英会話スクール、40分の授業で授業料は7000円、講師の時給は...

今回はちょっと長いYouTubeライブですが、わかりやすく話してくれているので、できるところまで聞いてみましょう。

Haters gonna hate.や like a massive roller coaster ride など知っておきたい表現がたくさんです。

JohnはGABAの英会話講師として働いており、雑誌にも何度も取り上げられました。駅前留学とかNOVAうさぎが流行ってた時期ですね。しかし、英会話講師の待遇はひどいもので、授業料は7000円なのに、講師の時給は1400円だったそうです。なかなか聞けない雑誌の裏側の話、YouTuberとしての働き方など、聞いてみてください。

それでは今日もYouTube英語学習を楽しんでいきましょう！

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greetings hello everybody welcome to
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Tokyo it's a really hot day this
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afternoon and this is the only different
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go channel where I'm gonna be
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live-streaming an experience that I had
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in Japan
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one that was so uh frustrating and yet
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was such a good experience and set it up
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the way that I deal with the media gave
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me a different way to look at life it
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was when I got conned by this magazine
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Newsweek Japan and it happened in the
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glorious year of 90s sorry 2007
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that's what twelve years ago this
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happened and since then it's still you
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know being a big part of my experience
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in Japan alright let me go back and
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explain how all of this happened it's
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not every day that you get asked by a
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major magazine like Newsweek to be
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interviewed about the industry that
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you're in why me that's one of the
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things I thought about when they they
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contacted me and I of course said yes
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and what ensued over the next two weeks
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after the interview changed my life and
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it changed the way yet it changed a lot
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of stuff alright let me get into this
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story this is the magazine here this is
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Newsweek Japan from 2007 you can see the
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date right there December 26 2007 it
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just came out like right during the
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holiday season
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alright and you can see it's about Nova
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this is the time where Nova the English
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school failed and this a chi-wai in
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ghoul was the biggest in Japan it took a
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lot of money from customers from
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students and it created a massive
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scandal and they interviewed me about
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this because I have a I was the top
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teacher at an English school one of the
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top teachers I like to think I was the
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one used itll and most of their media
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campaigns to promote them in 2006 and
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2007
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then after this happened I was no longer
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used by them but I thought they were
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interviewing me because they wanted to
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learn about some of the aspects of what
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it takes to be a teacher in Japan one of
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the some of the stuff that is the good
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things because I'm a positive person I
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just thought it was about the positive
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stuff I didn't know is a hit job by the
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media
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all right let's let's run through this
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real quickly I'm gonna show you some of
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the magazines and I'm gonna start from
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the beginning so I used to be a teacher
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at a school called gah bah ga ba it's
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still one of the top English language
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schools because they do something called
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Mon sumin one to one English language
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this is the first magazine I was in in
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2005 I believe 2006 this is about ek
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bakuto
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and things that do any Kappa Kudo for
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people in Japan would be to study
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English and they used me there I am
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stiff with my finger gun I like to be a
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little bit silly you know say come on in
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and check out check out a lot to check
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out my lesson check out the lessons a
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teacher bakoto gaba there's my name
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right there in Japanese and I was used a
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lot and promotional stuff like this it
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got even bigger I start I started
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working this is when I started to work
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for Shueisha I where I started my career
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with Shueisha I don't know if I call it
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a career as a model and I met a lot of
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the directors because when I did these
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shoots this is just one of about a dozen
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magazines that I was in back in 2005 and
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six and seven this is Kimi Morty who is
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a big model for shoe ashes no no and
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more magazines and she came and took my
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lesson and she wrote about how cool of a
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teacher I was did you understand
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yes I see all right so you can see
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here's the process and she really loved
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being a student of mine
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nad GABA I worked for them and it was a
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big deal
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so haha this phone call comes to me from
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a news reporter he was English and he
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was working for a publication called the
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independent I guess it's a UK
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publication and his name may or may not
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be David O McNee turd I'm just saying it
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may or may not be David McNeil yeah we
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said down it at a Starbucks there are
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only three Starbucks and Kings at the
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time it was the one not so far from each
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oh yeah the stationery store I remember
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it very plainly we sat down there for
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over an hour he interviewed me about my
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company about why I was making videos
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about my experience being an English
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teacher in Japan about the things I
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loved about it being the 99% of the time
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it was about this alright then the
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interview finished he closed his book
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closes book and he started to talk to me
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about some of the stuff like how much do
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I get paid this is what he asked me like
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so how much John do you get paid now it
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was disarmed and I was young all right
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I wasn't I I'd never been interviewed by
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major publication like this how much do
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you get paid how much do you work do you
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like your job more - the challenge is
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for it what are they doing wrong things
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like this he started to ask me and the
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interview was over so I was you know
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opinionated because I didn't think I was
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getting a fair deal all the time right
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just a kid
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Who am I I didn't realize that I was the
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face of the company in many fronts and
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he was using me to promote his article
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you know and in the end he didn't use
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any of the 99% of the interview he used
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the last five things that I said how
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much I made how do I feel about the
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company how do I like all those things
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that I would thought we're off the
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record he used those alright the article
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was called I know the media right
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it's not everybody it's just like 90% of
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them so the English it was this article
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was call it was a special report okay
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because it was a big deal when Nova
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failed it was called like Mick English
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for the masses which is pretty much what
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it was and says Nihon know a chi-wah
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it's crazy Japanese English language
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schools
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it's a crazy system and it still is
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today here's the artwork for the article
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you I don't think you can even get this
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online anymore it's super hot here
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alright and I'm gonna put it over in
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this direction so this is a little bit
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less shadow I'm on here's the report
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that starts here's the next page so that
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was a pretty big part of their article I
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was a pretty big part of this article
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here
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alright know the photographer I thought
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it was a bit like wow they're gonna take
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my picture for the newspaper or for the
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magazine that's so cool it took a
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hundred pictures of me in different
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poses around Ginza this is the one that
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they used I looked really angry again
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99.9% the pictures I was smiling and
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being my normal self one picture I think
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it was you know when I was in transition
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between a smile and like swallowing or
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something they got me looking angry and
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I say I say this right they pay me
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fourteen hundred yen or about thirteen
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dollars an hour but they charge seven
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thousand yen per lesson so it's like
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sixty so the customer let's just say
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pays $70 and they gave me $14 so they
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use the rest of it for their business
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and their promotions and sign my name
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down there John Doe American this is
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awful this is right look at this and
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then my names down here if you read it
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you can see the close print on my
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experience and I'm the pitch guy for
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this company and there's GABA GA ba the
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company I work for in print talking
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about it about how awful they are and
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how little they pay and blah blah blah
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the McDonald's of Japan the McDonald's
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of English language
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a huge scandal at the time cuz Nova
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executives walked off with the money
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they didn't just get me they got other
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people some Nova teachers
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he looks pretty angry too poor guy it
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really make us look evil
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there's Nova from back there the know
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about a soggy rabbit from the time they
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make us look so evil don't don't they
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I'd never I've made I don't know
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thousands of productions I've never
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looked so evil before right and look at
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the blur there he had a flash going on
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wow that was a tough day I'm sweating
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because I'm reliving the memory and it's
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like 99 percent humidity in Tokyo
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all right so how did this change my life
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how did you see myself DC Catalonia hey
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John I hope that you were having amazing
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time in Japan I hope that you see and am
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able able to be in Japan for 2020 Summer
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Olympics because I'm thinking of getting
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tickets green from the US Thank You DC
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cut the Loney
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the tokyo olympics tickets are really
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hard to get but I think if you wander on
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the city you're gonna find some all
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right back to the live stream
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how does change my life be featured in a
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national publication about a scandal
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that rocked the country that was in the
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news 24/7 for like a month all right as
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the executives were found hiding in
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buildings with pockets full of cash and
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Here I am on the front page
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alright this publication I didn't I
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didn't know what they were doing so it
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wasn't until I picked up this magazine
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at the newsstand I picked this up at the
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newsstand when I was going home for
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Christmas this is this is how you ruin a
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holiday okay so it came out on a week
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before the actual publication date the
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26th so I think it was like the 18th or
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19th that came out I picked it up at
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Narita Airport and my mouth my jaw my
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jaw hit the floor of the airport and I
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think I cracked it no I didn't nothing
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happened I was shocked
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it might Joe was like I was like oh do I
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have a job when I come back what are
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they gonna do I just filmed I was the
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pitch guy I just filmed 4 episodes of
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their podcasts which was number
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in Japan that had and I also had it by
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the way what I was doing in Japan was
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also podcasting video podcasting so I
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also had the number one and we had the
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number the top five video podcast in
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Japan were mine gah buzz and like the
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Prime Minister of Japan so I was a slaw
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I was a very little big deal in the
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country all right so my jaws on the drum
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I'm I'm dragging my jaw across the
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floors of nutty to airport with this in
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my hand this exact magazine good what do
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I do
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all right my first thought is I'm gonna
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call the head office and just talk with
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them and say it's not my fault and
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before I get on the plane I gotta let
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him know like where this is coming from
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because they got a spin this I may not
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love this company GABA I may not love
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them but they're my employer and I
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respect that and I'm a team player
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except for that you know 20 seconds he
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interviewed me at the end it might not
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have been T player they got me but I
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didn't want to hurt the company cuz it's
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not just about me there's a lot of other
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people working for this company they're
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good people and I didn't want to see the
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company go down they were thinking about
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doing an IPO what I just said had
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damaged their reputation and in in Japan
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reputation is more important than money
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reputation is money all right you have a
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bad reputation you can't make any money
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in Japan you have a good reputation then
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you can always have a job you'll always
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make a living and people will trust you
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so they have to trust me so I thought if
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what would what would somebody else do
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in the same situation
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so I called them right away I still had
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about two hours before my flight it was
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one of the rare times where I got early
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to the airport instead of rushing and I
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called him and I said look I need a and
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they just asked me what happened and
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then they put me through to the vice
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president who's scarier than the CEO
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vice president was a very scary man
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because the first name was Bruce he just
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was he was he seemed like nice on the
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surface but scary inside a little bit I
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don't know and then he asked me what
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happened he said if he was kind of nice
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I guess he was more reserved because
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there's out of his hands
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what can you do it just damage
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controlling I told them exactly what
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happened so they interviewed me for
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about my business about my company about
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my podcasts because they were number one
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and on iTunes Japan they asked me these
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questions about the English language
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about I didn't give him anything about
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the students or anything that was how do
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I say confidential but I did tell them
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at the end off-the-record when they
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closed the books about how much I made
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some of my experiences and some of the
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challenges I see challenges because it's
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a positive way to say garbage about the
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company and oh some of the people who
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watch the show often will know what that
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is I turn it back
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turn it back in a story and the right
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president took it pretty good he just
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said okay I understand that sometimes
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sometimes just happens
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he took it better than I thought because
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there's nothing you can do there's
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nothing you can do but I explained it
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right away and this is so important to
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keeping your job and I told him I
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reminded him that I'd filmed four
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episodes and maybe I'm not the best
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person to be maybe they want to change
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those episodes as soon as possible
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and I I was just really upfront and
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honest with them and I got to keep my
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job that's a good thing about it but I
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know I caused some problem for the
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company and that problem in the
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initially it was a problem okay
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initially well I think initially it was
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a problem because whenever you have to
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get some wind coming in sorry folks we
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go initially was a problem because
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whenever you have an evil looking
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picture like this all right it's not
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gonna be good for the company all right
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and they and they write in the company's
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name it's not gonna be good for the
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company cause millions of people back
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then we're reading this magazine so I
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know it wasn't it wasn't gonna be good
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so the fact that they let me keep my job
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that was sort of a big deal
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all right and I promised that I would
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never do it again the the CEO of the
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company would recommend me to his
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friends and to celebrities I was the one
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who was teaching
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Jers Shepard actors TV talents CEOs of
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major companies we're learning English
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from me in a VIP room in Ginza at the
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Learning Center they called them which
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was a school in the center of Ginza they
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were so I was I was well now so I was
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glad that I could keep my job but my
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career as their pitchman was over I no
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longer would be in any of their
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publications not that that that bothered
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me because I'd been in like you can't
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erase the dozens of PR campaign I was
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already in they didn't even pay me for
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that I don't think yeah I never got paid
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for that it just they said that by being
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in these PR campaigns and showing my
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face I would get more students than it
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was true but still the payment every day
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for working really hard
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I never made more than like $200 a day
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and that was really really like from 7
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a.m. to 11 p.m. I worked and the most I
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would never get was 200 hours day but I
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love the job all right
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I love the job now post post Newsweek
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what happened I don't take credit for it
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I will not take credit for it slightly
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but not very long after this this was
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published GABA raised the wage that
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teachers made from 1,400 to 1,500 yen
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100 yen more an hour per lesson which is
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for 40 minutes
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and I don't take credit for that but I
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do mention it here because I don't know
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something I've always looking for
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something good that would come out of it
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maybe all this hardship and the pressure
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that they got for such a low wage they
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took 7000 yen from a student and they
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only gave the teachers 1,400 yen and
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they raised it up like 3%
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I gotta said that that's a win so that
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was something that was good but not too
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long after this I ended up leaving and
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then focusing on just doing my show and
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it was the start of about two years of
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my life that were the most challenging
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where I was in a transition I still made
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videos for clients I still was making
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videos but I was I was not making a lot
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of money
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company was doing extremely poorly and I
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didn't have this job anymore as a bike
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goal it was sort of like a part-time job
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until I can get my company launched but
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I learned a lot of stuff one don't trust
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the media ever if the microphone is off
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and you say it's off the record you need
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like a lawyer present or you need your
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own microphone so always record it
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yourself if I'm a reporter put the
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microphone down you also put a
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microphone down and say off the record
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and then you have yourself recording so
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if they ever publish something you can
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sue them okay I think that if I had done
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that Newsweek would have been sued or
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they wouldn't have published it or they
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wouldn't have used me in the publication
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they flat-out used me in this episode
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and to hurt the company right so bring a
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microphone and record it yourself any
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time anybody for any reason a lawyer a
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reporter a friend talking about
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sensitive information make sure you have
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a copy yourself if not just record it
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with a video - everybody has a
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smartphone put it on a tripod and say
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I'm gonna record this by video and you
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never know you couldn't use that copy I
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wish I had that the second thing is to
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make sure that you understand the
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parameters of the interview more clearly
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like what exactly do you want to do what
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exactly you're gonna ask
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give me the questions in advance
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anything that you can get from the media
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in advance is very very helpful and if
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they don't ultimately use you then you
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probably we're gonna be used in a bad
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way anyways now is there anything that
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like in Japan this is a big deal all
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right
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as I said reputation is more important
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than the money if this is America we
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have something called Redemption right
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if you are a singer I'm not gonna say
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any names Britney Spears you can go to
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rehab and be come back stronger and I
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think that that's really great you can
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make mistakes you can fall in America
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and come back stronger and have a second
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chance
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often in Japan you can't it's a country
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where it's very rare people who fall or
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do something bad they don't get a second
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chance you're you're done because
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there's a dozen people behind you that
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are talented or they can do the same
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thing or
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or you know they're very good people to
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its next man up next woman up if it's a
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talent agency I guarantee you're not
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gonna be with that agency for more than
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a couple of months they'll find the most
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convenient time to let you go and then
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yeah good luck finding a job anywhere
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ever but this is I think was a big
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learning experience for me and I started
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this show this is in 2007 and I started
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this 2007 2008 and I started only in
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Japan and I really started it in 2012
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about a about a year after the tsunami
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hit when Japan's tourism was dying so
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that was a really tough four years of my
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life after that but I learned a lot and
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yeah I won't do it again
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I know there's other there's a lot of
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other advice I can give you if you have
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any questions it's a hard story to learn
20:28
from rights and rights and burning
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absolutely if you have any questions you
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can ask me right here in the live chat
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this is a live stream or you can leave
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it in the comments below I'm really
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happy to answer it about this yeah it
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was pretty bad
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the exchange it was pretty bad for
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Americans ten years ago as well yeah
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that's true yeah they would after the
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leave after Lehman Brothers crashed in
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2008 this is 2007 it wasn't very long
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after this that everything was going on
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like the economies of the world were
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crashing all right and this is such a
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big deal in Japan this is part of it
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when like every kid in Japan every but
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don't and kid was studying at Nova I was
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huge it's at every station front it's
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like the biggest thing it's the
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McDonald's of English language was
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everywhere I think they had as many
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locations as McDonald's you'd eat a
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burger and then go take an English
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lesson it's like ten dollars a lesson
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for in a group of twenty or something
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it's a big deal and I didn't want to be
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the face of that but his political stand
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an issue what do you mean by that
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DP recording is last line of defense
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yeah I think you should always have a
21:42
recording how did this incident affect
21:43
your next media
21:44
interview Jim I so I think I could get a
21:50
sense this is a really good question I
21:53
don't and I tell you to take a recording
21:55
of it and I Pro I didn't do that until
21:58
maybe a couple of years ago I didn't
22:00
start putting down my iPhone and start
22:02
taking recordings but what happened was
22:05
in the next interview I could sense what
22:08
their what the what the publication was
22:10
and I could sense what they wanted out
22:12
of the interview I just after you have a
22:14
bad experience you become a little bit
22:16
more cautious and you can sense what
22:18
they want and anyways there wasn't
22:20
anything big that I was doing after I
22:21
left this English school that warranted
22:24
being in interviews until I started only
22:26
in Japan and that's a whole nother story
22:29
this is a whole nother story that I can
22:31
engage you with in another live stream
22:34
it happened in 2013 or 2014 where I made
22:38
the front page of a major national
22:41
newspaper because the Prime Minister had
22:44
just called for an increase of tourists
22:47
to 20 million this lofty goal because
22:49
Japan was so low in tourism and only in
22:52
Japan was one of the main videos on
22:55
YouTube and I'd had two or three viral
22:58
hits including the Japanese amazing
23:00
toilet and the Japanese vending machines
23:02
exposed this is like way in the
23:05
beginning of the only in Japan they put
23:07
me on the front page in the newspaper
23:08
explaining what I did and then I started
23:11
to become a regular analyst not a talent
23:14
not through an agency directly between
23:16
me and the TV stations and analysts to
23:20
tell them about tourism to Japan and
23:23
that's that was a second part of my
23:26
media life that started in 2013 2014
23:29
it's now five six years ago but I
23:32
learned a lot from this this made me a
23:35
man because it's it really hurt me I
23:38
mean look at the picture it's like this
23:41
is it just not me
23:42
I do look younger this on me I look at
23:45
did they Photoshop that how could they
23:48
make my eyes even darker look at that
23:50
it's awful
23:51
I get paid fourteen hundred yen and the
23:54
company makes seven thousand yen
23:56
John Dobb
24:00
sure it's in my defense it's true it's
24:05
true story yeah I got a lot I got so
24:08
many stories it could be the last 21
24:10
years as I said have been incredible
24:12
it's been like a massive roller coaster
24:14
ride so there's no end to these to the
24:18
drama but most histories are really good
24:21
but this one was won in a chapter that
24:24
I'll never forget
24:25
and going home on that airplane to the
24:28
United States again like I got this at
24:31
nutty to airport picked it up and I'm
24:34
reading it again and again on the flight
24:36
it's a 14-hour flight I'm out of
24:38
communique for 14 hours until I get to
24:41
New York and I touched down in my emails
24:45
I think good I don't think I had a
24:48
smartphone yet it's a 2007 I don't think
24:51
I had an iPhone yet or I did and I when
24:55
I got home the emails I just had a ton
24:57
of them nothing from Newsweek no
25:00
official apology but I learned that you
25:03
cannot trust these news media people to
25:05
tell the truth this also happened when I
25:10
was in Europe in 1998 let me take you
25:13
back another 10 years I was in Hungary I
25:16
got a visa to go to Yugoslavia to Serbia
25:19
which was a country that was being
25:21
bombed by NATO and I went there the day
25:25
before a bomb was dropped on Novi Sad
25:28
and it was fine like I didn't I never
25:30
really saw hold on a second
25:35
just I I'm always impressed with these
25:37
boats I don't know that's a hotel Oona
25:40
hey you look like they're from another
25:43
dimension the space boats yeah pause
25:47
pause for a moment for that I'm just
25:49
gonna actually I'm just gonna walk
25:50
because it's cooler this way so yeah I
25:54
was I was in I got us a visa to go to
25:57
Serbia 1998 and it didn't I didn't
26:00
really see a lot I think the media over
26:03
blue what was going on over there
26:04
there's some bad stuff happening in in
26:06
the former Yugoslavia but I don't think
26:08
it was as bad as the media always made
26:10
it out to be because I remember arriving
26:12
in a Novi Sad and everyone's everyone
26:16
was just so happy so friendly and then I
26:18
went to Zagreb in Croatia and Slovenia
26:20
and this Croatians and slovenians were
26:24
talking about the experience because
26:25
yeah it's pretty bad but it's not quite
26:26
as bad as the media is bringing it out
26:28
to be it's not like a warzone because I
26:31
was hitchhiking with some Croatians and
26:33
Serbians were picking us up there were
26:35
Serbians picking up Croatians and
26:37
slovenians who are at war with each
26:39
other and they're like yeah that's not a
26:40
big deal oh my god the media kind of
26:44
exaggerated Sal ittle bit but that's
26:47
been my experience is that I take
26:49
everything that you take everything this
26:51
comes from personal experience everybody
26:53
all right and this comes this is why I'm
26:55
not such a political person why I try to
26:58
avoid politics the things that you you
27:00
see and I'm not gonna reiterate fake
27:04
news and all that I think that that's a
27:06
I think that that's happened but I don't
27:08
think it's as prevalent but I could see
27:10
why the president would call them out
27:11
more often because it covers everything
27:13
and it's like as an insurance policy but
27:16
I see a lot of fake stuff in there and I
27:19
can I can understand that because I've
27:21
experienced it myself they do what the
27:25
media will do what they can to sell a
27:26
story on this on the other side there
27:28
are very responsible journalists but I
27:31
know that they have to it's a business
27:32
too and same with youtubing actually
27:37
YouTube's a business I see more and more
27:39
like sponsored ads Squarespace and now
27:44
I'm giving them free airtime like
27:45
everyone's adding stuff in it's a
27:46
business you
27:47
to make a living out of this stop just
27:50
like the reporter did and I don't fault
27:52
him that's just his way
27:55
I'm very forgiving because there's
27:58
nothing I could do with this at this
28:00
stage except for learn from it and if I
28:02
ever meet mr. McNeal again I've I
28:05
wouldn't shake his I would shake his I
28:08
would what would I do
28:09
I wouldn't spit up now I'd smile and say
28:14
how he's doing and how's his life and
28:16
then what's changed since the last time
28:18
I saw him and do everything except for
28:19
talk about Newsweek so what's your new
28:22
project mr. McNeil that's probably what
28:25
I would talk about and I probably would
28:28
be more friends with him than I would
28:29
with the company that at that time I was
28:32
a part of once you leave the company I
28:34
don't have too much loyalty towards them
28:37
anymore yeah there you go
28:41
there's a story what TV station can you
28:44
recommend DP I I don't recommend any
28:47
look I think if you're gonna this is my
28:50
two cents on this I don't watch any of
28:52
the opinionated shows we're at the
28:55
talking head every time and say that
28:57
this is the person you trust I don't I
28:59
think you can trust people because
29:00
reporters are people but you have to
29:01
trust the institution that's behind them
29:03
as well it's the reputation of the
29:05
institution and the editor that is most
29:08
important not just the reporter this is
29:10
how I feel and I I think since I left
29:15
America it's just become very it's
29:19
become even more segmented and it's sort
29:21
of heartbreaking for me to see and I
29:23
don't get into the politics I don't I
29:25
never ever vote for president on party
29:27
for example I don't I I would say I'm
29:30
neither left nor right I'm like that
29:32
when it comes to president when I vote I
29:34
will listen to what everything that they
29:36
have to say and vote for the best person
29:38
that's how I do it never for a party
29:41
automatically because the job is not
29:43
follow party lines all the time it
29:45
follows the ability to get things done
29:47
and work with people and do the best
29:50
that's that the best who is the best
29:53
person to get things done whether you
29:55
agree with them or not sometimes
29:57
and that's always the lot the way of
30:00
thinking I go into a presidential
30:01
election so I'm not gonna tell you I
30:03
voted for and I definitely I'm not no
30:06
I'm not any party yeah that's just
30:08
that's just how I feel
30:10
um and when it comes to TV news I I
30:13
wouldn't if I were you I would just
30:15
watch them all and if you hate one or
30:18
the other if you hate like MSNBC or you
30:20
hate Fox News then you maybe you're
30:23
missing the point
30:24
you just take whatever they say with a
30:25
grain of salt on both sides and
30:28
something whatever's in the middle is
30:29
probably what's true and I think in this
30:31
article and this is what I'm gonna end
30:34
you with right here in this article I
30:36
even made a copy because I don't know
30:38
how long forever
30:40
it's still kind of cool I kind of like
30:43
having been used because it's it's just
30:46
this this cool thing that happened in my
30:47
past but I'm gonna leave you this okay
30:49
this is this is my takeaway my ultimate
30:52
takeaway whatever is there are some
31:02
truths in this all right
31:04
the way that mr. David McNeil wrote this
31:07
article it was a hit job it really was
31:10
but with all hit jobs there is an ounce
31:12
of truth in it and I think for everybody
31:15
who's reading this article as I just
31:17
said you should read both sides of it
31:19
and find what's in the middle what are
31:22
the things and the Articles that are the
31:24
consistent things between the left and
31:26
the right and the the far left and the
31:28
far light right and the center left and
31:30
the center right and I don't think
31:31
anybody's really in the dead center
31:32
maybe I am but I think in the center of
31:35
all of those things is probably the
31:37
truth and that's what I've learned
31:38
that's my take away from this because it
31:40
is true exactly the caption here I did
31:43
truly make 1,400 yen per lesson which is
31:45
like $14 and the company truly did make
31:48
$70 from the students 7,000 yen and I
31:51
truly was underpaid because they
31:54
recommended me and I was their pitch guy
31:56
and I never got paid for being in any of
31:58
these magazine modeling shoots or
32:00
anything like that but I was grateful
32:01
anyways because I know that the Japanese
32:04
system is that if someone trusts you
32:06
that's actually a good thing and in the
32:09
end you will do better
32:10
from it then Sten saying no and having
32:12
nothing come to you at least I got my
32:15
lessons are always full because the
32:17
system at this English school was that a
32:19
popular teachers got a lot of money a
32:22
lot more money and non popular teachers
32:24
if you stunk then nobody would take your
32:26
lesson and you have a reputation of
32:28
being a bad teacher
32:29
I was always booked like my schedule was
32:31
released and I was booked solid for the
32:33
entire month that's how that's how
32:35
incredible it was and how quickly it
32:38
just dissolved after this but my
32:41
takeaway is whatever's in the middle
32:42
read more than one publication and
32:45
whatever's in the middle is probably the
32:46
truth and I think that that goes even
32:50
today in 2019 yeah any other questions
32:56
just you tubers like John reading
32:59
newspapers I don't know what that means
33:04
this David Neal has a Twitter account go
33:06
write him a nice tweet I yeah don't
33:09
bother him too much just say that I'm
33:13
grateful for the lesson and this is my
33:15
message to mr. McNeal
33:18
hey mr. McNeal I'm now a youtuber
33:23
we've got a million million subscribers
33:27
150,000 on this channel and what I have
33:30
to say to you is that is thank you
33:32
because you introduced me to the reality
33:35
of what the media is today and I'm
33:38
grateful for the chance to have learned
33:40
it from from you you were very nice to
33:43
me in the interview I never heard back
33:47
from you after the hit job but I'm still
33:52
very grateful for the experience and for
33:54
you contacting me and and for giving me
33:59
the story to tell the people all right
34:01
I'm very thankful for you to do for the
34:03
chance to tell this story I tell that to
34:06
miss mr. McNeal CII John dobbed thank
34:09
you for the opportunity to tell an
34:11
amazing story about an interview from 12
34:14
years ago where you conned him into
34:16
making a hit job on Nova
34:21
and maybe here we maybe he remembers it
34:23
the other way but ask him for his tapes
34:25
and if he does deny it ask him for his
34:28
tapes and see if he has anything that I
34:31
said on the record he probably doesn't
34:33
have him anymore
34:34
I don't I would have deleted them right
34:36
away shredder hammer what do you mean
34:38
tapes hammer we had digital cassette
34:40
tapes back then but a very interesting
34:44
time in my life any last questions hi
34:48
from Arizona if you do a couple of notes
34:50
here I have a discord server if your
34:53
gamer or you're not download the discord
34:55
app the link isn't is gonna be provided
34:57
by in the in the comments as well as by
35:00
our moderators right now do go in there
35:03
and follow I usually will do a sometimes
35:06
telephone chats but I often go in there
35:08
and talk to people in the chats and
35:10
answer questions in our discord server
35:12
it's free to use for everybody and it's
35:14
24/7 only in Japan if you're interested
35:16
in coming to Japan a lot of the people
35:18
in there have been to Japan and will
35:19
give you advice so I think it's it's a
35:21
it's a place where you can get some
35:22
advice you've about 2,500 really great
35:25
community members in there
35:28
yeah and if you want to support the
35:30
channel there's patreon and I'm gonna be
35:32
adding emoji into the livestream that's
35:36
a message to our moderators nosh Ramsey
35:38
silent Jim purple bandit everybody I'm
35:41
gonna be adding emojis and I'm adding
35:44
the sponsorship thing through the
35:45
channel through the go and it's not
35:48
gonna be really expensive stuff just the
35:50
ability to get special emoji and you get
35:53
badges to be cool I don't know people
35:55
said it was something that would be
35:56
really fun some I think it was fun and
36:00
it helps it helps to promote the to
36:03
chant it helps to keep the channel going
36:04
the other thing is that way I had a lot
36:08
of other news there's another new
36:10
episode in the main channel it's gonna
36:11
drop this week on conveyor belt sushi
36:14
but from a different angle
36:16
just son subscribes thanks nosh whatever
36:20
some people aren't always happy what are
36:23
you gonna do and what else is going on
36:26
in the world of only in Japan I'll be
36:29
making a trip with Kenai to Awaji Jima
36:32
and yoga Prefecture as
36:34
well as going back to Niigata and doing
36:37
doing another trip I think down to see
36:39
Kevin Reilly our friend with the beard
36:41
the king of Osaka and Kansai once again
36:44
in the middle of the month next month so
36:47
it's gonna be extremely busy over the
36:50
next and over the next 60 days for only
36:53
in Japan the summer heat is starting to
36:55
break a little bit it's still hot if
36:56
you're in the Sun but I can tell you
36:59
that when autumn hits that's when I get
37:02
super super busy because yeah haters
37:05
gonna hate that's right not it's it I'm
37:08
gonna get super busy because there's
37:09
just so much stuff to cover and it's
37:12
it's an endless story that's coming to
37:14
me I might go to tokyo game show as well
37:17
on the 12 which is the media day because
37:20
there's some more stories with gaming
37:22
the industry has changed a lot and i
37:24
want to cover that again so it might be
37:26
a tokyo game show and in September as
37:29
well I think I think it's September 14th
37:32
and 15th is for the for the people and
37:35
12th 12 and 13 for the press and I'll be
37:38
at the press day not the people day
37:40
because I got to do some other stuff
37:43
that's at tokyo game show takes place at
37:46
Makuhari and qi by every year so i'm
37:49
looking for or two that it's been about
37:50
two three years since the last time I
37:52
went to Tokyo Game Show and that's about
37:55
it
37:55
can we see Kenai dancing again yes yes
37:59
we were talking about Kenai dancing
38:02
again for us she did that about a year
38:04
and a half ago as I introduced who she
38:07
was and what she does it was a beautiful
38:09
dance that she choreographed the night
38:12
before which is incredible she's really
38:14
good at dancing and that's what she does
38:15
she's a teacher for ballet and
38:17
contemporary dance to children so we're
38:21
trying to get get her to choreograph
38:22
another dance for us to take place at
38:24
the same place and I might invite people
38:26
at a meet-up to watch her dance I
38:28
haven't told her that part yet she's
38:30
Susu but but we're also I'm also
38:32
planning to do a meet-up it has been
38:35
that long Carlos it's been that long and
38:36
I'm also planning to do a meet-up for
38:38
those that are gonna be in Japan in
38:40
September the end of September probably
38:42
the last week of September if you're in
38:44
Tokyo at that time then we will do a
38:47
meet-up so you get a chance to hang
38:48
a little bit I haven't done any this
38:49
year the next Lutton midnight snack run
38:54
I will do this week you could it's just
38:57
imminent it will happen because it's the
39:00
it's been a while and I'm hungry and
39:02
I've been on a diet to be honest with
39:05
you that's another thing I've been
39:06
trying to I've had knee problems so I
39:08
haven't been able to run it run as much
39:10
and it exercises much I put on some
39:13
weight and my knees are feeling better
39:16
so it's time to to eat more and exercise
39:19
more so any plans for October October
39:23
November the rest of this year I'm not
39:25
really sure but I do have a lot of ideas
39:28
that I've planned and I'm just waiting
39:30
for confirmations on location shoots
39:32
before I go and shoot an episode of only
39:34
in Japan I usually get permission to
39:35
film or I work with the people on the
39:39
other side to make sure the episode is
39:41
accurate and informational so I'm just
39:43
waiting on a couple of things the
39:44
scheduled for September is pretty much
39:47
set October November is not but December
39:50
Connie and I are probably making a trip
39:52
somewhere to do some meetups meet people
39:55
we're not sure if it's gonna be like
39:56
Hawaii Europe or back in the US Montreal
40:01
again Canada we're not sure yet
40:04
but it'll be on the discord server
40:07
patreon Facebook ever you'll find out
40:09
whenever I go anywhere Tahiti would be
40:11
nice I've I was in Tahiti in 2002 for
40:14
Christmas know the new year I spent new
40:16
year Bora Bora 2002 in in Tahiti that
40:21
was pretty amazing time I was camping I
40:23
couldn't afford the hotel so they let me
40:25
pitch a tent for $20 a night it's pretty
40:28
interesting experience I will be
40:31
attending the 2020 Olympics I'm just
40:33
answering your questions at this at this
40:34
point of the livestream I will be
40:36
attending that the 2020 Olympics will I
40:38
be going inside any of the venues I
40:40
don't know I didn't get any tickets I
40:42
struck out but that just means there's
40:46
other opportunities
40:52
like in Tokyo so you can guarantee be
40:55
guaranteed that I'll be filming events
40:57
all around for the go channel live
40:58
streaming it finding 5g points to get
41:01
amazing signal speeds to you an HD live
41:05
so you can see you're gonna see some
41:06
changes did you you just use your phone
41:09
yeah for my equipment I can't really
41:12
turn it around and show you but right
41:13
now I'm using the DJI Osmo 3 gimbal
41:18
iPhone XS the smaller one and a
41:21
wide-angle lens to give you a better
41:24
bigger field of view yeah the wide lens
41:29
is pretty useful but it's kind of bulky
41:31
in a pain in the neck too to balance out
41:33
the phone so I'm looking forward to the
41:35
new smartphones with wide lenses in them
41:38
cuz I think nobody wants to see you like
41:40
like right in your face I think you need
41:43
a wide point of view for for youtubing
41:46
it's not a beautiful look when you get
41:50
into somebody's face like this you want
41:52
to see as much as the picture as
41:54
possible will you be able to get the
41:58
coveted Press Pass for the Olympics the
42:01
thing about the Olympics and this is a
42:02
message to any of the youtubers in Japan
42:04
that are thinking about covering the
42:06
Olympics it doesn't matter how many
42:08
subscribers you have or your agency the
42:11
rights for the Olympics all of the
42:13
events are purchased by in Japan NHK and
42:19
NBC and internationally so actually
42:23
you're not allowed to broadcast live
42:25
this opening ceremony with your
42:27
smartphone technically so for if you get
42:29
a press pass it has to be you're
42:32
probably just gonna be a writer or
42:33
photographer but you cannot do the how
42:38
do I say like video like live-streaming
42:42
it would be very very not possible for
42:44
the opening ceremony in the closing
42:45
ceremony or even some of the events so
42:47
it will just be right nos our moderator
42:50
right send OSH abroad right send it'll
42:52
just be taken down by NBC and you'll
42:53
probably get a copyright strike we all
42:56
know I think in advance that it's it's
42:58
not the best thing to do
42:59
however it's gonna be these stories
43:01
around the venue and the athletes after
43:03
the events that a
43:04
available I got in trouble broadcasting
43:07
from a judo livestream at the judo World
43:10
Cup last year and I I just had the
43:14
events going on in the background as I
43:16
was filming myself and they asked me to
43:18
turn it off and to take it down and
43:20
they'd invited me I wasn't sure what I
43:22
was doing there she asked that in
43:25
advance too but that you won't be able
43:28
to if you're a youtuber you won't be
43:30
able to video the events and it'll just
43:34
give you a copyright strike if you're
43:36
discovered it's a game of Russian
43:39
Roulette I guess Taylor Mac remembers to
43:42
judo livestream that was pretty cool to
43:43
go and see but nothing really came out
43:45
of it I was hoping that I would get like
43:47
a job being able to introduce the
43:49
background of Judo to you but I don't
43:52
know they seemed a little bit
43:54
uncoordinated with this I met some good
43:58
people though I met some good people had
44:00
a good time with Kevin Reilly yeah um
44:04
I'm with the phones check out one plus
44:07
it is it I think there's gonna be more
44:09
in 2020 I'm probably gonna get another
44:12
smartphone other than an apple but I
44:16
might get another Apple anyways this
44:17
fall because if the lenses are wide
44:20
again this is what I do this is my job
44:22
so having this camera is a tool that
44:26
makes money for me this is my job so
44:29
it's it's an expense and we I get enough
44:34
super chats that I should be able to
44:35
bring you the highest possible quality
44:37
of signal and the highest quality of
44:41
coloring and phone and angle that's why
44:44
I have the newest gimbal and the best
44:45
wide-angle lenses available so you get
44:48
the best I guess that's a write-off I
44:50
guess you can call it that because it's
44:52
an expense right if you are in this as a
44:55
occupation youtubing then you better and
44:58
you're doing this full-time then you
44:59
better put invest in yourself if you're
45:02
making money you have to invest in it or
45:04
else people aren't gonna support you
45:06
they have to see that you're you're
45:07
using the money to grow that's why I
45:10
have Hana who's working with me I have
45:13
another editor who is helping me with
45:16
setting
45:17
of the the videos he's in a couple of
45:19
them for me that have a heaven released
45:21
but yeah these are it not expenses
45:25
assets I guess you can call that yeah
45:27
but the things you pay for their assets
45:29
that you build from that's a better way
45:31
to put it assets unjust expensive oh
45:35
thank you photo look Hawaii I appreciate
45:38
that
45:38
these live these super chats going to
45:40
supporting my wife as well I think that
45:43
that's probably when they go especially
45:45
when Ramsey silent super chats and when
45:47
I'm on a location does go straight
45:50
into buying like flowers and candy and
45:53
boxes of sweets to say hey honey and I
45:56
and and Ramsey silent was never here
46:00
he's someone a lot of the people are
46:04
watching my back to make sure that
46:05
although I spent a lot of time on this
46:07
job that I also focus on my home life
46:12
and I take care of my health and I never
46:15
forget my wife and I never will but it's
46:19
really nice that our community also does
46:22
too because my wife is also a part of
46:24
the live streams she's part of the
46:26
series only in Japan go so I appreciate
46:28
that appreciate that very much
46:32
how much do mobile plans cost what is
46:36
even a super chat Joseph foster Frost
46:39
writes in it's a it's the ability I
46:42
think somebody just super chatted here
46:44
Anil Rivera writes in here today's my
46:46
birthday
46:47
and getting in note 10 as a gift so
46:50
anneal happy birthday big shout out to
46:52
you I'm so glad that we can celebrate
46:54
this together I should be giving you a
46:57
super job today but I appreciate the
46:59
support I hope that you enjoy your note
47:02
10 plus that's a pretty cool that's a
47:05
pretty cool device let me know how it is
47:07
actually I'd love to get some feedback
47:09
on that yeah super chat is an ability
47:13
where you can give a Creator money and
47:15
it also gives you a chance to highlight
47:17
what you're saying so I don't miss it
47:19
too and it makes an impact we have some
47:23
amazing supporters who have give big
47:25
super chats that shock-and-awe
47:28
our audience sometimes and
47:30
so cool because it makes us drop our
47:33
jaws in a positive way and like what
47:34
just happened
47:36
that's what I love about live streaming
47:37
anything can happen like that guy that
47:43
guy these guys could just fall off or be
47:46
eaten by a shark that could happen well
47:49
probably not but it good cuz we're live
47:53
or hit a boat but that didn't happen
47:58
just saying live is live is fun life is
48:03
fun and another one I'll tell you I'll
48:06
tell you failed offerings no one will
48:08
drop that amount of money on a live
48:09
stream
48:10
it's just unless you like booty pie or
48:12
something for looking for love Head of
48:15
maggoty would get it get it
48:17
I always if I appreciate it um I I was
48:20
hesitant for a very long time to to
48:22
activate something called the sponsor
48:24
button and I'm gonna talk about that in
48:26
another live stream I guess join or
48:29
sponsor or I'd rather call it just
48:33
another way to make the live streams
48:35
more fun and to generate more revenue
48:38
out of out of this as well because you
48:41
never know
48:43
I remember in it in a Twitter post there
48:46
was another youtuber in Japan who is
48:49
who's a little bit critical of me and
48:52
their moderators for always posting the
48:55
patreon link right like I'm begging for
48:58
money and that's not the case at all but
49:00
I will tell you that YouTube is a very
49:01
competitive platform and all the
49:03
youtubers are agree with me on this you
49:06
want to continuously grow what you have
49:11
you have to grow or else right now a lot
49:16
of celebrities in Japan are starting to
49:17
become youtubers a lot of celebrities in
49:19
the US are starting to become youtubers
49:21
and it's becoming even more competitive
49:22
it will never stop being competitive and
49:25
that's what's great about YouTube
49:26
anybody anytime can go in and become a
49:28
youtuber but it also requires if you're
49:31
gonna do this full-time you know a
49:33
living so you have to find creative ways
49:36
to eke out livings and I say eke out
49:39
because I know that there's other
49:41
creators that aren't doing as well but I
49:44
think if you keep at it like the
49:48
beginning of this career was hard like
49:51
as I said I had four years after this
49:53
article pouring here's where I was
49:55
making like less than $10,000 a year all
49:58
right
49:58
I was really starving and I worked my
50:02
butt off and that's that's how you kind
50:04
of succeed I guess it's this that's
50:07
something I took from America I think
50:09
like anything is possible
50:11
right and that's do that if I see too
50:15
often people people are very negative on
50:17
the US a little bit too much but I see
50:19
the positive thing is that there's
50:21
always hope there's always a chance
50:23
that's is the way I feel and I took that
50:25
and even with the hard times it still
50:27
kind of stayed positive and and now I'm
50:30
where I am and now you have to grow that
50:32
not maintain it you have to grow it you
50:34
have to continuously grow and move
50:35
forward evolve make it fresh for the
50:38
viewer make it an improved experience I
50:41
hope that makes sense to you
50:42
thank you David Neil cuz I learned that
50:44
I learned that from this experience it
50:47
all started with Newsweek Japan
50:49
why don't you do sponsorship videos like
50:52
many of the others um I don't know I
50:55
think I think America Thank You America
50:59
Jenner is - do not I gotta tell you
51:02
Americans are the most generous people
51:04
in the world and with with charities I
51:07
think the government gives us pretty
51:10
good but when it comes to to charities
51:12
and tipping and taking care of everybody
51:14
the Americans do a really good job of
51:16
that of each other I think and well you
51:19
don't hear a lot of stories like that
51:21
wish there was some more positive stuff
51:23
Joshua hard work always pays off gesture
51:26
Skidmore thanks so much
51:27
absolutely does yeah so you're always
51:31
getting better and better and that's
51:33
that's what you have to do as I get
51:35
older and older and you have to become
51:38
more competitive
51:39
I don't do sponsorship sponsors control
51:41
the direction of the video nosh writes
51:43
in here and I agree with Nagy I don't
51:45
know what the future is gonna be but I
51:47
think it's I have grown pretty well
51:52
since I started because of a recipe that
51:56
I put the viewers first I think I I work
52:01
hard on each video almost to like almost
52:04
to the point where I'd get very little
52:06
sleep because I want you to have a good
52:08
experience and I can make I make money
52:12
off of that mostly my biggest source of
52:15
income is through patreon that's that's
52:19
the biggest source of income fan
52:20
generated and that connection that I
52:22
have with the viewers and maybe you get
52:24
through the Super chats is is that's the
52:27
most important thing to me so I I don't
52:30
have a problem with when a creator you
52:32
know does an ad in the middle of it if
52:34
they do it especially in a creative way
52:36
which I think nauseous also showed me
52:39
before or when some of the other
52:41
moderators have shown any creative ways
52:43
that other youtubers are adding in the
52:44
ads you don't just stop and do it openly
52:47
you would you would do it in a creative
52:48
way that I might do that but the bottom
52:51
line is this if it's not a value to the
52:55
viewer then it's a waste of time if
52:58
anything is not a value to the person on
53:00
the other side who's watching this don't
53:02
do it it's not it's not important I told
53:04
this to Jennifer said if you're gonna do
53:05
a live stream it has to be something
53:07
that's not important just to you but it
53:09
has a value to whoever's watching it
53:10
because that's why they're watching it
53:12
it's just it's just a simple it's so
53:14
simple right David Keith David keyword
53:17
is here hey John and and nosh and UFO
53:20
Bob and Ramsey silent and and hello Hyde
53:22
Jim 821 how you doing build offerings
53:27
pledge of allegiance to oh you bet I you
53:32
you will never attain
53:33
the American out of me and if you're you
53:38
know German if you're South African if
53:40
you're French
53:41
if you're Korean we would never expect
53:44
out of you either wherever you are in
53:45
the world the country that you were born
53:47
in and raised in you should be you
53:50
should have pride and you should have
53:51
some pride in that all right and when
53:55
you yeah and I don't know that's just
53:59
you should be proud and proud in who you
54:01
are and where you came from even if it's
54:03
not something that's that's good that's
54:06
who you are right and you are everybody
54:09
evolves from that I'm still John but I'm
54:12
American and that's that's important to
54:15
me ah
54:17
last question I've tried to do these the
54:20
reason why I live streams by the way I a
54:22
little bit longer is because people are
54:23
getting the notifications later and if
54:26
you watch this and play back you going
54:27
god I couldn't stand taking an hour the
54:30
reason why is because I usually will set
54:32
aside an hour for the live stream and
54:34
people get the notifications at various
54:36
times we usually get about 650 700 and
54:41
depending on the topic like a thousand
54:43
viewers I'm happy to see new trade
54:45
agreements with Japan yeah you know I
54:48
politically I'm not I I watch the news
54:50
but I try to stay out of it I'm just
54:52
kind of hurt with what's going on
54:54
between Korea and Japan right now it's
54:57
for me personally I don't like the
54:58
situation I think so much more as
55:01
possible if the two countries can put
55:02
the past behind them and asking for
55:05
apologies from people from a generation
55:07
that are gone is not it's not a way to
55:10
move on from it it's too much what Korea
55:12
is asking for and too much hey what was
55:15
that what happened in the past is in the
55:17
past you have to put that behind and
55:19
move on and it's better for the people
55:21
and if your pride is that high then
55:24
nothing good comes from it then becomes
55:26
a sin I think you're one of the evil
55:28
sins I just watched that movie seven in
55:29
the background while was editing a video
55:31
I think that's a pride is one of the
55:33
seven deadly sins you can take it too
55:35
far
55:35
um okay can't we all just get along yeah
55:40
you know can't we all just get along a
55:43
little bit better I
55:45
I'll take that to the to the next stage
55:47
can we all just get along a little
55:49
better all right
55:51
can't wait just a little better and a
55:54
Korean should have some pride because
55:56
they had they have a long history and
55:58
some amazing food and there's some
56:00
pretty incredible culture and they work
56:02
really hard in Korea I have a lot of
56:05
critical things to say what's going on
56:06
but I have some wonderful things to say
56:08
because I've been there many times so uh
56:11
it was a country where I have negative
56:13
stuff to say about don't don't write in
56:17
that don't try to instigate either
56:20
internet the past can hurt you can
56:25
either run from it or learn from it
56:26
exactly fields offerings I think we
56:28
learned from it we move on Japan is a
56:31
pacifist Constitution and if you keep
56:34
and it that the thing is like nobody in
56:37
Japan wants a military nobody that but
56:40
Japan wants to defend itself that's why
56:42
we have a self-defense force ninety nine
56:44
out of a hundred young people are like
56:46
we don't want an army we don't want to
56:48
have like what everybody else we want to
56:51
be a peaceful country and just do manga
56:53
anime videogames and and work really
56:58
hard make make cars and cameras and
57:02
sensors and stuff like this compete so I
57:06
think that when you instigate and you
57:09
push on things like this it makes people
57:12
do the opposite of what you expect and I
57:15
just want to point that out like we the
57:17
bad blood is not good right now it's
57:18
really really hard situation between the
57:20
two countries 2002 World Cup when Japan
57:23
and Korea hosted it was like such a high
57:25
point and I wish we can go back to stuff
57:26
like that
57:27
I'd like the 2020 Olympics where we
57:30
would just say thank you to Korea how
57:31
about that to give a shout out to our
57:34
neighbors and when the Olympics were in
57:37
Korea the Winter Olympics two years ago
57:39
it would have been nice if Korea gave a
57:40
shout out to Japan and we had that kind
57:42
of love where America and Canada work
57:45
together I'd love to see that
57:49
big things big things think big
57:54
I do i okay I have to admit though I do
57:58
like having our Navy and an Air Force
58:02
and Marines in Japan a little bit
58:03
because I like them a lot of them are
58:05
such good people and I get to meet them
58:10
every now and then and I get to go to
58:12
the base and they get American
58:13
supermarkets and stuff so it's a chance
58:15
to get stuff from home so I kind of like
58:19
that so I don't I don't know get mixed
58:21
feelings all right so that's all I
58:24
appreciate all the questions everybody
58:25
once again if you've watched this long
58:29
go where is this I was featured in this
58:32
magazine in 2007 it changed my life
58:36
they duped me I thought it was a
58:38
beautiful article on on the industry in
58:42
Japan and end up being a hit piece with
58:44
a picture like this that made me look
58:45
angry saying that I make 1,400 yen or
58:48
$14 and the company makes $70 true story
58:51
yes the writer duped me and he did this
58:55
off the record and he deceived me but
58:56
I'm not angry anymore I've moved on and
58:59
I've learned from it and my takeaway
59:02
that I expressed 30 minutes ago was that
59:04
if you're watching the news watch not
59:07
one channel watch them all even if you
59:09
disagree and whatever is in the middle
59:11
between the two news groups is probably
59:13
where this the most truth points and the
59:15
facts of what they're talking about is
59:17
there then that's probably the truth and
59:19
that's that's who I am I'm the guy I'm
59:21
that guy in the middle that they always
59:23
talk about like how could you not pick a
59:24
side that's me that's me yeah so there
59:29
you go thanks everybody have a good day
59:30
have a good night the last 20 seconds is
59:32
dedicated dedicated to the Tokyo Skytree
59:36
which I was here just a few days ago
59:38
with Dan and Dan and his wife Anja and
59:41
it's a beautiful day in Tokyo if you do
59:45
come to Tokyo you want to check out this
59:47
area on scoota area across the bridge
59:49
here it's really lovely area bye guys
59:55
and thanks thanks to thanks so much for
59:58
the support