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00:00 John Daub: We are here to cool down, stay cool. It is a very hot day. Nothing like what's going on in the U.S. and Europe right now where the temperatures are record-breaking. 104 degrees in some places, Fahrenheit, 40 degrees Celsius perhaps. This is Narita-san, which is a temple here. We're going to go, or is this a shrine, this one? We're going to walk down this street and I'll take you to a cafe where we're going to get some iced coffee and then some gelato because they have some nice stuff in this area.

00:29 John Daub: That's Narita-san Fudodo, I believe it is. I think that's a Shinto shrine because when you see a torii, that's a shrine. Torii gate.

00:39 John Daub: How you doing, everybody? It is a hot one. Joining me on the stream today is a man who is lost. He's a tourist with a backpack and a straw hat.

00:53 Peter von Gomm: And it sticks out like a sore thumb in a place like this. It's taller than most people. He likes to think slightly cooler.

01:00 John Daub: And he'll be joining me for coffee because I owe him. I owe him a coffee, a gelato, and lunch.

01:10 John Daub: And this is the best way to cool down. We had a heat wave about 3–4 weeks ago in Tokyo. It was awful.

01:18 John Daub: 45 degrees Celsius, which is hotter than what you get in the U.S. The temperature...

01:23 Peter von Gomm: How you doing? Good. Hey, how are you? I'm doing good. That's nice. So the temperature during that heat wave, you were here for that.

01:33 John Daub: Was that hotter? That was like 45 degrees Celsius, right?

01:36 Peter von Gomm: Which year?

01:37 John Daub: Oh, when you were in America?

01:38 Peter von Gomm: Yeah.

01:38 John Daub: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

01:39 John Daub: What was the highest temperature?

01:42 Peter von Gomm: Uh, it was, yeah, low to mid, ah, maybe low 40s.

01:47 John Daub: So hotter than the US right now?

01:49 Peter von Gomm: Yeah.

01:50 John Daub: That's crazy, right? That's crazy.

01:53 John Daub: Um...

01:53 Peter von Gomm: It was very hot.

01:55 John Daub: It was very hot.

01:56 John Daub: Peter helped me out yesterday with a job, and his reward is iced coffee, gelato, lunch, and I'm probably still not done.

02:05 John Daub: Whatever else you guys think I should ask for.

02:06 John Daub: Whatever else you think I should...

02:07 Peter von Gomm: Not ask for, demand.

02:08 John Daub: Do not demand anything.

02:10 John Daub: This is a great place to come because one, there's not a lot of tourists, and it's mostly local, and number two, there's loads of omiyage and very traditional local types of shops here.

02:21 John Daub: Mmm. That's a cool street.

02:24 John Daub: Very chillaxing.

02:26 John Daub: Tukai writes in here, 110 degrees Fahrenheit.

02:28 Peter von Gomm: I'm in Texas, which is...

02:29 John Daub: Wow.

02:30 Peter von Gomm: That's pretty hot.

02:31 John Daub: That's smoking hot.

02:32 John Daub: You could fry an egg on that.

02:33 Peter von Gomm: That's barbecue.

02:33 John Daub: You don't even need to start the...

02:35 Peter von Gomm: I know.

02:37 John Daub: Oh, thank goodness it's open. So many shops are closed.

02:39 John Daub: This is really cool. Check this out. That's the one I'm talking about.

02:42 Peter von Gomm: Okay. Well, finally we arrived.

02:43 John Daub: It's been about 30 minutes walking here.

02:45 Peter von Gomm: Oh, stop your complaining.

02:46 John Daub: You're getting free coffee.

02:48 John Daub: So, what I like about this is how these are all residential areas, and then they convert their first floor into a shop, restaurant, or some sort of cafe.

02:58 Peter von Gomm: This is a cafe?

02:58 John Daub: Yeah. So, yeah, go in and get a couple of cold ones. Whatever you think is best with the cash that's been given.

03:05 John Daub: I don't expect change, but... cold caffeine ones.

03:07 Peter von Gomm: Yeah. I don't expect any change back, but it would be nice.

03:10 John Daub: But I don't expect...

03:12 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, don't plan on it.

03:14 John Daub: Don't plan on it.

03:15 John Daub: Oh, I think... hat in hand.

03:21 Peter von Gomm: That's what he said.

03:26 John Daub: Oh, wow. Look, they got a little teeny table in the corner here. So we can stake this out.

03:32 John Daub: And Peter's inside there. He's ordering the coffee. I like this. This is a local coffee shop.

03:38 John Daub: Something we always do is try to do the... support the local businesses here.

03:46 John Daub: While he's getting the coffee, I'm going to just take you over here and get a quick look at the Narita Fudodo Shrine. And during the New Year's holiday, when people come for the first year's... the New Year's prayer, there's a line, quite a line to get out the door here for people to do that. The last couple of years hasn't been as crazy, but it can get pretty crazy here.

04:14 John Daub: This street here to the right is full of festival foods. I came here for New Year's last year. I'm sorry, this year I was here for New Year's to welcome in 2022. And it was full of street food. And hopefully we'll have that again next New Year's because that's just so awesome.

04:31 John Daub: Another way to stay cool here is to eat suica or watermelon. This one's here. That's 20... no, 2,000 yen. I guess with the exchange rate, maybe $16. That's from Kumamoto Prefecture down in the south. And these here, you can get one sixth cut of this for 350 yen. It's a pretty good deal. We might have to do that because that's a way to stay cool.

05:00 John Daub: And of course, we all know Japan is loaded with vending machines. This is how we stay cool if we need to. They're refrigerated and they come out super cold. So you get all sorts of drinks. They start turning the heat on in the vending machines around, I don't know, October. You start to see you can get hot coffee.

05:24 John Daub: Do you want to sit in the sun or the shade, sir?

05:28 Peter von Gomm: I'll sit in the shade here.

05:30 John Daub: Oh, really? I didn't expect it.

05:50 John Daub: Because they wind the tape about. That's the kind of person you are. You're caught.

05:56 John Daub: So how are you doing? You surviving the heat wave here?

05:59 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, surviving it very nicely with the heat.

06:02 John Daub: I'm doing my cravat.

06:04 John Daub: Mrs. Daub cravat. What do you mean for this?

06:08 Peter von Gomm: It's a cool towel.

06:10 John Daub: My mom, not Kanae Mrs. Daub, but my mom, Mrs. Daub. The original Mrs. Daub. That's for Peter.

06:19 John Daub: So you didn't get an ice coffee?

06:30 Peter von Gomm: I like hot drinks.

06:32 John Daub: How do you stay cool?

06:35 Peter von Gomm: I do Mrs. Daub cravat.

06:39 John Daub: So Mons Café here in Mons & Nakashow is quite famous locally. And it's a great place to cool down with a nice coffee or a hot coffee.

06:49 John Daub: Really? If you have a... do you call it a cravat or like an ascot?

06:52 Peter von Gomm: I don't know. Ask the chat.

06:54 John Daub: Does anyone know what they're called? I need to retie it though, actually. You can put it on your head and use it like a toothache if you have a toothache. Just saying.

07:09 John Daub: You're part of the team here.

07:13 John Daub: My mom is like, make sure Peter doesn't forget that he's American.

07:25 John Daub: Go buy a cold beer. Just kidding. Ice coffee is best drink in hot weather.

07:29 Peter von Gomm: Thank you, but you don't have to kid.

07:32 John Daub: Because that's something we could possibly do. If we see something on the street.

07:38 Peter von Gomm: You're on the scooter today.

07:39 John Daub: That's something I could possibly do. I'll tell you what. We're going to do that when we get to Hokkaido. That's for sure.

07:43 John Daub: At the end of the day. Yeah. A lot of them.

07:50 John Daub: Speaking of.

07:51 John Daub: We're one week away. Today's the 21st, I believe. Oh, I'm early. Oh my gosh. The 28th in the morning.

07:58 John Daub: The flights. I went on ANA to look at the flights for the domestic flights to Hokkaido. They're all booked. Because we wanted to change it to a later flight coming back. We couldn't do it. They're all waitlisted. So I'm glad we booked in advance, first of all. And it looks like despite the seventh wave that they have here, people are going to be traveling anyways.

08:18 John Daub: We have to be really careful before the trip. That's why we're doing lunch and coffee before noon. But I don't think there's a lot of people out and about in this neighborhood anyways. Not in this heat either.

08:30 John Daub: Not in this heat. What do you usually do to stay cool?

08:32 Peter von Gomm: Besides, you know, having one of these towels.

08:36 John Daub: I stay indoors.

08:39 Peter von Gomm: And when I'm on my bike, I ride my scooter a lot going between studios. So I got this from Uniqlo. For those of you who don't know, Uniqlo, it's a chain. It's a massive chain.

08:51 John Daub: Is that how it's pronounced? Uniqlo?

08:52 Peter von Gomm: Uniqlo. Unique clothing. It originated in Fukuyama.

08:55 John Daub: Isn't it Uniqlo? Uniqlo?

08:59 Peter von Gomm: I don't know. Call it what you want. But it's a chain of affordable clothing. And occasionally, they have some pretty cool stuff.

09:08 John Daub: Fast fashion.

09:09 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, fast fashion. So I got this UV block hoodie.

09:15 John Daub: And I like to wear this when I ride my scooter or motorcycle. When it's hot out. Because otherwise, just your arms and things get fried. You can wear a t-shirt under it. That's one way I stay cool on the bike.

09:27 John Daub: It's not hard to stay cool on a bike.

09:30 Peter von Gomm: Well, it is though.

09:32 John Daub: You're going to find out if it's hot in Hokkaido. Seriously.

09:35 Peter von Gomm: Is it? Is it?

09:36 John Daub: Well, yeah. If you get caught in traffic, your helmet's black. It's going to bake your brain.

09:41 Peter von Gomm: Oh, I do have a black helmet.

09:43 John Daub: Oh, gosh. Yeah, I do. So, yeah. We're a week out from the trip. You got the helmet ready to take the train back. That's a good thing.

09:52 Peter von Gomm: He'd have to leave his bike at my house so that he doesn't have a permit to park there.

09:56 John Daub: I don't even have a permit to park there. We have a lot of planning still to do.

10:02 John Daub: So the reason I came over here today is to a BMW Pure or what do you say? Something about BMWs.

10:13 John Daub: A BMW 90 Pure or Kawasaki Z900. I'd have to go with any.

10:23 Peter von Gomm: I'd like to try that Kawasaki 900. That sounds fun. Anything with a Z in it.

10:28 John Daub: Yeah. The classic Kawasaki. Also the Z900.

10:32 John Daub: Question for the viewers. What is the coolest letter in the alphabet? And you can't use the one that's in your name like J for John or P for Peter. It's got to be like X or Z, right?

10:49 John Daub: What about Elon Musk's kid? What's his name?

10:50 Peter von Gomm: It's like X.

10:52 John Daub: That's it? Just X?

10:53 Peter von Gomm: Z700 or something like that.

10:55 John Daub: Z700. Is his name just kid and model number?

10:57 Peter von Gomm: The name of an airplane, I think. A fighter jet.

11:00 John Daub: You can do that when you're the richest man on earth.

11:06 John Daub: So I came over here to meet John to help him set up his helmet. So we have to wire in the communication device.

11:13 Peter von Gomm: All right. We're going to try that out today. Hook up your GoPro mount and get that all integrated.

11:19 John Daub: Test it. So we're all ready to go one week from today.

11:23 John Daub: Oh, hey, new backer, Ludwig. Thank you. Ludwig just backed the 9,000 yen. Excellent. Thanks so much. Everyone's writing in the letters here. Rose writes in Z. Ryan writes in I. Jacqueline X. That's cool. Brian writes in here S, E, X, Y. Not an accident.

11:46 Peter von Gomm: In that order? Yeah. V, C, X.

11:50 John Daub: Ridwan Z. Jacob writes K for Kai. Kobra Kai. That's a good one. Scott writes in Q. That's interesting. Q?

11:58 Peter von Gomm: From James Bond.

11:59 John Daub: Yeah. Quartermaster. Mia writes in Y. Victor Z. Jacob writes in J. K. Cool letters in here. P wasn't one of them. Or Peter. Sorry. Do you have a favorite Japanese katakana?

12:18 Peter von Gomm: That's hard. Favorite katakana. I like the yo. Yeah, yo is kinda... The yo is like a backwards E. I like the one I just saw. I just took a picture of it.

12:32 John Daub: You don't use the katakana yo very often, right? Who can tell us what this is? You better understand it.

12:48 John Daub: Your hand's shaking like Putin. Come on, balancing. Does Putin shake?

12:58 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, he does. I'll hold it back here so I can...

13:04 John Daub: Everybody got it. It's pa. P-A. Not po. It's a... Pa. Pa. Or the start is paa-ns. Pa. Pa-ns. Why did that come up? I don't know. Because I was searching for pants.

13:24 John Daub: On the street here. No, riding pants. We have to get rainwear.

13:31 John Daub: Tell them about the rainwear. We have to, because this Hokkaido motorcycle trip's coming pretty fast. And thanks for backing it. I've seen you get a couple notifications. If you do back it now, I will call it out. During the livestream. And don't cancel your pledge and re-pledge for that. Some people do that. And by the way, add-ons are available. You can add more tenugui and echo bags as well if you weren't able to before.

13:55 John Daub: You got that sorted out? With postcard backers too?

13:59 Peter von Gomm: Yeah. The postcard backers. Can't add-on. Postcard backers can't add-on.

14:03 John Daub: Okay, I have an idea, but we'll talk about that afterwards. Okay. So we have to get a bunch of new gear. And we got saddle bags or something. What do you call them?

14:15 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, dry bags. Dry bags for the back. And a cargo net. Mine doesn't come in yet. And then we had to get rain gear. And the rain gear that we got ordered from Amazon, it said that between 175 and 185 centimeters, this is the one for you. But when it came, it was like made for a sumo wrestler at 190 centimeters. And we had to return it.

14:39 John Daub: My returning to Amazon was very painless. Yours was painful.

14:43 Peter von Gomm: I haven't put it in yet. You haven't put it in yet? Well, I usually take it to the convenience store. And I end up paying. It's supposed to get reimbursed, right? Did you use the Chakubara? No. Like a cash on delivery slip?

14:55 John Daub: Let me tell you the system, how you return things in Japan via Amazon. It's so simple, alright? Everywhere in every neighborhood, there is a Kuroneko. There's a delivery service. They now wheel it in the big cities. They have carts so they don't use gasoline or something. Bicycle with a little trailer behind it.

15:11 Peter von Gomm: Yeah. There's one down the street from me.

15:15 John Daub: So Amazon gives, when I decide I'm going to return something, Amazon gives me a QR code. That's it. And I get a QR code. I take it, that item, to the Kuroneko, to the office. I scan the QR code next to this printer. It prints out the receipt. I hand it to the woman and I leave. Because when I try to... I don't pay for anything. When I return something, it says print out shipping label or whatever.

15:39 Peter von Gomm: Is there another option? You chose, you didn't choose wisely.

15:44 John Daub: You choose... I've been doing this for a long time. Always print out the label. You can also have them come pick it up at your house without any additional cost. And you don't have to even leave the house. Because if you're sick, you don't want to have to return it. So they'll come and pick it up for you.

16:02 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, that saves a lot of trouble. I'll do that.

16:05 John Daub: Everything is QR code. They scan it, print it out. She said thank you. I didn't pay for anything. And done. And then we ordered a size smaller. Because although we're not sumo wrestlers, we are bigger than normal people. Shoulder width. Shoulder length. And arm length. Long arms.

16:26 John Daub: I can't get any clothes with shoulders big enough. So if you're a westerner and you're looking for clothing, you gotta order from abroad. Or you gotta get extra large.

16:40 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, well like at Uniqlo. They have they would fit you. T-shirts would fit you. XL.

16:48 John Daub: I take a medium in the US. XL is for thicker people. So there's a lot more give than a got that I don't want. Maybe now. But now you need it.

16:57 John Daub: Hey, so I'd rather have a medium which is not as tight. Which is a little bit tighter. Less material. I don't know. It's a compromise I guess. So you can show your six pack through the shirt.

17:10 Peter von Gomm: I'm not sure if I'm sitting in a two pack. Folds over.

17:18 John Daub: Scott Tan. John, get yourself a drink. Thank you Scott. Boom. When you say John, get yourself a personal trainer. In not so many words.

17:31 John Daub: Hey Jennifer Frenz is here. How you doing? Thank you Lisa for pointing that out. Jennifer's here. You get a little bit happier.

17:42 John Daub: Yeah, the heat is expected to continue here in Tokyo because we're now getting into August. And I really hope it doesn't rain next week during the trip. I'd like to have this weather.

17:53 Peter von Gomm: Well it rarely gets humid in Hokkaido. That's the reason why people travel to Hokkaido.

18:00 John Daub: As I mentioned, one of my for motorcycle riders in America, everybody likes to go to Sturges for the motorcycle rally.

18:15 John Daub: But in Japan, people go to Hokkaido in the summertime. And they go there year after year after year. When their vacation time comes, they jump on a ferry, most of them, and they take their own bike to Hokkaido. And I've done that two times. Where I'm not on a ferry. It's an overnight ferry, which is a lot of fun.

18:39 John Daub: Where's the closest ferry to Hokkaido? Is it Niigata or Ibaraki? Well I've done both. I've done one from Niigata. Niigata, Hokkaido. And the other one I did from Tokyo to um, um, Komokumae. Komokumae, yeah.

18:56 John Daub: Hey Shane's here. Hey Shane. That's an enjoyable way to go there. It just takes more time. So we're flying this time.

19:04 John Daub: Yeah, we're flying. And the flight, they moved, ANA moved our seats around. So now we both have aisle seats. So we don't have to sit next to one another.

19:16 Peter von Gomm: Testing our... That'll be the only time we're not sitting next to one another.

19:19 John Daub: So we get testing our mirrors before it starts. After this livestream, we're gonna go get some gelato now. Hey Michael has pledged 3,000 yen. Thank you Michael. That's the documentary I believe he got.

19:33 John Daub: The postcards, by the way, do you have a picture of Dakota's heart? Yeah, do you want to show it now?

19:37 Peter von Gomm: Yeah. It's not finished. Michael, you might want to upgrade to the postcard if you can, just because the design is coming in and it's looking pretty awesome. We're still working out the colors, but I bet you it's gonna be done in a couple of days.

19:50 John Daub: So, uh, well not just colors, there's more stuff to be added to it. There's more Easter eggs. Can we show the incarnation, like starting with this one? No, no, just go right to the end. Go right to the money shot. Oh man. Oh, you don't have to zoom in. I can zoom in. Alright, you can see he put in the Furano lavender. We kept it one color because it would have been a little bit insane. There are the bikes. We're still working on the colors in that. Um, the Oni is from Noboribetsu. We're gonna be riding right through that.

20:23 John Daub: Actually, we just got another message from Dakota. The cows, of course, are gonna be eating a lot of dairy, which could present other problems. Let's just keep that to ourselves. Yeah. Um, trees, we might put some bears in there. I noticed the crow over your shoulder. Is it?

20:39 Peter von Gomm: I guess he's working on that. I didn't notice that until yesterday when UFO Bob pointed that out.

20:41 John Daub: Okay. And then that's, what's the volcano? Yotei. Yotei-san, which is in Niseko, right? That's right. It's kind of the Mount Fuji doppelganger.

20:53 John Daub: Yeah. Now we couldn't, we didn't have space for the melon patches or it would have looked a little bit fake, so we made melon helmets. I have a Yubari melon hat, helmet, and Peter has a Suikap. I guess that's a dense case. Watermelon. Suikap. Maybe it's a watermelon from Asahikawa or something. One of the square ones. No, if it was square, it would be a square.

21:11 John Daub: Uh, so that's gonna be the postcard, but it's not even done. So we're putting in a bunch of Easter eggs in there as well. That's gonna make it fun. Toby is outlined right there. Um, Zichtonite. You can see.

21:27 John Daub: I think you just sent another update right now. We've been hiring Dakota to do art for the Kickstarters for a few years now and it's just always, like, amazing. Um, in fact, I'll see if I can get his Instagram. You can check out his artwork. It's so cool. It does have, like, this ukiyo-e, um, style to it, but we can make it —

21:48 John Daub: Uh, did he fix it up a little bit? Well, I don't know what's changed. The colors, I think? No. Oh, my jacket. Oh, you changed your jacket to the one. And yours too. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So this is the jacket I'll be, I'll be wearing. Oh, cool. The jacket I'll be wearing is red and white, the Japanese colors of the flag.

22:09 Peter von Gomm: Oh, that's pretty cool. And yours is black, I believe, but we're gonna add some gray on there. Black, it just wouldn't show up.

22:14 John Daub: Yeah, so. It wouldn't look as good. I had told him, do what's best for style. Stop shaking like Putin. Come on. On Roboto-chan, you both could use a nice, cold kakigori on a hot day like this.

22:29 John Daub: Uh, Roboto-chan, can we get gelato with that? Because that's where we're going next. Arigato so much. That's alright, okay, yeah. Anyhow. That's gonna be the postcard.

22:39 John Daub: Chorin-chan is in the trunk. You may, you have my permission to have my face peeking out of the saddlebag in lieu of me being in the trunk.

22:52 John Daub: Alright. We're gonna have some fun with this trip. I actually, we used the Insta360 camera the other day, uh, yesterday. I was looking at the pictures that I took. I can't show them publicly, but they're pretty freaking awesome. I got the 360 camera over the side of the top deck, 450 plus meters above there, pointing down at the window cleaning. And you can see the entire city of Tokyo, and the tower, and I'm in the back. It's an amazing, that might be the postcard for next month. Um, really, I can't wait to edit this and upload this episode, although there's a queue of like eight other episodes here. You wanna get the gelato now?

23:28 Peter von Gomm: Yeah.

23:28 John Daub: Alright. I'm gonna cool down with some Japanese gelato, which is actually Italian, but when you're in Japan, it becomes Japanese.

23:36 John Daub: This is my mask on. For the gelato? Yeah.

23:52 John Daub: Use that for the gelato and, uh, actually, we're gonna need a little bit more, because I'm gonna get you a triple.

24:01 Peter von Gomm: And lunch. Oh, right, okay. And whatever else they want you to buy me.

24:06 John Daub: And what do you want me to buy him? Yeah. Be generous. Sex change? Just kidding.

24:14 Peter von Gomm: You look good with long hair.

24:25 John Daub: I used to. You used to have long hair like a hippie? Ish. It was kind of a mullet back in the 80s.

24:29 Peter von Gomm: A mullet? Oh man, I gotta see those shots. I had a, everybody had a mullet in the 80s. Right?

24:35 John Daub: By Peter a Pony. What?

24:47 Peter von Gomm: Where's he, where would he park it? He's, he has problems parking his motorcycle now at home. There's no way he could park it.

24:51 John Daub: Thank you, big shout out to Mons Cafe, M-O-N-Z in Mons and Nakacho. It's the place to be, and it seems to be somebody, uh, a local business, cause their house is above. I like that. Mons and Mons. I'm not sure. Monsu, maybe. I'll put a link in the description of the video here.

25:11 John Daub: Scott Tan, I've been watching YouTube creator Itchy Boots, a woman from the Netherlands traveling through Latin America. I think my dad has as well, he told me about this. Uh, was she on a motorcycle, right?

25:23 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I've seen. I've seen the advertise. Her equipment setup is very sweet.

25:27 John Daub: I'm gonna check that out. Thank you, Scott. I'm gonna check that out and see what we can do to upgrade the equipment a little bit, maybe.

25:31 John Daub: Um, I'll go this way. Actually, yeah, let's go this way. I can show you. We gotta cross that stru- that highway at the end there to get to the gelato place.

25:44 John Daub: Thank goodness the elections are over. That's one of the election posters. Oh my gosh, that was, uh, I came here, I came back from the U.S. right as those elections were finishing up, thank goodness. It's so loud and crazy and.

25:58 John Daub: My favorite, do you have a favorite politician poster?

26:04 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I do. The guy with the hair you introduced me to.

26:07 John Daub: Yeah. He has the best hair in, in, I've done, shown him a couple times in the live streams at the motorcycle school.

26:15 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, yeah, that guy. That guy has the best hair ever. It's like a helmet. Does he need a helmet?

26:19 John Daub: If you were to hairspray that hair, does that replace a helmet? Cause it is hard and soft inside, right?

26:29 Peter von Gomm: Um, probably it would be okay.

26:32 John Daub: How about, uh, mousse? Does anybody use mousse anymore?

26:36 Peter von Gomm: I use hair wax. I hated it cause it was all, it was all, when it hardened it was like so brittle, your hair would break off. I like to get it hard, but you, I would play with it so when I was in sixth grade I would do this mousse thing and then I would just in class, I would pop the crispiness.

27:00 John Daub: So you'd have hair mousse fragments all over the desk and floor. But I wasn't the only one, it was a big thing in the 80's. Mousse. It was like, like whipped cream for your hair. It was awesome. A little dab will do you.

27:17 John Daub: Lips. Yeah, hair gel is just kinda messy and gooey.

27:19 Peter von Gomm: Um, hair wax. I did that maybe twice and it felt all waxy. You know what I use now? Sweat.

27:26 John Daub: Grime. Oil. Just gotta license.

27:32 John Daub: Actually, I gotta go to the agency to get the license.

27:35 Peter von Gomm: You haven't gotten it yet?

27:38 John Daub: No, when am I gonna get it? Hey, you know what, I don't get there early for the shinkansen. Look at this guy. So.

27:48 John Daub: Is that noodles coming out of his nose? What's going on there? That's pretty cool. Is that what you want for lunch? It's a lot cheaper than the option we were talking about before. As long as they're not coming from his nose. I think that makes it better.

28:01 Peter von Gomm: Well they have a branch in the US. Oh really?

28:05 John Daub: Yeah.

28:09 Peter von Gomm: Well, that ruins it for me. Oh, in Oregon.

28:12 John Daub: I got a branch in Oregon. That's Portland.

28:17 Peter von Gomm: Oh dude, that's. Yeah. Really?

28:24 John Daub: What time do they open? Phillip has pledged 3,000 yen. Thank you, Phillip. Thanks, Phillip. I think we just passed 2.6 million yen. We're getting close to 3 million and we're gonna announce a stretch goal pretty soon.

28:31 Peter von Gomm: We're not announcing that stretch goal until we get to Hokkaido.

28:35 John Daub: Well yeah, but that's still pretty soon. Cause the trip's starting in less than a week. A week. One week. So at this time in a week we're gonna be on a plane. We'll be starting in a week.

28:47 John Daub: Streaming, probably. At this time. Well actually we'll just be getting our bikes and we'll be, uh, maybe we'll be streaming from the bike shop.

28:54 Peter von Gomm: Oh wow, okay. One week exactly from now.

28:59 John Daub: We arrive in Chitose. We arrive in Chitose at 11 I think? 9.30. No, 9.30. We go directly to the, um, motorcycle shop and talk with them.

29:11 John Daub: This is my favorite alley in Japan. Um, yeah this is a reason to come to Monza and Nakachi. I'll just show it to you for a second. It's these old Showa era buildings post World War II. Shacks. I love the plants that they put outside. There's a tree here in the corner. Very photogenic. It's an awesome Instagram shot for your Instagram account.

29:35 John Daub: This is one of the few public restrooms like this that's still open to everyone.

29:42 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I've never gone in any of those places though.

29:46 John Daub: Yeah, they probably all have a seating charge. It's like 500 yen or something.

29:51 Peter von Gomm: Well yeah, yeah. But for you, maybe 2,000.

29:56 John Daub: I don't know. But they, uh. That bird is lost. He was in the middle of the street before.

30:03 Peter von Gomm: Well makes me think it's the same one.

30:08 John Daub: Yeah, right. He has no friends. He's walking aimlessly. Whoa, he almost hit her. He almost hit her head on this. Look at this.

30:16 John Daub: That is kind of dangerous. You missed it by like this much. That's how I ride red motorcycles too.

30:24 John Daub: Yeah. He's just walking aimlessly. Hey! Where are your friends? Woo! It's like that Mr. Bean and the Man vs Bee. If he just learned to be friends with the bee instead of trying to kill it. The bee was exactly like him.

30:50 John Daub: Look at that McDonald's. Man, look at this line out the door. Holy smokes. People love themselves some Mickey D's. And they're all thin, you know. It's not, not an issue.

31:05 John Daub: It's, it's, well it is the only McDonald's in the neighborhood.

31:10 Peter von Gomm: Why are we going this way?

31:15 John Daub: Because the gelato place is across the street there. We're going back to the bikes. We came here on bicycles.

31:22 Peter von Gomm: Don't you go on? Yeah. Down this way? No.

31:27 John Daub: That, you want to go to, uh, uh, Shiro, uh, um. Spit it out. Come on John. Spit it out. It's that long one.

31:35 John Daub: Uh, Shirakawa, uh, ah! On the hands of my Morishita. Monzen Nakacho.

31:40 Peter von Gomm: Morishita. Oh, it's on this map here.

31:43 John Daub: Ah! Kiyosumi Shirakawa. Kiyosumi Shirakawa. You want to go there?

31:48 Peter von Gomm: Well then, let's go this way.

31:58 John Daub: Alright. I think I got a little bit turned around here. Kiyosumi Shirakawa. We walked this way before. Down the shopping street. Eitai Dori. By the way, prepare for getting lost a bit.

32:06 John Daub: Oh, it's a red light! Green light! We're trapped.

32:28 John Daub: Wakari masu ta. Tsumimasen. Giri giri de ikanai ne. I'm glad he was there. Saved our lives.

32:39 John Daub: Yeah. So don't run when the light starts flashing green. I thought that meant run. Oh! Peter, check this out. So this Mr. Donuts is the one I always go to. They have a collaboration with Ringo. And I know some of you are, are.

32:54 Peter von Gomm: With Ringo?

32:54 John Daub: That's one of these really famous apple pie bakeries. So they collaborated with them and they bake the apple pie donuts.

33:02 John Daub: What? Delicioso. Oh my god. Tomoko Tomoko. Another YouTuber who's obsessed with apple pies. Oh, they got custard on there!

33:21 John Daub: Alright, I'll be back. What's that cream stuff? It's got... It's custard. Oh my gosh. Those Ringo's are so good. They got one at Ikebukuro. There's one near Hibiya. Underneath the new Midtown. Hibiya Midtown building. In the basement.

33:41 John Daub: Ah! WRX Turbo is in the... Speaking of turbo, are these motorcycles turbos? What did we get again?

33:55 Peter von Gomm: You got a Kawasaki Ninja or something?

34:01 John Daub: Here's a Nissan. No, that's not even a motorcycle. They don't make... I thought it was until like a weekend. Alright, maybe that's true. Uh, I'm getting the Yamaha Tracer 900. A Tracer 900 and I got the Honda 400X. Which are cross bikes. So we could go off road, but we choose not to. We will go... We could go off road.

34:23 John Daub: Alright, here we go. The Gelataria. Oh yeah. You can order at the window. Another local business. I love it.

34:36 John Daub: Stachio. I think you gotta go Japanese flavors. This Kinako and Brown. Brown sugar honey. Yeah. Oh my gosh. Is it brown sugar honey or brown sugar honey? Mango sorbet.

34:48 Peter von Gomm: Oh, I just got that.

34:52 John Daub: Mie Prefecture Japanese black tea. Interesting. Wow, this is all Gelato. Orange passion fruit sorbet. Shikuwasa. I wonder if they do samples. Oh my gosh. What's Shikuwasa? I don't know, but...

35:08 John Daub: Oh, edamame and tofu.

35:13 Peter von Gomm: Shikuwasa is a sweet and sour flavor. It's a bit sour and has a bit of bitterness.

35:17 John Daub: Alright, let's get two triples. A little sour and bitter. Well, I'm not gonna share with you because there are dudes that don't share.

35:29 John Daub: Edamame and tofu sorbet. Thank you. I think that should cover it. Remember, you gave me a thousand yen already.

35:35 Peter von Gomm: Okay. Yeah. That should cover two triples.

35:39 John Daub: You get three in one. Jeez Louise, man. Well, you don't have to eat it all. You don't have to try it all. Which ones? What are the three that entice you?

35:48 Peter von Gomm: I like... What do you guys think watching? Kinako brown sugar honey.

35:52 John Daub: Alright, so that's plus 100, so... Oh, you're gonna need more cash.

35:55 Peter von Gomm: Here's a fiver.

35:57 John Daub: Alright. It's one of the new 500 yen. I'm gonna try that. I don't want to try that. Mie Prefecture Japanese black tea.

36:07 Peter von Gomm: Tartary buckwheat noodles. Buckwheat noodles are what's used for soba.

36:14 John Daub: That's an interesting flavor. Salty milk. Let's get stuff that you normally wouldn't get at... I'm gonna get the kinako, because I know it's good. This one, and then the hojicha looks really good, and then the edamame tofu sorbet.

36:30 Peter von Gomm: Alright. Triple. So you order yours.

36:34 John Daub: Triple, and then kinako, Mie Prefecture... and then... This one's sold out.

37:05 Peter von Gomm: Oh yeah, that one's gone.

37:08 John Daub: Milk and chocolate chips? I want Japanese type.

37:12 Peter von Gomm: Hojicha. Oh, so he's getting a hojicha too.

37:18 John Daub: Oh, mango.

37:26 John Daub: You're getting a business receipt with my money? You thief. That's not fair. Well, alright, whatever.

37:40 Peter von Gomm: It's okay.

37:42 John Daub: Cute little pig cookies. Oh, by the way, they have... you can grate up to a cone. I'm gonna go with a cone. Cone topping. Can I get cone topping?

37:50 Peter von Gomm: Oh, give me a sec. Cone topping. Uh, sake no oda.

38:02 John Daub: Yeah, put that on your receipt, big boy. You need coins?

38:09 Peter von Gomm: I just need less sweaty hands.

38:13 John Daub: I can't believe you put it in a business receipt. Doing biz. What's wrong with that?

38:29 John Daub: I saw on the map that they had a local...

38:31 John Daub: One way to stay cool is to eat ice cream. Gelato is like a fancy Italian kind of ice cream. It's quite good. This store makes it fresh every morning, which is pretty amazing. And I think they sell... they have the shop open until it sells out. I'm not sure. But they make enough based on data or whatever. They don't waste anything. I like that. So, I'm pretty excited about this.

39:00 John Daub: The Japanese ice cream places, the local ones, always have Japanese flavors like kinako, which is a roasted soybean powder. But that flavor has such a nice... It tastes like this. That's the face you'd make with kinako.

39:18 John Daub: And with the black kudomitsu, just the black honey, maybe like this. So facial expression is another way to show what it tastes like. Do you have a pizza face? Pizza face is...

39:28 Peter von Gomm: That'd be pizza face.

39:37 John Daub: Ice cream face... I showed you that. Donut face. Why don't dudes share?

39:44 Peter von Gomm: That sounds very...

39:49 John Daub: You know, Gregory, okay, we would share because we're hungry, alright? We decide what we want. It has nothing to do with that. We decide what we want. If you want to try it, buy it. Don't get offended.

40:06 John Daub: Alright? Making small talk. Come on, Peter.

40:17 John Daub: Let the lady work. Right, Nico? It's a primal thing. Come on. Looking into stuff. Everyone wants to get offensive.

40:27 John Daub: Getting outraged. You know what? Getting outraged, if that makes you watch longer, go ahead. Get outraged.

40:39 John Daub: They make some of the gelato on the 10th floor of this building.

40:43 Peter von Gomm: Oh, they make it?

40:46 John Daub: Yeah. On the 10th floor. So they bring it back down.

40:55 John Daub: So they make it up on the 10th floor of this building. All of a sudden, I have a desire to live in this building.

41:04 Peter von Gomm: I think it would smell like gelato.

41:16 John Daub: Julie reported to the taste police. Whatever.

41:23 John Daub: They've got a refrigerator inside here. They sell... Yeah, they sell cups of gelato. I bought them before. It's quite good.

41:28 John Daub: This is my backyard. Or side yard, I guess. I don't know. Backyard is Ginza. Side yard is Monzen Nakacho.

41:42 Peter von Gomm: You've got lots of yards. How many centimeters in a yard? Do you know that? Metric versus the...

41:50 John Daub: There's 100 centimeters in a meter, right?

41:54 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, but a meter is smaller or larger than a yard?

41:58 John Daub: A meter is a little longer than a yard. Not exactly true. Metric systems are so much easier.

42:03 John Daub: I don't know. It is, but we're... After you've been here for a couple years, you're into the metric. It just can't be helped. It's way more divisible, isn't it?

42:15 Peter von Gomm: Well, if we never moved out of the U.S., that system is fine, too. Did you watch that YouTube video I gave you with Virgil?

42:23 John Daub: Not yet. I found this video from 1956 of Virgil Earp, which is Wyatt Earp's nephew or something. He was part of the Wild West. He was on that game show, $64,000 question. He was like 90 years old. He was talking about how much did Wyatt Earp make in a month and was it safer and more dangerous in the Wild West than it was in 1956? And he said it was safer. Because everybody... He said it was in the 50s when he was filming.

42:51 John Daub: Yeah, he said the Wild West was safer, but for a lawman, like why would a lawman take that low salary? He said, once you're a lawman, you're a lawman. It was super interesting because we never hear this in the... And his nephew was born in the late 1800s, right? So he knew him. Yeah. I mean, first hand.

43:05 John Daub: He's ready. Yeah, so I just...

43:19 John Daub: Hi.

43:23 John Daub: Wow. Oh, that looks beautiful. Is that mine? That's yours.

43:28 John Daub: Oh, wow. Look at that kinako kuromitsu, which is black honey on there. There's the edamame, which is not matcha. And then inside there is probably the third one I ordered, right? Which is the tofu and edamame. Wow. Wow.

43:41 John Daub: Well, you gotta take a picture with your camera so we can get a thumbnail. Okay.

43:46 John Daub: Waffle jams. Let me put this down here. Yeah. You can't eat with a mask on. Oh, man.

44:01 Peter von Gomm: You can kind of angle it. Make sure it's 16.9.

44:09 John Daub: Oh, you can't do that with... You get an old phone. This is an old phone. But hold it up higher. We gotta get our... Eye level. Alright, you turn it around. Turn it around. Turn it well. Okay, so you get a little... A little bit of the shop and a little bit of the street. Which is more interesting.

44:29 John Daub: Where's your stuff? I always have a lot.

44:29 Peter von Gomm: If you're not taking a picture, I might take a little piece.

44:34 John Daub: There you go. There we go.

44:37 John Daub: Actually, can you take video? Because that's 16.9. I don't want to crop it.

44:40 Peter von Gomm: I thought you were saying 16.9.

44:52 John Daub: Screenshot that. If you guys want a thumbnail, I'm just gonna sell you a big nugget. That's why I did this, so people can send me a copy later. Minecraft gelato.

45:05 John Daub: Alright, it's Minecraft. Let's move to another area. Oh, it's melting!

45:18 John Daub: We got it. Peter! Peter!

45:25 John Daub: Let's get some tissues. I have to take you to where the signal's strong enough out here, and then we can eat this where I usually eat the donuts.

45:33 John Daub: Oh my gosh, it's melting! Peter, hurry up!

45:37 John Daub: Melting! I have some ice cream. Got some ice... I'm gonna eat it all. I'm gonna eat all ice cream. Wanna lick? Psyche.

45:56 John Daub: I have some ice cream. Got some ice cream. I'm gonna eat it all. I eat ice cream. I eat it right now.

46:14 John Daub: Ice cream, ice cream, you scream ice cream. Wanna lick? There's an officer of the law there.

46:26 John Daub: Oh my gosh.

46:31 John Daub: Oh my gosh.

46:35 John Daub: It mixes with the flavors of the ice cream and the fumes of the parts. Let's go off of that. I'm gonna eat this ice cream.

47:05 John Daub: He yelled at me. It's me getting a copyright complaint now.

47:18 Peter von Gomm: Is that like a saying that?

47:20 John Daub: It's much worse.

47:36 John Daub: It made me...

47:37 John Daub: Pepper writes in there, it made me too hard.

47:42 John Daub: So this is the kinako hachimitsu and then edamame, and I guess inside there is gonna be the tofu flavor.

47:47 John Daub: Aogori?

48:22 John Daub: Edamame. Edamame.

48:34 John Daub: Honestly speaking, this is not the best gelato I've ever had. It's true. The flavors are a bit weak.

48:45 Peter von Gomm: The flavors are weak.

48:48 John Daub: And that's the whole point of gelato. Gelato's supposed to be super rich. And they kind of missed it with this.

48:57 Peter von Gomm: Well, since genes don't share, you'll never know what edamame tastes like.

49:02 John Daub: What does it taste like?

49:04 Peter von Gomm: Edamame.

49:09 John Daub: Edamame. What does it taste like?

49:11 Peter von Gomm: Slightly salty, slightly green. Kind of a vegetable green, very neutral, not bitter, but a slight bitterness. A slight bitterness. But very pleasant.

49:24 John Daub: Salt?

49:26 Peter von Gomm: Salt. Slight.

49:32 John Daub: I think the kinako put them into mised.

49:34 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, so does the hojicha. You have to focus on it. When you're eating it, you have to focus to try to get the flavor.

49:41 John Daub: You shouldn't have to do that.

49:46 Peter von Gomm: The edamame's like good stuff.

49:49 John Daub: You should buy another one.

49:51 Peter von Gomm: Oh, so you can get a business receipt for your company? It pays off at the end of the year.

50:03 John Daub: You missed some words. I probably did. Did you ever see the Eddie Murphy Delirious Ice Cream song?

50:12 Peter von Gomm: No. Are you kidding me? How old are you?

50:15 John Daub: I'm not old enough to have seen Eddie Murphy's Delirious. 1980.

50:17 Peter von Gomm: My mom wouldn't let me watch it.

50:20 John Daub: Maybe I could now.

50:21 Peter von Gomm: Your mom wouldn't let you watch Porky's either, right?

50:25 John Daub: Yeah, Porky's is off. Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

50:30 Peter von Gomm: Oh, what?

50:31 John Daub: She wouldn't let me watch that. That was the press.

50:34 Peter von Gomm: Look how you turned out.

50:35 John Daub: Your parents let you watch it?

50:37 Peter von Gomm: No, they didn't let me watch it, but I watched it anyway.

50:41 John Daub: See, I was law abiding son.

50:43 John Daub: I'd never heard of Led Zeppelin until Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

50:50 Peter von Gomm: What?

50:51 John Daub: Led Zeppelin 4, Stairway to Heaven, or Kashmir. Put that on and the girls will love you. Da da da. Da da da.

51:10 John Daub: My brother-in-law is the world's biggest Led Zeppelin fan.

51:14 Peter von Gomm: Does he have memory of me?

51:16 John Daub: Oh, wow. My best friend, who also shares his love of Led Zeppelin, traveled to the United States.

51:31 John Daub: Customized license plate.

51:39 Peter von Gomm: Yep.

51:43 John Daub: Oh, his license plate says Z-E-P-P?

51:50 John Daub: Wow. Oh man, it's all melted.

51:54 Peter von Gomm: It's perfect.

51:59 John Daub: Is that Brandania? Yeah, Brandania's here. How hot is Hawaii? I always think Hawaii's gonna be very hot.

52:11 John Daub: You know, this still has more flavor than ice cream, but less flavor than...

52:15 Peter von Gomm: Do you have any tea?

52:20 John Daub: Yeah, please. Oh, my God. I've got my tissue dropped. Take it out of there.

52:26 John Daub: I have a new mask. I use a face mask.

52:34 Peter von Gomm: I use a face mask.

52:42 John Daub: So which way is our lights? This way.

52:46 John Daub: That's a nice little snack. I'm gonna get you some. I'll get you lunch.

52:50 Peter von Gomm: Yes please.

52:52 John Daub: Drop some garbage. Chuck had a donut. His dough.

53:08 John Daub: His dough. You stopping him from doing it?

53:11 Peter von Gomm: I don't. You want more sugar?

53:12 John Daub: No. Add to your laundry list of other issues. I'm shaking now. Wait till I have more sugar. Somebody told me Putin's got a shaking problem.

53:34 John Daub: Somebody told me. It's just hard to know what's going on over there.

53:41 John Daub: You can just chuck it there. They don't know if you're... Where? Over on the side here?

53:47 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, just go inside the back and chuck it where the customers are.

53:50 John Daub: Alright, can you hold that? I buy it, you throw it away. That's the deal.

53:56 Peter von Gomm: That's fair. Do it quickly so they don't know it's not their trash.

54:02 John Daub: While he's doing that, let me look at the... Oh, that's too easy. There's a trash can. And you alcoholed your hands?

54:11 Peter von Gomm: Mm-hmm.

54:16 John Daub: That's not fair. Does alcohol cut down the sugars in the...

54:22 Peter von Gomm: No, it actually did, kind of. Let's just say if I grip the bike handle, I'm not going to be able to let go for a while.

54:28 John Daub: Gelato hands.

54:31 Peter von Gomm: It could be a new Johnny Depp movie. You get the gelato all over the blades and they start sticking together.

54:38 John Daub: Somebody wrote delinquent. Are you referring to us or...

54:47 John Daub: It's better than getting in trouble and breaking a window or something like Lou Gehrig did when he was playing baseball. He broke a lot of windows with that mighty swing.

54:58 John Daub: Wait, how do we cross... Our bikes are this way, Peter. How do we cross the street here? Can we?

55:02 Peter von Gomm: There's a cop over there. We got to go here.

55:05 John Daub: I don't want to... He's way down there. No, they got like eagle vision.

55:10 Peter von Gomm: That's all right. Are you serious?

55:12 John Daub: Yeah. I'm not...

55:16 Peter von Gomm: Peter, no, no, no.

55:17 John Daub: I just saved your life. Do you understand? I just... There's a gelato shop right here.

55:21 Peter von Gomm: Oh. You're going to give them your criticism after all that nice sincerity that girl gave you and you're going to knock their...

55:29 John Daub: I thought the edamame was excellent and...

55:31 Peter von Gomm: To have truth, that way you pick up your game.

55:34 John Daub: That's right. Truth is good, but a little bit weak. The kinako, the kuromitsu, the edamame was really spot on. I could really taste the green in that.

55:49 John Daub: The hojicha, a little bit too weak. I don't know. I think again, hojicha should have a much stronger, more acidic taste, I think.

55:55 Peter von Gomm: But I...

55:57 John Daub: And what was the other one that you got that was different than mine?

55:59 Peter von Gomm: I got the kuromitsu, the... Oh, at the Mie Prefecture, the black tea.

56:04 John Daub: The black tea. And that has to be stronger. That was forgettable.

56:09 Peter von Gomm: Okay.

56:10 John Daub: Yeah, both the tea ones were failed. Both teas failed. Just a little bit more tea in there. Mr. Tea. It should be Mr. Tea instead of a tea, I think.

56:21 John Daub: Ei-tai-bashi. Ei-tai-bashi is this way. It's one of my favorite bridges. Nice blue with the neon lights streaming along the sides of it. Really pops in the evenings. They turn the lights on around 7.30 PM. Sunset is earlier here than in the US because we don't have daylight savings time.

56:37 John Daub: The result is that the sunrise is like at 4.45 in Tokyo, a little bit earlier up there in Hokkaido. And you have these crazy dreams of seeing the sunrise.

56:47 Peter von Gomm: That's true. From where is it?

56:50 John Daub: East part, East Point? Nemuro? Oh, Nemuro.

56:55 Peter von Gomm: Yeah. That'll be good. We're camping there.

56:58 John Daub: We're camping on Japan's easternmost point, four kilometers away from Russia. Or Russian claimed land, although we've...

57:07 John Daub: No, that's on the other side. Hello. Wakkanai?

57:13 Peter von Gomm: Wakkanai.

57:14 John Daub: Wakkanai. It's different pronunciation. That joke doesn't resonate.

57:19 John Daub: You gonna speak louder into the mic, Peter?

57:24 Peter von Gomm: You gotta speak louder.

57:26 John Daub: Yeah, it's right there.

57:30 John Daub: So, yeah. We're one week out. And again, thank you guys very much for your support thus far. Very much appreciated. And we're super excited to get this going.

57:45 John Daub: So, stay tuned for more updates in the week to come.

57:50 John Daub: Just shout out the festival is still going. The festival is still going on here. August 4th. August 14th. So, I'll be here for that, I think.

57:59 John Daub: Oh, no, I'm gonna be traveling. I got a location shoot down near Kansai. So, as soon as we come back, I'm here for a couple of days and I'm off for a four-day shoot.

58:14 Peter von Gomm: Wow. Which is crazy. Will Wakkanai and Leo join you?

58:16 John Daub: No, they will not. Leo is staying home from school, so he doesn't get sick. So, I don't get sick. So, we can continue with this trip. Although, if we did get sick, we have September as a plan. So, we're gonna have to fall back.

58:29 John Daub: Can we change the reservation?

58:32 Peter von Gomm: I guess we'd be able to do it, right? If you're sick, yeah, I think they're... The flight, we'd have to eat that cost, the flights.

58:40 John Daub: They won't allow you, even if you're sick?

58:41 Peter von Gomm: I think you get... Well, I have a friend who had to cancel his flight back to Canada and, no, they wouldn't refund his tickets. So, basically, don't fly Air Canada, first of all.

58:52 John Daub: Second, they wouldn't refund... No, he had a massive, a thousand dollar rebuff.

58:58 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, he's gonna pay a fucking fee.

59:00 John Daub: Wow. That's not fair.

59:04 John Daub: Like, this pigeon's a lot more popular. He's got friends all around. He's all puffed up, too. God means business. Let's let him be. It's a three of them, too. He's got two on his plate.

59:21 John Daub: Do pigeons, are they like lions where the males fight over it?

59:24 Peter von Gomm: I think so. How do they know whose kid is whose?

59:29 John Daub: Like, is it when the egg hatch and you can tell? How do you know that Leo is yours?

59:31 Peter von Gomm: Yeah, I just... I think he's smart.

59:33 John Daub: Because he's smart. He likes spicy foods and he's eating my pizza all the time now.

59:48 Peter von Gomm: He's licking his fingers. That's a terrible habit.

59:51 John Daub: I do that. Of course.

59:55 John Daub: And here's our baby bike. Sure. Here's my key right here.

59:59 Peter von Gomm: Yeah.

60:00 John Daub: Oh, you want the green one now?

60:02 Peter von Gomm: Yes.

60:03 John Daub: Yeah, John's stuffed me with his black one going up the hills and stuff.

60:07 Peter von Gomm: I don't think so.

60:08 John Daub: I gave you a choice. You want black or green? You said black. You got a black bike.

60:11 Peter von Gomm: You channeled some sort of sneaky Star Wars energy field to make me say black. I wanted to say green.

60:22 John Daub: No, whenever... It's this one. Whenever there's a...

60:25 John Daub: I knew whenever there's a choice of color and black is one of them, you pick black. So...

60:32 Peter von Gomm: Is that the right key? This is this one.

60:35 John Daub: There you go. So Leo sits here, but we have a front thing where he likes to sit in the front. We can keep an eye on him, but he's getting big enough where he can sit in the back more.

60:45 Peter von Gomm: No, no. It's detachable, the front seat. I hit my knees onto it sometimes, but I think I can lift it up a few more centimeters.

60:53 John Daub: Heidi 2, it's called? Yeah, Heidi. H-Y-D-E-E. It's a Bridgestone.

60:58 John Daub: All right, guys. Let's sign off here, Peter.

61:00 Peter von Gomm: Yeah.

61:01 John Daub: Thanks so much for watching. For those that are supporting the project, really appreciate it. The screen was sort of bright, so I couldn't see a lot of the chats that came in. We'll check them later.

61:12 John Daub: Toronto is currently the worst airport in the world. Did you see the pictures of all the luggage that was lost in Western airports?

61:20 Peter von Gomm: No. It looks like two football fields of just random luggage.

61:24 John Daub: Oh, man. Mostly in Europe. Nice. So Toronto is getting some competition there.

61:31 John Daub: I had a Patreon backer. I was doing the stamps. What do you call them? The zombie... What do you call the zombie anime series?

61:47 John Daub: It was really popular. It was cool that they got the stamp. I can't remember the name of that anime for some reason.

61:53 Peter von Gomm: Mm-hmm. But somebody at Canada Post ripped off the stamp because it's like this super cool stamp. Collector's item or something?

61:55 John Daub: He ripped it off. What? He ripped off the stamp of this Patreon backer, and he delivered the postcard without the stamp.

62:04 Peter von Gomm: Shh. So he got the postcard without the stamp, and I was really upset. And I said, do you want me to send you another one? He goes, no, no, no, because it was just too funny. He ripped it off.

62:16 John Daub: That Canada Post. Wow. Wow. No other post office would do that. Except maybe... No, that was pretty low. A postal worker... We can't blame it on Canadian Post Service. Oh, the Jeopardy's Postal Man ripped it off. It's either Canada or... Well, but an American Post Service would probably do the same thing.

62:48 Peter von Gomm: No, I've never seen... Send a... Do a test. Send one of these cute little alien anime stamps to an American Post Office. Human error, maybe not so much. Machine error, very, very prevalent in the USPS system.

62:55 John Daub: Half the postcards get... Not half. Say like 5% will have streaks because it runs the machine too fast. Too fast. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One in every 200 gets a tear, so I have to send a new one.

63:01 John Daub: Richard has pledged $1,500. Thank you, Richard. Thanks, Richard. Postcard, I think. That's very cool.

63:06 John Daub: Yeah, cheers. Arigato. All right, guys. See you later. We're going back to check out the microphones and stuff. But we have to unlock these. We have to unlock these bikes. It is unlocked.

63:19 Peter von Gomm: No, but I mean, we have to pay to unlock it, right? It's a paid... Try taking it out. I did. I think it's two hours, no? It comes off.

64:06 John Daub: Oh, and by the way, everybody, please check out Homicide Inc. True Crime Podcast. If you're into true crime, have a look.

64:24 John Daub: How much is it? 100 yen for a short.

64:50 John Daub: KAKUNIN, yeah.

64:58 Peter von Gomm: I don't need the receipt.

65:01 John Daub: Mother with a 100 yen receipt. You make Kanae angry. Give me a receipt for 100 yen.

65:15 John Daub: Bridgestone makes some of the most popular bicycles in Japan right now. And actually, I don't know. You know, for the first 10 years that I lived in Japan, I didn't know that Bridgestone was a Japanese company. It doesn't sound like it would be, but it comes from Ishinohashi or something.

65:34 John Daub: And then they changed it over eventually to Bridgestone because they wanted to hit a foreign market and bada bing, bada boom. It's a pretty big bicycle company as well as tire company.

65:41 John Daub: I think they're using Panasonic batteries. I'm not sure. Right here. Dude.

65:51 John Daub: Hey, you know what? If you want it. You seem to be subliminally attracted to the other bicycle with no battery. He doesn't want this one because it doesn't have a battery. It's harder for him to ride. He was huffing and puffing. That's why.

66:06 John Daub: Now, you don't even know how to turn the battery on it. I'm not going to tell you.

66:10 John Daub: All right, everybody. There you go. See you later. Catch you on the other side. We'll do another live stream tomorrow. At least I will and find something interesting. But stay cool. If you find some gelato, let me know how it goes. Because ours is fine. Not too bad.

66:29 John Daub: I thought it was better than Peter's. Bye, everybody.