Vaguely Inconsistent
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Vaguely Inconsistent
We got lost in Disneyland Tokyo and somehow spent an entire day exploring just one third of DisneySea
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Join us for a captivating journey through Tokyo Disney Resort as we explore the magic of both Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea! Fresh from our adventures in Japan, we dive into the unique experiences these parks offer compared to their American counterparts.
The Beauty and the Beast ride alone is worth the international flight—we'll take you through the stunning trackless ride system, jaw-dropping animatronics, and immersive storytelling that made this our unanimous favorite. You'll also discover how "It's a Small World" gets a Marvel makeover in Tokyo, creating a delightful scavenger hunt for familiar characters.
Tokyo DisneySea emerges as the true hidden gem in our discussion. Astonishingly, after spending an entire day exploring this massive park, we realized we'd only experienced about one-third of its offerings! From the Jules Verne-inspired attractions to Ariel's underwater village and the new Fantasy Springs area, this park deserves at least two full days on your itinerary.
We share practical insights about navigating the cultural differences—how the disability accommodation system works, why Japanese Disney fans rush for Duffy merchandise at park opening, and the peculiar challenge of translating the famous Jungle Cruise "backside of water" joke into Japanese. Plus, discover why Tokyo Disney's approach to merchandise restocking throughout the day puts American parks to shame.
Whether you're planning your own Japanese Disney adventure or just curious about how Disney magic translates across cultures, this episode offers a fascinating glimpse into the international Disney experience. Subscribe now and join our conversation about why Tokyo DisneySea might just be the most impressive Disney park on the planet!
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By the way, we are now changing the title of the podcast to the Hater's Ball.
Speaker 3:Vaguely hateful.
Speaker 4:Let your hate flag fly Inconsistent hate.
Speaker 3:Exactly Hatefully inconsistent.
Speaker 1:One week we hate it, the next week we love it.
Speaker 3:Yep boy, yeah all right, that's like me watching. Watching a tv show or movie the second time. Yeah, lewis, shut up, watch it a second time, then come back and talk, yeah I hated that shit next week, oh never.
Speaker 1:I see what you guys were saying.
Speaker 3:I saw it the second time. This is way better. This is great, solo. Oh my god, that is so true.
Speaker 4:Happy birthday Solo, by the way, May 25th.
Speaker 3:Happy birthday, New Hope.
Speaker 1:Happy birthday New Hope. Happy birthday my baby Bronco.
Speaker 2:I bought it a year ago today.
Speaker 1:What's up? Happy birthday, my baby Bronco Yep. I bought it a year ago today.
Speaker 4:What's up Props I have Lou's favorite Star Wars shirt on. Oh my god.
Speaker 3:One time man. I gave it one time I couldn't do it.
Speaker 4:He's fucking good guys, it's even black, and he still couldn't do it.
Speaker 3:No, it was brown. Mine was brown, the one from Celebration. Yeah that's this one. It was brown, mine was brown, the Obi one. Yeah, that came with the pins or whatever. I don't know if it came with the pins or not, but we got it.
Speaker 4:It was.
Speaker 3:It was for the Road to Celebration right.
Speaker 4:Cross hair.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but mine was brown and I wore it once and I never wore it again. No, this is.
Speaker 4:Heroes and Villains, dude, totally black.
Speaker 3:Oh, it was the exclusive. You're right, it was the exclusive.
Speaker 4:There is a brown one, the Book of Boba Fett, one I think.
Speaker 3:That's the one I'm talking about. I did not get the black one from Heroes and Villains.
Speaker 4:You did. There was an Obi-Wan on it.
Speaker 3:No, I didn't. I got the brown one from the Road to Celebration.
Speaker 1:I really hate you in the middle of this argument. What did you buy to get Crosshair?
Speaker 4:then, Do what. What did you buy to get Crosshair then?
Speaker 3:Something else. No, no, no, it wasn't for me. It wasn't for me. I bought it for for old girl, but whatever it was.
Speaker 1:Old girl or old girl 21.
Speaker 3:It was summer 21. We started smashing.
Speaker 1:And then I started buying her shirts I would never wear myself.
Speaker 3:Well, I needed the pin.
Speaker 1:That's how you know it's love.
Speaker 3:They didn't have anything I wanted, uh, at a decent price. I was just trying to minimize the price to get the pin and I and after, and it was no, because it was. It was around the same time of the um, oh my god, the uh, that road to celebration one, but yeah, the road. I remember it, brown, and I think I gave that to her too, because I was like uh-uh and the brown.
Speaker 1:So you gave her the brown and then the brown.
Speaker 3:I gave her the brown, then gave her the brown, sometimes in the brown. You know, that's how it goes.
Speaker 1:I'm just going to start calling you UPS Lou.
Speaker 3:Right, for real. What can I do for you?
Speaker 1:That involves myself, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:But the black one. I definitely did not get that one because I only had to give away one shirt and it was the brown one, and I don't remember what I actually purchased, but I know it wasn't for me. At Heroes and Villains it was something that I actually wanted, like that Sith shirt from back in the day at Comic-Con. That's been my favorite so.
Speaker 3:I still have that one. That one been my favorite, so I still have that one. That one's my favorite in the rotation. But honestly, dude, I actually haven't been back there in a minute to actually pay attention, like last year. I really didn't pay attention to heroes and villains last year, but they have good shit. I just didn't bother and then didn't you get, and then lose, a bucket hat from them.
Speaker 4:I was like you got it, you lost it at disney, was that where it was disney world? Yeah, and then I bought another one to replace it and I can't find it now.
Speaker 3:Oh shit, very weird. I am not meant to have a bad batch hat, what? No, it's funny that you mentioned you mentioned you lost it at disney. That's right where we're segueing to how about that.
Speaker 4:This is true. Hey, that's how we roll shit worked out. See, we're vague and consistent, alright so.
Speaker 1:I'm already home at this point. You're home chilling. We did the Shibuya.
Speaker 3:Ueno. We did all that.
Speaker 1:That was the Tuesday that I left.
Speaker 3:Tuesday you left was Ueno Park, and then the Wednesday was Shibuya, and then that was when we talked about going to the Disney, checking in the Disney Hotel and having dinner. And then now we get into Thursday, Friday, which was Disneyland, Disney and then Tokyo Sea.
Speaker 4:All right. So we stayed at the Disneyland Hotel Way. Upgrade from that other room we had for the rest of the week. There was space you could stretch out. You had room for your suitcases.
Speaker 3:The bathroom was the jam Tower closet, separate toilet area from everything else, the sink area.
Speaker 4:We should have stayed there all week we tried to remember.
Speaker 3:They said the limit was five days. You could do more than five days, which is stupid to me.
Speaker 2:Yeah which is stupid to me. We don't want your money.
Speaker 4:You don't want my money for ten days yeah who cares how long you stay there?
Speaker 3:You?
Speaker 1:could have just probably made two reservations though.
Speaker 3:For sure, very likely. We thought about it.
Speaker 4:Next time it's in Tokyo, 100%.
Speaker 3:It's like jack's gonna have a five days, stacy's gonna have five. Oops, you edit that out. I'm gonna have five days.
Speaker 1:I'm a half girl dukes yeah, because he was hitting that in 21 as well not.
Speaker 4:Both kids were born, then stopped. After that it was over.
Speaker 2:It was done, it was done, alright, so you visited the hotel.
Speaker 4:Very nice, the lobby awesome. Outside they had topiaries, so they were Disney characters. They lit them up like the electric light parade Very cool.
Speaker 3:How about the same man? Don't make people go Google topiary, they won't know how to spell it.
Speaker 2:Sculptures made out of bushes.
Speaker 1:I only think that makes me think of what we do in the shadows and Laszlo's uh topiary garden that we're all a bunch of just vaginas.
Speaker 3:Missed that show.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so um, how would you compare the the Disney Hotel in Tokyo versus the one in Anaheim?
Speaker 3:Oh, I forgot, you've done that one too, yeah, similar.
Speaker 4:I mean, I wouldn't be mad to say either one the one in Anaheim, probably a little more upscale, and this one was nice, though, like I said, there was room. There were two beds and then two couches Dude there were like four beds with those couches, because those couches turned into beds? Yeah, exactly so I mean we had more than enough space. The girls didn't have to sleep together. They were kind of happy about that and you guys had two rooms.
Speaker 1:Lou, you were by yourself and yeah, yeah he was no.
Speaker 3:It's weird, though they they didn't like have variety of rooms. My room was the same as their room. I also had two beds and the two couch beds and all that so.
Speaker 4:I liked it, the murals on the wall and everything. Oh yeah, cool. So we got up early. We had the Disney buffet that we've talked about before, with the runny eggs and the steak for our little crackers.
Speaker 1:But this wasn't the uh character breakfast, this was just the regular buffet.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it's just the buffet in the hotel and they only have breakfast buffet.
Speaker 3:There's no food at the hotel otherwise unless you go to the convenience store in the hotel yes, yes, unless you go to the, the cobanian, get lose tuna sandwich, mustard tuna mayo.
Speaker 4:Baby, I had that for lunch.
Speaker 3:Yes, I had that for lunch yesterday not even gonna lie walked out there a group of us and I had me so we we got up early enough, we got food, um, took the bus over to uh, disneyland and they had magic hours, right, because you were 15 minutes magic 15 minutes magic quarter hour.
Speaker 1:That doesn't seem like a lot.
Speaker 3:You know what, though? It was useful because it was packed.
Speaker 4:We got there. Security was fine. It was not the same as Disney Disney at home, I should say. We just chilled outside. Disney Went to the bathroom. I just hung out. They started letting us in. It went in fairly quick Once it opened. We got in, we hauled out.
Speaker 3:Did we go straight to Beauty and the Beast. Yeah, we went straight to Beauty and the Beast.
Speaker 2:Which is amazing, it's too bad that it was our first ride. It was a ride.
Speaker 4:It's too bad. It was our first ride, because that shit was downhill from there.
Speaker 1:Because the Beauty and the Beast in Anaheim is a show, right, or was a show? I thought it was.
Speaker 3:Disney. I thought Disney World had.
Speaker 1:Beauty and the Beast. I don't think they have Beauty and the Beast the ride. I think it's a show.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they have different kind of Hold on. I could have swore you said that they had it at disney world but you expected the animatronics to be better in tokyo, or am I thinking of a different ride?
Speaker 4:you're thinking of frozen, okay but I think in the middle of uh fantasy land at disney anaheim there's a beauty and the beast there's, uh, if you're looking at the castle in anaheim to the left, uh, where we got those uh pretzels last time when all of us went. There's a little like stage and they'll do plays over there. So sometimes rapunzel, beauty and the beast, whatever, um, but no, this was a ride. So it's a second castle inside disneyland. It's beast castle, like fully built up and everything um. The outside queue was amazing.
Speaker 4:There was fog coming off of the, the moat, um, you go inside, you walk through beast's um castle and um, everything's all the animated stuff right like, not the live action yeah, yeah, no, no, hermione, um, but all the the, the characters, they're pretending that they're not real, like, like the Ottoman, his tail wags Like once in a while you'll catch it.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I forgot Walking through the queue.
Speaker 4:Lumiere and Cogsworth are there, but they're faking it a little bit. So then you go in and you go into the main entryway and then a bunch of Japanese stuff starts. They start telling the story in a japanese, thankfully. I've seen the movie a million times. I know what's up.
Speaker 4:Um, but even then they have animatronics come out and they're freaking amazing just like the way they move and everything like first bell comes out and then the beast comes out and they're both up on top of uh balconies and they disappear. So then you go through like a similar.
Speaker 1:Uh, yes, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:It's about on that level of um animated right.
Speaker 1:Like animated versions.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. They look like the, the cartoon characters. Um, so then you go like through the servant and nobody's faking it no more. Mrs Potts is giving Chip a bath and Lumiere and Cogsworth are talking. In the hallway there's a shadow of the beast that comes by and screams at everyone because he's angry and pissed off. Then they load you into these teacups. The best way to describe it, it's a trackless thing. It's like Rise of the Resistance.
Speaker 1:But this part is freaking huge In the teacups. Are you facing away or are you sitting in a circle? Everybody's?
Speaker 4:facing forward. It's like two semicircles there's a room for four people and then five behind. Okay, but yeah, it's trackless, like Rise of the Resistance.
Speaker 1:The Runaway Railroad. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:I was thinking of the Luigi's Dance thing yep, that too yeah yeah.
Speaker 4:Luigi's was one of the first ones that did that. But yeah, going through the story and the different animatronics, I think the first thing you do is dinner. Uh, be our guest. Amazing, just if the right ended there, you'd be fine you're good.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you would have been very happy, happy.
Speaker 4:but then they go to storming the castle. When, uh, gaston and them come and they storm the castle, bell's crying over the beast and he turns into the prince. Like you know how they do the trick, but it's still amazing to see. To watch it, though was unreal. And then you go to the dance and to the and they fall the final.
Speaker 3:The first.
Speaker 4:Exactly, they skip the first dance. You're still in the big ballroom, but everybody's human. And I swear that French maid kept eyeballing me. She totally did.
Speaker 3:I saw it.
Speaker 4:But no, so we're like dang. I don't know how it's going to get better than that and honestly, it didn't, it didn't that was the best ride.
Speaker 3:After that, I think we started doing our lightning lanes yeah, yeah, whatever we would do from there is whatever was available, like who had the shortest line to where we were.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so we just put in the lightning lane and then we're like, okay, well, this one's short. So like we did big thunder mountain, similar to ours. It seemed like a mix of Anaheim and Orlando, just like the way the queue is where the tracks are run. We did Star Tours. I think that was the second or third thing we did with Star Tours.
Speaker 3:I was going to say I think it was the second, Because that's when we learned how to use the disability pass.
Speaker 4:Yes, those were Star Tours.
Speaker 3:Because they walked us to the back. Remember, yeah, the other entrance.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, that was the first time, that was the second time Did you have to do all the bullshit that you have to do in Anaheim now to get the accessibility stuff?
Speaker 3:We were. We did it before you left, though right.
Speaker 4:No. So in Florida, universal Disney out there, they have this other program. It's like a database where if you need those kind of accommodations, you upload their education plans or doctor stuff and everything. So we brought that with us because in Japan they want medical certificates and obviously we don't have that shit here, right? You don't. Doctor doesn't say here, here's your medical certificate, because you have fucking autism or cerebral palsy or whatever. We don't do that here. So we brought that and, um, it went okay. At disneyland, disney see what? They seemed a little more resistant to it. They eventually gave it to us. Um, but disneyland, no, they looked at it. They're like oh yeah, we use this all the time and said, cool, they added it to her past.
Speaker 3:So we were able, we were good after that yeah, and they don't have the limit of four people there either, so all of us was just your party.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so we did start tours. It was the same as ours um but not japanese, or was it any?
Speaker 1:yeah, no, it was japanese nice shit.
Speaker 4:What did we get it?
Speaker 1:was different in that you knew all the stuff they were saying, because we've all been star tours five million times too. Exactly, but hearing it I'm sure hearing it in a different language was interesting.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, we got an imperial droid yeah, what was your?
Speaker 1:uh, what were your droid? What were your?
Speaker 4:um I know we ended on purgles. Our mid message was, I want to say, ahsoka.
Speaker 3:Yeah, was it. I think it was Ahsoka.
Speaker 1:Did you get Boba Fett? Or Vader to start. No, it's just the droids. It's the droids.
Speaker 4:Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:What was our first?
Speaker 4:one.
Speaker 1:I think it was Hoth. I like the Hoth one. I feel like it was Hoth.
Speaker 2:I feel, like it was.
Speaker 4:Hoth. But hey, you know what it was different than it's been at Disneyland for a while, because Disneyland's always been for the last year, just the same old, same BS.
Speaker 3:I still can't believe they haven't mixed that up. They are now.
Speaker 4:They are now when this season of the Force started, when we went the first day, it was different.
Speaker 3:finally, I think we still ended with purgles though. Yeah, but it's a freaking year. Like good lord.
Speaker 4:Yeah, I like purgles and all that, but let's go back to some of the other stuff.
Speaker 3:They're trying to market it for their bullshit shows that are coming out and it's like all you're going to do is kill it.
Speaker 4:Right, but these shows are over, so let's go back to everything else and mix it up again.
Speaker 1:Well, and I think you could still do a split where you could have it be 45 per goals, 10, this 10 Naboo 10, you know.
Speaker 3:No, it needs to be all random.
Speaker 1:But my point is if you want to push the show, there's other ways to handle it instead of just making it one the whole time.
Speaker 3:Oh, I agree, my point was they shouldn't be pushing the show. That's what my point is. But if they are going to push it, then yeah sure, because I like when it ends on Galaxy's Edge.
Speaker 4:There's one ending where you land on Batuu, which is super cool because now you can walk over there. So we did that, we did, they had a monsters ride that we don't have here.
Speaker 1:Oh, yeah, what's different between the?
Speaker 4:uh oh, we had the gun for that one oh, okay, yeah, so we had like a flashlight and we had to like, find all the monsters or the booze or something yeah, you like put the flashlight on the helmets that are around and shit would pop out and everything.
Speaker 3:It was kind of cool yeah, so similar to like toy story mania exactly.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, cool. It's good that it's not just the same standard monsters like we have here.
Speaker 4:Yeah, disney World's getting one too.
Speaker 3:Shit what else. Don't look at my phone.
Speaker 4:What time is it there?
Speaker 3:Are they open? Yep, it's one in the afternoon. That means I'll be able to tell what we did. Is it one in the afternoon? No, it's like five in the afternoon or no. Good, that means I'll be able to tell what we did. Is it one in the afternoon?
Speaker 4:no, it's like five in the morning. Uh, we got lunch eventually. Oh, the hot dogs, yeah. Yeah, they're like some kind of fancy hot dogs yeah, it's 115, 115 in the afternoon there okay, so all the rides are open, then? Um, unfortunatelyates was closed One of the pools was closed. So that made Little One super sad.
Speaker 3:We didn't do Splash Mountain I wanted to and Little One wanted to. But that was it. Nobody wanted to get wet and be wet all day.
Speaker 4:We did the Country Bears. That was cool, again in Japanese. And then we did the tiki room least favorite ride, but I said literally got stitched, he's like fine this one was better than the one in la anaheim.
Speaker 3:I I would be okay doing the one in japan again. If I need to take a nap, then we can do the one in anaheim.
Speaker 4:We did Jungle Cruise, which was sad because I didn't understand any of the jokes we're all serious. I don't think anybody even laughed. I'm like so is she not funny? Or are we just serious Japanese people here?
Speaker 3:I think they're serious Japanese. There's like one or two times the whole ride, only one or two times. I can remember people laughing and it wasn't even like a heavy laugh, it was just like like a cursory yeah it was weird, or like the little kids would laugh a little bit but I wanted to put my, my google translate on, but I couldn't hear understand it yeah, so I'm like.
Speaker 4:So I'm like, oh, maybe I'll do the o2h.
Speaker 3:I'm like maybe that doesn't translate here, right, that's, that was very sad you would think it would, because you would think all that shit is universal science and math.
Speaker 1:And how did they say backside of water? I?
Speaker 4:don't know Exactly.
Speaker 2:I don't know.
Speaker 3:Did we go over the.
Speaker 4:Swisher Falls? I don't know.
Speaker 3:Did you say Mizu, which is water backward? Did you go Uzim Uzim Uzim?
Speaker 4:Uzim, I don't know. And then, honestly, my second favorite ride was you won't believe this Small World. Oh no, no, we did Haunted Mansion 2. That was cool Again, japanese.
Speaker 3:But so disappointing oh yeah, I was like, did we do that?
Speaker 1:I just googled backside of water in Japanese and it says the backside of water is not a common phrase in Japanese and it's not clear what you're referring to. Dad joke Fucking. Ai If you're asking about the Kenji for water.
Speaker 2:It is Mizu and does not have a specific backside in quotes in the traditional sense.
Speaker 3:Okay, somebody needs to program. Ai it's got GBTs Right.
Speaker 4:Dad jokes in.
Speaker 3:Japan. My first thought is upload the damn Disney script for the ride.
Speaker 4:But yeah. So I think my second favorite ride there was Small World, because it was Small World with Groot, so even outside, oh, not even just Groot.
Speaker 3:It was like Marvel all over it.
Speaker 1:So it's similar to the Anaheim one then. So they've Marveled it up, yeah, yeah yeah. Anaheim did that too, no, yeah, was that? Wait? I have seen the Marvel one.
Speaker 3:You're going to tell the guy that goes there once a month On YouTube or some shit bro.
Speaker 1:Uh-uh, I know we've seen it. I know I've seen it in person.
Speaker 2:Hmm. Because, it's weird.
Speaker 1:Because I thought it was a little excessive when we did it. Huh, okay, all right, I need to lay off. I guess I need to lay off. I need to lay off everybody.
Speaker 4:Remember Duke was at EDC last night. We know what they'd be doing at the party festivals.
Speaker 3:I need to lay off the crack my first thought was you've been like three times in the last four years or whatever it was. Have you been recently since then? Because we would have heard about that.
Speaker 4:I specifically didn't watch any ride videos. I wanted to see it all. The Tokyo Small World is cool because they have more different Disney characters than Anaheim does.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, that needs to be a standard thing.
Speaker 4:Actually, they just reopened Anaheim and they added Miguel and Dante from Coco. I don't know why they didn't add more. Yeah, that's what I'm saying. Tokyo had a lot. They had it now Every spot you went.
Speaker 3:Yeah, they incorporated everything. Basically the.
Speaker 4:Avengers thing was super cool. They even had a small world sounding Avengers theme outside, which was cool. They just had little avenger small world dolls all over, so that was super cool again it's in japanese, so you don't understand everything now I'm coming off of my crack high.
Speaker 1:I think I watched a video on youtube where it's one of those like the, where they were attractions 365 or something, where they they do all of the rides. Yeah, and I think I watched that and I was like that seems excessive, that seems like a lot of character.
Speaker 2:In person it was not In person, it was better, okay, no, it was fantastic. It didn't feel overwhelming.
Speaker 4:I'm pretty sure we saw all of them and we didn't get whiplash out of it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I think having the Gro group theme, where group was basically all over uh, was fine, because now it was like a game like find the group and then all the other characters. They didn't really repeat them. There were different characters the whole time. So I loved it. I will. It's like if you're gonna pick one of the two, anaheim or tokyo, to ride, I'm taking tokyo 10 out of 10 percent yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4:So it's like a limited thing, so we just lucked out to be there when it was going on.
Speaker 1:Looks like it ends the end of June for those listening and are wondering if you want to catch it.
Speaker 3:So you have a little over a month and a half you can get there before the predicted earthquake on July 5th. All those people that are canceling their damn vacations because they think they can predict an earthquake jesus.
Speaker 1:All right, so it's a small world. Which second favorite ride after?
Speaker 4:beauty and the beast. Okay, um, so I mean there wasn't as much to do there as anaheim, I think. Agreed, but it made for a really nice day like we stress-free dude, so stress-free we were hauling ass, trying to get on everything or making sure we do this or that. We were just chilling. We would stop and window shop. Obviously, we don't do real shopping until the end of the day.
Speaker 1:Kind of a lie. Last time you guys did buy shit in the middle of the day. I distinctly remember Lou walking around with a giant fucking lightsaber box from first thing in the morning.
Speaker 3:That wasn't middle of the day, that was first thing in the morning.
Speaker 1:I did say the morning.
Speaker 3:That way it could get put away. No, you said middle of the day. That way it could get put away right away and still enjoy the middle of the day Exactly.
Speaker 1:After walking around for an hour trying to find a locker that it'll fit in.
Speaker 3:Bruh. Trying to walk around for an hour trying to get to the exit, to the right bus stop.
Speaker 1:That was the worst part. That was the worst part. So back to Japan.
Speaker 4:No, so we were just chilling Snacks here and there. They don't be doing churros like we do Popcorn. Yes, oh, they also had the Big Hero 6 right there. We did that towards the end of the day. I forgot about that.
Speaker 3:What was that one?
Speaker 4:You remember you sit behind Baymax and it's like a dance party. We did it like it was like the last thing we did. But that makes sense.
Speaker 1:Because the Big Hero, the Big Hero 6 party. We did it like it was like the last thing we did. But that makes sense, because, nope, the Big Hero, the Big Hero 6, the Big Hero 6 is like Tokyo, san Francisco.
Speaker 3:Yeah.
Speaker 1:San.
Speaker 3:Fran.
Speaker 4:Tokyo. Yeah, yeah, they love their popcorn buckets there. They actually have a store. That's all they sell. You missed a popcorn bucket while you were walking around. Go to the store. They have all the popcorn buckets that they're selling throughout the park. So wife got the Monsters ink one with all the doors and stuff. It was really cool. That was a good-looking buffet, and then we found a sit-down restaurant. Was it character dining?
Speaker 3:No that wasn't talking about the buffet.
Speaker 4:Yeah.
Speaker 3:Yeah, cause that's when I was like they had to make one of us wait there. Yeah, it was. It was like we didn't have a reservation, so it was like a 45 minute to an hour wait. But we were already on the list for Beauty and the Beast for the second time, but they couldn't do it. So I was like, well F it, you guys go, I'll hold our spot in line because they loved it. I don't know, I loved it. It was the best ride, but they loved it way more than I did.
Speaker 4:It's more important to take the girls back, right yeah.
Speaker 3:So I stayed in line at the buffet and they went back to the Beauty of the Beach ride. Then, once that was done, they came back and joined me in line and then we did the buffet.
Speaker 1:Real quick. Going back to the Star Tours ride, did they have the theming like Orlando did, or was it straightforward, like Anaheim.
Speaker 4:It was more like Anaheim. You don't walk through the indoor with the giant ad at and shit outside. It was just walk into a building and start holding. So you got to write it twice and then you went back for or does? We don't know, remember, didn't he's talking about outside. So in florida it's like you're on indoor, there's like ewok village and shit you walk everything, and then it's all the same inside, um.
Speaker 4:But tokyo was more like anaheim, where you just there's a door. It says start towards you, walk in and done, and then you're immersed. Exactly so. We did the buffet, we picked the fuck out dude, I think they told us, we had 90 minutes. We used every second of that 90 minutes dude.
Speaker 3:Hell yeah, we did. And five more minutes after that, Yep, the buffet.
Speaker 4:We were sitting at the window to have a look out at the electric light parade so we were like, yep, we will be sitting here for a minute. We got up at our at a decent time and then we just stood outside and watched the whole electric light parade, which was cool as heck because it wasn't on the list to do like it'd be cool, but I think because we go to Disney so much that we're kind of meh on parades. But it's cool because we don't have the Electric Light Parade here anymore, either the Genie Animatronic or the Genie Float.
Speaker 4:Amazing dude, he just kept changing all his lights to Chessie, and then Incredibles and Tigger. It was super cool. I'll have to upload the videos or some shit.
Speaker 3:But then I think we Put them in the comments or something.
Speaker 4:We did our shopping. The girls got more stuff than they needed. Lou's girl got more stuff than she needed. Probably shit about that Mickey Samurai statue Thing was badass.
Speaker 3:I can't believe you did it. I figured if you saw it on our way out or something. I was like, oh, he's grabbing this thing. Oh, and I got to be superhero and got a three set of.
Speaker 4:Aristocats, aristokittens, yeah. So we were looking in the morning and my big one found them. He'sittens, yeah. So we were looking in the morning and my big one found them. He's like oh, these are cool. I'm like cool, we'll get them later. Right, we went back sold out. But the cool thing about Tokyo Disney is they're restocking shit all day. They're just walking around with these big-ass Rubbermaid tubs full of stuff. There's like back on the shelf, back on the shelf. Whereas, like in America, they're like that shit will come out tonight after you're already gone, I'm sorry bitch.
Speaker 1:They might do like a midday restocking and that'll be it Like right.
Speaker 4:But no, they were like the whole time. It's like it's somebody's job just to restock the shelf.
Speaker 3:I think it was Cause they were like we. I think we ran into three or four different employees who each had the buckets. Their job was just to restock stuff.
Speaker 4:Yeah so yeah, no. So lou asked one and I had asked him like, dude, do you guys still have these? Like yeah, they're over here. I'm like no, they're not. So we're just kind of like spreading out, like let's find one of these dudes that has the bucket so we can ask him luke caught one.
Speaker 3:And he's like, yep, let me go check and show enough yeah he came I showed him a picture, you know, of what we're looking for. Jack found it, uh, and I was like, okay, let's see if we can do this. And yeah, I talked to the guy at a register. He closed his register down, went into the back, grabbed like five of them, gave me the one that Jack wanted and put the other four back out on the shelf. It was. It was so cool. Yeah, Because because oldest child, kind of like, was giving up. She was, she was like.
Speaker 4:And it's not often that you find all three kittens. It's usually just Marie, but this was like all three siblings Nice.
Speaker 3:It was cool. That's what I was like, yay.
Speaker 4:So then we went back to the hotel Passed out, got up in the morning, wait a minute, so then we went back to the hotel passed out, got up in the morning.
Speaker 3:Wait a minute. Did we go back together that night or no?
Speaker 4:Yes, it was Disney's TV.
Speaker 3:We went separate. Oh no, we had already eaten dinner, real quick.
Speaker 1:Is Disney Tokyo worth a season pass If you lived in Tokyo?
Speaker 4:they had reversed.
Speaker 3:Probably Just to go to Beauty and the Beast every weekend. Mm-hmm. Worth a season pass if you, if you lived in tokyo or they had reversed. Okay, robin lee, totally just just to go to beauty and the beast every weekend.
Speaker 4:Yeah and what's the old pirates that still has the winch auction and chasing the women around cool okay, so then the next morning? I totally would. So next morning we got up uh communication mishaps.
Speaker 2:Lou got on the bus I'm texting I'm like are you ready yet? It was like he's like, yeah, I'm on the bus.
Speaker 4:I'm texting him. I'm like, are you ready yet? He's like, yeah, I'm on the bus. I'm like we're still in the room, bro.
Speaker 3:No, no, no what happened was I woke up late. Well, I thought I was late, so I thought they were already. I was like shit, I'm all late, I'll just get there when I get there right my stuff together and I just again I'm presuming they're already gone. Uh, it's like nine. We're supposed to meet at nine or something like that it was like 905, access on for c for c so it didn't matter.
Speaker 3:Um yeah, so I got up, I was like crap, I rushed everything, went out to the bus. I was like, okay, I'll meet you guys soon. I'm on my way there on the bus, and then I get a text back. Bro, we're still in the room.
Speaker 4:So eventually.
Speaker 1:Real quick. Did Disneyland Hotel have Lawson's in the first floor?
Speaker 3:It was a different Kabini. It was a Disney Kabini it wasn't a Lawson's, but they had all the stuff that would have been at Lawson's.
Speaker 1:Yeah, five different flavors of chicken nugs, you know it. Yeah, okay, plus Lou's on a bus.
Speaker 3:Jack is still at the room and tuna, mayo or onigiri as well and poke sweat.
Speaker 4:So yeah, so Lou's already there. We get there, so we have to take the next bus. It was like every 10-15 minutes, I think was the blast, so we're 15 minutes behind him. That line took forever.
Speaker 3:That line was a bitch.
Speaker 4:It turns out that they had some Release for Duffy or something, because at Disneyland they're having a huge Donald Duck celebration At DisneySea. They're having some Big Duffy. You've probably seen him at Disney, he's not super huge. Out here, donald duck celebration at disney sea they're having some big, uh, duffy, duffy's. This bear, you've probably seen him at disney. He's not super huge out here, but out there they fucking love him. He's probably bigger than mickey mouse. Um, so once we got through and we see the stores, everybody's just running at the stores. They're lined up. They're going cray, you think it was like black friday freaking star wars, toys midnight release, or something dude. They're going cray, you think it was like black friday freaking star wars, toys midnight release, or something dude. They're rolling under gates and they got shopping carts. They're throwing children.
Speaker 3:It was crazy didn't uh wifey go straight there too?
Speaker 4:yeah, because she wanted to find the pandora stuff that they don't sell in the parks there, to her disappointment.
Speaker 1:And it was like outside of a store at Disneyland is where it was, and to your wallet's happiness.
Speaker 3:Well, no, no, only for half that day, yeah.
Speaker 4:So I think the first thing we did was we walked to the back of the park to get on the medical thing for Rapunzel, because they just opened up Fantasy Springs out there. It's a new section of their park and everything. They just made it so you don't have to be staying at a DisneySea hotel to go in there without getting up at 6 in the morning.
Speaker 4:It used to be the case we got on the Rapunzel list. Big One wanted to go get some ice cream sandwich. Uh, oh well. No, we had a long ass wait. So while we were waiting for wife because I can't even explain how fucking big disney c is this shit was a half hour walk from the front of the park to get to Rapunzel at the back of the park.
Speaker 3:Yeah, when all is said and done, just jumping ahead, we probably got through a third of the park in an entire day.
Speaker 1:Yeah, there was a whole section of the park yeah, we didn't even get to it.
Speaker 4:We did not even see it. It's so freaking huge.
Speaker 1:I didn't even see it at Disney Sea. That was my blind spot at Disney Sea was this part of the park.
Speaker 3:It was dude, we walked in and went to the right. We did not make it to the left at all it was crazy.
Speaker 1:Knowing you did that does not surprise me at all.
Speaker 3:That needs to be like three days at Tokyo Sea.
Speaker 4:You need to. If anybody goes at be like three days at tokyo, yeah, you, you need to. If anybody that goes at least plan two days at sea, it's two days, but you can do tokyo disney in one day, basically if you 100 disneyland one day was fine we were fine, yeah, um, but yeah. So we went back there. We got on the list for rapunzel. Long ass wait. We were waiting for wife to come because she was doing her little pre-shopping, looking for her pandora, um. So we actually did a couple of little rides.
Speaker 4:We did um aladdin's magic carpet well it's kind of like dumbo yeah yeah, and then we did um simbad's fantastic voyage or some shit, which is actually a lot longer than I thought it was going to be. I'm like, okay, cool, it's over. And they're like, nah, son simba went on another fucking mission and guess who's going with him? You are. I'm like cool, all right, we've defeated the fucking ogre and got some money and shit like some treasure and now we're at the end is like good job, guys.
Speaker 4:Moving on to the next phase yeah, you have you have leveled up it was dlc or some shit it was crazy and how were those? Rides they're good.
Speaker 1:I mean, they're little kiddie rides, so they weren't bad at all similar to like Mr Toad type of thing, where you're just on like a track and kind of going through a story not quite with the magic carpet ride yeah, that was more like a spinny, so that was similar to the Dumbo spinny.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, yeah, the only downside about that ride is I couldn't figure out how to make the carpet drop. Some people could make the carpet like the ride, you could do something and you could like suddenly drop, just for like the excitement factor. I couldn't figure out how to make my pod do that. Other than that, I enjoyed it other than that I enjoyed it.
Speaker 4:It's nice and simple. Chill help kill some time, yeah. So at that point big one was going through the app. She's like oh, I want this, uh seashell ice cream sandwich, which was way back over aerial, and and wanted it now didn't want to wait, yeah, and then again it was before I actually understood the the scope of this park.
Speaker 4:So we went back to the aerial section, right, which wasn't far from where the simbad ride and little more, and uh, tangled were right, no big. So where the ice cream sandwich was, you actually had to go into almost a whole nother theme park yeah, which is cool as heck.
Speaker 3:It's like aerials, underwater village and shit we go an hour there later in the day.
Speaker 2:That's how there's like two more, two, three more rides in there. There's shops, ariel's underwater village and shit.
Speaker 4:We spent an hour there later in the day. That's how cool it was. And there's like two, three more rides in there, there's shops, there's ice cream sandwiches. I'm like holy shit.
Speaker 3:It's a pizza. It's like their own restaurant, like food court area.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was crazy. So she got that. We went back. It took too fucking long, so our medical path expired.
Speaker 3:No, no no, no, that's not why that is not why we made it back in time. You made it back in time, but at that point.
Speaker 4:Little One had to go to the bathroom.
Speaker 3:So they got back.
Speaker 4:It expired yeah.
Speaker 3:So, and we talked to him.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so Lou's like. Lou works his magic and best uncle of the weekend got us back in line.
Speaker 3:Because what happens is, if you miss your time, you have to go back to the back of the lift. Which is another two hour wait again, I grabbed my Google Translate and was talking to the guy because it was like, yeah, we missed our time. And the guy was like well, why did you miss your time? I was like well, the medical.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I was like the medical child had to go to the bathroom and they immediately was like oh well, if it's her, you know Right, oh, okay. So he walked us over to the entrance and said, just walk in.
Speaker 1:It was like Wife needed to go to Pandora. No, no, no no, no, no.
Speaker 4:That was earlier, that was earlier.
Speaker 3:I literally typed in medical child had to use the bathroom is what I typed in and he said okay, and then walked us over, walked us right up to the front because we were about to just say F it and just get back on the back of the list and we'll go do more rides again.
Speaker 4:But he was cool with it. That ride, unfortunately, was a little disappointing it was pretty, it was pretty it. It was pretty, the animatronics were great, but shit, it was short as heck.
Speaker 1:Unlike Sinbad. It was the opposite of Sinbad. Unlike Sinbad.
Speaker 4:Sinbad was a better ride. I'm just saying.
Speaker 3:Wow, you're right, though I didn't think about that. But man, it really was a disappointing ride.
Speaker 4:For the time, your times, right. You're like, okay, I'm waiting in this amount of line for this amount of ride, right, we waited in line for Sinbad. Shit was almost a walk-on Maybe 10, 15 minutes after getting stuck at the door, right, and we were on that ride for about 10, 15 minutes.
Speaker 3:For real.
Speaker 4:We were in line for Rapunzel for two hours and that ride was about 10 minutes, if that.
Speaker 3:I'll say 10 minutes. You're being generous dude, yeah.
Speaker 4:The length of the line does not equal how good the ride is, so that was a little disappointing, but we got through it. Whatever, it was the big one's favorite when she was little, we had to do it, even though she's too cool for it now Cool for everything she really is. That's a thing. Yeah, it is, we'll have to unpack that on another pod.
Speaker 4:After that we got on the list for Frozen Because they have a Frozen ride there. It's similar to the one they have in Epcot, so we're waiting, and during that we went over to the Fantasy Springs store, which was cool.
Speaker 1:We actually did buy some stuff there already?
Speaker 3:Did we do lunch first? Did we eat? I thought we got on the list and then went to the cafe and ate, then went to the store, and then came back to the restaurant, the place where you had to pre-order.
Speaker 4:The frozen restaurant.
Speaker 3:Yeah, you had to pre-order your food first before they let you in.
Speaker 4:Yes, yes, yes, yes Like celebration.
Speaker 3:I can't remember if that was before or after. I can't remember if we did that before or after.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it kind of was like a celebration, because we were like well, we just need somewhere to sit. And they're like no, you can't even come in here until you order your food. Show us your mobile order Dang, I don't remember.
Speaker 3:See, I thought it was like a two-hour wait for Frozen, so we went and got lunch Right, and then we finished that. Then we went to the store, then came back and got on the ride.
Speaker 4:That is store. Then came back and got on the ride. That would make sense.
Speaker 2:The frozen lunch was amazing too, though, because it was like being in Elsa's castle, and stuff.
Speaker 4:They had the paintings on the wall and hanging their Joan.
Speaker 3:It was really cool A big throne chair. You could take pictures on it.
Speaker 2:That place was cool.
Speaker 4:And the food was good too. So then we went shopping a little bit Magnets, I think, the girls got cookies and shit Like tens of cookies. You remember uh, that, uh picture you sent us d from the disney store you took in like the airport or some shit or the.
Speaker 1:It was the station.
Speaker 4:Yeah, it was one of the stations um, I think that we got like some rapunzel cookies like that.
Speaker 1:They were similar from that like uh, yeah it was like two cookies with like a frost, a square piece of frosting in the middle, type of thing, and then the tin I got was a Beauty and the Beast one. Yeah.
Speaker 1:But they were all individually wrapped, which was kind of a trip to me. And here if you would have bought that it would have had the box, it would have been that, but then you would have opened it and it would have been a clear wrapping. But this one actually had four or five different pieces of art on the wrapper itself and you opened it as one cookie, so they had frozen versions. That doesn't surprise me, I mean I'm sure they probably have a whole variety of those.
Speaker 4:Yeah, Speaking of frozen, my wife bought all the souvenirs. At the restaurant you could get plates.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I forgot about that she got plates.
Speaker 4:I think she got forks, placemats. There's like a whole fucking kitchen, I think she got forks placemats.
Speaker 3:There's like a whole fucking kitchen. I forgot.
Speaker 1:You're right.
Speaker 3:Matter of fact, every restaurant we went to, if they had a souvenir kitchen item, she got it.
Speaker 1:Dad, where's the China that I'm going to inherit? Nope, you get fucking Disney Sea plates. There's no more.
Speaker 4:China. These are your heirlooms, now child. So then we went on Frozen. It was better than the one in Epcot. I made sure to tell the girls to not tell Lou about the drop.
Speaker 3:What happened, Joe?
Speaker 1:It was a backwards drop.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1:So it tilted you back and then you dropped no so it's a boat ride, right.
Speaker 4:so you're like going through your cruise and there's like, uh, the trolls are there, they're telling the story about on and elsa, and then you like go into the story. So you end up going into elsa's castle and you like, pull up to elsa, your boat turns because it like switches tracks, yeah and. And then you go backwards, oh, and then there's a drop oh.
Speaker 1:So, even worse than pirates, where Lou shit his pants twice.
Speaker 3:No, pirates was worse. No, because it was dark. That's not how he was vibing, he's like yeah, let it go. Let it go. I was into Frozen. That was my jam. That was my jam in 2014.
Speaker 1:I still remember Pirates with Lou's like why are people screaming? Don't worry about it, lou.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I did not yeah no no Pirates worse.
Speaker 1:And then we're like they were like Lou, it's fine, there's only one drop, it's fine, oh no.
Speaker 3:Yeah, man. Man, there was a drop and I got wet.
Speaker 1:I wasn't expecting any of that, and then we got stuck. While we were wet, yep yeah.
Speaker 3:And then yeah, that's right. And after all that, then we got stuck. Yeah, fucking pirate, yeah you you. You noticed that that that first day when we were all there, that back two, three years ago, uh y'all I, at the very least uh jack's crew they went back to pirates a few times like not that is true.
Speaker 4:I was like I want to go.
Speaker 3:Yeah, no, I'm gonna write star tours I'm gonna go to star tours with dude. I don't want to be by himself. I ain't that rude.
Speaker 1:The buddy system, guys, it's the buddy system.
Speaker 3:You never know what might happen. So I was like I want to stay in pairs at least. So yeah, I was like I'm going to go with Duke and ride Star Tours for 90 minutes.
Speaker 1:Yep, can we just leave our stuff here, because literally we're going to be back on this ride. Just circle it around, just pick up all our shit, walk around in a circle and put it back in the exact same spot, or here's a crazy concept.
Speaker 3:leave us on the damn ride. It's fine, Leave us on the ride At the end of the day, when it's not a full ride. Just don't make us walk around.
Speaker 4:We've actually gone away with that on Pirates once or twice. We got to go through like two or three times. That's the only time we got out of the boat. Was to redistribute the weight, and the girls wanted to sit in front.
Speaker 3:Yeah, that makes sense to me. It's like again end of the day. This is not an early, it's packed, but when you're at the end of the last hour.
Speaker 1:Again, disneyland is the best after the fireworks. I love Disneyland after the fireworks Because everybody's gone Like nobody's there 9.30 10 to midnight.
Speaker 3:You're good to go, yeah.
Speaker 4:Shit. So after Frozen, we started working our way back.
Speaker 1:So we're like midday at this point, maybe a little later, 2 o'clock Probably like 2ish or something.
Speaker 4:So they had a couple of Jules Verne rides. There was a Journey to the Center of the Earth and 20,000. Leagues Under the Sea. So we got on the list for those Vern rides. There was a Journey to the Center of the Earth and 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
Speaker 3:We got on the list for those 20,000 Leagues.
Speaker 4:Oh, that's, we're into Little Pod, it's kind of like the Nemo subs right, but less claustrophobic. Speak for yourself I haven't taken you on the Nemo subs son, oh the Nemo subs.
Speaker 1:I do not get on the Nemo yourself. I haven't taken you on the Nemo subs, son. Oh, the Nemo subs. I do not get on the Nemo subs because that's shit. I don't know if I can do it.
Speaker 3:As long as I can breathe, I'm fine. You can put me in a closet, I don't care, as long as I can breathe, okay.
Speaker 4:We'll do the Nemo subs next time and you can see how much better 20 000 leagues under the sea, okay, the nemo, so it was cool um, these were very airy. Like all five of us fit in there. It was perfectly fine, right, like we weren't rubbing elbows or anything. There was enough room for all of us. So you're going under. Um, whatever happens, we start screaming. Little one loses her. Shit. Dude, she's for real thinks we're gonna die.
Speaker 1:And this is the 20 000 leagues under the sea.
Speaker 4:Yeah, all right there's like there's like sea monsters and there's always a bigger fish, and then there's like electric monsters and there were like these fucking alien dudes. She lost her shit because we were playing along with it and screaming. She lost her shit, dude. And then Journey to the Center of the Earth was cool.
Speaker 3:That was a long wait, so that was a long wait. We killed time over at that Little Mermaid area.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so then we went over to the Little Mermaid area. I think they have the Jumping Jellyfish, like they have at DCA.
Speaker 3:There's like three different rides in there, like a little playground area.
Speaker 1:It was a really cool area.
Speaker 3:Two or three shops.
Speaker 4:This was indoors, though it was dark. You couldn't really see much, so you would have been okay.
Speaker 1:I want to ride with you.
Speaker 2:Nope, I want to ride by myself.
Speaker 1:You little.
Speaker 3:I'm almost certain we spent like an hour, hour and a half there.
Speaker 4:For sure.
Speaker 3:We were there for a while and nobody was bored. We all had stuff to do. It was great, cool.
Speaker 4:So then we went on Journey to the Center of the Earth Shit. That might have been the last thing we did there too, I think you're right Just because of the way that the day went, mm-hmm, but it was cool. It wasn't as rollercoaster-y as I wanted.
Speaker 3:There was one part where it was real fast, but the rest of it was kind of Indiana Jones-ish you know what Part of the reason to leave in early too is because remember you guys were going to go back to Disneyland, is because remember you guys were going to go back to Disneyland for the store shopping, so we wanted to leave early. Let me treat the store.
Speaker 4:There was no way we were getting to the other side of the park to do like Tower of Terror or Soarin' or any of that stuff. So we're like, well, fuck it, let's just do our shopping. Wife wanted to check another Pandora store. It was like a downtown Disney kind of area.
Speaker 1:Disney Springs, downtown Disney.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah yeah, yeah, but it was backed by Disneyland, not.
Speaker 2:Tokyo yes.
Speaker 3:So you had to take the bus backwards to that area? Yeah, because they're like 20 minutes apart.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and the hotel was closer to Disneyland.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 4:C was the first stop.
Speaker 3:Because C is the first stop, yeah.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so yeah is the first stop. Yeah, yeah, um, so, yeah. So lou went off to, I went back. Yeah, I went back to his shopping, back to the hotel. We took the bus, we went over to again this little mall. We went to pandora. Um, again, they just don't be having disney stuff unless you're in the parks or something. They just don't, even though you're like park property. They're like.
Speaker 3:He's back, um, yeah, you froze for a second there frozen let it go so then we went to another disney store.
Speaker 4:They had another disney store there. I'm not sure if they bought anything, though, um, but yeah, so we went back. Um, and that's when I started texting lou about how the fuck we get into the airport tomorrow, right, because?
Speaker 1:in the morning when I looked it's good to pre-plan that stuff the night before.
Speaker 4:Yeah exactly Because I looked in the morning and there were.
Speaker 1:We had a plan the shuttle buses right.
Speaker 4:But then when I looked at night they were like all sold out. It wasn't popping up for me anymore. So he asked the girls at the desk when he got back.
Speaker 3:And they're like, oh yeah, it's right outside, like dude. We were freaking out about this for a little bit, like for about an hour, not even kidding. I just walked down there like hey, by any chance, like we need to get to the airport tomorrow, and then she asked which one and? And she prompted and presumed haneda. And I was like yeah, and she pulls out this little quarter sheet of paper and says, oh right, here it's like seven bucks a person or something like that Just give the driver the money.
Speaker 3:Two luggages per person. Yeah, it's out here. It was like, oh well, that's easy. It literally was the next morning she walked us to the bus stop. They do that shit in Japan though they will walk you all the way out. It's pretty wild.
Speaker 4:The that shit. In japan, though, they will walk you all the way out like it's pretty wild. The service was phenomenal at that hotel, so yeah. So the next morning we got up, we did the buffet again, um, grabbed our shit. She walked us out to the bus we waited, showed up right on time, as they always do they do in japan. They loaded our suitcases. They wouldn't take my tip.
Speaker 1:We got to the airport well unloaded the suitcase you just need to zip up your pants.
Speaker 4:This is true just the tip head to the airport they unloaded still wouldn't take a tip.
Speaker 1:Then we I like how Jack has spent we were looking for lockers two weeks in Japan and at the very end he starts trying to tip motherfuckers Right.
Speaker 4:Well, you just start feeling bad about it, right? You're just like. This isn't normal, it goes against your nature.
Speaker 1:No, it goes against your American nature, american nature, this is true.
Speaker 3:So we get to the airport around just after 11 or so or around 11, and their flight wasn't till six and we all knew that our plan was to go roam around. I was going to do some last minute shopping errands. They were going to do some last minute shopping areas in different locations. Um, uh, yeah, yeah. Then you guys went back to disney, you guys went to shibuya yeah, we went to shibuya to go to that pandora okay, um.
Speaker 3:so we were looking for the lockers, uh, and there we couldn't find them, or they're all taken. So we went to one of those luggage storage slash transport places. The first one we went to was packed. We can't hold your nine bags. Whatever the hell we had, it was nine. We can't hold your nine bags, but you can either go downstairs or right next door to us there's one over here.
Speaker 4:It was a FedEx store, dude, it was a shipping store. It wasn't even a luggage store, bros man. Their main job was shipping stuff, right, yeah, but they also hold luggage, so we go up there and lose like 20 bucks.
Speaker 3:Okay, dude, it was, it was. It was like god it was. What did she say? It was the total bill was 4545. So it was like $5 a piece. So it was $45 for all nine of our luggage and it was like done so that's a bargain. So we did. We filled out the paperwork. They took all nine of our bags, and then we went down to the train station. All the trains ran out of theirs. Yeah, so we did our thing.
Speaker 4:We went back to Shibuya. We did the disney store, we did pandora again. Uh, we went into the actual starbucks that we meant to go in before where you can look down. We actually did get up to go up there look down, because we got food and drinks for the crossing.
Speaker 3:Was it better from up there it was okay, all right good uh, they do have signs.
Speaker 4:They're like don't come up here, if you didn't buy nothing. You scratch my back. I scratch yours. It was a weird translation, like that you do me, I do you. It was weird, but yeah, if you didn't buy anything, they were like nope, don't come up here.
Speaker 3:And then for me, right before we split off from the trains, I ran into this British couple and had to teach them how to use the train system, because I'm a pro at this point. Uh, you know, it's like these, these freaking idiot tourists like don't know what they're doing.
Speaker 4:It's crazy and it's true because we jumped on our train and lou was out there. He's like so you need to do this, this and this to get on this train right.
Speaker 3:Yep, I was just chatting with them like hey y', hey y'all just look at the time All of it down. I think that got them good. While they were doing that, I just bounced around to a few different areas, four different stores, looking for Japanese magic, the gathering cards for some of my friends out here in Colorado. I was like, if they got it, great, I have nothing really I want to do at this point. I did everything I wanted. I got all the souvenirs I wanted. Only thing I kind of forgot was like Japanese candy, but I got that later. So I was like okay, and then I think I got back to the yeah, you beat us back yeah because I went.
Speaker 3:I wanted to find myself a food.
Speaker 1:The ramen.
Speaker 3:I went to go eat ramen. Yeah, then you guys showed up and you're like his, because you're like, oh, we're back over here. I'm like, oh well, I'm almost done eating, I'll meet you over here, whatever.
Speaker 4:And you're like, oh well, if that's the case, we're gonna go kill time at the the gotcha gotcha pond up top so yeah, yeah I used almost the rest of my cash, just cashed it out into to coins and then, um yeah, you found the Star Wars Gotcha Gotcha, so I was able to finish my Star Wars.
Speaker 3:Let me see if they're in here. And he got me an extra Vader, so that worked out. Yeah, Ooh fancy.
Speaker 3:And then once he finished up it was about the same time I was finishing up because they went to go get in line, go get our luggage oh, that one's cool. They went to go get in line and go get our luggage oh that one's cool. They went to go get in line to get our luggage and I met them while they were in line, so the timing worked out well Grabbed our luggage, went and checked in, did all that. All of our bags were underweight because Jack had a scale, so we already knew.
Speaker 3:We were very into it and very prepared.
Speaker 4:I don't have his saber on right now.
Speaker 3:Okay, I was like what does that?
Speaker 4:look like.
Speaker 3:It's cool. It's like a flashy, like a wave, saber Cool yeah.
Speaker 1:So I guess, I didn't realize this until after I got back, but I guess there is a chain of card stores throughout Japan and it's called like Mint or something similar that had. The video I was watching was they were going around looking for, uh, star wars like autographs, star wars patch cards, that type of thing. Um, and I think they had a bunch they had one of the cards was, uh, one of the sets of cards was at celebration, where it was like a box. I think we talked about it.
Speaker 1:It was like 10 that top, that's for the tops, one one, no, not the Tops, it was something else, but it was similar. But I think I remember I thought we had had a conversation about it where it was like a box, it was like 100 bucks or 120 bucks and it was like 10 packs with, you know, 10 cards in each pack or something.
Speaker 3:Well, that was the Tops one. The Tops one. Oh, there we go.
Speaker 1:Nice, His lightsaber's a little limp though.
Speaker 4:I mean they were in capsules, bro.
Speaker 1:Yeah, everything, but I guess there was a chain of stores that it's all cards, so it's like Yu-Gi-Oh Magic, star Wars, sports, all this kind of stuff, but it's all Japanese. So they were going to these places looking up those tops cards, because the tops cards I guess had been in japan or in circulation. There was like a generic version of it and then there was an exclusive japanese version of it and the video I was watching was kind of cool. They were opening up the packs and they got a 101 of sebulba and in the lobby that they were in, the guy who did the voice of sebulba happened to be like right there. So he like they called him over and like had like a pretty cool interaction with him as far as he signed it and all that kind of stuff. That's cool.
Speaker 1:But I guess there's a series of stores because they were going into when they were traveling around, they were going to these different stores and they were just little, you know, in a building, they were just a mall store type of thing. But that would have been cool to go check that out, but not the point. So then you guys went and got on an airplane.
Speaker 4:Yeah, so we went to the 7-Eleven. We're like shit. Well, let's try to use the rest of our Suica cards right.
Speaker 3:Use up the rest of our Suicas. Yeah, so we bought a shit ton of snacks there, the Vinium machines. Some Kit Kat flavors that I didn't see at.
Speaker 4:Donkey. Yeah, we got some extra Kit Kat flavors. They didn't have at Donkey, but after that on our flight it seems short as hell.
Speaker 3:Dude, it took forever to get to Japan, but the way home was fast as heck dude and I don't even mean because of the delay that we had. The actual flight time in the air seemed way shorter than it did go.
Speaker 1:Did you get to flew through San Francisco again? No, we went straight to LAX Straight to.
Speaker 4:LA.
Speaker 3:Did customs there, piece of cake. They didn't even ask what I bought or cost. Everybody's talking about it in the Facebook group. They're all like, oh, under $800, you're fine, all this other shit Nope. All they asked me was where are you coming from Japan? Why were you there? Star Wars Celebration oh cool. Yeah, I think my wife and I are going to go see the 20th anniversary later on this week. I'm like oh, right on, oh, welcome back. Have a good day.
Speaker 4:They didn't ask me anything about what I bought. Nope, I took my little one. So you know, little kid, third door, we'll just go about your business. We did get stopped at like a secondary one, though. They're like hold on what's in your little shopping bag there, put everything on the fucking conveyor belt, let's go.
Speaker 3:They took something, didn't they? I thought they took something from that. No.
Speaker 4:I asked her afterwards. She thought they took her body spray.
Speaker 3:Yeah it wasn't.
Speaker 4:No, they didn't. Oh, okay, All right, it wasn't. Until we went through actual TSA they were like all liquids gone.
Speaker 3:I'm like we lost all of our pokey sweat and all that shit that we brought back.
Speaker 4:I had gotten Japan. Well, I thought it was Japan exclusive Monster. So I chugged that bitch right there in line. Both of y'all did, didn't you?
Speaker 3:Yep.
Speaker 1:So you were super wired between LAX and Vegas.
Speaker 4:We all still took a nap, we had a three-hour layover.
Speaker 1:So you had plenty of time to take all the liquids and put them in your checked bags.
Speaker 4:Pretty much right, but they didn't give us our checked bags.
Speaker 1:When I did customs I had to get my bag. That was weird.
Speaker 3:No, they did give us our bags, yeah we had our bag, but it was the backpacks.
Speaker 4:But we had turned back in already.
Speaker 3:I didn't think about the liquid. Yeah, if I looked it up on.
Speaker 4:TSA, you should be okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, because, according to what Jack saw, on the website the TSA website said if you had a sealed liquid you're fine. And I asked the lady at that she's like no, you have to get rid of that. So I was like, uh, and we didn't want to get TSA banned, so I didn't want to get tsa banned, so I didn't.
Speaker 1:I didn't cause a fit. Yeah, it wasn't worth it, not for one.
Speaker 3:Yeah then we just kind of chilled there, you know, killed some time, just waited for some, uh yeah, and then jumped on to vegas and then then yeah, uh, because my friend danielle picked me up and then, uh, because part of it is we just have space, yeah, we could have made it.
Speaker 2:We could have made it we're not uncomfortable, no, so, yeah.
Speaker 3:So I got thinking out her for a bit, so that was cool, because I didn't see her in a while. Uh, we got six, eight, six, seven months, and then they went back and then she dropped me back.
Speaker 4:We went to dinner and then, when she dropped me back off at the house and yeah, and we got up the next day Went to go see Revenge of the Sith anniversary. So now we're on Sunday.
Speaker 1:How long did it take for you guys to?
Speaker 3:And we went to Daiso and we went to Daiso before that. We had lunch. We had lunch at the Brazilian place, then Daiso, then the movie.
Speaker 4:How long did it take for you guys to recover from the the lag? I would say probably a week, just because almost right back into work and school and I was gonna say about five days, yeah, yeah it just there was no like normal downtime, just to sleep for a couple days.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, it was rough for sure, we got back what saturday, so probably wednesday or thursday yeah, in time for my weekend to start again.
Speaker 4:yeah, once I got, once you got back, and Saturday, so probably Wednesday or Thursday In time for my weekend to start again.
Speaker 3:Once you got back Then went to Disneyland, oh yeah, but yeah, that was it Monday morning. He gave me a ride back to the airport. I tried to get on an earlier flight but they were all standby. I was like the 17th person in line on a wait list for standby, but eventually got out there I. I had my laptop, I had stuff to do so I was fine, um, yeah.
Speaker 1:and then, yeah, I remember waking up when you guys went to disneyland on that day, because I was still kind of, you know, and I was like looked at my text messages and was like 35. I was like no, mark is red. I'm going to skip all these. And then he's like hey, duke, you didn't answer this. I'm like tell me again.
Speaker 3:There was a question.
Speaker 1:I don't remember there was something that was at Galaxy's Edge that day, or something like that, that you guys were having a conversation about buying or not buying or whatever the prince remember the ones.
Speaker 4:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah, the prince you got for us, yeah those and the um and we went, because may 4th was when they had the uh, the 501st helmet bucket, the jaw was on time and well, the tauntaun had been there, but it came after we had gone.
Speaker 3:The last time the Death Star one.
Speaker 1:That shit's funny it was about Jawasipper. In the text message you were talking about that guy that had eight or nine Death Star buckets on his back walking out.
Speaker 3:Eight or nineteen.
Speaker 1:And then I watched a video where the guy walked through Disney World and two weeks later and there was still every single popcorn booth had the giant rubber-made wheeled containers full of the Death Star buckets and I'm like that guy lost his shorts?
Speaker 3:No, he did not, because that's where people can get there. But, you could buy it online. I thought you could no. That's why it's still worthwhile.
Speaker 4:The 501st and the Jawa would probably be a better investment, honestly, just because those are super limited.
Speaker 3:And smaller. The Jawa is smaller than the ship.
Speaker 4:But the Jawa is cool as heck. He talks, he utinis. I know that yeah.
Speaker 1:He lights up. I'll find out next week. And did you end up getting the? Did you end up getting the? I can't even think of it right now. The tube with the weird? Oh yeah, you did, because you were talking about that, because you didn't get the straw. Yes, yes, yeah, the coaxium.
Speaker 3:I'm like, what are you talking about?
Speaker 1:Okay, Don't make it, not mint by licking it.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the lithium crystal cup.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, the lithium crystal. Somebody's been watching Star Trek?
Speaker 4:I love both. So finally, after what has been like four, five, six episodes of fucking Japan yeah, fucking Japan, fucking Japan.
Speaker 3:No, it's only the fourth.
Speaker 1:Fourth, well, and it got broken up because you know a couple of us may have missed I wish. I told Lou when we were on here I go. I wish one of us could start the podcast, because fuck that guy. Right For real.
Speaker 4:I wish you could too. I don't have to look at that.
Speaker 3:Enjoy your curio cabinet, enjoy the empty curio cabinet.
Speaker 1:You sweaty fucker.
Speaker 4:So real quick, no more than a minute, all right.
Speaker 1:Right, we're not going to talk too long, no more than a minute, yeah sure yeah, lou lou, well, well will be a minute, lou will be bbt, so it'll be 45.
Speaker 4:It's fine there's a feature we're fine, exactly um final thoughts on japan, like was it everything you hoped for? Did you do everything you wanted?
Speaker 3:go back no, you go for it.
Speaker 1:I gotta think about it um, I mean, I think there were, I think there were things that were that were good and were fun, and there's aspects of it that I really liked, like the cost of things, the variety of food, the quality of food. I feel like even you could go into a little tiny dive bar in the middle of a fucking alleyway in downtown Tokyo and the quality of food is better than some of the stuff that we get here where it's a fancy fucking restaurant and you're paying a quarter of the price. I think the mass transit is envious, like the fact that you know, the fact that we can't even get a fucking light rail to run between LA and fucking Vegas, because it's because there's so much bullshit and politics and all this stuff wrapped around it, that the fact that you can go to like you could go to a station, that the majority of your hotels and stuff like that are within five to 10 minutes of a station, that you can literally go anywhere in Tokyo, japan, no less, japan, right, right, yeah, you know. Um, without, without too much, without too much difficulty, right again, if you understand the language and you hear the announcements and stuff and understand it, it's going to be better. But even somebody like me who doesn't fucking know any of the language, I can find my way around right. By the end of the time that I was there I wasn't a pro at the mass transit, but I could figure it out Right, right.
Speaker 1:The passive aggressiveness of the people to where they they don't say no Got where. There were a few times where that was kind of annoying because I felt like you wasted a lot of time with them being like oh, you didn't make a reservation, you know type of thing, and you're like just say no, we're not going to serve you. Cool, I'll go to the next place, but instead you have this like back and forth of like a 10 or 15 minute. Let me go get my manager that's going to tell you the same thing you know that kind of was a little bit um I again.
Speaker 1:I mean we had this conversation a couple weeks ago. I'm too big for most things, so the size of things was pretty awkward, like the bathrooms and stuff like that.
Speaker 1:Some of the places were really small and the door frames and whatnot. Even sitting on the subway was the. You know I could tell, like, even if there was nobody near me and I sat down, like I could feel the cushion like a quarter of my ass, right Like the, where the little little, the little bumps were right, um, yeah, because they're bucket seats, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you sit down and you're just kind of like, oh, you're like naturally leaning because one edge or the other. You know so, but I mean, overall, I am really glad that I did it. I'm really glad I got to experience it with you guys. I think it was super cool.
Speaker 1:Um, the variety of stuff, you know, it was the, the way that the way that the society behaves and acts is very different, and so it was interesting to to see the differences. And, like I said, a big part for me was like going to places like hiroshima and stuff, where, um, you know, you're seeing the perspective of not the us were the best, were the, yeah, the, the. You know, the, the, the seeing the perspective of somebody else who was involved in, like, a major world war and how they view it and what they you know, lessons that they've learned and stuff like that. I thought was was super cool. Um, uh, cause we do like to beat our chest when it comes to that kind of stuff and stuff and and so going somewhere else where where it's more, uh, more I don't know what the right word is, but I guess more respectful I don't think that's the right word, but more like even-handed, I guess um was super cool.
Speaker 1:Uh, the, the parks and the, what they take, how they take care of them and the level of detail and uh, things like that. The temple's super cool. I love the idea that that you, when you build a temple, like they can't knock it down, like sorry, like that, that temple is down there forever. Right to me, I, I don't know, that's kind of. That's kind of stuff that's cool for me, because here they don't give a shit. We need to build a vaguely inconsistent temple. There we go, but here they would just fucking plow it over and it would be gone right.
Speaker 3:I mean they got an Ikea in Shibuya. We know we can get all the material to put it up, but I'm really glad I did it.
Speaker 1:I don't know if I would go back, but I wouldn't be opposed to it If somebody else was like, hey, I want to go to Japan and I want to go do these things and and I want to go do these things, and it was something that aligned with things that maybe I didn't get to do. My one biggest regret is I didn't get to go to a baseball game, but that regret is low on the list. Again, I had a list of things that I wanted to do, but there was nothing that I was like my trip will suck if I didn't get to do this because we got to do so much other stuff. So there you go. I give it four out of five stars.
Speaker 3:All right, not bad, your one minute was five, but hey, it works.
Speaker 1:It'll cut it down to one, because there were a lot of ums.
Speaker 3:Y'all are talking no, there weren't. You were pretty solid, all right, all right, let's see.
Speaker 4:Look, I went for celebration. I love celebration. Right, it is one of the best things that we do. You go to Celebration. Everybody loves Star Wars. All that hate bullshit that's online. It does not exist at Celebration Generally. There's a couple assholes here and there, but they're just being assholes, right.
Speaker 1:And sometimes you travel with said assholes. But see he wasn't going to.
Speaker 4:There's nobody hating on star wars, right. There's nobody's like oh race sucks, ahsoka sucks. Um, everything disney's put out has been horrible. Everybody's there because they love star wars. I just like being in that environment so that we started off with that. Um, I loved it, right. Um sure, we were on our feet 75 hours a day. It hurt, it was expensive, but I super enjoyed that. Japan itself. I honestly would love to go back. My whole family enjoyed it. We loved the vending machines. We loved the toilets, the trains, the toilets, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, the toilets. That's why I had it. We installed one last week.
Speaker 3:Whoa, I saw that photo on facebook and I was so jelly I was so jelly, I was like oh, it has a remote you put on the wall, you can adjust where the nozzle is.
Speaker 1:So you're right in the sweet spot, bro hell yeah you know, jack is sprinkling that too, forward, reverse, forward, reverse. He's getting full coverage.
Speaker 4:I have the cleanest taint, yeah, um but I try to poop.
Speaker 3:I try to poop before showers, now only before showers, just so I can enjoy it. He takes his nozzle off real quick. Oh girl, what did you do with my nozzle? It's our nozzle.
Speaker 4:Why is it brown? Is this corn? Why is there corn in the shower? We did so much though I mean, we saw Shibuya, we saw a lot of stuff in Tokyo, hello Kitty Ueno, went to Hello Kitty, kitty ueno but there's just so much just the, the kind of people we are, the kind of people I'm raising my girls to be at least the big one. There's just so much museums and culture and stuff that we did not get to see, like I would love to have gone hiroshima, the poop museum, so much other stuff.
Speaker 4:So we are definitely going back. Not even a question. A week doesn't go by where somebody's like, oh, can we go back? Actually, when we came back, my oldest had a sore throat and she wanted to get some cough drops before school. So I'm going down the street and I pull into this parking lot. There's a Walgreens, little Caesars, dairy Queen and the 7-Eleven. She's like I don't think 7-Eleven has cough drops here. This isn't Japan anymore, I'm like they do but we're not going to 7-Eleven. We're going to Walgreens.
Speaker 1:She's like where's the store with the?
Speaker 4:green cross. We need to go to the place with the green cross because that's the only place you can get cough drops. But no, we will definitely be back. Will it be before we do Europe? I don't know. It's up to Wai. She's really on a Disney Paris kick right now, so that might happen before a Japan trip, but we'll see. I mean, it was a lot of fun. The food was good, the people were good and I never felt like we were in danger. Sometimes you go to cities or you go traveling. You're like dude, this is sketchy as fuck. We didn't understand the language, but I didn't feel like people were creepy or anything. But yeah, we'll be back. Creepy or anything, yeah, no, we'll be back Sooner, rather than later.
Speaker 3:Probably Creepiest folks are probably us or the other foreigners, oh for sure we were the creepiest people there yeah.
Speaker 1:By far.
Speaker 4:Yeah, all right, lou, we got 13 minutes before we hit the hour and a half.
Speaker 3:It'll be short Because it's so easy. I didn't really have anything negative to say. I planned on going to Japan anyway before Celebration even happened. I lived there three years when I was a kid. I wanted to go back. I was into anime for a long time, all these things that I knew. I wanted to go back and see what things were going to be like.
Speaker 3:And then the schedule just kind of happened to work out that World's Fair and Celebration were happening the same year and World's Fair started a week before Celebration and then I couldn't make it to London because, if you remember, I tried to get to London but I couldn't get tickets and it was like, all right, I'll just go to the next one. And it happened to be Japan Before they announced it in London. The moment they said Japan, I said I'm in. It was the same day, there was no question. I knew I was going. Then I found out about world's fair and it was like, okay, I'm going to try to add this into the mix. And it did take me till last minute to to lock it down, like last minute being like a month before. But a month before I said you know what eff it, I'm just going to go, which is how I got the night bus and just made it happen. So I knew I was going. Celebration was great, osaka was great, everything was great, so I don't need to duplicate what you guys already said. All that was fantastic.
Speaker 3:But one of the questions you brought up early on we started this segment was something you missed or wish you didn't do. There's a lot like we were basic. I was at osaka for a half day, realistically, and you know, from like eight in the morning to six at night, um, so there wasn't a whole lot down south, southwest that was done, uh, or upper north. I mean, there's only so much you can do in in 10, 11 days. Right, didn Didn't go to Hokkaido and Sapporo and stuff like that.
Speaker 3:Um, so is there another trip coming? Absolutely, the only question is is it before or after? You know 2028? And the answer is before, because 2028 is the latest I'm going, because celebration is 2027. So that'll be my big trip, spend all my money, and it's way more expensive in LA than it was in Japan, and I know that. So I don't want to do both trips. So then the question is well, can I go in 26 next year, lee, if the timing works out, where I can go in the fall next year, I will go in the fall next year. That's how much I enjoyed it. I do not want to wait to 2028. I will wait three years, obviously, if I have to, but if I can actually make it next year, I probably will. And this time for me, when I was there for y'all that don't remember I was in Okinawa. It's an island south of mainland Japan.
Speaker 4:That's where Karate Kid's from.
Speaker 3:Exactly where Mr Miyagi's from.
Speaker 1:And there's a new Karate Kid movie coming out.
Speaker 3:And it'll probably be on. Probably the sequel might even be out by then, so it could be really on point. But I would start there. I would start in Okinawa, since that's where I lived the first time. I was going to try to get there this trip, but I would have basically lost either Ueno or Shibuya. I would have lost one of those days to do it, or I would have lost a disney day to do it, and I didn't want to do that. So I was like you know what, I'll come back again, no big deal. So it'll be okinawa, two days there to be a tourist. Then I'll hang down south and hit the uh, osaka's and kyoto's and hiroshima and all that. Yeah, I'm basically down there. What is it? The deer, the Nara Park, yep, nara. So all that stuff will be straight tourists, because it really was a lot of focus.
Speaker 3:For me, celebration is what made things happen, and Tokyo, disney, and there was only like three days to be a tourist. This trip is basically next trip and it's basically all be a tourist. That's all they want to do. It's basically next trip, is basically all be a tourist. That's all they want to do. And then what I'll probably end up doing is do all the Southwest stuff, end up in Tokyo and end up with two more days in Tokyo and then leave from there. And then the next trip because there is going to be a third trip is going to be upper Northeast and that'll be Hokkaido and stuff like that, and again it'll be the cultural stuff. Stay at the hotels that are like the houses with the sliding doors and take your shoes off. I'm probably going to do all that cultural stuff, but I'm in Kyoto, the Ninja Museum and all the ninja history. The next visit will absolutely be more of a cultural visit than it will be anything else.
Speaker 1:So I absolutely love it. And the other half of DisneySea. The next two trips will be one third DisneySea, and then the last one will finally be the whole. You'll close that circle.
Speaker 3:Dude, you're not even kidding. That's what will have to happen just to get it all in. But yeah, absolute best. Obviously, the price is a very thing. Going to the convenience stores, the convenies, every day, basically every, I'm almost certain, if I didn't go every day, I averaged going every day a couple days. I went twice. So it was fantastic, absolutely loved it, and I I can honestly say we've been back four weeks and a day and I'm still there. My head is still there. I told a joke to these two guys last week and it was if I decide to switch jobs, I'm going to wait until I have enough money and it won't take that much like three extra thousand dollars. I can do it right now if I want to, three extra thousand dollars, and I'm going to take weeks off and go to japan for four weeks and then come back. That's how much I enjoyed it. So, yeah, there you go. I only used up. Yeah, we still got seven minutes, yeah, seven and a half minutes.
Speaker 1:Good job blue I didn't even talk about celebration dude.
Speaker 3:Well, wait, hold on hold on, duke. Seriously though you, you, you didn't like it enough that it's automatically on your list to go back, you're like you have to go with something you know I kind of feel the same way, like I kind of feel like I might be fine by myself. That's how much I know.
Speaker 1:And again, if, if we, if we have the conversation and we all go, okay, like this is what we all want to do, yeah, I'm totally down, but I'm probably not going to be the one to initiate that. When I was in my, when I was doing my layover in Honolulu, I kind of felt the same way as when I was coming back from Belize. Belize was great, like Belize was super cool, like I would totally love to go hang out there again and do all the stuff. But when I'm in, when I was in Honolulu, I was like, fuck, I could have just come to Hawaii and you know, like I would already be here, like I would have two days either way, like so to me, I guess I'm, I guess I wasn't blown away enough to like be like, yes, I have to come back here.
Speaker 1:There's definitely other places that I think I would want to visit before going back to Japan, like Europe and that type of thing of thing. Like like there's other places where if, like jack were to go, hey, we're gonna go and do italy and poland and we're gonna take the euro, pat, we're gonna get euro passes and we're just gonna travel through as many countries as we can make it in two weeks. Cool, totally down, let's fucking do it, you know, but I probably wouldn't initiate a trip back to Japan myself.
Speaker 3:So let me ask you this Go ahead, go ahead.
Speaker 4:You want to tea over not quality, that doesn't. That makes it sound bad. But you want to see everything before repeating.
Speaker 1:I mean yeah, I mean, if I had to choose between going to Europe and going to Japan, I probably would choose going to europe first, um, just for the different experiences, right, like I've already experienced japan. So if I go back, like we would have to do something like like lou was saying, if, if lou was like, hey, I'm gonna schedule a cultural shit and this, we're. We're doing fucking two and a half weeks, three weeks, of just cultural stuff. We're hitting all the temples. We're going to the, the ninja place where ninjas were born. We're going to this, we're doing that. We're going to the original temple, you know. We're going to the the emperors, blah, blah, blah, you know all of that kind of stuff. We're going to spend two days just going through museums. Lou will make it through two museums. We'll make it through 10 museums.
Speaker 3:Um, but if I had, I don't know, jack's older, she's reading everything, that's true. Okay, the two of them will be together. Again the buddy system.
Speaker 2:You guys will just stay and read everything.
Speaker 3:We'll catch up with you in the next season.
Speaker 1:You know, I would be totally down with that Because that would be different than what this trip was, which was very touristy, very big cities, very like.
Speaker 1:So, you know, and I went into Japan not knowing what I wanted to do, like I didn't know what I didn't know right.
Speaker 1:So I was trying to keep myself very flexible on what we did and I was glad that I did that, because it allowed us to go and do things and have experiences that I think if we would have had, if we would have been like at a tour group, we wouldn't have been able to do right, because either the time would have been too short or we would have made a left instead of a right, that type of thing. Um, there were some bars and some restaurants and stuff like that that we found while on traveling that we would have never found in a million years if we would have had an itinerary right, because, again, some of these places you're just wandering around and you turn a corner and you see a sign and you go, that sign looks cool, let's go check this place out. Right, you can't get that when you have like an itinerary of we're doing this and this and we have to be here at this time and we're eating lunch at this time or eating dinner at this time.
Speaker 3:So let's be real, that's not our style anyway, right? We come up with something like that, a basic idea, and then we might do the first one or two, and then we kind of just let whatever happens.
Speaker 1:So that's why I mean again, this is the biggest trip that the three of us have done, kind of together, right Like uh, by far and so. So you know the fact that we were able to make it work and the fact that we were all able to do everything that we wanted to do and for the most part we got to do it together. You know, I had my other group of friends that were along as well and I'm glad that I got to experience all the stuff that I did with them. You know was all to me it was like that, checked all my boxes, right, like there's stuff that I want to do in Japan, but I'm glad that I got like if I don't end up going back to Japan, I would be satisfied with what I did. I guess that's probably the best way to put it.
Speaker 1:The fact that I got to experience international celebration with you guys, box checked. If we never do that again, if we never go to Germany or London or wherever the fuck, they have it again. Cool, we got to do that once and that, to me, means a lot. The fact that we got to spend that. Lou and I figured out that we could share a hotel room for almost a week together and not kill each other. Boom Check, yeah, you know like.
Speaker 3:You know what's funny? There was actually zero issue with that.
Speaker 4:You know what I mean? Not one thing came up. Not one thing came up like oh man, that's because you guys were drinking every night, that's fair, that's fair.
Speaker 1:We did. You know what we?
Speaker 4:found the, the, the the reality is that we also, you know what?
Speaker 1:The reality is we found a common ground after all these years. Lou and I finally found a common ground which were lime, which were lime sours sours whatever beer of the night chicken nuggets chicken nuggets and beer solves everything, yeah exactly. I'm going to print Lou and I shirts and say that Chicken nuggets and lime sours solve everything.
Speaker 3:The question I was going to ask before Jack asked his was I wonder do you think your experience? You already kind of answered the question, but it was different because you were there a little bit a week before us and got to do some of the other touristy stuff already. Like me, I wanted to go to more, like the whole, what did you not do? I was like, well, I did a bunch of stuff, but I want to do more Izekiahs. That would have been on my list to do more of, but I'm not worried. Like that wasn't like oh darn, Cause I know I'm going back, so I don't care. It's like, okay, I didn't do that, Okay, oh, I didn't do this, Don't care, I don't have that. Oh man, I wish I would have, Cause I know I'm going back.
Speaker 3:And then to Jack's point with the uh, or both of you guys, I guess uh, go to Europe or wherever. Uh, before Japan, because we've already done Japan. I don't have that in my head at all. First of all, Europe as a whole is really not huge on my list. England, UK, is huge on my list. I'm a soccer fan and I want to go like if I went to Europe like a two-week football.
Speaker 3:Yeah, but I don't know what our fans are, so I have to make sure, If I say football, they're going to be like they don't play football in Europe. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1:So I was like I gotta be careful. Half our viewers are from Las Vegas, so you know yeah. So we make sure we keep it real but?
Speaker 3:but I would want to like get there in time to go to a weekend group of soccer matches and then do whatever, even if it's bounce around europe, batch around the uk and then, before I fly out, come back for another soccer match. I want to catch two, because that would be huge for me. But other than that, but even then, I'd rather you can't, I don't. Well, obviously, being half spanish, that would be on my list. I'm trying to go over like where my family's from, from the 1400s and stuff in spain or near the border of portugal. I try to keep that on the list, but I don't give a rat's ass about France, italy, the racist in Italy, anyway, they're assholes in France. So there's like these things were like.
Speaker 4:I don't care about that You've been to. You got to knock off all the castles, though. You got to go to Disneyland Paris, yup, I mean here's the thing.
Speaker 1:Here's the thing Lou was in the day before, lou flies out the day after. It would be. I'm not going to kid.
Speaker 3:I don't know what the public, how long it takes for public trans there, but I would be in the UK, england, something like that, spain, whatever and then I would. I would go to Disney, I would meet you at Disney and then I would get the hell out of there and go back to what.
Speaker 4:I was doing.
Speaker 3:I'm not even kidding. That is what I would do they have cheese on my list. They can have it. And all their hairy underpint women and their stinky everything using freaking cologne instead of actually taking a damn bath they can have all that.
Speaker 1:Wow, we've just now ostracized half of Europe. Thanks, lou.
Speaker 4:Wait, didn't he just say that the Italians are racist? And then this motherfucker.
Speaker 3:Yep, that the Italians are racist. And then this motherfucker Yup.
Speaker 1:Lou is prejudice. Lou is prejudice, not racist.
Speaker 3:Lou is very prejudice. He's not racist, he is prejudice. Learn the difference. Do you think you're going to be welcome in most of those European countries as an American? No, I have no interest in being a part of that, especially as a black dude. You guys would be better A black dude in Italy, not your friend. I want to go to Greece. I'm not going to be their friend. That's just how it is there. I get it. It is what it is, but I still will go to Greece. I will check out the architecture, I will leave. I want to go to Italy to check out the architecture. Then I want to leave. You know what I mean. I can't be hanging out there, though I don't have the interest, because I know how they are based off of what other people have told me.
Speaker 1:Real quick, lou. Is your interest purely in Japan or is it in Far East? Would you do Hong Kong? Would you do Shanghai? Would you go to Vietnam or Thailand or any of those?
Speaker 3:Or is it just purely?
Speaker 1:Japan Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I have no interest. Interest, uh, china, uh, for multiple reasons, but architecture I would want to go to shanghai for to see it you know there's a disneyland and everything yeah, you see, there you go. I would be fine with that. It wouldn't be top of my choice. But, like down south, we start going to thailand, philippines. I want no part of that at all, um you don't want the lady boys no, but here's my problem.
Speaker 3:My experience on the air force bases were a lot of these military things that is so appropriate it really is, but duh on the military. When I was working the grocery store bagging groceries, and it was just all the Filipino wives and the Thailand wives and they were all so rude and just terrible people. Again, I don't know that all of them are going to be like that, but that's been my experience.
Speaker 4:Maybe they've gotten better like the dentist Lou.
Speaker 3:Maybe, Maybe I learned after 30 years the dentist is fantastic. I mean, I didn't really. That was great. Matter of fact, I'm going to make regular appointments just because I can. Didn't we it's saw you, that's okay. I'm gonna come back again, hi.
Speaker 1:Real quick. I thought we I got a water pick for that.
Speaker 3:That's fantastic. I got a water pick. Oh, I'm loving that thing.
Speaker 1:I thought we had determined to.
Speaker 3:Oh, I should try it on my butt, oh, go ahead.
Speaker 1:One goes in your butt and one goes in your mouth. Lou, Nope, nope it came with six tips.
Speaker 3:It came with six tips. I can just mix them around.
Speaker 1:I thought we had determined too in text chat that they'll only love you half-time because of the tariffs.
Speaker 4:Probably, or they'll charge you extra.
Speaker 3:Yeah, either way, I mean they won't find me, no sorry they love you short-time not long-time. That's in China, for sure, those assholes whatever.
Speaker 1:But yeah.
Speaker 3:So I mean, I think, To answer your question, really Japan and then Europe. Like I said, for me it's going to be Japan. Before I go to any place else, I'm going to go back and, quote-unquote, finish what I didn't finish, and then I'll throw in some other and, like I'm almost for certain that when I do Europe slash UK, it's going to start it'll be a cruise with port stops around the UK and then it'll be a hop around Europe type of how about real quick, since we're talking about world travel and stuff any interest for either of you guys for South America at all?
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 1:Not for me.
Speaker 3:Too much crime too much AIDS. Yeah, as I said, between crime and disease.
Speaker 1:How much are you fucking, Jack, that you got to worry about AIDS?
Speaker 2:It's everywhere. It's everywhere. Jack's like I'm being a monkey in every single South American country, Don't they have?
Speaker 4:the green monkeys down there that started all this. I'm being a monkey in every single South American country. Don't they have the green monkeys down there? That started all this? I'm getting from the source Brazil this horrible.
Speaker 3:You probably won't ever Catch me in the Middle East or South America. Australia would be on my list. I still haven't done Mexico properly. Haven't been to Canada ever. So there's some like Canada might get knocked off on like some basic crap, like an Alaska cruise with a port in Vancouver. Okay, yeah, I've done Canada. You know it'll be something like that, or I'll just wait till their estate and then go there.
Speaker 4:Or we're a province. Maybe we'll be the 11th province. We'll see who wins.
Speaker 3:I don't care. Either way, get that free healthcare.
Speaker 2:Yep.
Speaker 3:But yeah, I would say, I don't know. I don't know if obscure is the right place, but if there's some not usually visited in my head I think it's not usually visited I'd want to go to, it'd be Iceland.
Speaker 1:My only interest in South America would be just the history, like the culture, like we were talking about with Japan, like going to those places, like some.
Speaker 3:Aztec shit. What's the first one that stands out Like the Inca temples?
Speaker 1:Like going and doing the historical type stuff.
Speaker 3:I gotta agree that wouldn't be terrible. I would have to avoid the major cities in South America because I've heard nothing but bad things.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 4:That's probably one that I Go on the Jungle Cruise. Same difference See the backside of water.
Speaker 1:The water backside.
Speaker 3:I'll just put the English to Brazilian translation and I'll pretend I'm hearing it in Portuguese.
Speaker 1:But yeah, well, there you go. I think we all really enjoyed japan again. Uh, mine was more about the experience. Glad I got to spend it with you guys. That was super cool. Um, you know, I will admit you're right.
Speaker 3:I didn't think we'd all ever do something like that. No god, it would never cross my mind.
Speaker 4:When we first became friends, I never thought like, yes, I'm gonna foreign travel with these fuckers.
Speaker 1:Well, and it's yeah I mean, the logistics of it just is so challenging. So for it to have worked out and for us, while we didn't get to spend the whole time together, like we got to spend a significant portion of each of our trips together, I feel like you know it, it really worked out like. So I'm happy that we did it. I'm glad that we got to do that together, so Agreed.
Speaker 4:Agreed and um yeah, so we'll wrap this up. We'll be back to our normal antics next week.
Speaker 1:Um, we got a lot of media to cover All the fucking media.
Speaker 4:Andor and Thunderbolts and uh.
Speaker 1:Andor's last of us. Mission impossible, mission impossible. You're on your own, I guess so.
Speaker 3:That's how I started. Wait, season 1 or 2?
Speaker 4:I watched the first season I was on Graves then the last season.
Speaker 1:The season finale Was yesterday or tonight, so you can binge it.
Speaker 3:If you want to. I know how the second game went and I have no interest in watching the second season.
Speaker 1:It's Pedro.
Speaker 4:He's so handsome.
Speaker 1:They have the stuff that I Wait.
Speaker 3:Do you know the story?
Speaker 1:Yeah, but the story that I've? Wait, Jack don't know the story. Oh, Jack don't know the story. Okay, never mind.
Speaker 3:Because he's like Pedro, is so handsome, so I'm like uh, he's not handsome for the whole season, cause, but they.
Speaker 1:Yeah, lou, for for my two cents. They and the stuff that I've read online and the videos I watched, uh, the I I never played the games. I wasn't about to drop $60 on a shitty PC port five years after the game came out Um, but the stuff, they handle the stuff, the those types of things way better than I think the game does.
Speaker 3:The stuff that I get the hell out of here. I saw a clip.
Speaker 1:I'm gonna be a daddy no, that's one line out of nine episodes, or eight episodes, so it's all take and they and my, my hate is strong.
Speaker 3:Oh my gosh, we're back to the hater's ball.
Speaker 2:Yeah, full circle, full circle.
Speaker 1:No but seriously, I'll probably watch it. Lou's picture just got replaced by Ice-T going hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate yeah.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:That coat reminds me of Afghanistan, bombed out and depleted.
Speaker 4:Watch those clips later.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the shorts from this one are going to be, oh my.
Speaker 3:God.
Speaker 2:All right, get out of here.
Speaker 3:First full circle hate. All right, y'all. We're back to regularly scheduled programming with some pop culture, TV shows, movies hey, is it almost? Well, Hayden's never going away. Do we need another movie trailer?
Speaker 1:thing, maybe two weeks We'll talk about summer movies.
Speaker 4:A couple weeks probably, I got.
Speaker 1:EDC to talk about and we got a ton of media stuff next week.
Speaker 2:Tune in.
Speaker 1:It'll be a blast. We'll be here.
Speaker 3:You know what I was going to say y'all do tune in, because we don't even know the EDC story yet. We haven't even heard about it. We haven't heard it yet.
Speaker 1:Jack just needs to make sure to log his wife out of fucking Facebook Marketplace an hour before the podcast next week though.
Speaker 4:I'm about to put it on a shared calendar, just so she don't be forgetting. Reminders every five minutes, every five minutes, all day, sunday. Jack podcast, jack podcast.
Speaker 3:No, then she'd turn it off.
Speaker 4:And she'd forget. Then I'd bitch right back in.
Speaker 3:Oh man.
Speaker 1:All right, boys, you have yourselves a good week Thanks for listening.
Speaker 3:He soundproofed the casita just so he wouldn't get in trouble.
Speaker 4:He's not lying.
