Japancis | Son of a Boy Dad #442

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3:08I gotta get out of here. I need to get the fuck out of here. I never heard of say that from. I only after four days too. Yeah. I had to get home. It's not like your New Zealand trip where you were there for like a four right. Yeah. Yeah. Now we, I mean, we just, we just like heard ourselves for four days. Were you partying a lot? Oh, if we would even, I don't even know if I would say partying even it was like I'd never adjusted to the time zone. And so then you just had to like live with the hours of the day. Yeah. But three hours a day for four straight days. Yeah. That's not going to do that. And by the, I mean, I got my immune system broke. I got super sick. I was so delirious and run down and like, just couldn't sleep. I kept, I kept going to bed. I tried to push it like later and later to try to wake up later. And I would wake up at five, 58 a.m. or within two minutes of that every single morning.

4:12Damn. I'm going to bed. One, two, yeah. Something like that. Yeah, that's tough. Yeah. You can't just go back to sleep. What about just going back to sleep? Bro, my body thought I had taken a brilliant afternoon nap. I was so recharged. I was ready to run through a fucking wall. Yeah. First thing in the morning. It's 6 a.m. I hate that. Don't you, I feel like you need the day, the first day to not do shit and just try to like, wash your bed and like, wake up and wash your bed a little bit more. I don't know. I mean, we landed at like 5 p.m. Got to the hotel like six and went straight out to dinner. I slept all right on the flight. Yeah. Probably slept like six hours on the flight. So your body thought that was breakfast that you were going out to? Yeah. I don't know what it was. Breakfast. Did you breakfast? I totally lost track of what was going on where I was. I could never do the math of converting yen to dollars. So I ended up buying things that were like way more expensive than I thought and only

5:16learned after the fact. I just was totally out of my element. I don't know. What's a yen amount purchase that you would make and just say like, oh, 50,000 yen, that's not bad. Yeah, I would buy something and think like, oh, this is going to be like a hundred bucks and it'd be 500. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that's not good. And I'd be like, I mean, I'm just, it's just stupid, but it's not an easy conversion. It's like, no, it's not at all. I mean, we did it before you left on the. Yeah, unless you get the perfect, yeah, it's like, I don't know, one point, sit or a hundred and fifty eight yen to a dollar. I don't know. Yeah, it's not like an easy one. I'm not a math guy. We all know that. That wasn't easy for me. So let me divide that by a hundred fifty eight. Yeah, that's tough. What's the best way to do it is it's like there's, what's seven in them, seven of them and a dollar or seven dollars and I'm not, I never got it there.

6:16So I'm not going to try to get it now. Seven to a thousand. Dude, this had never happened to me. I was so exhausted by the fourth day and so rundown that I have like five mouth ulcers. Oh, no. I don't like that at all. Canker? Canker source. Yeah, yeah. Herbys. Herbys. That's what I'm worried about. That's all I'm thinking about right now. My mouth is in so much pain that even talking, swallowing is just a nightmare. You think you have mono? You might have that plague. He was just in the orient. You really couldn't have that plague. You came fresh from the orient. If remember when we talked about how Japanese women were going to like me. Yeah. I don't think there was a single smile sent my way. Well, not a smile. I don't think one of them made eye contact with me. Well, that might be the answer. So your question about mono. I sure didn't kiss anybody. That's damn sure. You might have, it sounds like you might have monoed, to be honest.

7:19Total immune system collapse. No, you're just break out of the sores. I'm just saying I've been there. I've had that beaten down. Everything hurts. Is there a chance they were smiling at you behind two hands? Like this? There was one moment where I did get a woman to laugh. I was buying coffee and I was buying a coffee and I was like, I want to oat milk latte. And she was like, great. And she made it or whatever, rung it up and then was pointed to the board and was like, so there's enough charge for the, and she was like something other than the oat milk edition. And she pointed to that and it was less expensive. What she pointed to and I was like, oh, I think you should add, I think you need to add another hundred yen because the oat milk is this much and she looked at it and she's like, oh, and how did that make you feel? It was the first time I'd ever corrected someone to charge me more. Oh, yeah. So I felt good about that. Japanese.

8:19But then I also realized that like a lot of them don't have great teeth. And so maybe that's why they hide their faces when they laugh. Oh, it could be. Yeah, if not, it could be. I don't know. The dentistry or the orthodonture. That's that's wrong. Yeah, crooked or stained. What we're talking here are both crooked. It is a distinction. It really is. And she had braces. Oh, okay. Interesting. Yeah, yeah, that's a good point. What a people, it's always weird to me when I see people with braces that are older and it's like isn't like, isn't there like better options than that now? Like in Vizelon. There's in Vizelon, not really work like that. Some people are need the wires. Yeah. Some people need like to bowl work their mouth. Yeah, a little muscle behind it. Yeah, yeah. And I think of Vizelon, people just like don't wind up doing it. You know, they like get it, they lose it. You got to do it. But I know, but like braces is not like an option. Like it's fucking locked onto your shit.

9:21Got braces are so painful. Crazy. It's crazy. It's really, it's every, I mean, then you go get, you got to go get them tight and then you resetting it. Maybe so. But then when you run your tongue over your teeth right when the braces are off for the first time, it's almost like it's all worth it. Yeah, yeah, smiling like your Hollywood movie star. Hello everyone. And your back top teeth. Yeah, that should is nice. That's top 10 feeling. Yeah. Or at least sensation if not feeling. Mm-hmm. So what are, give us a couple highlights. Philison is much as positive. I feel like I was begging for like a photograph and you set pictures of a pizza parlor. I apologize. I was like, more picks, please, please, please, more picks. And you sent four different angles of a personal pan pizza. I'm really bad at taking pictures when I'm traveling. I'm really good. I'm really not good at it. I'd like to say that that's the case, but I don't even know that that feels like I'm being too precious. I don't, I don't know why I just don't, I just don't take pictures really.

10:24It was also with two buddies. Like we were having a great time. We just wanted them to take a lot of photos. Yeah, one of them was pretty good as well. He's a shatter bug. Because when you got one due taking a lot of photos, then you're like, well, why would I take photos? He used to go and send me his. He's, that's his job. Yeah, that's me. I did that. And then I got no photos of myself. Yeah. I got so many cool photos of my friends like me to cast in Wyoming. Yeah. And they'll be like a photo of me just like sitting in a chair, hunched over. That bow took on like an iPhone 3 to make fun of you. Not to capture a great moment because you looked funny in that moment. I know that the tanker's source in my mouth are a result of exhaustion. That is a, I looked it up and it was like that's, yep, that happened. Stress too. When you don't like sleep deprivation can lead to it. And it's what happened. I see around your arms. Yeah. You get cold. So we had that discussion on the last show. I know.

11:24That's why I'm asked. I'm asked to decide the mouth, which is not cold source. I get, I know, but I've had that too. Those are hot source. I get them in the worst. They're worse in the mouth. I'd rather have them outside of the mouth. Yeah. And they take forever. Oh, he'll knock heels inside your mouth. No, it's impossible. Just constantly. Yeah. Unless I just lie. Oh, like a fucking light on it. And you're constantly irritating it. Yeah. Yeah. It's, it's, it's literally hell. Yeah. I don't know. Anyway. So the food was cool. The lunches were the highlight. We went to a pizza place called 400 degrees pizza. That was the best pizza I've ever had. Period. Was that the one that you thought was of? Yes. Yeah, I looked good. It was the best. Barnum. You're telling me that they do better pizza than in New York? I'm not going to say that. I mean, it's different. It's all better than Joe's. Yeah. It's all the appolitan. So if you like the appolitan, like I love it. Same. Yeah. I mean, it was crazy. It was a napoli. You were in Japan though, just crushing pizza on beer.

12:28Which is crazy. They got that at the B-Dubs. Yeah. I didn't get a single photo of a sushi roll or not. We're like a winding street. Just domestic light beers. And pizza. It could have been a buffalo, wow. Like there was nothing about it. Guys, I mean, I was like, I never went. I was just sparrow. No. No. No. The other really good lunch we have is at this ramen place that has like a Michelin star. Only six seats at the counter. You go in. They put like a bib on you because you're supposed to slurp it and splatter it all over your neighbors and stuff. And then can you talk about what you want at that counter? Or that's not one of those. Yeah. They have a couple of options, but like, but, but the thing that they you go for is the Fwagra ramen. It's a Fwagra broth. And it's like this guy has perfected it over many years. He used to cook at a French restaurant. Did it taste much different from a normal bowl of ramen?

13:31Yeah, dude. It was really fucking good. And I don't eat that much ramen. So I don't know. Maybe I don't have that much of a frame of reference, but that blew me away. You're only in there for half an hour. Oh, really? Yeah. That one bowl of soup. Yeah, I guess that's true. And then you go and then there's another crop because you're like, how does a business that only seats six customers survive? And then you're like, oh, they do. They do whatever. Do they like rush or 20 fucking covers a day of the whole restaurant? Do they do they like move you quickly? They're like, really? No, not really. We were all done. Yeah. One girl like, laped us. There was a woman in there who I think was Japanese who literally was done before we were halfway done. That's crazy. People don't know she's left her desk. Is she the black widow son, your Thomas, the competitive eater? Oh, this girl, I mean, this girl was a salary woman or whatever.

14:35Yeah. You know, was there any fat people out there? Not that I saw. You didn't see one. No. That's crazy. It's so nice. I'm smoking a lot. No. A lot of seggies. In the restaurants, yeah. So we went to like that we went. My buddies booked the dinners and we went over three on dinners. No. Really? Over three. Just not good. And I skipped the last dinner, which was the worst. I'm sorry. We went one for four on dinners. That first dinner, the Isakaya, where we had the incident, which I can't talk about. Still waiting to go to trial and stuff. Yeah. That was a good dinner. Extra dining back to you. And you got to go back to Japan. Yeah. Yeah. That's why he texted. I got to get the fuck out of here. It wasn't like, they're on my ass. Skipping. Who's like sliding across the hood of a car with someone firing at him? I got to get the fuck out of here. He coupes it. They're on my ass. No. That was it. That was a really good meal. But the three after that were all bad.

15:37And I didn't, I skipped the last one because I was too sick to go. And my buddies went and it was the worst meal of the trip. Really? Yeah. So basically, as they put it, they're two New York City Jewish guys who, in a classic New York City Jewish fashion, had really agonized over booking the restaurant reservations. And each one would have like an amazing place for us to go on that night. And then somehow the other guy would like, talk him out of booking that into booking another place. And every time the first one that they had was like a place that would turn out to be like the best restaurant in Japan. Yeah. And we had missed it in favor of a place that was a total disaster. Yeah. Disaster how? What do you mean? All right. So we went to a place and I'm going to, I'm going to say it called sushi you. Why you you? This was our, the second night we were there.

16:38It was an omakaze place. This place gets like unbelievable reviews. Yeah. And fucking do Alipa has been a bunch of times. She's always like promoting it. She's friends with the guy. And I know that because he was talking to us and this should have been a red flag. Yeah. He was like, so in New York. And we were like, yeah, and he's like, blah, blah, blah, blah. And we're like, uh-huh. And then I was like, well, he's like, how'd you find me? And I was like, well, I'm a, I'm a, I'm a, I was like, I'm friends with do Alipa. I made a joke. And then he goes, I'm friends with do Alipa. I'm friends almost defensively. Oh, yeah. That's not your friend. She's my friend. Yeah. And I was like, yeah, literally, I don't know her at all. I was talking to a photo dump. And then yeah, I think he showed us like a post of her with him behind the, she was behind the counter. Anyway, point is this place was not good.

17:38How so was it? I'll give, I'll give you an example. Like was the food just bad? Yeah. Like it wasn't like this isn't, this isn't what we expected. It was just like, this isn't good. Bro, is that dual loop? There she is. That's doing it. Well, that's why it's shocked you had a fucking British pop star as your sushi chef. What the fuck? That thing on the right, that, that red dish that sushi with like this fucking cheese. It was the first thing they brought. It was almost an edible. It looks like sushi with like cottage cheese. No one's ever put those. I don't know what that shit was, but it was dude. It was bad. It looks like tuna. I'll give you it. Roan. All right. The other problem is, I like that you're worked up. I want to come to stoke these flan. New York City. I would say does fancy omakase as like arguably and under the same name. And annoyingly, they're single best presentation of food.

18:42We've so many like two Michelin star fucking omakase places. It seems like some of the best chefs from Japan come to New York and I think LA also has this. Yeah. To open omakase restaurants that are like 300 to 500 dollars a person. Yeah. And there's a lot of them. They're all, you know, they're everywhere. And I've been to one or two of those and they're solemn and quiet and dignified and like very serious. This place was more like along the lines of like a fucking socky bombing. Yeah. A lot of the lowry side. Like having a good time. First of all, every single person around the counter was like a white American or Scott or a fucking Australian person. Do we leave the parents? Yeah. We're all there because we got suckered in by fucking leap. You guys saw the do a leap opposed to yeah. It'd be awesome if we found out this was like AI like do a leap has never been to this restaurant.

19:44Yeah. I have faith in Paul. We got Dupa leap. We got Dupa. So, you know, we're all there and like they're bringing out the food. I'll give you an example. Ron, I think you'll appreciate this. There was a guy. There was a sink. There was a sink as part of the sushi counter on which they were working that they were washing their dishes in. Yeah. I don't like that at all. Like we're and we're sitting where we were across from the sink. Yeah. So, he's like splashing shit around. Yeah. I like that. And by the way, again, I don't have a problem with that except that in my experiences with Omakase, that counter is you could perform surgeries on it. They're almost literally doing that. They're performing surgeries on pieces of fish that have been sourced from like the tuna market or whatever. Some really sacred place, some process that got it there. And this was just like, yeah, you know, we got a fucking deep up with the orders.

20:48You know, might as well have been a diner. Yeah. That's really what it was. Thought you was just skating like the specieu on that. Awesome high spot sounds. Good. Absorbs like this great. Oneκα. We were so focused. So, I got tired of doing that numéro день exercise with you, Betzel. We knew how to dance like this with him, but today starts of the day. 12 hours, 23. irrigation yeah周ie. When you percent the sea sewn up over here for like 24 hours, they say ah yeah. you know, they brought out the oyster and what as one of the dishes, right? The oyster was enormous. I mean, it's like like that big, you know, and they cut it in half. And so this is like your, we're really reaching here, dish, like this is like, okay, we're going native. We're going native. No, I mean, I think they do that. It's just like as a non-Japanese, not that experienced, you know, experimental eater. This is the one where we're going to have to like

21:54muscle it down muscle, exactly muscle it down, right? When, how many pieces of sushi have you had at this point? 9 or 10, right? So by this point, we know it's bad. And now the fucking monster arrives. And when you are in a place that you've lost faith in and they present the like living jiggly nightmare fuel, yeah, that you have to kill. It's, it's 10 times worse. Make sure your first bite's strong because you can, you can literally see like the pathogens that are going to give you diarrhea and death. Yeah. Moving around this thing. And you're like, I have to eat it out of respect. Were you still acting kind of like impressed to the guy that had been like, you're totally, I mean, we, I don't know, we kind of have to give a little lip service to those guys because you have to be like, wow, like that was, they're asking to check it in. Yeah. So you had to lie. That's the problem with with Omakase in my opinion is that like, they're bringing

22:59the, they're bringing the crazy shit way too late. Like, I don't want to already be full and then be like, all right, time to try the mega sized oyster. Yeah. Like I'd rather start with that, know it sucks and then move on to the good stuff. Um, maybe, I mean, again, the first thing they brought out was awful. I mean, this is like torture. It was bad. Yeah. That was really a bad meal. And how many do they bring like 20? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So you have a lot of urchin while you're out there. Here's another example. Here's another example. You go to a nice Omakase. You expect that there's going to be like a good, a good presentation or representation of, of like sake, right? Yeah. Like a list. We were like, can we see the sake list? They were like, we only have one. Right. Okay. Yeah. That's never good. Right. What about beers? And they're like, we have one. If one type of beer and one type of sake, this is it. You got duped. You got dude. So what you do, Aliepa's never been here. We learned this after the fact. There's a reservation

24:05system that is like their all service Yelp slash reservations slash open table slash fucking trip advisor for restaurants in Japan. It's called table something. And everyone tells you that this is how you're supposed to get reservations. Is there any chance you can kind of look that up? Tyler like Tokyo reservations table something. Anyway, this restaurant had 4.9. It was like the highest review ever table log table log. Exactly. It was insanely high, highly reviewed on table log as were the two restaurants. We went to the next night and the night after. And what we came to learn is that if you see a review on table log higher than 4.0. Juice numbers. They've cooked the books. Oh, so it's like an advertisement type of thing. And that it should be a real red flag. No. Yeah. That's about your whole time in Japan eating the

25:11fucking advertisements. Bro, I think it's even worse than that. I think there's like, I think there's like a deep state fucking click farm, you know, situation cooking them up. Definitely. Because, you know, I'm telling you, dude, like my buddies were like the reason we vetoed an audible to these restaurants was because their reviews were so much higher than the ones that like friends of ours had recommended we go to. But, but, you know, we're like, God, I listen to your friends. Yeah. You're listening to table long. I mean, I didn't pick. I didn't. I'm not. I'm not playing the show on that. And I'm money. Morning quarterback. I also can't be mad at my friends because I wasn't involved at all in the choice of restaurant, but they would agree that with it's the highest rated one. Those were their words about they were the ones that put the Jewish part as a reason why we failed.

26:13But, um, so, okay, the next night we went to another Isakaya place and Isakaya just means like, I think, you know, a sort of dishes like they just bring out a menu of things, but it doesn't, it wasn't there was one sushi course, but the rest of it was like different types of cooked meat and all this. And this one was in my favorite neighborhood, which was I.O. Yama. Did you go there? I don't think I did. Oh, it was great. I.O. Yama was really cool. Just walk around the little streets, backstreet is awesome. And, um, I.O. Yama, they, at this restaurant, it was like very authentic, uh, Japanese Isakaya. To the point where we walked in, it was downstairs, low ceilings, people sitting on the floor, you take your shoes off, they were talking their legs under these like low tables, and then there was a counter and it was very lively. People were smoking sigs and every single person in the restaurant was Japanese. So we walked in, we were like, this is going to be awesome. Yeah. This is a really good sign, totally different from

27:16the first night. Um, they bring us to this like back table that is quarantined, but tied behind two like very thin doors to the point where we are completely cut off from the restaurant. Yeah, all that communal energy and vibe. We had gone, this was like a vibe choice. Yeah. We are now, we can't see anybody else. They're going to bring our room. I don't know why. I think, I think it was like the only, I don't know why. I mean, first of all, it was good because it was the only table that had chairs. And what I'm like, we're all pretty big dudes. So like, we, you know, sitting on the floor with my legs tucked under me with no back support for like two and a half hours, that would have been hell. Yeah. That was actually happy that we were a little bit away from the structure. Hit flexors before a meal like that. You have to get in the pigeon pose before you fucking sit down for a full meal. The one funny thing about this was that our waiter would come

28:19and he was wearing a bandana that said like, fuck you. It's like all it said in English. Yeah. Yeah. There's just like, fuck you a hundred times. So we're like, all right, this is going to be funny. And I think one of my buddies had read that like, you can get your waiters. They'll drink with you. Oh, yeah. And we were ordering Saki and they were bringing them out in these ice cold bamboo bottles. Like the, just like a big thick bamboo shoot that had been hollowed out and they would fill it with Saki. It would, that was awesome. Yeah, that's not sick. And he was just bringing him like round after round. And every time he brought one, we would be like, do you want, do you want some? And he'd be like, no, no, no, okay. And then we fill him up a cup and it's sipping Saki. Yeah. But he had to run back to keep working. So he would just chug it. And then he'd put it down and he'd go, oh, mistake. That's hilarious. So every then after that, every time he came back, we would go more

29:25mistake. And he's like, no, no, no, all right. All right. And then each time he put it down, he's like, oh, mistake and run back. He must have done like 12 chug. Damn. I mean, it was great. That's crazy. It was hilarious. Out of respect, is it like a respect thing or why do they? I don't know. Part of the gig. If you get offered by some, I mean, it's probably makes his job a lot more fun. Yeah, I think so. I think he was having fun. Until it's every night. Yeah. Yeah. I just want to be a waiter. Yeah. But the first, the first dish they brought out, the first dish of like nine was this like house beef stew that had chunks of beef in it, right? I took my chopsticks. I grabbed a piece of the beef. I put it in my mouth and chewed it. And it was 100% gristle. I take that out of my mouth. If something, if I have to choose something for more than like 25 seconds, I'm not trusting my esophagus and stomach to be able to break it down if my teeth can't like fucking get that out of my body. I know. I mean,

30:30like there's no way I'm fighting. Yeah. Yeah. And I'll put it on the side. I was so of the mindset. Like we had come in with such positive energy because the previous evenings dinner had been such a failure. And I, and this was another choice from the same guy who had chosen that one that I didn't want to like right off the bat. Be like, oh boy, you fucked us again. Yeah. Yeah. And it was just pure, pure fat. The whole, there was no meat. Yeah. Just fat. Was it wagyu? No, not that. They did do a wagyu later, which by the way, so and Ron, tell me if you experienced this, I thought wagyu would be like the best of the best. I thought it was going to be something where it was like a special item on each menu as it is here, you know, very often they'll be like, and by the way, if you're really feeling like going crazy, we have our A5 wagyu, it's like, yeah, 100 bucks announced, whatever the fuck.

31:32I felt like everywhere we went, wagyu was almost the standard over there. There's, and there's better shit than wagyu, wagyu. Yeah. There's like, it's not even guaranteed the best. Like there's like, fattier or more like, succulent or like a cow that was only fed blue cheese olives its whole life or some shit like that. Like there's nicer options. There's, there's degrees of wagyu. There's Kobe, you know, and I, I was surprised, but I mean, it was cool. Like it was cool that wagyu was so prevalent. But I don't remember. I don't think we ever had like a real regular beef situation. Yeah. It was all that. What is Kintala? Can you look up what even is what wagyu? It's the, it's just very like fatty beef, right? Type of high-end meat from a specific cattle bread originating in Japan. So maybe all the cattle are there. All the wagyu cattle are there. Yeah. I just be more common. Like significantly more common. Like what's

32:32something that we have that's like everywhere? Is it like, Lay's potato chips? Corn fed? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You can just get Lay's anywhere, but you have to go to a special store there to get some Lay's. I don't know. But what, so they had some later on in that meal. Was that? Yeah, later on. I mean, you know, look, the other part of it is like, I wasn't hungry starting on day two for the rest of the trip. Oh, it just translates to Japanese cow. So all the beef there is wagyu as long as it's from their own cow. Maybe that's interesting. Maybe that's right. What the fuck? Yeah. So you weren't hungry the whole time? I mean, we were just, because we were just like eating, eating is the tourism. It's all there is to do. That's like the cultural, you know, in fucking Paris, you go to museums or whatever. Like in Japan and Tokyo, you eat. And you drink. And drink. Yeah. And, and, you know, we would like start our morning with breakfast at the hotel,

33:33which was like a full Japanese breakfast. I mean, I would, I was doing like the, they called it the gymnasium breakfast. It was like healthier because I was trying to like give my stomach a little bit of a break, but it still came with like, played a meat and a play to an omelet. And so, you know, starting at 8 a.m. I'm full. Yeah. And I'm not like hungry. But then by like 1030, we're at the sushi market. Yeah. It is like a tuna sampler. Yeah. And then it like 1 p.m. It's pizza. And then it like 4 p.m. We're like stopping for a fucking burger. And then at like 730, we have dinner. Yeah. And you're just like, you just are, you have like 10% room in your stomach at the start of every meal. Yeah. And then you're just overeating the whole time. So, you know, I ate that bite of fat. And I was like, yep, that's it. I'm not eating again tonight. Really? Pretty much first bite of the

34:37meal. Who you fucking talk about? I was like a one and done. Yeah. No way. I just stuck the socket. The only, yeah, I was just drinking the whole time. Yeah. The only, and this was the only night that we actually like had the energy to go out because we all napped in the afternoon. But by the time, I had one bite of the wagyu when that came out, but other than that, like the food, I just, it was not not for me. I mean, if you're going out too, and I'm trying to fill up on a bunch of fatty meats. Exactly. But the place was cool. I don't remember what it was called. I could figure that out. The vibe was cool. Yeah. The waiter was hilarious. Then we went to this cool bar that was like all expats, but none of whom were from America. They were all from like, you know, Argentina and fucking France and Australia. There were some Irish guys. So it was like a collection of people who were getting after it and were boy stress. I noticed that a lot of the like,

35:40it's quiet. Yeah. People quiet in everywhere in restaurants, in the streets, like at night, you know, whereas this was like one of those, it was like a bar that could have been in the East Village. That's cool. And it was fun. We had a good time there. And then we tried to go, we went to One Oak. Which one's that? Well, One Oak is a famous nightclub that was in New York City. It was for 17 years. Interesting. And they must have been before my time. Yeah. They had one over there. And like my buddy knew some, you know, knew the guy from America who was like whatever. So we got in and we were there at one in the morning and there was nobody there. And I don't know if we were just there too early or sometimes when you're away and you're in like a foreign country like that, it really just feels like you're just like you're you're missing. Like what are we doing wrong? Yeah, we got it wrong. Like we're everywhere we're going. It's empty or it's silent. Like I remember in Iceland walking into restaurants and it was like when we walked in, it was like the whole restaurant

36:42came to like a screeching halt. And it was like everyone is just dead silent. Yeah. You almost feel weird for like talking. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, that's exactly right. This was just not I mean, maybe maybe it was like you got to be there at three a.m. Did you were were you saying that Tokyo is like super late? Like they'd stay out like really like that it doesn't start until like really late. I don't know. I don't know. Ron, do you have any idea about that? I think it's such a big city that there's probably stuff going on at all times. It's probably like New York where it's like if you want to have a crazy time at nine, you can or if you want to have a crazy time at three a.m. Yeah. That's probably available if you can find it. I know that like when one oak was open in the meatpacking district, it was a place that people like started the night at that got good at like two thirty. It was not like a midnight to one. So maybe we were just there too early, but like we stayed for half an hour and left. Was it that it feel very Japanese or did it feel like Western

37:45others? That club was pretty westernized, but but like very high beastie. Yeah. You know. Yeah. What's your what what was like as an experience where like wow this feels like so Japanese and foreign and cool like what was something that like struck you as being very like locally cultural. That 400 degrees pizza thing was every single person in there was Japanese and you know they didn't speak much English and the pizza was made like quietly and everybody who was working at the restaurant was a woman. Oh, there was no you know like all the pizza makers all everyone was a woman. So for some reason that struck me as being uniquely Japanese. We would say it looked great. Yeah. We went to there was a cool I wanted to check out some of the design shops like some of the you know home the war and stuff. Oh, home the cool gets to the clothing. Yeah, I got to

38:50see the inside of the can I see the stitching of those pants just as like yeah these are these this is the only thing I'm wearing that is is Japanese that I that I bought over there, but I have I have I bought other clothes, but I wore them all and had to some of some of them we've already sent to dry cleaning in summer in the wash. Yeah. I ran out of clothes by the way I was I underpacked with how you didn't bring any. Yeah. Did you have time to shop? Yeah, we that's what we did all fucking afternoon. Got a shop from like 12 30 to like 5 p.m. every day. And by the way, my buddies went way more nuclear than I did. Really? Yeah. My one friend there was like losing his fucking house on pants pants. He bought so many pants dude. I was truly like and every time he'd be like what do you think of these ones? And I was like don't don't don't those look exactly like the ones body actually is like I like them. I'm gonna get them. I mean were they all like big wide like

39:52chef pants with big pockets and shit like no no they weren't they weren't nuclear. In fact that was the one thing I really tried was like every time I'd be in a fitting room I'd be like do not look at these through the lens of wow these look really cool here in Tokyo. Yeah. Yeah. You have to ask yourself will this be mocked mercilessly on the podcast if you wear it. So you know anyway. So he didn't really get anything that was no no no no nothing too far out there but you know we all are we're fans of the clothing before we went and had bought stuff made by these brands here in New York and then seeing and doing the math on my phone of the conversion of the price tag to dollars it was literally 50% of what I have paid. Yeah that's pretty nice for these same things from these brands. So it was hard not to feel like we were getting a deal. Yeah. And then you are plus you don't pay tax. You get a you have their price tag

40:56and then they like deduct 10% from that because you percent your passport and they're like yeah you you know you get you don't have to pay tax on this because you're American because you're not from Japan. You're taking it out of the country. So it's duty free. That's pretty sick. Which by the way that that policy they're revising it's you know normally like when you go to Europe and you buy some shit at you bring your receipt to the airport and then like weeks later you get some refund in the mail or to your credit card or whatever. Yeah. There it's done in the shop. That's awesome. What's awesome for us but they get fucked because people people just lie. Oh yeah. And they're like and then they like resell stuff in country. Oh should they get it tax-free and then they like sell it and get whatever you know what I mean. Yeah that makes sense or they're I don't know they explained it somehow like someone explained to me. Japanese dude being like I'm not from here

41:56so anyway I did it I did you know I ran out of clothes and like whatever my my stuff was so gross by the end that I actually legitimately considered just leaving like a whole bunch of dirty laundry in the country. You were gonna offload some American clothes. Yeah. Like because I worked out and stuff. Sometimes you got it. And it was just like I was by the last day it was like I could have done laundry through the hotel but what is a no-border? It would have been so expensive to do the laundry. So I just didn't and I totally totally underestimated or overestimated how much space I had in my bag. Oh yeah. To bring things home. Such that when I was packing I was I was like halfway through packing and I'm like I am fucked and I ended up having to bring all ahead was like a

42:59paper shopping bag with ribbons as handles. And I filled that with dirty laundry and then like the pottery and ceramics and glassware at the top which I carried on through Japanese customs, security all through the airport then into my seat all the way to Minneapolis off the plane in Minneapolis through customs and immigration then like rechecking my bag then into the Delta lounge in Minneapolis then home to LaGuardia. Like I'm talking a paper bag that weighed 30 pounds that I had to put a hand under because it was gonna break through the bottom and it was all my glassware and ceramics. Yeah. Yeah. That's like unfortunately like a slutty girl behavior. Yeah. I walk in on with like a target bag. Yeah. Yeah. I pulled that move. I've done that before. Yeah. It was really. Sometimes you got no choice. A target bag in here. Using a fucking I've had to use like door dash bags that I got. It's a plastic bag with a sweatshirt in it. Yeah.

44:05That's the worst. It's really ratchet, baby. But I mean I was just praying through turbulence that like this bag that was in the overhead. I wasn't going to open up my beautiful ceramic plates and I was so. Tell us about the ceramics landing in LaGuardia. It's dust. You open up the overhead. It's just pouring out like sand. Oh, were they nice? So that was one thing I got really right was that I had good recommendations for like these home design and like craft stores. And I and I really got that right. There was there was this cool place called the Conran shop that had a couple locations. I went to the one in Dijk-Njama which is was the other neighborhood. I really liked. Yeah. And it's like half museum half shop and the shop was really cool. And the one thing that really caught my eye was this metal sort of stand inside of which fit for different

45:12colored beautiful glass coffee cups. And you stack them. So I got one that was green, blue, amber and clear. Love that. And I was like this is the coolest most Japanese thing. I love this. It's going to be hell to bring it home. Yeah. But I'm going to do it. I'm going to suck it up. I'm never going to find this again. Yeah. And this is going to go perfectly with my coffee setup. And it's going to look so fucking organized. It's so Japanese. Only the Japanese could think of this. I have a problem where after I buy something. Look it up. I look it up. That's a bad idea. You should never do that. To be like, did I get a good deal? Yeah. You never got a good deal. This morning I made my coffee and I poured these beautiful fucking almond milk latte into one of my beautiful stacked cups. I was so pleased with the whole process. And as I'm sitting there explode. No. I'm sitting there. As I'm sitting there drinking my coffee, I look at the bottom

46:14of the thing. And I see the brand. And I think it was called Arlo. And I was like, that doesn't that doesn't sound very Japanese. So I googled this is all made in fucking Denmark. Denmark. No. Yeah. It could be way worse. Yeah. The the Danes are great. Yeah. We like Denmark. We make it. They make it quality. Yeah. The Danes are pretty good. It's it wasn't Vietnam. You know what I mean? India would have been a banjo. Like, oh my god. But it certainly wasn't Japanese. No. No. And you know, you can buy it from a Danish store. I'm pretty sure you can get it on Etsy. And I had to carry this stuff almost like on my head. All the like balancing it delicately through fucking glauvers and all this stuff. And then you just see that the airport is your walk and buy for sale. That's a hugs and news. Classic total in Minnesota. Didn't ask like, by the way, is this Japanese? And part of the reason that this is funny is that

47:19early on, you know, I I found out that there are certain things made by brands that we all know that you can only buy in Tokyo. Like they issue limited edition Tokyo exclusive. Yeah, that's pretty good versions. And my buddy and I started making jokes where like we would constantly ask like, is that a Tokyo exclusive? Yeah. Yeah. A banana. Yeah. Yeah. Or whatever. But it did, you know, you know, me. I'm a sucker for scarcity. Yeah. Of course. So like. Yeah. Anytime like I found something that was a Tokyo exclusive, I was just like, I have to have that. Yeah. And in fact, I think this is a great moment for present Monday. Wow. Wow. Yes. Was hoping we were hoping for present. Yeah, we got we got a pretty good present Monday. Wow. This is insane. Not a Tokyo exclusive without any fanfare.

48:22It's true. It's close. It's close. Oh, man. We'll do here. Ball first. We'll do here. First. Here. Ball. Oh, my God. My first pounding. All right. Here. I need to go ahead. Let's see. We'll do Harry first. Oh, wow. This is great. So here. I told you. No. This is the Japan edition of LLB. This is insane. I'm not kidding you. I'm not kidding you. This is the like Japan line of LLB report man. Yeah. I mean, I know this sounds crazy. And I'm not making a joke here. Like literally I went to the LLB and store and they have a rack that's like Japan edition. Really? Yeah. So you can now they did get this in free port man. No. They did do a pop up in New York City for like a week of Japan edition LLB and it sold out immediately and I didn't get to it. So I thought this was really great. Nice. Show that show that shirt. Oh, that's heavy too. Yeah. You can tell. Cool. That's

49:25fly fishing. And there's a fucking full portrait on the front. Yeah. Oh, that's a back. That's the back. I thought this was pretty cool. This is super nice. Yeah. It's only $7,000 to I couldn't I could not decide. I wanted to get you. This shirt was what caught my eye for you. I was like, he's gonna love that. But then I was like, well, first of all, I was like, that's not enough because you must have got a round. What I got wrong was. Oh, no. Oh, wow. They love. Oh, this is the Tokyo calisific edition of their colon. No way. Yeah. What do you you're not wearing it right now? I'm wearing a different one because you came in smelling fucking immaculate. Have you never opened up a package before? By the way, I was curious if you might have this. I'm trying to do it. It's your first time. I'm trying to do it delicately, brother. You're supposed to just cut the you can fuck the box up. That's fine. I want to do it.

50:25Just cut along this. Yeah. Yeah. That's what yeah. I mean, I would need a knife for that. No, you wouldn't. Let me do it. That's over. Okay. This package genius. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Wow. It seems so easy. You're straining with all your might. There we go. That was pretty good. Wow. Yeah. Thank you. By the way, they actually made it there in like a lab. It took them 45 minutes. Wow. Really? Yeah. I was kind of annoyed. I was like, they were like, it's going to take us 45 minutes to make this, which was cool, but I was like, Guy act 10. Yeah. Guy act 10. Oh my god. That's great. Can I give this a live spritz? Yeah. So the cool thing about this is that Miss Mal. I also bought myself. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, my god. That smells like pure wealth. You can give yourself a little spray. No, no, no, but very refreshing. Oh, my god. It has your name on the bottle. Yeah. What? Yeah. Yeah.

51:26A personalized. Yeah. What the fuck? That's four-rowed. Wow. That's so nice. Look at this guy, act 10. So now that you have that, you can go to Lilabos in America and like your grandfathered in and they'll make it for you here as a refill for that bottle. The Tokyo, the Tokyo exclusive. Yeah. They can make it on the spot. They make it in three sizes. They make it in the like it love it. Got to have it. Fifty half. Fifteen mill. This is the 50. Then there's the 100. And the 50 and the 100 mill, you can get refills like if you have a bottle that you bought you know in Japan. That's nice. Like just salad. Yeah. We advise you keep your creation away from light and heat when not in use. Yeah. Don't microwave it. Don't even have it by heat. You had to put the cap back on too. Where did I put the cap? No respect. Where did I put the cap? Right there. Jesus. Oh. Here he's being very protective of it. Yeah.

52:32He's very respectful of this beautiful. Yeah. So I knew I thought. This is so nice. I thought this was B. Since we've talked about Klon, I'm obsessed with it now and uh. Well, I actually got in Siklon when you were gone. Oh good. I have way too many. I bought extra yen. So I just went to the duty free fucking Dior. Dior. So Vaj sure. Why not load it up? Why not? But Harry, I thought so like the t-shirt caught my eye. Awesome. And then I was like, it's not enough. Rones was way more than if I just gave you a t-shirt and gave him that. It wouldn't be fair. And so I felt like a parent where I was like, I have to spend equal. Roughly equal. It's actually equally special. Two sons. Yeah. Now the gauntlet has been thrown. Not sick. Because I'm going to I'm going to uh, London on Thursday. And now I feel like I have to go tip for that. Now I'm going to look up how much the fucking Layla Bo cost. A lot of yen. And try and hit the yen. You gotta buy it with yen though. No, I have to buy it with pounds and pens. That's such a nice gift. Holy shit. I'm genuinely

53:34excited. I have gifts for all the boys too. I just I need 10 days. Whoa. You just need to get me 10 days and I will have gifts for you. Trafficking humans. What's it going to take 10 days? I'll have gifts for you in the shipping containers. You get here. What the fuck? Yeah. What is it? Or it's better to be I'll surprise them. I got to get the visas handled and all that. Yeah. It's brides. Yeah. Wow. That's so nice. Thank you so much. Yeah. My pleasure guys. That's such a nice gift. And so such a thoughtful cherry on top. Yeah. So rated out of 10. Rate your trip out of 10. Because it seems like wow, you are exhausted and had some bad eating experiences. I haven't heard about the flight. Yeah. I mean, I know I know I've been talking the whole time. It's just as what it is. That was always going to happen. The the here for it. I was prepared for I actually had this factor in as a yeah, as a listening day. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. One of those one of those. Yeah.

54:36I don't got much. Yeah. We'll talk ball for like 10 minutes after. Yeah. Yeah. Ravel's a great guy. I'm back in on him and into anything wrong. What probably happened was his wife wasn't giving him the attention. Even the wrong person here. Let's get per se on the field. Yeah. Yeah. Dude. So, um, no, I say the meals. Like the dinners would have oh, and then the last night that I skipped. Because I was like, we had this really cool, socky tasting thing at a place called 12 that my buddy hooked us up with, which was awesome. That was a real highlight. That was at 930 and I was so dead on that last day that I was and I was sick that I was like guys, if I come to dinner, I'm not going to make that. Yeah. So it's one or the other and they were like, no problem, skip dinner. Yeah. They went. They went to a Chinese restaurant. Oh. Another place that was highly rated on table log.

55:42They told me it was a two and a half hour episode of Fear Fact. What was the food just like inedible? Food was like truly like Chinese wet market. The real Chinese food. Right. Pangolin. Yeah. Like literally like jelly. Yeah. Stop fucking rat tail in it. I mean, I'm making that up. They were like, we couldn't eat it. It was inedible. They like also there was such a language barrier apparently between them. The whole I was on the reservation. They tried to explain early on to the people like he's not coming or just two. Yeah. And the person would be like, two, two. And then they brought out every plate for me. Oh, really? And by the way, they didn't bring out their first dish. They sat for an hour. Oh, because the

56:43restaurant kept waiting for me. Oh, my God. And then finally, and like every time they'd send the plate that was for me back, it's like, no, we don't need a third plate of sea anatomy. Oh, God. Chinese people pretending to be Japanese. I don't know. They said it was they said it was like truly the worst like just horrible experience. That's terrible. So I was happy to have missed that for sure. But yeah, while the dinners to me weren't like, we had a great time. Our friendship vibes were super high. And then the lunches were like unbelievable. Yeah. And that that market is super like the sort of market area in Ginza where they do that. Just the Toro like sampler was one of the best things I've had. And there were a lot that was like weird. It was weird. Like you just walk up in like a quick line. And then they just give you like the the lean,

57:44the medium fatty, and the fatty. And it's three pieces of each on rice and it's unbelievable. That sounds really good. And like the whole trip, I probably got recognized seven times. Six of those times were in the line at that. So it was a lot of like, he was coming up to you in Japan. That was probably well, that was all tourists. Japan says that's crazy. His name rings bells over and it was all people being like, well, I can't hear about this on the pod. Like, we're both listeners school internationally. Buck bro. Yeah. Um, price just went up. Yeah. That's a big. I didn't know that. I know we were doing numbers in Tokyo. I didn't buy a knife. No, I wanted to just kind of like kept missing the store. You know, the same thing happened to me that happened to you with the Danish cut or the cups from Denmark. I got a knife and it was like Swedish. Oh, really? Yeah. You got a Swedish shirt. This is this army knife. Yeah. I got this red Swiss army knife. I was like, wow, this does a lot. They have so corkscrew.

58:47Their innovation is second to none. Have you guys, have you guys like, I looked at the Swiss Army knife website the other day? They got a lot of gear. Yeah, they do. They got, they still are selling those ones that are like 200 tools. It's like this thick. This is our knife. It's more just like a flat. Do they get really thick? They make, well, they make big knives too, but yeah, they make the yeah, they make someone dumped out a kitchen sink. Kind of want one. Yeah, it's kind of cool. Maybe we could get you one in England. When I was a kid, I cut my hands so bad with a Swiss Army knife. Dude, we got one too. And my sister cut her hand and immediately got my Swiss Army knife taken away. Same with my fucking fencing swords. She got injured. Dumb bitch. It pays. It pays. My appaze. I fucking smoked her with the knife and the appay. Do you guys remember the Swiss Army knife from Get Smart? I don't. You don't. Steve Carell. I like that movie. Remember he had the Swiss Army knife that had like a blowtorch on it.

59:50This one's song. A piece that one was song a branch of wood. You're in real trouble if you're sawing wood with a Swiss Army knife. Tell you know you're fucked. Do you ever have to use the saw? No, but Harry asked you about the flight brother. Yeah, so we flew to pan air on the way over. And my buddy was super generous and got me that flight business class. It was sick. It was really good. Yeah, the picture you showed of yourself starfished onto a bed with a mirror on the ceiling. Yeah, incredible. Yeah. You know, there's just like a couple things that are different where first of all, you know, you you recline the bed or whatever. Your feet don't touch. Love that. Your feet don't touch the front. Love that. There's also I've noticed there's not really anywhere to put the shoes either on all those shoes. They had a cubby for your shoes. They had a

1:00:51coat hanger with a sliding door where you could hang your own coat inside your thing. That's sick. They had, you know, the food menu, it was like you could either do the Japanese menu or the American. I chose the American, which was a mistake. Really? They brought out all the Japanese food first. And by the time people were finishing their desserts, I was getting like my first thing. I hate that. It was almost like they did it with disdain probably all of the flight attendance. The whole crew everybody was Japanese. Very nice. I'm trying to think what else? Gaysha's. Do you think that they were Gaysha adjacent? No. Gaysha energy. Gaysha, no. Did you ever did you like are Gaysha's prostitutes or definitely not, right? I don't think they are. I don't know, but they're like just companion women. They're like professional flutters. Yeah. Escorts. I guess no. Escorts. Fuck. You can be. They're host. They're, they're, they're,

1:01:52they're called host. I think it's hosts. They're like, sounds like an escort. They sit down with you. They like shoot the shit. They're like a fjord host. They like, they make you feel liked. Yeah. But it's maybe a tour than that. Maybe they'll like, anian. Yeah. Yeah. Like, I went to, I think I've told the story a while ago, but we went to, like, we were in LA filming something in me, Tommy, and another dude went to a strip club, but it wasn't a strip club in LA. And we went in and it was like, this is actually a companionship bar. Yeah. It's like, you pay the girls to talk. That's what they do in Japan. We didn't, we left. By the way, I want to be back clear. We didn't, we didn't want to hear them speak. We didn't partake. It wasn't that like the, they're like, yeah, you're paying for a conversation. And then the janitor came outside and he was like, yes. You know, I mean, realistically, if you're going to go out on the date, you're going to have to pay, you're going to have to pay

1:02:53200 for dinner anyway. Get back at your ass. Back in their own. It was a jarring experience. Well, that is what they do in Japan is because like the men are so lonely and nobody, yeah, in cells. There's a little bit of an in cell. I don't know. Maybe. I don't think that's the issue, though. There's just like people don't, the fear of rejection is apparently so high that nobody, really, nobody goes up and is like, hey, I think you're pretty. I want to go out on a date. But there's like a famous Japanese viral video where they asked all these women. Maybe it's from the early 2000s or late 90s or something. And they asked all these women, like, would you be like insulted? Like if your husband cheated on you and they're like, no, if it was like a physical, like thing, just like, no, it wouldn't bother me at all. It was like that they had a very like detached feeling about like the sexuality of it. It was almost like, yeah, I just would be happy that he's fucking like, I just don't want him to be an in cell. Interesting. And their population

1:03:53rate is plummeting. Yeah. They're really, I say that wrong. Tokyo was the biggest city I've ever been to. It just keeps going. It's beyond the belief of bigoties. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Different neighborhoods. Yeah. It's like if you took Brooklyn, Queens, fucking Jersey City, all the different burrows, you know, the Bronx and didn't separate them with rivers or like denoted. It was just one big. It was just like, all right, another 20 minute Uber and we'll be in this neighborhood, another 20 minute Uber will be here. Were you Ubering a lot? The whole time. We did take the subway. The Uber's every time I got first of all, the Uber's, you made the point you were like, everyone there's going to be the most professional person you've ever seen. They take their jobs so seriously. Yeah. Where I noticed that the most was the Uber drivers. Every single

1:04:56Uber driver we had was wearing a black suit with a black tie and white gloves. Damn. They looked like they were delivering a Steinway PM. It was unbelievable how formal they were. They all had two hands on the wheel. They were driving perfectly. The air quality, the, you know, AC was perfect. Also, all the Uber's 90% of the Uber's that we took were these like cars where they're a bit like in the shape of a London taxi except in the back, the two seats in the in the first row would be like gaming chairs or like a massage lazy boys. You could recline them with a button. There was like, you know, they were so comfortable. I got better seats out there. They had really nice seats. And this is like what the basic baseline Uber was. So the Uber's were really nice.

1:05:56But whenever we would get in them, that was sort of where like we would get so tired. Oh yeah. Was because all of a sudden like the energy and fresh air would would go away and we'd be in a car for 25 minutes and it would just sap all of the energy out of the day. Yeah. I mean, when you're, I feel like once you sit down or when you like go back to your hotel room, that's when you realize like how tired you are. Yeah. What did you guys? I completely forget what I was going to say. I was going to ask a question about our hotel was really sick. Our hotel was unbelievable. I mean, it's really like honestly, the thing that I noticed the most from the hotel was the comforter on the bed looked just incredible. Did I send you a video of my room? Now I have one still photo just a still photo of the view. Okay. Yeah. I mean, my, and I think that I think you replied and I think the text was like, I feel fucking awful. And it was the sickest hotel view ever. There's like something out of like a James Bond movie.

1:06:56A ram of a screen saver. The hotel was unbelievable. The hotel was sick. Stayed at the bulgari. It was fucking crazy. The view was insane. How was the hotel bar? Was it nice? Hotel bar was awesome. What, what, what was so? I have become such a sucker for hotel bars. That good hotel bar in New York. That's where I want to go out for a drink. A hotel bar. I'm not going to a sports bar. I'm not going, I want to go to a nice hotel bar because it's quiet. It is very quiet. It's quiet. A good hotel bar is very nice. Getting back to bar still open. Unbelievable. I just started. That was always like my favorite part of being on the road. Yeah. Yeah. Was that like I'd eat my meals at the hotel and then after the show's go back to my hotel and have a night camp with me before he went off and found some hooker. Yeah. That is very fun. That's some negation. Yeah. Yeah. He didn't actually find a hooker, but he was. I've told that story. So, um, so what are you drinking at the hotel bar? I'm

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1:11:03Because cucumber can't like have you as are had water with cucumbers? Hate it. Light refreshing. I don't love that. Too vegetal for me. I like it. Yeah. It's like having water season with like broccoli. I find cucumbers to be like the least gross vegetable. Well, they have the least taste. Exactly. I find the taste repulsive. I don't like cucumber in anything. I don't like cucumber salads. That's my one childish paladin cucumber salad. Anything else. Like I would eat the fucking massive clam before I'd have a good one. I know you wouldn't. I swear to God. I swear to God. I wouldn't. I imagine in that oyster just like the size of a tennis ball. Yeah. Like it just cuddles in the right. I'm your plate a little bit and sits back down. Oysters are already kind of gross. But they're great. Yeah. But I can't imagine them being bigger. This one wasn't briny. It wasn't like it was just just life. Well, it just tasted like a taken a bite out of the world. It just tasted like mush. Sort of like wet metallic.

1:12:09Because even like you ever get like an oyster that's a little too big. Yeah. That's what I'm thinking. But I'm just imagining it bigger than that. I mean, they cut it in half. Yeah. That is you act with a knife. I'm gonna think about that tonight. Yeah. Yeah. God. Did you have any tables? Did you go into any restaurants where it was like, oh, this is the smallest space I've ever been in. I can touch each one of the walls from where I'm standing. Yeah. That that that is a fireplace. Well, no, the the ramen place was really really. And then we went into some other places. We just have like so many small meals. There was a lot of like fast casual places are fucking awesome. Oh, yeah. I'm sure. Where like you go in and you put in your order on a screen before you sit down. Oh, yeah. And then you sit down like we went to this burger place where they put the burger on rice. Oh, they put it on rice and they have these different sauces. And then like that they have a sauce that they put over a little flame for you. That was awesome. That's

1:13:14how incredible. It was really, really good. I think a burger place is where I found out that there was like, oh, waggoo is not even close to the best. They had a waggoo burger. We were having waggoo burgers there. But we had four like three different patties. I mean, this is the reason I was never hungry too. Yeah, it's a lot of food. You go three PM four PM and they bring up three burgers. That's a whole day of eating three three each had three. Three meals over rice like rice is going to fill you the fuck up. Yeah, exactly. I love a good meat and rice though. That's a staple. A lot of beers. A good amount of beers. Yeah, cocktails. You know, we went to I thought I thought there would be I thought the cocktails maybe we just didn't go to the right places. We went to this one place called SG club, which was like a cocktail bar that gets a lot of great reviews. You're getting fleece by these reviews. No, but like, people in the know friends of mine had been like, go. Yeah, it was good. Maybe I didn't order the right cocktails. Also, everyone in there was

1:14:20a dude. I don't know. And it was super crowded. Dude, nothing is spaced from people who were six foot three. No, no. I mean, why would it be like the chairs and the boot? Like, you literally are you're just sitting like this the whole fucking time. The one weird thing I found was that in all the clothing shops we went to, everyone was like, dude, you're never going to find anything in your size. I only found things in my size. Because there's the only thing in stock. Correct. Yeah. Everything else was sold out. Yeah. But like, they were like, oh, you're, you have the only side of that size six left. Leave everything. Yeah. That was kind of cool. I was, I was happy about that. I would say that the, the brand of clothes that I, uh, with a store that we did the most damage in was this company called oppressay a dot P R E S S E. How does that sound familiar? A press. I mean, you're thinking probably J press. No, no, I'm not. Anyway. Okay,

1:15:23well, I tried. I'm thinking of oppress. Okay. Do they have a location in New York? Uh-uh. But they, I mean, they so you can find their clothes here. It's just double the price. Yeah. Yeah. So knowing that it's too expensive to buy here, but they're I bought any unit clothes. Yeah, I went into the, oh, actually, it wasn't massive. It's overwhelming. Yeah. It's five floors. Love that. And like, it's, it's as if they're like doing a fire sale. Yeah. I mean, the clothes are so packed. They're so. That's like, it's like, it's like they have like the clothes like on the floor. Yeah, exactly. It's like shirts everywhere. It's just bargain bin. But like, I mean, it was packed. I heard about this. I saw a video of this clothing store in Japan and it was a rock climbing store. And I think that they were tired of, how do you say that? Arcterics? Yeah. They're tired of like people using a arch terro like North Face has like a fashion brand. They only wanted it for climbers only. So they made the first floor into like a boulder or a real. So you have to climb to the

1:16:27second floor. And like, then you can get the legitimate hiking gear. Oh, that's cool. It's also got to earn climbing gear. But you have to earn it. And I just, I wish I told you about it. Because I know that you would have taken on that great boulder of Japan. The thing that like, there were just some things that kind of like slipped away from me that I was wanting to do and check out. One of which was that, well, this, I went to the tailor made store. Oh, and that's pretty cool. tailor made is partnered with four play. So like whenever I go with them, you know, we wear tailor made stuff and we play tailor made clubs. And I love tailor made. Yeah, and you know, I was playing their clubs before. Yeah. Yeah. I started shooting with them and would pay so much money for them. So I love tailor made and they have a big store in Tokyo. And I really wanted to find like some cool Japan exclusive tailor made stores like maybe something that said tailor

1:17:31made in Japanese writing. They didn't have that unfortunately, but they did have a collaboration with this really cool Japanese brand called United arrows. And all that stuff was fucking awesome. And I tried on a pair of pants, but it was like the day that I was leaving and I'd already spent so much money. I had no room left in my bags. And I just was like, I literally can't allow myself to get any more of this. And I regret that because you're still thinking about it. That stuff was awesome. Whenever you think about something for more than a day, it's all I almost feel like you got to make that purchase or I mean, I know it's too late now, but that's true regret. And you really can't find it online unlike those cups, which you can find on Etsy for like 50 bucks. Yeah, yeah. If you didn't get those cups, you could have got tailor made stuff exactly. That's so much more room. Yeah. And you wouldn't have had to be so careful in Minneapolis. Yeah. I mean, I bought so then I bought like two really cool ceramic plates that were, I mean, just I was just terrified bringing these things home. Yeah, I mean ceramic that she could

1:18:35break it any side. And it's like if it breaks, you're done. Throw it away. Yeah. Yeah. Then also by Rado, which makes really nice cologne, also did a Japan exclusive, called Suboro that I bought. I bought some guy act 10 and then a bunch of clothes. That's it. That's everything. Oh, and then some a bunch of wood stuff about like a wood tray. It was a place called Koma shop that I've been following on Instagram for a while. Interesting. A rolling tray? No, it's like a tea tray. You would bring, you would bring what I want to do because I like making cocktails for people is, you know, have people over, make the cocktails and bring them out on a tray on this wood tray. Love that. It's got velvet on the platter and then it's wood all the way around with wood handles. It's cool. Oh, that's nice. Yeah. Definitely got a roll on that. I feel like you're going to have that upstate. Yeah. You're going to have to get upstate. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got to come up. You got any of that Japanese kosher out there?

1:19:35No, they were to cut his hand off. I didn't see that anywhere. I didn't, that was not. There was no weed culture. No weed like paraphernalia. Nothing. Interesting. They did have a cool vape store and I thought about going in there to like buy you guys cool vapes. But I don't know what you like. And I figured that was way too specific and I like. Zero tolerance on recreational cannabis. Wow. Yeah. Prison sentences of up to seven years. Holy shit. Yeah. I was done after four days. So staying for seven years would have been way too long. Oh, Trump would have got your ass out. I wonder. Trump would have gone to war for you. Definitely. He would have. That would have been awesome. DT. Yeah. That would have helped with the pot a lot. If you were like our Brittany grinder. Yeah. Yeah. Doing doing zoom. Francis. Five milligram metaphors to Japan and now he's in prison for a decade. I would have made us controversial, but it would have been good for the. Yeah. There would have

1:20:40been a lot of people though that would have been like, well, you got to follow the rules. Yeah, you should have known. Yeah. I'm going to free Francis. We're going to trade Francis for Victor Boot. What about the Marines? Yeah. I've got to. I only scored seven goals in college. By the way, I tried to get my like some Xanax filled from my psychiatrist before I went. That's not easy. Couldn't get it. Didn't get it done in time. And so they asking you a lot of questions. No. No. No. She just didn't even respond. Oh, but like, can I get some drugs for my fun weekends? I was just like for the flight. Yeah. I've done it before. Yeah. Easy to talk to your boy. Well, I've got you right. Right. Connie's. We got some clonies though. Of course. You're tapens out the ass. Yeah. Bundin's of them. Yeah. So my point is I went over without any kind of sleep aid, but miraculously, as I'm on my plane, I'm fishing in this little side pocket looking for

1:21:46a charger. And what do I feel? But the vile of drame mean. Oh, from fish week in Florida. Oh. And that wasn't non drowsy either. It was drowsy. Yeah. That was super drowsy. So I took that on the plane. And that's that knocked me the fuck out. I took it there. And on the way back on the flight back, I slept eight of the 11 hours. Well, that's probably why you were fucked for four days. It was because you were like living off the drowsy drama mean. Yeah. I feel like that shit like makes you drowsy the next day. Yeah. You're like stumbling through it. You don't know if you're dreaming or not. Yeah. I was fine the first night. I just couldn't no matter when we went to bed. I couldn't I couldn't sleep by 6 am. And nothing fucking opens until not even the coffee shops don't open till like eight or nine or something. Damn. Lazy ass. Yeah. I don't know. Weird. I was lazy. Yeah. Japanese for they start late. Me. I'm two cups in by eight. Easy. Did I run? I can't believe it. I'm so excited. This is genuinely smells like a smells like

1:22:51an expensive hotel room. Yeah. It smells it smells quite refreshing like a cucumber drink almost. Don't even put that on this. Don't even put that psychological old factory. I was definitely getting a hint of cucumber. There's no cucumber in this. The cucumber makes me puke. I can't fuck with the cucumber. I'm not a cucumber at all. There was like a week before they banned all the flavor jewel pods where they had cucumber jewel pods and they were so good. It was like the best. And then there was just everything was gone. That sounds terrible later. That sounds awful. It was really good. There's no way. Really good. There were such refreshing jewel. It is. It was a very quite refreshing. Yeah. I probably hit the back of the throat like a nice mint. So good. Take me back. What do you guys want in England? What can I like obviously you're on a break? I actually need a list of every fragrance you have just in case I get a fragrance because I'd be sick if I got you a dupe. Yeah. I do have something but I will send you the money for it. No, no, no. What is it? Herids has an exclusive colón. I love that. Where is it?

1:23:58Coventry Gardens. Yeah. Herids is that if you've been to Herids? No, yeah. No, I haven't. Herids is the coolest store ever. It's like a massive macy's. But it's even more stuff. Better. Yeah. They got like they sell like fireplace. Yeah. I got everything. How does your ass know? How's your uncolder ass know? So I've been to London. I think I went to I went to Herids and they had like a NASCAR jacket or something or I know it was a NASA jacket. And I was like I was like begging my mom to let me get the NASA jacket. It was like $5,000. She was like no shot. I think I know that company that did that NASA line is that sick. Heron Preston I think is the name of that company. 15 years ago. Can you look up Heron Preston NASA line? NASA jacket, Herids perfume. Heron Preston NASA. That NASA stuff they did was super cool. Yeah. Like this stuff. Right, Harry? That's

1:25:02what it was wasn't. Yeah, I think. Yeah, that's it. Looks like it. Trying to tell me I didn't know exactly right. No, this stuff was awesome. Now because the jacket was blue. But they made it they make a blue. What does NASA stand for North American Space Agency or some other shit? Yeah. I've gotten this wrong before. So I'm not going to weigh in. I have no clue. National Arionotics and Space Administration. So it's American. Basically my question is so that's an American agency that we're selling in England in an England store. Like if we had like a MI6 jacket at fucking Nordstroms. Dude, by the way, in Herids, the thing I remember that was so cool is that they have this like spy section. Oh, yeah. Do you remember that? I do. And like they literally sell gadgets that are like if you press this button on this fake radio, all the electrical devices in the room will turn off.

1:26:06That's called a pinch. Yeah. It's not what a ocean is 11. Yeah. Literally. Yeah. We could do a pinch. Oh, if you bought me one of those, I would be really happy. If I bought a pinch. Yeah, that would be sick to have. Yeah, but I like bump into it on the airplane. Like a podcast and it's not going well. Just kill. Yeah. Right. Right. Especially the men and black. Yeah. Yeah. They have really stuff where I'm like, is this legal? That you know, it's a great gadget store. The gadgets are crazy. They got to go check that out. But it's going to take you a long time to get through them all. They're like, really? I don't remember it being that big. Oh, I remember being massive. Oh, I remember it. Like semi-favorite gadgets around like a museum. Semi-favorite gadget you want from Harrods. I'll have to off to it. I feel like they have like an umbrella where the fucking handle is a sword. Yeah. Like there's a lot like that. Yeah. I think the Harrods exclusive fragrance might be by X-Nahilo.

1:27:07So anyway, I don't. I'm going to need this written down. I'm going to read need this written long hand. I'm going to send you a couple things that I need while you're out there. The sword in the in the stone. The sword umbrella for sure. The binoculars that see through women's clothing. The shoes with the mirrors on the top of them. There's an Aston Martin where you press the button of the gear shift and it turns into a missile launcher. I'm going to need you to pick that up for me. It is going to be nice. I have a guy waiting there for you with all my items selected. Christopher Aaron. I think I had so much built up in my mind about Japan. It's kind of been the subcession of mine. I'm fundamentally aware that I did not see much of the country and I did not go for very long. And I wasn't really doing that much cultural stuff. I tried to take a tour of the Imperial Gardens. But it was like two hours. They only do guided tours. You cannot walk around that park

1:28:14unless you are part of a guided tour. We're like, we don't have time. Yeah, and I'm trying to do a two hour tour. So I think I probably need to go back, but right now I can't even think about ever traveling again. Yeah, I mean, those flights are pretty brutal. Do I try going somewhere that's not 24 hours away? Yeah. Yeah, but you get the 24 hours back on the flight back. That's true. That's true. Yeah, I spent your Sunday. That was kind of cool. Like I landed in Minneapolis in time to watch like the second half of the giant scheme. Oh, that is nice. And was like just watching that on my phone and Delta Lounge while I had it through our layovers. Great. Wait, what's the Delta Lounge? Yeah, the giant one. You what's the Delta Lounge? They won a great game. I literally didn't watch a second of the giant's game. I don't know how the giants are three and one. Good team. Yeah, but they've lost like, I mean, their defense is pretty insane. Okay, they lost probably their best, I mean, one of their best defensive players. Brian Burns. Yeah. And they lost their franchise quarterback in the second week.

1:29:18We don't need them. They got a duel. They got, I mean, that rookie, our Val Reese's look like he's thumping bodies of duels looking like a demon. Yeah. cave on. They bet O is, I mean, he's a high pedigree player. The deonte banks had that reception, interception return for touchdown. He looked fucking. Yeah. The, um, the nine now. Did you see that CJ Gardner Johnson? Is that his name? Oh, yeah. You see what he said about chiseled chiseled chiseled chiseled. He's like, he's an elevator operator. He's an elevator guy. What an unbelievable thing to say about a white receiver. He's an elevator guy. Just a guy on the upper east side wearing a fucking newsboy cap who goes six floor. Yes, man. Good to see you, Mr. Kelly. They're killing him online. Can I help you with your groceries? They said that, uh, they're people are just ripping on him because he's been on four teams in the last four years. Yeah, maybe more than that. I don't say he was on the bears, Eagles,

1:30:19lions, Eagles again, Texans was in the Colts. Is any on the Colts now? Or no? No, he was on the Colts last year, wasn't he? I don't know, but he is. I mean, the Eagles went to two super bowls when he was on the team. He's a kind of player. You need like one guy that's dumb as fucking rocks. You need one guy in your defense that like cannot like count to 10. Wow, what a game. Pat's bills. Yeah, Greg. That must have been tough for you. No, no, it wasn't. It was quite easy to your two favorite teams. The two great loves two of your three favorite teams. Who's my third? Eagles. Oh, brother. You couldn't even pay me to watch the Eagles, right? Why are there so many pictures of you and Eagles gear then? I mean, it's because I had it. People give it to me. Okay. I've said it before. I'll wear anything. I don't care what it is. Obviously. I got it. Come on, how? It's a great shirt. It's a soccer jersey. A Patriot soccer jersey. You do look like you're going to be selling us hot dogs. I mean, it's a great shirt. Look, I got to show support for my team.

1:31:24My team won dog call my team won yesterday. Your team lost to a bad team yesterday, which is fine. They were super team. I would call them a super team. I would call them a team with a two good players. We lost them. Super team without six all pros. Who's the super team? The Rams. Who's a super player on the super team? Last year's MVP. Yeah, last year's effort. He's pretty good player. Yeah, I don't see. 50 years old. The guy who had two rushing touchdowns. You guys couldn't keep up with a 50 year old man. 50. Oh, he's not, bro. He's way, he's 10 years younger than Brady was when he won his last Super Bowl. 10 years younger. And you think you think, yeah, I'm just saying you guys lost to a bad team. You got shit on. Your team is genuinely a disgrace to the game. It's not fun to watch. No one wants to watch a team scores zero points. You're lashing out because France has pointed out that you look like a cracker jackson. You couldn't even wear your team's heems colors today. There's something about the red socks and the Patriots that is deeply conflicting to me. I don't know how it's just showing support.

1:32:24Even though it's the same color. It's just like a child that got to Boston for the first time. Right. Like I was aware. I was aware. And like you're wearing Celtics pants. I think I'm doing that. Let's see the Bruins on these Bruins ice skates. Like, like I was I was aware that I might take some criticism for my outfit, but I'm fine with that as long as I got to show support for my team. I really, really wanted to get you some cool sneakers. Oh, yeah. But I got my sambas too hard to buy for someone. You can't buy someone's sneakers. No, no, because you don't know how if they're not going to fit and I know you just might throw them away. I felt like green hoodie, safe bat, Elbrin, oh, being brand that you like. Definitely. That's great. It's great gift Francis. No, I'm not reaching for I'm just to play this is best gift gift Monday. Oh, yeah. The best one that you've done. That's very kind. It is. Alrighty. Let's talk about tempo meals. Tempo meals. The holidays have a way of swallowing my whole calendar and cooking is always the first thing to go.

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1:35:28Yeah, I'm going to need some invisibility cloak. Really anything you can get your hands on. I will. Don't worry about it, but I'm going to need that Maxi jersey. Do you feel bad that you're flying all the way to London to watch the Eagles lose again? It's for my sister's birthday. It's not about the outcome of the game. It's who you spend it with. Who's been the time? I guess. Yeah. What do you think? I mean, if you're a casual, what do you mean? I'm going out there. It's a fucking celebrate. So celebrate the love one. Yeah. All right. I'd love to hear your watching your team lose. I'd love to hear you try and throw a smud on that. I'm going to Churchill's war room. Oh, wait. I've been to the Churchill's bunkers. Is that is that this where it is? I don't know. I'm going to have to report back in London. I've been to that. How was it? Awesome. Really? It was really cool. Yeah, I heard it's one of the coolest experiences you can have. I don't know if that is what his war room is, but I mean, I don't know. Now I'll report back. That was really cool. I think I need a war room. What do you mean? Just get one for the house. By the way, the other cool thing from Herod's is just tens of shortbread.

1:36:29They make these really cool souvenir tins that have Herod's on them. So that would be nice. I've been trying to prepare, and I'm listening to podcasts about it. And every podcast, it was like, and she made me the best cup of tea I've ever had. And it's like, bro, like, how was one cup of tea that much better than another cup of tea? Yeah. I think tea is a pretty uniform liquid. I agree. But you should go to a high tea. I am what we have a high tea plan. Good. Where? Where? What's the high parcotelle or something like that is the one that's checking seeds, exactly where this high tea is. I didn't even over plan, but we have a high tea at Hamyard. Hamyard. Nice. Hamyard. We're in a dream of it, brother. Sounds beautiful. Oh, I'm going to dream of Hamyard. Hyde Park is stunning. It's a great park to walk. Are you going to get the chance to get out to Birmingham or now? I've been to Brom. Yeah, you got to get out to get up. I've already done Brom before. You should drive by the street that we crashed the car on. I don't think I'm going to be doing much

1:37:29driving out there, especially out to Brom. Isn't Brom like three hours from London? Hour and a half. No, with the traffic. Now there's no traffic. No one's going. Eagles traffic. Yeah, true. People fleeing the city. Because the Eagles fans are taking over. That would be funny to see an Eagles fans take like Philadelphia's are not prepared for the poshness of London. No, no. That's the most come baggage city and the most posh. Yeah. Yeah. Was that your experience that it is or is that overstated? The poshness or is it more like do's like central C? I thought it was it every time I've been to England, I've just been like it just feels like I'm in America. But like the cards are on the other side of the street. I like London a lot. I love it. I haven't been in a long time, probably like 15 years or so. Yeah, you should go. Okay, I'll get right back on. Yeah. Yeah, you should go and you guys can watch the Eagles lose together. I'm flying a virgin. Oh, sick. That's supposed to be sick. I heard that it's the worst flying experience

1:38:30because it's something called the coffin seats where your legs go out like into the aisle. Oh, really? Yeah. That's crazy. Oh, no, it's bad. I've heard that it's bad. I've heard virgins terrible. The set is a seven nine seven dash. No, I'm not sure what type of planet is, but it's a seven ninety seven. I was seven eighty seven dash nine. If planes always look like their nightclubs, they got the cool lighting. It's the lighting. Yeah, I think that looks great. I wouldn't have thought that was bad, dude. That's got a full bed. So look up the cheats on the bed. Look at the look up, Virgin air coffin seats. He's grown. That one. Yeah, those ones. It's just like someone's kind of looking over your shoulder. Oh, yeah. You're like offset a little bit. It's like a half. I mean, the flight to London's honestly pretty short. I had doors on on my Japan air. Also on my Delta flight. Dude, I'll say that the Delta flight home was pretty damn good. Was it better than the jet Japan air?

1:39:30It wasn't far off. Yeah. I mean, Delta one is great. Yeah. I mean, Delta one is great. When you get the big Delta one flight, oh, yeah. The big like 12, the same one I had going to New Zealand. Yeah. Those huge ones, the biggest plane they have, that Delta one seat is as good as it gets. Yeah, it's great. I'm taking a non overnight flight. So I'm taking a day flight. I'm taking a flight at 8 in the morning and I land at 8 at night. That's awesome. You think it is? Awesome. I think that's great. Yeah. That's so nice. You'll get, I mean, just don't sleep on the flight. Put it on the seat on that flight. But I'll wait to get there. They'll have a cheeky pint. Yeah, get a couple of lines. Yeah. Tatsushi. Yeah. Have some Nando's. Yeah, that's actually nice. That sounds pretty ideal, to be honest. I think we got there at like 1 p.m. That sucks. Yeah. And you flew overnight. Yeah. You flew like what? Midnight and got there at like 1 p.m. Something like that. Something weird.

1:40:30We got, we were there in the middle of the day. And then we had to, then you got to do shit. No. You're not trying to be driving around and doing shit. I'm driving. I'm not touching a fucking car. No. You're just going to be going to gardens. Just going from one garden to another. Just going to be going to gardens. Yeah. Got it. I'm all. It's going to be sick. How was Boston? What'd you do up there? Good. I wasn't in Boston. I was back in Mass, South of Boston, of course. And it was good. I got to meet my cousin's baby, which was nice. Good dude. Girl, I held the baby. It fell through my arms. Not actually, but like I haven't held the baby. Wait, honestly. This is your sister's baby? My cousins. Oh, okay. My first cousin once removed. You dropped the baby? No. When did your cousin have a child? Uh, like a couple months ago. I didn't even know she was married. Yep. You don't really know anything about my cousin.

1:41:31Because you don't, you don't share. You've been keeping this in for a while. I don't know anything about your cousins. I thought your sister got married. She did. When did that happen? Last year. And she's had a kid? No. You don't want to talk about it. There's nothing to talk about. She hasn't had a kid. But my cousin had a kid. And I got to tell you when you're an uncle. So we can bond over that? Yeah. Obviously, I would tell you as if my sister had a kid. You don't tell us anything about your family. There's been nothing to tell. What was I going to just, hey guys, just you guys married and you never told us we kind of months later. That's not true. Because you were like, you know, I went back to that. That's not true. I think I was a husband. But what? Now they put the baby, like I had my arms like this. And they put the baby like here. And like the baby's head was here. And it just went right through my arm. No, no, no, just fun. Just right onto my lap. Didn't even get the punch out. Like immediately. I'm just standing on the peanut punch. The baby's head is below my arm. Where the body is. And I'm like, well, that definitely isn't supposed to happen. You know that a baby doesn't like rest on you.

1:42:33Like you're a shelf. Like you have to actually hold it. Yeah. I learned that. He thought that was just going to teeter on you. And then my mom like fixed the baby's head. And then she started crying immediately. The baby. The baby did. Oh, and then I was removed from holding the baby. Dude, that was it. That was it. I held it for probably five seconds. Good. Good. I'm happy. Good hold though. It was a solid hold. Girls have like a weird obsession with seeing a guy hold a baby. They all want to hold it. I mean, they're just obsessed with it. They love babies. But like they're like, I'm pretty sure my mom and my grandma and like her sisters. Like I'm pretty sure they just go over every day and just pass around the baby for like six hours. A dream baby rotation. Yeah. Yeah. They literally just stand there just passing the baby around. That is nice. I enjoy holding the baby. But I don't know. I grab my baby's rotation. I grab my baby's ass with a baby. Like my grandma, like they'd be like, oh, the baby's smiling. And she's like getting up from across the room, like jogging over to see the baby smile. They love that. They love it. They love it. It is a, it is like a uniquely

1:43:37energizing experience. Oh, definitely. It's better than it's as good as Phoenix. It's a little bit worse than Phoenix. You ever see a new mother's camera roll? Oh, yeah. It's all baby. Four million photos of baby doing everything. Yeah. Should you take a photo of all of it? Just flopping around. Yeah. They are floppy. Oh, very. I didn't expect them to be that floppy. Because sometimes you'll be holding them and then their head will just be like. That's literally that's literally what happened. Yeah. Fuck, I didn't really, did I just give you whiplash? Yeah. You really don't. It's a little scary. It's like when you fall asleep on like an airplane or something like that. Yeah. It's like it's, it's, it's definitely a scary holding someone else's baby. You have to keep their head, you have to keep their head or right. Oh, yeah. Was there any part of you after holding the baby that thought I want one of these? So I want to have a baby someday?

1:44:38I mean, I have no idea, but yeah, maybe. I'm about to have a niece any day now. Really? Yeah. That's great. I have a niece. Yeah. Pretty excited about it. That's fantastic. This is your sister's baby. My wife's sister's baby. Oh, okay. So she already has a son. First niece wants to remove. This would be my first niece once we're just. Let's remove that, niece. At least one time. This is a clear, is a pure niece. But I don't understand cousins and removals. Because like your uncle's people will be like, you're like, uncle's kitchen. A removed means through, through marriage. How does it? Yeah. So like, my fuck, here we go. I'm in, I'm in. It's anime waters. Really confusing. We look at my understanding before, can I guess, Tyler, before you confirm this? I think that once removed, right? So your, my cousin is the first cousin once removed. Yeah, your wife's brother or sister.

1:45:40If they have a cousin, that like your, if your wife's sister's husband has a cousin, that would be a cousin of yours once removed. Because it's through a marriage. In case you're going to check that. And actually, I need the visual. I need the image of it. I'm completely wrong. I love it. This is, it says generations. Right? That's what it's said. The removal is the generation. Yeah. Okay, I thought it was marriage. Because so your second cousin is like your fucking, I can't, I don't think that's helping. Can we get it written in English? Go back. What did it say there? That was completely met made total sense. There is a, once removed means there is a one generation difference between two family members who are in different generations. See my eyes as visual. Great, great. Yeah, wait, so that makes sense. But we great, uncle or great aunt. Wait, so what if, what if my first cousin once removed

1:46:42has a child, then what would that cousin be? Would that be my second cousin once removed? I got it. That's only if it's your great uncle. Maybe first cousin twice removed. Or you can also have second cousin twice removed. Interesting. All I know is that if it's removed twice, you can have sex with it. Oh, it is. It is. You were right. And the child will not be a problem. If it's removed twice, it's not incest. That's the Rosenberg's out of way with it. Yeah. Twice removed. You're clear. That's good to know. The chance of that's because in Iceland, like everyone is sex. Yeah, yeah, that's removed. By the way, yesterday I did my all-time best good deed. Really? I think ever for for visibility credit and also for goodness of act. Love that. Well, what would it be? It satisfied all the categories. It was it was just very rare. It was it was full credit to me and full credit to society. Love that. I was at LaGuardia and landed.

1:47:43Was that the baggage claim? Because I had checked a bag filled with wire shit from whatever. Anyway, there was this very old couple waiting for their bags. Very old. Yeah. Frail. Frail. And the husband, the wife was getting the bags off the belt. And her bags were coming out. She had two of them and she went to grab the first one. And I was like, oh, I'll help you. She was like, I got it. I got it. Thank you, though. She grabbed them. But it was like, hard for her. I was like, I could have done that. Yeah. And I was like, I was like, good, good. I said something like, you know, good work. That looked, those were, she grabbed them both at the same time. Yeah, yeah. They came out at the same time. And I was like, good work. She was like, thank you. And then her husband, where I was like, why didn't he fucking help her?

1:48:44His shoe was untied. And I went, I went, tell you didn't touch it. He heads up on your, heads up on your shoe there. And he looked at me. He was like, and she looked at me and she goes, as, you know, like, he's retarded. Yeah. At this point, tell me you didn't tie his shoe. He's just retarded. And so I tied his shoe. I went, I got it. And because her, she was like dealing with the bags and I got down on my knee and tied his shoe. That's insane. Double knot. Yeah. Loop swoop pull. I tied his shoe for him. That's genuinely insane. Imagine if you caught Francis doing that. Genuflecting at the altar of age. What time were you at the war? And by the way, the fact that all the people waiting for their bags did not, like simultaneously break out into a plaz. Just goes to show how far our values have eroded.

1:49:47They probably thought it was like, you were like his grandson or something. Come on, man. Either way. I was shoe. He was it. Did a lot of people see you? Were you centrally located? I know. People we were right at the spout. Yeah, we were right at the spout. Oh, no. And I'll tell you what, dude, whatever happened to like, you know, worshipping our heroes. The greatest generation. We used to build shrines. Yeah. We've been pretty shrineless. It's just no one more. They're tearing them down. We are the shrines. When was the last time we built a shrine? Who were we building? Kobe's got a shrine. That's fair. Nick Folls got one after the Philly special. Kobe's got a shrine at the at the stable center. Right. He's got one. But on the Brady got a shrine. It's just that. It's only sports heroes. Yeah, everybody else has had their shrines taken down because they were slavers. Yeah, right. You know, guy, you write one blog about a dead girl and all of a sudden you don't make your shrines. Yeah. Because the south doesn't like it. Yeah, you probably wouldn't have known that you lost your shrine then. No.

1:50:47No. That's the, that is nice to, to die thinking your shrine is still up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, you either live long enough to see yourself become. Yeah. See your shrine get torn down. He wrote to me. Anyone, even a young guy tying the shoe of a guy who's not a grandfather. More Christopher Columbus. I had a flight yesterday for the ball. Perry, can I just before you say that? Of course. That quote of a hero can be anybody, even even someone putting a coat around the shoulders of a boy to let him know the world hasn't. Oh, yeah. You never saw Batman begins. No, no. So do you even know what that quote means? I mean, I thought I did. Dude, this hit me like a ton of bricks in the middle of like the night. Yeah. There are so many moments in both but there's a lot of like, in the dark night rises that refer to the first movie

1:51:52which you never saw and you love the others. Yeah. I mean, I guess I must have just assumed that I understood the references and I don't. Because I have no idea. Gordon comforts Bruce Wayne after his parents are killed. But don't they show that in the in the dark night? Briefly, you wouldn't have. No, I think I do. I think I did remember. I don't know hairball because I do feel like they provide a lot of context so you don't have to watch the shitty first one. It's not shitty. All right. Sorry. You were saying you were just going to have a flight from Boston yesterday. So I might have what time did you get to the airport to look like? 630? Yeah. Oh, never mind. 615? Not even close. I was there. Well, like one. I missed my flight yesterday. You did? Yeah. I had a. How? Yeah. Well, so I woke up. I sat my alarm for 820 and then I woke up. No, I sat my alarm for 8 and then I woke up and I was like, I don't got to be up for like 20 minutes.

1:52:53So I said it again for 820. Never went off. And then my mom woke me up at 915. So it's your alarm's fault. Your alarm didn't go. No, it was my fault and it was my Uber drivers fault. You didn't set the alarm. I did. No, you didn't. I did. I showed it to my mom. I said, look, it's set. You did. There's no way that you set your alarm and the iPhone malfunction. You said it was quite good. And it didn't go off. That happens quite often. Oh, yeah, yeah. The most basic piece of technology they have just doesn't work. Yeah. Everything else works. Like they actually satellite within milliseconds. But they couldn't get your alarm right. You don't know shit. You don't know shit about tech. It's somebody else's fault. You don't know shit about shit about. You don't know shit about. My alarm didn't go off. Nothing. Did you tell that to the gate agents? I'm sure they would have held the plane for you. Well, no, where I was going with the story was. So I set the alarm, doesn't go off, whatever. Then I get an Uber. Is this ever happened? You guys where you get an Uber? I mean, obviously, I'm in the suburbs of Massachusetts. So I'm not expecting it to be like a one minute Uber.

1:53:54But I'm getting one that's 20 minutes away. And I know there's Uber's that are closer. So I cancel. And then I got a new one. Same person accepts it. And then I'm going, I canceled like five times. And the same person kept on taking the drive. I'd say to wait. So you had to get that person. So I had to get that person. And then I miss my, that's the time when I bump up. I'll go to. I'm already there. Black. I don't think I even have that. That is an option. Really? Yeah. Deluxe bird. Yeah. I mean, that's not like. Everything's black out there. It's all black. It's all black. It's all black. Actually, it's actually almost all white. But. But beat to it. I beat it to it. I didn't even hear it. I didn't even hear it because I was. Tieshook. Tieshook. I was actively saying it. But anyways, so I'm in the Uber. And I this is my least favorite feeling when I'm like, I know I'm going to miss the flight. So I'm looking at other flights. And I'm like, those flights are filling up. And then I get on. And I'm like, finally get to a point where I'm like, okay, there's literally no chance.

1:54:56I'm going to make this flight. It was an 11 AM flight. I got to the airport at 1050. Oh my. So I'm like, yeah, right. So, right, right. So I changed my flight. I changed it in the car to the 12 PM. They got one every hour. So my God, it's not. I'm pretty much on time for the 12 PM. Like this isn't that bad. And then I get through security. They're still boarding the 11. They were only on zone three. Did you go back to the 11? I couldn't. It was sold out. But did you, you, so you got rid of your ticket? I got rid of my ticket. I had no choice. I had to change my flight. You just saying day change. Yeah. But you were on the 12. That was on the 12. So it wasn't that big of a deal. But I could have made the 11. Isn't that true? Imagine if that was like a flight like like my London flight. Yeah. There's eight o'clock. And then there's not one until. Yeah. Like I changed and then you get like seeing them boarding. I was like, you got to be fucking kidding. Yeah. No email. Nothing. That would have made me sick to my stomach. That was fine though. Like I said, I was literally I was just on time.

1:55:58I waited for like 15 minutes for the noon flight. Yeah, that's very nice. That does have me spooked about missing this flight to London though. That was my first miss in a minute. I felt good. Love getting one. I haven't missed a flight. I don't know when the last time was. Well, last time I missed one before that was when we were all going to Chicago. And I missed it. But while they were still boarding again, but the lady like wouldn't let me board. All of us did when we were all going. Yeah, for something. Cause you're alarmed and go off. Cause you're alarmed with broken. Well, my phone is actually fucking destroyed. My phone has been acting up too. That my the planned obsolescence is kicking in. Yeah, it's because they just put out a new iPhone that has the longest battery life that they've ever had. So they want everyone to buy it. Yeah, my battery life is a disaster. My battery life is plummeting. And every time I like try to look up one of my contacts, it just isn't there. Oh no. Bro, what is that about? This is searching on settings. Just there's never any results. You have to own comes up. It only works if I put it in someone's last.

1:56:58Yeah. If I do it first name, it doesn't work. But if I go through my recent text messages, it's like I never texted anyone before. Couldn't agree more. But I have to go if I go go through contacts. Yeah, the software is completely fucked. What the fuck is going on? This buggy is all hell. What can you do? It was I actually had a great weekend though. Cause I like just like hung out with my family all day. And then they all go to bed at like 8 p.m. So then I would just play video games all night just add my parents house like in the living room. And like they got I mean, there's a whole house of food and snacks. That is good. It was great. That's nice. It was a little blast from the past. That's kind of like me in the pool house. Yeah, I felt like that. What kind of snacks are your parents packing? Swiss rolls. What's that? All right, we're gonna end it there. What's wrapping up there? I don't know what those are. Swiss rolls. You guys don't know what Swiss rolls are? They're honey buns. They're like similar, but no, it's more on the Oh, they're like a hostess type. Yeah. Wow. Took down a Swiss roll. Late.

1:57:59Nice. Is that a single count or are there two in a pack too? Come on now. My hotel every morning put out a big branch of fresh grapes every day. Oh, gosh. At your room or in my room every room? Oh, wow. It was a lot of grapes. I ate the whole thing. It was a lot of grapes. And they were huge grapes. Yeah, I didn't realize how many sizes to grapes there were. You've seen the long ones? They got long grapes now. Long grapes? Yeah. No. Like long, like they're almost like a pencil. Oh, no. Yeah. Yeah, look at these things. Long grapes. In these little penis grapes. Isn't that crazy? Oh, god. Very foul. Moon drops. That's what people call them. Oh, cool. Good. Or sweet sapphires if that's that's kind of the more. Yeah. I got some blueberries recently. Organic blueberries. And but they all wants to hear about your blueberries. They were huge. They hear me out. They were. It was blueberry talk. They were they were planetary. They were so big, but they were organic. My wife throws them right in the trash. She's like, what? These aren't organic. They cannot be growing that big if they're organic.

1:59:02And then I check the blueberries this morning. They're like, fucking microbeads. She just had little fucking rain drop blueberries. Yeah, those are the wild ones, probably. Wild. The tiniest blueberries you've ever seen. That's what we're known for in Maine. Maine are the main wild blueberries. People think our big big sport. I'm sorry. Big or small tiny little deer drop. I like the big. It's like, look at that. Oh my god. Those are tennis balls. They're big. That's what she had some tennis balls where they were organic. Holy shit. Those are literally like the pool balls. Yeah. You could like skip one of those on the lake. That's by the way. I would love that. I'm actually eating a blueberry like an apple. Sounds like everyone wants to hear about the blueberries. Sounds like the blueberries are the most Tyler pulled up a great photo of the blueberries. It's because you need a visual aid. You need to be, you need a picture book to understand what's going on in the story. He literally just saved the episode. Look at this. You get Harry one good present and he turns all his eye are away from me to you. Normally he and I are arguing like this, but I got him a good present. Yeah. I mean, I never seen blueberries like that.

2:00:04Yeah, that's what we were working with. There was a children's book I read growing up called Blueberries for Sal. Oh, yeah. I read that. You read that? Yeah. That was the one that really put me on to the how Maine is like famous for our blueberries. Sal. You used to read that all the time. Yeah. The impractical joke. It's a great book. Yeah. Great. It's a photo. Yeah, he wrote it. Yeah. There's a bunch of these. My grandparents used to have like all of them. Sal as the protagonist. I think so. Yeah. Did you get any presents for the little baby that you got? Did you just eat other like fruits and stuff? Maybe Sal's a guy. Did you buy any presents for the baby? Sal. Yeah. You're bad, bad uncle. Well, I'm not an uncle. Once removed. You should have got something for them. Maybe there aren't a bunch of them. Maybe we just had multiple copies of it. I'm not seeing too many other fruits for Sal. I think it'd be apples for Sal based on what you said.

2:01:05Miss Rumpfiest was the other one I loved. The loop and lady. See, I don't know any of these bitches held in the purple crayon. It's classic. You come to learn that children's books are a bit regional, maybe? What did you guys have? Good night, Moon. Yeah. Yeah, of course. See, those are the bangers though. Yeah, hungry caterpillar. Hungry caterpillar. We never really even read those ones. They were little too mainstream. You're your blueberries for Sal. You're an indie boat. Children's book. Yeah, yeah, yeah, hailed in the purple crayon. Blueberries for Sal. Yeah. What lessons were you learning? Sal and Hobbs. Oh, that's what I was thinking of. Calvin and Hobbs. Salvin and Salvin Hobbs. So good. Calvin and Hobbs was so good. They really was banging. They were buddies too. Fuck, maybe that's what my kid should be for Halloween. The one thing about Calvin and Hobbs that was odd was that what everyone's in a while. What was the guy Bill Waterson? Yeah, he'd throw like a stripping that was just like pure philosophy.

2:02:06Oh, yeah. Where it would usually be one where they would be like, I don't know, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. I don't know. It would usually be one where they would be racing down the hill on the wagon. And it was like way over my head as a seven year old or like a nine year old. I couldn't understand what the fuck was going on. I guess that's the point though, is that he's he made it for all ages. No, what I pray for. What? The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can't and the incapacity to tell the difference. Oh, that's great. That's the flip on the famous. You should lead an interesting life. Oh, I already do. Fuck, that's nice. Yeah, there's a lot of like existentialism, which, you know, I just remember reading it and being like, I don't have no idea what's going on. And then it'd be like, all right, now there's monsters on the bed again. A few. They're racing again. Yeah. He's being tackled out the door. Thank God. It is really good. It's really good. The parents were very funny.

2:03:08The parents were very funny. That was hysterical. I used to have like the big bicks. The anthology ones. Yeah, those were awesome. The collection. Did you watch Kauyu growing up? Oh, yeah. Kauyu is the whiniest little bitch I've ever heard in my life. We didn't really watch it. Mommy, why can't I play with the toilet, brother? This is teaching kids to be a bitch. I didn't know this. This was not. There's like a channel of Kauyu that's like, like, somehow my kids can fucking like, it's just what's on the TV. Like you can just turn it on. Yeah. All Kauyu all day. It's just this little whiny kid. Yeah, we got to a point where when Kauyu get in my mind again, again, like me and my sisters were like, get this shit off. Mom, I want to play. Yeah. It's like teaching the worst tone and perspective. Yeah. Children everywhere. The blue, the blue is the thing now. Yeah. Yeah. My my nieces and nephew are pop patrols well. They've they've moved off

2:04:08pop patrol in favor of blue. Really? Yeah. You got to see if they're on to they're out there. They're a cab. Yeah. It's either your pop patrol or your miss Rachel. Yeah. You can go either side of the political spectrum. Have you guys have you had any kids in your life put you want to Danny go? No. This guy's a fucking wild man. This guy goes so fucking hard in the paint. Oh, it looks like it. Sensory overstimulation. Love that. Like he'll have your kids drooling just like maybe having a seizure honestly. Like there's so much going on on a day and a go. Free. Very soon. Danny's a freak. Don't say that, bro. Tell just from the photo. He's for the kids. Yeah. Exactly. Oh, bro, watch your pick your next word. Carefully. All right. Yeah. Yeah. Let's wrap this up. Shut up. We have multiple shows this week. Yeah. I think we just went for like two hours. Jesus Christ. Let me talk 90% of it.

2:05:09All right. We will see you guys on Thursday. Thank you. Goodbye.