00:00 John Daub: Hello everybody. Good morning. It's been a pretty long morning, but I wanted to connect with all of you who were watching the Only in Japan main channel about three hours ago when I uploaded a video and there was sort of a scene that might have made some people feel uncomfortable.

00:23 John Daub: I'm talking about this video in particular. This is the "Inside Tokyo's Bathhouses" video that I've been making for the last couple of months. I put a lot of work and effort into it. A lot of editing went into this. It's a really amazing story. It's an important cultural story about how an industry is in decline and they're revamping it and changing it to make it more interesting—sento (bathhouses), exactly. For a lot of international visitors to Japan, you have to get naked. You have to be very nude in order to go into the bath, and I wanted to make that point.

01:02 John Daub: I released the video at 9 in the morning here worldwide, and there was a small scene at around 3 minutes and 49 seconds to 50 seconds—for just about half a second where you could see it. You know what I'm talking about, right? It was out there. It's one of the most embarrassing few seconds in my life. But for me it's not that big of a deal.

01:42 John Daub: I'm still kind of asleep because I've been up pretty late editing. I just wanted to apologize to those people that might have felt uneasy about it. Sorry, I literally just woke up. When I woke up I went into damage control. I didn't know what people were watching, but I checked and yeah, it was there. I've made the video private. I contacted the people who confirmed the video and said that they were okay with it to make sure that they knew that it wasn't okay. I went back and blurred those 15 frames. The video's being uploaded now to YouTube and will be released in about 15 to 20 minutes. But still, the damage is sort of kind of done, and I don't know what the repercussions will be yet.

03:03 John Daub: It's still early. I can't really joke about the situation yet, but I can tell you it was an accident. I didn't mean for the leakage to occur. It was out there—you couldn't really see it though. I think you had to watch it on a big screen and underneath the towel. It's gonna go down in my own history as one of those things that happens in your life—an embarrassing moment. We're all humbled by stuff when that happens. There's that moment of panic, that moment of what do I do, and then you go back and take care of it and move forward. It's the internet, right? You can't erase what's on the internet. I could take that video and make it private, but I guarantee you there's like three people who are scrubbing through that scene a hundred times and taking screenshots and stuff.

04:14 John Daub: It's out there. Alright, I'm gonna put you down here for a second. I'm in the park. I needed tranquility now. Yeah. Up here, up here. There you go. Yeah. Thankfully it wasn't in 4K—it was just high definition. Hello, that's one of my neighbors. I wanted to get a chance to just talk with you about this and to tell you that it was a big mistake and it won't happen again. Of course it won't because I'm not gonna be doing any more bath episodes for a while. This was the big one—the onsen video in this one.

05:11 John Daub: Thankfully it wasn't anything negative in nature. We go to the Louvre and to museums, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and we see nudity all the time. You shouldn't freak out about it. The thing that freaks people out probably the most is that it's me. It's not the Statue of David. David doesn't have to live with his body naked as a statue in a museum with millions of people in the Uffizi Museum in Florence. I gotta live with this. I gotta live with it being out there. And for that I apologize. For those of you who don't want to see it out there, who might see that image, it's not a close-up of it. Even if you try to zoom in it's gonna be very pixelated. It could be anything really. But there's no excuses, and when things mess up like this you just go back and explain it to people and move forward. That's what I'm doing with you right now.

06:26 John Daub: If you have some questions I will try to answer them. What a pickle. Some of these comments are not exactly what I was expecting but they are quite funny. I'm actually gonna go back to sleep once I get out of this pickle. But all kidding aside, there is about 10% of the people that come from countries that are a lot more conservative. As someone who's traveled around the world many times and who's not a teenager anymore, I can tell you that there are some cultures that are very conservative and don't like that. They were exposed to something that makes them feel very uncomfortable, and in their culture that's not a good thing. To those people I want to apologize and say it was an accident. It wasn't something that I planned to do. It's been taken care of. That scene is gone. And if you had kids who accidentally saw it that have sharp eyes, I apologize for that as well because that's something that I want the show to be family friendly.

07:41 John Daub: I want something that you can watch with the family together. That's very important to me. Something that's entertaining and educational and has value to you. When you watch it you learn something and take something away from it. That's very important to me as a creator. I hope that for those 10% of the people who might have been upset by that they stay with the channel. But in a few days we're going to be able to laugh about this. Right? Water under the bridge—as we say in the bath industry. I'm not sure if we say that really. Thank you all for the support. Actually I'm reading the comments going by quite fast right now, and I really appreciate all of the understanding from the people. I think we've all been in embarrassing situations. But nobody wants to release a video to 600 plus thousand people with your manhood out there—just a little, and just for even a flash. It's not good. We'll get over this situation.

09:21 John Daub: Because I got a lot of videos coming out this month. There's two, three more videos coming out in the next two weeks. So it's going to be boom, boom, boom. Jake Paul, Logan Paul—people have been telling me about these names. In Japan people have been calling him Paul Logan because it's last name first, first name last. Someone with two first names is very confusing for most of the world really.

09:54 John Daub: The only thing I want to add about this Logan Paul in Japan situation is that he knew what he was doing. This was no mistake. He went out there and he should have known better. He went out there and literally just disrespected a culture. It wasn't even the suicide forest video. And there's a reason why I will never do a video at the suicide forest despite lots of people asking me for it. Because I'm very respectful of the culture here. I live here—this is my home. Dogs don't do their business in their own house. You don't go to a controversial situation out of curiosity just to try to see a dead body. What you do is show respect and let professionals handle it. What I do as a human being is try to make very positive videos that show the great things about this culture. That's my purpose. It's not to show you the stuff that could be a big negative. And what he did was even worse.

11:20 John Daub: This is a country of great respect where the people are very polite to one another. If you lose something, people will return it to you. If you lose cash, 62 million dollars of cash has been returned to the rightful owner. It's an honest country in that way, and people do the right thing. What he did was the wrong thing. That's all I really want to say about that. And this morning what happened was the wrong thing with my video—that was a mistake, an editing mistake. What he did was a mistake as a human being. But he's young, and young people grow and get older and get wiser. But in the situation he's in as a celebrity, you should know better.

12:23 John Daub: Trash day—I got to take my trash out before I go back to bed. I'm very very tired folks. I'm sorry for rambling. I want to thank you all once again. I'm going to end this livestream really quickly. Being young is no excuse. One day I'm going to be a parent. I'm going to be a father and have children—at least I hope so. I have a huge responsibility to make sure that my son or daughter knows some of these things and figures out what's appropriate and what's not. He's 22 years old—he should have known better. And there's millions of dollars at stake too. John the pickle AV star—okay, I know you guys are teasing me. But I can't really laugh about this situation yet. Not yet. What I can do is see what happens over the next 48 hours and just hope it's all good, hope that people didn't notice it that much or care. I appreciate everybody because I'm not alone out there—I have you.

14:07 John Daub: It was quite a pickle this morning. So there'll be more livestreams more regularly now. I'm going to be doing some one-day trips around Tokyo, and then I'll be in Hokkaido later on this month. So there's a lot of fun stuff coming on the Only in Japan channel. Thank you very much for being amazing people, for understanding what happened. One more time, I apologize if you felt uncomfortable and you were one of the 3,000 people who watched that. The video is uploading now and will be released on the main channel in like 10 minutes. So check it out—the new version. You can look for that scene at 3 minutes and 50 seconds because it's okay now. It's been blurred. One of my biggest mistakes ever in my career of video production, but it's one for the books. Alright, have a good day and a good night wherever you are everybody. I'll be back on a livestream tomorrow and the weekend. We're going to have some fun. Definitely click the subscribe—I shouldn't promote the channel. I'm supposed to be very upset. Don't click the subscribe button and don't like this video because it's sort of an embarrassing apology moment. Alright, bye everybody. It's hard not to be positive. There's always some good part. You too.