Art, radio, occasional hiking...what is Muddy Waterz?

FACE:Traced back to mountain climbing?

SHINKNOWNSUKE:I thought it was radio at first.

Chihiro Ioka:That radio is a trigger, too.

FACE:That's true. I have a program called "Shibuya RaZine" on "Shibuya Radio" with (BoTT designer) TEITO. （About four years ago, there was a day when TEITO was unable to appear on the show, so I asked these two guys, who I often hang out with, to fill in for him. It was a lot of fun and we got a great response.

SHINKNOWNSUKE:There are many people around me who listen to "RaZine in Shibuya," and I have had many people tell me how interesting the broadcast was. I was so happy about that that I told FACE about it.

FACE:That was when I thought the three of us would like to do something together. I thought we could do radio because we could talk all the time.

SHINKNOWNSUKE:I thought, too, that since they talked for more than an hour, it would be radio even if I recorded it on my own.

Ioka:Heh.

FACE:Mr. Ioka is basically unaware (laughs).

Ioka:I have never thought about doing radio, not even for a millimeter (laughs).

FACE:But now I am most addicted to it (laughs).

FACE:The time when I decided to start radio and the time when I got into mountain climbing were close to each other.

SHINKNOWNSUKE:I wasn't interested in mountain climbing. I thought it was just a domineering pastime (laughs).

Ioka:It was the two of us who wanted to go mountain climbing. When I told FACE about it, he also wanted to try mountain climbing.

SHINKNOWNSUKE:FACE contacted me and asked, "Are you interested in the mountains?" I immediately answered "no." If I say something half-heartedly, he will keep asking me to join him. If I said that half-heartedly, he would keep asking me to join him, so I said "no," once and for all. But he asked me to come just once. You really don't have to bring anything, and you don't have to do anything. He said he would entertain and attend to me.

Ioka:We were also talking about it with great enthusiasm, even though we had not been there yet (laughs).

SHINKNOWNSUKE:If you say that much, it would be a shame not to eat, and I decided to give it a try, thinking I had been tricked.

FACE:Then you really didn't bring anything. I came with a tote bag. With a Peepo mug hanging from my neck (laughs).

SHINKNOWNSUKE:I heard you're going to make coffee, so at least get a mug.

SHINKNOWNSUKE:The first mountain we went to was Mt. This is the mountain we climbed today. When it came time to climb, it was tough and I had no idea what was fun about it at all, but we took a break at a well-located river and had coffee brewed. The two of them were so desperate that I was even impressed that I really didn't have to do anything (laugh).

FACE:It was the first time for me to even light a fire with a burner (laughs).

Ioka:I brewed coffee with river water using a water filter called "Sawyer Mini," which filters out 99.9% of bacteria and microorganisms.

SHINKNOWNSUKE:The Sawyer Mini is really great! You can even drink muddy water with it. I bought one the next day when I heard that it could also be used as a disaster prevention item. And when I drank a cup of coffee, I was shocked at how luxurious it was.

Ioka:You were sitting a little far away by yourself, looking up at the sky with your legs crossed (laughs).

FACE:He was smiling (laughs).

SHINKNOWNSUKE:I'm a bit of a wimp, too (laughs).