00:00:07 John Daub: How you doing everybody? Come on in the tent. Welcome. Well, it's true. If you've heard it on the news, Japan has declared a state of emergency. Tokyo is locked down. There are seven prefectures where they shouldn't be going outside, and we'll have to change the way we live for the next 30 days at least. Then we'll see what happens. But I'm going to tell you something. This state of emergency lockdown is not going to be a good thing.

00:00:42 John Daub: It's not going to take my dreams away. No. A friend of mine once said to me when I wouldn't let him fly a drone in the city of Tokyo, "Man, you can't fly your drone here. Police are going to swarm you." And he said, "John, don't take away my dreams." That day he didn't fly his drone. The next day he tried and he was busted. I'm not going to let the state of emergency or any government take away my dreams. And you don't have to actually go to a forest to camp. The definition of camping, I don't know what that means, but I do know one thing.

00:01:13 John Daub: I have a tent. I have YouTube. I have a video with a campfire that goes for eight hours straight. I have gas and a burner. I got snacks. I have a chair. I've got fake trees. Everything that you need to survive an emergency lockdown and feel like you're outside. I came up with this idea because I just can't stand being inside anymore. It's just driving me crazy. And this sort of helps a little bit.

00:01:43 John Daub: So I'm going to take you on a tour around my little camp spot here in Tokyo lockdown. And maybe this is something you want to try. But this is going to become some kind of series. I think I'm going to be able to. Now, can Kanae join me with this? Hey, Kanae, do you think this is silly? She's sleepy. She's going to sleep in a bed. She doesn't have that same connection with nature that I have. This desire deep down to camp. I mean, with the warm weather and the sunshine and all this, at night, you know, I'm going to live like this. And I think after this live stream, she's going to want to join me in this camp in this tent for tomorrow.

00:02:13 John Daub: We've got survival food. I've got food in a can. I've got food that we can cook. I have everything that we need to make a good camp spot, including a veranda, a balcony where we can actually maybe do some gas cooking. So I hope you do subscribe. Follow me in this ridiculous thing. All right. Inside of the tent here. This may seem ridiculous, but we are all locked down. This is the tent's pretty nice. This is a Montbell tent. Japanese company. This is a sleeping bag. And up here on the top, I do have illumination, which keeps it bright here.

00:02:43 John Daub: Yeah. Can you hear that sound? It's pretty cool, right? The sound of insects. But the great thing with all this, the great thing with camping inside the city is that you actually don't have any insects at all. So there's no spiders. There's no bugs. There's no ants. There's no things trying to get into your tent. I think Kanae is asleep. The roaring campfire would put anybody to sleep. Actually, it's just so cozy. You can see it burning through this tent. There's no rain. It's absolutely perfect. And we have the window open. So there's some fresh air coming in here.

00:03:50 John Daub: I think I'm going to need the sleeping bag here. Let's go out and get a drink. Okay, come on. This is our stool here. It's really nice, huh? Come on over here by the campfire. So come by. Let me get you a better view. Shouldn't be sitting on the ground there. It's nice here by the campfire. It's really realistic, sort of. And we have this big 4K TV. It just seemed to me like this camp spot can move wherever this TV moves. And there's a bunch of channels on YouTube that allow me to change the scenery. This is pretty cool.

00:05:19 John Daub: It's really nice. And maybe there's a jungle scenery. I found that I put a link in the description. You can try this out too if you want. You can just have this on for eight hours and watch. There's no commercials or anything like that. Unlike this show. Gotta support myself. But you put trees around. You have house plants. It's pretty realistic. I did get some snacks here. And I'll be taking some of your questions. We're going to have a chat side, a fireside chat about the state of emergency and what's to come in Japan because there's going to be a lot of changes going on over the next 30 days.

00:05:50 John Daub: A lot of them have been announced by the government and over time I'm going to introduce you what life is like locked down. I'm not going to try to grow a beard. The Internet didn't like that. I'm not going to take you on tours of my refrigerator anymore. I got to come up with new ideas. This is part of living in a lockdown society. You are stuck in a box and how do you create? How do you create? Me? I live in a tent. My wife is in a bed.

00:06:20 John Daub: I forgot some snacks. Let's go back in the tent. Let's get the snacks. I got a couple of snacks for us here. Who wrote that? Chop down a tree. Just for your information. These are plastic trees. I don't think I want to chop these down. Why would I? I don't need firewood. This isn't a real fire. Who wrote that? This is silly people out there. So these snacks are for you. They're pretty good. This is a typical [inaudible] I sent this to some Patreon supporters in the daimyo packages.

00:07:19 John Daub: I don't know when they're going to get their guys. Um, the post office said there's about 126 countries that have sort of stopped mail but the US, UK, Australia and Canada are four of them that are still going so I sent out packages to people. This is a traditional Japanese snack and uh we're gonna try this by the campfire here. I just love being outside. Check it out you see that I'm looking for a fish so we're gonna go fishing. If we find one we can have fish for dinner.

00:07:54 John Daub: So I actually don't have a pond to go fishing but if you eat snacks with little fish in them it's sort of like fishing. Now today besides going to the post office which is an essential service we really didn't do anything we stayed inside the whole time. I can get work here and I can get food and I got a lot of editing to do but I don't know man I think we're gonna be in like this situation for a long time. Found a fish check it out I caught one it's a fish. It's just salty it doesn't really have much of a fishy taste at all but it's loaded in calcium which is pretty good for you.

00:09:18 John Daub: Somebody don't burn it. Hey Puki is here thank you so much Puki from the UK. I see who else is here with us today Jim Mendenhall this is a genius idea you've seriously made my day you're very welcome. Tony P is this how you summon a sasquatch to your house and are you going to make some s'mores. What I'm trying to say here is and my magnificent meal is here thank you from Denmark what I'm trying to say here is guys look we're all locked down we all have to stay inside we can't go out we shouldn't go out.

00:10:05 John Daub: It is our responsibility as citizens of Japan and wherever you are in the world because most of the world's locked down to stay inside and don't let anybody steal your dreams. Don't say that it cannot be done because you with YouTube can bring the outdoors to your house you can make it fun and that's what I'm trying to do with this and no matter how bad the situation is I'll find a way to survive. I have Amazon which delivers to the door they leave it there and then they walk away. We wipe down the boxes and we bring them inside and so far so good.

00:10:36 John Daub: We did that with the Domino's pizza box we ordered delivery Domino's um two nights ago it was really good forty dollars but really good um that video is also on this channel just a couple days ago. But I'm gonna try to do some camp food and some cooking with the gas stove that I have here. Oh let me get the gas stove hold on it's in the tent. All right I don't think you can use this inside this is a Primus gas canister and then I got the stove here check it out we're gonna do some cooking with this.

00:11:21 John Daub: It might seem lower quality just because it's low light and the iPhone's doing its best to try to keep up with the low light but actually Wi-Fi in Tokyo is really bad right now and probably around a lot of places around the world just because everyone is streaming Netflix Hulu YouTube all sorts of social media stuff. So when everyone's on streaming there's not a lot of stream left to take. This is the set here this is um a Primus oven I know cookware so we've got a this is gonna be so much fun here we go teeny fry pan it's Teflon which means we can't put it in a fire but we can put it on the gas.

00:12:20 John Daub: And this is a pot we can make nabe (hot pot) with it we can make tea with it coffee we can do all sorts of things with this um so we're gonna have some fun cooking with these utensils here. We could cheat the kitchen's right there but we're not gonna do that um we're also going to now this i don't think we can use this inside one second i don't think we can use this indoors it's pretty hey Pozole's here it's pretty strict yeah don't use it in the house we have a balcony outside so we're gonna use it out there.

00:12:48 John Daub: And we'll have um something in case something does happen but we also have a gas burner that we use for nabe. It's in Japan people do use gas burners inside the house for nabe and for okonomiyaki (savory pancake) and making takoyaki (octopus balls). We have these um Iwatani gas stoves which you can use indoors so one way or another we're gonna have a campfire. I don't know if we're gonna make s'mores you know why marshmallows are not that easy to find now maybe other people have the same idea but it's not even the marshmallows it's the graham crackers impossible.

00:13:30 John Daub: So you have to compromise find something like that I don't know like sweet senbei (rice crackers) or something bottom line improvise. Costco doesn't even have graham crackers I saw that have to improvise Japan I've been living here for 23 years I cannot eat what I want to eat so you find the next best thing or make it yourself. Is it easy to make graham crackers I think not so you're gonna have to compromise. What do you guys do to try to pass the time besides reading a book.

00:14:16 John Daub: Today excuse me today Prime Minister Abe wrote in the news that you can do inside your house like use social media on the TV news also did this camping wasn't one of them insane. This is the best way to pass time you can just sit here do nothing like this look it's pretty cool right. So I think tomorrow I really have to sell this idea to Kanae. All right we got to get another chair you have to have a camping chair they have to be uncomfortable because then it wouldn't be camping if you had a comfortable chair.

00:15:05 John Daub: We can't sit on the sofa it's too comfortable you have to be uncomfortable to camp. A little table here and just drink around the campfire listen to the nature not bad it's not bad. I get another snack here for you you keep this rolling here these are mino are you familiar with these these are incredible ball and um I guess they're sort of mame basically edamame without the outside of the shell and they've been deep fried and they're salty. We're gonna give this a try I love these um what is so funny though as I open this up here hold on a second what are we writing here magnificent meal stay safe John best of Denmark you got it I'll stay safe.

00:16:05 John Daub: And how beautiful beautiful Jay uh good morning from Chattanooga Tennessee thank you welcome to the camp here. All right these mino here they're really good soramame deep fried but look at this look how small it is it's about I don't know like six ounces five ounces no less than that I'd say it's about like four ounces. It just doesn't say but it's so small and it has a ziplock it has a locking air lock right what a waste I mean who wouldn't finish this little digi bag in one sitting like you have three and you put away and you make this last for a week insane.

00:16:40 John Daub: Show you what this is inside let me warm it up a little bit these are so good it's a little bit salty it's a little bit oily but it's pretty good because it has still some of that vegetable taste to it it makes it really good it's a good balance. It's not actually like a potato chip it's got some vegetable taste to it so it tastes let's just say all right it's probably not as healthy as potato chips it could be I don't know but it certainly tastes like it could be healthier and that is a big plus mentally.

00:18:07 John Daub: All right let's take some of these questions here I really thought for a few minutes that's hilarious Geek Moto thanks for that Elaine Stanley it's going pretty good thanks Elaine and Tony P ah you sent me mino first time you'll package those are amazing right you had a supplementary package. I have been trying to find out more I did eat the bag in one sitting I know it's like why do they even put this in a ziploc bag. I guess I'm gonna take 30 seconds for myself and enjoy this mino and beer and I'll take you inside the tent it's getting a little cold out here so just chill for a second looks pretty real yeah.

00:19:42 John Daub: Um so as I said for those that's you waiting that's I can't believe there's a thousand people watching my live room camping um Tokyo uh Prime Minister Abe has declared a state of emergency uh we knew about it yesterday that was coming he was thinking about it and he officially did it at 7 pm today in Tokyo. And that means Japan doesn't actually have any um how do I say there's no bite to the bark. All right let's go let's go in the tent let's go in the tent ah it's better inside the tent.

00:20:29 John Daub: All right so yeah it does seem a little bit ridiculous I'm aware of that doing my best here have some fun. All right so the um crickets are pretty realistic aren't they. So the um state of emergency means that um it doesn't really mean anything that has changed over the last um six hours or 24 hours it just basically means that it is official. And I think Kanae and I have been talking about this let me get some air in here it's an air vent in this tent this is the tent I use for hitchhiking um about two and a half years ago it's been a while.

00:21:07 John Daub: Oh look at the air is coming in here usually oh look at that there's a leaf in there there's a tree leaf check it out crazy outside the air vent looks like I am outside it's pretty sweet indoor camping. So basically I think people that were working um in office jobs and such the businesses didn't want to stop working they were still operating and workers salarymen businessmen were going to the office anyways despite all this craziness all this you know the risk to it.

00:21:49 John Daub: What the state of emergency does in my mind is and Kanae as well people who have had to go to non-essential jobs now can stay home and not risk themselves and bring that back to the family. The government understands that people shouldn't be going out. The police understand that. Sensible people understand that. But companies in Japan businesses and people that have been working hard their whole lives don't understand that you should probably be working from home.

00:22:24 John Daub: Not a lot of the businesses not many businesses it grew over the last couple of months but not many were actually allowing workers to work from home. The Yamanote line which is a circle line around the city of Tokyo was only 30% less people I heard during the morning commute. That means people were still pretty crowded. There's a lot of light in those trains going to work. In a state of emergency declaring it means that probably it's going to go way way down and people aren't going to be going into work.

00:22:59 John Daub: The businesses got some time to think about how to do teleworking. Over the last month businesses that had never considered it had some leeway to now get their workers ready for this new work style. That's just going to have to be. The government also has stimulus packages. I think it was like 3 trillion yen or something which is not nearly as much as what the United States is doing in their stimulus package but it's still a pretty good start.

00:23:31 John Daub: I know that this is such a tough situation for everybody around the world. This is not just Japan. It's not just the United States. I got friends in Italy that are hurting friends in France friends in Spain all over the world. In India we have family that are having a tough time. The police there they just hit you with a stick. They don't fine you because there's no money. They just hit you. You see it on TV. I hope that my cousins stay out of trouble. Just stay inside cousins. Don't go out there and get hit by a stick like caned.

00:24:12 John Daub: I want to encourage you to subscribe because I'm going to be doing more and more of this. We're going to be cooking Japanese food on the balcony. I've got some pretty good stuff in a can. These episodes are going to get a lot funner. This is just the first one of many. Hi John I'm going to sleep good night. This is from Audrey. Good night Audrey. Good night Jason's here nice to see everybody.

00:24:42 John Daub: India is straight up in lockdown. Yeah it's really tough going there. Because India is such a populous country I'm really scared the most for people there. They have to go out and make a living. There's not really a lot of people. I don't know how do you give support to people. It just would take such a long time to do it fairly. I don't know. I just have a lot of fear for family in India.

00:25:09 John Daub: Yeah I think though if you are locked down think outside the box and find ways to keep your family entertained. And this is one way that I'm going to keep Kanae entertained and myself as well because it can get pretty boring. I'm not going to watch Netflix and lose my brain cells. Well I shouldn't say that. Netflix there's some pretty good shows in there. But you can watch TV too much. You have to turn it off start reading books start finding ways to work write stuff keep a journal start writing stories fiction.

00:25:37 John Daub: It doesn't matter. Fantasy fiction life. Write about somebody who you idolized as a kid or write about somebody or a fictitious person that you idolized. Make up who's the ideal person. There's like a bazillion ideas. But do stuff like this. Make up fantasy. Now I did buy Kanae a German outfit that the girls wear in the beer halls and she never has worn that. It's sitting in the closet. You know the one with the 10 liters of beer here and here and they wear these outfits with the frillies in Munich.

00:26:07 John Daub: I bought a nice one there and she's never worn that. I don't think she ever will. I think I gave it to her and just like one of these gifts like oh Halloween. I'm like no but that's for another livestream. But my point is have fun with being locked down. All right. This isn't an actual prison. We have stuff like tents and sleeping bags and internet. We can do some stuff with this. Think outside the tent.

00:26:51 John Daub: Speaking of which I think I'm going to get outside this tent. It's really really hot in here. Let's get back outside. I wonder if you know what I should do? I wonder if I can actually buy a squirrel. Now I think that'd be really that'd be pretty cruel. I've seen them at pet shops. I'm just I'm not going to actually do it. Don't buy a squirrel. But if I did that'd be pretty fun though you know to have a squirrel in your house in your fake camp. But that's also cruel. Don't do it. Don't want to get bugs inside.

00:27:38 John Daub: Nice to be back outside. Air is cooler you know sleeping in a tent. It's a little bit hot inside there even with the vent. I think I got to get a fan in there to get some air circulating. We've been thinking about getting a hamster. That'd be pretty cool. Pretty cool. I also ordered I have this one. Do you guys know what this is? This is a headlamp. So if I turn off all the lights I can if I have to go to the restroom I can find my way without turning on all of the lights.

00:28:22 John Daub: I actually have a little mood light over here in the corner or else YouTube the iPhone wouldn't be able to pick up anything with the lights. I don't know if you guys know what this is. It's a light. But if I need to go to the restroom in the middle of the night I can use this and I don't even have to turn on any lights. I want to be self-sufficient sort of you know like I don't want to be able to turn switches on. I want to feel like I'm at any great outdoors which means I probably should introduce maybe I should introduce mosquitoes and bugs to our living room. That's not a good idea. It's not a good idea.

00:29:29 John Daub: Veto Kelvin if I even ask that it'd be like I'd have slap prints across my face all right it's like a big hard no for that it's a hard no um but life life in Tokyo is gonna change I think. Already when we go out shopping to the supermarket we go on off hours where there's not that many people inside there don't touch anything and it's really scary I think just because we have a mindset which might be overdoing it that everybody is sick. All right we don't know who it is just everybody's sick get what you need and get out um can I try not to breathe.

00:30:08 John Daub: We went to an ATM and Kanae held her breath the whole time she went in there she got the money and then she got out and it was like in 30 seconds that's how far we've come hold your breath in the ATM and then we wiped alcohol when we got out there it's pretty hardcore right. We waited till there was no one in there too but the um idea is to just distance yourself. The thing is all right guys all right I'm not talking about Japanese but in Tokyo Tokyo people don't know about social distancing all right social distancing i know i gotta watch out for the coyotes the dingoes watch out for the dingoes social distancing is not a thing here.

00:31:11 John Daub: All right I'll be at a traffic light when I was running at 11 I usually run at 11 or 12 like midnight because there's no people outside um dudes will be coming up and standing like right next to me and there's no reason they have to stand next to me like what what are you doing dude. It's like if you're a guy and you're at the urinal and there's a whole line of urinals you know where I'm going with this at the in the restroom it's like you're a guy you go and you go there and that dude there's like 20 of them he picks the one next to you all right why would you do that.

00:31:48 John Daub: In Japan in Tokyo they do that and they're just used to it I think if and if they're all taken one guy probably starts to try to share the other one like it's normal because we're so used to being like this in the subway so social distancing is really really bad here. And it's been bad all through this despite the news talking about social distancing Japan is still really bad at it they don't get it. Even though you have a mask on you the best thing to do is still be like three meters away if the news says if the news says two I do I think three to five whatever the news says just double it that's my goal.

00:32:36 John Daub: The news says you shouldn't have one glass of wine I have two all right just do just double whatever the news says and you'll be okay whatever the numbers are either at least for social distancing all right triple it. OCD stakes has tripled it um that's listen ten meters is better than two let's be honest right just in Tokyo we don't have that kind of luxury of space so social distancing I'm so uncomfortable um with people I'm I slalom around it I I go out of my way to go out of people's way all right? Slalom.

00:33:15 John Daub: You have to do what you have to do to keep your family safe again right? Just keep yourself and your family safe. If you guys like this campfire indoor camping series Tokyo Lockdown Camping give me a like on this video. Let me know that this is something that you're interested in because I think that there's something really wrong with people who vlog in their living rooms and don't make it interesting. I just get bored watching that. Maybe this too but you have to make an effort to create.

00:33:36 John Daub: So get some likes. Try to get a thousand likes on this thing. That's the deal. But I believe that camping I believe that camping can be a lot more fun inside. And if your mother I'm talking to you know I know family this is a family issue. I'm talking to my mom. If there's any families watching if there's anyone in your house that doesn't like camping hey bring the camping in the house. That's what I say.

00:34:24 John Daub: Matthew writes in here Matthew Robinson. Hi John if you're still camping in your living room on April 30th can you join a world record attempt? I've sent you a link on Patreon. Thank you. I wonder what the world record is for camping in your living room. And is it really camping? I don't know. The definition of camping is very big. Just tent right? I pitched look I pitched a tent in my living room.

00:35:06 John Daub: That's my couch. That's carpet. It's very plush. It's from Ikea. You know they have a $50 carpet and $100 carpet. This is the $100 carpet. Plush plush but it's very soft to sleep on. This is the most luxurious camping spot I've ever been in in my entire life because there's no bugs it's just too clean because Kanae who's asleep maybe clean up before I set up the tent because she didn't want to represent poorly um magnificent I'll never get bored for your content I give the award thank you thank you.

00:36:02 John Daub: You know that this is gonna end with me turning off the light going to sleep to the roaring campfire right so just hang in there. So I can't go out and give you live streams outside so I have to bring the outdoors to you and I've ordered some food and gotten some things that I think is gonna make it really interesting and of course I'm gonna be giving you some updates on what's happening here in Japan but I can't just do that that'd be just killer boring.

00:36:34 John Daub: So we're gonna do some delivery food a lot of food a lot of I started this segment I want you guys right now to start writing down questions or you can write in the comments below we're gonna do an ask Kanae segment remember I didn't ask me you segment if you google ask me you mi why you you'll get this stream that I did when I was in Yonago and Tottori. I was doing a homestay with a family's friends family and they have a high school girl that was there and we asked her if she could come over and ask her questions about life at high school in Japan and it was really popular in 2017 or 2018 it was like two years ago.

00:37:16 John Daub: And you should go back and watch that was really good her answers were excellent her English was pretty good I was impressed. But we're gonna ask Kanae questions about Japan and it's a way for her to also practice English but also a way for you to get to know Kanae and me a little bit more so that's another segment we're gonna do in the next segment. We're gonna be doing within the Only in Japan Go series so we have camping ask Kanae updates delivery food and I don't know you know what I'm just gonna keep finding new ideas.

00:37:51 John Daub: Oh I got it I gotta do live stream introducing to you what I did before I did YouTube it's pretty interesting I was waiting for a rainy day guess what it doesn't rain inside here there's no rainy days I just got to do it. And that means I did a 20 year anniversary episode so I'm gonna be doing some John's background episode and introduced to you like I've had a pretty amazing life here in Japan. I don't really talk about it too too much you just know that I've been here for a long time but I haven't talked too much about my English teaching and my how I was making YouTube videos before YouTube.

00:38:32 John Daub: Alright I started making travel videos about Japan in 2003 and I got some pretty freaky bad videos about Japan in 2003 and I got some pretty freaky stuff to show you from before you know YouTube. All the YouTubers are like oh I was here first in 2006 look I was doing this in 2003 and there's people that I know have been doing this for like since the 1980s they're just really old they don't look like you know like us. And I don't look the same if I compare myself to seven years ago in the first videos I look like a kid and I look like an older kid.

00:39:17 John Daub: I'm wearing this this I got this at 100 yen shop so it's not very bright I'm gonna have to upgrade I think it's not safe what if a bear comes in here or an okapi or some sort of weird animal you know we're gonna want to have good lights and good protection. We're doing also I'm gonna order some more camping gear all right we just have like more I'm gonna see if I can find some more camping gear I'm gonna order more trees all right and keep the super chats going because this is going to get expensive.

00:39:49 John Daub: I'm going to try to turn this into a jungle we're just getting started so by April 30th the end of the lockdown I think we're going to be living outside inside all right. So just encourage me to do this because this is going to get pretty crazy Amazon is our best friend I like to support the economy so I'm going to be ordering stuff ordering a fishing rod um actually the Sumida River is kind of far away but I think if I have enough line I could probably get it out there if the wind hits the lure just right you can push that into the Sumida River catch some fish maybe.

00:40:23 John Daub: But um yeah we're gonna bring the outside to the inside and uh guys encouraging me helps a lot uh magnificent meal I will never get oh okay that was I appreciate that too uh hey Ann Dugan's here thank you for taking care and sharing your experience. This has been trying on so many levels you know I know that this is I had a talk with another YouTube creator today and um talk with another YouTube creator and he's stuck in another country right now and um I asked him what's he gonna do he's good he said he was gonna make new content.

00:41:10 John Daub: And I wanted to tell him that you know i don't know if he's watching your videos or if you're joining a friend or if you're just people who are looking for stay inside and stay safe for two reasons. One um a lot of people are suffering right now and they can't go outside what makes you so special that you think that you can go outside and you can meet your friends all right. If you're a YouTuber right now don't go outside and meet your friends and try to make content to entertain us you're not special like in that sense i'm not special like that.

00:41:41 John Daub: We're in a situation now that we're all locked in here stay with your family and try to help others to feel like you are so special and you don't wanna go out and have a sandwich on your face and you wanna head out just like that. So if you're not enjoying your life you are safe and you can start learning from this life to create inside the box all right. And I told him if you go out there and try to make content and put people at risk because you yourself might have this then I think that that's going to be something that people rebel against and that could hurt you in the long run um especially if you do come down getting and get sick from this because you didn't need to be doing this at all.

00:42:13 John Daub: Um people just want to be working I want to be working but we can't right now I want to be doing a lot of stuff but you know I want a real campfire I want marshmallows and graham crackers I can't have everything that I want. So the best thing that I can do is simulate it and try to pass the time with you guys and have some fun and the more you encourage me the more this is gonna get crazy. You know what it's gonna the next um indoor camp one is going to get pretty pretty fun i i'm really appreciate thanks guys for the likes too that that makes my day because this is going to get more fun.

00:42:54 John Daub: Okay got some questions here. Magnificent meal thank you. That's funny. After some stuff happening I'm back. I'll have some sausages for the campfire. Don't burn down the place. I'll sleep in the tent forever. Yeah I'm not going to burn it down. Hope not anyways. Thank you magnificent meal. I appreciate that. We're going to get some camp food and stuff. And we're going to have some fun. Next time Kanae is going to join me. And I think that's going to make it a little bit different.

00:43:29 John Daub: Oh oh oh. I forgot I got to tell you this okay? Tomorrow I'm going to meet with Kevin Reilly digitally. I'm going to put him on this screen. And we're going to talk about the experience down in Osaka. A lot of people were asking me how is Osaka? How is other parts of Japan? So Kevin Reilly is going to give us a report about Osaka tomorrow around 6 p.m. Japan time. We'll be on live with Kevin Reilly from Kuma's Kitchen to talk about Osaka. Just a little bit of an update.

00:44:04 John Daub: Because he's a good friend of mine a good guy. I want to hear what he thinks Osaka is doing. I can tell you about Tokyo but he's going to tell you about Osaka. So the king of Osaka will be back tomorrow digitally. I'm going to put him on this TV so we'll both be able to see him. This is the only way. Look. I can't even. Kanae can't even meet her father because he's still working. And he might have it and she might have it. And the family is separated right now. This is how serious it is guys. Families are separated.

00:44:36 John Daub: She's got to live with me all right? And it's not easy for anybody to live with me for more than like 10 minutes. Ask Peter von Gomm my friend Peter doing a live stream with me. It's like it's not easy all right? But you can tolerate it for like an hour sometimes more. Kanae's got to live with me. Think about her pain and suffering. So I have to ease that by making up a life that doesn't really exist. I'm not really a lumberjack. I can't grow a beard. I try right? All you can do is try people.

00:45:15 John Daub: So tomorrow Kevin will be back and we're going to do some and we have some cooking shows too. So think of questions for Kanae. Ask Kanae. Oh this is a very good question. Isn't the lockdown only for certain prefectures? It is. Tokyo Saitama Osaka Hyogo Chiba maybe Fukuoka. And there's one other one. Maybe Kanagawa which is Yokohama. And probably it will increase. But right now Tokyo is out of control. And I just told you why. People need to be told to stay inside all right? By the government.

00:46:08 John Daub: Or else offices are still going to make people go into work because Japanese workers do what their boss tells them to do. They're very good. Workers in Japan are very I guess the word is competent. They're very good at what they do. You tell them to do it they do it. Very loyal. But they need an excuse to stop. And Prime Minister Abe today's announcement was that excuse for people to stop working. Just as an excuse to stop what they're doing. Stay home and protect your family.

00:46:44 John Daub: And this made both of us when we watched Abe's speech today feel really comfortable that things are going to get a little bit better. The second thing is that social distancing as I said is awful. Go if you want to see go tomorrow. Wait like 10 hours. Go on the livestream channels on our Discord server. We have one we've listed I think Nosh Abroad has listed all the livestream channels. And Katayama have put in their Discord. And I think they're all in there for Japan that are working. And you can watch people how they don't like to social distance. They like to get next to people. That's the worst thing you can do. And that's what they're doing.

00:47:21 John Daub: Social distancing doesn't even it's not really a word in Japanese. They don't really sosharu distancing. They don't really have anything. Maybe they do now. Maybe someone's going to come up with it. But what's trending on Twitter now was escape Tokyo. Like people were leaving. And Prime Minister Abe like slammed the hammer down. And said don't travel. Don't leave Tokyo. Stay where you are. Stay inside. Just take care of your family. Think about others. He said these things. And we all knew them. But in Japan sometimes it has to be said by the person in charge in order for it to really take root. And that's what happened tonight. And that's a good thing for this country.

00:48:09 John Daub: And I think that we're going to start to see things stabilize. But the fact it took so long it's worrying. But I think he was also giving businesses a chance to I don't know change or make a transition into mobile working situations. Because they weren't there yet. And they needed time. There's probably a lot of stuff behind in the background that we don't know about. For example is Japan testing enough? A lot of people have been asking me about this. The answer is probably not. You have to have a fever for four days before they test. And they don't test you. Just let that sink in for a little bit.

00:48:49 John Daub: And even after four days when you call you have to find where the tests are. And sometimes it's telephone tag. But people that stay home and don't need ICU they typically will stay home and they don't get diagnosed. And it's over with. And they recover. Because the reason why we're not too far off is that the death toll is not reflective of the number of cases. You know what I mean? So the rate of the people who are losing their lives because of this is not so great that it's actually pretty proportionate to the numbers that we have. So I don't know if it's accurate or not. I don't want to get into it too much. I just tell you the situation.

00:49:36 John Daub: You have to be sick for four days with a fever before they test you. And then even after you get the fever good luck finding a test. That's the situation now. Just chew on that for a minute while I enjoy the sound of crickets. Roaring fire. I got to go in a minute. Any questions? Why is it so hard to find the tests? Either there's not enough of them or there are and certain agencies are handling it or certain insurance companies are covering it and you have to find one that's covered by an insurance. It's made too hard to find it. The news covered this two days ago on Monday they followed people and celebrities in Japan are complaining. Now we have celebrities coming down with it. They can't find tests either.

00:50:55 John Daub: And it's just the system is this is so Japan. And I don't complain about it. This is the system that's Japan. It's not perfect but there's a lot of bureaucracy involved in it. And eventually the system will get better and better and better. But it's not good right now. If you want to get tested you're probably not going to have that opportunity here unless you have a fever for four days. They won't test you. So Dan for those of people that were laid off I don't know anybody who's been laid off. I'll be honest with you. I don't know if anyone has been laid off. So I can't say that for sure.

00:52:01 John Daub: I'm going to think that the assistance is going to be direct. I remember getting a thousand yen from the government from an assistance program. It just kind of magically came into my account. So I think that the government will just transfer money to people's accounts. I don't know how it works. They just announced it yesterday. So we're going to be able to give you more of this information in the next update. This is just hitting us now. I just went fishing the next day. I caught a fish in the snack. It's kind of salty. Keep the spirit up and we will beat this. Keep safe everyone. Yeah absolutely. Stay inside and just stay positive.

00:52:55 John Daub: You know what I mean? There's a lot of other YouTube creators that are making pretty good stuff. And I'm not sure if my stuff is pretty good but I'm having fun with it. So just stay at home and don't get in a fight with your family. It's going to be a long one. Folks if you get in a fight before you go to bed just make up. Everything will be okay in the morning. Seriously. If you have anybody that just had a fight with somebody wake up in the morning start fresh again. Because you know what? Especially here where this isn't an American sized house.

00:53:37 John Daub: Good night everybody. For those going to bed. I'm going to bed in about one minute. For those that are living together and have been at this for longer than I have. It's understandable that we are getting fights. We've had some mini arguments too. But when you go to bed and you wake up the next day it's just a total reset. Because this is Groundhog Day and you have to get along in order to get through this. Or you drive people crazy. Somebody said that there's not going to be a baby boom. There's going to be a divorce boom. I don't know man.

00:54:16 John Daub: How do I get in this thing? It's locked. I'm not really going to bed. I'm just faking it so I can end the live stream. I don't know if I'm going to sleep here tonight. It's pretty nice to sleep here though. I'm probably going to go sleep. I'll just go in there later. Hold on a second. Alright guys. Thanks so much for the questions. I know that it's low light so it's not going to be the same kind of quality. I'll work on this for the next one. Thanks for the likes and encouraging me.

00:55:19 John Daub: But I want you all to stay positive. For you in the US you're starting a new day. And I'll bring you Kevin Reilly at 6pm which is not a good time for you. It's like Nosh's bedtime. It's like what is that? 6pm is 5am in New York. It's like 2am in California right? So I'll see you then tomorrow. And I might do another live stream for lunch tomorrow. I got a bunch of content that's coming here. So until then have a good night everybody. I'll see you tomorrow. Well that's freaky. Enjoy the sound of campfire. Don't worry. It's a video. It's not real. And I don't have to put it out. But I can enjoy sleeping with the sound of it. I'm not really sleeping. I'm just pretending I am.