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on Tropic Time now. Allison

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Rosen, do you want

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Allison's your new best

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friend. Hey

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everyone, hi, hello. Welcome to

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an extremely special episode of

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Allison Rosen is your new

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best friend live from Japan

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and yes I did

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change a word. Normally I say it's a very

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special episode. This time I had to go above

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and then say it's an extremely special episode because

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as I said we are on location we are

1:01

in Yokohama as

1:04

I speak we are sitting on a

1:06

hotel bed it's late at night

1:09

the children are asleep Wendy

1:11

is in an animal hospital I will

1:13

explain hello Daniel Quants welcome our dog

1:15

is in the shop yeah

1:19

that's right okay all right

1:22

can I be can

1:24

I peel the curtain back for the audience peel

1:26

away so this is the second

1:28

time trying this we we had a

1:31

little marital tiff it's all it's okay

1:33

everybody it's okay one of those tips

1:36

by the way when I say tiff I

1:38

think TIFF Toronto International Film Festival oh

1:41

yeah that's right what do you think I

1:45

was gonna say is there like a file format that's

1:47

a tiff I

1:50

think so because I think we had

1:52

a marital JPEG yeah I feel like

1:54

we had a marital h e i c

1:57

yuck what is that it's like what

1:59

When I airdrop a photo from

2:02

my phone to my computer

2:05

so that I can put it on

2:07

sub-stack, which by the way, this is

2:09

a plug within appealing back the curtain.

2:11

If you're not subscribed to my sub-stack,

2:13

get on there. I mean, if you

2:15

are curious. What are you even doing

2:18

with your life? If you are curious

2:20

about the whole me

2:23

on the Corolla show of it all,

2:25

I have been, I mean, this is

2:27

appealing back the curtain inside the curtain

2:29

of infinite curtain

2:32

peels. This is like that Bjork

2:34

video. Sure, it's

2:36

like the end of the hills. No, but do you remember

2:38

that Bjork video where the Michelle Gondry one where it was

2:40

like, it's like black and white

2:43

and she writes a book and then

2:45

it gets adapted into a play, but the play is

2:47

her writing a book that's getting adapted into a

2:50

play. No, but that sounds really cool. Oh, it's brilliant.

2:52

It's one of the, yeah, anyway, look it up.

2:54

What song is it, do you know? I

2:56

don't remember the name of the song, but

2:59

it's one of the greats. Folks, folks.

3:02

It's one of the greats. It's one of the greats. I

3:04

would like to see that, but anyway, yeah. I've

3:07

been telling that story on my sub-stack. I also

3:09

went into quite a bit of detail about why

3:11

we're on this trip and all that stuff on

3:13

sub-stack. And, but then I was like,

3:15

but I can't leave my

3:18

patroons. That's what I, that's

3:20

the. That's what she calls you.

3:22

Peeling back the curtain of the curtain of the curtain. That's

3:24

right. And then publicly I say

3:26

Patreon people, but when I say, but to Daniel, I

3:28

say, I got to upload a patroon. Yes,

3:31

she does do that. So I can't

3:33

leave my patroons out in the cold.

3:35

So I wrote a post with a

3:37

ton of pictures and I uploaded that

3:39

to patroon. I've never gone, I've never

3:41

been public about patroon. Here

3:44

we are though. There's

3:46

no turning back now. So

3:48

anyway, yeah, so get on all

3:50

of that. But anyway, yeah, that's

3:52

an HEIC file. Okay, so anyway,

3:55

as Daniel was saying, we

3:57

had a little P.N.J. It's

4:00

just a silly little thing, but silly

4:02

little Yeah, we were recording

4:04

this show and when we started that

4:07

version of it you had

4:09

asked me to Translate

4:12

the name of the show into Japanese

4:14

and on the fly Yeah Oh,

4:17

yeah with a little a lot

4:19

of hesitancy because I'm not fluent in Japanese with

4:21

a couple bopping your nose in your head With

4:23

the microphone to help you think Which

4:26

is how I think you can hear you

4:28

can literally hear him think although you won't

4:30

ever hear that episode unless I upload it

4:32

to a Formention patroon. I'm just honey. I'm

4:34

like a I'm one of those like audio

4:36

based performance artists. I need to oh, yeah

4:39

I had percussion with my mic technique.

4:41

Yeah And

4:43

then you rudely expected me to sing

4:46

it. I Didn't

4:48

rudely expect you Opportunity

4:50

sorry, no, no you you you

4:52

vocalized it in a rude way. Let's just say

4:55

that Anyway, here you

4:57

go I'll

4:59

sing it. Okay, great Addison

5:02

Rosen, wha? Wait

5:06

now. I'm okay started before I thought about it. Addison

5:08

Rosen, wha? Atari

5:11

she moto II Tom

5:15

a chi This

5:18

I love it I Love

5:23

it. I don't I probably got that wrong

5:25

Like I'm there might be a syllable

5:28

like a character here or there that

5:30

I got wrong, but yeah, no, that's pretty good Daniel

5:33

has done so Daniel has done well

5:35

with the Japanese conversations my note. Did

5:37

you know that I have a note

5:39

for you? You

5:42

don't have enough you what is it my

5:45

note is You're

5:48

too Hesitant to start

5:50

conversations with people in Japanese because you

5:52

do really well when you're having these

5:55

conversations But I have to push you

5:57

to like go ask that person person

5:59

this or you know I've got a

6:02

little well she I like I like

6:04

lady make that thing your Japanese because

6:06

I can't really do conversational Japanese I've

6:09

only been taking lessons since like February

6:11

yeah I mean I can I can

6:14

do only like you can only do Duolingo

6:16

Japanese well but I mean I can only

6:18

do basic stuff

6:22

yeah I know but these aren't conversational conversations

6:24

these are just like I'm looking

6:26

for this can you help me find it well

6:31

but even that is it can be

6:33

like I can ask

6:35

for something but then their answer may not

6:37

make any sense yeah I know because I

6:40

don't know all my directions and there's like

6:43

there's all these words that

6:46

mean you know that can mean you know go up

6:48

these stairs or you know go left and then up

6:50

and then right and then down or this is next

6:52

to that or that is in it and

6:55

in Japanese like the sentence structure is

6:57

all that it's very kind of hard

6:59

wrap your head around because here you'll

7:02

you'll say you know this

7:04

is close to that but

7:07

in Japanese you would say like like

7:15

this this is that

7:17

close to is it's

7:23

it's just and so though the answer

7:26

in your base like what so no

7:29

just to illustrate that I

7:32

received a bunch of papers from

7:34

the animal clinic so we had

7:37

to pay a surgery deposit and

7:39

a hospitalization deposit neither of

7:41

these were refundable but they're like the

7:43

surgery deposit goes towards the cost of surgery

7:46

the hospitalization deposit goes towards the cost of

7:48

a hospitalization so they handed

7:50

me five sheets paper each one

7:52

numbered but it's like number

7:54

five is the itemized bill

7:57

this deducted it's

7:59

like This is

8:01

deducted from one and two.

8:03

One and two being the deposit. And so I

8:06

am, I can't make heads or

8:08

tails. We have a negative total at this

8:10

point. And I don't know if they give that back to us

8:12

or it's just applied. I don't know what it is, but like,

8:15

but sorry, all of this is a very convoluted

8:18

way of saying their

8:21

sentence structure is convoluted because they're saying

8:23

this is deducted from that, but it

8:25

doesn't work mathematically to do that the

8:28

way we think of it. Did

8:30

we wait, but did

8:32

we explain why, maybe it was obvious

8:35

why we can't upload our TIFF? Because

8:38

I thought we could mine the TIFF for content

8:44

and it would be fun and just,

8:46

you know. Sometimes it's fun. But then

8:48

it just turned into, it was just

8:50

too. A couple of being annoying at each other. Well,

8:53

it was just like, how stressful is it to

8:56

listen to two people fight? Because that's what

8:58

it was. It wasn't a fight, it's just.

9:02

People not getting along. There needs to be

9:04

another word because when I think of fight,

9:08

I think of couples fighting

9:14

with my mom and my stepdad fighting. Yeah, or my

9:16

parents. And we don't fight like that. No, no, no.

9:19

But we'll go

9:21

back and forth. There just needs to be another

9:23

term for it. Because there's nothing like. Podcast. Just

9:28

good radio. I

9:30

don't know. Anyway, that's all it was. It

9:33

was just annoying. And it was over stupid shit that you

9:35

don't wanna hear about. So anyway, speaking of stupid shit. Can

9:37

we just tell them what it was about? It

9:39

was about a glass of water. I

9:42

had a new glass of water. And Daniel

9:44

threw out my water. She was really. And

9:46

then I felt that he was. Okay,

9:48

let's not relitigate. Not being respectful. Let's not relitigate.

9:51

Me and he felt any way. Just

9:53

know this, just know this folks. Just

9:55

know I'm drinking water. Just know this. I

9:58

was right. That's all you got in there. Tony

10:00

just hang on

10:03

hang on you're just

10:05

sticking with DQ you'll be alright when

10:08

you start when you start siding with

10:10

Allison that's when things go sideways water

10:13

can suck a dick I don't like it that

10:15

much so anyway let's just

10:17

start at the beginning

10:20

Daniel how

10:23

far in the beginning are we going back

10:26

to 1973 Tucson

10:29

Arizona no um

10:31

let's see the okay so

10:33

we're in Yokohama we're in

10:35

Yokohama which is

10:37

next to Tokyo yes

10:40

it is not charming it's like

10:42

a business center yeah I read that

10:44

it's like more like a European city

10:47

than other cities I was expecting people

10:49

had said Japan's like another planet another

10:51

country it's like the moon Yokohama

10:53

is not it's just like any other city

10:56

granted most people here

10:58

are Japanese there's a lot of Japanese spoke

11:00

you're gonna really only Japanese spoken but

11:03

it was like a port city and

11:05

has always had more of an international

11:08

you know a lot of international

11:10

like people you know from all over it's a

11:12

it's kind of like a business you

11:15

know like a lot of tall buildings

11:17

and just business folks salary men salary

11:20

men is what they call them in

11:22

Japan can we share it

11:24

just is it's just much more of a like an

11:27

international modern city you could be anywhere

11:29

LFH is that what it's called there's

11:33

a term that I learned

11:35

that Japanese it's a Japanese

11:38

people have for like

11:41

white mostly American I

11:43

bet British guys fit into this too

11:46

who come over here and date

11:48

Japanese girls and they're

11:50

called LFH is or LBH

11:52

is losers

11:54

back home I

11:57

haven't seen any LFH is though I've been on the

11:59

we don't look But yeah, but we don't

12:01

see a lot of white or tour

12:03

this is not an area this is like It's

12:06

mostly Japanese people where we have you

12:08

begun to have the same thing You

12:12

know, I just said this is a very

12:14

international place. This is how we know that

12:16

I'm acclimating to the culture When

12:20

I see Americans or

12:22

when I see white people I think Well,

12:25

that's because most Americans we see our if is

12:28

it that or is it that I'm just beginning to?

12:31

Have been kind of like Well,

12:34

that's what I'm saying What's

12:36

up with that? Well because I think that

12:38

if you're not maybe you're in Tokyo. You're

12:40

in Kyoto You're in Okinawa. You think it's

12:42

that or do you think maybe? When

12:46

you're outside of America for long enough you begin

12:48

to see Americans or just they could be European

12:50

I don't know for who they are. No,

12:53

you think that there's just a special because when

12:55

I'm it like I'm in America And I look

12:57

at Americans like oh, I feel like

12:59

I'm having it more here Because you

13:01

might see someone who's American if you're

13:03

you know If

13:07

you're in a foreign country you might see someone from home

13:09

and think oh my god, it's over from home But instead

13:11

I just think oh, well, I mean, I

13:13

guess it depends on your like

13:15

mine mine is like You're

13:19

what you suck Okay,

13:21

well, but but I want they're not like

13:23

stylish or you know, like The

13:27

you don't look I don't look I haven't seen anyone Any

13:32

white people I've looked at them and gone like look

13:34

at that, you know Cool

13:39

or young or energetic or

13:41

attractive what about me jet-setting?

13:44

Yeah, I include you know a Person

13:46

I just think You

13:49

know my wife I'm Yeah

13:52

her again Tony, please

13:54

make a drop of my wife.

13:56

It's the opposite of my wife.

13:58

Mm-hmm. My wife Okay,

14:02

this brings me to a question I wanted to

14:04

ask you, Daniel. And I wanted to go through

14:06

this, you know, chronologically, but

14:08

I'm jumping around. The

14:10

day of Wendy's surgery, which was Tuesday, I don't

14:13

know why they need, it was the 23rd, the

14:15

day of her surgery. The her surgery was like

14:17

four, it was a long, intense,

14:20

crazy, emotional

14:22

day, which I'll get to, but

14:25

we had a few hours to kill in the middle

14:27

between when they had taken her in and when we

14:29

were going to come back and, you know, find out

14:31

how it went and stuff.

14:33

So we went to Shibuya, which is

14:36

Shibuya crossing, which is the, which

14:38

by the way, is this a claim to fame? It's

14:40

the busiest cross. It's a very, it's very intersection in

14:43

the world. It's iconic. It's like, you

14:45

know, it's in every, whenever you see

14:47

a movie in Tokyo, they look like

14:49

rats running across. Whenever it's like, we're

14:51

in Tokyo. That's it's like the times

14:53

square of Tokyo. It's

14:56

yeah. It's that place where the

14:58

crosswalk with the diagonal and every

15:01

million people. Very crowded. So anyway,

15:04

and we went to the store called Don Quixote.

15:06

Don Quixote. It's a chain. Oh yeah. It's a

15:08

chain. It's sort of like their womb. It's

15:11

it's it is a tourist destination, even

15:13

though you think you

15:16

might be thinking to yourself, why did

15:18

they go to the Walmart of Japan?

15:20

The Don Quixote's hashtag. Yeah. Like

15:22

the, well, I don't know

15:24

who cares. But like if that there

15:28

are Don Quixote's that are in areas

15:30

where it's just like a treated

15:33

like a Walmart. But this one,

15:35

because it's it's right off of

15:37

Shibuya Crossing happens to be like

15:39

particularly tourist. Right. I was curious

15:42

about all the different skincare and cosmetics and

15:44

things like that. And they also had like

15:46

a thousand snacks, but they also

15:49

had when you first walk in, it

15:51

smells delicious like pancakes. And

15:53

they had these things which are like they

15:56

look like big coins and it's dough

15:58

on the outside and It's

16:01

a waffle on the outside

16:03

and mozzarella on the middle. But

16:05

it looks like a coin. Yeah, it's like

16:07

a quarter or something. I

16:10

don't actually know what currency it is. It's

16:12

like 10 yen. But you knew about it and you

16:14

said, oh, it's this, it's this famous coin cheese. A

16:16

thing that had gone viral, I

16:21

mean, clearly there was a shop that was doing this. I

16:23

guess they've made it, like they've expanded

16:26

to kiosks or whatever at Don Quixote,

16:28

but there was like these

16:30

long lines of people waiting for these

16:32

things. It was kind of a thing. Waiting for

16:34

their coin cheese. So anyway, Daniel said,

16:37

let's splurge for the coin cheese. I

16:39

mean- Cheese coin, coin cheese. What is it called? Yeah,

16:41

I don't even know. On our way out. I

16:45

just figured like it was easy to

16:47

get. When in Shibuya. And something I'd

16:49

seen that God went viral. Well, check

16:51

it out, right? Yes, but the people behind

16:53

us, were

16:56

American. Were they? Yeah.

16:59

Well, I don't know. They were white. They

17:01

were big old yuck. And

17:05

they were even getting that thing that you pointed out

17:07

was supposed to be good, which is like a little

17:09

skewer that has candied fruit on

17:11

it. And I was tempted to say

17:13

to them, how is it? And

17:16

then the guy behind you for the

17:19

longest time, I don't know why he

17:21

was waiting. Oh, cause he hadn't received his cheese coin yet.

17:23

Long as I was noticing, you're

17:27

not talking to him. Is

17:29

that on purpose? I'm not talking to who?

17:32

You could strike up a conversation with this

17:34

guy. He's American. Are you curious?

17:36

What are you doing here? I was not even aware

17:38

of him. I was watching them make the

17:41

cheese coins. There was some,

17:43

maybe it's somewhere else. And there's, I definitely

17:45

noticed somewhere where you were, it

17:48

seemed to me very deliberately not

17:51

having the like, Oh, you're American. Are you American?

17:53

Ah, no, no, no, no, no. I don't know

17:55

any other circumstances, but I will say this. So,

18:03

first of all, there's a lot

18:05

of great things that I think are

18:07

great things about Japan and Japanese

18:10

culture, and there are

18:12

some negatives. If

18:14

I end up saying too much of one or the other, don't think that

18:17

I'm not aware of the other. One

18:20

of the negatives about Japanese culture, in

18:22

my opinion, is how shy everyone is

18:24

and how

18:30

reserved. They

18:33

don't make eye contact and everyone just keeps to

18:35

themselves and it's rude to just look

18:42

at someone in the eyes or to strike.

18:48

In order to be polite in their

18:50

culture, I'm in this mode of just

18:52

not engaging with other people. I'm

18:55

doing that with everybody. I'm

18:57

not saying, oh, there's an American, I'm

18:59

going to strike up a conversation with them. So

19:02

I think that might be part of it.

19:04

Part of it also is I'm just misanthropic.

19:07

I'm not the type of person that looks like... It's

19:10

circumstantial, but in that situation, it's like, I

19:13

don't give a fuck. I'm

19:15

waiting for a cheese coin. What

19:18

am I going to ask them? Hey, did

19:20

you get any nail clippers in there? Those

19:22

nail clippers are pretty neat, aren't they? Tell

19:24

them why the nail clippers are neat. Because

19:26

all the nail clippers in Japan have catchers

19:29

built into them. So you're not

19:31

spraying nail clippings around

19:34

like shrapnel. Like, duh,

19:37

why? That's

19:40

the good side of Japan. Two more weird things

19:43

about Japan, not that I would call the nail

19:45

clipper things weird, that's just innovative. The

19:48

crosswalks don't have buttons and

19:50

they take a long time. You

19:52

listen, Pen Especially when it's

19:55

90 degrees, 90% humidity. It's

19:57

like walking around in soup. very

20:00

hot. We

20:02

were caught in the rain yesterday and it was

20:04

refreshing. But yeah, so the

20:06

crosswalks don't have buttons, but the elevators

20:09

do have door, they have door close buttons

20:11

and they work and you have to press

20:13

them. Or else the elevator will

20:15

just stay there. The, oh you're talking about the open and

20:18

close buttons that are just... Oh sorry, yeah, I didn't make

20:20

that clear. They're just performative in... They're just

20:22

for decoration in... Well they make you feel like you

20:24

have agency. Yes, but here, because I pressed the button

20:26

and I was just standing there like, uh, what's going

20:28

on? Why is the elevator not working? And the guy

20:30

said we have to hit the door close button. You

20:33

don't always have to push it, but it definitely...

20:35

Well how do you know when you have to?

20:38

Well, if the door isn't closing, you could push

20:40

the door close button and it'll close. Which

20:44

is what was happening. Well now we know. So

20:47

anyway, for anyone who doesn't

20:49

know, but I feel like everyone knows, but if

20:51

anyone doesn't know, we came

20:53

to Japan to get surgery for Wendy, our

20:55

beloved dog. There's a clinic here that does...

20:57

Did I already share this in this episode

21:00

or was it in the episode where we

21:02

nearly got divorced? I think we've talked about

21:04

it, so maybe just give them the Cliffsnuts.

21:08

Heart surgery clinic here who pioneered it

21:10

has very good success rates. So

21:13

the first many days...

21:16

Well no, the first

21:18

day, so we were still heavily jet

21:20

lagged, we had our pre-op appointment, and

21:24

I was in the car,

21:26

we took a tab there and I was looking at my

21:29

phone and then I thought, bitch, what

21:31

are you doing? How many times are you

21:33

in a car in Japan and you're going

21:35

to be looking at threads? Get

21:38

a grip, girlfriend. Pretty lame.

21:42

Oh, pretty lame. So I put my phone down and I

21:44

looked at the window for a little while and then eventually

21:46

I looked at my phone again, but you get what I'm

21:48

saying. I'm trying to live in the moment. Got

21:52

there and it

21:55

turned out that Wendy's

21:57

heart was a lot worse

22:00

than we realized which sounds silly because of

22:02

course we realized her heart was pretty bad

22:05

that's why we're here but it

22:07

was like the doctor there

22:09

said that Wendy could go into heart

22:11

failure like any second she was worried

22:13

about her going into heart failure before

22:15

the surgery in a few days because

22:18

if she was in active heart failure

22:20

she wouldn't be able to have the

22:22

surgery but she'd

22:25

be able to have it at a later date but that I

22:27

was just like oh there's no way we are turning

22:30

around without her having the surgery

22:32

and she asked me if I had

22:35

any experience giving shots now this is

22:37

where I shine yeah you're

22:39

good at giving shots that's for sure well I've

22:42

given so many shots to myself during

22:44

IVF so she gave me three syringes

22:46

of medicine to give to Wendy if

22:49

well to give her one but two in

22:51

case I mess up if she goes into

22:53

heart failure they up she's on a heart

22:56

medication they upped the frequency of that they

22:58

added a diuretic I had an

23:00

alarm on my phone I was giving her from

23:03

that point forward we couldn't really do much because

23:05

I was giving her medicine four times a day

23:07

and it just felt

23:09

very sad and scary

23:12

and like they showed us

23:14

an x-ray x-ray ultra I

23:16

don't know her heart it was like a

23:18

video they said her well but that was

23:20

the echocardi that was the Doppler thing where

23:22

it showed us the regurgitation of blood but

23:24

no I just mean it must have been

23:26

an x-ray where we just saw how huge

23:28

her heart was her heart was like I

23:32

don't know it's like pressing against her like

23:34

windpipe and like almost cutting

23:36

her air off her heart was just

23:38

huge and then also I love

23:44

our cardiologist in

23:47

America our dog cardiologist however

23:49

the clinic here and I

23:51

think that different countries do it different ways

23:54

Japan probably does it the best if

23:56

it were up to them she would have been on more medicine

24:00

and different medicine as well. So then it

24:02

made me, and for

24:04

some reason I just, and you guys have listened to me long

24:06

enough to know, I hate the feeling

24:09

of doubting someone

24:11

that I put my trust in. And

24:14

so I hate this feeling of like,

24:16

oh God, could things have been different

24:18

if we had had someone different advising

24:20

us or prescribing? That being said, like

24:22

I love our cardiologist, but I, whatever,

24:25

for whatever reason, she

24:27

should have been on more meds. Because

24:30

what she was on wasn't controlling it. But so

24:32

anyway, there was no reason

24:34

she couldn't have the surgery though, as long as she

24:36

didn't go into heart failure. So I

24:39

just didn't realize how precarious it all

24:41

was. It just felt very precarious. Yeah,

24:45

it was definitely, it was

24:47

definitely a nervous few

24:49

days, and then she had her surgery, and that was,

24:51

it was

24:54

good to go to Shibuya because it

24:56

was incredibly distracting. Yeah. And

25:00

then, and then

25:03

the recovery was harrowing a little bit, because

25:05

then, you know. Let's tell them about, okay,

25:09

so we got there at 8 a.m. with

25:11

old Wendy. They didn't take her

25:14

in until like 11.30, I think? Is

25:17

this the more interesting thing, telling them

25:19

about that or talking about Japan? Talking

25:21

about, well, okay fine. Because you've shared

25:24

a lot of this with

25:26

your whatever your patrons. Right?

25:30

No, I haven't done a Patreon episode for Japan yet. Oh, okay,

25:33

all right, all right. Tuck

25:35

in for me to repeat this, guys. Sorry.

25:38

So they took her back at like 11, and

25:45

then they said to come back at 3.30.

25:50

And that's when the doctor would talk to us

25:53

around then. We

25:56

got back at 3, and they didn't

25:58

call us. They didn't. talk to

26:00

us until five. So the whole time I'm just like,

26:02

what did she dies in surgery? What did she does

26:04

in surgery? What if she does in her surgery? And

26:06

then I'm thinking like, well, I think if something bad's

26:08

gonna happen, it would happen at the beginning. I mean,

26:11

I'm just doing all this extra thinking

26:13

that isn't tied to reality. Like I think if

26:15

something bad's gonna happen, then it would happen at

26:17

the beginning. And I'm like, or it would happen

26:19

at the end when they take her off of

26:21

bypass. If they can't get her

26:23

heart started again. At one point, we did ask.

26:26

And now we're communicating with someone who works

26:28

the hospital because there's one person who speaks

26:30

English there. So we're communicating with her via

26:32

Google Translate. And she holds up her phone

26:34

and it says it'll take one more hour.

26:37

And then we both have this look of like,

26:39

uh, on our face. And then she writes, everything's

26:41

going well. And that was a huge relief. So

26:43

anyway, we will get to the Japan part, I

26:45

just want to say, so all of

26:48

a sudden they came, they're like for Wendy, and they call us

26:50

back and they take us into this hallway,

26:53

where you can see into the

26:55

surgery rooms, which are enclosed in

26:57

glass. Three

27:00

Japanese people working like, like

27:03

kind of over. And

27:05

you just see this little patch of fur.

27:07

And it was the most surreal thing of

27:09

like, Oh my God,

27:12

that's Wendy. That's Wendy

27:14

on the table. Like they literally, they

27:17

stopped her heart to do the surgery like

27:19

they choose on bypass, they bypass her heart,

27:21

you know, they, her blood goes through this

27:24

machine that oxygenates it and puts it back

27:26

into her body. They stop her heart, they

27:28

do this surgery on the heart. And

27:31

then they start it back up again. And they

27:34

so her up. It's the craziest thing. I mean, like,

27:36

I know that they've been doing open heart

27:39

surgery for, you know,

27:41

a long time, right? On

27:43

people or whatever. But

27:45

it's still miraculous that that's even possible. I

27:48

know they don't do it as much on people right now.

27:50

They have more different ways

27:52

of going in and doing surgeries. But

27:55

like, just seeing, I don't

27:57

know, it was wild. What

27:59

was your? For me,

28:01

the sort of out of this

28:03

body, like otherworldly surreal aspect though of

28:06

just being like, oh, that's like

28:09

just seeing that tuft of fur because her body

28:11

was draped. So there's just a little section you

28:13

could see, but just like, oh my God, that's

28:15

her. She's unconscious on the

28:17

table there. It's weird.

28:20

And it's also, I think about it from her perspective.

28:23

You think she has one? Well, just like

28:25

how confusing this whole thing must be. Just

28:27

like, you know, she's

28:29

on a plane and what's going on and

28:31

I'm here and then all of

28:34

a sudden she's taken away and you

28:37

know, like for her

28:39

experience, she probably just like she passes out, wakes up

28:41

and she's just in this box

28:43

and she feels weird and everything's weird

28:46

and it's just weird.

28:48

I don't know. Obviously.

28:50

So they were happy with how the

28:53

surgery went though, which

28:55

was a huge relief. So we

28:57

came home, felt good about everything.

29:00

And then I, so they use, there's this app they

29:02

use to communicate with you. So

29:05

in the morning I got a message saying that

29:07

she was stable through the night, but

29:10

she's developed ventricular

29:13

arrhythmias, tachycardia, and

29:17

her muscle contractions are weak. That's

29:21

from the surgery and because of how, because

29:23

of how dilated her heart was. So

29:26

they're giving her anti arrhythmia

29:28

medication. They're giving her all

29:31

this medication, but I

29:33

just felt like all of this is a bad sign

29:36

and I said, is this worrisome? And

29:39

she wrote back, yes, that's why we're starting

29:42

treatment, which wasn't the reassuring message

29:44

I hoped it would be. And

29:47

then I said, is

29:50

this common? And she said, yes, we see

29:52

it commonly and kind of explained that like,

29:54

if the arrhythmia continues, it can lead to

29:56

fainting or collapse. In worst case, the

29:59

heart can stop. And

30:02

that was a very upsetting series

30:04

of messages. But then the

30:07

next day, her arrhythmias

30:09

had gotten, or no,

30:11

later that day, she had responded to

30:13

the medication and she was getting better.

30:16

And the next day,

30:18

her arrhythmia, arrhythmia, arrhythmia was lessened.

30:20

So they switched to oral medication

30:22

from injectable medication. And then today,

30:24

she's much closer to normal. And

30:26

they're saying we could even visit

30:28

her tomorrow because we couldn't visit

30:30

her up till now because if

30:32

she gets excited, that makes it

30:34

worse. So she has to stay

30:36

very calm. But the message

30:38

today was that she's eating well. She's like almost

30:41

back to normal. She's eating well and she's barking

30:43

when bored. It's like,

30:45

okay, she's back to herself. Our

30:47

Wendy's back. So yeah,

30:50

it's been, that

30:52

part of this trip has been pretty

30:54

weird and interesting.

30:58

I definitely feel like Japanese people,

31:01

for the most part, do things kind of

31:04

better than others. There's like

31:06

a pride, there's a cultural

31:08

sort of thing in Japan where people

31:10

take pride

31:12

in the work they do, no

31:14

matter what job it is. That's

31:17

not to say that there aren't Japanese

31:19

people who don't, but like, you

31:21

know, for the most part, like if you

31:23

go to McDonald's here, they

31:26

are putting their best

31:28

effort into it and they're happy

31:30

and it's a good experience dealing

31:33

with someone who works at that

31:35

McDonald's. It's

31:39

really nice to live, to be in a

31:41

society like that. Well, it's sort of interesting.

31:43

I was, okay, so I

31:45

know where I'm jumping around, but I posted

31:48

something on Instagram today saying that

31:50

I know so many people who love

31:52

Japan and I, like,

31:54

where should I go or what should I see to have,

31:57

so that I can love it like you do, because I

32:00

like it. it, but I don't love it because that's I

32:02

like it, but I don't love it yet. This is not

32:04

my favorite place on earth. Granted, we're here for sort of

32:07

less than like super fun

32:09

reasons. But I just

32:11

feel like I haven't experienced the

32:13

Japan that no rope Tony loves,

32:15

etc. So someone put me in contact

32:17

with this American guy who lives here. And then

32:21

he said, Do you know what to

32:23

Tommy? Tada, to talk to Tommy is

32:25

do you know this Daniel T

32:27

A T E M A E. Wait,

32:32

say T A T. What?

32:34

M A A E. To

32:36

Tommy. Well, do you know that?

32:38

Okay, he said, it's key to

32:40

not only understanding but also navigating

32:43

Japanese society and making the best

32:45

relationships. He thought

32:47

I was moving here though. So then but

32:49

still, he said, in a

32:52

nutshell, in order to keep the society in

32:55

harmony and out of conflict, everyone has raised

32:57

their whole lives to keep their true feelings

32:59

inside only to be revealed to close friends

33:01

and family. When we interact with people in

33:04

public daily life, we are mindful to be

33:06

proper, courteous, etc. It's the glue that holds

33:08

this place together. I'm not saying all the

33:10

friendliness is fake. But I am saying we

33:13

have to be friendly. But if you're just

33:15

here two weeks, it's nothing you really need

33:17

to consider. I was just thinking about that.

33:20

I was thinking how interesting it is. It's

33:22

so, so fundamentally

33:25

opposite from

33:27

American individual

33:34

sharing everything, charting

33:37

your well,

33:39

everything I do even like it's

33:41

just so different than American individual

33:43

culture. That

33:45

aspect of it, yes. I have

33:48

heard of that. I didn't

33:50

know the word

33:52

for it. It's good and

33:57

bad. Because

34:01

on the one hand, yes, he's

34:04

right. It does create a very

34:06

cohesive, friendly, everybody is... Everyone

34:09

is super safe and super polite here.

34:12

But there's this respect-based

34:17

culture that everyone adheres to. And

34:19

you can imagine how

34:22

that makes everything really smooth. On

34:25

the other hand, and this isn't something

34:27

we have to deal with. But

34:29

if we lived here and worked here, it would

34:33

drive us crazy because it creates

34:36

a passive-aggressive... Yeah. Nobody

34:39

is direct. It's a part

34:41

of... I've

34:44

learned about Japan is you

34:46

end up having to develop the skill of

34:49

understanding what someone's

34:52

really trying to communicate when they're not

34:54

communicating it in any kind of direct

34:57

way. I learned that in my family.

34:59

Yeah. And so it's like I and

35:01

I personally, that's why I know I could never live

35:03

in Japan. I do love

35:05

Japan and I love the Japanese people.

35:07

I love this culture, but I could

35:10

never live here. It would be too

35:12

suffocating for me and I don't do

35:15

well with passive-aggressiveness. It's

35:18

just I'm just too Western. You'd

35:22

have to have those night movers disappear

35:24

you. Okay. I don't know if this

35:26

is true. I saw this on TikTok.

35:28

However, an American who

35:30

lives here now was talking about, quote

35:32

unquote, the night movers. So

35:35

if someone needs

35:37

to disappear from their life because

35:40

let's say they experience bankruptcy

35:43

or something where they have a lot of shame

35:45

around it, they'll hire these night... I don't know

35:47

if it's like specific people that do

35:49

it or I don't know exactly if it's a

35:51

company or how it works, but they'll hire

35:54

these night movers who come and they

35:57

relocate you in the middle of a... the

36:00

night, not even

36:02

your friends or family will have any idea where

36:04

you went. Oftentimes you'll just be regarded as a

36:06

missing person and they just send you to some

36:08

other part of Japan. It's like a, it's like

36:10

a witness relocation. Yes. So

36:12

weird. I, you'd have to do that. Well, I think

36:15

that by the way, I think that's brilliant because I

36:17

was thinking like, God forbid, if

36:19

one of our boys became really

36:21

suicidal, I would much

36:23

prefer they, they

36:25

have that option. Oh,

36:29

relocate, disappearing and re-locating. I'm just going like, I'm going

36:31

to then, you know, it's

36:33

just, okay, good. At

36:35

least I know you're somewhere and

36:37

you're happy. Like, I dunno, but

36:39

God, that's dark. But you wouldn't know that

36:41

though. You'd think that they just are missing. Yeah.

36:45

And then not knowing what drives you crazy. But even

36:47

knowing that that's an option would give you hope.

36:51

I dunno. Elliot and

36:53

Owen, one day, if you're sad and

36:55

you're hearing this, call me.

36:58

But also it gets better

37:00

and also get help. Reach,

37:03

reach out, please. Tomorrow's a new

37:05

day. Don't let the night movers

37:07

disappear you. Sounds

37:10

like an 80s movie. But anyway, on

37:12

a, on a more like happy note, I

37:17

think just, and we get it. I don't know

37:19

if you're going to release the stuff

37:21

we just recorded earlier, but we

37:24

did get into this. Yeah. But so

37:26

I'll just make it quick in case you do. No, I feel

37:28

like that should not see the light. Okay.

37:31

Well, my, my point to you then

37:33

and is again, that we're,

37:36

we are not doing an experience

37:38

like we

37:41

have come here with a purpose, which

37:43

is this surgery, everything that

37:46

our whole, like where we're staying and what we're

37:48

doing is sort of like constrained by that. And

37:52

so it's not designed to be the kind

37:54

of trip where you experience

37:58

Japan in a way. that

38:00

I feel guilty because

38:02

this is this amazing

38:04

once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to visit

38:07

a foreign country that's

38:09

very foreign and very

38:11

different than Burbank

38:15

and yet I don't and

38:17

some of this is because I'm very

38:19

online and I see what other people's trips to

38:22

Japan look like I just feel

38:24

like I'm having trouble getting into them the

38:27

but you wouldn't do it you would not

38:29

do it this way at all if that's

38:31

what yeah like headspace the mind space why

38:33

am I having I can't even think of

38:35

the word I'm having trouble getting into the

38:39

head I'm having trouble wanting

38:42

to have that kind of trip and I

38:44

don't know if it's because I'm concerned about

38:46

money and I am

38:48

I think having some endometriosis flares

38:50

and I'm worried about Wendy and

38:52

I'm just like I'm

38:54

just not feeling super

38:57

adventurous but like sand

39:00

is passing through the hourglass we don't have that much more

39:02

time here so there's

39:04

the part that's you and then there's the

39:06

part that's the trip so there's the part

39:08

that's like yes you're worried

39:10

and anxious and it's comfortable you're uncomfortable

39:12

and you're not open and so therefore

39:16

the kinds of the kind of mindset you'd want

39:18

to be in you're not in it right um

39:21

and then there's the fact that it'd be like if

39:23

someone were to come from another country

39:25

and visit California and they're gonna

39:27

stay in Century City yeah you

39:30

know and it's like there's a mall there

39:32

yeah I mean there's stuff there and it's

39:34

like yes you could go to a nice

39:37

restaurant in that mall and

39:39

you could but it's a business district Houston's

39:41

yeah you go to Houston's whatever you

39:44

could even go to Beverly Hills but it's just

39:46

not like gonna

39:48

be that's not what you would design

39:51

for somebody if you're gonna be like you're gonna

39:53

fall a little bit sanitized if you want to

39:55

fall in love with California that is not what

39:57

I would write how I would design it yokaha

40:00

is very much like Century City. And

40:04

we are constrained by the fact that we

40:06

have stuff to do with Wendy and we

40:08

have two children and we just

40:10

can't go out at night. We can't go

40:12

wander the streets of Tokyo at night and

40:15

walk into a bar or go up to

40:17

the second floor of some alleyway and find

40:19

this little sushi place. And you know, all

40:21

those magical things. And then also like we're

40:23

here in the worst two months of the

40:26

year. It's so fucking hot and humid. If

40:29

you were there during Sakura season where they

40:31

have all the cherry blossoms and it's like

40:33

we were in Kyoto or one

40:36

of these beautiful like cities outside

40:38

of Tokyo. I

40:40

mean, just like there's so many

40:43

ways you could experience this country

40:46

that would have you fall in love with it. And

40:48

we're not doing anything like that. Now that- You

40:51

know they come out

40:53

with planes that go faster. Or

40:57

are we stuck at like Delta

40:59

cruising? You

41:02

mean could we get to Japan quicker? Yeah, because

41:05

I'm thinking, listen, who's to

41:07

say we'll never ever

41:09

make money again? Well, I would say this. It

41:11

seems bleak, but someday we might come into money

41:13

and we can come back. That flight did

41:16

not feel nearly as long

41:18

as it was to me. I was

41:20

prepared for like, no, this is

41:22

just for me. I don't

41:25

know what I was like. When you tell

41:27

me 11 and a half hours, I'm like,

41:29

okay, fucking hell, that is a long. But

41:31

maybe because my expectations were one

41:34

thing, it was like, oh, that was

41:36

it. Actually, it

41:38

didn't feel that much longer than like

41:40

a five or six hour flight. Yeah,

41:43

like I could totally do that flight.

41:46

The flight was not prohibitive for me. Especially if

41:48

we, and no offense, but if we don't have

41:50

to bring Wendy. If we

41:52

were our kids, like

41:55

one of our kids refuses to walk. Have

41:58

you ever, I don't know if anyone out there. has seen the Mr.

42:01

Show sketch where David

42:04

plays a kid. They're doing a fundraiser

42:06

for a kid whose disability is that

42:09

he's just lazy. And he's just, that's

42:11

it. He has nothing wrong with him.

42:13

He just doesn't want to not sit.

42:15

That's all. So we have

42:17

like, you know, it's just,

42:23

this is a city where you

42:27

want to come here without kids. There

42:29

is Tokyo Disneyland. We went

42:31

to it how I could do a whole episode

42:33

about it. Uh, but

42:36

it's, I would not say that this

42:38

is a city where you go with kids. I would say this

42:40

is a city you go when you're, you're a

42:42

couple either not married

42:45

or, or newly married without kids.

42:47

And then it's like amazing. Or

42:50

with your friends. Like, because I think

42:52

it's just like, I don't know, it's

42:54

a city for young adults, in

42:56

my opinion. You know, I wasn't, I

42:59

didn't, the first time I went out of the country, I was 19

43:02

and I was saying that to Elliott. I was saying, I didn't leave

43:04

the country until I was 19. You're seven

43:06

and you've left the country. And want to

43:08

know what he said? Is he

43:11

jaded? What did he say? What do you mean? Um,

43:17

then I explained it a few times and then I

43:19

think he eventually got it. We've got, sorry, we've gone

43:21

out and done things without Owen who's five. And I'm

43:24

like, up for

43:26

a second, I'll feel guilty. And then I'm like, he's

43:28

not going to remember

43:31

anything. We're not robbing. We're

43:33

not robbing him of any memories right

43:35

now. But I think Daniel's mom's

43:37

here too. Uh, we don't

43:39

just leave him at that. Um,

43:43

I think they'll both remember stuff, but I also

43:45

think the Lego store, they'll remember

43:47

the Lego store in the mall and they

43:49

love it. Owen's willing to walk for that

43:52

barely. He's like, my feet

43:54

got tired. Well, he's got

43:57

little feet. And

44:01

it's hot as fuck man. It's really really hot.

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44:57

we had I had intended to really

44:59

go through a lot more and tell

45:01

a lot more We have about what

45:03

we've done. We've got the future ahead

45:05

of us. Yeah, we but we do

45:07

have a snack chat So

45:10

let's do that Does

45:23

that sound that you're hearing They

45:26

have a Kit Kat Yeah

45:30

One of the things you got to do Come

45:32

to Japan is trial the different kinds of

45:34

Kit Kats and so we've had here We

45:36

are doing that for you sitting here and

45:39

Daniel wouldn't let me try them I

45:42

did anyway. Yeah, but only one or two.

45:45

Let's see. I'm gathering all

45:47

of them Okay, so

45:49

there's oh Wow,

45:52

there's a lot so many You

45:57

know, oh cuz these well,

45:59

you know We can share them. There's

46:01

two little tickets in each of them. You know what? Why don't

46:03

we just share them? Yeah, okay. So

46:06

there's melon ruby matcha milk

46:08

cotton candy taste Yuzu

46:11

strawberry and bitter. There's also a white

46:13

do we not have white? There's

46:16

only one white that's the one I ate. Okay,

46:18

it was good. What would you like

46:20

to start with Daniel? Whichever

46:23

let's start with Yuzu What

46:26

is you do is it just orange it looks

46:28

like orange I thought that you knew

46:30

it's a kind of orange. I don't know a

46:32

Yuzu orange. Okay, so Here

46:35

you go. All right, so we're each

46:37

taking one. It's got a white on the outside

46:41

The nose is sort of a white

46:43

chocolatey nose You

46:47

have sour like sour Orange

46:50

interesting. Oh, yeah, that's really good. It's almost

46:52

like a yogurt II Yeah

46:54

flavor That's

46:59

really good we have been I like

47:01

that one I started Ellie

47:05

was complaining about something To

47:09

be fair, I also didn't enjoy the restaurant we were at

47:11

but I said to him why don't you

47:13

give it a rating? Why don't we give things everything? This is the Yakuatori

47:17

restaurant. Okay, um But

47:20

you didn't like it cuz you okay cuz what you don't have

47:23

it a hugely adventurous palette Like

47:28

one of the didn't eat anything adventurous there. Well,

47:31

there was an eel omelet. Oh, yeah I don't

47:33

know. I don't know. Well, I don't like

47:35

the way eel looks listen. He was delicious I

47:37

won't eat gummy worms cuz they're worm shaped. I've got

47:39

a thing about eels and worms and things. This place

47:41

was good It

47:43

was fine. It was good. It was actually good Fine

47:47

this is better than

47:49

fine, but go ahead. Well, how many Daniels did you give

47:52

it? I give it four Daniels I think

47:54

Elliott ended up giving it

47:56

three Elliott's and I gave it three Alison's

48:01

no, I think Elliot gave it for

48:03

Elliot's Elliot is inflating his rating anyway

48:05

Well, that's not my problem take a minute daily

48:07

Elliot How many users do you give this you

48:10

do because I'm gonna give it a 4.5 That

48:13

was pretty good like if that were a

48:15

standard flavored KitKat it it would be a

48:17

KitKat I would buy frequently Yeah, okay. What

48:20

do you want? Where do you want to

48:22

go next? I'm really curious what Ruby is

48:25

Okay, let's try it But

48:27

I will say I've had the normal KitKats here

48:29

and they're better than the KitKats at home Like

48:31

I feel like the KitKat factory KitKats

48:34

is managed by a whole different folks here.

48:36

It's like a different formula. Okay. All right,

48:38

which one is this? This is Ruby Ruby,

48:41

what does that mean? Is that just Ruby chocolate?

48:43

I think this is Ruby chocolate Oh Ruby chocolate

48:45

is a thing, isn't it? Yeah Yeah,

48:51

it just tastes like KitKat Little

48:55

sour. Ruby chocolate has a tiny

48:57

bit of a tang a

48:59

tartness to it It's

49:01

a pretty good too. It's good. That's really good I

49:09

give that four. Would you smash

49:12

it? I'd

49:14

fuck with that. Yeah, I would too. That

49:16

was really good No,

49:18

you know what? I'm sorry That

49:21

last bite had like a it took

49:24

a turn, you know, I gotta say

49:26

those are better than normal KitKats Now

49:30

but you had like a regular KitKat

49:32

earlier here and you said that was

49:34

that was also better than it was

49:36

okay Let's

49:40

try the melon melon because

49:42

I think that one's gonna go the other way. I think I'm gonna

49:44

like it there was a Some

49:47

gummies they had when they were earlier

49:49

the boys and there was a melon flavor that was pretty

49:51

I didn't like that Okay, here we go. Smells smells

49:54

like oh, yeah, you can

49:56

smell that smells like glass smells like cantaloupe

50:02

Oh yeah, I like this. Very

50:09

Melanie, very. I

50:12

never thought of the girl's name Melanie like

50:14

Melanie. Like Melanie is

50:17

Melanie. Yeah, like that

50:20

lady's cantaloupe ask. Like

50:22

she has big boobs like she's Melanie. Melanie

50:25

is Melanie. So

50:29

this is good although I wouldn't eat it again. I

50:31

would, I'm giving that a 4.5. Can

50:34

I share with the audience what I had

50:36

yesterday that was delicious? Please

50:39

be my guest. At Tokyo

50:41

Disneyland I had a

50:45

hot dog. So

50:47

they instead of chili they

50:49

had curry. Many

50:53

people don't know this but

50:56

Japan is crazy about curry. And

51:00

Japanese curry is amazing. It's

51:03

really really good and if you live in LA

51:06

there is a great Japanese

51:08

curry place that I think is a, I

51:10

think might be a chain that started in

51:12

Japan. So it's very authentic. That

51:16

is on Satell. It's

51:19

like a block, I would say it's a block north

51:22

of Olympic so check that out. But

51:25

anyway they had curry instead of chili on this hot

51:28

dog and can I tell you so

51:31

much better than a chili

51:33

dog but the same vibe. It

51:37

like, you kind of

51:39

feel, it feels like

51:41

you're having a chili dog but it's sweeter.

51:45

It's oh my god it was so good. So anyway just

51:49

saying like everything's just like a little bit better

51:51

here. All the things are just

51:53

a little improvements. Yeah I had a cheese dog which

51:56

is a hot dog with cheese on top of it.

51:58

None of us were like, I

52:00

really want a hot dog. It's just it was late.

52:02

And it's all there was a lot of food options.

52:04

That's for our Tokyo Disneyland episode. Can

52:06

I tell you, I just checked my phone. Bad

52:10

news? No, it's not bad news. Well, no,

52:13

it's not about Wendy. I

52:17

was looking at my sub stack

52:19

settings today and

52:21

because I wanted to find a thing where

52:23

it like double like where

52:26

it's shoot someone an email saying, you

52:28

signed up for this. Did you mean to

52:31

sign up for it? Initially, I had didn't

52:33

have that enabled. However, I feel like I'm

52:35

getting some spams people signing up for it.

52:37

I'm not sure. Excuse

52:40

me, not at the paid level at the free level, so I want

52:42

to like make sure that. People

52:45

are intentionally signing up for it. But

52:48

anyway, one another option is you can have

52:51

it send you an email when

52:53

someone signs up. So I have like I get

52:55

emails when people sign up at the

52:57

paid level. But

53:00

then you can have it send you an email

53:02

when someone unsubscribes. And I didn't

53:04

have that enabled because I usually figure

53:06

like go with God. But I decided

53:09

to enable that when a paid subscriber

53:11

unsubscribes. And I just got my first

53:13

one. And now I'm like, well, why

53:15

turn that off? Turn it on. Subscribe. Now you're

53:17

going to be miserable all the time. It's called

53:19

churn, honey. In any subscription based anything, there's going

53:21

to be people that unsubscribe. People subscribe. I just

53:23

kind of want to be on top of it

53:25

because sometimes I'll log in and I'll be like,

53:27

oh, like the number went down to this or

53:29

it's up to this or whatever I want to

53:31

be more aware of it. But yeah, I don't

53:33

need to know. It's going to make you feel

53:35

bad. Just turn it off. I know. And it

53:37

interrupted an otherwise wonderful story

53:39

of a curry dog. Yeah,

53:42

look, if you can't afford to subscribe,

53:44

I don't like unsubscribe. It's fine. But

53:48

if you can't afford it and you want it, then

53:50

that's right. Say the reason they unsubscribe. And that's not

53:52

in the email. So now I don't want. It's

53:55

it's I know. I unsubscribe from

53:57

things all the time. It's fine. No shame. What

53:59

should we try? Yeah. I don't know. Which

54:02

one do you think looks good? Well,

54:05

let's try cotton candy taste. OK.

54:07

It's like their person

54:09

who translates it into English wasn't there that day

54:12

because it could just be cotton candy. Oh, is

54:14

that what it says? Cotton candy taste? Yes. Oh,

54:16

God. The the nose on

54:18

this. I want to say like

54:20

I have not seen as much mangled English as I was hoping

54:22

for. All right. Here we go. It's

54:25

blue. I the color alone. OK.

54:27

Light blue. Pink

54:29

inside. No. It's

54:33

OK. Oh,

54:36

it's like coconut flavored almost coconut

54:39

taste. This

54:43

is this is hard to swallow. Emotionally

54:47

for me. That's good.

54:49

I think it's good. It's not my favorite. I'm

54:52

going to give it three. OK. Strawberry.

54:56

Yeah, that's it. So

54:59

far, what's your favorite? Probably

55:03

the. What

55:05

was the second one we had? Ruby. Probably

55:08

the use the use the

55:10

cantaloupe was the second. No, yeah.

55:13

Yuzu is my favorite, too, or melon. All right.

55:15

OK, so this is strawberry. They

55:24

have no flavor or have I got covered? That's

55:26

what I was thinking. What do it? Barely

55:30

any flavor. Very

55:33

subtle. Comes

55:36

on a little at the end. Yeah. But not what I would want

55:39

from a strawberry. Good,

55:42

but not nearly what it could be very like not

55:44

living up to its potential. It

55:47

almost seems like a breakfast bar that strawberry flavored.

55:49

Speaking of foods that don't live up to their

55:51

potential. We

55:54

saw copy bars today. Are

55:56

you the get of owls that way? Yeah. Copy

55:59

bars. We went to a petting zoo and

56:01

there were capybaras and they were all there

56:04

a bunch of them were lounging in bathtub

56:06

How when you think capybara how big do

56:08

you think because I think? Miniature

56:12

poodle size, but these things were

56:14

like Labrador. They're probably like 80

56:16

bigger than Labradors Well, maybe

56:19

not like a size of like

56:21

a mini horse. That's not that small a

56:23

pig like one of those Mini

56:25

ponies like what like what

56:27

Lisa Vanderpump has? They were

56:29

almost that big like how much do you think one of them

56:31

weighs like a hundred pounds? Oh easy Sure,

56:37

they're big motherfuckers. They're

56:39

cute though. They're very cute. And then we

56:42

were just thinking about how Al ate one in

56:44

Uruguay He's such

56:46

a monster That's

56:48

what I don't know about Al is a monster. Okay,

56:50

we got white bitter matcha and milk left your choice

56:55

Let's do better just to spice things up

56:59

Oh, we have casis also Okay,

57:03

I'm not a fan of bittersweet chocolate

57:06

It reminds me of um, the baker's

57:09

chocolate that I ate smells like baker's

57:11

chocolate. Yeah Fine

57:17

it's very baker's chocolatey I Like

57:22

it but oh Actually,

57:27

it's pretty good needs have a packet of trivia. Yeah, that's

57:31

pretty good No

57:36

That gets one Allison how long

57:39

until Kit Kat decides

57:42

to do the shit in America Have

57:47

all these flavors like what's stopping them? Why

57:49

do they only do it? I don't know Clearly

57:53

there's interest is it just like you have

57:55

to have such a broad market that you

57:57

can't you have to simplify everything I remember

58:01

Do they sell all these flavors in stores

58:03

here or are they just in the store?

58:05

I'm sorry. I hate that bittersweet one I

58:09

don't know but like look let's

58:11

just move on. Okay. Why?

58:16

Well, I'm just wondering is it because you have to with

58:19

something like KitKat You

58:21

have to appeal to so many people that you can't

58:23

have as many options It's like I

58:25

remember that when I was in film school. There's

58:27

this producer who was explaining why movies

58:31

There aren't more interesting movies coming

58:33

out of Hollywood and he's cut. He's the analogy

58:35

he used was You

58:38

know, okay, we're all of us in

58:40

this class like we ought to agree on an

58:43

ice cream flavor You

58:45

know, we all had to agree on one, you know,

58:47

like half

58:50

the time you maybe have chocolate

58:52

and half the time you'd have vanilla and maybe

58:55

one out of every Ten

58:57

times maybe you could come up with something

58:59

a little bit outside the box but but

59:02

when you're appealing to so many people there's

59:04

just your the the

59:06

the You can't go far

59:09

outside of that right like right the

59:11

average and that's what so that's why

59:13

you have fewer choices but in

59:15

a place like Japan where

59:19

You've got fewer people Or

59:22

maybe it's because it's more of a homogeneous

59:24

society. So They're candy there

59:27

can be more variety, you know, like I

59:29

don't know there's probably some sociological reason for

59:31

it Alright, listen, I don't think I

59:33

have what it takes to finish

59:35

out the round. You're gonna finish

59:37

the casis I tried that the

59:40

other day and it wasn't that good. Well, that's why we're gonna do it.

59:42

No, no, no I don't want to

59:44

eat that one. No, but that's why we're doing it. Oh

59:46

and we're gonna save milk Oh,

59:49

do you want to save it for another show?

59:51

That's what I was thinking. Yeah, sure. Okay. Okay.

59:53

So then let's do milk Let's do

59:55

milk. Let's just see. Oh, I

59:57

thought you were done. Okay. No, I'm saying I've got

59:59

one more and me. Oh, listen, Elliot wanted to be

1:00:01

part of this and he's going to be very upset

1:00:04

when he finds out that we did this out himself.

1:00:06

Well, that's why I bought so many of these so

1:00:08

that he can. Oh, well, I wish

1:00:10

we. OK, poor planning. All right.

1:00:12

So this is this should be just a regular

1:00:14

kick out. This

1:00:19

is basic ass. Yeah, it's

1:00:21

good. But

1:00:25

it's just a kick out. But

1:00:28

good. Yeah, it's good. Listen, a

1:00:30

regular kick out is good. It's

1:00:34

a good candy. This kind of brought me back

1:00:36

in the game. What

1:00:40

do you want to do? No, I'm good. But

1:00:42

that's how much I didn't like the bittersweet

1:00:44

one that it made me

1:00:46

lose my taste for kick. You don't

1:00:48

like that. No,

1:00:51

that like water, dark chocolate can suck a

1:00:53

dick. There's

1:00:56

so much you guys like hearing me suck the

1:00:58

chocolate out of my teeth. There's so much what

1:01:01

more we could talk about, but we'll just have

1:01:03

to save those for future shows because

1:01:06

you give them just like a teaser of what

1:01:08

we could talk about. Well, besides

1:01:10

Tokyo, Disneyland, just thoughts about Japan. I

1:01:13

mean, like every day. It's

1:01:18

just it's

1:01:20

interesting. I got to say this

1:01:26

thing where six

1:01:29

months ago I sat down and I

1:01:31

was like, I

1:01:33

got to learn some Japanese because

1:01:38

we're if we're going to Japan and

1:01:42

I've heard they don't speak a lot of English there.

1:01:45

I don't want to be, you

1:01:47

know, plus it's like, you know, it felt

1:01:49

like this impenetrable language. The

1:01:52

fact that I can like go around and

1:01:55

talk to people, right? It's very impressive.

1:01:57

Like you conjugate on the fly. I

1:02:00

can talk to people in Japanese now, I'm not anywhere

1:02:04

near fluent, or conversational, frankly.

1:02:07

But it feels like... More than

1:02:09

I am. It's

1:02:11

like playing a video game or

1:02:13

something, where it's like... I

1:02:16

had this experience where I sat down at

1:02:18

this restaurant, kind of bar,

1:02:21

I was waiting for take-out. Excuse

1:02:23

me. And it's

1:02:27

like I was able

1:02:29

to assemble these sounds

1:02:32

together in a particular order, and

1:02:35

by uttering them in that order, I got a beer.

1:02:39

You know what I mean? Like, if you say this,

1:02:41

then this, then this, then this, a beer

1:02:43

arrives. What did you say? Say

1:02:45

it. Well, the first thing

1:02:48

I said, because I didn't know, I go, a bitu

1:02:51

wa rimasu ka? Which

1:02:54

is, do you have beer? And

1:02:56

he said, hey, and I go, a bitu kurusai,

1:02:58

bitu wa kurusai. What

1:03:01

does that mean? Can I have a beer?

1:03:04

It says, I'll have a beer. Well, you're saying

1:03:06

I have a beer, please. Technically, you're

1:03:08

saying beer, I'll have a beer.

1:03:15

Or give me beer. I think it's like give

1:03:17

me beer. But that sounds less

1:03:19

polite than it is. Kudusai is almost like please.

1:03:24

But that's very simple stuff. There have

1:03:26

been other times, I

1:03:29

don't know, it's just like really, you know, look.

1:03:33

I was in Japan when I was a kid, and it was

1:03:35

just, it was like

1:03:37

everything is gibberish. Everything

1:03:41

they say, all of the characters,

1:03:43

it's very scary because you're just like, I

1:03:47

don't understand anything that's happening. And

1:03:49

the fact that I can, I was

1:03:52

in the shower, and there's like this little sticker

1:03:55

on the door, and it's

1:03:57

all in Japanese, and I was just staring at

1:03:59

it. Now I couldn't. could not exactly, because

1:04:02

in Japanese there are these sort

1:04:05

of Chinese, there's like three different

1:04:07

alphabets really, and one of them, if you

1:04:09

don't know it, you just can't figure it

1:04:11

out, which is the kanji, which is like

1:04:13

these Chinese letters. So I had some

1:04:15

of those I didn't know, but I could look at it and I could

1:04:18

kind of like, I was

1:04:20

like, I wonder if I could

1:04:22

figure out what this means? And I was like, kind of looking at

1:04:24

it and I could understand enough of it. And

1:04:26

then I did the like, Google Lens

1:04:28

to see if I was right. And I

1:04:31

was, of course I wasn't exactly right. But

1:04:34

I was very much in

1:04:36

the ballpark. What

1:04:38

I thought it said was, be careful

1:04:42

because water can

1:04:44

leak out of the door and you

1:04:47

can, and it can be

1:04:49

a danger. So just like, it's sort of a warning

1:04:51

that when you're taking the shower, that

1:04:53

water can go out, it can leak. And

1:04:56

what it was saying is if specifically

1:04:59

what it was saying was if you

1:05:02

direct the

1:05:04

shower at the top of the

1:05:06

door, it'll leak out. So it

1:05:08

was giving more of a specific like how

1:05:10

it happens. But I was right that it

1:05:13

was warning you that the water that goes

1:05:15

out is a danger. Listen

1:05:17

folks, what I'm saying is I'm a genius. If you

1:05:21

take nothing else away from this, Daniel

1:05:25

speaks Japanese. I'm not trying

1:05:27

to see you now.

1:05:31

Listen, I am not, I am

1:05:33

not boasting. I am not good at

1:05:36

Japanese. I could, I cannot have a

1:05:38

conversation. I'm impressed. But it does feel

1:05:40

miraculous. It's that's

1:05:42

just how it feels. Folks, this is how

1:05:44

it feels. I was made

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to believe when I was a child by

1:05:49

Senor Brenna, a fucking demon

1:05:51

from hell that called

1:05:54

itself Senora Brenna, Brenna,

1:05:56

Senora Brenna. This

1:05:59

demon sent straight from hell. It

1:06:03

fucking labeled me not only as

1:06:05

a bad kid but as someone

1:06:09

who couldn't learn Spanish and

1:06:11

I had

1:06:14

decided I'm going to show you Senorobreina.

1:06:16

I'm going to teach you a fucking

1:06:19

lesson. I am never

1:06:21

gonna learn Spanish. I

1:06:23

am never gonna fuck you. I'm never

1:06:25

gonna learn it. You showed her. And

1:06:28

I internalized the idea that

1:06:30

I can't learn a language. So for me

1:06:32

personally to be able

1:06:34

to learn a language at all and

1:06:36

then for it to be such a

1:06:38

difficult language. Now

1:06:40

I will say this. When I

1:06:43

first got here and I first started

1:06:45

speaking some Japanese to people, I

1:06:48

very much I realized

1:06:50

expected the reaction to

1:06:52

me saying, arigato gozaimasu,

1:06:55

which is just thank you very much. I

1:06:58

expected the reaction to be one

1:07:00

of pure delight. And so funny

1:07:02

you're saying this. I shared this

1:07:04

on Allison and Todd after hours.

1:07:06

I said the exact same thing.

1:07:08

I said I want

1:07:10

like I expect them to

1:07:12

just be like oh

1:07:15

my god. You

1:07:19

are an amazing person to have

1:07:21

learned our language. And then like

1:07:23

confetti and everything. I

1:07:25

shared that I even said to you if

1:07:28

someone said to you hello with an accent.

1:07:32

I would not have a reaction. You

1:07:34

just be like oh they're just saying

1:07:36

hi to me. Well that's what I

1:07:38

realized. Yeah. Like Konnichiwa, Konbanwa. Like no

1:07:41

one's saying. They are not throwing confetti.

1:07:43

They're not even delighted. They just take

1:07:46

it in stride. Because to them it's just

1:07:48

hello. I

1:07:50

need more. Hello. I've learned how to

1:07:52

say it in your language is what

1:07:55

I really am trying to express. There

1:07:57

have been some interactions I've had where...

1:08:00

where I have

1:08:03

gotten a little bit more of the

1:08:05

reaction that I desire, but it's usually

1:08:07

when I have gone another step with

1:08:10

it. Wait, when have you had that reaction? Tell me about it. I

1:08:13

want to vicariously live through you. I can't remember exactly. I think

1:08:15

it's like when I've been

1:08:17

trying to like give

1:08:22

more complicated like food orders or

1:08:24

something or I

1:08:27

think when I was trying, there

1:08:29

was an art supply store we were trying to find

1:08:31

and I was like talking to the woman at the

1:08:33

information booth and like I think there's like

1:08:36

things like that where there's more of an interaction.

1:08:39

I'm like going a little deeper because I'm using

1:08:41

more, then there'll be a

1:08:43

little bit more like, okay, you

1:08:45

know, this is clear. Like they're not fooled. They

1:08:47

know that I don't speak the language. I'm not

1:08:49

like that good, but I

1:08:51

think for Japanese people, English

1:08:54

is just as hard as Japanese is for us.

1:08:57

And so I think there's an understanding that

1:08:59

it's not easy and an

1:09:01

appreciation that I'm giving it a try. It's

1:09:03

crazy to think though, the one doctor at

1:09:05

the clinic who speaks English, who,

1:09:08

you know, did the extremely long

1:09:10

and intense pre-op

1:09:12

appointment with us in

1:09:15

English, the level of detail

1:09:17

that she's able to articulate.

1:09:20

She's incredible. Yeah, crazy. She's,

1:09:23

yeah, I marvel at it. Like I feel

1:09:25

like if I lived in

1:09:27

Japan for 10 years, I

1:09:29

wouldn't be as fluent in Japanese as she

1:09:31

is in English. Right. But

1:09:36

anyway, we should get going. I

1:09:38

guess we should. My throat's hurting, get

1:09:40

itchy. I'm gonna start going on a coughing fit.

1:09:42

Oh no. Listen, you

1:09:44

guys, thank you so much for listening. I

1:09:47

hope you've enjoyed Daniel and me because you're

1:09:49

gonna get a bit more of us for

1:09:51

the next few episodes. I haven't exactly- Figured

1:09:55

it out. If you're not loving it, figure

1:09:57

out a way to start loving it. That's right. Dig

1:09:59

deep. Look inside. Let's

1:10:03

see. Yeah, so

1:10:05

again, Substack. Substack. Patreon.

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You know all my things.

1:10:14

Go find them. They're all

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YouTube. So with Jillian Gottlieb,

1:10:30

she's a ton of fun. So

1:10:32

go check that out, youtube.com/Alison Rosen.

1:10:34

Daniel, anything? For

1:10:37

me? That's right. I'm

1:10:40

back on X if you wanna follow me

1:10:42

there. Boy, is that a fucking hoot. A

1:10:45

hoot and a half. Hoot and a holler,

1:10:47

but yeah, whatever. Go

1:10:50

there. Thank you for

1:10:52

listening. I love you, you matter, goodbye. Hey,

1:10:56

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the Alison Rosen Show? We

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had a good time, but

1:11:06

now we gotta go. Yeah,

1:11:12

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