not bing able to understand what someone is saying to you is one of the most socially awkward things ever. But it's even worse with a language that you are familiar with and can speak and understand. Asking someone to repeat a sentance over and over until you understand them.. that's terrifying. Because at some point they're just gonna pull out a revolover and ask me how many bullets I want.
My favorite interaction in japan was when we first arrived, super tired, really hungry. Stumbled into a tiny izakaya in an alleyway. No one could speak to each other. But to convey to us that he was talking about chicken breasts the server eventually got it thru to us by saying karaage oppai. Lovely guy, very friendly with us foreigners and some of the best food I had there.
As a member of the audience who understands Japanese, it was enjoyable. I think it is also perfectly acceptable Japanese to use in public as there's pretty much nobody who wouldn't find it hillarious.
The one thing that got me in Japan is that they'd show me the cost ona calculator or the till when paying. I understand it and it's perfectly fine in my opinion, but I also stand there thinking "These are the same numbers we use, I can add up".
@@Chris-jo1zr Were you conversing in English? They were maybe just double-checking the receipt. Most folks that aren’t retired (in cities at least) want to practice their English. Also, would’ve loved to see a vlog of them walking through Shibuya with the big black dudes trying to get them into a club. 😂
@@requiemforameme1 nah this was just a silent transaction, I also spent some time with a Japanese guy who spoke english, one night I was counting my money for a bus and he said "You understand our money!?" which again I guess he was just happy I knew what a 100 yen coin was etc but I also said "yes it's written on it" :P it's a shame these guys didn't do a short video, I'm sure Connor or a Trash Taste guy could have done one with them.
@@Chris-jo1zr True, Japan currency conversion is pretty ez. Just move the decimals over. I’d love to be there now tho: With the favorable USD:Y conversion, basically everything’s 30% off (it’s like $1 == 140Yen rn). I hope they all got to go to old school Akihabara before the electronics stuff is gone.
If you're only staying in Tokyo only, pasma/suica is great. But Japan Rail Pass is supreme for going between different cities since its unlimited travel for JR trains. A single round trip for Tokyo to Osaka is like US$200; a 7-day JR pass is like US$230. It's also crazy to think that the technology for Suica was created in the early 2000s
The Safety Third Podcast is something i very much look forward to each week, makes me feel like I have friends haha I love it, Cheers blokes from Australia!
As a Japanese English dualingual I find it haliaious to hear them say bad words that Japanese TH-camrs would never dream of saying because of the culture/societal expectations.
I got to design a lot of set elements for Nintendo World in japan. Mario cart was a big portion of what i worked on. That and Donkey Kong for here in Orlando. The plastics are painted just fiberglass. It was fun designing things for this stupid park that I will probably never visit. I will be going to the Epic Universe park here in Orlando though to see the elements I helped design for Donkey Kong.
There was a mini claw machine at Fuddruckers that had candy in it when I was a kid and that was the only one where you actually could win everytime, it was so much fun
Old ass skating rink when i was growing up had one of those that was busted or something and you could win like 20 times before it would register that you won
The cool thing about the Japanese claw machine centers is that if you're trying to win it, eventually either someone will notice, or you can ask for a little help. Like say an item got stuck, they can reposition it for you, or if they've noticed you've spent like $30, they might make it easier for you. It's kind of nice because it means they actually want you to win prizes so you come back. Most of the prizes are available online, so people playing really do enjoy the playing aspect. I think a decent majority of my Japanese figures used to be some sort of prize, rather than something meant for retail sale.
No idea what the Mario kart ride is actually like, but I'm imagining like a 5 rail system, with intersections every so often so you can steer, effectively choosing out of moving one lane left, one right, or staying put. Then you can maybe have 3 cars simultaneously and if two turn into the same track, the priority goes to the one who was on it already (unsure what would happen if both started from different lanes) and then sometimes certain tracks have item boxes, where shells can be used at intersections to force the opponent back '1 space' so now you have priority on a certain track, bananas are the same but to push someone behind further back, and are also left for the set of karts behind you if no one hits them, or mushrooms can be used mid track if no opponent is directly in front, to gain back lost spaces. Something like that. Then every decision can be made at these intersection things, keeping control from the ride perspective, but you as a rider feel like you had control too and you can also race friends and stuff and have a clear winner without needing points.
You guys talking about a claw machine that had ultra cheap prizes but actually worked reminded me of a one at a local waterpark called the candy crane and it let you keep trying until you grabbed at least one piece of candy it was awesome as a broke kid that couldn't afford the concession mark up lol
In the UK coin machines just take normal coins and put out normal coins (2p or 10p usually) so play well and you get out more money than you put in. And we have access to these as children. It's not considered gambling at all, the machines considered gambling are kept in the back of arcades in 18+ only rooms... We literally call them penny pushers and penny arcades. On a good day you can walk away with pure profits
Suica is great. You can use it to pay basically anywhere in major cities that aren't cash-only. Even better, you don't have to deal with the massive amount of coins you end up accumulating by using cash. And as a bonus, if you do end up with loads of change you can just pour it into the Suica reloading terminals and it will automatically sort it for you and convert to something you're actually going to spend, the trick is to not tell it the amount you want to load onto it so it just loads whatever you insert into.
Those claw machines didn't used to be rigged, it was all about how they packed the toys. Back around 2000 I was really good at them, like ungodly. I could walk past them and pick the machines I could win on, put in a coin and win the toy. I've got like 30 soft toys at home I've won from them. One day though they stopped gripping and would always drop the toy and we realised it was programmed to only grab hard once every 10-15 tries, then I'd wait for people to lose a bunch, put in a couple of coins and get the "strong claw" and win. I did find this glorious one one day though, it was "megaclaw" or something and had a stacker game you played and if you won the stacker the claw would GUARANTEE a toy and they were like big ones too. The thing is the stacker was really easy, like you only had to get down to like 3 squares to win, so I won it 4x in a row. The machine must've sensed something was wrong because it stopped working after that and was flashing. So I went home happy with some giant Mario mushies and Pokemon. It was just randomly in a mall though, so I was like this 25yo dude with an arm full of plush toys walking through the shops.
Get a JR Rail pass AND put Suica on your phone! You are set for life for any rail since they all take Suica. And you can use the JRR pass on most Shinkansen trains.
18:50 I work for the company that did the ratatouille ride vehicles. Will is right they can free roam and be lidar guided but generally for safety the route is preprogrammed or variable controlled. DAIFUKU is the company. we call them AGV's Automated Guided Vehicles.
Gambling is technically illegal in Japan if I'm correct but they circumvent that with those machines by having a shop open across the street that just so happens to take those coins as currency and will sell you prizes
I actually had tickets to Japan that we got early in the pandemic, thinking it wasn't going to be much longer......I'm still waiting to be able to go. So, I appreciate your Japan trips and all the tips and info you guys are providing! Hopefully, I'll finally be able to go.
JR pass is only worth it if you plan to travel between cities using the shinkansen. If you're only in and around Tokyo, it's a massive waste of money and you're better off with the normal Tokyo region passes.
It’s always fun seeing people talk about how Japanese people are so respectful. Then go on to describe basic morals like “they don’t immediately try to destroy or piss in/on everything”
I'm fairly sure the cards probably work with a chip, like those for most other countries with transport cards: there's no need for it to connect to the internet or anything, it just stores the amount of credit it has and changes it when interacting with the machines at the station, whether you're spending or refilling credit. Unless I missed something or there's something else they're capable of doing, it's probably as simple as that, which is pretty old and simple tech at this point (but very effective nonetheless).
Not sure how the Japanese cards work, but I have additional evidence to support William's hypothesis. Where I live, you can register your card online and be able to see a log of all past travels, so clearly the card readers report back to a central database. You can also refill the cards online, but the amount won't immediately show up on the card until you interact with a scanner several hours later, so it makes sense that there's a temporary value on the card, and a canonical true value in a database somewhere.
Suica uses RFID, similar to a Metrocard. The smart phone app version probably uses NFC (near-field) or something similar to handshake. (Also, you can use Suica to pay at conbini like 7-11 and a _ton_ of other places.) The big difference is: In Tokyo, you pay when you exit. Not ahead of time. There’s also a lot of regional and/or competitors like Pasmo (more in Sendai) and some that let you buy cigarettes and booze in vending machines. I recommend just loading your Suica up. Because negotiating Japanese ATMs is like playing a text-based RPG, and you’ll end up using the ATM *way* more than you think. (Don’t accidentally hit the option “I’d like to pay my electricity bill.” at the ATM. :) )
After hearing about the negative feedback about the Mario kart ride I was surprised that they went forward with building 2 more in CA and Orlando. Universal seems to be way better at building the theming and the ride queues than the actual rides.
I have an idea for an Allan Pan video… a blue whale song video… they are the loudest animals on earth. They can be heard for up to 500 miles away. How much damage could one do with just sound to a person?
So if you wanna go all around Japan you almost have to get the Japan Rail Pass just because of the amount of money you save. For example you can buy it for a week for a couple hundred bucks or even three weeks but you can ride the Hikari Shinkansen for free (2nd fastest train). If you get one for three weeks it’s 450$. So if you go to Kyoto from Tokyo and back you’d spend around 160-180$ without the pass, and if you go to Fukuoka one way it will cost you over 200$, so the pass is definitely worth it.
So I watch a lot of Let’s Ask Shogo, who is based in Kyoto (if you go there you could try and hang out?) and he said that there are occasionally places that are for Japanese only, and there are some things that have got worse while Japan has been closed, but there are a vast majority of people who want to be polite and respectful from what I understand. I haven’t been lucky enough to visit Japan before, but I hope to one day if I am well enough.
oh cash cards,, I remember those from the late 90s sweden... they didn't last long. (because why would you use that, when debit cards and credit cards are available?) It's basically gift cards that works almost everywhere, and just like gift cards, cash card just tend to get forgotten about,, juuust until the gift card expires.
Gentlemen, If you're reading this then the place for quality coin pushing games go to Brighton Palace Pier in England UK. There's atleast 2 arcades and freshly made powdered doughnuts every 10 feet. Nuff said.
I’m so confused like aren’t all cards have money stored in them? Sorry cos In Singapore we have our train or we call them MRT cards called Ez-link cards which we need to go to a top up kiosk and add value to the card and it doesn’t delay the experience or no wait time it’s done immediately and the value is deducted from the card as you tap and go so I’m not sure if In the states it’s different but we’ve had this for years and it’s way more efficient. but now we can use our contactless bank cards or phones/watched with bank card details to tap and enter trains/buses
no william, the reason it lets you in with any amount on your card is because the amount you get charged depends on how far you go, so it doesn't know how much to charge you until you get off
Pretty sure the coin pushers work the same way they handle pachinko wins. You get a receipt for you winnings, then go down the street and cash it in for your money. They have to be separate businesses to get around the gambling laws.
The Mariokart ride looked like the 3D transformers ride you get at universal studios Singapore. I actually think it looks great and not sure if it’s a track free ride but seems like it but maybe just not something you guys prefer so maybe you’re into roller coasters? Idk. But the mariokart ride looks amazing
I enjoy the podcast, and I also miss the science/ engineering conversations... Id love to see Hamilton Morris on the show... And not science related, the Ordinary Sausage guy
It's definitely not the best way to explain why there are different ways to count in Japanese, but imagine asking someone "can I have 2 papers" in English. That doesn't really make sense and you have to elaborate, like do you mean 2 sheets, 2 piles, 2 boxes, etc. So one reason there are different ways to count in Japanese is to help differentiate different types of quantity.
Haha the coin pushers. I used to live in Okinawa and me my friends use to cheat those machines and get extra coins, the coins were good for other non coin pusher arcade games that we just played for fun, we couldnt turn the coins in for money, but we did sell the coins to other people for cheaper than coin machine, we just used the money for cigarettes and booze 😂😂 we were 16.
The claw machines are scams, a lot of them say on them somewhere the strength of the claw changes, most of them want the cost of the prize to be covered before they give prizes away, so it could be 1 in every 15 turns the strength is strong enough to hold it all the way to the chute.
Mmm… I’d say about 30% of claw machines in Japan are like that (probably less). Most of them are strategy-based and require you to like, nudge a prize through a set of metal bars. Have you been to like a Taito Station or something before…?
@@requiemforameme1 Well the stategy based machines that make you nudge a prize through a set of bars is not a claw machine so not really relevant. That being said I haven't been to Japan, I was making a general statement about claw machines, which tbf I did google to double check I'm not spouting BS, there is an article with an owner in Singapore that is happy to acknowledge that the strength of the claw changes. Also easy to find specifications on the percentages of wins to plays.
@@bender2o The machines in super touristy areas sometimes do have scam machines. But they’re usually in places with insane foot traffic (think Shibuya Crossing). Honestly almost all the machines inside are trustworthy. Save for gacha, which you know what you’re getting into. Japan is like the one place where those machines are pretty honest. In fact: I kinda recommend *not* going to them for a long time. Otherwise you’ll walk out with a huge bag of prizes, and realize it’s very expensive to ship home, and they don’t fit in your luggage. I think I left a bunch as gifts for the hotel staff I was at.
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nigel blanking out whenever someone talks to him in japanese is how i feel when my relatives talk to me in korean and i just smile and nod
윤아 뭐해?
Same goes with me and my Croatian family
@@epicthief why would you croatian family speak korean?
not bing able to understand what someone is saying to you is one of the most socially awkward things ever.
But it's even worse with a language that you are familiar with and can speak and understand.
Asking someone to repeat a sentance over and over until you understand them.. that's terrifying.
Because at some point they're just gonna pull out a revolover and ask me how many bullets I want.
Same with my South African part of the family speaking Afrikaans
Thank you for NOT stopping this podcast, it has become one of my favorites pieces of YT content. Greetings from your biggest fan in Mexico.
Eyyy, saludos, hermano!
@@jonathangallegos3453 ay, qué bonito, saludos
Saludos paisas
A huevo! salu2
I honestly like how much they talk over each other, seems more genuine
My favorite interaction in japan was when we first arrived, super tired, really hungry. Stumbled into a tiny izakaya in an alleyway. No one could speak to each other. But to convey to us that he was talking about chicken breasts the server eventually got it thru to us by saying karaage oppai. Lovely guy, very friendly with us foreigners and some of the best food I had there.
As a member of the audience who understands Japanese, it was enjoyable. I think it is also perfectly acceptable Japanese to use in public as there's pretty much nobody who wouldn't find it hillarious.
The one thing that got me in Japan is that they'd show me the cost ona calculator or the till when paying. I understand it and it's perfectly fine in my opinion, but I also stand there thinking "These are the same numbers we use, I can add up".
@@Chris-jo1zr Were you conversing in English? They were maybe just double-checking the receipt. Most folks that aren’t retired (in cities at least) want to practice their English.
Also, would’ve loved to see a vlog of them walking through Shibuya with the big black dudes trying to get them into a club. 😂
@@requiemforameme1 nah this was just a silent transaction, I also spent some time with a Japanese guy who spoke english, one night I was counting my money for a bus and he said "You understand our money!?" which again I guess he was just happy I knew what a 100 yen coin was etc but I also said "yes it's written on it" :P
it's a shame these guys didn't do a short video, I'm sure Connor or a Trash Taste guy could have done one with them.
@@Chris-jo1zr True, Japan currency conversion is pretty ez. Just move the decimals over. I’d love to be there now tho: With the favorable USD:Y conversion, basically everything’s 30% off (it’s like $1 == 140Yen rn).
I hope they all got to go to old school Akihabara before the electronics stuff is gone.
Nigel just made the new slogan for the Japanese tourism board... "Once you figure out what's happening, it's amazing!" Ha!
“Land of the Rising Fun”
If you're only staying in Tokyo only, pasma/suica is great. But Japan Rail Pass is supreme for going between different cities since its unlimited travel for JR trains. A single round trip for Tokyo to Osaka is like US$200; a 7-day JR pass is like US$230.
It's also crazy to think that the technology for Suica was created in the early 2000s
The Safety Third Podcast is something i very much look forward to each week, makes me feel like I have friends haha I love it, Cheers blokes from Australia!
Nigel trying to explain Japanese is like me trying to explain Tagalog to my friends
As a person who is learning Japanese, I can confirm the first things I've learned were bad/offensive words
That's the core practice of learning any language
糞
The only swear Kanji I know
Well, I think you need to share some with the class then.
Any language I learned first word is always bad/offensive word for me to curse by myself lol
For curse words, you really have to just learn くそ.
As a Japanese English dualingual I find it haliaious to hear them say bad words that Japanese TH-camrs would never dream of saying because of the culture/societal expectations.
With that intro, I definitely know they're in Japan now
I blank stare cashiers in my own language
I got to design a lot of set elements for Nintendo World in japan.
Mario cart was a big portion of what i worked on. That and Donkey Kong for here in Orlando.
The plastics are painted just fiberglass.
It was fun designing things for this stupid park that I will probably never visit.
I will be going to the Epic Universe park here in Orlando though to see the elements I helped design for Donkey Kong.
my company did the carts! :)
little know fact: in Japan every cashier has a makeshift shinzo abe gun
I love how this podcast has become 4 guys who don't know how to speak Japanese , teaching Japanese to each other hahaha. fun ep
Keeping their visas valid and keeping us so entertained
There was a mini claw machine at Fuddruckers that had candy in it when I was a kid and that was the only one where you actually could win everytime, it was so much fun
Old ass skating rink when i was growing up had one of those that was busted or something and you could win like 20 times before it would register that you won
The cool thing about the Japanese claw machine centers is that if you're trying to win it, eventually either someone will notice, or you can ask for a little help. Like say an item got stuck, they can reposition it for you, or if they've noticed you've spent like $30, they might make it easier for you. It's kind of nice because it means they actually want you to win prizes so you come back. Most of the prizes are available online, so people playing really do enjoy the playing aspect. I think a decent majority of my Japanese figures used to be some sort of prize, rather than something meant for retail sale.
Yall reignited my desire to relearn japanese, thank you you lovely dorks
No idea what the Mario kart ride is actually like, but I'm imagining like a 5 rail system, with intersections every so often so you can steer, effectively choosing out of moving one lane left, one right, or staying put. Then you can maybe have 3 cars simultaneously and if two turn into the same track, the priority goes to the one who was on it already (unsure what would happen if both started from different lanes) and then sometimes certain tracks have item boxes, where shells can be used at intersections to force the opponent back '1 space' so now you have priority on a certain track, bananas are the same but to push someone behind further back, and are also left for the set of karts behind you if no one hits them, or mushrooms can be used mid track if no opponent is directly in front, to gain back lost spaces. Something like that.
Then every decision can be made at these intersection things, keeping control from the ride perspective, but you as a rider feel like you had control too and you can also race friends and stuff and have a clear winner without needing points.
if you look very closely at 00:00 you can notice that the video is starting
If you can notice at 5:10, Nigel is frozen
You guys talking about a claw machine that had ultra cheap prizes but actually worked reminded me of a one at a local waterpark called the candy crane and it let you keep trying until you grabbed at least one piece of candy it was awesome as a broke kid that couldn't afford the concession mark up lol
47:33 Yes. That's exactly what happens. I ended up throwing the entire cookie stack at them to avoid getting my pant pocket eaten 🦌😡
In the UK coin machines just take normal coins and put out normal coins (2p or 10p usually) so play well and you get out more money than you put in. And we have access to these as children. It's not considered gambling at all, the machines considered gambling are kept in the back of arcades in 18+ only rooms...
We literally call them penny pushers and penny arcades. On a good day you can walk away with pure profits
Concentrated dopamine straight to the frontal cortex!
Best podcast around! I always look forward to seeing a new episode, thanks guys
Suica is great. You can use it to pay basically anywhere in major cities that aren't cash-only. Even better, you don't have to deal with the massive amount of coins you end up accumulating by using cash.
And as a bonus, if you do end up with loads of change you can just pour it into the Suica reloading terminals and it will automatically sort it for you and convert to something you're actually going to spend, the trick is to not tell it the amount you want to load onto it so it just loads whatever you insert into.
Hahaha "I wouldn't want to deal with me" -the backdoor scientist
Those claw machines didn't used to be rigged, it was all about how they packed the toys. Back around 2000 I was really good at them, like ungodly. I could walk past them and pick the machines I could win on, put in a coin and win the toy. I've got like 30 soft toys at home I've won from them.
One day though they stopped gripping and would always drop the toy and we realised it was programmed to only grab hard once every 10-15 tries, then I'd wait for people to lose a bunch, put in a couple of coins and get the "strong claw" and win.
I did find this glorious one one day though, it was "megaclaw" or something and had a stacker game you played and if you won the stacker the claw would GUARANTEE a toy and they were like big ones too.
The thing is the stacker was really easy, like you only had to get down to like 3 squares to win, so I won it 4x in a row. The machine must've sensed something was wrong because it stopped working after that and was flashing. So I went home happy with some giant Mario mushies and Pokemon.
It was just randomly in a mall though, so I was like this 25yo dude with an arm full of plush toys walking through the shops.
Get a JR Rail pass AND put Suica on your phone! You are set for life for any rail since they all take Suica. And you can use the JRR pass on most Shinkansen trains.
28:10 that is such a hilarious interaction.
18:50 I work for the company that did the ratatouille ride vehicles. Will is right they can free roam and be lidar guided but generally for safety the route is preprogrammed or variable controlled. DAIFUKU is the company. we call them AGV's Automated Guided Vehicles.
Yall need that dude that learns languages in like 2 weeks on your show,xiamangnyc or something like that.
Nigel is looking goooood here 🤭
@@tafdiz lol why
Gambling is technically illegal in Japan if I'm correct but they circumvent that with those machines by having a shop open across the street that just so happens to take those coins as currency and will sell you prizes
I actually had tickets to Japan that we got early in the pandemic, thinking it wasn't going to be much longer......I'm still waiting to be able to go. So, I appreciate your Japan trips and all the tips and info you guys are providing! Hopefully, I'll finally be able to go.
JR pass is only worth it if you plan to travel between cities using the shinkansen. If you're only in and around Tokyo, it's a massive waste of money and you're better off with the normal Tokyo region passes.
It’s always fun seeing people talk about how Japanese people are so respectful. Then go on to describe basic morals like “they don’t immediately try to destroy or piss in/on everything”
I'm fairly sure the cards probably work with a chip, like those for most other countries with transport cards: there's no need for it to connect to the internet or anything, it just stores the amount of credit it has and changes it when interacting with the machines at the station, whether you're spending or refilling credit. Unless I missed something or there's something else they're capable of doing, it's probably as simple as that, which is pretty old and simple tech at this point (but very effective nonetheless).
If there is a way to stop you from refilling them yourself then that is a valid method.
Not sure how the Japanese cards work, but I have additional evidence to support William's hypothesis. Where I live, you can register your card online and be able to see a log of all past travels, so clearly the card readers report back to a central database. You can also refill the cards online, but the amount won't immediately show up on the card until you interact with a scanner several hours later, so it makes sense that there's a temporary value on the card, and a canonical true value in a database somewhere.
@@aedeatia probably. sanity checking is pretty essential for financial software
Suica uses RFID, similar to a Metrocard. The smart phone app version probably uses NFC (near-field) or something similar to handshake.
(Also, you can use Suica to pay at conbini like 7-11 and a _ton_ of other places.)
The big difference is: In Tokyo, you pay when you exit. Not ahead of time.
There’s also a lot of regional and/or competitors like Pasmo (more in Sendai) and some that let you buy cigarettes and booze in vending machines.
I recommend just loading your Suica up. Because negotiating Japanese ATMs is like playing a text-based RPG, and you’ll end up using the ATM *way* more than you think. (Don’t accidentally hit the option “I’d like to pay my electricity bill.” at the ATM. :) )
Murders row of backyard builders. Wow I'm glad I found this.
After hearing about the negative feedback about the Mario kart ride I was surprised that they went forward with building 2 more in CA and Orlando. Universal seems to be way better at building the theming and the ride queues than the actual rides.
I have an idea for an Allan Pan video… a blue whale song video… they are the loudest animals on earth. They can be heard for up to 500 miles away. How much damage could one do with just sound to a person?
So if you wanna go all around Japan you almost have to get the Japan Rail Pass just because of the amount of money you save. For example you can buy it for a week for a couple hundred bucks or even three weeks but you can ride the Hikari Shinkansen for free (2nd fastest train). If you get one for three weeks it’s 450$. So if you go to Kyoto from Tokyo and back you’d spend around 160-180$ without the pass, and if you go to Fukuoka one way it will cost you over 200$, so the pass is definitely worth it.
Wait are they really in Japan? I somehow thought it was a joke last time
Would love to see That Chemist as a guest.
Please do videos... All of you....I need them
So I watch a lot of Let’s Ask Shogo, who is based in Kyoto (if you go there you could try and hang out?) and he said that there are occasionally places that are for Japanese only, and there are some things that have got worse while Japan has been closed, but there are a vast majority of people who want to be polite and respectful from what I understand. I haven’t been lucky enough to visit Japan before, but I hope to one day if I am well enough.
Im at completely peace and enlightenment when i watch this pod cast
Will looks stoned as always, but Kevin looks surprisingly stoned
They used to have claw machines with candy. Smarties and tootsie rolls and stuff but the claw would always grab a few pieces. Felt great.
I like the Smart Guy with the shorts on the best 👍
I've been to an arcade with a claw machine that had candy in it and it worked every time
You should get that chemist on this
agreed
@@That_Chemist :0 that chemist is here!
Everyone: "Google translate doesnt get the context"
Google translate: Gets the context
as a very bare conversational japanese speaker, tough watch. 10/10
Wow. They actually went a whole episode without complaining about their job
oh cash cards,, I remember those from the late 90s sweden... they didn't last long. (because why would you use that, when debit cards and credit cards are available?)
It's basically gift cards that works almost everywhere, and just like gift cards, cash card just tend to get forgotten about,, juuust until the gift card expires.
my name chef
Boku no na wa chef desu
Will looks sooo sleep deprived
Instant serotonin
Most of the time with claw machines, they get the prizes for less than the cost of a run. So even if you win every time, they still make a profit
Gentlemen,
If you're reading this then the place for quality coin pushing games go to Brighton Palace Pier in England UK.
There's atleast 2 arcades and freshly made powdered doughnuts every 10 feet. Nuff said.
How to get another beer: “moe eepown, kudasai” mou ippon
this video just inspired me to learn japanese and i dont know why
I’m so confused like aren’t all cards have money stored in them? Sorry cos In Singapore we have our train or we call them MRT cards called Ez-link cards which we need to go to a top up kiosk and add value to the card and it doesn’t delay the experience or no wait time it’s done immediately and the value is deducted from the card as you tap and go so I’m not sure if In the states it’s different but we’ve had this for years and it’s way more efficient. but now we can use our contactless bank cards or phones/watched with bank card details to tap and enter trains/buses
Good to know, I'll be visiting Singapore soon. Sounds similar to London.
no william, the reason it lets you in with any amount on your card is because the amount you get charged depends on how far you go, so it doesn't know how much to charge you until you get off
Gracious Daddy William, I am forever grateful for my free content.
I love this podcast so much
Ok This podcast is getting more digestible
Pretty sure the coin pushers work the same way they handle pachinko wins. You get a receipt for you winnings, then go down the street and cash it in for your money. They have to be separate businesses to get around the gambling laws.
Great episode!
Love from Stockholm Sweden 🇸🇪❤
The Mariokart ride looked like the 3D transformers ride you get at universal studios Singapore. I actually think it looks great and not sure if it’s a track free ride but seems like it but maybe just not something you guys prefer so maybe you’re into roller coasters? Idk. But the mariokart ride looks amazing
@13:12 William mansplains AR. thanks man ;)
Pan is the Man
I enjoy the podcast, and I also miss the science/ engineering conversations... Id love to see Hamilton Morris on the show... And not science related, the Ordinary Sausage guy
Styropyro on podcast when??
Amazing supposition on the Japanese language. And backdoor scientist until it’s a thing.
I only call him that lol
The Mario kart ride sounds like the men in black ride at Orlando universal.
No that ride is way better.
It's definitely not the best way to explain why there are different ways to count in Japanese, but imagine asking someone "can I have 2 papers" in English. That doesn't really make sense and you have to elaborate, like do you mean 2 sheets, 2 piles, 2 boxes, etc. So one reason there are different ways to count in Japanese is to help differentiate different types of quantity.
Broccoli on pizza is delicious! But I don’t like seafood and I HATE Mayo.
i like your yellow socks
Y'all should come to Okinawa if you get a chance
Got a Dominos ad at the end of the show... they tried, but I wasn't interested in their standard-ass tomato sauce pizza... gimme that Pizza Hut mayo!
"You don't have free will in the Mario Kart Ride"
I’m embarrassed how far into this I watched before I realized that Nigel and Kevin are NOT, in fact, rubbing each other’s leg 😅
Cool im early just wanted to say love the podcast Keep it up bois.
*in japan* "pizza hut?" "Pizza hut!"
The YT algorithm reminded me of Peter Stripol the other day. Can Peter please be in the Safety Third Gang?
Best podcast !
Why did Nigel say Mario like 8:42 ?😭 what am I missing
I’m too early for closed captions :( see you again in a few hours!
Watashi wa tamago desu. Sotogawa wa gaijin desukedo nakami wa nihonjin desu
Haha the coin pushers. I used to live in Okinawa and me my friends use to cheat those machines and get extra coins, the coins were good for other non coin pusher arcade games that we just played for fun, we couldnt turn the coins in for money, but we did sell the coins to other people for cheaper than coin machine, we just used the money for cigarettes and booze 😂😂 we were 16.
Is Liberty the Geex+ employee? She works for Trash Taste right?
27 episodes away from the last one
Last one???
You people put here casting pods
Spanish is an official language in the USA, Puerto Rico is an example.
There is one specific feature of japan that maintains the very low crime level
The claw machines are scams, a lot of them say on them somewhere the strength of the claw changes, most of them want the cost of the prize to be covered before they give prizes away, so it could be 1 in every 15 turns the strength is strong enough to hold it all the way to the chute.
Mmm… I’d say about 30% of claw machines in Japan are like that (probably less). Most of them are strategy-based and require you to like, nudge a prize through a set of metal bars. Have you been to like a Taito Station or something before…?
@@requiemforameme1 Well the stategy based machines that make you nudge a prize through a set of bars is not a claw machine so not really relevant. That being said I haven't been to Japan, I was making a general statement about claw machines, which tbf I did google to double check I'm not spouting BS, there is an article with an owner in Singapore that is happy to acknowledge that the strength of the claw changes. Also easy to find specifications on the percentages of wins to plays.
@@bender2o The machines in super touristy areas sometimes do have scam machines. But they’re usually in places with insane foot traffic (think Shibuya Crossing).
Honestly almost all the machines inside are trustworthy. Save for gacha, which you know what you’re getting into. Japan is like the one place where those machines are pretty honest.
In fact: I kinda recommend *not* going to them for a long time. Otherwise you’ll walk out with a huge bag of prizes, and realize it’s very expensive to ship home, and they don’t fit in your luggage. I think I left a bunch as gifts for the hotel staff I was at.