MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE! Hope you're enjoying the closing days of 2023 and spreading some Christmas cheer!🍻

Its infuriating you have to game the YT system by focusing on the food, because i really appreciated the floats and the kokeshi you painted in the latest episode. I prefer that you're staggering the releases, gives me something to look forward to every morning I wake up. Ganbare Chris!

I admire Chris's commitment to putting out a video every day, however, I was feeling guilty that I didn't have time to watch them all, and was falling behind, waiting for an opportunity to catch up. So a slowpoke like me is happy for them to come out at a slower pace. My fella got me the book for my birthday, really enjoyed it, very amusing and very moving in parts. I hope you do a volume 2 or some other book one day, you have a great writing style.

The sound in the _new_ Abroad in Japan Podcast studio really does sound amazing!

Aha! That explains 'why' every single video with a bowl of ramen on the thumbnail turns up on my recommended list on the day it's published. Yet...when it comes to more 'travelly' things or the videos that have the word haunted in the title - they can take up to 6 months to appear in my list! I'm still finding videos I've never seen 'years' after they've been produced. To be honest, I much prefer the travel and hauntings over the food ones. Shame KZfaq focusses more attention on the latter.

As a listener of older Luke and Pete episodes, it is always a delight to hear Pete say “IT’S BEEN”

Hope you and Pete realize how Awesome You've started to upload the video version of the podcast on KZfaq! Thanks guys!

Ok but Pete, that’s “ITS BEEN” awakened a sleeper agent in me 😂

You guys are legit one of the only few podcasts I can tolerate

The yukimushi appears around November in the mountains of Kyoto. I got to see them a few years ago. They came down like snow and I got confused for a moment if it was actually snowing or not. They are the cutest little things and I get really excited when I see them, but only around November to December.

I just saw the news about the earthquake and Tsunami. I wish you and all people in Japan that are affected all the best.

The Yuki Mushi swarm is so strange. One second, there is nothing, and suddenly, its tooons of them, flying with the wind. Abd an hour later, they are gone again. Repeat for a few weeks.

Chris Looks like he has seen things & stuff...........Can't wait to see what him & Poor Pete had to go through on the last stages of Journey across Japan!

I live in Sapporo and see yuki mushi every fall/winter but it's usually only for a few days

Banger episode. Learnt many new things and been given many things to ponder about, all with fun banter and conversation

Based on what I've heard, Japan has a very strange relationship with Christianity. The Tokugawa Shogunate, while keeping the country locked down, severely persecuted Christians. And, based on what I see in modern Japanese pop culture, the Japanese still don't really understand it. It is kinda funny how many westerners see Christianity as bland and run of the mill while viewing eastern religions (that they know little about) as exotic and mystical. But in Japan, that seems to be flipped.

You guys keep me up in the morning when I am trying to sleep... Then the alarm sounds and I have to get up for work! Keep it up! 😅

Welcome back Pete! We missed you!

The Jesus grave in Japan reminds me a lot of American roadside attractions. Places like the House on the Rock that was featured in American Gods, the Little A'Le'Inn near Area 51 in Nevada, there arre 2 statues of Paul Bunyan and Babe the blue ox in Northern California alone.

It's been...! I was not expecting Pete to reference Barenaked Ladies' 'One Week', lol.

I have no mouth and I must scream. A Harlan Ellison reference.

On the mass fish die off event, off the Hokkaido coast. I read an online article from the South China Morning Post, where they had experts suggesting most likely this was a natural phenomenona. Which was caused due to a sudden change in water temperatures from a snap cold weather change, which had caused a very rapid drop in the oxygen levels in water due the sudden freezing and turning to ice of some of the water around Hokkaido.

Something you mentioned that I specifically appreciate about your channel, is that you highlight the food but it's not all about food. I end up watching a lot of these food videos because I'm interested in the travel aspect and the culture and the history of different areas. So it's nice to have a mixture of interesting information, a little bit of food, cool destinations, that you and sharla sprinkle throughout your videos.

Can’t believe we were graced with an “it’s been” this week

I saw the same phenomenon of little flies carrying cotton in autumn here in Utah USA. They were swarming everywhere and were very aggressive and would bite and try to get in your eyes nose and ears.

@16:05 Pete hit that perfectly. I immediately had to finish the song too.

This is a thing. My colleage is from Hokkaido and she talked to me about the yuki mushi. It's probably a LOT worse than you think it is. She showed me a vvideo about a few weeks ago about what its like there. The flies actually look really fluffy and cute

Welcome back Pete! You guys are so much fun!

Yeah! Podcast time!

Chris is getting better at editing as the trip goes on. He actually put Ellen in the last one for 20 seconds. To hell with the KZfaq algorithm. You can put a camera on her 24/7 like a British Truman show in Japan and I’d never turn your channel off again

22:08 hope Kendrick is OK, Kanazawa and Niigata were both hit hard by the earthquake 😢

Best Podcast !! Listening to you guys while driving around just makes me feel better 🙇🏻 Cheers 🙏🏽

WAIT SINCE WHEN DID YOU HAVE A PODCAST‽‽‽ oh man this’ll be great to listen to in between TT episodes

honestly respect for gaming the yt algorithm via food titling. tbh ur content is the most unique n unapologetically j "chris broad" n i love that n many millions of other ppl do too

'Silence' is an amazing film about Christian missionaries in Japan.

Nothing wrong with, Chris's Gluttonous Adventures!!

I looked up that Tosa Inu breed, it seems to be allowed here in Canad and I think I might have seen it before... if it is indeed the same breed that I've seen, it is GIANT.

Fun fact: There was once a theory that proposed by certain Europeans during the Meiji restoration that the Ainu descended from one of the 12 lost tribes of Israel, so Jesus dieing in Aomori could derive from this idea.

Next year's trip "Chris's gluttonous adventure: I ate a ghost"

I think the so called burial place of Jesus is the funniest thing I have ever seen😂😂😂😂

Good call with your own podcast, try to do in person guests in the future. Good luck!

22:22 I appreciate that Pete is prepared to portmanteau a couple words together for ease of pronunciation if they fit well. I'm always quite keen to myself. ^___^

The Tosa Inu looks very much like one of our South African dog breeds the “boerboel”. Similar cross breeding I’m sure. The boerboel is a popular family and property guardian dog here, originally bred to guard people and livestock against even big cats like lions. Extremely loyal, not to be messed with!

People don't really do dairy here?.. Tell that to my wife, she loves buttery baked products, yoghurt, ice cream and ALL the cheese! 😂 Love the podcast, just catching up on missed ones! I have only been here a few months, so I learn so much about my new home from you!

Chris looks great with longer hair.

"The ups and downs of travel" I feel is like the literary version of 'cue to training montage'... and I mean, they just need a reenactment... maybe Jesus fighting some bandits, invoking the power of god, turns into some kind of robot, destroys the Mongols... you know... all the classics.

I don't care about every day uploads. I care more about the quality of the videos remaining high.

Abroad in Japan and Only in Japan are Goated channels

when i went to idaho here in the states they have same thing with bugs like that

28:00 i did not have luck ordering a side of rice at a couple places i tried. The second place i went to explained they pre-allocated enough rice for their entrees to ensure rhey had enough by the end of the night. Your mileage may vary depending on where you try

I feel like if the fish were dying from the released water, it would be a bigger variety of fish instead of just two species lol

Hinako Shijou from the King of Fighters series has a Tosa Inu that she dresses up in those sumo garbs. I didnt know that was something they did in real life tho til now....Thought the game just made it up cause Hinako loves sumo lol

Hey Chris, I don't know how interested in Japanese film, but I recently watched Shin Godzilla, and really enjoyed the film, it dragged at some certain bits, but I also heard the film was censored and re-edited a decent bit because of the deduction of human bones among the flesh dropped by the monster. Aside from your thoughts on the film, do you think there would be another reason for the censorship besides a religious context? The creator had said he wanted to include more scenes showing the biomass left behind godzilla as having human remains to create themes of connection between humans and ecology crisis of the world

Interesting stuff as always... I was a bit surprised to hear dog fighting might still be a thing there. That does make me wonder, are animal rights a "thing" in Japan like they often are in the west? I get the sense that keeping pets is less regulated than in Canada (where I'm from) or the US, at least.

Well, you know how the Japanese love their OVAs and alternate stories. Honestly, the Aomori/Shingo version is only slightly less fantastical than the original. As for the Yukimushi, it turns out that Eriosoma lanigerum, or the Wooly Apple Aphid, appears anywhere apples are cultivated. They were first identified in Great Britain. So a British organism invading Japan and thriving in Tohoku...well, food for thought anyway.

😆Spin-off Series: "The Tamago Egg Sandwich Chronicles" 4:20

Respectfully, while I enjoy your channel, I don't care enough to demand daily uploads. They way I end up consuming your videos is generally by adding them to my Watch Later queue to catch up on however many I've missed.

We get the yukimushi in the US as well, we call them wholly aphids they are very dense for like 2 days lol

#Thefaxmachine Dear charismatic Chris and pleasant Pete I was at a family get together recently where a family member that had lived in Japan for a year described an incident involving a large centipede. She said that it had large pincers and was the size of her foot. It scaled the wall went onto the ceiling and fell onto her face before she flung it out the door. I was curious about other bug/animal stories that you may have about times when something intruded upon your home.

Paregoric is what my grandma used to give me back in the 80’s for diarrhea 😳 idk what other uses it has. It’s an opium tincture I believe

Heard about the earthquake, hope you all alright guys.

Great to see Pete back

The fish story reminded me of the new Godzilla movie where deep sea fish float dead to the surface…right before Godzilla arrives. Oh God.

Seriously, I feel like they must be sitting on their hands at that yoghurt factory if they haven't taken like a suzuki swift or whatever and reconstituted it into like a battle droid... 'the power of Christ compels you' kind of thing and then - LASERS!

Nice Harlen Ellison reference by Pete

chirs looks beaten up lmao

Chris looks crisp as F, better than 4K.

Frozen dead fish get wished up on Hokkaido beaches regularly every year. Nothing new.

Guyyyyys why didn’t u tell us how and where you were spending Christmas…. and what’s happening next? Will we get merry Christmas end of the season videos until mid January?

I want a kyle hill x chris broad crossover for the next Fukushima video

Yogurt stigmata. That’s a new one.

Yuki mushi are real. I saw them in Niseko in early- to mid-November.

WAIT THERES A (.Broadcast Am Brand New Here.)

GODZILLA!!!!! The fish found him!!

Best place to record voiceovers is in your closet close to your clothes.

One thing i dont get with youtubers is, why do you have several channels? I dont get it. All it probably does is that your main channel grow lesser than it would otherwize, and the videos that is uploaded on the sub channels get lesser views. It is not like people would be completely confused by for example seeing a podcast video on the main channel, so I dont get it. Just upload everything on one channel. But maybe im missing something.

17:50 chayna

It would have been a good idea to go to the burial place for Adam and Eve since You have visited the burial place for Jesus already!! Maybe make some comparison of the two places?! Marry behind Christmas and happy New Year! Kindly the Danish Viking

And I just so happen to hate food videos. I've actually unsubbed from certain channels that started focusing on uploading food videos

It's great to have Pete back again, it does not feel the same without both Chris and Pete doing the podcast.

Nah, bro. Much better sound in the studio. Tons of room noise and compressor wonkiness (something like breathing or pumping to my untrained ear).

The deep sea fish are surfacing... this can only mean one thing...

I love the story of Jesus walk from the middle east to Japan and died there lmao

Dammit Chris, yogurt is common in Japan! Don't you see a bunch of different yogurts at any Japanese supermarkets that you shop at? They are f*king everywhere...

Japanese banking is the worst. One of my biggest regrets from Japan was not going to Jesus' place of burial. It's so bonkers.

Well shit, I'm going to hakodate next week.

Really need a claw machine rematch with Connor where he's not allowed to ask for help with any of them, this time.

The tosa looks a bit like a large rottweiler

Gifted? Gift is a verb now?

LMAO I personally just find the Tomb of Christ attraction as amusing. Not that people dont have the right to be offended but why get angry at Chris for something he had nothing to do with? As someone else in the comments says it's just like some out of pocket eccentric tourist attraction that you find randomly in the countryside

Tosa Inu are used for dog meat ;-;

I used to listened to this podcast regularly. But one time, while I was listening, something that Pete said or something about his demeanor just made me stop the podcast. I’ve tried to listen every once in awhile, but as soon as Pete starts talking, I have to turn it off. Unfortunately, I cant stand his voice or his thoughts now, so I have to turn it off as soon as I hear Chris’ intro for Pete. I’m sure Pete is a nice person in real life, unless this is him in real life, but it’s just hard stop for me these days. I still listen when Chris has Sharla or different guest, but since majority of the podcast is with Pete, I can’t listen anymore.

ITS BEEN

😮

Eat more fish!

Yes, the strange happening is that the Japanese are killing their elderly so not to care for them anymore 😢

Regarding the Jesus stuff and the people offended by you making fun of it: No cultural belief should be and (logically speaking) can be sacrosanct in and off itself, for the offended person has not any more rights on the cultural belief in question than you do. Any believer who denies this is usually unable to defend said belief when critical questions are asked, and they are trying to argue that those questions are unethical to ask in order to come out on top, if not factually then at least "morally". And that is their goal to begin with: "Gaslighted virtue signaling", communicating "I am a good person and you are a bad person and I am even better for calling you out." There is a word for that, even in the Bible, and Jesus quite reportedly had a special place in his heart for this kind of people.

But Whinny is still alive in China *wink* *wink*

Did you know that the Tomb of Christ and other similar landmarks around Japan were established as a push to legitimatize the Japanese Emperor as the highest deity in the World during the Empire of Japan pre WW2? Look into it, it's pretty interesting.

Love you guys and the podcast but the wife and I are sick of Pete not being able to STFU when Chris is talking. Pete, try some give and take and show respect to your co-host. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you.