00:02 John Daub: Good evening everybody. It's past midnight, around 12:30 in the morning. This is Tokyo. This is the Sumida River. It is eerily quiet in a major city at this time of night on the main river that goes through here. It's just incredible to me how small Tokyo seems despite the fact that it's one of the largest cities in the world.

00:35 John Daub: Right now, believe it or not, there's a typhoon on the way. And I'm going to show you how close it is. And this is an odd one. I haven't really looked too much at it, but I realized throughout most of today, we had rain, so I couldn't go outside and do much of anything. It was just amazing black clouds. And even now, the clouds look kind of mysterious.

01:05 John Daub: But it says here, and this is from today, a typhoon is heading towards western Japan and could make landfall Thursday, warning of heavy rain, mudslides, and flooding. Typhoons that come in here, they cause lots of issues, more than just the wind and the rain. They leave a trail of devastation, including mudslides, rivers that increase as a result. Those that are camped out near the riverside, not a good time. You got to look at their weather reports, things like this you really have to be careful about.

01:45 John Daub: But according to this, it's going to dump about 100 millimeters of rain on Tokyo over the next 24 hours, starting in about 30 minutes. And I've been tracking this typhoon here. Hold on a second. You can see it's really making its way towards Tokyo. It's like a yellow stampede right there. Look at that. It's about 1 in the morning and it should hit Tokyo close to 1 o'clock in the morning.

02:15 John Daub: Right now, it's over Osaka. It's over Kyoto. And this typhoon is probably bringing some rain, some wind. I don't know how strong it is right now, but it's certainly dropping a lot of rain in this part of Japan. You can see on the weather map here. It looks pretty big. It shows you how small Japan really is, but I've traveled around the country. Japan seems really big to me.

02:45 John Daub: So it's just fascinating to see this typhoon. It should move here. There you go. This typhoon take over the entire country. You can see here's the weather. That's going to be the rain that's going to be dropped in here. It says 200 millimeters, which is about 8 inches of rain that's going to be falling over the next 24 hours. Kyushu and Shikoku seem to be getting 300, which is about a foot of rain. That's a lot of rain. And it's going to be raining for the next 24 hours all over Japan.

03:20 John Daub: So if you're going to be here, tomorrow's an interesting day. Tomorrow's going to be an interesting day. Here's the path of the typhoon. This is typhoon number 15. I don't even know what it's called. In Japan, we number them, which I prefer over the giving every storm a name system.

03:45 John Daub: But you can see on the 4th, it made land in Shikoku and Kyushu on the coast of Miyazaki and Oita. And it's just going across. The eye of the storm went right across Shikoku. So they got nailed this morning. And it's been slowly progressing. Once it hits land, it kind of breaks apart here. So it's just raking the west side, the southwest side of Japan. And it's starting to come up towards Tokyo.

04:20 John Daub: It looks like it's not going to hit Tokyo directly. Maybe that's why there's not a lot of wind. And then it's going to go right back out to sea. Because it took one look at the land and said, yeah, I don't think so. And that's the typhoon. You really can't predict its course. But if you look up, you can see the clouds up in the sky are moving fairly fast. And you can see the Tokyo Skytree in the distance here.

04:55 John Daub: So I can pull that up here. The Skytree turns off its lights around midnight. I think it's around midnight. It goes dark mode. It's like KITT from Knight Rider. It's just crazy how eerily quiet it is. And yet, in the world's most populated city, I feel extraordinarily safe. Maybe that's wrong of me. There's a police station just over there, though.

05:25 John Daub: Yeah, these typhoons come and go quite a lot. I'm going to look at the questions here in a second. Because there's one more piece of information I've got to show you guys. What app do you use? I usually use the Tenki.jp (Yahoo! weather site) for live tracking weather. I'll check that out. I use Yahoo Weather. Actually, tenki (weather) is the word for weather in Japanese. So I go, Tenki Yahoo.

06:00 John Daub: And the Yahoo Weather site is actually pretty good. It's got earthquakes. It's got weather data, rainfall, radar, snow, everything right there. I'd say millions of Japanese use Yahoo Tenki for like ever. And Yahoo is still a thing in Japan, believe it or not. I'm going to check out that app, though. This is the quiet before the storm.

06:30 John Daub: I don't know if you can hear it. There's like a million crickets down there. And I'm going to go under the bridge. And even if you go under the bridge, you won't find any homeless. It's just quiet. I could take you under the bridge. Here's the best news of them all. Summer seems like it's officially over.

07:00 John Daub: Now, it could rear its head and start to burn a hole through everything again. But if you look at these low temperatures, we're getting back into the lower 20s by the end of next week. And the weather is calming down into the low 20s. It's going to be like 27, 26 degrees Celsius, which is like low 80s, upper 70s. Amen to that.

07:30 John Daub: It has been a hot one, the hottest summer on record. It looks like it's officially over. It's going to be like 33 on Monday. But I think the humidity, the thing that I've always learned about, I like coming out at night because you always see these weird street trucks.

08:00 John Daub: This is why the streets of Tokyo are so clean. Not just because people don't litter. But because the city runs so well, they have these trucks that just wash the streets every day. It's not clean enough to eat off of, though. But it looks like the weather's going to be hot on Monday and then it just gets away. It gets back down into cooler weather with maybe some more rain coming in here.

08:35 John Daub: But the thing with the typhoons is at the end of and the beginning of September, they're going to be rolling in here. And each time, they get rid of all of the humidity, all of the nasty stuff that's been just fermenting in the air. Because you can't even breathe sometimes. It's so humid and the heat is oppressive. Typhoon gets rid of all of that.

09:05 John Daub: So really, the typhoon, like this one, can be a really good friend. I hope everybody's okay in Shikoku and Kyushu down there and Osaka. But it's just going to... It's like right there. Not that far in that direction. And we have very calm wind, which is just odd. But we had rain this morning. We had rain for most of today. And tomorrow's going to be all rain. A lot of rain tomorrow.

09:40 John Daub: So I don't know if I'm going to have the chance to do a livestream in the middle of the day tomorrow. So I'm like, okay, got to go outside. I've been working pretty hard. It's nice to reset, come outside, get some fresh air. And I kind of enjoy this. Midnight Tokyo. I would get a snack, but I'm not hungry. I totally would. And I miss the rain, too.

10:15 John Daub: Oh, here's another one of these trucks. They're going to go right by me. They're working hard. Keep our streets clean. Thank you. Thank you for what you do. Yeah, I miss the rain. We haven't had enough of it in Japan. And we've had something of a drought, if you compare the rainfall.

10:45 John Daub: But these typhoons, the savior for Japan in many ways are these typhoons because they're going to dump an extraordinary amount of rain in a very short period of time. It says 100 millimeters. Another report says 200 millimeters. So something between 4 to 8 inches of rain is going to be dumped tomorrow onto Tokyo.

11:15 John Daub: So if the wind... And the wind's just starting to pick up a little bit, so I'm going to head back. But if you are in Tokyo, sometimes these... Make sure you have a raincoat because sometimes these umbrellas, they can't compete with the wind. They just can't do it. But there's no doubt that this, ladies and gentlemen, is the quiet before the storm. It really is. This is the quiet before the storm.

11:55 John Daub: Tokyo. You know what's coming. Main lens is so much better. Just imagine what the livestreams are going to be like in a couple of weeks with the new iPhone after three years of using this 14. It's going to be a lot better. I'm looking forward to that. No one around in Tokyo. And let's keep it that way. Please don't come and find me. I'm going to go home.

12:25 John Daub: Typhoons usually bring cooler weather. Rain. Wind. Hits the skin. Cools you off. But you don't want to be outside in a typhoon. And again, the typhoon is not like an earthquake. You can predict the strength of the typhoon. But it's not something you want to be outside, especially if you're in a powerful one, a category five or four.

13:00 John Daub: This one could be a tropical depression. It looks like it hit land earlier yesterday. So probably by this stage, it's broken apart and it's going, hey, I don't want to be outside. I want to be at sea where I can be fueled. And it's going to, according to the weather people, curve away from Tokyo tomorrow.

13:30 John Daub: So it's going to hit tomorrow around... That's good. It says here the fifth. I think today is the fifth. No, I say the fourth. I don't even know. So it's going to be off of... it's going to be impacting Japan tomorrow around now. The wind's already picking up a little bit. And by tomorrow night, it'll be out of here. It looks like it's slowed down. It'll hit the tip of Chiba, Tateyama, and go out to sea like John Manjiro.

14:10 John Daub: That's sort of the way he went to. You guys know the story of John Manjiro. I got a video on a main channel. YouTube dot com slash at Mark only in Japan is one of the greatest episodes that I spent two years making this episode. And I got thirty thousand views or something. It's ridiculous. I did it for the love of Japan. Actually, for the love of Manjiro.

14:45 John Daub: Once you hear the story of Manjiro, you become like a Manjiro fan. There's so many people who become fans of John Manjiro after they've heard the story. This is the machinery in the city of Tokyo cleaning the streets. Not a lot of you get to see this. How you doing? I waved to him. Did he wave?

15:15 John Daub: It doesn't make a lot of sense to be cleaning the streets. I mean, you can go to the streets right before a typhoon comes. But maybe those wheels will get the gum off. But no one litters, so it's not really a problem. It doesn't make a lot of sense though with a typhoon coming in to drop a lot of rain to be out here cleaning the streets. But hey, clockwork. Japan works like clocks. It just keeps moving. Big city.

15:55 John Daub: Yeah. So tomorrow's going to be a tough day, but it usually gets rid of everything. So I'm saying on... Hold on. Tomorrow is Friday. So on Saturday, if you are in Japan, the great thing about typhoons going through and leaving is that it cleans out the sky.

16:25 John Daub: In summer, you cannot see Mount Fuji from Tokyo because there's just too much haze and humidity in the air between you and Mount Fuji. But tomorrow, after the typhoon, there's a very good chance going up to the top of Skytree. You're going to get a nice view of Mount Fuji, which is always a good thing. You can get it from the top of Shinjuku. It has a really good free platform to take a look at the observation deck there.

17:00 John Daub: So I used to do that all the time. I've got to get back into it. Running in the middle of the night or running at 5 in the morning. Look, they got another truck. He's doing the other side now. He's come back for more. They really love clean streets here in Japan. Seriously. Why I love Tokyo.

17:30 John Daub: Two syllables. To-kyo. Not Tok-ee-oh. To-kyo. People criticize the way I say Asakusa. And I say, alright, pronounce To-kyo. And they can't do that. He saw me. They know me. They know me.

18:00 John Daub: I know that almost all the trash collectors here, because I always go outside the city. I say hi to them. And during the pandemic, we used to take a marker on the trash, and we would write arigato on all of the trash bags. And a lot of the neighbors started doing that too. And I saw it on social media. People in Japan were thanking the garbage collectors because of all the tissues and the higher risk of getting it.

18:40 John Daub: Back then, we didn't know very much about what was happening nowadays. It's like an old story. But yeah, they were keeping their job going despite everybody being stuck at home. We really appreciated what the garbage collectors did. So I got a chance to meet and know many of the garbage collectors and the recycle people. So these are cool people.

19:15 John Daub: They know. You know, the people who pick up our trash and take care of our recycle probably know more about us than we think. It just makes a lot of sense, doesn't it? It does. There's more city trucks. There's more trucks coming in. They are so busy in the middle of the night, the city of Tokyo. Maybe they're preparing for the typhoon coming in. I don't know. It's about 1 a.m.

19:55 John Daub: But I don't know if I'm going to be able to do a livestream tomorrow. And if I don't do a livestream at least once every three days, people think I might not be around anymore. So I got to keep you updated. There's a lot of stuff happening. There's a lot of stuff happening. But right now, it's this typhoon. And it is something of a weather story. And weather stories impact the way you travel in Japan.

20:30 John Daub: And I've been telling you this for the last couple of few months as we were shrugging off this earthquake prophecy. That never happened. Fingers crossed. Knock on wood. Metal. There's a bush over there. I'll knock on that later. Typhoons are something that you really need to consider. Any time between the, I would say, like the end of June till the beginning of October.

21:05 John Daub: And I tell people to make sure you leave maybe a day early. Which isn't great for the economy. But leave a day early. Or give yourself an extra day in case your flight is canceled and you can't leave right away. You got to take a later flight. So make sure you put a little cushioning between you and the day you got to start work. Or else you might be stuck here.

21:40 John Daub: For many people, you can work remotely. But it's a good thing to keep in mind. But I'd say the stronger typhoons are usually August and September. Because the waters are so hot. I'd say about three weeks ago. And this is fascinating. Maxi PCX, Only in Japan, go. Have you talked about the Australian Instagrammer, streamer drinking a Graves beer tribute?

22:20 John Daub: I can talk about that if you want. I don't think I'm going to make a special episode about it. But it's creepy enough out here that I could talk about it. It's a creepy thing to do. The water was kind of red from the point. Plankton dying. And there were fish jumping like crazy. And a lot of them ended up dead when the tide went out. There were a lot of dead fish. Just the water was too warm. But it's starting to cool off.

23:00 John Daub: And I showed you the weather forecast. Look, I really feel for the fish. I know that, you know, imagine the air is hot and the water is hot. They feel it probably worse than we do. So the water is really going to start to cool down. As we have cloudier days, more rain coming. So it's good for the fish. And, you know, I would like to think I'm a champion of the fish community under the water as a scuba diver. Love my marine life.

23:40 John Daub: So now I shall do what you asked me to do because of the super chat. Thank you very much. Yeah, you know, I saw that. And I saw a Legal Mindset who I love. I love that he covers like a YouTube video. YouTube, like, I don't know, streamer crimes or influencer crimes. I love that he covers this. It's something that I've been doing because of the bad behavior of people coming here to Japan. And he does such a wonderful job of it. So much respect.

24:25 John Daub: So much to put his legal knowledge and legal brain into the minds of the criminals to try to explain. And the legal system to explain to us who have no idea what's happening in more detail. And it really does help me. So I appreciate it. But he was one of the people who, if not the first person that broke that story. And I saw it. And I was like, wow, that's not good.

25:00 John Daub: I think he did it in Kawaguchiko, Lake Kawaguchi, which absolutely does not need more bad tourists. Why do all the bad tourists go to where that Lawson's brown wall is now? It's a brown colored wall. But I saw that. I haven't heard anything more about this story over the last three days. But I do think he looks like somebody who has some mental issues.

25:40 John Daub: Makes me think that perhaps Japan should give a very subtle IQ test on entry to people. Mostly males. I don't see too many bad female streamers. I just put that. How come the female streamers are a lot better than the male streamers? I don't know if that's right to say, but it just seems that way.

26:15 John Daub: When I got my driver's license. OK, I had to take like an idiot test. All right. They asked these like I think was twenty five questions. They asked these twenty five questions about like crazy things. Like, should you turn into oncoming traffic? No. Do you if you see people crossing the road, do you crash into them? No.

26:50 John Daub: Like they ask these questions just to kind of weed out like the really serious stuff. And then they ask the really seriously mental people that might be on the roads. Maybe that's a smart thing to do. And I couldn't read some of the questions. It was entirely in Japanese. They didn't have any in English.

27:20 John Daub: And I said, I can read maybe these. I can't read these other ones. And I'm afraid to make a mistake with that. So he just took the test. He looked at me. He goes, you're like he didn't say anything, but he gave me the look. Your concern on missing the question is enough for you to pass this retard test. And that's what his looking at me kind of said to me.

27:55 John Daub: And he took the test and he said, that's what it is. And I went and sat down and the rest of the people finished their twenty five questions on if you are an idiot or not. Japan has these kinds of tests to see if you know you should be on the road. And maybe that's why we have pretty good drivers because we get rid of we I guess the police weed out people that would swerve into oncoming traffic and they want to, you know.

28:35 John Daub: So this I'm sick of it. This is serious stuff. I'm not joking. Grab yourself something to drink on me from rag rag lands from Singapore. I know this isn't exactly midnight. I know. I'll try to bring back the midnight run in October. OK, I'm going to midnight snack run. But this isn't one of them. But I appreciate I really appreciate that.

29:15 John Daub: In fact, if the typhoon comes in, it's not too bad. I might go outside and do a little rain live streaming. I've been wanting to do a walking stream. It's a lot more positive. Then some of the other stuff that we've been talking about. It sometimes can get a little bit too political, even though it's not a political thing. It is everything that's on the fringe can become political. So I try. I try my best not to.

29:55 John Daub: Shroom is here. Good luck, John. Please stay safe along with your family. Thank you very much. I don't think this is going to be too much of a problem. I'm out here because probably I'm not going to be able to stream tomorrow if it's going to be raining all day. So it makes a lot of sense to report on a typhoon that probably is not going to hit too hard.

30:35 John Daub: How could it? It's like literally it looks like the typhoon is right there. That's Tokyo. See that armpit? That's Tokyo in the armpit of Tokyo Bay right there. Tokyo is where you would tickle. And look at the marching line going towards one o'clock, which is right now. So it's imminent. The yellow rain is imminent. And there's hardly any rain. It looks like.

31:10 John Daub: Typhoon number 15 is what we're calling it does look pretty big, but it also seems like it's broken apart. And I'm not too worried. It's going to go out to sea. It's just going to kind of tickle the armpit there. You see and go out back to the sea towards Hawaii. So Brandy, this is coming your way. Michael Sassano. Probably those guys are in bed. Probably in bed.

31:50 John Daub: Yeah, I going back to this weird streamer. Satrio is not in bed. I see Satrio is here. Nice to see you. Going back to the streamer. I haven't heard from him in a few days. I think that the police are looking for him. But there is a bigger issue with this. And it's they let.

32:25 John Daub: And I think that legal mindset might have the same opinion on this maybe. But I think that the Japanese authorities after all that Reese all that investigation and all that time. Not arresting him and letting Johnny Somali go loose. And do all the stuff that he did. And then I think he had like three months in holding where they were questioned which is not a not a pleasant thing either.

33:00 John Daub: And then to just release him with like a like an $800 fine or something. Was way too lenient. Way too lenient. And it just signals like go ahead. Crap on this country. And we're not going to do much about it. We're not going to do much of anything. We're just going to hold you for three weeks and give you an $800 fine.

33:40 John Daub: I really hope that Korea throws the book at this guy. And I hope that this guy is arrested and deported. But held and maybe questioned for a while. Illuminads is here. Best wishes to you and your family. Stay safe from Switzerland.

34:10 John Daub: We are looking at flights to Switzerland to go to the Christmas markets. It's not guaranteed yet. I'm looking at like around the world tickets. To stop in Zurich and go spend a few days at the Christmas markets. I haven't done Christmas markets in Switzerland yet. So we thought maybe that'd be a good idea before the world gets kind of funky and AI takes over.

34:50 John Daub: There's nothing better than the Christmas markets in Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Holland, I guess. Czech Republic had really good ones. I'm sure Poland, Krakow I can imagine could be just amazing. The Christmas markets. Especially in the east. They're so good. Probably Italy. France. France probably has some good ones. I don't know about Spain. No snow there, right?

35:30 John Daub: I think that's that cultures might start to change a little bit just because, you know, we're getting too digital. There's something really nice about the Christmas time in Europe. And it's just it's just really beautiful special. The foods are good. Even if it's just three days. It'd really, really nice.

36:00 John Daub: You know what it was, though, that got me onto the Christmas markets? It was James Bond on Her Majesty's Secret Service and seeing the Swiss Christmas markets, even though it was a small one, you know, with the chase scenes to the Christmas market and stuff. It's like, man, that's just so beautiful. The music riding in a sleigh. This is like old world stuff. It's like Christmas that, you know, the night before Christmas.

36:45 John Daub: They should have pictures of not the 21st century, but like of the 19th century. So I think that's the image of Christmas that I have. And you still get that kind of image in those parts of Europe. So I really do like to go. And here's the weird thing. The around the world tickets are not that expensive.

37:20 John Daub: It's only a little bit more than a round trip ticket from Tokyo to New York and back to go around the world on Swiss air is almost the same price, which is crazy. So, like, why wouldn't you do it? You can go on to Google Flights, pick a multi city and it'll put together a pretty good around the world ticket.

37:55 John Daub: And I used to use Air Treks, but I think that they have air treks is based in San Francisco. But I think they just have staffing problems because I and Google can do it all without having a travel agent. But I do like having travel agents because it helps people. But that job is like going to be definitely going to be one of those ones that I just access next PCX rates in here.

38:35 John Daub: I moved to Japan. I moved to Japan with my wife back in June. Oh, welcome. Welcome, neighbor. I am trying my best to learn the language and integrate properly. Streamers making us look bad. Maxi. Yeah, you know, that's the whole thing. If you live in Japan, you get looped in with with these bad streamers. There's not a lot that we can do about it.

39:15 John Daub: It's just look, I I've been here for a long time. More than half my life now. And get it. Wherever I go, people will assume I don't speak Japanese. And it is a little bit annoying. Now, about seven or eight years ago, before the tourist boom, I probably speak the same level of Japanese, to be honest with you.

39:55 John Daub: I was able to. People didn't feel like I was a tourist back then. I didn't have suitcases. I didn't really dress like a tourist. I could speak the language. I was a foreign resident in Japan. They knew they could size me up. Right. I didn't use big hand gestures. I wasn't loud. Didn't wear perfume.

40:30 John Daub: That's one of the big complaints. Foreign tourists who come here wear so much perfume, depending on what part of the world you are. Nobody likes perfume here, like cologne and scents and deodorants like spray all over your body and stuff. It's just the worst thing here. It ruins everybody's nose. And you can't smell the food anymore because you got this some dude spray in your face.

41:10 John Daub: Right. So I didn't have that. I smelled like soap or neutral, which is the best smell because you can smell everything else around you, which is somebody wearing cologne. But it wasn't me. So now everywhere I go, they just assume I'm a tourist and it's OK for a little bit. But it's not. If you eat in tourist areas for an extended period of time, it's exhausting.

41:55 John Daub: That's why I like to as I was telling you, I like to get to know the people in my community because then they know you're not a tourist. So I know that all the recycle guys, the trash collectors. Thank you for your service. I love those guys. And lady, there's a lady who does it every now and then.

42:30 John Daub: The police officers, I get to know them. The ones that are on patrol. I do the nod. Wave. Sometimes I just go in there. When I reported my iPhone stolen about four years ago, I got a chance to meet most of them. Like I got a chance to go to all the police boxes and chew. It was really funny.

43:05 John Daub: But they get to know me and I get to know them. And I ask them their names and conversation. Do you live here? Do you like living here? You know, how do you know any good schools for kids? I ask the people everything and they get to know me. And by that and then they see me, they don't see me as a tourist.

43:45 John Daub: So there's a fish or a body. There was a big fish. Hold on a second. There's been like known to be like sharks and whales coming in here. I, whatever it was, was really big. Godzilla? Something just went through there really big. I saw the back of it. It came up. That was a shark? A whale? It wasn't spaceboat. That's closed. That is really kind of creepy. I don't know.

44:30 John Daub: I'm just going to put it out over here for a second. This is the Skytree. So look, I don't remember what I was talking about. Could be a grouper. I don't know. Grouper? Do you mean for me? Or do you mean a fish? Could be anything. Walrus? Yeah.

45:00 John Daub: So when to get back to all of this and how they started from the super chat, that Australian streamer, you got to know. He's got to know what's going on. All right. I literally said grouper, which we get on the trains at this time of night. That's not something. And I've been touched once before.

45:40 John Daub: An old lady groped me on the Den-en-toshi Line when I lived in Futako-Tamagawa 15 years ago. I thought I saw it, but it could be just a reflection off of the lights. I got groped by an old lady. I guess she thought I had a nice tush. I don't know. But I turned around. And she was much smaller than me. And she had a smile on her face. I'll never forget it. It was like that. And she wasn't even blinking. And that was the creepy part about it.

46:25 John Daub: And so I politely turned around. I got off at the next station, which I think was Sangenjaya. I got off. And I moved to another car. Maybe they're going to have to start doing men-only cars because that creepy old lady, she was there. She reminded me of the onsen baba, the Yubaba. And Sen to Chihiro, Spirited Away in a way. Just a creepy.

47:05 John Daub: She grabbed my tush, gave it a very aggressive squeeze. She certainly is one who can make that onigiri, you know. It's not a pleasant thing, though. You feel violated. It's not something that I want to have again. And not something that anybody should experience. So that'll happen to you in Japan. And what do you do? This is like 15 years ago, more. 2004? What do you do? Call the police? They're not going to believe me. Because it doesn't...

47:55 John Daub: Oh, something jumped. Something jumped. Hey, Walter. L. Walters is here. Good evening, John. What's one thing you could never talk about eating when you first moved to Japan, but you now enjoy it? Stay safe, stay dry. Natto. It's the one that all foreign tourists dislike, hate. You shouldn't. But it really is an acquired taste.

48:35 John Daub: And once you acquire it, it's pretty good. It's fermented, so it's got something of a smell to it, but it's not unpleasant. You put mustard in it to give it kind of a little tinge to it. It's a smart thing to do. And a little bit of dashi, which gives it some saltiness to it. I love beans. The stickiness of it goes really well with rice. I don't like rice so much. I actually will eat the natto on its own.

49:15 John Daub: I used to like this one called hikiwari, which is cut up small natto. But now I like the big bean natto. I eat that regularly. And they say it's a superfood, and that could be why I got six-inch guns now. You know what I mean? It could be the natto. It could be seven inches now. I'm working out a little bit.

49:50 John Daub: What else? I couldn't eat... I didn't like sushi because I don't like vinegar so much. I don't like the smell of the vinegar, the vinegar rice. So I didn't like sushi so much. But I guess I'm okay with sushi now. When I first came in 1998, it's a good question, you know? It makes you think. Like, look back on your life. What was it when I got here?

50:30 John Daub: I like tempura. I like wagyu steak when I could afford it back then because it was pricey. It's cheaper now than it was back then. It was a real luxury item. What? I don't know. Umeboshi? It's so sour. But maybe it's not that I... I think it's just because I got older and my palate has changed.

51:10 John Daub: I remember sweet stuff and if you're... Like, I'm still getting used to the fact that I'm 50 years old, okay? In my 50s. It doesn't make sense to me. But my palate has changed. I used to love sweet foods. I used to like drinking beer. I can't drink beer because beer is too sweet. Even the Asahi Super Dry, they say it's dry. It ain't dry. It's got like the sweet taste to it now.

51:55 John Daub: So I built up... You know, my palate has changed. I like sour and bitter. And people have been... I kind of get it. People have been saying that sometimes the streams are a little bit too negative. It could be because older people like sour and bitter foods more. Is there a correlation? And younger kids like sweet foods?

52:35 John Daub: Leo can't eat this sour and the sweet stuff. But, you know, he's starting to because he's getting older. But I love it. Oh, I saw it! I... That could have been a groper. Whatever it was, it was big. I don't know. It was here. Whatever it was, it was big and it had a white back to it. All I know is that I don't want to...

53:15 John Daub: This is not a time to be going swimming. And it didn't jump. It just showed... It just went to the top and went back down. I'm not joking. Not groper. Grouper. Grouper. Okay. Sorry. Grouper. It could have been a grouper. But, yeah, I don't...

53:55 John Daub: Like, I like coffee. I like coffee with no sugar. But I like a