Tokyo Vending Machines vs Japanese Rainy Season

00:02:39 John Daub: As I was editing, which makes this—uh—pretty diffused lighting is awesome. Lee, it's don't underestimate the power of diffused lighting. All right, we're going to go take a look at some of these vending machines here. We're going to start off with the good old favorite, uh, Coca-Cola, and see what's going on today. I get a feeling—oh, it's self-lit. It lit up right when I got close to it. So it seems to have some sensor in it.

Um, this one's unique because it has Dr Pepper. I find that you don't—you don't see Dr Pepper too much outside of Tokyo. The wind is gusting right now. Oh, look at these little pet bottles of Coca-Cola. I think that's like 200 milliliters. Now the reason why—I'll get the sensor back. The reason why Coca-Cola is this small is because people don't like the bigger cans—it's too sweet. They just want a little bit of sweetness and it goes wasted. So Japanese don't like to waste it. They're buying smaller things because they know they're just going to throw it away, so it's the same price just smaller. And then there's Aquarius—the Gatorade equivalent for a Coca-Cola company here in Japan.

00:03:47 John Daub: We got here all right. This is the oh, the green tea by Coca-Cola, right now. It changes every year. So this was like moogie tea—mugicha—that label has changed for summer of 2021, as well as peach-flavored water from Coca-Cola's water division, I guess. And then there's some smaller cans. You can notice here in the vending machine that they've turned off the—the hot feature of the vending machine again. They only do that in the winter or in the fall—in the spring you'll see it. But because once June 1st hits, they usually turn it off. The sensor turns the light on. That's pretty cool.

00:04:31 John Daub: You have Olympic—Coca-Cola being a major sponsor for the Olympics. You have Olympic advertising on the side of the vending machine. That's the torch that's going around right now.

00:04:40 John Daub: Next to it, this drink vending machine looks like you get the normal cans of it—a normal 500-milliliter PET bottles. A little bit of advertising there. You have this thing called craft coffee. People have been drinking coffee more—bigger PET bottle-looking things of coffee that did not exist until about two years ago. Japanese are drinking more and more coffee than tea. Tea's still pretty big. And then there's Deep Black—which is—I don't know if black can get any blacker. But it's like the plasma OLEDs of coffee. So you're going to get some deep blacks. We could test that out if you want. So that's our offering from Coca-Cola. They turn the hot off, so they're all cold coffees, which is refreshing in the winter or in the summer.

00:05:27 John Daub: This is the Sun 21, and you can see the collaborations and partnerships with foreign drinks that each company has. This one has some sort of UFO catcher app that you can work on your phone, which is kind of neat. You can because you buy a drink and you get a shot at winning something.

00:05:42 John Daub: The Nachan—these drinks here are pretty good. Kids like it. It's like apple juice but it's better. Maybe that's 110 yen. The prices are down, so if you're cost-conscious, save 10 yen by going to this one.

00:05:56 John Daub: Mountain Dew—which is Pepsi, I believe. There's no Pepsi in this vending machine, but there's Mountain Dew. That's pretty interesting. Right, the reason why is Suntory owns or is collaborated with Pepsi brand here. So the Suntory machines is where you'll find Pepsi. Pepsi is not popular at all in Japan, except when they put weird flavors like cucumber and Christmas spices and things like that in there. This has been some bizarre Pepsi flavors—salty watermelon was one of my favorite. But they do have Suntory has the most popular bottled waters that right there. I know cucumber Pepsi was a thing that was like seven years ago.

00:06:49 John Daub: Here's the Asahi beverages. They have the Mitsui—the Mitsuya Cider since 1984. That's a very popular drink. They had one that was frozen that would come out of the vending machines frozen, which is kind of neat. They had some sort of gadget that did that in select vending machines.

00:07:06 John Daub: The Wanda coffees were famous because you know who was doing the Wanda commercials—Tiger Woods for years. There'd be commercials: "Wanda, Wanda, Wanda, Wanda, Wanda coffee," and then it would be Tiger Woods drinking it. I guess that was... it wasn't Nike, but the secret of success could have been Wanda Coffee.

00:07:22 John Daub: They also have Welch's grape juice in the Asahi vending machines, and they of course have their own brand of water, and they have "cow piss"—which is not cow piss. It's Calpis. It's hard to tell the difference. That might be on my list of things to drink. They also have little—some Genki drinks, gives you a little bit of vitamins, power up, Vitamin D, call it.

00:07:51 John Daub: And yeah, there's iced coffee. The Welch's—the Concord grape—is not very popular here. So I'm going through all of these because every single company seems to be represented.

00:07:56 John Daub: This is—I guess this is the Ito En vending machine. Ito-en is the big green tea maker. It's huge worldwide. And they're right there—they're my two favorite. Is my favorite green tea. So if I'm getting green tea, I always look for the—Ito En because it's—I know it's a Japanese company, and they make good green tea for a very long time. They don't change the recipe. They just got it right.

00:08:17 John Daub: Mugicha—this is my favorite mugicha too. Barley tea. It's got a lot of minerals, good for the summer. Yeah, jasmine tea is represented right here. Ito En's making jasmine tea behind the—behind there. And uh, looks like they have a matcha drink next to, and this looks like it's Tully's-inspired, which is the competitor to Starbucks here. Tully's used to be an American Northwest coffee chain, I believe, like in Washington state. But they went out of business in the U.S., but they're still pretty big here in Japan. It's like Yahoo Japan is pretty big, but they're kind of like fried chicken in the U.S.—they're gone, nobody uses Yahoo services. Do—do they, anybody? I don't know.

00:09:03 John Daub: Some sparkling—sparkling juice. Is that grapefruit or yuzu? It's hard to see. And what is this here? This is milk tea. So they have their own kind of milk tea.

00:09:21 John Daub: Coca-Cola is quite popular. The royal milk tea. This is Keating drinks, and they probably are the least well-known of them, but they do have one collaborative partner that everybody knows about, and that's Red Bull, right here. So Keating is working with Red Bull. And I like to check on these vending machines because I know these partnerships can change as international companies find different partners to strategize their—oh, look at that. Tropicana. Keating has Tropicana drinks too. So Tropicana orange juice and fruit juices are from here. Minute Maid is with Coca-Cola, of course. Mets—Mets with no relation to the baseball team, but I thought that that was weird.

00:10:13 John Daub: We're going to try these in a second. I'm just going through all of them. There's some sort of espresso tea—what can you—is that mixed with coffee? It says "Break with Espresso Tea." What does that mean? I'm gonna have to try that just out of curiosity.

00:10:42 John Daub: All right, let's look at the lineup here. They also have melon soda there. How you doing, Darren?

00:10:51 John Daub: Man, 25—espresso tea, dragon dark fire, I'm gonna have to try that. I think that's on my radar now. Uh, this is the melon soda with ice cream, and we've—I've already tried this on vending machines. This is awful. I—you have to go like this, but I guess they put a cherry in the drink. I don't know, it's been a while. But that's only 110 yen. Prices are down.

00:10:51 John Daub: There's Mt. Fuji water, which looks pretty good. Sports drink by Sapporo. They just call it sports water. It's original. Polka Coffee—which is this Sapporo soft drinks. Sapporo is the—same makers as Polka, Sapporo, I guess they're now together. They're the maker of the beer—Sapporo Beer—they're a beverage company, they make coffee and a lot of other stuff. The first coffee though in a can was UCC in the 1970 expo at Osaka.

00:11:20 John Daub: And I think that might be at this machine here. Okay, let's—let's wait and we'll go by—all right, let's go around the corner here. And then this Polka Coffee does not have—oh, this has Tokyo green tea, but I don't see an Okinawa—Shikusawa. So that's an Okinawan drink, maybe. I'm going to try that. That looks interesting. And then there's iced coffee—no, coffee jelly, that would have been cool. Coffee jelly is a thing here.

00:12:06 John Daub: All right, that's the lineup. There are a couple of machines across the street too. This is machines all over this place. All right, so let's get into it. It's John versus the machines versus the elements because I'm holding my umbrella here. It's hard to do this with one hand.

00:12:27 John Daub: All right, anything? There's nothing really interesting in the Coca-Cola machines. All right, no Sprite. There's no Fanta either. That's weird. Oh, there's one Fanta—this premium orange here, which I've already tried before. So I don't think that there's anything really interesting in the Coca-Cola machine. What do you guys think? This is a live chat. You can absolutely let me know here.

00:12:46 John Daub: Michael Sasano's in the house. Hi John, love all the vending machines in Japan—all of them. Thank you for taking us on this fun livestream. My treat and whatever you decide to try, you got it, Michael. All right, I'm gonna have to go with, although Golden Time looks pretty good—this is the Tommy Lee Jones and um, advert uh, company that he advertises, the Boss Coffee. Golden Time sounds pretty good. I gotta get—watch some Golden Girls when I get the Golden Time. Where's the one here that I wanted to try first off? The um, oh, tea—espresso boom, let's do it. Whoa, you can use your uh—tea card, the Tsutaya card, and get points. That is a good idea.

00:13:33 John Daub: I'm gonna go with the Golden Time, and I'm gonna go with the Boss Coffee, and I'm gonna go with the Golden Time, and I'm gonna go with the Boss Coffee, and I'm gonna go with the Boss Coffee. Is interesting, and there's no um, Suica—wipe on this one. So it's an older machine, I guess.

00:13:39 John Daub: All right, Michael, you have you have sponsored my friend and espresso tea. I hope this is what you wanted. Eenie meenie miney mo. Oh, it's so cold. I forgot to turn off the heat. So you have espresso tea—uh, milk is in here. It's interesting. Smart Break with Espresso Tea, classic. 30th anniversary.

00:14:24 John Daub: I'm looking for any coffee. There's no coffee, there's no coffee in it. So I don't understand how—how—is this espresso? There's no coffee in it. All right, let's have a seat over here. This is—really not easy. You know what, my butt's gonna get wet no matter what.

00:14:57 John Daub: Do I have to shake it? Whoa, that is a robust tea taste. The lonely Canadians here—John, do you know why there is no Diet Coke in Japan? All right, I'll give you some feedback on that. Okay, hold on. Not sure. But thank you for being a friend—travel down a road and back again, your heart is true, you're a pal, you're a confidant. I know that song. That's a song, right?

00:15:23 John Daub: Friend, and I can't fit on all right, kanpai for this tea. Espresso—let's get right to it—a Golden Girls. I don't know if I like it or don't like it.

00:15:53 John Daub: It's slightly sweet. I don't know if I'm okay. I've never had anything like that before. It's—it's like super bitter tea, and there's like a—it almost tastes like I'm eating a flower, cuz you know, like just bitterness when you eat a flower, cuz I—you know, we all do it when we're kids, and we don't forget it.

00:16:22 John Daub: Mmm, very, very interesting taste. I can see how they would call this espresso. I don't think like scientists in the beverage company must come up with this name. They really, definitely, they really definitely need to—to get an advertise, I guess. Maybe they did. Espresso tea is just really bitter, not sweet. It's like a smack in the face. All right, it's a smack in the face, but it's not a bad smell. You know, sometimes you do want to be smacked, right? Any of you out there—you like, yeah, I need a smack, sometimes. Just do it. Sometimes people like getting smacked. That's for these people, they're gonna love this. It's like getting smacked in the face, but a good smack. It's not a hard smack. It's just a—it's not a love tap either. It is a—it's a smack, but and it's better than a punch. All right, we're gonna keep that there. Well, why do I keep going back for more? Because I like to get slapped. All right, let's get back to this here. No more games and no more games. Let's get right to it.

00:17:55 John Daub: Think thankfully in the rain, nobody's here to use these vending machines. We have it all to ourselves. No one's dumb enough to be outside in this—in these gusts of wind. All right, what do we got next? It's up to you people, just having some fun here.

00:18:22 John Daub: Chen Menace, so a son—did I get that? I'm getting better. Maybe—no smacks in public. All right, I'll try to—I'll try to try to behave myself so nobody smacks me. Um, see here, no more tea. Maybe I don't know. The jasmine tea though looks good. This is interesting. This says it's matcha, but is it matcha milk?

00:18:45 John Daub: Well, this is a unique tea. I have never had this one. This is—Ito En. Have you heard of Ito En? And it's quite expensive. It's a hundred and fifty. So I'm not going to try any green tea because I've already done an episode on this. Let's go for this one. Joy, you got it. Right, all right, let's do it. Joy. Oh, this one takes—weka. Alright, let's use the Suica. Then I use Kitaka from Hokkaido. Look at that. Flying squirrel—that's much cuter than the penguin, right? And these work in Tokyo too. Alright, so I push this, I go to the Suica and love tap it—not a smack. Boom.

00:19:24 John Daub: The can—the can has texture to it. That's interesting. You see that? I guess you can see it's got some texture to the can. So when you hold in your hand, you feel something. Alright, let's take it back to the my wet seat. When these kids doing—they're up to no good. Sit back down in the water. Seriously. This is my seat. Okay. I go the distance for you. I'm sitting right there on bricks two and three. Oh, that's really soaked in there now.

00:20:07 John Daub: Put the umbrella down because this is hard. So this is a matcha—this is just a matcha here. I don't know, but it comes in a little spiffy can. Spiffy can. It's a weird bottom. And sometimes they give you points. They'll give you a little piece of paper if you go to the store—from the supermarket—you can collect the point stickers on the cans. I did that a couple of times back like 20 years ago. I used to drink a lot of canned coffee—which is not good for you—and they would put these little point stickers on the side of the cans, and I would collect them. And at the supermarket, they had these Georgia, Georgia coffee things, and you put the sticker on it. And when you had all the stickers full, you'd send it in, and they would send you a prize. I never won, but it was fun to collect them. Let me put the camera down.

00:21:00 John Daub: Yeah, it's time for matcha up. Oh, there's a little bit of a hiss. Looks like this. Is there gas in here? That's a big one. Whoa. I don't know. I don't know what to think of this. It's not bitter. It's watery. Oh, check this out.

00:21:48 John Daub: Just like matcha powder. Look at that. What? That's a lot of caffeine in the matcha powder. Yeah, I better shake it up. Purple Cat Audio, got a right—bitter, man.

00:22:25 John Daub: Doesn't say to shake it up, to clean you off here. It's better. Pesa writes in here: "In order of preferences: X bitter coffee, pickle rainwater." All right, we get your point. I have shaken.

00:22:52 John Daub: Alright, now it tastes less like—like rainwater and more like matcha water. All right, it's not actually matcha. It tastes like matcha water. I think it's because maybe—and again, the rain is really starting to come down. I think it's alright. That one's not good. Okay, so I'm gonna—not to take a zero on that one. All right, drink number three. What else we got?

00:23:33 John Daub: Here. What do you think? Around the side, they had that had a couple of weird teas. Melon soda now? I'm trying to get away from green stuff here. Have another one on us. Thank you, Purple Cat Audio. You got it. Get a juice. That's interesting. Is there any weird juices? Here's the—the occult drink. It's like—me to do—me me to do—like milk juice. Juice. You guys know you're called—any of you? We got—yeah, yeah, amino—Game rates in here. Ooh. You're cold. And then we got in here a thumbs up. You're called from—are you? So it could go either way. You're called is—was actually quite popular back in the day. We can try this here. Why not?

00:24:44 John Daub: How the rain's really coming down now. Here's the Okinawa drink, the Suku Suku. Looks like it's an alcoholic beverage—I saw here also, which which made me a little bit curious. They have a lemonade. I never see lemonade in Japan. This is original lemonade. I might have to try this, but then I read down here—it's only 3% lemon juice. So I guess a little lemon goes a long way. Let's see how this goes before I start investing any more time in here.

00:25:54 John Daub: They—I guess this machine has a lot of lemons. So a lot of lemons, and that could be—depending on how you look at it—that could be a bad thing. There's my bike right there.

00:26:19 John Daub: Customer. I have not seen this. Oh, I have not seen the CC Lemons in a long time in the vending machines. What's that? What kind of car with a speaker going by here? No, all right. Put my umbrella there. Do you think it's gonna fly away? Probably gonna fly away. It goes right through straight through this right to the skin.

00:26:57 John Daub: Simon's here. Yo. That's not lemonade as you know it. Probably not. Probably not. Austin, thank you. Why is there no Diet Coke in Japan? I'll get to that in a second. You know, I was born wet.

00:27:23 John Daub: All right, Okinawa drink right here. Hey. So they didn't get it. It's not a right—right wing. People have the speakers. So, so like there's a lot of right wingers that have these—these cars with loud speakers, and they play patriotic music from like the 1940s.

00:27:58 John Daub: When I first came to Japan, I didn't know what it was. And they kept coming by every day when I was an English teacher, and I would go out onto the balcony of the school and listen to the song and start humming it. And then the songs are really, really—they're really like like communist era—like propaganda songs that stick in your head, and there's no words to it. Just the time. I can—I think I can even remember it. Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it? Did you do it? And they keep playing this every day. So while I'm teaching little kids. All right. I'm teaching kids that are like—one and two years old. I just start humming this in the school. All right. I just start humming it all the time, and nobody—no one's telling me that this is like a World War Two song that's not good. So for—I guess a few weeks I'm humming it, and then one day the manager of the school—this is in 1998, 1998, okay, 23 years ago—she goes, "Do you understand this, this song and what it is?" I said no. I said, "They seem to play it a lot here around here. It seems to be a popular song, and it feels very Japanese. It's got a good—very good, you know, powerful beat to it. I like it." She goes, "That's a World War Two—Japanese Imperial—World War Two melody." Like, "Oh." But still, I can't get it out of my mind because for—they played that song over and over and over again. It's like a broken record. All right, so you'll hear these songs here.

00:30:08 John Daub: Oh, the mic is muffled. How's it now? Any better? No, it's worse. It gets worse before it gets better. Worse. All right, give me a second. How's that now? Maybe it's a little bit—it's a little bit better. No, it's raining folks, I don't know. F better. All right, let's try this drink. I'll tell you about Diet Coke and a second.

00:30:40 John Daub: All right, that's—this is the uh—drink from Okinawa. Oh, wow. I guess it really the rain is coming down. I don't want to get back in the mic. That is like drinking a Jolly Rancher. I can't taste—it's just—just a citrus fruit. I can't taste any characteristics that make this Okinawa. It's just citrus food fruit with a lot of sugar. Yeah, and Vitamin C in here. Marine gold coloring. This cannot be good for you. So they put it in here, and they put it in here, and they put it in here, and they put it in here, and they put it in here, and they put it in here, and they put it in here. Why would they need to do that? All right, Mike is muffled again. Hold on. This is awful. Let's look this way. You don't want to—you don't see my my nasal hairs. Better, better.

00:32:03 John Daub: No, it's awful. It's a little bit better. All right, I'm gonna keep the umbrella up. The iPhone and the—and the gimbal will seem to do okay in a little bit of rain, but the iPhone, although waterproof—iPhone 12 is waterproof—it does—if it gets wet, the mic does get bad. Um, unless I do an external mic, then the connection can go bad, sort of okay. Um, Diet Coke—so I'll leave you with this, because I do want to get into dry weather. I'm going to have some—some hot coffee when I get home. If you ever want to warm up, go outside for a little bit, get wet, and then come back in, and you're so happy to be inside again. Like torture yourself, and the normal seems beautiful. It's the way to go. Like even my raincoat is wet.

00:32:50 John Daub: All right, Diet Coke—why is there no Diet Coke in the vending machines here? It's gonna—hey, Saya M's here. I think it's hard to resist tourists not to take vending machine photos in Japan. It's hard. Repeat tourists, we have so many on our phones. I know, I love vending machines too. And since you can't make it here, you know, it's good to just show you a regular, good old vending machine live. No Diet Coke. The reason why is—Japanese, you know, they don't—they don't really think about the calories, I don't think, with drinks like this. All right, you know, I think it's hard to resist tourists not to take—so like, it's too sweet. It's got a lot of calories. And like, actually, Coca-Cola—in general is not popular here. People don't like cola. So there's no real market for Diet Coke, although you'll find it at the supermarket—in convenient stores, I think, a little bit. You'll have this—which is zero sugar Coke, Zero's in the house, right? But no Diet Coke, and it's just not—it doesn't make sense to people. You drink Coke for the sugar, and if you want that—if you don't want the sweetness, don't drink the sweetness. But for most Japanese, they prefer green tea.

00:34:03 John Daub: All right, I prefer green tea out of the vending machines. This is—look at this one. Brand new, non-sugar tea. This is a black tea with no sugar. So Japanese are health-conscious—they drink tea. If you want something sweet, you want the sugar. So there you go. So you we have a lot of non-sugar options already in the vending machines, right? There's sugar with—no coffee. To this water. There's oh, there's CC Lemon, right there, 1,000 milligrams of lemon Vitamin C. Matcha has zero sugar. So again, like if you want something sweet, just have the regular Coke. If you want Diet Coke—nobody wants Diet Coke. If you want Diet Coke, because if you're on a diet, you drink tea, you know what I mean? You don't need the sugar taste.

00:35:16 John Daub: All right, here's my lineup for today. All of them were a disappointment, and I'll be taking home the matcha but leaving the rest in the recycle bin. There's always a recycle bin, except—oh, even here. Yeah, check that out. In fact, you can pick which recycle bin that you want. I don't know, I guess they're all the same. Yeah, I want my own vending machine. So one day I will have one. Something it'll be awesome. Yeah, there's no real winners here. The Monster drinks are there. So is the Red Bull. Energy drinks are good. Young people like them. But energy drinks still are not so big in Japan. I don't know. It's not the same as in the US. Yeah, it's not the same as in the US.

00:35:30 John Daub: I'll be back with another livestream tomorrow. I'm planning to meet up with Peter around five o'clock tomorrow. It's kind of late for the West Coast. What is that? Five o'clock would be like 1 AM or something in the West Coast. I'm not sure if I'm gonna do that. But I do plan to meet Peter tomorrow. Is Saturday. I want to take you to a place—we just had Memorial Day. I know it's not Memorial Day, but I—I want to tell you this in advance, and I want to show you the postcard too that just got waterlogged. A couple of—a couple of things here. This is the postcard for this month. It's—it's waterlogged, okay? And by the way, on the back is—Kanae in a bikini. So—handle your camera. I put that in there. So if you don't tell her, don't tell her. I put that in there. I don't think she knows. She should be okay with it. She has no choice now.

00:36:11 John Daub: This is a shot of Kanae and I in the onsen at—at Kanae and Nijima—an island in Tokyo, looking over the Pacific at sunset. And this is warm—natural hot spring water separated by rocks, and there's the Pacific Ocean. And this is the postcard for this month, from Nijima. It's kind of a summer look to it. And I hope that's something you can put on your refrigerator. As we all dream about going to beautiful places. Yeah, it was pretty easy to pick this one for June. Because we went there in July of 2015. So six years ago we were there. Almost, yeah, in July. So pretty close to a year.

00:37:06 John Daub: The other thing I wanted to tell you was—oh, Memorial Day was last week. And I didn't do anything special, but I know we have some veterans that are watching, and some people from military families. And I appreciate so much. We have a viewer who suggested that I go to some historical places in Tokyo. One of them, which is—I believe where a prison was. I have a lot of research at that. I have a lot of research at home on it, and I've been researching this. But I'm going to take you to Heiwa-jima.

00:37:44 John Daub: Heiwa-jima is in Shinagawa Ward. And it's a place where American POWs were stationed. It was an awful place. But I think that we can't forget those that we lost in the war. On either side, war is awful. So I'm thinking about getting on my bicycle and riding down there, and taking some beers, maybe a couple of Budweiser and onigiri, and leaving them down there at the shrine. For those that didn't make it through. Just to remember.

00:38:06 John Daub: Heiwa-jima is—Heiwa means peace. So that's not what it was called back in the day. But it's a place that is now very industrial. But back there, you can see pictures on the internet of when it was a POW prison camp. And it was very bad. Tokyo has a lot of history like this. I think we shouldn't forget about it. So I will go take you.

00:38:59 John Daub: Now Japan is our biggest ally. It's not a political thing anymore. But I do think we have to look back at the past and remember those that fought for our freedom. It's not Memorial Day. I don't think it has to be. Every day we should maybe appreciate the good things that we have. And Sugamo—there's a lot of really tough spots in the city of Tokyo. But I'll try to go through it with you live. And I know for those that were veterans in the war, maybe they knew people. That's how I know about this place. It might be interesting to go and check that out.

00:39:50 John Daub: So I want to say thank you to Happy Rails, who has been giving me information on this place. That's very much an integral part of the city of Tokyo. We can't forget about the past. Even the bad stuff, we have to kind of remember. So there you have it. Vending machine in the rain.

00:39:41 John Daub: The rain is not too bad right now. But again, it's a little bit cooler. And I don't mind. I sleep a lot better when the weather is 10 degrees cooler and there's no humidity. It's so hot in the summer. You have no idea how blazing it gets in July. This is welcome. So enjoy rainy season. And through the month of June, I'll take you outside despite the rainy weather. I'm going to get wet for you. I will do this for you if you keep watching and supporting the channel. I appreciate it so much.

00:40:00 John Daub: Don't forget to watch the video. I have a main channel episode on the vending machine on the bento on the Shinkansen. We just passed 60,000 views on that. It's a new channel. Every view counts. And it's a battle to get back to where I used to be. So I got to get back on this bike and ride. I'll see everybody. Have a good day. Have a good night. If you want some more content, you're staying at home, watch that Ekiben episode where Peter and I ride the Shinkansen to Aomori. It's an adventure with some amazing drone shots and music that will emotionally touch your heart, and make you want to come to Japan like right now. 22 minutes of luxury on the Shinkansen. See you, everybody.

00:40:36 John Daub: Andreas, thank you. Just got that. Number one fan. Today, it's Andreas. Bye, everybody.