00:03 John Daub: Hello everybody, welcome to Ikebukuro. If you're spending two or three days in Tokyo, this will be one of the places you probably make a stop because it is really vibrant. This is a part of the city where a lot of young people are, a lot of universities are here, so you have a different vibe. The hall is Brillia Hall, and this is also the Toshima Civic Center, Toshima being one of Tokyo's 23 wards in the metropolitan area. And I am John. How you doing everybody?

00:34 John Daub: Welcome to Ikebukuro. Kanae and Leo actually went inside the hall there. They're going into a performance. I thought I was going to go with Kanae and Leo was going to go to his hoikuen (preschool), but somehow I got kicked out and then Leo decided to go. So I'm just going to give you a walk around town and go back home. It's like what? Okay, so that's the way things are. But we did stop for lunch. There's this new restaurant here from Brooklyn. It's an American restaurant. They have French toast. They're kind of skimpy with the syrup though. I guess you could ask for more. Leo and everybody got the French toast, which is quite good. Although somehow I ended up with a 5,000 yen bill out of this, but hey, there you go. It's a little scary. Speaking of scary, they let you draw on the tables and I had a zombie going on there because we're getting closer to Halloween and with the cooler weather, it certainly feels like it. So thank you everybody for the super chats over the last week or so because that paid for our lunch. Michael Cesano talking to you, bro. And everybody else, WRX Turbo and our family people watching today.

01:35 John Daub: A lot of people come here and they end up going the same route to the Seibu department store and to the Sunshine City down this street over there. But I think there's a lot more to this area of Ikebukuro. I talked with my friend Matt Alton and we were discussing places where Japanese subculture, anime, manga has really been blossoming. Of course everybody knows about Akihabara but it's become something of a tourist trap. You don't really see locals there anymore and the maid cafes boom is certainly past its peak. So we're finding places like this Animate building here in Ikebukuro. It's real inside the shop. Oh so there's a gachapon and a lot of figures. There's even a cafe. Interesting, these are the type of gachapon I like. They're basically anime manga themed but there's a theater upstairs as well so I guess they do some sort of idol performances. So there's a lot of stuff happening inside of there. The Toho Cinema over there so if you want to go catch a movie, that's brand new so the seating is a little bit more of a luxury than the other ones. Nice.

03:15 John Daub: The play that they're going to go see was interesting. You know my wife is a dancer so she teaches students here in Japan contemporary modern dance and ballet as well, teaches kids. So she's taken Leo to go see Billy Elliot and he thought that perhaps Leo would like it more than I would. It's a musical and it's in Japanese so I've seen the movie years ago but yeah. And it's got a cast of kids so maybe Leo will get inspired. Seems like Leo is gonna be a dancer. He can't stop dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller and Beat It. There's something about Michael Jackson that really has a synergy with kids, you know, the funky pop stuff like that, the moves.

04:08 John Daub: All right so we're walking out towards the Sunshine City in the entertainment district that used to be one of the more vibrant and more popular areas of the city. I keep on forgetting because there's a car park right in the middle, this is actually a road where cars come through here but it's a weird road because there's so many pedestrians walking left and right. Do pay attention and make sure even though there's a lot of people walking in the center of the road and it is something of a shopping entertainment street, there's still cars coming along here. Not many cars but just enough to make it where you could get swiped. Ikebukuro really is in need of a good overhaul. It just feels a little dated, not good dated either, especially the station. Ikebukuro Station is really not that wonderful anymore. And that says a lot because if you compare it to Shibuya Station, Ikebukuro really does look dated now. Shibuya is still actually undergoing a very significant renovation right now and I think in 2027 it's gonna be amazing. Already the buildings around it, it's like mind-blowing. That's the future right now, Shibuya. But Ikebukuro certainly needs that.

05:38 John Daub: This is exactly where we are here in Ikebukuro as on the Yamanote line. I think many of you know this already. It goes around the city. The Kanda River on the right side you see that used to be the way people got around but now we have a subway so there you go. That's where the Toho Cinema is in that very tall building. There's that famous white stack which used to be one of the tallest structures in Ikebukuro. Now a lot of other buildings have come in here taken over the entertainment area because they're newer and they're pretty vibrant. Here you can see that's the park, that's Naka Ikebukuro Koen (Central Ikebukuro Park) which has very little green grass. There's a Seibu Department Store which used to be, I think it still might be, the biggest department store in the world. We go to the other side of Ikebukuro Park and you can see the Seibu Department Store has a beer garden. I don't know if they still do but there's certainly a garden at the top of it. There's Ikebukuro Station right there and all of its 1970s glory. It really does seem dated. I didn't realize it until I started seeing all the other stations being renewed. Ikebukuro kind of stayed the same. There's a Sunshine 60. I believe it's Sunshine 60. I haven't actually been up there but pretty good views of the city of Tokyo.

07:26 John Daub: Here's where we are right now, this is the Round 1 entertainment building. Boom, right right here. So let's take a quick look see. This used to be the poppin' hopping street here in Ikebukuro 20 some years ago and now it's kind of become spread out because this area it does feel dated. The game center culture is gone so a lot of these big wide open buildings, these used to be game centers for young people but nobody plays them because of the consoles. So that really changed quite a bit and what they've done is they've put in places like Namco. They've put in UFO catchers and gachapon. UFO catchers and gachapon on the first floor because they make more money than game centers. So it's kind of sad that we lost that but it's interesting that they still are around finding ways to make money. Gachapon being the official Bandai official gachapon machines inside there. Maybe we'll go take a quick look see if the signal holds out. It's a weekday. On the weekends Ikebukuro is extremely crowded, even this street. So if you see a lot of people this is pretty impressive for a Wednesday or is it a Thursday.

08:40 John Daub: I think a lot of you know that Gigo is a Sega Worlds. The Sega game centers were taken over by Gigo so they've done a kind of an interesting thing by putting in more UFO catchers and gachapons and there are a few games inside there. You can see crane games on the third floor and a cafe on the fourth floor. But they've taken that. I think if any entrepreneur should start buying those old games from the 1990s and 2000s and hold on to it for a year and then bring it back because I know a lot of foreign tourists that would pay double what the prices should be so that they would have those kind of game centers. I know they're gonna make a comeback. It's inevitable but just seems like that's like a part of Tokyo that's missing. The game centers are just, it's not quite the same here. That's interesting they have what is that a chipmunk there. So there's a lot of pet cafes. Otter Kindergarten which is interesting here on the fifth floor. I wonder if that squirrel wants to get away and climb one of these trees. This is the one place where you're not going to find a lot of trees so you'd probably be able to find that otter or whatever it is.

10:18 John Daub: Nitori, what was this before, Tokyo Hands maybe? I can't recall. Nitori is a big chain. I think they have one or two stores in the US but it's like furnishings for your house. And you can see the Sunshine City building again. This is the big place. I don't really think it is anymore. Ikebukuro has changed so much so it's not very far from the station. Now this is the most important thing. It is very easy to get lost in Ikebukuro. Before you come here please do me a favor, do some research, look at the maps and find out which exit that you want to get out of because there are a thousand exits. It's even more chaotic than Shinjuku, probably worse. But it's really chaotic to get around Ikebukuro Station if you don't have a game plan. The East exit is the one that you want to get out of but there's like three or four East exits okay. So just pick the East, the Ikebukuro East exit main Central and then you come out pretty much in the center of everything. A lot of people come down the Sunshine Dori which is where we are but I think the Sunshine 60 Dori, that's where we are. There's another Sunshine Dori so there's two Sunshine streets. That's kind of confusing.

11:44 John Daub: But we started here at the Naka Ikebukuro Park or the Central Ikebukuro Park right here and this seems to be more of an area that's starting to really blossom in Ikebukuro. If you look up you can see the Sunshine 60 building which used to be the tallest building in Japan I believe, tallest building in Asia wasn't it for a little while. So it's kind of old. They light it up at night. Those lights up on the, I think the lights up there, not sure anymore, probably do it for renovations. And then you have yeah game centers and there's a Kura Sushi up there. They do a really good job of catering to foreign tourists now because they've got chains in the U.S. now. They're quite used to Westerners. The Kura Sushi in Ginza was incredible. I took Leo there about a week ago. He seemed to have a lot of fun. So we're gonna walk down the Sunshine 60 Street here and then make a right. I'll show you the Ikebukuro station again. Remember like this is actually a road. Very few cars are brave and easy. I think a lot of the people who are driving here usually have a business or they've got some kind of job to do. Very little parking in this area.

13:12 John Daub: One thing that's very famous as we walk around Ikebukuro and I'm looking at the chat here, that's why I put the camera in this direction. There's a lot of bars here. This is a drinking town more so than Shibuya. And if you're gonna ever set up a bar, Ikebukuro might be a better place because people drink more here than they would in Shibuya. I don't know. Shibuya just kind of feels real touristy but Ikebukuro feels more local because a lot of people especially from Saitama, this is their hub into the city of Tokyo. So you got a lot of people from Saitama. Oh let's go. We can take a quick look see at the gachapon inside of Namco. Maybe give me a thumbs up if you want to see more gachapon. How about that.

14:10 John Daub: How's it gonna be but maybe we could just take a quick look. Wow you can do like home furnishings here. I got more questions than answers. I don't know, melted dango why. Oh they do have the drum game. You don't see a lot of them anymore. That's kind of fun to look at. He's pretty good. All right now we're out of there so let's walk over towards Ikebukuro station. Give you kind of an idea of the vibe. They do pump out that music pretty loud onto the street here. I noticed that Matsumoto Kiyoshi, the pharmacy store, they also sell KitKats and the bags that they sell with KitKats are 199 yen where typically it's 299 yen and I was like wait how do they do it 100 yen cheaper and then I noticed that they put in like four less KitKats or something. I said so that's how they do it.

16:30 John Daub: Now because I told you there's a lot of students in Ikebukuro you can see the food here is going to be cheaper. A lot of these places are ramen shops catering to students in particular. Some of them are cafes so you're gonna find some cheap eats here. Just that New York place I think was an outlier. That's why my jaw dropped, said 5,000 yen for three people for three French toasts. I was like that's kind of a lot but it was a nice place and they were pretty quick with the food I guess because it's hard to find customers to pay how much for lunch. Usually lunch you can get for like between 500 to a thousand yen per person. You can get one coin lunches. See look what they've done here Gigo. So the other store the Namco is more of a red theme and Gigo goes all blue. Looks like a futuristic area. Wow they've kind of gone the next level with this.

17:41 John Daub: I just don't play the UFO catchers. I don't do UFO catchers because it's all a scam I think. I mean like what do you win. It's one of Steve Martin's The Jerk, one of the greatest movies of all time in my opinion. Although in 50 years later probably some issues and that wouldn't work in today's movie industry. Especially if you watch Disney stuff from classic Disney and today's Disney. I don't think The Jerk would do well in today's world but nevertheless there was a lot of lessons I learned from that including you know a special purpose and also watch it as a kid. It's like mommy what's a special purpose. How to dance and I also learned about carnivals and how they scam people where people will pay a lot of money and they win and they get that feeling of winning but what did they really win. They won some crap and that's quoting the carny guy from the movie. So I learned quite a lot from watching Steve Martin who is one of the great actors of all time. Gosh how it's hard not to love Steve Martin.

19:27 John Daub: So this Milky Way, this mermaid cafe I guess. There's a Milky Way on the second floor. This is kind of new. They've really done a good job of renovating some of the shops but just the whole feeling of Ikebukuro it feels dated and that's something that they have to work on. I think that's a stack. That's where they burn the trash or something. I can't remember what that stack was for. I used to work here like 18 years ago so it's been a while. Joy yes it's a little bit of a Milky Way. I don't know do you have them in the Philippines too Mr. Clayton's in the house. Overpriced food sounds like the authentic New York experience yep. They do that hipster trendy cafe overpriced food thing pretty well here. I don't know how long it's going to last. The economy is not as strong as in the U.S. even though the U.S. economy is not as strong either. So I'm not sure that these hipster cafes are going to be able to stick around because even hipsters got to get some cash to do hipster stuff.

20:38 John Daub: What is a hipster? I just thought it was Kramer from Seinfeld because Elaine called him a hipster doofus and that was the first time I heard the word hipster. I thought it was some guy who shoots from the hip like a cowboy and then that was wrong and it's people like Kramer in New York with no job who just kind of like hair you know like this, the coffee runs. I don't know maybe I'm a hipster. That's interesting there's a Miyagi store. I can at first I saw the kokeshi (traditional wooden dolls). Kokeshi are these traditional wooden dolls that you get mostly in Tohoku, Yamagata, Miyagi, Fukushima. They're worth getting if you're going to onsen town but it's funny to see they actually have a Miyagi store here so you could probably get zunda mochi (edamame mochi). It's so good.

21:51 John Daub: All right here's the station. Let's go down this alley because you never know what you're going to find when you walk down an alley. You could find crime in most cities like graffiti. Whoa this is a rare occurrence. So is this, you don't see Sprite in a lot of Coca-Cola vending machines. It's interesting and in Coca-Cola vending machines most of the drinks are not Coca-Cola but this one does. It's got two of them and the price has gone up. I don't know anybody that buys Coca-Cola except for foreign tourists. Japanese I never see them drinking Coca-Cola. It's too sweet. The first one of the first curiosities that I had about Japan when I got here in 1998 was why would they sell, you know there's the 12 ounce cans in the U.S., 330 milliliters in Europe I think. Why would they sell cans that were like 150 milliliters which is less than half the size of a can of Coke and they were 100 yen and you could get a bigger size for 120 yen. And I asked my Japanese friends and they go look they drink Coca-Cola like a dessert item. It's too sweet so they drink a little bit of it. They probably threw out most of it so people stopped buying it because they didn't want to waste it. So people will buy what they want. They need only a little bit of Coke. They don't want that much. So it's like that. That's it. I never thought of it like that because in America we just want more. We'll pay less for more or something like that.

23:34 John Daub: This is interesting some kind of yogurt coffee. Amazuppai (sour-sweet?) what is that. I'll pass on that. I don't need that kind of power. You find some weird stuff. So it's coming out around Christmas summer also a lot of weird stuff come out. There's a bar, bar grill. Can you see a lot of bars in Ikebukuro, barbershop. Hamburg place over there. People lining up for what is that soup, lining up for soup. Wow here's a Gogo Curry. That's Kanazawa's famous curry. They're really doing good. Interesting a coffee saloon smells like ketchup. It was energy drink thank you. I had no idea that Lost Coffee makes energy drinks. I guess they should get in that space. One thing I don't need is an energy drink after I changed my diet. Getting a little bit more sleep I got too much energy.

25:10 John Daub: All right I think you all know where we are now. We came through an alley but that's the great thing about exploring. Live view of Ikebukuro Station's East exit I believe. Now they closed down the Beck's Cafe. They used to have a Becker Cafe. I think I used to have a couple times with Kevin Cooney, Tokyo Cooney back in the day when we were working for NHK. That's gone now. I guess they turned it into a Rage Cafe. Does it say Rage or RAGE? I don't know if it's Rage because in Japanese is it. I guess it's RAGE. You have more questions than answers people. I need your help. Again one of the many exits. This is the exit 33. It's very hard to find your way out. Big camera electronics store here, Sofmap. There's several chains so each one has different items. This one is the personal computer one. Oh it stinks. This is a smoking area so you got to separate the people.

26:25 John Daub: Better make this light. Oh there's the hand from the sky. Some of the big meeting points of Ikebukuro are right at this East entrance. You can see all the train lines that come. Something of a hub. This is why a lot of people from Saitama. This is why Ikebukuro is going to be a really local place more so than Shibuya. Even though Shibuya is something of a hub, Ikebukuro is more so I think because people are living around here. There's a lot of colleges. I saw a lot of younger people but it's the hub to Saitama and that's where a lot of people do live. Fun people and people say I'll meet you in front of the hand and this is the hand. It's a mother and child. I told Leo this is the hand from the sky. So there's another meeting point down these steps. I'll take you there real quickly. That's weird the Becker Cafe is gone. What do you guys think rage or RAGE? I don't know. RAGE or rage it's the esports official shop I guess it's RAGE. I don't know.

27:54 John Daub: One of the things about Ikebukuro that I found is that because there's a lot of younger people here they sell a lot of sweets, a lot of like things with caramel and custard and cream. All right here's that owl. Is it the owl yeah. So I'll meet you in front of the owl so then I spend about two hours looking for the darn owl. Touch um yeah you will get lost down here don't even try. All right stay up because there's a lot of good restaurants underneath here too so if you're looking for some quick cheap eats sometimes going in the basement is the better option. RAGE in Japanese is not two G's though it's R-A-R-A-G-E. If you say that then that would be two G's. There's a big Don Quijote over there. Bruno Mars I think has been in there. He's been a spokesman for Donki. I don't know if he's the official spokesman for Don Quijote or he just decided I'm gonna do some stuff for Donki sometimes. People do that because it's so cool.

29:43 John Daub: This cafe called Truffle. They've got some branches in a lot of places but the bread here is incredible. They have that square watermelon looking bread but the cinnamon rolls are amazing. Might be worth getting something for my coffee as I go back home to edit but the prices are a little bit expensive here. But I remember getting that cube. I think there's some custard in there or something. They should make that the square watermelon bread. Um if that's not your cup of tea if you go around the corner I believe Bingo is still there. That's the apple pie shop that a lot of you guys are raving about. I remember getting it about 15 years ago. It's like oh it's pretty good but kind of expensive. I'm never gonna go there again. They'll probably be out of business in no time. Yep they're still here at least I think. We're gonna see in about 30 seconds. I think they're gone. No no maybe it's the one on this corner. There's a Taiwanese castella shop. Castella being a very famous Nagasaki cake. If we have any people from Taiwan watching you probably know this brand. That looks so good, the big sweet baked potato one.

31:01 John Daub: And not to worry Ringo is still here and for the season Ringo has combined their apples along with satsuma imo (sweet potato) so you're getting the best of both worlds. So if the Truffle Bakery does not catch your fancy and you want something sweet you will find it at this Ringo shop. See the options here especially good but maybe not so for your guts on the inside because they're so sweet so buttery so devastating to your gut. There you go it's enough Ringo. Um that's pretty much this side of Ikebukuro. The other side is a completely different world if you're looking for drinking and love hotels this is how it is. Go you can go underneath here. I've done it a couple of times and the thing is I don't want to do it because there's no signal underneath there. Oh that guy's not happy what's going on bro. Um yeah there's a tunnel on this side where you can go so you need to get a ticket to go through. Well actually you could walk through Ikebukuro Station but there's a tunnel here that will take you underneath the tracks. Sometimes it smells like pee but you know sometimes it doesn't. There's also an Ichiran ramen on this side of Ikebukuro so it's not too far away.

32:44 John Daub: See a lot of people wearing sweatpants but again look I'm still wearing shorts. It's much much cooler. This cool weather just snuck in and everyone was saying that autumn is going to be late but this cooler weather they said October was going to be warmer than usual and it feels like already the end of fall so it's a little bit odd. The temperatures here we're not quite sure what to make of it. Autumn might be coming up a little bit earlier than we expected. Now it was supposed to be two weeks later the changing of the autumn colors and now it might not be so. Hang in there I'll give you another update probably in four or five days because it's certainly changed with the cooler weather sneaking in here. What happened to global warming? I guess it's still here.

33:37 John Daub: I found this picture from the Sunshine 60 building I just wanted to share it. Put a cookie in the hole for his mouth so it looks like he's got a cookie in his mouth and Asuka the grouch looks pretty cool too. There's actually a Sesame Street bakery here. Would you buy that? Would you buy it yeah. We got Mike John writes in here I want those. It's over at the Sunshine 60 building. I don't know if they still have it but apparently according to Instagram and the internet it is there and it does look pretty good. I was thinking of going to get three or four of them surprise Leo when they come home tonight but then I decided not to. I might decide to go now but there you go. This is the Ikebukuro beyond the Sunshine and the Seibu Department store because that's what we did. We went beyond it but we didn't because we ended up right in front of it. That's what it looks like when you come outside. A little bit dated, a lot of lights, a lot of advertisements, a lot of people mostly under the age of 40. And uh a smoking area, a Don Quijote and in there lots of bars lots of restaurants a lot cheaper prices and the same department store. Uh in the summer the beer garden is really good but I don't really drink that much at all so I'm not gonna see that.

35:25 John Daub: Well are the burgers better than the Becker's? I the Becker burgers are quite famous so Rage would have to be. Can that's this burger although I don't think the meat looks really attractive. There is only 640 yen with avocado that has got to be wrong. It says it has avocado bacon cheese harmony for 640 yen. That cannot be right that's too cheap. Thousand Island burger they're probably I mean I'm thinking of it as this size maybe it's probably like this big. It's got to be this big. Thousand Island burger looks like just one island oh no the dressing I forgot. I've been here for a very long time. The RAGE pork cutlet that's always a good option. And then all right this price really looks big so I'm guessing this is a bigger burger my goodness and then egg on the burger I don't know. That look that might be better than the Becker. Sad to see them go. Becker was part of JR I believe and a lot of them, all of them shut down about six months ago. So there's one at Mihama where Tokyo Disneyland is and that's also gone.

37:05 John Daub: You know this NewDays is owned by JR as well and you can see you'll find NewDays in most of the convenience stores, most of the stations even out in the countryside and they have these weird items. Let's go take a quick look see. Usually they have something pretty original like they had these. Oh here they go like these nori bento onigiri for 300 yen. That's a lot of tempura in there. They always have something original, wrap sandwiches. Now I'm on a diet I usually just get these chicken chunks but it's got a lot of chemicals in it I'll avoid it. Yeah JR is pretty innovative with their stuff here. The bakery items pretty standard fare here. If you're in Japan you do have to try the bread with noodles the yakisoba bun because they're JR store stuff as well from the countryside and that's really interesting. So the NewDays are pretty interesting convenience stores. This is the Akure which is the JR vending machines and these machines Akire always have something kind of weird because again they're tapping into their JR network which is all over the place. Let me get some black bean tea. Nothing too unusual. They have the hot corn soup out though it's sold out. It's interesting.

39:13 John Daub: All right everybody there you go I just wanted to share with you a little bit of Ikebukuro Station for the afternoon. I think it's a pretty cool spot to come and uh if you're looking for a little bit more of the Tokyo culture not so much the modern stuff there's like a little bit of a throwback here. This is big Tokyo '90s like early 1990s I think it has that vibe to it. The big Tokyo early 90s late 80s it's kind of like right at the end of the bubble. It feels like that still today and smells like that too. Ikebukuro Shinjuku and Ikebukuro have these cross tobacco pee pee smell with delicious foods. Maybe it could be that bakery over there. But if you have any questions about Ikebukuro please leave them in the comments below. I encourage you to join our postcard club. Here's this month's postcard club image from Kochi prefecture. It is one of the most beautiful shrines. This is Ryugu Shrine on the very tip of Shikoku and a lot of fishermen would come here and fish and I'm sending this out tomorrow. It should be coming to my house. I'm going to try to get these out tomorrow or Saturday morning. So if you buy order one join our club today it will come out from Tokyo Station sent to you like in the next 48 hours so take about 10 days to arrive. So thanks for the support on the postcard club and yeah this episode's doing quite well 150,000 views in the first six days which is great.

40:50 John Daub: And the new episode oh I haven't even this is the first live stream since the newest episode. That one is right here hold on if you haven't seen this one. Uh a little bit of background on it I worked with the company to just contacted them and said sure let's work together on this so I was able to share the experience of rental clothing. Because when I first heard about this story I thought it was so bizarre like who would rent their clothing would this even work. So I decided to reach out to them or did they reach out to me all I know is I saw the press releases okay I can't remember but we discussed it and they said okay let's do this. So they sent me all the sets and I said I'm going up to Asahikawa to film some stuff be able to get there. I said this is so fascinating I'm going to try it out. It's like would I actually wear this stuff and I was surprised. The biggest benefit wasn't I thought it was going to smell. This being Japan it worked out pretty well. Um I don't know not all the clothes were my style but this worked pretty good.

42:20 John Daub: I want to do an episode just talk and take your questions about this because I think this is something that could probably only be done in Japan because they do a good job with cleaning it with the logistics making sure it's at your hotel planning for it. They're probably going to switch it up. It's backed by some big players Sumitomo which has a lot of real estate and housing and stuff and JAL which is a national carrier of Japan so looks like it's going to be around for a while. But oh by the way the clothing there a little story I don't know if I should tell the story now. You're everybody watching Instagram Instagram knows but I kind of I pulled it. I was I tried to I was like rental clothing what does that make me think of so I tried to imitate Joey from Friends. I think I might have done a better job actually when I look at this. Two things I learned from Joey Tribbiani. One it's a lot harder than it looks to put on all your clothes or put on somebody else's clothes and two it is really hot in there. It doesn't even matter if you're in the middle of winter you're really packing it in there it's hot. So Joey wherever you are god bless you that was one of the greatest scenes in TV history.

43:40 John Daub: So that's what the thumbnail is so when you go and you see that I dressed up like Joey but you don't see the pants and it's just hard to tell but you see a lot of clothes and that was the point. So I was inspired by Joey Tribbiani. Every kid that grew up in the 1990s or 1980s and watched Friends probably can relate to that theme but it's a lot harder to do than you think. All right everybody have a nice day. Thanks for hanging out with me. Go get your donuts uh go get your Cookie Monster donuts and send me a message let me know how they taste if it was worth it. I'll see you in the next live stream probably tomorrow as we talk about a bunch of stuff going on including the yen almost going to be like 150 to the dollar. I didn't see that coming. Currency very hard we'll talk about that and the cost in Japan. I've seen inflation going up crazy in a lot of places uh just in the last 10 days I've seen some things in the supermarket that have gone up so we'll talk a little bit about that as well. Matane go Bucks I saw that go blue hey how dare you.