We're Okay

00:01 John Daub: Wow. So the rain is starting to come down again. Do you hear it? Yeah, it's still raining. I got back first. I called if you didn't see the stream right before this and. Are you okay?

00:25 Kanae Daub: Yeah, we okay.

00:26 John Daub: You look wet.

00:27 Kanae Daub: Yeah, we totally wet.

00:30 John Daub: Yeah. Totally wet and alive. That's good. I was worried.

00:34 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:35 John Daub: Yeah. So what do you want? I didn't bring anything because I just ran right home. Leo, are you okay? Did you panic when you saw the typhoon coming? He still got wet hair.

00:48 Kanae Daub: We waited at the roof. Under the roof.

00:53 John Daub: Oh, where? At the Toyosu?

00:55 Kanae Daub: Also at the on the bridge.

00:57 John Daub: On the bridge?

00:58 Kanae Daub: Yeah. With other mommy and other baby.

01:02 John Daub: Oh, wow. So you had shelter. That's good. And then you ran here real quickly. I tried to call right after and I couldn't get in touch, so I went right home. Yeah. So did you think you made the right decision?

01:17 Kanae Daub: Yeah, I think so.

01:18 John Daub: We should have come to Lalaport. No, to the shopping mall. Yeah, maybe.

01:24 Kanae Daub: Yeah. But I think rain is coming again.

01:27 John Daub: Yeah.

01:27 Kanae Daub: Sunny rain, windy and better just stay home today.

01:32 John Daub: Yeah.

01:33 Kanae Daub: So I don't think around the three.

01:37 John Daub: So.

01:38 Kanae Daub: Yeah, we can. Leo can play outside a little bit. But it was very quick.

01:44 John Daub: Yeah. It came down a sudden downpour. The wind rain was coming real sharp. It hurt. Yeah.

01:51 Kanae Daub: The wind was super strong. It's like ice.

01:55 John Daub: Yeah. Like hail, right?

01:56 Kanae Daub: Yeah, it was very strong then. Oh, I couldn't see well.

02:02 John Daub: Yeah.

02:03 Kanae Daub: It was very scary.

02:04 John Daub: Did you see the live stream?

02:06 Kanae Daub: Yeah, when we got back then we saw. Oh, daddy. Okay. Then I watched your live stream. And then you was laughing a lot.

02:19 John Daub: Laughing at my pain. Oh my gosh. Yeah. Mui said I should go home. And so I just listened to Mui.

02:31 Kanae Daub: Okay, we just stay home. Then we cleaned up the balcony.

02:39 John Daub: He loves when it's safe. Family's here. Wow. Okay. So we're still alive. And you're not angry. Are you angry?

02:49 Kanae Daub: No, I'm okay.

02:50 John Daub: Okay, good.

02:51 Kanae Daub: I'm okay.

02:52 John Daub: Well, you want flowers? Pizza? Somebody said you want McDonald's.

02:57 Kanae Daub: It's gonna be strong rain.

02:58 John Daub: So you want a strong 07?

03:00 Kanae Daub: What? No, I don't need it.

03:03 John Daub: See, I'm trying. The Internet told me all these things to buy her. So what do you want as a gift if I got you a gift? Yeah.

03:11 John Daub: Yeah. No, because I abandoned Kanae and Leo. I should get a gift. So I should cook pizza tonight or something.

03:20 Kanae Daub: Yeah, you can make a pizza.

03:24 John Daub: All right. I can make dinner. Do you want to go to fancy dinner? No. You want a strong zero.

03:31 Kanae Daub: We shouldn't go out today.

03:33 John Daub: You want flowers?

03:35 Kanae Daub: Yeah, it's a nice idea.

03:36 John Daub: Okay. But all the flowers we got you die. They're like it's kind of still alive there. You sure? Oh, don't show you. Okay. Sorry, I can't show you behind the TV. All right. Yeah, we're trying to clean up right now. All right. So don't worry about it. Ask John for a car. All right.

04:02 John Daub: McDonald's and flowers. Who would give their wife McDonald's? Oh, I bought you a takeout bag of McDonald's. Get her shaved almonds. I think we have enough free hugs. I like that. Ronald. Check it out. Thank you, Katayama. We are stocked with nuts. Yeah. So it's time for Leo to eat. I know that a lot of you were worried about us. Just to see maybe you've seen our collection. I've gotten Leo some melon bread dolls. He seems to really like them. He really likes them. Meron Kuma. Abandoned.

04:56 John Daub: Oh, so there you go. All right.

05:01 John Daub: So you said the same thing last year, didn't you? Leo has grown. He's gotten really big. He's had his 18-month birthday — I guess not a birthday, 18 months since he was born. What do you call that? And we went to Tokyo Disneyland and we celebrated at the Hilton. And I got him a bus. That's all he wanted. It's actually a pretty good replica. Look at this, right? Isn't that pretty cool? Actually, just send the daimyo one of these. That'd be pretty cool. I wait to take these tires off because he could have eaten them. But other than that, it's a nice bus, right? He loves buses. So I got a new bus and he got a steering wheel for his baby carrier stroller. And yeah, wait, wait. To spoil him on his birthday next year, he needs a dump truck. I know. We're gonna get him a garbage truck. He likes garbage trucks because he's friends with the garbage man. The garbage man always waves back and honks the horn. It's like three garbage men.

06:15 John Daub: All right, Leo, sorry to abandon you, but I'm here now. And don't worry, everything's okay. I'm glad you're okay. Thanks everybody for worrying about us. We're okay. Right now it is raining a little bit and I could see there's another band coming. But the way that typhoons work in Japan is that bands of — as you can see, bands in a typhoon will come and sweep through the area. And we're getting that right now. It started about, I don't know, a couple hours ago, and it's only going to get worse through the rest of the day. Leo's going to be cooped up in here, so we wanted to get him a little bit of activity before it gets really bad. There's no way that you go outside in a typhoon like that. But this is what you saw was nothing. When and if you're on the east coast of the US, you've seen hurricanes. Typhoons are not as strong because I believe the Pacific is just cooler, so the water is cooler. So the storms are not as intense, but they can be intense. And this one seems to be an intense one. So we're praying for our friends down in Kyushu. Kagoshima, Nagasaki, Fukuoka. And now down in the south part of the Honshu island, west part of Honshu Island. And it'll make its way raking the east coast.

07:29 John Daub: Actually, can we turn on NHK? Do they have the weather? Yeah, right now. Sometimes the news programs are showing. That's not — I don't think that's Channel One. Yeah. Oh, wow. So you can see the typhoon really is coming. That is that Rainbow Bridge. That's where that — where you just saw down there. That's where we just were. Wow. Wow. It's just completely obliterating the entire west side of Honshu island right now. Oh, my gosh. And that's in the middle — that's where a lot of landslides are in Hiroshima Prefecture. That looks like the eye, but it seems like it's also breaking apart, which means that the winds aren't going to be quite as high when it gets here. But we're going to have a lot of rainfall in the Tokyo area. I'm sure Niigata, Nagano are going to get hit pretty bad. But that's what it looks like through Japan. We're kind of used to it. Oh, look at the flooding. Wow. So the eye is going through Hiroshima right now. That's the red dot over there. That's Hiroshima. That's pretty — this is a pretty big one. So I'm gonna be doing a live stream tomorrow maybe. If Peter's watching, we're gonna have — there's a festival down there, my friend. One of the people that I know for a long time puts on a Belgian beer festival three, four times a year around Japan. And I don't think it's gonna happen today. Tomorrow, maybe. I don't know. Tomorrow too.

09:07 Kanae Daub: Tomorrow morning.

09:08 John Daub: Really? I thought it would just like clear out. Really? Tomorrow too?

09:19 John Daub: Oh, really? Yeah, tomorrow too.

09:22 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

09:22 John Daub: So we ruined —

09:24 Kanae Daub: Oh my gosh, look, it's too today. I'm not sure — it's 90 today. Yeah, I think tomorrow morning it's better.

09:38 John Daub: Yeah, I think it's going to clear up.

09:39 Kanae Daub: I think still rain. It's still raining because it's a huge typhoon.

09:45 John Daub: Yeah, it is pretty big. Yeah. So I want to talk to you about one thing. One of my favorite months to visit Japan is September and October because the weather's cooler. But the reality is that there's also this card, this asterisk mark, and it's typhoon season. And if you look back at the history of Japan weather-wise for the last 60 years, the end of August and the beginning and the first three weeks of September are particularly bad. And these typhoons will go into October, sometimes the beginning of November, then they settle down. But you can get a typhoon at any time of the year, but it's rarer in the winter, obviously, and then around June it picks up. So when you do come in June, September, just keep in mind that you might want to come back really a day earlier than you would normally do because if there is a typhoon, there's a good chance that your flight's going to be delayed at least a day and you can't predict when they're going to come. I'd say the percentage of your flight being canceled right now — all the flights are like grounded in this part of Japan — your flight cancel flight is being canceled. September probably like 8% maybe. I'm just spitballing. And if you do get, you want to just realize that there's a very good possibility that you won't be able to get home at exactly the time to do it.

11:10 John Daub: We have some artifacts in here. You guys make stuff at this preschool. And this is our festival poster for the Nagano Festival 2021. Dakota did a pretty good job. And there's Kanae, Leo, and myself. Kanae and Leo look like each other, but I kind of look different here. More white hair, maybe. I don't know.

11:47 John Daub: All right, everybody, thanks for watching. We'll see you tomorrow or later on if some event happens. Leo, bye bye. Bye bye. Say bye bye. No, it's not gonna — you don't get a bye bye, really. One bye bye. One for Jim. Say bye for Jim. No, nothing. Thanks. A side by Shane says bye, Leo. Nothing. One, once. How about for Michael? Michael Sao wants a bye bye. How about Michael? Bye bye, Leo. Bye bye. If I help you, will you say goodbye? Three, two, one. Okay. Yeah. All right. Bye bye. Bye bye, everybody. See you. Bye bye. Sorry, you don't get a bye. Carrie. That's Wakaki's son's business card. I should show that. What? Leo? He gave you one too? Oh, my gosh. All right. Bye. Just bye. Just bye.