WEBVTT - Lil Noisy Loves Civics 0:00:01.720 --> 0:00:02.840 Causer Media. 0:00:06.760 --> 0:00:10.320 You're listening to the Away Days podcast on the ground 0:00:10.520 --> 0:00:17.319 outside reporting from the underbelly with me Jake Hanrahan. To 0:00:17.320 --> 0:00:22.040 watch Awaydays documentaries, go to YouTube dot com slash at 0:00:22.200 --> 0:00:28.840 away Days TV. This is part three Speed Tribe twenty 0:00:28.880 --> 0:00:35.080 five episode or the podcast is a production of H 0:00:35.120 --> 0:00:46.519 eleven Studio and caol Zone Media. Back midway up the mountain, 0:00:46.760 --> 0:00:49.920 after the white knuckle grip rates down it, I catch 0:00:50.000 --> 0:00:53.080 my breath as the cars fly off again into the darkness. 0:00:54.080 --> 0:00:57.480 My adrenaline is peaked and probably will be for some time. 0:01:00.160 --> 0:01:02.760 One of the cross racing lads currently hanging out at 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:05.200 the side of the road laughs and puts his thumb 0:01:05.280 --> 0:01:08.399 up a grin and put my thumb up too. This 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:13.680 lad goes by the nickname Lil Noisy. He's tall, skinny, 0:01:14.040 --> 0:01:16.800 and wearing a set of thick black glasses through the 0:01:16.840 --> 0:01:19.680 ice lot in his battle claver. He comes over to 0:01:19.680 --> 0:01:21.920 me and starts to chat with the help of our 0:01:21.959 --> 0:01:23.280 friends who's translating. 0:01:25.319 --> 0:01:30.200 We have a long history. Everyone gets on everyone's cars 0:01:30.240 --> 0:01:33.920 of Chris and I think it's a very cool team. 0:01:34.160 --> 0:01:34.920 We're number one. 0:01:35.600 --> 0:01:38.119 What is it you love about the street racing here? 0:01:38.160 --> 0:01:41.000 Obviously it's very illegal, but you guys are all doing 0:01:41.040 --> 0:01:42.600 it all the time. 0:01:43.080 --> 0:01:46.400 I think it's fine so long as we don't get caught. 0:01:46.600 --> 0:01:48.160 It's fun to race with everyone. 0:01:48.440 --> 0:01:53.040 In Japan, life is quite conservative. People follow the rules. 0:01:53.480 --> 0:01:56.760 You guys obviously break the rules all the time. How 0:01:56.800 --> 0:01:59.680 do you think your average person in Japan sees you 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:00.720 guys street racers? 0:02:00.760 --> 0:02:01.480 What anything to you? 0:02:02.200 --> 0:02:05.240 I'm sure it's a nuisance. It's probably annoying. 0:02:05.560 --> 0:02:07.440 They find it annoying. 0:02:10.080 --> 0:02:13.200 The police are cracking down quite hard on a street racing. 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:15.800 Are you not worried you might get into trouble since 0:02:15.840 --> 0:02:18.280 the prison have your car taken? You're not scared? 0:02:23.560 --> 0:02:29.519 Well, there is some worry, but having fun is more important. 0:02:29.960 --> 0:02:33.440 We run away. That's it, We run away. 0:02:34.320 --> 0:02:36.800 Can you describe what it feels like when you're racing? 0:02:36.840 --> 0:02:38.240 How does it feel to you inside? 0:02:42.680 --> 0:02:46.320 It's exciting. I just get so excited. 0:02:47.600 --> 0:02:49.639 It feels so good to be in a place where 0:02:49.639 --> 0:02:52.200 you are totally unable to think about anything else. 0:02:53.240 --> 0:02:55.960 You're so excited you can't think of anything else. 0:02:57.040 --> 0:02:59.839 Kids these days don't go out, so they don't really 0:02:59.840 --> 0:03:02.920 care about cars. Most kids think as long as it drives, 0:03:03.760 --> 0:03:07.079 anything is fine. I want the world to know more 0:03:07.080 --> 0:03:10.639 about Japanese cars, and I want the Civics B type 0:03:10.680 --> 0:03:15.440 engine to become more popular than turbos. They look bad, 0:03:16.160 --> 0:03:20.960 but the moment the v tech kicks in, it feels 0:03:21.080 --> 0:03:26.160 so good. It feels like I'm high. That's why I 0:03:26.320 --> 0:03:27.560 love Civics. 0:03:27.639 --> 0:03:28.640 I hate turbos. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:28.919 Though. 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:36.200 After this, little Noisy goes on to explain why he 0:03:36.280 --> 0:03:40.000 loves Honda Civic so much for about another ten minutes. 0:03:40.560 --> 0:03:43.080 If there's one thing we've learned for sure on this trip, 0:03:43.480 --> 0:03:49.160 it's that these lots absolutely live and breathe cards. Now, 0:03:49.280 --> 0:03:52.280 as I've explained in previous parts of this podcast, I 0:03:52.360 --> 0:03:55.000 strip it down to keep the narrative easy to follow, 0:03:55.520 --> 0:03:59.120 so therefore I only give my own perspective. Remember, though 0:03:59.160 --> 0:04:03.760 Away Days is a documentary series first and foremost, whilst 0:04:03.800 --> 0:04:06.360 I was in Japan, I was of course not alone. 0:04:06.920 --> 0:04:10.600 Me and my team were filming this whole thing. So 0:04:10.680 --> 0:04:13.080 I want to give some time to my very dear 0:04:13.120 --> 0:04:17.880 friend and creative partner, Johnny Pickup. He was there filming 0:04:17.920 --> 0:04:20.520 all of this as I was praying for my life 0:04:20.560 --> 0:04:23.800 in the front of these hundred Civics. To give him 0:04:23.839 --> 0:04:28.440 his full Jews here is a short bio. Johnny Pickup 0:04:28.520 --> 0:04:32.880 is an internationally published, multi award winning photo journalist and 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:37.680 documentary filmmaker from London. Pickup's work focuses on the unseen 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:42.520 and forgotten areas of society, using still and motion imagery 0:04:42.760 --> 0:04:47.960 to understand contemporary global issues. As a photo journalist, Pickup 0:04:48.000 --> 0:04:52.640 has covered world events current affairs for National Geographic, The Telegraph, 0:04:52.880 --> 0:04:58.160 Foreign Policy Getty. Pickup has won multiple international awards for 0:04:58.240 --> 0:05:02.480 his film and photography work, including the Platinum Remy Award. 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:06.400 Person One Is include directors such as George Lucas and 0:05:06.520 --> 0:05:09.560 the Cohen Rogers. It's prowess working on the ground amidst 0:05:09.640 --> 0:05:12.360 chaotic situations is given to pick Up a. 0:05:12.400 --> 0:05:14.200 Raw but highly perfected style. 0:05:14.600 --> 0:05:19.120 Within his documentary work, He's largely responsible for the unique 0:05:19.160 --> 0:05:23.159 signature that Way Days is known for. Needless to say, 0:05:23.320 --> 0:05:26.320 Johnny is very good at what he does. He's also 0:05:26.480 --> 0:05:31.320 a really really good guy. Let's hear it from him. 0:05:31.680 --> 0:05:34.360 Had you ever heard of like the Japanese street racing 0:05:34.480 --> 0:05:37.160 scene or any of that before we did this film? 0:05:37.640 --> 0:05:41.320 Not really like obviously from popular culture like Fast and 0:05:41.360 --> 0:05:44.680 Furious you have, like you know, not that I really 0:05:44.680 --> 0:05:46.760 watched those films anything, but they're still mainstream. 0:05:47.040 --> 0:05:49.760 You know, maybe they gets put out about those. 0:05:49.680 --> 0:05:54.839 Kind of racing stories, but no specifics about like the 0:05:54.960 --> 0:05:58.880 kan joe specifically or toga. Like that was completely new 0:05:58.960 --> 0:06:01.320 when you said that to me, and especially the cultural 0:06:01.360 --> 0:06:03.640 bits that come along with that, like the style and 0:06:03.720 --> 0:06:06.520 ethos of the races, that was completely new. 0:06:07.320 --> 0:06:09.159 What was your first impressions of them, Like when we 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:11.400 first met, like some of the lads there with the cars, 0:06:11.960 --> 0:06:13.440 what did you what did you think? 0:06:13.440 --> 0:06:14.440 Like what kind of struck you? 0:06:14.760 --> 0:06:16.880 I think what really struck me was mainly the attitude 0:06:16.880 --> 0:06:19.640 of the drivers and that culture, because you could tell 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:23.280 that it was really out the realms of the ordinary. 0:06:23.760 --> 0:06:25.760 I think when people engage in that kind of thing 0:06:26.400 --> 0:06:29.760 in the UK or Europe, like it's slightly more accepted. 0:06:29.800 --> 0:06:32.880 I think in Japan you're really an outsider if you're 0:06:32.920 --> 0:06:35.880 doing that kind of stuff, Like it's really not accepted, 0:06:36.080 --> 0:06:39.239 and these guys are doing something that carries a risk, 0:06:39.520 --> 0:06:41.440 you know in terms of the law, but also like 0:06:41.839 --> 0:06:44.599 cultural risk as well that you might be looked down 0:06:44.680 --> 0:06:49.240 upon or you know, not accepted socially. So yeah, that 0:06:49.360 --> 0:06:51.880 was like super interesting. That came across to me straight away. 0:06:52.200 --> 0:06:54.080 I mean, as soon as we start getting in cars 0:06:54.120 --> 0:06:57.479 and like being around them properly, the speed at which 0:06:57.680 --> 0:07:00.839 we were traveling was suddenly like pretty mind blowing. I 0:07:00.880 --> 0:07:04.000 mean I was like I was like when we first 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.760 even like getting like when I think we we took 0:07:06.800 --> 0:07:08.360 a ride, didn't we, And it was like not even 0:07:08.400 --> 0:07:10.480 like properly like racing the Caanjo, but it was like 0:07:10.720 --> 0:07:12.800 we're just gonna go on the Caanjo and me and 0:07:12.840 --> 0:07:15.360 you were like, holy fuck, look at each other, like 0:07:15.440 --> 0:07:18.040 this is serious, and it was nothing comparatible we're about 0:07:18.080 --> 0:07:20.400 to happen, but we were already like you know, checking 0:07:20.440 --> 0:07:23.160 we're strapped in properly like raising eyeb I was like, 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.680 holy shit, like what's going on? 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:28.120 And it felt like ridiculous, like just off the bat us. 0:07:28.400 --> 0:07:30.760 Yeah, like that first time when it was like, Okay, 0:07:30.800 --> 0:07:32.280 we're just gonna go here, and it's like, oh, we're 0:07:32.320 --> 0:07:34.280 on the loop now, and then all of a sudden, 0:07:34.280 --> 0:07:36.440 it's like one hundred miles an hour and that guy 0:07:36.560 --> 0:07:36.920 was like. 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:39.200 Texting at the same time. I was like, oh, we're 0:07:39.240 --> 0:07:41.160 gonna die. Like it was terrifying. 0:07:41.280 --> 0:07:44.760 Also, like the exhausts, like the sound that the cars 0:07:44.840 --> 0:07:47.560 make is just insane, isn't it. 0:07:47.560 --> 0:07:49.320 It's just like it just goes through you. 0:07:49.440 --> 0:07:52.640 And I think even whatever speed you're at feels like 0:07:53.040 --> 0:07:56.800 tice as fast because you've just got this ridiculous rattle 0:07:56.880 --> 0:07:58.200 coming from the exhaust. 0:08:00.200 --> 0:08:13.720 Wo yeah. 0:08:13.840 --> 0:08:16.000 Do you know what though? Something really weird? 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:18.320 So like normally, like say I'm about just at home 0:08:18.360 --> 0:08:20.280 in England or whatever, and I hear someone tear down 0:08:20.320 --> 0:08:23.160 the road that it like actually drives me mental, like 0:08:23.200 --> 0:08:25.920 it pisces me off, but but I don't know what 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:30.120 it was like halfway through, I was like desperate to 0:08:30.160 --> 0:08:31.880 hear it again, like I wanted to feel it. 0:08:31.920 --> 0:08:33.720 Like every trip we talk, I was like, yeah, I 0:08:33.760 --> 0:08:35.360 loved it. When the VTech kicked in. Do you know 0:08:35.400 --> 0:08:35.800 what I mean? 0:08:36.320 --> 0:08:37.199 Yeah? Is addictive? 0:08:37.240 --> 0:08:39.600 Is that it's a weird Yeah? Did you did you 0:08:39.600 --> 0:08:41.840 feel that as well? Almost like surprised I was that 0:08:41.880 --> 0:08:42.679 I'd ever think. 0:08:42.520 --> 0:08:44.559 That, Yeah, for sure, And I think, like. 0:08:46.120 --> 0:08:48.440 I both have sworn I would never get in one 0:08:48.400 --> 0:08:51.000 of those cars again, and at the same time secretly 0:08:51.120 --> 0:08:54.800 would love the opportunity because it's just like I mean, 0:08:54.840 --> 0:08:57.360 it was and it was a serious adrenalin rush, like 0:08:57.440 --> 0:09:00.040 it was everything about it and it hit all of 0:08:59.880 --> 0:09:03.599 your senses, like you know you were you were overloading 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:05.560 every sense that you have in your body. 0:09:05.679 --> 0:09:07.040 It was just all like on. 0:09:07.040 --> 0:09:10.600 Overdrive and it felt it felt ridiculous and you got 0:09:10.600 --> 0:09:12.360 out of the car and like that adrenaline s fight 0:09:12.559 --> 0:09:16.480 was like something else, I mean, not really comparable to 0:09:16.520 --> 0:09:17.280 anything else I've done. 0:09:17.320 --> 0:09:18.720 It was really unique in that way. 0:09:19.160 --> 0:09:22.360 No, it's same, like even like war or it was 0:09:22.360 --> 0:09:25.960 a very specific adrenaline rush. It was like, I don't know, 0:09:26.040 --> 0:09:29.719 I think the like man in Machine vibe was just like, 0:09:29.800 --> 0:09:31.559 I don't know, it's something completely different. 0:09:31.800 --> 0:09:33.920 It really made me feel like I don't know. 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:37.120 I don't want to say like I I understood it 0:09:37.160 --> 0:09:40.559 fully because I just I couldn't. I would be so 0:09:40.600 --> 0:09:43.600 scared to drive like that myself all the time. But 0:09:43.720 --> 0:09:46.680 very quickly I saw the appeal of it. 0:09:46.760 --> 0:09:48.480 Did you do you think that? Yeah, Like I get 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:49.439 why people would do that. 0:09:49.640 --> 0:09:51.719 I'm not like a carn in any way. And it's 0:09:51.760 --> 0:09:53.679 the only time in my life I've been like, oh, 0:09:53.720 --> 0:09:56.200 I kind of get how your life could become that. 0:09:56.840 --> 0:09:59.160 Yeah, Like if you're a teenager there you'd be like 0:10:00.080 --> 0:10:01.600 I think I want it civic now, and I think 0:10:01.600 --> 0:10:04.160 I want to do this because ultimately, like it's like 0:10:04.200 --> 0:10:06.240 we were saying the whole time, Like you made a 0:10:06.280 --> 0:10:10.240 good point to start, Like Japanese culture it really does 0:10:10.400 --> 0:10:14.720 not accept or favor outlaws or bandits in any way, 0:10:14.760 --> 0:10:15.480 do you know what I mean? 0:10:15.520 --> 0:10:17.760 And you could really become a social prior as well, 0:10:17.840 --> 0:10:20.240 Like people could really ostracize you for that as well. 0:10:21.559 --> 0:10:25.360 Yeah, what was what was the most challenging part for you, 0:10:25.400 --> 0:10:29.280 like trying to film. 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:31.240 The racing and everything. 0:10:30.960 --> 0:10:31.600 Easy question. 0:10:32.840 --> 0:10:34.480 It was very difficult with and I think you would 0:10:34.480 --> 0:10:38.960 agree with this in a way that Japanese people are 0:10:39.080 --> 0:10:42.840 quite guarded and shy I think when it comes to 0:10:43.240 --> 0:10:45.640 especially being on camera and especially. 0:10:45.200 --> 0:10:47.000 When it's like a secretive world. 0:10:47.360 --> 0:10:50.719 And I think we both had moments of trying our 0:10:50.760 --> 0:10:55.439 best to get them to engage past one word answers. 0:10:55.559 --> 0:10:59.079 And that's just like I think that's just something that comes. 0:10:59.160 --> 0:11:01.240 If we went back and we were the same people, 0:11:01.320 --> 0:11:04.600 I bet you would be easier. It's just maybe requires 0:11:04.600 --> 0:11:06.960 more time on the ground or whatever. But they it 0:11:07.040 --> 0:11:11.640 was quite tricky to get them to speak openly and. 0:11:13.000 --> 0:11:15.760 Without embarrassment I think about what they were doing. 0:11:16.120 --> 0:11:18.080 Yeah, that that was a big part of it for me. 0:11:18.080 --> 0:11:20.200 It was difficult because it's like you're going into this 0:11:20.360 --> 0:11:26.679 kind of underworld, but actually they're just mostly shy about it, 0:11:26.720 --> 0:11:27.760 which I didn't expect. 0:11:27.920 --> 0:11:30.600 And that's a lot of the other people that we 0:11:30.840 --> 0:11:33.400 go and film with, right, Like a lot of the 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:35.920 times these people have like a bit of an ego 0:11:35.920 --> 0:11:38.400 trip and it's like that you can't stop them, like 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:41.720 they just you can't stop them talking about themselves or 0:11:41.720 --> 0:11:46.760 what they're doing, And with these guys it was the opposite. 0:11:46.760 --> 0:11:50.240 But yeah, I think apart from I think from a 0:11:50.280 --> 0:11:53.000 shooting perspective, like it's quite a tricky story to cover 0:11:53.600 --> 0:11:56.640 in a few ways. Because one, everything took place at night, 0:11:57.400 --> 0:12:00.160 so just from like it's like straight away, just from 0:12:00.200 --> 0:12:03.280 like an exposure point of view, everything you're shooting is 0:12:03.400 --> 0:12:05.959 like you're you're struggling for light the whole time. And 0:12:06.360 --> 0:12:09.839 number two, like you're shooting in the back of like 0:12:09.960 --> 0:12:14.240 a stripped out car that's going ridiculously fast and swerving, 0:12:14.520 --> 0:12:18.280 and like to get any kind of camera control requires 0:12:18.600 --> 0:12:19.360 hands of steel. 0:12:19.360 --> 0:12:21.360 I mean, it was like it was pretty hard from 0:12:21.400 --> 0:12:22.679 that point of view as well. 0:12:23.120 --> 0:12:25.000 Yeah, I was trying to explain to a friend the 0:12:25.040 --> 0:12:27.240 other day about the rigs that we had in there, 0:12:27.320 --> 0:12:30.839 like you had like lorry straps you had, you had 0:12:30.920 --> 0:12:35.240 the tripod somehow in the back. Can you maybe just 0:12:35.280 --> 0:12:36.760 go into a little bit of that, because I couldn't 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:41.080 even really fully explain all those kind of technical things 0:12:41.120 --> 0:12:42.199 that you did to make it work. 0:12:42.280 --> 0:12:44.679 I mean, I say technical. It was like Jerry rigged, 0:12:44.720 --> 0:12:45.280 but it worked. 0:12:45.480 --> 0:12:47.160 Yeah, shit, riggs is what you call it. 0:12:47.559 --> 0:12:48.480 Yeah, it was. 0:12:48.679 --> 0:12:50.680 It was like making the best of of the situation. 0:12:50.800 --> 0:12:53.760 So, like we obviously put like GoPros on the side 0:12:53.800 --> 0:12:55.599 of the veguan and within so we already had like 0:12:55.640 --> 0:12:58.040 a few angles covered, especially with the togn which was 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:01.559 more like set up we could rig a car way 0:13:01.679 --> 0:13:04.600 more than when we were doing the kanjo, but. 0:13:04.720 --> 0:13:06.800 With the toget like, so we set at the goprost, 0:13:06.880 --> 0:13:07.200 we had. 0:13:07.080 --> 0:13:09.560 A few angles, and then I was like, I would 0:13:09.640 --> 0:13:12.600 love to be able to get like a shot from 0:13:13.120 --> 0:13:17.480 the interior looking forwards and rig a camera at a 0:13:18.440 --> 0:13:21.800 certain viewpoint. And in order to do that, I decided 0:13:21.880 --> 0:13:25.600 to strap the tripod down onto the to the cage 0:13:25.640 --> 0:13:29.960 of the car and secure it with these with these straps, yeah, 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:34.240 that you could tighten right up, and it got really 0:13:34.360 --> 0:13:36.440 actually we managed to get into a really good position, 0:13:36.480 --> 0:13:38.280 didn't We and then just fix the camera onto the 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:42.079 tripod and it created a fantastic like camera angle. 0:13:42.080 --> 0:13:42.800 It was really cool. 0:13:42.840 --> 0:13:46.160 It was like, I think we had our widest lens 0:13:46.200 --> 0:13:49.520 on there was like an eighteen mil and just locked 0:13:49.559 --> 0:13:51.240 off on that tripod and then just went through it. 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.760 And because of the way that it was rigged, it 0:13:54.160 --> 0:13:57.760 moved with the car, so if the car went up 0:13:57.760 --> 0:13:59.160 a little bit, it came went up a little bit, 0:13:59.240 --> 0:14:05.000 and that created quite an unusual, quite unusual footage. Didn't 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:07.960 It felt felt very immersive and fast, and I think 0:14:08.400 --> 0:14:10.839 more so than the other like handheld stuff. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:11.480 It was really cool. 0:14:11.520 --> 0:14:14.920 Actually, No, definitely agree, And I think like for anyone listening, 0:14:15.000 --> 0:14:17.880 they'll see it on our YouTube when the dot comes out. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:21.120 But basically it was shooting out the front but from 0:14:21.160 --> 0:14:23.440 the back right, so it was like you can see 0:14:23.480 --> 0:14:25.720 my head, you can see the driver's head. But I 0:14:25.800 --> 0:14:28.920 think the shake is what actually made it work, if 0:14:28.960 --> 0:14:32.480 that makes sense. For some reason with filmmaking, it kind 0:14:32.520 --> 0:14:35.440 of hard to show how fast something is actually going right, 0:14:35.560 --> 0:14:37.320 and like the shake kind of made it work. 0:14:38.000 --> 0:14:40.480 Yeah, And it's like the classic thing also, like you 0:14:40.600 --> 0:14:43.320 know slow motion for example, as soon as you're filming 0:14:43.360 --> 0:14:45.520 a car, slow motion is like the worst thing ever. 0:14:45.720 --> 0:14:48.480 Just it doesn't suddenly it just doesn't look it doesn't 0:14:48.520 --> 0:14:50.760 look great. It just looks just looks like very slow 0:14:50.840 --> 0:14:53.960 and boring. You want to be able to have a 0:14:54.000 --> 0:14:55.400 little bit of shake, a little bit of speed. You 0:14:55.440 --> 0:14:58.640 want to be able to communicate like that level of Yeah, 0:14:58.880 --> 0:15:02.720 just pure speed and violence, like going down the work road. 0:15:02.760 --> 0:15:05.160 I mean literally the car is like going at a 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:07.800 ridiculous speed down a mountain pass, and like you don't 0:15:07.840 --> 0:15:10.880 want so much and you don't want like really controlled footage. 0:15:10.880 --> 0:15:13.320 You want something that's going to convey that. You know. 0:15:14.080 --> 0:15:19.520 Yeah, definitely in terms of like the cars themselves, Like 0:15:19.880 --> 0:15:20.880 what did you make of that? 0:15:21.040 --> 0:15:24.280 For me? I just couldn't quite believe how much they'd 0:15:24.320 --> 0:15:25.040 taken it apart. 0:15:25.880 --> 0:15:28.520 Yeah, it was quite crazy on the way to that toga, 0:15:28.880 --> 0:15:31.160 Like we were in different cars, whonn't we? And I 0:15:31.440 --> 0:15:33.880 was like in with this other lad and he had 0:15:33.960 --> 0:15:38.480 it literally bare bones, like bare bare bones, Like even 0:15:38.600 --> 0:15:41.960 the gearstick was just like straight metal pole. 0:15:42.000 --> 0:15:44.360 There was nothing even on top. It was like just 0:15:44.520 --> 0:15:48.520 there and this, I mean it just felt unreal. 0:15:48.600 --> 0:15:50.520 I was like, surely you need more in this than 0:15:50.640 --> 0:15:54.800 like basically a seat rollcageing gearstick, and steering wheel like 0:15:54.880 --> 0:15:58.960 that was respectively. It even like the speedometer like didn't 0:15:59.040 --> 0:16:01.280 have like a plastic it was just like open. 0:16:03.120 --> 0:16:06.040 Any difference, but that's great, like just in case it's 0:16:06.120 --> 0:16:09.640 like a feather's weight. Fucking I the guy I was, 0:16:09.840 --> 0:16:12.120 it didn't There was no panels on the door, so 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.000 the door handle was just like a wire like it was. 0:16:15.480 --> 0:16:18.480 It was absolutely mental, like all the backseats ripped out 0:16:18.640 --> 0:16:21.600 like everything. What was there anything that kind of like 0:16:22.120 --> 0:16:25.040 surprised you maybe you didn't expect from these people. 0:16:25.560 --> 0:16:26.240 I think like. 0:16:26.440 --> 0:16:28.400 Often I think it's kind of away touched on, but 0:16:28.480 --> 0:16:29.960 like it's kind of like when you go into these 0:16:30.440 --> 0:16:33.080 worlds often you get a certain type of person. And 0:16:33.160 --> 0:16:35.600 I just felt like, more so than ever with this story, 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:42.480 the people engaging with it were just so your standard 0:16:42.760 --> 0:16:45.400 Joe kind of guy, like just surprisingly so like they 0:16:45.480 --> 0:16:50.000 weren't in any way like trying to be hard or 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:52.640 like gangsters, and they were just like ordinary guys. Like 0:16:52.680 --> 0:16:54.440 a lot of them like video games and stuff, and 0:16:54.520 --> 0:16:58.920 they were just doing these crazy races but they weren't. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:02.560 They didn't feel like they didn't fulfill the persona of 0:17:02.680 --> 0:17:05.239 like an outlaw as much as some of the other 0:17:05.280 --> 0:17:08.639 stories that we've done. They just were ordinary guys and 0:17:08.720 --> 0:17:11.040 that was quite surprising. I to it sometimes like super sweet, 0:17:11.119 --> 0:17:13.560 like nice guys, like they weren't. There was no ego, 0:17:13.720 --> 0:17:16.520 there was no like trying to trying to be a 0:17:16.560 --> 0:17:19.760 hard guy. They were just just loved racing these cars. 0:17:20.119 --> 0:17:21.840 And yeah, that was quite surprising. 0:17:22.440 --> 0:17:23.760 Yeah that from me as well. 0:17:23.880 --> 0:17:26.680 Like even that like yakuza guy we met was still nice, 0:17:26.960 --> 0:17:29.159 you know, like he was a chill guy until he 0:17:29.320 --> 0:17:33.119 kind of, you know, vanished. I was almost expecting some 0:17:33.400 --> 0:17:36.399 kind of like petrol head vibe like you maybe have 0:17:36.480 --> 0:17:38.760 in the UK, but literally literally none was like that. 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:42.080 Even Park Like he was so sweet. I feel like 0:17:42.200 --> 0:17:44.200 he really longed for the days of it, you know 0:17:44.240 --> 0:17:44.640 what I mean. 0:17:45.160 --> 0:17:46.800 Yeah, And you could tell that was a part of it, 0:17:47.000 --> 0:17:50.159 like the history to it was. Everyone really respected that 0:17:50.240 --> 0:17:52.320 as well. It was like it was almost like this 0:17:52.440 --> 0:17:55.520 on a code of like respect towards the history of 0:17:55.640 --> 0:17:58.359 Kanjo and the people that had done it before them 0:17:58.400 --> 0:17:59.919 and stuff like, And that was cool as well. 0:18:01.200 --> 0:18:03.760 What did you make of Japan is your first time there? Right? 0:18:04.000 --> 0:18:04.480 Me as well? 0:18:04.600 --> 0:18:07.720 Yeah, wicked so cool. I mean it was like, you know, 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:11.080 a culture shop, but in the best possible way. It 0:18:11.240 --> 0:18:13.960 was like just brilliant. It was like you were discovering 0:18:14.040 --> 0:18:16.520 something new on every street corner, a different way of 0:18:16.600 --> 0:18:16.879 doing it. 0:18:16.960 --> 0:18:21.560 Whether it was like you know, typography, colors, like they 0:18:21.680 --> 0:18:22.680 just did everything different. 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:23.920 Like I remember when we first got. 0:18:23.800 --> 0:18:25.480 On the Tube, it was like the color system was 0:18:25.600 --> 0:18:28.800 just so crazily different to what we would expect in Europe, 0:18:28.960 --> 0:18:32.639 and you know, having like little cartoon character chures like 0:18:33.240 --> 0:18:35.960 used in signage everywhere, and like it was just, yeah, 0:18:36.000 --> 0:18:38.920 it's just so different, isn't it. Like, and that's fun 0:18:39.119 --> 0:18:42.440 to walk around and just discover those things. I feel 0:18:42.520 --> 0:18:45.359 like often when you travel a lot, that doesn't happen 0:18:45.480 --> 0:18:47.200 so much anymore. I remember when I was younger and 0:18:47.200 --> 0:18:49.240 I went to India and I found that like a 0:18:49.320 --> 0:18:51.240 real culture shock as well. And I think this is 0:18:51.280 --> 0:18:52.920 the only other time I've had that where it was like, 0:18:53.480 --> 0:18:56.520 oh wow, like this really feels like I'm like I'm 0:18:56.560 --> 0:18:59.080 traveling and I'm somewhere far like far from home. 0:18:59.160 --> 0:18:59.640 It was cool. 0:18:59.760 --> 0:19:00.879 Yeah, I agree. 0:19:00.920 --> 0:19:04.000 I think with the way like everything's so globalized now, 0:19:04.080 --> 0:19:06.159 you can see the other side of the world in 0:19:06.280 --> 0:19:08.720 the click of a button. It's almost like you've been 0:19:08.800 --> 0:19:10.760 somewhere before, or even if you haven't. But for me, 0:19:11.560 --> 0:19:15.280 even though I've been looking at Japanese culture and whatever, 0:19:15.440 --> 0:19:17.920 probably my whole life, like being fascinated from very young 0:19:18.080 --> 0:19:20.000 due to like manga and anime and all of that 0:19:20.160 --> 0:19:23.000 kind of cool stuff, it did feel like a completely 0:19:23.119 --> 0:19:25.040 new place to me. And one thing that I just 0:19:25.119 --> 0:19:28.080 couldn't get my head around was like we were in 0:19:28.720 --> 0:19:31.800 kind of like what was like would be considered like 0:19:31.920 --> 0:19:35.080 the hood, but you know that really cheap little spot 0:19:35.160 --> 0:19:38.560 we had. People were saying, that's like a very relatively 0:19:38.680 --> 0:19:42.240 poor area for a saka, but it was absolutely lovely, 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:45.240 Like no one had to change their bike up, everybody 0:19:45.320 --> 0:19:47.520 said hello, there was no trash on the floor, no, 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:48.200 nothing like that. 0:19:48.840 --> 0:19:51.199 And the thing that got me was like everything worked. 0:19:51.280 --> 0:19:52.080 I couldn't believe it. 0:19:52.520 --> 0:19:54.960 And like we remember like we got on that we 0:19:55.080 --> 0:19:57.000 got on the tube for the first time, like literally 0:19:57.160 --> 0:19:59.800 it was it was just spotless, like you could eat 0:19:59.840 --> 0:20:02.320 it the off. It was that clean and going, you know, 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:06.600 twelve hours before like getting getting off the London Tube 0:20:06.640 --> 0:20:09.040 to go to heater, and it's just feel that you 0:20:09.080 --> 0:20:10.880 sit down, a cloud of dust comes up, and it's 0:20:10.960 --> 0:20:13.439 just such a difference, even on the micro as well 0:20:13.480 --> 0:20:13.960 as the macro. 0:20:14.680 --> 0:20:18.200