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Upstairs Neighbors

Porcelain Fillings & Going Bugonia Mode

25 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What insights did Maya gain from her trip to Japan?

0.318 - 16.369 Maya Umemoto Gorman

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Chapter 2: What experiences did Dom have with dental issues?

98.598 - 102.786 Maya Umemoto Gorman

Hey. Well, hey, guys. Well, hey, guys.

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102.826 - 123.947 Dom Roberts

Like, what's up? Hey, guys. What's up? Guys, how's it going? Well, there's a lot going on. I love when, you know, obviously we do record pretty... I don't know. Or sometimes for like a week or two in advance. But Maya, you went to Japan. Yes. And I'm happy you're back.

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123.967 - 124.889 Maya Umemoto Gorman

Yes, I'm happy to be back.

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Chapter 3: How do Maya and Dom feel about the Oscars this year?

124.909 - 129.337 Dom Roberts

God held it down with me and it was like really fun. And thank you for doing that. Y'all were living for Savnation.

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129.537 - 130.559 Maya Umemoto Gorman

Yeah, like absolutely.

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130.579 - 137.852 Dom Roberts

We'll have to do another three key. Yeah. Because guys, guess what's coming back? The Nike half marathon.

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138.052 - 143.803 Maya Umemoto Gorman

Oh, and I thought she was going to say Love Island. Yeah. So what that got to do with the three of us?

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144.244 - 153.601 Dom Roberts

Well, it's just like the three of us bonded last year. Yes. And it's just like, I feel like it'd be such a fun way to bond again. I was on the phone with my mom telling her about it.

Chapter 4: What challenges do they face in managing their busy schedules?

154.002 - 156.887 Dom Roberts

Well, because you could bond with her, you see, as well.

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156.867 - 171.703 Maya Umemoto Gorman

You can bond with her. Yeah, you know my mom's always down for like a little. Well, of course, because if I could fucking run a half marathon at the drop of a hat, I would be down too. I know. She's like, I haven't been running. And I'm like, girl, you're fine. You know that don't matter. You know that don't matter. I was like, girls. Exactly. I like that you noticed that.

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171.763 - 173.304 Maya Umemoto Gorman

Yeah, because she can run whenever she wants.

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173.505 - 176.468 Dom Roberts

And so can you. And so can you.

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Chapter 5: How do they navigate personal growth and self-acceptance?

176.508 - 188.622 Maya Umemoto Gorman

Yeah. No, thanks for holding it down, guys. Like, I really appreciate that. Seriously. You know what I mean? Because it was serious. No, and honestly, like. Like, what's there to say?

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188.862 - 189.503 Dom Roberts

You know what I'm saying?

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189.523 - 209.215 Maya Umemoto Gorman

What's there to say other than, like, I don't even know. Like, the... What I'll say on the Japan of it all is, like, one, I always say it. Y'all can't... Y'all... We think... Oh, now she has things to say. Number one, the United States thinks you're doing shit about shit. Baby, you ain't never done shit but nothing but shit for a minute. Okay?

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Chapter 6: What are the implications of consumerism in different cultures?

209.355 - 211.258 Maya Umemoto Gorman

You never done anything but shit for a minute because...

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212.335 - 235.558 Maya Umemoto Gorman

the shopping and then turns it into a shopping thing but i'm like genuinely like i always say that nobody does consumerism quite like japan in my experience i haven't been like everywhere around the world but like from the places i've been nowhere does consumerism like japan and it's just funny because i live in like apparently what the capitalist capital like we supposed to be like work for your and then you can have like maybe

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235.538 - 258.863 Maya Umemoto Gorman

baby yeah you go to japan girl and it's like the produce really sickening the produce is sickening i was telling the girls like i went during the i went during like strawberry season and like if you think you've ever had a strawberry i'm gonna tell you right now you ain't never had a strawberry data unless unless you have the privilege of like eating it from the farm you know i'm saying like tended from the farm and not going through like driscoll yeah like harry's

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258.843 - 284.766 Maya Umemoto Gorman

literally like the produce is just the produce is fresher the shopping is sickening fierce like the department stores like literally be like 10 stories tall it's like so as a girl who likes to go to the mall and like blackout it's just like what the hell we gonna do now but I will say that there is something because you know I grew up going to Japan which I'm like so grateful for and like because of that though

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284.746 - 304.022 Maya Umemoto Gorman

Even the difference, because I know we keep, well, I keep talking about the frontal cortex and how it genuinely like changes the chemistry of your brain and like everybody said it would and like I didn't believe anyone and like now I'm here and I'm like, whoa. The frontal cortex of last time I went to Japan, I probably bought like 50% of the stuff that I bought I never wore.

304.062 - 319.14 Maya Umemoto Gorman

And it was just because like I went to the store and I'd be like, oh my God, I've never seen that. Buy it. This time, I genuinely felt like I was walking around with like a monocle and a clipboard. It was fucked up. Like I was feeling my age. Like I was walking around like, and if I can name five outfits this would go with right now, then I'll buy.

319.373 - 323.502 Dom Roberts

Well, and that's what I was gonna say. Oh, see, I love that.

323.522 - 329.536 Maya Umemoto Gorman

Well, I hate that in the terms of like the whimsy of just going and being like a young hoe and like just buying everything, I love.

Chapter 7: What lessons did they learn about health and wellness?

329.997 - 335.509 Maya Umemoto Gorman

But I do love it in the sense of like, it is showing the growth in like my frontal cortex and like, wow, okay.

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335.489 - 345.823 Dom Roberts

Well, that's what I was going to say about, you know, when you get older and you kind of start thinking more about wiser, you start thinking about like a capsule closet.

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345.843 - 345.983 Unknown

Yeah.

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346.043 - 362.104 Dom Roberts

Maybe you're like down to like spend a little more on like some quality pieces and stuff. Actually, I do. Because I feel like also that and the idea of like personal style. Yeah. It really comes down to that. Because I feel like as you're trying to like figure out your personal style and like,

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362.084 - 385.257 Dom Roberts

as things progress like you do become a little more like picky choosy and like that's straight I don't know I think also too it's I think it's a really cool it's my it's one of my favorite quality about like people that I meet that have a really strong sense of personal style because I I think it is really easy to get so excited about like clothes and seeing pieces and

385.962 - 396.623 Dom Roberts

all of the above and stuff. And that's how I feel. Like sometimes I'll see something on someone or just on a rack and I'm like, fuck, that's so cute. And then I'm like, wait, hold on. It's just cute.

Chapter 8: How do they discuss the impact of societal expectations on self-image?

396.643 - 398.026 Dom Roberts

Hold on young ho. Yeah.

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398.046 - 398.968 Maya Umemoto Gorman

It's like, it's just cute.

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398.988 - 406.462 Dom Roberts

Yeah. It's just like, let her be cute. And yeah, no, a hundred percent. But, but that is real. That's like sweet. Well, because I was gagged.

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406.622 - 425.068 Maya Umemoto Gorman

I was definitely gagged because I used to run around with a different... Even just two years ago, again, I guess you really do come in 25, 26, because even two years ago, I was buying things that it was like, girl, you don't even have pants to match. You're just buying it because it's like the ooh-ah-ah sensation, which there's something to that too. And if you're young, you know what I mean?

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425.088 - 443.26 Maya Umemoto Gorman

Let's just go ahead and run with that because eventually you do wake up and you're like, I can't even impulse like that anymore. That's crazy. But also... Just on like, I'm like, right. Just on like the 32nd, like thesis of it all. Like I actually experienced like a very fierce ego death in that country. I'm going to be honest.

443.28 - 456.388 Maya Umemoto Gorman

Like, you know, we've been doing, we've been doing the one, two step, the run around. We've been work, work, work, grind, grind, grind. And also just, you know, being people who live in the States, I think we forget like how much. of like the grind and it's about grind. It's about power. Like we stay hungry.

456.408 - 482.542 Maya Umemoto Gorman

We devour is perhaps like, um, not just like cultural, but something that is like, it's genuinely part of our every single day messaging. You know what I mean? And like, honestly, just like stepping away, for a week and not having that in my day to day and also experiencing something very different because you know, Japanese culture is just like very, very different.

483.102 - 490.692 Maya Umemoto Gorman

And even just like King with my aunt, like, I'm so sorry. I love her so much. And like, she lives obviously a Japanese lifestyle and like, she's very,

492.511 - 508.68 Maya Umemoto Gorman

slow, she's very, girl, she'd go to the grocery store, she'd pick up to her tree, she'd make it that night, she hangs up her laundry, her just way of living is so, I don't know why this is making me tear up, I just love her so much, but it's just so much slower and,

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