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i'm going to rent a car today i'm kind

of terrified

i've never driven here before i just

thought it would make it easier uh for

me and marcia to set up a lot of things

to have a car usually when you're in

japan you're like there's a couple

foreigners in there like tourists but

i'm the only one

there's no tourist whatsoever

i feel very out of place

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i think that's the one

it's so ugly

i got the car i'm so scared i'm

terrified

he did not speak english very well and i

speak

no japanese but we managed to get by

he helped me set up the

navigation it's not a long ride so i

should be fine but

i am a little scared

i'm like

do i drive on the left side or the right

side i can't remember oh god i did it

holy [ __ ] i'm so happy

holy __ i'm so happy

that was so fun i don't know i was so

nervous and now that i've done it i feel

amazing i'm so glad that was so cool the

roads are so pretty nothing like driving

in london

oh i'm so happy

definitely worth it it's the

ugliest car i've ever seen but uh i'm

[ __ ] thrilled that's great i've been

__ thrilled that's great i've been

practicing japanese but i don't know

anything but i know we know i knew

enough to understand him and i made it

so much easier so i'm so glad

i've done that but i definitely need to

learn more holy [ __ ]

learn more holy __

i did it

killed

yeah you should it's the worst car ever

made yeah

yeah that's our car

for a month

you can't take off without the keys

we're going on a car ride it's so fun to

drive here

feels like i have my driver license at

18 again

but i got my buddy with me yeah

we're going to

we've been there once before there's so

much to look at when i'm driving and i'm

trying to like focus on not hitting

people

maya's killing it

look at you

cute

okay so cut to us like three years ago

we went to this temple and we left one

of our cats and we wrote our names on it

so obviously we gotta see if we're still

there

come on

we uh we left the line and it's okay to

bring dogs

as long as they don't go

inside even though this is a cat temple

is this appropriate no think about it

this is insane

i had forgotten

what do you think maya

is it cool

i guess they knew we brought dogs

it's closed down

but i don't think we're gonna find it

along here so

maybe next time

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definitely recommend checking out

once they reopen

pretty spots faces on everything

i did not see it

look at this tower of cardboard

oh my goodness recycling is very

different here

i mean it's still the same at the end of

it but we missed last week's collection

day so

we just collected so much and they want

you to tie it all up which to be honest

i find very satisfying like just holding

it like

i don't know if you have to do this

but like milk cartridges you're supposed

to wash them and let them dry we gotta

learn these things so yeah that's a lot

of cardboard i'm sorry whoever has to

collect that

today

i'm going to see uh joey

the anime man and we're going to check

out some arcades

he asked me what the first thing i want

to do is so you got to check out the

arcades i'm very excited

joey the mad lad starts off with two

[ __ ] strikes

__ strikes

okay all right

what a form

oh you have to go for a stride

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oh [ __ ]

oh __

my [ __ ] god

my __ god

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well yeah dude

let's [ __ ] go

let's __ go

all right so joey won the first one but

i won the real challenge

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the photocopy

where's your reward joey

how how does that work no no

i'm going in on my own our free reward

might say don't get jealous

how does it look

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oh god

one last one

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i lost one

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yes

sorry i just went for it

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they're so tiny

remember all these things that we did

joey

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that was super fun

kind of sensory overload i'm not really

used to this

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keep shooting

keep going

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come on

i don't know what's happening

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come on joey don't [ __ ] it

come on joey don't __ it

oh no no no

he can't die he's the protagonist

we got 413 though holy

go [ __ ] on

go __ on

come on ball come on come on

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come on

keep going

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oh my god

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we got it no

wait what happened i think we missed it

all of that for nothing

today we're going to

and we have to register our dogs as well

but i have a feeling this will be kind

of difficult

because we don't speak japanese this is

insane

i think this is it

is that the building

i'm squeezing every inch of my japanese

out to make this work

we didn't bring our marriage certificate

and they wanted it to register as a

couple

so technically like we google online

what you need and it doesn't say but

we're going to go to 7-eleven to try and

print it because we have it we just

didn't have a physical copy of it but uh

they were super helpful otherwise uh we

can't complain there it is

the rule of japan

a 7-eleven is always nearby

we didn't

we're officially registered in japan it

took a a long time

but you know what it didn't even matter

they were so nice and so helpful

everyone is just so sweet it was just

amazing i'm so impressed how they run

everything even the dogs get registered

which is great

so we're officially japanese

right wow

that's not how that works the guy said

congratulations when we left though this

is so sweet

oh yeah look what we got here

she loves it

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now we're a real family

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do you like it maya

i feel like anywhere else we would feel

silly right now but since we're in japan

edgar still has to walk

also for the record maya is almost 17

years old

so she definitely deserves it you

deserve some of them too yes

he was getting tired

i'm an old man as well

all right guys good night

faster mom

faster

how do i look

great how do they work

you having fun

we got a private jet for you

we got this thing for you what else do

you want

are you okay in there

i think she likes it in a weird way

just wow but look at what a baby

i robbed japan guys it's so good over

here

today we're in omotesando i'm not used

to seeing all the big buildings yet

this is not even that big but yeah i

think the rainy season is about to start

so that's why

today's a really rainy day i hope i can

buy some clothes i'm very outdated

wardrobe

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damn

it is empty today

it's almost like everyone has a job or

something

got some nice uh second-hand shop stuff

i can't believe how few people there are

here it's usually smack full

i want to check out some japanese brands

there's neighborhood around the corner

we're about to go on the worst street

ever

for the business at least takashi the

street

i guess since it's not busy it's not

that bad yeah usually it's smack packed

here here's one of my favorite shops

i don't know what it's called but it

looks cool

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marxist faith in humanity was restored

because

she bought two of these what are they

called

kokodama

they're beautiful we used to have one in

the uk

so cute

what do you think again

that one's beautiful

i want one in my office okay so might

say i just showed me the third one and

he was so nice he'd noticed that you

liked it sir he gave it for free

it was very generous he just noticed

that you liked it and was like present

he didn't have to do that that was so

nice

some people are just nice

as he's getting emotional over a

kokodama that was gifted

it's finally here

yes

fresh

yeah

yes

today

we're going to check out some cars

they got these um retro toyotas i think

i think they're called like renoka they

look really good i'm curious to see them

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wow

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they're so cool

we're gonna

test drive the fj so he was telling me

about the

black one

which is called hachimaru i kind of got

really interested in it

but i know it's way too big

which car do you think i get

i like the hachimara

so big and black like me

i'm back

i'm supposed to

i was supposed to go to tesla and uh as

well today i didn't

it took a lot longer

than i expected so i never i rescheduled

for another day

i still want to check them out

i still really like this car like

it looks good

i'm worried that it's too big then

there's this one

the fj that both me and marty likes

which i think will look really good

and they can change parts on it too but

i love this one

it's so pretty what should i do leave a

comment

anyway i'm going out to see connor and

joy now

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