00:00:01 John Daub: Here he comes in pole position. It's Matthew! Unfortunately, there's no race to categorize trikes. So I don't know Matthew, you might not have won the Indy 500, but you certainly won the award for most interesting looking tricycle.

00:00:23 Matthew: I win that award a lot. Tricycle, tricycle. Yeah. How you doing? Good, good. Nice to see you again.

00:00:29 John Daub: Yeah, a little background information. I met Matthew a few weeks ago. I had to go to Tottori to make some shows over there and he had to go back to China to gas up, had to go home. But so far he's on a trip that's taking him around the world. You started how long ago?

00:00:51 Matthew: I started in 2014, but I got run over by a truck and so it whaling. I shattered my shoulder.

00:00:56 John Daub: We're gonna get to some interesting stories. So let's check out your trike here.

00:01:04 Matthew: Wow. This is a recumbent trike made in Germany, company HP Velotechnik. It's not your childhood tricycle.

00:01:13 John Daub: No, it's not.

00:01:16 Matthew: My friend, I always wanted to ride around the world and my friend told me that as a guy if you're riding on a bicycle it's a little painful, you know. Sitting on the seat, right? Yeah, issues and things. So he suggested that I ride on the trike and in the beginning I was like it's a little bit odd, but to be honest, it's very comfortable. It's very stable and I make videos all the time. So riding normally I have a ton of bags on here, but they're not on here right now. They're at the hostel. But normally I have my cameras and my drone and I fly the drone and everything I can operate from the seat of the trike. I don't even have to get out. I don't even have to put up a kickstand. Literally the thing just sits there and it's got suspension all the way around and it can carry a bunch of stuff and I got a lot of gearing options.

00:02:04 John Daub: Yeah. It's a pretty sweet ride. You have a helmet probably now that because you got run over before.

00:02:09 Matthew: You take a lot of crap because I don't wear the helmet as much as I should. In Japan everybody moves out of the way for you. They're so kind when you're riding around they give you tons of space.

00:02:21 John Daub: Yeah, it's pretty cool. And this is a wow, I don't even know what I rode this once before but I still don't know what a lot of this stuff is. This is a mirror.

00:02:29 Matthew: I've got because on a bicycle it's kind of easy to turn around but on a trike you're kind of sitting there. So I got side view mirror. Yeah, I've got my ride computer here. I've got my coffee or my Bluetooth speaker here and then I've got my iPhone here actually my iPhone is my computer for riding. Navigation system. Yeah, and normally I have two big bags here. Like I said, and then I got pannier bags and my backpack.

00:02:56 John Daub: Stopping it. You have your own logo. This is really well thought out. Jiayou (Chinese for "add fuel"). Yeah, Matthew put a lot of work into his. In fact if I put the link to his website in the description here, definitely check it out. You can track where he's been. He's done a really good job, better than me, of like mapping out where he's been and getting that information of each location. I don't know how you do it man. You're on the road constantly. I hitchhiked earlier this year and had a lot of trouble keeping up with the videos, organizing everything but you're doing such an amazing job not just riding it but also keeping doing videos for your YouTube channel.

00:03:41 Matthew: Yeah. I mean the marketing I mean I have like 400, today is 445 episodes and almost every day. I think 90%. Pretty sad every day.

00:03:48 John Daub: That's pretty amazing. I've been watching some. My show is Only in Japan. I only do only Japan. He's doing around the world but he has a lot of episodes with adventures from Japan. I'll put the link to his YouTube video in the description later on. But yeah, I want to hear more about yeah, yeah, try it.

00:04:22 Matthew: I'm going to go around the world. Yeah, see? I printed some.

00:04:40 John Daub: Let's move the trike over towards where you're staying, which is the first cabin which is becoming a well-known like a youth hostel kind of half-capsule hotel-looking place. This is also interesting to take a look in here maybe for another episode.

00:04:57 Matthew: Yeah, you can take a look. Are we allowed? Yeah.

00:04:59 John Daub: So this has turned from a Matthew adventure to a capsule hotel adventure. Let's take a look. Alright, very quick look. Let's keep it simple. So we've got a bar, first of all. That's important. And that's pretty common. Like, we love these places with the eatery in front of the actual Playforty thing.

00:05:20 Matthew: Yeah.

00:05:21 John Daub: Playforty?

00:05:24 Matthew: Yeah. It's like a VIP airline sort of.

00:05:28 John Daub: I don't know, we might lose a signal in the elevator.

00:05:31 Matthew: Yeah, maybe. There's no stairs? It's pretty much all locked down with elevators.

00:05:38 John Daub: Okay, no, I don't want to risk it. You know what? We can do this afterwards maybe.

00:05:43 Matthew: Okay.

00:05:44 John Daub: Alright, we'll get well, and they do have a bicycle on the wall here. Keep it within the theme, right?

00:05:51 Matthew: Right, right, right. Okay, very cool.

00:05:58 John Daub: So add fuel to life.

00:06:01 Matthew: Add fuel? Yeah, yeah. I've got the marketing down pretty well. Jiayou (Chinese for "add fuel") means, is a Chinese word. And so if you go to China and you're running a race you'll hear people cheering for you going, jiayou, jiayou, jiayou. Because literally what it means is to like, add fuel. Like, if your car is running low on gas you'll say we need to jiayou. And it's adopted as slang, meaning add whatever you need to succeed. So I'm adding fuel to my life by riding around the world and making videos.

00:06:30 John Daub: All right, let's go jiayou around the block. Did I use it right? I just made that up. Let's go jiayou around the block. Let's go add fuel. Leave your cycle here, and we'll just take a quick walk around. Stay tuned to the end of this video because I'm going to try out the trike. I'm going to try this out and see how wrong it goes. It's going to be a lot of fun. This area that we're in, this is called Bakuroyokoyama (Bakuro Yokoyama). This is where the outside limits of the city of Tokyo was, and the ba in bakuro means horse. So people would leave their horses at the stable here to go into the city of Tokyo. And we left my horse at the stable to walk around.

00:07:11 Matthew: That's what I was going to say. It's pretty ironic that we left your horse back there.

00:07:17 John Daub: This area is pretty quiet. It's an area that I might want to live in. It's known for tech styles these days. You can get a cheap suit or an expensive suit. People order yukata (light cotton kimono) for summer here, and they have it specially made, tailored. That's a little bit about the area. You know what I found out about this area?

00:07:36 Matthew: It's very hostel and inexpensive stay rich. Like all of the hostels that I've searched for since I've been in Tokyo for the past couple of weeks, a lot of them have been here. I'm like, oh, this one looks nice. And I'm like, oh, it's right down the block. Oh, this one looks nice.

00:07:52 John Daub: So they're kind of consolidated. That's this area between Nihonbashi, which is where we are here, Nihonbashi and Asakusa. In this Asakusa, if you're saying it in Japanese, it's loaded with stamachi. It's loaded with lots of places that are cheap, inexpensive. Ueno as well. This is a good place to stay. You get a little bit the best of both worlds. This is a side street here in Bakuroyokoyama. I like when they lay bricks down at the road.

00:08:21 Matthew: Yeah. It's a blast. I do like the bricks. It does vibrate the trike sometimes.

00:08:26 John Daub: As long as it's not cobblestone. Cobblestone is like the worst. You're vibrating. Everything's rattling. So there's a lot of questions coming in. I want to ask you now about your adventure. So, okay, if you see any cars behind us, let us know, okay, if you're commenting. We're doing this. You can see it's known for textiles. There's a tie store here.

00:08:49 Matthew: That would match my jiayou polo. I'll be the first guy to pull off a polo in a jiayou.

00:08:57 John Daub: So what's it been like? So you started this trip like a couple months ago, right?

00:09:02 Matthew: I started this version of the trip about six months ago. Yeah. I rode from China. I took a ferry to Korea. And then I rode from Seoul all the way to Busan. I rolled around Jeju. And then I went to Japan. I went up to Hokkaido and I've been cycling down from Hokkaido for the past few months.

00:09:26 John Daub: So we have paralleled on a few of our adventures as you've been hiking around. So a lot of those have been similar. Yeah. I saw the ones from Wakkanai from the north in Hokkaido and Rishiri. I didn't even go there. You were there. It was beautiful, man. You missed out.

00:09:45 Matthew: I like to climb. As a matter of fact, I climbed Everest a couple of years ago. I did an expedition. And part of my tour is not necessarily just about cycling. It's about accomplishing life goals and checking off bucket list items. Like the first thing I did when I wanted to travel around the world is I wrote down all the things I wanted to accomplish with my life. And I figured I'm going to get them all done on one big tour around the world. So Everest was number one. And so I worked really hard to make that the first one I checked off.

00:10:15 John Daub: Basically, you started with the hardest of them all. Let's just go to the highest peak and do that first. It's all downhill. That's the highest place in the world. And then you came and you've been in Japan for about four, almost a month. No, not a month. I ran through 90 day visa and a bit more. So he's a run. Yeah. So three plus months. What's it like? I know a lot of people have questions. I'm going to answer them in a couple of minutes. First, I want to get in more depth. This is being broadcasted live. Getting more depth with Matthew and his trip here in Japan. So you've been through Hokkaido and Tohoku and you came in from the north down to Tokyo. What's that been like? What have been some of the highlights of that?

00:11:02 Matthew: Well, I'll tell you what. I mean, in Hokkaido, you got trees and nature and it's sparsely populated. But, you know, you can kind of enjoy that in its own way. It got a little bit lonely. I like people. I like the integration and interaction with people. And I found that that was a little bit lacking. So as I started to move south, as I got to Honshu, once I got in there, I started really catching my stride and meeting people. And that was a lot of fun.

00:11:37 John Daub: Hokkaido is pretty sparse out there. And when I was hitchhiking, there were moments where there were no cars on the road. It was just like these highways that went on forever. And I was there holding a cardboard sign. So I can relate to that. Lots of big trucks though. Yeah. How's the traffic been?

00:11:53 Matthew: I mean, you've seen a lot of traffic right in the roads, not just in the U.S. You're from the U.S. originally. Detroit originally. From Detroit. People don't cycle so much in Detroit. As a matter of fact, if you ride a bicycle, you're a sissy. It's the Motor City, man.

00:12:07 John Daub: That's a reason to swerve.

00:12:10 Matthew: Two points. Two points. But my trike is wider. It's not a bicycle. It takes up more space on a road. So it's actually a little bit more daunting when you're riding through a tunnel. It's like 10 kilometers long through some sparsely populated area in Hokkaido. It gets me nervous.

00:12:26 John Daub: You're like, I hope there's no more than two cars.

00:12:28 Matthew: I hope there's no more than two cars because they're going to have to work their way around here.

00:12:33 John Daub: Yeah, I think that that's always the U.S. is not really bicycle friendly and neither is Japan, is it?

00:12:40 Matthew: I don't know. I found everybody's pretty nice. They give you a wide berth. They wave to you. I've had so many people nice to me. You Japanese guys and girls out there, thank you so much for you dropped me off food on the side of the road. You seek me out.

00:12:54 John Daub: Drop you off food? Like they drive by.

00:12:56 Matthew: Maybe it's trash, dude. They put it in the back and they throw it out. Maybe. I was off food. I was in Hokkaido in the north and this guy drove past me hours ago and he saw me and he must have made a note in his mind that I'm going to find this guy later. And he went out, bought a bunch of food and then sought my campsite out. Like he literally had to find me later in that night. And coincidentally, I had forgotten to buy dinner. And I was in the middle of nowhere. So I had no way to get dinner. And his truck pulls up and he gets out and he says to me, here, here's some food. How do you know where I am? He's like, I saw you four hours ago.

00:13:34 John Daub: Where was this?

00:13:35 Matthew: It was in before Kushiro. Ah, wow. This is deep Hokkaido.

00:13:41 John Daub: He saw you. I didn't know they had internet up there. I mean, that's like deep Kushiro, right? Way up there in east Hokkaido. Nothing up there. That's pretty amazing. That's not a single story. There's been a lot of stuff like that. It's been pretty awesome.

00:13:59 John Daub: Again, you can see some of the fashion of this area we're in. It's called Fashion Message. So I just wanted to transmit the message. There's fashion. There is fashion here. It's mostly old people fashion, but, you know, it's all good. Everybody needs pockets with fur. I don't want to go too far away from there's some construction over here. Let's walk back, back towards this way. Get in people's ways. There's more like boxes in the streets here and stuff like that. People moving around. So the Japan trip has been pretty good. You've been to Japan before.

00:14:30 Matthew: Oh, yeah. My friend is a teacher in China and he moved and ended up moving to Japan. A lot of our teachers, they teach around Asia. So he came to Tokyo. So I came to visit him quite a number of times. But I hadn't really explored, obviously, like I'm doing now.

00:14:44 John Daub: How's the food?

00:14:46 Matthew: Here, a little bit expensive. I've been trying to keep things in a budget and it seems like I keep spending more than my hotel stay. In my mind, I try and keep things like I don't want to spend more than I pay for during the night.

00:15:04 John Daub: Yeah, I think if you're comparing and if your comparison is China and also the US, the food here is more, of course, it's more expensive. But I think you get what you pay for. I'm coming from China. I can get a huge bowl of rice and some things. I'm a little bit biased just because I've been living in the US. But it's good though, right? It's more expensive, but it's good.

00:15:22 Matthew: Oh, it's fantastic. I mean, I love sushi. I love ramen. I love everything. I eat everything. So I've got no worries there. Some people are intolerant to certain things. I have no intolerances.

00:15:34 John Daub: What's been your most memorable food experience here in Japan?

00:15:38 Matthew: Uh, geez. There's always a food experience, you know, whether it's the language or the cuisine or something that they put in front of you that you have no idea what it is. But you're used to that being in China. Yeah, I've eaten everything from rats to cats. The octopus in Korea was pretty cool. Eating a live octopus that's struggling as you're trying to get it down your gullet. Um, geez, I don't know. I had a pretty fantastic burger that was recommended to me a while back.

00:16:05 John Daub: Oh, that's the one I ate. I recommended a burger place called Martini Burger, which is really good. It's a friend of mine. Yeah, a friend of mine who runs it, Elliot. He's the owner of Martini Burger. Very gourmet. I wish it was bigger. We don't have any real burger challenges except for fast food burgers. Every now and then they have campaigns, but I'm American. I like a good burger. Yeah, we do have it. It's more quality than size here. All the chains before the 2020 Olympics, all of the major chains, fast food chains, are coming to Tokyo. I lived here for 20 years without or 18 years without a Taco Bell, for example. So, I mean, and that's easy to do, actually. Yeah, I've been without a Taco Bell for a long time. But Taco Bell just came here a couple of years ago. It's sort of a new phenomenon. Here's what I was telling you. Here's where you can get like kimonos and kimonos made. Bakuroyokoyama, this area is known for discount shops. So if you want to get like a kimono fitted or something, you probably want to come to a place like this. That one kanji right there means cheap or discount.

00:17:18 Matthew: You were talking about the what I observed? Right. I've been riding and I'll tell you one thing that was been pretty interesting and a theme that's been running through my route as I hold up for a second.

00:17:28 John Daub: Check this out. I look that's a backpack, dude. That suits you. It does. I could put it on the back of the trike, scare people as I'm riding down the road. Oh, my Lord. It's not real. Anyone who's commenting if it's real, it's not real. It's an amazing Halloween costume. It's actually pretty good quality. Because I could have stuck my head through here, I could have put a couple of holes through the eyes. That is actually well made. That is a really nicely made, gigantic lion head backpack. I mean, I haven't seen many lion head backpacks in my world. I'm quite impressed with that. They are actually pretty cool. And you're tall enough to put it away. If you ask the grandma to put it away, she'd probably take it like half. This place is also famous for people who are a little bit older. Thank you for the super chats. I'm going to go back in. Here we go. Hey, John, buy some food while you're out with Matthew. Okay. If we find some street food, we're going to stop by and get that. I appreciate it. I appreciate all the super chats coming in. I didn't have a chance to read out of them. Yeah, I didn't have any time to read all of them. But if you have questions at the end, we're going to go through and answer them. How do you preserve your chat? I don't know. Some of them, they'll disappear after a while. But yeah, I do see them right away. But I've been looking at you and looking at here. I might miss something. I'm going to ask you this question. This is the way back to the hostel, right?

00:19:01 Matthew: I think so. Yeah. So what else? I mean, why? Why?

00:19:04 John Daub: Why are you doing this? Well, I want to know.

00:19:09 Matthew: I've been involved in business for most of my life. Like I'm an entrepreneur and I do marketing and I help people make products in China. And it's a stressful job and it's not exactly a fulfilling career choice. And I was in pursuit of money for most of my life, thinking that money was the definition of like, once you have money, you can do all the things you want to do. But then I met a guy in China, the one that coincidentally I met in Tokyo, that my teacher friend and he didn't need a lot of money and he could travel without the need of financing. And I was like, well, if he can do that, then I can do that. And so I reorganized my thought instead of I need money to buy experiences. I want to make those experiences and I will worry about the money later. So I said, I'm going to do all the things that I ever wanted to do. We'll figure it out along the way.

00:19:55 John Daub: I mean, but aren't you a little bit worried? You're going to some places. Now, I've traveled to over 70 countries in my life as a backpacker, but most of them were before 2001, before the terrorist attack in New York. And the world was a lot different place back then. It was actually a lot cheaper to travel. But these days it seems like the world seems really dangerous. You're going to places that aren't exactly American friendly like Iran, right?

00:20:21 Matthew: I went to North Korea. A few years ago. I wouldn't go now.

00:20:26 John Daub: Even a few years ago, it wasn't exactly encouraged. But, you know, are you a little bit worried that you're going to Pakistan as well?

00:20:36 Matthew: Yeah, Pakistan, Iran too. I'm adjusting like I'm flexible. You know, if an area seems a little bit too hot politically or, you know, in any way, then I'll avoid it. Like I originally I wanted to go through Syria. You know, because Syria is actually a beautiful country. Really amazing people. But, you know, it's sad. Just politics and conflict, you know.

00:21:00 John Daub: In general, though, in Iran and because in Japan, there are a lot of Iranians living. You met one, right?

00:21:07 Matthew: Yeah. What did he tell you about going to Iran? I have a lot of Iranian friends before I met this guy. But I was cycling down the road and I see him. He's waving to me and everything. And he's like, where are you from, my friend? I said, I'm from America. Where are you going? I says, where are you from? He says, I'm from Iran. I said, I'm going to Iran. He's like, you're going to Iran. They're going to cut you, my friend.

00:21:29 John Daub: Why would they cut you? Don't tell me that. You're going to scare me. I says, I got a lot of friends in Iran. A lot of Iranians.

00:21:35 Matthew: Like they cut your friends, they cut you, they cut everybody.

00:21:38 John Daub: But most of the people have positive stories. I mean, but yeah, I didn't put that in the blog for that. So this is actually something. Yeah. I've been I've been a little bit in this story of the world. People are very they treat you like guests. Right. You're your guest there. And I remember I met somebody who came from Kuwait. He visited from visiting Japan. He brought me a beautiful scarf. It's amazing. The generosity. It's not like it's forced. It's like they really want to you know, they want to help you out and they want to treat you with some respect and in the Koran, it actually says that you've got to help people, travelers with places to stay. And, you know, so yeah. But his first is like they're going to cut you. Like that. That was the first guy that kind of had a little shiver down my spine. I heard that from anybody. I'm like, well, are you sure? I don't know. Cut me with why? Ha ha ha. Cut me with words. That's OK. I've been cut with words before.

00:22:34 John Daub: All right. Yeah, we're back here. What else do you want to add? I mean, there's so many questions that I have.

00:22:38 Matthew: Well, you know, I've got a long road to go. I'm going through 100 countries.

00:22:41 John Daub: Yeah. So I'm really in the beginning period of the trip. Did you get all of your visas and stuff in advance? You already have it. You're going to get it on the way.

00:22:51 Matthew: Is my journey is going to take me over ten years.

00:22:54 John Daub: So wait a minute. Wait a minute. Ten years. I didn't know that. I thought you just keep going. You'll be done like a year.

00:23:02 Matthew: No, ten years.

00:23:03 John Daub: Holy smokes. You can't go. You go too fast if you win any slower. Oh, but you're not going to be you'll be making coming back to your home base every now and then. Yeah. Every so often. Yeah. OK. Oh, my gosh. I thought that, like, you know, my longest trip was nine months. And I thought that was pretty long. Ten years. Is that's a pretty long. It's a lifestyle. You know, we call that a decade. We would call that like an eighth of your life. More, you know, unless don't say that. I don't like that. Let's see if we can talk him out of this. Yeah. You know, it's going to be a dangerous, deadly road. Think about it now. You're going to lose all your hair. And you already come back. OK. It's hard to talk out a couple of middle aged guys. But yeah, this is really cool. I'm going to ask you, what else do you want people to know about your trip? I mean, you're just starting out then. Basically, you're in the infancy of it, right?

00:23:54 Matthew: Well, I'll tell you what, as I travel around the world, what I want to do is meet interesting people and do interesting things and really live life. So my thoughts, if any of you guys are watching around the world, and you can go to my website, jiayou.com and see a map where I'm going and you and our paths intercede and you know some interesting places. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. You know, you know, reach out to me and maybe we can cross paths, especially if you're making videos, because that's another thing I like to meet people that are making videos, so anything that can enhance the trip and enhance my life along the way.

00:24:26 John Daub: Yeah, that's really cool. And, you know, the great thing about what I do with the YouTube is I get a chance to meet other YouTubers or other people that are visiting mostly when I'm on the street walking through Shibuya or something. People go, I know that guy and they'll take a selfie and then they'll walk away and they don't even know my name, but they knew who I was. And that's what it really, really counts. YouTube. Cool. So I'm going to go on an adventure. So I'm going to try to try this thing.

00:24:51 Matthew: You want me to. Yeah, I guess so.

00:24:54 John Daub: I better take this off. I'm a little bit nervous about about this. I guess you just throw it back there. This is pretty cool. I I. Gosh.

00:25:05 Matthew: Let me. Yeah, you better give you a good starting point. Give me a starting point. OK, so for those of you that don't know, this is a trike steering is here. And here's so your steer here. Your brake is here. Normally it's two sides brake. But because I want to do camera stuff all the time, I actually moved it to one side. So you brake here. Your parking brake is right here. So, John, when you're ready to go, just put this down. Flip the parking brake here. Yeah. And you are ready to go.

00:25:32 John Daub: Ready to go. All right. And I'll try to not crash. Oh, yeah. Let me shift gears. You shift the gears down. Yeah. All right. All right. All right. Let's see. Why don't you. OK. You want me to. It's nice to just to sit down. Yeah. Yeah. It's nice to just sit down. OK. Just push that button. OK. Little Osmo. Do you know how to turn the camera around? There's a button here on the screen. Oh, OK. Then that would be better, right? For you. Yeah. Yeah. If some obscene if some obscene you can hold it from here. Yeah. Yeah. If some obscene questions pop up, just let me know. OK. Don't kill yourself. Don't kill myself. All right. OK. This is kind of I can tell you're taller than me. It's kind of made for me. All right. Parking brake here. Yeah. Oh, wow. Moving. How do you stop it? What happens if a car steer? Is there a car coming? You're good. You're good. I'm doing it. Hey, mom. You're triking. I'm triking. You're triking. I've never been a trike. I've never triked before. You're a triker. Let's see how fast you can go with the camera. Huh? How fast can you guys go? Well, this is sensitive. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This is really sensitive. Oh, this is so cool. Oh, we're good. There's no traffic. Yeah. This is fun. Yeah. This is really comfortable. And lay your head back. Like, put that. Wow. You can put your head back. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Now I know why you now I know why you picked this over a bicycle. Oh, yeah. It's extremely nice. OK. Do I have to follow all the traffic laws?

00:27:21 Matthew: I follow whatever law applies at the time. So whatever law I need. The law of humanity. Yeah. Oh, sorry. That's all right. That was fun. It's just it's just a totally different feeling to how long you're going to get used to. Get used to this. I mean, yeah, you know, a couple of rides. I built this myself in Germany. So, oh, wow. I mean, I put a lot of thought into this particular setup. So I got used to it quick because I knew what I wanted. Yeah. And you have it. And I think you've had people that help contribute like the seat. Right. Yeah. This seat covers made by a guy in Pakistan. This flag is made by a woman. And the United States. These are made. These additives are made by a guy in Oregon.

00:28:14 John Daub: Oh, wow. We're getting covered by the local news. Yeah, they're flying above us to come by at the end of the. Hey, we're down here. Ha ha ha. Tokyo is well known for having a lot of helicopters flying around all the time. There's something to cover. There's always something to cover because drones are not allowed in the city of Tokyo. Drones. I'm telling all you drone flyers here as well as you this whole area is red. That means don't fly it. The police have scanners that will come and they'll be there within five minutes. I'm serious because some guy flew a drone on the on the roof of the prime minister's house. President Prime Minister Abe. He ruined it for all of us. Yeah. And so you can't use drones in the city of Tokyo. Literally, it's all red in China. Pilots saw a drone as they were landing. Like, that's how close it was to the never. You would never see that in Japan. You'd never see that in Japan. All right. So I got a super chat to go get some food. Let's put this back. We'll do a little a quick food run.

00:29:13 Matthew: Yeah, I'll be right here.

00:29:16 John Daub: To navigate. Look at it. Look at him go. Go grab that. All right. He's fast. Look at that. He's so low in the ground like the bat car. Right. Did you see it? He just turned right in front of that car. That's pretty cool. I don't it's pretty low. I would be worried about traffic getting a little bit too close to me. But I think he's got that flag on there. He wears bright yellow. I think he's going to be OK, but I know he's making a really long trip. Ten years. Can you believe that? Ten years. I don't know. I've been here for 20 years. He's going to be out there for ten. Let's see if we could find some. Oh, yeah. Thanks for bringing my bag. Yeah. Oh, there's a parking parking garage. I always wanted to put a camera and then take a trip inside one of these Japanese parking garages. And see how they do that on the inside. All right. So did you see any like street food or takoyaki around here?

00:30:39 Matthew: Not in this immediate area. There was one of those prize thousand yen machines that was a little bit of a walk.

00:30:46 John Daub: Yeah. Well, let's say we can go and hit the hit the hit the convenience store. I'll get you a beer or something. Is it beer time?

00:30:53 Matthew: It is. It's always beer time. It's always beer time. Beer o'clock.

00:30:56 John Daub: Yeah. And if you watch this in New York, it's like like two in the morning. So the world we live in right now, it's what time is it now? Two thirty. Right. Around around three thirty to three p.m. Right. It is three twelve. Three twelve p.m.. Yeah. It is a little bit early for me, but that doesn't mean that you shouldn't have a drink. I mean, I mean, when are you leaving Tokyo tomorrow?

00:31:26 Matthew: All right. So tomorrow I'm headed south. I'm going to go and spend the night. The plan is I'm going to spend the night in the forbidden or the suicide forest and hopefully meet somebody who saved their life and tell them to jiayou.

00:31:40 John Daub: Like that's the whole that would not be amazing to go in. I mean, we all have the dreams of what. Well, everyone's been asking me to go to the suicide. So it's the making through that literally to go to the suicide. First, for me, I live here. I would never do that. But I know because I know what what what it means to people here in Japan. I mean, I guess it's quite insensitive to be crass. Yeah. Yeah. But I think if you ever wanted to see it, go go watch his channel. Because I'm not going to make an episode about suicide for us. Yeah. You go check out Matthew's site. I want to bring some positive energy there. Maybe it can make some make some. Yeah. All right. We're going into the Yamazaki Daily store.

00:32:32 Matthew: Did they have to practice here and lunch? All right. What's your pleasure? There's no craft stuff here, unfortunately. Well, you're getting a big one for sure.

00:32:41 John Daub: Here's a thousand yen. You use this. I'm going to get a small one. Actually, I'll be right there. Right. That's the view. That's on the back of the 1000 yen note. I'm going to go to that lake where that picture is taken. It's right next to the suicide forest. Very similar. Yeah. Did you want to get a snack or anything?

00:33:05 Matthew: I'm okay. Yeah, I'm actually pretty good.

00:33:08 John Daub: Yeah. Okay, cool. I'll be outside. Okay. I gave him the money to buy it because I'm holding the camera. And so we're going to do a little compa, a little cheers because I haven't seen him in three weeks, it's sort of a good send up, I think. So we there's 450 people watching right now. We're going to give him a really good send up. Okay, because I want to be safe out there on the road. I want him to have a good time in Japan, especially when he was here three weeks ago, we went to a really good chicken place. And. I think you did. Did you put that video when we were in the chicken on YouTube? Yeah. Yeah. Oh, my God. The highballs. Really good. I don't drink. Peter knows. All right. Let's get let's get this. This compa. Oh, speaking of I made a video where I interviewed you. And then we did it. I call him vlogger one on ones where we make a little interview and I get to talk about and the video of him on my channel. Yeah. All right. Let's get the sound here. Oh, yeah. All right. A little bit Newton, a little bit of news here. When's the full day with Jennifer on on November 8th? I'm planning to do a full day live stream with Jennifer. Did you know Jennifer? You know, the French Jennifer feed me. Jennifer. Jennifer is always hungry. Jennifer. And we're going to be on November 8th all day streaming, which is November 7th nighttime starting in New York time. So, wow. Yeah, it's gonna be fun. Just like this trip, right? Cheers. Cheers. Compa.

00:34:44 Matthew: I was thinking of doing an all day ride. Where I had the live stream open all day as I ride. But I was worried about how much data I was going to use.

00:34:53 John Daub: That's really true. I have the biggest plan available and it's kind of pricey. And if I go over it, I have to pay a lot of money, which is why these super chats really help out. Yeah. I have 50 gigabytes this month because DoCoMo rolls over the data that I didn't use. And because I'm doing so many live streams this month, I decided not to do as many last month, except for at the end. That was like once a day in total. Live streaming is fun, isn't it? Like we could see what people are writing right now. Amazing. Like I'm literally as you're talking, I'm Jayo Nation. J-A-Y-O-U. So if you put that into YouTube or anywhere on the Internet, you'll see a whole bunch of me. Right. It's cool. I like drinking on the street, too. You can't do this in the United States. You can't do it in Vegas. Oh, well, what Vegas bans the rules. What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Who was that that gave us the money? From New Zealand. Thank you. Cheers. Cheers, mate. That's Australian. I don't know what's it. Can you tell it Australian and New Zealand accent? They'll get angry if you say that. Somebody told me in New Zealand, the intonation always goes up at the end. Is that right? How you doing? You just talk about the all blacks. I'm going to get in trouble. Just talk about the all blacks and walk away. Walk away. It's funny. I met a YouTuber. A YouTuber from Italy in north of here, Sendai. And he makes he works in a factory. He makes the pastries that are in the 7-Eleven store that you buy. Oh, wow. Yeah. Yeah. 7-Eleven of all the convenience stores has the best bakery. They have the only bread that they don't use margarine in, by the way. So I read the labels because I try to take care of myself. Yeah. So this is really cool. I want to wish you a really happy, healthy 10 years. 10 years on the road. Definitely come back to Japan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You never know where the road will take you. You have a lot of fans here. And yeah, there it is.

00:36:59 Matthew: Yeah, man. I've got a bunch of videos of my trip already through Japan and I'll continue making more so check them out and push the good vibes my way. It's always I can always feel them. You know? Yeah. When I was out hitchhiking, when I was out hitchhiking, it was the live streams that kept me like really pumped up. And yeah, definitely.

00:37:18 John Daub: Yeah. You're going to need some some good vibes when you're out there on the road, like in Iran and deserts and stuff like that. I heard Australia's got long stretches of nothing. Oh, you're going to Australia.

00:37:28 Matthew: I'm riding circumventing. I'm headed down to Australia.

00:37:31 John Daub: Wait, like you're going to ride the whole perimeter. Whole perimeter of Australia. All right. All the Australians are like, watch this going like, why the would you do that? Why would you even consider riding Australia? Do you know how like. Like hundreds of miles of nothing. Yeah. Like there's like it's harsh out there, right? I mean, I drove I drove from Alice Springs down to Adelaide and a lot of truck trains and you're not going to go down the center, right?

00:38:00 Matthew: The no, no, no. I'm just going to go around the outside. There's a lot of massive truck. Imagine truck train going by. Would be cool. Actually, that would be kind of cool.

00:38:09 John Daub: That would pretty cool. Yeah. Like a like a three truck trailer truck train. That's pretty cool. Cool. So let's get let's get one shot of you. And in the in the trike. OK, this is what it's going to look like, folks. Well, normally there's a lot more bags here. You'll see it in my website and the beer. Let's see. Check this out. I'll take it. Look at that. Mr. Osmo is losing it here. Yeah, there it is. Watch this. Watch this. No way. You got a cup holder. That's insane. Oh, it's a beer holder. Couple of beer holder. It's reserved for beers. Yeah, very cool. I don't even need to ride. You can just chill out and relax in your car. So you've been at you said in Tokyo for like a while, right?

00:38:55 Matthew: Yeah, I've been here. Honestly, I love Tokyo, but I feel like I've been here too long. I'm I'm I'm getting a little antsy to go, you know? Yeah, because it's a tour. It's made to move. And I've been a little bit stagnant. So I'm ready to get on the road and make some videos and see some interesting places and people.

00:39:10 John Daub: What's next for you quickly in the next two weeks? What are we going to see from you?

00:39:14 Matthew: Fukushima or Fukushima? Already I went to Fukushima in the radiation zone, speaking of. But that already happened. Upcoming is. Mount Fuji, if it's beautiful weather because I don't have a lot of really heavy clothes for it, if it's beautiful, perfect weather, I'll climb it and then I'll spend the night in a suicide forest and then I'll head south towards Nagoya and Nagoya, yeah. And I have some friends in Osaka and we'll just be bouncing around. I don't know what I'll be doing in Osaka. So if you know some cool things to do there, let me know.

00:39:43 John Daub: Sure. You know, the ukiyo-e that you know, the 52 stops on the Tokaido Highway. No, I'm going to teach you that. There's 52. There's postcards, the ukiyo-e (Japanese woodblock prints) designs. Yeah, there's 52 stops because people centuries ago used to walk from Tokyo to Kyoto to Osaka, the Tokaido Highway. And that was there. Yeah. And there's the woodblock prints, which are famous. The 52, I think it's 52, 53, 54. I forget, but there's over 50 stations which everyone gets those postcards. Those images are quite famous. I'm sure you've seen a bunch of them, but you're going to be riding that. I will be. Wow. Osmo just crashed. It Osmo'd. But you're going to be riding the Tokaido, I think, down to Nagoya. That's the one I took a bicycle and I rode that way. OK. Turn it over my way. I rode a one speed bicycle to Kyoto. It took me five days. It's a good road. There's a lot of stuff to see on the way. And I know you're going to have a lot of fun. You know, the big, big events are cool, but it's the smaller events that really make the travel worthwhile. Oh, we got a nice legs comment. Oh, thank you. Very nice. Very furry. Very furry. Very lovely. Yeah. How much? So he didn't pay for the cycle. You made it. How much did it cost?

00:40:57 Matthew: Oh, I paid for it. I flew to Germany. I built it in Germany. This this I mean, basic is about three thousand US, but this one is upgraded quite a bit in a lot of different ways and gearing. So I don't really want to say exactly how much because it's a lot. It was a lot of money. A lot of money was custom built.

00:41:15 John Daub: I think it's very it's very smooth. Yeah, it's good. Yeah. What camera do you use when you record when you make your show?

00:41:23 Matthew: I use a Canon G7 X Mark two as soon as they come out with the Mark three. I buy that as I use I use a stick with no battery, which means I don't ever have to worry about my my gimbal battery. The whole thing about traveling around, you've got to do it light. I used to carry a big DSLR, but I ended up for forsaking the really amazing quality for lesser quality, but much lighter. So carrying an Osmo like. Yeah, it would be awesome. But I just can't carry all the batteries and the chargers and everything right with it. Right. So everything's simplified except for my drone. Right. My drone. I sacrificed to carry that thing along.

00:42:03 John Daub: Yeah. Very cool. We got a high five, a high five for Super Chatter. Very good. Vinay, you've been you've been served, my friend. Cool. So have a really safe trip. Thank you. One last compay for the road from everybody watching to you. My friend, good vibes on the trip. Chai yo. Chai yo. Hey, before you end it, maybe you ask. Oh, no, no, no. I didn't end it. Go ahead. Could you maybe ask because this is something I was thinking about on a live chat, could you have somebody out there highlight all the chat and then copy it in a text document and give it to you that way? Somebody gives you the live chat. Maybe you could keep it in a Word document. Does that even matter to you? I don't know how that I don't know how that works. And I think what all this chats that are going is gone are just kind of. Yeah, they're kind of gone. It's they move pretty fast. I mean, that is the reason why I like the super chats because they're highlighted. And I can see that really clearly. But these move really fast. But yeah, there's just a shock. It'll be gone. Okay. Yeah. They disappear after a while. Yeah, this is this is something I'm learning. So you have to have to check every couple of minutes on the super chats. But I really do appreciate it because the bandwidth does does get paid. It does literally. So there's a lot of good luck for you. I see a lot of people leaving these trips. Hey, John, somebody wrote a number prayers. Thank you for that. My password 123456. How do you know his password? Yeah, somebody's complaining that they did a super chat. They never get an answer. I apologize for that. I do copy paste the super chats in the description and then try to answer it for you. If I do miss it, I will answer it in the description. Just wait a couple of hours when I get back home. I can see all the people. I can see the chats. I can't see the chats that you're writing now. It's just somebody's password is password. So you can see how fast the stream is going. Yeah. Yeah. Hi from Amsterdam. Good luck from Costa Rica. Gosh, this is a very global. I love the love. I feel it. I feel it. Yeah. Good. Some love from from Perth, Indonesia. Wonderful. Linda's here and Florencia is here. Awesome. Cool. Yeah. So thanks, everybody. Thanks for watching. Love from Canada. South Africa, Hong Kong. There you go. Guatemala. How's the beer? It's getting warm. Hi from Canada. There you go. Malaysia. Wow. That's Australia. Saudi Arabia. Mumbai. Yeah. Montreal, Michigan, Michigan. That's my home. Columbia, Hawaii, Vegas, Mexico, Texas, Honolulu, Botswana, Dallas. Osaka. I'll be there in a little while. You're going to see him rolling through. All right, everybody. Take it easy. Have a nice day. Or night wherever you are in the world. Bye bye.