00:00:00 John Daub: Hello everybody! Welcome to Tokyo! This is a typhoon, well, the fringe of it, as I battle the winds and protect you and the microphone from heavy rain and winds. This is the Sumida River, the main river that goes through the city of Tokyo right now, being pummeled by strong rains over the last 12-18 hours here. You can see it looks pretty wet. The sound's very calming on my umbrella. It's just a lot of rain falling right now off of it.

00:00:33 John Daub: This is nothing really that's dangerous. The heavy winds are not that heavy. I mean, it could be worse. Actually, how you doing? Actually, I printed out a satellite image of this typhoon and I left it in my house. My microphone died, so I'm on the iPhone microphone. Nevertheless, I think it is pretty interesting to see what the city of Tokyo is like during a typhoon. Coming to the river is one of the most interesting places.

00:01:15 John Daub: Tokyo has a really good system for drainage. Maybe a lot of you have seen, maybe on NHK World or other documentaries, this cavernous place that just takes all of the drainage water into there and then releases it controlled. They're ready and prepared. If there's any city in the world that is prepared for a typhoon of great nature, brace yourselves. I'm into the wind right now. This umbrella will hold. Look, it's made of solid steel. Look at that.

00:01:59 John Daub: Another reason why these umbrellas are clear, you could use it as a shield and see where you're going. It's not just because they're cheaper, it's because they're practical. I'm going to take you down to the riverside to our point right there. Right now, you would see Tokyo Skytree right there, right over the, right in between the bridge and that building. Tokyo Skytree, of course, it's no longer in view. The rain clouds and all the weather between us and there, it's about three or four kilometers away, keeping the Skytree out of view.

00:02:34 John Daub: As well as on the other side, if you take a look, very few people out here. Tokyo Tower is also in view on this side, but we don't see it at all. So let's go. Let's go down towards the river. Let's go down towards the riverside and take a quick, quick look and see at the levels of the Sumida River and see if the ducks are around. The wind was a lot worse a couple of hours ago, and the typhoon is not coming. It's not actually going to hit Tokyo directly. It's just the edge of it.

00:03:09 John Daub: It's nowhere near the same type of velocity that you would see. The same type of velocity of winds that you get in a real typhoon. It's just basically like April. You know, you get strong winds, maybe a little bit more than that. Much more interesting to look through the umbrella. So then I see where I'm going here. I'm going to wet no matter what. There's no lightning.

00:03:47 John Daub: Typically, typhoons do not bring lightning. It's not an electrical storm. Typhoons bring rain and wind and they bring damage because it knocks things away and off. But we don't see that. Because Tokyo is prepared for this level of wind. It's nothing that it's just basically grazing. It's a massive typhoon, but it's just grazing Tokyo. Just the edges of it.

00:04:11 John Daub: You can see the bridge has really good drainage right there. All the water pouring into the river, washing away anything that was up there. It's good information. The water levels are not that high. It's doing a pretty good job of drainage. We had about a month ago, the rivers overflowing into the walkway here. And that was quite worrying. So the next day we had a lot of mud, which was shoveled and swept away.

00:04:47 John Daub: But the river drains from up there. Sumida, Edogawa, Arakawa River, which are the main rivers through the city of Tokyo and the Tamagawa on the other side. They come from the mountains, from Gunma, from Nagano and those areas. Again, they have lots of water. Lots of mudslides. Things like that that are worrying. That's why this typhoon is more concerning. Not so much about the rain and the winds, but the landslides that happen inland. Not here in the city of Tokyo.

00:05:19 John Daub: I'm getting closer to the point here where you get a nice view of the river. As a cormorant bird makes its way across there looking for fish. You know, the great thing with under the water, it's probably not too much different, is it? Those are the birds that dive down and they disappear. Oh, OK. Ah! Shield. Hey, lovely Takelo. Nice to see you. It's all about the adventure.

00:05:55 John Daub: I am soaked through pretty good. Woo! So this one, I thought it would keep me inside, but it's really not that bad. Really, it's OK. Typhoons are... And the Pacific is not as warm as the Atlantic. So the Atlantic brews up much stronger storms. Although typhoons can be very damaging. The Atlantic still produces because the Atlantic is a warmer body of water.

00:06:27 John Daub: Typhoon season in Japan is between... I would say you start to brew up in August and they go on till about the beginning of November. So we have another solid month of them. A lot of them will hit on the left or the right of Japan. And then every... I'd say maybe 15% of them make a direct hit. A lot of them will spread. They will just sweep through Tokyo or they get near Tokyo and then they diverge away from it. But Tokyo seems to be in the path. So Tokyo gets hit by a lot of typhoons. And there, the city is quite used to it.

00:07:11 John Daub: So it's not something that is... It's not a rare occurrence. So between August and we did have a typhoon sweep through here during the Olympics to the beginning of November. These can just happen. Lots of them happen. And I can't say that they're any stronger than they were when I first came here to Japan. But we've had some pretty strong ones through the history of Japan in the last 23 years that I've been here living in Japan.

00:07:32 John Daub: I'm going to pan around here. I'm at the point. One of my favorite points. You can get to the point and stand there like DiCaprio did with Kate Winslet on Titanic. It's kind of cool. Of course, there's nobody here. There's no lightning. Of course, there's no lightning in a typhoon. Very rarely do you see lightning. Ta-da! Oh! Didn't expect that gust.

00:08:04 John Daub: I think we're more closer to the end than the beginning. You can see it is quite high. Usually kids are playing here, picking up little teeny like rotten dead crabs and stuff like that. Investigating nature from dead washes ashore. But they can't do that because it's all sort of flooded in here. You can see the water coming through. The water coming through the gates there. No sight of Tokyo Skytree here. I haven't seen any space boats.

00:08:42 John Daub: There's no ferries or anything like that. That'd be pretty fun. The typhoon trip. The water does look pretty high. Yeah, only John would be out here. Again, this is not a direct stream. Actually, there is kind of creepy. It does look like a zombie apocalypse. There's no other humans here. But this is a good time to go out. You're definitely not going to get, you know, you don't have to wear a mask in a weather like this.

00:09:22 John Daub: There's nobody around. This is the best time to go for social distancing. Hey, there's a bird! Life! Life finds a way. Where's he going? Maybe he's not really flapping his wings. It's being thrown around by the typhoon. Whoa. He's gone. He's following the river. He didn't want to fly over me, I guess. Oh, he's coming back. Hey! This is like a high bird traffic area.

00:09:54 John Daub: Our Discord server has a crow infestation. Is that an albatross? Circling back around. This is like a scene from the movie The Rescuers. Is there a mouse on top of him? No. Oh, he's gotten close to me! Hey! Looking to drop a load on John. Adney! I saw that live chat there. Yeah, he's going to. Oh, yeah, Adney. He's going to fly around.

00:10:39 John Daub: He's going to fly around to drop a load. I'm getting loads dropped on me every five milliseconds, okay? I think I'll have a shield to Adney from his load. He can try to drop it. Unless he's got some sort of magical targeting missile thing. He's not going to get through this impenetrable piece of plastic. Drop a load on me. Come on. Look at this plastic.

00:11:07 John Daub: I think that this could handle any load that that little frigate bird could drop. All right, let's go to duck zone here. If there's ever going to be a flyby dropping, this would be a good day. I've got a shield. We all do. You don't want to see that happen. That stuff stains. It's hard to get that out. See? That rock. Even with all the heavy rain, that rock is still stained. That's a pretty big dropping.

00:11:47 John Daub: All right, I'm on the Osmo Mobile 4. You can see it's a lot smoother than the Osmo Mobile 5. I want to say I haven't done a live stream in a while. I want to say thank you to everybody that's back. The Kickstarter fireworks project. We hit the goal in four days. $25,000. We are closing it. We've already passed 3 million. Wow. That's deep. Hey, you guys found me. Look at him. He's just floating the wrong way.

00:12:46 John Daub: That's why there's no space boat out here. Wow, he's just letting go. That looks like fun. All right, there's a duck island over here on the other side. I found where all the ducks hang out. Let's go over in that direction. Oh my God, my wallet's soaked. Oh, there's more ducks. God, my wallet's drenched. I just got SD cards in there. Let's go to Duck Island. I'm drenched.

00:13:36 John Daub: Yeah, thank you to everybody who helped support the Kickstarter. We're holding in Inawashiro [?] because of flooding that was caused by a typhoon. And, you know, Tokyo can get out of typhoons pretty good. But inland where they have heavy rains, those rivers overflow, they cause floodings, but they also cause mudslides. Japan's got a lot of mountains and hills, houses built along them, and they don't do too well in heavy rains.

00:14:11 John Daub: Wow, it's like there's a stream coming down that accessibility ramp here. Look at that. That's a lot of rain. Sunny day in Uzbekistan, right? It's in Exoge [?]. Very cool. I'm jealous. Give us some of that sun. The only thing that I have to be careful about is making sure that I don't catch a cold from all the water. It's kind of chilly. The weather has definitely cooled off. Summer is officially gone.

00:14:56 John Daub: By the way, for those that are wondering, Japan does not fall back and spring ahead. There's no daylight savings time. I think the US might be one of the only countries that does that. There might be a few others, but Japan doesn't do daylight savings time, so it really messes things up. Trying to call family at home. It is cold. Because my bottom is wet, because the rain is coming. The wind is from the other direction.

00:15:26 John Daub: This is the direction towards Monzen-Nakacho and Toyosu, which is the back side of Tokyo. The back side of Tsukishima, the island here. Oh, there's an aosagi (blue heron) bird. Check that out. They got long legs. He's sheltering. You should shelter in a better place. You're taking the brunt of the wind right there, buddy. I love living near the riverside because you get a lot of wildlife, especially birds.

00:16:07 John Daub: You get these aosagi birds hanging out along the riverside. Duck Island is just over here. Blue heron, I guess, is another way to say it. Those herons are famous. Herons are very famous here in Japan. They're the ones that have broken legs. And a lot of onsen have stories where the blue heron flew into a hot spring and stayed there for two weeks and healed his legs. His broken legs or broken wings. So that becomes a storyline for a lot of famous onsen for the healing properties of their waters.

00:16:46 John Daub: They should just use humans, right? A 90-year-old man stayed in the onsen for two weeks, and he left 60 years old. I'd like to hear that story. The strongest onsen is Tamagawa Onsen up in Akita Prefecture, where the water has the same acidic levels as hydrochloric acid, I've been told. But people like to sit in there, and I guess it gives you nice, smooth skin. I could use that. Tamagawa Onsen is high on my list of places to go to, but the pandemic has been pretty brutal in my ability to travel.

00:17:27 John Daub: And today, I believe October 1st, or maybe at the end of the weekend, the state of emergency expires, if it hasn't already. The numbers are way down in the city of Tokyo. Look at this amphitheater, it's like underwater. State of emergency is now over, and I can travel, and I've got a lot of location shoots planned. Hey, there's a duck on land! You see him? Let's go say hi.

00:18:12 John Daub: For those that don't know yet, I'll be driving from Kyoto to Kochi and live streaming a lot of it on October 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. So you might want to catch that. It's my backside that's just drenched. It's chilly. Now, Japan doesn't typically name the typhoons. They're numbered here. So we have, like... I don't even know what number this is, but... Mindulle, I think it's what it's called. This is Typhoon Mindulle.

00:18:51 John Daub: It's really raking the Tokyo Islands, and there's a dude right there. How do they even light their tobacco? That's a smoking zone. This is Chuo Ward. You're not allowed to smoke in Chuo Ward. You can only smoke in designated smoking areas. But how do you light something? I don't know how you do it in a typhoon. All right, here's Duck Island.

00:19:31 John Daub: You have to be a hardcore smoker to come out in a typhoon to smoke. I don't know why you would do that. That duck is getting pummeled by rain. So is my umbrella. You can hear it. Oh, we got another one. Oh, there's the broken wing duck. We saw him last week. I wanted to perform some sort of surgery on him, but I don't know how you would perform the surgery. I guess you have to pull off the wing or something. We feel bad for that one. He's been like that for a while now.

00:20:15 John Daub: Hey, Iken is here. Australian Prime Minister said we may be traveling overseas in a month. That's very good news. The... Qantas says that they're opening up the Japan route in December, which is also good news. Michael Sassano. Hi there, John. You can pick up something hot and warm that keep you... Keep you up. Thank you. I will on the way home get something nice. Miles C. A true American. The only one that goes outside during the typhoon in shorts and sandals. Great weather, John. It's just weather.

00:20:50 John Daub: It's really pushing up against my backside. All right, let's go... Let's see how the ducks are doing up close. Hey, I'm not that dangerous. I'm actually safer than the rain. Although I have eaten Peking duck before, but that's totally different. Really? At least, you know, if we huddle up, we can stay warmer. We're warmer together. United we stand. Divided we fall.

00:21:33 John Daub: Hey, why? Ducks. Why would they run away from me? So these little man-made islands here have a lot of ducks on them. But right now the ducks are gone. The other ducks are gone. The island is shaking violently from the wind. That's probably one reason why they've jettisoned into the river. You should know me. I come here quite often. I know I look different in raincoat. Usually I don't have so many clothings on. Just stay okay, ducks. Fight the typhoon. You're waterproof.

00:22:18 John Daub: Does that hurt, do you think? Because this rain is coming in like turbocharged. You think ducks are cool with the rain? Boy, that poor duck over there with his broken wing. Tragedy. You can see right now the rain coming in at an angle. The rain is coming in at a really 45 degree angle now. I think I might try to get shelter. Ah! Alright, I'm gonna try to get some shelter here under this bridge. See who else is there. Maybe we can interview somebody if we find, uh... hanging out under a bridge.

00:23:37 John Daub: Aside from ramen, what would you recommend in this kind of weather? Ooh! There's a whole ramen family. Hot soba would be good. All sorts of soups. Japan's got a good nabe (hot pot). That would be really nice in this weather. Pizza, pasta, anything... Actually, anything would be better. Anything hot would be good. Alright, I'm getting underneath this bridge. Wasn't that a song by Chili Peppers? That smells kind of funky under the bridge.

00:24:26 John Daub: You can see the... I'm not holding the umbrella. It's held in place by wind. So, I'm underneath the bridge here. It's some sort of protection. Udon would be really good. There's a dude here playing, uh... practicing his soccer for the national team, maybe. Just made that up. Yeah, this is the kind of weather where you typically would stay home. But, I don't... Why would I stay home? It's just... It's nice to be outside. Anyone staying home? Bunch of wusses.

00:25:09 John Daub: Wussy? Is that a bad word? W-O-O-S-I-E, right? That's a nice word. You don't get offended if you get called a wussy, right? A wuss. Is it like from the Willows, right? Chicken? They used to get upset with that in the 1950s. I don't know why. Chicken's really good. I'm getting... I'm going up. Yeah, I didn't hear any lightning. I've been pretty attentive with this.

00:26:01 John Daub: Typically, I don't see any lightning with typhoons unless you're, like, out in the middle of the Pacific or something and you've been watching a lot of Hollywood movies. But typically, I don't think that there's a lot of lightning with typhoons. There's a lot of lightning involved. It's mostly wind. A lot of wind. Electrical storms usually happen in summer from heat. Typhoons are cold. They bring a lot of chilly air, but they're caused by tropical storms.

00:26:27 John Daub: I'm not a storm chaser, but I can tell you this. For anybody that lives in the United States, I went to university with Mike Bettis. He was at a couple of my classes. He's a storm chaser for the Weather Channel. It's nice to see him really successful. It'd be fun to catch up with Mike Bettis. He should come out here for a typhoon. Try to chase us in one of those storms.

00:26:56 John Daub: All right, let's take a look at the street side here at Tsukishima to see if there's any action going on here. Yo, how about a Wookie? Is that a... That's a Star Wars term. Hey, thanks, Ryan. Let's see if we can get something here. Angel of Forever 59. Victory is ours. Because we're staying somewhat dry. I don't know. I tried to grow a beard once. It just didn't feel good. So I don't know how Chewbacca does it. I guess you have to be born into it.

00:27:52 John Daub: Just like Canadians are born into cold weather. You're born into a hairy life. Then you can live with it. I don't know. I'm kind of happy being sort of bare. I can grow like stubble. That's about it. But no one would call me a Wookie. All right. There are some people out and about here. Oh, look at these 100 yen vending machines. What do they got for 100? These are cold drinks. The hot ones aren't out yet. Oh, there's a hot one here. You can see from the red color. Corn soup. Ooh. That would be pretty good to keep me warm.

00:29:16 John Daub: Typhoon soup. It's nice and hot. Oh, that's so nice. It's so nice and hot. Look how cozy these office workers look. There's a lot of chemicals in it, though. Chicken paste. The corn comes from America and Thailand. It says super, super sweet corn from Thailand and America. And sugar. I'm supposed to be stopping sugar in my diet. Ooh. I forgot. I pan the camera down. Don't pan the soup towards the camera. Oh, it's good. Nice and buttery.

00:30:32 John Daub: If you swirl it up, you get chunks of corn in there. Oh, it's so nice in the winter. The corn soup. You get these on the train. If you're waiting for a train, the train's not coming for 20 minutes, everybody gets a hot can of soup or coffee or something. Oh, that's very nice. I can show you one of my favorite butcher shops here. So this is Takasago Butcher Shop here. And they're quite famous for their roast beef.

00:31:30 John Daub: I think I've taken you here before. You can see the signs are in gold. It says roast beef. And they sell bentos here in the afternoon so you can get a snag of pretty good bento. Niku no Takasago. Very famous. In fact, if you ride the Oedo Line, they'll still announce it. Welcome to Tsukishima. They also have the beef Takasago. And they have some, there's a niku dango, beef dango made out of beef. You can get some wagyu in there, pretty cheap price from Yamagata and Akita Wagyu.

00:32:13 John Daub: Kanai will buy some from here and then have a, oh, it's an Indian restaurant. Ooh. I think they're closed. Let's go to another vending machine. Yeah, they got some pretty good yakiniku bentos there. Check out this Indian restaurant, Asian Dining Gras. Let's see the prices here. Dinner's a little bit more expensive. Whoa, you get any of these curries, they're about $10. For any of these curries. Butter chicken, horenso paneer, mutton curry, ebi mayo.

00:33:05 John Daub: So they do have some Asian cuisine, but I think, I've eaten here before and I think, hey, there he is. They're on break there. So I've eaten here before, so they actually know me. I remember going in there and saying hi and they're like, hey, are you John the YouTuber? And I said, yeah. That was pretty cool. I get to throw my empty can at this liquor store. So all this goes into the Tokyo Central rain drainage and it's quite large and gets processed and then released into the river.

00:33:55 John Daub: It is really coming down here. This is probably the end of it. It's going to be a really sunny day tomorrow. So my bicycle is parked over here. I came by bicycle. Do you ever, look, it's just rain. I don't see what the big deal is. Now, if it's a very dangerous situation, we're here. It's heavy, high velocity. Winds are pounding down on you. That's a different situation. I'm no storm chaser. Like my buddy, Mike Bettis from college.

00:34:26 John Daub: He was studying. There was no like degree for meteorology, I don't believe. So he was taking all sorts of sciences. But he had his eye on the weather channel, the News Weatherman jobs. And I thought that that was so cool. He was the RA of the building that I was in at Ohio State. So he was about three years ahead of me. So we were taking the same geology class and a couple other classes that we were taking together. That was fun. There was this girl in front of us. We used to flick rubber bands at her when the professor wasn't looking. We'd get stuck in her hair. And she wouldn't know. So she'd be walking around with rubber bands in her hair like a Christmas tree.

00:35:22 John Daub: We're Facebook friends. I can tell that's true. Whoa! Check this out. It's a Yona Yona beer truck. What? That's pretty cool. A beer truck. Look at... Rain nor shine, sleet nor snow will stop the post office. Did you see him bow at us? How cool is that? Japan Post, man. They're hardcore. Mail trucks? Forget it. They get on motorbikes. And typhoons and deliver the mail. Hats off to our postal workers.

00:36:11 John Daub: But you might want to keep it on today because of the rain. Just bow. Alright. This is a pretty good area. This is also a dangerous place. I once got a ticket here. Sorry, I didn't get a ticket. I got a warning. So it's a red light. I thought I could turn right on a red light. But there's actually an arrow to turn both right and left. Do you see? So you had to wait for a right arrow before you turned. You can't turn on a... Even if it's green, you can't turn on a green. You have to wait for the right and the left arrow at this intersection.

00:36:44 John Daub: I didn't know about that. So the cop stopped me and he took my information right here. But he was pretty cool about it and I told him that, you know, I was a little confused. But I didn't actually make the whole right turn. I stopped here. But it was too late. They whistled me over. It is confusing. Like... See this arrow that says straight? You can't make a left turn. It says you have to wait for the left turn arrow. And then there's a right turn arrow. This is really confusing.

00:37:18 John Daub: Chan writes in here, imagine me stuck in a storm chaser boot. If you were in the movie Twister, you might be taken for a ride. You can see the bands of rain coming in with the wind, whooshing through here. Hey, Joy is down there in the Philippines. Did you get pummeled by this typhoon? Did this hit Manila? Or any of the islands in the Philippines? I wonder. Because sometimes we get the weather from the Philippines as storms anyways, like three days later. Sean writes in here, nope. Hey, Sean's here! Nope. Not this one.

00:38:03 John Daub: Alright, so there you have it. I really don't have too much more to add. I'm just going to go home and get something warm to bring back to Kanai. I appreciate it, guys. So just some programming notes before I end here. Alright, some programming notes. It's cold! I'm not used to this chill. I thought I'm still in shorts and t-shirt until November. It's a rule that I have. I kind of like summer.

00:38:50 John Daub: I'm going to be doing some 8K uploads onto the Only in Japan Go channel. I got this really great lens that matches well with gimbals and keeps it light. So that'll be coming in the first week coming up here. I'll try to do like two or three of those 8K uploads a month now starting on Only in Japan Go. Which is cool. Only in Japan Go is going to get some lightly edited content as well. So won't just be live streams.

00:39:13 John Daub: I think I'm a little bit frustrated with YouTube and the app. Because they're just doing a really not great job of the encoding compared to other platforms. And I think instead of waiting for them, I've got to be proactive. And get content out here that is also... I don't want the quality to be Minecraft all the time. I want to have some story that's really valuable for you guys. And if it's edited and lightly edited, I can do the same thing that other vloggers are doing on this channel. Bring you the stories but keep it like 4K or even higher.

00:39:57 John Daub: I will continue to do mobile live streams though. That'll never stop. But I want to add in some more diversity to this channel. I have a street food episode coming on the main channel. I worked with Eric Berg. EricSurf6. And we went around eating street food all over the place. I think we had six or seven things that day. It was pretty crazy. But because of the state of emergency, one of the places that we wanted to go to was shut down. Hoppy Street. So I'm meeting Eric on Sunday to finish this episode.

00:40:33 John Daub: I held up on this episode for a week. And I started editing another one. I'm going to edit another episode so I can film that final scene. I think it's important to get that. And I have an interview with the CEO of one of the companies that's going to show me the mochi that he makes for the dango. So I thought that was interesting to insert into this as well. So I'm going to put those into the video. And I'm going to try to get this out Sunday night. Film Eric with it. Put it in the episode. And then upload it the same night. That's my goal.

00:40:55 John Daub: So we'll get a couple of drinks. And then do an ending there. And from October 7th to October 10th, I'm going to be renting a car from Kyoto. And I'm going to be driving the car from Kyoto to Kochi Prefecture. Live streaming some things along the way. I really want to encourage people to travel towards Shikoku more. To travel to the countryside. And as tourism returns, to consider doing things differently.

00:41:25 John Daub: A lot of you have come with the dream. The Japan Rail Pass. I want to show you another way of traveling. Which is either by rent a car or even by bus. Or different kinds of transportation. But then just train. Japan is actually a really strong car culture. We've got Nissan. We've got Toyota. We've got Honda. We've got so many different car companies. That I think even Yokohama makes Yokohama tires. We've got so many major car parts too. This is a car culture as much as it is a train culture.

00:41:51 John Daub: And I know a lot of you never really, who visit here, never even consider renting a car. So maybe I'm going to be able to take the pain out of it. And show you what it's like to do that. Starting from Kyoto to Kochi. And I'm pretty happy to be invited to do this route. Which is a Kyoto to Kochi route. From the 7th, 8th, 9th and 10th I'll be out on the road. Thank goodness not in Tokyo. Taking you with me of course on Only in Japan Go. And doing some lightly edited videos for this channel.

00:42:26 John Daub: Everything is in English. So the road signs and everything. It's almost always bilingual. So you can get around just like you would in any other country. You don't have to rely on Kanji. You can rely on the Roman letters that tell you where to go. After about 2 hours of driving. You get pretty used to driving on the other side of the road. For Americans. But for Europeans and other people. Australians and some other nationalities. Driving on the left side is natural.

00:43:02 John Daub: My bike is on this side. And I'm going to do a question and answer. I think tonight. A studio live stream on Only in Japan Go. We have a new Prime Minister. We've got some big changes that happened in Japan. Over the last week or so. Vaccine passports have helped residents like me. To have a 10 day quarantine. Instead of a 14 day quarantine. So things are starting to open up for Japan. We're starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

00:43:31 John Daub: I'll do a Q&A. I think tonight. Or tomorrow morning. Which is a studio Q&A on Only in Japan Go. And then right after that on Twitch. To get that channel going. And I also have Densha de Go. And some video games I want to play on there. So if Viv is watching. A little heads up for you. And Ramsey Silent as well. Thank you for joining me on this live stream. Walking through the typhoon.

00:43:55 John Daub: We're not getting a direct hit. But. You have to get outside. You have to get outside. And jump in the puddles. I mean. This is a really good one. I'm offering a public service. By distributing the flooding water here. Alright everybody. Thanks for watching. I'll see you next time. Or tonight.