Konitua or if it's morning for you,

Ohayo gozaymos from Tokyo, Japan.

I wanted to start this podcast off as my dear girls podcast.

Tokyo is a very special place to me this is where my mom and dad met when my father was in the U.S. military he met a beautiful woman at a place called Kamakuda

and it's a big giant Buddha at a Buddhist temple here in Japan.

My mother was studying to be a Japanese school teacher and she happened to go check out a temple at the big Buddha.

It's called the Great Buddha of Kamakuta. I highly recommend everybody going to it one day.

My father was in the U.S. Navy and he was with two other guys on his squad or whatever they are in the Navy.

And they all went to go visit the Great Buddha of Kamakuta that day.

And the remarkable thing about their meeting is that

it was perfectly imperfect. It was an off chance that the two of them would meet and truly for

my father to be captivated by this woman. I mean, my mom is super woman, so she definitely probably

charmed him, but wasn't trying to at all, which I think is the best part about being a woman,

is if a man really wants you or a woman, they are going to come after you and you don't have to

worry about a thing. So when I was five, my parents took me here. It's the first place that my

tiny little five-year-old feet touched the ground in a foreign country. And if you can imagine 30 years ago what it was like in

Japan, it was much, much different. There was barely any tourism. My father would get approached for

autographs and pictures all the time because he's a tall white guy. And it was just so different in the 80s and um growing through

the last three decades here in Tokyo and writing about my heritage and my background now

is so unique thank you guys for writing your questions today from

Tokyo. I'll make sure to answer them today on the pod. So stay tuned for those. And also I just wanted

to say thank you for your feedback regarding just the Nagasaki episode. That was episode 20, guys. If you haven't checked it out, please hit up 20. It was so good. It was hard for me to conduct that interview because it was the first time I had ever interviewed somebody who had survived an atomic bomb and wore at that with such a direct

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