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Below. Welcome to the Abroad Japan podcast

1:24

Pro: The best way of learning about

1:26

life in Japan without actually being in

1:28

Japan. On Who's Cruise Broadway Join is

1:30

always more England's top dependencies. Yes! Mister

1:32

P, Dulce and Himself Pete How the

1:34

Devil or you did was go in

1:36

Oakland I'm good Chris I have very

1:38

much been enjoying a i had a

1:40

breezy couple of months last couple months

1:42

and of kind of been going back

1:44

and watching all of your room videos

1:46

and well I just what we are.

1:48

I just watch your previous video with

1:50

them Corner that was our A. Little while

1:52

ago cause you're kind of in this situation.

1:54

are on the a bridge on you tube channel

1:56

where you are trying to get videos together

1:58

to get them out. The about a bit

2:01

of a break up the site with a

2:03

Cylon. such a big undertaking you just waiting

2:05

to kind of get some bits and bobs

2:07

our at this moment in time. What what

2:09

can the people be expected? God this isn't

2:11

a and only Nelson Oil in a crowd

2:13

in a plant saying that a nice and

2:15

but the of he got anything. Tell us

2:18

about what's going to be appearing on the

2:20

You Tube channel. Donaldson Spoilers of us You

2:22

Go Air three videos being. Edited.

2:25

Tv. As being edited. And.

2:27

To being scripted. Three. Weeks

2:29

edited as love it isn't the pile on

2:31

to the to coming out. next are one

2:33

is a night live video not streets where

2:35

we talk about like night lights s get

2:37

in Japan one hundred and stuff and the

2:39

other bit and we've we've sort of went

2:41

to like in is a kayak, a bar

2:43

and a karaoke place to explain tips and

2:45

things as they get be really useful for

2:47

like in a foreign tourists come in Japan

2:49

to leave the first one hundred the is

2:51

so they were know what to do the

2:53

wrong thing do you don't want to do

2:55

the wrong said whenever I'm like really physically

2:58

sick or later the sushi countess. Etc.

3:00

that as I've done but like he I

3:02

think there's a lot of in a lot

3:04

you still confused when the auto she comes

3:06

out you know that like the little dish

3:08

me sit down they put a dish front

3:10

of you it's some noodles of cabbage or

3:12

something small. you have an order or a

3:14

towel a wet towel. I find that lot

3:16

as well. Times of chivalry here for other

3:19

people are confused by auto she the the

3:21

started desk as i audibly that was that

3:23

but often it's com the seating chart dry

3:25

and people like was a see in charge

3:27

five hundred yeah I didn't do. That births

3:29

and a lot of am. tourists.

3:32

come over the first time and they're

3:34

like doesn't scam draw but as just

3:36

a thing japan to try to this

3:38

a tipping culture the rest wants to

3:40

make sure they get their money's worth

3:42

out people coming in they charge you

3:44

more hundred yen began i feel dish

3:46

instead say things like that i can

3:48

we talk about and the second video

3:50

is that bow hiroshima slump in durham

3:52

smith's and like five or six years

3:54

and it's car to guide to stuff

3:56

to dates in hiroshima and i got

3:58

to stay a nice hotel on

4:01

the island of Miyajima with

4:03

a iconic Itsukushima shrine. So

4:06

yeah, two videos there and a few other ones

4:08

in the old pipeline that I'm working on. But

4:11

it's cool, it's cool. But

4:13

yeah, there's been no video for like a

4:15

month or so now and

4:18

I get a little bit like tense when there's

4:20

no videos coming out. What's

4:22

your biggest gap you've ever had in your

4:24

career? That's a good question actually. I

4:27

think it must have been around 2019-ish when

4:30

I just got so sick of doing

4:32

YouTube for a bit and I basically took a

4:35

month or two off. Yeah, it

4:37

must have been like, it must have been around

4:39

then but probably six weeks or

4:41

so. Seven weeks, eight weeks, I don't

4:43

know. I don't know, probably like two months, probably two months.

4:46

And the longer it happens, the more edgy you get

4:48

because you're kind of like, well the

4:50

people remember who I am. Well like, we'll

4:52

be algorithm. Well the algorithm remember. Well the

4:54

algorithm remember. That's the only one you got

4:57

to worry about. It is, yeah. But

4:59

usually people come back and all

5:02

is well. But

5:04

you get on the edgy of

5:06

sea. Do you ever do like

5:08

those shots things? YouTube shots. So

5:13

I had to sip my coffee. Sorry, I had to ask you that question

5:15

just as you were about to sip. You're sleeping the coffee, carry on. I've

5:19

been doing like Reels, Instagram Reels. There

5:21

was one Reel that went mega viral

5:25

and it's just like a five second shot

5:27

of me on a plane pointing the

5:29

camera out the window. And I got, to be fair,

5:31

it's an amazing shot. I took off from Haneda, I

5:34

was going to Hokkaido and the plane flew directly over

5:36

Tokyo and I got this incredible view

5:38

where we flew directly over the Skytree and

5:40

I panned the camera up slowly to show you

5:42

all of Tokyo culminating in the

5:44

beautiful majestic Mount Fuji in the distance

5:47

looming overhead. Really good shot. And I

5:49

got nine million views or something silly.

5:52

And I got like 30,000 followers off of

5:54

it on Instagram. So I was like, shit, I

5:56

need to do this more often. So

5:58

I've been doing more like... Rails length. I

6:01

don't really like a cheap shots and

6:03

people I see they should do is

6:05

you package videos dumps this is it.

6:07

May I don't. Really like during

6:10

short form content when this is not

6:12

my bread and butter so i enjoy

6:14

doing or this conversation because as he

6:16

was doing a lot shorts my page

6:18

want to his shorts on his channel

6:20

where we went and their eight and

6:22

british food and taking any get loss

6:24

of like see get some comments need

6:26

did you get an influx of subscribers

6:28

but that's when we suck a different

6:30

viewership on the cheap shots. it's always

6:32

like completely different cause a lot people

6:34

just want shorts and they don't watch

6:36

long form videos and I've seen in

6:38

dai. Ichi channels get millions of subscribers on

6:41

their shorts where their main videos get like

6:43

twenty thousand nice and at the end the

6:45

day fasting it just feels like you're creating

6:47

a brand built on sand. All it's just

6:50

like it. I I just don't see the

6:52

point of it and I still have her.

6:54

and also like that there was the media

6:56

including channel dinner, the incomes, the shots is

6:58

like one percent of what you'd guess for

7:01

normal video and us he got ready. build

7:03

a curry around the anywhere and you know

7:05

I think I'm a com which he cheap

7:07

it was but the had a short. The

7:09

got like ten million views and they got

7:11

like two hundred dollars in a slight wow

7:14

us As you say the while I to

7:16

Biloxi's i'm the view counts go up on

7:18

those shorts very quickly. People just skipping over

7:20

it's counters have been so if he's a

7:22

very inflated am as they are on like

7:24

tic toc and things like that's Cia or

7:26

does it vary hello and I just hate

7:28

this sort of way things are going with

7:31

people are very short attention spans. We need

7:33

information quick avast we scroll through this the

7:35

stories in the rails. we don't really learn

7:37

a thing of valley. We see a silly

7:39

tap that he I guess is it's a

7:41

job. I liked the fact

7:43

I get to make the the I saw

7:46

of informative or educational in some way and

7:48

I feel like they need to be longer

7:50

and a store in a narrative to to

7:52

do that same year I won't be doing

7:54

and shows any time soon. But. Then

7:57

I did at on very good. Oh clips from

7:59

Like Accept Input. The shots and jamia. you

8:01

know that when you else does have like

8:03

the video and the bottom of the screen

8:05

thing in the spring you have like a

8:08

a videogame be getting players like a truck

8:10

many a year in my one of them

8:12

weird european against the people seem to like

8:14

am and just adds so it that way

8:17

all if you left to restart slips. if

8:19

you laugh you have to restart. My.

8:22

Brooklyn. I mean likes, but then I'm

8:24

good at night saying silly things and

8:26

and dine on the hill later on.

8:28

like her, a member. Twenty seven Tainos

8:30

like droids are a waste of money.

8:32

He wants to drive, loses would you

8:34

only use it, loses his drones and

8:36

then I use one every single video

8:38

the next year forever and I've never

8:40

looked back. say Ahmadis Cats and I

8:42

say softly so he be statements I

8:44

mean and Zeal podcasts it perfect for

8:46

really sweeping statements he don't necessarily around

8:48

me are battling the Us and then

8:50

modify millionaire Yeah, you're having. A So go

8:52

go against what you said before very true

8:54

century or just feel a sense of guilt.

8:56

This week I was on a little trip

8:58

to L more that was half business half

9:00

not business now stayed in a nice real

9:03

com and I went in a hot spring

9:05

aus point in red hot to be like

9:07

you look now pay only in half of

9:09

business so let us wearing a top off

9:11

of this the so it wasn't my billie

9:13

bullets in the bottom. Nothing out of business

9:15

or pleasure is really see why would he

9:17

come out of a hot spring the your

9:19

your illit bright red the like a strawberry.

9:21

you're very swift. In dehydrated and then

9:23

I put on a you contre le

9:25

can be they have kids dressing gown

9:27

esque japanese because her and stumbled off

9:30

to the buffet and I go a

9:32

big plates and of fried chicken and

9:34

biscuits and squared in all sorts of

9:37

shit and i'm trying this heavy try

9:39

three and then tv was go oh

9:41

my god Chrissy it's it's you isn't

9:44

a I lied on with our our

9:46

our lives sandler as hello you know

9:48

I love meeting at views or time

9:50

is fun but. when i'm looking

9:52

like craft meeting while eating me

9:55

anyway as know even meeting eat

9:57

me why a meeting while fucking

9:59

carrying it tray covered in you

10:01

know all the food ever and it

10:03

was like not flattering and they were

10:05

like oh my god you know can

10:07

we take a photo and

10:09

I was like obviously not food you're

10:11

just looking at me I was like

10:13

going I was literally at the buffet

10:16

like putting food on my tray which

10:18

was already creaking under the weight of

10:20

a thousand pieces of yeah like you

10:22

know sweating profusely I look crap

10:29

in the UK so it makes my stomach look

10:31

like a fucking bowling ball it's not flattering

10:34

and then I'm carrying all the food in the world

10:36

and they're like can we get a photo and I'm

10:38

like no not no this is not going to ask

10:40

times Chris is dead in time

10:42

in secret didn't I mean by all means

10:45

treasure the moment for a lifetime of

10:47

this encounter but there's my I know don't take

10:49

effect and I have to be like now sorry

10:51

guys I'm I'm not doing photos

10:54

today guys I'm only happy of a

10:56

business I've got their

10:58

photos today my business is eating and

11:00

eating is good my

11:03

business is eating and my business is good

11:05

yeah that work what you know I don't know

11:07

my business was eating they and not taking photos

11:10

yeah and I was a bit I was a

11:12

bit like read the moment read the maybe don't

11:14

don't ask for a photo you kind of covered

11:16

in Marie Rolls sauce you have

11:19

a moment you kind of have like these

11:21

are one of one of wonderful encounters nice

11:24

fakes and then they'll

11:26

often like I get a photo and you're like

11:28

no you've ruined them you've ruined them mate you

11:30

don't always need a photo you don't need a

11:32

photo that's the thing though isn't it it's

11:34

like people do you find

11:37

it were like most kind of celebrities you

11:39

talk to they people will go up to

11:41

people and then they'll just they

11:44

won't even want to win Iraq's which I guess was kind

11:46

of a pain in the bum back in the day for

11:48

people who were really famous anyway well

11:50

I they don't interact anymore they just they don't

11:52

want a signature they don't they just they just

11:54

run up to you and they

11:57

just want a picture with you you know it's like it's

11:59

kind of like big four opportunity and I

12:01

would find that very I think difficult if

12:04

that was the first thing that someone sort of said

12:06

Let's get the photograph and they don't want to sort

12:08

of say hello I really hope that people were listening

12:10

if you see Pete Nelson get that photograph harass me

12:15

If any any like I've always if

12:17

anyone's silly enough to on the floor I've

12:19

always done it but like it is kind

12:21

of I think with really famous people like

12:23

with actually famous people they would People

12:25

just wrote and got gonna get a picture before

12:28

they're saying anything like you're collecting them like you're

12:30

collecting They're so like Pokemon or something. Yeah running off

12:32

again I mean it all

12:34

comes down to the situation nine times out of ten probably

12:36

even more than that I do take photos never have a

12:38

problem. It's just what I'm eating Don't don't ask me what

12:40

I mean if I if you see me with a face

12:42

full of cracker biscuits and cheese

12:44

or Big

12:47

piece of fucking pizza or something. Just don't

12:49

ask for the photo the

12:51

one time either that or when I'm Just

12:54

in a hot tub with no clothes on don't do

12:57

it then I know but like I also know I'm

12:59

really yeah There is the nature of

13:01

the interaction If it's a viewer who has

13:03

clearly watched abroad Japan or listen to the podcast we have

13:05

a chat Then I'm definitely more inclined to do it. I'm

13:08

a burr that Kyoto taking photos

13:10

by some Tory Gates with Natsuki for a

13:12

video We did last year and

13:14

some guys two guys who came over and went

13:17

like oh You're a youtuber

13:19

aren't you and I want a photo and

13:21

I was like no, that's that's

13:23

not how this works. I'm busy Yeah

13:29

But I think eventually I think I felt so guilty that

13:31

I was like I'll go on then I did it anyway

13:34

And so and I left the encounter at

13:36

the hot spring piping hot

13:38

sweating Carrying a tray covered in

13:41

food and I felt a

13:43

sense of guilt for not letting these two

13:45

very nice people admittedly Not have the photo

13:47

they they sorely wanted so either way I

13:50

lose if I take the photo with me

13:52

looking like crap I look like crap and

13:55

somebody has that photo forever on their camera, or

13:57

I don't take the photo And I feel a sense of

13:59

guilt for not taking the flight so I'm stuffed

14:02

either way and that is the burden

14:04

of being a Z-list celebrity. Yeah,

14:07

the burden of being a Z-list celebrity's

14:09

friend is very much during

14:12

the summer months when people are in Japan for

14:14

their first trip to Japan I

14:17

just get sent delicious pictures of

14:19

delicious ice cream. You do. Delicious,

14:22

coolish. You do. And

14:24

I for one love it, I've started

14:26

CC'ing the Lotteic operation again. Oh my

14:28

God. I have to take it

14:31

a couple of years out but I think

14:33

they should listen to sponsorship

14:35

inquiries from our end I think. Somebody

14:38

at Lotteic. I think

14:40

Lotteic Coolish should finally sponsor. We

14:42

don't need money, we just want

14:44

coolish. There's somebody at Lotteic.

14:47

Creative Coolish, yeah. Who's very exasperated at having

14:49

you bombard them with social media crap all

14:51

the time. Nice, that bloody Pete Dawson again.

14:53

He's an awesome deal. Anyway,

14:55

if you see me in public, do take a photo.

14:57

Let's have a photo. I'm really ranting. Again,

14:59

it was just me with the tray looking

15:02

like crap. I just felt bad

15:04

for not taking it. Should have done it. Should

15:06

have done it. Look at me. To be fair,

15:08

it would have been a funny photo. I'm really

15:10

standing with this tray drenched in food, sweat dripping

15:12

off my face and the hot kind

15:14

of evening sun and ah. It's for

15:16

my family. It's all for my family.

15:19

Honestly, me being a windy bastard.

15:21

We've got a story this week

15:23

from, good name, Chris. Hello

15:25

Chris. Hello Chris. Greetings, Chappy Chris

15:28

and Precious Pete. After over

15:30

six years of watching the channel this past summer, I

15:32

finally made it to Japan and I studied

15:34

at a university in Shinjuku and I had

15:36

the time of my life. My second day

15:38

in Japan, I went to Harajuku and purchased

15:41

an amazing vibrant shirt from a secondhand shop.

15:43

This shirt featured a large headshot

15:47

of Barack Obama with the slogan,

15:49

Men for Change. One

15:51

day, while taking my morning commute, tests

15:53

killed via Otsuka station. I noticed a

15:55

small Izakaya across the street and decided

15:57

to check it out that night. with

16:00

my friend. The all-bar san, the oldest

16:02

sort of woman running it, was the

16:04

sweetest woman and reminded me of my

16:06

own grandmother and we were able to

16:08

make good conversation despite my limited vocabulary.

16:11

At one point she noticed my shirt, er,

16:14

of course she did, at one point she noticed

16:16

my vibrant t-shirt and excitedly pointed at the wall

16:18

next to my table. Hanging up

16:20

with various photos of friends and family

16:23

there was a newspaper cut out of

16:25

Barack Obama himself. She pointed

16:27

from the photo to my shirt and

16:29

suddenly exclaimed, he's my boyfriend!

16:32

Needless to say after this moment I

16:34

became a regular at this Iza Kaia

16:37

on my last day in Japan. I

16:40

returned one last time in my Obama shirt to

16:42

say farewell and I

16:45

promised her I would return and she very

16:47

heart-warmingly sent me off with an Iza Kaia.

16:50

Thanks for the great content lads, all the

16:52

best Chris. Who'd have thought Barack Obama was

16:54

cheating the entire time and Michel Obama with

16:57

a little old lady in Otsuka Station in

17:00

North Tokyo. Welcome. I'd like

17:02

to welcome all of the world's

17:04

news media who are

17:06

obviously watching the Abroad in Japan YouTube

17:08

channel for the very first time. You

17:11

have to know this

17:13

is where you get your scoops. This

17:15

is the new Hunter Biden's laptop, this

17:17

is the new I don't know what

17:19

the conspiracy theories stuff is about. Barack

17:21

Obama has had a long term

17:27

affair with an old lady

17:30

in Otsuka Station.

17:33

You heard it

17:35

first. You heard it first because this is

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17:39

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17:42

the day, the usable news, the

17:44

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17:46

going to rock the world and we

17:48

give it to you constantly

17:51

on the Abroad in Japan podcast.

17:53

You're welcome the news. You're welcome.

17:57

I imagine Barack Obama's press

17:59

team are penning a

18:02

statement as we speak so you're

18:04

welcome, you're welcome guys. What

18:07

a bizarre situation. I would love

18:09

to have been there for that.

18:11

What a beautiful moment, what a

18:13

beautiful moment for Aqaba. There is

18:15

a town called Obama near

18:17

Kyoto, I've always been meaning to go to. I

18:19

wonder if they cashed in on it when Obama

18:22

was president, did they sell

18:24

Obama merchandise? Did they

18:26

invite Obama over? I

18:29

always think like Barack Obama, there were

18:31

so many different kind of lookalikes from

18:33

all around the world. I

18:35

don't know what it is about him,

18:37

his features just

18:39

kind of lend itself quite well to having

18:43

lookalikes all around the world from different

18:45

kind of ethnic kind

18:48

of groups. And so like maybe

18:51

this old lady was actually going up

18:53

with someone who looked like Barack Obama.

18:56

Would that be fair? I don't know. I

18:59

don't think that would be fair. I think she's changing

19:01

shit. But

19:03

it's like The Rock, there's always like a Chinese

19:05

guy who looks like The Rock. And it's just

19:07

like, I don't know what it is, there's always

19:09

like guys who look like other guys, except

19:12

they're from like Japan or whatever. I just found

19:14

that sort of thing so interesting. Well

19:17

it's like my friend. It's like they can lend

19:19

their features so well. My friend Esau who runs

19:22

like a wagyu beef restaurant

19:24

in Sakata, you know, North Japan.

19:27

And he had a photo of The Rock because he claimed he

19:29

looked like The Rock. So I took a

19:31

photo and I literally sent it to The

19:33

Rock on Twitter. And he replied and was

19:35

like, what does he say? He said like,

19:37

it sounds like a nice man. I'll have to swing

19:39

by the next time I'm in town. He's

19:42

got a few like that. And

19:44

I remember being in a club,

19:46

oh god, club century I think

19:49

in Shibuya at one time. And

19:51

there was a Japanese man who

19:53

had gone out in kind

19:55

of like a really shitty looking kind

19:57

of tux, kind of black. suit,

20:00

white shirt and

20:02

he had a completely

20:04

shirred head, no hair on his body

20:07

it seemed at all and

20:09

he just got some Mr. World Red

20:11

pitbull sunglasses and he looked so much

20:13

like pitbull but obviously he was Japanese.

20:16

I was like lean into the thing you

20:18

look like, just use

20:20

it, I use it. Bloody

20:23

hell. Oh dear, well I'm

20:25

going to go and hunt down this restaurant and

20:27

check it out. What I love about this story

20:29

is it's just somewhere really obscure like Otzke which

20:32

is just this underwhelming, it's alright to eat there, I

20:34

don't want to rip on Otzke, it's like this kind

20:36

of little district in

20:38

Tokyo that's got a bar

20:41

but there's not much else going on there. It's got

20:44

a bar on it by Obama. That's

20:46

right, it's got Obama's favourite bar and

20:48

his secret affair going on but anyway,

20:50

scandals. Scandals are all the rage this

20:53

week from Obama cheating with

20:55

a random elderly woman in a

20:57

restaurant in North Tokyo potentially

21:00

to get a definition from the Obama

21:03

family. Two, a scandal

21:05

involving paper more importantly, people's important

21:07

documents being blown away in the

21:09

wind because Japan which claims

21:12

to be a futuristic society still has

21:14

things on paper rather

21:16

than USB disks. Only

21:19

last year I think they phased out floppy disk

21:21

drives and floppy disks in government

21:23

offices in Tokyo. We love a three

21:25

and a half floppy for crying out

21:27

loud. For your Toyota from the 90s.

21:30

Tell us what's going on Pete,

21:32

what happened with this important documents?

21:35

Chris, we love improper handling of

21:37

official documents. I think it's our

21:39

raison d'etre, it's our reason for

21:41

being, it's the

21:44

only story that manages to make the

21:46

running order these days. Well the Aichi

21:48

Perfectial Government has had to issue an

21:50

official apology for, I mean they say

21:52

improper handling of the personal data of

21:55

121 resident households. It

21:59

wasn't stolen. by hackers, they didn't leave a

22:01

firewall down, a worker

22:03

didn't steal it for money and

22:06

come from that. Now as

22:08

part of the regular administration of the

22:10

housing program that the government runs out

22:12

there, data needed to be

22:15

transferred from one office to

22:17

another in Nagoya, another great

22:19

story from Chris's favourite city

22:21

of Nagoya. The IT government's

22:23

blunder occurred when it was transporting the data

22:26

at 1,696 pieces of paper which were housed

22:28

inside a

22:32

cardboard box. So they

22:34

were getting data not on fibre

22:37

optic cables, not on backed

22:41

up raid hard drives, no

22:43

this was nearly 2,000 pieces

22:46

of paper in a box. Somebody

22:50

was transporting the box in one of those

22:52

hand carts across the street

22:55

and they decided to

22:57

do it on a day that

22:59

had incredibly strong winds and before

23:03

the employee who was pushing the cart reached

23:05

the other side of the road in the

23:07

capital building, the cart tipped over, the box

23:09

opened up and the papers, they

23:11

did tumble and the worker managed

23:13

to grab as many documents as

23:15

possible, couldn't grab all 1,696 papers

23:17

and so therefore they blew away.

23:19

So the scattered documents

23:25

scattered throughout the whole city which sounds

23:27

like some kind of grand theft or

23:29

a side mission, they

23:32

all blew away and the

23:35

search for these documents continued until sunset,

23:38

at which point the government had to sort of go, I

23:42

think we've lost him, shove him in

23:44

the sewer probably or in the sky

23:47

and they had to inform the residents

23:49

of the data leak. I mean data

23:51

leak sounds too professional for what this

23:54

was, I think the

23:57

newspaper went with blow away. And

24:00

so the search continued for two more days. Not

24:02

all of the documents were recovered, but mainly

24:05

these documents basically pertained to

24:07

how much rent people had paid for

24:09

the month of April. So I very

24:11

much hope that the

24:13

municipal tenants managed

24:16

to get at least a month off

24:18

their payment, their payment obligations by saying,

24:21

yeah, I definitely paid ya. I definitely paid ya because

24:23

I can't be.

24:25

I love how liable for you losing

24:27

the documents about me paying them. I

24:29

love how every day there's a story of how

24:31

Chinese and Russian hackers have stolen all of our

24:34

information. It's like in Japan, they just

24:36

need the Russian Chinese agents to stand in

24:38

the street and wait for the documents to

24:40

blow past down the fucking road like a

24:42

tumbleweed. Probably say, if I had my thing,

24:44

it's literally egg-app. Can you

24:47

hack a floppy disk? I mean, Tokyo Police

24:49

Department lost some citizens' data on some floppy

24:51

disks recently. Fortunately, if you steal some floppy

24:53

disks, you probably don't have the 3.5 port

24:56

to put them in. No.

24:59

Get the information off anyway. And then there

25:02

was the city employee in Shio-ge,

25:04

near Korbe, who got drunk, passed

25:06

out, and lost a USB stick

25:08

with all the residents' uniform type

25:10

information. I just like these

25:12

ridiculous ways that the media is locked.

25:14

I don't think GDPR really exists

25:17

out there. They don't really have

25:19

the equivalent, do they? No,

25:22

no they do not. But it's

25:24

just a beautiful low tech story,

25:26

isn't it? Japan had moved to

25:29

high tech solutions, this would never have happened. But

25:32

also, I wish I could have seen the paper

25:34

getting blown down the street. Oh no, I've just

25:36

realised though, if you watch on YouTube, right,

25:39

I'm sitting in my little ramen shop, and

25:41

here's some audio for not using documents. Can you hear

25:43

me knocking on the top? I've found some documents. ASMR.

25:46

I blow my documents away. Name my little cup

25:48

noodle vapour thing. What would

25:50

you call it, where the vapour comes out? I

25:53

think it's a room atomiser. Yeah,

25:56

a room atomiser slash humidifier. Humidifier

25:58

sounds real, atomiser. sounds quite exciting.

26:00

I have to imagine it reminds me of

26:02

poppers. Well

26:05

in this case I'll never get it working again. It's

26:08

run out of water so there's no vapour coming out

26:10

now so my smouldering, smoking, steaming cup

26:12

noodle is not doing anything. Pour some of your

26:15

coffee into it, let's make some coffee vapour. It

26:17

just wasn't switched off. Ignore everything I just said,

26:19

I'm an idiot. Right, it was vapour in there,

26:21

you didn't turn it on. That's

26:23

with the news story this week, I got

26:26

more excited about my cup noodle on my

26:28

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with the fax machine. What have we got this week

29:25

from our listeners, Mr. Dawson? Have they been blown away

29:28

in the wind? Oh, I'm starting to get

29:30

a little bit here, a little bit of

29:32

hair-fever-y. And the summer is really here. As

29:35

I read this, so apologies if I cough and splutter. Lisa

29:38

from Florida. Excuse me. Hi,

29:41

you all. Chris and Pickle Pickle Pete.

29:44

Chris recently made a

29:46

beautiful Instagram reel featuring the post-town

29:48

Magamere. Seeing it

29:50

just got me so excited because I've

29:52

got a Cryptage Plan planned coming up

29:54

in June and hiking Magamere to Tsumago

29:57

is on the itinerary. I've read that

29:59

some people recommend starting in Smago because

30:01

it is a more downhill hike. I

30:04

would like to know about your experience. Which

30:06

direction did you go? Is one way busier

30:08

than the other? Any recommendations for best rest

30:10

stops? Lisa from Florida wants to know the

30:12

best way to get from Magamere to Smago

30:15

or back. I don't know where either of

30:17

those places are and the names scare

30:19

me. I mean a really nice

30:21

place is Magomere, I would say confused, Magomeres,

30:23

I swear that's the name of the company

30:26

that makes tomato ketchup.

30:28

So I could be wrong. Anyway,

30:30

Magomere, Narayju, Kuzumago,

30:33

very nice postal

30:35

towns on the Nakasendo Trail. We made a video with

30:37

Ryotaro about a year ago I think. I

30:40

went with Shara and we hiked around it except we

30:42

didn't hike, we actually drove because we didn't have much

30:44

time. But this week, a few weeks ago

30:47

I did it and it was stunning, it was amazing and

30:50

we hiked uphill. So it was a bit tricky,

30:53

it was a nice little workout. But the hills

30:55

aren't so bad that it feels like effort. So

30:57

I don't think it matters whatever way you go

30:59

really Lisa. We started our hike from, I

31:02

think it was called Nakatsugawa and we started there.

31:05

The problem is with these places they don't have

31:07

many hotels and they're quite popular at the moment

31:09

and so we had to start somewhere where there

31:11

was a hotel and that was in Nakatsugawa which

31:13

was downstream so we had to walk up the

31:15

hill. But you really can go

31:18

either way, it doesn't really matter. I think

31:20

if I was being lazy I probably would

31:22

go downhill and start in Tsum

31:29

Ok, let's go. Get those

31:31

extra steps in, go uphill, you'll feel rewarded

31:33

for it. We got one from Andrew who

31:35

says, Hi guys, I'm half Japanese, half English,

31:37

my mum being from Osaka. She taught me

31:39

Japanese with a thick Osaka Ben accent which

31:42

my Japanese friends and teachers used to find

31:44

hilarious whenever I was out there. For example,

31:46

I wouldn't say Chigaimasu, Pete Darlsen's favourite phrase.

31:49

Instead I would say, Ciao

31:51

dear. I don't know if

31:53

that's real. Ciao dear.

31:56

Anyway, my question for you both is, can either of

31:58

you pick up on local accents? If

32:00

so, can you have or do you have

32:02

any favorites and Chris? Do you speak with

32:04

a socket or accent keep up the superb

32:06

work guys Andrew? I mean people

32:10

All these places in Japan do have dialects like yeah, I'll

32:12

fuck up em I guess it's

32:14

kind of like the north and south divide with the

32:16

UK, right and you've got like That's

32:19

a big one. That's your phrases from your

32:21

neck of the woods Pete like why I

32:23

man which I didn't know Yeah,

32:25

we till we're in our son we

32:28

thought some they taught some Osaka and people Some

32:31

of the dialect from my my hometown Yeah,

32:34

I didn't even know why I man was a

32:36

thing because I hadn't been exposed to the north

32:38

of the UK Savages up there

32:40

savages. I say savages But

32:43

they do have like I mean just just

32:45

accent wise they They

32:48

they speak in a very sort of bouncy. They

32:50

almost sort of Know

32:52

somebody on you somebody quite well who

32:55

lived just outside of Osaka

32:57

and they start speaking a kind of

32:59

like Italian kind of bouncy babada bababa

33:01

bababa Yeah, yeah up there which

33:03

I find really really fascinating. I love I love the

33:06

second accent I

33:09

mean I I Only

33:11

remember like one phrase. It was like

33:13

Mokidana Mokidana or something and I thought was in

33:15

Yamagata And I think

33:17

Yamagata is famous for having a dialect that

33:19

sounds very backwards and is like ridiculed on

33:22

on Like media, but yeah Mokidana.

33:24

It's like who is thank you Yeah,

33:27

I I was crapping it. I still

33:29

am my accent is just

33:31

British white man Japanese I wouldn't even

33:33

give it like take a old gun

33:36

the standard one like Tokyo right? Yeah,

33:38

mine's mine's just filthy Rubbish

33:40

British Japanese like Cornichy. We're what I should

33:42

know got my walk. What should you do?

33:46

You're asking one of us you've got one

33:48

here from stony brooks school. That's a cool

33:50

name. Hello carnivorous Chris petulant Pete I

33:53

have the joy of teaching a university class that

33:55

will take 12 students to Japan in

33:57

late May multiple students are found

34:00

fascinated by the use of bad English as

34:02

a marketing gimmick on various products

34:04

in Japan. My question for you is this, where

34:06

would you recommend I send my students in the

34:08

greater Tokyo area to find clothing or other examples

34:10

of bad English? It can either be a word

34:12

salad where the phrases make no sense or just

34:14

poor use of the language. Thank you very much

34:16

for all that you do. Stony Brooks. Good

34:19

question, Stony Brooks. I would say,

34:22

actually I was

34:24

in Don Quixote the other day, which is a

34:26

really good place. Daiso in Don Quixote. Daiso probably

34:28

has the edge because they're 100 yen products, they're

34:30

very cheap, they don't have a marketing budget, they

34:32

basically just make up the English as they go

34:34

along. I was in Don

34:36

Quixote in the aisle for beauty

34:39

products, looking for funny English actually,

34:41

and I found a brand of face

34:44

cream called Beg Skin, like

34:46

beg to beg and skim. Beg

34:49

Skin. And I just sounded quite

34:51

sinister. It's like an agent from

34:53

James Bond, like agent to beg, skim. He'll

34:56

be joining up with Bond to take

34:58

on the enemy. Beg Skin. And I

35:00

like that. Why is it called Beg Skin,

35:03

Pete? Beg Skin. I mean it's kind of like begging

35:05

your skin to be nicer, I don't know. Like, oh

35:08

come on, come on, I'm

35:10

coming in pockmarks, I'm coming in

35:12

damage. Beg Skin. Oh my

35:14

God. Oh Beg Skin. Yeah. Smashing.

35:16

Get yourself down to Daiso. That

35:18

was always the goldmine that I

35:20

would mine for wacky phrases. But

35:22

I will say, I haven't,

35:25

I've been looking to try and do another one of

35:27

these Japanese English marketing videos because they're a lot of

35:29

fun. And some of my favourite

35:31

videos I've ever made was doing these things.

35:33

But unfortunately,

35:35

pre-freeing has got better.

35:38

Probably because my video is

35:40

really killing everyone. Computers have probably

35:42

got better. And also, yeah, they're

35:44

probably, you can probably, instead of

35:46

employing a English,

35:49

slightly English familiar, copywriter, you can just

35:51

stick it in a chat GPT and sort

35:53

of go, can you just make this

35:55

sound a bit better please? Exactly. Yeah, genuinely

35:58

like that. Google friendly. is pants. Unless it's

36:00

like a single word in which case

36:02

it's fine but for like Japanese

36:05

grammar Google Translate still doesn't work but

36:07

chat GPT he's

36:09

very good at translating and I

36:11

think we're gonna see with

36:13

the birth of AI we're going to see a

36:16

lot of companies get their shit together and

36:18

start rebranding properly so we don't have names

36:20

like Beg Skin for a mediocre skincare product.

36:22

I know I don't want to rip on

36:24

Beg Skin, could be quite good for lighting.

36:26

I'm gonna go with Beg Skin, yeah you

36:29

might need that Beg Skin one day. You

36:32

might become the spokes model for Beg Skin.

36:35

You come to Japan grab yourself some Beg

36:37

Skin, you won't regret it but for

36:40

now keep the stories, questions, comments coming in

36:42

guys to Broadjapan Podcast@gmail.com or comment away down

36:44

on YouTube but for now guys have yourself

36:46

a great few days grab yourself some Beg

36:48

Skin and we'll see you right back here

36:50

to do it over again on the Broadjapan

36:52

Podcast. Bye for now, have yourselves a good

36:54

one. See ya Beg Skin buddies.

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