00:01 John Daub: So here we are at Tokyo Disneyland's hotel. Well, sort of. This is the Sheraton. Check it out here. There goes the monorail. And you can see just in the distance—this is going to be really interesting for a lot of you. The new park is almost finished. Well, it's planned to open in spring of 2024. It's a pretty cool view. We just had breakfast. We came out here and before we leave the hotel, I think it's been a while since I did a live show.

00:35 John Daub: I thought it would be really cool to kind of share with you what's been going on. If you don't know the Disneyland and DisneySea here in Tokyo, they're quite different. Let me show you a video. This is the new park called Frozen Kingdom. It's going to be coming to Japan—it opens in spring of 2024. Some slight delays. But there's a lot of construction going on. There's a lot more finished than on Google Earth. It looks like it's going to be quite an extension of DisneySea, apparently. It's not its own park. The information has been changing over the years. But the park itself, an extension of DisneySea, which people are not as excited about because it does feel smaller than Tokyo Disneyland. But with this extension, I think DisneySea is going to make a huge comeback.

01:41 John Daub: This is in the scope of where it is in all of Tokyo. You can see Tokyo DisneySea is quite nice. And I'm at the Sheraton. And you can see the S-shaped part of the hotel, which gives it a lot of view of both the seaside and we're facing the park, which is the side you probably want to be facing for a reason. And I'll show you why in a second. But this Frozen Kingdom looks like it's going to be pretty exciting. Looking down there, that's the Bayside Station of the monorail that you just saw going by. And there's a hotel in that empty space there on the right that is almost completed. Do you see that right in the center of your screen? That is that completed hotel. And I guess it's like a Frozen-type hotel. I'm not sure exactly. But should be pretty cool when it opens.

02:17 John Daub: There's also right in the distance here. Kanae and Leo are packing up. Kanae, Leo's watching videos of our adventure from yesterday, which I'm going to be sharing with you in a minute. I can see Tokyo DisneySea and Tokyo Disneyland from Sheraton, which is I think maybe the best of the five or six hotels along the coast on the outs. We're on the island, but we're not inside the park like the Disney hotels. But I'm going to pan here. You can see there's Space Mountain. And there's the new park right there. Look at that weird mountain with the clouds. And you can see the Disney castle just to the left of it. I turned the stabilization off. That was a big mistake. Yeah, I know the train. Leo is joining us here on the balcony.

03:24 John Daub: The other great thing about this hotel in particular is at night you can see the fireworks and the fireworks are just to the right of the Disney castle there. And it's right there. This is a super cool place. It's super wide, so looks much further than it really is. And right in this space, amazing view at 8:30 p.m. of the fireworks. Let me just show you what our day was like. So there's two parts to the day. This is part one. Yeah, Leo's crying here. So this will be, especially if you have a family, this will be a good little overview. I'll narrate it as we go. There's music in there. I think it might be better if I just talk about it. Leo was a little bit cranky in the morning. He likes to be picked up a lot.

04:34 John Daub: We stayed at—we ate at the New York Deli restaurant, which didn't have that many people in there at the time. And then when we got in there, it got really crowded. It's best to eat before lunchtime. And any opportunity where Leo gets a chance to drive a car, even though it's not going anywhere, we had to stop and let him go ahead and do that. That's the outdoor balcony, that corner there at the restaurant where we ate. This is Toy Story Land. And there's that haunted tower and the volcano. You know, these are all parts that make DisneySea kind of unique. But the Toy Story ride, the line was like two hours long and we're not going to do that because it takes one minute to finish. Standing in line with Leo, a kid that's two and a half years old for two hours, it would be just incredibly painful.

05:02 John Daub: So this is what we ended up doing most of the time. Taking in the free rides, the things that had lines of 15 minutes or less, including the Disney—instead of a parade, they do stuff like on the harbor, which is cool. And then we got tickets to go in and see the Mickey Jamboree, which is this song that's only in Japan. You have to learn the steps and you get a chance to see Mickey when you do it. Leo got a little bit tired as the day went on and you can see it's harder. So we ended up getting onto the train and going back to the hotel by monorail. That's about all we did in the morning session before he conked out. We really did a lot more than we thought we would, but I don't go to Disney so much for the rides and stuff anymore. I pretty much come here just to walk around the park because you have to be insane to wait in line for two hours. No offense to those that do, but you have to be pretty crazy to wait in line for two hours, especially with a kid.

06:03 John Daub: That's back at the Sheraton. There you go. The hotel here, it is a nice view from the Sheraton. Again, this is the nicest view because you can really see into the park. Do you see that? I don't know, that church looks new. That looks like it's on the—is that the Beauty and the Beast castle, Kanae? And in DisneySea there was another ride, this Greek-looking ride. But the line was three hours or something. You can see Space Mountain on the left side. And then there's—I guess that's the Ambassador Hotel or one of the Disney hotels there. That's the Beauty and the Beast ride that looks like a German steeple or something. Yeah, the Beauty and the Beast castle. Yeah, JKO Adventure knows quite well. The Hong Kong version of this Frozen Kingdom is going to be open in November, which is a reason maybe to go to Hong Kong, right?

17:52 John Daub: The one thing I don't like about Tokyo DisneySea—I don't like Duffy. Leo, do you like Duffy? Yeah. I don't like Duffy. Why? Because. Alright, Duffy is this like Japan-only Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea type of thing in the American Waterfront area. Like the whale, there's like a little whaling town section. And I don't like this Duffy. Does anybody here—Saya likes Duffy? It's just a teddy bear. An overpriced teddy bear. And the whole thing is about marketing. Actually all of Disney is about marketing. Daniel doesn't know Duffy. I don't understand Duffy. Maybe I don't understand Duffy. It looks like just a teddy bear you can get at Daiso (100-yen shop) for 100 yen. So my mind works much differently.

18:52 John Daub: For those that don't know Duffy, I kind of researched this for you so you don't have to. Here's Duffy. In fact, Tokyo DisneySea literally has the stuffed toy of Duffy and then an animated version. They want you to buy Duffy. I'm not buying Leo no Duffy. Did we buy Leo Duffy? No. We're going to buy Mickey stuff or something. Like I don't get Duffy. It's like, I think it's cute and it's marketed towards the domestic Japanese audience. There's Duffy and— who's that? ShellieMay. Oru. Was it a turtle? I don't know. And there's—I was interested in the food. Like it looks exactly made for marketing and selling stuffed animals. And that's why I don't like Duffy. And you see like all of the Japanese visitors that are coming. No offense. Taken. Maybe. But everybody seems to have like a Duffy head bag. Like they decapitated a stuffed animal, ripped open its skull, took out the stuffing and made a bag out of it. All right. I don't want one of those. What's so funny? Oh, Leo's laughing. A Pocoyo. Yeah.

20:21 John Daub: Yesterday, Leo was walking around the park and he's looking for Anpanman. And it's hard to tell him, you know, they don't have that at Disney. Doesn't quite understand that Anpanman is not here at Mickey Mouse Land. All right. Let me show you a little bit from the station here. I took a little bit of video. This is the Hotel Row. That's the Sheraton on the left. There's the Toy Story Hotel, which looks really nice. And you can see the Hotel Okura on the left. How small it is. And then there's the Hilton right there, which might be in second place. The Toy Story Hotel is one of the newer ones here. And this is the monorail for the Bayside Station. And then this side here, you can see the construction is finished on the Frozen Hotel, which is going to be right here. It's all part of Bayside Station.

21:24 John Daub: When it opens, there's a Bayside Station on the center of the screen. And that's the hotel right behind it. Looks like they just finished the exterior. And should be open well in advance of the park. So maybe they open up the hotel for business. I mean, why not? You might as well start making money off of the thing. There's still excavators down there. So they're still hard at work. This is a very significant update. Considering every time I come here, there's been construction for the last six years. And finally, the construction will be finished, which is a good thing. And they finished those mountains, which is like so cool on the horizon. It fits in so well. Doesn't it? It really does. Yes, Brandania, you are here at Tokyo Disneyland.

22:25 John Daub: I think I had one more video to show you before. This is why I like Tokyo DisneySea, though. It's not the biggest park. It's not the best park. It's not the only park. But it's got such an amazing vibe to it. I'm honestly—I get tired of walking around Tokyo because I live here, right? Yeah, I'm a resident of Tokyo. I see the same sights. It looks kind of urban-ish. I want to go to Italy. So for me, Tokyo DisneySea is kind of neat because it's like a little mini vacation. So this is the entrance of it. It's just different than Tokyo Disneyland. Wouldn't you say? Look at this. It's like Venice with a volcano in the background. And that volcano at night erupts. So you get like this lava flow, which is kind of cool. But right now they have the Mickey jack-o'-lanterns out. There was a mini one. And Leo's mesmerized by that. He's on the prowl looking for jack-o'-lanterns.

23:37 John Daub: But the view from DisneySea is just so cool. It's like a mini vacation from Tokyo. So I can see why people get annual passes. Tokyo Disneyland is for purists, I suppose. It really is not too much different from the one in Anaheim. But they do have some uniquely only-in-Japan stuff. In particular, the food that you'll see. But also the service. The service is exceptional here. Disney Parks do a really good job of that. But the staff have been really friendly. During the pandemic, we came here. And the staff were like, get away from us. Remember that? We met with Mary Poppins. And we tried to get in a photo. But Mary Poppins had to be in the background. So we kept—I think Kanae and Leo kept moving back towards her to get the picture. And she kept on moving back like this. And we felt somewhat offended. We never get offended. But like—really? I don't know. But that was during the pandemic. That was last year. Even though everyone had vaccinations and stuff. But I can understand the fear. You get to meet with a lot of people, right? You're putting yourself in harm's way. But we don't worry about that anymore.

24:51 John Daub: And I'm going to do a livestream later today. Maybe in Ginza to talk about that. People have been asking me, will you need vaccinations to come to Japan? Because there's this big push in the US for it. And I can understand why. We're probably not going to get that next vaccination. I think we're done with the vaccinations. But a lot of people have been asking me if they're going to need it to come to Japan. Because Japan is one of the more proactive like needing certifications and rules and stuff regarding this. It's not going to happen. But I will talk about it more a little bit later in the afternoon here. That's Sheraton Hotel. It's a beautiful day. It really is. Do you guys have any questions? Leo's favorite ride is the merry-go-round, right? Oh, really? Yeah, I think it's the merry-go-round.

26:03 John Daub: By the way, this is an edited video on this channel, which is rare. Go check it out. It's Japanese monster scallops. I take you to Hokkaido to check out the process of them catching it. And then we go to a restaurant in Tokyo to eat it. I love these kind of episodes. If you haven't already done that, leave me a comment on the scallops video. That encourages me to do more of these kind of really fast edited videos on this particular channel because it's all livestreams here. But I have to be honest. Before I go, I got a couple of things to say. This guy—I don't even want to say his name. But I think you know who he is. He's this IRL streamer. He was arrested two days ago because he went into a construction site with a mask on. Who does that? And then he said, oh, there is no signage. And the police tracked him down and found him at a 7-Eleven. And he was livestreaming it. And then he had a smile on his face as he was getting arrested. Does he have any idea what he's in for?

27:22 John Daub: I said this a few days ago. About five days ago. And got a lot of slack from people saying it's not just IRL streamers. Yes, it is. It's international live streamers that are coming here that are going to create—that are going to make this channel really hard for me in the future. Just like Logan Paul did when he did the stunts here. For about two years after that, it was really hard to get permits to film anywhere. Because no one wanted to work with YouTubers because of what he did. And now we got these jerks coming in here doing damage. Not understanding the laws of Japan. And it's creating issues for people like me. But now that he got arrested, I think that the laws might change for this. And this is really bad based on this jerk. So I hope if he's deported, he can't come back for seven years. That's part of being deported. And he has to pay for his own ticket out. It's not a free ride out. But you also get stuck in the detention center. And right now, he's not deported. He's arrested. So he'll be under shackles for a while. They can hold him for 23 days without any cause in Japan.

29:12 John Daub: No respect for Japanese culture or people. Or anybody for that matter. I think it's a good thing. I never thought that—I'm not a bad person. I never thought I would ever say that. But I'm glad somebody got arrested. And I'm surprised it didn't happen sooner. But yeah, he's got a three-year maximum sentence. They almost never give a prison sentence for that. But I would probably—after all the stuff he did, I think they reserved that right. And they might do that. But why pay to feed him when they can just deport him and let him be some other country's problem? I think I would just rather get rid of him and let him do this stuff somewhere else. I don't want to pay with taxes to house him. And that's probably what's going to happen. A lot of YouTubers have made videos about it. I'm not going to give any more oxygen that needs to be given to this dude. So there you go.

30:27 John Daub: It was a pretty interesting experience. I learned a couple of things. I don't like Duffy. DisneySea is pretty cool. You don't have to wait in line to enjoy the park. The food is always kind of neat. But it's pretty expensive. Actually, I knew that one. And we'll be back again in six months for Leo's third birthday. Because this is where he likes to come. I'll take one question. I believe the police already knew. Alright, let me put it to you like this. Somebody walking into a construction site and then getting kicked out. The police are not going to have six or seven police officers coming to arrest you. They already knew about him. And I'm pretty sure they were just putting together the paperwork. Because there's a lot of it to arrest somebody in Japan. It's not easy. If you put the police through all of this stuff, they're going to—he's in deep doo-doo. Alright? He doesn't know it yet. Or maybe he does and doesn't care. Maybe his channel is going to blow up or something. Because there's people who like this kind of stuff. But they don't have five or six or seven cops come to arrest you unless they've done their homework on you. And yeah. It's pretty bad.

31:48 John Daub: Satrio was here. I saw Satrio. We didn't get a picture at Disney. Satrio, by the way, thank you for the present Kanae showed me last night. We really, really appreciate that, Satrio. And it was good that you could find us, which is pretty incredible. At breakfast today, we saw a couple people that came to say hi, which I thought was really nice to me when I was eating and going around getting food. They catch me with a big stack of food on my plate. I was kind of embarrassed. I don't know why. But I found that it's interesting to me how some Westerners eat compared to Japanese. And it's been a while since I was in a setting at a hotel where there were Japanese and Westerners like here. I'll tell you one quick story as I wait for a question.

32:45 John Daub: There was a mother. And it was a rather bigger family from the US. And the kid had on his plate, like, I don't know. I might be upset at Leo if he did this and he was, you know, nine. I think it was—the kid looked like he was nine or ten. He was a big kid. And gosh, he had all these carbs on his plate. And he had eggs and bacon and all these bread from the bakery place. And then his mom looked at it. And I thought his mom was going to make him put it back or something. But she said, oh no, you need sauce with that. And she went and got the ketchup. And she drowned the eggs with it. And she put the eggs with ketchup on her son's plate. And like, I'm not judgmental. I don't think I am. I was just shocked. Because ketchup is not the healthiest thing for you, especially that much of it. The son didn't voluntarily put the ketchup on there. But the mother put the ketchup on the son's plate. Like, a lot of it.

34:07 John Daub: Because Kanae is really more pickier with the food. The mother did look like she wasn't in the best shape of her life. Neither was I a couple of months ago. So everybody's different. But I was just shocked at the way some people eat. And then there's some Westerners that were just eating yogurt and fruits. I don't think there's anything in between. So I was just curious. Because I've been in Japan for more than half my life now. And I'm just used to the ways here. So it's just weird to see the eating habits of different people. And the Japanese, I think, in a public buffet setting, I don't think they're going to do a yama—no, a mountain of food. Because people are watching them. And Westerners don't care. But it was just shocking in a way. I don't know, Teresa. I'm not judging. I eat ketchup sometimes too. But I've never seen it on eggs like that before.

35:16 John Daub: And then I remember I was in the line. Just little things. They just surprise me. Because I'm not used to it. The omelet line that was too long. So I didn't wait for it. But there was like this other dish that you could take that was eggs. So I went and got that. And the guy in the omelet line turned to his girlfriend and said, do you want an omelet? And she looked at her plate. And she had all these croissants. And she had already eggs. And she said, yes, two. So they're getting three omelets. And the line was so long. And I guess maybe that's why. I think it's like one person, one omelet, isn't it? So he asked for three omelets. And the Japanese chefs didn't know what to do. And he just said okay and he just made the three omelets. Sometimes it's easier to make just the omelets. I don't know. I was just shocked. Because in Japan, we wouldn't do that. We'd just get in line. It's a different culture, you know?

36:19 John Daub: How can you stuff yourself and then be happy in the park? Because you feel all gassy and full. Like I did at dinner. I'm done with food buffets. But this is my first food buffet in five or six months that I can recall. But anyways, I digress. It's just been a pretty cool experience in more ways than one. We're going to get on the JR train and head back to Tokyo. It's only 20 minutes for us to get here from like door to the park, which is so cool. I could ride my bike. I rode my bicycle here during the pandemic. Like I was afraid to take public transportation and took an hour to ride my bike here because I got to go on the highway a little bit. Well, a bridge that's near the highway. I'm not judging. Just shocked because of my culture here and the lack of my understanding of what happened from the 1990s when I left here.

37:19 John Daub: The thing is the America that I knew in 1998 when I left is just different in 2023. Twenty-five years later, I'm a different person than I was. But as an American, I'm still stuck in 1998. Seinfeld, Friends, even Cheers. Like this is—you know, unpolitically correct TV shows, which I don't see what's wrong with a lot of it because I don't understand the culture of the US the last 25 years. And then we had Canadian guy. He wrote in and said that on my fireworks video, he said in Canada they're banning fireworks because it freaks out the animals and people that are new to Japan because they think the refugees thought it sounded like war. And I said, well, first of all, immigrants and refugees are supposed to assimilate into the culture and that the culture assimilate to them. And it's second, the animals are probably always going to be shocked by it. But you don't change your traditions to think about the animals. I don't know. I'm not Canadian, but I don't know. I'm stuck in 1998. And it's a happy place. Beavis and Butthead. Things have changed in the last 10 years. I don't know. And I am an honorary Canadian. But I will stay out of politics. I don't have any opinion on Justin Trudeau. OK, even though it might not be a good one because of—I don't know what's happening with India and Canada. I don't know. So but as an honorary Canadian, I take my role seriously and I am not aggressive.

39:39 John Daub: And I ate real maple syrup for breakfast a little bit from Canada. They have it here. The good stuff. All right, everybody. That's all I have for you right now. And if you have any questions, you can leave them down in the comments. Disney is the only place that doesn't have drones yet. No drones. They had fireworks yesterday. So there's the question. I'm glad we got one. They had fireworks yesterday and the fireworks are pretty good. Let me see if I can bring it up. Fireworks are pretty good here. This is from our—you can see the left right side our door right outside the window. And I'm holding Leo at the same time. So you can see fireworks. I would not be happy with drones. I want fireworks. All right. It's part of Japanese culture that I know of. All right, everybody. Have a good day. I'll see you maybe this afternoon from Ginza. Where I'll do a livestream at 2 p.m. Enjoy DisneySea's Frozen Kingdom coming spring of 2024. And we'll be here for that because Leo's birthday is in March. So maybe we'll be here for that too. Hey, Brandania. Bye, Michael. Later, Carrie. Bye, Rodney. Ciao, UFO Bob.