00:00:00 John Daub: So I'm inside a game center right now inside a department store. It's really loud and I don't know any of these games. It's pretty weird. This particular game right here requires you to have special cards in order to play. Hi, hey. So check this out. You need to have these cards in order to play. And then you need to scan the cards here. And then you can play on this flat screen touching these buttons here. I've never seen this before.

00:36:00 John Daub: So I'm going to just give this a try and see what happens. I don't know how this is going to work. Okay. Let's try this. Alright, I'm going to try to play this. Check it out. So it's all a touch screen. This is the games that the kids play. Oh, I don't have one of these cards though. What happens if you don't touch the card? I don't have the card to play the game. I can't play. What happens now? Do they give me back my money? Oh no, they give me a card.

01:43:00 John Daub: They give me the card. Now it says here, I'm in mode. Okay. Alright, now I can play, I guess. I don't know what's happening. I'm trying to play this game. Oh, go. Alright, go, go. Whoa, the card activated it. Whoa. I don't know what I'm doing. It says, wait a minute, please. Oh man. So basically I put in 100 yen. I got this card, which is pretty cool. And I need to put in more money to play. I don't even know what I'm doing.

03:32:00 John Daub: Okay, you know what? I have 100 yen. I'm going to just try this and see what happens. Okay. This is a new experience for me. Everyone's saying, don't do it. Alright. I guess I have to pick who I want to fight. What the heck? Touch. Attack. This is weird. Alright, you know what? I don't understand this game. You have to be like five years old to understand this game.

04:37:00 John Daub: So I'm going to try a game I can understand right here. So you want to push these out and then get the coins out here. So let's play this once. Alright. So you got to push these buttons here. Let's see what happens. And then... Wait, nothing happened. No! No! I have 200 yen for this. Nothing. So basically, what I've learned is that these games here at department stores, they're just for kids. And she knows how to play it. I have no idea how to play any of these games. I just wasted 200 yen. They're too difficult for adults.

05:45:00 John Daub: But I just released a video on the main channel about Japanese video games, retro video games. I have no idea how to play the new video games and a lot of them have to do with cards like this kids will collect these cards and they go into the video games either you can put it in or touch screen it like here and you'll be able to play the game. So basically I think if you're going to do something I'm not really sure. Yeah so that's it for the video games here in this supermarket. You can see in the distance what it looks like there so that's what the game centers look like in the department store. I don't know how you play these games the card looks super cool though it's just part of the game so I totally failed at the department store game centers I can't do it I don't know what I'm doing but it was sort of fun to try.

07:20:00 John Daub: So I'm gonna stream outside now so give me a minute I'm gonna get right outside bye bye to this department store right so this is my local department store supermarket on the first floor it's sort of interesting is it is a supermarket and I've been coming here for 13 years and it's my last couple of days at this supermarket and on the second to fifth floor they have pretty weird games are none of them are meant for like completely a waste of money and while it was in there playing a game started raining here in Tokyo and a shout out to Gretchen I got yeah thank you very much the super chat too that's very cool of you.

08:22:00 John Daub: Yeah it's nice to see here I hope your weather here in Arizona is a lot better than the weather that we have right here because it just started raining in Tokyo you can see we have really cloudy weather it's kind of warm the clouds are moving really really fast. This is typical spring weather here in Tokyo and today is not going to be a wonderful day. That's why I went to the game center. One reason I went to the game center was because I wanted to try a game, a modern game. I failed miserably. Gretchen, you also see I got butchered at the haircut so that if you want something to laugh about, you can laugh about my haircut which I got the other day.

09:03:00 John Daub: Faye Williams, I love video games and I'm one of those 80s video gamers and I'm still a gamer to this day. Yes, the 80s video gamers have a greater appreciation of the simplicity of video games because you don't need to make the game so complex. The biggest problem that I had in there, I had even no idea where to start. I went in there knowing one thing, that I needed to get a card in order to play the game. The kids are getting cards like this and if you don't have one, the video game will dispense the card. I think you have to pay more in order to play more. So mom has to pony up like a dollar for each one of these games to keep their kids happy and that might be better than keeping tabs on it so you can shop in the supermarket or in the department store without a lot of hassle with the kids in there.

09:52:00 John Daub: Technically, you're not allowed to film in department stores. I didn't ask for permission and I didn't want to get anybody into the video but it was pretty nice just to take a look in there because I was curious and I wanted to share that experience with you. Yeah, and the video game, retro video game episode that I released yesterday, you got a chance to take a look at a little bit of Japanese game culture and one of the things that I want to mention to you about it, this is a great thing with the Only in Japan Go channel, I can kind of get in deeper about the video games and answer some of your questions that come in through here. Japanese game centers still exist because the experience in Japan. It's not raining hard yet. The experience is more important than the games themselves.

10:42:00 John Daub: So when you are in a game center, usually you're with a lot of friends or you want to kill time. It's one of those places that you can just sort of be a hero and this is something that I think Shingo had said in the video to me that I didn't use but people live pretty ordinary lives in Japan. Not a lot of people are doing that. I think that's one of the things that are out of the ordinary. Like, what I'm doing here, YouTubing. Hey Jim, oh we got 700,000 subscribers on the main channel, awesome. You know, Jim, you give me the updates more than I actually realize that. I knew we were getting close but I didn't know if we passed it or not.

11:20:00 John Daub: But because people here in Japan live kind of ordinary lives and every day they go to work in the morning and they come home in the evening. When they go to the game centers, they become like a hero and this is also sort of the reason why cosplay is a thing here in Japan. Although it's not as big as people think it is. It's not that there's a subculture to it but you won't see a lot of ordinary people dressing up in cosplay walking around the city. The people doing that are usually foreign visitors who think it's a big deal and they dress up and walk around. And people from other Asian countries get stopped and get taken pictures of by Westerners thinking that they're like cosplay stars. But cosplay usually happens at conventions and specialized places for promotional purposes. And it's not a huge deal here but it is a subculture.

12:09:00 John Daub: The images that foreign tourists have of Japan based on other foreigners who have come here and lived here for maybe a couple of years or a year is really warped on the actual reality of what Japan is. Japan is an extremely conservative culture where people are shy and they don't really express their emotions very much. And you can find a way to connect with people by understanding the way people work here, the way people think here. And when you got that, you can make more friends like that. It's a friendly place but can seem a little bit dry because the people don't smile as much and they don't have the same culture as we do in the United States, for example, where people smile and talk to strangers more. It's just not part of the culture here.

13:04:00 John Daub: Gretchen writes, I'm not a fan of cosplay. If you want to know what I want to say, I'd like to know what he's going to write in here with 9.99. I like how you just... You always go a little... You want to be different, don't you, Gretchen? It's hot during the day. And 100... Wait, 116? Wait a minute, Gretchen. Are you kidding? It's dry desert heat. All right. That's good to know because if it wasn't dry desert heat, what would be 116 which is like more than 45 degrees Celsius? That's insane, Gretchen. Gretchen is gonna... You know what? Gretchen's nurse was telling me that she's going to be trying to come to Japan. And I'm really looking forward to it. If you start a Kickstarter page, Gretchen, or you have some kind of social media site where you're trying to raise funds for that, let me know because I will promote it because we want you to come to Japan. We all do.

14:02:00 John Daub: Anyway, Oscar is in the house. Hey, John, your channel is great. Greetings from Peru. Oh, man. I'm moving to Japan soon. Video games are great. Awesome, Oscar. You know, I was in Peru in 2003. I have to share my Peruvian stories because it was just a really awesome experience. I came in through Bolivia and I did the usual backpacking trip to Cusco and Machu Picchu and then a very scary bus ride from Cusco to Lima and then down again through the coast. It was a beautiful country. Why would you want to leave Peru to come to Japan? Just saying. You have all that amazing stuff there. But yeah, this place is pretty cool. So I guess I can see your point.

14:43:00 John Daub: All right. I'm going to go and get a vending machine drink for you because you know what? When I'm playing these new video games there, I don't know what the heck I'm doing. I'd rather spend my money getting a drink at a vending machine than wasting it inside those video games because I have no idea what I was doing with it. I put 100 yen in. That's a dollar. It lasted me less than 15 seconds and it was gone. I mean, that's an utter waste of money. What isn't a waste of money is right here. Vending machines. At least I can enjoy the drink. Oh, alcohol. No, thanks. We're still it's before 5 p.m. See here, coffee. We have more coffee here. Oh, this is Brazil coffee. That's near Peru. Well, sort of. On the other side. If this was Japan and Brazil was Tokyo, Peru would be like Niigata, I think.

15:45:00 John Daub: Do they have a Monster in celebration of Gretchen? I don't see Gretchen. I don't see the Monster in this one. There's no we get the only Monster drink is called Real Gold and they put up because this is how crazy you get after you're drinking it. Yeah, I'd love to get a Gretchen Monster drink for Gretchen. I'm more John. I'll take overcast and rain over 18 inches of snow here. Well, where are you now? Where do you have 18 inches of snow? We haven't had snow in I think we had snow in Tokyo a couple of times. We had we called it Snowkyo because we had so much snow hit Tokyo and I believe I was up in Hokkaido when Snowkyo happened. I wasn't here in the city to enjoy the full breath of Snowkyo this past winter, but it's pretty cool.

16:42:00 John Daub: Now if you can I'll turn the camera on you. We have pretty normal spring overcast weather. It's warm enough to wear shorts, but it's cool enough where you would be an outcast for wearing those shorts and people will stare at you. But because it's my local neighborhood you can sort of get away with just about anything sort of if when I move. I'm going to the other vending machine because I wanted to give a Monster a look see to see if we could find something. But when I move to my I'm moving to a new neighborhood tomorrow and this is one of the last times I'm going to be streaming from this neighborhood.

17:22:00 John Daub: Oh look we this is new. This is a Korean restaurant that opened up that looks good. It's funny. This is like less than five minutes from my house and they have all these amazing places. It's called Kabocha (pumpkin) Korean beauty [?]. Also Oscar and Perry. He's a karate teacher and your wife's Japanese. Okay, awesome. Yeah, man. Let me know when you get the Japan. So in your liquor from Canada, I believe would like to meet you in Tokyo next one. I might try to do more meetups. So we had some really really fun meetups last last week and a couple of weeks ago during the cherry blossoms and I will you know, I'm going to try to do more.

18:26:00 John Daub: I got I don't know about a hundred messages from people that were coming to Japan in April from the end of March until until May and saying hey John will be in town. Can you meet us for lunch or can I buy you a bowl of ramen? The answer is yes. I love that but maybe it's going to be hard to meet up because my family is coming from the United States. They're getting on an airplane tomorrow morning. So in about 10 hours. They'll be on an airplane. Coming here while they're in the air. I got to go to my apartment box up everything. I have a truck coming to take my stuff going to move into the truck and then ship it off to the new neighborhood and at around 2 p.m. I'm getting onto the train. I'm rushing to the airport to go greet my family my brother and my father and mother and everybody's coming and it's going to be one of the craziest days tomorrow and you better believe it Gretchen.

19:24:00 John Daub: All right. I know Gretchen that you watching the show. And hopefully you're getting the dialysis and everything but I'll tell you I'm going to take you with me. Okay, so I'll try to livestream as much as I can tomorrow and for everybody. I know there's a lot of people who want to come to Japan and can't right at this very moment and I will try to bring you what I can right now. Why wait? Join the go revolution like this guy. Where you going? You got a little. What do you call those? Things in the UFO catchers hanging off his bag. Kakasaur. Hey John, I really want to thank you for the videos as they are really inspiring. I am now on a two-week holiday in Japan riding a train to Aomori in the rain. Well, is it raining up there? So we're getting weather reports live from Kakasaur. Awesome.

20:30:00 John Daub: Okay. All right. You know what? I can do this for Gretchen. I'm going to ride this for you. Okay. Just like this is if I can. Oh, wait. I think there's a sign saying don't ride this. Oh, sorry. Didn't see that. Sorry. It says do not ride this. You will be arrested by the I don't it doesn't say that but I can't ride it shoot. You know why it's broken. Somebody like me tried to ride it. That's why it's broken. So my neighborhood has like a little canal and the Edogawa River, which is what they're called. the biggest I believe it's one of the biggest rivers in the city of Tokyo that separates Chiba and Tokyo that's right about over here about 200 meters that way.

21:16:00 John Daub: And one of the reasons why I love living here is that this neighborhood is very very relaxed it's not like too central I like that ability it's a very livable area this is Shinozaki and the river is only 200 meters away and you can run for a hundred kilometers without a traffic light that's really rare in Japan and that's one of the reasons why I did move here a little bit outside of the central area it's also famous for yeah having having zombie like evenings when I do midnight runs I might do a midnight snack run tonight by the way because it's the last time here it's been a pretty unusual week hey from India I'm reading the comments right now I booked a flight to Japan November Tony awesome one thousand currency you know if I wonder if we'll get any anybody with Zimbabwe currency give one trillion Zimbabwean dollars which I think equals about fifty cents these days.

22:23:00 John Daub: That was like just the number on the super chat would set the internet on fire I think but if Zimbabwe might not be on the super chat program yeah should be too bad yeah if you do come to Japan I like I was saying a couple so right now the weather is raining and we're getting live reports oh I thought that was thunder it was a 7-Eleven truck I thought it was thunder but it's just seven truck went over a manhole or something man will cover so if you do come to Japan a couple of things let me know I'm gonna be honest with you I don't know if I'm gonna be able to meet you but that should not stop you from asking okay on the the best chance of getting in touch with me is to use Patreon.

23:01:00 John Daub: I kind of give a priority to people who support on Patreon because that sort of makes sense to do that and I have so many you know people who are doing YouTube have so many different social media routes that they can take it's just it sets my mind on fire because my job is to make the video content and edit more and as people are screaming happy on one side say we need more content on the main channel like well I gotta stop writing emails to everybody because if I keep doing that that I can't concentrate on just at in the email so it's really hard to be able to balance all of the social medium so I've been spending more time with the patrons on Patreon and I think if you're a Patreon supporter you probably recognize that because I'm trying to respond to the messages really fast.

24:10:00 John Daub: And I still go into Facebook maybe once a week to check the messages and Instagram a few times a week because Instagram is a little bit easier than Facebook to get into I don't use my personal Facebook account at all to answer any messages anymore it's just gotten really spammy and yeah the best way to get in touch with me is through Patreon and I will I make an effort to always meet up with supporters if I can so that's sort of a good thing where I can focus my time in one place. Nosh abroad thank you for the support okay hey Nosh thank you yeah even a dollar does help um you know it's not even about how much money I get I think it's about just getting people to join Patreon I think we have 350 uh supporters and that's actually been increasing really fast now and it's not even about how much you give it's just about being a part of this new group this community that we have there.

25:01:00 John Daub: Because it's a place where I could focus my time and I can give back more because my time I guess it's always hard to talk about this um we are limited to just 24 hours in a day and uh if I don't have the time to answer every question on so many different platforms on social media it's one is it 366 Jim says wow a three 363 if I could have one place where I can connect with the community it's gonna be where people are by financially helping the series where I can go and travel and um and help pad the demonetization problem that YouTube has I uploaded a video yesterday I got demonetized.

25:31:00 John Daub: Here's a here's a map of my neighborhood as you can see there's not much here it's like literally here's the station here and then here's the little canal that we have here you see right there sometimes there's carp or koi swimming in it which is really cool and then if you look from the station there's the Edogawa River it's very close it's a huge river and then I live like right near the station sort of I get to see now because I'm not gonna be there anymore it's like you want to come stalk me yeah go ahead I'm not gonna be there so um yeah that's okay it is a beautiful neighborhood um Shinozaki a couple of actually somebody on Patreon told me that they their um wife uh was from us two stations away from here.

26:20:00 John Daub: And if I I wish I did I told people where I live because then I would have been able to meet up with my neighbors or people who watch the series that live near here and you know what that means it's so cool to have like this little thing right near your neighborhood a little waterfall but I had um oh so Oscar here I will be in Japan for June or July awesome I'm looking forward to meet I think I might do a meet up in June Oscar because a lot of people are coming at this time including the one uh person who lives a couple of stations away so I'd like to meet some people I'm gonna try to do more meetups okay that's great thank you Oscar um Gretchen I'm gonna go to the dialysis I usually sleep but they won't let me have it on the dialysis you gotta protest that or but don't do anything that the doctors tell you listen to your doctors Gretchen don't listen to me.

27:22:00 John Daub: I'm going to tell you advice that will probably make the dialysis like start going haywire or something we would not that happening whoa check this out why are these vending machines like ridiculously cheap Faye you did not Faye did you Faye Faye writes in here I ordered the lap pillow for my youngest son as a gag gift you did not did you are you serious oh man he's gonna freak out with that um Kristen M writes in here hey John I'm sure you don't want a beer it's five o'clock somewhere I hope you can catch what oh Kristen look what you've done now all right I gotta get now I have to get a drink um Gretchen I'm looking for the Monster um I don't you know Gretchen is really really nice she doesn't really she wants me to drink the Monster but I think she doesn't really want me to drink it she's just sort of joking but she's totally not but she is.

28:19:00 John Daub: That's Gretchen I think I kind of get that this is weird you know what I'm gonna get this first Andrew cousins thank you hey Andrew I'm going back to my good paying job so I'll get on the postcard live awesome Andrew I won't be home um to see them immediately but gives me uh forward to look too yeah I'm actually making the postcards for the postcard level on Patreon right now and um I'm gonna let people vote on two or three ideas and then I'm gonna make that postcard become a reality that's what I like about the postcard club I can actually make ideas become real like and really fast.

28:50:00 John Daub: I'm gonna try this one it's called match you know why I'm gonna try this one for you guys because it says here let's vitamin and um you know Gretchen is on dialysis and she needs some vitamins maybe probably not but maybe these are the vitamins you're looking for but I'm gonna try this anyways vitamin match all right this has got to be nasty why do they got to make it so big is it because you need the extra vitamins and I have M wait we got a call for the Royal milk tea all right one thing at a time you know if we keep getting super chats I can try a lot of these maybe a Kronos Viper whatever you want okay buddy let's try this first we're gonna try some weird stuff for you this is kind of cool wow it is a little bit bigger than the other one but I'm gonna try this one for you guys it's big wow it's big there's no carbonation in it apparently or it's been sitting here forever because I can't feel any fight back.

29:46:00 John Daub: All right yeah Cronos Viper I'll go get that the canned sake or some brew for you and we'll get some good stuff over there this is match I've had this before but I've never had a vitamin match it's a nice sound can you see the color yeah of course spill a little here it's gonna rain and wash away anyways oh my gosh that's just like a nuclear looking yellow you see that oh my God Gretchen all right Gretchen I'll tell you this it smells like Monster all right and you know how I know that because you made me drink one once it's not no you know it looks like yellow mellow it smells like Monster it has like really strong oh my gosh you if you drink this you're gonna suffer some kind of smell to it.

31:03:00 John Daub: I'm doing this because it's gonna rain and wash away anyways but I don't have a glass to show you the color and there's no way I can drink 500 milliliters of this all right here we go this is a nuclear yellow colored um match vitamin all right you ever eat Pez when you were a kid you know little dispensers with the head on it you go like this and the candy comes out that's Pez it's a liquefied Pez it tastes a little bit like Monster but not as strong it's like a weak monster you know a monster that you could take out yourself it's what if this was a zombie movie like Walking Dead this is one of those easy monsters that already has its legs like chopped off or something you could just go at it I'm being serious Andrew's going ew it's really really gross um but as you can see the color is nasty but tastes like Pez.

32:17:00 John Daub: All right let's try something else okay I'm gonna dump this and then in the gutter I mean I should probably drink it but what good would it be if I get sick before what good would it be to get sick thankfully we have recycling bins and we have gutters all over the city this is that symbol down there is a symbol of Edogawa Ward and um I'm not littering because right here we have recycling bins that was enough um wasted I look you want me to get sick and then not be able to drink anything no you know what I do I'm gonna take some of these super chats I'm gonna try a couple of stuff we're gonna turn this department store gaming episode which turned into something of a disaster because I didn't know how to play those games and turn into an amazing one where we drink a lot of drinks from the vending machine.

33:19:00 John Daub: So I'm going back to the alcohol vending machine right now and we're going to go get some sake because apparently it's five o'clock somewhere that's why that's what I've been told five o'clock somewhere so we're gonna try um either uh we're gonna try either the sake cup or some kind of other drink I think you guys know what beer tastes like oh look Urban Farm this is why I like living here check it out and this is um oh what do they call it komatsuna (spinach-like green) that's grown in this area that's really famous and they have a shot of that and they're going to be selling it shop that they sell it at and they maybe we can try to find this shop and buy some spinach from them it's a little bit far but we'll get it.

34:16:00 John Daub: Curtis Viper chimes in again apparently I'm going to be buying the entire 7-Eleven over there I appreciate it there's a 7-Eleven that I did the uh top five 7-Eleven bakery episode from and there's a Korean barbecue shop that I went by a couple of minutes ago I'm waking up that means it's gonna start to rain anymore all right I don't see any Monster here but the Pepsi machines are sure colorful done a Monster here right there all right we're going back to the food machine all right see what that kid is riding the bike that's where the machines are so we gotta just go over there yeah oh and I have some um I have some big news to tell you next week uh I'm gonna do another live stream to announce some stuff that might shock you that's what I do I'm gonna shock you it's some news but it's good news so don't worry about it.

36:01:00 John Daub: There's no weeds there are weeds in Japan yeah see like literally this is and there's some littering apparently and then I'll announce it and then um we're gonna have a lot of fun for the rest of this month which is a good thing I think I haven't been on main channel videos and the Only in Japan Go videos have been a little bit awkward or weird or lappish recently but uh there's a reason for it just everything in my life has been crazy just like there's this really weird poster on the corner of a building like right here on one side it's so colorful and the other one it's like all rusted with the big weed growing out of there all right we're back here at the booze vending machine so what's it gonna be we got what's your pleasure we have miniature beers we have larger size beers you know they got cans of beers that are even half this size can you believe that this one is 250 milliliters or two-thirds of a normal can and they have one that's one-third of a normal can and then they have cup sake.

36:58:00 John Daub: Now there's three kinds of cup sake so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go for the most expensive one and then we can see what we're gonna get and then we can see how smooth it is yeah beers for kids child size this is crazy you know who drinks it um girls drink it so this is your super chats hard at work this is the way I'm drinking the super chats now all right this is for everybody who wanted me to who told me that it was five o'clock somewhere in the world so that's what we're gonna do with this here Cronus Viper dude you're getting a cup you're getting some sake at 3:30 p.m I don't like my coins boom we are live here we go so because uh Mr Cronus Viper was so kind to oh these are hot these are atakai (hot) all right these are warm sake we're gonna go for the premium because that's what we do here all right 870 yen is back oh it's warm wow it's warm got some booze.

38:38:00 John Daub: Hey Ralph how are you you back here for a while okay what two years oh you left and then came back I'll catch up with I'm actually leaving this neighborhood tomorrow to move to another place yeah oh no I was I was still here I was still here left where we were before the company NHK yeah sometimes I just show some stuff for NHK now I do YouTube mostly nice to see it wow that's my that's a guy that I know from a long time ago wow I hadn't seen he told me I remember I saw him um and he uh we used to work at an English school um part-time like years and years ago uh when I first moved to this neighborhood and then he told me he was moving back to Canada and I said oh man that stinks because I was just starting to get to know him and now he came back two years ago he said living here for two years and I didn't even know it.

39:51:00 John Daub: I'm good at [Japanese inaudible]. I walked past him live on the streams. That's just bizarre. Alright, now the rain's starting to come down. How perfect is that? I'm going back to my usual spot to go and drink this. And then I'm also looking for other stuff for Gretchen. Oh, wow. So this is warm, by the way. They do have an expiration date. Oh, come back here. They do have an expiration date on the top. On the top, I took the plastic cover off of it. And it says here, December 2017 was the... That's not the expiration date, I hope. That was four months ago. So this has been sitting in there in a heater. Oh, no way. This is like the roller hot dogs. It's been sitting inside of the vending machine for five months. That's nasty. But I'm sure it's sealed pretty good.

41:00:00 John Daub: So, alright, Gretchen's on her iPad here. Hold on, need to plug it in. Alright, Gretchen, you got about one minute or less. Because I'm going inside because the rain is coming down. Ah, rain's starting to come down. I'm going into my hideout here inside of the supermarket. This is where I used to hang out all the time. That's a 7-Eleven where I did all of the night, the midnight snack runs. Alright, I'm going in here. Here's my little secret hideout. It's nice in here. They have exhibits on the third floor. These are community exhibits that they have here. This is a sports... Some kind of sports festival. Oh, no, I showed this before. This is Edogawa Ward versus Shimonoseki City in a baseball tournament. Shimonoseki is famous for having good fugu (blowfish) in Yamaguchi-ken. Yeah, and this is my area. They're going to be fighting through baseball. One of these kids could be the future Ohtani. Could be.

42:18:00 John Daub: Oh, no, there's like kids here. I can't drink around kids. What should I do? I can't drink around kids. So, I guess I can go outside and then... I can't drink here. Oh, hello. Oh. Hello. Hello. What time is it? It's 3:30 right now. It's 3:30. It's YouTube. I'm introducing a lot of foreigners on live stream. Hello! But, I'm told everyone should drink warm sake. Yes. I want to, but... There's a lot of young people, so I can't drink here. Oh, it's okay. It's okay? Yeah. It's okay. Really? They said I can drink here. Okay. Just a little bit. It's going to rain. It's raining, right? Yes. Yeah, it's raining. Yeah, it's raining. It's raining now. Yeah. I'm sorry. Really? Please don't drink alcohol. How many people are watching right now? Oh my god! That's funny. Cheers everybody. Mom!

44:22:00 John Daub: So, it's actually really smooth. It's pretty good, this sake. I don't know if I'd recommend it, but it was the best that we had. Cheers to you, Jim. These are experiences that we only have in Japan. Only in Japan. It's a weirdness here. Some good stuff. If you haven't already, hit the like button. Smash that like button. Which Nosh is always saying. I can ask about this card. Do you know this game? It's a game that you can play in a nearby Life department [store]. I wanted to play that game, but I didn't know how to play it, so I'm just wasting money. They know this game. Dragon Ball. Thank you. I'll fight you. I don't want this anymore. But you know what? I'm going to put it right here. And I'll be back. They're in high school. They're not cuties. Stop it. They're somebody's daughter. Come on. We're not that crazy. Or creepy. We may buy lap pillows here, but we're gonna be nice to our neighbors, okay?

45:58:00 John Daub: We're gonna be nice to our neighbors, okay? And when you live out here in local areas like this, and you get away from the center of Tokyo or the city, if you're coming here and you want to be an English teacher, and you're thinking about living in Japan, and you're thinking about Japan's experience, every woman is someone's daughter. Exactly. Yeah. That's a great way to see it. And every person is somebody's son. And we all come from families. And most of us have people who love us, and I think that's sort of an important lesson. I would go back to my apartment. But this is where I've been living for the last 13 years. And today's my last day, so I can show it to you. I'm not gonna be here. Even tonight, I'm not gonna be here. So it doesn't matter.

46:42:00 John Daub: My apartment complex right now is totally under construction. And if there was a time to move, there was never a better time than right now. Because it's a disaster. I can't even do narration, and only in the evening can I actually get any work done. There's dudes on the top right now destroying the building. So from this apartment building, I had an amazing view of Mount Fuji. It was small, but I had a view of Mount Fuji. And I also had an amazing view of Tokyo Disneyland's fireworks. The fireworks were... I'd see the fireworks between two buildings, and every night at 8pm, or it depends on the season, you would hear boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. And I would be able to see between two buildings Tokyo Disneyland's fireworks shows. And it would be over. And it was such a let down because it's just five minutes. But in the summer, it was pretty neat to go outside, take a break, and watch the little fireworks bursting in the distance. But I will miss this place.

47:49:00 John Daub: The clouds are moving fast. It's going to start to really rain. So you can see the clouds up there. They're moving pretty fast. It's going to start to rain. Tomorrow, I might do a live stream here tonight before I leave my apartment for good. Tomorrow I'll be back just to move my stuff out of the apartment. But I will miss this place a lot. There's 13 years of my life which I'd say is like maybe a fifth of my life or a sixth of my life was spent in here. And this is where I went through the Kronos. Thank you. Again. Very nice today. Thank you. I appreciate it very much. Tomorrow is going to be a really busy day moving. But I'm going to try to do some more live streams including a midnight food run tonight if I can. Because it's the last midnight food run really from here. So I will miss this place despite it looking like it's in Spider-Man's web or something. It was a beautiful mansion.

48:52:00 John Daub: We call these places mansions. Japanese call condominiums, they call them mansions. Because it sounds better than condominium, doesn't it? The one thing I won't miss is when the weather is bad, all the airplanes going to Narita fly over my building. You can hear it but you can't see it. These are all inbound flights. They divert them from the other route to go over this direction. So it's kind of loud here. But in general, a very very happy place to live. I didn't want to live in central Tokyo for the reason that I think if you want to be in a place where everybody knows your name, you can't go to Cheers. You have to go out here to the countryside. And that's where you'll start to learn people. Learn about your neighbors and stuff. And I learned a lot about Japanese culture because I didn't live in the center of the city.

49:53:00 John Daub: I think when you live in the center of the city, people are more cautious. Things move faster. And it's harder to get to know your neighbors. And for me, getting to know my neighbors, even though I don't know them very well, I know them well enough that I learned a lot about the Japanese culture. How to give presents and how to be polite and how to give greetings and stop and chats and things like this. Just yesterday, there was a woman in the supermarket who stopped me. A Japanese woman who watches Only in Japan. I walked by her buying some dinner. I walked by her and she goes, Oh, that guy! Yeah, I am that guy. Who is that guy? She goes, Oh, Only in Japan. I go, Yeah, yeah, that's me! And who are you? And then she told me her name. She lives near here, one of my neighbors. It's the first time meeting her. Just like my friend, Ralph, who I walked past about 10 minutes ago.

50:50:00 John Daub: Tokyo is a massive, massive city. But it's also a pretty small neighborhood. And I keep bumping into people all the time that are living here. It's cool to see people riding bicycles. There aren't that many cars here. I'm very close to the river. There's four supermarkets, tons of banks. There's a Matsumoto Kiyoshi. There's a back entrance to it. There's a supermarket where I was. The high school kids are pretty friendly. They can tell you about Dragon Ball Z and all the other stuff, which is pretty cool. I don't know. I'm just really sad to leave this place. So I'll do one more midnight snack for you. And I'll try to give you an apartment tour before I leave for good. And show you where I've been living for the last 13 years. And that's something I haven't done before, because my apartment has always been a disaster.

51:43:00 John Daub: I would go out to location shoots and I want to try to answer some of the questions. I see them rolling by. But I would go out on location shoots for a couple of days. I would come home dead tired. And the first thing I would do would be back up all of the data. I would back up all the data to my hard disk. I would take a bath or a shower and then I would just go to bed. And my house was always somewhat of a disaster because I was consistently on the move. And now this month I've sort of started from March and this month I've sort of slowed down so I can move apartments and readjust. And then from May I can go charge right back into location shoots and doing things the way that I've been doing them for years and years. This is sort of a resetting period so there's not as much content. But we are going to get a lot more stuff out to you and bring you with me.

52:38:00 John Daub: Jennifer is not my fiancé. She's like my sister and best friend. And you should know better, Taiji Wan. I'm calling you out. But I know you're just kidding. Or are you? Will you be closer to Jennifer? I'm not going to tell you where Jennifer lives but I can tell you that I'm not going to be any closer or any further. I'll be a lot closer to the center. Did Mr. CHV give you any moving advice? No, but I'm going to really miss him. But I'm going to be able to see him. I'm still going to be going back to see him. And I'll have information. You know what? I'm going to give you an update on Mr. Seiichi again soon. He's somebody who's really special to our show. And I mean it to us as a community. So I want to get more chances to speak with him.

53:33:00 John Daub: Peter von Gomm is Peter will be coming to help in different ways. Peter's going to help. Peter's an awesome friend. I'm always promoting Peter von Gomm's channel as much as I can. Go over to Peter von Gomm and smash the subscribe button and support him. Because he's going to be that's a channel that you want to have. Because you know a lot of people that are watching the Only in Japan channel not a lot, but I'd say the first 3,000 people who subscribed are still subscribers. And I get a shout out from them all the time. I'm one of your first 3,000 subscribers. They could be joking, but I think if you've been a subscriber since way back then that means a lot. And right now Peter von Gomm's channel is at that same point where I think it's going to explode and he's going to have an amazing channel. So I think you want to get in early on this. Because your investment will pay off in loyalty from Peter I guess. But he's one of the most creative people. And until this point he's only been really his voice has been out there. And now Peter has a chance to create in a different way. And I think this is good for him. Because he's got a lot to create. He's got a lot of ideas in his head. And that noggin he calls a head, which is what a noggin is.

55:01:00 John Daub: Send me back a Yu-Gi-Oh card. Bakara's looking over there right now. I don't know what card I got. I don't know what this is. I was going to give it to the kids and they said they didn't want it. But you know. Alright, so I want to thank everybody especially Gretchen and Jim and Nosh the moderators and everybody else for commenting and writing in here. And Chonos Viper for being amazingly generous today. Chonos, especially all these callers here. I'm looking at the screen. Kristen M and Fay and Andrew and M Morjan and Radix Monkey Studio. You're very welcome.

55:45:00 John Daub: You know the support that I get on this channel and the super chats that really really make a huge difference especially since content gets demonetized on YouTube more often than not. But you guys always got my back and I appreciate that and I won't stop giving you these live streams and trying to make them interesting and fun for you. And that's one of the reasons why I'm still live streaming now because people are always tuning in even an hour into it. It means a lot to me that we can share these experiences live like this moments as our lives grow and expand and contract. Expand there's a lot of stuff happening, but I just want to say thank you everybody in my own way, which takes ten minutes. Gretchen, I hope you're doing well. Keep in touch. I like the updates from Pamela. So thank you Pamela out there to Gretchen writes me through Instagram and Patreon. And I appreciate that very much and I appreciate the support save them Gretchen save your money for Japan. Okay, start saving your money for Japan. You gotta make it here. Okay.

56:48:00 John Daub: All right, everybody. Have a great day great night, wherever you are. I know it's pretty good in America. What are you doing up this late? Huh? Thanks everybody for the support and I'll see you again soon. I'm gonna do some more live streaming I did the midnight you don't run you remember Matsuya. Oh you don't. Nice. See everybody.