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What's the sound you just inserted in the middle?
I want to say beatbox.
Oh, okay.
I want to say beatbox.
Like heartbeat sound?
Yeah.
But that was actually my sandwich that I just ate.
10 minutes ago.
Okay.
Alright.
Excuse me for that.
There we are.
No problem.
So, you've got a new phone.
I did get a new phone.
You are using two phones at the same time.
Yes.
It looks quite professional to me.
It does look quite professional.
This iPhone 7 that I've been using
for my private phone as well as my
everything for TikTok and podcasting and everything.
Which is white.
Which is white.
Yeah.
Yes, which is very white.
True, true.
It's white.
It's white.
It's a little...
Yeah, it's white.
Yeah.
Actually, the new one is white too.
Oh.
Yeah.
Yeah, but...
It just made it very confusing.
True.
Yeah.
Is it black?
Oh, it's this whole screen.
Yeah.
It's just a screen.
Okay.
Yeah.
Oh, so that...
Oh.
Yeah.
It's white.
Okay.
Yeah.
You like white then?
Oh, yeah.
It's the...
No.
It's the one they have.
I didn't get to choose actually.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
And iPhone 7 was the one that I was using.
7.
7.
Yeah, 7 Plus.
7 Plus.
Yeah, of course.
Whatever.
7 Plus.
It's completely different.
If you don't have the Plus, it's completely different.
7 Plus.
Okay.
And I've been encountering some glitches.
Like, immediately, the battery dies out and it just blacks out on me.
So I was like, "Oh, shit.
I got to change my phone."
And I've been looking at some of the deals out there.
Okay.
And this iPhone, a new one, mine is iPhone 12.
Not Plus?
Not Plus.
Okay.
Not Mini.
Okay.
No SE.
No S.
Okay.
Nothing like that.
It's just iPhone 12.
It's usual step 12.
Yes, the usual 12.
The iPhone 12.
Okay.
I think the retail price is actually around Kyu-Mayan or something.
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I got it at Go-Mayan.
Go-Mayan is in Korea.
Oh, that's great.
Oh, yeah.
You're a great deal.
Yeah, I know.
Yeah.
So the thing is, what was kind of weird was that I bought this at the store.
At the Kaden shop.
Okay.
And you know how right now Kaden shops are like, "iPhone, 10 yen."
You see those signs?
Okay.
Why?
Like, if you change from a different carrier or like, new one, you only have to...
It's only 10 yen for the Kishu Dai.
Okay.
But there's a whole trick behind it, of course, right?
Like, you have to return the actual phone after, what, like, I think two years?
Okay.
Or like, 12 months?
I forgot.
And it has to be scratch...
It has to be like, completely like, scratchless.
Okay.
Right?
Which is impossible, I feel like.
Yeah.
But at the same time, you can also buy the product at once.
Like, ikkatsu harai.
And if you do that, you still get a great deal, which was the one that I got.
It was Go-Mayan.
It was Kyu-Mayan nebiki.
Yeah.
Yeah, excuse me there.
Yeah.
And the thing is, the stocks run out very quickly.
And the store clerks, they don't know when new shipments come in.
Okay.
So like, every time I ask them, "Oh, we're actually out."
We actually had them like, five hours ago.
We just sold the last one.
So again, I have to come back.
And then, on the day of the Hyakuman-nin live haishin, I actually went to the Kaden after the live haishin.
And I asked them, "Do you guys have the iPhone 12?"
Yeah.
Like, I kind of want it.
And they're like, "Oh yeah, we got four stocks left."
Oh, true.
But it's too late because the time, we can't...
The uketsuke is already finished.
So you have to come back tomorrow, first thing in the morning, because people, you know...
Yeah, of course.
Yeah, you're going to have to fight for that.
And I'm like, "Okay, fine, okay, I'll come back tomorrow."
And then the next day, I go, first thing in the morning, as soon as it opens.
Okay.
Right?
So no one has stolen?
No, I was like one of the first one or two customers that arrived.
And they told me like, I asked them, "Okay, so do you guys have the iPhone 12?"
Yeah.
They're like, "Let me check."
And then they come back.
And like, "Oh, it actually sold out."
Oh, really?
Like, "What?"
Why did that happen?
I don't know.
And then I got my camera on.
Karen is like, like Kurema in the US.
Yeah.
And I'm like, "Well, here's the thing.
I was actually talking to a guy that works here yesterday.
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He told me that there's four stocks left.
And if I come back here, you know, first thing in the morning, I'd get it."
What happened to that?
True.
You are right.
Yeah, I told them that.
And then she was like, "Okay, I'm gonna go talk to my manager."
And then the manager comes and I explained the same thing.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
And then the manager escorts me to a seat.
Seat?
Yeah.
And then she goes backstage somewhere.
And then come back.
And I'm like, "Okay, I think yesterday, the guy that told you that had four stocks left
was a new guy.
He's like a rookie.
And those four stocks left are only for people who reserved the iPhone."
And then, okay, that's funny because yesterday I asked the guy, I actually did ask the guy,
"Is there any way I can take the four, one of the four?"
And he's like, "No, this is a Tokkai Tokkumae King, so we can't reserve any of that."
No way to reserve that.
Yeah, no reserve that.
So I was like, "Hmm, that's kind of weird."
Yeah.
Like, I thought there was no reservation.
But I didn't mention any of that because the store clerk said, "It might have been a rookie,
but let me check again, see if there's any cancellations."
A cancellation, of course.
They went back for like 10 minutes, and they came back, and she was like, "Okay."
"Just one cancellation came out today."
"It's a new one."
I was like, "Well, I was okay. I was kind of glad. I got my iPhone. That's good."
New one, yeah.
I got what I wanted.
But it did feel kind of strange.
It was like, "Why? How the..."
Because it's obvious.
There wasn't any cancellation with the reservation. It's very obvious.
I'm really curious to know what was going on behind the stage, behind the scene there.
True.
Like, I asked once, and they said no.
And I asked again, and they said yes.
Right?
Which is kind of weird.
It's so twisted.
I know. I don't know what's going on there.
Yeah, funny.
Yeah.
But, you know, with all that hassle, I got my new iPhone, man.
Congratulations.
Yeah.
It looks a bit smaller than the old one.
Actually, the phone itself is smaller, but the screen is a little bit bigger.
Oh, okay.
It's great, right?
Yeah, it's great.
Yeah.
But the feels of it is exactly the same.
Okay.
Yeah, for me, it's not much of an update.
What is the different? How different?
Well, on paper, it's got better cameras.
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Oh, okay.
It's lighter.
Okay.
The screen's bigger.
Yeah.
The processor's faster.
Oh, that's... Yeah, of course.
Yeah, I think that's like the basic gist of it all.
But to me, they're all the same.
Okay.
It feels very exactly the same.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
I just risked hedged on my phone breaking.
That's all I did.
Okay.
Well, that's better.
You've gotten you in.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
So the cameras are...
Cameras are better.
Yeah, supposedly it's better.
It's better if you take a picture in the dark.
Okay.
It auto-processes it for you.
It brightens up the photo.
So even if you take a picture with not much light, you get a very bright photo.
Oh, cool.
I haven't tried it though, but yeah, I guess that may say it's better.
Okay.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's cool.
Yeah.
So that's my new phone.
Yeah.
Yep.
Well, mine's are...
Aco Synth 5G.
It's 10 minutes.
Yep.
And from yesterday, I have no connection.
Did it break?
I guess so.
You don't know if it's broken or not.
It's just...
I can use this like usually, like through the Wi-Fi, of course, but I don't have any connection to the...
Zero mobile data.
Yeah.
That sucks.
Yeah.
That really sucks.
I'm not sure if I can call to somebody.
You can't.
You need a Wi-Fi probably.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like, or line.
If you have Wi-Fi, you can call somebody through line.
Yeah.
That's all you can do.
So...
So you've got new iPhone 12, I guess.
And you got a broken Aquos.
Yes.
There you go.
There you go.
All right.
Thanks for listening, guys.
Bye-bye.
