AWTY 156 - Loan Barracuda (Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater)

When that happens, just pull it back out a bit. Then you can shove it right in where it's supposed to go. Oh, cool.

Hello and welcome to are we 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. Virginia oliver.

What's that?

Anyone?

Is it a fish?

She is a 101 year old lobster fisherman up in Maine.

Wow, what a woman.

She's still going.

It's that crisp main air. You get all the health care floating down from Canada.

It's polluting our rivers, but, oh, boy, is that good pollution. It's just filled with IV drips.

I hope she listens.

She's a big fan. She sent me an email. She wants to say I'm a big fan. She requested.

Yeah. Thank you for suggesting this episode.

It's a show of cute anime girls being over 100 years old. Honestly, I mean, that's probably one I'm.

1000, so it's not creepy. You know this trope, see?

All right, we know that trope where it's a thousand year old in the child's body. It's on the fingerprint. What if they weren't just 100 year old ladies? What if they were just old and it's like, well, how do we kill time as a whole?

Life of life anime in a retirement home?

Yeah.

Do it. Come on.

What are you afraid of?

Respect your elders. Give them a TV show.

Golden Girls anime. Golden Girls anime.

I guess that's all. Golden Girls is basically slice of life old ladies.

There's got to be a Japanese dub of the Golden Girls. What do we have going on this week? This week? It's all over the place already?

Yeah, it's clear none of us have any actual experience with this show because we're just off and running into nowhere this week. I tried picking a gotcha pick of some dumb bullshit, but then I got got, so I found out we couldn't actually watch it. So instead I swapped it out last minute for diary of our Days at the Water break.

It's a mouthful of a title.

It's a big longest. Not the longest, but far from the shortest and presuming. Neither of you know anything about this?

No, but I have no experience.

I know of a different fishing anime is a fishing anime.

I've never watched it, but we'll get there in time. We'll get to all of that.

But that one's about boys. Gross.

What if it was that, but it wasn't because it's this one. This one's about it's. Cute girls fishing. That's what the show is. It's laid back camp bud with fish instead of camping.

Yeah. Or super calm cute girls doing nothing.

Yeah, well, replace further interest. It's mostly me because I've kept up with all of these shows after we watch them.

Since we haven't finished them doesn't mean that we didn't enjoy our time with them.

True.

I just have a finite amount of time on Earth that I would rather be rewatching bojack.

But what if you watch anime girls go to antarctica, and then you cry from that instead of just a drunk horse?

There are so many things that can make you cry. And bojack is probably not the worst in the sense that it's a bad show because it's a very good show. But it hurts more than anything.

Bad for your health.

It hurts.

Here's where my mental health is at right now. So last night I was as you do watching bo burnham's inside. So I was watching that, and then Sam came in and was like, oh, buddy.

Your partner just comes and goes, oh, man, come on.

The door heard what was playing and just went, are you okay?

What's wrong?

But yeah. So after that, I was like, okay. I had the thought, let's switch to something happier. Let's put on bojack.

Why would that, from the beginning.

Run through seven? Who.

Did you pick one?

It's my futurama sleep show. Sam and I just always sleep to it because it's so familiar and it's fine. We're so desensitized to all the drama at this point. But just catching myself in my own head saying, yeah, inside is a little too dark. Let's put on something cheerier. Let's put on bojack. Once I said that in my brain, I was like, oh, that's where I'm at.

I think I saw you guys. Actually, the first time I watched inside, I was like, oh, yeah. I'm watching it on one of my computer monitors, and on the other computer monitor, it's just looping footage of the Gulf of Mexico on fire after an oil spill.

Why?

I figured, hey, if I'm going into this, I'm going in deep.

Let's just watch. I'm going to watch Bob burnham inside. I'm just going to go do that. You guys can talk about this one. We need to pick you up. Listen to All Eyes on Me at full volume for the rest of the day on loop.

We're feeling like sacks of shit, so we're going to take quick break and watch the first three episodes. This episode of Are We There Yet? Is brought to you by the anglers Council of America. angling. It's fishing. Hey, we're back.

Angle of this angle is directly proportionate to the heating reed.

I was going sponsored episode, and then you ruined it. But also, it's not actually sponsored.

Not actually sponsored? God help me. If you sponsored this show, God help you. I don't do everything in my power to avoid sponsorship.

Sabotage. Wait, Brendan. This explains everything.

No. What? I got to go.

Is this why you're the way you are?

Come on. At least add on eve.

Good God. I wish I had an explanation for the way I am. I wish it was that simple.

I wish Adam and Eve would sponsor our podcast.

We can do another porn episode. We got plenty of that.

Call me. Adam and Eve. I'm a very sex poverty person.

Anyway, anyway, episode one, something that's not about sex. Thank God. Is this show about high school or fishing? If someone starts off, we got gina sewing up a little stuffed bear in a room, and her mom pops in being like, hey, you ready for high school? You are the new transfer student. I was like, thanks, mom.

Check.

Oh, by the way, I guess dinner is ready. Also, can you run out and buy me garbage bags? I was like, what's that? Where are we? What's happening right now? A lot was happening real fast. Yeah.

I'll say this right off the bat because immediately I registered this. This is not a good dub.

No, not really.

Wait, did you watch a dub?

Yeah, I watched it.

Yeah. I didn't know there was dub.

Yeah, it's not great. The localization feels clunky at times, and.

I feel like this is one of those points or is like, weird unfortunate. Does the one character have the Southern drawl she has in the sub?

At least if they're from the place, they have a Southern accent.

Yeah.

So Hena and her mom are pretty much the only ones that don't have a Southern accent.

Are they all the same Southern accents? No, not at all. Louisiana. You get some texas. It's all over the place.

All right. I actually like that better.

Eclectic.

It's just the general consensus of the south of America, specifically. So Hina runs out to go on the air, and her mom sent her on. And while she's, like, running through town, she stops by a little fishing wharf. And it's like the ocean. I'm new here. I'm enjoying it. And she stops by the little fish market, and then I guess she gets the garbage bags. We don't see her. So she just runs out, looks at fish, and then runs back, as far as we know. And she's saying, like, just transferring to the countryside. I get some of the fresh air. It's going to be a little scary, but see how well I do? I used to visit her all the time. Oh, and there's a wharf. roach. disgusting. And then he crawls up on her and she freaks out. And while she's looking over the ocean, it's like, I like the ocean, but I hate all the creepy little critters in it. It's a lot of weird shit around the ocean I'm not thrilled about, which I get.

Yes, fair.

She's right. And she sees a girl out on I don't know what they're actually called. They're the big cement barriers for Bay Area. I'm just going to call them a pier because that's all I know. She sees a girl out on, like, a pier, and she sees the girls, like, walking back and forth, back and forth. And then the girl sits down and Hina freaks out. It's like, oh, shit, she's in danger, and goes running out to help her. I was like, the bold accusation, the bold assumption there hena. So she runs out to the girl, and she's like, oh, I thought you had, like, heat stroke, and you were, like, stumbling around, and then you collapsed. She's like, no, I'm fishing. And the girl holds up this honestly looks just like a piece of wood with a wire wrapped around it repeatedly. I've never seen anything like she's like, no, I'm just fishing. It's got a little hook at the end of it, and I guess it's just a simple fishing line. Like, you're don't even need a rod for it. You just throw it in, and then you pull it up when something's caught on it. And she sees a girl, and she's struggling with a knot in the line, trying to get it untied because it's all tangled up. And Hina is like, oh, I'm very good with arts and crafts. I'm very handcrafty. I was stabbing a bear earlier today. And so HEINA helps the girl untie the knot in the line, and we find out the other girl's name is Yuki. Okay, I got her last name, which was, like, kuroiwa.

Yeah, it's Yuki.

Yuki. That's better. Okay, so she up to Yuki, and while they're talking, they find out, hey, they go to the same school. That's convenient.

Yuki looks like she was.

Like one.

Too, in the dub.

Yeah, we see her, like, out in a rare instance of a school anime, not in school uniform. Yeah, she's got the heavy eyes of like, I've been through some shit. You can definitely mistake her as an adult, but Hina helps you get her fishing line on tide, and you can say, hey, how about you help me out? How about teach you how to use this thing? She's like, oh, okay. And you basically just throw the fishing line into the water. You wait for a bite, and since you feel bite, you just yank it up. And while they're waiting, hina is talking about like, yeah, I like looking at the ocean, but I can't, like, swim really well, and there's a lot of critters and stuff in the ocean I'm thrilled about. I like the ocean aesthetic and nothing else about it that's, like I relate. I can understand that feeling.

I want it to just be empty water with no living gross things inside it. Thank you very much.

And no sand. Don't like sand.

Gets everywhere. It's coarse. Go to the Jersey shore once. Step on a crab while you're in the ocean in that murky, gray, brown tinted water that you can't see through. And that's enough of the ocean for a lifetime. You're done. You don't need to go back. And I haven't. But while they're talking, they get a bite on the line. So he pulls it up and yanks it up real hard on the rope. And sure enough, it's an octopus. And as she pulls, she pulls the rope so hard, she like, stumbles back and falls over. And when she falls over, the octopus lands on her leg. And it's like, writhing around on her leg. And she loses her mind of like, please get it all. Please separate me from this cuz beast. And she's freaking out and Huki's like, oh, yeah, let me get that off for you. I could get that all for you right after you join my club. And holds out, like, a form to join a club. And he's like, what the what do you mean? What's happening right now? Just get it off my life. She's like, but just sign this paperwork first. Sign this binding agreement. Sign your soul over to me. And we see the octopus, like, crawling further on peanuts. Like she's like, yeah, sure. Whatever it is. grabs the paperwork, and he's able to pull the octopus off her easily enough. And he was just kind of, like, freaking out, still recovering from she's like, oh, god, what did I just agree to? And what did I write? What's happening here? What are my notes? She joins their struggling club. Oh, yeah. fertile listeners swapped out a spot on the bingo card. Well, dead child living alone. What? No, dead child living alone. You know how they all do. Dead parent living alone. Those two scores were redundant. So I added club that needs just enough members to survive because that's every goddamn ship. So check that off. She creates the join, and she does. And then juky goes to cut open the octopus. She's like, well, we caught octopus. Time to eat it and pulls its head inside out or something.

I was like, what the fuck?

What the fuck?

It causes hena to faint and pass out. Those are weird parts of silver spoon and stuff that I love where it's like, yeah, there's gross parts of this. There's shitty parts that no one wants to do that you just got to do with these hobbies or jobs or something. It's how it's done.

I guess I just, like, wasn't expecting it. So I was just like, yeah, it.

Definitely catches you off guard of like, oh, I got knocked. And she just like, pops it inside out.

I'm a touch on the same boat as Hina of water. Stuff is gross, and I would rather not look at it. Some of these elements I'm like, yeah, this is part of it. You can't just sugarcoat. Like, hey, you're actually killing live animals when you go fishing. That's part of the hobby. So I'm like, yeah, I get it. But I don't want to look at it.

Yeah, I respect that. They put it in there, and they didn't just glance over it because, yeah, it's a show. You got to do all the nitty, greasy details because that's literally the only content that's in the show. So hino wakes up at the club room, the brick water club room. And as she wakes up, she's looking around like, there's a lot of stuff here. I guess this is where they meet and looks at the window and sees you keep. She's like, oh, hey, you woke up. Great. Just in time. I was about to gut the son of a bitch and holds up like the gun and down octopus. And Hina faints again. And then we cut to the start of school, like the next day, or presumably the next day, whenever school start. We got cherry blossoms. Check. We have, like, an opening ceremony welcoming all the new transfer students. Check. And we see Hina in class, like, looking at her club form that she signed, like and she hears everyone else talking about like, oh, what club are you going to join? I'm going to join this club. I was thinking about joining us. What about that breakwater club? It's like, oh, they're a bunch of weirdos and freaks. And I was like, no, I messed up.

Shit.

She's like, well, I can just go to the club room after school today and try and quit as soon as possible. It's only been, like, one day. So we see her going there, and as she gets there, she like, knocks on the door to the club room, but no one's there. She looks around and she sees a girl out on a pier fishing. She's like, oh, that must be another club member. She calls up to the girl like, hey, I'm a new member. Let me in and I'd be a great dub actor. And the new girl sees her, looks over at Hina and freaks out and just starts charging at her and jumps on top of her.

Holy shit, Hena.

It's been so long. We haven't seen each other since grade school. And hana is like, who, what? And when she gets knocked over, she looks and sees another morphroach has crawled on her leg and she freaks out again. And then the girl says when she sees Hena freak out at the bug, she's like, you haven't changed it to grade school. And Hina just like, who are you? I don't know you as a person. And she's like, oh, it's me. I'm not sumi from grade school. We hung out a lot. You'd come here on vacation and stuff to visit family. I got this weird little tuft of hair, like a horn. You're identifying characteristic. Now I remember.

That's the one.

I got this pointy tooth that tells you I'm the feral character.

I'm the gremlin of the group. And then as they're talking, we see another member show up. Very tall, very big, very good. Tall and strong and great. I couldn't tell if it's Casino and Natsumi are just smaller or if she actually is just like a giant woman.

She is one grade older, so they are tiny and she is giant.

Yeah, I watched this sub, so yeah, I don't know if her names are going to match up, but I wrote down, oh, no, that's fine.

It's eda. I wrote eda.

Yeah, she's the eda. I checked her off for eda. Big eda. The dream. And then we see Yuki shows up with everyone else, and that's whom he calls her, like, oh, hey, sis. It's like, oh, you're sisters? Like, no, but we grew up together and we know each other so well. We just call each other's sister. yuki's immediately like, hey, don't call me that at school. I was like, okay, there's a weird thing to establish if we're not going to do it. And once inside, they will introduce themselves. And that's when we basically introduces Hina for her, because Hena still panicking because she just wants to quit. And Hina even interrupts her kind of saying, like, I was going to come here and try and quit and deny the invitation. I was kind of coerced into this in a stressful situation against my will. And he's like, all right, that's fair. Well, you're here already. Why don't you just try it out for one day and see how you like it, and then you can quit after? All right, I guess we'll just try it out. So they head on back out to the pier. They got all their fishing gear and edith's all suited up. Ed is the very high end technical fisherman that's got all the details and all the very nuanced, a lot of information. And Yuki seems more of like, the old drunk man who just kind of falls asleep with a fishing rod in the water. It's fishing, man. It happens.

Like, the chillbot is the flow.

Yeah, so we got the dynamic personalities here. And once they go out there looking in the water, they see a bunch of tiny horse mackerel. That's what they're aiming to catch and rule the club. You catch it, you eat. So we see Natsumi shows her how to set up the fishing lines. You put, like, the chum and, like, the bait bit. I'm not a fisherman. And they got, like, a whole bunch of hooks on them instead of just, like, one fishing rod. It's like a long rod with, like, five different hooks on it and the chum just up floating above it to hook them all. So you see her set all that up, show her how to reel up the rod and cast. And we see he was able to throw it out on her first try and get a little horse mackerel. A little horsey, and yeah, it was actually pretty fun. Yeah, you look every scene that's when he pulls it up, she's got, like, five horse mackerels on her one line. It's like, oh, shit. Yeah, you can get a whole bunch of them. These are dumb little idiots that swim in a school and are easy to catch in groups. And they're teaching her a little bit technique. If you feel one bite, you got to wait a little longer, feel multiple bites, and then you pull them all up at once. And when Hena that goes to unhook the fish, she's still squirmish and freaking out about trying to unhook a living fish still and has trouble with it at first, but eventually is able to get a hold of it. And they end up catching a whole shitload of horse mackerel, like coolers full. And you see edith pulls out a little fish. Never learned idiots would have been alive for a whole day. You should know better. Edo pull out just like this little tiny frying kit so they could just deep fry them right then and there, like, oh, yeah, they're small enough. You can just eat the bones that's like, oh, neat. So they just fry them all up and shout out and have a good experience. And as they're walking back, they're reflecting upon it. Hena says, like, oh, yeah, this is great. I had a ton of fun. Maybe I'll stay a little longer. Maybe this wasn't so bad. Yeah, there you go. Welcome to the club. It works every time. They paid those fish, they took a die.

The fish were paid actors.

You should see like a barracuda with a bunch of sand dollars, like and we see him like, all right, well, we're done with the big. Hena, go clean up the stuff and like, bring everything back. Like, okay. And she goes and gets, like, the chum bucket and sees just a bunch of wharf roaches crawling all over it and freaks out. So it's like, no, that's it. I'm quoting again. I refuse. This is how you come over. And then we get a little haiku at the end of the episode. Seems like it's done by different characters. Yeah, that's something.

Yeah, it's cute.

Yeah. And then we get the ending, and it's one of those very cute endings where they're all like the cheapy forms, like doing little activities and stuff. All the song singing. It's a door.

Yeah.

And that's episode one.

Cute. Did much happen?

No, dad.

And we got some fish.

That's what we want. That's what we're here for.

Hey, I could have done another big action shown in show if you wanted. A lot of horseshit going on.

I know.

Instead, I brought you a horse mackerel.

So we start out episode two. We see hina brings some cooler of fish home for her mom. And her mom's like, hey, why the hell is this? And Hina is like, oh, yeah, I joined the fishing club. And she's like, oh, you didn't join the crafting club. Like, you literally told me this morning you were going to. And she's like, no I didn't. She's like, cool, you're not doing baby shit anymore. So I'll take it.

I can't eat arts crafts. I can eat fish slow.

So her dad comes in and she's like, oh, yeah, dad, did you ever hear about this club? He's like, oh, yes, I remember back from my high school days because remember I grew up here, listeners to this show. What point? He's like, yes, it was around even before my time. That's where all the weirdos hung out. Damn it, I'm glad you got to see him.

I thought it was going to be one of those scenarios where it was like, yeah, you have a dad.

Is he ever around?

No.

Yeah, he's off on business trip forever. I actually had this exact same scenario in college with a buddy of mine. We bought a dnd, like the red box kit to learn how to play dnd. And then that day we were talking to his mom.

He was like, oh, yeah.

I remember kids in my high school played dnd. They were all the weird freaks who played. I was like, well, cool tactful.

But you guys are cool, I'm sure.

No.

We sure showed her. So the next morning, Hina is biking to school and Natsumi catches up. And they're like, oh, yeah, let's plan to make lunch. Because they got fish recipes to trade now. But they're both glad they're getting the hang of it. Being friends, being outside, interacting with others, all that stuff.

Who needs it?

So we see Hina going through a tough day of school because it's like the physical exam, like the president's fitness test or whatever equivalent.

Fuck, that's terrible.

Where they're just, like measuring her flexibility and how she can throw stuff. And she sucks at everything. She is a big old weakling, cannot do any tasks. So they get to lunch and she meets up with Natsumi, who gives tina a fish cake. And she traces the leftover horsemack grolls that their mom cooked up the night before. And the rest of school don't worry about it. Who cares? It's after school.

It's not important.

We're going to the clubhouse. And they're biking their way there. And Hina is just so dead tired. She's weak, and the breakwater is so far away, so she's not strong enough for this kind of activity. But they get to the clubhouse and they see it was yuki was the leader. I just wrote leader.

Yuki?

Yeah, yuki is napping on the couch. And they're like, hey, are we going to fish? She's like, no, I'm fucking tired. I'm exhausted from the exam. Don't bother me. I'm sleeping.

Hell yeah.

Finally, a club I can sign up.

Nap club?

Yeah, whatever. The club. You just like, chilled and just like a nap in after school. So good.

It's a dream. But they're like, all right, I guess. Should we go fishing? And Yuki is like, oh, well, actually, since you're the new freshman, I got some hazing, I mean, rich that I need you to do. I have all these tangled up reels. Can you untangle them for me as a rite of passage? And Hina is so jazzed at the thought of detangling these things. Her just little goblin brain is like, strange.

I kind of get it, though. I'm kind of in the same boat as her.

Same. But I do recognize it as goblin behavior.

Fair, fair.

But she starts and then nasmi gets into it because she starts teaching her how a reel works. And also they teach the audience how a reel works because part of this show is just straight up fishing education. We decided that we won't go into too much of it because a fishing podcast, if you want to learn how to fish, maybe don't watch anime and source.

There's a lot better.

But yeah. So they explain the real. It's string on a loop.

It goes burr. We know this.

Yeah, you throw it. Okay. So ita arrives. She's on the student council, so she had to stay late at school. So by the time she gets there, all of the reels are set. And she sees them on the table and is like, you son of a bitch. You promised you would stop doing this every time.

We can't keep doing this.

You can't just get all these young freshmen to do your dirty work. And then they finally see through it. And he knows, like, did I really just join this club to do all the grunt work? Is this really going to be my experience? And yuki's like, no, maybe just too hesitant, takes too long to answer. And he was like, fuck, I should have gotten out before they lured me in. I'm sorry. Okay, so for repayment for abusing her power as the club leader, she gives them fishing poles and they're going to teach her how to cast because they were doing, like, hand lines in the first episode. So now we got real fishing gear. Modern and age. We are sophisticated fishers.

We have technology.

The files are inside you. I do like the dynamic of the smarmy. Like conniving fox, Yuki, and then just like the straight lacey of like, what did I tell you about this? Like, shit, I got caught again.

Yeah, it needs someone to keep you in check because I would not trust Yuki as far as I could cast her.

Yeah, I didn't like her very much, honestly. It might have something to do with the dub also.

Yeah, but maybe character wise, she does suck. She does a's the freshman.

That's not very akin to YouTube.

So they go out and they're going to teach Hina how to cast. But she's like, oh, no, I am so weak. I'm not going to be good at this. And spoilers. She's not going to be good at this. So then we get a literal training video on how to cast a fishing line. Again, google it.

Not her job.

And Hina tries to cast. She's gearing up. She's ready to do it. And first throw, she catches Natsimi's skirt and pulls it up. And then they say in the dub, I see a cat. Yeah, I see a cat.

Just zoned out.

Yes.

I assume that means I'm going to spell.

It out.

You know what that means. They pull her skirt up and she's all embarrassed. And she's like, hiding from Hina because she's going to do it again. And they just give more exclamations and details and all that stuff. yuki is actually being helpful. And Hina is like, oh, wow. You aren't just an asshole. You can actually teach. It cool.

You just choose to be an asshole.

So she just keeps trying. And no matter how hard she tries, she's just beating the shit out of nazami at a time. They're like, all right, let's take the hook off of this. Here's just a weight. So you can actually throw something, but it's not going to, like, hook someone's eye. But that weight now just keeps hitting that's me in the head. And she's just getting beaten up. So they're like, okay, we have to use this somehow. Go borrow a buoy from the fisherman. And they draw natsumi on it. So they're like, okay, put this in the water. Name for Buoy natsumi. And not human natsumi. And then you can actually cast off of land for once. So they do it, and she tries it. First shot naturally. Oh, great. Perfect. She just needs a human target. Good just has a lot of aggression.

And not to me.

So they're finally casting. They can finally start fishing. Natsimi is like, oh, yeah, I'm going to try it too. And she has, like, a perfect cast. Yeah, perfect cast.

If we listen to his dad, to the cast.

So they finally get to a fishing montage. They're finally doing stuff. They're about to call it for the day. And nazimi has one last cast, and oh catches something big. Oh, but they don't actually have hooks because they're just practicing casting. So they don't catch it. But they just see the glimpse of something big. And Hina is terrified. Oh, no. There's big fish in the ocean.

It's too big.

No one told me.

I wasn't adequately prepared for this. So eda is like, oh, I can't scare her away. No, it was definitely not a C bass. It was it was a small it's a fish with spunk.

It's just more of a C plus bass. Hey, someone had to do it.

But they're already planning what they're going to catch tomorrow. I forget the name of the fish, but they're like, yeah, we're going after this thing.

Flat it.

Yeah. And he was like, oh, I I'm unfamiliar with that. And nazmi is like, oh, yeah, let me pull up a picture. And pulls up a picture of a terrifying fish. Oh, no, it's a shark. It was just a little prank. Gang revenge for beating the shit out of her. And that's where we end episode two.

Yeah. So in episode three, hina is looking on Google to learn stuff about the flathead fish. They're a delicacy. They're ugly. But she's relieved that it doesn't look as mean as the shark that natsumi showed her. And then her dad comes in, and he's like, hey, you done in here? Because it's like, his office. And she's like, yeah. And he's like, oh, what are you catching? She's like flatheads. And he's like, all right, catch a bunch so we can have them for dinner. And then it's the next day after school. They're going on location. They got to go somewhere with sand to catch flatheads, because the place they usually fish at is Rocks field trip. So nasm asks about all the stuff that they have stacked to bring with them, and yuki is like, eda, show them. Show them what we got. And Nasami and Hina are like, that's embarrassing. I don't want to pull that all the way to the beach. That's so embarrassing. But it would make it easier to take the stuff. They're like, oh, you can sit in it if you don't want to walk. And Lakoto picks eda, picks them up and puts them in. It's very cute.

It really hit home how tiny and baby they are compared to or how strong eda is.

Yeah, a few feet away, and she's like, you guys look like a little family. And they do.

They do. It's adorable. They all got little hats.

So they're packing up the cart, and yuki tells Hina to keep track of her own stuff and reminds her to take her pole. And then they're all packed up, so off they go. And Hina gets super exhausted, but they make it. It's a lovely little beach spot, and no one else is there because it's off season. So natsumi asks Hina if she remembers going there when they were kids, and Hina is like, not really. And yuki calls them over to the little pier. So time to learn how to catch flatheads. She explains that you got to use a soft lore with a heavier hook, and when you cast it out, you got to move it around on the sea floor to make the fish think it's real, so they want to eat it. And then Hina asks how to put the hook on the line, and nasimi shows her, and there's just a long scene explaining how to do that, and I was just like, okay, cool.

It's not plot relevant at all, but I did enjoy it. But I also love watching how it's made. So this is just in line with very methodical, very detailed, very boring. Yeah, but it's just, like, neat to see.

It's nice that it helps you appreciate the actual art of what they're doing, but I retain none of this information. I will never catch a flathead in my life.

Immediately, out of my head, like, in one ear, out the other. But it was neat to see.

Yeah. So they finish yay. Time to fish. Whole name is Hina. She tells the crew that her dad said to catch a bunch, and they're like, that's probably not going to happen, but also, they're pretty big. And then she freaks out. And natsumi tells her not to freak out because she hasn't even tried to catch one yet. And then yuki is like, don't worry about it, because you're probably too weak to pull one in anyway if you're worried about seeing one.

Thanks, Fish Mom.

So they all cast their lines out and yuki and Hina are on the pier. And then eda and natsami went to the beach, so all they've caught so far is seaweed and garbage. And they're all just waiting because that's fishing, baby.

Ocean.

I know.

So not to me get something on the line, it's just more seaweed. And they decide not to. Me and eda decide to switch spots, and they've been switching spots, and Hina asks yuki if they should try, but yuki is like, no, I'm going to stay right here.

Move. No, not for me.

Yeah, because she's also just like it doesn't really make your chances any better.

It'S just moving handsome mentality.

Yeah. And then Hina asks yuki if she'd be annoyed if she didn't catch anything since she's the club president. And she's like, no, I just like the practice of fishing. I don't need to catch anything to have a good time.

I'm old, I got to rest my old bones. I just like sitting here looking in.

My lawn chair, listening to Fox News on the radio.

Grandpa care about this? COVID grandpa no.

Grandpa, I got a six pack of Dwormers if you want one.

She pulls in more seaweed. yuki says that she has to make the lure look like a real fisher. You won't catch anything because fish are smarter than they seem. So yuki tells her to close her eyes and imagine how the lure looks while it's moving around down there. And she gives it a try and she's like, yeah, I can really imagine it. And she starts really getting into it. She still doesn't catch anything, but then something really strong starts pulling on her line. So yuki gets up to help, and then Natsimi and eda come over to see. And so she's got a flathead on the line, but she's struggling to reel it in because it's so strong and she's just a child, so damn weak, it almost pulls her into the ocean. But luckily, eda reaches forward and grabs her, and then she pulls it in. yay. She starts crying. She's like, what the fuck, you dumb. You scared me. And they laugh at her.

You wronged me think I'm about to eat.

I'm going to kill you for that as well.

Revenge. So they're back at the club room, and she's the only one who actually caught one. And Hina says she's done with them. She's never going to try to catch a flathead again, but Natsimi tells her to be proud. And then eda has the fish already to be fillet. And yuki tells Hina that she's going to do it because she's the one who caught it. But Hina doesn't want to. She's not up for it. So she asks ida to do it. And she's excited, too. She likes doing it, so she's like, yeah, sure. But yuki is like, Hina, you have to be the one to kill it because you're the one that caught it. You're the one who did this to it, so you gotta do it. So eda shows her where to stab. She gets close, but she can't do it. They encourage her by saying that it's suffering anyway. Just put it in misery. Which is true.

Do you remember how many horse mackerels you ate? Like, two days ago? Same principle, same thing.

So she does it, and then they cook it. It's all done. Looks very tasty. They deep fried it and then also made it into sashimi. And I was like, Damn, that looks good. I like sushi and I love fried fish.

Join the Bright Water Club.

I don't want a fish, though. I just want to buy it from somewhere. That's it. Hina gets to have the first taste since she caught it. And they're like, Nothing beats the taste of fresh fish you caught yourself. And then yuki is like, It's even better when you prepare it yourself. And I'm like, Shut the fuck up, yuki.

No one asked you.

And then eda says that the one that catches it gets a bonus. So she offers her the fish head, but Hina is like, no.

She just, like, passes out while still standing. She places in place.

And then the haiku for this episode is about keeping the ocean clean. And I thought that was nice, so I wrote that down. Didn't write down the whole haiku, but still cute. Keep the ocean clean. Yeah, that's episode three.

So, are we there? Did we catch up?

Bacon?

Do we get you on the hook with this one? And reeling in nailing it down to a cutting board?

No, wait, no.

After that.

No. Yeah, it has all the elements. It has all the cute high school girls just doing fun stuff, being friends. But I feel like this is one of those shows where it's like, no, there is, like, a narrative here, but actually we want you, the watcher, to get into fishing. So it has sort of that like, yeah, we're going to do the bare minimum on narrative and all that stuff. Yeah, don't worry. But here's detailed, in depth information on how to cast. So it felt a touch like psa.

Tinted to it, like it might actually be sponsored by the Japanese Fishing Council or something.

Yeah, clearly the intent is like, yeah, fishing. Hey, kids, put down that cell phone and fishing line.

So neat.

It has that sort of feeling where it's like, okay, there's nothing I was going to say there's nothing bad. The dub is not good. It's not the most innovative show, but it's pleasant. It's cute. This is a fine background show if you can get into some gross fish stuff.

Yeah. Actually, in the first episode, I felt really bad for Hina just because I didn't like yuki that much. Like, I was like, gee, this sucks for you. I'm so sorry that this girl is ruining the beginning of your high school career. But then by the end, when she's like, yeah, I like this. It's like okay, sure. But I still don't like yuki, the.

Weakest character in the group.

Yeah, I liked her, but I'm also a little shit. So fair.

I mean, it might also literally be the dub. Like, I didn't like the way she was performed.

Yeah. I didn't even know there was a dub.

Yeah, if you look it up on the very legal website, if you look up the English title, it was there. It was dubbed. Yeah. Overall, it was fine.

Yeah, I'd agree with that. It didn't hook me the same way.

It's so easy.

Salmon. Yeah, it didn't get me the same way, like, Laid Back Camp did, or place further than the universe with these shows. Yeah. The actual substance of it is just this activity. There are certainly ways shows can convey it while still being interesting, even if you're not interested in it. I don't give a shit about camping, but I love layback Camp because they were able to portray it in an interesting way. So I think that I think enough anime has gotten enough of the formula down for that type of stuff to at least make it interesting enough to make a show out of it. To make twelve episodes out of it, like they have. But I think the thing that really sells it, or makes or breaks these kind of shows or this genre is the character dynamic. And if a character like that can pull you in of like, oh, I really like this character, or these two characters, or whatever, and I want to see more of them, like Laid Back Camp. The two main characters really got hooked me in early, and I ended up enjoying the rest of the characters as well. But yeah, if you guys are like, I don't really care about we kept calling her ido. We didn't even get her real name.

Makato.

Makato. Yeah. She didn't have much she was a good character, but there's not much of her. nazimi is kind of annoying. I didn't like yuki at all. It's like, well, that's three out of the four main characters, and so it's.

Probably not going to get you. I did like when they were, like, all together, because I did think of them as like a family where, like, yuki is the dad and makoto's the mom, and then they're the kids.

Yeah, it definitely has that energy to it.

Yeah, there aren't a lot of it's weird because they're together all the time, but it doesn't feel that way.

I can't explain it because fishing is a very solitary activity. So when they're actually out there doing it, they can stand next to each other. But fishers, notably, have to be quiet to not, like, disturb. They're not joking around and having a grand old time. So they're like, yeah, we're in the general vicinity. Fishing.

Yeah, it's a cute show. Nothing inherently bad about it. There's nothing inherently compelling about it either.

It was fine.

Yeah, it's what we expect to say.

We could catch and release this show.

The oceans die. Anyway, we figured we'd probably be a little short on this episode, so maybe a little game. We'll give you fluff out the rest of the time.

It's been a minute.

It's been a hot minute. So I figured, let's play a game of Fish or Fish. I'm going to say a name and you have to tell me if it is a fictional fish from something, a show or movie or someone who was in the band. Fish.

Oh, my God. See, you asked if we knew anything about the band Fish and I thought maybe you were going to do, like is it a song title or an anime title?

But that would be probably if it mentions weed, it's probably a Fish song. But yeah, this joke works a lot better written out. So you can see the different spelling of Fish and Fish and not audibly of me just saying Fish and Fish. But yeah, so we can start off right away. John fishman.

I don't know why I was waiting for more.

That's it. That's all.

John fishman, PhD.

PhD.

I must say fish only because I feel like that wouldn't happen where he would be a band member of Fish.

I'll go band member. I want this to be the founding member. Just felt the same as the band. I assume it's a fictional character, but I just want it to be oh, yes, fish man is the leader of Fish.

Good news and bad news, dugan. Bad news is he's not the founder. Good news is he is a member.

Damn. Damn it.

Why?

I guess that is his calling in life.

I so wish it was spelled the same way, though. Like you have to, right?

Okay, at least legally change it after the fact.

Or just a stage name. Don leno.

Fish.

I'm going fish.

But which one, though?

I'm so sorry. I would say band member if I meant band member. Fictional fish.

Actual, real fish.

All right, I will go fictional fish.

It is a fictional fish. The mob boss from Shark Tail.

I thought it sounded familiar.

I just recently rewatched that. Did not even pick up.

Why? I am curious.

Hey, it holds up. It's better than you remember, debatable.

I am curious to see which of the fictional official to actually know. All right, next one is Al Crystal Plus.

Oh, my God, I've said fish twice. So I'm a go band member for this one.

For me, the last names are always so fantastical. Where I'm like, this has to be a fictional character. But also why would they stop at Al? In that case.

I picked out specifically the ones with last names. And the last name isn't just like lenny Mcfisherson.

I'll go fictional character.

It is a fictional character. There's a character from SpongeBob. Oh, couldn't tell you who. Next one is klaus.

Heisler band member. That's my guess.

I'll go band member. I I can imagine reading that in liner notes.

Swinging a miss. It is a fish. It is the German fish from American dad. He was a German soldier who got his brain put into the body of a fish.

What the fuck?

Listen, I'm doing the game. You know it's going to be fully gotcha.

Bullshit fair.

Mark dalbert. Dalpert. No, hold on. How do I say this name? I shouldn't be the one saying names. Mark dalbert. burt.

I'll go band member.

Yes. Same band member.

It is a band member.

Yay.

That would be a very specific fictional fish name. Next one is paige McConnell.

See, that's too normal. It's got to be a fictional fish.

I'll go band member.

It is a band member. It was a keyboardist.

I'm really bad at this one. I usually do pretty well with games. This one I'm not doing so hot.

I was like, paige, I can't think of a book related to it for that to be a pun on.

I don't know if these goodies are games or I'm just so much worse that you look amazing by comparison. But at the end of this, if you find out you don't know a ton about the band fish, is that really a bad bang?

Consider it a win.

Yeah. All right. Next one is Jet Taylor.

Jet Taylor. That sounds like a really cool fictional fish.

Yeah, I'll say fictional fish.

You are right is a fictional fish. Well, shit, I might have put myself in a corner here. Is a fictional aquatic animal because he is moby lick from the show Street Sharks. Technically not a fish because he's a whale. blah, blah, blah.

Why I'll allow it.

For anyone who's curious. Google moby lick. There's an action figure with a posable tongue. You could use it's unsettling.

Also do it with safe search on. For the love of God.

No. Right now.

Don't run.

Wrong action figure.

It was a tongue that had like a twist, like a nozzle on the back. So you just spin the back of it and the tongue rotates around.

I hate that.

What the fuck?

Yeah, it's a bad time.

Oh, he's ripped. I hate it.

Bad time.

No, thank you.

I love it. I just want to throw him in there just so we can look up that toy. It's not actually a fish, but still get the points. Next one. Big Mac lamont. Big Mac lamont.

I feel like that's a fictional fish.

I feel like I've heard that I'll say band member. We haven't had I mean, it's a jam band. I assume everyone would have a nickname.

Big Mac.

But yeah, I'll give it to a band member.

This is actually a fictional fish. It's from SpongeBob. You see him a lot in the background. It's like the big Mussely punk rock fish with, like, a mohawk and like, a skull painted on a ship. But I don't think he's ever actually been named in the show. He's not, as far as I know.

I don't think any of the background are, but they all have names.

A lot of them were just incidental AB or incidental, like one to 1000 fish. So finding SpongeBob fishes were actually pretty tough.

Tom Marshall, band member.

Yeah.

Too normal.

Yeah, that's a band member.

Six.

Dougie Williams.

Teach me how to dougie, you fictional fish.

Yeah, I want it to be a fictional fish.

Good news. It is.

Yay.

It's the clownfish from when SpongeBob was doing stand up and making all the Texas jokes about Sandy.

Excellent.

He's a douglas. dougie Williams. And the last one, mark Gordon.

I know you. This has to be a trick somehow. For the last one, was there a fictional, like, MC scat cat that plays.

A fish at some point?

I don't know what MC scatter cat does in this for a time. He's a wild man.

I'll go band member.

Okay.

I'll say fictional fish. I think I'm losing.

Anyway, unfortunately, it is a band member and dugan takes a lead where we talk on the bright side. Sweet. Fiction. No. Well, there we go. D got six and dug got nine. So nice.

Hell.

To end on a happy ending.

Cool.

Got our quota ended on a good note. So next week we have a recommendation from ribbonquest on Twitter. We're going to watch show by rock. I didn't pick this at random, so I am fully informed on how it's going to be and what we can expect.

So that was from a previous game? That was from a game that we.

Did an expensive figurine character.

That's it. That's what it was.

Yeah.

I'll do it. Yes, because I'm very informed. If you would like to send us a show I will do extensive research on, you can send your recommendation to us. Our email is rwebariat@gmail.com or you can reach out to us on twitter or instagram at rwebariat on both. You can find me on twitter and instagram at Mr. Patrick dugan.

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H-U-N-N-I-E. You can find me on twitter at a BTS brendan that's it. That's all I got for now. Nothing else happening. Don't worry about it, period. That's it. I'm also reading gideon the Night. That's my business. You don't have to know anything about that, but it's good. So far.

Let's start a book podcast. I love that's.

About to say Brendan has a book club. Thank you to camille ruley for our artwork. And thank you to Louis zong for our theme song stories. You can find all of louie's music at Louisong bandcamp.com. Thank you, and we hope you'll join us next week as we learn to live with anime glove glub.

I caught a rock.