00:00:00 John Daub: Good evening everybody. It's 1 a.m. in Tokyo. It's a little bit cold and I am really hungry. It's one of those episodes where a man goes out into the streets of Tokyo well after hours to go get some food at a convenience store. And there's one right over there. That's a 7-Eleven and we're going to get some food. But we have a guest today and I want to introduce you to her. She started emailing me about a little bit over a month ago and she's watching from... well, I'm just going to introduce you to her. She's right over there. I know what you're thinking. She's right there. You see her?

00:00:57 John Daub: Yeah. Hey. See, I told you you'd make it to Japan. So that's Gretchen Brown from Phoenix, Arizona. It's 9:15 in the morning there. She told me that she wanted to go to Japan and right now she's in Japan. So there you go, Gretchen. And there's a picture of her from Facebook and I'm going to go in. Now Gretchen showed me some of the food that she was eating. It was like applesauce. It wasn't really the tastiest thing. It was like the best looking stuff in the world, right Gretchen? I mean, we can do a little bit better in Japan. I think we can go and find some stuff.

00:01:33 John Daub: The one request that she did have for me to go and eat tonight was to get, not food, but booze. Right? You wanted me to drink sake. So I'm going to go in there and try to find some sake to drink at the convenience store. And then maybe I'll find some snacks because I really am hungry. Now Gretchen, are you hungry? You have like a laundry list of stuff that's wrong with you but you're a pretty tough cookie. Her nurse Pamela, who's probably there as well, she's been sending me updates. No, she's not there. So Pamela's been sending me updates on Gretchen's condition and she's doing better than yesterday, which is good. She's been watching the show for a while and because she can't get up, she's been following the Only in Japan Go channel and traveling with us on the show.

00:02:33 John Daub: That's really cool. And that's cool because I know there's a lot of people all around the world that can't make it to Japan right now. Gretchen, in the future we think we'll be here, right? Pamela said you might try to make the trip, so maybe not but hopefully we can get you. But I'm going to go into 7-Eleven for you, okay? So you can turn on the live stream. You're a lot warmer. I think the temperature was 54 degrees, like 11 degrees Celsius, and it's like minus something here in Tokyo. At least it feels really cold. So I'm going to go into the 7-Eleven behind us and get a snack for us. I've been out here for a while and we're gonna get Gretchen some food. We're gonna eat something better than applesauce, okay? So there you go, Gretchen is in Japan. All right, Gretchen, I'll call you later. Okay, I'm gonna start the live stream. We're gonna go get a snack.

00:03:34 John Daub: All right, see you later. Say goodbye to everybody. No laughing, your nurse said no laughing. All right, so Gretchen, she called me on Skype just now and god, she's a real tough cookie. She's been struggling with a lot of stuff. You know, there are a lot of people who watch the Only in Japan Go live streams. There are people who maybe can't come for lots of reasons why people can't come to Japan. And for her, she just can't get here right now. She's not in a very good condition. But as I said, she's pretty tough and she has a big sense of humor. When I was doing the live stream with Hana who was playing the guitar, I made some references to the movies American Pie and she got some of those references. A lot of people didn't, so she's pretty smart.

00:04:41 John Daub: So I'm gonna go in here and get some sake. It's a lot warmer in there than it is out here. I'm not... wait a minute. All right, come over here. Now I'm not allowed to live stream in these convenience stores so I'm always a little bit worried about getting into trouble. So it's always done by stealth. Okay, so you know I'm getting this for Gretchen, so I'm definitely getting sake. All right, Gretchen's coming in with us. I'm just gonna bring a photo because I can't... where's the photo? We're gonna take Gretchen with us. Okay, I'm not supposed to really do this. Okay, here we go. All right, Gretchen, you're going in there. Junmai Daiginjo (pure rice premium sake), this one looks good. Right, Gretchen? We're getting this one. You approve? Yes, she does. Okay, put it in a basket.

00:06:44 John Daub: Salad... that looks gross. Oh, look at that. Han-juku tamago (half-boiled egg). Saigo no (last one). Ima mararenai (not available now?). Misuka? Samui (cold). Nikuman (steamed meat bun). Here, last one. Nikuman.

00:09:36 John Daub: He asked me if I was recording so I told him I was just introducing the food because they didn't know what to eat. All right, so we got your chow. That's actually Gretchen. Mostly steamed rice kebab that I wanted to eat. Hope you don't mind. All right, so I'm gonna put this down somewhere. There's like a little makeshift table here. Okay, so we did it. I got some booze for you and I got a nikuman. We brought you in there.

00:10:08 John Daub: Now where am I gonna eat this thing? Technically I'm not recording, I'm live-streaming, so wasn't a complete lie. I'm taking it back to the box. Whoo, yeah. So this live stream is for Gretchen who can't make it to Japan right now but she did in a live stream. I am really hungry. All right, boom, there we go. Gretchen, here you go. This is it. Says here Junmai Daiginjo. It was kind of cheap though. I don't know if it's gonna be as good as they say on the label. Can't always believe the labels.

00:11:07 John Daub: This was interesting. Okay, this is an onigiri (rice ball) and I'm gonna show you how to open this. I'm sorry for the shaky footage. Inside that's the best I can do because we went in stealth. That's how we went in stealth. This is a tamago kake gohan onigiri (egg-over-rice rice ball). Okay, that's what it's called. Inside is an egg. It's gonna be pretty cool. All right, first things first, we're gonna have to do a kanpai (cheers) here.

00:11:37 John Daub: It's a good year. Oh whoa, where is this from? Okay, this is the label here. Where is it from? Hold on, it's from Japan. It doesn't say where. That's a little worrying. All right, it's from Japan, that's all I know. It doesn't say the location, that's weird. Kyoto. All right, it says Kyoto on here so this is a Junmai Daiginjo from Kyoto. That's good. I like the blue bottle. All right, so here we go to Gretchen. This is Gretchen. All right, I'm gonna say a little toast here to Gretchen. Gretchen, you've been fighting pretty hard. Seems like you're through the worst of it. You had a cardiac arrest yesterday, which is crazy. I'm really happy that I got a chance to meet you and I'm happy that you contacted me and I'm happy that we could bring you here. So we're gonna say kanpai. There you go. And I'm gonna drink this sake. Here we go. Oh my, it's not bad but it's not great. So I guess I'll drink this sake.

00:13:01 John Daub: In Japan we're not supposed to pour your own sake but Gretchen, apparently you're not actually here so you can't pour it for me. But we'll make do with what we have here. A little bar we got here. There's literally a box. You see that? I made that into a table. All right, but before it gets cold, this is a steamed bun. These are probably the most... maybe unhealthy foods. Well, it's not bad bad, but there's processed meat in here. These are the roller hot dogs of Japan. They sit inside there for ages. Okay, it's still warm. So here go. The Japanese roller hot dog for you, Gretchen. Only the good stuff. It's steaming. It is like a big meatball in there. It's really good though. I love nikuman. I could do an episode on this. There's like a million kinds of nikuman in Japanese convenience stores. Inside that 7-Eleven they had a steamer and usually there's like 10 different kinds, varieties of nikuman. There's dumplings called manju (steamed bun). There's karē man (curry bun) with curry inside. There's pizza man. There's like a special nikuman. And this one is just a regular nikuman, I think. Pretty good for 120 yen. It's a dollar.

00:15:07 John Daub: Nosh's bro just chimed in. That's right, Simon and Martina did do an episode on nikuman. It's a pretty good one, but I think I could do a better one. You know why I like this? Because it's warm. Really warm. Mmm. Wash it down with sake. Whew. Mmm. Okay, we're not done. There's more. Gretchen, I got you this. Okay, this is the tamago kake gohan onigiri. It's Japanese style. 112 yen. About a little bit less than $1 right now with the exchange rate.

00:16:10 John Daub: Opening this is a real... If you've never had an onigiri in Japan before, opening this is always going to be a disaster. Foreign visitors to Japan have a tough time because it's done by number. This is number one. And then this is number two. And number three is somewhere. So this is how you open it. Okay, instruction manual on opening an onigiri. Number one: if you pull on the top, a little tab will come open. Do you see that? If you don't do it right you totally mess it up. Okay, but you see number one is open. Okay, number one done. Number two: pull it, hold on to this because now that you've opened it up here, hold on to this and pull number two. Ah, you see it? It separated the rice. The rice and the seaweed were separated. And number three: pull this corner. We did it. This is an onigiri. If you do it wrong, it all falls apart and you have a disaster.

00:17:41 John Daub: I'm curious to see. Let's do a little autopsy of the onigiri. I'm pulling back the interior. Somebody have a scalpel. Oh look, no, they put it inside the rice. No, I can't actually see. I'm gonna have to do a real autopsy but with my mouth. Okay, so the only way to do it now is just to... I need some sake for this because all surgeons must have sake before they perform a surgery. It's like a han-juku tamago or like a half-boiled egg. Oh, I taste it now. You have to get to the center of it. The first bite you have the seaweed and then the second chew you start to get to the rice, the third, the fourth and then the fifth I got to the egg. It's good, it's really good.

00:18:50 John Daub: So for everyone who's joining me right now, I'm on this midnight snack run for Gretchen. This is Gretchen Brown from Arizona and she's been having a tough time. I wanted to share this experience for her because one of the things she wanted to do was come to Japan. She watches the Only in Japan Go channel from... I guess she's either at home or in the hospital but right now she has something on her face that looks like a scuba diver's mask because it has oxygen so she can breathe right now. She's having a tough time but it looks like she's doing okay. You know, today she looked pretty... she's tough, she's one tough cookie, I was saying before. Okay, so let's finish this. You see that? It's like congealed egg. Onigiri, there must be like a hundred kinds of flavors of onigiri. The most common one is kombu (kelp) which is like a wet seaweed and sea chicken they call it. Sea chicken is like just tuna fish, you know the kind that's been cooked with mayonnaise and they shove it in the middle of it. It's really good. One of the things I've been doing is you can survive on this, like three or four of these a day and spend almost nothing when visiting Japan. If you want to just save your money, just eat onigiri for a week and you probably spend very little money.

00:21:07 John Daub: There was like a viewer who got really upset because I was talking with my mouth full and said how dare you talk with your mouth full. So now I have this complex. Well, thank you Shell, thank you very much for the super chats and thank you very much for the prayers. I'm gonna pray for Gretchen and I know there's about 500 people watching. This is Gretchen right now, this is from her Facebook. I stole this but when I started this live stream, if you're joining us now, I was talking with Gretchen. She can't actually talk, she had a tube down her throat and they just took the tube out today so I could do this live stream and get her on the phone. In fact, maybe at the end of this she has to do a cat scan in about 30 minutes, so we can give her a call one more time just to see if she likes what I picked.

00:22:06 John Daub: Midnight snack is finished. Oh, I'm sorry, I'm talking with my mouth full. For that one person who told me I'm a really rude person for talking with my mouth full, this is for you. You're not supposed to feed gremlins after midnight. Just food for thought. Well, Gretchen, I don't think I'm going to be able to finish this. Maybe I should just send this to you in Arizona. I think I'm getting buzzed. The drinking age in Japan is 20, by the way. And when I bought this, there's a little button. I don't know if you saw this. It was kind of shaky, but there's a little button on the register on the customer side. They don't check ID. What they do is you have to self-check and they ask you to push this button if you're over 20. And I said, and the button came up, and the register guy, I said can you push this? And they said yes. And I confirmed that I was over 20 years old to buy this. Of course I look like I'm 40 but you still have to do a confirmation so they don't get in trouble for selling to underage people.

00:23:24 John Daub: You're not supposed to drink sake from the bottle. That's what alcoholics do. You know what? I don't even think alcoholics have such bad manners to drink right from the bottle. Not bad. So Gretchen, Junmai Daiginjo. Which you probably know from watching the sake episode that I made a couple years ago from Dassai, where the president of the company gave me a tour around the brewery. Junmai Daiginjo is the top label, the top brew of sake. And this is a 7-Eleven version made in Kyoto and it's not bad actually. I'm going to put it in my pocket. Gretchen, I'm going to give you a call. I hope you're still up. Why wouldn't you be? It's 9 a.m. there, I think. Gretchen, if you're watching this, put down your iPhone and get your Skype out. I'm going to say goodbye to everybody. End this. See if you liked it. I'm now calling. That's you. You can see you right now. So I'm going to call Gretchen. This is Gretchen, Gretchen's Facebook page. And I'm going to see how she's doing. She's picking up. Oh, there you are.

00:25:04 John Daub: You have a very sexy English accent now. Don't laugh, you're not supposed to laugh. So Gretchen's on the screen right now. Wow. So did you like the sake and the food that I got you? No. No. You said anything's OK. But that was still not good. Well, you know what? You're going to tell me next time what to get because I went in there blind. I just got what I wanted to. But you know what? This isn't too bad. This was pretty good. And you had a picture of me without my shirt on. I was kind of embarrassed by that. How did you get that? What other pictures you got? Do you have anything you want to show to the world? No. Maybe. Oh, it scares me when I ask a question like that because you don't know what's going to come up there. There's Gretchen right there. Monster. Oh, you wanted Monster. Oh, Gretchen. Do you realize it's like one in the morning? You realize that, right? And you really want me to drink a Monster, right? Oh my. OK, you know what? All right. You know what, Gretchen? Did you see that? The thing was, they kicked me out of the 7-Eleven. I got to go someplace else. OK, you know what? I'm going to go to a vending machine and look for a Monster.

00:27:04 John Daub: Wait, I'm trying to... What is that? Ice cream. I don't know what that is. Don't show me applesauce because I have no desire to eat that. I'm right now trying to communicate with Gretchen telepathically. She's telling me to go to a vending machine and get Monster. All right, you know what? I guess I'm just going to have to do it. All right, I'm going to go to a vending machine, look for it. I know because I don't want to let you down. So what we're going to do is continue this live stream with Gretchen and we're going to wander the streets of Tokyo at 1 a.m. It's kind of creepy, isn't it? We're the only ones out here. Chocolate. Chocolate pudding. Really? She wants chocolate pudding. OK. You know what? I'll tell you what. I'm going to go and try to get some chocolate pudding at the other 7-Eleven. They know me there. Oh, what do you get? Oh, that's chocolate pudding. Oh, OK. All right, you know what? I'm going to go get you some chocolate pudding. I want you to sit tight. You're not going anywhere, right? You just stay right there. We're going to go find some chocolate pudding. I'm going to look for a Monster on the way. Why do you like this Monster? You know, my brother drinks Monster and gets all messed up from it. There's a lot of caffeine in that stuff.

00:29:02 John Daub: No Monster here. There's another vending machine right in front of me. Okay, hold on. I want to drink Monster. It's 1 a.m., it's 2 a.m. There's more booze. There's sake in a cup and some alcohol. I don't see any Monster. If I see it, I probably have to buy it, right? You had 24 ounces? How many milliliters? I'm in Japan, we use milliliters here. All right, you know what? Look, if you're watching this, the 500 people watching right now, you can go and have a Monster for Gretchen. Okay, because I'm going to be hyped. You really want me to drink the Monster? Yeah. Do you really want me to? Don't laugh. Your nurse told me I can't make you laugh. All right, okay. You know what? I'm just going to go do this. And you're coughing because they removed the tube, right? Yeah. All right, here's another convenience store. You know what? It's crazy. There it is right there. We're going inside here. I might have to leave the camera out here. I'm scared of getting busted by the 7-Eleven cops. All right, can I leave you outside or something? You okay? Just waiting here? You know what? You just wait here and I'm going to come back. Okay, you wait here. I'm going to try to find your Monster.

00:32:09 John Daub: I'm going to go into the 7-Eleven and I'm looking for the Monster. Up here. Yeah, I got it. All right, you happy now? I got your pudding. I got your Monster. Pudding. All right, you know this cost me like five bucks. Monsters ain't cheap. I'm just saying. And no laughing, you're not allowed to laugh. Your nurse is going to kill me. Okay, here's a little place I can sit near the river. This is kind of a dead zone. Real quiet. There's a little canal here. You know what? I think there's a stool over here. Let me eat it outside the 7-Eleven. You know, I don't know if I can drink this whole thing. Don't laugh. This is serious. People don't laugh. Some people can't. Some people don't make it. This stuff is strong. This Monster. All right, let me show you. I want to make sure this is the right stuff. Okay. Oh, and by the way, everyone who's joining me, this is Gretchen. She can't make it to Japan right now so I'm doing this for her. We're live. So all right, Gretchen, this is what you wanted, right? Is this it? Can you see this? This stuff is a big one. They didn't have anything smaller than this and they had like four different flavors too. I didn't know. I got the black one. They had like an orange one and a white one, all these different colors. Oh, look at that, the top is green. That's pretty cool. That's pretty clever.

00:36:00 John Daub: And then here's your chocolate pudding. All right, and you know what I like about 7-Eleven? They always give you a spoon. The chocolate pudding. There it even says it right there: chocolate pudding. All right, you happy? Chocolate pudding. I'm showing Gretchen down there. She's on the curb. Oh yeah. You know what? There's no Cherry Coke in Japan. It's been banned because they put some chemicals in it that people don't like here. Although Monster isn't exactly better than Cherry Coke. Oh geez. Okay. Hold on. They made this pudding child-proof. All right, here you go. Here's your chocolate pudding. Do you see that? Are you watching the screen? Oh, you're not watching the screen. Okay, there's your chocolate pudding. You see that now? All right. So now Gretchen, she can't eat. Can you eat like cheeseburgers and stuff? Can you eat cheeseburgers? All you can eat is like applesauce and soft foods, right? That kind of stinks, doesn't it? So then, can you eat chocolate pudding? Okay. All right, so we're going to see how Japanese chocolate pudding tastes. You know, but I don't have anything to compare it with because we don't have American chocolate pudding here. This one is called Tops. Tops is a company that makes chocolate confections. It's a famous brand here. Whoa, it is thicker. Do you see that? It feels heavier and thicker than American pudding.

00:38:21 John Daub: Oh, you know what? You don't have to share that. She said all foods go right through her. You don't have to, there's like 600 people watching. We don't need the graphic info. All right, so this pudding is a pretty good ending to the midnight snack. Hmm. Thanks for this pudding, Gretchen, she ordered this. I'm eating it. I'm going to have to do some more exercises after this. Okay, good. Has 121 calories. Is that a lot? They don't have fat-free food in Japan. Boom. So I'm finished, right? I drank, I ate everything, right? There's nothing left to do, right? No? Okay, good. Really? She calls me Tokyo Pee-wee. I'm after Pee-wee Herman. I don't know why. Oh, it's because I'm not Mr. Bean. I look more like Pee-wee Herman, she said. So all right. Okay, she obviously forgot about the Monster. I'm supposed to drink that, right? Oh, you're noncommittal now. All right, you know what? I'm gonna take a sip and then I'll decide if I want to drink all of it. I don't want a heart attack. I kind of do want to get some rest tonight.

00:39:52 John Daub: Who cares? I care, Gretchen. I already feel like a zombie. Okay, you know what? Just stop talking about it and just do it, okay? All right, this is a Monster for Gretchen. She drinks this crap all the time and her nurse knows too, but that's okay. All right, we're gonna take some down. There you go. All right, cheers. Oh my lord. It's like they put a hundred Jolly Ranchers and concentrated it into one ounce of this stuff. You drink this? Oh man. What is it? That's not organic, is it? You know who should drink this? Peter von Gomm. He won't touch anything that's not organic, I think. He's like one of these fussy eaters. Okay. Was it yummy? You know what? It's not in my top ten. But it's in my top 10,000. I can't list the other 9,000, so it's up there. So there you go. Thanks for joining me on this amazing midnight snack for Gretchen Brown in Arizona. It was a lot of fun. I ate a nikuman, an onigiri, pudding and a Monster. Oh, you gotta be kidding me. She's shaking her head now. No, this is not... I didn't bargain for this. I'm moving the camera onto you now. You said wait a second. I'm drinking a Monster and you told me that you were going to drink a Monster. You also drink Red Bull and you want me to drink a Red Bull? What are you trying to do to me, Gretchen?

00:42:27 John Daub: Whoa, it's almost two in the morning. Oh my gosh. And I got this Monster. All right, hold on. Oh man, what is this stuff? I've never had this stuff before in my life. It's just... you realize this is really sweet, right? You realize how sweet this is. Oh my, oh geez. All right, you know what? It's two in the morning and I'm drinking a Monster. This does not bode well for the citizens of Tokyo. I got to walk this long street home. I use my nose to turn the camera on. So the Tokyo midnight snack run is over. I still have this Monster to drink. There's a Monster roaming the streets of Tokyo. Oh no, I don't know if I want to see this surprise. All right, I do it. What is it? What's your surprise? Is it coming at warp speed? Because if so, then I probably missed it. Oh, can you repeat that please? Oh, you're getting into the wheelchair and out of the bed. That's good. That's a big step up. So Gretchen, oh good. Well I'm already in tomorrow. Do you realize that? Because the time zone, I'm in like another day right now. So if you're getting your wheelchair today, then I missed it already because I'm in Wednesday.

00:44:56 John Daub: So Gretchen, we're finished with the Tokyo food tour. I'm going to finish this Monster at my own pace. Okay, I'm going to drink this Monster at my own pace. And I'm going to put this over here and we're going to say goodbye to everybody. Boy, I really love the Monster. Yeah, it was, this is the best drink I've ever had. I'm glad you recommended Monster to me. Yeah. Monsters. It's a good Monster. Oh, I spilt it. Sorry. Monster. It took on a life of its own. I kind of spilt it there. You see? It wasn't me, it was the Monster. Totally wasn't me. All right, Gretchen, say goodbye to everybody. What? What's that? All right, here you go. Here's your vending machine. You're in front of a Japanese vending machine. Say goodbye to everybody. All right, I hope you feel better. Everybody's praying for you here around the world. There's people watching from all over the world. A lot of people are praying for you. So hang in there and get stronger, get better. And I hope you have a wonderful day. Yeah. And we'll see you later. Send us a picture in your wheelchair. Okay. All right. Good night.

00:46:49 John Daub: So that was Gretchen Brown from Arizona. It's like almost 10 in the morning over there and it's 2 a.m. here. It's freezing. You know what? I can't. Gretchen, you drink this? Who does anyone else drink Monster? Because... yeah. Thank you, Carla. Thank you. Everybody send your prayers over to Gretchen because her nurse told me she had a cardiac arrest yesterday, if you can believe that. So here she is today, just fine. She got a tube removed out of her throat so she was coughing a little bit but seems to be doing better. All right. Gretchen, this is for you. Because I can't, I don't know what to do with it. You know what? There's a little bit left. You know, this is just... okay. All right. That's like pure Gretchen. That's pure sugar. You should be drinking like milk or something. Okay. Whoa. Always recycle. Yeah. There's a good comment. Calpis or milk with sugar. Yeah, that's a little much. All right, what a fun day. So we got a chance to walk around Shibuya a few hours ago and yeah, the Monster bit the dust. Another midnight walk around Tokyo.

00:49:06 John Daub: So special thanks to Gretchen Brown for joining us on this live stream all the way from Arizona. I'm full. All right, believe it or not a new video I just released a few days ago on onsen (hot springs). The Fukushima onsen baths of Fukushima. There's a new video coming on Thursday, which is in about 36 hours from now or so. There'll be another video on the main channel. I've been working pretty hard to get this one out. This one is also quite a long one, about 18 minutes long. I might cut it a little bit more but I'm editing that right now. Gretchen had me eat chocolate pudding and a Monster. I didn't want to do any of those things but we do that for our friends, right? Well, I'm gonna go brush my teeth. Okay. Does anybody else drink this Monster stuff? That Monster is not in my top. You can see the station is closed. You can't even escape. You can't even get out of here. It's shut. The only thing open is Yoshinoya. That's the station.

00:50:57 John Daub: Look at the staff. I wonder if he's sleeping. There's a McDonald's but they turn the lights off. They're very polite. McDonald's turns their lights off. You guys don't realize this but these two restaurants here, they turn the lights off so it doesn't disturb the neighbors. So the lights from the McDonald's don't go into their house. And that's why they turn the lights off after a certain time. I think it's like midnight. That's Japan, where they don't want to disturb even the chains. McDonald's Japan is so much smarter than McDonald's USA. They're very smart. I don't know what to say with the menu and everything but they're still open 24 hours but they turn their lights down on the outside so it's not disturbing the neighbors. Smart, smart.

00:52:02 John Daub: All right, I hope you like this live stream. Wasn't the most perfect live stream. I mean I planned it about 30 minutes before I did it but it's fun to go out in the middle of the night and just wander the streets and be the only one out here. That is a police box. There's another convenience store. I live... there's seven convenience stores around where I live. There's a Don Quijote right there and there's a Domino's Pizza over there. A lot of really cool places where I live. I love living in the city because there's so many options and Tokyo especially. This place is packed. So I want to thank everybody for supporting the channel. If you want to see what this is all about, you're joining me now, go back and replay this and you'll be able to meet Gretchen who is right here. That's Gretchen on a better day. And she said that she's getting into a wheelchair today which is good because she's been in a bed according to her nurse. Yeah, Gretchen's got a pretty wicked sense of humor too, somewhat perverted. Let me just take it as you get but yeah, I think you know if you're in good spirits I think that's good. If you're happy then it helps the body I think. Which is not supposed to laugh but laughter is the best medicine. Somebody said that, somebody's a lot wiser than me.

00:53:42 John Daub: Alright everybody. Oh and one other thing in Tokyo and at this time of night always look down because you never know if somebody... because they have to drink for parties. So if you're not looking down you might step in it. But in general most people are very polite and they do it onto the side like that's what these trees are for. I'm just saying. Alright everybody, thank you very much for watching this live stream from Tokyo. Have a great day. I'll be doing more live streams more regularly. If you have an idea leave it in the comments below. If you want to send out some prayers, say some good thoughts, leave a comment down there when this live stream goes to on-demand and you can rewatch this. Leave a comment for Gretchen. She's gonna be reading this, I'm sure. I think she wants to hear from all of you and send her some good will, some good wishes. We have a really good community here of people watching the live stream. You know, I'm getting sad to hear this. I know that there's a lot of people who watch these, they can't make it to Japan for one reason or another whether it's financial, they can't get a visa there. I'm just gonna say goodbye. So goodbye.

00:55:01 John Daub: I know there's a lot of people in here who can't make it to Japan. So my mission this year is to help bring a little bit of Japan to you through this Only in Japan Go channel. Leave a comment below for Gretchen or for me and ideas that maybe I can do to make the show a little bit better because I appreciate what you say. And thank you very much for close to having 50,000 subscribers on the channel which is a big deal to me because I didn't expect we'd get more than 10,000. It's just crazy that people watch the live streams. To me, thank you everybody. Have a good stay, healthy. Gretchen if you're watching this we'll all be praying for you. Keep up your spirits. I drank a Monster, part of one for you, so we're all wishing you well. Good night everybody wherever you are in the world. Happy thoughts. Okay. Goodbye from a very in the middle of the night Tokyo.