00:00:03 John Daub: Hey, everybody. Welcome to the city of Tokyo. Today is April 23rd. It's a super warm day. I've got this helmet and glasses on for a reason. It's super bright. And we're about to do this.

00:00:16 Peter von Gomm: We're about to do this. Are you ready to do this with us?

00:00:19 John Daub: We're about to do this. Now tell us a little bit about your bike here, Peter.

00:00:23 Peter von Gomm: Well, this is a scooter, John. It's a Vespa, and it's 300cc, the biggest Vespa. There's a lot of ponies under here. And we're going to take you around the scenic city of Tokyo.

00:00:42 John Daub: All right. This area is not so scenic, though. This is the—

00:00:45 Peter von Gomm: Well, we're going to make it scenic.

00:00:46 John Daub: No skyscrapers in this direction. But you do have it on the Marunouchi Otemachi side here. Let's get going.

00:00:52 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, let's do it.

00:00:54 John Daub: And I can see the screen a little bit. If I miss any comments, I really do apologize. I will do my best. You told me to put my feet on the foot peg, but the foot peg's not there.

00:01:05 Peter von Gomm: I think you just closed it.

00:01:06 John Daub: I'm gonna get in trouble. Basically, I'm just dead weight. You've put on pandemic weight.

00:01:13 Peter von Gomm: Oh, dude, take it easy.

00:01:15 John Daub: You can't put your foot over that.

00:01:17 Peter von Gomm: Just—

00:01:18 John Daub: How do you do it?

00:01:19 Peter von Gomm: Slowly and—no, no, no, no, no.

00:01:21 John Daub: Just—

00:01:22 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, swing one leg over. Oh, for God's sake. Come on.

00:01:26 John Daub: I can't do it. I'm not that flexible. Ah—

00:01:31 Peter von Gomm: Oh, geez. There goes the dead weight on the ground.

00:01:32 John Daub: Oh, my God. Man, that's a lot. Might have put on a couple of pounds here.

00:01:37 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, only a couple. All right. Yeah, keep your—your legs are good. Right about there.

00:01:42 John Daub: Right there. Okay. I should have stretched my hips. Oh, man. Hey, it's just some pigeons. Leo likes to chase them.

00:01:54 Peter von Gomm: And we have got to stop here because there's going to be police coming.

00:02:00 John Daub: Hopefully the signal stays strong. This is a Saturday, too. This is one of the best Saturdays of the year, I think.

00:02:08 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:02:11 John Daub: It's hard to get—

00:02:13 Peter von Gomm: We have that light over there. It's a bit confusing because I can see this light, too. Which one are we going to use?

00:02:19 John Daub: I don't know.

00:02:19 Peter von Gomm: Choose whichever one comes first.

00:02:21 John Daub: So what's our route today, sir?

00:02:25 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, we gotta wait. We are going to go straight ahead. Up here on the right is the Imperial Palace. We're going to go straight down. This is Hibiya Higashi Street. We'll shoot down this towards Shiba Koen and just do some loop de loops.

00:02:41 John Daub: All right. I like that. Loop de loops. Yeah.

00:02:43 Peter von Gomm: I see—

00:02:44 John Daub: Jason.

00:02:44 Peter von Gomm: Hi, Jason.

00:02:45 John Daub: I like my—I think it'll be all right. I think it's okay. I locked it, right?

00:02:53 Peter von Gomm: Did you?

00:02:54 John Daub: No. He's gonna take bikes.

00:02:56 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, bikes are pretty—

00:02:57 John Daub: Okay. It's locked. It's—I got my key in my pocket.

00:02:59 Peter von Gomm: All right.

00:02:59 John Daub: And that pocket's so tight. 'Cause I—my legs are a little bit bigger than usual, but—

00:03:04 Peter von Gomm: What a beautiful day. It's a great day today.

00:03:07 John Daub: It is. Should be on bicycles. That'd be more exercise.

00:03:11 Peter von Gomm: Yeah.

00:03:12 John Daub: Actually with this helmet on, I might just sweat it out. You told me to wear a—like a head sock or something to the sweat—

00:03:18 Peter von Gomm: Here we go. And we're—

00:03:23 John Daub: All right. Do it. Wow, this is awesome.

00:03:30 Peter von Gomm: How's the wind noise, guys? Not too bad. I hope.

00:03:38 John Daub: So—we are. This is the backside of Otemachi, which is, I don't know, about 300 meters away from Tokyo Station. The Imperial Palace and Tokyo Tower are in that direction. I guess we're going to see Tokyo Tower on this, right, Peter?

00:03:54 Peter von Gomm: We will go by there.

00:03:55 John Daub: All right.

00:03:56 Peter von Gomm: I was back when I had a Ducati going to work. I had a job down at the far end here at Tamachi. One morning early, it's probably about 7:45. They were—they were digging a corpse out of the—

00:04:11 John Daub: No, they were not.

00:04:12 Peter von Gomm: Yes, they were.

00:04:12 John Daub: Really?

00:04:13 Peter von Gomm: Yeah. Wait a minute—is this—is this straight? We can go straight here? Yeah. Or we have to go—can we go left and go left here? There's a—fuzz behind it. Might be the guy who was—who was giving us trouble before.

00:04:26 John Daub: Directly behind you. Oh, he's got his sirens on.

00:04:29 Peter von Gomm: But this—this lane can go straight and it can go to the left.

00:04:32 John Daub: And we're gonna go straight. Did I do something wrong?

00:04:35 Peter von Gomm: I don't know. He's turning. We lost him.

00:04:42 John Daub: Lost him. All right, good. Yeah, you lost them. Lost the fuzz—

00:04:52 Peter von Gomm: But not the real fuzz. They don't pack heat.

00:04:55 John Daub: I mean, like—

00:04:56 Peter von Gomm: Like, like a Tokyo summer—

00:04:59 John Daub: Because traditionally they had samurai swords, right? The cops, because they were samurai. See entrance to the Imperial Palace getting married over here. What?

00:05:11 Peter von Gomm: There was a bride and groom getting married. They were taking photos. So we'll pass the Imperial Palace. I had a really nice—a couple weeks back with my friend Evan who was in town. And it's—it's a really nice hotel, but I really wish—

00:05:34 John Daub: Oh, the one back here. That we stayed in.

00:05:36 Peter von Gomm: No, that was the Palace. The Palace. I'm talking about the Imperial—the Teikoku Imperial Hotel, the original one was—was built by Frank Lloyd Wright. Designed and built Porsche and they tore it down in the late 1960s. But it was an incredible hotel. And I highly recommend you check online about the Frank Lloyd Wright Imperial Hotel. There's a couple of really cool videos—

00:06:01 John Daub: About it that's been closed down. Right. They're renovating it. It's gonna take 10 years, 20, 30. It's gonna reopen.

00:06:07 Peter von Gomm: No, no, no, no, no, no, no—

00:06:09 John Daub: That's the Imperial Hotel, the Teguko Hotel.

00:06:12 Peter von Gomm: They're renovating it right now. Yeah, not when I was there. I was just there.

00:06:17 John Daub: Well, it's going to be closed then really soon. I was gonna make a documentary on it because that's where Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe—oh, and Queen Elizabeth, when she comes to Japan, she always stays there. It's an—it's an amazing hotel, but it's got this like really old generational vibe to it. They're trying to get rid of that and—

00:06:35 Peter von Gomm: Well, I wish they'd rebuild it as the Frank Lloyd Wright design, which was spectacular.

00:06:42 John Daub: There's Tokyo Station right in front, dead ahead. There's a picture of Babe Ruth coming through here in 1934. Same picture. Oh, you saw this? That weird Starbucks in the corner. Yeah, that's my favorite hidden place to eat a bento in that little guards tower right there. Oh, not a lot of people know about that. I'd buy bento at Tokyo Station or something. Walk out here could eat it. The swans that go by—can't ask for a better place.

00:07:14 Peter von Gomm: Well, you could, but it would just be selfish if you did.

00:07:17 John Daub: That's right. Babe Ruth was born in Maryland. You know that? You didn't know that? Oh, Babe Ruth—

00:07:23 Peter von Gomm: He was married to Marilyn—

00:07:25 John Daub: No, he wasn't. That was DiMaggio. DiMaggio was even born—Babe Ruth was actually born—

00:07:31 Peter von Gomm: DiMaggio.

00:07:32 John Daub: Babe Ruth made baseball in Japan. Babe Ruth made baseball in Japan. He was one of the people who came across the Pacific to promote it here and eventually became the national sport of Japan. Or is that sumo?

00:07:45 Peter von Gomm: And they even made it their own name for it. Yakyu. That's right.

00:07:50 John Daub: We go over in this direction, you can see it's a beautiful day and I guess Tokyo Tower. We'll start to see that coming into view when we wrap around that direction. You going straight in?

00:08:01 Peter von Gomm: Due course. No, we're going to turn right here.

00:08:03 John Daub: Okay.

00:08:04 Peter von Gomm: We're gonna go by the Imperial Hotel. So I can see if they're really renovating it.

00:08:10 John Daub: A lot of people take wedding pictures here too. I noticed we see people dressed up. Two guys riding a bike around Tokyo. The thumbnail picture is actually from the sidecar we had. Was that two years ago?

00:08:23 Peter von Gomm: Oh, wow. At least two years ago. Yeah.

00:08:26 John Daub: Yeah.

00:08:27 Peter von Gomm: We should think about doing that again.

00:08:29 John Daub: Yeah, but I don't want to be in the sidecar. I'm getting my—I'm actually getting a motorcycle license. There's two kinds you can get in Japan and chugata and ogata. I think I'll just get the chugata because I don't think we need to ride Harleys, do we?

00:08:45 Peter von Gomm: No, but I recommend you go—is it going to cost any different or take any longer to get the—

00:08:50 John Daub: I think you got to get the two—got the—before you get the oat that you can't go—

00:08:56 Peter von Gomm: Oh, really?

00:08:56 John Daub: The other—

00:08:57 Peter von Gomm: Is that true?

00:08:58 John Daub: Yeah.

00:08:59 Peter von Gomm: Okay. Well, yeah, I would verify that first, but yeah, if you're—if you're content with 400cc as your—your maximum ride, then you're—then go for the shugato. I very quickly wanted the ogo—

00:09:20 John Daub: Oh, that's where my accountant is back there. That's my accountant's office.

00:09:27 Peter von Gomm: Oh, yeah.

00:09:28 John Daub: Nice view of the Imperial Palace.

00:09:34 Peter von Gomm: Okay, so yeah, we're—that's one of the—it's the outer moat here and right off here—

00:09:40 John Daub: Yeah.

00:09:41 Peter von Gomm: Up on the left up here is Ginza.

00:09:50 John Daub: Blocking view. Peninsula Hotel.

00:09:53 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, we'll get in the other lane here.

00:09:55 John Daub: You can see the Shinkansen going by there every now and then. Here's the Imperial Hotel coming up on the left side after the—maybe a midtown, which is a new shopping mall. Good bakery in the basement. Could be why I'm a little bit more dead weight than usual.

00:10:10 Peter von Gomm: Yeah.

00:10:16 John Daub: Oh, they got a meat festival, I think starting—oh, that's next week. They have a meat festival starting. Here's the Imperial Hotel right here on the left.

00:10:23 Peter von Gomm: Let's just—we'll pull through and then back out.

00:10:25 John Daub: All right. Pretend like you're a guest.

00:10:26 Peter von Gomm: Yes. Honk the horn. This is the Imperial Hotel.

00:10:33 John Daub: I have a picture of Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio inside.

00:10:37 Peter von Gomm: Show them the sign there.

00:10:40 John Daub: How you doing?

00:10:40 Peter von Gomm: Your hotel.

00:10:41 John Daub: I was just passing through. Yeah. White glove tree.

00:10:45 Peter von Gomm: All right. It's a cool hotel. It's a great place to get a drink late at night. Not cheap, but great ambiance.

00:10:53 John Daub: And the story of when one of my clients bought me a Kobe steak up on the roof there. Pretty crazy. Up on the restaurant in the Tegoko Hotel. I think I've said that story before. I wanted to take him out to—he's—a very rich man. I wanted to take him out to the all-you-can-eat curry rice place in Hibiya Park. But the line was 40 minutes long. He goes, "I knew a better place." We went up to the hotel across the street and he bought—he bought me a 300-gram Kobe steak and he got a 200-gram. I don't know why he ordered for us—

00:11:25 Peter von Gomm: Wow.

00:11:26 John Daub: It was a thousand dollars what he paid in. I'm serious. Well, do you mind with the exchange—

00:11:31 Peter von Gomm: Rate for those two steaks? What else did you get?

00:11:34 John Daub: Grams. It was 200 for per 100 gram on the top of that restaurant. It was Canada—was it 100? 100 for 200 grams, 100 for 100 gram or something? I don't know. It just came out a thousand dollars. So I was freaking out. And the NPO was working at said that we can't—him do that. So I had—we had to reimburse him. It's pretty unusual story.

00:12:00 Peter von Gomm: That's why it's called an NPO nonprofit. Because you're paying for all those expensive steaks.

00:12:05 John Daub: Maybe—maybe he meant to do that. I don't know.

00:12:08 Peter von Gomm: Okay, so we are—where are we? Nihonbashi—no, it is down there.

00:12:18 John Daub: Oh, right. Yeah. This is the Shimbashi and the—what's that? What's the other station?

00:12:23 Peter von Gomm: Onari Mall.

00:12:28 John Daub: Yeah.

00:12:29 Peter von Gomm: Look at this old Rolls Royce. See it here on the back of the trailer?

00:12:34 John Daub: Whoa.

00:12:34 Peter von Gomm: Hold still. Don't—that's kind of cool. I like that. That's like a—anybody know the year of this Rolls Royce?

00:12:40 John Daub: Wow.

00:12:41 Peter von Gomm: I think it's a '60s, maybe '70s.

00:12:44 John Daub: I like how the windows aren't tinted. Right?

00:12:46 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, it's beautiful.

00:12:47 John Daub: It's so clear, the windows.

00:12:51 Peter von Gomm: It looks like it may have—oh, there's some—there's some rust down along the bottom there. So it's in pretty good shape. Any Rolls Royce aficionados here that can tell us the year?

00:13:03 John Daub: James Bond Car '65 writes in Jotty Holt. '60.

00:13:08 Peter von Gomm: '65.

00:13:10 John Daub: Can't see Jotty. It's so bright. '68 according to Google Lens.

00:13:19 Peter von Gomm: Google Lens will—you can send in a screenshot and it'll tell you the—apparently. Wow, that's cool.

00:13:26 John Daub: Is that something you want?

00:13:27 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I'd like a ride in that.

00:13:31 John Daub: Yeah, I would. Jump on it, get in there and see if the keys are in the ignition and then—

00:13:36 Peter von Gomm: Pardon me, do you have any Grey Poupon? What's—

00:13:40 John Daub: Of course. It is in pretty good shape, isn't it? Yeah, classic.

00:13:56 Peter von Gomm: So coming up is the Hibiya Park. What's this? Coffee Academy, Tokyo. That's kind of cool. Oh yeah, you learn about coffee.

00:14:06 John Daub: Oh, right there.

00:14:07 Peter von Gomm: Yeah.

00:14:07 John Daub: Coffee Academy. A Shiba Park right here.

00:14:10 Peter von Gomm: Yep, she was coming up—

00:14:13 John Daub: The Tokyo Tower will be on the right side.

00:14:15 Peter von Gomm: Just say Hibiya Park. Sorry, Hibi is back there. This is Shiba Park.

00:14:17 John Daub: There it is.

00:14:27 Peter von Gomm: And let's take a little—we don't want to do this one. Not yet. What a lovely day. Absolutely. Love—

00:14:45 John Daub: Lovely. And if you go to the top, you'll be able to hear this man's voice guiding you around, right?

00:14:51 Peter von Gomm: That's right. Top Deck Tour.

00:14:53 John Daub: Can you—can you give us a couple of lines from the tour that you remember?

00:14:56 Peter von Gomm: Oh, man, I don't remember. When I do the voice jobs, it vaporizes the moment I leave the studio. I have no recollection of anything I've said.

00:15:04 John Daub: What's the title call for the series that I produce?

00:15:07 Peter von Gomm: Hiroshima.

00:15:09 John Daub: See, he doesn't even remember. "Only in Japan." Really?

00:15:13 Peter von Gomm: Oh, okay. Yes, yes, I remember that.

00:15:14 John Daub: Oh my gosh. Only in Japan are we doing this Hokkaido bike trip this summer.

00:15:20 Peter von Gomm: Well, if you pull your head out and get your license, it's all dependent on me.

00:15:27 John Daub: So how long does it take from start to finish to get the license? And is it best that I go to a school?

00:15:32 Peter von Gomm: Go to a school for sure—to learn the safety. And you're guaranteed to get the license at the end of the schooling.

00:15:39 John Daub: Wow.

00:15:40 Peter von Gomm: Well, unless you're a total screw up.

00:15:43 John Daub: Well, how long does it take? Because I'm in a hurry.

00:15:46 Peter von Gomm: At least two weeks, probably. I think I did mine in three. There's a Ferrari.

00:15:50 John Daub: Wow.

00:15:56 Peter von Gomm: Kind of wanted to go up that road there.

00:16:00 John Daub: Oh, here's the shrine in the—Ulysses S. Grant planted tree through the gate there. I don't know if you saw that. It's pretty crazy. Ulysses S. Grant planted a tree here in Japan and it's still here in—

00:16:14 Peter von Gomm: In Shiba Park?

00:16:16 John Daub: Yeah. No, in the—at the shrine.

00:16:17 Peter von Gomm: Oh, okay.

00:16:19 John Daub: There's the park right there. I haven't been—I only come here when the ume blossoms are—are blooming. Strange to see it here in the summer or the late spring. Early spring. I don't know—

00:16:35 Peter von Gomm: There's a Lambo convertible.

00:16:37 John Daub: Wow.

00:16:41 Peter von Gomm: Open—'cause they say in Japanese—

00:16:44 John Daub: That was pretty sweet.

00:16:46 Peter von Gomm: You can have it. I'll take my Vespa any day. But yeah, get your license and then we'll do some—we'll do a ride. You've told them about our—our semi plan, right?

00:16:58 John Daub: So the adventure is to do something in Hokkaido for a week or so. To show some new areas that we've never been to. To see Hokkaido like it's never been seen before from our point of view. Yeah, there's another awesome car. How—where are these?

00:17:16 Peter von Gomm: This is kind of a wealthy area, John.

00:17:18 John Daub: I guess it is.

00:17:21 Peter von Gomm: There's a nice swimming pool here in the summertime. This is the Shiba Koan pool public pool.

00:17:29 John Daub: Hey Rainer. Rainer lives Japan right in here. Hi.

00:17:32 Peter von Gomm: Is it Rainer—

00:17:35 John Daub: And mom watching?

00:17:40 Peter von Gomm: So we're going to turn right here. We'll be heading towards Azabu Juban and we'll—we'll kind of swing by Tokyo Tower. Past Tokyo Tower.

00:18:01 John Daub: What's it—look at that car. What's it like to get pulled over by the police here? Has that ever happened to you?

00:18:05 Peter von Gomm: It's a blast. Oh yeah. I've been pulled over many times—

00:18:12 John Daub: But—

00:18:12 Peter von Gomm: Only once for speeding.

00:18:15 John Daub: Usually really speeding or—

00:18:16 Peter von Gomm: Well, I didn't feel like I was—I was on a BMW 1150 RS and I was in near Harajuku going up a hill and it just—it's just a smooth bike. And I wasn't trying to speed, I was just going up and there was a trap set up. They got me.

00:18:37 John Daub: Oh, the speed traps got me, John.

00:18:40 Peter von Gomm: They got me.

00:18:41 John Daub: Did they do speed traps on the highways?

00:18:45 Peter von Gomm: I don't think they do speed traps but they have highway patrol.

00:18:49 John Daub: Yeah, they sneak up behind you. I had one cop, he came—I wasn't really speeding. I was going—I was passing a car and they flashed lights that were inside the grill of his—of his—the front of his car. So you couldn't see them on top. The flashing lights are in the grille on the front.

00:19:06 Peter von Gomm: So you pulled over.

00:19:08 John Daub: I didn't pull over. He just flashed it for one second to say hey, I'm here, this is my lane. So I quickly got back into the left lane and that was the end of it.

00:19:20 Peter von Gomm: I thought you were gonna lead him on a high speed chase.

00:19:23 John Daub: Undercover. Right. Hawaiian Sea. But out on the local roads—another reason to take the highway is because they have speed traps everywhere and they're always places where they like they're sort of semi-deceptive. Right. Like you don't see the stop sign or you don't see the change in the speed limit or something. Unmarked car, unmanned car, I think—I don't know, I didn't see anybody.

00:19:54 Peter von Gomm: It—where are we headed by the way?

00:20:00 John Daub: In the future there'll just be police drones that'll fly down—

00:20:03 Peter von Gomm: Yeah. So this is Azabu Juban coming up here. And we're going to turn—

00:20:11 John Daub: That's a nice cafe. This—this place is very famous for being very cliquish—exclusive neighborhood. A lot of cafes that are—I don't know—you'll find famous people in them.

00:20:24 Peter von Gomm: This is a—this is a really good restaurant. Bistro Chick. Great pasta.

00:20:29 John Daub: Really good pasta.

00:20:30 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I recommend it.

00:20:32 John Daub: The chickpea—

00:20:33 Peter von Gomm: It's always busy and it's always delicious. That's why it's always busy.

00:20:40 John Daub: I don't think they can email you a ticket, can they? Do they do that with—with cameras and stuff here?

00:20:46 Peter von Gomm: Yes, they do.

00:20:47 John Daub: Oh, so if you're speeding, that's a nice cafe. Big open windows.

00:20:53 Peter von Gomm: Okay. How you—are you thirsty?

00:20:58 John Daub: I am.

00:20:58 Peter von Gomm: Okay. Why don't you get us a couple drinks?

00:21:00 John Daub: All right. Look at this new skyscraper that's going up here. There's a lot of it—that's Roppongi straight ahead, right?

00:21:06 Peter von Gomm: No.

00:21:06 John Daub: Oh, it's not.

00:21:07 Peter von Gomm: That's part of Toranomon area. Yeah—

00:21:11 John Daub: Oh my God. All right, what do you want?

00:21:14 Peter von Gomm: So something that's going to quench my parched lips and throat.

00:21:21 John Daub: Water?

00:21:22 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, why not?

00:21:25 John Daub: Or should I have the people pick? Well, I pick like you're gonna pick the most—

00:21:31 Peter von Gomm: I don't want like corn soup.

00:21:32 John Daub: Hey, Michael, Sasaki's in the house. I'm happy you guys—I'm not missing this live stream. Love riding with you guys. The dynamic duo. Batman, Robin. So you know Batman, Robin—you don't want the coffee, water—

00:21:47 Peter von Gomm: Jason? Yes—

00:21:50 John Daub: Do you want the—this water or the other water?

00:21:53 Peter von Gomm: 'Cause they're just a normal—just a normal water or Pokari Sweat.

00:21:58 John Daub: All right—

00:22:10 Peter von Gomm: J—

00:22:10 John Daub: A writes. What is his name? Your name is—

00:22:14 Peter von Gomm: They call me Pokari Pete.

00:22:16 John Daub: Peter sidebeam writes in here. Robin and Robin. What? Really? Come on—

00:22:24 Peter von Gomm: Robin and Throbbin—

00:22:25 John Daub: Give us some credit here. I'm gonna go for a water, John—

00:22:30 Peter von Gomm: Look at that—look, they're hauling—that crane is hauling something way up to the top. Can you see it?

00:22:35 John Daub: Whoa. Yeah, I see it—that's—

00:22:41 Peter von Gomm: Look at how high that crane is going.

00:22:43 John Daub: Quite a haul. Reminds me of the James Bond movie. What was that? "On Her Majesty's Secret Service." Where he has to get the crane to bring the photocopier up to the—

00:22:56 Peter von Gomm: Wouldn't that be wicked if that was a pizza delivery guy in there?

00:22:59 John Daub: What?

00:23:00 Peter von Gomm: Be wicked if that was a pizza delivery?

00:23:03 John Daub: It's not a pizza delivery, is it?

00:23:06 Peter von Gomm: Big delivery, Domino's pizza?

00:23:09 John Daub: Let me get my drink here? Yeah, Uber Eats—

00:23:31 Peter von Gomm: That's cool. Going way up. That's a Mori building.

00:23:38 John Daub: Is this a Mori building? Yeah. That's good water. Where we put it now—

00:23:46 Peter von Gomm: Here, I can put it in my bag here.

00:23:49 John Daub: That feels—

00:23:50 Peter von Gomm: Make sure the lid's on—

00:23:53 John Daub: Chan. Right—

00:23:53 Peter von Gomm: Thank you.

00:23:53 John Daub: That crane is like fishing on another level. I think few people were hoping you'd ride past the Nakagin Capsule Tower. Can we ride past that?

00:24:04 Peter von Gomm: We could—[?] they mean you have enough of that—

00:24:07 John Daub: I don't think the people want more—you have to do what the people want. Well, thank you for the drink that they cost you. Nakagin Capsule Tower. Oh, my God—

00:24:19 Peter von Gomm: All right, you ready? Feed on your—feed on your posts—

00:24:23 John Daub: Wiggle in here and get comfy. I'm still here. We ride.

00:24:34 Peter von Gomm: I'm going to take this moment to give myself a plug. Please check out my true crime podcasts. Homicide, Inc. Weekly. True crime. Whether that's your genre or not, I highly recommend you check it out. Everybody needs a little true crime in their life.

00:24:55 John Daub: It's a podcast to listen when you're in your car on long drives. I listened to it when I was driving up to Fukushima the other day.

00:25:01 Peter von Gomm: Did you get scared?

00:25:03 John Daub: No—

00:25:07 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—started a year ago in January. So we're up to episode 60 now and I'd love for you to check it out. Maybe John would be nice enough to put the link in there—

00:25:20 John Daub: Yeah, our moderators are on it right now—

00:25:23 Peter von Gomm: Thank you. Homicide, Inc—

00:25:25 John Daub: Please get you to—how many subscribers do you have on the—

00:25:28 Peter von Gomm: I don't know how many subscribers—it's hard to tell with podcasts. It's more about downloads and it's not nearly—it as good as it should be. It takes a while—just like with YouTube—you gotta stay at it and plunk away at—

00:25:48 John Daub: On Spotify—

00:25:50 Peter von Gomm: It's on all podcasts—

00:25:52 John Daub: Any platform—

00:25:53 Peter von Gomm: Any platform—

00:25:54 John Daub: Amazon—

00:25:54 Peter von Gomm: You get where you get your podcast. Let's turn down here, just for fun—

00:25:57 John Daub: These are places where the signal stinks—

00:26:00 Peter von Gomm: Oh, really?

00:26:01 John Daub: Yeah, usually—

00:26:04 Peter von Gomm: Oh, nice bamboo—

00:26:06 John Daub: See if we can see something—

00:26:07 Peter von Gomm: This is an old Ducati. Hang on a second—

00:26:11 John Daub: Wow—

00:26:12 Peter von Gomm: Oh, no, it's a—what is it? That's old. It's a Ducati. It's not an old one, but it's a nice one—

00:26:16 John Daub: Yeah, it is—

00:26:17 Peter von Gomm: It's a funky old house here—

00:26:23 John Daub: You know, you really deserve to discover the city of Tokyo in the alleys away from all the main streets. You have to take a couple of days—just to get lost—

00:26:32 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:26:32 John Daub: Shibuya area is a prime example, everybody knows about Hachiko and—and all those alleys that around the station. But it's when you get a little bit past there and deeper into it, you get some really amazing houses in the neighborhoods—like, these are people—this is where people live here. Oh—

00:26:51 Peter von Gomm: See the blimp today, John? There's a blimp out today—

00:26:54 John Daub: Yeah, the blimp was—was out a couple of days ago too. Kanae and I saw it on our anniversary lunch. We went to—we can't do dinner because Leo's have to take care of him. Blimp is out again?

00:27:12 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, it's a—it says Asahi Super Dry on it. It's an advertisement—

00:27:16 John Daub: Oh, okay. I didn't—I was—so we were so far away from the blimp we couldn't see what was advertising. And now it's a—a beer commercial. Okay, makes sense. I heard sales for beer were down, so Asahi redid the form. Have you tried the new Asahi? They did like a new Coke thing—Asahi changed the formula and made it more refreshing, I guess—

00:27:41 Peter von Gomm: What was that new code?

00:27:43 John Daub: What?

00:27:44 Peter von Gomm: What was that New Coke when they changed the formula and everybody hated it—

00:27:47 John Daub: Yeah, New—it was just called—I guess they just called it New Coke and then they—no, I remember that was like back in the end of the '80s, right?

00:27:53 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—too—too sweet and—yeah. Funky. Why—why mess with something that's not broken?

00:27:58 John Daub: Exactly. So then they had to do New Coke and Coca Cola Classic. And I think they just cut the new Coke and it's made it Classic. I think they switched from sugar to high fructose corn syrup or something. Maybe—

00:28:11 Peter von Gomm: Sounds awful—

00:28:12 John Daub: And when I went back to Thailand or Southeast Asia or even Eastern Europe back in the late '90s, I could taste the difference between the Coke in the US and the Coke in the rest of the world. It was just so much better outside the U.S. really—because they're trying to save money with the—oh yeah, they're trying to save money with the sugar. They made it taste crappier. I don't—I haven't drank Coke in years—

00:28:38 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I don't—I don't drink pops—drink soda pops—

00:28:42 John Daub: Just drink carbonated water. In fact, I just wanted the bubbles, not the sugar—

00:28:45 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, yeah, yeah. Same here. I experiment with carbonated water. I add it to lots of different stuff. Like you put it in tomato juice—

00:28:59 John Daub: Liberia. They have all these sports cars there—

00:29:03 Peter von Gomm: So we're heading—this is—this is Roppongi that the cop was not happy about you filming him. By the way—it—

00:29:12 John Daub: Oh, what's he going to do—stop us—

00:29:14 Peter von Gomm: Shoot us—

00:29:15 John Daub: Shoot us. Did he see us?

00:29:20 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, they—he kind of—his eyes trailed along with us. It could have—it could be the bike, though—

00:29:26 John Daub: That's all right—

00:29:27 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, it's fine. I do some recordings here. Most recently for Ultraman—the English version of the animated—

00:29:37 John Daub: In that white building—

00:29:38 Peter von Gomm: Not animated, but the—

00:29:39 John Daub: The white cement looking building—

00:29:41 Peter von Gomm: This brick red—

00:29:42 John Daub: The brick one—

00:29:42 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, Ultraman—

00:29:45 John Daub: In English—

00:29:45 Peter von Gomm: Wow. Yeah—

00:29:46 John Daub: Were you Ultraman?

00:29:47 Peter von Gomm: I was one of them. I was Ginga. Oh, there's many Ultra men—

00:29:51 John Daub: Wow—

00:29:51 Peter von Gomm: So yeah, this new—the new Subaru production is—there are—there are many different Ultra dudes. And I'm Ginga. Ginga's one of them. And Zetton. This is an interesting building. I think it's some sort of religion over there. Really interesting architecture—

00:30:18 John Daub: You can see that right here in between—it looks like a shrine or something. You want to go around it?

00:30:23 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:30:23 John Daub: This is where all the embassies are, right? So that's why there's a bunch of—a lot of police officers—

00:30:28 Peter von Gomm: Well, the Russian embassy is right there. Oh, I wonder why—

00:30:31 John Daub: Well, see, a whole—what? Don't you think they should pay for their own security? Yeah, but then in a way, I guess you—you wouldn't want them—you just have the military from that—I'm just so incensed on their streets here—

00:30:42 Peter von Gomm: So incensed with that whole thing—

00:30:45 John Daub: Wow. Is this a shrine?

00:30:48 Peter von Gomm: It's not a shrine, but let's see—

00:30:49 John Daub: What is it? What is that?

00:30:51 Peter von Gomm: Some sort of hall?

00:30:53 John Daub: Hall of Justice. This looks like something—Wonder Woman, Batman—

00:30:57 Peter von Gomm: But isn't that incredible, that architecture?

00:30:59 John Daub: It is. Is it all wood? Wood? No. Partially. I think it looks like wood. It's all industrious—

00:31:06 Peter von Gomm: Somebody check their Google Lens—

00:31:08 John Daub: Anyone have Google Lens?

00:31:10 Peter von Gomm: Can you Google Lens this building?

00:31:13 John Daub: Find out—just—oh, wait, it says something in 1979 "Super Friends"—

00:31:18 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:31:20 John Daub: Looks like the mouth of a manta ray—

00:31:23 Peter von Gomm: It's true—yeah, it does. And—interestingly, the facade there—at the entrance—see, it's all spotted. It kind of looks like a whale shark—skin of a whale shark—

00:31:33 John Daub: Camo. It's a camouflaged UFO. Could be—could be a lot of things in there—

00:31:40 Peter von Gomm: You're a scuba diver, John. Have you ever seen a whale shark?

00:31:45 John Daub: I have in Thailand. And March is the season for that. Pretty big. They don't mind you swimming—just don't bother them—

00:31:52 Peter von Gomm: Totally a totally peaceful animal—

00:31:55 John Daub: Shark is—is a very strong word. Yeah, they're not really sharkish—sharky—

00:32:00 Peter von Gomm: They're not sharky—

00:32:01 John Daub: They're more whaley—

00:32:03 Peter von Gomm: Okay, I'm gonna—killer whaley. See this—we have—we're at a cul de sac here. Turn around. I'm gonna try to do this without—

00:32:08 John Daub: Putting my feet down—

00:32:09 Peter von Gomm: I think I can do it with your dead weight on the back—

00:32:12 John Daub: All right, go ahead. Give it a try—

00:32:14 Peter von Gomm: Here we go—oh, the fan turned on—okay—oh my God—oh my God—oh my God—oh, I can't do it—

00:32:22 John Daub: Oh, maybe because I was leaning. Maybe my fault—

00:32:31 Peter von Gomm: So yeah, up to the right is the Russian embassy. And there's an enormous police—Japanese police presence there, of course. Wonder why big buses are blocking the front. It's been that way for two months now. An enormous number of police patrolling, walking around this neighborhood—

00:32:50 John Daub: Yeah, speaking of which, I do have to make a small correction in a—you—in a live stream I did up at North East Hokkaido—I—I called it that—we could see Russia—we could see occupied Japan, actually—

00:33:02 Peter von Gomm: Wow—

00:33:03 John Daub: It's Russian occupied Japan, not Russia. Just want to point that out. It's my fault for that. I'll be up there in a few weeks to redo it, maybe—

00:33:18 Peter von Gomm: There is a buttered coffee place up here on the left, which is quite good—yeah, I like this area right here—

00:33:27 John Daub: It's actually called butter coffee. You're right—

00:33:30 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, it's good coffee—

00:33:35 John Daub: Thank you—

00:33:36 Peter von Gomm: So we're near Ark Hills. This is Kamiyacho—

00:33:40 John Daub: Kamiyacho. Yeah. I stayed here a few months ago with Kanae and Leo—oh, what is that? There's a big hotel here that's really nice—

00:33:50 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, the Okura. Oh, no—yeah, Okura is right over here on the left—

00:33:55 John Daub: I gave a speech to all the concierge in Japan—or a couple hundred—listening to me talking about how tourism could return and what's it going to be like? I think it was this building—building here? I can't remember. Yeah, it's right here—this building with a hotel. I don't—great hotel—

00:34:16 Peter von Gomm: I stayed at the Okura, the original one, before they tore it down several years ago. It was just before they were tearing it down, so I stayed there at night. Family was out of town. Don't tell anybody—

00:34:29 John Daub: I only stayed this—fancy hotels—if someone puts me up there, it's like, why we live here, Peter? Why stay in a hotel in Tokyo?

00:34:35 Peter von Gomm: Well, I know, but I want to check this—swing by the old—I guess we can't—

00:34:42 John Daub: People ask me all the time, where's the best place to stay in Tokyo? Like, I don't know—I live here—I never have to stay here. But I would say probably Asakusa—

00:34:51 Peter von Gomm: Well, it all depends on what you're after. Do you want a neocon style or do you want western style but with Japanese influence?

00:34:58 John Daub: Things you have to think about—

00:35:00 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:35:00 John Daub: What is that hotel? Can anybody see?

00:35:02 Peter von Gomm: We're gonna turn left here—oh, it's cute little plush toy—

00:35:08 John Daub: Sorry, I can't make out the name of the hotel. Did you see the hotel name here?

00:35:15 Peter von Gomm: World Gate—

00:35:19 John Daub: Beautiful garden here in the back—

00:35:33 Peter von Gomm: Okay, so this is the part of the Okura Hotel, I believe—the part that they kept up here on the—

00:35:42 John Daub: Left, I think this is—Rainer writes in here—do you ever ride an EB motorcycle?

00:35:49 Peter von Gomm: I have not—

00:35:51 John Daub: Why don't they have that? You think that'd be an easy thing to make, right?

00:35:54 Peter von Gomm: Well, they do—they make lots of them—but they're not—they're not quite there yet. There's a couple that are—that are pretty slick—yeah, that's the—that's part of the—Okura, I believe. Look at that old house right there—that's one thing I was—I wanted you to do a video on—

00:36:11 John Daub: John, I can't get access to that old house in Akasaka—

00:36:15 Peter von Gomm: Well, they're all over town—yeah, but it's just amazing—they're holdouts—you can see this old—like it's probably from the—you know, '40s, '50s, '60s—

00:36:26 John Daub: No, before that. Some of them made of wood—

00:36:29 Peter von Gomm: So it had to maybe '20s survived—

00:36:30 John Daub: The firebombing of 1945—

00:36:33 Peter von Gomm: Right—well, but these people are holding out. The skyscrapers are building all around them and they just will not sell their land—

00:36:41 John Daub: There's a ton of them—yeah, it's great—I hope they never sell out—they're stopping progress. That's a good thing—progress needs to be held at bay sometimes—

00:36:51 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, yeah—so this is the Okura—this area over here—and that's one of the original Okura wings that they are preserving—

00:37:02 John Daub: Do you like this area?

00:37:03 Peter von Gomm: I do—

00:37:04 John Daub: I wonder what—I guess it's pretty expensive to live here, right?

00:37:07 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, it's mostly business, this area—

00:37:12 John Daub: Mostly business—

00:37:13 Peter von Gomm: Here's an old Ferrari—

00:37:15 John Daub: Wow—

00:37:16 Peter von Gomm: Testarossa—

00:37:18 John Daub: Tesla—

00:37:18 Peter von Gomm: Ferrari—

00:37:19 John Daub: What? That's not a Tesla. It's got an engine—

00:37:22 Peter von Gomm: No—Testarossa—

00:37:24 John Daub: Oh, Testarossa—

00:37:27 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—so—

00:37:32 John Daub: All right—

00:37:32 Peter von Gomm: It's Roppongi—Toranomon—we're in the Toranomon area—

00:37:36 John Daub: All right. Right. So we going to Nakagin Capsule Tower, I think—

00:37:42 Peter von Gomm: Again—again—

00:37:43 John Daub: I think Peter's like—

00:37:44 Peter von Gomm: No, I'm not—no—but do they really want to go by that again? I don't think we can go on the expressway with both of us on this—the inner—expressway—the inner part in Tokyo—

00:38:01 John Daub: You guys—to do on the—this—the expressway—can you have a passenger on the back for that?

00:38:06 Peter von Gomm: Well, if you'd let me finish talking—I was just explaining that—

00:38:09 John Daub: Sorry—

00:38:10 Peter von Gomm: So the inner expressway in Tokyo, you can't—two people on a bike and there's signs that has a—you know, two—two people with a slash going through it—at the entrance to the expressways—

00:38:24 John Daub: Oh, wow—

00:38:25 Peter von Gomm: As soon as you get to the outer loop, which you can get on near Shibuya, you can—you can get on two people. But I see people on there illegally—yeah, they don't do anything—

00:38:37 John Daub: Well, I tell you what, NEXCO owns the all the highways—Nexco—I tried hitchhiking on those highways—they are strict—they kicked me down to the low road a couple of times—five years ago—and speaking of which, five years ago today, the most epic live stream ever that I did was at Hirosaki Sakura Festival. You have to see that—there was a motorcycle dude in a barrel and he was—he was like inverted going around and around the barrel—and I held out a thousand yen and I said, "Go, dude, go"—I put the thousand yen in my hand across the side of this barrel and he went all the way over to the top and he plucked it from my fingers and I did it in a live stream—it was live—

00:39:17 Peter von Gomm: Wow—why didn't you put it in the—the waistband of your underpants?

00:39:22 John Daub: I couldn't get my hips up that high—you think I would have—that building—wonderful—

00:39:31 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—oh, that's one of them—that's not the one—

00:39:35 John Daub: You've got to do that live stream—I think it's got 50,000 views—when I was hitchhiking—it's kind of cool to see five years ago where it was—and I am selling those Blu Rays still—you can order them on the Only in Japan TV website—

00:39:52 Peter von Gomm: All right, here we go—

00:39:55 John Daub: And haunted house too, at that festival—gosh, I wish the pandemic was over—I think that they might have suspended it again this year—

00:40:14 Peter von Gomm: All right, this is one of my favorite buildings—Toranomon Hills—right here on our left, another Mori building—

00:40:23 John Daub: All right—tdsdr—thank you—how much is the toll? I guess we can't—we still can't go in the—if we could, we'd use that for toll money too—oh, this is the MacArthur Highway—this is where—oh, we Kanae and I ate here a couple of times after Leo got his American citizenship—

00:40:42 Peter von Gomm: Oh, reason to celebrate—

00:40:45 John Daub: This is the road MacArthur went after the—after the surrender—they called it MacArthur Avenue—

00:40:54 Peter von Gomm: I believe back in the day that guy had swaggered—

00:40:58 John Daub: Yeah, he did—and a corn—corn cob Pike—

00:41:02 Peter von Gomm: Well, actually the Imperial Hotel—the Frank Lloyd Wright version was their headquarters—a part of the headquarters—there's a—in the video I was talking about, he gets out of his car and he just kind of strolls up—he strolls up to the Imperial Hotel and they had their meetings and stuff there—

00:41:25 John Daub: Yeah, MacArthur was a good one—he had a lot of foresight in the way how to treat the Japanese—saying don't instigate, make sure it's peaceful—and I think the Japanese embrace democracy because of that—yeah, well we became all as a result of that too—the stories I heard from older Japanese—I love talking with people, you know, when we're not in a pandemic—I talk with so many people that were around back there when I first came to Japan 20 years ago—not one of them had a bad story to say about the Americans when they were occupying here in Japan—not one—always some sort of act of kindness that they remembered—and my uncle—great uncle—one of them was—I think he was up in Hokkaido after the war and he was—at the end he was somewhat—he would always repeat the same story over and over again—so he repeated five times the same story—which is great for—

00:42:20 Peter von Gomm: Because it was a great story because he had dementia—

00:42:23 John Daub: It was a story about how during the occupation he gave a young kid an egg and the kid was just so grateful—he'd never seen someone have so much, I don't know, appreciation for an egg—and he just made a left—a really strong impact on him—and that day he told the story five times in a row—

00:42:46 Peter von Gomm: Wow—

00:42:47 John Daub: Which is great because I was with somebody who didn't speak English very well—

00:42:50 Peter von Gomm: Do you know if it was a hard boiled egg or onsen tamago he didn't get into?

00:42:54 John Daub: No, it wasn't an onsen tamago—free—

00:42:55 Peter von Gomm: Range chicken I think—hopefully—probably a raw egg—free range—

00:42:59 John Daub: Probably from Guam—I don't know—just remember that he told that story over and over again—back I guess it was 2000—

00:43:11 Peter von Gomm: Okay, now you've told the story over and over again—

00:43:13 John Daub: What?

00:43:14 Peter von Gomm: You've now told the story over and over again—

00:43:16 John Daub: Of course I did—oh, we're getting close to the Nakagin Capsule Tower—I know where we are—Shiodome—all right—

00:43:24 Peter von Gomm: We're gonna go left here—oh, wait—

00:43:29 John Daub: The signal can't be good between the buildings here—the tradition continues—John says the same story five times—that's right—

00:43:41 Peter von Gomm: Wait a minute—we should have been in this lane over here because—

00:43:44 John Daub: Well, you can't change now—

00:43:45 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I can—the Nakagin—actually, I think I can go on this light—

00:43:49 John Daub: I think I don't want to get a ticket—well, I don't want you to get—

00:43:52 Peter von Gomm: A ticket—but yeah, let's—let's hang on—pull over here—

00:44:01 John Daub: I guess if there's a yellow line you can't cross—

00:44:03 Peter von Gomm: Right—

00:44:04 John Daub: Yeah, I remember—the best thing you can do is watch the YouTubers that like to bust on the Japanese police—there are Japanese citizens who will do police course correction—and apparently according to the law, you can't film citizens, but you can film police officers in Japan—and sometimes there'll be citizens that are policing the police—and it's really funny to watch how they discover the speed traps and expose them—it's very cool—so I learned a lot about driving in Japan from watching these Japanese YouTubers posting videos about Japanese how the Japanese police cap your citizens—it's kind of tricky—just like the exam questions that they have—

00:44:49 Peter von Gomm: All right, so Nakagin Capsule Tower—Hotel Extravaganza—is going to be off to the left, maybe—

00:44:57 John Daub: Oh, there's a Dentsu headquarters—

00:44:59 Peter von Gomm: John, what's that? Where do we go left or—

00:45:04 John Daub: That's the park right there—Hamarikyu Park—right, right—

00:45:07 Peter von Gomm: So maybe we go—

00:45:08 John Daub: We cross over and then make a left—but we can't—we got to go here or—no, we go straight—

00:45:13 Peter von Gomm: Right, I think—go straight and then straight and then off to the left a bit—

00:45:17 John Daub: Wow—

00:45:18 Peter von Gomm: 'Cause this is the expressway that you can see—

00:45:20 John Daub: Oh, there it is right there—it's right over there—

00:45:22 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I see it—I see it—let's go left here—

00:45:24 John Daub: Go left here—yeah, can just see that—see it through the window here—the trees—

00:45:29 Peter von Gomm: The trees—

00:45:31 John Daub: Natural window—

00:45:35 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—you can see over here, the entrance to the expressway—you see the two people riding a motorcycle with the slash—so you can't go double on in this central area—

00:45:47 John Daub: This will take you to Hamamatsucho, right—this direction until I get to the immigration—I ride my bicycle whenever I have to go to immigration—so I don't have to do that—

00:45:58 Peter von Gomm: I gotta—yeah—you do what—I—I have to do it in the next month and I've got permanent residence—

00:46:04 John Daub: You have to—you got—you have to renew that—yeah, people don't know that permanent residency still got to be renewed—

00:46:10 Peter von Gomm: Yep—

00:46:11 John Daub: Every five years—right—

00:46:13 Peter von Gomm: There's a 10 now, maybe 10—all right, here we go—your wish is my command—the Hikakin or Nakagin—

00:46:28 John Daub: Hikakin—Nakagin—Capsule Hotel—there it is—

00:46:32 Peter von Gomm: There it is right there—kids—we kind of want to get over to the other side, though, don't we? Should have gone there—

00:46:39 John Daub: Becomes sort of a staple of the channel—because I am personally impacted by this—by this—you can see they—you're watching the light stream a couple of days ago—wow—they got the scaffolding all the way up to the top—I don't think we have to stop—we can just wrap around—right—the scaffolding's all the way to the top—wow—and they removed some of the capsules—there's a couple more capsules gone—interesting—I want to see them actually removing one of the capsules—

00:47:12 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, me too—that'd be interesting—

00:47:14 John Daub: This is the walkway that I've been taking you on for the last couple of—Peter equals Luke, John equals R2D2—[?]—what is that? Are you saying because, like, R2D2 was on the back of the—of the—what do you call those vehicles that they had, the Rebel Force Star Piercers or something?

00:47:39 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I knew they kind of floated—they floated a lot—

00:47:42 John Daub: I haven't seen Star Wars in ages—yeah, X-wings, I think—next wing—yeah, R2D2 is in the back of the X-wing, so I'm an R2D2—thanks, Cosmon—you know, by the way, Cosman, I have, like, three years of your postcards—you might not be getting on that—I'm just kidding—we got—Romania still doesn't take air mail for the entire pandemic, which is crazy—you probably get all of them at once—like a book—postcards—it's pretty cool—it's like the history of Japan in those postcards—can you do a U-turn here?

00:48:20 Peter von Gomm: We don't want to do a U-turn, do we? Do we?

00:48:22 John Daub: Oh, we don't want to go past the—

00:48:23 Peter von Gomm: Well, I was gonna go—

00:48:24 John Daub: Okay, just go wherever you want to go—I think we've seen enough of the—seen enough of the capsule tower—John is now like, baby Yoda—hey, John's helmet makes him look like R2D2—oh, my God—you're just ripping me a new one—whole question, do I deserve it? Don't answer—

00:48:55 Peter von Gomm: So we're going to skip the going around, right?

00:48:57 John Daub: Yeah, we're okay—just go on your circle circuit—Peter knows the roads really? Well, he drives through Tokyo for the last 15 years now—

00:49:07 Peter von Gomm: 20, 23 years—I got a scooter, a 50cc scooter when I first got here—

00:49:13 John Daub: What's the one tip that bikers should know about with regards to riding in Tokyo compared to other cities like Portland?

00:49:21 Peter von Gomm: Just like anywhere else, obey the traffic rules and don't try to hot dog—ride carefully—

00:49:31 John Daub: Like wheelies and stuff—yeah, it's like basic common sense is what you're saying—

00:49:35 Peter von Gomm: Basically—yeah—we'll be coming up on Ginza shortly—this is Higashi Ginza coming up—

00:49:45 John Daub: Oh, it's my neighborhood backyard—there's some food trucks over there—

00:49:50 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:49:50 John Daub: Secret food truck area—they still have the same food trucks—and Yoshinoya got into it—no one was going to the Yoshinoya, so they made a food truck—some gyudon—

00:50:03 Peter von Gomm: Sounds kind of good—I'm getting hungry—

00:50:05 John Daub: Yeah—

00:50:05 Peter von Gomm: What are we gonna have for lunch?

00:50:08 John Daub: Yeah—where—where are you going? I didn't get any sleep because Leo was crying all night—

00:50:15 Peter von Gomm: Hope you spanked him—

00:50:17 John Daub: He spanked Dust—it's—it's pitch black—

00:50:22 Peter von Gomm: I give you something to cry about—

00:50:24 John Daub: He's standing up and he's wrestling my head—

00:50:26 Peter von Gomm: There is the kabuki—I'm sorry?—Kabuki—Kabukicho—

00:50:33 John Daub: It's been redone—and in the back, part of Kabuki, for those that haven't been here for the last 10 years, is a skyscraper—

00:50:39 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

00:50:40 John Daub: So when they had to redo it after the 2011 earthquake because of structural damage, they tore it down and built it up even better—

00:50:47 Peter von Gomm: To its original likeness—

00:50:49 John Daub: To its original likeness—plus alpha—

00:50:52 Peter von Gomm: We're gonna kind of through here—

00:50:55 John Daub: Well, we passed a Porsche—these guys are brothers—

00:51:00 Peter von Gomm: Or they just committed a crime—all black and masks—or as the Internet points out, whenever I wear one—face diapers—is that a—derogatory thing to say?

00:51:12 Peter von Gomm: What's that?

00:51:12 John Daub: Face diaper—I never heard that term until about two weeks ago—

00:51:16 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, it sounds stupid—

00:51:17 John Daub: Somebody said that to me and I didn't know how to respond—

00:51:21 Peter von Gomm: I heard that on the news—somebody say that?

00:51:24 John Daub: Somebody—

00:51:24 Peter von Gomm: Some newscaster—it sounds stupid—

00:51:28 John Daub: "Nice face diaper"—I said what? All right—

00:51:34 Peter von Gomm: This is Ginza—

00:51:36 John Daub: Oh, yeah—yeah, it is—this is a—there's Waco—what time is it? Maybe the bell will ring—oh, wait, don't ask what time it is when there's a clock at the time—what time is it? 2:30—thanks—WRX Turbos in the house—big time—we'll be fine—oh, on the weekends, they close it down—

00:52:04 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—look at that—

00:52:05 John Daub: Pedestrians only—

00:52:07 Peter von Gomm: Usually that's on Sundays—I didn't know—Saturday, too—

00:52:10 John Daub: Saturdays and Sundays—yeah—we come tonight—and I come down here and take walks with Leo—Leo's walking now—he's running—

00:52:19 Peter von Gomm: That's great—

00:52:26 John Daub: What is GAP stand for? Do you know? Great American—Pastures—the Sony Building has now been closed up—right there, you see this? Where the Sony building used to be—but now they're doing something else, I guess—they're putting in the skyscraper—

00:52:44 Peter von Gomm: Ginza—Sony Park, it says—they're probably rebuilding it, I think—

00:52:48 John Daub: They don't need a skyscraper—everyone's teleworking these days—they got rid of the bear burger in this Tokyo Plaza Tower—did you know that?

00:52:56 Peter von Gomm: That I didn't know—

00:52:57 John Daub: Some good burgers—

00:52:58 Peter von Gomm: All right, that's the end of the road for you, pal—

00:53:00 John Daub: My bike's like a bazillion miles away—

00:53:03 Peter von Gomm: You need the exercise—

00:53:05 John Daub: Really—

00:53:06 Peter von Gomm: I'm kidding—

00:53:06 John Daub: I'm kidding—

00:53:08 Peter von Gomm: No, we're just gonna stop—stop here for a minute and have a look around—look at this cool building—

00:53:13 John Daub: All right—

00:53:14 Peter von Gomm: Think about food—

00:53:17 John Daub: All right—should we keep going? We only got 300 likes—that's not a lot, but come on—

00:53:21 Peter von Gomm: Guys, you can do better than that—

00:53:23 John Daub: It's not enough to keep us going—

00:53:25 Peter von Gomm: No—at least not at all—

00:53:27 John Daub: At least a thousand would be better—

00:53:30 Peter von Gomm: How many people are watching right now?

00:53:32 John Daub: 705—

00:53:33 Peter von Gomm: Okay, so we need at least 705 likes—

00:53:36 John Daub: A thousand people watching—share the link—Peter—will, we're not moving—shirtless, walking down the main street—

00:53:44 Peter von Gomm: We're not leaving this spot until we got at least 705 likes—

00:53:48 John Daub: Are you serious?

00:53:48 Peter von Gomm: I'm totally serious—

00:53:50 John Daub: Please leave—

00:53:50 Peter von Gomm: Start clicking—

00:53:51 John Daub: Please go—

00:53:53 Peter von Gomm: Start clicking, folks—

00:53:55 John Daub: Starting right up here—do you know the story this—Mun Buildings here? The owner of like half of Ginza? It's a pretty interesting story—I might do a live stream show some of the buildings, but he doesn't spend any money to renovate them—they're all broken down—and he bought all this property in Hawaii—controversial guy—

00:54:17 Peter von Gomm: What type of store is it?

00:54:19 John Daub: Yeah—he bought a lot of art property too—and I guess that's his art property—I'm not sure—just an art store—it's always closed—random art—there's a lot of eccentric people here in Japan there—

00:54:41 Peter von Gomm: Yep—I got one on the back of my scooter right now—

00:54:43 John Daub: Right—Rania is in the house cheering you on and saying, Peter, don't stop—

00:54:49 Peter von Gomm: How many likes we got?

00:54:51 John Daub: 435—

00:54:52 Peter von Gomm: Oh, come on—

00:54:53 John Daub: I know—

00:55:00 Peter von Gomm: Jesus—we'll look—some Ferraris hiding in there—

00:55:03 John Daub: Whoa—you see that?

00:55:09 Peter von Gomm: He sounded like a Shaggy—oh, yeah—like there was two Ferraris in that truck—

00:55:23 John Daub: Did you have a thing for Veronica? Wait, was she the—who is Wendy? Right—who is the pop—they're really cute—

00:55:33 Peter von Gomm: Daphne—

00:55:33 John Daub: Daphne—oh, yeah, right—D—who's Veronica?

00:55:36 Peter von Gomm: There was no Veronica—there was a—there was a film that—

00:55:39 John Daub: Josie and the Cats, maybe—

00:55:40 Peter von Gomm: Oh, yeah, that followed—

00:55:43 John Daub: Scooby Doo—all right—

00:55:53 Peter von Gomm: There's a decent food place actually near where you're parked—parked—

00:55:58 John Daub: And there's the food court—the food truck place too, that we went to before—

00:56:02 Peter von Gomm: I don't know if they're open on Saturdays—

00:56:04 John Daub: Ah, right—good point—

00:56:05 Peter von Gomm: But it's a—a lot of joggers that are jogging around the Imperial Palace—they go and eat there—it's a—it's a set—you can choose different—

00:56:17 John Daub: But halfway through their jogging, they stop and eat lunch and then go jogging again—

00:56:20 Peter von Gomm: It's usually at the end of their—their jogging—

00:56:24 John Daub: So—

00:56:24 Peter von Gomm: But it's good—it's really good food—it's healthy and I—I highly recommend it—

00:56:26 John Daub: What's this building here? That's looks like something historical—I forget—this is some—this is some kind of historical—the brown building on the right side—oh, this is the Japanese Press building—two on the right and the left side—side—I've been in here many times—

00:56:53 Peter von Gomm: Many times—

00:56:54 John Daub: Many times—the Nippon Press Center—

00:57:03 Peter von Gomm: All right, this is Hibiya Park again, over here on the right—we're going to turn right here—and we will be concluding our ride back where we started in about within the next 10 seconds—minutes—

00:57:17 John Daub: Sly Fox writes in here—you sounded like Shaggy—writes in Peter and John proceeds to do Scooby Doo impression—

00:57:31 Peter von Gomm: No, I did the Scooby Doo—

00:57:32 John Daub: You did the Scooby Doo?

00:57:33 Peter von Gomm: I did both of them—

00:57:35 John Daub: I don't know—

00:57:40 Peter von Gomm: Something like that—I'm not very good at it—but—

00:57:42 John Daub: Oh, wait, this is where the Liberty Bell is on the back side—right, right—that's the one—MacArthur gave Japan a Liberty Bell, a replica of the one in Philadelphia, so that they would remember democracy and to leave behind a good impression of where America started—I like that story—it's on the backside of Hibiya Park—and you don't really see it unless you really explore deep—there it is right there—now the—here's a funny story—you can't see it from here—I did a live stream there—you can see—search it—funny story, though—but the—the Liberty Bell, they used to ring that at noon every day—but the Liberty Bell was so—oh, there was a pink truck—

00:58:22 Peter von Gomm: What was that thing?

00:58:23 John Daub: I don't know—you want to follow it?

00:58:25 Peter von Gomm: Can't turn right here—

00:58:27 John Daub: But the Liberty Bell was so loud, they would ring it every—even with the fake crack in it—wow, this office building—apparently they asked them to stop ringing it—

00:58:38 Peter von Gomm: Oh, wow—

00:58:40 John Daub: Yeah, celebrity doesn't ring—

00:58:43 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, they're no fun—

00:58:45 John Daub: So no fun at all—

00:58:46 Peter von Gomm: Hey, can you tell us that story about your uncle and the egg again?

00:58:49 John Daub: Yeah, he would tell the same story—when he was stationed here during the occupation, he gave a young Japanese kid an egg, and he was just so appreciative of it—he'd never seen such appreciation—

00:59:03 Peter von Gomm: It's a great story—I might ask you tell it again later—

00:59:06 John Daub: If you forget, just let me know—I'll tell it one more time—there it is down there—some weird pink vehicle—

00:59:15 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, that was bizarre—might be advertising Pepto Bismol—

00:59:23 John Daub: That's where the Emperor lives—his daughter is in New York—

00:59:29 Peter von Gomm: Trying to get over here, people—come on—

00:59:30 John Daub: On—

00:59:31 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, yeah, yeah—oh, excuse me—let's see—sorry, scared me—may have used the bad—

00:59:39 John Daub: There's a yellow line you now—you're not allowed to cross left or right—if you do, the police will give you tickets—yeah, I know that because of the YouTube videos I watch on it—

00:59:50 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I've gotten two, at least two tickets—crossing the yellow line in the same spot, actually, near Yotsuya—

01:00:00 John Daub: So this running course that goes around the Imperial Palace is exactly 5 km, which is very convenient, isn't it?

01:00:06 Peter von Gomm: It's exactly 5 km—

01:00:15 John Daub: Exactamundo—look at all the space the Emperor has—so nice—nice—crowded Tokyo—over there, that's Marunouchi—you can see such a big contrast—I do like to come out to this area because the Tokyo Marathon used to run down this road when I did it—what, 10, 15 years ago—

01:00:40 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I remember when you did the marathon—you did it a couple years in a row, didn't you?

01:00:44 John Daub: I kept applying, but they kept telling me that I can't do it—I kept—because the more people started to apply—when I first did it in 2007 was the first one that they did a public marathon—again, nobody knew about it, so everybody got in—and then I was able to get in 2008, 2009, 2010, all the way up to '12, and then I never—

01:01:03 Peter von Gomm: Got in again because it was too popular—

01:01:08 John Daub: It's just too popular now—there's a 7% chance of getting in—

01:01:12 Peter von Gomm: Wow—

01:01:13 John Daub: Would you ever run marathon?

01:01:15 Peter von Gomm: No—my legs wouldn't hold up—

01:01:18 John Daub: I don't know if I could do now—I got knee troubles—my IT band isn't as flexible or something—someone said I gotta stop eating gluten or something—

01:01:29 Peter von Gomm: Gotta stop eating something—

01:01:31 John Daub: Maybe it's something—I guess gluten is supposed to be bad for you—I don't know—

01:01:39 Peter von Gomm: I had some really good pasta last night—

01:01:43 John Daub: Hemp—

01:01:43 Peter von Gomm: Hemp pasta—

01:01:46 John Daub: Pasta isn't—can I said—

01:01:52 Peter von Gomm: Pasta has gluten—unless it's gluten free pasta—

01:01:56 John Daub: So what can I say?

01:01:58 Peter von Gomm: Your wife?

01:01:59 John Daub: Yeah, she knows these things—

01:02:02 Peter von Gomm: Okay, we're coming up to where we started the stream—

01:02:04 John Daub: Oh, it's a big circle—so next time we got to do the Shinjuku, a Shibuya circuit—

01:02:12 Peter von Gomm: The patrol car guy is not there anymore—so let's go park where I parked again—

01:02:16 John Daub: So you got to go park where he parked again—you can still see—you can still see some of the cherry blossoms on the trees there—some of them are—are flying away with each—

01:02:36 Peter von Gomm: Oh, yes—that's the one that comes—that's not the—the most common—they're kind of like double stuff, right?

01:02:36 John Daub: The late bloomers—yeah, they haven't bloomed up in east Hokkaido yet—they're gonna start blooming in a couple weeks—wow—yeah, I'll be up there when they're blooming—oh, check out the LCD of the—it's kind of flashing—there's an LCD of a guy waving a flag—it's not flashing like that—blinking like that in my screen—it's pretty cool—the best of the Nexco ones are the inflatable anime characters—

01:03:03 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

01:03:04 John Daub: On the highway—can't get a picture of it because it'd be—you know, it's dangerous while you're driving—you need a passenger to do that or—driving—driver cam, dashboard cam—

01:03:24 Peter von Gomm: So I'll pull up over here behind that truck that's flashing and we can conclude things there—

01:03:32 John Daub: Oh, yeah—

01:03:33 Peter von Gomm: And then just up on the corner there is that restaurant I'm telling you about—

01:03:35 John Daub: All right—

01:03:36 Peter von Gomm: Unless you want to go—we can go—actually, let's go to the restaurant because then you can—you can walk back and get your bicycle after that—how's that sound?

01:03:43 John Daub: I want to get the bike down—

01:03:44 Peter von Gomm: You do?

01:03:45 John Daub: Yeah, because I don't want to—I don't want to keep it there—

01:03:49 Peter von Gomm: I gotta—

01:03:49 John Daub: I get a bad feeling—my gut says—

01:03:54 Peter von Gomm: Your gut says feed me—

01:03:56 John Daub: What?

01:03:57 Peter von Gomm: Your gut says, feed me—it's still there—

01:04:06 John Daub: The ticket on it—this is the end of the line—

01:04:15 Peter von Gomm: It is for you, pal—oh—

01:04:17 John Daub: Oh, my God—my ass is, like, cemented on here—oh, Jeez Louise—oh, is that just because I'm riding on the back—or—when you ride a motorcycle, you get a stiff like this—a saddle sore?

01:04:38 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

01:04:38 John Daub: Yeah—is that what it is?

01:04:39 Peter von Gomm: It's normal—

01:04:40 John Daub: Wow—

01:04:41 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—just wait till we did some riding in Hokkaido—

01:04:44 John Daub: Is that why they wear those leather pants, the riders—

01:04:47 Peter von Gomm: That's to look sexy, John—

01:04:50 John Daub: So they got padding in there or something for the saddle?

01:04:52 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, well, they do, like—riding pants have, like—they got pads—some—some of them have pads in here and in your back of your butt—so that's—

01:05:00 John Daub: So you're in the saddle technologically—find a way to—to make the seat so you don't get that—why do they make the seat like this? You think they would have—

01:05:08 Peter von Gomm: Well, I'm not—I don't have any problem here—it's pretty comfortable, but as a passenger, you've got your legs kind of splayed out a bit, and it's not as ergonomically—well, maybe—maybe I'll have to get a special seat for a passenger—

01:05:26 John Daub: Like a baby seat?

01:05:30 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—so—

01:05:34 John Daub: Yeah—

01:05:34 Peter von Gomm: Well, thanks for—for coming along—that was a fun ride—

01:05:37 John Daub: It was pretty fun—here, can you open this—open this up in the back? Yeah—thanks for watching, everybody—I hope you enjoyed this—if—if you like it, click the like button because I don't know if you really want us to do this again—if we don't get to, like, a thousand likes, I'm not gonna say, hey, Peter, did nobody really—

01:05:54 Peter von Gomm: You know, there's still—there's still not a thousand—what's going on here?

01:05:55 John Daub: 497—

01:05:56 Peter von Gomm: Come on—I gave him the benefit of the doubt—

01:05:58 John Daub: It's true—yeah—five years ago—available—Only in Japan TV—

01:06:05 Peter von Gomm: Oh, yeah—

01:06:06 John Daub: I gave you a copy of this, didn't I?

01:06:09 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I think so—yeah, you did—you did—yeah, I've watched it probably a hundred times—

01:06:15 John Daub: You did not—did you listen to the bonus director's track?

01:06:19 Peter von Gomm: Who's the director?

01:06:21 John Daub: Well, it was me, but Kanae's in there too—this is all the people—people picked me up—

01:06:27 Peter von Gomm: That's neat—

01:06:28 John Daub: Yeah, that's me at the end—

01:06:31 Peter von Gomm: You had a nice trip? It's a long trip—

01:06:35 John Daub: It's all the signs—I did it 17 years before—the other way—

01:06:41 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I like that—that's cool—nice collage of all the—

01:06:44 John Daub: Yeah, they removed—they removed that—they added this—English here—the northernmost point in Japan—later—interesting—interesting—on the back here, it's nice—I put all the dates and where I went, so—

01:06:57 Peter von Gomm: Oh, you only went a few places in Hokkaido, so we got a lot more territory to cover—

01:07:01 John Daub: Yeah, I just went up to Hakodate, but I was here on the edge two weeks ago, I think—Nemoto, Nemuro and Shibetsu and Nakashibetsu and that's Kushiro right here—so I was exploring here and—in the center—

01:07:18 Peter von Gomm: Well, I went and I mentioned this to you—there's a—there is an onsen, a natural spring onsen that's like a river kind of running through this mountain—and you walk up in zori sandals, those—you know, like straw sandals—

01:07:35 John Daub: Yeah—

01:07:36 Peter von Gomm: You walk through the stream up to this public onsen, deep in this hiking trail—it's amazing—and it's way up there in that corner area—and I would like to go there with you—

01:07:47 John Daub: That would be pretty cool—so we're thinking about doing this as a—as a Kickstarter or crowdfunding project because we're taking time off of work and I want to compensate this guy for going out there—you'd be losing a lot of work by going out here during the summer period—but I think it's a fun way also to—maybe we'll do some postcards and think of any—if you have any other things that you'd like, maybe T-shirts with two dudes with teeth, bugs in their teeth, riding—we'll put some temples in the background or two motorbikes or something—we'll get—I'll have Dakota, who did the artwork for Kickstarter fireworks projects, do some artwork for this—they're pretty cool—and yeah, we could do something up there, but I want to see if we can give some of that money to charity—I think that'd be pretty good—good to do—see if we can find something for Tohoku because that would make the project more, well, worthwhile—yeah, I guess you want to say it's a five star hotel too, right?

01:08:39 Peter von Gomm: Well, they don't have to be five, but four and a half maybe—

01:08:43 John Daub: Basically, we can split it up—

01:08:45 Peter von Gomm: As you mentioned, we can do—we can do camp a little bit—

01:08:48 John Daub: Mud on the ground on the side of the road in a ditch—

01:08:51 Peter von Gomm: Perfect—

01:08:52 John Daub: That's how we do it—you know, motorbike—that's my—that's my feeling when you want to be on an Hokkaido under the stars—

01:08:58 Peter von Gomm: Okay—

01:08:58 John Daub: Well, maybe not in a ditch on the side of the road, like in a tent or something—

01:09:02 Peter von Gomm: Trust me, when you're in the saddle for several hours a day and the last thing you want to do is camp in the mud on the side of the road, I don't care where you spend—

01:09:12 John Daub: I guess you do—

01:09:13 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, you do—

01:09:14 John Daub: What about those riders houses that you've ridden?

01:09:16 Peter von Gomm: They're okay—they can be a bit crowded—not much privacy—

01:09:22 John Daub: But I heard they're bohemian—

01:09:24 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

01:09:25 John Daub: Meaning the men and the women all sleep together and one room—

01:09:29 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—and it doesn't smell great—

01:09:31 John Daub: What does that mean?—oh, stinks—no, they take baths—usually there's a sento nearby—

01:09:37 Peter von Gomm: Well, but not all the—I'm telling you, not all the riders take baths, John—

01:09:42 John Daub: Okay—

01:09:42 Peter von Gomm: You just said it's bohemian—

01:09:44 John Daub: Yeah, that's true—

01:09:45 Peter von Gomm: Bohemian means chicks with hairy armpits that don't shower—

01:09:48 John Daub: Oh, it doesn't—that means—that means where, you know, men and women—coed—

01:09:54 Peter von Gomm: No, cohabitate—

01:09:56 John Daub: Yeah—

01:09:58 Peter von Gomm: Anyhow, we got a lot of planning to do, so—yeah, let's discuss it over lunch—

01:10:01 John Daub: Yeah—leave some comments below if you want to, or get in touch, but probably this Kickstarter or the crowdfunding will start in the next month or so—maybe in a month—we'll have to come up with a blueprint for it, but—yeah, I guess—is it a—if it's not funded, we don't do it type of thing?

01:10:17 Peter von Gomm: Well, I can't take that much time off—off without at least covering my costs—you know what I mean?—because I'm going to America for three weeks right there after—

01:10:26 John Daub: Yeah—I'm planning to go to some of the islands as well, to film in the summer—when was the best time—at the end of August—early September—

01:10:34 Peter von Gomm: For Hokkaido—

01:10:35 John Daub: Yeah—

01:10:36 Peter von Gomm: No, I'm beginning—well, September is good, too, but I was—I thought we were talking about early or late July—early August—

01:10:45 John Daub: All right, late July—early August—there's no rainy season in Hokkaido, so we could even go earlier than that—potentially—

01:10:52 Peter von Gomm: Potentially end of August—early September is also an option—we could think about that—the weather is good both times, but it'll be a little bit cooler for the September bit—maybe—it'll still be pretty good—

01:11:07 John Daub: Yeah—Hokkaido is clement—a little bit cooler, but there's no humidity in the summer—and I'm sure the sunsets are gonna be really nice—longer days up there in the summer, too—you can let us know what you think if you've ever done it before—leave us a little comment with your story, but it's something I've always wanted to do, and once in order to do that, I need a license, so—

01:11:27 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—

01:11:27 John Daub: Is there, like a waiting list to get into the school? Sometimes—because there's so many people who want to do these, right?

01:11:32 Peter von Gomm: I don't think so—right now, the motorcycle sales are down in Japan, so I think there's a lot of people that are getting bikes—you'll have no problem getting in—

01:11:42 John Daub: Okay—yeah—all right—I'll get my license—

01:11:44 Peter von Gomm: You might have a problem passing—

01:11:46 John Daub: That's true—I'm gonna see if I can do it in Japanese—right—you did it in English—they have a—

01:11:49 Peter von Gomm: No, I did in Japanese—

01:11:50 John Daub: It did in Japanese—they have a school up in Nerima, which isn't in English—

01:11:54 Peter von Gomm: I heard that's a hall, though—

01:11:56 John Daub: Yeah, it is—I think you better learn the vernacular, the vocabulary—I was gonna—I was thinking about making flashcards and then know all the words for the exam—but they're tricky, right?—they try to trick you on these exams—yeah—

01:12:09 Peter von Gomm: The exam is—they—they pass you regardless—I mean, I just was like, eyes closed, like, chick, chick, chick—

01:12:18 John Daub: He's exaggerating—are you?

01:12:20 Peter von Gomm: Not so much—I didn't—I didn't know the—I couldn't read the kanji, so that—but I told the guy, I was like, man, I don't know what this says— he goes, don't worry about it—it's basically to—this is what he said—

01:12:31 John Daub: But I think the practical part of it is the most valuable—

01:12:35 Peter von Gomm: Yeah—you have—you actually ride the course, right—

01:12:38 John Daub: Because you want to be safe—you don't want to get into an accident—the laws are different here in Japan, and we learned it because we had driver's license before—I have a driver's license for the last five years, so I kind of know the road laws are different here than in the United States—so it's going to be the same with the motorcycles—all right, Peter, thank you for the ride—

01:12:55 Peter von Gomm: Thanks, guys—thanks for coming along—

01:12:56 John Daub: Murder, He Wrote, is the name of his—Homicide, Inc—Homicide, Inc—

01:13:01 Peter von Gomm: Homicide, Inc—

01:13:01 John Daub: Check it—

01:13:02 Peter von Gomm: Wherever you get your podcast, please check it out—

01:13:04 John Daub: Yeah, I'll put a link in the description, and then moderators get in the live chat, which is—this is a live stream, so you can watch the live chat as you watch along—I'll be back in another live stream probably tomorrow—until then, have a good night—

01:13:15 Peter von Gomm: Where are you gonna go?—Naka King Capsule Hotel extraordinaire—again?

01:13:18 John Daub: Yeah—why—what's wrong with it now?—I'm not gonna go there again—new idea