00:04:00 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to Tokyo! That's the Shinkansen making its way to Tokyo Station coming from Hiroshima. We're going to be taking you to Hiroshima in this live stream. How you doing everybody? The G7 Summit is just wrapping up, and it's been a pretty eventful time for us living here in Japan. It's exciting when all these media and leaders come here to try Japanese food, to see Japanese attractions. Since this channel is about Japan, it was a pretty interesting couple of days for us. But the preparation for this has been going back all the way to the beginning of the year, when we started to see news about the G7 Summit. This is a non-political live stream about it, and I'm going to show you some things. Because I used to live in Hiroshima, it's my old hometown, and we're going to take you there right now.

00:52:00 John Daub: So, where did they stay? I believe it was the Hiroshima Prince Hotel, which is right here. This hotel is really secluded. It's kind of on the tip, on the Seto Inland Sea (Seto Naikai). It was a perfect location that they picked for this. You have amazing views from there. But again, it is really far away from everything else in the city. I'm glad that they picked here because it doesn't create a lot of commotion or make it harder for people to come here. But the tourists that are in Hiroshima keep the politicians and the media out there. So, it was smart.

01:36:00 John Daub: The Prime Minister Kishida from Japan, he's originally from Hiroshima, so he knows all about this area, I'm sure. I can't imagine, he's probably beaming. I saw him beaming in the media about having all the world leaders here. And getting a chance to show off your hometown is really a cool thing. Hiroshima is such a beautiful place. I've never been to this hotel. Maybe I will now. But again, there's nothing really around it. And it is kind of a hike to get into the city. It's much better to stay around Hiroshima Station or the Hondori shopping street area, which is not far from the Peace Park. Beautiful place. You see the corner, the triangle shape of it? You might recognize that from some of the interviews that the politicians did on your TV news.

02:25:00 John Daub: Wow, I'm just marveling myself, like I want to be there right now. So, you might have seen in the news some of these pictures. Here's a shot of President Zelenskyy and President Biden. You can see the corner room of the Hiroshima Prince Hotel. Kind of a neat moment where you get to see in meetings the shape of the hotel. Plus that map kind of puts you in the spot there, which I thought is really cool. So they all stayed there and they had meals there.

03:01:00 John Daub: Hiroshima Airport is really inconvenient. That's why a lot of people prefer the Shinkansen. Because it is about three and a half hours away from Tokyo. It's much better to take the Shinkansen down there. But if you do fly to Hiroshima, it is a hike from the airport. I think by bus it's about 45, 50 minutes or more. I remember because I took it once and it was not convenient. I was like, what? The airport's that far away? Haneda is closer. All of them flew into Hiroshima, I believe. I'm not sure. I know that President Zelenskyy from Ukraine flew into the Hiroshima Airport because the entire world was watching his flight come in to Hiroshima Airport.

03:50:00 John Daub: Then they moved over to Miyajima. Now you guys know where Miyajima is, right? Miyajima is an island. First, let me go at the cenotaph here. This is the cenotaph. This is behind you see the Atomic Bomb Dome called the Genbaku Dome in Japanese. This is where the ceremonies will be held on August 6th every year to remember those that lost their lives in the bomb. Hiroshima is very much into getting rid of all nuclear weapons. And for many people in Hiroshima, this was kind of a failure politically for their cause, they felt. They didn't really get a lot on their agenda. There were some complaints, particularly from the Japan Times, from a reporter who was upset personally, it seemed like, from the question that she posed to the president. Like it wasn't his fault. It was probably your editor's fault for making you cover President Zelenskyy coming. However, in that sense, Hiroshima and the Peace Park, I'm really glad that they all went there because I think maybe they did a lot more by going and making that trip there than the people think. So we'll see how this all plays out down the road.

05:13:00 John Daub: But I want to show you a little bit about Hiroshima first because when I lived there, I used to walk past this every single day to get to work. Now there it is in the center of your screen is the Peace Museum. And a lot of you have been there, probably know exactly where this is. There's the bridge, T-shaped bridge, which was the target back in 1945. And just below that museum, you see the Atomic Bomb Dome. And this on the other side of the river and the aerial shot is panning, orbiting around Genbaku Dome. But I think it's really important for world leaders to come and see this because then you really get an idea of just how awful it is. And the bombs that we have today are so much more powerful than what was dropped back then. And we like to think as humans, we've learned from our mistakes. So to have the leaders all see this and then go to the museum and you really feel it when you see those artifacts that are left over, especially the shadow of a person that was left behind. That left a really big impact on politicians. And I hope that for the cause of the hibakusha, the people who survived the bomb, we do eventually get rid of all of these types of weapons.

06:42:00 John Daub: Now, I used to live here, so I would go by there every day and I was deeply impacted. If I had a couple too many to drink, I would often sit there and contemplate life. And it's such a deep thing. And to live around it, you're always reminded by it. So that's something that I take with me through life. I had the chance on this channel to show and introduce to you Hiroshima. I was there recently. I don't know when was it, maybe about four years ago before the pandemic started. And this is a view from a building that's a new building that was built, I guess maybe about six years ago. Beautiful view. They got the mountains all around Hiroshima. Gosh, this is maybe the most livable city in Japan, I believe. I just felt like it was the easiest to live, and the things were just so close.

07:39:00 John Daub: So I'm taking you over to the other side where there's, you can see the museum. And then you have all the people who do come to visit Hiroshima. It is, I believe, part of the Golden Route, which is Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, Himeji, and Hiroshima. There's the Peace Museum right there. It used to be 50 yen, or like 35 cents to enter, and I believe they raised that to $2 or about. At night, it is also, you know, this is when I would be walking home from the bar. I have to walk past here to get to Yokogawa, which is where I was living, a small town at the end of the trolley, or chinchin densha, as we call it. I would walk past here. It was a good 20-minute walk. And every time, it just gets you to see this. So again, like I'm really happy that the world leaders did pay their respect and remember the cost of what's going on when something like this happens. War.

08:43:00 John Daub: The reason that the G7 or the G8, excluding Russia right now, is important is because potentially the leaders will get a chance to look at the economics, the peace, the struggles of the other countries around, as well as how to work together to try to fix the world. I don't know how much of that takes place, but I do know that they do eat a lot of food while they're trying to do this stuff. And the menu for this stuff was pretty good. It's pretty incredible here. This is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. And they actually had the menu, and they were showing the food for it. I thought it was just fascinating. The world leaders that did come got a chance to eat this stuff. It looks very much like kaiseki ryori (multi-course Japanese meal), but I think that they focused on the Hiroshima ingredients, which is part of kaiseki ryori. The seasonal and regional ingredients make a special cuisine. So wherever you go in Japan, the 47 prefectures, you're always going to have something special based on the season and the ingredients from that region. Pretty cool when you think about it. It's not just sushi, tempura, wagyu beef and stuff like that. They do a lot more with it.

10:16:00 John Daub: They actually have the menus. Also, if you want to check out the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, what they ate, they break down the menus in pretty good detail here. Here's that working lunch menu. It says here they had a shrimp and egg yolk sushi. Look at that. That's kind of unique. Fried and marinated fat greenling. Pickled myoga, which is a ginger bud. Wild udo and squid dressing dressed with pepper leaf bud. Boy, this is very Japanese. Akashi, which is a region on the Seto Inland Sea, sea bream with kelp. Ise ebi lobster. Wow, they're eating pretty good. Omelet strips. Grilled butterfish breaded with dried milk. I'm surprised they don't have any oysters. That's what Hiroshima is very famous for oysters here. And matcha parfait for dessert. Omi beef with cherry blossoms. Wow, they ate good.

11:44:00 John Daub: I'm in Yurakucho right now. If you do come and find me, I do have Only in Japan cards. All right, let me go. Let's take you now to... So you see the cenotaph, which is, I think, a very important place, especially on August 6th, which is the anniversary. They chime a bell at the exact time. And the world leaders, they made a trip over to Miyajima, which is my favorite place to go. Oh, man, I love Miyajima. The Japanese media had a fun time covering this. They moved from the hotel to Miyajima. This is the hotel that they were staying at. And you can see on the left side. The helicopter of the Japanese media zooming in on the car procession going out to catch the ferry, which is pretty cool. Because everybody who's been to Japan to Miyajima knows about that ferry that crosses from the mainland to the island.

12:52:00 John Daub: This is panning out. That's Hiroshima City in the distance with the island. And here they are catching the ferry. There's some of the world leaders there. But, you know, President Biden... He didn't want to take the ferry. He had a different way. Maybe he gets seasick, perhaps. So President Biden coming in here in his awesome limousine. He decided to take a helicopter, which is even faster. And with the Japanese media, they were live streaming this at the same time. The helicopter versus the boat. And there was this kind of feeling. They really got a lot of shot of the helicopter. Who's going to get there first? Biden or the other world leaders? And I think it came out as the boat got there faster, but it was very close. That boat's really moving. Look at the deer running.

13:43:00 John Daub: I think that's the camp spot in Miyajima where everybody was camping. It looks like Biden's helicopter landed on a baseball field. And Miyajima is not very big. I'm sure the leaders from this point where the ferry is, they were shuttled there by these buses. It's only about a 10 minute walk to get there. But by bus, maybe just a little bit more comfortable. They are in suits. It's kind of neat to see at Miyajima because we've all, like a lot of us that have been to Japan, we've all been to Miyajima and sat at that exact point. So it's cool to see all the world leaders taking it in, getting a photo there just like we did. And yeah, for me as a former resident of Hiroshima, pretty proud moment. So I can only imagine what Prime Minister Kishida was feeling when he was there.

15:24:00 John Daub: It does look a little bit green screen because they did have lights at the end. It was getting kind of dark at the end, but you can see they turned it around. You can see the media bank. It's just amazing. There must have been about 100 people taking pictures of them from this angle. And I bet you most of them were the Japanese media because when people do come, we're just very proud to have them come and visit. We feel good as hosts. Even the media does as well. They want to cover that and get that for the domestic audience. It's just curious how they react to Japan. Miyajima is a beautiful place here.

16:04:00 John Daub: Where exactly is this island? It wasn't too far away. You have Hiroshima City on the left side. And then on the right side, you see an island. That's Itsukushima, which we call Miyajima. Most people are just limited to this area right here around the village. The ferry dock's on the left side there. And there's Itsukushima Shrine (Jinja). And there's the torii gate, which I think is one of the big symbols of Miyajima right here. And the world leaders were right there at the end of the pier. That's where the picture's taken. And if you do come to Miyajima, you do have to get your picture taken there because it's so beautiful. Especially at sunset if you can. Bring a flash because you're going to need it. Itsukushima Shrine is also called the floating shrine because when the tide is in, the water goes all the way underneath it. And you have this really relaxing sound of the water, especially at night with the crickets. It's a really cool sound.

17:30:00 John Daub: Now the village of Miyajima is the place where you can find a lot of Miyajima here. Lots of street food. You can walk all around the water's edge and into the town a little bit. There's parks in the back. You can climb Mount Misen, which has monkeys on it. Watch out because I remember climbing it. I was making fun of them. I'm glad the world leaders didn't climb it, to be honest. I remember climbing it. This is 27 years ago. And I was making fun of the monkeys. And then one of the monkeys reached into his bum and pulled out poo. And he threw it at me. He threw it at my friends. We were all just arrived in Japan. I didn't know that monkeys could throw their poo at people. Like when you want to throw a stick or a rock, I guess you work with what you have. He didn't get any of us, but he could have. I think they've had 20 years of practice now. So don't make fun of the crows or the monkeys in Japan. They will go after you. They're very, very short-tempered.

18:32:00 John Daub: So for that, now you get an idea of what they ate here. What it was like. The food, of course, very Japanese. We only had low-res images. That's the one with the Omi beef in there. But I bet you these menus make it to some restaurant and they try to recreate it. Because I remember 7-Eleven tried to recreate the meals from the Olympic Village. Which is really cool. But you guys weren't here to eat that because Japan was closed at the time. They had a lot of the dishes that they created for the athletes. I thought that was neat. So it might be cool if a restaurant tries to recreate some of the foods from the G7 Summit. Because it looks extremely delicious.

19:24:00 John Daub: I wonder if President Biden got an ice cream cone. Because they do have these momiji manju. These are Japanese maple leaf-shaped cakes. And there's one where they deep fry it on a stick. It must be the most delicious street food in the history of street food. It is the best. Deep fried cake. Come on. This is like the Iowa State Fair. Yeah, he probably should have had one of those. I'm sure they didn't walk around. But the island was closed. This is another thing that perturbed some of the tourists here. They closed the island for the G7 Summit. And unfortunately, those that had only a limited amount of time who went there weren't allowed to go. They couldn't get onto the ferry because there were none to take you to that island. For two or three days before the event for security reasons. And they swept that island many times before they had it.

20:25:00 John Daub: Now the world leaders here. You can see. I like this picture. They all look kind of uncomfortable though. Except for the Prime Minister. I love this. The Prime Minister is like, okay everybody. This was on the video that I showed. A couple of minutes ago. And he's like, okay everybody. He turned on the light and said smile for a sunset picture. And they took the picture. And then Prime Minister Kishida is like, okay let's go. I think he was hungry. And everybody, all the world leaders were like, wait a second. We didn't even see the sight from it. So they turned around and they got a chance to take a look at it finally. That was kind of this funny moment that happened. I guess they're kind of like photo ops. But you know, there's a lot of value in this. Because there is so much attention going to these attractions. I kind of get really happy about it. Because it shows off Japan's attractions to people who might not ordinarily have seen Japan at all. People that didn't care about Japan. Now we're seeing it in the news. So for me. As what I do. I was really happy to have this here. Never mind the politics. It's just kind of cool to have Japan highlighted in this way. And for those that love Japan. I'm sure you kind of feel the same way.

21:44:00 John Daub: The G7 will invite other world leaders to come to the G7 as well. So they had like a group of four. Which was Australia's Prime Minister. Biden. Kishida. And India's Prime Minister Modi. Who else came here? The new president of Brazil. Who is the old president of Brazil. He was here. President Zelenskyy from Ukraine. As well as. It's always exciting to have him here. Because me being. I'm American. But half Indian. I know that the. I've been to the Indian Embassy many times. And they always talk about the times where Prime Minister comes to visit the Embassy. Some share that they had a wild time. They said that one day if they have an event I'd be able to go. Shout out to the Indian Embassy. I would love to go. I did go to a couple of the events. That's kind of cool for the Indian community here.

22:56:00 John Daub: Event in Hiroshima. I think was a huge success from a tourist point of view. But for an activist point of view. Which is the city of Hiroshima very much. An activist city. In the sense that they want to get rid of all nuclear weapons. And proliferation. And again. It was sort of a sensitive topic. And there was talk. I don't think they would have achieved what they wanted to anyways. But you can't stop that from it. This is something that you can never really stop doing. So hopefully the media can focus on that today. I'm hoping. Because it seems like they didn't focus on it enough. Which is one reason why you would do it. Not just because it's the Prime Minister's hometown. But because it does have a really good message. And it's a message that you can't just say. Never again. Which is one of the phrases I think sticks out in my mind. Living there. Like we can't let this happen ever again. So we'll see if this resonates at all going forward with the media. Because they're the ones who. And people like me. Who get it out there. So it's important for me to mention this. Because that's the reason why a lot of you will go to Hiroshima.

24:11:00 John Daub: Japan was so brilliant. We're excited about it. Check this out here. So this picture. This came out in the media. About three months ago. It's an okonomiyaki burger. I don't even think it's a real thing. But they put the American flag there. I think was more about how excited Hiroshima was. From a tourist standpoint. From a just a proud to be represented standpoint in the world. And they created some really weird foods. But okonomiyaki in itself is a pretty weird food. It's not a pancake. It's also not. I don't know what it is exactly. It's okonomiyaki. And they make it into a burger. So I would like to try to find this burger. And I would like to eat it. But I don't think it exists actually. But it's one of the images that will stick in my mind. As somebody who's been following the G7 event for the last couple of months.

25:06:00 John Daub: This is the social dinner that they had. Let's take just a really quick look at the. Oh I see lobster on here. The social dinner was on the 20th. Hairy crab royale. I don't even know what a lot of stuff is. Oysters. Good. They had something from Hiroshima. The oysters here are legendary. And sea urchin with Miyazaki caviar. That comes from the city of Kobayashi. And I've covered that here on this channel. So the caviar is all. I'm sure people had questions about it. They raise their own caviar. They farm it here in Japan. Which is pretty cool. Marinated Ise lobster. Artichoke mousse. Sounds pretty weird. Lemon miso soup. That sounds interesting. Lemon is very popular in Hiroshima. The Seto region. Hiroshima, Okayama. They got a lot of sunshine. So the lemons here are some of the best in Japan. So you'll see lemons in a lot of the cuisine. The brie cheese wrapped Kagoshima wagyu beef filet. So you had Ise. Omi beef and Kagoshima wagyu. Which was a co-branded. They're the winner of the Olympics last year. Edamame. Steamed tilefish rice. Yuba. Pepper leaf bud. Ginger sprouts. Okonomiyaki. They had okonomiyaki on the menu. But Japanese oysters. Green onion. Dried seaweed. Shaved bonito fish. And Iwate Dairy cheesecake. Iwate up in Tohoku. I'm glad that's kind of represented here. And Miyagi. Also Tohoku. That's where the prefecture of Sendai is in. Miyagi's got some good strawberries for sure. And chocolate origami cake. That cake looks good. They even had booze on the menu. A lot of it is Hiroshima stuff. Sparkling sake. I wonder if they had Dassai because that's from Iwakuni. I guess not. That's from the neighboring town, Yamaguchi. Cool to see the menu. They had black tea, green tea from Ishinomaki City, which was impacted from the tsunami and earthquake in 2011, and a G7 blended coffee. I don't know what that's all about.

27:24:00 John Daub: I'm just fascinated, right? For me, I think this is cool just to unpack what we've seen in the news for the last couple of days. The security here has been crazy. There's been an assassination last year and another attempt this year. So I think that the police did a pretty good job. Apparently, firefighters and police from all over the country were there. There are reports of tourists who watch the show giving me updates that they saw something. They saw firefighters from Fukuoka, and they saw police officers from Osaka and other areas to come and lend a hand. And there were demonstrations and protests going on as well. And I think it went off pretty good. I'm not much of an activist or protester unless someone takes my food away too early, like a server. They do that, and then I will protest very hard. Did you ever have that happen to you? They never really do that in Japan. They usually will ask, but I've had people take my food away before I was finished. Oh my gosh, that's a big no-no.

28:34:00 John Daub: I think that it's great for Japan. Everyone is coming here. MrBeast was here for YouTube community. You know, PewDiePie moved here. MrBeast was here just a few weeks ago. I guess I could say the news right now, but Jetlag: The Game, Sam Wendover, I got a chance to meet him and his team for dinner at Gompachi, which is cool. They just announced that they're going to be showing my friend Scotty was in it. So they've already released a trailer of it, and I can talk about it, I think. But it was really cool to get a chance to meet up with those guys. And Scotty from Strange Parts is a good friend of mine, and it's going to be funny watching him compete with the Jetlag guys. Very creative YouTube creators who turn traveling into a game.

29:29:00 John Daub: Now, in the past, the G7 or G8 summit has been held in Japan about every seven or eight years. And in the olden days, I guess back in the 1970s, they were held almost exclusively in Tokyo, if you take a look back at it. And it wasn't until maybe, when, like the year 2000, they had it held in Kyushu and Okinawa. Because I remember in Miyazaki when I was hitchhiking in 2003, they were still talking about the G8 summit at Miyazaki that was held there. And where was it next? I think it was in 2008 at Hokkaido. And then the last one was in 2016 in Ise-Shima. And then Hiroshima this year. I don't know where the next one is going to be, but... It's just kind of exciting, and I'm glad they're not doing it in Tokyo anymore. Imagine how bad the traffic would be. Oh my gosh, it's already crazy with tourists all over the place. But does seem like the world is converging. World leaders are coming here. Celebrities are coming here. Everybody's wanting to come here.

30:41:00 John Daub: Tomorrow I'll probably talk about the story of a YouTuber who did some pretty nasty stuff here. I think I shared this on Twitter. And when the good come, so does the bad. Not all funny games. There are some pretty nasty people out there. And there was one guy on YouTube, a YouTuber, a Twitch. I think most of his accounts have been banned. He was on a train heckling, telling people here in Tokyo that what happened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki will happen again to them. And calling them the N-word. He's not even American. He's Somalian, I believe. But pretending to be American. And it really... Made a lot of people here upset. And we're... I might talk about that tomorrow a little bit. Because as Japan gets more popular, that's also good and it's also... Bad stuff happens as a result of that too. And if you take a look at my Twitter. What is it? Only in Japan TV is the handle name. I posted... I shared the video that I found about it. And it's... It makes you sick when you see something like that. I'm not much of an activist. But I would be happy if he got deported. Deportation means that you are... You can't come back for seven years minimum. And I'm pretty sure it's not a free flight. And I'm pretty sure that you get a chance to stay at the detention center. Which is not nice.

32:35:00 John Daub: Beautiful day. This is the weather that you just love. The middle end of May. Oh my gosh, it's perfect. Humidity, not quite there yet. I even have a long-sleeve shirt. Because in the evenings it does get cooler. But when it comes to weather, Hiroshima is amazing. It's just so warm. It's got that Seto Inland Sea there. You can get ferries that takes you to Matsuyama. To Dogo Onsen. Hiroshima is very much a port town. The Carp baseball team is there. Oh, there's so many attractions. The food is incredible. What am I doing in Tokyo? I want to move back to Hiroshima.

33:26:00 John Daub: Alright, this has been a fun time. I'll take a couple of questions for you. If you go to Miyajima, which is the island. You'll find oysters everywhere. Little stands that catch them. And then they will just maybe put a little dashi or soy sauce in it. And then boil it in the shell. And then you can eat it. Or you can eat them raw as well. They're huge. They're really huge. And they're so good. The sea there. That Seto Inland Sea is so good. The seafood there is also out of sight.

34:04:00 John Daub: Any unique vending machines as of late? I can't think of any. Most of the machines are kind of boring. They all look the same now. There are these refrigerated machines where you can buy things from it. Yesterday, Kanae and I went to the festival yesterday. Called Sanja Matsuri. Yesterday was the last day of it. It was an incredible event. And I was really happy to get a chance to see it because for three years. This event has been going on. And we hadn't. Really felt like it was the same because of the pandemic. Everybody had masks on. Everything was more subdued. But you can see there's a lot of people at and about. It was awesome. I got a chance to see some of you as well. People found me walking around the streets. Taking that video, for example. Got some fist bumps as well. So thanks for coming up to say hi to me. It's a good time. I think for those that are visiting Japan are really blessed right now with incredible blue skies and weather here. Rainy season in Okinawa is going to be coming up to Tokyo around the middle of June. June 10th is about when the rainy season starts. But everything's going pretty good here.

36:19:00 John Daub: Just wondering, have you ever tried or heard about anything? Tokyo Island lemons? Yes. When I was on Ogasawara a few years ago. I brought back a bunch of the lemons. They do taste a little bit different. A little bit more sweet and sour. More intense, I thought. But there are some island lemons which are incredible. The Bonin Islands out there. That's definitely a thing.

36:48:00 John Daub: Do you remember the YouTuber that got in trouble before the pandemic? Logan Paul? I remember. Is there a faster Shinkansen that can get you to Hiroshima to Tokyo faster? I don't know. I don't think so. Just the Nozomi. I think the Nozomi is the fastest, right? It's about 3 hours and 30 minutes approximately. Which is still pretty darn fast if you consider how far away it is. But some of them won't stop in the smaller stations. Some Nozomi go Nagoya, Kyoto, Shin-Osaka, Shin-Kobe, Okayama, Hiroshima. That's it. And that's pretty quick. If you want to get Hiroshima stuff, actually, there's a store about 250 meters. That's like maybe 200 meters. Two football fields away from here or less. And there's a Hiroshima store in Ginza which is crazy. You can get all the lemon cake and the momiji manju. It's all in there. So maybe I'll make a stop there to celebrate.

38:08:00 John Daub: The Chuo Shinkansen won't be around until 2030, I believe. And it's only going to Nagoya. And it can take you to Nagoya in 45 minutes. And then you can change to the Nozomi Shinkansen from there. That'll probably shave off 45 minutes, right? That'll shave off a lot of time. But I don't think the Chuo Shinkansen is going all the way down to Hiroshima. I think you're going to have to change to Shin-Osaka eventually. But if you can get to Osaka in like an hour, that means it would take two hours to get to Hiroshima. That's pretty crazy.

38:48:00 John Daub: Do you have a favorite baseball team in Japan? Probably the Carp because I used to go to their games all the time. I was friends with the mascot named Wiley. He was this really tall foreigner guy. And we'd always go to the bar after the games. A bar called Kemby's. K-E-M-B-Y-S. Like Gumby, I guess. Kemby's. It was new at the time. It's not new anymore. It's a nice place. You can get a good burger there. But we'd meet him there every now and then. And my friends also were friends with him. So got acquainted with the mascot. I don't think he does it anymore. But it was a tall Western guy who was inside there. And Wiley looks exactly like the Philadelphia Phanatic. If you're a mascot expert. Yeah, the Carp.

39:41:00 John Daub: Actually, President Biden left early. To go back for the debt ceiling thing. It's going on. Which is kind of a shame. Because I know that there are some things still going on today. But for Japan, when the domestic policy questions came from the pool of reporters that came with Biden. It was kind of weird because nobody else really cares about the debt ceiling and the stuff going on in the US. They're like, Biden is here for international stuff. Why are you guys talking about domestic stuff? So that was something that came up in the domestic news. The domestic news when they talked when Biden would talk about domestic stuff. They would cut off of his live interviews. Which is interesting. And they would talk about other things. But there were noticeably reporters upset with President Zelenskyy visiting Japan. Because they felt that he overshadowed some of the things that they wanted to cover. Most particularly the nuclear proliferation and the end of that. But how can you blame him? How can you blame the dude? Those events still went on I believe. I wrote on Twitter to this reporter. I said, don't blame the president of a war torn country. Blame your editor in chief for making you go to that. Alright? Don't blame him. The question came off so awkward from the Japan Times. I feel really bad for that reporter. And I don't at the same time. You have to know better. You can't have your one question to a world leader like that. Be that. That just shows how small and petty the Japan Times is. A paper that's been around for over a hundred years.

41:23:00 John Daub: So I want to take you down in this direction here. Check it out. This is the building where the Olympics store was held here. But it's not anymore. I think it's empty. And here's the Hokkaido store. This is where I still get some of my Hokkaido goodies. There's an Okinawa store that's been moved into this shop. There used to be one on the corner in Ginza. That's not there anymore. Alright guys, thanks so much. Where are you at now, bro? I'm in Yurakucho.

42:09:00 John Daub: Alright everybody. I hope this was enlightening and for historical purposes perhaps a little bit of a memory of what had happened here in May 2023. I'll see you in another livestream tomorrow as I'll probably be in Tokyo for a little while. But I have some friends visiting from out of town. They're competitive eaters and I'm looking forward to seeing them and taking them to some pretty cool restaurants to eat. And perhaps I will livestream some of that as well because that would just be pretty cool to see. See you guys. Bye from Yurakucho.

42:44:00 John Daub: But also if you don't mind, the postcard club this month is Godzilla with Mario. It's a limited edition because that Mario movie poster I think is already down. But this is a really unique corner of Shinjuku. And for those that get it, I will be putting on this also no longer. The longer available Pokemon card game stamps from Japan. Which one's Pikachu? There he is, right there. These Pokemon card stamps will be what you will be receiving. One of these 10. Which is kind of cool. It goes on this card. So yeah, help to support the channel right there. I'd really appreciate it. Alright, now I can go. Matane.