Japan has hundreds of festivals, some famous, and some less so. We tried to talk about those, but only got to a few because we also talk about other entertainment and digress a lot.

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K: So, lately I’ve been thinking about festivals and holidays in Japan, and I think that’s because we’re coming off the holiday season, and we’re right in between Valentine’s Day and White Day. 

C: Yes, we are. So, White Day is the celebration of the color white. 

K: (laughs) Oh, right. If you’re outside Japan, White Day can mean – that’s a really offensive phrase, right? “White Day.”

C: Yup.

K: So, waito, it’s waito day.

C: Yes.

K: White Day in Japan is – so, I really like this system of Valentine’s Day and White Day in Japan. So, Valentine’s Day is the day when the woman gives chocolates, and White Day is when the men give chocolates. So, we’re not going to talk about any corporate connections for that, or any of the drawbacks. We’re talking about just the romantic level of it, and I like the fact that the woman gives the gift first, then the man reciprocates to the level that the woman sets. At least, in my mind. So, in my mind, if the woman – there’s like home, inside… what’s that? I always – Tokyo Hands, it’s Tokyu Hands.

C: Tokyu Hands, yes. 

K: Tokyu Hands. There are these kits for you to make chocolate from scratch and mold. So, I feel like what I don’t know is at what level of chocolate making and chocolateering is the tennis bracelet? 

C: Mmm.

K: So, for those that don’t know, you can explain what – I do not own a tennis bracelet, just for the record. You can explain a tennis bracelet for the folks at home.

C: So, a tennis bracelet is… a bracelet made out of fake diamonds that you pretend are real. 

K: (laughs) No. No. No fraudulent dive-ins. The real of it.

C: Oh, okay. That kind of tennis bracelet. So, a tennis bracelet is a bracelet made out of diamonds that you give to your wife to apologize for getting caught having an affair. 

K: Oh my god. You are just so jaded today.

C: You already said you don’t have a tennis bracelet.

(laughter)

K: High five on that one. That is not why I don’t have a tennis bracelet. I don’t have a tennis bracelet because I have something similar to a tennis bracelet that I think is much more beautiful. You bought me a sapphire bracelet, and it has every kind of sapphire there is.

C: Yes.

K: And I think that that was much more beautiful, and when we were talking about tennis bracelets, I was like, “I don’t get them.”

C: Yeah, I don’t get them either.

K: Like, a ring of diamonds on your wrist.

C: But I don’t have an expensive watch, either.

K: Yeah.

C: I have had watches in the past. I’ve had pocket watches but not wristwatches because wristwatches have always bothered me. I think the last wristwatch I had was a swatch watch I had when I was in high school.

K: Okay. I did not know you during the swatch watch era.

C: Correct.

K: Though when we met, I used to love saying, “I got my swatch watch on. I know what time it is.” (laughs)

C: Yeah. I was like, “you don’t have a swatch watch on. I’m looking to see what you’ve chosen for your swatch watch, and you are not wearing a swatch watch.” 

K: Yeah, no. I was actually wearing a Gucci watch. 

C: Yeah?

K: Yeah. I had a Gucci watch.

C: Okay. I don’t remember that.

K: Yeah. So, when Chad and I met, I was still exotic dancing and – I had stopped working – I was no longer a lady of the night because I exotic danced during the day. (laughs)

C: So like on My Name Is Earl – that show, the daytime stripper. 

K: Yeah. The daytime stripper