WEBVTT - “I WALKED ACROSS JAPAN” 0:00:00.080 --> 0:00:00.240 Hi. 0:00:00.360 --> 0:00:00.920 What's your name? 0:00:01.760 --> 0:00:02.600 This is Jason. 0:00:03.600 --> 0:00:05.360 What's up, Jason? Where are you calling from? 0:00:06.160 --> 0:00:07.320 I'm calling from Japan. 0:00:08.080 --> 0:00:12.960 You're calling from Japan? Yeah, what what are you doing 0:00:13.000 --> 0:00:13.520 in Japan? 0:00:13.880 --> 0:00:14.200 Actually? 0:00:15.640 --> 0:00:17.800 Well, okay, so we've met before. 0:00:18.880 --> 0:00:23.400 Wait, I know exactly who you are, all right, I'm 0:00:24.040 --> 0:00:26.960 I'm gonna tell a story to the chap, to the 0:00:27.120 --> 0:00:29.800 listeners real quick. I'm gonna set a little bit of context. 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:35.519 So two years ago, I took a trip alone to 0:00:35.640 --> 0:00:40.520 Japan as a gecko because I wanted to go and 0:00:40.800 --> 0:00:46.000 I wanted to make some gecko content there, and I 0:00:46.080 --> 0:00:51.879 was I did this. I was live streaming myself in 0:00:51.920 --> 0:00:57.400 a gecko suit walking around. I never I never like 0:00:57.480 --> 0:00:59.440 made a video out of this. It's just it was 0:00:59.520 --> 0:01:01.280 just kind of a live stream that I did. And 0:01:01.320 --> 0:01:04.120 I was live streaming myself as a gecko walking around 0:01:04.200 --> 0:01:08.600 Japan and talking to people, and I was looking at 0:01:08.600 --> 0:01:12.639 my chat and somebody in my chat was like, yo, dude, 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:16.200 I'm like within a mile of where you currently are 0:01:16.280 --> 0:01:19.680 right now, and I'm like, you're lying. I'm in fucking Tokyo. 0:01:19.840 --> 0:01:23.160 There's no reason that anyone who's watching my stream right 0:01:23.200 --> 0:01:24.720 now would be where I am right now. And you 0:01:24.720 --> 0:01:27.720 were like, no, I'm serious, and everyone in the chat 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:31.000 was like, this guy's fucking trolling you, Lyle. This guy's 0:01:31.040 --> 0:01:33.160 just gonna make you wait and then be like, no, 0:01:33.200 --> 0:01:35.280 I'm just kidding. I'm in Alabama. And I was like, 0:01:35.319 --> 0:01:38.679 you know what, No, I have faith that this chatter 0:01:39.600 --> 0:01:42.040 is not trolling me and he actually is gonna stream 0:01:42.040 --> 0:01:44.520 snipe me. So and I'm gonna say And I sat 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:46.639 and I waited, and I was like, yeah, this chatter 0:01:46.720 --> 0:01:50.240 is gonna come meet me wherever he is in Japan. 0:01:50.360 --> 0:01:52.440 And everyone in the just not you had not one 0:01:52.520 --> 0:01:56.919 supporter in the chat. They were all like, this fucking 0:01:56.960 --> 0:02:01.120 guy is trolling you. And sure enough, a man comes 0:02:01.200 --> 0:02:02.640 up to me and he's like you are you, Lyle? 0:02:02.680 --> 0:02:05.760 And I'm like, yeah, are you Jason? And fucking that 0:02:05.880 --> 0:02:08.560 was it. And then we wait. We we walked around. 0:02:08.680 --> 0:02:11.960 You hung out on my stream and we walked around 0:02:12.560 --> 0:02:14.680 and we uh we had a good time. We went 0:02:14.720 --> 0:02:19.360 to this fucking crazy mall and uh, you told me 0:02:19.440 --> 0:02:23.920 your life story and uh it was cool, it was great. 0:02:24.080 --> 0:02:27.200 And now we're on the phone together two years later. 0:02:27.280 --> 0:02:28.280 How you do it with Jason? 0:02:29.760 --> 0:02:33.040 I'm all right, so, uh yeah, that's it was a 0:02:33.040 --> 0:02:34.880 little bit more than I was in Shibuia, and I 0:02:34.919 --> 0:02:37.320 saw you and my younger brothers like, you have to 0:02:37.960 --> 0:02:39.320 you have to go stream slamp and I was like, 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.840 I don't want to do that. I was like, that's 0:02:43.080 --> 0:02:45.880 you know, I like, it's it's such an awkward thing. 0:02:45.960 --> 0:02:48.200 But no, So yeah, we hung out for like an 0:02:48.200 --> 0:02:50.760 hour and a half two hours, and then because of you, 0:02:50.880 --> 0:02:54.160 I started streaming. And then after that, I don't I 0:02:54.480 --> 0:02:57.000 watched another streamer read a book about a guy who 0:02:57.040 --> 0:03:00.680 walked across Japan and thought, I want to do that. 0:03:00.800 --> 0:03:04.880 Like I turned thirty last year and I was still 0:03:04.919 --> 0:03:07.480 a kind of chunky, but I wanted to change my life, 0:03:07.480 --> 0:03:10.040 and so I I this year. I just got back 0:03:10.080 --> 0:03:13.519 from walking across Japan. I walked like two thousand miles 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:16.440 across Japan. And that was because I met you, Like 0:03:16.480 --> 0:03:20.120 you said, go do content stuff and maybe it works out, 0:03:20.160 --> 0:03:23.480 maybe it doesn't, but you should try. And so I 0:03:23.520 --> 0:03:24.280 fucking did the thing. 0:03:24.480 --> 0:03:28.880 And wow wow yeah yeah, so we were I we 0:03:29.120 --> 0:03:31.520 so we were talking about it a little bit on 0:03:31.560 --> 0:03:34.400 the stream. But then after I ended the stream, you 0:03:34.440 --> 0:03:38.040 and I we were taking the uh subway somewhere. We 0:03:38.040 --> 0:03:41.160 were just chatting about like content and stuff, and you 0:03:41.200 --> 0:03:43.160 were telling me you wanted to do some shit and 0:03:43.200 --> 0:03:45.600 we had it. We talked about it. Yeah yeah, and 0:03:45.640 --> 0:03:49.400 I think I think, I think, uh uh, you bought 0:03:49.400 --> 0:03:51.680 me a paperry sweat. 0:03:52.920 --> 0:03:54.840 I did. Yeah, so we because you had to go 0:03:54.880 --> 0:03:57.080 to a sushi place across it was it was on 0:03:57.080 --> 0:03:59.040 my way back home. And yeah, yeah, so I bought 0:03:59.040 --> 0:04:01.240 you for christ and then you want you bought the 0:04:01.360 --> 0:04:03.120 So I bought two drinks, O Kari sweat and a 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:07.280 Deca Vida, the vitamin orange citrusy drink. 0:04:07.600 --> 0:04:16.000 Yeah, yeah, wow, Okay, that's awesome. So inspired by that conversation, 0:04:16.120 --> 0:04:18.800 You've walked across fuck I didn't. Hey man, I didn't 0:04:18.800 --> 0:04:21.680 say to walk across all of Japan. That's overkilled. That's 0:04:21.720 --> 0:04:22.200 too much. 0:04:23.920 --> 0:04:26.919 No, No, it's I Like I said, it was a 0:04:27.040 --> 0:04:29.760 kind of a perfect storm of watching you and then 0:04:29.800 --> 0:04:33.600 watched another like a Japanese woodlock printer guy who has 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:35.400 been in Japan for a long time. I read this 0:04:35.400 --> 0:04:37.880 book and then it's like in the book he's like, 0:04:37.920 --> 0:04:40.320 I'm thirty years old, I've been in Japan eight years. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:41.960 What the fuck am I doing? And I was like, hey, 0:04:42.000 --> 0:04:44.440 I'm thirty years old. I've been in Japan seven years. 0:04:44.440 --> 0:04:45.599 What the fuck am I doing? 0:04:45.760 --> 0:04:45.960 You know? 0:04:46.520 --> 0:04:49.520 And I wanted to go out and it's something I 0:04:49.560 --> 0:04:51.960 had to do, not necessarily content, but I had to 0:04:52.000 --> 0:04:54.480 do it for myself. And then many people said, please 0:04:55.200 --> 0:04:57.479 share it if you can, and so I did. I 0:04:57.520 --> 0:05:00.839 streamed like ninety five percent of it because I thought 0:05:00.839 --> 0:05:04.239 people might get something from it even if I don't. 0:05:04.480 --> 0:05:07.480 But were you streaming? Were you streaming while you were asleep? 0:05:08.960 --> 0:05:10.919 No? No, no, I didn't. I had work, So I 0:05:10.960 --> 0:05:14.599 worked full time and walked, and so I would work 0:05:15.080 --> 0:05:17.760 like six am to nine point thirty, leave the hotel 0:05:17.760 --> 0:05:21.120 at ten, walk like twenty miles a day, fifteen twenty 0:05:21.120 --> 0:05:22.960 miles a day, and then get to the next hotel 0:05:23.120 --> 0:05:25.000 and work at night and go to sleep like that 0:05:25.080 --> 0:05:26.560 was my routine. 0:05:27.040 --> 0:05:29.400 That's fucking crazy. So where did you start and then 0:05:29.440 --> 0:05:30.120 where did you end? 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:34.640 I started at the very very southern point of Japan, 0:05:34.800 --> 0:05:37.680 Cape Sata in Kagoshima, and then I finished at the 0:05:37.760 --> 0:05:40.760 very very northern part of Hokkaido, Cape Soya. 0:05:41.120 --> 0:05:43.520 Holy shit, you walked to the entire country. 0:05:45.279 --> 0:05:46.239 I walked the entire country. 0:05:46.400 --> 0:05:48.839 Yeah, that's completely insane. 0:05:48.839 --> 0:05:49.120 How long. 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:49.760 Did that take you? 0:05:51.480 --> 0:05:53.800 One hundred and sixty nine days. 0:05:53.800 --> 0:06:00.560 By yourself, by myself? Yeah, that's fucking crazy man. And 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.039 how did this I had, like go ahead. 0:06:04.400 --> 0:06:06.400 Oh no, I had. The reason it took so long 0:06:06.520 --> 0:06:10.279 is because I had probably like ten days that I 0:06:10.440 --> 0:06:12.640 like throughout the trip, I had injury days, like my 0:06:12.720 --> 0:06:17.360 hip got messed up, my foot got messed up, stuff 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:19.359 like that. So I had to like sit tight in 0:06:19.400 --> 0:06:21.320 a hotel room for a couple of days at a time, 0:06:21.400 --> 0:06:25.039 but almost every day like my average walking I watched 0:06:25.040 --> 0:06:29.040 thirty thousand steps on average for the six months. 0:06:29.640 --> 0:06:37.040 That's fucking crazy man. So the streams did people were 0:06:37.080 --> 0:06:38.880 people watching along while you were doing it? 0:06:40.440 --> 0:06:43.760 Yeah, I grew quite a lot. I started, Like when 0:06:43.760 --> 0:06:45.719 I started the trip, I was I don't know, twenty 0:06:45.760 --> 0:06:48.400 twenty five average viewers, and now it's like at the 0:06:48.480 --> 0:06:50.120 end of it, it was a couple hundred, like one 0:06:50.160 --> 0:06:53.360 hundred and fifty two hundred, you know, So it's wonderful. Yeah, 0:06:53.360 --> 0:06:56.200 a lot of people because it's outside of like I mean, 0:06:56.320 --> 0:06:59.600 you came to like Tokyo Osaka's cool, but like I 0:06:59.680 --> 0:07:03.039 was in like the Montana of Japan, you know, like 0:07:03.200 --> 0:07:04.000 I was placed there. 0:07:03.960 --> 0:07:05.440 Yeah, but that sounds fucking no. 0:07:05.600 --> 0:07:09.320 We oh it was really fucking cool. And I made 0:07:09.360 --> 0:07:12.200 like I have a whole stack of like every place, 0:07:12.240 --> 0:07:14.280 Like I had to call so many places and I 0:07:14.320 --> 0:07:16.720 was like, hey, you guys have any rooms, like ah, 0:07:16.800 --> 0:07:18.680 now we're full, and I explained the project to them, 0:07:18.880 --> 0:07:21.640 Well we might have a room, but are you like 0:07:21.760 --> 0:07:24.280 a guest, are you a foreigner? Like what's what's going on? 0:07:24.320 --> 0:07:27.640 And so I had to call THEMM like almost negotiate 0:07:27.720 --> 0:07:29.600 a lot of places to like let me in. And 0:07:29.680 --> 0:07:31.840 there were like half a dozen to a dozen places 0:07:31.840 --> 0:07:34.080 that were like you're the first non Japanese person to 0:07:34.080 --> 0:07:36.000 ever be here, like ever, like this is one hundred 0:07:36.040 --> 0:07:39.160 year olds in, you're the first one Like wow. 0:07:39.800 --> 0:07:42.240 Wow Yeah, because I guess when you're walking across the country, 0:07:42.280 --> 0:07:44.119 you run into a lot of places where it's like 0:07:44.120 --> 0:07:47.600 like no tourist would ever go to this place of 0:07:47.680 --> 0:07:49.400 the countryside. 0:07:50.160 --> 0:07:52.640 Yeah, because it's so remote. There were some places I 0:07:52.680 --> 0:07:55.200 was at where there was a bus that ran like twice, 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:57.360 like seven thirty in the morning, like five thirty the 0:07:57.400 --> 0:07:58.520 afternoon or in the evening. 0:07:59.000 --> 0:07:59.320 That's it. 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.280 So even if I like I didn't take transportation, but 0:08:03.320 --> 0:08:05.920 if I had to. Then I got to like sit 0:08:05.920 --> 0:08:07.559 at a bus stop or sleep at a bus stop 0:08:07.640 --> 0:08:11.720 until you know, if I you know, emergency type shit. 0:08:11.920 --> 0:08:16.560 So wow, did you ever have to sleep outside? 0:08:18.600 --> 0:08:18.720 Uh? 0:08:18.920 --> 0:08:25.040 Twy the camp twice? It was I think day sixteen 0:08:25.120 --> 0:08:26.960 or seventeen. I stayed at a campsite. I didn't have 0:08:27.000 --> 0:08:29.840 work that night, and then I slept at a bungalow, 0:08:29.920 --> 0:08:32.360 which is like, I guess that's not the way nowtside, 0:08:32.480 --> 0:08:37.840 It's just a cabin type thing. But yeah, that was it. 0:08:37.880 --> 0:08:41.040 Every other time I stayed at like local inns, small 0:08:41.040 --> 0:08:45.360 little hot spring towns or I mean it just I 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:49.040 mean one hundred and fifty eight different hotels or like 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:49.920 inns and stuff. 0:08:49.960 --> 0:08:50.880 So everything. 0:08:51.360 --> 0:08:56.720 Yeah, wow, where was the coolest place that you saw 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:57.600 along your route? 0:09:00.000 --> 0:09:03.520 And that's hard, that's hard because there were there were 0:09:03.679 --> 0:09:06.640 like I made paper, like I made traditional Japanese style 0:09:06.720 --> 0:09:09.480 paper and made a bunch of friends in Etchison and Ukui. 0:09:10.400 --> 0:09:15.040 But as far as scenery, I mean, Hokkaido is nuts. 0:09:15.160 --> 0:09:16.680 Like a lot of people go to Hokaido and they 0:09:16.720 --> 0:09:19.200 go to the cities Hakodate or Sathwoo or something. But 0:09:19.520 --> 0:09:23.240 when you're out like towards the top of Hokkaido, there's 0:09:23.320 --> 0:09:25.600 nothing like there were some days I had to walk 0:09:25.640 --> 0:09:29.160 twenty five miles to the next town, like there was 0:09:29.280 --> 0:09:31.920 nothing between towns. So you have to pack food, pack water, 0:09:32.480 --> 0:09:36.000 and that's it. Like it's it's so vast in a 0:09:36.040 --> 0:09:39.600 way that like Tokyo is not, or it's it's vast 0:09:39.600 --> 0:09:42.000 in a way that's different. Tokyo's vast is a city 0:09:42.640 --> 0:09:48.400 out there, it's just like quiet, peaceful flat roads. Like yeah, 0:09:48.480 --> 0:09:49.480 it's it's hard to explain. 0:09:49.760 --> 0:09:53.400 Did you get lonely walking across just being by yourself 0:09:53.440 --> 0:09:55.000 for one hundred and sixty nine days. 0:09:56.880 --> 0:09:59.120 I did well, you know, when I had stream on, 0:09:59.200 --> 0:10:02.280 it wasn't too bad. But what really hit me is 0:10:02.320 --> 0:10:05.400 like eating dinner almost every night alone. And that sounds 0:10:05.400 --> 0:10:10.560 so like when you're in a hotel, and so it is. 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:12.920 I mean, especially when you know in Tokyo, it's like 0:10:12.960 --> 0:10:15.640 I can have dinner with friends or you know, significant 0:10:15.640 --> 0:10:19.040 other or whatever and it's uh, but on the road, 0:10:19.080 --> 0:10:21.880 it's like it's just me. And sometimes the innkeepers would 0:10:21.880 --> 0:10:24.040 come and have dinner with me, but a lot of 0:10:24.080 --> 0:10:28.640 times they would not. They would just be like because 0:10:28.640 --> 0:10:30.560 even though I speak Japanese, they were like, ah, like 0:10:31.320 --> 0:10:34.760 it's kind of a client and not client customer patron 0:10:34.800 --> 0:10:37.960 type thing, so they don't want to like encroach on 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:40.600 the customer's eating experience or something. 0:10:40.760 --> 0:10:44.160 So do you speak fluent Japanese? 0:10:46.240 --> 0:10:48.640 I speak pretty good. I mean I had I traveled 0:10:48.679 --> 0:10:51.000 for six months for one hundred and sixty nine days, 0:10:51.000 --> 0:10:53.800 Sladay problems fluent. I don't like the word fluent. I 0:10:53.800 --> 0:10:57.320 think a lot of people throw fluent around, and that's 0:10:58.040 --> 0:11:02.520 for me. Fluent means no hiccups at all, and I'm 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:03.040 not quite there. 0:11:03.200 --> 0:11:05.280 But I spoke with like. 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:08.120 Old dudes for a couple hours at a time, politics 0:11:08.240 --> 0:11:11.040 or I had trouble talking about religion because I just 0:11:12.120 --> 0:11:18.120 never studied those words and so it's it's like I 0:11:18.160 --> 0:11:21.520 have thoughts about it, but I couldn't articulate it as well. 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:24.960 So pretty conversational, say above conversational. 0:11:26.840 --> 0:11:28.920 Tell me about some of these conversations that you had 0:11:28.960 --> 0:11:33.400 with these like elderly Japanese folks on the country side, 0:11:33.440 --> 0:11:36.480 Like there any stories, did you learn anything? Did you 0:11:37.320 --> 0:11:38.400 like to tell? What would you take away? 0:11:39.040 --> 0:11:42.120 You know, I felt there was one guy in Particu. 0:11:42.200 --> 0:11:43.400 I mean I talked with a lot, but there was 0:11:43.440 --> 0:11:45.160 the one guy that's kind of burned into my memory. 0:11:45.320 --> 0:11:45.920 He wasn't old. 0:11:45.960 --> 0:11:46.400 He was. 0:11:47.960 --> 0:11:50.679 Fifty eight, which I mean, I guess relative. I'm sure 0:11:50.800 --> 0:11:52.600 some people in chat are going to be like fifty 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:55.600 eights old as anyway, but I remember it really kind of. 0:11:56.440 --> 0:11:59.280 I felt so weird because I'm doing this trip. I'm 0:11:59.320 --> 0:12:02.439 a little bit past halfway. I'm in in yudah and 0:12:02.520 --> 0:12:06.840 Igata and it's this kind of beach town type thing. 0:12:07.000 --> 0:12:10.360 And I talked to the owner of the Yokamda Japanese 0:12:10.440 --> 0:12:14.360 in and he's drunk and we're drinking, and he goes, man, 0:12:14.400 --> 0:12:16.240 you must be really rich to travel like this, and 0:12:16.280 --> 0:12:20.320 I said, not really. I saved during COVID and I'm 0:12:20.320 --> 0:12:22.400 just an English teacher, Like I don't make money from 0:12:22.720 --> 0:12:24.680 I make a few bucks from twitch or whatever. But 0:12:25.600 --> 0:12:28.360 I said, yeah, I'm not rich. I just saved during COVID. 0:12:28.400 --> 0:12:31.160 And he goes, well, it's it's really cool that he 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:35.120 said you're You're so cool and I'm so stupid. And 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:37.960 I said, what do you mean? And he goes, man, 0:12:38.000 --> 0:12:40.560 I've been in this town. I'm fifty eight years old. 0:12:40.880 --> 0:12:42.640 I've been in this town. I've been working at this 0:12:43.200 --> 0:12:46.600 same inn for forty years and he's like, I've never 0:12:47.000 --> 0:12:49.080 he said, I've only been to Tokyo like twice. He said, 0:12:49.080 --> 0:12:52.400 I've never traveled in Japan and I've never done this 0:12:52.440 --> 0:12:54.960 and that, And he said, here, you are a foreigner 0:12:55.160 --> 0:12:58.880 and you're doing this crazy thing. And I'm just a 0:12:58.920 --> 0:13:01.600 fifty eight year old old man and I don't have money. 0:13:01.720 --> 0:13:05.240 I just have this in and like that really stuck 0:13:05.280 --> 0:13:09.000 with me because I'm like, fuck, like you know, I'm 0:13:09.000 --> 0:13:09.760 just sitting there. 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:10.240 Like what do I say? 0:13:10.320 --> 0:13:14.160 Like, yeah, you are you know, like what do you want? 0:13:14.360 --> 0:13:16.800 Like I don't know what? And so he and I 0:13:16.840 --> 0:13:18.560 drank for a couple more hours, but it very much 0:13:18.640 --> 0:13:20.360 was you know, I told him, I was like, this 0:13:20.480 --> 0:13:23.120 isn't you know, that's your life and you can still 0:13:23.120 --> 0:13:25.920 make changes. Fifty it's young, you can still go travel 0:13:25.960 --> 0:13:27.920 like you're gonna you're gonna outlive me, dude, you know. 0:13:28.040 --> 0:13:30.840 So But for me, that stuck with me, cause like 0:13:31.160 --> 0:13:35.559 it's very much we make our lives and sometimes we 0:13:35.600 --> 0:13:38.320 are born into family businesses, we're born into situations and 0:13:38.360 --> 0:13:38.839 it's hard to. 0:13:38.760 --> 0:13:39.280 Get out of that. 0:13:39.320 --> 0:13:43.000 But for that, it kind of hit me like if 0:13:43.040 --> 0:13:45.160 I don't want to get stuck in something I have 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:48.640 to take active choices to get out of that. 0:13:50.160 --> 0:13:50.640 Totally. 0:13:51.080 --> 0:13:54.600 Totally. Yeah, that's that's so interesting because you know you 0:13:54.640 --> 0:13:58.480 are a foreigner, but yet you've seen probably more Japan 0:13:58.559 --> 0:14:00.920 than most Japanese people have. 0:14:02.400 --> 0:14:05.360 Yeah, but almost Like that's one thing whenever I traveled 0:14:05.360 --> 0:14:08.040 to like not that I'm not checking things off and 0:14:08.080 --> 0:14:10.760 making a list, but just like in America, like how 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:14.240 many Americans have been to the Midwest, I mean, how 0:14:14.240 --> 0:14:17.120 many like you know, flyover states, Like how many people 0:14:17.160 --> 0:14:20.960 have actually been to Oklahoma or Kansas or you know whatever, 0:14:21.800 --> 0:14:23.800 And so the same thing in Japan, like people go 0:14:23.840 --> 0:14:28.200 to Tokyo, Osaka, Oki, Noawa, Hokkaido, but no one's going 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:32.440 to Shimani Prefecture to go, you know, check out hot 0:14:32.480 --> 0:14:33.320 springs or whatever. 0:14:33.640 --> 0:14:38.080 So I also love the perspective of like, I mean, 0:14:39.000 --> 0:14:41.520 you know this trip that you take, I mean, you 0:14:41.600 --> 0:14:43.720 have a remote job, but a lot of people have 0:14:44.200 --> 0:14:47.720 remote jobs these days. It's like you would this trip 0:14:47.800 --> 0:14:50.080 did it sounds to me? And you know, you can 0:14:50.120 --> 0:14:52.119 tell me if if you don't know what the financials 0:14:52.120 --> 0:14:54.280 are of doing something like this, But this isn't a 0:14:54.280 --> 0:14:57.640 trip that it seems like it's something you are able 0:14:57.680 --> 0:15:01.480 to do because you have a lot of necessarily a 0:15:01.680 --> 0:15:04.080 lot of money. It's something you're able to do just 0:15:04.120 --> 0:15:06.720 because you fucking put your because you had the fucking 0:15:06.800 --> 0:15:07.880 balls to do it, you know. 0:15:09.400 --> 0:15:11.840 Yeah, So this is one thing, I mean, full disclosure, 0:15:11.960 --> 0:15:16.480 the entire trip, food, lodging, everything, about eight to ten 0:15:16.560 --> 0:15:20.240 thousand dollars. But when you think about, like that's six. 0:15:20.120 --> 0:15:24.080 Months, eight ten dude, eight to ten thousand dollars over 0:15:24.160 --> 0:15:28.120 six months is like what that's like that month nothing? 0:15:29.520 --> 0:15:31.240 Yeah, it's and I know some people are like, well, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:32.640 that's a lot of money. I'll never do it, But 0:15:33.160 --> 0:15:34.600 I mean I saved during. 0:15:34.360 --> 0:15:36.600 COVID like that, that's not a lot of money. That's 0:15:36.640 --> 0:15:40.800 seventeen hundred. That's like cheaper. That's seventeen hundred dollars a month. 0:15:40.880 --> 0:15:43.320 That's cheaper than if you that's not a lot, but 0:15:43.400 --> 0:15:46.280 that's cheap, literally cheaper than if you like rents an 0:15:46.320 --> 0:15:49.080 apartment in a in a major city in America. 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:56.280 Yeah, that's like multiply seventy to seventy seventy five percent 0:15:56.280 --> 0:15:58.680 of my hotel nights were like five to six thousand 0:15:58.760 --> 0:16:01.840 in which were like forty to forty five bucks. 0:16:01.840 --> 0:16:05.840 Maybe, Yeah, that's cheaper than a yeah. 0:16:05.960 --> 0:16:09.360 Yeah, and some of those included one to two meals. 0:16:09.400 --> 0:16:11.640 So it's like some people ask me, that's a lot 0:16:11.640 --> 0:16:13.880 of money. It's like, well not, I mean yes, if 0:16:13.920 --> 0:16:17.480 you just like here's ten thousand dollars cash, but you know, 0:16:17.560 --> 0:16:19.280 and that's what I had to work. Like some of 0:16:19.280 --> 0:16:22.120 my other streamer friends are like, why why didn't you 0:16:22.160 --> 0:16:24.440 like just stream And I'm like, cause I make like 0:16:24.680 --> 0:16:27.800 three hundred bucks a month from it, Like you know, 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.600 let me just quit my fucking job to do this thing, 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:32.880 you know, like, uh yeah, souse. 0:16:33.000 --> 0:16:35.560 I mean that's uh. I mean that's like the fact 0:16:35.560 --> 0:16:37.640 that you were able to like have a have a 0:16:37.680 --> 0:16:40.920 remote job that you could do while you were doing this, yeah, 0:16:41.160 --> 0:16:44.600 is great. And I mean finding a job. You know what, 0:16:44.600 --> 0:16:45.640 what's your remote job? 0:16:47.360 --> 0:16:49.640 I still teach English? Yeah, I still do English teaching. 0:16:49.760 --> 0:16:52.400 So again, I don't make a ton of ton of money, 0:16:52.440 --> 0:16:56.160 but I have the schedule too, you know. I've I've 0:16:56.160 --> 0:16:59.840 spent the last eight years kind of shaping my life 0:17:00.240 --> 0:17:02.600 bit by bit, whittling away the things I don't need, 0:17:03.400 --> 0:17:05.119 adding into things that I want. 0:17:05.440 --> 0:17:11.560 And so m hmm, what are you gonna do now 0:17:11.560 --> 0:17:13.080 that you've accomplished this. 0:17:16.280 --> 0:17:18.040 A lot of people ask if I'm gonna write a book. 0:17:18.240 --> 0:17:21.240 They they, uh, you know, I was inspired by a book, 0:17:21.400 --> 0:17:23.439 and I'll do that. I do need to put some 0:17:23.480 --> 0:17:28.959 stuff up on YouTube. What book the Roads to Sata? 0:17:30.000 --> 0:17:31.760 I thought you were inspired by me? I was I 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.360 was gonna take like all the credit for this. 0:17:33.520 --> 0:17:35.639 No I mean no, no, no, no, no, no, no, 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:36.720 you you inspired? 0:17:36.800 --> 0:17:40.240 Like no, I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm 0:17:40.320 --> 0:17:41.600 I'm completely kidding. 0:17:42.520 --> 0:17:43.120 What's what's yeah? 0:17:43.160 --> 0:17:44.840 No, no, what's that? What's that? What's the book? 0:17:46.160 --> 0:17:46.400 Yeah? 0:17:46.440 --> 0:17:49.160 So The Roads to Sata by Alan Booth. I con 0:17:49.200 --> 0:17:51.639 sindu you a message or something later, but no, I 0:17:51.640 --> 0:17:53.160 mean no, no, cap. 0:17:55.080 --> 0:17:57.359 Sorry, go ahead, Oh what's the what's the book about? 0:17:59.000 --> 0:18:02.720 It's it's about who again. The book is not necessarily 0:18:03.520 --> 0:18:07.320 earth shattering good. It was more of it's one of 0:18:07.359 --> 0:18:10.000 those one of those things that hit you at that moment. 0:18:10.080 --> 0:18:12.399 Like if I had read the book this year, I 0:18:12.440 --> 0:18:15.720 probably wouldn't have had the same But it was halfway 0:18:15.720 --> 0:18:17.480 through the book. In the book, I'm like, God, this 0:18:17.520 --> 0:18:20.560 guy is a British guy and he's writing about how 0:18:20.960 --> 0:18:24.320 dreary countryside Japan is and how it because it's post 0:18:24.400 --> 0:18:28.480 he did his walk in nineteen seventy seven, and I thought, man, 0:18:28.520 --> 0:18:31.200 this guy's kind of boring and I don't you know whatever, 0:18:31.440 --> 0:18:33.760 And so then halfway through the book, he goes, I'm 0:18:33.800 --> 0:18:36.280 thirty years old, I've been in Japan for eight years? 0:18:36.320 --> 0:18:39.680 What am I doing? And I thought, oh shit, I'm him, 0:18:39.760 --> 0:18:42.160 like not not necessarily a mirror, but I go, oh, 0:18:43.160 --> 0:18:46.240 this guy is just like me, and so it more 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:50.440 inspired me to just go out and do my own 0:18:50.480 --> 0:18:52.240 shit and figure things out. 0:18:52.400 --> 0:18:56.359 So that's so cool, man, I really, I really love that. 0:18:57.200 --> 0:19:01.639 Honestly, it's you, like it's I'm not I'm not bullshitting 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:06.440 it like it if you hadn't it mainly the conversation 0:19:06.480 --> 0:19:08.160 we had in the train after. But if you hadn't 0:19:08.240 --> 0:19:12.360 did you start doing stuff? I would have probably never 0:19:12.400 --> 0:19:15.600 watched that other guy's stream, never saw the book, never 0:19:15.680 --> 0:19:19.280 saw like in a weird butterfly effect way like no therapy, 0:19:19.280 --> 0:19:22.800 get go, no, like it wouldn't have happened. 0:19:23.160 --> 0:19:29.240 I'm I'm so, I'm so so honored, and I really 0:19:30.160 --> 0:19:34.199 I I'm very very touched by that and very honored 0:19:34.200 --> 0:19:36.760 by that because I'm inspired by you, brother, this is 0:19:37.119 --> 0:19:40.280 we're we're playing a little inspiration tennis right now. To 0:19:40.320 --> 0:19:42.480 be honest with you, because I'm I'm kind of like, 0:19:42.560 --> 0:19:46.119 should I walk across fucking Ireland or not? I'm definitely 0:19:46.160 --> 0:19:49.200 not Ireland, but some some other place. I'm like, you're 0:19:49.800 --> 0:19:52.920 you're Because I'm about to turn twenty seven. Then I'm 0:19:53.040 --> 0:19:55.840 really tired, and I feel it's like making me fucking 0:19:56.000 --> 0:19:59.280 sad because I have so so much of my life 0:19:59.320 --> 0:20:02.920 has been like on these crazy adventures and been fueled 0:20:02.960 --> 0:20:05.840 by a desire to go on crazy adventures and do 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:08.679 weird stuff. And I'm like tired now, and I'm like, oh, 0:20:08.720 --> 0:20:13.679 I hope I'm not tired forever. Yeah, you know, because 0:20:13.880 --> 0:20:14.560