Rooster Teeth Podcast - Kerry Returns from Japan - #731

Episode Date: December 28, 2022

Join Gus Sorola, Barbara Dunkelmen, Blaine Gibson, and Kerry Shawcross as they talk about the triumphant return of Kerry after 6 weeks in Japan, Severance, RWBY Ice Queendom, TSA Moments, and more!  Sponsored by Stamps.com Go to http://stamps.com and enter code ROOSTER to get a 4-week trial, plus free postage, and a free digital scale. Already FIRST Member and need your Private RSS feed for this show? Go here: http://bit.ly/FIRSTRSS Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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I'm Gus! I'm Carrie. I'm Fira! I'm Santa, aka Blaine. And I'm Gus. Yeah, happy boxing I'm Santa, aka Blaine. And Gus, happy boxing day, you're right. It's boxing day. It's it, isn't it?

Ding ding. Kind of like Halloween where the second the holiday is over, it's like, don't even talk about it anymore. I've a lot of people leave their lights on, you know, and decorations don't go down. If you're John Reising you're for a full year, you know, I mean, why take them down if you're just gonna put them up again. That's right. I have some neighbors who leave it up to April like no joke every year like April I have two neighbors in my neighborhood that left their shit up literally around

Why? People leave them up and just turn them off Because people judge Like if you leave the lights on your house, but don't turn them on, uh-huh No one can really see them. I would say I don't like redo them every. So LED lights and LED light strips are like more universal. And there's some people that I think that you can do that and like come Halloween. It's like, ooh, orange.

You change the color. Yeah, and I think that that's fine. I'll go ahead and be the first one to break this deal. I saw on TikTok, somebody actually like, yeah, permanently put LED lights all around their house that are like LGB like And they're an ally They could change any color so they just like left like they're like they're nothing to leave up They're just like embedded in like they're like in their gutters. I saw yeah, my girlfriend sent it to me because she was like

they're just like embedded in like, they're like in their gutters. I saw you, yeah. I brought my friend into to me because she was like, uh-huh. And I was like, yeah. See that's, I just, it's so much effort. We're getting this much closer to like,

yeah, my house is now brought to you by Razor. Yeah, like, I'm just gonna have, Oh, then you can hook it up to like your PC when you're playing games. Yeah. I'm gonna all go along with it. I keep looking at that. I'm constantly out walking my dog

because he needs to be walk-considered. Fucking black. It, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, and uh, I can tell that there are like, there's probably like a 15 to 20% population of gamers, like young adults in my neighborhood, because I can see the neon just like blasting from the, yeah, there's this one house that has like,

the whole room is just lit up and it looks like a ray of shine. You should go find out what they play. And the- It's Fortnite, I already loved it. Is it Fortnite? Dude, he's a sex dungeon. Do you guys have a neighbor that's like universally hated on your, like, in your area? Yes.

Really? Yeah, because they don't, they constantly make posts about, don't let your dogs piss and shit in our yard. It's like, they're in dog, but do you? Uh, I mean, not really, but I just, I just think, yeah, I know, right? It's maybe me. Uh, no, I don't think so. Uh, I'm always worried that my neighbors hate me. Like, because I'm, you know, I'm a rec

loose and like super anti social. So it's like, you said that's so weird. Recloose. You're like a rec loose. Recloose. Is it not like recloose? Recloose. Recloose. I don't know. Sometimes the fringes in my English, like, start to show. I was talking about that in an animal record at this morning, but it's weird because I grew up in a very small town where English was not the primary language spoken. Pre-Internet, so it's like I didn't get a lot of exposure to the correct way to say words.

So sometimes you'll find a word like that. Right, yeah. English is like the first language I learned and I still read epitome instead of epitome. Yeah. So I go, yeah. I'm worried that my neighbors think that I'm an asshole because I'm like, I avoid them

not because I don't like them or trying to be anti-social. It's just, that's just my own personal hang up. Like, I'll pull into my garage and immediately close the door before I get out of the car. Yeah. So you never do like the waver or anything like that. Oh, waver, but it's like I'm not gonna like stuff. You're not bringing cookies over. Right, right.

But you expect no cookies. Right, if I lived in your neighborhood, I'd think you're an asshole. Yeah, I had a guy on the corner and he does not talk to shit. You didn't see anything in the league, didn't make eye contact on me, that's got an asshole. I'll give like a waver something. A little waver, yeah. I had to talk to one of my neighbors this morning

because I was witness to a very strange crime this morning on my street. Okay. I woke up and I was brushing my teeth getting ready and I have security cameras. And the one in front of my house went off and I looked at it and someone had pulled up in front of my house and it was a jeep

and they had opened up the hatch in the back of the jeep and they were pulling boxes out. And I was like, I'm not, it was a Jeep and they had opened up the hatch in the back of the Jeep and they were pulling boxes out. And I was like, I'm not expecting any deliveries. It's like, must be my neighbor. He's like, he's been doing some renovations. He's getting a lot of deliveries lately. It's like, probably for my neighbor. So I kept my camera up and I was watching it.

And it's like, three people come out of the car and they're all grabbing boxes and stuff and like opening the boxes up. Like, it's like a chair and a table and stuff. I'm like, I guess they're like, setting shit up for him. Maybe he ordered like the box list delivery. it's like a chair and a table and stuff. I'm like, oh, I guess they're like setting shit up for him. Maybe he ordered like the box list delivery. It's like patio furniture or something. They're just gonna put out there.

And then like- In your driveway. In my driveway, but I can front of my house. Okay, okay, okay. Like picking up all the trash, like they set aside one big box and like putting all the trash in there. It looks very organized. Okay.

And they set the box, the box of trash aside, like in front of my house. They have all the stuff. They put all the stuff back in the Jeep. They all get in and drive box of trash aside, like in front of my house. They have all the stuff. They put all the stuff back in the Jeep, they all get in and drive off. They leave the trash in front of your house. Yeah, I'm like, oh, it's a dumping. They just stole those packages from somewhere else

around the corner. So I went out there and I looked at the box and it's got an address from around the corner. They had probably just picked it up, came out in front of my house, unboxed everything, neatly left all the trash in front of my house and then drove off. And then your neighbor shows up while you're holding the address

Hey, you did it. Where are chairs? It's boxing, damn mother fuckers So yes, I had to talk to my neighbor. I was like, hey, just so you know some people you know, I explained it to him Yeah, that sucks like I just keep an eye out again You got the camera. Yeah, but it's like they're all wearing masks Yeah, yeah, also I feel likes don't do shit about porch pirates. No, I reported it just for like statistics purposes, so they know. We had a porch pirate hit us.

And I like, it was the least worrisome thing because it was elastic workout bands that cost me like $10 and I use credit card points to get it. And I hate using Amazon. This is like the one time in a while that I've done it. And of course it gets stolen and like, that's, I feel like what I get. But the person came out and they hit everybody else

in the neighborhood, cut to the wide. This is what they did. It was really fun. It was like this lady and shared her pants were very small for her body and she went, it was like the most, it was the most unethyletic like called the awkward crab. Yeah. It was so fucking weirdethical, like- I'm like, cold cold. The awkward crab.

Yeah. It was so fucking weird, but she was trying to keep her face away from the camera. And they like, fucked over our whole neighborhood. It sucked. Ports by ourself the worst. Yeah, just don't- If you think about stealing, just don't. Just don't.

I just feel like it's so funny, because I- Whenever I order something, and I think if someone were to steal it, they would be so disappointed. Because it's often like a girl's t-shirt, or like a book, a thing of makeup that I needed, or a book, or something that I'm like,

you're not gonna get any money for this. This isn't gonna be any value to you. There's something specifically I need it for myself, and you're just gonna steal it for what. Like do people resell this stuff when they steal it from porches or is it like something that they're hoping to take for themselves to use?

I think like so based off of the timing, they did it the day after Black Friday or the Sunday after Black Friday and then there was another wave after Cyber Monday. And I think it's just probably people that are in a really bad place in their life and they just need presence for Christmas. And it's like, I know that sounds very forgiving,

but like, or they could be selling it. Maybe. But the timing goes like they just know that there's gonna be a lot of deliveries. You live in Austin, did you buy, work out elastic things on Cyber Monday

from Facebook Marketplace? Those were blame. They might be belong to Blaine Gibson. Oh, I feel like I shouldn't wait. We haven't said it yet. This podcast is pre-taped. We're, we're, we're, it's not boxing day. It's off today.

Yeah. We're, it's actually not boxing day for us right now. Well, it's funny because this has happened to us before. Right now, it's five o'clock on a Monday. And a different pre-recorded podcast is playing right now. Well, we're pre-recording this one for a future date. Didn't you do something where you like watch chat or something? Oh, I can't remember.

We and Gavin were having this argument because we did the same thing where we pre-recorded a different podcast where a different pre-recorded podcast was playing during the podcast slot. Right. And he was like, we should pipe ourselves in right now to the podcast and be like, we're speaking to you from the future. From the future. And I was like, but we're not, because if we pipe into the chat right now, that's today

and we're today. So it's not us coming to you from the future. It's us talking to you from present days. That is absolutely. I'm something I was. I'm going to talk to chat right now. Hello from the future. No!

It's currently Monday. It's like classic, very good Gavin logic. Yeah. I'm like, it's like Monday. It's like classic, very good Gavin Logic. Of like, it's like almost there. Yeah, but yeah, he and I were trying to be interesting. Right now, you and me, Chris and BK are having a podcast. Oh yeah. And that was like two podcasts ago. I've had to pre-tape so many.

Right. Just do type some kind of spoiler, I don't know. Do you feel like, I mean, okay, first of all, I wanted to compliment you because whenever it was you were on the podcast and Chris would hop on the podcast, I would love those podcasts. Of course you guys are like the go-to love, you know, Gus Barbara, Gavin Burry, but like,

I always was like, what carries on? Do you think that the podcast is lesser when it's pre-recorded or do you give a shit? I honestly I'm not talking about as much relevance. They're both good in a way. I kind of like the pre-recorded ones a little better because You're not like live live like you are on an actual live podcast Mm-hmm. So you don't feel as like self-conscious, I guess yeah Yeah, being in front of like a fully live audience. Yeah. I feel like you get the better stories on prerecords

because we're like, yeah, we can cut it if we don't like it. And nine times that it's in, we're like, fucking leaving. We usually don't cut anything. But I like also when we are live having the chat there just to see. Yeah, that's like the big benefit.

Yeah, because like that'll sometimes help us like remind us of things or we might take a turn in a story or in a topic of conversation based on or like can't remember the name of something. Yeah, really a time that I said that we should be buried this way instead of this way. They corrected and told us why. Yeah, there was a I still think they're wrong. No, I want to know why I was telling I was telling Blaine this earlier. I'm still back on this. It takes less square footer space. Sorry, Gus. There was a great gag on the

episode of Rick and Morty from this past week, where Rick gives Morty a real lightsaber and he's fucking around with it and then drops it, but drops it perfectly vertical to where it starts burning its way down to the Earth's core. And it's like, if they say in the show if a kyber crystal hits the Earth's core, that it'll explode and come up with it.

They're like, how did you drop it perfectly vertical to like the whole thing? Like they're one degree now. They're racing to try to get under it to stop a lightsaber from hitting the Earth's core. That is such a funny premise and I'm sure they did the full ups that are on that. Like I was telling you though, I just, I was so turned off after season two because the audience was like, that was like after the McDonald's thing. Yeah. Just like a future audience.

I might hop back on it because that's a really good show. I mean, it's fucking great. I've enjoyed every single episode of Watched. I just like, yeah, I feel like it almost became a meme that like the Rick and Morty audience is bad. And yeah, but I should just watch the show. Yeah, this is what I watch it. A lot of really good shows that don't have

the greatest fan base, doesn't make the show any less good though. That's true. I understand where you're coming from. Yeah. I never watch Rick and Morty. It's very good. It's like through the good show. Yeah. Every generation has like a fucking incredible cartoon. And I'm glad I got to live through a lot of them like

family and any series. We've got all of them. Yeah, we got all of them. Yeah, every single one of them. And that's it. Done after this. Yeah. I know what you're going. Done after this. Yeah. I know what you're gonna say going into. Yeah. Did you have something to say? No, I just, have you seen Severance? I have not.

Dude, I finally watched it. Blaine watch Severance. You watched it. I bingeed it so fucking fast. Kerry, go watch it. ASAP. It was incredible. It's great now that it's out like I hate it.

The thing I hated about it was watching it week to week and having to wait. Oh, I just got to just sit down. How much is there? Nine episodes. It's incredible. It was incredible. It's great now that the thing I hated about it was watching it a week to week and having to wait. Oh, I just got to just say. How much is there? Nine episodes. It's okay. Okay. Which fucking sucked because when I was watching it, I just finished episode nine,

not gonna say any spoilers, but I was like telling my girlfriend, oh my god, this, this, this happened. I'm so excited to see how they wrap it up in episode 10 because I asked, I was like, Amazon Echo. What, how many episodes are there are severance? And it was like, there are currently 11 episodes. Season two just debuted last week.

And I was like, oh great, season two's out, awesome. There's only nine episodes out of season one. And season two's not even done filming. Yeah, it's not gonna be a wrap-to-like May. Yeah, I have no idea why, it's at 11. I don't fucking either. And I was so disappointed because I was like looking through Apple TV.

Like, where is she? Yeah, cuz I was talking now. At the end of season one, they kinda like leave things open. Okay, complete like. And it's like, oh shit. It is in a way where I didn't know there was gonna be a season two

because it's a show where it ends in such a way where it's open to interpretation as to what happens next or like what was happening. It is- Do you know the premise? I know. Do I know the premise? Yeah, absolutely. Ultimately, like very simply put, in the show called Severance, there is a procedure you could go through where your brain is one brain at work and one brain not at work. And so when you get to work,

the thing my therapist says I should do. You'd probably explain it a little better. To get to work, you have to go through an elevator. And when you take the elevator down and you're at work, you know nothing of the outside. You don't know who you are. You're brain is compartmentalized. You don't, like it's like your newborn baby, essentially.

And then when you are outside of work, you have no memory of anything that happened at work. So it's like the perfect, like it's an NDA, you know, you can't take any of the work stuff with you. But when you are outside of work, you have no memory of anything that happened at work So it's like the perfect like it's an NDA, you know They can't take any of the work stuff with you, but when you're on the inside It's like it's you but it's not you. None of the personalities none of the memories none of the anything you carry in with you And you like know what a dog is you don't know that you have a dog right? It's also really disturbing because if you think about it the person who like the brain that's at work It's like you leave work and you're immediately back at work

because you have no recollection of leaving and coming back. So it's like you blink and it's a new day at work. And like the people at work, the people at work are called innies and the people outside of work are called outies. So they're like, what is your out of doing? Yeah, the innies like fantasize.

Like I bit my outie, competes in muscle contests. You know, like stuff like that. It sounds like an episode of Black Mirror. It's, yeah. Okay. Okay. It has that feeling. It's really good.

Um, but yeah, no, it's really good. Or, like, already. Guess it being like kicking me for not watching it for so long. Everybody, how you were to and it is like, right at my alley, but also like, that might be some of the best TV since like season one true detective in Watchmen. And I was like, hi, shit. And this is like the end of the aesthetic they have. Yeah.

Like visually the way it looks is just like so unique and it looks so cool. The performances and the casting, like the characters, all like that. Even like the beginning, the very first shot, the very first scene, like the way that the show starts, it's like, and like they, they fucking take the premise and run with it immediately. There's no like, oh, you got to wait for episode one. You got to wait for it to build up. It's like, they fuck it, take the premise and run with it immediately. There's no like, oh, you got to wait for episode one, you got to wait for it to build up, it's like, no. From the first shot, you're like in the thick of it,

like, oh shit, we need more of that. And it only gets better. Like every episode is better than the last one. And like the last two, three episodes are some of the best television, I think. The last episode, especially, I think, is one of my favorite episodes of TV, other than maybe like some episodes of Breaking Bad,

that like exists. I don't know why I've been doing this, but I've definitely changed my mind on it. For a while, I wasn't taking Apple TV as a seriously as like an S-Fod, because I was just like, ah, you got like Netflix, there's like all the big stuff in the like HVMACs, they have all the IP, Disney is doing all the Star Wars

and Marvel stuff, but like dude, Apple TV like between that and Ted Lasso, and they have like a couple of other really good shows in there. They've really good shows. First-screen service to win a Best Picture Oscar. Yeah. Oh! Koda.

Oh, Koda. I should like, they just don't have a lot, but the stuff that they do is pretty good. They're very selective, I think. Like, they only take really good stuff. I haven't fallen over one of them. I've fallen over one of them. But for all mankind, it's on there, it's really good.

Yeah. I should check that one. I've never wanted it. For all mankind, it's on there, it's really good. Yeah. I should check that out. That one looks, is that like a historic fiction where we go to space earlier? So I guess spoilers for the first episode, but other way around, Russia beats us. To the moon, to the moon. Interesting.

And so what does history play out as if we weren't the first to the moon anymore? I'm also assuming that I even happened. And also even like things like arms are a thing. Yeah, like five military stuff. Like weaponizing. Cool. I thought you were talking about arms.

No, no, no, no. Does everyone have another arm or something? Not to check that out. But yeah, I'm like, I'm probably gonna watch Severance again in like three or four months or five months whenever they have the new season come out. Does the true Audi watch it? Hey.

Honestly, like the concepts of being able to turn off a part of your brain or like store away a memory, like I've always thought about like, I wish I could watch a part of the first time again. Yeah, like, so like. Let's get in some like a eternal sunshine. Let's part this time. I love it, I love that movie.

I hate that movie. Are you watching film school and I was like, arts sunshine. I love that movie. I hate that movie. Are you watching film school? And I was like, artsy bullshit. Ooh, I'm so good. I'm gonna be sad, it's sad. Yeah, I like it, it's sad. You're sad. Got him.

I know. Nice. I was gonna ask you, Blaine, if you are someone who likes to hear theories on shows like Severance for example. Absolutely, yeah, I love that. I was talking to you. I think it was Megan Gavin because they also watched Severance and loved it. And this was months ago when the show was like first coming out.

And they finally finished it and I was like, oh my god, there's so many theories and they're like, don't want to talk about it because like, really? I think for some people, they worry that some theories are going to be true or like are going to actually play out in the show and they don't want it to spoil the reveal. But there are some shows where I'll avoid that. Not necessarily avoid talking with friends or people, I know, but I won't seek out communities online

to read up more about it. Because then you get a hive mind working on it. I had an obsession with Severance where I was on subreddits and like all these places. You're figuring out what the fuck. Cause even with the season one wrapped, there's so many things you still do not know about the world. Did you ever watch Lost?

No, I was at Bowskark, Bowskark, at that time instead. Was it one or the other at that point? You didn't mean to pick one. I get it though, like you only set aside a certain amount of time to consume content per week. You were like, no, Bowskark's my show. Yeah, like right now, what's changed on me?

I need to check that out. That's good. I'm not watching. Oh, I meant to break the news to you. The bad news to you. Netflix is adapting a live action. My hero, academia. Sorry, Carrie.

Sorry. Cool. Can I be Deco? Of course. You can try out. They're casting. That's, and I've talked about this before, so we're talking about Apple TV,

quality over quantity, it's exact opposite in Netflix. And they got a lot of good stuff, we've worked with them and stuff, but I feel like they'll just be like, hey, we got this new IP, come watch us, come subscribe. And then it's like, you watch episode on a cowboy bebop and you're like, this fucking sucks.

And they're like, you didn't like it. We're getting rid of it. And then it's like, you watch episode one of Cowboy Beebop and you're like, this fucking sucks. And they're like, you didn't like it. We're getting rid of it. And then it's like, that goes Cowboy Beebop's opportunity. Who doesn't like Cowboy Beebop? The live action. The live action. Oh, I think of the cartoon. No, it's like, it's like classic.

The cartoon's perfect. And that's why I'm so upset is that they, I felt like they just burped through Cowboy Beebop as an IP. Instead of giving it the proper love. And then now it's like, we'll probably never get a live action again. They did, it just wasn't the love you wanted. They had people who loved it and tried it.

That adaptation didn't work. There's, listen, Gus. Let me tell you about idiots. I'm not defending it. Let me tell you about idiots who will consume anything you feed their little piggy mouse. Anyone he's gonna love shit. The list of things.

I laugh, I laugh, I always like that. Like you look at the cyberpunk's edge runners. Yeah. That was fucking great. Did you ever watch it? No, it sounds like a sex thing. Like, I'm running. I'm edge running.

Oh. It's so fucking good. That's very good. I didn't play the game so I don't want to talk about that. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Okay. It's like one of the best animation suitors did it.

Cool. Oh, uh, trigger. It's a trigger. Yeah, nice. Well, uh, speaking of anime. What? Clearly? You were just in Japan.

I was. I am so fucking jealous, dude. You were there for a while, too. There was a lot of fun. I was there for six weeks. What was your favorite thing you did? Oh my God. Onsen's everyday naked, dick out.

So here's the thing. And I still wanna talk about, but it was like, it wasn't a normal vacation. And I'm very happy about that, but it was also weird. It wasn't like two weeks and thing, thing, thing. I think it's just like lived over there for like six weeks. And you were still working remotely.

That's the thing. So we're working remotely, doing some work meetings over there. So it was like, it wasn't like a full on vacation by any means. Favorite, there's a couple places we wanna go. Food, it was like it wasn't like a full on vacation by any means Favorite there's a couple places we want to go food It was really good my the favorite thing I did is a group of us went to this kind of like sketchy Airbnb in Kawaguchiko, which is like where refugees did Kabukicho Kawabuchi co. Oh, okay. I got mister and

Just just staying the night in like a kind of sketchy looking Airbnb with group of friends is really fun. And that was your favorite thing? Yeah. It was a good memory. It was fun. How's my boy? How's my son? How's my boy?

Cool. Cool. It's fucking miss Cole. He's taking it. That's good. Is he like thriving? Yeah. That's his own.

It's like an anime boy. Yeah. He's so tall. Good. I'm like normal height. And he's tall. I bet he just like, he's towers everybody. Yeah, it was really easy to like meet up with him because it's like, oh, there's Cole. He's like, look at the crowd, he's thing. When I went, it was like with him and Miles and like, so tall.

Yeah, they did that, but then I also, we, our group collectively missed so many trains that other people were on. And I just remember the image of like Miles and Cole just flying by and I'm just like, there they go and run up bullet train. Oh no no, you don't miss that one That's a bad one. They miss that one. That's a bad one. The one that's not come around often. Let's ticket it also It's ticket it and yeah comes like ever ever have to get on that specific one

And that's been a scene that's specific C But like fortunately though like the train stations there the train stops are malls They're all just like hubs. So when we got to the next one, we can just, fuck around. Yeah, we can just hung out until they got there. Finally. And think I probably changed it. It's just like, yeah, every other train is like,

oh, he missed it. It's like, okay, probably like three minutes. Right, that's usually the way it works with most. I circumnavigated like Tokyo trying to find their gym, but like, that was like my favorite memory was working at a golds gym in Tokyo. Working. You guys are so weird.

Oh, yeah. My favorite experience was sketchy Airbnb. My favorite experience was going to a gym in Tokyo. It was so cool. And there was like a couple of dudes there that were like, they spoke English. And they were just like thrilled to talk to someone else about fitness. About games. Did you go to Super Nintendo World?

No, I went to Osaka. OK. And you were in the area. I was in the area. I almost went, but I was only there for like a day Did you go to Super Nintendo World? No, I went to Osaka. Okay. So you were in the area. You were in the area. I almost went, but I was only there for like a day and a half. And the shankansen was already like $300 to get there. It was like $250 to get there.

And I was like, I can't help but spend more money. Because I already spent it. But instead I hung out in Osaka and that was very nice. I ended up going to one of the best places I ate was this. I think it was like yakitor. It was basically, we were calling it table meat. It's basically, it's kind of like Korean barbecue. Oh, yeah.

Let me see the table. But Japanese word. Yeah. And we got there and we didn't have a reservation. And we're like, hey, party too, is that okay? And they kind of looked at, it was like six, I want to say, it was like six, 20, six, 20. And we're like, we don't have a reservation. Can we eat? And they kind of looked and they looked and they kinda looked at, it was like six, I wanna say it was like six, 20, six, 20. And we're like, we don't have a reservation,

can we eat and they kinda looked and they looked and they said, okay, you can eat last orders in 10 minutes and you have to be out by seven o'clock. And we're like, okay. Okay, easy to ask. We're Americans. We're Americans, we can do that. We're Americans, yeah.

Watch me. It was crazy, it was the first time I've ever seen they actually had a thing with actual co at the table. Not tiny friends. Tiny coal. Or it's actually like a gas thing or something. But no, it was really good. It was like a once in a lifetime thing to be able to live vacations somewhere. That sounds really cool.

And you've been doing a lot of my friends been doing Japanese language courses and learning it. How studied were you going in and how much better are you at the language now? Like a lot of my friends have been doing like Japanese language courses and like learning it like how Studied were you going in and how much better are you at the language now? So my my base problem. So I have a tutor twice a week My biggest problem is like I barely study on my own Like I'll go through phases and like like going up to it. I was like a lot more Just do the rest of the RT podcast in Japanese It'll it'll just be, I like my cat. Which direction? My favorite food is chicken. Where is the train station? Yeah. Or the bathroom.

But, of course, I say, okay, so I mean, like, because I went in like 2016 or something like that for like a week, and I knew like nothing then. So it was like, it was like definitely like nine day difference. But I definitely learned a lot of like, some more like useful like specific things or like maybe like, cultural things of like what to say, one kind of things. You weren't also totally immersed

because you had enough Western friends over there that were probably speaking English. Yeah, yeah. So it's like, I know like what the word for like, bag is now at 7-11. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, a weird thing where it's like, you have to kind of like go out of your way to be immersed when you don't like work there or like have a need to, you know what I mean? Are they students, right? They're not teaching.

No, no, no, no, no, they're going to school to learn Japanese. To learn Japanese. So what's wrong with their school? Is it just like not like a very welcoming experience? Yeah, it's like, their curriculum's kind of weird and like it's like very like textbook-e versus like actually actually like how you learn things and it's hard with textbooks too

Yeah, it's like because I mean like you learn like after glasses. Yeah, yeah It's just like finding the right textbook and everything and like it's an international school too So they don't speak English. Oh, they just like learn you learn a language just by speaking that language and having that language spoken to you That's so tough. Yeah. So is it? They both had a base knowledge going, right? Yeah, no, they took a lot of lessons to go prior.

Because that's like gone and blind. I'm like, do they not like it? Because is that like an Eastern versus Western way of teaching? Or is it just that specific school? I think that's a school. I think they lost. I want to say Cole was talking to me

and he said that one of the schools that they were in and like on their way to This is like all for the pandemic so shit kept getting messed up, but they lost their Creditation yeah, which sounds like a nightmare. Yeah, I think there's like some people They were They had a problem like people were getting a visa to go over there and be students and then working a ton So like yeah, they they lost their credits, but at the end like there's this there's this thing called the jail PT Which is like the proficiency test. That's the thing that like usually really matters And how long they're they're there until the summer or when do they finish?

It depends I think they have like they did like a six month thing and then they can stay another six month they want to. Gotcha. So I think they're deciding if they're going to or not. Gotcha. I missed them. Yeah. It was fun.

I brought you all something. What? That I got this at the airport. Oh, yeah. That's the place to get gifts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. This is either going to be delicious or very weird and I don't know. Okay.

Anything will be better than the meal I just had before this podcast. Well, I don't know about that. No, it's still stapled. Still in theory to. It's so, they're very curry flavored Pringles. Oh yeah, fucking up. I knew you were bringing us a gift,

so I actually got you a gift too. What? What? Why did you know about this? I didn't get shit. What is this? Is that just for Carrie? Because there's a couple of those under there.

Is this like a popper thing? No, no, just pop it up. Just blast them in the balls. Yeah. I swear to God, if this is a different can of pringles, I'm going to laugh so hard. It looks pringleshave. Oh my God. What?

How did you... I didn't tell... I just would be clear. I did not tell... I did not tell us. Wait, how did it happen? I didn't tell you. I didn't tell I didn't I just would be clear. I did not tell I'm not telling us. Wait, how did it how did that happen? I know I know the way carry things open this one. There's more Pringles from from Japan. Seriously, how did you know he was getting this? Listen, I've been podcasting for 20 years. Oh, It's been passing for 20 years. Ooh, so it's invented. So we can see American or Japanese Pringles.

No, but legitimately, that's just not like a happenstance. There's some planning there. That's kind of creepy. That's not creepy. Okay, so now we're going to take test. Because I know, Kerry, pretty well, I don't know, he'd be bringing us Japanese Pringles. The trick is to know which packages to grab.

Oh, there's more. So it's like a magic trick. If I brought back a sexy anime figure, you would have broken out like a Batman figure. For the audience in Japan, it's like custom to give exchange gifts for guests. So like when I went over, we brought like Texas whiskey and barbecue sauce, like shit from our homeland.

And for we had dinner with like a couple different people. Like I went out and ate with the dude from that ram, like, Kojima, that he was like the producer for Kojima games. It's fun to talk about death-friending too. We start with the training too. But anyways, they, they give you gifts and I got like, I got like a Kojima, like set of chopsticks and like a mug and some stickers and a bunch of stuff. Oh, Miyagi.

Is that what it's called? That's like the tradition. Yeah, it's souvenir. It's a networker. Very nice. You smell amazing. Did you just try this? I've had, yeah, I would.

Well, would you like to try some? Did you get any Ruby stuff while you were there? I did, actually. So there was a pop-up store for ice-queendum that was at, oh my God. They had done like a cafe and I missed that. Dude, oh. They're so milky.

They smell really good. They're not shaped exactly like American Pringles either. No, they're like circular. They're more flat. Hmm. Whoa. They're smaller. Oh, those are, I'm so glad I did this.

These are so flavorful. Dude. They're really good. This is an interesting flavor that I was like, I think you thought it might be bad. Yeah, the first thing that jumped into my head was when I saw that like, there's three different sizes.

A while ago they did, Pringles did like the Thanksgiving meal Pringles. Oh yeah. So that's what the first thing that took my head because it was like savory dish Pringles. I love savory flavor. This is so much better. Yeah, these are really good.

I'm gonna compare the sizes of the Pringles American versus a very different Japanese. Yeah, is that like a standard Japanese-sized Pringle? It's muchingles American versus it's very different Japanese. Is that like a standard Japanese size Pringle? It's much smaller. Yeah, it's a little tiny. So this is the American? This is Japanese. I think you people can figure out which one.

Yeah, I don't think you had to tell. This one's more like a cowboy hat. Mmm. It was a thread on the Austin sub right a couple weeks ago. Someone was looking at a picture of the mascot on a Jim's menu asking if he was wearing a hat or if that was hair, I don't know if any of you ever been a Jim's. I used to go to Jim's weekly.

Yeah. It's a hat. Obviously. I never thought of it. It looks like a weird slick back pompador. Or if you think of it as hair. Especially if you at least have the silhouette or something. Where I would follow the scale.

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known pop-up cafe that I missed. But while I was there, there was like a pop-up little store at the station at a Akihabita. And actually, so I went there like the second day I was there because I'm a nerd and a weeb, sorry, whatever. But then I went back with Nith on ended up being the last day, Nith Monte's brother. Went in to being the last day that the shop wasty's brother. What ended up being the last day

that the shop was open? And we were staying at, it was like, we were meaning for dinner so it was like six or something like that. And we were staying around like looking at taking photos. I was like, you know, I'll buy something like, obviously I can get all this stuff, but I'll buy something, this would be fun.

And I bought it and you know, they checked me out and all that. And the second we walked away, they closed down the shop for good. So I ended up buying the last day. So yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, I ended up buying the last thing. He closed that place down. Yeah. That's wild.

But also, you're like, it worked out. Yeah, it worked out. It's how you worked on this. That's crazy. I got a video from, because I think Gavin was also in Japan, recently. Yeah.

And he sent me a video of them at this, I'm sure one of a billion Toy stores in, probably Tokyo. Yeah, probably a, or a bunch of those like little coin turnings with a like a gumball machine thing. No, where he was like filming around and then there was one with Ruby characters and he just like flipped it off. They so this will be after Christmas. So I can say this. So that group went and then my friend Alyssa was out there as well. She's a big sailor moon fan and my girlfriend, Kristen and I love sailor moon. friend Alyssa was out there as well. She's a big sailor moon fan and my girlfriend Kristen and I love sailor moon.

So while she was out there, I was like, if you can get like an animation cell or any just sailor moon shit and fortunately they had a sailor moon, I think it's their 25th or 30th anniversary. I think it might be two. They have like a pop of oney fifth. Yeah, so they had a museum and it was like all the shit and I managed to grab like a shirt and a keychain and a bunch of other stuff. That's awesome. So like she brought it, yeah, she brought it

because we weren't, Kristen and I are like planning on going to Japan, but it's gonna be a while so like we weren't gonna make it because they're closing in now. It's already closed. If you're watching this, sorry, it's closed. Yeah. There's a place, there's an old mall

called Knockin' a Broadway, Broadway that, there's a store there there's an old mall called Nakano Broadway, that there's a store there that sells, like old cells. I'm like animation cells. I went there. I went there with Cole. Yeah, I remember like flipping through and like thinking back, I'm so fucking upset because like I didn't watch as much anime as I do now and like,

I bet I would have found some real gyms in there. Yeah, and they're like reasonably priced. Yeah, yeah, yeah, especially with the way the yen is now. I felt bad, but I bet I would have found some real gyms in there. And they're like reasonably priced. Yeah, yeah, especially with the way the yen is now. I felt bad, but I was like, this is great for me. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, because there's like, global economic slowdown. Yes, please. I'm so jealous.

So I had a lot of very good food there. Seven, elevens actually delicious there. I keep, I always feel that. It's the same one as sandwiches. Yeah, seven, eleven family mart and loss. L keep, I always fear that. Like the same one as sandwiches. Yeah, similar to family mart and loss. Loss, yeah. Yeah, like it was just so like, I'm gonna preface all this real quick.

I know I sound like a weed. Japan has some bad things and America has good things. Also, I'm just gonna talk about the positive things I had Japan. Yeah, of course. Yeah, I mean, just like being like, you know what, I just wanna go get like a piece of chicken and like you just go to 7-Eleven

and they're just like, I don't have a chicken and like it's just like a little piece of chicken you get to chicken and you're full. Like you're good. You have to have like a giant ass meal. Some of my favorite videos that exist on the internet are people just going to 7-Eleven in Japan and getting like little lunches and stuff like that.

So there's a certain man on that. Yeah, and there's a YouTube channel, I follow. I think Dancing Bacon. Yeah. That's all they do, it's all over voice over, all over East and Southeast Asia, just like different convenience stores, or vending machines, or whatever.

I also see a lot in these videos of people getting a cup full of ice, and then you could get these, there's these little drinks that you peel the lid off and pour into the thing of ice. Oh yeah, yeah. And that's how people do drinks there, in that particular store, and I was like, that's so good. I wanna recreate that style of video

for like our convenience stores, like getting a, yeah, like a moldy, you know, a faucet or a foot to call it. So Denazel with Coke and like that kind of, all the gross stuff you see here. Yeah, you go to the bathroom, you just immediately turn around. It's like, no, I'm not. I mean, our grocery store is like, they must be insane to someone traveling from

out of the country. Yeah. Like with just the selection. It's like, what's that? It was a Gorbachev came over. It was Yeltsin. I think it was Yeltsin. It was the dude that was like an embarrassment to the Russians.

And he came over and was just like like mouth the gate looking at an American grocery store like holy fucking shit. There was a Soviet pilot who who defected from the Soviet union with like a what was a very classified fighter jet at the time. It was a MiG-25 I think. Oh shit. I don't remember. I don't remember specifically. Anyway, it was in the late 70s and he landed in Japan, actually, with this, with this MIG and, you know, obviously, you lead the United States. Like, took their plane, they like, no one knew anything about the plane, they took it apart, want to learn all about it. And the dude, you know, got moved to the United States.

And he said that the first time he went to a grocery store, he thought it was fake. He thought the CIA had planted it all, had created it all, because he couldn't mess with them. Right, just to see what his reaction would be, because he didn't understand why there was so much selection and why anybody could just go in and buy stuff. And then he said, like, eventually, if you realize, it couldn't possibly be fake. Like, it was, like, it was just,

you could go all the time. It's too much of a production. Yeah. And he said that, you know, he didn't, obviously he didn't really know English, so he would just buy whatever. And just like, just to try it out, like some, some products, he said that, you know, he didn't, obviously, didn't really know English, so he would just buy whatever. And just like, just to try it out, like some, some products, he said, you know, they had no idea

and there was nothing like it, you know, in the Soviet Union at the time. It tells us one story about how there was a, a canned labeled dinner, chicken dinner. A can. Yeah, and he bought it and like, he said he prepared it with like onions and vegetables and ate it. He said he thought it was really good. And that someone visited him it and like, he said he prepared it with like onions and vegetables and ate it. He said he thought it was really good

and that someone visited him and was like, when did you get a cat? No, God. He's like, I don't have a cat. He's like, you bought cat food. You're eating cat food. He was like, oh, it's still, it was so good. Oh my God.

But it's really funny that that's the thing that they always pick up on is the grocery stores. And it's a really fascinating interview that I read. The interviewer asked him at one point like if you know all the Soviet era doctrine of the time was to be believed why would you defect and try to come to the United States like what what motivated you to do that he said that he decided to apply he said he was a very technically minded person obviously if he's flying these advanced fighter jets. And so he decided to apply like analytic thought to it. And he said, if the United States is evil and in decline, why do they win so many Nobel prizes?

Oh, and he said also, you know, at the time this is still more new, he's like, if the United States is so evil, why did they send some men to the moon and then bring them back? Because he said in his mind in the Soviet Union, they had the technology to send men to the moon and then bring them back? Because he said in his mind in the Soviet Union, they had the technology to send people to the moon, but they couldn't bring them back. They're all so dead. Why would the United States go out of their way to bring the money out of their shirt?

I haven't had so many flavors of Pringles. Right. But not Curry. But not Curry. It is funny seeing the juxtaposition of this adorable, perfectly sized, yeah. Canopringles from Japan.

And this clearly bought in America. Peace. That's a party stack. Look at this guy. It doesn't even fit in frame. Size of the size. That's true. I think very telling of this.

Japan, United States. Thank you so much for bringing me here. Yeah, thank you. I'm glad that they tasted great. They're fucking amazing. Yeah. There's other presents. What's under here?

They're told you. They're fake. He brought Pringles Yeah, so that's where we open these I Everything else under there are those just props So we're you know, I was gonna ask so did you take anything over there and if so what and then did you receive anything else It was all it was basically all anime stuff like I took over some like remerge Yeah, and then they gave me some like stuff that they were working on, like different studios I met with and I kind of, like, did that.

Oh, cool, did that. I think we, I met some of the people that you had also met because like Miles knew him and me. Yeah, probably. So speaking of that, I had a very interesting dinner that, and then I would be very clear that like, you know, this is very not what we would eat here at all, but like it's, you know, it's totally fine that they do. and I'm gonna tell you all the spoiler alert, I enjoyed it, but I've

had very interesting reactions from something I ate. Of course. That like, no, it was not horse. I didn't get offered it, but I would have. It's so good. I went to a place, especially, I didn't check in. I didn't know like what the place was. I just knew it was like a chicken restaurant. Barber's word. I had. I'm trying to think of just knew it was like a chicken restaurant. Barbara's worried. I had. I was trying to think of what you would eat from a chicken. That would be weird. It's not, I had chicken sashimi.

Yeah, hell yeah. So it was also raw. Raw chicken. Wait, so is it cooked in acids and stuff? I guess, how does it not give you food poisoning? I think so. Mine is, oh no. You have a sever Oh no. No.

No. Hey. Did it. So I can hold it. That's. It's supposed to fall in a part. It's falling apart. And on the day we have pizza.

Yay. We fixed it. All right. Don't touch it anymore. I can touch it. If you have it touching it. If you touch it too much, it's going to fall off. I't touch it anymore. Don't touch it. If you haven't touching it. If you touch it too much, it's going to fall off. I guarantee you it's going to start sloping. So like, I don't know the specifics about how they prepared it.

They seared the outside. OK. So just a tiny bit. Have you ever, the way I've been describing people is when you think that you thawed the chicken breast out enough, and then you pan fry it, and you can put it into it to check. And it's just like so clearly like, like a millimeter of like sear, and then it's just raw in the middle.

And that is how it looks like. That's what it looks like. Yeah, that's what it looks like. How did it taste? Like was it flavor? Delicious. It was very good. Yeah, it was really good.

But then how do they do it in a way where it's not gonna give you? So my understanding, and like obviously like I didn't like, talk to them in depth about it, but it is just like the manner in which they raise like these specific chickens. It's a very specific raising and pipeline to like grow, raise the chicken and then slaughter it.

In such a way, you minimize the threat of contamination. Oh wow. And bacteria. Yeah. Well, me also have the two. You can eat raw eggs. You don't have to cook them or anything. No, I've just given you a raw egg.

And you put in your rice and you're done. I've seen so many videos of people who've traveled internationally, whether it's to be somewhere in Europe or in Japan or wherever, where they're like, I'm eating all the same types of foods, like dairy or gluten or whatever in these countries. But I've lost weight. My stomach doesn't hurt anymore. I feel good. I'm like, yeah, because everything here is like so processed and so like just mass.

I was certain I was going to gain weight while I was out there because it was just like, rice, rice, rice, just like fatty foods, fatty foods. We were walking so goddamn much and their food is such a higher quality that I felt incredible after that. I felt better. I depended by the end because I was walking around a little bit less, but I maintained the whole time, even though I was eating a bunch of more rich things. It was just like curries chips. Curries potato chips, which is a lot of curry.

Came back just being honest, just a immediate diarrhea. Just being out of life. From the second A fast food here, I was just like, Oh yeah. You're probably like, we were doing so well. Yeah, I want to talk to everybody. I used to, because I used to be up on this high horse, but days are worth it.

Yeah. I didn't think they were. I didn't like, no, they're great. Yeah. What are we doing? I have a good day. I got a bad day after I tried to get one. I'm trying think they were. I didn't like, no they're great. What are we doing? I have a bidet. I got a bidet after our trip. I'm gonna get one.

I'm trying to get one. My toilet's small. They're like, and I'm not trying to be like, flaunting wealth, but they're like a hundred on the, like 80, 80 on the low end. Get an attachment, that's what you mean. I thought, I have a small toilet, so I've got to figure that out.

I can, I do too. If it's like, it's not the long oval kind, it's a little bit smaller. They have the different sizes. Like, you can make it work. It is a, it is a little pain in the ass though, because it's like, why is there so much weird variety in toilet size and shape?

It's like, there's no standard, like, oh, I just see it in you, toilet thing, it's like, oh, no, is it this kind of oval? Is it that kind of oval? Is that a circle? I thought about this like with like vehicles. This is a stupid dumb thing and I felt like, I'm not trying to pitch this is like a profound idea.

There's so many different kinds of cars. And like, why don't we just all have like one standard car and you can just do whatever you want with color? That is what the pilot from the Soviet Union was trying to get away from blame. Yeah, I know, I know. But it's just like, we like how much we can get. We can get communism. It's stupid But it's just like, we like,

how much we can get. We can get it. We can get it. Communism. It's stupid. There's too much choice sometimes. Yeah. No, I mean, I'm especially like, I'm a person I realize this like that like I, I can't

think of a good example right now, but like I like to find like what is the best of a certain like type of product and just like figure out based on reviews based on my own experience. What is that? Like I want to find that in every category. Like I think it's like, front-plank video games so much and it's like, that like I want to find that in every category like I think it's like Front-plank video games so much and it's like oh you got to find the purple right? Right, it's like what is that of everything?

I feel like you and Trevor would get along very well because I he and I are opposite in that sense where let's say we need like a toaster And I I'll go down a toaster aisle and be like this one looks good Looks like it's got some good functionalities. It's pretty color like this one looks good. It looks like it's got some good functionalities. It's pretty color. Let's get that one. And I'll be like, well, we got to compare it with this one and make sure like the, with a user good on it.

And like maybe there's a better one for like a better price and blah, blah, blah, blah. And I'm just like, but, I'm not sure. But honestly, are probably in the long haul, spending more money, but spending less money. Because like that, the guarantee, the cheapest, whatever, average, just one, is gonna bust way quicker guarantee the cheapest, whatever average one

is gonna bust way quicker than the nice high quality one. And it's like in the long run, you're also creating less waste. What the most expensive thing isn't always necessary to the best by default. But if you're gonna be getting something that you wanna use for a long time, it's good to invest in a quality thing.

Like I understand what you're saying. For example, when I went to college, I bought the shittiest, worse pots and pans. That were like, I got scratched up, they were like, state, like they just didn't cook things very well. And so I ended up having to get rid of them and get new ones versus like, if you get a really good quality set, might be a little more expensive, but it's going to last you like. Yeah, I think it's figuring out like, when, you know, based on where you're at and what makes sense for you, it's like, yeah. As you come to news, like, should I invest in this or should I just like make do?

I understand that that's coming from a place of like extreme privilege, where it's like, I have the additional money that I can buy the nicest version, but like, I don't know, sometimes it's worth it to stretch yourself a little bit to give the nicer thing and it just lasts longer. Because sometimes it'll end up being more money in the long run of having to replace it over again. Yeah. And it's been expensive to have to do that kind of stuff.

Oh, man. I remember I want to go actually fancy about it. This is this trip. Your trip sounds awesome. Because I remember. I remember. I remember. My thing was going to the 7-Eleven every day and buying it.

They had like Jasmine tea. And I think it's the same bottle that it's the Who's the green tea you know in your tea? You're to in yeah, I think they make jasmine tea Yeah, I get one of those and I get a rice ball. I thought you hate the jasmine tea though Jasmine tea tastes no not oh No, it's chai tea. Yeah, wait a minute. This doesn't make any jasmine tea is not the plain we know No jasmine tea is like jizz tea. It tastes off good. I know it looks like it's way to me. This doesn't make any sense. Jesse T is not the blame we know. Yeah, no, Jesse T is like Gizzi. That's good.

It takes off. I know it's like soap. And then I get the rice ball because I remember as a kid, Ash would eat donuts. But it's rice balls and I just like, it's just like carbs since you're good. They actually had Pokemon themed, Pony Geary there.

Oh. Because Scarlet and Violet came out. Oh yeah. That's so cute. Also Ash won the, they traded it on Billboard. I saw it like in like Akihabra. Scarlet and Violet came out. Oh yeah. That's so cute. Also Ash won the... Yeah, they played it all the way. They played it all the way to Billboard.

I saw it like in like Akihabra. They had like, he fucking did it, Ash won! I think they're playing like Shibuya and like Shijule. They're playing in like a couple places I've been, yeah. That's cool, so. Yeah, it was really cool. I'm hoping to go next spring to go to Super Nintendo. Hey, let's hook up.

We can go together. Yeah, let's do it. The only thing is, I'm sitting here going, I really wanna go and everyone's planning to try this without me. They can't figure out protein shakes though. That's the only thing that I noticed. Even at the gold gym that I went to, they had like milk cartridge size ones,

and it was like only like, you were like 15 grams of protein. Just bring your own way. Just bring your own way. Can you? What are they gonna do? Say no way. You could go your own way.

Cody, it was a Cody. I couldn't fucking know. Yeah. I think that'd be fine. I can't remember. The customs situation for bringing in, but I guess we have brought in like fucking Tabasco sauce and all that stuff.

I think it's usually not fruit specials meat, stuff like that you can't really do, but I'm sure powders and stuff is a lot, an issue. Whenever I transport creatine, I was good self-conscious because it's white powder. So I just write in big letters, creatine. Well, you maybe have the one with the actual label on it and not sharpied. It's always sharp. Right cocaine on it.

I've never got a new account where I dare you, creatine. Right cocaine on it. It just says cocaine tested. Trevor and I went to the Dominican Republic. I think they'll call us a few weeks ago for a vacation. And it's funny because Gus texted me. He's like, you're right across from where I was like, where I lived.

Where I lived in Puerto Rico. It was like right across the. And so I took a picture of me pointing across the ocean to send you guys. And I was like, that's where you're from. It was like 40 miles in that direction. But it was funny because when we got to the resort, we were staying at, they made us sign this thing that said it was like a bunch of rules of the resort.

But one of them was like, you will not do any drugs. That like any drug use on the property would result in a fine and getting immediately kicked off. Property, blah, blah, blah, blah. Kind of drugs you're talking about here. Any drugs? Anything. Well, like Tylenol or like. I think like.

Okay. You know what? And marijuana, like any sort of illicit drugs and anything like that. What are the drugs you know, Blink? I know all the drugs. All the drugs. All the drugs. Black Char heroine, etc.

What makes it black? I don't get any right now. And is the Dominican Republic pretty strict about that stuff? Because I also heard there was like a flight from Canada or something that like landed in the Dominican that had someone had smogled on a bunch of drugs and like the entire flight was like imprisoned for a period of time. I've never been to the DR. Oh really?

Yeah, no idea. Well, you might want to look at that because it might be a good black box down supplemental condom. An entire flight prison. It was like a Canadian I think it was air Canada or just a flight from Canada or two two or from Canada Canada was involved. I only know in the drug thing I only know because I called my grandmother before I left just to kind of like catch up with her and check in and I told her that Trevor And I were going on this trip. My Bubby.

And like a classic Bubby, it wasn't immediately like, oh, that sounds great. You guys have fun. It was, I heard there was this flight that, you know, all this thing happened. So just like be careful and all that stuff. And I was like, don't worry. Be careful. Hey, Barb, be careful that no one on your plane has smuggled a lot of drugs. Yes.

Be careful about that thing that you can avoid. I was talking to one of Kristen's family members who does not get out a whole bunch and they constantly have the news blasting on the television. You know, talking about how we planned on going to Japan and they were like, oh, I don't know, it's pretty dangerous over there and it's like, it literally isn't. It's the safest fucking place. It's more dangerous than America these days. Unless you're a rex prime minister,

in which case it might be a little dangerous. But yeah. Did you go to Nara? Did you? No. Did you find it? Yes. This is a fucked up story.

Yeah, it's really fucked up. Like, can we make jokes about it? Yeah. I think they're all like freed now. I think they're safe. I guess it was a private jet operator who was, they had a five person crew. They were flying from the Dominican Republic to Canada to Toronto. And before they took off, they went during their pre-flight check, they found black duffel bags in the maintenance bay, which normally doesn't have luggage

So they alerted the authorities They came and they brought dogs and we're sure if it was a bomb or what sure they brought dogs out They determined it was drugs. They opened it up at 200 kilograms of cocaine. Oh, which is valued at $25 million Oh my god, and the crew was arrested. I Heard like everyone on the flight Well, it was all five people like I think there weren't any passengers yet Oh my God. And the crew was arrested. I heard like everyone on the flight. Well, it was all five people. Like I think there weren't any passengers yet.

Oh, okay. The way my grandmother was describing it was that like it was like a passenger flight. I heard Canada like 200 passenger flight. And like everyone on board got imprisoned in the Dominican. It was like it was a private jet. So all five crew members were put on, were put in jail for nine days.

Yeah. Then they were released from jail and then put in a safe house in the Dominican Republic. They weren't charged with anything. They were left in the house. They weren't allowed to leave, maintain their innocence. They were stuck there for a while on November. So I guess they were stuck there for five months. Yeah, it was a long time.

Until they were finally allowed to. I think they just were allowed to leave like very close to when we were there. November 11th, they were allowed to leave. We were there on the 16th. That's great. Imagine, yeah, you're just like, you're gonna fly it. It's like, hey, no, you're like

a different six months now. And then, so they were allowed to leave November 11th, but they didn't actually leave until December 1st. They found out that they were like really good homies. No, they still had a bunch of Coke, they needed to finish. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or celery.

Yeah. I guess it's just a matter of like, or maybe it's like the thing with like your parents catch you smoking, they like smoke the whole pack. It's like they just like put the duffel bag down. It's like we want all of this Coke gone. Yeah. Yeah, that's how we stand here and wait.

Yeah. It was amazing though. That was like one of the. Yeah. It. We stand here and wait. Yeah. It was amazing though. That was like one week. Yeah. It was for me and Trevor. They were early. That's $25 million worth. Yeah. No, it was just an amazing trip. You needed that trip. You've been working your fucking ass. I needed another week there to be honest. I was half joking about just accidentally missing our flight. You could have been like care care, you could have worked from there. Yeah, yeah.

It would have been very expensive to stay in. Just make a difference. Yeah, it was like, yeah, it was a nice place to be for, we were there for about five days, give or take. It's a very, very beautiful part of the world. I mean, I've never been across the DR, but you were close to where I lived. And it's like the temperatures,

like the pretty much the same all year long Every single day. I am not exaggerating was a high of 85 a low of 75 Every single day heaven and it would rain a little bit at night Sometimes which was actually quite nice because we would sit on our little balcony and like overlook the ocean with the rain coming in And just hang out and then it would like cool it down a little bit too. And no bugs or anything. I it was so funny because nobody working there could pronounce Trevor's name. It was it was it was the cutest thing ever.

And I think it's because of like the accent and like saying Trevor. They would love saying Barbara. Maybe like, but every time they would come over to. Maybe like, Ba-da-da. And they'd be like, yeah! But every time they would come over to where we were sitting, whether it was on the beach or a dinner, they would always be like, Mi-s-ba-da-da.

And like, I'm just kidding. No, because they could never say true. Not even gonna fucking try. Yeah, it was sweet. It's respect. I'm not gonna butcher this. Yeah.

It was very funny. I just got back from Miami and we were like eating Cuban food like crazy, because they got a lot of great stuff out there. And Kristen's dad, Mr. Nelson, was getting us a table at a Cuban restaurant. That's a dad name. Nelson's a mixer.

So we go in and he's like, table for three. And they're like, okay, what's the name? And they said, Nelson. And then they're like, meal son. It was like, it was a fucking who's on first thing. Them saying what they thought his name was and him saying back, Nelson. And then he was just like, call me whatever you want.

He speaks fluent Spanish. It was just really funny to watch them just like, hungry person. He called me that. It was fun. I know, I just, I tried to be like, you could just, you could you call him T,. I tried to be like, you could just, you could call him team team B.

Yeah. Or you could just make up a new name. Yeah. We should have. I should have been like, you're name's Bill for this trip. Like, it's easy. Yeah, it's come up with a different name.

I'll use it. I guess there's no V. They kept trying it. It was like, it's the TR. Yeah, it's the TR. The, the, the, the TR. The TR.

Yeah, we, they kept going like, TRB, like with a B. Yeah, we three more. They kept going like, trip board like with a B. Three more. If that happens to me with Blaine or Gibson, then I'll just say text. Come text. Text.

Do you have the same problem I do? I hate having giving a one syllable name. What's your guess? Doug? No. It's weird, man. I assume the same thing was happened with Blaine. It sounds like when I tell people who my name is,

it sounds like I don't even know how to say my own name because I'm hyper focused on like trying to say this clearly is possible. But in doing that, I'm like, Blaine. Or I'll say Blaine. Like, I say, uh, and then my name, because it's like, there's something about just saying, Blaine. Yeah, they're like one syllable. Yeah.

Carry. You'd be surprised. Well, one, there's like 18 different voices spell it. True. Uh, and surprisingly, my last name is a struggle for people. Shock, Ross. Yeah. Maybe I feel like Gavin has the same problem too because it's such a simple name that like, it sounds how it's spelled, but people assume that that's not the case. Yeah. Shock, Ross.

Shock, yeah. Now people get, I get carried, spelled, spelled different ways like a Kelly a lot. Kelly. Yeah. Just because I mumble myself anyway, so it doesn't sound good. I just don't actually say correctly anyways.

There were so many Canadians on the trip that we were at, and I think it's because it was right before American Thanksgiving. Okay. So there was this is the drugs. Yeah. Yeah. That's like, why is that interesting? 200 kilograms cocaine. Yeah. That was all it was all for them. Yeah. How many pounds or 200 kilograms? It's like 450 pounds more or less. Okay. There was this one woman who was like this Canadian couple who were probably in their like late 50s, maybe early 60s. And the, there was like bathrooms on the beach that were like kind of outdoor bathrooms.

Ish, like it was like in a hot kind of thing. But the major thing that they had were lizards everywhere. Lizards don't bother me. Sure. I don't want it crawling on you. Lizards are cool. They're cool. They're not talking all sizes, but like usually like pretty. Okay. Like maybe three inches or so. It's like average. Yeah.

Big big. Big people. The there was a woman who she was standing outside the bathroom and I was going in and she goes, could you there was a lizard in there? Could you check if it's still in there? My God. And she was like 60 and I was like, yeah, sure. And I look around and I'm like, oh, I don't see it. And she's like, I'm like, deathly afraid of these.

Like, actually deathly afraid of lizards. And I was like, oh, don't worry, I'll stay in guard for you. Like, none of the, but every day of the trip, she would wait till I was going to the bathroom. Oh, my God. So I could like help a squirt her in there to make sure there was no lizards. That's so sweet of you to help her. She would be like, I've been needing to go, thank God you're going.

Oh my god. And I was like, what the fucking water? Go to the beach. Go to the water. She's about to rub her lizard. Oh my god. Put it on the top of the toilet paper rule. Yeah, the toilet paper rule.

These things were everywhere. Like, I'm like, you came to the DR. Yeah. When you're deathfully afraid of losing. I'm also, I'm, I'm just noticing how much of a child I am. Like the second you said, that's just imagining. Like she's like, oh my God, thank you so much for getting me that list. But thank you so much.

And then she goes in just like, just a massive shit. Yeah. It's just like the gnarly shit. I thought you were gonna say like, it just crawls up. Is there her friend inside the toilet? Yeah. Well, that's what, that's what scares the lizard out. Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, and she's like, please stick around. Yeah. Please stay. Yeah. I need help. Super old news by this point, but we're talking about like traveling to another place and then like, particularly getting arrested there.

That is like one of my greatest fears. That's scary, shit. And yeah, when we were coming home from Japan, we had a stop in Moscow, because I was heading to RTX London after that. I don't think I would ever do that again. It was so fucking weird. Not these days.

No, especially not after we had like a WNBA star get arrested for hashish or whatever. Well, she had a RCD. I think the CBD. Yeah, either way it was like prescribed. It wasn't like she was like, she was in jail for how long because of that? And months, almost.

Nine months. Oh my God. Yeah. Yeah, Blaine, I love you. I think it's gonna, no one's gonna want a tray for you, man. Yeah. Like I love you. I don't blame them, man.

I would, but I just don't know, man. That's not the rally. Yeah. That it's not some.. That's not the rally. Yeah, that is not We'll get on the door. Yeah, they're they're rushing five Like was a little fast on Mike's been thinking about getting rid of Eric somehow I've learned you're kidding me. Are you kidding me? There is nope not kidding there. Yeah, yeah being being stuck Yeah, in a foreign country,

Niles speak the language, like that's, no, that's nightmare. Actual nightmare. He starts screaming diplomatic community. Yeah, just don't go. Don't do drugs at a hotel. Yeah. Well, it don't even public either, I guess. Or yeah, maybe just do with the lizards.

Yeah, do with the lizards. What's the most like, you're in trouble moment you've had while traveling. If you feel like sharing it. Um, I don't know. I guess we can probably tell the story at this point. I don't think I've ever, maybe I've told it in the past. Okay.

Um, one time we're coming back from fan expo in Toronto. And it was me and Jason. And we were coming back, we had worked the event all long weekend or whatever. So we're coming back with a bunch of cash. And we split the cash up from- You're not allowed to bring back over 10,000. You're supposed to declare it, but it's like a whole

pain in the ass process. I was like, I'm just gonna put half the cash in my bag. Jason, you take the other half, we each had like $20,000 or something. Police fuck. Okay. And uh... You each had more than the amount. Yeah.

And it's not, we weren't doing any shade. I didn't want to fill out the paperwork. It's a pain in the ass if you go to try to find a bank and do the wire. Plus you don't have a lot of time. Anyway, whatever. Come on. Yeah. So we go through, uh, we're going through security.

I'm first in line. I put my bag through and uh, get through just fine. Pick up my bags. Jason's behind me. He puts his bags on the X-ray machine and it goes off. And I'm like, oh shit, this is it. It goes off like they take it. Yeah, they're like, who's bags are these? They're just like, those are my bags. I was like, fuck. We need to go through your bags, sir. I was like, they're going to find it. They're going to do anything wrong. It's going to be the questions. We're going to miss our flight. They're going to be the one that takes us to the room. They're going to ask what gonna find it. They were not doing anything wrong. It's gonna be the questions. We're gonna miss our flight. They're gonna be, they're gonna take us to the room.

They're gonna ask what's going on. They're fingering your bite. And they pull off the side. And I'm standing there by security. Like, God damn it. And I'm watching them. And they pull his bags off the thing. And they put them to the side.

Jason walks over there. And they point at one of them. They're like, this your bag? He goes, yes. Like, we need to open it in inspect. And they're like, how fuck? And they open it up. It's the bag that doesn't have the money.

Jason, I put two bags through and they open to inspect the one that didn't have money in it. And they're like, yep, okay, everything's fine. Zip it back up, give it to him and he goes on his way. Fucking out of there. Fucking out of there. I was like, let's fucking go. I was hoping Jason would be like, this and then he would go,

him. Yeah. So that's like, that was the, that was the, that was the close again. We were doing anything wrong. It's just like, this is going to make me miss my flight. This is going to be a pain in the ass. Do you remember what they were looking for?

I think it was his laptop or something. It's just like something set it off. Something set off the X-ray machine. That's just like sweat beating down. You're standing there waiting for him. So now you're implicating yourself in this. And I'm not gonna leave without him. Like if they pulled him to silent,

I'm gonna be like, all right, me too. I also have $20,000. Yeah, because you got to give the information as a bet. I imagine you might have trouble because like usually if you're going into Canada or any foreign country to work or to make money, you have to like have a certain visa and all this shit.

But again, it's not like we're doing a job. Right. It's like you're just selling things. Yeah, it's just going to open up a bunch of questions. Allegedly, maybe someone on this podcast sitting next to me told me very early on in my career when we were traveling together. When you go to customs and they ask you what you're doing there, you just say visiting a friend. That sounds like great advice.

I also had someone. I also had a communication. Yeah, I'm taking a vacation. I also had a theoretical higher up that maybe may not work here that also told me to lie to customs. Oh no, no, no, no. It wasn't you. No, because he's the thing.

I am going a vacation. And you're going to visit many friends. So I, it's not a lie. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, Tell him you're there for vacation or something. It'll make the process easier. Tell him you're there for vacation. They're not gonna actually do it there for him. I go to the customs guy in England and he's like, oh, hey, what are you here for? You know, the British accent and I was like, oh, they say in it. Vacation in it.

And he's like, all right, you got some family in the island dogs and I was like, no, my work sent me there. That's where they both to my hotel. And I was like, oh, and he's like, your work, okay? And I'm like, yeah, well, it was like, no, my work sent me there. That's where they both to my hotel. And I was like, oh, and he was like, your work, okay? And I'm like, yeah, well, it's like we're going to convention. It's like it's work, but then they said to, they told me to do say, it's vacation, because I'm going to vacation after.

Ah! Oh, play. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. We're just self-narc. Just fucking shitting myself. But you were fine, right? He was fine, but he was like,

he kind of gave me a spot up on the floor. I usually just say I'm attending a convention. Yeah. And they're like, oh, it's a convention. It's like, oh, comics and media and all that stuff. And you're like, cool. One time I was going into New Zealand. And there was the passport control.

The dude recognized me. Oh, cool. He was like, oh, you know, guys from Russia, he was like, yeah, he's like, and I was like, how am I here for the convention? I'm going to, he's like, oh, awesome. What do you do to the convention? Like, just like kind of making a chit chat

and it was like, it would have been a long flight we're in New Zealand. And I was like, I kind of wanted to get out of it. I had seen that there were other guests in the convention behind me. And I was like, hey, do you like Futurama? He was, oh, yeah, I love it. I was like, hey, that's Billy West right over there.

He's like, oh, it is. He likes that, my name. That's what he put me through. I remember when I was moving here. Actually, today when we're recording this, which is December 12th, it's my 11 year anniversary at the company. Oh.

Say I brought you a gift. We got you a free gift. Hey, free goals, my favorite. But when I was moving here, I got to the airport is December 11th. It's the day I moved. You should never forget. And I never forget that day, don't worry.

They tell you, basically, when you get a work visa, the people at customs could deny you. They could just say, no, or like, I don't have enough information on this, or like, this isn't sufficient. They could just choose to deny you I don't have enough information on this or like this isn't sufficient like they could just choose to deny even if your visa is approved even if you got not a paper or that if that person is just having a bad day they could choose to deny it. If you give them some gaff that's way too much. So I go to the airport four hours before my flight because I'm like what if they have to take me to this thing what if they have to do this they're like

they have to take me to this thing, what else to have to do this. They're like, cool. And I'm like, cool. Now, four hours in the Ottawa airport. Would you rather they had given you a trophy? Yeah. I would have been so far. How is your day going?

So good to see you. You look great today. I'd be like, I just got all the Tim Hortons coffee and I was just like, the last time. No. It was great. Yeah, it's always, yeah. When I fly domestically, I'm just notorious.

Like I'll get there like 45 minutes before we board. Like I'm a very like last minute kind of person. But yeah, when I was time to come back internationally, especially after being gone for six weeks, I was like, don't fuck that. I'm gonna get there very early. And it was great though, because there was a specific train that just goes right to the airport.

Oh, that's nice. It's awesome. Oh, the Nareeta Express, love that train. I am a 100% the opposite. Where if I have a flight, let's say it's at five o'clock, I will leave for the airport at 230. No.

Because I wanna get to the airport two hours, usually before the flight, so I could like make sure to check in and have no issue. And then I'm cool just like doing nothing in an airport for like hours. I would rather just be in there at the gate, I could be on my phone. I'm like, I'd be on my phone on the couch at home.

It's true. So it might as well be in the airport. Yeah, but the couch at home, you can be like, yeah. So okay, so can I get here? Well, it's a version though, it is like such a, we were blessed with a decent airport, because there's like, it's a version of those. It's like such a, we were blessed with a decent airport because there's like, it's a pretty good airport.

It's gotten better too over the years. Yeah, and it's like a lot of really good restaurants that I don't mind eating at all. And even stores. Yeah. And there's some things you could buy and like just kind of walk around. Have you all been to the cupcake vending machine?

Yeah, I saw it. I've seen it. Okay, Saturday. On my way over there in October My flight was at like four or five in the morning. So I was I got there like two three the world. I was swimming Austin to Dallas to No, Austin to Vancouver. No, I'm sorry Austin to Phoenix it was it was Austin somewhere in Vancouver Denver Denver Austin Denver Fucking he did yeah, yeah, it was $600 cheaper. Oh, never mind.

Yeah. I get it. But I think my flight was like six. So I got there like three. Like I actually got there a little bit early. The author was also fucked at that time. Like they were super long lines around that time. Yeah.

And obviously I know where was open to eat. At that time. And I was like, I was like, when on the way, like, should I ask my Uber driver, like stop at Waterburger? Like what should I say? I'll just, I was like, when on the way like, should I ask my Uber driver, like stop at Waterburger, like what should I say? I'll just, I'm sure I can get something there, whatever. The only food I could get at the Austin Airport

at three in the morning was the Sprinkles Cupcake Vending Machine. I know. Did you know that every time you buy a cupcake from the Sprinkles Vending Machine, it plays a little song out loud. Oh no. Very loudly. Wow. At five in the morning. Oh no. Very loudly. Wow.

At five in the morning. At five in the morning. And did you know that sometimes you eat one cupcake and you think, I'm not gonna eat for cup bars, I guess I should get another cupcake. And then you just have to sit there and play the song again. And everybody knows you got a little chocolate on your face.

You know, I guess I'm gonna go get a good one. Six other people in the airport, just like this guy, I guess. Yeah. Look at my guy, cups. Yeah, it's like, you're a cupcake boy airport, just like this guy, I guess. This guy's like cups. It's like you're a cupcake boy. Bop, bop, bop, bop. It's so fun.

It's like that. I was just like, this is the worst start. I think there's also, just zombified carrots. Yeah, there's either one or two other. I didn't like the sleep, so I was just like, yeah, then. There's either one or two other food-bending machines

in the awesome, but I think one is like a popcorn one. Like they do, like, a petal porn. It's a I think one is like a popcorn one, like they do like a popcorn. It's a fancy popcorn thing. Yeah, they probably are like, popcorn, popcorn, you need good. Oh, Johnny boy. Yeah, but if you need another option for the morning. Cupcakes are popcorn.

The corn are stones on a breakfast. Yeah. Fill you up, nice and good. I was doing great. It's all about the Taco Dilly tacos. You get this, I think. Yeah, here they're, I think a taco is huge. When they're open're there. We had a flight to Miami last week at

7 a.m. So we got there like I think I was like we got to be out the door by like 530. And it's fine. Austin's fine. Yeah, it's a it's a pretty smooth report. I like it. Yeah, I do appreciate how it's just all like gates 1-35. Yeah, yeah, yeah, there's no like like gates one through 35. Yeah, like there's no like B terminal A terminal unless you're at the South terminal, which is yeah, they're gonna expand it though. That no, don't fucking like it, man. Like I think I had to get carted out to the other terminal and I hated that shit. I think what the the current plan is to demolish the South terminal and build another parallel terminal to the barbed Jordan. Oh, so you have to drive like four miles

into the other terminal. And then either run shuttles or underground passage between the two. So you can even build it. Or no, it just affects those things. Like, fucking drive. I don't know. There's so much limestone in it,

like, bore through it. There's no fucking way. I don't know. I assume it'd be like the Dallas airport, and they would just have like a tram. That would, like, yeah, I think the Dallas one isn't annoying to you. I don't know. If you don't think it's like, if you're fucked,

it's like, it's just so frustrating to be an airport and just know like no amount of fast running through this terminal will actually get me to my final time. Nope, it's like Orlando's the same way. It's just like you are at the whim of these fucking trams. Yeah. We flew through on the way home from the Dominican through Miami. Mm-hmm.

And that was one of the worst airport experiences of my life because I hate whenever you travel internationally and you have to collect your bag that you checked and recheck it. And then go through security. I had to do that in Newark on the way back. We had to do that in Miami on the way back. And my bag was like one of the last bags out. Same. And I was like, we board in 20 minutes and we still have to recheck the bag, go through security, et cetera. It's a nice food. And I'm like, my bag's not gonna make it.

Like, there is no way. Because like, we're barely gonna make it. We arrived at the gate. I think they were like on the last boarding group. That's horrifying. And sure enough, we got to Austin. I saw that my bag never got on the flight. And so immediately when we landed,

I went to the baggage place to be like, my bag didn't make the flight. I could see it on the app. And so immediately when we landed, I went to the baggage place to be like, my bag didn't make the flight. I could see it on the app here. And they're like, okay, fill out this form and like, give an address to get it checked out. Which actually worked out great because waiting for your bag to come out after a long travel day.

This is on the way back. This sucks. Okay, that's kind of the same. So we just went home and then it got delivered to our place the next day. And I'm like, okay. All right, we start Fed-exing your bags back. Yeah.

Quick, quick, quick refresher. Don't stand up as soon as the plane hits the gate. Oh my God. And I'm buckle and then you stand in the aisle. And don't crowd the fucking luggage carousel. It's not gonna get you there any faster and you're in the way. The worst to me is when there's little kids

around the baggage carousel. It's like, then I have, like I'm afraid I'm gonna hit one of them if I'm pulling a bag off. I'm like, 45 pound bag, you're gonna fucking knock them off. I'm gonna see them, like in a weird blind spot. What I don't get about the baggage carousel thing, and you mentioned it, like don't stand where it comes out. Yeah.

Everyone piles in like multiple rows of people where the bags are coming out, so people have to shove forward when their bag is coming. I'm like, just literally go like six feet down that way, where they're about to be when they come out. And you're blocking the vision for anybody else that's approaching. So then if people can't see over you,

well, then they're gonna crowd it. And there's just a mile. I don't need to see the bags coming out. I'll wait on the carousel. My healthy little ground is I wait in the far back where I can see it. And then once I see my bag come down, I walk around. Oh, I immediately place myself,

like let's say this is the carousel. It's like an oval and like they're coming out here. I'll go right here, like on the side, and just, I'll just wait, I'll like look at the back so they're coming out and go, oh there's mine. Mm-hmm. I'll have to be like, where's mine? I stand far enough for it that I can see the big ramp

and then like I will, I'm such a dickhead, I'll push the equal through. Like they shouldn't be fucking standing there. And I'll bump into him and I'll hit my, I'll pull my back out and I'll bump into him on the motor out. Wait around the care, it's a whole circle. There's all the space. I start there and then like, yeah, on my fly back,

I had to do that new work and my was like literally one of the last three bags. And the longer I have to wait, the more I like see, I find myself inching towards the ramp. And I'm like, wait, I didn't see, please. Back to the police. I bought air tags to put in all my bags. We did the same thing.

That's interesting. It doesn't do anything really. It's because it's hard to connect sometimes to them. So they have to, they try and get away or whatever based off of another Apple device, right? It's all feeding in the Apple Cloud. It is really fun though, because when I knew my bag wasn't, because like when you, at least with American, you could see on the app like where, like your bag was loaded onto the

flight to Austin or your bag was taken off this flight. So I saw that it was never put on the flight to Austin. And so I just opened my air tag, located on my phone, and like I see us going this way, like on the runway, And my bag is just still sitting there, like getting that location in my head. On my way over there, I had a weird thing where, because I transferred in Vancouver, I was, I got conflicting things. I ended up wasting, not wasting,

but like I spent two hours with my layover, going back and forth, asking people because basically when I, when I checked my bag, it gave me a ticket that said, when you get to Vancouver, you have to get your bag and recheck it. And then I got to Vancouver and they're like, no, you don't have to do that.

And I was like, okay, I have a piece of paper that says I do, you're telling me I don't, and I'm also gonna be sitting in the Vancouver. And the app is not updating, saying that I got checked. So like, I spent the entire flight over there, just like, I don't know if I'm in my bag, I don't know if I'm in my bag I don't know if I'm a bag, I don't know if I'm a bag.

And I did, it looked out, I was worried for nothing. And you never had to reach that get? Not there, on the way back I did, but no, I didn't have to touch it. Why would they tell you that then? I don't, yeah. Like it was just like, this fucking with you. I mean, that was the thing, so yeah, like I,

the the key asked told me to do it, the customs lady in Canada told me not to do it. The person on air candidate I called said I don't have to worry about it, but then the person from United that I was transferring to her said I did have to do it. So I'm just sitting there like, I don't know what the fuck to do.

Yeah, I don't, it's on here. Yeah, I just don't probably, I just like, I don't know. Cause especially when you're like going to, like you're not going home, so you need your shit. Yeah, and that was when I was like, fuck, I meant to like put a change of clothes in my other bag and I didn't do that. It's not even like your origin city,

so if it's got stuck here in Austin, you'd call a friend to go run down to the airport and help you out. I'm like, I'm going to be with out of my way. And then it's going to Japan too, so it's not like there's a flight every day. Yeah, it's called Adam Baird to help you out. I have a backpack, it's like a decent list of things I feel Yeah. Good day. Help you out. I have a backpack. So I can decently

see if I was feeling a backpack and I always pack a spare change of clothes and all of my toiletries and the event that if I'm checking a bag. Yeah. If I lose that checked bag, I will be okay. See, I had to buy a new backpack just to fit my steam deck in. So it's good in heaven. It's good investment. Yeah. I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. I'm not. I didn't think it was really big. Because I was looking for six weeks.

That's really big and I didn't fit a lot of back up. It's like a large, extra large switch. It's like a party stack of Pringles. Yeah, yeah, actually, yeah. Two of them side by side. Yeah, one long and two that way. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, well, I think this is a good boxing day.

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