Some places don’t require much of the local language, as long as you speak English. Others… do. Wondering where Nagoya is on this spectrum? And where Nagoya is geographically? We can’t necessarily provide either answer, but we have opinions.

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K: So, lately I’ve been thinking about how much Japanese is enough Japanese. 

C: Like, are you trying to find the minimum? 

K: (laughs) Yes, I am. 

C: Okay.

K: So, like, how much is the minimum in your opinion – the minimum Japanese that you need to be able to speak to function in daily life in Japan?

C: I think it depend son where you’re at. I think Tokyo, it’s none.

K: You think at Tokyo, it’s none?

C: Yea, I think at Tokyo it’s none.

K: Okay, what do you think – so, we live in Nagoya. 

C: Right.

K: Which is, uhh I always get this wrong, but I think I’m going to get it right today – we’re southeast from Tokyo?

C: No, southeast from Tokyo is the ocean. We are west.

K: What are you talking about?

C: We are west of Tokyo. 

K: What are you talking about? Are you saying there is none of – the island of Honshu, which is the big island that we live on in Japan, that is southeast of Tokyo that is not ocean?

C: I think it depends on exactly where you define Tokyo to be, but Tokyo Bay is east of Tokyo. 

K: But south of that. Like, southeast of that.

C: Is ocean.

K: No because you describe us – you describe Honshu as a banana, and we live in the middle of the banana. 

C: So, we live

K: So, that means there’s a part of the island that curves to the right, which would be east. 

C: We live west, southwest of Tokyo.

K: But are – oooh, Googlers get my back because we don’t google things, but I believe that one day there’s going to be a pantheon of Musick Notes that google facts because I am so trying to get the hashtag #KisstopherWasRight. 

C: That’s an interesting word. So, a pantheon. So, our listeners are now gods?

K: Yes. A pantheon of Musick Notes.

C: Okay.

K: I think they’re going to be google gods that listen to us.

C: Are they not going to be an orchestra of Musick Notes? 

K: Oh, that would be better. 

C: So, there could be an orchestrated campaign.

K: Yeah. Okay, I’ll go with orchestra. But, Musick Notes know that I think of you as gods. That’s going to offend a lot of people that haven’t listened to our earlier episodes that don’t know I’m an atheist. (laughs) So, if you’re a Christian listener, and I just blaspheme, and that makes you stop listening, sorry about it. But you should follow us on Twitter. (laughs) I’m just being more and more disrespectful. I need to stop now. I need to stop. Because you’re looking at me like, “stop now.” Chad has this face that he makes whenever he’s like, “oooh. Just stop, Kisstopher. Just stop.” Now you’re just going to be silent?

C: I’m just seeing what more is going to be drawn out.

K: Drawn out from what?

C: From the silence.

K: What silence?

C: What more will emerge when I’m silent?

K: What are you talking about?

C: I’m just talking about if I don’t say anything, then you do. You fill the air. 

K: (laughs) 

C: With your words.

K: (laughs)

C: In English.

K: So, no, legit – if you are a person of faith, and we ever offend you, I apologize. I’m not trying to come for anybody’s faith. I completely respect everybody’s right to believe what they believe, and I just ask that everybody respects my right to not.

C: Yeah.

K: Yeah.

C: So, one of the things that I believe is that Nagoya is actually west, sligh