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Welcome to Feedback Friday. I'm your host, Jordan Harbinger. As always, I'm here with Feedback Friday producer, My Naka-E, soaking with me in the scalding onset of life drama Gabriel

Mizrahi. Is that close? I feel like I added a couple extra beats. Nicely done. I love that, yeah. All right. Whatever. We're just free balling in these hot springs of WTF for sure. That was a great one. I love that one. Sitting on those little buckets in the bathhouse before we go in scrubbedubbing off the dues before we go into the bath. I'm in Japan right now, if you cannot tell from this insane conversation we're having. Yeah. Nakai, you taught me this word, Gabe. Yeah, courtesy of one of our listeners, by the way, Joan in Tokyo. Shout out to Joan for teaching me some killer slaying that I've been using in restaurants. It's making a big difference. Joan, a traditional Japanese name. What does that mean? Like, homie, kind of? Buddy, pal. Yeah. So Naka-e. Man, the nicknames get weirder and weirder the more you travel. And I guess we'll talk about that in a second here. on the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's most fascinating people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that you can use to impact your own life and those around you. And our mission is to help you become a better informed, more critical thinker. During the week, we have long-form conversations with a variety of amazing folks, war correspondence, neuroscientists,

astronauts, homicide investigators, tech luminaries. On Fridays, though, we share stories,

take listener letters, offer advice, play obnoxious soundbites, and gently don our finest yucatas in preparation for this protracted ritual of spilling the ceremonial tea.

Hey guys, it's producer Jase here.

If you want to skip Gabe and Jordan's travel stories this week,

just breeze past the stunning monasteries and the worst 7-Eleven offense Gabe has ever committed

in his life, you can jump on the bullet train and get off at the deuce cruise exit at 16 minutes

and 20 seconds.

Domo, aigato, gozaimas.as. Gabe, Ohio-gozaymas. Kon-ban-wa, my dude. For me, it's definitely not Ohio, over here. No. Whatever, I don't know what I'm talking about anymore. You're back in Japan. Comebano, my dude. I am back, son. Back in the land of obsessive detail and shutting the

f*** up in public. I'm so happy. Yes, your favorite soundtrack. Silence punctuated by the occasional

jingle of the subway doors as they close, exactly. Right. Bing bong. So are you in Kyoto now?

Is that correct? Yes, I'm in Kyoto and with my other Nakai, Aaron Margolis, as you know. The fucking doctor. Happy birthday to Aaron, by the way. Hell of a trip. I don't know. What are you guys doing over there? I mean, vegan Japan? It's got to be kind of an interesting... I'm having to be flexible on the veganism, unfortunately, but that's just part of the territory. In Tokyo and Kyoto, you can be

vegan very easily. But when you get into smaller towns and when you're traveling with a non-vegan,

which, as you know, I don't want to impose my veganism on everyone else, so I am being a little

flexible. But yeah, a little birthday trip for the good doctor. It's her first time in Japan.

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