what is this just a big sticker i'm kind
of like testing how strong it is
let me explain what these are so you
don't do that no
i've always wanted to what's up with
japan
and the witch hey guys i'm chilling with
norm today
and we're in a home center here in
morioka in northern japan
i really wanted to give you guys kind of
like a walking tour show you what they
have here because home centers in japan
are so much fun there's just so much to
see here they got pet stuff they have
like home renault stuff
they got camping stuff i'm so stoked to
go camping with norm one day
i really hope we do it anyways wanna
take you guys around and show you what
it's like
they've even got trampolines to be fair
i kind of need a new one
because i bent the leg how did you be by
being fat
oh this feels so much cheaper than the
one i have
the trampoline is not bouncing
it's a non-bounce feels like really
loose and yeah no
not so good maybe the one i got was
actually good quality
oh wow it just sinks yeah right
all right so charlo what's the goal are
we are we here for something yes we're
not just wondering
so i'm making a um cat cage out on my
patio so maro can
enjoy the sunlight and stuff and i've
got the cage but i really want to get
like some flooring for it
and i want to get some wiring some like
protective wiring to go around it so
that
hornets can't get in it's also hornets
on my
patio for some reason mostly those two
things so this is a diy project that
that's why you wrote me into this
you're very good at diy okay
i always wanted one of these even though
i don't really need it it's for like
um keeping the sunlight off your patio
they look really cool
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you can see them
i actually bought one of these it might
have been this one i thought i could put
it on like one
side of maro's cage so that he wouldn't
have like direct sunlight on him all the
time
hey sharla have you ever had compound no
i've always wanted to it's like emergent
don't just don't
it's it's so bad it's well i guess if
you i don't like dry stuff
but if you like dry stuff it's really
good it's kind of yummy we got these in
the
crazy vending machines we did yeah
they're really good and look at this
mochi emergency like food mochi you just
add water to it and it
then you can eat it you don't have to
cook it that'd be good for camping you
just add water to it
i'm so stoked for camping got all the
emergency stuff here too
yeah wow race i honestly thought that
like emergency food in japan was just
like
rice and fun
this is actually my first time to see
the biscuits like a big thing a bit i've
never seen it
how
i want to buy it and open it on this day
and see if they taste good still
this looks like a cupcake oh my god look
at all the ingredients that's terrifying
bread shouldn't have that many
ingredients okay moving on what are we
doing
i keep thinking these are real people
they really look like real people oh my
god
cat stairs
our mission keeps changing what is this
just a big sticker
that can't be how it attached
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that's so cool i didn't know that oh it
smells so good
this smell like really reminds me of my
first time in japan because it was the
first time that i experienced like
real tatami and it's the whole house
smell like this
oh it's so good do you like the smell to
time i really do there's some people
that don't like it but
i love it and you can buy like little
squares like this for like 800 yen
it's so cute what would you use it for
that would be cute in the bottom of
tomorrow's cage
he could scratch it he's allowed to
scratch this to them
oh look at that there's a bench oh
that's really nice it's only 60 dollars
yeah it smells so good you guys need to
come to japan just to smell the tatami
you will not be disappointed tatami
maker right there
so i wanted to get some grass for the
bottom of the cat cage like fake grass
but i'm worried mauro really likes
chewing things and i'm worried he'd be
able to rip it out
and eat it and i don't want that so i'm
kind of like testing how strong it is
honestly this is really well made like
you can't pull the blades out
so it might be okay i don't know is it
worth the risk i could also do like
carpeting or something
i think it would be okay but let's um
check out the carpet and other options
what's up with japan and the witch proof
like you actually still see people using
these all the time they're awesome
yeah in tokyo one of the biggest uses
for these
i guess is not the biggest but one of my
favorite uses for these
is watching them clear the snow with
these on a snowy day they're only two
dollars oh no that one's five dollars
the bargain broom they look exactly
right these ones have the fancy red
wires
ah totally worth three dollars
definitely
and these are made out of bamboo look at
them pretty cool
have you ever noticed how many tv shows
feature japanese like broom making
no it's like i don't watch really big
subculture in japan
you know charlotte this stuff over here
reminds me that you also said you wanted
to get something to
line models yeah probably not gonna go
with this
not what we want something soft or
something that he can scratch
this could work this isn't bad it's not
the nicest
looking better than the half dead one i
know what
why why would like this is what my grass
looks like in october
all right so charlotte found the giant
rolls and apparently they're softer
yeah i think this might be better and it
would be waterproof right
it's just rubber and plastic so yeah
they really don't sound soft like they
don't it's very scratchy but they feel
soft
yeah let's find some stuff
oh
the guy just told us apparently there's
a just a button
that you can like call the pain with
yeah so and now
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yay
people are always surprised that
japanese wood is always
wrapped in plastic it's in plastic
because
japan's humidity is off the charts and
if it wasn't
it would get warm yeah what
what is it it's so nice
it's actually a lot cheaper than i
thought they would be right like that
for 7 thousand yen
i really expected them to be a lot
better
not obviously the kind of thing you
would you know buy and take back home to
canada that's not gonna say like i can
see
people seeing these and be like that's
awesome i want one for my house
so let me explain what these are so you
don't do that
there are little shrines to honor your
dead relatives and you pray in front of
them
and yeah they're beautiful i i really
expected them to be more expensive
the accessories are off the chart
expensive though like this little thing
here
yeah being 16 and you would need two of
them
yeah that's like half the price of one
of these almost
what's that don't even know it's just
like a garden hose or something oh no
it's a blade
is it a grass cutter lawnmower that's
the word i wanted
i gotta say i am jealous we do not have
any home centers in tokyo that are
anywhere near this big in the core of
the city yeah
i take them for granted it's pretty
amazing honestly it's huge
what
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the brand is nipply
we've chosen a net finally this is like
the biggest decision of the whole
project
i think this will work i still think you
should just do the whole balcony
i haven't seen anything that would be
able to just hang off the entire balcony
though
just install a screen door screen door
these are the bees that charlotte's
worried about because bees get pretty
big in japan
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we have no button this time so i gotta
search for staff or try to do some math
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so luckily the staff have been really
helpful and suggested a
much larger bug repelling net that has
some sparkly stuff in it and
charlotte jumped all over that i think
this one will be good and it's because
it's really big we won't have to cut it
too much so we don't have to worry too
much about like piecing it together
is that duct tape giant duct tape this
is the
it's a hundred dollars wow
so if you've ever wondered what 100 duct
tape looks like
that you can drop on your feet always
give me that oh my god
kevin
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we talked about potentially doing some
camping definitely want to do some
camping
and now charlotte is looking at the
world's smallest chairs we need some
tiny chairs
are you sure you don't want the acid
reflux chair
while it's tempting ooh should we go all
out is it a chair is it a hammock we'll
never know
that's so cut it's a hammock chair
it feels like a hammock all that soaked
dude you could sleep in this who needs a
bed let's just like get rid of my bed
and i'll buy this
it's so comfy it's a camping sofa
this is so cool honestly we need to go
camping just so we have a reason to buy
these cool like camping products
so excited about the camping okay so i
got a few confessions to make
first off i just bought a giant like
six person no way like that yeah with an
awning
they got marshmallows too okay this is
it right here it's the one-stop
camping shop they have xl marshmallows
oh my god i didn't expect to see that in
japan s'mores they say for s'mores yeah
good luck finding graham crackers
they got chocolate in them though then
you don't need to get chocolate
i don't like chocolate so i usually
don't you know i'm leaving you know what
our camping is
i'll get my mom to send us some i'm not
i'm not stooping to the level of cream
cracker
in the summer in japan all the children
get excited about
catching beetles honestly even if you
don't like insects and creepy crawlies
kapito mushi are the cutest little thing
i used to have some as a pet if you've
been following me for a really long time
you might remember them you can catch
them out in the wild you can buy them at
pet stores
yeah so in the summer all the kabuto
mushi catching gear pops up in home
centers in japan
it's really fun to look at so i want to
show you guys oh they're awesome
so if you're lazy and you don't want to
catch your own you can just buy them
here
at the home center there's a giant atlas
beetle that may or may not be dead
i don't think he's dead because when i
had a beetle he liked to like cling on
to the side of his food dish like that
he's probably just chilling yeah they
like to like bury themselves
under the they're kind of hidden
yeah this one she's moving he's moving
he's also like hanging out laying on his
side
yeah i was like always worried every
time i looked in the cage i'm like
is he dead
fallen leaves they love this you would
put this in their cage so that they can
hide under it
i love how this is something that you
can actually just buy i know
you know the best way to catch them no
you take an
old banana and you rub it on the side of
tree bark
what yeah and then they just get
attracted to that and then you catch
them off the tree
huh or you can mash up some banana and
other like fruits and stuff and put in
like a pantyhose or something
and hang it off of a tree and then climb
up to it
i did the banana one and caught it yeah
so
in canada we have hamsters in japan they
have kabuto mushi and you can buy cute
little accessories for their cages
so these are little logs that they can
climb on
you see there's a little hole in the log
this is to pop in a jelly cup
it's basically just like sugar and water
and some gelatin or something that's
what they eat
they just they love the sugar you pop
that into the log and they'll chill out
on the log and eat that
this is a fancy one it's like a tree
stump i had no idea
that you like kabuto as much as i did oh
i love them so much
they're so cute they're like little
hamsters
but you can catch them in the wild how
cool is that oh here they are
yeah if you saw this and you didn't
speak japanese you'd probably think it
was like beetle flavored jelly or like
like some dessert made from beetles yeah
so i would give him one of these every
day and he would eat it he was so cute
oh these ones look tasty that's the
unfortunate thing is that they actually
they actually look pretty good
if i was a kid i would definitely try
that out
oh what's that i know i was looking at
this it looks like
it helps you catch the money oh no it's
for growing the babies maybe
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it's for growing the babies because they
lay eggs right
oh my god okay so i have to tell the
story in case you weren't following me
which probably most of you weren't
i had my kabuto mushi's right i had some
wild ones that i had caught and the one
that i bought but the wild ones i didn't
realize they were like
pregnant so i had my cup of tea mushy in
their cage for like a couple months i
think and then they died
and i buried them outside and i just had
the cage sitting in my house with like
the dirt and everything in it because
i'm
lazy and didn't clean it up one year
later
i think it was like a year later these
disgusting larvae
appeared in the cage like giant i'll
show you a picture
giant white larvae and i was like what
the is that because i
had no idea what that was and it was
like baby kabuto mushi but they're
giant it's terrifying um
this so they look like that it looks
kind of small it's not it's like
a giant prawn and like eight of those
just appeared in my cage one day and i
was like
what is that because i had no idea that
that was a thing that happened
i thought they would have tiny little
babies no they have giant
monster larvae yeah i think you can
probably see that in a video of mine
from like 10 years ago so they're
somewhere if you're you're really
desperate
while we're at the home center and
before i forget i need to get a
bed for tomorrow okay it's for the
summer
an aluminum catbed it keeps them really
cool he loves them
they also come in like sheet form
cooling pads you can put them in the
freezer i think
or the fridge whoa it went up in price
it's three dollars why is it three
dollars
i'll get him one how much was it before
a dollar what
yeah oh feel that
it's a blanket but it's cold huh
that's neat it's like the permanently
cool side of the pillow
sold okay so before we wrap up there's
one more thing i want to show you guys
probably wondering why these jackets
have holes in them
you can actually install a ventilation
system
thank you dorm into your jacket how cool
is that
i actually first saw somebody uh using
one of these
um there's one there i actually first
saw somebody using one of these when
they came to my house to move some
furniture
and i was like that is genius so you'll
see people in japan
wearing them usually like yeah movers or
construction workers
i honestly want one i've never seen like
a cool jean jacket version that's
awesome
you're the best too denim vest
camping so that's the perfect excuse to
borrow
i hope you guys um yeah enjoyed seeing
what a home center is like i'll probably
bring you back again some other time
when i'm
building something else because i really
love these places and i like sharing
them with you
thanks for helping norm yeah children so
much
what are you doing in the back there i'm
like nervous and he's gonna do something
thanks for watching guys take care and
i'll see you again very soon bye
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