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Bert Breaks Down His Epic And Emotional Trip To Japan With His Oldest Son

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4.14.4K Ratings

🗓️ 10 July 2023

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Bert just returned from his trip to Japan with his oldest son. How was it? EPIC. He just didn't realize how emotional it would be for them both. He'll explain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Get it the virtue.

0:01.4

He's just hoping to reconnect with my son who's 20 years old now.

0:06.8

And we wanted to do something really, really special for his high school graduation two

0:11.8

years ago.

0:14.0

And he's really in an anime and manga and he loves Japanese culture.

0:20.6

So I said to him two years ago, that when you graduate high school, we'll go to Japan.

0:24.9

What do you think about going to Japan?

0:26.3

He immediately lit up and he's like, oh my God, of course, right?

0:29.8

Well, Japan has been closed because of COVID.

0:33.5

So here we are two years later now and he's in college and we finally got to take the

0:39.0

trip.

0:40.4

And I really wanted it to be a reconnecting trip for us.

0:44.1

There are some in some ways.

0:47.4

I don't feel like I really, I don't know my son all that well anymore.

0:51.7

You know, now that he's gone to college, he's very particular on when he wants to talk.

0:58.8

I think a lot of parents go through this.

1:01.4

Honestly, when their kids go off to college.

1:03.4

Yeah, probably so.

1:04.8

There's like a, because again, that it's your child, but they are now technically an

1:10.4

adult and they're just trying to find their own way in life and who they are without

1:15.0

their parents.

1:16.0

So there can be some distance that grows.

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