00:00:03 John Daub: We've arrived. That over there is Chichijima. This is the landing. And you can see there's a lot of people waiting for us. And it's pretty cool. Hey there, Max. Hey, everybody. Thanks for joining me.

00:00:24 John Daub: So we've arrived on the island. I don't know how the signal is, but you can see there's a lot of people over there at the landing waiting for us to arrive. We've been at sea for 24 hours. It's been a pretty incredible trip. You can see the blue water over here. It's absolutely stunning. Look at that. It's like I've left the city of Tokyo and taken a boat to the tropics, to paradise or something like this. And I'm almost speechless. Just the color of blue and the water is stunning. It's so pristine.

00:00:54 John Daub: We had birds following us the last two hours. I apologize if the signal's not good. I don't know what kind of mobile signal we'll have. We are mobile live streaming right now on a smartphone. You can see over there, here's some of the islands. I'm going to go really quickly to the top. It's been a pretty long trip. Howdy. Thanks for joining me. This is live streaming. So, oh, here we go. Now we're topside. You get a really good view. Sorry about the wind. I'm going to take you down in a minute, but you get a really good view of the area. Let's go to the other side.

00:01:55 John Daub: Yeah, genki desu yo (I'm doing great). I'm doing pretty good. I slept like a baby, literally. The boat was pitching left and right like I was in a cradle with my mother pushing me left and right to soothe me to sleep. It was really comfortable. There you go. You got some guys getting ready for the landing. The weather is perfect. It doesn't seem too humid. The weather is really good. It's sunny. We got like these tropical looking clouds up there, you see. It's like I went to sleep and I woke up and I was in a different area of the world, literally.

00:02:36 John Daub: And this is Tokyo. That's what makes this so bizarre. I could tell just by looking at the city that it's the town. It's not such a big town, but it's a lot bigger than Aogashima. Oh, look at how beautiful the water is when it's stirred up. It's got like that blue. It's really beautiful. So we're 1,000 kilometers away from Tokyo, which is like 600 and something miles, I think. I'm really not sure of the mileage, but it's famous for being 1K away.

00:03:25 John Daub: It's starting to get hot now because we've been moving so fast along the sea. It seemed like we were flying. The wind was so strong. Now it's settled down and whoa, we got some tropical trees here. They're going to unload all this. All this cargo. I'm going to have to go in. They're unloading some of this cargo now and I'm going to have to go in and get my bags. You can see they're doing a pretty good job running to dock the ship after a really long voyage. Look at them running to do that. Teamwork, guys.

00:04:13 John Daub: Yeah, in English they call it the Bonin Islands and those are explorers that named it that, I believe. In Japan, we never use Bonin Islands. It's just Ogasawara (Ogasawara Islands). It's famous as Ogasawara here in Japan and it's part of Japan. But the history of Ogasawara, Chichijima and Hahajima and the whole family of islands here is very much international and that's one of the reasons why I wanted to come out here. It's a very international island and you can see it in the people and in the culture. It's Japan, but it's still slightly different. It's Tokyo, but it's still slightly different and so much so that I really do think this place is going to be really unique and I'm looking forward to sharing this with you on the main channel. That's why I'm here to make episodes, not just live stream.

00:05:09 John Daub: But since we're here, why not do a quick live stream just to share with you the experience of landing. Now, I'm going to have to go get my stuff. It's all the way down at the bottom in the second class economy berth. But you can already see the people for accommodations. And everybody welcoming me. And everybody else on the boat, not just me. We all want to feel special, but you know, everybody's special, right? Very cool. So, it's going to be a minute before we actually dock. But you can already see they're waiting for us. This is so cool. They have a welcome committee. Check that out. It's like I've arrived in the tropics on Hawaii or something. Look at all those people down there.

00:06:03 John Daub: Alright guys, that's all I wanted to show you. I just wanted to share with you a little bit of this experience. I'm going to try to film this now for the main channel. So, I'll see you guys later. It looks like we can do a live stream. They're now setting it up where I can get out of here. I did make it. We're alive. And it's just absolutely beautiful here. Ogasawara. We're here. Alright guys, I'll see you on the other side.