Convenience Stores, Melon Soda, and Small Cups: The Unexpected Joys of Traveling in Japan

Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, what up y'all?
Once again, it's just me andone other person.
I'm clearly the only one inthis throuple that doesn't have
a life.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Or your life is your day ends on a Sunday sooner than
ours, that's all.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
This is true it's a Sunday.

Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, so last week week I was out Meeting old
girl's friend and it went waylonger than we thought it was
supposed to be.
It was supposed to be like Idon't know Three o'clock to like
five o'clock, but Everybody gotalong, so we were just kind of
chatting.
It was, finally, one of herfriends that Didn't get on my

(00:41):
nerves, so it worked out.
She's super cool Going throughher own drama and whatnot.
One of her friends that didn'tget on my nerves, so it worked
out.
She's super cool, um, goingthrough her own drama and
whatnot, but whatever, aren't weall yeah Right, for real, it
was a good chat.
So, uh, and Duke, duke is busy.
Uh, this weekend, uh, we'll lethim talk about it next week, I
guess, playing at the candycasino at EDC, edc.

Speaker 1 (01:04):
I can't, I cannot with that music.
I would go for the people music.
I would go for the peoplewatching, but the music meh.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
I think I agree.
The people watching wouldprobably be super fun.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
But I have my own headphones on listening to my
own music.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yeah, yeah, I don't know if I could even tolerate,
I'd have to block it out somehow, whether whether it's uh, just
earplugs to just block it outcompletely, or, like you said,
put on some headphones, listenmy own shit, because uh, I and I
go live.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
I can't even see you listening to that, right like no
but he said last week they weregoing to a concert too about
some electronica house music orsomething up in seattle or some
shit it's like no no, yeah,there's like I can't think of a
scenario where I would go tosomething like that well, the

(01:59):
concert or whatever it's, juston the music.

Speaker 2 (02:01):
It's like I you know I go freaking crazy not gonna do
it, um, so yeah, so we'll geteverybody back next week, uh,
memorial weekend, uh, I think,uh, maybe are you, are you uh at
disney next week?

Speaker 1 (02:17):
no, actually we are not whoa holiday weekend
opportunity to go no, um, we'regonna check them res to see if
there's any open no, uh, wifeand little one are going to go
that week, but not that weekend,oh okay oh, because we have
hamilton on saturday oh, that'swhy.

Speaker 2 (02:36):
Okay, wait the the where the person is, back again,
no, no, no, no, oh, okay herein town.

Speaker 1 (02:43):
Oh, he's not.
That person's not traveling,did that?
No, no he's, yeah, he's doingthe new york, yeah, yeah
broadway, okay, okay no, sothey're gonna go I don't know
sometime next week wheneverschool's officially done for
teachers okay, so next.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Okay, so memorial day is monday and then they're
going sometime between Tuesdayand the weekend.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Yeah, they'll be gone .
Big one will be gone to archerycamp.
It'll just be me All by mylonely.
How long is?

Speaker 2 (03:13):
archery camp Two or three days.
Did she do it last year?
Yeah, oh, wow, I don't rememberthat.
Oh, that's cool, man, man, wecan do it yourself.
All that time, shit.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
My alarm's not going off at 6.30 in the morning
anymore.
I'll tell you that much.

Speaker 2 (03:33):
Man, you ain't lying.
The alarm here goes off when itnot for me, at about 5.45, 6.
And then mine goes off at 7.
7.15,.
One of the two depends on if Ineed to shave or not that
morning.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Oh man well, one of those days I do have a dentist
appointment to deal with oh man,my last one was Friday.

Speaker 2 (03:57):
So, yeah, feeling much better, loving it.
My next appointment is thefollow up on June 6.
So yeah, I guess I have acouple of old root canals
feeling much better, uh, lovingit.
My next appointment is thefollow-up on june 6th.

Speaker 1 (04:06):
So yeah, I guess.
Um, I have a couple of old rootcanals and there's like
abscesses or something underthem.
Oh so I guess I gotta take thecap, but they don't hurt.
She's like so are you feelingany pain or anything?

Speaker 2 (04:18):
I'm like no, I'm good well, if you don't have the, if
you don't have the nerves andyou're not gonna feel right,
that's what.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
I'm saying.
So I guess I got to, like, takethe crowns off and I don't know
, pack medicine in it orsomething.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Oh they just give you a script like an antibiotic.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
No, well, I mean no, they're going to have to like,
take the caps off and like putmedicine that's what mine was
because the abscess of theinflamed tissue.

Speaker 2 (04:45):
So they just gave me a script and said take this
three times a day for a week.

Speaker 1 (04:49):
Oh, that's weird.

Speaker 2 (04:52):
Okay, whatever, getting our shit together.
Next thing, you know, I'm goingto come in with some braces or
something.
I'm going to get it all fixedand I'm cheap, so I'll have all
the silver showing in the boxget your rubber bands changed
for the holidays and there's aline do all this.
I'm like, how much more is that?

(05:13):
It's like twice as much.
Nah, I'm good, I'll just justput on that silver and or
whatever and give me a bag ofrubber bands.
I need to.
Exactly, it's like four july, Iguess.
The red, white and blue ones,right, halloween, black and
orange.
Yeah, it's actually it's liketwo years.
It's fine, I'll rotate.
I got I got.

(05:34):
I got holidays coming up.
I can get some pastels forEaster, thanksgiving, browns,
yellows and oranges.

Speaker 1 (05:39):
That's what my wife did when she had them.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
She had like red and green for christmas and shit oh
yeah, that's actually prettycool, although I will admit I
don't.
I don't give a shit, like mybottom teeth.
I know they've been like thisfor 50 years.
Uh I, why am I?
Why am?

Speaker 1 (05:52):
I not.
If they ain't hurting you,they're not messing with you.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
No not at all.
I could eat properly with them.
It's like it was messing up theway I ate or overbite.
If it was like grinding, ifthere was actual issues, then
yeah I would have, especially atthis point now that I've um,
I'm on the track, I'm good.
So yeah, y'all.
I was like aiming to getdentists forever because I had
like trauma when I was a kid.
The shit hurt and all this.
I didn't know.

(06:15):
Everything's changed.
Like they numb everything.
You don't feel anything.
If it's super bad, they'llknock your ass out, uh, and do
some stuff.
I didn't know any of that stuffbecause I was like being too
afraid to go for the lasthowever many years.
So, yeah, I was like mm-mm.
So then got that abscessstarted hurting, went in, they
did what they had to do over thelast three weeks and it was

(06:37):
honestly feels fantastic, feelsgood to do Follow up in a little
bit.
So yay me.
So all y'all out there, ify'all had trauma when you were
younger, don't worry about it.
They handled that.
It's no longer a problem?

Speaker 1 (06:50):
yeah, dennis is not as scary as it used to be when
we were kids.
No, not even a little bit.

Speaker 2 (06:55):
So after my first visit I I you know sweating in
the chair just freaking outwhat's gonna happen.
Then they did what they had todo and I was like, yeah, but I
didn't feel anything.
What's what's going on?

Speaker 1 (07:06):
with this.
What do?

Speaker 2 (07:07):
you mean right, it's like yeah, we're, we're, we're
done, you can leave.
I'm like what?
Uh, don't get me wrong.
It's not the most comfortablewhen the numbing shit wears off,
but it doesn't hurt, it wouldjust right.
Yeah, it depends on what'sgetting done, like the last
couple was just the cavity fillsand now it is pretty

(07:27):
straightforward.
The worst part was, honestly,is the numbing didn't wear off
until like six, seven hourslater.

Speaker 1 (07:34):
That was the worst part you try to drink some water
, just dribbling down your chinYep.

Speaker 2 (07:39):
You just spill it all over you.
I'm leaving my head back.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
Let me try a straw.
Nope, you can't even suck, nomore.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
You're like you had a stroke or something.
You just look like a strokevictim.
You really do so I'm allleaving back and doing the
portals of my mouth and whatevermakes it makes it.
That's kind of what I did.
So it was pretty funny.
But no man, I could not believewhen I was done.
I could not believe when I wasdone.
I could not believe, like, like, what, like, seriously, that
was that's it.

(08:06):
They the whole prenum Yep, it'sa godsend.
That whole needle they put inyour gums and shit.
You don't feel it because theyprenum you Nope.

Speaker 1 (08:15):
You feel the pressure Like from the pushing a little
bit.
That's it.

Speaker 2 (08:19):
Yeah, but you don.
And uh, yeah, now it's like, oh, let me schedule everything.
Like, what else is wrong withme?
It's like, what can we do?
It's like, oh, let's do this.
Okay, I'm fine, do it.
It's like I mean, yeah, but I'mtaking care of it now even got
myself a water pig.
Hells, yeah, and actually it'sa cool place to like give us a
google review and uh, we'll giveyou a water pick.

(08:39):
I'm like what?
I'm like okay, so yeah, so sureenough.
It was like I didn't show, Ididn't feel shit, I did it.
I was like, yeah, everythingwas great.
They didn't shame me for notbeing in here in a while.

Speaker 1 (08:54):
It was like some of them.
Do they like some of them dotalk shit, though.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
No, they got a straight five star just for not
fucking with me.
So I was like all right, cool.
And then then I'll do all right, cool.
And then then I'll do my umfollow up in June and then I'll
do because it's been so longI'll do every three months
instead of six until I'm good togo, and then it'll switch to
the proper six and then I'm andI'll keep up with it going
forward.
Like I said, if I'd have went along time ago Anyhow, Well,

(09:26):
your tooth actually started inJapan.

Speaker 1 (09:28):
We were about to take you to a Japanese dentist.
Dude for real.

Speaker 2 (09:32):
I did look one up too .
I looked it up to see if therewas American speaking, and there
were.
I was like I want to make sureI'm covered, just in case I had
to go.
Jack had a bunch of Tylenol andthat honestly helped and I was
kind of fine with the Tylenol.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
But just to make sure this is actually a good segue.

Speaker 2 (09:58):
That Sunday night after the celebration I
separated from the pack and,like I was saying, I went home,
went back to the hotel, took anap, showered and went and took
the train down to Osaka.
The first thing I did when Igot to Osaka was go to probably
Family Mart or Law Center and Ipicked up their version of I
guess it wasn't one of those, itwas kind of like the equivalent

(10:21):
of a Walgreens.
Whatever store it was, it waslike a Walgreens.
And I picked up ibuprofen sothat way I could do the cycle of
acetaminophen and ibuprofen.
So I got that and for the restof the Japan trip I was actually
fine going back and forth withthe Tylenol and the ibuprofen.

Speaker 1 (10:34):
Yeah, you didn't do much after that.

Speaker 2 (10:37):
After that I did that .
I think it was fine.
After I got the Tylenol stufffrom you on Saturday I think it
was when I first got it, becauseI think we still had your
bottle for a while, so that'swhen everything—I was like oh, I
don't really feel this all thatmuch, so I'm good to go.
So my plan after Celebration andeverything was to go to Osaka.

(10:59):
I was going to take the nightbus, get there and do whatever.
To take the night bus, uh, getthere and do whatever.
So I get to osaka first, uh,and I figure out where my bus
station is, which is not too farfrom the actual, it's in
shibuya.
Uh, I was still in tokyo y'alltrying to get to osaka, so I
went to shibuya.
Uh, no, shinjuku, shinjuku,yeah yeah, yeah, we did that on

(11:22):
on wednesday.
So I went to shinjjuku and foundout where the bus station was.
It was like down the block fromwhere the train station was.
So that was no problem.
Like okay, I know where I'mgoing, good to go.
And I had about three hours tokill, four hours to kill.
It was about three or fourhours to kill.
So I was like, all right, letme kill it.
So that's when I went to thestore, grabbed what I needed

(11:43):
from there and then I went tothe touristy area and I was
looking for like okay, I needsomething to eat.
What do I want to do for dinner?
And I knew I wanted ramenbecause I hadn't had a ramen yet
since I've been there and Iknow in Japan it's like street
food, peasant food.
I don't care, I like it.
I would have had it every day.

(12:04):
So I'm walking around.
The touristy area Was wild.
It was super packed and youcould definitely tell Not a
whole lot of Japanese peopledown there.

Speaker 1 (12:16):
A lot of Australians.

Speaker 2 (12:17):
Because it's close for them and Europeans.
I might have overheard speakingListening with an American
accent.
I might have overheard speakinglistening with an American
accent, quote-unquote accent.
I might have come across fiveor six people.
Everybody else is Australian orEuropean and maybe a handful of
Japanese people, because Iimagine, living in Vegas when I
lived in Vegas, we'll be atourist every once in a while.

(12:39):
Right, it's like, oh, let'sjust go with a friend or
whatever, let's be a tourist andcheck out that.
So the Japanese people thatwere there were probably that,
but I'm talking maybe 15, 20% ofthe people that I came across
were Japanese.
It was crazy, that's crazy.
The night it was getting bright, stuff everywhere, food options
everywhere.
It was wild.
So I make my rounds, I go up onestreet and then there's alley.

(13:02):
You will learn this if y'all gothere.
There are alleys inside ofalleys, inside of alleys.
So you just walk and then youturn here and then you turn.
It's like I don't know where Iam, but you basically you're in
the middle of the shoppingdistrict.
You just don't know how you gotthere because you just kept
walking through alleys.
Um, eventually I did walk aroundeverything first.
Uh, I found a place early on inthe walk but was like, let me

(13:22):
see if there's something elsethat stands out and blah, blah,
blah.
So nothing, walked around, cameback to that place.
It was super cool.
I was able to charge my.
I got in a small place.
There's like a table for four,a table for two and then like
bar seating.
For the rest of the way it wasa very small place, got in no

(13:43):
problem.
There was like three seats openon the bar so I grabbed one,
grabbed myself a beer.
I think I might have got awhiskey, can't remember which.
I got one of the two with mywater and my ramen and some
extra pork for my ramen, extrameat.
Yeah, they had chargingstations right there at the
table so you could just plug in.
So I did.
You know, I was like I assumedthat there was going to be

(14:06):
charging on the bus and I didhave my backup battery backup.
So I was fine.
Yeah, food was great, loved it,got in, got out.
So that's kind of the thingwith ramen.
They don't expect people tohang out too long.
They want to clear the table sothey can cycle in, cycle out,
out.
So I went back out, did somemore walking around for a bit.
The whole process took like acouple hours walking around and

(14:28):
eating the whole thing, like,all right, let me, let me go
back to the bus station and justI'm done here.
I had about an hour and a halfto kill.
I was like, well, there'snothing I really want to do, so
I'll just head back.
So I start heading back to thebus station and I crossed the
the street and there's a bigcrowd at this corner and then I

(14:49):
cross the street.
All of a sudden I'm looking atpeople looking behind me.
They're looking.
I'm like, ok, what the hell areyou looking at?

Speaker 1 (14:56):
At the same time.

Speaker 2 (14:58):
that was my first thought.
I ain't gonna lie, that was myfirst thought.
I'm like I don't know.
I can't remember what's hereand what's not.

Speaker 1 (15:03):
But I was like what the hell is that?

Speaker 2 (15:04):
about.
At the same time, when Icrossed the street, on that side
of the street was some Japanesestreet performer I guess they
call them idols out there and hewas just rapping.
He was just doing his thing,trying to push his CD that he
had for about $12.
I was like, all right, but whatgot my attention was obviously
he was doing his thing, but thepeople looking up.

(15:25):
So I turn around and I look upand it happens to be the corner
where the holographic cat is onthe billboard, the big billboard
that you may have seen inYouTube videos people.
So it was super cool.
I'm not going to lie, this catwas adorable.
The biggest problem I had withit was it would be like the cat

(15:45):
for 30 seconds and then like 5minutes of commercials, and then
the cat for 20 seconds and then5 minutes of commercials.
It was like what the hell?
So I was getting clips live.
YouTube dude for real.
It was so funny because I'msitting there and we had a
discord chat going for our group.

(16:06):
So either between that or Jackdirectly, I couldn't remember,
but I would take the 30 secondvideo, then I'd send it.
I'd take a 30 second video,that I'd send it, and at the
same time I'm sitting therebopping up and down to this idol
on the street with his JapaneseM&M doing his thing and I'm
just like all alright, this ispretty cool.

(16:27):
And then I stepped a littlecloser to the street so I can
get more pictures of the cat andeverything.
I ended up doing this for likehalf an hour.
I was like I don't haveanything else to do.
Wrong, I spent 30 minutes justchecking out this cat and
listening to the dude rap.
When all was said and done, Ibought his CD.
I think I talked about it in anearlier video.

Speaker 1 (16:47):
But yeah, I think I showed the CD.

Speaker 2 (16:49):
But yeah, I still haven't played it yet.
My old laptop does have a CDplayer, so that's good, so I can
play it.
I just haven't done it yet.
So if it's good, jack, don'tlaugh because you're going to
get it.

Speaker 1 (16:59):
I'm going to burn it.

Speaker 2 (17:01):
I'm going to rip it and then pass it over to you.
I'm like, here you go, but itwas good music.
I'm not going to lie.
The beat was good.
He sounded good.
I was just like, well, if I'msitting here bopping to it let
me make this help my brother out.
So yeah, exactly so, finishedthat up, got to the bus station,

(17:22):
went to information, just so Iknew where I was going, and that
was pretty simple.
The lady just told me, like hey, you're busting that.
You know this letter, thisnumber.
Ok, so I went and got somesnacks from the vending machine.
So I had stuff for the trip,uh-huh, got me some pokey sweat,
uh-huh I think.
I got pokey sweat and somegrape, some grape drink.

(17:43):
I mean, come on, you know, Igot some great drink.
And then I went to my spot andjust kind of sat there and I had
at that point maybe about 45minutes to kill people watching,
or was it decent?
people watching, since it wasall touristy if I stayed inside,
it was because I was when I didthe information thing.

(18:05):
I stayed inside for was becauseI was in when I did the
information thing.
I stayed inside for a bit, wentto the bathroom.
Um, uh, oh, my god, the women'sline, the the men's line, uh,
no problem, right, whatever,right, the women's line.
You thought it's bad?
No, it, that women's line?
I think.
I think I counted it was 47steps.
Wow, so, yeah.
So when I left the men's, therewas a line coming out.

(18:27):
Then, when it got to thestraightaway part, I was like
what the hell?
So I started counting and itwas 47 steps.
So I got to the back of thewomen's line.
Wow, it was.
That line was crazy.
And the thing is they're likethat I was.
I think the bus station was onlike the sixth floor or
something like that fourth floor.
Just go down a floor there'slike there go to that one.

(18:48):
I don't think these women knewthat or whatever.
I not only knew it because Icame up right, so I saw it
coming up.
I was going up the longescalator straight to number
four but you could look to theside and it's like, oh cool, the
baskins here about them.
But and I would have done thatif the guys was crazy, but it
was fine.
So, oh my god, yeah, it waswild.
Um, in there there were somedecent people watching some.

(19:11):
Just some, some charactersmaybe looked a little.
I'm like all right, that's alittle odd, but whatever.
But once I got inside to wheremy bus was, where the waiting
spot for my bus, um, it was justpeople chill.
I was polite and like I movedat one point so two people get
set together, just the way I wasseated.
What broke him?
I was like, oh, let me moveover, here, you two can sit

(19:32):
together and they they didn'treally speak much english, but
you could tell they knew whatyou were doing yeah, yeah, and
they did the whole you know bowthing like thank you, thank you,
um.
So here's what was trippy for me, man, people talk about
Japanese on time, their schedule, their punctuality.
This was no joke.
My bus wasn't until 11.30 andthis was probably like 10.40.

(19:56):
Well, there was an 11 o'clockbus coming and 10.50 on the dot
that 10 minutes, everything is a10-minute wait.
10.50 on the dot that 10minutes, everything is a
10-minute wait.
10.50 on the button.
A bus pulls up right there andthere's the announcements being
made, people checking yourtickets and everything.
All those people lined up andgot on the bus and then, as soon

(20:17):
as that 10 minutes was up, 11o'clock hit, boom, gone.
It's like if you're runningdown the sidewalk and this is
your bus, too bad, they were notgoing to wait for you.
That didn't happen gone.
It's like if you're runningdown the sidewalk and if this is
your bus, too bad they're.
They were not gonna wait foryou.
That didn't happen.

Speaker 1 (20:26):
I didn't see that happen to anybody, but that was
they knew they knew that the busis gonna leave, so they were on
time.
I mean we experienced that withthe train, though.
I mean it was true thathappened to you right, yeah like
if that train's supposed to bethere, you better be on it.
So we started that became partof our train routine.
Okay, it says this train's at740.

(20:48):
Whatever trains are at 740,we're on it because that's got
to be the right one.
Yep, and I think thatpunctuality I think we doubted
it once and that's that fuckedus up for a little bit, but
after that we were like, not ifit's here, if we're here at 740
and the trains are at 740, wejust need to trust it and get on
the train.

Speaker 2 (21:07):
And remember that couple that had just arrived.
When we were leaving thatSaturday, I told them the same
thing.
That was one of the things thatI passed on.
I was like, if you're not sure,just look at the clock.
They are very punctual here andif you're supposed to be on a
740 train and it's 736, that isnot your train unless it stays

(21:30):
there for a minute, becausesometimes they would stay there.

Speaker 1 (21:32):
I told them, unless it sits there, the doors are
open, it's not moving thenthey're waiting for this and it
will leave at 740, so you betterget on it.

Speaker 2 (21:40):
Yes, get on it now because that happened to us a
few times we're like I'm notsure if that's because we're
supposed to be on this time, andthen we go through it and it
was like okay, it's waiting, soit must be ours.
So we did that and we learnedit again.
It probably took us.
So, honestly, I would say thatsunday, because I took the
remember I took the train backby myself from celebration to

(22:01):
the hotel and then down toshinjuku, yeah, and I had no
issues that day, that sunday,yeah.
So I would say it's probably athree-day process and by the
time that third day came aroundit was a cake saturday when we
left and when I bounced aroundto four different cities looking
for magic cards uh, I wasbouncing all over the train
system and it was clockwork Iwas like, nope, I got this.

(22:22):
I know exactly.
I didn't make one error.
Um, the hardest part wasprobably the bigger stations
finding the exit it was.
It was like where the hell isthe exit.

Speaker 1 (22:33):
Am I going?
To the right because like theyhave different exits, like
there's a center exit and thewest exit.
You're like I don't see a signfor I'm looking for the west
exit but I don't see it.
But you know they'm looking forthe west exit but I don't see
it.
But you know what?
They all merge pretty well.
If you just go upstairs and youlook around, you'll see where
your train is I was just goingto say, but they're pretty good
about that.

Speaker 2 (22:53):
If you just go to one of the main areas, you will see
the signage and you'll havearrows everywhere.
If there's an opportunity for asplit, any kind of fork, there
will be a sign to tell you whichway you're supposed to go.
The hardest part, I think ittook us until I think it was day
five, until we realized thatthe arrows like whatever
platform, whatever you want toneed, the billboard is pretty

(23:14):
big and sometimes the platformyou want on this side, the
arrows on this side, but there'san arrow next to this one
because it's on the other sidebut it's a different billboard.
It won't match up.
So you have to make sure you'rewithin the right billboard.
But it took us like untilTuesday to figure that out.
We're going to Ueno.

Speaker 1 (23:31):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (23:34):
So, yeah, so it was just fascinating.
I'm not going to lie, I wasmore watching the train, and
that's the train, the bus systemand the timing.
I started watching the otherbuses after that and my OCD was
so happy just watching thesetrains go exactly on time.
It was just like I just had herhead tilted Like, oh, this is
so beautiful, just to watch it.
It was great.
Um, and then my my turn.

(23:56):
It came around.
So, which means 1120, uh, thebus popped up, I bus popped up,
I I went in no big deal and itand I did not do the, the
quote-unquote, uh, first classbus.
I guess it's like it's a busthat only seats 11 but you have
your own private pod andeverything to sleep.
I just took a regular, uh,what's it called?
Uh for a bus?

(24:17):
The tour type bus, right, yeah,like a greyhound, yeah, that
leans back.
Nicely, they did, did havepower and everything.
So, as a matter of fact, Icharged my brick and my phone at
the same time.
So it was pretty simple,honestly, pretty comfortable,
pretty easy.
And then we're on the road.
They made announcements.
This is a true story.

(24:37):
They made announcements andthey really weren't doing
English conversion of theannouncements.
They ended up doing them forstocks later on, but for the
actual whatever the guy wassaying, I had no idea.
So I actually pulled out myphone, did the Google translate
and was cause, I was right,every seat has a mic above it,
so I was just listening to thatand then I'd look and see and

(24:58):
then I'd go back.
I'd miss a few things cause inthe in-between, but overall it
was like we're gonna do this,we're gonna stop here, we're
gonna have a break.
I there's the stuff that Ipicked up and and all this.
I was like all right, that's,that's super cool.
And that was probably the mostI used.
Google translate was on thisbus trip, um, just so I could
hear the announcement.
So so, yeah, off we went.

(25:19):
It was great.
We stopped somewhere, I don'tknow after.
After a couple hours I slept.
I mean, almost the entire timeI slept, so I couldn't tell you
too much about it Until, like Iwant to say I don't know, like
four hours, five hours into it,we actually hit a stop that had
a—the best—it was like going toa Bucky's.

(25:40):
To tell you the truth, theBucky's in Japan.
It had a big-ass store storelike a big ass rest stop area.
I did get off the bus there,went to the bathroom.
I didn't need any food.
They had food available, eventhough it was like four in the
morning.
Everything was available.
It was great.
Before I left, I got off thebus I looked for the like the
call sign of the bus.

(26:00):
I took a picture of it.
So I because, because therewere probably 12 other buses
there, if not more, there were apicture of it.
So I was busting because,because there were probably 12
other buses there, yeah, if notmore.
There were a lot of buses atthis time.
How it happens that they're allthere at the same time, I have
no idea.
You know how it happens wellthat's true purpose they're so
efficient.
They probably had that storeonly open for those hour and a

(26:20):
half or hour.
That there's.
They don't waste time and boom,but you?
But you're probably right,that's probably exactly what it
was.

Speaker 1 (26:27):
They warmed all the hot food, all the hot drinks.
They timed it for those busesto show up.

Speaker 2 (26:33):
Honestly, I wouldn't doubt that, because there were
too many there for that to becoincidence.
If two or three buses werethere, that's fine.
There was just 12 in my row,which is why I took the picture
of of the bus but there were.
There were others around.
I'm just saying there were 12in my row, um, so I obviously I
lined up where I was so I knewwhere I like when I get out of

(26:55):
the store I can line back up,and then when I did, I actually
I'm glad I did that.
I think I would have guessedcorrectly, but I did look at my
phone photo to make sure.

Speaker 1 (27:04):
Yeah, it was also like three in the morning, so
you don't want to be messingwith that.
Three in the morning.
No, not at all Not at all.

Speaker 2 (27:10):
It was crazy.
So I did that, got back on thebus and, honestly, I slept the
rest of the way.
So not much action going onthere.
I slept the rest of the way andthen we had three stops.
I think there were supposed tobe three stops, but everybody on
the bus like half the peoplegot off at the first stop, in

(27:31):
Kyoto, I think, is where we went.
And then from there we weregoing to Osaka because the next
stop was supposed to beUniversal Studios Japan.
I guess I was smart and didthis ahead of time.
I booked because I was going tothe World's Fair.
Right, my stop was actually atthe World's Fair.
I thought I was going to thebus station because I looked up

(27:52):
how to get the train from thereto.

Speaker 1 (27:53):
World's.

Speaker 2 (27:53):
Fair Turns out I guess I accidentally, on purpose
, got it right and they droppedus off right at right at the
World's Fair entrance.
It was super cool.
Um, at that point it was likeonce we skipped universal news,
japan.
I opened the curtains.
The couple across from me, theyopened their curtains.
The guy had to show me how todo it.

(28:14):
I was like I don't understandhow to use this thing and he was
like I was.
I looked at him and I pointedjust like this one he's like.
He shook his head and hepointed.
So I did that, opened it up.
That way I could see the kindof like as we're driving in.
So that last half hour or so weall the people who were who
were still there that were goingto usj, um or uh, we kind of

(28:37):
just had all of our windows opento look.
But then the bus this is where,again, I was using my
translator.
He said we're not going to usjbecause nobody left on the bus
was going there.
That's cool, yeah.
So I was like all right, we'regoing straight to Expo.
So we got there.
It opens at 9.
We got there at 8.15.

Speaker 1 (28:55):
Oh, that's perfect I found the bus?

Speaker 2 (28:57):
Yeah, it was.
It was great timing and youpre-ordered your ticket.
Yeah, matter of fact, Ipre-ordered my ticket for the
early bird.
So instead of 50 for the ticket, if you went within the first
two weeks of it opening, yourticket was 23 bucks.
Nice, so, yeah, so I I had apre.
I had a pre-bought ticket for23 bucks to get in.

(29:18):
I was good to go.
I did I between the night bus,the expo ticket and then the
bullet train coming back.
I did all that in like onenight in March, just knocked,
knocked it all off.
Um, yeah, so got there, found abig ass bathroom, went and
washed up and did all that, went, went to find a vending machine

(29:41):
to get some more pokey sweat,cause I drink, I drink my stuff
and I knew I had another 45minute wait, so I was like all
right.
So the way they did it, I wasprobably the first 50 people in
line when all was said and doneby the time they opened.
Yeah, there's probably 5,000people in line.
It was crazy, but it was kindof cool it was.

(30:07):
They moved this in sections.
It was like the whole zig zagthing going.
Whatever they took, everybodymoved them in over here.
It was like all right, then wewaited 10 minutes.
Then they moved this in overhere like all right.
Then we waited 10 minutes, thenthey moved this in by the uh,
actual gate entry so they couldscan our scanner tickets and
everything.
But it was weird that I I meanobviously well-organized.
I mean they split it up whereentrance for this people you

(30:29):
guys come here.
And then there was somebodylike off to the side.
Once they saw that that linewas too many, they said, okay,
your group, now come with us.
So they were trying to even itout for all the different
entrances.
Again, the efficiency wasridiculous.
So, yeah, perfectly fine, wentin.
Once 9 o'clock came, everybodycame in.
I was in within five minutesyou know less than that and just

(30:51):
was like I have no idea whereto go.
The only thing I knew I wantedto do was check out the Lacker
Globe.
It was a globe that was doneover the last couple of years.
I don't know if it wasspecifically for this, but they
were bringing it to the Expo.
It was the world at night.
So it was like if you were inspace and you saw the world lit

(31:16):
up at night with all the lightsand everything.
It was like this is super cool,and I saw that back in February
, I think, when I was looking upwhat I wanted to do at Expo,
and that was really the onlything that stood out.
Everything else I didn't wantto do all the reservations and
wait in line for this and thisperformance.
I'm not into that.

(31:37):
I just want to go say that I'vebeen here, walk around have some
food and then leave and go hangout in Osaka before I take the
train and they're done thatbutts t-shirt.
Yeah, that's exactly whathappened.
I did make it over to a coupleof the general booths.
They had big warehouses andit's like warehouse 1, 2, 3, 4.
And the different countries hada small 10 by 20 display area
and they could do what theywanted in that 10 by 20.
So I looked through two of them.

(31:58):
It was super entertaining.
I liked learning some of theculture of the other countries
and everything.
And as soon as that was done, Iwent and asked for info to where
the globe was and they sent meon my way.
It was like, yeah, it's overhere.
It was super cool, this bigglobe.
It's in a case, obviously soit's not to be messed with.
They went.
I watched all the videos thatwere as I walked up to it to

(32:21):
talk about how they did it andagain, it was over a couple of
years of different techniquesthey did trying to math it all
out to make sure they hadeverything right.
Yeah, uh, I believe it'savailable online.
So if you guys get a chance.

Speaker 1 (32:34):
I wonder if it's um.
You say it's lacquer Cause.
Uh, we were at the museum wewent to.

Speaker 2 (32:40):
Yeah, yeah, yeah we went to yeah, yeah, it was that
technique?

Speaker 1 (32:43):
Okay, yeah, because they kept showing that video
during the panels, like thecommercials between the panels
about this guy making a DarthVader lacquer.
It's called glitter art orsomething.
He was making a Darth Vader ofit.
Oh, that would be cool to see.
Oh, they had it.
Was it done?
Yeah, you could have bought itdone.

(33:06):
Yeah, you could have bought it.
It was the the headphone guys.
Oh, it was like the god,fifteen thousand dollar
headphones or something, becausethey're only like ten of them
made or something I didn't knowthey were that much dude but I
mean, you watch the videos ofhow they made that earth.
So it's the same thing,obviously on a smaller scale,
because I think it just goes onthe side of the headphones okay,

(33:26):
but um, but yeah, they onlymade like a handful of them.
They're like 10 grand orsomething good lord, and you
know what.

Speaker 2 (33:34):
They probably sold out too, oh 100 dude.
That thing looks sweet as hellthere's people with that kind of
money that would have.
Just, I mean, look, if I wonlotto I wouldn't, I wouldn't
care 10 shit.
If you won lotto, yeah, it'slike all right, I'm good.
But I was like.
I was like I spent ten grand.
My entire trip, includingtravel, was just under ten grand
.
So I was like man, so I buy someheadphones or come back again

(33:57):
for real twice right especiallysince I was going to say
actually japan itself would havebeen cheap if I didn't spend
like thirty five hundred dollars.
A celebration, oh yes,celebration was expensive, japan
was cheap.
Japan was cheap as F dude, butcelebration is where I'm looking
at.
I was going through looking atmy receipts, my budget and

(34:19):
everything.
Like you know how me, my OCD,I'm mapping everything out.

Speaker 1 (34:30):
I'm all like OK, 50, 50 of my money was spent that
celebration.
Yeah, 100, yeah, well, evenafterwards you remember we're
going around shopping.

Speaker 2 (34:33):
I'm like I don't need to buy anything but
everything's celebration.
I was when we were done.
Disney was it?
Yeah, and for me anyway, andfor you.
We didn't spend, obviously, thegirls went yeah, the girls went
crazy yeah yeah, the girls wentape at disney, but for disney
stuff.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
But I think you and I were like I need a pen.

Speaker 2 (34:51):
Yeah, you're right, like that magnet.
Is anybody seen the magnets?
I need a magnet.
It's like 300 yen, it's liketwo dollars, but you're not.
You're not kidding though, man.
When we were done withcelebration, it really was just
Because we talked about it,right, it was like you have
anything else left to buy and itwas like just whatever we get
at Disney, I'm like that's agood point, and we obviously

(35:11):
knew we were going to go toDonkey.

Speaker 1 (35:13):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (35:13):
And maybe at Daiso, but those are cheap Like dollar
stores.

Speaker 1 (35:18):
Yeah, they're dollar stores, it right?
I'm like, well, I was, we'll goget snacks, kit kats, whatever,
yeah, but I mean, once we weredone, honestly, once we were
done with celebration, the firstday after we got through the
store I was like well, well, thestore and the sponsor pins yeah
, yeah, once our pins were done,I was like all right, I guess
I'm good.

Speaker 2 (35:38):
Yeah because it was basically we each spent about
$1,800 at the store the firstday and then another $500 in
sponsor pins, because almosteverything was between $40 and
$50.
And we had 10 of them.
One of them you could buyoutright, One of them was free
if you just did their thing.

(35:59):
But we didn't do that until thenext day.
It was like $2,500 drop day oneand then after that was
whatever we we wanted to pick upafterwards, whatever pins big
pins yeah.
Roosevelt, so it still added up.
So it was like it was likeseriously, it was like I think I
think I spent three grand atCelebration and then like maybe

(36:23):
500 bucks everywhere else, yeah,for sure so it was really weird
how that played out, but Iguess not unexpected.
That usually out goes when wego to these celebrations yeah
you go to the store, drop 2 000right away, and then it's
usually unless there's somethingyeah it's, yeah, pretty quiet
after that, so, uh, but not toobad so so, yeah, everybody loves

(36:44):
your shirt, though afterwardsyour uh, world's Fair shirt.

Speaker 1 (36:47):
Every time you wore that, everybody was like, oh,
you went.

Speaker 2 (36:52):
So there's this mascot.
It looks like a creepy thingwith a flower head I have no
idea, he has like 30 eyes on himor some shit.
Right, I should go grab thatshirt, just so y'all can see
what the hell this was.
So I got this thing and hisname was like should go grab
that shirt, just so y'all cansee what the hell this was.
So I.
So I got this thing and hisname was like makioki or moki,
something like that, and all thepeople in tokyo and this is

(37:12):
obviously when I come back fromosaka.
I wore it the next day or theday after you weren't disneyland
dude the first, oh is itdisneyland yeah, you weren't to
disneyland, everybody wasstopping.
Oh yeah, you're right it, it wasDisneyland, because I was
wearing the Celebration badgeart shirt down in Ueno and
Shibuya.
But yeah, so disneyland, we'regetting ahead of ourselves.

(37:35):
But yeah, disney, I had thisshirt on and these people love
the mascot.
Apparently they it's.
Every stop we made like to getfood or a drink or something,
even the staff just getting usthrough the line at disney, they
were just all stopping us andthey're like, oh, and they say
his name or whatever.
And then they're like osaka.
And I'm like, yeah, I wentmonday.

(37:55):
And they're like, oh, okay.
And and I'm like, yeah, I wentMonday.
And they're like, oh okay.

Speaker 1 (37:58):
And they were all super excited about this damn
character.

Speaker 2 (38:00):
It was crazy, it was a bit wild, I didn't see it
coming.
Because I'm thinking well, it'sjust a thing, right.
It's like it's everywhere.
You don't even have to go toOsaka for it, you can go to some
of the gift shops at theairport Donkey had the freaking
lollipops and the stuff or someshit, yeah yeah, so it wasn't

(38:22):
like it was a big deal.
Yeah, uh, but they loved yeah,they thought it was a big deal,
uh-huh and that was and that was.
Actually I should have boughtit early on.
When I first walked in, I wentright right to the gift shop
because, again, having done this, I know the rules.
But they didn't really haveanything I liked at this

(38:43):
particular gift shop and it wasthe opposite side where I needed
to leave.
So I knew when I needed toleave it was a different exit
because that's where the trainstation was.
So eventually I ended up atlike.
Later in the day I askedsomebody if there's another gift
shop and they said yeah, andthey pointed on the map that I
had it was over here.
I'm like, oh, perfect, that'swhere the exit was I didn't need

(39:03):
to take.
So at the end of the day iswhen I did all my shopping for.
For that, I mean I didn'treally get a whole lot.
It was like a like my usual apin a magnet like my shirt.
It was kind of good to go, butthe fair, like I said, the expo
itself super busy, a lot ofpeople there.
There's this mile and a halftrack that goes around the
entire thing.
I walked it.
I thought it'd be kind of coolto do.

(39:23):
It got some pictures from upthere looking up over the ocean.
Some pictures inside.
You get looked up top lookingdown.
So it was, it was super cool.

Speaker 1 (39:31):
It's one of these things where you could probably
probably spend a week there,like five days, seven days oh
yeah if you really want to catcheverything yeah, if we live
there, season pass would be easysell on me yep, uh, the fact
that it goes april to october.

Speaker 2 (39:47):
Uh, living there I would have done the same thing,
I would have got a pass and then, like every so I like you know
what I'm bored, I'm gonna takethe bullet train if I'm in tokyo
.
We're not doing anything thisweekend yep, yep and Yep and
just hang out there.
Might do one of those cubbyholewhatever they're called capsule
hotels.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah Like if Iwas living there, go down there
on a Saturday morning, hang out,hit a capsule hotel, go out on

(40:08):
Sunday and then bullet trainback up.
Yep, if I live there, but thereto do just watching, like all
the lines too, because if youwant to do one of the things,
even if you have reservations,so so does other.
Everybody else, right, thatalso reserved.
So when I was up top, uh, onthat walk bridge and looking
down, I walked around and I gotto the part where, oh, there's

(40:29):
the usa one.
That was probably the longestline of all of them.
I was not expecting that that'sinteresting because, especially,
we were like, oh, like, oh, Ihate US, I hate US, I hate US,
whatever Wrong, not in Japan.
They don't that line granted, Iunderstand there's a lot of
tourists there too, but it was.
They actually had to do anoverflow line.
They had their zigzag up anddown by their pavilion and then

(40:50):
there was a big sidewalk.
Then you had to cross thesidewalk, then there was another
line and sidewalk, then therewas another line, and then they,
as I was watching, they wereputting up another set of
zigzags.
Wow, uh, because there are toomany people to go into the usa.
One, it was like holy crap, uh,no idea what's in there.
Uh, obviously I didn't, Ididn't bother with that.
Uh, I, the only ones I actuallywent into were those two, uh,

(41:12):
where you could just check outthe different, the 10 by 20s of
what each country did and andsome of them actually had some
representatives from the countrythere to talk to you about
their country.
So there's probably three orfour that I did.
I mean, I was trying to respecttheir time as well, so I
chatted with them and learnedwhat I could you know about
about some of their stuff, and Iwas like, all right, this is

(41:34):
super cool.
And then the, then the globe atnight, the world at night.
That's the only ones I actuallywent into once.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
I was done with all that again.

Speaker 2 (41:47):
Keep in mind.
I had a bullet train back atlike 6, 30, 6 o'clock so I and I
wanted to check out osaka aswell, some of the touristy stuff
, so I went and found some placeto eat lunch.
They had this food court.
Oh my god, everything lookedgood.
They had the wagyu, they hadtakoyaki for the octopus balls,
ramen, sushi, all your, all yourbasic stuff it was just they

(42:09):
had it all.
They had everything in this area.
It was super cool.
I ended up with, um, I think,like I know, I got the takoyaki
from the first.
As soon as I walked in I sawthat and was like, well, I'm in
Osaka, Well, takoyaki was quoteunquote born in Osaka, so I had
to have you know takoyaki fromthere.
And then I found, I think,maybe some kind of noodle dish
or rice dish or whatever it was.

(42:31):
So I ended up getting that andmy melon soda, because I was
drinking melon soda the entiretime.

Speaker 1 (42:36):
That melon fancy was your jam Yep, if it was
available, I was drinking it.

Speaker 2 (42:41):
There was no question .
So I did that, went outside acouple and you know it's
obviously exposed a lot ofstudents and everything.
I sat down and then a couple ofstudents came and sat down by
me and we didn't really chat oranything, but I was minding my
business, they were doing theirthing.
And so did that.
And then did it, did around,like I said, worked my way over

(43:03):
to the um, uh, the exit and theand the gift shop, and then
found the train station.
It was super cool Cause I waslike I'll be making sure I'm
doing this right.
So I found a person and said,uh, I'm just, I'm going to make
sure I'm doing this right.
So I found a person and saidI'm just, and I can't remember
the name of it.
It started with a Y, butwhatever the train station was.
So and I just like I justshowed my map on the thing and

(43:25):
he's like, oh, and he pointedAll I had to do was go out the
exit and he said, and then goleft.
This was literally like on site.
I walked out the exit, turnedleft and then it was like a
sidewalk to the entrance to thestation to go downstairs into
the train station.
It was like wow, they pickedthe perfect spot yeah.

(43:47):
Yeah, anybody going to thisthing, just take that train
station.
So if I, even if the bus didn'tdrop me off up front and I went
to the main Osaka- station.
I would have been taking thattrain right there and it would
let me out right there.
That was like, oh man, that'scool.
So so, yeah, pretty easy, wentthere, matter of fact, didn't
have to wait more than a coupleof minutes, my train was already

(44:07):
.
The one I needed was the onethat was coming.
Oh perfect, jumped on that,went to Osaka.
Osaka proper, I guess, osakaproper, I guess.
And that's when all thetouristy shit you see on the
YouTube videos, where everybodyhas the big signs of their food
or the person or whatever.

(44:27):
I got down there and was like,yep, just like the videos, and I
was the tourist, big old smileon my face, eyes, big it was
great I did.
I took a picture of every one ofthose signs that I had.
I took a picture of it and thenI found I guess it's real.
I don't know what it's called,but it's real popular.
It's like fruit on a stick.

(44:48):
And the fruit is like candied.
And there was, I grabbed theone with like strawberries and
grapes just to get the variety,and it was.
I grabbed the one with likestrawberries and grapes just to
get the variety, and it wassuper good.
This thing was probably 500 yen, so like three and a half
dollars.
Super yummy.
And a crepe, because I got acrepe at Celebration and I

(45:10):
wanted to get another one,because I don't know what's
about Japanese and their crepes,but they're all over the place
and they're fantastic.
I tried to get one the night ofwhen I was doing my Shinjuku
visit, but they closed as I waswalking up.
So it's like, oh, thatstrawberry banana one looked
really good though, so I got thefruit stick.

(45:30):
I stayed there because they hada spot for your stick, for trash
and napkins and everything Likewe talked about last time y'all
.
There's like trash cans nowhere, nowhere.
If you buy something someplace,they have a trash can and they
really frown upon you bringingother trash to their trash can,
and I knew that.
So I stayed and ate my fruit atthat booth.

(45:50):
I mean it was like a littlecart on the outside, but they
had a storefront.
I mean there was a building, soI did outside, but they had a.
They had a storefront, right, Imean there was, there was the
building so, but did all that.
I don't think, um, so I hadlunch at there, yeah, so I
didn't.
So I didn't do anything, uh,food wise, other than the snack
type stuff.
But yeah, I, if I was hungry Iwould have found one of those
places like the one with the bigcrab on it.
I probably would have wentthere because I had a big crab

(46:12):
on it.
I like crab, but uh, yeah, didthe touristy stuff, did all that
, walked around it's probablythree hours, uh, give or take,
taking pictures, eating that andjust again being a tourist
enjoying the space, um, I would,I think I would like to go back
there and spend more time there, for sure, uh, but it was fine
for what.

Speaker 1 (46:32):
I knew my plan I knew what I wanted to do I did it.

Speaker 2 (46:35):
And then I wanted to get to the station early for the
bullet train because if Imissed that I was screwed and I
knew I'd be screwed.
So I got there about an hourearly.
I worked my way over there.
It was I'm not going to lie, itwas confusing.
This station was huge.
People talk about Tokyo Stationand I got lost in Tokyo Station

(46:58):
once.
It was confusing, this stationwas huge.
People talk about Tokyo Stationand I got lost in Tokyo Station
once.
It was just matter of fact, theother end of this trip, because
it was so damn big man.
It was just like sign be damned.
It was just trying to getthrough all that stuff.
There's a mall underneath, inthe basement of Tokyo Station.
I didn't even get to it.
This place was so big.
Everything was fine.

(47:20):
I had an assigned seat for thebullet train.
That's how I did not do the noreservation card which you can
do, then it's first come, firstserved.
To get a seat I was like, nah,let me make sure I got a seat.
I picked, it didn't matter,there's no extra cost for it.
I picked, it didn't matter,there's no extra cost for it.
I picked Mount Fuji side, but Iknew I wasn't Going to see it

(47:40):
because it would be night timewhen I was coming back.
But you never knew.

Speaker 1 (47:44):
So I was like.

Speaker 2 (47:44):
I don't know.
Maybe it's daylight savings andI'll see something, but no.

Speaker 1 (47:48):
Northern lights or some shit going on Exactly
something.

Speaker 2 (47:52):
But no, it was.
I think I did grab At thestation some snacks and some
more poSweat.
That just goes.
If you'll have me say I grabbedsnacks, just assume it included
PokeSweat, because I basicallygrabbed the bottle.

Speaker 1 (48:07):
I'm about to sign up for a subscription on Amazon for
that stuff.

Speaker 2 (48:11):
Just have it come to show up, just rotation.
So the bullet train, it was an8-hour bus ride.
Eight and a half, let's see1130 to 815.
So eight hours, 45 minutes,with obviously stops.
So let's just say eight hourson the bus to get from Tokyo to
Osaka, osaka to Tokyo.

(48:32):
Two hours, 15 minutes.
That bullet train, obviously awall line 150, 150 miles, 200
miles an hour it was.
It was super cool at this point,walking around all day, I'm
tired.
So I stayed awake for like 20minutes to see everything
outside and just to see how thisthing is going.
Next thing, you know, I'mwaking up and we're like 30

(48:52):
minutes away from there were, Ithink there were two stops right
before tokyo stations.
Uh, did that and then, um,that's when, uh, if you remember
the story, a couple weeks ago,after duke was talking about, I
met up with him and his buddy sogot off at tokyo station.
It got super lost trying to getthe hell out of there.

(49:13):
First, because it was like Ididn't.
Because here's the thing, andit's same thing with what I got
to osaka to get to the thing andit's same thing with what I got
to osaka to get to the bullettrain.
It's a different.
I don't want to say it's adifferent section.
Oh, it's a different station.
It's a different section in thestation because the bullet
train stuff's over here, regulartrain stuff's over here so I'm
trying to work my way through it.
And the same thing when youleave, I'm like.
I'm like you know what, screwit, I'm just gonna walk this

(49:34):
direction.
And it worked.
I walked that direction andfinally I saw the signs to get
up to the main station, and thenthe main station was freaking
ginormous.
So it was.
It was like what the hell?
But I made it through.
I knew where duke and his buddywas.
It was one stop, so I just goton the train, took one stop, and
then I and it was like hey,here's where we are, gps to

(49:54):
start walking over there.
As as I got closer, he was likeI'm going to come outside so
you don't get lost, which is agood thing, because I got to a
house split.
Yeah, I couldn't tell what theGPS was saying.
I went left.
He was like, hey, lou, and hewas right.
So I turned around I was like,okay, thank God, and they were

(50:15):
at an izakaya so they had foodthat they had ordered and
whatnot and they had extras.
So at this point obviously I'mhungry, right, because I didn't
eat dinner yet.
So I joined them at the table.
We were only there about 15minutes.
I ate whatever leftovers theyhad.
It was whatever it was.
I couldn't tell you, I can'tremember, but it was good.
It beer while I was there aswell, or a whiskey I can

(50:35):
remember which.
Um, that was cool.
Then they wanted to go to acigar bar.
Uh, I don't smoke, but I don'tmind going.
And then I grew up my parentssmoking, um, and my ex smoking,
so it was like not a big deal.
If you guys want to do this,don't not go just because of me.
I'm still down as long as I canget a drink I don't care right,
um, so we did.
We left there, uh, went over to,uh, the cigar bar.

(50:57):
I wasn't too far away, wasthere for about half an hour or
so.
We were going to stay longer,but we wanted to make sure it
was late and Duke and I wantedto make sure we're going to get
on the train to come back to thehotel, because they stop at
like.
I think we found out at one inthe morning something like that
yeah.
So we didn't stay there too longbecause there was still another

(51:18):
place.
They wanted to go to one ofthose maid cafe-type places.
That Duke's friend was aregular there and they knew him,
so we would enjoy ourselves,right.
So we did.
We went there.
Next, we had a couple of drinks.
They bring out the littlesnacks.
It was like choose your snack.
I duke got him like mixed nutsor something like that, or
chocolate, um, or cheese sausage, I think.

(51:40):
Between the three of us we hada sausage, a cheese and some
chocolates.
So we just obviously split,split all of it and mix it all
together.
So that place was cool.
The girls were super cute, uh,super friendly, obviously doing
their jobs, uh, they'resocializing there.
When we got there, there wasone girl playing darts with the
dude, so she was doing her job.
You know, hey, stick around,buy more shit, um.

(52:00):
So we did.
You know, we were there, uh,for the remainder of the time
until it was like, hey, if we'regonna make our train, we need
to leave, right, and we gaveourselves some leeway as well,
so we missed the train.
We knew we could take the nextone, right.
When all said and done, we left, came back and by the time we
got back, the trains were goingto stop in 15 minutes, so we

(52:23):
made it plenty of time.

Speaker 1 (52:25):
And then as we did every night, you know it.

Speaker 2 (52:29):
Just like every night , we went to Lawson's, got some
snacks, whatever alcohol we got,did that in the hotel room and
then passed out, and that putsus into Tuesday.
That's where we met back up.
Duke was heading back out onTuesday y'all, so Duke wasn't
going to hang with us.
He was going to wrap this stuffup, get everything together for

(52:51):
him so he can make his way tothe airport.
I think he might have saw hisfriend that day before he left.
I don't remember he did havesaw his friend that day before
he left.
I don't remember.
He didn't correct us next weekon that one, but if not, he
slept in.
I woke him up to say byebecause I didn't want to be rude
, so we chatted for a fewminutes and then, yeah, then I

(53:12):
think that's when we took off toReno, right yeah.
So feel free to jump in in fromthere.
I've been talking for half anhour so shit, um shit, so yeah.

Speaker 1 (53:23):
So we took the train down there again.
We've mastered it pretty wellat this point, so we got down
there.
Decent, um, it's a big ass parkdude, yeah let me give you guys
an idea.

Speaker 2 (53:37):
Uh, without even the details.
We walked through this park andwe walked for a while and at
this, at one point we thought wewere on the other side, where
the museum, because we'reheading to the museum, right, we
thought we're over there.
Now we're like a quarter of theway through the park.

Speaker 1 (53:52):
Yeah, it was crazy huge I don't.
The lake had a bunch of koi init, so that was kind of of cool.
I was like why is the waterbubbling?
And I looked and it's just allthe fish just popping up to eat
whatever's on the surface.
We checked out one of theshrines oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
I forgot you actually went inside, right?
Yeah, little one wanted to goinside.

Speaker 1 (54:11):
Yeah, you and wife stayed out.
I think my big one came with us.
She did too.
Yeah, she was with you too,yeah, and the little one wanted
to buy a charm or something.
So she got like an eagle orsomething.
I forget what it was exactly.

Speaker 2 (54:25):
Did you have to take your shoes off or anything?

Speaker 1 (54:26):
No, so where we walked, no, but if you went up
on the platform, yes, butobviously we're not Buddhist or
Shintoist or whatever shrine itwas, so I didn't think it would
be proper to go up there.
You know, disrespect theirreligion, fair enough, I'll buy
other trinkets to fund theirreligion, but I'm not going to

(54:47):
disrespect their religion.

Speaker 2 (54:51):
I think, yeah, I think the shrines are, isn't the
shrines Buddha and the templeswere the Shintos?
I think so yeah, it might bebackwards but it's one, it's one
of the other.

Speaker 1 (54:59):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:00):
There was a temple and a shrine.
I'm like, well, one Shinto,one's Buddha.
Yeah, that's different.

Speaker 1 (55:05):
Yeah, and then we wandered over.

Speaker 2 (55:10):
Oh, there was the food on the side.
We didn't.
Did we get food from those?
No, no, we looked at all ofthem.
I don't think we, I don't thinkanybody, got food.
That's right, because if wewere gonna get one, we're
talking about the big crab stick.
Yes, it was huge, it was likeking crab on a on a skewer the
meat, and it was cheap too.
Yeah, we just weren't hungry atthe time yeah exactly I think
we had breakfast.

Speaker 1 (55:31):
Did we have breakfast at the hotel that morning?
I don't even remember.
This would have been did itmean you?

Speaker 2 (55:35):
you let the day mean you did breakfast.
I think so, yeah, yeah, I thinkso.
I think that was the day, meand you did breakfast, but the
rest of us joined.
Everybody else joined us later.
Yeah so, yeah, so we weren'thungry.
That's why we weren't hungry, Ithink yeah, they didn't want to
eat that.
Yeah, not at the time.

Speaker 1 (55:51):
Yeah, um, that is when we saw that dude walking
his monkeys, though that wasbadass.
Um, I feel like we talked abouta bunch of this already, though
.
Some of it we did, yeah, someof it, we did, but yeah, then we
made our way up to we did whattwo museums.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Two of the three.
Yeah, there's like threebuildings I guess each one is
its own separate museum withdifferent floors.
To like the first one we werein.
What was that?
Six, yeah, five floors, yeah,it's a whole bunch of it was
because we had five floors in abasement.
We didn't go to go to thebasement right yeah, we skipped
the basement and in the middlebuilding, and then there's a
left, but we didn't make it tothe left building because they
closed we were there frombasically like lunchtime to

(56:30):
freaking five yeah those arefive.

Speaker 1 (56:32):
Yeah, we closed them out, yeah, and then that's when
we went to um the animestarbucks.

Speaker 2 (56:38):
Oh yeah, the girls, yeah, the girls did the
starbucks yep yeah, it was thestar I was like did we stop
someplace?
It was the star.

Speaker 1 (56:44):
Yep, you're right, you're right yeah, it's a big
one wanted matcha.
Everywhere we went, she's likeoh, they have matcha time to
stop.
Yep, it's been 10.
It's been 10 minutes since I'vehad one.
Let's get one.
Um, yeah, no we did somethingthere's a zoo in ueno park and
we did not have.
There's a zoo too.
Yeah, well, again, we couldhave spent at least two, three

(57:05):
days there.
Yep, it was crazy huge andagain.

Speaker 2 (57:08):
We spent like five hours at the museum and didn't
finish it yeah exactly thattells you all you need to know
yeah and that's just one.
That was at the main tokyoMuseum.
We didn't even go to thescience and history one, nope.
Or the art museum which is alsoin Ueno Park people, this is
how big this is.
It's also there.

Speaker 1 (57:25):
Yeah, and I think there was even a school there
too, because there were allthose kids there.

Speaker 2 (57:29):
Oh, that's right, there was the school that was.
I forgot about that.

Speaker 1 (57:33):
Freaking huge.
It just means we have to goback to Japan eventually 2028.

Speaker 2 (57:40):
It's already on my calendar.
Not even kidding.
I talked to my niece, she's in.
So if you've got nothing goingon, don't plan a cruise in 2028,
unless you want to do multiplethings.
I was like I'm going to go backin 2027.
I'm like, no, I'm going to useall my money for Celebration LA.
Yeah for sure, and not try tosplit my funds.
And then 2028, there's nothinggoing on.

(58:02):
So I was like I want to go toEurope and all this, like, no,
as much as I want to go toEurope for the first time, I
want to go to Japan for thesecond time.
First, right, and part of it,honestly, is because we really
didn't have but these two daysto be tourists, exactly Tuesday,
wednesday, because we did, youknow, disney Thursday, friday.

(58:22):
Then we did Celebration, youknow Friday.

Speaker 1 (58:25):
Saturday.

Speaker 2 (58:25):
Sunday, so we really didn't have a whole lot.
So that's mainly why I want togo back to Japan before Europe
is.
I want to actually be a propertourist this time.

Speaker 1 (58:33):
Yeah, I'm not even mad at that.
So look forward to that MoreJapan in three years.

Speaker 2 (58:38):
Yeah, in three years, all 80 of y'all that follow us.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
And then we went to the what was it?
The anime district.

Speaker 2 (58:47):
Oh yeah, Akihabara.
Yeah, akihabara, and that'swhen we went to the little Dinky
Hello Kitty store, our firstdonkey store.
Which we thought was betterthan the second donkey store,
even though it's not the megathis is not the mega donkey but
it was better.

Speaker 1 (59:00):
You know what I think , mega donkey.
The problem was it was rainingwhen we were in shibuya, so
everybody was in there gettingout of the rain yeah, it was
more annoying, but also shibuya,so it probably is crowded all
the time, but maybe more sobecause of the rain, but it was
still cool.
I mean, like I said, you haveto go to donkey, it's?

(59:21):
Yeah, it's a thing.
Yeah, it's a thing, yeah, youhave to see it.

Speaker 2 (59:24):
It's kind of like the , the gacha poems and the crane
games.
They're freaking everywhere.
You, you gotta go in and checkit out.

Speaker 1 (59:38):
I freaking food in them.

Speaker 2 (59:39):
Yeah, it's not just, I want a stuffed animal or a toy
.
No, no, you want a case oframen.
They got you, bro, a case.
An actual piece of ramen was inthese crane games.
It was just.
It was like two floors of justnothing, but it was wild crazy
and it's not like oh, it's justthis one no, they're all yeah.

Speaker 1 (59:52):
No, it's a thing.
It wasn't like a niche thing,it was a normal thing everywhere
.

Speaker 2 (59:57):
Mm-hmm.
Hockey Hopper is basicallyElectric Town All the
electronics.
A lot of the young people hangout there.
I have some co-workers that areinto Kurami.

Speaker 1 (01:00:11):
I think, that's the cat with the black ears, yeah,
the Hello Kitty with the blackhat, hello Kitty, demon-looking
thing, yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:00:18):
So it was kind of cool though, because it was like
, hey, I want to check this out,and I kind of dragged in, but
then at the end it was like, oh,we're into this too.

Speaker 1 (01:00:25):
So it worked out obviously.

Speaker 2 (01:00:26):
They went to Hello Kitty Land on Monday.
Now we're at Tuesday.
Wife actually found herself abag there.
Yep, I'm not going to lie, itwas super cute.

Speaker 1 (01:00:36):
She used it the rest of the trip too.

Speaker 2 (01:00:38):
She did, she did the whole time.
That is so true.
The last five days she had itwith her the entire time.
I found a couple of keychainsthat were specific to Ueno so I
was like, alright, that's kindof cool.
So I picked them up forsouvenirs for the two people in
my office that I knew that wereinto it, into specifically
Karami.
So I was like, all right, thisis cool, so we did that, and

(01:01:02):
then did we.
Was that the end?
Did we do anything else afterthat?

Speaker 1 (01:01:04):
I don't think so.
I don't think we ate oranything.
I think we just went back anddid Lawsons.
Yeah, I'm trying to think I waslike I think we finished up
there and then we turned aroundand just worked our way back to
the station, right, yeah, Ithink it was hello kitty and we
because I think that was thatwhen we had the buffet, donkey

(01:01:24):
was before or after, beforehello kitty was the last thing
we did.
Okay, okay, yeah, and that'sthe day that we had the sit-down
buffet, right, I thought so,yeah, and then that's so it was
eight.

Speaker 2 (01:01:36):
Well, it might have been shibuya.
It might have been Wednesday.

Speaker 1 (01:01:39):
No, it wasn't rainy.
That was a nice day.

Speaker 2 (01:01:43):
Oh, you're right, it wasn't rainy, so you're right,
so we had to have done thebuffet for dinner and then
probably did the donkey end.
Exactly yeah, Because then itwas dark.
By the time we did Donkey andHello Kitty, it was dark, so it

(01:02:04):
had to be that.
It was definitely dark then, sowe had to have done, we must
have finished the museum andthen went and found dinner and
that's when we found the buffetplace.
Lots of choices, this place,like 70 items on the menu.
You just tell them what youwant and how many orders of it.
Oh man, and the place that's.
Remember, the place I told youis comparable.
Yeah, went on Tuesday after myniece's graduation.
Worth it, thirty bucks, dude, 30bucks a person.

(01:02:26):
I know it was cheaper in Japan,but Japan was like 20 bucks a
person, so but for America, 30bucks a person, all the they had
.
If you guys make it out hereand you're down for 30 bucks a
person for this thing, justremember what you had in Japan,
basically, but take away a fewitems but add like 40 rolls and

(01:02:49):
sushi and stuff like that,because there wasn't as much
sushi as the one in Japan.
A lot of different, like almostlike an izakaya.
Yeah, this one, oh my god, thisone sushi.
It was just like it was forthis way.
We went on Tuesday.
I wanted to go back on Saturday.
That's how I was like.

(01:03:10):
But you want to go with peopleright, right, yeah exactly.
I want one piece of this.
I didn't want to get too full.
So, yeah, when you guys arehere, holy crap, yeah, we're
going.
It was too good, too good, andwe won't overeat or overorder a
bunch of stuff this time.
No, no.

Speaker 1 (01:03:28):
Because it'll be an American, so we'll know what's
going on Exactly Everything.

Speaker 2 (01:03:33):
Oh my God, but the buffet was super cool, great, a
lot of good food.
Help yourself to drinks.
Help yourself to dessert thedessert case.

Speaker 1 (01:03:43):
Once the girls figured that out, it was over
yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:47):
I want two more of these.
The desserts man.
They had to restock that shitjust because our table of five.
Yeah, for real.
Those little milk cakes theykept eating.

Speaker 1 (01:03:59):
They love those things.

Speaker 2 (01:04:00):
Oh yeah and anything.
If it was green, a big one wasgoing after it, just in case it
was matcha, I'll take ten.

Speaker 1 (01:04:10):
Had to be an even number, though.

Speaker 2 (01:04:14):
Yeah, so it was.
They didn't have my melon drink, so I had, so I was stuck with
orange this time four stars.
You on yelp the, the, the onlyyou know what, though?
This was a common thing theirglasses are small.

Speaker 1 (01:04:27):
You had to refill like six times man it was iced
tea glasses.
We have the big pizza hutglasses from back in the day no,
no, that's not what you get.

Speaker 2 (01:04:38):
What you get is like the kid size, like, oh, your
child's between three and fiveyears old here's your cup you
know, without a lid, but but I,I think, but I think about six
times got up to get drinks justbecause, yeah, the cups were so
damn every time somebody got up,hey, refill this for me yeah,
yeah, it was like oh, you're up,anyway, grab mine.
It was like okay, but everybody,every time somebody got up, hey

(01:04:58):
, refill this for me.
Yeah, yeah, it was like oh,you're up, anyway, grab mine.
It was like okay, but everybody, every time somebody got up
somebody else needed to refill.
But yeah, that was it was everyrestaurant too, huh yeah,
nobody had big cups, even eventhe hotel, the breakfast
remember.
Uh, I think, when we did, whenwe did the, the night, the, the,
the tea, rice stuff, um eventhen it was like, hey, I'm
getting up, yeah, yep, I'mgetting.
Then it was like, hey, I'mgetting up, yeah, I'm getting up

(01:05:20):
.
Yeah, those little.
I was like not everything issake, what the hell.
Because it was like a sake itwasn't as small as a sake I felt
like it.
You could easily just down itin one go.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
It's humid there, dehydrate like a motherfucker,
mm-hmm.

Speaker 2 (01:05:35):
And good luck finding a water fountain.
Yeah, I don't think they knowwhat water fountains are.
Did the train stations havewater fountains?
I don't remember by thebathrooms we didn't really go to
the bathroom a lot at the trainstation we went a few times,
because you usually either buy,though, but I don't remember
seeing too many water fountainsthere At all?

Speaker 1 (01:05:55):
No, there were so many machines.

Speaker 2 (01:05:58):
You know which is fine.

Speaker 1 (01:05:59):
You know, 140 yen.

Speaker 2 (01:06:00):
It is what it is, which is about a dollar 140 yen
at the time when we were there.

Speaker 1 (01:06:06):
Now I think it's up to 145 again.

Speaker 2 (01:06:08):
It was up to 148 a couple days ago, but yeah, I
think after dinner that's whenwe went to Akihabara.
After that we walked our waytowards.

Speaker 1 (01:06:17):
Yeah, and then I think we went to Akihabara.
After that we walked our waytowards yeah, and then I think
we went back.
We didn't want to stay out toolate because that was the next
morning we were doing ourluggage forwarding, right?
Or was that Thursday morningthat we did luggage forwarding?

Speaker 2 (01:06:29):
No, it was that morning.

Speaker 1 (01:06:31):
Yeah, it was Wednesday morning.
Wednesday was Shibuya.
Yes, so Wednesday was Shibuya,but we also did.

Speaker 2 (01:06:36):
Our luggage we had already forwarded on Tuesday
Because we're checking outWednesday.
That's what the plan was and weswitched it up.
Yeah, so we forwarded onWednesday.
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:06:47):
Because we didn't get our stuff until Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:06:50):
We got our stuff Thursday night.
Yes, Okay.
So Wednesday morning when wechecked out is when we did the
forward night.
Yes, okay, so Wednesday morningwhen we checked out is when we
did the four.
Yeah, we were going to do itTuesday.

Speaker 1 (01:07:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:07:05):
We were going to do it Tuesday.
That way we had our stuff comeWednesday, right.
But we're like, oh, not thatbig of a deal, we'll just do a
back, like you said.
We'll do a backpack withclothes for one day which we
just threw in the locker atShibuya on Wednesday anyway,
yeah, we did.
And then, Jack, I think that'swhen you informed the hotel, the

(01:07:25):
Disney hotel, we were going tobe late, Exactly yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:07:28):
To make sure we didn't lose our room.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Yeah, because they said if you don't check in by 10
, you could lose your room.
So let them know.
So we did so.
Tuesday yeah, we didn't doanything with the with, with our
clothes, we didn't need to doanything, yeah.
So we wanted, but we did wantto get back early, knowing we
were going to leave exactly.
Yeah, and we're going to doshibuya for the day and all that

(01:07:50):
um.
So we did the luggage forwardingfirst thing in the morning um
we had our backpacks and thendid we just go straight to
shibuya?
Yeah, we spent the day downthere.
Yeah, that was it right.
We just hung out in shibuya andthen we were just kind of we
went.
First thing we did, our exitout of the train station was the

(01:08:10):
shibuya crossing.
Yeah, the world famous crossing, which was small as f y'all, I
get it thousand people cross atthe same time.
I was expecting this hugeintersection.
Yeah, no, no regularintersection, like a regular
four-way intersection uh, Ithink it was five-way actually,
but either way, either way itwas I feel like the ones we do

(01:08:34):
in san diego are bigger uh, yeah, honestly, yeah, they were uh,
but, but no joke, a crap ton ofpeople were yeah, yeah, that
part is that was legit I can seehow millions of people cross
every day because there was aton of people.
It was just shocking to see howsmall the street area was.

(01:08:57):
Um, yeah, then we went acrossthe street and we found the
lockers.
Because we were looking for thestarbucks because they're
because I saw on some videosthere's a starbucks you can get
good views of the shibuyacrossing so we went to go look
for it.
We went to the, we went thewrong way, uh, different, wrong
starbucks and it was like oh,this works out because we found
some lockers.
So also like the stuff that wehad, because, again, we had

(01:09:19):
clothes and overnight stuffbecause we didn't have our
luggage.
So we just took all of ourstuff and threw it in the locker
.

Speaker 1 (01:09:24):
It was great.
I didn't have to carry any ofthat stuff.
Oh yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:09:26):
And we, we only needed a few hours, but you had
like three days.

Speaker 1 (01:09:30):
Yeah, it was like four days or something it said.
We looked it up.
We're like I'm sure some peopledo it.

Speaker 2 (01:09:39):
Yeah, like if you're taking a hop someplace on the
weekend, whatever.
Let's say, you're just shoppingin Shibuya and you're like I'm
going to go to Osaka, just leaveyour shit in the locker and go,
Come back, I'll be waiting foryou.
And it was so cool, it's tiedinto your Suika card.
You could just cash whatever.
But if you did your Suika card,you got your stuff, you locked
it up, put everything with yourSuica.

(01:10:00):
When you come back and push it,it knows which one is yours
basically and opens it there.

Speaker 1 (01:10:06):
It was super cool.

Speaker 2 (01:10:07):
Very convenient, and then, at that point I think, we
went to Ikea after that Yep gotsome meatballs.
So yep ate there.
I helped a couple out.

Speaker 1 (01:10:18):
The weird thing about Japan, I thought, was like
different cities would haveexclusives at certain stores,
like the hello kitty thing overthere.
You know, the night before youcould only get it at that hello
kitty store, so we ended up.
We went there because, uh, yourgirl wanted a purple, fucking
ikea there's a purple and graybag.

Speaker 2 (01:10:38):
Yeah, you could only get in Shibuya Ikea.

Speaker 1 (01:10:41):
Shibuya Ikea exclusive fucking Ziploc bags.
So everybody bought those too,yep.

Speaker 2 (01:10:48):
Yep, just grab some random stuff and then stay in
there.
For lunch I got to use myJapanese numbers because the
couple next to me ordered the12-piece meatballs and the
server was only putting eightand they looked kind of like I
don't know how to tell them thatI want 12.
Cause they just pointed at themenu, cause, like everybody else
was doing, which means this, sothey were, they were just

(01:11:10):
pointing, and then I was likewait a minute, I know 12 is Juni
.
So I looked over and likedidn't you order 12?
It's like, yeah, I order 12.
It's like, yeah, I don't knowhow to tell them that, though
I'm like hang on.
I was like swing my sand.
And they looked over at me andI pointed at them and said and I
said, uh, juni.

Speaker 1 (01:11:24):
And they're like, oh, okay, then they grabbed four
more meatballs to put them onthe lady was like, oh, thank you
, I didn't.

Speaker 2 (01:11:29):
I didn't know how to do that, so I was like, yay, my
japanese came in handy.
And then we got we got our fooddessert.
We got, I got meatball, I gotthe eight count meatballs and a
and like a strawberry cheesecakewhich is, whatever the hell, I
got.

Speaker 1 (01:11:42):
Um, basically the same that we get in America Ikea
.

Speaker 2 (01:11:45):
Yeah, it was just nice to say you did it in Japan.

Speaker 1 (01:11:48):
You know, it was like we got out of the rain for a
little bit.

Speaker 2 (01:11:51):
Yeah, and it wasn't crazy rain people.

Speaker 1 (01:11:54):
Like it wasn't big.
It was like mist.

Speaker 2 (01:11:56):
It was just a steady mist the entire time, nothing
that's going to get you wet, butit wasn't like you're soaked.
Yeah, exactly Because we wereout in it and we were not soaked
.
Did you have an umbrella?
I thought?

Speaker 1 (01:12:07):
one of you had an umbrella.
The girls did.
The girls had an umbrella, butthen they washed out on it.
I was like eh, it wasn't badenough.
No, it wasn't.
I mean it just wasn't worth it.
I think that's when we split up, we went down bought some stuff
.

Speaker 2 (01:12:20):
We found some more stuff downstairs, Leaving the
store.
There's a bunch of random stuffhere and there Then.
Yeah, then we left there.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
We split up.
We went to the cat cafe.
Is that when that happened?
I think so it was right afterIkea.
Or we went to Donkey rightafter?
No, it was Ikea Donkey.

Speaker 2 (01:12:36):
Then we split up.
We split up at Donkey becauseyou guys were done.
I was only on floor five Right.

Speaker 1 (01:12:42):
So yeah, so we went to the Cat Cafe, we killed time
there, and then we met up at theNintendo store.
We found you at the Nintendostore.

Speaker 2 (01:12:50):
Right, right, but when you?
Because I finished up Donkeywhile you guys were at the Cat
Cafe.
Oh, I know, I went to a Daiso,but it was weak.
It was not a good Daiso, but itwas weak, it was like it was
not a good Daiso.
So I was like, oh, whatever.
So then I went to the mall togo to the Nintendo store and
Pokemon store and all that.
You guys were only like fiveminutes behind me.

(01:13:10):
At that point.
It worked out perfectly.
I was there, found the bathroom, I walked through, I think,
each of the two stores like realquick, like I wasn't browsing,
just walk in and walk out.
Then when I walked out of thesecond one, you guys had arrived
.
So, yeah, not even five minutesthere really.
Yeah, we hung out there.

(01:13:31):
I mean, we checked out theNintendo store and the Pokemon
store, which one of them was hotas hell, I can't remember which
one.

Speaker 1 (01:13:41):
That was the Pokemon store.
Dude, it was the Pokemon store.
Oh my God, it was suffocating.
I'm like, no, I'm out.

Speaker 2 (01:13:45):
I don't love Pokemon that much.
The Mew up front in the statuewas badass, though.

Speaker 1 (01:13:48):
Yeah, that was cool.

Speaker 2 (01:13:50):
That thing was.

Speaker 1 (01:13:50):
I wasn't waiting in line for nothing in there.

Speaker 2 (01:13:54):
It was just we're in.
We saw it.
Both lines at the Pokemon storeand Nintendo store were
probably 40 people deep.
It was just.
That's one of those thingswhere, if you want something
from there, go first thing inthe morning.
For us we're right aroundlunchtime, so it's been open for
a while.
But, yeah, you want somethingfrom there, go first thing in

(01:14:14):
the morning, grab what you want,get in line, get out, because
it was just like, as long as youdon't mind waiting an hour in
line because it was probablygoing to be an hour, just to
check out, yep, forget that.
Yeah, I don't.
Okay.
Then we finished theresomewhere, either before that or
after that.
We were just walking around andfound a disney store yeah, it
was after that.

Speaker 1 (01:14:34):
We were walking.
It was yeah, we were walkingback.
It was on our way to donkey,but I don't remember I don't
remember carrying, carrying abunch of Disney stuff until the
end, okay, so I think it wasafter the mall, we were just
walking back towards our lockerand then, yeah, we found the
Disney store and then the girlswent wild.
Oh, yeah, it was like us atCelebration.

Speaker 2 (01:14:55):
Everything, marie, yeah, it was a celebration for
them.

Speaker 1 (01:15:03):
Yeah, it was a celebration for them, all three
of them.
It was their celebration at theDisney store Shit.
And then we went back thereSaturday, before we left too,
and they still bought more stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:15:09):
I ain't gonna lie, though Even though she wasn't
there for my girl, she had acelebration for her too.
Cause I ended up spending Shitton, I think.
I bought like two things Formyself and everything else was
ours.

Speaker 1 (01:15:22):
That was a cool story .
Three stories I ended upspending a shit ton, I think I
bought two things for myself,and everything else was ours.
That was a cool story.
Three stories it was, thoughthey didn't have Star Wars, so
that was a little disappointing.

Speaker 2 (01:15:31):
Yeah, it was kind of weird, though.
They didn't have a lot of StarWars anywhere there other than a
celebration.
I'm sure there were Star Warsstores.
I saw people on Facebooktalking about it, but you'd have
to go find it.
Like it's not just there.

Speaker 1 (01:15:44):
It's Disney.
Hello, why wouldn't it be at aDisney store?
Yeah, nope, not really.
Maybe they don't.
Uh, uh, like consider it, like,take that into consideration.

Speaker 2 (01:15:57):
Yeah it that, yeah, it is owned by Disney.
I don't know, maybe it's thewhole kind of like the way
Disneyland is franchised outthere not actual Disney proper.

Speaker 1 (01:16:08):
Yeah, does Disney run the Disney stores out there, or
do they?

Speaker 2 (01:16:11):
license that out too.
Or maybe Japanese people reallyjust aren't into Star Wars the
way everybody else is Could be,I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:16:18):
Why'd they get a celebration Dang?

Speaker 2 (01:16:20):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, for real, um, but yeah, it's really
good what else we did inshibuya.
But I think that was it, dude,we were just most wandering yeah
oh yeah, you're right, becausethen we, then we, uh we're
wrapping it up because we'regetting hungry and we still have
to check in at our, at ourdisney hotel.
So we left a little bit early.

(01:16:41):
Well, I don't know what earlyis, we just left around dinner
time.
Uh obviously went back to ourlocker, grabbed all our stuff
blah, blah, blah yeah, went backto the station um took the
train I think that's when we hadto take the train and then take
the bus.

Speaker 1 (01:16:55):
Take a bus, yep, yeah and it's like it's right to the
disney Yep Right across thestreet.

Speaker 2 (01:17:01):
Yeah, Yep Went in.
We all checked in, went to theroom for what?
All of 10 minutes?

Speaker 1 (01:17:07):
because we were hungry Yep and we found sushi
right down the street.
We walked about 10, 15 minutes.
We had to take our shoes off toeat it.

Speaker 2 (01:17:15):
Yeah, take your shoes off.
Take your shoes off, it has.
It has a little.
The table had a little cubbyhole underneath so you weren't
sitting on your legs, or or um,indian style, which you
apparently can't say anymorenative american style no, it's
like chris cross sauce.
Yep, oh my god.
When I first heard that acouple years ago, I was just
like what bullshit is this?

(01:17:36):
I mean, I rolled my eyes sohard, man.
But so they had the littlecubby hole so you could sit down
, but your feet go down into thelittle hole.
So I was like, okay, this iscool.
I think the three of y'all Gotthe same thing the platter, I
think.

Speaker 1 (01:17:52):
So I think the three of us did get the same one and I
got the other platter.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:17:57):
The food was great, though the sake was great.
I could have went anotherbottle on him and fine yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:03):
Well, he came out and talked us out of ordering when
he's like no, that's a lot.
We were like we ordered threebottles.

Speaker 2 (01:18:08):
To start, he's like I don't know that you meant to do
this.
So he brought us one.
Then we bought a second one and, and because everybody was done
, we didn't buy a third one.
Right, we were just therehanging out, we would have
bought a third.
Oh, yeah, for sure yeah, butafter that we found a standalone
lawson's that was fun because,keep in mind, at our first hotel

(01:18:29):
it was like a seven to eightstory hotel.
The first floor, kind of outright, right outside is, was the
lawson connected to thebuilding, and then our lobby for
the hotel was on the fifthfloor and then the rooms were on
like floor six and seven orsomething like that.
Yeah Well, I guess on five toaround the other side of the
back of the elevator.
Yeah, well, yeah, so this wasour first time and we knew we

(01:18:53):
were going to go.
We knew we were going to go toa convenience store, so we're
just checking to see what wasaround on our way back.
Our walk back, I looked it up,or one of us looked it up, and
it was like oh, there's a,there's a lost in mart over here
whatever it's called.
Yeah, it was like one block outof our way.
So like, okay, let's go checkit out.
And yeah, standalone lost.
It was fantastic.
Um, it was kind of cool tofinally see a standalone one you

(01:19:16):
know with.

Speaker 1 (01:19:18):
Uh, we've seen the alone but our experience just
been like inside, like the trainstation, or under our hotel.

Speaker 2 (01:19:25):
Yeah, yeah.
That's all it's been, and thisone is all by itself the parking
lot and everything.
So we went in there and asalways bought a bunch of stuff
loaded up.

Speaker 1 (01:19:36):
What do you want to eat for breakfast tomorrow?

Speaker 2 (01:19:38):
Yep, Grab what you want now, whatever you're going
to put in your bag for Disney,all that stuff, because at that
point we knew we were going toactual Disneyland on Thursday,
Disney Sea on Friday, but yeah,and we don't think we went back
there so we loaded up everythingwe needed.

Speaker 1 (01:19:51):
Yeah, it was just the one time.
Yeah, because we were obviouslywe opened and closed at Disney
and went straight to bed.

Speaker 2 (01:20:02):
But the Lawson was fantastic and even the hotel had
a little mini mart.
That was like a Lawson insidethe Disney hotel yeah.
And I think I went therewhatever day I think Disney Sea
Day when I left and you guyswent back to Disneyland to get
stuff for Pandora.

Speaker 1 (01:20:19):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, we split up that night.

Speaker 2 (01:20:23):
Okay, that night when we split up on Friday, I
actually went to that DisneyHotel, lawson or convenience
store and bought a few thingsthere myself which I left in a
damn fridge at the hotel.
It was just drinks.
I left, I think, the Kiwi beeror cider, whatever it is, and a
bottle of water.
It was like eh, whatever,whatever, but but yeah.

(01:20:45):
So, but I did get karage when Iwas there.
So surprise, oh, and the tunamayonnaise, onigiri I got the
tuna, tuna, mayonnaise, onigirievery time we went to a
convenience store and it wasavailable if it wasn't sold out,
I grabbed one.
Every time I still missed thelemon.
The lemon karage was, uh, sogood.
So lemony the pepper one, sogood.
The ramen one wasn't that good,I mean.

(01:21:07):
I mean, it's like it tastes likethe plain one, yeah so like I
wanted it to taste like ramenand it tastes like the regular.
So the spicy one wasn't thatspicy, not the one I got anyway,
um, but yeah so.
So Wednesday Shibuya came backdinner Boston and that was it,
and then we planned for themorning, because we get in

(01:21:30):
staying at the hotel, we get in15 minutes early, so we wanted
to make sure we were there likea half hour at 45 minutes early
and the line was already longwhen we got there.

Speaker 1 (01:21:41):
And we ate breakfast.
Remember we had the buffet foroh we did.
We did the Disney Hotel buffet.
Not too bad Hot dog sausages.

Speaker 2 (01:21:51):
Yup, things aren't what they really are.
Their French toast was Texastoast.
It was buttered bread,basically their runny-ass eggs
that everybody was puttingketchup on.

Speaker 1 (01:22:02):
Yeah, that was weird.

Speaker 2 (01:22:03):
I guess that's a thing, because it was just like
Ertel might go up to get foodand somebody had those runny
eggs on their plate.
They were adding ketchup tothem.
So it's got to be a thing, it'sgot to be yeah and I wasn't
having it because my gallbladderand egg yolk or runny egg yolk
or runny egg yolk doesn't alwayswork well.
So I try it with thesoft-boiled eggs and ramen.
But I wasn't first thing in themorning.

(01:22:24):
I wasn't about to risk it.
Going to Disney it would havebeen fine.
I would have found a bathroomwith a clear my system.
I don't find this all dayproblem.
It just gets in my system, getsout my system, but I didn't
want to bother with it so Iavoided the eggs both days that
we went.
It was a good buffet, thoughthey had your melon drink, so
they did have my melon drink andI did drink it several cups

(01:22:45):
Again.
A matter of fact, we got smartand started just filling up two
cups at a time.
It was like it took a week, butwe learned.
Yeah, yeah, but even then Istill went up there a couple of
times and filled them both uptwice.
But I did like the buffet.

Speaker 1 (01:22:58):
it was not a good one , yeah sure, I like that.

Speaker 2 (01:23:01):
Yeah, I like that the mickey was imprinted on the yes
instead of just being shaped asyeah, on the pancakes instead
of so that was kind of cool.
Um, yeah, cheap price wasn'tthat bad at all.
Uh, decent food.
Uh, the meatloaf or thesalisbury steak was my favorite,
you know a lot.
It was breakfast yeah, but thatsalisbury steak and rice, I was

(01:23:22):
all over that.

Speaker 1 (01:23:23):
And then once we figured out the sauce was for
the meat because we didn't knowat first we got the meat first,
like it's like meatloaf and I'mlike, oh, I bet that sauce next
to it so the second ship up yeahthat's a great steak and it was
.

Speaker 2 (01:23:40):
It was like it was like their sausage was Salzburg
steak.
It was absolutely.
It was like and you had tolearn that right, you're just
like I don't know, we'll seewhat it is and it's like oh,
okay, american versions.
It's this Again like the Texastoast, like, oh, french toast.
Cool, no, it was not Frenchtoast.
There was no egg in that bread.

Speaker 1 (01:23:58):
No cinnamon, no, nothing.
It was buttered toast Nutmegwhatever y'all like Vanilla.

Speaker 2 (01:24:02):
It was not there.

Speaker 1 (01:24:03):
I don't know which Frenchman they talked to.

Speaker 2 (01:24:08):
It was a Frenchman that brought it to America.
Somebody lied to these people.
It's like you need to go there.
I'm going to take stickers nexttime with me.
For the Americans it's likeokay, this is what this really
is.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
You have to put a little American flag next to it
with the word so they know.

Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (01:24:24):
If you're.

Speaker 2 (01:24:25):
American.
That's what this is, butoverall decent spread.
It wasn't like I left hungry.

Speaker 1 (01:24:29):
No, we went both days .
Or did we go all three days?

Speaker 2 (01:24:33):
No, no, we went first day, third day.

Speaker 1 (01:24:37):
That's right, yeah, second day.

Speaker 2 (01:24:38):
We did not.
We did Thursday, Saturday.

Speaker 1 (01:24:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:24:41):
I don't know what we did on Friday.

Speaker 1 (01:24:42):
What did we do?
I don't even know.
Do we, if anything, try tosleep a little bit, because I
don't think we?
No, we rope dropped um, see no.

Speaker 2 (01:24:53):
No, I got there before you guys.
You did why Remember?
Why Remember?
Because I thought I was late.

Speaker 1 (01:24:59):
Yes, you thought you were late, so you ran out and
you got on the bus before us.

Speaker 2 (01:25:03):
Yes, yes, I thought y'all were already gone, so I
got on the bus and left.
I'm like, hey, I'm on the bus,blah, blah, blah.
You're like, bro, we're stillin the room.

Speaker 1 (01:25:16):
But that's going to have to be next week's story.
We are running out of timealready.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
We're already there, yeah, so I guess we'll finish up
, plus Duke might want to hearit too, exactly Because he
didn't go with us.
So we'll finish up Disney andour flight back next week and
then, once we get there, that'llbe like the first half hour.
It won't take very long.
We can jump into what wethought of, andor.
Yep can jump into what wethought of and or, yeah, and or

(01:25:44):
thunderbolts, thunder.
Oh, that's right.
We've all seen that one by now.
You guys, I haven't seen, Ihaven't seen sinners yet, just
because timing hasn't worked outwell.
I was like, oh, I'm going here,like no, niece's graduation,
like I guess I'm not doing that.
And then, like the week beforethat, it was like I think, uh,
go, girl had her daughter'srecital.
I, I think.
It was the season.
Yep, it was the last one of theseason, so it was like oh, so

(01:26:06):
there's two weeks in a row thatwe didn't make it out.
In theory, this week we'll beable to make it out.
I don't have any meetings until.
I only have one meeting thisweek, and it's Wednesday, I
don't think.
I think her schedule is open.
So, yeah, I think Tuesday we'llsee Everybody's talked about
Sinners, so that's the one we'regoing to watch.

Speaker 1 (01:26:23):
I have Tuesday off, so I think we're going to go
watch Final Destination.
Oh yeah, I forgot.

Speaker 2 (01:26:28):
That's out too.
But yeah, that'll work outperfectly.
So we can talk about Sinnersand Thunderbolts and Andor, yeah
, boy.

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
Getting back to our regular schedule program and
then football's going to startramping up soon.

Speaker 2 (01:26:42):
Yep, it's going to be .
It might be to the point whereI'll have to start actually
going on a not-Tuesday Right Tokeep up with what's going on.

Speaker 1 (01:26:52):
Real though.

Speaker 2 (01:26:53):
And then, although I think Fantastic Four is out this
year at SDCC yeah, I think so Imight do like last year's.
If you guys want to do themovie thing again at that mall,
oh yeah, well, pre-order sometickets.
Yeah, pre-order some ticketsand go watch it out there.
That wouldn't be a bad ideaactually.
So yeah, I'm doing it for sure.

(01:27:15):
So if you four want to jump in,let me know.

Speaker 1 (01:27:23):
I'll get all the tickets.

Speaker 2 (01:27:24):
You know what's going to happen is the big one's
going to win the lottery BruhFor real, for real.
You know what.
We'll have to do it.
We should do it.
Preview night ends at 9.
No, that might be too late.

Speaker 1 (01:27:38):
Only three of us can go to preview night though.

Speaker 2 (01:27:41):
Well yeah, we're only shopping anyway.
So whoever's shopping, it'sfunny.

Speaker 1 (01:27:48):
Oh, we can talk about it offline.
But yeah, we'll wrap it up Oncewe figure out what we're doing
for Comic-Con people, we'll fillyou in on our plan, but we
don't know what we're doing yet.

Speaker 2 (01:27:59):
That's a long time from now.
You need to get here already.
I'm already ready to go.
I ain't gonna lie man with withwith denver comic-con.
June at least is quiet, uh, forcons anyway, there's nothing
going on.
You guys have your trip,obviously, out here.
That's about it.
I got nothing really untilfourth july weekend for denver
comic-con, um, and then threeweeks later San Diego, and then

(01:28:21):
three weeks after that isColorado Springs, uh-huh yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:28:27):
And then finally a break.

Speaker 2 (01:28:29):
And then it's football season.
So much going on, so much goingon.
I don't have enough PTO for allthis.
I'm going to be sick a lot inthe fall.

Speaker 1 (01:28:38):
I can feel a cough my allergies are acting up.

Speaker 2 (01:28:39):
I can feel a cough coming up.

Speaker 1 (01:28:41):
My allergies are acting up.
I got winter allergies.

Speaker 2 (01:28:44):
Five months early, but I feel it, oh man.

Speaker 1 (01:28:47):
All right, we will wrap it up.

Speaker 2 (01:28:48):
All right, y'all, all three of us will be back next
week.
Thank you for giving us achance to relive Japan, even
though that was a month ago.
It was like crazy.
It was like crazy we weretalking before we started.
It was like, oh my gosh, myOsaka trip that Sunday night Was
four weeks ago tonight.
Damn time has flown.

Speaker 1 (01:29:08):
Still seems like yesterday, though.

Speaker 2 (01:29:11):
Dude for real.
I still haven't left there yet.
I still want to go back.
You know what I mean.
I'm not back yet.

Speaker 1 (01:29:20):
I still miss all the vending machines.

Speaker 2 (01:29:24):
The cheap prices Lawson.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
Trust me you're going to thank us when you go to
Japan and you go to Lawson's,You're like there.

Speaker 2 (01:29:36):
You're all going to be like oh my god, the hot food
here, the cold food here, theirKewpie mayonnaise, which is
available here at H-Mark, alongwith Pokey Sweat, which I found,
by the case, by the case.
Oh shit All right Catch y'allnext week.
Bye.
Same bad time, same bad channel.

All Episodes

Episode Transcript

Popular Podcasts

On Purpose with Jay Shetty

Crime Junkie

Ridiculous History

.css-15opob5{left:0;position:absolute;top:0.8rem;} All Episodes

.css-14f5ked{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:2;overflow:hidden;}Convenience Stores, Melon Soda, and Small Cups: The Unexpected Joys of Traveling in Japan

Episode Transcript

Popular Podcasts

.css-r6mb8g{margin:0;word-break:break-word;display:-webkit-box;-webkit-box-orient:vertical;box-orient:vertical;-webkit-line-clamp:1;overflow:hidden;}On Purpose with Jay Shetty

Crime Junkie

Ridiculous History

All Episodes

Convenience Stores, Melon Soda, and Small Cups: The Unexpected Joys of Traveling in Japan

On Purpose with Jay Shetty