00:00:00 John Daub: I'm in front of a mochi shop that's been serving mochi since the Showa era. It's quite a long time. You can tell because the sign is just massive and awesome. And guess who's with me today?

00:00:13 Kevin Reilly: Hey!

00:00:15 John Daub: Some of you probably remember him as Kevin Reilly. Yeah, it has been a kind of a while here. There's nobody watching right now. Okay, we got some people here finally. Thank you. Thank goodness.

00:00:28 John Daub: So in this episode, we're gonna show you a little bit of mochi, but more than that, Uncle Kevin's gonna meet little Leo for the first time and I'm really happy about this because the pandemic has kept us family away for a long time.

00:00:43 Kevin Reilly: Yeah.

00:00:43 Kanae Daub: Yeah.

00:00:44 John Daub: And there he is over there. The thing is like, Leo's not doing that great. It's the end of the day and he's a little bit cranky so hopefully he'll be okay. Juso Station is right here. We're just stepping in Osaka for about an hour. I was filming this for an episode that's coming probably on Tuesday. They do something really interesting here and maybe in this live stream, I will show you. Hi, Joy. How you doing everybody?

00:01:14 John Daub: Everybody does remember you. They're going, hey, it's Kevin. You haven't aged a day. You look the same as you did in that Omi beef episode we did like eons ago.

00:01:23 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, it was a few years ago.

00:01:25 John Daub: Everybody knows that Kevin was in the first episode ever of Only in Japan as the cameraman for my Naked Man Festival. And he has his own channel called Kuma's Kitchen if you don't know where he's cooking up some amazing stuff.

00:01:38 Kanae Daub: Konai. Leo.

00:01:40 Kanae Daub: Hello.

00:01:43 John Daub: Look who it is. It's Kevin, AKA Santa Claus.

00:01:48 Kevin Reilly: Santa Claus, yeah.

00:01:52 John Daub: Where's our presents? How's he doing, Leo? Okay?

00:01:57 Kanae Daub: Yeah, he's tired. He's really tired.

00:02:01 Kevin Reilly: Yeah.

00:02:01 Kanae Daub: Yeah, we're going to call probably an early day.

00:02:05 John Daub: But first, I want to get some mochi. Do you want to eat some mochi now?

00:02:09 Kanae Daub: Okay. You can do that, right?

00:02:11 John Daub: You can eat mochi?

00:02:14 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, I can.

00:02:14 John Daub: Kevin, can you eat mochi?

00:02:16 Kevin Reilly: I can always eat mochi.

00:02:17 John Daub: Really? Alright, well, let's go get some mochi here. Kevin can always eat mochi. That bodes well for this episode. Thanks, everybody, for watching. I'm using this app called Prism, and I'm not 100% proficient in it. So hopefully, this will go okay.

00:02:38 John Daub: Oh, no, Kanae gave me the coins, and I put it in here.

00:02:45 Kanae Daub: Okay. Do you want to do that?

00:02:51 John Daub: I think so. Hold on a second. She did give it to me. Did it drop out of my pocket? I'm always worried about losing it. Okay, I got some cash here. I do have it. Thank goodness. So they're famous for mochi down here. You can check this out here. So I get three.

00:03:13 Staff: Three. Three. Here you go.

00:03:17 John Daub: Three, please. You can have the regular one.

00:03:20 Kanae Daub: Okay. You're eating it now?

00:03:21 Staff: Yes. Yes. I'm eating it now.

00:03:40 John Daub: 824 yen.

00:03:42 Staff: Okay.

00:03:50 John Daub: Thanks.

00:04:01 John Daub: That's it for now. I'm leaving now.

00:04:05 Passerby: Where are you coming from?

00:04:07 John Daub: I came from Miyajima.

00:04:09 Passerby: Miyajima. We went there and before that we went to the island in the back. There are a lot of rabbits there.

00:04:15 John Daub: That's amazing. Do you live in Teradacho?

00:04:16 Passerby: Teradacho?

00:04:18 John Daub: Teradacho. Tennojiku.

00:04:20 Passerby: Oh, Tennoji-ku! Thank you for waiting.

00:04:28 John Daub: Wow, look at this! This is amazing! This is so heavy. Mochi is one of the most amazing street foods ever. On a stick? Yes please! It's the choice for New Year's. And I think it kills about 20 people every year.

00:04:52 Kevin Reilly: It does!

00:04:54 John Daub: Leo, we got mochi! I'm wondering where should we eat this? Inside the shop? Where do you feel comfortable? Can you eat this outside?

00:05:09 Kevin Reilly: I feel comfortable anywhere.

00:05:10 John Daub: Let's go to the street corner because that's what we do. I think maybe if Leo gets some mochi. Yeah, the street corner looks clean. Let's stop here. Alright, street food.

00:05:27 John Daub: Kevin is a godfather. He could be the godfather. He's THE godfather. And if you ever come to Osaka, you must pay your respects to the master, to the godfather. Alright, here we go. This is mitarashi dango. And they really drain it in sauce which is awesome. I'm gonna take this one. And I'll take my stick.

00:06:07 John Daub: Is it? Holy smokes, it is hot. I think this could go. This can go. Leo, this is sticky. Alright guys! Here we go! Wow. That did not go as planned. Don't touch me, Leo. Don't touch me.

00:06:41 Kanae Daub: Oh my god, that's daddy.

00:06:43 John Daub: Oh my gosh, this is...you have no idea. This is so good. This is so good. That syrup on there? Good stuff. Oh my gosh. I'm flinging the camera everywhere because it's either that or it's stickiness. Do you have a wipe for this pen?

00:07:12 Kanae Daub: Oh my god. Alright, you know what?

00:07:17 John Daub: You know what? I'm gonna go to the store and get some.

00:07:23 Kanae Daub: Yeah, okay.

00:07:24 John Daub: Oh my gosh. Hold on tight, Kanae. I better get some wet wipes or some napkins or something. Oh my gosh. Do you have tissues?

00:07:52 Staff: If you have, I'll be happy. Sorry, thank you.

00:07:59 John Daub: Oh, it's the last one. Thank you. They're so much friendlier in Osaka than they are in Tokyo. Honestly, Vrondania is in the house. It's nice to see ya. There's the last one. Kanae, last one. I'll see if I can get some more somewhere.

00:08:24 John Daub: Kevin, give me. Thank you, Kevin just saved our life. Thank you, Kevin. That's the wipes in the bag.

00:08:34 John Daub: I got a couple of really quick announcements. One of them, the Discord server now has a leveling up system. So, if you join us, you'll have a chance to start to level up. Our moderator, HelloHi821 is going to explain even more. He's gonna release that information on the Discord server. So I wanted just 16,000 people to know that this is a live stream. So I wanted to let you know that we have a leveling up system, which is kind of cool. Kind of gamify Discord server.

00:08:58 Kevin Reilly: Yeah.

00:08:59 John Daub: Thank you so much for our moderators for setting that up, which is totally awesome. The other thing I wanted to announce, I completely forgot. Kevin's show is called Kuma's Kitchen.

00:09:06 John Daub: What are you making in the kitchen now, Kevin?

00:09:11 Kevin Reilly: Oh, what kind of eclectic thing is it next? Last week was pretty cool because I had leftover gram wafers and I wanted to use them up. And I had this coconut that was going to go in there and it was going to go dry soon. So I made these coconut chocolate goo... I call them chewy... gooey chewy chocolate coconut bars.

00:09:32 John Daub: Gooey chewy chocolate coconut bars. Oh my gosh. You're gonna see Kevin cooking this up in his kitchen, which is an amazing little studio. I can't wait to come back here. We're also going to be doing an okonomiyaki episode pretty soon.

00:09:47 Kevin Reilly: Oh, we gotta, yeah.

00:09:48 John Daub: I can't tell you where yet. It's all top secret, but we will. And I'm hoping it fills up the restaurant too, but not too much because that's your favorite place to go.

00:09:57 Kevin Reilly: I think we already filmed there once already. So the cat's out of the bag.

00:10:05 John Daub: I saw a family of 10 there yesterday.

00:10:08 Kevin Reilly: Oh, did you? Yeah, yeah. From Singapore. They loved it, absolutely loved it.

00:10:13 John Daub: Did you get commission?

00:10:14 Kevin Reilly: Nah, nah. It's kind of like, hey. It's a great place for me to park. I can park out front there. And the green men came and I had to go and go. Oh, sorry, I just about to move, which I didn't.

00:10:27 John Daub: They've been making okonomiyaki there for generations, right?

00:10:30 Kevin Reilly: Oh yeah, yeah.

00:10:31 John Daub: And again, it's just one of Osaka's soul food. Although I prefer the Hiroshima version.

00:10:35 Kevin Reilly: No, no, no, you don't.

00:10:36 John Daub: I do, I do. Oh, shit. It has that, it has that, um, those layers, it has extra layers on it. So it's, it's.

00:10:43 Kevin Reilly: I'm gonna stab him. No, that's a Q-tip without the Q.

00:10:47 John Daub: Nooo. Yeah, f*** you. But yeah, I encourage you to check out Kuma's Kitchen is the name of his channel. And I guarantee you're gonna learn something new and be able to cook a lot of good stuff for the holidays. And that's what it's all about, making delicious food because food brings people together. And so does Holly's Cafe across the street.

00:11:11 John Daub: This is one crazy busy intersection, isn't it?

00:11:14 Kevin Reilly: It is, yeah.

00:11:15 John Daub: This is coming from everywhere. I've driven through here quite a few times. We take my mother-in-law to a dentist up north from here and I end up coming through here. It's insane every time.

00:11:26 Kevin Reilly: It is.

00:11:28 John Daub: Well, it's good to see you, buddy. It's a really short trip. Kevin came all the way out here to say hi to us as we did this really fast location shoot. So it was a real pleasure to see him. I haven't seen him since the Kochi livestreaming we did here in Osaka. By the way, I'm going there to that place, Tosa Shimizu on Monday. The restaurant, Tosa Shimizu itself. I'm going to that place in the middle of nowhere.

00:11:52 Kevin Reilly: Oh, look at that. It's absolutely beautiful. I was just down there. Oh, crap. Really? You beat me. You went to the aquarium? I was down there in. Yes, I was at the aquarium. And I stayed at the across from the aquarium, you're going to see a little old like inn. I stayed there overnight. It's absolutely fantastic.

00:12:08 John Daub: I think that's where I'm staying. Wait. Why am I even wearing this mask? I keep putting teeth on and off.

00:12:12 Kevin Reilly: Yeah, you know what?

00:12:13 John Daub: Because I'm going to be taking you with me on these livestreams. And we're going to enter. I'm going down there because I'm curious about this accessibility robot that you can wear on your shoulder. That not only can you wear it on your shoulder, but you can wear it on your shoulder, too. That only translates for you, but for people with problems with their vision.

00:12:26 Kevin Reilly: Really?

00:12:27 John Daub: And problems with their hearing. The robot can help them navigate using all this technology.

00:12:31 Kevin Reilly: Oh, that sounds cool.

00:12:32 John Daub: Right? It's called Nin Nin. And apparently, he's beating me at the airport. Yeah, which is going to be pretty cool. I'll be livestreaming this for three days. I'll be down there. It's going to be starting on Monday to Wednesday.

00:12:42 Kevin Reilly: That sounds cool.

00:12:42 John Daub: So that's the other thing I wanted to tell you. I'll be in Kochi from Monday to Wednesday. So I'll be editing this weekend, this episode. Hopefully get it out there on Tuesday. And then I'll be in Kochi making some fun over there. Making some fun. Making a lot of fun. Making dreams come true.

00:12:58 Kevin Reilly: You're going to like that.

00:12:59 John Daub: You're going to like that inn. Man, they fed me like I thought it was going to explode.

00:13:03 Kevin Reilly: Oh, gosh. Really?

00:13:06 John Daub: I'm just going to remark about the manhole. It's in Osaka. It's Osaka. Osaka Castle right there. It's so much better than Tokyo.

00:13:12 Kevin Reilly: I'm going to agree.

00:13:15 John Daub: Yeah. Not quite enough for me to live here, but. Hey, Toro Toro Poko. Thank you. I'll be back. I'll be back here to see Kevin again. Don't worry. We'll be back. Oh, there we go. We'll be back here. So thanks everybody for watching. Just a short one. Kanae and I are heading back to Shin-Osaka Station by taxi. It's only like a five minute taxi drive.

00:13:39 John Daub: Going to fix you right here. Poor Kanae's over there doing what Mami does best. I got. I have to go over there and help her out for the rest of the day. And the rest of the week probably until I leave her on Monday. But she's doing a good job as Mami. Oh, Leo, I thought you gave that rabbit to the bunnies as part of their cannibalistic ritual. Oh, he's got two now. Yeah. Because we had to wash this in the hotel because he kept dropping it in rabbit poo. Oh, that's his guy. As he got fun and tits in his head. Well, it helped to build up his immunity, I guess. I don't know. See, he's chewing on it. Thank goodness we really washed that. All right, everybody. Say goodbye to Leo. Say goodbye to Kanae, Leo, and Kevin.

00:14:23 Kevin Reilly: Kevin, thanks so much for coming out here. Oh, hey, you're welcome. It's really nice.

00:14:26 John Daub: It's really nice to see you, buddy. And nice to see Osaka again. It's been way too long. Jason, bye. I saw Jason in here. Hey, Jason. I don't think Jason ever sleeps.

00:14:43 John Daub: Bye, guys.