. Yes, that's right, we went from Tokyo Museum to Akihabara. Yes, that was kind of cool.
Speaker 3:And there was a donkey there that we went to. Yes, we went to our first Don Quixote there. It was pretty cool. That song is catchy as hell. It's a tourist trap, though. I mean they sell junk. Honestly, it's a glorified dollar store people. Yeah, I'm not saying don't go there. If you go to Japan, go for sure. Yeah.
Speaker 2:Go to Shibuya, go to the mega Don Quixote 100%.
Speaker 1:You guys didn't take me to the Don.
Speaker 3:Quixote, you left, didn't you go to Shibuya?
Speaker 1:I didn't go to a Don Quixote though. Oh man, they have the biggest one in all of Tokyo, though it's the Mega one bro on you.
Speaker 2:He took you to Subonia and didn't take you to Mega Donkey.
Speaker 1:He took me to the oil shop.
Speaker 2:That he did.
Speaker 1:You got an oil change instead, I got a 42-point inspection and none of those 42 points were my feet, which is what I really wanted.
Speaker 3:And a 43-point inspection man. But no, I mean it's cool, it's excessive. I think a lot of stuff in Tokyo probably Japan in general Is excessive Because they like the big showy kind of. But they do have an adult section. Lou and I went in there. I don't think we were old enough to be in there.
Speaker 2:Correct I'm almost 50 and I don't think I was old enough to see the stuff they had they had these statues.
Speaker 3:These girls were covered in cum. I'm like why would you do the statue of that?
Speaker 2:but yeah, so many. What is it replica body parts that you could use? I had never seen that many in one spot, and I lived in vegas for 15 years, so but weirdly there were no like, uh like, hentai films or anything.
Speaker 3:There were no videos. It was weird that is a good point.
Speaker 2:Not much on the videos. It was just stuff like like oils. Yeah, I was expecting a whole section of just adult anime and I was like I might have bought something that they did, but I didn't see nothing.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you're like how am I gonna fit this uh, this anatomically correct pair of ass and vagina, in my baggage, right? I was not expecting to want to buy this yep um yes this cake wanders.
Speaker 3:I think there's another sanrio store down there that we went to. Oh yeah, oh, it was that that day.
Speaker 2:pretty sure it was, I think you're right. I think it was that night, because I was like, oh, there's the there, the Sanrio Market, whatever it was called. Yeah, yeah, that's right, because they were going to close like 30 minutes later. Yeah yeah, it was that little dinky store.
Speaker 3:I just waited outside, because that's where wife found her nice bag. Yes, yeah, she got her little Hello Kitty side purse for a co-worker who's really into san, into karami. They had a ueno specific keychain that you can only get at that store, so I grabbed it for her. Um shit, I think that was another washington's dinner night, or was that the night we went to the sit-down place with where we had to order from the table?
Speaker 2:I feel that, no, that was the next night.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was shibuya I thought yeah, no, that was the next night. Yeah, that was Shibuya. I thought.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think that was just another. Where was?
Speaker 3:that KFC.
Speaker 1:The buffet. Yeah, no, you had KFC when I was there. So that wasn't. Yeah, we had KFC when he was still there Monday night, I think, maybe.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, yeah, I think that was another.
Speaker 1:Watson's Day.
Speaker 2:Was Sunday. Was that Sunday night when you had KFC? That might have been Tuesday after that, I don't know. You were there. You're right, you were there, wasn't he?
Speaker 3:Yeah, because I remember you guys talking about it Saturday.
Speaker 1:I think it was Saturday Because you left Sunday, Because I remember Wifey being disappointed in the KFC. If I remember correctly, like it wasn't, did not live up to expectations.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:It was.
Speaker 2:Saturday. You correctly, like it wasn't, did not live up to expectations. Yeah, it was saturday, you're right. Yeah, because we left kind of early from the con.
Speaker 3:Um.
Speaker 2:So yeah, I think it was just a little lawson's dinner that night yeah, because I think, because you guys hadn't been there yet, I'm like trust, just come with me, you gotta check out this lawson's uh lawson and you guys went after or something yeah, yeah, it's kind of the bomb, wasn't it?
Speaker 1:come on, it was, yeah, way better than seven, way better than seven.
Speaker 2:I'm like I could have a tuna mayo on a giri right now and it's not available.
Speaker 1:That's a max, and it's a macaroni salad. Oh, that macaroni salad was so good.
Speaker 2:Anything with the mayo, I was all over.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so then Wednesday was Shibuya. It was a little rainy that day so it kind of sucked a little bit. Yeah, that misty Did some good shopping though Went to Ikea, got some meatballs.
Speaker 2:And your bag.
Speaker 3:I've got my exclusive purple and grey bag and some Exclusive Ziploc bags. They had exclusive Shibuya I exclusive Ziploc bags. They had exclusive Shibuya Ikea Ziploc bags, which was weird.
Speaker 2:Sure did. Then we found we were on our way to one place, ended up finding the Disney store on accident, and that was when. Jack goes oh, I didn't do much shopping after celebration. I'm like did you forget about Shibuya? It wasn't me. Did you forget about Donkey?
Speaker 3:That is fair. It was not you, it was not me. Yeah, no, they didn't have any Star Wars stuff, so I wasn't tripping on it too much.
Speaker 1:Oh, the night we went to Skytree we were walking, there was a giant mall attached to it. There was a place called 212 kitchen stuff, I think is what the name of it was. They had a whole star wars section that was all exclusives. I picked up a bunch of key chains and magnets and stuff. Oh, that's cool actually, kind of they're actually kind of high quality stuff.
Speaker 1:I was, I got a little reusable bag that has an x-wing on it and stuff. They had a bunch of aprons and like little dishes and um and stuff like that. I should have picked up uh, some uh chopstick holders for you guys, because I know you're all about that life now. Um, but I do have a friend. I do have a friend who still lives there, so if we want anything I can message her and be like, hey, can you pick that up?
Speaker 2:uh, so please, yeah, there was a whole, lot of lot of well, a whole, not a lot of star wars there at disney store, disney itself. It was just like we, I think we ran into like like four cups or something. It was not, it was weird, it was yeah like coffee cups or something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah um, but yeah, shippuya is just a huge shopping district. So yeah, disney Store, ikea, the Mega Donkey Odie Cool, people call it Donkey, so if you hear her say Donkey, that's what it is. Cat Cafe Yep. So the girls wanted to do a Cat Cafe, so we spent about half an hour up there. It was kind of cool. You could put 100 yen in a gumball machine and you get some treats to feed them. Those cats are all super chill too, like you could go pet them. They didn't want you picking them up and squeezing them and rubbing them, naming them George, but they had fun. It was a quick half hour though, so I guess that was fun. And then we met Lou over at the Nintendo store, which was crazy.
Speaker 2:The Pokemon store is even crazier. The line was crazy, even if I wanted something. I don't know that I wanted to stand in that line to get something.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, big one was like, hey, they have this plushie, I'm like we can get online just like. Oh no, I just looked it up on my phone, it's not on there. I'm like I I'm not waiting on that line. This store sucks and it was hot and humid in that store specifically.
Speaker 2:Oh, the Pokemon store. Right yeah, the Nintendo store was fine, pokemon store was hot humid and a line that was probably an hour and a half long, yeah, f that noise the Mew at the entrance was pretty badass.
Speaker 3:He was in a big old test tube with his arms crossed. It was pretty cool.
Speaker 2:And then there was the Capcom store across from those two, which was just alright.
Speaker 3:And then it popped up in Minecraft store, yep, and I think that's when we went to go eat.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's when we went to this buffet place where there's like a list of 60, 80 items, whatever it was, we just order and they just bring it to the table.
Speaker 3:Once we figured it out, it was good At first. It was confusing as hell because nobody spoke American.
Speaker 2:A guy came over to our table and explained it to us.
Speaker 3:Our waitress didn't help us out for shit. She's like what'd you order?
Speaker 2:Nothing. She was like not wanting us there at all.
Speaker 2:You have a reservation no, no, we no that reminds me, though, a little bit, because, like every restaurant we've passed, there's always somebody out at the door trying to get you to, because obviously they're yelling whatever they're yelling. In Japanese that we didn't understand, but I'm guessing they were just saying come on in to eat, or whatever. But almost every place that I remember walking by there was always somebody yelling out the door to come eat there. But we were just looking for someplace to eat. Whatever we could find, we could find. And then we saw that list of all this different type of food. It was like oh, variety, and how much. Like 20 bucks a person. Done, done.
Speaker 3:It was pretty good. I mean, it wasn't sushi or anything super great. We were looking for authentic Japanese. It was good. We ate good. The noodles were good, the chicken was good.
Speaker 1:Desserts were good. So it was kind of a bukkakebeppo, where you'd order something and they would bring out a big bowl of it that you would share.
Speaker 2:Yeah, sort of, because some of it was between two and four pieces of something, so you'd have to get multiple orders or something if you wanted, but you could because it was all covered right yes yeah, yeah, it's all.
Speaker 2:So if we wanted, you know oh, this only comes into pieces well, we want eight pieces, so we'll just get four orders of it, and that's how you ordered it too. You put that, whatever that each item had a number, so you wrote the item number down, then dash how many orders of that you wanted. So it pretty straightforward. Once we got the hang of it after that first 10 minutes, it was pretty easy. Then it was a matter of just get what you like at that point.
Speaker 3:It was good, though I liked it.
Speaker 2:I mean now that I get it. It was a restaurant.
Speaker 1:And we're on Wednesday now, right?
Speaker 3:Yeah, that was Wednesday. Was it Wednesday? Was that your transfer?
Speaker 1:boy, uh, was that your transfer day going to disney?
Speaker 3:moving from the hotel no, no, no, we still got to stay there wednesday night no we didn't have to go to disney that night
Speaker 1:that was friends, because tuesday we look, because we luggage forward that morning, or something like that, yeah, that well, that must have been that afternoon, because your luggage was still in the room when I left, so it must have been Tuesday night, wednesday morning, when you did it.
Speaker 2:That's what we're talking about the Shibuya was Wednesday. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So Wednesday morning we did luggage floating, did Shibuya and then went to go to the Disney Hotel. Yeah, Okay.
Speaker 3:Which was a super nice hotel. It was big, it was, it was big it was, it was a good shower, water pressure, big, bigger bathrooms, that's for sure.
Speaker 2:The bath, the toilet, was separate from the sink area was just separate from the closet shower tub area, so they had a water closet yes nice and, honestly, I don't remember seeing one of those, since I was in japan 40 years ago, so that was kind of cool yeah, that was a super nice hotel, and then our luggage got there we'll have to get to that next. It's already an hour 40 in.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it is so so disney and celebration will be next week and yeah, or one of the other yeah we'll see. We'll see how celebration six months from now. We're gonna be like, okay, so next week's gonna be celebration no, next week is celebration because may 4th weekend but, also back into this stuff. Yeah, also pseudo disney, because we need lou's experience in japan yes, yeah yeah, we'll get after next we will.
Speaker 3:We'll do that, like the may, the may 11th week yeah, we'll get into his uh world fair and all that and my cx.
Speaker 2:I had sunday night uh killing time in shinjuku, so we'll get. We'll get to all that uh in a couple weeks, unless we finish. I don't think we're going to finish celebration in one episode, so we might we might, we, might, we'll see again I was anticipating longer the long I mean.
Speaker 1:Again, you guys were there for really two days out of three, like yeah, really, that's you know like really two days out of three.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's fair. Two days were involved. That last day was just last-minute pickup stuff.
Speaker 1:Which you probably could have done on Saturday had you pushed it. But whatever, Probably. But we'll talk about that next week.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:When Lou is at home dealing with his second bout of jet lag oh man, oh me, I don't know.
Speaker 2:I'll have four days to recover. Uh, when I get I leave, I leave back tomorrow, should be okay. I mean, we'll see. We'll see how tonight goes, if I get get to sleep. Uh, get up, head to the airport. Um, yeah, work on tuesday, I will tell you. Getting to sleep, get up, head to the airport.
Speaker 1:Yeah, work on Tuesday. I will tell you. Getting to sleep isn't bad. It's the waking up Like last night. I went to bed at midnight, was feeling tired, was like good, I'll sleep until my alarm goes off at 9. Woke up, was like, ah, all right, well, I'm awake. Look 530. Motherfucker, yeah. Was like. Ah, all right, well, I'm awake, look 5, 30 motherfucker.
Speaker 2:Oh, there was yeah dude, this morning I woke up. Well, I woke up at 4 yeah, 4, 15 wide awake, you're like, uh, yeah, I was up until about 6, 30, I think. Yeah, yeah, but yeah so. But when I woke up again at like I don't know, a couple times 10, 10, 11, whatever I was still tired. I would always sleep another four hours and still be tired, wake up just because I had to pee, which I don't understand how I didn't drink anything.
Speaker 3:Old man bladder.
Speaker 1:For real. All right, boys, have yourselves a good week.
Speaker 3:Lou good luck getting home.
Speaker 1:Glad you guys made it home. Okay, all right.
Speaker 2:Yeah, folks, we'll finish and get you the rest of our journey over the next couple of weeks.
Speaker 3:Yep Stay tuned to be continued Next week, same bat time, same bat channel.
