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Exploring Osaka with a guy i met randomly [thY3mERlFeI]

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  1. 500 yuan.

    Segment details0:00–0:07 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_0
  2. Hey, I gave— he had nothing in his bowl. I gave him the first one. You can buy a Big Mac. He didn't even say thanks, he just bowed at me.

    Segment details0:10–0:18 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_1
  3. Yeah, we're going straight north. Yeah, we're headed there. Okay, we're headed straight there.

    Segment details0:18–0:25 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_2
  4. Have you been to Tsutenpaku Tower yet? Yeah.

    Segment details0:25–0:27 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_3
  5. Oh, you already went there?

    Segment details0:27–0:29 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_4
  6. Yeah, I've been everywhere here.

    Segment details0:31–0:33 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_5
  7. Oh, even by the area where all these zakayas are in the red light district there too?

    Segment details0:33–0:38 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_6
  8. Yeah, I've been there.

    Segment details0:38–0:39 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_7
  9. Oh shit.

    Segment details0:39–0:40 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_8
  10. Where'd it go then?

    Segment details0:40–0:41 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_9
  11. I don't know. Do you live here?

    Segment details0:41–0:42 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_10
  12. Yeah, I live here. I think me and Sora were talking about like the worst area in Japan or whatever, the homeless area.

    Segment details0:43–0:50 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_11
  13. Oh, did you go there?

    Segment details0:50–0:51 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_12
  14. I live there. You live there? Ishinari? Ishinari, yeah. I can take you there.

    Segment details0:51–0:55 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_13
  15. I've been there. I got shouted at by old men.

    Segment details0:55–0:58 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_14
  16. No, everyone— there was like some guys having a coffee and I was like—

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  17. That place scares me.

    Segment details1:01–1:01 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_16
  18. Konbanwa!

    Segment details1:01–1:01 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_17
  19. And they were like, oh, konbanwa.

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  20. I don't know. People here are pretty polite, actually. I don't see what the problem was.

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  21. I had two old men tell me to move out the way.

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  22. Oh, weird.

    Segment details1:11–1:13 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_21
  23. Maybe it's just bad luck.

    Segment details1:13–1:14 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_22
  24. I don't have a problem with anyone here. They're pretty polite. They're more polite than Tokyo, it seems.

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  25. Yeah.

    Segment details1:18–1:20 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_24
  26. What were you gonna do? I was gonna.

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  27. I don't know.

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  28. But he's getting on the tube constantly. I don't know.

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  29. We could walk somewhere if you want.

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  30. Okay.

    Segment details1:28–1:29 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_29
  31. What's your name?

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  32. My name is. You can call me Mama.

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  33. Mama?

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  34. Yeah, Mama.

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  35. Okay.

    Segment details1:33–1:34 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_34
  36. So you prefer Japan over Thailand?

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  37. Yeah.

    Segment details1:40–1:42 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_36
  38. Really?

    Segment details1:42–1:43 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_37
  39. Oh, maybe because I speak Thai.

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  40. How long were you in Thailand?

    Segment details1:45–1:47 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_39
  41. 4 months, and I'm going back for another 2 months.

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  42. All right.

    Segment details1:50–1:51 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_41
  43. I really love it there. So you understand Japanese or you don't understand it?

    Segment details1:51–1:55 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_42
  44. Yeah, I do.

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  45. Oh, okay.

    Segment details1:56–1:57 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_44
  46. I'm not fluent though. So sometimes I don't really catch what they're saying.

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  47. How long have you been learning Japanese for?

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  48. I started in 2007.

    Segment details2:03–2:08 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_47
  49. But you've been on and off for a really long time?

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  50. I studied it for a few years and I kind of gave up. What?

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  51. How are you not fluent, man? You've been doing this since you were a kid.

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  52. I don't study it every year. I just studied it for like 2 years.

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  53. You just took a break?

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  54. Yeah, 2 years and I kind of stopped.

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  55. So like how many accumulated years in total?

    Segment details2:25–2:28 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_54
  56. Probably like a year and a half, maybe.

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  57. Okay, that makes sense.

    Segment details2:31–2:33 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_56
  58. I did the JLPT and then I passed it, level 2.

    Segment details2:33–2:37 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_57
  59. Oh, level 2.

    Segment details2:37–2:38 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_58
  60. But then I, I failed level 1 and then I gave up.

    Segment details2:38–2:41 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_59
  61. Oh fuck, I should just take the 1 at this point. I thought I was at like level 3 or something, you know.

    Segment details2:41–2:47 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_60
  62. Level 3 is quite easy before you do level 2.

    Segment details2:47–2:49 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_61
  63. I know, I should just do the 1 then.

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  64. You're a YouTuber?

    Segment details2:52–2:53 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_63
  65. Yes, I am a YouTuber. I'm traveling to Japan.

    Segment details2:53–2:56 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_64
  66. Oh nice.

    Segment details2:56–2:56 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_65
  67. I'm gonna stay one year in Japan and I'm gonna go to Korea. I am selling handmade accessories for my flight ticket money, for my sleeping money, for my eating money. Those are handmade.

    Segment details2:56–3:07 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_66
  68. Okay.

    Segment details3:07–3:07 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_67
  69. So please could you buy something for me?

    Segment details3:07–3:09 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_68
  70. Uh, how much for one?

    Segment details3:09–3:10 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_69
  71. Any price, bro. Someone gives 1,000, yeah, and someone gives 3,000, 5,000, yeah.

    Segment details3:10–3:14 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_70
  72. One time you choose.

    Segment details3:14–3:16 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_71
  73. It's up to you, man. How much you want from your pretty heart? Donation.

    Segment details3:16–3:20 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_72
  74. I've only got coins. Sorry, so less man. Like a couple hundred.

    Segment details3:21–3:28 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_73
  75. How much?

    Segment details3:29–3:30 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_74
  76. Just a couple hundred.

    Segment details3:30–3:31 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_75
  77. Yeah, yeah, I know. I can't, I can't give you one more like this.

    Segment details3:31–3:34 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_76
  78. Okay. What's your YouTube name?

    Segment details3:34–3:36 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_77
  79. This is the name of YouTube.

    Segment details3:37–3:38 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_78
  80. YG Tuan No Sim Bas.

    Segment details3:39–3:41 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_79
  81. Okay. You want to try?

    Segment details3:42–3:47 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_80
  82. Um, I'm okay.

    Segment details3:48–3:49 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_81
  83. Okay, thank you so much.

    Segment details3:49–3:50 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_82
  84. Good luck.

    Segment details3:51–3:51 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_83
  85. See you guys.

    Segment details3:51–3:52 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_84
  86. Nice to see you. See you.

    Segment details3:52–3:54 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_85
  87. Take care.

    Segment details3:54–3:54 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_86
  88. They're asking what does the sign say.

    Segment details3:55–3:57 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_87
  89. Conversation, conversation. Okay, anyone want to talk with me? Yeah, everyone ignores it though.

    Segment details3:57–4:04 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_88
  90. So you here working or something?

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  91. No, I'm just also a tourist right now.

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  92. Yeah, so 90-day stamp?

    Segment details4:09–4:11 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_91
  93. 60 days because I got to go back to Thailand before my visa expires.

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  94. So do you speak better Thai than Japanese?

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  95. No, I speak way better Japanese than Thai. My Thai level is like barely any Thai.

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  96. I did three months at a Thai school. I can barely say anything.

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  97. Three months at a Thai school?

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  98. Yeah.

    Segment details4:28–4:28 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_97
  99. I just learned by myself, and I just had a bunch of Thai people teaching me random words like "อิดอก", "คوئี", "อิบา", "อีย", "ปามมุมได้" like stuff like that. I don't know what any of that means. Oh, 日本語が話せます。はい。 Where is he taking us?

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  100. Sky damage.

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  101. Please tell me any card. Joker of clubs. Jack of clubs.

    Segment details5:09–5:41 · rev_753180f2ff6ae9d159126dbf534fc3e3_100
  102. Okay, I show clubs.

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  103. One.

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  104. Okay, one cards. Okay, please pick one. Pick a card.

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  105. Pick a card.

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  106. これはいいんですか?いいですよ。もうジョーク。 Okay, no jack of clubs.

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  107. Okay,やらせてください。 1, 2, 3.

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  108. Yeah!

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  109. It's the same.

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  110. Ah, wow, that's kind of cool.

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  111. 最 強 的 な 魔 法 通 貨 ね。 め ちゃ く ちゃ。 じゃあ も ら います。 はい。 です。 えー。 あ はは は。 えー っていう の も いい な。 う ーん。 ナ イ ス。 ちょ う ど です けど ね。 あと で よ かった ら して ください。 え っと 今 は あの プ チ 断 食 して います から、 あの 後 から。 も し も お 帰 ります。 そうですね。 ライ ブ 配 信。 オ ー ケ ー。 あ、 はい。 Yes. マ ジ ック カ フ ェ and watch.

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  112. マ ジ ック カ フ ェ。 ぜ ひ あの 聞 いて ください。 Thank you. Thank you.

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  113. Let 's go. Bye bye.

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  114. あり がとう ございます。 I used to have a Japanese wife here like five years ago, but it didn 't work out. And I thought if I came back here, then she might want to meet up or something. But she blocks me.

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  115. Yeah, you know, I've been trying to figure that out too. I've been like ghosted like at least by like 15 people on like Tinder, Bumble, Hares in the past 2 months. Yeah, it doesn't work out. I don't know, I think the foreigner game doesn't work anymore. Foreigners, they lost their edge here.

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  116. Yeah. So how, how'd you meet girls? Go to a bar or something?

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  117. No, that didn't work. Everyone ignored me at the bar.

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  118. Ah, because I was thinking of doing that too, but I don't have the confidence.

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  119. Even if you have the confidence, they'll just—they just barely will talk to you. They don't go—they don't go to talk to you; they go to talk with their friends.

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  120. Yeah, it's tough.

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  121. Well, I think I'm gonna walk off and do my own thing. Okay. So it's nice meeting you. Yeah, nice meeting you too, man.

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  122. Hope you have a good time with the sign. No, it's fine.

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  123. Well, I'm gonna go that way. All right, see ya.

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  124. Oh my God, awkward. Oh my God.

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  125. Well, that was interesting.

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  126. Maybe he wanted to ditch too, but it was too awkward. Should I go and run back and say, actually, let's hang out all day?

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