Ep. 9.37 "No More Fancy Pants"

 Colleen is back from Tokyo, but first, we must talk about Pope Francis and his legacy. We also talk about movie mistakes that made it to the final cut.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:04):
Maybe bicka.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
Hello everybody, and welcome to the broadcast with Amanda, Shandy
and Colleen. My name is Colleen.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
My name is Amanda, and I'm Shandy.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Welcome to the show.

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Everyone.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
This is season nine, episode thirty seven, episode number three
hundred and ninety seven. Somehow episode four hundred crept up
way quicker than I thought.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
That did seem very fast?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
Did I miss some No? I don't think. So let's
see next week. Can we record on Monday next week?
By any chance we're on I'm sorry, either Monday or Thursday.
It's my anniversary on the twenty name.

Speaker 4 (01:05):
Oh that's right. I could do Thursday, but.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
On Monday, Oh darn, I can do Monday, but on Thursday.

Speaker 2 (01:11):
We'll figure it out. Okay. So that would put our
two hundredth episode three four hundredth episode some Jesus sometime
in May. We'll figure it out.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Okay, we'll get there, you know what. We're just gonna
enjoy the journey.

Speaker 2 (01:26):
We're just gonna enjoy the journey exactly right. Yeah, we'll
figure it out. We'll figure it out. So, yes, how's
it going? Once again, another wonderful week in Trump's America.
Don't worry I kept up while I was in Japan.
It was weird though, because things would happen while we
were sleeping there, and like then I would wake up

(01:49):
and catch up on all the crazy shit that happened,
you know, while I wasn't sleeping, I mean while you know,
you guys weren't while yeah you got we were awaken
you are yeah, yeah yeah, good times yeah, yep.

Speaker 5 (02:06):
Anyway, it was uh, it was a week. It was
a week, and then the Pope died. Uh to cap
it all off, to cap.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
It all off, jd Vance may have killed him. Who knows,
he seems true. So okay, apparently like he met with
Jade Vance and then you know he was let the
because he can't talk anymore because he had surgery several
years ago. So some he writes the homilies and other

(02:38):
people give them for him, and he had somebody give
his East last Easter homily message out to the world,
in which he continued to ship all over Jade Vance
because first he sent his number two, then his number
two lectured him on not being a shithead, and then
I guess Vance insisted on meeting the pope. We don't
really know what happened, but he did say like he

(03:00):
was very ill, and I'm like, so you fucking berated
a dying old man to for your photo op? Yes,
like such an asshole.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
Not the biggest, but you know, maybe like the second
biggest up there.

Speaker 2 (03:14):
Yeah, he's up there, he's up there. But then, like
I guess this was all on Sunday morning, and then
the pope died on at local times seven thirty five
in the morning on Easter Monday, which I guess if
I'm a pope, like making it through Easter is probably
you know, pretty important.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
I'm a busy day at the office.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
Yeah, But apparently he had a stroke and was in
a coma, so all of this had to have happened
within the if you go the timeline, like the eighteen
hours between the JD Vance photo op and the you know,
the die the death thing. So away, I did a

(04:00):
deep I think we've all I don't know about you,
Amana Shanny and I have done some deeper dives on
some pope ship over the last day. And you know,
you're never gonna beat the whole Catholic Church part of it.
But Doude definitely practice what he preached, caused a lot
of made a lot of enemies with the.

Speaker 4 (04:20):
Spa Jesus.

Speaker 1 (04:25):
But apparent.

Speaker 6 (04:28):
Circle, so you know it's probably just something good, some
something good.

Speaker 2 (04:31):
Yeah, Megan Kelly is out there shipping all over him.
Marthie Taylor Green, uh you know famous Christian Martine Taylor
Green was tweeting, Yeah, how he's in hell right now
and wow. Yes, Megan Kelly was like, I am sure

(04:53):
that if there was just a communicy miscommunication and if
he had actually spoken more to Donald Trump, he would
have been on board with his message, because that's the
final homily actively spoke out about how you know, you
can't be a Christian if you're doing all these fucking
terrible things and treating migrants like shit and whatnot. And

(05:15):
you know that was pretty pointed. Imagine being such a
piece of shit human being that the Pope's last message
is pointedly aimed as calling you, specifically.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
Literally his parting words to the world.

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 (05:39):
But also the cognitive dissonance that it takes to be
like and I mean just hypocrispy, but just like to
be a self professed the self self proclaimed Christian, but
be like against all of.

Speaker 4 (05:54):
The Christian parts, right, Like do I remember like the
help and the poor that like Jews family fled to Egypt,
Like did you not read that.

Speaker 3 (06:05):
Part Jesus was legit a refugee. Yeah, I guess we
missed because you missed that part.

Speaker 6 (06:10):
I guess they touched about to touch that in Bible study, like, okay,
read that book a little more closely.

Speaker 2 (06:19):
So I was one of the things I was reading
was that he even created enemies because he refused when
he first started. And it was only twenty thirteen, right
that he refused to wear the big like fancy red
cape and whatnot, like he was. She just always wore
his plain white robes. And I guess he.

Speaker 4 (06:42):
Was like, I'm fine with drag, but not that much drag.

Speaker 2 (06:48):
He's like, this is how you commit to a stance. Now,
people don't drag long term money, yes, but.

Speaker 3 (07:00):
You didn't want it. Maybe that more people would like
us better.

Speaker 2 (07:05):
But I guess he because so when he refused to
live in the big like you know, opulent Vatican headquarters
or whatever, like he lived at the Vatican, but he
lived he didn't live in like the big fancy area
which cut out a lot of the like intermediaries, like
the like the point people there, so got rid of

(07:25):
like that level of like corrupt bureaucracy by not having
them anymore. So I made enemies there. Then he made
enemies with the tailors of the Vatican City because they
were used to creating these opulent robes for popes and
like trousers because he refused to wear like I can't

(07:46):
remember if he only wore white trousers underneath or he
only wore dark trousers underneath, but whatever it was, it
was like a break from tradition, and he was just like,
I'm not a clown, like I'm a servant of God
or whatever, like why do why do I need to
dress up underneath this robe? So like they weren't making that,

(08:06):
and then some of the other like bishops and people
like in the church were like, oh, are we not
doing the thing anymore with the fancy pants or whatever,
and so then like the tailors started like losing money.
So he like didn't make any friends there, and I guess,

(08:26):
you know, just was But also kudos to him. As
we learned the people that vote in the conclave, there's
one hundred and thirty five eligible cardinals to vote, and
he appointed one hundred and eight of them, which that.
Yeahs like, is how does this work?

Speaker 4 (08:45):
Is it like a majority situation popular vote?

Speaker 3 (08:48):
Like what I think it has? Didn't watch Conclave? Yeah?

Speaker 4 (08:52):
I am not, and I really should.

Speaker 3 (08:54):
I know.

Speaker 6 (08:56):
Therefore the resident expert here, go ahead watch Conclave please?

Speaker 3 (09:00):
It is it is they just keep voting until they get.

Speaker 4 (09:03):
Like majority majority, like a simple majority.

Speaker 3 (09:07):
I don't know if it's a simple majority or like
a more but.

Speaker 6 (09:10):
Like it doesn't be complex majority, but it doesn't have
to be an animate Okay.

Speaker 7 (09:15):
I feel like the people who made Conclave, I don't
know if they timed it like this, just knowing that
the Pope is old f you're gonna they're gonna have
a see a big uptick in people watching that movie.

Speaker 8 (09:28):
I mean, it's also just like a great movie, like
not being a Catholic and like, you know, not really
you know, being a part of that world. It was
just a really entertaining is probably the wrong word to use,
but it's just like a really it's a really good movie.
It's beautifully shot, it's wonderfully acted, it's a really it's
a great it's a great cast like it just it

(09:52):
is worth a watch, and it's not terribly long.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
No, it's not it moves quickly. It does move pretty quickly,
so he needs eight. It's a two third majority, So
may they have better luck than our Congress does when
it comes to teaching person.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
And you can't fill about I believed.

Speaker 2 (10:13):
Well, it takes Corey Booker out of the running. Yeah,
so I don't know what a two thirds majority of
Let's see one thirty five divided by three, so forty five,
so he would need ninety, right, ninety out of.

Speaker 3 (10:32):
He should be good.

Speaker 2 (10:33):
Well, we don't know because I mean, yeah, ninety out
of one hundred and thirty five is is two thirds
point six?

Speaker 4 (10:39):
I mean maybe he appointed some like insane people.

Speaker 8 (10:44):
Well what I heard mostly it was mostly people like
far flowing parts of the world that have smaller populations
of Catholics, so like a lot of sort of war
torn areas, and like theoretically not to anyone to concave
the movie, which may have been something they borrowed the book,

(11:06):
borrowed from his actual life.

Speaker 3 (11:08):
Not to spoil anything in the movie.

Speaker 2 (11:10):
But I have the list in front of me of
the most likely candidates. Whenever you're ready, I will know
zero of them.

Speaker 3 (11:19):
Yeah, I was gonna talk about a big old circle.
I literally like losing my train of thought. So really,
you're rescuing me.

Speaker 4 (11:26):
He was.

Speaker 2 (11:26):
He was very big on on outreach to the poor.
He was very big on on knowing, on recognizing that
everyone deserves compassion, everyone deserves a blessing. And he's see
some things right, Like you said to something like people
get mad at me. People are fine, And this might
be out of context, but like people are have no

(11:48):
problem with me giving a blessing to a corrupt businessman
who takes advantage and steals from the poor, but everybody
has a problem with me giving a blessing to a
home sexual And if you think that stealing from the
poor and homosexuality are both sins, why are you okay
with one person getting a blessing and not the other
person getting the blessing.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
Oh that's using some logic, you know.

Speaker 7 (12:08):
It's like, if we could just get past the whole
homosexuality being a sin thing, then we're really onto something.

Speaker 4 (12:14):
But I do like you some that logic.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Right, But it was like, like even gay people deserve
to be blessed, They deserve to be Like, they don't
deserve to be cast out and shunned. Like yeah, very much. Yeah,
So it wasn't so much that he was progressive, but
he was trying to make progress to put like more

(12:37):
of a like, hey guys, let's get back to the
basics here. We we've you know, maybe what if we didn't,
you know, steal a bunch of riches from people for
like a little while, what if we did give it
to the poor? Just just spitball in here.

Speaker 8 (12:55):
But then also thinking about like how the world has
changed and perhaps the faith needs to change and adapt
to the world exactly exactly and has.

Speaker 7 (13:07):
Done atrocious things in the past that like maybe maybe
they should account for.

Speaker 2 (13:13):
He also j sent me this quote because you know
a lot of the meme quotes are going around. He
was also big on climate change justice.

Speaker 3 (13:20):
I was going to bring I was going to bring that.

Speaker 2 (13:22):
Which is amazing that he didn't push away science and
he didn't push away you know, like just be like
he said, like God isn't like some magician in the sky,
like he's he can the same time as it's exactly yeah.

Speaker 8 (13:40):
Like he MPR had brought this up that like for him,
it really was all connected that like the environmental issues
effect creates.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
More refugees and the poor, poor people are more affected
by climate change.

Speaker 8 (13:56):
So for him, these things were all tied together and
they were all like one in the same, like they
were all interconnected, which is just like, yeah, no.

Speaker 2 (14:06):
Doubt, you're all God God creatures.

Speaker 7 (14:12):
But also explicitly in Genesis when God creates the heavens
and the earth and all of the creatures and blah
blah blah, he trusts Adam and Eve to take.

Speaker 2 (14:23):
Care of them, like yeah, literally.

Speaker 4 (14:25):
They are supposed to care for the earth.

Speaker 7 (14:28):
So again it's just like here, it's not you, like
I'm not even sure you know, there's like you can
there's issues with that too, like because it sort of
puts us on the top and blah blah blah.

Speaker 4 (14:39):
But like again, if you like the book that you keep.

Speaker 7 (14:43):
Reading over and over again that you're supposed to be following,
like if you just maybe follow.

Speaker 4 (14:47):
Some of the parts, I don't know.

Speaker 2 (14:49):
Here's the here's the quote that Jay had sent me, Amanda,
you might probably are referring to this one too. He said,
rivers do not drink their own water, trees do not
eat their own fruit, the sun does not shine on
its and flowers do not spread their fragrance for themselves.
Living for others is a rule of nature. We are
all born to help each other, no matter how difficult
it is. Life is good when you're you are happy,

(15:11):
but much better when others are happy because of you.

Speaker 3 (15:15):
You know, I hadn't heard that.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
It's a good Uh, it's very true.

Speaker 7 (15:19):
But the idea like try to explain to conservatives like
that rivers do not you know, waters themselves and trees,
you know, like it will blow their like sort of
like libertarian minds.

Speaker 2 (15:35):
Right, what do you mean, It's not a resource here
for me.

Speaker 4 (15:41):
Pick itself up by bootstraps anything.

Speaker 3 (15:46):
The damn river needs to fend for itself. Tired to
that free loan river.

Speaker 2 (15:53):
Our society are to enslaved to market logic and everything
risks being subject to self interest and for profit. Volunteering
is prophecy at a sign of hope because it bears
witness to the primacy of gratuitousness, solidarity, and service to
those most in need. A whole bunch of whole bunch
of quotes about how he fucking hated the free market.

(16:19):
I don't know if he hated it.

Speaker 5 (16:20):
But didn't didn't think it was you know, the best
quite the besneys.

Speaker 9 (16:27):
Yeah, I don't know if this quote is true or not,
but I also have one more trade unions have been
an essential force for social change, without which a semblance
of a decent and humane society is impossible under capitalism.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
So he was a union guy. Union Pope also also
shipped on trickle down economics as well at one point.
But okay, here is the list of there's a couple

(17:03):
of lists going around. This one is from Modern fucking Now,
but the I have seen these names in general. So
you've got the establishment, which are the Vatican insiders and
power brokers, the ones that are like, you know, the establishment.
You've got the reformers, so the people that were more
liberal leaning and followed his like Jesuit sort of like

(17:27):
we serve the poor philosophies, like you know, like he did.
So they're the more progressive ones. And then the traditionalists,
which are the ones that were anti him and pretty conservative.
So the ones to keep an eye on, which are
like heavy favorites. One of them is this because he

(17:47):
was very big on outreach, Like Amanda said, he was
trying to get more of a like understanding with like
the Chinese Communist Party, like was you know, like as
Amanda was saying, like in this those small but like
because if you think about it, like a lot of
those smaller impoverished nations and like African countries, like Catholicism

(18:08):
is pretty robust there, so he was trying to bring
in more people from those areas to like be representatives
because you know, it matters. So it's like this Asian.
I don't know exactly what country he is of origin,
but his name is Luis Antonio taggleg.

Speaker 4 (18:28):
The Philippines, Philippines.

Speaker 7 (18:29):
Yeah, yeah, I was just listening to Pots of America.

Speaker 2 (18:33):
Okay, I didn't finish listening. Are talking about it, Okay.

Speaker 7 (18:37):
They just mentioned that he's like probably the most the
most liberal. One mentioned that he would be the first
Asian pope. Okay, yeah in the Philippines.

Speaker 2 (18:46):
That's I have. I only got halfway through today's episode.
So yeah, so he's the one to look up to
be on the lookout for. He was a favorite fifteen
years ago or whatever, but he was considered too young.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
So he's fifteen years older.

Speaker 3 (19:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
There's also the archbishop, Archbishop of Marseille, Marseille, I say
it right, oh yeah, key voice in Catholic Muslim dialogue.
His name is Jean Marc Aveline a b E. L
i Any born in Algeria. Deeply involved in interface work
as a missionary. Mindset represents Catholic intellectual age in France.

(19:29):
Connections to French esotericism and philosophy give him an unusual
type of influence. Blah blah blahlah lah. That would be interesting,
that would be interesting. And then there's a there's a
couple other people, but they're considered dark horses and wild cards.
And then it looks like I saw this name a
couple of times to Matteo Zuppi. He's an establishment like one,

(19:54):
so he's kind of I think he's pretty. He's somewhat centrist,
which you know isn't great for pushing the church forward,
but it's also better than the alternative. But I guess
he was like the number two in charge. I have
the New York Times open as well. I was following along.
And then there's a bunch of like super conservative is Italian,

(20:19):
and he is stands out among contenders who reflects the
view that the church should be representative, support of the poor,
promoted the progressive narrative of Rome. Blah blah, blah blah
blah blah. So he's fairly progressive too. So there's one
that was the number two when he was a centrist,
and I've lost him. Anyway, I'm done, go ahead, Sorry, I'm.

Speaker 7 (20:39):
Just went the French Pope, the French Pope, the French,
the French dude. I'm wondering if he's a French guy
who was born in Algeria or if he's an Algerian
person who then moved to France.

Speaker 2 (20:54):
I told me, sorry, I'm looking at the wrong guy.
I think the rage on mark A V E L
I N E. Okay, so don't forget. Priests also changed
their names too, to fit with their mission and their
service and their calling.

Speaker 3 (21:12):
I thought that was only the Pope.

Speaker 2 (21:13):
I believe, well, I believe you can. You can't change
your name. I don't know if it's just the pope,
because if you think about like nuns, become like sister Mary.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Something, right, that's true.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
Yeah. Anyway, we spent a long time talking about the pope,
so that was cool. That's something I never thought we
would have done, but you know what, we did it
four hundred episodes, but we talked about the Pope and

(21:44):
we were really nice about it.

Speaker 7 (21:47):
Yeah, I mean as far as popes go, like, yeah,
you know, we've had worse.

Speaker 4 (21:53):
Let's just say that exactly.

Speaker 2 (21:55):
SNL is going to be so funny this week. You
know that they're going to spoof it, right, They're gonna
have to. Okay, anyway, how is Easter? I had two Easters,
one in a hotel in the morning, and then we
flew back in time and had had Easter breakfast all
over again at the San Francisco airport. That's great.

Speaker 7 (22:17):
I mean I don't celebrate Easter, which is like ironic
coming off of like such a long conversation about the pope.

Speaker 4 (22:24):
So as I went running, it was a nice day.

Speaker 8 (22:26):
Nice, Yeah, little easter egg hunt, a little brunch, a
little about.

Speaker 2 (22:30):
It, cool, love it? Anything else? Before we move on.
I'll talk about Japan in a second half of the show,
since we don't really have any feedback. But the one
thing of feedback that we had was somebody asking me
to talk about it, so yes, but I will say
that to preview. We had a little bit of drama

(22:53):
the day before, which then resulted in drama the morning
of leaving to go home. Oh dear, so you guys,
you guys know the first part of the story. But
I went to check us in. I had no real issues,
Jackie said, Now for some backstory for earlier in the week.
Last week, I tried we had to do the Comic

(23:16):
Con hotel hell and I tried to set up the
waiting room on Zach's old Google Chrome book from like
twenty twenty right, and it did something. I edded my
like you know, Google profile. It fucked it up everywhere
I could get it on my phone, but that was it.
Like if I tried to log into anything Gmail, Google, anything,
it would not let me. It would just close the browser.

(23:38):
So I ended up having to clear cookies, browsing history,
completely clear everything on install Chrome, reinstall Chrome. I did
this like twice, blah blah blah. Got it working, but
lost all of my passwords, like the amount of passwords
and accounts I have been locked out of, including last week,
which is why everything got posted to spreaker or the

(24:00):
individual feeds, but did not get posted to the whole
a lot of feeds until I got back, which I
did do at two o'clock in the morning, by the way,
So I was like, I got to get this out.
I wanted off my plate.

Speaker 4 (24:13):
So I also when.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
I switched phones, my my two factor authentication app didn't
transfer over properly, and I don't know the password, and
it won't reset the password until I log into every
account that has two FA set to it disabled to
FA and then I can work on resetting the password.

Speaker 3 (24:31):
It's I mean, truly, passwords are just to keep you
out of your own stuff. Like I'm a firm believer that.

Speaker 2 (24:36):
I was on the phone with t ro Price last
like Wednesday morning for hours. It was like six o'clock
in the morning, which is like or five thirty in
the morning. I'm trying to because I was like locked
out of the five twenty nine account, which I didn't
even really need to be in, but I was trying
to disable the two FA for things because I had time.

(24:58):
We were up so early every morning. But I was like, well,
let me work on this anyway. It was so fucking annoying,
so I had on that morning. I had already been
on the phone with AT and T because I locked
myself out of the account, trying to make sure that
we had the international thing turned on. I had been
on the phone with Coastal Credit Union because I had

(25:18):
locked myself out of my coastal No, and there's something
else I had been on that help chat with. Then
we couldn't figure out how to check a bag online,
and Jack and Cindy were like flipping out. So I
was like, I'll take care of it, So I call
American flight attendant who booked us. Turns out she never
told us that we were actually entitled to one free bag,

(25:41):
so that was a waste of like minutes of my
fucking day to not tell me that. And when she
booked the stuff back in October, she spelt Jay's name wrong,
so I noticed it right away. She fixed it, but
then it screwed it up that he was on his
own reservation, So oh, okay. Then I'm trying to get
into Jay's Delta American Airlines account. I can't get into

(26:05):
that because he's traveling. He's in New York traveling, I
can't check him in whatever, whatever.

Speaker 3 (26:10):
Whatever.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Finally he gets home and he's like trying to work
at the same time and he can't check in. He
just throws his laptop at me and he's like, you
figured it out, and I was like, sure, so we
can't get it to check in. It will not get
past the screen where you put your data birth and
your passport number and all that in. So it's not working.

(26:33):
I call American again. American is like, oh, you need
the you need the help the IT department. I go
to the IT department, the idea department. It's like, oh, well,
it turns out his birth year is wrong, like this
date of birth was put in wrong. He's not massing
matching his passport. That's why I won't let you check in.
And I was like, well, he needs to get fucking
checked in. So how am I gonna do this? And

(26:54):
they were like, you need to go down to the
airport with his passport in person. It's the only way
you can get it changed now is if you're there
in person. So I was like, okay, I guess I'm
going to the airport, So go down to the airport thankfully,
get it taken care of. Like I have Jay on FaceTime.
I'm like, tell them I could change your stuff. I'm

(27:16):
showing them the boarding passes that I had printed out
for the other five of us. I was like, look, see,
I have boarding passes for the rest of us. It's
just a different reservation. And they're like, okay, crazy lady
like whatever, So they fix it. Jay's able to check in,
like I stayed at the airport until he like had
his port his uh everything checked in and like boarding

(27:36):
passes confirmed. So that worked out, but it was kind
of like such an annoying headache that sort of was
indicative of everything else, because when we went to leave
on Sunday on Saturday, and I can't check I can't
check any of us in, like I I didn't even
try J. I can't check the five of us in.
I asked the travel agent. She's like, I have, which

(28:01):
I purposely woke up at like four in the morning
on that Saturday because I wanted to catch her when
it was not like super like I didn't want to
like ruin her Saturday or whatever. So oh actually met
it in late at night, but I was like, I
can't check us in, Like what is going on? Why
can't I check us in? And she's like, oh, gosh,
I don't know. I don't know. So then she gets

(28:22):
back to like an hour later and she's like, what
was her excuse? Well, it turns out it's just they
they need to see Jay's information in person, just like
in Raleigh. The information is there, but they're not going
to let you check in. And I was like, Jay's
on a different reservation. There's no reason why the five
of us should not be able to check in, Like
damn sure, but not us. We should be fine. So

(28:46):
because and I had spent over an hour on the
phone with American Airlines and japan Airlines trying to figure
it out, and none of them knew why we couldn't
get checked in either, So like I did my due
diligence before I sort of bobbing her so because to
those like, she must think I'm the biggest pain, they asked,
But like, so we end up.

Speaker 3 (29:04):
I mean, it's not like you're like I don't like
where we're seated.

Speaker 2 (29:07):
Can we only come to run rights.

Speaker 3 (29:10):
Important basic like tenets of travel?

Speaker 8 (29:13):
Yeah, And then that's truly, like that's why you were
having issues.

Speaker 3 (29:20):
It like stems from like her initial mistakes, so like
it is sort of it is her problem. It is
a problem of her making literally.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Exactly and she had said like, oh, we'll have to
make it up to you somehow, Okay, bullshit. Nobody made
anything else. They never she never reached out to make
sure that we got into the hotel. Okay.

Speaker 8 (29:38):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Cindy was like, well, usually when she books travel for us,
we have these beautiful like floral arrangements and fruit stuff
that are at the room. And I'm like, oh cool,
I'll take some free fucking mints on my pillow. That's fine.
So nothing, there was absolutely nothing done anyway. So she
gives me this run around and I'm like, this is bullshit.
She has no idea what it is. We get to
the airport four hours early and they at the checking

(30:01):
counter and we're doing Google Translate on our phones because
there's a language barrier issue and they can't figure out
why we can't check in. Turns out they had. She
had zero problems checking Jay in. I probably could have
done him online. It was there was nothing wrong with
Jay's reservation. That was total bullshit. Finally they figure out
that it was showing up that our flights had never

(30:23):
been paid for. So what she was like, do you
have anything? So I'm like pulling up on I was like, well,
I can do it on my phone, but like we
use Jay's hotspot. I pull out my laptop from my
carry on suitcase and I'm like I'm like showing her.
I'm like here's where we did this payment in that
like we paid for it, it's been paid through the

(30:44):
travel agency. So she They finally made some phone calls
and called around to whoever and was able to confirm
that the flights were in fact paid for, and then
they linked the payments in their system to the flights,
so like thirty minutes we were finally able to check in.

Speaker 3 (31:05):
Oh oh my god.

Speaker 4 (31:07):
It was so ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (31:09):
But anyway, that's that's the book ends of the story.
Rest of it is. The rest of it is just
as adventurous, and I'll save that for after the break.
But nobody else has anything. I have something fun.

Speaker 4 (31:21):
That sounds good.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Okay, So this is another ask Reddit and it was
the best ad libs and mistakes that were made while
filming and left behind in the full final version. Hmm.

Speaker 4 (31:38):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (31:38):
So the first one is from a Fellowship of the Rings.
Ian McKellen actually hit his head on the door frame
inside Bilbo's house during that scene where you visited him
before the big party. Peter Jackson kept it in because
it was really funny and it showed the scale of
the hot Yeah, that's great. Another one is from Zoolander.
One of the Men is favorite movies, and it was

(32:03):
the scene in the cemetery David du Couvny's character says
a whole speech about after Ben Steelller's why male models line,
and the next line was Ben's but he Ben forgot
the line, so he just said why male models again,
and David just went with it and says, I just
told you that.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
I just told you.

Speaker 2 (32:22):
Yeah. So that was ad lib. That was completely.

Speaker 4 (32:29):
Was fun.

Speaker 2 (32:31):
It's a good scene in Happy Gilmore. Nobody told Christmpmy
MacDonald why his name was Shooter McGavin. So he just
started pointing at the hole with the gunfinger and saying
shooter after sinking putts and then during that long putt

(32:51):
when he you know, hits it or whatever.

Speaker 6 (32:54):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
They actually he he did that for real, that like
long shot hole in one thingy. So like that dance
he does and shimmy. That was all ed lived on
the spot too, because he was really excited that he
made the shot.

Speaker 3 (33:06):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (33:07):
Yeah, Warriors come out to play a was entirely improvobbed,
improvised and turned into the most famous quote from the
Warriors movie, which.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
I didn't know because that is the most famous quote
from that movie In Captain America Civil War, during the
scene where Tony Stark and Peter Parker meet for the
first time and they talk in Peter's bedroom, Tom Holland
was so in awe of watching Robert Downey Junior act
opposite of him that at one point he completely lost
himself while filming. During the scene Tony crosses the room

(33:44):
to sit on the bed with Peter. Tom's leg was
up on the bed. He was supposed to move it
when Downy Junior approached. He forgot to move his legs.
So Robert Staying character said the famous which I know
this line, but I'm gonna sit here, so you're gonna
need to move the leg. That was all improv because
I'm Holland was like, like too much and like, holy shit?

(34:10):
Which fair? Napoleon getting maybe a shanny? Do you know this?
Napoleon getting whacked in the face with the steak by
Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite. Did they talk about that
at your screening?

Speaker 8 (34:20):
It?

Speaker 4 (34:20):
Really?

Speaker 7 (34:21):
They really did throw a steak at him.

Speaker 2 (34:25):
Yeah, let's see elf. The Santa looking homeless guy in
Times Square while Buddy is running around wasn't an extra,
just a random white bearded New Yorker in a red jumpsuit.
Most of the scenes of Buddy running around causing a
hey havoc genuine. The crew just set Will Ferrell on

(34:48):
the city in character and followed him around with a camera.
I'm sure they had a whole crew behind them getting
consent from everybody to be in the movie.

Speaker 3 (35:00):
Pa is just running behind them with him.

Speaker 6 (35:01):
Yes, we're a legitimate movie, I promise.

Speaker 2 (35:11):
In Scream, when Nev Campbell really strikes she hits ske
Ulrich with the umbrella tip and his reaction is real.
And also when Skeet hit Matthew Lillard with the phone,
you know at the end when they're like dying and
Matthew Lillard says, my mom and dad are going to
be so mad at me. All that was improv the

(35:31):
phone the line, that's a good line. It's a good line.
In em Fire strikes Back, We're almost done, Harrison Ford
yells at Chebaka, this one goes here, that one goes there.
Originally the line was long with named parts, but the
names are too complicated and Ford got pissed, so he just.

Speaker 3 (35:57):
Amazing, Let's see what else.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
Oh. In Scrooge in the restaurant. Phil Murray's slips on
the water that he threw at the waiter because he
thought it was on fire. That fall wasn't in the
script that kept it in anyway. The lineup scene in
the Usual Suspects. They were all supposed to just read
the line normally, but Beniciel del Toro farted and they
all started laughing and carrying on. In Almost Famous when

(36:31):
Penny asked William to go to Morocco with her and
he says yes. He then asked her to ask her
to ask him again. That wasn't scripted. Patrick Fujik just
didn't like his delivery the first time he said yes,
so he asked Kate to save the line again so
he could give it say yes with a different delivery.

Speaker 11 (36:52):
Oh yeah, but.

Speaker 3 (37:00):
Like Cavin Crow, he knows how to dirk the movie.
I guess uh.

Speaker 2 (37:07):
In Titanic, during the draw me like one of your
French girls scenes, Leo flubs his line and says over
on the bed the couch. They thought that his nerves
were cute and left the flubbed light in Oh that's cute.
And then uh, I know back when twenty five was

(37:28):
too old for him because he was too.

Speaker 3 (37:31):
Maybe he was.

Speaker 4 (37:34):
Right exactly before we knew.

Speaker 2 (37:36):
Yes, okay, uh two two more? I think oh oh,
So Anthony Hopkins assumed that the part when he says,
you know, I would ate his liver with fava beans
and nice kiante and then he does that like part

(37:57):
that was improved, and he just assumed that they would
cut it out. But they liked it, so they kept it.
In al Pacino in Heat, when he screams she's got
a great ass, it was ad libbed, and Hank Kazaria's
reaction in the scene was legit. He didn't expect it
at all.

Speaker 4 (38:17):
I never seen Heat, and then every time.

Speaker 2 (38:21):
I've never seen Heat or Casino, I've.

Speaker 4 (38:24):
Never seen I don't think I have either.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Well, maybe we do mobster movies one one month, Frank
will behind, I do want to see them. Everyone's like
it to your people, have you not seen them? I
was like, I don't know, because my people.

Speaker 3 (38:37):
Well because they're not exactly my people.

Speaker 2 (38:40):
Yeah, I don't know.

Speaker 7 (38:44):
Old it's also an old movie, like we we missed
it right, because like we just.

Speaker 2 (38:49):
Now, I'm pretty sure Casino was filmed the same year
that Home Alone was filmed, So yes, we missed it
on that level.

Speaker 6 (38:55):
But yeah, yeah, but also alone was the movie geared
for set.

Speaker 7 (39:00):
That a yeah yeah, and he when he is nineteen
ninety five, so like when we were eleven years old,
we weren't like going to heat in theaters. And then
and then life just continues in other movies.

Speaker 6 (39:14):
And all those ocean movies came out, and like, why
do you need to go back and watch like a
nineties gangster movie?

Speaker 2 (39:23):
All right, two more, I think you guys know this one.
The Hans Grouber are seen in Noctomy Plaza when he falls.
They were I read that I saw this on some documentary.
They were supposed to count down Alan Rickman dropping, like
letting him fall, but they cut him loose randomly, like
they didn't do the full countdown, so that shock on
his face when he's falling is one hundred percent real.

Speaker 4 (39:46):
What movie is this in?

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Die Hard?

Speaker 3 (39:50):
Oh yeah, it's like kind of cruel.

Speaker 2 (39:53):
Yes, well, he's a good actor.

Speaker 3 (39:55):
I'm sure he would have like done fine if.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
You but yeah, they they did that to get the
real reaction on him. And finally, this one's nuts. In
the Punisher movie, have you ever seen the Tom Jane
Thomas Jain version The Punisher. It came out and were
like high school. But for me, there's a scene where
he stabs this like big Russian dude in the chest,

(40:18):
like with a knife, and the prop knife was never
it was never changed out for the prop knife, so
it was a real knife, and either actor realized it
until Jane went to pull the knife out and they
realized that the knife was like stuck in there. It wasn't,
you know, like prop knife. So yeah, the Russian guy
was played by Kevin Nash. He was six ten, three

(40:40):
hundred pounds. I mean was he was he? Okay, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes,
But isn't that nuts?

Speaker 3 (40:48):
That is nuts?

Speaker 4 (40:49):
It's like a rust type situation.

Speaker 5 (40:52):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (40:53):
Yeah, Nash didn't even notice that he started bleeding and
he didn't even notice it. But it's in the you
can watch the scene like it's on YouTube. I pulled
it off after that because I was like, really, I
want to see the guy gets stabbed.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (41:12):
Okay, that's that was that. I thought those were fun.
I love that kind of stuff, so totally yeah, good times.
All right, let's take it with commercial break. When we
come back, we'll do feedback in Tokyo here you all right,

(41:34):
we are back, ready to get into some feedback, uh,
in which it was just Christie asking, I just thought
you changed it to Shandy. Christy wants to know talk
about all things Japan, which I will do. But I
noticed that Shandy has changed butter emails too. But there's
signal chats because.

Speaker 7 (41:55):
It did I did put into their emails a while ago,
but this I felt like I needed to change again.

Speaker 8 (42:04):
At the times, you know, on the cutting edge that.

Speaker 2 (42:10):
We didn't even talk about the second signal chat, same
war plans perfect.

Speaker 3 (42:15):
There even is the second one.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Also, we didn't mention that with the decline of elon,
the rise of JFK RFK, junior Shenanigans is officially here.

Speaker 8 (42:32):
Yeah, although watching them get schooled by the autistic community
has been.

Speaker 3 (42:38):
A real highlight of being on the socials last week,
including even from Survivor. Yeah, her video was great.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Yes, yes, Well, today he announced that they are creating
a national Registry of Autistic People in the United States.
They will be violating HIPPA. They will be gathering data
from fitness trackers and medical records and insurance records and yeah,

(43:07):
they're creating a national database of SoC that is terrifying.
As somebody pointed out, did Pluto exist before nineteen thirty
because we didn't know about that until myeteen thirty.

Speaker 11 (43:20):
I'm not a disease, Yeah, agistries of it's not something
of people with other you know things, even if you're
going to stay.

Speaker 4 (43:32):
We don't keep like a cancer registry.

Speaker 2 (43:36):
Well, some certain states require you to have required autism registries,
which is scary, but that doesn't mean that it's right.

Speaker 8 (43:46):
But then like, I mean what level of because it's
a spectrum, right, so like what levels of autistic like qualifies?

Speaker 2 (43:54):
I think it's any diagnoses because they want to study people,
or eugenics or something something something. It's really actually quite terrifying.
And the fact that people are out there still making
excuses like it is a boult.

Speaker 7 (44:06):
It's like, learn your history. Putting people on registries not
typically doesn't end well.

Speaker 3 (44:12):
Yeah, right, like never really looked on those people fondly.

Speaker 1 (44:16):
Well.

Speaker 2 (44:16):
The funny thing to me is like, isn't there like
a whole movement and like a don't tread on me flag?
But all of a sudden, we're okay with being required
to carry our passports everywhere we go to prove that
we like have our legal papers. Like that feels pretty
tready on me. Uh huh, it feels like you're stopping
all over me, to be honest. So yes, uh like

(44:43):
very terrifying. But I guess we're gonna rid of artificial
die so promises made, promises kept, you know what I mean.

Speaker 3 (44:50):
I feel healthier already.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Same, same girl, same even though we're also getting rid
of the FDA food inspection lists because you know, companies
will do the right thing when astro literally nicely.

Speaker 3 (45:03):
Yeah, that's the same as the low of prices.

Speaker 2 (45:07):
Yeah, okay, So Tokyo, let's see. It was it was.
It was great, It was really great. It was definitely
a different experience with my children because they whine a lot,
and magically everybody's feet break by like the first fifteen

(45:28):
minutes of the day and they need to be carried places.
But that said, we did some great things. We saw
the Tokyo Tower, We went to the Tajuski outer Market,
where we had these amazing Wagu beef skewers. I have
a feeling Jack is going to tell a story about
the Kobe beef skewers that they accidentally spent sixty seven

(45:50):
dollars each on like perscuer not realizing it that was
that was the first morning, and that was when we
all decided to download a currency app, so we now
much you're gonna spend the We had some issues when

(46:17):
it came. It was a learning curve for us because
the every a lot of things are cash, so we
needed to find like the only ATM in English and
the entire friggin city. But also we had some struggles
with figuring out the icy cards there, which is their
subway cards, but they can also be used for other
things to pay with. So what we should have done,

(46:39):
and I recommend this to anybody moving forward, like going
out there, is if you plan on writing on their
subway system, which they have a you know, a good
rail system. It you know connects a lot of places,
you're gonna do that. Put like I'm not even kidding,
put like five hundred dollars worth of money on there
and just use that for the week as what you're

(47:00):
going to spend on food, on train rides, on like everything.
Because also we kept adding like a thousand yen here,
a thousand yen there to ride on the trains. But
every time we got a foreign transaction fee. So like
that was just we did not make the most like
financially wise decisions. So I would recommend that for anybody.

(47:24):
But as far as like what we saw, like we
saw some really cool things. We did the Tokyo Tower.
The first day, I got my four thousands g O cash.

Speaker 3 (47:32):
Wow, amazing. Yeah, a lot of that's all out.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
The podcast episode number.

Speaker 2 (47:43):
Yes said, I sure have we did? What else did
we do?

Speaker 10 (47:51):
We did?

Speaker 2 (47:52):
Oh, we did Disney so well some people did Disney.
So poor Zachary got some random virus that first night
that we were there. So like he first he twisted
his ankle that coming with me to get the geocash.
So he was pissed because he was like crying and
it hurt him, and like you know, everybody's tired. So
we go to sleep and he wakes up. I want

(48:14):
to say we went to sleep at like seven o'clock
that night, eight o'clock. He woke up about eleven thirty
and had terrible stomach virus like it was. It was
diarhell a night. And then we so at one point
I tried, I was going to uber to go get
like friggin' pepto from the seven to eleven. That was

(48:36):
like open twenty four hours because I was like, I
don't know how to make this kid stop being sick.
He was miserable. It's just he was in constant pain
all night, like barely slept, just constant, constant pain. And
I felt terrible for him. My thought was that he
picked up something on the airplane and it just took
twenty four hours like for his body to like you know,

(48:56):
for it to like hit him, because he never I
never thought he had flew because he never had a stop.
He never had it was like intense gas pains, but
like he never had a fever or anything like that.
So at breakfast the next morning, you know, things had
been calm for a little while, so I had him
eat just a plain piece of toast with nothing on it.
And then oh, I had to eat goldfish in the

(49:18):
middle of night first, because I thought that was all
he had, and I thought that he was going to
he was just hungry because his body thought that it
was you know, lunchtime the following day, and he threw
up the goldfish. So, yes, we were entering, we were
adding that to the equation. But then the next morning
he threw up, like for the entire day. So he

(49:40):
and I stayed at the hotel while he like was
miserable and finally slept, and I watched a whole bunch
of the new matlock on Nice with Jay's than guy.
Jay's laptop was there because everything was Japanese in Japanese,
and I don't have a VPN but Jay does, so
I was like, oh, thank god, I can watch Paramount Plus.

(50:00):
Thank you Paramount plus app. But I finally woke Zack
up about five thirty that afternoon and he had been
sleep for like four and a half hours, five hours,
and I was like, hey, let's go to Disney for
an hour, just to We came all the way here
the passes like we can't get refunds for them, Like,
let's just see how you feel. We've been sleeping for

(50:21):
a while. So we ended up going to We went
as Jack and Cindy were leaving, and Jay and Alex
were only going to go on like one or two
more rides. So what we ended up doing though, we
got so lucky. We got there at six thirty. From
six thirty till nine, we walked onto every single We
did a big thunder Railroad twice in a row. We
did Jungle Cruise in the dark. It was awesome, the

(50:43):
New Beauty and the Beast Experience ride like which they
had to pay because it was one hundred and twenty
minute wait, like just an hour earlier. We walked right
onto there, like it was awesome. We had no issues.
It was so Jay was just like, well, you guys
missed the whole day, but you did almost every ride

(51:04):
we did in two and a half hours. I was like, yeah,
that's how you do it. Then the next day, Zach
was feeling better and we went to Tokyo Disney c
which is like their second park. It is beautiful, like
it is absolutely gorgeous. It's definitely one of those as

(51:26):
I kind of equated it to like you get an
app for free and then like it's in apt purchases though,
like you every weight time was forever, like you had
to you had to buy the fast passes, which is
like the in at purchase kind of thing for a
lot of them. And I wouldn't say the rides were
super spectacular, like, but they were gorgeous, Like the animatronics

(51:48):
are better. Everything like just flows. Nothing broke down at all.
Tower Terror was really really fun. The Indiana Jones ride
like it looked like it didn't look like Harrison Ford,
but it looked like a real person. Like the Indiana was.
Everything is just gorgeous there, and they have companies because

(52:10):
privately owned but licensed through Disney. What why everything is
good is like works so much better there and looks
so much better is they have companies that are sponsors
that will put the money into fixing the rides up
and making them really really good. So that ended up
being really nice. What else do we do? We went

(52:31):
to Oh we wandered around for hours trying to find
the entrance to the Imperial Palace. We never quite found it,
but we saw it through the trees. We did that
Shabaya crossing thing had amazing sushi on a conveyor belt.

Speaker 3 (52:46):
Need to do that.

Speaker 2 (52:47):
It was cool. You just put your order in through
the app like because they had you know, you scan
the QR code and you put your order in and
they just send the sushion down the conveyor belt like
when it's ready. H It was really cool. It delicious.
They have this because I like salmon, they have this
like salmon shashimi that is got it's got onions, it's

(53:10):
got the rice, but it's like, yeah, it's got onions
and mayo based on top. So it was like eating
a sushi like sandwich kind of thing. It was amazing.
I would have eaten that all day. It was everything.
The sushi there was so good. We had it three times.
It was delicious. What else? Uh? We did the Mount
Fuji thing, which was a little controversial because we paid

(53:33):
for the tour that would take us to the fifth station,
and the guy showed up an hour late told us
if he wanted to make it to the fifth station,
we had to cut our time in half. At the
other places, he talked us out of doing like that
skyrope thing, which you've seen pictures probably it's like these
trams that like go down onto a lake and you
get like views of Fuji. We did we were gonna

(53:57):
do that, but he talked us out of it because
he's like, if you want to save time. He took
us to this restaurant that was incredibly overpriced. It was
two hundred and ten dollars and the voice shared a
meal like. It was way overpriced and not very good.
So when I looked at reviews at that restaurant from
my hotel room the next morning. Every single comment was like, oh,

(54:19):
they guess must they must do kickbacks with the tour
groups because it's definitely a tourist trap and it's not
good like it was. It had a three point seven
star rating. Yeah, but uh but we got to sit
on the floor of Japanese Styles.

Speaker 8 (54:33):
That was cool.

Speaker 2 (54:34):
And then we did the pagoda where you climb up
the stairs and it's that famous shot of the pagoda
with the cherry blossoms on the mountaintop. You got Fuji
in the background, and it was just incredible, absolutely incredible,
and like the whole time we kept telling him, like,
we want to make sure we can go to Fuji.
Want to make sure that we can go to Fuji.
We trust you. You say, we have an hour here,

(54:55):
but we should only do a half an hour. Fine,
like you know the time, the timing, you know the timing.
And then as we're leaving the pagoda, Jack and Sinny
didn't climb up the stairs because they want to save
themselves to walk around at the fifth station because it's
the high as you can drive by car, and he
starts to drive us home and we're like he was like, oh,
well it's closed this time of year, didn't you know?

(55:16):
And we're like, well, why did I booked this tour
on Monday? It was Thursday. I was like, why wouldn't
you tell me that it was closed? Like I don't, like,
this is bullshit, and then he was like, well, if
you googled it, you would have known. And I was
like I trusted the tour guide who all we all

(55:37):
day long, all we kept talking about was how we
can't wait to go to the fifth station. I even
asked him that everything. I was like, should I get
a souvenir here or is there a souvenir shop on
the fifth station because I want to make sure that
I get something and he was like, they have one
on the fifth station. This was even confirmed before what
we left, before we did the Pagoda, And then he
just took his home and was just like, well you

(55:57):
should have known, like you should have known better. And
I was like, no, we're on the listing doesn't say
it's closed. So I showed him that and then like
showed him the email confirmation. I was like, there's nothing
and he was like oh oops. So I was pissed
and he knew it, but then they made me sit
in the front of the van with him, which I
was pretty pissed about. I was like, I don't want
to sit up here.

Speaker 4 (56:17):
I'm annoyed.

Speaker 2 (56:20):
So Jay put it into his phone that it was
only gonna be ninety minutes to get back. It took
like two and a half hours to get there in
the morning for some reason, because only I mean ninety
minutes to get back. So we're like, all right, we're
gonna get back. Because he had said, like, you have
me till six, you're gonna get back. At five thirty,
he started driving us around in circles. He added fifty

(56:41):
five minutes to the drive home because Jay had Google
Maps open. At one point, Jay was like, why are
we going the opposite way, like as where hotel is,
Like you just turned the wrong way, and he was like, no,
there's only one tunnel in and out. And Jay was like, well,
there's one tunnel in and out. Why are we taking
the tunnel the outweigh like why why are we going
the wrong way? And he like gave some like mumbled

(57:02):
some like bullshit things. So then by that point Jay
and Cindy, Jack and Cydy and I all pulled it
up on our phones, and I could see his Google Maps,
like his navigation on the dashboard in front of me.
Like he had it on the right side, because they
drive on the right side, left side of the road,
it's like that wards, but so he had it like
on the right side, but I could still see it

(57:22):
on the other side of the steering wheel, and I
was watching him pick the routes that had the traffic
over the routes that did it. So he must have
realized that we were pissed about Fuji, which I have
since been keeping track, and it's not closed this time
of year. It was closed at the very beginning of
April because there was snow, but it was like a

(57:43):
weather closing. It's not closed this time of year, so
there's no reason. And even before we recorded, I checked
again and it said open closes, park closes at seven
pm or whatever. So he just I think that I
think that he just was like, oh no, this is
gonna get me past six. Fuck this, I'm not gonna
take them. I'm just gonna say, you know. But like

(58:05):
because again, even if it was closed the whole time
that we're talking about it, from the second we get
into the car, how we want to go to the
fifth station. We want to make sure that's our main goal.
And he never once said, well, you know it's closed.
So that was my issue, like if it's closed, don't
advertise for it and let us know, because like it
was kind of a bummer, and now you got us.

(58:26):
We wouldn't have agreed to have less time at some
of the other places. We're going to have more time
to explore there. It was pretty clear. So then as
we're getting back, he's telling me, so he is from
Dubai and his wife is Japanese. This was his forty
fourth day of work in a row. And then he
starts shitting all over Japanese people, like they have no life.

(58:46):
They have this place called the Suicide Forest because life
is so sad there and like it's just places totally
like just shitting all over it. And I was like
and then he's like as we pull in, he's like,
sorry about the misunderstanding, the misunderstanding with Fuji, but can
you give me a five star review because if I
don't want my star review, then I can't get work tomorrow.

(59:11):
And I was just like, yeah, that sounds emotionally manipulated.
He's like, my wife will be so mad at me
if I don't get work, and I was just like,
my dude, like come on now. So I was like, yeah, sure,
I'll give you a five star review because I just
wanted him to stop asking, because he asked me several times.
It was very uncomfortable, and at that point, I was

(59:31):
just resolved to like not give a review at all,
Like I was just gonna just leave it alone or
wait till we came back to the States, because I
was pissed and I didn't want to like do something
like bitchy in the heat of the moment, right, So
I never didn't. I finished my review this morning, but
I haven't posted it, and I'm going to give I'm

(59:51):
going to give a three star review to everything except
value of Money. I think I might do. No, there's
one of them that I'm gonna give a two star
two and it involves like the restaurant. I don't know
whatever it was anyway, So it was just again, it
was beautiful, and I feel bad complaining about something because
everything that we saw was gorgeous. But we did purpose

(01:00:12):
like we skipped several stops that could have been equally gorgeous,
and we didn't do some of the other things we
wanted to do, and he never told us, and I
was just really pissed. But aside from that, uh the
did uh the We went to that famous uh CJ
Sensog Sensog Temple, which is it's the one that's got

(01:00:32):
the market that is like directly lines up with the
old temple and the temples like a little compound. It's
it's the famous image that you see like from Tokyo
as well like in the city itself. It was incredible.
They had this thing called like uh choose your fortune
or whatever, and you put a hundred yen in this

(01:00:53):
like little offering and then you shake this jar and
a stick comes out and the stick has a number,
and then you use that to go find a fortune
from a set of drawers that has like one through
one hundred fortunes. And we thought they'd all be good fortunes. No,
so Jase the first one j pulled out, because the
first time we went it was just me and him.

(01:01:13):
He pulled out one that was bad fortune, and then
he pulled out like an okay fortune and my two
were bad fortune. And then it was literally the worst
fortune you could get. That's what it said.

Speaker 3 (01:01:29):
Oh no, I was gonna ask, how do you know
it's the worst.

Speaker 2 (01:01:32):
Because it says it like on it. It was so funny. Finally,
I so when we first got there, there were a
bunch that discarded ones next to me, and I picked
one up to see what the deal was, and it
said best fortune. So I grabbed that again and I
was like, well, you know what, you don't pay for fortune,
You make your own fortune. But it was beautiful, just

(01:01:56):
so much like history there and like just absolutely gorgeous.
Would absolutely recommend. That's where we got all of our little
souvenir stuff from. We did the bullet train, but we
only did it for like a half an hour, so
we never got full speed. It was expensive to do
the bullet train, but Zach really wanted you. And Zach
had missed out on so much because he also got sick.

(01:02:19):
He'd gotten sick again. I'm like, was it Thursday, maybe
it was Wednesday? So he and he just didn't eat
for several days when we were there, poor kids. So
I was like, well he really wants to do it,
like I'll take him. And yeah, then we did celebration
and Disney and that was pretty awesome too, so and

(01:02:39):
we did the standing sushi after that, which is basically
like their fast food sushi, you literally stand up, you
order it, they give it to you immediately because it's
all right in front of you. And it was delicious,
and there were people that were coming in and out.
They would eat their food, they'd be out within fifteen minutes.
Everything was delicious. So anyway, that was that. It was
a good train overall. Like I said, I definitely recommend

(01:03:03):
figuring out the travel card situation first and putting your
money on there. Because also if you try to take
money out, it was a nineteen dollars convenience fee to
take the cash out, So you plan on doing cash, yeah,
really fucking a lot. If you do plan on taking
the cash out taking cash instead, definitely get your cash

(01:03:23):
from from home because it's only like, you know, five
dollars to do all that. Yere like a service charge
versus the gazillion dollars that is atm f's there. So
I would definitely recommend that as well. Time change there
wasn't too bad to get adjusted to. It's been tougher
going back, but there I felt okay. By the second

(01:03:44):
day that we were there. So anyway, that was that
and uh yeah, sorry to be so long winded, sorry
to be negative about my Mount Fuji thing, but that
that was the only part that kind of bummed me
out because again, just temper my expectations and.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
Yeah, that's it.

Speaker 2 (01:04:10):
It was good. It was fun. I would I'd go back.
I would go back, especially now that we know what
we're doing and like where we're going and all that.
Because there was one thing I didn't get to do
because we ran out of time and it was on
the total other side of town. Like I wouldn't have
been able to get back there. So you know, I
got I got more things.

Speaker 4 (01:04:32):
I mean, it's a huge city.

Speaker 2 (01:04:33):
Yeah, it was ginormous. But the train system was really good.
There was a lot of a lot of easy ways
to transfer and whatnot.

Speaker 4 (01:04:45):
Amazing how that works.

Speaker 3 (01:04:47):
Yeah, and it's probably immaculately clean.

Speaker 2 (01:04:50):
Oh yes, I believe I didn't lead with this. Okay,
So my favorite part about Tokyo we're the bathrooms, and
not just because of the days, because every bathroom had
public bathrooms Disney too, it said please sit down, no squatting,
and they were heated toilet seats with noise machines inside

(01:05:13):
of them, so you could poop in public and nobody
would know.

Speaker 3 (01:05:17):
That's incredible, brilliant.

Speaker 2 (01:05:20):
It was brilliant, And so in Disney they were they
were on constantly. In some of the other like public restrooms,
you had to like wave your hand if you want
to turn the sound on. But it was like the
sound of running water too, So like you it was awesome.
And then like I get back to the airport at
SFO and I was like, dammit, I got to go

(01:05:42):
back to squatting again or using that or using the cover.

Speaker 4 (01:05:50):
Situation.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
Yeah, like public toilets, Oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:05:54):
Like the our doors I had never noticed before, but
it's true, and like French people have pointed out to
me that, like you know, you go into your average
like public restroom, the doors there's like they're like short doors.
There's space below and space above and yeah yeah, and

(01:06:15):
you just kind of get used to it if you
grow up here. But then then when I was pointed out,
you're like, oh, yeah, that's kind of weird.

Speaker 2 (01:06:22):
Yeah, Alex. Alex got obsessed with the bedets. It's like, oh,
just feels so good. Can we get one at home?
I was like sure, Yeah. It was really funny because
the hotel had one. And when I was like okay,

(01:06:44):
when we're leaving the airport is like tactical, we everybody,
We're not going to be able to go until we
get through security. It's a bloey thing shitty.

Speaker 3 (01:06:53):
So it's like it's a bluey thing. Yeah, I just
thought you came up with that.

Speaker 2 (01:07:01):
We didn't, but Alex was like, oh I got to
get my last day trip in. It's like you are
s funny.

Speaker 4 (01:07:18):
Anyway.

Speaker 2 (01:07:19):
Yeah. So yeah, overall, I'd say do a Fuji tour.
Do it, just don't expect to go up and don't
use the company I use. Message me. I'll let you
know which one I used. I used it. I went
through clok dot com, which has a which a lot
of tourists use. It's klok dot com. A lot of
tourists use it to book things like if we had

(01:07:40):
done this Tokyo Skytree, which was one thing that Jay
really wanted to do but we just ran out of time.
It was like sixty dollars a person to do it
through their website. But if you went through clok, they
were constantly like group on discount of tickets as long
as you got them like twenty four hours before, and
it was like, you know, eighteen dollars, like it was
much cheap. So I think those websites are good for

(01:08:04):
certain things, and you know, not so great for other
things because you can't pick your tour guide. Overall, I
would totally go back again without my children, yea, and
move more freely. Okay, So now that I've you know,
taken all the air from the room master, she said.

Speaker 4 (01:08:27):
Okay, all right, I had an accomplishment. It was wonderful.

Speaker 3 (01:08:36):
It was doing him some good, and I was like, shit,
I should get in there.

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
You know something, I would take it that.

Speaker 4 (01:08:47):
Penis provides extra security.

Speaker 2 (01:08:51):
What were you talking about.

Speaker 6 (01:08:54):
I'm not even sure that's the thing any of us
would have ever said. All right, everybody's heart is hard.

Speaker 2 (01:09:07):
He made it twenty five hours in five minutes. By
mine count, it was twenty five hours to do that.
It was twenty five hours for us to get home.
We left the hotel at noon, which was eleven pm
your time, and we got our uber pulled up into
the dryway at exactly midnight Easter your time.

Speaker 11 (01:09:27):
It's okay, sorry for a long day.

Speaker 3 (01:09:34):
Do you think you prepared.

Speaker 2 (01:09:38):
I was like, oh my god, he's still going.

Speaker 4 (01:09:43):
I don't know if it's that big.

Speaker 3 (01:09:45):
I love doing these things with you.

Speaker 2 (01:09:49):
Enjoy the snakes. They have arrived.

Speaker 4 (01:09:54):
We're gonna need a lot of these.

Speaker 3 (01:09:58):
You work that toolbox.

Speaker 2 (01:10:02):
We gotta buckle it and do this.

Speaker 4 (01:10:05):
We won't get it till Thursday night.

Speaker 3 (01:10:08):
They do it fairly regularly.

Speaker 2 (01:10:10):
Uh. I like the old school crank. Yeah, you have
to oh.

Speaker 4 (01:10:19):
Okay, sorry, you have to get it on.

Speaker 3 (01:10:23):
Just right, turn it one way, then you gotta do
a full rotation in the opposite direction.

Speaker 2 (01:10:30):
I can't control it sometimes.

Speaker 6 (01:10:34):
So Bush, I remember any of us saying any of
these things, but they're great.

Speaker 3 (01:10:44):
They didn't know we'd come back for more, three more
fucking times.

Speaker 2 (01:10:51):
That I said, we were talking about Trump. How Europeans
used to be like really Bush that oh so Bush
would say at the Shandy when she was living in.

Speaker 4 (01:11:01):
France, Ah, yes, that's right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:03):
And then I responded, little did they know that we
would get we would elect somebody worse and come back
forth three more time. And the old school crank was
the can opener that Amanda likes.

Speaker 3 (01:11:17):
Indeed, I stand by that statement.

Speaker 2 (01:11:19):
Then all right, we're so funny guys.

Speaker 3 (01:11:24):
We are all right.

Speaker 2 (01:11:26):
Well on that note, if anybody doesn't have anything else, yes,
I will count us out here. I think so, land
the plane, Land the plane. All right. On that note, everybody,
thank you for playing, Thanks for listening. I hope you
all have a great week end where you're listening to this.

(01:11:48):
Thanks to the patron especially the ones at your a
certain level and that bet Cutwreckar, Maggie the Magnet to
enjoy with and the creepy poopy head numb Man. Thanks guys,
so much, h thank you. Check out the other shows
on the net work. If you haven't listened to the
Survivor JJC episode in which Jamie took the reins with Shandy,

(01:12:10):
Amanda and Christy, check that one out. That was season
That was episode eight of Survivor. It's very very fun.
I listened to so much fun. I was watching you
guys a little bit from the train going to celebration,
So that was fun. Ye in the chat, Yeah I
did a little bit, but anyway, Yeah, check it out.

(01:12:32):
Check out the amazing Jack and Cindy remocast after Dark
Tally the votes just finished Survivor Australia, so they're gonna
be on a little bit of a hiatus. But check
that out if you haven't yet. And yeah, that's it.
Oh ladies, oh me, everybody, we've or may not see
you next week. We'll see. We've got some scheduling conflicts

(01:12:53):
going on, but yeah, on that. Otherwise, we will see
you in two weeks again. Maybe we'll even have a
double week. Who knows, well, maybe we'll do we'll do
it twice, that's what she said. All right, I don't
know where I'm going. Broadcasters three at gimi dot com
gives a call through through one. She six two three
seven three. You know you don't do this for one
week and suddenly you forget all about everything? All right though,

(01:13:20):
Thanks though, everybody. We will talk to you next week.
Don't get in a room with JD if you want
to live and we'll yeah, uh watch conclave. We'll talk
about it all right. On that note, my name is.

Speaker 3 (01:13:33):
Colleen, my name is Amanda, and I'm Shandy

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
Peace had everybody Bye,