00:06 John Daub: Hey everybody, this is kind of an exciting time. The postcards, according to the website, they're on their way. And while I was starting this live stream, they actually came. So I have to pretend like the postcards are coming to my front door, which is just over there. For a lot of you, this is probably your first time to see anything inside of my house. This is where I live now. So it's also kind of a new chance to get a look at that. I did get an Amazon box this morning. And I can't unbox this a little bit because one of the things I got, I really want to show you.

01:07 John Daub: One of them is a new hard disk to help me edit the videos. I usually get Western Digital, although Seagate is pretty good too. This is a six terabyte hard disk and I get about 12 terabytes of hard disks every year. Usually I get three terabyte hard disks. Now I'm starting to get six terabyte hard disks. So I don't have as many of them in my office, which is over there. I'm not going to show you that. And this is really cool. I'm going to do a totally separate unboxing for this, but I'm going to show it to you now. This is called a Frigizoo 24. This little thing is super cool. What it is, it's one of these things you put in your refrigerator and it will greet you every time you open your refrigerator. It says, hello, how you doing? Good morning.

01:38 John Daub: And if you leave the refrigerator door open, it'll tell you to close the door. So nothing ever spoils because recently I've been putting too many things in my refrigerator. The door won't close properly or I don't close it properly. And then my wife gets really upset because she says I ruined something. So I bought this. She doesn't know that I bought this, but I think I'm going to do another live stream just to check this out because I think it's in Japanese. I'm not sure. It says here in English, please shut the door. But on the side, it's all in Japanese. So we're going to figure that out on another live stream. But I want to show you all of the postcards that I've made over the last. These postcards I've made for Patreon supporters. So this one is from Dogo Onsen. This one is Tsukiji Market. So each one has a message on the back. It's pretty high quality paper. This is the capsule hotel. This is one of the first 10.

02:43 John Daub: Now, first 20 videos that I made on Only in Japan. This one is Aogashima. I really love this shot. It's from a drone. And if you know the background story of this one, it's pretty cool. I was standing here and I flew the drone about five kilometers away and was able to get the entire island in. And you can just see inside of the volcano where there's another volcano. So I really like that one. That was from last year, I believe, in November. This is one from a couple of months ago. This is the best cherry blossom spot in Japan. This is from Fukushima. This is the table at a ryokan, the dinner that you can get. It was pretty cool. And I've made a lot of really good postcards. And now I'm going to pretend like they just came. I'm going to get the box and unbox it for you. So, oh, I just heard the doorbell. Oh, my gosh. Okay, let's go. I get it.

03:58 John Daub: Yeah, I know. It's not quite the same. It's almost cringeworthy. But nevertheless, we do have a box. And that means unboxing. Give you a very good look at the unboxing here. Oh, my gosh. They really used strong tape. I am hamming it up. Station 240. Thank you. It would have been better if the postman had come when he said. Yamato Transport is like UPS here in Japan. We say Kuro Neko, the little black cat. And they're really reliable. Just like everything in Japan. Right. Oh, look, it's protected from the rain. All right. This is it. Every month I order 200 of them because the postcard club is less than 200, but more than 100. So I got to order a little bit more.

05:24 John Daub: Oh, gosh. This is always so exciting. Just to make sure that the printers didn't mess it up. Because if they did, then it ruins everything. All right. It's underneath plastic. All right. I can already see the image. Ready? Three, two, one. Boom. I took this with Kevin Riley about one week ago when I was in Osaka and I ordered it the day I got back. This is Kyoto's Golden Pavilion, a Zen temple called Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto. And this will be the postcard for this month. Wow. It comes in like a brick. And there's a message on the back. And I put the airmail sticker on now to help the post office ladies expedite it because I don't want to take up more of their time. This is pretty cool. I like how it came all wrapped up every month. For me, it's pretty fun to get stuff in the mail. And I liked getting this package today.

06:35 John Daub: Oh, wow. God, the paper is just beautiful on this thing. When I made this, I designed this. I had to put some shadow underneath it or else you wouldn't have seen the emoji. I don't usually do that. But it came out pretty well. The colors are good. I didn't enhance the photo very much, but I did brighten it a couple of spots because I noticed when you print them, they do get a little bit darker. And there's like a plastic band around them. There you go. Wow. Okay. I'm not going to show you the message because I want you to order these if you can to help support the channel. But there you go. It's a beautiful image. I need to cut my fingernails because you saw the sandwich episode. I got a lot of slack from that. Peter von Gomm sent me a message today. He said that he doesn't know which got more comments. His lovely voice or my awful fingernails.

07:50 John Daub: That's not that funny, actually. So I got 200 postcards and I'm looking forward to sending them all around the world. I'm over here. Yeah, I sent out approximately. There's the K-cup machine. If you guys remember that from another episode, the K-cup machines in the kitchen right now. And by the way, I want to thank Matsumi. Matsumi brought me these. These are K-cups. Napalm and Hawaiian hazelnut. So thank you for that. We don't have K-cups really in Japan. We have like five options and they're all pretty bad. And when I got this a couple of months ago, I'm using them very sparingly. So I appreciate that. And I got some coffee as well, which I might do another unboxing later on because people have been sending me coffee. I guess it's important for me to stay fully caffeinated because I'm in the final edits of the next Only in Japan main channel video.

09:05 John Daub: We had been about a month behind on the videos and not a lot of them have been coming out. So I filmed a lot when I was in Osaka with Kevin. This one's coming out. It's gonna be pretty cool. I don't think that Kevin is in this one, but he's going to be in one in a couple of weeks after this. We filmed about two episodes together. It's gonna be pretty cool. Thank you everybody for the support on Patreon. This video is sort of like a plug for Patreon. The support there has now exceeded all of the demonetization and all of the financial problems that I had and it's more support than I ever expected. And I want to thank everybody for that. It really does mean a lot to me and because of that support I'm going to be making a trip at the end of June or the beginning of July. Last year I went here because of Patreon support.

10:14 John Daub: Do you see that? This is all backwards everything is backwards on this camera so it looks like the wedding ring is on the wrong hand. I guarantee you it's on my left hand. This is a trip that was fully funded by Patreon and I was there for a little bit over a week and I took the helicopter from Hachijo-jima all the way to Aogashima and it was super cool because it's kind of expensive and this kind of trip when you go completely off the beaten track either you have a sponsor one of the prefectures has paid you. I don't know if you guys are watching a lot of the other YouTubers but all of the big YouTubers now including me I will take a trip paid for by the prefecture sometimes or paid for by an association to help bring me to a location. Now it doesn't happen as often as some of the other people but I get contacted and if the story is good and has to be a good story then I will take the trip up there.

11:28 John Daub: The last one that is on my mind right now was I went to Fukushima's Aizu where I met the little puppet and another one last year was the Aomori maguro episode where they let me go on top of a boat to go and see the fishing of the maguro. And these are really special episodes I think but they don't happen that often on Only in Japan but I might do more of them I'm not sure. The only reason why I would do it is because there's a good story. Okay if there's not a good story I won't do any sponsored videos because I think on the main channel it has to be something that is valuable to you to watch and I don't want to make it feel like a commercial. And people have asked me I've turned down a lot of sponsored money and I think if you have something like Patreon you can do that. If there's something like oh we want you to promote this product I can say yes or no and I'm not sure if it's a good thing or not but I think no because that's not what we do on the Only in Japan channel.

12:42 John Daub: What we do is we kind of give some information on the history the culture background people who are these people what are their personal stories this is the kind of stuff that we bring we don't bring you like product placement and stuff but you know the life of a YouTuber is the more and more that the channel gets bigger and bigger the more these opportunities are coming and the good thing about Patreon is that I can keep the show for the people for the viewers and not have to make a lot of content that is sponsor worthy. Like this product is not sponsored by me or sponsored by them but it's just so darn cool that I thought it was interesting to show you. And you know my friend hey there's like a whole lineup of animals you can see now my friends at I know that they I sent them a piggy bank where you put the coin in and the cat reaches in like this as a present for them and I thought that was pretty cool wasn't sponsored at all and I sent it to them and they cut it open the channel that was so cool there's like cool stuff you know.

14:02 John Daub: And I think that's the beauty of it if somebody pays you to do something it's different than if you just do it when you want to do it and I want to be somebody who does it because they want to do it so I'm not going to do a lot of really sponsored work although I will sometimes if it benefits our community. Yeah so that's pretty cool I now have 200 postcards to send all around the world and I will literally I was stamping the airmail on it for a long time at the last post office. Post office lady she took the stamp away and said that can you just put the stickers on and I said sure but that's not environmentally friendly but I do make all these myself so I'm a one-man operation with a wife who helps now which is pretty cool. Oh wow so I didn't expect anybody to support with super chats today but I will read them. So I want to thank everybody who supports the channel. Matt thank you very much for that. Uh Rajiv oh hey thanks John it's been amazing to see your channel grow eventually helping us know Japan finally love Japan that's great.

15:23 John Daub: And let's see what else we have here Craig Porter writes in John your videos are good because you aren't beholden to sponsors your content is genuine and people want to give you money you're doing great work thank you very much Craig. Makoto thank you very much that comes from the Philippines which is totally awesome. You're making it happen talk to any of you would be really good about that for a honeymoon and making it happen so he has an idea for places where my wife and I are thinking of going for a honeymoon and if we don't we're not really sure. Peter von Gomm my friend Peter planted the seed of Bali in her mind so I think it's going to be Bali but I know we're going to be making it down to the Philippines because I also have a supporter on Patreon they mix and I have a lot of other supporters from the Philippines it's just like I just want to go there to meet people actually although the beaches are so beautiful down there as well. Peter is hiding in the chat yeah I know he is he knows how to go to the beach. He's always hiding. Actually, he's not. Usually, he's very active. You can't turn Peter off. He does what he wants to do.

16:19 John Daub: Just to plug out to my friend Jennifer. She just did a trip to Nagano, and I'm going to meet her tomorrow. I don't think we're going to do any live streaming, but I'm going to meet her tomorrow for lunch. And it's going to be a long time. I haven't seen her in months. So that'll be nice to catch up with Jennifer. Her channel is Jennifer Julien, I believe. And my friend, Peter von Gomm. The awesome voice to. Oh, wait. Hold on. Just stay right there. Look at my K-Cup machine. Kevin Riley just left a comment on your phone. I've got to read Kevin's comment. Kevin Riley is the other person I want to plug. His YouTube channel is called Kuma's Kitchen.

17:07 John Daub: And Kevin has been such an amazing co-reporter on the Only in Japan series. He did the Dotonbori street food episode. The Kuromon Ichiba street food episode. The Namba street food episode. This guy likes street food. And he likes food in general. And his channel is all about food. And he just started it up again after a month of being off. And now Kevin's channel, he's got so much content. It's incredible. He just keeps pumping it out. But he only has about 2,000 subscribers, which I thought was a little bit not enough. I encourage you to subscribe. And I also encourage you just to check out his content and see if you like it. Because I'm a subscriber to his channel on the Only Japan Go. And I really like the content because it just makes me hungry and gives me inspiration. It's not so much Japanese food as it is what he likes to eat, which is some pretty good stuff. You get to know Kevin through his shows. And he's one of the most interesting people that I know.

18:08 John Daub: Peter's channel, as a fan, it really amazes me. Peter von Gomm. And yeah, I think he just finished a couple of live streams. But he's the one who read Sofa, the treasure hunter. Did I tell you about Sofa? Well, some time ago before we get into the story, we got a little bit of business to talk about. All right. Peter's channel. It doesn't even have a thousand views on it. All right. He's the guy. I think the reason why the sandwich video was so good. I mean, I put a lot of work into editing it and making it and narrating myself. But there was a part where Peter von Gomm played an important role. I knew my voice was not strong enough to do this justice. But Peter's voice really brought that episode to life. And yeah, I have to give him a plug. I have to give him a shout out. This is Peter's the last. It's a girl named Sofa. It's a really funny story that he put together. His editing is getting better. You're going to see Peter's channel growing over the next year. Five point six thousand subscribers. That's pretty good from zero to five point six. But we can do a lot better. Same with Jennifer and Kevin.

19:42 John Daub: And I know a lot of you also have YouTube channels out there. And I know how hard it is to start one. Because I did. And it takes a lot of work. And I know there's got a question. Does it help Peter von Gomm now if we go back to the old videos and give them thumbs up? Brooke? Yes, they do. The thing with channels and the way YouTube sort of recognizes them is based on activity and watch time. So if you watch a video until the end, that's good for the channel. That means that the content that the creator is making is good enough for people for them to suggest. That means that they measure the high quality of the content based on how much that somebody watched it till the end. I think garbage content, you probably turn it off at around a minute or two, you search to the next video, really good content keeps you watching until the end.

20:38 John Daub: So the best thing you can do to support Peter right now because his channel is not monetized, he's been waiting like six months to get the YouTube channel monetized. But the best thing you can do right now is to watch the old videos and give it thumbs up then if you haven't done that already or leave a comment. I tell people that are watching on Instagram when I first release a video, the best thing that you can do is to like it, share it and leave a comment, even if it's good job, leave something or give me a question. And for all content creators, there's an excitement. There's a big excitement that first like first couple hours that you release a video, because in those couple of hours, all these comments from all around the world are coming out saying good things, sometimes bad things, but really interesting questions about what you just spent a lot of time making. And all those questions. I'm curious about it. So I'm consistent. I'm always going back and reading the comments with the first couple of hours.

21:41 John Daub: So if you ever get the video and you're an Instagram follower, you can follow me live. As I publish the videos live. And then I go in and I read the questions right away because there's a lot of value in that. An activity means comments, likes, sharing it and watch time until the end. If you want to help the creator, those are the things that you can do. And Peter, Jennifer and Kevin and there's so many other YouTube creators. I think I shared somebody who's been trying to give a positive message. On Instagram, I shared his videos on the Facebook page and his video broke 100 views, which is I believe Joey's video at 100 views in that one, which is really good because not a lot of them were I think none of them had broken into triple digits yet, so that was sort of a big deal.

22:34 John Daub: Oh, OK. Katori is going OKP. All right. You know what? Just for you, Katori, I know because you're watching in Austria and I really appreciate every time that you mentioned something. So just for you guys, OKP is in the house. I can't I don't know. I don't know what Jennifer did with her panda. I don't know. I haven't seen it again. But I do know that OKP sits on my desk and OKP keeps me company when I'm editing. And it's a true story. And OKP right now is sitting on top of the postcard. OKP is sitting on top of these postcards. And if you want one, go to Patreon. And if you do, OKP will thank you, too, because OKP is very expensive to feed. Actually, I'm talking about my wife. Yes, she eats a lot. You know what? These super chats, I have been taking her out to eat more. So much that I think she wants to cook recently. She goes, we're going out and eating so much. I said, well, gosh, everyone is so kind to give us. They give us all this support.

23:48 John Daub: And it's nice because the better that I treat her, I think as a result of the kindness of others will help me make the show more and stay away a couple of days longer, I think she's more understanding now than in the beginning, because the way I make the YouTube show is that I go away from home for like a week or more and I try to get as many stories or work on one very thoroughly, like one on udon, where I went to the other side of Japan and Shikoku, I was there working and filming the square watermelon story and one on udon, just two episodes and I was there for like a total of two weeks collecting data and videos and content and interviews and meeting people and traveling around Kagawa Prefecture. And that was really worth it, because when you finish a video like this sandwich video, this is my real job now.

24:54 John Daub: Ty, I also do. I also consult several other companies. I've been here for 20 years, so I kind of know a lot of people here. I know the way that the system works. And in Japan, it is about age. The older you are, the more respect that you get. And I know a lot of younger creators, younger people that are living in Japan, they might know Japanese better than me. They probably do. They might have a lot more experience than me. But because I've been here for 20 years and I'm not going anywhere, people will trust you more to give you jobs than somebody who's just been here for a couple of years. I've been here for 20 years. So when a job comes along, I can say I'm going to be here till the end. I'm going to be your partner until the end. I'm not going anywhere. Only in Japan Channel is not going anywhere. So I think that's the kind of trust that we want in Japan, because I'll be honest with you, my foreign friends that I came here 20 years ago, none of them are still here.

26:09 John Daub: In fact, there's only a couple of friends that I met five years ago that are still here. Peter von Gomm, Jennifer and Kevin. That's about it. There aren't that many. There's a few, but not that most people will go home after a couple of years or five years or they'll leave to go to another country. I'm staying here and this is my home. And now that I'm married and I have family here, I don't see me leaving like ever, but I will go home to visit my parents. And I'm going home more to the US because as you know, people are getting a little bit older. And I think it's good to go home as much as you can to see family. So there's that, too. But I'm here. I'm here a lot. There's a couple of other things that I want to talk about before we end this live stream, a nosh, I want to thank Nosh and Jim. I see Nosh and Jim are putting in the links to Jennifer and Kevin and Peter's channels, and I appreciate that these two people are awesome.

27:10 John Daub: And I can't wait to see Nosh when he comes and we're going to find a way to get Jim. I'm here. And because, you know, the thing with this is this is that that thing that I wanted to talk about. Over the last month, actually, since April, every day someone has been inviting me to go out and have coffee. And it's the ultimate compliment that you have come so far to Japan to meet me and you want to spend time with me. And that's really, really amazing. Just the other day I met with Dimitri, who is in a live stream. Dimitri, if you watch this, how you doing? I hope you made it home, OK, because this is your last day. I'm pretty sure you're on an airplane right now going back to New York. But I need to focus on making the videos. So I'm going to try to do more meet ups. I can't. It's getting harder to meet people that support face to face.

28:28 John Daub: And when I do meet them, it's sometimes for like a couple of minutes and then I have to go home and keep working. But it's really hard because I know if you come on an airplane to come halfway around the world and a lot of your ideas or a lot of the things that you saw on Only in Japan are things that are interesting to you. They're kind of a basis in which you're planning your trip. There's a lot of people that are doing that, which really makes me feel amazing. I want to be there to say hi to you, but it's really hard to be everywhere at all times and I find myself running out of time in the day and I don't have enough hours or minutes in the day to get everything that I want to get done and everybody who's waiting on the DVD project. I do have an update for you. It's just there's so many things that keep popping up that I can't taper down. And if I ignore people, I feel even worse. So I don't have an assistant. I just work by myself. Maybe I should get an assistant. I'm thinking about it seriously. But I don't want to lose that personal touch.

29:38 John Daub: I think that we get from like the Only in Japan Go channel and we get from like just me coming out like a regular dude because I'm just some guy just going out to Tokyo Station and saying, hey, and taking a picture together or going out to get a coffee or sharing a beer or something like this. This is what I want to do with every single person that comes to visit Japan. And I can't. I know. And I know more and more since April. I can't do that because I tried one time. Gosh, this is a story I feel really bad about. Somebody had wanted to meet up with me. And I said, look, I might have some time between here and here, but I'm not sure. But if you go there, I might be able to meet you. I don't know why I said this. I just trying to think of ways to make time to meet people. And then I couldn't get away from the job to go and meet them. And I think they were upset by it. And I'm learning more and more. Don't just don't if you can't meet, just say no. I think most people understand.

30:42 John Daub: But I thought it was important to say that because there's so many people are coming to Japan and I want to meet them and it's getting harder and harder. And if I'm making a promise three months in advance, which is based on your schedule, my schedule is like week to week or almost day to day. I could get a phone call right now and I'll be gone and I'll have to go and film. But right now I'm working on editing the next video. I just wanted I just want to put that out there for you guys. I hope you do understand. If you do invite me to have coffee or beer or lunch or you want to buy me dinner. Like, yeah, of course, say yes. But it's also a time constraint thing because I might not even be in Tokyo three months in advance or I might not be able to fulfill the promise. But I still have to finish your work to upload it to everybody.

31:36 John Daub: And the reason why I didn't have a video for one month was because I was trying to do too much every day and I wasn't able to do it. And talked with my wife and I thought a lot about it and I can't do everything all the time for everybody and as much as I want to do that. I think that's Japanese service. I think that's something that rubbed off from being in Japan. You don't want to. This is the biggest thing with Japanese service. OK, the reason why you don't have to tip is because people will give you amazing service because they want to or because it's not just part of the job, it's part of the reputation, it's part of who they are. That's why when you go to a hotel or a restaurant, these are places that you would normally tip or a taxi, you would normally tip in these places. You don't have to tip. And it's amazing because these people are getting paid not that much more or less than their counterparts in the US, but they do it because if they gave bad service, that would be bad for their reputation and their reputation is more important than the money. You cannot buy reputation.

32:52 John Daub: That's the one thing I think a lot of people have to understand when you make bad content or you do something that is not good, like the guy at the Suicide Forest or something like this. This hurts your reputation. And if you have a damaged reputation in Japan, you can't go back from that. It's really, really hard in the US. We have redemption. You have a second chance. You don't really get that in Japan because you know the kind of person that you are. If you are a bad person and you have a reputation of that, you can't really come back from that. It's very hard. That makes it a good thing and a bad thing. The other thing is that you see service is really, really good as a result of people have a lot of pride in being and you being the host and them being the host and you being the guest. This is quite important to people. This is a live stream, so I apologize for rambling. I ramble all the time, don't I? Yes, you do.

34:00 John Daub: Just to go back, I saw some people asking questions. Let's go back here. I got to go back to work here. Oh, hey. Oh, wow. I'm seeing a lot of familiar people coming in here. So Storm Knight. Yeah, great channel. It's given me ideas what to do and when I can come to Japan. That's awesome. You know what? Follow up on that. Just send me an email on either Patreon or on Instagram or leave a comment in the community tab and Facebook or something, because I check that too. Let me know how your trip goes. Yeah. One of the biggest inspirations that I have for this channel, for Only in Japan are your comments and your feedback. And I think yeah, I think I've received this year maybe about 30 or 40. Yeah, about 40 emails from people sending me photos, writing me a story of how the trip was and some of the stuff that they saw on the trip that they hadn't seen on Only in Japan that inspired them.

35:04 John Daub: So if you have something like that that you discovered on your own, let me know. And I will make a show out of it and try to use what inspired you to bring that story and then inspire other people, because if there's something that you found that you want to share, I will definitely put that in the queue of topics that I can cover. I think that's really cool. So Storm Knight. Follow up on that. If you do have time, let me know if you do come to Japan. I want to hear what you find. I'll pay Williams. What about becoming a grandma at this time, John? Oh, Faye's going to be grandma. Congratulations. I'm still working on being just a regular pop up, but that's awesome. So congratulations. What I guess. Do you know if it's a boy or a girl? Oh, you know what? I'll talk to you on the messages. Yeah. So, Oscar Salazar. Hey, John, nice to see you. Love your videos. Thank you, Oscar. I appreciate that.

36:03 John Daub: Lindsay Riley writes in. I love watching your channel and getting ideas for when my husband and I go to Japan. Please keep up the awesome work. P.S. Watching from the great white north Canada. So that means you still have snow. That's crazy. Wait a minute. It's like almost June and you still got snow up in Canada. That is pretty crazy. I wonder. I think Abashiri still has snow up in the north where I was a few months ago. So thank you. Um, once again. Lindsay also like everybody who's coming to Japan, follow up with me and send me your experience or share with me some of the stories that you have. I might actually just do an episode on people's stories or I'll give it to Peter von Gomm and Peter can do an episode reading people's stories because I think everybody who comes to Japan has an experience right now.

36:55 John Daub: One of the Patreon supporters who I haven't had a chance to meet up yet, but I'm going to try really hard to is Amanda. And Amanda is right now. I believe she's in Tottori. And last week she has a JR Pass. Last week she was in Kamaishi and Iwate Prefecture. And I thought that was really great because that's one of the cities that was really affected by the tsunami in 2011 and she had an amazing time sending photos from up there and she's every time she goes and crisscrosses Japan on the Japan Rail Pass, she sends me a message, I'm coming through Tokyo again for a couple of hours and then she's gone and I get the message and I'm like, hey, ah. Hmm. We didn't quite meet with the schedule. So I know Amanda is going to be going home and her birthday is coming up real soon. So I will make an effort, a really serious effort to try to meet with Amanda. But I appreciate that very much. And Joseph Clark, thank you very much for the support.

37:52 John Daub: This is really good. I told my wife if she danced for us and for the Patreon at all of the super chats that came in, we go towards the honeymoon and she's like, OK, so that's one of the reasons. Maybe that's why she did it. I think she just wanted to see what I did. There's a couple of a few weeks ago I made the episode introducing her where she danced for us. She's so nice. She's so sweet. I'm so lucky. You can see a picture right here and she is pretty cool. She was able to dance for us on that day. And I felt really happy that I could share what I do with her and she could share what she does with us and she was OK. I'm going to tell you something at the end of that. This is just between us. OK, at the end of the live stream, she felt the same kind of energy that I feel when I do the live stream, that means I think she really enjoyed it.

39:02 John Daub: So I'm hoping that in the next couple of weeks, maybe we can get her to dance with some of her friends and do another performance like in the same spot. I had this amazing spotlight and maybe we can do some kind of dance live stream because, see, I like to support my friends and promote some of the work that they're doing. I also want her to be able to feel like she can share because this is called Only in Japan, right, this channel. And she's Japanese. And one of the things I want to do more is use the Only in Japan Go channel to bring you people in Japan and give you more of a point of view from their side just to make sure I always try to get somebody who's a professional when I do these episodes, like someone who knows more information than me, because I don't know everything I know, I know a lot of stuff, but I don't know everything. And if I can bring like experts like Kevin is an expert on Osaka, he is the guy knows everything about Osaka, the guy is amazing.

40:17 John Daub: And Peter von Gomm knows everything about a lot but the stuff he knows, which is a lot. And Jennifer knows food. And so when I get people on each show, they give you a different point of view, a different perspective, a different way to see things. And that's very essential to, I think, this channel, because if it's just me, I'd be pretty lonely out there. And I think it's my opinion is enhanced by having other people. And I like to see them grow. Yeah. Is Peter in the house? Save me front row. Do you have Peter? I don't know, Peter. I want you there, dude. You're going to be heckling. Peter's going to be heckling my wife. I'm going to have to tackle you and throw you in the river. And I can totally do it, too, because I won't be alone. Sam, that's not just a stuffed animal. Yeah. And there was also this YouTube series on YouTube called Cobra Kai.

41:14 John Daub: And Cobra Kai has been a pretty big catalyst to the channel because people think I'm rough macho and I am. If that means something good for the channel, I'll totally be rough macho and do a leg sweep on you, Peter. If you squint, you can feel it. Through the screen a little bit more. So just don't mess with me because no mercy. Actually, it shouldn't be Ralph Macchio says that it's actually Johnny. But, you know, if I do wear a headband, I do kind of look a lot more like the Karate Kid and if you're on Instagram, there's a picture of me. You don't have to go to Instagram. I'll just show it to you for a second. OK, if you go on Instagram, there is a picture. Where I am. And I had a bandana on and I looked so much like the Karate Kid that I put that up on the channel, I guess it was a couple of months ago now. I hear it is. All right. Don't laugh, OK? Well, OK, you can laugh.

42:27 John Daub: There it is. So I put this on Instagram and I had this square watermelon, you see, and I put it next to some pictures when Ralph Macchio was a kid in the Karate Kid. And I did. So there is sort of a resemblance. It's kind of somewhat creepy, although there are people who are very critical will not find that resemblance. But if you have a noncritical heart, you'll see the resemblance. No. OK, that's all I have for you today. Because my wife is forgiving, I might be able to do a midnight snack run this week. All right. If I do, you probably are going to get about 30 minutes. It's up, which means like around lunchtime in New York. So some more midnight lunch streams are coming, which is why I think you should make sure you have the notification the bells clicked on on the Only in Japan Go channel.

43:28 John Daub: But all right. This is important, OK? If you want to make sure you see all of the live streams and if I go like this on the screen, it makes each word stick out. I don't know why I'm doing this. Go to Patreon. And every time I put up a live stream, I will put the video on Patreon of the link for people who are supporters there. But also there's a place that says reminder. And if I put up the live stream and you see it, you can click the reminder bell, which is different than the notification bell. The reminder means that it'll give you a notification on the top of your iPhone or something or your Android. And it'll tell you the stream will start in 30 minutes. It's really cool. And I've noticed that actually Nosh Nosh Abroad is the one who and Jim also. He tells me the numbers of how many people were watching at a particular time. And there were a couple of episodes where we had like almost 2000 people watching. And when that happens, it's like, wow, something worked.

44:35 John Daub: OK, when you ever have when you're right now, we have about four hundred and forty, some almost near five hundred people watching. When you get to like two thousand, you did something right where people are able to catch the live stream and that's really important for me on this channel, if you are a subscriber to sometimes have the ability to watch this stream live. OK, I want all these are made live. So I want you to catch it live, which is why some of these episodes do go on for 45 minutes. Like right now, I see that I see the number here. Sometimes they'll go on for 45 minutes because the notifications from YouTube don't actually people won't get it until like an hour, you know, so it doesn't like, oh, you did get the notification. Now I'm seeing everybody gets notifications. So click the bell on the video description where to next day subscribe. Yeah, Jim has it right. And you could by the way, you could smash the like button just any time.

45:41 John Daub: And when I say that, all right, I want to show you the power of the community. Let's see if we get to 300 likes in the next five minutes before I end this live stream, we have four hundred thirty five people watching. Here's the power of the community. Hit the like button if we can get the 300. I want to show you the power of the Internet. We can get very quickly power of YouTube by just saying something and mentioning it. This is what Nosh brought told me this by mentioning something we can get to do something like this. And this is very powerful when we want to get a message across. Look at this. We almost we've just come to almost we well, wow, hit 50 more 50 likes just on asking for them. So sometimes what we have to do is just ask and people will help and support you by just clicking the like button, it's not you're right. It's pretty amazing, actually.

46:37 John Daub: So I want to thank you for all of that love and support that we been getting through this channel. Me and my wife, I want to say her, too, because she's included in everything that I do now. It's really been an incredible month and a half now since we got married on April 21st. And yeah, I think through the Go channel and her generosity and letting me go on midnight snack runs, I haven't done one in two months, it's time for midnight snack run if you want a midnight snack, right. So punch that like button right now. Yeah, it's going to be pretty cool to do one of those again and to see her reaction when I when she says I'm going to bed and I'm still working. I do feel a little bit guilty. Yeah, just a little bit. But I think creative people work late until the night for some reason. I don't know. And when I work, I need to get snacks. Right. I mean, you got to do it.

47:39 John Daub: But Peter von Gomm, look, Peter writes in here, April 21st, twenty eighteen, a day that will live in infamy. Oh, you know what? Is that you know, I don't live in for me because you are the emcee of the event, because you're the dude with the microphone the whole time making fun of me. You know, it's a good thing. Nobody recorded that. OK, if someone had recorded that and we put it on YouTube, big problems. OK, it will live in infamy, but it'll be because I got married. Not because you completely destroyed, you know, me just a couple of times. Actually, it was kind of funny. You had to be there. That's actually true. With three likes away from two likes away from three hundred. That's really amazing. And less than in three minutes, we got the three hundred likes. That's kind of cool. There we go. Boom. The power of social media, by the way, Peter, we're going to have to do another live stream, huh? We got to get we got to get your channel up to ten thousand.

48:34 John Daub: I said I want to get Peter's one thousand likes and I'll upload it. Peter, you can't hold us hostage like that. Although I tried to, I find that people respond to, you know, kindness more than well, people also respond to being held hostage. I've noticed, but I would never do that. All right. So the next live stream I do is probably going to be a midnight snack run. Oh, and a cut. Please thank you for mentioning in Kuma's Kitchen. Check out Kuma's Kitchen. Definitely there's going to be a midnight snack run. And I want to put this in action. You didn't see this yet. I got this from Amazon. It came about 30 minutes before the postcards came in. Yeah. And the last plug that I'm going to do before I get off of this 50 minute live stream is I have two. That means right now, if you're watching this and you want one, there's about this much left out of this stack of postcards.

50:04 John Daub: So I do encourage you to sign up for Patreon and help to support in there. I'm not going to do too many of these Patreon plugs because I think I have a lot of support already there and I don't want the community to get too big. But I also want to tell you what I do. And if you're interested in the live streams and you don't want to miss one, that's where all the notifications go. Even if it's five minutes in advance, I'll put the link on Patreon 90 percent of the time. Sometimes it's just so instantaneous that a live stream happens that I just click the live button, but 90 percent of the live streams will be notifications go on Patreon. So I do appreciate the support there to get those. I think you only have to give a dollar. No matter how much you give, you get the more the more you support, the more benefits. There are. And I'm always trying to find new ways to do more benefits.

51:01 John Daub: And Peter von Gomm, actually, since you're watching, you're also doing a Patreon, which you haven't left. One fifteen dollars. That's a great deal. Fun to get real mail. All right. You know what, Peter? You know what? I'm sending this to Joji, OK? I'm sending this one to Joji right now. I'm going to put Joji's name on it for that. Thank you, Joji. Thank you very much, because I can't be sure. Peter. This is not Joji typing these messages because is there some kind of secret that only you and I know that you can give here that will let me know that this is you and not Joji, because I'll be honest with you. Me and Joji talk, OK? We know what's going on. So unless you know, unless this is really Peter, I'm addressing this postcard to Joji. How do you like that? How do you like them apples? Ha. It'll still go on your refrigerator, right? Right. You can put on your refrigerator. Yeah.

51:58 John Daub: Oh, speaking of which. Oh, just one last thing I want to show you, OK? Got so many things I want to show you. I haven't done a house tour and I'm not going to do it right now, but I will show you. Do we put it up yet? OK. Yeah. All right. My wife's I'm not supposed to. I'm not supposed to show you stuff in the kitchen. All right. I got this really cool. I've gotten a lot of magnets from people from all over the world. This one's from Italy. This shouldn't be here. Why is this here? Gosh, this one I got from Hake and Britta from Germany. And they're from the north in Germany. And this one says Moin Moin. And this is the way they say hello in the north of Germany. And I thought this was really nice. They brought me a present. And what else? Oh, and they also brought this. Hold on a second. They also brought me like these candies. It's just so cool. There's a bird on top. Look at that. So that was really cool.

53:04 John Daub: Peter von Gomm and I got a chance to meet with them a few days ago in Hibiya Park during an Oktoberfest there. Yes, that said, no money, no honey. It's true. OK, no money, no honey. I got that in Thailand. It actually even says here on the thing, no money, no honey. This is really cool. I don't think my wife knows what this means. I think it just means that John will not go out and do bad stuff. Yeah, it's good. It's a good reminder. We do love Thailand, too. I got that in New York. I got that in New York. Somebody sent me this from Texas. Don't mess with Texas. And I got another one from Venice when I was actually there. That's pretty nice. I have more magnets, but she took my magnet collection when we moved to this apartment, and I can't find the other half of it. Actually, the entire refrigerator was filled with magnets. So I have to start over. So you want to send me a magnet? Hey, well, if you come and visit me, bring me a magnet. And I'll put it on the refrigerator. Kind of cool.

54:11 John Daub: I will. You will be seeing this refrigerator again because I'm going to try to put the penguin in the refrigerator and see how it works. Look in the garbage. No, she did not throw it away. Brian, this is Brian, not Brian. That's kind of funny. Brian, I am not. Yes, we take the garbage out all the time. It's probably gone then. Parents Shoebridge. If I win a contest in Japan, I hope to bump into you. Yes. Which contest might that be? Eric Holleran writes in a donation to snack run. Eric, you just pushed it over the limit. Now it must be done. Thank you, my friend. And Ram says silent. Waterfall of the Moon. Wait Mom. Gn video, please. I'm not even sure what that is. So thanks to your donation. I will know what that is by the end of this. OK, J.W. Thank you, Jay. I always appreciate it. Wow. And I'm going back and looking all the support just in this live stream. And I'm very, very thankful for all of that.

55:24 John Daub: There's a big mess that I have. I'm not supposed to show you that she's going to kill me now. And we got a pretty good relationship. I've been living here for over a month now. I do miss my old apartment. There was just like a really nice familiarity with it. But I do like living here, too. I'm not going to tell you where that is yet. I don't know. It's not an attraction. You don't want to come here, you know, ring the doorbell. That'd be pretty weird, wouldn't it? I don't know. It's a little bit weird. But thank you very much for watching this live stream. We were hitting an hour. And the reason why I do go a little bit longer, even though I don't need to, is because not a lot of people will hit this live stream watching until like 30 minutes in or 45 minutes in. And I do make these live streams longer just so more people can watch them. And that might take away from the playback. But it's so much cooler if you watch it live.

56:23 John Daub: Postcard Club, the boxes are here. I unboxed it. Go back and watch. I'm not going to do it again for you. All right. Thanks, everybody. Thanks to Eric and all of these super chats. I got the point. It's time to get back in the midnight food run. I got a lot of email messages, one of them from somebody who recommended it. I'm going to do them with professional wrestlers would be very, very cool. It'd be pretty darn cool to have professional wrestlers and do midnight snack runs because I'm sure professional wrestlers eat a lot of food. They need a lot of food at midnight. Jetlag probably, especially if you're visiting from the United States. Would be very cool. So today's a rainy day. Thank you for sharing that with me. See you at Tokyo Lens Nosh Abroad. Thank you very much for reminding me of that. I saw the latest post on Asakusa from him. It was really good. So, yeah, I'm looking forward to get in touch. If you're Tokyo Lens and you're watching it, let's get in touch. And I want to hear some of your music, too. OK, he has a comment. See, wasn't me. Didn't even move my lips. Bye, everybody. Have a great day. Have a great night wherever you are in the world. Very thankful for the support. Postcards coming your way. You're a supporter. See it. Thanks, Peter von Gomm. No, Jim. Bye.