00:00:03 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to a very famous vending machine corner, not too far away from Shinanomachi Station and the Olympic Stadium. I got here about 20 minutes ago and was shocked to find what I found. I'm going to explain all of that in this live stream, as well as try to figure out what to do next. How you doing everybody? Let me get away from the crosswalk here.

00:00:31 John Daub: Recently I saw on the news that the Nichirei hot menu vending machines—ones that have made famous because Japan's got all sorts of amazing vending machines around the country—these have been a staple in every single visitor's YouTube videos about Japanese vending machines. And these are the final days. At the end of March, apparently, they're going to stop making the food for this particular vending machine. And already, at this famous spot... it's not here. I was looking around for it. Check it out. This spot right here where the Itoen vending machine is used to be where the Hot Menu 24-hour vending machine was, where you can get onigiri (rice balls), takoyaki (octopus balls), all sorts of food. It's gone. Already, we've lost it here.

00:01:20 John Daub: So I've got to keep trying to find where I can go and film this. Now I have to change the purpose of this episode. I cannot not go live. Well, we do have a Cup Noodle vending machine, which is something. So maybe I'm gonna make it this. But this vending machine corner is quite famous because you have so many of them in one spot. And now there's none that have food except for the one vending machine. I'm just really sad.

00:01:50 John Daub: There are a couple of really neat items here. This one's like a Dole milk vending machine with fruit juice. Proof. And then there's an ice cream vending machine, which has some pretty unique items. But I actually rushed here because I saw the news and I was sad that they didn't have it there. And about eight years ago, Peter von Gomm and I came here to film a segment on Japanese vending machines. And he got one from that Hot Menu vending machine, which no longer exists because they just don't have the food here.

00:02:27 John Daub: So let's get a Cup Noodle. I think I'm gonna go with curry. I'm kind of hungry. How do you pick it here? Is it even working? It's not working. Even this is out of business. Oh my gosh. This is bad news, folks. Even that vending machine is busted. This is a busted live stream.

00:03:28 John Daub: Hey, ShurelMP, John and Kanae from our family, congrats on Baby Daub. We missed the first two live chats. Oh, that's so nice of you. As I'm walking, I'll give you an update. I gotta get something now. This is ridiculous. So this one looks pretty interesting. This is the Fanta Premium. But it's sold out. This kind of stinks. Hey, Ervin Ervan is here. Of course, the original. Congrats to you and Kanae on the heir apparent to the All-In. JJ is gonna be taking over.

00:04:05 John Daub: You know what? I can't get it from the vending machine. This is a really awful day. Everything was going right until this live stream. I'm looking right now for something interesting. That's interesting. Sparkling umeshu (plum wine). That's non-alcoholic. This matcha tasted like melted Pez. You know the Pez dispensers? So I know I'm not gonna get that one.

00:04:31 John Daub: This one looks pretty interesting. It's quite colorful, isn't it? I can get behind the colors of this one. Kishu no ume (Wakayama plums). Interesting. Alright, but that's... Oh, almond milk. Really? Almond Breeze has almond milk? Here, there's an Almond Breeze here. And there's a melon au lait. Oh my gosh, really? That's so weird. You know there's café au lait? This is melon au lait. Okay, I gotta try that. This is U-body melon. Just for the fun of it. This is just weird.

00:05:15 John Daub: It does have a Suica touch. I could've just touched my Suica, but it's good to get rid of my change here. Alright, melon au lait. Never had this before. I can tell you this. It's cold. So it's not a hot melon au lait. Alright, let's come over here to the corner. I'm so sad! Even that Cup Noodle vending machine is game over. Does it dispense hot water? No, it doesn't even dispense the hot water. Oh no. This is a sad day, folks.

00:06:08 John Daub: Sanitize this can. Alright, melon au lait. It's kind of weird. It says U-body melon. This looks like a drink from the 1950s. Wow, 1% fruit juice. Thank goodness for that. There's some nutritional value. Hey, Grand H, how you doing?

00:06:32 John Daub: Oh my god, after that livestream on names, I finally realized YouTube was censoring my last name and preventing super chats. Really? Thank you, Grand. Crystal Frost Hydra, congrats on your sweet new baby boy. You will be a great dad. Thank you. Oh, Loudress Evans, congratulations to you and Kanae on the new baby. Thank you. And Sati Lilman, congratulations to you and Kanae and the baby. Danilo, congratulations. And also, Gonzalez, thank you. Welcome. And Andras Nemeth, thank you from Australia. Awesome.

00:07:12 John Daub: Alright, let's try this here. It's actually a really warm day in Japan. Oh, that's a weird color. Look at the color in that. It smells like melon. 1% nutrition. You know what? This is freaking good. This is really good. What is this stuff? It's got cream. It's got like melon extract. Milk. Sugar. Cellulose. And it's done. Melon au lait. I have to approve. It's quite good. 1% fruit juice. Who needs more than 1%?

00:08:31 John Daub: Alright, recycle. I'm just in shock. It's gone. The 24-hour hot vending machine has already been removed. Alright, what else do we got here? I'm gonna have to make a move for it. Just mostly Itoen. I saw an ice cream vending machine. Who wants ice cream? Crystal Frost. Give Kanae a big hug and tell her congrats. Did a wonderful job. Mikunin Earl. Congratulations on baby. It's so nice of you guys.

00:09:06 John Daub: Alright, you know what? Let's get an ice cream because I can't not get one. It looks good. Alright, it's up to you, Internet. Get some music here. We have namakiri (salt-cutting?). Caramel. And we have a waffle cone chocolate. That looks pretty good. Waffle cone vanilla. There's a matcha. What's this one here? Oh, this one looks really good. This one has vanilla with luxury macadamia nuts. Strawberry, cookies and cream, rum raisin. This one's good too. This one has nuts in it. These are premium ones. Wow, look at those colors. It's like a party. Chocolate mint. Why is mint blue? Mint, the leaves are green. You'd think mint would be green, but I guess there's too many greens with matcha. They had to go blue.

00:10:10 John Daub: Alright, you know what? This one looks so good. Maybe we can get two. I don't know. But that caramel one and the double chocolate looks really good as well. Macadamia. Yeah, that looks really good too. This is a luxury one. It says luxury macadamia. This is just fragrant almond with caramel. It's completely different. Alright, you know what? Let's go with the luxury macadamia nuts. I never had luxury nuts. What's the difference between this and a normal macadamia nut?

00:10:55 John Daub: Clico! You know, the Clico man in Osaka. Alright. 3, 2, 1. How's that? Oh, good. There you go. I was getting a little bit scared because some of these vending machines don't have anything in it. 17 ice special selection. Look at that flower. That's a vanilla flower bean, by the way. Alright, there's nobody here. Oh, okay. We got some. Michael Sassano here! Hey John, hope you and the family are doing great. Okane for the vending machine livestream. Thank you. You just bought me an ice cream cone. Hey, Kina Kuen. Awesome. I don't even know what that symbol is. Where are you from? That's awesome. It's like a W with two slashes over it. It's like a double yen sign. That's awesome. Air to the Ron. Save me one of the Panasonic freezers until I visit. You got it.

00:12:06 John Daub: Put that freezer in my freezer. Alright, let's open this up here. How do I open it up? I only have one hand. Okay, wait. I got a tripod. Forgot. I have some ice cream. I'm gonna eat it all. I'm gonna eat this ice cream. Wanna lick? Psyche. Do kids still do that? They give it to you and then they go, psyche. And they take it away? I used to do that. Some people did see Eddie Murphy's Delirious. You know what? I've watched that so many times as a kid. Over and over and over. The songs, the songs that he sang in the comedy bit. They're burned into my mind. I do that to kids. Beth, that is cruel. And awesome. Alright, itadakimasu (let's eat).

00:13:32 John Daub: I'm trying to see what is so luxurious about these macadamia nuts. So I just have Susan Tan here from Singapore. Congratulations. Thank you, Susan. And King Wong. This is now baby fund instead of vending machine fund. I think so.

00:14:01 John Daub: Well. There's a lot of runners here. He had really good hair. Runner over there. Really interesting hairstyle. So, once again, the news of the day is the Nichirei vending machines are out of business. And they've already removed it from this very famous spot. It's so cold. I have to put it in the sun so it melts a little bit. I got sensitive teeth. Alright, you know what? This is a disaster. Let's move away from these vending machines. And as it's melting away, and I do have to recommend that melon au lait was really good, by the way. This almond milk looks good, too. I've never had this Almond Breeze before. Is it any good? Oh, there's melon soda.

00:15:23 John Daub: So I'm just gonna walk to the stadium now. Because I'm just absolutely and utterly depressed by the fact that there's no Nichirei 24-hour food vending machine. The hot food vending machine is gone. And this is the last month for them. They've gone out of business. They stopped making the machine a couple of years ago, but they're gonna stop adding the food to them. Oh, I found one! This was hidden. This is a premium orange. I can get one of these for the road. Awesome! What is so premium about it? Except the price, which is the same as the normal Fanta. So you get premium for the same price. Who would not say no to that? It's awesome!

00:16:03 John Daub: I haven't been getting a lot of sleep, though. Um, so with the baby, we've kind of narrowed it down. While I'm eating this ice cream. We've kind of narrowed down names for the baby. Well, we should have an announcement soon. But Kanae's baby shower, which is with the baby, will be after she gets the baby home. So I can't introduce you to the baby because you're not allowed to livestream in the hospital. And I'm gonna respect their rules because you don't mess with the hospital. You don't wanna mess around with their rules. Now, under COVID protocol, this makes them feel uncomfortable. Actually, I do need a coffee. What do you think? Fanta or coffee? I don't know. It's a tough one. They still have some hot ones here.

00:16:58 John Daub: Sean writes in here, can you confirm that generally Japanese folk don't like mint? I can confirm that. It's not popular. I don't know why. Saratoga goes Fanta. Jennifer goes always coffee. Carlos, Fanta. Pratham, coffee. This is like 50-50. Both. Maryanne, Fanta. Beth, coffee. Santa, Easter egg, coffee. It's like a fight here. Baby names. Fanta or coffee. Should I name the baby Fanta or coffee? Fanta, get over here! No, that doesn't work. Coffee! Actually, coffee would be a pretty cool name. This is one of the reasons why Kanae has veto power over me. Because she vetoes me a lot.

00:17:55 John Daub: Alright, you know what? I gotta get both. Well, Georgia Coffee's really partnered up with Gundam. It's pretty nice. As a Chicago African, I'm gonna need a lot of coffees, I think. Tortoroporco. Japan needs a Kumas kitchen vending machine. And an Only in Japan vending machine. Alright, you know what? Let's get that Fanta first. The ice cream is so cold! It's hurting my teeth! Everybody does this. I'm gonna call my mom.

00:18:49 John Daub: Alright, let's get this Fanta. I have no place to put my ice cream. Okay. Here we go. This Fanta is the next level. Because it's premium orange Fanta. That was good. Oh! Those are good macadamia nuts. I can concur. They are premium. Alright, let's try this orange nugget of coffee. I know I'm only gonna drink a little bit of this because it's not gonna go well with this. I'm gonna have to wash it down with a coffee. Alright. This... Whoa! That is full on orange smell. 16% orange juice. Real juice. That means something somewhere to some people. It's good. Not a lot of sugar. Mostly natural sugars. Yeah. Fanta is pretty good. They use mostly natural sugars. Like, real sugar. I'm putting this away because it is sweet. But there's a natural sweetness to it. It doesn't taste like Coca-Cola sweet. I'm gonna put it in my bag here.

00:21:48 John Daub: Alright, let's get a coffee because that could be the name of my new son. Coffee Daub. Alright, which coffee should I get though? So there's these Georgia Roastery Blacks which look really, really stylish, right? Then there's the Royal Milk Tea which is not coffee. Then we have other vending machines that have coffee in it. Like, here's the Tully's ones. But they're all cold now. The Boss Coffee's are over there. And they have Tommy Lee Jones. So that's a big plus. Craft coffee. No, there's no Mr. Coffee here. Who wrote that? Take notes. Moderators, let me know later.

00:22:43 John Daub: Alright, these are all cold. We're limited to just this. These two, pretty much. This one has been here forever! This is the old go-to. If you're in the countryside riding trains, you'd always get these Emerald Golds because every single vending machine always has an Emerald Gold. Alright, I'm gonna go with these Roastery Blacks because I'm kind of curious. Although this Cafe au Lait is interesting. Never seen that before. Alright, roastery black hot. It says, rich roasted flavor, clean aftertaste. Really? I kind of like to keep tasting the coffee after I've tasted the coffee. I'm gonna find out what that means! What does it mean, clean aftertaste? Oh, it's in a PET bottle. Interesting. Interesting. I have Georgia on my mind.

00:23:53 John Daub: Alright, let's try it. Then we're gonna walk to the stadium. Who wants to go to the Olympic Stadium? Because we're almost there. Hey, Sia M. Congratulations, John and Kanae. Finally caught you on live. How are you feeling as a new dad? Don't waste money on good diapers. You'll go through them like crazy. Buy some cute clothes for him. Oh. You lose your depth perception when you only have one eye. Alright, try it. Try it. Try it. Oh. It's got the bitterness of coffee, but it doesn't have that, it just kind of melts away. Which makes me think that, it says here, deep roast, but I don't know what that means other than there's a bitterness to it, and then it just goes away.

00:24:56 John Daub: Sarutahiko. And when they mess around with coffee, I just get the feeling like it's chemical. They added a chemical to do that. Sarutahiko is a coffee brand in Japan, a company that sells coffee for a long time. I think it's in Kyoto? Do they have a logo here? Here's the logo. It's not decaf. I don't think so. It would say decaf, or no caffeine. It just says black. No sugar. This does go good. This does go good with the ice cream cone.

00:25:45 John Daub: Alright, folks. This is a busted live stream. But for the 12-week-old, 500 people watching, the hot food vending machine by Nichirei has, they're gonna stop putting food in the vending machines, but this location is burned. No longer does it exist here. You used to be able to get like hamburgers out of the little vending machine, and it's gone. It's actually a very sad day. I'm so disappointed. Winsang is here. Thank you. Thank you, Wing. Alright, let's walk over now to the Olympic Stadium. I gotta leave this disappointing place. This is the last time I'll ever be here, probably. I have no reason at all to come back to this children's park. Oh wait, I do now. I do have a reason to come to the children's park. Forgot about that. I'm gonna go see Kanae at the hospital in a couple of hours. Hospital is giving her lessons. I like that.

00:26:46 John Daub: This looks kinda fun. Look at that. So I have, oh no, it's a green light! I can totally make this. Okay, done. Lotta kids are running here. In the distance, you can see the Olympic Stadium. So I'm taking you, I gotta get back on the subway. I came here just for that! I feel like really ripped off that they didn't have it. In other news, they're thinking of ending the state of emergency in Tokyo. Which is not a lockdown.

00:27:55 John Daub: This is the Gaien (outer garden) area. Jingu Stadium. That's where the Japanese baseball team called the Swallows play. It's the crosstown rivals. Like, these would be the Mets, and the Tokyo Giants would be like the Yankees. But I like the Swallows games because it gets cheaper and the food is pretty good. And it's an outdoor stadium, so you feel like the elements, the sunshine.

00:28:30 John Daub: So I won't get any super premium diapers. Because apparently the kid is doing a lot of doo-doo. From what I heard. Kanae's already taking classes at the hospital. I'm just really shocked that they have classes. And why aren't I taking classes with her? She's gonna have to teach me her knowledge. But I've had friends kind of teach me a little bit about it. I learned how to pick up the baby properly. So we keep his neck in position. But I'm pretty excited to tell you about the name. Hey, those kids were there! They just lapped me. They were running the other way. They told me that the kids can't drink water either for like a month. Like normal water. Learning as I go along. Isaya, that's a good name. Mirai. That means future. I thought about that too. I can't release the name yet.

00:29:47 John Daub: That in itself is a topic. Japanese children's names. Kanae is gonna be at a maternity hospital after her hospital stay. But in the USA, they're like two days and get out of the hospital. Not in Japan. They kind of stay there forever. What a beautiful stadium. Kengo Kuma did an amazing job at this. In about four months, this will be the spot where the entire world will be able to see the stadium. This starts at the 2020/2021 Olympics. I'm calling it the 2020 20 slash 21 Olympics. This kind of makes sense. Just put a little slash there. It's all good.

00:30:48 John Daub: What they've done with this stadium is amazing. They don't have air conditioning, but they found a way to harness the power of the wind that goes through here. And funnel it through the stadium and swirl it so you stay naturally cool. It's gonna be interesting to find out how this feels in July because it is so hot even in the summer. It is unbelievably hot in Tokyo in the summer. One time to avoid maybe? Summer. That horn agreed with me.

00:31:22 John Daub: And Saya's super chat was very much like Irvin's. The one, two, three, four people are here. I like it. Everything should be in sequence. Oh, there's a little sakura (cherry blossom) tree over there. Hey, Wing. I've been watching for a few years. So happy for you when I heard the announcement of the baby. Perfect timing for my baby. This is my first super chat. It is. And there's just nobody here. I'm really, really overwhelmed by the super chats and the generosity. I don't think... My moderators were saying that they'd never seen anything like it on this channel anyways. I was blown away by the generosity of everybody. So I just gotta say thank you right off. Because I don't know what else to say. Thank you for that. I think you've pretty much paid for the baby's first year of college. Amazing.

00:32:33 John Daub: Beautiful, beautiful. Katayama's in the house. I saw you there. Yeah, so I got other live streams. I was gonna go last night to Shibuya in the middle of the night. But because of the baby, I was just really tired. And actually the baby had a little bout of jaundice, which a lot of the kids have. And he's gonna be okay. He's fighting a little bit. Doctors are somewhat concerned, but a lot of babies have this. So... I didn't really see him yesterday. So it's kind of a tough day. Yeah, UV light treatment is what he had. He's got that John natural brownness, which is pretty cool. He's got that mocha action going on, which I love. Because that's what I have. It's like tanned. It looks like me. And he kind of looks like Kanae's dad. He looks like Kanae's dad a little bit. I thought that was cute. Her dad's like in his 60s. But the face is like the same, even though the baby is like zero years old.

00:34:01 John Daub: So I think next week when he comes home we'll do an introduction video and you guys can meet him for the first time officially. But we're still kind of discussing whether or not he should be on YouTube videos. But it's really hard. It's really hard to separate your family when you're doing a job like this. And I've been a full-time YouTuber now for six years. No, pretty much since I started. Chased down stories. But I guess it's about five years now. Since I started this Go channel it became more of a job. There's Shinjuku! Hey! There's the Docomo Tower. It's one of my favorite buildings. It's beautiful.

00:35:13 John Daub: Why don't they remove these gates and at least let people walk around the stadium? I mean, the stadium should have been opened a year ago, right? It should have been opened last year. Check it out. There's some... Is it David? Naked people. You know, who thought of this? Fuzzy Kai writes in, the gate is immoral. I just demonetized this too, probably because of that. It's an Eiffel. They put him up on a pedestal like he should be proud. I guess they took that as a page out of the Greek Olympics in Athens. Right? In a thousand years ago. People didn't have any clothes when they ran the 100 meter. Which is weird. At least wear something. Didn't you see the videos? They didn't want to cheat.

00:36:20 John Daub: So this is a new hotel. It's really beautiful. I like the wooden openings of the doors. You get balconies from the third floor up. Nobody's staying there. I believe the hotel is still not open. I don't know why. They should be opened. All these hotels and the stadium. They should be open. They were supposed to be open last year. Why do they have a wall around it? Does anybody know? Why won't they let us in? At least walk around it. It doesn't make cost. Labor costs? I don't really... They're like 20 trillion dollars in debt already. What's the difference of hiring some old guy walking around here? We could say hi to him and give somebody a job. I'm just disappointed because all that money came from taxes. While most, the vast majority of it.

00:37:21 John Daub: Oh, my favorite word in the English language. Bakery. Wow! Those are three of my favorite words in the English language. Bakery, beer, and coffee. Really? They put these words together. And they made one place. Bakery, beer, coffee. Should I... Okay, I'm going to go investigate. You know what? I'm going to take the tripod off. Just investigate, okay? Just come with me, alright? Just be quiet because I don't... We don't really have permission to film. We're just having a look, okay? Just looking. Might have to escape. Alright, they're looking at me. Escape. Run away. It's nice in there, though. It's nice. Alright, run away. I didn't see any beer, though. Look at that! That bakery is right across from the stadium.

00:38:52 John Daub: Can I get a beer? I wonder. But I didn't see any beer. Okay, you know what? I'll find it. Can I get mochikari beer? That would make a good livestream. People like it when I drink a beer. I was a stay-at-home dad. This is from Chan. My tip to you, prepare yourself for the poonami. That's like tsunami. Where you go to change the nappy, but the baby keeps on doing it. What? They do that? Archong89, get yourself a pastry and a coffee. Alright, let's go see what I can do. Archong said to do it, so let's do it.

00:39:48 John Daub: Alright, takeaway. Let's see what they have as a... As a food. Oh, that looks really good. Alright, I'm gonna get this with a beer. Oh, this corn onion baking one. Alright, stick with eggplant. It's healthy. I think I can pay by Suica. There's nobody here. Enough money. Take out... What's an E-Volta? Never seen that before. Uh, cappuccino, please. Yes, with the two of you. Ah, yes. I'll start with the 10 yen one. 249 yen. Thank you. Thank you. Hello. I was gonna ask her if it was made by John Travolta. You scared me. I thought it was real.

00:42:34 John Daub: Alright, let's go to this park. I didn't even know about this park. Check it out. Right next to the stadium is a little park. Where can I sit? I can't sit there because it's the restaurant. It's the takeaway. Oh, there is! There's benches. That'd be really cool if that beer E-Volta was brewed by John Travolta. I would buy it then. E-Volta is not a baby name. Really? Moderators, take some notes here. Who said that?

00:43:44 John Daub: Alright, so we got a little bit of a lunch here. This is a busted live stream. Unfortunately. You're now sitting on my lap like a baby would. Let's try this. Hello, little guy. Oh, you're so cute. Alright, what do we got here? Hold on, let me alcohol my hands. Kanae gave me an alcohol pump. Spray too. Alcohol, alcohol, alcohol. You gotta wait five seconds. Hey, Kina Kwan writes in here, what about the name Natsumi? I was thinking of this too, but Natsumi does not work for a girl. I believe. Also, it's a small gift because children are really precious. Thank you. Had a little extra to give. I really appreciate that. Alright, itadakimasu. Mmm, this is great.

00:45:21 John Daub: I have one final talk I wanted to do before I leave. It's about vending machines. This right now, actually I would say about five, six years ago, vending machines actually peaked in Japan. I have a feeling that in the next ten years there won't be much innovation with vending machines in Japan. The reason why is because of one word, two words, convenience store. Konbini (convenience store). Konbini has actually made vending machines obsolete. There are so many convenience stores in Japan and so many chains of them and so much and they're cheaper than vending machines that it doesn't make a lot of sense to keep innovating vending machines. Mmm, konbini. Ah, frothy milk.

00:46:38 John Daub: It is nice to be outside because a lot of we've been inside for most of the year. And then I've been inside for quite a long time. The only time I go outside is when I walk to the hospital and go see Kanae. Here's my view going the other way. Which leads me to the assumption that having an Only in Japan vending machine is a very good possibility now. I have a friend who's the president of a vending machine company and I called him up. I haven't gotten a response yet. I left a message and hopefully I can hear back from him next week.

00:47:47 John Daub: I do like these baby names. Nosh writes in here, I thought konbini and Japan were having labor shortages and somewhere were closing. Maybe. But as soon as the pandemic is over, once the vaccine is distributed, I think around July probably, we'll see the convenience stores come back again. This is an interesting note. Before the pandemic in 2019, a lot of the workers at 7-Eleven and the supermarkets were from India or Sri Lanka or Nepal. From Asia, from this region. They looked like me. It was kind of good to see some different faces in there. There were two people from India working in our local Maruetsu supermarket. Maruetsu is a chain that's all over central Tokyo. They were on a special visa that allowed them to stay here to work. 7-Eleven as well had a lot of people from India. They're very smart. They picked up Japanese. They took classes in India before they came here. Isn't that cool? I think they'll probably be back. I think they had to go home because of the pandemic. It was really hard. A lot of them didn't have family here. I'm sure they wanted to go back.

00:50:03 John Daub: I guess they never saw the rise of India. More people than China. India is the future. I have a green card to India too. I can go there visa free. I just take the card. People of Indian origin card. It's called an OCI card now I think. I have one of those thanks to my mom. You know what the funny thing is? You know what the irony of all is? My mom who emigrated to the US and is how I got my green card. She goes by visa and she doesn't have one. I have more power in the country she was born than she does. I can work. I can buy property. I can go to school there in India. But she doesn't have one of those PIO cards or OCI cards or whatever they're called. She's married so it's good for life. She can't apply for it. I think she lost her naturalization papers or something. It costs like a thousand dollars to get it back or something. I don't know. It was really expensive. I don't think she wants to work in India. I don't think there's really a benefit to it except that you don't need a visa. You don't have to go to the embassy every couple of years to get a visa.

00:51:51 John Daub: But I had to be married to Kanae. I know the people at the embassy in Tokyo at the Indian embassy. They're very nice people. A lot of them. They change a lot too. But they told me that Kanae can get one too. But we have to be married for over two years or three years I think and now we are there. So now she can get a passport like a People of Indian Origin card too because she's married to one who is me. I'm proud of that. I'm proud of my background to be half Indian. And the baby would be quarter Indian. And actually a good Indian name would be really good too. Are there any anyone watching from India, are there any good names that would be both Japanese and good for India? That would be interesting. Will your son get the card? Carlos? That's a good question. I don't know. Right now we're just working on Japan and the name. Apu is not a good name for Japan. It's a tough name. But it has to be good for America too. Dinesh? Arjun? That's a good name. I have a cousin named Ganesh. Everybody has a cousin named Ganesh though. Right? Sanjay? You talking about Dr. Gupta? That's a good name. Raj is a good name. That's a cool name. Raj.

00:53:32 John Daub: That was a good cappuccino. Thanks guys for making me go to the bakery. That was really good. The bakery. That's kind of sad though. For the majority of Americans, the only Indian that they know is Apu who works on The Simpsons at a convenience store. That's sad. Now you can say you know me. Just say I know John Daub. He's half. Apu and John. I'll take it.

00:54:09 John Daub: I'm not pregnant but Kanae was. No she's not. Kanae got thin so fast. She was quite... She just sprung back into shape. Kanae's in really good shape again. I was pretty amazed. She did it. I don't... I know we just had Mother's Day in the UK and Canada. I think it's different in America. But like shout out to all the moms out there. You guys are incredible. Until you're a dad and they make you go into the delivery room. And they didn't made me. I went voluntarily. But seeing the baby come out. Wow. That changes you. And I didn't want to look because I thought it would pass out. But I looked down. And just the pain. I don't know. I couldn't do it. I seriously couldn't do it. Are there any guys here that admit that they could do that? Don't do it just to try to be a smart aleck. JKO Adventures, it is a miracle. There's no other way to put it. I've seen like baby cows being born. And other animals. I saw one in Africa. An elephant giving birth. That was pretty cool.

00:55:35 John Daub: Actually Mohandra was one of the names that I told Kanae. It's on the list. Caleb Drake. Hi John. I hope you have a nice day. I'm considering becoming an English teacher. Great. And I was wondering if you had any tips for learning Japanese. And how long it took to speak at a conversational level. Wow. I'll address this question as quickly as I can. Because I do have to get there. Because I have to get home. Because Kanae has to get to the hospital.

00:56:00 John Daub: First off, pick your English school carefully. They're not all the same. Some of them are really good and some of them are really bad. And they all... An English school's purpose, unless you're in the JET program, is to make money. It's a business. Please understand that. It is not like the school like you've ever known. You're also selling classes. So there's a balance between teaching and selling. But the teaching you do is not so much teaching them so that they learn stuff. But to get them happy and excited about English. Especially if it's kids. For adults. That's even harder because sometimes they make no progress after several years. They just don't study. I don't know.

00:56:43 John Daub: To learn Japanese. Sometimes for English teachers, Japanese is discouraged. Because they want you to speak only in English. And if you start learning Japanese, you might use it in the classes. And one of the reasons that the Japanese students take foreigners lessons is because they know they can't speak Japanese. So once the school knows you can speak Japanese, you become something of a liability. Because if you're not good at Japanese, you use any Japanese in the class or after class. And if the students know that, then they start speaking Japanese and they stop learning English. And then the school gets angry. I want you to know that.

00:57:18 John Daub: So... Learning Japanese is a lot easier here. However, with that said, start learning with katakana and hiragana. Make flashcards. Ai ue o. Ka ki ku ke ko. Make sure you know and can recognize the characters. After you learn katakana, then you can start looking at menus and say, kohi. Coffee. Pizza. And you can start to read menus. And if you can start to apply your Japanese skills... Because I learned katakana and hiragana in 72 hours. That's all it took me to learn katakana and hiragana. 72 hours of using the flashcards, going to sleep, waking up. I would study it on the subway train in Nagoya when I was living in that area. And I would look up at the signs around me and try to recognize the katakana. After 72 hours, I could read menus. And it got me super excited about learning Japanese. If you don't know, if you can't read anything, it makes it a little bit hard because then you're just speaking.

00:58:23 John Daub: That would be the first thing you learn. Then start to learn some verbs and how to conjugate a little bit. Like, iku means to go. And then, ikimasu. Ikimasen. Ikimasen deshita. Ikimashou. Ikou. Start to learn how to conjugate the verbs. That'll come in really useful. Try to conjugate a little bit of them. As you start to live in Japan, naturally, you'll start to pick things up. The nouns will come to you naturally. The kanji comes from learning the locations as you travel around Japan. Nagoya. Kyoto. Osaka. Tokyo. Tokyo is actually two syllables, not three. We say in English, Tokiyo. But it's actually To-kyo. It's To-kyo. Okay? So you start to learn it when you start to learn the kanji. I know I say Tokiyo when I'm speaking in English. But I'm speaking with an American accent, right? So when you're Japanese, you speak Japanese, you'll say it wrong. Asakusa. Because that's how you would say it in English. When you're speaking in Japanese, it might be different. Different gears.

00:59:26 John Daub: Have fun with it, you know. Japanese is a tough language. But if you can learn hiragana and katakana before you get here, it will open up doors and you will start to learn the language a lot faster. And it only takes a couple of days before you can recognize it. Kako no ikimasen. Don't worry about the dialects. Unless you're living in Osaka, dialects are kind of cool, but that's the last thing you can learn. It's not really useful. Avoid hanging out with other English speakers. If you want to learn Japanese, pick a country town to teach in. That's a good advice. I lived in Okazaki. Which was pretty... The only other foreigners that were there were other English teachers.

01:00:08 John Daub: So, Chan, it's really hard to make Japanese friends that aren't your students. And I taught children. And I can't be friends with them. I can't be friends with my students. Like three. Which is maybe why I act the way I do. For the first seven years, I just hung out with kids under the age of 12 every day for eight hours a day, okay? Seven years. That's a lot. That messes up a man. I know all these songs. Phonics. Don't ask.

01:00:43 John Daub: Teaching kids, that's another... If you do come to teach English, that's another thing you have to think about. Do you want to teach kids? Because there's a huge market for it and it's actually kind of fun. Your days go by super fast when you teach kids. But you need to have a lot of energy. And the lesson plans... There's like 20 to 30 things. Like you're changing an activity every minute. Alright? With kids. It's... But after about two or three months of doing it and working hard at it, it becomes second nature and your lesson plans take like 10 minutes to do. Because you know exactly how the lessons are going to go.

01:01:20 John Daub: I should do a live stream on this. Teaching jobs in Japan because I've done them all for the first seven years. I started a company here in 2015 so I've not had to do that for a while. It is mentally exhausting teaching. It is, but you live off of your students. Okay? You live off of their smiles and their learning and you get that energy back. Especially with kids. The kids give you the energy back. At the end of it, at the door, before they left, we would do rock, scissors, paper. And whoever... If they win, they can go and leave the classroom. If they lose, they have to stay and answer a question. So we would do like a final activity to make it fun. So the last thing that they remembered was something really fun with their English teacher because you wanted to leave an impression because the school wants them to continue. It's a contract. Right?

01:02:18 John Daub: So there's a lot of little tips that... It is fun! I was basically singing songs and playing games. I was playing card games, board games, games in English, moving fast, making sure that they learned something from it, but it was a lot of fun. I don't know if I could do it again. I wouldn't, no. Satsuki is a good name for a girl. Japanese rock, scissors... It's like rock, scissors, paper, go. But I was like, I would always get it wrong. So either that extra go, that extra half second, I won quite a lot because I was cheating. Which is good because the kids had to answer a question. So basically I cheated. Just ignore that. You did not hear that. Erase it from your minds. I might have done that. They were just kids. They were like three years old. They didn't care. Okay?

01:03:24 John Daub: PMX, don't take the kids side. Alright? They're like three. They didn't know. I did say it's rock, scissors, paper, go. And they just threw in rock, scissors, paper. I told them the rules. Actually, they didn't cheat. They didn't follow the rules. It was their fault. Don't put this on me. I take back all that I said. I didn't actually cheat. I told them the rules. But they're like three. They're not scarred for life. Who wrote that muzzah? They're like three. They probably learned from their mistakes and they got learned and they're probably stronger. They became doctors and lawyers and stuff probably because of that. They probably became lawyers because of that. Alright? Why did you become a lawyer? Because my English teacher cheated at rock, scissors, paper and I wanted to learn the rules. I had an impact on the kids' lives. Right? I did that. Victim blaming. No, look. We're just joking here. This is not real. This is not a real conversation. You're just talking with me in the park. This is how I talk with Peter von Gomm. There's no meaning. It doesn't mean anything. It's idle talk. It's fun. Don't... There's somebody out there taking notes. John said this at 12:15 in the morning New York time or something. Probably use it against me if I run for office.

01:04:53 John Daub: I could be president of America one day. The only criteria is you have to be over the age of 35 and American. Welcome Jeff Neal to the Insider. I appreciate that very much. I gotta go and get to go see Heidi Kanae. This is a busted live stream. I don't know what I'm gonna call it. I'm gonna still keep finding... I'm gonna try to look for one of those hot vending machines and do this again. So I'm just gonna call this the Japanese vending machine episode that never was or something. I don't know. Someone will vote for me too. That's 98...88 million more votes. I could be president. You could put that responsibility on my shoulders. And I think I'd be a good communicator. You know. I would like to be in the debates. I would turn this around on... But would I go as a Republican or Democrat? I don't wanna talk about politics. But on a personal note, I'm neither Democrat nor Republican. So if you're trying to guess what I am, don't. I don't have a connection to politics. Which makes me very valuable to people. Independent. Never tell people you're politics. Cause it...you lose your value. Never pick a side. Stay silent with politics. People spend... People spend a lot of time trying to convert me to one side or the other. I like that.

01:06:35 John Daub: How do I get rid of this cup? I wanna hold this on the subway. It's a nice cup. Look at that. This is perforated. This is a garbage can. Thank you. I can't get a beer. I'm about to go see my wife at the hospital. I'm not gonna go there drunk. I'm not Don Draper. Who do you think I am? You get drunk on one beer? Nosh, that doesn't set up a good precedence. Alright? I don't drink until 5pm. I'm trying really hard. And anyways, at my young age, it's probably illegal.

01:07:51 John Daub: So one last look at this amazing stadium. Raymond, since you had two of the three from the shop, a little something for Frosty later in the day. Thank you! Alright, so this is what I'm thinking. Um, as I'm about to get on the subway here. Kokuritsu Kyogijo (National Stadium). Kyogijo. It's a mouthful. Can you say that ten times? Kokuritsu Kyogijo. Kokuritsu Kyogijo. Kokuritsu Kyogijo. Kokuritsu Kyogijo. It's very hard. Can you say that ten times? I don't think you could.

01:08:27 John Daub: So some livestreams that I have are some midnight livestreams. I want to take you around some of the neighborhoods that look really cool at night. I did Kachidoki. Um, Tsukuda. I want to take you through Tsukishima. Some of the alleys at night are amazing. I might do a night and day where in the morning I show you a neighborhood and then I go back at night and show you how it changed in the same day. That might be really cool, um, to take a look at that. So I'll call them like the night and day series or something. But I still have to stay in Tokyo because of the state of emergency and, uh, I do have some ideas. Um, so I'm thinking of going to Shibuya in the next couple of days to do a livestream down in Shibuya, um, that area. Probably this weekend, in the middle of the night, I might do a midnight Shibuya episode because Kanae will still be in the hospital. And tomorrow I gotta go to Roppongi for a meeting, um, for business. So I might do Roppongi tomorrow. Shinagawa too is on the list. And then I have that Tokyo Legos thing that I have to do which takes like six hours. So that'd be a pretty long livestream. Sunrise, sunset. Is that some sort of Karate Kid joke, Nosh? You know I'm sensitive.

01:09:49 John Daub: Alright everybody, thanks so much for watching. I don't know what this livestream is. I went to the vending machine corner and they took it away. The hot food vending machine. So if you're thinking of doing a vending machine and you're a YouTuber, I'm really sorry but they're all gone. WRX Turbo! Diaper Fund! Thank you, my friend. Wow! Um, I might be able to upgrade to premium diapers but I was told not to. Somebody gave me a super chat not to upgrade to premium diapers. I love that. I'm gonna keep it simple. Thank you for that. And um, Kanae's gonna be out of the hospital in a couple of weeks. Uh, I don't know, sorry in a week. I guess she'll be back on Monday or Tuesday? And her family hasn't seen the baby yet either so we're trying to get her back earlier. She was gonna stay in the maternity hospital longer because it's subsidized by the government and why not? She teaches, um, they teach her how to take care of the baby. But, um, we're gonna try to get her home and when she does we'll do a little welcome party and you get to meet the baby which will be a lot of fun but we're still talking about what to do with that for YouTube. I want to respect what they want to do. Including him. I talk to kids, I talk to pigeons, I talk to dogs. They might not be able to speak back but I got a feeling on what they're trying to say to me. That's important. So far he's, he, I haven't seen him enough to really have a full conversation just 30 minutes a day.

01:11:17 John Daub: So off I go. That's Shinjuku this way. See everybody. Thank you so much uh, to everybody. If you have any questions leave them in the comments below and another livestream coming real soon. I'm working on that, the fireworks video which is coming real soon too. Just been pretty crazy busy over the last over a month. I'm surprised I'm getting the main channel episodes out. See you on Discord and Twitter. My Twitter's been really growing quick. I didn't tweet once for years and now I'm tweeting all the time. Should I go escalator or stairs? Escalator or stairs? Escalator or stairs? Escalator or stairs? Stairs. Like way too late. Had to make an audible there.

01:12:47 John Daub: This is the Oedo Line. It's one of the deepest subway lines in Japan. And I'm surprised we still have a signal. A testament to how amazing Japan is, right? So, one of the deepest subways that I ever saw was in um, Budapest. The escalators in Budapest are three times faster. I remember going into the Budapest subway and the escalators were like this. I'd never seen an escalator as fast as and Prague was pretty fast too. Prague's escalators. Eastern Europe, man! They have fast escalators. Must have been a communist thing. I forget about the Moscow subway stations are pretty cool. There's chandeliers in them.

01:14:01 John Daub: This station has changed a lot. I love the public service announcements. It's talking about terrorism if you see something suspicious. This would be the way to do it with a knight with a katana. It's pretty cool. Alright everybody. For real, I'm leaving. I already walked all the way to the subway station. I could do an episode just on public messages. Please don't get drunk and fall onto the tracks. I guess if you keep clicking the like button I might just keep doing this forever. Oh yeah, the junk mail stream. I've been saving junk mail for the last couple of months. Like, people, you keep clicking the like button. If you stop clicking the like button I can stop this livestream. Just keep going down. Why is that guy Oh, that guy's drunk! That kid's putting his hand through the grate. That's a big no-no. He looks possessed. That's true. He looked like he was in the Exorcist. Don't get possessed on the subway platform.

01:16:10 John Daub: I like that Toei has a mascot. The subway system. The stream is over. I just keep streaming though. I mean, the stream was sort of a bust. I just kept going. So where are we? Oh, we're here. That's pretty close to Shinjuku. Oh, I gotta go to Map Camera to sell my S5 Panasonic. I'll go there later on. Alright everybody, thanks for watching. For real, I gotta go. This livestream just kept going. Alright, later gator.