#232 - FIRST PODCAST OF THE YEAR WE ARE BACKKKK!!
100 min
•Jan 12, 20265 months agoSummary
The GOONS podcast returns for 2024 with hosts discussing their holiday experiences, including a chaotic Christmas involving a sick cat, a guest's alcohol-induced illness, and a friend's near-fatal car accident. McNasty shares an extensive Japan trip recap covering Tokyo nightlife, cultural experiences, karaoke, and various bars, while reflecting on sobriety challenges and cultural observations.
Insights
- Japan's hospitality culture extends to unexpected situations—staff accommodated drunk patrons with recliners rather than ejecting them, contrasting sharply with Western bar policies
- Cultural immersion creates neurological changes—the host reported dreaming in Japanese despite limited language proficiency, suggesting deep cognitive engagement with foreign environments
- Nicotine dependency manifests as anxiety even after brief exposure—the host experienced significant withdrawal symptoms after just 5-6 days of casual smoking in Japan
- Pet emergency care costs are unpredictable and often disproportionate—a $700 vet bill for a simple bellyache highlights the financial burden of pet ownership
- Alcohol tolerance and consumption patterns vary dramatically by context—the same person drinks heavily in social settings but abstains entirely when legal risks are present
Trends
Experiential tourism focusing on immersive, non-traditional activities (escape rooms, interactive museums, themed bars) over standard sightseeingGrowing popularity of Japanese nightlife and entertainment venues among Western travelers seeking authentic cultural experiencesIncreased awareness of substance-related legal consequences in international travel affecting behavior modificationPet healthcare costs driving conversations about preventative care and financial planning for pet ownersSocial media documentation of travel experiences creating pressure for extended content creation during vacationsBidet and Japanese bathroom technology becoming notable cultural touchstones for Western travelersConvenience store culture (7-Eleven, Family Mart) as primary food source for travelers in urban JapanKaraoke as essential social bonding activity in Japanese nightlife cultureMuscle-themed entertainment venues (muscle mommy bars) as niche tourist attractionsLanguage barriers creating both comedic and stressful travel moments despite translation technology availability
Topics
Japan travel experiences and cultural observationsTokyo nightlife and bar culturePet emergency veterinary careAlcohol consumption and withdrawal symptomsNicotine addiction and cessationInternational travel legal risksKaraoke culture in JapanJapanese convenience store foodEscape room experiencesInteractive museum installationsLanguage barriers while travelingHoliday family dynamicsDrunk driving and road safetyJapanese hospitality standardsExperiential tourism activities
Companies
Family Mart
Japanese convenience store chain where the host frequently purchased food and drinks during Japan trip
7-Eleven
Convenience store chain mentioned as food source option during Japan travel
Forza Horizon
Video game advertised mid-episode as open-world driving adventure set in Japan
Gamer Supps
Supplement brand offering creatine products, promoted with discount code at episode end
John Lewis Money
Insurance provider advertising home insurance with flexible coverage levels
McDonald's
Fast food chain advertising Big Mac burger promotion during episode
People
McNasty
Co-host sharing Japan trip experiences, pet health issues, and holiday stories
Lauren
Co-host discussing Tool concert in Japan, pet emergencies, and holiday gift experiences
Chris
Mentioned as part of Japan trip group, attended Tool concert and various bars
Seaton
Joined Japan trip, got extremely drunk and Irish exited from bar, encountered Pierre
Danielle
Lauren's girlfriend, hosted Christmas party where guest got sick, gave Lauren watch winder gift
Pierre
French man encountered in Tokyo claiming to solve cold cases, showed AI-generated Jesus images
Bryce
Flew to Japan to meet up with hosts, participated in escape room and museum experiences
Alithia
Flew to Japan, conducted IRL stream with Japanese streamers, organized escape room activity
Jun
Led first night bar crawl tour in Tokyo with hosts and other tourists
Kenton
Wagyu restaurant server who learned Australian slang and repeatedly said 'sick' throughout service
Doug
Lauren's cat who had digestive issues requiring $700 emergency vet visit on Christmas weekend
Yuki
Japanese escape room performer who encouraged McNasty during Alice in Borderlands experience
Quotes
"This year is gonna be a year of milestones for the Goons podcast. We're gonna try to kill at least 120 babies this year. Last year we only got 96."
McNasty•Opening segment
"I literally sat a total of like 10 hours in this waiting room. Literally every hour, I just watched a crumpled up dog get dragged in on blankets."
Lauren•Pet emergency story
"He goes, I have a very large IQ. I go, really? What's your IQ? He goes, it's bigger than Einstein's."
McNasty•Pierre encounter
"Japan it's so far from like the north american brain being able to comprehend what it's like there that no matter how much prep you get, you go there and it is the biggest culture shock."
McNasty•Japan reflection
"I was literally drinking every single day for like seven or eight days in a row. That's what you do there."
McNasty•Japan drinking discussion
Full Transcript
Up next is Bread Flare and his new band. Oh my god, I'm back again. On that vacation, oh everybody spin. Gonna bring new games, gonna show you now. New game party, find new games. Dropping hits every week, find the new slots. On that vacation tonight. 18 plus be gambler wear total. That's right. Welcome back to the... Hey, who are we? Wooah! Wooah! A monkey noise. Welcome back to monkey noise. Oh, that makes my ears itch when I did that. Yeah, pretty sure you just made a thousand people's ears itch. I was making my... Welcome. You just kicked people a thousand year itch via the Goons podcast. Yep. Welcome to the yearly Goons podcast. The yearly first episode of the Goons podcast. Yeah. The first episode is here. It's 20 shit. It's not the first third half, third... The first third, yeah. The first third, is it the right way to say that first third? It is the first third. It's the first third. Yeah, I'm gonna come out on the 12th. First burp of the year. It's huge. It's huge. It's fucking huge. This year is gonna be a year of milestones for the Goons podcast. Absolutely. And last year was pretty good too. We're gonna try to kill at least 120 babies this year. Last year we only got 96. 97 I think. 97. Couldn't break 100. So we're thinking different goals. I was thinking maybe somebody keep track of... Because this is the first podcast of the year they could start now. Keep track of McNasty's burps. Through! We'll do a burp counter. I would love that. I would fucking per psychology. I would love that. What if we did this for the year? The first time McNasty burps on the podcast is a dollar he has to pay to a charity. Honestly, that's not what I am. He's gonna go broke. He's gonna owe like $30 million by the end of the year. But think of the tank sprake that he'll get from all the charitable donations. It won't matter. He's gonna have nothing left. He's gonna owe $30 million to like doctors without borders or something. Yeah, what charity would you choose? What kind of festive charity would you choose? I would give all my money to Falon Gong. Yeah, I'm just gonna give it to Israel. There you go. Skip the middle man! Skip the middle man! Go right to Israel. I would just give it to some homeless people on the road. I would just give it to some homeless guy chilling in the gutter. But you know, it's not Christmas good. You should really get tax receipts from homeless people if you give him money. Imagine! I'll just give you a piece of toilet paper with some poopoo on it. Give that to your accountant. Just thanks for $100 and poopoo finger. Yes, the IRS will need this. The IRS will need this receipt. Speaking of the magic of Christmas, how was everybody's Christmas? Beautiful. It was a... Mine kind of sucked. Really? It sucked? Dude, so like, I shouldn't say... So my actual Christmas was okay. Like Christmas itself was fine. Danielle and I hung out with her family and then Chris's Eve we hung out with my family. It was nice. It was chill. No bad vibes. Then the Saturday after Christmas, I want to say the 27th, I think it was. All of Danielle's friends every year come over and we do like this big Christmas party. They call friends and have them all over or whatever. And at about 4 p.m. we had a few of her friends like staying at her house for the weekend. And at like 4 p.m. one of her friends noticed that like Doug was acting weird. So I was like, oh God, what the fuck? So I brought him downstairs to her. Like, just a cat, not like my uncle. Just a little guy. Doug was supposed to die? Yeah, I don't know. He's still... He just defied death. You just say fucking here and there? I don't know. I have no fucking clue. So I took him downstairs to his litter box area and he was like dry heaving and he was leaving like sweat prints where his paws were. And he was like clearly... He was like trying to shit but could not shit. Like he was laying on his side and you could... Yeah. You could watch cat shit but their tail kind of does like a little... Yeah. After like they're just kind of trying to pinch the loaf off and yeah, nothing was happening. So I was like, all right. They're not supposed to be here until like 8 p.m. I'll take them to the vet. It's 4 o'clock. I'll be home by like 5 30. Yeah. So I got home at 11 30 p.m. Oh my God. Damn. They did not... Yes, p.m. They did not even see him. So I literally put him in an oxen chamber to make sure he didn't like suffocate to death for some reason because he was like hyperventilating. And then they were like, okay, we don't know what it is but we think it might be a bladder infection. So if he doesn't pee by 1 a.m., bring him back in. I was like, I don't think it's urine related. All he was like trying to shit. Yeah. But it might be urine infection. We don't know risk that. And she's like, yeah, like if a urine infection goes untreated for like even 24 hours, cats can die. Yeah, you can't buy. Yeah, it's pretty serious. So of course, you know, if he doesn't pee by 1 a.m., I'll bring him in. So when I am rolled around, he didn't pee. And I was like, I'll give him half an hour more because like everyone was leaving. So I was just like, oh, fuck. Maybe you got the people. Yeah. So I was like, I'm just going to let it chill. Then 1 30 still didn't pee. And I was like, oh my God, his energy was low, but he seemed okay. Brought him in, stayed there till 4 30. They again did not even set a vet in because like, so the way it works there, it's an emergency vet. So they have like a triage list and they were the only vet open. Everyone else was on holiday break around us. So every like hour, my cat would move on like down on the triage list to priority. And then some fucking crumpled up dog would come in being dragged in on a blanket that just got hit by a car. Right back to the top. So I literally sat a total of like 10 hours in this waiting room. Literally every hour, I just watched a crumpled up jam. It's horrible dude. And it was a worst day ever. It was fucking awful day. Was that on Christmas day? It was 27th. So a couple of days after Christmas. And all my like all Danielle's friends are all having a gay old time in my house. I'm just fucking watching crumpled dogs get dragged in on blankets and shit. Holy shit. And yeah, and people are like fucking crying and I'm just sitting there like, fuck you want me to do. I don't know. Yeah, like my cat can't do to win his tummy hurts. So they at 430 they finally came in and saw me and it wasn't even a real vet. It was like the vet tech and she goes the vet is busy. They're like taking this dog's leg off. I don't even know if that dog was injured. I think they're just doing it for the love of the game at this point. They were hungry. It's like 430 am we taking dog legs off fucking. So they came in and she literally just grabbed his bladder and was like, oh, he must have not drank much today. Yeah, that's why he didn't pay. There's nothing in his bladder. I was like, bro, what the fuck? Maybe you should let you go and then they sent me home. So I was driving home and I knew Danielle was still up. Our friends were still kind of hanging out. And again, it was like 430 more. So I like called her and I was like, hey, I'm on my way home. Whatever. And she's like, okay, yeah, front door is unlocked and like the lights will be on, but don't worry about it. Everything's fine here. And I was like, I should tell me everything's fine. Like usually just like, all right, yeah, doors unlocked. But every season I was like, oh no. So I pulled up and I just see her friend walking by with my portable steamer. And I was like, what was that? What are you doing right now? What are you cleaning? I go into one of my guest rooms, orange puke everywhere. Like on the bed on the sheet. Dude, this is like the color orange. What are you drinking? No, somebody there. So one of I introduced one of my friends. What was the cat? What was thinking maybe like, no, no, no. You didn't know that I was puking and then you came home and they're puking. I was with Doug. I had him in the car. I was thinking like before you took him, he puked in there. You didn't know. Bro. And that's why he was acting weird. So they dragged him. So one of my friends was down. He was one of the ones staying for the weekend at my house. He was the man down. I introduced him to sake the night before. Oh. And he loved sake. I have like a sake set at my house and I have like fucking whatever, like 20 bottles of sake just on the side with like the heated sake set and shit. So I was like, dude, just help yourself. But he's not familiar with sake's game. So he was just he probably drank like two bottles by himself. He ate a bunch of pizza and just puked it everywhere. It looked like a little kid throw up and I got home at 4 30 a.m. Exhausted. I'm doing fucking dude. I just sat I just sat there for 12 hours watching crumpled dogs come in. I want to go to bed. The girls are also drunk. Bless their heart. They were trying to clean, but holy fuck. Drunk people do not know how to operate steamers or anything. And I literally was like, okay, so I grabbed the carpet through all the shit in it. That was messy. Just rolled it up, brought it in the garage through it out. I was like, I'm not even trying. I don't fucking care. Fuck this is 4 30 in the morning. So the actual mattress itself was fucking literally looked like like a highlighter exploded. And I was like, all right, I got to steam the fuck out of this. And so I was steaming it. And then he was in my guest bathroom laying on the floor. And I was like, that's perfect. That's fine. Yeah, that's a good spot. He can lay there. But then I was kind of sitting there and I finally cleaned up. It was probably about 5 30 getting close to 6 a.m. By this point. And I was like, all right, I'm finally going to go to bed. And I kind of sat in bed and I was like, oh, he's going to puke in the fucking vent because he was. Oh, my God. I literally booked it in there. I like booked it in there. I was like, oh my God, thank fuck. He's facing this way. So I like, I put a blanket over it and I like fucking rolled him as far as I could. And I was like, don't move. I swear to God. Worst case. That's the worst case scenario. It's like hitting a photo time torpedo into the fucking vent. Dude, it would have been annihilation. It would have been, I think, top three worst days in my life if he threw up in that vent. Straight up. You put your dead dog coming. You got to clean up puke in your house and you missed the party. I didn't get to do this shit. And I, and when I was there for those like two hours to hang out with their friends, then like, they always bring their boyfriends and I fucking, I love that whole group of friends. Like Danielle's friends are amazing. I love spending time with them. And I'm like, I'm going to go to bed. My friends are amazing. I love spending time with them. And I literally was there and I was so checked out. Like someone were talking. You know, it's. You would have been completely different. Wavelength. Yeah. I just wanted. You know, like. What am I doing? You fucking keeps to hit a bunch of. It's just. He just kept coming back in over and over. He was stuck in a random. Another one. Shit. Dude, they were supposed to. So they're supposed to leave on Sunday. And that was a Saturday night. We all look up like, like there is just myself, Danielle, her friend, and then, you know, the fella who, who didn't make it. And they were supposed to leave at around like one. And I was like, okay, like you got, you can stay as long as you need. Like he's obviously not going to be ready to go by one. Like we all look up like around 11 or some shit. So I was like, take your time. We'll order breakfast. We'll wait till he's up though. And then we'll order breakfast and. We'll get you. One PM rolled around. Two PM rolled around. Three PM rolled around. I was like, dude, somebody should probably go check on him. And she goes and checks on him. He's still on the bathroom floor, by the way. He hasn't moved an inch. Oh, shit. Yeah. Didn't even make it to the bed. And I was like, is he alive? She's like, yeah, he's alive. He says he just has a really bad headache and needs to sleep a little more. It's like, all right, whatever. Yeah. The yellow skin stay here another night if you need to. I just kind of was saying that. I didn't think that they do, but dude, seven PM, I hear the shower going. I was like, okay, he's alive. He's good. He's good. He opened the door. She opened the door and he was asleep in a shower. Just went right to bed. He just got cold. He was cold and thirsty. So he probably can't open his mouth. Dude, I gave him a Pokari sweat. He should have been alive and well. He should have been right back at it. How the hell did you get a Pokari sweat? Dude, I got. What's that? You selling a canola? I got a plug here. All right. I'm not. I don't know what the. The Kori sweat is a Japanese Gatorade. It's like an iron supply drink. It is literally a dude. I feel like I can. I got stage four pancreatic cancer tomorrow. Drink. I drink the Kari sweat. Good. Pancreatic pancreatic pancreatic. Patriotic. My lungs. I could have. I could have patriotic cancer. All right. Yeah. Yeah. I'll heal you. They should. We'll bring you right back to life. It's it's the fucking best. But yeah, so I gave him one of those game. The whole thing apparently. And then I like 730 after a shower, I just saw this lingering. Figure. Wander. The bedroom. And I was like, he's probably going to go pack whatever. Did not see until the next morning. Did not see him again until 11 a.m. The next morning. 36 hours. I've never seen somebody sleep that long. He was just in and out of like consciousness. Like he said, he didn't even feel like he was sleeping. He was just in so much pain. He kept passing out. Like fucking like going down in a helicopter. I think that when you're drunk, your brain doesn't like let you go and REM sleep. No. I think you really fly. If you really fucked up, yeah, you just you just out and then you're you're bad. He was out. I don't have dreams. I don't have dreams. I don't have dreams. I don't have dreams. I don't have dreams. I don't have dreams. I don't have dreams when I'm really fucked up. Yeah, I think that's why because your brain just doesn't let you. I don't know why, but you're fucking because you're literally your brain is fucking filled with toxins that can't function properly. Yeah, I actually don't know. But still, well, that's that. I mean, I've been wrong before. So, you know, no, no, you me. That that sounds really interesting. This that leaves me. It leaves me to my next point. So, you know, we all got our gifts. What was your worst gift and what was your best gift? Obviously, we know that your worst gift was sitting in a vent and watching Oh, yeah. Hold on. Sorry. By the way, I brought Doug to the vet on Monday. They took 100 scans of him X-rays. Make sure he wasn't, you know, had doodoo in his belly and they had to do all sorts of things. 700 dollars later, he was diagnosed with bellyache. You had a bellyache? He's got a little tummy ache. Literally, seven to the seals. Seven Navy seals. That's like that's like the second time he's at a $700 bellyache and I'm getting real tired of seven bellyaches. Poor little guy. We got to make sure I do it. Because one time, bellyache. Oh, yeah. No, absolutely. No, it's with a pet. It's always the same thing. I've had that same thing with Millie before. She just like pukes a bunch and I'm just like, okay, take it to the vet. I've had a similar thing with Bean. I took him to get groomed one time and he got so stressed out his fucking urethra just closed shut. Oh my God. And he didn't piss for like, he didn't piss for like eight hours, nine hours. And he would sit in the litter tray and look at me with his bug eyes and just like try to pee and then nothing would come out or like a little would come out but it would be like red. And he'd be like, he's pissing blood and I'd have to take him to the fucking vet and do the whole regular home. Yeah, literally. Yeah. They go, yeah, he's straining and he's, you know, he's just he's stressed out. He'd give him this and they'd give me like a gabapentin for him. Yeah, dude, I put Doug on anti-anxiety pills once and that guy, dude, there's two dollars. You're at two dollars now. Yeah. Yeah, he literally just fucking laid down on the floor and doodled on himself. He was like too chill about it. You're one of the same. I do. You know, so what was far off. So, so we got your worst gift the end of the way. What was the best gift that you received, Lauren? What was the best gift you received during the holiday period? Danielle got me a really, I've needed one for a while. So Smitty for my wedding got me a beautiful Cartier moon phase watch. Like one of my Grail watches have one of one for a while. And the problem is automatic movement. I don't wear it every day because I don't leave my house every day. I'm not gonna fucking. Yeah. I was just gonna sit at my desk wearing a fucking Cartier. It just seems a little silly. So it kept dying and the moon phase kept going off. So I literally have to fucking sit there and wind it for like literally half an hour. Like I'd watch an episode of something and fucking wind it till the moon was back as opposed to. God damn. Yeah. And then so Danielle got me this little like auto box thing that you put your watch in and like spins every like, I think it does like 750 rotations a day on the one I'm setting. I have it on and stuff. And yeah, just keeps it alive and make sure it doesn't die. Honestly, you gotta watch it. There would be like a solution to that problem. Yeah. It's literally just like you have to get like a nice one though because apparently cheap ones. It'll just keep spinning your watch forever. And just like will break everything on the inside. Yeah. Yeah. You gotta you got your watch intubated on life support in the eye. It's literally in the eye. See you just every day. I'm not wearing it. Breathing life into it. That's cool. Yeah. No, it was awesome. It's very thoughtful gift. Yeah. What about you, McNasty? What was your your best and worst gift? I know my best gift is the I don't know what my worst gift is though. Yeah. I don't know. My best. I'll tell you my best one. My dad got me a mug. Knuckles sandwich. Let me go get it. I'll show you. My dad gave me a fucking Shiner. Oh, do you have a close by? I've never seen McNasty just get out of his chair. That was kind of weird. Yeah. What the fuck? I was like, what kind of cryptid? I've seen him walk around a real life, but something about seeing him like that. That was cursed. I didn't like that. What the hell? Fucking editor instant replay that five times. Oh, he's on a bank. Welcome back. You freaked us out. I didn't like the way you walked away. Oh, oh, oh, and he's in his little chair. Yeah, it's a guy. I was kind of sick. So did you look like shack holding a water bottle right now? Yeah, holy shit. That's huge. Yeah, that's sick. Well, you guys have seen that big guy. Yeah, you're a bad dive. We held hands. I remember. I can't remember what my worst gift is, though. I didn't get a whole lot of gifts. You didn't get anything that was like socks or underwear. You didn't get something like that. Throw up. Dude, I low key love getting socks and underwear. I never buy that shit for myself ever. Like Danielle buys me socks and underwear every Christmas and I will use those socks and underwear until the next Christmas. Really? I buy like a big bulk of the same socks. And I just toss them in a drawer. I don't ever have to worry about having different socks and brands. So I when I first started making YouTube money, I hated dealing with socks like washing socks, white socks, like you could have a white sock that is completely clean and it still looks dirty on the bottom and she like that. So when I first started making YouTube money, I would literally just use socks as single use items. I would literally throw them out and buy new socks every single time. What the fuck dude? You fucking treat socks like Portia. So what actually like the black socks, I think were the ones that caused it. So because they like or maybe it was the white ones. I can't remember one of the colors. It's three dollars. What? Because the black socks cause sock meat. I don't know what sock meat is. No. And light nothing in the entire audience is listening to what literally my mom came up with the first like she told me that. And then I just called. Oh yeah, dude. You might have coined the term suck. It's when you wear black socks and you take them off and there's like little black chunks of like the fabric stuck to your feet and you just like falls off. What the fuck? No, I don't get it. It's just the I'm assuming it's probably the type of sock to it just like the fabric on the inside kind of just falls off the sock and get like length and shiny like it's just from the sock, but it's my mom called sock me out. Yeah. Okay. No, I wasn't doing a sock. You call it sock meat. You're just gonna have zero comments. Not one. Don't put it like like like the video. If you've never heard of the term suck me before. Yeah, dude. Oh yeah, 100% like ratio. But yeah, so if you only wear new socks, I noticed that my feet started to get itchy and like felt irritated. And after googling it because the way they treat, I forget if it was a block of the white socks or somebody could fucking Google it. Yeah, the way they treat them, they almost have like a very, very, very, very low level of like acid, essentially, but because I would only ever wear new socks like every day, sometimes, you know, twice a day. You're just getting a little acid on your feet. I was just slowly getting very, very small amounts of like chemical burns. Exolving your feet. So now I don't go and I stopped buying new socks frequently. Now I just go like a year with the same socks. I went from one extreme to the other. Go down to shoe size to keep wearing new socks. Slowly dissolve. I'm just gonna have two little peg legs. I would say that my best gift for Christmas was given by my sister. I got a little chainmail scarf. That's tough. And wearing that, it doesn't really keep me warm. No, no, it would do the opposite. I think it actually sucks the heat out of you. It's quite unfortunate. But it's pretty, looks pretty, and it's a different color than my actual coif because it's made out of aluminum or aluminium if you're a pussy. Aluminium. From your bitch. But it's not as heavy as the actual coif. This is steel, this is aluminum, but it's nice. It's a little gift. I like the little dangly flare on the bottom. It gives a little bit of, yeah. And then it's like, I could be like a medieval, see what's going on here? It's almost like, yeah, it reminds me of the Pope. It's getting like, a gorilla that's ready to fight me right now. You know how the Pope has those things that hang? Kind of what that reminds me of. Balls. Yeah. Yes, very dangly. He never shames, he doesn't fuck. He's American now, God bless. The Pope don't fuck. The Pope isn't allowed to fuck anything. He can, but he doesn't have a principle. He definitely, we're gonna gloss over that. He definitely has eaten the most hot dogs out of any other Pope though, because he's from Chicago. Oh yeah. Oh, I forget. He's a gliss of champion of popes. Chicago Pope? Chicago Pope? It's not like South America or something. No. No, he's American. He's American. American gene. American Pope. American Pope. American Pope. That's why I grow as your worst gift. Oh, my worst gift. Sorry to say it. Dad, you screwed up. He died? This is the third year. We didn't get you an Aussie mug? This is the third year in a row that my dad got me a planner that's bad, very bad. A planner? Like a paper? A planner, like a weekly planner so that I can be organized. I usually do. Most of the time on the computer. I'm very, no, it's not a gift, because I'm like autistic and I need to plan my shit, but I'm very specifically autistic into what I use to plan. I can't have a book that's like a day on each page because I need to see the week across two pages. And he gave me one that's like a day is every page. That's a lot of pages. Dude, it's a big fucking planner. Yeah, it's like a novel, 365 pages. It was ridiculous. Plus there's always bonus pages. And the problem is like, it's not like, oh, there's a shit ton of room for me to fill out on every page. Each page was filled with like motivational quotes and like, you got this and like, you got, it was like, I don't need this. I can't get this now because you're in the fucking way. Exactly. So I had to get like, you know, a new planner this year. I was, we used to plan this two years. His gifts are better. Dude, I only use paper like paper planners like that. I fucking, they're so useful. I have little fucking notebooks of shit to do. I got always just, I just got shit that I, these are full of shit that I got to do. Actually, this one's full of life. It's literally the one that he got me. Okay. So don't buy that one. Yeah. Look at these. Oh my God, dude. Look at all this shit. That is a good plan on that. Why the fuck am I going to write down one thing I can get excited about today? One thing I can get excited about today. How about jerking off at night? Right then. About jerking off at fucking 10 p.m. Stroking your cat. If one word could describe the kind of person I want to be today, that word is, where? Oh. Someone who needs me on my A game today is, my cock, my dick. A situation that might stress me out or trip me up today could be, not being able to stroke my dick. Not being able to stroke my cock. Someone I could surprise with a note, gift or sign of appreciation is, you could surprise a lot of people with your cock. Plenty. Pretty much everybody. But that's the planner. Yeah, not the best planner I've ever seen. It's okay. It was funny. It was funny in the moment. But the scarf makes up for it. And also my trip to Japan was a beautiful gift. Yes. Tell me about Japan, bro. And we're going back in May. We are going back in May. What did you like? What did you dislike? What was your favorite part? Where'd you go eat? What'd you do? All on here at all. We'll start with that I flew from Melbourne, Australia to Japan. That was about a 12-hour flight. And I was there for 12 days. And from the start, I knew that it was going to be 12 days without marijuana. 12 days. No way. That's right. Which for me was like... That's a federal law there. Oh, it's a federal law in America, bro. Yeah, it was like... No, I mean like a... It's like they'll cut your hands off or something. Yeah, I just... I thought it was like real. They'll kill you, they'll put you in jail, they'll like... It's not as bad as Dubai, but it's still bad. All I know is in Asia, weed is not good unless you're in Thailand. They're really cool about it in Thailand. Yeah, I don't know what the law is, but I wouldn't risk smoking. No, it was not worth the risk at all. So I just abstained. I got drunk instead, which was pretty good. I thought it would be worse, honestly. In sake? Umeshu, dude. Umeshu's so good. Plum wine's so good. I'll get into that. It's just... I thought it would be a lot worse dealing with like marijuana withdrawal or whatever, but I was so like, gobsmacked and like, living in the moment of like, oh my god, I'm in Japan. Oh my god, everything smells so good. Oh, the food is great. Oh, these girls are so cute. And all that other shit that like, the weed withdrawal wasn't even like... Fuckin' with me. So that wasn't too bad. The first day that we flew in, we had a bar crawl tour on the first night. No way. So we did like a couple of bar crawls. We went... It was all in Tokyo. Hey, y'all got active right away. That's crazy. Because day one, when I got there, we were so overwhelmed. Dude, we literally couldn't find food. We just like, didn't know what to do with ourselves. Like, we could find food. It was everywhere, but like... It was everywhere, but you know that shit could go on. You don't know how to approach like in Isekai when you first like, get there. Cause it's like, dude, there's just a bunch of like, what the fuck do I do in here? Like, I don't know how to communicate. You're walking by like a stand with like 80 skewers and you're like, I can just go in and like, do I sit down? Do I just take them and go? Yeah. You know, it was... The first night was magic. Cause we're walking around like Shibuya and Shinjuku. Yeah, Shinjuku is my favorite. We're walking around this shi-fucking gang. Like the buildings were guys, like just the way people were dressing was crazy. Yeah. And we were going to the dead of the winners, who everyone was layered up, they're wearing their cool shit. And we go to like, we meet up with the boy, like the boy crawl tour guide and he's there. That is hilarious. His name was Jun. And he was a cool guy, real cool dude. Yeah, sounds Korean. I didn't ask. I didn't ask Jun in these companies. Yeah, it was the four of us and we're there and we're like, is it just us for the tour? We're waiting around like, nah, there's like two more people coming. We're like, okay, cool, strangers. And then we met them, cool people. They were South African-Israeli, which is like, what a hell of a combo? That's a wild combo. Yeah, it's like double apartheid. Yeah, I was going to say they double apartheid up. That's crazy. But they were lovely people. They were really, really young. Was the beer promised to them 4,000 years ago? Oh, the plum wine was promised to them like that day. They were desperate for it. They fucking, we got fucked with them. We got absolutely like destroyed. It was probably like four bars, five bars, bottomless drinks, some skewers and like a bunch of different shit. But dude, I was getting on the plum wines, maybe eight or nine plum wines that night just like twice. Dude, plum wine's crazy. The hangover from plum wine, the like, the feeling of even like, I shouldn't even say the hangover. The feeling when you try to go to bed while your plum wine is a little... It's kind of rough. It's not good. It was giving me a lot of anxiety and I felt a lot of anxiety being hungover. But I mean, I was literally drinking every single day for like seven or eight days in a row. Yeah, that's what you do there. Before I had this over day. But then it was like, as we're doing this bore crawl, very authentic spouts, like they didn't speak much English. We asked for an English menu. That's what you want. You know, and this one dude gave us this English menu, probably over three or four different restaurants. There was always like, you know, like a typo or whatever. Oh, absolutely. But it's hilarious. You know, it's like there was, they kept saying it was on the raw, not on the rocks. So we go, umeshu on the raw, on the raw. Dude, I kept seeing Chris post that in his Instagram story. And I was like, did I fucking miss something in Japan? Because I don't know. I don't not remember the fucking raw. Like, you get a drink on the raw and RAH on the raw. And then there was boiled bumplings, which was really good. You made us laugh for like eight hours. We're all bunklings. If I ever showed you the, I have a folder on my phone of hilarious translations that I saved from Japan. Dude, fucking some of them are so funny when I was like trying to figure out what the fuck was going on at this food stand. You'd like scan it. And it was like, it's what we're doing with Google translate. Everything, everything. It's like, how do I eat this? How do I eat this? It would be like crazy shit like that. One that was funny was Roman Sauer. Yeah. Well, that's what that's what lemon is. It's Roman. Yeah, that's like the Roman Sauer. What do they call that? No, no, like they call it Roman, Romanji or some shit where they just like, they take like a, like an English word essentially. Oh, and they like, yeah, Japanify it for English people because we're stupid and don't want to translate things. We're definitely stupid. I was for probably five or 10 minutes. I was sitting on my toilet trying to like Google lens the bidet. So I wasn't, you know, I don't want to pressure you. I'm the low setting and it was fine. And I was going to like, you know, some device wasn't going to go up there like a scrubber and start fucking doing whatever. Yeah. Tentacle fucking. So, so there was a lot of. And reaches from the lens. But it was funny. That was the first night, which was just a quick intro to getting fucked up. And then the second night, which was the first night, which was the first night. It was the first night. It was the first night. It was the first night. It was the first night. It was the first night. It was the first night. And then the second night, which was Wednesday, we went to Golden Guy, which is like a famous strip of bars. So like a lot of like, it's like four or five alleyways completely filled with with bars in Isakaya. Oh, is that like, it's like just south of Dotonbori, I think. Is that where it is? I think. I think it's in. Okay, I think I know what you're talking about. It's near like Shibuya, Wushengju-ku. Yeah. Yeah, it's near that area. But it's like a huge touristy area where a bunch of people like go and just get fucked up. And usually you have to pay cover charge like a thousand yen, which is like ten bucks to get into a bowl. Oh yeah, it's a touristy area then. Okay, yeah, it's definitely. It's extremely, extremely touristy. Yeah, if there's a cover fee, it's basically like just going to be all white people in there, which is fucking hilarious. Exactly, exactly. And it's so funny. Half the bars were like that, and then the other half was like members only. Then it was like the word English with like a giant X through it. The shit like that, like don't fucking put your if you're a whitey. So that was interesting. But we met up with a bunch of people that were just getting drunk, just other fellow tourists. They ran into us. We were having a smoke of a cigarette. I wasn't smoking for like the first couple of days. It's so strong there. It smells like shit. But everyone was having a smoke. Yeah, everyone was like fucking punching the gut every time somebody lights one up around you. Two drunk girls come up and they're like, oh hey, what are you doing? You have like a lighter above the blower. We're like, yeah, we know we're going drinking. Blub of love, you want to join us? Sure. You know, and then we end up bar hopping with like this, you know, this group of girls. And we end up going to, well, we go to a boring golden guy. We get all fucked up there. They have this thing called snake wine. It's a giant ramble snake. Oh, bro, that shit's vile. Yeah, it is. Coiled up and they kept saying it's good for your vitality. I'm like, give me that fucking vitality. Give me that fucking election. It's so gross. It's spicy, dude. It was spicy. Really, dude? It just tasted like vinegar. Vinegarity. Yeah. It was vinegary and spicy. It was not good. Oh. But I shared that with one of the girls and then she fucking pulls out a fucking pen. She pulls a fucking like, like a weed pen. And I go, you have a penji and she's like, yeah, I do. And I was like, what the fuck? She's Puerto Rican girl fucking in Japan with a fucking penji. I'm gonna have a fuck. You get that in there. So I don't ask questions. He said, I won't. I said, I got a little baked. But it was the one and only time I got baked in Japan, which was. Crossfaded off the plum wine and crossfaded on the plum wine. Snake wine. Sake. I think I had like two high balls by that point as well. Dude, high ball. Good high ball. Yes. The high balls are great. And like the dude who was serving the plum wine was like the most animated like boy tender we had. He could be like, oh, American, American. You know, and. American Jean. American Jean. Yeah. Getting like buddy buddy with us. And what I think we. I could this could be wrong because this is just from memory, but I think the term that we would say we would go to Kai opai Gdaisky, which means I like a big tits and we would like we send that to him and then he just stopped and he goes. Me too. You know, everyone's just sort of going fucking crazy. So that's that's that's like that's like local lore. Like that's actually like if you are drinking with random like businessmen in Shibuya, I don't know the exact phrase. I think you were pretty close. Yeah. I like the. Yeah. If you just tell them. S man. Yeah, dude, if you just tell them you love big ass tits, they will love you like Japanese men are the horniest motherfuckers. Oh, yeah. There's not a single person out there. There's not. It's insane. They're they fucking love vagina and getting drunk. It's good. That's the best life in the labor game. People I guess. Very relatable. Well, I know they like cock and getting drunk. Who cares? That's still rat as fuck. Whatever. I don't know about that. But yeah, that night we ended up in a karaoke bar, which was insane. We went to this karaoke bar that was maybe like like a mile walk. Walked all the way there. We go down is in the basement of this hall on the wall. There's a bunch of people there. They're playing on vinyl like music. They have a whole collection of. No way. And then you can choose. So like American music or all the Japanese everything dude. It's like fucking happy. They always do a bit of a mixture of both. They love American rock and roll there. Really? Like there's a ton of like Eagles and shit like that. Well, is there they love America? But we ran the tab. Man, we got like destroyed, destroyed there. The Puerto Rican girl who I was smoking with got really like faded and had to sleep. And so she's like going to bed in the chair like nighting off. You know, and I'm like, oh God, we're bad to get kicked out. And in America or in Australia, if you're at a bar or a club and you're falling asleep, a security guard comes up to you and goes, hey, hey, wake the fuck up. Get the fuck out. Get the fuck out. And then they kick you out. Yeah, they're not happy about it. The Japanese guy comes up to her so gently and goes, oh, excuse me, please, please get up. You know, she's like, oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. He goes, no, no, no. And then pulls out a fucking reclining like it was like a reclining chair fully reclines it back and goes, here, here you go. Take a nap. And then she she goes, oh, thank you. And she's dead asleep. The entire rest of the night. We're screaming karaoke. We're like screaming Lincoln Park karaoke. And she's so fucking raw. It was pretty good. But it's like falling asleep in public, like getting so drunk you pass out at the same table as your boss is like, like that's what you want to do. Like that's guys. They love that. That was literally it was it was such an opening experience of like people here are so hospitable and so nice because if it was anywhere anywhere in America or Australia, you fall asleep at bar, man, they're dragging you out by your neck. Yeah, by your collar, dude. You touch you on the curve. That was funny. We had really screwed up, which was good. We all went home. Had a nice night. I think my favorite part about karaoke in Japan is like, you're supposed to be respectful and somebody else is singing and just lock in and watch them. You're supposed to talk over like every so it's like literally everybody's like doing a full performance and it's the celebration. It's great. They'll go up there and they will get crazy with it. They will sing the fucking most impossible song to sing and they are hammered and they sound like shit and you're like. Don't have this on your playlist. Let's change that. 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Thursday was fun. This was the day after. We decided to go shopping. We went to a bunch of different strips. We went to like a local place. It was selling a bunch of different stuff. There was this like chain of like shops called Man Drink that are like really old vintage like figurines and collectibles and plushies and shit like that. So I went and got a bunch of shit from my family for Christmas and everything. And we ended up meeting up with one of the girls who was at the karaoke bar with us the night before who drank like really drank. Now the one who passed out one of the other ones and she she meets up with us there. We're like, oh, hey, how are you doing? How are you doing? How are you feeling? She goes, yeah, I'm pretty good. I think I shat my pants and we're like, what? Like last night. I would even admit that even if that's true. Like right now. We go, we go, we go, we say what? Like last night? She goes, no. And we go, what? You have you have poop in your pants right now? She's like, yeah, just a little bit. We're just like, oh, all right. You're not having a fiber. Yeah, she was really, really, really, really upfront about having shat like shorted her pants basically, which was really, which was really, really interesting. I didn't. She was from San Francisco. So I think the CIA couldn't waterboard that info out of me with people I met the night before. Dude, literally, she didn't give a fuck. It was her opening line. Hey, how are you? She was like, oh, I'd die. I'm good. I shat my pants a little bit. You shat my pants. We were just like, damn, that's cool. Cool. We're going to walk around for fucking two hours if you want to join us with poop in your pants. Dude, that shit actually frosted in there. Oh, shardy. Let's go. Shardy. Shardy B. That was cool. Did she, hold on. Did she walk around with you? Did she like let it go? Yeah, she walked around with us for like 30 minutes. I'm assuming it was only a little bit. She let it cross. Dude, that's dude. Dude, that's dude. It was a fool. Dude, his girlfriend don't work out now. He has a backup. There is a lack of fiber in the Japanese diet and not too much protein either. It's a lot of rice. So it's a lot of fiber. It's a lot of rice. It's a lot of rice, but the rice doesn't, doesn't carry. I have no idea. It doesn't carry. When you have nothing but like wagyu and like fish. Well, they don't know. They're mostly. Okay, never mind. There's no fiber in this. Yeah, there's zero fiber. Honestly, I don't have like, not really. Like do not eat bread. Super nutritious. And I'm not going to lie. I was, the shedding was diabolical. Like I understand why they have bidets everywhere. I mean, you're also drinking like a psycho. And you're like, are, you know, well off. So you're eating nice meat. You're not eating like bland fish every day. Like a lot of the population or like 7-Eleven ramen. So yeah, your, your ass was probably getting. It was annihilated. It was, it was a, it was a mess. We'll put it there. Bro, how about the convenes? Would you go 7-Eleven family mart? Family mart was the one that we hit most of the afternoon. The fried chicken. The order. The chicken was the shit, dude. I would just hit the fucking, like the tuna mayo rice balls. The fucking triangles of heaven. Yes. The tuna mayo rice balls were like my shit. There was that. Pucari sweat was like my breakfast every morning. Dude, Pucari sweat is, it's insane. Even they're ready. Even they're like the microwave meals they have. Or they have a, they have coffee in the container in a heated, like a heated shelf. So you take the coffee off of the shelf and it's already warm. It's good to go. Yep. Nice and warm. Ready to go. It's fucking pretty unbelievable. The shit there was pretty unbelievable. Hitting up a family mart while you're absolutely hammered at like 3 AM in Shibuya is like a top five. But it's great because everyone else is hammered too. I know. That's everybody else. Everybody else. Well, it's like, even especially if you go to like, um, like a small bar, like the, the bar keeps will be hammered with you. Like it's, it's part of the culture to like drink with your customers. So if you buy them a shot, they will take it with you and they will get fucking annihilated and just fall asleep in their restaurant. There's a lot of characters out in Tokyo. There's a lot of characters. We read the one and all. Yeah. I'll be very brief on this because I could almost have an entire podcast on this man alone. I don't know. But we had, we had Chris, my PA and Seaton. They on Thursday, they went back to Golden guy because me and Lauren went to see tool. It was the entire point of the trip. Yeah. We were going to go see tool in Japan, which by the way, that's fucking awesome. It was fucking insane. Yeah. I saw Lauren posted a bunch in their story and it looked fucking insane. I just wish that I was high. I just wish I was able to watch it. I was drunk. Yeah. But I needed to be on way more drugs than I was, but it's not worth it. It's not worth getting arrested in Japan. No, I was. They'll hold you for 30 days. Well then you get a 30 days in Japan. Yeah. Except you're in a jail cell with the Japanese Bubba. And then you got to fucking puke. Bubba. But you could take a lot of naps. There's a lot of naps and there's a lot of naps in Japan prison. But Chris and Seaton go to Golden guy again and they run into this guy whose name is Pierre. Now he was this French guy, really interesting, and then he would not leave them alone. He stuck to them like glue. And this guy was maybe 30 something, maybe in his 40s. Apparently he was pulling out credentials. He would pull up a notepad to explain what he did. And he claimed to be international police. That he works with the Japanese police solving cold cases. And that he solved the cold case that was allegedly a suicide but it was actually a murder. And he's like, he also used to be a game developer and he used to be head of game studios. But the thing is he's backing it all up with articles and shit. That was written about him. And then he shows us a photo of him and one of his three Japanese baby mamas with Emmanuel Macron the president of France. That's what we were thinking because he was also posting AI pictures of Jesus on his Instagram. This guy was 100%. But he's definitely a mid-journey 2.0 on his discord. It looked pretty real. It looked pretty real. I'm not gonna lie. I mean, this guy was interesting. But this guy was pretty wild AI. But yeah. He convinced Chris and Seaton that he was this big deal and whatever. And then Chris and Seaton after we went to the next day in the morning they're telling us, oh, you gotta meet this guy Pierre. Maybe we'll run into Pierre again. And I think, yeah, Friday we did more shopping and then we ended up going out. Oh no, I think we did run into him eventually again at Golden Guy. This is like fast forwarding a couple of days. And I remember I got to meet him and I got to drink with him and I got to ask him questions and try to see if this guy's legit. Are you legit? So I go, hey, so when did you start working with the police? How did you get picked up? And he's like, oh, well, you see, I'm extremely intelligent. And I was like, oh, okay. How intelligent are you? Yeah, but that is what intelligent people say about themselves. He goes, I have a very large IQ. I go, really? What's your IQ? He goes, it's bigger than Einstein's. I was like, really? And he goes, yes. And then he starts explaining that he's a psychic and that being a psychic transcends IQ. And I was like, oh, okay. And then he asked me for $300 at the end of the night. He asked me for money so he can go get a prostitute. All right, yeah, he's clearly not solving the cold cases very well or very good at making games. He was that smart, he'd be making money. He was so interesting and there was so much lure and so much more to unpack that for the sake of gravity, we should move on. That's insane. Very, very cool. We'll talk to you about it the next time we're there. Maybe we'll meet up with him. Maybe not. Going into Friday, we did a little bit more shopping. We ate a lot more food. And then that night, we went to a muscle mommy bar. Yes! Dude, those are the fucking funniest things in the world. I had, we went in, I went in with no expectations, completely blind, didn't even know what I was getting myself into. I thought we were just going to go to like a place where the girls who serve her drinks are like really muscular, which I was running out of money. Oh, let's sit on your face. They're crazy. It was, we go down like two flights of steps into this like double basement and like you go through this door and like it's crazy. It looks like a strip club except like they have the poles where they fucking have you sit at the bottom. Dude, yes, there was one pole where you sit at the bottom and they like dive bomb on you. But as like it's a strip club, it's like with one, one pole and then the rest are like, like gym equipment, like weightlifting machines. So like they set you down to give you a couple of drinks and then they tell you to go and try to do the weight, the weight machine. So if you can do 50 reps of 50 kilograms rows, then you get 10 of the muscle bucks that you can spend on special stuff. So I, I managed to just crank out the 50 by 50, which is tough because it was full reps. Yeah. Got my 10, got my 10, 10 muscle bucks, spent another, spent another like 25. dollars on stripper bucks. And then I got slapped by, by, by a sexy ripped Japanese lady, which was great. I wrapped my shit, put my eyes to the back of my head. And then the other one, the other one I paid for was to get lifted up. Like they picked me up. No way. Caught all you like a baby. No, they like picked me up leg and leg and like hoisted me like, oh yeah. I was standing up like doing this. It was pretty, it was pretty beast. That was crazy. They would take an entire, they would make your grapefruit high ball by pouring your drink in front of you and then all of them, all of them at once would like put on this music and then go, hi, hi, die, die, die, die. And then they grab like the fucking thing and with their bare hands, they would crush the grapefruit and like squeeze it into your, into your drink and then do like a sexy dance and like say a bunch of Japanese words and like, you know, ha, then you drank. It was insane. That was fucking insane. That was hilarious. I was so horny. Those are wild. Ha. Them girls were really fit, man. Yeah, them shardies know what the fuck they doing. They're crazy. You know, it was honest to me, it was honest to me. It was really, it was really good. I think it was like we, we, we, we, after that met up with two other creators that flew out to Japan on a whim because we were there. They wanted to meet up with us. They were friends Bryce and Alithia ended up coming out. Oh no shit. So much fun. We went to a bar. I know Bryce loves it there. Bryce was an animal. It was so much fun. Yeah, he's it. He's built for that place. Me and him were doing darts, the dart bar. Yeah. Then we, then it was a beer, a beer pong board. So we're literally playing beer pong against each other and getting wasted on, on plum wine. And then Seton, a friend who's with us there gets so drunk and he never, he's never done this before. You got so drunk he just left. Didn't tell anybody. He said fuck it and dipped. Didn't tell anyone. The way he was going anywhere just was like I'm too trashed. I'm going to go and just Irish exit leaves. And I'm like where the fuck is Seton? Where the fuck is Seton? I'm looking everywhere for him. And then he, you know, I get my call. Where are you? He's like, oh, I've gotten in a fucking DD to go home. But then I realized there's, you know, it's not the end of the night for me. So now I'm at Golden Guy. Well, I'm like what? And so I head around everybody up. We had to go back to Golden Guy to find him. And then we find him at Golden Guy in this place called, what the hell was it called? Deathmatch in hell? Deathmatch from hell? And all of the drinks were 666 yen, which is insane. Damn. That's dangerous. It's like six dollar drinks. So we got plastered there. Met up with like a bunch of other tourists while we were there. One was this like the shorter Asian girl from California and her husband from Indiana, they just got married. Her husband was plastered and like, I think annoying the shit out of her. And like she was carrying a ton of shit and he was not helping her carry shit at all. Empty hands. Empty hands. Yeah, sure enough. And so she's holding all this shit. You know when I get out of the bar and I'm talking with them and someone bumps into her and knocks the bag, like the paper bag out of her hand and all of these books. She had like maybe eight or nine books. Why is she bar hopping with books though? She just went shopping and she was expecting the bar out. Oh, well there's like storage lockers like everywhere in Japan. Like if you just go to like any of the train station, yeah, whatever, fair enough. I guess she didn't know. She just had a gentleman and I was now we're gonna ask. But I was, I see nine manga around the floor and I go, you know, the gentleman I am. I say, oh, well, let me help you. Oh, no. She's like, no, no, no, no, you don't have to. You don't have to. I go, no, no, I got it. Oh, they're pouring out there. I pick up four or five books and there's a bunch of like, this fucking literally, literal gay men kissing and grabbing each other's crutches on the photo and I'm like the frang. I go, what the fuck is this? Look at her and like, this is why you're in Japan, huh? Then she got went red, beat red. She's like, oh, oh, it's yeah, yeah, you say I can only get this here and shit and like her husband is just laughing at her. That's so funny. We end up going to this club, which was an insane club. I forget even the name of it, but we I could barely remember. I could barely remember any of this besides we walked down stairs, we get a bunch of drinks, we're dancing in the middle and there was like, there's a bunch of sexy like girls dancing with like nothing on essentially like two, two music and there's this big countdown. And then when the countdown hits, like all these air cannons go off confetti's in the air, like streamers are in the air, like falling down. The ladies like disappear and then a bunch of guys in astronaut outfits come out and start like dancing crazy style. I'm like, what is going on? Dude, what the fuck bars, dude? I went to a lot of bars. All right, I went to a lot of places. I never seen anything like that in the fucking in Tokyo. That is full, full astronaut like full national, not even cheap costumes. Just like actual that literally looked like astronaut. Can I ask you if I would have hammered? I'd probably run for I think my fight or flight would kick in. I would look at it low key wise, low key wise. Do people are just so interesting like, you know, you're there with girls and like Japanese guys are very grabby, very grabby. They're like and you kind of have to tell them like, no, no, no, she's with me or she's my girlfriend, even if she's not. Yeah, just so that they leave, leave the fuck. Yeah, well, I mean, like so obviously it's like a hyper conservative, you know, country. So naturally, you know, on the pecking order, it's kind of like men, women. Oh, God, women, women, women don't got rights. No, it's bad. It's kind of crazy. I was just so crazy because their prime minister is the president, whatever it is, is a fucking woman now. But yeah. And the and the lady that she put to head the immigration department when she was asked, this is a little separate note. But yeah, the female prime minister of Japan apparently instilled a female head of immigration who was asked on Twitter, like, you know, what are you going to do about birth rates? You know, you know, are you married? Are you going to have you are you looking to have kids at all? And she apparently confessed that she is a 2D exclusive woman and that she only likes 2D men. She only finds 2D men attractive and not the 3D. So she's exclusively. She only likes anime boys. You fucking idiot. What do you think that means? Grin. Fuck a 3D penis. No, she doesn't. She she does good. Fuck any penis. She only only only only when you can print out a penis. That's too. Probably 2D penis. It's a paper penis. And I could not imagine. I could not imagine. I couldn't imagine the fucking paper cut. Would I be good? Oh, yeah. Well, it probably it probably just gets soaked and just turn it into like a ball of mush. Yeah, it wouldn't even make it through the front gate. It was it was just interesting. Interesting. Crumble. I'll fucking. But yeah, it it's weird. It's like we we wouldn't you know, we met up with with two women that actually live in Japan, you know, one Japanese with Chinese lives in Japan. But yeah, they tell stories of like, yeah, you get like in a club as a woman or sexually assaulted and like get out, talk to a cop and they'll go, well, why aren't you wearing a bra? Like type shit, like literal type shit. Or like, well, basically, you know, literally, literally like just putting the blame on them. Hey, well, why don't you go to the club drinking to begin with or any of that other shit, which is like, well, Jesus, no, son of your business. Maybe maybe one step away from requiring them to wear. Berkis, basically at John Lewis money. We know your home is more than an address. 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See, I'm not putting this on the woman. Obviously, 1000 percent on the on the dudes that just maybe don't fucking rape. I don't know. I don't know. But you know, you see a lot of you see a lot of like guys passed out. But then you see a lot of like girls like young girls passed out in the gutter. Yeah, well, and you know, I'm like, damn, like, that's crazy. And then, you know, they would tell you like, yeah, dude, well, obviously, leave him alone. Like they'll wake up. They'll be like, oh, shit, where am I? And they'll go home, you know, even and they discourage anyone because, you know, maybe maybe you're from like a, you know, you were you were you were raised right in America or Australia or whatever. And you see a woman in distress. You're like, oh, should I have an extra bottle of water? I'll leave it next to her, you know, and then I'll then I'll fuck off. It's like, no, dude, you're not supposed to like engage with them at all. No, just assume people will assume that you're there to take advantage. Yeah. And then and then what? You know, there's literally no point. Just leave him the fuck alone. And you know, they'll find their way home. You know, they will find their way home. They'll wake up and they'll go, oh, my God, my back hurts and my fucking thirsty. And then they'll go home, get a train. They're probably just sleeping until the train trains your bank. Yeah, well, that's what most of them do. They'll either leave it like whatever. I think it's midnight is the last train. And then yeah, if they miss that, they will just sleep till like five thirty a.m. when the first train goes. The like the next day after the I should I shit was literally just recovery. I think we just got some wagyu and every restaurant we went to sitting in Chris would like get a giant glob of wasabi and then like eat it. There was. And then like and then see who can who can who breaks first is the whole idea. Like who can keep straight things with all the wasabi? I can't even fucking tenth of an ounce of wasabi. It was bad, man. It was like labs. They should like 10 times. Oh, I will say that, McNasty. You've probably never had real proper. You're really gonna be you've probably had an Americanized wasabi. It's just like horses. You never had a real IP. It tastes like aspirin water. No, no, it's like literally a completely different product. Like it's like horseradish and stuff in the US. It's not it's not so much worse. Actual wasabi root is it's more flavorful, but it'll blow your fucking sinuses out of your face. Yeah, no, you can't. It needs out your eyes. It's honestly, I think it's more of like it's supposed to be more of like a like feeling thing to add to it. It's not you're not really supposed to taste and be like this is too strong. It's usually like they'll put like a tiny bit of it underneath of the salmon on like a piece of nigiri or something. And you like you don't really taste it, but it opens up your sign and you taste everything so much more. Everything else. Yeah, it's like an enhancer. The way it opens your nose, you could smell it. Americans go. That's it. But then it's horseradish green horseradish. And it was on Sunday. We ran the Wagyu Bank because we were running a big Wagyu kick exam, which we were enjoying it. Oh, dude, and it's like 20 bucks for like fucking eight ounces here. That's like 250 bucks. Well, not this restaurant we went to. We went to like a really fancy. Oh, yeah, if you go to like a crazy one, you'll get some. It was kind of crazy. The bill, the bill was kind of nice, but it was like eight people. So that being said, you know, for what it's worth, it made sense. It was a 200, 300 ahead. Oh, that's not anything. I mean, that's a lot, but that's not anything. It's a lot of money, but it's not a fucking nobu or anything. No, it was. But yeah, it was really good. We had this guy, the waiter's name was Kenton. And he served Chris and Seaton. Like the night before and they had, or while we were at tool, they think they went there and they, you know, where are you from? We're from our from Australia. Oh, yeah. You know, what do you do? And they, like they, they taught them that like Aussie words and that sick is like a good thing. And like, if you call someone a sick, it's like, you know, they're saying best friend. And so when we went there, they, they requested Kenton and then Kenton comes in and he goes, sick, sick. And that's all he did. He was like a Pokemon saying sick over and over and over and over again. That is fucking funny. It was so, dude, it was so nice and like, dude, breaking down exactly what to do and how to do it and how to ruin the meat and like here's the sake. He was giving us like sake that was like milky and cloudy. Yeah. Yeah. He's giving us cloudy sake. So good. They broke up the planks in it and she and I was like, damn, this is the shit is fucking this сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор сор! The only thing you're gonna be filming is each night you're drunk and it's gonna look like one long night. You just frame it as one really long night. You'd be like, God damn these guys got around. That was good and then it was, I think, Monday was just a relaxing time and just kind of recuperating. And then we got ramen. We got ramen, I think, three or four times. Yeah, ramen. It was so fucking good, man. You just write it on a piece of paper, put it through the thing, don't have to talk to anybody. The mystery man delivers it. So cast here. And it was on Tuesday. All the food. It was the Tuesday we went to Shibuya and I took my helmet out and we actually filmed like a pramper little thing walking around with the helmet on. Which I thought, oh, are they gonna have an issue with this? You know, people walking around with the helmet. Walking around with a mask is gonna be a problem. It's like, dude, people walk around with masks every fucking day in Asia. It's literally their culture. So I was like, shit, hell yeah. And going out, people obviously were looking at me weird. People love it. People were looking at me like, you know, give me the side eye and shit. But no issues. I kept doing this, doing one of these in the helmet. Yeah. People would say, pay a spy and then they hit me with one back and like, yes. Yes. But yeah, it was cool. It was really cool. So I got to me and walking around. We went to the arcades. So I got to where I got a bunch of plushies and figurines and shit. Dude, they fucking love their arcades. Oh my god. Yeah, we met up with them. We met up with Alithia. She was in an IRL stream alongside two other Japanese streamers, Nukoko and Kanini. That was really good. So we did a whole, like, it was like seven hours of us going through arcades, walking around. We went to a like a little bar and then we went and got hot blood. And so, you know, they streamed the entire thing. So I had my shit on the entire time, which was fucking rough. Yeah, that's a long time to be wearing that. Then we went to a club after and then fucking danced and did all that shit. And then I think at the very at the very end of the night, I think I had my helmet on for 10 hours. And it was completely fucked. My neck was fucked up. Yeah, it was probably soaking wet and that thing too. It was bad. My neck was fucked up. I was all sore. And I was tired and I was hungover. And Alithia and Bryce wanted to like, you know, make the most, because they were sick most of the trip. And they wanted to hang out because they were feeling better. It was like one of our last days. They were like, hey, let's go. We'll do an escape room and then we'll go to a museum. And I'm like, sign me. Sounds so good. That sounds chill. That sounds good. Let's do it. And so we wake up. My neck is killing me. And I'm hungover. I could barely move my neck. I could barely turn my head. I'm like, it's fine. Escape room is fine. It's chill. What was going to happen? So we were convinced to do this interactive escape room shit. And it was based off of a show that I had never seen before called Alice in Borderlands. I don't know if you're familiar. It's apparently like OG's Squid Game. And, you know, Bryce or Alithia, I think they set it up. They fill out all the waivers and shit on our behalf. So all we had to do was rock up. So I don't know what the fuck I'm getting myself into. And we get there. We're running late. We're like literally like maybe five or ten minutes late because this place is like in the middle of a giant complex. And we're running late. And this place is like in the middle of a giant complex near a train station. So we're going to these circles. We go up. We run. We ran. We ran to the thing just in time. They go alright here. Put this on and they give us this giant collar to put around your neck. Oh no. And then we we go into this room and there's a hundred people in the room. Ninety-five of them are Japanese and and then there's like fucking five white people Walking in and go like hey, what's going on? You know, and they're like oh, yeah, you know, we're gonna do the thing now And then I'm still lost because they just started I miss the entire Exposition and then I start piecing together in this fucking show It's like squid game except they all wear a necklace and if they fail the necklace electroshocks them to death And so I have a sore neck and it's like a countdown We're gonna do a test shock and I'm like are you fucking serious? So I had to get down on my knees and like holding the fucking thing and it shocked my neck and hurt and so I'm sitting there going I Had to do a fucking escape room hung over The entire thing is in Japanese. I Can't understand a lick of what's going on. There's numbers on the wall. There's numbers on the ceiling There's numbers on my phone on an app Then I have no idea what to do with and if I fucked up I'm gonna get shocked and so Yeah, they did not get that there at all I'm low-key flipping out and And and and just is like I start to chill out be like, okay, maybe this is gonna be fine Maybe it's just gonna be chill They split us up into teams and I get completely separated from from my friend. Oh my god Like Japanese all of my friends it was like too it was like they were in pairs It was the only guy not with fucking English speaking people So they take us to a completely different room different part of the thing. It's me and like 15 Japanese people and I'm speak a link Because they can figure the shit out Well, it's like I'm sitting there. You could like pretend you're helping like guys. I figured I'm like just Explaining I'm sitting there. I'm literally sitting there. I have no idea what's going on and like The entire game was impossible for me to follow because I didn't speak any Japanese and they're all speaking Japanese to each other And by getting really excited and then like it in all hype and I'm just sitting there like And I think I all I could be you say is um Go men as I Buck a guy Jen des and then they don't laugh And then and then they would do the puzzle they'd all do the puzzle and then you know, you know Literally I said sorry stupid white guy You know which which they liked and then the dude who was like the host You know, we ended up beating the level no one got shocked and everyone's walking back to the main stage You know and I'm trailing behind looking at my phone trying to see you know Hey, is everyone and other thing and the dude Yuki Comes up to me. He goes. Oh, what's your name? Oh, my name is my name and he goes. Oh, okay Never give up and I was like gosh your man. I'll never give up. I'll never give up a guy's your man He's like it was so Your own suicide watch Literally literally he was like he clearly noticed that I Was just and to strutting had no I was going on. So you just trying to like make it pale. He was good guy Unfortunately in the in the very next performance because he was like an actor slash shaper own guy he gets killed So that oh no, you're one supporter died him a one supportive fucking guy killed the one the one ally you had We in the end in the very end. We didn't end up beating the game I didn't end up being the game we got shocked and then we got to take it off. So I can believe that There was a man's really really fucking tough. Honestly. It was It was it was kind of it was kind of a frightening experience, but I was awake I was awake by then and then we went to a little mall. I got some dongle Some of the rice ball the multicolor rice ball, which I thought was gonna taste a lot better than it did No, it's very bland it looks better than it's extremely bland it literally just tastes like rice Yeah, it's just a giant rice ball essentially big big rice with no I thought it was gonna be a little sweet little sugar in there You're selling yeah, it looks like it's gonna be sweet and yeah. Yeah, no it just is nothing really really You guys ever tried like down what the the sticky bean Japanese Japanese sticky like red. Oh, you talk about like the beans I figured that's called um Fuck I am drawn a blank sticky come It's gonna sound Very gross, but they taste like not do Not all not though yet mentored with the bantarian basilis sceptilis Yeah, I low-key think they just taste like cheesy beans, which is honestly kind of gas Pretty good. Yeah, I don't hate apparently a lot of people don't like them It's got a punch and smell compared to aged cheese and a nutty savory umami flavor I unfortunately was not able to have any not oh, but I'm sure it would have been good. Hey, buddy That's what may is for That is what may is for we'll get we'll get fucking crunked on that shit, but there's Yeah, there was getting zapped and then I think after Dango we went to a interactive like museum. It was like an interactive experience We're like you go through a bunch of different themed things. It's like you go through water. It's like you you walk Oh, yeah, I see. Yeah, I see you take your shoes off. You go up like a waterfall You you're like wading through water and doing all this crazy shit and like you're walking barefoot through like A corridor filled with like hanging ropes of light that are all blinking in a sequence and it was it was all dreamy and cool, but again Should have been a honey Yeah, and hung over with a neck ache probably didn't make it as fun Now it was a little bit more magical by that point. I was all it was a little bit more chill But yeah at the very end of it We got to have this ramen that was detached from the museum But it was part of the experience and the thing is it was a it was a vegan ramen, which we were like But they were like trust us and we were like, okay, we trust you And the whole idea is that you go into this ramen bar It's it's pitch black and they give you this oil like meditation oil the rub on your hands and it smelled really good And you go in and you be as quiet as possible And you literally sit there and you wait for your ramen to come out and then it's just it's Completely dark besides a little light Beaming over your ramen So it's just you and the ramen And like the ambient sounds of like other people slurping And then so the idea is that it's just supposed to be like just you and the ramen and then it's just you're only focused on the smell of it On the taste of it Fucking eating it It was kind of lit. I'm not gonna lie. It was fucking really great. Yeah. It was a really great way to eat ramen Let me fucking show you the photo of this ramen who's sexy yourself It was really good. I had to take a photo of it even though it was an interactive experience. I just couldn't help myself I mean look Tell me this doesn't look angelic It's fucking glowing It looks so radiated video game item or something like you just found. Yeah, literally like cyberpunk 77 food. Yeah, it was it was the leash. It was it was a top tier A top tier experience. I liked it. Oh, yeah Yeah, it's they have one really cool museums and shit like that there. I it's their culture is very like art based So there's a ton of cool shit. Yeah, but by and large japan every since I left I've been wanting to go back I've been missing it a lot. I've been missing it heaps It's one and even my dreams even my dreams in japan were about japan You know the weirdest thing that I still have from japan and I'm sure I've like Made it worse by like learning the language slowly and you know, actually like hearing it consistently but I dream full dreams about japan in japanese and I don't know what it's saying I don't know if it's real sentences. I don't know if it's real, but I will hear Like I will have full blown dreams in japanese and I like I will understand bits and pieces as that's what I actually Understand if somebody's speaking japanese to me, I'll be able to pick out like, you know, especially like topic markers I'll be able to gather roughly what they're saying But like dude, it's it's the weirdest thing and it has been happening to me since I've gone to japan And it is just the most bizarre thing it is like I don't know. I've I've been to a lot of like Places that are different than than canada because canada and us are very similar So like there's not much of like a difference there and even europe like don't get me wrong I'm not trying to shit on europe here, but like going to italy italy is Exactly what you expect it is everything everyone tells you about italy like You are there's no surprises about it. You go there Everything is gorgeous. The people are fucking hilarious. The food is fantastic. Like it's exactly what you'd expect but japan it's so Far from like the north american brain being able to comprehend what it's like there That no matter how much prep you get and how much somebody tells you what it's like you go there And it is the biggest culture shock It was like impossible to experience for me. Anyway, I found it like like there's nothing even remotely like it Like if you go to a little italy in any major city if you go inside a restaurant and hang out It will feel like you're hanging out in a restaurant in italy like it won't be anything like that You can just look to your left or right and be like, yeah, this is weird. There is nothing that captures japan like japan It's crazy. It's such an interesting. Are you're at campaigns lighting up the dashboard? 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You're like wait a minute like wait a minute I was just put on finale. I'm hungry. Did you have any of those cheesy fishes or cheese coins? Or they like bite them in the cheese coin pools like 10 feet. Those are so good I was trying to be a good boy, but Yeah I drank I drank a leg. Oh, right. And then at the very end of the trip I was probably smoking about Three four puffs From the same night for like over, you know, it was probably five or six nights in a row And then yeah, it was like as soon as I was not doing nicotine anymore Dude, I was getting tremendous anxiety. It was gonna. Were you were you getting uh, were you joneson? Uh, yeah, I fucking was I was That's I was I was I was at the airport fucking tweaking I would like go to bed a kind of tweaking you'd get like anxiety like a pin your stomach anxiety and then like It'd go away and then come back and there's it was like whoa Yeah, that's that's not it. I'm good. Yeah. No, it was you know, it's really it really isn't worth it really isn't worth And so You know, I I was lucky enough to go back home. I was in america for about You know, I got another 10 days over the christmas period and so During that period, obviously I had no no nicotine So it was it was fine. Now. I'm now I'm banked in your guys. You're you're cured. Yeah, I'm cute. No I thought you're about to I thought you're ready to play. Yeah, so about that. I smoke a pack a day or so No, no, no, I don't No more sags 100% no more sags, but no no no vapes. No no zen no neck W did you ever have a zen phase or just vape and then quit? No, no I I I quit vaping around the time that zins were being popularized Oh, okay. W timing. So I missed I missed out on getting mouth cancer Soup is gonna get mouth cancer, bro that guy he stayed at my house for like three days total and there was like four dip cans or uh, oh my god Yeah, no one dip can and three zincans left in my guest bedroom and they're still in there I'm gonna I'm gonna move on moving them when we move. Well, fuck that was basically the The longest short of my thing and then I had a blind I'm glad I had a good time there. It was good I ended up flying back from america to go to australia. I fell asleep Um in my chair with uh, both my airpods in woke up with only one air pod in my right air pod was gone I go, what the hell? Where's my airplane? I look down. It's not there. I look in my blanket. It's not there. I look Oh, it must have fallen in the crack in my seat Call the flight attendant I'll be a little embarrassed to have to call the flight attendant. Hey, you know, I lost my air pod. Can you just I don't want you sticking your hand down there and get yeah They don't want you they don't want you sticking your hands down there to start shit and see, you know, you know Hey, I'm sorry, but I lost my air pod. She goes. Oh, don't worry sugar. I Saw that out for you right now. I that I always find them Bring you eliminate nice. She was nice and and she Got a flashlight out and it was the fucking middle of the night as far as everyone else was concerned Oh, no, and you know, she's looking and can't find it and she has your fucking flashlight out with the flashlight And she's like bending over In the in the eyes of the lady behind me As she's trying to sleep with her fucking mask on And she wakes up in a panic going what the fuck's going on She thought the fucking plane was about to crash. She probably thought she was going to have it up And the lady's like, oh, I'm sorry. We're looking for something. She's like, why the fuck are you looking for it right now? It's it's the middle of the night and I'm just like sitting there embarrassed And she's like, oh, well, you know, if there's like a lithium ion battery like you could be like an issue Oh, well, I she's trying to explain to the lady and the lady is like not having any of it She's like basically throwing a tantrum She's like some care to the hostess. Okay. That's fucking yeah Like I'd understand like the original frustration of being like, you know, what the fuck they're like come on But she wouldn't let it go and I just said to the flight of that was like, hey look Why don't we try this again when it's light, you know, and like an hour before we land and she's like, okay So I go back to sleep I wake up Flight attendant comes around Hey, why don't you take that ship for you again? I go. Yep. She's checking it. She's checking it. Nope. Can't find it I was like, really? You can't face nowhere and she's like, no, it's nowhere. She goes, you see this little hole right here? I'm like Yeah, she goes So there's a chance that it probably went down there And and that's inaccessible. We would need mechanics to take apart this this whole seat and I literally said I literally said so you're telling me I hole in one to my airpods She's like, so yeah, I think so and I was like, well All right, I'm just gonna have to buy some more airpods Then when I lay dog and the rest of that flight too, you know Well, you know and the lady behind me is like why still can't find them and I was like, no, unfortunately I think they're gone. I'm sorry and then I then I went probably beyond and even were like, hey, you know, ma'am I'm sorry if You know, I didn't mean for that. I thought it would have been very simple I thought the the flight attendant would just be able to find it and I didn't expect her to be like shining lights in your face or anything You know and she go, you know, so I I said I literally I literally go, I'm sorry if I The shape of an air pod Just like I'm sorry for disturbing your sleep on the flight. It was basically what I said and she goes, oh It's okay I live in a ranch in New Santh Wales, which is where I'm going back to now with five kids Uh, so I'm used to not getting sleep and I was like, oh, haha. She goes. Yeah, my my dad died and that's why I'm coming back. Um Uh, so this is the So this is the only sleep that I'm gonna get And I was just like okay. I was just like I just went I just went all right cool turned around I so badly wanted to say yeah, well I lost my airpods And we both lost something didn't we? I would have killed myself if I was your fucking dad Fuck you lady. I lost my airpods. Yeah, that's crazy. That's good. I'm going to fucking don't get it for accidentally losing something as well Fucking dad through your trauma. Fuck you Oh, no, it's okay. My dad just died, but it's okay It's fine. My dad died and I don't get any sleep and I have five fucking bratty kids who are gonna keep me up This is the only opportunity I had to fly and I'm in business like don't fuck yourself I lost an airplane That's 400 bucks. You got a whole one on that too. Good for you. Yeah, I know it's actually I couldn't even be mad because of because uh, AUD is like 250 You know, but yeah, like I was I couldn't even be mad I was like, look if if I if I rolled a crit failure that bad and lost like a fucking airpad and whatever I can I can handle that what I can't handle is a fucking Is is some lady making me feel bad about trying to find it. Yeah, that's bringing up her dead dad Oh, yeah, if you were if I were in your I would have just brought up everything I've ever known that I would be like, yeah Well, I was actually diagnosed with uh terminal illness and Yeah, I Yeah, I three days to live and that air pod was the only thing keeping me alive Flood and bones to find my brother. Is it northern Canada northern Canada? That was my japan and my christmas, oh and one more delightful little christmas Story before before we end up here. Just as a how nice it was I Luckily was able to hang out with a bunch of my buddies then I went to high school length and some I went to college with And we got all fucked up. We played a lot of beer pong and an airbnb that I rented for a bit Um, it was really good. It was really fun. Uh-huh and I It was maybe a couple rounds of beer pong. We all got a little fucked We all take a nap We'll wake up. It's like three four in the morning or me and me and my my buddy Wake up and I won't name him because I don't want to shame him But he uh, he he tells me hey man. I'm sober. I'm ready to go. Let's fucking go home. I don't want to stay here You know, we're only 15 minutes down the road. Let's go and I'm like Are you sure? You sure you're good and he's like, yeah, I'm totally good at drive. Let's get the fuck out of here like all right And so we get in the car and he's driving me You know, I'm still kind of like half asleep And we're driving we're driving I open my eyes And like we're going down the road And there's two cars that are parked over the line like going into the middle of the road. So like they're pretty in the middle of the road But uh-oh there was more more than enough time And more than enough room and no oncoming traffic There was more than enough room for for my buddy to just go a little to left And just go and just go around it, right Instead he just he's like no, this is the line. Fuck everyone else and he just keeps going The first car passes This fucking close to the corner and I immediately go Jesus Christ and he goes what and as soon as he goes what? His fucking side view mirror Clips the other car side view mirror and just goes And I go holy shit and he goes what? What? I go what do you mean what your fucking window? Your fucking mirror is gone your mirror is gone. He goes. No it is and I go look it's gone And then he looks over to the side He sees it's gone and he shorts and he starts to panic and he goes over the curb a little bit and I go bro Stuff the fucking core and I look at him. I go dude Lock the fuck in and get me home not dead And he was just like okay, okay And then he locked in and then he got his home. Thank god and I said dude like I don't think I'm ever gonna get in the fucking car with you again, you know, like that is insane the entire ride home He's like That car was on that car was in the middle of the street that car shouldn't have been there. I go. Yeah, dude even still you You go around you do it sometimes people drive in front of your car. You hit the brakes. You just you go around You know you're maneuverable. You know that's crazy. We're on his life that he was sober and he might have been He could have just been fucking. Hey, I just I don't know what was worse. He could have been I just woke up and I'm tired You know that either way he was not fully fucking there because yeah, it's not a good look not a good look at all Not a good look at all dude even just being in the car My life flashed before my fucking eyes on the first one and before it was done flashing We fucking hit the second one. I just hit the second a second car But bro like and you know, this isn't to glorify like hi. Hi. It's a funny story like dude not not good Kids bad very very very bad kids don't fucking get in your buddy's car if he's been drinking at all Yeah, and also don't get in his car if he's tired I have gotten out of a car twice before being in the car with somebody who said they're sober And then within like a minute. I realize they're not sober. I'm just like pull over and get no pull over Keep the fuck out of the corner. Yeah, he was doing he was doing He was doing beautiful. He was doing textbook textbook beautiful driving up until those Two cars came out of nowhere and fucked his damn and it was so funny He was supposed to be my ride like the entire time I was back in the states and then he's like, yeah, I can't drive anymore I don't have a mirror I'm like, oh my god. All right. Well, fuck It's that's that's a little that was a fun little story. Yeah, it's very bad. That's a good that's a good goofing gag Definitely don't do that. Don't drink drive. Don't don't get in somebody's car Don't encourage anybody so learn it could have been way worse. I could actually have gotten extremely hurt or dead so Yeah Yeah, not good. I take it back. I take it back. That planner wasn't the worst gift the near-death experience was the worst gift But you know what be a fantastic gift if you got somebody in your life something gamers up and use code goons for 10% off There you go go against the gamers ups. 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