00:03 John Daub: Good morning everybody. So I'm on a Mount Daisen nature walk with about 500 people. It just started to rain. I was gonna wait until I got to a really beautiful area of this hiking course before I started live streaming. But two reasons why I'm streaming now. Number one, I'm not sure if I'm gonna have a good signal to show you. I don't even know what you can see right now because we're pretty deep in the countryside. And number two, it's starting to rain and I want to get some of this beautiful nature scenery to you before I have to put all the equipment away because when it rains that means yeah filming is pretty hard.

00:46 John Daub: You can see here most of them over the age of 50. Everybody here loves nature. This is one of the more natural areas of Japan. Although you know outside of Tokyo and Osaka and Nagoya and that coast and even there there's nature but on the Sea of Japan coast it's just there's so much out here. And again I'm here in the Mount Daisen Yonago area for two weeks two and a half weeks to film and try to get a better idea of what's on this side of Japan. And I can do that best by living here and now wow the colors are starting to really pick up. I think it's gonna be a little bit better next week. Right now the colors are right on the fringe of turning into red and orange. There's still too much green but you can see some of the leaves are falling now.

02:07 John Daub: I'm so tired now. How many more kilometers to go? Everybody here is really friendly easy to talk to and I kind of like that vibe. Which means we get a chance to talk with some people from Japan on this hiking course. Which is really cool. I'm losing my breath. I'm out of shape for the last two weeks and for the last ten days I've just been inside. We had a typhoon which kept everybody indoors and I've been shooting the schedule's been insane. Haven't gotten out much and now why are these people that are 30 years older than me in such good shape? It's not fair.

03:00 John Daub: I'm rounding the bend and there's a little bit more orange coming up here. Usually we're definitely too early but usually there's a lot more red. It looks like a fireworks show. Now the prefecture has closed off this road to cars except for that one I think which belongs to the prefecture and Tottori has made an event out of this nature walk. I mean there's no cars. We can walk the road and enjoy this time. So this is a tunnel it really is stunning. Tunnel of color.

04:05 John Daub: Hey. Comments. Hello everybody! So I'll stream as long as I can until we run out of either signal it rains too much or this just gets way too boring for you. But I'm having a great time. I'm having pretty good fun. I don't know the course on the I had a flyer that's a good question. How many kilometers is this course? On the brochure it said like five kilometers or something like that but it seems like it's gonna it might be more but you know what? I'm just following the crowd. I don't think it can be that far right? Can it be?

05:04 John Daub: But it's cool to have a procession of people. I like to be let me tell you something I like to be in the front because I never like to be in the back because I like all the fresh air and if you're walking around behind a stampede of people sometimes it doesn't smell so good. So it's best to be in the front. Fight your way to the front. That's what I'm gonna do. I have the energy to do that right? I'm gonna be the champion of this group of senior citizens. People here there are young people. Oh wow this is so beautiful to have the road to ourselves. I'm glad I came to this event. I had to wake up at six in the morning to come to this event. I almost said forget about it but I'm glad I did.

05:58 John Daub: I do have some water. Don't worry there's people asking me to drink something. I got that covered. Thank you. Cheers. That baby does not want to walk. Konnichiwa. How old are you? One year old. Ah cute. Kawaii!

07:40 John Daub: I said I want to get to the front right? I'm gonna fight this out. Alright I can do this. This is probably like a 100 km hike and I'm gonna kill myself in the first kilometer. We just started. This is almost a test of Japan's 4G network. Does the 4G network in Japan have the power to broadcast. Oh colors! You can hear that sound.

08:13 John Daub: Oh thank you Vaughn. Did you find. That's an interesting one. Did you find the guy went to? So before this livestream you gotta see this okay? Before this livestream I did a stream of the traffic guy. The traffic man I call him. Traffic man. And he was dancing and he just loved his job. He was dancing twirling. He did a Michael Jackson. He was trying to speak English to me. Which was really funny. You have to see this video. I streamed it about an hour ago. Oh wow now we're deep in a tunnel. This is really stunning. Never do this. Go to the front. Thank you so much for the super chats everybody.

09:12 John Daub: Alright that's gasoline now. Oh my gosh I didn't know people were that far up there. I have to apologize in advance. If this stream cuts off suddenly nothing happened. I'm just deep deep in the forest. Right now we're really testing this is Softbank's iPhone 6 Plus. Softbank ability to broadcast in the mountains. Oh my gosh people are way up there! Alright I'm going to run it. I like to be in the front. I'm literally going up the hill. It's not that steep but it's steep enough to make me go. Oh we got a clearing. You can see up the mountain. Some of the colors are starting to come out. It's still a little early. That tree's lovely.

10:21 John Daub: They're way way way up there. We started at the same time. I think there's some serious hikers on this. Those people they're no beginners. There's some serious serious hikers. But they haven't met me before. Because I'm not going to give up. This walk has turned into a run. We can do this thing. Oh look at the scenery. I'll do my best to get to the front. Everyone's fast. How are you guys doing? Probably a lot better than me. But the air quality is so good. Give me a second wind here. I'm not making it up. This is really good. Whoa you can see in the forest. See? All that color.

11:41 John Daub: They're laughing at me. Are they laughing at me because they doubt me? Because this is ridiculous. Run through the woods. Daniel I'll get totally lost. And I'll be honest with you. Yesterday I was filming in a rice paddy. And there was a snake this thick and maybe two meters long. Just popped out. And I just jumped up. I ran. I'm not running fast now but I was running fast yesterday because that snake. You don't know what's poisonous and what's not poisonous. But I just don't like snakes. Not wild ones in rice fields that are that big. They're that big. Successful at biting things and living.

12:49 John Daub: Start running again but take a look at the nature we got here. I apologize if the quality is not good. It's a lot more vivid looking than what you see. Make sure there's no water on it. It is raining right now. It's so beautiful. It's like fireworks. Oh I found the front. I'm totally going to get there right now. I hate being downwind from 500 people. I like being in front. You should get the spirit the competitive spirit to conquer a group of people and lead them. I'm going to lead them all.

14:03 John Daub: Traffic sign. Let's see. This is Daisenji Mount Daisen Shrine. Wait that's 9 kilometers? I can't go that far. I'm tired pretty much. Oh there comes a bus. I think I've used up a lot of my nitrous. Nitrox? What's that thing that they use for turbo boosting? I've used it up. I have to re-energize my nitrox for turbo boost. Whoa! Look at that. That's photo worthy isn't it? Wow. That is photo worthy.

15:24 John Daub: You know what? If this was a zombie apocalypse this would be considered the herd. Okay? So I've got to get in front of the herd. I do have this selfie stick so I can use it to bang people on the head. It's a head shot right? I've got to get a head shot in a zombie apocalypse. Oh good job. High touch. Awesome. What? The herd stopped. What's going on? This is the front everybody. I think this is a strange thing.

16:11 Woman: [Japanese: explaining local foliage and environment, partially translated] The characteristics of this village and the fact that we are still here. I'm going to show you what kind of luck this village has given us. I didn't think that so many people would come here. I've picked some bunanomi. This year bunanomi is the best. When you climb the Kagi-kake pass you'll see the Gochizou mountain. So please take a look. Actually the bunanomi leaves I'll show you. Bunanomi. Can you see it? Yes. This is the mountain. This mountain is called Yamaguchi. The mountain is called Koyouju. Bunanomi is a characteristic of this area. If you like the shape of the bunanomi please take a look at it. Please take a look at it. The same leaves will fall off later so please look for them. The leaves are fluttering around. And if you look from the side you can see the waves. What is this for? This is for the leaves. The leaves of the leaves are very smooth and hot. When it rains they fall off smoothly. Bunanomi is a very hot plant. And the water is open. When it rains it catches the water. It catches the water and collects water from its own branches. Actually bunanomi is the most wet tree in the rain. Because it needs water to survive. The roots don't grow vertically. They are spread horizontally. If there is no water it will always be useless. But thanks to that in fact in conclusion even if it doesn't rain in this world in the future the area around this mountain is safe from drinking water for 50 years. This mountain has that much water absorption. And this bunanomi is...

18:05 John Daub: She is explaining about the leaves and the environment around here. I like the way she is explaining about the pattern of the way that the leaves fall. Like this. And you can catch them. You have to know the pattern. I'm way in front of the herd. These guys are keeping me from the front. Look. They are like there is no more. It's not about time. It doesn't matter. Slowly. Guys are protecting the front. Oh those three are breaking the law. Those three where do they think they are going? Are you going? If you are going you are going. Yes. What about these three? He told me that we can't go past him. But those three totally broke the law. They must already be zombies.

19:07 John Daub: I like the speech but I can't interpret all of that for you. It's just not fun. What's more fun is if we try to catch a leaf. Here they come. Do you think this is possible? Have you ever caught a leaf? Oh oh oh oh oh oh. I got this one. I got it. Looks half eaten. Zombies got it first. Not bad. I like to see these people try that. Yeah. I'm sure they can do it. They are more energy than me. I like the ski poles though. It's a good touch.

20:18 John Daub: Let's see if we can talk to some more people. Let's go. Bus. I like how people wave back. It's pretty cool. Alright we're getting into more of a wooded area again. That was a good clearing. I'm falling behind the pack. That's true. When I tried to catch that leaf. Do you see for those of you who watch the show Walking Dead I'm not sure if you do but it's quite a popular show the herd moves fast. It's faster than you think it is because it's hard to estimate how fast a herd can walk. Because in a group you figure that it's not this fast but for some reason in a group no one ever stops. They're always coming after you. I was in the front. I'm not anymore. These people are at a different level.

21:28 John Daub: I found the people who are professionals. She's walking with a purpose. You know I don't know. While I'm on this topic am I the only one who thinks that I'd probably be okay in a zombie apocalypse? I think I could do okay. I could be...