We talk about how we entertain ourselves here in Japan and how that differs from the way we entertained ourselves in the United States.

Transcript

K: So lately I’ve been thinking a lot about entertainment.

C: Because you’re bored?

K: No, because I’m not bored. 

C: Oh okay.

K: But I feel like my entertainment choices have changed so much from the United States to Japan.

C: Yeah. We lived down the street from an amusement park in the United States, so that was our usual weekend.

K: No it was not. We lived down the street from a park called Great America at the time. And then it changed names to like… Paramount Great America?

C: Yeah, and now I think it’s the 49er’s football stadium.

K: Really? They tore down Great America?

C: I don’t know if they tore it down or just built the stadium in the parking lot. I’m so unclear about that. I know that it’s the 49er’s stadium.

K: Really?

C: Yeah.

K: It’s in San Jose?

C: Yeah.

K: What are you talking about? The San Francisco 49’ers are now the San Jose 49’ers?

C: Santa Clara.

K: Are you serious?

C: I don’t think they changed their name. I think they just changed their location.

K: What are you talking about? This is bananas. Are you serious?

C: Yes.

K: What? They’re the Santa Clara 49’ers?

C: No, I’m not sure. I think they’re still the San Francisco 49’ers, but they moved their stadium to down the street where Great America was.

K: But how can they be the San Francisco 49’ers if they’re in Santa Clara? It’s like the Oakland Raiders still being the Oakland Raiders while having their stadium be in L.A. That doesn’t make any sense.

C: But how can the name of the city be San Francisco when it should be like Saint Francisco.

K: What are you talking about?

C: I’m talking about California naming is just absurd.

K: Okay. So, anyways, right now we currently live down the street from the Nagoya Dome.

C: Right.

K: And I don’t think we’ve ever been to anything at the dome. We’ve been to things in the parking lot of the dome.

C: Right.

K: But I don’t think I’ve ever attended anything inside the dome.

C: I haven’t either. And they have like toy fests, they have baseball games, that’s their main thing about half the year, they’ve got baseball games. But they’ve also got concerts, they’ve got toy fests. I haven’t attended anything at the dome. I know Rasta has. He’s gone to a baseball game at the dome.

K: Yeah. So, in the United States, when we lived in the U.S. we went to concerts. 

C: Right.

K: And we went to sporting events.

C: Yup.

K: So I think it’s weird that we live right down the street from a major venue for both of those and do neither.

C: Yes.

K: So I don’t know if it’s my age or my chronic illnesses getting worse or what, but I don’t go out as much as I used to.

C: Yeah. I’m just gonna say it’s our age. We’re just mature enough now to entertain ourselves at home.

K: I blame it on the PhD man. Because any Sunday that I don’t have to do stuff for my PhD, I’m just like… I’m gonna sleep in, and I’m gonna luxuriate. And man when I’m not doing a PhD weekend.

C: You’re wild. You’re like “I’m gonna sleep in” and at 11 am you’re like “man, I slept in so late.”

K: And I feel like puzzling, changing our main hobby from things we do outside to puzzling. Because now I feel like “oohh, babe, let’s you know, let’s pour ourselves a cocktail and do some really cool puzzling”

C: Yup, there is that. And then there’s like “oohh, what’s coming to the dome? Okay, we can spend 300 dollars on tickets and entertainment for a couple hours, or we