00:00:00 John Daub: Hi, how you doing everybody? Welcome to the campsite. Yes, it's time for another midnight snack run, but I'm actually not on a run at all. I'm in the living room enjoying the campfire, and it's at the side of the campfire that we can really bond, I think. Camping is just one of these activities that brings people together because there's nowhere else for you to go. You're trapped in the great indoors, the wilderness of my apartment. Yeah, I know it's not the ideal situation, but for many of you, for the last year we have been more or less trapped at home and it's made life challenging. So you resort to unusual things like camping in your living room. Because if you have a tent, you might as well use it, right? I got a carpet. It's almost like grass. And this is a great time to just hang out and talk after hours. How you doing? Welcome to Tokyo.

01:01:00 John Daub: And for the next 20-25 minutes, I will be talking to you a little bit about the news. They've just officially, sort of semi-officially announced that no international spectators will be coming to the Olympic Games this summer, which is actually just a confirmation of what we kind of figured. But first and foremost, I need to get a drink from good old Frosty. Okapi is there hanging out underneath the tree. It's not actually a real tree, but that's not a real Okapi. But don't tell Okapi that.

01:39:00 John Daub: A couple of really interesting things. Somebody sent me something that arrived in the mail out of the blue. It's really weird. I'm going to show you that. And we're going to right now go and get a drink from the refrigerator. But first, something happened this morning. All right, let's get going. Let's start this. Just keep it down. This is Frosty, Frosty the refrigerator. And today we got a new addition. Do you see this right here? This is Frosty's friend called Melty. And this is a brand new washer-dryer that I got for Kanae Daub for her birthday because she's been asking me for two years. Two years is a long time. And look at this. It's got like an LCD screen. I don't know how to use it yet. Look at that. It tells the time. Apparently, there's an app that it connects to and you can control it by app. How do I turn it off? Oh, by the way, its name is Melty, the opposite of Frosty. So Melty came because it's warm and dries. Melty came this morning from the same place that Frosty came from, which is Bic Camera.

03:18:00 John Daub: This brew is called Sakura beer made by Sapporo. And it's an interesting story. This was actually something that was brewed at the beginning of the 20th century. They brought back this original recipe from the Taisho era. And I'm going to be drinking this with you today. Sakura representing those cherry blossoms, but also the cherry blossoms of the 20th century, which is pretty cool. Yes, I did buy organic hummus. Stop looking in my refrigerator. It's all top secret stuff. The only thing to drink, there's 100% Aomori apple juice from the beautiful prefecture of Aomori. Highly recommend this juice. It's really great. And it only costs you $4 for a liter. Thank you, Katayama. Oh, I got these at Costco from Canada. These are pretty good. Kanae approves. Kanae gets angry because I got another snack. I turned the light the wrong way to simulate moonlight. Ice cold brewski. So once again, this is called Sakura beer. Let's see if I can get a... Oh, careful now. Careful. Aito Ron approves. Omedetō. Love the Panasonic. Love you, Panasonic. Thank you, Aito Ron. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10. On the bottom and written in katakana is Sakura beer. Traditionally brewed beer. This is a shout out to Mr. Das, by the way, who has given me beer money for like the last week. This beer was brewed in 1913. And this is the original label that was on the beer, which is pretty cool. I like this. Should I get a glass? No. When you're camping, does anyone ever drink beer from a glass when you're camping? No. You don't need to have the light in your face. It's not very polite. I'm sorry. Oh, kanpai. Kanpai. I didn't actually drink. I almost drank. I forgot to say kanpai. Kanpai. This is good. No, it's not pink. Who wrote that? Med A. Is it pink? The answer is no.

06:39:00 John Daub: All right. If we can get the 250 likes, I will go and try those weird Canadian potato chips. It's weird. And it's not even potato. 250. It's on you, community. Yesterday was a really long day. Kanae Daub and I drove out to Costco and Ikea, and I got lost driving, and that was the last live stream. And we actually just got the car back. I had it for six hours. I got the car back at exactly 3:58. It was like two or three minutes before four o'clock. It was pretty incredible because we also had to unload the car when we got back home. I didn't think we'd be able to do that. So if you watched the last live stream from yesterday, we made it back okay. And yeah, those potato chips came from Costco. And they're parsnip chips. I don't even know what that vegetable is. We're 20 likes away before I grab a bag of chips. The main course is not chips because that would be unhealthy, right? So the main course for this camping, if you've got a campfire, it's camping, are these. Check it out. All right. Tokyo Banana is like a really famous confection from the city of Tokyo. I do not know why. Why Tokyo Banana? I don't know. Don't ask those questions.

08:09:00 John Daub: These are two Tokyo Bananas from the Pokemon collab. This is Eevee and this is Pikachu. And so we're going to try these. And it is super cute. And guess what? There's like each one of these bananas. There's two in these mini packs. Each one has a different pose. So they've gone the distance. They didn't just say, oh, let's get Pikachu and stamp it and make and sell a bunch of them. No, they decided to make several different designs so I don't think there's just there's gonna be all these kinds of different Pikachus. Tortoropoco writes if I send you a frozen beer by FedEx frozen beer by FedEx will it still be cold when it arrives that's interesting I wonder because Canada you can send beer I believe and that you can't do that from America I wonder it's good talk to me later I don't know um who are you from Sweden writes in here can we get a cake emoji for me please laugh my a oh what a nice beer nice I'm accompanied by John on my birthday you are happy birthday who are you I it's very confusing and compa and happy birthday to everybody else who's celebrating a birthday it is now March 10th by the way it's not your birthday anymore in Tokyo it's actually the next day just not to put a complete damper on everything.

09:51:00 John Daub: All right wait okay you know what you can come with me let's let's go get the bag of chips field trip. I'm not even supposed to show you the kitchen. Parsnips what is this weird weird don't look don't look directly at the moon that's the moon it's the pole holding the moon it's the pole holding the moon up right there it's not giggling you know why I started this live stream like three minutes late because Kanae had to use the bathroom and you know what she said she definitely did not want to be in the indoor camping episode at 2:00 a.m. All right first of all it's written in French the Quebecians not your mama's parsnips we know parsnips have a bad rap I wouldn't know I don't even know what a parsnip is and it's your mom's fault really she cooked Indian food most of the time when I was growing up I don't remember her ever preparing parsnips but this cream colored carrot look alike just got a whole lot cooler well actually this is the only parsnip that I've ever eaten so obviously this was marketed towards Canadians because even the size is very North American hey Shane is Canadian Shane what are these parsnips so it's not a potato chip it's a parsnip chip it's interesting but it's not a parsnip it's parsnips I'm indoor camping because I can't outdoor camp it was so good Kanae told me that these were healthy it's like oh potatoes are not healthy but these are they're both deep fried but she said it was healthier.

12:26:00 John Daub: Now I'm going to talk a little bit about this beer here. Beer is not healthy Robert first of all and just for a note don't drink unless you're 21 years old in the United States depending follow your local laws and always drink responsibly never have more than one all right if friends tell you to drink more don't do it always stay in control all right you always want to be in control having one is okay but I'm serious I at my advanced age of 26 I don't drink more than one drink now and not every. I do get a haircut it's shorter um this recipe it's interesting because um Sapporo beer is known as being drinking is not like smoking because drinking does not affect other people there's no secondhand drink Sapporo is um has a very bitter taste I always thought it's not quite um I don't know it's not quite as smooth as Asahi Super Dry Kirin would be somewhere in the middle but Sapporo always has a bitter tree probably the thing I find and I've awarded myself for is had a lot of character to it and you either like it or you don't like it but if you don't like it then you probably like Asahi Super Dry but Asahi Super Dry doesn't have the same characteristics but this one is from a recipe from 1913 and the taste has and it's a little bit sweeter than a normal Sapporo this is what makes it very unique this is the Sakura beer yeah it's just a little bit sweeter um goes good with parsnip chips.

14:42:00 John Daub: All right next up on our hit parade uh we do have these two um and just for the record they're somewhat dangerous not because i'm eating at 1:50 in the morning but it's because they expired uh two days ago but i think it'll be okay oh and one of the designs is the tail i'll like these see that it's the tail of Pikachu that is pretty sweet literally it's cake um let's see if we can get the tail out of this let's open it up oh wait i have to get 350 likes come on community give it up pony up pony up for your maybe possibly favorite creator i don't know um i've been very active on Twitter lately so if you are a Twitter twittonian um you can hit me up on onlyinjapantv on Twitter i've been trying to do daily updates and i'm trying to relay information that is related to travel to Japan so you can stay up to date and these are things that i'll be using in my reports tomorrow i'm gonna oh wow we get that really quickly all right i gotta stop the news but uh yeah i've been using Twitter to um try to relay information um more like a real time um on information that i will use for daily updates not daily updates but um travel updates about Japan so um i don't really have a big Twitter following i've been doing um YouTube for a very long time i didn't see the value of other social medias until you know now.

16:35:00 John Daub: All right let's try this this Pikachu always do a smell check if it's expired it smells okay chocolate banana i think i think you can go i think you can go past um like four or five days past the expiration date i do with milk does anybody else do that if the milk is on the expiration date can't you go like a week later is there does anybody not do that i go i can go up to a week week later all right you know what these are super cute but i'm kind of sad that we did not get the tail you can go months if kept right what's that socrates with a k it's a smart smart man that's a smart man all right the first Pikachu that we have is sleeping Pikachu um wrapped up in plastic obviously asleep because there's no air in there and possibly not more than just asleep someone's got to cut him an air hole all right actually i'm quite worried about Pikachu it's not just and and it's past the expiration date so he's been wrapped in plastic for an extra two days probably i should have opened him up by the expiration date thus probably the expression changed i don't and it's my fault for not saving him so this is the um i don't know death stare i don't know all right this one probably we're going to eat this to save his life which is probably too late um actually this one has a greater chance of saving Pikachu's life he looks still awake in this one it's a little bit better i think he's still got another day i'll save this one for Kanae we'll go for the one that maybe he's we can resuscitate him with CPR he's not he's not gone who wrote that abekisha ryne he's not gone he's still here just joking all right first let's get an air hole my orthodontist right now is now screaming at the camera all right let's give him mouth to mouth banana banana uh this whole live stream is bananas crazy hey Edo's here. Hi, John. Here's a super chat for beer and chips money for the next indoor camping. Somebody wants me to do this again. I can't even get... I'm trying to get in so I can get my finger in there. Sorry. Come on. There's only seconds to spare. Okay, we got him. That's why there was no air hole. Serious, serious business here. Hey, Sascha. Greetings from Ireland. First live stream in a long time. Nice to see you, Sascha. And by the way, Ireland just started up airmail and I sent your postcards so they should be getting there only one year late. They put him in a little stretcher. Look at the stretcher. And the stretcher is like peanut shaped. He's sleeping. Hello. Wake up. I gave you mouth to mouth. Maybe that's why. There's only one way to see if he's really gone. We have to put him in the campfire. It's the only way. It's the only way. No, it doesn't look like... It doesn't look like he made it. It is slightly toasted now. That is not evil. That is polite. Before you eat it, you have to make sure it's no longer wiggling. All right. No more... Stop playing with your food.

22:01:00 John Daub: All right. So I'll pan over this way so the light is okay. Let me turn on my headlamp. All right. So you can see in here, it's more like a banana cream. Right? Hey, Jeff Kennedy. Nice to see you too. My friend in Philly. So it's a banana cream and it's a beautiful cake. And I don't know what this is. I think it's like a maple syrup or something. That's really interesting. Hey, Ranjit is here. How you doing, Ranjit? The next midnight snack. And Raymond Centen was in the house. Raymond, Kanae got your message? Thanks, buddy. I think Raymond was like one of the last people to snag up a Michael box. By the way, they're all sold out and don't email Kanae. These are better than Twinkies. These are so much better than Twinkies. There's a moistness to it that the Twinkies don't have. Although Twinkies are moist, this is a little bit moister. These are also fresher. There is an expiration date. Sorry for the light in your face. So the reason for the expiration date is because they want to sell it fresh. I think there's something with Japan and Japanese culture. You still want to be able to taste the ingredients in its fresh state. So you rarely see foods that have massively extended shelf lives like Twinkies. There's nothing wrong with that. There's nothing wrong with that at all. Rams Silence here. Hey, Rams, you know what to do tomorrow? Yes, actually, I do. And you got it. I know exactly what to do. And you were never here. All right. This kanpai is for Pikachu. So he has something to drink in there too. The banana cream does not go well with Sakura beer.

24:27:00 John Daub: All right. Next up, Eevee. Hey, Derek. Derek Fong from Winnipeg, Canada. Thanks for making work from home more enjoyable. Nice to see you, Derek. So this is Eevee here. Isn't this Eevee? I sometimes get the Pokemon wrong. That's Eevee, right? Hello, I'm Eevee. I am caramel tasting. I'm different tasting than my friend Pikachu. Caramel mocha. Caramel mofa. Mocha. I don't know what a mocha is. Smell test. Oh, what a ripoff. Dude, they're both the same. Look, he's winking. Oh, that's real cute. But this one is the same one. They're supposed to have all these different... Oh, let me get the light. Everyone's giving an F for Eevee out of respect. Oh, look at his moisture. It's like a sauna in there. He's got the... His wrapper is kind of moist, too. So at least he's in there sleeping in his hyperbolic chamber. Looks very comfortable. And then this is the other one. It's pretty much the same. So I'm going to leave one of them for Kanae. I should put Eevee in Melty to see what he looks like after 15 minutes sweating inside the sauna. All right, let's get it. See, the internet is paying great respect to Eevee for his sacrifice. We have to save his life. Give him breathing hole. CPR. That's my favorite Office episode where Michael Scott is doing it to the beat of Staying Alive. This is what he looks like outside of the wrapper. It's cute, right? It's definitely smaller than a Twinkie. Mr. Das, finally you join us. The beer is good. Very good. Payback from many in the past. Kanpai. Mr. Das is a long time coming with that kanpai. All right, Eevee has to undergo the fire test to see if he's still alive. If Eevee moves, he will be put back in the plastic and returned to Tokyo Banana. Nothing? All right, we're good. It's the test to make sure that what you're about to eat is no longer with us. Whoa. All right, Pikachu was Tokyo Banana, but this is actual caramel. This is such a strong caramel smell. Eevee, your sacrifice is very much appreciated. Thank you. This is better. You know what would be good? If you mix the two together. Eat one Eevee and one Pikachu and take a bite like this. I think it would be a pretty good mix. These are so good. Oh, man. That's really good. That's my happy spot. And for the sacrifice, we salute you, Eevee. Wash you down. The swing of Sakura Beer from Sapporo. Mr. Das, Sapporo. Small sips. Small sips. That was really good.

29:42:00 John Daub: Yesterday at Costco, we mostly got items that we're going to need for the next couple of months. We're in what I guess you would consider to be a state of emergency, which is just for the Tokyo area right now. Saitama, Chiba, and Kanagawa, and Tokyo. Just the four. We're not supposed to leave the prefecture, which is why I'm doing an indoor camping episode because I can't really go out anywhere that much. And I know my friends Tabby Eats are also doing a lot of stay-at-home episodes. And this afternoon, I did another episode of NHK Tokyo Eye. Do you know this show? NHK World is a TV station that you might get on some cable plans. I think you can also see it online. So I gave Chris, who's the navigator, we've been working together since 2008 on that show. I've been in Tokyo Eye for 13 years. That's crazy. So today I took Chris and another reporter on a virtual trip by Google Maps to one area inside the city. You have to watch to figure that out. And then my favorite place in the city of Tokyo, Aogashima, which is an island 380 kilometers south of Tokyo. It's amazing weather there. It's the smallest village in Japan. Only 170 people. And I took Chris virtually by Google Maps there. I think it's going to be a pretty interesting episode. And if you've been seeing my stay-at-home episodes from last year, kind of revisit that vibe of when I took you to like Miyajima and some other places by Google Earth. I was actually thinking of taking you to Aogashima, maybe doing the same presentation that I did for Tokyo Eye, but on Twitch. By the way, I do have a new desk, Nosh, and it is pretty sweet. And I'm just about ready to start doing it.

31:40:00 John Daub: I want to ask you to... Let's see if we can get to 500 likes, and I'm going to show you this weird item that I received in the mail without any card or any explanation whatsoever. And it fits the mood. It's weird. I don't know who sent it to me. Nosh writes in a schedule. Yeah. Yeah. We all know without a schedule, you can't consider yourself a serious Twitcher. Twitch-onian, Twitch, Twitch-ite, Twitch. Second Breakfast is here from Mexico. Thanks for the midnight streams. You're welcome. What time is it in Mexico? It must be like 13 hours difference. Oh, it's like lunchtime. Whoa, I'm so jealous. I wish I was in Mexico where the weather is so much warmer. Definitely check out Second Breakfast. They're doing some pretty cool live streams down there in Mexico. Really, really friendly. A couple from India traveling the world. And it's been nice getting to know them on Patreon. Mr. Das, these go good with beer. It's Canadian. All right. We're three away from 500. That's why I know we're going to get there. So I'm going to lower this down now. I want to show you this. It's really, really weird. I didn't, it just came out of the blue. It came out of the blue. Just like Elvis' camera did. Hi, John. Enjoy your camping. We did with our grandkids. Really? Did they like it? I wonder, you know, there's something about just pretending to camp indoors. If you have the sound effects and the campfire on the TV, it actually feels sort of real. And the tent. All right. Check this out. All right. I got to plug it in first. I got to plug it in. All right. Just keep looking at me. It's bizarre. It just showed up at my door. I'm serious. I don't even know who to thank. Are you ready? Three, two, one. What is it? It's weird. It's kind of loud. I don't know what it is. It just showed up. I guess it's a fire lamp. I don't know who sent it. It just came. It's weird because we're doing a campfire and then there's a fire right here. Don't worry about it. Look, if everybody knows that Okapi comes from Africa where it's extremely hot weather, so he's used to it. At least it's a lot hotter. See, look, he's still smiling. See? It's all good. I would never cook Okapi for food. I would only do that with Pokemon. All right. This thing is super loud. Oh, it dropped. That is so loud. I don't hear Kanae moving around in there. That's a good sign. She's a very sound sleeper. Very sound sleeper. Kanae snores. Okapi are friends, not food. That's why I'm just warming him up. Excuse me. Do you know how cold it is outside? No, I don't. I don't know. It's natural habitat. Singed is the word. Nothing wrong with that. I've been singed a couple of times. I burned myself right there. Do you see that? Happens to the best of us. There's no excuse. You know, the word of the day is loyalty. OK, we take care of each other. And sometimes that means tossing us on a fire. Remember that life is precious.

37:36:00 John Daub: Right now, I'm editing a video that I'm going to upload tomorrow. And I actually do have a cup noodle on the floor in there. But that's like the Pokemon bananas. It's also expired. Do cup noodles really expire? So I get an episode that I'm uploading tomorrow. And while I was editing it, and it's quite an old episode. I filmed it a couple of years ago. I was getting pretty emotional. It has to do with the March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami. I will talk about it on March 11 and kind of relive that with you. But I want to release this video. I took this last, I'm sorry, two Octobers ago. When Hana was still my assistant. And Mr. Das, thank you. When is the breaded Pidgeotto sandwich recipe coming out? Are you talking about pigeons? That'll be coming soon, actually. Me and the pigeons. Actually, the crows were talking about this, too. Something about a pigeon sandwich. I don't know. Ah, ah. I don't, you know, it's hard sometimes. Different dialects as well. Crow calling. So while I was editing it, I was inside of... And I hope you all watched this. I hope you all watched this episode. I was inside of the Edogawa Ward Disaster Prevention Center [?Bosaikan?], which is like a disaster museum. It's not a museum. It's a place where you learn about the natural disasters, catastrophic disasters in Tokyo. And they don't show it to you. They make you experience it. And they have an earthquake simulation booth that does the exact same pattern of earthquake. Like the Great Tohoku Earthquake. And every single bump and every single jarring twist is exactly by seismometric data. They've recreated it exactly inside of this fake room. And at first, in the first 10 seconds, you'll see it in the video tomorrow. I'm not amused. This is not an amusement park, okay? People lost their lives with this. It wasn't a funny thing. You know, after about 10 seconds, flashbacks started to come back. Because every single one of those bumps and rolls and jars was something that just registered with me. I remembered it like it was yesterday when I was in that simulation room. And I was afterwards, you'll see in the video, noticeably impacted by it. And 30 minutes after, I left there. I was still extremely... Like, it just hit me deep. Because I don't think... If anyone was here in Tokyo during that earthquake, and the anniversary, the 10-year anniversary is coming in a couple of days. It's just not an event that you ever forget. And I'll be taking that with me for the rest of my life. There's just a fear. I remember when that first jar hit. You could hear like a rumble before it started to hit. You could tell that this was going to be a big one. Like something was building up, and then it just hit. And I knew right away that there was something wrong. And I had no idea what to do. That's why this video, I think, is going to be really important. And that's coming out tomorrow. It's just about done.

41:37:00 John Daub: Oh, sorry. Mr. Dotho's rereading. Danny's here from Quebec. Hey, Danny. Hey, Danny. I got some Canadian food. Parsnips. Yeah. So, I hope you do like this episode that's coming. That's tomorrow. I think I'll release it probably in the evening tomorrow. I still want to give it a little bit of polishing over. And I'm going to explain the magnitude and the Shindo, the Japanese system. And... We don't actually use the Richter scale. A lot of you said it's like 5.6 on the Richter scale. Actually, the Richter scale kind of went out of business. They just don't use it anymore since like the 1970s. They use another more accurate measurement of measuring the size of the earthquake. But what Japan does, they don't measure the size of the earthquake with magnitude. They measure the shake of the earthquake. So, the two ways that they measure the earthquakes are very different. We never get magnitude. No. They add the magnitude now. But the Shindo is always the most... What we in Japan really care about. Whereas abroad, you would not understand that. There's another system that measures shake for the West. But everybody still goes by magnitude. Magnitude 7.6. Like, okay, I understand that. But how hard did you shake? Right. The Mercalli scale. Yeah. I've been researching it for this episode. I'm not going to talk about that too much because it's not a scientific... Too much of a scientific episode. It's just enough to give you some information. I really want you to go to this place, though. Because it's an attraction that not a lot of people know about. The Edogawa Ward Disaster Prevention Center [?Boseikon?] near the Tokyo Skytree. Run by the Tokyo Fire Department. So, yeah. And I think you're going to like this episode. And, you know, when you see the room shake, you can kind of understand what an earthquake is. But when you put a YouTuber inside of there, then you can see the face of how you're reacting in the exact same earthquake as the Great Tohoku Earthquake. They also had the Great... The earthquake from Kobe. They also recreated that for me. And that earthquake seemed even more violent. See, the earthquake in Tohoku kind of went like this. Okay? And it swirled a little bit. And it was going left and right. The Kobe earthquake was so much more destructive in a way. Because of the motion was like this. All right? And when the earthquake is going up and down like this, and it didn't just... Didn't build. It just hit like a punch to the face. And it happened five in the morning when people were still asleep. Which is even worse. This would be the worst thing to ever wake up to. So many ways that Kobe earthquake was so much more damaging. And the epicenter was... It was right there in Kobe. Both of them were... And Kobe was just a couple of years before I came to Japan. When I came here in 1998, it was just... I think it was three years, two and a half years after. And the scars were still so strong. It was what they talked about in the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. It was such an impact. It was such a tragic catastrophe. Natural disaster. It's like you didn't have a chance in that one. And the surrounding gas explosions and fires. And you just didn't have a chance if you were in there. And this is what scares me the most about living in Japan. You have no control. None. I'll talk about it in another live stream on the 11th. But it's... For me, it's... After 10 years, it's a really good chance to just stop and reflect. On what happened. And the people that we lost. And the things that still need to be done. Because a lot still needs to be done up there. A lot. And the kids that were orphaned by the tsunami. And there were too many of them. They're now 10 years older. A lot of them were like 6, 7, 8. Some of them were just 2, 3. They're now in their teens. And now they've been growing up. A lot of them are... A lot of people were lost in that. It was just really, really bad. Wow. So I'll talk about that in the day after tomorrow on the anniversary. Because I think that that's... Yeah, again, like... You just have to reflect. Unless you've been through a major earthquake. Not just a tremor. But something where you feel like you don't have control of your life. It seriously shifts the way you think about the way you live. Alright? That's... It makes it pretty easy to want to do this. To do this job. Because every day is new and unique and special. And that's... I think that's really important. Important to me. Yeah.

47:04:00 John Daub: Alright. It's time to go to bed. If you have any questions, you can leave them in the comments below. I really, really like sharing these moments together about the campfire. I will answer a couple of questions. Because it's not quite 2:30 in the morning yet. Greetings from Poland. Yes, it is bedtime. I have to get to bed. I want to wake up before 10am. Which is going to be harder the longer this goes. Most of your life is really in Japan. You heart, mind, and soul only in Japan. They blessed you to have you. They blessed to have you. I passed this point where more than... I think I did. More than half of my life has been in Japan. It's a pretty interesting milestone. When you reach the halfway point. Of your life being spent somewhere else. Pretty cool. Hey, Lance writes in here. Hi John. I've been a big fan since your... That old channel. When you were planning to visit the Philippines with Kanae. Yeah. COVID hit. We were thinking of going in March. When the hills down in Cebu are browned and they look so chocolatey over there. But we just didn't... We couldn't make it because of COVID. I think we were going to go last year. There are a lot of things we wanted to do. We had to cancel. But the Philippines is going to be a lot better. The Philippines is really high on our list of places to go. Mainly, I think it's a beautiful country. But I'm really curious about the food and the people. Because everybody tells me how friendly... You don't have to tell people that Filipinos are friendly. Because I meet them here in Japan all the time when I'm walking around. And they come to say hi. Just big smiles. And I'm really excited about flying in the Philippines when we get a chance to. After when travel starts up again. And yes, I probably will go to the Philippines. I'll go to the beach. Yeah. Come to the UK. My grandmother is from the UK. Well, she's no longer with us. But yeah, 25% English. And I have family there. But I've never really met them. Most of them came over in the 1920s. Emigrated to the United States. But I've been to the UK about 20 times in my life. So it's... I'm always sure... My high school buddy emigrated from the US to England. So he now has a UK passport. Which is interesting. He went the other way around. So I will definitely go over there to visit him really soon. In fact, the UK was one of the planned trips that was canceled because of COVID. Do a nice meet up in London would be really cool. On Trafalgar Square or something. I don't know. I always liked Trafalgar Square. Because it's so central. I thought you were Canadian. Really? You know what? The Canadians out there, they know I'm not Canadian. I don't walk like a Canadian. You can tell from the walk. It's been told. Do you sleep on your side or on your back? Actually, I sleep on my stomach. It's true. So, none of the above. There is a Canadian walk. There's a Canadian walk. Walk like a Canadian. You don't know that song? Very popular in the 80s. Walk like a Canadian. Let's see here. Oh, wow. Yeah. I've got to come back to Malaysia too. We had fun in KL when I was there a couple of years ago. A few years ago now. Pillow in the face. No, you sleep on your stomach and you turn your head like this. In fact, most babies will sleep like this. Right? I can only sleep on my stomach. I've been doing it since I was a kid. I never stopped. Seriously, I don't sleep on my back. How does questioning your stomach help you? I don't even get asked. Is this going to end up in like the Wikipedia, jawed up Wikipedia, stomach sleeper? Since birth, John has been sleeping on his stomach. At age 35, he once slept on his side, found he didn't like it, and turned back onto his stomach. One reason why his face is so flat is because he sleeps on his stomach with his face to the side. Don't put that in my Wikipedia. I did apply for the Wikipedia. Had somebody write up something and they sent it in. But I don't know if it's been approved because I can't control it. Um, what's the hang in your wall? Kanae took flowers and dried them? It's like we're on a farm in here. Wikipedia is crowdsourced, so it has to be there. I didn't write it, so we will see if it's there one day. Stomach isn't good for your posture. Well, I'm like a crooked man. Okay? I'm a crooked man. I'm a crooked man. Crooked man. Because I sleep on my stomach. I'm scrolling through here. Sleep in the flesh. RJ, do you mean birthday suit? No, I don't do that. Like, even if I did, I wouldn't admit it. Although I just did. It's weird questions. Have you ever thought of visiting Tunisia? I have. Um, I remember when I was, I visited Egypt, um, right after 9/11, um, 20 years ago. Oh my gosh. This is also the 20th anniversary for 9/11. Um, after 9/11, I was in, um, on the top of Kilimanjaro. I'd just come down Kilimanjaro the next day. I was back in Nairobi. It was a long ride. Yeah, it was two days after I got, I was at the top of Kilimanjaro. Got to Nairobi, and that's when 9/11 happened. Um, so we flew, we flew back to, um, from Nairobi back to South Africa. Spent a day, because there were no flights anywhere. We couldn't get a flight. And then we flew back to, um, flew to Paris. Just had to get out of Africa, because the U.S. Embassy is like, get out of this area. Um, that was, that was tough. And I got back to the U.S. like a couple of weeks later, because I just had to go back. This is the 20th anniversary of that, too. I don't remember what we were talking about. Oh, Tunisia. So I went to, um, um, after, after a couple of weeks back in the U.S. Wait, I never thought, I never get to the end of that video. A new campfire started. What? It's creepy. I never, alright, so I, I went, I found a really great deal. The Middle East was, and Northern Africa was on sale. So I went to Egypt at one-tenth the price of a normal tour. And people were so happy. So I used that extra money, which was tipping people, because I guess tipping is a big deal in Egypt. I would just use the extra money to tip people. And people were really happy about it, because there weren't, there wasn't anybody else really there. But that was the safest time to go to Egypt was after 9/11. And, um, I thought about just going, I couldn't go to Libya. But Tunisia was one of the other places that had really great, um, tours that was really friendly to visit. But I just never got there. Also when I was in Italy, there were also a lot of, um, people who were back, other backpackers had come from Tunisia. So that's, um, very interesting. I'd love to go. I'd love to go. There's a lot of places that I have not been. I've been to Egypt and Morocco, and that's it, in Northern Africa. I wish I could go to more places. It's a good question.

55:35:00 John Daub: It's a big fire. Alright everybody, I gotta go to bed. Um, Kanae's gonna kill me if I wake up, uh, later than 10 AM, because I gotta make breakfast tomorrow. So, if you have any questions, leave them in the comments below. Thank you, whoever sent me this raging fire. Um, I appreciate it. Um, Okapi sends this. Regards. And, uh, this beer is as empty as it's going to get. So, oyasumi. Thanks for joining me. Uh, see you tomorrow. Probably for another Q&A or something, because, yeah, I gotta stay at home. Be safe, everybody.