When you make YouTube videos, you have to do it, and you have to be happy, right?
I'm not happy. At all now. I feel just really angry and bitter and annoyed. [Sharla: Okay]
[ music ]
Good morning everyone, and welcome to Jurassic Park!
[Jurassic Park theme + Chris singing it]
If you're wondering where I am today, I'm not in Jurassic Park, unfortunately
That would be an incredible, incredible day.
But we're actually at Fukui Station
Fukui is the place where they uncovered the most dinosaurs
Where they've excavated the most dinosaurs
And to pay tribute to that, they've nicknamed it the Kingdom of Dinosaurs
And as well as having three giant animatronic dinosaurs
out the front of the station, they've actually painted the
whole station with a very cool dinosaur-looking setting.
I must say, most train stations in Japan look the same.
It's nice to see something different. It's nice to see
A giant, animatronic dinosaur!
And speaking of animatronic dinosaurs, look!
It's Sharla in Japan!
[trumpet slurs down in pitch]
How're you doing, Sharla? Sharla: Good.
Chris: How do you feel about dinosaurs?
Sharla: I fucking love dinosaurs. This is awesome.
Chris: So today we're cycling about 85 kilometres
It's a really long stretch from Fukui to Lake Biwa
The lake that kind of lies just north of Kyoto
It's also Sharla's last day, sadly.
Sharla: It is Chris: Although, you are going to be joining us again
later on in the trip. So it's not entirely sad. Sharla: I will be back. I will be back
Chris: Before we get going, of course, it's time to reveal
what the challenge of the day is.
Sharla: Here we goo
What do we have today?
Oh, I like this one. Alright. Cosmo86 suggested
"Speak only in Japanese." So for the entire day?
We've gotta speak in Japanese? Cool.
I'm up for that! Can you do it, Chris?
Chris: できますよ [ I can do it ]
Uh, no problem. I can do it.
But, I do need a few coffees.
I find in the morning - which is now- I'm
crap at Japanese. It just doesn't come out my head Sharla: Yeah
Chris: So, after a few coffees and a bit of exercise
Once the cycle's underway, I should be
Should be good. Sharla: good to go.
Chris: コーヒーを飲んだら、日本語が出てくる。 [ When I drink coffee the Japanese flows ]
Chris: It's magical. [ Like a magic ]
Sharla: これから日本語ー ダメ「マジカル」どが [ From now on, we speak Japanese — You're not allowed to say things like "magical"! ]
Chris: マジカル [ Magical! ]
Sharla: There ya go... あっ、あっ、そうだ… Fuck!
Chris: She gave up quick, didn't she? Went straight to "Fuck."
このビデオの字幕を。。。書くことに、楽しみしてないね。 [ I'm really not looking forward to doing the subtitles on this video ]
Sharla: 頑張れ （Do your best/Hang in there)
[ It's going to take a long time ]
Chris: I haven't actually spoken Japanese in a long time
Sharla: Good practice Chris: I really don't speak it as much as I should
Because a lot of my friends speak English rather well
Sharla: and that's the thing- and they always want to practise English
So you feel bad speaking Japanese with them
Chris: It's gonna be pretty tough, I think
Sharla: Interesting. Chris: But it'll be certainly be good practice
to get in the swing of things, to start looking at things around me and
thinking, "How can I speak Japanese, how can I explain that?"
For example, right now,
It's really bright. I can't see a damn thing. The word for that is
眩しい 「まぶしい」(mabushii)
It means, like, "dazzled," right, it's so bright you can't see a damn thing
Now, mabushii is an adjective, and in Japan they say adjectives
a lot, just to sum up the situation.
So rather than saying, "Oh my god I can't see!"
They'll say, "あ、眩しいね！"
Sharla: Yeah, it's really easy to describe stuff in Japanese
really, you just need to learn a lot of adjectives.
Chris: Just say one word. Sharla: That's basically it.
Chris: For example, this coffee. This coffee is 美味しい(oishii)
delicious.
美味しいね！ Sharla: 美味しい！
Sharla: 熱い [ It's hot ]
Chris: 熱い [ Hot? ] Sharla: 熱い [ Yeah, hot. ]
Chris: doing subtitles makes me lose the will to live
And that's actually a good example of a sentence that doesn't really translate well into Japanese
Chris: How are you?
Sharla: How a-
Sharla: 日本語！[ In Japanese ] Chris: 元気？ [ How are you? ]
Sharla: [ I'm feeling good but these plants hitting me in the face hurt. ] [Chris: Oh my god]
Chris: Yeah, we did it! Finished! No more Japanese today
We did the challenge, oh my god.
It takes a lot of energy to speak Japanese for a day Sharla: It does.
Chris: When you don't speak Japanese much in general
And combine that with a never-ending cycle through a
A mountain range and insects, and just all sorts of
Today was- I- Sharla: I'm impressed we made it. We did quite well.
Chris: beautiful scenery aside, in the first half,
the second half of the trip was just the worst day of the trip so far
really didn't enjoy it. I'm not in a good mood, no.
I didn't enjoy that at all. Horrible.
anyway
Chris: Maybe you cheer me up with —
Sharla: Replenish you energy with a yaki soba bread. [ Chris: With the things you bought. ]
Yaki soba fried noodle bread. [ Sharle: That looks really good actually — ]
fried noodle bread when you make youtube
videos you have to do it you have to be
happy right I'm happy at all now
I feel just really angry and bitter and
annoyed — it's horrible [ Sharla: Okay... sma— ]
this is the worst thing I put my mouth
Chris: from the last week. Sharla: It's okay, dessert will cheer you up. It will cheer you up
What have you bought then, come on. Put me out of my misery.
Close your eyes. Close your eyes. I will feed you. Chris: Okay, I'll just close my eyes
whilst holding a $2,000 camera. [ Sharla: Perfect. ]
Fuck is going on.
You ready?
Open your mouth.
Chris: Why? Sharla: Open it!
You bastard!
I will also eat some.
Sharla: I'm not that mean. Chris: Is that what I think it is? Sharla: Yeah.
Dried s— Oh God.
this is the one thing in Japan that I really can't eat and
not Tanana—
Sharla: You want some more, yaki soba Chris: No, I don- Yes, I do want—
I can't say I'm enthusiastic about you returning for
this trip later on, but you may have killed your chances.
oh! I think I'll replace you
with someone else
superior vlogger who should we replace
Sharla with guys let me know in the
comment section below if someone else
you think's better than Sharla write in
the comments and we'll find them we'll find them
we'll get them cuz this this is cross the line
now
well Sharla now that you've destroyed
my mouth with your natto based dessert
how can that be a dessert? How can that be anything? I'm gonna wrap
this up because I need to go and
sterilize my mouth in the next 40
seconds that's all for now guys we'll
leave Sharla just there we'll be back
tomorrow
I'll be back tomorrow, she won't and I'll be joined
by our third guest our next guest
Mr. Pete Donaldson who is my co-host on the podcast.
If you don't listen to the podcast
you definitely should it's in the
description box below he's come to Japan
on his holiday and so together we will
be exploring Kyoto, Osaka and Kobe so it
should be a really action-packed fun-filled
few days I'm certainly looking forward
to being in the city for a bit the
countryside has taken its toll on me in
the last few days as always guys no matter
where you might be watching from out
there in the big wide world thanks for
joining me today thanks for joining us
today and we'll see you tomorrow I hope
have a good one
Pete, when you decided to come this cycle
trip did you imagine on your first
morning you'd be sitting on a bench
surrounded by a pile of cats? [ Pete: I did not ]
Pete: realize that was gonna be the situation Chris
but I appreciate your endeavors
to make it in the situation
use only a paper map no Google Maps allowed
at this rate when the night sky
comes out we can least navigate by the
fucking stars [ Pete — Evil Laughing ]