Chris Broad not knowing who Pee-Wee Herman / Paul Reubens was is my mind blowing thing of the day, on the same day I found out RFK dumped a bear carcass in a new york park
In Japanese folklore, there’s a deity known as "Kasa-obake" (傘お化け), a supernatural being understood to shapeshift between an old umbrella and a creature that hoards umbrellas.
Yet... As an ethnic Japanese who was born in Japan but grew up in the US, I cannot get a family visa. Still have ethnic Japanese relatives that still live in Japan (yes i have the government "family lineage" paperwork) but told no by the Japanese government - reason given is "we don't want you to become a burden on our social welfare system..." Mostly retired 15 yrs ago and now make 6 figures (USD) annually with no financial obligations - vehicle, mortgage, etc. Have own health insurance that can be used whenever I go there. So what social welfare burden will I be a part of? Japan consulate in Chicago - "well... you're just not allowed! Stop asking questions." Seems to be the same mentality that most Japanese offices have - "it's because we've always done it that way. Don't think about if it's right or wrong..."
@@aR0ttenBANANA it's been a frustrating process. Makes little sense to me. Those like me that ARE ethnically Japanese are kept out... but - "we don't have enough people, so we're going to import non- Japanese to help with the economy." Uh... sure.
I'm in Japan right now it feels like Japan has a job for everything. I went to Tokyo tower and skytree today and there were people there to just guide you into the elevator and one in the elevator to just push the button. If there are people who have a job like that, then I find it hard to believe that people can't find employment
Flipside of the umbrella theft is that SO MANY people just forget their umbrellas at restaurants (when it stops raining during their meal) that if it starts raining during your meal and you have to leave in the rain, if you ask them really nicely where you can buy umbrella nearby they'll occasionally just give you one for free because they may have a whole pile of abandoned ones that they keep around for staff/customers. Happened to me more than once. ^^;
My umbrella advice is get one of the super-compact flat fold-up Waterfront ones (you can get them very inexpensively at BIC Camera etc.) and keep it on a small carabiner (if you don't have any you can get one at the dollar store or BIC or DonQi etc.) so you don't have to leave it in the rack. When I lived in japan I NEVER managed to keep a stick umbrella because they're not attached to anything; if I didn't forget them outside a restaurant, I'd lose them on the train. With the flat fold-up ones and a carabiner, you never have to abandon it and it folds up small enough that it's not a public nuisance indoors; you just shake them out and fold them up before coming into the store and hang them on your bag strap while you're in the store - the compactness controls most of the dripping, unlike dragging in a wet stick umbrella; it will rarely drip any more water than people's shoes track in so you don't have to feel bad, but if you think it still drips too much or you need to bring it into a restaurant or something you can also just keep an extra plastic bag with you or one of the plastic umbrella sleeves that they have for free at the entrances to malls. Honestly you should always have an extra plastic bag with you in Japan *anyway* so that you can carry your trash with you until you find a bin).
i use the famima foldable one and i love it. i dont understand why people get the big ones because you cant properly store them anywhere. i can easily put a foldable umbrella in my backpacks waterbottle pocket
@@arceus54321i put it in the water bottle pocket too! (there's two so i use the other one for water lol). i use my umbrella for the sun too, so I just bring it with me every day even if it's not gonna rain, saves getting caught out :) TBF I think the bigger plastic ones are sometimes better in extra heavy rain but if there's too much wind and/or its a typhoon you're screwed either way so really there's only a small percentage of rain where t's too heavy for a lightweight umbrella but not heavy enough to just destroy any umbrella and keep everyone indoors anyway😅
So Japan kinda asked us, Indonesia and few other South East Asian countries to send workers there and the target iirc was 500k for the next 5 years so yeah, it's only going to increase.
Better working conditions, better opportunities, and a government push for family focused policies would be a far better idea than to keep playing the same game and just importing new players.
Japan has the best infrastructure in the world for enjoying youth, and it is connected by public transportation networks such as railways. You are called to be workers first, and then expected to be consumers of the youth infrastructure.
Brooo iswtfg japan taking in more immigrants ain’t gonna make it not ethnically Japanese anymore by a long shot 😂 ethnically Japanese gonna be the dominant ethnicity anyway. And by the 2nd generation all of the “immigrants” they may not be “pure blood” Japanese will absolutely be Japanese in character and yapping Japanese as their first language. Diaspora studies prove this and it’s very evident in countries like the US.
Never thought I'd hear one Englishman explain PeeWee Herman to another, slightly younger Englishman on a podcast about Japan. Watch the movie, Chris. It's a great slightly surreal 1980s movie. Tim Burton's first Hollywood film, before his movies all sucked.
I actually had a nice umbrella stolen at a coco when I was studying in Japan. Was very upset. From then on I only bought those cheap clear umbrellas. It isn't always the cheap umbrellas!!
Umbrella story so funny, while I was in japan, I went out of my way to "forget" my Umbrella so many times. I could not for the life of me get rid of that thing, and everyone else getting there stolen daily 😂😂
chris my subscription box is like that too lol. i keep seeing japan vlogs with like 20 views. tbf some of them are quite good. also, ive never had a bad experience with foreign konbini staff! theyve helped me both pay my health insurance and buy concert tickets
Paul Reubens' career was halted for about 8 years after his indecent exposure arrest in 1991. His comeback in 1999 was pretty cool with a part in the movie "Mystery Men".
I hadn't watched The Blues Brothers in about 20 years and when watching it I noticed it was Pee-Wee/Paul Reubens playing the waiter in the posh restaurant and was blown away. He was also in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie, not the tv show) in '92, so not sure if he filmed his scenes before or after the indecent exposure arrest
Pee-wee was unquestionably brilliant. Few kids’ shows ever rose to that level of creativity. And few managed that many winks to the adults watching too.
"Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" is a must see film and the first of Tim Burton's hat-trick of weird and kooky takes on film, with the next two being Beetlejuice and then Batman, which gave him massive clout in Hollywood and caused him to disappear up his own arse
Recently I have run into the same problem. TH-cam keeps recommending me Japan travel vidoes with like 300 views. TH-cam must be looking for the next one up to replace Chris. It is probably more because I think I'd pretty much watched all the vidoes of the usual Japan TH-camrs I watch.
Pee-Wee had a timeslot for kids entertainment but his original live shows were ABSOLUTELY NOT for kids. Same character, but the Saturday/Sunday show was tamed down a lot. I adored the show back in the day, and Big Adventure of course. A subversive legend.
My umbrella has never been lost or stolen in two years and I tend to use an expensive Fultons umbrella because they're nice. Nobody seems to steal the njcer umbrellas but I expect one day it'll be gone.
Watch Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. If you do anything else in life, watch that. Sure, there’s nostalgia there for me; but that movie transcends time and culture. It brings your inner kid out and makes you feel comforted in a very charming way. Simpler times… Edit: The thing in the theater he did… sure it wasn’t great but Pete left out a pretty important part. It was a theater showing corn. I mean… I feel like there’s a GENTLEMAN’S agreement that certain things are going to be going on there. Most people did not blame him for it. Weird, sure. Not without merit though.
Omg! I thought everyone knew Pee Wee Herman. Genius character created by actor Paul Rubens. Chris, you need to watch his hit movie from the 80s, “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” which is hilarious. The movie got made because his Saturday morning Tv show “Pee Wee’s Playhouse” was so popular. Btw, the big joke is that the show looks like a kids show but it’s 100% written for adults. College students in the 80s were particularly the biggest fans of Pee Wee’s Playhouse. Paul has been in many movies, but hands down his most popular character was Pee Wee Herman.
Went to Tokyo with my wife. Having a stroll we notice a ramen place. We are hungry and place looks like there is 20% chance you will not walk out with all of your kidneys. Well, what the hell, lets give it a spin. Leave the shop with all kidneys and belly full of good ramen...but we forgot our umbrella there. Figured it out only once we were far away. Few hours later on our way back we stop buy the ramen ya...and out umbrella was waiting for us behind the counter. Thanks shady ramen merchants!
Thats why you either get one of those compact ones that you can take inside with you, or get one of those 100 yen umbrellas that work just as good as any other umbrella.
I was stationed in Japan from 09 to 13, only about an hour from Hiroshima. After a year or two, I had become the de facto your guide for my shop. One day after a night of drinking, a newcomer whom I had promised to take to Peace Park refused to let my hangover ruin his plans. Wandering the park on a rather overcast day, I'm still wearing sunglasses, suffering while my group enjoyed their first trip. I'm assuming, because I was the smallest man in the group, and wearing sunglasses, someone handing out what I can assume is anti-foreigner propaganda, decided to try and mock me. After a moment trying to reason with him, and he calling me an asshole for wearing sunglasses on a cloudy day, we decided to move on. My last words to him were, "sir, I'm just too hungover for this." That was the only time I ever encountered that kind of attitude.
Japan: 125.1 million people, 73% mountain UK: 66.97 million people Japan has so many people that it becomes overtourism when about 2 million tourists visit the country in a month
You should check out the Pee Wee movies. The first one is the best. If you can find the videos of his stage show, those are a bit more adult. Plus, Phil Hartman pops up as Captain Carl.
When I applied for permanent residence in September last year they said it would take 8 months, 8 months later they said it would take a year, and apparantly now it's taking 1 year 3 months 😢
A few months ago, my wife who is Japanese, left her clean umbrella outside our local Ministop. She had entered just behind another woman who's umbrella was dirty. While at the checkout, my wife saw that woman through the window pick up her own umbrella, then look at my wife's. She proceeded to put her dirty umbrella back and take my wife's... It's surprising at times, how much Japanese pick and choose the rules as and when it suits them. Why steal someone's umbrella? Don't even get me started on the silent illegal pavement cyclists coming up behind at speed without so much as a bell ring or "sumimasen" 😂 Japanese are for the most part very polite, considerate and do follow the rules, but they also seem to pick and choose moments to do the opposite!
The increase was almost entirely Vietnamese and Chinese foreigners. (Almost entirely on the skilled worker visa at that.) Kind of funny, but my Totes el-cheapo but wooden handled umbrella is currently 10 years old and I do leave it outside of stores. Similarly I painted my mamachari in KTM colors and nobody has stolen it (but I've had it for 20 years.)
RE: Paul Reubens (PeeWee) "Heard any good jokes lately?" - Best comeback line ever. 4:54 "...feeding 1000 yen into an unlovable piece of crap...you never win anything..." Pete casually crapping on Garnt's addiction to gachapon.
I was one of those foreigners who lived in Japan but went back 5o my home country and now I even brought back my Japanese spouse to mu country and live here. I don't have to pay rent here as I have my own house and I live comfortably in my country vs when living in Japan.
The adult cinema thing is honestly pretty sad. They were pretty common in that era, but it still ruined his whole career. Weird guy, but he seemed pretty beloved
Never watched Pee Wee's kids' show, but his Pee Wee Herman Show (originally broadcast on HBO) is aimed at adults and is very funny. Also recommend the first movie, Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
I told my wife about Gaijin Smash and now she uses it to describe when she can navigate rush hour foot traffic and gets crushed by the crowd in Shinjuku Station
Paul Rubens played the voice of The Navigator in Flight Of The Navigator which I'm sure Pete must have seen. Once you know you it feels kind of obvious but since we didn't know who he was then it was lost on us
I think I'd enjoy living in Japan (apart from Tokyo, I guess), but I'd probably not enjoy working there - I guess it would depend on the workplace and the colleagues. The work culture sounds like a nightmare for a lot of "normal" jobs. Maybe if I were a bit younger (I'm 37) I'd probably be able to get on some working holiday or similar, but I dread long commutes and even longer work days. I'm a machinist, so I know my way around CAM software and CNC machinery like mills and lathes. But still, that seems more specialized than a lot of the foreigners working in 7-Eleven who apparently get by with their mediocre service.
Chris not being familiar with Pee Wee feels as much cultural as generational. Chris is probably familiar with Bill Nye but probably not Beakmans world. Also I’m guessing Chris is the tail end of the era who watched Saturday morning cartoons.
With japans high quality of life and it being cheap compared to most other places right now it seems like the place to go. I'm personally learning Japanese now and plan on heading there in the future, maybe to live if I enjoy it. I never thought earlier in my life I would leave NZ but its become so horrible lately.
@@UnimportantAcc The main thing right now is cost of living. Products, food, Petrol, housing and everything else is really high. Jobs are scarce as most companies don't see any point in opening an office when there is one in aus. Crime also seems to be really high and only getting worst, including gangs and light sentences if any and if they even catch them. (murders low but stealing is high) Its dirty, NZ has this clean green image but its not very clean, Most rivers are polluted and you will normally see rubbish on the side of paths and nobody is going to pick it up. There are a lot of reasons to both like and dislike NZ but to me it seems like everything is rapidly getting worse.
@@deathnz1 It also turned into a far left dictatorship during Covid with horse face Arden in charge - the only person allowed to fly in and out of NZ for 2 years was the billionaire Labour party donor Larry Page of Google.
Pee Wee Herman was on everyone's TV and the movies were good also. They did him wrong with the adult theater incident!! It's not like he was at the park touching himself! 🤦🏽♂️
I enjoy those 8-view Japan vlogs randomly popping up on my recommendations.
Idk if it's just for me but they're always well edited and an amazing vibe
Chris Broad not knowing who Pee-Wee Herman / Paul Reubens was is my mind blowing thing of the day, on the same day I found out RFK dumped a bear carcass in a new york park
RFK ate the road kill bear and it gave him brain worms
I think Chris was born in 1990. And I don't know of the PeeWee show or movie was ever big in the UK. I doubt it.
Chris also was UK, he probably had bill nye or the equivalent but certainly didn’t have Beakmans world.
@@uss_04 As someone who was born in the UK in 1985, I had never heard of Bill Nye until he turned up in The Big Bang Theory.
@@fattiger6957 when Nickelodeon uk launched in early 90s I think that was the only place to watch the show on reruns.
In Japanese folklore, there’s a deity known as "Kasa-obake" (傘お化け), a supernatural being understood to shapeshift between an old umbrella and a creature that hoards umbrellas.
Pete unintentionally making fun of Chris' video was savage lol
Yet...
As an ethnic Japanese who was born in Japan but grew up in the US, I cannot get a family visa.
Still have ethnic Japanese relatives that still live in Japan (yes i have the government "family lineage" paperwork) but told no by the Japanese government - reason given is "we don't want you to become a burden on our social welfare system..."
Mostly retired 15 yrs ago and now make 6 figures (USD) annually with no financial obligations - vehicle, mortgage, etc.
Have own health insurance that can be used whenever I go there.
So what social welfare burden will I be a part of?
Japan consulate in Chicago - "well... you're just not allowed! Stop asking questions."
Seems to be the same mentality that most Japanese offices have - "it's because we've always done it that way. Don't think about if it's right or wrong..."
WTF?
Insane that you can be born there and have family from there but somehow it’s not enough 😂
@@aR0ttenBANANA it's been a frustrating process.
Makes little sense to me.
Those like me that ARE ethnically Japanese are kept out... but - "we don't have enough people, so we're going to import non- Japanese to help with the economy."
Uh... sure.
You’re not diverse enough.
All of these countries are racing to destruction and importing foreigners
I'm in Japan right now it feels like Japan has a job for everything.
I went to Tokyo tower and skytree today and there were people there to just guide you into the elevator and one in the elevator to just push the button.
If there are people who have a job like that, then I find it hard to believe that people can't find employment
That foreign population doesn't include me so Japan is missing out.
I feel that personally lmao, u so right
😂
Flipside of the umbrella theft is that SO MANY people just forget their umbrellas at restaurants (when it stops raining during their meal) that if it starts raining during your meal and you have to leave in the rain, if you ask them really nicely where you can buy umbrella nearby they'll occasionally just give you one for free because they may have a whole pile of abandoned ones that they keep around for staff/customers. Happened to me more than once. ^^;
They might as well start treating those clear plastic ones as a free-for-all, just leave them in a holder for anyone to take
My umbrella advice is get one of the super-compact flat fold-up Waterfront ones (you can get them very inexpensively at BIC Camera etc.) and keep it on a small carabiner (if you don't have any you can get one at the dollar store or BIC or DonQi etc.) so you don't have to leave it in the rack. When I lived in japan I NEVER managed to keep a stick umbrella because they're not attached to anything; if I didn't forget them outside a restaurant, I'd lose them on the train. With the flat fold-up ones and a carabiner, you never have to abandon it and it folds up small enough that it's not a public nuisance indoors; you just shake them out and fold them up before coming into the store and hang them on your bag strap while you're in the store - the compactness controls most of the dripping, unlike dragging in a wet stick umbrella; it will rarely drip any more water than people's shoes track in so you don't have to feel bad, but if you think it still drips too much or you need to bring it into a restaurant or something you can also just keep an extra plastic bag with you or one of the plastic umbrella sleeves that they have for free at the entrances to malls. Honestly you should always have an extra plastic bag with you in Japan *anyway* so that you can carry your trash with you until you find a bin).
i use the famima foldable one and i love it. i dont understand why people get the big ones because you cant properly store them anywhere. i can easily put a foldable umbrella in my backpacks waterbottle pocket
@@arceus54321i put it in the water bottle pocket too! (there's two so i use the other one for water lol). i use my umbrella for the sun too, so I just bring it with me every day even if it's not gonna rain, saves getting caught out :) TBF I think the bigger plastic ones are sometimes better in extra heavy rain but if there's too much wind and/or its a typhoon you're screwed either way so really there's only a small percentage of rain where t's too heavy for a lightweight umbrella but not heavy enough to just destroy any umbrella and keep everyone indoors anyway😅
Japan's foreign population boom: Canada - hold my beer.
So Japan kinda asked us, Indonesia and few other South East Asian countries to send workers there and the target iirc was 500k for the next 5 years so yeah, it's only going to increase.
Yes, mostly to work in elderly care homes, farms, and factories because they can't attract enough local Japanese for those jobs.
Better working conditions, better opportunities, and a government push for family focused policies would be a far better idea than to keep playing the same game and just importing new players.
Japan has the best infrastructure in the world for enjoying youth, and it is connected by public transportation networks such as railways.
You are called to be workers first, and then expected to be consumers of the youth infrastructure.
Yeah, exactly. People just assume that Japan takes In immigrants from all over the world just like Europe. Gj Japan
My fave is 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure' (the movie - 1985) 😉 ... "Be sure and tell 'em. Large Marge sent ya!" 🤪
The "Tequila" dance scene in the biker bar is pure magic
Is that the movie where he wakes up in texas and they ask what he remembers then cheer when he says he remembers the alamo
That's where I learned about Mr. T cereal. Only to much later find out that it was a real thing!
Priceless!!
My Son, who I believe is a few years younger than Chris, remembers watching Pee-wees Playhouse, but I suspect it was the reruns.
Ok kids, the secret word today is "gaijin" and we all know what to do when we hear the secret word, right? 🎉😁
SCREAM REAL LOUD!
I wish for Japan to continue to be ethnically Japanese into the future.
Brooo iswtfg japan taking in more immigrants ain’t gonna make it not ethnically Japanese anymore by a long shot 😂 ethnically Japanese gonna be the dominant ethnicity anyway. And by the 2nd generation all of the “immigrants” they may not be “pure blood” Japanese will absolutely be Japanese in character and yapping Japanese as their first language. Diaspora studies prove this and it’s very evident in countries like the US.
Chris and Pete if you haven’t seen Pee Wee’s big adventure yet. I can’t recommend it enough. It’s the movie the launched Tim Burton’s career.
Never thought I'd hear one Englishman explain PeeWee Herman to another, slightly younger Englishman on a podcast about Japan.
Watch the movie, Chris. It's a great slightly surreal 1980s movie. Tim Burton's first Hollywood film, before his movies all sucked.
I actually had a nice umbrella stolen at a coco when I was studying in Japan. Was very upset. From then on I only bought those cheap clear umbrellas. It isn't always the cheap umbrellas!!
"I'm on a hill" should be a brand on its own, with an optional image of a smug face of Natsuki.
Umbrella story so funny, while I was in japan, I went out of my way to "forget" my Umbrella so many times. I could not for the life of me get rid of that thing, and everyone else getting there stolen daily 😂😂
chris my subscription box is like that too lol. i keep seeing japan vlogs with like 20 views. tbf some of them are quite good.
also, ive never had a bad experience with foreign konbini staff! theyve helped me both pay my health insurance and buy concert tickets
Paul Reubens' career was halted for about 8 years after his indecent exposure arrest in 1991. His comeback in 1999 was pretty cool with a part in the movie "Mystery Men".
I hadn't watched The Blues Brothers in about 20 years and when watching it I noticed it was Pee-Wee/Paul Reubens playing the waiter in the posh restaurant and was blown away. He was also in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (the movie, not the tv show) in '92, so not sure if he filmed his scenes before or after the indecent exposure arrest
Pee-wee was unquestionably brilliant. Few kids’ shows ever rose to that level of creativity. And few managed that many winks to the adults watching too.
Japan needs to be careful or they can kiss goodbye to their high trust society.
And it doesn’t take a high percentage of foreigners to do it either.
Japan is not like the UK or France. You will actually face consequences if you don’t contribute or if you cause any trouble.
Don't do it Japan.
"Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" is a must see film and the first of Tim Burton's hat-trick of weird and kooky takes on film, with the next two being Beetlejuice and then Batman, which gave him massive clout in Hollywood and caused him to disappear up his own arse
The dangers of self-indulgence. Same thing happened to Ridley Scott.
We did have pee wee’s play house in the U.K. but it used to be on premier satellite on the children’s network. I used to watch it about 40 years ago
Recently I have run into the same problem. TH-cam keeps recommending me Japan travel vidoes with like 300 views. TH-cam must be looking for the next one up to replace Chris.
It is probably more because I think I'd pretty much watched all the vidoes of the usual Japan TH-camrs I watch.
Pee-Wee had a timeslot for kids entertainment but his original live shows were ABSOLUTELY NOT for kids. Same character, but the Saturday/Sunday show was tamed down a lot. I adored the show back in the day, and Big Adventure of course. A subversive legend.
Think of a crazier talkative Mr. Bean. That’s Pee Wee. I loved watching Pee Wes’s Playhouse on Saturday mornings.
yay new episode!
My umbrella has never been lost or stolen in two years and I tend to use an expensive Fultons umbrella because they're nice. Nobody seems to steal the njcer umbrellas but I expect one day it'll be gone.
Watch Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. If you do anything else in life, watch that.
Sure, there’s nostalgia there for me; but that movie transcends time and culture. It brings your inner kid out and makes you feel comforted in a very charming way.
Simpler times…
Edit: The thing in the theater he did… sure it wasn’t great but Pete left out a pretty important part. It was a theater showing corn. I mean… I feel like there’s a GENTLEMAN’S agreement that certain things are going to be going on there.
Most people did not blame him for it. Weird, sure. Not without merit though.
Def gotta watch Pee Wee's Big Adventure. As young American in the early 90's Pee Wee was my absolute fav, even above Alf.
Omg! I thought everyone knew Pee Wee Herman. Genius character created by actor Paul Rubens. Chris, you need to watch his hit movie from the 80s, “Pee Wee’s Big Adventure” which is hilarious. The movie got made because his Saturday morning Tv show “Pee Wee’s Playhouse” was so popular. Btw, the big joke is that the show looks like a kids show but it’s 100% written for adults. College students in the 80s were particularly the biggest fans of Pee Wee’s Playhouse. Paul has been in many movies, but hands down his most popular character was Pee Wee Herman.
Went to Tokyo with my wife.
Having a stroll we notice a ramen place.
We are hungry and place looks like there is 20% chance you will not walk out with all of your kidneys.
Well, what the hell, lets give it a spin.
Leave the shop with all kidneys and belly full of good ramen...but we forgot our umbrella there. Figured it out only once we were far away.
Few hours later on our way back we stop buy the ramen ya...and out umbrella was waiting for us behind the counter.
Thanks shady ramen merchants!
Def watch the old school Miami Vice! Great soundtracks and plenty of cameos from many great actors who were much younger at the time
did Pete get a new camera the quality is amazeballs
Thats why you either get one of those compact ones that you can take inside with you, or get one of those 100 yen umbrellas that work just as good as any other umbrella.
I was stationed in Japan from 09 to 13, only about an hour from Hiroshima. After a year or two, I had become the de facto your guide for my shop. One day after a night of drinking, a newcomer whom I had promised to take to Peace Park refused to let my hangover ruin his plans. Wandering the park on a rather overcast day, I'm still wearing sunglasses, suffering while my group enjoyed their first trip. I'm assuming, because I was the smallest man in the group, and wearing sunglasses, someone handing out what I can assume is anti-foreigner propaganda, decided to try and mock me. After a moment trying to reason with him, and he calling me an asshole for wearing sunglasses on a cloudy day, we decided to move on. My last words to him were, "sir, I'm just too hungover for this." That was the only time I ever encountered that kind of attitude.
My TH-cam feed consists of: random travel vlogs, AI content, science / history and a light sprinkle of something I’ve never seen before
Pete’s mi kasa su kasa joke made me giggle out loud 😂
Japan: 125.1 million people, 73% mountain
UK: 66.97 million people
Japan has so many people that it becomes overtourism when about 2 million tourists visit the country in a month
Pee-wee was one of those kid's shows that are even better for adults. I probably missed half the jokes when I first watched as a kid.
You should check out the Pee Wee movies. The first one is the best. If you can find the videos of his stage show, those are a bit more adult. Plus, Phil Hartman pops up as Captain Carl.
Chris what is Nastky’s (?) shop called? I’d like to support him when I travel to Japan!
It’s called “Howl” - no idea why! - it’s in Sakata!
Net migration to the UK was 600k+ last year (2023). The population of the UK is half that of Japan.
Peewee Herman is so great!! Blippi ain't got nothing on him 😂
50 LBS. Umbrella's ? Didn't know they could weigh so much ! Hee, Hee, Hee. A "£" of fun for me.
When I applied for permanent residence in September last year they said it would take 8 months, 8 months later they said it would take a year, and apparantly now it's taking 1 year 3 months 😢
A few months ago, my wife who is Japanese, left her clean umbrella outside our local Ministop. She had entered just behind another woman who's umbrella was dirty. While at the checkout, my wife saw that woman through the window pick up her own umbrella, then look at my wife's. She proceeded to put her dirty umbrella back and take my wife's...
It's surprising at times, how much Japanese pick and choose the rules as and when it suits them. Why steal someone's umbrella?
Don't even get me started on the silent illegal pavement cyclists coming up behind at speed without so much as a bell ring or "sumimasen" 😂
Japanese are for the most part very polite, considerate and do follow the rules, but they also seem to pick and choose moments to do the opposite!
Crime (especially theft), is definitely on the rise in Japan, although not even remotely close to being as bad as the US. Drug use is on the rise too.
wow, 2,6% foreigner? We have 30% in Germany 😂
The increase was almost entirely Vietnamese and Chinese foreigners. (Almost entirely on the skilled worker visa at that.)
Kind of funny, but my Totes el-cheapo but wooden handled umbrella is currently 10 years old and I do leave it outside of stores. Similarly I painted my mamachari in KTM colors and nobody has stolen it (but I've had it for 20 years.)
I first heard about Peewee when I watched Retro Rick's game channel. Chris you really need to watch Miami Vice!
Hey Chris do you do paid meetups?
big umbrella is listening, the have us eating from their hands :D
Very impressive impression of Pee-Wee!
They make fun of those Fortune Vending Machines in "Personna 5". Morgana scolded me for wasting ¥.
I was a Pee-Wee Herman kid so I relate to Pete's enthusiasm.
Paul Reubens took a chance and helped Danny Elfman and Tim Burton get their start when he worked with them on his film in 1985
Need to go to Natsukijima one of these days
I just moved to Japan in april, me and 150 other Brazilians, and it's just one Japanese School in Tokyo.
I'm shocked that Chris doesn't know about Peewee Herman but I do, was not on my 2024 bingo sheet.
As a Spanish speaker i enjoyed enormously that mi kasa su kasa joke 🤣🤣🤣
RE: Paul Reubens (PeeWee) "Heard any good jokes lately?" - Best comeback line ever.
4:54 "...feeding 1000 yen into an unlovable piece of crap...you never win anything..." Pete casually crapping on Garnt's addiction to gachapon.
I was one of those foreigners who lived in Japan but went back 5o my home country and now I even brought back my Japanese spouse to mu country and live here. I don't have to pay rent here as I have my own house and I live comfortably in my country vs when living in Japan.
The adult cinema thing is honestly pretty sad. They were pretty common in that era, but it still ruined his whole career. Weird guy, but he seemed pretty beloved
Never watched Pee Wee's kids' show, but his Pee Wee Herman Show (originally broadcast on HBO) is aimed at adults and is very funny. Also recommend the first movie, Pee Wee's Big Adventure.
I told my wife about Gaijin Smash and now she uses it to describe when she can navigate rush hour foot traffic and gets crushed by the crowd in Shinjuku Station
pee-wee herman was my all time favorite show growing up, I loved his movies too. If I could wish him back I would, MECCA LECCA HI, MECCA HINEY HO!!!
Pete's headphones are on the wrong way around. Not sure why I noticed that, mind you.
If someone stole my umbrella that looks just like romaine lettuce, I'd be devastated, because it was expensive.
So happy to hear everyone else's youtube frontpage sucks as well.
Paul Rubens played the voice of The Navigator in Flight Of The Navigator which I'm sure Pete must have seen. Once you know you it feels kind of obvious but since we didn't know who he was then it was lost on us
Pee wee scared stupid is my all time favorite movie of his.
I think I'd enjoy living in Japan (apart from Tokyo, I guess), but I'd probably not enjoy working there - I guess it would depend on the workplace and the colleagues.
The work culture sounds like a nightmare for a lot of "normal" jobs.
Maybe if I were a bit younger (I'm 37) I'd probably be able to get on some working holiday or similar, but I dread long commutes and even longer work days.
I'm a machinist, so I know my way around CAM software and CNC machinery like mills and lathes.
But still, that seems more specialized than a lot of the foreigners working in 7-Eleven who apparently get by with their mediocre service.
Tbf, touching yourself in the cinemas is also very retro, Netflix put an end to that
Chris not being familiar with Pee Wee feels as much cultural as generational.
Chris is probably familiar with Bill Nye but probably not Beakmans world.
Also I’m guessing Chris is the tail end of the era who watched Saturday morning cartoons.
All the vans moved to UK to start shouting, "Get out!", I guess...
I cannot believe that Chris abroad does not know Peewee Herman.
Perhaps there's an umbrella planet that they all go to, in the same way as the biro planet Douglas Adams wrote about in HHGTG.
British English is to win Scrabble while American English is to be lazy.
strange us in nz received pee wee movies but not the uk? good podcast
We had them in the UK, i was born in 81 and knew who he was from TV and film before going to USA for the first time in '90
Chris should open a US candy shop on the Ginza.
Millennial here. I used to watch peewee a. The time in the UK as a kid
Shikoku would be be the worst place to kayak. There’s a tone of vortex whirlpools
the thing that makes Japan so appealing will disappear
Chris not knowing who PeeWee is blows my mind! 😆
Pee-wee Herman the kiddie fiddler.
Is this guy for real. This is his recommendation 😮
Umbrella stolen… “What exactly leads you to believe the Soviets were involved?” - Pee-wee Herman
Pee-Wee Herman may have been influenced by Pinky Lee who had a children’s show on TV.
12:38 Technically true, 2.6 of Japan's residents are non-Japanese, as 2.6 is lower than 2.6% of Japan's population.
Pee Wee is very Natsuki coded
With japans high quality of life and it being cheap compared to most other places right now it seems like the place to go. I'm personally learning Japanese now and plan on heading there in the future, maybe to live if I enjoy it. I never thought earlier in my life I would leave NZ but its become so horrible lately.
I was looking at NZ and Aus before. Genuinely curious, what's wrong w NZ?
@@UnimportantAcc The main thing right now is cost of living. Products, food, Petrol, housing and everything else is really high.
Jobs are scarce as most companies don't see any point in opening an office when there is one in aus.
Crime also seems to be really high and only getting worst, including gangs and light sentences if any and if they even catch them. (murders low but stealing is high)
Its dirty, NZ has this clean green image but its not very clean, Most rivers are polluted and you will normally see rubbish on the side of paths and nobody is going to pick it up.
There are a lot of reasons to both like and dislike NZ but to me it seems like everything is rapidly getting worse.
@@deathnz1 It also turned into a far left dictatorship during Covid with horse face Arden in charge - the only person allowed to fly in and out of NZ for 2 years was the billionaire Labour party donor Larry Page of Google.
@@deathnz1 thanks for the insight, sounds like it's going the same way as the rest of the west then tbh
I thought Pete looks like the blonde retainer from Vinland Saga S2
Peewee’s original playhouse was a very adult live stage show and very funny. Also, you can’t go wrong with the movie PeeWee’s big adventure.
This is the 日本 Cult of Umbrellas. We have all of your umbrellas.
Pee Wee Herman was on everyone's TV and the movies were good also. They did him wrong with the adult theater incident!! It's not like he was at the park touching himself! 🤦🏽♂️
2.68% is still really low for foreigners in Japan
Most foreigners are from other Asian country as well, the "western" population (white, black etc.) is less than 0.4%