K: So, lately I’ve been thinking about how things become traditions, and how those traditions become obligations, and how those obligations become universals. (laughs) C: Like the universal “have to” you must do this. K: Yeah. Okay, so for example, listicles. Right? C: Right. K: So, listicles C: You know how I feel about listicles […]

K: So, lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how much I miss our son. So, when I get sick, I get really melancholy. And… I’ve been sick for about 4 weeks now, and I’ve been melancholy the entire time. And I’ve just been wanting our son to be move back in. C: Yeah. So, […]

K: So, lately I’ve been thinking about how this is not the Christmas episode. I don’t care if you’re listening to this on December 25th. I am an atheist. I do not believe in Jesus Christ. And, if you are a Christian, like super-duper Christian, then you know that – if you believe in Jesus […]

K: So, lately I’ve been thinking about the good things that happened in 2020 for us – for me personally and for us as a family – but I did not – I so wanted to make a listicle of the 20 best things that happened in 2020.  But I did not. (laughs) C: I […]

K: So, lately I’ve been thinking about (clears throat) sorry to start with clearing my throat, but lately I’ve been thinking about the need for light escapism. So, today’s episode is intended to be whimsical. And… my personality – whimsy is things I don’t approve of in Japan versus things I don’t approve of in […]

This week, we’re missing Hakone terribly. Japan is experiencing record COVID cases, and we’re not going to be able to travel this year physically, so we thought we’d do so by revisiting our last vacation. We’re in Hakone, Japan, this week! We were planning to take the week off and run something we recorded recently, […]

K: So, lately I’ve been thinking about what a typical job is – like, how Japan and the United States view typical jobs. And, like, I feel that the United States is – has a broader category of what typical jobs are than Japan does because I’m a therapist, and in the United States, if […]

K: So, first things first, I don’t know if y’all can tell, but we got out new mics up and functioning. Thank y’all so, so much. We value every single patron, and we love every single Musick Note. You guys are the best. But y’all put Chad to work today, boy. (laughs) C: Well, I […]

K: So, lately I’ve been thinking about the difference of being agendered in the United States versus being agendered in Japan. And also (coughs) excuse me, also I’ve been thinking about the differences in the way people describe their identifiers and their adjectives. C: And we’re talking in English here in both cases or… K: […]

(Some talk of sex in this episode.) K: So, lately I have been thinking about dating apps. And… it crossed my mind that I didn’t do dating apps, but I did OkCupid online one night as a joke, and we talked about it once on one of the other casts, but you did online dating, […]