The WEIRDEST Places in Japan | Trash Taste #148 01:49:14

The land down under has never been easier to reach. United Airlines has more flights between the U.S. and Australia than any other U.S. airline, so you can fly nonstop to destinations like Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane. Explore dazzling cities, savor the very best of Aussie cuisine, and get up close and personal with the wildlife. Who doesn't want to hold a koala? Go to united.com slash Australia to book your adventure.

- Hello everyone, welcome back to another episode of the Trash Taste Podcast. I'm Joey and I'm with Garnt and Connor as usual. - Hold on, I haven't had my morning stretch yet. - Oh, big stretch from a big boy. - I haven't had my morning stretch yet. - Old man needs his old man stretches. - It is, it is, man. - Garnt's at his 4:00 AM walk, it's all old men do. - Dude, I must say, like I started getting into the habit of just getting up and doing like two minute stretches. Like once, the moment I wake up, OP as hell. - How's your circulation, bro?

- How's your circulation? - I can feel the blood just like trickling through my legs. And I'm just like, hmm. 'Cause like, I always had that problem. Do you guys have that problem when you wake up and you just like stiff as a brick? - Yeah.

- I don't mean the other way. - This is another episode of we are becoming old. - Joe, you rapidly age in the last four years. - 'Cause I never had that, like fucking three, four years ago, right? I just fucking wake up and be like, all right, I'm good to go. But nowadays I wake up and I can feel like the cogs just

- No, I don't have that. I don't have that. - You don't have that? - No. - No, that's why you're the youngest. - Yeah, that's why you're the youngest. - Do you have that? - Sometimes you can feel a bit stiff after you wake up in the morning. I don't know. - You talking about like a dick? - Well, that as well. - I'm not doing anything with that in the morning, bro. I'm not stretching that in the morning. - Are we calling that stretches now? - Is this a euphemism?

- Are you familiar with that? - Yeah, some things are still. - Honey, I'm not jacking off, I'm having my morning stretch. - I just wanna make sure we're on the same page. - No, but like, I've just gone to the habit now, 'cause like now that I am approaching 30, I know how you feel now, Garnt, because it's like my body is just not functioning in the morning anymore. - I think it's you,

- You stopped exercising. - That probably didn't help. But no, I've always been like super, like not flexible. Like for the longest time, like I still can't touch my toes or anything like that. Like I am rock hard.

- Pause. - Okay, now he's doing it so perfect. I am rock hard in the morning. - So, but now just, you know, getting up in the morning and just doing like what you were just doing in just two minute stretches and it's like, oh, this is why people do stretches in the morning now. It actually, 'cause I always thought it was like a placebo thing. - Yeah. - You know, because it's like hundreds of old people are just like, it's a placebo thing. - Yeah, it's a placebo thing. - Definitely not. - Yeah, just get up, have your coffee, you'll be good to go. - You're telling me that Ring Fit lied to me when I was

- Did I always skip that shit? - What? - You can't do the stretches, Joey, come on. - Oh yeah. - As you've now learned. - I'm now feeling the consequences of it. - I understand now, you're paying back like 20 something years of not stretching before exercising. - Pretty much. - Oh my God. - And now it's finally caught up to me and I'm like, oh, maybe I should, maybe the stretches in the morning actually mean something. - Yeah, maybe the doctor's advice was actually useful and the doctor had a point and he wasn't just like talking bullshit. - Yeah, imagine.

- But yeah, how have you guys been in the past few days? Connor, you've been taking care of your parents, right? - I have, yeah. - Your parents' first time, right? - Yeah, that's right, that first time in Japan. Every time anything happened, I was like, "Oh, I'll tell that on the podcast." And they were like, "Don't, don't say that on the podcast." - Why, have there been like already some embarrassing stories? - I mean, it's just like, you know, my parents, 'cause like I think a lot of people who travel to Japan, especially our age, like,

they like are already kind of into Japan and already have like researched a bunch. - Yeah. - They don't get normally like just dragged here. And even though like people who like want to visit here will normally like look up stuff to do or will look up something. And so my parents kind of like, even though they are interested in Japan and they were really excited for the trip, like they didn't like research. They weren't like, oh my God, what's onsen etiquette? Or oh my God, how should I- - Well, they don't have to 'cause you're here. - Yeah, yeah. And like I realized, oh my God, I have to like,

I have to explain everything. Whereas like sometimes if friends come over, it's like, okay, I don't have to explain everything and they can get around well. Like they didn't know anything. - Yeah, like most people who visit here kind of have their own motives already, right? - Yeah, they figured stuff out and they maybe planned the trains and stuff. But you know, I think everything kind of sounded overwhelming when I like told them, I was like, oh, okay, I'll just figure it out. So like I booked them a,

a taxi from Narita to take them to the hotel, which is like two hours. - That's expensive taxi. - It's very expensive for me. I'm paying it. - Why didn't you just throw them on the Narita Express? - Oh, 'cause I was like, man, then they're gonna be overwhelmed. - Absolutely, first time in Asia, having to figure it out. - Oh, it's the first time in Asia? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Oh shit, okay. - And I think there's still that like, and I realize that everyone has this where you're like, oh no, no, it's like English will be okay, right? Like, and it's like, well, no.

- It won't be okay. - Maybe on the Naruto Express it'll be okay. - It's like, I'm sure, this is not me being like, all right, it's not about, do I think they could figure it out? Yeah, they could figure it out. But it's like, all right, do I really wanna put that stress on them right away? Where it's like, okay, I could just get them a cab and I'll front the cost. And then all they have to do is just look for the guy with the name.

And then apparently that somehow that fucked up too because it was like 4:00 AM, 'cause we were in Hawaii. And I was like, you know, I was making sure that when they landed, I was like, "Hey, did you get in the cab? "Okay, is it all good?" And they were like, "Yeah, it's all good, it's all good." And I was gonna go to sleep when I knew they got to the hotel and they could finally like, you know, rest. And then I wouldn't have to worry then about, you know, 'cause I booked the hotel, I booked everything. Everything is all booked by me. And I was like, I just didn't want like a fuck up where maybe I put the name wrong or something, you know? - Well Connor did actually fuck up.

because I remember, I remember 'cause his parents, it's not just his parents that have come along, but we have a friend from England who's flown all the way here that I think landed on the same day as your parents. - Two days after. - Two days after, right. But like, I remember thinking, so I remember Connor was like mentioning, "Oh yeah, I'm gonna come back from Hawaii, then pick my parents up."

And I was like, wait a minute. I was checking the dates because I was having to make sure of the dates of when our friend lands as well. I was like, wait a minute. Connor mentioned his parents come back on this day, but we fly back from Hawaii the day after. - That was the one thing I did fuck up. - Time zones be annoying. - I'm like, does Connor realize this or? - I did realize that and I told my parents that, but then I didn't tell my friend that. So it was kind of like a miscommunication of,

'cause there's so many things to keep track of. - And his friend is still stuck in Narita. - I'm keeping track of like three people and then myself, which is already, I'm not gonna keep track of. So I got them a taxi and I'm in the Hawaii hotel room and then they're like, "Oh, we think the taxi driver's going the wrong way." I'm like, "I don't think the taxi driver would go the wrong way." I gave them the address. - How would your parents know? - I don't know, 'cause they're just freaking out. They just haven't been to it and everything's new and the taxi driver doesn't speak any English 'cause of course they don't speak English.

And so they call me up and they're like, "I think the taxi driver is talking to me in Welsh." And my mom calls me in Welsh. She's like, "I don't think they know where to go." And I replied in English. I was like, "Mom, I don't think they can speak English. I don't think you need to speak to me in Welsh." - Your mom's trying to be like discreet. - Yeah, discreet. I'm like, "You don't need to worry about it." And even if they did speak English, they wouldn't understand like British English. So they hand me the phone. I'm like, "Okay, fine." Okay, they're like, "Yeah, we think the taxi driver is going the wrong way."

I think it's fine. So they hand the phone to the taxi driver and the taxi driver sounds like a young woman. And she just sounded like terrified that I think my parents just shoved the phone to her and then some weird guys talking in Japanese to her. And so I was like, hey- - He's a ransom calling. - I was like, hey, my parents are just kind of nervous. Do you have the address? And she just sounded like utterly panicked by that question. And I was like, all right then.

she was like freaking out. You can imagine how it is. - Of course, yeah. - She sounded very flustered and very panicked. And I was like, all right then. And I was like, I'll just hand it back. So I handed it back and I was like, yeah, she knows where she's going. I didn't know. I was like, she must have. - Meanwhile, everyone in that cab is sweating. - I'm like, don't worry about it. I'm sure she knows. And of course she knew where she was going. And I was like, this is so stupid. But then I, you know. And then I think it proceeded to be like, all right, let's,

every little thing where I'm not there, they would like worry about it and then like double check with me. And so the first day we had to, do we have to record trash station? No, I had to do something, I had to do a live stream. And so I was like, hey, just go here for lunch, walk around. And so they're walking around and they're texting me stuff.

And they're like, "Oh, we found like a cafe to drink." And they sent me a picture. And my God, it looks like the shittiest cafe in all of Japan. It's like, it has an outside terrace and it's, let me show you a picture. It's like unfair to even call this a terrace. - Did they not just think to like walk into like a Starbucks? - I think they didn't want to go to Starbucks. And also I think they were also like, look at this. - Oh my God. - I don't know if you think you look an ass.

- That doesn't even look like a cafe. - And this is something that I've learned and I know this 'cause I had the same thing myself is that like, it is super intimidating in Japan for people who've never gone to Japan or Asia in general to imagine having to go into a building

without being able to see it immediately what's inside. - Yes. - Yeah. - So I think for them, my parents, it was like, okay, well, terrorists equals, I can kind of see what's going on. And then there's also hundreds of miscommunications they keep telling me about where they're like,

- My mom is obsessed with cider as a British woman. She wants to drink cider. - Like alcoholic cider. - Which just doesn't exist in Japan. And in America it's called hard cider. But in here it's like, what do they call it when it's cider? - Cider. - Cider. But then there's also normal cider, which is- - Cider. - You can imagine with my mom's pronunciation that it doesn't, but even this is just assuming, 'cause she's like, "Oh, do you have cider?" Like, "Yes, we have cider." And they bring up,

- Ginger ale. - Just apple juice. - What the fuck? And so this has been a constant frustration with my mom where I'm always just like every single place we go to, she's like, "Do they have cider?" I'm like, "Mom, they don't have cider." I'll tell you when they have cider, mom, which is never 'cause they won't ever have it. - Ironically enough, the only place in Japan that has cider

are British pubs. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - That you probably find more chance of getting a side at a hub. Oh my God, imagine your parents in a hub. - They'd be like, "Oh, this is really nice." - I mean, I get it, right? Because I remember when I first moved to Japan, right? There's a big barrier you have to get past in terms of like just going into a restaurant and committing to opening the door.

- Oh, it's so terrifying. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I hate it now, like I still do it, but there's that millisecond- - I mean, I hate it and I can speak the language. - 'Cause you're like, once you open a door, you're like, fuck, I've committed to like sitting down at this restaurant. - Yeah, I don't wanna be the asshole that immediately turns around. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, I've had to become, because you know, I was,

at some point I've been showing my friend, with my parents around at the same time. And it means that like, and they all love drinking. So I've had to become the vibe checker, which means I have to, you just have to walk into a narrow building on like the fifth floor of some really sketchy looking thing. And I have to pop my head in and be like, "Oh no, no, sorry, not this place." And go out and it's pretty awkward.

And like my dad as well, he loves beer. And every single time when we get a beer, he's like, "What beer is it?" I'm like, "I've never known." - It's Nava? - It's the draft one. He's like, "Which one is it?" I'm like, "I don't know. I've never questioned it in three years. It just always comes out tasting good." So I just, I've noticed every time he asks me, I'm just like, "I just don't know."

- Just drink it, it's beer, it's fine. - I'm like, every single time he likes the beer. - It's very fun taking them around, but after like multiple days of this, I'm getting the same question. I'm like, I'm losing my mind. I'm losing my mind being asked these questions over and over again. But it's been fun. They love the bullet trains. Everyone seems to love bullet trains as well. Every foreign person ever. - I think people from outside Japan just like find that concept so interesting.

- Yeah. - Because it's like, well, like I think like China is the only other country that has trains that go that fast. - Yeah. - I think, I think no Europe has, has high speed rail too. - Oh does it? - Yeah. I don't think it's as well connect, nearly as well connected or run on time or, cause I think,

like a million people a day use the Shinkansen, which is like insane amounts of- - Well, I think it's also just like, I wouldn't say like the marketing, but like the prestige, 'cause it was actually like one of the first and one of the most famous, right? It was the Japanese bullet train. Like this is when Japan was in the heights of- - So when you think Japan, you think the bullet train. - Yeah, that's when Japan was like the height of the center of technology, you know? - Yeah, they loved it.

- Yeah, and that image has just like stayed. 'Cause even my parents, right? I asked my mom and dad when they come to Japan, "What do you wanna do?" My dad's like, "Take me on the bullet train." I was like, that's out of everything. That's what you wanna do? Okay, dad, okay. He's just like, "I'm excited for the bullet train." - Yeah, I mean, it's fun. - It's not about the destination, it's about the journey. - Yeah, exactly. That is the destination.

- The bullet train's great. It's great seeing when the train leaves at 9:57, I can tell them, look at the clock, when it turns 9:57, the train's gone. - Oh, that's my favorite thing to do. - It is fun. I'm like, "Watch, watch, watch." - Yeah, watch, it's gonna come right now. - Like literally the doors close and go 9:57. I'm like, that's sick. That's awesome. I mean, they love that. My dad is fascinated by it. He loved all that. I mean, they like it so far. Like in most of the food they like, I've made them try pretty much

- Are they generally okay with food? Is their food palette wide or? - I thought it was non-existent. I thought they weren't gonna eat anything, but then they've eaten everything. - Oh, that's good. - We went out for dinner and there's one place

- They only serve like raw meat. - Yeah, it was basically a place that specialized in raw meats and fish. And we realized that after sitting down, like half the menu was just like raw horse meat, raw beef, baby shrimp, and every kind of raw meat under the sun. - What's the little baby looking squid thing that's common in spring in Japan? And that was the appetizer that came out. - Baby squid? - And it just looks like a full on squid. - Like hotaruika, yeah. - Yeah, shrunken down.

- That was like the first thing my parents had. It was kind of different. They were like, I was like, try it. - They're coming in like Dark Souls level. - To their credit, they ate one of them. They didn't like it. - No, they did try it. - At least they tried it. - I was impressed. I thought no shot my parents would eat it and swallow it. They didn't spit a single thing out. - Oh, that's good. - I took them to a sushi door as well. 'Cause I was like, I was like, 'cause I'm gonna take them to a nice sushi. - The finest Japanese. - So my thing was I wanted them to try

dirt cheap sushi. And so, you know, like this is what it should taste like. Like this is like compared to the UK. - Have they had UK sushi before? - Yeah, they have, they have. - Did they like it? - I think they liked it, yeah. But I mean, again, it's very westernized. - Or they'll never eat it again after this. - And like, it was very westernized, but I couldn't, you know,

- I mean, when I go to sushi or something, I don't try any of the fucking crazy stuff. I just get the standard. - Oh no, no, no. - I'll get like- - I'm not having the fucking hamburger sushi. - No, no, no, fuck that shit. - Yeah, fuck that. - Yeah, and so like, you know, they were like, yeah, it's nice. I don't think they like loved it. They pretty much enjoyed it. - But they recognize that it's like even the minimum here is better than anything in the UK. - Yeah, my mom kept saying,

"Oh, it's not, it doesn't smell fishy." I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, I think so, yeah." And then tempura they liked, went to a really nice tempura restaurant. - Oh, hell yeah. Foreigners love tempura. I mean, it's just fried food, isn't it? Like, of course they would love it. What's not to like about fried food? - Well, I mean, I gave, so this is a tempura restaurant in Kyoto called, it's called Tempura Fuku.

- Endo something. Chris took me to it 'cause it was like, this is the most Chris way of telling, yeah, Endo Yasaka. It's really famous in Kyoto and Chris took me there. The way Chris sold me on it. 'Cause it was like, it's like $200 a course. - Damn. - It's crazy. Chris was like, "No, no, no, it was Steve Jobs' favorite restaurant in all of Kyoto."

I was like, well shit, it's good enough for Steve, it's good enough for me. I don't know, it's really good to be fair. It's like they give you like 15 pieces of tempura and stuff. And they loved all of it. 'Cause they give you like shrimp head as well, with all the tail and stuff. And that's like, I fucking love that shit. It's kind of like, all right, try it. Don't judge, just eat everything. Again, they loved it all, except for uni.

which none of us like. - That is a hard bargain, yeah. - Uni's a love or hate kind of thing. It is the Marmite of Japan. I'm slowly starting to find out now. - Yeah, Eugene came with us as well. And Eugene tried a friend of ours. - Did he like uni? - No, he hated it. And he immediately texted Maylene saying, "Hey, I don't like sea urchin." And then Maylene responded, "Oh, you probably didn't have good sea urchin." - The most Maylene response ever. - I'm like, "What do you mean?"

We're like one of the best fucking restaurants in Q2. What do you mean? - Mainly it's like Michelin star. - Yeah, yeah. - Just my weekly slander. - Yeah, quote a bill. - Okay, so yeah, I tried. So I also, we were in a, okay, so I'll tell you what we did first of all. - Yeah, where did you take them? - So did like a, I thought let's,

I haven't got like super long. 'Cause like we're still working. Like I just got off the bullet train from bringing them back and I'd come straight here to record. So I wanted to make kind of a densely packed, like four or five days of- - No girls bar, I hope.

- No girls boss sadly. - That's only Sydney's family. - That's a Sydney thing man. - Yeah, it's a tough sell. I also realized that like maybe 'cause Sydney's family is probably a lot more outgoing than my family. Like they'd probably be able to interact themselves. Whereas for me it was like I had to translate everything and I don't even understand everything 100% of the time.

- Just imagine your family at a fucking girls bar is the funniest thing ever. - We went to some really weird bars that I was insistent on going to 'cause I thought it'd be really fun experience. And they did not pretty fun. So the first day we went to, it's like an onsen winery thing that I think we've talked about before in Yucatan. So I took them to there and they loved that. That was great. - Wait, did they go in the onsen? - They did, yeah. - Hey!

- Did they take a lot of convincing? - No, no, I just kind of like, just didn't tell them anything about anywhere we were going to. I was like, I could tell you, but it's not gonna mean anything. I told them, I was like, "Hey, go in the spa, do it. Here we go, have fun." And I think they were definitely shy about it, but I think they enjoyed it. - Of course. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I mean, who doesn't like a hot spring? It's nice. - Yeah, exactly. - And then the food there is really good and stuff. It's lovely if you ever get a chance to go. I think, I forgot what it's called.

Google Niigata Winery onsen. It's chill. - Yeah. - You should check it out. It's awesome. And then we went to Kanazawa, which I've never been to. - You went to Kanazawa? - Yeah. - Why? - 'Cause it's kind of on the way. - Yeah. - So Niigata to Kyoto. - Oh, I guess so, yeah. - It's kind of on the way. So I drove there. - It's better than Toyama, that's for sure. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I thought it was like a two hour drive and I was like, "Ah, chill, it's whatever." It's a four hour drive. - It's long, yeah. - And I was just like, it's just highway the whole time. And I was losing my mind just driving straight for like four hours. It sucked, but we got there.

And then it started like pouring it down and holy fuck, there's so many tourists in Kanazawa. - Really? - So many. - I know Kanazawa is kind of like one of those hidden tourist places. - I don't think it's hidden. - Well, hidden in the sense of like when you compare it to like Tokyo. - Dude, it felt more busy than like Osaka for tourism. - Really? - It was crazy how many- - You're the only person I know who's been to Kanazawa.

- I'd never been before 'cause I'd not heard much. And then I was like, okay, well I should go 'cause apparently there's this famous park and stuff. And I went there and I thought, oh, it's okay. This is kind of boring actually. I think in my head now I'm realizing, yeah, because all the stuff that people talk about that you can do in Japan is just stuff that's accessible only by like bullet trains. - Yeah, exactly. - Because like all the good stuff in my mind, you have to like either drive to,

or get a train then drive. - Yeah. - Like genuinely, like a lot of the really amazing and fun stuff in Japan, you do have to rent a car or drive. It's just so annoying. - I mean- - I kinda like that 'cause to me it means less

- Less tourists are there. - I mean, I wouldn't disagree, but I would say the, like, if it's your first time in Japan, you're gonna be amazed by any way you might pull a train. But you know, for people like living in Japan, like us, where we've seen a lot of like the more, I guess, like normal tourist stuff, then a more like,

some of the more interesting things you have to get to by car. - Well, I think that's why my parents enjoyed Niigata a lot 'cause it was like really quiet. There was like no foreign tourists at all. It's really pleasant, really good vibes, very quiet. And then we went to Kanazawa and it's like really busy. You know, it's nice looking around the park and stuff, but I was like, I was walking around the park and I was like, damn, I think like Shinjuku park is better than this one.

And I was like, and my parents thought that too. And I was like, oh shit, it came all this way to this damn park. And I think Shinjuku is better. - What else is there to do there aside from the park? What is it famous for? - I've heard so many, like I know Kanazawa is a really famous tourist attraction for a lot of Japanese people. - Yeah, there's a lot of old shopping areas, I think, that are styled after Japanese stuff. We'd never go to that.

That night, I wanted my parents, even though it's not famous for it, you know, it's, you know, Cannes was famous for fish typically. But I was like, well, we should try, we should try a fish.

What's it called again? - Unagi. - Unagi. We should try Unagi. And I wasn't gonna tell them 'cause my dad had mentioned like a few days before, he was like, "I don't like eel." And I was like, "Okay, shit, okay, well." I don't think this is eel, this is not eel. - Bet, bet. - And so I was gonna not tell them that it was eel. So I found this really nice Unagi restaurant that happened to be a chain actually. They had a few locations around Japan, but it was really good and really good reviews.

and went in there and I was like, okay, cool. I'm not gonna tell them it's eel. I'm just gonna order a bunch of stuff. Sure enough, we sit down, fucking everything has eels on it. Like theming wise, like the chopsticks have a giant eel. The menu is one giant eel scroll. And I was like, all right, well,

What do they feel? And it's all in fucking congee. But I know like what to order. Cause I've been to an aggie restaurant since I got this. - It's not an eel, it's a mud fish. - It's like an extended fish. - It's like a Japanese fish that's only available in a can. - Not an eel. This is an aggie.

I ordered like a bunch of unagi and she said, "No, no, no, you should get the unagi sharing thing." I was like, "What? I've never heard of an unagi sharing thing." And it was basically one of those giant, like in the cooking special where we cook that, where you cook the fish in, like a giant clay pot where they just put all the unagi in. And they put like three portions in that instead of doing three little boxes. - That sounds good. - And it was super fucking good. And my parents loved it. They were like, "Yeah, this shit's good." - Did you tell them afterwards though? - Yeah, I told them I was ill and they were like, "Oh yeah, we kind of figured it out."

- What gave it away? - I just thought it was a fail proof. - They were like, oh, it's just a chicken. I was like, well, okay. - But they loved it. They had a great time. And I think they kind of say I was all right. I mean, I was kind of like, this is true. I was like, I was lame. But I think like for one day. - Ishikawa is just like one of those prefectures you don't really hear A, people going to and B, like,

what's like known in that prefecture. 'Cause like, you know, Japan always has that thing of like, oh, in this prefecture, we're famous for this, this, this and this. Where it's like, you hear about Ishikawa and it's like, what are you famous for? It's like, we have Kanazawa. It's like, okay, but what's there? - Yeah, I mean, I think it's, I feel like I've traveled enough of Japan now to be a bit,

be able to like kind of rate some of the places. I mean, I've got a fuck ton of places here. So I feel like I can accurately tell you what's a fun place and what's not. I guess I was okay. Also it was raining. So it was also just kind of shit as well. It definitely affects the judgment. And then we went to Kyoto the day after. - How was that? How many tourists? - Oh my God, dude. 'Cause I've only been to Kyoto now

during the pandemic and I've been three times during the pandemic. And each time it was slowly busier than the last, it was never busy. Like the first time I went and you can watch this in my, when I did the British town video, it's in Kyoto, this British town. And we filmed at the Kiyomizu era, the picture of Japan and every single tourist picture ever. - The temple on top of a cliff, yeah. - Yeah, and you can see in that video actually, like we filmed at a thing and you can see in the background, there's nobody there. There's no one at this temple.

And it was like really cool. And I thought, oh, this is kind of neat.

And I went there this time and I was like, I never want to go to Kyoto ever again. This shit sucks. It's like shoulder to shoulder, the whole thing. Like you can't do anything fun. There was actually a pretty cool craft beer stand, like right at the bottom of the street. - Right. - Before the Kyoto music video, it was kind of cool. It was, and it served good beer. It was like standing thing. It was kind of fun, other than that. But everything else was like, okay, the views were cool. I think they enjoyed that. - Temples? - Yeah, we went around temples, but dude,

I got recognized so much in Kyoto. It was kind of like, all right, I felt bad for my parents 'cause in the Kyomizu there, we got stopped like nine times just walking around it. - And there's nowhere to go as well because it's like everywhere shoulder to shoulder. - But I think my parents kind of, they kind of got a kick out of seeing people recognize me. They're like, oh, it's fine.

- Was he a fan of yours? - It's just kind of like, I've done this three times before. If my friends were like, "Hey Connor, let's go to Kyoto, let's go look at the temple." I'm like, "Absolutely not." I'll come out and drink later, but I'm not going to the temple. - Here's the location. - It's like, have a good time. - No, no, because I don't want to get recognized. I don't give a fuck about that. It's just like, dude, it's so busy for me that I don't enjoy it. - Even for people who are okay in a crowd, just how...

packed Kyoto gets especially and Nara as well. Like those, those like, I think like the top two places where it's like, it's literally like going to an anime convention. It's just like, you're fucking standing like this and it's like, and you can't even get like a good view because you have to fucking look over the heads of everyone. It's just like. - Is it an age thing where you just like, I don't know if it is, but it has been for me because I used to be like,

so up for like going into big crowds, you know, you felt- - It's definitely an age thing. - Yeah, yeah. And then the more older I got, the less patience I had for like big groups of people to the point where now I would do anything to just avoid it if I can. - I think it's an age thing for sure. 'Cause I think all three of us are there. We're just like, nah, we're good. - Okay, here's his- - If there's a giant crowd, and there needs to be something that makes the giant crowd in my mind worth the sacrifice.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Something about, this is like such moving, but something about not being able to walk the pace I want to walk just gets to me. And it's just, it's such a small thing, but- - You have to fucking penguin walk, right? Like- - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Little tiny baby steps. - Yeah, if you just penguin walk, like, 'cause when we went to,

like last weekend and you were like, where are you? And I was like, oh, I'm just around the corner. 10 minutes later, he texts me again being like, where are you? And I literally was just like penguin walking in this crowd. I was literally just around the corner and I'm like, Shibuya, never again. Never fucking again. 'Cause that showed it showed as well. - On a weekend, it's horrible. - Oh my God. - My parents went to Shibuya and they told me it was too busy. And I was like, okay, well yeah, that's the problem.

- Yeah. - The crossing was really busy. I was like, yeah, of course it is. Every night we went out as well. So Kyoto we went out and luckily I had a friend who was from Kyoto who I hung out with a few times when I went last time and they had shown me a bunch of bars. So it was great 'cause I had a bunch of bars that I knew that were great and they were good vibes. And I like it when they're like not on the street and a lot of these bars weren't. So it's great 'cause you can actually always get in. - Yeah. - And then,

- I went to a few cocktail bars and then I was like, okay, I got an idea. I want to take them. I just looked on my phone. I was like, is there an airsoft bar nearby? And there seems to be an airsoft bar in like every city. I'm telling you, it was fun. And so I found an airsoft bar and it looks super jank. They did like- - This episode is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Going online without ExpressVPN is like not having a case on your phone.

Most of the time you'll probably be fine, but all it takes is one drop and you'll wish you spent those extra few dollars on a case. Did you know that your data is valuable? Yes, even you, your data is valuable. And hackers can make as much as $1,000 selling your personal information on the dark web. I don't think you want that. And it doesn't take much technical knowledge to know how to hack someone. A smart 12-year-old can do it.

I can't though. Every time you connect to an unencrypted network in cafes, hotels, airports, your online data is not secure. Let me tell you a little bit why ExpressVPN is the best. You see, it would take a hacker with a supercomputer over a billion years to get past ExpressVPN's encryption. And it's super easy to use. Just fire up the app and click one button to start getting protected.

And it works on pretty much every device, phones, laptops, tablets, pretty much anything you have. So you can always stay protected on the go. And it's also rated number one by tech reviews like CNET and The Verge. I'm traveling around the world right now and XPSCPN has genuinely been saving my ass. I like watching TV shows and it's very annoying that I have accounts in Japan and when I travel, it does not like it. So being able to just spoof that I'm in Japan or in any other country to watch any kind of content

is very helpful. So secure your online data today by visiting expressvpn.com slash trashtaste. That's E-X-P-R-E-S-S-V-P-N dot com slash trashtaste. And you can get an extra three months for free. That's expressvpn.com slash trashtaste. Thank you to ExpressVPN for sponsoring this video. Back to the episode.

and shisha and air soft. And it was really weird. - It sounds fucking awesome. - It was just like a weird combination. And it was in Kyoto, bear in mind. It was really peaceful, like Kyoto. Bear in mind, the nightlife area of Kyoto is pretty wild. - Oh yeah. - It's very loud and touristy. - Kansai, I think in general, is very loud. - So I was like, yeah, I found this bar and I was like, fuck it, let's go. So I took my parents to the shooting bar

And I'm like, yeah, pick a gun. We'll go shoot. We'll shoot it in the shooting range. I'm like, you gotta have a Japanese experience. - Can't get any more Japanese than that. - My dad's like, I'll shoot this one. My mom's like, I don't know. I don't wanna shoot anything. I'm like, no, just shoot a gun. Shoot a gun.

- So she picks like the desert eagle or something. And they stick her in this range. I think she really enjoyed it. She was having a good time. I picked like the most big gun. I was like, give me the biggest one you got. - It's not a grenade launcher. - Yeah, they gave me like some giant assault rifle thing. And I just started fucking, they were all like, they were okay. And then I was like, all right, let me show you how it sounds. I was like, that's gaming. I did pretty good, of course. But more importantly, there is such a weird bar

And then after that, I was like, we've got to find some weird ass salaryman karaoke bar that isn't on the street. It's gotta be on like the fourth floor. And I found this bar with, it was this weird karaoke bar that was like a mismatch of like, there was like a tatami area with like game consoles and there was like lawn chairs in this other corner. 'Cause my parents wanted to do karaoke. And at first they were like, no, no, we shouldn't.

"Oh, I don't want to do any songs." And I was like, "I'll sing, I'll sing." So sang and then eventually they were kind of like, "All right, I guess we'll do one song." And then they got too into it. And I was like, "All right, we're gonna go now. "Stop, stop queuing songs." And she's like, "Yeah, we'll go, we'll go." And as we're standing up, my mom's putting in another fucking song. I'm like, "Mom, we gotta go."

- Just one more song, please. - Yeah, yeah, and just love karaoke. And I think the Japanese bar owner was like, "What the fuck is going on? "What the fuck is this?" 'Cause our friend came with us as well, and he was fucking awful at singing, and he was screaming. - Of course Eugene would be, of course. - He was screaming. - Of course he would be.

- He doesn't strike me as a bit of a singer. - He was like all off pitch screaming. And then this guy was smoking his cigarettes before we came in. And the moment when our friend started singing, he was like, "All right, I'm out. See ya." And he just left.

And then I went in the toilet and it was, I posted on Twitter of the tiny ass toilet and I'm taking a piss and just a cockroach just walks over my foot. And I was like, yeah, that seems about right. I was like, oh God. - Feeling right at home. - Oh God. - You know, I kind of love the vibe of those bars you find in Japan. - No, I do, I love them as well. - 'Cause you know, there are so many bars nowadays where, you know, people think about, oh, what's the concept of this bar? What's the selling point of this bar?

And then you find places like the Airsoft Shisha place and it's just like some guy drunk at 3:00 AM being like- - Dude, they were like just bros. They were all super chill. They were like, "We're doing dude." - I was like, "I feel like opening a bar. What should we have that bar?"

- Airsoft shisha. - There was like a weird mural on the wall of like attack helicopters and it was really weird. - Literally everything but Japanese. - It was just the weirdest fucking bar. - When I think of Japan, I think of airsoft tacos and shisha. - That's what I'm saying. Like, I'm like, let's go to the weird bars. Like, I think they really enjoyed that. We had some like really nice ones, really like good sit down ones, but also a bunch of weird ones. And the next day we, oh dude, like I was like really shocked.

And my parents were like, "How are we getting to Osaka?" I was like, "I don't know, I'll figure it out in the morning." And I took this for granted. I think people, when they come to Japan, they feel really intimidated by transporting and getting places. And I guess 'cause we've just done it so goddamn much, it's like, dude, there's always a way. You don't need to worry about it. You can figure it out in the morning. And luckily, 'cause I knew that,

Osaka and Kyoto are super close. - Yeah, it's 30 minutes away. - Yeah, I'm sure there's like commuter trains that you can get. So I was like, don't worry about it. And there happened to be a train station in like, that had this train that went all the way there. And it was more of like a, it was kind of like a hybrid between a commuter train and like a shinkansen, where it was like all the trains were laid out like shinkansen, where you get like a seat and table. - Oh, like a table too. - Yeah, and I found this train. I don't know why I'm gonna be like a train nerd for a second, even though I don't normally care. So we went to this like normal-ass train, right?

And then we go down to the platform and there was like this kiosk on the platform where you could buy tickets to the premium car. - The green car? - Not the green car, because this is like a different line entirely. They had their own branding and shit. And it was like a kiosk. It was like, if you want to go in the premium car, you got to pay to upgrade here. And I thought, okay, fuck it. Let's see what it is. So I go up to the thing. Bear in mind this whole journey from Kyoto to Osaka was like 300 yen. - Yeah. - 'Cause it's like a normal ass transportation train. - Super close.

And so I thought, okay, well, how much can it be? Like, so I go up to this thing and it's 500 yen to upgrade to this like luxury train. I thought, oh, let's do it. Sure, let's see what it is. We get in dude, it's like the nicest thing ever. It's like, this train is immaculate. These seats are incredible. And it had like a chauffeur in the fucking seat. I couldn't believe this thing. - Wow.

500 yen in the UK, this would cost like 400 quid just to upgrade to this. I was like, holy fuck. Dude, it was so cool. And I just got such a like,

that made me so happy just finding that out and that we just got on that thing and it was super nice. - You got the first class of commuter trains. - Just randomly found this premium ass, and I wouldn't have found it unless I just happened to walk past that section of the car. 'Cause they had these two things where you could just pay with your Suica, like to upgrade it. And I thought, dude, that's sick. And then the moment you walk onto the premium car, there's like someone is like immediately like, show me your tickets to enter the premium car. And he's all dressed up like really fancy and stuff. - Yeah, yeah. - This is sick.

- This is so sick. - So we got to Kyoto and sorry, we got to Osaka and did that. And yeah, walked around Osaka, took them to like the Pokemon Center there. - Dotonbori. - 'Cause they were like, they wanted to buy stuff for like nephews and stuff. And dude, there was a line of like 200 people to buy something at this Osaka Pokemon Center. - Of course there would be. Yeah, yeah.

- Because they have like regional shit, right? - Yeah, and I took them to, there was a retro arcade and I was like, you should come, you should check out some retro arcade. I thought they weren't gonna like it much when my dad was, he was just playing Gallagher for like an hour.

- Your dad's gamer came out. - The gamer's in the club, man. The gamer's in the club. - I was like, okay, I guess I'll play Metal Slug until he's done. I was like, I'm chill with this. I guess I'll chill out. - Just crushing it on the gallery. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I took him to Osaka Castle, which is probably my favorite touristy thing that I did. Osaka Castle was kind of sick.

A lot of the touristy stuff in Japan I either haven't done or have done and thought it was kind of meh. 'Cause a lot of it's super overrated or super rams, but also like a castle actually, the view from it was really cool. And all the historical stuff was really cool and quite interesting. Although there was like two floors of the castle, which you weren't allowed to photograph.

And I don't know why, I'm wondering what the rules are behind this, but this dude had the worst job ever. He had a giant no photography sign. And whenever anyone tried to take a photo or whipped it out, he would scream and run across telling, "No photo, no photo!" And I just imagine myself like, "Man, what a shit job." Just every tourist known to man, your job is to figure out what goddamn language to shout at them in.

- 'Cause people are gonna take photos. They're just gonna do it. 'Cause that's just how it is. And it just made me think, what is the thought process behind not allowing- - That guy ain't getting paid enough, man. - Dude, nowhere near enough. - Polyglot goes to the efforts to learn 12 languages and he gets that job. - You gotta figure out, you're like, damn. I think it just defaults to English on everyone. But I don't understand why we couldn't take pictures of it 'cause it was just miniatures of the castle. And I was just in my head, I'm like, I don't,

- I don't know. Like people are gonna take pictures like crazy. So I don't know if I'm just being like a cynical. I'm like, maybe we should just let them take pictures. - Japan's rules concerning like no photography is like, it can be quite egregious. - It's confusing because it's just only those two floors. But the view from the castle is amazing. If you ever get the chance to go to Osaka, I mean, I'd recommend it. - Yeah, Osaka is great. - Yeah. - Normally I never do the touristy stuff. I think it's so lame.

But this one actually was, it's probably the best view of Osaka as well. You get such a cool panoramic view of the whole city. - Also Osaka is just a really fun city. - Yeah, yeah. So I took them to, at night I took them to Dotonbori and they were like, "Yeah, I guess I've seen it in movies before." They were kind of underwhelmed by it. They were like, "Yeah, I guess it's kind of cool." I mean, I guess, yeah, it is just,

which is lights in it. I get it. - They weren't impressed by the giant fucking crab mechanical thing that they have in like one of the crab stores. - Oh, we didn't go past that one. - Oh, you didn't? - I just turned to the, we walked along the river and then I just turned to the- - Oh, okay. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And yeah, then we went out to drinking and it was fun. I mean, all second people are pretty fun. - Yeah. - I think I went to the one bar that was just only foreigners by accident.

- The hub. - Like we went to this cocktail bar and I thought sick dude, I found a sick cocktail bar. And so we walk in and there's just like one other tourist person in there. So in the time we're drinking our one drink, the entire place,

with tourists. - Yeah. - And I was like, damn this, not that there's anything wrong with that. 'Cause I would, I mean, technically they were tourists. - You wanted to give them like a Japanese experience. - I was like, I kind of wanted to find them a cool spot. And I thought I found a cool spot, but obviously I don't live in Osaka. And then of course I just found the one where it's fucking everyone, every goddamn tourist found. But then I found this really cool, like real looking. And I got this ad for this bar and it looks so weird. And I was like, dude, we should go.

I was like, I don't know if we should go, but our friend Eugene was like, we should go. But I was kind of like, I don't know. So it was called a magic bar. - Okay. That sounds like a very Eugene thing. - Yeah. So here's the deal. Here's the deal. So we found it, right? I saw it and I was like, I don't know. And then he saw it, he's like, we should go check it out. And I'm like, I don't know. It's in like literally on the alley that has just all of the sex stuff. - Right, right, right.

it's on like the fifth floor of a really dirty ass building, you know, and it's like one of like six bars on this fifth floor of this tiny building. So there's like max five seats.

- And the thing is, and this is what had me worried was that if you sit down in this magic bar, you had to sit there for 70 minutes 'cause you're paying for 70 minutes of magic regardless. - Oh, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. - So he does a little show for you, you drink and it's like, okay. - Like the bartender is a magician. - And it was like 3,500 yen each per person to sit down. And the bartender is a magician. Now I was like,

This could be either the best thing ever or just the weirdest thing ever. And so he's like, "All right, we should check it out." I'm fine, fine, I'll check it out. And again, I'm the vibe checker. I have to go in, see if they're cool. The white guy walking in, even though I'm talking, and I'll explain to Eugene, I'm like, "Listen, there's like quick time events. "The first three sentences matter so much in these bars. "You have to nail every interaction in Japanese "for them to be comfortable.

- If you don't have communication 100. - You need to nail the first three questions they'll ask you or the first three sentences, 'cause otherwise they'll get super nervous and they'll be like, "Actually, no, don't sit down, we're busy. "Sorry, we're reserved." Or give you one of the excuses, right? So you need to nail it. And I'm like, "Oh God, I hate doing this." 'Cause it's just annoying. 'Cause then I talk to them and then I'm like, "Here are my very foreign people with me." 'Cause if it's me and then it's like everyone else speaks Japanese, it's kind of easier. - Yeah, yeah.

if I'm gonna be the translator and sometimes, and also like this is a different dialect as well. Sometimes I don't understand what they're saying and it's kind of awkward. But anyway, we go in this bar and there's no one in here and it looks like just a normal ass weird bar. It's just a bar with a bunch of random stuff in it. - Sure. - And he seems kind of interesting, this guy.

And he was called like, oh fuck, I had the business card. - Oh, he has a magic name? - He has a magic name, but it's his name, but magic in front of it. So it's his surname. - White magic Mike. - Yeah, yeah, like magic Mike. And we walk in and the guy's like kind of friendly, a little bit precarious at first, but then he kind of warms up and he's like, okay, cool. You're okay with the, he explained the rule again that we read on the Google that was like, are you cool with the 3,500? Yeah, I wanna like, you know, well, yeah, it's fine.

And so he's kind of getting ready and he makes us a drink. And then he like, he's like, "Here, play with this thing." And he puts like this thing, the useless box. Have you seen this thing before? That's where you push it. And then the thing comes out and just pushes it back. - Oh yeah, yeah. - He's like this.

And I was like, oh God, is this it? Is this like the vibe? While he's getting ready, he just gives us this. And he tells my mom to just push it forward. And I'm like, okay, mom, push it forward. And she just presses it downwards. And obviously nothing happens 'cause you just push forward. Like, mom, push it forward. How do you fuck up the one thing you have to? So anyway, so he's doing that and then he's still preparing some stuff. And then he comes back out, takes his useless box,

puts his other thing and it's like a coffin and you press the button and then just this eye opens and a little thing goes, "Hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo." And I'm like, "What the fuck is this bar, dude?" - What if the concept for the magic bar was like, you walk in and it's like, all right,

poof, your money is gone. - I was like, shit, this is- - That's the shit you give to four year olds to be like, "Entertain yourself." - I was like, dude, this man is really fucking setting the bar low. This is weird. And then,

And then he like, he goes back, 'cause he has like a little curtain in the bar, separated like one third of the bar where I guess all his shit's in there. So he goes in this curtain and my mom is like looking terrified. She's like, "Can we go?" I'm like, "No, we've paid now, we had this." - We can move. - "We're seeing how the show is turning out." He just comes back in and then he's like silently walks in like a mime and then he just smiles and in his teeth are just glow up teeth.

And he just starts making noises. - She came out with the grills. - And I'm like, "What the fuck is this?" I'm like, "God, oh God." - And you paid how much for this? - 3,500 yen. - Damn. - I'm like, "Oh God, this is gonna be terrible. This is gonna be so bad." And then, again, goes back into the closet, comes back out. And I can't remember how this all kicked off, but he's,

He like whips out his wallet.

and it's Louis Vuitton and he opens his wallet and it just sets a blaze. - That's all the money that he took from them earlier. It's like, here is your money right now. - It's a euphemism. - To his credit, this whole time, he's doing really fun, playful English. His English was pretty good. To keep my parents engaged in Madrid. And I was like, that's sick. And he made Joe be like, all right, okay, that's all my money gone. All right, okay, I should do this.

Do the magic now. And then closes, well, I can't remember why he did this. And then he started doing card tricks and the card tricks are pretty fucking good. He started doing like really good, like, all right, is this your card kind of thing? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It was pretty standard stuff and it was like, oh, that's pretty good. All right, this guy ain't bad. And then he started doing these tricks

And he slowly got better and better. And started doing better tricks. It was really fucking cool. And then he started doing this thing. I don't know if you've ever seen magicians do this where they have like two elastic bands and they keep somehow connecting them and disconnecting them. - Oh yes, yes, yes. - And he was nutty at it. Like actually insane. And he would get my parents to hold the elastic band tight and close. And somehow he would keep connecting it and disconnecting it. And it was like, okay, this guy's pretty fucking, he's pretty cracked.

And then between like every set of, so he would do like a bunch of different magic tricks with like one thing. And then he would kind of like, he'd be like, "All right, who wants a drink?" And then he'd make drinks. And then he would start the next kind of, it was actually pretty fucking good. - I've seen those magic bars for years now. - I thought they were so shit. - I've always been curious to go into it. But now I know I need to go. - We walked past one, one time. - We did, I remember this. - In Akabane. - Akabane, we were like, should we try it?

and we're just like, oh, really tempted. - But it looks so sketch. - Yeah, they always look sketch because they always charge a massive fee if you don't walk in. And I'm always like, I don't know. And then he did those tricks. Dude, he was actually fucking nutty. He was pretty good. Then he started doing like the whole,

the classic where you have like a ring and then he keeps somehow getting it on and off his finger with like sleight of hand. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And then he brought out like a rope and then a wand and then he was somehow like, you'd have to like, I don't know, maybe it was like basic magic, but he was really fucking good. - How intoxicated were you? - I was not that intoxicated. - That's the important question.

- He was, to his credit, his acting chops were pretty good. And he was putting on a show. He was pretty funny. And then at the end he did like- - That'll be 5,000 yen for this. - He did a few tricks that were really fucking cool. I thought like he did one where he like put the, like a full on nail, like a giant nail up his nose. And then had you like hammer it and stuff. And then it appeared and then like, okay, is this your card?

and then it wouldn't be the card. And to his credit, like his acting was really fucking good 'cause I thought he'd fucked up and then he just didn't fuck up. And then somehow he was like, no, no, no, this is a mistake. This is a mistake. I have to banish card and then starts eating the card. And then he just like whips it out of like inside of a pouch, inside of a pouch, inside of a pouch. He's like, is this your card?

I was like, what the fuck? - That's so cool. - It was really good. It was really good. I think it's just literally called Magic Bar in Osaka. - I thought that's what most of them were called. - Check it out, it was fucking fun. It was a great night. My parents loved it. And then yeah, that was a fun night out in Osaka. I didn't go crazy. 'Cause if I didn't feel like a girls bar or a bar where you have to talk more Japanese people, it would just be me translating for like three people and like,

- It's a lot, it's exhausting. - First time? - It's like, fuck, I just want the drink. - No, 'cause you gotta play caretaker. - I did, I did, but I was like, how do I make experiences that don't rely on me translating every four seconds? - 'Cause you wanna have fun as well. - Yeah, I wanna not be exhausted. Sometimes I'm driving, showing them around, and I'm translating all day, and it's like, oh my God, it's tough. - Yeah, you forget, especially after taking care of people, how much you just take for granted in terms of how you,

know like the way the country functions. - For sure. - You know, when you get asked like the littlest thing for everything that kind of like adds up and adds up and adds up every single time. - Yeah, they asked me- - Especially if your dad is asking what beer this is every day. - They had cover charge in one place. 'Cause cover charge is pretty common in Japan. - Yeah, yeah. - 500 to 1000 yen, you get a snack or something. And my dad was like, "Did I get scammed?" And I was like, "No, no, it's..."

- It's normal, but he was just on guard with everything. Like an ATM, he's like, "Is that ATM safe?" And I was like, "They're all safe. Every ATM is safe." - I mean, I get where it's concerned. Why? Because it's not all safe in Asia. - Yeah, I told him, I'm like, "Everything's safe here. Don't worry. Like anything, it's all good. It's all safe. No one's trying to scam you. No one's trying to do anything." - Japan's probably one of the countries in Asia where you can feel most

at home feeling safe, not getting scammed. - Just stay away from the back streets of Shinjuku and Shibuya, you'll be good. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just don't say yes if someone asks you to come to their bar, you're probably like safe. - I told them to go to Asakusa as well. I didn't wanna go with them 'cause I was like, this is- - I was really busy as well. - I bet that was fucking ham. - Yeah, they told me it was really busy. - I took Sid's parents there. - Oh, God.

- Yeah, I mean, it's like Kyoto and just like one little area in Tokyo. - It's kind of tough 'cause I don't think they have much interest in temples or stuff like that. I think they appreciate it, but they're not like, they don't really care about it. - They're not seeking it out. - You should go and check it out. It's kind of interesting. And then they were like, "What's with all this,

with all the smoke stuff. I was like, "Oh, the what?" They were like, "Yeah, in the shrine, "everyone was blowing smoke on themselves." I was like, "What are you, what?" I was like, "Oh, they meant like when they put the incense "in the thing and then they- - Yeah, yeah. - You know, - To bless, yeah. - They kept asking me what all the, when we went to Kyoto, they were like, "What is all this stuff with the shrine? "Why do they always want money?"

I was like, I guess God needs money. I don't know. - Yeah man. - I don't know. - This temple isn't paying for itself. - I was like, damn, they know the upkeep, you know? They didn't want to get their fortunes told. I was like, no, we should get our fortunes told.

She got fortunes told. And my mom got bad fortune. She's like, "This is why they want my fortune told. "I always get bad fortunes." And I was like, "No, it's fun. "It's fun to find out." - You remind me, 'cause I did the same thing with like Sid's parents as well. Same thing, mom got the bad fortune. And she was like, "I can't believe it. "Of course my fortune is bad." And I'm like, "We need to just tie it up there." So she starts tying it up and she's like,

"Can I buy another fortune?" Is that part of the game? - I wanna be double blessed actually. - And I'm just like, "Mom, you're a true gacha gamer right now. You've realized anything can be good luck if you have enough money." And so she just kept going until she got the good luck charm. - She wailed for the good luck. - She wailed for the good luck.

And I'm like, that's my mom. - See, I'm so jealous that you guys have to have, get to have these experiences because I can't do that with my parents. - Yeah, I know about that. - 'Cause like my mom is like already so familiar with it. My dad's come to Japan like fucking 30 times in his lifetime. So I'm just like, I don't have that like immediate, you know, thing of like, let me show you the wonders of this country that I love kind of deal. Because it's like, I've done it with my friends who,

have never come to Japan and stuff like that. - But it's different, right? - Yeah, it's different. But I will say it is, it never gets old seeing someone who's never been to Japan or never been to Asia and just seeing Japan and just like blowing their minds at the most fucking like senseless things ever for no apparent reason. You know, like when I took like my university friends to Kyoto, for instance,

Like my friend just like one time we were on our way to kill me as a dinner and he just stopped at a fucking like a vending machine, but it wasn't just one vending machine. It was like six vending machines all in a row. And he was like taking photos of this. I'm like, it's a fucking vending machine. Then we walked past like 20 of them and he was like, yeah, but the six of them, I'm like,

- Why am I taking you all the way to Kiyomizu-dera? - They were impressed. So if you have a drive in Japan, you stop at one of the service stations. They were impressed by the giant, you've seen these right? The giant coffee machines. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - They have these massive coffee machines that make like kind of fresh coffee in like a cup and it's all like timed. There's one on the screen showing you the coffee being made and it was literally just a cup. And it was just like, okay. But they were kind of impressed by that. They're like, well, this is pretty good.

And I was like, yeah, it is. Parents also not very good with chopsticks. My dad would probably want me to be like, he's better than my mom. He'll probably want that to be said. - Oh, they tried, they tried. - It was tough, it was tough. We had, we had some gyoza and that was kind of tough. - Oh, those are slippery buggers as well. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - 'Cause I was like, we should try all that, 'cause my favorite gyoza place does, they do,

- They do the yaki gyoza, the normal type. But then they also do the, if you wanna try, they can do the deep fried, boiled and the normal one. - Aki gyoza. - Yeah. - Yeah. - So they would, mom was, it was like watching like the Looney Tunes like moment when I'm trying to pick up the boiled gyoza.

I just kept slipping out, splashing in the soy sauce and I felt so bad. I could see my mom was getting more stressed out. I'm like, "Oh, I'm sorry." She's like, "How do you get good at this?" I'm like, "I don't remember ever being good. I don't remember ever being like not able to do this." I don't know. And I realize now that,

- Not having chopsticks, learning chopsticks does kind of take a while if you never used it. But credit to my parents, they keep trying. They never like ask for a knife and fork or be like, where is it? - I remember the first place we went to this, brought them a knife and fork

Like, I think your dad was like, no, I will not admit defeat. And I was like, yeah, that's gonna start all right. Damn. No, I think that's the best thing, right? It's like, it's just the fact that I think the one thing I always appreciate about whenever I'm taking people to Japan or, you know, wherever is that like, if they're just like even willing, they don't even have to like it.

The fact that they're just willing to participate in the culture is like the best thing you can do. - No, yeah, they're trying everything and they're appreciating every aspect of the culture, which I'm very thankful for. I knew they would, but in your head, you're always worried, you're like, "Oh man, they don't really care that much about Japan." So they wouldn't give a fuck. - No, good on them. - Well, the one thing that I think is the hardest, and even for me, this is kind of tough,

you have to resist that urge to let the taxi driver pick up your luggage. Because sometimes the dude looks like, he's like 90, he's like half your size and he's going to pick up your heavy ass suitcase. - Yeah, yeah. - And like, dude, it's like, he can obviously pick it up. Like he's fine to do it. And it's like, it's sometimes just easier. I'm like, just let him do it. Trust me, it's gonna be so annoying if you like,

Like if you had this problem sometimes when you try to put your luggage in and they're like, no, I want to do it. And it's like this whole thing of like, okay. - I've had the opposite happen where like it was a super, super old guy, like frail as fuck trying to pick up my luggage. And he like went to grab it. He didn't even like try to lift this thing up. He literally just grabbed the handle for about two seconds and then just let go and he looked at me. He's like.

I'm like, all right, fine. - Most of the tax drivers always want to do it for you. - Yeah, because it's supposed to be part of like the service. - I think it's like the Asian kid in me, 'cause my parents are like pretty old now. So I've gotten used to being like, no dad, for fuck's sake, you're in your seventies, let me carry the bag. - Yeah, I always want to do it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. So I'm like, every time I get to the taxi, I'm ready for like a little, not a fight, but like I'm ready to fight him.

to let me like, give me that shit, okay? Get in the taxi, okay? I'm a young, healthy man. I can do this, okay? Don't worry about it. - I mean, I try to do that. And if it is actually heavy, I'm like, dude, no. No, don't do it. But if it's like light, I'm like, all right.

- Yeah, of course. - 'Cause it's like sometimes, especially at least for my parents, I told them to do that. 'Cause I was like, "Don't, you're not gonna be able to communicate with them. It's gonna be awkward. Just let them do it." - Let them do it. - And then also- - Let them cook. - Do not open the doors.

- Don't close the doors, don't open the doors, don't touch the doors. And this is the hardest thing to tell people 'cause I feel like you can tell them it and they just don't do it 'cause it's like, it's something in your brain, it's hardwired where you open the door and you close the door to the taxi. But like, I was like, do not touch the doors. I know you want to, don't do it. They will open it for you. And so they kind of getting used to it and stuff. And I get it, it's tough. It's tough to rewire your brain.

traveling outside of Japan and unlearning that. 'Cause the amount of fucking times I've traveled out and I've just walked straight out of an Uber and just not looked back. It's just, it happens every single time I like- - I've had the opposite where like I walk up to the Uber, I'm just standing in front of it just waiting for it to open. I'm just like, oh.

- Yeah, I've heard that. That was like, oh, right. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - So they're getting used to it. - What are you planning to do with them for like the rest of your time? - Yeah, how much longer are they here for? - A few more days. I probably just take them to some nice restaurants. - You gonna take them to Golden Guy? - I might. Dude, I gotta stop drinking.

- I feel that. - My parents, they like drinking. So it's like, I'm like dying, but no drinking please. Yeah, I pretty well. I realized as well, like I don't mind eating out at a nice restaurant, but obviously to be a good son, I wanna pay for them. And I'm like, oh my God. Paying for me for a nice restaurant every now and then is fine. Paying for three people for a nice restaurant every day back to back, I'm like, oh my God.

I'm like, "This is adding up. "I'm going broke here." My accountant's asking me, "What's going on Connor?" - How many business dinners do you have today? - $600 on a tempura restaurant, Connor? Really? I was like, "I just wanted the, "I really wanted the," 'cause I'm like, "Man, you gotta try it." And I'm like, "Ah, they're only here one time. "I should." - Yeah, of course. - Okay, I'll buy it.

- Do you think they're gonna come back at any time in the future? - Yeah, I think they definitely wanna go skiing. - Yeah, yeah, that'll be awesome. - I think they wanna learn how to be a bit more independent here. It's just tough 'cause I think learning- - That's understandable. - Learning languages at old ages is hard. And I think no matter how many times, I mean, 'cause even I'm still, it's still hard to do it.

- Telling someone how to sumimasen is hard. - Telling a British person to sumimasen is nigh on impossible. And I still can't do it. - We were in a bar, right? And there's gonna be nights where they're gonna be out without me. And I was like, man, I gotta teach you how to sumimasen. Like you gotta just do it. - Life is hack and jerk. - I was like, you gotta learn. 'Cause if you want a beer, you gotta...

you wanna get attention, right? Like if you wanna be it and you want it right now, you gotta sumimasen. So I told them, I was like, all right, try it. Say sumimasen. And so they go, oh, sumimasen. I'm like, no, no, no. - Louder, damn it. - And even me, when I go like sumimasen, they won't hear me. It's like, it's gonna be even more. - Yeah, yeah.

And then when they come over, just say, "Beeroo." It's okay, you don't need to say any of that stuff. They understand. Just say it a little bit. And they're like, "Okay, okay." And they try. My dad's so bad at it. I could tell him what to say and he'll just forget. It'll all just forget the moment he's like, "No, just say beer. One more, please." And I'm like, "Dad, you're not gonna understand one more."

- 'Cause my dad's a fucking pro at sumimasen now. - I believe it. - The moment he sits down, he's just sumimasen. He knows what's up, he's like, "I don't give a fuck." - That's good though. That's prosumimasen. - That is prosumimasen. - I can't imagine my parents being able to learn that. My parents are the most like reserved people on this planet. - My mom's got this book, it's Japanese phrases book and she's using it sometimes, but I don't know how well it's working out for her.

- She says it's working well. - You've been teaching them like the phrases that need to be used aside from like- - I try to.

- Well, at one time I told them, I was like, "Hey, come." And I was like, 'cause I said, "Hey, come to my apartment building and I'll come meet you outside." 'Cause they were staying super close by. And so I go down to my apartment building and they're just talking to someone, to a Japanese person outside my apartment building. I'm like, "What the fuck are they doing? Don't bother people. What is this? What is this?" I'm like, "No, no, no, they don't gonna know." So I go out and this is a woman looking really confused.

And then I'm guessing my mom was trying to confirm that this was the address. And I was like, "Mom." I was like, "I see what you're saying."

So then she'd laugh and I was like, "Don't talk to people. They're not gonna speak any English." - Especially in Tokyo. - What the fuck? - It was very wholesome, but I was like, "Oh God, oh no." They've been here like two days and they were like confronting strangers. I was like, "Oh God." - Your mom just whips out the book. It's like, "It's my time." - And I'm like, "Oh my God, oh no."

- It's so cute. - Is Eugene still going through his little weeb phase? - He is, he's pretty good at saying stuff. He's like, "Biru Hitotsu." And then when he gets to "biru," he just goes, "Biru desu." I'm like, what the fuck? - Yeah, Eugene- - He keeps saying "desu" to everything. - Eugene is that one person who went to Japan after watching 200 anime. - Yeah. - Right, like the first- - He's a two credit score credit dude.

- He is trying. - You don't have to say like beer-u-des after you get it. It's like, yeah, we know. We fucking got it for you. - Every time there's an order that comes up, I remember like going to dinner with them and every time an order would come out, you know, we're at an izakaya and they bring out like karaage and he was like, ah, karaage des. Niku des. And I was like, Eugene, I gave you an app.

- We're in a public setting here. You just said that is fried chicken. That is meat. - He's the type of guy who just like sees what he sees in Genki and just like immediately reflects it back. Like this is Karaage. - I had a moment where, Eugene is a Vietnamese. So these taxi drivers just weren't stopping for me. And I was like, I bet it's some fucking white. I'm like, Eugene, stand in front of me and hail it.

'Cause we were in Kyoto and I was like, no, they're probably just tired of fucking tourists. And I was like, from a distance Eugene, they might think you're Japanese, hail them. Sure enough, hail them, immediately got a cab. And I was like, right, let me take over. It fucking worked. I was like, I'm sick of this shit. - The Asian bait is which works every time. - This is Connor Pierce from "Buckethead". - Gotcha, bitch!

- I was like, fuck this shit, but also that's kind of hype. I don't know, I'm not hyped that it worked. I was like, that's impressive. It was like how we made Joey go in, 'cause we were like, they're not gonna, you know, if I walk in, they'll be like, what the fuck? What is this white guy doing here? - Wait, when? - When we were in Tottori. - Yeah, when we were in Tottori, and we made Joey walk in. - We made Joey walk in. Do we do it? We make Joey walk in, 'cause Joey,

- You know, out of all of us, looks the most Japanese. - Perfect Japanese. - And he speaks perfect Japanese. - Yeah, but there's also that 0.5 seconds of panic from the moment they look at my face and they're just like, oh God. - Yeah, 'cause you got a beard, you know? As soon as they see the beard. - But he looks more Japanese than us. So that's, you know, that helps. - More Japanese than you, definitely. - Yeah, with me for sure. - And it's not that I won't get a seat. It's that like, I just wanna, you know, why would you stack the cars? You know what I mean?

- Yeah. - Just make it easier for myself. - It's like why play on hard difficulty, why play on legendary difficulty when I can play on normal difficulty, you know? - It's just always that panic. When I walk into a bar and there's like five seconds of panic on their face and I have to be like, immediately have to just talk more than I normally would. - Yeah. - Yeah. - If I was Japanese, there'd be no questions asked, but I have to immediately just start being like,

- Oh, of course. - I have to do this thing now where like, because there's that 0.5 seconds of panic from seeing my face, the moment I click that door open, immediately just start talking. - Yeah, same for them. - I don't even give them a shadow of a doubt. - This is the strap by the way, if you are a foreign person, and you do know a little bit of Japanese, if you do actually wanna get into some bars where there might be a bit like, no, you just have to immediately- - Immediately, .

- It's like, hello, this many people. - Oh, okay. - I'll be like, thanks, Con. - Literally is like, bring in the same car. - The entire rugby team comes in, white people. All right, cool, sit down, boys. - I've noticed ever since I've grown a little stubble, I guess I've stopped being,

like mistaken for Asian in Asian countries. I don't know what it is about the beard. Before it was kind of like 50/50, you know, I had the tan skin, but sometimes, you know, maybe I'll be mistaken for a local, like even in, it's actually no, especially in fucking Thailand. Like I remember this one time I was,

I was at a restaurant and same kind of strata you go in, you kind of like have to like start speaking Thai straight away. And if you don't, then they're gonna think you're a foreigner. So just this day, I was,

I went in the restaurant with like a few friends, just kind of like forgot. I was just like little space cadet that day. And a person asked me, waitress asked me a question. Just didn't hear it. I was like, sorry. And I, you know, out of instinct and I was like immediately like, oh no, sorry. And then I started speaking to her, but just that millisecond of just the, sorry. And then she immediately just flipped

into this guy's a tourist, right? And then, and so I start explaining to her, hey, I want this, I want that. And she, in Thai by the way, in like in local Thai, and she's just like, "My, my, no, you need to do this." And I was just like, and I was like, "I understand, this is what I want." Again in Thai, and she just, she would just refuse. She refused. - I get that so much.

in Japan, it's not even funny. Like the, like, you know, I understand like the initial reaction of like, they see my face, they're like, oh, you're not Japanese looking, so I'll start speaking in just the most broken English possible. And they start explaining shit. And then I respond back being like, oh, so long, isn't it? And then they're like, yeah, so anyway,

"Bitch, I just spoke Japanese. I understand." - "Bitch, I am one of you and I refuse to leave this place until I'm treated that way." - It is fun seeing the relieved look when you're like, "Oh, Japanese is good." - Oh yeah. - It's like nature's healing is coming all back. They're like, "Oh my God, amazing."

- Do you, okay, question, Jerry, 'cause you've been in this situation forever. When you're like checking into a hotel, maybe you're at somewhere and you see like somebody who's like English speaking, having like a lot of difficulty with whatever they're doing, do you ever like help or are you like? - It's,

- It's probably 50/50. - Okay, all right. - But like sometimes, like, you know, if I'm say like at a hotel, right? And the person in front of me is like foreign and then, you know, kind of struggling, then it's like, well, I want to get checked in, so I'll help them out. They seem like they're strong. - I was in front of you. - Yeah. But if they're like another person, off to the side, I'm just like, couldn't be me.

I just hang back to be like, let's see how they resolve this. Let's see how they pass this test. So it's a case by case, I think. But like, you know, like there's every now and then, you know, like I could be maybe be like, you know, Tokyo station or something. And I see like a family that's like clearly struggling to get around Tokyo station or something. Then sometimes if I have time, I'll be like, oh, you okay? Like, let me help you out, stuff like that.

Yeah, but it depends on my mood really. Like if I'm like, I don't have time. - If you're busy, like I get it. You gotta go somewhere. - Yeah, exactly. But sometimes I just kind of sit back and be like, I wanna see how they figure it out. - I had a few interactions where I was, there was like one coffee shop and it was a pretty big coffee shop actually. It was a really nice one, but they would call out your number, obviously in Japanese. And this person ordered after me and I figured that they were, what the number was 'cause they were right after me.

- Yeah, they looked like they're having nightmare of a time ordering. And then I felt bad and then the number got called and I went up to them and I was like, "Oh, hey, by the way, they're sure I'm pretty sure." "Oh, okay, thanks." But then they seemed really confused that I came up to them and told them, but they weren't going up and getting their stuff. And I was like, "Okay, whatever." And there was other time I was checking in, it was so bad.

I was checking into the hotel and it was all going well. And the person next to me, I guess they started speaking in Japanese to them.

And even though my Japanese isn't like perfect, I could like hear that the way she was saying things was like not great Japanese. Like it didn't sound like natural, I guess, even though like I'm not great anyway, but like the pronunciation, I guess, I don't know, me, I'm the last person should be judging. She started speaking Japanese, then she starts speaking Japanese and then she just immediately was like, "Oh shit, I don't know what the fuck's happening." And I was kind of like, I was like,

I was like, I don't want to help because she's trying. So I was just checking in and it started just getting more painful and more painful. And I was like, do you need help? She's like, no, I'm okay. I'm like, okay, thank God. I was like, it already took me like 30 minutes to check in. I think it should have taken forever. And it was like, oh, cause-

'Cause I live in Japan, so I don't have to show my passport when I check in. Sometimes I wanna see my card, my residence card for living here. Sometimes they don't. Technically they're not supposed to ask and they're not supposed to copy it. It's just a whole, some hotels ask for it, some hotels don't. You can be pushy about it and say, don't do it. But then it like,

It gets even weirder when you're traveling with people who do need to show their passports. And it was always like, hey, we wanted to offer a great service where we take the bags to the room. They'd be like, hey, so before we check in, can we see everyone's passports? I'm like, oh, but passports are in the bags that you took to the room. And they were like, oh.

"Oh, well, could you come back later and scan them?" I was like, "All right." Just never did. And I was like, "It's weird. Why do they..." - I have a different problem every time I go into a hotel where it's like, usually if I'm with other people, they're like, "Oh, can we see your passports?" Or, "If you live in Japan, can we at least see your Zaire Yukata?"

- Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - And it's so awkward every time, like everyone's giving, like this happens so much on Journey Across Japan. Everyone's giving their Zaidu cards, right? And then the cloak's just like,

looks over at me being like, "Is that a card bitch?" And it's so awkward me having to be like, "Yeah, so I don't have one. I'm Japanese." I can see them pressing X to doubt. They're like, "You sure about that motherfucker?" - Oh, you're Nihonjin? - What the hell? - Oh, you're Nihonjin? Okay, okay, okay. - How does this interaction normally go then? - What's up? - How does this interaction normally go? - Oh, no, I mean, for the most part, it's usually I just say, "Oh, I'm Japanese in Japanese." And they're like, "Oh."

- I'm gonna fucking try that. I'm just gonna say it, see if they stop asking me for my documents. - But then every now and then when it's like, especially in like, if it's like a big city, for example, with lots of foreigners, they kind of just like, what do you mean by that? Like, what do you mean you're Japanese? And I'm like, I just don't, I don't have a Zaidu card. I live here, I have. - Yeah, well, I think actually that like, I don't, I'm not 100% sure on this, but I'm pretty sure even if you live here that,

they're not required to have your ID. - No. - But again, I guess, how do you, like take my word for it. Like, I guess I don't know. - I guess I have to do that. I'm like, you're not Japanese. You clearly don't look like this. - I am just trust. - 'Cause I've got chatting with some people who have Zyro cards and they really don't like, I guess, 'cause it's just like the principle. They don't wanna show them. They're like, I don't have the shirt. Fuck you. And they're like, no, I'm not showing you my Zyro card. 'Cause they always have photocopy it as well, which I don't get.

- Why do they photocopy my cup? - I guess maybe it's for like insurance reasons maybe. - I guess. - Or it's like if you fuck up a room so hard then it's like, well, we got your info already. - A little bit xenophobic to just only get like the foreign residents, I guess. It's kind of weird. - Yeah, so they can actually, if it's a police officer, they can detain you.

- Yeah. - If you don't have your ZOE, then you're fine. So if you just say like, "Oh, I'm Japanese too." Like everyone else that would care. But if it's a police officer, you can't punish them. - No, no, I know police officer, yeah, they can actually do it obviously. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But like checking into a hotel, I think that if you want to, you don't have to prove that you're, but I guess, yeah, it's hard for them as well, right? - Well, there you go, life hack. Next time you're at a hotel, just be like, "Nihonjin desu." - Oh no, coming up to the hotel.

- Oh, by the way, Nihon-Jin-Ban. - It's weird 'cause like normally whenever I travel for work in Japan, like we're filming stuff. I don't know if it's, I noticed that,

- This is such a expat fucking problem. If you're like booking.com is still set to the foreign country, they'll 100% ask you for ID when you get there. 'Cause Chris hasn't done it. Chris is still set to like the UK. And I've told him like a million times to change that shit. 'Cause every time we go to a place, they immediately ask for our passports. It's super annoying having to like do the whole thing. I sent mine to Japan now so that when I book it,

Sometimes they ask, sometimes they don't, but actually this trip, no one ever asked me for it. - Oh, that's good. - And no one ever tried to photocopy it. And I was like, oh, this is a nice change of pace. - That's what they should do at every hotel if you ask me. - Yeah, I'm like chill, nice, sick, awesome. - Coming up with the times.

I don't know, it just saves time. I just don't wanna, 'cause it's, dude, it's so annoying when we were cycling every single day on the cycle, this 30 minute bullshit check-in where they wanna scan all my documents, make sure I'm like legal and it's like, oh my God, dude, like, let me just check, I need a shower, dude, I smell like shit. Let me in the room. I don't know, it's weird.

I guess, especially if like, I don't actually, I wonder if it's something to do with paying afterwards and paying before because all the hotels I paid before were

And when we travel with Chris or whatever, we always pay after. I guess also one of the hotels Chris did forget to pay. - Oh shit. - It was an Apple hotel. - Chris forgot to pay? - Chris just straight up forgot to pay. - And just left? - We were late to the stream 'cause Chris had to drive back and go pay. 'Cause they called him up and they were like, "Oh, Sumo's in, money where the fuck?" So Chris had to drive back and go pay 'cause he just straight up left. - How many hotels

- Where has that man been in? How did he forget? - This is why when I book it, I just pay right there. This takes away a giant stress. It's just so much easier. 'Cause you gotta pay with the same fucking card anyway. Just pay up front. - Yeah, you don't wanna fuck around like as you're leaving. You're probably like rushing to go somewhere or whatever, just like. - And booking.com more often than not just,

it gives you like a 2% discount anyway if you pay online. So just do it. - Yeah, I always do that. - You can get free cancellation anyway. So, you know, it's so annoying. And so this is such a person living here problem. And even then a more niche problem of person living here who travels around here a lot problem. This is a gig of first world problem.

- I got to ask, have you ever like, you know, whenever you're like living in Australia or something, somewhere outside of Japan, have you ever like had an opportunity to help a Japanese tourist abroad that's like- - Yeah, a few times, but-

- I don't know, it's weird. Unlike in Japan where there are a lot of people who come to Japan not knowing the language whatsoever and are clearly struggling, a lot of Japanese people who come to Australia,

pretty decent at English, like enough where they can kind of get around because I feel like- - For English mentality, too much of a place to think that you'll be accommodated. - Right, and I think like, especially with like Japanese people, because for the most part, a lot of Japanese people are like, the common consensus is like, they're very afraid to like travel overseas because it's like, oh, you know, Japanese doesn't really work anywhere else outside of Japan, right? So it's like, I feel the people who are actually willing to travel outside of Japan to different countries,

are the ones that are already probably interested in like learning English or like learning a different language anyway. - Yeah. - So like, I've never had that thing of like,

I've seen a clearly Japanese tourist in Australia struggling because it's like, well, you probably know the bare minimum English to get around anyway. So it's like, yeah, you'll be all right. - I had a moment I was like so proud of. It was just like, it made living here in Japan for like four years worth it just for this like one moment. Just 'cause it was actually when I went to Thailand the last time and we were at the airport, we had just gotten off the plane.

And Sydney was in the toilet So I was waiting for her And

I could see there was this like older Japanese couple talking to one of the Thai staff members. And I just kind of like zoned in on like their conversation. And I think they were like trying to find kind of like the right gate to transfer over to because they were flying to like one of the islands or something. Now, like you said, they could speak like a little bit of English, but it wasn't great. But also the person that was kind of helping them

Obviously Thai. - Yeah. - Her English wasn't great either. - Dude, yeah, I saw this so much in Kyoto. It was like a different tourist trying to speak English to a Japanese person who also had bad English. It was like a car crash every time. - So it was just like confusion on both sides. There was a Thai person speaking broken English to a broken English older Japanese couple who couldn't also speak English trying to best interpret that. So I was just like,

- You know what? I think this is my moment. I think this is my moment. And so I come over and I, you know, I ask the person, I tell the person in Thai, is everything okay? I can speak like a little bit of Japanese. And she explains to me, oh, you know, I'm trying to explain to them the directions of the gate and the plane that I can get to. And I was like, thank God I can actually,

My language skills are good enough to translate this. And then so I translate them to, I say what she says in Japanese and they go, "Eh?"

It's like, why do you wanna- - Classic. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Classic, yeah. - Exactly. And they were like, "Oh, why do you speak Japanese?" And I was like, "Oh, I just literally flew from Japan. I live in Japan right now." Had a nice, pleasant conversation. And I was like, "Yeah, you go here, you go there. I hope you have a nice journey here. And I hope you have a nice day in Thailand." And it was just like,

That was, I don't know. Sometimes it's the little things in life and I just, I was like beaming. I was beaming all day just 'cause of that one interaction. I was like, yes! - It's so weird 'cause like in Australia, I've had so many instances where it's like, it's that situation but flipped. So it's like, I could be like walking around in somewhere in Sydney, like somewhere where I'm like clearly know where I'm going. Maybe I'm a little bit lost, you know? Maybe it's 'cause it's like a suburb I've never been to. And I've had people who,

- Mistake me for a different nationality many times. I remember one time I was in, I forgot where I even was, but it was a place I'd never been to before. And I was like looking for a particular, I think like restaurant or something to meet up with a friend.

And I'm like, where the fuck is this place? And I'm like looking on my phone. I don't know where it is. And this like dude, he's just like, excuse me. And he just comes up to me. It's just like, I think he was like Indian or maybe like Pakistani, something like that. And he just starts speaking to me in Hindi.

- This is further proof Jerry's a Bollywood star. - And I'm like, dog, I ain't Indian. I know, am I looking? - I love your movies. - Yeah, he just starts speaking to me in Hindi and I'm like, and I tried to tell him, I was like, "Sorry, man, I don't know what you're talking about." And he's like, "Oh, you speak English?" And I'm like, "Yeah, I speak English. I don't speak whatever the fuck you just spoke to me."

And he was like, oh, it looked like, yeah, it's like, oh, I thought you were like an Indian tourist or something, like trying to figure out where you wanted to go. And I'm like, dude, I leave you. - That's my fear of like helping who I think is a Japanese person and they just speak a completely different language. - Oh, I've had that so many times. - Oh fuck, okay, I fucked up. - I've had that so many times where I thought they were Japanese and they were like Korean. And I'm just like, oh, sorry.

I've had that so many times where I've gone to a place, thought they were Thai and it turns out they were Vietnamese or Malaysian. I literally, when we were on our America tour, I think we were in like New Jersey or something. It was like our day off and you guys have got to get dinner and I'm like, I fucking miss Thai food, man. I just want some Thai food. - Sure. - Go to the local Thai restaurant,

Southeast Asian guy serves me and I'm like, oh my God, I'm back home. And I start speaking to him in Thai and he's just like, sorry, I don't speak Thai, I'm Malaysian. I'm like, God, God damn it, man. I thought I was home right now. I thought I was- - Does that mean that food is gonna be whack?

- It was still good though. It was still good. - Guy just immediately walks out. - Send it back. - Yeah, I thought I was home baby. But it felt great bro. It felt like my third eye had opened. 'Cause this was the first situation I'd ever been in my life where I had not used my first language. I had used my, I guess my second language and now my third language. And I'm just like, yo,

Is this the power of a trilingual? - Validation. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Have I unlocked the trilingual power now? Oh my God, this feels incredible. But yeah, hopefully that kind of like little moments like that, I'm just like, I should study more Japanese now. That's like reignited my passion for learning more Japanese. - Hearing stories like that makes me wanna learn a third language, but I just don't know what.

- Yeah. - Hindi. - It's a counteract. - Dude, it's gotta be Hindi, bro. - When I start speaking Hindi, I'm like, "Well, funny you say that, actually." - Bro, imagine how big your fan base would get if you knew Hindi, bro. - God damn. - It'd be huge. - You would quadruple your viewership count. - Bro, it would be game changing. - Extra one billion fans right then and there, dude. - Not gonna lie, dude, I'm gonna say it. I'm fucking sick of getting Nihongo Josephs.

- I'm done. - How did it take like seven years? - You know what? I always thought there was a part of me that was like, it's super endearing. It's very humbling that I look clearly not Japanese and Japanese people are like, it validates that, oh, my Japanese hasn't fallen off a cliff. Like considering that I don't actively study it as much as I used to, 'cause I just don't have as much time anymore. But like,

- It's gotten to the point now where like I was in Harajuku a few days ago with Aki and we were just doing some shopping or whatever. And I think I got every single store we stopped at immediately. To me. And it's just like,

I know exactly why they're asking that. And like, I don't blame them for it, but it's this, now you've just started this conversation of, well, why are you so Nihongo Josu, right? - It's an interrogation. - Yeah. - Tell me why. - Yeah, it's like, so like, how did you study it? Did you, you know, how long have you lived in Japan? You know, there's a myriad of questions that it can go down. And I've just gotten so sick of just,

having to do the same fucking dialogue option over and over. It's like, yeah, so my mom's Japanese. I lived here for a while. I studied- - You're the half NPC now. - But now after all of the times that I've been Nihongo Jozin, I figured out the most optimal like conversation ender. I just go, thanks.

- No more. That's all the info you're getting. 'Cause I used to have to be like, yeah, my mom's Japanese or, you know, like I lived here, I studied here. Now if I just say, "Ariato." That's it. And they're like, oh, okay. Clearly this person does not want to talk. - You chose the secret option route that just ends the conversation. - I chose option D. - Yeah, that just ends the conversation. - Do you guys still get it often?

- Yeah. - How do you guys feel towards it? - I'm sure with it. - Yeah, well you haven't had it as much as me. - Also I'm not Japanese as well. - For me it's almost like an open invitation to kind of speak Japanese and practice a little bit. So I'm kind of chill with it, but obviously you don't need that. - That makes sense.

- It depends if they're nice or not, if they're annoying or- - Oh no, no, granted, like every, especially like store clerks and stuff like that who ask it, super nice for the most part. They're just trying to like have conversation, right? They're like genuinely impressed, but it's like, now I'm just kind of like, I've done my shopping. I'm just on. - Yeah, I mean, it's certain people when they say it and it starts conversation, I'm like,

- Yeah. - Oh God, this is gonna be a lot of conversation. Like mainly taxi drivers, taxi drivers here, 'cause they're normally really old. - Yeah. - You either get like really good conversations or just like, what are you asking me? - You know what's so weird? I've never had it in a taxi. - Really? - Yeah, never. - I find that Japanese taxi drivers, they're either like,

- Really talkative or just completely silent. You cannot get a word out of them. - I don't know. Maybe I'm just like getting really lucky or I don't catch as taxis as often as you guys, but like I always get the taxi drivers that are just two word answers. - I got in the cab today with my parents and you know, it's always awkward 'cause you know, if when it's like four of you and you know, some of the taxi drivers, they don't want people to sit in the front. It's just like a preference thing, but it's like, hey, there's four of us.

- We gotta sit in the front. - Of course, yeah. - And so it's like sometimes they're like, "Oh, I gotta move my stuff." And some of them are like, bro, some of them, they got shit everywhere. And you're like, ooh. Sat in this one taxi, dude was super old. Definitely like late 80s, late 90s. And dude, I sat down in the front seat and it was wet. - The fuck? - I was like, "Oh, this is so nasty to sit down." Dude is so old.

And he's like, "Oh, do you Japanese?" "Yeah." I'm like, "Oh, thanks man." He's like, "Oh, where are you from?" I go, "I'm Yurisui." He's like, "Oh, gentleman country." I was like, "Maybe back in your time." Not so much now. - Not anymore, yeah. - I was like, "Oh yeah, I guess so." He's like, he's not just saying English words.

- Just the most random shit. - Those are the best though. - I had that recently where I was just kind of waiting around in a store. I was looking at some clothes and this like young Japanese guy like walks up to me and you know, just is like, "Oh, this one very popular color." - I love it, I love it. - And it's like in Japanese I said back and I'm like, "Oh yeah, I bought some clothes from here before." And then the guy was obviously throwing back and he's like, "Oh, you want to?" You know? And then he's just like, but then afterwards,

in English, he was just like, "Oh, you're Japanese very good." - I love that shit. - And then he was like, "Where are you from?" And I was like, okay, if I say Japan, things are just gonna get complicated. So I was like, "Oh, I'm from Australia." In the most Australian accent possible. And he fucking goes, and you know, when foreigners think of Australia, right? Lots of different things, kangaroo, boomerangs, whatever, right? The most stereotypical shit a Japanese person can think of. This dude legit goes, "Ah, woman basketball."

- I guess so. - I did not expect that. - Top 10 things Australia is famous for. - I mean, we have a strong women's basketball team, but like, it's not the first thing I think of when I think of Australia. - I had so many things running through my mind. - Yeah. - I did not think it was gonna be. - I was thrown about being like, are we, yeah,

- Yeah, I guess we're known for women's basketball, yeah. And I was like, yeah, yeah. Woman's basketball, all right. - Yeah. - I did not see that coming. - The old man in his taxi, he was like, "Is that some wicked shit?" He was saying like, "I like beer and the whiskey." I was like, "Okay, thanks man." He'd be like, "That'll be..."

- I was like, "Okay, well that's a steep discounts. I'll take it." But dude, this man was, we got to stop like red lights. Not even kidding. Man pulled out the full newspaper.

at the stoplight, started reading the newspaper, covered the whole windshield reading the newspaper. I was like, "Oh, you're gonna help hold it?" Like, "You good?" - Can you see the lights? - "What are you doing?" The lights had changed four minutes ago and we haven't moved, sir. Genuinely, he just whipped it out. I couldn't believe it. - I've noticed taxi drivers in Japan do that. - Osaka, by the way. - Oh, of course.

- I don't think it would not happen in Tokyo. - No. - I don't know, 'cause a lot of taxi drivers I've been with, they've always had, okay, they always have the clipboard, right? Do you know what I'm talking about? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay, I figured it out. - Okay. - What is that? - Well, I think they keep,

- Track of like- - Everyone that's got in their taxi or something like that. - Even though the meter already does this. I think it's like they, I'm not sure what they're clocking, but a lot of the taxi drivers, if not all of them, even though you're doing, you get paid this amount for the journey, all of them are like employed by a company

Most of them, I think, again, I'm not 100% sure, a lot of them are. And so that's not their pay, what you're paying them. They're their own salary. So I think they're like keeping track of something. - They're keeping track of something. I don't know. - I always thought they were like racially profiled.

- Secret police, every taxi driver in Japan is just a secret police officer just tracking your movements. - In case the police come being like, did you see a white male in his thirties getting your taxi? It's like, I have the proof right here. I wrote it down. - It's right here, officer. 'Cause what always confused me is that I assumed they would keep track of like the fare or something,

but they never ever do it after you finish your journey. - Always at the lights. - It's always mid light. Sometimes the lights go and they're still fucking writing and their hands are off the steering wheel and they just fucking go. They're like, no, I need to finish this racial profiling right here. - I'm gonna sit next to them and just start writing stuff too. Like I'm anxious. And then I close the book to death now. - If you're sitting in the front seat, just grab, just start playing tic-tac-toe. Just like, your move.

- Yeah, but no, like, I guess to us, like the Nihongo Josu is kind of like most of the time, just like conversation starter. Do Japanese people find it as endearing when we just start speaking broken- - I always do. I always say Iggo Josu to them as well. - Yeah. - Oh really? - Yeah, yeah. - Oh no, I've started doing that as well. - I've started doing it every month. - Yeah. Do Japanese people find it as endearing when we speak broken-ass Japanese being like, ah. - I think so. - Bearded, a skidess.

- Oh dude, Japanese people love it. - Koto wa karaage. - They love that shit. - Even if they don't, it's like, I think they just prefer it, right? - I think in a lot of minds of Japanese people, like stereotypically, I guess, I think the general consensus is, oh, you're going to the effort to try and speak to me in the local language. And I think that in and of itself is worth, I guess, like the praise or the respect, right? Because it's so easy to just be like,

"You know what? There's weird Japanese language. I'm not gonna learn it. My natural language is better. Just deal with it." Kind of thing, right? But I was like, I think it's the idea of like, "Oh, you know, I can only speak Japanese and you're participating in speaking Japanese no matter how broken it is. Hey, you know what? Nihongo fucking Jozu dog. Let's go."

- I think 'cause there's a lot of people online are always like, man, it's so disrespectful to go to a country and not know any of the language. And it's like, well, I mean, funny, a lot of Japanese people don't expect you to. That's like whether you should or shouldn't, it doesn't really matter. It's the expectations that are there. - I think a lot of Asian countries are like that. - Okay, okay. Well, here's the thing. When you travel around, how much research do you do to a place before you like travel there?

- Researchers in like in the language? - In anything, you know? - Like very little, you know, language wise I'll probably learn how to order. And then I don't, 'cause I normally,

- I'll maybe learn like basic greetings, like hello, thank you. Stuff like that. But yeah, I'm not gonna learn like full sentence structures. - Hopefully not be a nuisance. But then obviously when you check into hotels and stuff, you'd like, okay, please have hopefully, please have English. - Yeah. - 'Cause I had this when I went to Vietnam, 'cause it's been like quite a while since I had just traveled to a new country that I had just never been to before. And it was just like a quick weekend trip. So I didn't actually,

do that much research after I got off the plane. And I was like, oh shit, do they, is English as common here as it is in Thailand? Fuck, I don't actually know. I didn't bother learning any Vietnamese phrases 'cause I'm just here for the weekend. Fuck. So like, it was just like that kind of realization of just, oh,

I'm that dumb tourist now. Shit. I am actually that dumb tourist now. It's a feeling that I guess like I've forgotten for a while because most of the time when I travel, it's like fucking America or like other English speaking countries, you know? - I think like the mentality I go into it is like, say like, you know, a couple of months ago I went to Korea for the first time, right? Where it's like, you know, in Korea, most people can speak English. - Did you know that beforehand though? - I had heard about it.

- Okay, okay. - But they say that about a lot of countries, it's just not true, right? So I went in there being like, all right, well, you know what? I'm probably not gonna bother learning a lot of extensive phrases or anything in Korean, but I'll just learn the basics. And then when I get there,

I'll try and learn as much of it as I can. Like I'm much rather in this head space of like, it's better to even to be that dumb tourist, at least to show that you want to kind of learn the language. And I think that is just as,

appreciated by the locals than you already knowing it. There was so many times where if I knew that, I'd go to a random food stall in Seoul and the guy would be speaking to me in English. I would just be like, how do you say this in Korean? And the guy was very happy to teach me how to say it. And when I would reflect back on it, he'd be like, yeah, there you go, you got it. So I think just showing no matter what the,

no matter how it is just showing that you are interested in it, I think is what will get the locals to be like, all right, cool. You know what? I respect that. And I think the only reason why that doesn't work as much in Japan as it does in say Korea is because a lot of Japanese people are a little bit afraid of- - Reserved. - And reserved to talk to foreigners and tourists. Whereas in Korea, they're a lot more open about it.

about it and being like, yeah, you know, you're a tourist. Yeah, I see tourists all the fucking time. You know, I'll teach you some words. - Yeah. Did you find out like when you went on your Euro trip, like this is like pre pandemic, 'cause you went to like a lot of different countries in like a very, very short period of time. But I guess you had like a guide, right? - Well, yeah, we went to like six or yeah, six different European countries all for the first time. But we, 'cause it was me and Aki's first time in Europe. So we were like,

I'd rather go to a country where I have like a friend living there, like a local who can like show me around. So like I had my local friend with me there, but also, you know, I did the same thing where like whenever I would be served something, I would ask the store clerk or whatever to be like, how do you say this in French or Italian or you know, whatever country I'm in. And I think for the most part, they seem to appreciate it. - Right, right. - I think, yeah.

- Yeah, I guess, yeah. - Do I remember any of them? No. - No, you remember it for that one trip. Sometimes you just fly somewhere and you're like, maybe I'll just,

- When I was in Finland, I learned so much fucking Finnish. I couldn't tell you a single fucking Finnish phrase right now. - When you're a tourist, it's like, as long as you're not being a dick, you're not disrupting anyone, it doesn't really matter. - I think there's nothing wrong with being the dumb tourist. I think the problem lies in being the arrogant dumb tourist of like, you're not open-minded enough to like,

involve yourself in the culture, that's when you kind of get the stink eye. But if you're like, you can be the dumb tourist, just be like the curious dumb tourist. - I think it's just looking up maybe like what the general kind of etiquette is on certain places before you turn up is probably just the best. You can watch a fucking top 10 list of things to do and don't do. Like, you know, in Japan and every other country on earth probably that just tells you, hey,

this is a cool thing to do. This is definitely not cool thing to do. Like I think that's just, you know, that helps. - Yeah, I look into that for sure. 'Cause the last thing I wanna do is be the dumb tourist that also offends the country, I mean, you know? - Yeah, I think as long as you're, you know, polite, I think, whatever, who cares? I mean, you know, we dunk on tourists. - Yeah, we dunk on tourists a lot. A lot of times we are tourists. - Yeah, I think it's, you know, ultimately there's nothing wrong with being a tourist, of course, because you fucking have to be. - Yeah, everyone's a tourist. - But you know, I think it's just,

Hey, if you chill, who cares? - Oh yeah, as an Australian, right? So in England, I don't know if this is just

I don't know if this is just like a British thing, but one thing I've noticed is, you know, as a Brit, every time I see like a Brit abroad, like making a fucking fool of themselves, which I've seen so many times, I'm like, England's got the worst tourists in the world. And then I was like, I was talking to Sydney and she was like, no, Americans are the worst tourists in the world. And then I, you know, I, one time I like met a French guy and he thinks they're the worst tourist in the world. As an Australian, do you think you are like the worst tourist in the world? - Oh, 100%.

- Australian tourists, holy shit. - To be fair, the more I see Australian tourists, I'm like, I actually think Australians might be the worst. - Australian tourists are the fucking worst. - Because they're like, they're so,

- What is it? - It's okay to be a tourist. - All right, let's racially profile. - It's okay to be a tourist as long as you're not Australian. - No, okay, it depends because it's like, it depends on the location with Australians, right? Because I think Australians in like say Tokyo or Osaka are for the most part pretty all right. But say Australian tourists at ski resorts,

- Fucking worst. - They're horrible. - You worked with them, right? - Yeah, like, you know, I worked with them and I can 100% say they're the worst. Because like, I think it's like,

I think a lot of Australian tourists, because for the most part, we're very, very multicultural country. So we're just living in Australia, unless you're living in like the butt fuck middle of nowhere, you're most likely gonna run into different cultures, right? Whether you like it or not. So I think for the most part, Australians who live in cities are naturally inclined to understand that there are cultural differences wherever you go, right? Not just language differences. But I don't know what,

- I don't know what it is about the atmosphere of a ski resort in Japan that just makes Australians go, "Yeah, fuck the culture. I'm here to rip the snow, dog." - Alcohol. - That's what it is. - A lot of alcohol. Hotels are kind of like a dorm

- It's like warm in a weird way. - Yeah. - Feels like, you know, you're kind of like college. - A lot of these like ski lodges, they do kind of like have more of like a Western feel of like, you know, just come in, it's casual, you know, hang out with the people in the lounge area. Oh, they're all Australians as well. You guys will get along fine. Go, you know, rip it in the snow, whatever. - Yeah, yeah. - But then they take that energy to the nearby village and the nearby cities. And it's just like,

- 'Cause I remember when I worked in Hakuba, I would frequently go into like Nagano and like Niigata to do some work. And you'll see those exact same like ski bro Australians in these cities. - They're in Niigata? - Yeah. - Oh wow. - Yeah, Niigata and Nagano 'cause the two main ski resorts are in Niigata and Nagano. And you'd go into the cities and you would see the ski bros there and they're just,

some of the most loudest, most obnoxious tourists I've ever met. I'm just like, bro, we're not in the ski lodges anymore. We're in a city with hundreds of terrified Japanese people. Calm down, keep it in the lodge. - Yeah, I mean, I guess I just noticed as well. Normally when I meet like British people in Japan, they come into Japan, most of them are like pretty chill. - All of them are pretty chill. - For some reason,

- Every time I see, especially English tourists, especially in like Southeast Asia, in Thailand, I saw- - It has a reputation. - Oh, I saw so many when I went to Vietnam and every time I heard the English accent, I'm like, I do not know this guy.

- I am Thai for the rest of this trip actually. - That poor taxi driver who thought English people were gentlemen. - Yeah, I mean, I think there's certain destinations that let's say more bang for your buck money wise that I think attract a certain type of British tourist. And probably other European tourists too, but mainly British ones. - Like what's like the main, like, I guess,

party country or party location for like British people. - It's like Ibiza or like Mallorca. A lot of like the Spanish Island, some of the Greek islands as well. - 'Cause in Australia that's Bali. And so when you go to Bali, I've personally never been to Bali before, but I've heard stories of just like the most obnoxious Australians in Bali, just like fucking trying to make it like their own home. - It's 'cause you can buy like extremely cheap transport

- Cheap accommodation and- - With like the party atmosphere. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Extremely cheap alcohol. - Yeah, yeah. - Countries like, I guess like Vietnam and Thailand that are pretty cheap to eat and drink and stay. - God, I saw so many people from Essex in Vietnam. There was this one girl who was clearly from Essex.

Like having an argument with like one of like the Vietnamese bartenders. - Fucking waiters. - Like over like the price of this beer or something, which the price of this beer was about $1. And she was like, "No, no, no. Like I got two for one, two for one." And she was like shouting at this waiter.

And then I was like signing up for like five minutes and the waiter just comes up to me and just goes, "I fucking hate English girls." And I was just like, "Hmm, kao chai, konpana." - I had that in Japan. I was in an Izakaya and this like group of like four young Australians like walk in.

and I could immediately hear from their accents, not from the city. - Yeah. - So they sit- - Boy, Jono. - Yeah. - It's like, oh, this place is kinda shit, eh? So they just like sit down, they're so fucking loud. Even though we're in an izakaya with lots of people, I can hear them, like clearly, like they're sitting next to me. And I remember this fucking, like the waiter comes over, you know, asks for whatever, they're ordering drinks and then they're ordering food. And this fucking girl just like goes,

- Oh, so the fried chicken is a free range. And I'm just sitting there like, bro, you're in a fucking kim no kura. Why are you expecting fine dining in a fucking dirt cheap izakaya? And I just started laughing. I'm like- - She's trying to be the waiter.

- To the waiter. - To the waiter. - Oh my God. - In like the most Aussie accent. Clearly this guy doesn't understand, right? He's just like, "Oh, I'm sorry." - I think if you even explained, you explained it in perfect Japanese, he'd be like, "The fuck you talking about?" - Yeah, he's like, "What does that mean?" - What are you fucking talking about free range? - And she was just like, and she just kept going on and on and on being like, "If it's not free range, I don't really wanna eat it."

And I'm like, dog, you should not be in Japan at that point. Just like, just don't even bother. Just go to a fancy restaurant. - I don't even know if this eel died peacefully or if it died by hands of a man. - Like you're one step away from being like, oh, so is this meal vegan? Or, you know, just fucking, oh my God. I'm like, okay, I get that you have like, you know, you might have like dietary issues or whatever. Like, you know, if you want to know like, oh, does this have peanuts? 'Cause I have a peanut allergy or something.

- You're in the cheapest izakaya in the middle of Tokyo. Do not expect free range chicken.

- Man's probably getting paid like $5 an hour to serve you. He's not getting paid enough to deal with that conversation. - And I felt so bad 'cause the guy had to go back and like get like, clearly like a staff who understood a little bit more English. And just like this argument, it seemed like it went on for ages. And it's just like, this manager's trying to tell him being like, "Okay, so not gonna lie, we don't know if it's free range chicken, but we can guarantee it's good

- It's tasty. - It's probably frozen. - It's 400 yen. I don't know what you're complaining about. And this girl just kept going on and on and on. I'm just like, dude, come on, man. Like why, why are you doing this? So yeah, Australian tourists are the loudest. - One thing I'll say about American tourists, the stereotype is that American tourists are the loudest tourists. And I don't know if that's necessarily true, but for some reason,

like every time I see an American tourist abroad, whatever country it's in, for some reason they always have the most recognizable voice in any establishment. Have you noticed this? I don't know why. - Actually, every American I've seen in Japan has been super polite. - Yeah. - No, they have, yeah. - Yeah, they have. - It's very easy to hear them out. - Yeah, yeah. For some reason you could be like the loudest bar you've ever been to and you'll just hear that one American accent that will pierce through everything being said. - This cocktail's fucking good.

- I feel like, I don't know if it's 'cause like we just consume so much American media that it's an instantly recognizable kind of accent. I think that's why. - Maybe. - We hear so much American accents that when we hear it in real life, we're like, oh, I can immediately hear that. I don't know, I can't put my hand on it. - Do you have that like level of, I don't know if you guys have it for like for British tourists, but like, do you have that like split moment where you hear that British accent and you're just like, my kinfolk.

- Oh no. - 'Cause I have that with Australian tourists as well. - Yeah, yeah, most definitely, most definitely. Except if it's in Southeast Asia, in which case it's probably I should avoid them. - They hate my mans. - They hate my mans, I'm Thai for the day. I only speak Thai. - You don't see a lot of British people in Japan though. It's kind of rare. - Yeah, you don't. - Small Americans, a lot of- - Which is why every Brit I've met here has been pretty cool so far, pretty chill. - You have to like Japan to wanna go here, I think, as a British tourist. - Yeah. - 'Cause it's,

literally the other side of the world. It's like a 20 hour flight. - That's true. - 14 hour flight, like it's long. - That's how I feel about Australians in Europe.

- Yeah, right. - They've committed. - Oh my damn. - All right, you must really like Europe. If you're gonna sit on a plane for 22 hours, all right. - The good thing about Europe is if you don't like one of the countries, you're like, "All right, I guess I'll take the 20 minute cab ride to the next one." - That's true. - Yeah, yeah. - Oh, you didn't like Liechtenstein? Well, lucky for you, you're a five minute walk away from anywhere else. - Just across the road. - Yeah, you're literally good to go, like wherever you wanna go.

- Oh my God. - But that was our tourist experience from our home countries. I'm curious about tourist experience from your own country. Do you have the worst tourists in the world? - Are your chickens free range? - Are your chickens free range? - If so, I've got it. - 'Cause I'm curious because like, yeah, talking to one of the,

one of my French mates, he said, "We have the worst tourists in the world." And I'm like, how can you say that when your neighbors to England? I thought we just hated each other. - It's the location, right? Depends on which country you're in. - True. - For the worst tourists, right? - That is true. - That is true. - Hopefully you also learned some tourism life hacks for Japan as well. Feel free to use them on your next visit. But hey, look at all these patrons. - Oh, look at all these people. - Hopefully they're not annoying tourists.

- I'm sure they are. - You guys are on Patreon. - They know everything about Japan. They're fucking 190 goddamn episodes deep in the show. - Yeah, exactly. Yeah, 'cause this is the best place to learn about it. - You already know way too much about Japan. - But hey, if you'd like to support the show, go to our Patreon, patreon.com/trashdays. Also follow us on Twitter, send us memes on the subreddit. And if you hate our face, listen to us on Spotify. And we'll see you all next week. - Bye.