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Speaker: When my Japanese mother married my American father, you know, they thought they were going to make a beautiful light skinned hafu, but instead they just got a Mexican. Hola. Yeah. Recently I was ah working in a kitchen car. Like a taco truck kind of thing? That's racist. um you You said it yourself. Jesus. I say kitchen car. Taco car? Food truck? goes... There's luxury, luxury. Whoa, whoa, whoa. There's some luxury ass. He lives in California. He saw my mustache and he goes taco truck.
Speaker: Jesus. He looks so Mexican. Not a taco truck. um To be honest, it was a taco truck. Hey, there we
Speaker: All right, welcome back everybody to the buying a house in Japan podcast the number one akia podcast on the planet My name is joey joined by co-host take and today we have a special guest we are joined by danny wilson Comedian and host of the tokyo super fun times podcast. Welcome to the show danny Yo, what's up? That was really close. Maybe I might change to super fun time. Okay, super fun time. Super great time? Super great time, Tokyo. Super great. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the Japanese one I also do the podcast Badonkadonk podcast. That one's good. I think I see that one a lot. Yeah, that's the one, the Japanese one I do with my comedy partner, Yuki. All right, all right. Wait, first off, let's crack the beers. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Kanpai. Uh-huh.
Speaker: oh Oh, babe. Oh, babe. Hold on. Here we go. Here we go. Here go. Fast. Okay. Come by. Come by. I had to and to take some off the top before i cheers you guys. Hey, thanks for having me. Uh, baby kangaroo intake baby kangaroo. Where'd you get that one from? Joey. That's what, that's what a baby kangaroo is called.
Speaker: I've heard that my whole life. It very, for real. Baby Kangaroo and Take. okay. I've heard that one before. Here we go. Okay, yeah. I'm sure. right, Danny. Who are you, man? where who Who are you? I know you as the comedian, but like, yeah where are you from? How did you end up here? What's what's your situation? Whoa, yeah. That's a lot lot lot there. That's a loaded question. Yeah. I feel like I'm in a go-kong, you know? i mean, two on two on one here. So what do you do for work?
Speaker: And then anything I say, sugoi. Eh, maji de. Yeah. Gokon is ah speed dating here in Japan, if you didn't know that word. Have you gone on a Gokon?
Speaker: Dude, I haven't. You haven't? Yo, and... Opportunity. I know, and I am looking to try going on one, so, you know, if you want to invite your boy, yo, get me involved in a little Gokon. Contact below in the description. There you go. Yeah, man. You know, when my Japanese mother...
Speaker: Married my American father. You know, they thought they were going to make a beautiful light skinned hafu, but instead they just got a Mexican. There it is. Hola. Yeah. Hola, wey. Hola, wey. Hey. But ah yo, I was born here in Japan. oh yeah?
Speaker: And as a baby, i ah moved to America and I grew up in the States. Okay. Where in the States? Originally Phoenix. And then I moved over to Connecticut for high school. And then I went to Colorado for college. And then after college, and I was like, yeah, I need something new. And I want to learn more about my mother's culture. Okay. So I moved here to Tokyo and 10 years ago and just, I love it. So I just been out here. All right. Back to the GoCon. The GoCon. Yup. Yeah. Let's talk about what's important here. You and Joey go on the GoCon together. All right, yeah, I'd be down. How's your dating life out here? You know, I've i've watched your- Straight to it, here we go. Yeah, watched your content. Curious how the ladies find ah your career path and the the jokes that you make. Yeah, about that. So right now, currently on Instagram, I think I have two, hold on, let me let me double check this. Gotta get the real numbers here. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right now on Instagram, I'm at 204,000 followers, right? Jeez.
Speaker: followers right Well, that's really good. And I checked. Didn't expect that. Yo, yeah. And I checked the demographics. Come on, come on. I'm teasing them. 92% male. one of four sounds i got in here. i can't do quick maths, but ah from and
Speaker: mayo that's a lot of dudes yeah and so aggressive dude yeah and so you know how was how the fans liking me like all 10 girls, ah yeah. Have you never got any DMs? Like, you know?
Speaker: Okay, okay. Oh, here it is. No, no, so I get mostly dudes, right? They're like, yo, I'm your fan. I come to this show. We're like, what's your comedy schedule? i'm like, dude, just check my fucking Instagram. I put the thing up.
Speaker: Babes, jbabes, here and there. But I'm ah i'm always wary about DMs. Because, you know, there's so many bots, yo. And like, you know what I'm saying? is It's just like, i you know, you never know. It could just be a homie making a profile, like seeing what you can fish out of Danny, you know. see He's trying to see Danny's little pee-pee in a little. I'm on my way over. I just need you to, you know, pay for my Uber or whatever. Yeah, I think ah mostly I like to meet them in person.
Speaker: ah like at shows or something. Then I'm like, oh shit, she's a J babe. She's kind of into it. But yeah, DMs, I'm a little afraid. You went to, I saw New York recently. You did a show. No, that's the future. In November, the Tokyo Comedy Bar is sending like a handful of us comedians to go perform at the New York Comedy Festival in New York.
Speaker: So ah we're going to go do that. And then we just added a show in Canada, like a few like four or five shows, like in Toronto or something. So that whole group is going to move. you know This is a comedy bar kind of putting you guys on, buying the plane tickets, that kind of stuff. so yeah So this shit. Yeah. Yeah. um So it's kind of like, all right, if you guys sell enough tickets, we'll reimburse you for those fucking. you got a hustle. I see the airplane ticket and stuff. So, yeah, there's like, all right. So when you see me really ah promoting a show on the gram, it's me trying to buy my plane ticket. hey Let us know. we'll We'll repost it. We'll reshare. Thank We'll get you there. Yo, I appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you. yeah So did you go to a comedy school, like a traditional Japanese comedy school here? Is that, how did, how the how did that happen?
Speaker: I know, right? It's so crazy. I went to one of the most like prestigious, you know, famous comedy schools ah called Watanabe Entertainment. Cause yeah, in America, you drop out of school for comedy, but here in Japan, you enroll for it. Okay. Yeah. And so daak dude, yeah. Um, you got to go through auditions to be accepted into the comedy school.
Speaker: And then after that, so so in my comedy class, I had 200 kids, I believe, in my Nijuyonki, the 24th class of Watanabe Entertainment's comedy school.
Speaker: And, you know, I think like 20 kids got signed. So it's on it's it's literally like a year and a half long tryout audition. What do they teach you?
Speaker: Give us a, give us a lesson. Yeah. Is it like Japanese style comedy with a duo or bro, bro, bro. Is that where you learned all your Japanese lessons? You know, is that, they didn't teach me none of that. That that was after I left. I was, I was so like just filled with, so, okay. Um, in in, Japanese comedy, you got to make kids laugh and you got to make old people laugh with the same material.
Speaker: It's true. Wait, why is that? I think because television is still king out here in Japan. Everyone's got the TV on at dinner, you know. They want to hit the widest audience possible. Exactly. And, you know, in America, it's like, oh, there's a kid like under 18 at the comedy club. You're like, whoa, this is for adults. Like it's a very like, you know, America, at at least America. I don't know about the rest of the world, but it's like an adult thing, right? Like you go to the club, the comedy club. um They're going to talk about, you know,
Speaker: vajayjays and politics, where Japan, that's all no touch. like You can't do any of that. And so I had this you know built up stress of what I thought was funny, and I'm thrown into this Japanese comedy world. I'm like, damn, I don't even know how to be funny Without what I grew up with, what was funny. So I had to learn how to be funny in Japan for Japanese people. And that was very like a watered down Daniel. Yeah, I was going to say, were you just kind of like, all right, I just got to put in the hours, get through this program kind of thing? Or did you see it any value in it? No, no, yo, I had so much value. I actually wanted to, you know, like when I was entering, my goal was to be a comedian, a manzai artist, comedian in, manzai is like the Japanese, ah like standup essentially, but you do it with either a partner or like, you know, it's rare, but there's sometimes trios, but. The dumb guy, the like smart guy. Yup, yup, yup. And so systematically, like, yo, it makes a lot of sense. Like, you know, it's team play.
Speaker: um And, you know, I wanted to make it in the Japanese comedy world. i was gung-ho on it. And then, you know, um there was... A lot of issues where I wanted to spread my wings a little bit and they were more like get back in your they tried to clip them Yeah, and you know if they were okay because I wanted to do both I still am doing both so yeah, it's it's interesting so ah Danny will do these kind of like teach you Japanese lesson type things. And like, yeah, I'm sure like for a lot of the audience, like it's, it's a rare view into Japanese, like dirty jokes, slang. And Take was like, Oh, I learned but something the other day. And i was like, you didn't learn that. So we went to kind of like a frat here in our university, kind of like very frat housey. And i was like, Oh, you didn't learn these words? Like, I learned i learned i learned some words. 20-year-old boys say these words a lot kind of thing. Men's dormitory jokes. Yeah, yo, yo, because all that started because when I first moved out here to Japan, I didn't speak Japanese. had a little bit of listening because my mom would, you know, yell at me in Japanese. That's like me right now. can't, I can listen. Your Japanese is good. What? What?
Speaker: there's There's hope for it, Yitake. Yeah, yeah. All right, all right. And so, like, when you go out to the bars, though, essentially, if you're with, like, other people late at night drinking, like, yo, teach me some Japanese, it's always these, like, dirty words, right? Right? Yeah, yeah.
Speaker: It's 100% that. Like, anywhere you go to learn a language, they're like, right, they'll teach you the nasty stuff. Juku Jo. Yo, Juku Joes. The young milfs, baby. yo j Yo, there we go. That's the first lesson right there. Jukujo.
Speaker: Jukujo is like slow cooked. You know what saying? Like a long stew. what I'm saying? And we use that for hot like moms. You know, they did there's it's like wine. It's like fine wine. You and know what I'm saying? so um and And I thought that was like ah an un...
Speaker: chartered field where I'm like, yo, why is no one like talking about the stuff that when the real stuff, right? And so I started of going off on that and, know, post these videos, they do well. And then I love the comments. They're like, yo, go back to your country. This is why Japan hates foreigners and stuff. I'm like, dog, yo. Haters feeding you're getting haters. Okay. I was born here, dog. Yeah. then I do the flip. I do it exactly the same thing in Japanese teaching an English word.
Speaker: not saying Yeah. Same word. The same thing. that i Yeah. ah Go back to your country. Where the other one, where do you have a bigger following like domestic Japanese or foreigners at this point or has it shifted recently?
Speaker: Originally, it was all Japan because I did all my comedy in Japanese and I started doing that shift, you know, doing stand-up at the comedy bar, um you know, the videos I started doing geared towards foreigners. I really took off because, you know, um one of my end goals in life was to be, you know, a bilingual comedian, to be really funny in Japanese and also in English. yeah You know, it still is one of my goals. And I was...
Speaker: going to step 10 before step two, which step 10 is like, you know I thought I could make both Japanese people and Westerners laugh with the same joke. And that's near impossible unless you're like Mr. Bean or something, right? yeah And i really took off when I completely divided the audience. So this is for Japanese people. I'm i'm ignoring the Westerners. And this is this for the Western people. Like, yo, Japanese people, this is too much for y'all. And when I started dividing that is kind of really when...
Speaker: ah I started doing better on the internets. Do you think that you're going to tailor your material for like when you go to New York and wherever in Canada that you're going? like I feel like a lot of your content is like, it gets funnier if you know a little bit about Japan already. like so Totally. For a cold audience in that sense of Japan. I'm scared. Okay. I'm so scared. because New York people, yo, they're vicious, dude.
Speaker: They're there, you know, like if you're not funny, they they'll point it out You know I'm saying? So um the next month or two, I'm, you know, but actually at the comedy bar, it's it's cool recently because one one good thing about all the inbound, you know, tourists coming into Japan, you know there's a lot of negativity around it. But as a comedian, one of the cool parts is that you get to test your material television.
Speaker: people that are just fresh off the boat. Like they just landed here today. And you know, there's, there's the homies from Africa, like Sweden and you know, America, whatever, like, but they're all in there and they don't know a lick of Japanese, maybe like Ohio or Arigato. So that's been a good to test, you know, some material for going abroad. We'll see.
Speaker: i agree. I agree with Joey. The people that know a little bit of Japanese, at least like your content in English just slaps me. Like it's so, so like it's, it's, ah because it's, it's aspirational. I feel like people want to be able to talk slang like Danny can talk slang. One of our, one of our agents actually, he's just like, we told him like, Oh, Hey, we're doing a video with Danny Wilson. He's like, he's my favorite Japanese teacher. But he responded. So shout out to Ron. I like how' Japanese teacher, not a Japanese comedian. Japanese teacher. oh okay. So I'm a sensei. you Yeah. Danny sensei. I'm an educator out here. Hey, look at me. I'm educating the people, you know? Yo, how was Miyoko? Give us give us the the real. Yo, these two guys sent me to Miyoko, right? Miyoko Ko again, yeah. Dude, that was awesome. I was blown away. First off, like, we go out, it's like it's just like nature. And dude, because I've been in the city for...
Speaker: like way too long. jungle dude And just being out there was super nice. And I was like, yo, this house is awesome. Except for the graveyard that is next to they They sent me to a place trying to sell the damn thing. And it's like a couple of spiders, you know, bro. i can Yeah. I could hear the ghosts. Okay. Yeah.
Speaker: um But it was awesome. ah It was huge because i'm I'm used to boxes here in Tokyo. Big ass building, huh? And I was like, yo, I didn't know they made houses this big in Japan. And the lots of spiders.
Speaker: um But yeah, it was awesome. i had a great time. I'm looking forward to seeing the other Akiya homes. you know what saying? Real question. When are so you going to buy an Akiya? Do you want to buy an Akiya? What's your apartment like?
Speaker: Dude, if I was on MTV Cribs, you know that show? Yeah. It would last two seconds. Like, welcome to my crib. Dun, dun, dun, dun, dun. I'm like, all right, that's it. This is my ah living room, kitchen, bedroom, ah bathroom. Kevin's sleeping on the couch. Yeah, yeah, yeah. The ho the homie, I got a homie in town right now and he's on the couch so he takes up literally 80% of the apartment.
Speaker: um Yeah, dude, it's it's like it's laughable. Like, my homie from America came by and he sees, he walks into my house and he's like, is I won't tell anyone. He was like, you live inside of an airplane bathroom. Bro, like the stove is like next to the toilet. It's like everything is like just, you you can see. Compact, compact. Oh my, yeah. that Efficient. So yes, I do want to purchase an IKEA. Okay.
Speaker: And yeah, so these guys are the ones to fucking go through to figure that out. And what I want to do with it, Oh, bro. I don't know. I got, I got like, my head's starting to spin. Um, I mean, you can literally buy like full office buildings in like middle nowhere Tokushima, but like, this is like a full, like four story concrete building. We could get like, could literally buy an, it might, it might be a good idea to buy filming office somewhere. The possibilities are truly endless. I feel like with Japanese real estate.
Speaker: Yeah. So I saw that the one I went to Miyoko, right? That's like an, like a, probably an old person's house where I had a bunch of traditional Japanese stuff in there. It was really cool. And so I didn't know that there's what you said, like an offices. to help you buy building, a warehouse. Oh, a warehouse full of J babes. For like good prices too. It's not just like, word.
Speaker: Where's your, where's your mom from in in Japan? Nagoya. Okay. Yeah. What about Nagoya? yeah Exactly. Right. Like, no. Buy your mama house. Yeah. Dude, yo, that's the dream, dude. I'm sure like we've all said at one point, yeah, one mama out the hood, you know? Dude, she was in a bad part of Phoenix, but now she's, you know, she found a nicer white man. So she's out of the hood now, but you know. Where's the hood in Japan? Is there a hood in Japan? Oh, Nishiarai, you know what I'm saying? Hey, where my Nishiarai boys at? Where's Nishiarai? Dude, that's such a, if you have any Japanese listeners, they were all like, for sure, for sure. Nishiarai, dude. It's like, it's just, you get there you're like, oh, it's a little, it's little more cloudy here than- Is that Tokyo? Yeah, I think technically Tokyo. Nishiarai, dude. Nishiarai. We'll check it out. But I mean, from our like Western perspective, it's not ghetto at all, but I guess the Japanese lens is like a little something out there. All right, Danny, I want to ask a little bit of a deeper question. So 200,000 followers, pretty incredible. Me and Takei, I think we're at about a quarter of that maybe. You obviously believe in yourself and your talents. What do you think the key to your success is? Damn, bruh. Definitely getting circumcised helped. Because, yeah. Released.
Speaker: ah Yeah, that that's a tough question. because Okay, so I guess not being satisfied, I think, in all honesty. Because, you know, to be honest, when I was at whatever whatever number, 2,000 followers, 5,000 followers, you know, nothing's changed mentally. It's it's it's like when I was there, i'm like, oh, snap, I got 2,000. And then you see someone above, you're like, damn, I'm nothing yet. And so all that's changed is now I'm looking at numbers that are like, damn, 2 million?
Speaker: Damn. So it's... it's It's a sickness for sure that there's no end goal, but I've learned to, ah to understand that there's no end, there's no end number that I'm going to be like, okay, finally, like I'm happy retirement that it's just not just enjoying it while doing it. Like in, in the moment is kind of what, uh, I guess success for me is when you're up there, you know, doing comedy, like how often do you freeze and just go like,
Speaker: You know, like is that, is that a have you trained that out of you? Yeah, yeah, that's... that's um Like a backup joke for if you're like, ugh. Oh, no, absolutely, absolutely. um I think it's that's just reps. um All comedians will tell you that. It's... it's There's no like, you know I mean there's like those legendary once every hundred years, like they don't need the reps, they're just a genius and they can kill every time from the get go. But essentially like dude, 99% of comedians, ah you you everyone eats it, right? It's like a known thing. so
Speaker: You just eat it, and then through eating it so much, you know, bombing that you... Doesn't faze you. It's you find these these little jokes and little things to escape, and then you also, you know, with doing material, you got like your safe jokes, like the ones that you know will hit, so you're not as scared. um But no, definitely when I was first doing Manzai, when I was first doing stand-up, when you don't have enough material to back up, like this is all I got, baby. And you're up there and you freeze, you're just like...
Speaker: you you start, it's a different type of sweat, you sweat different dude up there. I remember we, and so we went to dormitory. We lived in dormitory in um ICU in Mitaka. So as an initiation, as a, the new students, you have to like go in front of entire school and do this thing called jingy where you do this dance and you have to, you have to like scream all these jokes until they laugh and you, you're not off the hook till everyone laughs and you have to do this at the girls dorms, your dorms. And what we did was like, you'd write them on your, you'd write all your jokes on your arms. And I remember I got to my last one and I'm just like, Oh, I gotta make it work. But damn, that like reminded me a little of that. do Oh, you're a comic. Cause yo, all all of us, we, we have it on the arm. Yeah. It's funny. Cause like, um, if you, you can't write the whole joke, right? So we have one word to remember it. I love seeing comedians, uh,
Speaker: Notebooks? Jokes, ah like joke titles. yeah So I got a bit, it's called Nazi bread. Or that's what I'll have. You're like Nazi on your arm. Yeah, so if you just look at my arms, oh, this guy's a psychopath. He's got Nazi bread, adopted cat, all these terrible things.
Speaker: you know like words on my arm so uh yeah oh okay when do the best jokes come to you do you have like taking a bath or like is it is is it all over the place or and any sort of rhyme or reason no but um a lot of the stuff does come to me when you're naked like when when no for not i agree yeah dog yo when i'm when i'm in the when i was inventive and when i'm in the bedroom and i look at my own chin chin i start laughing I'm like, oh, this is hilarious. I'm like, whose is this? I'm like, that sucks whoever that belongs to. And I look in the mirror. I'm like, oh, geez.
Speaker: This sucks. But no, my writing ah system is... I'll just take notes, like ah interesting things that happen during the day. Not not necessarily funny, just interesting stuff.
Speaker: And so I'll just make a note of those, and then I know from there, whenever I'm, now it's time to write some like onstage material for standup or manzai, it's like then I dig deeper and find the word choice and stuff. So i already have,
Speaker: uh topics to play with so yeah i was really impressed we did our first google meet with you and you were just like spitting ideas left and right and i think you had actually spit the idea for the whole myoko film that you guys did and like in that one go and i was just like what you had a vision So quickly, I remember. Oh, thank you. ah Yeah, but dude, it it's also a sickness because like I can't do anything serious anymore. It's it's really tough, dude, because you know if you spend like 10 years and like every day at 10, I'm probably in the game like 10 years now.
Speaker: you spend like every day just trying to find the the funny bits or just like, okay, this idea, like how do we, it's, Like, I can't like stop it in a weird way.
Speaker: So yeah. No going back to corporate job or anything here, huh? I'd never been. i don't i don't think I can, dude. what was your last job? Oh, snap. Last job.
Speaker: I got a hand job last night. We're to have to, yo, cut that. Cut that part. because that that is ah That's some like middle school stuff. Yeah, behind the Don Quixote, got a little, we got a little HJ in the parking lot. I think maybe most,
Speaker: Currently, or not currently, but ah recently I was working in a kitchen car. Kitchen car? Like a taco truck kind of thing? That's racist. You said it yourself. Jesus. I said kitchen car. Taco car? Taco? Taco? Taco van? Food truck? There's luxury. Whoa, whoa, whoa. There's some luxury ass. He lives in California. He saw my mustache and he goes taco truck. Jesus. He looks so Mexican. Not a taco truck. To be honest, it was a taco truck. Hey, there we go. Nailed it. Yeah, I'm mad that you were 100% correct. I knew it. But yeah, no, I would wake at like 4.30 a.m., do all the prep work, and then load it into the car, and then we'd go to like a, you know. Make the tortilla. the seaway i make the tortilla get slapped by my auntie with the chanclas you know the sandals a little bit and um yeah and then so i'd free up around like two o'clock i already work like eight hours but free up at two and then i could just do comedy for rest the day but i was dying though yeah as you get older man i like bartended all night just to support comedy oh you dove in okay i see like
Speaker: Oh, no, I was all in on comedy. yeah I was like, yo, I'm destroying my sleep and like, you know, everything was for comedy. Is that why you moved to Japan? Like you grew up in Arizona and then moved to Japan or like what? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't come here for comedy. I found that like a year in.
Speaker: Yeah. You know it's whack, but, you know, i was doing some soul searching. I didn't know what I want to do with my life. And I was just like, yo. You're like 18 at this time or? No, 25. 25.
Speaker: So it's not too late, kids. Hey, I still barely know what I'm doing. I'm 35 now, so it's been 10 years. um Yeah, man, I was just like, I've always been interested in my mom's culture. And luckily, my mom hooked me up with, because you know she's a sweetheart, and I guess she was always filling out paperwork like every five years to make sure if I do want it to live in Japan, like I don't have to go through all these yeah you know hurdles. So I have like...
Speaker: essentially permanent residency here. i'm I'm not allowed to vote. Essentially. Yeah, yeah. I can't vote, so I'm not like that Japanese, but I'm Japanese enough where can live here without a visa.
Speaker: First female prime minister, what's your take? J-bae. Dude. J-bae or not J-bae? I'm always about J-babes. Okay. I'm a J-bae supporter in any position. What was that other term you guys just said?
Speaker: Jukujo? Jukujo? Jukujo, no. She, uh... Okay. How many more of these you got? Because anyone can become a Jukujo. It just depends how many yeah many of these bad boys you throw down. How many of these Asahi's you take down the gullet. But every girl can become a Jukujo. Trust me. All all men will vouch for me on that one.
Speaker: Okay, so prime minister. Politics? Okay. We're going straight there. Jesus. All right, sure. Let's hear Danny's take. Are you optimistic on the future of Japan?
Speaker: Pessimistic, neutral? Heavy. I'm not good at politics. I've stayed out of it It's just I know there's like that party right now that doesn't like us, that wants us out. um You're half okay. Yeah, yeah, I know. And it's it's like, so it's a part of me that's like,
Speaker: Like, wait, am I, like, when he looks at me, I'm like, wait. Like, what does he see? Yeah, I'm like, which side am I on? Yeah, ah so I don't know, man.
Speaker: i I have no idea. I got no say on that. Are you worried? You know, like... No. He's staying out of it. Yeah, dude. I'm notm not scared about talking about Paul. It's just I don't know enough about it. like no That's what I mean. You're focused on what you do.
Speaker: Yeah, I think like you know if it comes into bothering or affects my work a lot... um You know, I'll have to say something or make some jokes about it. I don't know. But obviously, a lot of my material is wieners and fart jokes. Maybe one day I'll, you know, mature and get into some politics. Probably not. Yeah, probably. Yeah, you you're right, dog.
Speaker: We'll see. Hey, I'm still young for a comedian. There you go. Dog, shoot. right. Everything about going back to the States. To visit, not to live. Okay. Why?
Speaker: Man, yo, know just America, man. i' I'm kind of over it, dude. They got Costco here. They got Costco here. That's true. They got good Mexican food now. Okay. Didn't bring it up. Yeah, dude. You know, they got they got Chinese making Mexican. um you know You know, I thought that was just an American thing, but they do that they do that out here too.
Speaker: The lifestyle here is too perfect for me. and Bro, like, I'm not a big fan of driving. Things are clicking. Dude, yeah, it's like, man. Like, to be able to drink with your homies and then just get in public transportation together and travel, like, you don't need a you don't need a designated driver. know there's Uber and stuff now, but, you know,
Speaker: it's It's like you can just walk around town and explore the city drinking beers with your homies. like All free. I'm drive i'm the DD. Hey, see, but like, you know, he's still drinking the the beer taste. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All free..00.
Speaker: point zero zero i mean, I think you touch on a good thing there. Like a lot of what I feel like why me and Taki are so excited about the adventure we're on is like Japan feels like there's so much opportunity here and like, you know, so much you can do. Whereas I don't know, either in the U S it's more difficult to do or more expensive to do. I, I, you know, there's a lot of feels like the American dream a little bit in Japan. No place is perfect, right? No city is perfect. No, no town is perfect. But for me personally, man, Tokyo is like, dude, it's,
Speaker: Bro, it's, you know, it's everyone's beat it to death, but, yo, it's safe. All right, you get exiled from Tokyo. they like you tell a joke that went too far. What's the next city in Japan where do you live? Nishiarai, dog. You know what I'm saying? Nishiarai, boy. Shout out Nishiarai. Nishiarai, dude. I'm going to the hood where they accept me.
Speaker: Yeah. You got a magic wand. Okay. Okay. You can change one thing about Japan. Uh-huh. What do you change? Definitely the size of my wiener. Easy. Do you ask that magic wand question to every guest? Okay. I mean, everyone goes in a different direction, so I like to hear what they... Yeah, I went south. No one else has gone in the direction you've gone. good direction. You it's different.
Speaker: Yeah. different. Going against the current a bit. Yeah. I'm a salmon. Final question. Here we go, salmon. Most of our listeners are people who want to move to Japan. Oh. They're really interested. Maybe they've never been here. You know, what what do you got to say them? What advice?
Speaker: Come by boat. It's cheaper. Boat from where? From where? think you take boat from North Korea. think you boat from North Korea. Whatever you're coming from, though. Hitch in the cargo deck in a boat. Dude, you'll save like like thousands of bucks. What about advice for an aspiring comedian? Japanese comedy or... Foreigner coming in.
Speaker: yeah let's say someone that looks up to you and wants to be like I want to be Danny. Danny Senpai. Sensei. I mean, i I'm so proud and... um happy with the experience I got in the Japanese comedy system. Cause that world is like nothing I've ever experienced. um It's, it's, it's essentially like, like strict, like it's almost like the Yakuza. It's it's like, bro, it's like, you've got to respect your superiors crazy. It's like this whole ranking system. It's,
Speaker: Doesn't sound like comedy to me, but. Bro, yeah, and it's it's wild, because like, yo, this is comedy, right? and But to be thrown into that world, and I honestly, because I was in that comedy school, and then I was signed to Watanabe for like 10 years, I think that's where I really learned about Japan and and the culture.
Speaker: Because that that that system translates to everyday life, in a sense. Like, do do you respect your elders? for no reason at all. Other than their elder. there Other than because their parents had sex before your parents, right? So like that's that literally right. And so I was like, oh, your parents has nutted in.
Speaker: a little bit before mine. Yeah, that's that's all it is. But you have to show so much respect just for that reason. Amongst other things. So I would say just dive deep into some type of Japanese culture that is run by Japanese people and they will accept you, right? if you're If you're dedicated and you're really like about it. I think in each little pocket of Japan, there's there's different cult, there's different stuff going on. Like if you're into rock and roll music, whatever, if you're into comedy, if you're into, you know, business, whatever, but just dive deep into it. And bro, like that, that translates to everyday life for sure. Good advice. yeah heard With that, Danny, thank you for being on the podcast, man. We've had a lot of fun today. Yo, thank you so much for having me.
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