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Alright. So last episode, what was his name?
Mee-san.
Mee-san.
Mee-san asked us what would you like to do if you...
Because we said that we wanted to go to the US. What would you like to do if you go there?
Did we specifically mention New York?
I said New York.
Okay.
Do you want to share what you want to do in New York?
Oh, go to the theater, go to the concert, meet a person, see... go to the museums, a Statue of Liberty.
Yeah.
Um...
Sing?
What?
You thought I was gonna give some really...
Yeah, like...
Special...
You said in... Okay, I'm gonna speak in the next episode.
I thought you were gonna say like...
You thought I was gonna say something really interesting.
Yeah, something we never know about.
Yeah, actually...
Actually, what I wanted to do is just really go to a hot dog stand, eat one of those hot dogs, right?
And go to like Ground Zero, look at the Twin Tower, Empire State Building, ride on Subway, stroll around Manhattan,
Central Park, Statue of Liberty.
Yeah, that's the things that we can think about.
Yeah, you know...
You thought I was gonna say something special.
Yeah, like more like American...
You wanna go to this specific local store with special memories?
No.
You can find everything that I'm gonna do on Vodaboo.
Okay.
Yeah, probably.
Okay.
Beside New York.
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Okay.
You can go like every place.
I would go to Disney, Florida Disney.
Yeah, that's...
I would definitely do that.
Yeah, thank you.
Another thing?
Yeah.
I would do...
Hollywood.
I would love to go to Hollywood.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, Hollywood place.
Yes, the big letters.
Take pictures.
Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
And the trees.
Yeah, trees.
The San Francisco trees.
And I know that.
Beaches too.
Beaches, I know that.
Beautiful.
I know.
I know.
I know.
I know.
Yeah, I know that.
Okay.
Then let me tell you something more local, something that I would only know.
What would I do if I go to Rome, Georgia?
Ah, cool.
The first place I would go to is a Chick-fil-A.
Chick-fil-A?
That's a sandwich.
I'm sure you've heard this multiple times.
Yeah?
Chick-fil-A.
You recommend me.
The food I would eat, Chick-fil-A, Papa John's.
Papa John's.
Honey-baked ham.
Okay.
Sandwich shop.
Uh...
I forgot the name.
Some Chinese restaurant.
I forgot the name, but delicious.
Okay.
Moe's.
A Mexican restaurant called Moe's.
Ah, okay.
Moe's...
I forgot how to spell it.
Yeah?
Go to Walmart.
Okay, Walmart.
Go to Sam's Club.
What's that?
It's like Costco, but Walmart runs it.
I would go to Atlanta.
Okay.
Go to the elementary Japanese school that I attended.
Ah, cool.
I would go to Tomato.
It's a Japanese local food store that I always went to.
It's called Tomato.
That's the name of the store.
Okay.
Weird, right?
Yeah.
Yeah, Tomato, right.
And go to the mall.
Mall.
Huge mall.
Okay.
That I forgot the name.
I think it's Mall of America.
I forgot.
Oh.
But, yeah.
Mall of America.
Mall of America.
There's a Mall of America.
I think it was in Atlanta.
Huge.
Mall of America.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was pretty big.
I would go to a mall in Marietta.
Marietta's name is City.
Okay.
Right in between Rome and Atlanta.
Okay.
I would go to St. Mary's Catholic School.
What's that?
That's my middle school.
Okay.
Okay, cool.
Then go to Rome High School.
My high school that I attended for half a year.
Okay.
Did you know that the golf course, there's an annual fee.
If you pay an annual fee for a golf course in Rome, Georgia, the annual fee is a lot.
I think my dad told me it was like 5,000 yen or something.
Okay.
It's free.
You can use it anytime for free.
As much as you want.
Wow.
And he said that the golf, what I thought was funny, it was interesting, was that the
golf cart.
Yeah.
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I don't know if that's a driveable cart, right?
It depends on the employee if it's free or not.
What?
You go there sometimes and if the employee said, he said that there's a certain employee
that lets you ride on these carts for free.
If it's that employee, it's free.
If it's not, it's like $5 per round.
So loose, right?
So like, so teki-to.
And it's free.
It's free.
If you pay the annual fee, it's free.
Wow.
Unbelievable, right?
You can play anytime you want.
Anytime you want.
Oh, cool.
It's crazy.
I would play tennis, which is free too.
Okay.
Tennis is always free.
It's always free.
Yeah.
Okay.
Um.
I would go to TJ Maxx.
It's a discount store.
Okay.
It's not like the discount store in Japan.
You know how OK Store is a discount store in Japan?
Nothing like it.
It's on the next level.
It's so much more cheaper.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
If you know that Ralph Lauren t-shirt that I was wearing?
Yeah.
That, you know.
Looks good on you?
Yeah, they look good on me.
And I, in Japan, you probably buy that at like 4,000 yen or something.
TJ Maxx, it's like $9.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Same t-shirt?
Yeah.
$9.
Yeah.
$15.
Somewhere around there.
It's so discounted.
There's Nike shoes, uh, under armor clothes.
Yeah.
Uh, uh, Adidas.
Any, any Ralph Lauren, of course.
Uh, yeah, it's a, it's a huge discount store.
Wow.
Um, I would go to Target.
Target is a supermarket.
Uh, Walgreens.
It's a drugstore.
Uh, yeah.
Wow.
Yeah.
Well, that's nice.
So many places I want to go to.
Have you...
How long have you been back to the United States?
Uh, last time I went there was when I, when I stopped working for my first company and before my, before Starbucks.
So, Shakaijin, first year, after the first year of Shakaijin, right before the second year of Shakaijin, which is we are right now fifth year.
Right?
Yeah.
If we were still Shakaijin, fifth year.
Yeah.
Right?
So three years ago, three or four years ago.
Yeah.
Three or four years ago.
Yeah.
So that's, that's the last time I went there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
A long time ago.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like for people like me, I can visit those places like much easier than, than you, you
can.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And I can go to the like my elementary school.
Oh, right.
Because it's in Japan, right?
In Tokyo.
Yeah.
I can easily go there.
Easy access.
And bring some memories and I can, oh.
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Yeah.
And you know, there's some energy.
You can feel the nostalgia.
Yeah.
For tomorrow.
Right.
I can.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
I do have an elementary school that I attended for a little bit in Ibaraki.
Okay.
I've, I've lived in Ibaraki before.
Uh huh.
I can go there.
It's easy.
Right.
My Obaachan's there.
Oh, cool.
Right.
So let's, but not that much of a deep memory.
Uh huh.
Not as much as what I was in the last show.
Yeah, yeah, of course, of course.
Yeah.
I want to, I want to visit those places too.
The local, local places.
Yeah.
It's good.
And your like elementary school and your high school.
Uh huh.
Uh huh.
Yeah.
It's going to be really deep.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I looked at the staff of the same areas, middle school, all the teachers, many of the teachers
are still there.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Isn't it?
Is that private?
It's a private school.
Okay.
So I know then that will be fun.
Yeah.
I don't think they remember me.
Oh, really?
It'll be surprising if they did.
Yeah.
Maybe they did.
Like if this is a principal teacher, you know, like an assistant, the principal was different,
but like the assistant principal, which took care of me really well, Mrs. Jackson, she
was still there.
Ah.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
You will be so happy.
Yeah.
I would be so happy she remembered me.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Wow.
Right, right, right, right.
All right.
So that's what I'll be doing.
Yeah.
In New York, just all the basics.
Right.
That was the, that was the question, right?
So.
Yeah.
Yeah.
