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Ta-da!
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Farmer Rachel
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Earlier this year we planted rice, and today we're going to harvest rice!
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This machine picks the rice stalks and bundles them together.
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This is a small rice paddy so the machine is kinda small,
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but some of them get really big!
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Now we're going to go to a larger rice paddy and use a bigger machine!
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We can't tell who you are anymore.
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This mask is fine.
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All ready!
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It's super muddy!
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I've been saving these boots for 5 years for a day like this!
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He said to put these over there.
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We have to line up the bundled rice stalks in rows so it's easier to feed them into the machine.
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Spider.
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There are TONS of them here.
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There were THOUSANDS of spiders here, no joke. This isn’t a job for arachnophobes!
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Uncle, is this a river snail?
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Jumbo river snail.
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Jumbo river snail!
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It's huge.
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Grasshopper?
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Look!
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Oh, a grasshopper?
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Yep.
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Look, that spider's green!
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Huh? Look.
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Bye, buddy!
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There are tons of them in America, too.
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Are you ready?!
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YEAH!
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You flatten out the rice bundles and then slide it into this machine.
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The machine uses the magic of technology to pick off all the rice and deposit them in a bag.
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Is it fun?
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Yeah! :D
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It probably took about 2 hours to finish this rice paddy.
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Work hard!
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Jun wore the wrong shoes.
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And my jeans... but it's all right if they get dirty.
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This is what you should wear.
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How was it? Are you tired?
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No, not at all.
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All I had to do was stand there and put rice in the machine.
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After harvesting rice I really want to eat onigiri. Do you get that feeling?
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Nope, sorry.
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I guess you're not Japanese enough yet.
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Use this and go buy us some onigiri.
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Okay.
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Hey, hey, see?
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We want onigiri!
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I told you.
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Onigiri.
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See!
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How heavy is it?
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How many kilograms are these?
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Less than 20kg.
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About 15kg?
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More than that.
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Yay, good job!
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Here farmers can take their rice and then sell it.
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If you look closely, you can see that the rice still has a shell on it.
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To remove the shell you have to use another machine.
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After the shell is removed, you have brown rice.
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And then if you want white rice, you need to use ANOTHER machine to polish it.
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We made a video of that machine before.
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There's so much!
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Done.
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Here we are back at our apartment!
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Yay~
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This is the rice that we got from my uncle.
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And this is genmai.
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Genmai is brown rice,
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aka rice that doesn't have a shell anymore but it hasn't been polished
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so it still has a bunch of nutrients on it,
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which some people don't like.
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Yeah, because it tastes a little bitter, I guess.
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I like it.
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And it's really hard.
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And this is hakumai.
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White rice.
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Yeah, literally white rice.
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So after we take it to a machine and polish it, it turns into this.
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Yeah, polishing.
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And actually I have a cooking channel and I made koi fish sushi
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with the rice I got from my uncle.
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So if you're interested, please check it out!