Inside The Dangerous @Abroad in Japan Ramen Shop

so there we are it looks like we found ourselves a ramen shop and apparently they they sell gyoza let's uh let's do a little exploring see if we can't find anything does this work i think it works it's turning on it says loading it's a very good start look at that we'll have to come back to that later hi everybody and welcome to our stream today we are in the back alleys of sendai japan and this is not this is not enough space for a human to fit through i don't know how this works but we're gonna try and squeeze through there we go hopefully we don't break anything maybe just maybe we can find somebody along the way we've got a full-on dagashi shop here and as you guys know i absolutely love some dugashi i'm sure these will hold up well over time squid on a stick and one of my all-time favorites the airplanes might be stealing one of those today and over here we seem to have a gentleman reading the latest issue of the japan times weekend edition i'm just reading about this uh this fantastic article in japan times youtuber finally has space to create look at that look at that chris broad is an affable young man do you think i'm afraid you're laughable oh the affable yeah [Laughter] there's a lovely quote here in blue yeah right down here i'll go away don't read that i want to be i'm actually david bowie so ellicott my words how you doing oh merry christmas merry christmas how you doing good just trashing this newspaper are you actually drinking this yes that's kind of like what is it it's like five caffeine it's like five coffees in a bottle yeah just pure distilled it's actually hurting me on the inside of the bottle i'm in pain now do you have rockets in the uk the candy the they're like the little ramune style uh really guys don't have rockets are they in the candy shop yeah yeah well i don't think they're in this candy shop but rockets candy where's everyone watching from where you guys watching from today and the phone just died [Laughter] where's everybody watching from so today we're gonna take a peek at chris's brand new studio is this like i saw natsuki burnham say if i touched my am i gonna get hurt gently is it home it's got some there's a vibration to it that i wasn't expecting a little bit it is yeah that's he burnt himself [Laughter] got miami virginia france england los angeles singapore and cookie ninja in here kicking off the super chats saying i hope both of you have a wonderful holiday season thank you for the great content cookie ninja thank you so much for getting the ball rolling with that this gacha machine actually works and it is filled with absolutely nothing filled with disappointment that's exactly what it's filled [Music] yen and this came out and he was like what the [ __ ] [Laughter] thing is i don't know where the key is so that's a problem because i need to open it to put this back in yeah i just sort of slip it back in like that put it into the chair and nobody's in either one there are so many hidden details yeah nobody ever sees that that's the yeah right so in every live stream we get a super chat requesting a sewer lid reveal and so there is the sewer lid reveal for today's stream broad japan abroad in japan fantastic i i didn't even notice they've done that until when did you find it like a week i was like walking after i stood on it i was like what's that oh wow they've done a dream yeah there's this semi-cool little details right here we have the the tap right and there's like fake floor and fauna like around the and you've got a bit of leaky just shits basically that's leaking here that's fantastic yeah and the floor is textured as well to make it look like it's yeah it's sort of wet so it has a nice little reflection to it yeah fantastic and another super chat in there from chris yamagata saying hey norm and chris hello chris so can you give us a rundown of the studio maybe a bit of a a tour you're gonna stand up what is this well i don't think we're both gonna fit in there oh ultimate all right question in here when is abroad in a boat happening we're actually just talking about that we just shot a little bit of a video for you guys for the end of the year that will be coming out in a week or two on tokyo lens so yeah this is the electronic store it's pretty cool as you can see i can't actually go in there that's effort oh come on well you've said it you got to go in there now [Laughter] kids bartlett keeping that super chat ball rolling thank you so much for that i brought in a boat with captain norm hi welcome i'm sure the audio is spectacular can you hear me i i can hear you i don't know if everybody else can i mean it's pretty well in here and so you said you were going to record stuff in there originally well yeah the idea was the camera would be like outside and i'm filming i have a microphone in here but the acoustics aren't good enough to do it really so i'm going to do it this is a really cool angle there actually looking from here this looks really cool about the street because from this angle i can't see outside the street so it just looks like i'm looking at like an alleyway that's really cool yeah the best moments in the set are when you're like really immersed in it right i want to see that angle i'm going to come around and a huge thanks to brooke for the super chat saying cheers to chat as well as you and chris before i head to bed hospital shift early or i would stay no worries thank you so much and one more super chat in there from aqua melon awesome name by the way saying thank you for the sewer lid reveal anyway just here for the australian representation in this chat so this actually says abroad in japan on here and then we come in here wow okay oh wow that that's a tight fit how did you do you got me dinner yeah like you see [Laughter] but like i mean like you feel kind of immersed in it yeah you can't see outside the street it's kind of cool this is spectacular and now i'm gonna try and get on here without oh and i wasn't kidding when i said this little space here is bit like if i this is like the width of my head almost it's a big head thank you thank you very much for that and then we've got the the dagashi shop here did you hand pick all the dagashi no they they chose all this um yeah this when ryotaro came in here last week he taught me about this you've had this moroccan fruit yeah awful it's like terrible it's like clay or just just just [ __ ] really and uh but here he came in ate all that sounds good um he was like oh do you know moroccan candy i was like no they went oh eat here and then he ate it all right i didn't even chocolate balls they're good chocolate bars are always good oh chocolate coins i've never seen those before what's that what the [ __ ] is this it's chocolate like no they're just like there's a squid on a stick a dried squid on a stick they're very chewy i mean i haven't really i'm really bad at like looking at things noticing things i'd be like a terrible monk you know uh analyzing your surroundings i just sort of walked through your ears couldn't it like uh when when the the design team built this set i walked in seeing it for the first time i was like wow that's amazing yeah great and they were like is that it is that all you're going to say oh wow because i i'm just not naturally like a oh my god i'm going to kill myself it's so amazing i'm because i hate reactions i hate the way these days we have to sort of react in a really over-the-top fashion everything we do you know oh my god oh look it's a biscuit and it's sweet so that's so amazing oh this doesn't know i can't do it so we met mitch together when we went out to fukushima yeah and actually it was through your introduction that i got the chance to meet mitch mitch used to have his own tv show no way i know and he said that it was really difficult because you'd have to react to food and even if it was like the most subpar food ever it would have to be the biggest over-the-top reaction and anything less was met with severe disappointment well i mean i've done japanese tv and it's like that right you have to be like as though you just sat on a knife like oh my god what happened what's going on here then so uh we got a super chat from tejo 1927 singing an online friend told me that norm band what was in a punk band called the dentist drill actually okay it wasn't called the dentist drill but you went up i was in a punk band many many decades ago that's old old and inaka adventure in here saying to her use in chris's candy shop don't spend it all at once thank you very much oh [ __ ] what's this he just keeps finding things seriously what's that have you noticed this i hadn't what is it uh it's a gumball dispenser so you should be able to push that yellow thing in and the gumball should come out if they're loaded something's in there it's pretty heavy it may not be loaded yet no yeah so they're it's empty right now i feel it's it's just the weird relationship i have with this store because like i i don't really want to touch it i don't want to open things but like that's cool i love these as a kid every oh yeah every kid remembers these the little planes polystyrene planes you made i'm surprised there's any left i expected to walk into the studio and see them all over the floor well that's the thing right it's all about not touching um there's little signs there's little masks back there for example this is the first time i've seen this it's uh is it ultraman it's ultraman oh it's pretty dusty in there and a super chat in there from emmanuel saying hey kristen norm from california love the studio you need to get some kfc lol it's another thing right i only noticed recently is this lights the lights layers the lights light up as lights should come out that's amazing we shot a video in here earlier today and there's a security camera sliding up there here we go i'm in mid-shot and i look up and i feel like it's looking right at me and chris breaks out laughing in the background and we had to reshoot everything that's all there are so many details in here it is just off the hook i've been asked what's your favorite part of the set honestly i am a huge fan of a the super lid it was like the first thing i know she was lit and second off the graffiti like if we turn this around there's so many turn around turn around here there's so many little hidden graffito graffiti graffitis this is this is my favorite bit this is like the hidden alleyway because you never really see it when you're making a video because you're usually going like filming this way so this bit they they didn't have to do anything good here and yet they they still put effort in there's like a drain pipe there's like little stickers and things there's this uh like they put effort in to places that effort wasn't required i think that's the most amazing thing about the set it feels like a living breathing world as opposed to sort of a two-dimensional set yeah yeah if i don't do you achieve with my job i want to be a set designer how cool is this it is spectacular i just there's still every time i look around i'm noticing a detail that i didn't see earlier on like even little things like this they went for the classic ones there's newer ones that depending on where you move the eyes move and follow you they're the you know those like the the zigzag 3d things but yeah i got a couple more super chats in here that i don't want to miss uh laurentify saying awesome seeing you guys together you two are one of my favorite youtubers could you tell chris that i cosplayed joy from blade runner oh nice one that's pretty cool and she's such a cool character got super rainy day in okinawa today from dr justin in japan more exciting to watch you two at chris's shop than to go for a run understandably nobody wants to run in the rain and another super chat from morger edits saying i want chris to make a video to fill the gacha machine or maybe after each adventure this is a nice idea after each adventure add an item inside that's a cool idea actually i like that is it as cool as this your favorite that that is the that is the stuff of nightmares right there so every japanese character just raps in your world okay and tokyo paul saying merry christmas chris merry christmas noor merry christmas so shall we go through here and check out the ramen shop yeah what's this man what is this it's like wanted research an investigation [Music] he's broken my projector yep comes in here all right it's time to win pac-man chris is going to win pac-man i gotta try and keep chris on this side in order to make the stream go smoothly we've just decided to stream from the phone and anytime that the guest is on the other side of the mic it's just like oh you only get 50 percent volume diego oh really yeah oh [ __ ] get old and daily derps in here with a very generous super chat saying good day legends greeting from sydney australia finally caught a stream live here's something to spend at chris's ramen shop enjoy and happy holidays please spend it at my writing film i will spend it chris maybe a bowl of ramen today for the video that we made and it may be the single worst you know we'll just we'll leave it at that no spoilers again it's coming out like a week or so god damn it i'm running run out of marbles or whatever it is to kill people [ __ ] okay you do have pac-man on there right this is pac-man well then you're playing miss pac-man true what's the difference between pac-man and miss permanence with a ribbon and mascara i played this thing when we first got in here and chris admitted that it was the fastest he had ever heard anyone die in a game like it was so like very oh [ __ ] it i think like the game had just turned on and then dead on the sound effects yeah should show the views yes ma'am it's a fun game i love the simplicity of batman it's a simple game and then you wait and then bang die die ghost things yeah it's clearly [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] no swearing no go my god this stick is not very responsive [Laughter] it's literally wait and then bang dead there's a strategy here the strategy is winning yeah that's a massacre massacre come on come on come on come on yeah now you die this is good this is good [ __ ] the ultimate gaming stream ultimate game and it came out 20 years ago oh [ __ ] oh god the thing that you can use to kill the ghosts all right he's got two more bits to get [ __ ] come on come on come on come on come on come on come on there's one left are you having a laugh you have enough laughs [ __ ] come on come on come on come on come on come on come on come on yes oh i didn't beat my previous score at 8 000 but i'm happy with that let us never speak of pac-man again yeah what do you think of my wrong shot is it nice the ramen shop is spectacular spectacular it's the only word that could be used to describe such a ramen shop i think we can taste it here and maybe it won't fall over or maybe it will and jason in there with a super chat saying good day you amazing human beings and norm any thoughts on looking into the film community in japan especially specifically polaroid i'm an instant film photographer and always curious of japan's community there's actually a pretty big community for film shooters it helps if you learn japanese along the way but if you google it you'll find a ton of stuff there's facebook groups instagram groups everything there's a good filmmakers group in uh japan right it's just called japan filmmakers on facebook i follow that lots of good things on there so turn that light down sure and uh we got arma jillo i love the names saying just woke up to your live stream good morning and merry christmas to both of you greetings from germany well greetings back to you from sendai japan and jess p saying hey couldn't sleep it's 12 14 am here good to see you guys happy holidays what do you guys have planned today other than hanging out well we started the day fairly early on today as you may know i did some live streams with charlotte yesterday one out in matsushima and then one on her channel and before i head back to tokyo i figured i'd swing by visit chris we shot a little bit of a video and then did this live stream before chris boxes off some other tasks of his own for the day and i sit on the lovely shinkansen ride chris is rearranging the studio right now and maui says can i pick your brain on where the next journey across japan will be hope all of you join joey seadog rizzotoro norm charmeleon and emma that would be a very busy journey across japan do you have another one planned uh not really not yet because it was like this one that's just filmed that's coming out in a few days but i've not done a very good job editing it you've not done a good job i've been really busy so i haven't had time to sort of edit it but yeah nothing can top jelly across japan three though that we had literally blew the pants off and that's good yes it did yes it did and we've got another super chat in here from that's very smoky mike saying hey guys miss pac-man uh the only lady allowed in chris's studio or will we see sharla there someday in the future merry christmas in advance from geneva switzerland yeah she's not allowed she's not allowed is it a boys club but i think she has been here actually she did do something here i can't remember what i think she did something for her patreon here okay i'll let her in i to exploit the abroad japan studio because the last time that i was here was something like three months ago yeah this wasn't here right it wasn't it was all it was a very different time and this space with the ramen shop built in looks about double the size it did without the ramen shop oh yeah yeah chris told me he was gonna build a uh a ramen shop into this space that we're sitting in right now and we went blind and i was like how i assumed the counter that's all i can imagine with the space that it looked like it had but there's just so much in here how many hours a week did you say you're spending in the studio right now i mean not as many as i would like uh a lot i've been doing this series on the second channel chris abroad channel subscribe uh where i do like a video every other day and that's been really great because i've been able to exploit this studio to its fullest and do things i've just realized it's something i haven't even noticed before on that wall there looks like counterweights or something what is that these up here look at this guys again i'm discovering things about the studio you're talking about these uh yeah oh god so these yeah what the heck is that what is it i'm not gonna assume to know they look like old glass capacitors but i could be wrong glass capacitors well wow this is cool this is trippy it's all like a it's like a magic stick look at this it's not a gimbal like a magic get cool angles like this look through the nail it's the best drawer ever i'm gonna bring you a chair for people joining this live show like what the actual [ __ ] is going on norm cam jingle bells jingle bells norm needs a shave [Laughter] merry bruh this is actually [ __ ] there's a pretty big it's the same it's to say it's like norm it's his norm in like the year 2056. and there's norm now and he's hurt my face and he's gone uh what huh wow and he's actually just gone he's gone gone forever yeah you could be a camera back now all right uh i've dropped it the audio is rubbish on one side or something the is this it is that you're right okay so yeah if um for example if i were to stand on the opposite side of this camera yeah the audio would suddenly turn to just hot garbage hot garbage absolutely that's my first album coming out next year and chan in here with a super chat saying whatever happened to chiaki actually jackie was supposed to come over she's my japanese friend she's a youtuber one of these youtubers we have now and uh one of these youtubers a japanese girl in the uk i think she's got the biggest japan channel in the uk oh really she's good friend she's supposed to come over at christmas but that didn't happen because of omni bollocks [ __ ] omnivarian what a great way to end the year and saying love all the videos you guys make and sharla's as well merry christmas from canada how do you pronounce well how do you pronounce it the word aluminium i call it aluminum well i know it's spelt different in in north america isn't it well there it is well i can't believe how people i didn't realize people on your side the world don't pronounce the h how do you say lips herbs herbs and spices bollocks how do you say harry potter at least stick to the rules i used to say to people that english is the worst language because if you take like book door pool and blood all four of those words are spelled exactly the same consonant double o consonant and none of them make sense so don't learn english it's just not worth it aluminium is different because it's spelt different right you say was it aluminum why do i feel like you're mocking me but what do you say could i get a bucket of aluminum who goes out and orders a bucket of aluminum that's what i what we're all the people that built this [ __ ] set that's that's that's aluminum isn't it yeah strikes my aluminum set and cushion here saying if i was going to japan for three to three weeks uh what city should i visit and what order should i do it in thank glad to see both of you on the stream i'm going to put at the top of that list gujo hachiman have you been gujo hatsumam there's a castle built around it but the entire city is based on like canals and rivers and whatnot oh the water outside of every house is a bucket because it's a very old town bucket balloon is this in is this near the lake beware uh not too far from there yeah okay that's why you went and did your video yeah and it's just a spectacularly beautiful place but out near that entire area there's no shortage of stuff you tend to default to going north well it's quite fun i mean to go that direction of japan you kind of spend your time in japan like one half or the other and then smash the entire set because you know i i don't get to go to the other side japan as much as i like kind of did this year what with jennifer japan yeah and stuff but i'd like to spend more time over that side because i've sort of done north japan to death um so paying you so chris never says the word aluminum again what if i say aluminium aluminium is it snowing in sendai it was last week it was yeah yeah i uh i got here there was just enough snow to make one snowball yesterday made the best of it snowball chris um would you consider a rail base all-island marathon journey across japan i thought about it a lot actually but i don't the problem is on trains in japan you can't really speak uh um so it would be not as interesting as you think and i think logistically a lot more complicated and you need permission from the train companies and when all is said and done it would just suck the fun out of it all sadly so probably not there's a really fancy train that i was hoping to make a video of this year um it's a little pricey uh but i thought it'd be a great video great experience and i contacted jr and they were like absolutely not excellent this is the seven star trek yeah oh it's pretty hard and they're just like we've had influencers or creators make videos inside before it's been a bad experience for everybody [ __ ] creatives creating ruining everything creating things influencing creating songs what's this one yeah i think we got that one and did we get this yeah and our most recent super chat is i lived in tokyo for four years but never got to making youtube videos you guys in the trash chase crew inspired me to give it a try when international travel restarts have a merry christmas yeah definitely you know youtube it's it's it's fun when you've got an idea and you you get to do something you've always wanted to do it's a lot of fun so yeah do it everyone should try youtube once if they if you're thinking about doing like making a youtube video just do it and then if you don't enjoy it it's a noise the whole building is vibrating hopefully it wasn't an earthquake it probably wasn't but uh yeah but no if you're thinking about doing youtube video just do it don't enjoy it but if you do enjoy it you can do it for a job yeah one day i always say the same thing and i actually i don't think you entirely agree with this approach but my approach and advice has always been i feel like we talked about it once and you you gave me that look my approach has always been that you should create for like three months six months a year and do all the work do all the uploading do the title do the thumbnail but don't publish and get to the point where you've grown a love for creating before you start getting into that feedback loop of publishing and if you can consistently create something for example even once a month once every two weeks for six months and you enjoy the process then it's time to publish if not yeah disagree i don't know i don't agree with that because i if i'd done that i wouldn't have the motivation to continue right i needed when i released my first video and i saw a whopping 100 people watched it i was like oh my god people watch my videos and that motivation powered me to get on with the second and then the success of the second video motivated me to do the third if i'd done that approach and i was like i'll make 10 videos over six months then i don't think i would have had the progressive motivation to get to doing it so no you're wrong yeah see that's exactly what i did on my wrong channel though because i was like i get really into the the community and the interaction and everything like that right i love meeting with the fans i like every comment section i'm in there and i knew that that would have an impact on my motivations so for example if one of the first videos i ever did did really terribly i'd be less motivated to do the next one and so i know myself that well it's the same reason that i never got my motorbike license because i know myself well enough to know and yeah be dead and yet now you are a captain and you can you can sail a boat ladies and gentlemen yeah it's less so maybe not so much sailing motorboat yeah haven't learned all the sales and everything but i'll be the next level can you do a hard off video at some point in the future also where i did a hard off video there's a video actually where i went around sendai and did six or seven second hand good stores yeah yeah there are fun second-hand good stores in japan just because people like actually look after their things in japan right yeah in the uk a second hand good story everything just broken a lot of comments like why are japanese second-hand shops so clean people just care here about possessions in the physical world we don't we don't um chris who will win either joey versus connor or a natsuki versus risottoro fight sorry for missing out the first time who would win um joey and connor i think connor would win because he's very competitive and he would like just joe be like hitting connor and then conor just pull out like a knife or a shotgun to finish things fast natsuki and risottoro i think ryotaro would have the upper hand at first but then natsuki would just like stall out like natsuki would like cover ryotaro in like oil and then like flick a cigarette it's all visual [ __ ] i don't think natsuki would hold back realtor and uh natsuki and connor probably win that there's a uh there's a saying in japanese called choosing a group somebody who has no limits uh they're they're not gonna like that you don't know what to expect from them they don't take the normal path that someone else would take and i feel like that that's not scary and george in here saying hello norm finally able to catch a live stream thank you for your videos they're amazing hopefully i can visit japan next year hopefully and experience first hand merry christmas from santa claus california santa clarita santa claus did i say santa claus merry christmas from santa claus in california santa clarita arthur's science says the n a aluminum is the original spelling but a brit in 1812 pro it was a name change more consistent with the other em elements hence aluminum santa claus which die hard is the best one the original die hard it's a classic the second one's all right the third one is quite boring i like watched it earlier this year and doesn't hold up well and the ones afterwards just best forgotten but die hard one is a solid 10 out of 10 movie you seen it yes yeah i just watched it the other day every character is so richly like thought through and richly drawn and just likeable it's one of those like holiday must-watch videos so i put it up on the project i'm gonna watch it and miranda i can never get it right it says merry christmas and norman chris the sidewalk is very interesting coming from i don't know about british schools but in canada there are a lot of weird names really so when the teachers are reading out the kids names at the beginning of the year there's a lot of polish kids for example in my neighborhood and they're like [Music] yeah tough language yeah so i've got a little present for you yeah do you know jinger's calm yeah actually first time i ever had it you dragged me out to it these sweets these are candy like genghis khan there you go are we really eating these yeah okay and john earhart says chris deserves a drink do you have drinks um oh it's [ __ ] horrible so this is candy flavored like lamb and um just that's like the worst thing look at that they're giving this to me oh crikey you know those people who like love eating weird foods put it in your mouth not one of those tell me to put it in my lamb candy very chewy [Laughter] she gonna finish it oh what is that what have you done why would you buy this who buys this oh oh my god i don't oh oh no oh it's so bad washing his mouth out with coffee oh my god was it good it tastes like somebody's grandmother what did you say it's so awful oh i am borderline offended but it is pretty popular i'm straight up how are you still chewing that you've just committed to it how are you gonna find the drink now [ __ ] that is just awful oh and jack daniel vii is in there saying fun times thank you so much just getting caught up and the next one is [Music] is that did i say it right i hope so because that's a really nice name uh weirdest experience that you thought you'd hate but you ended up actually liking it can't stick around because of work but merry christmas well mine definitely wasn't this candy because i thought i was gonna hate it and i hated it so that weirdest experience that you thought you would hate but you ended up liking it hanging out with norm oh there we go that's the one right there yeah same that's mine as well hanging out with no wait a minute i can't think of anything off the top of my head brilliant brilliant no it's spectacular can you i just told you yeah hanging out with you it is to treat yourself to a bowl of ramen since chris hasn't mastered the art of making ramen you'll see that oh yeah in a video today we filmed i made ramen for norm yeah that's exceptional yeah it was almost as good as this candy maui saying uh by the way how'd you get a license to fly a drone you don't need a drone license in japan yet but you will from next year most likely yeah really they're implementing a drone licensing uh program [ __ ] yeah and it's yeah so really yeah from next year we're gonna need to be licensed to fly our drones you still need to know the laws and the rules and everything but all that available all that in all that information is available it's definitely happening it looks like it why there's just been too many problems and i think before the borders open up they want to get it to the point where if you're going to be flying here it needs to be done legitimately so that's the end of the abroad japan drain shot i do i don't imagine it'll be that difficult i think a lot of the testing will initially be in japanese but yeah well i'm [ __ ] down it's not ideal to be honest i'm not super excited about it it sucks so get on bureaucracy and chan in here saying norm how do you know what someone's grandmother tastes like and next episode let's do dorian you guys gotta stop it i'm not doing durian and john in here saying norm i love you pronounce my name right yes no one ever says it right have another stalking staffer thank you how how do you pronounce john's name i i think i said john earhart john earhart i think so i think that's what i said but now there's so much pressure on it is chris a bad influence on japanese foreign youtubers yes absolutely japanese foreign and stephanie in here with one of the stickers thank you daniel saying hello from new zealand have you tried the 50 000 yen strawberry yet looking forward to 50 yeah i mean it's a place near here called miyagi ichigo i think is it called that i can't remember it's uh they call them like polished strawberries okay and it's about an hour south of sendai mm-hmm and they're very big strawberries perfect absolutely like perfect strawberries i didn't put them in the documentary like baseball they're pretty big i wouldn't say baseball size but they're very juicy and very delicious they're sort of really nice balance of sugar and some sweetness and very very good yeah i've never had that strawberry that good but japan does have some really good and fancy fruits so i made a video called uh japan's 200 billion dollar disaster it came out last year in like february or march check it out and you can see them in that video incredible place really cool place and unbox cyclone in there with the super chat thank you very much as well as you saying me again sorry never be sorry we've all already established chris should never say aluminum but how does he say controversy and ex-patrol what's that you could use controversy like controversial i said controversy controversy ex patrick expatriate expatriate expatriate expatriate tastes like someone's grandmother says yeah no no we're not making grandmother merch and uh michael saying norma i love how you're always talking to strangers and asking for help chatting any advice on how to be able to do the same um well i mean you're very good at japanese so you've got that in your arsenal all right usually when i do those videos i actually just walk up to them with the the camera visible but pointed down and just ask them about anything else i just say hey are you from here and then they'll be like how about you and i'm like oh i came in from tokyo but where's your country canada we start chatting what are you doing here where's your country they'll ask me what are you doing here and i say actually i'm making a documentary or whatever uh can i ask you a few questions and interview you nine times out of ten when you've got that little bit of rapport they say yes if you just walk up to somebody when i made the kyoto documentary i was in a rush yeah that was a really good example i'm not very good at doing that i'm not very good at walking up to strangers to be like all right get my video let's go get in the video i'm making a video about chicken and i want your thoughts on chicken and they're like the first time that i did it was the kitakata ramen video that one made me so like anxious and sick because i just walked up to people and i was like hi i'm making a video can i put you can i put you in the video awkward it was so bad but got a lot of kind people what's your favorite thing about aluminum aluminium so that's how we do that and sarah in there saying how does chris's ramen compare to the a5 wagyu i can tell you it doesn't compare and skullcrusher in here saying hey chris are you planning to go to the trash chase podcast it keeps going up sake for christmas special yeah i recorded with them just yesterday so yeah there you go pretty well and jack daniel the seven saying gotta go to sleep but i'll be definitely listening to the archive thank you very much looking forward to that this live stream isn't going to be a super super long one just wanted to do something to kind of wrap up the end of the year with friends which is why we visited doga in dogo and now chris that way we get sick he's been the best guest so far uh this little bottle right here with steam coming out of it stealing sup community norman chris i miss japan postponed twice a summer 2022 in sight where do you want to travel when the world opens up i just want to go home i honestly i was supposed to be in the uk as of like yesterday and it's really like hit me this week i've like just sucked the life out of me a little bit because i haven't gone home in two years now and uh i was really looking forward to just having christmas so i thought the kobe thing would be over and then it wasn't and uh yeah it's just a bit [ __ ] i'm not overly happy at the moment and uh i've still got like three episodes to do for 12 days of christmas i've still got to edit some other videos we're in japan and i'm just saying done with the year i just want to like sit in a room and do nothing and uh but i can't and it's kind of annoying feel a little bit trapped at the moment actually that's just because i'm gonna run with norm love you too yeah no i'm not very happy i'm very happy i i do a good job like uh keeping that off camera how i'm not happy but the thing is like we talked in previous there was a stream where i think you had mentioned something like that and then later on someone jumped in the comments and was like how dare you not be grateful for being able to be in japan but we've talked previously about how being able to go back home is your big reset that's your opportunity to gain some perspective get a little distance from japan and go back and appreciate it all over again from the start it doesn't take a long break but being able to separate yourself from something gives you the opportunity to look at it from an outside perspective again it's not just that though it's just japan is the sort of country you need to get out of um every sort of eight months at least i'd say uh you know in japan you're always on your best behavior you're always very aware of how you're acting and uh and i need to not be like that i need to just let go and um yeah it's two years now just sort of been on my best behavior being like i'm in a library but beyond that beyond that i you know i miss family i miss friends i like the uk the uk is quite good i know it's not perfect but there's lots of good things about it but i'll get through it somehow hopefully things will open up sooner than we think fingers crossed for i [ __ ] i want to believe very strongly that they're just looking at the end of the year knowing that japanese people travel at the end of the year and they want to see how that's going to go and then come spring because there is already news that they've said something like what is it a 40 million target for oversea inbound tourism for next year they've already said in 2020 yeah they've already set an inbound tourism target so you would think that that implies wow yeah one would hold so i just saw a comment chris will be a menace when he goes to the uk i won't be a menace i'll literally just be sitting in a pub eating things i'm just relaxing on a well i was going to say a beach but the uk doesn't really have a winter anyway but honestly i just want to sit in the park eating chills on the beach have a week off and not care it's tough being a youtuber sometimes or a creator influence or whatever you want to call it because you're you know you're always switched on on twitter on facebook instagram youtube in my case patreon as well i like everything it's i'm always focused on something and i just need a a few days maybe a week just nothing yeah then i'll be happy that's right the end of the year i take a week to two weeks just turn everything off just disappear into the mountains for like a week into the mountain to chill out with the bears yeah the one with the beds that's unbearable and rinic i hope i said that right is norm now that you have your boating license will you and chris be making a journey across japan special sailing around the japanese items with you as ship captain special reveal on that later we talked about it in our journey across japan pirate edition norm do you score anything cool from the abandoned coin lockers aloha from honolulu there was a uh there was an abandoned ipad in the coin lockers which was pretty crazy just did a video of following a gentleman around whose job is to come pretty cool yeah coin lockers and there was some crazy stuff yeah lucrative and just because you're reading i've been hoping for a video with norm and noriado oh yeah i think you'd get on really well with them with uh alexi yeah you two get already well i i've been aware of them for so long and haven't had the chance to to do that so it's a good lab and karoon tribbs how are you so good at talking to strangers meanwhile in japan meanwhile are you a youtuber that was my attempt at reading stuff because i'm so good at reading apostrophe dagnabbit i'm naked i'm sleeping i'm tired it's been a long day i ate a big lunch big big cuban sandwich sort of asleep at this point and donald beatty saying i hope you guys are well been watching chris since the hawk was his alarm clock a longtime fan of norm's work thanks you thank you thanks for watching yeah for what almost 10 years now since the lazy since the noisy hawk i don't know what happened to that hawk it was gone one day it just disappeared disappeared into nothing up into a puffer smoke yeah or or dead damn i died really what's the lifespan of a hawk though i uh how long has a [ __ ] uh monir is saying sub community norm and chris miss japan oh i already got that one i was rereading one uh also yeah donald thank you so much donald's been with the the like channel since pretty much the very start he's a tokyo lens mafia tokyo lens mafia huge appreciation and raymond saying ever thought about visiting tsushima i'm weirdly intrigued by it and would love to visit it on route between korea and japan one yeah i mean tsushima obviously made famous by the game goes to tsushima came out uh last year i uh i did look into going there and actually it was part of the itinerary at one point across japan that we did last year or this year uh because in kyushu off just off kyushu but from what i could tell there wasn't really a whole lot in tsushima worth filming there wasn't really much there i'm sure it's a nice place to chill and have a like explore but there wasn't really anything that we could make an interesting video out of so i didn't i took tsushima at the itinerary you go there you stay there on your boat feels like it's one of those places where you'd need to talk to the people and gather the story yeah you'd be perfect for that rock up on your [ __ ] boat like like a mongol mongol invader and uh and take over tsushima yeah you gave me a comment the other day from somebody who's like now that you have your boat license you need to matthew perry this [ __ ] and just open the camera and country back to your mouth so and coming in with one of our last live chats of the day from jessica saying merry christmas could you please say happy birthday to johnny who introduced me to your channels this year brought me a like a magic t-shirt for christmas merry christmas oh happy birthday happy birthday may you have a wonderful oh god i just broke the set happy birthday johnny have a great day enjoy the shirt and uh thank you to everyone that bought a leica magic shirt or for [ __ ] sake [ __ ] this christmas available now in the abroad japan store on teespring fantastic oh [ __ ] and uh mito in here saying good morning lads from a slovakian in lithuania i uh hope to oh i'm losing you you are the worst at reading i really really am there's just so much pressure there's no problem i hope to live in japan two or three years someday i hope you'll make videos about mito in ibaraki i actually have a video about mito in ibaraki along with the shrine in the sea where i started out with a shrine out in the sea there's like a video of me brandishing a a katana a sword thumbnail is that words a gift for norm says he can't say controversy controversial i didn't say controversy it was better than chris could have ever done merry christmas from michigan and hanging out with otto who has been in for like every single stream lately thank you so much youtube is interactive fun but also more taxing want everyone to have a chill and relax and festive season i'm about to jet two holidays in a few hours i hope you all can have some r r as well thanks for the content all the best cheers blokes thank you have a nice holiday so much for that andrew craig saying hey guys i don't know if i can say but i just got an email informing me that i all did not get an interview for the jet program i'm pretty bummed i'm still excited to travel to japan someday the jet program the application interview process is uh questionable not only because i got on it but like the three smartest most suitable people i've met before the jet programme who applied did not get on it one of them was pete donaldson actually yeah i'll do the podcast with him i i don't they're up there on the jet programme they do get a lot of people on who you probably shouldn't be on uh there was 83 teachers uh oh god what the [ __ ] is ludwig doing here his hair oh look he was in my ludwig you're in my dream the other night i dreamt that i was showing you around uh japan really yeah i dreamed i was showing around really you do you know yeah of course i do yeah yeah he was lovely ludwig subscribed to the channel maybe about uh i don't know six months to a year ago and i went through his channel and checked out some of his stuff yeah good luck that's connor c dog va worships the worship connor worships you so much lovely he worships you and well done moving to youtube hope it's all going well mate congratulations we'll show you around soon don't you worry next year we'll make it happen you'll be here very soon ludwig eating some crap ramen it's gonna be great and jack daniel the seven thanks so much joe in here saying hey norman chris just one question who would win in an arm wrestling match i'll [ __ ] you don't might be doing arm wrestling next he made me do an arm wrestle on the live show the other night oh and he annihilated my my right arm's really weak because i'm left-handed so he like nearly ripped my [ __ ] arm off and then my left arm will actually be him i was very happy about there you go yeah very happy about that i think it would be chris is one thousand one star i can't speak once [ __ ] i ate a big sandwich i'm tired of tearing me apart ludwig says it's chris's 1000th studio i have done it help it you just can't help it yeah you just you look at it and anyway logic you can do the 1 000th tour well by the time you get here probably will be the [ __ ] one so with that being said i think we're going to wrap up the stream here just wanted to do a brief one for the end of the year today lovely go to bed as well it's a bit late where you are it's like 2 3 a.m in the morning so huge thanks to chris yeah thanks for coming have a very merry christmas and a happy new year uh he's like my [ __ ] ramen shop is covered in chewed candy that norm couldn't swallow it's in a wrapper it's sitting in a wrap see if it was a candy that tasted like lamb go back and watch him throw that up but thank you norm thank you everyone watching have a great christmas i'm off now to just lay on the floor that sounds fancy that's why doing that it's spectacular and for those of you who haven't seen yet i have released a sugar shamisen plushie it's going to be linked down below that's like my thing of the year i'm so excited that that came out so much work absolutely disgraceful that is linked down below thank you to all of you for an amazing year and you know we will see you again real soon bye for now i'm girls i'm boys and everyone take a little bit of a walk around this game where you go dragging you off around the streets you

Channel: Tokyo Lens Explore

Views: 49,415

Keywords: Japan, Japanese, Livestream, Japan live, Tokyo Lens, Tokyo Lens Explore, Norm Tokyo Lens

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Length: 58min 55sec (3535 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 21 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/DarjanaBRose]

I like how we are getting to see the real Chris in these videos.

[u/Ninjacherry]

Good lord, Chris is always live these days. I don’t know how he finds the time. Or survives in general, he strikes me a someone who works crazy long hours.