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Episode Date: June 14, 2026

Watch this episode ad-free and uncensored on Pepperbox! https://www.pepperbox.tv/joinunsubscribe Fumio Funaki is a Japanese cafe owner and English teacher. He recently went viral after being featured in a video by Adam Matheson. Fumio has now returned to visit America with his daughter Nana after almost 50 years! ​⁠Subscribe to their channel!  @cafetheluckyboots  WATCH THE AFTERSHOW & BTS ON PATREON! https://www.patreon.com/UnsubscribePodcast 👕 Merch & Shoes https://bunkerbranding.com/pages/unsubscribe-podcast 🔋 Energy Drinks https://drinkechelon.com P.O BOX: Unsubscribe Podcast 17503 La Cantera Pkwy Ste 104 Box 624 San Antonio TX 78257 ------------------------------ THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS! CASHAPP Download Cash App Today: https://capl.onelink.me/vFut/5u7gm6rr #CashAppPod Cash App is a financial services platform, not a bank. Banking services provided by Cash App’s bank partner(s). Prepaid debit cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC. Cash App Visa® Debit Flex Cards issued by Sutton Bank, Member FDIC, and The Bancorp Bank, N.A., pursuant to a license from Visa U.S.A. Inc. See terms and conditions for the Sutton prepaid card, Sutton debit flex card, and Bancorp debit flex card. Cash App Green features, Savings, Direct deposit, Round ups, Overdraft coverage and Discounts provided by Cash App, a Block, Inc. brand. Visit cash.app/legal/podcast for full disclosures. DOSE Ready to give your liver the support it deserves? Head to https://dosedaily.co/UNSUB or enter UNSUB to get 35% off your first subscription. QUO Try QUO for free and get 20% off your first 6 months at https://www.quo.com/UNSUB AG1 Visit https://drinkag1.com/UNSUBSCRIBE to get a free Morning Person Hat and free AG1 Flavor Sampler in your Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription (an $82 value!). PONCHO OUTDOORS Get $10 off your first order at https://ponchooutdoors.com/unsub when you enter your email. ------------------------------ FOLLOW OUR SOCIALS! Unsubscribe Podcast https://www.instagram.com/unsubscribepodcast https://www.tiktok.com/@unsubscribepodcast https://x.com/unsubscribecast Eli Doubletap https://www.instagram.com/eli_doubletap/ https://x.com/Eli_Doubletap https://www.youtube.com/c/EliDoubletap Brandon Herrera https://www.youtube.com/@BrandonHerrera https://x.com/TheAKGuy https://www.instagram.com/realbrandonherrera Donut Operator https://www.youtube.com/@DonutOperator https://x.com/DonutOperator https://www.instagram.com/donutoperator The Fat Electrician https://www.youtube.com/@the_fat_electrician https://thefatelectrician.com/ https://www.instagram.com/the_fat_electrician https://www.tiktok.com/@the_fat_electrician ------------------------------ unsubscribe pod podcast episode ep unsub funny comedy military army comedian texas podcasts #podcast #comedy #funnypodcast Chapters: 0:00 Welcome To Unsub! 2:40 Fumio’s Background Story17:56 How Fumio Went Viral 33:39 Food In Japan Vs America 36:00 Fumio’s Old American Trinkets 40:36 Spiritual Experiences 49:47 Living In New York City In The 70s 1:11:09 Japan Real Estate 1:15:25 What Fumio & Nana Love About America 1:34:46 Japanese Vs American Media 1:37:33 The Age Of Social Media 1:42:53 Nana Brought Us Gifts! 1:51:09 The Boiled Egg Story Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to unsubscribe. One, two, three. Hi everyone, welcome to the unsubscribe podcast. I'm joined today by Eli Double Tap. King Trout, Mr. Fumio, Nana, Brandon Herrera, myself, Tonad Operator. Thank you so much for being here. I know what you're thinking. Who are those two Japanese people?

Other than Eli. I've been here before. We have Mr. Fumio or how do you like to be? Mr. Funaki. Funaki. Introduce yourself. Both of you. Introduce yourselves.

Hello. I'm Fumio Fonaki, I'm from Japan. Nice to meet you. Oh, we're so excited for this one. You had a YouTuber come, stop by your shop. Yes. And then that kind of catapulted everything else and while you're here. Now, I didn't realize Cody watched the same video.

Oh, you did? A long time ago. Yeah, I know. I've seen it as well. Yeah. So everyone watched that video. Wow. And then I reached out to your new Instagram and then Nana replied and was like,

oh, actually my dad's going to come to the United States in the next couple of weeks. Yes. My dad's, his birthday is in a couple days. So I decided to give him a birthday gift as a like a trip. This trip is his birthday gift. I was going to say, being on this podcast is a really bad birthday. You're making him work on his birthday. So you just and you haven't been to the United States in 50 years?

Yes, I was in the state 50 years ago. Now explain what you do in Japan. Now? Yeah now. Oh, now I run a small cafe called Cafe Daraki Boots. And at the same time, I teach English to children and adults. I mean, basic English. That's what I do.

And I live with my cat. The cat's name is Lucky. And she's 21 years old. Wow, damn. An old cat. That's an old-ass cat. And she sleeps with me every night. She comes to my bed.

No doubt. Yes. And how long have you owned this English school Flash Cafe? I started the English school almost four. 45 years ago. Wow. And five or six years ago, as you know, we had a coronavirus and that affected my business too. So I lost a lot of students. So I started cafe five years ago. Oh, okay. So five and that's when you started the cafe. That's right. I never thought about like how COVID affected Japan because you guys already

wear masks. I mean, the Japanese people are very big. Yeah. Still, even today, I see lots of people wearing face masks. No, yeah. Yes, crazy. But that was already a thing before, like a, in public transit and things like that, right? Yeah. Yeah, they, I mean, probably since, has they always wore masks in Japan? Like, because they care about each, like, they're like, well, I don't want to get anyone sick, so we're going to wear a mask no matter what. That's right. No, especially there's a thing in Japan, the Japanese woman, we wear masks because we are so shy to show off our faces without the makeup. Some days we don't want to wear makeup, then we wear the mask.

Same. Is that related? Is that related? Yeah, you're covering your mouth when you laugh. Yeah, I know. That's right. Is that why they're doing? Show their smile.

Me and Eli both go for the gay joke at the same time. We're like, yes. When did you open the English school? 45 years ago? 45, 6 years ago. I'm terrible at math. So it's 70, 1970. 1980,

80, two or three. That sounds right. I will trust the Japanese man for the man. It's like he's going to know math. Way better than me. So what made you start that originally? I lived in America for five years from 19,

76 to 1981 and 1981 I was a manager of a surfboard shop in Hawaii and I was the place I was born and grew up was nothing have to do with the surfing it's a cold place I was ice hockey player and I was a basketball player when I was in schools Really? So I don't know nothing about, I know nothing about, I knew nothing about surfing. But the surfboard shop in Hawaii needed a young Japanese boy who could speak English and Japanese because in those days, a lot of young Japanese surfers came over to Hawaii and they enjoyed surfing. And when they returned to Japan, it was trained for them to buy softball.

at the softboard shop in Hawaii. So the softboard shop in Hawaii had a lot of Japanese customers. So they needed a Japanese guy who could manage the shop. So I applied for the job and they hired me. I don't know that. And then you did that for how? Yeah, for one year. And then you got injured. Yeah, I got injured. I was taken to a hospital by an ambulance and the doctors told me, Mr. Funaki, you won't be able to walk normally again unless you get operation on my back. How did you get injured? Oh, I challenged the big wave and I failed. That sounds like a scary thing to do.

Yes. Without big wave. Well, how big of a wave? And what happened? Did it just wrap you up and slamming it down? You know, I tried to stand up when the wave got a, the peak, but I felt the timing. So the big wave behind me,

it crashed me down. And I was in the water like this, you know. And I was pushed to the shore, and I couldn't move my neck, and I couldn't stand up. So they called me. They called an ambulance for me. Yeah, I bet.

That's what happened. Did you break something? My back bone got twisted. It's not that hard. Dang. So you lived in New York first or when you first moved to the United States. Where did you live? I lived in New York City for three years.

Okay. And then what did you do there? I was hired by a Japanese steakhouse called the Benihara of Tokyo. First of the news, the first of the news. I was official. fisherman in Hokkaido where I came from and the fishing village I was in was really boring village nothing to do for young guy so one day I saw an advertisement of hotel school in Tokyo in Tokyo this hotel school was the first hotel school

opened in Japan. Oh, okay. What's a hook? What's a hook? Yeah. In those days, an Olympic game was held in Tokyo. So Japan expected there lots of visitors would come to see the Olympic game. But in those days, the hotel building were built, but there were lack of people. could manage the hotels okay so this company in Tokyo built a hotel school oh mm so learn how to how to manage the hotels yes things like that how to teach yes

that's right that's a way better than actually like a college it's like hey you want to do this here you're just how to do your job appropriately recruiting you know students so I applied for the and then they can't you to New York afterwards? Yes. No, no. Afterward, I graduated from the school after I spent there for two years. Then I worked at a famous hotel in Tokyo and American military hotel in Tokyo.

I was military. There was an American military hotel in Tokyo, which was for service. who was stationed in Japan and they wanted to come to Tokyo. That's a hotel. They could stay. So I thought I could learn English working there. So I applied a job there too. Is that how you learned English or where you first began learning?

No, I learned English at the hotel school I went to. Okay. In the 1980s you said? 1980s you said? Ninety-two or something. 72, okay. No doubt. Okay, so then you got bored of that eventually and then went to New York.

Or what was the... When I was 10 years old, I was sitting on the sand beach of my town in the summertime. And I was just looking at the sea. And ships and boats coming out gradually got smaller, smaller, and disappeared. And also the ships coming in, boats coming in, first looked so tiny small. But as they approached to shore, it gradually became bigger and bigger. And I was looking at the scene. And I thought, what kind of world would exist?

beyond the horizon there so i decided okay someday when i grew up i will explore the you know going go and see what's out there yeah which is also crazy at this is no age of information it's not like the there's no internet you just that yeah that stayed in my heart forever so i decided to go to america one day yeah okato northern most yes island in Japan. Close to Russia. Yeah. Like really cold during the winter.

Sapporo. Sapporo beer. Yeah. That's where Sapporo's from? Yeah. Sapporo Hokkaido. Yes. Oh, I didn't even know that.

I don't know what it is. I am very uncultured about it. It's beer. Biro. So I can't imagine moving to a country with no previous knowledge about it. Did you speak English at this point? when I moved to America? Yeah, a little bit.

I studied English. I learned English at the hotel school, and I studied. I taught English by myself, too. So I could understand and speak a little when I went to America. But actually English I experienced in America was totally different from the English I learned

with the textbooks. Yeah. Was it just very proper English in the text box? Yes, yes, yes, yes. And then it's different in every state in the United States. It's also different version of English. I'm just imagining, like, for the first time, setting out over the horizon to go, like, I'm going to go see what it's like across the ocean in America.

And then the disappointment you would feel going to L.A. Just thinking like, this is the land of opportunity? I won't the 70s. Probably probably all was gritty. I guess that's an 80s would have been wild. Where all have you been in the United States? First he could tell you guys how he got to America in the first place.

Oh, okay. I like that. When I was working at America Military Hotel, I saw an advertisement on the paper looking for Japanese stuff who wanted to work in a Japanese steakhouse restaurant in America. Benihana. You guys know Benihana. So I applied for the job and there were 500 applicants. How many Japanese applicants? Yes. And the company hired seven people out of 500. And I was one of them. And they sent me to Benihana of Tokyo in New York City.

The first location in America. Oh, wow. That was in New York. Oh, and you were a cook? No, no, no. I was a manager trainee. Oh, okay. So this is making wood and way.

I was like, so I had to run all the section of the restaurant. That's right. Your friends can't get out of lending you money now. Thanks to Cash App. Son of a B. I requested more. If you weren't up to speed already, Cash App.

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Yes. Now, where a lot of the employees, Japanese? No. Since the steakhouse was Japanese, so the restaurant need to create Asian atmosphere. So they wanted authenticity. So they hired all Asian people from different countries, like China, Indonesia, Vietnam. It's all the same.

They're all the same, right? I was like, no. No, but then when he got to J.F.K. Airport, something crazy happened. Green card, if a stamp on a start, it's made. Oh. Something green card. I heard green card. I heard stamp.

There's a stamp with, I like some Japanese. A Japanese word is just an English word with O at the end of it. Same with Spanish. McDonald or... McDonald's. Yeah, McDonald's. Before I left for the States, I was asked to go to American Embassy in Tokyo for the business process.

Oh, okay. So I went there and the guy in the embassy invited me to his office and he asked me, okay, you sit down there. I sat on the table and he was typing, and he gave me a paper. And when you get the airport in New York City, give this paper to the immigration officer. So when I got New York, an airport,

I gave the paper to the immigration officer. And he looked at it and he invited me to his office. And again, he told me, okay, you sit there and he typed blah blah, blah. Then the green card popped out and he gave it to me and he said, welcome to the United States. Now you can go. That's how I got the green card in 1976. That's that fast? Yes. Crazy. That's way better. Did it the right way. That's...

That's... Now it takes a long time and a lot of effort to get a green card. Born, now you go from Tokyo to Juarez, Mexico, and then walk across. True. So were you born in Japan? Yes, I was. And then were you born in the Akaido? Yes, I was. Okay.

And you live in the United States now, right? I do, but I'm moving back to Japan to help out his business. Oh, very cool. It's popping off now? Slowly, yes, little by little. Well, it's just for anyone that doesn't know. There was Adam. Let me get the exact.

So Adam was the YouTuber that showed up, and he was walking around the town. And he was like, oh, this is a smaller town. And you were like, why are you filming? Or what was... Chase, play the clip. Probably the last thing that I expected to see. Konigua. Are you an English teacher?

You work here? Yeah, I. Coming. I was cleaning, I was vacuuming floor in my cafe like 10, 11 o'clock in the morning. And when I was vacuuming the floor, I looked out of the windows of my cafe and I saw a guy who was taking pictures or video in my building. So I wonder what this guy doing out there. So I stopped vacuuming and I went outside and he looked at me.

And he looked at me and he said, are you an English teacher? Said, I invited him to come to my cafe. That's how I started. We got started talking. It was awesome to what have you seen this one. Yes. Yeah. And you got to just see a genuine reaction and he was, I mean, he had a blast in Japan,

it seems and it was really cool watching you bring him in. You gave your history of the school that then turned into a cafe to. It was really surprising to me because I asked him, where are you from? He said, I'm from America. And what part of America are you from? He said, Florida. So I used to live in Florida too. So I told him, I lived in Florida before.

And he asked me, where in Florida did you live? I said, I lived in a town called Fort Lauderdale. And he said, I came from here. I came from there. Really? know that was co-inginess. Fort Lauderdale. Yeah, got it. Yeah, it's a smaller world than most people think. Yeah. How long did you live in Fort Lauderdale? Fort Lauderdale,

um, half a year or short time? What'd you do in Fort Lauderdale? In Fort Lauderdale, I went to a diamond cutting school. I should wrote that the book. Oh yeah. I forgot about that. He's done everything. Yeah, that's, that's, Why did you want to cut diamonds? Surfboard salesman diamond cutter? I wanted to get the skills so I could make money, make a living in America. But unfortunately, to learn how to cut the diamond from a rough diamond stone to the stone for the ring was really difficult. I had to sit at the round steel table which was rotating.

As you know, diamond is the most hardest stone exists. So diamond can be cut only by diamond. So they put diamond powder on the face of the steel table. And you push the, you turn it on. and the table start rotating and you put the rough diamond stone on the tip of wooden stick and with glasses you just cut against rotating so you just grind it away in order to do that you have to sit tight you know for hours every day and a couple months later I started a feel pain on my bottom What the heck is this, you know?

So I went to see a doctor and they told me I got hemorrhoid. Oof, those are not fun. So no fun. I couldn't. It's a real pain of ass. Sitting and doing the work. So I had to give up. Yeah.

So you became a cowboy. I was going to say, I have to, I have to apologize because you come all the way to Texas and you are dressed more Texan than any of us. No, that's okay. No, I love it. So were you both in the cowboy culture? Were you like, yo, we're in Texas? We're going to dress like Mexicans? My daughter asked me dressed up like this.

I don't know why. It was a great move. When we first created an Instagram account for him, I don't know why how we got the idea to where the cowboy has. I think because he has multiple T-shirts, like Western T-shirts. So how did you have T-shirts? No, the charts like this.

I don't remember. It's all her idea. Yes. Well, actually, who's our sponsor that you guys? Pancho. We have a bunch of poncho shirts. Poncho. Yeah, they were one of our sponsors.

We'll kick you us. Yeah, we'll hook you guys up with them. They've got the pearl snap buttons and everything. It's the way to do it down here. Real Texas experience. So you're for Instagram, you're like, okay, we're going to dress. We'll do a cowboy style for. America yeah I don't remember how I got the idea but yes I I had to give him a

cowboy hat and do you did you dress this way beforehand or was it your daughters yeah my dot does influence I don't know you just like this is what you need to do pops can I have you guys just shift a little closer to the next thank you so much you can bring your chairs forward too so you can relax is the coffee okay yeah Coffee's good. Good, good. Now. Caleb, you did okay.

Good job, Caleb. Now, fuck you, Caleb. How was, during the video, you got to talk to Adam. Did you watch the video beforehand? Or when your dad was like, oh, you should marry my daughter. The suggesting was that you get married?

Oh, he was, dude, Adam shows up and the dad was just like, you should marry my daughter. daughter. Good looking guy? I asked the alum, are you single or married? He said single. So somehow I have a daughter who is still single and just idea, you know, popped up.

So I asked him, are you interested in a Japanese girl or something? She said, yes. So I called her and let them talk each other. Hey, shoot or shoot. When you get, when's the marriage? tomorrow tomorrow you're getting married tomorrow you heard it here first later she called me and sounded like she was really excited and she said papa you know what happened after the video was released she said i am the happiest girl in the world why i got the more than 200 requests from the

all over the world who wanted to get married me. That was crazy. That made you the happiest girl in the world. No! I was so happy that the videos that I posted went viral. Not that I got a lot of nice. Not that 200 strangers on the internet wanted to marry you. I don't know them, yeah.

Dad, 200 dudes are trying to marry me. Thank you. I'm a big deal. Was it embarrassing when you? you see that clip or no I was just so happy because when he opened a cafe we have from a very small city and we he didn't have a lot of customers coming into his cafe so I was so happy that after his video went viral he had a lot of customers coming in what's it what city is it's in kushiro okay what's what's that close to like bigger cities from Tokyo to kushiro It takes two hours by plane.

Okay. Oh, dang. Okay. So it's a further, is there a bullet train up to it or no? No. That's only two- Kiotto. How far from Seporo?

One hour by plane. Okay. By plane. Or if you take a train, five hours. Five hour a drive. Wow. Because Hokado, North Island. Mm-hmm.

Yeah. Mm-hmm. Okay. Now, how big is when you're saying a small city? How small is this? 150,000. 50,000. Oh.

Oh, okay. I meant like we are from a countryside. Yes. There are not too many things to do. A lot of old people, less young people. There's a reason you moved to California. So when did you move to America? About four years ago.

And then what was your reason for doing? Just following your papa to explore like he did? Growing up, he had English school and he had English teachers he hired from overseas. So I grew up learning a lot of different cultures. So I've always wanted to explore different cultures and stuff. So I've lived in like Australia, Canada, the UK. I went to a lot of places and then I never got a chance. to live in the States but there he used to live in states like New York one of

New York was one of the places I wanted to visit and then I had a chance to move to the United States and I did and now you live in L.A. area yes I used to live in Glendale so oh okay where about in L.A. are you? Gardena. I now partially regret shit talking L.A. right out again. She's not from there. She's not from there. She's fine. It's expensive. You, expensive. I used to live in San Francisco for like three years and then moved to LA. Even more expensive. Did you go to college for anything?

No. Hey, what do you do for work right now? So I had an opportunity to open a restaurant with friends. Thank you. We opened Japanese ramen noodle, ramen restaurant. But after two years, the business business. went down so we had to shut on. So I kind of failed, but yes, that's what it did. You didn't fail. You learned. Thank you. That's every like all of us have had businesses that failed like multiple multiple times. Yeah, it's part of the process you're learning, you're developing

your marketing or wherever your weaknesses are. It never gets any funner though. You just make more money, which is pretty cool. But there's still all the stress. The failure. That doesn't get funner. Now it happens a lot. And then you just rinse, repeat. What's your next goal that you're going to try to pursue or business? So I enjoy so much filming my dad and put more videos out on social media. But I honestly don't know if we can make a living out of social media. Like that's something I've never done. We assure you you can make a living off of social media.

It is possible. It's possible. Okay. It's all we do now. I started editing videos and I realized that was something I enjoy too. And I want to try this out. Patreon, which organ do you think our group uses the most? Our...

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Or enter unsubb. You and S-U-B. To get 35% off your first subscription. Now you're going to help him with everything. so it'll be like a father-daughter combo for content yes and I was curious with after that video went viral how was the traffic to the cafe oh I got um customers from all over the world this was amazing I never expected something would like that would happen in my life and how how long ago was the video was it two three years video video

December. It was last December. Oh wow. Oh, that was very recent then. Yes. Oh, wow. Before Christmas, I think. Yep. Mm-hmm. Go on. Oh, can I speak you this way. Yes. Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. So, uh, now this went viral on reels too, which was awesome because it was a YouTube. It did really well. And then on Instagram. Our city, Kishiro is a little far from Tokyo. So we, we, didn't expect that people from all over the world would come to Kusiro, which is far from Tokyo. But then we had some, a lot of people from all over the world. And do they all want to talk to you? Yeah. Yeah. You're the local, you're the local celebrity now? Yeah, kind of. When I go to a supermarket and a convenience store, people working there, point at me, oh, I saw you on

YouTube, I saw you on the YouTube. Oh, wait a minute, you know. Comini. Comini. Comini. Oh, man. Was it a weird experience at first? Yeah. First time, you know, from someone, you know, I don't know anything about.

All of a sudden, you know, point out to me and you're the famous guy, you know. Wait a minute. That is awesome. So we're actually going to, we're trying, Cody just got back from Japan. from Japan. Oh really? Yeah. I got married a couple weeks ago and I did my honeymoon in Japan. Wow. So I went to Tokyo and then Kyoto and did the tourist thing like went and saw the temples and ate all the food I could find. We had a very nice honeymoon. Yeah. I told my daughter these guys look like brothers.

When I was in Japan, people were asking me if I was him. This is Brandon's that people were coming up to me in Japan and asking, are you Brandon? Are you Brandon? He tried to, as we get it a lot here, he tried to escape across the ocean. Didn't work. Didn't work.

I'm glad even you think they're brothers. We get, we've talked about it multiple times. Like, we don't see it because I've known them both for equal, like, a decade at this point. And I'm like, Brandon's a Mexican dude. Cody's a white. But they still, people will confuse them. We just say like now when people are you, are you guys brothers? Yeah.

It's easier than just yes ma'am. Just say brothers. Now Cody had, he did what sushi, you did everything, but now we're all going to go back next year to Japan. Really? Yeah. Please come. Oh, we'll visit. Thank you.

Just set up a little place for us. We'll do a podcast out of your life. We'll make a pilgrimage. I like that. It'd be fun. Oh, the gang does a road trip across Japan. Man. See, that sounds like a good ass time.

All the boys do a road trip. I love that. The food spoils you. How do you like the food here now that you're... I think American food is not news good. He flew to him a little yesterday. We had a hamburger with pineapple. Oh, yeah.

We kind of enjoy it. What's the name of the burger? Bikini burger. Oh, bikini burger. We went to a little truck. food truck called bikini burger. Was it good? It was good. What kind of food are you looking forward to eating here? Because you're going back to Florida too, right? Pizza. Pizza. Because the pizza I tried for the first time in New York City was an Italian

pizza place and it was taste so good. I still remember it. So I want to try pizza again. In Texas? Texas, I don't know anything about Texas food. We have some recommendations. Okay. Some very good local barbecue places. We will steer you right. We like to know.

But the problem is that, you know, I'm getting old. I'm 77, so I have a complete denture. So I cannot eat tough food, you know, hard ones. But if Texas barbecue is cooked properly it just falls apart in your mouth oh it's very good we will we will we got to right yeah we'll send you a couple because you guys are here for two more days right yes one more day when do you fly back we uh one of the one of his funds he's from austin and he wants to take us to Dallas so he's gonna

he's gonna pick us up tomorrow like four p.m. Oh, okay. And then you'll fly from Dallas to Florida. We're going to see Adam. Oh, no, you're actually going to go. Yeah, that's awesome. He's in the States right now? Yes, he is. And have you guys met before?

No, I have not. So you're getting married then. You're like, oh, no. So, dang, if I was, uh. So I. I worked at the steakhouse, Benhanna of Tokyo, in New York City for two years. And I quit the restaurant. And I started driving a yellow cab in New York City.

And this is the license I took 50 years ago. Was your cab license? Yeah, you can show. You can see this. I still got this. Oh, wow. Oh, my God. Mr. Fumio, young, young.

Yeah, I was 20, what, 26 or 27 or something. I don't know for you. We'll see. We'll research this before we post it. I want to make sure you don't get many. You don't want to docks his address from the 70s. Yeah, I know. Just to be safe.

Dude, that's crazy. And you kept it that entire time. Hack number. Hack number. I don't know. Neither do. You're a hack. Ghetto Kempf driver.

New York City Taxing and Limousine Commission. Fomiofunaki. This is my treasure. Yeah, it expired. May 31st, 1981. You might want to get that renewed. Your treasures expired. Okay, so all of these are just different.

It is the driver's license in Florida. Wow, that is so different. This is the student card. I went to. And Key West. Key West Florida. Nice. Operator.

The driver's license is so different. And the manager at the softboard shop in Hawaii. For me of Funaki. You're so handsome. You still are. I'm getting old though. Dick Brewer Surfboards. six foot two

dick burber it says six foot two no I'm just oh I was like did you shriek those are so cool that's awesome thank you dude

Florida Keys did I miss something you live in Florida Keys oh yeah Loderdale and the Keys yes before Fort Lauderdale, I went to a college in Key West.

No way. We were just in Key West. So you want to show Mr. Fumio, your cock? He was a bachelor party. Yeah, bachelor party. Bachelor party before he got married. Yeah. Key West.

In Key West back then, were the roosters and chickens running around? I don't remember now. So now there are thousands of roosters on Key West, the island of Key West. the island of Key West, and if you touch them, you get arrested. I got a rooster there. I got a rooster there. I got one right there, yeah. Everyone got the little.

Why there are so many roosters in Quesda? They're wild. Yeah, they're wild. They roam around. It's illegal to touch them. And so when you go to a restaurant now, they give you a water gun and you can spray them to get them away from you. So he has that on his arm.

And, yeah, for a. him getting married I got a tattoo there on my leg I even know there was a community college there in QS yeah now there's just a gay street we did we stay on yeah Duval Street it's just the gay street where we stayed unintentionally yeah I know they loved him yeah I love that entire thing that's so cool what's the last one you have last along is my mother picture I wanted to take my mother with my trip oh that's a law I want to show my mother America this is amazing and what's her name Aki Aki Aki Aki

I have a crazy story about the day my mother died so like one of the videos Adam posted he talked about how he had a voice to marry my mom. Yes. Like, marry this woman, marry this woman, and he got me. This day was crazy. When my mother died, it was a crazy experience I had. The day my mother died, as usual, I drove my daughter to her school. And drop her off at the school, and I headed to the

the hospital where she was at because she had a bad cold and she had a problem with her lungs. pneumonia. Yeah, so I went into her room and saw her. She was sleeping in the room and saw her. She was sleeping in the bed. So I thought it might be better not to wake her up. So I drove back to my house and I got off my car and I opened the door of my house and as soon as I stepped in I felt something really something strange above my head like I don't know how I explained something like drifting in the air and I felt it then all of a sudden I heard a voice from the strange thing above my head go back to the hospital right away go back to the hospital right away what the heck

this voice telling me so I went inside my room and I sat myself on the couch and I was wondered what the voice was for so I thought it might be better for me to go back to the hospital to see my mother so I drove back to the hospital and I went to her room again and she was still sleeping So I felt, oh, nothing wrong. It's good. So I decided to go back home again. Then all of a sudden my mother woke up and saw me,

Oh, you are here, she said. Yes, I came here before, but you were sleeping. So I went back my house once and they came back again. Then my mother asked me, Fumio, I want to walk a little bit because it's not good for me staying in bed all day long. Okay, mom, I can walk with you. So we walked corridor a couple of times back and forth, then came back. Then we both sat on her table side by side and we started talking.

And all of a sudden, my mother put her hands on her chest and said, Oh, my, I got pain from my heart. I got a pain. I'm suffering. I'm suffering. And she said, oh, I might go and die. And she collapsed on my chest and she died. That's the day I had a voice go back to the hospital right away. That was the weirdest experience I had in my life. I've heard that so many times. Yeah, I have a friend.

The same thing happened. Really? Yeah, he bolted awake. And his mom, his mother. told him like come come to my bedside like I need to see you he goes they lived she was at her house and he went to her house and she woke up and essentially was like I love you son this is it and then that was it that's always it's crazy like my grandma I don't know if I told them I just told the guys but my grandma Kueva's the same thing

got a call the dad and I rarely talked to family members on the phone just not a big phone call kind of guy but grandma called Kueva's called me saying hey miho I'm dying uh I'll be dead probably by tomorrow but I love you just like that so matter of fact I was like oh and then she's like don't cry don't cry hey I see grandpa we're good but I love you I just want you know that next day past and I was like whoa grandma new like mm I've got so many stories like that on my side of the family too that like it's What's weird is that there are, everybody's got a story like that. And there's no logical explanation behind it, but it happens so often. Connor, what are you doing this summer? It's a whole lot of travel, a whole lot of hot nights. I'll never remember and a whole lot of AG1.

Ah, you're doing AG1 also? Yes, it's good for you. You can tell by the color. That's how I know it's healthy and good for my tum-jum. It smells like chocolate. with spice what's your smell like new fallen rain on a fresh spring

lawn I'm gonna be strong with all of the vitamin A vitamin C vitamin E thymin riboflavin niacin vitamin B6 folate vitamin B12 panthe panthe this with warm water it tastes like

chamomule tea yeah is that night that's night night juice I think it might be just because the night night juice now it makes the smell makes more sense It's camomile tea. It's like a tea or something like you would have like a... I would drink that at night. Like at night, sip it if it makes you sleepy too.

That one, that's good. Yeah, no, you can keep that one. AG1 is your daily health drink. It comes with pre- and probiotics, multivitamins, and superfoods and antioxidants. Ooh, I love superfoods. I love antioxidants. Visit drinkag1.com slash unsubscribe. You'll get you.

your free morning person hat and a free AG1 flavor sampler in your welcome kit that's an $82 value Eli that's drinkag1.com slash unsubscribe that's why I look and then when you met your mom your wife that was the same thing it was somebody saying yeah that's right you need to marry this woman right right yes that's a boy's I hug that's awesome So that was, tell the story, like, just so people know how you met your... Oh, my ex-wife? Yes, your ex-wife. I wasn't sure I was like, I don't know, if she asked, I don't know.

So I was like, your daughter's mom? I was single after 45 years old. So I told myself that I got to give up of getting married because of we. my age 45 so I told myself okay I'm gonna live alone I'm not gonna marry it and that time I got a phone call from a local radio station and they asked me are you interested in coming over to our studio and talk about your business and at the same time we could play your favorite songs in the program I told them I don't know much about your radio program and they said okay we'll send a woman to talk about the program at your place so she came over and

she explained all about the program like 30 minutes then she left to my place as soon as she stepped out of my place again I felt something strange about my head and all of a sudden I heard a voice get married this woman get married this woman and that voice stayed in my mind like one month I couldn't get rid of the voice I heard was the voice in English or Japanese I'm joking Japanese of course you're going to fuck why is it in English I got to learn English. So, shit.

So about the month later, I decided to call her up and tell what I heard. And so I asked her to go for dinner. And she agreed and she came over. And we had a dinner. And after we finished the dinner, I honestly told her that. I heard a voice of getting married you. That's a weird conversation to have. You don't understand.

There's a deity that follows me and he's American. Get married. I felt she might felt, you know, strange by, you know, talking me about the voice I heard. But when I finished talking about the voice I heard. about that she said mr. Funaki I felt strange while I was talking to you I got strange vibration from you she was scared so in three months we married oh no way wow and she was 30 years old I was 45 years old do you know what happens when you middle-aged man get

young wife, you know. You get tired. Your daughter is, your daughter's like, what's he going to stay right? What happens? Yeah, what happens? We have sex every morning,

every next time, every night, three times a day. I'm so sorry. That's what we made. You go like this. You go like this? You go punch my fist.

I'm sure. I'm sure you've heard a very different version of this story. Just talking about this in front of my daughter. So we were banging. Banging every morning. That sounds terrible. You sound dehydrated. I should have talked about this.

Welcome to the unsubscribe podcast. This is fun. Now, talking about this, America is not a joke. It's insane to me. What's insane? You know, I came to America at the age of 26. I was young. And, you know, Fifth Avenue in New York City,

where lots of beautiful, attractive women. I'm sorry. That was a very big game. Damn, no wonder you get the girl. He just slaps it and spins perfectly, Lance. Walking up down the Fifth Avenue, and the summertime, different from Japanese women, American women tend to show their skins. Yeah, terrible.

Yeah. Compared with Japanese women. It's awful. Japanese women don't show skin, you say? Especially the age, I grew up. Nowadays, they do same as Americans, I think. So as a young boy, walking down Fifth Avenue, seeing all those, you know... Titties.

Yeah. Thank you, Eli. Damn, damn. Got my little boy hard on. So I have to hide myself. between the buildings, area between the buildings, until my little boy come down. So I wish I were blind, you know,

so I wouldn't see anything. America is not joke. You know, insane. At no point did I know what the next word was going to be? And also, you know, when I started driving a yellow cabin, in New York City, the company told me, you never gave women front seat. Why?

Ask them get a backseat. And one day, I wanted to find out why the company told me that. So I'm sure you had no suspicion. The first customers I picked up was sex workers in New York cities in back 1978, nine, you know. The pockets they were wearing was full of, you know, money. Cash. After, you know.

So to find out the answer, I chose the best one on the street and gave her. Sorry, you're hearing a story about how your father picked. up a hooker gave her the front seat and she told me because you wanted to find out why the company didn't allow it I wonder what happened I'm gonna tell you the story so she gave me the address you know to take her turn so I started driving and on the way she said she said to me I'll give you a present time so instead give me a free ride so I wonder what's she gonna do and she gave me a what's the English word blow job BJ

that's what happened the joke you know we have we have a I should talk about this or not. This is great. This is hilarious. I just like, I still picture you're like, that'll be $10. You still charged her? Or did she get the ride for free? Free.

So it was good. And another story was that when I was driving a little cab in New York City, young, look like a yak. young business like a woman got in and told me to get her to New York Airport. So I thought I heard New York Airport. So I started driving to John F. Kennedy Airport. And like five minutes later, she was kind of angry.

The voice was raised. And what a fuck you are, you know, driving to where are you heading to you know oh you told me New York Airport no I said New York Airport oh no I didn't know about the Newark Airport so she got really upset I thought she gonna kill me you know so I turned my cab back to you know and took her to the Newark then I told her I don't need any money I'm sorry, you know, forgive me. That's what happened.

So you've got to be careful with the pronunciation here in America. New York, Newark. That's what happened, too. I'm sure you're very happy that was a tamer story. I feel embarrassed talking about this. Oh, that's hilarious. Comedy gold. Perfect.

You're going to be extra famous. It's the blowdrop guy. No. Please don't do that. They're kind of come visit you at your cafe. I would love a coffee, but I don't have any money. Can I stay for free? Oh, man.

What other plans do you have to do here? Or is there anything like super American you want to do while you're here in the States? what I want to do? I don't know, I just feel really happy being able to feel the America again, you know, back in, back 50 years ago America was my dream, you know, so now I can come back back here again and just being in America itself makes me really happy so I appreciate American people America everything here it's a pleasure it's a genuine honor to have you would you like to shoot a gun in the backyard full American experience backyard remind me another story

you let's hear it oh where is the backyard going I was in America the president of the America was Jimmy Carter I believe and Jimmy Carter is the only American president who was a farmer yep peanut farmer so yes so I wanted to see the place where he was born and grew up what kind of in a place would produce American president. So one day I drove my car all the way down to plane Georgia. Georgia, yeah. From New York. Oh, wow.

And there was a small train station, plain Georgia. And in front of the train station, there was a grocery store. I think that store was owned by young, brother of Jimmy Carter. I believe so. Anyway, I went to the store and asked the owner, is there any hotel or motel that I can, you know, stay tonight in this town? She said, no. He said, no, we don't have any motels or hotel here. And I was kind of, you know, I'm happy about it and he looked at me and said, okay, you can stay in the backyard of my house. That's all of that I remember.

They had beaten, rusted up old bus in their backyard. So they told me I could sleep inside the old bus. Yeah, Mary and Joseph can stay in the table. But the problem was that they had dogs in the bathroom. backyard and all night through they smelt strange Asian guys in the smell of something. So they bowed all night through, so I couldn't sleep that night. I now remembered and they still the backyard. And they still charged you 50 bucks.

No, he slept for free. How much will that be? I was like, no. I've seen this routine before. That I will honestly say that is not how I expected this podcast to go. But I'm over the moon. I'm very, very happy. You're going to be a...

No, you're a massive hit. No, everyone's going to love you. You're going to cut the punch. I talked of a crazy about it. No, people are all that's awesome. People are going to be like, this dude is awesome. This is awesome. You're going to have a lot of fans after this.

You're killer. I always love these because we're learning a different culture. You guys are doing amazing, by the way. Like, both of you are killing this. This is a blast. I'm going to work time. I wonder, have you ever realized how many customers just slipped through the cracks? No.

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Because it is, it's nerve-wracking at first. You guys got here and you're like, ah, we're super nervous. I don't sweat it. You guys are gonna-you-a-d got to drink some booze before we get Lucy Goosey. Exactly. Is that working out? Yes. Good.

She's shit-wrecked. So have you guys shot any guns since you've been? Have you guys fired any firearms or anything? Oh, man. I have. I have. You have? Do we have time?

You guys have an old expanse of... We have one or two. I have a couple. Brandon, how many guns do you have? I think it's north of a thousand. Thousand. A thousand? I'm not kidding.

Yeah. What? I have 78. Yeah, I have probably the least. Brandon has a thousand. I got 30-something, so I got less than you. If you guys want to come in the morning, I have a shop that's not far from here. It is like a museum of like old weapons.

We would love to have you if you want to go. Yeah, we have time. He makes AK-47s. So like cowboy, cowboy movies? Yeah. You want to shoot cowboy stuff? I grew up the age of John Wayne. Yeah.

Oh, yeah. You like cowboy stuff? Yes. You want to shoot guns tomorrow? You want to shoot guns? Yes. Can you hear it? Yes.

That's good. Yeah. Of course. Oh, yeah. You don't have an license. You don't have to. No, we do. I know. Yeah, yeah. I saw some people riding a motorcycle without a helmet. So yeah, that was, that might have been me.

Yeah, that's probably branded. Was he wearing flip-flops? He doesn't wear a helmet and he wears flip-flops, like sandals. Oh, you want to hear another interesting story? I wouldn't love to. Okay. When I was living in New York City, I once in a while,

went to a nearby bar in the middle of the night. And when I was... When I was drinking there... She's just like this. I saw two... American middle-aged women was sitting at the table near the jukebox by the jukebox and they were playing only eliz prescribes from the jukebox for a long long time and I wondered why they would play only eliz songs so I wanted to find out the answer so I walked up

to their table and ask them, why are you playing only Elvis songs? And they said, we are from Boston. We are on the way to Memphis to visit Elvis' tombstone, what you, graveyard? Right there. And okay, now I understand. That's why they were a big fan of Elvis Presley. So, and we talked a little bit. And they, they were a little bit. And they were a lot of, they were a big fan of Elvis Presley. And they was so drunk and the bar was the time to close and two women was hard time to stand up from the chairs so I helped them and where are you staying at the hotel or something and she said yes we are staying at the Hilton Hotel so I knew where the Hilton was so one of them was so drunk and she couldn't walk. So I put her on my back and carried her to the Hilton Hotel

along with another woman. Did she have to pay for the ride? Not yet. When I got to the Hillton Hotel, I asked them, where's your room? What's the room number? And they told them you blah blah blah. So I took to the room and the door wouldn't open. So I asked, are you sure you're staying at the Hilton Hotel? And she said, no, we are not staying in Hilton Hotel. We are staying at the Shilton Hotel. I heard a wrong too again. So I had to take back to the, you know, Cilatum Hotel and we were able to get into the room and one of the girl I put on my back was so drunk. So I put her on her bed and another woman was putting her cell phone on the bed.

And since the woman was so drunk, I kind of helped undress, you know. And while I was doing that, But the other woman saw me what I'm doing and she got all of a sudden so mad at me. What if I'm doing with my car? And she started throwing things at me. So I had to get out of the room. That's what happened. In New York is crazy.

New York is crazy. is a great finish your head. Have you heard most of these stories before? No, I have not. Just curious. And another story was that also I get you guys closer to the mics. Also, when I had the drink at the bar

close nearby from my apartment in New York City, On the way back to my apartment, I saw a young black girl standing, you know, on the street. And she looked a little bit worried. So I asked them, are you okay at this late hour? She said, I don't know where to go. I'm lost. I asked her, what happened? I ran away from my home from Boston.

And this is the first night in New York City. So I wanted to help her out. And she had no place to go, she said. So would you like to come to my apartment so you can stay at my place? So she stayed at my place. And next morning we said goodbye. I didn't do anything wrong, you know? Yeah.

I like that. You're still innocent. That's what most innocent men said. And a couple months later, while I was driving cab, and 42nd Street, and I saw her standing on the street, you know, she was a hawker. That was a story, you know. It's a tough. Well, she found work.

Yeah. It's hard to make a living in America. I got lots of lessons in my life from America, New York. New York is someone else. I love it. It's just like. I remember, I think my first day in actual New York City, like I've been around New York a lot, but I had not been to the city until we went to that UFC fight.

Oh, yeah. This is maybe last year, I think. We go to New York City, and the one thing, at least modern New York. When's the last time you've been to New York? 50 years ago? Nowadays, I don't know, I can't speak to it then, but I know nowadays the streets just in the sidewalks, at least where we were at, all the places we were at, just, I'm not a fan of New York. It just smells like piss.

And so we were walking the first day we were in New York. And I'm like, you know, I'm starting to realize why Spider-Man's superpower was that he doesn't have to walk on the sidewalk. Just. Yeah. Grimy. I don't know if it's just changed or what have you, but no, New Yorkers are very proud of New York, though. What a?

I don't know why, but I just pissed off all the New Yorkers, but. Well, we were the first breakfast place that we went to, remember that guy, just grabbed a bike and ran off with it right and right beside us? Yeah. I just stole that fucking bike, didn't he? It was the only place when we took, because I took Riding because he wanted to see Times Square. So he was loving it. He was taking videos of everything.

But then that was one of the few times. I was like, I have to watch Ryden holds his phone out like this all the time to record everything. I was like, I actually don't trust anyone right now because someone might snatch that and run. I'm actually just watch everyone right now. And then you get the people that will charge for photos. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The Elmo's.

Oh, and they charge like 20 to 40 bucks. Like that's how much this photo is like, I didn't want the photo. They'll take the picture and then say you owe me money. Yep. Yeah. Which is wild. I didn't know there's places like that, but I don't know how it is in New York, but like with Las Vegas, it's illegal for them or it's against city statutes for them to charge a certain amount.

They can ask for a certain amount, but like they can't say you owe me this money. We recommend $10, you know, that sort of thing. I didn't know that that was the rule. They are very aggressive with it. Very, very aggressive. I don't know. There's like, visited, good enough. Not going back to New York.

Florida. We had fun there. Texas, we love it. Yeah. Texas, I love Texas. This is home forever. Love Japan. We're going to go visit.

Definitely go visit there. And the house prices are so cheap. I know it's so cheap. What is with that? Why are, why is the real estate so cheap in Japan? Why real estate so cheap in Japan? Basically, I think the average income of average people is not so high. They cannot afford to buy house.

That's why the real estate price had to be kept, you know. Super low. Not go up to high. Otherwise, people cannot afford to buy. Do the vast majority of people rent in Japan? Yeah. Do they rent or do they buy? Like, are you-

Nowadays, it's, you know, prices of real estate is getting high. So I think most people rent. And like high in Japan. And even they buy a house, they have to pay with a plan of what, 20 years, 30 years. Instrument plan. That's for apartments? A house. For a house.

That's pretty, like in the United States, we typically do 30-year loans as well. But your guys' houses are like 70 grand for a house. house and a big house too. Sometimes like 30, 20, 30. That's, but like here, like you're looking at $500,000 for a small house. I have, I've heard a rumor that I don't know if it's true, but I've heard a rumor that, uh, there is like a reason that houses don't resell in Japan. The, there's a concern that houses are like you, you only buy a house. house, build it new. You don't want to buy a house that has been owned by somebody else because it's not haunted, but like the energy.

No, but there's like a negative energy there. Are you guys very, what is it? Superstitious. Like superstitious. Like for you, is it like, oh, haunted or is the Japanese culture like, oh, no, or do they not care about that? Not that it's haunted, but there's a negative energy associated with it. In my town, there was an apartment. The tenant of the apartment committed to the room was never rented by others.

I have an American friend who bought a house in Japan, and he said he got at half price because two people died in it. He said no one wanted to buy it. The Japanese didn't want us. It gets cheaper. That's great. I'd buy it. I don't care.

I don't want it. Yeah, I don't care. I also don't want it. He was like, give me the dead guy house. I've heard could be a rumor, but people who buy, who bought or buy the house or a room, which was, you know, lived by people who committed. were killed by someone. While they were sleeping, they sometimes see the ghost appear in their rooms. It's a grudge. What's the grudge Japanese name for the grudge?

Urami. As long as they don't wake me up, I'm okay. You see these house prices. I'm like, hmm, fuck yeah. I'm going to put on my rain noise and ignore that shit. So what's both of you? This is a question for both of you. What's your, like, one of your favorite aspects of America?

Divorasty. This is my least favorite. I like your, that brain is like, you had to put me on the same thing. Yeah. When I was sitting at the airport, We're gonna move once we're.

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as you know, Japan is a homogenous country. 95 people of the population is Japanese. That's my turn. But here, all different kind of people. That's a great aspect. Get in there, get in there, come pie, come by, goodbye, goodbye. Goodbye.

Without me? Oh, you want one? You want to do a shot? I want to share with... Oh, this is a mistake for me. Wait, do you like, what the... I was wondering who's going to pull out the first Japanese accent. It turned out was Connor.

Woka or Wicke? Oh, wika? Or whiskey? Which one do you like... What's this? Wokka or whiskey? This is vodka. have a very nice whiskey if you want a whiskey.

Whichever. What's okay? Your daughter's like after the stories I've had to hear today, I think I would like some vodka, please. That coffee is no good. You're not drinking it. Little strong. Too strong? You want weaker coffee? No, no, no.

Well, tell the truth. Okay. Okay. Well, he's like, now that I knew that the good stuff was on the table, I don't want coffee. don't want coffee. That looks fancy. Oh, whiskey. Very nice.

Very, very, very nice. Very nice. Thank you. Yeah, no, get it. Now we can do a proper cup. Yes. Ah, so good. Good smell.

Good smell. Oh, come bye. Come bye. Come bye. Cody's face of hatred. What are no. I better not drink this because if I got drunk,

I don't know about myself, what other weird story I'm going to talk about. Well, sir, I believe that is the reason you must drink. That's a good whiskey too right there. And it's smooth. That is one of the smoothest. Oh. Yeah. It's spicy. Chase it with water.

I spelled on myself. Favorite parts of America? Or like, what are your... your highlights of it both of you highlight of America you like diversity Cody hates it diverse you said you were in the airport the San Antonio Airport New York Joe Kukon oh at the airport today San Antonio I was sitting and looking at the people and all different kind of people

in Japan 95% of people Japanese and skinny no no difference yes skinny here the women's box big huge compared to me look at my daughter you know nothing big oh man but America is big everything is big so sorry holy shit Oh my God. This is rapidly becoming one of my favorite podcasts we've ever filmed. As Charles Barkley says, we have some big old women in San Antonio.

Oh, yeah? Yes. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I went to, my daughter took me a supermarket called, what's the name? Target, Target, not a supermarket. Target. Target. Target.

And I saw a lot of women were shopping there. and they're big. Go to Walmart. Even bigger. They like the calories. What about you? What is your favorite aspects of America? Money.

As much as money I can make. She's just like, I want to make money. She's honest. That's good. That's freaking great. Money. Can I get you scooted this way? Yes.

Bring a chair to. Bring a chair to. What are the kind of like monetary opportunities that you find in the States that you don't have in Japan? Like, I don't know. I think it all depends on the luck too. But if I stayed in Japan, maybe I never had a chance to start a business, make a lot of money. But yes, I think America has a lot of opportunities. Oh, another highlight of America when I was in America was the opportunity I heard in

in the grassy. What's the biggest park of New York City? Central Park. One day, I was sitting on the bench in the Central Park and eating, I don't remember, hot dog or sandwich. and I was walking people walk by in front of me and two guys happened to walk by and I saw them

one of them was John Lennon Oh John Lennon walking in front of me so I stopped and I decided to walk with people like this for five minutes John Lennon, John Lennon

And I think I got a lot of power from him I like John Lennon tells a very different story Like some Japanese dude followed me for five minutes Eli, I don't believe John Lennon's telling this story He was God to me John Lennon was? You know the song? He was what? Sorry? He said he was God. Oh wow Imagine what's the song? Imagine

All the people. My 38. The relic Should have imagined a world with no 38 specials. Shut up. He's telling a story. Pardon?

The relic of the song is beautiful. So I take him as a god. That's awesome. You're like, okay, is the Beatles and all that is your kind of,

that's your favorite music? I grew up in the age of when they were really popular. Is that still your 90s and 70s. Being a surfer in the 70s, man, and why? He sold surfboards. Just living in the dream life.

What's your least favorite part about America? That's a difficult question, bro. I think, honestly say discrimination. Interesting. Okay. When I was in New York, and I moved to New Jersey. Sorry. And I had to look for an apartment. And I drove around, and I saw a sign says, vacancy, on the window of a building.

And on the sign, it says the telephone number of the landlord. So I called the number and I told him I want to look at the apartment. So he says come over. So I went to his house and knocked the door and he opened and he looked at me. Get fuck out of here. We don't want to rent you. That's what happened. And what year was this?

What year was this? 1970. 67 1978 or nine it's interesting because I like how times change because I couldn't imagine that happening nowadays like the oh now and the oh now it's a big no no it's a legal yeah now you would yeah so that's like 70s a lot more also I walked at the restaurant in the Howard Johnson the airport the airport wait it's a like a motel or how are the jr.

Is this New York or New Jersey? That was New Jersey. Okay. I worked at a restaurant in Howard Johnson as a waiter. And I was the only Asian guy in the service. And you know the in those days as a waiter, you are given certain number of tables that you got to serve. You cannot help other tables.

That's how I learned. Station to station system. At that time, they said. So I, you know, I got to take orders and take the slip to the kitchen and give it to the chef there. But the thing was the chef in the kitchen wouldn't start cooking the slip I gave them. Rather than the other waitresses and the waiters who were white, he started cooking right away. So the customers I served started complaining to me. Why were late be served?

you know, those people came after us. Why they are served? You know, they started complaining and wouldn't leave any tips to me. So I was sad. Yeah. So about a month later, I decided, okay, I'm going to quit this. I don't want to take shit anymore. So one day, I went into the kitchen and I grabbed the chef's neck like this and I'm a fucking Japanese Kamikaze boy why you gave me a shit to me you know I wanted to find out the reason why he gave me a hard time so he told me that his relatives were killed by Japanese during World War II That's why he didn't like me when I started working. He learned that I was Japanese.

So I learned hard lesson, you know. War is no good. It leaves scuff in their mind. Were you taught, like as a child, anything about World War II? What, like Japan in World War II? I didn't know the details of why the Japanese started bombing Pearl Harbor. We didn't know the real fact. Ah, interesting.

Even what about yourself when you learned about World War II? Are you around anything about? Wasn't sure too. So I think, I believe it was December 18th. the Powell Harbor Day and in 1960s, 1970s when I was in America, when the December 18th came, the radio television from the early morning, remember, it's Pearl Harbor Day. So I was really scared as a Japanese. I have to stay in an apartment all day long. I didn't go out because I thought I would be killed if they found.

out the Japanese on that day. That's what? So you just heard over the radio and you're like, oh shit. They hunt Japanese. It's like the fucking purge. I was scared to death on the day. Which is interesting because to my understanding, I think it's December 7th is Pearl Harbor Day.

December 6th, sorry. None of us not. The because I believe that Hawaii has a fairly large Japanese population, right? Yes. Yes. That's interesting.

But this was, was this in Hawaii or New York? Hawaii. Oh, that was in Hawaii. That was in New York. Oh, New York. I was in New York. If you don't know and you don't have the age of information and then you wake up and the radio is just like, go, don't fucking remember what's going on today. Those damn Japanese and you're like, oh, shit.

I'm going outside today. What about yourself? What is your least favorite part of? America. Least favorite part? Yes. American food? American food? American food? I do not let's wait. Cody, how good like Japanese food compared to American food? 7-Eleven in Japan is better than restaurants. Sorry, I do you like Japanese food is like that's why you don't like American food right? I guess so. If they did it the same style, Talking about prize, I want you guys ask this question.

Yes, sir. I had a stroke last year. I had to stay in the hospital for one month. How much would American hospitals charge you if you got stroke and stayed one month in a hospital? How much would they? 100,000, 200,000, 200,000. 200,000. Honestly, it completely depends on what hospital, because it varies so dramatically.

But like average, how much it's plus? But I would say a hundred thousand dollars. At least a hundred thousand dollars. Stroke. Yeah, having a stroke. Yeah, a hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Oh, what? How?

Two, three thousand, three. Not, three. Two million. Yeah. Not. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, $3,00,000,000,000,000.

Not, 3,200,000. So according to the Google AI, which I have no idea how I like this is. You know how much I paid? I'll hear it $200. 60,000. How much the... That's like $1,000. For a month?

For a month. For a month. I only paid 60,000 yen. That's what? Japanese what they call the healthcare system rehab. Well you guys also, I didn't know this, I've watched videos, I might be making this up or that people on the internet are, but even with your taxes you get to choose gifts for stuff, right? Like your taxes for your city and you're like, oh hey, you put this much taxes in, pick from this stuff or How does the tax system work?

Because you guys have a pretty cool tax system for foreigners that I noticed. They're like, oh shit. I don't know about taxes for foreigners in Japan. Or even for yourself. He's never been one. That is very true. Zaykin, what kind of? In Japan?

I don't pay much though. Really? Lucky. Residents, residential tax, you gotta pay? How much I pay every two months? I pay $15,000. $100,000. Every two month? Every two month? That's it.

So it looks like there's a 10% consumption tax and individuals are taxed on a progressive scale ranging from 5 to 45% based on income. And foreign tourists pay a 10% consumption tax. Interesting. Well, everything over there to get you to buy things. It says tax-free, tax-free, tax-free, and it is to people visiting. But when you get back to the United States, whatever you declare, they take the money right the money right there. Yeah.

They're like, oh, would you get there? And they're like, hey, it actually wasn't tax-free. How much do you spend? I spent a couple thousand dollars. Okay, we're going to tax-free on that right now. Yep. And you've got to pull your credit card out in the airport when you land back in the United States and pay the tax.

Oh, well. Yeah. In general, I think Medicare costs in Japan. You only pay 30% of whatever it costs. That's average. I always wonder how any of that works. Now, are you, like, what is it, Tishiro Mufune, Kirokosawa, do you watch those old Japanese movies, like the old samurai movies,

like Akira Kuozawa. You know Kira Kuozawa, right? Am I saying that right? Are you a fan of? I'm not much. She interested in the samurai movies. Really? No.

But Western, you love Western movies. Yeah, yeah, when I was a teenager. I love that. And that's a John Wayne. Yes. What about yourself? Movies? I don't know the person you just mentioned.

You don't know Akira Klaus? Who? Kurosawa, Kurosawa, don't know? She doesn't know. Oh, okay. No shit. New generation.

To be fair, that's kind of like asking somebody her age in our country if they know John Wayne. Yeah, that is very true. Like, eh, maybe 50-50. I've heard of the name. I've heard of the name. Okay. What kind of movies or content do you watch? Now you love social media yourself, right?

So are you big on YouTube, TikTok? When I was in high school, I started watching a lot of American movies, TV shows. Now I like, I watch Netflix stuff. What kind of movies do you like? Huh, let me say. What do you like? I'm going to remember. Sir, may I ask your daughter out on a date?

Oh, wait, my favorite. You got to ask. Would you like to go out? Yeah, you would. There's the dick. My favorite show is called Homeland. Oh, Homeland is so good. I love it so much.

I watch like three times. So good. So good. What's her name? Carrie. Carrie Matheson. Yes. Such a good series.

Still reeling on what just happened there. That was. He was a date. And then we talked about Carrie Matheson. And then tomorrow we're going to shoot guns. That's going to be fun. What's the red hair guy's name? Which one?

From Homeland? Yep. And then he was in Band of Brothers. And Billions. Yeah. Oh, the captain. Yep. Red hair guy.

Captain Winters, I think. And what is his name in Homeland? Nicholas Brody. Sergeant Brody. You know the red hair guy in Homeland? I know, yes. He's not American. He's British.

Oh. He has a very. That accent's fake. Oh. He plays American so good. Oh, yeah. And Dream Catcher uses his British accent. Damien Lewis.

Damien Lewis. He has... It's very slept-owned. Homeland, I've seen it. You like a show, too. Oh, you watch Homeland? Good-ass show. That is a great show.

She told me, Papa, watch Homeland. Watch Homeland. So I had no choice but watch. That's actually a good question. How much American media do you consume? Like is it mostly American or mostly Japanese? Mostly, me half and a half.

Interesting. What about yourself, half and half? Or is it? Mostly American, maybe. Do you watch much YouTube now? I use a lot of Instagram. Okay. That's a YouTube.

You guys got to get that YouTube. That's what it's going to make you. SMS is a monster. Monster. Which one's that? Monster. He thinks that social media is like an insane thing. Oh yeah, yeah.

Monster. Yeah. It's a monster. 100% very, very crazy to watch or be part of. But it's also cool because you get recognized at a gas station now. But at the same time, when I was small, there was no SNS of course, no internet. We were real human being. We had to conduct everything face by face.

That's real reality. But these days, created by things that are created by AI, you know, that's not real to me. So I prefer real thing. Face to face like this. makes me feel, you know, true. That's what I like about it. Like talk like this. That is with Japanese culture, this is, even for you, this is a great question for you.

What is the difference between the different cultures? You're like even dating. Are Japanese guys at Ford with like, hey, you want to go on a date? Because I feel that's a very American versus are Japanese guys more hesitant to ask out? Is it a different situation? I think these days, uh, Japanese young boys are different from the boys in our age. Young generation boys are called vegetable boys. Okay.

Let's a go on. So, so, so, vegetable boys. What's that mean? That means they are not. animal anymore. Oh, they lost it, yeah. They lost the man's instinct ability to try to catch women. They would charge women for that taxi ride. That's what we said. Yeah, yeah, that's right. They became too much they lost a bit of a man, you know.

My age, we are totally different from the boys these days. When do you think that happened? Why or when? When, well, I mean, both. And why, yeah, win and why. 1990, I think. Really? I think.

When women became, become stronger, men tend to lose their instinctibility, I think. you know for women they can control men peacefully easily if they if women gave men sex what they wanted to that's my belief I mean guys are yeah we're talking about why men are

No. Oh, God. Literally, it's just... Well, I mean, it's a great question. It's like, how often in Japan did you get asked out on a date? How often? Yeah, for you.

How often would a Japanese guy ask you on a day? Well, apparently she got 200 marriage proposals. But those were Japanese. I just asked her out on a date. I was there, Connor. I was right here. That's why I brought this question up because Japanese guys, that's what we were talking about.

He was like, Japanese guys now are cowards? Cowards? Yeah. Me? No, no, no, no. The Japanese guys. The new ones from the 90s.

A little bit, yeah. Like guys, my age. Cowards. May I ask, how old are you? 32. 32 young guy. She's, how old are you? 30.

Okay. 30? And not married? No married. Oh. But marriage, marriage is a bomb, dangerous stuff, though. You're going to be prepared for it. He's like, run you for it.

I knew it. Yeah. Sorry, brother. Damn it. Did you guys bring something? Nana said, she brought. Oh, yeah, yeah. I have two gifts.

Okay. We're going to fight for them. Okay, I'm going to go with the first one. So I have to explain what Omamori is. Okay. An Omamori is a traditional Japanese good luck charm from a shrine or temple. People in Japan carry them for protection, luck, health, love, safe travel, success, and wishes. Okay, so I got five different omensories from our local temples in Kusuro city.

So you guys, I don't know, pick one. I love it. Yeah. Okay, so I have one, two, three, four, five of them. Oh, okay, this is perfect. I'm going to do this one. Okay. I've done this

I did this at the Cody did you do this at the temples we'll see November 3rd if it works I still have one more give it to her okay she's a beautiful oma beautiful

careful Eli I know you're gonna raise her up hi okay you can have Eli's wife I'll have your daughter okay so this one is

success charm a Japanese good luck charm for success in work study personal goals many people carry it when studying something important on chasing a dream and so is this something you carry with you yes okay for success okay okay you can yeah you can you can even put it in your car okay what it what What does it say? The protection. Oh, yours is different.

Is it a protection charm? What is this? Better? What does that mean? No, I like they're all different. Kishros, number one temple. It's Kusima temple. Okay.

What does that mean in English? English? Yeah. Just the name of the temple made this omamori. Okay. Got you. Just open it? Yeah.

That's protection omamori. I like Connor doing it. Just open the top. Okay. This one is a fortune and worst charm. A traditional Japanese charm for financial luck and success. People carry it hoping for good fortune, business success, and positive good opportunities in life.

Yes. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah. What does that mean? In English. Oh yeah, let me see.

Oh, protection. In Japanese. Protective you. This is a special term where you can make a wish from your heart. In Japan, people carry those for hopes, dreams, love, and new beginnings. I can make a wish? He's about to wish for a Japanese wife. Hey, mind your business.

Nana, son. What's mine? Wait, do you just need this part or this part? Do we get wishes right now, dog? Or good luck, arms? Yeah, we all just watched Obsessions. Oh, yeah. Wishes may not be careful.

Nah, dog. I made my wish. She's two seats over. This is for health and wellness charm. A traditional Japanese charm for good health, wellness and protection. People carry it for wish for healthy body, peace of mind, and safety for themselves and their loved ones. Oh, thank you so much. That's a good one. Yeah.

Oh yeah. Okay. This is for a lucky protection charm. Traditional Japanese Omamori believed in bring good luck and positive energy, perfect all travel, new adventures, everyday protection. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Oh, that's very cool. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Arrigato. Thank you. Oh, is this one of the poncho?

Yes. Oh, we'll get some more too. We got some shirts. I know. We got some more poncho shirts too. Those are your sizes. Yeah, this is yours. This is hers.

And to tomorrow, and then we got some more. Oh, and then you get a little. Real gun. Real, yeah. And then tomorrow will take you shooting guns. I need this for Russia Putin. You guys are awesome. Thank you very much.

Thank you very much. And I made something else. Oh, okay. There's more. You made this? Yes, I made something. You made? Yes. I'm a little nervous.

But I made... What's this? Oh wow! Oh my gosh What's this? Oh, Oh, Oh, and a little comment in the boots,

Lucky boots. Okay, yes, like a bit. We'll put that up. Where do we put it? So, So go. Mm-hmm. Great.

Right here. I didn't know about this. We'll go like this. Oh, she snuck it up on you? Mm. That's pretty cool. And boom. Yeah.

And I like that. Yeah. Now we're gonna bow. We gotta bow so aggressively. Do each other. Oh, yeah, thank you guys so much. Dude, thank you guys so much. Thank you very much.

Tomorrow we will go take you shooting. Yay. Did you guys get cowboy hats made or what did you do? Cowboy hot? We just... fitted you know i just like google yeah we'll take him billies yeah we'll take him in billies is that the one in burney the one like right there we'll take it for real cowboy hats we'll go fit you and get them made we'll get you true true proper american cowboy hats what do you think

take them to the shop tomorrow yeah you guys want to go the gun shop gun museum and then go you can't buy hats everything you can pick out anything you've you want to shoot anything you want, take it off the wall, we'll take it out. Okay. Sounds fun? Sounds fun. I try. Okay.

Good. Oh, heck yeah. This will be a blast. This will count as part of your date. Thank you very much. Okay, well, this has been an absolute pleasure. Thank you guys. You guys killed it today.

Where can the people on the internet find you? Internet? Kishu-O-Sidi, Hokkaido. No. What's that? They're going to go there? What are they going to Google? How do they find you?

What's your Instagram and everything? Cafe da Lucky Boots. Cafe da Lucky boots. Boom. Put it up, Chase, or whoever's editing this, I love you. But put up their social media so they can find it. Is that the only place? And is that Instagram, YouTube, TikTok?

Right. All of them? All of them. Yes. We'll put the links right here and then down below. You all killed it. Thank you so much. Thank you very much for being us.

No, and we'll tomorrow will make a, well, We'll have an episode of shooting guns, doing some pectoral shit. And then tonight we're going to give you a couple drinks so we can hear more taxi drivers for. So how do you say a blowjob? Bro job. After three, I have another story of a story. That one's just for us. And Cody, on that note.

It's just for men. Cody, close us out, you beautiful son of a bitch. For an introduction of a story, I'll give you a little bit of a story, okay? When I was in Hawaii, worked as a manager of a softboard shop. The second shop from the

softboard shop, There was a strip show place. Okay, one day I went there and there was a stage and I think it was a Korean woman which you hold this Yes, sir. Appeared on the stage and like this. She was wearing Japanese kimono and she was holding a ball full of boiled eggs. And I wanted a what? Boiled eggs.

I wonder what she want to use a bolder eggs for? I have an idea, yeah. Oh, you already know? Oh, you already know that story. Oh, Ben-in-H. Where she told the audience, oh, hey, you guys, open your mouth, wide open. Oh, no.

Like this. I didn't know what she asked for. And she squint down like this. And she took one of the bold eggs and put the bold eggs into her place. And she deep breathed him. Oh. All of a sudden, p pah! No, bold eggs, pah!

A man is tired. Ah! was the craziest thing I ever seen my life. You know, America is the land of opportunity. Crazy opportunity, though. This has been an absolute pleasure. This is amazing. Oh, I love this episode.

I don't know, you knew about this. Yeah, yeah, that's right. My face hurts from laughing. I don't know how she trained to do it. I never knew. I also have some ideas. Determination. Oh, man.

Cody, ready to close it out. Thank you for joining the unsubscribe podcast. I was joined today by Eli Double Tapp. Cut it off, please. We're about to. Eli Double Tapp, King Trout. Fumio, Nana, Brandon, and Rera, myself, Donate Operator.

Thank you so much for being here. We love you. That was amazing, guys. Thank you so much. Let's go home.