Tokyo Baby Shower ③ Final Unboxing
Tokyo Baby Shower ③ Final Unboxing
Overview
In this late-night live stream, John Daub wraps up the generous baby shower registry for his son, Leo. Filmed at 1:30 AM during a rainy Tokyo spring night, John unboxes the final five packages that arrived after the main haul. With Kanae and Leo staying at the maternity home, John shares these moments with his online community, treating viewers as virtual aunts and uncles.
The video is a mix of heartfelt gratitude and humorous parenting commentary. John opens gifts ranging from practical items like a nasal cleaner and bottle drying rack to fun additions like stuffed animals and rubber ducks. He engages deeply with chat, reading messages from supporters worldwide, including friends in Guam, Arizona, and Europe.
Beyond the unboxing, John reflects on the realities of new parenthood, sharing funny anecdotes about diaper changes and the infamous "peenami." He also critiques Japanese paper towels compared to American brands and announces an upcoming special project: a private Shinkansen trip to Shin-Aomori with friend Peter von Gomm.
Highlights
- 00:00 John opens the stream at 1:30 AM during a rainstorm in Tokyo.
- 01:42 John jokes about hiding a Mr. Potato Head under Kanae's pillow.
- 03:24 Unboxing a banana-shaped pacifier for teething.
- 06:02 The "booger sucker" nasal cleaner arrives, sparking a conversation about cooties.
- 11:07 John reveals a vacuum-sealed stuffed lion, joking about its cruel packaging.
- 14:37 A package from Guam arrives containing rubber ducks and bottle cleaning tools.
- 20:10 John receives baby formula and a book recommendation from viewers.
- 26:28 A Totoro-themed baby outfit is unveiled, delighting John.
- 34:20 John discusses baby poop smells and breastfeeding vs. formula.
- 42:30 A rant about the poor absorbency of Japanese paper towels.
- 48:13 John imagines Leo's "peenami" strength as a future superpower.
- 53:03 Announcement of a private Shinkansen trip to Shin-Aomori with Peter von Gomm.
Timeline / Chapters
- 00:00 Introduction & Rainy Tokyo Night
- 01:42 Mr. Potato Head & Package Overview
- 03:24 Banana Pacifier & Registry Search
- 06:02 Nasal Cleaner & Cooties Discussion
- 11:07 Vacuum-Sealed Lion & Totoro Talk
- 14:37 Guam Package: Ducks & Bottle Cleaners
- 20:10 Formula & Book Recommendations
- 26:28 Totoro Baby Outfit
- 30:01 Teaching Leo to Share & Gratitude
- 34:20 Parenting Talk: Poop & Smells
- 42:30 Japanese Paper Towel Rant
- 48:13 Leo's Superpower & Future Careers
- 53:03 Shinkansen Trip Announcement & Closing
Japan Travel Tips
- Baby Registry in Japan: Amazon.co.jp has a robust baby registry system that friends abroad can use to ship gifts directly to Japan.
- Paper Towels: Japanese paper towels are often less absorbent than American brands like Bounty. Travelers might want to bring their own or seek imported brands at Costco.
- Gift Wrapping: In Japan, gifts are often unwrapped politely, preserving the paper, unlike the tearing common in the US.
- Shinkansen Travel: JR East offers private car experiences (Grand Class) on certain trains, allowing groups to reserve entire cars for special events.
- Maternity Care: It is common for mothers to stay at maternity homes (sanka ikka) for a week or more after birth for rest and care.
Japanese Language & Culture Notes
- Katakana: John notes a sender's name written in katakana (Japanese script used for foreign words), highlighting how international names are adapted.
- Kawaii: Used to describe the cute baby formula packaging.
- Nekobasu: The Catbus from My Neighbor Totoro. John mentions having a stuffed version but keeping it out of the crib for safety.
- Shinkansen: The bullet train. John announces a trip on the Tohoku Shinkansen (E5 series).
- Ekiben: Station bento boxes, a key part of train travel culture in Japan.
- Gift Etiquette: John observes the Japanese custom of carefully unwrapping gifts to preserve the wrapping paper, contrasting it with American enthusiasm.
Food & Drink Guide
- Baby Formula (Hihoho): 20:10 John receives a tin of popular Japanese baby formula. He jokes about not drinking it despite the "powdered" look.
- Pizza & Burgers: 36:21 Mentioned in the context of how adult diets affect smell compared to breast milk.
- Bounty Candy Bar: 46:00 John mentions the chocolate bar while discussing the paper towel brand.
People
- John Daub: Host and new father. He handles the unboxing alone while Kanae and Leo are away.
- Kanae Daub: John's wife. Currently staying at the maternity home with Leo.
- Leo: John's newborn son. The recipient of the gifts.
- Peter von Gomm: John's friend. Scheduled to join John on a private Shinkansen trip.
- Virtual Community: Viewers and patrons (Keith, Karsten, Alan, Arella & Fishy, etc.) who sent gifts and messages.
Key Takeaways
- Community Support: The baby registry was fully purchased in 36 hours, showing the strength of John's online community.
- Parenting Realities: New parents need practical items (nasal cleaners, bottle dryers) just as much as cute clothes.
- Cultural Differences: Small things like paper towel quality and gift unwrapping customs highlight daily life differences in Japan.
- Future Content: John plans to integrate Leo into the channel responsibly, teaching him values like sharing.
Notable Quotes
- 01:42 "I got a lot of packages that came in over the last few days from our baby registry on Amazon.co.jp. Over 120 packages came in."
- 06:02 "It's a booger sucker. It's not cooties. Cooties is like when girls touch you."
- 11:07 "This is cruel and unusual punishment. He can't even breathe. At least put a hole in it."
- 30:01 "I want him to be able to give them to another child maybe, or to give them and learn how to share and learn how to give from your heart."
- 42:30 "Japan's not a country of absorption. It's been like this 23 years I've been living here. I haven't found a good paper towel."
- 53:03 "Thank you so much for being virtual aunts and uncles. It means a lot to our family, our growing family."
Related Topics
- Only in Japan Baby Shower Series
- Tokyo Parenting Life
- Shinkansen Travel Guides
- Japanese Baby Products
- Live Stream Community Interactions
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Full Transcript
00:00 John Daub: Good morning. Good evening. It's 1:30 in the morning here in Tokyo. It's raining. I don't know if you can hear the background, the pitter-patter of the rain here in Tokyo.
00:15 John Daub: Thank you. Look, I got a lot of packages that came in over the last few days from our baby registry on Amazon.co.jp. Over 120 packages came in. I want to say thank you to everybody who was so generous to Leo and my family since the birth of our child two weeks ago. But five packages came in. Do you see this? I'm going to pan down here. Five packages came in, and I have to give the people who purchased these the same respect as everybody else. Now there's going to be a couple of packages that might come in even later, and I apologize to those people. Grace in Hong Kong is one of them. I don't think it's going to be coming in time. And if you're one of those people, I will give you a shout-out and say thank you in other live streams. But I really want to show as much appreciation and respect for those that wanted to help us out. This is one way to do it. Some of the other packages, like my friend John in New Orleans who bought me a play mat—names weren't in the packages—and just wanted to shout out to him as well. But actually, this is kind of fun anyway, and the mystery of what's inside these packages will go on until we open it. I just wanted to highlight this.
01:42 John Daub: It is creepy. I can see why Kanae does not like Mr. Potato Head. It's something that I will be hiding underneath the pillow of Kanae when she gets home. She's not going to watch this—she's definitely asleep when she comes in. She'll have this underneath her pillow to welcome her home. Hi, Kanae! You always have to keep your wife on her toes. All right, let's see what's inside.
02:22 John Daub: To continue with the theme of not knowing what's inside, this one does not have a list of who sent it. So hopefully there's a card inside. It's exciting. I don't know if we're going to be adding anything more on the baby registry, to be honest with you. We've gotten a lot of stuff, but people have been asking. And if we can think of something that we need and you suggest it, maybe we will add it. But I don't know. Oh, okay, and there's a card. Thank goodness. Justagirl1 writes in here, congrats to you and Kanae. Here's some money for the rubber ducky fund. Yeah, we had more than we needed. How could I not bring them out for tonight's live stream? And this is probably going to be a really short one.
03:24 John Daub: From Agenson Mama. Is that a card? This is not a card. All right, you know what? I'm going to have to search the registry. Sometimes the resellers are not good at adding in the name of the people who bought it. This is an Agenson Mama is what they wrote in katakana, which is weird. This is a baby pacifier for teething shaped like a banana. That is so cool. Thank you for this. And it's got a little stand on it, so you can pop it up so it doesn't sit on the floor and the kid gets sick. Let's see who sent that now, because I have the registry right here. I think I can see who purchased the stuff. This took a little bit longer to arrive. It doesn't say. Oh, here it is. So this was purchased... it doesn't say by who. All right, you know what? I'll have to find it out. This is awful, Amazon. And if it was you, just let me know. Let's cut to the chase. Are you watching, Banana Pacifier Purchaser? Thank you, by the way.
05:00 John Daub: This one comes from unknown. Once again, it's weird. Used to work in a factory opening boxes. I would open the boxes from morning to night. Stephanie Murphy, congratulations. You and Kanae—thank you, Stephanie and Nagi. Hey, Nagi. Congratulations, John. Hope you and Kanae are getting enough rest. I'm getting enough rest, although I'm editing video right now and I'm doing a Kickstarter update and editing that video. Okay, there's a card here. Oh, this is great. This is from Keith, Arizona. Keith and I know Keith was a patron supporter for a very long time. Thank you so much for this. Congratulations is his message from Keith W.
06:02 John Daub: This item was one that everybody was passing up. Nobody was buying this item off the registry, but it is one of the most important ones, and you will know why. This is a nasal cleaner. I don't think it's just for boogers. How do babies... when you get something in your nose? We call them boogers. Is that a bad word? They call them boogers. Do babies pick them out? How do they do it if they're a newborn? I'm serious. I don't know what this machine is for. Yeah, Johnny boogers, bogies. It's a booger sucker. It's not cooties. Cooties is like when girls touch you. Everybody knows that. You get it from her and then you can't give it back. Apparently I've had cooties before. Congrats on the registry gifts. Please get some rest. Thank you, Bob Joe. If you had cooties before, raise your hand. All right, just so you know, it's a booger, mucus sucker. Yeah, this is so... cooties are lice? Here? Really? It's then little girls have lice? Because when I was a boy, cooties was the one thing that we didn't want to get. And we believed when we were kids, you get them from girls that touch you. I was like seven, and for the longest time I thought that the cooties were just like something you get when girls... Calvin and Hobbes.
08:02 John Daub: This was a package that I don't know why everyone was skipping over—maybe because it has cooties—but no one wanted to be the nose sucker. Because when a baby gets sick, apparently you need to suck it out. I think this might have practical purposes for adults too. Has anyone ever tried this as an adult? Because if you have sinuses that are blocked up, this seems like something that might be useful. But I don't know why it's just for kids. I want to say thank you to Keith though, because this is something that looks very high-tech and medical. I think you might even need a license for it. No, I guess not. But this is something that every mother seems to need—a sinus clogged blocker. What if this works in the sink as well? I'm sure if you think about it, you might find other uses for it. Thank you, Keith. That's a huge gift. And we're going to name it after you unless you don't want us to.
09:14 John Daub: This one is from—ah, so Karsten, this one actually did make it. Okay, so it did get here to me. Some Karsten has been waiting patiently. We did unbox it in the last one. No, Nagi writes, no, don't try it, John. I think I'm not going to do this, not live on a live stream. Anyways, I'm going to do this, you know, just like I wouldn't eat baby food. Right. Who would do that? Not me. We're having fun here. So this comes from our friend Karsten in Europe. Congratulations from Kabula, a.k.a. Karsten. Thank you. Bradshaw Studios, how does the house look? Oh, I mean, it's pretty clean. Kanae won't know until she comes home. Congratulations. So Kabula, it is here. Thank you. Because you know what? Like when I was doing the last unboxing, the Amazon guy didn't ring the bell. He put it in a locker downstairs that we have. I was really shocked. I was kind of upset because I actually requested that he ring the bell, but he didn't. He put it in the box. As a result, we didn't open this. I love this one too. And I remember—I know what it is now.
11:07 John Daub: Now this one, all right, and this goes along with the question that I asked you guys. So this is important here. This is cruel. Oh, this is so cruel. Look, this is—imagine if a baby opened this and saw their favorite stuffed animal like this. Look at this. This is cruel and unusual punishment. He can't even breathe. At least put a hole in it. He looks like freeze-dried. That's a lion. This is awful. This should be a crime. I'm sorry, buddy. I didn't do it. Who was the last person to touch you? Who was the one who put it in? You must have seen them with these eyes. Look at the people out there on the Internet. Who packaged you like this? Tell me his name. One day he will talk. He's still young. Maybe he's trying to catch his breath. This is a very good bear for babies. It's so soft. And apparently it's made of really organic materials. It's made of stuff that the babies can chew, I think. Hold on. It smells fresh. But I do like this bear. And it's really, really soft and cuddly. And he's got a beanbag butt, which is really good. In fact, we could try the nasal thing on him. Can you breathe now? You okay? This is called the Fuddle Waddle Lion. So Kabula, thank you so much for buying this. This is one of the cutest little teeny lions for Leo. And Leo in Latin means lion. Right. Cat. Neko. Leo equals lion. This is why we got it. This is why I got that other lion too. Look, did you see this one? Leo. This is a lion. And this is a lion. So we ordered this one too. Thank you for that. I know he's going to love that. And he already loves... I did not give him Okapi, just for the record. Okapi is just watching over him. But I have this Totoro, which I cannot put in the crib with him, because if Totoro rolls over on top of him, that would be bad, because Totoro, you're supposed to save lives and not take them. So Totoro is outside of the crib now. Don't worry. But Nekobasu is also outside of the crib. Although it's pretty cute to have a little Totoro inside of the Nekobasu.
14:37 John Daub: Next one, two to go. That's right. It takes 15 minutes to do three packages—I'm very efficient. This one comes from Alan C. Okay, it says here Alan C. I can't read—looks like they've either typed over, it's kind of blurry. I'm sure there's a card inside. It's fun to unpackage. Oh okay, this came in a bag. This has the mark of a celebration. Congratulations. So let's see here, this comes from Alan C. Okay, it was right. Alan writes in here, enjoy your gift, congratulations from Guam. Clean bottles make a happy baby and mom. From Alan, thank you Alan from Guam. And if you're watching from the United States, do you know where Guam is? Guam is America, man. It is like the Hawaii that's not Hawaii. It's Guam. Guam is better than Hawaii because it's so close. And Kanae's family always went to Guam when she was a kid, and we're dying to go to Guam. We would have gone there if it wasn't for this pandemic. I'm serious. And Alan, when we come to Guam, I want to buy you a drink and say thank you in person because this is awesome. He's suffocating as well. Let him loose. Now we have nine. Then there were nine. It's called Sassy, apparently the name of this is Sassy, and it's from Gonzalez, Louisiana, is where they distribute this. So that's something. Sorry, little ducky, we'll release you. Freedom! Join your brothers. Thank you for that—just what we needed, another one to the family. One child, ducks. Strawberry milkshake J-Toka, right? Has nine—is that nine? Nine laughing faces. And this is such a really nice present too. Hold on, there's two things in here. Hold on, let's see what's inside this one. I can't believe we got another duck—this is hilarious. Look, I'm serious. Check it out. Hey, Breccia Studio, you have an army of ducks. We do. Look at them. I can't control it. Oh wow, okay great, thank you.
18:02 John Daub: Inside this big massive bag was this. This is a bottle nipple cleaner, isn't that awesome? It's the perfect shape to get inside there and clean it out. I've been using my finger, which is probably not a good idea. So this you can get it—it's soft, you can get some soap in there and really give it a good cleaning. So thank you for this bottle nipple cleaner—get the milk out. This is very useful. You can't get the sponge in there; you really need a special tool. This is also so important, and this is part of the bottle nipple cleaner. See, this package that Alan got was one of the late additions to the baby registry because some things we hadn't thought about. This is one of them. And this one was kind of cool. I hope we don't have to put it together, but it's all right. This is a bottle dryer. And it has these really unique designs, so you can put the parts of the bottle all over here to dry. It's really nice, and I appreciate this so much, Alan. You're going to see this in our kitchen maybe as we're doing cooking shows in the future. Much appreciated for the duck. Hope the weather's better in Guam today than it is here in Japan because we've got a lot of rain. Say goodbye to the cherry blossoms. You can hear when I'm not talking—which is not very often—the pitter-patter of the rain outside. Listen. Can you hear it?
20:10 John Daub: All right, the final package here, and we're giving respect to our present-ers. This one comes from—oh, the name's inside here. This one—see, it says the name, but it's like Bailey. I can't—it's all jumbled. So they didn't do it very carefully. Good job printing the name on it. Oh, okay, here's the card. The card says, enjoy your gift. I think here's the receipt. There should be something on here. The invoice. Okay, so this is from—I want to read the letter. Read the letter, so—oh, okay, here's one that has something different. This one, what? Arella and Fishy, you both know me so well. All right? Arella and Fishy. The best letters are—I think they knew that I would be opening this up. Check, look at the letter. Don't drink it. I think they'd watched some of the other ones. I know what it is. It's powdered beer. Yay! It's formula. Aw. All right, I promise not to drink the formula. This is Hi-Hi. It's one of the very popular baby formulas. Here's the baby on the bottle. Look how cute he is. Aw, kawaii. My friend Indy. Look, obviously they told me not to drink it. Therefore I respect the wishes. I respect the wishes of the gift giver. Go-san writes in here, I hope you will use this for a gift, as I didn't get to the list in time. Please have a look at Am I Small? by Philip Winterberg, which is in English and Japanese and drawn in a Ghibli fashion. Absolutely. Okay. I will take this and I will order it. I really appreciate the gift. Let me see. I'll do it. Am I Small? I like the sound of that. It must have a really good message. Um, I just got a warning asking if I was over the age of 18. Um, okay. All right. Books. Not Ghibli. Videos. All right. Here we go. I found it. Is this the one? So I shall order it. It looks like it's in Japanese. Done. Thank you for that. And we put it to good use. I think looks like—just from the title, I can tell it sounds like a really good story.
24:27 John Daub: Congrats to you, Kanae and Leo. I know that this is after the first one because you know the name of the baby, Leo's name. From Arella and Fishy. Thank you, guys. Let's open this up here. This is the—oh! And we have one more from Arella and Fishy. Look at this. You know, Japanese will open these packages up, and they do it so politely, and then after they open it, they open the wrapping. They don't—remember when we were kids? We take the wrapping and we go like this and go, and we throw the paper all over the place? In Japan, when you give a present, they unwrap it by taking the tape and wrapping it politely and then folding the wrapping paper. Are they gonna use it again? I don't know, but they don't want to open it up like I do in America, which is just completely obliterate the paper. Isn't that the way you're supposed to do it? Who opens up your packages like—you're supposed to go like this and then throw it all over the house and let your mom deal with it? It's supposed to be like that. Congratulations from Kyle Fisher, and welcome to the American Japanese Baby Club. We hold meetings Tuesday. Actually, I've had a lot of my friends, including another friend named John who is in a comedy group here in Tokyo, had a baby just six months ago. Congratulations to him and his wife. And we were just talking about getting the passport, the citizenship at the U.S. Embassy. So there's a bunch of other friends of mine who are married to a Japanese husband or wife that have now American Japanese babies. So there is a club. And I take your welcome and I humbly accept it.
26:28 John Daub: Oh wow. Check this out. This is, oh hey, Brandon Brew. Follow your heart. You will be an amazing father. Thank you, Brandon. I feel like I got a lot of work to do, but I will get there and I will be the best father that I can be. And I really appreciate that. Actually, that's a very amazing gift. Thank you. This is an amazing gift too. I don't know if I want to show it because I wish I was small enough to be able to wear it myself. All right, I have to start here. You remember Totoro? Okay. Look at his chest, okay? Just keep this in mind. Is this not the best ever? And oh, it's got little snaps here on the bottom. So he's just—he's going to grow into this. I think he's about a month away from being the size maybe. But this is going to be an amazing, amazing gift. Thank you so much for this. This is going to be fun. We also have like a Dragon Ball Z outfit too, which is going to be great to dress him up in. I'm going to show you that too. My friend Paolo's son Wolfie also had the same thing. So maybe we'll—actually, I think Wolfie outgrew his. I should probably ask and see if Paolo needs his first. That's all right. It's all good.
28:15 John Daub: See, there's a thing with being a parent. A lot of these things, and this is, there is one more package to unbox. But my message from the last time is the same as what I was going to say today. All of these packages and the outpouring of generosity and kindness from everybody—it's something that I want to share with Leo too. Like this is all because of him. And I know he's not here because he's at the maternity home with Kanae right now, who is loving the maternity home so much she decided to stay there for a couple more days, which makes me a little bit sad, but I'll have years to spend with them. So this should be something that I try to get a lot of work done and enjoy. Rich traveled, Rich said, congrats on the new member to your family. Thank you for keeping up with the work during this blessed but crazy time. It is super crazy. But I think what Brandon Brew wrote in earlier kind of sums all of this up. I think you have to follow your heart, and all of these packages come from the heart. And these are things that we put on the registry. A lot of them were not so successful. They were not so sexy like sterilization tablets or snot remover and things like this, but things that we really need for him to grow up. And everything on the list was purchased. In fact, all of my other American friends that live here in Japan, all the other foreign friends were shocked when I said that the registry was purchased in 36 hours, which is crazy because we put a lot of really amazing objects in there, including, you know, ducks—10 of them. So I just want to say thank you.
30:01 John Daub: In this lesson, we're going to teach to Leo all of the things when he doesn't want them anymore. As he grows up, it won't be me who gives them to the parents. I want him to be able to give them to another child maybe, or to give them and learn how to share and learn how to give from your heart. And these are lessons from all these amazing things that we receive. Now I'm going to be drinking this myself, so there won't be any left to share, but I want it to come from him because these gifts are not for me. They're for him. Most of them. So I want him to share them with his friends. And he's going to take a couple of years before he understands that because I was probably selfish too. I didn't want to share my toys. Parents are like, oh, share your train with little Joey. Like, no, my train. Joey get his own train. But how do you teach that? You just have to keep going. So that means I have to give up something that I love to one of my friends to show Leo that he should do the same too for one of his friends. I'm not sure what I would give up because a lot of these are really beautiful things, except for maybe the baby potato head. I think I can give him up. There's a lot of messages in these unboxing live streams in here that will follow you for the rest of your lives.
31:31 John Daub: All right. You know what? So Arella and Fishy, your message—you're like, don't drink this. Congrats. And then this is the message here. You have to put this in context. It says here, enjoy your gift. All right. So enjoy your gift. What did they give me? What should I enjoy? Is this some sort of message? You knew that I would be the one unboxing it and reading the cards. So are you asking Leo to enjoy this? Or me? Because there's nothing about changing a diaper that is enjoyable at all. Nothing. There's poonami. There's peenami. It's just nasty in there. Okay. So enjoy your gift. Yeah. You know what? Thank you. I actually will enjoy it. I'll enjoy putting it over here. But I know maybe you put some thought into that card. That's why I said I just see a little bit of humor in that, intended or not. But I think it might've been intended. What do you think? So that's it right now. That's about it. And like I can run down some of the favorites that we received here. All of them are so important. Like we were all just talking about how Aaron to the Ron, who is one of the community members—you see him a lot in the chat—now he purchased a gift that is something we're going to be using almost every day. That we named after him, the Aaron booger sucker. I just can't say thank you enough to those. Sorry, I don't want to miss anybody either. Did I miss somebody? Warren von Toronto, John, I don't have a baby yet. So not sure what to send you. I'm going to send you from land of maple syrup, Canada. For now, what can I send is my love and prayers to your family and a small token of gratitude for bringing us to Tokyo. God bless. Warren, that is a great gift as well. And I'm so thankful. It doesn't matter whether it's something that we can hold, but like warm wishes and thank you. And so many messages that I received on Twitter, on Instagram—it's just all such a blessing indeed. And it's overwhelming, the reception over the last couple of weeks. It's been two weeks.
34:20 John Daub: MB writes in, thank you. MB. Stephanie Bishop is here. Congratulations. Sean's on the baby boy. I love his name. I am sorry if I missed the baby registry. Enjoy your little one. And welcome to the party. So not at all. It's okay. If you didn't make it to the registry, Daniel, SV Rhapsody. If you haven't yet, see if you can get the little diaper bag baggies—helps contain the smells. Yeah. Oh, somebody bought us a diaper pail and I think we're going to get some deodorizer for it, but actually, you know what? His poo doesn't smell. And actually I want to ask you, cause there might be some parents here. Let's just be honest. Okay, we're just talking as friends. All right. Just as a friendly talk conversation here. When I do go to the restroom, it doesn't smell to me because it's mine. I did it right. I think nobody is offended by their own brand, right? Our own brand never smells. There's some expression, right? So when we go, we don't smell it cause it's ours. So it doesn't smell bad. Right? Am I right? Our baby's doesn't smell bad. I don't know if it's because he's half of my brand. What do you—I'm being serious here. Do you think it does smell? And I don't know if it smells or I just haven't smelled it yet. I'm serious. Deadly raver writes in here, please put this five towards baby's first giant robot fund. I'm onto that. Jokes aside, congrats to all of you. Thank you so much, but I'm definitely going to be getting him robots and stuff as he gets older. The only reason that I do it now is because the robot might take advantage of the fact that he's just a child.
36:21 John Daub: What does the internet say? If he's breastfeeding, his poo smells less. It will change as he gets older. Really? Well, I eat pizza and burgers and stuff and it smells just fine to me. I'm not really getting it. He's just drinking milk. Little smell writes in, Bela. Yeah. And it's just a little poo too, by the way. And parents are allowed to talk, say the word poo, by the way. When Leo eats solid foods, you get a smell. Really? What's solid? Cause it doesn't seem like he'll be eating pizza for a while. And you know what? If he is old enough to pick up a slice of pizza, he's old enough to use the toilet. Okay. If he can eat solid foods, if I've seen on the internet, cats and dogs—dogs that can use the toilet. Serious. I have you not seen this? I do not know why you can't train a baby to do that himself. And Japan has little teeny Toto toilets. I've been to the Toto toilet showroom in Shinjuku, and there's a couple of them. And they have little baby toilets. So I'm thinking perhaps there could be some prodigies out there, little kids that can do this themselves. I don't know, but look, I was able to train... Have a great day, everyone. Cobra Bebop's here. Hey, Lisa. Oh, infant Todd teacher, not parent, but BM won't smell. Oh, BM is breast milk? Won't smell with breast milk food. Now look out. Oh my gosh. Look, I'm telling you if I am a hamster whisperer—when I had my hamster Kiki, I trained Kiki to go to the bathroom in a sandbox in her sandbox only. And she never did the little pellet poos around the house. Never. It was always in her little sandbox. Okay. I trained her to do that. She got a treat if she did the duty in the sandbox. So when she got older, she would rush back to do the duty in her sandbox. I'm serious. I can do this. Leo is going to be an internet star, not for being cute, but because he's the first toddler—the first newborn that can use the toilet.
39:03 John Daub: James Aaron, thank you. I like it when the colors turn there. James is Leo's middle name. Formula will prepare you for the next step. Do you mean next smell? Trying to read between the lines here. Get the Everybody Poops book. It's awesome for potty training. Really? That sounds like an REM song. Everybody... sometimes isn't the next word. Sometimes, right? Okay. Everybody poops. That's a real book. What? That's a real book. Seriously. Oh my gosh. There's a couple of them. But who is the author? I forgot. I have to scroll back here. Cobra Bebop, thank you. Everybody... seriously. It's a real book. See, there's more than one. Look, there's a lot of different people too. Can you tell which ones smell the worst? I can't. I don't know. The book's a classic. Really? I had no idea.
40:52 John Daub: Yeah. No, I've already been hit with a peenami already and I don't know where it came from. I'll tell you this, okay? Don't—this is just between us. So Kanae's sister was changing the diaper, all right? And I don't know how she did it, but she caught it all in her hands. And it, I kid you not, it must have been like six ounces of pee. I mean, and she caught it in her hands. And she said, what do I do with it? I said, I don't know. I said, you should run to the sink. And she said, I can't. I'll drop it. So I had to get paper towels. And I tried to absorb it up. And then threw it in the plastic bags. And then eventually, I don't know if it evaporated or she went and washed her hands. I can't remember that. Because I was still panicking from dabbing it in to try to absorb it. And I'll tell you this too. Japanese paper towels, not very absorbent. Not very absorbent at all. In fact, it took a long time to get it. And they didn't really absorb much. I needed like half of a roll. I don't think that is TMI. It's a story. This is a parent's story. Ask any parent. They got stories like this. In fact, I think I only got two weeks of stories. You should ask some super parents that have like 10 kids. Now, there's people with stories.
42:30 John Daub: Yeah. No, Japanese paper towels is not a thing here. Like, there's no Bounty or anything. What is a paper towel? The quicker picker-upper or whatever? We don't have a quicker picker-upper here. These things are not meant to pick up anything. You can have a couple of drops. You need like three paper towels to absorb it all. It's awful. You might as well just let it sit there and dry. And then just scrape it off. You know, like get it in a powdered form. And then you can vacuum it up. It's probably the best way to do it. Because nothing's going to absorb it here. Japan's not a country of absorption. It's been like this 23 years I've been living here. I haven't found a good paper towel. Nothing. It was a good catch. That's the thing. I want to know how she did it, actually. Because when I did it... Look. I'm going to be honest with you. I pick him up. I know he doesn't have any muscle. Okay? He doesn't have any muscle. But when he did the peenami, it shot out like faster than I could do it. Just. And it went quite far. In fact, I thought I had wiped it all up. But I was finding it like two meters, three meters away from ground zero. All right? There was watermarks. It could have been from anything. But I'm pretty sure that it came from him. Because I didn't do it.
44:07 John Daub: You never sleep. I'm editing videos. This is my prime time. This is what I do. Can't you order Bounty from Amazon? I don't know. When I came here 23 years ago, they didn't have Bounty. They didn't have the quicker picker-upper here. Hold on. Yeah, I can. Look at this. Okay? All right? Do you see this? It's one. One. $40. See this one? $70. That's crazy. I'm not going to pay $70 for Bounty. That you know what? That's Bounty. Speaking of Bounty, they also have the candy bar. Bounty double chocolate bar. Those are good. Yeah, there's nothing. It's like the black market Brawny. Oh yeah. That's the competitor to Bounty. Okay, Brawny. How do you spell that? Brawny. Is that with a Y? No. They're not here. No. Costco paper towels are as good as Bounty. Really? I don't know. They didn't look very absorbent. I just know that the Japanese ones are really bad. Put Bounty on your wish list. Like, put a bounty out for Bounty. All right. I'll put it on the wish list. I didn't see Brawny on there, but I think I might have spelt it wrong. B-R-A-W-N-E-Y. No, it doesn't come up. They don't have it. What about Costco paper towels? I never get it because I just figured it's generic and it's no good. Kirkland paper towels—how could they be better than the Japanese ones, right? So I never get it. Maybe I should, but you know what? I should be using—I shouldn't be using paper towels anyways. I should be using a sponge or something maybe, or a towel, something that doesn't harm the environment. I'd try to. Are you officially a member of Japanese society? I like to think I am. I've been here for 23 years. I think if anyone is here in Japan, you're a part of society. If you're a resident of Japan, you're a member. I got a card. It says member. It has my address on it. Maybe someone can buy some for you in the future. I don't know. But my carbon footprint would be enormous. You sent me 10,000 miles across the Pacific, three rolls of paper towels. That's an enormous carbon footprint. And I don't even know anything about carbon footprints. I just know that that seems like a lot, right? You'd think that they'd be able to make good paper towels in Japan. Japan can make some of the best products in the world, but not paper towels? Really? Costco brand are name brand in Costco package. Okay. I will try them, but I think we're going to need them because if he has that kind of urethra strength, as he gets bigger, I can only imagine. Maybe that's his superpower. Did you ever see that TV show Heroes? Everybody was born with some secret power. They could fall from high places or fly or turn things on fire. Maybe his is so strong.
48:13 John Daub: I'm proud. Every parent has to find something that they're proud of in their child. For me, hey Nicole, for me, I believe maybe that's it. Look, I was at first shocked at how strong it was. I mean, you could probably use this as like for power washing, right? It was so strong. It could remove stuff from walls like graffiti and stuff. I could see him in a career in this. I wish I had pro cameras on my head and maybe I'll be one of these dads who gets on CNN because I filmed my son for five years and made this mock-up of changing 10,000 diapers. John Daub, father of Leo Daub, who is now in junior high school and probably getting beat up by all of his friends, has posted a video showing 10,000 diaper changes. John, welcome to the show. What prompted you to do this? What prompted you to film the changing of the diapers over 10,000 times? Well, Anderson, it all started when I found my son's true talent, which was what we called peenami. It was an extremely strong urethra, I believe. And I saw a future in it and wanted to record every moment. This kid is going to get beat up. All right. We better not. I better just not do that. But that would be pretty funny. And if Anderson Cooper is still on TV in 15 years. Wow.
49:59 John Daub: Trooper. I really don't have anything else to talk about. Cobra Bebop. It's all cable news. It doesn't really matter what the network is. I don't watch any of it. The only one I watch is actually I don't really watch any American news. I do read newspapers like headlines off the Japan Times and NK World, but not so much. So I don't know. See here. Always keep him covered. Susan knows. I learned my lesson, though, because while I'm changing the diaper, I have a wet towel in this hand and I will go like this and drop it on there if I see one drop come from there. Let me ask this. All right. Leo is a boy. I don't have a daughter. What happens with girls? If we have a girl next time, is it just like right at you? Because for him, it goes the other—it goes up. It's very dangerous. I guess you just have to experience it. I asked my brother because he has two daughters. It's the same. I have three girls. They can spring a leak. I love talking parent stuff. Just goes down. Seriously. Yeah, I would think maybe they don't have the same strength. They don't. It doesn't have the same velocity, right? Because it was extremely strong. Very, very far. I do need a shield. It's so fast. I don't have time to close my eyes. Oh, at first when you're shocked, your eyes get big. That's you. Ah. And then you have to close it. But I think he would—the speed of it would hit me before I could close my eyes. I need a face shield. Probably. Yeah, it's true. When you get surprised, the first thing you do is you open your eyes. But you should probably get used to—when I'm surprised, just quickly close it because it is supersonic. I probably don't know. What is that device that they use in baseball to measure the radars? We need a radar, a laser radar in here to measure the speed. I don't even know. Do they have that on Amazon? Can I put a speed radar on the registry? Anybody? Radar gun? If I put a radar gun in the registry, will that constitute a baby item? Don't know. For science, really. But if another parent has a radar gun already, please let me know.
53:03 John Daub: It's Amazon. Probably does have it. Hey, Trevor Becks here. How you doing, Trevor? Try putting it on the registry for science. Yeah, I probably won't, but it might go up there. I don't know. All right. It's been fun, guys. I don't have any more gifts, but Grace, I know your package is on the way. And that's really nice. Grace in Hong Kong bought something really special and that's on the way. Probably not going to come for a while. If any other packages do come up, I'll take a picture with Leo with the package, with the goodie and send it to you just to say thank you. But this registry... have I been gone for an hour? Oh my gosh. I got to get to work. This registry has been a lot of fun and this shows the power of this community. And thank you so much for being virtual aunts and uncles. It means a lot to our family, our growing family. And it's a lot of encouragement for sure. And we'll make good use of everything, including the ducks. There might be an Instagram photo of us taking a bath together one day. And when that day comes, you would have been here at its inception. Just so you can all remember that.
54:44 John Daub: Have a great day, night, all. Thanks for all the thumbs up. Thank you, Ramsey Silent, always. When the Ram speaks, you must listen. And he was never here. Before I read your messages, I should always remember you were never here. Hey, Image Elite, thank you too. Happy editing. All right, everybody, good night. Thanks again. And I'll see you in a livestream, maybe not tomorrow because of the rain. But if something interesting comes to mind, I will try to livestream it. It's the end of the month, so we try to do that. Just a heads up on April 3rd. For those that don't know, I will be taking a private Shinkansen train. This is so cool. With JR East, Japan Rail has given us a private Shinkansen, the Tohoku Shinkansen. The E5, which is the green one, I believe. And we're going to be riding that all the way to Shin-Aomori. Peter's coming with me. And the two of us will have a private car in the Grand Class because then we can take our masks off. And we can talk about ekiben (station bento), which is an episode of the Shinkansen. And I'm going to be filming. But 100 people are also coming along for the ride. And on April 3rd in the morning, which is April 2nd in the evening in the United States, we'll be livestreaming. I think the time is around 7 a.m., which is 6 p.m. Eastern time in the United States on Friday. So this will be a pretty interesting trip. And I'll be livestreaming like five times on April 3rd and April 4th, which is going to be great. And maybe even April 5th, probably. See you later. Good night, everybody.