The Yard - Ep. 192 - We Followed Ludwig to Japan! (ft. Michael Reeves)

Episode Date: March 26, 2025

This week, the boys are in Japan, joined by Ludwig & Michael Reeves! they talk about their journey through Japan so far, the best & worst things that has happened, and some of the people they've met so far... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

シュレイー Shurei! Shurei! How do you say that in Japanese? Uh, Shuretei-san. And that's seven syllables. Hatsure Miku. You really drag it out. You can't just say Hatsure Miku. You guys that's seven syllables. Mm-hmm. Hatsune Miku. You really drag it out. You can't just say Hatsune Miku.

You guys shouldn't be in this fucking country. You shouldn't be fucking talking. You shouldn't be talking. You shouldn't be talking. You shouldn't be talking. We were supposed to be here. It's another little love-exile story. And this time, he brought an awesome friend who we like more.

I don't like seeing other people in this country. It freaks me the fuck out. You don't like seeing other people? Oh, other gaijins. Other people I know. Yeah, yeah. I'm just yeah. It ruins the immersion. Yeah. Get out of my cooney!

Get out of my cooney. We're gonna say that? I mean I wouldn't like anyone in it. Sounds like something I'd like to keep people out of. If someone's in there and I don't like that. Thank you. So you understand how we feel now. I saw, we were honked at by a white man driving a truck Like honked in an aggressive way no no he honked and waved but he was in like a work truck

Yeah, and he's like I guess he's just shouting this out. He's just happy to see a white We we definitely had a period where we were yearning for whites I haven't been here in too long. We definitely had a period where we were yearning for whites. Excuse me? Okay. It was when we were trying to communicate and we were trying to find one white person to help us with directions. Maybe English speaker is a better word.

I think it's a better word. Don't say one white person. I don't know how it's phrased. Are we all looking for whites? Is there another term for that? That's crazy. And you're wearing a Red Bull athlete hat. C-Royce.

What do you guys call them in this country? C-Royce. And you're wearing a red ball athlete hat. She-rois! What do you guys call them in this country? She-rois? But then it turns out that, um, English speakers suck to talk to. Yeah, they blow ass. They don't know anything about this country. They don't know anything about this country even a little bit at all. It sounds like you found someone who spoke English and then they didn't give you any helpful directions. Yeah, that's about what happened. That's it. That's about what happened. Did they say like, I love, I'm so happy to see you because I love Ludwig content.

I love Michael Rue's content. They recognize you. In Osaka, yeah. Really? In Osaka, yeah. There's people who be like... Because he got Funko Pops at him, bro. He got that sweet monkey.

I don't have a Funko Pop. I say that. He's got that, he's got that Munko Pop money. Munko Pop. I don't, but... Ludwig, Ludwig has to do this before he gets back for his big sponsorship thing. I don't even know if I can say it. But he's gotta get back.

And I realize he's got the sweetest monkey for these brands. It's so sweet. And then he kept talking about... How do you say that? How do you... It's Monkey Monday. Show me! What do you think, by the way, what do you think he's been doing since he got to Japan?

I think he goes, I think he goes, Soudas! And he bows at random Japanese people. No I don't. I think that's been doing since he got to Japan? I think he goes, I think he goes, SOTAS! And he bows at random Japanese people. No I don't. That was season one of Slime in Japan. Season two of Slime in Japan was him walking into the airport and walking around like this going, Head so good she honor roll, head so good she honor roll. Straight into Haneda Airport.

I ride the dick like a carnival. Yeah, I done did the impossible. You just find out about this album. No, you just rockin to Kanye now. You're walking to find out you just you. You know, not Tiktok Riz party, and I'm bringing the Riz party to Japan. And then and then more recently, more recently, as of maybe this morning, he's been saying,

how do you think they say sweet monkey? Michael, get close on that one. as of maybe this morning, he's been saying, how do you think they say sweet monkey? Right? Right? Yeah. Michael can get close on that one. You know sweet, right? Yeah. Ah-meh, ah-meh, monkey. Monkey.

Monkey. At least for a day, right? If there's ever a Japanese brand working with Ludwig and they know he's like brand safe and like can yield a high level of interaction and stuff, they're saying that. Ah-meh, monkey. Ludwig? No, they're saying that. Ah, man. M-monkey.

My sweet monkey. Ah, man. Monkey. Welcome to episode 100. We're in Japan. You guys scared us last night. I don't know if that's rolling before this or when. Oh, yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, you guys did seem a little shocked. I didn't like it. I didn't like it. I think it was just the shock of seeing someone I know and after seeing like almost no one I know for a full week straight The guy Joe the guy Joe did actually you do

Yeah, I want us in the country Aiden you to be fair went to the side of the road and went And you scared the fuck because I didn't realize you were a human. I knew yeah I thought like my tires had both blown out and I was like just going Michael's just getting dragged behind you are well we were worried that you might just cruise on by us and slimes slimes a way of saving this situation was to jump out into traffic with his bald head but you saw the whole and it did work and it did one time right I didn't like it but it worked did he jump out in front of you? You were worked. Did he jump out in front of you?

You were first. Did you jump down in front of me? Yeah, I jumped down in front of you. It was all blur. And remember I touched your face? I reached through your helmet and touched your face and said, I love YouTube. I love you my sweet monkey.

You're my sweet monkey. I'm your Yojimbo now. You are my Yojimbo. I watched that on the plane. What? Final Fantasy X? Yojimbo. Michael, what the fuck is he saying to me? He's saying Yo yo Jimbo. I watched that on plane what fine with him Jimbo with Michael what the fuck is he saying to me? Jimbo he has he been a pain in the ass to you this whole trip He's been saying a lot of weird things to me in the helmet and after he stops recording the mics What in the helmet to the pack talk?

A lot of shit, thank God they don't record it on their own. It is just me and Michael for... Some straight horrible stream of consciousness shit. And like, if that shit got recorded, he wouldn't have to go home for his sponsorship. We could stay in Japan probably forever. We're day nine, you have to understand this, we're day nine, traveling across Japan without a map.

And we spent every day talking to each other for probably like 16 hours a day. And it's just a two way between you guys in the helmet. Just the two of us. And so. Oh yeah, because the RV isn't close enough to be on the comms with you, right? Yeah, it's way far away.

They're far away. We don't know where they are until the end of the day where they appear and they're like, hi. They put you in the pigment onion and you just go into it. Yeah. They go, nyeh nyeh. and so it's me and Michael and and we're just saying stupid shit and then when there's a silence we go we're brain rotting ourselves yeah so you guys get mad at me sorry this I'm gonna air grievance with them you're great but they get mad at me I come come, I get off the plane, I start telling Yingling

that he's a chopped huzz, I get fucking yelled at by people. And it's annoying, you guys have the same brain, Rod. I just, you just, I accelerate faster, I have a faster seat than you. There's a safe place in the helmet. Oh, so you're saying in the airport I can't be calling Yingling a chopped huzz? Yeah, cause we don't walk into Lawson's.

But he is. And go, back up. Don't need you warts. Don't need you warts, Mina-san. It's bad. When I say it, all I imagine is Cam editing for 16 hours a day in that RV and sifting through like nine hours of us going, back up. And then I should get through it in case there's

like a little chunk of good dialogue in there. Guys, tomorrow maybe 100 less gigabytes of that. Because we just have to delete all of it. We've been on our own journey with this because me and Slime have... Do you guys know what the huzz are? Yeah, we know what the huzz are. Yeah.

So you might know what the chopped huzz are. Of course I know what the chopped huzz are. Yes. We know what the chopped huzz are. We have been... we have been calling Nick you the chopped husband Japanese You know how to say the chopped husband Japanese, but we say it as if we're like a salary man imagine this Imagine your salary

And you show up and there's because you're you're entertaining a client You have a beautiful bevy of a hundred prostitutes Yeah, and they're waiting in the big giant hotel room and you're and you're entertaining and you open the door and you hit the key Card, you're drunk. Hey, hey open Nick yinglings there. Yeah, that's a chopped. Yeah Koro chop toast Nick Yangling's there. Yeah, that's the chopped hos. Yeah Kodawa chopped hos Yeah, you guys are on the same wavelength It's basically been just us three together either walking or in a hotel room

So we're we're in the same. We're on the same trajectory. Oh my god. I saw Aiden's balls for the first time How is that? Oh, yeah, they're movie balls Like perfect. Oh my God, I saw Aiden's balls for the first time. How is that? They're movie balls. Like perfect. Dude, he has movie balls. There's a video on Anthony's phone because we got into the hotel room and the bathroom is very nice, but it's all like one of those open all glass ones.

So we're like, oh my God, you can just see each other shower. Like, what are we gonna do? Turns out it has like blinds that will close if you push a button right? Wooden blinds. But they go down like really slowly and up really slowly. So when I was in there, I go into the bathroom and I stand on top of the bathtub and mount it like this. And I tell Anthony to raise the blinds and I'm hold it and it slowly reveals my balls in the window. You're doing like a movie theater curtain reveal of your balls. It takes so long!

It's abidi abidi! It's my balls. But the payoff was good because it was a movie balls. They were movie balls. It was crazy. I don't think I've seen them. I don't know who had those. I got prosthetic movie balls. Because he has movie balls. If you've seen his balls, they're movie balls. Plastic surgery.

I thought you pointed at Michael and I was like, you've seen Michael's movie balls? I haven't seen Michael's balls. I'm sure they're great, and I was like, you've seen Michael's movie balls? I'm sure they're great. They are. They are. I think it's interesting. Because I feel like somebody who might be watching the videos that you put out, or maybe even watching this podcast,

they probably think, of course, they plan to meet up with each other. But we really did just find you in the street last night. Yeah, that was really scary. I'm sorry. You're like, I don't make fun of my brother. Did you communicate with Dan? Was that it?

No, not really. I mean, we have been talking to Dan, but he didn't do anything to assist. What instructions did you get? How did you do that? We saw that you were following a certain road like a really long time. And that road, if you followed it into Tokyo Tokyo ended in an area that was near our hotel so

We just timed when you would follow that. So how about the iti-miti? Is that the oh yeah, yeah the one. The one. The iti-miti or there's the miti-titi. If they don't understand we go to the iti-miti-miti-titi. I can see it. I can see your mind unwrap unspooling as we speak and then we We're learning so much and then we just hired we couldn't turns out we couldn't rent a car here. I fucked that up

Why can't you you need a special driver's permit that takes like you need to get in the US? They knew they knew we were trying to apply for an international license I've rented cars in other countries before and you didn't need it The process for this is so good Do you want to hear the process for an international license? You send the application, you wait 3 business days and you get it Michael, tell them You go to your local AAA branch, you pay $20 and wait 15 minutes and you have it What?

They'll take one picture of you, but they will charge you $5 extra for the picture It said 3 days online? No, they fucking lied. We could have just gotten it. You could have just gotten it. You get a day of, they hand it to you. You could get it the morning of your flight. I'm convinced people in Japan have no fucking clue what this permanent,

because it looks good and it looks official, Yeah. but they have no idea it's the equivalent of like going to a gas station and asking for it in the US. Yeah. That's it? Yeah, that's it. That's so funny. And mine's also beat to shit.

Dude, it is it. Yeah, that's it. That's so funny. Mine's also beat to shit. Dude, it is beat. So we ended up not getting a car and we just took a taxi out here. So he dropped us off on this side of the road. This is good. Basically, rural Japan. There is literally a cow barn

right over behind the shop right now. It smells horrible. It smells so horrible. And it smells really bad. You get used to it. You guys are gonna get mine. And now to get back, we have to walk. We have to walk from here because you can't call a car out here We have to walk an hour to a station and then take it back to Tokyo No, the chop does has another problem with us bro, I don't want to hear it also he was mad at you me

I don't want to hear it also. He was mad at you me Always some shit He's a liar, bro. We were we were talking about how if we weren't if we weren't the chopped huzz Oh, you would have gotten here earlier, but because and it's our fault for being the chopped huzz because you guys are beat Yeah, beat shot to us No, I can tell you what has happened every day. It is the journey of my motorcycle keys. The keys? Yeah.

Yeah, the long awaited journey of motorcycle keys. I lose it every day or I keep it in my bike with my bike still turned on and the blinker on. Always the blinker. I have probably, I think unironically, about two hours of footage of his blinker just on, like small clips. Why? So maybe a hundred of his blinker just on. Like small clips. Why?

So maybe a hundred times. I keep pulling into places, and I put down my kickstand, and I just hop off, and I go okay, no, no, no. Like you press triangle, and now it's time to go into the building. Yeah. And it's bad enough that we were eating at a place, like a biker bar, with several motorcycles, and the owners are motorcycle drivers. They have an old fashioned like 1976 motorcycle.

And then the service food, she comes over, she goes, oh, I don't know what you're saying. I don't know what you're saying. And I'm like, what? And I'm like, and all I heard is, but inca and I was like, oh, I know this. And she's like, she's basically fucking kindly being like, yeah, dumb ass.

Why, why are you guys doing this? I know why he's doing it, because he's like an eternal weeb that will never truly be whole. But you seem more on the ball, Michael. No, this is for the love of the game. Love of the game. I've been wanting to rent a Japan motorcycle for like four years. And every time I go into the little motorcycle shop, I say, oh, I'll buy rental. And they and the nice little man in there goes,

he says, no, he actually looks at they and the nice little man in there goes The face and he goes It's not like not today or like we're booked out he goes no I'm like I got the international license you know, so this is a good opportunity to do it I've always wanted to do it. Um, I think this is also your idea One of our idea. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I think like this is also your idea. One of our idea. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I think like this is not my idea. The like initial start was like I wish I could ride a motorcycle across Japan and he said and we'll do we could do that. We could do that. We can take it way too seriously. That was one of the things that should have stayed in the head. I said I said let's take it really seriously and make a challenge out of it and also fucking suffer.

And also the RV follows us for six days of the week and then they make the videos and Cam dies in early death. Cam is gonna die in early death. We've heard. He is suffering. Yeah, but he gets to eat the 7-Eleven rice balls. And that's the trade off. That's the pay. Dude, it's sad.

So yeah, the RV is following us in editing and Cam gets the footage every day. He's gotten too out. Hell yeah. But I saw him last night. He looked what, like deaf. Just gaunt. Just gaunt. And uh. You turned Cam into the Chopped Hus. I did turn him into the Chopped Hus. And we were, I forget when but I was talking to him because we passed Fuji. And I was like

did you see Fuji? Wasn't it beautiful? He was like I didn't see it man. I took a peek out the window a little bit but not really., it's there in your vision for, like, five hours. Yeah, it is. It is, because it's a big mountain. It doesn't move. It's huge and beautiful. But yeah, to go back, this is Michael's idea to the point where the only reason I got a motorcycle in the first place, Lime, is because of Michael.

Yeah, to practice. To practice for this. Oh, yeah. The motorcycle at home is his practice girl. Yeah, his first love. And this is the real deal. What are kind of the, uh, the rose stem and the thorns of the trip so far? The rosebud thorn?

Can you see Aiden in that camera? You should set up. Fuck! There's a bush, bro. Fuck, yeah, I got a bush, what of it, dude? Get the fuck up. I gotta bush one of it, dude. Get the fuck up. Also, Michael, not even four days ago,

said, I hate Rosebudthorn. Yeah, yeah. In a totally severed conversation. That's what I asked. No, no, no. This is different. It's the rose, the thorn, and the stem. What's the stem?

Because Bud, I don't like Bud. Bud's annoying. Bud's like, what are you looking forward to? I don't care. What is stem? I want the middle part of the trip. Arguably the most important question. The beginning, middle, end of your trip.

I want to know what's the most middle point of Bolivia's trip. The most forgettable element of it. I'll let you rip a thorn. Porn riding motorcycles through Osaka. Which is one of the most fun cities to go to when you're not on a motorcycle But we I think that was the biggest time-sink of the entire trip was we parked our motorcycles like goes okay floor six Row F we got it fucking down and we walk away and take a train somewhere else and we come back and we go Where the fuck are the motorcycles and we looked for maybe two and a half or three hours

Like you just forgot or like it's impossible It's just difficult to find? It's difficult to find because the elevator to get to where we needed to go is through what seems like an employee entrance. Yeah. It really was. Yeah.

We walked past like lockers. But didn't make a note of it as we were going out. Yeah, it's like some back rooms entrance. So that, dude, that Osaka day, I think it'll be out by the time this is out. It was horrible. Because we had, I don't know be out by the time this is out, it was horrible. Cause we had, I don't know if you've seen the first episode? Yep.

Ying Ling watched it. He watches all your slop. We didn't make a lot of progress. No. Don't have to fucking say that so excitedly. You didn't make a lot of progress. Don't have to jump in like that. I think you've made up for it recently.

No. Oh no. This is a slow start. We have, I'll leak for you, but we have an insane skip Yeah, huge skip We did a swag fairy skip What? There's a fairy whose mouth opens like-

Did you use the whistle? What? You used a whistle bro? What's the whistle? You used a whistle to get to the third, eighth level You used a whistle to get to the next or the eighth level. You used a whistle to get to the next world? What the fuck is the whistle? You ever play...

You ever play Super Mario Bros? No. Like, OG? No. You find a whistle? You found a fairy. No, I don't do that. I jerk off to porn and play cool video games. Anyways, we...

Has he dumped out real quick? Has he dumped his balls out? I don't fucking know. I'll tell you the schedule. The schedule is he leaves every morning for breakfast, I jerk it, and then he fucking comes back. And then we get going on the road. I don't know if he does it at breakfast. Yeah, yeah.

Cause that's your time. That is my time in the road. There's been, on our trip, there's been a lot of heavy accusations of who's drained their balls recently. How long have you been here? It's like 24 hours. I've been draining my shit in 24 hours. Is it 2 days?

No. This is day 3. This is day 3. Ok, so you're at like 60 hours right now. Yeah. So we've got a few ball drains on the table. I thought you were like 24 hours in like Alright, gotta drain. I'd be in the hotel room like reading a book because they went to go do something and it comes back

and Ying Ling's like, this guy's balls like empty. And I like have to just, I would say, no, my balls aren't empty. And then they just don't believe me. But I don't have movie balls. So they look the same no matter what. OK, so that Osaka was the worst part of the trip so far. But you found a cool skip. Has there been maybe a best part of the trip so far? It is it's hard to say who but it is generally the people yeah, we have met along the freaking way It seems like everybody's been really kind the night and magical and spiritual. Mm-hmm. This one man

Bucking I think I think oh gee song. Oh gee song. Yeah. Oh gee song is probably like oh gee song Like that's how he refer to himself You're like my fault my fault we were uh, where was this this isn't a Shit, this is early. This is after the fair. I'm a If that's the place that we went to after the fairy ride and the hill. Yeah, I held on that was cool We met this man who was walking by, brushed us off like the white Diogen we are. But then he saw Ludwig's Dodger hat and he said, oh, Joe Hildon. That's awesome.

He had this newspaper and he goes, Joe, hey. And then I try to make conversation. I'm like, uh, when's the game? He flips through for maybe three minutes. Really long time. Can't find it. And then he goes, Yamamoto, who's the other pitcher. did you just start miming baseball actions to like connect with him he did he's like 70 years old and he had like a bamboo walking stick and it's a good

stick he had a good stick good stick I got a good stick and then we he told us like what we need to do to like continue on in our journey. And then he also, he was like, yeah, OG-san 40 years ago walked this path. And it's like the one we were driving. Yeah. And I was like, damn OG-san, you're that guy. He said, that was crazy. How many hours did that take?

He said hours. And then he said 50 days. I said, whoa. Some biblical shit. That's fucking, he walked for 40 days and 40 nights. Yeah. With nothing but an actor. And he shot Gamerhood right after it too. And he for 40 days and 40 nights Yeah, and he shot gamer hood right after it to any disuse a farm gamer hood and he pwned destination Yeah, so suddenly the people there's like there's a there's a running list was like ten or so people we've met that

Have left impressions. Do you think they consider you as brand safe as State Farm might? Do you think they consider you as brand safe as State Farm might? The Japanese people? Yes. On the whole. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, cause I don't know how to be crass in their language. You didn't learn any awesome words? There's not many. I really tried to test chat GPT. I was like, give me some slurs.

Give me something. Give me something to work with. And chat GPT's like, we don't got that. I don't, I can't do that for you. I know. Jarv. There's a way to say I should kill myself. That's a good idea. We don't got that. I don't I don't can't I can't do that for you. I know There's a way to say I should kill myself that's a good idea I learned from a man in a bar how to say come inside Please dude, that's a good one and not and not Like come inside of a building. Yeah, I think it's context Well, no, it's it's burst inside, please

Yeah, he also knows I got it I'm gonna make piss Michael knows the crass things I'm gonna create piss yeah Yeah, I'm going to create piss Half the time sometimes they question it and sometimes they laugh really hard That's the thing. We we have the same like fuck it. We're like parrots, you know. We just throw the same bullshit out there. But it's weird because sometimes it fucking lands like it's super land and sometimes they just walk away from you. And sometimes they really just don't register it. It's just like we have a few ults and sometimes the ult is good. Sometimes it's got merc treads. Don't tell me so, but your ult, it sounds like one of your alts

is just a lull in the conversation, and you just say, burst in me. No, no, no. Our alts are, we don't use that crass language. And the guy at 7-Eleven is just like, ah, there's a line. Some lady is like graciously drawing you a map of where to go from the 7-Eleven. Burst in me.

No, we don't do that. I look at Michael, I go, I'm going to... And I go... And that means... I'm traveling across all of Japan on bike. And then they go either Oh, really?

Or they go... Yeah, don't care. Dude, where we're staying is so cringe. Aiden, Aiden fucks me. He holds me down. He fucks me like a dog every time we go on a trip, bro. Premium economy. Fucking fuck me like a dog.

We come to this hotel that he booked. Everyone at this hotel is dead ass like a guy, Jindes. Everyone like I walk by and there's like a 70 year old white man and I'm like, he really invented some medical app. Guy who thinks hotels in Tokyo's are filled with local Japanese people. You're in fucking Tokyo. I'm not sure.

We're not just in Tokyo. We are like in the, we literally throw a dart at the bullseye of Tokyo. Dude, get this. Okay, this is the problem. This is the problem. This is the imperial palace. He's been on this shit.

One, one, he could have booked the hotel. True. But two, two, I'm not gonna do that. This is the worst part. This is the problem, this is the problem. He's been on this shit, one, one, he could have booked the hotel, but two, two, this is the worst part, this is the worst part. He keeps talking about how we need to, we should have been in Roppongi instead. Which is, contextually is like Beverly Hills in Tokyo. And also filled with white people. I didn't know. Last time we were in Roppongi I didn't see a single fucking white person. Except for your ugly ass. It was filled with white people. Yeah, I didn't know last time we were in Roppongi. I didn't see a single fucking white person To defend slime for a second you're not exactly great at travel

Come on. I told you he holds you down. He fucks you you're not exactly great at it. I So would say I'm the greatest Someone called you the goat, but I think that's revoked for years now Years well, okay, if you don't know, I was supposed to get to Japan a bit earlier and meet up with Connor and we were going to have a nice dinner. And I had a plan. We were going to go. It was a great spot. And I get to the airport and I'm at the desk and then I'm like, yo, Yingling, do you have

my check-in information? Because I'm not allowed to buy flights. I should preface that. Because I don't get a company card Because I don't get a company card. I don't get a company card. Company card is irresponsible. Company card has nothing to do with this. Well, oh, should I have paid with my personal

for this business trip? Sure, and then reimburse it. You do that. Well, you're a millionaire. Let me tell you, there's a lot of reimbursements coming. But yeah, I get there. And Aidan never booked the flight. Never fucking booked it. We pulled it up on his computer. He never fucking booked it.

And so I just... Is that true? Is that really happened that way? Dude, it's so bad because I was so heartbroken because... Oh, you were heartbroken. I truly deserved it. I truly deserved it. I want to say this ended up working out well in that you got put on the flight you originally wanted anyway.

Which is true. No. In some ways it's better. You should be happier. You should be happier. No, I thought you should. Maybe that sucked me dry. And it might come up, it's for during the 90 minute sitcom that we went through to book your flight at the office.

And I said repeatedly, I'm the goat of booking flights. And the reason I said this is I think since I was like 16, I have a record of every flight I've ever booked for myself and other people. And I always list the confirmation, the flight info, and I record it in like a self-message log. So I cannot lose that number for like checking and stuff. And I can see the record of like where I've flown. And this is no joke,

the first time I haven't done it in 10 years. And I did it for Ludwig's trip to Japan. And I felt so bad and I think I have lost my title. You lost your title? You only need one. There's only one terrorist attack in New York. We'll never forget that and I'll never forget this. That's the thing the World Trade Center was attacked like 10 years before that too. Yeah no one knows about that. No one talks about that one. There was a van. That's right Michael. Let me tell you about this. There was a van and everyone knows about it but many people forgot. Can I ask you realistically with where you guys are at right now because you

guys made up a lot of progress. My understanding is the start of the trip was a little slow mostly because of weather and then it's picked up a lot since then. Did you guys think you're gonna make it all the way to the end right now? No. Oh. The fuck? I thought we were asking opinions. I'm sorry, I don't know. That should have stayed in the back talk.

I thought we were sharing. That should have stayed in the back talk. Oh, he said no. I thought we were sharing. I think yes. You think, but he thinks no. Actually, today's gonna be huge. Today's gonna be a massively influential day, because I think it's's the last day until we could get hit with the shittest weather

yeah, so I was at breakfast this morning and I saw a Like weather report on the TV. It was just like seven days and then every region and then it was like today beautiful Sunny tomorrow like cloudy and then it's like rain rain rain snow rain rain So it's just really hard to drive long distances in that weather with any success. I think about dying more. Is it harder to see? Are you just cold?

Are you soaked? All of the above. All of the above. And more. You go slower because you don't want to die. You think about death a lot more. Yeah. You think about death constantly because every turn,

your tires could slip out from under you. All right. We would paint the road and our blood would mix and make a new color Yeah, like a cherry coke No, I mean I've been thinking about death a lot on this trip because I turned 30 Oh, yeah, you turned 30 on this trip you old fart Yeah, I turned 30 years old

I didn't realize you were- wait, no you- I'm sorry. You're lying to me He's fucking 28 I turned 30 years old He's spiritually 30 He's spiritually 30 He's spiritually more bald than I am too. I've been thinking about death. Real.

That's real. It was your birthday. I'm not wearing a hat. I found a good stick. I'm the fucking fountain of youth, you old bitch. Look at you. But yeah, we're feeling cross about it. What do I have?

No hair. No hair. I thought there was a bug on me. I thought there was a bug on me. He was trying to get it because he got some shit on me! I thought there was a bug on me, he was trying to get it because he got some shit on me earlier but it was just my bald head. I was drawn to it like a monster plane.

You were like the orb. I was trying to counsel with it to see if our trip would go well. Yeah, well, you know what? It says you're not. It says you're gonna fucking die. It says you're gonna die, actually. Yay! Yeah, I think we'll make it. But'll be tough after after this. Yeah, you know being locked in the in the Helmet headphones for this long with each other and spending every night together in every hotel do you a hotel room?

Would you go on another trip like this again right now? Yeah, we already talked about a couple. Yeah Only hell yeah, it's pretty bad. Dude, sometimes I go to the bathroom and I talk out loud. I talked about this last night and I think I'm in the helmet. And I think he can hear me and then I go, oh! Dude. No, it's the schizophrenia starting already.

Schizophrenia, but the voice in your head is Ludwig's for the rest of your life? Yeah, it's only that. I got, okay, how about Rose, no bud, Rose and Thorn of each other? Because you've been spending so many quarters together, you've been inside each other's mind palaces while you travel. What's, start with you Michael, what's the worst shit about traveling with him for so long? I mean, mostly it's pretty good. Like generally it's good, like he's really on top of things, good at directions. Bad, I mean, his opinions on Japanese people, you would think, generally as a race, haven't been great.

I don't know what he's referring to. I don't know what he's referring to. Kind of like a touchy subject. And it must come up a lot because you're in Japan. Honestly. Honestly, he learned how to say too many- I just think the homogenous society is succeeding for some reasons,

and we should perhaps discuss them. He's driving during the day one like, wow the streets are so clean here. Hmm. Wow, no homeless people. Curious. A denser city than any in America, but no homeless.

Curious. I got no thorns. No thorns. Don't be a fucking liar. I mean we're getting along really well. I won't lie to you. No, it's been pretty good. Well the thorns.

Thorns, thorns thorns thorns he's weird yeah no matter what decision he makes it's always confident so I don't know which ones he's feeling bad about tell me about it. He's so fucking calm he says left turn here and I go I don't know he goes left turn here left turn here and it I go, I don't know, he goes, left turn here, left turn here, and I go, it's wrong. We went the wrong way. I do rip every decision quite confidently and I'm wrong a good amount of the time. But here's the thing, that's bad for directions, really good for conversation with Japanese people. As long as you just say some shit, you go, okay, they get it, they just go off of your

vibe. I don't think that any of them know how to speak Japanese. So he's aura farming. They go, some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some some I don't know if you've spoken to a Japanese person since you've been here Yeah, you sound to be in this hotel. We have been using a surprising amount of Japanese in public We taught we taught yingling a word. He's been saying thank you to everyone. I put my fucking foot down. Can I hear it? See he's embarrassed. That's a problem. I said don't be embarrassed. Because you your camera broke, right? So we picked up a new camera for Michael in Tokyo. Where is the camera? Right? Kinda, yeah. So we picked up a new camera for Michael in Tokyo. And we had a whole... We... No, no.

We had a whole... No, no, I don't like this. Don't be on their team. You're supposed to be on my team. Don't be on the pack. We had a whole... We used... I cheated. You know, I used ChadGBT in advance to like basically memorize some phrases Oh, fuck it. That's a classic. What a fucking treat.

And then- What a treat. And then I know enough Japanese from college that I can like piece together some things So we had a whole conversation with the guy that we bought the camera from and that was fun. I- I uh, we've been missing that because we can't improve Outside of- Via the phone. Yes.

Yeah, no. Can you- yeah, I guess we haven't talked about it the phone. Yes. Yeah, no. Oh, yeah, I guess we haven't talked about it. What are all the rules for your trip? Oh, right. No map, no expressways, no toll roads. Yeah. No cell phone other than, yeah, no smartphone.

No smartphone usage other than to record video. Yeah. And then we do listen to Spotify while we ride. Yeah, cause I can't be alone with my thoughts. It would be scary for that long. So is it like you're listening to the new Cardi album and then you hear Ludwig come on over the intercom? That's pretty much exactly what happens.

One time I fucking, I was watching, tried to watch episode one before I realized there were 15 maps in it in the first five seconds. I just realized Michael's Thorn. Yeah? Yeah. Michael's Thorn is while we are riding, he does this thing sometimes. We'll go, ah! And then stop communicating.

Dude, that's crazy. And he's behind you, right? He's behind me and then I'm like, that is fucked up. And then I'll be like, Michael? And he'll be like, yeah, what's up? I was like, that is fucked up. And then I'll be like, Michael? And he'll be like, yeah, what's up? Okay, cool. Sorry, I just thought you fucking died on her right in his axis.

That's so funny. That's what I think about it. Oh, and oh god, one more thorn. He does this thing and I don't know how to stop it. Like, for example, we were on a ferry. And it over, it's like night. It's like five stories tall. It overlooks the ocean and he's going over and he goes,

uh. Yeah, it's my favorite, I put a little foot on it. And he puts a little foot in, and he gets like really dangerous with it. And it's like, I don't want to be like, yeah, to encourage it. And if I say no, it also feeds him. I don't wanna do it.

There's no way out of the genjutsu. I think unfortunately, Michael and I are very similar. I did this the other night. Going to you guys to the corner. Been doing it so much. There's this big river, I can't swim. It's not a river, bro. By the way, it's the moat for the emperor's palace.

It's the moat for the emperor's palace to keep out the enemies of the emperor. And we're walking along it, and I'll call Ying Ling the Choped Tuzz, and then he'll get mad because I've been saying it too much, and so I started defending Ying Ling. And so I was just like, fine, I guess I'll just go fucking chump.

I guess I'll go to fucking water, and I would put my foot over. If I fall, I'd probably drown. And they're like, no, no, no, no, no, no. And it feels really good when they say no, because you're making them do something. And if they encourage you, you just...

Yeah, you're changing the world. I do it to Lily all the time. And I was kind of doing it on camera to be like, ha ha, this is going to fuck with Lily. But then Ludwig, as filming goes, no, no, no, no, no. That's good, that's good to know. You've shown me a weakness.

Yeah. And I'm going to run with it for the rest of the trip. It is my greatest weakness, and he likes to take advantage. Yeah, I love that shit. But his greatest strength is he is way more resourceful. Than you. Oh, like, it might be a surprise.

Might be a surprise. But he's a little more resourceful than my ass. Interesting. Cause we had a couple of motorcycle disasters. Yeah, there's little floozies. We had a bike of motorcycle disasters. Yeah, we had a bike tip. Which you can see on episode 1 of the Tip to Tip Japan trip on YouTube out now. Oh yeah, well now.

What happens when the bike tip's over? I know it ruins the motor's cost. I know it falls like the ship break or just like... Shit, it depends on the bike. It could. I mean, I think it's normally designed so it's like hopefully it doesn't anything fuck up Yeah, it just broke the handguard and twisted his mirror. Okay, a little bit of liquid came out, which was scary And then it wouldn't start we freaked out It's just everything that stopped it from moving I guess These are kind of motherfucker bikes. I was surprised when we stopped you guys in the street

I thought they'd be like some rinky-ink like little suzuki's or something, but these are kind of like kind of badass. They are pretty freaking sweet except for when they're on the ground. Yep, not as fun. We don't love to see them, they don't start. I got a flat tire yesterday. How's that? The day before.

Oh, is that when you were at the shop? The shop, yeah, oh yeah. Cause we saw on the tracker, you guys were at a bike shop. It was the day before that, you got a flat and then I patched it up and then filled it at the gas station. But then it's like, you shouldn't go on like the flat before that, yeah, the flat. And then I patched it up and then filled it at the gas station. But then it's like, you shouldn't go on the flat. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But his patch was great. Does he know how to do that shit? Through the bacon in there. Fuck no. Now I do. Now, yeah, yeah. I saw it. Real world shit.

Good way to learn. It was way too fast. It was so, it's scary how little goes into life. It's not a lot of ooze. Not a lot of, I'm just saying, no ooze at all, actually. It's just a little strip. But like on a trip where you can't Google it. Yeah.

Oh yeah. That's what I mean. Like I could do it if I could Google it. Right. But Michael not only didn't need to Google it, he also had all the gear to fix it. Oh. You bring like tools.

Yeah, I brought like a tiny packet of tools. Like in case something horrendous happens. Two stroke motor oil. Two stroke motor oil, gasoline. Is that like the worst thing that's happened on the trip? Like in terms of to our bikes? I guess besides maybe losing the bikes in Osaka. I think that would.

No, worst thing that happened on this trip was the dinner on the second day where we pulled up on the bikes and then ordered a beer. And she said, are you sure? Dude, oh my god. We ordered two beers. But then she said, she said, oh, baikude.

And sometimes people say that because they're like, oh, that's cool. White people on motorcycles. And my sweet little monkeys. And then she goes, oh, daijoubu desu ka? Baikude. And it's like, are you okay to drink and then ride your motorcycle? And then the entire restaurant went very quiet. Oh. And heard the entire interaction.

And I had no other word. I said, that's okay, that's okay. And so she was like, are you okay? You're gonna ride motorcycle, it's okay to drink. I said, it's okay, it's okay, it's okay. I'm a pro at this. I say it's okay. Wotashiwa, Joe's a drink driver.

I drink this all the time. It was like a two hour long, two and a half hour long dinner. And I will say, I took maybe two sips, but then after the conversation, I was like, I'm not drinking the rest of it. I will not consume the beer. Dude, it was, we were literally sitting there at this, it was like Yakiniku,

it was like you cook your own meat. Yeah, small style. And the menu's all in Japanese, so we didn't know what to order. So I was like, I have a strat, we'll order two beers when she comes and it'll stall for time. And that's why we did it in the first place.

Not even really to drink them. And then, dude, it was so awkward after that. That was tough. It was rough. It started out bad and got worse. I was like, could I have this? And the lady went in the back. She said, we don't have this.

And I know Japan's alcohol limit is lower in the States. I think it's 0.03. 0.03, yeah. But we're not going to hit that off the wall. Especially after two hours of yakiniku, but I like the bean pillow. OK, no. What has happened is every day I'm like, Michael's like, Michael wants a camp bed.

I'd camp right here. Yeah, right? I was thinking that too. This is a good spot. This is a good spot. Here's the issue. We drive. We eat lunch.

We have a nice lunch. We drive. We eat dinner. We have a nice dinner. We drive. Dark out. It is really hard to find a camping spot when it's dark out because private land or just like somewhere you can't camp because it's wet or soggy you can't like get to lay the land

and you can't look it up you can't look up where to camp or camping ground. Camping you don't understand the way our ancestors did this bro you just lay down. What the fuck is not how it fucking worked even a little bit are you kidding me just lay down? That's what we did for thousands of years like really long ago. I guess that's what we're kind of doing now This is private land right. I don't fucking know what does he do it This is no Hey, it's alright Never hurt me I've hurt him many times.

So if he starts acting up. I wanna camp. And you know what, we tried one night with some good effort. Michael was like, I wanna camp at Fuji. And I was like, let's fucking do it. And cause we had like a nice picnic with Fuji in our background. And he's like, yeah, this would be sick. So we start driving towards Fuji, but when it's dark out, you can't see it anymore.

Sure. So we don't know how to get there. And everything within about 50 square miles of Fuji is called Fuji. Yeah, it becomes very unhelpful, the word Fuji. Fuji noboshi, Fuji city. This town is named Oyama, which means the mountain. And we asked the guy, where's the mountain? He said, no mountain in the city town.

At the check in. Yeah, no mountain. Silly, huh? They just named some shit. We just thought about a mountain when we landed here. We went to the convenience store and asked the lady in the town called Fuji, we said, hey, how do we get to Mount Fuji? And she said, you want to get to Mount Fuji?

What? What do you mean? How could you possibly say that? What do you mean? How could you say that? I don't know. That way. So that's what we did. We went that way.

And then we just ended up scaling a mountain, like probably climbing a thousand meters of altitude from sea level. Yeah, we got real cold. And it dropped to three Celsius. Oh. And we went through this patch of woods. I was terrified.

I was so down at camp. I'm behind Michael and like, and Michael yearns for the void. Yes. It like fuels him. Me, it terrifies me. This is so new. What, no.

He's always boasted that he doesn't fear death. But- It's not death. It is yokai. Yokai. Bakemono. Bakemono yokai. Demons and monsters. Ah, ah. Akuma. What it is yokai. Mm, bakkèmono. Bakkèmono yokai. Demons and monsters. Ah, ah.

Akuma. Nani yokai desu ka? Nani yokai desu ka? What is it? Shirōi bakkè yokai. Shirōi yokai. What is yokai? Yokai is ghosts.

Demons, I think. Yeah, demons. I believe it's demons. Yeah, there's another word for ghosts, I forget. And you yearn for the yokai? I mean, I just want to go in the dark woods and where there's no one around and Probably do more of the shit that I was doing on the boat honestly. I was thinking last night I was like I wish I could hide behind a tree and just Scream. Lucy, why are we in the dark woods?

Screaming in the distance. I don't know Michael we should probably go to this hotel route in it seems pretty safe But tonight though Tonight I think is a camping night. I think we go into the darkness and then just find a place like this. This is a beautiful little camp spot. If we can find, but like, do you know how hard this was to find without? I could be harder.

Okay. Okay. What do you mean hard to find? We found this spot on accident, to be honest with you. You found this spot in the daytime on accident, but finding this at night would be very hard. You just go where bridges are. Bridges are your lighthouse. Isn't that also tough though?

To know what a bridge is? While sleeping? Oh, it's a nice white. He needs a little bit of quiet time and a little bit of phone time. He just wants to starfish and that's fine. We don't have phone time and Michael has been like writing down YouTube shorts. He wants to see when it gets out. Just imagining them.

Yeah. He's telling me about this Konnichiworts guy who just goes up to people in Tokyo and says, can you hold the phone? And then he goes, Konnichiworts man. I like I need to see it. That sounds so fucking funny. The mythology in your head is just growing. I'm just telling you about this great expectation.

Taking Nick Yangling on this trip, this is his first time in Japan and Tokyo. And he's been, I think he's being maybe radicalized about like urbanization and stuff. No, maybe, dude, no, because he was, we were talking with him in the restaurant and I was like trying to compare everything to Phoenix, Arizona.

And he was like, he was basically saying Youngboy better. Phoenix, Arizona better. And me and Aiden are trying to explain to him why Phoenix is like an accident that should not exist. Phoenix, Arizona should not exist. Like an apocalypse event. I have some Nick Yengling quotes while he's been walking around Japan.

Oh. That's good. That's fun. Number one, I'm not the chopped huzz. I'm not the chopped huzz. I've said that many times. Have you said that? He said it.

It'd be so nice if we just had big ass buildings like this that were just housing. Why don't we have that? One of my favorites from yesterday, why is Japan chill with us? Didn't we nuke them twice? I wouldn't be chill. No, he did. The problem is he confirmed one already. And then he said, I wouldn't be chill if that happened to me.

No. You know what, Nick? It's a very fair thought. It brings up an interesting history. And you might realize that Japan has no formal military and there's a big... Occupation, a lot of self-defense force. My third one was when we got out of the city, he said, This looks like Arizona.

That was crazy. The Phoenix thing was real though. The Phoenix thing was real though. Because we were just trying to explain it and we're like again Lee would you would you move to like I don't know would you move to Tijuana? He's like no. He's like, okay. What about like Canada? He's like maybe. I don't know. We've been torturing him. We've been merciless on this trip. I can't lie. Poor guy, why are you doing this to him? Because he got to come on points

I love doing I love doing stuff that just pushes them over the edge because we when we've been walking through Tokyo I'm you guys have probably noticed this too. Shohei is on fucking everything here Yeah, one in two chance if it's a man, it's Shohei Ohtani Yeah, and he is in every advertisement for every product imaginable They got the Dodgers branded prime drinks at this gas station. Yeah. It's crazy. Because he hasn't been to Tokyo before. I'm like, oh, well, he should see like the big famous parts of the city.

Right. So the first day we got here, we walked to Shinjuku and there's a big, you know, massive wall advertisement on the side of a building that has Shohei in it. And it's kind of, it reminds me of that massive mural that there is in downtown LA with him like painted on it. And I'm just thinking of whatever I can to annoy Yang Ling. And I look up at this is like, it's crazy they take our idols like that, man.

And then I was like, a man from Los Angeles. It's like, can they not find another guy? Can we not have one thing? Leave it to us. Leave it to us. Can LA not have somebody? Dude, I was getting off the plane and there was a guy who was like, he was talking to these two girls that he obviously just met and it was like in the, like where you go

before you get to customs and shit and everyone's kind of like gathering themselves and he's talking and He's like this girl comes. She's like, oh my god, I met this guy. He's a DJ and he's like, ah And she's like, what's your DJ name? And I wrote this down cuz he was like, oh, it's DJ canine and they all kind of like Laughs and he's like, ah, no. No, it's not. It's factor K No, it's not. It's factor K. And I'm like, what the fuck was that? I wanna- and factor K, if you're out there, that was a terrible game. I can't- Were the h- were the huss chopped?

The huss, uh, I think that's rude to say. Is it? I think I draw the line there. It is rude- it would be rude to say that about anybody you know, maybe. Yeah. This guy's checking out your guys' bikes. He's wondering what's going on. He likes the bike-oos. Hi.

Yeah, don't wave. Yeah. Don't fucking wave. I mean, it's fucking you and your country. Wait, are you actually not allowed to wave? Genuinely waving? It's like waving off the respect you have for their country. Wave for real?

Yeah, yeah, I swear to God. Dude, I- You're even waving? You're so fucking naive. You're so fucking stupid. We learned this. Dude, you can't wave No, that was a guy trucker waved at us. Yeah, of course, but that guy was a foreign

No shocker. I was not a white now. Try it out with a with a tree trucker. They try that in a small sound I can't tell you guys are fucking with me Kill yourself. That's what you're saying Use a blunt object I That's what you're saying Use a blunt object I Felt the guy we had food and I said the food was oishi and he I felt them roll his eyes man He was really nice to me, but I just felt like he fucking

Yeah, that was the nicest guy we met the whole time I think he was right to hate us cuz we're fucking stupid Chungus. We are stupid Chungus. We have been saying that a lot about ourselves. Chungus. We've been getting down on ourselves. Yeah, because he fucking leaves us in the fucking dust. Cuz if we weren't stupid Chungus, you would have been here. Huh? Oh this morning? Yeah. Nah, I was busy. And it's our fault for being stupid Chungus. I was busy, bro. This is day nine. We're deep in this. Do you feel, Michael, after this is done, you'll feel empty? Yeah. Oh yeah, big time. I mean, I'm excited to go back to my girlfriend, but not Los Angeles whatsoever.

No. I dread going back. Actually, it grows inside of me every day and it's overcoming the fear of death. The fear of returning to Los Angeles. The y equals mx plus b is rapidly approaching that point where they meet. I think I do... Like when you come to Tokyo or somewhere else like it and you get used to that city style of living that's like so easy to navigate, get around easy things like going to 7-eleven and and getting the nice Onigiri or...

Sick of them. You're sick of them already? I am. We're pretty fucking sick of them. There's only one that's still alive. It's the salmon flakes one from Lawson's. But I think in general, used to the idea of going back home to LA after a trip and going back to traffic hellhole and normal shitty life.

But this is the first time Ying Ling's been here. So it's been fun actually getting to see him discover all the sick shit about Japan again, like being excited about 7-Eleven, being excited about trains. It's the closest you can get to experiencing it again. Yeah. Oh, yeah, I'm excited to get back to the gamerhood personally.

And that's a sweet- Do you know monkey is a slang term for a vagina? Do you know that? Yeah, it's Monkey Monday. What are you doing? Show me your monkey. What are you doing? Michael, don't just take apart the microphones.

He likes playing with gizmos and gadgets. You know us, right people, and our gizmos are doing it, you know. Oh, sorry. He's ears are fucking burning. Where we at time wise? 5-0? Oh fucker.

15 minutes to go. It's your fucking fault you cocksucker! It's not my fault. You were like- you were hounding us! You did? You did it seem. You were hounding us! You should've just come with us!

You did seem worried. So you know, just go to sleep where we sleep. 11, heart out. Heart out. But we do it every day. This is what we've been done. We have heard, this is the conversation you have with Dan every day.

I think we get out at 9 a.m. And sometimes, we got some 1 p.m. starts. Look, the dryer wasn't ready. Oh, the dryer. I had to get some stuff sorted with the thumbnails. The barber didn't show up on time. Yeah, there's this new video going around of this guy. He's like, how to have a hustler lifestyle.

And he wakes up at 4 AM and does push-ups on a balcony. And he dunks his face in cucumber water. And by 5 AM, he's brushing his teeth. And it's this insane viral thing. But you guys haven't seen it. We don't get to see this. We don't know. We're behind.

Yeah. So you're behind. Yeah. So by the time you come back to the internet, that'll be out the door. That's kind of sad. We don't know, we're behind. Yeah, so you're behind. So by the time you come back to the internet, that'll be out the door. That's kind of sad. Yeah, we're super outdated on basically everything. You're missing cultural experience.

Has anything happened, big? Terrorist attacks? Yeah, any terrorist attacks? No, there was another van. No. I know. Many are saying it could be the same damn one. No, that's insane because it's been so many years.

I know. You would think that someone cleaned that one up. But yeah we're at war. So it's kind of rough. Yeah it is. Is it nice? Is it kind of nice being offline? Like you're just like not having any like you I'm especially for two people that are influencers you're not usually going multiple weeks without checking the internet all the time. He misses YouTube shorts. I do. I mean, it's a good thing.

And I'm going to take this opportunity to IP block all short form content at my house when I get back. I didn't know you were a TikTok short head. YouTube shorts. You talk about that? Well, the thing is I uninstalled every other, like I uninstalled Instagram and, um, TikTok. Friggin' TikTok, because it was like killing me. But I kinda uninstall YouTube.

I go to sleep, I listen to scary stories. That's what I do. I need it. Uh... You listen to scary stories to fall asleep? Yeah. Dude, you do yearn for the void. Well, it makes me feel safe.

Like, uh, you know when you're like scared as a kid and you pull the blankets up and you feel safe? That's what I feel when I listen to scary stories. Cause it's just a story, Aiden. Mm-hmm. I like get my head and then I fall asleep. But the shorts up and you feel safe? That's what I feel when I listen to those scary stories. I like get my head and then I fall asleep. But the shorts got you. The shorts got me because I can't uninstall YouTube. Yeah, so I'm gonna need to IP block them. That's so interesting. I wish I could just delete that fucking button off there, but they got me really hard.

And I need- I think I got me hard all the time. I need to get rid of them. Oh god. You think shorts got you hard as hell? When I like fly in bed after having an active day, it feels so weird to not grab phone and like- Yeah. Spend an hour Yeah, just staring well. I've been going to because we have a few things we a lot is like YouTube comments You get to read comments you get to read some of the comments. Yeah, that's brought

Yeah, but it's no it makes me feel bad, but they're actually so some are so sweet I'm a so good some fucking make us want to die. What are they saying that's evil? It's... what was the one that I fucking read out loud last night? There's just ones that's like... Oh, mmm... it's an island. Just go to the water and turn north. No map? Am I crazy? They cooked? Yeah, they did Loki cook, but it fucking sucks to read.

I don't like hearing it. There's another one that's like, 1960s? They just use maps. This isn't really a practice in anything but stupidity. Dude, it sounds like you're just getting fucking owned in awesome ways. But I'd sit because I fall asleep within five minutes. Yeah, you go to sleep after. The one other thing I have is the Ring app comments for neighbors.

Oh, I was talking shit on my. Oh, I love the dude. Well, I see you don't have any social media, but you're browsing ring. The ring. Because I have the ring in case I like I'm like, oh, my God, is someone breaking in and killing Lily? Yeah. So I have the ring app. So I check whenever the notification pops up.

But it'll show like the neighborhood comments like Y's like yik yak if you remember yik yak area dude It's so fucking funny. They'll be like why is your why is there a helicopter hovering at 3 a.m? It's always and then I'll post Shohei Otani foot pics drop and then I'll be like I'll go fuck this I'm gonna be like oh a lost dog does anyone know lost dog on Beverly and I go pound Prowny face he'll be on his phone laughing himself. I thought he was cracking, but he's just like check this out They replied to my dog comment Because um so it's it's usually one of two things one Why is there a helicopter overhead which is like shut the fuck up who cares?

Oh you live in Los Angeles number two is always was that a gunshot? It's never fucking a gunshot. It's never a gunshot. It's just not. And then also porch pirates. They'll do a lot of porch pirates. They love saying porch pirate. Man driving around in a black Tesla, they're stealing things, and I say, he's kind of cute in the comments.

I post the dumbest fucking, it's my favorite shit. Before I got on the plane, I just got, because I just get the notifications because of the fires and stuff. And I was like, it was just, I think I heard gunshots today I want to hear that and I'm I'm I have less finesse than you. I just said it's never gunshots you stupid fucking boomer And you can get banned off the app I did read that so I'm

Until the day it is gunshots and then so what? Because then you just call the cops and then they show Up and be like damn he got shot. I call cops every time they don't do shit But yeah, it's been cool He only hates the bus. He didn't like being being a sergeant hated the bus What about a train trains the sake of? bus yuck you dude what I've realized too is What about the train? Train's the safest. Loves the train. Train, bus, yuck. Train's a little harder.

E-U. Dude, what I've realized too is everyone uses the train. To the point where we've been striking up conversation with really nice Japanese people and we're like, yeah, how do we get to the Ichimichi? And they'll be like, ah, don't know. I don't know. And we'll be like, where do you live?

And they're like, here. And we're like, it's about 500 meters from you, maybe. Your whole life. Or we're carrying our motorcycle helmet, and we're like, hey, how do you get to Saitama? And they're like, by train? And we're like, nope. Oh, I was watching the episode two,

because it just came out before this. And you ask how to get to Fukuoka, and she tells you how to find the train line. Yeah, yeah. So I can imagine that's just happening over and over. That happens a lot because nobody damn drives no damn car in this country. And when you got a helmet, they just like, the Japanese mind cannot comprehend not taking the train, which I feel it's so nice.

We were in Osaka and it's like, it kind of blows ass to ride the motorcycle. It does. It sucked. Dude, we saw we learned like a few phrases before getting here, which have been carrying us a lot. And we've learned new things too, like Shingo. What's that? That's what you had that one time. Chavaglight.

You did have that one time. We learned, Go-Sen, which is the word for route. Michi, road. But- Ah, the Ichi Michi But the Ichi Michi. The Ichi Michi.

But some of the phrases I brought that chat GPT told me were ironclad have just been dog shit. Yeah, I brought this up when you were gone. There was a post on the subreddit that was like, he's got to stop using chat GPT because he was like, he's like, I speak Japanese. Okay, it's anata no taku tasuke ni onikiru. He's like, saying it's a normal thing is crazy. He says it's like, it's like samurai shit.

That's what the lady said, it's awesome. It's like, saying like, I am indebted to your service for many, many centuries. Thank you, my lady. Yes, yes. It's like, you're just reading that and being like, yeah, Chad GPT gave me the right answer. You should have stuck with your sex pest fucking teacher, bro.

He was way better than Chad GPT. He had value. Yeah, I mean, look, a lot of the things I learned is from him, but I just wanted a few phrases. Some of them are good. My all, Nihonzen Koko Abeko Dede Yokosuru was Chad GPT. That one works. Right. But I asked Chad GPT too.

I was like, give me like a bigger thank you if someone really does a nice thing for us. And you got the Hammurabi code. And I got the samurai phrase and I was like, are you sure this is an extra? And then Chepchi was like, no, it's totally normal. You can use this in everyday conversation. I hate the fucking voice, bro. But now I use it and sometimes it hits. And they feel like- Well you've been saying it to people. Oh yeah I still rip it. What is that? What is the spectrum of reactions to something like that?

It is, it is, sometimes it's like the first lady she's like my heart and then sometimes they're like dude what the f- Not to no task. It's just like a verbal fedora. That's literally it. You are walking, it's just like a verbal fedora. Yeah. That's literally it. You are walking. It's like walking across the great American Midwest and wearing a fedora and going, I thank you very much, my lady. But it's not like I'm not saying it like when the lady. And kissing people's hands.

It's not like when the lady at Family Mart gives me a bag for my onigiri. I'm saying it like when someone has, like, over the course of 20 minutes given us directions and information that they otherwise didn't have to. Isn't that just arigato gozemashite? Dude, what in the fuck was that? That was it. I've been pretty good. Don't let him, don't let him talk you down for that one. I've been pretty good. I've been pretty good.

Arigate. Afugato. Arigato. Arigato. Go fuck yourself. Look, I'm Italian, bro. And I'm Greek. And the Greek and the Japanese, they're probably fine. I have no idea. They're probably fine, yeah. Not sure about the history. Historically, they feel a lot of apathy. I don't see any Greek food, but I'm sure they get along. Pfft. Uh, yeah, it's, it's, it's led me astray. I might, I might learn Japanese when I get back. I probably won't. I'll be lazy again. Yeah.

I was going to say when you're, does this motivate you to go back and like learn more, try harder or without this goal to focus on anymore? Like for example, after this trip is over, you had said you were going gonna sell your motorbike at home, the one at home. Oh yeah. So is this motivating you to... Sell my shit? That's what he said. He didn't tell you. When I originally was doing this, I was like, okay I won't ride a motorcycle a lot girlfriend, I'll just learn it and then I'll do this trip and then I won't ride it. Yeah. But then we're on this trip and we're like, you know, what about a cross Europe trip? And then I was like, dude, what about we go on the Silk Road? That's a really good one.

I want to do Vietnam. And we ride from Damascus to Beijing. Uh, you can't do that. I mean, bring a pound of poppy seeds and heroin to them. There are YouTube videos of people doing that. I know. It definitely is possible. It's wicked hard. I think those are my favorite. There's a really really really amazing YouTube

video and I wish I remembered who made it of somebody biking from Beijing to all the way back home to the Netherlands. It is an awesome YouTube video and it takes him like a year. Yeah it takes him a year. That's so fucked to be like yeah we so we were doing one upload this year. Yeah that'd be dumb. It took my whole life. But's so fucked to be like, yeah, so we were doing one upload this year. Yeah, that'd be dumb. It took my whole life. But I think if you guys go on another trip, but we were, I mean, we were kind of joking about it earlier, but you guys choosing a different country

and maybe doing something even a bit more extreme would be super interesting to see after this. Yeah, we've been thinking about it. We mulling it over. But, you know, I think we still got this trip, which we haven't hit the hard part, quote unquote. Yeah. We'll see how I feel after my ankle gets turned the opposite direction when the bike falls on it. Yeah. Is Hokkaido the hard part? Yeah, because Hokkaido, it's still March. It's quite snowy. I don't know how the roads will be. Some roads are just closed down and we won't know because we can't read the road signs. That's cool. And so it's very possible we get to Hokkaido and just get fucking boomed in a way that

like makes us miserable. I never want to ride a motorcycle again, maybe. Or just straight up not alive anymore. So, you know. Michael So Michael, do you are you do you consider yourself a content creator? You're like out of it. You're like no I do it. It's not what he does. I'm creating content right now Sure, but it's like you make just some you make like a video every four months way He got that sweet monkey that state farm can't get rid of, but you're like, they come to your monkey and they're like, what do you think? And you're like, my monkey's sour. Yeah, I think my monkey's all soured in. So it's like, yeah, technically, you're a content creator, but it's like, do you feel like one? No, I'm more of a minecrafter. I play a lot of Minecraft every day. Every day. A lot of days, though. Are you kidding me?

You really play Minecraft every day? Not every day. Every other day. Do you have, like, a sick-ass server? Yeah, my roommates. We got- we have a CreateMod server. You guys ever play CreateMod? Super good. You play a lot of Minecraft, like the factory mods where you, like, do production and stuff? No.

I'll barely- This shit? You can have, like, trains and shit in this one, and they you have your logistics and they go it's like factorial But a minecraft right you're playing and you're you're hitting the minecraft bong most days a lot of days I hit minecraft bong a lot of days. I'll just do some I don't know random shit like I'm trying to learn like more like engines trying to learn engines Oh, no shit, cuz I'm not really good at my car engines like motorcycle car engines. Yeah, I'm sorry on learn like engines. Trying to learn engines. Oh no shit. Because I'm not really good at engines. Like car engines?

Like motorcycle car engines, yeah. I'm sorry. I'm starting on motorcycles because they're smaller. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I had this idea. I used to work in a parts department. I had this idea that he should take out a fucking engine and try to put one back in in one stream.

That would be fucking sweet. That'd be really funny. And he wouldn't be able to do it. But he actually was like, he responded to me. And he was like, what if I could never finish it? And I'm like, I don't care. do it. But he actually was like, he responded to me. And he was like, what if I could never finish it? And I'm like, I don't care. Do it.

Turn on the camera now. Hey, Michael likes the idea for the engine. Yeah, I'll do it with Michael. I'm like, my life's easier. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I want to learn how to do it. Michael will drive or see another motorcycle. He'll be like, yep, four pistons.

They go this way Yeah, it's cool. It's nine hours a day. I gotta talk about it something man. I think what's my relative thing? Some bullshit. It's literally anime. It is some bullshit. It's literally anime. You know the director of Yojimbo You know, I try to kill himself. Do you know the director of Yojimbo a cultural classic? I can't even fucking talk shit. It's like... It's a great movie. It's a phenomenal movie. And then I go, these pistons go this way together. And the other person just pretends to listen. Because it's a boxer engine, Michael.

Because it's a boxer engine! See, he fucking gets me, bro. We saw yesterday, we saw a big old BMW with a fat boxer engine. They got those in the BMWs? Uhhhh... I think the BMW is the only bike that does it Subarus, the only bike that does it Oh, bikes

I thought you said Baka I thought you were calling me a damn Baka Baka You guys know that meme? So you're behind I am behind, I watch It's like a kid in a cafeteria

and he'll stand up on a, like he'll start going, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, and then he'll stand on like a cafeteria table and he'll go, baa, baa, baa. This is an American child? I think it started in Japan, maybe made it to Sweden America.

The one you're talking about. I've seen it on both. It's just the generic meme. It's just whatever. started in Japan maybe made a sweet America. I've seen about it's it's just the generic It's just whatever one specific. It's kind of like the the head so good. She honor roll but for a Baca I Don't know what he means by that. He's so old to be written that Turned 30 and I see the world differently now. Yeah, there's less color a different person I passed you up But when I say she ride the dick like a carnival I get made fun of and it's fucking disgusting It's really not you're just referencing Kanye in 2025. I didn't I didn't even know it was him for a long time

That's crazy. Yeah, that's crazy There's just some passages I found from this book of mine comp. I don't know who wrote the thing. What am I supposed to track every author? It's not like that. It is like that. It's a little like that. Am I doing? Do I have a decimal system memorized? I didn't want to come. I remember, so you were going, we like, because Nick didn't want to go because he's doing a bunch of traveling and then I was like, I have to go because otherwise it's like Aiden and Ludwig and Michael Reeves. And if that, if I, if I let let that happen Michael would end up killing Aiden Cuz he's so annoying and I'm like well then the bloods I've been stopping in this whole time. Oh Did genuinely feel bad last night

Because I got so excited and I when I scared you guys when I waved you down I felt bad It was just weird in the moment to see someone dude It's been just though. It's not even like a normal Japan trip like I know how it feels normal Japan trip We've just been fucking looking at the road and going that car might kill me that truck Is it really feel like like that dangerous to just ride a bike like what is how is this different from riding around in LA? Or is it not? Oh, also scary. Yeah, okay. LA's probably scary. It's just riding a bike. LA's scary.

If we hit a K-truck here, I'd fucking win. I knew what I was gonna say! I'd fucking win. You fly through it like fucking Superman. It's the amount of hours on the road. Yeah. So it's like it's fine to ride around in LA for 30 minutes, because then you're done the ride.

But here we're riding- we've probably ridden nine days or I guess eight days. Do you get sore? Yeah. My ass, dude. We've probably ridden nine days or I guess eight days. Do you get sore? Yeah My ass dude. We've probably ridden like 50 hours How are the asses guys? Bad. The gooch is bad and sometimes the little bit of the stroke gets pinched under the gooch And that really blows. At least you don't have movie balls. Back hurts. If you had big prosthetic movie balls it'd be even worse They would hang off the sides of the bike Mine would drape a bit. Yeah. What is, I did want to ask because we've seen, we can see where you guys are because he has

find a friend and even though your phone is like on airplane motor off or whatever, the GPS still works. So we can see where you are. Oh yeah, man. And we see you guys like maybe you'll make a wrong turn and you'll, like, backtrack, get back on, like, some route that you were going before. Do what is the furthest you've had to backtrack on the trip?

Like, how much what was the worst wrong turn of the trip? We don't know. Yeah, I guess, yeah. Sometimes we'll make a wrong thing, but then it's like, we'll just keep going. We've committed really hard. It's more like, so for example, when we left Cape Sata, which is the southernmost point,

there was an option to go left to Kagoshima, and we went right, and then we continued to Miyazaki. We still don't know if we went to the island Miyazaki. Or if it is an island. They gave him an whole island for Elden Ring. We don't know, we don't know. They might have given him a whole damn island, or it might have been a city they gifted. Hi, Yamizaki.

We don't know. We don't know these things. So it's more like we just have to continue down this path. And so like the amount of time we've lost is not something we'll know until we watch the videos after we're done. So anyway, our cameras died because it's hot, because if we would have done this earlier,

it probably wouldn't heat it up. That's a fucking issue. It's tough. How's the live look? You know, we landed. We landed, it was my birthday. I landed, I turned 30. And I just see the world differently. There's not a lot of space between us.

Look how far he is. Look how much we're cozied up. Everything's in a sepia town. He doesn't fucking fuck with you, bro. Michael Reeves is done with Ludwig. Dude. Put it in all caps. Relationship is over.

That's gonna be the episode three. You're jealous, bro. We get along. I'm not jealous. I actually think Michael is very cool and he's very lucky to have you. And you can, if you would like to, yes, Michael, you may marry my daughter. You may. Are you interested in Michael consummating this relationship?

I don't want it. Okay, maybe. Now we're talking. Let's just skip to the consummation. I'm very protective of him. Stop talking about me like that. Because he's got it. What is your problem?

You've never satisfied me. You've got a sweet monkey. And we don't like when that goes around. You don't like when my monkey goes around. None of you have a taste in my monkey. No, you don't have a damn taste. Michael, have you tasted his monkey? I ain't got a little, actually the onsen,

I got a little peaky. You guys wanna do an onsen? We've been to like four. Been to several. Ooh. Do you have seen his movie balls? I've seen Wiener, I've seen, I flick it around. I do, it's mine.

I thought you were just, I thought you were just flicking your own dick. Really hard to. Like, I'm like, ow. I've seen I flick it around Hate this wait Michael you cut or uncut Cut skis cut That's this is the dog side couple uncut boys over here It makes more sense, but sometimes you don't want to ever freaking grow bacteria in there? Sometimes he stuff pistachios in his for the plane ride. I don't. I don't do that. Just the shells.

It's like my Gomi bako. Because there's no trash in Japan. You must store it somewhere. Ying-Ying, he has to be so far away. Am I crazy? No, I'm chilling. I'm crazy? No, I'm chillin'. I'm cozy. No, I believe it.

Thanks, Ying-Go. It just looks so funny. This is the dividing line. Yeah. Yeah, that's bad. I know, that's what I needed you to tell me. It's just like fucking Kaz. It's like moving? Yeah, it looks good, but it's a bunch of fucking empty seats. It's fine.

Alright, no matter. It's all good. We're just trying to get through this, cause that's what the podcast is about, bro. He just tries to get through it. So we can get on with this fucking- Dude, look, we were fucking- we've been slogging, you don't understand. You've been slogging. We've been in your little pillow princess hotels. But they have been slogging you understand you've been slogging we've been There's video footage of the shod you're being mean you don't understand what we've been through

Michael do you think I gotta pick my nails again? I have a question. I have a boring question. Shut the fuck up. Shut the fuck up. Michael, do you think I'm mean? I gotta pick my nails again. Michael, Michael, do you watch Dogen ever? No. Do you know Dogen, the YouTuber? I've been told about him a lot.

He lives in Beppu. You watch Dogen? Yeah. I was watching Dogen's newest video and the disillusion of the foreigner. I've seen that. And I was like, oh, this is an enjoyable video. I'm watching the first like minute in the hotel room and he's listening to the audio and he rolls over Because he's curled in field position watching a YouTube video on his phone and then he says you listen to that incel shit

Why are you listening to incel shit out loud in this room? That's what it was No, it wasn't he was talking about how he used to see women as objects like chairs and items How can he not talk to girls, bro? He's like, he didn't hear the whole, even the whole sentence. I listened to enough. No, half a sentence of the YouTube video. And he does this. This has been going on all the time. What are you talking about?

It's not a personality trait. It's not a personality trait. It's mounting though. I feel like it's getting worse. Is Japan softening you or are you becoming nicer? Course I am. Say thank you again. Arigato-zaimasu. You gotta stop doing the bow.

Rate my arigato-zaimasu. Look, I just- Young boy better. We just have four virgins being like, who gets pussy the most Me for you wait you guys are experts. I don't think I sound good when I speak Japanese I'm just very confident and what I do is I go oh And then I repeat back what they say and then after the whole conversation is done and they stop talking I go

Well, cutting my son which just means I don't understand what you're saying And then I repeat back what they say. And then after the whole conversation is done and they stop talking, I go, what Karima said, which just means I don't understand what you're saying. Michael, the problem here, it's a problem, is that everyone who's listening to this episode is gonna get pissed off that fucking, that we talked over you and that we barged in on your spiritual being as a man. I was pretty angry about that.

We're sorry. I know. Yeah, I didn't really enjoy it. And it's Aidan's fault. And I talked to you about that and I told you that it would be a problem Yeah, and I have to fight he was snarling bro He was trying to fucking kill you under his bridge and I want to ask you. What do you wish to tell the people? What do you wish to tell the people on this platform that you usually don't have? This this channel gets probably a hundred thousand thousands of more views.

Gets like hundreds of thousands of views. That's it. You can end it there. It's probably being broadcast right now in some sort of capital in the world. But what would you like to say? Capital One Bank? I would hope so! It could be on a TV there.

Dubai? Washington DC. Someone's watching right now for sure. This is your chance we have said that so many times is that some of the shit that's going on in the helmet that is that some of the shit that's going on in the helmet. That is. That's some of the shit that goes on in the helmet. It's plotting. That one Archie.

Dude, I wanna be in the helmet comms so bad dude. The closest I've ever been to Ludwig helmet comms was in Italy on the back of the bike and I would whisper in Ludwig's ear and then he'd turn and whisper back to me. And I think that's the closest we've ever gotten to helmet comms. Something about a bike really does activate him. Maybe it activates all humans on a spiritual level because you're in such danger and you're going so fast. But it's so cool and magic and you feel like you're flying.

Yeah. Is it addicting? Yeah. Yeah, it's fun. It's really fun. It's not like drug. It's just really fun. It's just really fun.

It's just transport's not fun at all for the most part. Sure. But bike transport is fun. Very engaging. Car transport's very, Sure. But bike transport is fun. Very engaging. Car transport is very... Like dude, there's been so much traffic. That kind of surprised me because I... Where... Where is the traffic?

I know that sounds dumb but... You say, hey there's trains here. Japanese people still love the car. The Nagoyans love their cars. Nagoyans fuck with cars so heavily. Yeah, it's pretty gross and bad in a lot of places. I guess during rush hour, you know? Yeah. I was trying to get it working.

Yeah, we, um... We've made quicker work of it because of the bikes. We followed this guy around. I don't think we filmed any of it, but there's this guy, OG Sensei. No, I did, man. Did you film OG Sensei? We can't put any of it in because it's like... We can't put a single second of it in. What did OG Sensei do? You told us about him.

No, no, no. That's OG Sans. He influenced us to do... You meant OG Sensei do? You told us about him. You think we're influencers? He influenced us to do... You meant OG Sensei and OG Sans. Yeah, yeah. On the road. What did OG Sensei tell you? OG Sensei didn't speak with his words. He spoke with his actions. He was like if Akira from the movie Akira, which I've never seen, got 50 years old and never stopped riding bikes.

Akira all grown up, but it's Rugrats, and the Rugrats are still there. Yeah. But Akira's also there. And Tetsuo is just more of a hulking massive flesh. He looks really bad. He becomes Jabba. Okay, okay. Yeah, he's like this 50-year-old white hair motorcycle. He had a big motorcycle, too. Huge motor. He had a Ducati with, like, three exhausts on it,

and they were all coming out, and it sounded so sick. And normally we split a little bit of lanes but he was like... Choto split. Choto split. But he's freaking the fuck out. He was like left and right checking he stood up he wiggled his ass. No. So he's weaving in between lanes in a country where by the way if you go up like if you

look through the traffic if you were to get a bird's eye view motorcycles sit behind other cars in traffic like they're not two-wheelers. Like they're a car. Like they think they're a car. Oh, not everyone, but most do this. I feel like in, especially in Asia, like comparing that to the rest of motorcycle culture in Asia, that's insane. No, it is so different. We saw the world's fastest bike motorcycle waiting behind a fucking minivan.

The world's? It's a fucking ninja H2R and it's just sitting in hot traffic. Do you see what the guy looked like driving it? Badass. Looked tough. Badass and behind the minivan. I wonder if it's like when a 70 year old guy like buys a Porsche because it's almost over and he's like, you know, just going to the store with it and shit. Get it over with faster Anyway, og sensei was splitting like a demon and we try to follow him but he did ditch us and at one point He shook his butt at me

Like the like the the monkey and Twilight Princess He stood up like he's fine and you have to use the beauty that you had to use the Gale Boomerang to take og sensei off His bike and return him to you and he did this behind his back Which is either waving or like, I will crush you. I will crush you like with a truck. So he's one of the nice figures we've seen who have guided us. We didn't talk to him at all, but I feel like he communicated with me

by his actions. Do you have a Mount Rushmore? Of like the people. Washington is OG-san. OK, he was the coolest dude. Yeah. And he was early, so he set the bar. And he was early. And dude, he did like he pretended to be a samurai with his stick. He freaking he was standing up and then he went.

That's sick. Because he's like 70 years old. He's like, you're going to go to Ozu, samurai town. Nice. And I was like, yo Jimbo, he's like, yeah. You know, like I tried to kill himself? Fun facts. Yeah, there was OG-San. Okay, who else?

The lady at the mart. Yeah, first lady? Yeah. This is from episode one. She helped us for 20 minutes, drew a detailed map, did baseball actions. Yeah, she seemed wonderful. She was like, dude, I liked it. When she was describing, I think the big hotel, She like was was outlining it with her hands and jumped

Yeah, I was so big. She's just so amped. Mm-hmm. Yeah, she was Mount Rushmore The guys in the biker bar of all been super good You guys got drunk and then continued to drive no, that's not that not that one That was a yakiniku place. The biker bar was... there's a place called Carol Way, which I think is named by the boy band Carol. Which was semi-famous in Japan in the 70s. And then Aikichi Yazawa became a mega-famous celebrity in Japan

as a solo artist. It's like the S Club 7 for Japan. Almost exactly correct. And anyway, we went to that biker bar, they ruled. But we also went to this other biker bar in Hakone called super rare, which also ruled What are biker bars like here? Is everyone like wearing like is it I imagine in my head It's a bunch of hard-looking dudes smoking cigarettes and have leather jackets and like

Almost no, it's actually the two thinking of America what we were talking about this yesterday. Also, it's not a bar, these are cafes. Yeah, they're cafes. Oh. I'm calling them biker bars, they're cafes. Right. Because you don't want to drink and then drive a motorcycle. But they're low-key. No.

No, I'm just saying. The one thing I noticed yesterday, they're like, if you're looking at the proportion of men to women in terms of like, motorcycle riders. Let me tell you about looking at the proportion of men to women in terms of like motorcycle riders. Let me tell you about females. Way more of these women. Yo, it's like the guy you were watching. The guy?

No. Dugan. Dugan, you're being mean. You're being mean. I'm not being mean. Yes you are. I watched four seconds of his video and I made a judgment on his whole character and personality. Four seconds is being generous.

How is that mean? There's a lot more women who ride motorcycles in this country. Okay. Yeah. It's like almost, it feels equal. And feel like America it's like 90-10. Pretty rare. Like there's a biker girl like, like uh, stereotype. Yeah. Which I don't think exists here. You're just girl who rides motorcycles. Right, right, right. Uh, so the biker bars are not like fucking hardened toothed fucking guys. It's like guys and girls being like, yeah, we're friggin just chatting. This is just how we decide to travel.

Yes. Yeah, and they'll make a bar or they'll make a cafe about it. And it's kind of cool because you know, there's no doctor cafe. It's true. Yeah, that's right. There's no fucking fisherman cafe. There's no accountant cafe. Yeah, there's biker cafes. Pretty sweet. Also the two we've been to has been like couples who run it. I'm pretty sure. Couples. Yeah. Like a guy and a lady and they're just like are super nice and they're old and they said fuck it.

And the food rules. Is there any attachment to biking to like organize crime in the country at all? Or not? Not really. There used to be. The Bosesoku gang. There's dirt bikes, right? No, no, that was that was the ones where it was like they had one guy in the front and then like the your little in the back, you were the big.

With the baseball bat? Yeah, with the baseball bat. And they like actually ride on the back with these huge seats. I think not so much anymore. I like the idea of them recruiting actual little people to like ride, like sit on their shoulders with like a bat. Today you get to pick your little. It's like a wall.

And it's like a stable. It's like a stable of them. This one's a plus 15% speed agility. Yeah, this one's really, they're like chocobos. I should tell you guys, and I should tell you this on record. What? What the fuck? No, please.

I'm worried. I've joined the yakuza. Yakuza. Just say it right the first time. I've joined the Yakuza. Yakuza. You said it right the first time. I've joined them. So if you guys need anything in the future, I won't be available. Been... Been on his Steam Deck a lot this train.

Are you playing through... I'm playing Dark Souls 2. You're not even playing Yakuza 0? I got bored of it. What? But anyway, I joined this gang. And I am... You know, I'm printing pretty deep My back is killing me from the giant tattoo mark. Yes sweating through right now. Are you gonna be able to get it in onsen?

Some of them. Yeah, but you know the thing about being a guy like me is I just you know You look tough. Yeah, you stare him down. What are they gonna do? So it's been tough but it's been really enlightening. So you're not coming back. Why would I come back? This is my home now. And you're gonna eliminate who's your target? The enemy gangs. Enemy gangs? Because last night you guys were saying your target's other white gaijans. Yeah. That's part of it. Yeah. I've actually changed it up. I'm part of a special task force. We he has been walking around and then he'll see foreigners in the distance. This is oh, yeah This is the other thing is find foreigners in the distance and be like we can't allow these We can't allow these guys in here

He's like I gotta get my black af1s and my black beanie and start fighting and start fighting And anytime you see somebody wants to confront's like, where are my black AF1s? I do not know what this means. But he has said it no less than 50 times. You don't know about black AF1s? No. No. I mean, if you wear black on black ones,

you have to fight. That's why I need them. Dude, it's like, I'm just trying to think of how many cultures you're like. What the fuck are you talking about? I'm just thinking, is that all right? Michael has fought before. Me and Michael are fighters.

It's true. You haven't fought to be clear. You still fight? No. He never fought. I never fought. I sparred a couple times. You really fought though.

He really fought. How did the sparring go? It was great. I uh, odds one out, I always say if I would have been not tired enough to actually do the, the um, what do you call it? When you fucking go that way. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no I know that. Uh, he would have fucking killed me. He was reading my movement and I was just too tired to dodge and he just threw an uppercut that would have, would have killed me.

End of your life, yeah. And then later on I would go on to see his video he did with Boy in a Band. And I'm like, that guy almost killed me. Yeah. And that was kind of interesting yeah he's he's he's a fucking monster he's a fucking monster he's gonna fight Will Neff and I got Bitcoin on it oh you got Bitcoin on it you got a death in the fight oh I put my money on all ones out he's been yeah he's an underdog and everyone's like Will Neff's gonna win and I think there's a big chance he wins.

It's gonna be such a banger. Good shot. I remember him from my underdog. But Will Neff, or no, I don't want to sound look good. He looks great, actually. He says, I go to the gym six times a week. And then he shows me his protein bars. He looks fucking jack,

especially from like the first time I seen him. That guy is a trained killer and he draws cartoons. It's so funny because I saw, I remember seeing his video maybe four years ago. It's like right in COVID. It's him and his friend. And they're like, we're trying out the gym. It's like SpongeBob and Patrick.

A fucking big metal thing opens up. Yeah. Yeah. They're massive now. So it has been a tale of a monster being born. You know, we learned a lot on this trip. Did you? I joined... Yes.

A secret organization for only the hardest of motherfuckers. And Aiden's Mark for Death. I put that order in quickly. That was my first one. Ying Ling is on his way. He's my training. Seeing this death threat through the wise 30 year old eyes. I have now Mm-hmm doesn't just doesn't shake me in the way that it would have you days ago. I'm 30 run your pockets, bro I know all your passwords. I know

I will run your face What Jett? What? Hahahaha Hahahaha Hahahaha Hahahaha This guy's alright I'm going home in a box Do you want me to leave you the phrase? To use? The phrase? Yeah, teach me something that I can enrich myself with

Enhaling Nakani dashi-dashite kudasai Nakani dashi-dashite kudasai. Nakani dashite kudasai. Say it again. Nakani dashite kudasai. Nakani dashite kudasai. You got it. What does that mean? Fire.

It's like more if you've gotten to know a person, thank you. Other than arigatou gozaimasu. I would not use it with convenience store worker but maybe someone prepares you a meal. Someone prepares you a meal. Yeah. Like a bar or something.

I was trying to translate my friend here as a convicted pedophile because it would have been funny to let them know that about Aiden before we- You want to do like this guy's here to meet a minor but in Japanese. No more of like a familiar like hey like a like, you know my friend works for like, Boeing. Like, it's a fun, like, fact. And then they go, oh, Akihabara is this way. Please. Please, right here, sir.

It's a short ride. Enjoy. Well, you guys should get going. We got to hit the road. We're hoping to get to Sendai today. It's a big mission. We'll have to ride probably eight to 10 hours. Is it going to be by the end of today? Because right now, where we are, it's a big mission. We'll have to ride probably eight to ten hours. Is it gonna be by the end of today? Because right now where we are, it's a

beautiful day. It's pretty sunny. It's pretty warm. By the time you finish today, are you gonna be somewhere cold and icy and rainy or is that not until a Hokkaido that it gets that bad? I think it depends on the weather. Some people we met in Nara did say it was snowing in Sendai when we talked to them. Yeah, here's the fun thing Aiden, we, Aiden. We don't know. We don't know. I don't know. Cam walked down the hill.

He looks five years older. He's just hitting a fucking cig dude. He's five years older, bro. Dude, did he? I know. Did you take him on this trip and now he's addicted to cigarettes? Dude. Yes.

I've never seen Cam smoke a cigarette. Legends had it that he went back to back on cigs. His hair's all fucked up, dude. No, he looks way better today. Cam is in sweats, fucked up hair, out the RV, smoking a cigarette. I've never seen him like this. I've never seen him like this.

No, come on. Don't run to the cows, bro. Dude, he's rolling with the biz. Last night, me and I was just freaking joking around with Dan. He's like, I biz. Last night, me and I was just freaking joking around with Dan. He's like, I have to do translations still. Just shivering.

Well, like a true- We'll be broken man by tonight. It sounds like Ludwig has turned Kim into a true salary man that is beautiful. We'll let you guys get on with your trip. Michael, thank you so much for coming on. Hey, thanks for finding us. Thanks for finding us, Andrew. Happy birthday. He's awesome.

Thanks. Happy birthday. Thank you. You keep saying how weird it is to see us I've been on the road staring at the boys for like a year I'm glad I've only seen the road I actually don't and I respect what you have been through

Make crazy days and nights And I know what's going on in that pack and I think it's beautiful Look at that little caterpillar And there's a caterpillar He's so fuzzy Alright guys thanks for watching the yard stay tuned for the pre-mo Oh hey Nick get that clown costume Oh god Get it ready You fuck. Oh god. Get it ready!

You fuck, you scammed him. Get it ready fucker. You scammed him. I told him everything that was gonna happen. Wow. Final thing, did you listen to my playlist? I have, I listened to three songs, I turned it off. Really? That's the yard.