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Ep. 204 Japanese TP Difficulties w/ Travis Ruhlen (Cheesy English Teacher) (Privychat 52) · Privycast

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And I'm like, hovering over water.
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I'm like, dude, this is wild.
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And they're like, sorry, man.
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And I'm like, it's fine.
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I probably should have prefaced this by I'll be sitting in the bathroom.
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They're like, yeah, my dad thinks it's weird that we're in here.
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And I'm like, yeah, it is.
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It is weird that we're in here.
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And he watched me follow the computer.
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Well, welcome back to privy privy is a podcast about bathrooms recorded from my home bathroom.
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I'm your host, Hunter Hoover.
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I love bathrooms and I am joined via the internet across this great globe of ours by my friend, former roommate and lover and teacher of English, Travis, Ruland Travis.
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How are you?
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I am doing good, man.
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Thanks for the intro.
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I was telling Hunter before this that I've got my Japanese style toilet.
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I'm chilling in my Panasonic toilet.
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Then it just says Panasonic, but this is it too.
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This is the thing.
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I'm in a small Japanese apartment.
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Like Hunter is in a bathroom and I'm in a bathroom, but this is all I have.
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Gosh
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It's tiny,
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There's no shower!
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It's disconnected from the shower.
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What?
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Crazy.
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And usually it's weird.
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Like when they, like I usually try to find apartments like when I've lived here without like the toilet and the shower in the same place because when they are, the toilet is like
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soaked after you're done showering.
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Like you can put up like a curtain or something, but it's just such a small space that it's
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steams up the whole bathroom like in like five minutes.
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it's like, yeah, cause there would be times where I'd be late for work and I would take a shower and then be like, Oh my gosh, I got to go to the bathroom.
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And just be like, sit on a wet, like I can wash it and like clean it as best I can.
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So I just, yeah, it's weird.
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the toilet.
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So what is that on the top?
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You had told me earlier that it's not a faucet.
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I thought it was like a hand washing faucet and then it like goes down into the tank.
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Yes, this is something where it's like I've seen people say it's a sink.
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I mean, what, you want to see it in action?
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I mean, kinda, if you like...
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Okay.
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Also yeah, Japan's super environmentally friendly.
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They all have the recycle or not, whatever.
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The eco-
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Yeah, the minimizer.
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I don't wanna mess myself Okay.
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You just soak your whole back.
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Oh my gosh.
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But I'm pretty sure you can wash your hands in it.
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Sure.
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But I just don't.
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I've never done it.
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It's like...
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Why?
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What do mean?
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It has to be that.
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I mean, my thing is like, if you would almost like turn around and like flush while you're like still got poop there or pee there.
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If that was the design.
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Interesting, dude.
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I thought for a second you were going to tell me it was like some weird bidet that you have to like perch like a bird on top.
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I haven't even showed you the command center, man.
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I got my whole command center.
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My gosh.
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And that's just the apartment?
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It's just the toilet in the apartment.
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And it- that came- did you didn't install that?
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That came standard, huh?
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Yeah, yeah, that's standard in this build and it's very common.
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Yeah.
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My gosh.
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Like-
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buildings like 20 or 15 years.
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I have a bidet and like it.
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Yeah, but it's nothing like what you just showed me.
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Mine is like, yeah.
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Mine's like a knob that triggers the water to flavor blast you.
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And then like the other knob is like, doesn't do that, but like cleans the thing.
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There's it's cold too.
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It's wild.
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yeah.
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You're high.
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Yeah, well, that's why like, it's just crazy that they're just it's like, yeah, in Japan, we just have them standard issue in our apartments.
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Yeah, this, I mean, that's not even this, I'll give you a little rundown as best as I can.
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I'm gonna try.
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My Japanese still not great.
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Can you see what I'm showing?
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Can you see it at all?
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Yeah, I'll, and we have, if we have audio listeners, I'll do my best to like explain it.
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Okay, right Right.
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So it's it's legit.
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There's Braille so you can read if you're blind and then you've got three buttons here You've bidet and shower.
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I've lived here for three years and I don't know the difference between bidet and shower
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Have you tested both of them?
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No.
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I should today.
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Because I've done both and they feel the same is what I-
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okay, that's what I mean.
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Yeah, yeah, okay.
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So they feel the same.
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I don't know, is one supposed to just be like more like of like a dribbly mist?
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But it just, they feel the same.
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And then there's a stop button of course to stop the water.
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Move on over here and this, these, are two small buttons that control the power of the water.
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You can do weak to strong, which me, I'm full blast, man.
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I'll just it on for three, four minutes.
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Yeah, it's accidental anima zone right there.
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Yeah, yeah, actually there's been times where I'm sitting and I'm like, I don't think I'm supposed to feel that Without going into too much detail But and there's awesome.
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This is the furthest that I make it So this is controls the heat so you can control the temperature of the water as well So my goodness, I always have it on the water for the
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bidets always on hot like the hottest it can be.
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Yeah, and then
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This controls the seat heater, so I have the seat heated as well.
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No way.
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Dude, does it get sweaty though?
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that would be my own- Yes.
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Summertime, summertime it does, but I always, I turn the Seagate off, especially now.
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Now it's getting, we're in like eighties.
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Yeah, but...
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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The rest is like, I don't, think you can control where the nozzle direction is, but it's too much.
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I just kind of adjust.
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Squat over it.
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When we got ours, we, put mine in it, like she got it for me as a surprise.
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And apparently like there was one moment where the kids were like, like making it fire up out of the bowl.
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I'm like, my gosh.
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It's just wet spot on the ceiling above the thing.
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Cause it's, yeah, it's wild.
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You mean they're playing with it without sitting on it, right?
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No, yeah, yeah, they just like walked up and were like, what does it do?
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And I'm
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That was me my first day in Japan.
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Because I like, is this?
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And I pressed it.
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get you the eye.
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Yeah.
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does like when you go out to eat or you go to like wherever you would go out, do they have those pretty standard all over?
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Yeah, I was gonna mention like you like a lot of the public restrooms have Like bidets installed and they have this is like basic I would say compared to what you could get is
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like you can also have like music playing Like it'll play music of like birds chirping and stuff for like your privacy to cover it up
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Yeah, or to calm you down so can relax.
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I thought it was to calm you or make a peaceful experience, but I think it's for the outside.
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So they can't hear what's happening.
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But if that's really the reason, it's like you hear like a bird like...
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It's like, this doesn't do anything.
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Somehow it's actually worse, like...
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Yeah, right.
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uh
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It's just like rain on a tin roof and then all of a sudden plop.
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Exactly.
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I'm, I kind of, I don't use it because then I'm like, now they know what I'm
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Yeah.
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Crazy man.
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do you, do they have toilet paper?
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I know that's a stupid question.
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I feel like it's a stupid question.
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Okay.
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Okay, sweet.
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I was trying to remember when you did the like move around, I like, I don't remember seeing it.
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Is he, is he, uh-uh.
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But yeah, there's toilet paper, I had not found as good toilet paper as the US.
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This probably goes back to that.
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Yes.
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It goes back to probably that trying to be more environmentally conscious.
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We're here.
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We're just like, America.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Well, that's the thing.
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It's like, I've never bled this much in my life with toilet paper.
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It doesn't matter.
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And I can't read.
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I mean, it's like, I still can't read Japanese.
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like, it's, you can always get out your phone and take pictures, but like sometimes you'll pull out your phone and you'll take a picture of it and it'll be like soft waterfall.
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I'm like, just say extra soft.
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Give me double ply or something.
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Yeah.
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So, like living there, is, is there, the stuff, do they have quite a bit of stuff in English?
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Like when you go out and go places or?
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yeah, not like actual like service wise though like they'll they they'll provide especially Tokyo they have a lot of like menus like and all you want English menu stuff
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but a lot of times the staff I don't say 90 % of the time they don't speak English and it's like very broken which I'm in Japan so like I'm in their house but
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So I've learned enough Japanese to be able to get by in those, but I'm still getting to the point where I can like talk to my girlfriend's family.
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Yeah, are they like, are they like all the way Japanese?
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I don't know how to say that without sounding like, you know, problematic.
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but dad's a samurai.
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Her mom's a geisha.
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the heck is that real?
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Dude, dude, I was like, there's no shot.
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I like just chopping stuck.
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my gosh.
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How many.
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Her dad's awesome.
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How many times have you pulled that one?
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Oh, even worse stuff.
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Any chance I get, I try to get my girlfriend to be in on it.
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So like, I told my parents when they first met my girlfriend's family, because they came and visited Japan.
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I said, yeah, you have to, or I told my girlfriend to tell her, you have to bow when you meet her family.
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And my mom didn't know what to do.
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And she was like, is it like, like now?
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Do we bow now?
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But it's not.
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I can just see your mom in it.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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So they're chill.
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Her parents are chill.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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How long have y'all been dating?
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It's gonna be four years in August.
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oh That's awesome.
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It's insane.
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I don't know.
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Damn.
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I feel it's weird that it's four years though.
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Because we need long distance for like two and a half years.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's tough
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Yeah, that was brutal.
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But I don't know, it just was like, there's never a point though where I was like, we gotta break.
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It was always just like, everything I was doing was to like, get here.
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Yeah, that's super cool.
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That's awesome.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Does she know that you're doing a bathroom podcast?
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She, told her I'm doing a podcast with my friend.
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My friend's podcast.
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I didn't explain it though.
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I'll tell her though.
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She's like, can't wait to listen to it.
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And it's just poop jokes and the bidet tour.
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Well, she'll actually find it interesting though, because she'll be like, yeah, it's normal.
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Like having like the days and stuff like that.
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The toilets in her house are legit.
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She's a Bluetooth control for her toilet.
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dude, so-
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Is it like a smart like smart toilet quote unquote is it like a full integrated or no
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No, no, it's just like, there's nothing connected to the, like there's a Bluetooth section connected to the toilet, so like I can just grab a remote and just beep beep beep.
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So sometimes I'll take the remote out of her bathroom and just.
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What the heck?
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Dude, man, I just immediately go to the most nefarious parts of my brain with that thing.
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Like what sort of nonsense could I get up to?
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You do it before they sit down, that's what you do.
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While they're getting ready.
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Yeah, or right after they've finished and they've like, they've just pulled up pants, got ready, just like, no.
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my god, I have not done that but that would be amazing.
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Yeah, the next time you go over, she's going to have heard this and then you're going to feel it just.
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Well, she'll get me back for sure.
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She's the one who cooks for me so that sh** will take away my favorite things.
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There was one time, what was it?
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We were doing something.
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I think we got in a little fight or something.
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And she was like, you know what?
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Then I won't come over and I won't come.
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And I was like, what?
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It was like such a good power play.
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Yeah, you're just like, wait, no, that's not going to work.
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I take it all back.
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Yeah, that's crazy.
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is that just like a, sorry, is that just like a cupboard above you?
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Yeah
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Nice.
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Okay.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, related to toilets, sorry.
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You just open it and it's like some strange talisman hanging out in there.
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It's like, what in the world?
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Yeah.
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Just casually open it.
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It's like, that's awesome.
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don't worry.
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Yeah.
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What was I going to tell you?
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This is not toilet related, but this is something I still literally, I think about almost every day that I use.
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Every time I use public showers, I think of what you told me in university.
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What do you think?
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What do you think it is you told me about?
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It a piece of advice you told me.
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yeah, I do this every day, man.
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Every time I get in the showers, I do this.
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I just pee on my feet.
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it
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I still do.
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Dude, literally, I mean, I can't, what?
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I'm like, I'm not getting an athlete's foot.
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That was the reason that you said, and I was like, yeah, I never had an athlete's foot.
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Yeah.
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And I'll be honest, I don't know if it's legit.
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I truly, now that I'm grown, I don't know if that's real, but I still like, so I showered our church five days of the week and I've told our janitor, like our custodian, I'm like,
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just so you know, like I just pee in the shower.
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Cause like we're already there.
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He's like, you're kidding me.
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I say, Michael, it's fine.
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It just all rinses down.
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It's all good.
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And he goes, what are you doing that for?
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was like, Michael, I pee on my feet.
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It's just, I don't know.
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I've always done it, probably since middle school.
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don't understand why it would bother him to pee in the shower in general though.
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Yeah.
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mean, yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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What am I supposed to do in here?
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Um, we'll get into other shower.
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Yeah.
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Um, you so just trying to like, imagine your girlfriend's going to hear this and go, wait a minute.
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I was just thinking that too.
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Yeah, I was trying to be like tactful with how to explain it.
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Use big words.
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You're just like...
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too good though.
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You're just like, listen, you just send her just a picture of just my bearded nonsense.
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It's like he's not, he's from in the middle of nowhere in Montana.
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You've got to give him a minute.
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Just let it.
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She'll love it.
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No, knowing her, she'll love it, oh
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Dude, I have had like, so I've had people on the show and they're on here.
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And there was funny, cause this one guy came on the show when he and he was just he and they were boyfriend, girlfriend.
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And he told me this story about his, his girlfriend.
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like, essentially in the story, he just lies to her.
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And he's like, actually, and it wasn't like a harmful lie, but like he had to go to the bathroom.
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He lied about what he had to be doing.
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Cause he didn't want her to know what he was doing.
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I'm young.
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And he's like, actually, I need you to cut that.
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And then a few months later, I had her on the show and she like starts telling this story.
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And she goes, yeah, one time when we were dating, cause they were engaged, it was like, I know he went to the bathroom, but he would just still to this day won't even tell me.
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And I just like get really quiet and I'm like, No.
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Yeah.
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yeah.
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She already knew.
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And he found out that she knew via listening and it was like, boy, they're married now.
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They've got kids.
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know, it's life goes on, but it's just one of those where I've had.
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Yeah.
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And there's another guy like totally like ruined his mother-in-law's bathroom, flooded it.
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Poo everywhere.
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And he's like, Hey, by the way, I need you to like cut my name out of the whole thing.
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Otherwise can't.
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won't be able to go to Thanksgiving.
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Yeah.
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And I was like, okay, I'll do my best guy, but like.
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uh That's wild.
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Yeah, it doesn't bother me.
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It's normal.
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It's like
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Yeah.
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you remember the days Ruman when, you know, Doc's him and he can come on here and defend himself.
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Do remember when Chad would just make the giant lake of water on the kitchen?
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Yeah.
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Yeah.
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Yeah, wait, wait, hold on, hold on.
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Which way?
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He's just like washing his face.
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Yes!
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In the sink area, Yes.
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Yeah, I am.
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Yeah, he and I, you know, I think he and I prepared each other for marriage in a strange Bert and Ernie sort of way.
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Yeah, that sounds more nefarious than it needs to, but like, you know, we were just like, I can't believe it.
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Chad, my shirt's wet.
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And it's like, yeah, this isn't even a problem.
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But for whatever reason, we found our ways to get.
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Yeah, we all, even when we all live together in the townhouse, we're so freaking different.
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dark ages.
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Those are the days, baby.
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It was, it was fun, but like it also occupies this part of my brain that was like, my gosh.
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exactly.
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It's like, it was, it was a blur, you know, we had, and then the move back up the hill is crazy.
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I.
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Yeah.
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was like, it's like a movie.
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We were able to get back into the dorms.
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And then we, I think we switched to a cell phone.
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We swapped and then we got a corner room.
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Yeah, we got a corner room, they had, it was like a three man room with four people's worth of furniture.
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there was like negative room in there.
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It was like, well, yeah.
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then, and then he like had his vitamin D thing and would sleep forever.
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And I was like, bro, I think you're dying.
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Like, I think you need to go to the doctor.
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Yeah.
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remember he, we don't think about the fact that he changed Jurassic.
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He changed so much throughout school.
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Cause he came in and he had really bad acne.
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And then he went on, maybe this is just after he had finished.
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Cause he was telling us about Accutane.
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And that was the first time I ever heard about Accutane.
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he's like,
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I think he started that like our junior year because he was rooming with Brett, I think, when he started on that.
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Yeah, dude, he turned into like Swollinger over here.
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It was crazy.
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I think he's still kind of jacked actually.
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Definitely.
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mean, at least the last I talked to him, I think I saw him a couple years ago, not talked to him.
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Cause he still lived like an hour and a half from where I live.
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And he does this Halloween thing in his town.
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it was so, the quality was so good that he started getting recognition from the city and for actually from outside, like from like further and further away.
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Yeah.
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He's sick and he built everything himself from just like old wood that people gave him.
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Well, and I remember he started doing stuff like that.
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Like he built that skate ramp thing in the back of that yard in Salem or whatever with Brian.
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He was Brian.
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I don't remember.
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Yeah.
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It's wild.
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But, I know he's cool.
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They're still living out there.
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They live close to his parents, think.
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And they're not penny.
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Your dog Penny, okay.
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Huh, see you know more than I do.
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I'll hit him up and then what I'll do is I'll tactfully uh plan ahead, you know.
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Just say, yeah, Travis talked on the podcast.
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Oh, it can get him.
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Yeah.
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had Sam Baggins toss on like three or four years ago.
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cool.
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Right.
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Love Sam.
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I still talk to Sam too.
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We talk every, don't know, four to six months I would say.
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We send each other texts.
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Dude, I should text you more.
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Yeah, man.
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That's that's.
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That is the-
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I was going to say this is side side though, total side.
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But because of you in the townhouse, you would always watch Suits or White Collar.
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I think it was either White Collar or Suits.
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I think it was Suits.
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You would always say, dude, this show is so good.
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And when I left school, I would be like, this is a show my roommate would always talk about and I never watched it.
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Freaking love Suits.
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Yeah, yeah, yeah Dude it's been forever since I've seen it.
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I'll have to go back.
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I am Yeah Cool My
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The TV, my TV watching now is, you know, it's a lot of bluey and whatever strange thing my children will find on YouTube or whatever, it's like, okay, I guess I'll watch this sister
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and her brothers play make believe monopoly against an evil monopoly man for the next 25 minutes.
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I'm here.
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So random.
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They're not into the brain rot stuff though.
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Are they into the whole brain rot?
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uh
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I mean, they're in it in so far as like they go to public school and so they like it's kind of like it's kind of like I Don't know how to put it, but everybody there doing it
24:39
Yeah, they're not into it in the sense of like they just run around like it's there We don't we're like no you you've got to like chill out We're not doing that.
24:49
We want you to be able to talk to adults and them not want to like make you not be in the room
24:54
Right.
24:55
But yeah, mean, like I'll bring up skibbity toilet more now and they just roll their eyes like, come on, dad, it's not cool anymore.
25:04
And I'm like, well, it better be cool.
25:07
Yeah, dude, I killed six, seven at the high school.
25:09
Like I murdered that thing.
25:11
I hung it up to dry to the point where now I do it and the kids are just like, stop.
25:16
You're, so embarrassing.
25:17
And I'm like, I'm do it harder and longer and more aggressively.
25:21
I did with my kid students.
25:25
Cause he would be like, I would say six seven, he'd be like six seven.
25:28
And then I start, as students, said it once, I did it the whole class.
25:33
And he was like, stop saying it.
25:36
It doesn't work like that.
25:37
And I said, I'm sorry, six seven.
25:40
He's like, it's not like that.
25:43
Yeah, I would.
25:44
they, they at the high school, they, for whatever reason, against their own, I guess, you know, better judgment, they put me in charge of teaching special education kids, special
25:55
education, money math, which is makes sense since I'm awful at all of those parts of that.
26:01
But I would just build.
26:04
Yeah.
26:04
I have a pulse and went to school at one point.
26:07
But I would build like, take the math problems that they'd give me in the curriculum and I would go in and tweak it so that way the answers would have like 67 cents.
26:15
Oh, they were losing it by it.
26:18
They're like, what?
26:19
Stop, you did this.
26:21
And I was like, that's the curriculum guys.
26:23
It's weird, right?
26:24
Yeah, they hate it now.
26:25
ah
26:33
so great.
26:35
Yeah, it's so good to see.
26:38
Yeah.
26:39
What?
26:40
Yeah, I do have some questions.
26:42
And what I always tell people, part of it is I want to be respectful of your time because it's your Saturday there.
26:47
um
26:49
Thank you.
26:50
You're the most on top of it out of any friends I've talked to.
26:55
You're the only, probably the only one out of all my friends now or from the past.
27:01
Nobody ever says, what time is it there?
27:05
They all don't respond to my texts being like, ah like, yeah, I can do 7 p.m.
27:12
I don't know what time that is, Japan time.
27:14
and I'll be like.
27:17
Okay, I'll tell you.
27:18
I respect you.
27:21
Yeah, and I always feel bad asking because I'm also like, I can Google it.
27:24
And in the moment, dude, and you know what the worst part is?
27:27
So I do some online ministry stuff with, and a lot of our team is in Arizona here in the States.
27:33
And now I just ask everybody what time it is there because half the year Arizona is the same time as me here in Oregon.
27:40
And the other half, they're mountain time because Arizona has their own time zone.
27:46
They're like Australia.
27:53
They don't do daylight savings.
27:55
When you look at it, it's listed as Arizona Standard Time.
27:58
It's like, is, so half the year they're the same.
28:04
Half the year the same, half the year they're like, and so now I just ask because we have tried to do board meetings and it's like, where is, where is he?
28:14
He's the one that set this up and he goes, Hey guys, I'm hopping on at about 45, just letting you know.
28:19
we're like, Oh crap.
28:20
That time of year.
28:21
Yeah.
28:26
Yeah.
28:27
So you, kind of already mentioned it a little bit in, kind of passing, but this is going to be kind of a twofold question.
28:34
Hi, you'll get it here in a moment.
28:35
Um, and that like, what sort of toilet paper do you prefer?
28:40
Cause you've already said that it's, it's maybe lacking a little luster where you're at there in Japan, but what, what type do you prefer?
28:48
Yeah, it's funny.
28:49
I was listening to the podcast with you and Silas.
28:53
I think it's your most recent one.
28:56
And I did not know the term.
29:00
Basically all the toilet paper here is too thin for me.
29:05
But I did not know the term for going through the whole, the toilet paper is called hole punching.
29:14
It's such a good vocab for my students.
29:18
Yeah, it, I've also heard it like puddin popping, like, but, you know.
29:23
my god.
29:24
Yeah, that's great.
29:26
So, but that's it.
29:28
Like I saw like a meme or something the other day.
29:30
It's like, love the toilet paper in Japan because it turns red when you're done wiping.
29:39
And I was like, yeah, that's kind of true.
29:44
Yeah.
29:44
And two, this is, I don't have to give too much information, it, my fan, based on my fan, I'm good health wise.
29:51
Um, but my family, have to get colonoscopies early.
29:56
We don't have to do it at four.
29:57
We don't wait till 40.
29:58
We have to get it like early because of our family history.
30:01
So I got one recently and literally the only thing the doctor was concerned about was.
30:09
He's like, you know, I'm seeing a ton of irritation around here.
30:13
And I'm like, it's the freaking toilet paper.
30:17
It's like, there's nothing I can, if I don't use it the day like once it's game over.
30:24
It's a, it's a fountain of blood.
30:26
So yeah.
30:27
So I have not found it yet.
30:29
I'm so I'm sensitive.
30:30
I'm a sensitive guy.
30:32
Do you think, um, do you think, I don't know, like, I assume their infrastructure is fine.
30:38
mean, do you think their stuff could handle like dude wipes?
30:43
think so.
30:44
Yeah, well, those are like thicker, right?
30:46
So harder.
30:47
I mean, they're like, they're, yeah.
30:49
mean, if you just use one per flush, which again, we're going back to the troubles of using too much, whatever, but it's like an adult baby wipe.
30:58
mean.
30:59
Yeah.
31:04
I was just gonna say that they've like branded for men to like trick you.
31:10
No, well, I legitimately, there's been points in time where I'm like, I'll look at the toilet paper.
31:15
I'm like, I can't.
31:17
And I'm thinking, I'll think of just like waddling my way to my dog.
31:21
Cause I have a dog too.
31:22
I have a little wiener dog now.
31:24
And so he's got his little wipes for being a puppy.
31:29
You've like cleaning wipes or something.
31:31
And I was like, I'm just, I'm doing those today.
31:35
It's so much pain.
31:37
I can't.
31:39
my gosh, dude.
31:41
they, you will maybe.
31:42
We'll have to figure out how to get you like an American toilet paper care package or something.
31:48
Yeah, I'm bad at that stuff though because this is what happens to me is like when I try to search for it, I can't find it.
31:57
Like I just like...
32:00
not.
32:02
So, but then I'll tell my girlfriend she's like, oh we have that so great and she'll find it and like...
32:08
Yeah.
32:10
And I'm like, I don't know if it's just cause I'm searching everything in English or whatever it is.
32:15
I'm just so, I such bad luck.
32:17
Huh.
32:18
Yeah.
32:19
Interesting.
32:20
So do you, do you prefer like Charmin?
32:24
my God, loved it.
32:26
Like, and I, you're sure, Costco, man?
32:32
I've just gone to Costco.
32:34
Costco needs to like kind of half start paying me or like give me a free, I'm really just shilling for free membership.
32:41
I just wear this to the high school and ironically now, and they're like, dude, did you ever work at Costco?
32:47
like, I mean, are they hiring?
32:49
Cause I would kill that.
32:53
Yeah.
32:53
Dude, how close does a Costco to you?
32:56
In all of it.
32:57
Three minute drive.
32:58
can have a Costco hot dog in my hand like in five minutes.
33:03
yeah.
33:04
Dude, in the summer, in the summer when I don't have to work at the high school, it's a dangerous game.
33:10
Like I went a three hot dog day one time.
33:13
Like.
33:15
That's it.
33:16
Yeah.
33:18
I had to stop.
33:19
My doctor was like...
33:22
My doctor though was like...
33:24
Well first of all, had gout.
33:26
I got gout twice in the last two...
33:29
two months.
33:30
was the worst...
33:32
Worst thing I've ever experienced.
33:34
I couldn't walk for a month.
33:36
It was so bad.
33:37
It was in my ankles.
33:41
I know.
33:42
Everything I've seen is like usually your big toe.
33:45
But me...
33:45
It would happen in my elbows.
33:47
Like I would try to put my elbow down and I'd be like, ow.
33:50
And I like couldn't put it down.
33:52
And then my ankles, it got so, it was such a strong attack.
33:56
I couldn't even bend.
33:58
It was like my ankles like this for two weeks.
34:01
And then it almost like, almost like it atrophied.
34:04
So like I couldn't move and I had to like force and wake it back up.
34:08
But anyways, 32.
34:12
Yeah.
34:13
Yeah.
34:13
Tart cherry juice.
34:15
you, if you, so I've had, yeah, I've had some gout.
34:19
You can even buy tart cherry pills.
34:22
I had, I had gout so bad, like even just a couple of years out of Corbin and I, I, oh dude, I, was brutal.
34:31
And I finally just, called my mom like, well, I don't even know.
34:35
Like, I think I'm dying.
34:35
I can't, I like, I don't know what to do.
34:37
She's like, go to the doctor.
34:38
They're like, it's gout.
34:39
And my uncle.
34:41
He has diabetes and so he gets all sorts of type gout and my aunt's like, drink tart cherry juice.
34:46
Drink like two glasses a day until it clears up.
34:49
then, and I don't know if it's placebo or what, dude, but it's like tart cherry juice and a ton of water and it cleared it up.
34:58
Like.
34:59
That's nuts.
35:00
Yeah, I mean, I drink like a full gallon a day now of water.
35:07
Yeah, pee all the time.
35:10
Yeah.
35:13
Yeah, that's crazy.
35:14
I'm sorry, man.
35:15
I wouldn't wish it on anybody.
35:17
No, yeah, it's terrible.
35:18
And I that's why when you said that I was like, yeah, it's it's brutal.
35:21
And I had the I had the toe joint.
35:24
So I but actually, I ankles might be worse than the toe joint because
35:29
We can't walk anyways.
35:31
We can't walk, right?
35:32
Dude, pain is brutal though.
35:35
it It's not for anyone
35:41
I thought it was, I'm like, I'm an athlete.
35:43
So it's just probably a sports thing.
35:45
I just did like a athletic that I messed it up with.
35:48
And so I wasn't going to the doctor and then uh my girlfriend was having to like carry me to like get out in and out of my apartment.
35:59
She's like, go to the doctor.
36:01
This is not a normal injury.
36:04
And I was like, all right.
36:07
Yeah, it's crazy.
36:08
Yeah.
36:10
Well, I'm hopefully it's on the mend and clearing up because.
36:13
It is, it is.
36:14
I'm good.
36:15
Like literally it was a huge wake up call too.
36:17
Cause I was like, dude, was at Costco hot dogs.
36:22
If I was even near Costco, man, I'd be daily.
36:25
I'm lucky it's an hour away from me.
36:28
It was, do you have a Costco in Japan?
36:30
Sorry, that I'm ignorant.
36:32
my membership.
36:35
Bro, okay, is Japanese Costco different in any way that you remember?
36:40
It's literally set up exactly the same, but the food offerings are different.
36:47
So they have the hot dog, but it's pork and not beef.
36:53
it's good.
36:54
I think I like it even more than the other one.
36:57
Man.
36:58
Yeah.
36:59
And also, okay.
37:01
After COVID all in California, all the Costco's, I don't know if it's back yet, but they took away the onions, right?
37:09
Yep.
37:10
They didn't get they still got you.
37:12
Yep
37:13
Really?
37:13
So they took away the whole station?
37:15
Not in Japan, baby.
37:17
What?
37:18
No way.
37:21
Yeah, here you can ask and they'll give you like one of those little plastic cups with the plastic lid for onions Yeah, yeah, it's I'm not an onions guy, but it's not it's not the
37:32
same.
37:32
I can just tell like
37:33
Yeah, or just the station at least to like put stuff on it like to like dress it up.
37:39
Anyway, I realized are you sitting on a toilet with the toilet seat down?
37:44
yeah, or yes.
37:48
What?
37:50
Yes.
37:51
Dude, I've, I've recorded it places with people and it doesn't have a seat.
37:56
And I'm like, hovering over water.
37:59
I'm like, dude, this is wild.
38:01
And they're like, sorry, man.
38:03
And I'm like, it's fine.
38:04
I probably should have prefaced this by I'll be sitting in the bathroom.
38:06
They're like, yeah, my dad thinks it's weird that we're in here.
38:09
And I'm like, yeah, it is.
38:10
It is weird that we're in here.
38:13
And he watched me follow the computer.
38:16
Yeah, Silas had a good take on it.
38:19
He was like, this doesn't make any sense.
38:22
There's no reason for this.
38:24
Yeah, he, my son is like my greatest roast critic and I wouldn't trade it dude.
38:32
It's, he's so funny.
38:33
He's wild.
38:34
My daughter is itching to get on and I'm like, you got to load up some school bathroom stories, you know, you got to have a couple ready.
38:44
Yeah, you're...
38:45
I'm sure.
38:47
I'm sure.
38:48
I mean, especially the kids, too.
38:51
The kids probably see some wild stuff in there.
38:55
It's honestly, American public school bathrooms are a hellscape.
39:00
Oh yeah.
39:03
I remember I went to the, I was in middle school and I went to the bathroom and I was like peeing in the urinal and a kid just walked up and he was, he just pulled his pants all the
39:14
way down.
39:16
He's fully like half his body just naked butt hanging out.
39:21
And I turned and looked at him while I was peeing and I was like, what?
39:25
And he looked at me like, what?
39:27
And I didn't have a response.
39:30
Yeah.
39:31
Yeah, you're the weirdo for not doing it.
39:34
You know what I'm saying?
39:35
Like, I was like, what were we thinking?
39:38
It was crazy and also I would never wanna pull, cause you have to pull, if you pull your pants down then they're on the ground.
39:44
And then to bend over.
39:46
Yeah, then you have to bend over and your face is right near the urinal.
39:51
This is my problem, dude.
39:53
Okay, I'm gonna go off in a minute.
39:56
So back on the toilet paper, do you fold it over or under?
40:01
Oh, am I a folder?
40:04
Let me see.
40:06
Like do I-
40:08
Yeah, like when it's hanging on the roll
40:11
When I, oh, when it's hanging on the roll, I put it forward facing.
40:17
Okay.
40:18
Yeah.
40:20
it's got like a shield on it.
40:22
yes.
40:23
You know what it is, buddy.
40:26
Huh?
40:26
Yeah, forward.
40:27
I used to be backwards.
40:30
Yeah, what made you swap it up?
40:33
I just saw a video, cause like a guy showed me like when it was backwards, he's like, when it's backwards, it's harder to like tear.
40:45
He like showed me like all he used to do is just pull it this way from front facing and I was like, all right, I'll try it.
40:54
And sure enough, but either way I still always do the hard yank and.
40:59
yeah.
41:00
Yep.
41:01
Yep.
41:01
Every time.
41:02
Never works.
41:04
Yep.
41:05
Yeah.
41:07
Are you, are you, do you use bar soap or liquid soap primarily in your.
41:14
For liquid soap.
41:15
Bar, for sure.
41:18
When I go to the gym though, I do liquid soap but it just doesn't, I don't feel like I'm getting it all.
41:26
And actually I'm more lazy with liquid soap.
41:30
Because liquid soap I kind of just like do like this but when I like have the bar soap, I like do full, like get it on my hands and then I like actually like clean myself.
41:42
Yeah.
41:43
So, But do you, do you have a, is it just like, I don't know.
41:48
It's so weird.
41:48
Cause usually like all of my followup questions are usually like what brand, but I don't, I don't even know what Japan has to offer.
41:55
Do they?
41:58
If we were talking America, I would tell you dove.
42:00
I would always get dove.
42:02
No matter what.
42:03
But in Japan, I go to the convenience store and they have like a dollar bars of soap and that's good for me.
42:10
Yo, it's-
42:11
Yeah, the convenience store is crazy here, man.
42:14
I think you would like it.
42:17
They have everything.
42:19
uh I would love to go to Japan, not just for things like that, but I love Pokemon.
42:27
I've always loved it.
42:29
from what I understand is it's just off the chains there.
42:33
Yeah.
42:34
The Poke Center is a really cool...
42:36
Even some of like the...
42:37
See what?
42:39
That sentence is like, don't even know if we, I think we have a Pogi center in maybe Southern California and maybe New York here.
42:46
And it's like, it's a bit out of reach.
42:50
Yeah, it's kinda, that's the weird thing about Japan is like everything is in within reach it feels.
42:57
Like also, what else?
42:59
They just made a Pokemon land here.
43:01
I haven't seen that one yet.
43:03
Yeah.
43:04
Yeah.
43:05
I was, I was reading about it and there was all sorts of weird controversy cause they're like, listen, if you can't climb a hundred and something stairs, you should not come.
43:14
I'm like,
43:17
You would never get away with that in America.
43:19
They'd be like, you, you.
43:20
But Japan, I actually respect it, you
43:24
I love you.
43:27
Yeah, it's just like, need to be able to walk.
43:31
But their whole position is like, comes from like, they will do whatever they can to provide the best possible service.
43:39
So like, what looks to us is like, they're just, they're fat, full of egg, whatever.
43:45
Which honestly, if you can't go up a hundred steps, like you got bigger problems.
43:50
like, they think about it like, we don't want people to come and then have a bad experience.
43:58
That's the mindset that it was come from.
44:00
But it always comes off when I still struggle with this living here.
44:05
Is I'm like, you're being too kind.
44:07
You're being too like too...
44:10
Like you're creating a rule that doesn't exist yet because of what someone might think.
44:15
Wow.
44:17
That's a tough way.
44:18
That's good on him.
44:20
I would struggle with...
44:24
I would just...
44:25
you're super independent.
44:27
Like you would be like,
44:32
something that would make you insane here.
44:35
I think like just like See there's so much stuff with me with my old jobs that I've had that I There's just certain things from like why don't they just?
44:49
Do it this way.
44:51
What is it?
44:52
This is kind of dumb.
44:53
This is maybe for me So like any their shops like where I go to in the states where I'm like, my gosh, I love this mug
45:01
in your coffee shop.
45:03
Like, can I buy these mugs?
45:05
And then the waitress will be like, I don't think they're for sale.
45:09
Let me ask my manager.
45:11
And then I'll talk to the manager and the manager would be like, yeah, you can buy that mug.
45:14
Sure.
45:14
I'll figure out a way.
45:15
And then they, cause they can make money.
45:17
They'll just try.
45:19
But I tried that in Japan and I talked to the worker and she said, we can't.
45:26
I don't think so.
45:27
I said, can I ask your manager?
45:29
And the man's like, it's impossible.
45:31
And I said, well, there's hundreds of mugs here.
45:35
Do you sell them online or anything?
45:37
And they said, it's impossible.
45:39
We can't do it.
45:40
And I was like, please, I'll give you money.
45:44
Look.
45:46
So that was one thing where I'm just like.
45:48
Yeah, yeah, that would.
45:51
What if you just give it to me?
45:52
No.
45:54
I thought it made me just like, oh what?
45:56
I didn't realize I put 10 of them in my backpack.
46:01
What the?
46:02
Just rattling around as you go out of the
46:05
No, but see then that's my side.
46:07
Like I just can't, I'll never push over that far.
46:10
I'll always respect what they have.
46:13
Yeah.
46:13
Ooh.
46:14
Okay, one other one.
46:15
So I'm like...
46:16
No, you're good.
46:17
No, you're fine
46:19
there will be a crosswalk.
46:22
literally happened because I go to the gym.
46:24
There's a crosswalk that I can run and jump across the street.
46:29
Like that's how short the smallest street is.
46:31
oh first of all, Japanese streets, small.
46:35
But then second of all, it'll be red and there will be like two huge groups of people just waiting and there's no cars walking or driving by.
46:45
And in my mind, I'm like,
46:48
What is everyone doing?
46:49
What are they waiting for?
46:51
And then I just, yeah, me, then I'll just go.
46:56
You
46:58
Nailed it.
46:59
I was going to say, I struggled to imagine, like, I'm trying to imagine like a Japanese crowd reacting like a New York crowd.
47:09
Yeah, the American crown is crazy.
47:13
my girlfriend got to experience that too.
47:14
Yeah.
47:17
Yeah.
47:17
We tried to take a selfie with Otani in the background because Otani is a famous baseball player, know?
47:24
Yeah.
47:24
So he, uh, he's in the background, the angels when he was playing there and we're all taking a picture and the people in the crowd are like, all right, we get it.
47:35
He's great.
47:36
Who cares?
47:36
Just go.
47:37
They're yelling at us.
47:39
And I was like, don't worry, don't listen to And my girlfriend and her friends, they flew from Japan.
47:45
Yeah.
47:46
Yeah.
47:47
Yeah.
47:47
People are dumb, dude.
47:49
It's just like chill out.
47:52
I think everyone, since COVID, Everyone's counting on us a little more on edge.
47:58
Yeah, yeah.
48:01
Travis, how do you feel about baths?
48:05
love baths now.
48:06
I used to like not like them, but the being in Japan taught me how to take a bath.
48:14
Okay, well...
48:17
Because what do we normally do?
48:18
We normally fill a tub with hot water and maybe put some bath salts in it and then you get in, right?
48:26
Okay, do they do it?
48:28
Right then they have their like and the crazy part is like they do it every day Like they take a bath Which I mean, it's like I take a bath and I'm like treating myself So but Like
48:45
every in a pretty much every Japanese home my home, too You have like a place where you can shower You'll shower and fully wash yourself off and then you take a bath
48:59
That makes sense.
49:01
Yeah, right.
49:02
It's just like stuff where I would be like, no, I don't like taking a bath because I don't like being in my own like filth.
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My own filth is just floating around.
49:12
Human soup.
49:13
uh So, but most like, at least the bathrooms I grew up with, like half of the ones in my house were like shower inside of the bath.
49:25
And the bath was also really shallow too.
49:28
where in Japan they're super deep.
49:31
Huh.
49:32
But yeah, after that, now I like it, but I still like just practically my, I don't do it.
49:39
I just, I'm like, I don't have time to sit and I'm just getting bored.
49:42
Like what am I gonna do?
49:45
So I like a good bath, but only like every three, four months.
49:50
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go.
49:54
I was gonna ask you this earlier, but I wanted to wait.
49:57
So if you remember at Corbin, there was this thing that caught on for a while where everybody was taking dark showers.
50:03
Do you remember this?
50:05
Matt Gibson, think is the one who began the dark shower.
50:13
Yeah, do you ever take a dark shower?
50:17
No, I haven't.
50:19
I've turned the lights off in the shower, my girlfriend's over.
50:22
But that's just to mess with her.
50:25
But that's it.
50:26
I've never really thought of it.
50:29
Yeah.
50:29
Yeah.
50:29
What would be the benefit?
50:31
I know cold shower.
50:32
Yeah, you do a cold shower?
50:35
That's brave.
50:35
I know there's a lot of health Yeah, sometimes.
50:38
Yeah.
50:38
Sometimes it's like if I've watched like a bunch of like motivational videos and I'm like, yeah, I'm a typical shower wake up But now I just take cold water and wash my face and I'm
50:48
like, yeah, it's
50:50
Yeah, yeah.
50:51
No, for me, like the dark shower, I take a dark shower almost every day.
50:56
It's just like a sensory, I don't know.
50:59
It's like, I'm not getting bombarded with light immediately.
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And it's like, it helps me wake up, especially because I shower in the morning.
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S.A.D.
51:08
Yeah, I don't know.
51:08
Yeah.
51:09
Yeah, interesting.
51:12
Dark shower.
51:13
I'm going to try it.
51:14
I'll try it tomorrow.
51:14
I mean, usually when I wake up, it's dark, I could try.
51:19
you're getting going at it to start your day at six.
51:22
imagine so.
51:26
Yeah.
51:26
That's the good thing about being online though.
51:28
I can just like, roll out of bed and then clean up and it takes 10 minutes.
51:33
Yeah.
51:33
Have you ever eaten an orange in the shower as if it was an apple?
51:37
What is this?
51:39
No, I could.
51:40
I just got some oranges.
51:42
You peel it?
51:43
it past the rind.
51:44
You peel it, you peel it, but then you have the globe.
51:48
And when you're in the shower, there's not this like, oh man, I gotta be really careful about all this orange juice.
51:53
you just, I there's something primal.
51:56
It's something else.
51:57
Watermelon in the shower is also an experience, but.
52:01
Yeah, that sounds cool.
52:03
don't do that.
52:04
I do do that with drinks though.
52:07
So like if I had like a Gatorade or something, I would do like a Gatorade and just like, I would just like, I when I was a kid I used to do that.
52:18
Yeah, when I was in middle school is when I would do all that stuff.
52:22
I would like pour and then just like let it go over my face.
52:28
And then when I did that, was like, they're just like middle school.
52:32
had a lot of those moments because I would be like, I'm like, dang, like I could do anything.
52:37
My parents are gone.
52:39
And I was eating cereal at my table.
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Yeah.
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table.
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And I just went, I don't have to use a spoon.
52:46
And I just went.
52:48
to shove my face into the cereal.
52:51
And then I was like, wait a minute, now I milk all over my face.
52:54
But yes, back to your question.
52:57
I see the merit.
52:59
Yeah.
52:59
Do you ever do a shower drink now?
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No, but the equivalent that I do, which is almost daily is brush my teeth while I'm on a show.
53:10
It's the best.
53:11
And then like you get the chemicals from the toothpaste on your chin.
53:17
And so your chin's all cold.
53:19
And then he just washes it out.
53:21
But see, I have like chest hair, so the only downside.
53:26
You get all that good fluorine fluoride toothpaste stuck in the old chest patch there.
53:34
Yeah.
53:35
You're start dying at light.
53:37
Oh my god, it really was lightning.
53:39
Yeah, you smell minty.
53:41
What are you?
53:42
Yeah.
53:43
Yeah, that's what my girlfriend says.
53:46
She'll say, I smell so minty.
53:48
I'm like, yeah, because I just have the toothpaste all over my face.
53:53
That's awesome.
53:55
Do you ever do like a snack in the bathroom?
54:00
snack in the...
54:01
No!
54:02
And it's...
54:03
I...
54:04
Normally, like, I would.
54:06
But, like, I had, like, something happen.
54:08
Like, I used to snack.
54:10
Like, I would take, like, chips or whatever snacks I had.
54:12
I'm like, alright, it's gonna be a long one.
54:14
But I would, uh, don't anymore, because I saw a video of, like, someone who, like, they flushed the toilet.
54:23
And then all the, like, fecal particles just rocket into the air.
54:29
Yeah, so it was just a little plume of just like floating around.
54:33
So I was thinking every chip would just be covered in that.
54:37
Yeah, I mean.
54:40
But see, it's cause this is first of all, it's cause this, you know?
54:46
I'm like in such an enclosed space.
54:48
So I just don't.
54:51
Yeah.
54:52
Yeah, I can't get into it.
54:53
But if I was in an American bathroom, yes.
54:57
Yeah.
54:58
Yeah.
54:58
Do you have any bathroom pet peeves?
55:02
Things that drive you absolutely bonkers in the bathroom?
55:06
Hey, look around.
55:11
Let me see.
55:11
Bathroom pet peeve.
55:14
And I'm not trying to load it up for you, but a lot of times it's, you know, when people are dating or married or whatever.
55:20
Those are the people that they find out.
55:23
Yes.
55:23
I'm the pet peeve for my girlfriend because of my freaking hair, man.
55:27
I just have hair everywhere.
55:30
And then also Japanese culture, most men sit when they pee.
55:36
So like, which makes this logical sense.
55:41
really does.
55:42
But I just don't like it because the Japanese toilet is just a little bit smaller than an American toilet.
55:48
So my junk is always hitting.
55:52
the front of the or the inside of the toilet.
55:57
Yeah.
55:59
So that's one thing that is my girlfriend pet peeve is my freaking hair is just everywhere.
56:05
And then also because I stand when I pee in the toilet gets dirtier faster.
56:11
So.
56:12
yeah.
56:13
There's gotta be another pet team though that I could think of.
56:19
What would it be?
56:22
What would be an example of yours?
56:24
Like off the wall, off the wall.
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of mine and this, I think it began.
56:34
I can't remember if-
56:34
Chad did this.
56:37
I felt like I'm ragging on Chad.
56:39
But I noticed in my children the most is like when they spit the toothpaste in the sink and then they just like, they don't rinse that down.
56:47
And it's just like this weird, just goopy nonsense in the bottom of the sink.
56:53
It's like, son of a gun.
56:56
That or like, there was a time in the early, like we're figuring out each other's stuff where Anna like would.
57:03
you know, women washing their hair and they'd like put the hair on the shower wall as like a holding, but then it wouldn't get cleared.
57:11
And I walk in, it looked like a cat, molested the wall inside my shower.
57:16
And it's like, gosh, dang it.
57:18
Yeah.
57:18
And it's just like, so stuff like that where, then, you know, about the time I bring it up, she's like, yeah, I got a bone to pick with you too.
57:24
Like the toilet paper is on backwards.
57:26
Also, why is, why there's beard hair and there's weird nonsense hair, like you said, just.
57:33
In on and in the sink and I'm like, I can't help it.
57:35
And they know.
57:36
Yeah.
57:38
And she sees it first.
57:41
would try to clean it at least, but I don't know.
57:45
Maybe I'm just so used to it.
57:47
I'm like looking around, there's definitely some hairs lying around.
57:53
Yeah.
57:53
I would say yeah that makes sense.
57:56
Living with other people, yeah.
57:59
Bathroom pep people.
58:00
Also disorganized stuff like...
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strewn everywhere.
58:06
Just leaving stuff in the bathroom.
58:09
Like that shouldn't be in the bathroom.
58:13
podcast
58:17
Get your microphone out in the toilet.
58:19
It's just like yeah Yeah Yeah, I I would say the number one household pet peeve though is leaving dirty dishes It's still to this day makes me insane the only time my girlfriend
58:35
and I both like accept it is if we're dead like absolutely dead from the day and we just Wake up and do it.
58:45
Yep
58:45
But yep.
58:47
Yeah, that's valid.
58:48
That drives me nuts too.
58:50
just.
58:51
Yeah, living with Brian.
58:53
I lived with Brian and Luke and Zach and them in the townhouses for like a summer.
58:59
And that was, dude, so bad.
59:01
They just left for like weeks.
59:03
And then I was like, okay, I'm just going to start cleaning.
59:06
Cause I would clean their stuff.
59:08
And then eventually I was like, yeah, I don't really think I should just keep doing this.
59:11
So I just started cleaning my own stuff.
59:14
And then Brian like gave me like this talk and he was like, Hey,
59:20
Just so you know, we're all living together, so we kind of got to do stuff for one another every now and then.
59:27
I was like, you guys leave this here all the time.
59:29
I was like, once is fine, but.
59:32
Yeah.
59:33
It's the joys of roommates, dude.
59:35
It's wild.
59:37
Yeah.
59:37
Yeah, so...
59:40
I have one question and it's kind of one of the finisher questions that I ask everybody.
59:46
And that is, have you ever performed a waffle stomp?
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I couldn't.
59:53
And if I need to, I'm happy to explain it.
59:55
It thrills me too.
59:56
Is this what you said to Silas in the video?
1:00:00
your last podcast?
1:00:02
you said that- yeah, I asked everybody.
1:00:03
who even poop in the shower.
1:00:05
Step on it.
1:00:08
Yep.
1:00:08
That's a waffle.
1:00:08
Stomp.
1:00:09
You've that's exactly what it is.
1:00:13
That sounds awful.
1:00:14
I had in my life done it once unintentionally and it was not in the shower.
1:00:21
It was just a waffle stomp because I was walking outside barefoot and stepped on someone's dog's poop.
1:00:30
So I did a doggy waffle stomp.
1:00:33
That's the only time in my life.
1:00:36
My gosh.
1:00:38
That's wild.
1:00:39
Barefoot dog books.
1:00:41
Yeah.
1:00:42
Yeah.
1:00:42
Yeah.
1:00:43
But no, never intentionally, my body won't let me.
1:00:46
Like I think when I was younger, I tried to like do something like in the bathroom or in the shower.
1:00:54
And then it just, my body said no.
1:00:56
Yeah.
1:00:57
Yeah, that's probably the natural way that people should be.
1:01:02
Like every three or four years, I go in for one just to see if I'm still got it in me.
1:01:07
No way.
1:01:09
It's impossible.
1:01:12
And also, I can't here in Japan, it would be impossible.
1:01:15
Even if I tried.
1:01:18
Not that I would want to.
1:01:21
There's like, what are you doing?
1:01:26
Duh!
1:01:29
I'm doing a waffle stuff.
1:01:31
No, it's because the shower, most of the drains are like it goes through like this filter.
1:01:39
There's like a filter and like even today I think I have to do it is you have to clean a bunch of hair out of the filter.
1:01:46
So you know how we always call a plumber to fix the hair when it gets really bad?
1:01:51
Well in Japan they just mitigate the issue by putting it there before it can even go down.
1:01:59
It would be...
1:02:00
Yeah, not possible.
1:02:02
be a wild filter to clean out.
1:02:05
I can't believe that.
1:02:07
No, I've never done a waffle song.
1:02:09
It's impossible.
1:02:10
It's impossible.
1:02:17
I've only, I've done performed three to this day.
1:02:22
No, yeah, three.
1:02:23
One was because I had begun and I was like, ah, I've never done that.
1:02:27
I should do it and see if it's real.
1:02:28
And it was in Ana and I's apartment in Salem.
1:02:32
And Ana's like, you did not.
1:02:34
And I was like, well, yeah, I had to see if it was a thing.
1:02:37
It actually worked pretty good.
1:02:38
And then the other was like, I was at the gym and.
1:02:45
I'm like, dude, there's no shot that I'm like getting out, drying off, getting dressed to go all the way across the thing, to go to the bathroom so I can finish this up.
1:02:55
Boom, stomp, done.
1:02:57
yep.
1:02:58
And then, and then the last one was at our church.
1:03:01
I did it at our church.
1:03:03
That's the one that should get the man to tan or mad.
1:03:07
I told him not to pee.
1:03:09
I confessed my sins to him.
1:03:10
was like, Michael, I got to tell you, I did do this.
1:03:13
I did clean it up after like, but it was, what it was, was I was showering and we had gone to like this paint thing and the young adults who had gone with me, they were posted up
1:03:26
and I shouted out, was like, Hey, do we got a toilet open?
1:03:29
And they're like, no, no, we're, and we got one waiting.
1:03:32
And I'm like, dang it, I can't, like, there's no way that I can hold this and just full send like,
1:03:40
But the stomp part, what about the stomp part?
1:03:43
You just stomp it.
1:03:44
stomp is so it goes down the drain.
1:03:46
Yeah, it just breaks it up.
1:03:47
It pulverizes it and like liquidizes it.
1:03:53
It's a nightmare.
1:03:54
would just, the smell would get me.
1:03:57
It just seems like it would stay with you.
1:04:00
I mean, a little bit.
1:04:02
It mostly smells like if you fart in the shower.
1:04:05
Sort of.
1:04:07
See, that's the thing.
1:04:08
It's like, well, if I stomped on it though, mean, then my feet would smell.
1:04:12
I would like really have to wash my, I'd have to take another shower.
1:04:16
You're still in there.
1:04:17
That's insane.
1:04:18
uh
1:04:21
Yeah, yeah, my name is in a while.
1:04:24
It's been probably 340 Yeah
1:04:30
You're at like a AA group in Tokyo.
1:04:32
I sing my sins.
1:04:35
Yeah, it's been three years.
1:04:38
Three years sober.
1:04:39
It's my last waffle.
1:04:41
Yeah, it's waffle stomp synonymous.
1:04:44
I get that fired up for all the deviants.
1:04:48
That's insane, No.
1:04:52
It's a good one.
1:04:54
I just really want to ask Chad that question because I know that he won't, he'll just, no, like, you know.
1:05:01
Even though my stomach though has been like really sick and there's been a time where legitimately I thought, my gosh, I probably have to go like while I'm in the shower.
1:05:10
My body wouldn't let me.
1:05:12
Really?
1:05:15
you dry off the whole way, go and then get back in or do you like go wet?
1:05:20
If that happens.
1:05:21
Well, no, no.
1:05:22
I like it would just be like I'm in the shower.
1:05:28
I feel my stomach gets sick.
1:05:30
And then basically like I just like finish really quick and then get as dry as I can and just run to the bathroom.
1:05:37
Yeah, that's probably the normal way.
1:05:39
that you're you're probably the norm on that.
1:05:41
I and I acknowledge like it's the stomps not.
1:05:45
You're not even in the 1%.
1:05:47
It's like .0001%.
1:05:52
wild.
1:05:53
Yeah.
1:05:54
But that does follow the same principle as me shoving my face into the milk and cereal.
1:06:00
It's kind of, yeah, it's like when the intrusive thoughts become action, you know.
1:06:05
Yeah, you know, because it really there's not a lot of consequence for it.
1:06:11
Unless it's like daily and then all of sudden you're calling up plumber and they're like, what happened here?
1:06:17
Yeah.
1:06:18
And the public shame, you know, I find that there's a moderate level of public shame where, I mean, I've talked about it enough, but then I go to work to people that listen
1:06:27
and they're like, for real though, you did.
1:06:31
And I'm like, yeah, also I'm a youth pastor.
1:06:33
So that's fun.
1:06:34
Tell you about Jesus Christ.
1:06:37
Yeah.
1:06:41
Yeah.
1:06:43
could be on your, if it's on your tombstone, your grave, it'll just say, Hunter Hoover, he only had one flaw.
1:06:50
And everybody will know.
1:06:51
It'll just be communal knowledge.
1:06:54
It's just, and it's just the picture of a shower drain.
1:06:57
Just.
1:07:00
Yeah.
1:07:01
Yeah.
1:07:05
Well, Travis, do you have any, do you have any bathroom wisdom that you want to leave listeners with as we kind of move to close?
1:07:16
Bathroom wisdom I could drop a couple get a bidet if you don't have a bidet Get a bidet It's like it's non-negotiable at this point.
1:07:27
Yeah, once you hit 30 get a bidet.
1:07:30
Get a bidet.
1:07:34
Also, wait, mean Don't look at you don't have to I look at my phone but something I'm doing more is put reading stuff in your bathroom and actually read it
1:07:46
I love-
1:07:46
that a lop-eye magazine?
1:07:48
You know, Papayas is not at all American publication.
1:07:52
I have no idea.
1:07:53
It's a really cool magazine.
1:07:56
I just think that the text on that...
1:07:59
can't read it.
1:08:00
It says Popeye, yeah!
1:08:03
It's like the same text as like Popeye the Sailor Man.
1:08:08
Yeah, I wonder what they're, I've always wondered that too.
1:08:13
But read, read instead of looking at your phone, it's actually kind of nice.
1:08:20
And I feel like it's so weird.
1:08:22
I always wondered why my parents had stuff in their bathrooms and then once my girl, and it's cool.
1:08:27
My girlfriend and I now we buy like magazines and stuff.
1:08:30
Yeah.
1:08:31
that's, it's a reading material.
1:08:35
then, uh, last one is.
1:08:38
The breeze is life.
1:08:40
Please use.
1:08:41
What's your go-to flavor?
1:08:54
my gosh, wait wait
1:08:56
tropical
1:08:58
Oh, tropical?
1:08:59
I think I had a full breeze back in Oregon that was like pumpkin or maybe it was like fall smell or something.
1:09:08
pumpkin spice dude they yeah I did the tour of pumpkin spices there's no stopping it like the pumpkin spice dude wipes were a game changer yeah my dog
1:09:21
dude wipes are for everything too, right?
1:09:23
You don't have to wipe with it, right?
1:09:24
You can use it like to clean up, right?
1:09:28
You know, I don't know.
1:09:28
I've never thought about that.
1:09:30
I've always just used them to wipe my butt.
1:09:35
I don't know.
1:09:37
It's probably, mean, I don't see why you couldn't use them for other stuff, but I'm just like, yeah.
1:09:45
These ones are Christmas tree flavor.
1:09:48
You keep saying flavor.
1:09:49
That doesn't even mean scented, alright?
1:09:51
Travis?
1:09:54
I've, yeah, I've tasted some stuff on this show as part of the show that is also- my god.
1:10:06
All I can say is deodorant doesn't matter if it smells exactly like food.
1:10:12
does not taste like it smells.
1:10:16
Ugh, yeah, it probably just tastes like chemicals.
1:10:18
Yeah, yeah, tastes exactly like chemicals and like severe gastrointestinal distress.
1:10:26
Yeah.
1:10:26
Okay.
1:10:27
That's the thing though, is that I tried telling people about this.
1:10:31
Maybe someone will listen, but you know how we have the colors of the spectrum?
1:10:38
huh.
1:10:38
The color is, what is it?
1:10:40
uh Red, yellow, blue.
1:10:42
Those are the colors.
1:10:44
Those are like the three primary colors.
1:10:46
Well, there has to be a smell spectrum of primary smells in which you could
1:10:55
put the smells together to create all of the smells in the known universe world.
1:11:02
I've always thought like that and you just, you're telling me you pine scent and you go to lick it and it's chemical, tastes like chemicals.
1:11:09
Well, what the hell?
1:11:10
There's gotta be a way to.
1:11:12
Yeah, the way this came out is Ana had a deodorant.
1:11:17
was toasted vanilla marshmallow deodorant.
1:11:20
I don't know why we're buying deodorant that smells like food.
1:11:22
That's a different problem.
1:11:25
That's so good.
1:11:26
fresh stick, opened it, I sniff, I'm going, there's no way.
1:11:31
It smells exactly like a Rice Krispie treat.
1:11:35
Yeah.
1:11:36
And so I just pulled the little thing to the stump come out and I went and just nodded.
1:11:43
Immediately, I just, oh yeah, dude.
1:11:46
Yeah.
1:11:47
I'll to, I'll find the video there.
1:11:48
This is unfortunately on the internet.
1:11:51
Um, but.
1:11:52
I full-scented and it just immediately, it like every, it coated every surface of my mouth and like, it was like when you eat something and you taste it in your nose and it was
1:12:05
just, and I could not get it out because it like, what it was made of was meant to stick to your armpit.
1:12:11
And I'm like, you know, I just, there's nothing to do, but just kind of groan and just, yeah.
1:12:19
Yeah, and didn't learn my lesson.
1:12:21
Yeah, tried hummingbird nectar in the shower.
1:12:27
My bad.
1:12:28
No, it tasted really good, but I don't know if it's safe.
1:12:30
So I spit most of it out.
1:12:33
It's just very sweet.
1:12:36
Yeah, it's just very sweet.
1:12:37
But I don't know.
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There was a guy that's like, yeah, it's good in the shower.
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was like, okay, we'll find out.
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Travis is like, I went to Japan and Hunter's over there, like running experiments in his shower.
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Yeah
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I'm I'm like mind blown.
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But of course, like that's all the stuff.
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That's like when you look at people and you're like, yeah, why do they eat?
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Well, that's different.
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That's the look.
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But you look at people and you're like, yeah, why do they eat Tide Pods?
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Why that kid eat a Tide
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Yeah, I don't I don't get that one
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If the spots smelled like marshmallow, then a different story.
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That'd be side eyeing the Tide Pods.
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Yeah,
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man, that's awesome dude.
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Well hey, I really appreciate you sitting down and doing this.
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Yeah.
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It's good stuff.
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That was real fun, man.
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It's just what I imagined it would be.
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It's great.
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So much fun.
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Do you?
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Before I say goodbye, do you want to tell folks a little bit about your English stuff and the things that you do online?
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Yeah, yeah, teach ESL online if anyone needs lessons.
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They're friend of Hunter's friend of mine.
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Yeah, right now I'm doing like 30 bucks for like friends, family, anything like that.
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But yeah, usually it's a little more, but I'm pretty chill.
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My schedule is really relaxed right now because everybody is finishing school.
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But yes, cheesy English is what I call it.
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And I'm
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I'm gonna launch a website soon.
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There's a couple cool things I'm gonna be doing, but yeah, you can find me on social media at teachertrav underscore cheesyenglish.
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Cheesy English.
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It's awesome, dude.
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That's super cool.
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Yeah, this is super cool.
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I love the freaking PrevCast logo on the back.
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Awesome.
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it's like metal.
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made it for like a, I don't know, like a anniversary gift.
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I like stick a magnet to it every now and then, cause it's metal and I'm like, I'm afraid to move it cause I might've burst a pipe.
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No, ah probably not.
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Oh yeah, she did.
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And then I said, you know, I appreciate you doing that.
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That's right above the water line.
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I got super scared.
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I was like, I'm never taking it out.
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Everything works fine now, so it's okay.
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eh That's right.
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Yeah.
1:15:20
Well, sweet, dude.
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I really appreciate it.
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um I'm going to say goodbye and then I'm going to hit stop recording and we can chat for a minute.
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Yeah, man.
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Yeah.
1:15:32
Thank you guys for listening.
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Thanks so much for being here.
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Travis, thank you again for joining me.
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Keep pooping in the free world.
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Own your stank.
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And now, as always, don't forget to flush.
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And then I just cram it back here.
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People think that this is rigged every time, but it's not.
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you
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That's cool because it's a true flush for the podcast.
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Yeah, I usually boost the audio on it a little bit, but you know.