JP Might Be Moving To Japan | Inside The Bus

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Speaker 1: Welcome back to another episode of Inside the Bus. This is episode number forty two, historically known as the Jackie Robinson Pod, but more importantly known as the JP Might Be Moving to Japan Pod.

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Speaker 2: Guys, welcome back JP.

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Speaker 1: Hovey and let's get round on the pause.

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Speaker 2: Woo.

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Speaker 1: It's nice to have you back.

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Speaker 2: Man.

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Speaker 3: Normally just say it's probably not nice to be back.

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Speaker 4: Normally I always say it's good to be back. But after the experience I just had the last seven days in Japan, I do wish that I was still there. As much as I love the seat, as much as I love my coworkers, that country, it's special.

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Speaker 2: You see it in the last few weeks.

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Speaker 4: Dude on Twitter too, Maybe just the last week, but the Japan and America Twitter verse.

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Speaker 1: The alliance is growing stronger. I mean, it's the closest we've ever been in Japan pre dating the war.

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Speaker 2: So have y'all seen this?

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Speaker 4: Is it?

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Speaker 3: The stakes?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's part of it.

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Speaker 1: That kind of was like I think the first Domino I'm just gonna be like alluded to.

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Speaker 3: I don't really know.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, for context, I believe that the Japanese Twitter kind of infiltrated American Twitter, and all they were doing is bombarding comments for people, grilling steaks and meats and barbecues and truly just like it's just a Les surprise bombarda doo yeah again, and that'll be all we have today, dude.

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Speaker 4: But I was thinking about that though, like that joke. I'm like, Japan easily could have just come back and been like, is that the game you want to play?

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Speaker 3: If we want to, Like, yeah, I know that.

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Speaker 2: We're like super cool with them now, I know, And I mean there's reason.

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Speaker 4: I've been there. I'm the ambassador. They're good people, but we were the bad guys. Yeah, we were the bad guys. And I don't know, I don't know if you saw the the video after Japan played England yesterday and all the Japanese fans stayed after and picked up all.

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Speaker 2: The trash from the stadium and it's just like, dude, it's they do.

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Speaker 4: That was one of my favorite parts is they do all of the little things right in Japan, and some of it I'm sure would be frustrating if you moved over there and try to live it, because it's as small as going across a crosswalk. There's zero jaywalking street will be empty and everybody will just stand there and wait, and it could be a line of like one hundred people, but they're not gonna go, which is just awesome. Honking is basically illegal, so you don't got to worry about road rage because everybody is on their piece of queues, not distracted, not doing anything. I heard like maybe two honks, and Tokyo is significantly bigger than they're probably friendly hanks, right, it's like their friends the subways. Dude. One time, I had a horrible moment because I was trying to call my friend that we were meeting up with, and you know, it can be confusing because you can't really understand any of the signs. And I called him and the train was getting there and he's telling me like, hey, get on this one and meet me here. And I'm like, are you sure it's this one? Do you know where I'm at? He's like, yeah, I get on, And so I'm on the phone as I'm stepping on and I'm talking and it was kind of loud, and then I just like fully stop and look around and everyone's just kind of looking over.

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Speaker 2: I was like, oh my god, dude, they're not going to allow me back.

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Speaker 1: Is it like phone etiquette on like like public transportations don't.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't talk. I mean, dude, it's so quiet.

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Speaker 1: Even just talking in general, like I was having a conversation on the subway would not be go well if they.

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Speaker 4: If you are like, it's perfectly fine to be whispering and talking low, but you cannot have like nobody's dying, laughing, telling big.

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Speaker 1: There's no street performers, like there are New York on these buses going crazy.

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Speaker 4: No street performers, And it's a bunch of the things that make it cool. Definitely, I could see it. And a lot of the kids have the same complaints growing up there. It's like they feel very kind of pressured to live up to a certain standard and they feel very boxed in. And a lot of the kids that I was talking to when I was there that I knew FORGI asked him like something you miss most about America? And every single one of them, and this was probably five or six kids, all had the same answer, and they were like, just the freedom in your day to day life, which I thought was pretty cool being American. And how you know, our biggest thing of the American brand is freedom, and that's the number one thing they miss from it. But the world would be a whole lot better if we implemented just half the things that Japanese people implement, including the freshness of the food.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean the meals. We were talking obviously before, like when you got back and like the yen, like how far the US dollar goes with the end, and like obviously you like you were saying that you were eating amazing out there, but like the entire meal comes out to like like ten bucks.

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Speaker 4: Dude, we went to the equivalent and y'all know how I feel about Barcelona, Like I'm not that type of tapas guy. We went to the equivalent of that in Japan and we got probably like six dishes eight drinks total because it was me and sitting and then another couple and dude, the final bill was like forty two dollars a drinks, at least six dishes and a dessert forty two dollars and so much more high quality than anything we have here. First meal back in the US, I get sick.

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Speaker 2: I don't think that's coins.

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Speaker 3: I think it's your I think it's your body, Tony something it.

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Speaker 4: Is, man, it's telling me to move there. But dude, just like it's going by all the knife shops seeing all of that, the swords, I do, I did, I did. I ordered a sword. Good, But it just it's it's.

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Speaker 2: A process of it getting here. But dude, I can't wait, did you?

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Speaker 3: Dude?

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Speaker 2: It's like I know I should mount it, but like I kind of want it. Just ready to go to get ready? Did uh?

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Speaker 1: Did I see on your Twitter you got your dad some customing grave.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I got Hovey. I got Hovey on the knife. That's sweet, which is cool because.

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Speaker 4: He loves cooking, so I know he'll be fired up. And he doesn't follow me on Twitter. That's why I post on Twitter, so he paul In on Twitter. He's on his stay supporting. But dude, I like being in Kyoto because they it's obviously a very big tourist place, but they do such a good job of keeping the traditions, where like Tokyo can feel like New York, but Kyoto does such a good job with it. And it's just people walking around in kimonos everywhere. There's so many temples and one of the things I love about Japanese people is they're so willing to like teach you their culture and yeah, so like you don't feel out of place or dumb talking to somebody or asking, which I feel like in other places you can feel like, ah, like if you're in Germany or something.

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Speaker 1: You're almost trespassing exactly.

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Speaker 4: But they're like they want to know everything about America. They want you to know everything about Japan, and I'm just like it it does not feel real when you're there, Like how how in the world is this is a place this peaceful? Yeah, and it's so impressive and you know, their crime crime rate is like the lowest in the world, and it's dude, they're just so many, so many good things.

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Speaker 3: Were you able to talk to I guess there's their second languages English or do a lot of like people out there speak English.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, in Tokyo there's definitely a decent amount.

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Speaker 3: But in Kyoto was it harder to like to where Were you able to go up and ask like a stranger industry that, hey, I'm trying to get here.

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Speaker 4: Uh yes, but only because like Google translating stuff or you just you know, I'll just show them my map and like hey, and then they'll just tell me like just by pointing they don't really know it too well. I think they can understand it better than they could speak. Yeah, but there was one place we went to, this place called Amano Hashidate, which is like a small fishing.

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Speaker 2: Village close to a fishing village, and like the north.

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Speaker 4: Western part of Kyoto, which is like I guess they call I don't know how to pronounce it, perfectures, perfectures, you know. But it's super small town, so not very toristy. Like we didn't see any other white people or like any other any other country than Japanese. People looked like Japanese people were vacationing there. And dude, that was probably my favorite stop of the whole trip because the water was extremely clear. Their starfish have this like orange markings on them that make them look like Samurai starfish. I'm like, of course their starfish.

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Speaker 3: Are cool too.

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Speaker 4: These jellyfish are rolling through, you can see all the fish swimming, and it's one of the three most.

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Speaker 2: Beauty spots in Japan.

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Speaker 4: And you go up to this like ski lift and you get to see, like I guess, these two different bodies of water coming together underneath this bridge, and it's it's so incredible and some of the Japanese people there were like I had them take a photo for us. I took a photo for them, they took a photo for us, and one of the kids was like, have a nice day, and I was like, hey, have a good day.

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Speaker 2: Your English is good.

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Speaker 4: It was like a squad of four high school kids and they just start geeking out like so high, and I'm like, dude, if an American high schooler took a photo of you know, like a tourist or whoever, you know, they're probably just immediately clowning and doing whatever. And the Japanese kids are just the exact opposite. And I'm like, man, they are They're the best. But I'm trying to think.

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Speaker 2: What was the weather like pretty similar to here?

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Speaker 4: It was definitely it was a little colder, probably, but it was like mid forties to high.

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Speaker 2: Fifties into the sixties.

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Speaker 4: And like on the sunny days, which we only got like two full sunny days, the weather was fine but just overcast a lot. But it was probably felt like sixty five or sixty.

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Speaker 3: Six like their fall winter, it's spring.

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Speaker 4: Okay, Yeah, so they're on the same ones as us, and but I think their seasons are more extreme.

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Speaker 3: Like they have pretty were saying it gets pretty hot, and yeah, I know they have like great skiing and stuff out there.

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Speaker 4: Yeah yeah, up in like con or what is the name of it, there's like a Sapporo which is also the name of one of the beers. But dude, yeah, there's this uh, this little bar district in Shinjuku called Golden Guy, And I think I was telling you about it maybe, but dude, it's like it's just the melting pot of the bar experience, where there's probably like six rows to this place, and these bars are just stacked on top of each other and it's only like four to seven, four to eight people that can fit in each bar. And so we went into probably four different ones. In the first one, it was like two people from the UK, two people from Argentina, and one person, oh in, one person from Italy. And then the next one we went into this like foreign exchange crew of kids from Norway was in there, and like three Australians who were there for a wedding. And then the last one was these two guys, these two brothers that were from Portugal or no, not from Portugal, they're from Spain, but they were born in Uruguay, but they have Italian passports and they've never been to Italy.

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Speaker 2: They had the.

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Speaker 4: Funniest backstory their whole life. One of the guys is talking about how much she loved soccer but couldn't play, and he's like doing all Google Translate with me, and he was telling me how injury prone he was.

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Speaker 2: In the phrase.

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Speaker 4: He wrote out was like like, I'm so fragile, I'm so weak, I get injured when the wind blows. He's and he's just holding it and looking at me, and he sees me finished reading.

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Speaker 2: He's like and dude, it was just like I don't know.

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Speaker 4: It was one of those experience where it's just like, man, this is like this is really what life is about. Like people from all over the world in this tiny bar in Japan, communicating through Google Translate, having the greatest time, and it's just like, God.

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Speaker 2: The real life is so much better than the Internet.

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Speaker 4: But that bar district is just awesome because so many of the different things are themed as well. So so one bar tender could be singing karaoke the whole time. The other one it could be like an Italian theme or superhero theme, and it's just that they have it all.

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Speaker 3: Before you went, I'd watched this like motocross video about Japanese ride and they were saying, like karaoke over there is like taken very very seriously. Oh yeah, and it's like a it's not like an embarrassing thing to go up there. It's like you are putting on and putting on a show and like they like a bow to everybody once they're done, and just the culture over there seems so sick and just realize, it makes me realize how uncultured I am, dude, how much different shit is out there, and like the lives of people like that, the Portugal people like that seems like such a sick life to.

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Speaker 4: Be something like, dude, I could not, for the life be figured out how they got an Italian passport without ever being there.

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Speaker 2: I'm like, where'd you pick it up?

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Speaker 3: Yea?

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Speaker 2: Did they just send it to you? It does like does Italy just need residence?

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Speaker 3: And maybe they're just affiliated?

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Speaker 2: Yeah. Also went three oh and Spike Ball.

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Speaker 4: I went to the like, I guess maybe one of Tokyo's It's not near as big as Central Park, but one of their parks with one of my friend's sister and her husband, and she works for Google, so like a lot of English speaking people are working at Google. So it was this massive picnic, but it was a great vibe out there, and they brought out the spike ball. We played against this guy from Switzerland. His name was Sunshine, like his government name was Sunshine.

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Speaker 2: And I know.

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Speaker 4: And the other guy was from Sweden and I said to him my friend's sister at Erica. I was like, so, what's the like, what's the level of spike ball over here? Because I feel like if I'm lining up against two Japanese people, it could get dicey.

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Speaker 1: It's you definitely got to be prepped. But it feels like a Japanese game in some sense. I don't know if that's racist, but let's keep it moving.

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Speaker 4: And they're quick, they're quick twitch culture and uh but you know, luckily we went up against the Swiss and a and a Swedish person and we went three and oh they were great, great, great guys. But Sitting and I Sitting played her butt off. I was nervous because she hadn't played in a while.

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Speaker 2: Neither have I.

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Speaker 4: But I know, like, if I'm competing internationally, I have to step up, and I didn't know if Sitting felt the weight of the situation, but she did. She rose up, and she even had the two guys that were like, oh man, you guys lied to us like you said you never never play, dude. It was It was great. The sushi incredible. The fish market had some Mando oysters that were insanely good, like the biggest oysters I've ever seen in my life. And just going by each of the fishermen and it just feels you feel like you're contributing because they're still in their sailor clothes and you're like, I'll take six.

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Speaker 5: I would feel like I'm in a TV show or a movie.

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Speaker 2: Dude.

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Speaker 4: That's what it looks like in the market, just walking by and they have every kind of fish you could imagine, and just like their sashimi plates and their poke bowls.

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Speaker 2: Dude, it's a joke.

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Speaker 1: What was your favorite thing you ate? And almost more importantly, what was your least.

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Speaker 2: Favorite thing that you ate?

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Speaker 4: The least favorite thing I ate was I got this like snack pack, which I we'll call it like the Japanese equivalent of checksmi, even though it wasn't that at all. They're doing something completely different. But they had these pretty good little rice crackers in them, but they had these kind of baked I guess, like sardines. They were just like small fish and just whole fish, so like their eyes and everything. And I got it. I was like, oh, this will probably be fun, fun to have, and I just immediately opened in. The smell crushes my nose. And We're on the bullet train when I'm trying it, and I'm already like, dude, I'm so loud opening this thing and everyone probably ruining everybody's trip they're commuting from work. And then just the dumb American tourists opening this snack like this checks mix with sardines in it, and I took a bite of the fish to taste it, and it just wasn't It wasn't all that. I would still crushed the bag out of respect. But that was probably my least favorite and then my favorite thing. Dude, It's probably two things. Just the nagiri across the board. We went to this one place that similar to the Golden Guy setting. A lot a lot of the restaurants in Japan are super small because they're trying to get people in and out and their menus will be pretty short too.

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Speaker 3: Do you have to say, like they do the ordering and stuff too.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, Like if you're if you're waiting to go in, they'll take your order outside, Hey what do you want?

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Speaker 2: YadA YadA.

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Speaker 4: So then by the time you're in there, your food is at your table within like three minutes, which I'm like, that's so smart to do. I don't know why US restaurant culture doesn't do that to at least take the like that first.

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Speaker 2: Five people that are waiting in line.

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Speaker 4: No tipping probably, yeah, yeah, that's fair.

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Speaker 2: No, no, yeah, Derek said.

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Speaker 4: Part of the reason for that is because in Japan they do not tip, whereas in the US tipping is massive, so the servers are getting majority of their money from the service they're providing, from the experience. In Japanese, I'd say the food is more of the experience than the service. And uh, but we went to this and then the geary was just incredible and the dude was crushing the like the wasabi root in front of you, and we had this one role that was a normal sushi roll wrapped in the rice, but it was also like he put the rice like in the wasabi and then rolled it so the it was like a wasabi roll with just this perfect tuna inside of it. And they the pieces of tuna they put in there and salmon are just so much thicker than what they do in the US.

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Speaker 2: And it's just like all the.

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Speaker 4: Different cuts of it as well, Like I feel like we're giving one option for a tuna roll and there it's like you got fatty tuna, you got the millions of different variations of this fish.

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Speaker 2: And uh, but that was a that was a great one.

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Speaker 4: And then we did this wagou on makase that was incredible, Like there was these two off menu items that were so good. And I don't even know the part of the cow that we're eating, but half of it you can eat raw, which is just like they can they can eat raw chicken in Japan.

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Speaker 2: That's how fresh it.

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Speaker 5: That just seems scary.

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Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't even eat raw fish, and like that's kind of how you're supposed to eat it. Yeah, eating raw chicken and beef is like they're doing something right out there.

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Speaker 4: I know, Like the beef tongue, the cow tongue was so good. We had we did like two of the kind of macass where they one of them they cooked it in front of you. The other one my friend, she cooked it for us, because that's.

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Speaker 2: We don't know how to do it.

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Speaker 4: But I would say those two things, like the Wagoo scene is just incredible.

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Speaker 2: On the on the.

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Speaker 1: Line of tipping, if you try and tip, is it are they like.

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, no, no, dude. Honestly, honestly, I'm more s laughing at something else before it was racist and then you just normal man.

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Speaker 2: Dude.

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Speaker 4: Honestly, I have no idea because we didn't try and nobody else was trying either.

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Speaker 2: But from what I've heard, it is just like they refuse it.

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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure when Broads and Slammy went two of my buddies went to Japan two years ago, they said they tried to it, like when the first couple of nights. Yeah, and they realized very quickly the tipping culture is now like America, and it was very much like head down like police or do not like we will.

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Speaker 2: Not accept that, dude.

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Speaker 4: It's the respect that they have for everybody and just like every single job. We were walking on the street one day and the trash guys were coming by and Dude, these two guys they hop out the truck and they don't have like the big trash compactors like we do, so a lot of it is manual labor. And they, you know, fly off the truck, grab the bags, throw them over. Then they grab their brooms and their dust pans and sweep it up. And it was just a machine. And they did it with such intention that you're like, holy crap, If I attacked my job like this, I'd be so much more successful. And uh, we watched a class cross the street and then they like all bow to the crossing guard, thanking them for their service.

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Speaker 2: And then when we flew away from Japan, the.

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Speaker 4: Grounds all stands there as your flight goes, and they all line up and they bow and they're like saying thank you.

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Speaker 1: And I'm just like I saw that video you posted and I know just the motion that was going through your body at that moment, just like I have to go.

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Speaker 2: I will be back though, dude.

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Speaker 4: All of my validation came when each of the kids I saw when they were they were talking to Sitting about meeting me while we were at IMG, and they're like, dude, we always said there, Sitting, we always said that JP in another life he was one hundred percent Japanese and I was like.

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Speaker 2: To you guys, have note, I have no idea how much that means to.

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Speaker 4: And uh, dude, just to just to see them in their environment, all the kids that I knew it was, and to see them out of college, like with their jobs or navigating whatever they're up to now was was really cool and really special because it's like how many times you get to form relationships that spread across the literally the earth, and it's like, I don't know, there's nothing better than that, PHELI.

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Speaker 3: It makes it even. It made the trip ten times better because you knew people and they probably took you like, hey, we got to go to this spot rather than this spot, dude, and like getting to meet their families and stuff like that probably made it ten times more special.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they they made it. They made the trip.

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Speaker 4: Without them, it would have been awesome, but to have them shown us around and be our translators for a lot of it changed things too. But especially in the restaurants, like very few times that sitting in I ever order like they always ordered everything, which makes it so much better because I would not have no like not the menus aren't really in English, and we had an app that can translate stuff, but I had no idea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but yeah, man, it was.

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Speaker 3: Were there many other like Americans out there? Did you that you saw? Were they all like whites?

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Speaker 2: I'm trying to think.

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Speaker 4: I feel like there wasn't a lot of Americans, but there was definitely a lot of like people from like I feel like a lot of the European countries. Yeah, we're there, like a lot of people from England, a lot of actually, there's a lot of people from Indian.

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Speaker 3: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: There.

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Speaker 4: And we sat in there next to this one Indian couple in this bar we went to. It's called Club SG and I guess it's on the top one hundred bars in the world or something, because we're supposed to have a reservation to get in there, and somehow we walked in and then we got led to the downstairs which is a separate bar that's like even better than the upstairs one. And the Indians next to us they were like, uh, you know, how long how far in.

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Speaker 2: Advance did you guys get this reservation?

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Speaker 4: We're like, oh, we just kind of walked in and they're like, no way, And I was asking them where they had been just traveling around and they've been to so many places, and we're like, which one do you think we need to go to next? YadA YadA, And they were like, well, I don't know if you would like the things that we do, like when we go to different places.

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Speaker 2: And I'm thinking, like what what could this possibly mean?

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Speaker 4: And I was and I asked him like, wait, how come like I feel like I'm pretty uh, I'm pretty fluent with a lot of these things. They're like, well, we do like all the Disney stuff. They're like, cause we don't have any Disney in India, so like any chance they get to go to a disney World or Disneyland, they like, seize the opportunity.

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Speaker 2: But it cracked me up. And I guess a lot.

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Speaker 4: Of them maybe are like moving there as well. So yeah, I mean, Tokyo is there's.

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Speaker 2: A lot of different cultures, which is cool. There's being in that park.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, that's when you when you're in that parking in that setting, It's like, Okay, I could definitely live here and make friends and kind of immerse myself in the culture.

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Speaker 3: We'll see.

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Speaker 4: Man, there's h there's some medical logistics that that we have to figure out for sure and obviously work logistics.

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Speaker 3: Yah.

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Speaker 2: So, but never say never, never say never.

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Speaker 3: That's so sick to hear. It just makes I don't know about y'all, but it makes me want to travel like asap for sure.

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Speaker 1: I've got one more question too, just on the japan realm uh. If you're gonna go back or recommend one thing that you did on your trip, what is it? And then what's something that you you would also X from the itinerary.

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Speaker 4: Something I would X Such a hard question, Yeah, dude, so much of it was so fun.

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Speaker 2: I think what I would have xed.

00:24:15
Speaker 4: I'm wearing the shirt right now and it is an EX it's an XL. But it was like the uh, I don't know. I was just you just feel so rushed to, like this is the shirt I'm referring to as Uniclo and uniclothes a Japanese brand and it's a nice brand. Like in the US, it's all the stores are only in bigger cities, bigger shopping cities, and it's pretty expensive, but over there it's super cheap and I feel like my last day, I just I was like, man, I want to go get some Uniclose stuff. But then I completely missed like getting a great last meal and I literally was in uniclo and I looked over at Sinton. I said, what the heck am I doing? Like I don't shop for clothes, like I still have some of the same shirts that I was wearing in high school are in my weekly rotation, Like why are we here right now? And dude, I was kicking myself out, like cause I'll myself talk was horrible that day. I was like, somehow I find a way, Like the trip is perfect and somehow I will always find a way. The last minute just ruin it. And she's like it's just like it's only been an hour, like we can still. I was like, I'm like, you don't understand, Like I could have. We could have went to this place, we could have bought another sword, Like now I got these clothes that I don't even care about clothes. So yeah, like the shopping aspect, and we didn't really even do that much shopping, but for somebody that could care less about clothes, I'm like, I don't know why I like.

00:25:40
Speaker 2: Even went in and half these stores.

00:25:42
Speaker 4: Somebody was like, yeah, you've got to go to this little district in Shabuyah for all these clothes, and I'm walking in and it's like the nicest type of like people that are into clothes would love it. But I'm walking through these stores and not like just everything that's not a T shirt in short, So I'm like, I'm not interested really to probably the shopping. And then the one thing we did do, dude, just like getting up early and going to like a lot of the temples and shrines. I wish we even would have got up earlier because it is a madhouse and by the time you're finished and you can get a glimpse of it because it's slammed. But there's something so peaceful about going getting to these places early, and you feel like you're transported in time, like you're walking back with those early age Japanese era of people as they're going through and going through all their daily rituals and walking up to some of these temples and shrines when it's peace and quiet is like, it's really cool, really special. So I was just say, hitting it. I wish we could have hit more of those. In Kyoto especially.

00:26:46
Speaker 1: Are a lot of those temples are they like inhabited by like Buddhist monks or is this way up part of like region.

00:26:52
Speaker 4: No, it's truly, just like I don't know how much of it is just for like I feel like a lot of analogis for tourism. Sure, but like one of the guys that I was that we met up with, he kind of explained what you do with the shrines, why they're there, and it's really cool, like you know, like the prayer aspect of it, and they like you clap twice and then you like kind of say your prayer, you bounce twise and.

00:27:18
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's I wish we could have done more.

00:27:20
Speaker 4: Kind of like the one thing I wish I would have done is probably like a guided walking tour through them with a with a Japanese person, like fully dedicated four hours?

00:27:31
Speaker 3: Is there the way? I'm assuming you're gonna want to go back at some point? Yeah? What point? Like what spots are you don't want to check out next time?

00:27:38
Speaker 4: Dude? All the place is similar to that Amana Hashidate place, like all the smaller villages or like smaller towns, Like there's a place it's not even that small because it's probably an hour away from Tokyo, but it's called Kamakura and it's a beach town and I would love to go there. One of my other friends, he teaches at an international school, like in the northern part of Japan.

00:28:00
Speaker 2: Where a lot of people snowboard.

00:28:02
Speaker 4: And he's like, he teaches a sports business class and he's like, Dude, I want next time in your back. I want you to come up and come speak for that class. I DoD you have no idea how I pick that would be. His name is Yoshi, and dude, Yoshi is a He's an icon. So I would want to There's so many small towns that I want to go to. And then Okinawa for sure, which is like Japan's Hawaii. There's a US military base there, but I would.

00:28:27
Speaker 2: Love to go there. The photos are are incredible.

00:28:30
Speaker 6: For the baseball fans that we hopefully attracted last week.

00:28:34
Speaker 5: We had a big baseball pop.

00:28:38
Speaker 6: Yeah, well you were explaining you can quickly explain how big show.

00:28:43
Speaker 5: Hey Atani is there?

00:28:44
Speaker 4: Dude, every billboard, every like, anytime there's even space for an advertisement for something, it's going to be sho hee a Tani. And he's one of the first people that, like, if you're talking to Japanese people, they'll ask you about or just like a great bridge to communicate with Japanese people on We're like how about Otani and they just freak out like they love him so much and what's.

00:29:06
Speaker 2: The other picture's name?

00:29:07
Speaker 5: Uh Yamoto?

00:29:09
Speaker 4: Yes, they love Yamamoto like he was getting and obviously he's a great, great player here. But it's like in the US we kind of it's really just focused on show. Hey yeah, and but dude, they are all about Yamamoto and I it was opening weekend when we were there, so baseball buzz was big.

00:29:26
Speaker 5: I would have loved to be there during he was massive there too.

00:29:31
Speaker 2: Dude. I made a fatal air.

00:29:34
Speaker 4: I asked the bartender because there was a bottle of whiskey and it was like Echiro whiskey. And I was like, is that an Echiro from like Seattle Mariners. They're like, oh no, like there's a lot of echiros. I was like, yeah, that's a stupid question. I was like, you know, like in uh in North America, like a lot of the athletes like they have their own liquor.

00:29:54
Speaker 2: I promise it's normal. I was like, God, it's so stupid.

00:29:59
Speaker 5: I would have done the same thing.

00:30:00
Speaker 1: I like Suzuki, any connection point I I can make, I'm like, oh yeah, that's gotta be.

00:30:05
Speaker 4: There, right, And that's just that's the best part because they're about it, dude. They're about it all, like you don't have to worry about looking like an idiot. She handled it perfectly because she's like, oh yeah, we love each year old, Like, oh man.

00:30:19
Speaker 3: I want to I would want to check out Japan one for everything that you said, but also like all of the dirt bikes are made out there, like Honda, Suzuki, Yamaha, Kawasaki. They're all like it is the hub from across out there, so.

00:30:33
Speaker 2: In their talent, like Kawasaki is like a city.

00:30:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, and each one of them I think is yeah city, which is cool. But yeah, that's so sick.

00:30:42
Speaker 5: I makes you want to go to Japan so bad.

00:30:44
Speaker 2: Yeah, it went my way too fast.

00:30:46
Speaker 5: And my my sister and her.

00:30:49
Speaker 6: Future husband's family like just went like everybody's gone in the fall and now I was jealous. They brought me back this like nice kitchen knife that it's got its own sleeve. It's got like well Japanese design on it. Use it on my stake every Sunday.

00:31:04
Speaker 2: That's what I want.

00:31:05
Speaker 5: All these things and stories.

00:31:06
Speaker 4: I'm like, I know, you know, like the long blade knife they're supposed to use for the meat slaves. I was like showing the dude the photos of it, and he was doing his best to like explain to me basically that like, hey, it doesn't sound like you're there yet, You're not ready, and I'm like, man, I want to be ready, and uh, I wish I would have spent more times, like more time with the knives and bought more knives, but they are still like prices are great over there, but I mean, the knives are still expensive. It's like we got one for Sittin's parents, one for my parents, and too for ourselves, and you're already running.

00:31:43
Speaker 2: Like decent bills. It's like I wish I could buy I wish I could get everybody a knife and bring it back. But maybe they're they're nice.

00:31:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, and a lot of Australians do. There was like in two knife shops I went into, it was two Australians working it.

00:32:00
Speaker 3: That's we were talking about it earlier. Today. You said Japan was like really far away, and I'm like, no, it's not. They're like right next to each other. It's like and they're ten hours away, an.

00:32:09
Speaker 5: Hour from Australia.

00:32:10
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:32:11
Speaker 4: The only thing Japan's really close to is China and South Korea. And I guess some of the Philippines would be like the most doable flights.

00:32:19
Speaker 3: But because when I was in Australia, like almost ten years ago a decade, there were a bunch of like Japanese people like everywhere. Yeah, And I don't know if it was because like we were in like we were in the Gold Coast and it's like a touristy town or my girlfriend at the time was at a university. But I don't know if a bunch of Japanese people just studied there. But I felt like because there were so many Japanese people, I'm like, it's probably a three hour flight. They pop over there, hang out, but then it's ten hours. I'm like, no fucking way.

00:32:49
Speaker 4: We gotta get some sort of non like violent earth or like a.

00:32:55
Speaker 2: Tsunami that happens.

00:32:56
Speaker 4: It just shifts Australia closer to every more things because it just super possible to get there.

00:33:02
Speaker 3: Yeah.

00:33:03
Speaker 2: I guess unless you're the Philippines, I.

00:33:06
Speaker 3: Think that we're brug and I are going to Italy and Greece in September, but like my next stop, I want to go back to Australia and I want to live out there for like a year or two. Yeah, I think it'd be so sick and just the lifestyle out there and just the lifestyle anywhere, serve anywhere. But the US seems like cool.

00:33:28
Speaker 2: It does.

00:33:29
Speaker 4: I mean, I'll say this though, like cause I will. I mean, I would love to live in Japan and be a dream come true. But and I've only ever been to two different two other countries, but the US is like most of the people you talk to in these countries is like their goal is to come to the US, which always gives you a sense of pride, and I get it. I mean it's like, do we we truly have everything? And the opportunity for these people, like because the suicide rate in Japan is super high, and so much of it is that culture and the like lack of opportunity right now, I think there's a stat out there that have more dogs than children. And whenever there's these like population declines, it's just bad news all around for everyone. So so many homes are empty and a lot of the smaller villages especially, and it's like so just a lot, so many of them are trying to get to the US, and I'm like, I would want to live in these places for a year, but I would one and the number one place to live my life. US.

00:34:26
Speaker 3: I feel like you got to get out there to then realize what you have back home, Like because when I went to when I was in Samoa, one hundred percent like someone's very third world. So it's like a lot easier to do that. But then like you come back and like, yeah, this place, like America does rock, right, it is like awesome, and it is like being able to like the freedom and whatnot. But just I think to be able to say you lived in Japan for a year, to live in Australia for a year, it's like that's something you can reflect on and think about, Like and if you become friends with somebody out there, like be like lifelong friends, and it's just I don't know, just really it seems attractive.

00:35:01
Speaker 4: Yeah, there's so many lessons I would want to instill in my kids from the Japanese culture, which would be the one of the number one benefits of living there. It's just being immersed in it because I'd love to work in like school there or even just do videography for a school because the kids are so grateful for any type of content or if they were the same way at IMG, and I just know that it.

00:35:20
Speaker 2: Would make their day.

00:35:22
Speaker 4: And knowing that they have all those pressures to be able to kind of play a role and like hyping them up.

00:35:29
Speaker 2: They're not. They're about that.

00:35:30
Speaker 4: They do zero self promotion on anything. They don't really have much for themselves.

00:35:34
Speaker 2: I think it would be like the coolest thing in the world. But yeah, awesome. True.

00:35:40
Speaker 4: Where's the next place y'all would want to go? Obviously you said yours where out of the country? Where would you want to go?

00:35:45
Speaker 6: Well, that's about I want to go to Europe. I don't really know exactly where. I feel like you can kind of hit a lot when you're over there, as I've heard from other people visiting. Japan's been on my radar since my sister and her fiance went, just because I think they just I'm back bragging. Yeah, and I've already been when I was thirteen to Canada, but me Addie and then my family.

00:36:07
Speaker 5: My brother's wife, my sister, and all of them.

00:36:10
Speaker 6: We're going to Canada in August, which will be really fun because going uh like Whistler, Vancouver or something.

00:36:18
Speaker 3: Then like North Northwest.

00:36:21
Speaker 2: Yeah, longest runs in the world.

00:36:25
Speaker 6: And I've been to Whistler, like I said, I was I was young, and we did like white water rafting and like Olympic village and all that. But a lot that I couldn't do when I was thirteen, A lot that I don't remember when I was thirteen. So it'll be exciting to go out there.

00:36:37
Speaker 5: As an adult. So like that's August.

00:36:39
Speaker 6: And that's I mean, I go to Mexico all the time, or I've been to Mexico a lot, so like that's I do travel to other countries so to speak. But I'm excited to get to like a new like one experience something fresh. But from there, honestly don't I really don't know.

00:36:58
Speaker 2: I don't think it's horribly far, Like yeah, I don't.

00:37:01
Speaker 3: It's like like whatever. The one on the east.

00:37:04
Speaker 6: Is Calgary is like in the in the center, I think Calgary. Yeah, But I'm excited to go to Canada. I really want to get because I've been blessed to travel like a lot and I just haven't gone across like to Europe or like Asia any yeah, any of that, so I be happy to do any of it. But Japan, like Japan, sounds sick and the no talking on the subway, that's right up my alley.

00:37:29
Speaker 2: You have to worry about it half the things you gotta worry about.

00:37:32
Speaker 1: Here, I know, I mean, I think I'm riding the same line Japan and Australia.

00:37:39
Speaker 2: Awesome. If I go to Japan, it.

00:37:41
Speaker 1: Will definitely be for some sort of a snowboarding trip because Japan got some of the most snow on the planet and there's some really awesome documentaries that are from Japan centered around snowboarding that have inspired me in my early ages before I started working here.

00:37:54
Speaker 5: So love to do that.

00:37:55
Speaker 1: Obviously, Australia, hit the Gold Coast, do whatever there is to offer out there, see some crazy animals. More like internal Europe, like a Switzerland area. I love to go to Amsterdam, and I just went to Greece last summer. I know JP did as well, make you're going. I would love to revisit Greece. There's just so many islands you can go to and not enough time on just like a white a week or two weeks, so love to get back to Greece. But yeah, I you know, I'm gonna fall in line with this pod for.

00:38:26
Speaker 5: Sure, and probably put Japan up.

00:38:28
Speaker 1: There's number one, and then you know Australia is a close to that'd be fun.

00:38:32
Speaker 5: Yeah, dude.

00:38:34
Speaker 6: Another one is again my sister and her family.

00:38:38
Speaker 5: They travel a lot, so they go to a lot of places.

00:38:39
Speaker 6: I get jealous of Iceland and then and then my my parents from really and my parents went there as well, and it's just like, you know, they bring back videos and pictures and it's it's all the word of mouth in the story. I'm just I'm so jealous because I didn't even like, I don't even think that one was on my radar really like what's in Iceland? But it's like beautiful and fun and yeah, that's a big one.

00:39:04
Speaker 3: Like I learned about it in my high school. Iceland's named Iceland? And why Greenland's named Greenland? Have you do you guys do that? No, maybe we did, but I don't know if this is true or not, but it's like in high school, and I still believe it's the yes for so for like when the Vikings would like sail the seas. They called Iceland what it is, but it's like as to like fuck up the other Vikings in the sense of like don't go there. It's all Ice whand it's like beautiful, and the vice versa for Greenland, and I'm like, that'sh that just seems so cool.

00:39:37
Speaker 4: Do you imagine just navigating the world in that Era's like pretty much have to trust them that they said that, and like then you.

00:39:45
Speaker 1: Show up in a baron and you're like, well, you know, it looks like most of us are gonna.

00:39:49
Speaker 2: Die the Viking era. Dude, Inland Saga, I swear.

00:39:57
Speaker 4: That'll be your next one, Derek live action one piece you watch Vinlin Saga?

00:40:03
Speaker 3: Was there is like is the anime like a big thing? Obviously it's a big thing, but like was it everywhere out there or like it's everywhere?

00:40:11
Speaker 4: But dude, there must be something unique with the licensing rights from these shows because merch is kind of hard to find, which really bummed me out because if we're talking about shopping, I would have done some shopping on a bunch of anime graphic t's and everything. I was only able to secure like one. But there's a play it's like the anime district. It's called Akiabara, and they have like they're really into the figurines and everything, so there's tons of stores. But they also it's really cool because they have a lot of the manga, so like all the comic books, and it's so funny to see the Japanese people on the subways and stuff reading manga on their phone, like they're not really scrolling Twitter's obviously some of them are on TikTok and everything, but I caught a few people reading manga and I'm just like, you have no idea.

00:40:59
Speaker 2: How cool that? But yeah, I mean it's massive and they all know.

00:41:03
Speaker 4: Like I was able to talk to so many of the people we ran into, like whether it would have been if we weren't able to take the subway and had to take.

00:41:10
Speaker 2: An uber out, like ask uber driver, like what shows do you watch?

00:41:13
Speaker 4: And once I was able to drop a few that I'm into, they kind of I could feel the respect they had for me, like, oh, he's he's actually locked in. That's what it was. You know, I was saying, somebody called me an old head. Yeah, dude, this one guy.

00:41:28
Speaker 2: He was asking them not unked in Japan.

00:41:30
Speaker 4: By the by the porch, like the Spanish Italian Uruguayan guy and uh.

00:41:38
Speaker 2: What'd you say? Unk son Sempi?

00:41:44
Speaker 4: He uh? He was asking me which anime is I liked, you know, I always kind of start out with the new gen ones because the people love to give you a look of like, oh yeah, classic, like you're a new anime guy, which I am. But I've watched some of the OG's and I mentioned the one I'm watching right now, which is how she made no no epo and uh he I said that, and he hit me with the same damn and uh, I said what you mean?

00:42:10
Speaker 2: He said, you old head for sure? Huh.

00:42:12
Speaker 1: I was like, God, I was just trying to respect and he was twenty seven.

00:42:17
Speaker 4: I was like, man, come on, He was like, how'd you make no? And especially like with a Spanish accent too, it's even funnier. But yeah, man, being in the land where everybody watches everybody watches anime, y'a, I just felt like I belonged. Finally, what else we got?

00:42:38
Speaker 3: Y'all going to Texas text this week.

00:42:41
Speaker 5: Or no, I will not be basically just like everyone will be. Everyone will be in Texas one way or another.

00:42:47
Speaker 2: Yeah, there, I'll be there.

00:42:49
Speaker 5: I'll be in Texas.

00:42:50
Speaker 2: In Texas, so it was pitching when are there or the Rangers?

00:42:54
Speaker 6: Yeah, probably probably Kumar Rock or Vandy Eye.

00:42:58
Speaker 2: Oh yeah, he's kind of how old.

00:42:59
Speaker 6: Is he He's still pretty young, right, Yeah, he's twenty six. He was not good last year, so we'll hopefully this year he turns it around. He was supposed to pitch today and then I was gonna get to see something good.

00:43:10
Speaker 3: But that is uh Adie going with you.

00:43:14
Speaker 5: No, she won't. She won't be there for that. She's celebring with her sister. She is moving here. Who moved here?

00:43:18
Speaker 2: Actually?

00:43:19
Speaker 3: Has she been to home?

00:43:20
Speaker 1: Oh?

00:43:20
Speaker 6: Yeah, A couple of times. We went to a wedding. We went Christmas Thanksgiving, so.

00:43:25
Speaker 2: Hey, you still both holidays?

00:43:27
Speaker 6: We did two Christmases we did. We did Texas in Florida. Thanks every will probably Florida next year. But yeah, she's been there.

00:43:37
Speaker 2: Yeah.

00:43:37
Speaker 6: The Rangers game, I'm I'm pumped about that one. I didn't get to go to one last year. Two years ago, I went to the opener and then not another one for the whole year.

00:43:44
Speaker 2: What's the pulse on the Rangers this year? That's supposed to be good or yeah.

00:43:47
Speaker 5: I mean they're getting theirs kicked right now.

00:43:48
Speaker 6: But they started. It's a lot, there's a there's a lot of games. They started four and one. They lost the first game, Clump was talking ship. Then they smacked the Phillies two games in a row, and now they're they're gonna be four and two here in a few minutes, which is that's not bad.

00:44:04
Speaker 5: So not bad.

00:44:04
Speaker 6: Win four out of six games all year, we'll be pretty good. I said last week. I think they're gonna be good this year. But I don't need to get into it. It'll be good, just believe me. If I'm being positive about them, you know they might be good, right although if I was being negative, they probably they're still good.

00:44:22
Speaker 2: Dude, you gotta go to this one bar.

00:44:25
Speaker 4: I gotta find the name of it because it's where I met my first friend in Dallas when I lived there. And on maybe no, I wouldn't have been on a Thursday because that'd be way too busy of the night, but like on Wednesday. Maybe it's like you flip a coin with the bartender and if you win, the beer cost twenty five cents, and so dude, it is it was one of the most iconic things ever.

00:44:48
Speaker 2: Now, if you lose, you just paid fine with that.

00:44:51
Speaker 1: You know, if I can gamble for a beer, I'm in. But yeah, I prefer that I would like market price. Yeah that, yeah, find that because I will go and flip the coin just for.

00:45:00
Speaker 4: Like a bar in Nashville, like maybe an East Nashville on Tuesday. They should incorporate that somehow. It's such a good idea.

00:45:07
Speaker 2: I love that coop.

00:45:08
Speaker 5: Have you heard there?

00:45:09
Speaker 1: I can't remember the exact name, but when I was at this bachelor party a couple of weeks ago, they were talking about a place called Something's ice House.

00:45:16
Speaker 6: I think, oh, yeah, I've never been, but I know Katie, Yeah, yeah, yeah, Katie Trail ice House.

00:45:22
Speaker 2: It's a vibe.

00:45:22
Speaker 4: Yeah.

00:45:23
Speaker 1: They said, it's like an awesome outdoor patio scene that seems like a good Friday kind of like maybe post lunch, go check it out.

00:45:29
Speaker 2: We'll see.

00:45:30
Speaker 6: That'll be way closer to where you're at. But as me and Suman where I was, I'm begging Joe T. Garcia is it's probably a little trek not too bad, but probably the best restaurant of all time.

00:45:39
Speaker 5: That's why it is what is Mexican?

00:45:43
Speaker 4: Kid?

00:45:43
Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like an outdoor patio. It's really nice. I don't have to pull up pictures.

00:45:48
Speaker 1: It's yeah, it's supposed to be a hot one. I know this weekend everywhere here in Nashville too.

00:45:53
Speaker 2: You got you gotta go to the ice house. Great vibe. It's like right on there Greenway.

00:45:58
Speaker 5: You've been there before?

00:45:59
Speaker 2: Yeah?

00:45:59
Speaker 4: And then dude, also on Greenville Lab. Did you ever spend much time on Greenville Ave?

00:46:04
Speaker 2: Classic?

00:46:05
Speaker 4: Of course, right, But they have some they have this place and that, like I feel like there's a few in Texas in general and other places.

00:46:12
Speaker 2: But it's called the truck yard. Oh, I've been in the truck yard, dude, truck yards. It's yeah, so I guess it's Lower Greenville actually is the name of it.

00:46:23
Speaker 4: But yeah, it's basically like you walk in and it's just all these pieces of old trucks that are like stuck in the dirt, and a few.

00:46:29
Speaker 2: Bars are like some food trucks, trucks. It's it's a great vibe.

00:46:34
Speaker 6: There's like a centralized bar area and then two sides all the trucks like you're talking about in different food trucks it's like.

00:46:41
Speaker 3: The trucks like a table or is it just kind of like.

00:46:44
Speaker 6: They they turn some of them that are like it's like tailgates and they'll be like benches with the table in between. Like it's kind of hard to explain, but it is.

00:46:53
Speaker 5: That place is sick, dude.

00:46:55
Speaker 2: There's so Dallas has so many fun.

00:46:57
Speaker 1: I'm so far it up because like as an adult and and we're fortunate enough with work that we've got to experience a lot of cool cities like big and small. And this is one of the first times in the last few years where I'm going to a very major metropolitan area that I've never been to except for commuting through an airport. So just to like get that first taste of it and like really develop like how I feel about it.

00:47:17
Speaker 2: I'm pumped.

00:47:18
Speaker 1: I think the older you get, you kind of realize you only get to visit x amount of cities for the first time again, and you know inside the US, Like like I said, you know, we get to see a lot of them. So I'm I'm excited to come back and hopefully with some good news that Dallas is them or him or her, whichever one you want. We're gonna figure it out.

00:47:39
Speaker 2: I love it. I think Dallas is him.

00:47:40
Speaker 3: There's a to go back to, like the tailgate or the truck placers a bar and I think San Diego Brook was telling me about like you rent out. I don't know if you rent or you just kind of get placed. You get in like a motor home or like a yeah, kind of like a motor home and like that's your section for the night and like you just kind of you're kind of hanging out in like your own little room by yourself.

00:48:02
Speaker 2: Nephew would hate it, yeah or no, Matt, Yeah, I.

00:48:07
Speaker 3: Look heard hate and look at I heard hate, and I'm like Coop hates everything so except except except the Rangers and the Cardinals.

00:48:18
Speaker 5: But oh I hate the Cardinals.

00:48:22
Speaker 3: But like Brooke went there for like a bachelotte party and said it was like the most fun. That's really cool, and I fun bars are very so fun. No, it sounds really dumb but really like underrated and there's not enough of like those cool type bars, like you just have like your stereotypical bar. And it's like you're just as shame as every other one here.

00:48:42
Speaker 4: I'm with you as a person that doesn't really enjoy going to bars that much. When there is a fun one, it just I will go back to that one. Yeah, it puts it over the top for me.

00:48:53
Speaker 3: Where are we at, Derek Perfect Spot? Next week we have a very very special guest.

00:49:03
Speaker 1: Is he gonna be a one on one?

00:49:04
Speaker 3: No, it'll be it'll be a couple of us. But unfortunately y'all two won't be here.

00:49:09
Speaker 1: I know, I hate that you announce it. The guess is he's already been announced.

00:49:13
Speaker 3: It hasn't been announced, but I'm gonna.

00:49:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, I feel like you gotta you gotta tell the people.

00:49:18
Speaker 3: Next week we have a very special guest. Supercrosses in town and therefore my family comes down every year for it, and my brother Nate Carsley is flying in Tuesday night and he's strictly coming in that early just so he can come and sit on the inside the bus set.

00:49:33
Speaker 1: Coming a week early, just on the bus and beyond.

00:49:37
Speaker 3: And what sucks is that y'all are not gonna be here. But if y'all have any questions you want to ask him.

00:49:47
Speaker 1: I might have to create a couple just because your brother geeks me out. I mean him had a good time the last time he was in Nashville.

00:49:53
Speaker 6: Yeah, this means I'm gonna have to step up and actually ask questions we can, like he's.

00:49:58
Speaker 3: Really looking for Like when we first art, he's like, bro, like you need to get me on there. I'm like, you gotta come down, Like what do you mean? And he's like all right, And then he's like, I'm thinking I'm coming down Tuesday, Like why that early is like to come on inside the bus? What do you mean? So I talked it'll be us too, and then probably Matt interviewing my brother, which will be time.

00:50:19
Speaker 2: Last time he was here, he fell asleep on the couch, right friend he was here.

00:50:24
Speaker 3: He was here April of last year, him and his uh, one of his buddies who's working down here, and like this somehow ended up being down here at the same time. He'll he'll be in I don't know if he'll be coming in the shop, but Nate and him last year just fell asleep in there because they were just out until three or four every every night. And I'm sure it'll be the same thing this this time around. But yeah, it'll be he'll be shacking up with us for a couple of couple of days, which will be interesting. But weeks n I'm trying to I'm trying to get Nate to move out of because he needs to get out of there.

00:51:01
Speaker 5: But he how old is he again?

00:51:04
Speaker 3: He is twenty he's twenty four, twenty.

00:51:08
Speaker 2: Five And wait does he work concrete?

00:51:11
Speaker 3: Yes? And I'm like, bro, Nashville just keeps pouring concrete everywhere at the butt concrete. Yeah, like comportunity to come join the concrete jungle down here or something. But no, that is my roommate from college, which we will get into closer to Christmas time.

00:51:31
Speaker 2: I thought you were about to do an early pol.

00:51:33
Speaker 3: No, but yeah, we have a special guest next week and it'll be it'll be cool.

00:51:38
Speaker 4: Hey, you know how he was, how him and his boy were napping on the couch last time they were here. There's something about like the because your brother he works in concrete, like hard work. There's something about like the blue collar nap that I just pardon me, envies and I'm like, man, I wonder like what my life would be like if I was living like I would probably be eping so much better.

00:52:01
Speaker 2: And it's just something about seeing a.

00:52:02
Speaker 4: Guy jeans on, belt buckled all the way, tight boots on like and it's probably the worst thing you could think of to sleep in, just in full r e M.

00:52:12
Speaker 1: Probably got a can in the back pocket.

00:52:16
Speaker 3: And but like that wasn't a blue collar nap. That was a hungover nop.

00:52:21
Speaker 2: Right, but he had the blue collar look.

00:52:23
Speaker 3: Yeah, he him, and I him, and I like, I'm wearing like a T shirt, shorts and like these shoes.

00:52:29
Speaker 1: Hey show off with my tops.

00:52:32
Speaker 3: On him and I could not be more polar opposite. And it's gonna be funny when he's sitting right here, like this is my brother, and he's gonna be He's gonna have his hat on, he's gonna have his mustache, he's gonna have like just shit kicker shirt, belt, jeans and boots and first.

00:52:49
Speaker 1: First family member on the pod for anyone, Right.

00:52:52
Speaker 4: Yeah, gotta believe Camps next gotta get have left a juicy comment on my post this morning, all out, Yeah.

00:53:01
Speaker 3: We gotta get uh Jimmy on.

00:53:03
Speaker 6: Yeah.

00:53:04
Speaker 1: If he just never comes back, I guess we could do like a zoom interview like eight am for him in Hawaii. But whenever he comes back, he's actually to say He's mentioned that too. But I'm a little bit harder on him like yeah, I don't know, let's see.

00:53:15
Speaker 3: Yeah, Nate. He listens to this ship all the time, so shout out Nate, Nate, Nate. Look forward to that next week and we will catch you for forty three with my brother JP.

00:53:27
Speaker 1: You want to sign us off, sign us off. Just give one last thank you to Japan about

00:53:34
Speaker 3: Us