00:35 John Daub: That looks yummy, sushi right off the course so runners can just stop and get some food if they want. People will bang things, have towels, banners, all sorts of stuff to cheer people on. The spirit runs high on this day. Some antique shops. This is a nice area of Tokyo. I like this, it's Morishita. 99% of the time of year it's a very boring area, but today there's runners all over the place. You see some weird stuff all over the city on this day because the runners are out. Good job.

04:01 John Daub: Here's the water point, the Pocari Sweat point. That's water here. Don't walk, if you walk your legs will freeze up. So Joseph is getting closer. This is his site and he's running live right now. I'm gonna try to find him and stop him. That's what I do. He's always really busy so it's hard to get him to stop. We're gonna try our best.

04:46 John Daub: He's now made the turn, he's down in Nakacho. So it's gonna take him about 10 minutes to get up here, I think. But at the pace that he runs, it's probably gonna take him forever before he can get up here. It's a shame I'm not running. If I was running I'd have unlimited mikan (mandarins) and then you can have chocolate. Oh, this is yokan (sweet jellied red bean paste). This is the stuff that the marathoners eat. These are yokan, it's like red bean paste, maybe some sort of energy. It's a lot of sugar. These are calorie mates, which is just gel in a pack. A lot of people walking, so I guess this is the slow area. See on the other side, it's so crowded. People are walking the course now because there's too many people.

06:03 John Daub: I've run the Tokyo Marathon four or five times. I can't remember: 2007, 2008, 2009—I didn't run because I didn't get in—2010, 2011, 2012 I got in but I didn't run because I was injured. Whenever I ran I would try to get in the lead group and get out of the pack. Because when you are running slower, you're pretty much walking. It's like a Disneyland lineup, it's hard to run at all because there's so many people. Most people are walking in this direction.

06:45 John Daub: Alright, so he hasn't made the turn yet. This is where Joseph is right now and I'm up there above Kiyosumi Garden. So he's gonna—it looks like he's turning. Oh, he's turning. Did you see the arrow move? Oh, this is cool. He's finally turning around and that means he's coming back. We're gonna take a look at these runners until Joseph makes it. I'm gonna give Joseph a text, maybe I can get him to stop and do a stop and chat. I think that's supposed to stop it a man thought but this is Joseph we're talking about, he'll stop. We got to track him down. It's our job to track him down not him to track us down. You know, it's not fair. It works one way, these kind of marathon relationships work one way when you're in. Oh look at these hungry people. People come in all shapes and sizes and colors and hats.

08:11 John Daub: So I'm walking down a little bit past the station. He should be here in about 10 minutes. You can see the people cheering, they're really cheering hard. Oh, this is the orange point now. They have two of them. This is something people don't notice. There are two points: there's the one that I showed you before and this one, and the second one is never crowded. They always try to make sure that they have enough for everybody. It's really amazing how the supply of fruits, bananas—I think they have bananas up there—fruits and bananas and cookies and sweet things to give people energy. Okay, he's got a bottle on his back. It's kind of neat to scout and see what happens behind the scenes on the marathon. Joseph is live-streaming the marathon from his point of view and I'm live-streaming it from mine, which is not quite as exciting. But let's see if we can get him on here.

09:27 John Daub: Come on, Joseph, run faster. We're waiting. So let's see if I can get ahead of the water point. People stretching. I know what it's like to run the marathon. I usually hit the wall around 36 kilometers in the race. These people are hitting the wall way too early. So they haven't really trained, I think. There's all kinds of people running. She got a daikon radish in her hand, a lobster hat. There's a chef.

10:56 John Daub: Tokyo, yeah, I'm from America. Oh, that's cool. Are you giving snacks to the runners? Wonderful. You got a seat. Sorry, Joseph. Oh my, to see the number. I got to wait. Not even running, I feel like Joseph. That's funny. People are really friendly on this day. I like that.

12:21 John Daub: Okay, so let me see where Joseph is. The app restarts every time I check. So he should be coming any moment now to make sure I'm going the right way. Yeah, this is it. So this is where he should be. I am very very loud and obnoxious, he will see me. There's no way he can miss me and it's hard to miss the pinwheel although from this point you get a really nice view. Probably the most impressive scene from this live stream. All right, Joseph is getting closer. I'm right here where the T is in Toei pretty much and he should be here in a couple of minutes. And when he is we're gonna stop him and go crazy and thankfully that lady gave me a snack, I'll be able to give him something. Come on there. It's really like an ocean of humans, people running, fighting in a quest to finish before the course finishes because the course shuts down if you don't hit a certain point. Joseph was telling me he always had a problem because he had so much equipment and it was so heavy. He had a problem making it before the course would close. Don't see him on my map yet. He's getting closer. Joseph is just entering my map on the bottom there, so we're gonna try to get him and you know what, you're gonna see me on Joseph's livestream too. This is really cool experience. I'm cheering from here.

15:04 John Daub: I literally woke up about an hour ago. I got out of bed because I was editing until 4 a.m. I was like, ah, and I rolled out of bed and I saw Joseph's live streaming and I said well he's out there, I better get out there. So I got on the subway and came out here right away and we're gonna cheer on all the runners for the next 20 minutes or so. It's kind of fun. It's pretty cool that the 4G signal is working as well as it is. We're gonna track Joseph down and get a big hey Joseph in for our buddy because we want to support our friends. Joseph's getting closer. I'm right after the garden, right where the T is in Toei way and you can see the bridge with the incline coming down. So he should be here in about five, ten minutes or less.

16:14 John Daub: You can hear ganbare (fight on/stand strong). That means like stand strong or fight. Ganbare to encourage, please stand strong. Please fight. Ganbare is the stronger version as fight or what. Joseph just says he goes fight, fight, which means don't give up basically. Look at the costumes, that gets real deep here. All right, everybody, Joseph is getting closer. Joseph's stream is on Facebook. I wasn't seeing the chat until now, I'm sorry everybody. Joseph's stream is on Facebook and you can go to his website, josephtame.com. Just search Joseph Tame. Why can't I spell Joseph this morning? J-O-S-E-P-H-T-A-M-E. And that's Joseph Tame. So let's see if we can track him down. He should be close. Look, Kippy, thank you very much for the super chats. I'm going to definitely be putting these to good use today because I've got a long day. I might livestream again later today. But my goal right now is to find Joseph. And thank you 7Red22. You're very welcome for the play-by-play. It's a lot of fun to share this experience with you. And I'm going to track Joseph down for you.

17:50 John Daub: Good morning! Good morning! Woohoo! Alright. So now we have a little opening here. Alright, look for Joseph and then go crazy, everybody. We want to support our friend Joseph. Did he stop again? Gosh, that guy takes forever. I'm looking for the pinwheel that he has on his hat. I wonder if Joseph wasn't trying to be the entertainer, if he just purely ran like I do, I wonder what his time would be. Because when I ran the Tokyo Marathon, my personal best was 3 hours and 11 minutes or something like that. And I ran for 12 minutes adjusted for electronically. So I don't know what the heck I ran, like between 3 hours 10 and 3 hours 12 minutes. I think if he ran just focused on running, he would do so well. Because he's so used to carrying all this equipment. Just run for the love of running and to see what time he would get. But he's such the entertainer. He likes to make people smile and that's who he is. So hey, I think that's what his motivation is. So we're getting closer to seeing Joseph run by us. If he passes us without saying hi, I'm going to be upset. I'm literally out here on the corner trying to get... If you see his pinwheels, let me know. Just shout through the screen. I can't hear you by the way, but I don't see him yet. He should be close. Yeah, he should be coming here in about 1 or 2 minutes.

20:04 John Daub: So Tuotaku, I haven't gotten a message in a couple of minutes. Tuotaku writes that he stopped again. So we're going to try to get him. He should be coming over this bridge any moment now. Look for the guy with the pinwheels. Alright, Joseph's on the way. It's possible to miss him. He runs quite fast. Ganbare! Joseph's getting near. I can sense his presence. She's trying to get the runners to stop. That's so cute. She's yelling fight! Fight everybody! Ganbare! The kids are giving her touches. Look at this guy with the mask on. That's creepy. You see him? He looks like somebody who should be behind bars. Speaking of which, Peter von Gomm has a new show out on his channel that's really good, a prison story.

22:11 Joseph Tame: Here he comes! There's Joseph! You see him with the pinwheels? You can't miss the bugger. There he comes! That's him!

22:37 John Daub: I'm alive!

22:39 Joseph Tame: Yeah, we're getting people to watch! Oh, we got the gimbal going on! I'm on your stream! This is so cool! This is a double live, stereo live stream. This is crazy! How are the legs doing?

22:47 John Daub: Are we going to get lost?

22:50 Joseph Tame: I don't know. The legs? I was just saying, I could do with a new pair of legs right now.

22:55 John Daub: I'd give you mine. Yeah, I'm feeling good. My legs are okay. I've got no cramp yet. But I can feel the distance, you know? We're at what, 25 kilometers? Something like that? So this is like crazy stereo. This is really cool! We're in stereo now! This is awesome! This is John. Most of you I'm sure know John Daub.

23:16 Joseph Tame: And John has also run the marathon in a crazy time. Like, what was it?

23:20 John Daub: 3:12.

23:21 Joseph Tame: 3:12! Oh my god!

23:22 John Daub: I don't carry all the batteries and equipment that this guy carries, so it doesn't count. So yeah, it is great to see you. I really appreciate it. And I appreciate the support. And the support of all your viewers as well.

23:33 Joseph Tame: I know! We're looking! Everybody's looking! We've got 650 people watching! 75 over here are not going over to his stream and start watching him! So we're live on Facebook over here. And so far, so I tried the 360 degree camera, the Insta360. The camera's fine, but the signal, there's just not enough bandwidth. Yeah, there's so many people out on the course. It didn't work, so we're sticking with Facebook Live and it's working real well.

23:58 John Daub: Good!

23:58 Joseph Tame: So yeah, and I've got some of your viewers here.

24:01 John Daub: Yeah, come on! Go over to Joseph Tame! Yeah, so I really appreciate it. Alright!

24:06 Joseph Tame: Yeah, so it's wonderful. The weather's not too bad.

24:08 John Daub: I know. It's nice. It's good for a marathon.

24:11 Joseph Tame: It's very nice. So I've just got like half a marathon to run now.

24:15 John Daub: You can do it, buddy! I mean, now experience kicks in, right? Experience kicks in.

24:20 Joseph Tame: Yeah, experience kicks in. 10 years of this.

24:22 John Daub: Experience and the support of the people.

24:24 Joseph Tame: The people! That's what it is, the people. That's you!

24:26 John Daub: Yeah. Well, I really appreciate it. Alright, take care.

24:29 Joseph Tame: I better get on.

24:29 John Daub: We'll try to see you on the other side of the course over at Hamacho.

24:32 Joseph Tame: Okay.

24:33 John Daub: Keep on running, buddy!

24:34 Joseph Tame: Thank you so much!

24:34 John Daub: Keep going! Ganbare! Baita! Baita!

24:45 John Daub: Awesome! So that was Joseph. So we got a chance to talk to him. He did a stop and chat. That was pretty cool. So let's take a look at some of the runners before we leave. I'm going to go over to the other side. So maybe we'll get a chance to see him. I'm going to take him over at Hamacho, which is pretty cool. Hamacho is about 5 or 6 kilometers down the road. Now he's finished a little bit over half of the marathon, which means he's got a long way to go. And the problem is if you stop now, your legs will freeze up. So he has to keep moving. So I didn't want him to do a stop and chat that long. But I also want more people to go over and watch his experience and cheer him on. Because that's like his... If Joseph was Pac-Man, like your comments are like the pellets that he needs to eat to survive. Basically. He is Pac-Man! And yeah, run Joseph, run.

25:49 John Daub: But yeah, you can see here at the Tokyo Marathon, you have all sorts of people running in all sorts of costumes. And it's pretty unique and it's kind of a cool experience. Nice run! Nice run! Yeah, if you haven't been training properly, the legs start freezing up. And it's hard. Unless you're a rabbit and then you can just hop your way to the front of the line. That's not just... That's not who I would think would be wearing bunny ears. I think in his normal job, he probably has a suit on every day. And this is the one day where he can break free of his conventions and go out there and wear rabbit ears, which is pretty cool.

26:40 John Daub: So I don't have any other friends running that I know of. I don't have any other friends that I know of that are running the Tokyo Marathon. But I'm going to go right now to the other side and see maybe, you know, I might go back and live stream again. So maybe we can catch Joseph on the other side. But the reason why I really respect what he does is because he brings the marathon to people like I bring you live streaming. And he's done it for 10 years. He's been consistent about it. He's not insane just one year. He's insane for 10 years. And I have no idea how he manages to do it every year. Because it's a lot of preparation goes into something like this. And things go wrong because this live streaming technology, as you know, watching my live stream, it's not exactly the most reliable platform. But it's a lot of fun because you feel that you're there with me. And right now I'm live in Tokyo bringing you the marathon, which is super cool. And yeah, that's the way that the technology is evolving. So it's pretty neat.

27:55 John Daub: Now the Tokyo Marathon is here. If you look the other way, it's really quiet. This is the side that nobody shows you. There's like nobody over there. But you can see if you keep going down further, there's more roads blocked off. So it is quite an experience to be out here just if you're not running, watching. And I love running. This is the thing that Joseph and I were talking about in the live stream a couple of days ago when I was in his studio. You feel the energy. There's a million people supporting the runners on this course. And you really feel the energy of the people around you, not just running, but cheering. And that energy, I have to tell you, it sustained me in the last 10 kilometers of the race. My legs were freezing up. And yeah, it's just one of those experiences that the energy... It's like the Nebuta Festival in Aomori. I live streamed that as well. And when you're an active participant in an event like this or the Nebuta Festival, which anyone can take part in, that energy sort of transfers for the rest of the year. And you really feel it, which is cool. Because sometimes you need that energy to keep you going.

29:27 John Daub: You can see a lot of families will come out. If you live in the neighborhood, you'll probably come outside and watch for a while. Today is... Oh, bakery. That looks so good. It's a karē pan (curry bread). They seem to have some marathon rolls going on here. I wonder if any marathoners got off the course to eat some bakery bread. Because it's all fresh baked and the smell is really awesome. So this is an amazing experience. I'm going to cut this live stream. And if I can find Joseph later on in the day, I'm going to do that. Because we want to support him. And it's pretty exciting. It's exciting to be a part of the marathon. The city is shut down on this Sunday every year until about 3 p.m. And all of the streets are just completely packed, especially in the area where the marathon is taking place. So this area in Morishita, this is the intersection of Morishita. It's extremely packed. But I think the water points take up a lot of space. Now if you look on the other side, it's starting to thin out on the other side of the road. And that's the back, that's the end. And there are points in the marathon where the course closes if you don't finish by a certain amount of time. Because Tokyo is a city of millions and millions of people. And commerce needs to take place. So they shut the course down and start opening up the traffic. So you have to run fast or it's over.

31:42 John Daub: Alright everybody. So thanks for watching this little marathon stream. We saw Joseph and that was our mission. And we got it done. That was really cool. Go over and watch Joseph's live stream. I think I put a link in the description. There's also a map so you can track him live. And send him some hearts and support. Because he's gonna need it. He's just a little bit over halfway finished. He's gonna need all the support he can get. Alright everybody. Have a good day. Good night, wherever you are. Maybe I'll see you later today.