K
So lately I’ve been thinking about being bicultural, when it comes to being seasonally bicultural, which is a phrase I totally just made up. But I’ve been thinking about it. And I think that’s what we should call it.
C
Okay, because tis the season for buying is that the buy culture, you
K
know the light. So okay in America, September is the start of the year and it’s fall. September is fall. Yeah. And it’s back to school. And August is the hurry up and get ready for the back to school rush. And then September, everyone’s back to school and summer is officially over. And it’s fall and the school year and the fiscal year. And everything is is just beginning even though the fiscal year is not just beginning. It’s another term in the fiscal quarter or what have you. Yeah. And in Japan, all one just happened. And it happens in August, and that’s by the summer break. But September is not. Let’s go back to school time. No, but it kind of is because of the obon break. But it’s still really, really hot, and feels like summer. So I have like the NX and aggro times two because I have the NX and aggro of starting the school year. That’s like super stressful for parents. Like parents are freaking out about a C. Okay, here’s the thing. I never understood why parents freaked out about the school you’re starting. You knew it was gonna come all year round. Right? So I don’t understand why if you live near a Walmart, or any kind of a Walgreens or a Safeway, if you don’t live in a food desert and product as a if you’re not indigenous and paying $11 for ketchup, then that’s like a political segue. It’s just food deserts are just on my mind. Because I don’t think that any food deserts here in Japan.
C
I think that you’re wrong. It’s just that they’re not the same here.
K
Okay, out in the agricultural areas, there aren’t as many grocery stores, right. But they’re the agricultural areas and there’s more farmers markets.
C
Yes. So that’s I’m saying, I think that it depends on how you define it.
K
Like for you, I think there’s any time there’s not a bunch of convenience.
C
Thank you. Yes.
K
I convenience stores.
C
Yes, thank you. I need like already prepared food. Don’t get me ingredients. I can cook but
K
yeah, really? You’re really good cook. Thank you. I often comment on you stopped cooking for yourself. Yes. I still cook for myself every day. And now. I do not cook for Chad. Chad does not enjoy my cooking. Like we’ve talked about it on the cast before y’all musicnotes No, that is not right for me to have to cook two meals
C
is not and we have the thing that would prevent us from burning down the apartment.
K
Yes, because I like to walk away while I cook. Yes, you do. Hi. All of my feet. I like it really well done. And I find cooking boring. I really don’t enjoy cooking. But I don’t like process packaged food. I don’t enjoy it.
C
I’ve stopped cooking for you. But the last phase of me stopping cooking for you was the most upsetting I think.
K
Because before stage, have you not cooking for me anymore? Yeah. Okay.
C
Because you’re like, oh, you’re not cooking as much for me anymore. Oh, that’s okay. I can cook myself. But then it got to the point where you like, Caf started cooking. And then you see, you know what’s coming next. And then you would just walk off and go get involved in something that you couldn’t stop for like 15 or 20 minutes, you’d say can you just watch that for a minute? And you come back and and y’all cooked? You say? Oh,
K
I would shout that that you shout about you too. Yeah, like the thing I do is if I have I’ll cook and go to the bathroom. Or the worst was I was like, let me take a shower right quick.
C
Yes. I put on. I’m gonna go take a shower.
K
And I open the shower door in school. Are you cooking it the way like? Yes. Can you just throw it right Quick. I don’t want you to cook it for me just watch it. Yes. And stir it. Yes. And don’t let it burn. And let me know when it’s done. But don’t click it for me. Yeah, like that.
C
Is it sitting in the pan getting all greasy? Just put it on a plate. Nothing fancy.
K
The details you just put on the plate. It might get cold. Can you cover it? Yeah. So now you don’t cook at all? No. Like we and we bought separate pans because my theory was that. So I had this habit of really cooking everything well done. But liking nonstick pans. And I cook the food at such a high temperature that it burns the nonstick off of all of my pans and destroys the pan within like two weeks me having it. Yeah. So I thought maybe if we had separate dishes that you would cook, and now I did for a
C
bed. You but I did for a while.
K
What were you cooking for yourself for a while?
C
Mostly? Just chicken? I’d get like, either. Yeah, you’re doing like ground chicken.
K
ground chicken and chicken breast filets. Yeah. And then now you’ve just gone to like straight. Like,
C
everyone smile, boil some water for a cup of noodles.
K
Yeah. So you’re living almost purely off of processed food? Exactly. off of pre made meals that can be delivered to the home. Exactly. And it’s so weird, because I don’t eat any of that. It’s like, really rare. Like once every five or six months. I’ll be like, yeah, I’ll have whatever you’re having. Yes. But I live almost completely off freight.
C
Yeah. Which is very seasonal. Yeah, so the seasons here on the fruit are not the same as the seasons in the US.
K
See how he’s bringing us back around? Exactly. Chad, so get it this is almost like you’ve been doing a podcast with me for several years.
C
It’s almost like that.
K
So for me right now is the end of September. And I’m completely pissed, right? Every year at the end of September, I’m completely pest. So any United States, I was completely pest at the end of September, because by then every single one of Ross’s teachers had managed to piss me off about something. And the nurse, and the school counselor, and the front desk receptionist, and the vice principal and principal, I would burn through like the entire school. By the end of September, all of them that pissed me off for something.
C
Let’s see if I would talk about how schools were just set up, you know, to stamp in that industrialized mindset in kids and turn them into good factory workers.
K
I think it’s because I’ve volunteered so much. Yeah, and I would get pissed off. So like, I didn’t like the harassment about the way I dropped Ross to Office school. And that usually started by week one or two, because I would park walk him in, and then just hang out while he played on the playground. So I want to see who his little friends are. Yes. I want to know who he’s all friends on. I want to know their names. I want to know their parents. And you can’t get that if you don’t hang out. And they want you to drop your kid off and keep moving. And I’m like, No, I’m not abandoning my child to you. I am not giving up my parenting duties. I don’t trust you. Like I don’t know you. Like we had one open house.
C
Okay, it’s the start of the school and you were talking about how good the back to school sales were.
K
Right? No, I didn’t do the back to school sale. You know, me. I bought the school supplies at the mid to end of school year, because I grew up poor. And so I knew like when something was on sale. That’s when you buy it. Who cares what the season is. You buy it and store it and keep it?
C
Yeah, see, we never had storage for school supplies because we had to have all of our bulk foods like all of our flour and stuff for our apocalypse survival kits. Yeah. Back to School was like, ooh, we can get 85 pairs of jeans at Walmart for $3. Let’s do that.
K
Yeah, I never got any of that. My No, no, now, I never did any of that. So I have the frustration and irritation of new people even though I haven’t met anyone. If I had the irritation of having like, a bunch of people who think they have power and control over my child, which I don’t give that to any teacher, they have to earn my respect and earn it. So I have all of this disdain that’s just there because it’s September. Yes. for no other reason. It’s just September. But I was the same way as a kid like, you’re my teacher and what? What does that even mean? Are you even smart enough to teach me? Where did you go to college? Like, what makes you so smart? And I would ask teachers like, what makes you good about about this? What makes you What made you want to teach this? And I would ask them that when I was really young, and they get really offended, and I think well, if this is your passion, you shouldn’t be so touchy and offensive about it. Like asked me why I want to do anything I’m doing. And I know, and I’m not mad about
C
it saying when your child asked me why I’m doing what I’m doing. You when I was a kid, I was like, Yes, and the answer is because I’m a child.
K
No as to why I put rocks in my mouth. I put rocks on all collect where they sound when I click them against my teeth. I know I’m throwing rocks in my mouth. And I don’t purchase any rock in my mouth. I’ll lick it first. Come on now. Make sure it’s a tasty rock. Okay, not all rocks tastes the same.
C
Good point. Yeah.
K
See? quality material here on the music’s in Japan. Like where else are you going to hear someone at met that they like any rocks? Well, I don’t any marks down my teeth. They’re just shattered. All my teeth are cracked at the roots. I have like three crack tea that I have been to forgot to go to the dentist
C
for none of this is related to eating rocks because you no longer eat rocks.
K
Correct. My rock eating days were gone. Yeah, I was eating rocks when I still had baby teeth. Oh, my God, my permanent teeth. I didn’t eat rocks because I was told it would shut my teeth. Yes. But my my dentist urged me to stop eating rocks. sigh did
C
you did stop?
K
Yeah. So how do you feel about it being the end of September. Do you have any frustration? Do you have any anger because you’re like you’re in the work. I’m not in the workaday world. You’re in the workaday world. And there’s all this pressure for like Black Friday, Black Friday, Black Friday, which is now two months away. Yeah. And as a completely American thing, and we live in Japan, and you work in Australia.
C
Yeah. But the company I work for sells some percentage, non trivial percentage of its products in the US. Yeah. And so we’re doing things like confirming the last date by which we have to send things out to ship for guaranteed customer delivery before Christmas, so that we can tell customers that off October is a transition month for me at work.
K
It’s still September. And you’re already transitioning. I’m calling it October,
C
because I’m getting ready. Because the transition is that
K
for like a week into September, you’ve been saying October, October, October,
C
right? Because the first weekend in October and Australia the time change happens for daylight savings. So what does that mean? The time of day at which I work changes.
K
So next week, the time of day changes. What are you talking about? Like this is normally start
C
work at 8am. Okay, when the daylight savings changes in Australia, I start work at 7am.
K
Well, I don’t like that. I don’t know why I don’t like it. It affects me zero. And affects like literally less than zero. I am not a Hangout in the morning person.
C
Well, it affects you sound because I get done at three in the afternoon. During during winter, and four in the afternoon during summer.
K
I like that. Yeah. There’s more chat in the evening. There’s more chat in the evening. Yeah, I’m an evening Chad kind of gal
C
that everybody at work because like, Oh, it’s finally getting warm.
K
Yeah, because different center different seasons.
C
Yeah. So I don’t have it as bad as some of my co workers. So I’m like,
K
are you try cultural seasonally, like, are you finding that working in Australia is like telecommuting to Australia. that’s changing the way you think about the seasons and the time of year. I think it’s like what’s supposed to be happening right now?
C
Yeah, I think it’s kind of blurring it because I’ll see on the news that it’s an American holiday. And a different time. It’ll be a Japanese holiday, but I’ll be working because it’s not an Australian holiday.
K
Yeah, my guess because I work for myself. Holidays have never really mattered.
C
Yeah, you take a holiday when you want a holiday Yeah.
K
Which is always in October, right? Because I’m just so pissed by the end of September. I’m pissed at the weather. And just the vibe in Japan is like, everybody’s pissed. Yes. So what I’m hoping happens in October because 50% of the people in Japan are vaccinated. And you can y’all can get pissed off and like, send us hate tweets or what have you. But I am all for the vaccination passport. I want to be someplace that only vaccinated people can go. Okay. Because then I can take a vacation and go to a buffet with vaccinated people. Young go stay in a hotel with vaccinated people. Yeah, I think we all are in the same club.
C
Japan hit like 64% sometime in September.
K
Yeah. And now they’re vaccinating children. Hello, thank you. Right.
C
So maybe sometime eventually, can go.
K
That’d be like, Vax only weekend. Yeah, something like no, because they gave us the past. They gave us a thing that proves were vaccinated. Yes. They gave us proof of vaccination and told us to keep it. So I’m hoping that means they’re going to do something with that
C
they’ve been saying so. And internationally, it looks like that’ll probably be a thing as well.
K
And so if you’re an ant, if you’re an anti vaxxer, I don’t like you stop listening. Well,
C
no, I know you’re serious.
K
And read our Twitter. Um, so for real? Because I have like, I have organ failure. Like I seriously, I’m an organ failure right now. And like, you don’t want to get a vaccine. Because of some, some things somebody said that you heard somewhere might happen to you. Like, stop that foolishness. Yes, I’m not having it. So in Japan, we know anti vaxxers here in in Japan, and the Japanese anti vaxxers are so bizarre to me. And so different than the American anti vaxxers like the American anti vaxxers have like freedom and unlike whatever, but the Japanese anti vaxxers they’re not defensive about it. They’re like I don’t want to I had someone explain that they’re not getting the vaccine and they’ve decided to start throwing barbecues because right now it’s BBQ season in Japan, because Japan doesn’t like barbecue but they love BBQ. They love same BBQ. At least here in Nagoya, I don’t know somewhere else they might like barbecue and not quite as BBQ is really, really popular. And to BBQ in your carport if you have one is a super popular thing to do. Or BBQ on your balcony this time of year. So I find that really irritating
C
that they’re busting out the hibachi cheese.
K
I don’t like that as BBQ season. It bugs me is BBQ and hanabi season and unlike I don’t like that I don’t like that as firework season. I don’t like that as barbecuing season and I think this year is because I’m jelly like Magellan here’s one year I had like a whole plan to do all of the fireworks and you were just like no
C
and by do all the fireworks you mean
K
I mean go and, and BBQ. Okay, reserve a spot at the hotel that has the BB keys on the outsides that you can see because they have like amazing firework shows like they have people doing handheld fireworks. Are you kidding me? Like they’re risking their lives to entertain me.
C
They’re mostly risking their eyebrows.
K
They have gunpowder packed gunpowder in their hands. And they’re shooting off packed gunpowder.
C
Every time I turn on my phone is like lightning racing around behind glass as the only thing
K
so I also feel really deprived this time of year because in the United States in California, this is campground prime campground season because all of the campground seasons are highly discounted. And you can go camping for like five bucks. You can go get my a sweet cherry campspot for five bucks right now. I do hate camping.
C
I’m not a fan.
K
You You won’t camp. We like, I got you to go camping once and you hated it. And you made sure that I knew you hated it.
C
Because I had told you that idea. And you were like, No, No, you won’t. You will love it.
K
And then I tried to get you to go a second time with just me. And not a bunch of drunken hooligans. Yeah, we’re like, because I don’t like to drink. Right when I go camping. I don’t think it’s like an excuse, like, go get hammered in the woods. But I would completely take acid and go camping not here in Japan. It’s illegal. And I get so long ago, the statue of limitations has worn out. But mushrooms or acid and go camping. Oh, yeah, that’s fun. But like alcohol and camping, no. Just yell. Now. It’s too dirty. You have to be aware of yourself. Like, there has to be a certain level of awareness. There does have to be a certain level of awareness. And like, seriously, I want to sleep with a fire burning outside my tank. Come on now.
C
Right. And if you’re hallucinating, you could be like, No, I know that I need to defeat the fire demons.
K
No, I’m doing hallucinogenics I don’t start a campfire. Okay. I’m not stupid.
C
Like you have to be really aware of yourself. Therefore hallucinogens.
K
No. So I want to have a campfire. Or I want to have hallucinogens, okay. And I don’t find alcohol to be enough of a hallucinogen. And nobody wants to be hung over. Like when the bathroom is a good walk. Yeah, yeah. The shower
C
be hung over an outhouse.
K
Yeah, no, no, I always want the campsite that had fully plumbed. Because I told you that was our mistake is that we didn’t go to a campsite that had Yeah, we went
C
on a rafting trip down. I forget whether it was the American River or the Russian River, because they’re both in Canada are both in roughly the same place in Northern California.
K
I did not enjoy the second half of that. Like there’s a certain part where everybody falls off. And I’m like, then why are we doing that? Okay, why are we doing this part of the river? Why can’t we stop it before that part? Like because there’s no parking. Everybody before and I was so traumatized. Because I just Lean Back, Lean back. And I just now I kept trying to slim it. I really was screaming from the shore, Lean Back, Lean back, but eventually washed up. We lost one of our paddles. And as Tom guys ever is, like, trying to get me back in the boat, but he wisely. And I was like No, I’m not getting back in the boat right now. I’m traumatized. Leave me alone. Yeah. makes everybody just go. Because the whole reason that we tipped we would not have fell over. But somebody wronged us because they didn’t wait their turn.
C
Yes. Are you gonna play bumper cars in a rapid river?
K
Right. So this time of year, how are you feeling? Are you feeling like you wish there was some activity you could do? Are you feeling repressed? I’m feeling repressed.
C
I think I’m not feeling repressed. I think around the end of the year, I will feel repressed because we usually try to take a trip. Like there was some years that we couldn’t afford it. There are some years that I couldn’t get the time off. But the end of the year, Japan mostly shuts down for two weeks for non retail, non tourist stuff.
K
Yes.
C
So I think it depends too, on what industry you work in. Because right now I’m really busy. Getting ready for the retail crash. That is the end of the year in the US. But when it’s actually happening, I won’t be that busy. But I know that retail workers and the warehouse pickers and that kind of thing. They’ll be very busy. So I feel like the cycles really depend on what you do.
K
You don’t have any ingrained cycles.
C
I don’t think that I do. I think maybe he grew up growing up in Alaska broke that. Because there was the times that it’s sunny all the time, and then times when it was dark all the time. And not a lot of time in between. When you say oh, by the end of September, the summer is over. My immediate thought is on September 22. More or less sometimes 21st sometimes 23rd. Summer is over because it’s the autumnal equinox.
K
Yeah, yeah, we say that mean it has no meaning. Right?
C
Because in Alaska is like two weeks of autumn, two weeks of spring. And the rest is either summer or winter. So I don’t have a, like a four unique season kind of vibe. Even though Japan it does have four unique seasons.
K
I don’t have four unique seasons either I grew up in California. Yeah. It’s like always warm. It’s always either summer or not quite summer. Yeah. And then we have like a couple of really cold months. Like, it’s really cold. It was never cold to you
C
that it was never called to me. It was like, we could drive to Tahoe and it’d be cold. And we drive to town and be like, it is above freezing. for at least an hour a day. How is this cold?
K
Yeah, you were disappointed and taho you are completely unimpressed with. We went to Tahoe a couple of times. The pictures we take her to sleep and we talked about it for fun. Yeah. It was a fiver smell holiday. But so for me, I feel like October has turned into my end of September, beginning of October is the same in Japan as it is in the United States. And that is everybody’s sort of settling in for the push to the holiday season. Yeah. And for me, I always felt like, okay, now’s the perfect time to take a trip and do something asynchronous with culture. So that way I can have all of the space to myself. Yeah, we’ve
C
done that before. Not always at that time. But Golden Week here in Japan is the very end of April like April 29, and 30th. And then the first week of May. I think there was one vacation that we went on the day after Golden Week. Yeah, it was so quiet and so private in the hotel. Yeah. I love that five people staying there. And the staff were just so grateful to have somebody was really nice. Yeah. Or maybe they were just like, so relieved that there wasn’t a crash. But basically.
K
So this year, I feel stymied. I feel like I can’t get out all of my August, September frustration, like August is the waiting, spinning the whole month waiting for September to come. For everything to start up again, with this is just something ingrained in me. And I, like I only work in a synchronous way with Japanese society for maybe two or three years. Yes. And then even when I was doing my therapy practice full time, it still was not synchronous with society with Japanese society. Because my clients were International. And whether or not they traveled when they had time off depended on their contract. Yeah. And so some people would be in town, some people wouldn’t some people would have kids International School, some people would not so nobody wants
C
their national schools run from April to April, which is the normal Japanese school year. Yeah, some of them won’t run from September, just the American school year.
K
Yeah. So there was no demographic and my client tell that there was no time when all of my clients would be gone. And there were times that I was working on Christmas Day with clients. Yeah. And for American clients. They’re like, Oh, we’re so sad for you. And I’m like, Why don’t celebrate? Like it’s still sad, though, isn’t it? And I’m like, no. And Americans would freak out that I usually work on my birthday. And I don’t take it off like that you work for yourself. Why don’t you take it off? And do what my husband’s at work? What am I gonna do? Exactly? Yeah, well, you can go shopping, I don’t enjoy shopping.
C
My job. I get a company newsletter every day, like just a little thing. And it always has birthdays. Like Happy birthday, and then the name for everybody’s at work. There are very few people who take off for their birthday.
K
Everybody seems to think if you’re self employed, you should take it off. And I didn’t do anything that day.
C
I think this is the method if you’re self employed, then you must be working like 150 hours a day.
K
What are you talking about? I do work 150 hours a day?
C
Yes. But you don’t work at all the same job? Because you’re self employed. Plus you’ve got your schoolwork. Yeah. Plus you’ve got other stuff.
K
Everybody knows I work seven days a week. Yes, everyone has a workaholic. So that’s my even when I have my therapy practice. I work seven days a week. Yes. You don’t work seven days a week. I do not know. Me plan like if I want you to do stuff with planet really carefully or I ambush you, right to get you to record the podcast is usually an ambush. It is. Yeah. Today was totally an ambush.
C
I’ll be done with something I’d be like, would you like to record the podcast? Or do you
K
do not say it like that. I said, Do you not want to do the podcast anymore? Like, do you want to start the podcast down? And you’re like, no.
C
Okay, yeah. Would you like to record an episode right now? Or do you want to record one? Never again?
K
No. And I’m like that for real? Because I don’t like being late or not having the cast out on time. I know what because I feel like I’m trying to build the page on on trying for this to be a business. I really want this to be a business. It’s not working for us. I think it’s because we’re not. I feel like I need to be a clean that is talking about RuPaul drag race, because it seems like every podcast on earth is either a RuPaul drag race clean, or clean talking about RuPaul drag race.
C
Those are the ones you listen to the ones that are also popular are people who are like you should believe me in this conspiracy theory.
K
Like conspiracy theory, podcasts are really popular as well. Or here,
C
I have investigated all of these murders. And let me tell you all about them.
K
I don’t think the true crime podcasts are that popular anymore, at least for people who are lay persons, because now they have people who are reporters, right? doing them.
C
Yeah, you no longer hear them, like clicking to scroll the Wikipedia page as they read. The implication there? Is that the truth crime podcast, we’re just based on Wikipedia.
K
So you’ve been doing this podcast for a while, and it’s still not a business? Yeah. I wonder if it ever will be a business?
C
I don’t think so. I think that we don’t have the proper balance of getting people hooked on hope. And then telling them to have that hope fulfill the need to subscribe.
K
Yeah, because I won’t let the podcast be about our marriage, right? I don’t think that’s appropriate. I think it jinxes it, I think spoils it, and I don’t ever want our marriage to be a business. I just like
C
something you and I talked about before we got married? Yeah.
K
Because reality TV was like, it was in its infancy at the time. That’s not what it is now. But reality TV was a possibility for us. Yeah. And as because I know, people in the TV industry. And I told you that and I said, Everybody I’ve been live has always wanted me to leverage this to make them famous. And I don’t want to be famous in that way. My I just, and people were like, why not? I want money, and I want to work. But I don’t want to have my private life. be the thing that makes me money.
C
Yeah. And I feel like, if you look at the money that people make from reality TV, most people don’t make enough to live on.
K
Now they don’t. So for most they don’t. Most people don’t make enough money to live as large as people want them to be living. Right? Because they’re on reality TV.
C
Yeah. So I look at some of the like reality TV stars. And right now I have a good job. And we’re spending most of our money on investing
K
and investing in the in the press. So I don’t want anybody
C
thinking I have like, a big million dollars in the bank or anything. But if we were just saying all,
K
y’all could go to the Patreon and give us some packets. Yeah, broke. Yeah, broke.
C
But if we weren’t spending any money trying to build for the future, I would be making more than a lot of the reality TV people who are much more famous, but I have my privacy.
K
Well, I think that people when they look at reality TV, they hear Oh, this person makes $3,000 an episode. Right? There’s 10 episodes.
C
Yeah. So if you make $30,000 in a year, at a minimum, that’s minimum wage.
K
Yes. And a lot of them now have to have private social media accounts. Because if you’re in like an because I love the 90 day fiance ones, yes. But they’re the 90 day fiance. People are not getting rich. Even the ones that get their own spin off shows. They’re not getting rich from it because they can’t have anything on They’re social, all of their social has to be private. And since all of their social media has to be private, they can’t leverage it unless they’re going to advertise or use products on their show. And a lot of places have rules against that.
C
What am FTC for the USB stuff? The FTC has really been cracking down. Yeah. Yeah, I forgot there was a thing where there’s a social media person. They had a podcast. And they did a whole thing about a product without disclosing that it was a paid ad. And they got a massive fine from the FTC for not disclosing that was a paid ad.
K
What is it in Japan?
C
In Japan, it’s not there’s no rules about it. Sorry, in Japan, you don’t have to say anything about it being paid at.
K
So how are we going to survive this October? Because I really have a young to go camping. Yeah, like camping is like the one thing I feel like we could do.
C
Camping is something we could do. There are campgrounds in Japan. There are no there are no KLA campgrounds. Yeah. campgrounds of America. None of them in Japan. Yeah.
K
What is the same level? They might as well be?
C
Yes. The same level?
K
I don’t know. Maybe we should rent an RV and have roster drivers somewhere. Yeah, that could be fun. Unlike Park, they’re like, do you like an RV getaway?
C
Yeah, like a glamping kind of thing. Yeah.
K
But then there’s not one big enough to where like, Where would he go afterwards?
C
back to his cave.
K
Like no, like he would have to hang out there with us. Yes. Now that kind of killed the vibe of us getting away because
C
neither of us has a license here. Because what neither of us has a driver’s license.
K
So he could take a cab. Or he can have a friend follow us. Wherever he dropped us off. Like he can have a friend. Follow us as he drives us in the RV. Even though he’s never driven an RV. It would be a good experience for him. They’re not that hard to figure out. Because he could drive us to the campground and then have his girlfriend. Yes, his whole life. His friends have been his girlfriend to me, his love. Pick him up and drive him away. But I don’t think he has any vaccine or friends yet.
C
He I don’t know. Because all three of us just got the end of our vaccination sequence in early September. So I think we’re supposed to wait until four weeks.
K
until four weeks after your sequence. Yeah, after four weeks after your sequence. Well, he definitely doesn’t have any friends that have their second shot yet even right, then no one could follow us. But he could go in and
C
I think the RV would fit a bike.
K
Yeah, he could put his bike on the back. Yeah. And then
C
this bicycle away.
K
Because I have this urge. We always took a trip in October we always did. In the United States. We spent a weekend getaway.
C
Yes. And sometimes that’s all the trip was was like one night in the motel down the street.
K
Yes. So I need this this year. I need it. We didn’t do it last year, and I need it this year.
C
And I think we should figure out a way and then we’ll do a special episode recording firm because we had a couple of years ago where we have this special episode where we just like,
K
and it was one of our lowest listen to episodes ever. like nobody wanted to hear about Hakone.
C
So maybe, yeah, maybe we’ll have to have music now to read sometimes we have to have ghost stories this time. Like we were visited by the ghost of a bone past of what alone past the ghost of own past. Because it’s October. Yeah, because Oban has passed. Exactly, because Oban is already a holiday about celebrating your ancestry. And if you’re religious about it, a lot of people really believe you can be visited by your ancestral ghosts. And
K
I feel like that seasonal nx has not changed and that both countries feed my seasonal angst.
C
I think they do. And I think that’s
K
interesting. Can what drives the seasonal NX is the weather. I’ll be honest. Yeah, like October, the weather starts to get reasonable. And September, the weather is sometimes reasonable. And then it’s like sake, blazing hot. And that can happen in a day. I can’t leave and it’s it’s overcast and breezy and just gorgeous day. And halfway through the day, in the blink of an eye, the clouds are gone. The sun is out. And the earth is the earth is bleached from just like sunlight.
C
I go out at five in the morning to take out the garbage. It’ll already be sweltering hot. Yeah. And then I’ll be like, Oh, cool. It’s a clear day. I can do laundry because we don’t have an electric dryer. We we lined dry. Yeah. And so I’ll put in wash. I’ll put it out. And then
K
for me, yeah. This terminal, my half of the house and not your half of the house. Yes. So that’s always been going on has like trippy trippy microclimates, like just tons and tons of microclimates. Like literally half of our house will be in the clouds and storming and the other half will be completely Sunny, and never experienced the storm. And I’ll be like that storm was wild today. And you’d like what storm,
C
okay, because I have a north facing view. And I’ll ignore that it’ll be sunny, I can see the mountains in the distance and come over to the other half. And it’ll be a south facing view and be like,
K
there’s a slight going on here. And then there’s thunder and lightning on one half of the house. And it hits the building and the building shake that trap of like we’ll run to it, because we stay on opposite ends the house still, even though I’m not doing therapy anymore, it’s still like I’m set up to work in a different area. Yeah. And chat is because now chat has meetings. Well, you have meetings even when I was doing therapy,
C
yeah. Which is why we set up so that we could each have our own private space for work
K
for the therapy. I needed it for confidentiality, right. So you couldn’t hear what the clients were saying. To get done. their privacy
C
policy at my work is a little bit less stringent. But it’s like you’ve
K
had spouses walking behind each other. And a lot of you have a lot of couples working at your company.
C
And a lot of people have families and then policy is just like if something is confidential, try and get privacy.
K
privacy. I feel like a badge of honor. I’m one of the few spouses that have never been seen on camera. I feel really proud of myself. I don’t know where they’re set up.
C
I know people who I’ve never seen their partner on camera. I’ve seen the shadow of their partner walking around.
K
Like those. Well, they’ve never even seen my shadow. Yeah, this is true. They have like no clue. There’s one
C
person I talked to who I can like the entire meaning I could see their partner walking around like I just don’t say anything because that’s also the company culture is just don’t call it out.
K
Yeah. So they’ve never seen me because I don’t go in your office. Right But I will crack your door and peek at you. Yes, you will. Off camera. Yes. So I do just like pizza. He threw out the day. The time for if your enemies eating or not. If you have headphones on? I can’t tell. So the RV thing I really I really want to revisit the RV idea. I really feel like October we need to go somewhere. We need to do something we need to get out of the house. One as long as electricity. Yeah, there’s electric. There has to be electricity and Wi Fi. Yeah. And we have the pocket Wi Fi that we can run like the whole glamping thing. Yeah, glamour, camping. Well, even
C
if they don’t have Wi Fi that we’ve rented Wi Fi like back in March
K
in the hospital over Wi Fi was really good. Not whatever we used. It was really good. Yeah,
C
I know the place we used. Yeah.
K
So I guess there’s not a big difference between Americans September and Japanese September. Except I’m aggro about different things. Yeah. I’m just aggro. This is an aggro month for me.
C
Well, in Japanese, September is kusatsu which is literally month nine. Yeah. And nine is also hominum for suffering. Suffering so Japan. September is the month of suffering.
K
Yes, it is. It is. So as much as I hate August is what is supposed to be blazing hot and sucky. And September is supposed to be fall and if not,
C
it is not, not even after The autumnal equinox,
K
which is how I felt about it in the United States as well, in California, it wasn’t fall I’m like this is not fall. I wish everyone would stop saying fall
C
in Alaska it was because sometimes it would start snowing in October and September and sometimes I start snowing in October, but September was cool. Well, I
K
just hate September being called fall. Yeah, I don’t like it.
C
You notice I call it autumn? Because I know. You’re not British. No, I’m not because I’m British. But because I know that if I call it fall,
K
it irritate me. It’s not autumn either. There are no autumn leaves. There are no autumn leaves until the end of November.
C
But it’s the same leaves that will be the autumn leaves. So I contend their autumn leaves. They’re just hiding out
K
and aggravate me. Because I’m aggro. Hello. So follow us on over to the Patreon. Today we’re going to be talking oh my gosh, is that an earthquake? Or is that my path? It’s an earthquake. Yeah, it’s
C
an earthquake.
K
You guys are with us. While there’s an earthquake light fixtures are swinging, although I don’t think it’s weird and exciting for them? Probably not. For me, it’s exciting that it’s an earthquake because my path has been really bad. So pot is a postural tachycardia syndrome. And it’s basically when I sit up I feel dizzy. y’all heard me talk about it before and it’s built. It was built off the chain was kind of like having vertigo. And so the fact that it’s an earthquake and not me, I’m like, Yay.
C
Well, and it’s not you bouncing your leg when I don’t know that. Your leg.
K
Yeah. That’s a funny one. Like
C
I said, there’s an earthquake going on. Over I think it’s a very hazard foot on my bed, and it’s bouncing up and down.
K
You’re like it’s an earthquake. There was a better so thank y’all for listening. This week on the tag team we’re going to be talking about from the lighthouse. And if you want to know what that is, follow us on over to Patreon you have like years and years of stuff for three backs. Yes. So we hope you follow us over there and we appreciate everyone who is a patron We also appreciate all your music NAS for hanging with us all these years and listening to our rambles even though we’re not selling you anything. We’re just kind of I guess we’re entertaining.
C
We are Yeah. Are you not entertained? Yeah.
K
I don’t think putting lessons anymore. Couldn’t had a lifestyle change and so
C
does a Ctrl F on that transcript to see if he was mentioned.
K
I love you Even though you don’t listen to us anymore, but my heart so false on average will take two more Talk to you next week. Bye bye.
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