00:00:03 John Daub: How you doing everybody? There's a couple of things that you shouldn't do in Japan, actually a lot more than that. This is one of them. I'm going to start off with this live stream by saying, I'm not going to tell you not to tip. That's something that you're going to have to do with your heart. I hope that this video will convince you not to tip. But you have to do what you think is right, but this is wrong. I just kind of told you not to do it. Anyways, I saw this tip box right here at a restaurant in the basement of this place in Nihonbashi (Japan Bridge). I'm not going to name the restaurant, but I searched this online and there's articles about it.

00:00:41 John Daub: This has been something that's been debated in Japan in 2025. And I did more research and digging in this in 2021 during the pandemic. There was actually a company started up to bring American tip culture to Japan. We're going to discuss this in this. It failed miserably. That's the bottom line. But we're going to look at this. It's really fascinating stuff. Again, this is an American cultural thing. There's a lot of American tourists. American tourists to Japan are increasing. You give tips to restaurant staff, to workers.

00:01:16 John Daub: The biggest reason why you don't do it is because every single person, it singles out one person, the server. But in Japanese restaurants, they consider themselves a team. It's not just the server. Their job isn't just to serve either. They're doing a lot of other stuff typically at izakayas (Japanese pubs) and restaurants. So when you tip one person, you're kind of insulting the team because that person is not working for themselves. Do you understand? That's Japanese culture 101. The second thing is that they got to report this tips in their taxes. And most of these businesses, they pay the taxes for the workers.

00:01:55 John Daub: So it makes a big mess when you hand cash to a worker, the manager sees that they got to follow the rules. The other employees are going to be upset because this person just made like 20 bucks. Now they got to claim that as taxes. The companies don't want to deal with this extra burden because that's not part of the system. Tips now in the US, no tax on tips. But never mind that. Let's go into this. This is an actual tip jar. I just took this picture 30 minutes ago, which is just insane.

00:02:27 John Daub: Here's the restaurant in the basement here. It's a gyukatsu (beef cutlet) restaurant chain. And you can see that I was shocked. Actually, I didn't think that they really had a tip jar like really. And there's a lot of bills in there. And that's the most unusual thing. There's a lot of money in that tip jar. So either they're doing that to try to get people to tip or I don't know. Like, what do you guys think about this? What is your opinion of this gyukatsu restaurant? We're going to go through it. We're going to hear their point of view in an article. They're interviewed about it. There's a lot of money in there. So let's take a look at this article here. I think it'll explain a lot.

00:03:12 John Daub: But this came out in May 16th of this year by SoraNews24. We love SoraNews24. A Japanese restaurant chain still installs tip boxes in response to foreign tourists leaving tips. Sparks debate. It starts to spark controversy more or less. Less debate. But this thing is it's kind of old news in the sense that they went through this in 2021 during the pandemic. Tipping isn't a thing in Japanese restaurants while some foreign language cultural guidebooks frame the situation as tipping being rude or offensive to the sensibilities of Japanese restaurant workers. I'd be more accurate to say tipping in Japanese restaurants is weird. Something they don't expect or need customers to do. It's sort of insulting. But it's just bizarre. It's like what do you do? Half the time the server will chase you down and say you forgot money. They'll chase you down to the street.

00:04:07 John Daub: However, one Japanese restaurant chain has started accepting and you could even say asking for tips. You saw the tip jar as a direct response to an increase in foreign customers. Recently, a photo taken in a branch of a beef cutlet restaurant. The photo shows a clear plastic box near the register, which is still there today, where customers pay their meals with an English message. Tip box. Thank you. Written on it with the number of small bills inside. That's exactly what I saw 30 minutes ago. It seems like it's at all branches of this shop.

00:04:36 John Daub: Now, this is where it gets interesting here. This restaurant chain says it did this in response to a growing number of incidents in which foreign tourist customers attempted to give cash tips directly to the restaurant waitstaff. However, under Japanese law, income tax would have to be paid on such gratuities and with employers often handling their employees tax filings in Japan. This restaurant decided to install a tip box so it could centrally manage the associated reporting legalities. We saw this as a recognition of the efforts being made by everyone at the restaurant. The spokesman said among online reactions are Japanese residents approving of the move. I don't think so. Seeing it as a way for the restaurant to reap benefits of the unprecedented inbound tourism boom. It just makes me feel uncomfortable to see a tip box in Japan in which many foreign travelers are flush with cash. Are they? This article is a little bit. I don't think foreign travelers are flush with cash. Not everybody comes from the United States here to throw around as a result of favorable to them exchange rates following the yen's drop in value.

00:05:46 John Daub: Others, though, are expressing worry and frustration about how foreign tourists offering tips and restaurants accepting them could influence dining culture in Japan. Currently, restaurants in Japan neither expect nor rely on tips. This is true today. So that's pretty much the article. I'll put a link in the description. I've seen the tip box in a couple of other places, usually where there's foreign tourists. I don't see it. Nobody expects tips. I recommend that you don't tip.

00:06:22 John Daub: Look, if this particular restaurant chain, I don't which I will name keep nameless. I mean, other places have covered it. I don't like to put a spotlight on anybody that's not glowing if possible. But they could obviously say, please don't tip. They could make a sign that says no tipping. They could do that. Or they could add a vending machine at the entrance of the restaurant. So the foreign tourists could pay before they eat with a sign that says tips not accepted. If this is such a problem, they don't do that. The best restaurants, the fast restaurants where you want fast turnover and make more money, which is great for the business. Then they could pay their staff more. In theory, the vending machines, you put the cash in or you swipe. You can actually just touch your credit card. It pays. You get a ticket. You hand it to them. That's your order. Meal comes in like three minutes. It's so fast because the menus are pretty limited to like one or two dishes and you eat and you get the heck out. And the turnover is faster.

00:07:30 John Daub: So this system of paying after the meal maybe is not the way. Maybe they need to change their method. Maybe they need to put a no tip sign. Or maybe I think they are soliciting. They want the tips. I think they want the tips. Why can't just Americans stop trying to make the entire world at their image and simply respect it. Respect local cultures. The bottom line though is that a lot of American tourists don't travel internationally. And I don't want American tourists to stop traveling. I think it's great that they come to Japan. Because I'm American. I think it's great to be able to experience other cultures. But we can't expect people traveling for the first time that just want a quick vacation. They don't want to research. They work hard in America. Like 60-hour weeks. They work way more than they do in Europe. Most of my friends are overworked in the United States. But they like money so they keep doing it. Or they just work hard. They have good habits.

00:08:42 John Daub: They don't want to research this stuff when they come to Japan. They just want to do it. And some people don't think with their heads. They think with their feelings and their emotions. And they think, I must tip these workers. They look like they're working so hard. I feel like I must give them something. So that feeling is selfish in Japan. I just want to say it outright. Your feeling is selfish. You're not thinking about these people and putting them in a bad spot by tipping them. You think you're helping them. You're actually hurting the team cohesion. You're hurting the restaurant because you're making them do more work. Because they're the ones who have to pay each worker's taxes. The workers are usually most of them are full-time staff. Any full-time staff or a lot of the staff are paid by hour. There's an itaku (entrusted work) contract where they do everything. I've been on those contracts before. But a lot of them are hired as workers or staff of the restaurant. And the company pays those taxes. It's a headache. All the money is dealt with by the corporation.

00:09:51 John Daub: So I know you feel like you want to do it. But you're doing wrong instead of right. I don't want to be harsh. That sounded a little bit harsh. You're unintentionally selfish. I think most of you know that now. Why do people think Americans are forcing the restaurant to put out the tip box? They're not. They don't have to put out the tip box. This is their solution. But my solution, which nobody listens to me anyways, is to just say no tips and put a vending machine and have people pay if this is such a problem. But it's an image problem. And I got to be honest with you, guys. The gyukatsu restaurants, a lot of the people that eat there, they're not Japanese. They are foreigners. So they charge a higher price. I don't see a lot of Japanese eating gyukatsu. I think more Japanese would just rather have ramen. But there's this fascination with deep-frying wagyu (Japanese beef), which I think is a huge waste. But people eat what they want. It tastes good. But I think you ruin the meat. I'm not a big fan of gyukatsu, to be honest with you. But go for it.

00:11:11 John Daub: Americans are like 1% of the tourists. I blame the Australians. There are more Aussies here probably. There's 40 million Aussies and 350 million Americans, give or take. But look, the tipping thing is an American thing. And it's crazy right now. In the States, you go to a Starbucks and there's a menu for tipping and you have to bypass it. And I won't tip if they're just serving an iced coffee. I look down at the tip thing. I look at them and I go like this. I'm sorry. If I order, I don't know. I'm not that cruel. I feel like I want to do that every time. It makes me feel bad. Because I don't understand why you would tip digitally like this. I can understand rounding up perhaps. But giving the coins is one thing. Doing it, I don't know. A dollar tip isn't that much. Maybe it's American culture. I have to be honest. I did leave tips. I don't want to admit it. It is a guilt thing. I would round up. I do leave tips. It depends on how challenging my order is.

00:12:37 John Daub: If you're one of these people who are like, I want two shots of espresso with a pump of vanilla and this and this and this. You better tip. I think maybe that's tipping. But if you're like, I want an iced coffee. I don't think you need to tip for that. You know what I mean? I think you go a little bit overboard. When I get a Cinnabon, I don't want to tip the Cinnabon guy because they just put a bun in a box. My interaction was like three seconds. Americans complain about tipping in the US and how it's out of hand. But you go to Japan and try force tipping. Stop ruining Japan. Yes, please stop it. I click no tip with no hesitation. No one will guilt trip me. It's hard. I know my viewers wouldn't do it. I know a lot of you would and most of you probably wouldn't. I want to be on the wooden side. But every now and then, if I give a different tip, I'm breaking down.

00:13:44 John Daub: This is getting off the topic. Imagine if the US figures out their taxes and having its citizens figure it out and punishing those that made mistakes. I wonder how Japan's tax system. Japan's tax system is a lot easier than the American tax system. Mainly because a lot of these workers don't have to do their own taxes. When I was an English teacher, I really didn't have to do my own taxes. I had to sign a paper and that was it. It was so easy. That's why I'm somewhat divided. Because here I am, a YouTuber. I get Super Chats, which are essentially tips. I see Super Chats as gifts. Patreon is support. This would be a tip because YouTube takes part of the tip here. By the way, for those that want to support me on Patreon, this is this month's postcard. A very delicious Yamagata Cherry Auction. This box right here, $10,000 folks. For this box right here. These are two L-size Sato Nishiki cherries at auction. And I went to the farm and filmed that this summer. The episode's coming soon. So thank you so much for the support. That postcard went out yesterday, by the way. So it's on the way. With Japan Meteorological Agency stamps. I got to support JMA.

00:15:08 John Daub: This is the most interesting part of stuff. Come on over here. I got a secret for you. I'm going to put you in the bushes here. Japan tried to do this. They tried to do this in 2021. There's a Wikipedia on this. It's called the Tip Project. I'm not joking. Japan tried to do this. Tip Project was a business venture and organization which unsuccessfully, thank goodness, pushed to introduce American practices of gratuity into Japanese culture. It was a business venture first launched in 2021 and managed by the Tip Promotion Association, a real thing. It was shut down in the first half of 2023. Don't let the door hit you on the way out. One of those screen doors out in the countryside. The one that Cosmo Kramer had in Seinfeld. It had a nice sound to it.

00:16:07 John Daub: But they really tried to do this here. This is real. Somebody tried to do this. There's a logo for it and everything. Founded by a YouTuber, I believe. Japan was previously known as a culture where gratuity practices largely did not exist. Numerous travel agencies, blogs, companies have written about how in Japan, tipping is considered either rude, it's not a practice, it's considered to be a bad thing in Japan. This is a fact. In restaurants and the food industries where American tipping is mostly prevalent, Japanese culture treats good service as something to be expected by default, not rewarded. Cultural customs are traditionally given. Give Japanese food service workers at least one free meal per working day. So Japanese food services at a restaurant, you're going to get a free meal there. When my friends worked at an izakaya, they got to eat when they closed the shop or before the shop opened, some of them would eat a meal or they'd have a meal in the back. So the restaurants take care of their workers in Japan for the most part. Not all companies are the same. I have to say that.

00:17:31 John Daub: In Japan, high services like geisha, there aren't a lot of them. And ryokan (traditional inns) hotels, people who are full-time staff will get an envelope of cash at the end of the year. They get paid. They do get tipped at the end of the year one time. I like to go to Japanese baseball games. It's interesting. We tip services in Japan sometimes. There are otaku (enthusiasts), I guess you call them like geeks. They go to baseball games all the time. Baseball otaku. They go there for the beer girls. You guys know what I'm talking about? Some of you do. The beer girls, they carry a backpack with a keg on it, like a 10-liter keg. So it's like 10 to 12 kilograms because they got the cups and everything else with it. Now they just touch now. It's all cashless. And at the last game of the year, the fans will give an envelope of cash to these beer girls to say thank you. The regular customers. I think that's nice. Unexpected, but nice. So these beer girls, they're like stadium hostesses in a way. It's interesting. Some of you probably didn't know about that because you don't live here, but I ask a lot of questions and I got a lot of answers.

00:19:02 John Daub: I was actually inside of BayStars Stadium in Yokohama, inside the clubhouse, and I got a chance to go on the field, which is sacred ground. A lot of the Japanese consider that sacred ground. Founded in 2021 by a Japanese YouTuber. The project because they believe that American practices would help raise the self-esteem and happiness of Japanese service industries during the pandemic. I get it. That was a tough time for all services. Seriously. People just weren't making money. They're getting laid off left and right. The backlash against the project was immediate. Translations of Japanese comments in Japanese. We have a Kotaku article that covered the project. This doesn't suit Japan. And this is a pain in the. One comment suggested that if 20% is a standard tip, discount all prices by 20%. That makes sense. The tip project vanished in 2023, but there's still archives of it. The Financial Times celebrated the failure of TIP Project with columnist Leo Lewis writing that the project's failure was a rare time when people should relish the failure of a business venture. Lewis proceeds to describe the failure of TIP Project as Japan's culture being spared from a social tyranny in comparison to the over high gratuity amounts given in American culture. Lewis draws the ultimate conclusion that tipping is a fundamentally un-Japanese practice.

00:20:47 John Daub: Why you would bring Western culture to Japan, a Japanese person to do it, I get the sentiment. It's not culture trumps sentiment. That's what I'm saying for all of the Americans wanting to tip. Culture trumps your feelings, which is misplaced. Steps of life, my standard tip is 15% and no one will tell me otherwise. I'm really with you on that. 15%. 20% only if something special happens. Or if it's a really big party, like a lot of people. They gotta get that French tray out. There's an archived website to this. Here's the website. There's some business. Is that Horiemon from the Failed Livedoor? He's actually really funny. He's a really good entrepreneur here. He's got a lot of smart thinking. A unique perspective, let's just say.

00:22:04 John Daub: So they had a system, the way that they wanted this to work. They gave restaurants that wanted to participate in this program a tip sheet. So you'd write in the tip. You'd write in what it was for. And then give it to the worker, which would put it into your credit card. That's what it looked like. Let me tell you why this is so bad. This association, I'm just guessing here, but let's just say it like this. Most associations or business practices with entrepreneurs like this, they take a cut of everything. So can you imagine this agency giving out lots of these papers to people and they're not taking like 5% or something from these tips? So everybody takes a cut from this stuff. They had to put down the purpose for the tax reasons. So when you do the tip and you put it in the total, it's the company that has to deal with all of this, not the even individual worker. So you'd write in whatever you want. But what do you think? Are you glad that this failed as well? Rather than tipping, drop extra coins into the shrine, depending on the donations for maintenance. That is such a great idea if you feel bad for the workers go and tip a local shrine or temple because this is where I seek my spiritual guidance.

00:24:01 John Daub: I know a lot of monks, Buddhist monks and Shinto priests and I will consult with them for you know you can talk to them about life stuff just like you would a rabbi a priest in the U.S. or an imam or any religious leader they usually know a lot of stuff. I have a friend who is from the University of Michigan my arch enemy and he's a priest at a Ukrainian Orthodox church in Tokyo and during the pandemic I had a really hard time and I was able to talk with him about non-football stuff and I'm deeply grateful and I'm reminding myself now that I should go in to service and leave a nice donation, which is hard because he's from Michigan, but I have to say those from the Buckeye State are quite generous, except when we lose, which is not that often in football. I've lived in both cultures, tipping and no tipping for years, and my vote is no tipping.

00:26:21 John Daub: All right, I want to end right here, a nice shaded area. Why is tipping bad? I've noticed I stopped using this site called Blue Sky and Threads because it seemed like it was overly political, which I don't want in my daily life, okay? Me and Peter von Gomm and a lot of friends, we just, we turn off the news, you know what I mean? You're better off not watching. I'm not watching the news. Anything I get, probably I hear it from you guys, except on election years because you have to vote. You have to kind of be informed. So the thing with them is I see a lot of people telling you how to tip, and if you don't want to tip 30%, don't go out and eat, and they show their bills. And I think that this is the most ridiculous thing because then people just stop eating in general. A lot of people have less money than they did, you know, four years ago. Maybe I hope that this just changes. But I only went out to eat, I think, maybe two times when I was in the United States to restaurants. It just wasn't something that I did. But there is this sense of entitlement that the tip is, they're entitled to a tip. A tip is not voluntary based on service. Some people that don't have any money might not tip at all. And that's just part of it.

00:27:45 John Daub: I was a waiter for a couple of years in college and in Columbus, Ohio. I had a restaurant called Spinnaker's in City Center in the downtown mall right next to the state capital. Great restaurant. They had bread and flour pots. I got to eat them all the time and take them home, which is great. So I was always well fed. Manager was great as well. I was the only straight server, which was also great because I got to learn about, in 1996, got to learn about all sorts of different people. Andre was the head waiter and him and his boyfriend would teach me all sorts of things after work about what they did. That was interesting stuff. Columbus, Ohio has the second largest gay and lesbian population in America in the 1990s, which I didn't know about. So I learned a lot from them. Good friends. The tippers were generous. I have to be honest in that community. And they had Michelob light on draft. And I once got a $100 tip because the restaurant had Michelob light and I had to split that with the bartender.

00:29:15 John Daub: My point is this. I didn't expect that I would get tipped. I never expected to get tipped. I saw it as a gift and I felt great. There were foreigners that came in to eat and some of them wouldn't tip at all. And yeah, I felt a little bit upset, but I never really got angry because it's like life. Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. All you can do is the best that you can do. You serve the food the best you can. You say your name. Hi, my name is John. I'll be your server for today. Would you like to start off with our daily specials? How about a pot of our flour pot bread? You do the best that you can do with a smile. Even when you have a bad day, you keep on working hard. Your feet hurt at the end of it. I think it was like $2.40 an hour was the standard hourly wage. I would get paid like 60 bucks a week from the restaurant for actual work time. It wasn't a lot. And then the tips and you'd have to claim your tips and you'd have to pay taxes on that and all that. But I didn't expect it. And now it's like it's expected. It's like you must tip. And I don't like that. It's not expected.

00:30:33 John Daub: And everybody who grew up in the 1980s were like, you just want to slap the younger generation and goes, look, and they say you shouldn't go out and eat if you're not going to tip. I said, you shouldn't be expecting a tip because if you're not, then you're probably going to get a bigger one. It's fate. So I think the tipping maybe has ruined. You can't go to Columbus, Ohio. You learn a lot of things in Columbus, Ohio. It's a big city. It's an amazing city. It's a diverse city. But yeah, I was very lucky. I supported in the 1996 presidential campaign. I got to shake hands with Bill Clinton and I got to go to Iowa as part of the Ohio delegation. I was part of the delegation of the college Republicans. So I supported both sides in college, which is great. I wasn't one or the other. I won't tell you how I voted, but it was pretty cool to go in a bus to Iowa and then get a chance to meet with Bob Dole, shake his hand and then shake his wife's hand, Elizabeth Dole. They were so nice. I was in the background on CNN at the Cedar Rapids thing, cheering. That was fun. But I also got to shake hands with Bill Clinton, which was pretty cool. His hands are like massive. That was all kind of neat being part in Columbus, Ohio. You're in the center of it all.

00:32:14 John Daub: The bottom line is that like tipping culture is a little bit out of hand in the US, but Japanese, they don't tip and Japanese workers don't expect tips. And what does that do? It means that they work for the sake of doing the best that they can do. It's this omotenashi (hospitality) spirit. And not everybody has it. They're like part-time jobs. They just want to get the money. I know that. But there's a reason why the streets of Tokyo are so clean. Because everybody really cares about the job they do. They care about the place in which they live. You can see the streets here are quite clean. There's a reason why. We love our city. We are very proud of it. There's no graffiti. There's very little crime. And it shows when you come here to Tokyo. You don't need to tip for this. This is free for you. You don't need to tip the amazing service that you get here. Maybe buy something instead. But it's led to really good service. And that's the most important thing.

00:33:46 John Daub: I did go to Ohio State. I was part of Ohioans for Dole, which was a group of Ohio State students and residents from Columbus that got on a bus and went to Iowa for the Ohioans in January too. Oh my God, Iowa is so cold in January. It's even colder than Ohio. We got a chance to do political stuff in 1996. That was cool. I got to be on TV and stuff and meet people. I still have a sign. One of the, Dole. Who was running with Dole? Oh, the football player. Dole and Jack Kemp. He was a really good guy too. He seemed good on TV. I never met him. I have a signed poster from that 96 campaign from Bob Dole. I found it in the basement in my house the other day when I was back in the US. Shout out to Randy Santel for eating like six bowls of this stuff. Of course he lost the election. Bill Clinton won another term. But I can't say that the 1990s were bad. They were really good. So I don't know. I'm not going to complain about that. There's no politics involved here. Although I just talked about politics for quite a while, didn't I?

00:35:32 John Daub: All these restaurants here, you won't find a tip jar. It's just weird for me that I saw this today. And I don't know what the business is thinking, but look, perhaps they make an extra 15% for the company and they put it there and then they give. I don't know if the workers actually get this money. I think a journalist that's not me should confirm it. How much of that money goes to the actual workers? I would like to know that. You see all sorts of stuff in Tokyo. There's a kissaten (old-style coffee shop), Mikado. That building looks like it's from the 1980s. The spiral staircases are so popular. The disco era. This is also for, I think it's just down the street here, for those that watched Shogun, the drama. You can see Anjin-san's house in Nihonbashi. There's a marker here. Just search the archives of this channel and you'll find it. This used to be the old fish market before it was Tsukiji and now Toyosu. It used to be the street and a lot of old merchants. Actually, I think it was along the riverside, but a lot of old merchants, the Bank of Japan, you can see it's just got a lot of wealth in here. And there's Nihonbashi. They're going to be putting this highway underground eventually.

00:37:30 John Daub: Kanae's like, why don't you do TikTok? And I said, I don't know. So maybe I'll put some videos on there. See what happens. I have a lot of time for that. Watching TikTok and stuff. Like I always wondered why that dude has got a hat. I like that hat. Looks like my hiking hat. It's a beautiful building, brand new. It just went up. Look at that. That's sleek. The skyline has changed so much. Nihonbashi. You used to be able to, from this bridge on clear days. You used to be able to see to Mount Fuji. Now you can't even see to Tokyo Station, which is 300 meters away. It's pretty crazy. But they're going to be moving this highway underground. This is Nihonbashi, which is that ukiyo-e (woodblock print) you saw of that bridge in Tokyo with Mount Fuji. That's this. So, and I think that, I think the alley this way is where you'll see the marker for Anjin-san. I show you where it is in the YouTube video.

00:39:02 John Daub: I don't find tip jars at the Starbucks either. I would, I don't know. I've tipped at Starbucks. Okay, I just confirmed there is no tip jar at the Starbucks. And I said, I was just looking for a tip jar. And I just left. The only reason I'm walking here is because I'm going on my bicycle. This is where I ended the live stream. I don't mind going on a little bit longer. Some guy wrote in a nice comment. He said, if your videos were only 15 minutes, I'd watch more. I said, well, that's actually pretty good advice. I'll try to put all the pertinent information in the first 15 minutes and then just cut it later. I think the sweet spot though is a little bit longer. People are watching on TV more on YouTube. Right now, 73% of viewers on my main channel are watching on TV. This is the launch point of a really cool book. It's a book that takes you along the canals of Tokyo. It really is really cool. I recommend it. It's pretty neat. I don't think it's very expensive either. You can see that there's some bridges here. But it's a historical way and a different way to see the city of Tokyo. There's my bicycle. I always park here.

00:41:16 John Daub: If you have any questions, you can leave them down in the comments below. If you haven't already, please go check out my latest video. It just passed 52,000 views now. It started 50,000 views on YouTube for the first time. Actually to pick up more viewers are the click-through rate that is going up so more people are starting to click it even though the event is done on August 9th for Nagasaki I think it's a really good story I appreciate all the comments in there I'm reading them and I'll tell you what I'm if you leave a comment there I'm gonna do a live stream reading some of the comments there because they're very interesting there's a lot of people who have maybe somewhat broken up here and there's a lot of people that are really based really good and you can see it in the comments in this video it's fascinating to see how people are reacting to this video go check go check that out on my main channel I made it not it's not a it's not a history a breakdown to the history of World War two it's the bombing and what happened afterwards in only Nagasaki and I think that guess I could deserve to have a dedicated video like that because a lot of you guys had asked me about that.

00:43:29 John Daub: That's all I can say. And I'm proud of him for making a video like this. You know, he's got other stuff to do. But, yeah, I'll be one of the first people watching it when it drops, if it hasn't already. And maybe he'll come up on a live stream and talk with us about it because I'd like to do more with accessibility and some of the getting around the city of Tokyo and what inspired him to make this video. I'd like to ask my friend all that stuff. Would you own a car there if the money were no object? Yeah, because then I could pay for parking. But it was like having a car at Ohio State. You'd have to park it unless you had money. You'd have to park your car on West Campus, which is like a 30-minute walk, and in winter, not fun. So very few people brought actual cars on campus. You didn't need it because we had the High Street bus. If you wanted to go down to the Capitol Building, you just jump on a bus for a dollar. Or you could walk it, but there's some dangerous neighborhoods in between there.

00:44:27 John Daub: Crazy story. In the Capitol Building, 1992, autumn, I ran downtown. The Capitol Building was running around. And I found out they had a KKK rally right outside the state Capitol in 1992. I was a little bit shocked. I didn't believe my eyes because we didn't see that where I grew up. It was interesting. They actually treated me very nicely. I said, you know, I'm sorry. I got to get through. They let me through. It was like one of those Forrest Gump moments. I'm not joking. It was very early on in 1992 in the autumn when it was running. I ran really far distances back then. I ran around the state Capitol Building, and it was a very weird, surreal experience, like something from Forrest Gump. Ohio has it all, literally. They were actually very nice. I was a little freaked out, but they weren't too bad.

00:45:45 John Daub: All right, guys, take care. I'll see you in a live stream in the next couple of days. If you have any questions, leave them in the comments. I'm very happy to answer them all. But Steps of Life, I would buy a car, and I'm considering it. And on Monday, I might be taking you somewhere outside of Tokyo to a place where the next video is going to be taking part. I've got to film one more scene. They're racists, but polite racists. I think that that's one way to say it. If you're going to be racist, be polite. Don't be racist, ever. Don't judge people by the color of their skin. It doesn't make any sense anymore. We know better. We know a lot better. All right, guys, take care. I'll see you soon. Love you guys. Matane (see you later). The weather is actually really nice. Low humidity. It feels more like September than August today. The rains are gone. High-pressure system coming in. We'll see if it stays like this.