hello everybody greetings from Fukuoka
this is a small town near the
interchange I came here about an hour
ago
let me see what the name of the town is
again here about an hour go by train
from Fukuoka to the station of ready for
this showed Jojo boo ah show John showed
up on her chocha butter
Jojo letter so I'm at cha-cha Peru and
I'm walking towards the interchange now
to get a ride going towards Honshu
Island I'm leaving to shoo
it's been real Kyushu but haha Saturday
move on now I've got the marker and the
cardboard and I'm gonna be writing be
writing the destination for the next
place on the cardboard and then walk up
to the interchange but a lot of
questions of why I'm doing this I'm
actually making a movie about this you
can buy the movie on Kickstarter and the
Kickstarter was approved just yesterday
thank you Kickstarter so you can buy a
downloadable DVD or you can buy a
collector's box set of this DVD as I
make my way up to Hokkaido
the stories are racking up I just walked
into a new dawn shop I coming out of the
station never didn't never heard of this
udon shop
the sign was upside down so I thought
that was interesting I stopped in there
was a foreigner making the udon the
family it's a family run business and I
guess he's living with them he was he
made the Adhan and then he left I
couldn't find him but very interesting
in chocha butter there's a guy making
food on with the Japanese family
big smile on his face and he was making
it too um yeah so all of these all of
these videos will be put into a better
video these are it's not just live
streams okay the the live streams are
great because I can bring you the story
right now live from the highway as it
happens but this time there is a
Kickstarter link I'm going to add the
link to this at the end before I go to
the interchange I'm in front in front of
the Lawson's I'm in front of the
Lawson's now and I'm going to oh don't
like oh no ghako like oh god what a
monster huh let's get it I guess
whenever anybody is holding like a
selfie stick video talking to a camera
they have people are pretty curious the
Lawson's behind me there
the highway is 30 minutes away it's one
about 1:30 almost 2 o'clock I'm going to
start to right
on the cardboard cut-out it instead of
showing you the hitchhiking and my
failure for 40 minutes I'll just show
you the writing of the cardboard why do
I pick cardboard number one it's big
number two it's bright
number three it's free and number four
it's available at every convenience
store cardboard gotta love it so I'm
gonna write down the next location
ya know I'm not entirely sure where I'm
going ah
holy crap
now just ride on my face oh dude this
sucks
hold on that's permanent marker holy
crap
no one's gonna pick me up they're gonna
think I have like some sort of some sort
of disease they go away no way it's okay
a bad shave job somebody just commented
bad save guy yeah um that should be all
right yeah
I closed the marker for for safety
reasons
yeah a Kickstarter project it's a way to
to make some money for the trip and it's
also a way to give you something from
the road but the cameras over here to
give you something from the road I want
to share this experience with you and
you're going to see why in the first
episode that should go up tonight or
tomorrow I finished editing it and it
it's hard to edit on the road I'm sorry
about the length that's why I can do
these live streams
I get something to you right away and
that's cool so I'm gonna turn this stick
down and pray my way the wind doesn't
see I'm writing all over myself my hands
okay my face not too good
all right so the clothes I want to go
eventually towards hitter Shima okay now
writing writing Hiroshima on the
cardboard
it's something I'm gonna do but I think
I should write Shimonoseki because I
want to see I want to go to hit a Shima
because I know there's a great camping
spot there and that's where I stayed
when I hitchhiked in 2003 but I want to
go to Shimonoseki because I want to see
the end of Honshu and appreciate that
the island I'm about to to hitchhike in
and also because the cherry blossoms
might be out and also because the fugu
fugu is famous there Gugu is the
Blowfish that's poisonous then can kill
you if it's not prepared by licensed
chef who leaves the poison in there and
Shimonoseki is very famous for so that's
what I would eat for dinner I guess if I
stayed there
so I'm gonna write both shimonoseki and
hit Ashima and if the rider picks me up
is going to wear Tate Oshima I'm
skipping Shimonoseki going straight to
Hiroshima just exciting all right
Google so to make sure I write the kanji
correctly ah she more know Sachi okay
I love google translate
and that's a change
all right
I mean I could not somebody just just
back the Kickstarter project thank you I
got the notification right now how cool
is that while you're watching I'm
getting notifications of the people
backing up the Kickstarter thank you so
much
Google Translate I wanna write in she
wanna sing key card
big
hey that's not you want to psyche
and she wanna sit
shamone Seki
but now I want to write it in Japanese
so
I'll do English to Japanese then
is anyone having a good night good day
where we are go nice
that's what I got all right shamone
stinky I can't mess this up this is the
last piece of cardboard they had in
Lawson's that was a good size all right
she want a sec
ah the markers dead
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all right here you go
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got to do it nice and pretty because
people living in Shimonoseki they have
they love their city they don't want to
see it retinol you know dirty
make it look nice and neat
people all right and then I'm gonna put
an arrow here for Hiroshima
now Hiroshima is uh Mishima I used to
live there I know this is a hard one
Ashima
pick up so he does she must going on the
cardboard you guys are back in the
Kickstarter I can see popping up on the
window mr. Vaughn Thank You mr. Vaughn
that's awesome in my life real time in
Japan I'm seeing you guys helping me out
I really appreciate that all right hit
Oshima just nice and small just in case
someone wants to take me they're gonna
read it nice and neat people love it she
must heart
this is hard I don't want to screw it up
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down and then Yama
voila
done
okay
now I'm an artist with this so I like to
put yellow tape on it
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out of tape
what do you think yeah look good guys
on a second or hiroshima question is
would you stop for me would you stop for
me pick me up would you
I hope so I'm so stuck I'm so stoked for
this okay it's to 10 p.m. it's to 10
p.m.
I'm on my way to the interchange it's a
from here about 20 minute walk so I
figure I'll get there before 3:00 start
hitchhiking these these cars come in
this way I might as well hold up the
sign while I'm walking walking back and
maybe just maybe someone is going to
stop before I even get there I I'm gonna
sit here for like a couple minutes well
I can sit on this I'm gonna sit here for
a couple minutes and answer some of your
questions because I haven't gotten the
videos out in time to you then I wanted
to it's hard to edit on this on this
Dell computer I'm sorry Dell it's true I
just wanted to take a minute to answer
some of your questions before I take off
again
number one guys stay positive no one is
going to UM physically harm me okay
I don't know that for sure but do we
know that about anything in life so
people in Japan are very very friendly
very very nice and I'm this is my 25th
ride and I've never had a problem I love
the people picked me up our
they do it because okay I'll share a
story with you these are these are the
stories I wanted to do for the DVD but
because you guys are turning in I want
to share with you
Kazuyuki some Kazuki son is a thank you
for the super chat that was really nice
to donation a Kazuki Chon it was one of
the guys who picked me up I don't know
if he watched a live feed but I was
hitchhiking out of Kumamoto about two
days ago and was really really hard I
was there for about 45 minutes if you
saw that video you probably saw him stop
and pick me up and he's the guy we had a
great talk and he was telling me why he
stopped and picked me up I didn't ask
him he was telling me and he said he
said and this is this really moved me so
much even just thinking about what his
words he said he stopped to pick me up
because if he does something good for
somebody something good is going to is
going to come to him yeah that makes
sense
he he's um he's gonna be moving jobs
he's going to move to Fukuoka I think he
said he lives in Kumamoto and he there's
a lot of uncertainty in his life but he
feels like if if he helped me something
somebody's going to help him and that's
why he picked me up that's how that's a
story that I want to tell you guys
that's why I'm doing this cameras here
that's why I'm doing this because I want
to share stuff like this with you
Oh see iPhone 7 sorry Apple iPhone 7
almost took a track crash uh hold on to
it now the people who pick me up do so
because it makes them feel good too and
when they picked me up and makes me feel
good and in the end I've been become
friends with the people even even though
Kisuke only stopped I only was with him
for about 30 minutes as he drove me to a
key interchange but I mean I think I
said it last time I'm the only in Japan
go Channel he has a heart of gold this
man and he if you just if you just look
at him he it's hard to it's hard to tell
but I he's just a nice guy and
I I can't say this enough this is that's
why I'm hitchhiking that's why I'm still
in Japan folks I'm still in Japan
because of the 2003 I don't want to get
emotional I still in Japan because of
stories like that because of the people
who pick me up and took me from that
time Hokkaido to ko Kagoshima at the end
of that trip I just was so in love with
this place and the people and and the
spirit that you don't see as a tourist
you don't see that if you just come here
to travel you're meeting people in
hotels you're meeting people in the
tourist industry but when I hitchhiked I
was meeting everyday people and and the
stories that they tell me because we can
we can speak in Japanese it's just so oh
thank you so much funny I saw the
donation thank you it it really I don't
want to talk about the livestream it's
hard to talk about it that's why I mean
I'm still in Japan because of the people
who picked me up they are just different
kinds of people who all had pretty much
the same reason they wanted to do
something nice to some for somebody and
taking me from one place to another it
made them feel good
and they felt like something good would
happen to them and that's why that's why
they did it and I didn't I I mean I felt
good that I could make them feel good
even the people who walked by and I hope
I phone seven took it sorry even when I
hold the sign and people see it they
they're laughing not at me because I'm
doing something silly maybe I am but
because they don't see that every day
and that brightens their day a little
bit and and in Japan things can seem a
little bit monotonous maybe so when you
see somebody holding aside looking for a
ride it's not such a bad thing it really
isn't it's not a dangerous thing
hitchhiking is not normal in Japan
hitchhiking is very very unique a lot of
people don't have the courage to do that
a lot of people don't have the courage
to hitchhike that's fine it's not for
everybody I could take the bus the
reason why I don't take the bus is
because I want to feel that feeling I
was just telling you about I want to
feel somebody tell me that by doing
something by helping me it makes them
feel good and by me helping them and
that way also makes me feel good and me
still living in Japan it makes you feel
good too because I know I know the
people now I know their heart and you
don't get that story riding a bus
you get that story hitchhiking I don't I
don't get emotional when I think about
the faces I when I talk about 2003 I
think about the faces and how I had to
say goodbye after just you know like an
hour I still have those pictures I'll
put some of the pictures up on Facebook
um ah Jesus I'm not gonna do these lives
you know thank you so much for for the
super chats that's awesome you guys I
asked him but um I'm going to be doing
live streams from now on on the only in
Japan go channel because a lot of people
like this like this format on on the
only Japan channel but I wanted some
people don't so I'm going to put
everything onto the only in Japan go
channel so go go and subscribe to that
channel I'm gonna put I'm gonna put in
when I
I live stream so you can catch this and
I'm going to hitchhike from the road
again because every time I get picked up
I want you guys to feel that feeling
that I get as well so I'm gonna go
change
wish me luck I'm not gonna livestream me
getting I'm not gonna livestream me
hitchhiking this time but to go to the
only in Japan go channel I might live
stream live stream this over there okay
thanks guys
thanks everybody god
look guys look at this I tell the story
I get all emotional gosh this is the
piece don't get when you when you're
riding on the train and now I'm feeling
that what they shouldn't cry all right
love you love you too
love you guys very much we should be the
best I'm gonna walk this way down this
road yeah just out of Fukuoka
well that's love Sonia I know Sonia from
Instagram she's always lose really nice
comments on Instagram you got to be
kidding me this does that much raise on
Kickstarter all you guys are awesome if
you want a copy of the DVD I don't want
it I don't want to make this a
commercial but I need I do need people
to buy the DVD if you want to copy the
DVD go to the Kickstarter page and I'll
add the link in maybe not right away but
eventually because I'm I got to get the
ride before it gets dark
thanks guys wish me luck I'm going out
on the road new island Honshu see you
there see on the road