Sloppy Seconds - The Pits
Added 2025-05-12 07:00:06 +0000 UTCMeatball and Big Dipper chat about motorcycle rides, luggage snafus, and neighborly messages. Plus they listen to your voicemails and get excited for their trip to Tokyo!
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SLOPPY SECONDS IS A FOREVER DOG AND MOGULS OF MEDIA (M.O.M.) PODCAST
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Oh and public restrooms won't have paper towels. Most people carry a fabric hand towel. You'll see them being sold most places. I got a Snoopy one! And there are no garbage cans, so you might have to take trash back to your hotel.
Edgar
2025-05-15 17:52:41 +0000 UTCMost people y'all will interact with in Tokyo will speak English. It's a major world city/capital. Just remember to say "sumimasen" (excuse me) when you inevitably get in the way. Be quiet on public transportation. Use Google Maps for navigating. NO TIPPING.
Edgar
2025-05-15 17:50:52 +0000 UTCLoud motorcycle at a stop could also be due to an inexperienced rider not properly downshifting prior to stopping
Josh
2025-05-13 20:44:21 +0000 UTCESL accent 😍😍 >>>
Leo
2025-05-13 20:16:56 +0000 UTCI took my own passport photo and got it printed for free at Walgreens.
Clint R.
2025-05-12 18:33:59 +0000 UTCThe bag thing 100% happened to me, but they got all the way home with our bag
Tif Harrison
2025-05-12 17:55:26 +0000 UTC-Also when you eat at a restaurant don’t finish your entire meal, leave roughly a bite on your plate (cleaning it implies the chef didn’t give you enough food) -It’s okay/normal to pick up your bowl and slurp a soup/broth, unlike in the US -Leave your chopsticks resting on the edge of your plate when not using them, NEVER sticking into the food (Japanese funeral tradition is to leave a small bowl of rice with chopsticks sticking in vertically on the casket/at the tombstone) -Unless you travel to the countryside, English is a required language-study in school so most people will know enough to help you get by -Cultural appropriation isn’t viewed in the same lens as in the US, so be prepared to see some racist caricatures (and Meatball, don’t be surprised if you’re asked to take a picture with random drunk citizens in the bar or literally on the street lol) -If you’re told “dame” (pronounced dâ-mē) when entering an establishment, usually while making an “X” with their arms or index fingers, it means no service typically because they don’t know enough English to serve you without being rude (or sometimes because you’re American…understandable lol) -It’s really difficult to find trash cans but DON’T LITTER, and make sure to properly separate your garbage at the place you’re staying or you’ll be fined by the prefecture -NO DRUGS OR PARAPHERNALIA (not even something that would have residue), something as simple as weed could get you 10 years hard labor, and there’s no Brittney Griner prisoner swap gonna happen because the US has a S.O.F.A. with Japan -Big stores and major cab companies are usually the only ones with card readers; Japan is surprisingly mostly cash-based and the smallest bill is ¥1000, so get a coin-purse (there’s a tray next to cash registers you can use to dump your coins into and count out what you need to pay, don’t feel awkward haha) -Meatball PLEASE try the Habu Sake, it’s a sweet awamori-sake shot where the container has a dead Habu-Snake in it whose venom is slightly released which gives you energy and makes alcohol in your body break down easier so you can drink more and feel less hungover 😂
Jacob J. Ward
2025-05-12 17:04:45 +0000 UTCNO TIPPING!! It’s considered rude, as if you’re implying you think the server seems impoverished (I was stationed in Fukuoka for three years, trust me lol)
Jacob J. Ward
2025-05-12 16:20:57 +0000 UTCWhat's most shocking about today's pod is that MB takes 3 hours !
Peter Craske
2025-05-12 11:35:36 +0000 UTC
