My favourite manga is "Choueki 339-nen "
In English, it is 339 years in prison.
(J) It's pretty good. (R) I've never heard of that.
You should read it. It's good.
You think I would like it?
Think so.
Eeehhhhh~
(R) Ok, I'll look it up later. (J) Sure.
I used to keep a list of all the things I read when I was younger.
I used to read a new book every 2-3 days
I read SO much.
I would read them all and, like
leave a review for myself so I know about it in the future
Are you like the kind of student who goes to the library in school every day?
Oh YEAH, oh, yeah
Not in school, um, but we had libraries near us.
(J) Ah, ok. (R) Yea, there are libraries all over Cincinnati
Tons and tons of libraries.
Yeah, we went there all the time
I love reading. I read so much. They were all like fantasy books
Obviously, y'know cause my dragon collection, y'know. (laugh)
Fantasy and sci-fi, wooooo~
My favorite books are Tears of Psyche
and Hannoji
Mmm (nod)
Japanese books?
Yep, Japanese books
Mm (nod)
My favorite stand-up comedians are
Louis C.K. and Hannibal Buress
(R) I love them (J) Mm, I Iike them
They're hilarious
I like them too
And my favorite is Maz Jobrani, he's hilarious
I have a backwards tooth
And it's this tooth right here
When I was younger, I had like, perfect teeth
but SURPRISE!! Actually, they weren't perfect teeth
because one of them was a baby tooth
And, apparently, my adult tooth was like this
up in my gums
So I had to get braces
and they pulled it down
And they pulled it down backwards
and then my braces came off
and I had all these messed up teeth
with a backwards tooth
and they were all off center
So, now, 10 years later
I'm finally getting them fixed
I'm like halfway through my Invisalign
And this will be backwards for forever
Probably
but at least the rest of it is going back to normal
finally, so wooooo
My favourite food is agedashi tofu
Deep fried tofu
It's delicious
I'm not a super fan of tofu
Unless it's like nabe (J) It's good
(R) That's great (J) It's great
When I was younger I didn't any traditionnal sports like
softball or soccer or, anything.
Just stuff like bowling and... Archery and... tap dancing!
I did tap-dancing when I was like in... Kindergarten or something?
For one year, until we got to the end of the recital,
and my teacher dressed in one of those giant costumes, erhm, character costumes
She dressed up as Mickey Mouse, and I was absolutely TERRIFIED! (J) Why?
I don't know why I've just never liked those giant costumes that they have like,
In DisneyLand and all that stuff
I just cried, and cried, and refused to get up on the stage until the final recital
And then I quit tap-dancing
'cause I was so scared about it, and I still don't like those giant mascot characters
and I don't like Mickey Mouse at all.
Ok.
It's easier for me to use my left hand to check things off, ooor eat
and my right hand for writing, or play sports like throwing a ball
I think Jun was probably originally left-handed,
but here in Japan, traditionnaly you're supposed to use your right hand for chopsticks and Kanji
I don't know I was more left-handed but... I use both (R) yeah.
So, he was forced to use his right hand for all that stuff so..
He can use both hands for some stuff now, like chopsticks
♪ Fun fact! Dual-wielding chopsticks Jun! ♪
I have no spacial awareness of my body, I'm extremely uncoordinated.
I cannot dance at all, I'm really bad at sports
and I bump into things all day, everyday.
I always have bruises on my legs because I just bump into things
I don't know why (J) Be careful.
My height is about 185 cm, which is about 6'1
And I was 175 cm tall when I was in 6th grade, so I was like this much shorter than I am now.
Really tall
Jun always looked older than his age, but, in a good way.
He looks refined and mature.
In a good way? Thank you.
Yeah, you're super handsome .(J) Ok.
I don't like foods that are more liquid than they are solid.
I know it sounds funny but I just... I gag if I try to eat mushy foods
I love potatoes but I can't eat mashed potatoes
I love ice-cream but I can't eat when it starts melting because it just grosses me out
No one likes melted ice-cream
I like vegetables if they're raw and crunchy, but I can't eat them once they get cooked
I don't know why, I've just always been like that.
I'm not really picky, but I used to hate mushrooms. But my mom puts mushrooms a lot.
So, I don't know, that's maybe why I like mushrooms now.
So I'm planning to make her like mushrooms and vegetables.
NOPE. Nope. No.
I only eat something that can't grow on your body.
Fungi can grow on your body, and it's gross and I'm not gonna eat it.
Ok.
I once got a second degree burn all around my chest, shoulders and back
(J) Outch. (R) I went on a pokerun with my dad, if you don't know what that is,
It's where you ride on a motorcycle with a bunch of people on motorcycle
And at the end you get a hand at poker, and you play poker
with everyone else or something, I don't remember how it worked too much
But it was rainy the whole day, so I was like "I don't need to wear sunscreen"
because I was young and stupid, and then I got extremely sunburnt.
And my skin bubbled up everywhere, it was soooo painful.
Oh my gosh that was painful, I coudln't lay down for like, 2 weeks.
It was really, really bad.
I don't really watch TV shows, I don't even have TV series.
You watch english TV shows with me though? Like, american shows.
That's like mvoies, like really really long
Breaking Bad and House... Yeah they're really good.
I hate ceremonies.
I never went to my highschool graduation ceremony because...
Who wants to stand up in front of 500 people
and have everyone like "woooo congratulations..." (J) You can choose not to go?
(R) Yeah you don't have to go. (J) Really?
(J) We have to go in Japan. (R) I went back a couple months, picked up my diploma
I was like "thank you~" and then peaced out.
Who wants to wait for hours and hours? It's so boring!
I know we make YouTube videos but we're just talking to a camera
I don't like being the center of attention in real life,
I'm not a talkative person in real life.
I don't like being in front of people and then having, just people have their focus on me
and be like "yeeeeah Rachel...", like, I don't like that
I never went to my University graduation, we never had a wedding ceremony
I'm fine, I'm fine with it.
I am OBSESSED with organising my table and my kitchen
He keeps stuff clean, thank youヽ(*≧ω≦)ﾉ
I just can't stand mess...
I don't like mess either, but I just don't have enough room for myself.
I hired a pet detective one, when I had a cat run away
so he could try to find my cat for me
When I was growing, I had a cat that was... Kind of my cat
but you know, I was a kid so my parents took care of it for me.
And he died earlier than he should has because we didn't take him to the vet
At that time, I was able to drive myself so I felt personnally responsible for it
I could have taken my cat to the vet
And so... I promised that, from then on, I would always do whatever it takes
no matter how much it costs to take care of my animals
And so later on, when my family got another cat and the cat ran away
I was like "I'm gonna do whatever it takes to bring this cat back!"
So I hired a pet detectivefor $175 even though I was working part-time,
I was trying to pay for college, and I didn't have the money but,
I made that promise to myself and... He still couldn't find my cat
After that I was like "I don't deserve to take care of an animal anymore"
So I didn't own an animal, or take care of animals at all for a long time, after that.
Until we got our pets here.
My hobbies are cooking, and gardening, and bonsaï, and aquarium.
I'm really Oji-san. (TN: a grandpa)
They're cool hobbies, I like those, they are cool thing (J) OK, thank you :)
I am obsessed with OCTOPUSES
I LOVE octopuses, they're my favorite animals.
I think they are so beautiful and intelligent, and cool.
And I've never gone to Japan, or gone to the Airforce
I probably would have been, like, an octopus person.
I would have just got to study them forever.
Later on I would love to, still, you know, like
after we retire, just go around and take videos of octopuses
Or something, that would be really cool.
Make another channel, "Rachel and the octopuses"
RACHEL THE OCTOPUS CHANNEL!
"Hey guyyys, here's another video about octopuses"
I'll totally do that.
I'm going to be a 70 year old woman making videos about my octopus.
And I'll be eating octopus right next to you.
I like pretty much every type of sports, except swimming.
I'm just not really good at it.
I can't remember names or dates. For anything.
I have a horrible memory.
My treasure is this pen Rachel gave me.
It's a mechanical pencil.
I love it.
Thank you.
I was a huuuge tomboy until I was 17 years old.
I never wore a skirt, a dress or heels or the color pink or anything
I played outside in the woods and the forest and the creeks and stuff.
It was fun.
I used to work at a really expensive restaurant,
but all I did was doing the dishes.
Oh yeah! Everyone asks about Jun's cooking experience
But ... That's all he did. He worked at a restaurant but he just did the dishes.
And stuff. (J) Yeah.
And scoop the rice and put the rice in a bowl, and make it look nice.
That's pretty much all I did.
He's just really good at cooking.
He's a cooking person.
Thank you guys for watching this, I hope we're not super boring people
or anything, and yeah see you next time, bye! (J) Bye!