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So it's been a while
since we've done one of these
QnA videos,
so we asked you guys on Twitter
to send us your most burning questions
And I know that the number one question right now
is: Martina what the [email protected]#k is up with your look today?
I don't-- Listen, guys---
You are a hot mess! What is going on, girl?
RuPaul, I'm sorry
I wanted to have purple lips,
but then I put it on and I changed my mind
because then I started to wear this really bright cute shirt,
and I was like, "It doesn't match my lips,"
but you can't take lipstain off because
it leaves, like, a mucky, dirty--it looks like you ate, like, a chocolate cupcake
SILENCE!
Wait, let me finish--my hair!
I've made up my mind Martina: But my hair!
It's time for you to lip-sync
**FOR YOUR LIFE**
The actual real number one question
that we wound up getting is
basically, choose between Korea and Japan!
Thanks a lot, guys!
Thanks for the super easy one that I'm sure is not going to piss off anybody with this answer,
Yeah.
But we've thought long and hard about this
we've spent almost a full year here in Japan
looked over all of the data that we've compiled
and I could easily say very quickly,
I'd pick Japan over Korea.
Now wait!
Wait!
Angry commenters! Stop! Give me a chance to explain!
We're gonna talk about our reasonings here and then
we're gonna give you our disclaimers afterwards,
but please hear us out before you get angry
and if at the end of the video you're still upset with our
answer, then please feel free to let us know in the comment section below.
Yes. Now despite this year and last year being
some of the worst years for my health,
slowly, slowly goin' downhill,
I can say this has been the happiest year of my life.
Happiest year of my life as well.
I've thought about this year,
all of the years that I've had in Korea,
and all of the years that I can remember in Canada,
This, by far, has been the greatest year of my entire life.
Mhm. You know what I find funny?
We often find ourselves coming home on our bicycles being like,
Lala-Lala-lala
I'm happy for no reason!
Martina: I'm just...happy Simon: I'm happy here!
Martina: I'm just happy.
56 00:01:45,580 --> 00:01:47,580 Martina: I just like smiling; smiling is the thing to do! Simon: Smiling is the best!
Allow us to explain what has made us happy. I'd like to begin with
the first category, which I call: Neighbors and Sounds
We were worried before we came to Japan.
A lot of people told us that it is going to be very difficult for us here,
that Japanese people are very cold and reserved
and they won't be very welcoming to us
and we're gonna have a tough time here.
But when we came here to our neighborhood,
I am amazed at how warm and loving our neighbors are.
And it wasn't just one neighbor.
Like, our neighbor across the street,
whenever we bike home and I see her there, I'm happy to speak with her.
Our neighbors to the left and to the right, we chat with..
Actually, one of our other neighbors like, rang on our doorbell
and invited us out for dinner
and we went out for dinner with him
and it was so amazing and touching because
in all of the years that we've been in Korea
and all of the different places that we lived in Korea
Did we ever have any contact with the neighbors?
All of them were very cold and distant
They weren't warm as they are here
I did not expect our neighborhood to be so warm and caring
and I love it here and it makes me so happy.
Now I will say that it could definitely be because we're in an actual neighborhood
and maybe if we moved to like an apartment in Japan
we would experience the same thing.
Simon: Possibly. Martina: Maybe it would be like, people don't wanna talk to you and stuff.
It makes me feel immensely happy to come home,
I feel proud of my little house,
I'm excited to decorate the outside with Christmas lights!
My neighbors came over,
the neighbors right beside us that speak like, no English at all
and they're like, "Oh, Chrisamus!"
and I was like, super excited
so I'm having just, warm, wonderful feelings.
I feel warm here. I feel welcome here,
and I did not feel welcome in Korea.
And also, our neighborhood is very quiet.
and I can't emphasize enough how important this is for us
because what's great about having a quiet neighborhood like this
is that I can sleep an entire night without waking up. Martina: Yeah.
Pretty much every morning in Korea
no matter where we lived
we would wake up from honking of horns
we would wake up from people like talking or yelling outside
It was like a never-ending barrage of sound.
This sounds like an old person thing to say,
but I cannot emphasize enough
how important it is to get a good night's sleep.
And I sleep so well here.
I think the best way to describe living in Seoul
is basically living in New York City.
Martina: I used to visit-- Simon: Right, I think that's a fair comparison.
I used to visit New York all the time
and then we stayed with our brother in law, he used to live in New York as well
Simon: Yeah.
And it was like, you heard fighting and screaming and honking,
and like, people yelling, and--Seoul is like New York City.
Simon: Right. Martina: It is the city that doesn't sleep,
I would say that Seoul "does-not-sleep" even more than New York Simon: Yeah!
You sleep even less!
Martina: Yeah, when Jackie came to visit
(my best friend visited me, she lives in New York)
Simon: Right. Martina: She said said like, "I thought New York was the place that didn't sleep, but I was wrong, it is totally Seoul."
Simon: Right. Martina: I agree with that.
Simon: Yeah. Martina: So that is something that has grated on our 'old people' nerves
I like to sleep!
Martina: We're-- Simon: I wanna live in a city that sleeps!
*Old woman voice*: When we were younger-- Simon: *Laughing* When--yes!
*Old woman voice*: When we were younger, it was okay!
Simon: Right! Now I'm old and $h!t,
Simon: I don't wanna have--
Martina *singing*: I wanna sleep inside Simon: I wanna snuggle up
Martina *singing*: a city that goes to bed!
Simon: That's it. Martina (spoken): At reasonable-hours-like-maybe-nine-or-ten-PM.
Martina *singing*: And have a noise pollution rule!
*crickets chirping* Martina *singing*: You're goin' to sleep..
*crickets chirping* Martina: cute fake snoring sound Simon: I don't know what song that is.
Martina: 'New York New York'? Simon: Okay.
Martina: Frank Sinatra? Simon: Alright.
Martina: Oh my god! Simon: What is this?
Martina *singing*: I wanna wake up in the city that doesn't sleep--
Martina (normal voice): And I twisted it around *sigh*
I don't know old white people music. Martina: You don't-- *shattering glass*
Sorry.
I really thought you were just making up a really $!t#y song.
Martina: *disbelieving laugh and exclamation* Simon: And it was really--
That's like, what the hell are you singing?
Martina *singing*: And be the king of the--
*Chimes*
It's not just our neighbors that are welcoming.
One of the things that really bothered me in my experiences in Korea is that
there were many times that I would go into like,
coffee shops or stores or whatnot in Korea
and whenever the people would see me,
they would be afraid like, "Oh! Oh no!"
Or they would like, grab another person and
push them towards me.
Or, if I would try to order something in Korean, they'd be like,
"Ah, I don't understand!"
And my Korean is significantly better than my Japanese,
and I have never felt that here in Japan.
I have never felt unwelcome,
I have, like--Nobody was ever afraid of me,
they understand my terrible pronunciation of Japanese.
Martina: Which, by the way, I've found that really shocking. Simon: Mhm.
Simon: Yes! Martina: Because in eight years Simon: Yeah
Martina: We learned to read Korean, Simon: Right!
Martina: we could speak Korean, Simon: Right!
Martina: So we could go to a restaurant that had only Korean menus,
we could look it over, we could call them over Simon: Yeah.
and then we would start ordering
and the people would literally--and were, they thought it was funny--
But they're with each other, they'd be like, "Haha-haha" Simon: Yeah.
And I, I was like, "Okay, but we're not even speaking English." Simon: Uh-huh.
But in Japan, we butcher the language