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What's up amazing people, this is YASASA RADIO by Akane and Minami. In this radio we are going to talk about random topics in Okinawan, Japanese and English.
Hello, this is YASASA RADIO by Akane and Minami. In this radio we are going to talk about random topics in Okinawan, Japanese and English.
Hello, this is YASASA RADIO by Akane and Minami. In this radio we are going to talk about random topics in Okinawan, Japanese and English.
Hello, this is YASASA RADIO by Akane and Minami. In this radio we are going to talk about random topics in Okinawan, Japanese and English.
Yaki29Boyzの紹介
Thank you for the place. Thank you for the place. So we are at the duplex. One time for P. We trust. So tell us about Yaki29Boyz a little bit. How many members do you have?
So the Yaki29Boyz started out at a club called Clutch. One time for Ben, one time for Shin and the crew. We used to link up and go to Yaki29Boyz all the time.
That's how we would get together and break bread and doing stuff outside of the club. So one day we were just goofing around. You three? It's more than three of us. It's a bigger group. It's like 10-20 of us.
Yaki29Boyz are like 10 guys. People go to Yaki29Boyz together. It's a lot of people. But for the podcast, it's three. One time for Flash, it's four. It's a young boy.
So for the podcast, it's four. But for Yaki29Boyz, it's a lot of people. It's some women that are part of that too. That's how that started. That started in 2010. I'm probably off a little bit. But 2015, something like that.
That's how the Yaki29Boyz started. We were just messing around and we just came up with it. We go to Yaki29Boyz so much together.
Is it common to go to Yaki29Boyz all together?
Like just big groups of people going together? Yeah, I think so.
I thought that's what it was for. Sit around and you eat. And while you're cooking the food, you're actually having a conversation. I thought the purpose of cooking the food was bringing you the food. That's what I thought.
Is there any specific Yakiniku place that you guys went for?
No. As a matter of fact, because of Ben and Chen and them, they would take us to different spots. So I'd have been to a bad Yakiniku spot and I'd have been to a great Yakiniku spot. I went to a Yakiniku spot that looked like a fucking house.
The best fucking Yakiniku in the world. So good.
焼肉とアメリカのバーベキューの違い
Which do you like, Yakiniku or American barbecue? American what? Burger.
Barbecue. Yeah, you can't do that. It's too different. Next question.
Because we call barbecue for Yakiniku in Japanese. Right. Can you allow that?
Sure. You don't mind. You don't mind. Can you allow it?
It's not barbecue, but we call it barbecue. Yeah, that's Japanese barbecue.
Japanese barbecue. Like Korean barbecue or whatever. Right.
So no, I can't really compare the two. They're too different. So I will not allow it at all. So don't you ever.
We don't even we don't even compare barbecue in the States. You got like Southern barbecue and then Midwest barbecue. You can't even really compare those.
So try to compare it to a whole other country is crazy.
So you guys both from Florida. What is like a Florida barbecue? Is it like a Texan barbecue or it's so different?
No, very different. Very different. Yeah. You want us to describe it, huh?
It's been a long time since I've been to Florida. Because most of Japanese people don't know about like American barbecue.
Like when we talk about barbecue, American people are always like barbecue is like this, this, this.
And then it's like first time we hear about it.
So I think the biggest difference between like regional barbecue in the States.
Correct me if I'm wrong, is the sauces. Yep. That's about it. Yeah. OK.
Sauces. It's all the same shit, same chicken ribs, you know, whatever. Right.
But how you make the sauce is different.
Because like in Alabama, right. From from my understanding, from me going there or whatever, they use like a mustard sauce.
Yeah. Whatever is popular there. And honey gold shit. Yeah.
You know what I'm saying? So yeah. Florida, what?
Yeah. Barbecue. Barbecue with some some some brown sugar.
Brown sugar. Yeah. Sweet barbecue. Yeah. Sweeter side. Right. Yeah.
That's pretty much the only difference. Yeah. In the States.
And then they have a lot of seasoning. Yeah. Yeah. For sure.
Yeah. Flavor. Please don't show up in no barbecue with no unseasoned meat.
For real. Oh boy. For real. If I put barbecue and you ain't got no season on you.
That shit going straight to the garbage. On that shit in the garbage.
ポッドキャストの始まり
OK, so let's go back to your Yakiniku Boys podcast.
How long have you guys doing, you know, the podcast?
We've been doing the podcast for about two years in September.
September coming, it'll be two years. How did you guys start?
So, shit. I think on our episode, you kind of said the same thing.
Right. I listen to a lot of podcasts. Right.
Oh, I did listen to a lot of podcasts and I was thinking to myself.
So originally the podcast was supposed to be me and not saying Wayne,
not my friend, but he my friend, but my older friends or whatever.
You know what I'm saying? Or friends, you know, my older friends.
I'm trying to say this without insulting this man.
Anyway, I figured that, you know, we sit around and we talk and we
do this shit a lot. And the way we talk, I thought it was so
entertaining that we should be on camera, you know.
And I used to DJ and I used to MC in the club a lot.
So I know how to use this thing. You know what I mean?
I know how to, where to put the words at.
And I figured, you know, I'll host it and I'll just give these guys
a platform to just talk. Well, all of the motherfuckers left.
So it's just me and the butcher who's not here.
And I called him one day and I said, hey, yo, I want to do a podcast.
And he kind of brushed me off at first because he didn't think I was serious.
And I kept talking to him about it over and over again.
And once he, once I started putting money into it, that's when he realized,
okay, he dead ass serious. For real, for real, for real, for real.
Wayne came along at a critical juncture in the podcast,
because at one point I'm thinking, I'm not going to do this shit no more, man.
Nobody's watching this shit. Nobody's listening to this shit or whatever.
I was, I was trying to get more people to do it because it was just me and butcher.
And Flash was in and out. Like I said, one time for Flash.
Flash was in and out doing his own personal shit or whatever.
You know, and that's understandable. Wayne came in.
He heard about the pod through Paul or whatever. You can call him Paul.
Heard about the podcast through Paul or whatever.
And then he came and checked it out and watched one episode.
I think he watched a couple of episodes.
And he just told him to jump on the mic. And the moment he jumped on the mic,
and as y'all seen on y'all episode, he was in the cut.
And he was just giving that ad lib and just saying wild shit on the side or whatever.
The moment he started doing that, the podcast felt whole.
So I'm like, that's what Wayne, Loki, and Flash are the two reasons why
it kept going, to be honest with you.
So yeah, that's how it started.
I wanted to be Japan Joe Button.
若者へのアドバイス
You know what I'm feeling?
I'm going to be Japan Joe Button already.
We're getting there.
So you just started to record because you like to talk,
and you think it's good to record what you guys talk usually?
I wanted to...
Okay, so like I said, I was a DJ and I was an emcee.
And with the crew that I was talking about, the Yakiniku Boys,
we used to throw a lot of parties back in the day.
So now I see all these younger guys doing it,
and we thought I want to start it off as us giving advice to them.
Don't do this. Don't go over there.
If you're going to do this, get with the Japanese person, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Just giving advice and also reviewing places like Gate 2.
I did a review on Gate 2 because I hadn't been out there in a long time.
And reviewing Naha, review of Epica, stuff like that.
So if you just got here,
then maybe you would hear something I said and make you want to go check it out.
Or that would be like, that's not for me.
So that's what it started off as.
But then it turned into a whole bunch of other shit after that.
So the advice is most likely night out stuff?
I mean, just...
So not to try to drag it out.
Not necessarily the nightlife.
I and somebody like Pete or whatever,
we the people that provide the nightlife.
You know what I'm saying?
So it wasn't for the people that went out.
It was for the people that was trying to do what we had already did
or what Pete is currently doing.
You know what I'm saying?
That's what it was for.
And on top of that, from my point of view,
from throwing parties or whatever and everybody else,
saying why this club sucks or why this club is good.
You know, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Because I haven't been to both sides.
Japanese only club, regular clubs with a lot of Americans.
So I was trying to give both perspectives away.
You know, see from both lenses.
Nice.
All right.
沖縄での生活
So you guys been in Okinawa almost 20 years?
Yeah.
Over 20 years.
How do you like Okinawa life so far?
Do you want to stay in Okinawa more?
Or you want to go back to the States?
If I didn't want to stay in Okinawa more,
I wouldn't even be here right now.
Right.
You know what I mean?
True, true.
Same.
So I think Okinawa has a lot of good things to offer, obviously.
And especially right now,
the States is not somewhere.
Shit, I don't care. I'll say it.
A lot of young black men are interested in going back to right now.
Yeah.
So, you know, Japan, Japan as a whole,
but Okinawa especially provides a little bit of a,
like a safe haven.
Yeah.
You know, it feels safe.
It feels normal.
You know what I mean?
We got to be watching our back everywhere we go.
Right.
You know, being super careful and walking on eggshells.
You know what I mean?
So, yeah, I have no intentions of leaving anytime soon.
Deadass.
Same.
Other than the US situation,
if it's good, but you still want to live in Okinawa?
I think so.
When I was stationed here, I mean, I really enjoyed it.
And then I just so happened to get a job
that provided me the opportunity to come back
and kind of travel back and forth.
I lived in mainland before here.
I lived in mainland for like 10 years,
but I would travel down here four or five times a year.
So I got a lot of time here, you know,
and I think the biggest thing for me personally was
I was already familiar with Okinawa,
but then, you know, I have kids, I have a family.
So my kids love this place.
They're super safe.
The cultural mix that they get to experience here
is something I've traveled all over the world.
And that cultural mix that they get to see here,
you don't see that in very many places in the world.
So, you know, I like it, yes.
I like it, yes.
But for me, it's more for my family.
So it's a good place to, you know, have family in Okinawa.
Yeah, absolutely.
Like I said, Japan in general, but Okinawa...
Massive.
Yeah, even more so.
When it comes to family life.
Among the military people,
is Japan the most popular place in the station?
Or you guys have a base in Europe or other countries, right?
日本の制限
I mean, if I had my pick, I would be in fucking Europe right now.
I wouldn't be here.
Japan, while it's real safe and real nice,
there's a lot of restrictions.
And those restrictions, in my opinion,
stop Japan from being what it probably could be.
You know what I'm saying?
Japan could be super lit.
You could do this.
To the rest of the world, is what he's saying.
Of course, obviously, Japanese people think
Japan's the greatest thing ever.
And we understand that.
And it's not that we disagree.
We're just saying, if Japan was a little more open
about certain things,
the rest of the world would see Japan in the same light
that Japan does.
Or Japanese people do.
Period.
For example, what is so hard to do in Japan?
It's not necessary that anything is hard to do.
But like he said, Japan puts a ton of restrictions
Fuck it, I don't care.
Japan puts a ton of restrictions on you if you're not Japanese.
If you're not Japanese, Japan's like,
yeah, we don't fucking care.
And it's not just for military people.
移民としての経験
It's for people that immigrate to Japan as well.
Pretty much all treated the same.
If you're not Japanese, fuck you.
Okay, cool.
Go ahead.
No, I'm sorry.
He'll do this all night.
He can talk about this all night.
Go ahead, move on.
But I think that's the bottom line.
If you are not Japanese,
then there's just certain things that you just cannot do.
That you could do in a lot of other places in the world.
So you just have to kind of,
if you're one of the people that decide to stay here
for the rest of your life or for 20, 30, 40 years or whatever,
that's one of the things that you just have to deal with.
And accept it.
Even if you have restrictions like that,
you still want to live in Okinawa, right?
Yeah.
That makes you feel more safe?
I'm here 20 years, yeah, of course.
I don't know if it makes me feel more safe.
I will say this.
If you're a person that decides to stay in Okinawa
or live in Okinawa for 20, 30, the rest of your life or whatever,
you are a very specific type of person.
Not every American can do that.
A lot of Americans have come up,
for instance, my mom.
She was like, yeah, fuck that.
I want to go home.
Because it's just different.
It's very, very different.
So you have to be a very open-minded person
to be able to stay here for an extended period of time.
Some people, I guess they don't really have a choice.
Some people, they just want a better life.
And even if there's a lot of restrictions on them,
it's still a better life than where they came from.
So I think it's a lot of different stories,
is what I'm saying.
So it just depends.
軍への参加と文化的変化
First, what was the reason you joined the military?
It was either that or the streets, I guess.
That's the same here.
I knew I wasn't going to college.
I barely graduated because I just didn't go to school.
So I knew I wasn't going to college.
I knew I didn't like anything about the street life.
You know what I mean?
I didn't want to keep doing that or do that
for the rest of my life.
So it was kind of like, all right, what am I going to do?
I guess I'm going to the military.
We're at war right now, so fuck it.
Cool, I'll go do that.
Everything he said.
Pretty much, that's how it went down.
It was my last chance.
Not everybody's like that.
Because you do have some Captain America type people.
Not that patriotic.
Me either.
I didn't want to talk about the politics.
That's not why I joined.
It was either that or be a fucking bum.
Or be nothing.
I turned that into this.
How did you choose the branch?
Marine, Army, Air Force?
Me?
I didn't know shit about any of the military branches.
We have one of these places, the recruiting office.
It has all of the branches right next to each other.
I walked up to it.
I kind of looked.
I'm like, oh, they look cool.
And I just walked in.
And the rest was history.
I had no idea what I was doing.
Which branch was what.
All the stereotypes that you guys probably know of.
Like, oh, the Air Force is this.
Or Marine Corps is this.
I didn't know anything about any of that.
Which branch you were in?
The Marine Corps.
I just walked in and said, I'm not going to college.
And I don't want to be a bum.
So, I'm here.
And that was that.
The recruiter actually came and got me.
He had made a connection with my grandmother, I think.
I'm assuming.
And she was like, it's either this or yada yada.
And so, he came and got me.
Army recruiter.
And I said, fucking, I ain't got nothing.
Because, again, I didn't willingly want to join the military.
I was like, yay, I'm going to join the army.
It wasn't like that.
It was that humble last, I guess, it was one of those.
And then, that's what it was.
So, how did you feel when you joined the military and came to Okinawa?
How was the life at the time?
For me, it was a big change.
Because I didn't know shit about any type of Asian culture back then.
Japanese, Korean, Filipino, whatever.
It doesn't matter.
軍隊の経験と文化の違い
I didn't know nothing about Asians in general.
So, for me, it was, I wouldn't call it a culture shock.
Because I loved it.
I just, I don't know.
I got here and it was just like, yep, I was supposed to be here.
You know what I mean?
And it was just like, everything just went well.
That's what I should say.
So, yeah.
I mean, I loved it.
I loved it.
Oh, me?
I don't want to say it like that, but I'm going to say it anyway.
Fuck it.
I was used to making the most of a bad situation.
Like, I knew how to do it.
You know what I'm saying?
Because the military was trash to me.
That shit sucked ass.
I hated that shit.
You know what I'm saying?
I hated that shit.
I hated that shit with a passion.
But I was good at making the most out of a bad situation.
You know what I'm saying?
And so, that's what I did.
I made the best of a bad situation.
Living, living, living, living, living.
I can honestly say how many, you know, I'm living out here now.
How many motherfuckers from my neighborhood can say they got a passport
and have been here and here and here?
I think I'm probably one of few people that can say that.
You know what I'm saying?
So, I'm good in any situation.
You can put me anywhere.
I'm straight.
And that's what I did.
You know, the travel and just being exposed to different cultures
and places in the world and everything like that.
And it continued even now.
Two, three years ago, I had to get a whole new passport
just because my passport was full.
Traveling, you know.
And it's like he said, not even from my neighborhood,
but from my family.
How many people in my family can say,
I filled up a passport before?
One of the best.
As a matter of fact, black men, if you're listening,
get them fucking passports.
Move around.
Don't be that fucking dude sitting around talking about
I'm finna get it or whatever.
Go get that shit and travel the world, man.
That's real talk.
I'm sorry.
You're inspiring.
Real talk.
So, like, you joined the army in Marine Corps.
A lot of our American friends are Marine Corps,
but what kind of stereotype of army person?
Is there any difference?
I don't know any.
No? No stereotype?
Not that I can think of, no.
I didn't give a fuck about the military,
so I didn't care to learn all that stuff about stereotypes.
It was a job to me.
You say you guys okay with that question.
Okay, let's skip that.
I said it's okay.
No, but I can't think of any, honestly.
I don't know the stereotype.
I honestly don't.
I know a lot of stereotypes about Marines, though.
Hell yeah.
We have stereotypes, too.
I'm pretty sure they're the same ones.
About Marine Corps?
What are yours? Let me hear yours.
I've told, like, I should date with Air Force officers
to get married because of the salary.
That's the stereotype of military I have.
You would live a better life if you married
somebody from the Air Force, right?
That's what you heard.
What about the truth?
What's the truth?
I mean, they all get paid the same from E1 to E4,
so that doesn't matter.
Now, Okinawa, it might be,
because I can tell you one thing that was different
when I first got here,
and I don't know if it's the same now.
One big thing was,
so when I got out here,
I was like an E3, right?
I could drive immediately.
I could buy a car and drive immediately.
Marines can't do that until they get E5, E4,
like a corporal or whatever.
So I think that's how it is now.
It wasn't always like that.
It was like that when I was in,
I heard Marines,
like when we go to the Globe and Anchor,
and all the cars that would be out there
in the Globe and Anchor were either
higher-ranking Marines or Air Force or Army or Navy.
Nobody else,
like if you was like a grunt or whatever,
I don't mean to call y'all grunts,
but if you was a grunt or whatever,
then you couldn't drive or whatever.
And the other thing was,
young Marines had to go out with a battle buddy.
軍隊の階級制度と文化的ショック
That's the first time I had ever heard that shit,
because in the Army,
all I had to do was sign that paper
and I could leave and do what the fuck I wanted to do.
So that was one of the perks.
I guess that's just out here.
I don't know about everywhere else.
Even that, I don't think they do that anymore.
I used to work at the Ocean Bridge.
And then,
there's only a few people can go upstairs
because of the rank, right?
And then I've heard,
depending on the rank,
you need to go out as a group.
You can hang out with this rank or not.
I thought it's weird.
It is kind of weird.
It is kind of weird.
It was kind of a culture shock to me,
because I was also working at the Staff NCO club.
And we have a bar counter,
and the left side is for the officer,
and the right side is for the Staff NCO.
And sometimes they're staring at each other
from door to door,
and they're trying to buy drinks to each other.
But I see their,
not hatred,
but, you know,
tension.
What's so weird?
The motherfuckers are broke over there.
Yeah, exactly.
Look at these motherfuckers buying all this good shit.
Military shit.
But if they break the rules,
they will get in trouble.
Who are we talking about?
Officers?
Like this rank stuff,
like rules.
So you only really see people getting in trouble
or stuff like that
in really extreme cases,
where it's like,
say you got somebody really high rank
and somebody really low rank,
and just say that the really low rank person
is a female and she gets pregnant.
A really high rank guy.
Okay, now we have a problem.
But most of the time,
that's kind of a gray area,
so to speak.
Most of that stuff is in-house.
It all depends on your unit.
Absolutely, it does.
But that's what I'm saying.
It's like one of them,
you can't deny that this chick just got pregnant.
Now it's a problem.
When it's outside of the unit's hands,
then it's a problem.
アメリカ人女性と日本人女性の違い
Right.
So another question.
So you guys have experience
dating with Japanese women.
How would you describe
differences between American women?
I mean, American women is so diverse,
versus Japanese women.
It ain't nothing but the language.
Pretty much.
Y'all do the same shit they do.
All y'all crazy.
Japanese women is more mysterious,
do you think?
No, not at all.
Especially not Okinawan Japanese women.
Okinawan Japanese women
are some of the most aggressive Asian women
I think I've ever seen.
Maybe your friends?
No, for real.
Compared to mainland Japanese women?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
When I first got out here,
there was a Japanese chick,
the paystub, the LOA or whatever,
what do you call that shit,
the paystub, what do you call it?
LES, there you go, that shit.
That bitch could read it better than me.
She was Japanese,
she didn't even serve in the military.
She could read that shit better than me.
So yeah, it ain't no,
that's what I tell everybody.
They think, oh, it's a difference
between Japanese girls and American girls.
That's bullshit.
Y'all want the same thing,
y'all do the same thing.
I'm sure there's a lot of differences
between American guys and Japanese guys,
but for women, not so much.
Not so much.
That's interesting.
I think you guys met
one of the most aggressive
Okinawan women on the island, I think.
I think all of y'all are aggressive.
In your own different ways,
you know what I mean?
If you see something you want,
you're not gonna go get it?
I beg to differ.
I beg to differ, bro.
I beg to differ, I do.
I beg to differ, man.
And here I go on my fucking horse again.
Boy, here we go.
When I first got here,
that was true.
Now, not so much.
Because the internet
takes all the chase.
Ain't nobody talking to nobody now.
They're more quiet.
People could be standing
right next to each other
and texting each other.
But when I first got out here,
that aggressive shit,
if she wanted you,
ステレオタイプの探求
she was coming to get you.
I think back then,
when it was face-to-face,
it was a totally different story.
That's a good time.
That music was good, too,
in 2000.
What you've been seeing
was way better, I think.
I agree.
I have a stereotype of
black guy and white guy.
Let's hear this.
I want to hear this one.
Black guy tends to like Asian girls
with long black hair,
big ass, and big boobs.
White guy like American girls.
I mean, some otaku white girls
like Japanese girls,
white men.
So she's saying,
Japanese girls.
Yeah, I don't know about that.
I wouldn't say that.
Wait, one more time?
Make sure I heard that right.
So the black guy liked the Japanese girl
with the big ass and long black hair,
and the white guy liked the skinny Japanese girl
with a white girl?
Is that what you're saying?
Yeah.
Or, when it comes to white guys
who like country music,
don't like Japanese girls,
but like American girls.
I don't know what the fuck you're talking about.
But,
shit, man.
That's kind of deep.
That's a deep question right there.
First thing first,
ain't nothing like a thick fucking Asian.
Have you ever seen a thick Asian before?
Like what you just described?
Long jet black hair,
big boobs, big ass.
That's like a goddamn unicorn.
Well, they're not so much now.
Japanese are thick.
But a bit thicker than
the skinny Japanese girl.
So yeah,
black dudes will gravitate
more towards that because
it's more attractive and appealing to them.
Versus a skinny girl.
That's not to say the skinny girls
don't get no play, but they do.
Which a lot of Okinawan girls are
a little bit on the thicker side.
In a good way.
Don't fucking kill me, please.
I was scared when I went
to the toilet at the club.
What are you trying to say?
Thick girls always like
you are so skinny.
Japanese thick?
I can't imagine.
Wait, wait, wait, one more time.
You said you were scared of what now?
I was kind of scared of like
thick Amejo in the toilet
when we meet.
I used to be Amejo,
but not like them.
You know what I mean?
Is it more like thick or not?
Is it more like their Amejo attitude?
Confident.
Confident level.
Exactly.
That kind of Amejo,
my stereotype is
liked by black men.
And the white dude
cannot talk to them.
They can't dance.
They can't dance.
Oh, that's a different topic,
but they don't.
But you know, Amejo
these days
looks so
they're more like
Japanese.
Right?
Because everything has to look good
for the gram now.
Everything I look like for Instagram.
That's why the Amejo has changed
from what you're probably used to seeing
to the one now.
All them girls,
like she just described her.
She got jet black hair
or she got some type of style
that is not normally straight.
Not in the norm.
She got her hair done a certain way.
She got her makeup done a certain way.
You know what I'm saying?
Dress a certain way.
She wears her clothes way more
Americanized.
You know what I'm saying?
Blah, blah, blah.
That's interesting.
Amejo changed by the era.
They had to adapt.
They had to adapt.
Yeah, they had to adapt.
アメリカ文化とCoco's Curry
We're thinking the next question,
but between that,
why are so many American people
likes to go to Coco's?
Coco's Curry?
Coco Ichi.
In Japanese.
I can't explain that to you.
I fuck with it.
I love Coco's,
but I can't explain that to you.
I think it's good, but I don't know.
I can tell you why they go late night.
They drunk.
And especially if you get
level 3 or level 4.
They want something spicy.
They want something spicy.
You can customize.
Help their stomach.
I've heard that Coco's in
Chatan on 58
is the number one sales in Japan.
I believe that.
100% believe that.
And on top of that,
it's the only thing that's probably open
that's not McDonald's.
Late night.
Everybody don't like sushi and shit.
食文化の探索
Coco's or Konbini.
Everybody can't afford Yakiniku.
We just told you about the young boys earlier
that can't afford Coco's.
Can't afford
all the other good shit.
How about Beef Bowl?
The only open 24 hours.
How about like a...
I fuck with it.
I think that's a...
I think you don't learn about that
until after you've been here for a little while.
You know what I mean?
Yeah.
Somebody has to be like,
bro, fuck that Coco shit.
Let me go get some Beef Bowl, bro.
But if you never know that,
then everybody knows Coco's.
You know what I mean?
Maybe y'all been there before.
How I learned about Beef Bowl
is I used to work at Bee Greens.
Remember Bee Greens?
The club Bee Greens?
So right after the club,
everybody used to go to that little
eatery spot, Dante?
Everybody used to go to Dante too.
Hell yeah.
After I was spot.
So much ass.
So until the friends
introducing other restaurants,
are a lot of people not really open
to discover new places on the island?
Absolutely.
Yep, absolutely.
If you're not here for a while,
or more so,
this is the real thing.
If you don't make Japanese friends
that can take you
to all the good shit,
you'll never know.
The Americans only know Coco's
and the regular stuff.
How about among friends?
Let's go find a new place
and search and go
by the dudes, no?
Nah, they're not doing that.
Like a secret.
Like a secret.
I'm going to this spot,
you can't go to it.
They don't challenge new things?
Nah, and if they do,
it's going to be somewhere to drink,
not eat.
They'll take you to a new bar
before they look for a new restaurant.
Is it because of
the people in military
or people in general in the States?
I can't answer that.
I can't tell you why they do that.
Yeah.
Everything is like that.
Yeah, exactly.
I think it just depends on the people.
The military,
because they are allowed to travel
all over the world.
That means they can explore
the new places.
A lot of people do that,
but on the other hand,
a lot of them don't do it.
They're on base.
Yeah, but that's the thing,
like you're saying,
so they can explore new places.
Going to Coco's
is exploring new places for them.
You know what I mean?
It's not like
hole in the wall places
where you just got a little mama sign
and they're just making something real quick.
They'll never know about it
because they're not going to go out of their way
to try to find out about it.
And on top of that,
that's also got to do
with what we were talking about
before the cameras turned on,
their age.
They're only interested
in what they can get their hands on right here
because this is probably all they can afford
in this world.
By taxi.
日本人の友人作りのコツ
Versus Officer Tom,
he can go every fucking where.
He can drive up and down Okinawa
as much as he wants.
So is there any tips
to how to make Japanese friends?
I don't think there's any real magic.
All the motherfuckers in the club,
if you go into a club
that you bump into,
first of all,
stop trying to make the Japanese friend a girl.
Find a fucking guy.
A fucking guy
that you cool with
and that you see every fucking weekend.
Shit, the bartender that's serving you a drink,
ask him a question other than
what that bitch name is over there.
Ask him where it's lit.
Why are you playing this music?
If you got a Japanese DJ,
go talk to him and say what's up
and stop asking him to play this song
or whatever.
That's really what it is.
Who are you conversating with?
Most of the time
when American people are talking to
Japanese people,
it's only for them to gain access
to the next party
or the next this or the next that.
Or get the fuck out of my way
or whatever the fuck.
Versus what's a good place to eat
or where's a good place to swim.
They're not having conversations like that.
At least from what I've seen,
they're not having conversations like that.
外国人との交流
Most of the things that they discover,
the military has probably
already mapped out here.
You should go here, here, here,
here and here.
I think the Marine Corps got a program
or whatever, a single Marine program.
They take them places.
It's always a tourist place.
It's not mom and pop shop
over there or something.
When they do that,
they think I have discovered something
about a single Marine trip
or whatever.
They're in the right position.
They just don't move on
to the next step.
I think that's where a lot of people stop.
Even me.
I've been back and forth to Okinawa
for 20 some years,
but not until I really started
making Japanese friends
was I really like,
damn, this place been here the whole time?
Stuff like that.
It's like, wow,
this place was there.
I think that's where a lot of people
get stuck.
The other thing is a lot of people
won't even make it that far
because they're only going to be here
for two, three years.
Then they go.
They're going home.
They don't even have time
to really make solid connections
and learn.
Also, the language barrier.
世代間の違い
The language barrier, right.
That's the biggest one.
Yeah.
Yes, they do.
Right on the head.
A lot of them do want to talk to them.
Use AI.
That's the thing.
Most of the time,
as the American,
until you go and talk to them
and make them feel comfortable,
tell a couple of jokes,
then that kind of breaks the ice.
Now they're really going to try to,
even if they can't speak English,
they're going to try.
Like Okinawa local
negative towards
you guys.
Yeah.
You got to roll with the punches
on that one.
I don't give a fuck about that
because they can't beat me.
It's funny because I was going to
kind of say the same thing.
For all the good parts of Okinawa
and the Okinawan people,
when you do run into those,
which don't happen very often,
but when you do run into those people
that for whatever reason
just don't like foreigners or Americans
or whatever you want to call it,
all right, who fucking cares?
But it took me a long time
to learn that though.
When I was younger,
it was like, fuck you say,
fuck you say.
Now it's like, it's whatever
because I know if I really wanted to,
I'd go over there and fuck you up
real quick.
Just the thought of that in my head,
just fucking people that are cool
you know what I mean?
It is what it is.
I feel more comfortable
with talking your age
if I talk to American people.
If I talk to young military guys,
it's going to be like
boring sometimes
because of the age gap
and then 33.
Have you talked to a 20-year-old lately?
20-year-old lately?
Not really.
Don't do it.
Yeah, don't do it.
Don't fucking do it, man.
You say you're more comfortable talking to people our age?
Yeah.
Us too.
We don't like talking to young people either.
We don't like talking to young people.
Yeah.
You 20-year-olds suck.
They different.
Yeah.
They suck ass.
They are different.
Are they like a gen Z?
Whatever generation they are.
Whatever gen they are, they can gen the fuck out of here.
Yeah.
Fuck up generation is what it is.
I ain't going to say that.
I do have some young friends, but it took a minute.
You know what I'm saying?
It took a lot of patience.
They say dumb shit a lot.
Other than that, yeah, for the majority of them, yeah, fuck out of here.
Yeah.
The biggest thing is you just got to remember that young person that you don't want to talk
to, they haven't lived life or experienced a lot of the things that you already have.
It's real hard to relate to them.
They're kids.
Yeah.
Kids trying to be adults.
Worldwide.
I want to say this one thing.
I just came from the States to visit my grandmother.
I learned a fucking universal truth.
You feel me?
There is older and there is fucking old.
I ain't going to put all my grandmother's business out there, but she had some medical
年齢と自己認識
complications.
Let's leave it at that.
She was in this old folks home.
I'm looking at all of these old people in this old folks home.
Some of them couldn't even fucking feed themselves.
You know what I'm saying?
Meanwhile, if I really wanted to, I could fucking run a marathon.
The whole notion of we're old.
Fuck that shit.
I don't buy that shit, man.
We're just older.
That's all.
We're not.
Yeah.
Don't call yourself old.
Shit, you ain't fucking old.
You ain't 32?
You ain't fucking old?
Almost the same.
33.
Right.
What?
What's up with 30 year olds calling themselves old?
Can I ask you that question?
I'm not saying ourselves as old.
We're getting older.
We were, yeah.
I feel like 20 something guys feels they're really young and stupid.
There is a big ass gap between the 20 and 30 year olds now.
Back in the day, it wasn't that big.
Now, for whatever reason, the gap between 20 year old people and 30 year old people is fucking huge.
Fucking YouTube, bro.
Yeah.
I don't understand why.
My bad.
I'm just taking over your show.
Go ahead.
Generations are.
Yeah, but anyway, it doesn't matter.
We're young or old.
I'm like still 18.
There you go.
Exactly.
How old you are, I don't mind.
Oh, you're saying that like we old.
Right.
You gotta chill.
You gotta chill.
I'm still in my 30s.
Barely.
I'm the only one over here in their 40s and I'm proud of it too, man.
Just stop counting.
Right?
You're the one over there counting, not us.
Yeah, you're the one over there counting.
We old.
We getting old.
音楽文化への理解
Thousands of music.
You old motherfuckers.
By the way, you listen to Japanese hip hop?
No.
No?
Okay.
I take that back.
One time for my barber lip, he a Japanese rapper.
Like some of his stuff, if I hear it or whatever, I bop my head to it or whatever.
It's gotta be a real catchy tune for me to listen to it.
But it's not in my iTunes.
You know what I'm saying?
It's not in any of my shit.
I will listen to it if it sounds good.
Sounds good.
Because Okinawan hip hop is getting bigger now.
So I thought you have some opinion or like...
Just know where the fuck it came from.
That's all.
That's my only thing.
Respect it.
Respect it and know where it came from.
It didn't come from here.
The hip hop culture as a whole.
That's it.
That's the only thing about the hip hop culture.
Respect it and know where it came from.
Know why you're rapping and why people rap in general.
You know what I'm saying?
So don't just be rapping because I heard fucking this dude on YouTube doing it.
Yeah.
Or whatever.
That's it.
As long as they respect it, I'm cool with it.
年齢の外見的判断
Can you...
It's a different topic, but can you tell the ages of Asian women?
Or like a Japanese people.
In their hands.
In their hands.
Without hands then.
Without their hands?
Nah.
Nah.
If she's a well-kept Asian person, Asian woman, it's hard to tell.
Right.
If she's well-kept.
You know what I'm saying?
But if she's hard-working, she bust ass every fucking day at her job,
you could tell automatically how old she is.
Can't hide shit.
Because Asian in general looks younger than the actual age.
Yeah.
I mean, I don't mind age, but ask that older Asian people looks younger.
Oh shit.
Oh shit.
Y'all neck too.
Give it away.
Give it away too, yeah.
It's hard to tell the black guy's age too.
You guys all look young.
Black don't crack, Shawty.
Don't have...
That's what I'm about to say.
Don't crack, Shawty.
Right?
Black do not crack.
That's a saying.
Black don't crack.
Black don't crack.
Black don't crack.
Black don't crack.
Holy shit.
Meaning like...
Just meaning like we don't really look old until we old old.
Right.
Especially, again, if you're living a good life.
Right.
And you take care of yourself.
You know what I mean?
I can tell you one thing.
Not bragging on myself, but I went home a couple times and I seen people my age.
Matter of fact, the fucking Ying Yang twin.
Oh, bruh.
He's my age.
Yeah.
You know what I'm saying?
Ying Yang age.
The Ying Yang twins.
It's a rap group.
A rap group or whatever.
We're going to search it.
It's a video going around of one of them because the other one died.
Rest in peace.
Performing or whatever at an amusement park.
And he looks old as fuck.
You know what I'm saying?
But he's my age.
And when I seen him, I'm saying to myself, I did good for me.
You feel me?
I'm fucking outstanding.
You feel me?
Compared to this motherfucker.
I don't mean to call him a motherfucker, but goddamn.
Go ahead.
Wait.
We're almost done in an hour.
So.
I think.
You good?
It's all good.
Yakiniku Boysのポッドキャスト
But I want to ask about Yakiniku podcast.
Yakiniku boys podcast.
You guys upload an episode on YouTube mainly.
Spotify.
Mainly on YouTube.
We are season one and season two are both.
And some of season three are all on all streaming platforms.
So you can stream.
You can go ahead and listen to us from season one all the way.
So.
But now we're not doing any more seasons.
I have cut that off and we're just going episode to episode.
Episodic or whatever.
And so.
All of the newer episodes are only on YouTube.
For now.
So check the Yakiniku boys on YouTube.
And we probably have a chance to take the episode again with the butcher.
Maybe.
Maybe.
There is another guy in Yakiniku boys.
Already.
So.
Yeah.
See you at the next episode.
Another point of view.
Yeah.
Another point of view.
Okay.
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for coming.
Thank you for having us.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Bye.
Anyways.
You know, any who's right?
Anywhew.
Anywho.
We can't, any who.
Anywho.
It's over with now.
Ain't no more any who.
Anywho.
Anywho.
Anywho.
Anywho.
Anywho.
Anywho.
Anywho.
Anywho.
