00:09 John Daub: Hi Live! This is in Roppongi in central Tokyo. Decided to make a really quick livestream on the Only Japan Go channel. Show you this area. I was here yesterday with Peter von Gomm and the two of us went to a Belgian beer festival, a Belgian beer garden called Belgian Beer Weekend. We had some fun. I'm starting now in Roppongi Midtown, which is one of the newer buildings. I guess it was about 5 or 6 years ago this building opened up. It has a lot of office space and also a shopping mall inside.

00:42 John Daub: One of the things that Roppongi is very famous for is shopping. Very stylish, very trendy, a little pricey. Probably not affordable if you're on a budget. It's also where Konami's headquarters is. Konami, the game maker, and Fuji. This is the Fujifilm headquarters. So yeah, Roppongi is pretty cool. And stylish, and pricey, and artistic.

01:24 John Daub: So we're going to say goodbye to Midtown. We're going to walk towards Roppongi Hills. So Roppongi, I'd like to break this down into three areas. There's the center of Roppongi which is where the station is. That's where a lot of the old clubs and the bars are. A lot of the places where expats used to go drinking maybe 20 years ago. There's Midtown, which is this new area, the newest part of Roppongi.

01:55 John Daub: Now, we're heading to the center. And then we're going to get to eventually Roppongi Hills, which opened about, I'd say, 11, 12 years ago. There's a big tower called Mori Tower, which is a really beautiful building. That's where YouTube is headquartered on the 29th floor. Am I supposed to say that out loud? Is it okay? They have a YouTuber creative space in there and a lot of stuff I don't take advantage of inside there.

02:25 John Daub: But for right now, we're just going to walk through Roppongi, the newer area. If you walk down this way, and I included a map in the description, there's a really beautiful city park. It's like a small central park in a way. Really relaxing place if you want to get away from the really urban areas where there's not that many trees. This is Roppongi Station right behind us. So it's connected by the Oedo Line (large loop subway line) and Hibiya Line (silver subway line).

03:18 John Daub: Roppongi is also one of the most stylish areas in Tokyo. You see a lot of people dressed up. The women have a lot of makeup on. I like to think that the high heels go maybe a centimeter higher in Roppongi. It's because it's that trendy place where everything is just a little bit better than the rest of Tokyo. This is also very famous for having a lot of the embassies. A lot of the international workers are here.

03:46 John Daub: Which is why this was the expat community. When the embassies were here after World War II, this is where a lot of people set up businesses and the international community lived in this area. This is Minato-ku (Minato Ward). Of the 23 wards in Tokyo, this one is Minato. Okay. And the sign that I took in the thumbnail is I like to think the center of Roppongi. And that's right there. That's the highway going over the intersection.

04:24 John Daub: And if you've been to Tokyo and you went out in the nightlife to go to the clubs, you probably know this sign. This is a discount ticket shop. That's pretty cool. These are good places to know because you can get tickets for the Shinkansen (bullet train) like 5% cheaper by going to some of these discount ticket shops. Oh, and there's a famous ramen place right at this corner. This is a koban (police box). This is the first ramen place in Tokyo.

05:14 John Daub: Very lively intersection. Roppongi Dori (Roppongi Street). We're going to walk over here a little bit before we go to Roppongi Hills. This is the older section of Roppongi. On the other side of this intersection there's a lot of older buildings, older clubs. It hasn't been revitalized. Some of it looks somewhat retro. There's a Kirin bus with Tokyo Tower.

05:51 John Daub: Ha! It looks like it's left over from 20 years ago when I first arrived. Some of the businesses have changed owners, but the buildings themselves haven't changed at all. This is Amand. Amand is a cafe and a very famous meeting point because it's one of the places that hasn't changed in years. And I always say, we'll meet in front of Amand right here. This area is a very popular meeting spot in Roppongi.

06:29 John Daub: Amand, that cafe used to be here. This is also for Americans where you'll find an Outback Steakhouse. Because the expat community is pretty big here, there's a lot of foreign chains. Now the Outback Steakhouse, this is the first one in Japan I believe, is right next to the newest steak competitor, Ikinari Steak, which has some of the cheapest steaks in Japan. Let's take a quick look at that.

06:59 John Daub: Ikinari Steak is booming right now in Japan. It looks like a happy butcher. But they charge 6.8 yen for one gram. So 100 grams would be 680 yen. That's so cheap! That doesn't mean the quality is good though. It just means it's cheap beef.

07:41 John Daub: So we're going to walk down the main drag of Roppongi where when I first came to Japan, and this is where I was drinking a lot, usually you have a lot of people from Ghana or Nigeria, people from Africa that just arrived into Japan. They had a lot of clubs here and some of the times they would try to yank me in to go into their clubs. They do that to everybody, so it can be sort of intimidating at night.

08:11 John Daub: But you'll see they put in some signs on the side of the road telling people that the touts, trying to get you into the bars, that it's illegal. And if you see it, report it. There you go. Zero soliciting. Honestly, it was like this. People would pull you into the clubs and that does not happen anymore.

08:38 John Daub: In fact, I had a friend named Tom who visited me about 10 years ago and we went out drinking and I couldn't find him for the longest time. And he called me up and he said, John, help! I said, help, where are you? He said, I'm out and somebody pulled me into a massage bar and he's getting a massage and he doesn't know how to get out. I said, why did you go to the massage bar? And he said, I don't know, somebody pulled me in and I just went and now I'm here and help me. So I had to go in there and talk to the owners and I think we had to pay a little bit of money to get him out of that sticky situation. And it was sticky because I think they were using oil. But it's illegal. It's very illegal for people to do that. So if anyone grabs you, contact the police.

09:21 John Daub: Right now I'm looking at a symbol of the city, Tokyo Tower. You get a really beautiful view of Tokyo Tower from here, from Roppongi, going straight down here. There's a lot of embassies all around this area as well. Very typical Roppongi view right here. Walking down the street, we have Tokyo Tower in the distance. There's another foreign chain, TGI Fridays. They're getting ready for Friday night.

10:16 John Daub: So they're just starting to renovate. There used to be an old club here that's been torn down. So that means new businesses are going to be coming in. As we move closer and closer to the 2020 Olympics, the city wants to really clean up its image. That means, well it's already a pretty clean city, but they want to make these areas like Roppongi that have sort of a bad reputation, clean it up and make it more friendlier, I guess, where there aren't any problems at all. And that's hard to do. Because Roppongi has a culture to it. You kind of expect somebody to pull you into a club, but that doesn't happen that much anymore.

10:55 John Daub: Wow, a lot of these businesses have changed. I haven't been down here in a while. So this is a hub. This is an English pub chain that's all over the city. I have a point card, of course, for that. This used to be a McDonald's, but now it's a 24-hour seafood restaurant. This is also a chain. It used to be a McDonald's about five years ago.

11:23 John Daub: McDonald's is 24 hours, so everybody would get a cheap burger and just sit there until the first train at 5am. This is the place where all the drunks were, but now it's a restaurant where you have to spend more than a dollar. Now this, everybody knows what this is. This is Hard Rock Cafe. This is the first Hard Rock Cafe in Japan, I believe. So it's sort of significant for Americans.

11:53 John Daub: Because I guess about 20 years ago, when I started traveling, people always had these Hard Rock Cafe t-shirts. And they would say, Hard Rock Cafe, Tokyo! Hard Rock Cafe, London! And now I'm standing in front of, on the other side, Hard Rock Cafe, Tokyo. So 20 years ago, this was a pretty big deal. Crowded with expats, lots of foreigners. Not so crowded anymore because Hard Rock Cafe is not really cool like it was. They still got some pretty good nostalgia memorabilia from rock and roll artists, but it's nothing like it used to be.

12:28 John Daub: So, the destination is right here, and we're going to start to go towards there right now. Yeah, you know, I've been here for a long time. This used to be a big deal. This was the only place you could get a decent cheeseburger. This was the place where you could get nachos. I couldn't get nachos anywhere else in the city except for right here, where you could play the guitar up here. That's it! This is it! There was McDonald's, and there was Hard Rock Cafe, and that was it.

12:55 John Daub: 20 years ago, Japan was a totally different place. Now just full of chain shops. You could still get Hard Rock Cafe memorabilia here. Doesn't mean I'm going to do it. There you go. You could even get the Hard Rock Cafe New York stuff. Across the street is, um, there were a lot of really nasty clubs. There's a Don Quixote, which has, looks like a roller coaster on the roof, which is pretty cool.

13:24 John Daub: And if you go down this way a little bit further, there's some clubs. One of them is called Gas Panic. Gas Panic is a place that a lot of the expats, especially the young expats that had no money would go. Yeah, Gas Panic was a pick-up club. Yeah. About 20 years ago that's where people went. It was a meat market and not a lot of good stuff, so I wasn't there a lot. But friends of mine would go there all the time.

14:07 John Daub: I used to live in Nagoya, which is another city. I used to live in other places, not in Tokyo. I moved to Tokyo in 2004. So before then, when I came to Tokyo, my friends would want to go to these clubs areas because we don't have this type of stuff in other parts of the country. So right there, this building that's white, that used to be a place called Gas Panic. It's now changed owners and really cleaned itself up, probably because there was a lot of crime happening in there.

14:40 John Daub: Yeah. But this is what Gas Panic looks like today. A totally different place. This used to be a place called 69 or something. I forget. Like, you'd go in the basement and that was the worst of the worst were in there. This is Wall Street, which is another bar chain. And there's Legends, which is a sports bar, which is down this direction. Yeah. I get a lot of memories here.

15:12 John Daub: The only time I come to Roppongi now is to go to the sports bar when my Ohio State Buckeyes are playing the team up north. Yeah. We meet up at Legends, which is a really cool sports bar. So there you go. This is the main drag. This is the center of Roppongi. Kind of dirty, I think, compared to the rest of Tokyo. These buildings are old, kind of dirty. It's not, maybe it's the gray skies, but the street area here is, it's just not the same. And it does smell a little nasty. But that's Roppongi! You wouldn't want it any other way. It's just part of this area of the city. It's infamous!

16:01 John Daub: We're gonna walk now towards Roppongi Hills. The Belgian Beer Festival, Belgian Beer Weekend is still going on until Monday. So I'm gonna meet up with Carl and Tim and see what's going on. It's still pretty early, but yesterday, Peter von Gomm and I had a pretty good time. The audio on that livestream was awful. So I'm kind of glad to be getting a second chance to go back there and featuring the festival. I still have my glass. You have to have your glass in order to get the stuff there.

16:40 John Daub: Now, a lot of foreign craft beer chains have come into Tokyo. One of them is right here. You see it right there? This one is called BrewDog. I don't know if you're familiar with BrewDog, but they've opened up a craft beer pub here about two years ago, I think. You can see inside. It's pretty cool. I mean, we never really had stuff that looked like this in Japan before.

17:20 John Daub: I used to sit here. Now, when BrewDog first opened, they used to have a pint of beer. It was ridiculous how much they charged for. It was like $15. Nobody went in there. All my friends were like, screw BrewDog, because they're too expensive. Now the price got a lot more reasonable. You know, because why would you pay three times the amount of a regular beer as an Asahi beer? Four times more than an Asahi beer? It doesn't make any difference. So people would just say, screw BrewDog, we're going to go to get an Asahi. Now people are going back there because they lower the prices and the service got a lot better too.

18:00 John Daub: So this area of Roppongi is a lot quieter. This intersection, you can go this way, which I believe takes you to Azabujuban. And we're going to go this way, which takes us towards Roppongi Hills. That's the overpass we were at before. This restaurant is kind of new. It certainly sticks out. Uhama. Hama meaning beach. Let's take a quick look.

18:44 John Daub: It's a seafood place. They have some shells out here. Definitely the exterior, really. Oh, look at the prices. Okay. It's reasonable. It's not too bad for Roppongi. Here we have maguro (tuna). This is deep fried maguro. It's $5. That's pretty reasonable. Not everything is in English here. Which is okay.

19:31 John Daub: Oh cool, the entrance to the hotel looks like a temple. Or sorry, a shrine. Can't even see that. I get that mixed up. A temple is Buddhist. A shrine is Shinto. SS Shinto Shrine. Buddhist temple. For people who aren't familiar with that. I kind of made the mistake on purpose so I could say that.

19:55 John Daub: This here is Tsutaya, which is the Blockbuster. Tsutaya is the Blockbuster of Japan. And they still are doing a roaring business. Check it out. This looks like Blockbuster from the 1980s. And they're still selling DVDs, rentals and stuff. It's crazy. Because Blockbuster in the US has been out of business for like 10 years. Streaming videos put Blockbuster out of business. Tsutaya is still going pretty strong.

20:40 John Daub: You need to get a membership card. It looks like the Blockbuster card. You get rental fees, late fees. All the same problems that we had with Blockbuster. And still it's huge in Japan. It's all over the place. Kind of crazy. We all think Japan is the most state of the art high tech country in the entire world. Which is true. But there's places like Tsutaya which make me scratch my head. People still are pretty analog. It's hard to get people to change on big technological things.

21:14 John Daub: Wifi took forever to get here. Broadband took forever to get here. Smartphones. This was one of the last countries to get the iPhone. The smartphones. Even when the iPhone was introduced, people still had flip phones for like 3 years after that because the adaptation rate for new technology is not as fast as the United States. Although they make really good high tech stuff here. That doesn't mean... well, we're almost there Roppongi Hills.

21:43 John Daub: But what I'm trying to say is Japan is the best at taking technology from abroad and then making it better and finding a way to sell it back. It's a baby cart. It's so cool. They do that because it's easier to keep the kids. Don't put all your eggs in one basket. That's why there's two. But it's a good way to keep the kids all together. So they don't wander around. They're still in the city after all.

22:34 John Daub: You can smell it. You can always smell this place like 100 feet away. 100 meters away. Cinnabon is one of the chains that's growing a little bit by connecting up with a coffee chain. The coffee chain is called Seattle's Best. Everything is a chain here. There's so many chain shops in Roppongi. It's crazy. Every chain shop is here. Except for maybe Taco Bell.

23:12 John Daub: Taco Bell is only in Shibuya and Omotesando and Shiodome. Which is the Shimbashi area. I think there's only three. Maybe there's one more in Yokohama. But they're not expanding very fast because in Japan, Taco means octopus. So people were confused for the longest time. They thought Taco Bell was takoyaki (octopus balls). So it didn't really take off until maybe a couple years ago.

23:42 John Daub: Now, we're at Roppongi Hills. And a lot of you might recognize where I am. Over there, there's a Tully's Coffee on the main street. And this takes you to Roppongi Hills, which is up there. That's Mori Tower. Right there on the top. We're going to take a shortcut. I know this shortcut.

24:05 John Daub: So sometimes I come to YouTube for monthly counseling. And there's a partner manager who will help me try to make the channel a little bit better. Tell me about the analytics and what I'm doing wrong and what I can do better at. And I run from the subway station up these escalators and go there because I'm always just on time. Just on time. Now, those that have been in Tokyo before know exactly where I am. It's one of the coolest places.

24:45 John Daub: That's where I'm going right now, Nosh. You can already see it. Right? You can already see it. There it is. One of the creepiest pieces of art in all the world, maybe. This is the Roppongi Hills spider. And not my best friend. I hate spiders. But it's one of the most popular meeting spots in Roppongi. There's in front of Amand and then there's under the spider. Hey John, let's meet under the spider.

25:43 John Daub: There's Roppongi Hills. That's Mori Tower. Up there. Way up there. This is one of the oldest, tallest buildings in the city. You can see it just about anywhere. Up on the roof is a really good observation deck. I'm sure there's a bunch of other YouTubers that have already been there. But from the roof you get a clear view of Tokyo Tower and the rest of the city.

26:05 John Daub: Tokyo Tower. I'm going to take you to one of the spots here that I like to go to see the tower. It's just right here. It's kind of a little platform you can go to. Where those two people are standing in the distance. It's a pretty nice day. The Tokyo Tower was built in the 1950s after World War II. It was a symbol of hence rebirth following all the bombing that happened in that war. And still even today when people see it, they get that feeling. This is Tokyo.

27:17 John Daub: And even though we have the Tokyo Skytree which is more than twice as high, I think Tokyo Tower still has that feeling when I see it. I'm in Tokyo. And the iPhone has a little Tokyo Tower icon in a little emoji. I forget what the word is. I never use it. It's not my lexicon.

27:48 John Daub: Okay. And if you remember, just about a month ago, I made a video on Shonen Jump which is the manga magazine. This is where the exhibit is. Right here. It's inside this tower. I guess you walk through and then they take you up to the gallery up on the 52nd floor. Right there. You're in Tokyo. You're in Tokyo. Don't miss that. It's pretty cool. The Shonen Jump. There's Dragon Ball Z, Kochikame, Naruto, Kinnikuman.

28:33 John Daub: They're all there. This is the Toho Cinema. A lot of people might have seen a movie inside here. This is the Alien. Ridley Scott's Alien. Okay. Pretty cool. What else is playing? Whoa! This started August 25th. Wonder Woman. Spider-Man came out August 11th.

29:14 John Daub: So, in general, movies in Tokyo and Japan, they come out so late. One movie, when I first came to Japan, the movie I wanted to see the most was called Armageddon. You know this movie? Bruce Willis was in it. Ben Affleck. And Armageddon, it was the summer blockbuster of 1998. That's the year I came.

29:39 John Daub: And I didn't see it before I came to Japan because it hadn't started playing yet. And I got here to Japan like, wow, I'm gonna go see Armageddon. The first thing I wanna do is go see Armageddon. And guess what? It was already playing in the US in the summer. It didn't start playing in Japan until December. Six, seven, five months after it debuted in the United States.

29:58 John Daub: Hollywood movies in general take forever to get from Hollywood to Tokyo. And I'm not exactly sure why. A lot of my friends that are working in the industry aren't really sure why, but it could be because only a certain number of movies can be in Japanese theaters at a certain time, and you have to schedule the movie theater like a year in advance. And if you don't do that, then you don't get a place. This is what I've been told. Apparently the Hollywood studios don't want to announce that far in advance so they don't get into the Japanese market.

30:32 John Daub: This is a big contrast to yesterday. The Belgian Beer Festival is pretty light. And in about two hours, this stage is gonna have people performing and there's gonna be thousands, maybe two, three thousand people sitting here drinking, standing and drinking. That's where it was last night. So I've effectively brought you back to where it was yesterday.

31:07 John Daub: Can you do a video on going to Gundam Cafe? Um, yeah, that's something that's in the cards. I think I would do it for this channel, the Go channel. Because, um, yeah, it's harder to do for the main channel because I don't want to promote any, you know, I try not to do commercial videos. They'd have to hire me to go and do it I guess.

31:43 John Daub: Yeah. And this is the radio station that I introduced before. Oh, I didn't see this really because it was dark. They got this awesome beanbag area. Look at all the lazy people with beer. This is awesome. I'm gonna see if I can find Carl. Carl's the man. And Tim. That's what I'm gonna do first. I'm gonna see if I can find Tim. I have my glass from last night. Peter von Gomm is coming here at 5:30, he said.

32:20 John Daub: And I haven't seen Peter von Gomm yet, but I talked to him on the phone. He said he's gonna be here at 5:30. Wow, what a contrast compared to last night. Daytime is so much more relaxing. So let's look for Tim first.

33:06 John Daub: So I hope you enjoyed the tour of Roppongi. This ends the first half. I'm gonna now start the second half, which is the Belgian Beer Festival. I'm gonna look for Tim right now. Usually I can see him at the stage. Tim. Excuse me, is this Tim? Hi. Hi. Hi. Alright, I just called Tim. Tim told me, ask the staff and I'll radio him. He's radioing.

34:01 John Daub: So let's see if we can get Tim. I wanna talk to Tim and learn a little bit more about how the Belgian Beer Festival started. How they came up with the idea. This festival, the Belgian Beer Festival, Belgian Beer Weekend is what it's called officially, has gone from just like an idea to like this massive thing that takes place in four or five cities around Japan. I'm really impressed with his ability to make this event so huge.

34:35 John Daub: And you can see the sign proclaiming this is what we are, Belgian Beer Weekend. There's the glass. That goes down in history. Because I have every glass from 2010 on to this year, which is 2017. I didn't see this guy. I saw the blue one yesterday. Is Tim close? He's at the stage. That's right. Alright. So he said that Tim's gonna be around the stage and I should just wait a minute. It's cool.

35:35 John Daub: You know it'd be better if I had something to drink while I was waiting, huh? But let's wait for Tim and see what comes this way before we move in. Oh, and I was in Facebook and I announced that I would be here about five hours ago. Not exactly the best heads up. Hey, that's a good idea. While we're waiting, let's call Jennifer. I'm gonna move a little bit away from the speaker. Let's see if I can get Jennifer on the line.

36:12 John Daub: Oh, I got a message from Joseph. Remember Joseph? Peter von Gomm said to call him. Peter von Gomm, you're supposed to be here at 5.30. Could you make it 5? Because I want to end this live stream. Alright. We'll give Peter von Gomm a call. Look at his...that's his line picture. Mr. Yoga. So we use Line in Japan. We don't use that other one, WhatsApp. We use Line. He's not even picking up the phone. Peter von Gomm, I'm trying and it's worthless, dude. You snooze, you lose. I'm going straight for Jennifer. Moshi moshi!

37:14 John Daub: Oh, it's the...I got her answering machine. She's probably busy. I invited her to come here. I told her that I was gonna be live streaming at the Belgian Beer Weekend and she said that she really wanted to go, but she has...she does a lot of things promoting French culture in Japan and she has meetings with some companies that are doing that. This is Belgium and I don't know the relationship between Belgium and France.

37:41 John Daub: So possibly...oh, there he is! That's him. That's the man right there. Do you have a minute? Do you have a second? I'm actually on the... You have to go on the stage. Oh, you gotta go on the stage! You gotta go on the stage. You gotta get this live. No idea if it's gonna be interesting. It was interesting last night! Last night was pretty good. Thank you, man.

38:10 Tim: Not at all. So this event's been going on for seven years now. This is the eighth year. It's the eighth year. Somebody has to work. Somebody has to work. So this started just here in Tokyo, now it's expanded to four, five cities? Eight cities, dude. Eight cities! Whoa! First year 2010 we started in Tokyo, then next year 2011 was also here. Then Nagoya was added, then another bunch of cities, now we're in eight cities. Where's the newest city? Kobe. Kobe! There you go. Finish! Kobe's finished, done. Probably you wanted to go, you should have been there. It's great. Kobe's awesome.

38:44 John Daub: So this is now a yearly job now. This is all year. Hard work, man. I know it is! I see you on the stage! You actually have to drink all day. Is it a job? Are you hiring?

38:59 Tim: I hire. You know you're Belgian, you know you're Belgian. You have $2,000. I'm from that area that... You seem to be good on stage, you have to be Belgian. Yeah, I'm sorry. No. I could marry a Belgian woman. Any Belgian women will get married with me? If you become Belgian, you get a free apartment, you get a free family unit, you get lots of cool stuff. Are you serious? Belgian women... You have to be a refugee. A refugee? Are you still taking refugees? You can run away from the city to have a good room.

39:30 John Daub: I bet you there are some Americans that are doing that. I don't know if I'm gonna do that, but wow, that's interesting. You have to go, really. Good luck, man. Thank you, man.

39:42 John Daub: Tim, so it's interesting to hear that they've expanded not to four, but like eight cities. That's kind of incredible. Oh, there he is! You might remember this guy from yesterday. You're gonna eat before everybody else. Alright. So that's Carl.

40:02 John Daub: So in order for me to get a drink, I have to go and get some coins. I'm gonna livestream until Peter von Gomm gets here, and then one minute after he gets here, I'm gonna turn off the livestream. Just to piss him off. Just to piss him off. And I'll probably get some fries. This is the pretty cool washing unit. For those of you who didn't see it yesterday, this is the pretty cool washing unit.

40:51 John Daub: So I wonder what beer to get. So this event, the Belgian Beer Weekend, it just takes place in September in Tokyo. It used to be a lot longer, but they've shortened it down to five days, which makes more sense. Because this is also typhoon season, and quite often... And there's Tim to ruin my audio stream. Tim! Tim! I forgot.

41:20 Daniel: I'm Daniel, the host of the Belgian Beer Weekend.

41:25 John Daub: We met Daniel yesterday at the end of the livestream. Very cool. So I'm gonna get some coins. I have a lot of customers every year, but this year I got a few. Hello. It's 1050 yen. 5 coins. 5 coins. 5 coins. 5 coins. 5 coins. 5 coins. 5 coins. 5 coins. 5 coins.

42:07 John Daub: You know what? I still have coins from last year. I didn't use them all. They're probably still not good anymore, because on the coin, they specifically wrote in 2017. Peter's watching this livestream, and he's chatting, and so we're gonna get some coins. So, Peter von Gomm, you just show up. I like this better. I like the fact that there aren't that many people here. I like the fact that it's really chill. So I'm gonna try to get a beer right now.

42:54 John Daub: What should I get? I might get some French fries. French fries. What do they call them in Belgium? French fries. French French potatoes. What's a good beer I should get? What's a good beer I should get? If any of you are watching right now... Here, Peter von Gomm just chimed in. Hold tight, JD. Help is on the way. Peter von Gomm, I don't know what to get, dude. I promise not to shout this time. Oh, there's Palm. Lucifer. I wanna get something on tap. Tonic. What's good? Last time, I got Vedette Extra White. Maybe I'm gonna go extra IPA, maybe? Okay. Now, so the Vedette Extra IPA.

44:22 John Daub: Whoa. Whoa. Thank you. You're not from Japan? Japan, I'm from Beijing. Wow, cool. Me too. Indian, half American. Hahaha.

44:44 John Daub: BDNG. Navigator. All the deals. I got it. I'm the only one who made it. I gave up. There aren't that many people watching the same on stage. It's kinda sad. Please show up. Hahaha. Peter von Gomm! We need some backup. Look at all the... all the space. Talking about the alcohol content of Belgian beers. So, everybody, I'm here by myself, so, Kanpai. Alright, Kanpai. I don't want to drink. Hahaha. Thank you. Oh, this is so good. This is really good. This is the IPA. I love IPA. I love that hoppiness to it. Happy is happy.

46:00 John Daub: Okay. Alright, I'm gonna go for some fries. You want fries with that? Yes, I do. Wait, Peter von Gomm got... Peter von Gomm got the meatballs last time. This is what Peter von Gomm got yesterday. Oh, no, he got this one yesterday. He should have gotten this one. I'm gonna go for this one, the small size. I still got two coins. Whoa, mayonnaise! Mayonnaise, please. Ah, potato, S-size, please. Wow, mayonnaise. This is how you do it. Thank you. Ah, I lost one! Excuse me, can you push it a little bit? Haha. Can you do it a little bit more? Oh, thank you! Ah, wonderful. Thank you.

47:20 John Daub: I need to get one of these colorful toothpicks. Let's find a table. I'm trying my best not to spill anything. I have the fries in one hand, then the beer in the other. Alright, they're selling coins. That's really smart. Oh, my God, the fries are hot! My fingers are burning! This sucks! Oh, my gosh, my fingers are burning. Okay, I gotta put this down. I gotta put this down. It's my middle finger burning. It's going numb. Oh, crap. No! Gross! Was this table clean? Can I still eat it? Why? It's still good. I just won't eat this. Gotta find someone to clean that. Sorry. Sorry, Tim.

49:05 John Daub: So, if you're in Tokyo, hit the Belgian Beer Weekend. It's open until Monday. Thank you. Tonight should be crazy. It's getting pretty crazy here. Sunday should be pretty crazy, too. Saturday, Sunday is really crowded. From the afternoon to the evening, this place is so packed. And then Monday night's the last night, so it's probably gonna be crowded. This is the quiet before the storm. I don't see Peter von Gomm here. So the most eventful thing in this livestream was I burnt my finger, and then I spilled it on the table. Not exactly, not exactly, you know, Oscar award winning drama, but sure tastes pretty good. Who needs ketchup when you got mayonnaise?

50:02 John Daub: Alright, so everybody, thank you again for joining me for the second part, getting a beer at the Belgian Beer Festival with better audio this time. Thanks everybody so much for watching. Did I read all the super chats here? Yeah, BlinkTV, B909, can you do a video on going to the Gundam Cafe? I answered that. That's something I definitely would consider doing on the Only Japan Go channel. And Cloverful18, will you livestream again later for the Beer Festival? Maybe. You never know when I'm gonna push that live button. You never know.

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51:06 John Daub: Tonight, the Aogashima video will be finished. It's gonna be online in the next 12 hours, I guarantee you. I promise you. The narration's done. Everything's done. It's 25 minutes. The Aogashima video, Tokyo's Volcanic Tropical Island Paradise, 25 minute long video. It's like three only Japans in one. And that's coming, I'm sorry for those who are waiting, it's coming tomorrow, I believe, or tonight for people in the United States, Friday night. So thank you so much for watching this livestream. Kanpai. Have a good weekend, everybody, wherever you are in the world. Have a good evening, a good night. Kanpai and see you, oh, I should take a drink. And see you next time. There's Tim up there. Tim, wave. He doesn't see me. Bye.