00:01 John Daub: Greetings and welcome to Akihabara. You see behind me capsule toys. These are gachapon (capsule vending machines) and joining me today is our good friend Leo.

00:12 John Daub: Yeah, this is you. No, this is me. This is me. That's right. He is he and I am me and we are going to get some gachapon. There's actually some good ones here, but I want to get a drink from the vending machine first. Let me make sure. All right, our audio should be good. Zod TV, thank you for being a traveler for 76 months. That's very awesome.

00:38 John Daub: All right, Leo already picked out some good ones, but we need some coins. So the first thing we need to do is let's get a drink. What do you think looks the best here? Hello, Eagle. Hello, everybody. You want coffee? They have grape juice. Red Bull, stay away from that. Here's some apple juice. It's kawaii. 20% fruit juice here. There's some chai. Wow. Chai tea latte. Do you like chai? It has spice in there. Let's try that one, Leo. No, you try it. Okay, here. And I try this one. Okay, but we need coins first. So this is a reason not to use your IC card. Can you push this one, please?

01:34 Leo: All right, we get 800 coins.

01:40 John Daub: I'm hoping no 500 yen coin. Oh, they gave us a 500 yen coin. Those stinkers. But I think we might have enough to get a gachapon. Oh, man. They always do that. So now you have to buy another one. Okay, what drink do you want, Leo?

02:00 Leo: A vodka.

02:04 John Daub: Nice and warm. Which one? The muscat. Oh, the muscat. Okay. How much fruit juice is actually in that? Sorry, it doesn't really matter. Okay, hold on a second. Wait a second. Can you hold this? Oh, no. This is one of these machines that doesn't take the new 500 yen coin. Oh, no. Get something cool, right? It's five-toed sloth bear. Well, thank you. I know it's nice and warm, right? Okay, I'm going to get rid of the small coins. And then this one doesn't even take. Oh, it does. Okay, up here. See, they're all kind of different. All right, we're good. All right, touch it, Leo. The muscat. This one. See, they gave me another 500 yen. I don't understand. Sometimes they'll give me the new 500 yen coin, but they don't take it. But they'll give it to you. Oh, my goodness. That looks interesting.

03:18 John Daub: All right, now we're loaded up with some 100 yen coins. Yeah. So thank you guys for the super chat. We're trying to get to our goal here. So if we reach that goal, we will get another one. Yeah. All right, which one did you want to get here? Look at this drum set. Yeah, I saw it. That's pretty cool. And Roland. Oh, look. Oh, he wants this one. Science body parts. Can I get it? It's a little creepy. Are you sure you want that?

03:53 Leo: Yeah. Why? Because I like bodies. Do you like science? Yeah. You're going to be a doctor? No, but I want to be a gardener. A gardener? Yeah. Oh. Okay. He said that. That's the second time he's said that. Okay. All right. He knows what he wants.

04:14 John Daub: Okay, put the coins in. Okay, we're going to get the coins. Okay, I'll hold this for you. Your drink's cold. Yeah? Yeah. This one's, gosh, it's 500 yen. This better be really realistic. Oh, one more. All right, gotcha, Paul. Do it. Do it. Yeah. Follow the arrows this way. Keep turning. You did it. Okay, show it to me. Show it to the camera. Yeah. I got the heart. You got the heart? Yeah. That's a good one. All right, open it up. Let's take a look. Oh, it's a little bit hard. Oh, my gosh, it's realistic. Look at the, it's got veins in there. How do you open it? You gotta pinch it. Oh, my gosh, that looks real. I can't pinch it. Can you hold the camera? Here, hold this. Oh, yeah. Hold it. Take your hand. Take off the phone. Okay, here you are. All right, open it up, Leo. That looks kind of creepy. I don't know if mom's going to be happy or sad or what, but this is about learning? Holy smokes. Check this out. That's pretty in-depth. I think the heart might be the best one. What, you want me to open it? I can't open it. Okay, here. Hold on a second. I'm going to put this here. Don't kick it, okay? Okay, come on over here. Wait. This is really open. This is a ginger. No, this is Akihabara. Yeah, Akihabara. Holy smokes. This is, that's a real heart. Yeah. Look at this. How do you open this? How happy are you? Very happy or a little bit happy?

06:47 Leo: Really happy.

06:48 John Daub: Well that's good. Blood. Did he just say blood? Blood in the heart. All right, let's see what else they got here. We're going to get another one. Maybe, but first you have to find something that's interesting. Look, let's go here. Look at this one. The Kamen Rider one looks interesting.

07:12 Leo: I want Kamen Rider. Yeah. I want that.

07:16 John Daub: But, you need to find a different one. But, that one's 400 yen. Let's look down here. We've got some more over here. So there's one on the main street. That one is kind of crowded. This one's not as crowded. That's why we're here. I want to get this one, Leo. Can I get this one? There's two of them. One is the Akita Inu. This is the gacha collection. This is Hachiko, it looks like. Oh, is that Tokyo Daigaku? Tokyo University? There's the Hachiko graduate. Yeah. And where the heck is that one? The red gate. I want this one. I know, this one looks cool. It's like the traveling frog. And he's got a backpack on. And there's different colors. I kind of like that one. I can see myself actually putting that on my bag. This one here, Kinikuman (muscle man character) looks pretty cool. Do you know Kinikuman? Isn't that Kinikuman? Yeah, Kinikuman. Let's see, what else they got? Dragon Ball, Van Life. This is awesome. I want. The vans open up, Leo. They open up. There's one with an English flag on there. The Union Jack. That's so cool. I want that. I want them all, too. All right, we got a little bit of coinage left. Look, look Daddy, look. Oh yeah, look at the AKB48 dress. Sussy's here. Buy another one, Leo. All right, you got it. Here you go. Sussy's in. Okay, but I want this van. Okay, here you go, Leo. I got to go get more coinage. Here, take the. Wait, hold on. Before you get, we have to make sure. I got all these 500 yen coins. All right, we got to go get some coins here. Brandania is in on this, too. Aloha. Okay, Leo, come with me, please.

09:25 John Daub: It only takes 1,000 yen coins, of course. I have 1,000 yen. I'm going to have so many coins. All right, Leo. Luckily, I've got a lot of 1,000 yen coins. Here. Where do we put the money in? Here. All right, here. It's broken. It's broken. The coin changer's broken. It's not working. Okay, I think they might have some more in here. There's a lot of machines inside the Don Quixote here. Look, I think they have them. That one's a money changer. That's a money changer. Oh, no. They probably have some over here. How can they only coin change your... Okay, make sure you get my hand here. They've got to have a coin changer in here. That works, right? No. No. Do you guys see another coin changer? What the heck? Look. They have it. Look. Here. Here. This one's money changer. This one is for dollars and yen. What's the exchange rate? What's the exchange rate? 142. It's actually at 155, so that's not a good deal. I can't find it unless this doesn't work. So all right, guys. I'm just going to have to... We're going to have to go on a little walkabout. Okay. It really doesn't work. Okay. Let's go find another coin changer. It's part of the adventure. Here, take my hand, Leo. All right, guys. I'm on a mission to change some coins. We're going to have to leave it there for a little bit. It'll be okay for a couple minutes.

12:09 John Daub: As you can see, Akihabara has not changed much, except that it's mostly non-Japanese and international tourists, which is fine. But it's been like that for a while. I think there's a couple of changed places. If not, the next electronics shop has a coin changer inside that I know it works. But you know what? The good thing about the walkabout is we might find something better. The gachapon are all over the streets here. Here's some more. So you'll see them all over the place. There's a Demon Slayer. I know Joy likes Demon Slayer. Okay. Make sure you keep holding my hand, Leo, because this is a... Okay. There's a lot of weirdos here. There's a lot of weirdos here. Talking about myself. Whoa, I found another gachapon area. All right. Actually, you know what? Okay, go. This is Leo's friend. It's really weird. I told you there's a lot of weirdos here. All right, let's go find some coins. Leo, come with me. Coin changer. Oh, goody. We're in business here. All right, let's go. Let's go. I would totally do this, but... Leo! Zootopia. Look, it's Zootopia. He looks like... It looks like it's so easy to get him, but I wish it were. It's not that easy. All right, let's go, Leo. Come on, Leo. Take my hand. Come on. Look, let's see. He went away with his... My name is... Maybe he doesn't speak English. He speaks Japanese. Yes. Yes. Okay, come on. Oh, thank you. Hey. That was nice. Let's check these out here. Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. Do you see anything here, Leo? These are really high. So we're loaded up thanks to Brandy here, and we are ready to go for...

15:14 Leo: I want this. Daddy, I want this.

15:18 John Daub: Oh, my God. Are you kidding me? That's like the freak crabs. Freak seafood. No thanks. I want this. I want this. Please. Please. You have to be more convincing than that. Look at this one. Cheeseburger Man. I want... See, you want them all. Look at this one. It hangs onto things, like drinks and stuff. Look at these glasses. I want this. Of the Baymax one? Yeah, I want it. I want it. Please, please, please. All right, what do you guys think? I want it. I want this. Baymax? Yeah. Yeah. All right, here. Here. Wait, here. Okay, put it... Four thousand and... All right, put it down here. Here? I don't know, but this is not educational, I'm just saying. You need four. How many did you put in? Three. Okay. One more. Okay, do it, Leo. Gotcha, boom. Gotcha, gotcha, gotcha. This way? Follow the arrow. This way? So the arrow goes this way. See this arrow? Do, do, do, do, do, do, do, do. Like this? Yeah, follow the arrow. Keep going. Keep going. Oh, you got Baymax, but you... All of them are Baymax. I like the machines where they're all really good, so you know you're not gonna get a cruddy one. You wanna open it now? What's the magic word? Please, open it. No, no, no. The other magic word. That's right, okay. Gotta learn your manners. Teach him right. All right, here you go. That's it. How happy are you? Little bit or very? Very. There you go. Okay, now you're gonna do the other one. I guess we can keep the capsules. Yeah. A lot of people recycle them, but we're gonna keep our capsules. So you gotta show us your Baymax, because we're gonna play with the capsules later. Hey, show me. Does it do anything? No. It doesn't really... It's just got a bunghole. It's got a bunghole, but it doesn't really do that much. We'll go zero. We'll go zero. Mahalo. I don't know. What does it do? It's just kind of a toy. We can play with it in the bathtub. That's kind of cool. That's pretty good. All right, thank you guys for that. Let's see what else we can find here. Rio goes zero. We're gonna find something for Leo. I don't know, but that's kind of creepy. Creepy. It's kind of weird. It's always interesting to look at the stickers. I don't know what any of this stuff means, but it is a kind of graffiti, and it's not good to do that, but it is very colorful, and it's kind of funny to see, right? Wanna get off this? Yeah. Off it. Come on. Get off. Let's go to the back side, Leo. Come on. Sometimes the gachapon are not on Main Street, on Chuo Dori (main avenue), but you can find them. Here, take my hand. I think they have gachapon. This is tight award. You're not allowed to smoke on the streets, but people do it anyways. This is not a bad deal for unagi (grilled eel). Wanna get another gachapon? Another one. It's actually a pretty good deal. Let's get another one. Yeah. Let's get another one. We like this. Charcoal. They're pulling the eel. Sugoi. Look at that. Ewww. They cook the unagi right there. That's a good deal. I probably that unagi is not domestic. Now I know what I'm getting, kanai. Mama's Christmas present, Leo. Oh. Keep walking. Because Mama's Christmas present lighter. That looks good. Look at that ajitama there. Teri, do not tell her. I want it to be a surprise. eyes. Christmas morning. It's going to be really fun.

20:25 John Daub: Leo changes his laugh all the time too. Leo, what's your laugh like now? What? Your waraikata (laugh style). He's always changing his laugh. What's that one? That's the Tom and Jerry one? He changes his laugh. I don't know that one. Who's that? Actually today feels like late spring. It is very warm today. We got the Max here. The melon soda is one of the best here. It is a really good one. And the corn soup is a little bit... It's a favorite for winter. I gotta drink my chai latte. Alright, we're back to the bicycle. Okay, okay, okay. Alright, what other gachapon did you want? What other ones did you want here? We still got some coinage. Look at this one. Necohi. Ultraman? Daddy, I see an Ultraman. I see an Ultraman. I see an Ultraman. I see an Ultraman. I see an Ultraman. I want this. He wants to go down the street. Alright, we got a lot of coinage. Big thank you to all of our Super Chatters. This, daddy. This. No, no, no. This one. No, no no. This one. No, no, no. This one. Look. Yeah but, you might get this one. You really want this one? No, this one. You're not gonna get that one. That one everybody wants. Look. I don't even see it in there. I got only six dollars. I got on. Oh, okay. He wants that one. He got one. Okay, here he goes. He got 700 yen, that's I can't get both. After we use it. Oh, maybe I got some of my pocket. All right, let's go for the froggy one first, okay? Because I think that one even mommy mama would like that one. I don't think mama would like Tokyo University. This is like something you could put on your bag. That is somewhat useful. It's like a mamori (charm). Yeah, follow the arrows. I'm gonna hold Baymax and heart. Follow the arrows one two three do it you want me to do it? It looks like it's hard. Wait, did we put 400 maybe we gotta put one more in? Common riders like more. Well, we found the coin machine. Are you serious? No, no this way. Oh, no, we put in 500. It might just be broken. One two three four. Actually, it's broken. I think it's broken. Yeah. It's broken we put 200 yen in there. Okay, got it. All right, it's broken Leo. Sorry. Okay, what about this van life? Alright. No, the frog rides in Kamen Rider. It's broken. The froggy ones broken. Yeah, I gotta get some more out of me pocket. Hold on a second. Okay, take the 100 yen coins. No, that's it 100 the silver ones. Yeah, but for in I don't know. I have no idea why he wants the University of Tokyo. Yeah, this one is that for no you put it in how many did you put in? Okay, do it gotcha Paul. All right. Tokyo University. He likes it's in there take out the it's in open it put your hand in like this. He wants to go to Todai (Tokyo University). Maybe because he what do you want Leo goes? I want the heart with the blood inside. Oh my gosh. Okay, it's hard to open them for you, right? Are you doing it? I finally let trying to let him do it by himself. It's a good idea. What did you get? You got the one that we you get the one that nobody wants really. This is the one that nobody wants I told you. That's Tokyo University's main building. Man. They all want like the little doggie with the cap or something. See that's that's gambling Leo. Sometimes you get the one you want and sometimes you don't. I like this. Oh, you do. Did you is that the one you wanted? No I wanted this and this but I like this one. you do. Ok, what are you gonna use it for? For the bathtub alright. We can do for the bathtub. No. no. We can do for the Bathtub. Bathtub is gonna be a little little dirty. Yeah. I want to try this chai latte just because it's starting to lose its heat here. Ooh, boo! What's the last one you want to get here, Leo? Last one? Itadakimasu. That's really good. Last one. Chai tea latte. It's got just a little bit of spice. Leo, stay with me. Next one. That's pretty good. The last one I want. One more. I'm kind of, hey, J-Paul, thank you, from Canada. Oh, I think we want this. No, I don't like Kinikuman so much anymore. I used to. The only thing I would get is this band, because we can play with that for a long time. Yeah, we get that. You want to get that one? Or one of these robots here. But some of them are kind of not cool. There's a mobile suit assembly. Let's see. I don't know. Let's see if I have enough coinage. Because that's a 500 yen coin. What about this? Look. What about it? I want this. What about this? Dagnabbit. One, two, three. I want this. I want this. No, no. I don't know. I want this. I can't go back to the coin machine. I have to go back to the coin machine, Leo. All right, come on. Let's put these in the basket. The coin machine. The coin machine. Yeah, I know. The coin machine. Ah! Man. I only have 500 yen coins. I only carry 500 yen coins. Here's, Leo, your drink. This is really weighing me down. All right. I'm going to do the best that I can do. We got to go and get some more. We got to go back to that coin machine. I had more hundreds. Do you have any coin? Do you have any money? All right. Back to the coin machine. The coin machine. Okay, come on, Leo. Hold my hand. Coin machine. Coin machine. Welcome. Thank you, Keilei, as a traveler. Welcome. Welcome. You'll take my hand here. All right. We know where we're going. The cool thing is you get a chance to see Chuo Dori here. Get a look at what it's like. Do not buy the meat here. This is not Kobe beef. They charge 2,200. Well, if that's the only place that you can get a stick of beef, then go for it. But it says Kobe beef. It's not Kobe beef. It's like low-grade Kobe beef. I don't know. It's not the real stuff that you would want to try Kobe beef. Is it good? Yeah, because it's a stick of meat. But they charge like 20 bucks for it, and it's not like high-grade Kobe beef. Okay. I like these Wi-Fi centers and the digital maps in Akihabara. You can touch and get all the information that you need from there. All right. We're almost at the coin changer. The Mr. Donuts has become a Gong Cha across the street. That's the name of the store. That was really sad for me to see. Danny's here. Remember Danny Leo from Canada? Yeah. We ate on the river. All right. Let's see if we can change a 500 yen coin because I think I'm out of thousands. Boom. There you go. Okay. Let's go. That's cute. It looks like you could get it, but in reality... That's cute. It's a coin changer. It's a coin changer. It's a coin changer. It's a coin changer. Leo, show everybody your watch. Leo got this watch at the 100 yen shop, but it was 500 yen. Check this out. So when you pay 500 yen for a gachapon, you could get something a lot better at the 100 yen store. All right. Say bye to your friend. Look. We got this. Hey. Hey. Hey. Okay. Come on. Let's go again. If you go to this intersection... This is the one that everybody gets a picture at. Let me see if I can just show you. So we're pretty close to there. Come on back out here. So we're pretty close to the intersection. Okay. Come on, buddy. Let's go do this. We're on a mission. I actually am not bad at crane games. I took a course on how to do it. It was a main channel episode on the old channel. I went with my friend Bob and... Where's the donkey, you say? Where's the donkey? We did a pretty good job, I think. We learned the techniques. But even the crane game center there in Saitama told me that a lot of them are rigged. I showed Danny where. You were like two years old when Danny was here. He stayed in... Tell me where is Danny. I'll show you the picture. We have a couple good pictures with Danny when he came here. Whoa. So next to the not real Kobe beef place is this Japanese gourmet fry. Fried sandwiches. Now this is not the originator. This is at a shop in Higashi Ginza. But these look really good. But this is 100% a tourist thing. This is a tourist thing. It's not really A5, A4. It's like A2 Kobe beef. Daddy, put in... I can't hold this. Okay. But hey, you gotta try it. I have money. All right. Keep the 500 yen and let's get that truck. We are gonna go in that camping truck. Unless you changed your mind and you like this one, Space Cats. Brandy would love that. The Ultraman Cat. Look at this. The Ultraman Cats. That's too cute. I gotta get that for Brandy. And we got cameras too. Nikon. All right. Get the... You wanted to get the truck, right? Because we can play with this one. All right. Do it. This one too? Yeah. 500 yen. 500 yen. This? Um, yeah. Oh yeah, there's my latte. I left it there. Keep going. Yeah, do it. Oh, you're getting good at it. Which one do you think you got? Wait, show me which one. Point. Which color? Which color? Like this. Oh, you think you got the white one. I think this. Oh, it's the black one? I don't know. I don't know. The claw game is like gambling in a way. I'm not into gambling. Here, hold this. Hold it. Don't drop it. Hello, this is... This is complicated. Whoa! You got to construct it. What? Here. You got to put it together. So we can do this when we go home. I think this is going to be too hard to do on the street. I like this because for kids, it's like a Lego. You got to learn how to put stuff together. That's really cool. We got the white one. Can't open it. Yeah, well, let's open it when we go home, okay? So we got this white one. So Leo was right. You got the white one. All right, let's get one more. This one's going into Brandy. We're going to send this one to you. Brandy's our... like Leo's cousin. Leo's auntie. I don't know. Which one should we... Brandy, which one do you want? Not that we have a choice. I don't know. I don't know. That's cute. All right, let's do it. This is the one I'm going to do here. Brandy has the cutest cat and doggy. I send her a package every month, so I'm going to put this in your package as long as I remember. All right. The gray one seems to be real popular. All right, let's see. Gotcha. Gotcha. What the heck? It's sold out. It's sold out. Oh, my God. There's nothing left inside. It's sold out. Yabai (dangerous/bad). The money's out. It's supposed to say sold out, and it doesn't take any more money. But not only did it take the money, it won't give it back. So we learned a valuable lesson. That's life. Sometimes you lose. I don't know if it's worth it. Hold on. If you have any issues, please call this number. We have this. Yeah, but I'm going to have to call that number. It's not a principle thing. I don't know. It's sort of life. It's supposed to put up a little sticker that says urikiri (sold out), but it didn't. Alright, we're out of coinage. Again. I don't have enough hundreds, so thanks for playing. Five Toed Slothbear, we will be back here. Leo, we'll be back here and we're going to do some more. So put that on layaway. That's a cruddy way to end this stream. But again, I think it's a good learning lesson. Leo, take my hand. That's a good learning lesson because when something happens like that, at least I can share that with several hundred people watching. So you know that if that happens, it's happened to me. Just make sure that you double check. But seriously, look here. Look here. This sold out thing comes there. Urikiri. And then you don't put the money in there. But we put the money in there, so... Leo, careful, careful. If you do it by yourself, I have to hold it, okay? Alright, any final comments to the people? What do you want to say to everybody all around the world?

41:46 Leo: All around the world. New Zealand. What? New Zealand. New Zealand? What about Australia? New Zealand and Australia. And Hawaii? And Madagascar, Hawaii, Okinawa. Okay, there you go. And Spain. And Spain. And America. Okay. What state? Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. Because that's where the president is.

42:23 John Daub: He loves the presidents. He's an island guy too. We all are. We live in Japan. We all are. Alright, thanks for watching. Sorry at the end. Brendania, I'm sorry. If I can find it, I will try to put something in there, but you were here when it happened. I'm going to call them and see maybe they'll give us back our money. You can call that number and I'll report back to you. But hey, we had some fun, right? We had a pretty good day. Nathan Craig, John, I'm wanting to go to Japan one day. Nathan, you're going to love it. They have stickers. For the car. And we can do that. We can do that when we get home. It's a lot better than watching TV. We get a chance to put together the car. So it's all pretty much worth it. Nathan, you're going to love coming to visit Japan. If you're watching this channel, you probably will hit the ground running and know a lot about it. By the way, the secret shrine, that road right there, right here where the cone is, that road is closed now. But I guess they changed the law, but that law used to, that was actually a public road. It was grandfathered in, but they've closed it now. I guess because of danger or they're going to do something with it. But just go to the other side to get to the secret shrine. You can't go in through the entrance next to the Don Quixote. You got to go around. And that's the only way in. They put a lot of security features, including new lights and padding. But I thought that would be fun to just tell you about it here. All right, guys, take care. Bye. See you. See you. See you. Say it like you mean it. See you. Say it like you mean it. We're going to go get some lunch. Bye, Carrie. Bye, Erin. See you guys. Bye, UFO Bob. Bye. Bye, Brandy. There you go, Brandy. That's priceless.