Fear& - We Purchased Mt Fuji ft. CDawgVA | Fear& Trash Taste

Episode Date: January 27, 2025

こんにちは。Fear& Podcast へようこそ。今週は、おなじみの顔であり大切な友人である CDawgVA から日本のコンテンツを始めます。いつも皆様のご支援に感謝しており、私たちが撮影を楽しんだのと同じように、このエピソードも楽しんでいただければ幸いです。これを読んでいるなら助けてください、私は何日も眠れていません、彼らは私を帰らせてくれません、助けてください。以下にコメントを残して、エピソードのお気に入りの部分を教えてください。愛してるさようなら ✨EXTRA BONUS EPISODES ON PATREON✨ Patreon - https://www.patreon.com/FearAnd 🎧 AUDIO PLATFORMS 🎧 🔊https://linktr.ee/fearand Follow our guest! CDawg: https://x.com/CDawgVA ❤️ follow Fear&! ❤️ Hasan: https://twitter.com/Hasanthehun Will: https://twitter.com/TheWillNeff QT: https://twitter.com/QTCinderella Austin: https://twitter.com/Austinontwitter Marche: https://twitter.com/Marche Fear&: https://twitter.com/FearAndPod Chapters - 00:00:00 - Japan Intro 00:01:54 - austin was clueless about our trip 00:05:04 - we have a guest guys 00:05:52 - you order as much room service as youd like 00:07:00 - complimentary bottle of champaign 00:09:05 - catching up with mr virginia 00:10:44 - the yakuza dealings 00:11:44 - austin show exclusive 00:14:55 - connor is a straight man 00:19:50 - the jug enforcers 00:22:39 - still owing Italy money is crazy 00:23:40 -halloween in shabuya 00:26:10 - SHOPIFY 00:27:43 - japans laws on defamation 00:33:40 - cheers to mt fuji 00:34:13 - hasans has a dream 00:38:27 - the japanese communist party was... 00:40:02 - austin lied to the marriot 00:41:52 - the perks of lying 00:48:05 - americanos off the table 00:51:24 - the extreme apologizing 00:54:23 - austin says something incredibly controversial 00:56:48 - getting corrected by big weebs 00:57:59 - smashing #hasanabi #cdawgva #podcast Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Oh, my God! Oh, my God! Yo, you tried to throw shit at us, and you caught the dagger to the forehead! My God! Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the heart of Japan. We are in Tokyo. This is the Fear N Podcast, and we are joined by one of our favorite people, Connor Dogg, Virginia. Connor Dogg's got like an eight-time medal at this point, like return.

Yeah. He is an eight-time return champion. You've done so much. I don't know if I've been on any episodes that you've been on. You're like the job. No, no, you haven't. No, no.

Why are you avoiding me? It's because Austin doesn't really do the pod that often. Also, Connor is homophobic. Connor, Connor is homophobic. You're homophobic. Yeah.

I'm not homophobic Don't touch him He'll leave What? We went to gay bars together Well there's a lot of homophobic people that go to gay bars I'm one of them What?

I go there to learn the ways I go there to learn the ways of the homosexual And I like to learn about it of the homosexual and I like to learn about it internationally. That's the worst kung fu movie. You learn the ways of the homosexual. It's like in the natural habitat. You kind of look like a homosexual.

Thank you. That's a very kind comment. Before we blast off, let's take a breath. We're in Japan. Let's be more zen about this. I hope you guys are enjoying it. We are very much enjoying it. And thank you for being a lovely host as always. Welcoming us and showing us around.

Yeah, no, that was so sick. This time when you were like, oh, you guys are coming to Japan? Like, let's hang out, please. And you invited me on Trash Taste. Yeah, none of that happened. No. No, it didn't. Well, look, you guys, okay, you did mention you were coming to Japan.

Yeah, weeks ago. I don't recall the dates being mentioned. You know what? I'm going to defend you here, Connor. The exact dates being thrown around. He's homophobic. No, we're a mess. We are a mess.

Thank you. We've literally organized every single second of every single day, months ahead of time, except for Austin. Excuse you. First of all, no. We have organized things, but it's not weeks in advance. It's like yesterday we organized it. No. And today we're doing it.

No, I have an itinerary. We have an itinerary. I can tell you what we're doing in like eight days. What are we doing tonight? We have a whole itinerary. Did you look at it? No, I didn't get sent it. We're doing sh like eight days. What are we doing tonight? We have a whole itinerary. Did you look at it? No, I didn't get sent it.

We're doing Shabu Shabu tonight. Oh my God. We rented out a Shabu Shabu place. You don't know we have an itinerary? Nobody shared it with me. He accuses us of being a mess? Nobody shared me the itinerary. It's in our group.

It's in Degenerates. No, it's not. Yes, it is. I should have been consulted on this itinerary. You should have asked me as well. Let me check. Hold on. Let me check. It's not our group. It's in Degenerates. No, it's not. Yes, it is. I should have been consulted on this itinerary. You should have asked me as well. Hold on. Let me check. It's not in there. I can't find it. I can't find it. I can't find it.

I'm going to defend Austin here. I think it's literally in the group chat that you, me, March, and Rhyme have, and Austin is not in that. You didn't invite me into a group chat? Are you kidding me? Are you kidding me? Because we knew you'd be like this.

That is bullshit. I was here. You tell me where to be and where to go. I am there, and I'm on time. I appreciate you sidetracking. I believe since we've been here, it's been three days. So every single day we have approximately two events, sometimes three. Yeah.

So that would be around, let's say, nine events, maybe ten. Okay. Austin has been a part of, I think, four. He's done great. You know, that's so rich because you didn't invite me to any of the other ones. And I'm not in a group chat where I know the itinerary. So how rich is that? Boys, we have a guest. Boys. How rich is that? Not in a group chat where I know the itinerary. So how rich is that? Boys, we have a guest.

Boys. How rich is that? Not in the group chat. Don't have the itinerary. Texting the group multiple different times. Where's the address? No response. I do text every morning at 4 a.m. when I wake up

what the day's events are. What the day's events are. So that when you wake up at around 10 a.m., you can see what's going on. I you. I woke up at 6.30 this morning, had a nice cup of coffee, looking at Mount Fuji. Okay, by the way, in the other room. He has mentioned that he has a view of Mount Fuji

no less than 100 times. No, it was beautiful. He walked us in. It's a great view. He walked us in quietly. And he did this. Here, let me do the impression. Mount Fuji. And then paused, looked around and went, Mount Fuji. And then pause, looked around and went, Mount Fuji.

I'm so sorry, Connor. The way he introduced Mount Fuji was like he owns it. He was like, oh, this is my Mount Fuji. Ever heard of it? You might not know about this mountain that I own. First of all, it's a major Japanese mountain.

It's quite beautiful. I don't know if any of you folks at home have heard about Mount Fuji, but if you look out this window... I've never once heard of it. No, but I want to... It's a little mountain. I'm going to defend myself, Connor, because it's not often that I get the opportunity to do so. I arrived...

No, you'll see a lot of this. You'll see a lot of this. I arrived here.'ll see a lot of this. You'll see a lot of this. I arrived here. I was on time. I have gone to everything I was asked to go to. I showed up. We asked you to come to everything. Did you say that you were on time to the podcast in your room?

I was out and about. I had to come back and be here. Hold on. He's late to the pod in his own house. That's true. That is true. How do you manage that? You're late to the pod in his own house. That's true. That is true. You're late to the pod in your house. No, it's because of Cutie. I am always on time to the podcast.

I wanted to play a game to break the ice. That's good. I've devised this game. This is a game called You Order As Much Room Service As You'd Like on Austin's tab okay so what would you like to interesting thing is we actually were just out and we walked a lot now when you walk a lot you get really hungry so and and the thing

is we also didn't really eat we We had one dumpling. That's one. You know what? They really want me to sweat, but there's a view of Mount Fuji out that window. You think a little room service is going to make me sweat? Grab the phone. I would like some lobster Thermidor if it's on the menu. Dom Perignon. There must be a menu somewhere. Maybe some champagne.

Now, hold on. You know what? There's champagne over there, but it champagne over there. It's room temperature. No, I can't have that. It has to be. I ordered new ice for the champagne. How long has the champagne been on ice? How long has the champagne been on ice?

Hold on. Just a second. We've been here for three days. Have you been ordering ice every day? There's ice in there. Oh! Have you been ordering ice every day? There's ice in there. Have you been ordering ice every day? No, it's fresh ice.

But I don't understand. Did you order? We should have a drink. I'm not against the idea. We should have a drink. Me? I always drink. I always drink. I feel bad taking your champagne, though. a drink. Me? I always drink. I always drink.

I feel bad taking your champagne, though. Before I was smeared on the podcast, I saved this complimentary bottle of champagne and was planning to re-gift it to the podcast. Right, right, right.

I saved this bottle of... Pop it open, Austin. Perrier Jouer. How much do you reckon that bottle costs? Austin, are you good at opening champagne? Never done it before. Oh, no. You've never opened a champagne?

You should saber it. So the secret to opening champagne is you want to be very brisk with your motions. Up and down. You want to get a vortex going before you pop the cork, and you want to pop the cork violently. If you ease it out, it'll

confuse the champagne. Wait, you've never opened a bottle of champagne? Oh, okay, okay. I didn't know. Sorry. Watch out, boys. Boys, get out of the splash distance. With a violent series of chops to the back of the bottle. Finn is moving his jacket away. He's like, he's is moving his jacket away. He's like

taking his valuable possessions away. Yeah. Okay. No, not Oh, God. Perfect. Wonderful. Wonderful.

Wow. I'm sure. Yeah, let's do it. All right, perfect. Perfect. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wonderful. Wow. I would love a glass. I'm sure. Yeah, let's do it. All right, guys, let's take a step back. Okay. Well, what's the game? Is it?

You still want me to order? Oh, no, no. We're still going to do that. Oh, okay. So you just make up whatever you want. Okay. Think expensive. Beluga caviar.

Do you guys have a phone in the room? Before we play the game, though, how have you been, my friend? What's new in your life? I'm doing good. Let's catch up. Well, you know, I feel like I went on a vacation,

went back to the UK. Okay. So my family. No one has ever said that in the history of mankind. It's a nice country. I went back to the UK for a vacation. It was nice.

Cheers. I actually think your country is a beautiful country. Thank you. So you went on vacation to see your family. And then now I feel like whenever you go away from streaming for like a week or two, it kind of takes you like a couple of days to get back into it. It's just like a Bible. Oh, there's a lot.

Oh my God. And expensive. Breakfast. So we're on all day. Ritz Kids. I think that sounds like a Bible. Oh, there's a lot. And expensive. Breakfast. So we're on all day. Ritz Kids. You can order a child. It is the Epstein service to the room. We got the soup. He loved this hotel.

And looking at overlooking Mount Fuji. We got the main course. Steak. Steak the main course, steak. Steak with fries, $80. Actually not the worst price for what I expect for this hotel. You should get a double order. Yeah.

I mean, I'm hungry too, so you're ordering for all of us. Do you actually want me to order stuff? Yeah. I feel bad for Austin. That's the game. They have this thing where they bully me for fun.

Is it because they're homophobic? Is that what it is? Maybe there's some deeply rooted homophobia. I can't believe they also, the menu isn't in English for you guys. Okay, so we've, all right.

To be fair, I bully Hasan as much as I bully Hasan. Is the phone in your room or is it right there? It's over here. It's not wireless. As you might have noticed from the decor, this room and this hotel in general is where a lot of Yakuza dealings took place,

as you can tell. I love your room. I know you do. It's gorgeous. I know. It's got a view of Mount Fuji. It's just giving J-pop. It's giving Japan's finest moments. While he's ordering, I want to talk about a topic that's relevant to the three of us.

And that is Austin Shou's redemption in Japan. Last time he was here, he was a shattered man. A husk of a person. Oh, yes. And he shambled through the streets of Harajuku. I did, yeah. And he shuffled through the pages of Grindr. Yes, I did.

And had a mediocre time. Yes. So I'm going to provide, for the first time ever, some context to that. Whoa. Exclusive. Last time we went to Japan, I was going through a breakup. Wow. I had just gone through a breakup. Also was closing a property. A house.

Yeah. In which I was not there for. Right. Imagine traveling to a foreign country and somebody is moving your house without you being there. Yeah. That was happening. Seems pretty convenient. Also a breakup.

You know how I can imagine that? Because I'm doing it right now. Oh! Wow. How did you close in the house? Who's closing on it for you? My money manager. Oh, thank you.

He does have power of attorney for you. He does have power of attorney. Anyway, I decided. You really thank you. He does have power of attorney for you. He does have power of attorney. Anyway, I had to sign. You really thought you had a gotcha. There's a lot of breaking news happening right now. Regardless. Wait, did you order? I did.

What did you order? Don't tell us. Don't tell us. That was such a short order. It's quite a lot of food I ordered. I'm so sorry. Okay. It's okay.

Mount Fuji. Mount Fuji. I actually feel bad. Okay. We'll see. No, it's okay. Don't ever feel bad. Don't feel bad. Okay, we'll see. Don't ever feel bad. Don't feel bad. I've got a credit. You've got a credit? Yeah, I think I've got like $500.

Oh, I hope it burns into it easy. Okay, wait. Let's finish our topic and then we'll talk about how he is essentially the Marriott ambassador next. I've heard a lot about this. So you're going through a breakup. Yes. You had a decent time.

But now this time you're in Japan with fresh eyes, a full heart, can't lose. And you've been not only a detriment to streams, but you have been uplifting and saving the content of this

devoid of any kind of tact on stream. You fished and you killed a fish and you ate the fish. I did. I killed a fish with my bare hands. We went to this restaurant. I know the restaurant. Oh, you've heard of it?

You like stabbed the fish. No, you don't stab it. You have to fish it with a hook. Wait, is there another one you can stab them? Oh my God. There's a couple of these restaurants and some of them, it depends where you go. Some of them are a lot worse than others.

Some of them literally have fish that are basically dead. You have to kind of literally force the hook into them to pick them up. Ours were, the fish were vibrant. They were alive.

Yeah, and you also know they're not, they say they're killing that, they're not killing that fish. They already have ones out like in the back prepared. What? What?

That's way too much work wait so what do they do to the fish? normally they put it back what? no they killed this one did you see it? yeah we saw them kill it right? you saw the blood on the ground didn't you?

I saw blood on the ground there might be maybe but I know a lot of them I did see blood on the ground. They put a hook through its mouth. Yeah, they hooked it from underneath it. That fish is dead for sure. They hooked it through the mouth and I held it up with a hook.

Also, aside to our producers, mandatory glass of champagne for both of you as well. I don't have enough glasses. They're going to have to share a glass. There's another two glasses. There's three glasses.

Yeah, a lot of those restaurants will actually, yeah, you are not eating the fish. That's fascinating. But it's fun, you know, because people feel like, wow, it's so cool. I caught my fish. You're really pulling the curtain back. Yeah.

Yeah, I suppose so. Yeah. There is, what was I going to say as well? I have a memory last time when you guys were here. Yeah. Obviously, you were going through the breakup at the time. And I don't know. Oh, wow.

That's, that's pretty impressive. I just have this, I have this distinct memory of you, us being at, uh, we were eating, uh, hot pot. Yes. Yes. And you, I don't know what the fuck this conversation was about. You were like, in five minutes I could call up this ballerina and be fucking him in the Ritz-Carlton. And I was like,

utterly confused. You know what? He's a ballerina. He's a ballerina. He's got the splits. You know what, Connor? Fuck him, I did. But I just remember being so utterly devoid of context.

I was like, well, maybe there is no more context than I need. Then I was so confused. Let me add a little bit of context. I was like, well, maybe there is no more context. I was so confused. Let me add a little bit of context. Connor, as far as I'm aware, is a straight man. Yeah, I'm straight. I always want to put that into context because, you know,

you never know when somebody wants to go on a little exploration. And I'm not saying you're gay and you don't even give me that vibe. But if you, you know what? What is a vibe? It's gay. Who knows what it is? Anyway, but I was trying to explain to Connor that Grindr is like, you could get somebody so quick. No, no. I know that.

That's what I was trying to explain. Oh, okay. Okay. And I was just, I didn't know. I wasn't being like, hey, you see this ballerina here? I'm going to fuck him in five minutes. I just didn't understand what was going on. And I felt like I was lost.

It is faster. It seemed like to them that this is a conversation that they'd heard multiple times. Yes. I just didn't understand what was going on. And I felt like I was lost. And then Hassan and Will, it seemed like to them that this is a conversation that they'd heard multiple times. He was going through some shit. Oh, yeah. But then we went to a fun gay bar. Sometimes when your friend's going through some shit, you just have to listen to how he would blast a ballerina.

Overlooking Mount Fuji. It's a lovely core memory for me. I don't know why I remember this conversation so vividly. You know what? I was so out of it last time I was on this trip, I didn't even realize I could see Mount Fuji last time I was here. I'm not even joking.

The helipad that you pointed down to is right there. It's over there. Yeah. So, C-Dawg. Okay, yes. I'd like to talk to you about something, and it's really interesting. Right.

We all have a fantasy of moving here. Well, at least this man and I do. And I think a lot of gaijin, when they first get here, do. Okay. And then you talk to people who actually move here, and they go, it's great, it's great, it's great, but. Yeah, there's a lot of buts. There's a lot of buts. But I don't know if the buts outweigh the benefits.

No, no, no, most certainly not. I think there's definitely way more positives. Sure. I'm sure you guys can tell. What's your biggest but? Paperwork's pretty brutal here. It's pretty endless. It never ends.

You always have to do something. Can you pay someone to do the paperwork for you? No, a lot of the time, no. You can pay someone to help you do it, but a lot of the time they require you to go in person and do other things. Unless you have some kind of, I don't know,

I'm not even sure. Diplomatic plug. Maybe, yeah, or something like that. You have to do it in Japanese. A lot of the time, yeah,

you have to do it in Japanese. Sometimes you can do it in English. Sure. But there's just never ending stuff that you have to go through and so many dumb rules. Yeah, give us some. Yeah, if you ever

want to get a phone, it's a nightmare to get a phone number here. Why? You have to have a bank account in Japan to do it and then you have to have

a government ID and an address and then it's tied to your, so your number is tied to your government ID based on super safe. Yeah, safe, I guess. I mean,

for a lot of the time it just feels kind of antiquated and outdated when you're doing it because you're like, you know, and then I would get, mean i for a lot of the time it just feels kind of antiquated and outdated when you're doing it because you're like you know and then i would get do you get a lot of japanese spam callers uh no never well so i guess maybe that's worth it would you go through hell and back to get a phone number no but also in the united states of america we have no protection yeah you don't have a lot of protection but then again i don't think that you need this antiquated system that ties you down to your address

to be able to get a phone number to offer protections. The first six months here are like, genuinely, when you've ever played a JRPG or a Japanese video game in general with endless fetch quests,

then you'll know that it feels almost based on experience because every single thing you need to do is tied to the thing prior. So you can't do the next step of the settling process until you've done the first thing thing so you can't get internet until you've got a bank account can't get a bank account until you've got a job that's willing to vouch for you and help you make a bank account because you made the bank account you make your phone number then

you can sign up for the internet bill and then you can do some other stuff it's just like it's endless like you have to go through jump through hoops but as you guys can tell the daily quality of life is so high crazy so you know it's all worth Like, you have to go through jump through hoops. But as you guys can tell, the daily quality of life is so high. So, you know, it's all worth it. And like now, obviously, I'm more settled. It's a lot more chill. It's a beautiful place. It's a beautiful place.

I love this country. That's why you guys should move out of here. So much. I mean, I'm maybe considering it. The stream hours for me are pretty ruthless. You wake up at 5 a.m., Navy SEAL, grind set. I'm very serious. If you would walk me through the process,

maybe we could do a stream series. Importing a guy, Jen. Just me doing paperwork? Riveting stuff. I think it would go crazy. Riveting stuff. We have to talk about something that has changed in Japan since last we were here.

Something major. A title shift. Really? I'm talking about the Jug Enforcers. The Jug Enforcers? Shibuya. Oh. Shibuya. There's Jug Enforcement Squad. Wait, why? Did you guys try and drink that last night?

No, we've been, we've seen them. Oh, you've seen them walking around? In action. Okay, so for those of you who don't know, Shibuya, one of the main metropolitan areas where people congregate and drink. I thought you were talking about boobs.

I thought there was so many going around me. Cover it up! I thought this was like an enforcement crew that was out there making a government job. I would have moved to Japan

at the age of 10. The birth rates have been very low. They need something to inspire. I know it's weird. He's the best natural jug enforcer we've ever seen. I know it's weird that he's 10 years old and it's kind of sexually weird. This could be a manga.

He's the best jug enforcer in all of Japan. I'm serious. I genuinely thought that's what he's getting. As we were saying, Shibuya is a major popular young people drink. Probably the place to go if you're 20 and you want to drink in Japan. They are not breast inspectors.

What they are is a group of people who... Are you guys okay? Okay. They are a group of people who now police public drinking, which is kind of an institution in Tokyo. If they catch you, there's no fee or ticket, but instead

they have a large, clear plastic jug that they will take your beverage and pour the booze in there and you can kind of gauge how active they've been based on how much booze you see in their jug. And Will and I want to drink it.

We want to take a sip from the spitter. As far as I know, there's not a whole lot they can do to you if you try to drink out of it. You're not in Japan, though. There's no way they can really enforce any law against you. Wait, like any law? Well, no, no, no.

You can murder people. No, I was going to say there's got to be some sort of... It would be like a fine, which is almost not even worth bothering with a person who's foreign to try and fine them, because it would just be such a nightmare. I'd pay it. People would pay it, but I think it would be a nightmare for them to enforce. I think I could be wrong, but I think the punishment is just a fine if you refuse.

Austin Cho owes money in Italy, if I'm not mistaken. I do. Oh, you told me about this. I'm on your side on this one. I'm on his side. I think it's fair. I didn't stiff anybody.

For the record, context, short little context. I went to a hotel in Italy. They forgot to charge me. Forcaccio Beppe? They chased me down three months later and asked me to fill out, do a lot of paperwork. And I said, absolutely not. You're a five-star hotel.

Yeah, they call him the Caccio Beppe. They should not be chasing you down like a tax man. They stopped. I have an update. They have since be chasing you down like a tax man. That's crazy. I have an update. They have since stopped. Name and shame the hotel. No, I never.

I'm pretty sure he's not allowed to go back to Italy. I don't know. I haven't tried, but if I do go back to Italy, I will go return to that hotel for at least one night. The Caccio Bandit. Yes, I will. They always go back. I will check in and see if Mamma Mia So you do you do realize pasta crimes is like the number one thing to don't fuck around with Italy Yeah, you passed as a big crime

Yeah, they actually you know why they changed the rule, right? Initially, they changed it because Halloween, it's pretty bad in Shibuya. For a long time, so when I first moved here, Halloween was basically just this insane, giant, degenerate, drunken meetup where basically the entire young population of Japan agreed to go to this one spot in town. And it was insane.

It's insane. Is it the scramble in front of the family mart? All of it. All of it. It would all shut down because there was just so many people and it was insane. It's insane. Is it the scramble in front of the family mart? All of it. It would all shut down because there was just so many people and it was absolutely debauchery. It sounds terrible. It's great. All the trains would like,

you couldn't get a train, so getting out of there was a nightmare. And there's a lot of safety concerns, especially after what happened in Korea. It's a crowd crush. So it was quite valid, and I think they then said, okay, no public drinking during Halloween. So only during Halloween. It was only during Halloween.

And then what happened was, after Halloween went, they were like, hey, kind of like it when there's no fucking drunkards around. Yeah. Let's just keep enforcing the rule. Oh, they're still around.

There's still a lot there. Should we melt down? And also, obviously, a lot of business owners are very happy because there's a lot of money in the street drinking if you get them in your izakaya to drink instead. Oh, because you can't just go to a family mart and get blacked out.

Yeah, which is obviously way cheaper. You undercut a lot of the competition. There's so many bars and izakayas in Shibuya. So I think there was not a lot of pushback from a lot of businesses and people who live in Shibuya that are like, well, whatever. They're going to keep it. So they're just kind of stuck. But pretty every other place in japan you can publicly drink i have a question for you go ahead and this pertains to some of the content that i'm uh

looking to shoot out here so all right exciting um this time i decided aside from like the regular you know daily life of right walk around niche yeah add in like also niche japanese like microcultures that we are fascinated by. You can't tap into the basic stuff. Yeah, we've done it too many times. It's old news. No, don't do that. Don't fucking do that.

Gornichi wars. You'll scare people. You're too big. That guy's meek. Oh my god. I've been doing it. Dude, yesterday he was practicing Japanese in the cab with the driver. But no, he was practicing phrases to say to me that would startle the driver.

Yes. Like, sir, you're smacking your gum so loud. Yes. What? Or, do you speak English? Yeah. Saying it to me. Okay.

But the driver was kind of like double-teaming. Right, of course. Why would he be saying that to his white friends? But then I learned how to say, I'm practicing my Japanese. And he completely ignored him because he was like, oh my God. And after that, he didn't turn around. Yeah, he didn't turn around at all. And we had, that's much success.

Hoi, hoi, hoi. That's so funny, Hasan. Wait a minute. You're not Hasan. I'm not Hasan, but you know what? I am an entrepreneur. Oh, I knew that about you. And I've been selling things.

Really? What you've been selling? Just like gadgets and gizmos. Okay. And where do you sell them? On Shopify. What? Yeah, that's right, guys.

Upgrade your business today. And what else? I once tried. I got so distracted by your beautiful hair today. Oh, thank you. You're welcome. I once tried to sell gizmos and doodads, but I tried to do it at a roadside shop. Oh, no good.

You've got to do it online. I was attacked by vagrants. Wow. I should have used Shopify. You should use Shopify. What does Shopify do? Um, well, guys, Shopify, you need to know, it helps you grow your business because it helps you list and sell more in an easy way. Because let's be honest, I'm not the smartest tool in the shed, but Shopify helps me.

However, you should know that you should go to Shopify.com slash fear to upgrade your selling today. Because they've got different tiers of selling. And so you you got to upgrade by going to shoppacade shopify.com oh my goodness okay you got to upgrade you know hasan actually uses shopify uh with his merch and he's very successful with it i also sold my merch for shopify i don't know why i started i didn't start there instead i decided to talk about my why did you make up about gadgets and gizmos stress sometimes but you know it doesn't make me stressed? Shopify. What's your question?

Anyway, the question I have is I'm a little worried. I've heard that like if I, this time around, I'm interested more so in like politics in Japan. Okay. And daily political expressions, protests, things of that nature. Last night, we actually went to a protest rave, which is a concept that I didn't even know existed out here. And it was amazing.

This very famous Japanese... What would you... He's a DJ, but what kind of... He just had a boiler room set that was awesome. You don't know DJs, but he was doing a climate protest set, and it was sick. In the middle of Shibuya,

they shut it down. Is this like David Guetta ending racism kind of vibe? No, it felt much more authentic. Okay, okay, okay. That sounds cool. Yeah, and there was pro-Palestinian protesters there,

demonstrators there as well. And there's a lot of pro-Palestinian demonstrations happening in Japan. There were juggernaut forces. At the climate thing? Yeah. That's so 50 year old men that are like in the climate protest yeah they're bobbing their heads but the question i have is will i get deported if i go to a uh protest that like let's say maybe the israeli embassy? I don't think so. Okay, good. Because that's something that I've heard from

some of the people here. Really? Yeah. Why? Why would they just choose to deport you? Well, from what I understand, it's just like engaging in political activity as a foreigner.

I mean, unless something happened, I think it'd be fine. Okay. Just being there. All right, good to know. If you took the role of, would you say more of a journalist there? Yeah, but did you say you were here for pleasure?

But then again, I also... Obviously... Mark on your form. Look, I mean, this is all important in Japan. And a lot of the way that our Japanese system works is all about if you admit to something or not. That's a big thing here. So let's say I...

I'm sorry. Yeah, a lot of... Crime is really weird here a lot of the time it's the onus is on you to be like yeah i did that and even if they have like evidence that you you did it if you're like no it's not me i didn't do that and they would have a hard time prosecuting you what's pursuing you yeah but in order to but they also have a very aggressive criminal justice system where they will detain you for 36 days in prison until they extract the confession. They would not detain you.

Well, not me, maybe, but I'm saying, from what I understand, they have an involuntary hold procedure in Japan. For 28 days, yeah. How's the food in Japanese prison? I heard it's passable. I heard it's not that bad. Okay.

I mean, I imagine American prison is way worse. Just the vlog. The vlog would go crazy. When you got here, was there a particular law that you were surprised by that you broke? The one thing that I was really shocked by is the defamation laws here are pretty weird. Oh, yeah. It's fascinating. Yeah, so a case from a friend of a friend was that they'd gotten their teeth done at a dentist.

Dentist completely fucked them up. Okay, what happened? I think they, I'm not sure how, but the operation or whatever it is, messed up their teeth, made it worse. Oh. So, they left a Google review. One star being like,

they messed up my teeth, not happy with it. Took them to court. Yeah, the dentist sued them. And dentist won. Even though. What? Even though he them. The dentist won. Even though... What? Even though he jacked up the teeth. And it's not a matter of interpretation.

It's not a matter of like, oh, he actually didn't jack up his teeth. In Japan, you can successfully sue someone for defaming you even if it is 100% accurate. Yeah, so it could be correct. In Japan,

if someone is arrested for pedophilia, let's say, which is unfortunately rare, but let's say it happened. You've got to clean up what you meant by that. Unfortunately rare. They don't catch the pedophile.

Yeah, no, that's what I mean. I mean, like, they should be more... They're not... They should be more... You're not saying there should be more pedophilia. Well, I mean, no. I'm saying there should be more enforcement. He says they should catch more, so unfortunately, there's not more prosecution. Trust me, I think everyone

understood exactly what I meant when I said that. Because if he would have said, fortunately... Yeah. Austin. So, anyway, if a newspaper were to write about this person and called him a pedophile, that pedophile could successfully sue the newspaper and win in a court of law for defamation.

So again, I'm not a lawyer, so don't take my word 100% on this, but from my understanding, it is... I'm taking your word 100%. It is... It's the... When you take someone to court for defamation, you're not trying to show that what they said is wrong.

You're trying to show that they were trying to cause harm to you. And if they prove that you did it from malice or you tried to cause harm and they can prove that intent, you are liable for defamation. Oh, interesting. But obviously this only benefits big companies because they can take you to court and the little guy is obviously not going to, you know.

So a lot of the times you have to be really careful. Big companies and dentists. Yeah, dentists, anyone. Anyone with finances to be able to sue someone. Yeah, and so it's kind of like when we're doing business here or we're working sometimes with companies, there is a lot of, you know,

you are quite overly cautious of saying anything about a company. So you just can't say anything. Kind of, not really. I don't really... I talk shit all the time when I go to America, but here I'm like... What if you hit them

with the reverse card and you built them up and bragged about something that hurt them? Well, yeah, then you'd be fine. Oh, they have the best farts in Japan. The biggest, loudest, the stinkiest.

I can't believe how incredible these farts are. My teeth are so crooked. I feel like there would be a market for the fart thing. Yeah, there would be a market for farts. So, yeah, it's kind of, you know, there's this kind of weird kind of vibe where you can talk about things,

but you have to be very, you'd be very like, you pick your words very wisely in what you say and when you pick your battles, I think. Champagne break, everyone? Champagne break. Champagne break. Kampai.

Kampai. Wow. Kampai. Kampai. Kampai. Kampai. Kampai. Kampai.

Kampai. Kampai. Kampai. Kampai. Kampai. Kampai. Kampai. Kampai.

Okay. To celebrate my purchase of Mount Fuji. I mean, is there anything else? You guys are curious about Japan? That wasn't a good joke? That wasn't a, why wasn't that a good joke?

I just, I don't, I take it. It't a good joke. Why wasn't that a good joke? Did you feel culturally insensitive? Yes, I did. You're Lebanese. It's a good joke. I thought it was funny. I thought it was tasteful. Like the champagne. Connor, can I tell you what my dream is?

I feel like you've done this before. You've told me your dream is to move to Japan and have swag white boy Japanese conversations. Yes, white boy swag, dude. Very important. I would like that. But no, this time I have a separate dream. On top of that, would I ever be able to interview

the assassin of Shinzo Abe? No way. What the fuck kind of question and dream is that? Hassan, you may get deported. No, the reason why I ask is because sometimes they do let in journalists. In America, if you went to the Department of Corrections and got consent from the inmate, you would be able to potentially interview this person. Because they love to show off

incarcerated people. Is it possible to potentially interview the man who assassinated former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe? No, it's not. Did he get the death penalty?

Do they even have that? That's right, they do. How do they even have that? Do they even have death penalty? They do. How do they kill people? Sorry. I know how they kill people. The only reason why I know that they have the death penalty is because I know how they kill people. Because when we were here last time, it was in the news. Yeah, it was the guy that went into the retirement home and stabbed a bunch of people.

I think he got... Fuck, I think it's hanging. I think they hang. No, I think it's... They press a button and it's gas, I think he got... Fuck, I think it's hanging. I think they hang. No, I think it's... They press a button and it's gas, I think. Because if I remember correctly... Yeah, they have the three buttons and no one knows who killed them. Yeah, exactly. If I remember correctly, they had an issue, I think.

Am I making this up? I feel like last time we were here, I remember seeing in the news... They play squid games to kill people. That's normal. Because they don't want to have it on their conscience who killed them. They have three people who all pressed a button. That's kind of based. Yeah, two buttons are done. But That's normal. Because they don't want to have it on their conscience who killed them. They have three people who all pressed the button.

Two buttons are done. But that's normal. It's very crane game. But I feel like I, as one of the three, would still feel responsible. Yeah, you do. I don't think the semantics

of whether it was my button that was connected. But I guess maybe for some people it helps them to compartmentalize and be like, I didn't kill the guy. I didn't kill him. That's literally the reason.

Yes, exactly. Why can't they just get a robot to do it? Robot Wars Man vs. Wait, I'm sorry. Who's pressing the robot button then? No, somebody programs the robot. You just have a killer robot? You just have a robot that only is trained to kill.

I have a way better idea. Just bring Mr. Beast in. Let him have some fun game with it. Just program an AI. You have a one in three chance of killing this Japanese fella. He went into a retirement home and stabbed folks.

If you do, you'll make $250,000. But if it was socially acceptable, who would? Yeah, but just get some sort of political presidents or something have to make these decisions all the time. Why don't you just make them do the decision

and make it a... A Gundam. Yeah. I don't know. I think I solved it, to be honest. The division of labor. Will you purpose the Gundam that they took down as a killing machine? This is extra steps, right? Because someone has to program the killing machine. It's just extra steps. No, no, no. When you program a robot. because you'll just someone has to program the killing machine yeah who all make a separate

program and only one is used in the robot so the programmers don't know three Indian programmers Japanese intermediary three intermediaries who all don't know what they're coding.

They have no idea. You make them code. What if the robot is what kills them? They just send the robot in. Austin, someone has to send the robot in. That's their responsibility. What if it's an engineer that it's their dying wish to program this robot?

To kill people. It's always been my wish. Austin, not only did you not solve the moral quandary, you made it more complex for no reason. They have three dudes on three different Israeli Amazon accounts buying pages and just randomly choosing which page it gets to go. Also, I'm saying there's a better way to do this. That's all I'm saying.

And you don't have that solution. Well, you know what? You do not have that solution. I think robotics and AI is one step closer. Okay. Well, let's put a pin in that one. When you come to Japan, do you get a bunch of really weird kind of people coming out of the woodworks in terms of politics with Japanese stuff?

Because a lot of people are very, I feel like, defensive about Japan and that kind of stuff. Well, the Japanese Communist Party was very open about receiving me, but only because I think I had just interviewed Bernie Sanders like a day or two prior before we asked. And I went through an intermediary that is like embedded with them and is doing a dissertation on their history. So I went through like, you know, I through a lot of uh people that are already knowledgeable about the inner workings of it but they are notoriously from what i understand very secretive yeah their headquarters looks like a military base yeah so i'm getting a lot of unprecedented yeah i'm getting a lot of unprecedented access especially as a foreigner they're not very uh from what I understand,

they're not super open to like foreigners in general. I mean, yeah, there was like a non-zero chance that maybe the next time you come to Japan, they'll be like, nah. No, I think it'll be fine. We're not, I'm not going to like. I mean, I could see it. I'm very, I'm very interested in the inner country.

I mean, maybe if someone had a... Damn, bro. Oh, he's not wrong. Oh, yeah. You mean the current Japanese government might actually have issues with me coming into Japan? Really? After this trip?

Potentially, yeah. That's not wrong. You know, you could... If you have that interview... You could ask Austin. He owns Mount Fuji. I think it all depends if you get on the news in Japan. I've got a great relationship with the Japanese

government. Well, speaking of this, I would like to get into this. Austin lied. To the Marriott. That's a stretch. You said that you were on your gay wedding anniversary. Not wedding anniversary. I said anniversary.

I always say anniversary. I did not say wedding. We can pull the tape. I always say anniversary because you get freebies. Anniversary. You always get freebies. What does that imply? They feel like, wow, it's special. I didn't specify what anniversary it was. What do you think they think it's the anniversary of? It's been two years

and some months since we came here last time. Alright? That's not an N. He was completely honest and upfront with the bar. For the record, his son said I should say that a baby died or something like that. That's what he said I should do. What?

Remember, we were on the podcast. I said, you should say your child has cancer. Yeah, that's what he said. Will, why are you looking at me? Will, you literally said in his dying wishes to see Mount Fuji. Oh my God. He could have seen it.

It's right there. You were there, Will. You were yesterday. We're going to wheel up his iron lung to the window. He wanted to see it from as far away as possible. It's literally, and you got to get it on the right day

because you can't see it every day. It's overcast. So it's going to be a long booking. So let me tell you this story. Let me get it in context. He was very upfront with the Marriott and said that it was his non-specific anniversary. That's what I do.

I do that. Non-specific anniversary. I do this all the time because you get freebies. Yes. Well, he did. He got upgraded to a room with a Mount Fuji. And he also received some other things from the hotel.

Austin, why don't you go ahead and tell them. So upon arrival, I get off the plane fatigued. Naturally. Exhausted. Had just gone through a 10-hour flight. Okay. A hellish journey Landed in Japan

And I get to the front desk And I didn't know this was going to happen But they said Mr. Show We have upgraded you To the Mount Fuji suite Whoa You didn't know But you had requested. I had requested

through multiple avenues and emails. Very respectful. We actually blindsided him. I did mention I can't believe this is happening. They asked me and I didn't I would have never done this before. You've done this

every time. What would you like? There's not a point where you've never not done this. Let me tell you something. The service is unbelievable. I think it's nothing wrong with trying to get a little extra. I arrived. They said,

we've upgraded you to the Mount Fuji suite. It's not what it's called, but we'll just call it that. Because it's a beautiful view. Of Fuji. I get into the room, walk in the door. Three fruit trays. Three separate letters. One from my ambassador representative.

The other from the manager of the hotel. The other from the head of the Asia Pacific of Marriott Hotels. What? And they're all right here. I've got them right here. I don't want you to know, it's got my name on it, but it's got multiple different letters wishing me a happy anniversary. On top of that, a bottle of champagne, which I saved for the class here.

The Hotel Munger one is handwritten. Yes, handwritten. And I hope they never see this. Do they think you're a big deal? What's going on? Well, I don't know what it is because they also... I arrive. They also...

I requested a steamer because my clothes do get wrinkled. It was on the table. Multiple bottles of water. They had 15 bottles of water right there. Still bottles of water waiting. They had chocolates. Why do they think you need to hydrate that much? I asked. I said, I like a lot of water.

And they put 15 bottles of water. I hate it when they put two bottles of water. It's different now. That's amazing. Two bottles of water, or 15 bottles of water. So, anyhow, then I get in here, my phone rings. Hello?

That's a great sound. Konnichiwa? They said, hello, Mr. Show. We understand you have just arrived. We want to make sure everything is in order, and you are enjoying the start of your vacation. And I said, absolutely. And you know what I'm going to do? I need to ask you this.

Okay. I want, the staff is unbelievable. I want to gift them something. Is it, in what, I think this is, I want to give like flowers or something to the staff to show my appreciation for how wonderful the service has been. I don't think... Why is he laughing?

Do you not... This is a human interaction. You could give... Is that inappropriate? No, you could do that. I think it's fine. Is it weird? No, I don't think it's weird.

Okay, well, then I won't do it. I won't do it. I'll just... Your life is fascinating. If I called them and thanked them... So, you know, when you go anywhere in Japan, a tourist spot, they always have this omelette. If I called them to thank them. So you know when you go anywhere in Japan, they always have like souvenirs. And they always have like these big boxes

of like 12 little snacks individually bagged. You can get that. And then they would probably just take it and share it with the staff. I think it's important to show appreciation because they did go out of their way. They went beyond the call to provide such excellent service.

And they continue to do so throughout the stay. I mean, I'm ordering extra at breakfast. They're not charging me for it. You're, you're like a, like a Manhattan private school mom. Like the way you exist.

I respect it. I don't know how you're like this. I don't know how this happened. You know what you want. You ask for it. I think it is. I think, I think we need to return to that level of respect in this world.

Hassan doesn't even see it. He just comes in his room, shits on the floor. No, literally. I screamed for 15 hours. I came in. I came in. Fucking leaves. No, it's not even a joke.

I came in. I'm going to tell you my experience. I get off the plane. It's 4 a.m. I instantly, I time I time okay I'm so stupid I time how much time it takes for me to get in and out of airports I don't know

why I do it but I always but I always time it and you're not going to believe this me landing and getting out of the plane door and getting out of the airport took 13 minutes. It is literally like record time.

Okay. 13 minutes. Yeah. I would have been on the same tip, but Finn, I had Finn's cameras and he thought he lost them. Oh no. He's laughing. So he spent 25 minutes looking for a camera bag.

I was holding for him on the other side of custom. That's hilarious. Oh, God. But 13 minutes. I'm out. That's insane. That's only possible from row one. No, that's literally.

No, I like perfect framed it. Okay. First frame. Did you not pick a bag up? No, I did. Did you check one? I did. The outrider one.

No, it came out instantly. I picked it up. I beamed out of there. Got in an Uber. Immediately got to the hotel. Guy is Turkish. He picked it up. I beamed out of there, got in an Uber, immediately got to the hotel. Guy is Turkish. He's a fan. Yeah, he got excited.

I was like, sick. I was like, you know, internet, whatever. Get up to the room. I had already called March ahead of time. He was up, ready to go. Brave soldier, March. He had not gone to sleep. It's like 530 at this point. We literally moved all

of the furniture from the room so that we could just do something similar to this and set up a streaming room and instantly started streaming. I did an eight or nine hour stream. That's a mental illness. It was a banger. It was a banger.

It was a great stream. But the thing that I wanted to say is like, that was my experience coming in. But I also had a similar experience earlier this morning with the one similar to you, where I order coffee in the morning, room service. They bring it up. Yeah, because I finished the coffee.

I know they have a free breakfast. Yeah. There's also a machine in your room to make coffee. No, no, I finish the coffee in the machine. So then I order Americanos. Yeah, so the guy brought it in. He placed it on the table, but he placed it on the corner of the table, and it fell. And it broke.

Oh. And it spilled everywhere. Oh, no. And this broke. And it spilled everywhere. Oh no. And this was a horrifying moment for me. He practiced the art of extreme Japanese apology. He got up. He got down on his hands and knees and almost touched the fucking floor

with his head. I was horrified. I was like, dude, no, no. I was like, it's okay. It's okay. Don't worry about it. On stream? Well, no one can see it because the camera's pointed the other direction. But could they heard the clang and they heard the like loud noises but it was the it was a shocking experience for me watching an adult man like get on the floor where like the the you know the rug is is the coffee seeping into the rug and he got on his hands and knees and was like i'm so sorry sorry. Like, I mean, in Japanese.

And then you made him clean it up. No, I was like, dude, it's fine. It's fine. It's like, don't do it. Don't do it. I got a stream to go to. The stream was live already. So I basically explained quickly to what was happening to the stream.

But like, it was, I never saw that guy. There's a man apologizing to me. I never saw him again. You never saw him again? I think they might have killed him. I never saw that guy again. There's a man apologizing to me. Yeah. I never saw him again. You never saw him again? I think they might have killed him. I don't know what happened. They might have, like, just been like, yeah, don't go to this room anymore.

I don't know what happened. I felt so bad for him. Yeah, people... They don't handle that kind of stuff well. This is when I would have picked up the phone, and I would have called down, and I would have said there was an accident. I shattered a cup, and it was my fault.

Please, I want him at my an accident, I shattered a cup and it was my fault. Please, I want him at my room every time I order a coffee. You're so brave. You're so brave. But that's what you do. He spills a second one. I just want to be

Austin's version of Schindler's List. Jumping in front of the hotel staff punishing a man for spilling a coffee. No, hold on. I just want to be clear. He did not spill the coffee. I, famous entertainer Austin Sheldon,

and I am sorry for doing so. Please charge me for a second coffee and send it up with this same young man. So I just want to be clear. I'm crazy for sending the staff flowers, but him doing extreme forcing his staff to grovel. Yeah.

And doing extreme home makeover. I sat there. I was like, damn, that's crazy that you're doing this right now. You're like a whole ass adult human. Why are you doing this? Well, you know, it's the culture. I think it's too much. I was like, come on. Well, I mean, obviously, you feel like it's too much because you're not from the culture.

Maybe a Japanese guy, they would be like, I expect this. Yeah. That's crazy. But hey, you know, cool, I guess. I mean, whether I agree with it or not, it's definitely intense and you're not used to it. You're like, oh my god, I'm good. Has anyone ever groveled in that regard? Have you ever received an extreme apology?

Yeah. What was the offense? Oh, fuck. What has happened? I'm trying to think. I think one time, I booked the wrong time for my meal at a ryokan, like a traditional inn,

and I showed up an hour early, and they were like, we can't do it. And they started extreme apologizing, like you were saying, being like, we can't move it. We're so sorry. We're so sorry we've ruined your stay. And I'm like, I'll't do it. And they started extreme apologizing, like you were saying, being like, we can't move it. We're so sorry. We're so sorry we've ruined your stay. And I'm like, I'll just come back in an hour.

It's not a big deal. Stuff like that. The thing that actually I get kind of- Have you ever seen Head to the Ground? Yeah, yeah. Have you ever extreme apologized? Yeah, I'll say like, which is like the really extreme apology.

I won't get it on the ground though. No, no, no. What did you extreme apologize for? Oh fuck, I'm trying to, I'm pretty buried to these memories. I don't know, fuck. You have the deep Japanese sense of shame. I don't even know how to say sorry in Japanese.

It's like, it's fine. I swear to my sense of, well, I actually have one memory of them and this is kind of similar, but different of like, they're so, one time I was waiting at a Lawson's. I was actually going to go cycle. And this old woman came in on her bike to the Lawson's and was going to park up.

She went, she's like maybe 60, 70. As she was coming in, she hit the curb, didn't like land it very well, and then just fell forward front. And I immediately went over to go and help her. I was like are you okay are you okay you attacked an old woman i attacked an old woman so i finished the job i was like there's too many old people so she's like freaking out apologizing and she's bleeding from her hands try to stop her fall oh and so i go and grab some water and some bandages to try and help her out

and she's just trying to get up and trying to run away because she's so embarrassed. And to me, I was like, please, let me help you. Let me try and help what's going on here. But she's so embarrassed that someone saw her fall that she would rather run away

bleeding, go somewhere else and kind of try and pick it up herself. Instead of just being like, hey, man, I man I'll just accept so did you extreme apologize till she know I was just like please let me help you just so you know her hostage I try to held a hostage she wouldn't let her down you you got I ran by a 70-year-old lady? No, I'm not going to chase her. I'm not chasing her. You should have bought it! I'm really trying to implore her. I'm trying to implore her. Hey, it's okay,

because I can tell she's freaking out because she's embarrassed. I can tell she's freaking out because she's embarrassed about it. Because in Japan, that's like, I don't know why, but because she's a lot older as well,

she feels shameful that I guess she fucked up or something. That's so sad. Yeah, it's sad. Especially in front of a guy, Jen. Maybe's a lot older as well she feels shameful that I guess she fucked up or something that's so sad especially in front of a gaijin maybe she was just really racist a British gaijin at that yeah maybe she was just like

oh white people a really good question are all gaijin like treated as gaijin or what's the gaijin hierarchy what's the worst gaijin

it's gotta be Americans look you know you know like I don't need to tell you the list. You can figure it out pretty easily. I'm going to say something that may be a little controversial.

Look, and I love British people. However... He's saying they're lower on the tier list. I think British people are more obnoxious abroad than Americans. Depends on where... What do we think? Depends on where. What do we think? Depends on where they go. And Australians

too. No. Okay, mostly British people. I love Australians but sometimes they can be really obnoxious. Yeah. You can, like, I feel like I can tell immediately when a group is Australian before I can tell they're American. I got yelled at by an Australian today, but I think it's because the song was doing a bad Australian

accent. Oh, that's true. Wait, what? Yeah. We were filming the rockabillies at the park and I was doing my Steve Avin. And I was like, yeah, here we are. And I crept up a little bit. There was

a big perimeter and I crept up and was kind of moving around to get angles. And an Australian called to me and went, hey, hey mate stay out of my shot oh my lord yeah no it was pretty it was pretty weird because like we have professional camera equipment he's filming with professional camera equipment yeah he did not say that he's lying what did he say he was short he was like yeah he did one of these things I've never seen Will do where he went, yeah, okay. And didn't move at all. I've had tourists try to tell me

that I'm doing something wrong culturally before. What are you doing wrong culturally? That's my favorite thing. I was on a train. And I was on a bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto. And I was typing on my laptop. Just typing. And the guy gets up.

And I think he's French. And he goes, hey, just so you know, it's really rude what you're doing right now. Typing on your laptop. Yeah. I was like, what do you mean? He's like, typing? You're typing so loudly. I'm like, what?

What? You got the buttery? You got those hairy switches. Yeah. typing you're typing so loudly i'm like what what do you got the buttery you got the creamy keyboard switches yeah i was like and i look behind me and there's literally like three dudes on laptops and i'm like dude what do you what do you where did you hear that he's like he's like you should be showing more respect i was like dude i live here this is normal this is normal to work on the train oh you got into it with yeah and then he like sleepishly was like, okay, whatever the fuck. I'm just going to ignore this fucking guy.

And you're like, do you even... Tell me some more instances of this. This is juicy. Who else have you gotten into it with? Do you think that... Oh, thank you. Help me. Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Sometimes at bars, some guys, well, maybe they'll be there for like a month. These are like big weebs that think... Yeah, sometimes they'll be like, man, or before you get down, they'll try to like... You know how in the stairs for like a month. These are like big weebs that think. Yeah. Sometimes they'll, they'll be like, man, or before you get down, they'll try to like, you know how in the movies, like,

Hey man, I know this place. Let me just, let me tell you a little bit about what goes on. I've done that to you. And then I'll be like, dude, what'd you get corrected on?

Um, fuck dude. This is what else? There was one time, uh, on the train. It's always fucking trains where I, i was waiting at the door and this guy comes in yeah with a suitcase and he's like hey you're supposed to make room for me i was like

what are you talking about because i'm standing next to the door where i guess you could put a suitcase yeah yeah and i was like what no i'm standing here what the fuck are you talking about just take it in your When are you getting off? What the fuck? He's trying to tell me that it's rude of me to do that. I was like, what the fuck do you know rude? You've got five suitcases on the train. I don't know.

I'm not sure. I didn't know what accent he had. Interesting. What is a common faux pas that Gaijin commit that you see the foreigners do that is like a big no-no in Japan? Oh, I know one. The biggest one? Yeah. Claiming they own Mount Fuji?

That's a pretty big one. If anybody just want to make the record straight, I do not own Mount Fuji and I have not made an offer. I think train etiquette is kind of hard if you're not super used to it. You're very quiet. You have to be quite quiet. I think you have to know when to move out of the way, which is kind of tough because, like,

one thing that I know that it's kind of weird because if you're in the front of the door, sometimes a lot of people will just kind of shimmy to the side. Yeah. But you're really supposed to just get off. And then get back on. Which a lot of people don't like doing because they kind of feel like,

oh, I'm going to miss the phone. Something's going to happen. But, yeah, you're kind of supposed to just get off. And a lot of the time't like doing because they kind of feel like, I'm going to miss the phone. Something's going to happen. But yeah, you're kind of supposed to get off. And a lot of the time, people don't want to move, which is fair. But even Japanese people do that too. All right, give us some more. Give us some more.

I've got a guess of one thing that Americans do in particular. Americans are very loud. And a lot of the reasons that we're loud is we'll communicate. If we're in a store, we will shout long distances in the store to reach one another. You can't do that.

It will be very loud. It'll be like, hey! Oh, I do that so much. Hey, hey, come check this out. Shouting over multiple groups of people. I think Austin's just talking about what I do at every family mart. Yeah, he does that a lot.

One thing that happens sort of often that only when I'm taking Americans out is that they want to customize the food a lot. Oh. That's a big faux pas. Oh, shit. Oh, that's awesome. Oh, my God.

Oh, my God. Yo, you tried to throw shit at us, and you caught the dagger to the forehead. My God. So, Austin, last night, we're at Ichiran. We're at Ichiran last night. Oh, no. I've been customizing every meal. Austin is, like, trying to go through a pretty basic process.

He should be famous for what? Having two different... I know, but there's only two different variants of ramen. He's sitting there like, I hate pork. Why is this only pork? First of all, I have no problem with pork.

I just don't like to eat it. We went to the pork ramen store and he was like, oh, there's pork in my ramen. Yeah, he was looking for a vegetarian option. So like, look, if you have allergies, it's different

because they might ask you, but generally, they really don't like it when you're like, hey, take the lettuce off this burger or something. Oh, no. He's been doing this every meal.

My entire breakfast order and I also- Okay, wait, wait, wait. You're at the fucking R this burger or something. Oh, no. He's been doing this every meal. My entire breakfast order, and I also... Okay, wait, wait, wait. You're at the fucking Ritz-Carlton. You can ask that at the Ritz-Carlton. Okay, I know, but my breakfast order is... If you go to a mom-and-pop shop... Yeah, what do you do at the mom-and-pop shop? No, I haven't been to any yet.

But I don't do that. I take everything as ordered, and I remove it manually. Yeah, sometimes they will... I was prepared to take the pork out of the ramen, for the record. So some places, let's say you go to I don't know,

he's going to keep doing that. He's only acting like he's not going to do that for camera purposes. No, no, no. I do not customize. Some of them might freak out though. If you ask them to change the order, they might be like stun locked. They're like, stun-locked.

They're like, what do you mean, change the order? Like, that's, we serve this. One thing I've noticed that isn't a faux pas in Japan that's really interesting is loud farting in the bathrooms. It's not a faux pas. No. Wait, am I not allowed to fart in the bathroom in America? It's, if you're in a public bathroom? What if I'm taking a shit and a fart comes out? I'm talking about just men in Japanese people. Am I not allowed to fart in the bathroom in America? It's, if you're in a public bathroom.

What if I'm taking a shit and a fart comes out? I'm talking about just men in Japanese bathrooms blowing ass at like a urinal. I will say, there is a little,

I will say like, you hit this notion. Now you know why I love Japan, dog. Japan has so many rules. It does kind of feel like in bathrooms, men in Japan do kind of like,

it goes out the window. It's a wild west. Because a lot of them won't even wash their hands as well. I saw that today. It's kind of like, or they'll do the thing, which I just, I'm like, it goes out the window. It's a wild west. Because a lot of them won't even wash their hands as well. I saw that today. It's kind of like, or they'll do the thing, which I just,

I'm like, what are you even doing? Where they'll douse their hands in water and be like, I'm done. Wait, they don't wash hands in Japan? A lot of them will wash their hands

in the water. So they're just blowing ass into the wind, leaving, leaving messy hands. But they'll do, they'll do extreme apology. It ain't illegal, brother.

Before they go in the bath, they'll shower and do a full wash before they go in the bath as well. To me, I'm like, we should be washing our hands every time. We have plenty more Japanese things to discuss and the great big reveal of what Connor ordered from.

How the hell has it not showed up yet? I don't know. This is the Ritz. I the hell has it not showed up yet? I don't know. This is the Ritz I thought. I did order a lot. Well, I may have called and canceled it. I'm just kidding. I didn't do it. Call up the Penn Asia Pacific director. All of those things and more behind the paywall.

But before we go, I want to issue a very huge thank you to Connor. Thank you for having me, guys. You're a fantastic guest. You're a wonderful friend. Thanks, guys. Thank you. What do you have coming up? Where can we find you? What are you plugging right now? Yeah, just streaming. You're a wonderful friend. Thank you. What do you have coming up? What can we, where can we find you?

What are you plugging right now? Yeah, just streaming. Gotta be doing shit. Hey, he's going to be doing stuff with me too. We are. We are.

Oh, oh, a knock on the door. Oh my God. Thank you for joining us on fear. And we'll see you behind the paywall. Bye. Patreon.com slash fear end.

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