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124 Ramble On · bit of a Rambler

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  Speaker 1: Hello. My name is Kai, and I am a bit
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  Speaker 1: of a rambler. I like to travel, learn and tell stories.
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  Speaker 1: And today I'm going to ramble on. So what's been
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  Speaker 1: going on? Oh? This was funny. I went out of
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  Speaker 1: my house and I was gonna go get a burger.
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  Speaker 1: I was really excited because I already tried the other burger,
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  Speaker 1: the other like main fancy burger they have. They have
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  Speaker 1: a red burger and a white burger at this fancy
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  Speaker 1: gourmet Japanese burger restaurant. Except I mean, I guess it's gourmet.
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  Speaker 1: If you ate this in the US, you'd be like,
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  Speaker 1: holy crap, that's the best burger I've ever had. But
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  Speaker 1: because it's in Japan, it's just like a good burger.
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  Speaker 1: That's not to say they're like fast food burgers are good.
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  Speaker 1: They're not. They're still crappy fast food burgers. But anyway,
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  Speaker 1: they have two flagship burgers this place, ujiro umiiro uii yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Umi hero, And I was really excited because I was
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  Speaker 1: going to get the other flagship one. I tried the
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  Speaker 1: white one the first time, so this time I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna trump that. Try the red to see weed flavored one.
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  Speaker 1: And right off the bat they both rock. All of
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  Speaker 1: their burgers are so good. I went to that place
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  Speaker 1: like every single day during my last week in Japan.
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  Speaker 1: But what was funny about this was that to get there,
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  Speaker 1: they're only open from eleven or ten am until one
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  Speaker 1: pm or two pm. They're open very briefly, maybe three pm. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: I think that's at eleven to three pm five times
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  Speaker 1: a week. So I'm usually recording stuff overnight in Japan,
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  Speaker 1: so I don't get up that early. I don't get
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  Speaker 1: up at three pm. I usually I get up like
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  Speaker 1: around whatever, one or two or something. But then I'll
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  Speaker 1: have to jump down there and all this kind of stuff,
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  Speaker 1: And so I was just figured I would stay up
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  Speaker 1: or get up earlier and go to the burger place
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  Speaker 1: because the burger was so fun. You can look out
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  Speaker 1: on the ocean. It's wonderful. But I was walking around
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  Speaker 1: and I was like, the town seems different than it
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  Speaker 1: usually does. And then it hit me that the town
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  Speaker 1: I'm living in in Japan seems different because pretty much
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  Speaker 1: the whole time I've been here, I've been going out
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  Speaker 1: at night at ten pm or after. I don't start
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  Speaker 1: working until midnight because the highway noise is so crappy,
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  Speaker 1: which is crazy, but that was my fault, for I
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  Speaker 1: saw them happen. I was like, don't get it right
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  Speaker 1: next to the high and I got a house next
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  Speaker 1: to highway, and that's what you get. But because of that,
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  Speaker 1: I'm frequently out where note where everybody is asleep and
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  Speaker 1: none of the businesses are open. So I assumed I
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  Speaker 1: lived in a ghost town, and everybody told me, like,
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  Speaker 1: it's basically a ghost town, like nobody lives here. But
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  Speaker 1: when I went out in the day, and sometimes I'll
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  Speaker 1: go to the the supermarket in the afternoon and it
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  Speaker 1: looks like a little alive. But I think even in
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  Speaker 1: the supermarket it's like five o'clock PM, so a bunch
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  Speaker 1: of stuff is closing down already anyway in that town.
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  Speaker 1: So now, for basically the second time that I've been
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  Speaker 1: out before noon, I was walking through the town just
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  Speaker 1: thinking like, wow, it's so lively today. This is so crazy,
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  Speaker 1: And then I realized, oh, no, I've just never been
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  Speaker 1: out in the early day for six weeks living in
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  Speaker 1: this town. So there's a hairdresser open, and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know a lawyer shop. There were just businesses going, and
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  Speaker 1: I could see people through the window, and I was like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: there are stuff in this town happening. There are a
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  Speaker 1: few little alive places, and I was like waving to
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  Speaker 1: people and ohiogo the moss and speaking a little Japanese
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  Speaker 1: to people. And it was funny to remember that I
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  Speaker 1: was living in an actual town. I was not one
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  Speaker 1: of seven people living in the town. It just seemed
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  Speaker 1: like that because I was always awake in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of the night and post. So all the cherry blossoms
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  Speaker 1: are changing color. They bloom very briefly. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: know anything about cherry blossoms, usually over the course of
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  Speaker 1: one week, you'll have like buds and then you'll get
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  Speaker 1: to full bloom in a couple of days. And those
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  Speaker 1: might hang around for two or three days. But by
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  Speaker 1: the end of a week, certainly after two weeks, all
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  Speaker 1: of the petals have already fallen off. The pedals start
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  Speaker 1: falling off as soon as they bloom. You have like
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  Speaker 1: four six hours or something, and then all the pedals
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  Speaker 1: start falling, and it doesn't take very long for all
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  Speaker 1: the petals to fall off, so you just have a tree.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty great. It's so much fun. I really I'm
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  Speaker 1: glad I came back to Japan so I could see
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  Speaker 1: another full cherry blossom, and I did. I'm definitely I
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  Speaker 1: got to see the whole thing where And I even
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  Speaker 1: took trains when I went a little bit north, the
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  Speaker 1: trains north were still sorry the cherry blossom trees to
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  Speaker 1: the north were still blooming. They were like a couple
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  Speaker 1: days behind where I was further south in Matsuyama. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I really got to see the whole thing. And if
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  Speaker 1: you ever go to Japan to see cherry blossoms, look
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  Speaker 1: at the official timeline and then add at least one
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  Speaker 1: week to it. Because I have been there so many times,
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  Speaker 1: I've missed the cherry of blossoms twice, I think because
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  Speaker 1: I went by the official like dates, the cherry blossom dates,
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  Speaker 1: and I've never been to Japan once where those dates
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  Speaker 1: are correct, like according to the towns on the maps,
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  Speaker 1: in which day the cherry blossoms are supposed to show
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  Speaker 1: up and it's supposed to be full bloom days. But
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  Speaker 1: that is definitely every single time I'm there, it is
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  Speaker 1: before budding. Is the dates on the official cherry blossom map.
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  Speaker 1: Tokyo Osaka, Kyoto certainly north of Tokyo, like so this
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  Speaker 1: place in Chikoku, Matsuyama, it's always at least one month
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  Speaker 1: behind the official date. So I stayed an extra two
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  Speaker 1: weeks in Japan to make sure that I would definitely
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  Speaker 1: see the full cherry blossom bloom, because you don't I
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  Speaker 1: don't want to go to Japan and live there for
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  Speaker 1: a week in the Nazi the cherry blossoms have to
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  Speaker 1: leave early, and I didn't have to. It was great.
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  Speaker 1: It has been great, and yeah, it was just it's
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  Speaker 1: so cool and they're all changing color to you know,
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  Speaker 1: they're turning a paler shade of gray after their bright pink.
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  Speaker 1: And there's cherry blossom petals all over the ground blowing
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  Speaker 1: about in the wind, and everybody, all the Japanese tourists
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  Speaker 1: are running around their country snapping a bunch of pictures.
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  Speaker 1: And now that it's getting warmer, there's way more people
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  Speaker 1: out and just tons of people on the trains. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's pretty cool. It's fun being in Japan. I like
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  Speaker 1: being in Japan. You don't always surprises people that Japan
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  Speaker 1: is it's not super advanced technology. I mean they are,
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  Speaker 1: they have very advanced technology. They are a high technology country.
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  Speaker 1: I'll say but they like old stuff too, so it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't look as advanced. Okay, the train system is a
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  Speaker 1: great like they have a wonderful train system. It gets
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  Speaker 1: you around the entire country, but they use the old trains.
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  Speaker 1: They don't update them with the newest trains. As soon
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  Speaker 1: as they have a new technology that can make it faster.
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  Speaker 1: They're perfectly happy riding in old trains with maybe not
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  Speaker 1: new cushioning and not new banisters. Like older infrastructure seems
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  Speaker 1: kind of cool in the in the Japanese cultural perspective.
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  Speaker 1: So it's always interesting because I travel all the time,
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  Speaker 1: and most people don't know anything about any of the
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  Speaker 1: countries that I travel to which I know' either, so
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  Speaker 1: that makes perfect sense. But if they do know about
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  Speaker 1: any countries they know about like Germany and Japan and
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  Speaker 1: maybe Australia, they have like they have like two stereotypes.
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  Speaker 1: Basically they're like Australia dangerous and Japan robots and in
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  Speaker 1: Germany very on time, very punctual people. So there's with
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  Speaker 1: the much more nobody knows anything about Tanzania, for example,
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  Speaker 1: or Digibouti. But for the really the more popular countries,
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  Speaker 1: there are some stereotypes that people just have in their heads,
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  Speaker 1: the ones that talk to me and in Japan from
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  Speaker 1: every country, from China, from Korea, from the US, certainly
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  Speaker 1: from Central and South America, everywhere I've been. When people
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  Speaker 1: here that I've been to Japan, they're like, oh, wow,
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  Speaker 1: so it's like super advanced, right, Like the technology is crazy,
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  Speaker 1: and I have to tell them that no, Like they
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  Speaker 1: have buildings, and they have some electric cars, and they
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  Speaker 1: have the bullet trains. Sure, but you know everybody has, well,
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  Speaker 1: all the advanced countries have bullet trains. Now, there are
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  Speaker 1: not a lot of robots walking down the street. There
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  Speaker 1: there are some robots that serve drinks in the convenience
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  Speaker 1: store sometimes very rarely, probably in the mall you'll see
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  Speaker 1: like a little simple robot carrying a tray of products.
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  Speaker 1: But you'll see that in the States, and that's like
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  Speaker 1: the States is a pretty technologically underdeveloped country. But they'll
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  Speaker 1: still have server robots, like at the mall of America America. Probably,
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  Speaker 1: I'm guessing, what was that talking about Japan old? They
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  Speaker 1: like old stuff. They like old wooden stuff fitting together,
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  Speaker 1: and they like they like it if the trains have
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  Speaker 1: a few spots on them and maybe a water mark
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  Speaker 1: or something if it still works perfectly. They don't worry
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  Speaker 1: too much that things might not look super new. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's always interesting talking to people who here. I go
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  Speaker 1: to Japan because that's the first thing. So what's the
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  Speaker 1: technology like, I'm like, it's it's pretty cool. It's basically
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  Speaker 1: what you would expect of any country with advanced technology.
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  Speaker 1: They do have better smaller stuff. They have like better
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  Speaker 1: smaller Bluetooth keyboards. I can say because I bought one
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  Speaker 1: of those in Japan that just wouldn't be popular in
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  Speaker 1: the US for sure, like wouldn't be available there. It's
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  Speaker 1: just this really clever, integrated little you can put your
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  Speaker 1: phone on it or a tablet. It has a built
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  Speaker 1: in tray, and it folds down super tiny, and it's
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  Speaker 1: made of a very strong aluminum. So it's a great
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  Speaker 1: little Bluetooth keyboard. And you're not going to be able
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  Speaker 1: to buy anything like that at like best Buy or
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  Speaker 1: Staples or whatever the heck. But in Japan it would
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  Speaker 1: be weird if they didn't have some bespoke Bluetooth keyboard
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  Speaker 1: for your mobile device, so that you could type on
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  Speaker 1: a full foldable unfoldable keyboard if you want to write
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  Speaker 1: on your to write a book while you're crossing the
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  Speaker 1: country on the go with your Bluetooth keyboard. How about
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  Speaker 1: tasty food some more? Because I forgot this. Japanese supermarkets,
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  Speaker 1: as I'm sure I've mentioned like fifty times already, have
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  Speaker 1: amazing sushi in the supermarkets. But something else they have
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  Speaker 1: is just great seafood altogether. And I totally forgot this
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  Speaker 1: until this week live clams or last week they have
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  Speaker 1: live clams. So there's a package and you'll get, like,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, not a small amount twenty thirty live clams.
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  Speaker 1: And if you've never had a live clam, and most
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  Speaker 1: people have not, most people have imported clams that have
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  Speaker 1: been dead or frozen and shipped over to where they are,
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  Speaker 1: it's such such a difference. The meat is much more tender.
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  Speaker 1: There is an actual flavor beyond just like clam chowder flavor.
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  Speaker 1: It's actual clam flesh flavor. It's a very delicate, not scallopy,
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  Speaker 1: almost mushroom. Me like if you had a very very soft,
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  Speaker 1: softly fragrant clam, you know it's a clam. It's delicious.
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  Speaker 1: But anyway, I was looking through the supermarket and I
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  Speaker 1: was looking at all this sushi, and I had eaten
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  Speaker 1: so many sushi dishes in a row so many days,
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  Speaker 1: and I just looked over and there they were trays
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  Speaker 1: and trays of fresh thirty packs of live clams, and
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh yeah. I got really excited and
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  Speaker 1: I grabbed a pack, took it home, boiled them very briefly.
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  Speaker 1: It's like three minutes, I think or something, and as
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  Speaker 1: soon as basically when the shells open up, you know
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  Speaker 1: it's good to eat and you want to take it
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  Speaker 1: out right after, because as soon as the shells open up,
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  Speaker 1: they're good to go. And it was a great tasty lunch.
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  Speaker 1: I like good clam and fresh clam, it doesn't it.
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  Speaker 1: I like the texture a lot, and when there is
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  Speaker 1: an actual flavor to it, it's really nice. And that's
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  Speaker 1: only in Japan. I mean, I'm I'm not going to
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  Speaker 1: say it's only in Japan. I know, I'm sure it's
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  Speaker 1: in maybe even Korea. I'm sure it's in a few places,
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  Speaker 1: but in Japan they're like every supermarket has to have
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  Speaker 1: a few packets of live clams. And I was really
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  Speaker 1: excited to see those and have a very briefly stewed
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  Speaker 1: lunch I think I did also get sushi, actually, but
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  Speaker 1: it was great to have some such fresh clams fresh
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  Speaker 1: as fresh as they come. They're packaged like a day
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  Speaker 1: before in their water, and then there's it's just a
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  Speaker 1: plastic tray and you take a little plastic thing off
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  Speaker 1: the top and you can pour that into a bowl
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  Speaker 1: and boil it in two minutes and you're ready to go.
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  Speaker 1: But they're yeah, they're really fresh. They're from the day before,
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  Speaker 1: and they get rid of them the day after or
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  Speaker 1: maybe two days after at the most. But they the Japanese,
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  Speaker 1: that's one thing. Maybe they don't have robots walking around everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: but fresh food is extremely important to the Japanese. Like
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  Speaker 1: when I was in the convenience store, the clerk I
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  Speaker 1: bought like it was seaweed. It was some non perishable
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  Speaker 1: snack really, but they do have an expiration date on it.
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  Speaker 1: And the lady was like, no, no, no, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: past the expiration date. You can't it's not good. And
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  Speaker 1: I was like, oh, it's okay, it's noodles, it's fine.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it was. She's like, are you sure, and I
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  Speaker 1: was like, yeah, it's okay, they're nonperishable noodle. Sure, and
• 14:08
  Speaker 1: they yeah, they were totally fine, but they they really
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  Speaker 1: care about their fresh food in Niholm. Oh, this was crazy.
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  Speaker 1: So my friend in China asked me about the crashing
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  Speaker 1: bulldozer that happened that I hadn't heard anything about, with
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  Speaker 1: good reason. You don't hear a lot of the news
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  Speaker 1: that goes on in China and doesn't make it out.
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  Speaker 1: So a guy got angry at a police checkpoint and
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  Speaker 1: he decided in his bulldozer to drive through the police
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  Speaker 1: checkpoint and then go on a rampage in a public,
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  Speaker 1: crowded market. Now Chinese, China has outdoor markets like everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: every every everywhere, every city has dozens or hundreds of them.
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  Speaker 1: And this guy decided he was so angry he was
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  Speaker 1: going to go kill a bunch of people. And so
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  Speaker 1: he This was in Beijing actually, and he not like
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  Speaker 1: Beijing City Center, but it was in the Beijing municipality,
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  Speaker 1: and he drove his bulldozer. Wait was it a bulldozer, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: it was a bulldozer. Yeah, he basically was a kill doozer.
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  Speaker 1: If you know of the crazy American who did this
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  Speaker 1: destroyed a town, that's what this guy did. He he
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  Speaker 1: did that, he drove through the back of a stall,
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  Speaker 1: presumably over whoever was in that stall, and then there's
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  Speaker 1: so my buddy was asking me about this because as
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  Speaker 1: soon as it happened, there were a few messages on
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  Speaker 1: Chinese social media, and then the government clamped down, shut
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  Speaker 1: it all down. You couldn't share a video, you couldn't
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  Speaker 1: say the name of the market, ware was, couldn't do anything,
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  Speaker 1: and so nobody saw nobody. The news was gone a
• 15:46
  Speaker 1: day later. This a huge, horrific basically domestic terrorist attack,
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  Speaker 1: totally gone the next day because the government does not
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  Speaker 1: let you share information like that in the country. So
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  Speaker 1: my friend who lives in the city heard about it,
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  Speaker 1: but then couldn't find anything about it on the Chinese Internet.
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  Speaker 1: So the thing is, he asked me to find out
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  Speaker 1: if it was real, and I looked it up, and
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  Speaker 1: immediately there were a bunch of links on the wider web,
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  Speaker 1: not a ton, but the social media had been exported
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  Speaker 1: outside of the Chinese firewall, so those ones that were
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  Speaker 1: outside of China, those videos were still up. First I
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  Speaker 1: only found articles and it seemed real after I corroborated
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  Speaker 1: with a few different sources, but then I found a
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  Speaker 1: couple videos and those were crazy because they capture the
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  Speaker 1: bulldozer driving into the market and then racing down the streets,
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  Speaker 1: and there's dead bodies, there's bodies not moving with blood
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  Speaker 1: on them. In these videos. It was insane to see.
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  Speaker 1: And there's one where he's driving the bulldozer as fast
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  Speaker 1: as it goes, just running, shooting down the middle of
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  Speaker 1: this totally normal market, like any market that I go to,
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  Speaker 1: maybe a little more rural than the inner city markets,
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  Speaker 1: but yeah, there's a bulldozer rampaging and crushing everything, and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people from the video sure looked injured
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  Speaker 1: or worse. And the end of the video was like
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  Speaker 1: twenty people, twenty Chinese people risking their lives and jumping
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: up and grabbing onto it and physically pulling this guy
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  Speaker 1: out of the bulldozer, just all of them so that
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  Speaker 1: he would stop running over people in a bulldozer. So
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  Speaker 1: I found an insane video that had a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff and save that because I can show it
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  Speaker 1: to my friend when I go to China as a
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  Speaker 1: local file on my phone. He asked me to share
• 17:44
  Speaker 1: it with him, and I was like, Uh, if I
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  Speaker 1: send this to you now, both of our accounts are
• 17:49
  Speaker 1: probably going to get blocked, and I don't want to.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want to risk that, so I didn't. But
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  Speaker 1: I will show him the video when I get there,
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  Speaker 1: and it's gonna be crazy because that sort of violence
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  Speaker 1: is straight up prohibited in Chinese social media and in
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  Speaker 1: Chinese news. So he's never going to have to he's
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  Speaker 1: he will never have seen something like that before in
• 18:17
  Speaker 1: at least his adult life. Man, I haven't. I haven't
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  Speaker 1: seen that. That was That was nuts. That is nuts,
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  Speaker 1: It is crazy. It's a crazy video. Just search Beijing
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  Speaker 1: Market bulldozer attack. You will find what I'm talking about,
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  Speaker 1: unless you're in China, and then you won't see a thing.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, So I heard a noise I have not
• 18:38
  Speaker 1: heard in let's say twenty years roughly. Yeah, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: I would have been twenty far so maybe fifteen years ish.
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  Speaker 1: But I recognized it almost instantly. And it's such a creepy,
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  Speaker 1: eerie sound. It's this like scritchy scratchy, as if there's
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  Speaker 1: a a murder horror girl with a needle point fingertip
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  Speaker 1: scratching on a on a dry wall, just like it's
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  Speaker 1: like it's ripping through sheet rock one layer at a
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  Speaker 1: time with her murder needlenail. And when I first heard
• 19:18
  Speaker 1: this fifteen years ago, I was still in living in Portland,
• 19:21
  Speaker 1: Ore again, and I was like, what the baba duke
• 19:26
  Speaker 1: is happening? And it was so scary and it took
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: me a while just to check the sound because I
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: was like, well, if it's a person like scraping to
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: get in the door with like jiggling the key lock
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: or whatever, and I worked up the courage and went
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: out there, and it stopped and a few more seconds started,
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: and then I would take a couple of steps and
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: it would stop for like a minute, and then it
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: would start, and I was like, this is insane. And
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I eventually traced it to under the sink and I
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: just I just sat there and looked at the spot
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: that I thought the sound was coming from for a
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: long time and there was nothing happening for like five minutes,
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, like right in front of me,
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: it sounded like a murder girl fingernail was scratching trying
• 20:15
  Speaker 1: to get at me. And I was like, oh my god,
• 20:18
  Speaker 1: what if it's ring goo? And I just waited because
• 20:23
  Speaker 1: I had no idea what was happening. It was such
• 20:25
  Speaker 1: a scary sound. And finally I saw the wood panel
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: under my sink sort of break, and this thing poked
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: through this little point, and I was I realized it
• 20:41
  Speaker 1: was a mouse. A mouse was chewing through the back
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: of my kitchen wall into my kitchen, probably because I
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: had all the awesome like wines, all my cool homebrewed wines,
• 20:53
  Speaker 1: and probably beef. No, I wasn't making beef drink at
• 20:56
  Speaker 1: the time, but there's a bunch of food, uh, pungent
• 20:59
  Speaker 1: food in my kit and so I'm sure he smelled
• 21:01
  Speaker 1: it and wanted to get in there. And I was like, ah,
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: And I did capture that mouse and kill it, but
• 21:09
  Speaker 1: it took a long time, and I was freaking out
• 21:11
  Speaker 1: because I had never had to capture a mouse, and
• 21:14
  Speaker 1: I had never been woken up in the middle of
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: the night by one gnawing through the back of my wall,
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: my kitchen wall. Shout out to the Portland Apartments on
• 21:24
  Speaker 1: I can't remember what the name of that place was anymore,
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: I honestly can't. Oh, I like that place a lot.
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: That was a very comfortable apartment. Anyway, I heard that
• 21:34
  Speaker 1: sound again, and for like one second, I was like
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: bab a duke and then very quickly after, I was like,
• 21:40
  Speaker 1: wait a minute, is that a rodent? And so now
• 21:46
  Speaker 1: that Japanese house I am renting is way more sturdily
• 21:51
  Speaker 1: constructed than my Portland apartments. There's a lot of concrete
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: used and a lot of much stronger dry wall. They're
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: building materials are solid and flexible because they have to
• 22:01
  Speaker 1: be like earthquake ready all the time, and they like
• 22:05
  Speaker 1: sturdy stuff the Japanese do. They do like sturdy infrastructure.
• 22:09
  Speaker 1: And if you live in the US, you know, like
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: half the places are like, all right, well, super glue
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: these wood planks together and once it's a box, that's
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: a house. But if it gets hit by a hurricane,
• 22:22
  Speaker 1: it'll just fall apart. Japanese buildings are built to last.
• 22:26
  Speaker 1: So I was like, how is it even getting in this?
• 22:29
  Speaker 1: And I tracked it down. I did the exact same thing.
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: I walked in then stopped until he started again. Because
• 22:34
  Speaker 1: they're so sensitive. As soon as you take a couple
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: steps toward them or move it all and they know
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: something's there, they just stop. They can't see you, but
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: they can feel the vibrations of you, of you detecting
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: them the rodents. And I found out that it was
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: scratching up through wood paneling, so it was inside the
• 22:51
  Speaker 1: walls somewhere, and this one was trying to scrape its
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: way through the wood paneling, the dry wall sheet rock.
• 23:01
  Speaker 1: It was not going to make its way through that,
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: I don't think, so I don't think through Japanese sheet rock.
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: But there was there was a cabinet, a wooden cabinet basically,
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: and I think this thing was trying to tunnel into there.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: So I made a bunch of noise and then and
• 23:21
  Speaker 1: I forgot about it because it ran away. I just
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: I didn't forget about. I'm leaving in like five days,
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: so I was like, well, whatever, as long as I
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: stop it from chewing through the wood before I leave,
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: Like they're not gonna know. I didn't do that like
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: I did. I didn't your your house has a mouse
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: in it? And I kept that place clean. Sometimes I
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: had like beer the night before and I didn't clean
• 23:49
  Speaker 1: up till the day after, But in general, I kept
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: that place spotless. And I got a very good review
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: on Airbnb from that dude, specifically that I stayed there
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: so long and it was still so clean. So I'm
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: a clean person. I didn't attract no mices, but I
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: never heard the scratching the rest of the days I
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: was in that house, and that MOUSEI maybe he went
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: away because there was too much trouble, and there was
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: somebody who was awake at three in the morning every
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: day listening to him and freaking him out. And then
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: just about my last day in Japan, I decided to
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: get some sake because I still had not got hot sake.
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: Even though it was cold there, I was just hot
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: all the time. Well, no, that's not true. I was
• 24:31
  Speaker 1: cold a lot in actually, but the last week I
• 24:34
  Speaker 1: was pretty hot. It got warm real quick after the
• 24:38
  Speaker 1: cherry blossoms started blooming or around that time, and I
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: still hadn't had hotsake, which I usually got it hot.
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: I think I learned that from kill Bill that Japanese
• 24:50
  Speaker 1: people prefer hot sake. But then I went to Japan
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: and that was not really true. They prefer hot sake
• 24:56
  Speaker 1: when it's cold, and they drink cold sake when it's hot.
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: They just drink a temperature appropriate sake. But I hadn't
• 25:03
  Speaker 1: had any hot sake, so I went down chili day.
• 25:06
  Speaker 1: I went into the Ramen place up the street, and
• 25:09
  Speaker 1: I got giodza, the handmade tasty giodes. I got from
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: that place a few times and a kiafa of hot sake,
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: and I just got a little bit tipsy and it
• 25:20
  Speaker 1: was a great snack. And I said thank you and
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: gave him my notes and walked out. And it was
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: cool to talk to that guy because every time I
• 25:29
  Speaker 1: went in there over the six weeks whatever I was
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: in Japan, I went in there once or twice a week,
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: maybe probably once a week, and I would My Japanese
• 25:37
  Speaker 1: was always a little bit better, so I was always
• 25:40
  Speaker 1: able to say just a little bit more to the
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: guy each time I went in. I studied better. I
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: studied both the characters and the spoken language this time,
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: which I haven't done before. I only focused on the
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: spoken language. But I like written characters. I like writing
• 25:58
  Speaker 1: in general, and so I am yeah, I focused on
• 26:02
  Speaker 1: both of them this time in Japan. So when I
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: see a Japanese word, it just intuitively makes sense to
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: my brain instead of my brain being like, Okay, what's
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the English version of this? And I'm doing that with
• 26:12
  Speaker 1: Chinese too. When I used to study Chinese in dual lingo,
• 26:17
  Speaker 1: I only did the English opinion, and now I'm just
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: like you know, it's screw it. Just learn. Just learn
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: all the characters that you can whatever. I don't have
• 26:26
  Speaker 1: enough time in my life probably to learn all the
• 26:28
  Speaker 1: characters and Japanese and Chinese, but I do feel like
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: I'm making pretty good progress now that I'm actually trying.
• 26:35
  Speaker 1: So I recommend Gioza hotsake. It's tasty. Also, let me
• 26:40
  Speaker 1: know if the schedule gets mixed up, the podcast release schedule,
• 26:46
  Speaker 1: because I just found out that I mixed up Wednesday
• 26:49
  Speaker 1: and tuesdays twice now, and I think one of them
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: was released incorrectly on a Tuesday when it should have
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: come out on a Wednesday. So if if for whatever reason,
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: you notice that the podcasts are coming out on days
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: they are not usually coming out. They usually come out
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: Wednesday Saturday, just yeah, right into me. Everyone who's writing
• 27:10
  Speaker 1: into me, by the way, cool thanks, And I see
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: the audience listenerships going up a little bit each month.
• 27:16
  Speaker 1: That's pretty cool. But if you, yeah, if something's weird
• 27:20
  Speaker 1: with the podcast, just reach out to me, because I'm
• 27:22
  Speaker 1: I don't even notice. It's all automated. If I had
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: to release this on the days it came out, there
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: would not be a podcast. So I have to automate everything,
• 27:32
  Speaker 1: and it clicking the days of everything to schedule everything.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: I guess I just get mixed up sometimes and click
• 27:39
  Speaker 1: the wrong day. So if you notice that, you can
• 27:41
  Speaker 1: certainly contact me and I will be grateful and I'll
• 27:44
  Speaker 1: fix it immediately because I'm not doing anything the all day. Okay,
• 27:49
  Speaker 1: I went to the waterfall. I told you all about
• 27:52
  Speaker 1: the cool tilemaker who makes the plate for the burgers,
• 27:56
  Speaker 1: and like a billion different little status she was, and
• 28:00
  Speaker 1: she gave me the dogu face and we talked about
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: how there's clay. I told her, I saw a really
• 28:05
  Speaker 1: good looking clay up near this waterfall, and I decided
• 28:11
  Speaker 1: after I got after I got my second burger, I
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: think at that gourmet burger place, I decided to just
• 28:17
  Speaker 1: walk for a couple hours back to that waterfall, get
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: clay and bring it to the tile lady because I
• 28:24
  Speaker 1: was curious, like could she make something out of this clay,
• 28:27
  Speaker 1: because that's they order all their clay from an island
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: famous for clay, one of the islands in Japan that's
• 28:34
  Speaker 1: famous for clay. But I thought it would be really
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: cool if they had clay that they could fire themselves
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: from the local area from their town, and so I
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: showed up. Her husband answered the door, and I just said, like,
• 28:51
  Speaker 1: did I translate? I think I just translated on my phone. Hey,
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: I was talking to your wife about this clay near
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: a waterfall and I wanted to show it to her.
• 28:59
  Speaker 1: And so she came out, and the husband and the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: wife we talked a little bit, but they were clearly
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: underwhelmed by the clay and they showed me like the
• 29:09
  Speaker 1: good clay that they use. But I would bet money
• 29:15
  Speaker 1: that you could make this clay into at least a
• 29:17
  Speaker 1: rudimentary sculpture. And I just thought it would be so
• 29:20
  Speaker 1: cool if they had a few things that were made
• 29:24
  Speaker 1: from clay from their hometown rather than imported clay from
• 29:29
  Speaker 1: a famous an island famous for clay. I mean, this
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: was good stuff, Like you can definitely make bricks out
• 29:37
  Speaker 1: of this. You can make anything out of it. You can.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: It's good clay. And it had it had golden flecks
• 29:42
  Speaker 1: in it too. I didn't see that until I was
• 29:44
  Speaker 1: walking over there to them, and I was like, oh, no,
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: am I going to give them like golden clay and
• 29:47
  Speaker 1: then they're going to become rich and I'm just going
• 29:49
  Speaker 1: to be the poor schmuck who told them to go
• 29:52
  Speaker 1: searching for gold in their waterfall nearby. Boy, if I
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: was living there longer, or even if I had just
• 30:00
  Speaker 1: that sooner, I might have looked into that. I mean,
• 30:03
  Speaker 1: it's gold. What if it was real gold and not
• 30:07
  Speaker 1: just fools gold, that would be crazy. And this was
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: this was thick, rich clay. So that's the that's the
• 30:15
  Speaker 1: spot you can find some gold for sure. Well for
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: maybe pretty crazy to even find fool of gold in
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: this clay bank in a magical looking waterfall, But I
• 30:29
  Speaker 1: had a lot of fun showing it to them, And
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: who knows, maybe they did make something out of it,
• 30:32
  Speaker 1: because I can't imagine they were such such dedicated artisans.
• 30:38
  Speaker 1: They must be interested in making something out of local clay.
• 30:42
  Speaker 1: I feel like artisans love that kind of stuff. I
• 30:45
  Speaker 1: certainly do. But they did not look interested. They were
• 30:49
  Speaker 1: just like, yeah, it's just this is the clay that
• 30:51
  Speaker 1: we use, and it's like really nice you can see.
• 30:54
  Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, that is nice clay. Okay, bye.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: And then wrapping up my Japanese journey, I had to
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: go to the Matsuyama Airport, so I had to get
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: on a train to get into the center of the
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: city of Matsuyama, and there are so many ways to
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: buy train tickets like in Japan, and it just totally depends.
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: It's just luck of the draw which town you're in. Again,
• 31:20
  Speaker 1: this is that technology thing, like they have the technology,
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: but they don't want to standardize everything with the newest
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: technology if they don't have to. So there's a machine
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: and you can pay in cash. There's another machine and
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: you can pay with your credit card. You can pay
• 31:39
  Speaker 1: the conductor directly on the train. Sometimes you can pay
• 31:43
  Speaker 1: a ticket man walking up and down in the train.
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: Sometimes you pay a ticket office person after you get
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: off the train. Sometimes you pay a ticket office person
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: before you get on the train. And sometimes you have
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: to pull a ticket from an automatic machine when you
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: get on the train and then pay the guy who's
• 32:05
  Speaker 1: walking up and down the train. So that's eight different
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: ways to pay for your train ticket in Japan, and
• 32:12
  Speaker 1: sometimes you can do you know, you can choose from
• 32:15
  Speaker 1: one of those, but it's I would rather they standardize it.
• 32:19
  Speaker 1: And there was just the two machines and one counter
• 32:22
  Speaker 1: guy everywhere, but no, so I basically every time I
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: took the train, because I've probably took the train under
• 32:29
  Speaker 1: ten times total, maybe just about ten times. Almost every
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: time I was doing a different method of payment because
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I'd like look for the ticket to pull There'd be
• 32:37
  Speaker 1: no ticket on this train, okay, And then the next
• 32:40
  Speaker 1: time the guy from the ticket office would be missing,
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: so I'd have to go around to the back and
• 32:45
  Speaker 1: buy one as if I hadn't already taken the train,
• 32:48
  Speaker 1: or a different day there was the guy walking up
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: and down, and then another day I did pay the
• 32:55
  Speaker 1: conductor directly. So I've always had to pay a different
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: way on the trains in Japan, and they don't have
• 33:01
  Speaker 1: all the options all the time, so I can't just
• 33:03
  Speaker 1: always pay one. I just have to figure out what
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: they're doing that day at that station. But you know
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: it anyway, I did figure it out. Oh the last day,
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: the last night before I went to the airport, though,
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: I went back to Uichi, the cool Japanese Yuki torri
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: restaurant that gave me my nice Uichi I guess work shirt.
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: But it's so comfortable I'm still taking it around with me.
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: I went back there and I ate twice as much
• 33:33
  Speaker 1: as I did last time, so I spent a lot
• 33:36
  Speaker 1: of money at that place. The second time, and I
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: was kind of surprised by the bill, and I'm not sure,
• 33:41
  Speaker 1: but they kept giving me extra stuff, and at first
• 33:45
  Speaker 1: I was like, whoa, you guys are give me extra stuff.
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: But when I got the bill, I was like, did
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: they just charge me for stuff that they thought I
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: should eat? But I think I did get some fancier.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: I definitely got like a duck sashimi, which I've never
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: had before and was super tasty. It wasn't quite sashimi.
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: It was it looks like sashimi, but it is super
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: lightly seared but sliced and presented so it looks like sashimi.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: It was tasty, super super rich. That was That was
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: a good dish. I got a bunch of st I
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: got a whole bunch of stuff and it was delicious,
• 34:21
  Speaker 1: and I had a giant beer and it was really fun. Okay,
• 34:24
  Speaker 1: But the day I left Japan, the last day in Japan,
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: I pulled on my jacket and I was like, okay,
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: let's go, we gotta go. And I managed to pull
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: my jacket in such a way that I have never
• 34:36
  Speaker 1: done before or since. I mean it's only been a week.
• 34:40
  Speaker 1: And I scratched my eye with the corner of the
• 34:46
  Speaker 1: collar of my jacket. What now, I'm going to put
• 34:52
  Speaker 1: out an episode called blood sacrifice, because this happens to
• 34:55
  Speaker 1: me whenever I'm not paying attention and I leave a
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: country or a city in the last few days. If
• 35:04
  Speaker 1: I'm paying attention, I'm okay. If I'm like present in
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: the world, it's all right. I don't hurt myself. But
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: if I'm very comfortable in a place, I sort of
• 35:15
  Speaker 1: I'm still present, but I'm not as cautious as I
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: as I might be, and I'll do something. I will
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: scratch my finger, i will stub my toet something, and
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I'll start bleeding just a little bit, and I leave
• 35:27
  Speaker 1: a little bit of my blood behind in the world.
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: And luckily I wasn't bleeding from my eye, but I
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: had that for a week or more, this slightly blurry eye,
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: and it freaked the crap out of me because I'd
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: always heard about scratched corneas and like they don't heal
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: and all this kind of stuff. I don't know what
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: I did. My eye is fine now, but it was
• 35:51
  Speaker 1: definitely messed up for days because of the blood sacrifice
• 35:55
  Speaker 1: I had to get for leaving my lovely two story
• 35:57
  Speaker 1: house in Japan. Uh worth it worth going there? Now
• 36:02
  Speaker 1: that it's help, it was certainly worth. It freaked me
• 36:05
  Speaker 1: out a bit, but uh yeah, I did have a
• 36:07
  Speaker 1: blood sacrifice incident leaving Japan, which I thought was really funny.
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: I wish I had written them down. I kept thinking
• 36:13
  Speaker 1: I should, but I I have forgotten so many, so
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: I'll have to I have to wait until I can
• 36:20
  Speaker 1: remember enough of them to make a full episode out
• 36:22
  Speaker 1: of them. Because if I had written down all the
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: times the day before I left a place, or two
• 36:27
  Speaker 1: days before and I stub my toe, I scratched myself,
• 36:30
  Speaker 1: or I climb a fence and ripped my shirt, oh
• 36:35
  Speaker 1: you know what, I don't even have that one written down.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: I definitely did that in Italy. Where was that? Okay, well,
• 36:41
  Speaker 1: so yeah, so I have. I have blood sacrifices. I'll
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: tell you about. And then let's get to Bousan. Let's
• 36:47
  Speaker 1: just here. I am. I am in Busan, first day,
• 36:52
  Speaker 1: first night. Really, I get there at night. And okay,
• 36:55
  Speaker 1: speaking of the new technology thing, Korea likes standardized new technology,
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: so their bus stops all have electronic displays of when
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: the next bus is showing up, and like there's QR
• 37:12
  Speaker 1: codes to scan everything, and everything looks new. It was
• 37:15
  Speaker 1: really nice. I could not busson is so so nice.
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be talking about this a lot in the
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: next you know, probably a couple episodes while I'm in Busan.
• 37:26
  Speaker 1: But I cannot believe how beautiful Busan is, and I
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: can't believe how convenient it is. I it was so
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: easy to get a train from like as far away
• 37:38
  Speaker 1: I was. I'm staying in high Endi, so that is
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: or hey Uendai like very It's as far from the
• 37:48
  Speaker 1: airport as you can get. The airport is on the
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: far west and Handay is on the far east. And
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  Speaker 1: I had no problem getting across these thirty miles from
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  Speaker 1: one end to the city to the other. And I
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  Speaker 1: had to take one too. I had to take two
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  Speaker 1: trains and then a public bus at eleven thirty pm,
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  Speaker 1: and it was effortless. Everything was just There were signs everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: the ticket machines were in English. If I was little later,
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  Speaker 1: like if I had to take some time to figure
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  Speaker 1: stuff out, I would have had trouble because I arrived
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  Speaker 1: so late at midnight, like I know, the public bus
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  Speaker 1: would have stopped running. I could still get over there,
• 38:31
  Speaker 1: but I just I just wanted things to beas I
• 38:33
  Speaker 1: just wanted to get over there already, and because of
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: how convenient and advanced Korea was a Busan, I'll say specifically,
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: because I did not have this in Soul. It was
• 38:47
  Speaker 1: always a pain in the butt. Maybe it's easier now,
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: but here I was, and I never go back to
• 38:52
  Speaker 1: Korean cities because Soul never made a good impression on me.
• 38:58
  Speaker 1: Loving Busan already. I've been here a couple of days,
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: but I'm amazing love Busan so far, and now that
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  Speaker 1: I've been there, I definitely want to go to other
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Korean cities. I just won't go back to Seoul until
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: I'm like, go to a bunch of Korean cities and
• 39:14
  Speaker 1: I'm like, yeah, these are all great. But it was
• 39:17
  Speaker 1: so easy to get from the airport all the way
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  Speaker 1: across the city, even though I can't speak any Korean
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: and they couldn't understand me at all, Like it's just
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: the numbers are posted, the roots are posted. Oh in
• 39:28
  Speaker 1: my awesome simcard works, so I can just check the
• 39:31
  Speaker 1: roots on Google. And I was actually I almost got
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: actually I was almost out of luck. There was there's
• 39:38
  Speaker 1: a lady wong down the road and like I said,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: it's almost midnight, so I don't want to freak her out,
• 39:41
  Speaker 1: but I was like, sorry, this bus, like blue line bus,
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: is it here? And she looked around, looked embarrassed, like sorry,
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: I don't know. She said something to the effect she
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: spoke like a little English and said something like I
• 39:56
  Speaker 1: don't know, I'm new here, something like that, and I
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: was like, oh no, it's totally fine. And then I
• 40:00
  Speaker 1: looked at my right and the bus I'm looking for
• 40:02
  Speaker 1: is driving up right next to me, and I was like,
• 40:05
  Speaker 1: there's no way that that's the bus I'm supposed to take,
• 40:09
  Speaker 1: because I had just come out of the subway and
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: now I'm just in the middle of busan looking around, like,
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: where the heck am I getting another subway? I'm supposed
• 40:18
  Speaker 1: to get a bus. So I asked that lady. She
• 40:20
  Speaker 1: didn't know. And then a bus pulls up right next
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: to me, and the bus is painted bright blue, and
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: I was like okay, So I just ran over there
• 40:28
  Speaker 1: and got on the bus and showed him where I
• 40:30
  Speaker 1: wanted to go, and he's like, oh yeah, yeah, blue line,
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: Blue Line, and I was like okay, and he took
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: me straight there, and now that I've been here a
• 40:39
  Speaker 1: couple of days, I can tell like I would have
• 40:41
  Speaker 1: easily recognized the bus stop. I've just never seen it
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: before and it looked so it looks so cool, it
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: looks so futuristic, that I didn't realize it was a
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: bus stop. I was overwhelmed by being in the middle
• 40:52
  Speaker 1: of Busan for the first time, even though it was midnight.
• 40:54
  Speaker 1: There's just everything was new. So I got lucky, got
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: to my hotel, check love in Busan. I will talk
• 41:03
  Speaker 1: to you soon on the next episode all about Busan,
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: because there's so much to talk about in Busson what
• 41:14
  Speaker 1: a cool city. Talk to you soon. Thank you so
• 41:16
  Speaker 1: much for listening. You can talk to me at bit
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: of a Rambler Gmail dot com or bit of a
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: Rambler on Blue Sky and Lemmy the travel communities over there. Man,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: I'm excited to talk about Busan because I have so
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: much to talk about already, having just been here a
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: couple of days. The buffets and the hikes and all
• 41:35
  Speaker 1: this stuff. Okay, I will talk to you soon. You
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: can talk to me soon. Have a great rest of
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: your day.