WEBVTT 00:03.139 --> 00:07.816 [SPEAKER_00]: This show is brought to you by The Makeery, the podcast network for makers. 00:17.820 --> 00:18.640 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, what's going on? 00:18.660 --> 00:20.121 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm looking a little less podcast. 00:20.381 --> 00:22.121 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Jeff Fader, I'm back, baby. 00:22.141 --> 00:23.781 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to tell you all about it. 00:24.201 --> 00:25.822 [SPEAKER_00]: But first, I want to thank my sponsors. 00:25.862 --> 00:31.223 [SPEAKER_00]: First things, first, my friends at BroadbickRineWorks are delivering great product to you. 00:31.603 --> 00:33.344 [SPEAKER_00]: This is a very versatile grinder. 00:33.384 --> 00:37.044 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're a knife maker, your metal worker, your fabricator, your sculptor. 00:37.405 --> 00:40.245 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're trying to remove material, this is a great, great grinder. 00:40.665 --> 00:46.127 [SPEAKER_00]: And if you go to BroadbickRineWorks.com, you can check out all the 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traditional, and the holy, and all that stuff, I think fabricators are great knife makers who have practical knowledge on fabrication. 10:20.443 --> 10:23.466 [SPEAKER_00]: The problem is, is some of you get a little arrogant. 10:23.787 --> 10:28.893 [SPEAKER_00]: And part of that arrogance is the thought, well, the grinders work faster for sharpening a knife. 10:29.674 --> 10:31.416 [SPEAKER_00]: And I got the belts, I got all that stuff. 10:32.236 --> 10:35.620 [SPEAKER_00]: But I'm telling you, out from experience, I thought the same thing. 10:36.421 --> 10:41.367 [SPEAKER_00]: Ah, don't eat motherfuckers, don't know what they're talking about with all the, you know, the wet stones, all the shit. 10:42.481 --> 10:58.228 [SPEAKER_00]: the a lot of I see it and I had myself if you use a slack belt to grind your knives that are going to work but over time especially on something long then you're going to end up taking a little too much material off your heel I'm telling you just the way you hold it. 10:58.968 --> 11:08.456 [SPEAKER_00]: The reason why the tournament is great is that it's a waterstone and it moves at a specific rate and it's not taking off too much material too quickly. 11:08.876 --> 11:15.282 [SPEAKER_00]: Not only is it not taking off too much materials too quickly but it's creating a slurry that's going to help polish your edge. 11:15.822 --> 11:27.307 [SPEAKER_00]: and it's also going to, you have ability to use guides so you won't overdo it, you can freehand it like I do, it's very, very versatile and you're taking off the right amount of material. 11:27.327 --> 11:31.649 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're using a tournament, you're taking off the right amount of material and there's no guesswork involved. 11:32.814 --> 11:34.876 [SPEAKER_00]: You're fluttering out that slack belt. 11:34.936 --> 11:36.778 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, God bless you if you can make it work. 11:36.818 --> 11:43.884 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm with you, but like in terms of a long term 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see it, you know, you get to Benny Hano once in a while, and you're just like, yeah, let's see where this all comes from. 12:25.245 --> 12:33.668 [SPEAKER_00]: But the problem is is the thought, especially if you're in the United States, you're in New York, it's on the other side of the world, and you're just like, well, that's probably not gonna happen. 12:33.688 --> 12:34.649 [SPEAKER_00]: That's gotta be expensive. 12:35.513 --> 12:43.176 [SPEAKER_00]: So my daughter, Lyle, who's been on the show a number of times, goes to college in California at Los Angeles. 12:43.417 --> 12:53.421 [SPEAKER_00]: And then she early on, she and her mother were talking about the fact that her college had a lot of these programs where there's a lot of encouragement for studying abroad. 12:53.961 --> 12:56.804 [SPEAKER_00]: And there was, and it's based off of your major. 12:57.265 --> 13:05.373 [SPEAKER_00]: So like you can't just, you know, in my college, a canyon, when we went to Canyon, people could go basically, you had to flake. 13:05.774 --> 13:09.577 [SPEAKER_00]: If you wanted to go abroad, you had to like come up with a reason why. 13:10.298 --> 13:27.097 [SPEAKER_00]: In this school it's like very much long lines if they have different programs that are available based on when you're major is my daughter's major is urban and environmental policy so urban environmental policy like it's very broad a lot of it has to do with I think my daughter's interest are are 13:27.718 --> 13:42.039 [SPEAKER_00]: you know, policy in regards to transportation, or how food goes around, how people get food, or how people live in cities, or traffic, or there's a lot of different, it's not just about traffic and infrastructure, but that's a huge part of it. 13:42.119 --> 13:42.300 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, 13:42.820 --> 13:50.084 [SPEAKER_00]: It's really, really interesting on how urban policy affects citizens, civilians. 13:50.345 --> 14:04.193 [SPEAKER_00]: So citizens, people living in cities and stuff like that, or towns, or this is, I'm giving you a very broad part of what are majors, but there was an opportunity to go to Tokyo. 14:05.582 --> 14:09.845 [SPEAKER_00]: So she spent, she knew that there was a certain amount of requirements to apply. 14:10.366 --> 14:18.432 [SPEAKER_00]: So she'd been learning Japanese for the past three years, and then she got accepted into it, and then she opted to Japan. 14:18.472 --> 14:21.775 [SPEAKER_00]: So she'd been in Japan now for a little over two months. 14:22.355 --> 14:23.075 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's amazing. 14:23.095 --> 14:36.519 [SPEAKER_00]: When something that she's been looking forward to, when she was in high school, when she got in the college, we got into the college and she and her mom were talking about, you know, you go to Japan. 14:36.559 --> 14:42.020 [SPEAKER_00]: And then by the time she was a freshman, she had to make a decision because there was a lot of requirements at her school. 14:42.700 --> 14:54.257 [SPEAKER_00]: got in, she's in Japan, and my wife and I were just like, well we've always wanted a good Japan, and there's no other, you know, really good reason, then we got to see how our daughter's doing, right? 14:54.277 --> 14:57.362 [SPEAKER_00]: We got to make sure she's okay in that in the uh... 14:58.123 --> 14:59.464 [SPEAKER_00]: in the land of the rising sun. 14:59.484 --> 15:00.184 [SPEAKER_00]: We need to see. 15:00.224 --> 15:10.270 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, we need to see if I'm a what kind of parents would you be if you don't check on the welfare of your own daughter as nothing to do with us, as nothing to do with what we want to do. 15:10.310 --> 15:13.152 [SPEAKER_00]: It's what you do, you go visit your daughter, right? 15:13.853 --> 15:19.456 [SPEAKER_00]: So we, we made the decision, there's no other better reason than to meet her daughter in Japan. 15:20.605 --> 15:32.955 [SPEAKER_00]: But we kind of like, we figured out the dates a long time ago, and then we bought our tickets right before this war in Iran and the gas prices skyrocketed. 15:32.975 --> 15:35.637 [SPEAKER_00]: So like, I am like, thank God. 15:35.657 --> 15:38.880 [SPEAKER_00]: We got great prices for flight to Japan. 15:39.860 --> 15:42.062 [SPEAKER_00]: And my wife and I were thrilled. 15:42.282 --> 15:46.326 [SPEAKER_00]: And one pro tip I'll say to you if you've traveling abroad, 15:47.086 --> 15:52.912 [SPEAKER_00]: is unless you're looking for a long layover, do non-stop, do non-stop. 15:52.932 --> 16:07.024 [SPEAKER_00]: And I said to myself, well, you know, we could get a better price, we'd go to Canada and like, bro, I'm not getting off the plane and getting into a customs line, immigration line, to meet my, I ain't doing it, it's too stressful, one shot. 16:07.885 --> 16:34.811 [SPEAKER_00]: we got the tickets and then it was exciting and I forgot about it really and honestly I didn't do a whole I didn't do a whole lot of planning only because I think I had a little bit of anxiety about the whole trip I mean it seems like in your mind you're just like I've never been Asia before my wife's been to Nepal years ago but not I mean she was much younger and I didn't really have a big I didn't have an understanding of what the kind of culture shock would be all 16:37.872 --> 16:46.658 [SPEAKER_00]: trying to get us all squared away, trying to get all, you know, we had jumped jobs, they needed to go out before I left and, you know, I would really wanted to kind of like tie everything up before we left. 16:47.059 --> 16:48.660 [SPEAKER_00]: And we did it really happy about it. 16:50.281 --> 16:57.826 [SPEAKER_00]: So about a couple of weeks before all of a sudden, we're just like, the reality is we're going to Japan and then day comes. 16:57.866 --> 16:58.467 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to kind of, 16:59.172 --> 17:02.775 [SPEAKER_00]: fast forward, I can't be talking about the pre-gettive talking in Japan. 17:03.615 --> 17:07.658 [SPEAKER_00]: So the flight was 14 hours, which was surprisingly not that bad. 17:08.199 --> 17:14.423 [SPEAKER_00]: You think that the plane would fly straight across the country and then straight to Japan over the ocean. 17:14.443 --> 17:14.903 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, no. 17:15.424 --> 17:26.432 [SPEAKER_00]: It goes up in the over Canada, flies over Canada, over Alaska, and then it goes into Russia and then hugs down the coast into Japan, which is crazy, just like goes up. 17:26.912 --> 17:29.854 [SPEAKER_00]: and then over and you're always over a land which is like wild. 17:31.876 --> 17:38.861 [SPEAKER_00]: I watched the both, Godfather, Godfather, part two, which I thought was hilarious to do that. 17:38.881 --> 17:40.942 [SPEAKER_00]: And I really enjoyed it to get a little sleep. 17:41.563 --> 17:44.785 [SPEAKER_00]: We landed in Japan and it was like a culture shock. 17:45.305 --> 17:46.966 [SPEAKER_00]: But the culture shock now what you think. 17:47.327 --> 17:55.532 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, we get through customs, we get through, and we get to our bus, we got a bus to the hotel, 17:57.442 --> 17:58.443 [SPEAKER_00]: Tokyo is huge. 17:58.663 --> 17:59.804 [SPEAKER_00]: Tokyo is enormous. 18:00.004 --> 18:03.246 [SPEAKER_00]: Tons of little, I don't know what would say villages but like parts. 18:03.626 --> 18:05.067 [SPEAKER_00]: They're parts, there's areas. 18:05.788 --> 18:07.489 [SPEAKER_00]: And every area is a little bit different. 18:07.989 --> 18:13.293 [SPEAKER_00]: So we got to our hotel and we kind of like, got some, we met our daughter for dinner. 18:14.193 --> 18:19.537 [SPEAKER_00]: And there was this giant mall next to our, our next to our hotel. 18:19.557 --> 18:21.098 [SPEAKER_00]: And we were kind of totally blitzed. 18:21.318 --> 18:23.920 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, we didn't get any sleep on the flights of like that. 18:24.500 --> 18:31.669 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was the first thing we noticed was Tokyo is incredibly clean, and I'm going to go into that later, but it was, we're still bleary, I had worked. 18:31.690 --> 18:34.834 [SPEAKER_00]: We lie on me to stop, and then we ended up going to this mall. 18:34.874 --> 18:35.915 [SPEAKER_00]: We have dinner in this mall. 18:37.644 --> 18:44.186 [SPEAKER_00]: It takes us a lot, and the food was, when's this mall, we went to this, like a conveyor belt sushi place, fabulous. 18:44.847 --> 18:51.369 [SPEAKER_00]: The first meal we had was fabulous, and it was like a very, very, nothing right home about mall. 18:51.429 --> 19:01.013 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, no, it was a beautiful mall, if you can, you know, I never thought I would say those words, but the food was really, really good, and it was conveyor belt sushi, which is apparently very common. 19:02.493 --> 19:07.779 [SPEAKER_00]: So the first thing you notice is, everything's, the food is incredibly affordable. 19:08.179 --> 19:17.268 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're on Instagram and maybe your algorithm gets completely overwhelmed with Japanese tourism content, there's a reason. 19:18.029 --> 19:23.335 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the reasons is the dollar is incredibly strong against the Japanese yet. 19:23.975 --> 19:31.697 [SPEAKER_00]: So my whole life, every time I've ever gone to Europe, even when I was a kid, the dollar was never strong against. 19:31.717 --> 19:40.860 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, I remember when I was a kid, I was a senior in high school, and I went to France by myself with my friend's in mind, and the Frank, we get crushed with the Frank. 19:41.140 --> 19:45.441 [SPEAKER_00]: We went down the Italy, we get crushed with the Lyro, crushed the, this is before the year. 19:45.461 --> 19:48.562 [SPEAKER_00]: We were getting crushed by the American dollar never been strong. 19:48.602 --> 19:51.103 [SPEAKER_00]: So I just assume wherever you go, the American dollar ain't strong. 19:51.483 --> 19:54.083 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, the American dollar is incredibly showing us Japanese yen. 19:54.104 --> 19:58.284 [SPEAKER_00]: So $1 equals 160 Japanese yen. 19:58.724 --> 20:17.848 [SPEAKER_00]: So just to give a little bit of perspective, if you go to get a bottle of soda at one of the dispensers, like the soda machine, it's like a dollar, it's like it would be like a dollar five cents for like a 12 liters of whatever you drink. 20:18.196 --> 20:20.797 [SPEAKER_00]: So the prices are really good. 20:21.017 --> 20:22.378 [SPEAKER_00]: And the food prices are really good. 20:22.398 --> 20:35.822 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, what we would normally pay for three people in my town, not even near New York City, it would be like, like Hillary and I had a lot of we'd go off for dinner and eat them now and just like with tax and everything up with the tip and everything up there. 20:35.842 --> 20:36.443 [SPEAKER_00]: We're looking at 120 bucks. 20:37.863 --> 20:42.530 [SPEAKER_00]: We never touched $50 for dinner for three. 20:42.811 --> 20:43.331 [SPEAKER_00]: Never touched. 20:43.532 --> 20:46.596 [SPEAKER_00]: We were around $30 for dinner for three. 20:46.616 --> 20:47.377 [SPEAKER_00]: It was crazy. 20:47.938 --> 20:52.004 [SPEAKER_00]: So the dollar was incredibly strong and that's one of the reasons why you see a lot of tourism now. 20:53.125 --> 20:57.249 [SPEAKER_00]: I was trying to read into it and kind of get a better understanding, and it has to do with the interest rates. 20:57.669 --> 21:00.832 [SPEAKER_00]: The interest rates in the United States are right, and I am going to bore you over this trust me, guys. 21:00.912 --> 21:01.192 [SPEAKER_00]: Listen. 21:01.432 --> 21:01.813 [SPEAKER_00]: Trust me. 21:02.193 --> 21:03.094 [SPEAKER_00]: I am going to bore you over this. 21:03.434 --> 21:08.098 [SPEAKER_00]: The interest rates in the United States are very high, and then in Japan they are standardly very low. 21:08.498 --> 21:10.981 [SPEAKER_00]: The cost of living in Japan is very low, too. 21:11.401 --> 21:20.889 [SPEAKER_00]: The Japanese Yen is dropped, I was talking to my friend, we have stayed with, we saw some friends of ours, we have known, who lived, who were Japanese, who lived in New York and are building, and we became friends with them. 21:21.249 --> 21:27.052 [SPEAKER_00]: And we met up with them when I was talking to them, they were in New York right after 9-11, and the dollar. 21:27.212 --> 21:37.677 [SPEAKER_00]: And the end was incredibly strong at the time, and it was like, it was like double, it was double-e strong. 21:38.397 --> 21:40.598 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, it was very expensive to go to Japan. 21:40.638 --> 21:43.780 [SPEAKER_00]: And now, it was half, it was half what the dollar. 21:43.860 --> 21:45.621 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it was half what it used to be. 21:45.721 --> 21:45.861 [SPEAKER_00]: So, 21:46.641 --> 21:58.951 [SPEAKER_00]: The dollar is incredibly strong and that's why you're seeing a lot of influencers because as if you can get an inexpensive flight to Japan, the hotels are very inexpensive and the food is, I don't want to say cheap. 21:58.971 --> 22:04.355 [SPEAKER_00]: I think that when you say cheap, you also, you're also inferring the quality is not very good. 22:05.296 --> 22:07.618 [SPEAKER_00]: Every meal we had was outstanding. 22:08.338 --> 22:08.818 [SPEAKER_00]: in Japan. 22:09.239 --> 22:10.880 [SPEAKER_00]: Like that was the most surprising thing. 22:10.940 --> 22:21.507 [SPEAKER_00]: Usually when you travel around, you'll get some bad meals or you'll get, you go to some tourist places where the food is just kind of mid or you say you had a bad meal here or maybe you didn't know and whatever. 22:21.527 --> 22:25.149 [SPEAKER_00]: I you have to look to get bad food in Japan. 22:25.369 --> 22:28.611 [SPEAKER_00]: You have to look because everything was as good as I expected. 22:29.232 --> 22:31.173 [SPEAKER_00]: That exceeded the expectations. 22:32.983 --> 22:36.544 [SPEAKER_00]: So we went, we got some, we, the sushi was really good. 22:36.564 --> 22:40.665 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a little bit, a lot of the sushi we had was different than what you get in the United States. 22:41.245 --> 22:47.407 [SPEAKER_00]: And what I, one thing I noticed was the rice was always extraordinarily flavorful. 22:48.167 --> 22:52.548 [SPEAKER_00]: And to just like the texture, everything about the rice was like delicious. 22:53.428 --> 22:58.831 [SPEAKER_00]: and then when they made the like the nigiri, nothing was too compact, too compact. 22:59.051 --> 23:03.414 [SPEAKER_00]: Everything was very kind of a little bit on a looser side, so it was almost harder to pick it up with chopsticks. 23:03.434 --> 23:03.994 [SPEAKER_00]: That's it. 23:04.014 --> 23:04.755 [SPEAKER_00]: You're neither here nor there. 23:06.437 --> 23:10.039 [SPEAKER_00]: The next morning, we kind of like, we were walking around. 23:10.279 --> 23:19.503 [SPEAKER_00]: We were in, we were in the Coto area of Japan, which is kind of like, there was more sports stuff. 23:19.524 --> 23:20.364 [SPEAKER_00]: There's more malls. 23:21.024 --> 23:30.289 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the things you'll notice, so I say malls all the time, is there's a relationship between, and I'm going to go into, I've got to figure out how to do all this, but, 23:30.789 --> 23:40.138 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a relationship between the people and the city and the government and the culture that's different from every other country. 23:40.458 --> 23:41.799 [SPEAKER_00]: And I want to get into that. 23:42.240 --> 23:48.646 [SPEAKER_00]: But one thing that you notice is the reason is that the mall culture is very popular, because people aren't really using Amazon. 23:49.146 --> 23:56.452 [SPEAKER_00]: So there are not, there are no Amazon Prime trucks all of the place and people are going to going out to do their shopping. 23:56.492 --> 24:05.138 [SPEAKER_00]: So the shopping malls have become a place of social gathering, but also that's where they go to get their stuff. 24:05.178 --> 24:17.548 [SPEAKER_00]: So my daughter and I were talking a lot about it now that she's in this environmental policy class, urban environmental policy class, she's starting to kind of see how people live in Japan and one of the things is they go out. 24:18.148 --> 24:24.871 [SPEAKER_00]: The city of Japan has, the city of Tokyo has really kind of made it very easy for people to go get their groceries. 24:25.371 --> 24:30.694 [SPEAKER_00]: There's not as many cars and this train line is phenomenal. 24:31.354 --> 24:39.938 [SPEAKER_00]: When you look at how people kind of get in and around Japan, their subway system or train system is the best in the world. 24:40.338 --> 24:41.819 [SPEAKER_00]: And I love 24:42.319 --> 24:44.661 [SPEAKER_00]: the New York subway system have been in a lot of subways. 24:45.282 --> 24:47.143 [SPEAKER_00]: There's nothing comes close to Japan. 24:47.744 --> 24:52.348 [SPEAKER_00]: So before you get down to the train station, what you notice is the streets are immaculate. 24:52.628 --> 24:57.252 [SPEAKER_00]: To the point where all of a sudden you're in this giant city, a giant city, 24:58.645 --> 25:04.666 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you take note of the fact that you don't smell like you're in the city at all. 25:04.926 --> 25:08.647 [SPEAKER_00]: You do not smell any of the odors that would emanate from a city. 25:08.947 --> 25:10.468 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no exhaust. 25:10.488 --> 25:12.608 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't smell the exhaust. 25:13.048 --> 25:19.170 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't smell any garbage at all because there is no garbage in Tokyo. 25:19.590 --> 25:20.770 [SPEAKER_00]: There are no garbage cans. 25:22.090 --> 25:23.631 [SPEAKER_00]: The streets are immaculate. 25:23.651 --> 25:25.091 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't see cigarette butts on the street. 25:25.111 --> 25:35.855 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't even see sometimes if you're in a subway you'll see gum that's been hit that's been hit on the ground and then it's been stepped on and then there's been dirt and then you see these kind of like black rings. 25:36.216 --> 25:39.477 [SPEAKER_00]: These black dots that you know has been like chewed gum. 25:40.177 --> 25:42.219 [SPEAKER_00]: The streets are immaculate. 25:42.279 --> 25:47.223 [SPEAKER_00]: The people take care of the streets and one of the reasons why they're no garbage cans. 25:47.544 --> 25:52.788 [SPEAKER_00]: Like they tell you, if you, we ended up bringing some dog shit bags. 25:52.808 --> 25:54.930 [SPEAKER_00]: We have like bubble, you know, rolls of dog shit bags. 25:55.371 --> 25:58.193 [SPEAKER_00]: Because you're supposed to take your trash with you. 25:58.774 --> 26:04.319 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason why is because back in 1994, when the 90s there was this death cult, 26:04.899 --> 26:06.600 [SPEAKER_00]: called Om Shon Rikyo. 26:06.620 --> 26:07.621 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I'm sitting here, right? 26:07.661 --> 26:09.342 [SPEAKER_00]: But that's going to be the way it is. 26:09.522 --> 26:11.944 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't think I'm going to be saying anything right. 26:12.364 --> 26:24.812 [SPEAKER_00]: But this death cult, Om Shon Rikya, you know, had these, um, did these gas attacks on, on, on their enemies and on the people of Tokyo. 26:25.193 --> 26:28.595 [SPEAKER_00]: So they were doing, had rice and attacks and they had nerve gas attacks. 26:29.015 --> 26:50.133 [SPEAKER_00]: And they started putting, I guess they had 94, they had one big attack where they put these rice, when I say rice and I mean this chemical agent in the garbage cans and then exploded or it was, you know, it was, you know, it did, you know, exploded or I don't know how it, it released. 26:50.953 --> 26:57.596 [SPEAKER_00]: Nineteen people died in a pile of people were in like hundreds of people were injured and what it did was I mean the people for months. 26:57.736 --> 26:58.516 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm Sean Riki. 26:58.597 --> 27:12.243 [SPEAKER_00]: I've got you know, they got they got what was coming to him But it changes the it changed the policies and Tokyo and I know the rest of Japan most of Tokyo They decided we will not have public garbage cans 27:13.303 --> 27:23.408 [SPEAKER_00]: So you cannot find public garbage cans in Tokyo and what's interesting is is people they agreed. 27:24.629 --> 27:27.090 [SPEAKER_00]: The people of Tokyo are just like the last just the way it is. 27:27.770 --> 27:33.553 [SPEAKER_00]: And what you will notice is you're in Japan, they don't want to see you smoking on the street. 27:34.033 --> 27:35.936 [SPEAKER_00]: they don't want to see you eating on the street. 27:35.956 --> 27:37.799 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not supposed to be walking and eating. 27:37.839 --> 27:43.928 [SPEAKER_00]: If you go get food like a street stand, you're just to stand there or take it back to your hotel room or your house. 27:44.468 --> 27:48.274 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not supposed to be eating on the street and a lot of that has to do with the fact they don't want any garbage. 27:48.394 --> 27:48.935 [SPEAKER_00]: There's 27:48.935 --> 27:54.482 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no garbage cans in Japan. 27:54.922 --> 27:58.106 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you'll find one in the hotel or you'll find someone somewhere. 27:58.627 --> 28:00.869 [SPEAKER_00]: We never saw anyone take garbage out. 28:01.009 --> 28:05.214 [SPEAKER_00]: In the whole city, we never saw a sanitation worker take garbage. 28:05.735 --> 28:06.776 [SPEAKER_00]: And what happens is, 28:08.278 --> 28:10.261 [SPEAKER_00]: you realize that the place smells fantastic. 28:10.281 --> 28:11.944 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it doesn't smell like a city. 28:12.244 --> 28:13.726 [SPEAKER_00]: It's on top of that. 28:14.227 --> 28:17.131 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the most green space you'll ever see in a city. 28:17.151 --> 28:19.635 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to see trees everywhere. 28:19.995 --> 28:22.359 [SPEAKER_00]: All over this major metropolitan city. 28:23.565 --> 28:25.226 [SPEAKER_00]: There's no, you don't see the leaves on the ground. 28:25.566 --> 28:31.131 [SPEAKER_00]: There are gardeners all over the place and they're constantly trimming everything up and making it the way that it is. 28:31.191 --> 28:40.658 [SPEAKER_00]: But what's interesting about the garbage thing is you start to notice, I know our daughter was telling us certain like etiquette rules in Japan. 28:41.478 --> 28:45.499 [SPEAKER_00]: If you're on a subway, you don't talk loud, you keep very quiet. 28:46.779 --> 28:52.921 [SPEAKER_00]: You try to, if you're on the escalator, everyone stays on the left side. 28:52.941 --> 28:57.862 [SPEAKER_00]: You stand on the left side, and if people need to go quickly, they run up the stairs. 28:58.622 --> 29:09.365 [SPEAKER_00]: There's different types of etiquette, and one thing they have this mindset of is, and I don't know the Japanese word for it, but there's this, there's this Japanese philosophy 29:12.185 --> 29:14.946 [SPEAKER_00]: that's a huge part of the Japanese culture. 29:15.546 --> 29:30.369 [SPEAKER_00]: Not being a burden and if you do certain things you are a burden to other people and it's almost as if there's this sense that if you're too independent minded you're not you're being a burden because you're not looking at the greater good. 29:31.089 --> 29:36.550 [SPEAKER_00]: The the the the the most amazing part about Japan or Tokyo at least. 29:37.498 --> 29:44.483 [SPEAKER_00]: is that there is a relationship between the city, the people and the government. 29:44.903 --> 29:48.205 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the most intertwined I've ever kind of noticed. 29:48.225 --> 29:52.167 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, if you go to France, you don't go to France for the people, right? 29:52.448 --> 29:57.651 [SPEAKER_00]: The people are generally speaking usually just saying, you know, fucking French are kind of bricks. 29:57.871 --> 29:59.352 [SPEAKER_00]: And I stand to that. 29:59.732 --> 30:03.717 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, shout out to my friends from France, but I mean, like, you got to take a hard look. 30:03.757 --> 30:04.377 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm saying? 30:04.518 --> 30:08.462 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, you got to take a hard look because it is true, right? 30:08.823 --> 30:12.247 [SPEAKER_00]: You never really have a too much of a relationship. 30:12.267 --> 30:14.449 [SPEAKER_00]: When we went to Sweden, the people were so nice. 30:15.410 --> 30:24.537 [SPEAKER_00]: And there was a similarity between Sweden and Japan in the sense that there was an intertwined connectivity between the cities and the people. 30:24.597 --> 30:35.625 [SPEAKER_00]: If you go to New York, you're going to New York, but you're also the people and the people of New York are fabulous, but there's not this interrelationship between the city and the people and the government. 30:36.025 --> 30:51.380 [SPEAKER_00]: In Japan, they have a very, very, they understand that there's a certain way things are meant to be done, and there's this almost interconnectivity between the people and the city, and obligations that they citizens have in order to 30:51.940 --> 30:54.382 [SPEAKER_00]: kind of keep everything the way it is, like, the garbage kids. 30:54.723 --> 30:56.504 [SPEAKER_00]: So no one's throwing out cigarette butts. 30:56.844 --> 30:58.386 [SPEAKER_00]: No one's throwing garbage on the streets. 30:58.586 --> 31:07.994 [SPEAKER_00]: I was in peak school, the town I live in, and I've seen two kids from the high school take glass bottles and throw them on the street, and with just smiling and not giving you shit. 31:08.374 --> 31:09.956 [SPEAKER_00]: People throw shit out their window. 31:09.976 --> 31:11.117 [SPEAKER_00]: There's garbage everywhere. 31:11.137 --> 31:13.939 [SPEAKER_00]: There's the city of New York. 31:14.160 --> 31:16.181 [SPEAKER_00]: It's like, there's garbage everywhere. 31:16.201 --> 31:17.723 [SPEAKER_00]: It smells like garbage. 31:18.223 --> 31:26.652 [SPEAKER_00]: like you're used to that smell and the crazy thing is I love New York and I had obviously it became very clear in on the 52 now. 31:27.133 --> 31:34.421 [SPEAKER_00]: It became very clear that my center of my level of my starting point is that a filthy city. 31:34.801 --> 31:36.663 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a filthy city. 31:36.763 --> 31:39.567 [SPEAKER_00]: My gauge of normal starts at filthy. 31:40.087 --> 31:56.658 [SPEAKER_00]: because the city of Tokyo with has got more people in it than the city of the United of Manhattan or the city of New York City, and it is unbelievably clean and the people understand that there is a certain relationship that it's not against the law to throw garbage in the street. 31:56.698 --> 32:00.120 [SPEAKER_00]: However, there's one area. 32:00.540 --> 32:05.704 [SPEAKER_00]: It's kind of like the 40-second street of a 40-second street time square area of Tokyo. 32:06.284 --> 32:32.506 [SPEAKER_00]: They're starting to notice that people are getting really plastered and they're thrown at garbage all of the place and they're people now giving off fines So It's some things aren't exactly against the law, but there is this kind of written rule that there are there's behavior that's That's accepted and not accepted, but it's to create the whole idea of You know this relationship between the people and the culture in the city 32:33.146 --> 32:38.069 [SPEAKER_00]: So, one of the crazy things is how great that the subway is. 32:38.109 --> 32:46.533 [SPEAKER_00]: Our daughter got us getting, and if you're traveling anywhere in this city, and I might be, I'm my old, and I might be not new to this, and you might be saying, where have you been? 32:46.933 --> 32:52.336 [SPEAKER_00]: But Google Maps is unbelievable when it comes to figuring out your trains and your subways. 32:52.776 --> 32:55.038 [SPEAKER_00]: And the Google Maps in Tokyo was... 32:56.098 --> 32:58.561 [SPEAKER_00]: on was was indispensable. 32:58.641 --> 33:02.344 [SPEAKER_00]: So let's say you're trying to go to sing. 33:03.045 --> 33:07.689 [SPEAKER_00]: Let's sure say you're going to the Asakusa. 33:08.270 --> 33:11.332 [SPEAKER_00]: Asakusa area where we went to. 33:12.364 --> 33:17.246 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you type and you're going to know where you are, and then you're going to Asuka. 33:18.426 --> 33:19.887 [SPEAKER_00]: I told you ain't going to be right guys. 33:20.247 --> 33:22.108 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to go to Sokusa. 33:22.208 --> 33:28.810 [SPEAKER_00]: And then it's going to tell you where you are, and then the trains that you need to go to and the transfers and the platforms that are going to be on. 33:29.230 --> 33:32.132 [SPEAKER_00]: And it really gives you an idea of what access to go through. 33:32.312 --> 33:34.132 [SPEAKER_00]: It was so like, it was amazing. 33:34.412 --> 33:38.214 [SPEAKER_00]: And the cool thing was, it was a daughter really kind of gave us a great 33:41.275 --> 33:47.801 [SPEAKER_00]: uh, in understanding of what to expect, she really understood in the two months that she's been in Japan. 33:48.242 --> 33:55.869 [SPEAKER_00]: She's really kind of really created a life of her own, and she was able to kind of help us navigate, and we had the best time on the Subways. 33:56.349 --> 34:02.475 [SPEAKER_00]: So the Subways are down to the second, and there's a huge dependence on the Subway system. 34:03.455 --> 34:14.425 [SPEAKER_00]: Number one because it's clean and it works, but the efficiency of the timing to the point where if it says that the train is going to be there within the second, it's within the second. 34:14.745 --> 34:19.990 [SPEAKER_00]: So the point within the, I guess within the minute, I'm not going to say within the second, but it's like on the, on the, on the money. 34:20.411 --> 34:27.257 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a story that one of the trains was left the station 25 seconds. 34:29.178 --> 34:29.519 [SPEAKER_00]: early. 34:30.720 --> 34:34.625 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was such a huge controversy because it made a ton of people late. 34:35.145 --> 34:40.211 [SPEAKER_00]: Like it made whoever missed that train expecting it to be there when they got there. 34:40.952 --> 34:47.860 [SPEAKER_00]: They had to wait in extra six minutes and it was such a huge controversy that the train, whoever was to the department of the train, 34:48.821 --> 35:05.517 [SPEAKER_00]: uh... they whatever they're a version of the mta was they to apologize to all tokyo because everybody was all these people were missing this train or six minutes late and it was a giant and people lost their jobs it was a whole big thing over you're talking about over twenty five seconds these people are like on time 35:06.968 --> 35:08.710 [SPEAKER_00]: we loved taking the train. 35:08.811 --> 35:13.897 [SPEAKER_00]: But there was, and the trains were immaculate and they had seats that were plush. 35:14.298 --> 35:19.365 [SPEAKER_00]: And all I can think of is you could never have these, you need seats that you can clean in New York City. 35:19.685 --> 35:23.170 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to be able to wipe it down because whatever garbage is going to be on there. 35:23.971 --> 35:28.196 [SPEAKER_00]: These were like comfortable, fast, under easy to understand. 35:28.316 --> 35:32.160 [SPEAKER_00]: All the information on what, every, I mean, everything about it was, it was amazing. 35:32.581 --> 35:39.689 [SPEAKER_00]: And we thought about it because we've been on the trains in Barcelona, obviously, we've been on the trains in New York, been on the trains in Paris. 35:41.411 --> 35:44.975 [SPEAKER_00]: That's, since we've been traveling, we compare all the, like, the subway lines. 35:45.435 --> 36:04.262 [SPEAKER_00]: Montreal, London, we've been on all this, and Washington, D.C., and the garbage that is Los Angeles, the transportation is terrible for Los Angeles worst, I mean worst transportation in the world as far as I'm concerned, in terms of ease in terms of all that. 36:05.342 --> 36:12.028 [SPEAKER_00]: The Japan blue, I always thought that New York was the greatest subway system in the world. 36:12.328 --> 36:14.330 [SPEAKER_00]: Japan blows the doors off of New York. 36:14.510 --> 36:15.410 [SPEAKER_00]: It's an embarrassment. 36:15.631 --> 36:16.752 [SPEAKER_00]: It's an embarrassment to New York. 36:17.392 --> 36:18.893 [SPEAKER_00]: And we loved every second of it. 36:20.875 --> 36:23.737 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm amazed at how easy it was for us to get around. 36:24.558 --> 36:27.259 [SPEAKER_00]: the food was incredible. 36:28.480 --> 36:31.961 [SPEAKER_00]: Every place we went, the food was amazing. 36:32.061 --> 36:34.682 [SPEAKER_00]: We had Yakitoria, and it was a kaya. 36:34.702 --> 36:35.803 [SPEAKER_00]: We had tempura. 36:36.203 --> 36:38.124 [SPEAKER_00]: The sushi wherever we went was really good. 36:38.144 --> 36:39.424 [SPEAKER_00]: We had the cats who done. 36:39.464 --> 36:41.125 [SPEAKER_00]: We had the whole, we had it all. 36:41.485 --> 36:44.666 [SPEAKER_00]: We had the ramen and the somen and the soba noodles. 36:44.726 --> 36:47.447 [SPEAKER_00]: We had the we had all, we had it all. 36:47.487 --> 36:48.628 [SPEAKER_00]: We had the eel bowls. 36:49.811 --> 36:53.414 [SPEAKER_00]: It was, it was the best food in the best food we had. 36:55.396 --> 37:01.121 [SPEAKER_00]: Hillary and I had it, there were, so there were a few days where Lila was in school. 37:01.361 --> 37:06.225 [SPEAKER_00]: And then Hillary and I would kind of cruise around the wee meter after classes and something like that. 37:06.265 --> 37:09.488 [SPEAKER_00]: And she had a kind of a distance to go to meet us and something like that. 37:09.708 --> 37:12.809 [SPEAKER_00]: So we went to this one area and we were kind of wandering around. 37:12.849 --> 37:14.549 [SPEAKER_00]: We went to go see the Imperial Palace. 37:14.569 --> 37:29.331 [SPEAKER_00]: It was closed and we were walking around that and looking at this incredible history of this mix between old thousands of year old Japan to this modern day Tokyo. 37:29.411 --> 37:37.953 [SPEAKER_00]: Tokyo has been built three times between earthquakes and war and all that stuff and the people have figured out ways in which to kind of be very flexible. 37:39.034 --> 37:59.936 [SPEAKER_00]: The palace was incredible, the trees, every you would see all these trees and they were all manipulated and they had this, like you could tell us, if you see in pictures and drawings of these trees that are been trained and you, there's not like a leaf out of place, everything is gorgeous, everything is beautiful. 38:01.157 --> 38:13.340 [SPEAKER_00]: We were walking around this kind of area that was known for their bookstores, and we were wanting to get something to eat and we couldn't find any place and we ended up going to this little tiny place that turned out to be where the salary meant eat. 38:14.020 --> 38:20.302 [SPEAKER_00]: So if you work in Japan Tokyo, you'll end your salary mean, that's kind of like a white collar job. 38:20.322 --> 38:21.622 [SPEAKER_00]: So you'll see a lot of 38:31.164 --> 38:54.407 [SPEAKER_00]: jack blazer and a white shirt, no one's really wearing ties and they go to their job and then they go get what's usually go to these restaurants in there where their job is and they'll get what's called a set lunch which is basically like you get out, you know, you get a bowl of rice, maybe you get a some sort of fish or a chicken, maybe you get a couple pickles, get a little soup and it comes on a tray. 38:55.568 --> 39:03.675 [SPEAKER_00]: He loved little balls over there in Japan, and we just got lucky and got into a place right before the salarymen came down for lunch. 39:04.255 --> 39:14.684 [SPEAKER_00]: When we ended up using a Google Translate to translate this Japanese only menu, and we ordered the best set lunches, what the salarymen get. 39:15.724 --> 39:29.648 [SPEAKER_00]: piece of salt grilled fish and then they'll pickles and a little bit of rice and then all soup and a piece of tofu and all this shit and I got a eel ball naggy with the on the rice with the soup and everything at that. 39:30.209 --> 39:35.590 [SPEAKER_00]: It was awesome and then all the workmen came and that the workmen with the salarymen came in and they were eating their food. 39:35.630 --> 39:36.310 [SPEAKER_00]: We ate the food. 39:36.851 --> 39:38.991 [SPEAKER_00]: It was $19 dollars for this incredible lunch. 39:41.712 --> 40:01.272 [SPEAKER_00]: We had another meal where we were watching with the next game because I talked about that and it was khatsudan And so man everything was delicious like the food in Japan is everything they say it is and better Interesting enough the people of Japan are not overweight 40:02.352 --> 40:13.155 [SPEAKER_00]: it's hard to find a big person in Japan and I'll tell you because I tried because I was trying to buy some Japanese clothes and boy with that disaster. 40:13.775 --> 40:25.699 [SPEAKER_00]: So a couple of things you start to notice is there's all sorts of, not on dimension all the great food and the great street food and then the great restaurants and stuff like that, but you see all these workmen outside and there's a ton of gardeners. 40:26.199 --> 40:33.401 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a ton of workmen, there's a ton of gardeners, and there's says total style from all these workmen have, especially the gardeners. 40:34.921 --> 40:37.001 [SPEAKER_00]: There are no men or not wearing shorts. 40:37.221 --> 40:39.022 [SPEAKER_00]: There are not a lot of men wearing shorts. 40:39.082 --> 40:49.824 [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone's wearing kind of like the workmen are wearing like loose, baggy kind of, I guess cargo pants, but they're not like the, you know, the green, you know, dark, heavy stuff. 40:50.224 --> 40:52.424 [SPEAKER_00]: It's all light colored, and it's most likely 40:55.505 --> 41:23.795 [SPEAKER_00]: And we saw a lot of these dudes who were wearing light pastel colored cargo pants and then they had them tucked into either of these weird work boots or these like ninja shoes, you know, the ninja shoes were your toe or it's split toe and you know, it's tight to the foot and there's like this, you know, rubber rugged soul and then it kind of goes up the calf and then your legs are tucked in it your pant legs are tucked in that was such a cool look and these dudes were like, 41:24.255 --> 41:37.483 [SPEAKER_00]: They had a, they had a, you know, like, uh, what's called a tenagui, which is like a special long towel that's wrapped around their head and they had, these, these dudes look like, I mean, that of like, Adam movies. 41:37.844 --> 41:38.804 [SPEAKER_00]: It was amazing. 41:38.844 --> 41:40.745 [SPEAKER_00]: I saw one guy we were on our last day. 41:41.166 --> 41:42.567 [SPEAKER_00]: We saw one guy in a tree. 41:42.827 --> 41:44.368 [SPEAKER_00]: Motherfucker was wearing inches shoes. 41:45.008 --> 41:47.410 [SPEAKER_00]: Ninja Boots tied up into his calf. 41:47.430 --> 41:51.874 [SPEAKER_00]: It was like his calves tied up and then he was up in a tree sawing out a branch. 41:51.954 --> 41:55.677 [SPEAKER_00]: Motherfucker looked like he had like bounced in there out of a Ninja movie. 41:56.558 --> 42:04.926 [SPEAKER_00]: And I saw these other dudes with these work boots that were similar except for the fact they weren't split towed and I was like I really got to get to a hardware store. 42:04.946 --> 42:06.227 [SPEAKER_00]: I got to get some Japanese hardware. 42:06.707 --> 42:27.363 [SPEAKER_00]: So you go to Jappie's hardware store and I find the work pants, I find the shoes, I think I go online and I think, well let's see how, let's see the transition, you know, what's the size difference between American and I figured out the size between an American size pants and Japanese size. 42:28.263 --> 42:33.245 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting the biggest size pants they have, and there is not a chance I'm fitting these pants. 42:33.285 --> 42:33.965 [SPEAKER_00]: I try them on. 42:34.445 --> 42:39.406 [SPEAKER_00]: The shoes were like, I mean, there was a big size zooning clothes. 42:40.067 --> 42:49.469 [SPEAKER_00]: These are very slight people, they're a little more people, and there was no chance that big old Jeff was going to get any duds from Japan. 42:49.489 --> 42:51.470 [SPEAKER_00]: They even said to my said to Hillary and my yank and the 42:51.850 --> 42:55.551 [SPEAKER_00]: I thought I could just walk out with some slick Japanese pants. 42:55.591 --> 42:56.912 [SPEAKER_00]: I ain't gonna get them in just shoes. 42:57.252 --> 42:58.612 [SPEAKER_00]: I am not gonna do one of them guys. 42:58.992 --> 43:08.015 [SPEAKER_00]: It comes back from Japan, wearing like a bonsai headband and like, coming in and walking around and a kimono, like I run the joint. 43:08.075 --> 43:09.075 [SPEAKER_00]: That ain't for me, man. 43:09.095 --> 43:12.916 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not one of them guys, but at the same time I was like, look at these workmen. 43:12.936 --> 43:15.017 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like, panties guys, guys, super style. 43:15.977 --> 43:26.547 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, so like, it was really cool watching them kind of trim the trees and clean up and rake and there are everybody's workmen were all wearing this like they had a slick look man. 43:27.087 --> 43:33.272 [SPEAKER_00]: It was definitely different from like wearing Timberland boots and like, you know, car hard pads and stuff like that. 43:33.292 --> 43:37.476 [SPEAKER_00]: These guys were look like they were, it was almost like an ageless look. 43:40.138 --> 43:54.584 [SPEAKER_00]: So we, we, the, the, like I said, the food was amazing and one of the things that was interesting is, and I think if you ever see the movie, if I would suggest one great movie about Japan, especially about sushi, if you like sushi, 43:55.104 --> 43:57.725 [SPEAKER_00]: Jiro dreams of sushi is one of the great movies. 43:57.965 --> 44:08.728 [SPEAKER_00]: I highly recommend what the interesting thing is is, if you watch the movie, it's about this family and the father who is considered one of the great sushi chefs in Japan. 44:09.048 --> 44:11.029 [SPEAKER_00]: In the world, he's like a miserable and star dude. 44:11.049 --> 44:21.872 [SPEAKER_00]: He's really old, he's like, he's really kind of like, I mean, it's amazing he's still alive and how he's like, very, you know, extremely, he's like a master at sushi. 44:22.212 --> 44:25.013 [SPEAKER_00]: But like he's known throughout Japan, right? 44:26.334 --> 44:33.157 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the things they point out is that his restaurant is in a subway, is in next to the subway. 44:33.477 --> 44:35.618 [SPEAKER_00]: So it's not on top of the subway. 44:35.898 --> 44:41.301 [SPEAKER_00]: It's underneath in subway, you know, like by platform by subway tunnel. 44:41.641 --> 44:44.362 [SPEAKER_00]: And when it's said in the movie, you're just like, what? 44:44.922 --> 44:45.943 [SPEAKER_00]: That's crazy. 44:45.983 --> 44:48.004 [SPEAKER_00]: Why would anyone have a restaurant in a subway? 44:48.504 --> 44:59.711 [SPEAKER_00]: And the reason why is because you're used to the subways of New York or your other metropolitan cities where they smell like shit and they smell like urine and they smell like garbage and they're rats and they're all this shit. 45:01.172 --> 45:09.998 [SPEAKER_00]: You start to realize when you go into the subways of Japan, they have created these food systems, my daughter was telling me, 45:17.623 --> 45:22.266 [SPEAKER_00]: They're groceries, they're grocery stores in the subways, fruit stores in the subways. 45:22.746 --> 45:26.608 [SPEAKER_00]: You couldn't, you didn't smell like you're in the subway, it's small like a very clean place. 45:27.028 --> 45:35.092 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was very standard for there to be this cleanliness in the subway stations and in the streets to the point where having a restaurant in the subway is 45:36.753 --> 45:37.553 [SPEAKER_00]: Totally normal. 45:37.653 --> 45:39.294 [SPEAKER_00]: Why wouldn't there be a restaurant in the subway? 45:39.314 --> 45:42.895 [SPEAKER_00]: Why wouldn't there be a fruit stand in the subway that is immaculately clean? 45:43.575 --> 45:48.497 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's because we have this expectation of what a subway should be like, and it's shocking to us. 45:48.857 --> 45:57.540 [SPEAKER_00]: And that's one of the reasons why when you listen to, when you watch your gene of sushi in the first thing, he says, this fucking place is in the subway system. 45:57.560 --> 45:59.961 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're just like, how can you eat raw fish in the subway? 46:00.361 --> 46:12.266 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, they've created these food systems in the subways to really focus on making sure that people can get food wherever they are. 46:12.526 --> 46:28.252 [SPEAKER_00]: Because they know that there's a degree of people are going to work, men are going to work, or women are going to work, and there needs to be this food system that's close by, and that's part of urban environmental policy too, which brings me to if you're at your Instagram algorithm 46:29.612 --> 46:36.934 [SPEAKER_00]: a convenience store, hacks, Japanese convenience stores, everything they say about the convenience stores in Japan is true. 46:37.334 --> 46:39.034 [SPEAKER_00]: There's three major ones. 46:39.054 --> 46:43.435 [SPEAKER_00]: There's 7 or 11, food, family, mart, and Losins. 46:44.335 --> 46:46.416 [SPEAKER_00]: And these three are they all the same. 46:46.436 --> 46:48.916 [SPEAKER_00]: They're all a little bit different, but they all have the similar things. 46:49.036 --> 46:51.177 [SPEAKER_00]: One of the things they have is very, very, very, 46:52.357 --> 47:10.793 [SPEAKER_00]: fresh prepared foods and you're you're surprised because if you go to like a the only place in the United States where there's a that convenient store that seemed like everything was super fresh is when I went to Bucky's in Texas with Ben Snorr which was like with unbelievably great. 47:11.233 --> 47:27.789 [SPEAKER_00]: But all these convenience stores, they're constantly changing food out, everything's fresh, we got the rice balls that were unbelievably good, we did the egg sandwich, egg salad sandwich, the fried chicken was incredibly good, everything in the convenience store was delicious and inexpensive. 47:28.269 --> 47:44.623 [SPEAKER_00]: And part of that is also because it's supposed to be convenient and affordable, but there's this level of excellence in all the food that you start to realize we have a different mindset in regards to food. 47:45.023 --> 47:54.752 [SPEAKER_00]: The weirdest part is as a New Yorker and born and raised in Manhattan and living most of my life in New York City and then now I'm outside in New York City. 47:55.252 --> 48:11.478 [SPEAKER_00]: You get this sense that when you're in New York especially, that there's this, in terms of prices, it's almost, you almost think that people are pricing things based on what they think people will pay. 48:12.258 --> 48:17.862 [SPEAKER_00]: And that is, and it's usually especially now with the price of gas, food is much higher. 48:19.303 --> 48:22.025 [SPEAKER_00]: It's becoming harder and harder to eat out in New York. 48:22.746 --> 48:29.251 [SPEAKER_00]: And you almost feel as though you get comfortable with these incredibly high prices, and then it's acceptable. 48:29.291 --> 48:31.793 [SPEAKER_00]: And you almost think they're just being like, 48:32.293 --> 48:37.915 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, they don't mind paying five, they don't mind paying $30 for a hamburger, maybe they'll pay 32. 48:38.495 --> 48:47.697 [SPEAKER_00]: And you're just like, I can't believe I'm paying, you know, we go to a diner and we get two hamburgers and some french fries and it's $30. 48:48.077 --> 48:53.059 [SPEAKER_00]: You're just like, this is expensive, but you're just like, but we're paying it. 48:53.779 --> 48:57.281 [SPEAKER_00]: But when you're in Japan, there's this, there's something totally different. 48:57.401 --> 49:02.624 [SPEAKER_00]: The price of food is very inexpensive and a lot of that has to do with the price of the house strong. 49:02.664 --> 49:04.866 [SPEAKER_00]: The end is obviously the end isn't very strong. 49:05.326 --> 49:06.827 [SPEAKER_00]: But there's almost a sense that 49:08.332 --> 49:12.856 [SPEAKER_00]: If you were to go from restaurant to restaurant, there's a standard in terms of what you can charge. 49:13.917 --> 49:24.807 [SPEAKER_00]: And it seems as though that there's this more of a relationship between restaurants and these convenient stores and the population of Japan, which you can feel it. 49:24.927 --> 49:27.710 [SPEAKER_00]: You can feel the fact that they're just like we're all in this together. 49:28.090 --> 49:31.293 [SPEAKER_00]: Back to what I was saying before, there's this very strong relationship. 49:31.693 --> 49:41.017 [SPEAKER_00]: between the people of Japan, the culture, it's in Japan and the government and the expectations of there's more of a team effort. 49:41.537 --> 49:46.119 [SPEAKER_00]: Part of that is I was looking at the price of gas and we kind of had to convert the price again. 49:46.139 --> 49:55.963 [SPEAKER_00]: There's not as many cars as you'd think because the mass transit is so good but the price of gas at the time was around. 49:56.043 --> 49:57.444 [SPEAKER_00]: I had to do some conversion because 49:58.044 --> 50:16.769 [SPEAKER_00]: There's leaders versus gallons and it was about three, it was about 360, 360, 375 a gallon, which is compared to now in New York where we're like, we're pushing for 475, 460 or 75 a gallon, and in California just forget it. 50:17.009 --> 50:17.750 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, I don't know why. 50:17.790 --> 50:22.771 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, California is, I mean, I never thought I would say this, but California is a total whole. 50:23.171 --> 50:30.475 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's the fact that the worst transportation and the price of gasoline is too expensive for people who all have cars. 50:30.876 --> 50:31.836 [SPEAKER_00]: Well, you're in Japan. 50:32.396 --> 50:40.761 [SPEAKER_00]: It turns out that the government subsidizes the gasoline to make sure that people can afford the gasoline at a better price, which is unbelievable. 50:41.101 --> 50:48.426 [SPEAKER_00]: You almost feel as though that the politicians, the Japan, actually care about the people and the understanding that we're all in this together. 50:49.383 --> 50:55.886 [SPEAKER_00]: happens to be Japan's going through it because there's a very, very, the past number of decades, there's a low birth rate. 50:56.307 --> 50:59.348 [SPEAKER_00]: And the, the average age is much higher in Japan. 50:59.588 --> 51:06.112 [SPEAKER_00]: And they're starting to realize that in the future it's going to be really hard for Japan because you can have less, less people. 51:06.612 --> 51:11.999 [SPEAKER_00]: So they're starting to relax a lot of the immigration statuses and they're allowing more people to have access. 51:12.419 --> 51:15.904 [SPEAKER_00]: And what you're starting to see is a lot more influencers coming to Japan. 51:16.384 --> 51:24.714 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's almost like there's a concerted effort to get people to Japan because they'll say, listen, you get the flight, the hotels are going to be cheap, 51:25.255 --> 51:26.576 [SPEAKER_00]: The food is going to be cheap. 51:27.096 --> 51:28.317 [SPEAKER_00]: You're going to have a great time. 51:28.597 --> 51:29.238 [SPEAKER_00]: It's clean. 51:29.358 --> 51:29.998 [SPEAKER_00]: It's safe. 51:30.378 --> 51:31.519 [SPEAKER_00]: There is no crime. 51:31.539 --> 51:33.320 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, there is no crime. 51:33.380 --> 51:36.302 [SPEAKER_00]: I saw a couple cops, but I mean, there is no crime. 51:36.442 --> 51:39.344 [SPEAKER_00]: Japan, it is like one of the safest places in the world. 51:39.364 --> 51:45.268 [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone was very worried about Lila being on the train and she was going to the train at night and she's like you couldn't have been safer. 51:46.429 --> 52:01.505 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, there was some, you know, apparently the cops are telling her that, you know, there's a lot of, you know, creeps, you know, videotaping people, you know, women on, you know, subway, you know, they're trying to get an upskirts shop, but other than that, the crime in Japan is very little. 52:02.406 --> 52:13.356 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, once again, the people were so polite, uh, Benster said to me, so that when you get a chance to ask Lylev all the bowing is out, what's up with all the bowing? 52:13.777 --> 52:18.061 [SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of bowing, ladies and germs, they are so polite. 52:18.081 --> 52:23.486 [SPEAKER_00]: You don't just, you know, you, everything is, don't what you got to our gazaimasu, which is, thank you so much. 52:23.506 --> 52:25.068 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, thank you very much, and there's, 52:25.428 --> 52:45.255 [SPEAKER_00]: tons of bowing, everyone was very nice, everyone was very smiling, everyone was very helpful, except I did have a couple of issues, apparently older Japanese women do not like foreigners, and there was one time Hillary went out on the subway, and this older woman was staring at. 52:46.698 --> 52:51.201 [SPEAKER_00]: And I turned to Hillary and I'm like, there's this older woman and she is staring at me. 52:52.102 --> 52:58.746 [SPEAKER_00]: And Hillary kind of, you know, quietly turned around and she's like, yes, she's staring at you and I'm like, let's get out of this fucking, let's get off of it. 52:59.106 --> 53:00.887 [SPEAKER_00]: She don't like me, let's get out of her way. 53:01.328 --> 53:09.613 [SPEAKER_00]: So we got out of the way, but generally speaking, people were so polite in regards to the tourism. 53:09.673 --> 53:10.334 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not 100% sure how 53:12.675 --> 53:15.377 [SPEAKER_00]: the average Japanese person thinks about the tourism. 53:15.397 --> 53:31.508 [SPEAKER_00]: I think there's probably a lot of resentment because we were with our friends who live in Japan and they were basically saying that it's harder for them to make ends meet because of the prices of everything you're very inexpensive but also the salaries aren't going up. 53:31.528 --> 53:33.329 [SPEAKER_00]: So people aren't getting making more money. 53:34.510 --> 53:36.071 [SPEAKER_00]: It's harder and harder for people to save. 53:36.111 --> 53:39.534 [SPEAKER_00]: It's harder and harder for people to travel and do things that they want to do. 53:40.194 --> 53:43.935 [SPEAKER_00]: There I wonder if there is a bit of resentment towards tourism now. 53:43.995 --> 53:50.378 [SPEAKER_00]: I know I didn't see many Americans by did see a lot of Australians. 53:50.818 --> 53:53.959 [SPEAKER_00]: When we talked and talked to my friends for Australia, if you're listening to this. 53:55.119 --> 53:55.880 [SPEAKER_00]: Some of you guys. 53:57.100 --> 54:01.103 [SPEAKER_00]: You need to be a little bit more respectful of the people of Japan. 54:01.303 --> 54:01.983 [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I'm saying? 54:02.624 --> 54:03.664 [SPEAKER_00]: You know, you're going to get the tattoo. 54:03.684 --> 54:04.645 [SPEAKER_00]: They don't like the tattoos. 54:04.665 --> 54:05.666 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the tattoo. 54:05.766 --> 54:07.327 [SPEAKER_00]: And they don't like the big fat stomachs. 54:07.427 --> 54:12.310 [SPEAKER_00]: And they don't like the, they don't like the, your gregariousness on the subway system. 54:12.602 --> 54:16.606 [SPEAKER_00]: Now I've seen a lot of Japanese guys not thrilled with the Australian. 54:16.626 --> 54:19.389 [SPEAKER_00]: So Australians, you got to tighten up dogs. 54:19.589 --> 54:24.834 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to tighten up because I mean it's like, there were some places where they did not want tourists. 54:25.535 --> 54:31.861 [SPEAKER_00]: Like we went to this fish market, it's a huge, it's a huge, it's a huge market. 54:32.661 --> 54:46.231 [SPEAKER_00]: And we ended up walking around and there's a lot of kind of Instagram, TikTok, viral places that people go and then we had heard that there's this kind of indoor fish market and there were signs everywhere. 54:46.271 --> 54:46.791 [SPEAKER_00]: No pictures. 54:46.811 --> 54:50.854 [SPEAKER_00]: You'd go to places in Japan and you'd see signs saying no pictures. 54:51.254 --> 54:55.457 [SPEAKER_00]: And part of it is because there's so many influencers just kind of taking photographs and not buying shit. 54:56.017 --> 54:56.798 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's annoying. 54:56.878 --> 54:57.919 [SPEAKER_00]: It's annoying to them. 54:57.999 --> 55:12.871 [SPEAKER_00]: Like there's there's moments where they're just like no It's not okay for you to take pictures like if you were to go into this particular fish market There'll be a sign saying no pictures or we were in Capabashi, which is this restaurant area 55:13.911 --> 55:15.873 [SPEAKER_00]: And you go into a store and there you see a big sign. 55:16.253 --> 55:33.608 [SPEAKER_00]: No pictures because there's this weird tourist thing where they're taking pictures in their buy and shit The once again, we saw we went to the to Kiji to Sekiji market and there was huge lines of where how influencers have kind of created these like 55:34.628 --> 55:44.456 [SPEAKER_00]: It's almost like an epidemic of popularity and you could see, you know, trust me, my algorithm is filled with all the places to go and see. 55:45.216 --> 55:52.702 [SPEAKER_00]: And you know, it is amazing how social media has made these touristy areas much more touristy. 55:53.182 --> 56:14.061 [SPEAKER_00]: So we ended up going into this into the indoor fish market and we had the best tuna this woman cut a tuna right off the tuna right off the goddamn tuna and we had it upstairs in the area you can't eat it around you have to have special there special areas where you eat like I said they don't want garbage anywhere you're not supposed to walk around and eat. 56:14.481 --> 56:19.303 [SPEAKER_00]: No one's walking around the coffee cup, you're not seeing anybody cruising around except for tourists. 56:19.323 --> 56:24.744 [SPEAKER_00]: You're not seeing anybody cruising around with drinks in their hands when you eat something you eat it there. 56:25.305 --> 56:27.725 [SPEAKER_00]: Or you take it somewhere, but you don't eat in the streets. 56:27.745 --> 56:32.787 [SPEAKER_00]: There's nobody's eaten in the streets and unless you're a tourist, there ain't nobody eating in the streets. 56:32.847 --> 56:35.168 [SPEAKER_00]: Which is probably due to the fact that there's no trash. 56:37.809 --> 57:03.106 [SPEAKER_00]: uh... had a very funny experience at uh... so capobashi is this restaurant supply area and uh... i would before i left i was talking about me in tomabotnor and he was giving me a suggestion he has a Japanese knife sharpener that's part of uh... florentine kitchen knives names a nori son he's fantastic and i've known him for a few years and he told me to go to this particular knife store capobashi street and i went to 57:04.767 --> 57:08.749 [SPEAKER_00]: And in my mind, I'm thinking, you should get something that would kind of like you wouldn't you did that. 57:09.049 --> 57:11.750 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I'm as a knife maker, there's certain knives that don't make. 57:12.270 --> 57:17.913 [SPEAKER_00]: I also try to go out of my way to be very respectful towards other people's cultures. 57:18.373 --> 57:21.034 [SPEAKER_00]: You will never really see me refer to 57:21.594 --> 57:24.976 [SPEAKER_00]: any of my knives with the Japanese names. 57:24.996 --> 57:37.302 [SPEAKER_00]: I don't really have a connection with Japan, and I've almost feel as though if I were to kind of use these traditional Japanese words to describe knives that I don't make them traditional. 57:37.322 --> 57:38.822 [SPEAKER_00]: I've just kind of seems kind of foolish. 57:39.983 --> 57:47.767 [SPEAKER_00]: So I really steer clear of, I steer clear of trying to pretend like I'm some sort of, you know, Japanese knife maker, anything like that. 57:48.307 --> 57:55.013 [SPEAKER_00]: So I wanted to get something that I don't have or make, and we went to the store that I'm Norris on and told him or suggested I go to. 57:57.074 --> 57:58.816 [SPEAKER_00]: And they had a lot of knives. 57:58.936 --> 58:01.838 [SPEAKER_00]: All these knife stories have a lot of knives, four tourists. 58:01.878 --> 58:03.680 [SPEAKER_00]: You can tell that they're four tourists. 58:04.180 --> 58:07.563 [SPEAKER_00]: And tourists want, you know, most people were knife buyers. 58:07.583 --> 58:10.306 [SPEAKER_00]: They think I need to get one of these Japanese knives because it's me cool. 58:10.886 --> 58:15.250 [SPEAKER_00]: I wanted the Japanese knife because I'm just like, I might as well get some I don't have or I don't make. 58:15.770 --> 58:44.816 [SPEAKER_00]: So, I wanted to get one of these long thin steppin' these sushi knives, and I'm looking around and the store is really cool and the people really nice, and then I look towards the back and they have these long, you know, ten and a half inch, super thin, like, maybe an inch, you know, from spine heel and I'm just like, bro, I zoomed in on that, I'm just gonna ask them about that and he goes, and the guy immediately says, no, no, that's not a for you, that's for professionals. 58:45.256 --> 58:58.183 [SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't do the whole, like, don't do it, you know, give me a fucking brain, I didn't flash him my knife-making badge and say, you know, don't, you know, I, I, I drank, I didn't do any of that shit. 58:58.203 --> 59:06.227 [SPEAKER_00]: I was just like, and let me just take a look at it, and I look, the price is good, and I'm just like, I need this for R&D, I need this for research and development. 59:06.627 --> 59:08.608 [SPEAKER_00]: And I picked it up and it was really cool. 59:08.628 --> 59:10.268 [SPEAKER_00]: They were like, it's kind of surprising like you. 59:10.288 --> 59:15.970 [SPEAKER_00]: Like it suits you guy and I'm like, nah, I wanted a souvenir of the trip to Japan. 59:15.990 --> 59:19.311 [SPEAKER_00]: I might as well get some like traditionally what they would use. 59:20.672 --> 59:24.353 [SPEAKER_00]: And it was really cool because it was funny because it was just like, dude, this ain't for you. 59:24.853 --> 59:28.335 [SPEAKER_00]: Didn't even for you, keep fucking barbarian gave for you. 59:30.075 --> 59:33.556 [SPEAKER_00]: It was interesting too because I felt like I was looking at some of the knives. 59:33.576 --> 59:35.097 [SPEAKER_00]: There's one knife I was looking at. 59:35.637 --> 59:36.298 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that knife? 59:36.858 --> 59:37.339 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that knife? 59:37.920 --> 59:42.264 [SPEAKER_00]: Is the handle offset to the point where it's not really meant to be offset? 59:42.324 --> 59:44.006 [SPEAKER_00]: Is it kind of not in there? 59:44.306 --> 59:48.070 [SPEAKER_00]: Is the whole Of where the tang is supposed to go in the handle? 59:48.131 --> 59:54.738 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that like Cricket and I asked him about it and I'm like, I'm like this looks like it's like a you know like 59:55.675 --> 01:00:02.738 [SPEAKER_00]: three, six, teens off, you know, from a two, it was like lower on the handle, but not low enough that it really kind of made a whole lot of difference. 01:00:02.758 --> 01:00:04.719 [SPEAKER_00]: And I was just like, is that meant to be like that? 01:00:04.759 --> 01:00:06.120 [SPEAKER_00]: Is that how it doesn't see any? 01:00:06.140 --> 01:00:10.762 [SPEAKER_00]: I never saw a knife like that where it was like offset, but just like three, 16ths of an inch. 01:00:10.802 --> 01:00:13.643 [SPEAKER_00]: Not enough that it was a real, you know, wasn't off set. 01:00:13.663 --> 01:00:20.066 [SPEAKER_00]: It was just like, seemed like it was, the hole was kind of not putting the center of the handle and it was just kind of like dropped a little bit. 01:00:20.566 --> 01:00:22.887 [SPEAKER_00]: And I think I was, no, no, no, no, no, that's for balance. 01:00:22.947 --> 01:00:24.708 [SPEAKER_00]: And I just looked at him and I was just like, come on, bro. 01:00:25.388 --> 01:00:25.968 [SPEAKER_00]: Come on bro. 01:00:26.548 --> 01:00:27.649 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm from fucking balance. 01:00:27.689 --> 01:00:29.189 [SPEAKER_00]: I never seen a knife like that before. 01:00:29.509 --> 01:00:39.252 [SPEAKER_00]: I never seen a knife like that before But in say anything obviously I go picked up my knife and I was super psyched We went to a number of shrines that were amazing. 01:00:39.272 --> 01:00:39.733 [SPEAKER_00]: I think the shrines 01:00:41.133 --> 01:00:57.452 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, there's this real duality between these city areas, you see these buildings, these giant skyscrapers and buildings and workmen, and then, you know, like the salary men and the business people and stuff like that, and then you see these ancient shrines, shrines for cats. 01:00:57.752 --> 01:01:00.075 [SPEAKER_00]: There's these cat shrines all over the place, you see these 01:01:00.735 --> 01:01:24.473 [SPEAKER_00]: Pictures of these little cat sculptures and they have one their pauses is up in the air over their head And they're kind of like powing down and that's meant to kind of usher in good luck We went to those and speaking of which speaking of which so the throughout this whole time The New York next have been on a historic historic win streak 01:01:25.113 --> 01:01:27.034 [SPEAKER_00]: And I've been following an extra long time. 01:01:27.054 --> 01:01:28.495 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a huge nicks fan. 01:01:28.515 --> 01:01:40.040 [SPEAKER_00]: I grew up in Manhattan and I always felt as though the nicks are the only team from Manhattan So I've always had a strong relationship with them and then I've talked about the nicks in a million times. 01:01:40.060 --> 01:01:40.840 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll give you a little bit of 01:01:41.360 --> 01:01:51.615 [SPEAKER_00]: So, growing up my grandfather used to take me to Madison Square Garden when I was, you know, to the circus, and that was the home of the Rangers, that was the home of the next, and I always had this relationship between the next. 01:01:52.136 --> 01:01:55.781 [SPEAKER_00]: I always board a few months after Walt Clyde Frazier and Dave Dublosher. 01:01:56.602 --> 01:02:07.831 [SPEAKER_00]: and Willis Reed and Bill Bradley won the Pearl Monroe won the 1973 NBA Finals. 01:02:07.891 --> 01:02:11.353 [SPEAKER_00]: I was born a few months later, so it was in the summertime, I was born in December. 01:02:11.373 --> 01:02:19.860 [SPEAKER_00]: So it was like on the cost when they said, every time they say it's been 53 years since they won, I was just born a few months after they won. 01:02:21.440 --> 01:02:38.919 [SPEAKER_00]: So, when growing up I didn't, my father was not a basketball fan, he didn't really like sports for him, much like the Yankees, but it wasn't really a big sports guy, and then all my friends liked basketball, and growing up in the 90s at the time when that was one of the high, you know, the golden ages of basketball. 01:02:40.100 --> 01:02:59.553 [SPEAKER_00]: Um, you know, it was hard not to follow basketball with Michael Jordan and as a Nick's fan, I really liked, I was a huge fan of Patrick Ewing's and John Stark's down Houston, uh, LaTrell, Spreewell in the 90s, I loved LaTrell, Spreewell, um, and Charlie Ward, and all these great basketball players, 01:03:00.113 --> 01:03:24.448 [SPEAKER_00]: The weirdest part is, and they try to explain it so that people is the hardest part about being a sports fan, is the fact that it got to the point where if you have to have cable in order to follow these teams, and like that's the point where after I didn't watch any TV in college by the time I got out of college, we couldn't afford cable, so it was hard to follow the next and watch the games on TV, it was in that TV. 01:03:25.068 --> 01:03:47.099 [SPEAKER_00]: So, if you're reading in the paper, listen to on the sports radio and then you're following the the box scores and you're kind of keeping up with what's going on and then in the 90s, all of a sudden, the mixer playing in the playoffs and the playoffs are on, you know, basic cable channel 4 channel, you know, 7, something like that. 01:03:47.119 --> 01:03:48.280 [SPEAKER_00]: So, you get to watch that stuff. 01:03:48.780 --> 01:03:54.863 [SPEAKER_00]: So, uh, 10 years ago, we had a high school reunion and we did it. 01:03:54.903 --> 01:03:57.925 [SPEAKER_00]: We decided to go to Nick's game instead of going to the school and we had the best time. 01:03:58.025 --> 01:04:02.467 [SPEAKER_00]: And one of my friends, Eric, and I kind of rekindle our friendship from high school. 01:04:02.547 --> 01:04:05.628 [SPEAKER_00]: And we really bonded over going to the next. 01:04:05.648 --> 01:04:06.309 [SPEAKER_00]: We would go to the next. 01:04:06.329 --> 01:04:08.630 [SPEAKER_00]: We would take at least two games a year. 01:04:09.490 --> 01:04:12.672 [SPEAKER_00]: We would have dinner and go to see the next and we would watch the next and talk about the next. 01:04:13.332 --> 01:04:18.796 [SPEAKER_00]: I really had a special relationship with the next, especially the last 10 years. 01:04:19.456 --> 01:04:21.638 [SPEAKER_00]: The last four years have been unbelievably great. 01:04:21.918 --> 01:04:31.124 [SPEAKER_00]: And when they brought Jalen Brunson in, and then Josh Hard, and then they had some, you know, they had Mitch Robinson was a drafty. 01:04:31.545 --> 01:04:34.307 [SPEAKER_00]: He was a drafted to the nicks and doosmic pride. 01:04:34.967 --> 01:05:01.397 [SPEAKER_00]: All of a sudden, before those guys came in, Julius Randall was unbelievable and Emmanuel quickly and Arjay Barrett, and then they, all of a sudden, Derek Rose, Derek Rose is one of the great, he was a champion with Chicago Bulls, and he came to New York, and it was this really, really cool thing, having this like legend on the next with Julius Randall, all these guys, Arjay Barrett, all that. 01:05:01.897 --> 01:05:14.583 [SPEAKER_00]: And then when, you know, Jalen Brunson came in and Leon Rose and they kind of changed the wrap the whole team around Jalen Brunson and they brought in his former teammates from Villanova. 01:05:15.103 --> 01:05:18.465 [SPEAKER_00]: The last four years have been really, really fun to watch. 01:05:19.005 --> 01:05:39.332 [SPEAKER_00]: they've been having they've been in more playoff you know they've been going farther and farther in the past four years going through than the playoffs and then this year has been great and I watch every game from my wife got me make sure I had MSG I only miss games when it's on the west coast and the start times at nine o'clock I can't take 01:05:39.452 --> 01:05:42.816 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't take, I can't stay up until 1 o'clock in the morning watching the next. 01:05:42.856 --> 01:05:43.437 [SPEAKER_00]: I love the next. 01:05:43.457 --> 01:05:47.822 [SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes I'll watch the, I'll watch the, uh, on demand the next day. 01:05:48.143 --> 01:05:55.692 [SPEAKER_00]: Like if it's on a Friday, my favorite thing to do would be it was a Friday and then I would wake up early in the morning and then watch the replay Saturday morning and watch the game. 01:05:57.616 --> 01:06:17.245 [SPEAKER_00]: The playoffs have been unbelievable, they've gone farther and farther and farther and then they made it to the finals, they beat the hawks and six games, then they swept the 76ers and then they swept the key Cleveland Cavaliers, it was just unbelievable. 01:06:17.825 --> 01:06:33.348 [SPEAKER_00]: Going to the finals We were able to watch the game wanting game to all your New York and then game three game four game five We were gonna be in Japan, so we're trying to figure out what to do and in my mind all my friends are freaking out like all This has like been 53 years. 01:06:33.388 --> 01:06:34.269 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to watch the game. 01:06:34.289 --> 01:06:35.569 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to watch the game in my mind. 01:06:35.609 --> 01:06:39.850 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm thinking to myself I have to be I cannot 01:06:40.825 --> 01:06:43.507 [SPEAKER_00]: In good conscience, come to a country that I've never been to. 01:06:43.527 --> 01:06:48.352 [SPEAKER_00]: I've always wanted to come to Japan, visit my daughter, see the side seed being be part of Japan. 01:06:48.372 --> 01:06:51.575 [SPEAKER_00]: I ain't sitting in a hotel room watching the next, even though I want to. 01:06:52.095 --> 01:07:03.565 [SPEAKER_00]: And with the time change, it's almost the perfect time to get the gains would start at like 9 to 30 in the morning, which is like, right, you don't have to wait till 8, 8, 30 at night in New York. 01:07:03.585 --> 01:07:06.147 [SPEAKER_00]: All of a sudden it's 9, 30 in the morning, but the problem is it's like, 01:07:06.968 --> 01:07:09.969 [SPEAKER_00]: you know tourist time, prime spending time with your family. 01:07:10.329 --> 01:07:18.570 [SPEAKER_00]: So I made the decision, I was just like, we watch game three, what's when the first game in New York where they lost, which was awful. 01:07:18.970 --> 01:07:26.112 [SPEAKER_00]: It's awful to watch them lose, and it's also awful to watch them lose in a foreign country, where time is not on your side. 01:07:26.492 --> 01:07:32.653 [SPEAKER_00]: All of a sudden, I'm in Japan, I watch the next lose, and I'm just like, I don't know putting my family through that again. 01:07:34.513 --> 01:07:36.776 [SPEAKER_00]: So that was game three. 01:07:36.836 --> 01:07:41.201 [SPEAKER_00]: So game four, I'm just like Hillary's like what you want to watch to come in like, no, no, no, we're gonna do our thing. 01:07:41.982 --> 01:07:50.192 [SPEAKER_00]: So I start to get text messages from friends of game for game four and I'm getting messages and we ended up watching the last quarter. 01:07:50.632 --> 01:07:55.354 [SPEAKER_00]: In my daughter's dorm room, we got to see her college, we got to see her campus, we got to see her dorm. 01:07:55.754 --> 01:07:59.936 [SPEAKER_00]: We had lunch with this place that she eats lunch at it by her dorm, which was amazing. 01:08:00.316 --> 01:08:04.078 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we ended up watching the last quarter in her dorm room, which was actually very fun. 01:08:04.839 --> 01:08:06.719 [SPEAKER_00]: And they wanted it was really amazing. 01:08:07.300 --> 01:08:09.261 [SPEAKER_00]: And then all of a sudden, my phone's blowing up. 01:08:09.281 --> 01:08:12.402 [SPEAKER_00]: You gotta find a place to watch game five, game five is gonna be unbelievable. 01:08:14.208 --> 01:08:19.673 [SPEAKER_00]: So in my mind, once again, I'm just like, I'm not, you know, I want this so bad. 01:08:19.713 --> 01:08:27.719 [SPEAKER_00]: I want to be in New York for this, but at the same time, I'm so grateful to be with my daughter who's creating this life for herself in this foreign country. 01:08:27.759 --> 01:08:31.342 [SPEAKER_00]: Halfway across the world, where she grew up, I'm not gonna be like, 01:08:32.183 --> 01:08:37.406 [SPEAKER_00]: dudes, I can't go to the fucking, you know, I can't go to the fucking shrine because I gotta watch the next. 01:08:37.666 --> 01:08:42.909 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't do it, even though it kills me, I'm slightly torn, but now we're at game five. 01:08:42.949 --> 01:08:49.372 [SPEAKER_00]: The nicks are up three games to one, and it looks like they're gonna close it out in San Antonio. 01:08:50.867 --> 01:08:53.348 [SPEAKER_00]: My message you got to find a place to watch the team. 01:08:53.388 --> 01:09:07.491 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to find a little place to watch the next you got to find them with what and I'm and I'm just like pushing it away all my friends from high school all my friends were next fans were saying to me You got it you got to watch this is this is his story. 01:09:07.551 --> 01:09:10.012 [SPEAKER_00]: This is something that hasn't hasn't happened in 53 years 01:09:12.683 --> 01:09:16.525 [SPEAKER_00]: And I'm just like, I just can't say it to my family. 01:09:16.545 --> 01:09:19.106 [SPEAKER_00]: I can't go out with you and Tokyo. 01:09:19.126 --> 01:09:20.147 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to watch the next game. 01:09:20.167 --> 01:09:23.288 [SPEAKER_00]: So I'm getting taxed for my friend. 01:09:24.269 --> 01:09:25.109 [SPEAKER_00]: This is game five. 01:09:27.010 --> 01:09:30.611 [SPEAKER_00]: We're on the way to, we're on the way to one of these shrines. 01:09:31.612 --> 01:09:33.593 [SPEAKER_00]: And my friend is kind of giving me updates. 01:09:34.073 --> 01:09:36.434 [SPEAKER_00]: And he says, cats and foul trouble in the first quarter. 01:09:36.554 --> 01:09:37.415 [SPEAKER_00]: He's got two fouls. 01:09:38.175 --> 01:09:39.677 [SPEAKER_00]: We can't, this is not good. 01:09:40.197 --> 01:09:42.399 [SPEAKER_00]: Happened to be where we're going to a cat trying it. 01:09:42.439 --> 01:09:44.301 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, I thought, I got to make some content. 01:09:44.762 --> 01:09:46.023 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to go to this cat trying it. 01:09:46.063 --> 01:09:47.905 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to pray to Carl Anthony Towns. 01:09:47.925 --> 01:09:49.907 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to send the good vibes to Carl Anthony Towns. 01:09:50.607 --> 01:09:52.409 [SPEAKER_00]: And we did a little funny thing with that. 01:09:52.509 --> 01:09:54.191 [SPEAKER_00]: And my friends, let's get to the good. 01:09:54.431 --> 01:10:07.252 [SPEAKER_00]: My friend would say, get to that trun, you got to get to that trun, you got to pray, you got to pray for cat because we got to make sure you didn't get the cat foul trouble when we're having a lot of laughs and we're going to this beautiful little town called goto kuji, goto kuji. 01:10:09.555 --> 01:10:23.958 [SPEAKER_00]: which was this great little town, Japan, and it's cats everywhere, like cat drawings, cat sculptures, and they have all this, you know, this cat shrine, and it was such a cute little town, go to the, go to the shrine. 01:10:24.398 --> 01:10:30.419 [SPEAKER_00]: I held my picture up, I get Hillary Lyla took a picture with me holding this picture of Carl and T-Towns by the shrine. 01:10:30.459 --> 01:10:37.841 [SPEAKER_00]: We, we got purified, we did all, we all did all the, I'm, I'm purified it so many of these goddamn shrines, but I mean, you know, 01:10:38.401 --> 01:10:56.802 [SPEAKER_00]: And then we ended up going to lunch at this place that had, it was this old little tiny home wall, and it was like the set lunch, and they had the cats who hadn't had the cats who done before, which was like a fried pork chop with, and then it was kind of cooked with this 01:10:57.135 --> 01:11:08.118 [SPEAKER_00]: Egg on top over this rice and the rice was flavored with like it was flavored with this like um like a me so Teriyaki saw it was fucking delicious. 01:11:08.458 --> 01:11:24.922 [SPEAKER_00]: It was really good and then on my phones blowing up The nicks are down they've been down all day and now they're coming back up and they this is what's the next I've been doing this this whole this whole season that they've been getting in the you know getting in behind and then they come back to win the whole thing 01:11:25.942 --> 01:11:28.903 [SPEAKER_00]: We watched the last two minutes of game five and they clenched. 01:11:29.543 --> 01:11:31.684 [SPEAKER_00]: They clenched wearing this little restaurant. 01:11:32.044 --> 01:11:34.404 [SPEAKER_00]: We're all watching around this phone. 01:11:34.424 --> 01:11:39.426 [SPEAKER_00]: I got a VPN and we're watching on ESPN on an app and we're eating his food. 01:11:39.466 --> 01:11:40.166 [SPEAKER_00]: We're laughing. 01:11:40.406 --> 01:11:40.806 [SPEAKER_00]: Quiet. 01:11:40.826 --> 01:11:41.666 [SPEAKER_00]: You got to be quiet. 01:11:41.686 --> 01:11:42.226 [SPEAKER_00]: You can't be. 01:11:43.067 --> 01:11:44.247 [SPEAKER_00]: Go crazy in Japan. 01:11:45.778 --> 01:12:00.968 [SPEAKER_00]: the next clip, the clinch, and we'll leave, and we can't believe it, and my phone starts ringing, and I'm getting messages, I'm getting calls from drunken friends, where watch parties, I can't believe it, we're championing, get the fuck out of here. 01:12:01.349 --> 01:12:02.790 [SPEAKER_00]: It was this hilarious 01:12:03.650 --> 01:12:15.895 [SPEAKER_00]: like juxtaposition between being in the small Japanese kind of village in Tokyo and then all these all this excitement at a New York and it was hard to kind of be excited. 01:12:16.095 --> 01:12:26.380 [SPEAKER_00]: It was hard not to be excited but at the same time it was like there were no bars there were there's no like x-pats there was nobody who you know you couldn't really celebrate this incredible event 01:12:26.860 --> 01:12:45.296 [SPEAKER_00]: and the funniest part was we were all excited because you know we watched all the clips on Instagram and we could watch the we watched the replay on on demand and it was just it was amazing funny enough we were walking in the Ginsa area which is like the kind of Beverly Hills area of Tokyo 01:12:46.097 --> 01:12:57.004 [SPEAKER_00]: I saw this dude was Japanese dude, he was wearing a Nick's Patrick Ewing jersey, he had a Nick's hat on, he had Nick sneakers on, this bro was Nick's hat. 01:12:57.324 --> 01:13:05.529 [SPEAKER_00]: This was a Nick's fan as far as I'm concerned, you only got to him, Nick's I saw in the all of Tokyo, is this guy crossing the street. 01:13:05.969 --> 01:13:07.610 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, all right, let's go! 01:13:07.711 --> 01:13:11.133 [SPEAKER_00]: And I brazed on my hand, we slapped five, five, he looked at me like, 01:13:11.905 --> 01:13:12.785 [SPEAKER_00]: What are you talking about? 01:13:13.085 --> 01:13:19.127 [SPEAKER_00]: Like he had no idea what I was talking about and I was so just deflated because it was just like, yeah, this is just for fashion. 01:13:19.588 --> 01:13:23.889 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm like, this is a real nix fan here and that's what the crazy part was. 01:13:23.949 --> 01:13:27.750 [SPEAKER_00]: As soon as the nix won, all of New York is going berserk. 01:13:28.050 --> 01:13:35.733 [SPEAKER_00]: This was the most highly watched playoffs and finals since the Michael Jordan days. 01:13:36.413 --> 01:13:59.950 [SPEAKER_00]: Everyone is in love with the New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, New York, 01:14:00.410 --> 01:14:06.898 [SPEAKER_00]: who are just like, did you know that Drick Brunson, Jill and Brunson's dad is the assistant coach of the next? 01:14:06.938 --> 01:14:10.102 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm just like, I'm starting to get like annoyed. 01:14:10.463 --> 01:14:17.972 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm starting to get annoyed because all these kind of way, a bad-wagged fads are like all over me and just like telling, 01:14:18.232 --> 01:14:23.153 [SPEAKER_00]: sending you, did you know that they all went to Villanova together and they were champions together? 01:14:23.173 --> 01:14:23.413 [SPEAKER_00]: Did you? 01:14:23.713 --> 01:14:27.935 [SPEAKER_00]: I bet you didn't know that and it was like, bro, I've been in the fucking trenches. 01:14:28.035 --> 01:14:28.875 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been in the trenches. 01:14:29.275 --> 01:14:32.576 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to games in October because that's the only time we can get tickets. 01:14:33.036 --> 01:14:34.856 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going, I'm in the trenches with the nicks. 01:14:35.016 --> 01:14:36.917 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm watching pre-season basketball. 01:14:37.337 --> 01:14:43.919 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm watching, anytime, if the nicks are on, MSG is on in my house and we're watching the nicks as long as we're on my way. 01:14:44.819 --> 01:14:45.620 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't talk to me. 01:14:45.720 --> 01:14:49.582 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't don't come at me in June to talk to me about the nicks. 01:14:49.762 --> 01:14:53.564 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm all about the nicks all the time in September, October. 01:14:54.085 --> 01:14:56.226 [SPEAKER_00]: Like, I'm watching what's going on in October. 01:14:56.666 --> 01:14:57.747 [SPEAKER_00]: Get the fuck out of here. 01:14:58.287 --> 01:14:58.987 [SPEAKER_00]: I ain't doing that. 01:14:59.268 --> 01:15:00.668 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been in the trenches with the nicks. 01:15:00.889 --> 01:15:03.210 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been in the trenches the nicks a long time. 01:15:03.350 --> 01:15:08.713 [SPEAKER_00]: Don't don't start showing up with your jail and brunch and jerseys and tell me all about the villain over Nick. 01:15:08.773 --> 01:15:09.794 [SPEAKER_00]: Get the fuck out of here. 01:15:09.914 --> 01:15:10.534 [SPEAKER_00]: I've had it with you. 01:15:10.994 --> 01:15:13.576 [SPEAKER_00]: Speaking of which, as we're talking, what is it? 01:15:14.956 --> 01:15:22.680 [SPEAKER_00]: It's just about pushing 9 o'clock on 9 o'clock on Thursday, and this is the parade day. 01:15:23.100 --> 01:15:36.667 [SPEAKER_00]: This is the day that the nicks are getting going through the canyon of heroes from a bowling green up to the city hall, and there's going to be a ticker tape parade, and everyone's very excited. 01:15:37.047 --> 01:15:39.448 [SPEAKER_00]: Get all these messages saying, are you going down to ticker tape parade? 01:15:39.948 --> 01:15:43.211 [SPEAKER_00]: And my answer is no, absolutely not. 01:15:43.291 --> 01:15:50.676 [SPEAKER_00]: Like I said, I'm in the trenches with the nicks, but I've been to Tickertay Parades back in the 90s and 98, 99. 01:15:50.836 --> 01:15:57.461 [SPEAKER_00]: It was much easier when the Yankees won, in the 98, 99, 2000. 01:15:58.742 --> 01:16:04.627 [SPEAKER_00]: We went to my, my, my, my, my, if you go back into the archives of this full blast podcast. 01:16:05.107 --> 01:16:11.050 [SPEAKER_00]: There is an episode with my man, Jamie Montgomery, and he and I used to go to the Ticcer tape parades when the Yankees won. 01:16:11.610 --> 01:16:31.220 [SPEAKER_00]: And it's a giant disaster, and it's hard to see anybody, even if you get close, you can barely see them for a second, and this whole nicks parade is kind of people been lining up since yesterday, and it's like nicks madness is taking over to New York, which is wonderful, but at the same time it's 01:16:33.641 --> 01:16:58.332 [SPEAKER_00]: because all of a sudden these bandwagoners, I don't know, I see on Facebook all these altar cockers who never knew about the next, never knew about the next before, couldn't name, not that you have to, but it is kind of annoying that, you know, you see these kind of, like, bandwagon, June fans who are just like, Rookson 5, oh, I can't believe, I can't believe what Wemby did to Jill and Brunson. 01:16:58.952 --> 01:17:00.093 [SPEAKER_00]: Fuck out here, dudes. 01:17:00.935 --> 01:17:03.477 [SPEAKER_00]: God damn, I've been in the trenches. 01:17:03.657 --> 01:17:13.605 [SPEAKER_00]: I've been in the trenches with those with with with with with with with with Patrick Ewing and John Starks and the trellis pretty well talked to me now about Jailum Brunsett come on. 01:17:14.726 --> 01:17:15.427 [SPEAKER_00]: But uh 01:17:17.203 --> 01:17:37.924 [SPEAKER_00]: the takeaway of it is and it was just kind of a very funny situation because both the next going to the finals and winning the whole thing and becoming the NBA champions and us going to Japan for the first time both of these are like historic events in my life and my wife's life and we had it really, really great time but the best part was was to realize that 01:17:39.385 --> 01:17:45.286 [SPEAKER_00]: All the years of, of, of, of, we made my wife and I made a decision when we were, when we're having a lot less. 01:17:45.306 --> 01:17:46.406 [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't have a ton of money. 01:17:46.426 --> 01:17:57.788 [SPEAKER_00]: We, you know, were, you know, middle-class people and we really wanted to save up for her, our daughter to go to college and we really started saving when we were, when she was born. 01:17:58.288 --> 01:18:03.529 [SPEAKER_00]: We made it concerted effort that we really wanted to do everything we could and one of the things that weren't very materialistic. 01:18:03.549 --> 01:18:07.850 [SPEAKER_00]: We didn't have a ton of things, but we really felt as though travel was very important. 01:18:08.530 --> 01:18:13.111 [SPEAKER_00]: So we were fortunate enough to save to be able to go to take her to. 01:18:13.531 --> 01:18:14.471 [SPEAKER_00]: We took her to England. 01:18:14.491 --> 01:18:15.512 [SPEAKER_00]: We took her to Paris. 01:18:15.552 --> 01:18:17.032 [SPEAKER_00]: We took her to Barcelona. 01:18:17.492 --> 01:18:19.173 [SPEAKER_00]: We took her to Amsterdam. 01:18:19.233 --> 01:18:20.133 [SPEAKER_00]: She's been a Spain. 01:18:20.793 --> 01:18:21.973 [SPEAKER_00]: She's been to Mexico. 01:18:22.473 --> 01:18:24.654 [SPEAKER_00]: She's traveled and we're not in. 01:18:24.934 --> 01:18:27.354 [SPEAKER_00]: She's never grew up in Manhattan. 01:18:27.414 --> 01:18:29.455 [SPEAKER_00]: She grew up in Westchester outside. 01:18:30.175 --> 01:18:52.733 [SPEAKER_00]: So the interesting thing is it seems as though that those early years of investing in travel really kind of informed who she is and it's really wonderful to see how confident she is in these foreign countries and you know, you go to Europe and it's like, yeah, you know, it's foreign and everything like that, but you go to Japan and it's a different culture altogether. 01:18:53.293 --> 01:19:02.535 [SPEAKER_00]: and the expectations of the society, the expectations of community, the expectations of behavior. 01:19:03.035 --> 01:19:05.196 [SPEAKER_00]: The expectations, it's totally different. 01:19:05.216 --> 01:19:06.256 [SPEAKER_00]: That's the culture shock. 01:19:06.916 --> 01:19:09.577 [SPEAKER_00]: It's not the culture shock of the fact that their Asians were not. 01:19:09.977 --> 01:19:20.659 [SPEAKER_00]: It's the culture shock of the expectations that the culture has on citizens and how to become like a kind of a moral of a global citizen. 01:19:21.159 --> 01:19:34.772 [SPEAKER_00]: And the fact that she's navigating it in such a wonderful way, she's not homesick, she's enjoying her time there, she's enjoying her independence, she's enjoying being a grown-up in a foreign country and I think that I'm just very proud. 01:19:35.233 --> 01:19:35.793 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm very proud. 01:19:35.813 --> 01:19:37.495 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to have her on soon rather than later. 01:19:37.515 --> 01:19:41.719 [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe when she's still when she's in Japan, we'll do another call and see how she's doing. 01:19:42.540 --> 01:19:58.165 [SPEAKER_00]: But I highly recommend travel, if you can afford to do it, especially if you get kids, that's what's going to kind of light them up and show everything just about the town that you're in. 01:19:58.645 --> 01:20:03.667 [SPEAKER_00]: And then there are opportunities, and then there are things to see, but God damn it, Japan. 01:20:04.867 --> 01:20:06.328 [SPEAKER_00]: I'll say the highlights of Japan. 01:20:06.688 --> 01:20:09.069 [SPEAKER_00]: I didn't even talk about the sword, we went to the sword museum. 01:20:09.089 --> 01:20:10.410 [SPEAKER_00]: The sword museum was amazing. 01:20:11.171 --> 01:20:18.034 [SPEAKER_00]: We're in a lot of take pictures, but it was really neat to see a real traditional old samurai swords and all that stuff. 01:20:18.955 --> 01:20:28.820 [SPEAKER_00]: The highlights of the highlights in terms of food was we actually, when the last things we did was we stayed at a real con, which is, I don't know how to wrap this up. 01:20:28.860 --> 01:20:30.741 [SPEAKER_00]: And then you guys were just like, get the fuck off already. 01:20:30.761 --> 01:20:31.462 [SPEAKER_00]: We had enough of you. 01:20:32.202 --> 01:20:38.207 [SPEAKER_00]: These traditional Japanese hotels, the traditional Japanese lunch, you get to take a shoes off, you're on tatami mats, all of the place. 01:20:38.448 --> 01:20:39.428 [SPEAKER_00]: That was really amazing. 01:20:40.529 --> 01:20:45.994 [SPEAKER_00]: The food in Japan exceed our expectations and our expectations are really high. 01:20:46.574 --> 01:20:53.380 [SPEAKER_00]: The people were fabulous, polite, generous, helpful. 01:20:55.722 --> 01:21:11.789 [SPEAKER_00]: it was it was it was an extraordinary extraordinary opportunity and an extraordinary place and I highly suggest if you have the opportunity to go especially all your Europeans where the dollar sucks right now in Europe but you you're you with them euros you will buy some yeah dog 01:21:12.149 --> 01:21:33.671 [SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it 01:21:35.512 --> 01:21:40.335 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to be going back to Spain in a couple of weeks and they're going to be stories about that. 01:21:40.655 --> 01:21:41.575 [SPEAKER_00]: We're going to have some guests. 01:21:41.595 --> 01:21:43.056 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll probably talk about Japan a little bit more. 01:21:43.096 --> 01:21:50.600 [SPEAKER_00]: We'll talk about knife-making, art, all the stuff you want to talk about, or you want to hear about, do more storytelling, you know what I'm saying? 01:21:50.620 --> 01:21:56.623 [SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to think of there any more funny stories, there were a couple of them, but can't seem to remember them, but that's about it. 01:21:57.213 --> 01:22:00.315 [SPEAKER_00]: Guys, many thanks for your support. 01:22:02.316 --> 01:22:06.178 [SPEAKER_00]: Once again, if you want to follow along, go to knife-talk. 01:22:06.859 --> 01:22:13.823 [SPEAKER_00]: You go to the full last podcast on Instagram or you can follow me at Fader Knives on Instagram, sending in your messages. 01:22:14.403 --> 01:22:24.891 [SPEAKER_00]: If you want to support the show, if you like these episodes, 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