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What? Is there...
Okay. - No, nothing.
Was there...
I saw that nod. - Yeah.
Like, after I did the opening, you were like...
Is that your style, okay? - Yeah.
It was just, you know, the classical...
Okay, so you were expecting more of a... - Yeah, something.
More of a new... - Yeah.
Alright, well, I'll give it to you. - Okay, thank you.
Wait for that. - Yeah.
Thank you.
Okay.
Alright.
Okay.
Okay.
Wow.
Oh, that's good.
Oh, that's good.
Wow.
What a question.
Remember when we did the Kikaku? - Yeah.
We saw... We did a little, you know, research on like what kind of questions are people being asked for real. - Yeah.
And we saw like a YouTube video of like...
An actual recording of...
Well, me, it probably wasn't allowed to record, but like...
It was up there on YouTube and we watched a video of like the actual conversation of the... - Yes.
The Nukkoku Shinsa. - Uh-huh.
And the questions that they were asking was so...
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Off the template. - Yeah.
So...
Not something you can find on the Japanese Kiji of how to get through the Nukkoku Shinsa. - Yeah.
It was like...
Like if you're here to see someone, then what is their name and where did they...
What's their... Like their birthday and everything. - Yeah.
And like what's your relationship with them. - Yeah.
How long have you been in a relationship with that person?
Do you know the phone number? - Yeah, the phone number.
Can I call him right now? - Yeah.
Those like background checks, right? - Yeah.
Are very...
Like I hear that a lot. - Mm.
Now, like now that my antennas are up. - Oh.
Like it's...
They're really... - Really strict.
They're really asking it. - Yeah.
Yeah.
I thought it was something like...
Is this a scene or something and...
You know.
Or like how long are you gonna stay?
Two eggs.
Okay, go ahead.
Basics ones, right?
But now it's changing, I guess.
So...
Deep dive. - Yeah.
You know. - Yeah.
Into your own private life. - Yeah.
Yeah.
So like one lie...
Is gonna... - Yeah.
Is gonna kill you. - Yeah.
Like if that guy...
You know, digs down on that one lie. - Yeah.
How are you gonna keep it straight, right? - Yeah.
Like...
Right.
Man.
That would be really difficult.
Yeah, if you can't speak, you know, that much English, right?
Yeah. - Yeah.
I mean...
If it was like simple like vacation...
And for like one week...
Maybe that would be a bit easier than...
For example, like we...
You know, visiting the NICE and...
Maybe take some videos.
And...
That was my phone. - Oh, okay.
Yeah.
And is it work?
Or like is it vacation?
Um...
Okay.
We are YouTube video creator.
And...
Yeah. - You know, those explanations...
Right. - Will be really difficult.
Like you can't lie. - Yeah.
Right?
But...
You can't explain it that well. - Yeah.
Well, what are you gonna do, right? - Yeah.
Yeah.
And... - What a dilemma.
That's difficult. - Yeah.
Right. - Is it getting harder and harder?
Um...
I don't know.
I never heard any...
You know, any information saying that it is getting difficult.
Any more difficult. I've never heard of any of that.
Maybe because of this, you know, situations.
I don't know. Maybe. - Maybe?
Maybe. That's possible. I can't deny it. - Yeah.
But apparently it is getting more...
You know, more and more difficult, I guess. - Wow.
Bummer. - Yeah.
Wow.
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But like my question is...
That...
You know...
Asking those simple questions...
Well, no one wants that to happen.
But if there's somebody who's, you know...
Like a criminal. Like some... - Yeah.
True. - Some...
Like...
I don't know. Like...
Like someone who's trying to commit crime in that country. - Yeah.
Someone who really shouldn't be entering that country. - Mm-hmm.
Try to go in. - Yeah.
I don't know. Don't you think that they can be...
They can get their background story straight. - Yeah.
Like they can make a fake background story. - Yeah.
And whatever question... - True.
That, you know, an officer asks, they can be ready for it. - Yeah.
Because it's just simple question and answering. - Yeah.
It isn't really much of a background check.
I mean, like the phone call thing? Yeah. I mean that's...
That's more like a deeper background check, I feel like. - Yeah.
But like just a simple like, "Oh, I'm here for this."
"This is where I'm gonna stay."
"Oh, you want the address? The address is this."
I feel like that's... - True.
You can build it. - Yeah. You can make it.
Right. It's... - Yeah.
Liable. - Yeah.
So like...
I don't know. I don't want to take the position of like...
Okay. The national security is just...
It's bad. I'm not trying to say that, but like... - Yeah.
That's what I thought. Just really simply.
It just popped into my head. Like if... Yeah. - True.
Yeah.
Well, I mean, I guess it does its job.
You know, I guess that... I mean that must have some sort of a...
Yeah. - Good, like positive screening... - Yeah.
Kind of method I guess. I mean, is it doing it right? So...
Yeah. - Yeah.
Just wondering. Just wondering. - Yeah. It's true.
Yeah. - Because that's what you're trying to do, right?
Well...
Well, now don't say that, Yamchan.
That's a very dangerous game to play here, right?
We don't want that. We don't want people thinking, you know,
because it's all in English, right? You know, people can understand.
And jokes between countries are very different.
And you never know if one might think that it's not a joke.
Yeah. Okay. - And just...
Want to lock me on with their radars and everything.
We don't want that happening, right? We don't want to mess with that.
Yeah. Okay. - Yeah.
Okay. - Don't do that, right?
I don't want to be on the radar.
Right? - Okay. Yeah.
Yeah. Right.
So...
So you have to be ready for those, you know,
"Nuukoku Shinsa".
Like, my idea is, why don't we just use a translator?
You know, like a... - Yeah.
Like a... - Bring the little machine.
Yeah. Or an app could do. - Yeah. Yeah.
Use Google translate. You don't need Wi-Fi or data to use that.
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So just boom. - Yeah.
I feel like that's easier. - I think so.
You know. - That's true.
Yeah.
Don't need to be... - Panic.
Yeah. Right.
Were you scared of entering France?
They do the "Nuukoku Shinsa" in French.
Of course. - Right?
Into like EU countries. - Into EU countries.
But... - Did you...
Not scared, but nervous, of course.
Because, you know, kind of strict. Gait.
Kind of, you know, it's like a...
Yeah. It's always, you know, get me nervous.
Oh, okay. - But not scared.
Scared. - Mm-hmm.
Did you get ready for it? Like, did you search up like...
No. - "What are they gonna ask?"
"How am I gonna answer?"
You didn't do any of that? - No.
You were like hardcore. You were hardcore.
But I knew, you know...
What will be. - Basic French?
Oh, okay. - I mean, it was in English, I guess.
Oh, okay. - So...
Then you were already...
Yeah. Kind of, I know what will be happening in it.
So... - Okay.
Alright.
Thanks for listening, guys. - Thank you.
Bye-bye.
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