00:00:01 John Daub: Hello. Hello. We are at Odaiba. We are at Odaiba and we ate a pancake. That's right. We went to a place to celebrate Hawaii and Guam, which is what we wanted to do today, I guess. We miss Hungry Hank in Guam and we miss Brandy and Michael and everybody in Hawaii, Jared and our family there. So we had some pancakes. But you know what? These pancakes, these are off the chart weird. Because this is the season of Christmas. Once Halloween is over, Christmas trees start coming up in Tokyo in particular. Costco had it like before Halloween was over. It's pretty crazy. We put our Christmas tree up on November 8th. So we are in the Christmas spirit and we wanted to show the pancake. Do you want to see the pancake? You have to tell the people how it was, okay? Because this is crazy.

00:00:45 Leo: Was it good? Yeah. Did you eat it all? Yeah, I like it. You did? Yeah.

00:00:55 John Daub: Yeah, I got video of that. So this is what it looks like afterwards. I'm showing you this now because it's really not interesting to watch this when you see it before. But we did eat it all, which is actually very impressive. It's very impressive. So we're right now in Odaiba. Nice to see everybody. I see the live stream coming in. Let me show you where we are in the city. This is like Tokyo's beach, right, Leo?

00:01:25 Leo: Yeah.

00:01:26 John Daub: You see down here, we're on kind of Tokyo Bay. This is a recreation area for families and couples. It's a great date spot. There's a boardwalk along the beach here. Well, it's next to the beach. It's about a kilometer long, I would say. Maybe 800 meters to a kilometer long. People walk back and forth there. The Tokyo Joyopolis, which is the Sega World, is here as well. There's the Odaiba Park, which is a battery after Commodore Perry's ship came in. I think they built it after that to try to get rid of the black ship unsuccessfully. A lot of history here. The Statue of Liberty is here, built like the one in New York. So it's a pretty cool place to come. And Leo and I often will ride our bicycle here, right, Leo?

00:02:10 Leo: Yeah.

00:02:11 John Daub: It's about 20 minutes, 25 minutes to ride here. And I want to show you our meal now. This is the meat of the episode. So there's a, I don't know, like 10 or 12. And Forest Trekking Videos, we cannot go, maybe you can go swimming here, but I wouldn't do it. Here's the view. The restaurant staff told us it's really cold outside, but we said we don't think so. And we ended up sitting out here. Leo's pancake came first. Remember this? Look. And it's pretty overwhelming, the amount of whipped cream that they put there. You can see the Santa Claus on there. Usually Leo doesn't want to eat the figures on food because it's so cute, but this time he had no problem eating Santa. Why? Because it's not Leo. Oh, because it's, you said because it's small. No, because it's not Leo. It's not Leo, but you wouldn't eat the dog. It's a little cupcake or something, you remember? You said it's too cute. You made me save it for like a week. Anyways, he shared with me, which is good. It cost about $20 for this thing, believe it or not, which is pretty crazy. But it's priceless. And it's only once a year. I guess they don't have this for too much longer. This is pretty crazy. This is a lot of whipped cream. I think it was pistachio or mint. Hey, Brandy's here. Mahalo. Here comes my, we had a really nice waitress as well. She brought this because I figured I didn't want to eat something so super sweet. It says the eggs benedict, which is so good. The bacon and horenso (spinach). This was $8, which is pretty cheap with the exchange rate, but I have to pay in yen. So it feels like $15, $14. That's really about $8 for that. It's really good. We worked on it. Believe it or not, Leo took this down with help from me because I kept going back into it. But it's really interesting to see how it's going. that Japanese pancakes have a... Okay, let's go to the beach there. But wait a minute. People are still watching you eat the pancake. Here, watch. Look here. We're talking about this right now. Did you eat all the strawberries? Wait, no. They didn't give us the syrup, right? So we didn't have the coconut. They give you coconut guava and maple syrup with it. And it wasn't on our table, so the waitress brought that over. And Leo tried three different syrups. Which one did you like?

00:04:30 Leo: Coconut.

00:04:32 John Daub: He liked the coconut syrup the best, of course. Because everybody who knows Leo knows that he likes coconuts. Like, he really loves coconuts. It's unbelievable we ate all of it. And we're kind of feeling it right now in our bellies. But it's kind of neat to try this stuff. There's pancakes in Japan. There's the fluffy pancakes. And then there's this. This is more the traditional pancakes. I want to go to the beach. We're going there in a second, Leo. We're sharing this first here. Yeah, wait one more minute. He just wants to go to the beach. He wants to look for an octopus. I don't know if you're going to find it there. But we're going to go there. It's actually quite warm. It's hard to believe that the day after tomorrow is going to be December 1st here in Japan. And December is winter, the month of winter. And it's about 17, 18 degrees Celsius right now with the sun. It's really warm. What is it, like 63 degrees, 64 degrees right now outside? Happy Pancake in Ikebukuro is actually Hawaiian. It's a pancake, I would say. Brandy's with me on this. There's souffle pancakes. The recipe originally comes from Hawaii, not from Japan. And I got an episode on that coming one of these days real soon. But yeah, there you go. We finished this thing like a champ. I don't think that the audio should be out of sync. That's the... Daddy, Mama, let's go to the ocean. Hey, I'm with you on that. All right. Now the moment of truth. This is why... This is why... You didn't come here just for pancakes. You came here to explore, right? Okay, take my shoes off. Wait, you want to take your shoes off? Okay.

00:06:45 Leo: Yeah, then this sand don't go inside. Oh, yeah, the sand don't go inside? You can leave it here. Yeah. Yeah, this sand is really fine. It's getting all over the place. I do like this. Okay. Just leave your shoes there, Leo. Get some octopus. Get some octopus. Get some fish there. Yeah, I don't think that you're going to find octopus here. I found some fish in there. Oh, sorry.

00:07:20 John Daub: There shouldn't have been any audio playing in the video in the background, but I guess there was. We were showing... Okay, hold my glasses. We didn't want to film live at the restaurant. I thought that might be a little bit rude to do that. So can you go swimming? Yes. Should you? No. Don't go into... Maybe pull your pants up, Leo. Pull your pants up a little bit. Yeah, the legs. So you can go in with your legs, but don't go in too deep or else Dada, the dive master, will be coming for you. And yes, I am a dive master. 2004 certified, PADI certified dive master. I'm going. Okay, do it. It's cold. Let's see if he freaks. No, he's got Hawaiian in him. Whoa, something inside. What? Okay, come on. Touch. Look. Something gray. That's a pipe. I hope it's not like the sewage pipe. They wouldn't do that. Let's get some fish under there. Oh, it's not cold, but it's really chilly. I don't know what that pipe is, but there are some... You can get... How should I say this? Life vests and windsurfing here. You see, there's the... Yurikamome (automated guideway transit line) crossing over. You can cross over the bridge on your bicycle, but you have to put the tire in a rack and you have to walk your bicycle across. Let's go to... Let's go there. You want to go this way? I think we can find some fish here. You're going to find an octopus? No, find some fish. See, what are you going to do if you find it? The water smells okay. They did a lot of cleanup work before the Olympics because they actually did the triathlon. He was... I remember I did come for some of the events. I believe the stage was over there where they jumped into the water for the swimming. So, the bicycles came through here and then they jumped in and did the swimming section here. Daddy, can I throw some in the water? You want to throw it in the water?

00:09:15 Leo: Yeah.

00:09:16 John Daub: Okay, but don't throw it at anybody. Don't get it in anybody's eyes, okay? Do it. Was that... Did I make you happy? Okay. Aloha to you. Yeah, the weather is really nice. It's about 60, I'd say it's about 65 degrees Fahrenheit today. Certainly a lot warmer than in Michigan as the Buckeyes destroyed the Ann Arbor team from up north. I can't even, I still can't say it. All right, the Michigan Wolverines is a long time coming. Daddy, I'm here now. I'm so tired. It was free on DAZN, D-A-Z-N channel, and I was up until 5:30 watching that game. I'm so tired. But I went to sleep at 5:30, then Leo woke me up at 7, and then I had some coffee and we rode our bicycles here at 9. So I've been here for a little bit of time here. But big respect to the Michigan Wolverines. It's a huge rivalry. 364 days out of the year. We dislike this. The whole state of Michigan. Well, just the team. Actually, Michiganders are very, very lovely. But the day after the game, if we win, we love Michiganders. And then it starts over again. It's a massive, I went to Ohio State University. It's just a massive rivalry. But you know what? When it comes down to the Big Ten, we're all Midwesterners, and we kind of root for each other. Daddy, come on. Here, look. Because we don't like the SEC. There's a something there. Oh, that looks like a slug. Look. You can get it. Don't touch it. Why? What is that? It's a sea slug. It's just a rock, maybe. I don't know. Hey, David's here, heading to Toyosu in two weeks. So hope to find a great pancake place. There's a place at the LaLaport in Toyosu where you can also get it, but it's not nearly as good as here. And Happy Pancake's pretty good. That place in Asakusa is really good, too. But I got to tell you, the original Japanese pancake comes from Hawaii, folks. I have to say it. Right, Brandy? I got to give the credit to Cream Pot. They're the originators of it, not Happy Pancake. I don't know what he's doing. Leo does what he does best. Godzilla is in the house. I don't think he found an octopus. Behind me, you can see the Fuji TV building. I love coming out here on a nice sunny day, not a cloud in the sky. What other choice would you have? I just uploaded a video a couple of days ago. If you haven't seen that yet, do check it out here. This is a live streaming channel. If you don't know, I have another channel where I actually edit the videos and upload that. By the way, thanks for people. I noticed this, too. If you haven't already done that, there's these things called hype points. I didn't even know much about this until a couple of weeks ago. So thanks for the few people who hyped it up. That's kind of neat. I don't know. Maybe we can get that to 1,000 hype points. That would be pretty cool. I don't know if it makes a difference or not. But in the first week, each person gets to hype two videos on YouTube. So I guess you could hype that video. I don't know if it does any good, but maybe? I don't know. It's a slow riser, this video. It's not being suggested too much. I don't know why. But yeah, I guess hype it up if you can hype. I think Brandy hyped it, right? Might have hyped it once or twice. Anything helps. Let me see here. I might have the thumbnail. Here it is. This is the video on YouTube right now. I put a lot of work into this video. I think it was like maybe five days of editing, like really hard on it. And then I went back three times. I scouted it out and got some shots. Then I went back for four days. And then I went back for another day trip for the autumn foliage because it's just so stunning. I couldn't do it without it. This is the ultimate Japanese countryside video. I think a lot of people are looking for this in particular. That's why I had such great synergy with Japan Long Trails, the association. I work with them on this and they help me out quite a bit. I'm really thankful for that. It was such an incredible. Hope I could do more Long Trails. There is a culture from village to village in the Japanese countryside. Each village has its own culture because they were so shut. You see the airplanes. You see it coming in, leaving from Haneda. Haneda Airport as well. Every village in Japan, out in the countryside, has its own culture because they were shut out of the society. So they were, they had to walk like two or three days to get the stuff from towns. It was, walking was the only way. So they developed their own cultures within the villages. It's fascinating to do it. There's still a lot of, a lot of that culture still exists. You can find the old timers. I don't know what it's going to be like in another generation, but it's pretty special. Yeah, David, you're going to really love Toyosu. This area, Toyosu is just over there. Get a rental bicycle and you can just ride around. Ride to Odaiba. It's such a beautiful place to come. Let me just pan around. From Toyosu, there's also the water bus. You can pick that up and take the water bus to Asakusa. And then you can take the water bus to here to Odaiba or across the, across Tokyo Bay to Hama-rikyu. And then you can take the water bus to the park, which is near Shiodome. And you can see Tokyo Tower just across the bay as well. There she is. Tokyo Tower. But yeah, they did clean up the water a lot before the Olympics. I remember, I was here, so I was watching the news reports every day as they said that it was still too polluted. Not, not Brazil polluted, but it was like Rio polluted, but it was, or Paris polluted for that matter. It was actually not that bad comparatively. You can swim in the, you can swim in the Sumida River in a way. What was that? Is that a fish? What's that? I just saw something go down. Do you see that ripple? Do you see that? Shark? This could be one of the Amityville moments right here. There's something out there. What's that? I don't know what it is. There's something out there, Leo. Going up and down?

00:15:20 Leo: Yeah. It's the yellow one? There next to the boat.

00:15:25 John Daub: That's, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm not sure. It's, that's about three meters deep of water out there. Could be a kaiju (monster), like a miniature one. I don't know what it is, but Leo, you better stay out of the water. What? I don't know. Why? It's something. I don't know what it is, but I don't want to find out. It just, it just jumped again. In the summer, the, the Sumida River and the bay gets so hot, the fish are jumping out because they're just not happy. A lot of sunshine. It was really hot this summer. Catch it, fry it for dinner. I don't think so. I'm not sure I would eat any fish from the bay here. But a lot of families come here and enjoy the really nice summer. I don't know, like, it feels like, like, it feels like April or like October right now. It's really weird. It doesn't feel like December 1st, which is tomorrow. But we're having, we're making a pretty good day out of it. Walking the decks here is nice. We came by bicycle. So we're going to ride back in a couple of minutes. Hey, Nightshade Giggle is here. But the deck area, this is Decks. This is where the Joyopolis or the Sega World is. It's pretty cool inside there. They have these massive games in there. Some of them are like full body video games in the Joyopolis if you've never, ever been there. I don't know, like a Starbucks. There's a couple of movie theaters in there. There's a food court as well. And this is where that Hawaii restaurant where we ate those pancakes are at for those that are joining us. But we thought we'd share, I don't know, like 25, 30 minutes with you out here in the beautiful Tokyo Bay area. A lot of history just across the way. You can see that's Daiba Island. And this is a battery that was built on the other side to battle the black ship, the armada, I believe, of Commodore Perry that came in from the United States. Some of the history here. And they've been here for a long time. They built it pretty fast because when he came back, though, there wasn't much that they could do. His cannons could reach all the way to Edo Castle where the Shogun was. And then soon after that, the Meiji government was formed. Commodore Perry, very brave, bold. Daddy!

00:18:45 Leo: Nani (What)? You happy? You having fun, Leo? You're going to go swimming? Looks clean. Smells good. Doesn't have that. Doesn't have a nasty smell to it. Anything you want to say to the people before we go, Leo? To everybody? Should they come to Odaiba and play here?

00:19:10 John Daub: Yeah. Why? Because I think it's very, very tanoshii (fun).

00:19:20 Leo: Where do you want to go next for a vacation? Do you want to go to Hawaii or California? Which one?

00:19:25 John Daub: Hawaii. What's wrong with California? That's where UFO Bob is. All right. It's unanimous. I'm going to go to Hawaii. Actually, I kind of want to go to California too because I haven't had the In-N-Out burger. And we have a lot of, we got a massive community of people in California. Oh my God, that'd be so much fun. But he wants to go to Hawaii. Michael, what's going on? Okay. He's got Hawaii in him. I'm telling you, he loves the water, rainbows. He's got some Hawaii in him. Yeah, I'm loving California now. Because we have, do you guys know why? Because our quarterback's from California, a surfer boy. So we're very happy with him at Ohio State. So we kind of like California these days. Man, I've always wanted to go to California though. I don't know. I've only been to the San Francisco airport. I've never been to Cali. Just San Francisco airport, I changed planes. Oh, no, no. LAX, I changed planes there too once. That's it, just the airports. So I got to come for a visit to California. We were going to actually go before the pandemic hit in 2019. We planned to go in 2020. And then you know what happened. Stinks. And then Leo came. Kind of made it hard. And now he's grown up a little bit. So maybe we can do that. But yeah, I want to see UFO Bob and Jeanette and Saia, everybody. Matsumi's no longer there. Nice to see Matsumi in her hometown. Maybe she's not a Cali girl anymore on that shirt. Spader2010A, thank you. Thank you. All right, one last pan of the beach here. That water bus probably going to be coming in any time soon. But it's really nice to be out here hanging out on the Tokyo Bay. And if you have any questions about it, you can leave it in the comments below. And I'm happy to talk to you and answer any questions. And there's a hotel here. Let's go, Leo. Why? Because... Let's catch the fish. I don't even know how I'm going to wash up. Show me your hands. Show me your hand. Oh, my God. Let's catch some fish. What? Here, some fish. There's no fish. I don't know if you'll find it. How are you going to catch the fish? How are you going to catch the fish?

00:22:00 Leo: I'll catch it with my hands. Then let's wash up. I don't have hands. His mother's going to kill me. I'm playing here. What fish are you going to catch? I'm going to catch some fish. How is he going to catch the fish? There's no fish. I catch it like this. Oh, my God. Like this. I catch like this. You're going to catch it like that, spear fishing? Oh, goodness me. I'm just kind of looking out for that shark object thing. Leo, maybe there's shark inside. Maybe we better go. Daddy, come on. Where's your shoes? Here, wait. Oh, that's from a tree. Yeah, these come from the tree. It wasn't an edamame (soybeans). That's somebody just ... Hey, Tedster's here. Thank you, Tedster. Oh, my goodness. I'm going to get in deep trouble. He's going to come back smelling like Tokyo Bay. That Bay spice. I've never had it before. They had it at the Costco. I wonder if it smells like Tokyo Bay. Bay spice smells something like what Leo smells like when he comes out. You're not swimming in there, bro. No, no way. Leo, it's . Sometimes we speak two languages together. So, Brandy, start a fishing pole fun. I bought you one. He broke it. He broke it in one day. I got to get a good one. Look, there's a dude. Hold on. He's going ... Maybe that's who we saw. What the heck? He's scuba diving, Leo.

00:24:30 Leo: Yes. Oh, my God. What has he got with him? Is that a ... Somebody better tell him about that shark. I didn't know you could scuba dive in Odaiba Bay, in Odaiba. Leo, I do that. I'm a dive master. Look at that. I'm going to get in the water. He's way out there. I don't know. I didn't ... I had no ... Maybe somebody lost something. Looks like he's looking for something. No, he looks like he's recreation diving. That's a compass, right? Yeah, look. He's recreation diving or ... I'm not sure, but he set his compass, so you turn that dial so you know which way the direction is. Look, there's another diver. Oh, that's what we saw. It wasn't a shark. It was another diver. What the heck? Diver, go down. Frogmen. Actually, they have a Diver City where the robot is. What's that robot called? The unicorn? The Gundam? Gundam Unicorn at Diver City, which is just a 10-minute walk from here. He might be doing some training. When I took my scuba dive license, buoyancy tests, I have a license in buoyancy tests. I have a buoyancy and a license in advanced license in ... What was the other test? Navigation. You can do navigation stuff. You would use a compass and tie strings and stuff, and I would have an instructor watch us. I have an advanced license for deep diving and wreck diving, for example. Scuba diving is fun like that. I recommend everybody go scuba diving or at least get a license because it changes the way you go and travel because then you're traveling to scuba diving the location. Daddy, here.

00:27:00 John Daub: Okay. As well as running. That's the video I'm training for the Tokyo Marathon right now. I got an 18-kilometer run coming up. I just did a 16-kilometer run. I'm averaging about 5:10 kilometers per minute. They're 5:10K pace. It's 5 minutes and 10 seconds per kilometer pace. I want to get down to 4 minutes and 45 seconds pace for the full marathon. I did it in 4:30. I think in 2011. I don't know if I'm going to be able to do that. If I can do 4:45 pace at 50 years old, I'll break 3:30 for sure, and that's sort of my goal. I feel really good when I'm out there, but that's just because the training is only two weeks in. In about two months, I might feel a little bit different. This is a great place to run as well. No traffic lights along Toyosu. You can run one time around Toyosu is about eight kilometers, and there's no traffic lights around here. It's really nice. You can see here. I'll pull up the map. If I come down here, you'll see Odaiba, but I'm going to stop it. You can then see Toyosu right there. These islands here, they also have running trails around them. It's about eight kilometers to go around one of them. It's pretty nice. All right, guys. Thanks for watching. I just want to share 30 minutes or so of our weekend day, and tomorrow, I'll do another live stream as we end the month of November. It's crazy. We had Thanksgiving, and now Christmas is coming up, and the college football season, regular season's done. It's moving too fast, isn't it? The year's almost finished. What the heck's going on here? We're going to be in the United States on the 15th of December on ... Daddy!

00:29:45 Leo: Hey, Leo. We're going to be in the United States on the 15th of December on, so I'm going to prerecord a couple of episodes and probably do some live streams from the United States to keep the channel going. I get about three uploads coming in December. It's going to be really busy, guys. It's going to be really fun, so I appreciate the support. Until then, mata ne (see you later). Yeah, you want to say mata ne?

00:30:20 Leo: Yeah, I'm . All right, we're looking for an octopus now. Ciao.