00:01 John Daub: This is it. This is the last day, mostly for the cherry blossoms in Tokyo. Because already, you can see on my jacket, you can feel maybe the wind, you can see it on the branches. When the cherry blossoms, the Somei Yoshino (the predominant white variety), the white one you see behind me, hits full bloom, which is where we were yesterday, the first wind and the first rain, they all start to come down in a blizzard of white petals. We're going to see a little bit of that today. Already on the ground here, you can see the petals starting to fall, and we haven't had much wind yet, but once the petals start doing this, you're past full bloom, and it's kind of a sad thing.

00:44 John Daub: Now, I want to show you my favorite tree. There are places, you can see there's not a soul in sight here, where in Tokyo, this is just, this is right in the center of Tokyo. There's nobody here. And this is what I'm telling you when I'm saying maybe not go to Ueno Park, maybe not go to Asakusa, or to Shibuya, or to Shinjuku Gyoen, but just walk around the neighborhoods of Tokyo, and you're going to find cherry blossoms like this. It's just so beautiful. I'm going to show you my favorite tree, because I like you guys. It's a personal thing.

01:16 John Daub: I know that the Japanese, they don't go to the really crowded places as tourists themselves, even those that are living here, but the majority of people don't go out to the big tourist sites, because they want to stay longer, and they're local, they want to stay home. The only time they do that is if it's for work or something, right? Or they're showing a tourist around. This is the backside of Tsukuda in Chuo Ward here in Tokyo. It's about 10 minutes from Tokyo Station, from Ginza. It's pretty centered. I'm talking by bicycle, maybe 30 minutes walking. Toyosu is just over here, and that right there, my friends, is my favorite tree.

01:58 John Daub: You can see the weather already starting to change here. Check it out. It's actually quite warm today in Tokyo. 17, which is, what is that, like, mid-60s maybe, with some wind coming in here, but rain forecasted for the next hour. I'm already feeling it. 100% rain at 1 o'clock, and it's 12:30 right now, so I'm gonna be making the stream kind of short, but yeah, the rest of today looks like the end of cherry blossom season. It was so short, because now we get warm weather finally. It's Sunday, so we had one good weekend, which is actually pretty good. Last weekend, we had the cherry blossoms start to bloom. It was around 65% then, but the weather turned really cold on Sunday. It was like winter. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, then Thursday started to get warm, and Friday, Saturday have been pretty nice, which is perfect, so families can go out there and enjoy those cherry blossoms. But yeah, it's over. It's over. You can see it. You can see the green coming out, right? There are some buds that are just starting to open. But the majority of them, you can already see the green coming out. So they're gonna fly off today and then tomorrow. The rain is here tomorrow as well. So consider it gone.

03:19 John Daub: So if you're coming here on April, maybe tomorrow or the next day, you're probably gonna catch some of it. But the weather's not gonna be so nice. The next time the weather's nice, most of them are gonna be gone. But you know, this depends on where. You can go to elevation. Some trees that were in the shade might bloom later and may stick around longer. I'm walking down slowly. Because this is my favorite tree. Every place that I've lived in Japan and I've moved 16, 17 times, I always find one tree that I call it my favorite. This one is my favorite. We'll come back to this area, but I want to show you from down the street here. So you get an idea of the Tokyo neighborhood with this tree. It's just so pretty.

04:01 John Daub: This is, it looks like a typical Japanese neighborhood right here. There's nothing really too special about this street. I'm gonna walk down maybe 15 meters from here and I'm gonna look back. Sam Gardner's here. Aloha, Sam. And then what you're gonna see, I guess, is what I see. I just love the angle. The way that this tree is leaning to the left. The stairs that go up and around the tree. The way it kind of wraps around the wires here, the telephone wires. It really does look, well, it looks like a special tree to me. And so I've been walking and going through, I run through here every couple of days. Well, it depends on the route that I'm going. But I go underneath this tree. Even in the rain, I'll be running. So I'll run underneath this tree. And at night, there's a street lamp that illuminates it. And it's just really nice. So I kind of have a special connection with this tree right here. It's a pretty tree.

05:19 John Daub: I like the way they groomed around it, right? And if you move back, I guess that's when you can really start to see with the other buildings. And then you start to see the neighborhood. It's much better with blue sky. I think you have to kind of imagine the blue sky. But you can see now all the other houses that lead up in the background. That cherry blossom tree. And look, there's not a, this is central Tokyo. Not a person here. So that would be my friends. That's my favorite, favorite tree right there. All right, now that you've kind of seen this, let's go check it out a little bit closer.

06:17 John Daub: All right, the rain has kind of let up. It was definitely raining when I started the live stream. You know what would be great? If we did get one more weekend. I don't know. It's usually too much to ask. Hello, Walter. Walter L. Walters, how you doing? Heather as well. How you doing? I'm glad you guys could join me for this one. It's a special one. As again, you guys know I love this neighborhood. Look at the way the buildings are. They're quite close. Just kind of gonna go up the steps here. Looks like cherry blossom petals, the pattern. The way that the, this house next door really takes care of it. Look at it. They've put the other flowers around it. It's, this is like a personal tree. This, it feels like somebody's personal sakura tree. And then it just kind of leans to the left. It's been cut, I guess, either hit by lightning or a limb has broken. So it's quite old.

07:28 John Daub: Actually, it's not a hundred percent bloom this one. It is in the shadows. You can see there's some of the blossoms are just starting to come out. So this might be around next weekend, which is great. The leaves are coming out too in some parts of it. But there are other parts that that are well past. So the wind is gonna knock it out. You can see the green leaves shooting through the trunk there. So we're pretty much at the end of it here. Yeah, Carrie, that's right. This is Tsukuda. Closest train station is Tsukishima. You guys know I'm always here because it's the most peaceful place that you can come in this side of Tokyo, I think. It's beautiful, isn't it?

08:18 John Daub: Oh, it's okay. You can see this is where I'll come running here. And you run, you can run straight underneath the tree. You can see the way that the branches just go over the path. And then on my run, I have to do another, go up these steps again. So even when I'm gone one day, this tree probably will still be here. It's kind of cool. Leo, if you're watching, make sure you get your running shoes on and you cut through here. This is the path that I would usually go. And then sometimes I'll run around on the riverside here. Wow, it's beautiful. AJ Palmer. Yeah, it's nice to see when you're watching live. See, you can just run along the Tokyo riverside. There's no tourists. There's no traffic lights. There's no traffic. It's really nice to go along the waterway. And that's what we're gonna do today. At least until the rain makes us stop this stream or the signal.

09:54 John Daub: You'll find these as well. These are these, have you guys seen this around? This is like ancient. So you have to take off your shoes, but it's good for reflexology. I'm not sure, but there's different patterns. It hurts like heck, but it really stretches out the muscles and they say that that'll cure a lot of your ailments in here. And then you can go down the path. You'll find these all over the city, especially in residential places. It's kind of neat to try it out. I have. I definitely should do it more. Foot stretches and stuff. That's one reason why you'll see like 90-year-old Japanese citizens still running around. Which is just crazy. Man, I really didn't have enough time to really appreciate the cherry blossoms this year. It just kind of went by so fast.

11:03 John Daub: It's a cloudy day. It's right before the rain. Yesterday we had so much sunshine. Let me see if I can go back here a little bit. The signal's not so good. The wind is really picking up now. It's a shame. It says that the signal is going in and out over there. It's kind of a dead spot. So we'll go down along the riverside here. That's my favorite tree right over there. And you have this big wide open space here. It's not something that you'd expect in Tokyo. Again, lots of benches. You can sit here, get a bento with your family. You run around here. This isn't the type of place that a lot of tourists come to, which is a shame. I do see some every now and then, though.

12:55 John Daub: But how you celebrate the sakura, the cherry blossoms, it's different for each person. We're going to try to walk underneath the bridge here. I don't know how the signal is. But the most beautiful spots for the cherry blossoms are not the ones in the touristy areas. They're the places that might be the most fun, though. I can say that. They might be the most fun. This goes towards where I did the first stream about a week ago at Monzen-Nakacho for the cherry blossoms. And there's the Meiji Maru boat where the Emperor Meiji rode from Hakodate to Yokohama. And it rests right over there. You can actually go on there. I think it's something of a museum.

13:47 John Daub: Where is everyone? Yeah, that's a good question. They're with their families. I'm going to show you on the other side. Hopefully the signal gets a little bit better. But you can see this side doesn't get as much sun because of the skyscrapers. The signal is going to get a little bit better. Don't worry. Let me do the worrying. I am worried. You shouldn't be worried. Going underneath the bridge here towards the Sumida River. This is just a branch off to going the other direction. Again, I'm home editing, so I thought maybe showing you a more personal side of the cherry blossoms might be a good idea today. Since it's the last time. This is the first time this year to go see my tree. Wow! I can already see on the other side.

14:38 John Daub: Your nose is less red today, which is normal. I'm glad that it's less red. I'm not trying to hide it or anything. Oh, you can see the Sky Tree over there. There's virtually nobody here, but now you're starting to get an idea how close we are to the center of Tokyo. And how there's nobody really here on a Sunday. Look at the trees on the other side. And all that space for cherry blossom viewing and nobody's really there. So it's not like... It just depends on where you go and what kind of experience you want. For me, I think it's more about trying to find a connection with nature. I think a lot of Japanese are, in particular outside of the countryside. But most people did their cherry blossom viewing yesterday because the weather was just so nice.

15:28 John Daub: Let me see if I can pull up some of the images from the other day. So you get an idea with the blue skies. This might be a little bit later in the day. It does look so much more beautiful with the blue skies, the shadows, the nice warmth there. But I think this was about 65. This might have been about four or five days ago. You see people have their blue sheets out. This is mostly residential. Mostly Japanese are here or foreign residents who know this spot. But it's not on anybody's top ten, which is a shame. This is probably the best place to come and spend some time and relax. It's just a slice of everyday Japanese life. When you go out to the countryside, you got to go to the big parks. And you'll see something similar to this. It's something in between what you have in Tokyo. Tokyo's cherry blossom parks are just too crowded. I think that takes a lot away from the experience.

16:40 John Daub: This was maybe five, six days ago when the blossoms were about 65% bloomed. Yeah. I might have shown this clip before. But it is really pretty. And then you have here, this was the traffic getting off to a popular place. This is Kitanomaru Park or Chidorigafuchi, which is near the Indian and British Embassy. This walkway that's really pretty to go to. This is a weekday before the weekend. And you can see it's just so crowded on a weekday. And it takes away from the feeling, that connection with nature. I tried to avoid that. And then today here, you've got like nobody. So we'll go back. We'll go up here. We've crossed the river. And I can show you there's almost like a cherry blossom tunnel.

17:34 John Daub: So I'm back here. I was here maybe four days ago. But it's totally different now. Because it's at full bloom. You can see the blossoms are already starting to fall on the ground here. It really looks different, doesn't it? Do the trees grow leaves after? Yes, they do. The cherry blossoms will grow the green leaves afterwards. Aiken writes in here, It's surprisingly empty of crowds today. It is weird. I think it's just the location. This side still has some time. So if I come back in four days, they actually might still have blossoms. But most of the trees in Tokyo, I think, are at the end. That's interesting. Just because the buildings keep the sunlight from hitting the trees as much as some of the other ones. But the park trees are definitely done.

18:53 John Daub: Cherry blossom trees. Cherry blossom is a... Thanks for asking that question. Cherry blossoms is an English translation of the word sakura. It's probably better to just use sakura instead of cherry blossom. But that's what English speakers know it as. I don't know how it got to cherry blossom. Maybe somebody can help me out there. But there are sakura trees. And within this, there's different varieties. Sakura is the blossoming. A tree that blossoms like this. So I'm not sure. But a lot of people get really confused about that word cherry in here. That's why cherry blossom is sort of a weird word in English for sakura. Sometimes the translation doesn't mean the exact same thing. You know, there's a kimono, which is the Japanese... They translate kimono as Japanese silk robes. But if you try to imagine that, a Western person's image of a Japanese silk robe is something like a bathrobe that's made of silk or something, right? So it's not exactly... The translations don't work out the same way as they would be. Ornamental cherry. I guess that's... There you go, yeah.

20:20 John Daub: Can you smell it? Some Yoshino doesn't have much of a smell. Hey, All Rails Productions here. How you doing? Cherry is the species of tree. Do they call them umesakura? I don't think that they do that. Oh, there's something of a market going on here. Let's see what we can find going on. I wasn't aware that they were doing anything here. That's the view a bee has. But you can see the wind making them dance. The branches are so much heavier too with these white blossoms. I'm sure it's a relief for the tree when the blossoms go away. I'm sure the tree feels a lot of relief because they're just so much heavier with the blossoms.

21:26 John Daub: Sumida-gawa Maru Shie. It's going on until 3 p.m. today in Ishikajima Park. That's where we are today. That's nice. On the other side of the river, they have some events going on on the weekends. But it looks like today they brought it over here. There's so many more residents because of this high-rise apartment building on the left side. Look at that down there. They have more booths. That's fascinating. Usually they're on the other side of the river, but today they're on this side. Is it because you can eat them as cherries? You cannot eat them. They're not actually cherry trees. They're sakura trees. Every time people ask that, I smile and I bite my tongue because I've heard it a million times. They're not edible. Although the ones that are pickled, I believe, are the Kawazu sakura, which is in Shizuoka. The most pickled sakura in Japan for the confections, you'll see a sakura blossom on there. They're usually pink. Kawazu sakura. They bloom earlier and they're preserved in salt and pickled so that they can be used in confection a year later, which is really amazing. I think Odawara, there's a castle there. Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture, one of the top places for the pickling of cherry blossoms, the Kawazu version of them. I think they have something of farms.

23:13 John Daub: I love the way that the branches will break out of the trunk and then start sprouting out cherry blossoms. That's really cool. All right, good night, Jason. Have a good night, buddy. This tree looks like it's got a ways to go. That's what I'm talking about. It's really hard to predict. Yesterday when I saw most of the petals were starting coming off, this massive tree, this is an old tree. If you look, it doesn't have any of the petals falling off, maybe just a few over here. So this tree is going to be probably okay until next weekend. It just depends on the location. So people are asking me, will I be able to see cherry blossoms? Will I be able to see the blossoms on April 10th? It's like, yeah, you'll be able to see them, but you're past the peak. It's on the way down. If you really want to see them, come April 20th to 25th. Go to Hirosaki and Aomori. Oh, my gosh, that is the most beautiful Japanese cherry blossom festival. I love it there.

24:22 John Daub: All around the cherry blossom festival, there's the top of the Sky Tree in the background. You can't see it, but yeah, the wind is really picking up. I can smell the rain. Somebody has a blue sheet down here to save for their family for later. The connections get a little bit weak as we're in between the buildings, but it's going to get better in about a minute from now as we get to the other side of it. I'm going to keep walking through Ishikajima Park. Hey, Lily, that would be a very interesting topic. Actually, before the era, you're not supposed to say it on YouTube, even now, it's weird, politics behind it all. But that era where we couldn't travel over the last few years, I actually contacted a farm to do that, but I wasn't granted permission. So just depends. I got to keep working them. It took me to get the square. The first time I did the square watermelon video, I started contacting them in 2014, and it took three years before I got permission to go and film at the square watermelon farm.

25:53 John Daub: And the bureaucracy, the bureaucrats kept telling me no. Like these paper pushers there. So eventually I got in touch with the guy in charge, the family, the man who started it all. And he was the nicest guy in the world. And he told me, yeah, come on over. He contacted the paper pushers. The paper pushers approved it. And then the next thing I knew, I was going over down to Zentsuji in Kagawa to film that episode. And now I'm really good friends with everybody, including the paper pushers. So sometimes the stereotypes of what a YouTuber is can be dispelled by actually media. And I'm really happy that I'm meeting them. And look, people got the umbrellas out now.

26:44 John Daub: Because they put in all these, if you say it, they'll put in the Wikipedia, and they put in all these disclaimers. And in the past, they have downgraded videos that talk about it because it's such a political issue. So it's better not even, there's certain words that you can't even mention. And then they pick it up in the transcript so they know that you said it. So they put it into the, they put disclaimers. I hate that. It's just like a nasty little thing that they do these days. Anything that's quote unquote controversial, I don't think it's that controversial. But it's kind of like history. It's kind of, it really is a shame. Boy, yesterday we had such a beautiful view of the cherry blossoms. Did you guys see I posted on the Instagram? Here, let me see if I can get that video up for you. I was able to get this of the Skytree from the park. A lot of you saw this live. It's so beautiful. Along the Azumabashi. But there was a line to get this picture. You had to queue up with five or six other people deep. And it was getting dark, so the picture wasn't as good. I kind of had to lighten the picture up a little bit so you could see the blossoms better. But that's a pretty nice view from yesterday's live stream. But it was already near sunset.

28:21 John Daub: Hey, David, come out in the house. Get something nice for the family. You got it, buddy. I'll take them. You know what? I'm going to say, Kanae, don't cook because she likes to cook on Sundays. Let's go out to dinner. We'll treat everybody. And David was with us for dinner tonight. So that'll make Kanae really happy. Thanks, David, for that. Oh, you can see the Skytree through the blossoms here. There's just a couple of people obscured by nature. We're starting to get into where a lot of the people are now. The backside where we started this, not much. Not many people there at all. They shouldn't be touching it. But kids are kids. Actually, they're not speaking Japanese. So that might be why. A lot of foreign residents in this area, including me. I can understand it. But the people who are grabbing the branches, absolutely not from around here.

29:54 John Daub: Joshua's in the house. How you doing, Joshua? This is my first Super Chat. I moved to Osaka from the U.S.A. Do you have any advice to spare, places to visit, or any life advice? Joshua, I could talk you up for ages on that topic. We have a lot of people on our Discord server. By the way, there's somebody who is pretending to be me and making direct mail requests. If you get a DM from me on Discord, it's not me. I don't use direct messaging on Discord ever, except to a few people like our moderators. So just keep that in mind. But, yeah. I think get involved in your community. That's probably the best advice. And you're starting to see that there's a lot of petals down here. Check this out. So this side has a lot more sun, and now you're seeing a lot more petals. And this is the end of it here.

30:53 John Daub: The best advice I could say is in Japan. And this will save you a lot of trouble. Despite the fact that people in your apartment building might not want to get to know you, always be friendly and say hi to them. And try to get to know them. And get involved in your community if you even can. Like join some... Like you could do karate or... I started taking karate lessons. I started. I also did not finish. It was really hard. You can see the blossoms have fallen off. Those red star shaped things. That's what it looks like when the blossoms fall off onto the ground. But all those little things, getting in touch with the neighbors, the locals, it starts to open up so many doors. And I've had to move about 16, 17 times. I think it's 17 now. And whenever I did, I got to... The first things that I did was try to get in touch with people. The city hall and some of the places have Japanese lessons with local volunteer teachers. And that was always good to do because then you'd meet a local as a teacher. And she was... The grannies were always able to tell me not just about Japanese but about life and other things. And whenever you know local... It helps. Because coming here as an outsider, the first thing that...

32:22 John Daub: Oh, this is a beautiful shot. Look at this. With the Eitaibashi. Wow. You see all the yakatabune today being Sunday. So many boats out today. Wow. Yeah, the one... The one biggest advice. You're going to make a lot of expat friends that speak English because I don't know how your Japanese level is. That's really easy to do. But start to learn the Japanese language. And make Japanese friends right away. Because that's the hardest thing to do. It takes time to do that. But getting involved in your community, it helps a lot. And then when people... I don't think Christian... I think this is 1080p actually. I think this video is 1080p. So, full HD. Look at this wisteria sakura. This is beautiful. See some of the green leaves coming through here. Wow. The petals are coming right at me with the wind. Full bloom. So many yakatabune. That was when we saw an Asakusa yesterday, I think. Look at that. They bring out their camping gear, right? Bring out the camping chairs. But you don't need any of that.

34:08 John Daub: The rain is starting to come down stronger now. I have to get back to my bicycle. The rain is coming down stronger. Yeah, you know, we came a roundabout way to get here. I love this place. Because of the rain, there's not... There's maybe two people making out over there. I don't know. I think it's just an umbrella protecting it. That's going to fly away. But this amphitheater type place, great place. There's two supermarkets around here. And a Lawson's and a Family Mart. You can get a bento and food. Sit here. You watch all of the boats going by. It's one of the most beautiful places in all of Tokyo. The Skytree is over there. And you have Chuo Bridge, Chuo Hashi here, which is just wonderful. And then you got all these cherry blossoms. These old apartment buildings are part of a place called River City 21. It's an old 1980s bubble era type of skyscraper living quarters. So most people are in their 80s, old residents. But there's a lot of Japanese celebrities from the 1980s and 90s that are living here. I bump into them every now and then. Like, I've seen you on TV. Just, oh, so they saw. Yeah, yeah. So you live here too, yeah. Chuo Ward is wonderful. A lot of people like living in Nakano or around the Shinjuku. I prefer being on the water side. Some people are packing up because the rain is coming down. You can see the rain on the street, right? On the road here.

35:46 John Daub: So that's all she wrote, folks. We had a morning to do this. So I'm glad we could kind of check out the cherry blossoms before they mostly go away. We reached 4,000. We had a full bloom yesterday or two days ago. So that means, like, they're just hanging on. And this is the first rain afterwards. So they're going to fall. It's always kind of, it's always a, and don't step on the roots here. They're so delicate, the cherry blossoms. So just be mindful of that. They're sticking out here. But take care of the trees because they'll take care of you. That's the one way to say it. Wow. We saw a bird sucking down on the cherry blossoms. We saw a couple of days ago, right? It is like a tunnel. Carrie, you were here yesterday on the other side, though. Carrie was here yesterday. I missed her. I was in Asakusa. I had to go over there. I had a couple of friends message me that they were here, too. And I didn't see anybody. Or the day before yesterday, right, Carrie? Carrie was here the day before yesterday. Oh, wow. The wind is coming. There you go. Now we're going to see the blizzard of blossoms flying. That is quite a picture, too, if you ever hear. So there's some advantages to that because it's quite a sight. You'll see the tourists, mostly from China because most of them are from China that do this. They'll go there and they'll shake the branch and then the petals will fall. That's the next stage and that's coming right now. And, boy, does that make my blood boil when I see that. But I'm pretty good at composure now.

37:47 John Daub: The last thing you want to do is to damage the trees. We must protect these trees for the next generation. Yeah, it's kind of true. Wow, you see the wind now? No trees means no oxygen. Yeah, that's right. It's a true story. So there you go. Every time I've moved in Japan, I've always tried to find a tree to make kind of my favorite cherry blossom tree. And that was the one earlier in the live stream. That's my one tree. So there you go. Cherry blossom blizzards are beautiful. That could be a title of an episode. That can be a title of an episode. Here we are on the map. You see the boats going by, the green and the blue? Some of them make stops here in Echijima on the other side of the river. And they go over to Toyosu where you can catch the space boat there as well. But this point here is such a beautiful place. They call it Paris Square. What? I didn't know that. Paris Square? Paris Square. Really? Okay. I guess it does kind of look like that where Notre Dame is in the middle of the river. I guess it does kind of look like that, right? In the Seine River, right? Could be. Could be.

39:32 John Daub: All right, let's go underneath here and see if there's anybody out doing cherry blossom viewing on the other side of the river. And then we'll call it. Because I got to get back to work. And I know the rain is going to come down. I don't want to get caught. I still got to go back and get my bicycle. But this is the time of year where you have to stop working for a bit. You got to take a breather because the blossoms are here today, gone tomorrow. It's kind of a nice view with the Skytree right there underneath the bridge. There's some sort of blotch on my sensor, I think. I will definitely be upgrading phones after having this iPhone 14 for ages. Yeah, not too many people. I think the rain has kept them away. This tree was full of blue sheets, but today we've got nothing. Yeah, there it is, the falling. You can see the falling petals now. You see it? They're coming down faster and faster, and the rain hasn't even started. Once they get heavy with the rain and the wind, the rain is going to stick to them, making them heavier, and they're just going to fall off. So we already have the blizzard right now. They'll be around tomorrow, whatever's left. But the rain is going to come down pretty hard. And you're seeing right now they're starting to fall off, so that's the end. Wow! We're in the middle of the blizzard. Maybe we want to land right here on my nose. That's where that bug bite is or whatever the heck's going on there.

41:43 John Daub: All right. Every little breeze that hits, every breeze that hits, now the blossoms are going to come, and you can already see on the grass what has happened. The speckled white. And all gets eventually, it eventually makes it, washes out into the river. And in the canals of Tokyo, you're going to see like Chidorigafuchi, the day after tomorrow, is going to be a really cool place because there's going to be white petals, maybe even today, white petals covering the entire canal. And does look pretty stunning in its own way. It's just another way to see the cherry blossoms. So not too many people barbecuing. We can't barbecue, but out here picnicking, doing hanami (cherry blossom viewing). So it looks like we're at the end of it.

42:37 John Daub: Well, if you have any questions, you can leave them in the comments below. If you haven't already, you can go and check out the latest Main Channel episode where I look at the world record-breaking elevators in terms of speed and how fast we've come from 1931's Empire State Building and the John Hancock Center to Japan's dominance in speed. Japan manufacturers took over the Japanese economy. The Japanese company speed war in 1978, believe it or not. And since 1978, it's been a Japanese company that has been the world record holder in elevator speed. I don't know if this is kind of a niche episode. I don't know if it's interesting to a lot of people, but I have a curiosity of all of technology. And when you think about how Japan has been using like the Shinkansen and the train technology and the car technology, Japan's such a powerhouse in automobile manufacturing. And they put this into things that we use every day and we often forget about, which is elevators. So this is like cars, trains, elevators. This is vertical travel. So I kind of like to make this episode. I've been trying to make it for ages.

43:46 John Daub: Let's see if anyone will wave. Yay! They're waving at you. They weren't waving at me. They're waving at you. How cool is that? Oh, hi. Hi. Are you my neighbors? You live around here too? Yeah. Oh, okay. Yeah, well, hey. How are you guys? You think today's the last day? Yeah, maybe, yeah. Yeah. Oh, wow. Thank you. I love it. I've done videos and then gone to a place. Really? Very impactful. Wow! Sometimes they're long, but actually it's worth it. The live streams are, the edited videos. I boiled that down. So you think this is going live now? Yeah, this is going live now. I love you, dude. I love you, too. You want to say hello? Hello. Oh, yeah, thank you for that. Thank you for the encouragement. Yeah, thank you. See you around, maybe. That's real nice.

45:10 John Daub: Some people don't know that I have an edited video channel that's not, that's more condensed content. That's okay. That's really nice. So when somebody tells you that the videos had an impact on where they went and what they did, that's really special to hear because that's why you kind of make the content, right? And it's cool, too, because so many people are watching. Wherever I go in the city, somebody come and say hi, even in a residential neighborhood. That's really awesome. All right, guys, thanks so much for watching. Aiken is here. The Blossom Blizzard is great, finally, of the Hanami. Thanks for the elevator, Daco. The air pressure factor was interesting, right? I didn't realize that a lot of these elevators that are road, they actually have some sort of way to make sure that you don't feel you're discomfort. I think when I rode the World Trade Center elevators back in the 1980s, I remember riding that, going up to the observation deck with my dad back in the day. I don't think that they had those pressure things because that was one of the things that I remembered, having my ears popping like I was on an airplane. But they found a way to pressurize the elevators, to minimize that so much that you hardly can tell. And that's why elevators is like one of these technologies we just take for granted because we ride them and they're so good at making them now, you don't even realize. All the stuff that's going on in that ride to the top, which is what is supposed to go on. And Japan makes some good stuff, man, whether it's the cars or the trains, the elevators too.

46:40 John Daub: I'm just so thankful to Hitachi because they were the first people I contacted and they're like, there's right before the pandemic and they said no. And then they said no. And then the third time they said yes. So that was cool. It just depends. You have to meet the right person, but you never give up. There's never give up. There's some episodes. I've been working on for years, but I'm not going to give up on trying to get access to bring a story to you. Thanks for asking about that Aiken and see you guys. Got to get back before the rains come. I know it's coming. You can smell the rain. And then after the rain, maybe we'll get a little Hawaiian, a little Hawaiian rainbow action going on over there. It looks like Hawaii over there. Matane.