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Hello and welcome to our weeb there yet in exploration and education and anime. I'm your anime idiot, patrick dugan.
I'm an anime expert, D hollander.
And I'm brenda mccullough. Your anime ducati testra citra NCR makana nira.
Did you just find the longest name for a motorbike or moped you could find?
Let's see. Let me dakota me out of my process on there.
Most of the time we need to just delve into what your process, figure out what angle you're coming at. So don't act like this is an uncommon occurrence.
You can't open a door and throw a bucket of fish heads at you. What the fuck? How do we get here? How do we get to this point?
Please explain this.
The fish heads. Not why I did it.
Come on. That's the bit. This is a reference to Gala. Gala island from 90 94. Yeah. No, it's just a very long motorcycle name. That's all I had.
Nice.
That's all I got. I heard the word ducati, I was like, yeah, that's a motorcycle. And then the rest is gibberish.
Might as well just be reading the license plate. Anything about it? But yeah, we have a special treat for me. My nostalgia shows ribbonquest on Twitter. Just a real gem. Gave us the moped anime for anyone I don't know, this comes up. I'm a moped kid at heart, so this is geared specifically to me.
I feel like it's less pertinent to ask if any of us have heard of this show and better for dugan to ask us if we have any moped experience. And the answer is no.
Let's talk about the pet.
No to both.
Yeah. I can't say I have.
Yeah, this show came out in spring, so it is pretty dang new, but yeah. You all got any experience on that? Steel hog?
Absolutely not.
Say that.
I can't imagine anyone's calling a moped a hog.
Come on. Getting the duvy high school circle.
It feels like it'd be great for, like, a small city. If it's like, I don't need a car, but I don't want to walk everywhere. It's like, oh, this would be the dream. Which would be, like, the exact size of a location I would like to live in and not fuck in La. But I know a guy I worked with who has a moped and just like, boy, that's got to suck on these highways and streets and stuff in, like, a major city.
Hopefully he lives close to work.
He has to.
When I was moving out here, I thought about it. I was like, I'm out of college. I can put money into the actual things that will get me places. Let me look into it. Spent like, two days on La roads and was like, no, I will die immediately. That is not going to happen.
Yeah, I can't imagine. My boss at the same company. He had a motorcycle for a while. And he was one of those guys in the full jumpsuits, like helmet, like full protective gear, even. He got into, like, two accidents. He's like, yeah, I'm done that. Fuck this. I was like, yeah, I can't imagine.
No thanks.
Yeah, I have opinions about motorcycles, just that they're unsafe. I don't like them. But that's just me. If you live for the thrill, it's for you. But also, please be safe.
Please be safe.
If you're one of those people just wearing, like, flip flops and gym shorts on the wild way, I pray for you and your family. Yeah, I saw well, yeah, I saw.
A woman in a tank top and denim shorts one time. She had a helmet on, of course, but I was just like, girl oh my God. I just remembered one time I saw a guy riding a motorcycle in like, the middle aged man uniform of cargo shorts, new balanced shoes, and a polo shirt. That was great. And for a second I was like, is that my dad? My dad dresses.
If someone just like that in high school, it could have been me.
I respect that man for doing that.
I'm going to be badass, but I'm going to be comfortable.
I'm comfy. I know what I'm about.
Yeah, the dream when you just give up. I love it. aspire for if only I had that.
Ideal experience of having a small city growing up in and riding bikes to work at the working age of 13, 7 miles each way. So I was like, that's not bad. This sucks on a bike.
Something else.
So yeah, that's where I got and then I fell in love. And then I just couldn't do it anymore. I went to too big of cities.
Got to go back to Portland, Maine. Somewhat sizable, but manageable.
Dreamy.
Just every show we talk about, every show that we watch that is not set in a major metropolitan area. I'm, like, could go for some of that right now.
Just pushing you a little further.
I'm closer and closer to being a hermit every day.
I mean, you can do that in the city. I do it all the time.
Yeah, but a real one, you know.
In a cave.
Growing my mouldy cheese and mushrooms, and that's all I eat.
If you let that cheese go long enough, it'll turn into the mushrooms too.
Oh, man.
Anyway, mopez not becoming a reckless from society.
Yeah. Well, we'll be real looking into this show. We found episode one. Nothing happens.
Nothing.
If you want a quick introduction to get to, like, the meat of the show, like we did watch the trailer. And that much information is stretched into 22 minutes for episode one. So yeah, just do that and then join us. Come with us as we watch episodes two through four. Girl assume loom zoom. alexa put lights into Vibe mode.
Wow. dugan picked two Vibe shows in a row for his pick.
We chose the opposite. We chose chaos.
Yeah, chaos. I can accept no more in my life at this point. Delicious. Those sweet vibes. If you're here for narrative look, because we're just here for vibes.
Just diving. I actually watched episode one way back when this was first recommended because I'm like, yeah, I could use chill right now. And, yeah, I think there's maybe, like, four lines of dialogue in the whole first episode. It's just set pieces and scenery. It's beautiful.
A silent film.
Pretty much, yeah.
Here's a special bonus for this episode. We're covering four episodes because I'll tell you right now, episode one, girl. I honestly did not get her name.
I had to look it up.
I need one of you to tell me if you want me to call her anything other than main girl. Sorry, let me write that down.
What was it? One more time?
Ko guma.
Girl is shorter. Perfect. But, yeah. Episode one, sad, lonely girl. No parents, no friends, no hobbies or interests. She has a hill. She has to ride up to go to school. So rather than riding a bike, she gets a used moped. Some people died on this moped. Don't worry, it's not that kind of show.
Okay.
I was like, oh, wait, yeah, sorry. We'll talk about episode r1 quick. Yeah. She's like, hey, why is this moped so cheap? And the guy selling it is like, oh, yeah, like, three people died on it. Does that bother you? She's like, no. And it's never addressed again.
Excellent.
Yeah. Any other anime, that would be like a horror element, but no haunted moped.
It's just herbie, the love bug, but as a moped.
Just vibe in on a haunted moped. What we're here for. But, yeah, she buys stuff, and that's episode one and learns you have to put gas in a motor vehicle. Weird. So, picking up episode two, she's riding to school. This is her, like, first time taking it out into public. So she pulls up to the bike rack and watches someone else on a moped and uses that to learn how to store her helmet. Because she knows nothing about moped. She just needed to get around a little quicker. So she's learning on the job. So she goes into class and no one's paying attention. Everyone's doing their own thing and immediately relatable character. She imagines just standing up and being like, hey, I got a moped. And everyone's like, wow, cool. An interesting thing. Let's talk. And she says, none of that anxiety.
Yeah, that's too much attention.
No, thank you.
Being perceived. Not for me. So she imagines that, but just sits and stays quiet. It's lunchtime. She's eating alone. There's a line at the microwave in the classroom. So she just eats her food cold because, again, too much interaction.
Yeah, Jack done that.
Is there a space on the bingo card for the two relatable?
There should be.
We might want to swap out Dead Parent Club and Child Living alone because those tend to overlap a lot. So we could probably make space for it.
Yeah, perfect. But, yeah. So she's eating alone, still establishing she's lonely. She goes to Home EC class and they're making drawstring bags, and she decides, oh, if I just make it a little bit bigger, I can put my helmet in there and cool, I can start upgrading my bike. This show has a very satisfying video gamey like upgrade, but yeah, so another girl kind of, like, makes fun of her for being poor and is like, oh, do you need all that material? Because you can't afford it? And she's like, yeah, it's for my moped. And they're like, oh, shit. Cool. A slightly more realistic version of what you were imagining before. Do you, like, ride? Yeah. Goodbye. As she says, like, yeah, it's for a helmet. One of her classmates overhears that and picks up on it. So she goes up to her and is like, hey, this is our new friend raco. I'll give at least one of these characters a name interchangeably for the two of them. She's like, hey, I just heard you out of moped. Is this true?
Yes.
I'm afraid she really is that shot?
Yes. And the girl is like, oh, cool. I'd love to see it after class. Yes. Okay.
Go away.
Please throw up. But yeah. So after class, she tries to duck away because it was an empty threat. She didn't actually want to go down.
Who's a threat?
But Rachel is like, hey, you forgot your helmet bag. So she catches up and they go and see the bikes. So she shows it to racho and she's like, oh, sweet. This is, like, so old school and retro and gets really into the gear aspect of things because she's also a Moped writer and has a cub as well.
Yeah, cub club.
So she's, like, geeking out over how cool it is, and then she goes and gets hers and she has an old postal cub used by the mail service. And it's so old school. It's like before these regulations that I'm bragging about.
It's dangerous.
But, yeah, she's just super into it and is like, oh, sorry, I got to get going. Sorry I did all the talking and you should probably talk to me next time.
Okay, bye.
And then she takes off, so she heads out as well. So the next day, she's getting ready for school and she rides there. And there's an empty spot next to reika's bike. I guess she can just saddle up there, but she walks into class and all the bravery she can muster, all the power in her tank, she gives us. Good morning. Good morning. I'd just say it's slightly louder than she did because I don't think my mic would pick up on it. Yeah, that's all. She gets out and the girl doesn't really respond. And she's like, oh, we aren't friends. Okay, cool.
Good.
I'll go back to ignoring everyone.
You only like me when I'm on my bike.
So yeah, at lunch that day, one of rico's friends is like, hey, do you want to come meet with us? And she's like, no, I'm going to meet up with a friend, and no, okay, cool. And then she turns around and sits with kokuma. She was the friend.
Wow.
So they're like, yeah, let's go eat out by our bike so we can talk shop.
True covers only eat on their wheels, not their hardship covers.
I'm not out on the open road. I'm not living. So she's like, yeah, being a little bit more friendly, opening up a touch. Still extremely reserved, and still needs to be adopted by the extrovert. But yeah. So she's like, yeah, I like being on my bike even when it's not moving. And main girls like, yeah, I haven't really gone anywhere yet. I don't know, I'm afraid I can't do anything. And rico is like, well, yeah, but you got freedom now, so you'll figure it out. So the main girl leaves after school and sees that rico has already left. So we're not friends anymore.
It's all over fleeting.
I ruined something between our classes. But on her way home, she gets to a big intersection, and she's thinking at the red light, she's like, I can go anywhere. So she goes to the supermarket. Fuck livin'it up wild. She's like, I don't usually go after school because it's a whole separate trip, but now I can. So yeah, she buys some more, like, dinner package, food things. And as she's leaving, she remembers, oh, shoot, I have to get a chain for my bike. Oh, know what? I'll just go back tomorrow. Opening up new horizons, something to look forward to. So, yeah, that's episode two. And again, plot recap girl talked to another girl about mopeds and went to the store. As much complication as I can take in my life.
Exactly what I needed. One of my only notes of that episode was, damn, gas is cheap over there. Because I was like, yeah, it is 149. Again, I was like, imagine, didn't even pay attention.
So, episode three, Kaguma gets on her moped to leave for school. She pulls on her gloves and helmet, and off she goes. She says it's been a few days since she got the bike, and it's like an adjustment. But now she can do a bunch of things without having to, like, think too hard about it. So it's getting to be muscle memory. And in episode two, we see her reading the owner's manual, like, a lot. So she's learning. But there's another change too. She's got a friend, a gal pal. Wow. It's lunchtime once more. Her and Rachel go out to their bikes. Rachel is talking about the riding she's going to do during the summer. Something about like an eight hour tour. And she notices that koguma is eating cold curry. And she changes the subject. She's like, let's not talk about my cold lunch. And she asks Rachel what she's going to do after the eight hour tour. And she says, I'll probably do something real big since I could carry so much in my storage box. And koguma is like, that seems handy. And Rachel is like, do you want one? And then she's like, Give me a second. So racho goes off and calls somebody, and she's like, all right, we're going to go somewhere together after school.
Let me call my guy. I got a guy for this.
Yeah, let me call my Moped man. So they go for a walk. They stop at a convenience store and reko picks up a couple of things and tells koguma to buy them. And then they go meet an older man about a bike, and it has a small storage box. And racho, like, examines the bike. And the bike itself isn't in great shape, but they're here just to take off the box. So reko guides koguma through removing it, and they thank the old ma'am. And koguma realizes that the stuff they got from the convenience store was for him. So she offers it to him and they're on their way. I don't know if it's true, but the Moped community in this town seems very nice. I don't know if it's like that everywhere.
Going back to barter system because you trust someone on the same vehicle as you.
I was wondering, is this what people with jeeps feel like? Because one of my favorite stories is a friend of mine who was working, I think, at walgreen at the time, and he got pulled aside by a manager because he was complained about by another coworker because he didn't do the jeep wave at them when they were in the parking lot because they both had jeeps. And I was like, Is that a real story? And I lost my mind that someone would complain of like, I didn't get the jeep wave.
That was the subaru community. So she puts the storage box on her bike. It looks great. She's so happy. And they did this in the school parking lot. So a teacher comes out and he offers her his old basket from the front of his old cub. So now she's got so much storage.
Oh, shit. You're a cubber too? I'm a cubber.
As soon as you join, you see them pop up everywhere.
Yeah. And Rachel says that parts come and go. So just like, ask the universe for them, manifest them, and they might come.
I loved this dynamic of giving general Moped advice, but also being like, hey, be a person. Let me use thinly veiled motorcycle moped metaphors to be like, yeah, if you talk to people and say you're interested in what you want, they can help you with that. I know.
So yeah, kaguma sets off too, after putting her backpack in the storage box. And she tries to pick up more speed than usual, but the wind hurts her eyes. So now she's thinking, maybe I need a wind visor. She's eating dinner, and she looks at her helmet, and she realizes that it has a place to put one, like, three little spots above wherever above the face. So she looks at the label to see where she might be able to get one. The next day, they're back at school eating lunch again, and koguma asks if she can see raco's helmet. So she lets her try it on, and she asks if they're expensive. And Rachel is like, yeah, they can be. And koguma says that she wants a helmet that blocks the wind, and raco says the closest place to buy one is probably kofu. But we have the Internet, and their search engine was called goggles.
Oh, I forgot about that.
Yeah, loved it.
Legally dissimilar brand name.
Yeah, very good.
Legally dissimilar, but plot relevant brand name.
Yeah, this is the Moped search engine.
So yeah, only for Mopeds.
So rayko was, like, looking at stuff before searching for face shields, but they're expensive. And then koguma sees a guy in the library that has safety goggles. So she goes up to him and she's like, hey, where did you get those? And he's like, oh, you can get them at, like, the hardware store. And she's like, oh, you think I could use them on a motorbike? And he's like, yeah, I've seen people do that. So after school, she goes to a hardware store to picks them up, and she also picks up a chain lock. So yay, now she can go a little faster. And that night, she has a dream about riding her bike through a field of lovely yellow flowers. What a nice dream.
Very achievable when you live and dream about your bike.
She wakes up the next morning happy to have dreamt of anything. She goes to school, and Rachel notices that she's, like, happier than usual. And she goes over and talks to her about how she had a helmet without a face shield at first too, but when she got one with a face shield, she felt just as happy as koguma looks. So after school, koguma expresses that she's, like, excited to ride around more. And then before Rachel leaves, she gives her her phone number. And then koguma is like, when I.
Got my license to drive sorry, no additional thought.
You're bottling something else.
We all know it's gay.
We all know the subtext.
Yeah.
So Kuguma is like, when I got my license, it didn't feel like a big deal, but now that I've gotten rico's phone number, I feel really happy. I feel, like, accepted into the community. And she also told her to drive safely, and that really meant something to her. She's like, I've got no money, no parents, no gold, but at least I've got my bike, baby.
At this point I was like, this is a really weird Honda commercial. It's just like my life was meaningless. But then I got a cub.
Thank goodness.
Family, no prospects, no hobbies. Everything was gray and dough.
If you're not on a Honda, you're an orphan.
Hey, you might be an orphan if you're on a Honda, but you're a happy orphan.
Yeah, but yeah, now she feels like she's got purpose because she has to take care of her bike and also she can go wherever she wants now. yay. And that's episode three.
Yeah. I think she says like the line of like something a friend can say to you, you can take and that's fine. But something another Cub rider says to you, I take that with sincerity and I take hold. And I was like, damn, okay. Feel like I would trust a friend a little more than everybody else. Yeah, just some other dude on a bike.
My doctor told me I only have a couple of weeks to live, but he drives a yamaha.
I don't know if I can believe what he said. I don't know. Some dude I saw drunk sleeping on a Cub. He said I'm good to go and I think I trust him a little more. So then we get episode four and we see them. They're finishing up like their final exams right before summer vacation. So they're all planning on what they're going to be doing. Some people are traveling this or that, some people are getting jobs. And the girls talk about what they're going to do. And we see Kaguma talking to us like a school advisor or a teacher about job placement programs and stuff. And he's talking to her about job of basically being a courier, transporting papers from one school to another nearby school and then transporting those papers back. I guess they don't have fax machines in this economy.
Make a student do it.
Yeah. And so she's like, give me some time to think about it. I'll consider it. So we see her the next day up early at 06:00. A.m. Going out for a scoot and find out she's kind of scouting out the route. She's she's taking the route and seeing how, you know, difficult it will be and if it will be a feasible job for her, which is a smart move. You'll plan out the route ahead of time and we see it at school.
Figuring out parking before you go anywhere.
Spent three days planning out where you want to go for a restaurant and you can park easily or not, can't be me. And that day at school, they have lunch. They're out by their bikes because why would you ever not eat on your Cub? It's your cub. And Rachel, he's like, oh, you drove out on the route, you scouted up. She's like, yeah. It's like, oh, you got a little fancy lunch too to celebrate. Aren't you eating your chickens before they hatch? I'm like, that's not the same. But yeah. Kaguma bought, like, a fancy lunch from where she rode out to as, like a little reward for herself. And then she goes to talk to the teacher. And he says, like, well, it's a school business. You got to be representing the school. So you got to be wearing your school uniform. She's like, it's a long drive. I'm on a moped, like with the skirt and stuff. It's a long skirt, so I might get caught in something. Like, can I just wear my gym uniform? He's like, yeah, okay. I thought there'd be more of an issue with the way they presented the scene. He's like, yeah, that makes sense. Okay, yeah.
There are a couple of setups in this episode that I was like, oh, no. This could potentially be stressful. But then the show was like, nah.
Got you worry about it.
We registered how much stress? We changed the episode. As you're watching it, we know you can't deal with that.
We have multiple endings. It just contours to your stress level. That happened in episode one. She runs out of gas at, like, a convenience store. I was like, oh, fuck. This would fucking suck. Like, I've been here. And she's like, oh, wait, there's an emergency tank. Okay, I'll just ride to the gas station to get more gas. Was like, oh my god. It very much was that.
So?
Yeah.
She convinces them that she can just wear her gym clothes instead. And then after school, she's talking to brake and she's saying like, oh, yeah, I'm going to be traveling around for summer vacation. Put a few miles on my hog. Where are you going? It's like, well, I'm going to go somewhere pretty far away, but also kind of near. And she looks up wistfully. And I'm like, I don't know. Like mountains.
I don't know what I don't know the geography.
Yeah, we don't see what she's looking at. So I'm just like and then while she's riding, kokuma notices her mileage and sees that she's already over 500 km. It's like, I got to get an oil change. That's when I was like, ah, I should probably also get an oil change. I haven't done that since I got my car. So she goes back to the shop where she bought the moped, goes to see her mechanic dad, dad cannon. And he helps her out. He shows her how to change the oil, tells her what she needs to do. You got to do this. You got checked the oil. It's going to be dark when you poured out and stuff. Tells her what kind of oil would be best for her and stuff. And he goes, all right. I'll be like, ¥500. She's like, oh, that's it? He's like, yeah, it's like an introductory course. I'll teach you, like, once or twice. And then after that, you got to do it on your own. He's like, thank you very much, dad cannon. She rides off and on the way home, she gets some new boots and a watch to help her with her job. Because she took the job. It's working time.
Yay.
So we see. The next day she sets out for work delivering papers between the school twice a day. So she does it in the morning and then rides out and does that in the afternoon as well. And she gets the papers from her teacher, rides on out, gets to the new school, looks around a bit and delivers them to the teacher. And then after the teacher's stomach looking them over and revealing it, she's like, all right, you're good to go. Oh, why don't you take like a break? I'll get some teachers like, no, I got to be back in time, so I don't want to loaf around. She's very diligent and she put the head out. And right as she's about to head out, the teacher comes running out. I'm like, I forgot the other paper. I was supposed to give you papers to take back with you. I think it's the most emotion we see on her face of like.
Because they set it up. The man teacher at her school says, like, oh, make sure you grab the papers from them on your way back. So when she wasn't grabbing them, I was like, oh no. Oh God, she's going to leave and then she's going to have to go all the way back.
We heard you were stressed. It's okay. The teacher remembered we got you. Yeah, I think her displeasure was more like in herself for forgetting it. But it's just like the teacher was like, oh, I forgot to give you the papers. She's just like, this is like a really disgusted face. But yeah, she gets them. She's like, oh, sorry for forgetting you forgot them. But I also forgot them and I was reminded of them. So that's also on mesa. Sorry for that. She ends up returning back to her school, gives them to the teacher, and he goes, all right, stays easy. It was just one trip, so here's your pay. See you tomorrow. So that's all she had to do for the day. And then we get a little montage of her doing the job, you know, driving back and forth, earning that paper. And on one of the trips, she's takes off her helmet and like, sets the bike aside and notices she's already over 1000 km. She's pulling up that mileage or the kilometer edge. And she's like, oh, damn. Okay. Dad cannon told me I'd have to get oil change to like every 500 basically. So back I go. And sure enough, she goes back and changing the oil for her again. And she's looking at the oil. He's like, oh yeah, you're kind of riding this pretty gently, maybe like too gently, like. You're it's you're like, barely using it.
Put the pedal to the metal.
She's like, what do you mean barely? Like, too gently. And we don't really get info on that. And I don't know enough about motor vehicles to really understand.
Skeptical.
I think it's just kind of like use it a bit more. Put it through its paces to make sure it can handle itself in case something happens. So she leaves the mechanics. And as she's riding back, it's starting to rain a little. And this just got me really whistle. Like, god, remember rain? Remember what I was like?
I will tell you. Rain on a moped sucks so hard. Rain hitting you at 40 miles an hour is not good. It really stings.
Raining. As she's about to go on her second delivery of that day. And as she gets to other school, the one she doesn't go to, she walks in and sees she's just fucking soaked. And she's just like, oh, god, take a towel, sit down, relax, dry off a bit.
She looks so sad, so upset.
She's already like a sad puppy by default, soaker doesn't help. And teacher says like, oh, well, I graded the papers I needed to. And we don't actually have any new papers for you to take back. But it's still raining, so waiting out the storm here, it's like a summer storm, so you can just wait it out here for a bit. So she does, and they talk a little bit. She's like, oh, are you a teacher? Like, what are you, a club advisor? She's like, oh, yeah, we never really talk. I'm the literary club advisor.
I was like, oh, she better be careful.
We know what happens in that club. But yeah, that's all they say. And she's like, okay. And then the scene changes. I was like, oh, all right.
I know each other.
Yeah, I guess. I don't know if that pays off or off okay. But sure enough, the summer storm passes. It's a quick shower. So she rides back. And since she doesn't have to do another delivery, she just goes off on her own and swings by the auto body shop, the car store hardware. I haven't driven a car.
The auto zone.
Auto zone, guy. Auto auto zone. He owns oped shop.
It's the auto zone. weirdly. It's a dodgeball arena. It's his zone. That's his territory. Yeah, she goes like the car shop, and it's looking at, like rain gear and stuff. She's like, oh, if it's summer, if it's going to rain, I should probably be prepared for it. But it's pretty pricey. She's like, that's expensive. And we see her leave, and she's riding on her way back as she's Ryan, she knows there's a few more raindrops. Oh, here comes again. And we see her pull off to the side, crack open that big old storage container she has now. Pulls out the rain gear. She bought it.
Yay.
She puts it on. She goes riding back. The rain don't bother her no more. She's good. She prepared. She makes it back to her school. As she pulls underneath like an awning, she takes off her raincoat. She looks completely dry underneath. She looks back at the raincloth and goes, take that, motherfuckers. I beat you this time.
Oh, no. She's getting too confident.
She gets real aggro, yelling at the.
Clouds, fight me, God.
Fuck you, mother. Teachers within the faculty line go, what's happening out there? No, she doesn't do anything. She's very diminutive and shy. Once she gets back home, though, it's another day. She noticed that she's already owned over 2000 km. She's racking it up. She's putting a lot of miles on this bike. So she's got to do the oil change again. But this time she does it herself. Yeah, she's a strong, self sufficient woman. She don't need no dad. Can I? She's rained through the manual again, as you should, getting familiar with the bike and where the oil valve is and stuff. And she gets underneath it and she's having trouble loosening it. It's tight. Grip it's on there real well. She sees a guy ride a bike on a ride by on a bike and it inspires her, I guess. So she puts the wrench on the valve again and just kicks it really hard. Sure enough, that loosens it. It works.
Yeah. She like, sees his shoes and for some reason she's like, I have shoes.
Oh, yeah, feet.
She's like, Pedal, I kickstart the thing. Let me kick start this wrench.
Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, sure enough, that loosens the valve and she's able to unscrew the rest of it and drained the oil and then put back some new oil in there. And once she's done, we see her back inside washing her hands. And she still got some oil underneath her fingernails because it never goes away for like a week. But she's looking in the mirror and she's happy because she did it herself.
Mission accomplished.
Yeah, level up. She continues working her job and we see her depositing money like an atm. And she's like, oh, I saved up a good amount of money. I'm doing pretty good for myself. And then as she walks away from the atm, all of a sudden her phone ranks. It's a call from the only other character we've established in the show, reko. And sure enough, Rachel calls her and she's like, yeah, I'm back from my summer trip. You want to hang out? She's like, oh, yeah, okay. fuck it. I got nothing else going on. So she rides off to meet racho in her place. And while she's riding there, she's reflecting on her summer of like, I got my first job, I got my first money. I traveled further than I ever did. My sphere of influence is expanding, and I crave more. I want to travel more now and getting comfortable with it I'm no longer baby.
I want power.
Basically. All thanks to my Honda cub. Thanks, Honda.
Wink, wink.
And she arrives at rachel's house and it just showed up like a log cabin in the middle of the woods. And I'm just like, yo, this cottage corral hell yeah. More vibes, more lesbians. Yeah. Rick is just like a tank top.
I was like the life I want countryside cabin with hill heads. Delicious.
Yeah, she has a rigid and she's like, all right, come on in. And we ends the episode there. So they're bonding outside of school.
Wow. yay.
Real friendship.
Yeah.
Maybe they'll adorable, maybe they'll kiss.
But that Super cub, that delicious. No thoughts, had empty. Just vibes. That's all we needed. That's all we got.
It was all we could handle.
Ooh. Just delicious.
Yeah, very sweet, very cute. Nothing happens and you love it.
It's uneven, fun. We couldn't ask for more.
Put it on in the background while you play video games or something. Just you don't need to pay attention to it, but when you do, you're going to be vibing.
So are we there yet? Just because we're legally obligated to ask every episode?
Yeah. Yeah. I always heard the poll for jokes. zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.
The book.
I didn't really get it until I watched the show and then I was like, oh, this show, is that just learning to just by building a motorcycle, you get in tune with it and philosophy. I'm like, yep, love that in the TV show, I'll take it.
Yeah.
So one, please.
It has literary value. It's cute. It's gay if you read into it a little bit.
If you want it to be.
Yeah. There were like a couple of moments where she's writing and she just seems very happy and it was like a feeling I understood that feeling of independence and freedom of doing this thing for the first time. It's just like, yeah, what a nice feeling.
In my heart, I like when she gets the storage unit attached and then she gets like the basket and she's kind of just looking at her bike and just kind of grinning and rica kind of out, like grinning like a goofballs. Like she's happy. Let her be happy.
Yeah. Literally everything else in her life sucks.
Sucks. Except for this moped orphany. Can't do anything about kid, can't do anything about poor, can't do anything about you. Could have hobbies, though. She's like, I have no hobbies. I'm like, yo, that sucks. Read a book.
Just like I want her to learn how to cook in an episode because she eats packaged meals and we see her make herself like fried rice at one point, but it's just egg and rice. So I'm just, sweetie, what loser would do that? Learn how to cook.
Speaking which, my eggs and rice are going to go bad.
Oh, no, I know what I'm doing after this.
But yeah, it's very cute. I know with the first episode when I watched it, there's not a lot of music. It's pretty washed out scenery and stuff and very kind of a dull color palette. And when she starts riding the bike, the color lightens up in the scenery and the music starts playing as she's running. So it's a very nice touch. But also it's for like 23 minutes and it's like, I got it. I get it. This doesn't need to be its own episode.
Watch the trailer and you get the gist enough to hop into episode two. But I did watch all of them. But, yeah, just check your phone every once in a while when it gets too dull and then pop back in when I almost said when action happens, that happens.
When you see subtitles on the screen. Pay attention.
I got to read that now.
Yeah.
Speaking of chiller times, we're cutting this a little short. There's not a lot going on. We're not coming up with the game episode. We'll take it.
It's small and efficient.
Yeah.
Duverness was recommended when we got into laid back camp because a big part of laid back camp is the main character getting a moped and riding around, camping on her own and stuff. So it's very much attuned to that and like similar. I would love if they had a crossover episode. it'd be weird because the styles are really different. But it would be very adorable.
Yeah, that would be cute.
Well, what do we have going on next week?
Next week we're going to watch another very new show that I've heard good things about, those Snow White notes. So it's like a music show.
Yeah. With a bunch of doors and a lady that falls asleep and the poison apple and all.
Yeah, that one.
Yeah, perfect.
Got to put that disclaimer we know it's not Disney.
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Weird how your other podcast is ending.
In this podcast, I don't know. This was shot to me an hour before we did this podcast, so I have no information.
Chaos cutting this episode. Short glimpse behind the curtain.
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