00:00:00 John Daub: Check this out. The Olympic torch, everybody, right there with the seal. The Olympic torch, and here's the inside of it. It's got the pattern of a sakura (cherry blossom) blossom. Here's the other Olympic torch right here. This is inside of the museum that just opened up.

00:00:28 John Daub: Very cool. Check this out. Oh man, it's nice to be here finally. The museum just opened today. You can see some of the exhibits here. It's pretty cool. Here are the logos for the Tokyo Olympics. You can see the patterns, how they came up with the design, and they kind of just lay out this entire mission of launching the Olympics here. Here are the Olympic medals, the pictures of them. And I'm going to take you outside now.

00:00:59 John Daub: And look at the stadium because today is public opening day. Here's the pattern for the Olympic torch. Again, it's sakura flowers. Here are the medals, silver, gold, and bronze. That's the pattern that they'll have for the 2020 Olympics. I'm a little bit sad that they don't have them on display here, but it's nice to see some of the artifacts from this Olympics. You can see some of the comparisons.

00:01:41 John Daub: This is between 1964 and 2020. And this is the Olympic Museum, which you can see in here. It's kind of neat. And right outside the door, you're going to see a finished Olympic stadium. How cool is that? That's so cool. You have to wait in line and take a picture with the rings, but it's worth it. And if you come on a weekday, there's barely anybody here. There you go. There's the stadium right in front of you.

00:02:22 John Daub: And the Olympics will be held next year on July 24th to August 9th. Here on the left side of the Olympics have been held in Japan four times. This will be the fourth. This is the first one that was held in 1964. That's the Tokyo Olympic torch that's inside of the stadium. So the torch relay will take place and then the light the torch for the 2021. But that's the one from 1964 in the Tokyo Olympics. Then they had the Winter Games in Sapporo. A lot of people don't remember because they weren't born yet. But the 1972 Winter Olympics was in Sapporo. There's the cup for that. That's all right outside of the stadium here.

00:02:53 John Daub: There's the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics. That's the year that I came to Japan. Very cool. And you can see this right here. The Winter Games of Nagano 1998. Wow, such amazing good memories of that year. And there's the torch that was in Nagano. And then across the street is the new stadium designed by Kengo Kuma, finished well ahead of the Olympics. Today is public opening day, December 21, 2019. This is history, because the stadium is pretty darn cool.

00:03:28 John Daub: And I've been seeing the evolution of it from the moment it was the old National Stadium and its demolition to a pit to construction of an episode that I made in 2017, two years and a half years before in a building. This building didn't even exist. That's the museum right there. I was taking video from that hotel right here behind there. And it's pretty interesting now to see it all come together. And finally, in front of us, we have the Olympic stadium. And the design hasn't changed really much since the last time I was here, which was about six, seven months ago.

00:04:32 John Daub: I came here and you can see it's a very natural design, Kengo Kuma. I know, I just haven't had time to get a chance to corner him to interview him about a stadium. He explained about the design to me the first time I met him and it was really interesting because they had hired somebody else to do the design of the stadium and he didn't want to talk about that, which is understandable. But what he wanted to do was he wanted to bring all of the prefectures together. His designs are very unique when he first started out as an architect. He seemed to really like concrete and then I believe it was after a trip to Kochi Prefecture and we introduced a library in a live stream that he had designed. He fell in love with wood and the naturalness and then you can see that in the stadium, the naturalness.

00:05:28 John Daub: And he took wood from all 47 prefectures of Japan which is really incredible, so there's a little bit of all of the entire country in this stadium. So we're gonna do a quick walk around. You can get kind of close to the stadium today. There's an ASICS event going on, a run. Usain Bolt is here in Tokyo and he's going to be doing an event tonight at 6:30 and guess what, you need tickets and guess who doesn't have them? Now I'm not actually asking you to guess, it's me.

00:06:13 John Daub: For the people but just to walk around the stadium I think is kind of a neat thing on public opening day although it does not actually open to the public but these fences are way lower and maybe by next year the fences will be completely gone. So I'm going to just bypass the fence which is about six feet tall and show you this. There's a comment on deforestation I think that was a problem. All the wood was replanted, it's a sustainable forest. They didn't just take rainforest wood, trust me the PR nightmare is not worth it but they took wood from all 47 prefectures.

00:07:02 John Daub: This used to be the site of the 1964 Olympic Stadium. I was kind of personally hoping that they would recycle that and they would call this the recycle Olympics, kind of make it a point that we shouldn't waste what we have but I can also see why they would want to build this stadium because it's beautiful. Look at this brand new. A couple of the points at the stadium inside it, it feels like you're a lot closer than you really are and that's just to bring us all together because I think Kengo Kuma had recently said in an interview that in today's world people feel a little bit disconnected, they don't feel invited and this is a way by presenting it in the stadium to bring people together.

00:07:54 John Daub: So when you sit inside of it you feel like you're a lot closer together than you really are. Also there's no air conditioning in here, the stadium is naturally cooled. The design of it harnesses the wind and brings it in whisking into the stadium so you feel cool because guess what, Japan summer is insanely hot and it would be complete waste to air condition. Maybe the inside is air-conditioned. I really don't know. It's hard to say. There's a lot of stuff that we don't know yet. But the first event is being held today and it's a run by ASICS and I can't get in. I've been asking, give me tickets. They keep saying no.

00:08:46 John Daub: Here's a facility guide. This is the first time it's being shown on YouTube. As you can see, all of the exits here. There's Sendagaya Station. There's an exit C, B, A. A goes all the way up to H. You can see here there's a north, south, main, and back stand. That's interesting. I didn't know that this was a main area of the stadium. I wonder what's different. But we're going to get a chance to go inside and take a look at it over the next couple of months. A lot of things are happening.

00:09:25 John Daub: How's it going? Hey, it's going pretty well. Nice to meet you. I'm John. I'm Rich. Nice to meet you. Okay, Rich Masters, good. Yeah, welcome. There's a face to those. How's your trip in Japan going? Pretty good. I arrived here on Wednesday, so I've been knocked around the city a little bit. But you know, it's been pretty good. Yeah, you're finding your way around okay? Yeah, yeah. Not having any trouble. Everybody's been helpful, though. Even if they don't speak English, they've all been very helpful. Denver Broncos, huh? Yeah. Guess what you get for finding me? You get a Find Me card. Sweet. I brought them this time.

00:10:27 John Daub: And to our Canadian friends who came the other day, I have them, just so you don't know. How long are you here for? Five. Until the 31st. Cool. So I'm going to Osaka on Christmas Day and then I'll come back on the 30th and fly away on the 31st. Okay. I'm kind of sad because I can't go in. I thought they said it was public, the first day of the public you can go in but you need tickets. But it's still pretty neat to walk around. You can see the torches over there and the Olympic rings and then that's about it.

00:10:58 Rich: I've already done this episode. I've been here.

00:11:00 John Daub: I've been here for the whole year and I feel like, someone said, go Packers. But you know, that's funny. I just follow the crowd of Japanese people wearing this one. Just follow the crowd. That's how we get around. Well it was really nice to meet you, Rich, finally. Thanks for riding. I actually knew Rich was coming. So it's different. We arranged this. I knew, he knew where I was going to be. And I had contacted my email so no that's okay because I just did a live stream about stalking. He did not actually stalking but watch that one actually yeah he's not a stalker he's a nice guy. Okay all right well you take care yeah thanks Rich I'll probably see you around. You'll see me I won't see you but you'll see me I'll see you Rich okay take care thanks brother.

00:12:04 John Daub: That's nice yeah I know Rich Rich is okay guy. I like seeing the comments but that's not exactly the case. I'm also looking I was told that there is a Olympic manhole cover and you know how enthusiastic I am about manhole covers. It's amazing that you can put like culture and history and a story and a message in a manhole cover. Japan's really really good at it. Walking around you can see the walls were about 10 feet high or like three meters high and they've gone way way down and now you can see inside of it. They've taken some of the art from the 1964 stadium and they've put all inside of here and that makes it kind of neat.

00:12:46 John Daub: I like the way that they've preserved the past and they've made a new stadium but they've found a way to preserve the past. That's good. Paused is here ah thank you pause awesome thanks for joining our discord server. I believe I saw you in there that's awesome and also Shane is here Shane enjoyed the last live stream important topic indeed it is just saying hi thanks for saying hi. I made a topic about people coming to find me in the live streams and if you do come to find me just come and say hi and be natural and don't kind of lurk it's a little creepy. Not that I'm gonna say anything you know get angry at you but what I might do is just bring the camera and introduce myself to you so if you're trying to stay away stay away.

00:13:46 John Daub: It's interesting it really is all done you can see there is some staff inside there but you can't get in but it does look really nice. I wonder what kind of food they're gonna serve. They are gonna hold an event. There's a family dinner for one of our staff and Japan has a soccer league here okay football so the Japan Soccer Association or Football Association the finals of the championship game will be held inside of the stadium I believe it's on the New Year's Day or the day after New Year's. They're holding an event here and I am so stoked I want tickets you know why because I'm so curious. I don't care about the sporting event I don't care about that I want to know what kind of food they're gonna be serving inside the National Stadium. Is it gonna be karaage (fried chicken) are they gonna have oden (stew) are they gonna have like yakiniku (grilled meat) steak burgers or something I don't want to know this so I'm gonna find a way to get in trust me I am a very annoying reporter that will knock on the door until you let me in so take warning Tokyo government I keep knocking until yeah J League that's it.

00:15:11 John Daub: Bago Park rhymes thank you all offense no defense football that might be the best way. This is the National Stadium John Michael Walker nice to see you here this is the National Stadium and it is absolutely beautiful and every time I only come here when I'm like live streaming I don't come here privately to walk around because you can see it on TV but it is really awesome. Pause much love I appreciate that so much wow I'm gonna use that towards food when I go in there and buy my wagyu (Japanese beef) steak burger okay I'm pretty sure they can have something outrageous they have to.

00:15:45 John Daub: Speaking of outrageous across the street over towards the Parliament building they're having some sort of festival so maybe we're gonna go take a look at what other festivities are holding in this area but I'm just gonna walk around just a little bit more and then we're gonna wrap back around to that festival because that kind of looks pretty interesting. I've already brought you here to the Olympic stadium so it's not anything that's really new i just was hoping that by coming here today i would be able to have a chance to come and show you the inside. I met a photographer when I was scouting around the area here and he showed me pictures of the inside that he took this morning and he gave me a couple of them and i'm so thankful so i might use some of those photos for the postcard club if i can't myself take the picture i will use the photos and i asked him and he said it was okay um just don't you know put it on the internet or something he said you but you can make postcards from it for your followers because he really japanese photographer really wants to promote japan and i understand that.

00:16:52 John Daub: But that'd be pretty cool because i have olympic stamps that i'm going to put on the postcard club postcards i want to try to get that out on january um that would be pretty cool and i'm going to put the olympic logo on it which is super cool wow i really really love like every time i see this i'm just impressed you see the trees and the nature around it that's up on the upper deck and then there's a second deck they've put plant life all around the stadium to complement with the wooden panels that you see on it of course there is concrete and there's probably steel involved i did see the construction workers with cranes here just about six seven months ago but uh finished this ahead of schedule i'm it's just super impressive that they got this done as fast as they did there was a cost though it was a cost.

00:17:46 John Daub: David cumitus here for the moderators who do a super job i'm going to pay it forward i'm thinking of something i think we're gonna i'm thinking of something for our moderator we'll do something nice for our moderators this year because they've done such a great job this year um we've had some very successful live streams and we've had moderators that work through the night so a big hand to the moderators i know jim jim and nosh were the first ones i believe jim was our first moderator way back when i was hitchhiking so i appreciate both of them and for tim and um gosh purple bandit we haven't seen purple bandit we got a bunch of moderators now they do a really good job sometimes really strict but that's the purpose because if we get in trouble with the channel then we lose more than just the people the mods keep this channel going it's a community right and took a community of workers to make this beautiful stadium.

00:19:03 John Daub: This is exit h if you remember the guide does anybody remember the guide i don't remember what this exit's called this is h oh you can kind of see inside sort of see inside oh i see some people walking by are they bringing like food hey wagyu burger people are staring at me the foreigners yelling wagyu looking over the wall this isn't a pleasant angle wagyu i want to get in there i know i can't smell the barbecue so i don't think they have wagyu burgers yet but if they do i would climb i might climb that wall just like just go for it if i could get the burger and get back out in time i think i would be okay i'm not sure no one's gonna arrest some dude eating a burger right i mean what what to do in a mysterious it with a non-existent burger welcome to the only in japan go live streams this is what you subscribe for this is why i stream.

00:20:12 John Daub: All right let's look over the gate here sorry a little bit too zoomed in i saw a little windmill there i'm not sure what that's for i guess that windmill powers the guidance system or something there i know that they're using high-tech. Shotcut C's in the house. I will second that on the mods. They're doing a great job. And Jim, our moderator, moderates himself with a super chat. Thank you, Jim. It's been an amazing year.

00:21:01 John Daub: I like this angle and I wanted to come here and cross the street here for a reason. Here's the stadium. The other side of it, on the Aoyama side, sorry, the other side of it, and there's the gymnasium where they're holding a lot of other events. I saw wheelchair rugby taking place in there two months ago, which is a crazy event, but really cool to see the technology behind rugby and wheelchairs. Here you see the escalator. Oh gosh, there's nobody there. What a waste. I could totally be riding that up and down. I would just go up and down that for an hour. I love that escalator. That's an Olympic escalator. They should do events like escalator skiing or something. Parkour would be awesome here. Seriously, Tokyo government, hire me to make a parkour video. I would totally do it. Not me. I would film it. I would even try to do it. I would try parkour. If they would let me in and they gave me the non-existent wagyu burger, I would parkour the entire stadium. I would do it. And while I'm doing it, I would yell, parkour, parkour. Just like Michael Scott.

00:22:16 John Daub: This is gate A. This is the Sendagaya entrance right there. Looks very cool. This is a first look at the stadium. Parkour. This is the subway station here to get to the Olympic stadium. You can see it's right behind me. Across the street is the way I came. It's the Oedo Line. The stadium is Kokuritsu Kyogijo (National Stadium) Station. It's so long. But the Oedo Line is like the Yamanote Line. It goes around the city. It's the subway circle line. And it's just a couple of stops to Shinjuku, which is right in front of us. I like the location that they picked. This is the first time that I've seen it without cranes. There's the stadium on the left of your screen. And that's the Docomo Tower on the right of your screen. So you can see it is quite close. You could probably walk there in about 30 minutes or so. So it's not too too too far away. It's navigable.

00:23:42 John Daub: Oh, nice car. I'm now totally off the topic of Olympic stadiums. Let me in your car, dude. I don't got tickets to go inside the stadium. Wow. What a car. Peel out. Come on, do it. So today's public opening day. It's not really open, though. The gates are there. I thought I'd be able to walk around. I thought I would just be able to come here and walk inside there and just, you know, touch the wood. Just look at the trees up there. I guess not yet. This is a new hotel, the Mitsui Garden Hotel. You can see it on Google Maps. This is also very beautiful. Again, I don't know if Kengo Kuma designed it or his group. I don't know if he designs everything himself. I'm going to ask him one of these days. But it's made of wood and it looks beautiful. It doesn't look like it's opened yet. But I bet you this hotel is going to be pretty pricey next year. And then the price is going to drop significantly in 2021 because there's nothing really here to see. So no one's going to want to stay there.

00:25:03 John Daub: There's I guess it's an ice skating rink for the community. They've renovated the front of it because it looked pretty retro and it stuck out. So in order to make it look presentable, they put a little glass front there, which is nice. And that is the arena over here, which they still use. So let's go back. So you get that guy's doing it too. So it does. It's permissible to take pictures of that escalator. We're sniping pictures of the Olympic Stadium because they won't let us in. How dare you, Mayor Koike? On public viewing day, the public is shut out. We demand entrance.

00:25:56 John Daub: Oh, like because I've been here a long time streaming over years, you can see they've finished this park as well. There's a park across the street. Little teeny things I'm starting to notice as I walk around it. It's all they're taking walls down and it's all done. The streets are all brand new here, too. To me, that's a big deal. Kind of completes the picture. I wonder how new it's going to look on Olympic opening day. These are cherry blossom trees, too. I believe. So the sakura will be out in the spring. They're young sakura trees. And we're going to cross the street and go to another festival. The big support will perhaps, perhaps this festival has street food. Perhaps we're going to go and find out together.

00:27:03 John Daub: All right. So public viewing day of the stadium. Not a huge success. We did get a chance to see the Olympic torch. We started this live stream looking at the Olympic torch. Let's go take a look at this festival across the street. See if they got some street food. Wow. There's even a highway entrance. There's an entrance to the highway right there, too. That's very interesting. It's good to know these things. So let's follow these runners around the stadium here. You take a few steps back. You get a different view of it. You can see more inside of it. It looks really clean. It's a wonderful design. I can see some of the neon lights in there. They're kind of staked around in there. It's kind of neat. I know I want to get in there. There is Usain Bolt. He's going to be there's going to be an event at 4:30 p.m. They're going to open the gates and let the public in. You need tickets. They didn't really publicize this. But they said, welcome. Our stadium is the name of the campaign. The promotion that they're doing right now. And people with tickets can go inside there tonight and go, wow, look at our stadium. That's really cool.

00:29:10 John Daub: But I was hoping that we'd be able to wait in line and then you could just walk around the stadium and just feel like what it's like inside. But they're not doing it like that. I guess they're just not letting us in to the national stadium. Yeah, I would. I would do something crazy like that. If you guys give me a thousand likes, I'll jump the fence and go in. But then I would need bail money. Don't break the law. It's here. We have the law to protect us. We're going to see if we can get in. And Fabo Faye Bone is here. Hi, John. Your channel is awesome. Love it. Coming to Tokyo in February. It's going to be a little cold. Can't wait. It'll be fantastic to see the stadium. I'm hoping by the time February rolls around that anybody can go in there at any time. This is our tax dollars. Darn it. I paid a lot of taxes actually last year. So I sort of helped fund this. So part of that is ours. Because I paid the tax. You could go in there because most of my taxes were paid by Super Chats and stuff. So it's sort of in a way this is your stadium too. Especially everyone who's been watching for a long time.

00:30:32 John Daub: I've also been looking for the manhole cover. I can't seem to find that. I'm still going to be on the lookout. In fact, I'm going to ask some of the people about it. But over here, there seems to be some kind of event going on. So let's go take a look. And see if there's some street food. Because if there is, that's a big deal. So we're going to say goodbye to the stadium for right now. There's the corner of it. It rounds about here. Meiji Jingu Stadium, which is where the Tokyo Swallows play, is just over there. So often when I was doing live streams or walking around filming in 2017 and I could hear the games being played. During baseball season.

00:31:20 John Daub: All right. Let's go and check out. See if we can get some street food. If you had any question what country this is. Let those questions be answered. Tonight I'm planning to do a snack run. It's been a while. It's chillier than yesterday. Which is good. I guess. It's Saturday night. So something has to be open. They do have street food. Check this out. Can anybody go and get it though? It looks like they have armed guards. I guess I can go and get some street food. Let's go get something. I haven't eaten all day. Welcome to some street truck food festival. Yes. Food truck festival. This is awesome. This is right next to the Olympic Stadium. Hey, Rich Masters. If you're watching, come over. Come on over here. I'll get you a hot dog. Hot dog. Where is it? I'm looking for the wagyu burger. Wagyu burger. Crepes. It smells really good. It's so cold. You can see the steam coming off of the soup here. Do you see the soup he's got? It's steaming.

00:32:51 John Daub: Look at this. There's an omurice (omelet rice). Look at that omelet rice. That actually looks pretty darn good. I'm in on this. Look at the sausage on there. It reminds me of our trip to the German Christmas markets not too long ago. Oh, what is this? Yoko's Curry. Curry and gopal. What a sign. Looks fun. I'm in on that. And then what do we got? Oh, is this the wagyu burger? No. Hey, guys. Look what I just found. Meat. Let's see what they got here. This is, um, what kind of meat is this? Oh, this is USDA. That's not wagyu. That's weird. It's American beef. I have mixed feelings because I'm in Japan. Oh, he ordered the garlic flavor, the guy in front of us. What do you think? I think we have someone saying go for the Thai food. They're from Thailand. Udon noodles. The curry and gopal looks really good. The beef is not wagyu, so it's hard. So we got the curry. The omurice looks pretty good, too.

00:34:29 John Daub: What do you think about the omurice? I didn't see this truck right here. Let me show you. And that's, I believe the parliament building for Tokyo. Hayakawa. Oh, this is in Yamagata Prefecture. This food's from Yamagata. This is from the countryside. And you can see they have stuff like this, just like shiitake with bacon. So it's the shiitake mushroom plus bacon. What is that about? I only have bacon from the outskirts. Alps. This is all made from the Minami Alps of Japan. These big thick slices of bacon. Are you not curious now? Do you go for the bacon? Or look at this. Here's some cafe. They've got soup, clam chowder, and they have some freshly baked bread. You pick it up on the side. I like that. And they got coffee. So it looks like we're going to be having a meal here. And then I'll take you back to the stadium in about five, 10 minutes.

00:35:44 John Daub: Let's see if we can get the 500 likes, get some food. We'll scram back over the stadium and get one last look at the Olympic rings for those that are joining us right now, live from Tokyo. And I'm trying to make up a decision that that bacon looked really good. The line for the omurice is too long though. Look, that's a long line. The butter chicken looks really good as well. Look at that. I'm in the omurice line. Cause that's the line. It seems unique. Let's see how fast they move. Omurice is healthier. I know it's a line. Just a couple of things that are guaranteed in Japan. One is it's going to be awesome. The other one is lines. There's lots of them. And it's a reason why you should wake up earlier than everybody else. There's a reason why it's called the land of the rising sun. You should get here when the sun rises, should start your day. And then in the afternoon when the lines are really long, you've done it all. You can just chill, relax in an alley or something in a cafe or do stuff that doesn't require lining up. So while everyone's lining up, you're doing the stuff that people do normally.

00:37:25 John Daub: The good thing is they seem to have seats. You can just sit all over the parliament building. It's cool. It's right across the street from the Olympic stadium. What? They have Hawaiian beer though. That's pretty crazy. They have a really famous Kona beer. Action going on over there. 600 yen for Kona beer. The great thing about Japan is you can drink outside. Alcohol is okay to drink walking around in the streets. In fact, that dude's getting some Korean booze. They're making a cocktail for him. That's pretty hardcore. Maui brewing is pretty good. There's no other real place to sit but the cold, hard cement. I'd like to go in the stadium, but they won't let me. The line's moving pretty fast here. They've got a lot of rice. It seems like it. But if he's got to make more rice, that's going to be troubling. The crepe is also a good option. See the small truck over there? That's crepe. I just want to attack that bacon too. The bacon line is shorter though. What do you think? But it's not healthy. I'm trying to stay healthy. I eat a lot of sausages in Germany. Oh, she got hers. See, it's moving pretty fast. So there's one, two, three, four, five, six people ahead of me.

00:39:12 John Daub: Mom rice, baby. While we're talking, I can think about things to tell you. The Olympic Stadium is complete. Today is public viewing day, and I can only view it from the outside. I tried to get in. They wouldn't let me. But I met a photographer who gave me pictures, and I might use that for a postcard club because they're pretty darn good pictures. I will. I'm a fighter and a lover. I'm a fighter first, and I will try to get into that stadium. I don't give up. You know that. It smells really good. Let's see here. He's getting his. Oh, they're putting pepper on it. Oh, he got it. He received his. One, two, three, four, five. Now there's only five ahead of me. So they're moving it. It's going to take like five minutes, I think.

00:40:31 John Daub: Sorry, guys. Apparently there's some kind of event going on over there. You see? One thousand likes for breaking the law. I'm not going to break the law. I'm going to do it legally. We're getting some good questions here. What does the food truck sign say? Something about pudding? Pudding say so omelet om rice. So I guess they're using a lot of eggs. And the eggs make it kind of pudding. One of the main ingredients in pudding is eggs. So I'm guessing that has something to do with it. Princess omelet rice. They call it. Oh, you see they put some sort of sauce on it. Maybe they put pudding on it? No. It's a secret sauce. Pudding sauce on the side. Do you know something? I don't know. I want the pudding sauce. I want the good stuff here.

00:42:21 John Daub: And he's making cocktails over there. Marty, I'm not a princess. Just because it's called princess doesn't make you princess. Although there is the phrase, you are what you eat. Should I bail and get the bacon? I'd rather be bacon than a princess. It's kind of creepy. I could be a stick of bacon on a mushroom or I can have princess om rice. Now that you bring it up, it makes me rethink everything. I've reexamined. I don't want to be a bacon princess. Come on, guys. Let's keep it real. Here's the menu. We're a lot closer here. In Japan, you have to wait in line for the privilege of seeing things. The reason that this livestream started late was because I had to wait in line to see the torch. And the line everyone's taking a thousand selfies. It took forever to do it. Some old lady took about ten selfies in different directions with the sign. And she's an old lady, so everyone's getting involved in it.

00:43:34 John Daub: So you can get demi-glace sauce for free. That's interesting. Zero yen for demi-glace sauce. Tomato sauce is for free as well. And you can get white sauce for free. Which free sauce should I go for? What do you think? Should I go for the white sauce? You can also do half and half, by the way. Tomato sauce. You can also do half and half, it says up there. And then they have a demi-glace sauce. I guess white and demi-glace would be pretty hardcore. Am I saying it right? It says demi-glace. See here, the puri-sasu omurice looks like what I'll get. But they have one with a hamburger on it. And they have one with a roast omurice. With roasted duck. But Kanae is very good. She's very anti-duck. She doesn't like to eat the ducks. So I can't eat the duck. But she doesn't want me. She's not happy that I'm eating the ducks. The herb sausage omurice looks good. There's an herb sausage in that one. I don't know. And then there's a hamburger on there. The hamburger one is difficult. And then the princess one. I think I'm just going to go princess.

00:45:17 John Daub: But if I... I know, it's a hard choice. What do you guys think? Should I get the duck, the shrimp fry, duck, herb sausage, hamburger, or just go for the princess? Charles says princess. Javier, I don't see any bacon sauce. Bunny says all of them. Duck. There's a lot of duck lovers. I mean, as in when I say duck lovers, I mean in terms of meat. And then there's a cheese fondue topping. That looks pretty interesting. Intense. Cheese fondue topping. I see Toby's here. Toby (crow). It's nice to see you, Toby. Long time no see. I can't get princess. It's not in me. I know what I'm getting. They have beef stew. How about beef stew? Or the cheese fondue sauce. Princess omurice sauce is white and demi-glace. Half and half.

00:47:11 John Daub: Here you go. Oh, they got Instagram. Utara Kitchen. Thank you. I did it. That looks really good. I don't think you could go wrong with this, right? It looks really good. Demi-glace sauce. All right, this one is brought to you by Toby (crow). Toby's a very good guy. We love Toby. He's not an evil crow. I'm gonna go sit on the cold cement. Oh, wait, they got benches back there, maybe. They're playing music inside of the stadium. I can hear it. It sounds like a NCAA football game now. Look at that benches. Secret benches back here, but they're taken. Yeah, they're taken. I'm gonna have to go cold hard cement. There's the National Stadium right there. We're gonna go. I'm gonna eat this and then we're gonna go over there and take another look at the National Stadium. It's so warm. It's nice. Oh, look at the steam coming off it. This is crazy. It's beautiful, isn't it?

00:49:03 John Daub: So I've got a plastic fork here and we're gonna eat this together. I'm gonna eat it. You're just gonna watch me eat it and smell it. You can't even smell it, can you? All right, sorry. This is an omurice. It is half and half demi-glace and white sauce. And I happen to have a tripod here. So I can eat with both hands because it's not really nice to do it like that. Oh, the flowers. The flowers are blooming. All right, here it is here. I'm live streaming. Sorry. Did you get into the stadium? Are you okay? Yes. Oh, look at that. That looks really good. It looks delicious. Look at that. And that's the rice inside there. And they put an omelet on the top of it. And the white and the demi-glace sauce looks incredible. So let's try it. Thanks, guys. This is my lunch. Wow. That egg is so soft. I don't know what the white sauce is exactly, but it's really creamy. So I'm guessing like eggs and milk, maybe. But the demi-glace sauce is good. It's something you would use on steak. I believe they put like ketchup or some kind of tomato sauce mixed in with the rice. It gives it a little bit of tangy tanginess to it. There is a piece of chicken, so it's not vegetarian. Of course, egg is egg.

00:52:01 John Daub: We're going to go back around the stadium. In about one minute. While I'm eating, why don't you chime in and where are you watching from? Where in the world are you? It's always interesting to see where our audience is watching. Anybody from Antarctica? I'm going to go back and look for Rich Masters. Whoa, Vegas. My mother's basement. Los Angeles. Alright, time to throw it away. At one of the many recycling pits. All right. That was nice. We got some street food from a food truck. Oh, that looks like the photographer that I met. They must know each other. He's got a ladder. I wanna know if I can get one of these people's tickets. Maybe someone who's not using it will give me their ticket and I can go inside. Jason's here. Oh wow, that was good. Okay, let's walk around and if we see Rich, should we see Rich? That'd be nice. Rich said he won't be able to see me. But we'll look for Rich. Rich found me though.

00:55:02 John Daub: All right, go for it. So this is the Olympic Stadium. It was finished about a month ago, I think. Found you. They found me again. Found you. I was still streaming for another minute or so. Did you see the Olympic torch? Yeah. How was it? It was pretty epic. It was pretty cool. They put, make it a sakura design on the front of it. I found some food trucks over there. Yeah, I saw them too. Or I smelled them. Yeah, it was okay. I got the Princess Omurice and people are making fun of me. They say you are what you eat. Did I say that? I think I said that one. So that's about all that I have. I don't know what else I can introduce you to. I'm going to introduce because they won't let us in. However, I'm a fighter and I'm going to protest and then ask the city to let me in. We didn't get to a thousand likes so I can't break the law. I'm going to climb the fence and go inside of it. But the stadium is pretty neat. I know. If I had a pole, do you have a pole vault? No. I could use the cane. I just want to go in and get that magical wagyu burger. I think they have wagyu burgers inside. That's why. I had this fantasy of eating a wagyu burger inside of the Olympic Stadium. That would be so Olympic. That would be very Olympic. That would be epic. Epic Olympics.

00:56:47 Rich: Where are you from, Rich? We're getting questions now. I think the Broncos says it. I think, yeah. For those who don't know the NFL, he's wearing Denver Broncos. And if you know college football, Colorado Buffaloes. Oh, the Buffaloes. They were big in the 80s. Yes. They're very powerful. And then what happened? The Pac-12 happened, right? Yeah. That's what happened. Had some really good teams. Heisman winner, right? Yeah. Like 94, I think. Yeah. Running back. Yeah. I remember those years. That was when I was watching a lot of college football when I was in high school. So we can't quite get in here. Not like Ohio State where they have 20 Heisman winners. I think we have seven. Oh, well. Seven. Overinflation. Yeah. Troy Smith was the last one. We'll get another one. Eddie George was a 95 when I was there. Eddie won. I knew he would win too. And in a way, LSU's Joe Burrow, he's also kind of a Buckeye, although he's LSU. He transferred. Kind of consider him a Buckeye. Traitor. He had no choice. I don't blame him. Nobody blames him for leaving. In fact, I credit him for leaving. You got to know when to leave.

00:58:04 John Daub: I will be back here. But I wanted to share with you on the opening day because the news is going to be covering this. Usain Bolt is here inside of there. I want to see him run. Kanae loves Usain Bolt. Maybe more than me now. She doesn't. But she really loves Usain Bolt. We can't get inside. There's an entrance on the other side, but they won't. They asked me for a ticket. I said, where can I buy the ticket? And they said, sorry. And I said, don't apologize. It's not your fault. I always say that though, because in Japan, people apologize a lot. Do you have any questions before we end this? An hour of trying to sneak into the stadium isn't as exciting. Usain Bolt is inside that stadium. Is it opened? Yes. If you have a ticket. Or a press pass. What? I have all my business cards. I wonder if I can get in there. I want to see Usain Bolt run. He says he's not going to be competing in the Olympics this year, but he's running today in the opening to the public of the stadium. It's because it's complete. That's the ceremony that's happening.

00:59:30 John Daub: I don't know if I'm using the other channel yet. It's not 2020 yet. I do have a plan to get in there. But it involves breaking the law. I'm not going to do that. So one last shot in here. These fences here used to be 10 feet high, but now everybody can look in here. And now this is one of the gates, gate A from the Oedo Line. So if you come here. On the Oedo Line, you can come and see this view as well. It's kind of a neat picture. You see how much green, how natural the stadium looks. Lots of panels along the stadium. Lots of tiers. The opening ceremony tickets start at like $3,000. So I'm not going. I'd rather buy a new computer or something. Actually, I'd rather go. But there was a lottery and I lost that. There's the campaign. I'm not going. This is the campaign right there. Hello, our stadium. I learned about this last night when I and I looked, how do we get in? And there were tickets are all gone. And Chris Hansen writes and dang. That's how I feel, too.

01:00:36 John Daub: So we're going to I'm going to say goodbye, everybody. So thanks for watching my failure of trying to get into the stadium. But we did get some street food and we had a lot of fun. And I think that's the most important thing of them all. I'm planning to do a midnight snack run tonight. Probably around midnight. So you know when. Where? I'm not going to tell you that yet. But I'll see you in about 12 hours. Bye, everybody. I'll give you the last 20 seconds of what people will take your pictures of, which is that escalator, I think. They like that escalator. It's the best escalator on the stadium right there. The other side is pretty impressive, too. But wow, have they come a long way since winning the Olympics and the stadium now in front of us the games are imminent and it's really, really, really exciting. So thanks for subscribing and sticking with the channel. A lot more to come in 2020 as well. Bye, guys.