Drinkstrong Japan Livestream – Rainy Sasebo
Yeah, that worked. We’re live. [Applause] Oh, first [Laughter] 25 XP. Have a drink. There’s no video yet. Oh, you’re not getting a video feed. [Applause] Yeah, it just started. It’s just I’m seeing it now. I put my phone away. Are you live or are you maybe behind a little? cuz I’m even hearing my audio. Try closing it. Starting. I’m seeing you right now. Did you see my comment? No. Looks like there’s three viewers. I don’t know how to see the chat. Oh, there. How do I get it out of dark mode? Why do you have two lives? I have no idea, buddy. It’s bright your screen. All of this is I got to say, man, this live stream’s kind of It’s good, but it’s It’s such a pain in the ass, man. Okay, mine’s showing. It’s showing me live, buddy. And then we’re like on our phones and like missing on I agree. experience. But we’re set. We’re good to go. Let me get rid of these other ones. There two live viewers, bro. Let’s ride. Let’s ride. We’re going viral. I see it now. We’re We’re a viral sensation. We’re We’re something. We are something. Okay. Sit wrap. We’re in some nice areas right now. Coastal routes, lush green. Who’s going first? You going first? Turn my light on. We don’t need lights back here. Where we’re going, we won’t need lights. We have seen some already today. It’s been beautiful, but the uh Wi-Fi connectivity has been limited, so we haven’t been able to stream much. We are on our way to Amakusa today. Short ride. It is. Oh, really? I can’t say. Amakuza. So, we’re going to Amakuza and uh it’s been beautiful on earlier today. It’s hot, incredibly humid, 100 100% humidity. It’s moist. Heat. Heat. Yes. It looks like gravel, but it’s actually not. It’s just beautiful. Slow down. Hopefully I wasn’t supposed to turn back there. Good. Did you say no? I thought you said we’re not good. I don’t know. Oh, I can’t say yes or no. Oh. Oh, he’s there. I just meant routewise we’re good. Oh, yeah. We’re going right to the water. Wow. That way. Beautiful descent. That’s J Japan’s version of gravel. This is This is pretty much the worst road we’ve seen. Cemetery here. the ocean off in the distance there. Yeah, you got with us. I don’t know. You want me to check the chat? Say hi to everyone. Let’s see if make sure it’s still working. I don’t know. I want to say hi to the peeps. Hopefully some wood fam is on there. Daryl says, “Stop your yapping. Your live stream’s working. Let’s go.” Damn. moderator is firing. Yeah, true. Appreciate that. How do I get into it now? Daryl, when you sent that route, I was like, “You really want to be here.” He’s like, “I’m sorry. You You should have You need to be here. Yeah, Darl. I could use help with the route, too. I’m not going to say you made a mistake, but you might have made a mistake. It’s okay. Next one, buddy. Car back. Oh, hold on. I got to I got to get into the chat. Oh, here. But, uh, actually, I might hire Daryl for route planning so I don’t have to do it at night. Daryl, you up for that? Oh, here. Oh, okay. Yeah. Moderators. Okay, let’s go. You’re up. Tim is a little behind. Really? Oh, that’s from Jeff Wood. Your dad’s here. Oh, nice. Behind what? Like, oh, everybody’s ripping us right now. Matt Kennedy says those bikes aren’t going to pedal themselves. Shout out Matt Kenny. Oh, Jimmy. Jimmy Leo. Road is looking heavy. It’s a little heavy. It’s like It’s like paved gravel. It’s weird. We like the comments, guys. It keeps us going. Thank you. The legs are heavy. Yeah. Today’s flatter, though. I think it’s only 400 m of climbing. It’s going to be a nice nice day for a ride. You guys are going to be uh if you’re going to tune in, you’re going to see some good today. I think these roads are beautiful. Yesterday was bananas. Uh it’s going to be We’re way behind on all the videos and stuff cuz it just we’re usually gassed by the time we get home and drunk. Gas, drunk, hungry, and just we have to plan the next day and book hotels and there’s just not time for making videos. So, it’ll come eventually. All right, I’m going. You leading? What’s going on? I don’t know. Let’s get some Q&A. I guess you can’t while you’re riding. Oh, Q&A. Let’s see. I I can try. Yeah, let’s go to the Q&A. We got uh we got any questions from the group out there? Why are we losers? Why are you guys doing this? Humid and heavy. Yeah, that’s right, Jimmy. Yeah, it is. It is so humid. 100% humidity. Yeah, 100% humidity. It’s It’s cooking. Oh, I should drop uh a chat if you should drop in the chat when we stop to show where we’re at. Left, I think. So, there’s three. I don’t know. Wait, just a random store. What meal is at the end of the segment? That’s what Jimmy wants to know. What meal today? Yesterday was yesterday was ugan and uh curry katsudon. We went to this really crazy crazy lunch place. I don’t know. We could do ramen again tonight. I haven’t we haven’t done ramen in a couple days. Whatever is close to our place. Oh, it’s an Italian restaurant. You said two restaurants. Italian restaurant and there’s one other restaurant. I don’t remember what. It’s within like a block. We should probably get off the road. Uh Jeff says the Jays play the Yankees this weekend. Yeah. So Sunday for us. Okay. So Sunday for Sunday morning for us. Monday morning. Yeah. So the Monday morning chat we need Jay’s updates. We won’t be able to watch be riding. Yeah. Okay. I’m just pulling up the route here. This is a daily thing. This is a lot of things. This is we spent a lot of time looking at routes right now because we’re trying to avoid these heavy busy roads obviously and they intersect and weave and wind. Our phones don’t work very well on the phones. Oh, this is 251 if you’re wondering. Okay, so we got to hop on this quick. Tyler sees has entered the chat. You guys better mind your P’s and Q’s, you guys. Okay, we’re we’re going to hop on this for just one street light and then get right to the ocean. All right, I’m going to put this full I’ll put this in my down pretty grateful to have Tim uh Tim here. He’s been our navigator for 99% of it. Not really sure what I’m in charge of. [Applause] Brad’s Brad’s in charge of healthc care services. Not dying. Yeah. In charge of not dying. We haven’t had to use it. Tim’s a navigator and I’m It’s kind of like insurance. You’re always going to buy it, but you don’t actually need it. You’re in charge of accommodations and uh um accommodations content and Oh, yeah. Creative creative content creation. Yeah. I’m in charge of food and route. For those of you that missed it and haven’t heard, we uh almost got arrested yesterday. That is true. Uh we were I would call it I wouldn’t call it detained. I would say we were questioned. You weren’t free to go. We were not free to go. We were not free to go. We were It was tense. It was uh almost a half an hour of tense conversations trying to figure out what the heck was going on at the end of it. We don’t really know, but we think maybe this guy was just being a little proactive and he wanted our passports. He was asking us all kind of questions about things. Uh it was tense. It was really tense. And we didn’t He was going to make us go back to the police station and we politely declined. I had to go in cop mode a bit which I don’t like to do on vacation. But once we kind of said like no, we’re not we’re not doing anything like we and he’s like okay. We didn’t even have any drinks with us which is which was unusual. Unusual. He picked but we didn’t he picked a very nons suspicious time to call out suspicious. Yeah. Yeah. He said that they had reports of a suspicious gajun in the area. We are suspicious of that. We are suspicious. But not at that time. But not at that time. The least suspicious. We were all tripped. I guess we’re suspicious simply because we’re white. I guess we got racially profiled. I think is what happened at the end of the day. Don’t feel sorry for us. We’re living the dream here. These gas st these car washes are cool. The car wash moves and the but the car is stationary. You park your car. You park your car and then the car wash moves past you. I think it’s just safe space. Go ahead, Brad. Heat. Heat. [Music] First time here. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Oh, look at this. Hey, some rice patty ridebys. random rice patty of rice patty road and you always want to pave between your rice patties for reason but hey I got you for me or okay so with that cop thing when he pulled up were cuz I was like are we going to We got chat. Can we put like if we put a video like harassed by Jeff? I don’t know if we want to create create an internet. You’re on Apple Maps. Oh, let’s look at this. What is this place? Oh, it’s Ginger. Pull this out for the chat. So this little fragrance great that crazy machine is just spinning it and watching it. Wow. Shout out Ginger. That’s Wow. Oh, something coming up here for the Now we’re like for the live feed. We’re following the We’re like as low. We’re at like 3 m elevation right now. Here, pull the camera up. We’re going to follow this. We’re going to follow the ocean for a little while. That’s a great place for a vending machine. There it is. Oh, we’re just going to follow along. It is kind of like the west Canada but the bigger I keep saying that but [Music] I kind of like that it’s overcast. It’s perfect man. Yeah. You wouldn’t see this in a car. Yeah. You drive right by us. I like with coastline when it’s like cloudy and kind of some garbage here which is surprising. You don’t see garbage very often. It probably floated the Philippines. That’s right. It’s the Koreans garbage. Yeah, you probably find some neat stuff in there. Like a watch or something. There’s a sandal. Oh, we can comb through that. Beach coma. Yeah, beach coma. You probably find stuff from all over the world. Oh, yeah. Hector probably make a living. Wa, that’s quite a drop there. Yeah, don’t go off there. Holy, look at all this fishing debris. Uh, floats. Find a neat little trinket. Lots of related items. Can they see what you’re looking at? Yeah, I’m sure they can. I guess up the beach. Yeah. Wow. Lot of water bottles, pallets. That is a lot of bins. I think those are from like fishing boats. Baskets right there. I think they Yeah, that’s where baskets go to die. Yeah. [Music] You think the water ever comes? Yeah, probably comes up on here. Hey, seas gets Mark. Look at that big float. Holy on the rocks. Maybe you should get a float and tie it to the back of your uh your bike. Oh, that’s a big mouth straight ahead like Yeah, that is a high peak. What? Do you know any side? No, I don’t know. Those are up north. That’s not the mountain, is it? That’s not the volcano. Is it Mount Unen? Maybe. Is it still further away? Our destin is a volcano. That could be Mount Unen in the distance. on us. Are these They saved us yesterday. If you don’t have fenders, you’re going to have a miserable day here. Yeah, your day would ruin. Your ass would be in two seconds. Well, yesterday I had a little grit already. Told you I you know through some stuff. [Laughter] The people want to know. These rocks are neat. They’re just these giant round boulders. They look very volcanic, a lot of them. Hey, you look over there. This is incredible. It’s just perfect little rose. Wonder what I’d be okay if another 20 30k. This island is a cycle, but there’s like tours. You can do a whole loop of this island around the volcano and stuff and there’s a national park in the center of it and you can actually ride up it in two more days. Oh, what is that? A crab. That’s a crab. In two days, we’re going to be in the uh Aso calera. Uh oh, there’s another crab. And we’re going to be I don’t think you can see lava the the when you’re riding coming out of the volcano. You can smell the soap. Oh, there are cars on here. Oh, look at that. Oh, left. Left. Sometimes I forget she was actually being a jerk. someone. She’s in a rush. Yeah, he didn’t care about us. bikes are Brad’s bike fixed. Eight bucks. Eight bucks for a tuneup. I think what happened is cuz that was that a new cable on there. Brad, did he did he didn’t before we left? So, it just it just stretched out, I guess, from Oh no. Brad, did you get a new table? Cable tension was off. Well, we were like out from usage. Yeah, stretch out for Randy shifting. We give Brad some grief cuz he’s on the shifting. He fixes things like a farmer, too. That’s why I appreciated the uh comment. Was that Daryl or Dana yesterday made the comment about Brad only having one tool in his toolbox? That’s the hammer. I got the hammer and the crowbar. The hammer and the crowbar. Metal welder welding. We got a couple wrenches in our chat. Good work. Shout out to the moderators, Tyler C. Daryl, nice to have the guy guys along for the journey. I don’t know what they do. Well, I hope they’re crushing beers right now. It’s Friday night back home. I hope you guys are drinking a beer, toasting us. Don’t be afraid to buy us a beer in the chat. Hit that PayPal, like and subscribe. Oh, shout out to Nate getting his wisdom teeth taken out. Oh, and it’s a good time to mention too, Ben, thanks again for the 3 cent donation. It’s going to go a mile. Still our highest donator. Still our highest donation. We’re taking pledges. It’s thirsty day today. It’s starting to clear up. Yeah, I would I would sit at home and have a beer and watch this and do it. I’d have it on in the background like a baseball game. Oh, another crab. Or maybe we’re just Or maybe in the big on the big screen. I don’t even know what we’re Maybe we’re just bike losers. I know. Maybe we’re just cooler than we are. On TV to watch. We just like You just dropped a pin right here except you don’t have forward arrow forward. You can put this on while you’re on the treadmill or a pelon. Good work. Look at that. I I can’t go all the way around like this. It’s not add a few miles. Happy to see. This is really easy riding that. What are those things climbing up the wall? It’s actually down though right now. Is it? It’s basically like what dreams are made of. Going three wide here. The whole road. Why don’t you go on the water side? The people want to see the people want to see you guys. Big ass rocks down there trying to poke out right now. I can’t help but wonder how much of this trash is how much of it is a happened many many years ago. right now. Real You might need a phone. My phone’s frozen. Shout out to Steve Jobs if you want to give me a new phone. Whatever his name is. Ah, Jimmy says he’s having a beer right now. Oh, Jeff. Jeff Wood. That’s a really cool road. What a spectacular place. Oh, we couldn’t agree more. Should we have gone that way? Yeah, let’s go that way. All right. Going to turn around here. Are we going to turn around? Take hug tight to the coast here. I knew my boys were having beers. That’s when you want right here. Oh. Got some rain. There was a quite a good rainstorm that came through this morning. Tim the team.
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