00:00:04 John Daub: How you doing everybody? It's midnight here in Tokyo and we're about to get ready for another midnight snack run. That's right, I'm doing great outdoor, indoor camping. There's the tent. Can I hurt her back so she can't join us in this? Because she wants to sleep in a really comfortable bed. But that's alright. Sorry about starting late, I was attacked by a bunch of hornets. You know the kind. The murder kind. Shall we?

00:00:35 John Daub: Hope everyone's doing okay. So, let's see what old Frosty has for a midnight snack. Oh! I was craving ramen and I was craving curry. But they seem to have put this all in one. This is magical. Japanese curry cheese ramen. Or cup noodle cheese curry, whichever way you like it. It is a beef flavored one. And no, you do not put instant ramen in the refrigerator. I did that for instant. And I don't think that's gonna have any impact to show off good old Frosty. This should be a lot of fun.

00:01:32 John Daub: Now, the great thing about cup noodles is that you can't really mess this up. You can't really mess up cup noodles like I did the other day. If anyone watched the livestream from a few days ago, I tried to make instant ramen. Sorry, it didn't go well. The internet got really angry at me. Just trying to keep it down. Okay. Can I sleep in the other room? It's midnight.

00:02:09 John Daub: Hey there Jeff Kennedy. Somebody said don't remove the whole lid. Whoa. I got some light in here. That looks pretty cool. I can go 400 lumens. There you go 400 lumens. I can smell curry. And look at all that good stuff in there. There's some carrots. I guess that's chunks of cheese. What? Hold on a second. Let me pull this out here. That's a chunk of cheese. Oh this is going to be really awesome. What else is in there? I thought it was potatoes for a second. We're going to be putting some hot water in here. You can hear the wildlife. You can hear the wildlife in the room next door.

00:03:18 John Daub: It's a campfire. I've been using the same campfire for the last couple of days. So Kanae and I are going to be making these in another live stream, maybe next week. These are a different kind of ramen. These are a little bit higher, let's say the next level up from instant ramen. I'm looking forward to this. These are Kyushu ramen. There you go. Miyazaki and Oita. Looking forward to that. Alright.

00:03:47 John Daub: The last time I did the indoor camping, it's been a long time. A few weeks. And I thought that this state of emergency for Japan would end a lot sooner than it did. But it went on until the middle of May. And then the Prime Minister extended Tokyo and five other prefectures. So then we are out of the state of emergency. However, I noticed that people get angry if you travel outside of the prefecture. So you have to stay in your own prefecture. So I still can't go camping like in the wild. However, Tokyo has some wild parts. But we should still stay in one area. Hey Lisa-oh, how are you doing? Let's get this done here. Cheese ramen. This is pretty epic. Zoom in.

00:04:42 John Daub: Here. 400 lumens in there. I guess I fill it to the line. It's like alive. Some kind of creature in there. I'm supposed to close this up. And the rumor is, you have to let it sit for three minutes. Let's sit for three minutes now. Anyone have a watch? Let me know when it's been three minutes, okay? All right, right here. For dessert, I have these cherry blossom Oreos. I thought we would try one of these as well for dessert. And I have some other snacks here. This one looks pretty good. It's a sakura chiffon cake Oreos. So we have dessert as well.

00:05:59 John Daub: We got to wait for three minutes. Let's go back over to the tent camp spot. Thank you, Frosty, for keeping my instant ramen cool. No, once again, you do not have to put instant ramen in the refrigerator. I did that because I'm a geek. And I did things that make no sense whatsoever. By the way, our camp spot, my indoor camp spot was on NHK World a few days ago. I don't know if you guys saw that. It was on Tokyo Eye. I've been reporting on Tokyo Eye since 2008. I've done like 50 reports for them. So it's always an honor when they invite me back.

00:06:33 John Daub: And I promised Chris that I would shave his quarantine head. He's got some long hair, but I will do it. Kanae is going to be giving my hair a trim next week. Because I think it's getting like back to the future looking. I can't control this anymore. I find myself stroking my hair, which is very creepy. Kanae thinks it makes me look like an evil warlord. Lisa O writes in here, thanks for all the fun during quarantine. Here's something for your first road trip. Seaside, mountain, farmland.

00:07:07 John Daub: Now, technically, Kanae and I, we did rent a car. I wish we shouldn't have. We drove around Mount Fuji and came back. But probably, I think we're going to go to the mountains. I think it's time for the mountains. The sea is too crowded. Everyone's going to the beach. I've seen the pictures online. Thank you for that, Lisa. Bullrunner001, wife and I love your streams. Can't wait for you to be able to go out more and explore and get more food. I know. I'm going to be in June. I'm going to be doing a lot more streams outside of Tokyo once they open it up.

00:07:48 John Daub: I'm also going to be doing maybe a little bit less live streaming and more edited videos as the new channel is finally released. The animated opening is just about done. The animator wrote me a message a couple of days ago and he said he needed one more day of work, which whenever he has time. So I'm guessing next week will be the week where we can release the new channel, which I'm so excited about. But I'm going to be traveling by rent-a-car, and taking public transportation, which means that I'll be able to get back into the groove and start making travel videos again, finding stories from all around Japan. I'm super excited about that. Bullrunner, big thanks to you and your wife. Really, really appreciate it.

00:08:34 John Daub: Queen of Tacos is here. John, don't get too close to that fire. Too late. Nice and warm. The mosquitoes are bad. Sometimes you got to wear long shirts even indoors. I remember that one you turn off the lights, you go to sleep and he just keeps buzzing in your ear. Then finally at two in the morning you wake up, you get like a magazine and you just go hunting, right? Some people will move to another room. Then there are the others that go hunting. They will hunt that mosquito down. Then you get the mosquito, you go back to bed and you realize there were two of them in there. Happens all the time. All the time. Okay, three minutes. All right, thanks guys.

00:09:20 John Daub: Yeah. Oh my gosh. See what you guys see what happens. I can get completely um, oh, look at that cheesy goodness. What? Okay. 400 lumens. Look at that cheesy goodness. Whoa. This is incredible. Look at that. Just look at that. That looks like meat. Is that meat? That's meat. This is, this is the coolest thing I've ever seen. All right. Okay. Let's get this. I've got, I have my table set up here. Wow.

00:10:22 John Daub: I've never seen cheesy ramen like this. Hold on a second. I want to, uh, I gotta stir this up here. Ever seen in my life. Oh my word. Oh mama. It's all like processed stuff. It can't be healthy for you, but who cares? It's midnight. Wow. I don't even see the broth. It's all curry. Oh, there it is down there. It's all like curry, curry broth. Oh, this I'm so excited. I'm mixed in the, the cheese. Get, get, get off my chopstick. You, ah, it's all stuck by cheese. Guess, guess he wants to stay there.

00:11:17 John Daub: I've been fighting, uh, today with a gachapon capsule in Akihabara. It was the most frustrating, um, frustrating experience. I kept, I, I really like manhandled that capsule and finally I got it off. All right. All right. So I'm going to give it to my man, Mr. Das. If, if Mr. Das is here. All right. I got you covered, buddy. So this is, uh, Mr. Das has always given super chats and he says no matter what he says. And he's very, Mr. Das is very, very intelligent man. I'm guessing he's a man. I call him Mr. Das and, uh, he has a way of incorporating somewhere in his super chat. Super dry. This is for you. It's the official, uh, sponsor of the 2020 plus one Olympics. And that plus one is for safety.

00:12:28 John Daub: Kanpai everybody. Je suis content, as Jennifer would say. Now let's try this. This is cheese curry ramen. It's a Japanese curry cheese ramen. Oh mama, je suis content. Muy content. That's like Spanish. Tres content. It's a piece of beef. That's not bad. I think I could have put a little bit more water in there. This is the best cup noodle I've ever had in my entire life. And I've had some good ones. The Thai ones are really good. This is the best. This is so delicious. This is a meal in a cup. This is more than a ramen. This is a meal in a cup. Oh my, oh my.

00:14:14 John Daub: This cost a dollar fifty as well, which is a steal, right? If you get them on sale, sometimes there'll be a little bit more. I'm gonna put one of these in all of the Dime Meal packages, the Patreon supporters. So one is inbound, all right? The cheese still there. Little guy's hanging on. You can close your eyes and hear nature. Okapay, he's hanging out, hanging out. So while I'm ingesting this or digesting this, I will take some of your questions.

00:15:08 John Daub: Reiwa Maji, or Maggie, or Meji, Meji. Speaking of gacha, I saw you pass through one of gachas today. And would I, I would like to ask you, would you like to ask me, how many people would have drained my yen on until I got what I wanted? Enjoy the curry ramen. It's kind of blocked by the lens there, but yeah, that's gachapon kaikon (gachapon disassembly shop) is one of my favorite places. The owner there, he's a small business owner. He's been running that since, I guess like the 1980s. It's like part of, oh, I sigh. It's like part of the culture, the history of Akihabara, that place. And the ones in front of the electronic shops out on the street, that's really convenient.

00:15:52 John Daub: The gachapon market has been growing. More people are using gachapon. So his business, you would think that it would be shrinking because everybody has a gachapon machine. But now, because it's so popular, people are going to his place to look for the rare ones. So there's a lot of things. That was a lot of fun, today's live stream. Danny's here. Your French is pretty good. Bon appétit. Très bien. Merci. Hands down, best ramen ever. In a cup.

00:16:37 John Daub: Northwind Lab, thank you. Northwind Lab is drooling, I think, in India there. I like it when I have that effect here. Marty's also drooling. I like that emoji. We got Michael Nielsen from Denmark in there. Irvan writes in, how about an Enoshima walkthrough? That is a great idea. Enoshima is down in Kanagawa. It's kind of an island. It's an island, but with a bridge. A long bridge to get to it. It's a pretty unique looking place. And I've already been to the Enoshima Spa. So we'll see if I can go more thoroughly. Go inside of there. Maybe get on a motorcycle or on a bicycle and ride around that island. It's not too big. It's a great suggestion. Really good views all the way over to Mount Fuji from Enoshima as well.

00:17:32 John Daub: Do you remember today at the vending machine? Where I showed you in Akihabara, there was a vending machine that had the wave. The wave. And then on the Japanese wave, there's like waves coming out of the wave. Do you know that? That's from Enoshima taken of Mount Fuji in the distance. That's that view that you get. So if you get there where the waves are animated, you'll be able to see that same image with Mount Fuji in the background. It's pretty cool. I actually have a live stream there where I was sitting in an onsen with Mount Fuji in the background. That's pretty sweet. Good suggestion. Very good suggestion.

00:18:26 John Daub: So May has officially ended. It's now June in Japan. We're a day ahead of the United States and most of the world, except for maybe Australia and New Zealand. They get there earlier. But we are now in June 1st. And I have to tell you, the last 60 days that Kanae and I were mostly inside, at the end we kind of went out. But it's been great. It's been really, really tough going. And I think all of you feel the same way. And I know that some of you are still in lockdown or states of emergencies. And I just want to say whatever you can do to stay mentally well, please remember that that is very, very important. We didn't get a lot of sunlight. So we started to take vitamin D pills, vitamin D3 pills at the suggestion of viewers. So I got to say, thank you to a lot of you that are looking out for us.

00:19:23 John Daub: I want to get to see if we can get to 500 likes and I will crack open those cherry blossom Oreos. Even the chopsticks are delicious. Hold on. 400 lumens. There you go. 450 actually. There's some curry. There's some curry soup there. Why don't I try that next? I'm going to try the curry soup. All right. Is the noodles GMO? Free? It's 100 percent something. I don't know. Is there anything good with GMO stuff? I always think we always look at the negatives. Maybe there's some positives with GMO. Is there any?

00:20:45 John Daub: I'm going to try the soup. Try the soup. This is so good. It's really salty. So I might not eat it all. It's hard to get rid of the salt taste. Remember, it is midnight and I'll be going to the kitchen soon. How many salt? Sodium? 5.1 grams. That's a lot. All right. I'm going to put this away. Hold on. I'll put it away. It's a lot of salt. GMO isn't all that bad. It's a great way to produce crops in needed areas. Right. And Kyle, I try not to eat GMO. But if it's the only thing I will eat it. Let's just say that, OK, if it's I don't worry too, too much about it. It's hard to. There's eight billion people on the Earth. You can't be too picky about what sometimes is in the food, I guess.

00:22:12 John Daub: I think if you're in your 20s, then maybe it's a little bit different. I'm in my mid 40s and I'm more like GMO. All right. It's kind of that. But if you're in your 20s like GMO, yeah, 20s are probably I was talking with somebody about terrible tech and the next level and there seems to be a generation gap. Anyone who's about and you guys can maybe confirm or deny this. This is a big deal in Japan. After about age 30, you're in the older generation, meaning would you if you could enhance your intelligence and memory and they could put a memory chip inside of here like an SD card to enhance your memory, like in the Matrix, where you could learn like judo and stuff, would you install memory chips into your mind and be able to do all this stuff? There's a certain age like the younger generation be like, yeah, let's do it, man. And then there's another age where it's like, what? No, I like the way I am. You know what I mean?

00:23:22 John Daub: The Dutch guy's like, nope, ain't no chip. What was it? Ain't no chip big enough. We're talking one of those flash memory cards or ENIAC. What was the name of the first computer ENIAC? I think it was shove that in there. Florence is not not not. Not not for Florence. Yeah, no, never for Stefan. Right. Nope. No chip. No way. Only an out of no. Seems like we're with the non chip people.

00:24:02 John Daub: Tic Tac writes in here. 1.3 giga flops, please. Well, we're well short of the 500 likes needed for the threshold. But hold on. 450 lumens. Boom. But it's time to try some Oreo crispy cherry blossoms sandwiches for dessert. I do like these here. I was thinking I might send these for these are Esokoban. These are like rice. Hold on. I need the 400, 450 lumens. These are like rice crackers with a little bit of soy taste or sesame, seaweed and some spicy ones. I was thinking of sending these to our Daimyo supporters as well. These are really good. Let's try these Esokoban. I get these. I get these in Ueno. They go great with beer.

00:26:00 John Daub: There's something inside. Hold on. Oh, check it out. There's a peanut in there. They put a peanut inside. That's pretty cool. They're not just salty, but they're not too salty. There's a little bit of a sweetness to it. Are they gluten free? I don't know. First beer snacks. Men usually don't ask that. I don't know. Like, are they gluten free? Just say no. So when they take the gluten out of the gluten free food, what do they do with that gluten? I've always been wondering about that. Where does the gluten go?

00:27:09 John Daub: You know, I prefer, you know. Okay. I used to like Kirin and then that Kirin phase ended. And then I liked Asahi. Then I like Sapporo and they had the Sapporo Red Star, which is a little bit bitter and it's a deeper taste. And then I went back to Asahi and then I started doing craft beers for a while. And now I'm back on Asahi or Ebisu. I find that if I just want a refreshing cold drink, then the craft beer is a little bit too heavy and it's too much for me. I mean, I like it. Sometimes you don't need all that fancy stuff, you know. It's kind of expensive.

00:27:57 John Daub: When I came to Japan. And I don't want to talk about drinks too much, but I was blown away by the quality of the beer here because all I had through college was like natural light. We called it Natty Light and Beast, which is from Wisconsin. It's Beast is called Wisconsin's Best, I think. I don't know why they call it Beast. You can get 24 cans at Walmart for $6.33. I know that. That was in 1996. Schlitz, Schlitz, Schlitz was another one that we drank a lot and they weren't very good. I'm going to be honest with you. I wasn't really impressed. Then when I got to Japan in 1998, I was like, whoa, what's the deal with this? This is so good. Little expensive, but really good.

00:28:58 John Daub: So, you know, I always remember those days when I first came and I was always impressed with the offerings and I couldn't tell really too much the difference between the three and even today, if you did a blind test, I don't know if I'd probably be able to tell the difference. Sapporo has always been a little bit more bitter. And Kirin has like some sort of X factor. Asahi pretty much is like a neutral in between. Just like the good old natural, the good old go to. Can't go wrong. The other ones have a little bit more character to it. I got to give this curry cheese ramen five stars. And if I were here, she'd give it. She'd say that these go to 11. Spinal tap reference or like five stars out of four. I think she would say five out of four.

00:29:59 John Daub: Luckily, I have three other ones and I have a case of them coming for the daimyo. So there's 30 cheese ramens inbound. Really, really nice. All right. Let's try this here for the dessert. Oreos, 450 lumens. Chips ahoy cookies. Oh, it's a package in a package. This is too bright. Let's go 300 lumens. There we go. 300 lumens. Package in a package. Smells like flowers.

00:31:21 John Daub: See, this is hard. All right. All right. I guess I got to show this to you. All right. All right. 300 lumens. OK, see this. Here's the Oreo. And it's so thin, isn't it? That's a rip off, man. They got to have a double or a triple. This is not even a single. It's so thin and the cookies too small. But I think if they made the bigger cookies out there, you can see the pink in there. I think if they made the thicker cookies, then the cookie would overpower the taste. But these are too thin. That's like a rip off, man. Twist it. I who who does that? Who does that? Wait for it.

00:32:30 John Daub: 300 lumens. It's too bright. OK. 150 lumens. So you can see it's pinkish. Is that like little bits of cherry blossom in there? Do you see that? Can you see chunks of cherry blossoms in there? Maybe there's like little pieces of it. Yeah, there's like a little spattle spatzle of cherry blossoms. It smells like jasmine tea. It doesn't really have a smell of cherry blossoms. It's more like a jasmine. These might be good with coffee, Mr. Ralph Rosa. I think these might be good with coffee. OK, I don't know. It's all right. Tooth. Tooth scrapings. I don't know. The cookie is so thin. There's a slight floral taste. Artificial is the right word. Mr. Tabonski. The Tabonski is kind of an artificial. It's not bad. I think it's an interesting taste and something new. And you might like them.

00:34:19 John Daub: By the way, this was in the daimyo box that was sent at the beginning of the month. So these are on the way. I hope you like them better than I did. They don't go well with beer, though. Maybe they do. Let's experiment. Neutral. The bitterness of the beer balances quite well with the sweetness of the chocolate. Salty. Actually, I didn't really dip it in there. I didn't really dip it in there. Some people panicking out there. Don't worry. I didn't really. It's the Curry's really deep down there. I need to really get in there and get the like fisted in there.

00:35:35 John Daub: The headlamp is because it's dark in here. All right. And I have to make sure I know where I'm stepping. I don't want to step on something or trip. So you practice safety. This is a Petzl. And if you know anything about headlamps, this is like the Rolls Royce of headlamps. This is a look at this. I can tilt it down. Check this out. Four hundred and fifty lumens. Do you even know how much that is? Whoever asked that question, do you even know how much four hundred and fifty lumens is? That's like a massive amount. It's like looking into the sun. Look, do you see? It's like looking into the sun.

00:36:20 John Daub: If I go at night into the forests of like Japan out in the Alps and stuff like I can just wear this durable freeze, they won't even know like headlights. It looks like headlights. It's really, really bright. When you go camping, you need headgear. This view, this campfire has gotten a couple more million views since it's been in all the videos. I don't think it's because I've been doing this in my living room, but I think it might be just because a lot of people are camping in their living rooms these days.

00:37:05 John Daub: I'll take some of your questions here before we end this. Hey, Neko's here. Thank you, Mr. Pear Man. Thank you, Neko. You're very welcome. Welcome to the camp here. Now, this is the last day for indoor camping. The tent is going to be put away and it'll be used in real camping situations out in the great outdoors. But it was nice to get the dust off of it and use it over the last couple of months. I first pulled this tent out in April, I believe. So it's been nice to have a tent.

00:37:41 John Daub: Oh, I saw you in New Zealand. It's winter now and pissing down with rain. Kylie, I had to teach Kanae the differences between UK and Australian and American English. She's very confused by the word piss and pissed. I'm pissed off and I'm taking the piss and just get pissed like it's very different. She's very confused by the English from those words. I don't know how to explain it, but I told her some stuff. I told her in the restroom. And I told her the difference between number one and number two. And I always ask because I just want to know how long I have, how long I'm going to be waiting. So you always ask, right? Everybody asks number one or number two. So then you know how long you have to wait. And, you know, some other slang. But it was funny, though, because I taught some of the slang and I used it as though it was normal English like we use it every day. And then she would incorporate that in her everyday language. It was cute. I expected her. And then there was some anger and then eventually dissipated. But we still use that because it's more fun.

00:39:18 John Daub: All right. I can take you to the tent a little bit. All right, let's go to the tent. We don't want to spill the beer. Remember last time? Do you remember last time? We lost one last time we spilled a beer. And when I came back, Okapi was down. All right. Somehow he got in the tent. He toppled over into the puddle. I don't remember. I think that's how I remember. But it was quite an experience. It is nice to have a tent. If you have kids, camping is amazing in your living room. But you need to have the sounds, the sound effects in the background. And it is pretty cool.

00:40:21 John Daub: I'm going to be getting rid of this quarantine here. Very soon. I think it's probably just a trim on the top. I don't think I'm going to go like just shave it all off because the barbershops will actually be opening soon anyways. So I think she's going to do off the sides and this mullet has to go. The mullets like down here now. Or I can just shave the sides and leave the mullet. I was thinking of doing that. I haven't had a mullet in a very long time. I think in the 1980s mullets were pretty popular. My brother used to have a tail. Do you remember tails? Like break dancers would have a little tail. I think it went down, went all the way down to the spine, back to the spine he had a tail. It was just a little teeny thing. It's not, that's not a mullet but I don't know, call it a rat tail maybe? That's it. Yeah, it was a rat tail. Those are really in style in the mid, like early to mid 80s.

00:41:14 John Daub: Remember Roxanne Roxanne? Like there's some really weird break dance music before break dancing was really popular. I want to be your man. And then I don't know, people trying to do head spins. Kids were walking around with cardboard, you know, and you go, oh man I got you got cardboard. No I don't got cardboard, you got cardboard. Let's go to cardboard. Everyone had cardboard, right? In the 1980s. And you'd carry it with you. And he had a tail and you know stuff, I don't know if it was in style. I kind of looked the same. I didn't really have any style. It was neutral. So it was a pretty neutral style. Not very popular. I had my friends though. A few friends. Break dancing, good times.

00:42:09 John Daub: So I remember the last time I did break dancing, I was in Prague in 1998. A couple of friends of mine Eric, I'll introduce you to Eric. I'm sure he's gonna come. He's 200 and I think he's 210 centimeters tall from Holland and Chrispan. They're from Almira and Jordi. Three Dutch friends that I made in Prague. And I was drinking in a pub in Prague in 1998. And oh I'd met them on the train from Vienna to Prague in 1998. They were doing interrail and I was doing Eurail. And we became friends and I said where you guys staying? He goes, oh we know this place. It's a dollar a night. So we spent the night there in a room with 50 air mattresses. It was a dollar a night. And we went out to a club on the main square. Main... I don't even know what you call it. It's not a square. But near the science museum. There's a big plaza. There's lots of clubs on the sides of there.

00:43:18 John Daub: And I got really really... Look Czech beer is really strong. Alright. It's like really strong. Compared to American beers like 3.8% or something. Czech beer is like 8%. Alright. Pilsner. The original Budweiser. Budvar. So we were drinking that stuff. And I was gone. And then I started breakdancing. I did the worm. And I was doing... You ever do the worm? So I was doing the worm. And they were loving it. And then my friend Eric. I think he... The 210 centimeter dude. He tried to do the worm too. And I was like, I'm gonna do it. It looked really funny because he was just so big. And yeah. I got sick. And I hurled behind the stage. It was like... Like a theater turned into a club or something.

00:44:06 John Daub: Oh and then some dude. He got in a political argument with me. He was German I believe. And he was talking stuff right. Like how am I not to... And then he wanted to get... He said like I was... Oh something about the fish. My clothes like i was wearing nikes and levi's and making fun of me or something and so um like i don't want to fight this guy and then behind me comes eric this 210 centimeter which is like six foot eight he comes from behind me and he goes and he like he like gets all inflated and he goes um what's going on here and the dude went away and i don't know if eric could actually fight he just looks really big but that's all it took that night that guy was really not nice i was bullied a lot cheers some good times backpacking around europe yeah first trip was in 96 and then 97 went back after in the summers i'd save up all my money um working in a warehouse it's 12 bucks an hour if you worked overtime so i would always try to get the overtime long days.

00:45:21 John Daub: 7 was warehouse rate it's 8 27 an hour if you work over times you got uh 12 and if you came in on the weekends you get double time so 16 bucks an hour that was the hardest job i ever did working in a warehouse in college to save up money i thought you stayed at the k7 relax in prague um i don't know what that is i don't even think this place had a name it was just a university like room that was turned into air mattress paradise for a dollar and then after prague i went back down to vienna and then i went on to um to budapest and uh oh did i i was in 97. and when i was on the train from um vienna to budapest everyone tries to recruit you to go into youth hostels um this is before the movie hostel by the way just put that out there if i'd seen the movie hostel i probably would not have gotten on those trains going towards eastern europe back in 96 and 97 and 98.

00:46:26 John Daub: Seriously i'd probably be in the same place as you if i'd seen the movie hostel and i was by myself by the way all right i didn't try to be hero i didn't go out and do stuff i went out there for more for the historical cultural stuff i wasn't really caring about going out you know discotheques and things like that but if you'd watch that movie hostile you're not going to want to go those places as a backpacker anymore don't watch it and don't watch part two either i watched that after i did after i i shouldn't you know i said i won't watch part one i watched part one and i watched part two part two was really scary and if there was a part three i think i watched that too and that was really bad i don't know how many hostels there are out there but it's really scary.

00:47:26 John Daub: Um stefan colleen writes in here do you know someone foreigner who was working in construction no wait kevin riley kevin riley um he's not working in construction now but he worked in construction 20 years ago when he first came to japan and construction pays pretty good but his trade is carpentry he's a darn good carpenter he can make stuff with his hands man he's not just a chef he's he's a really good carpenter so um if you have questions about carpenter um construction work in japan ask kevin he even had like the baggy pants i think and stuff he knows all about that um and he learned he learned all his japanese i think working on the construction sites in osaka that's why his osaka dialect is spot on like if you just hear his voice it's hard to tell he's a foreigner just because his kansai dialect is pretty darn good um he made he made some pretty good money in construction i know that and japanese workers do pretty good um construction is really hard work though lot of respect for those that are building um working in a team to do that i can't do that i gotta work by myself.

00:48:37 John Daub: This is like a little ocean this is the tent of nostalgia all right let's get out of the tent of nostalgia if you guys want to see a picture of eric it's on my instagram he's um he's the tallest person i've ever met like that was a friend of mine and i've met some um i've met some really tall people but eric he's like super tall man um he's in robotics too let me see if i can find his picture uh he came to visit japan i hadn't seen him in in japan i hadn't seen him in I hadn't seen him in like 12 years. No, no, I hadn't seen him in like 15 years. And he came to Japan to visit. And it's like nothing had, we'd both grown up, but it was like nothing had changed at the same time. That was so, that was so awesome. The friends that I made when I was backpacking are some of the best friends. This is before social media. So it's not like we could keep in touch, right? Once Facebook came, I think a lot of us all kind of reconnected, right? You met up with your high school friends. You met up with friends from traveling all in the past.

00:50:06 John Daub: Here it is. You're going to like this picture. You're going to like this picture. All right. I got to turn down the comment. All right. You all know Kaminari-mon in Asakusa, right? You can walk underneath Kaminari-mon's, the big chochin or the big lantern, right? I want to show you the picture of my friend Eric here. All right. This is the, this is the chochin, right? And now hold on. There's the chochin. That's Eric. That's how tall he is. He could put his head through the chochin. Look at that. That's massive, right? Who does that? Look at his head. This was, this was taken. Oh, I uploaded this later. Uploaded this one. He's 210 centimeters tall. Thunder Gate. Isn't that awesome? Look at that. I love that photo. This is my, for my Dutch friends. Those are my friends from Almira. That's why I've been to Almira so many times. He can play basketball, but now he's a, he's into robotics. Go figure. Um, oh, thanks. UFO Bob put in the Instagram. So you go over there, check it out. That's it, that was a couple of years ago, but, um, yeah, I've put in some nostalgic photos from the traveling and it's pretty cool. Uh, um, to relive that I have some, um, photo albums. Actually I showed you, uh, two years ago, my 20, my Japan 20th anniversary. And, uh, that video has like 250,000 views. It's a live stream. That's insane. And if you want to take a look at some of the old photos, you can take a look at that video on only in japan go that was about two and a half years ago. I S I just talked about what it was like when I was in Japan and, and Yeah. How 20 years has gone by so quick. Now it's been 23 years. It's crazy. Crazy in itself.

00:52:21 John Daub: Um, why don't you guys write in where you, where's everybody watching from? Anybody watching from Japan? Anybody from Canada? Anyone from Africa? Anyone from, um, the planets out there in the galaxy, far, far away. Portugal, America. How cool is this? England, Singapore, UK, Maui, Czech Republic. Oh, awesome. Jersey, USA. Very cool. Malaysia, Minneapolis. Stay, stay safe. And in, uh, Minnesota where we're following that, uh, India, San Francisco, Toronto, New Zealand, California to pillow, Mississippi. How cool is that? Pennsylvania. I used to drive across the Pennsylvania turnpike to get to Ohio state university, uh, from New Jersey, Indonesia. Wow. We got a lot Adelaide, great wine and Adelaide, Canada, Texas. Yeah. The Hawaiians are representing Virginia beach. How cool. I sent some postcards to Virginia beach international space station. No, you are not. Columbus, Georgia, Texas, Philippines, Hokkaido, Saburo, Sonoma. It's pretty international Perth. Oh, oh, cool. It's winter down there. Down under Western Australia, Saudi Arabia. Awesome. Malaysia. Wow. Thanks guys. That's great. We have a pretty good audience, um, all around the world and that makes me really happy.

00:54:00 John Daub: Um, uh, tomorrow's going to be June, so I'll probably do another live stream. I like to do a live stream on the first day of June. If the movie theaters were open, can I, and I would go to the movies because the cinemas are not open yet, but on the first day, this is something you can take in your notes. The first day of every month, this movie theaters are only 1000 yen. So when I was, um, 20 years ago when I came, I only went to the movie theaters on the first day of the month because the regular tickets for the movie theaters, the cinemas was 1800 yen, like $18. I remember when I came here, I'm like, what? You gotta be joking. Nobody goes to the movies for that price. And, uh, they actually do. And now with the IMAX, it's like $25 for a ticket now. And if you have 3d glasses, they can jack, jack it up to $30 for a movie ticket. So, um, I don't, I don't go to the movies anymore. And. That's why can I, and I bought the, um, OLED when the price on this dropped down, like massively crazy dropped. Um, then we bought a big screen TV on a very, very small TV stand, which we should probably not do. Don't don't follow my lead. Whatever I tell you, don't listen. Just do the opposite. People do that anyways. All right. I know if I say something, people just do it anyways. If I say don't do it, people do it. Remember I said, don't, don't come down. Don't come and try to find me. And then like, people were like finding me and asking me for cards and stuff. Nobody follows the rules. They do the opposite of what you said. Does anybody want these? I can send it to you. I don't think Kanae is going to eat them. There's one more, one more packet.

00:55:50 John Daub: Let me sum up. Thanks so much for watching. I want you all to stay really safe. Take care of each other. Um, yeah, the worst is behind us in Japan for now. We'll see how things go, but stay, don't get complacent. Stay strong. Everybody just be careful. Uh, keep your vitamins up to get your D3, get some sunshine and stay mentally well, everybody, because I know it's really tough going. Um, just, and just be really relaxed, be patient with people and try to stay away from them is the best thing I can say. Try to stay away from people. Um, and take a look at the, um, Akihabara live streams, by the way, they were cut in half because the YouTube app crashed. I guess it might have been. Something with the wifi or, or the 4g or the app or something. I'm not sure. Good night, everybody. See you tomorrow morning. Get some shut eye. Kanae is already fast asleep. She's going to wake up at seven in the morning as well. Um, it's just about one o'clock here. Happy June, everybody. Bye-bye.