#89 The chillest of days in Yokohama

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That's a beautiful Saturday morning. Actually, it's more like noon, I guess, at this point in Yokohama. There was a surprising amount of garbage as I left the house today. I've just gone around the corner to go up the hill of the bluffs. And I was like, oh yeah, because it's Saturday. And then that reminded me of it. Oh yeah, last night in the dead quiet of the little neighborhood, I mean, I heard some drunk guys going by, just yelling and hooting and hollering. It's like, yeah, I haven't heard that much in Japan.

And then that was really late. That was like two in the morning. Since I'm in this building all by myself, it does start to conjure images of, because I had headphones in. I was like, what the heck is going on? And I had to pull them out and figure out what's happening. And then I realized, oh, it's like a drunk guy. But being late at night, it's easy to imagine scenarios. It's like, I'm sure I locked the door at everything's fine. But what if they tried to get in here? And what if they busted in the door and they got to the hallway?

And what if they're outside my door and they can't get through the lock right away? But I have no way to escape.

And what if they're saying, like, we can wait as long as we need to? We're right out here. And it's just like, oh yeah, this is just what thrillers and suspense movies. This is what it's all about. It is a primal base human fears. Of course, it's Japan. All of that's insane. No, no, that's going to happen probably anywhere, but certainly not here. It's just nighttime thoughts.

But the upside to all that is it's the weekend and I still got this whole place to myself. My plan coming here in the winter-ish time was to cut down on other travelers and make things a little easier. And maybe I did. I don't know. It's hard to tell. Though apparently the fall is pretty popular here because of, you know, autumn leaves.

It's the next best thing to spring cherry blossoms.

But this is where you can really feel it for sure. Now that we're deep into January, this is very clear evidence. No one else is in my Airbnb. It's just me.

And that's cool. I love having the whole building to myself. It's just a cool feeling.

It's a fairly rare but awesome $21 day, $22 day, whatever entire building in Japan. Not an easy thing to pull off, but when it happens, it's awesome.

And because I got lucky this year, it's like 12-13 degrees today. It's fucking beautiful, sunny. The three months I've been here, I can count on one hand the number of kind of bad weather days.

This is ludicrous. All right, I'm at the Yamate Italian Rose Garden because it's literally just behind my Airbnb. I'm going to walk through here again like I did last episode. And I'm going to try to triangulate. There's this weird building you can see in the distance that's like a blue dome, a light blue dome. And I can't figure out how to get to it through this super confusing snarl of streets. So I'm going to go try to figure out with Google maps. I'm going to go point myself at that thing and try to figure out where it is and put a dot on my map and use that and see if I can get there. Why am I doing that? Kind of because why not? Like I explored all of Naka Ward and it turns out this little neighborhood directly around me is the best part with the bluffs and all the cool touristy shit and the Rose Gardens and Fountains and amazing views. So I might wander further away today, but I'm kind of motivated to stay nearby because it's so awesome. So I mean, hey, it's just something to do, something to try to do. A little adventure to put myself on.

And this place is just pretty. I looked it up on YouTube just at a curiosity. Yamate Italian guarded in Yokohama. So I get to see what it looked like in the spring and the summer and it does look better, but it don't look bad now. It's still really fucking good.

All right, I think I think I got a pretty good, a pretty good bead on this thing where I can see the big Yokohama bay bridge. So I line that up to be approximately right and then there's the big marine tower. Once I found that on the map, that was a really good one. It's like, okay, 5:00 get that set properly. And this is where if I had an internet connection, having the topographical map would help it crazy because this blue building is right next to a big cliff. So I'm trying to figure out just based on what's on the map of like, okay, where's a spot where there just is no stuff because that probably is the cliff. But having the elevation would actually help, okay, this is good to know. I got another view of the blue building as I'm walking down hill and I'm lined up with it now. I'm like a little below it. So it's not on ground floor. It's above the street. So that definitely explains why I didn't find it yesterday. But I have to go further down to get there. So we'll see. But this big elevation that it's next to, this big hill surely that will help. This thing too, if I've got the right thing pinpointed on my little map, it's less than 300 meters away. It's so close, but that's just like impossible, impossible. These bluffs in this neighborhood, it's so confusing and so cool. Okay, here's, here's the same stairs.

I came up a little shrine. I'm gonna do this, man. I'm gonna figure out how to get to this place. I got another Zelda coffee. I got the stupid bird again. Man, I'll get into it later, but I met a guy yesterday who lives in this neighborhood, some random ass dude standing around trying to find people to talk to or whatever. I'll get into it. But it's weird when you live in a place and you just, you don't get that tourist mind of just being excited by it. Because this dude literally lived down the street from the Italian Rose Garden with the miniatures. It's got like a whole set up of miniature buildings. And he didn't even know it was there. He never heard of it. It's like five houses away from his house, but because he lives there, he's just like, whatever, just walk by it every day. It's just something in the neighborhood. It's not a thing. And I find that such a weird phenomenon. It's not quite the same, but one of my Vancouver friends, he grew up technically not in Vancouver like two, two towns over, but it's all connected into the same, you know, you can get there on the sky train. And there's a super famous part of Vancouver. It's this big park called Stanley Park that's like the same size as downtown. It's like downtown again, except it's a park. And there's a sea wall. You can walk along the edge of the sea wall. And it was one of the first things I ever did. Because I'm like, wow, cool Vancouver, let's go explore. And Doug had never done that until he was in his 20s. And it just blows my mind. Because he lived too close. It was just a thing that was local that it's like, whatever, who cares about that. And it's just like, wow, that's fucking weird. All right, I'm funneling down the same way that I did yesterday, which for sure didn't work. Now that I'm down in amongst the buildings, I can't see any landmarks or anything. I'm going to see if I can manage this without the dot that I placed on my map, but I'll use the dot if I have to because I just want to, I want to wrap up this adventure. So where is maybe if I can just see the big, the big cliff side, the big hillside.

All right, I think, I think I see the hillside behind some buildings. Though this is certainly weird because I didn't realize the blue building was elevated so much. I mean, it makes sense. That's how I was able to see it.

I met the same crosswalk that I mentioned last episode where it's this tiny, tiny little narrow lane of a street that's been just a walking street. Someone's walking a stroller down a right now. There's like no traffic, but people still wait. They still wait for the red don't walk sign to turn green. And there's two ladies that were waiting. They just finally finally got to cross, but I'm kind of happy to report that right there. I did see an old lady. She stopped briefly and she's like, I fucked this. She just crossed.

Because I mean, I do respect following traffic rules. It makes things a lot easier for everybody, but that is a spot where there is zero. Zero reason to be waiting to cross this thing that is like one step and you're across, but maybe two steps. That one, there's no need to wait there. And it seems kind of appropriate that it was an old lady who's like, I'm not fucking doing that. Anyway, I think I saw the cliff side through some buildings, but it is amazing how one's your perspective shifts, one's your down on the ground. Man, like an entire mountain just disappeared. I just can't see it anymore. And I was like, all right, I think it's over this way, but now I'm stuck. I'm being funneled the same way I was yesterday. I can't get any closer. I'm like looking for ways to move over 10:00 in that direction and they ain't here. Okay, here we go. There is a route going toward where I think I need to go that's leading to a shrine. So could that thing be connected to a shrine somehow?

There's a little park and a shrine and a big cliff side. So I mean, that has to be the one, there can't be how many can there be around here. Though the shrine doesn't seem to go any farther, yeah, this is the big cliff side. Man, this podcast is reached new levels of abstraction, where I'm just trying to find a random building that no one cares about and no one can possibly even know what I'm talking about. And I'm just trying to describe it while I do it. So stupid. But this is so weird. It's like, okay, there's the hillside. Where the frig did that building go? How has it just gone?

Ah-ha, man, it's so tricky because once you're in these little alleyways and stuff, like you can only go where you can go and there's no guarantee that things will flow into another place in Japan either. It could be a literal just dead end. But I just saw here some stairs that I'm heading up turned around the corner. I think I see it. I'm heading up the stairs. Now I can only hope that there's a large English language plaque that explains in clear language what this fucking place is. But it must be something because there's stairs leading up to it. And it really is a bizarre looking building because it's like, I say it's a dome, but it's like a tetrahedron, a polyhedron, a hundred-sidedhedron, whatever that's called, hydrahedron. I don't know. It's not very big. It's just weird looking.

Man, is it just a house? Is that all this is?

Yamamitsu. It's got a painting of its own dome outside of the gate and a little doorway and an entry lamp and a place to put mail. I think it's just a house. It's just a weird house, I guess. Now let's see. When I pull up my map, if the little marking I made is actually where I met. Nope. So whatever this is, it's not important enough because the thing I found on the map was a place with a Japanese name, but I don't know what it was. This ain't that. I was hoping maybe once I got internet. It's like, oh, well, maybe I can click on this and get an idea of what it is. I think it's just a house. I think it's just a weird looking house. Well, not every adventure has a super amazing mind-blowing ending. In fact, none of them do in this podcast. So anyway, I guess let me tell you about this guy I met yesterday. Let me tell you an actual story of a thing that actually happened. I'm going to keep going up these stairs because I don't know where these lead. But yeah, basically, as I was coming home yesterday, right by the the Rose Garden, I was getting a little confused, a little turned around. It's basically right by the view that I saw near the Rose Garden, where I was like, oh, it looks like fall out in New Vegas or whatever. I was just trying to get back to the Airbnb and I, I guess I was kind of going down possibly the wrong street and then on top of that, again, like going straight to a dot. It doesn't work. Like I was close to home, but I was following directly down and I was like, I walked a little ways and I'm like, I think this is just a driveway. I don't think this is going to connect in. So I came back up and a guy asked me in really good English like if I was lost if I was looking for something because I clearly did look like I was lost. Like I was looking for something because I'm just wandering down the street one way, came back the other way, went partially down as possibly a driveway, then back up. It's like, what is this guy doing? He doesn't know what he's doing.

So this was an Asian guy, although his name is Andrew. He's in his 30s and he, uh, you know, his English was like 99%, 98%. You know, you can forget words sometimes or whatever. Or you had to say things to himself in Japanese and then say them in English, but Guy in his 30s lived in America. He has an American name, pretty fucking easy to communicate with this fellow. But, uh, I don't know, it was just kind of weird where I guess I've had this experience before of like, you know, it's not like I met this person in a venue that's like, you know, if you meet someone at a meetup for something that you're interested in or you even just meet someone through an Airbnb who has great reviews, those go well and that's awesome. You just meet random people on the street and it's just a random person on the street, especially in a country where people don't talk to you. The person who does talk to you, 15:00 it's probably not going to be the fucking new best friend that you were always hoping for.

But this guy was not trying to get me into his Buddhist sect or anything, although the guy was trying to get me into his Buddhist sect in Chiba. He was actually a super fun conversationalist, you know, until it all devolved into religious weirdness. I actually really enjoyed hanging out and talking to that guy. Where this dude, I guess, well what he told me is we were yammering is he wasn't just asking if I was lost. He was standing outside his house because he lived right there and just kind of on the lookout, you know, and he's like, I saw you and you're like, he just looks like suspicious. Like are you trying to case the joint? What are you doing or whatever? Which is like, of course, what the heck? No. You know, I think that kind of, that's a good way to describe this guy. He's the kind of guy who doesn't really have much else to do besides go stand around outside his house and be wary, be vigilant for people that might be trying to break in, you know? A situation that is never going to happen. And as I talk to him, it is like he's into conspiracy theories and deep into internet stuff. When I told him I was from Canada, his first point of reference for Canada was Jordan Peterson. That's pretty fucking funny. I'm basically Jordan Peterson neutral. He's this guy from Canada who they were trying to like pass some really weird laws in Canada. Just like well-meaning stuff about trans rights and stuff that are socially progressive, but they probably shouldn't be laws. You know, once you make something a law, that's pretty heavy. So this guy Jordan Peterson, he was the guy who kind of made himself the villain by standing up and saying, you can't make these into laws. So I kind of appreciated him on that level. But then he became this big figure that people, you know, people that want to be fucking weird argumentative dickheads. I'm like, oh, great. Now we have a new guy who will get an arguments on our behalf. And I don't know. I find most of what I looked into about Jordan Peterson just just crushingly boring. Just a real boring guy who's into really boring shit.

But like I say, and I appreciate that he was willing to be the villain about stuff where it's like, yeah, you know, you just can't make this a lot. You just can't.

It doesn't need to be, it can be a social law. It doesn't need to be a real law, you know, it's just too far. So I'd say that part, but that puts me pretty neutral. Any firm, I ain't again him. It's just whatever. Just some guy. But I mean, I feel like the fact that this dude I was talking to, his only frame of reference for Canada, was fucking Jordan Peterson. It's just very funny because it really does paint the picture of who this guy is. He's an internet troll. And just one of these guys that like, like there's no conversation, even literally what I just said to you there. You know, that's a relatively, that's something you can talk about. That's a situation with a couple of angles to it. But talking to this guy is like talking to a wall, you know, you're just looking for an opening. And he never reciprocated. He just said his next thing that was on his mind. You know, it was a very one way conversation. He's clearly just kind of a weird guy. And not just like global spanning politics. Maybe that is tough to talk about, no matter who you're talking to. But you know, like the Gundam statue came up and he's like, oh yeah, I'm not really into Gundam. I'm more into Evangelion. It's like, oh yeah, I can talk about that. I know. I've seen Evangelion. But like the conversation, like whenever there's like, okay, yeah, I know about that. I know about this. And the conversation just never went anywhere. Just like he refused to, it's like you're playing tennis and you refuse to hit the ball back. But I don't think he was trying to be rude. He's just, he's just fucking on the spectrum or something. He just doesn't know that he's doing that.

And at first, I'm like, yeah, how do I meet these people? But it's like, oh yeah, it's because I'm not, I'm not going out of my way to meet people. I'm not going to find people who I would get along with. This is just a guy who talked to me on the street. That's, that's sort of the issue here. When you just wait for a guy to talk to you on the street, you get, you get the guy who was standing on the street trying to talk to people. That's what you get. But he is a nice enough guy. But it is funny that like he's right, he lives right there. He apparently stands around on the street. Semi-commonly. And considering you started off being concerned about people breaking into his house, it then became like, well, hey, if you're going to be around, you know, just come by. I'm going to, I'm right live right here. I'll be around. Heck, knock on the door, whatever. You can meet my mom all this stuff. And it's like, no. Now it's almost kind of weird because it's like, I guess I, 20:00 I think I'm going to kind of not walk that way just because I just, if I bump into him by accident and it's a small neighborhood, they're like, hey, buddy, hey dude, what's up?

But it kind of blocked off his street now where it's like, I just don't, you know. He's like not the worst. I mean, he's like, he was a nice enough dude and stuff. If I even could have had a semi-conversation with him, maybe I would. I mean, I don't know. Fuck it. I can't hurt and know somebody who spent some time in America and now his family lives in Yokohama. I mean, just, I don't know. But I just, it's like, man, oh, this guy, he's a, he's a, the saying, this ain't going nowhere, man. Even if it's just a nice polite, pointless conversation, we can't even get that going because this guy is just a, just a, he's not socially aware.

But yeah, I don't know. I was really surprised that he didn't know about the rose garden because it was right at the corner. But I guess maybe it is the thing of like, like this neighborhood is full of gardens and fountains and cool, amazing shit. Like, maybe it's not a big deal. Maybe it is just like, hey, whatever. Whatever, dude. I live under the eyes of the giant Gundam. I don't give a shit about all this touristy shit that's around here. Like, I'm trying to think of my hometown. Did that happen to me? Is there stuff in my hometown that I just never noticed or paid attention to? I don't think so because I just don't think there is anything in my hometown. But, but it's certainly an interesting phenomenon and it is like fun to be a traveler and to have those eyes of the new person. Because like, yeah, when I first got here, I'm like, man, I cannot believe how great Yokohama is. I'm so glad I'm here for two weeks. At first, I was like, oh, two weeks. It's gonna be a long time. But now I'm like, yeah, great, two weeks. But I've only been here a few days and now I'm already kind of not sure where to go. Because I gobbled up this neighborhood so fast. It's like, yeah, I've been all over. I've seen all this stuff in Naka Ward. Now what? You know, I've already been to the book several of these places twice, twice in two days. Like, it does get normalized really, really fast.

And then you either got to find new angles on the neighborhood, new stuff to do. Or you just go somewhere else. You move on, you know? Which ain't the worst. I mean, maybe I'll just move on forever. Maybe I'll just move on to different countries and see new stuff till the day I die. I think there's plenty. I think there's enough stuff in the earth that I could do that. See, this is so weird where it's like, is this street now? He did mention that there's a lot more western churches than usual around here because there's just a western vibe in general. And I'm walking past a church and this is a semi-major street and I'm at the top of the bluff. I'm like, is this his street? Am I walking? Am I just gonna go accidentally walk past this guy's house? The ultimate introversion. I met one fucking person in Yokohama and it's one person too many where I'm like, ah, jeez, now I got to avoid this guy. Now I got to not bump into this guy.

Like, jeez, this fucking Christ. What a life. What a fucking weird solo life I live.

No, I don't think so. Actually, this street is, this is two. This is too major. This is not the street. We're good. Although we are walking by a church, church of the sacred heart. So let's creative.

The western churches aren't so great around here. They're certainly not, uh, I mean, they're small, just like everything small in Japan where I feel like a western church supposed to be like Montreal, you know, it's supposed to be a fucking great big thing that shocks you into compliance. But anyway, I gotta get some to eat. I have not eaten anything today.

So it turns out my spidey sense was appropriately tingling when I was like, am I? Is this? Yeah, it was actually. I was right by. I was right by that dude's house. So he was not standing outside it at 1 p.m.

I'm probably making too big a deal about all this crap. It's just, uh, I just don't know how to politely extricate myself without having a big long conversation. I mean, I talked to that dude for like 40 minutes because, you know, it's just politeness dictates. I don't know. He did give me an out. He asked if I was busy and I was like, well, I mean, no, I'm really not. Man, I was thinking though, who's that guy I met in Fukuoka? Tom, I think his name was, but he was like a software developer guy from Germany who I met on a mountain, on a hiking path. That guy was cool. Like, 25:00 that's a good example of like, you know, if I'm out hiking and I meet a person who's hiking, chances are we're gonna have something in common vis-a-vis hiking. Like I could have been friends with that fella for sure. Could have gone on hikes. It doesn't take much to be friends with somebody. I've always found it pretty easy to make friends of anything, but, but yeah, I don't know. It is interesting when it's like, man, I just don't know. I just don't know what foothold there is here.

I don't know how to be your friend.

So I was kind of drifting off toward the edge of Naka Ward. I went to the, uh, the Lawson's. I was at yesterday to see if they had more barbecued fish, but they do not. It's not as good as the, uh, the 1-7-11 head, but it was still pretty good.

But you never know. You never know what you're gonna get with convenience. So while I was over there, it's like, I write, I'm kind of on the edge. While I am literally at the edge of how far I've been before, I could head off farther away into the wild blue yonder, who knows what's out there. But whatever's out there, I mean, I, what guess we'll see, but it's probably not as cool as all these bluffs. And even though the, uh, delirious wonder of first getting somewhere and being like, whoa, this is nuts. This place is not like anything that I expected, even though that, uh, traveler's high, explorers high does wear off. Where it's like, wow, this actually is a really small area. Everything is so close to each other now that I'm starting to get a lay of the land. And, uh, and instead of like, well, look at this amazing park that goes down into the depths and has archers in it. Like, I just walked by that park and it's like, oh, there's the amazing park that goes down into the depths with archers in it. You know, changes, changes the vibe a bit, but it's still, still pretty great. So I just felt myself tugged back toward this way, toward the harbor view park where I'm at now. And just the bluffs and the views, man, that's, uh, that's enough for today. That's good. Man, too, when I saw that, uh, bluff number 18 was near my Airbnb and I was like, yeah, I wonder, you know, I can't really see going through numbered sequential itemized, try to go to all the bluffs, but if there was like 20 of them, yeah, you know, be a bit of a weird thing to do, but kind of cool. But the park I passed the other day with all the tennis stuff, apparently even as a tennis museum. I'm real into tennis in that park, but, uh, that was bluff number 68. So I was like, Jesus, fucking Christ, I wonder how many there are. Like, definitely, forget that. That's, uh, that's a serious undertaking to go to all the bluffs. And then on the way over here, it's remarkable how cold it gets. Just with, uh, some clouds rolling over, got a little overcast. And it's like, oh, put on my other layer, fucking get my little gloves on and stuff. The weather definitely has no chill. Yesterday it was like, brutally hot. So today I left one of my layers at home because it had too many and now it's like, oh, shit, oh, maybe I do need it. Fuck. However, that's again the great thing about being near all this stuff, having an Airbnb right by all these bluffs and all this cool shit. Is the first couple of days I was here, I split them into like, double days where I'd go back in the late afternoon and take a little nap and then head out again at night. It's like, oh, that's a nice feeling, not having to like, push through an entire long day because I'm miles away from everything. Oh, man, looking out at the harbor, holy fuck, that's a good view. Man, this is kind of cool. Now it's like the, uh, the Big Bay Bridge with dark, oppressive clouds over them. It looks fucking sweet. But yeah, I can just head back because I'm actually, I'm kind of wiped today, maybe because yesterday I did a whole epic journey with no, with no break. So I think I'm going to mosey back that way, take a little nap, be nap, maybe I'll head out tonight and do more stuff. Oh, no, dead, I will. Just purely even to get something to eat. Whether I'll podcast anything else, I don't know, maybe we'll just skip straight to tomorrow. But yeah, I'm not really sure because this little area, it is so cool. It's so good, but I, I can't just walk around this one little area over and over for the next week and after whatever. Maybe I should just pull the trigger on a, on a more serious journey. Maybe tomorrow I should just like try to get to the coast or just do something. Because I have a feeling for the, uh, uh, direct vicinity. In one direction, it's the big downtown in the other direction. It's, uh, 30:00 residential stuff. It seems like it will pay a little bit in comparison to the bluff. So on the other hand, I guess I could like, what if I just head into downtown towards Central Yokohama, just keep walking, just walk a walk a walk and see if it turns into something else. See what happens because I could always take the train back also. That we'll see many things because it has one thing to do with this bluff neighborhood as fucking cool as it is. Man, my ankles really hurt yesterday every time I got up and put pressure on them yesterday evening after all that walking. It's like, holy fuck, that's weird. Man, my ankles hurt because with all the mountain climbing, it never made my ankles hurt. It must just be, because this is not like just a big severe walk up a mountain. This is just constant up and downs, up and downs, up and downs of smaller mountains. And yeah, man, my knees were fucking hurting. Like, I don't feel anything right now. But maybe I will later, you know, this is interesting. New and interesting physical ailments. But yeah, for today, I'm just going to mosey back down to the old Airbnb. Probably zonk the fuck out. And then we will either resume tonight if something cool happens or tomorrow.

Alright, so that was an uneventful episode, huh? So, for this episode, in my original audio, I had this day and the next day combined as one episode, because I'm like, that was like half an hour long and I didn't do anything. I know I never do anything, but that was like I really didn't do anything. But now that I'm sitting here editing the episode, I'm like, yeah, you know what, fuck that. That's the day. That's an episode and then the next day will be another episode. But I will give you a little update of things to come, because one reason why I'm doing that is just because tomorrow I've got a travel day and I just don't want to sit around and fucking edit this podcast today. It could be over right now. Let's give you the end of the episode. And I could go get started on my travel prep, because basically what's about to come in the podcast is I'm going to start going down to the Southern coast near Yokohama. And I'm going to keep going a little further west and a little further west and realize like, wow, these trains, they just keep going. I wonder how far I could go. However, I had limited time left in Japan on that trip. So, you know, I made it a little ways, but not a crazy long way. But that got in my head of like, ah, next time I'm in Japan, that's what I want to do. I want to try to just keep going down the coast and see what happens. So, in the current timeline, that's where I am. That's exactly what I'm doing. From Yokohama, I went down the coast, a couple hours on the JR train. Tomorrow, I'm going a couple more hours. Then the week after that, I'm going a couple more hours. And then I'll be at Osaka. And you can just do that. You can just get on, I mean, there's a shinkansen, too, if you're in a big hurry. But it doesn't even take that long on local trains. And you can just use your normal train card, your Suika card. And it's just like, holy fuck. This is working. This is nuts. So, that's what I'm doing right now. That's coming in the future. However, because that's what I'm doing right now, this episode is over. I am making that the whole episode. Fuck it. Will something more interesting happen for the next episode that'll happen the day after? To be honest, I don't remember, but probably not. Like I said, pretty soon, I'm going to go to the coast and I'll go to Yokohama and double eat that and stuff. There's stuff. I'm going to do some stuff. But at this point, I certainly can't guarantee that I'm going to do anything. Next episode might be just as eventless as this one. A blue domed house. Let's go see if I can find like coming back to Yokohama. I went up to the Yamate Gardens and I'm like, oh yeah, there's the blue house. Why the fuck did I give a shit about that? Who knows? Anyway. Anyway, there's that episode. I hope you enjoyed. Tune in next time for what was supposed to be the other half of this episode, but is in fact a separate discrete day. And yeah, this scope. The scope is about to expand, so look forward to it. All right. I'll see you then.