00:00:01 John Daub: Welcome to the city of Tokyo. This is a new era in Only in Japan Go. I started off with an iPhone X Plus, I think that's what it was called, back in 2017 when live streaming, mobile live streaming was brand new. I moved on to the iPhone 11 and the iPhone 12 Pro—that's when they went Pro. Then the iPhone 14 Pro for the last three years. It got pretty spotty at the end as the phone got older. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the iPhone 16 Pro. I met you with the iPhone 16 Pro, a phone that I did not want to get, but it just seems like it's the best one to get the job done. Or will it? In this episode, we'll talk about this. I want to talk about my experience getting this phone. It was déjà vu. We almost had another iPhone 13 Pro. If you've been following this channel, you can figure this out. For those of you that like this channel or mobile live streaming, I want to talk about where it came from and where it's going and where we are right now. It's actually kind of really interesting.

00:01:01 John Daub: You should be able to tell a difference in the wideness of it. It's a little bit wider than the iPhone 14 Pro. The front camera is supposed to be improved. I don't think it was that much improved other than they said there's a square sensor which has more megapixels. But for a 16:9 image, which is what video is, I don't know if it's any more megapixels. It's just maybe the quality of the sensor could be improved. Low light could be improved. But it's more of a gimmick for video. Vertical and horizontal shooting using the same sensor is actually kind of cool for everyday use. For live streamer use like what I do, it's not such a useful thing because it doesn't really matter. I got this phone specifically for live streaming. You see there's a vending machine behind me. We're going to do a test with the zoom lens here to see if we can make the Prism Studio Live app work, which is the app that I use for mobile live streaming.

00:02:01 John Daub: I've already seen a big update. After so many months and years of using this app—I think it's been three years—they finally put in an audio meter. So now I know 100% that an audio microphone is connected. I'll show you maybe with my other phone. I got a DJI Mic Mini connected in by USB-C cable and it works just fine. Finally, it tells me the kilobits per second and the frames per second all listed on the screen. This is an amazing advancement for mobile live streaming right here on the screen. This is crazy. The Tokyo weather here is really chilled out a little bit. The humidity is completely gone. There's a breeze, it's about 25 degrees Celsius. So it's warm, you can wear shorts but most people now have pants. Alright, now let's just go ahead and try this out.

00:02:56 John Daub: The biggest improvement that I noticed—and this is gonna be huge for the channel—is there's like a 5G Plus and I checked out and this is an area where I never got really good service. It was next to this vending machine and this is what I got here. Almost one gigabit per second, 897—I think I got up to 900 on some of the other tests here on the street. But the most important data point is the one on the right side because for a live stream download doesn't matter. It's all about the upload and this is where I would usually get like two to five and the stream would cancel out. With the new modems on this and the ability to get a faster 5G because of an upgrade on the phone, maybe because of the modem, I can get 43.6 megabits per second. You can see it's a huge discrepancy but I could do 4K live streams very easily with this. It's a big improvement. I need at least 4.5 megabits per second and I don't often get that in Tokyo which is crazy even though the download could be like a hundred or two hundred or one gigabit per second download. If the upload speed is less than five, I would often get a very spotty live stream.

00:04:23 John Daub: This app and the reason why I use this app is because it uses HEVC and it's a lot faster than the other ones. This is the HEVC encoding which is about half the amount of bandwidth that the YouTube app requires. So if you're live streaming mobile by YouTube app, you need twice the amount of bandwidth. You need about an 8 to 9 megabits per second in order to get a full HD size stream. But actually the YouTube app doesn't even do full HD live streams. They do 720p and this app allows you to do that. So it allows HD streams which we've been live streaming HD for about a year and a half now which is pretty impressive. 1080p for a live stream on the street is pretty impressive. But now you're seeing we're getting this kind of a signal. I think we're gonna have less issues walking around and we're gonna have more ability to add in widgets and music and people calling in. I can see now this phone in particular has opened it up. I did not get the orange one. Are you crazy? I'm not gonna get orange phone. That's the phone that no one's gonna want to buy in two or three years. That's the phone that's like oh I've got a new iPhone. So they pick one color that all the influencers are gonna be talking about.

00:05:52 John Daub: Here's the rig that I got here. You can see on the side that's the iPhone. The DJI Mic Mini right there. It's connected with the USB-C so that gives me the audio but because of the Lightning port I was having all sorts of trouble with that but not anymore. Now you can see yourself. I got the darkest one that was available. Yeah it's the deep blue. It looked more black. I would have gotten the gray or the black one but they didn't have it available which I don't understand why. I bet you this is something maybe they release at Christmas. I don't know. Alright before we get too deep into my experience buying it and I recommend that you never ever ever ever pre-order an iPhone in Japan ever. I'm gonna tell you why but first let's try the cameras here.

00:07:11 John Daub: You're looking at the front facing camera so this is me holding the camera typically where I would in a live stream. You can see it's already wider right? Pretty wide. I don't even know if the stabilization is on but the camera has pretty good stabilization as it is. Alright let's turn it around here. I've got the old Prism has the old 0.5, 1 and 2. It hasn't upgraded to what I got on the iPhone app. I'm gonna go across the street. We're gonna do this right. I got this phone yesterday and I looked at the camera app and it had a 0.5, 1, 2, 4 and 8. That's an 8—that's got to be like digital. Optical or something but it was actually really good. I could not read the numbers on my Blu-ray player which is on my cabinet above. From a distance of about four meters I could use that zoom in low light and read the numbers on the back of the Blu-ray player which is really hard to do even when you're standing right in front of it.

00:08:41 John Daub: This is the micro jitters. I've been really impressed with it so far. We're gonna look at this vending machine across the street. This is the two-times. You can see it's the stabilization and the app is off for a reason. I'll talk about it in a second. Let's zoom in. That's as far as it'll go. Even on the app you could see the micro jitters. But that's really impressive. So this is two times zoom. This is three, four, five, six, eight. Whoa, I keep going. Eleven, fourteen. That's thirty times zoom. So it goes in with thirty times digital zoom and about an eight, you start to lose the quality. But that's pretty cool. The gimbal does not get rid of micro jitters, so I'm holding it. But that's pretty impressive.

00:10:13 John Daub: [inaudible]. Five dollars. Thank you very much for that. I'm sorry for butchering that. This is kind of fun. Alright, I'm going to cross the street here. There's no traffic. So this is one. That's one. And here's double. And there's no button for the four times zoom. So this is usable. Having these different kinds of angles really adds to the experience. So when you are with me, I'm bringing you with me on a trip throughout Japan. I'm bringing you with me on some sort of adventure. And if you don't have the hardware for it, well, we did before, but as the hardware gets better, it's more immersive.

00:11:12 John Daub: Yeah, I can already see that we're going to get picture in picture. And for mobile live streaming, this is pretty incredible. Imagine if there's just a little bit of me here but you're getting the entire view of Japan on the other side. You're getting Japan here and then there's a little me here and you can see me talking, but you're getting the entire experience of Japan. And that's kind of a big deal. I think it makes it more dynamic when you're watching it. I think it makes it more interesting to have something taking place. You know, if it's a static shot like this, but you see me talking, then you're being more active with the video. I think Prism will have that.

00:12:09 John Daub: Look, I did not want to buy this. First of all, I didn't want to buy it right away. I always usually wait a couple of weeks, but because I could not really charge the phone, I had to do it all wirelessly. There was like I needed sensor cleaning and the cameras were a little bit funky going zoom. I said, alright, I'm going to pre-order it this time. I said, they can't be doing it the same way that they did it. And the iPhone 13 Pro my phone was stolen out of my mailbox four years ago when the iPhone 13 Pro came out. This is during the pandemic and Apple did something weird. I said, I don't like any company that announces a product and they don't have it on the shelves to sell it. When Apple announces a product, they should have it. They used to do it like that. These will be on sale at our store on at 5 PM. They're on sale now. That's what they should say. They're on sale next Friday. Why would you do the pre-orders? Don't announce a product that has not been released yet. Because it's just such a headache.

00:13:18 John Daub: So in Japan, I wasn't the only one. Apple Japan is a different company than Apple USA. It's the Apple Kabushiki Kaisha (Corporation) Apple Japan. Apple Japan has its own CEO. Japan has sort of different rules than the rest of Apple. They have different pricing schemes. The pricing here in Japan, if you're going to be buying an iPhone in Japan, you used to be able to get a cheaper iPhone by buying it here. But not anymore. They price it as though the exchange rate is like 158 to the dollar. This phone with the one terabyte of space, which I need because I use this for work, was 250,000 yen, which is like one month's salary for people. It never used to be like that. But they found a way to upgrade it and make it like you would pay—it basically feels like one month. But with the exchange rate, if you get US dollars, it pretty much feels like about $1,700 for it. Apple Japan is definitely charging a premium. They're charging more than it is in the United States.

00:14:48 John Daub: So my iPhone 13 was stolen out of my mailbox. And it was because when I ordered it, their terms of service said that you had to sign for it. I checked this through archive.org because they take snapshots of the terms of service. Apple changed the terms of service. I had a legal case. I'm not going to sue Apple. And they use something called JP Logistics, which is Japan Post—not UPS, not like FedEx, not a courier deliverer, but the company that does all the mail. It's like hiring United States Postal Service to deliver iPhones. So JP Logistics, which is a special company that does packages. This is such a mess. They said that the iPhone was coming between, say, September 26th and October 1st. So I thought it was coming between, so I was in Nagano at that time. And then they suddenly, on like three days before, said your iPhone has been sent, it's on the way. So I'm not even there to pick it up.

00:16:10 John Daub: Obviously for a $2,000 phone, you've got to sign for it and they have to put it into your hand, right? No. There are security boxes in my apartment that aren't always secure. You can get into them or the mail carrier can make a mistake and enter in the wrong apartment number. There's so many things that could go wrong. And they put improperly numbered receipt in my mailbox for box number one, and said the iPhone's in there and it was staying there, it would have been in the box for two days. I could not change the date. I could not say don't deliver it. I could not decide when the iPhone would be delivered. They use JP Logistics. There is no support. It's an automatic thing. And so when I got home, I went to the locker, I opened it up, nothing inside. I called the post office. The post office sent a detective, some old gentleman, Nakamura-san I think his name was. He came in. He looked, took it very seriously. Never really heard from the guy again. I contacted Japan Post and they said that they were handling it internally and investigating.

00:17:21 John Daub: So what do you do? Do you wait? So I contacted Apple and I let them know and they said, okay, we're going to contact the post office on your behalf. And then Apple and the post office were working to try to find my iPhone, these two companies. Then after about two weeks, Apple Japan says that JP will handle this. But on our side, we consider this transaction closed because we gave it to JP Post and it's up to JP Post to deliver it to you. So on our side, Apple Japan, case is closed. And if you have any problems, contact us. That's when I went to the police. That was my mistake. I should have went to the police right away. And the police told me, alright, well, there's security cameras in your building. Let's go check that. Guess what? The security cameras, after two weeks, they're erased. And it was two weeks and one day when the police finally got the access from our landlord to check the security cameras, there was no more security footage.

00:18:46 John Daub: This is why you never, ever pre-order a phone. Never, ever pre-order the phone because they're trying to get too many phones out to too many people that pre-ordered it. There is no way for you, number one, to get your serial number for that phone. So you can't use AppleCare if it's stolen. You can't use the police to track it because you don't have a serial number. I got the serial number because I physically have the phone. You cannot activate your AppleCare. Even if you ordered it and paid for it because you don't have the serial number for the phone to activate it. And without the serial number, the police can't track your phone. So don't pre-order your phones because you don't know what delivery service they're using because Apple Japan uses JP Logistics, a company that you cannot communicate with. There's no customer service. You cannot change the date or the time of delivery. And you do not need to sign for it. They will put it into a locker if your apartment has that. And somebody can steal it out of the locker. And then it becomes your problem, not their problem. They sold the phone. But if you wait three weeks, they don't use JP Logistics anymore. And you'll probably get your phone.

00:20:05 John Daub: So I thought, of course, Apple has changed their ways. They assured me. They told me that you have to sign for it. Then they said that, no, in our terms of service, you don't have to sign for it. I went to archive.org. This is going back to four years ago. I went to archive.org and I saw that they had changed their terms of service to saying that you don't need to show proof because of the pandemic to protect our workers, they can leave it behind or leave it at your door or whatever. I said, holy crap, they can do that? That's in their terms of service. But they changed it. From the time I pre-ordered the phone to the time that they delivered it. They altered the terms of service. It really pissed me off. What are you going to do, fight Apple? You're not going to fight Apple. I almost took them to small claims court. You can do that up to 600,000 yen or about $4,000.

00:21:03 John Daub: I don't want to complain too much because this is an Apple. And I saw the reviews from Mrwhosetheboss and Marques Brownlee and everybody else. And look, for video, they're pretty close. But the iPhone, because I've got an iPhone. My wife's got an iPhone. My family's got an iPhone in the US. It's just convenient. And there's not much of a difference in the camera in order to justify it. But the service for Apple has gotten so bad compared to 10 years ago. When you could walk into an Apple store and get service. Now you need a reservation for everything. When I changed the battery to my iPhone 14 Pro about four months ago. I said, can you maybe clean off the sensor? He goes, no. You're going to have to replace it. We don't do that service anymore. I said, you guys used to clean the sensors when I first got the iPhone. I first changed the battery like on the 11 Pro. He says, can't you just do a little sweep because you're in there? Oh, no. We can't do that. It's going to cost you $500. That's Apple of 2025. So this probably is my last iPhone.

00:22:26 John Daub: iOS 18 is also a huge mess. I have never ever upgraded to the first version of an iOS. I've got no choice here. Because this is a new phone. This is the first version of iOS 18. It's not too bad. But always wait like three weeks to a month after a massive change. And I always wait before I upgrade. I never do it automatically. Because I know that there's going to be bugs. And we've already had too many instances of phones bricking because of upgrades. I've had my Sony cameras. I've heard of Sony cameras bricking because of upgrading too early. Patience. Never preorder a phone in that period where everyone's rushing to get one. It's just not worth it. You don't need it that bad where you can't wait two weeks. Now, if I ordered this phone in two weeks from now, JP Logistics is out because they're just getting rid of that bottleneck. It would have been sent by Kuroneko Takkyubin. Which would have the guy come right to my door. And I'd be able to get a delivery number and change the way I want it delivered to me. I would sign for it.

00:23:36 John Daub: But this is a $2,000 camera. I think it might be illegal what they're doing. I think this is so expensive that I don't think they can put it in the takuhai bin (delivery box). These are boxes in your apartment that are supposed to be locked. And you can push a number to open it up and get it out. I don't want it in there. They didn't even give me the choice. And that's the issue. When you preorder phones, you are at the mercy of the terms of service of Apple Japan. And Apple Japan's terms of service are not in your favor. If something goes wrong, you are in trouble. It's on you. Once Apple delivers the phone and gives it to JP Logistics, which is a mess of a company. They didn't even know who the delivery guy was that delivered the iPhone to me. Probably gangsters. Probably a pallet of iPhones that the gangsters picked up and took it. The officers sort of insinuated that this sort of happens. They told me to kind of move on. And I'm not somebody who moves on quickly. Because I like to see things through to the end.

00:24:50 John Daub: Could have used a PO box to deliver the phone to. Japan doesn't really have PO boxes. It's not the same system as the US. There's a couple of big post offices that have it. But these post offices around Japan don't have PO boxes. You can use convenience stores. That's a service that came in just a couple of years ago. But there's a waiting list. I asked in Ginza and they go, you're probably never going to get one. So I gave up on PO boxes. And having—I know there's a lot of people that want to send stuff to me. I'm really really grateful. But according to the authorities that I talked to about this, they said there are risks to me. That if somebody were to send me something that was illegal, I would be the one that gets in trouble. So if there is a creator that you did not like and you send him something illegal, they would get in deep trouble if the authorities customs found out about it. And you received it. You could say oh I didn't know. But it's going to create a lot of trouble. So it's not really a good idea for sending things internationally. Domestically it makes a lot of sense.

00:26:26 John Daub: Apple store in Ginza will open this Friday. Are you going? No I'm not going. I don't care. Apple store is so over. There was an era where like wow, Apple store. I don't need to go into the store. There's a Samsung store in Harajuku. I think it's the only one. Because it's a Korean company. I wish more Japanese got into Samsung. Because then the infrastructure for Android would be a lot bigger. But a lot of people are just in the Apple vein of things.

00:27:02 John Daub: Alright, I want to go back to that. Where I got confused. So I pre-ordered the phone, the 16 Pro. I was able to pick up the 14 Pro at the Ginza store. And when I got on at the time, which was like 9 PM on that Friday. So I was on there at like 8:55. Ten minutes. Nobody could access it. So already Apple Japan failed with the bandwidth or whatever. Nobody could get in to pre-order it if you came in at the time. They just let you in at that exact time. And you were eventually thrown into a queue. After 5 minutes of trying. Then they put you into this queue and says please wait. Then when you waited, you had a time on the screen. It goes okay. You could pick up your phone on the 19th at Ginza and they give you the times. You pick the time. You push next. And then it says oh sorry your time has been taken. No longer can you reserve your phone at that time. Please go to the delivery and add in your address and we'll deliver it to you.

00:27:56 John Daub: So I got right out of that. And I went right back in. And they said oh you can pick up your phone at Ginza. And it had the same time. So why was it that the time was available before. Why wasn't I able to get the phone at Ginza at that time before. Why did you automatically go to JP Logistics. And then I did it again. And it made sure that the only option was not to pick it up at the Apple Ginza store. But to go to have it delivered by JP Logistics. And when I found out it was JP Logistics, which was two days later. Suddenly they said we're sending your iPhone three days early. Which might be a good thing for most people. But if you're not there to pick it up, that's hell. You got a $2,000 piece of machinery coming and nobody's there to pick it up. It's going to be sitting somewhere for a long time. Without anybody. And that's not what I wanted. You have no say in the way it's delivered. Again that's why avoid. Please avoid pre-ordering Apple products in Japan. This maybe is only in Japan issue. Don't pre-order Apple products in Japan. They're going to use JP Logistics. You cannot choose the time. And it's not insured.

00:29:07 John Daub: After the 13 Pro, the post office—who was at fault? They were at fault. Either they didn't close the box. They didn't lock the box. They could not prove it. They couldn't prove that they put anything in the box. They have insurance. The police told me they have insurance. They chose not to use it. They chose the safe face. And to ignore it. Because they didn't want the black eye to the post office. They didn't want to be embarrassed. So they said, no it wasn't our guy. We are in the clear. Good luck. And a single person can't take on a big agency. And you're just going to waste time and money. Blood, sweat. It's not worth it. For, it was about $1,400 US. It's just not worth it. It's like the amount of time I would lose would be of work. Even though it's a principle of it would be three times that. Even if I was a police officer. I went to small claims court. The principle of it. And I like to stand on the principle and stuff. There's a time where you have to cut your losses.

00:30:10 John Daub: And it took a year before Amex—and I bought it on an Amex card—said, oh you have a police report. Well, duh, I've been talking with Amex for a year. And they eventually reimbursed me for the phone. And I was able to get the next one a year later. It was a tough year. But, even though you're in the right, sometimes just letting it go is the best option. Because you're not going to get what you want. You're just going to end up wasting a lot of time and money. And you're going to be going in the wrong direction for everything else. You have to have enough brains to know when to let it go. And that 13 Pro, I don't know if they're ever going to. The police had to send a written letter to Apple's lawyers to get the serial number. And to this day I checked in six months after and they still hadn't gotten a response from Apple Japan. I don't think that we're ever going to get a serial number. Because never existed. That phone never existed. I don't think that JP Post ever had a phone. I think they delivered air. They did the measures to deliver it. But never did. Nobody can confirm it. That's why you put it in somebody's hand.

00:31:26 John Daub: Congrats on the new phone. As you're by a vending machine, please have a coffee on me. Well, thank you very much. I think I will. Gossin and for everybody else, this is the time where we get back into the positive side of things. I'm going to read the live chat here. I want to see what you guys have to say later on. But I'm not somebody who wants to be completely negative here. But it's a hard thing. And hopefully I never have to talk about it again.

00:31:58 John Daub: These are Daido machines. This one has Kumamon on it. The Sapporo beer teamed up with Pocari Sweat. And I believe they're the Sapporo beverages has their own drinks. This is really appetizing to me. There's the corn jagaimo soup—potato soup and corn soup. Here's a Coke machine. The red ones usually have interesting ones. This coffee has been here in Japan unchanged for decades. The Emerald Mountain Blend. I think a lot of you know that. This one, this is interesting. And then you get Dr. Pepper. And only in Tokyo. I don't really see this outside of Tokyo or Kanto. Dr. Pepper is in the Tokyo machines. I don't know why. I'm just going to go with a green tea here. So this is a 280 ml for 140 yen. And over here, same tea, 525 ml for 30 yen more. And this is a deep green tea which is the same price. So I'll probably get the deep green tea. Because I think I went off the deep end with this whole live stream.

00:33:30 John Daub: So this is an old school reader. There we go. 30 yen back. And I'm talking like Jerry Seinfeld. Look how wide it is. I'm holding the tea out in front. I think it's just because it's using the full sensor maybe. It looks a lot wider, doesn't it? Deep green tea. Alright, let's do this. Thanks guys for the super chats. I'm really grateful. I like to come to this shop because I've talked to the owner before. It's in an old Showa era building. And I know when you do get the vending machines, he makes a little bit of money. So that's support my local small business. Even if it's buying 10 yen from a vending machine. Alright, itadakimasu (phrase said before eating). I really can taste the depth of this tea. Thanks for that guys. It's a little celebration. But it's a new era for this channel.

00:34:51 John Daub: I think we have a stronger modem. We have a little bit better front camera which seems a little bit wider and clearer. We have a better zoom lens. The stabilization on the front lens looks really good. So if I'm walking, you can see it looks pretty good. I'll see if I can get somebody else. Maybe we can have two people and see how that works out. But eventually I want to add in more dynamics to live streams. And I think that this with the dual camera and a lot of other stuff, it really opens up to a lot of things.

00:35:35 John Daub: Staying at Kabukicho in November. Any suggestions for late night eats after 11pm? Mahalo. I would refer you to a video on my main channel called Shinjuku Night Restaurant Tour. I think it's called Shinjuku Restaurant Night Tour. Check that out. The thing is I don't know Kabukicho so well anymore. It's changed a lot. It's a little bit more touristy and a lot safer which is a good thing. But there were a couple of ramen places that are very famous. One of them wasn't there the last time I went. There's a Wagyu yakiniku restaurant which I thought was really good in the episode that I showed about—and we walked around Kabukicho for most of it. And then another restaurant. A little touristy but I thought it was really good because you could eat a lot of stuff including the Edo-mae sushi. The Edo period sushi which is bigger. It has a little bit more rice vinegar in it. But it's quite good. You can get a lot of unagi. They had everything on the menu there. Green tea and beer which is interesting. So all of that's in the Shinjuku Restaurant Night Tour. Thank you, Ario. Yeah, check that out there on the main channel.

00:36:50 John Daub: Yes, visually looking pretty clear and nice. You can even see—so I like to say I didn't shave so you can see more of the contrast to see the whiskers. Can you see? It's not bad. It's picking up a lot. Apple said the screen was three times better but with the deep tests isn't. Drop test is—I hope I never. I never drop my iPhone 14 Pro. So I don't know if I'm going to get AppleCare with this. I'll shave tonight. I'm going to haircut tomorrow.

00:37:30 John Daub: So just a quick programming note because I got to end this. I got to get back. Kanae, Leo and I are filming a main channel family episode like we did last year when we went to West Tokyo. But instead of Tokyo, we're going to another place that 99.9% of tourists never go to, Akita Prefecture. So Leo, Kanae and I are going to Akita for three nights to film a main channel episode. I've got a cameraman coming with me and I'll be live streaming as well. So you guys are coming on October 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th. So four days, three nights we'll be gone. And that's pretty exciting stuff.

00:38:09 John Daub: I was happy to go to Greg—oh! I'll have to do another live stream. I went to Greg's—Greg Lamb, Life Where I'm From. You guys know the channel. Great channel. Great guy. He's been working his butt off on building his own guest house in Nikko which is one of the great day trips. He's been doing close-up trips from location. He has outdone himself. He puts so much effort and detail into his video editing, his stories. He did the exact same thing with his guest house. Kanae and I left there so impressed. Leo did not want to come home. His guest house is more comfortable than our house. That's how Greg is just such an amazing person. The attention to detail. I cannot recommend enough if you're going to Nikko to stay at his guest house. He's going to open it up in a couple of weeks. So get in touch with him. I've got a Patreon of course. But he's got one too. And if you stay in touch with him, all the accommodations in Nikko for autumn are booked. But his is not on the market yet. So for those that are watching, when he puts it on the market, you might be able to swing an accommodation really and be one of the first people in a brand new place. Probably going on the market in about two weeks. But it is a very, very nice place. It's fun. And the one we had, it had an amazing bathtub in there. It's got a loft. It's got a tatami area with a full kitchen to cook. A parking spot for the rented car. It was great. We had one night. I didn't see much except for Kegon Falls on the live stream. I went there just to support Greg and to try out his guest house. And it was really, really inspirational to see the work that he put into it.

00:40:00 John Daub: I don't think I have any pictures from there on this new phone. It's only on the old phone. But you can see the inserts. Tell me if this comes out clear. That's our family photo from Leo's birthday in March. Just testing out to see if the overlays work. That's the only photo I have on my thing. It's new. I never import all the crap from my old phone onto the new phone. I start with a new blank slate. No photos. No apps. And I download the ones I needed to get rid of everything that I didn't need. Always start from scratch. Take a little time. And you get to know the phone when you're adding stuff. But you got to get some work done too. There you go. Blue skies. Dynamic range pretty good. It's pretty good.

00:40:59 John Daub: I would love to build a guest house up in Tohoku. But I think Miyazaki would be more my cup of tea because they got the Pacific Ocean. I'm going to wait until the earthquake is over because everyone's been talking about that Nankai mega quake. Maybe I'll wait for the mega quake to be over then buy some property in Miyazaki. I don't know. But I would love to. I love Miyazaki. With that said, I hope it never occurs and I love Miyazaki because the people, the food. I love Kyushu. Oita. It's such a wonderful place. I made a lot of good friends in Nagasaki when I made the episode on the atomic bombing there. Fukuoka is a wonderful city. It's great people.

00:41:46 John Daub: WRX Turbo is in the house on the brand new iPhone 16 Pro. Thank you, WRX Turbo. It's great to see you here. Alright, guys. I got to go. You can see the texture. Here's the main lens. It really does a good job. Good dynamic range. Good. It picks up the shadows and the highlights a little bit better. The grime. The graffiti. The reflections. All looks good to me. Don't preorder your phone in Japan. Wait two weeks or pick it up at the store and have fun. See you tomorrow. Another live stream. Mata ne (see you later).