Osaka's Judo Grand Slam: Behind the Scenes

00:00:01 John Daub: Hey, everybody. Welcome to Osaka. This is a live stream from the Judo Grand Slam that's taking place here. I'm new to judo in a sense. Like, I don't know a lot about it. So we're gonna be talking with some people who are world champions in judo, which is gonna be pretty cool. And, you know, judo was born here in Japan. The roots are here. I believe it was a Buddhist monk in Shimane Prefecture who came up with the idea not too long ago. It's a pretty modern sport. This is the arena, but we've got press passes, and we're going to be going downstairs onto the floor, and we're going to meet our special guests. So let's go do that right now. We're going down into the arena, and I put a link into the description as well as a link to the... There's a link to the live stream, which is what's happening down in the arena. So you can see the matches going on. So do definitely check that out. I'm also not sure about the signal. Hopefully it'll be okay in the middle of the arena. All right, let's go inside. This is gonna be pretty cool.

00:01:40 John Daub: So now we are where all of the athletes come down. Some of the people will come here for warming up. So let's see if we can find here. We're gonna be meeting this guy. Okay, check it out. We're gonna be meeting Neil Adams. Neil is a judoka, all right, and he's got his own Wikipedia. You can check this out. It's pretty cool. If you have any questions for Neil, prep because he's in there with somebody that we know. All right, you ready? You ready for this? And this man needs no introduction. This man needs no introduction at all. Kevin Riley in the house. How are you, sir?

00:02:17 Kevin Riley: Very good, very good.

00:02:18 John Daub: And you, you are a judoka? No, you're not? No, but Neil is. Neil is a judoka. They bring you around here?

00:02:21 Neil Adams: Yes.

00:02:22 John Daub: Former world champion from United Kingdom.

00:02:24 Neil Adams: United Kingdom.

00:02:25 John Daub: United Kingdom. British judo in Moscow. The first time I was Olympic silver medalist two times in Moscow and Los Angeles, and world champion one time in Masterik in Holland.

00:02:40 Kevin Riley: Wow.

00:02:40 John Daub: So what interested you in judo? How did you get started?

00:02:43 Neil Adams: Well, I started originally from my father, so he started me doing judo. I mean, it was obviously at local level at the beginning, and then kind of progressed and... And then it was... Everything that I ever dreamed about was to be world champion, so. And of course, as you can see here, because we're in Japan here, the Mecca, and so this was the first place, you know, I wanted to come here, train with the very best, to beat the best, you know, which is what I had to do.

00:03:11 John Daub: Yeah, come, come on over here. We have that behind us. You can see the matches are going on. We're actually on the floor here. Yeah, and and you did that many times. I was looking at your Wikipedia. So you guys go on to wiki and you can check out Neil Adams right there. Have you seen this before?

00:03:28 Neil Adams: Yes. Just put Neil Adams and judo, it will all come up. But I mean the advantage here that they have — they have a tournament here, this is any Grand Slam, Grand Prix tournament that they have here — is that they can put four in every weight category. We have 14 weight categories, seven men, seven ladies categories. And their big advantage is that they have so much depth still. I mean, they still have the depth. I mean they probably only one representative at the Olympic Games. They can have two representatives in two categories at the world championships, but they can't put everybody in here. They can put everybody in. So it means the top four in every weight category here and the rest of the world when we come here to fight them. But so it a very tournament sometimes.

00:04:20 John Daub: Wow.

00:04:21 Neil Adams: Yeah. No, it is.

00:04:21 John Daub: And fight, fight. They are doing the con. The competition is fierce.

00:04:25 Neil Adams: Oh, I mean it is fierce. And like I know to come here and to beat them here is always a very, very difficult thing. And of course the other thing is from a technical point of view, they have such incredible technique. And so a lot of the things that they do are aimed towards throwing people for a massive, big, huge throws for Ippon, which is our equivalent to a knockout in boxing. And that means that, you know, people come to see their exposure, expertise in and, and their beautiful technique and nothing beats technique. It's a little bit like watching Brazil playing soccer, you know, you know that it's going to be spectacular. And you know that it's going to be spectacular, you know, fantastic. And only to score goals. And sometimes, of course, Brazil come unstuck, don't they? You know, you get the technical team.

00:05:14 John Daub: The signal is not too good here in the arena. I apologize. Neil, input is really important to us because Kevin and I very handy. Yeah. I've got it traveling around. His channel is Kuma's Kitchen. But for me, this is something that's very important for me to study. As someone who's been living here in Japan for 20 years, judo is part of Japan's identity. And with the Olympics coming in 2020, it's such an important sport for this country.

00:05:41 Neil Adams: Well, they had the first Olympic Games here, of course, in 1964. That's when judo was first put in. And we had a Dutchman who was the first, very first to ever beat the Japanese in Japan. Anton Giesen was his name. And so he kind of led the way for all of us outsiders. And of course, we all dream about beating the Japanese. And, you know, if you beat the Japanese and, you know, then you've beaten the very best in the sport. And so that's our name, of course.

00:06:12 John Daub: Well, what makes the Japanese so strong at judo?

00:06:15 Neil Adams: I think because, you know, they have such a history of it. Jigoro Kano, he started judo at the turn of the century. So what he did was he introduced judo into schools and made it safe. So jiu jitsu had certain moves that were... that could harm, you know, that could damage. And so he took those particular moves out, introduced it into the school system. And so many people doing judo, practicing judo. At one stage, it was 3 million people just practicing judo. And now there's probably around just less than a million, but still, that's way more than most other countries have, you know, practicing. And so they have depth, depth of people. So many practicing on a daily basis in universities, in colleges. And police. The police obviously have it part of their curriculum. So it's so much a part of their life.

00:07:12 John Daub: Yeah, because you're born, can and like, when you study abroad internationally and you study here in Japan. Principle different.

00:07:31 Neil Adams: No, the philosophy, you know, it's... it's not always... It's not always countries with a massive amount of people that come through, through. Of course, Japan is the... is, you know, they have a massive amount of people. So of course, if they have so many people actually pretz, then the very best and the cream come to the top. Then we have smaller countries, of course, like Mongolia, for example. Only 3 million people in Mongolia, but they have a fantastic judo team. So they have a concentrated amount of people that train very, very hard and come through, and they challenge Japanese in some of the weight categories. So, you know, it's not always... We have two different systems, you know, the big, large systems that create the cream, and then we have the select groups that train together, train very, very hard. And for me, for example, it was a bit of a mixture of the both. I had a small group that I trained with, and then I used to come here, train with their people to try and beat them, you know, so they kind of helped me in a way.

00:08:35 John Daub: I have a buddy who runs marathons. He goes to Kenya to train with the Kenyans.

00:08:41 Neil Adams: And you know, so you...

00:08:44 John Daub: It makes them better. Yes, it makes them better.

00:08:53 Neil Adams: Yeah, yeah, you can relate to that because. And again, you know, there's a bit of reluctance on their part because they, you know, they're helping you to train to be their people.

00:08:58 John Daub: They don't want to, they don't want to teach you anything, but... But then again, they'll learn new things from.

00:09:00 Neil Adams: Well, they do. And of course it's different styles. You know, you can see here the stand up style of the Japanese. Very, very technically correct. Beautiful, beautiful judo. And then you get others that derive from wrestling styles. So Mongolia, Georgia, for example, a lot of the Soviet Union when it, when it collapsed, all the different countries regaining their neutrality and, you know, they became independent and then they're different wrestling kind of came to the front. So you had a development of judo in different directions, which was very interesting.

00:09:38 John Daub: Yeah, I do apologize if the quality of this, the video is not good. We're inside of the arena where there's not really good 4G signal. So if you're watching this, it might be Minecraft on you. That's okay. You can see Kevin's beard. That's pretty clear. That's pretty clear enough.

00:09:54 Kevin Riley: Count the hairs.

00:09:55 John Daub: Yeah, that is. So right now you're a commentator for the sport?

00:09:59 Neil Adams: Well, I, yeah, for 30, 34 years I've been commentator and so I do all of the main films and the main Olympics and World Championships and things like that and some of the Grand Prix Grand Slams and I've done it for many, many years. But I'm also now a supervisor for the refereeing commission, which basically means that to get the refereeing, the rules going in the same direction, everybody thinking in the same direction for positivity as opposed to negativity, because it's, I mean, a little bit like football, for example. You have the rules, but they can be dictated in or they can be going two different ways. They can be negative or they can be positive towards goal or just defending, you know. So you can have Belgium that defend the goal all the time, or you can have Brazil that really go for it all the time. So two different things. So we try and get it to go in a positive manner.

00:10:54 John Daub: Yeah, I kind of... We're gonna be walking around the arena a little bit and go over to the warm up area, which is gonna be pretty cool. We'll try not to disturb the athletes, but I can't make any promises. Well, I actually did to the organizers, I said, I won't do anything bad. But I do have one last question for you. If there's kids that are out there, because a lot of the viewers are coming from the United States, we have a very international audience, the kids out there. Judo might not be one of the sports that they're really on the radar. Why should it be?

00:11:22 Neil Adams: I think because of, like I say, when Jigoro Kano started, he had a philosophy that it wasn't just a sport. It's not just for the physical side of the sport, but it was a way of life. So if you imagine that we have 90% of everybody that practices judo practices it for different reasons. This is only 10%, the people that do it for a high level and to be world champion. But we have people from 6 years of age all the way up to 60 to 90 years of age that practice judo for different reasons. And it might be for a sport reason, for a physical, to keep physical conditioning, or just the fact that it is a sport that encases skill, speed, strength, you know, all of the different aspects. And of course, that it's very correct. You know, we... The ethics of judo are very correct. If you notice that when they come out for some and, you know, and there's no nonsense, nobody answers the referees back. Nobody... You know, and this follows in every dojo or every judo hall all over the world. So great for youngsters that come in. We get a lot of the troubled kids come in that have problems at school.

00:12:41 John Daub: Okay, sorry. And you pointed to him.

00:12:45 Neil Adams: But when they come into a dojo, they know how to act and they know how, you know, the way to be, which is very important.

00:12:56 John Daub: Yeah. I like judo because, as you said, it's not just about a sport. This is something I always wanted to get into, but never had the time when I started working. I think it's good to get into when you're younger, of course, but you're never too old to start, right?

00:13:09 Neil Adams: Never too old to start. Like I say that we have a veterans program as well. Some of the oldest Japanese people, you'll be fine.

00:13:18 John Daub: No problem.

00:13:19 Neil Adams: And some of the oldest Japanese people, some of the guys are in their 80s still on them.

00:13:24 John Daub: Wow.

00:13:25 Neil Adams: Yes. It's amazing.

00:13:26 John Daub: It keeps... The people's physiques are really good. Everyone's in pretty good shape around here.

00:13:30 Neil Adams: Yeah, no, no, absolutely. I mean, a lot of the judo guys will have really good physical conditions.

00:13:36 John Daub: Yeah, yeah.

00:13:38 Neil Adams: You have to be.

00:13:38 John Daub: Yeah, yeah. Good body, good mind. I can see.

00:13:40 Neil Adams: Good body, good mind. And I think that that's... Well, that's the key to life, isn't it?

00:13:45 John Daub: Right. Yeah. There's a lot of keys to life and learning the philosophy of the sport.

00:13:49 Neil Adams: Well, that's what he called it. He calls it an education for life. Good way to describe it.

00:13:56 John Daub: Yes, indeed. Neil Adams, thank you very much.

00:13:58 Neil Adams: It's my absolute pleasure. And please enjoy it. You know, the atmosphere in here is amazing and, you know, key to success is healthy. Healthy body, health, healthy money, healthy mind.

00:14:12 John Daub: Thank you very much, sir. Great for the insight. Main craft quality. I don't... I think... I think we're seeing, like, too good. We might... We might have to go outside to go back in. I thought that was Neil again over there. You get around fast. So, guys. But I just wanted to show you a little bit. These are the fans. A lot of them are university students for the Japanese side, and they come here to cheer. And if you go to any Japanese professional sports, they really do an incredible job of, like, group cheering.

00:14:50 Kevin Riley: Yeah.

00:14:51 John Daub: And you can see a... Hey, guys. So the signal is not very good. We're gonna kind of go outside here. Sorry. Check it out. All right. So as we say, like, the signals are good. So I guess we could talk out here a little bit. Kevin, maybe the signals a little bit less Minecraft. But what do you think of everything Neil was saying? It was pretty fascinating and I wanted to get that interview first because Neil is a pretty busy guy. I mean, like Olympic medalist and world champion.

00:15:23 Kevin Riley: He's been doing this for 34 years.

00:15:25 John Daub: It's so cool. It's so cool.

00:15:28 Kevin Riley: You can tell he's a commentator, the way he was talking.

00:15:30 John Daub: I know.

00:15:35 Kevin Riley: Why haven't we gotten into judo? I mean, it was one of the sports that I always wanted to try.

00:15:37 John Daub: You're too tall?

00:15:37 Kevin Riley: I'm too tall? Thrown easily. Really? Yeah. I think I noticed that the people out there really doing well, they're short and squat, like Yoshida. I was watching her do it when she was a little earlier here. I don't know what you call it. It's not called wrestling. Judoing.

00:15:50 John Daub: What do you say?

00:15:51 Kevin Riley: How do you say?

00:15:51 John Daub: Well, it's not... It's not just... I think it's not just to win or to throw people. For me, it's also, like, to get in shape.

00:15:59 Kevin Riley: Oh, yeah, yeah.

00:16:00 John Daub: Sort of like that.

00:16:01 Kevin Riley: Definitely like what he was saying about the whole, you know, being in shape, the mind and everything. Also the discipline. I mean, this is really big. This is like you're saying that, you know, there's so much discipline and this is something that's very Japanese, you know, the discipline in our sports and stuff like that. Everything we do.

00:16:17 John Daub: Yeah.

00:16:18 Kevin Riley: And I say we do because we start becoming like that too.

00:16:21 John Daub: Hey, Jason, thank you very much. That's... We have some beer money. That's very kind of you. That's very kind of you. Yeah, this is really cool. You know what? I get an invitation to come to this event and to live stream it, and I jumped on a shinkansen to do it because you don't get many opportunities like this. It's just kind of unique to get a look inside of the sport. And you can see as some of the competitors come in to sign in for warming up, they're going out there into battle. You can see they have rituals and it's very serious. I like that about it. They take it very, very serious. I would love to interview some of the people that are going to be going up in battle because what's going through their minds? Like, what's... I mean, you're going outside in front of a crowd of people and the crowd is like, there's a lot of people in there.

00:17:15 Kevin Riley: Oh, yeah. It's more than I expected, actually. I've never been in this arena, so it's like, really, for an Osaka guy, that's kind of rare. Yeah, well, that's kind of rare.

00:17:22 John Daub: I've seen it from the train.

00:17:25 Kevin Riley: That's something. That's something. All right, let's go up. Let's go upstairs.

00:17:26 John Daub: Okay. Please be quiet. Gotta be quiet.

00:17:31 Kevin Riley: Is there somebody interviewing right now?

00:17:33 John Daub: We are. We're interviewing.

00:17:35 Kevin Riley: Yeah. Okay.

00:17:36 John Daub: All right, let's see if we can go upstairs a little bit. All right, we're gonna go back upstairs and then we'll come back down to the warm up area. This is pretty cool. Yeah. You know what? When I was... I'm totally lost, Kevin. Oh, this way. So when I was invited to come here, I said yes right away because it was such a unique experience to get an inside look at what judo is like here in Japan. And the International Judo Federation. I might have gotten that wrong. They have, I believe, five Grand Slams and four Grand Prix events. So all of these give the best of the best a chance in a forum to compete against one another. And I don't know where we are. Is this like dressing room? Oh, I don't know. Can we go in here? I don't know. I'm not too sure.

00:18:34 Kevin Riley: All right, we have these passes. We can go anywhere.

00:18:36 John Daub: Yeah, we can go anywhere. What a shame. Thank you, Gretchen. It's nice to see Gretchen in Arizona doing well. I appreciate that, Kevin as well. The medical room. This is where, you know what, I would just probably just... Yeah. Get a pass and become a regular member of the medical room. You're having tossed here. We went through the, we went through the judo Grand Slam dressing room, but there was nobody getting dressed. It's kind of in the, in the middle of it all. The event starts at 11am and it goes on until tonight. And tonight they have main events. It's gonna be pretty cool. I was actually watching this. It started yesterday. I was watching this on Terebi Asahi, I think, or TV Tokyo. Some of the... The guy me, he took a picture and he goes. I'm like, oh, I can see on TV. That's pretty... That was pretty cool. All right, we're back here where we started. I'm hoping that the signal is a little bit better so Kevin and I can talk to you a little bit more.

00:19:49 Kevin Riley: We're gonna go back pretty good right now.

00:19:51 John Daub: Yeah, we're gonna go back. We're gonna go back down here. This is the north. North entrance. So let's remember this, this here. So they're already promoting 2019, which is pretty unique. It's unique because this is the one before the Tokyo Olympics. This is a very important one too. And you can see the faces of all of the competitors. It's no longer a Japan only sport. You said that being too tall was bad.

00:20:24 Kevin Riley: He's also bra. I'm just tall and skinny.

00:20:28 John Daub: I know her. She's... Yeah. Very, very famous here in Japan. So it's a very good mix. And age does not matter. Age does not matter. So it's pretty neat to see a lot of the... Oh, there's Sydney. You see some of the history. It's... It's a really new sport. I mean, the first time it was in the Olympics was in 1964 at Tokyo. Because, you know, the Olympics are in Tokyo. You're gonna have the judo here. So that was pretty cool. And it's evolved. I mean, grown, right? It's really grown.

00:21:19 Kevin Riley: It's so popular here. Like when we, when we see... You'll see in Japan. In Japan on Japanese TV. Like I'm watching Japanese too. Yeah. I mean I've got no choice but to watch judo, basically.

00:21:37 John Daub: But judo is huge in Japan. The competitors are like... I, I can't... I'm not supposed to show you too much of the arena, but the competitors are like... The Japanese competitors are like... Like, I don't know, celebrities. They're... They're basically celebrities here. That's what it looks like from here, guys. It's pretty cool. So there's four mats here that are going on at the same time. And I think we're in round two, around three right now.

00:21:51 Kevin Riley: I have no idea.

00:21:53 John Daub: Kevin doesn't know this.

00:21:57 Kevin Riley: People keep coming and going off the mats. Yeah. That's all I know.

00:22:08 John Daub: Yeah. Later on, Kevin and I are going to do a little bit of judo wrestling outside, right?

00:22:13 Kevin Riley: Finesse. This is something I don't know.

00:22:17 John Daub: So, wait, do they have a concession stand here? Do they have any... Any judo food?

00:22:21 Kevin Riley: Judo food?

00:22:22 John Daub: I don't know. What would that be?

00:22:23 Kevin Riley: Yeah, I mean, okay, I know. Sumo food, right? Chankonabe.

00:22:26 John Daub: A chankonabe. Yeah.

00:22:28 John Daub: Healthy foods.

00:22:30 John Daub: Yeah. So there's a possibility that we're gonna get a chance to talk with some other competitors. Here is the shop stop. Apparently, they eat...

00:22:43 John Daub: This is... This is my... This is my kind of food. Check it out. They got onigiri, drinks, snacks, the essentials. It's Kobe.

00:23:14 Kevin Riley: This is one of our fans.

00:23:15 John Daub: No, I think he's a... He's a judoka. He... He had a pretty strong grip on my arm.

00:23:23 Kevin Riley: I was saying, with those other guys, too, right? Like the British guy.

00:23:25 John Daub: Very cool. Yeah.

00:23:27 Kevin Riley: He's got a vice.

00:23:29 John Daub: Yeah. Neil Adams. His hands were like... Like, wow.

00:23:40 Kevin Riley: So this is what we need for...

00:23:42 John Daub: Yeah, the... Made in Japan. This is what... I guess I... I don't even know what these mean here. This big nine. So I guess it just depends on your rank.

00:24:08 Kevin Riley: Every event.

00:24:09 John Daub: How much is... Kevin? How much is it? How much is it?

00:24:15 Kevin Riley: 16,000.

00:24:17 John Daub: Oh, so this is for the sauna suit? Dude, it's discounted.

00:24:25 Kevin Riley: The sound of suit.

00:24:25 John Daub: The sound of suit. Maybe these are priceless. Or wait, it just depends. It depends on who you are. It's good material. This is strong cotton heavy material, isn't it? Yeah. You don't want to wear that in the summer.

00:24:41 Kevin Riley: Oh, no, no, thank you. I get hot enough in summer.

00:24:43 John Daub: Yeah. All right. This is the entrance here. This is pretty cool. This is really... All the action is that we came in here. The arena is right... Right in there. It's cool.

00:24:59 Kevin Riley: This place is all around, so you kind of stay loose. Where am I?

00:25:02 John Daub: All right, so we got circles. So here's the... The Grand Slam program books here. That's pretty cool. So the Grand Slam... This isn't the most important Grand Slam of them all. And what I was told was the Grand Slam. Yeah. Hey, Kassun writes in. Hey, John, I hope you are going to Sri Lanka on your way to India with Mrs. Hope. Hope you enjoyed. Dude, thank you. Yes, we are going to Sri Lanka. We'll be there for like, 18 hours. It's gonna be a lot of fun. We'll be there on... On the 10th of December.

00:25:53 Kevin Riley: What is judo? We're trying to figure that out too.

00:25:57 John Daub: Judo. Wow. Yeah. What is judo? Judo, yeah. Neil kind of explained that to us. But judo is a sport where... Wow. Okay. Okay.

00:26:17 Kevin Riley: I guess it has to be really...

00:26:18 John Daub: I don't know. I feel... I feel like if I buy that, I have to be in judo. Like, you can't just walk around town with that, can you? I don't know.

00:26:33 Kevin Riley: Yeah, yeah.

00:26:33 John Daub: Like, if I bought one of these, I can't just... It's like houseware. I don't know.

00:26:41 Kevin Riley: So in other words, if you buy a pot, you gotta cook, right?

00:26:45 John Daub: Yeah, pretty much. Pretty much. Although, look, they also have some T-shirts here. Let's check out some bling. Some Grand Slam bling. The Judo Japan. Ippon. There you go. Towels. What are they running around? 10, $12? We got some more T-shirts. It's pretty cool. Oh, there's some Grand Slam T-shirts. They usually have this event take place in Tokyo. This is the first time that they had it there. And... And the re... This is... This is very interesting to me. This is the first time that they're having this event in Osaka because of all of the construction for the 2020 Olympics and all of the... All the things that are going on there. They moved it here.

00:27:42 Kevin Riley: And you had some... You had some pretty important news about...

00:27:48 John Daub: Oh, yeah, just came through this morning. Is that we won the 2025 expo. Officer. It's going to be coming to Osaka. 2025 big expo here.

00:27:59 John Daub: He said we.

00:27:41 Kevin Riley: Yeah, yeah.

00:28:00 John Daub: He is... Like, who's... People, people. People. Google mayor. And then Kevin Riley, mayor of...

00:28:12 Kevin Riley: Oh, no, it'd be scary having her in mayor.

00:28:16 John Daub: So you can see here on the boards and as Neil was saying, for those of you who are joining us now, Neil Adams gave us a rundown of why the Japanese are just so good at judo. And you can see here, they don't get beat often. They don't get beat often. In fact, I guess pool a... He doesn't even have a competitor. Yeah. Champion. Yeah. Doesn't have a competitor. I figured right.

00:28:52 Kevin Riley: The first rush.

00:28:53 John Daub: This is Slovenia. Slovenia has... It has the champion there. So the Japanese haven't won every single...

00:29:07 Kevin Riley: See.

00:29:09 John Daub: Wow. Yeah, we're still in round two. Yeah.

00:29:16 Kevin Riley: So I haven't seen Japan beat yet on any...

00:29:27 John Daub: Yeah, I haven't either. It's pretty, it's pretty strong. But you know what? I don't, I don't think I, I heard that somebody told me that the French were really strong in judo.

00:29:43 Kevin Riley: Yeah.

00:29:45 John Daub: And I went online and I googled it and it's true. Especially with the women's sports. The French are doing really good. And I just always... I think judo's not on a lot of Western kids radar as sports.

00:29:47 Kevin Riley: Oh, no, no, no.

00:29:48 John Daub: And that's, that's kind of a shame. Can you do judo in other sports? I don't know. Like, like if you're a baseball player, you're playing soccer, can you do judo and then something else, I wonder because...

00:29:58 Kevin Riley: I mean, you know, there's a lot of people who do a couple sports, right?

00:30:00 John Daub: Yeah.

00:30:01 Kevin Riley: But I've never heard of judo being one of them when they...

00:30:04 John Daub: Yeah.

00:30:05 Kevin Riley: Dual sports.

00:30:06 John Daub: It's a dual sport. All right, let me... Let's see if we can, can go in here just a little bit.

00:30:13 Kevin Riley: Sure.

00:30:17 John Daub: This is reserve seating and non reserve seating.

00:30:18 Kevin Riley: Well, we're not sitting, so that's okay, right?

00:30:19 John Daub: It's okay. We've got, we've got press passes. Show them. Show them. Yeah. How dare you. Yeah. So, Kevin, This is the Jews... That gate stand up here. You can see it's a pretty cool view. Hey. Only and Arctica. Unfortunately, the speed might be down. I might be slurring. I woke up pretty early to come out to Osaka.

00:30:46 John Daub: I was up at like six in the morning. But right now there's only one or two matches, three matches going on right now. This is still round...

00:31:03 Kevin Riley: Makes it really easy to see the competitors on it.

00:31:06 John Daub: Right. Yeah. It's well done that this man, the one in Tokyo, which is pretty cool because they did, they, they moved in here and this is the first time here in Osaka. But they didn't really have to change that much.

00:31:27 John Daub: I don't know. Anytime I go into an arena, I mean it looks like we're inside of a spaceship. Take him first. Take him first. He's been probed. Is that what they do? Huh? I wouldn't know. I'm sorry. Ends up in space. It's not aware.

00:32:00 Kevin Riley: Stays in space.

00:32:06 John Daub: Like Jordans. They got Jordans on but they're from the country. Jordan. That's different. I thought... I thought he was wearing like Michael Jordan stuff, but I don't know. Should we ask him? Hello, you want to ask? Excuse me.

00:32:31 Kevin Riley: Are those Jordans or are you from Jordan?

00:32:33 John Daub: That's pretty cool. They look like pretty big guys.

00:32:35 Kevin Riley: It turns out it's like... No, this is just a brand I wear. Oh, okay.

00:32:48 John Daub: So everyone's saying that the lag is pretty bad. Yeah. Let's go... Let's just take a... Let's step outside real quickly and then we're gonna... We're gonna come back in a little bit.

00:33:00 Kevin Riley: Sure.

00:33:08 John Daub: So let me... Let's show you a little bit around the park for a second and then we'll come back in. I do apologize. The signal is not the best out there. But... Kevin.

00:33:18 Kevin Riley: Yeah.

00:33:19 John Daub: I think we found where the food is.

00:33:22 Kevin Riley: There we go. I think curry rice.

00:33:24 John Daub: I think we found the food. Oh, that looks like a cheese dog.

00:33:28 Kevin Riley: I wonder... You know, I went here recently. I went to a baseball game.

00:33:31 John Daub: What?

00:33:31 Kevin Riley: And takoyaki was like 600 yen. 100 yen per ball. It's like ridiculous.

00:33:35 John Daub: Oh well, it's 400 yen here, so...

00:33:37 Kevin Riley: It's a bit better.

00:33:38 John Daub: It's a little bit better. The yaki looks good. And the karage. Wow. And they got this some kind of special tade on there. Look at that. Nice tare. Yeah. Well, after this we're gonna have to... We're gonna be going... Going out on and eating on a food tour. But this is pretty cool. Let's... Let's just take a step back and look back at the arena. Kevin was... We were both pretty amazed when he walked out here. You haven't been here before?

00:34:13 Kevin Riley: No, I just... I've seen it from that train line up there. And I always wonder if what it was.

00:34:19 John Daub: Yeah.

00:34:19 Kevin Riley: But it is pretty cool cuz kind of underground. Like we come down a slope to go into it.

00:34:25 John Daub: So that's why we're go out here to the entrance. Because I want to give you a point of view of where we're inside. And this is why when we walked in here, I had a feeling there's not going to be really good signal. I'm just like going, oh, no. It's like a bunker.

00:34:35 Kevin Riley: It is like a...

00:34:35 John Daub: It's a bunker. You can see it now behind us.

00:34:39 Kevin Riley: We ever go to war with North Korea? I guess where I'm heading.

00:34:43 John Daub: Don't say that. We would never. They're peace loving people. So that's the entrance to the arena. It's been like, I guess branded as something else, but it's... It's the Osaka Central Gymnasium or something.

00:34:55 Kevin Riley: Intech Arena.

00:34:57 John Daub: Intech Arena. Yeah, the Intech Arena. And on top of it is a park and underneath it is a place where the 4G signal just goes to die because we have... I bet you if I watch the playback with the interview, it might not be too good.

00:35:25 Kevin Riley: So can we picnic up there?

00:35:28 John Daub: That's not actually... Actually this might be a pretty good place to get some takoyaki and munch down on it.

00:35:38 Kevin Riley: For Kevin, this is his war bunker. For me, it's too much of a hike, but yeah, let's go back in and take a look at it. This is pretty cool to see the sign. And as my father always said, whenever you travel, John, take pictures of the sign and put you in a place. It's good advice.

00:36:03 Kevin Riley: Ah, so you're one of those people who takes the train station signs. Pictures. Did I see people do that? Tourists are taking pictures of the train station sign.

00:36:09 John Daub: I do that because I went on a trip in 1996 to Europe and I took lots of pictures, but I didn't take any signs. And my dad kept saying, so where are we now?

00:36:19 Kevin Riley: Yeah.

00:36:19 John Daub: He's like, why did you take a picture of a sign? Ah, yeah. And then the next trip I took, I took all sign pictures and he said, we're all the pictures.

00:36:27 Kevin Riley: Yeah.

00:36:27 John Daub: What's going on? Do you want something to eat?

00:36:31 Kevin Riley: Look at this guy. This guy looks like he's Australia.

00:36:35 John Daub: Australia. You want to get something to eat?

00:36:41 Kevin Riley: Yeah, we get a little hungry actually.

00:36:45 John Daub: For breakfast?

00:36:46 Kevin Riley: Oh yeah, yeah.

00:36:47 John Daub: Look, there's a cheese dog. Korean. Korean. They wrote in Katakana, cheese dog good, no butter cheese, which means the cheese, it stretches this.

00:36:54 Kevin Riley: These cheese dogs are all over the place. It's totally like spreading all over Japan.

00:37:01 John Daub: First it hits popular first in Tokyo, now it's in Osaka. They, they batter the, the potato around the cheese and then they deep fried. So you have cheese bread and like French fries.

00:37:11 Kevin Riley: It's kind of cool, isn't it? Remember when, when like the kebabs sandwiches first came on here?

00:37:17 John Daub: Oh, yeah.

00:37:17 Kevin Riley: Now they're everywhere.

00:37:19 John Daub: Like any...

00:37:19 Kevin Riley: Anytime you go to any of those festivals, now they're everywhere.

00:37:23 John Daub: Now they're everywhere. Yeah. What do you want? Like a nikuman? We have to scarf it down. Go inside.

00:37:30 Kevin Riley: Yeah. Okay.

00:37:32 John Daub: Yeah.

00:37:34 Kevin Riley: Or cheese dog.

00:37:35 John Daub: Are you serious?

00:37:36 Kevin Riley: Yeah, for cheese. I try it out. Yeah, I've had one yet.

00:37:39 John Daub: Okay. There you go.

00:37:41 Kevin Riley: What about you? You got a cheese dog too?

00:37:44 John Daub: Cheese dog.

00:37:45 Kevin Riley: Cheese dog.

00:37:45 John Daub: No, just... You get it. I... I'm, I've actually, we're taking an intermission from the... We're taking an intermission from you. Go ahead. You get your cheese dog and give me back the change. I'll get something else. I've had a little bit too much cheese dog. And just the other day we gave... I gave Kanai her first cheese dog because she's been watching the show and she's been extremely jealous about it. And yeah, the pleasure on her face was priceless. She scarfed down the cheese. She wasn't doing it right. You have to go like this. She's going like a hamster. It's cute and all that, but... But these cheese dogs aren't cheap. They're like five bucks. Five bucks each. All right, let's get in here a little bit closer. Kevin's excited for his cheese dog. Seriously. Have you had this before? Oh. Oh, yeah.

00:38:42 Kevin Riley: Oh, it's...

00:38:44 John Daub: I think it's coconut. Oh, wow. Wow. I think it's like...

00:38:52 Kevin Riley: Mine is...

00:38:53 John Daub: Wow. You have to eat the stick too. Anything deep fried is edible. Yeah. Beaver mode, right? You gotta beaver it. We also have yakisoba and nikuman. I love these too. This is a... A nikuman, a pizzaman, and a terimayo chicken man. Looks pretty good. Then they have karaage and takoyaki, but it's not the freshly prepared one. These are kind of heat lamped. There's nothing wrong with that though. We're gonna be going... Going back into the grand slam in a second, but Kevin needs... Kevin needs to get a... It's coming out of the fryer.

00:39:32 Kevin Riley: Yeah, that's not mine though. It's these guys.

00:39:34 John Daub: Oh, no. Okay. Look at that. They put it in... They put it in snow. Coconut snow. Yeah. Full report. Full report. Yeah. So I came... I came this morning. I'm going to be filming insert chats for the main channel here and try to make an episode that's in depth on judo. And the only way to get the background shots and to meet some of the professionals is to come to an event like this. So making connections and learning about judo is going to make a really good episode for this on the main channel in 2019. So it was just an opportunity that I couldn't pass up. The invitation was very much appreciated, but this, you know, I wish they'd done it in to Tokyo. That would have been a lot better for me. It was like... It was a little bit of a hike. It's like just a little bit of a hike. All right, so we got all kinds of snacks here. All right. Kevin's getting his... Kevin getting his dog. All right, I've gone into golf announcer mode. He's now spreading on some hot chili sauce. Wait, no, no, no. He's going for mustard. Kevin, no, no, don't do it.

00:41:00 Neil Adams: No.

00:41:05 John Daub: I've never seen mustard before. Kevin, that's the first. You try this sweet chili cheese. That's this sweet chili sauce. That's what I usually do.

00:41:14 Kevin Riley: What I've got is I've got some ketchup and some mustard. All right. Ketchup and mustard on there. You know, what's dipped in... This is going to be weird. It's dipped in sugar.

00:41:25 John Daub: I know. Coconut sugar.

00:41:27 Kevin Riley: Okay. So, yeah, this is hot.

00:41:30 John Daub: You have no idea who you're talking to. I've eaten like a dozen of these over the last... Of course, there's a reason why I'm so oily.

00:41:36 Kevin Riley: It's kind of new. New here in Osaka.

00:41:37 John Daub: So.

00:41:38 Kevin Riley: Here, here.

00:41:41 John Daub: Oh, man. Gushing. Oh, this isn't stretchy one. This is a different kind of cheese.

00:41:50 Kevin Riley: I think once it gets cooled down a bit, it'll be stretchy. It's really hot right now.

00:41:54 John Daub: Okay.

00:41:54 Kevin Riley: Yeah, that's really weird with sugar on there. Okay. That was not something I'll eat all the time.

00:42:01 John Daub: Yeah. This is different than the one in Tokyo, but it's still a pretty unique idea to put cheese. Look at that, all splashed out. Usually it's stretchy. Kevin loves mustard, says Shazri Azman.

00:42:17 Kevin Riley: I do.

00:42:17 John Daub: He does. Yeah.

00:42:19 Kevin Riley: I don't usually use ketchup, but I give a try. I'm not a big ketchup eater. Yeah, but a little bit of both. Nice. Everything frankfurters used to get.

00:42:30 John Daub: Package. I always try to squeeze the mustard side out without getting too into the ketchup side out.

00:42:41 John Daub: John Mallea writes in love that cheese squirt.

00:42:49 Kevin Riley: Don't suck the sugar in.

00:42:51 John Daub: Hey, you got the... The fiber. All right, let's let's go in there. I... I'm... I've got a hand grunt for... Got a handgun for a pizza man. Pizza. Where is it? Pizza. What?

00:43:17 Kevin Riley: You look like Mr. Bean for a second there.

00:43:20 John Daub: What?

00:43:23 John Daub: All right. These are steamed bun steam buns, but they're quite good. I... Oh, hot, hot, hot, hot, hot.

00:43:42 Kevin Riley: These used to be my lifesaver really. Construction... Come home, I'd be heading home, I'd be starving and I would stop at a little convenience store and pick up nikuman.

00:43:50 John Daub: Yeah.

00:43:51 Kevin Riley: And just... That was just fantastic.

00:43:55 John Daub: Oh man. Nikomans and pizzaman. Just a steamed dumpling. This will... They literally will sit there in the convenience years. They're just... They're really steamed, really soft and moist. It's got pizza sauce and cheese on the inside. Healthy living, brother.

00:44:27 Kevin Riley: Pizza in a bun. You're right.

00:44:29 John Daub: Pizza in a bun. Who came up with this idea? I don't know.

00:44:33 Kevin Riley: I don't know the history behind them actually. Be interested in checking that out one day, I guess. Yeah.

00:44:41 John Daub: So is this the food of judo? Rest judo's competitors. Steamed dumplings and cheese dogs.

00:44:51 Kevin Riley: The lunch of champions.

00:44:57 John Daub: After you scarfed us down, we're gonna go inside for some more action. I appreciate the super chats out there. Thank you very much. You know what? It is kind of like a pizza pocket connections. All right, we're going back in and getting more judo. There is a lag. I apologize.

00:45:30 Kevin Riley: Okay. All right.

00:45:36 John Daub: It's time for some judo.

00:45:38 Kevin Riley: Okay, but too sweet.

00:45:40 John Daub: Show me your judo face.

00:45:52 Kevin Riley: Off the competitor me off, dude.

00:45:55 John Daub: Alright, we're going back down to the floor. See if we can see some more stuff. See some more action. I like it when they... They do the gong. And you know what? A lot of people told me get this. Okay. A lot of people told me that they didn't like the gong in the Only in Japan... A Japanese thing. We got reconnection problem. It's really hard. There's no... There's no dempa. 81 years.

00:46:59 Kevin Riley: The next quarter final on mat three women under 70 kilograms.

00:47:06 John Daub: Not connecting.

00:47:08 Kevin Riley: The worst seats possible. We have...

00:47:29 John Daub: It's not connecting. Should I try it again or what?

00:47:41 Kevin Riley: Don't ask me. I'm not the technical guy on this stuff.

00:47:47 John Daub: Welcome to Minecraft Judo. If you can turn around, take a look. We've got obstructed view seats right now. This is like from the corner of the... No, I mean I would take these over nothing. I mean there are worse seats. There are these seats where you can see nothing. These seats would be even worse. But from here you get a pretty good view.

00:48:11 Kevin Riley: This one here is the other one. You can't really see.

00:48:13 John Daub: This is what... What it's going to feel like when you watch the Olympics.

00:49:11 John Daub: Can you... I want to be an announcer for this... Like they should have... Peter... My friend Peter Von Gomm should be the announcer for judo. I wonder if... All right. I don't want to film the actual contest. Television companies are filming this. But been your like... I'm like right on top of you here.

00:48:44 Kevin Riley: Can you see my nose hairs?

00:48:46 John Daub: I can feel them. It's like a vacuum cleaner every time you breathe in. So I mean, how's your experience been with this event today?

00:49:02 Kevin Riley: That's been pretty cool actually. I mean I've never seen judo live, you know.

00:49:07 John Daub: Yeah.

00:49:07 Kevin Riley: And just walk around seeing competitors and check out all the stuff around here. It's like anything live. I used to love going to live hockey games.

00:49:19 John Daub: Ah yeah.

00:49:20 Kevin Riley: And actually baseball... I... It's kind of fun.

00:49:29 John Daub: Baseball's kind of fun. Live is bands playing and chants and it's kind of like a community thing, you know.

00:49:35 Kevin Riley: You need to go to one here.

00:49:37 John Daub: Yeah. The Hanshin Tigers in Tokyo. They're really, really rowdy guys are. You guys are all just a bunch of drunks. I'm sorry.

00:49:49 Kevin Riley: Yeah, yeah.

00:49:51 John Daub: Dangerous into... Especially if you wear Tokyo... Tokyo Giants gear. It's the worst rivalry in Japan.

00:50:03 Kevin Riley: Maybe the game I went to was against Tokyo Giants and they had... Area a rope up there. They're separate.

00:50:18 John Daub: Don't let them out of the pen.

00:50:24 Kevin Riley: They were loud too.

00:50:26 John Daub: I do Captain. Thank you. I still joining us. We don't have the best... Best 4G signal in here. Is this the Game Boy? This could be... This very well could be Game Boy quality from... I'm talking about the Game Boy. And thanks... Scorpion Core Universe. Thank you very much. I appreciate that. Yeah. John Malia TV thank you very much for promoting it. I did put a link in the description. That was the link that they gave me. I will correct it so it's playable. But you know, I just for me, to me personally as someone who's been living here in Japan, it's important that people get a little bit familiar with judo and Japanese sports with the Tokyo 20... And for me, the reason I'm here is because it's an opportunity to do that to get a kind of a sneak peek what the Olympics are going to be like. And I get... I get that vibe. I get the vibe even though like, I get the vibe that like the Olympics has started. Kind of.

00:51:54 Kevin Riley: We're in the run up, right?

00:51:56 John Daub: Yeah. This is the run of the Olympics.

00:51:58 Kevin Riley: Things are getting exciting. So I guess you're going to be going...

00:52:02 John Daub: Well, I live in Tokyo. I will be there.

00:52:08 Kevin Riley: You're there. So you try to get some tickets and stuff.

00:52:11 John Daub: They can't even... Apparently the people watching can't even make our faces. It's just a big blur really. You can't see it. All right, let's move, let's move seats in the world here. It's not the best. Let's see what else we can find. 4K video... You know, it's like if you go to Bangkok, it's so hot. You just say oh, it's so cold. And then you start to believe it. Right, right, right. Oh, it's so cold. It's 35 degrees Celsius. So cold day.

00:52:41 Kevin Riley: It was cold this morning.

00:52:42 John Daub: It was cold actually was. It was pretty cold. So it is pretty cold in Japan right now. The... But in the afternoon it warms up pretty good.

00:52:52 Kevin Riley: Yeah, that sun. Once that sun hits...

00:52:54 John Daub: Hits, that's solar power.

00:52:56 Kevin Riley: And the thing is they put the heaters on trains. I hate...

00:53:04 John Daub: Film anything. I basically couldn't. Hey guys, we're back. We're going down to the depths. If you thought that Minecraft... Wait till we get down in the...

00:53:18 Kevin Riley: Yes.

00:53:18 John Daub: It's getting even. It can only get better, right?

00:53:24 Kevin Riley: Oh, yeah, sure, yeah.

00:53:28 John Daub: Oh, hey Kevin, you should... You should. Indiana Jones it. Can you get under there in time? Slide, Kevin. Hurry Kevin. Kevin, slide. Do it, Kevin. Oh man. That's when Indy lost his... Forgot his hat, you remember? And he put his hand in... There he goes and he pulled his hat out of the...

00:53:44 Kevin Riley: See, this is why I'm better than Indy. No hat.

00:53:50 John Daub: I didn't get it. Oh, you don't have a hat. So you don't have to reach back and get it. Yeah, I'm right here. All right. This is how we started. We've come full circle. Access, baby, access. We have behind the scene. This is just really cool. I... I do wish we had better signal but if you can just kind of enjoy what you see because that's what you get. It's kind of like an alien looking spaceship arena. That's where Kevin was probed up there.

00:54:33 Kevin Riley: Yeah. That brings bad memories. I can't look it up. So you imagine, right.

00:54:45 John Daub: This is really a lot of fun and it's an honor to be here and take a look at a sport that is going to be very important for the 2020 Olympics and get some... Get some video for a judo episode that I'm planning to do in 2019. So that's very cool. Kevin, any last words?

00:55:02 Kevin Riley: Yeah. Make sure you... You don't get to 2020. At least watch it on TV. I think it's gonna be good. And from what I've seen tonight or today, it's not nighttime yet.

00:55:12 John Daub: Feels like night.

00:55:13 Kevin Riley: Yeah, it feels like we're inside here, doesn't it? For what I've seen today, it's gonna be exciting. I think seeing it live is so much different. So... Yeah, you get a chance.

00:55:26 John Daub: Yeah, I think you see it live. I think it's just because of this... You have to see up here, like, from here, it's just... You feel like you're in a spaceship and on the bottom is judo.

00:55:36 Kevin Riley: Yeah.

00:55:37 John Daub: To me, this is just pretty cool to read. This is pretty cool. Arena.

00:55:39 Kevin Riley: I'd like to come back here for, like, a concert or something like that,

00:55:43 John Daub: you know, I'll come back here for the abduction. I'm coming back to the abduction. Just let me know. Take me to a warm place up there, into the mysterious. I want to know what's up there. Oh, wait, wait, wait, wait. On top of here is a... Is a park. Right?

00:55:58 Kevin Riley: Right, right, right.

00:56:00 John Daub: So this is what people could throw, like, money down here. Like the well... Remember Goonies? Remember Goonies where they were throwing coins in the well? And he goes, andy, jacket.

00:56:12 Kevin Riley: We're gonna go do that.

00:56:13 John Daub: Yeah, I think they're gonna throw some money down there. That's just... I have a very vivid imagination.

00:56:19 Kevin Riley: It looks like that thing closes off, too. See, there's like a... Oh, right. Little something in there. Probably slides across. Maybe typhoon and stuff, just in case it gets broken. As you've seen our tyranny destructive here.

00:56:37 John Daub: All right, guys. Kevin, thank you very much for joining us on this live stream. Your input has been vital.

00:57:02 Kevin Riley: I thought the word useless was going to come out there.

00:57:05 John Daub: No, no, I would... I'm a positive person. I just do the opposite of what I'm really feeling. Shake it out. Yeah. So if you're interested in seeing more this, I will put the link back here. You can actually just go in here. Oh, they changed the screen. I was just gonna promote it. It's hashtag judo. I'm gonna mess this up now. Judo grand slam 2018. Maybe hashtag that. I don't... I don't know. They keep changing it to homemade. Oh, there it is, there it is, there it is. Zoom, zoom, zoom. Judo 20... Oh, no, no, that's a 2019 Matt nouns. Okay. Wait a second. Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for changes. Paint drying. Yeah. This is actually... It's exciting though. And the sign is about to change next. There he is. Oh no. There's the Asahi... Asahi Shimbun newspaper. Okay. From Korea.

00:58:12 Kevin Riley: Okay. Read it.

00:58:13 John Daub: But what's...

00:58:14 Kevin Riley: What's having such small text or something that's gonna be...

00:58:19 John Daub: I know. You can't even see it.

00:58:20 Kevin Riley: You can't even see it.

00:58:21 John Daub: And then they say Kevin... Righty. And then you have to go to the warm up area. There's the gong. That's the only in Japan. Only in Japan. So we're as long as we're filming from the media area we're okay to show you from what's going on. I thought you see there, there's a big pole on the other side. Where is it? I thought that was a 360 virtual reality camera. So I don't know what else they're broadcasting here but this is being live stream. I'm sorry that...

00:58:50 Kevin Riley: It went right on by.

00:58:52 John Daub: Oh. And you can see in front of you some heads of commentators in the worldwide press.

00:59:02 Kevin Riley: There's a lot of them here.

00:59:05 John Daub: I'm not focusing on the match. I am focusing on the heads and the camera. You can hear the chanting. That's really cool. Says Gino writes in can't see anything. John, is it because of the Minecraft and lack of signal or is it because of the heads? I don't know. Sometimes I'm really confused or is this...

00:59:28 Kevin Riley: Really fuzzy or something?

00:59:30 John Daub: Can you see the match? No. Are you seeing it? No, I'm not. I'm not focusing on the match. I'm focusing on the heads of the commentators and the world, world media. But if you're watching, watching live on TV you're seeing the drama. This is from an angle that nobody gets to see and there's a reason why. Look at the crowd. Listen to the crowd.

00:59:56 Kevin Riley: I don't see right now who it is.

00:59:58 John Daub: Right. I guess somebody else. Kevin, do you know what judo actually means? Can you hold the stick?

01:00:08 Kevin Riley: I don't think I've ever seen the u for it, you know.

01:00:12 John Daub: Are you serious? Hold on a second.

01:00:14 Kevin Riley: Okay. He's got to look it up.

01:00:15 John Daub: No, no, no. I, I just, I forgot. So judo...

01:00:19 Kevin Riley: Yeah.

01:00:21 John Daub: Is actually had like I, I didn't expect this. I did not expect this judo. This... Nobody, nobody was faster than me. Searching on Google right now. That's ridiculous. Some people are reporting that the signal strength is good. Judo actually means... Oh, oh Gentle way.

01:01:13 Kevin Riley: Gentle way. Okay. Yeah, because I always knew karate. Empty hand, but gentle way. Well, it is... Yeah. Supposed to be non violent. You're using the force, the other person against you or against them, which to be reckoned with. And of course, clear now. All right, Kevin, take over the show.

01:01:33 John Daub: All right, goodbye, John, get me back to stick.

01:01:37 Kevin Riley: Kevin, don't move. You guys are so clear right now. Okay, I'm not moving.

01:01:44 John Daub: Kevin, don't drop the stick.

01:01:46 Kevin Riley: Several hundred people talk like this so, you know, nothing's moving.

01:01:50 John Daub: Yeah, use the force.

01:01:51 Kevin Riley: Let's put it.

01:01:52 John Daub: Let's put a ribbon on this and kind of bring this in full circle. We started this off introducing you to Neil Adams, who is a world champion and an Olympic medalist in the sport of judo. The judo started as an Olympic sport in 1964 when Tokyo won the Olympics. It's one of the big sports of this country. And when they do show judo, one of the reasons why the events in Japan are so good is because it gets so much media coverage and so much buzz because it is like a national sport. I would say the national... Awful.

01:02:33 Kevin Riley: Yeah, sorry for this.

01:02:36 John Daub: I would say the national sport is baseball and then second would be sumo, because that's the national sport.

01:02:44 Kevin Riley: European football has also really took off over the last starting to decades.

01:02:48 John Daub: Yeah, but judo's always been pretty big, too. After the 1964 Olympics, it just was elevated massively in this country. And now the judo competitors are like superstars in this country.

01:03:04 Kevin Riley: Oh, yeah.

01:03:04 John Daub: And they're also, for the foreign judo athletes that are competing against the Japanese... It's always the strongest team. That's always the gold standard. They're always trying to defeat Japan in this sport. And to me, for someone who's been living for 20 years, that's pretty... That's pretty much the story. Why is Japan so strong in judo? And why can't the rest of the world compete? Catch up. And it might be just because what... What Neil Adams was saying is that they can't catch up because there's not enough people in the sport. The pool is too small. All the best athletes in the United States will go to, like American football or to baseball or to basketball. That's where all the money is and all the marketing is. Judo doesn't have a lot of that marketing. Judo doesn't have a lot of that pull outside of Japan. And that's kind of a shame.

01:03:56 Kevin Riley: Of course, I got to put in a plugin for tennis right now because Miss Osaka, I love the name.

01:04:03 John Daub: I was like, yeah, yeah, that's great, Kevin. Yeah. Plug tennis at a judo event. Thanks a lot.

01:04:08 Kevin Riley: Yeah, yeah, just... Just the Osaka part.

01:04:12 John Daub: But the point still stands. And I want to know... My goal for 2019 is to learn more about the sport of judo and then by next, next year, when they have the world, the grand slam here in Tokyo again one year from now, I would like to be competing.

01:04:27 Kevin Riley: I would like to see that too.

01:04:29 John Daub: You'd like to see that?

01:04:30 Kevin Riley: Oh, yeah, I would definitely like to watch that.

01:04:32 John Daub: This reminds me of the Naked Man Festival. Kevin was the one seeing it. I was the one doing it.

01:04:36 Kevin Riley: Yeah. I was roasting hot because I'm running around with this big camera on my shoulder. Shoulder. And he's freezing. I enjoyed watching that.

01:04:44 John Daub: I was... I was warm from the run. Yeah, running too. And human body heat, which is... Feels kind of slightly odd because... Yeah, yeah, it wasn't as bad.

01:04:53 Kevin Riley: The girls division. Yeah, yeah. That's where he's... He's gonna stop and probably end.

01:05:00 John Daub: The ladies are tough, I think. As tough as the guys. I don't... I would like to see the women's champion take on the men's champion.

01:05:07 Kevin Riley: Because if...

01:05:07 John Daub: If you can use weight and technique against the opponent, the opponent's size should not make a difference.

01:05:13 Kevin Riley: The whole idea behind judo is that a woman should be able to... No problem.

01:05:17 John Daub: You know what would be really interesting would be if there was a sport where women and men could compete on the same level. Maybe table tennis. I don't know if there's certain sports where men and women can compete on the same level. Judo might be one of them, I think. Strength wise, I think... So there might be a difference in strength, but if strength does not matter, matter as much. It could be about technique. And you know, Neil, who's a world champion, said it's always technique, technique, technique.

01:05:38 Kevin Riley: There you go.

01:05:38 John Daub: So, yeah, I think I'd like to see that. Where the men are taking on the women. I think that the champion of the... Of the gold medal from the... The men should go against the gold medal from the women's and then see who wins the ultimate medal. Right. Jigoro Kano founded judo after studying Kito Ryo Jiu Jitsu. Right. Back then, Jiu Jitsu was kind of losing popularity, and that's when judo came on the scene. Jiu jitsu was before judo. Judo, as we say, is considered like a modern sport, although... Right. But because of its entry in the Olympics, it's become so much more mainstream now. Look at this. It fills arena. I think it's because it was accepted as an Olympic sport. And when you... When you introduce a new Olympic sport, that's what starts to take off internationally. And now judo has never been more popular than ever. It just keeps growing. Is this copy... Is this copy copyright free material royalty free?

01:06:53 Kevin Riley: Don't listen to the music. Don't listen.

01:07:01 John Daub: All right, Kevin. Did you feel the power of holding the stick, Kevin?

01:07:05 Kevin Riley: I did. Take it away from me.

01:07:09 John Daub: I'm not showing you. I'm not showing you the match. That lady's head is in the way. Something's happening over there. There's a... There's a fight. They're really going at it, Kevin.

01:07:22 Kevin Riley: Yeah, yeah, they are strong.

01:07:24 John Daub: Just before posting that women are men, I think I... I just... I would love to see John going into judo. It's a little whooping.

01:07:29 Kevin Riley: I'd like to see that, too. I think we can make that happen. I think we can make that happen. Yeah. You know, I... I think, as I was saying earlier in the live stream, judo is one of the sports I wanted to do because I thought it would bring me closer to Japan if I learned the way of judo or basically a lot of the Japanese, like kendo as well, they have bushido, which is the way of the samurai. A lot of that is tied into Japanese martial arts. And as... As Neil was saying, and I go back... The reason why I started this live stream with that is I go back to what he was saying. It's kind of more than... It's a way of life.

01:08:14 Kevin Riley: It is. Yeah. I mean... I mean, well, any martial arts really isn't supposed to be just a sport. When I did, I did kung fu, and the guy I stayed with a long time ago, it was the whole thing. We never...

01:08:26 John Daub: Wait, you did kung fu?

01:08:28 Kevin Riley: Yeah, yeah, way back.

01:08:30 John Daub: Wow. He's on the big screen up there. Something going on? It's all washed out. Oh, that's it. That's... That's how they tell you that the time is up. The gong. That's the only in Japan go thing. I'm telling you.

01:09:37 Kevin Riley: That's where they stole it from you, right?

01:09:39 John Daub: No. All right. Hey, Jun. Thank you very much. You guys, before we go, do you have any questions for Kevin and us? We're going to be doing a live stream later on on another topic. But I... I was thinking, Kevin, do you have any... If you have any questions for us, by all means, attack.

01:09:59 Kevin Riley: Yeah. This is your chance.

01:10:00 John Daub: What do you think? What Is the clapping time close to being... Being... Okay? Because the match did all right. When the new... When the... These matches are getting more and more important. And as they do, there's more and more buildup. The afternoon rounds are not as important. When you get closer and closer to the evening, the... The buzz gets stronger and stronger. And I guess when you get to prime time, it's on primetime TV in Japan.

01:10:31 John Daub: This... This... It's on prime time. It's on TV. Tokyo, yesterday.

01:10:35 Kevin Riley: Oh, really?

01:10:35 John Daub: Yeah. So pretty much I'm kind of watching the match.

01:10:41 Kevin Riley: Yeah, they're into it right away. Boom.

01:10:48 John Daub: Quick for the grasshopper from Kung Fu.

01:10:56 Kevin Riley: Flex your muscles. He's got these little inflation things inside his jacket. Yeah.

01:11:03 John Daub: Oh, that's it. It's... It's recut. All right, so we're gonna end this right now.

01:11:09 Kevin Riley: Yeah, okay.

01:11:11 John Daub: Oh, wait. Our bags are still there. And we'll just do some...

01:11:24 Kevin Riley: Right.

01:11:25 John Daub: Can't thank you enough for the super chat. The moderators are so nice. They thank everybody when something comes in. I didn't know you, Phil.

01:12:35 Kevin Riley: Actually, first time I did it was in college because we've been drinking beer all summer. I had a little beer gut. I was skinniest. Little beer gut looked terrible.

01:12:47 John Daub: It's pretty cool, right?

01:12:48 Kevin Riley: Yeah.

01:12:50 John Daub: Smooth with a wide angle lens on it. It's pretty... It's pretty smooth.

01:12:54 Kevin Riley: Yeah. I like that lens.

01:12:58 John Daub: No editing, live streaming.

01:13:01 Kevin Riley: That's nice, isn't it?

01:13:02 John Daub: Guide of Osaka people.

01:13:04 Kevin Riley: Will I like about the ones I do for my Patreon because they're quick and quick and easy. Run them through quickly.

01:14:24 John Daub: Hard to get a signal. Gonna... We're gonna have to end this because the signal is bad here. But I want to sign off. Give us... Just give us 5.5 seconds to sign off.

01:14:42 Kevin Riley: Yeah.

01:17:20 John Daub: [Stream closes — no further audible content]