SisterVibes
A podcast hosted by three sisters in their 40s with a lifetime of stories and insights to share. From growing up in Japan to now living across three continents, we've gone through life's twists and turns. Join us as we dive into our cherished childhood memories, offer our unique perspectives on a wide range of topics, and recount our humble experiences living in different parts of the world. Despite long distances and scheduling conflicts that have kept us physically apart for years, we're here to give you a glimpse of what it's like to have sisters, regardless of the miles that separate us. Are we still the same as we used to be, or have we grown and changed along the way living in diverse locations? Stay tuned; we hope you’ll be entertained!
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24: Q&A Session: What Flavor Of Ice Cream Are We?!
For this milestone episode, we handed the mic to you, our listeners, and asked you to send in your burning questions for us three sisters. Nothing was off the table: from our most ridiculous childhood shenanigans to how we navigate culture, career, and chaos as adults. Your questions sparked laughs, debates, and a few “wait, do you actually remember it that way?” moments. The result? A mix of honest reflections, unexpected laughter, and the kind of candid moments that only siblings can pull off.
- “Looking back, did any birth‑order stereotypes align with your situation? How did that evolve over time?”
- “What part of your childhood do you miss most now that we live in a world dominated by modern technology?"
- “If each of you were a flavor of ice cream based on personality, what would it be?”
- “What do you think each sister would be doing in life if you weren’t sisters?”
- “What’s a personality trait one sister has that the others didn’t appreciate growing up, but now love or admire?”
- Do you feel more “Japanese,” “Western,” or something in between now? How do you define your identity?
- If the three of you were cartoon characters, who would you be — and why?
- What advice would you give to sisters who’ve drifted apart and want to reconnect?
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Big shoutout to Allison Gray for generously granting us permission to feature her song, "Off My Mind" (from Ep 05).
I gotta get you out of my system. I gotta get you off of my mind. But how do I move on when no one compends? They only keep me occupied. I gotta break these chains and find me. I try to shake them up so dead, really. Would you pull them tighter? String the along. It's sad, but I'm so gone.
SPEAKER_00:Hi guys, welcome back to our 24th episode. We're so excited. Thank you to listeners that's been with us from the very beginning. Those of you that are joining us now, thank you as well. In our last episode, we asked listeners to submit any questions you may have for us. So today we wanted to do some QA. Are you guys ready? Yeah. Okay, first question for Stacy from Montana asked, Looking back, did any birth order stereotypes align with your situation? And how did that evolve over time? Well, firstborn, you know, we discussed how parents tend to be more strict with, uh, they have higher expectations from the firstborn. They're a lot harder on them. So their key traits tend to be more go-getters, responsible, goal-oriented, stubborn, independent, all of that. Middle child, which is me, um, they're highly invested in getting along well with others. So their key traits are adaptable, nurturing, social butterfly, dreamer, generous. And the youngest child, which is Sumi in our case, parents tend to just let go by the time third one comes along. So they're more easygoing with them, they're more laid back. Uh, their key traits tend to be risk takers and outgoing and uh dependent, persistent, fun and loving characteristic traits. Do we agree? Do we not?
SPEAKER_01:Well, uh, for me, I think I'm pretty much, I agree. I'm the oldest one, and I think all the traits that's listed or that we discussed, um, you know, I just always felt like I had to be responsible. And that has a lot to do with, I think, just the way that I was brought up, I think. So yeah, for sure. Like I feel it. And now to to this day, I I feel yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, Simi and I also agree that you are a go-getter, responsible, planner, organized, that kind of stuff. Bossy. For a middle child, I think I also agree too. Well, I am very adaptable, I'm nurturing, social butterfly, I need to be around people. So rebellious. I don't know. Well, I think you break rules. Not anymore. I'm a mom. Mostly. You used to. I think I've evolved as far as that goes. You know, I know my friends from college were like so shocked that I've become a mom that I've like done a 180 basically. Um, I do agree with that. Obviously, I can't be the same person I was, you know, before the kids. So I think I've evolved over time. I'm more responsible than I was, but for the most part, I am still the same. My core is the same. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:No, you used to break rules and you used to make me keep them a secret.
SPEAKER_00:I thought I had creative ideas that included, you know, like to get others involved in things. You know, I'm very creative like that, even if I made you lie. Like, I think I'm still like that. I feel that I have great ideas, you know. Um, and then the youngest child thing. I don't think you're a risk taker.
SPEAKER_01:No, I'm not. I don't take risks. So I don't think my personality really aligns with the traits that are listed, you know, that are stereotyped, like risk taker. No, I don't take risks. Outgoing, it depends. Dependent. Well, I guess I am pretty dependent.
SPEAKER_00:What do you think? Can you describe your traits? What are you what are you like? Um, I don't okay, non-confrontational. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:But this uh the easy going, I think I'm pretty easygoing.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think you're easygoing.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I just go with the flow.
SPEAKER_00:Do you think you're like a problem solver? Do you think you're a good friend? Dependable.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I think I'm a dependable friend. If someone is dependent on me, then I'll do my best. Okay. Definitely not a planner. Yeah. So it says, how did that evolve over time? Did anything evolve over time? Well, I mean, you talked about it a little bit that you're a little bit more responsible now. Not that you weren't responsible, it's just yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, but I guess like, okay, so now I prepare meals, right? For the kids, for others. But how I prepare a meal is not planned. So like I've evolved over time. I I will make sure things get done, but like I don't plan ahead about it a lot of times. I try. I'm I I try. I'm much better than I was, I think.
SPEAKER_01:It works for us. Yeah, I mean, I plan it. I plan everything. Well, usually weekly, like on Sunday or Monday. I just list out everything that um that I'll make, usually dinner because that's when we all get together. And then for breakfast, we do very quick things, so it's usually a grab and go kind of thing. But dinners, I list them out every day of the week.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, I do that now. I that I started, I want to say a year and a half ago or so. And I thought, oh my goodness, I'm not wasting a lot of food. I'm only buying things that I need to get. So I've been better about that. But yeah.
SPEAKER_01:No, I just buy whatever's yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I used to do that too.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, and then go from there.
SPEAKER_00:I used to just open the fridge and be like, what should we make today? And you know what I still do though? Because I don't plant that, I do this at least once a week. Like, okay, the other day I made okunamiyaki. I was like, I'm gonna make okunamiiki. I bought all the ingredients I needed, I thought, right? But I didn't check everything. Like, I didn't check the sauce. Do I have the sauce? I didn't. Um, and then so then the sauce is like the most important. I know. And then but you can make your own. So then I try to make my own. I was like, okay, I'll make my own. I didn't have ketchup or oyster sauce. I was like, crap. And this happens all the time. That happens. Like, I don't think about every little detail. Yeah, I'm like, uh anyway. Yeah. Or I start baking the other day. I was uh making last week I was making uh dinner rolls like from scratch. I didn't have yeast. You need yeast to like activate and then like for the bread to rise. And I was like, oh my goodness, I had half of that was expired. I still used it and it kind of rose. Maybe you can get like um I made half of a batch because I started making it and I was like, oh, yeah, I don't have enough.
SPEAKER_01:So what I typically do that nobody cares probably is if I run out of an ingredient or whatever, like sauce or whatever, I just put it on the list.
SPEAKER_00:I try to, I I told my friend the other day, like, I don't know about you guys, but I do you take mental notes? Like you you picture yourself grabbing your phone, putting it in there. Well, I do that all the time. Like, for example, I'll think about someone and I'm like, why don't you just do it? I'm like, I'm gonna text so and so, right? Because I'm not by my phone when I think about it. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna, and I'll think every word that I'm gonna send. I'm like, oh, I'm gonna ask them this because I want to know like how it went. But I'm like either driving or I'm like doing something and I'm not by my phone. So I mentally take notes, I mentally send uh messages to friends all the time. And then it's actually not done though, and that's the problem. I'm like, I thought I sent it, you know, I thought I thought I messaged you or I thought I added this to know. That happens to me all the time. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_01:But you have your Apple Watch, right? You can just can't you just send it, like speak into it and send it? Yes, of course you can. You can say send message to so and so, and then it'll ask you.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, but then it's hard to do emojis, and I have to add emojis because it expresses my emotions very well.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, well, then you're screwed for sure. Can't you take notes on your Apple Watch? Maybe I'll try.
SPEAKER_00:I'll try.
SPEAKER_01:All right, another question. What aspect of your childhood memories do you miss most living without time before modern technology? What the heck is that? What aspect of your childhood memories do you miss the most? Okay, and then um I don't quite get it, but I think time time before modern technology.
SPEAKER_00:Like, what do you miss?
SPEAKER_01:This was anonymous submission. So what aspects do you miss? Well, I guess not having technology, right?
SPEAKER_00:Like what technology? Like, so for example, cell phone. I miss pre-cell phone days. Like we were kind of briefly discussing before we got on, but you know, we couldn't send text, we didn't have cell phones. So back in the day, we sent letters to our friends in class. Should we write letters? And then there was like certain ways to fold it, you know. Yep. Uh, and then it that would change a lot. You know, that was not in that fold was like last week, you know. This week, this is a cool way to like fold letters. Those times I kind of miss. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Me too. I think I miss the time we didn't know who was calling. Like the phone would ring and we would just have to take the phone. I don't miss calling. And then if we had multiple phones, then we would all be like on the phone together sometimes, you know.
SPEAKER_00:I don't miss that. I like to ignore certain people that are calling if I don't have time for them. So like I like to know who's calling. Like, I don't want to be set in a trap, like, ah, I'm stuck. I answer the phone.
SPEAKER_01:This was before, yeah. This was before caller ID. And remember when we didn't have caller ID? We can like dial, what was it? Star something or pound something and get the number so we knew who was calling. Yeah. Remember this? Yeah, it was like two digit numbers with a pound, either pound or star.
SPEAKER_00:Isn't that the way to block your number before calling somebody?
SPEAKER_01:No. No, it's to figure out the number that called.
SPEAKER_00:I think you can also block that way. Like if you start something first and then type in someone's number, you're you can block your number. I think I used to do that a lot. Now that I remember it.
SPEAKER_01:But what I don't miss is is that, you know, because we only had two phones, but we only had one phone line. If someone's using the phone for hours, then you can't use the phone. I kind of enjoy like secretly listening in on other people's conversations. True. I think we probably did that with Okazan, right?
SPEAKER_00:Sometimes accidentally I used to. I feel like I've I was like, oh, you're still on the phone, click.
SPEAKER_01:Or get off the phone, click. Yeah, I used to do that. It's embarrassing depending on who we're talking to, for sure.
SPEAKER_00:I think that, you know, because I have kids in school, what I see from them, you know, you have to worry about cyberbullying now. We didn't have to have that worry when we were growing up. Um, although I will say the this year, Florida State banned like having cell phones out at all during school time hours. They're not allowed to even have their phones out, like they don't want to see it at all. Smart watches are not allowed this school year, so you know, kids can't like record others fighting anymore and post it, or you know what I mean? Yeah, it's so crazy, right? I mean fights at school is like crazy enough, but to like record that and then let it go viral is crazy. Yeah, it sounds so those days I missed. I kind of miss not knowing like what was going on in everyone's lives. So, you know, I'm not good with social media, even though I do have social media accounts, I'm not good at staying in in constant touch with it at all. And I like it like that. I don't care what people are up to.
SPEAKER_01:I don't do it. SNS. I like seeing what people are up to, but it's not like I have to interact. You know what I mean? I just like to see what other people are doing or if they're traveling to this beautiful place. I'd love to see it.
SPEAKER_00:Well, I think there was a time when I did like to see now I just don't care at all. At all. Like I don't even I don't even want to know.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, the social media is definitely something that um that's new that we didn't have because we used to socialize. This is something I have one. Um, this isn't something that I don't miss for myself, but I miss, I guess, the society now. Maybe you know how kids these days play video games. Well, we never played video games, so we always played outside. I miss that for the kids these days.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, 100%. I take away their phones, I'm a master at it, and they're very fun, they have creative ideas when I take away their phones, and they're pleasant when I take away their phones.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, but I think also it's interesting that video games have become more social. So, like, you know, our San Lucas like plays online with friends, like that's their way of socializing. Obviously, they're not in person, but that's how they get to sort of you know still play together, which is a strange concept.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I think that's more popular among boys for sure. I think girls just like to FaceTime a lot, yeah. Which I think that's interesting. Instead of a regular phone call, they like FaceTime.
SPEAKER_01:No, I think it's doesn't care to FaceTime anyone. Should we go on to the next question? Uh next question. If each of you were a flavor of ice cream based on personality, what would it be?
SPEAKER_00:I don't know. I don't understand that question. Like, I'm am I a swirl? I'm like half kind of white and flat.
SPEAKER_01:No, I think they're talking about flavor, not the color. So, like maybe if you're like a pretty boring person, it's bland like vanilla.
SPEAKER_00:Maybe I'm mint, I'm like a uh breath of fresh air. Or are you spicy? There's no spicy ice cream unless you go to Jenny. Yeah, I'm very sure there's some spicy.
SPEAKER_01:There's wasabi flavored ice cream in Japan.
SPEAKER_00:Oh my god. Oh man. Oh my gosh, that's crazy. Something bitter is what you would be coding. Bitter ice cream. Yikes.
SPEAKER_01:Like coffee?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, coffee's pretty good.
SPEAKER_01:I want to be strawberry. Yeah, I can't. I was gonna say, I can totally see you being strawberry. Oh, really? Yeah, why? Like color-wise, like color.
SPEAKER_00:But we said no butter.
SPEAKER_01:Isn't that just because I'm wearing pink right now? That's true. Um, I don't know. You know, I don't like real strawberries, but I like strawberry flavored things. You don't like real strawberries?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Me too. I don't hate strawberries, but they're like most of the time, it's I don't care for that. I my favorite is like blackberry, if it's berry family.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Whoa! If it's inside something, it's fine. But like I don't just like pick it up and eat it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, yeah. I don't love that either.
SPEAKER_01:But I do it because the rest of my family love I love spiritual. I think tomo me's is spicy. I don't know. There's like some spice in it. Lapo jalapeno or like honey and pepper or something. Spicy? Uh-huh. Why spicy? I don't know. It's like boom, spice. Out there.
SPEAKER_00:Bam! In your face. And then I just linger there on your tongue. Yeah, and it gets spicier as you eat it.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, should we move on to the next?
SPEAKER_04:Yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so we have a question from Natalie from Pennsylvania. What do you think each sister would be doing in life if you weren't sisters?
SPEAKER_00:That's a great question, Natalie.
SPEAKER_01:Yes, it is.
SPEAKER_00:Um, so as in like we still exist, but we're not connected as sisters. Yeah. Well, first of all, do you think we will be friends? No, yeah, I don't think so either. I don't know. Um maybe. I because you know, I have different kinds of friends, they're not all like me. Yeah, you know? Yeah. And so yeah, I can see us being friends, but um but I feel like we don't have so much in common.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. So I don't know how we can be friends if we don't have much in common.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, honestly, when I think about my kids, my two that are totally different, yeah, I don't think they would be friends. Right. They would be annoyed with each other because they're total opposites.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. However, like my son tends to like kids who are a lot more social, they're a lot more outgoing, um, who's basically the opposite of him. So I don't know. That's a possibility. Yeah. Like if we were in the if we were all in the same class, we wouldn't be doing group projects together.
SPEAKER_00:No. Or maybe might. We might grab Kaudi and be like, you do.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, that's I don't think I'll do the work plan it work, but I'll probably boss you guys around and let Sydney do it.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I might end up doing it.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I'll go get the material and then you finish Sydney.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I can plan everything out.
SPEAKER_00:Okay, well, the question was though, would we be doing something different in our lives? Like, did it shape us to be where we are now?
unknown:No.
SPEAKER_00:Because we were sisters, maybe, right? Like, do we choose certain paths because we were born this way and whatnot?
SPEAKER_01:I feel like not because we've pretty much made independent decisions. You know, I guess we're not so dependent on each other.
SPEAKER_00:So yeah, yeah. But I guess you being the older sister shaped you to be possibly planned person, which maybe led you to make the choices in life that you did. But we wouldn't know because we don't know life without each other as sisters, I guess. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I feel like my life would have been different if the order of a birth wasn't different.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I feel like maybe mine would be a little affected too. Like, for example, if I was the oldest, maybe I wouldn't have taken a lot of risks. Like, you know, we moved down to Florida from Ohio without any jobs, a place to live. Like that as a firstborn, I don't know. I don't know if I would have done that, you know?
SPEAKER_01:I would definitely not have done that. Yeah, yeah, for sure. If I was the oldest, I would I wouldn't have moved to Japan. Wait, yeah. So my life would have been totally different.
SPEAKER_00:But you didn't have a choice.
SPEAKER_01:Well, because I didn't have a choice because I was in high school, but you two were in college, so you guys could stay.
SPEAKER_00:Oh, so you mean oh oh oh, I see. Like if you were Cody's age and you were in college, yeah, oh okay, you would have stayed. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's kind of hard to tell if we would have lived a different life or not, because we don't know that life but without each other as sisters, but yeah.
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so if we were in the same class, we could work together, we would just have different ways of doing things, I guess. Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Would we be friends though? I don't know. Like, I don't know. Questionable. Questionable, yeah. For sure.
SPEAKER_01:Okay. What's next? Okay. What's a person that a trait one sister has that the others didn't appreciate growing up but now love or admire? I can think one for Cody. Okay. Go ahead. So what was annoying when we were kids is how she plans everything. Uh-huh. So, you know, that was kind of annoying. How did it affect you? A bit bossy. Yeah, bossy. What did I do? What did I plan? Can you give examples? Well, remember that I think we I talked about this episode in another episode. Yeah in the our previous episode. But remember, I don't know if you guys remember, but there was this day when um Kaudi, you were in charge of uh well, that's because we were home alone. Our parents weren't there for like a couple of hours. Yeah. So Kaudi made the schedule of what we were gonna do that day. Like, for example, like 12, eat lunch.
SPEAKER_03:Um 1 p.m.
SPEAKER_01:do this, and then three, we'll have snacks. And then she prepared, like, oh my god, she put um cereal in Ziploc bags for all three of us. Wow, I'm impressed. She was like, we're gonna this for snacks. And I was like, okay, but then Tomomi was like, No, I'm not doing this, like you can't tell me what to do. So she so she so Tommy was like, she she was she got really mad, and she was like, I'm not gonna do this. And then she like threw the paper, like she tore it apart and like threw it out. I felt bad, yeah. And I was like, Oh my gosh, I feel so I don't want to do this either, but like I felt bad for you, Cody, because I felt bad for you because you know you took the time to plan this out, and you're and you looked so excited. So I was like, So I actually followed the schedule. Yeah, so wait, how old were we? Ziploc bag must be in the US, yeah. Okay, yeah, yeah, it was in the US for sure. I I think it was like um Reese's puff cereals that you put in the Ziploc bags to prepare. That's nice. That's so funny. I didn't like it, okay. Yeah, yeah, you're like really mad.
SPEAKER_00:I'm like, you can't tell me what to do.
SPEAKER_01:You're not the boss of me.
SPEAKER_00:So you admire that now though, because you're older.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, I'm older, and I'm really bad at planning. I don't like planning, I'm not a planner at all. So it's nice to have that someone do that in our family so that you know, for example, the get together that we had um the couple months back, uh, it was all planned by Claudi as well. That would have happened if you weren't here, so yeah. You know, I was thinking that too because one before when we all met together too. Like, I feel like I planned it because you guys all came here here to Germany. Oh, in Germany, yeah. True. Yeah, well, everyone's good at something. That is too funny.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I guess I agree with the planning thing. I don't remember her being a planner when she was younger at all.
SPEAKER_01:Um but yeah, because you basically ignored your yeah, yeah, yeah. You're like, I'm not doing this. Um but yeah, that it's a nice treat to have. But as well. Wouldn't you okay? But let's say, do you think if I wasn't there, let's say that it's like you and Sumia. Do you think you would have done what I would have done?
SPEAKER_00:Oh, just the two of us, but we still had you as an older sister, but you weren't there. I wasn't no, I put Simi in the fridge, remember? That's what we did. What kind of stuff we did. Uh-huh.
SPEAKER_01:Oh. Okay. Remember, you also made me pee in my pants when you were little. Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_00:So I'm very creative. I'm really good at getting people to do the things, especially Suey.
SPEAKER_01:Yep. Yeah. I'm easy to persuade.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Okay. What's next? Joshua from California said, do you feel more Japanese, Western, or something in between? Now, how do you define your identity? I'm definitely more Japanese. There's no way. No. I'm definitely more Western. I'm loud. Uh, I think more Western. Uh, I dress more Western. So I identify myself more as an American. Yeah. But like a fan of Japan.
unknown:Fan of Japan.
SPEAKER_00:You know, like I'm like an outsider. Yet my root is j Japanese, but like I'm just kind of like a fan.
SPEAKER_01:I feel like I'm mixed. Like, I feel like my I'm rooted more in the Japanese culture, but at the same time, obviously, I'm not a hundred percent. I feel like I'm kind of more leaning towards Japan, maybe. I think so too. Yeah. Sumiyawa. I know you live in Japan, you've lived there for you know decades. Yeah, now definitely feel Japanese than Western, obviously. Yeah. Um, but right after I moved here to Japan, I felt more Western. So it's why it's took a while for me to adjust.
SPEAKER_00:Like, is it your personality, you think? Or the way you thought, the way you dress? All of it, I guess. Your preference on food was a lot more western, I felt, than coding.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, for sure. For sure. And I feel like even now, yeah, well, I guess no, I like Western food, but I also like Japanese food. So I don't know. I guess I'm in between with that. But like everything, like the way I thought, the way I dressed, my personality, everything was more westernized right when I came back. So I had a hard time to adjust, yeah. Um, in high school, yeah, and university. And when I was in my third grade of university, I had this identity crisis where when I was searching for jobs, I was like, I don't know. I had a really difficult time because um, I don't know, like I felt like I didn't fit, I wouldn't do well in like companies in Japan. Because of the you mean in corporate world or yeah, okay in corporate world.
SPEAKER_00:Can you elaborate a little bit more like why you felt that way?
SPEAKER_01:Okay, so it was fine when we were like um students. Yeah, you know, because you know obviously we're students we're young, but like when like the way I don't know, it's hard to explain. It's very hierarchical. Yeah, it's quite restrictive, maybe restrictive, yeah. You're not you have to be careful what you say, you have to sort of do whatever whatever your boss says. You know, you have to be able to use proper kegel, like polite words, which I was still.
SPEAKER_00:Did you feel like you were not as formal as you should be?
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I guess I can understand that.
SPEAKER_01:And we had to, of course, write resumes and like it will ask strengths and your weaknesses. And I was like, oh my gosh, this is so hard because I had kind of I don't I don't want to say make up things, you know, they expect certain traits from you, like strength-wise or weakness-wise. Uh I don't know, it was just really hard. Yeah, but I feel like everybody kind of goes through that in general at some point, yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, especially when you're looking for jobs or yeah, but I guess the pressure is a lot more if you were kind of in the middle of Western and Japanese culture.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. That kind of reminds me, it's so random. But at the time when I was looking for the design job, randomly I got this call from some Japanese company, and I answered it, and the guy pretty much said, Hey, I'm reaching out to you because we're looking for a Japanese person to be part of our company. And I was like, Okay, well, I'm looking for a design job. And he was like, Well, good luck with that, because you're probably not gonna get it. And I was like, What? I was so mad. Yeah, I was pissed, and I was like, Whatever, I'll show you. And I ended up getting the job that I wanted to get. So that was great, but that kind of like stuck in my head. I thought, what? Are you kidding? Like, why would you say such a thing to uh, you know, a college graduate? And I thought, you don't even know me, and I don't even know you either. But he was basically saying, like, it would be easier for you to get a job, be able to use Japanese because it's very, very difficult to get a job in the States, you know, because you need you know sponsorship for your visa and all this stuff. And I thought, what? Yeah, yeah. Well, good thing you didn't go there. Yeah, well, I was like, huh? I was taken back, but yeah, I was very strange. Strained. Yeah. Okay, so that was interesting. Uh what was the guy's name again? Joshua. Joshua. First male question that we've received. Next one, if the three of you were cartoon characters, who would you be and why?
SPEAKER_00:Anonymous.
SPEAKER_01:Hmm.
unknown:Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Which one is Tom and which one is Jerry? I think I would be the cat.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, you would be the cat, and Sumi could be Jerry. Tom is the cat. But Jerry is smart. Jerry is smart, yeah. It could be you guys, Tom and Jerry. She's always chasing.
SPEAKER_00:I guess I don't know a lot of cards.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah.
SPEAKER_00:I mean, I do, but nothing's popping up.
SPEAKER_01:What about like Disney characters or any oh Disney? Any characters.
SPEAKER_00:I want I always wanted to be Ariel.
SPEAKER_01:Ariel is the one red hair. Mermaid? Is she the mermaid? Little mermaid. Okay.
SPEAKER_00:I don't know. I don't know. I love her hair. I love the fiery red, and I love that she lives in the ocean.
SPEAKER_01:Uh huh.
SPEAKER_00:What about you guys? Yeah, I can see the what would you want to be.
SPEAKER_01:So are we asking which Disney Hector you would want to be? Or Character.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, I always loved Ariel. Like I always w I'm like, oh, that life must be so nice.
SPEAKER_01:Really? Yeah. But but at the end you become human and you don't live in the ocean anymore.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah, no, I want to stay mermaid.
SPEAKER_01:So maybe one of her sisters.
SPEAKER_00:Mm-hmm. I don't know the stories very well. You would be the mean sister in Cinderella, Cowdy. Still? You'd be earth.
SPEAKER_01:You'd be pretty good at it though. It's like the worst villain. Yeah. Well, maybe back then. I don't think I'm that now. Yeah. Okay.
SPEAKER_00:Why do you think okay? Cody could be Elsa frozen.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Because you know, she's like a responsible sister, the older sister. Um, isn't she? Elsa? Elsa was responsible.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. She I mean she was protective of her sister.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah, she was protective. I wouldn't say I guess but not responsible because she kind of ditched her world, but I think she was conflicted with herself, right? Yeah. Anna wanted to get close to her, but she was just like. So Anna was like, I'm gonna get married to this guy that I just met. And Elsa was like, No, you're not gonna marry this person who you just met. You don't even know you get a idea.
SPEAKER_00:Like, very good. You know what I thought was like Elsa should have been more honest with Anna. Yeah, she she should have just talked to her instead of like pushing her away, yeah, or locking herself in the room. Yeah, yeah. Well, what do you think? Personally, Cody, you think I have no idea, actually.
SPEAKER_01:I mean, from the frozen, I only remember Anna. I felt like she was more the character in the story than Elsa was. Maybe because Elsa just didn't seem, yeah, very responsive to Anna or anything. Like she just had personal crisis going on with her. That's all I remember.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. I think assuming you'd be Olaf. Olaf. I'm not even human. Olaf makes everyone happy, remember?
SPEAKER_01:Oh, well, if you put it that way, I guess that's it. See how easy and persuade funny. Okay, let's hit the last question, shall we? Okay. Okay. What advice would you give to sisters who've drifted apart and want to reconnect? This is anonymous as well. Well, maybe this person's going through something. Well, we don't know what the situation is, obviously. Yeah, it kind of depends on the reason why they drifted, but yeah, I guess it's situational, but yeah. Just reach out. Yeah. I think the good thing is nowadays with cell phones, you can access this person however you like, whether it's phone call, FaceTime, through WhatsApp, or even social media or email, even. Yeah. So if you think you can't call, then maybe it's a good time to sit and write an email. Yeah. Have you guys used email these days to write personal emails? Like close friend? Yeah. No. Oh, messages, right? These days. Yeah, text messages. I kind of miss those um letters like you guys were talking about. I never write. Oh, writing letters.
SPEAKER_00:You know, I had a um my friend Julie and I in high school used to have a diary book where we would just write and then like in the notebook and then hand it off the next day, and then she would write, and then she would write it. Oh, like an exchange thing. You had a notebook. Yeah, those ones did that too. I did that with Laura. Yeah, that was that was like great times. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01:I still have mine. You do? You do?
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. Wow. And then I think we did it with a group of friends too. Yeah, I was gonna I think there were two notebooks circulating, I want to say. Yeah, we used to be creative like that back then. Yeah, we mainly talked about boys, I think. That's all we really talked about.
SPEAKER_01:Yeah. Or someone did this or this and that, or there's this drama going on. Well, everyone, thank you for submitting all the questions. And I hope this continues. And we'll have another session of QA someday, right? Yeah. Thank you, everyone. Thanks for watching. Thank you, thank you.
SPEAKER_00:Thanks for joining us today. Don't forget to review Sister Vibes and make sure to subscribe on the app of your choice so you don't miss our upcoming episodes. Until next time, John Ed with yourself in all of these games you play.
SPEAKER_02:I should have seen through it right from the start, but I chose to give it all away.
SPEAKER_03:Now I've said a cake broke, get how they want to come and give me a break. Cause I've been waiting for so long for someone to rescue me and take you continue to pass.
