00:00:07 John Daub: Hey everybody, so I'm once again in Sangenjaya. This is the start of an epic challenge where baseball meets two guys that just want to hit a couple of baseballs. Dean Newcomb over there is my competitor. He's from the UK. He has no idea what he's doing. We're going to have some fun. This is the Only in Japan Go channel. This is a live stream from central Tokyo.

00:00:37 John Daub: Thank you. I'm going to have some fun and I know he does too. We actually did this a couple of years ago, which is the thumbnail from our first encounter. This is the second one. There he is over there. Dean, you really are warming up, aren't you? Are you ready for this?

00:00:54 Dean Newcomb: I'm ready to get my ass kicked.

00:00:56 John Daub: Alright, just a little bit of background on this batting cage here. If you look up, it's really difficult to find this batting cage. This is the Sangenjaya Batting Center. As you can see from the stairs and the rust, it's old. The history goes back over 60 years and it's now the owner's son who runs this. His father is the one who started this business. And if you think about 60 years ago, we're talking like Joe DiMaggio, late 1950s, Joltin' Joe.

00:01:32 John Daub: You don't know who Joe DiMaggio is? You know Marilyn Monroe? He married Marilyn Monroe.

00:01:37 Dean Newcomb: Okay.

00:01:39 John Daub: Now you know, yeah?

00:01:40 Dean Newcomb: No, no, no.

00:01:40 John Daub: Now you know Marilyn Monroe was married to Joe DiMaggio, the greatest, one of the great Yankees from the 1950s.

00:01:46 Dean Newcomb: No, I didn't.

00:01:51 John Daub: Dean, Dean, Dean. This is the national sport of the United States, although basketball is a very close second.

00:01:57 Dean Newcomb: Yeah, let's go up.

00:01:58 John Daub: I'm 6'2", 184 pounds.

00:02:18 Dean Newcomb: I'm 5'11", and 70, 75 kilograms maybe, I don't know.

00:02:25 John Daub: Weight might be a disadvantage. I love how between the buildings is the batting cages. So this is quite an adventure. You could totally hit your head. Then victory would be mine.

00:02:48 Dean Newcomb: No, I don't want to win that way.

00:02:50 John Daub: Alright, so we're going up to the top. Here's the entrance. You get, you found it? It's 200 yen. Oh, there's nobody in here. Konnichiwa (hello).

00:03:22 John Daub: So, is that the store? This is 85, 100. That's the fastest. Yeah, 60. Ah, 95. Let's go for 85 km/h.

00:03:35 Staff: Okay.

00:03:59 John Daub: So, so I've just been, I'm leading. Yes, please. Yeah. Ganbatte (good luck). So, gold, blue? Am I the blue? There's no gold there. You don't have gold? You said you had gold, so I had gold. I knew it. You said you had gold. You don't have silver? I'm going to keep it. It's just 85. How many pitches? So 20 pitches. You told me last time, right? Wiggle the bat. Yeah, keep your eye on the ball, Dean.

00:04:52 Dean Newcomb: Got it.

00:04:53 John Daub: So, it starts as soon as I put them in? Yeah, 200 yen. It starts. Good luck.

00:05:06 John Daub: 0 for 2. This is hilarious. He's big, but he's not accurate. Don't blame the machine. Okay, we'll count that. That's four, yeah right. One. One hit. Foul ball. Alright, that's two. I think you're getting the hang of it. Yeah, now you're doing a little bit better. Probably about five? Yeah. I'll count these. I'm generous. I think we need to go faster though. Oh, that was beautiful. Yeah, that's a home run. Six, seven, eight. You're doing good, Dean. That was beautiful. That was really good. I love the sound of the ball on the bat. Yeah, it's 200 yen for 20 pitches. So each pitch is about 10 yen. That was a nice one. Wow. Power. Raw. Alright, done. 20 pitches.

00:07:27 John Daub: So how many was that? How many did you hit? Who was counting? I stopped counting after six. Maybe eight. Yeah, we have 15 according to Memovic. We're going by Memovic's counting. Memovic says 15. Let's Play says 14. So 14 and a half. One of them was debatable. Alright, here we go. Let's switch it up. Alright, good job.

00:07:57 John Daub: Post interview. How did you feel?

00:07:59 Dean Newcomb: I was like, I'm going to win. Bet after I hit the first one. Those first few felt really off. But I'm quite happy with that. I thought it was decent.

00:08:08 John Daub: Yeah. Now it's time to show you how it's done. Or not done. Batting for the Yankees.

00:08:16 Dean Newcomb: What?

00:08:17 John Daub: Why did you use the blue bat? UK blue? Okay, to keep it fair, we'll go for the same. Do you want me to ride up behind you? As long as you can see. Is the money going there? 200 yen such a bargain huh?

00:08:37 Dean Newcomb: It is.

00:08:40 John Daub: I guess he's one for one. Oh he's done this before. You've been practicing. John has skills. We need a clean one. Okay. I was swinging it like a cricket bat. I think you're on 7. I think they're counting for us. This is where he starts to get tired. He can make mistakes now. That's a foul ball. No count. A complete miss. It's a strike. Oh there you go. I hear a 9 and that might be 10. You got 4 to win it. Oh no. 11. Oh that's not. 12. That's a nice one. Yeah. Memovic is playing. He's been counting for us. Memovic reckons you're on 13. They're impressed. There's your champion right there. Dean won that. I don't know. I think it was really close. Maybe we should try something faster. I don't know. I think maybe that was too easy. That was too slow. I was waiting.

00:11:47 John Daub: By the way check this out. It's really retro. Look at this. This is pretty cool. This is a really cool place isn't it? It's nice and breezy as well up here. Do you remember the first time we played here? We met and it was right in the middle of summer. Oh yeah it was July. Oh my gosh. I mean it's hot and sweaty just like walking 5 minutes to the station or something. We come in here and we did the batting. And I remember we were like completely soaked. You can see it in the thumbnail actually. Today we got a nice cool day with a beautiful breeze. Which could have been altering the pitches meaning that that could be a reason why. That's why huh? We would have been hitting like 19s and 20s right? We're a lot better than how we look.

00:12:31 John Daub: This one is a little bit faster Dean. I don't know if you can handle 100. 85, 95, 100. That's where the big boys went. We did 85 km per hour. Which is like I don't know 55 miles an hour fastballs. Which are pretty much slowballs. But this one is closer to authentic.

00:12:52 Dean Newcomb: I'm up for it. You want to give it a go?

00:12:55 John Daub: It's starting to get a little crowded. But if you think you can do it. Memovic is already declaring you the champion. And he's putting his money where his mouth is. He's backing you buddy. So this place once again the history of this batting cage is it goes back 60 years. Just to give you a little bit of insight. It's a bargain. Just 200 yen for 20 pitches. To me this is like a date spot actually. This is a place where you can make a fool out of yourself.

00:13:28 Dean Newcomb: That's why you took me.

00:13:31 John Daub: But in general if you did come with a date in the early evening it's a pretty cool place because you can make a fool out of yourself. And it's always good. I did get served. Uno dos as I got served. Via Brit. It's very embarrassing. But we're going for the fast pitch one. But for 200 yen it's a cheap date. And yeah Trecker has got that right. It's just a lot of fun. And you don't need a membership. Which is rare. In Japan you usually have to have membership cards for everything. This you can just come in put 200 yen coin in there and have 20 pitches. And you feel good afterwards. You feel good right? It's a good way to get rid of some stress. Smash the balls. Or completely miss and totally destroy your confidence. Either way it's a really fun thing.

00:14:22 John Daub: We've got a lefty here. Yeah this two are pretty good. That's what we want to be like right? This guy. He's nailing it. From this spot. And there's a couple of rules with this here. So from this spot if you look between the gates you can see the highway going by. This is from Yokohama. From Futako-Tamagawa going into the city of Tokyo. This is Sangenjaya. Route 246. I used to live down here. I used to live in Futako-Tamagawa. So I would come often here. But that was 12 or 13 years ago. So I've been living on the other side of Tokyo. So it's always nice to come to this area of the city. Oh man. I'm so stoked after hitting the balls here. It's like literally 200 yen. I know. It's a steal. In Japanese they're in dollars. Yeah about like two bucks. This place has been in operation for 60 years. I don't think it was $2 60 years ago. I think it was a little bit cheaper. It might be quite a lot of money back then. But it's been 200 yen for as long as I can remember. And I've been coming here for like 14 years. This place is so old school. You can see in the distance the balls going up the net there. It really is a lot of fun. And if you come to Japan I think baseball is one of those sports. You can watch it and go to the games. But you can also play it and go to places like this. Batting cages. There's one in Asakusa. There's one in Shinjuku. There's one near Gaienmae. Near the stadium there. You'll stumble across one right? Even in different cities you can only find a batting cage. And a golf range. And the balls come one every five seconds. So you're pretty much done in a minute and a half.

00:16:29 John Daub: So Dean.

00:16:32 John Daub: Alexander thank you very much. Dean. Hahaha. Some sportsman. Alright Dean. You got 200 yen? So from 85 to 100. It's amazing how that makes a difference. The 15 makes a huge difference. Can we have a pick of color from the viewers? Do you want gold, blue or silver? You guys can pick gold, blue or silver. Oh jeez. I'm not sure Dean. The blue was my lucky one last time. I think go for gold man. Gold? You go for gold. Linda says silver, Miguel says gold. Malvin says gold. Everyone's going gold man. Except for Vinay and uh. Wish me luck.

00:17:41 Dean Newcomb: Okay good luck man.

00:17:43 John Daub: I'm your competitor I'm wishing you luck. Sportsmanship. Keep your eye on the ball. Or don't. Quite embarrassing huh? Did you put the money in? I'm gonna put the money in one more time. You didn't win. I can't. I believe so. Alright they're coming in faster aren't they? You feel it? Oh that was good. Wow jeez. So I've got two good ones so far. I'll count that. That's three, four. Terry 100 yen is a dollar. More or less. Station's got three, I've got five. I'm counting every contact. Everything that goes forward I'm counting. Six. Yeah I'm counting everything going forward. Seven. That was a nice hit between the shortstop and third baseman. I'll count that seven. Sweeten badda badda. Eight. That was a lovely one. That's a homer. That's a Shohei Ohtani hit. Nine. Dean you're making me. I'm just gonna take defeat. This is an all star performance. Eleven. It closes at around 7pm. I'll tell you why. Twelve. You're starting to hit your peak now. Thirteen. Go Dean. Fourteen. Fifteen. I counted seven twice. Fifteen. Someone said I counted seven twice. Sixteen. I'll count it. It went forward. I'm telling you really. I know you really rocked it. How do you feel?

00:20:50 Dean Newcomb: Actually in some ways like just having that first go to get your aim. The second time they come in at you a bit faster. I don't even know if that's a disadvantage or not. Like you said you were waiting for me a bit last time. See how you go.

00:21:04 John Daub: Alright my turn. Come on out here. I won't lie you get sweaty. I don't know if I'm gonna be able to defeat you. I'll put it like this. I don't know if I'm gonna be able to defeat you. So bets are on. Oh thank you. I think it was your gold bat. Ah yeah whoever came up with the golden bat idea. That was a good one. Ah John used blue. I'm not using blue because that was my loser bat. We got a request. Blue bat. Two people. Use the blue. Three people. Four people. Everyone's going blue. Five people. Pick up the blue bat. Alright he's run off with the gold. I can't control him. Do you think he's gonna beat me?

00:21:57 Dean Newcomb: Yeah.

00:22:00 John Daub: Ah there he is. Sorry. And he goes. Oh. Came right at us. He's dropped one already. There you go he's on it. Coming right at me again. If John uses the blue bat and gets at least ten hits you'll get ten dollars. Switch the bat. It's pretty dangerous to switch in the middle. Alright guys he's done it. And I think you're on like three or four. Two? Someone's counting for me. Oh this is so much different. It's different huh? Three? He's got his blue bat now. He's unbeatable. Four. Blue bat. Blue bat. Okay so people are saying four here. And of course the batman pun is coming out. Ah there you go. Do you get that? Ah. That felt good. Okay there you go. So we got some people saying four, some seven. Somebody six point five. Generously we're at eight. Strictly we're at five. Okay we. If I just choke up on it that's all I needed to do. There you go. That's got some power in it. You've really got like you've split the masses about how many you've hit. So what's the vote? So we've got like. Come on everybody tell me how many you got. We've got twelve. Some people saying as low as eight. Twelve point seven five. Thirteen. Eleven. Ten. Eleven. Eight. And Alexander said you only got eight on the blue bat. So he's not going to be giving you any money. Which is really harsh. Okay so some. Maybe the average is about twelve. Which means I think I got you.

00:25:09 Dean Newcomb: Yeah you beat me again.

00:25:10 John Daub: Alright buddy. What do you have to say for yourself?

00:25:15 Dean Newcomb: I let you win. I didn't. You're the champion once again. You beat me last time I believe. Either beginner's luck or or there's something to the cricket swing that I'm just not able to put in. I don't know what it was but I think you have really good hand eye coordination. And this could be from your show. Runaway Japan. The Soul of Japan.

00:25:41 John Daub: So you traveled this entire map. Oh I got this t-shirt too. You gave me one of these last time. Starting in Tokyo. Through Aichi down into this amazing peninsula here with Wakayama. And then across the country through the big cities. Osaka and Kyoto. And then very few people come out here. Yeah to Tottori and Shimane. Least populated prefecture in Japan right? Very good. You travel this by biking and kayaking and running. Yeah. Look at that last bit. That's the sea. They're just looking at your nipples now. Yeah. This bit here. That's right in the ocean man. 45 kilometers by kayak. Wow. How long did that take?

00:26:25 Dean Newcomb: Nine hours.

00:26:27 John Daub: A couple of power bars. No sharks?

00:26:30 Dean Newcomb: No sharks.

00:26:32 John Daub: Alright well thank you so much for. Did you want to do another one? Cause I know I might get the blisters if I. I should spell them ahead right? Yeah okay. I get nothing to prove. I'm okay. Alright so this is the batting cages. I'm going to give you a quick pan around. It's been here for over 60 years. It's a historical place. I love to come here because I love to support local businesses. And I want to make sure that this place is around for another generation. The problem is that we don't come here that often Dean. The last time I was here was with you. Which was over a year ago. Yeah in the summer. But one of the reasons and this is the last thing I want to end on before we leave. This place is only open until 7pm. Do you know why?

00:27:14 Dean Newcomb: I can have a guess. Can I have a guess at that? Well when I was batting just now I couldn't help but notice that like literally someone's living room is right over there. So I'm just thinking it just makes so much noise. And also I'm screaming like a girl when I'm hitting them.

00:27:27 John Daub: That's part of it Dean. Screaming like a girl. Other batters screaming like a girl. But it closes at 7pm because it is in a residential neighborhood. And it's open like this so to keep the sound down people. They close it up. And anyways it's a good time for the owner to go home and have some lunch as well. Alright so. Let's get out of here. Have a coffee or something. Thank you Liza. Thanks Eric as well. He doesn't have that. Comments. No. They do have some baseball stuff here. He didn't say anything. Do you want me to grab this for you? Thank you very much. See this place is really. It's so unique. It's really retro. And to look back at old baseball. I feel like I'm inside of history when I come here. Which is why. I've been coming here for 14 years. Since I lived in Futako-Tamagawa. But I haven't been here since the last time we were here. So I live on the other side of the city now. But I think if you're in Shibuya. Or if you're in the Shibuya area. You can come and. It's like two stations away. Yeah. There's actually a video game. Dean that recreated that batting cage. And you can bat simulation inside of there. Is that right? Yeah because this is one of the oldest batting cages in Japan. That's still in operation. And it's based on this one? The game I believe it has. This is one of the batting cages that you can practice in. With the residential neighborhood in the background. Super awesome. So. Dean and I. Will probably be doing some projects together. In the next year. I'm a really big supporter of what he does. This show is called Runaway Japan. Runaway the Soul of Japan. Is the correct title. You gonna hit some of these cabbages? With the gin egg? No. So Runaway the Soul of Japan. The thing is it's not on YouTube. It's a show that is made for broadcast TV. Yet. He's big time. So we're looking for big things from you Dean.

00:29:50 Dean Newcomb: What I'm definitely gonna do is once we get it broadcast. I will chop it down into some smaller segments. And we will put it on YouTube somewhere. You will be definitely my mentor on doing that. Anybody knows how to do that? It's you.

00:30:06 John Daub: Look how humble he is. I don't know anything. Before we end this. I thought maybe we would do just a couple of minutes. I want to show people the back streets of Sangenjaya. Do you guys want to see the back streets of Sangenjaya? It's pretty cool. It is pretty cool. I'm gonna be back here to do another episode. I'm not gonna tell you exactly what the theme is. Because other YouTubers sort of take my thunder away. If I tell you in advance. It is a competitive sport, YouTubing. I can't tell you all of the knowledge in here stored. For many many years living in Japan. A lot of it is really warped. Just demented knowledge. But it's very useful to people that are coming to visit. Definitely. I didn't count. Alexander reached out. Didn't count 10 hits. But grab a drink. Thanks Alexander. I appreciate it. It is. Thanks man. We appreciate that. Just walk with us for a couple of minutes. We're gonna take you through Sangenjaya. This is a really retro town. It's got a lot of personality. It's one of the places that I like to walk through. Let's go through here. This is one of the back alleys. You can see there's absolutely nobody here. Because it really comes to life after 5pm. Dean's gonna chug up ahead. One of the interesting things in Japan is that they tend to knock down and rebuild so fast. They knock it down and they build really fast.

00:31:26 Dean Newcomb: It's gone. In England, we're talking 200 years and it's still standing.

00:31:30 John Daub: But in Japan, things don't last. I don't know if you can hear because of the mic. I don't know if YouTube has fixed the mic on the other side. But what Dean is saying is that in Japan, things kind of get knocked down and renewed real fast. That's the history. Things were made out of wood. So temples would be 100 years would be knocked down and rebuilt. Right now, Kiyomizudera (famous temple in Kyoto) is undergoing renovations. Every 50 years, Kiyomizudera, which is the big temple in Kyoto. Yeah, they're redoing. So they do that every 50 years. But this area still retains the Showa charm. The Showa era was from like 30 to 50 years ago. A lot of these are hostess clubs. They're little snack bars. Today you are. You're the batting champion, my friend. You've totally you are totally the VIP. Very intense personality. I like the stickers here. Number one. Number one. Number one. Grandma says number one. That's so funny. Hey Jim. Do you have a vote? Straight or left? You don't have to vote. Let's go straight and then a left. Then we'll wrap around. That's something you don't see a lot of. There's a lot of graffiti in Japan as well. But these streets, there's a lot of young people in this area. They like to sticker up. But it's totally safe in here. I've never had any problems. It has all types. There's no face. So, yeah. Really young vibe. Despite... Oh yeah, it's pretty cool, huh? Yeah, we're totally lost. Are you in somebody's property? I don't know where we are. I love the thing where they have that thing. They're called the land borders. This is all that's left. If you look at my big feet, I can't even get two in a row. That's really narrow. This is Sangenjaya Nichome. I don't know. We're kind of lost. Oh no! I think we went too far. Check out this shack. He just disappeared down the hole. Check out the shack. This is also some chill cafes. What you got here? I've actually been to one of these cafes up here. This is quite nice as well. I wanted to go past the alleys. The lead to 246. This is a pretty sweet cafe as well. This is a cafe. It's not open right now. This one is serving tako (octopus), tamago (egg), and momoyaki (grilled chicken?), which is chicken, I believe. Interesting. Let's find Dean. We got used sake bottles on the ground here. There he is. Right, Azan. We're going to extend this livestream just a little bit to give you...since we're here, we might as well give you a little bit of an inside look of Sangenjaya so you get a feel of the vibe of this area. It's really unique, I think. I did a Tokyo Eye episode here about seven years ago, and that's how I know this neighborhood even more in depth because we walked into a lot of the shops and got to try the food and meet the owners. There's some mamasans, some old ladies who run snack bars that have a lot of personality. One of the red roses is a little bit of a I did my fortune and told me that I was doomed. But... In some ways, yes. We have back here, it's just so much personality because these buildings are all from the Showa era and older, maybe. Maybe we're going back to Taisho? I don't know. Oh, yeah. Here we are. All the nightlife. I recognize where we are now. These vending machines are new. yeah I'm gonna get you Dean I'm getting you a drink even though you have a bottle of water that's your sponsor let's do a plug Miraizu yeah but because because you're the champion I shall buy you a drink what's it gonna be Red Bull cuz you need more energy you're like a ball of energy without the Red Bull but you want in on that yeah I know how to okay let's give it a try I think yeah why not let's try it's like only in Japan kind of yeah it's pretty neat to see a vending machine on the corner here support our local vending machines any nice oh man they gave me all 10 yen coins that evil ah they could have gave me a 50 yen coin I'm going I'm going minute maid grip pink grapefruit and then it made pink grapefruit oh yeah that's a good idea not so good all right I think we're I think that I was more evil than the machine perhaps all right here we go oh it's nice and cold cheers buddy there's your champion oh it's it's carbonated oh whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa one-handed yeah I thought it was a sports drink it's nice yeah I'm digging this now normally we would drink it all and put it in the vending machines but we're not gonna do that oh look at the sticker aliens we're here do-do-do-do-do-do okay let's take a look to the right here yeah yeah this is 246 up up above you can see the highway if we can get the yeah there's the exposure the evening this place is completely filled with people eating that's cheap man that's cheap 290 yen for drinks the Brazilian is a kushiyaki bunch oh yeah salute my friends oh yeah this yakiniku place you see the yellow sign right above you I've been in there this is really good and in here too on the left they put the menu above there they have karubi (short rib), ros yakiniku (roast yakiniku), boddy they bar yeah this sign has seen better days but just just look at the texture on it the the lights these aren't LEDs I can tell you that right now these are like old-school old-school lights right I like it all this stuff just this burned on there from years and decades of use I love that things sometimes can seem too new and too sanitized this is a place that I mean this is where the pigeons like to come you see the hood burns up there you see the hood burns up there pigeons like to leave their mark on oh this looks pretty good too you often find some really good Thai restaurants in oh man Thai food is so good huh like hidden away like this yama in san I bet you have people from Thailand right following you yeah we have some Thai years high food good time time pack food is very good yes I like the animated the beer menu very nice it's mostly Asia oh my god they got lunch specials here you got lunch specials here and they mix it up with Indian food you can see that's the Indian flag be proud of my Indian heritage they have a green curry and Tom Yum curry that's pretty reasonable it's about eight dollars for the set so little bit back but it's not they are open actually this one is open yeah took it down mama hear more about this area of a wall is this one has its own little It just won't work out. manga series talking about the staff talking and drinking that's an office lady drinking that's pretty neat to see that the shop made their own little this is our daughter's home. Oh yes, you're very nice and we have some some small shops here as well all these places have a history you know they have a history of going back at least 30 years old but you know a lot of people are saying that but I'm just high and easywi I haven't not seen thinking about this dog face. during the bubble era. Dean you know what this means right? This is one of those sake balls and when that turns turns no it's not a hat dude! You have a little afferent going. This is a for the sake and when the color turns from green to brown that means that the sake is done. You know what? I didn't know that. Never heard that.

00:42:05 Dean Newcomb: Are you serious? Wow. We learn something every day right? Just as we said. That's that's true we learn something new about Japan every day. I just learned that this is where you can see the girl bar every day you learn something new. Five. Five. Five girl bar system. Yeah. Every day. Here's a beer truck so you know the entertainment's coming here tonight. It is Friday after all. TGI Friday.

00:42:35 John Daub: Yeah I think that's about it. There are there are lots of different outlets. This is the main center of Sangenjaya and you can see it's it's sort of overshadowed by the expressway above it. And that's that's highway 246 that connects into that goes into Shibuya. That's the overpass and yeah you know in a way that just takes away from Sangenjaya but this is also part of Sangenjaya's identity. Sangenjaya the name Sangenjaya means three tea houses and if you go back to the history we're talking like a hundred and twenty over a hundred and twenty years ago right here at this intersection on each side of the intersection there was a tea house and everybody who came into the city of Edo they would check in here and have to stay at one of these tea houses. They were the last inns before getting into Edo. This was like a roadhouse or a place people were places where they say well the name Sangenjaya stuck but those tea houses they no longer exist but the history of it is quite interesting to me and we have if you look down this alley there's even more bars so let's get a quick walk through and then you came here by scooter?

00:43:39 Dean Newcomb: I did yeah. Yeah so I got a cruise and go back and I think you have some some work to do. It is afternoon on a Friday. Yeah we shouldn't be going back to work. When you have your own content to produce. Yes. Oh look at these snacks too. These look really good.

00:44:08 John Daub: Yeah I mean I know you guys can't smell what we smell but what we smell smells good. I said that like a poet. Yeah just just to put a ribbon on this here and this is what you can kind of expect if you go in the back streets of Sangenjaya. This is new I don't remember seeing this curry bar but you could definitely smell the curry. Did this replace the yakitori place? I don't think so. Maybe that's that's the one over here. Oh that's this that's not this place. I think that's this one here. I don't know the place that I normally go to I haven't I haven't seen it. It could be that one. So what you're saying like things change all the time that is so true because I can't find the place that I was going to highlight. Gyoza (dumplings) and wine. Dude now they're talking honestly. That's your language? I'm I'm speaking this language. Gyoza which are dumplings and some wine man. That's not a bad and they're just they're just new. Yeah. Wow. Let's see. Gotta open wow. Gyoza shack. Very, very incredible. The place, oh wow. For all you Australians out there. Nosh, it's not open until 5pm. It's a different feel, right? If you walk down here in the daytime, it's almost like a ghost town. Yeah. If you come down here in the evening, it's just so blistering, right? It's so different because people are just getting off of work. It's pretty hard to get a seat in most of these kind of places. I'm just going to look really closely here while I get rid of my drink. Oh, here it is. How do you even get back there? Are you done? No, I'm not. I'm not going to carry it. Oh, yeah, you know what? This used to be, is this it here? I think they're gone. The place that I used to go to all the time, I think they sold. It used to be right here where the Brazilian bar was. I'm pretty sure. Oh, it was here. Oh, okay, okay. All right, never mind. Never mind, it's still here. It was nostalgic, huh? Is this it? Yeah. I'll be back. I'll be back. It's still in business. I've been going there for years. I've been going there for years. Oh, man. Yeah, cool, cool adventure. I had fun. Thanks for sticking with us. Once again, this is Dean Newcomb. He's going to be on the show, and we're going to be working together again. So remember this guy. When you see him again, you'll say you saw him here first here. Today was fun.

00:47:05 Dean Newcomb: Yeah, because you won.

00:47:07 John Daub: Because you won. If I had been on my game, if I had learned the system that I was supposed to be on, I would have won. If I choked up on that blue bat, I would be able to knock out some real strong straight line drives. What's the next comp, huh? Next challenge. I don't know. We need votes on the next challenge. I don't know. You know what I was thinking of doing? This sounds really crazy, but I was thinking of just waking up one day and just walking from the Pacific to the Sea of Japan.

00:47:34 Dean Newcomb: Done it. You're done. He's already done it. Done it. I went from Choshi in Chiba to Joetsu in Niigata. Jeez. It takes one week. It took you one week. Walking like 45 to 60 kilometers per day.

00:47:48 John Daub: Okay. Well, that would take me two weeks then. Yeah. This man. That's my thing. That's what I do, right? I look for adventures, things that nobody's ever done before, and I try and do them. Yeah. I guess I would have to start from like this somewhere else then because if he's already done it, I don't want to do the same thing. But that's pretty cool. I mean, Dean. I didn't document it well, so next time let's do it together. Check it out. One of the, Jim found. Is this it? Runaway of Japan. Yeah, that's it. Yeah, that's it. All right. Jim just posted in the chat. This is where the link to your YouTube channel is so you can see some of the content. Thank you so much. So I'm actually pretty bad with YouTube so far. We're going to work on that. We're going to work on that. Yeah. You guys are going to help me out, I think. Yeah. Yeah. This guy, he's been chiseled out of a piece of stone, but I just happened to be made out of titanium alloy. It could be slightly stronger, although not organic. Although, I mean, rock doesn't exactly fade away either. Yeah. Yeah. But rock can be destroyed. Try melting down some titanium alloy. Yeah. That's true. By paper. I forgot that paper could take him down too. Watch out for the paper. So thanks everybody for watching this live stream. We're going to take you to the station entrance and I'm going to make my way back home. We're going to say goodbye to Dean. I'm losing my voice. I don't know why. I think I was screaming like a girl when I was playing baseball. Could be. But great day. Great day today. See you everybody.

00:49:13 Dean Newcomb: See you guys. Bye.

00:49:17 John Daub: And see you Sangenjaya. Three tea houses.

00:49:22 Dean Newcomb: Three tea houses. Did you know the history?

00:49:24 John Daub: I didn't. Really? You already know your stuff.

00:49:27 Dean Newcomb: I know something.

00:49:29 John Daub: Bye.

00:49:30 Dean Newcomb: Bye.