Austin Show and CDawgVA debate Tokyo's chaotic travel dynamics, contrasting Austin's meticulous itinerary with Connor's disorganization amidst high-cost hotel meals like $80 steaks. They analyze Japan's strict defamation laws and "Jug Enforcers" who confiscate alcohol, while discussing extreme service apologies, such as a waiter bowing after spilling coffee. The hosts critique cultural faux pas, including claiming ownership of Mount Fuji and loud bathroom habits, ultimately highlighting how foreign tourists often misunderstand local etiquette despite receiving exceptional hospitality. [Automatically generated summary]
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Welcome to the Heart of Japan00:14:30
Oh, that's a big faux pod.
Oh, shit.
Oh, that's on and you're pulling the dagger to the front.
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the heart of Japan.
We are in Tokyo.
This is the Fear End podcast, and we are joined by one of our favorite people, Connor Dogg.
Virginia.
Connor Dog.
Connor Dog's got like an eight-time medal at this point, like return.
Yeah.
He is an eight-time return champ.
You've done so much.
I don't know if I've been on any episodes that you've been on.
You're like the judge.
No, you have.
No, no, you haven't.
No.
No.
Why are you avoiding me?
No, it's because Austin doesn't really do the pod that often.
I've been in more episodes than you have.
Connor, Connor is homophobic.
You're homophobic.
Yeah.
Don't touch him.
He'll leave.
He will leave.
What?
No.
No, what are you talking about?
We had to gay bars together.
Well, there's a lot of homophobic people that go to gay bars.
Yeah, me.
I'm one of them.
Wait, what?
I go there to learn the ways of an enemy.
I go there to learn the ways of the homosexual.
And I like to learn about it internationally.
Yeah, that's the worst kung fu movie.
You learn the ways of the homosexual.
Yeah.
It's like in the natural habitat.
You kind of look like a homosexual.
Thank you.
That's a very kind of a movie.
Before we blast off, before it texts, let's take a breath.
We're in Japan.
Let's be more Zen about this.
I hope you guys are enjoying it.
Yes, we are very much enjoying it.
And thank you for being a lovely host, as always, welcoming us and showing us around.
Yeah, no, that was so sick this time when you were like, oh, you guys are coming to Japan?
Like, let's hang out, please.
Yeah.
And you invited me on Trash Taste.
Yeah, none of that happened.
No.
No, it didn't.
No, it didn't.
Well, look, you guys.
Okay.
You did mention you were coming to Japan.
I don't recall the dates being mentioned.
You know what?
I'm going to defend you here, Connor.
Dates being thrown around.
He's homophobic.
No, we're a mess.
We are a mess.
Thank you.
How are we accused?
We've literally, we've literally organized every single second of every single day months ahead of time, except for Austin.
Excuse you.
First of all, no.
We have organized things, but it's not weeks in advance.
It's like yesterday we organized.
No, no.
And today we're doing it.
No, I have an itinerary.
We have an itinerary.
I can tell you what we're doing in like.
What are we doing tonight?
We have a whole itinerary.
Did you look at it?
No, I didn't get sent it.
We're doing Shabu Shabu tonight.
Oh, my God.
We ran out of Shabu Shaba.
You don't know we have an itinerary?
Nobody shared it with us.
Austin.
Nobody shared it with us of being a mess.
Nobody shared me the itinerary.
It's in our group.
It's in degenerates.
No, it's not.
Yes, it is.
I should have been insulted on this itinerary.
Let me check.
You should have asked me.
Let me check.
Hold on.
Let me check.
It's not in there.
I can't find it.
That's true.
I guess this is.
I can't find it.
I can't find it.
No, okay.
I'm going to defend Austin here.
I think it's literally in the group chat that you, me, Marge, and Rhyme have.
And Austin is not in there.
You didn't invite me into a group chat?
Yeah, because we were.
Are you kidding me?
Because we were sending it up.
Are you kidding me?
Because we knew you'd be like this.
No, we were saying it.
That is bullshit.
I was here.
I am the most, I am, I am on.
You tell me where to be and where to go.
I am there and I'm on time.
I have done it.
I appreciate you sideways.
I believe since we've been here, it's been three days.
Yes.
So every single day we have approximately two events, sometimes three.
So that would be around, let's say, nine events, maybe 10.
Okay.
Austin has been a part of, I think, four.
He's done great.
You know, that's so rich because you didn't invite me to any of the other ones, and I'm not in a group chat where I know the itinerary.
So, how rich is that?
Boy, we have a guest.
Boy.
How rich is that?
How rich is that?
Not in the group chat.
Don't have the itinerary.
Texting the group multiple different times.
Where's the address?
No response.
I do text every morning at 4 a.m. when I wake up what the day's events are.
What the day's events are so that when you wake up at around 10 a.m., you can use you.
I woke up at 6:30 this morning, had a nice cup of coffee looking at Mount Fuji.
Okay, by the way, in the other room.
He has mentioned that he has a view of Mount Fuji, no less than 100 times.
No, it was beautiful.
He walked in.
It's a great view.
It's a great view.
He walked this in quietly.
And he did this.
Here, let me do the impression.
Yeah.
Mount Fuji.
It's like pause.
And then pause, looked around and went, Mount Fuji.
And it's like, but the way he introduced Mount Fuji was like he owns it.
He was like, oh, this is my Mount Fuji.
I've never heard of it.
Like, you might not know about this mountain that I own.
First of all, a major Japanese mountain.
It's quite beautiful.
I don't know if any of you folks at home have heard about Mount Fuji, but if you look out this window, no one's heard of it.
No, but I want a little mountain.
I'm going to defend myself, Connor, because it's not often that I get the opportunity to do so.
I arrived.
Now, you'll see a lot of this.
You'll see a lot of this.
I arrived here.
I was on time.
I have gone to everything I was asked to go to.
I showed up.
We asked you to come to everything.
You were on time to the podcast in your room.
I had to.
I was out and about.
I had to come back and be here.
Hold on.
He's late to the pod in his own house.
That's true.
That is true.
How do you manage that?
You're late to the pod in your house.
And I'm always.
No, it's because of QT.
I am always on time to the podcast.
Cutie.
I wanted to play a game to break the ice.
Okay.
Okay.
That's good.
This is a game that I've devised this game.
Okay.
This is a game called You Order As Much Room Service As You'd Like Yes.
On Austin's tab.
Okay.
So what would you like to order?
That's crazy.
The interesting thing is, we actually were just out and we walked a lot.
Now, when you walk a lot, you get really hungry, soul.
And the thing is, we also didn't really eat.
We had one dumpling.
That's wrong.
Oh, measly dumpling.
You know what?
They really want me to sweat, but there's a view of Mount Fuji out that window.
You think a little room service is going to make me sweat?
Grab the phone.
I'm going to put a lobster thermidor if it's not in the menu.
Dom Perryon.
I don't have a menu.
There must be a menu somewhere.
Maybe some champagne.
Now, hold on.
You know what?
There's champagne over there, but it's room temperature.
It's room temperature.
No, no, no, no.
I can't have that.
It has to be.
There must be a menu somewhere.
I ordered new ice for the champagne.
How long is the champagne?
Hold on, first of all.
Hold on.
Hold on.
Just a second.
Just a second.
We've been here for three days.
Have you been ordering ice every day?
There's ice in there.
Oh!
Have you been ordering ice every day?
No, it's fresh ice.
Oh, fresh ice.
Fresh ice.
But I don't understand.
Did you order?
We should have a drink.
We should have a drink.
I'm not against the idea.
We should have a drink.
Me?
I was always down.
Always room for a drink.
You don't have to say that.
I feel bad taking your champagne, though.
This is special.
Before I was smeared on the podcast, I saved this complimentary bottle of champagne and was planning to re-gift it to the podcast.
Right, I saved this bottle of Perrier Jush.
How much do you recommend?
Have you been opening champagne?
Never done.
No.
You've never opened a champagne?
You should saber it.
So the secret to opening champagne is you want to be very brisk with your motions, up and down.
You want to get a vortex going before you pop the cork, and you want to pop the cork violently.
If you ease it out, it'll catch the championship.
You've never opened a bottle of champagne?
Oh, okay, okay.
All right.
I didn't know.
Sorry.
I thought I was.
Watch out, boys.
Boys, get out of this flesh with a violent series of chops to fix the bottom.
Finn is moving his jacket away.
He's like, he's like, he's taking his valuable possessions away.
Yeah.
Okay.
Oh, no, no, nothing.
Oh.
Oh.
Perfect.
Perfect.
Wonderful.
Wow.
Anybody want a glass?
I would love a glass of water.
I'm sure.
Yeah, let's do it.
All right.
Guys, let's take a step back.
Okay, wait, what's the game?
You saw me to order.
Oh, no, no, we're still going to do that.
Okay, we still.
Oh, okay.
So you just make up whatever you want.
Okay.
Think expensive.
Beluga caviar.
Yes.
Before we play the game, though.
Okay.
How have you been, my friend?
What's new in your life?
I'm doing good.
Let's catch up.
Well, you know, I feel like I went on a vacation, went back to the UK.
Okay.
So my family.
No one has ever said that in the history.
I did.
I did.
To mankind were a vacation.
It was nice.
Cheers.
I actually think your country is a beautiful country.
Thank you.
Thank you.
So you went on vacation to see your family.
And then now I feel like whenever you go away from streaming for like a week or two, it kind of takes you like a couple of days to get back into it.
Jesus.
It's just like a Bible.
Oh, there's a lot.
Oh, my God.
And expensive.
Breakfast.
So we're on all day.
Ritz Kids.
I think that sounds like a you can order a child.
It is the Epstein service in the room.
We got the soup.
Okay.
He loved this hotel and looking at overlooking Mount Fuji.
We got the main course steak.
Steak with fries $80.
Actually, not the worst price for what I expected for this hotel.
You should get a double order.
You should get a double order.
So you're ordering for all of us.
Do you actually want me to order stuff?
Yeah.
And I feel bad for Austin.
That's been the game.
They have this thing where they bully me for fun.
Because they're homophobic.
Potentially.
Maybe there's some deeply rooted homophobia.
I can't believe they also.
The menu is my little brother.
I'm not going to be able to do it for you guys.
Okay.
So we've.
All right.
To be fair, I bully Hassan as much as I bully him.
Is the phone in your room or is it right there?
Oh, it's right.
It's over here.
Okay, let me stop wireless.
Yeah, as you might have noticed from the decor, this room and this hotel in general is where a lot of Yakuza dealings took place, as you can tell.
I love your room.
I know you do.
I sit.
It's gorgeous.
I know it's got a view of Mount Fuji.
It's just giving J-Pop before he's giving Japan's finest moments.
While he's ordering, I want to talk about a topic that's relevant to the three of us.
And that is Austin Show's redemption in Japan.
Last time he was here, he was a shattered man, a husk of a person.
Yes.
And he shambled through the streets of Harajuku.
I did, yeah.
And he shuffled through the pages of Grindr.
Yes.
And had a mediocre time.
Yes.
So I'm going to provide for the first time ever some context to that.
Whoa.
Exclusive.
Last time we went to Japan.
Yes.
I was going through a breakup.
Yeah.
Wow.
I had just gone through a breakup.
Also, I was closing a property in which I was not there for.
Right.
Imagine traveling to a foreign country and somebody is moving your house without you being there.
Yeah.
That was happening.
Seems pretty convenient.
Also, a breakup.
You know how I can imagine that?
Because I'm doing it right now as well.
Wow.
How did you close in the house?
Who's closing on it for you?
My money manager.
Oh, they do.
He does have power of attorney for you.
He does have power of attorney.
Anyway, I have to.
You really thought you had a gotcha.
There's a lot of breaking news happening right now while Connecticut.
Wait, did you order?
I did.
What if you're not going to be able to do it?
Don't tell us.
Don't tell us.
That was such a short order.
It's quite a lot of food I ordered.
I'm so sorry.
It's okay.
Mount Fuji.
Coffee.
I actually feel bad.
I ordered a quiet.
Okay.
We'll see.
No, don't ever feel bad.
Don't feel bad.
I've got a credit.
Yeah.
You've got a credit?
Yeah, I think I've got like $500.
Wow.
I hope it burns into it easy.
Okay, wait.
Let's finish our topic and then we'll talk about how he is essentially the Marriott ambassador next.
I've heard a lot about this.
So you're going through a breakup.
Yes.
You had a decent time.
But now this time you're in Japan with fresh eyes.
Yes.
A full heart.
Yes.
Can't lose.
And you've been not only not a detriment to streams.
No.
But a savior.
You have been uplifting saving the content.
I did.
Of this devoid of any kind of tact on stream.
You fished.
And you killed a fish and you ate the fish.
I did.
I killed a fish with my bare hands.
We went to this restaurant.
I know the restaurant, yeah.
Oh, you've heard it.
I already stabbed the fish.
No, you don't stab it.
You have to hook it with a hook.
Wait, is there another one?
You can stab them?
Oh, my God.
There's a couple of these restaurants.
Some of them, it depends where you go.
Some of them are a lot worse than others.
Some of them literally have fish that are basically dead.
You have to kind of literally force the hook into them.
No.
To pick them up.
The fish were vibrant.
They were alive.
They were vibrant.
And you also know they're not.
They say they're killing that.
They're not killing that fish.
They already have ones out in the back prepared.
What?
What?
That's way too much work.
Wait.
They put it in the face.
So when they kill the fish.
Normally they put it back.
What?
Because you'll notice that a lot of the fish.
They killed this one.
Did you see it?
Yeah, we saw him kill it, right?
You saw the blood on the ground, didn't you?
I saw blood on the ground.
There's a lot of the ground was from.
From my either.
Maybe, but I know a lot of them they don't eat.
They put a hook through its thing.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The mouth from underneath it.
Like, that fish is dead for sure.
They like hooked it through the mouth and I held it up with a hook.
The Shibuya Fish Enforcement Crew00:11:02
Also, you seem so crazy.
Aside to our producers, mandatory glass of champagne for both of you as well.
I don't have enough glasses.
They're going to have to share a glass.
There's another two glasses.
Oh, there's three glasses.
Yeah, there's a lot of those restaurants will actually, yeah, that you are not eating the fish that.
That's fascinating.
But it's fun, you know, because people feel like, wow, it's so cool.
I caught my fish.
You're really pulling the curtain back.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I suppose so.
Yeah.
There is, what was I going to say as well?
I have a memory last time when you guys were here.
Yeah.
Obviously, you were going through the breakup at the time.
And I don't know.
Oh, wow.
That's pretty impressive.
I just have this.
I have this distinct memory of us being at, we were eating Hot Pot.
Yes.
Yes.
And you, I don't know what the fuck this conversation was about.
You're like, in five minutes, I could call up this ballerina and be fucking him in the Ritz car.
And I was like, utterly confused.
Wait, you know what?
Ballerina.
Mountain.
Dash ballerina.
And you know what?
You know what, Connor?
Fuck him, I did.
But I just remember being so utterly devoid of context.
And I was like, well, maybe there is no more context than that.
No, no, I was thinking.
But I was so confused.
Let me add a little bit of context.
Speaking of back, Connor, Connor, as far as I'm aware, is a straight man.
Yeah, I'm straight.
I always want to put that into context because, you know, you never know when somebody wants to go on a little exploration.
I'm not saying you're gay and you don't even give me that vibe.
But if you, you know what?
What is a vibe?
That's gay.
It doesn't, who knows what it is.
Anyway, okay, okay.
So, but I was trying to explain to Connor that Grinder is like you could get somebody so quick.
No, no, I know that.
That's what I was trying to explain.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
And I'm just, I wasn't being like, hey, you see this ballerina here?
I'm going to fuck him in five minutes.
I just didn't understand what was going on.
And I felt like I was lost.
It seemed like to them that this is a conversation that they'd heard multiple times.
Yes.
And I was.
He was going through some shit.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
But then we went to a fun gay bar.
Sometimes when your friend's going through some shit, you just have to listen to how he would blast a ballerina.
Overlooking Mount Fuji.
Core memory for me.
I don't know why I remember this conversation so vividly.
You know what?
I was so out of it last time I was on this trip.
I didn't even realize I could see Mount Fuji last time I was here.
I'm not even joking.
The helipad that you pointed down to is right there.
Yeah, it's over there.
Yeah.
So, Sea Dog.
Okay, I'd like to talk to you about something.
And it's really interesting.
We all have a fantasy of moving here.
Well, at least I do.
And I think a lot of Gaijin, when they first get here, do.
Okay.
And then you talk to people who actually move here and they go, it's great.
It's great.
It's great.
But yeah, there's a lot of buts.
There's a lot of buts, but I don't know if the buts outweigh the benefits.
No, no, no, most certainly not.
I think there's definitely way more positives.
Sure.
I'm sure you guys can.
What's your biggest butt?
Paperwork's pretty brutal here.
It's pretty endless.
It never ends.
You always pay some.
I don't have anyone to do the paperwork for you.
No, a lot of the time, no.
You can help someone, like you can pay someone to help you do it, but a lot of the time they require you to go in person and do more things unless you have some kind of, I don't know, I'm not even sure.
Maybe, yeah, or something like that.
You have to do it in Japanese.
A lot of the time, yeah, you have to do in Japanese.
Sometimes you can do it in English.
Sure.
But there's just never-ending stuff that you have to go through and so many dumb rules.
Yo, give us some.
Yeah, if you ever want to get a phone, it's a nightmare to get a phone number here.
It's such a you have to have a bank account in Japan, and then you have to have a government ID and an address.
And then it's tied to your, so your number is tied to your government ID basically.
Super safe.
Yeah, safe, I guess.
I mean, for a lot of the time, it feels kind of antiquated and outdated when you're doing it because you're like, you know, and then do you get a lot of Japanese spam callers?
No, never.
Well, so I guess maybe that's worth it.
Would you go through hell and back to get a phone number?
No, but also in the United States of America, we have no protection.
Yeah, you don't have a lot of protection.
But then again, I don't think that you need this antiquated system that ties you down to your address to be able to get a phone number to the first offer.
Genuinely, if you've ever played a JRPG or a Japanese video game in general with endless fetch quests, then you'll know that it feels almost based on experience because every single thing you need to do is tied to the thing prior.
So you can't do the next step of the settling process until you've done the first thing.
So you can't get internet until you've got a bank account.
Can't get a bank account until you've got a job that's willing to vouch for you and help you make your bank account.
So if you made the bank account, you've got your phone number, then you can sign up for the internet bill, and then you could do some other stuff.
It's just like, it's endless.
Like you have to go through jump-through hoops.
But as you guys can tell, the daily quality of life is so high.
Crazy.
So, you know, it's all worth it.
And like now, obviously, I'm more settled.
It's a lot more chill.
It's a beautiful place.
It's great.
It's a beautiful place.
I love this country.
That's why you guys should move out here.
So much.
I mean, I'm maybe considering it.
The stream hours for me are pretty ruthless.
So I can.
You wake up at 5 a.m.
Navy SEAL.
If you would walk me through the process, maybe we could do a stream series importing a Gaijin.
Just me doing paperwork.
Riveting stuff.
I think it would go crazy.
Riveting stuff.
We have to talk about it.
That has changed in Japan since last we were here.
Something major.
Okay, a title shift.
Really?
I'm talking about the jug enforcers.
The jug enforcers.
Shibuya.
Oh, Shibuya.
There's Jug Enforcement Squad.
Wait, why?
Did you guys try and drink that last night?
No, we've seen them.
Oh, you've seen the walking in action.
Okay, so for those of you who don't know, Shibuya, one of the main metropolitan areas where people congregate and drink.
Yeah.
I thought you were talking about boobs.
I thought there was somebody going around there like cover it up.
Subimasu.
I thought this was like an enforcement crew that was out there.
If that was a government job.
I would have moved to Japan at the age of 10.
You know, the birthrights have been.
This guy has so much promise.
I know it's weird.
He's the best natural jug enforcer.
I know it's weird that he's 10 years old and it's kind of like sexually weird.
This could be a manga.
Jug enforcer.
He's the best jug enforcer in all of Japan.
And I'm serious.
I genuinely thought.
Yeah, so as Will was saying, Shibuya is a major popular young people drink.
Probably like the place to go if you're 20 and you want to drink in Japan.
And they are not breast inspectors.
What they are is a group of people who.
Are you guys okay?
Okay.
They are a group of people who now police public drinking, which is kind of an institution in Tokyo.
And if they catch you, there's no fee or ticket, but instead they have a large, clear plastic jug that they will take your beverage, pour the booze in there, and you can kind of gauge how active they've been based on how much booze you see in their jug.
And Will and I want to drink.
We want to take a sip from the spill.
As far as I know, there's not a whole lot they can do to you if you try to drink out of it.
You're not in Japan, though.
There's no way they can really enforce any law against you.
Wait, like any law?
Well, no, no, no.
No, I mean, I was going to say, it would be like a fine, which is almost not even worth bothering with a person who's foreign to try and find them because it would just be such a nightmare.
I'd pay.
People would pay it, but I think it would be a nightmare for them to enforce.
Because I think, it could be wrong, but I think the punishment is just a fine if you refuse.
But even then, it's not.
Austin Show owes money in Italy, if I'm not mistaken.
I do.
Oh, you told me about this.
I'm on your side on this.
No, I'm on his side.
I think it's fair.
I didn't stiff anybody.
For the record, context, short little context.
I went to a hotel in Italy.
They forgot to charge me.
For Cachio Pepe?
For Caccio Pepe.
They chased me down three months later.
That's default.
They asked me to fill out and do a lot of paperwork.
No, that's definitely.
I said absolutely not.
You're a five-star hotel.
They call them the Caccio Bep bandit now.
And they should have standards.
Five-stars have standards.
They should not be chasing you down like a tax man.
They stopped.
I have an update.
They have since stopped.
Name and Shame the Hotel.
No, I never.
I'm pretty sure he's not allowed to go back to Italy.
I don't know.
I haven't tried.
But if I do go back to Italy, I will go return to that hotel for at least one Tacaccio bandit.
Yes, I will.
I will.
They always go back to the scene of the crime.
I will check in and see if I knew that.
You do realize pasta crimes is like the number one thing that they don't fuck around with in Italy.
They have a scenario.
Wait, wait, wait.
Pasta crime.
Yeah, you passed as a big crime there.
Pasta-related crime.
That's a big crime.
So they actually, you know why they changed the rule, right?
Initially, they changed it because Halloween was pretty, it's pretty bad in Shibuya for a long time.
So when I first moved here, Halloween was basically just this insane, giant, degenerate, drunkard meetup where basically the entire young population of Japan agreed to go to this one spot in town.
And it was insane.
It's insane.
Is it the scrapbook in front of the family mark?
All of it.
All of it.
It would all shut down because there was just so many people and it was absolutely like debauchery.
It sounds terrible.
It's great.
It's great.
And all the trains would like, you know, you couldn't get a train.
So getting out of there was a nightmare.
And there's a lot of safety concerns, especially after what happened in Korea.
Like CrowdCruis.
So it was quite valid.
And I think they then said, okay, no public drinking during Halloween.
So only during Halloween.
It was only during Halloween.
And then what happened was after Halloween went, they were like, hey, kind of like it when there's no fucking drunkards around.
Let's just keep enforcing.
Oh, there's still around.
There's still a lot there.
Shut your meltdown.
And also, obviously, a lot of business owners are very happy because there's a lot of money in the street drinking if you get them in your Izakai to drink instead.
Oh, because you can't just go to a family mart and get blacked out.
Yeah, which obviously way cheaper.
You've undercut a lot of the competition.
There's so many bars and Izekai's in Shibuya.
So I think there was not a lot of pushback from a lot of businesses and people who live in Shibuya that are like, well, whatever.
Yeah, no, keep it.
They're just kind of stuck.
But pretty much every other place in Japan, you can publicly drink.
Connor, I have a question for you.
Go ahead.
And this pertains to some of the content that I'm looking to shoot out here.
All right, exciting.
This time, I decided, aside from like the regular, you know, daily life of niche and like also niche Japanese microcultures that we are too much.
You can't tap into the basic stuff.
Yeah.
We've, yeah, we've done it too.
We've done it too many times.
It's old news.
No, don't do that.
Don't you are?
You'll scare people.
You're too big.
Selling Merch in Shibuya Shops00:02:12
That guy's meek.
Oh, yeah.
I've been doing it.
Even yesterday, he was practicing Japanese in the cab with the driver.
But no, he was practicing phrases to say to me that would startle the driver.
Yes.
Like, sir, you're smacking your gum so loud.
Yes.
Or do you speak English?
Yeah.
Saying it to me.
But the driver was kind of like double.
Right.
Of course.
Why would he be saying that to his white friends?
And I learned how to say, I'm practicing my Japanese.
And he completely ignored him because he was like, after that, he didn't turn around.
Yeah, he didn't turn around at all.
And we had that's much success.
Oi, hoi, hoi.
That's so funny, Hassan.
Wait a minute.
You're not Hassan.
I'm not Hassan, but you know what?
I am an entrepreneur.
Oh, I knew that about you.
And I've been selling things.
Really?
What you've been selling?
Just like gadgets and gizmos.
Okay.
And where do you sell them?
On Shopify.
Of course.
Yeah, that's right, guys.
Upgrade your business today.
And what else?
I once tried.
I got so distracted by your beautiful hair today.
Oh, thank you.
You're welcome.
I once tried to sell gizmos and doodads, but I tried to do it at a roadside shop.
Oh, no good.
You've got to do it online.
I've got to get a lot of people to buy vagrants.
Wow.
I should have used Shopify.
You should use Shopify.
What does Shopify do?
Well, guys, Shopify, you need to know it helps you grow your business because it helps you list and sell more in an easy way.
Because let's be honest, I'm not the smartest tool in the shed, but Shopify helps me.
However, you should know that you should go to shopify.com/slash fear to upgrade your selling today because they've got different things, different tiers of selling.
And so you got to upgrade by going to shopocade shopify.com slash fear.
Okay.
You got to upgrade.
You know, Hassan actually uses Shopify with his merch and he's very successful with it.
I also sold my merch with Shopify.
I don't know why I didn't start there.
Instead, I decided to talk about my gifts.
Why did you make up about gadgets and gizmo?
I got stressed sometimes, but you know what doesn't make me stress?
Shopify.
What's your question?
Why Shopify Helps You Grow00:10:15
Anyway, the question I have is, I'm a little worried.
I've heard that, like, if I, this time around, I'm interested more so in like politics in Japan.
Okay.
And daily political expressions, protests, things of that nature.
Last night we actually went to a protest, Rave, which is a concept that I didn't even know existed out here.
And it was amazing.
This very famous Japanese, what would you he's a DJ, but like.
He had a boiler room set that was like awesome.
I know you don't know DJs, but he was doing a climate protest set.
And it was sick.
In the middle of Jimmy, it's like David Getta ending racism kind of vibe or like no, it felt much more authentic.
Okay, okay, okay.
That's cool.
Yeah, and they are pro-Palestinian protesters there.
Devil Show was there as well.
And there's a lot of pro-Palestinian demonstrations happening.
There were drug enforcers.
At the climate thing, which is so funny.
These like 50-year-old men that are like in the climate protests.
Yeah, they're bombing their heads.
Get out of your drink.
But the question I have is: will I get deported if I go to a protest at like, let's say, maybe the Israeli embassy?
I don't think so.
Okay, good.
Because that's something that I've heard from some of the people here.
Really?
Yeah.
Why would they just choose to deport you?
Well, from what I understand, it's just like engaging in political activity as a foreigner.
I mean, unless something happened, I think it would be fine.
Okay.
Just being there.
All right, good.
Many of you took the role of, would you say, more of a journalist there than as a person?
Yeah, but did you say pleasure?
But then again, I also.
Obviously, why did you mark on your form?
Look, I mean, this is all important in Japan.
And a lot of the way how the Japanese system works is all about if you admit to something or not.
That's a big thing here.
So let's say I'm sorry.
Yeah, a lot of crime is really weird here.
A lot of the time, the onus is on you to be like, yeah, I did that.
Even if they have evidence that you did it, if you're like, no, it's not me.
I didn't do that.
They would have a hard time prosecuting you while you were pursuing it.
Yeah, but in order to, but they also have a very aggressive criminal justice system where they will detain you for 36 days in prison until they get until they get to the point.
I think they would not convince them.
They wish to detain you.
Well, not me, maybe, but I'm saying, from what I understand, they have an involuntary hold procedure in Japan for 28 days in the middle.
How's the food in Japanese prison?
I heard it's fascia.
I heard it's not that bad.
Okay.
I mean, I imagine it's way worse.
The vlog.
The vlog would go crazy.
When you got here, was there a particular law that you were surprised by that you broke?
The one thing that I was really shocked by is the defamation laws here are pretty weird.
Oh, yeah.
It's fascinating.
Yeah.
So a case from a friend of a friend was that they had gotten their teeth down at a dentist.
Dentist completely fucked them up.
Okay, what happened?
I think they, I'm not sure how, but the operation or whatever it is, messed up their teeth, made it worse.
Oh.
So they left a Google review.
One star being like, they messed up my teeth.
Not happy with it.
Took them to court.
Yeah.
The dentist sued them.
And dentist won.
Even though, even though, like, it was.
Even though he jacked up the teeth.
And it's not, and it's not a matter of interpretation.
Yeah.
It's not a matter of like, oh, it actually didn't jack up his teeth.
In Japan, you can successfully sue someone for defaming you, even if it is 100% accurate.
Yeah.
So why look at this?
In Japan, if someone is arrested for pedophilia, let's say, right?
Which is unfortunately rare.
But let's say it happened.
And in this case.
Unfortunately, they don't catch the pedophile.
Yeah, no, that's what I mean.
I mean, like, they're not.
They should be more.
You're not saying there should be more pedophilia.
Let me know.
I'm saying there should be more.
And Forrest says they should catch more.
So unfortunately, there's not more prosecution.
Trust me, I think everyone understood exactly what I meant when I said that.
Because if he would have said, fortunately, Austin.
So anyway, if a newspaper were to write about this person and called him a pedophile, that pedophile could successfully sue the newspaper and win in a court of law for defamation.
So again, I'm not a lawyer, so don't take my 100% on this, but from my understanding, it is...
It is.
It's the...
When you take someone to court for defamation, you're not trying to show that what they said is wrong.
You're trying to show that they were trying to cause harm to you.
And if they prove that you did it from malice or you tried to cause harm and they can prove that intent, you are liable for that.
Oh, interesting.
But obviously, this only benefits big companies because they can take you to court and the little guy is obviously not going to, you know, so a lot of the times you do have to read cats.
Japanese and dentists.
Yeah, dentists.
Anyone.
Anyone with finances to be able to sue someone.
Yeah.
And so it's kind of like when we're doing business here or we're working sometimes with companies, there is a lot of, you know, you are quite overly cautious of saying anything about a company.
So you just can't say anything.
Kind of not really.
I don't know.
I talk shit all the time when I go to America, but here I'm like.
What if you hit them with the reverse card and you built them up and bragged about something that hurt them?
Well, yeah, then you'd be fine.
They have the best farts in Japan.
I can't believe how incredible these farts are.
I feel like they're going to do what they're so crooked.
I feel like there would be a market for the fart thing.
Yeah, there would be a market for fighting.
Yeah, it's kind of, you know, there is this kind of weird kind of vibe where you can talk about things, but you have to be very, you have to be very like, you pick your words very wisely in what you say and when you pick your battles, I think.
Champagne break, everyone?
Champagne break.
Champagne break.
Kumpai.
Kumpai.
Wow.
Kumpai.
Okay.
To celebrate my purchase of Mount Fuji.
I mean, okay.
Is there anything else you guys are curious about?
No more.
That wasn't it.
Why wasn't that a good joke?
I just, I don't, I told you.
It was a great time.
Did you feel culturally insensitive?
Yes, I did.
I don't.
You're Lebanese.
You're Lebanese.
Okay.
So it's a good joke.
I thought it was funny.
All right.
I thought it was tasteful.
Like the champagne.
Connor, can I tell you what my dream is?
Okay.
I feel like you've done this before.
You've told me your dream is to move to Japan and have swag, white boy, Japanese conversations.
Yes, white boy suggested.
Okay.
Very important.
I would like that.
But no, this time I have a separate dream.
On top of that.
Would I ever be able to interview the assassin of Shinzo Abe?
No way.
What the fuck kind of question dream is that?
My son, you may get deported.
No, the reason why I asked is because sometimes they do let in journalists.
In America, if you went to the Department of Corrections and got consent from the inmate, you would be able to potentially interview this person.
Because they love to show off incarcerated people.
Like the process.
Is it possible to potentially interview the man who assassinated former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe?
No, no, it's not.
Did he get the death penalty?
Or do they even have that?
Do they even have that death?
Yeah, they have that.
Oh, they do.
Yeah, that's right.
They do.
How do they kill people?
Sorry.
I know how they kill people.
The only reason why I know that they have the death penalty is because I know how they kill people.
Because when we were here last time, it was in the news.
Yeah, it was the guy that went into the retirement home and stabbed a bunch of people.
I think he got.
Fuck, I think it's hanging.
I think they hang.
I think it's they press a button and it's gas, I think.
Because if I remember correctly, yeah, exactly.
If I remember correctly, they had an issue, I think.
Am I making this up?
I feel like last time we were here, I remember seeing in the news they play squid games to kill Joe because they don't want to have it on their conscience who killed them.
They have three people who all press the buttons.
But that's normal.
It's a very crane game.
But I feel like I, as one of the three, would still feel responsible for the skills.
Yeah, you contributed to a third tick of like whether it was my robot button that was connected.
But I guess maybe for some people, it helps them to compartmentalize and be like, I didn't kill the guy.
I didn't kill you.
That's literally the reason.
Yes, exactly.
Why can't they just get a robot to do it?
Like a robot warsman versus wait, I'm sorry.
Who's pressing the robot button then?
No, somebody programs a robot.
I think that's just a bad thing.
You just have a killer robot.
You just have a robot that only is trying to be killed.
I have a way better.
Just bring Mr. Beast in.
Let him have a fun game.
Just program an AI.
You have a one in three chance of killing this Japanese fella.
He went into a retiring home and stabbed folks.
If you do, you'll make $250,000.
But if you're acceptable, I mean, I mean, yeah, but they like just get some sort of political presidents or something.
They have to make these decisions all the time.
Why don't you just make them do the decision and make it a gundam?
Yeah.
I don't know.
I think I solved it.
To be honest, the division of labor.
They just don't purpose the gundam that they don't have.
This is extra steps, right?
Because someone has to program the killing machine.
Yeah, it's just extra buttons.
But no.
When you're part of that robot, who all make a separate program and only one is used in the robot.
So the programmers don't know.
Three Indian programmers.
None of them speak Japanese.
They're an intermediary.
Three intermediaries.
They don't know what they're coding.
They have no idea.
You make them code.
What if the robot is what kills them?
They just send the robot in.
Austin, someone has to send the robot, and then that's their responsibility.
What if it's like an engineer that's their dying wish to program this robot?
What is it?
No people.
Sending Robots to Code for Us00:15:49
It's always been my wish.
Austin, not only did you not solve the moral quandary, you made it more complex for no reason.
They have three dudes on three different Israeli Amazon accounts buying pages and just randomly choosing which page it gets to go.
Also, I'm saying there's a better way to do this.
That's all I'm saying.
And you don't have that.
You know what I mean?
You do not.
I think robotics and AI is one step closer.
Okay.
Well, let's put a pin in.
Let's put a pin in that one.
When you come to Japan, do you get a bunch of really weird kind of people coming out of the woodworks in terms of politics with Japanese stuff?
Because a lot of people are very, I feel like defensive about Japan and that kind of stuff.
Well, the Japanese Communist Party was very open about receiving me, but only because I think I had just interviewed Bernie Sanders like a day or two prior before we asked.
And I went through an intermediary that is like embedded with them and is doing a dissertation on their history.
Oh, perfect.
So I went through like, you know, I went through a lot of people that are already knowledgeable about the inner workings of it, but they are notoriously, from what I understand, very secretive.
Yeah, their headquarters looks like a military base.
Yeah, so I'm getting a lot of unprecedented access.
Yeah, I'm getting a lot of unprecedented access, especially as a foreigner.
They're not very, from what I understand, they're not super open to foreigners in general.
I mean, but yeah, there's like a non-zero chance that maybe the next time you come to Japan, they'll be like, nah.
No, I think it'll be fine.
I'm not going to like.
I mean, I could see it.
I'm very interested in the inner country.
I mean, maybe if someone had a target.
You mean the current Japanese government might actually have issues with me coming into Japan after this trip?
Potentially, yeah.
That's not wrong.
You know, you could, if you might have that interview, he owns Mount Fuji.
Maybe it all depends if you get on the news in Japan.
I've got a great relationship with the Japanese government.
Well, speaking of this, I would like to get into this.
Austin lied to the Marriott.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
That's a stretch.
No.
You said that you were on your gay wedding anniversary.
Not a wedding anniversary.
I said anniversary.
I always say anniversary.
I did not say wedding.
We can pull the tape.
I always say anniversary because you get freebies.
Anniversary.
You always get freebies.
So what does that imply?
Well, because they feel like wow, it's special.
I didn't specify what anniversary it was.
What do you think they think?
It's the anniversary.
It's been two years and some months since we came here last time.
All right.
That's not an anniversary.
What is completely honest with you?
For the record, Hassan said I should say that my, like, a baby died or something like that.
That's what he said I should do.
Remember, we were on the podcast.
I said, you should say your child has cancer.
Yeah, that's what he said.
Will you?
Why are you looking at me, Will?
You literally said in his dying wishes to see Mount Fuji.
Oh my God.
You could have seen it.
It's right there.
You were there, Will.
You were yes, Argentina.
Yes, it's right there.
He will wheel up his iron logs into the window.
Say he wanted to see it from as far away as possible.
Father Tokyo.
It's literally.
And you got to get it on the right day because you can't see it every day.
It's overcast.
It's overcast.
So it's going to be alarm booking.
Okay.
So let me tell you this story.
No, let me let me get context.
He was very upfront with the Marriott and said that it was his non-specific anniversary.
That's what I do.
I do that.
Non-specific anniversary.
I do this all the time because you get freebies.
Yes.
Well, he did.
He got upgraded to a room with a Fuji.
That's right.
And he also received some other things from the hotel.
Yeah.
Austin, why don't you go ahead and tell me?
So upon arrival, I get off the plane fatigued.
Naturally, naturally.
Exhausted.
Had just gone through a 10-hour flight.
Okay.
A hellish journey.
Landed in Tokyo.
And I get to the front desk.
And I didn't know this was going to happen, but they said, Mr. Show, we have upgraded you to the Mount Fuji suite.
Whoa.
You didn't know, but you had requested.
I had requested through multiple avenues and emails.
Very respectful emails.
They blindsided it.
No, no, no.
I did mention.
I can't believe this is.
They asked me.
They asked me.
And I didn't.
I would never have done it.
I would have never done this before.
And they said, you've done this every time.
What would you like to do with this?
There's not a point where you've never not done this.
And let me tell you something.
The service is unbelievable.
I think it's nothing wrong with like, no, you got to get a little extra.
So, yeah.
So I arrive.
They said we've upgraded you to the Mount Fuji Suite.
It's not what it's called, but I just.
Of course.
Because it's a beautiful view.
Of Fuji.
So we go.
So I get into the room, walk in the door, three fruit trays, three separate letters.
One from my ambassador representative.
The other from the manager of the hotel.
The other from the head of the Asia Pacific of Marriott Hotels.
What?
And they're all right here.
I've got them right here.
I don't want you to know.
It's got my name on it, but it's got multiple different letters wishing me a happy anniversary.
On top of that, a bottle of champagne, which I saved for the class.
The hotel manager one is handwritten.
Yes, handwritten.
And I hope they never see this.
Do they think you're a big deal?
What's going on?
Well, I don't know what it is because they also, I arrive.
They also, I requested a steamer because my clothes do get wrinkled.
It was on the table.
Multiple bottles of water.
They had 15 bottles of water right there, still bottles of water waiting.
They had to do it.
Why do they think you need to hydrate that much?
I asked, I said, I like a lot of water.
And they put 15 bottles of fish.
I hate it when they need to put two bottles in the water.
Yeah, yeah.
It's different.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
So they two bottles of water or 15 bottles of water.
So anyhow, they then get in here, my phone rings.
Hello?
That's a great question.
They said, hello, Mr. Show.
We understand you have just arrived.
We want to make sure everything is in order and you are enjoying the start of your vacation.
And I said, absolutely.
And you know what?
I'm going to do I need to ask you this.
Okay.
I want the staff is unbelievable.
I want to gift them something.
Is it in what I think this is?
I want to give like flowers or something to the staff to show my appreciation for how wonderful the service has been.
I don't think.
Why is he laughing?
Do you not?
This is a human interaction.
You could give it inappropriate?
No, no, you could do that.
I think it's fine.
I told you on YouTube.
Is it weird?
No, I don't think it's worth it.
Well, then I won't do it.
I won't do it.
I'll just thank them.
So you know when you like anywhere in Japan at a tourist spot, they always have sell omiyaga.
It's called like souvenirs.
And they always have like these big boxes of like 12 little snacks individually bagged.
You can get that.
Okay.
And then they would probably just take it and share it with the snack.
I think it's important to show appreciation because they did go out of their way.
They went beyond the call to provide such excellent service and they continue to do so throughout the stay.
I mean, I'm ordering extra at breakfast.
They're not charging me for it.
You're like a Manhattan private school mom.
Like the way you exist.
I don't know how you're like this.
I don't know how this happens.
You know what you want.
You'd ask for it.
I think it is.
I think we need to return to that level of respect in this world.
Hassan doesn't even see it.
He just comes in his room, shits on the floor.
No, literally.
I came in.
I came in.
I fucking leave.
No, it's not even a joke.
I came in.
I'm going to tell you my experience.
I get off the plane.
It's 4 a.m.
I instantly, I time.
Okay, I'm so stupid.
I time how much time it takes for me to get in and out of airports.
I don't know why I do it.
Sorry, fasting.
But I always, but I always time it.
And you're not going to believe this.
Me landing and getting out of the plane door and getting out of the airport took 13 minutes.
It is literally like record time.
Okay.
13 minutes.
Yeah, I would have been on the same tip, but Finn, I had Finn's cameras and he thought he lost them.
Oh, no.
Yeah, he's laughing.
So he spent 25 minutes looking for a camera bag I was holding for him on the other side of Carl.
That's hilarious.
Oh, God.
But 13 minutes.
I'm out.
That's 16.
That's only possible from row one.
No, that's literally.
No, I like perfect framed it.
Okay, first frame.
Did you not pick a bag up?
No, I did.
Did you check work?
I did.
The outright.
No, it came out instantly.
I picked it up.
I beamed out of there, got in an Uber, immediately got to the hotel.
Guy is Turkish.
He's a fan.
Yeah, he got excited.
I was like, okay.
I was like, you know, internet, da-da-da-da-da, whatever.
Get up to the room.
I had already called the march ahead of time.
He was up, ready to go.
Brave soldier March.
It's like 5:30.
It's like 5:30 at this point.
We literally moved all of the furniture from the room so that we could just like do something similar to this, right?
And set up a streaming room and instantly started streaming.
And I did like an eight or nine hour stream.
So it was a banger.
It truly has been a little bit different.
It was a banger.
It was a great stream.
But the thing that I wanted to say is like, that was my experience coming in.
But I also had a similar experience earlier this morning with the one similar to you where I order coffee in the morning, room service.
Wait, they bring it up.
Yeah.
Because I finished the coffee.
Hold on.
I know they have a free breakfast.
Yeah.
There's also a machine in your room.
No, no, I finished the coffee in the machine.
So then I order Americanos.
Yeah.
So they bring the guy brought it in.
He placed it on the table, but he placed it on the corner of the table and it fell.
And it broke.
Oh.
And it spilled everywhere.
Oh, no.
And this was a horrifying moment for me.
He practiced the art of extreme Japanese apology.
He got up.
He got down on his hands and knees and almost touched the fucking floor with his head.
I was horrified.
I was like, dude, no, no.
I was like, it's okay.
It's okay.
Don't worry about it.
On stream?
Well, no one can see it.
The camera's pointed the other direction.
Did they hear you?
Yes.
They heard the clang and they heard the like loud noises, but it was the shocking experience for me watching an adult man like get on the floor where, like the the, you know the rug is, is the coffee seeping into the rug, and he got on his hands and knees and was like i'm so sorry, like I mean in Japanese um, and then you made him clean it up.
No, I was like dude no no no, it's fine, it's fine, it's fine.
It's like, don't do it, don't do it.
He was like I got a stream to go to.
No, the stream was live already.
So I I basically explained quickly to what was happening to the stream, but like it was, I never saw that guy.
There's a man apologizing to me.
Yeah, I never saw him again.
You never saw.
I think they might have killed him.
I don't know what happened.
They might have like just been like, yeah, don't go to this room anymore.
I don't know what happened.
I felt so bad for him.
Yeah people people uh, they don't handle that kind of stuff.
I would have picked up the phone and I would have called down and I would have said there was an accident.
I shattered a cup and it was my fault, please.
I want him at my room every time I order a coffee.
You're so brave, you're so brave.
No, but that spills a second one of Schindler's List.
Yeah, jumping in front well, of the hotel staff punishing a man for spilling?
No, hold on, I just want to be not spilled the coffee.
I famous entertainer Austin and I am sorry for doing so.
Please charge me for a second coffee and send it up with this same young man.
So I just want to be clear.
I'm crazy for sending the staff flowers, but him rearranging, doing extreme home, make sure, forcing his staff to grovel Yeah, and doing extreme home makeover.
Yeah, I sat hotels.
I was like, damn, it's crazy that you're doing this right now.
You're like a whole ass adult human.
Why are you doing this?
Well, you know, it's the culture.
I think it's too much.
I was like, come on.
Well, I mean, obviously, you feel like it's too much because you're not from the culture.
But maybe a Japanese guy, they would be like, I expect this.
Yeah.
That's crazy.
Yeah.
But hey, you know, cool, I guess.
I mean, whether I agree with it or not, is yeah.
I mean, it's definitely intense and you're not used to it.
You're like, oh my God.
Yeah.
I'm good.
Has anyone ever groveled in that regard?
Have you ever received an extreme apology?
Yeah.
What was the offense?
Oh, fuck.
What has happened?
I'm trying to think.
I think one time I booked the wrong time for my meal at a Ryokan, like a traditional inn, and I showed up an hour early and they were like, We can't do it.
And they started extremely apologizing, like you were saying, being like, We can't move it.
We're so sorry.
We're so sorry.
We've ruined your stay.
And I'm like, I'll just come back in an hour.
It's not a big deal.
Stuff like that.
The thing that actually I get.
Have you ever seen Head to the Ground?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Have you ever extremely apologized?
Yeah, I'll say like Moshiwaka Zai Mosan, which is like the really extreme apology.
I won't get it on the ground, though.
No, no, no.
What did you extreme apologize for?
Oh, fuck.
I'm trying to pretty buried these memories.
I don't know.
Fuck.
You have the deep Japanese sense of shame.
I don't even know how to say sorry in Japanese.
It's fine.
Well, I actually have one memory of them, and this is kind of similar but different.
So one time I was waiting at a Lawson's.
I was actually going to go cycle.
And this old woman came in on her bike to the Lawson's and was going to park up.
She went, she was like maybe 60, 70.
As she was coming in, she hit the curb, didn't like land it very well, and then just fell forward front.
And I immediately went over to go and help her.
I was like, are you okay?
Are you okay?
She attacked an old woman.
I attacked an old woman.
So I finished the job.
I was like, there's too many old people.
So she's like freaking out, apologizing, and she's bleeding from her hands.
I try to stop her fall.
And so I go and grab some water and some bandages to try and help her out.
And she's just trying to get up and like trying to run away because she's so embarrassed.
And to me, I was like, please let me help you.
Yeah.
Let me like, let me let me try and like help what's going on here.
But she's so embarrassed that someone saw her fall that she would rather like run away bleeding, go somewhere else and kind of like try and pick it up herself instead of just being like, hey, man, I'll just accept.
So did you extreme apologize till she no, I was just like, please let me help you.
So you held her hostage?
I tried to held her hostage.
She wouldn't let me down.
I was like, stop.
She like ran away.
Yeah, she ran away.
You got outran by a 70-year-old lady.
No, I'm not going to shake her.
She stopped her.
She's chasing her.
But like, I'm really trying to implore her.
I'm trying to implore her.
Like, hey, it's okay because I can tell she's freaking out because she's embarrassed.
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Go ahead.
I can tell she's freaking out because she's embarrassed about it.
You know, because in Japan, that's like, I don't know why, but you know, because she's a lot older as well.
She feels shameful that I guess she fucked up or something like that.
That's so sad.
Yeah, it's especially in front of a guy gen. I mean, maybe that isn't.
Maybe she was just really racist.
British Gaijen at that.
Maybe she was just like, oh, white people.
Are all Gaijin treated as Gaijen or what's the worst Gaijin?
It's got to be American.
Like, you know, you know, like, I don't need to tell you the list.
Okay.
You can figure it out.
I'm going to say something that may be a little controversial.
Okay.
I'm, I, I have, look, and I love British people.
However, he's saying they're lower on the tier list.
I, I have, I have, I think British people are more obnoxious abroad than Americans.
Depends on where what do we think, depends on where they go.
And Australians, too.
No.
Man, mostly British people.
I love Australians, but sometimes they can be really obnoxious.
Yeah.
You can, like, I feel like I can tell immediately when a group is Australian before I can tell they're American.
I got yelled at by an Australian today, but I think it's because Hassan was doing a bad Australian accent.
Oh, that's true.
Wait, what?
Yeah.
We were filming.
We were filming the rockabillies at the park, and I was doing my Steve Avenue.
And I crept up a little bit.
There's like a big perimeter, and I crept up and was kind of moving around to get angles.
And an Australian called to me and went, hey, mate, stay out of my shop.
Oh, my lord.
Yeah.
No, it was pretty, it was pretty weird.
Because we have professional camera equipment.
He filmed me with professional camera equipment.
He did not say that.
He's lying.
He was short.
He's like, yeah.
He did one of these things I've never seen Will do where he went, yeah.
Okay.
And didn't move at all.
I've had tourists try to tell me that I'm doing something wrong culturally before.
What was on a favorite thing?
I was on a train and I was on a bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto and I was typing on my thing on my laptop, just typing.
And the guy gets up and he's, I think he's French.
And he goes, Hey, just so you know, it's really rude what you're doing right now.
Typing on your laptop.
Yeah.
I was like, what do you mean?
He's like, typing?
You're typing so loudly.
I'm like, what?
What do you got?
The buttery.
I'm like, what are you doing?
You got creamy keyboards?
I was like, and I look behind me and there's literally like three dudes on laptops.
And I'm like, dude, where did you hear that?
He's like, he's like, you should be showing more respect.
I was like, dude, I live here.
This is normal.
It is normal to work on the train.
Oh, you got into it with it?
Yeah.
And then he sleepishly was like, okay, whatever the fuck.
Yeah.
And you're like, do you need more instances of this?
This is juicy.
Who else have you gotten into it?
Do you think that sometimes at bars, some guys, well, maybe they'll be there for like a, you know, they'll be at the stairs for like a month.
These are like big weebs that think they're.
Yeah, sometimes they'll be like, man.
Or before you get down, they'll try to like, you know, how in the movies, like, hey, man, I know this place.
Let me tell you a little bit about what you're doing.
That's me.
I've done that to you.
And then I'll be like, dude.
What did you get corrected on?
Fuck, dude.
What else?
There was one time on a train.
It's always fucking trains where I was waiting at the door and this guy comes in with a suitcase and he's like, hey, you're supposed to make room for me.
I was like, what are you talking about?
Because I'm standing next to the door where I guess you could put a suitcase easily.
And I was like, what?
No.
I'm standing here.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Just take it in.
When are you getting off?
Like, what the fuck?
He's trying to tell me that it's rude of me to do that.
I was like, what the fuck do you know?
Rude?
Bro, you've got five suits.
Where was he on the train?
I don't know.
I'm not sure.
I didn't know what accent he had.
Interesting.
What is a common faux pas that Gaijin commit that you see the foreigners do that is like a big no-no?
Oh, I know one the biggest one?
Yeah claiming they own Mount Fuji That's a pretty big one if anybody was if anybody just want to make the record straight I do not own Mount Fuji and I have not made an offer.
I think train etiquette is kind of hard if you're not super used to it.
You're very quiet on you to be quite quiet.
I think you have to know when to move out of the way, which is kind of tough because like one thing that I know that it's kind of weird because if you're in the front of the door, sometimes a lot of people will just kind of shimmy to the side.
Yeah.
But you're really supposed to just get off.
Like and then get back on and get back, get back on, which a lot of people don't like doing because they kind of like, you feel like, I'm going to miss the something's going to happen.
But yeah, you're kind of supposed to just get off.
And a lot of the time people don't want to move, which is fair.
But even Japanese people do that too.
All right, give us some more.
Give us some more.
I've got a guess of one thing that Americans do in particular.
Americans are very loud, and a lot of the reasons that we're loud is we'll communicate if we're like in a store, we will shout long distances in the store to reach one another.
It will be very loud.
I'll be like, hey, I do that so much.
Hey, hey, come check this out.
Shouting over multiple groups of people.
I think Austin's just talking about what I do at every family market.
One thing that he has said a lot.
One thing that I've only happens sort of often that only when I'm taking Americans out is that they want to customize the food a lot.
Oh, that's a big faux pas.
Oh, shit.
Oh, that's exactly what you're doing.
You pull up the dagger to the fire.
Oh my god.
So Austin, Austin, where is Kichidan?
Austin?
I've been customizing every meal.
Austin is like trying to go through a pretty basic process of each famous for what?
Having two different customizes each round.
I know, but there's only two different variants.
I know about it.
The ramen.
And he's like, oh, he's sitting there living like, I hate pork.
Why is this only pork?
First of all, I have no problem with pork.
I just don't like to eat it.
We went to the pork ramen store, and he was like, oh, there's pork in my room.
You're a vegetarian.
So, like, look, if you have allergies, it's different because they might ask you, but generally, they really don't like it when you're like, even at the hotel, take the lettuce off this boat or something.
No, he's my entire meal.
My entire breakfast order.
And I also okay, wait, Layla.
You're at the fucking Ritz concert.
You can ask that.
I know, but like, my breakfast order, like, if you go to like a mom and pop shop.
Yeah, what do you do at the mom and pop shop?
No, I have to do that.
But you don't do that.
I haven't been yet, but I don't do that.
I take everything as ordered and I remove it manually.
Yeah, sometimes they will.
I was prepared to take the pork out of the ramen for the record.
Okay, so some places, some places, if you, if you like, let's say you go to what's maybe you go to like he's gonna keep doing that.
Like he just, he's only acting like he's not gonna do that for camera purposes.
No, no, no.
I do not customize it.
Some of them might freak out, though.
If you genuinely, if you ask them to change the order, they might be like stunlocked.
They're like, what do you mean?
Change the order.
Like, that's we serve this.
One thing I've noticed that isn't a focus in Japan that's really interesting is loud farting in the bathrooms.
It's not a fault.
No.
I'm not allowed to fart in the bathroom in America.
It's if you're in a public bathroom.
What if I'm taking a shit and a fart comes out?
I'm talking about just men in Japanese bathrooms blowing ass at like a year.
I will say there is a little I will say like you have this notion now you know why I love Japanese Japan's Sony rules.
It does kind of feel like in bathrooms men in Japan do kind of like a wild less a lot of them won't even wash their hands as well.
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I saw that today.
It's crazy.
It's kind of like or they'll do the thing which I just I'm like what are you even doing where they'll douse their hands in water and be like I'm done.
Wait.
They don't wash hands in Japan a lot of them will wash their hands and they're so they're just blowing ass into the wind leaving leaving messy hands like that but they'll do this It ain't illegal.
It ain't illegal before they go in the bath, they'll shower and do a full wash before they go in the bathroom.
It's like, what is what is the to me?
I'm like, we should be washing our hands every time we get there.
We have plenty more Japanese things to discuss and the great big reveal of what Connor ordered from.
How the hell has it not shown up yet?
I don't know.
This is the rich.
I did order a lot.
Well, I may have called and canceled it.
I'm just kidding.
I didn't do that.
Call up the panel.
Here's the host director.
All of those things and more behind the paywall.
But before we go, I want to issue a very huge thank you.
Thank you for having me.
You're a fantastic guest.
You're a wonderful friend.
What do you have coming up?
Where can we find you?
What are you plugging right now?
Yeah, just streaming.
Gonna be doing shit.
Hey, he's gonna be doing stuff with me, too.
Oh, we are.
Oh, I like Connor.
A knock on the door.
Oh, my.
Thank you for joining us on Fear End.
We'll see you behind the paywall.
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I just feel about him hijacking gay reputation.
He is the gayest stream man I know.
Oh, okay.
I mean, I saw this man walk at TwitchCon with a YSL one-of-one jacket and high heels in which I was holding hands with a man behind him.
And they called him the F-Slur.
I'm not even kidding.
They completely missed.
They called him the F-Slur and then bumped into us and said, excuse me, gentlemen, as I was holding the hand of another man.
Yes, that didn't happen.
So Will's walking down the street.
They call him the F-Slur, bump into me while I'm holding the hand of another man and said, excuse me, and called him the F-Slur.
Okay, I have an announcement.
Okay.
I just checked it.
I think I still have a little bit more views than the Ludwig Trash Taste episode when