Ask My Wife Kanae Anything ONLY in JAPAN
Ask My Wife Kanae Anything ONLY in JAPAN
Overview
In this special live stream recorded from their Tokyo apartment during the COVID-19 lockdown, John Daub invites his wife Kanae to take over the mic and answer questions submitted by the Only in Japan Go community. What begins as a casual, at-home Q&A evolves into a warm, candid, and often hilarious look inside their marriage — touching on everything from Kanae's 30-year career as a contemporary dancer and ballet school owner, to her favorite anime (Studio Ghibli, Cowboy Bebop), her surprising love of Prison Break, and the cultural adjustments she's made as an edoko (Tokyo native) married to an American who's lived in 16 Japanese cities. The stream also serves as an inadvertent snapshot of life in Tokyo during the early days of Japan's soft lockdown — where social distancing measures were only just beginning to appear in convenience stores and supermarkets. Between the personal stories, skincare tips, and tangents about Nintendo narration gigs gone wrong, there's genuine heart here: a couple making the best of isolation by connecting with thousands of viewers around the world.
Highlights
[00:01:28](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNU_9m49hY&t=88s)Kanae reveals John sings original royalty-free songs around the apartment, complete with improvised lyrics — and that viewers have already heard him on livestreams.[00:05:41](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNU_9m49hY&t=341s)Kanae shares her full dance history: began at age 4, trained in Japan and New York, joined a Japanese dance company, and now runs her own ballet school in Tokyo with students as young as 2 years old.[00:12:11](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNU_9m49hY&t=731s)When asked how her life changed after marrying John, Kanae answers simply: "He makes me happy. He's always positive." John is visibly surprised.[00:15:20](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNU_9m49hY&t=920s)Kanae recommends the Japanese skincare brand Axceln (アクセーヌ) for sensitive skin — a brand she's used for over five years.- `[00:21:51](< A linguistic discussion on * dakara* (だから — because/that's why) vs. desho (でしょう — right?, isn't it?) in spoken Japanese.
- `[00:30:50](< Kanae compares Japanese vs. American dance training: Japanese is more strict and repetitive; American is more open and fun — she synthesizes both in her own teaching style.
[00:41:12](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNU_9m49hY&t=2472s)John and Kanae discuss how Japan was only just beginning to implement social distancing — with floor markers appearing in convenience stores and plastic barriers at cash registers — just the day before this stream.[00:51:56](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNU_9m49hY&t=3115s)Kanae reveals she discovered new perspectives on Japan through traveling with John — even after living here her whole life as a fourth-generation edoko.[00:54:57](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpNU_9m49hY&t=3297s)The deeply relatable reveal: Kanae has an irrational fear of cucumbers — can't eat them, doesn't know why.- `01:06:15 John teases tomorrow's indoor camping live stream (referencing The Shining) and previews his new Petzl headlamp vs. the 100-yen shop knockoff Kanae gets until she earns her spot on a real camping trip.
Timeline / Chapters
- 00:00–00:43 — Introduction: John introduces the stream, explains they're in lockdown at their Tokyo apartment, and welcomes Kanae to join.
- 00:43–02:09 — Q1: Hiking and camping — Kanae confirms she enjoys hiking, but John is the avid camper. John shows his hiking vest and tent.
- 02:09–04:29 — Q2: Habits that drive Kanae crazy — John works late editing into the morning; she falls asleep before he finishes.
- 04:29–06:40 — Q3: Kanae's dance background — ballet from age 4, university physical education, Japanese dance company, New York study, now runs her own ballet school.
- 06:40–09:03 — Show-and-tell: Photos of Kanae's students, including her 2-year-old student and her sister Megumi.
- 09:03–10:30 — Q4: John's singing habit — he composes original songs using royalty-free music loops; Kanae confirms everyone can hear him on livestreams.
- 10:30–12:22 — Q5: Changes after marrying John — Kanae says her life became more fun; John is genuinely surprised.
- 12:22–13:37 — Kanae's anime preferences — Studio Ghibli (Princess Mononoke, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind), Cowboy Bebop, One Piece.
- 13:37–15:50 — Q6: Skincare — Kanae recommends Axceln (アクセーヌ) for sensitive skin; John jokes about his own clay pack routine.
- 15:50–17:31 — Q7: Favorite places in Japan — Kanae picks Okinawa and Guam; Hakodate, Hokkaido for food.
- 17:31–18:30 — Q8: Favorite dessert — pecan pie; John's father supplies endless pecan pies whenever Kanae visits.
- 18:30–20:38 — Favorite food — maguro (bluefin tuna); they discuss the global tuna shortage. Kanae loves Thai green curry.
- 20:38–24:59 — Japanese grammar question: dakara (だから) vs. desho (でしょう) — Kanae explains simply; John adds nuance.
- 24:59–28:16 — Q9: Favorite TV shows and movies — Kanae likes Shabekuri 7 (サザエさん), Friends, Prison Break (she likes Sucre), The Professional.
- 28:16–30:18 — Kanae's least favorite American shows — not into dark or gritty series; prefers happy shows.
- 30:18–33:08 — Q10: Difference between Japanese and American dance training — Kanae explains strict Japanese discipline vs. open American creativity; she combines both in her own teaching style.
- 33:08–34:45 — Kanae's mentor — a ballet/modern teacher she respects as a dancer, teacher, and mother.
- 34:45–37:26 — Q11: Non-alcoholic drinks in Japan — Kanae doesn't drink due to an alcohol allergy; drinks tea, sparkling water, orange juice; not a fan of overly sweet mocktails.
- 37:26–38:58 — Q12: Favorite dance company — Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater; Kanae was "shocked" seeing them perform in Japan.
- 38:58–40:24 — John's music taste — grew up on 90s rock (Def Leppard, Radiohead, Pearl Jam) and classical music from Tower Records.
- 40:24–41:55 — Commentary on Japan's late start with social distancing — only the day before did convenience stores get floor markers and clerks get plastic barriers.
- 41:55–43:50 — Q13: Classic Hollywood musicals — Kanae likes Singing in the Rain; John is excited about the 4K Ultra HD release of Lawrence of Arabia.
- 43:50–44:40 — Teaser for tomorrow's indoor camping live stream; John shows his Petzl headlamp vs. Kanae's 100-yen shop version.
- 44:40–46:05 — Q14: Where is Kanae's family from? — Tokyo; she is a fourth-generation edoko (江戸っ子).
- 46:05–48:37 — Q15: How John and Kanae met — in New York through a friend; not love at first sight for Kanae; reunited a year later in Japan.
- 48:37–52:20 — Q16: Kanae's hobbies during isolation — studying accounting for John's business and her own taxes; previously a full-time dancer.
- 52:20–54:35 — Q17: Greatest challenge of being a YouTuber's wife — Kanae says John is always planning content; she appreciates how he shares Japan with the world.
- 54:35–55:40 — Kanae discovers new sides of Japan traveling with John despite living here her whole life.
- 54:35–56:57 — Q18: Food Kanae disliked as a child — irrational fear of cucumbers.
- 56:57–58:35 — Cultural differences in their marriage — Kanae tries to speak English at home; John answers in Japanese; "This is Japan, speak Japanese."
- 58:35–59:18 — Discussion about going out during lockdown — they go to the supermarket only when it's nearly empty.
- 59:18–01:01:36 — Q19: Video games — Kanae plays Famicom and Super Famicom but is bad at Mario Kart; John is waiting for PS5.
- 01:01:36–01:04:39 — Story about Peter von Gomm getting a Nintendo narration job John auditioned for; John recounts his Arms game narration audition.
- 01:04:39–01:07:37 — Wrap-up: call to hit the like button (stream reached ~864 likes), tomorrow's indoor camping stream announced, Kanae comments on the new fridge.
Japan Travel Tips
- Getting around during lockdown/restrictions: When visiting Japan post-COVID, expect social distancing measures to be common in public spaces — floor markers at convenience stores and plastic barriers at registers were standard even after the state of emergency lifted. Plan for potential reduced hours at some supermarkets and shops.
- Japanese dance training: If you're interested in studying dance in Japan, be prepared for a very disciplined, rigorous approach — classes emphasize repetition, technique, and following the teacher's method closely. In contrast, American studios tend to be more creative and open. Many Japanese dance companies and schools are extremely strict compared to Western counterparts.
- Skincare shopping in Japan: For sensitive skin, the brand Axceln (アクセーヌ) — sold at pharmacies and dermatology clinics — comes highly recommended by a longtime user. Avoid products with alcohol if you have sensitive skin.
- Understanding edoko culture: Tokyo natives (edoko) take pride in their city roots. Fourth-generation edoko like Kanae represent a deep, multigenerational connection to Tokyo. If you want to understand Tokyo's culture deeply, this distinction matters — edoko have their own dialect, customs, and sensibilities.
- Best places to live in Japan (per John): Tokyo is best for work and nightlife but is a "melting pot" where people are more guarded. If you're truly interested in Japanese culture, consider living in a regional city like Okazaki (Aichi), Osaka (friendlier), or somewhere in Tohoku or Shikoku. You'll meet "real people" who are rooted in their communities.
- Visiting Okinawa and Hokkaido: Okinawa offers stunning blue ocean and clear skies — ideal for beach lovers. Hakodate in Hokkaido is renowned for exceptionally fresh food. Both are great off-the-beaten-path destinations within Japan.
Japanese Language & Culture Notes
- Edoko (江戸っ子): A term for a native of Edo/Tokyo, typically meaning someone whose family has been in Tokyo for at least three to four generations. Kanae identifies as a fourth-generation edoko — deeply rooted in Tokyo. The term carries connotations of specific Tokyo mannerisms, speech patterns (like the distinctive Tokyo accent dropping certain vowel sounds), and a certain pride in urban identity.
- Dakara (だから) vs. Desho (でしょう): These are both common Japanese connecting words. Dakara means "that's why / because" — used to state a reason or cause directly. Desho means "right?" or "isn't it?" — used to seek agreement or confirm understanding. In casual conversation, desho can soften a statement the way English speakers might say "right?" or "you know?"
- English at home in a mixed-culture marriage: John and Kanae's approach illustrates a common dynamic in international marriages in Japan — the Japanese partner tries to practice English, but the partner living in Japan defaults to Japanese. John makes the point that in Japan, you should speak Japanese — a view many residents share about cultural integration.
- Japanese dance culture: Dance training in Japan (especially classical ballet and contemporary) is notably stricter than in the West, with heavy emphasis on discipline, long practice hours, and respect for the teacher's method. The US approach is seen as more "fun" and open-ended. Kanae synthesizes both styles in her teaching.
- Social distancing in Japan (April 2020): Japan did not implement a hard lockdown during COVID-19. The state of emergency was voluntary, relying on jishu jishu (self-restraint). As Kanae observes, even by April 9, 2020, floor markers and plastic barriers at stores were still very new — a sign of how slowly the concept of social distancing was being adopted compared to Western countries.
- Japanese TV comedy — Shabekuri 7 (サザエさん): Officially Sazae-san, this long-running cartoon on Fuji TV (Sunday evenings 6:30–7:00) is based on the manga by Machiko Hasegawa. It holds the Guinness World Record for the longest-running animated series. It's such a cultural institution that Japanese people often use its opening theme (Sazae-san no Uta) to indicate it's Sunday evening.
Food & Drink Guide
- Maguro (マグロ) — Bluefin Tuna: Kanae's favorite food. She admits to the global shortage of this prized fish. Recommended at: any reputable sushi-ya; in Tokyo, Tsukiji Outer Market or Toyosu Market. Note: Maguro populations are overfished — sustainable sourcing matters.
- Pecan Pie: Technically a pie, not a cake, as John points out. Kanae's favorite. John's father sends her fresh and frozen pecan pies from the US whenever she visits. Where to find: American-style bakeries in major cities, import shops, or make your own with corn syrup, pecans, and brown sugar.
- Thai Green Curry (タイグリーンカレー): Kanae loves Thai food and cooks it at home. Often made with coconut milk, green chili paste, Thai basil, and vegetables or chicken. At home: easy to find at grocery stores; at restaurants: Thai restaurants throughout Tokyo.
- Takoyaki (タコヤキ): Osaka-born octo-balls snack. John mentions treating someone to takoyaki in the super chat section. Where to try: Osaka's Dotonbori, or specialty shops in Tokyo.
- Chai (チャイ): Kanae mentions chai as an afternoon drink, referencing Indian-style spiced tea. Popular at Indian restaurants and cafés. Note: Not a traditional Japanese drink — more associated with Indian cuisine.
- Axceln Skincare (アクセーヌ): Not food, but a key product recommendation — a Japanese cosmetics brand designed for sensitive, acne-prone skin. Sold at pharmacies, dermatologist clinics, and online. Contains no alcohol.
People
- John Daub — Host, Only in Japan Go. American who has lived in Japan for 30+ years, resided in 16 different Japanese cities. Describes himself as a traveler who knows Japan from the outside in. During lockdown, continues editing late into the night in his "fortress of solitude." Has a love of 90s rock, classical music, and classic Hollywood films (excited about the 4K Lawrence of Arabia release).
- Kanae Daub — John's wife, fourth-generation edoko (Tokyo native). Began ballet training at age 4, trained with a Japanese dance company, studied dance in New York, and now runs her own ballet school in Tokyo. Has an alcohol allergy, loves maguro and Thai food, is a fan of Studio Ghibli anime, Prison Break, Friends, and Singing in the Rain. Learning accounting for John's business. Has an irrational fear of cucumbers.
- Megumi — Kanae's sister. Also a dancer and cheerleader. Appears in photos during the stream.
- Peter von Gomm — John's American friend living in Japan. Mentioned as a fellow YouTuber/voice actor who got a Nintendo narration job John auditioned for (for the game Arms).
- Leo — John's son, mentioned briefly.
- Britta TV, Nosh, Simon Osborne, Tony P, Marty D, Tracy Lee, Tasty (Sunny), David Kimura, Ranjit, Remco S, Ellis, Vernon, Rashad Matthews, Jeff (Downey, CA), Jeffx Wong (Toronto), Guillermo Daniel (Argentina), Patricia Faraday, Emmanuel Cannon, Bradshaw Studio — Regular viewers, Patreon supporters, and super chatters who submitted questions during the stream.
- Justin Jenvir — Viewer who met John and Kanae in Akihabara in person before the pandemic.
Key Takeaways
- Kanae's dance career is extensive and inspiring — from age 4 to running her own ballet school with 2-year-old students, she represents the dedication of Japanese arts education combined with international exposure (New York training).
- Lockdown life in Tokyo was just beginning in April 2020 — Japan was notably behind Western countries in adopting social distancing measures. Floor markers and plastic barriers at stores were only being installed the day before this stream.
- Cross-cultural marriage is full of small negotiations — Kanae studies English at home, John speaks Japanese; they balance travel (Kanae discovers new Japan with John), business (Kanae now does accounting), and daily life with humor and warmth.
- Japanese dance training vs. American training — Japanese is strict and repetitive; American is creative and fun. Kanae wisely synthesizes both approaches in her teaching, and notes that both systems have strengths and weaknesses.
- The Only in Japan Go community is global and engaged — viewers from Argentina, San Francisco, Toronto, Perth, Houston, Charlotte, the UK, the Netherlands, Australia, and beyond tuned in to ask questions and show support during a difficult time.
- John's "fortress of solitude" editing habit — he works until he hears the crows outside (around 4–5 AM), a pattern Kanae notes drives her crazy as she's always asleep before he finishes.
Notable Quotes
- `00:12:11 Kanae Daub: "He makes me more fun. It's kind of crazy, but it's happy and he's always positive."
- `00:02:48 Kanae Daub: "I like hiking, but John likes more than me." (on being a city girl)
- `00:10:06 John Daub: "I make my own songs based on the work of royalty free music. Once I finish the song it's over and it's lost forever."
- `00:15:42 Kanae Daub: "I tried many products but I couldn't find a good one for me for a long, long time. And finally I found the Axceln brand and I was using it for almost over five years."
- `00:30:50 Kanae Daub: "Japanese [teachers] are very strict. Very, very strict. We practice a lot. American is more open — always fun."
- `00:51:56 Kanae Daub: "When I travel with John, I also find a new point about Japan. Always. He knows different points. So it's very, very interesting for me."
- `00:54:41 Kanae Daub: "I can't eat cucumber." (on her lifelong irrational fear of cucumbers)
- `00:57:22 Kanae Daub: "I'm scared when I watch the news on TV. I'm not sure what's going to happen next... I want to back to our normal life."
- `00:56:07 John Daub: "This is Japan. You should be speaking Japanese in Japan."
Related Topics
- Only in Japan Go — Dance and Culture episodes
- Only in Japan Go — Behind the scenes / family life episodes
- Only in Japan Go — COVID-19 lockdown in Japan content
- Only in Japan Go — Hiking and camping content
- Only in Japan Go — Japanese food and restaurant episodes
- Only in Japan Go — Studio Ghibli and anime content
- Only in Japan Go — Akihabara and Tokyo neighborhood walks
- Only in Japan Go — Miyazaki mango episodes (Patreon-funded trip)
- Only in Japan Go — Tokyo life and living in Japan long-term
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Full Transcript
speakers: {SPEAKER_00: John Daub, SPEAKER_01: Kanae Daub}
00:00:01 John Daub: Greetings. Welcome to Tokyo. This is our apartment and we are in lockdown, which means we can't go outside, which means I can't bring you amazing live streams from all over the city of Tokyo. Walking around neighborhoods, taking locations inside restaurants, eating delicious food. I can do that, though. But today we have a treat. We're going to be joined by Kanae, who's here with us today. And we're going to be taking some questions. I've already gone ahead and asked people that are on Discord — sorry, on Patreon — some questions to ask Kanae. Kanae is going to be taking over and talking with you about this. Hold on a second. I have this here. Say hello to the people.
00:00:43 Kanae Daub: Hi, everybody.
00:00:46 John Daub: This is.
00:00:48 Kanae Daub: How are you?
00:00:51 John Daub: That's right. We are live. Anything can happen, including me leaving the live stream on. It just came on automatically. Nausea's right. It does start about 20 seconds in. So today we're going to be asking questions that you are asking right here as well as people from Patreon have. Have gone ahead. I asked them about four hours ago. Questions to ask Kanae. Why is this important? I don't know. I don't know. But people have been asking, "Why don't you, why, why doesn't Kanae get on this live stream with you?" So I thought that this would be a good opportunity to do that. You gotta speak in English. Is that okay?
00:01:28 Kanae Daub: I do my best.
00:01:30 John Daub: You do your best. It's important. Do your best. I'll try. I'll try as well to translate some of the questions if you don't understand. This is a game of 20 questions. BrittaTV's here. I think there's like 20 questions here. And then we have an unlimited amount of questions. We have about 500 people watching. More people coming in here from Downey, California. I saw that. Yes. All for you. Thank you. And thank you for tuning in. Don't forget to subscribe. Here we go. So Tang Chong writes in here: "Does Kanae like hiking or camping? Will you folks do hiking live stream together? Lol."
00:02:09 Kanae Daub: Oh, yes, we will do hiking live streaming. I like hiking, but John likes more than me.
00:02:19 John Daub: That's right. This is a hiking vest. I can put stuff in here. I'm always ready. It's my tent as well. Yeah. Speaking of camping, are you interested in camping?
00:02:30 Kanae Daub: Yeah. We did it before, right?
00:02:32 John Daub: Yeah, we did it before outside.
00:02:35 Kanae Daub: But I didn't have a lot of camping experience before because I have a sister. We don't have — our boys, only my dad.
00:02:45 John Daub: Oh, yeah, you're a girl. And you're a city girl, so.
00:02:48 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Kind of city girl, so. Yeah.
00:02:52 Kanae Daub: Don't tell. Don't tell me a lot about camping.
00:02:56 John Daub: Camping is an important part of most Americans DNA. This is a big country that we live in in America. You got to get out there, get on the river, get out into the wilderness, avoid bears and other witches and things like this. It's a big country. Thank you. Tang Nash abroad writes in here. We can skip Nausea's question and just move ahead to Rachel Pang's question. All right. No, we'll get. Okay. And we'll hit Nostrad. One of our fantastic moderators here writes in: "What Habits of John. What Habits of John do you just absolutely love?" That's not actually the question — it says "drives you crazy."
00:03:36 Kanae Daub: He — he always working so hard. He — he editing a lot at night, so I always, always fall asleep before. That's it.
00:03:50 John Daub: That's it.
00:03:51 Kanae Daub: Yeah, he's — he's working. He don't sleep night.
00:04:04 John Daub: It's kind of true.
00:04:05 Kanae Daub: Yeah, he likes nightlife.
00:04:09 John Daub: I don't like nightlife. I'm up at night. I'm up at night. It's not really a life. It's kind of a solitude of the — I have a fortress of solitude. One day I will take you in there. Actually, you've been in there in live streams. It's my fortress of solitude.
00:04:28 Kanae Daub: Concentrate.
00:04:29 John Daub: I try my best. I try my best to concentrate. Yeah. You know, before I got married, I would edit until morning and I would know when to go to bed. When I heard the crows outside going, that means, okay, I gotta go to bed. You — you get into these things where you just edit and you can't stop. Thanks a lot, Nosh. Asking this and people like, like, like, I like this question. Definitely ask it. Rachel Pang, this is making me very uncomfortable. How dare I make this live stream? This is the last of this series unless she starts her own channel, which we're encouraging to do. Thank you. Telling bombshell, Rachel Pang writes in here from one of the live streams. I remember Kanae mentioned that she's a ballet dancer, not belly dancer, which I would have no problems with ballet. And it can actually — you're a contemporary dancer, right? Or ballet? Which one?
00:05:21 Kanae Daub: Contemporary.
00:05:22 John Daub: Contemporary.
00:05:23 Kanae Daub: Modern?
00:05:24 John Daub: Modern. Contemporary. Yeah. Will she be able to elaborate a bit more? And does she teach and work in that field? Yeah. Do you teach and work in the ballet field? Yeah. And there's like seven parts to your question, Rachel.
00:05:41 Kanae Daub: I'll do my best about my detail.
00:05:44 John Daub: Yes. Give us all the details. Elaborate.
00:05:48 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Now I'm teaching ballet for kids. I have my own ballet school in Tokyo. I started about five years ago. Yeah. But before, I learned a lot of dance. I started my ballet training when I was four years old. Then I graduated physical education university. Then I learned a lot — the Japanese dance company. Then I went to New York for studying dance. Then coming back, then I start my own ballet school. Yeah, of course I was dancing as a dancer.
00:06:40 John Daub: Yeah.
00:06:40 Kanae Daub: Yes.
00:06:41 John Daub: Good job. It's challenging to do this all in English. Yeah. So what time — what — how old were you when you started dancing?
00:06:48 Kanae Daub: Four years.
00:06:49 John Daub: Four years old when — I was four. Do you remember your first dance?
00:06:55 Kanae Daub: I don't remember.
00:06:57 John Daub: Don't remember.
00:06:57 Kanae Daub: I don't remember. But my mom said when I'm a child, I was moving my body in front of TV. Then my mom thought, "Oh, maybe she likes dance." Then I — I had asthma. Then my kindergarten teachers said to my mom, "Maybe she should do some exercise or some sports for her body." Then she bring my — yeah, she brings me to ballet school.
00:07:31 John Daub: The ballet school. Do you have a picture of your students? Do you want to show people the picture of your students? Where's your phone? She's gonna look for her phone. Good question, Rachel. Thanks for that. She's — Rachel's watching tonight. Thanks, Rachel. I appreciate that. Let's give it — if you like these Q&As with Kanae, hit the like, thumbs up button. Don't do it for me. Usually there's like — like six, six dislikes before we even started. I don't know who the six people are, but if I find you and track you down, I will hunt you down and then — Okay, yeah, we got a picture of the kids right here. All right. Turn the Garmin down a little bit. Wait, hold on. How do I turn the — Here, it's gonna be too bright. Here you go. Check out that. Check out the kids here. So that's her class. That's you. Oh, I took these pictures, by the way. Yeah, that's her. And these are some of her students here. How — how old is your youngest student? These kids look like they're infants.
00:08:35 Kanae Daub: She was — she started two years old.
00:08:38 John Daub: Her.
00:08:39 Kanae Daub: She.
00:08:40 John Daub: Oh, her.
00:08:40 Kanae Daub: Yeah, blue one. But yeah, now she's three years old.
00:08:45 John Daub: She looks like she did something bad.
00:08:48 Kanae Daub: No.
00:08:48 John Daub: I don't know. Just — he looks tired, like he doesn't want —
00:08:51 Kanae Daub: Yeah, we have boys.
00:08:53 John Daub: That's your sister? Yes, that's her sister.
00:08:55 Kanae Daub: Yes.
00:08:56 John Daub: All right.
00:08:57 Kanae Daub: She can dance well too.
00:08:58 John Daub: Yeah. Megumi is a dancer. Cheerleader.
00:09:03 Kanae Daub: Cheerleader.
00:09:04 John Daub: She done cheerleader. Good question here. Is there any habits of Vaughn — Vaughn? You know, I know Vaughn Von's been watching for like years and years and years. I'll let this go. Vaughn, is there any habits of John that — of John's you like to explain, not that you like like to explain about. I think she kind of hit this one right in — Nasha broads and you don't have to answer this. Oh great, thanks. And this, my second question is: what made you start going into dancing? I think you said because of asthma and you just like — yeah, yeah, yeah. She wanted to do something active. Okay. So you could say — are there any other habits I have like washing the dishes which I just did before this.
00:09:57 Kanae Daub: He's singing a lot at home.
00:10:01 John Daub: Oh really?
00:10:03 Kanae Daub: Yeah, he can make on his song.
00:10:06 John Daub: Yeah, I sing. Look, I don't sing like Prince and Def Leppard and you know, Radiohead and stuff. I make my own songs based on the work of royalty free music which is all I can use. It's all I can use. I use a lot of royalty free music. The words just come out of me. They have — they have meaning, they're quite good. And once I finish the song it's over and it's lost forever.
00:10:30 Kanae Daub: I think everybody knows about it because you're — you're singing you're singing on live streaming.
00:10:36 John Daub: Am I?
00:10:36 Kanae Daub: Yeah.
00:10:38 John Daub: Oh my last — I don't know. Britta TV writes in here and we know Britta from — Right. We have the magnets and the postcards. Thank you Britta always. And Heiko. Hello Kanae. We are always very happy to see you on John's side in live streams. Our question is: how did your life change after the marriage with this very well known and extremely famous and according to the Internet worth $14 million which I'll never ever see. Thanks a lot Nosh for introducing that to me now. It stuck to my head. How do they come with that? Very, very well known YouTuber. Thank you. Your experience after almost two years of marriage, almost three years. We're going in 2017, 18, 19, 2000. And when did we get — 2017 and 2018?
00:11:29 Kanae Daub: Yeah, two years.
00:11:30 John Daub: Yeah, but this month will start three years. So something. Anyways answer the question. Don't try to get out of this one. How does your life change, Kanae?
00:11:47 Kanae Daub: I don't feel big change in my life.
00:11:52 John Daub: Really?
00:11:53 Kanae Daub: Yeah, because John is John for me, then —
00:12:00 John Daub: Didn't the mountains move and the —
00:12:02 Kanae Daub: Forest cleared? And yeah, after I married with — I got married with him, it makes me more fun.
00:12:11 John Daub: Really?
00:12:12 Kanae Daub: Yes. It's — it's kind of crazy. But it's happy and he's always positive.
00:12:18 John Daub: Really?
00:12:19 Kanae Daub: Yeah.
00:12:22 John Daub: I didn't pay her to say this. Didn't even prepare really. Just kind of came in here. Jeff writes in: hello from San Francisco. We — we would love to go to San — have you ever been to San Francisco? To California? I'm dying for an In-N-Out burger and I don't even know why. Just — I've seen on the Internet like over and over and over again and I'm dying for In-N-Out burger. So we're going to be in San Francisco and go over to see the YouTube office and all that other stuff. So be great to meet — meet up with you. Good question, Britta. That was steep. Just like a gym question, you know. Our moderator Jim asked me deep life changing questions. Eric writes in here: "Lara Zabel — Lara Zabal — Eric. Hi Kanae."
00:13:07 Kanae Daub: Hi.
00:13:08 John Daub: Hi Eric, you say Hi. Are you into anime?
00:13:12 Kanae Daub: Anime?
00:13:13 John Daub: Yeah. Are you into it?
00:13:15 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I like anime.
00:13:18 John Daub: Okay. If so are there — are there any favorites you have? Greetings from Houston, Texas.
00:13:28 Kanae Daub: My favorite animation is Studio Ghibli Animation.
00:13:34 John Daub: Miyazaki.
00:13:34 Kanae Daub: Yeah. Hayao Miyazaki.
00:13:36 John Daub: Yeah.
00:13:37 Kanae Daub: So especially I like Princess Mononoke and Naoshika — Kaze no Tani Naoshika. How can I say in English — that's good, you know. Yes.
00:13:47 John Daub: You don't like One Punch Man or Dragon Ball Z or One Piece?
00:13:54 Kanae Daub: I — yeah, I like One Piece but I don't really watch a lot. Yeah, maybe I — I might not — big fan.
00:14:03 John Daub: You don't quote lines — you don't remember.
00:14:06 Kanae Daub: I like Cowboy Bebop.
00:14:08 John Daub: Okay. I don't know — I don't know. I don't know. I'm not — everybody knows I'm not a big manga anime guy. Although I learned most of my Japanese from Chibi Mariko-chan and — yeah, Sunday Fuji TV from 6 to 7. Yeah, Doraemon, not so much. That's Alice's world. But I did study from — I know a lot about Japanese everyday life from Sazae-san and Chibi Maruko-chan which is also available on Netflix in Japan. Chibi Maruko-chan is a good one.
00:14:42 John Daub: Recently things are just not supposed to come out. Brenda MC — hi Kanae. Can you please recommend a good Japanese skincare brand? Not very expensive. And what is your skin care routine? Thank you.
00:14:57 Kanae Daub: Skincare routine.
00:14:58 John Daub: Thank you Brenda.
00:15:01 Kanae Daub: I'm not sure it's helpful for you but I use Axceln. It's Japanese brand. It's for delicate skin people. I have kind of sensitive skin. I have many allergies with alcohol.
00:15:20 John Daub: Yes.
00:15:20 Kanae Daub: Yes.
00:15:20 John Daub: Nothing with alcohol.
00:15:22 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I tried many products but I couldn't find a good one for me for a long, long time. And finally I just — I — I found the Axceln brand and it — I was using almost over five years.
00:15:40 John Daub: Wow.
00:15:42 Kanae Daub: Yes. Yeah, it's a good one.
00:15:45 John Daub: No one ever asks me about my skincare routine. Thanks a lot, Brenda. This is free.
00:15:50 Kanae Daub: Can I ask you —
00:15:51 John Daub: No, later. This is a different live stream. It's all right. Justin Jenvir. Hello, Kanae.
00:15:59 Kanae Daub: Hello.
00:15:59 John Daub: Hello, Justin.
00:16:00 Kanae Daub: Hello, Justin.
00:16:02 John Daub: What is one of your favorite places to go in Japan that hasn't been filmed yet? It's nice to meet you and John in Akihabara last November. Right, I remember that. Justin, we probably won't see you for a while because nobody's allowed into Japan. We have a ban on everybody these days. So what is your favorite place to go in Japan and you haven't been — actually, I have traveled everywhere like multiple times. And by the way, thanks so much for these super chats. I will get to them in a second. Let's go through Justin's, Justin and Tim and then we'll get to that. Before we get to Marty, what places have you liked and what places do you want to go to? I think that's what Justin is kind of saying.
00:16:49 Kanae Daub: I like Okinawa. I like Okinawa a lot because I like ocean, blue sky and blue sea.
00:16:49 John Daub: But your favorite place — I think is in America, an island not far from here.
00:16:55 Kanae Daub: Guam. Yes, I like Guam.
00:16:58 John Daub: Yeah, she likes Guam. And yeah, we're hoping to go back there. And you like Hakodate, right?
00:17:05 Kanae Daub: The food is amazing.
00:17:08 John Daub: Yeah, Hokkaido's food is pretty good. A lot —
00:17:11 Kanae Daub: So good.
00:17:12 John Daub: A lot.
00:17:13 Kanae Daub: Very fresh.
00:17:14 John Daub: Yeah. Thank you for that, Justin. And then Tim, I'm gonna go to the — go — go to your questions here. Tim writes in here: Tim Hempstead. I think we should get into the most important question. Can I — I don't think I need this one. What — what — what is your favorite cake or dessert?
00:17:40 Kanae Daub: My favorite cake.
00:17:41 John Daub: Yeah, this is an important one because this could change the trajectory of the way that this live stream goes. Start from the beginning.
00:17:47 Kanae Daub: My favorite cake — it's pecan pie.
00:17:52 John Daub: Pecan pie. That's not a cake. That's a pie.
00:17:56 Kanae Daub: I like — I like pecan pie a lot. When I visited to John's house, John's dad bring me a lot of pecan pie for me.
00:18:06 John Daub: He does, doesn't he? Like, he'll get fresh ones and frozen ones and then mini ones and all sorts of pecan pies. Once you tell him what you like, then it's — it's over. You'll be receiving that. Like when you — when you no longer like it, you'll still be receiving that as Christmas presents and stuff. I can tell you as a kid who grew up, I got stuff — you just say once and it keeps turning up. Pecan pie is very good. Yeah, very good. Thanks, Tim. We're gonna get the Marty's question a second. Let's go over here to some of — some of the people who have these color chats here. Which makes us feel warm inside. Wong — Wong Jeffx from Toronto. Stay safe, everyone. Okay, it's time to spill the beans on — no, no, no, no, no. Do not do that. Okay? We'll do that in another one. By the way, I think we're gonna do a camping episode on Friday — tomorrow night. So, like, subscribe. We're gonna do some indoor camping tomorrow night. See how this goes. We got some stuff to cook. All right. I ordered a table on Amazon too. Like a little camp table. Don't spell this being — is he a snorer? Do I snore? A Kubi? I don't — I don't think so. It's loud. Guillermo Daniel writes in here. Greetings from Argentina. Hola. Yeah, I was there in 2003. I went to Mendoza and Buenos Aires, Iguazu. And then I went up into Brazil and I went to Salta. And then I went in there — we got to go back to Argentina. Oh, the beef there so good.
00:19:48 Kanae Daub: I have never been there.
00:19:48 John Daub: Oh, you gotta go to Argentina. The beef and the wine — parrilla libre. It was so good. I got really fat in Argentina. I'm sorry. It's really good. A shortcut — Sees here on my 15 minutes. Kanae and John, thank you for allowing us into your home. Oh, you're welcome. Welcome. Be safe. Back to work. Thank you again. I'm glad you could make it — your cut. See, I know that. What time is it? It's morning time. Yeah, it's still — this is work time for a lot of people on the east coast. Let's get to another question here. Tony P. Hey, Tony. Yay, Cowboy Bebop. What's Kanae's favorite food? These live streams are so much fun. I am ignoring my company meeting to be here. Whoa, Tony. That's hardcore respect. There's nothing good in that meeting anyways. Well, what's your favorite food?
00:20:38 Kanae Daub: Tuna. Tuna fish? Maguro.
00:20:42 John Daub: You understand there's a worldwide shortage of maguro? You shouldn't be eating — less maguro saying that — there's always gonna be someone who eats that. I'm glad you didn't say dolphin or something. A green curry — she loves Thai food. She loves Thai food, like, a lot. We — she cooks it — we cook Thai food. I'll put her up on Instagram one day. It's spicy. For Jason — Jsek — Jsek Bukai. Thank you. The cool beans. I love these animated — Moshe, thanks for being you. From some — thank you. Some — Jeffrey Williams writes in: your question, what's the difference between * dakara* and the show? I was told dakara is like "that's because" and the show is "that's right," isn't it? I think it's the way the show is like — Christian. Actually — let's ask Kanae and I'll — I'll fix her — I'll fix her answer. Because I had to study this stuff. Go ahead. Takara and Desho.
00:21:44 Kanae Daub: Takara is like, "record."
00:21:46 John Daub: Yeah. So —
00:21:47 Kanae Daub: Yeah, so — because —
00:21:51 John Daub: Isn't it like — it depends how you use it. I think that the show at the end also can mean, like, probably, you know, like we say, like, "it's a ball" — like "it's probably a ball," right? It's "a ball," isn't it? Kind of a thing. Kind of — when I think about it, kind of like "so," you know — like "so, so, so." So like this, right? I hope it's helpful to you. She knows it better than me. I just know from failing. I fail a lot. Casey writes in here — PitchForward. John, what's my — what's my skincare routine? Okay, I'm gonna tell you this, all right? I'm gonna tell you this. I — I use clay pack — I did from like age 30 to age 40. And I stopped doing the clay pack because I ran out of it and I couldn't find it anymore. And then I haven't done it in five years. And it shows. And in India, we do coconut oil in our hair to give us this illustrious glow. I stopped doing that. Now it's all falling out. So I think I should go back onto the coconut oil and the — and the clay pack. I did it — I did it because a friend of mine opened a shop in Yurakucho, an Estée salon, where you would go in and do — do this, like, self-esteém. And you have machines that pull your face up and stuff like this. Yeah, I know it's a thousand yen. So I started doing it and at the end of the face pack, whoa — my face feels so clean and tight. Like, what's going on here? I was 30, I didn't need it. So I just kept doing it by myself. And it's — it's nice. So, clay pack, just go ahead and try it. All you men out there, there's not there — there's nothing wrong with a good clay pack. And you and your wife is gonna crack up. And it feels pretty good when you go to sleep. You go to sleep — feeling all, like, tingly clean. It's — it gets out all that — I don't know — I have never looked in it. Yeah, scoot feet right in here — I would be there now, but my flight was canceled. Oh, I'm sorry to hear about that. You both stay safe and keep up the great videos. Thank you so much, Scooby. I know a lot of people are watching. I was trying my best to take you around Japan, take you around Tokyo until we got kind of locked down. So I think this will be over by the end of the month, hopefully, because I'm already — I got cabin fever after like six hours. I got the tent out and so I'm camping inside. It's pretty fast. Scott1 love the content. It's great. John, can I — please type each one a high five for your work. Thank you. High five — high five — high five. They just got one. Jeffrey Williams, thank you for that question. I think we caught up with all of the super chats. Our moderators will let us know if I failed — they let me know. Let me know. Cowbell fever. All right, let's get back to the questions here. We got a lot of them. I know the 1100 people watching. So Marty D in Australia, and we'd love to go down and see Marty one of these days writes in. Hi, Kanae.
00:24:59 Kanae Daub: Hi, Marty.
00:25:00 John Daub: What are some of your TV shows? What are some of your TV shows and movies? Do you have any that make you just feel happy and smile during these strange times? What's your favorite TV show or movie?
00:25:14 Kanae Daub: My favorite TV show in Japan — I like Shabekuri 7. I think nobody knows if some — somebody.
00:25:26 John Daub: How do you say it again?
00:25:28 Kanae Daub: People here you can understand — Sazae-san. It's a comedy.
00:25:33 John Daub: Favorite movie?
00:25:35 Kanae Daub: My favorite movie — it's Professional.
00:25:41 John Daub: In Japanese — Professional?
00:25:43 Kanae Daub: Yeah.
00:25:44 John Daub: Different name. Marty also asked in here: are you watching any TV shows that just make you feel happy? Anything that just makes you feel happy?
00:25:55 Kanae Daub: My happy?
00:25:56 John Daub: Yeah. Happy time. Like what? What's any TV show or anything that you watch? Oh, yeah — Friends, Rachel, Joey — how you doing?
00:26:06 Kanae Daub: How are you doing?
00:26:07 John Daub: Finally. Do you make John watch your chick flicks? There's no way I watch that — except for one. What's the one Netflix show we always watch on Tuesday? Yeah, yeah — she's like Lost Terry's house — yeah. So Terrace House, which is available for everybody who's watching Netflix. Yeah — buddy of mine is the producer of that show. It's a pretty amazing show. And it — it's — it's a show where, like, if you — if you used to like Jersey Shore and stuff, like American real reality shows, this is like nothing happens. And it's — it's — it's annoying — nothing happens. But then there's a studio where the — the — the talent talk about what just happened. And sometimes stuff does happen. It's like a soccer match — football. It's like a football match. Like, there's not gonna be — the score is not gonna be like 100 to 99, but when they score, they score big. All right — that's Terrace House. I guess it's a comparison — it's not basketball, it's soccer, like, really slow soccer. The score means more when it does score. Marty, you got a lot — I — I don't cry, Marty. Okay. Just moving on. Tracy, the Italian bombshell. Hi.
00:27:28 Kanae Daub: Can I — hi, Tracy.
00:27:31 John Daub: First of all, thank you for being kind and gracious enough to be answering our questions. Thank you.
00:27:37 Kanae Daub: Thank you. Thank you.
00:27:39 John Daub: Italian bombshell is Kanae's biggest fan.
00:27:41 Kanae Daub: Thank you.
00:27:42 John Daub: Your English is coming along well and fast.
00:27:44 Kanae Daub: Thank you.
00:27:45 John Daub: Which episode of Friends is your favorite?
00:27:52 Kanae Daub: I think Monica and Chandler — wedding.
00:27:54 John Daub: Monica Chandler's wedding.
00:27:56 Kanae Daub: Yes.
00:27:56 John Daub: What season was that?
00:27:58 Kanae Daub: I don't remember.
00:28:00 John Daub: I think it was — they got married maybe season eight or nine. And it was near the end, they got married, I think, and then they move into a house and then Joey got a room above the garage. Thank you, Tracy Lee.
00:28:13 Kanae Daub: Thank you.
00:28:16 John Daub: Oh, which American series do you want to watch next? What American series? Yeah — drama. She doesn't like the dark ones — like Breaking Bad.
00:28:27 Kanae Daub: Yes. I like it — I like — I like — happy show.
00:28:35 John Daub: Happy show. So you're not interested in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit? Yeah — you're not interested in SVU? Come on, be honest.
00:28:47 Kanae Daub: Yeah, it's interesting.
00:28:49 John Daub: Is it? It's very — it's very bright and happy.
00:28:54 Kanae Daub: Prison Break.
00:28:55 John Daub: Oh, she does like Prison Break.
00:28:57 Kanae Daub: Yes.
00:28:58 John Daub: Because — because you like Michael Scofield.
00:29:00 Kanae Daub: I like Sucre.
00:29:01 John Daub: You like Sucre? Friend to the end — Sucre. I — I like this. They always played like this cheesy, cheesy music, like Sucre's music — because he was — he was Mexican.
00:29:14 Kanae Daub: He's kind.
00:29:15 John Daub: He's a very kind-hearted man. Although he's a, you know, like a felon, but he's a kind — I think — yeah, he's — he's got a heart of gold in there. Sunny, AKA Tracy Chronicles. Thank you, Tasty. It's hard, it's hard to call her just like Tasty. How you doing, Tasty? It's hard to — I'll never get used to that. Hi, Kanae.
00:29:37 Kanae Daub: Hi, Tasty.
00:29:38 John Daub: You can say Sunny. How — how long have you been a dancer? I think she answered that one — since four years old. Yeah. So like almost 30 years.
00:29:49 Kanae Daub: Yeah, yeah.
00:29:50 John Daub: Because she's 18 — what is the difference between — wait, that would make me — okay, never mind. What is it — 24. What is the difference between Japanese and American dance training? Have you ever performed at the Dance Dance Company and for how long and who is your mentor? And there's like six parts to this question. So let's go through them one by one. What is the difference between American and dance training? When you took dance lessons in America and dance lessons in Japan, what's different?
00:30:21 Kanae Daub: So I — I — I feel all teacher has their own style. So even — even if American or Japanese. But I feel like Japanese very strict — very, very strict. We practice a lot. Of course, American practice a lot. But Japanese is — I think more than — more than this.
00:30:50 John Daub: So it's not — so Americans more fun, I guess. More relaxed, more —
00:30:57 Kanae Daub: Yes. I — I was in a company which was in Japan, which was very, very strict. I learned a lot. But when I visited to America, New York, it's more open — like my mind is more like — like this teacher — always, yeah — always fun. Good, good, good job. Great. Beautiful. Then I feel very good.
00:31:33 John Daub: I guess it's like a teacher's job, I think. And I was a teacher for kids — it's different world, physical versus the mental. But I was a teacher for kids. And you have to inspire your students and you inspire them to fall in love with the art. And I think that the Japanese teachers in general are so strict — it's about like memorizing and doing it their way, maybe. And in America it's more, more so about the art. Japanese dancers are pretty good.
00:32:02 Kanae Daub: I think both side is a good, good point. Japanese teacher has a good point. American teacher has a good point also. They have a bad point too. Maybe.
00:32:15 John Daub: O. What are they?
00:32:16 Kanae Daub: Japanese to strict — American is sometime kind of lazy.
00:32:22 John Daub: Lazy.
00:32:22 Kanae Daub: Lazy — always hustle. Yeah.
00:32:25 John Daub: Case by case.
00:32:27 Kanae Daub: So we should — we — I'm lucky. We can see — I can — I saw two — two styles. Then I can — I can think about it. Then I teach my kids — teach my students.
00:32:45 John Daub: Right.
00:32:46 Kanae Daub: So yeah.
00:32:48 John Daub: So you're more of American style or Japanese style strict?
00:32:51 Kanae Daub: No.
00:32:52 John Daub: Do you whip your kids? I have my rulers.
00:32:56 Kanae Daub: I have my own style. So it is important to do your own way. Yeah, you can make your own way.
00:33:08 John Daub: Right. Who is your mentor? Who is your idol? Your idol, your hero? Who — who — what dancer did you say "I want to be like, like her or him"? My like John — she's seen me dance — the running man, the robot.
00:33:28 Kanae Daub: I really respect my ballet teacher — my modern ballet teacher. So she has a family — she also has two kids. But she — I respect for her as a dancer, as a teacher, and as a mother.
00:33:52 John Daub: That's a person.
00:33:53 Kanae Daub: So as a person.
00:33:54 John Daub: Yeah, yeah. What do you know this move? Sprinkler.
00:34:03 Kanae Daub: Okay.
00:34:06 John Daub: I got moves that she doesn't even know. She's never heard of the sprinkler. Okay. I got a lot of stuff in — in —
00:34:12 Kanae Daub: Okay, teach me later.
00:34:13 John Daub: Yeah. All right. Ranjit's here. How you doing in UK? Hi, Kanae. As you don't drink alcohol, what interesting non-alcoholic drinks are there other than the usual vending machine ones? Are there any mocktails popular in Japan? And — thank you. That's right. She has an allergy to alcohol, so she doesn't drink. And as a result I drink less or I drink hers — what way. So what are some non-alcoholic drinks that you like here in Japan?
00:34:48 Kanae Daub: No alcohol.
00:34:49 John Daub: Drink tea.
00:34:55 Kanae Daub: And sparkling water.
00:34:57 John Daub: She doesn't — and Kanae doesn't go out a lot. Right. You don't go out to like a — if you go out with your friends to like a bar or club or to go out girls night. What do you drink when you go out with your friends?
00:35:13 Kanae Daub: Orange juice.
00:35:17 John Daub: Hard — hardcore chai. Drink chai.
00:35:21 Kanae Daub: I think chai is for afternoon.
00:35:25 John Daub: Really? The chai is reserved for India. When we go to India, we have coffee — coffee chai, chai. Coffee chai. It's — it's everywhere. You get some really good chai in India. Yeah, we gotta go back there. What about mocktails? Yeah — mocktail is like a non-alcoholic drink.
00:35:46 Kanae Daub: Oh yeah, we have it.
00:35:48 John Daub: Yeah. What do — is there one that's — that's popular in Japan?
00:35:52 Kanae Daub: Yeah, maybe some — some people drinking, but I — I don't drink non-alcohol drink — no, no — mocktail.
00:36:00 John Daub: Yeah, it's a cocktail, but it's —
00:36:03 Kanae Daub: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:36:03 John Daub: Fake.
00:36:04 Kanae Daub: Yeah, it's too sweet for me.
00:36:07 John Daub: So —
00:36:08 Kanae Daub: Yeah.
00:36:09 John Daub: I think she usually tends to just stick to juices. Right? Like mango juice — pure 100%. It's like forget — you know what — oh, pina colada — no, no, no — just give me the coconut juice. Okay. She just wants the purity, I guess.
00:36:26 Kanae Daub: No, I — I can't drink anything — I can drink —
00:36:29 John Daub: I can say, all right, you know what, we'll take a pina colada — just put, put the rum on the side and bring it as a shot — you can do that. Okay. Just telling you, if you ever drink with someone who's non-alcohol and you need a drink, you can say, "Can you put the alcohol on the side and make a mocktail?" They'll do that from — depends on the bar. Just saying from experience. Thank you for the question. Thank you so much and thanks for joining the Patreon club. He's a new member. Thank you. Yeah — Patricia Faradi — Farah D — good morning. Thank you, Kanae, for answering all the questions. I would like to know what your favorite dances — what favorite dances she has and is it more the contemporary, the classic or the modern or the traditional Japanese? Which one? And what's your favorite dance?
00:37:26 Kanae Daub: My favorite — yeah, my favorite to dance is contemporary dance, of course, because I'm contemporary dancer, but I like all kinds of dance. And I most — most favorite — my modern dance company is Alvin Ailey. You know, it's New York company.
00:37:54 John Daub: Okay.
00:37:57 Kanae Daub: Yeah, it's — it's very famous company. When I watched that performance in Japan, I was really, really shocked. "Oh my God, this is so amazing." Yes — this is the story.
00:38:13 John Daub: The story — a man named Brady. All right, we're going back here.
00:38:18 Kanae Daub: I like —
00:38:20 John Daub: Okay. Circle — circle Day Soleil. We saw that in my — in Montreal.
00:38:25 Kanae Daub: Right?
00:38:25 John Daub: When we went to Montreal. David Kimura. Hi — and John. Hey, David. David is in the house. Stay safe. Thank you so much. Hey, Rash — Rashad Matthews. Hi. Kanae. Hi, John. What music are you both listening to? It's very well known that I — this is supposed to be her Q&A. I listen to royalty free music which you've never heard before, but I — I grew up with Def Leppard and you know, Queen and Radiohead and Nirvana and Pearl Jam — 1990s. Pretty much. Pretty much. Because my friend, you know, I listen to what my friends are listening to. My friends like that. So I just listened to that and I didn't even know why — if my list — if my friends listen to it really loud on their Walkmans, which we had back then, I listened to it really loud too. I — I didn't know what I was listening to, but I actually — I actually liked classical music a lot and my friend Tom also was into that. So when we went to Tower Records, we didn't go — we didn't go to the section where all the, you know, the girls were. We kind of went to the section where there's like not that many people and we would go to the classical section. And we're looking at, you know, like the Berlin Orchestra and the, you know, Vienna Orchestra and looking at the different conductors, you know, and it's not — it's not cool. I'm not going to talk about this anymore — let's moving on. Move on again. Moving on. Thank you. Thank you, Rashad, for that. Ivo — Ivo hall shop — I appreciate you — live stream. Thank you. Especially now that my trip to Tokyo has been postponed after the autumn. No evil from the Netherlands. Oh, no. I'm really sorry to hear about that. I know that — so yesterday I did a live stream with Kevin Riley and we're trying to figure out when would be the best time to — for people to book their trips to come to Japan. I think the summer is going to be kind of — I don't know if we're going to get over this because like we —
00:40:24 Kanae Daub: Yeah.
00:40:25 John Daub: Only now we don't go out much at all. But only now is Japan starting to understand the concept of social distancing. Only now. I want you to put that — just let that sit for a second. All right. In — in the convenience stores, only yesterday did they put markers to let people know to — to stand on the markers like two — like two meters away. Only yesterday. Only yesterday they put vinyl at the convenience stores to separate you from the clerk. Only yesterday the — the supermarket started to show it and TV shows started to separate the guests to make a point. This is such a new thing. I'm really worried and probably it's gonna be like fall maybe, but it takes —
00:41:12 Kanae Daub: Time to people getting used to it.
00:41:14 John Daub: Yeah. And until people get used to social distancing, the numbers are really never gonna go down. Tokyo is just a place where you're packed in a train like this —
00:41:24 Kanae Daub: It's —
00:41:25 John Daub: It's very, very crowded. Like — like your windows — like your face against the window of the train. No, it's — it's — it's enough now where people can stand. But it's still too crowded. Yeah, it's still too crowded. Remco S is here. Hey, Remco. What does Kanae think of classic movies like Singing in the Rain and those kind of dances? The Fred Astaire and the Jean — Jean Harlow. I'm the one making her watch the Fred Astaire movies and the old ones. I love the old movies. I'm starting to buy them. Some of them are starting to come up — like Lawrence of Arabia was announced yesterday. It's going to be on 4K Ultra HD disc. All right — they're going to put Lawrence of Arabia — June in June 2020. Lawrence of Arabia is coming on 4K — I'm so — I'm like — I was stoked all day. Like, what? They finally did it. Total geek. So what do you think about those, like the 1950s dances and musicals? Fred Astaire.
00:42:24 Kanae Daub: Oh, I like it. I like Singing in the Rain.
00:42:28 John Daub: The movie or just to sing on the — rant movie too? Both — both. I like Singing in the Rain. I appreciate that. Question, Lazarus. Long time to see — greetings from Perth. You guys should check out Money Heist on Netflix. We were watching that — season two, right? No, there's four parts of it. I think it was the fourth — fourth part came on there. We were just checking that out. I went through the first part, but it's too violent — they're wearing the Salvador Dalí masks. They're wearing the Salvador Dalí masks in Spain. Yeah, it's a good — it's a good one, but she's not into it. I usually watch it — I want them editing her in the other room. It's like in the background. Danny's here. Hey, it's Danny from Montreal. Yeah, Danny shows all the beautiful spring pictures from — from Montreal and Quebec. What dish do you have recently cooked for Kanae? Pizza — is she going to take part? Curry rice — is she going to take part in the camping extravaganza? Polo calls it an extravaganza. I like that — extravaganza. It's like the — like the best event ever. Or will she? No, no — she's gonna join tomorrow night. Just mark it on your calendars. Now, the tent is not here today, but it will be out tomorrow because I ordered — I ordered — yeah, look, I ordered a brand new — look at this — look at this, baby. This — this is a Petzl. To those in the world of lighting know a Petzl — if you have a Petzl, it means something to somebody. And this isn't just any Petzl. This is a Petzl with a Petzl Core battery. And it's pretty cool. You can actually charge it inside the battery, right? It's very light. I got this because of the new camping world. And if Kanae camps, she too will get a Petzl as a reward. But until she spends a night, she's gonna have to wear this one — this — this one from the hundred yen shop, which it doesn't even turn on. It's got only one level. It's not as cool as the Petzl. So you have to join me to get the Petzl.
00:44:40 Kanae Daub: Okay.
00:44:41 John Daub: It's like — it's totally different. It's not even close. Yeah, this is great. Bradshaw Studio — your wife is in a video — this is like her 20th — just 30th video, man. But thank you. Yes, she is. Laugh out loud. What's laugh out loud? What's so funny about that? I'm here and Pozo writes in. Cool — thank you, Pozo. I'm glad we can answer that question. Hey, Tim Lawson — when — when you able to get out? Have some takoyaki on me. Thank you, Tim. Thanks for the content, for distraction from what's going on in the world. Yeah, we haven't even discussed that — that's pretty cool — this is what — this is what this is supposed to be about. We don't even — right now we're outside of the — I don't even like to say it — not — and I can now — but I don't like to say because it's just — it's used so much. If you turn on the TV, that's better — not even to — you all know what I'm talking about anyways, right? Right. Tim, thank you so much for that. We're gonna get — that's enough to get like a massive takoyaki — big one — the good stuff. Thank you. Alfonso Cruz — hello, John Kanae — thank you for this live stream. Kanae, you — are you and your family originally from Tokyo or outside Tokyo?
00:45:58 Kanae Daub: Tokyo.
00:46:01 John Daub: From Tokyo. So that makes you an edo-ko.
00:46:04 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I'm edoko.
00:46:05 John Daub: Edoko is people that are like — what, two generation or three generation Tokyo?
00:46:11 Kanae Daub: I'm four generation.
00:46:14 John Daub: She's Tokyo girl. I told you. She's a city girl. She's city girl. She doesn't get outside much of the city. She's — she saw bugs — she's like, "Oh my God, it's a bug." It's like a bug that's like a — you know, firefly, you know — I'm okay with it. Okay, we got a lot more questions here. So last question from — from Patreon was from Patricia Faraday. Thank you for that. Emmanuel — canon — how did you and John meet? Was it love at first sight? Simon Osborne writes what man — of course it was, right?
00:47:00 Kanae Daub: Yeah, kind of.
00:47:02 John Daub: Yeah.
00:47:03 Kanae Daub: Yeah.
00:47:03 John Daub: And Remco just joined Patreon. Thank you so much, Remco. I just saw the notification pop up. But you read — yeah, it sort of was. We met in New York and we're gonna save this story for another live stream. But we met in New York, right? Yes, through a friend. And it didn't go the way he wanted it to. I could say that. And then I didn't see her again for a year until she came back to Japan, and we'll tell you all about that. And it was not love at first sight for her. Simon Oswald. Hey — Curtis Hyde. Hello — from Charlotte, North Carolina. Simon, what do you like to do at home during isolation to keep your mind busy? So what have you been doing besides the accounting? She's the accountant for — so I've owned a business in Japan since 2005 and she's now the accountant. You actually like it?
00:48:21 Kanae Daub: I'm still learning a lot. I just — I was just a dancer. I don't have any information — any knowledge about accountants. But we need it — John — need it.
00:48:31 John Daub: Then I've been doing it myself with the help of —
00:48:32 Kanae Daub: Because I need it for my tax too. So I studied — learning.
00:48:37 John Daub: Yeah — do study next. No — from last year. One year.
00:48:37 Kanae Daub: Yeah, a little bit over a year now. Yeah. And I think it's important. And I learned from — from what she learns from our accountant and she — she's picking it up and maybe in a year or two, then we don't need to go to an accountant, but she's learning it and that's kind of cool. So that, I guess that's been keeping you quite busy to do that. And Japanese tax law, I didn't really know a lot about it, but I've been doing my own taxes for like 10 — 10 years. And I made a lot of mistakes — I paid and — but actually they're bad mistakes for me and good for the government — I overpaid a lot, and I didn't know that I didn't have to pay for this — I didn't have to pay for that. So I was overpaying my taxes and we fixed that fast — overpaying taxes — you don't get that back, by the way. Not for businesses. Vern — Vern writes in here. Hi, Kanae. What has been your greatest challenge? Being the wife of a prominent YouTuber. Thanks, Vern. We love Vern. So what is the greatest challenge of being the wife of a YouTuber?
00:49:46 Kanae Daub: Wife of a YouTuber.
00:49:51 John Daub: Take your time. No one's going anywhere — he —
00:49:56 Kanae Daub: He likes live — streaming.
00:49:58 John Daub: It's a challenge, huh? It's not easy.
00:50:02 Kanae Daub: It's a — it's unusual for normally people.
00:50:08 John Daub: What does that mean? What does that mean?
00:50:15 Kanae Daub: Yeah, but — yeah, he's thinking a lot about his YouTube. He loves planning. Yeah.
00:50:26 John Daub: He loves conniving.
00:50:28 Kanae Daub: Then he loves to introduce Japan, my country a lot. I'm so happy about this.
00:50:39 John Daub: Some Merlion, Singapore, stroking my Merlin. Yes — it's a challenge because I think I'm away a lot too. And I like — one of the reasons why I'm answering Patreon questions is because I'm so appreciative of the support over there. Because of that, I've been able to afford to take Kanae with me on a lot of the location shoots. The thumbnail for this video is a picture — it's a tribute to our Patreon supporters because with that, I was able to take Kanae and spend some time in Miyazaki Prefecture to film that mango episode, the mango auction episode last year. And yeah — it's — it's a challenge to go out to what I do, to go out and travel a lot. But it's — it's good if — if she can come along. So she's learning how to do camera work and editing now, right? You don't want to show your channel. Right? You know, still private.
00:51:35 Kanae Daub: But when I travel with John, I also find a new point about Japan — always. Yeah, he knows — he knows well — then he knows — he knows well — he knows — different points. So it's very, very interesting for me.
00:51:56 John Daub: Be still, Merlin. Be still. That's right. The only reason I know a lot — she's lived in her whole life in Tokyo. A lot of people in Japan don't travel besides their hometown and maybe their university. But I hitchhike — I lived in 16 different cities. I've been all over the place. I'm a traveler, so I kind of know a little bit — a little bit more.
00:52:20 Kanae Daub: I couldn't go to travel because I was training a lot. Yeah, for dancing.
00:52:27 John Daub: Yeah. I could travel because I wasn't — I was teaching children and I had two — two days and not a lot of friends. And you travel and you make friends on your travel. When I lived in Hiroshima, I went down to Kyushu and Shikoku. When I lived up in Fukushima, I could go up and see more of Tohoku. When I lived in Numazu and Fujinomiya, I could see more of the central area. And for the last 15 years, I've been living here since 2004 — I've been living in 16 years now in Tokyo. But the first seven was up there. And that's the best way to do it. People always ask me if you — if where's the best place to live in Japan, I would say it's not Tokyo. I think if you really want [interested] in Japan and culture, you don't want to live in Tokyo. If you like partying and drinking and eating out, then Tokyo is wonderful. Actually, Osaka eating out might be better. But for me, I like living in Okazaki in Aichi Prefecture — I spent it 14 country — sorry — yeah. I don't know if it's countryside — it was more like suburban one at 45 minutes from Nagoya. But it gave me a chance to really meet, like, not city people, but real people — like people from Okazaki are from Okazaki. They don't move there from a different area. Tokyo is kind of a melting pot of Japan. People are all over the place from Hokkaido or Kyushu and Shikoku. Everybody living in Tokyo is from a different place. So they're more cautious. They're not as friendly because they're from the outside and they're in the city and they're a little bit more cautious. Osaka is more Osaka people — a little bit more friendlier down there. But I never thought that Tokyo was the best place in Japan, but it's the best place to be for work. And to be honest with you —
00:54:10 Kanae Daub: If —
00:54:10 John Daub: I had the alternative to leave Tokyo, I probably would not be kicking and screaming. I would not mind that change. And we have this refrigerator, so it makes it really hard to move anywhere. All right — now, for the last six minutes, we're going to take your questions. If anybody has written in something here. Here's Ellis. I'm late to the party, but what food did Kanae not like when she was younger? Oh, that's easy. Do you want to tell people?
00:54:41 Kanae Daub: Yes — I can't eat the cucumber.
00:54:41 John Daub: She can't eat cucumber — cucumber scares her, and we don't even know why. I remember we talked about this with her family, and we didn't even know why. Drymon sends lots of love to you guys, by the way. Ellis, I don't know if you can see behind on the — on the next two.
00:54:57 Kanae Daub: Yes.
00:54:57 John Daub: Okapi is a block that I received a really beautiful one — on the other side is — thank you, Alice and David. Let's see here what other questions we got. Here's one. What were the cultural differences you've had to overcome when you first met? This is from Durban girl. What were some of the cultural differences? I think I lived here for a long time. She thinks I'm Japanese in a way. We almost never speak in it. We speak mostly Japanese.
00:55:40 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I want to study English, so I try to speak English at home, but he — he answers by Japanese.
00:55:51 John Daub: Yeah, because this is Japan, and in Japan, you speak Japanese. When you go to America, you can speak English, but because of my job, I speak English, but normally I will speak in Japanese. And now she would speak Japanese. And now she's trying to speak in English. It's a little bit annoying.
00:56:07 Kanae Daub: I can speak English when I talk.
00:56:11 John Daub: This is Japan — you should be speaking Japanese in Japan. Like when you go to America, speak English or Spanish, French, speak any language. Actually nowadays, speak the language of love. But in Japan you should learn — you should speak some Japanese in — in Japan. I think it's — it's a — it's a good thing to do. So I appreciate all the questions from our patrons. Yeah, there were a lot here. Ben Robinson writes in — hope you both safe and well. Thank you. We're doing pretty good. How's life in isolation? Kanae — so we did this — we — last time she answered this, we were outside. Now we almost never go outside though. Yeah — there's the lockdown.
00:56:57 Kanae Daub: This — about this lockdown.
00:57:00 John Daub: Do you want the Merlin? You can hold it. That matches your shirt. Okay — give it back.
00:57:06 Kanae Daub: Yes — we can go some walking sometimes, but it's different. And I'm scared when I watch the news on TV.
00:57:22 John Daub: Right? Yeah.
00:57:23 Kanae Daub: Yes. Then we are not sure what's going to happen next — what's going to happen tomorrow. Yeah, it's kind of scared.
00:57:37 John Daub: Yeah.
00:57:37 Kanae Daub: I want to — yeah, I — I want to back our normal life. Yeah — all over the world, it's — people have same feeling.
00:57:50 John Daub: How is Japan? How are Japan and Japanese doing with this? Do you — do you see? What do you think about how Japan is handling this? Just for a little bit. Yeah — I don't know — you wanted to tell Japanese to stay home.
00:58:05 Kanae Daub: Yes — we getting change — we getting change — this one week or two weeks. But some of Japanese people still go out — still drinking — karaoke. Yeah — I think club get closed.
00:58:24 John Daub: Yeah, they closed — but still working and drinking.
00:58:28 Kanae Daub: It's — it's like not locked down like us and Europe.
00:58:35 John Daub: Yeah. It's worrying. There was a song like "just stay the heck home." You know, I think — I don't think that was — that was the name of the song. It was worse. But that's the one thing I think is challenging for a lot of people — we're all — we all have to stay home. And I know it stinks, but we have to. And the only time we go out is we go out to the supermarket at times where there's like nobody at the supermarket or when there's very, very few people. And we get in and we get out. She — she like doesn't even breathe right — you go — I don't think that helps, but maybe it does. I don't know — she can hold her breath for like three minutes.
00:59:18 Kanae Daub: I can't — I can't — yeah.
00:59:22 John Daub: All right, go ahead. Do for — do it — you can read it — yeah. There's no subtitles, so it's hard for Japanese to — but yeah — I don't know if you want to be learning — I — I taught English for a long, long time, so some people say my English is somewhat clear — clearer than PBG. Let's see here — I don't know why, but they've limited the hours of supermarkets here, so it seems like a lot of people are also hurting out there. Do you guys play video games? I would like to — I play on my iPhone. But you don't play games, right?
01:00:33 Kanae Daub: Yes — I — I —
01:00:36 John Daub: Thank you, Chris Roberts.
01:00:37 Kanae Daub: I don't have a good skill for games, so if — then, then I am — I — I was a kid, I did Mario Kart, but I always fall down — crash, crash.
01:00:52 John Daub: Sad state. And she told me this while she's driving. She's a beginner driver — it's scary. I said, well, we should practice some video games. She goes, no. I said, why? "I always crash in Mario Kart."
01:01:05 Kanae Daub: I'm not good at game, but I have Famicom and Super Famicom.
01:01:09 John Daub: Yeah, Famicom is Nintendo, right? So — yeah, I — I — this would be, you know what? This is like the perfect time to buy a game console if you got to be staying at home. But I'm waiting for the PS5, man. That's like coming in like a few months. What's the purpose of buying a PS4? Xbox isn't even represented here. I wouldn't mind — I mean, I got a lot of work to do, and I'm — I'm reading books — I just got one on shoes — I'm thinking of doing it up — like I'm studying stuff and reading books, but I — I don't know — like a game would be kind of fun. It's like you could play and you can burn calories with video games — there's good stuff with it, right? You can practice your sniper skills and things like this.
01:01:53 Kanae Daub: Trump card.
01:01:53 John Daub: Yeah, the card games — we had one — somebody just introduced me a cheaters board game for Monopoly where they had handcuffs to the bill — like, there's some pretty good board games too. Battleship — a lot of stuff that we could be doing here. What are you guys doing maybe in the last minute or so, right, right in here. What are you guys doing to stay? Because we are all a community here. The 1,300 people watching — you're all a community here. All of us have to find ways to get through this because we're all, you know, like probably sitting at home or in the office missing a meeting. Tony, thank you for that. Marty writes in here — I'll challenge you to Mario Kart on iPhone. Is that on iPhone? They have Mario Kart on iPhone. What? Marty, talk later.
01:02:38 Kanae Daub: Yes.
01:02:40 John Daub: Sorry, kid. All right — we're 300 likes away from a thousand. I'm disappointed, very disappointed in all of you. No one has been clicking — very few people have been clicking the — the like button. We should have passed a thousand. This is Kanae's question and answer — she's never done one of these, and we don't even have 800 likes. It's abysmal. That's all I have to say for it. Do you know what abysmal means?
01:03:06 Kanae Daub: No — gizmo.
01:03:07 John Daub: Not gizmo — I said abysmal, and she heard gizmo. See, some of the things that we have — abysmal is just like very, very bad. That's from Bob Jr. Yeah. We should get a Switch. Yeah. And actually, my friend — my friend Pietro — do you know — do you know Pietro? Right. My buddy is — I don't want to tell that story again, but no, I — I auditioned for the same job as him, and — and the woman said it was down to me and this — the — the person from this studio, said it was down between me and this other American guy, and it was Peter. And he — and then one day I talked to him, and he said, yeah, man, I'm going down to Kyoto to — to do Nintendo narration gig. I'm like, no, it wasn't — it wasn't — it wasn't for that game called Arms, was it? He goes, yeah. How'd you know? He goes, yeah, because I was — I was supposed to — supposed to get that job. You can see here — I went ahead — it moved there. Yeah. So Peter got the job — he — so he's — he's that character on Arms, the American guy. But I was supposed to get that gig, and I was auditioning for it, and they said — they said, make real life action — some punch myself —
01:04:39 Kanae Daub: Oh.
01:04:39 John Daub: Like I'm trying really hard to do this really good — I was very busy, you know — like I forget — I forget the script now, but I was doing it pretty good — like, ah — yeah, I did — I did a pretty good job, I thought. You know, sometimes they get someone — they have to lose his number in the narration world — I'm great for, you know, this show and that's — and I've done some NHK narration work, but that's about it — educational book, educational material. But he got — he got the better of me. He — he almost always does. I don't think he loses too often. So it's better if he has a conflict, you know, and then it's better for all of us including, except for him — it's not good then. Thank you so much, Tony P. Well we got 864 likes. I — I said this is I — we talk about Kanae's first Q&A when we got to 864 likes. That's not quite a thousand but that's pretty good. I'm very proud of the community. Thanks so much guys. We're gonna do tomorrow — we have a lot of stuff to do — I — I have some freeze dried food that I'm going to be — we gotta, we have to get rid of that. I have some survival food and we have a camping session tomorrow night around the same time. All right — so you want to make sure you subscribe and make sure you don't miss that one because we're going to learn some things that we never learned before about cabin fever and this movie called The Shining. Just watch that and then tune in tomorrow — just call me, call me Jack. Yes, you saw The Shining, right? Remember that movie The Shining? Jack Nicholson?
01:06:15 Kanae Daub: Yeah, we saw it together.
01:06:17 John Daub: Yeah, he was — he brought his wife to the hotel and they started to go crazy because it was snow.
01:06:24 Kanae Daub: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah — but I fall asleep.
01:06:27 John Daub: Good — you don't want to see the end because the end is going to be part of tomorrow's live stream which you can't miss. Thanks so much for joining us. Overlook Hotel. Yeah, thanks so much for joining us. Thanks for the questions. If you have some more questions that you want answered — maybe Kanae will take a look at it. Leave in the comments below and we'll take a look at and have a good laugh at it. What's your feeling about the new new fridge? Oh, you can answer that one. What do you think about the new fridge? And Irvine writes in here something classic at Super Potato and Akihabara — I'd love to do it — do a walk through Super Potato. What do you think of the fridge?
01:07:03 Kanae Daub: Oh — I love the new fridge.
01:07:07 John Daub: Is it too big?
01:07:08 Kanae Daub: Yes, it's very, very complicated.
01:07:12 John Daub: Too big, too big?
01:07:13 Kanae Daub: No, no — it's good. It's nice.
01:07:16 John Daub: It looks — we're getting used to it but I'm still bending down and go "oh" and like opening it up and that's it — saves my back a lot of trouble. Yeah, thanks for asking about that. I don't know again. See you tomorrow everybody. Have a good day in your own self isolation. Stay safe and much love from Tokyo.
01:07:37 Kanae Daub: See you. Good night.