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0:00 Intro / Ricky Is a Human (Mitch forgets to roll intro video) 2:30 The TV Story 7:30 Sakurajima Foot Bath 13:10 Mitch Is Obsessed with the I've Had It Podcast 14:55 Idiot Streamers Invading Japan 28:00 Jonny's Scandal Continues 31:50 Discussing ONE OK ROCK's Concert 35:10 Looms and The Odyssey 36:50 Same-Sex Marriage in Japan 40:51 Don't Come to Shibuya for Halloween 43:10 Mitch Meets His First Japanese Swiftie 44:55 Japanese Woman Stopped at Hawaiian Immigration Suspected of...