OUR BOY IS LEAVING US (ft. @Mudan) | Trash Taste #241
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to start selling with Shopify today. Shopify.com/trash. - Hello and welcome to another episode of Trash Taste. I'm your host for today, Garnt. Joining me once again are the boys and we have someone coming back or should I say he's going to be leaving us. - No! - Hello.

- It's the boy, Munar. - So wait, when was the first time you came on? So people who don't know, Munar came on, he's our editor. - Our editor. - Best editor in the business, some say. And he's living in Japan for one year and that comes to an end next week, basically. Or by the time this episode's out, it's already finished.

- Yeah. - I'll be gone. - Yeah, so- - It was over a year ago. - His episode came out in October, 2023. - Wait, so that was, yeah, yeah, that's right. 'Cause you were on before you moved here. - Yeah, I came, this was the first time I came here as a tourist for like two weeks. And then afterwards I was like, yeah,

- I'm gonna come here again. - Minato's not just an exceptional editor, he's also an exceptional vlogger. He's been vlogging every single day in Japan. - And you have not missed a day. - I have not. - Yeah. - I'm trying to deliver an honest view on Japan. Not none of this videos opening lucky bags or crane games. - I mean, there's quite a few of those. - But yeah, I guess, okay.

Sorry, I can't. I'm just too excited. - I'm excited. I'm excited. - There's too many thoughts to get in order. Obviously, I think it'd be really fun to go over, now that you've been here for a year, what lived up to the expectation, what hasn't, what's worth doing, what's not worth doing. What have we lied about? What have we told the truth about? What have we sold? What have we undersold? - What is the difference from that Mudan

- Mudan sitting here right now having- - We want the unbiased year review of Japan from your eyes. - Since you're leaving, so. - I'll kick it off, right? What is the one word that you could sum up a year in Japan? - Insane. - I mean, one word? - Okay, okay. - One word. - That's right, that's right, 'cause then we can build off that one word. So insane, why insane, Ruden? - 'Cause Japan, land of the dreams, is the best country ever.

- He's like, "All right, see you guys." - And that's it. - I mean, there's quite a lot of like bad things here as you mentioned, but then the good just outweighs the bad by so much. - What would you say are the bads in your eyes? 'Cause you went to, you have done something that none of us three or other anyone, maybe except one or two people I know have done. You've been to every prefecture in a year.

- Yeah. - Which is crazy. - Or just every prefecture in general. - Was it like, so obviously there's 47 prefectures in Japan. - 47, yeah. - Did you sleep in every prefecture, have a night there, or was it kind of just go through, have a look around? - I wanted to do at least one day in every prefecture and visit the most amazing things, the biggest things in there. So it wasn't really deep dive into it, but it's more like top 10 things to do in that prefecture. - Right, right. - I feel like that's like,

a good way of going about it? Do you feel like you got to see every prefecture or? - It depends. 'Cause there are definitely some prefectures that are better than others where you can spend more time like Osaka or Kyoto. But then there's some prefectures where it's like, I don't even have like half a day of activities there. - Yeah, yeah. - You can just say Nara, it's fine. - I mean, that was, you can spend an entire day there if you like forest and walking for the entire day. But I mean, Ibaraki,

- Ibaraki is a rough one. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Okay. - Akita, pretty rough. - Oh God, yeah. I went to the Akita museum. Oh yeah, you can see the dog museum. It's like, okay. - Oh yeah, I went there. - I mean, it's cool. - Akita is pretty rough. - Okay, okay. Muran's top three prefectures in Japan. Divisible, go. - Does Tokyo count? - Of course it does. - Yeah, of course. - I mean, Tokyo number one by far. - Okay. - Nothing comes close. Second.

- Hokkaido? - Hell yeah. - Okay, okay. - We agree. - Yeah, yeah. - Hokkaido's like a country on its own though. - Yeah. - It's so big and there's so many different areas of it. - We like Hiroshima. - Hiroshima is great as well. - Prettiest prefecture in my opinion, Nagasaki. It looks so great. It's so aesthetic. - Yeah, yeah. - Okay. - Cycling through there, I remember how beautiful it was. - Best vibes, Fukushima. - Oh. - Fukushima, really? - Yeah.

I don't know if I would recommend it to tourists. - Fukushima? - Yeah. - I recommend it if you just wanna kind of fucking eat and drink in a cool vibe. - Yeah, yeah, I mean, that's the vibe, right? - That's what I'll do on vacation is I'll eat and drink, so if the place is fun for that, let's do it. - You basically described like 70% of the free food. - Well, I don't know about that. I feel like if I was in...

- Let's think of a prefecture like Mie. - Yeah. - I think it's like a- - Wow, that's crazy. I was also thinking Mie. - And also like, what is it? Yamaguchi prefecture. It's really beautiful, but not as like kind of fun vibes as Fukushima and Kitakushi area. I feel like they have quite a lot to do in that area. And obviously home of ramen. Well, that type of ramen. - Hakata ramen, yeah. - But some say it's the best in the world. Depends where you go.

- I mean, how was your opinion on Japanese food? You know, it's going on ramen. Has it changed since living here?

- Has your food taste changed at all or any food opinions about Japanese food? - Yeah, because what was like your Japanese food palette before you came to Japan? - Yeah. - I don't think it's changed that much 'cause I liked sushi before. Now Japan has ruined sushi for me 'cause now I know. - Yes. - I know that before I actually didn't like sushi or like I hadn't had real sushi in a way. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Other than that, I wouldn't say there's anything like

that changed my palate. I've just discovered new foods like okonomiyaki, that's my favorite now. - Let's go. - I was disappointed for the first half a year 'cause there wasn't any single food that like blow my mind. You keep talking about good foods and stuff. And I was like, I mean, I tried ramen, like I've tried so many different ramens and it's like so mid.

And I've tried different, like even sushi, it's great, but there's like a cap to it, like how good it can be. And there wasn't a single moment where I was like, okay, I fuck with this. Yeah, but until I went to Hiroshima, had the okonomiyaki there, I was like, okay, this is it. Oh my God, this is what I was missing. - The difference between Hiroshima, okonomiyaki and Tokyo is they just add noodles in it.

- It makes the difference. - It gives it a structure that it needs. - Yeah, it makes all the difference. The carbs just give it that texture and it makes it feel like a meal. - You wouldn't build just a concrete building without steel rebar in it, right? It's kind of like that. It kind of really holds the building together and allows it to have a nice beautiful layer. - It's just so beautiful and thick. - I love it.

- I didn't wanna eat it after coming from Hiroshima. 'Cause I was like, oh, this is too good. I don't wanna ruin my memory of it. But I think like three months afterwards, I went to like a pretty high end place in Tokyo, had it and it was so good. It cost like twice as much and it was like- - It's a street food. It's meant to be like, it's kind of like ramen where it has kind of a price point where it should always be at. But you can just like add extras and stuff. I fucking love it.

- So good. - So why, what made you want to go on this like year long journey of vlogging every day to begin with?

Like, why would you do that to yourself? I just like- - You're already managing how many fucking channels and you're like, I'm also going to daily vlog on top of that. - Yeah. - It's about the grind set, you know? I'm kidding. I like making videos and it just felt like a good way to improve myself as I haven't been able to like do a lot of videos and the best way to improve is just make more of it. - Yeah, for sure. - And also,

I know if I'm not pushing myself, I would be like, maybe go out once a week or something like that. Or like, ah, today's too much, I'll just be at home. But this makes me go out every single day, like find something. And if I'm out of ideas, just push even further to like look into a B plot to like side quest that not even a lot of people would know about. - Yeah. So what are some of like your funnest surprises you've had in Japan on this like journey?

- Yeah, like people are insanely nice. Or like just- - I think these people in Estonia are kind of cold. - No, that's the one thing I'd say it's kind of the same. Like literally the people here are the same as Estonians. Or I guess like people have compared said that Finland is the- - Finland is the Japan of Europe. - Yeah. - Yeah. - 'Cause like everybody's cold to themselves, which I like.

As an introvert, it's so nice. Like, don't talk to me. I don't want to sit on a bus and have some random person come up to you and talk like. - Yeah, that's fair. - But like, if you go to a bar or like have a couple of drinks, everybody opens up, everybody's nice. I mean, everybody still helps you out. So that's very similar in a way. And it kind of sucks 'cause like the best experiences in a way are at like bars. But that's like, you turn into alcoholic in a way, which. - Yeah, that's...

- That is one thing I noticed about Japan as well, where some, you know, it's very, very easy to go into bars and have great fucking interactions and meet new people and obviously like, you know, see some of the real Japan, but it just means that you just end up drinking a lot more and more every day. - I mean like you could definitely like have

like authentic experiences and talk to Japanese people and have a real connection. But I just think that it's like a cheat. It just makes Japanese people open up. - Yeah, exactly. - So it's kind of hard to like recommend things outside of eating and drinking where I'm like, yeah, it's gonna be hard if you- - Yeah, I remember you uploaded a vlog, I think where it was like things to do in Japan if you don't drink.

- Yeah. - It's like one second long. - No, 'cause a lot of people also comments on my vlogs like, "What if you don't drink? "What happens then? "Can you still go out to experience the vlog?" - They don't let you leave the house. 6:00 PM hits, stay. - But some people have been like, "Oh, I didn't know you could go to bars or whatever. "I don't drink." And then just miss it. - Well, everyone has their own alcoholic options. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And if you don't mind being sober, then yeah, fuck it, you'll have a great time. Five people drinks, you know? - Yeah, and that's the thing I wanted to try out. Even go to Golden Guy, which is notorious for just drinking.

and just went to bars, had like non-alcoholic drinks, which I mean, you can't get like insanely good cocktails, but you can have like, I don't know, ginger ale. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. - Yeah, they always cater. - And you can still talk to locals. I mean, 'cause they're drunk, they don't care. They're gonna be like, "Oh, what's up, foreign person?" - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - If you get asked and you don't wanna deal with questioning, just be like, "Oh, doctor." And they'll be like, "Oh, okay."

- So sometimes they do ask actually, I'll order non-alcoholic sometimes and I'll be like, I just want one non-alcoholic drink for one second, just give me a break. But I have to like justify it.

- Wait, do they ask you? - Yes. - Well, why are you not drinking? - They'll be like, "What do you mean? Why aren't you having a beer?" - Oh my Lord. - I've never been asked before. - I've never been asked that. - Well, when you're talking to a Japanese person? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - What? - I've never been asked that. - I'm sure I'm not. - Maybe they just see white person drinking non-alcoholic. There must be something. - Yeah, they see your face and he's like, "This motherfucker definitely drinks." Something's up. - What was that? - And they're not wrong. - Yeah. Something's gone wrong with the world.

- So what are some of you, okay, what's your favorite video that you've made so far on this like year long journey? - Fuck, that's hard. - What's like some that stand out for you? - There's a couple of different categories. There's like videos that perform well. There's videos that I like making and there's like soul food videos where they're like, I wasn't too big a fan of an idea, but going through it is like interesting. Like the weirdest one is I became disabled for a day.

- It sounds like a challenge, but that wasn't the point. - Okay. - So the idea was like, you know, in- - I saw this video. - Yeah, 'cause I do daily vlogs. People ask about Japan or like the experiences. And I've seen a couple of comments like, oh, if it's hard to walk and stuff. And I was like, okay, what if I rent like a wheelchair? And for a full day, I don't get out of the wheelchair. I'll like,

I'm not making it as challenge like, oh, this is me. How much can I do in 24 hours? But it's more like how accessible is it? And try to put myself into their place, like see what are the difficulties. - Right, right. - And there's some very weird things that I would have never noticed. Like how all, 'cause it rains here a lot and they need to get rid of the rain.

So the sidewalks, if you're walking, they're completely fine, but they're actually like one, two degrees slanted. So if you end up pushing yourself, you just use one arm the entire way through. - Oh. - And you don't notice it at all. - Oh, it's called, "What if you couldn't walk?" - I had a worse title in mind, I can't remember what, but I was like, "No, I can't do that."

- But yeah, overall I was pleasantly surprised that you can still do everything. It just takes you like three, four times longer. - Right. - Yeah. I think definitely like the whole accessibility thing has gotten, at least from how I seen it, has gotten a lot better, especially in Tokyo.

- Yeah, I definitely do think it's still kind of difficult. I mean, again, you went through it so you can say for yourself, but. - I think given the fact that it's a city that has to accommodate how many millions and they still managed to somewhat do a good attempt at it. I think that's great.

And anything is better than nothing. - Oh, absolutely. - You'll see a lot of blind people. I see so many blind people in Tokyo as well. - Well, that's what the yellow parts are, right? - The yellow and they can see. - The sidewalls. - On the systems, like when you go to a train station, like all the chimes, like on the streets, if you've been to Japan, you notice that there's like bird chimes whenever it's a green light. But depends where you are, the bird chimes are like, there's two different types.

If you go from like North or like East side and stuff like that. - Oh, okay. Oh wow. That's cool. - Yeah. - I did not know that. - Yeah, 'cause I've heard the bird chimes and I was just like, oh, I've noticed they're different. I never knew the reason why or what the actual kind of like thought behind it was. I knew that was probably something if I looked into it, but no, that's really interesting to hear. So like,

- Out of all these videos, there are some like wacky ideas. Were there any like days where you're just like, "Oh fuck, I'm just out of fucking ideas. I have no idea what to do." - I feel like half the days, yeah. It's not that you were ever out of ideas, it's more like there's not enough small ideas that you can do that don't tire you out. Like you can't go out the entire day while also working and editing the vlog itself. So there has to be like some times where it's like, okay, so what can you do in two hours, three hours?

Is there a museum? Is there something interesting? And for the first like couple months, it's pretty easy. But after you exhaust everything nearby, then it's like, okay, you have to go to across Tokyo, which is already like an hour of drive. And then there's some cool ideas, which also could take like an hour, two hours. Like at the side of Tokyo, there's a place called Muscle Monsters 2.

which I think you, okay, so it's a theme park. - Where's Muscle Monster's one? - I don't know, why is it called two? Yeah, it's like a theme park, kind of like in like Fuji Q, but it's also like climbing.

So it's like on top of trees. - I think I know. Yeah, I think we wanted the, we were considering filming that one point. It's like trash taste. - But there's like, it's not, the climbing is like one section of it, but it's like 20 different like sections that you can pay individually as well. Like one of them is just walking on a plank on the side, like looking down or like different attractions there. - Right. - Maybe it was something different. - But that's like two hours from my location. - Right. - So it would take like half a day just travel. - Yeah, going back and forth. - Yeah. - It's not realistic.

- What was your best performing video then? - The shittest one. Not the shittest one, but it's the easiest one. It's going to a VTubers house. - Of course. - 'Cause I was supposed to stream with Giri and I didn't have like much time. So I was like, all right, let's do a house tour. And it's not even a house tour. It's literally me showing off her kitchen and then going upstairs and showing like one of those back machines. - That back machine is crazy.

And I didn't even do an introduction on like any of the rooms, like literally nothing. And this is the most best performing video. - And this was pretty early on as well, it seems like. - 10 months ago. - 10 months ago as well. - Wow. - The first month went by really slowly. - Really? - Oh, so that's one of the reasons why I wanted to do daily vlogs is because I don't know who it was, like Veritasium or Vsauce who said like, "The earliest years of your life are the slowest." 'Cause they are when every,

- Yeah. - Anytime something new happens, that's what you memorize. And the first year is like the high school stuff. That is like the slowest 'cause that's when everything first happens in your life. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And I was like, for here as well, like the first month, there's so much new stuff. Like I keep thinking back of the old vlogs and whenever I check them, I'm like, all right, this was definitely the second month, third month. And it's like, no, it's the fourth day here.

I'm like, oh, this was like halfway through and I checked back and it's like, no, it's my fifth day here. I'm like, what the, how did this work? But it's just coming here, like doing all the paperwork. Then you have like so many new things. It's so insane. I would say the first month,

- To felt like the next three months and the next three months felt like the last like 10 months. - I mean, it felt like at least when we moved here, the first six months felt like just setting up. - Yeah. - You always had to do some kind of paperwork. - I mean, it basically was, right? - Yeah. - It was like, you were never done with filling something out. It was genuinely JRPG fetch quests for six months.

- And then it actually gets enjoyable when you actually know how everything works, you know what you wanna order in the conbini. - You figured out the system. - You know, maybe renting a car is easy now, like where it's initially daunting and stuff is like kind of frustrating.

everything just becomes easier. Like the first time getting the bullet train tickets, you're like, "What the hell, how the fuck do I do this?" And this machine that's asking you about limited express ticket reserves, you're like, "What the fuck?" - How do you get the ticket? - Which by the way is still the worst fucking thing ever. And it confuses everyone. - Yeah. - And then you put it on your Suica and just walk through and it's like so easy. - Yeah, you just do it on your Suica, it's easy. But then the website can be a little annoying sometimes to use. And if you're not familiar with the terminology, I think I've complained about this like five times on the podcast,

Basically when you get a book at Shinkansen in Japan, you can buy the ticket for the train, but that doesn't get you a seat or something. Basically I- - I still don't fully know how it works. - All I know is that if I wanna get a seat and sit down, I have to buy two tickets. And if I don't get both of them, they won't let me go through. But if I get one of them, they won't even let me go through. So I don't fully understand. - It's the ticket, it's half the ticket is you pay for the seat and half the ticket is you pay for the ride.

- Yeah, but I remember one time I went through with the limited express ticket and they just wouldn't let me through. And I was like, what the fuck am I doing? I'm fucking dumb. I hate it. - There's so many like little things that you take so a while to get used to. Like even the websites, like you mentioned the Google translate thing, but even like renting a car, there's like some points if I translate it, I can't choose the date. So I have to untranslate for that one section. Otherwise I can press next. - And then also,

Sometimes a website will be in English, but the moment you click the English webpage, like all the options will disappear. So they'll be like, "Oh no, we have like 15 hotel rooms." Like, yeah, dude, in Japanese, yeah, super sugoi dozo. And then you click, "All right, I'll just use the English version of the website." We have no rooms available. - Yeah, same with the car place. Like if I go to English version, it's just completely different setup and signing up and like- - Just be aware of that. If something has an English page, sometimes it might have no reservation.

- And then sometimes- - You might need to go on the Japanese website. - Yeah, sometimes there's magically space available if you go on the Japanese websites. - Unfortunately, the always way to guarantee something in Japan is to call, which is the hardest part. - Web designers, if you want an infinite supply of clients, come to Japan. 'Cause there's so many websites that need fixing. - I don't think they're gonna hire anybody. - No, no, no. - Because they don't see a problem with it. - Also, watching your vlogs, I would occasionally see things that I had repressed memories from, like Fight Club.

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- Oh, you've been there? - Like five years ago. - Oh really? - Yeah, 'cause someone told me about it and I was like, that sounds insane. This can't be real. - Did you do a video on it? - No, no, I just went there. 'Cause I was in Shibuya one night, like third month in and someone was like, "Hey, you should go to this fight club place." I was like, "Uh-huh, fight club." And then they're like, "No, no, no, people actually fight." And I was like, "Okay, I don't really wanna watch people fight." They're like, "No, no, no, like patrons fight." I was like, "What?"

So yeah, you just can go in and then there's like dudes. - Dude, this looks sick. I wanna go in here. - If you're like drunk, you're like, "Yeah, fuck it, I'll fight someone." It's ridiculous. - This is sick as fuck. - Is this legal? - Look, I don't know if it's legal, but they literally are a registered bar called Fight Club. So I feel like if the government had any qualms with it,

- They broke the first rule. - During daytime, it's just a normal like exercise place. And at like, I think 11:00 PM, they start the bar and then you're like drink and just, oh, you want to fight over there? - Yeah, it's literally patrons will just fight each other. - That's sick, it's smart, I wanna go here. - It's ridiculous. It's absolutely stupid.

- That's awesome. - Hell yeah. - Is it? I feel like it's- - Why would it not be awesome? - I was concerned when I was, oh my God, I remember it was like these two 30 year old Japanese men were wailing on each other. - I mean, clearly this is something, 'cause we have places like this as well in Thailand. - What? - For Muay Thai, right? - Yeah, for Muay Thai, there's like- - You can just be like, fucking boom, boom. - Yeah, are you kidding me?

I thought they got away with it in Thailand because there are less health and safety regulations in Thailand. 'Cause ain't no way this would work in a Western world. But yeah, I assume it's a club where you just, you can get drunk and you just be like- - Dude, why haven't we been here? I wanna go here.

- Bro, he's gonna go out in a fucking ambulance afterwards. He has a medical condition. - No, I'm not doing the fighting. I just wanna see Japanese salary men fight. - When I heard about this, I was like, all right, bet, where is it? It's like somewhere at the edges of Tokyo, but it's literally like in the middle of Shibuya. - Shibuya. - Shibuya, scrambled, it's like one minute away. - The people who wanna like get drunk and fight, there's just like something that you just don't wanna, I just don't wanna go near those people. I feel like.

- At least they're doing it here and not like out in the fucking street like most places. - That's just called Australia. - Yeah, that is Australia. I've been to too many close calls on the streets. So at least it's in a controlled environment.

- Yeah, exactly. - I was like literally the first, I totally forgotten about it. I had no interest in revisiting. - I don't know why. This is totally like my vibe. - Yeah, we need to go. - Sure, we need to go. - What is, okay. - We'll go, we'll go. - What is not a vibe about seeing people beat the shit out of each other? - Boys trip to the fight club. - Would you fight as well? - I don't know if I'd fight. - If you get me drunk enough, I will. - I think when I went, I think the,

- I did, but I remember those guys, they were punching each other, but it didn't look like they were like fucking trying to kill each other. - Yeah, of course. - So when you went, were there people fighting? - No, I actually didn't go at the right time. So I opened it up at like 2:00 PM. There was a guy training in the back, was like, "What the fuck is going on?" - You got a couple more days. - Yeah, I think I'm one to revisit

Like see what actually happens. - Let's go. - Go to Lost Bar and then find someone at Lost Bar to fight. - Yeah. - Jesus Christ. - Like this year when I went to Thailand, I went again to Muay Thai, to Sid's family to Muay Thai.

I don't know, man. There's just, there's something primal about it. I don't know if this is like men, men, men, men, but just like seeing people beat the shit out of each other just awakens a part of your lizard brain that you- - I mean, especially Muay Thai. Like I feel Muay Thai is just like even more primal than like boxing gloves, you know? It's like get the fucking grippers out and just fucking walk.

- Boxing is like nice. You have like pillows on your hands, but when legs come in play, it's like, oh shit. - You're just hitting each other with like mini tree trunks. - Yeah, yeah. I remember Sid's dad told me like, he was obviously very happy to go. And he was like, "I remember,

People willingly signed up to come into fight today and only about half of them will think that that was the right decision. And then literally the first fucking fight, someone gets kicked right in the face, gets knocked out and had to be stretched off. It was metal as fuck to be fair. - Hell yeah, dude. - But yeah, I don't know. There's just, I'm fucking turning into,

into Joe Rogan or something like that. - I injected myself with ivermectin and ate some fucking health meat and I fucking- - Just hearing bodily contact and just hearing, just seeing someone get knocked out, just something about it, man. - When you just start discovering this part of your life,

- Literally when I started, when people started visiting me in Thailand and I was like, what do you want to do? - He watched an episode of "Boat You To The Rock", he needed the detox. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that's it. - He needed the detox. - Gotta put my testosterone back on. - He needed something different in his life. - What do you think is one of the most underrated places that you went to that not many people talked about? - Yeah, like maybe somewhere you had like absolutely zero expectations of and you're like, actually this is sick.

- I don't know if there's any of those. - If you can't answer it, I have another question as well. - I'm trying to think. 'Cause I've done so many videos, I can't remember what I've done for the most part. 'Cause if it's underrated, I'm like, I can't remember it. - I guess that's what these vlogs are for, is to archive them. - And there's definitely one of my local bars is, I would say, underrated.

'Cause like nobody knows about it. And then I started making videos and it's getting tourism, which is like kind of nice. It's like, I'm hooking my boys up. - Yeah, hell yeah. - That's what's up. - You took me to some nice bars. - Oh yeah. - You took me to some nice cocktail bars. They were pretty good. I think you've logged those prior, right? - Yeah. - They were really good. I liked those ones. - 'Cause I've done bars where there's like zero reviews. Oh, actually, yeah. When I went to...

'Cause like I tried to look up like what other YouTubers do, I like, I tried to implement it for Japan. And one of the videos was like going to bars that have like zero reviews. So like if a bar opens up recently or maybe has like less reviews and for the most part they were pretty bad except one that opened up like I think two months prior, which was really nice. It was like a karaoke bar and they have one of those fucking Toto $6,000 toilets in there completely brand new. God, I love it.

- The ones that look like UFOs. - Yeah, it opens up itself. - They're like mist your butt. - Yeah. - They're like a . - Lightly damp in your mouth. - Yeah, I'm like, "Damn, okay, all right." - When I went to Kyushu, I went to the Toto Museum. If you don't know what Toto is, it's like the toilet company, like the biggest one, but they do everything else as well. And in their bathroom, they actually, the bathroom itself looks like an exhibit.

with like light showing down on some statues and toilets. And there's one toilet, which is like the most expensive place. And it's just an entire room for it. And it's like you press the button, like sound comes on. - They're like 15 grand, those like expensive toilets, which we all should buy. - Yeah. - My question is what- - Every toilet should be. - What does it do that is different? - It's the vibe, isn't it? - Actually like beyond like spraying water and being warm, I don't know what else it offers. - Fans.

- Yeah, but the fans I feel like never dry your ass quick enough. - And then if they were like Dyson air blasting your butt, I don't know if that would be comfortable. - You just sit on it and it's like that one scene from Rick and Morty where it's just, he goes into the toilet in the middle of nowhere and just takes the most immaculate shit of all time. - You don't know about the fans? 'Cause like, I feel like most people don't do by days 'cause they think, oh, their watch is blasting my ass, that's gonna be uncomfortable. - Did you say by day? - I know. - Wait, who thinks that?

- Well, like most Americans I feel. - That's good. - Well, exactly. But no, that's what you understand. Like fans, you think fans are gonna also blast like too much, but you haven't tried. - No, no, no. If at like a, I'm pretty confident. You had like one of the, you know when you go to the like airport or something and they always have like, there's the things where you try not to touch the side, the Dyson. - Yeah, the ones where you, oh yeah. - You put your hands in like a credit card and you're trying not to touch the side while your hands are being fucking like blasted around.

that dries your hands very quickly. But I feel like that level of air would be far too much on your buttocks. - Well, maybe if it's like 16 grand, it has like its own air system where it's like balances from the front and then like- - Maybe it's like this, it goes.

- I mean, yeah, it's nice. - Eight speaker surround sound for your ass. - It's so expensive that on the website, it doesn't show the price. If you have to ask for the price, you can't afford it. - Oh, it's the real shit. - Real shit. - Hell yeah, dude. - You are not worthy to even look upon the price of this. - If they have that, 'cause some of the places just have that really thin metal bar.

That's how you know the toilet's gonna be pretty good normally. - What's in the metal wall? - They have like a, you know, the metal control panel where it's like a kind of like stick. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - Oh yeah. - They have like a stick in Japan. - Yeah. - That's when you know it's gonna be a good bidet. - True, true. - It's gonna be a good one. But yeah, I mean, bidet's great, it's great. What do you think, 'cause you know, obviously you've listened to a lot of Trash Taste 'cause you've edited. What's the thing that you think we've gotten most wrong about Japan?

- Oh, that's difficult. - Or right. - It's just so- - Yeah. - Where do I even start? - In terms of like our thoughts on Japan or some advice we've given, like you think like, nah. - I just like block out half the stuff. - True. - I mean, you have like good ideas and then bad ideas and it's like, it's never like anything too outrageous. I feel like the most wrong you've gotten is maybe like price wise. 'Cause like you talked about Skytree, like overhyped and stuff. That's my favorite like- - I hate the fucking Skytree. - I like the view from it. 'Cause it's-

- It's the most unique view. Like if you want a unique view, like the Akira view where it like the bomb drops, it sounds bad. I know the point is like- - If you want that World War III view. - Like visually you're so high up, like everything looks like boxes. You don't get the view of what you're doing in the middle of Tokyo. Like it doesn't feel like you're just on a high rise. It's insane. So that's the only reason why I really don't like it. - What don't you like about it?

- Okay, there's a couple of things I don't like about Skytree. First of all, it is so far away from everything else. - Oh my God, it's 10 minutes away from you. What are you talking about? - That's skill issue. - From you. Okay, how often do you go to Asakusa?

- I actually go quite often 'cause my friend lives there. - What? Who goes to a Saksa? I don't know anyone who goes to a Saksa. - You're asking from Joey, the person who lives the furthest away as well. - Yeah, yeah. - I'm an hour away from everything. - Yeah, but he's got to be- - You're fucking so biased. - I am biased. I live right in the center. If anyone ever asked me to meet in the Skytree, I'm like, "You're a fucking psychopath." - No, you don't meet at the Skytree, but the Saksa is the Skytree.

it's so annoying to get there and then there's nothing good around it. It's just all malls. And I'm like, I don't want to be near a mall my entire life. - You're talking about- - It's on like the Skytree is like on, there's a giant mall on the bottom. - It's like the Sox side is on the other side of the- - Yeah, I know. - That whole area, I really don't like it. - Yeah, no, I agree. - Okay, okay. - There's not much to do there. - You can take a picture of a golden poop. - I feel like it's pretty expensive to go up it.

- Yeah, that's the one thing that I felt like you all got wrong or I guess Connor, 'cause you said it's really expensive, but in terms of like places, it's, I was like 2000, 3000. - Is it 2000, 3000? - It's something like that. - It wasn't too much. Like if you go up to Mori Tower, it's pretty much the same price. - So do you pay, 'cause again, I haven't been in like five years 'cause I just didn't like it.

- Yeah, please fact check it, Kai. - Please fact check. - He's gonna have to fact check himself. - Yeah. - So you can go to like multiple parts and you have to pay extra to go to the top? - Yeah, so if you wanna go to the middle, which is like 300 meters, it's decently priced and it's like pretty easy to get there. - Yeah, come on, that's ridiculous. - But if you wanna go to the top, which is like 400 meters. - 450, yeah. It's 68 USD. - That's crazy expensive. - But the view is so much better and also it's like,

- It's hard to recommend going to very top. Cause like you have to wait in the middle for another elevator and that can take a while. That's like 40 minutes the last time I was there. - But $70 is crazy. But you can fucking go to Disneyland. - I mean, this is- - No, you can't actually. - It's probably what, like a hundred bucks? - Disneyland is like 110 now. - But I feel like at least you can do stuff. - This is also the third tallest building. - Yeah, but like, I feel like the view, like when you are a tourist and you're flying into Japan, your view is better. Just look out the window.

- Okay, what if you're on the aisle? - Fucking go to your, go look at- - What if you're on the aisle and you just- - Go to the toilet, go take a shit, and then go and look at the big window that they have, 'cause they always have the exit door next to the toilet. Just look at the window. It's so much cooler.

- I, every single time I'm flying in, dude, I go to the toilet and I look out the window, dude, it's so sick. I'm like, great, great view. Don't need the sky train anymore. Look at that puny little fake structure. - You know what? I'm on your side, Connor. - Thank you. - I'm on your side. I don't know. I feel- - Flying in the Tokyo Dome as a tourist, you can get so many, dude, the views you get of Fuji when you fly in sometimes. - Yeah, that is true. - Genuine cinema. I'm holding my hands up on the plane. - What's your favorite tower?

- My favorite tower? - You mean in- - Viewing platform. - Viewing platform of Tokyo? - Yeah. - I don't really have one just because I- - Wrong, get on a plane, look at the- - Yes, just thank you. - You know, just go to a sky bar. - Trick question. - Just go to like a sky bar. I think honestly for me, that's a good enough view.

You don't have to go up to like the tallest tower. - I wish it should be a sky. - Dude, we've gone to drink so many times at the top of Mori Tower. They have a bar, very expensive cocktails. It's like, they're like $20 a cocktail, but you have a phenomenal view on top. - That's a great view. And you can have drinks and sit down and appreciate the view as well. - Yeah, and there's no like loud noises. It's just fucking great vibes. It's like,

half outdoors, so you have like heated blankets as well. Dude, it's phenomenal. And you're higher than Tokyo Tower. - Like I think the biggest baits of like, not just Japan, but like any country is just the tourist attraction of just go up this high tower to see a view of the city

And the reason I think it's bait is because a lot of the times you're just there, it's a viewing platform with so many different other people and you just kind of like, you can walk around but there's not really anything else to do. So my favorite places, if I want to go to view a city is just go to like a sky bar. Yes, the drinks are gonna be as expensive but if you have one drink there, it's probably going to be as expensive as paying this admission fee to whatever tower you're going to. - What if I don't drink up?

- Then you're gonna get a fucking Coke, Joey. Get a Coke. - Shut the fuck up. - But the salary men will laugh at you. - They'll question you. - They will question you. - And I think that one as well, you can like smoke cigars if you're into that. - I mean, I agree with Garnt in a way 'cause like I don't think much about how- - Oh, just Garnt, you agree.

- Oh, okay. - I don't care about- - Motherfucker, okay. - If you ask about towers with the best views, I like Skytree, but personally, I don't care that much about towers or viewing platforms. Also with the fact that, oh, go to a fucking bar, the issue is like, it's hard to find if you're a tourist.

It's like, if you put in research. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But like in Asakusa, there's the Golden Poop and next to it is the beer. - The Asahi brewery. - Yeah, and at the top of that is like a restaurant, a viewing platform. But also if you want to go in there, the one time I tried, it was two hour waiting time. - Yeah, it's not really touristy there. - So it's like, if you go to, I don't know, a sky bar, like how long is the wait time? - Normally we've never waited.

- So normally we've also bought- - Now we're gonna have to wait. - We've rocked up before, have we? - Yeah, we have. - It's been a while. - It has been a while since we've been there. - I went like four or five months ago and I came up with like eight people on the reservation. - Really? - Yeah. - I feel like it's very luck based. - Well, yeah. - To be honest,

- The more expensive it is, normally you can just rock up. - Also you phone ahead as well? - Yeah, normally the tech is to, especially like, 'cause that place is a hotel. It's like a very fancy hotel. It's at the top. You can easily talk English. You can just be like, "Hey, can we come up?"

So yeah, strat, have money. - But if you're spending $70. - I will agree with you. - I will agree it's very expensive. - I won't lie, Kai, that website, I know it said like Tokyo Skytree US, it did look like a, what'd you call one of the websites that buys the tickets for you? - Proxy. - I don't think it should be $70. - I remember it being,

- It's sponsored, go down. - 4,000 or something. - I remember being like three, 4,000 yen. - The official Tokyo Skytree. - Tickets, how much? - Put it in yen please. - There you go, 3,000. - Dude, isn't that so evil? Those bastards put it sponsored and then they fucking steal from you. - Holy shit, the markup. - It's like double the price. - The actual markup. - No, no, that's a sponsored website. It's literally more than double. But yeah, it's 2,000 to go in the middle and 3,000 to go to the top.

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- Apparently, no, you can't do that. Sorry, mom and dad. - Yeah, it's very popular now. - I just assumed it's a fucking viewing platform. How can people be like, how can it be busy? - It's crazy. - Have a fucking gander and leave. 3,500 is reasonable though. - That markup is diabolical. Can we just appreciate that? It's like over double. - 68 USD, that's insane. - Life hack when you travel, never ever use a sponsored link.

Although funnily enough, remember one time we couldn't get our Canadian visas. - And we need to choose a sponsored link. - We couldn't get a Canadian visa through the Canadian government website, but the sponsored link, which is one of these scams where they would just fill out the form for you. When you put all the information via like a computer, the charge double, got us our visa.

- Because we were, to explain, flying through Canada, even if we are not like stopping there, even if you have a layover, you need the equivalent of like an Esther, like an Aviza. So we didn't find this out until literally me and Connor were at the airport and the Canadian government website chose a great time to just crash when we were doing it. - Their website worked. - But their website worked. - Damn. - Immediate visa. - But yeah, okay, if you guys find it is reasonable.

But I think that's fair. And week days, oh, we just go to the other deck. - Yeah. - Yeah, I mean, I think that's reasonable. I still would just say, hey, save the 5,000 yen, go get a drink. - It's completely up to people. Like the more I've been to these places, I know there's some people that appreciate it.

- Well, that's the thing. The thing is, is that most people who are probably going to be open to climbing up Tokyo Skytree are probably already visiting Asakusa anyway. So it's just like, oh, it's just there. Let's just, you know, one or two stations across Oshiage and you can probably get it all done in a single day, right? So it makes sense. - Yeah.

Rather than being like, oh, I have to go all the way to Roppongi, I have to go all the way to Shibuya, which is pretty much just on the other side. - I hate anything that is just like giant malls surrounding it. And I feel like Skytree is just a giant mall with a tower. And I'm like, I hate malls. - You hate malls? - Yeah, I just feel like in Japan, malls, I feel like you just pay double

'cause obviously they have to mark it up 'cause they're in a mall and it's already very expensive. And so I feel like you just end up paying a lot of money for something that's just okay. Whereas when you go to like Shibuya, Shinjuku, other places where there's like loads of like grungy areas, where it's just like single owned stores, I feel like you just get way cooler shit. - Yeah, but also I feel like for a lot of people, especially tourists, it takes a little more courage to go into those places like that, right? So it makes sense that they have to accommodate. - I'm just a mall hater.

- What did malls do to you bro? - I never think, oh gee, can't wait to go to this mall. - Really? - No. - Except for when the nonsense class was there. - But you don't like shopping? - Not really.

- Not really. - You don't really go shopping, do you? - Not often. - Yeah. - And so I feel like malls, especially like, and eating in a mall, always the worst eating experience. I feel like there's never a good restaurant in a mall. - And if you come to Japan, like malls are the most boring places 'cause it's literally the same things. - No, that's true. - Like yeah, Louis Vuitton, Gucci on the bottom store, second store will be all like cloth brands you've never heard of, but seemingly every Japanese person knows what they are. You're like, it's gunk. Like, how the fuck gunk?

- No, it's a real good Norwegian brand of tin right now. I've never heard of this shit. - Yeah. - No, I totally get that as well. But I also understand that, you know, again, it's just easy for people who don't want to go exploring, you know, and just want everything in one place. - Explore, fuck it. - No, I agree. I agree. I totally agree. - Daily vlog, come on, make content. - Yeah, make content. - Get a wheelchair. - Go to a fight club.

- Get beat up. - So now if you, okay, if you had to bring a friend over to Japan and they asked,

for an itinerary? What would end up on that itinerary? - One of the places you take your friends. - Yeah, let's say you're like your friends coming for like a week or two weeks or something. So it's not just like one day in Tokyo or whatever. - Well, it depends what do they like? 'Cause the biggest thing is like with me as well, I'm more of a person who likes activities rather than history or architecture. So in my opinion, if you come to Japan for the first time in your life, like for like two weeks, don't leave Tokyo.

'Cause like every ward of Tokyo is so different. Even in terms of architecture, you can get all sorts of foods here, all sorts of architecture, temples, shrines, you can like learn history and every ward even looks different enough. So if you travel outside, that's already like half a day wasted. You're spending more money on like Shinkansen or whatever. - Yeah.

I feel like two weeks in Tokyo just isn't even enough to get everything done. - That's true. - Unless you actually do history or you like nature or you just wanna check out Nara, in that case, sure, go Osaka or whatever. - Yeah, I don't think it's bad though to go and maybe just, 'cause people always want to go to Osaka and Kyoto. It's like, yeah, it's your first trip, just do it. Check it out, see which cities you maybe vibe with more.

The one thing I do think that is quite difficult about Tokyo is if you don't have anyone who can recommend you stuff, I think it's quite daunting. - It is. - 'Cause I remember when we came in on vacation, I felt lost. - There's too many things to do and that causes a problem. - And you have no frame of reference of what might be good and what to look for as like a sign of quality. - And you search up online and it's all like the same. It's very unhelpful, it's the same 10 things. - I hate the top 10 list 'cause

every time you're like, oh, top 10 things to do there. - Genuinely useless. - It's five first things, it's just shrine or temple. And then, oh, go go-karting. Where with the fucking monkeys. - Dude, the go-karting? Oh my God. - There's so many cool things to actually do, but it's like, no, you're fucking, oh, when we went to Otta,

And I was like, oh, what to do in Otta City? Top 10 things to do. - They're all like gardens. - The first five things were, oh, go to Haneda Airport. You have a shrine there. You have another temple there. You have a garden in Haneda Airport. And it's like, fucking there's a city. Why are you wanting us to go to the airport? - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, number three bestseller, "Go-Karting." - And then it's like, oh, a food tour or whatever. - Food tour, yeah. Bus tour. Skytree. - Do not, there's food tours. Oh, so.

- Yeah, they are. - It's a Kijifish market. - All of the tours- - Kijifish market is so ass, bro. - Yeah. - It's so ass they had to change it. They were like, "Well, we gotta get rid of this place. Let's fucking move it." - If you go to like these tours or take a tour, 'cause I've looked on these places for inspiration or whatever, and there's stuff that's like $100 that you can just do for free if you sign up yourself. He says, "I think I went to like a diet building tour, whatever." And that's free if you sign up. It's the national-

- Government building. - Yeah, government building. And I think there was like one thing where it was like $70 if you go with a guide or like personal guide or something. And like most of these things, it's so easy to do yourself. Like even watching sumo wrestling, if you go through one of these places, it's like $120 to like go see them train.

But if you go by yourself without a guide, you do pay something, I'm not sure how much, but it's so much cheaper. And then you just look at it and go home instead of waiting around for them to like talk for an hour of like, oh, well this is the backstory like stuff. - Let me read off the Wikipedia. - Sometimes it's good though.

- Yeah. - The problem with these lists is that like nine out of 10 of them are just kind of like whatever suggestions or copy paste from other articles. So you often just don't get anything of value. - Yeah, definitely. - It kind of like, I think this is the case for like basically every tourist place in the world where you search it up and most lists, I swear just copy off each other most of the time. It's rare to get that like personal touch of,

This could be AI generated. We don't know, you know? - It is really hard to give someone an itinerary that they like. 'Cause some people like yourself, you like doing activities. I'm not a big activity guy. I don't do a whole lot actually. I realize it's kind of sit around.

- It depends what kind of a person you are. Like if you come to Japan and knowing you like Japan and have like stuff plans, you can do quite a lot. 'Cause I had a friend come over and he did like a ton of things. And even the first time I came here, 'cause I prepared in advance, I wanted to make like a video and I looked like all of your videos that you've done here and other YouTubers. So like my two weeks was completely booked up. And I feel like that was a really good way of experiencing things. 'Cause I wasn't looking at these lists. I was looking at specific things YouTubers have done.

but there's other people who have come and they go with like a European mindset or like, I'm gonna come here, I'm gonna chill out, I'm gonna walk around and see what I can do. And in Tokyo, it doesn't really work out. - Yeah, you're gonna have to book everything. - Yeah, like you can't go Shibuya Sky, even Skytree can like fill out the same day. - Yeah, definitely. - Yeah, you do kind of have to book everything. - And if you don't like the most basic thing, I feel like TeamLab Planets, which I would recommend. I feel like it's interesting. I know you don't like- - I don't, I should have been.

- I just don't like the idea of like, I've just heard it's like so crowded and it sounds- - It's fine. - I mean, it's an interesting experience. - It's like Instagram heaven, basically. - Yeah. - Most definitely. - But again, you can't go the same day 'cause it's like booked up, like you have to do in advance. - It didn't used to be that way. I think it was like, I think it's only recently without you had to really just book ahead 'cause I remember when I went,

I guess before Mr. Beast made his video and it really started like popping off. I just rocked up on the day. - I'm just sad they, Odaiba, they got rid of the onsen. - Yeah. - You missed it.

- Odaiba's never been the same since. - It's not. - Dude, they had like a whole like onsen like town in Odaiba. - What? - Was it called? - Onsen Monogatari. - Yeah, Onsen Monogatari. - It's a change, I think there's some other stuff. - I think it relocated, but the thing that made it so perfect was- - It was like next to the Gundam. - It was next to the Gundam. So all you needed to do was, oh, you wanna go see the Gundam? - Dude, it was like a full like summer festival. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Every day was a summer festival. - So you go in and they used to have like

five restaurants and you would all be in Yucatas. - Yeah, there we go. - You'd have like a tag. You would just like say your number and then they would charge you all at the end. So we'd get beers and stuff. We'd have a meal. Then we'd all go in the onsen and they had like the fish where they eat your,

- Yeah. - A bunch of it. And they had a whole outdoor section. It was legit. It was so good for like tourists. 'Cause it was like a very easy way to get someone into on sense. - Yeah, without having to travel to like too far. - And then if you were done and you still had some time, you could pop over to Odaiba and see the Gundam and you know. - Go to Diver City. - I think the lease holder for the land didn't want to renew the-

or something like that. - Yeah. - Yeah, it used to look like this inside. - Oh, that's so cool. - It was so good. It was so, so good. - I wonder where did they relocate to? 'Cause- - I don't know, I wanna go back. - Yeah, I wanna go back. Looking at these pictures, I'm like, this is sick. - So it used to be a really fun spot. And so Odaiba, Odaiba's cool. Again, slightly frustrating to get to comparatively to other places. - It is. - And it's a shame 'cause I do think the Gundam is sick to look at. - Well, now it's the only one pretty much. - Yeah, they got rid of the one in Yokohama. - Yeah, yeah.

Like I said, that mall, not a big fan of that mall.

- Yeah. - That mall. - I mean, that mall has some stuff in it. - Yeah, I'd say- - The Gundam store in there is sick. - I'd say on like the tier list of malls, most like the malls I hate are the ones where it's just like, oh, these are brands I can just get everywhere. But the Diver City specifically has, I think like more activities, more cool places. - They do have the sport show at the top. - Yeah, and then the sport show at the top as well. - And they got like Geopolis, which is kind of fun. - Yeah. - Yeah.

- I got a one piece store as well. - Yeah, they're showing jump store. - Yeah, they're showing a jump store. So there's like more variety and like cool stuff. - I'm a mall hater. I support local businesses and small businesses.

- All right. - Name three small businesses. - Matsuya, Yoshimura, Tsukiya. - I'm a real one. - The top three. - Small businesses, amen. - Yeah, I don't know. I'm a mall hater. I'm a certified mall hater. - Damn. - So, personal question.

- Are you coming back? Do you think you're gonna come back? - Yes. - Yes, yes you are? - Yeah, hell yeah. - Oh, fuck yeah, man. - I'm thinking about like if I were to live here, but it's more like, when I came here, I thought, okay, I definitely wanna live here more. But as the time has come along, I'm like,

I'm not so sure about that anymore. - Like long term. - Well, 'cause I've done everything here. - You really have speed ran your head. Yeah, you really have. - So it's more like, I don't have the urge or the need to like stay longer that I had in the beginning. 'Cause like, I don't, I'm not like, oh, I'm gonna miss this thing or that thing 'cause I did it. - Yeah, that is true. - There's more food I wanna eat here. - I mean, yeah. - I've just never eaten all the food I wanna eat. - Also kind of miss being a tourist, like all of you, I guess.

- Yeah, you miss it. - Yeah. - Such a simple time. - You know, it's so good coming here. - Like the wonder is gone, would you say? - Kind of. I mean, it's like,

what do you do if you need to go to a doctor? Are you gonna spend like a couple hours looking at English doctors, go to God knows wherever? And like even you, you speak like some Japanese and you had so many issues like with your back stuff. - Yeah. - 'Cause like that's like what took a month, even though- - It took a long time of the night. That was like a four or five month process just to go through all the referrals. - That's insane. - Appointments, yeah. I mean, it's not easy. Like I think,

I mean, that was hard just because I didn't speak good enough Japanese to get through the process smoothly. But also it was just slow 'cause it was Japanese. - Yeah. - I don't think, I can't name, maybe in Estonia it's a lot faster. But the UK it's pretty slow as well. - Oh, yeah, in Europe I feel like it's pretty fast. - I feel like most places it's pretty slow. But to be fair, I did always felt like I was,

being taken care of and I felt like everyone was doing their job. I didn't think like people were getting annoyed or like were just like trying to get rid of me. I felt like they were actually trying to like

take care of the issue. - Yeah. - We're always very, very careful. - It's just mostly like a bit frustrating. Like even like social security, like, you know, I know how much I have to pay. Then I go to like a conbini, you can't pay with a card. You have to take cash out and pay with cash for some reason. And then I'm like, well, I did pay this, but am I forgetting something? Am I committing tax fraud? - Yeah. - Shit. - There's so much stuff you can forget. It's very easy to miss things. - The first time I paid double.

'cause I got like checks, but they have like one check where you can pay all of it at once or like have checks for each month individually. And I was like, here, all the checks. And I paid like, I think like a couple of grand. And I was like, wait,

- No, I went home and my girlfriend was like, "Why did you pay that much?" Like that doesn't make any sense. - Did you get a refund? - Yeah, I went back to the convenience. I was like, "Oh, I'm so sorry." And they like got the manager, who got the manager. And then he was like, "Okay, yeah, sorry." - Who then called the manager. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Who then called the CEO. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, but they're very accommodating. Like no issues whatsoever. It's just like,

difficult to manage at all. - Yeah, it's the fundamental system that they've set up that just makes it so extra confusing. But at least in Japan, if you do realize that like, oh shit, I've made a mistake, then nine times out of 10, they're usually pretty good with like helping you get through it. But it's not until you actually point it out

that they'll actually figure it out and sort it out for you. You just have to be like, okay, well this is just how it works. And I guess I'm just gonna have to do it this way. - When you have an issue, they do help you with it. But sometimes you're like, oh my God, do we really need all of this to fix this issue? - Yeah, there are moments where you're just like, it's not technically an issue. - There was just lettuce on my burger. The CEO does not need to come out. - It's like, this is technically not an issue. I'm just not happy with it personally. So is it worth bringing up? 'Cause then it might lead to a whole other bunch of problems that just get- - Might've opened.

- The flood gates. - There's like hidden issues as well. Or like hidden things that you don't think of. Like when you sign up, I guess for social security and everything. The one thing that I was told by a friend was like, you have to tell them you don't want retirement funds or like pension. Like no matter what. 'Cause I think by default it's on, but if you like move away, you have to, it like starts collecting and then you have to take it out. Or like it's a whole ordeal. - Yeah, the pension stock in Japan is really bizarre. - I believe they're making it

- It's gonna be mandatory soon though. I'm not sure though. There's some issue. I know that like you also often see Reddit posts of people who missed like one month of retirement or pension payments and then they got denied like permanent residence.

So like they will find any reason to like deny your paperwork in Japan as well. So you've got to make sure you stay on top of it, which is very frustrating. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Because it is so easy to miss something. - Yeah. - And then you get like posts and it's like, have I paid for this? Do I need to pay for this? - Yeah. - What am I doing? And this envelope inside is like, do I have to mail it back with cash money inside?

- Yeah, 'cause sometimes they'll have that. They'll give you the, in the envelope, they'll give you an envelope to send money back to them. - Yeah. - But you've already paid for it? - Oh really? I've never seen that. - Like, I think I had a, someone sent me something from FedEx and they made me pay the taxes on it, but they wouldn't send it to me until I had sent them an envelope with the money.

which sounded like some kind of Nigerian. - Yeah, that sounds like a scam. - Nigerian like Prince situation. - I've never seen that. - Yeah, no, 'cause for some reason, I never had it, 'cause it was so rare, 'cause I was like, I normally pay it when they show up. But yeah, for some reason they were like, "Yeah, we're holding it until you." Yeah, it was FedEx though. It was definitely FedEx. I confirmed. - Wow. - And I got the package. - That's bizarre.

- Weird on a whole. - Yeah, what the hell? - It was contraband. It was contraband. - It's the pump a dump 5000.

- That all being said, even if there's like small struggles, I wanna say for the fucking Reddit, I love Japan. Like the bad stuff, completely like nothing compared to all the good stuff. - Dude, everything goes bad and then you just go to a restaurant and you pay $30 for like 500 gyoza and it's the most finest gyoza that man could have conceived. And you're like, there's just someone, everyone cares in that kitchen. Everyone's cares. I feel like the food prices are illegal. - This is an ad from BetterHelp Online Therapy.

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- Oh, how low? - Yeah, I got so humbled when I went back to LA, like midway through. - Everyone gets humbled. - LA's a different beast. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's a different beast. - I sent Muden also like a video of, it was explaining like the ramen price situation in Japan, where in Japan it's very difficult right now.

because prices have obviously gone, have risen quite a lot. Like cabbage prices have like doubled. But ramen restaurants cannot raise their prices above a thousand yen or at least most shoppers feel like they can't raise it over a thousand yen, which is around $7. - Yeah, yeah, I'd say so. - A bowl of ramen. And so often rather than just say, raise the, oh my God, $6.50.

- Rather than raise the price of the ramen to like 1000, they'll be like, "No, we'll just shut the store." Which is crazy. So, so many local mom and pop stores are going out of business or being bought out by bigger chains. So ramen is slowly, which used to be mainly a mom and pop kind of very resilient to being taken over by big companies. Now it's slowly becoming, you're probably eating at a chain.

- God damn it, everything's gonna be Ichiran soon. - Yeah. - And you know what, that's a future I don't wanna live in. - That is the Japanese dystopia I don't wanna live in. - I like Ichiran, sympathize in it. I think it tastes solid. It's the McDonald's of ramen, but yeah. - I'm a certified Ichiran hater. - But you are, there is so much better ramen out there. - Yeah. - For sure. - But look, it's not like,

Go have it. I'd rather you do that than go to McDonald's. - Oh, 100%, yeah. - Yeah, I would as well. But honestly, mom and pop shops, those are the best ones. - Yeah, the filthy of the place looks the heart of the ramen slaps. - Yeah. - What's like a Japanese food or like a particular restaurant that you went to where you'll probably be like, I will never forget this meal? Other than the Hiroshima Okonomiyaki. - There was Yakiniku King somewhere in the middle of, I can't remember which prefecture it was.

So it's a yakiniku place, but it's a chain. And the food was so bad there. I was making like a wholesome video as well that day. And at the end, I went on a like a five minute rant about, this wasn't the worst yakiniku I had. This was like the worst restaurant of food I've had. This was so bad. This was like by European standards bad. But I cut the entire thing out 'cause I was like, nah, this is too bad. I'm going way too deep into it.

- Yeah, it's a pretty popular chain. - There's a ton of them. - 'Cause it's one of those places where it's like tiers, like you pay a certain amount and then you get like all you can eat. - Like the premium meat. - Oh, I see, I see. - But their premium meat was like,

looked lower quality than in most places, the lowest meat. - Yeah, I mean, the premium course is 4,200 yen. - It doesn't look like tabihodo though. - It was one of the only places where for yakiniku, they had like, usually you get longs for the meat and they gave two different ones, one for raw meat, one for cooked meat.

- I was like, 'cause I mean- - I think most yakiniku places- - A lot of places do that, I think. - I haven't had it since any time. - They just give everyone a tongue. - That's true. - I like the little thin ones they give you. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Or the chopstick ones. Those are good, those are fire. - I mean, it might have been bad luck, which I strapped restaurant bar. - I do think yakitori and yakiniku,

you will either get the most diabolical bad experience or phenomenal. - Yeah. - It's so hard to get like mid because it's so dependent on the meat quality. - Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. - You really have to like- - Like how fresh is the meat? When did they like marinate it? - Is it frozen? - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Yeah, I mean the fucking yakitori place I always go to, the guy that definitely didn't like foreigners

and he's warmed up to me. They have like the brand and place where the chicken's from and the restaurant. - Yeah, that's how you know it's gonna be good. - Yeah, it's like brother's got a name. Little Timothy. - Name and location is public. - It's like there's a lot of thought gone into sourcing just like that ingredient, which is key, right? - Right. - With yakiniku, it's like, yeah, you can so tell when it's frozen, it comes out. You're like, oh, that's fine.

like yakiniku, you don't always deserve, you know, 'cause it's expensive to get really premium cuts of beef, right? - Yeah, and as a restaurant- - But sometimes it's pretty diabolical. - As a restaurant, you have to buy the stock and you can't always like- - Look, tapioca, frozen beef, fuck it, gimme it, bro. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. - I believe a good source can mask a cheap piece of meat sometimes, but there can be some diabolical pieces. Dude, when you have bad tongue in Japan, my God.

It's like chewing through a basketball. - That's why I'm not a big fan of tongue. - Tongue has to be fresh. - It has to be because there's no hiding the texture. - Chewing tobacco, huh? - Your jaw's gonna end up like fucking out here. - Yeah. - So why the outfit change? - What is going on?

- Dude, I'm trying to get the best drip. - I mean your drip game has increased in Japan, I have noticed that.

- I've seen in some video, like it's so confusing. Cause I'm like in some videos I'm like, wait, when did you get your ears pierced? And then there are some videos where it's like, wait, he doesn't have his ears pierced. What the fuck? - No, cause you got clip-ons just like randomly once. And I was like, what's happened to my boy? - Perfect Suit Factory shirts are phenomenal. Stretchy ones. - This got me through the summer. - Dude, this is so good. - It is. - Yeah, I went to a sports show with this motherfucker in his full like suit.

- He was doing like hardcore sport in the summer with his suit on. I'm just like, you're insane bro. - You went full salary man. Oh my God. - When I stopped wearing the suits, I felt kind of sad. 'Cause it was during the summer and I went to my normal t-shirt and it was shit. It was like, I was sweating inside. I was like, what the hell? 'Cause these shirts are like straight up made with like sports fabric or whatever. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's very breathable. - I love wearing them. They're so flexible.

- I forgot he was at work. - He's locked in, I gotta suit up. - How was the tie? - It's good. - Yeah. - I remember, dude, when you first came on as a tourist, you said that we had overhyped Konbinis. - Yeah. - Do you still feel that

Do you stand by that? - You stand by that statement? - No, I completely revoked the statement. - Let's go. - Okay, okay, nice. - Why? - Konbinis are hype. - Dude, yes. - Yeah. - The more you realize they are the lifeblood of Japan. - Yeah, what initially made you think it was overrated? - Well, 'cause if you're a tourist here, you don't need konbinis. You go to stores, you go restaurants. But if you live here, having like a place that serves food, like solid food, you can have drinks. Like literally anything like runs out, you need to print something.

It's like the closest convenience, always like one, two minutes away. - Lifesaver. - I mean, for a tourist it's like, eh, but if you live here, it's insane. - For a tourist it's good if you're like walking around and you're like, oh, I need a drink or something, right? And you just pop into a convenience or whatever. - Also you could be in the middle of fucking nowhere and you're like, I don't know how I'm going to survive. And then you see a fucking Lawson's and you're like, okay.

- There's always a list of Konbini and a vending machines. - Yeah, exactly. - Only downside of Konbinis is that like they have kind of like destroyed a lot of businesses in the countryside. I know that's lame to bring up. Sometimes you go through these towns and it's like fucking desolate, but the Lawson's will be packed. - There's always two places that are packed. It's the Konbini and the Pachinko parlor. - Yeah. - The Pachinko parlor. - I must've been somewhere. Where did we go with Chris last time?

somewhere like around, I think Kyushu, it was kind of remote. And I remember like there was this town and there was a Lawson's in the middle that was so busy and it was, every car was there. And there was like so many businesses around it that were just completely shut down and like derelict. And you're like, man, this is sad. 'Cause obviously it just, it replaces the need of like a supermarket as well 'cause they often do fresh fruit and veggies. The bigger ones in the Inaka. It's kind of sad as well 'cause you're like damn,

- Could have been like some cool things that you could have tried there. But I get my fried chicken. - It is one of the most certain places you can like visit. Like anytime you go to a different prefecture, you know, there's gonna be 7-Eleven, if I get lost in there. - Except for like middle of nowhere in Hokkaido where they just have nothing. - Yeah. - Well, they have a different brand. - Seiko Mart. - Seiko Mart. - Which? - Yeah, that's it. - Eh, Seiko Mart.

- Hokkaido gets what they get, you know. Going above a certain point in Hokkaido. - There's the big three and then there's everything else. - If it was fire, we'd see every TikToker on earth talking about why it's so amazing. - If you like 7-Eleven, this is the best place on earth. - And it's only available in Northern Hokkaido. - It's aight. - It's aight. - It's aight. - They take what they get out there.

- So in all the, in the year that you stayed here, how often did you leave Japan? If at all, how many of these videos were filmed when you were traveling as well? - I mean, you went to the UK, right? - Yeah, just twice LA and UK. - Oh, okay. Okay. Oh, do people know that some of these videos were filmed in the UK? - Not until now.

- I literally, like the darkest part, so it could easily be like somewhere in Japan. And the only people who like noticed it was like, you had like a water bottle that was a UK brand. - I was like Evian or something like that. It must've been Evian or something. - Or like Scottish, I'm not sure.

- Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. - It was very basic for that UK. And that's how some people like sniffed it out. But like I had no hints, like nothing at all. - I was expecting like some fucking rainbow guy to be like, that is some UK grass right there. Actually, we don't see those kinds of trees in Japan actually. - How was daily vlogging anime expo? How was that? - Pain, horrible. I hate it. - Wait, really? Daily vlogging?

Well, first of all, it's like so long days and then you have to get back to your apartment or hotel and then just edit it while everybody's like, oh, let's go do this party. Let's fucking wake up at 9:00 AM to get to Anime Expo for the first as first people, you know? - Yeah. - It was just painful. - Yeah, so I want- - That is a big thumbnail. - I want- - The UK saga, these five thumbnails are so good. - This is so much.

- It's so good. - Like what was, okay, I gotta ask because I don't think I've ever talked to you about this. What was your thinking behind, I'm gonna go to the UK, these are the videos I want to make. - Garnt was so drunk in his video. - I wasn't. - He wasn't drunk at all. - I wasn't drunk. - You ate like a spicy thing, right?

- I ate the one chip challenge. - The one chip challenge. - I was like, I asked you, 'cause like Didis did it like literally before you. And I was like, I only had one hot chip. So he ate like a part of it. And I asked you- - He had one tiny nibble. He did not eat shit. He did not eat shit. - Honestly smart.

I literally asked you, are you good with spicy foods? You're like, oh hell yeah, I'm sure I can do anything. And I'm like, all right, this one chip that's like half eaten. I didn't even expect you to eat this whole. I was like, when you put it all in your mouth, I was shocked. I was like, fuck, I can't. 'Cause you took it away from all the next guests.

- Oh shit, I thought you had prepared so many. - They're like 15 bucks a chip. - I didn't know. - This was 100% worth it, but it was so funny. - I'd realized how unprepared you were because I ate the chip and I was like,

can I have some water please? And in this fucking CIA torture chamber that he'd gone through, he was like, I don't have any water. And I was like, how could you not have prepared water? - I actually prepared water, I just forgot where it was. I found it afterwards underneath your chair or something. - Okay, okay. - I've seen a lot of gaunt looking rough photos. This is,

- I was like top five. - But the closest building was like 300 meters away. So I just ran there. - While you were suffering? - Yeah, because I didn't know what was going to happen. Mudan literally just asked me, "Are you cool filming a video?" That's all I knew. - With the sound off, he just looked like a crackhead. It was so funny. - Yeah, literally I'd gotten to a point where Mudan had left and

- By the time the spice had worn off, I was literally on my spice high. People were like, "Yo, I think Garnt's really drunk in this video." - That's not at all. - Huh? - I thought you were drunk. - No, I was- - You were crying. - Yeah, I was crying. I was like- - God, you look so rough. - So- - Hey, at least you got a banger t-shirt design. - Yeah, got a banger t-shirt, banger thumbnail. What was your thought when you were like, "Okay, I just wanna interview a bunch of

a bunch of content creators. - I didn't really want to do interview, that wasn't the point. It's more like if I'm doing daily vlogs, what can I do like there? Also in a way that I don't like instantly show off that I'm not in Japan. And like, how can I stick to it like for five days in a row? So I was like, all right, let's do an interview. So that's the easiest way.

- Just make me eat shit. - You didn't know what that was. - I didn't know what that was. - I feel so bad for you. You were getting such a shit deal with me. - 'Cause that's like one of those- - Bean boozled. - Yeah, yeah.

- The beans could be like the most vile things ever. And if you have a handful, there's a hundred percent you're gonna get like shit. - It's gonna be like dog shit. - And you were like, "Oh hell yeah, I'm gonna get something to get like a spice off of my mouth." And it's like dog shit that you're eating up. - I didn't realize it because I was just like so, my mind was so like on fire from the spice that you just handed me something and I'm like, "Without thinking, just put it in my mouth."

- If I was like limited. - If I gave you that chip, I would have been like, I'm not fucking putting anything in my mouth. - Don't give me anything. - What the fuck? - Yeah, it was a fun, it was a good- - Well, the Darwin Award goes to Garnt. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, it was a good video. - I feel so bad 'cause like I had somebody like- - Do you? - I planned them to, no, like I planned somebody to like come in with a gun. So like at the very end, after I told them like- - Why are you obsessed with this? You wanted to do this on my cycle fun too. You wanted someone with a gun to come in with a gun. - No, no, no, no, no.

- Well, first of all, this was a water gun or whatever. - Yeah, yeah. - Oh no, not even gun. I was like, just spook us from the back or something. - Yeah. - I was like, when we go there, 15 minutes from now, do it. And then I think 20 minutes passed, nobody has come. You're like, I see you visibly being like, we're gonna wrap it up, right? Like we're gonna stop soon, right? And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. Five minutes pass, nobody's come. You're like, all right, no more questions, right? We're gonna move. Like, yeah, sure Garnt. Five more minutes pass, I'm like, oh God.

- So what happened is as this video was being filmed, so if you couldn't tell this was as a party was happening in the UK, our mates all decided to have a massive water fight as well as interview was happening. So that's why number one, the water gun was late. Number two, after I just got tortured by Mudan right here,

Apparently Sydney was like panicking trying to find me 'cause she was like the entire house is having a water fight. My husband has gone into the fucking forest with Mudan and has not come back for 45 minutes. What the fuck has been going on? - Sometimes some of these guys go in the forest with their brothers. - Yeah, sometimes.

- Sometimes you just gotta have a new time. - Look at that face. - Yeah. - Look at that face. He's like, "Why didn't I just film?"

And then you did it to five other people. - Yeah, that was great. - Yeah, this was a good video series. - Yeah, that was really funny. - This was a lot of fun. - I'm surprised people put up with my shit. - Hey man, I'm just anything for good content. I trusted you to make good content even if I had to be a torture victim. - Was there anything you didn't get to do in Japan that you really wanted to?

- I mean, depends what do you mean by really wanted to? - Like really wanted the film that you just couldn't make it work or it was tough. - It's more like things that I thought I might want to do, but not really, but like muscle monsters. I mean, I kind of want to do it, but it's not like an idea that's like the most important. There was some other ones where I'm like maybe spend a day with like work somewhere, but it's also like,

it's more like have content, have like for personal reasons. It's not that important. So it doesn't matter. So I feel like all the major things I want to do here, I've kind of done like climbing Fuji. That was great. Going to like all the different theme parks. - People got annoyed at you for going up Fuji and coming down in one day. - I feel like a lot of bad things are like issues I have with vlogs is I wanna make them interesting.

and fast paced, so I cut out all the like boring stuff. And in a lot of cases I've cut out actual necessary information beyond like some places. Like I would be like, oh, I'm yapping for two minutes in a row, fuck it. I don't need like all of it. So I cut like one and a half minutes, even though that's backstory of why I'm doing this. So like some reasons behind it. Like with Mount Fuji, I think it's,

I named it Raw Doggy Mouth Fuji. And the idea was like, oh, I'm going up there with nothing. Like literally nothing. And people are like, oh, how can you do this? 'Cause like people go up there, they get injured, hurt. Some people have died this year already.

But there was so much that I actually pre-planned before doing this. I was like, if I went up there with a backpack, I would have not prepared anything. I would be like, oh, if I could just throw stuff in there. But doing this, I think it took me like six hours. I looked in advance how many spots were in the middle. Like how...

I was from each one. So at worst case scenario- - You knew when you could turn around. - Yeah, I was literally like 25 minutes max away from like the next stop. And at the stops they sell water, like at all times they sell clothes, walking sticks, food. So everything's covered.

Plus I was there with Ramsger who's a Pyro's editor and he has a huge backpack. So I knew he had like some extra stuff. He had the extra shirt as well. So like if things got like very bad, I could always just get something from him. - Yeah, of course. - Well, he was over-prepared. Like I didn't ask him to bring my stuff, but he had like, I think,

three or four cans of spam in his backpack. He had two kilograms of food. - Jesus. - And I'm like, bro, you don't need this much. Like, what are you thinking? But he's like, sure. So I knew that I was completely covered, like no matter what happens. So, I mean, I kind of state that, but like some people are just like looking at the video and like, oh, you didn't wear anything like,

- People not watching a YouTube video, that's never heard of. - Also, not to be like that guy, but you know, and then they should be like, "Oh, people get injured, people die." You know, often there are way older people who are hiking and maybe at a condition that maybe they shouldn't.

'Cause you do go pretty high up. - There is something to say about the fact that you're promoting something like this, like raw dogging. But also I wanna hope that people watch the video and like, 'cause I at least two times state that I'm not doing just raw dogging. I pre-planned, I have like backups, but...

- I mean, you're more prepared. - You walk a lot. - I mentioned this, I walked for like eight hours straight from one end of Tokyo to another and like that was fine. So I imagine walking for six kilometers even uphill, that should be still fine. - Yeah. - I mean, you were more prepared than Chris's first story of doing it. The last time where he was like freeze to death. - He almost died on a rock. - I remember I read the comments to this one. People were pretty critical. They were like, "Yeah, sure."

- Well, I mean, I've been to the army. - Go back to the wheelchair. - Like I know how like bad it is with cold. I know how much I can withstand cold. How cold it can get. - From fucking a stomach ache, it's like negative 15, 20 in the winter. - So I know even if it gets really cold or there's wind, maybe it rains, like it's still gonna be fine for me.

And I stayed like, oh, it's gonna be like, if you're not prepared yourself, it's gonna be difficult for you. 'Cause I did a Spartan Race before. That was super easy for me. Like for you as well, I imagine. - Spartan Race, yeah. - Yeah. So that was like nothing like,

So I want people to have like in mind, like if they can do this thing, maybe this is like more difficult for them or like how to like live up to it. - I think ultimately, you know, if you're not used to hiking, then you should probably ask someone 'cause you probably know one person who knows how to hike or knows how to take precautions. You know, I feel like in life, you just, you gotta figure out what works for you. - Yeah. - See if you're very fit, young, yeah, you can probably do it.

Are you 40 years old? Are you used to doing this? Maybe you should ask some friends who've done it. - Yeah, the scariest part is I've seen, saw multiple people fall, like older people especially. - I've seen that the terrain's not great. - And they just slip and go full back and I'm like, whoa, are you okay? And they play it off. It's the scariest part. Like you said, the old woman who fell on the bike. - Yeah, who will fall over and they don't want help. And you're like, please let me help you. You're clearly not okay. - I saw a really bad fall from an old woman that was in her 60s. And I was like,

"Are you okay? Do you need help?" And she's like instantly jumps up and like, "No, no, no, no, no." And just starts like fast walking past. - They always like, I've noticed when people fall over in Japan, they want to leave immediately. So they're not like- - They don't inconvenience them. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. They don't want to feel like embarrassed. - Look at the rocks. Like if you fall badly, this is not good. - This is really bad. Yeah.

- Let's build some gift shops and like get rid of all those rocks. Put some stairs up. - Let's build some stairs. - Get a fucking escalator. Snowdonia, we got a train. - Get a fucking lift going up there. - These rocks need to be moved, seriously. Didn't they open a new trail or something where they were, I think they, something like that. I can be fucking stupid, I don't know. I have no idea. I've never really been interested in climbing Fuji.

- I have wanted to, I've just never had the opportunity. - Yeah, same here. - I haven't made the time to do it. But I would like to, at least once. - The challenge is nice, but I'm not a view person. - Yeah, me neither. - That's why I hate Skytree, man.

- Sure, fuck it. - I fucking knew we was going there. - I was like, shit, he's right. - The thing is, is that view people, people who love views, don't understand people who don't care. They literally cannot, 'cause they will sit there for like, you know the cat meme where the cat's sitting there? They'll sit there and be like, "Why do you mean you don't like views? Views are the best thing ever, I love views." And I'm like, I...

- Picture being in there, same thing. - Like I understand them. I put myself in their position. I know like, it was kinda good. - What don't you like about views? - No, no, I don't like them. I feel no need to see them. - Yeah, you feel no emotion. - You feel no emotion? - I went to the top of Fuji. I looked down. I was like, "Suck, that's it."

- There was like no emotion there. - I mean, it is true when they say about Fuji where it's like, it's better to look at Fuji than to be on top of it. - Ramsco, like as we were walking up, Ramsco was like, "Fuck bro, this looks so good. Like look there. Oh, you can, you're above the- - I mean, that's kind of rad. - He kept like telling like, "Oh, this is so cool. I love it." And I'm like, "Yeah, cool. Like, I feel happy for you."

- I mean, there are some sick fucking views. Sometimes the biggest thing like for me, the biggest thing that ruins a view is,

other people around it. When you feel like you're being shuffled along and you're like, okay, I look at this view and take one picture and then you go, when you get to like a viewpoint when you could just like absorb it for a second or just sit there and just absorb it, fucking amazing, man. I understand 100% the view people because

- Because I am that person as well. - Yeah, I am also that person. - I won't say no to a good view, man. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. Especially if you earned it. - I wish I could know what's going on in that brain. Why don't I give a fuck when I see a view? I'm like, okay. - Just don't appreciate the small things in life. - Do sunsets do something for you? - No. - Sunrises? - No. - Yeah, same.

- See, I'm- - I love a good sunset. - I'm so, I'm like- - What do I like is what I'm- - Yeah, yeah, that's all I wanna know. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, because- - You hate malls, you hate views. - Because for me, if I need to take a picture of a view, I fucking hate it because I can never- - You can't capture it. - I can never capture what I'm seeing. - It's like trying to take a picture of the moon.

It's like, no, I'd rather just look at them. - You've tried to take a picture of the moon. - Everyone's trying to take a picture of the moon and you fucking zoom in with your phone. - I have never tried taking a picture of the moon. - I mean, don't even bother. It's never as good. - This feels like a money issue. 'Cause if you have the new galaxy, you zoom in a hundred thousand times and you see the creatures in the virtual world.

- Or if you buy the cheap Xiaomi one, then it'll like put the moon on it. - Oh yeah, the fake moon. Yeah, put the fake moon on it. - I mean, it looks cool. - I mean, like visually- - Shut up. - Like aesthetically you understand it. Like you see that it's cool. - Yeah, but it does nothing for me. - Yeah, emotionally, you're not there. - Is there a picture that has ever- - I'm so glad you're here. 'Cause if I said this, they'd think I'm like a psychopath.

- We still think you're a psychopath. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - We, we. - Now there's just two psychopaths. - There's just two psychopaths here. - One view, people rise up. - Eddie's fucking eating spam. - Have you ever seen something and just gotten like an emotional response, a sunset, the ocean, the fucking- - Do you feel that way when you go to an art gallery?

- Okay. - Have you been to an art gallery? - No, no, no, actually, yeah. When I went to Europe, I went to a bunch. Actually, I did, I liked that actually. I think art galleries are better than like a view. - I agree. - Yeah. - Okay, but what's the difference? - Art galleries- - Art galleries- - Art galleries- - View is just the art of nature. - Yeah. - Art galleries make you think? - 'Cause it's art. Somebody made it and you make your own interpretation of it rather than watching like rocks.

- Oh my God. Oh my God. - You know actually the one view that always sticks in my head, it was the last cycle farm that we were, me and Chris was cycling, two of us and we're cycling on, 'cause Japan, they're like, what if we just fucking build a bridge in the sky through a mountain? You're like, yeah, fuck yeah. In the UK we're like, what if we build a bridge on the floor? Like, no. Anyway, we can't get it done, it's over budget. Anyway, we're cycling and it was near as we were,

as we were, I think just after Fuji, dude, it was like the sickest fucking road where you're surrounded by mountains. They built this tunnel and then we look up and they're building this giant fucking colossal bridge, which I don't even know what this bridge is for. And it looked so fucking bad-ass. And I was looking at it, I was like, dude, who saw that and was like, let's fucking build something there. That's sick. That's sick to me. - Right. - 'Cause we're like, let's do it. - You ever played an open world game?

- Yes. - So what is like the first thing that you like want to do in an open world game normally? If there is like, where are the points of interest? - Finish quests. - You go to the towers to get the checkpoint. - You go up to the high points, right? Even in virtual video games, where do you naturally want to go? - Only if I have a glider.

- Now if I had a glider on Fuji, now we're talking. That'd be pretty fucking hype. - No, you want, you naturally want to go to the high points just to take in- - So I can jump off. - Just to see what it looks like from the top. - Yeah, well you can do that in video games so you can jump off, but 'cause that's sick as fuck. But in real life you can, you don't jump off. You can just look at the- - That's why when I did paragliding in San Diego and we fucking like run off this cliff and you're looking at this fucking sick cliff while you're flying around. I was like, this is sick.

Like this is a way to get a view. - GTA San Andreas, you go up the highest building ever. You don't go up there to look around the city. You go up to jump down. - To jump off. I'll do it again, fist bump. Fuck yeah. - I mean, that's cool. - Yeah. - It's cool. - Oh, it is cool. Yeah. But there's no emotion behind it. It's like...

- I went to, I don't know, Chris hasn't released a video yet, but I went to ASSO. That was pretty cool. - Yeah. - That was pretty cool. Well, actually, yeah, that was actually pretty cool. - Yeah, ASSO is fucking sick. - Yeah, yeah. - We were, not to spoil it, but we had a fucking helicopter ride and that was fucking, that was tight. - All right. - If you want a helicopter ride, you have to book ahead. - No, actually, this one. - What? - No. - Well, it's 'cause not many people go to ASSO. - They literally had like, it was like,

- Dude, it was on the side of like this volcano. And there's just like these two people outside of a van next to a helicopter. And they were just taking anyone who shows up. - No, 'cause I went to also and I couldn't like the helicopter was- - There's multiple companies, multiple. This company they had, there's no one.

- Oh. - Yeah, but you've also had bad luck when it comes to like waiting in line. - That is also a thing in Japan. Like, yeah, you could go, me and Miran go to the exact same thing. It could just be a freak thing on like this one Thursday that everyone has decided to go. - Yeah. - And other days it'll be so dead normal. - It's like the Onigiri place we went to.

- Oh yeah, you told me about this. I went to Bongo Onigiri, which is a fucking, I made a short, it's got like 10 million views about this onigiri place that I'd seen in shorts. People were lining up five hours to have onigiri. And then I discovered that you could just call up and skip the line. - So for this video where he followed me, I was in Osaka because Aki was getting a tattoo and I was like, "Oh, that's the onigiri place that you take the short on." And then Muda was like, "Yeah, but we shouldn't go." 'Cause I waited four hours in line and I couldn't get in. We went.

It was what we were in and out by in 30 minutes. - Well, this is the second location, right? This is not the- - No, this is that one. - Is it? - Yeah, it is. - This is the same one. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Oh, maybe it is here. Oh no, it is here, you're right. - Yeah, this is in that previous video where- - There are two locations. - 'Cause like the first time I went there, I thought, okay, on their Google Maps, oh, they're review, I hate it. 'Cause like you look at Google Maps and it shows like the busy times.

And it shows like how long the approximate wait time is. And it was like 15 minutes. I was like- - Because it's using the Google maps data and people don't stand in the store or near it. They stand over the street. So it probably thinks the other business or doesn't know what to assign them to. I don't think it's smart enough to know that's the line for

- Yeah, I waited for two hours and the line had moved by like, I want to say five people out of like 40. And then I just quit. 'Cause it would have been four or five hours and for onigiri, that's not worth it. - I had it and it was fine. - Like as far as onigiri goes, yeah, it was the best I've had. As food goes, onigiri gotta be one of the middest. - I would not wait more than 10 minutes. - No, no. - But like, do they like, do they fucking stack that motherfucker with filling? Yes. Is it good quality? Yes.

- It's on a gear. - Yeah, sadly. - So like when people are like, "I'm gonna wait four hours, why?" - Yeah, that's bizarre. - And then people get pissed off at me in my video. They're like, "Wow, fucking foreigner, doesn't wanna wait in line. "Wants to skip. "The Japanese know how to appreciate a wait." I'm like, "What the fuck are you talking about? "You insufferable swine."

- Yeah. - Oh my Lord. Yeah, no, it's not it. It's not it. It's good solid onigiri though. - Yeah, it was fine. Solid onigiri. - So many places where like, it's, yeah, like you said, it's luck-based. Like even if I go to a place and I'm like, oh, the wait time was so good. 'Cause we went with Paul to like Tokyo Confidential, which was the cocktail place. And there was like no line. We went in, there was like multiple places like to sit down. But we went like half a week later, fully booked up.

And by the time we left, there was like a line that was at least an hour long. - Jesus. - We were like on the balcony, we were freezing our tits off. - Yeah. - It was cold.

- Yeah, as you get older, you just realize if there's a line, you're like, I'm good, I'm good. - I don't get how good it is. - Like the giga brain, the ascended brain, all that shit, the meme. That's like when you finally just be like, I will not wait in a line. I feel like you've truly unlocked the exam where you're like, no, no, I won't. I won't wait in a line. - I'm okay going for an experience that's 10% less than,

- I value my time. - Yes, yeah, exactly, exactly. - I feel like after 11 months, Japan has broke me out as well. 'Cause like I'm pretty introverted, calling I hate it. When somebody calls me, whenever I have to call, I get like, I'm not a fan of it. Anytime you call me on Facebook or something, I'm like, oh God, what did I do? Oh, this is, I'm panicking on the inside. Even if it's like, oh, just catch up. - You guys don't get that normally?

- Yeah, oh yeah, 100%. - I've had like phone anxiety since forever, I think. It just gets amplified in a different language. - I think I, doing those Sebastian Prank calls ruined it. Like I used to be anxious about phone calls, but when you have to like do a phone call where you're actually like being combative or like actually not helpful, it kinda does help you. - But Japan is so like phone centric.

Like whenever you go to places, it's not like online sign up. Most of the places are just like- - Call. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Well, I think a lot of places have also realized it's like a surefire way to deter tourists. Like tourists will not call. - Yeah. - So you can almost make a bar, the easy way to just not allow tourists in is to just make it like phone call reservations only.

- After 11 months, I'm at a place where I'm like starting to actually call places as well. - Yeah, me too. - I'm like, fuck it. I don't want to like go up to the place, just wait on reservation or like whatever. - Exactly. - Stop wasting time and just get it done. - This is such a hack. - Booking restaurants, genuinely, the level of Japanese you need to book a restaurant is not that bad. It's like, you just need to tell them the moment you answer the phone call, you're like, "Yoyaku, the day and time people." And then if they say yes, or they'll say,

Like, no, you can either be like, all right, thanks. Or you can be like, what about this time? - But if they say anything else, anything else? - Fucking panic. - Hang up. The best thing about Japan, they love a script too, boys. - The biggest curve balls you are gonna get are what menu would you like? What menu would you like to choose? - If it's a really nice place with a menu. - If it's a nice place. Will there be children? Is it all adults? - Yeah.

- I don't know where you've been. 'Cause anytime I call, I'm like, I state three facts. Like I want to come here, four people at this time. And I expect like, yes, hi or yeah. And they just keep talking like sentence. I'm like, oh my God, what are you? I just like, hang up. - Dude, my next three plays, I call him like, Tanaka desu. And he's like, yo, Tanaka san. I'm like, Friday four o'clock. He's like, Friday four o'clock. And I'm like, hang up.

- It's great. - I wish that was the thing, yeah. - It's going to the point where my local restaurants, they could just obviously recognize me from my accent. - Yeah, me too. - It's that foreigner, it's that foreigner. - That's where I really feel like I've only recently started really enjoying eating out and stuff here because I've got so many local spots where I know all of the...

the people who run them. It's like, I have like a rapport, it's great. I get to talk with them, support them and then I can easily get booking. - Support your local businesses. - That's true, nothing more fulfilling. - Talking about supporting local businesses, how about the opposite, big businesses? - I love big businesses. Honestly, I love them. - If it's a con beanie, all right.

- All right. - One of the hacks was like, the longer you're here, you just start getting so many apps or like sign up to places. - Oh, miserable. - Because like going to sushi place, like conveyor belt sushi, like Sushi-ro or Kura Sushi. - They make you sign up. - Yeah. - Yeah, 'cause like if you go there during weekday, zero minutes of wait time. If you go on a weekend, two or three hours, which is insane.

And I was like, how can you skip that? 'Cause you have to be able to like do online. I've seen people do that. And like looking them up or like signing for Kuro Sushi took me like three hours. - That's brutal. - 'Cause the way you sign your names, I think I have to do in Hiragana, but it just doesn't work for some reason. And then at the end, how I made it work was- - Half width, full width. - Yeah. - But I just wrote A in Hiragana and repeated it for like exactly 16 times and that passed.

I couldn't even do normal sign up. It's so weird.

Every single place you need separate signups, separate emails, separate everything. And then finally, if it works, it's like good time. But like you spend half a day. - I think we've said this a million times on the podcast on a weekend, just you gotta book things. You just have to book everything. - Just don't. - Same side. - If you wanna get out in Tokyo on a weekend, yeah, you pretty much have to book. And if you're not booking, it's really a night place. - Yeah, someone got really annoyed at me one time in the comments. They were like, "You don't have to book everything in Japan. "That's a lie."

- Really? I feel like on weekends, most places you really have to burp. - Yeah, again, it's such a luck-based thing. Like I go to some place and I'm like, "Oh, it was like a three hour wait time. I hated this." And somebody's in the comments like, "Oh bro, when I went there was a zero minutes wait time. It was so empty." - But even like that bar that we went to, which is like that fucking, the TikTok bar with the guys that the number one bartender in the world. We just got lucky.

that we got a seat. - Was that the one where they fucking do the cinematic thing? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Slams it. - It was a bar of centifolia. - Oh yeah. - So we went like literally as it opens and I think we got like the last places as well. - Right. - And by the time we finished going there, we was like, I think it was spent like 40 minutes or an hour. - I think I spoke about on Trash Taste, right? Where I was like, I just felt sorry for the staff.

- It was brutal. - I don't, it's so weird. Cause like some people mentioned that the head chef or like the bartender, he doesn't look happy, but it's supposed to be like that. Cause it takes pride in his craft and you know, he's like a very serious businessman. But like sometimes you wonder, is he serious or he's just unhappy? A lot of places where you go, like a master of sushi chefs, I've talked to them and they're like super happy. They're like, yo, this is my hood. - Especially if you're like, "Kono sushi, I wish you this." - Yeah. - He's like, "Yeah, no!"

- It's like, "Where are we?" - Let's go. - At this point, this is a zoo. - This was one of the only places where the bartender actually feels very strict. It feels a bit off. - Yeah, I mean- - The vibes were atrocious in that bar. I felt so bad for the staff 'cause every five minutes they were fighting someone on a new language who was trying to get into the bar and not taking no for an answer. - He was so, that's probably the reason why it's...

they have that attitude. I mean, I can't really blame them. When you get viral on TikTok, that's obviously good for business, but- - There was that one guy that just wouldn't accept that there was no seats. And then he had his flash on in the doorway trying to film this guy while she's just told him like, "Hey, there's no seats." And he's like, "No, let me just like, nah, nah." And he's like, "Fucking flash, flash, flash." He's like, "Hey, stop, stop." And you're just like, "My parents are getting divorced while I'm trying to enjoy my $40 cocktail." You're like, "It's miserable. It's so bad."

And I said in the episode, I feel so bad for the staff. It's not their fault that they got this popular. They're just at the point where they're too popular to accommodate the current size. - I feel like also that's the main public that go there or wanted. 'Cause again, like in this part, they have lamps just to show off their cocktails. And they encourage taking out the cameras and filming. Half the price is literally filming 'cause the things you get in the cocktail, like you got gin and tonic for the meme.

'Cause you're paying like 4,000 yen for a cocktail, which is gin and tonic. - Yeah. - What? - Yeah. - And the final step was the guy just taking out the spray. It was a gold spray. - Oh my God. - But like when you get the drink, there's no gold in there. It's literally just spray on top of it like this.

So it's meant for filming. If you don't film, you're not getting your money's worth even. - Yeah. - So. - I hate that. - I genuinely despise that. - I think like my solution was like, you just need to open up like two bars. One for like clearly like customers who go there all the time and you know, and have that like a section that you can charge whatever. And then like have a tourist version of the bar. It's just too popular.

- You talking about a two tier bar? - Bro. - You can only go into the local section if you provide like proper ID. Show me your ID card. - Are you talking about, wait, wait, wait. Are you talking about, uh, Segway?

- Are you talking about segmenting people? I'm sure there's a word for that. - There are so many bars, right? No reservation, right? They'll be like, "No, no, no, we don't do reservation." And then, you know, if you have a little conversation with them on the side and they're like, "Oh, you live here? "You speak Japanese? "You want a reservation?"

- Here's what you reserve. - I mean, to be honest, like- - I've had that exact conversation. - Yeah. - We've been to bars that have had that. - Yeah. - We don't do reservations. And then if you speak to them in Japanese, be a nice customer. - It's like, actually. - It was literally this bar. - Yeah, yeah, it was, yeah.

- Yeah, nah, fuck that. - There's a couple of bars where they do that. But it's like, I don't blame them. Like it's rammed. And when half the customers were behaving the way they were, I was like, why the fuck has the double-edged sword? - I mean, it's the double-edged sword of like tourism. Unfortunately, when you have a bunch of people who are only here for a limited amount of time, sometimes manners can go out of the window.

And obviously it only takes like a small percentage of all the tourists to really just like, when it's even if it's like a small percentage of all the tourists, when you get that one person consistently, like every week or every day or whatever, then it's going to build up. - But what's crazy is that like, if you go to any popular part of Tokyo, there will be like,

that are this kind of style, yes, not as showy, but like the atmosphere of a, just a one bartender who makes a damn good cocktail, it'll cost 2000 yen, but you'll get the vibes and you'll get, you know, there's so many out there that you can try. And it's so easy to find them on Google.

Like really easy. Just go to these buildings, you know, there's the seven bars in the building or whatever. Just go through them, look at the pictures. If the vibe is dimly lit, like low lights, cocktails, it'll be great. It'll probably be great. - Yeah. - I haven't been to many bad bars like that. - Vlogging throughout the year, I've also discovered that there are actually quite like, there's not that many bars that like say don't film. Like most of them are completely fine with it. And there's like,

a lot of them actually encourage it as well. 'Cause like there was one place where I just sat down- - Talk about how the vibe you give off as a customer. - Yeah, and it's like some of them do want to get more popular, more tourists, but there are some that are like, no, we want locals and like, that's fine as well. Like they don't, they won't get popular 'cause they like lose the meaning behind it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, I had a bar I really love to go to. The guys were really nice, really kind. And I asked him 'cause he was drunk.

- Well, he was serving, 'cause there was another customer buying drinks for everyone and stuff. So he was drinking and I was like, "Hey man, is the bar doing okay?" He's like, "We make just enough to stay open." And I was like, "Oh." I was like, "Do you want me to promote it? I don't mind 'cause I really like this place." And he was like, "Ah, no. I don't want the vibe to be different." I was like, "Dude, I don't want you to go out of business."

I was like, I'll take four more gin tonics. - Sometimes it's the bartender. I mean, sometimes it's the bartenders that just love the way they do it. - It's not about the money. - I know, but when you hear like, I'm just making enough, you're like, man. - I remember I went to this one bar pretty recently just before Christmas and it was like a new bar that we just stumbled into in like an area we normally go to. And I think they just recently opened up

And we go in and it's completely empty and it's just the one bartender, but he seems pretty serious. He has a pretty serious face about him. So obviously it's one of the places that don't have a menu. So he does cocktails. So we ask, I remember asking him, what do you recommend? And he scoffs at me. He's like, and then I'm like, and then he's like,

- Atrocious vibes. - What kind of alcohol do you like? You can't just ask me what are the recommendations. Please, look at this entire, he didn't say this, but that was the vibe he gave off. Look at all these different types of alcohol.

And I was like, oh, this is a bad vibe. So I was like, okay, I like, you know, I like, I don't want my cocktail to be sweets. I don't like, you know, I don't like this kind of thing. I kind of like maybe, maybe,

maybe something a little deeper, something like that. And he's like, okay, ask me a few more questions. And then he starts like making a cocktail. And I asked him, oh, what kind of cocktail are you making? He's like, don't worry about it. And so he takes like 10 minutes concocting this fucking Breaking Bad concoction. I don't know what the fuck he puts into it. And I'm just here being like, damn man, the vibes have been off. I wanted to go in hating this cocktail. I had like one sip.

And I was like, this is the best thing I've ever tasted in my life. I fucking, it's one of the rare times where, it's one of the rare times when I was like, ah, he has a right to be so arrogant. This was an amazing fucking cocktail. - Man was cooking. - Yeah, man was cooking. But that just shows how seriously some people take this job. - Yeah, for sure. - They do it their way and they want,

They want to do it their way and no other way. And some ways you gotta respect that. I've now gone back to that place a few times. - He's probably warmed up to you a bit. - He's definitely warmed up to me a bit after that rocky interaction. But he makes a bang of fucking cocktails is all I can say. - Damn, nice. - So do you miss Estonia at all? Are you excited to be going back?

- I don't think so. Like it's hard to say, 'cause like every day is so full of things. Like I don't have time to think about anything else. - Yeah, you're gonna be like, "Wow, I just have to do work today."

- Couldn't imagine. - Dude, that's gonna be a dream. - You can't just be like, yo, let's go to a fucking sick ass cocktail bar. - Yeah, what's it gonna be like? - No, there's one cocktail bar now in Estonia. - Oh really? - Yeah. They just opened it up. - Vodka and water. - If you did this video series in Estonia, how many days do you think you'd go?

- Max a month. - A month. - I'd have to stretch, really stretch. - Yeah. - I looked at the map of Estonia, like where I lived and I was zooming in and like nothing was changing. There was like two roads and that's it for the capitals. I'm like, what the fuck? 'Cause like in Tokyo you zoom in and buildings start appearing and you zoom in and there's like little roads up here and then like zoom in and it's like, what the fuck? Everything's coming from here. And with a lot of tourists,

coming here for the first time, they look at the map and they're like, they have the European mindset of like, oh, this is walkable. Oh, if I can Shinjuku to Asakusa for like an hour, let's go do it. And then actually it's like so much longer. So, but like when I looked at Estonia, I was like, what the fuck? There's like, this is a barren wasteland. What the hell? I live here? This is like a side street at the corner of Tokyo. - Yeah, what's it gonna be like when you get back to Estonia and you wake up and you're like, oh, I don't have to vlog anymore.

- I think it's gonna be fine. I mean, that was my life before this. This is like a special case. - Yeah, that's fair, that's fair. - If you did ever come back to Japan, do you think you would continue vlogging or? - No. - Okay, okay. - Maybe the occasional vlog? - I mean, the thing is I didn't wanna vlog. Like vlogging isn't my passion. My passion is making videos and vlogging is just like one huge project in a way of like getting better, doing new things, different things, things that I,

wouldn't do otherwise. 'Cause like I wanna do bigger videos, but the problem with bigger videos is if you suck at them, you don't know that you suck in one place until the video is out, until you put like half a year into it. - Right. - Yeah. - And this, like the main thing I suggest to anybody who wants to make videos or edit videos, just make a ton of them, learn from them, and then you can make bigger videos. 'Cause even here, I've made videos for like,

at this point, like over 10 years. And the most I've learned is just from this series. Like camera placement, composition, storytelling, effects, speed. Like it's so much more that I've gotten from this. - All right, well, that was a crash course in content creation, I guess. - Any final thoughts on Japan?

- Out of 10? - Out of 10, 10 out of 10. - Nine out of 10. It can always be better. - That's fair, that's fair. - Well, good to know that you somehow made this entire series and didn't kill yourself still editing for us. - Yeah, right. - We still have time. - I still haven't done that. - Me neither. - It's messed up. - 'Cause I messaged you and you reply. I see your blog and you're like,

- No phone for the day. I'm like, what? - When did I do no phone? No. - It's definitely is the hardest part. It's just like, if I have to think back, it's like a long time ago when I was making anime content, it was at some point I did like three videos a week. And then when I was thinking back and I was like, fucking three, that's so much. Holy shit, how did I manage that? And now even thinking back, like the first month I was like,

organizing all like the paperwork, doing logs, doing like pretty big ones, also working, like moving in, setting up everything. I'm like, what the hell? - Yeah, I don't know how the hell you did that. - It's like- - Are you good? - No. Well, it's literally sacrifice everything else and it's just work and the vlog. - Yeah. - And also sleep. That's gone now.

- What do you mean that's gone? - Well, okay. So when I came here- - That's how he acts his brain. He's just like, "If I sacrifice sleep, then I can vlog every day and work." - You sleep eight hours a day? You try to. - Seven. - Yeah. So I calculated if a normal person sleeps eight hours a day, I have now four extra full work months over them. Just 'cause I don't sleep.

- That's the Moodon way of thinking. - That's messed up, but- - It's easier said than done. - In terms of calculations, that's true. Okay, so I thought I needed seven hours of sleep minimum. 'Cause when I was in Estonia, I was like healthy. That was the best thing about like- - She's about right, you do need seven hours. - You do need, okay. - Just so you know. - To be healthy, you need seven to eight hours of sleep.

depending on who you are. And it's the most important thing in your life. It's literally the most important thing. Like food is second and then it's like working out, whatever. But yes, if I had less than seven, I would start getting headaches and whatever. And here it was really hard until like after the first month, I started being able to sleep like,

six plus hours or like six to seven, like the range, which I thought I couldn't do. 'Cause that was like university times when I was like early twenties. That was like doable 'cause you're young, you can recoup. And yeah. So at some point it was like, if I did like less than six, it was like headache central. Then during some, when I went like different prefectures, 'cause like you might think going prefectures, it's like a mini holiday, you can sleep more. That was so much worse. I slept like four or five hours. And yeah.

At some point I started noticing I have my watch and it's like, if I sleep five hours and the third day I also sleep five hours, I need to do like 10 hours sleep. Otherwise the next day is going to be ruined. And at this point right now, I can do like five and a half hours without getting headaches.

- Like my body has gotten used to it somehow. - You've literally done like mind over matter when it comes to how much sleep you think your body, you've tricked your body into thinking that you only need five and a half hours of sleep. - Well, it's not a trick. It's like, it's used to it. - Well, I feel, and get ready to fact check this Moodon when you edit this episode.

- I feel like for me, my own subjective experience, it's not the number of hours, it's the quality of sleep that I get is that dictates how well I feel in the morning. - It depends 'cause like,

- The quality also depends on the hours 'cause you can't get, if you don't have enough hours, you can't get like the deep sleep or REM sleep or whatever. - Yeah. - Yeah. - 'Cause I feel like there are some times when I sleep eight hours and I feel like absolute fucking shit. - Yeah, of course. - And sometimes I sleep six, it's the best sleep of my life. I wake up and I'm like, holy shit, I had a deep fucking sleep.

- Sleep quality is more important indicator. - Holy shit. - Sleep quantity. - No, that makes sense though. - Oh. - I was like, there's so many times where I've slept six hours and I feel fine and then I crash and I sleep 10 hours and I'm like feeling like shit. - Yeah, there's enough I get like eight hours, 10 minutes and I feel like, I just feel fucked. I'm like, why? - Yeah, there are some nights. - The 10 minutes going over really fucked me. - Yeah.

And then there are some days where you sleep for like three hours and you're like, "Shit, I feel good." - Yeah, there are some times where I wake up after eight hours and I just know, I feel like my brain just has not shut off. And like, maybe you dreamt a lot, maybe, I don't know, something happened during your sleep, but I just felt like I hadn't closed my eyes at all. - At times I slept over eight hours, it was pretty much guaranteed I get a headache. So I started avoiding it.

Also, it took me like six months until the first day I got to sleep eight hours. - This is all terrible advice. - Also, to be clear, I got dumber, like noticeably.

- So like you need sleep to be smart. - Of course, yes. - Sleep is for, you know, if you learn things, that's how you memorize things. That's how your body recuperates. But also if you don't sleep enough times, I don't remember what the stats were, but like if you sleep less than two hours of required, you like lose,

like 20 IQ points, like a percentage. - Right. - 'Cause like you don't work that well. - Right. - And I think it was like the first two, three months, I literally felt myself getting like dumber. Like I couldn't put together sentences that well anymore. I couldn't like talk as, like I physically saw my mental decline.

And I don't think I've gotten better. It's more like I've gotten used to it at this point. - You also were drinking one cup sake, which I also think contributed to this decline in mental. - That helps. No, that helps. - That does not help. - That equals out. That like makes it all better. - Does not equal out. - No, like your IQ is a curve that like- - It plateaued. - Yeah. - You're just a hater. - I, yes. - I had it with Joey. It was great.

- I mean, I like one cup Ozeki. - Yeah, if I'm like five drinks deep and the taste of alcohol doesn't do anything to me anymore. - Ozeki doesn't even taste like alcohol. - One cup Ozeki, only good one. One cup sake, don't have anything but Ozeki. No, I'm serious. Everything else is garbage. Ozeki is good. - Ozeki is good. - I will agree with you on that.

- Everything else is like the fluid. - Thank you very much. I hope after you are finished. - You can get eight hours of sleep. - You can get your full eight hours of sleep and actually be able to put together sentences again. - That was a wild sentence. Yeah, I could feel myself getting dumb. - We hope one day he'll be able to talk again. - I just hope when I go back home, I can like, my body recovers.

- Yeah, I hope your body recovers too. - I hope so as well. - Yeah. - Good luck. - That's how you get dementia. - Hey, look at all these patrons. - Yeah. - Yeah. - All these people supporting. Again, if you haven't checked out Moodon's channel and all of his daily vlogs, please go and do so. We'll leave that down in the description. - He did sacrifice his IQ for it. - Yeah, literally sacrificing his dumb, dumb, dumb for it. And hey, if you wanna check out as well, every single week we have

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