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it's beautiful today everybody's been a
little different lately now I get also
I'm in pajamas so I spent the last while
putting something together for you guys
and I think you're gonna like I hope
you're gonna like internal wrist okay
let's do a little bit of context when I
first started tokyo lens the gold was
very simple on top of obviously sharing
the things that I loved about Japan I
wanted you to feel like you were
traveling with me
don't vicariously partially selfish I've
always enjoyed Japan more when I'm
showing people around but I also know
that not everybody can travel whether it
be health or responsibilities or any one
of the multitude of things that ties
people to home and now almost all of us
are tied to home all the time and we
have all the tools we need to have a bit
of a window into the world that
sometimes that window just sucks so I
wanted to give a little bit of a break
and give you guys a chance to fill your
ears and your time with something a
little more positive something longer
than like a 10 to 12 minute YouTube
video and so for the past couple of
weeks I've put together something north
of six hours of interviews with creators
at home all over Japan like I can't help
but smile it's been a lot of fun and
I'll give you all the details after I
show you a bit of a preview so let's
call this episode zero of what I've
dubbed the at home show
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I am sitting here with Dogen hi everyone
and don't get what they were giving away
the farm completely would be we give a
little preview maybe talk a bit about
what we talked about in our episode yeah
so we focused primarily on Japanese we
talked about kind of about aspects of
the language that people who are
learning it might not know about but
would be good to know about and we
covered some very we actually covered
one really useful phonetic rule so kind
of a secret for knowing the pitch accent
of a whole bunch of verbs just by
looking at the word and then we also
talked about some funny kind of
anecdotes about learning Japanese but
misusing it in real life and also kind
of the classic nihongo jewels and kind
of how people interpret that over there
Japanese learning journey I would say I
couldn't have given a better summary
myself I'm gonna leave it exactly like
that we'll talk to you soon my pleasure
hope you guys enjoy the podcast or video
casting or watching Michaela what did we
talk about in our episode uh in our
episode we talked about life down in
southern Japan in Fukuoka City my love
for food and the challenges of having
pests in Japan after our podcast episode
I'm kind of feeling like school come
might even be one of the best places to
live in Japan and you shared a couple
cheap travel tips that I didn't even
know about so I guess we will talk to
you in a few days
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now joining us from the island of
Shikoku in Matsuyama I guess that's kind
of backwards it's Matsuyama in Shikoku
that makes more sense we have her
sitting down with sherry how you doing
today sherry very good and what are we
covering in our episode or what did we
have almost in our episode sherry whole
variety of topics and from a business
because I started my own business from
zero so we recovered some tips for those
who want to work in Japan who want to
start their own company in Japan too how
I how I started my business and how I
grew up in a born and raised in the
countryside of Japan yeah a place that
you seem to have a great deal of love
for and a business that you've grown
from literally just this tiny little
bean to this giant like this is a
terrible terrible visual description you
know it's a fun episode we had a great
time recording it I'm gonna leave it at
that
thank you so much all right so henna
from currently Hana I think we had a lot
of fun in our episode there's so many
different topics that came up can you
give us a little peek at what we talked
about yeah a lot of good fun we talked
about travel travel traveling solo
couchsurfing at the age of 20 is a naive
female traveler in Europe by herself and
you know Travel filmmaking and vlogging
and blah blah blah and we also touched
on a lot of Japanese culture obviously
the country that we are both in are
different like little subcultures and
different types of people in Japan like
whether it's shadow of what was the
other one he said yeah mumbo yeah yeah
mumbo yeah mom
which is new to me
and then we talked about novelty taxis
as you do drifting taxis karaoke taxis
on send taxis you know their thing are
they not who knows we'll find out when
you listen to the a beautiful
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alright so Chris from abroad in Japan
can you share a little bit of a
description of what we covered in our
podcast episode we talked about fade and
travel norm because I like fade I like
travel and especially together we talked
about the two restaurant chains in Japan
you need to try and we talked about our
favorite places in Japan including where
I'd like to live if I had to start over
in Japan tomorrow afternoon the very
city I would live in those are just some
of the highlights in the Tokyo lens norm
super duper podcast that you should
definitely listen to right now in your
ears it was so hard to keep a straight
face to do that entire thing thank you
very much we will see you in a couple
days
jolly good thank you Charla what did we
cover in our podcast episode Oh
everything from the current craze of
Animal Crossing my current obsession two
tips for finding really amazing
apartments in Japan if you're planning
on living here - our plans for the
future
once we're allowed to leave our houses
again something sounds good I am excited
and we will talk to you I guess in a few
days so that's it what did you think I'm
pretty excited as for the role of plan
it's not gonna be coming out on the
Tokyo Linz podcast which obviously will
be linked down below and with the goal
being to take a break from the craziness
of the world right now
we actually go out of our way to
actively avoid the topic of the current
situation except for Friday's episode
Friday's episode we thought it was best
just to address that situation head-on
right from the beginning so in that
episode
every creator across Japan currently
involved in the project comes together
and shares their situation and
experience and everything like that but
from Monday from Monday there's there's
none of that
from Monday it's just fresh just today's
coffee turned out good and just to be
super clear on things no it's not coming
out on YouTube everything that's gonna
be over on the podcast if you do want
videos or if you don't want to wait the
two month all of it is already available
for the amazing community of people over
on patreon who basically made this
entire thing possible to begin with so
if you want all the content right now
it's all better also a massive thank you
to Souter Denise who did the base work
for all of the Arbour and used in this
project like all of it all those
beautiful colors and the map and then
build it it's it's all her so thank you
and that is pretty much it we had a lot
of fun putting it together so we hope
that you have even a fraction of as much
fun just kickin back at home with us and
I guess listening to the content or
should you be so inclined watching the
content also if you're not at home if
you're one of those essential workers
who has to be out there braving it every
single day thank you from each and every
one of us genuinely means the world
thank you now that's it really
everything is linked down below my
coffee cup is just about empty so I am
going to grab a refill thank you guys so
much for joining I won't see you again
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