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out with this. Okay, so 13's unlucky. Okay, 13 is missing. And then four is
unlucky. Four is 14. Why do you have 14 then? You know, it's kind of ridiculous.
It's like the place my parents live. They have no 13th floor, no floors with
four in them, but then it goes up to 40 floors. So they have 40, 41, 42. It's
like you don't just get to make up new rules. So our room here at the Sherwood
is awesome. Check this out. There's like a place to sit that it. Okay. No, the
place to sit makes no sense, but it's like I don't know. You could if you had
like a really small person, then you'd have like an maybe it's like a dog bed.
I think it's like a romantic thing. romantic where you'd like have a couple
sit well the bed's over there if they want the romance. Uh then we've got our
closet. So that's where the safe is including a romantic house
coat. Oh, please don't open the main switch. Got it. Okay. Toilets aren't The
toilet's huge. The bathroom's huge. So
this is this is sort of different because Oh, another romantic house coat.
So Oh, whoa. Okay. So, you could have two people showering in this bathroom at
the same time, but one of them would be expected to kind of do this and then the
other one would be expected to go in the actual standup shower. So, it has both a
bath and a shower and an additional shower for the bath, but only one sink,
mind you. So, you you wouldn't get sort of too many too many sort of people in
here at the same time. Although, one person could be on the heated can. So,
there's power save functionality, seat heat, and seat
sensor. And then, uh, there's a control
panel on the left. Oh, control panel. Yeah, there we go. Okay.
So, what happens if we press the thing?
I think you have to be on it. You have to be on it for it to work. Yeah, it has
sensors. It has sensors. Well, what if you like what if you I guess it's
probably pretty powerful. They don't want you using it as like a drinking fountain. Yeah, cuz it can squirt over
the seat.
Oh, okay. Here we go. So, next we've got two
queen beds, which is much better than our arrangement at CES where we had to
have four people sharing two queen beds. Now we have two people sharing two queen
beds, which is awesome. I'm sharing a room with B-roll. Got our TV. Got our
little cabinet here with the presumably ludicrously expensive Ah, yes. Pringles.
I'm almost afraid to touch them just because they'll probably be poisoned.
Um, and then well, no, not poisoned, but they'll be expensive. And oh, oh, our
breakfast menu, which is brilliant because uh our breakfast is covered for
us every day except the days of the Computex show. So, we're like, well,
we're here for Computex. They're like, "Oh, well then you get breakfast on this
one day." Oh, okay. That makes sense. Here's our desk. Here is our window.
Here is B-roll's chair.
And this is my chair. Boom. This is
actually a super super comfy chair. And
uh that's pretty much it. That's our room. It's actually super super nice.
So, uh, those butttheads left the hotel
without us cuz we're running behind them.
And they didn't give us the note at the hotel, so we have no idea where they are
now. We're supposed to be finding Taiwan Cellular Corp, but
like I don't know. We're in the spot now
and it's not here.
Yeah.
Great. So, we're lost. Yeah, basically.
Okay. Oh, so apparently this store is closed
like forever. Thank you. Like forever. I I I don't know. He was
just like, "Yeah, they're gone." So, okay. How can a hotel not have that
updated already? I don't know. And apparently that's where they send Slick
and Diesel. So then they must be just wandering.
You have got to be kidding me. This is a great start. Have I told you how great a
start this is?
So here we are in Taipei. It's
6:55. Yep. And everything is closed.
We're trying to buy SIM cards. Oh, there's a card. We We don't really know
how things work here. No, it's like really confusing.
Oh, he beat us pretty. Okay. And yeah, apparently he went the other way.
Okay, we should go to 7-Eleven now. We go to 7-Eleven. Why? Because I
think it's the only store that's going to be open and it's really, really humid, so we want drinks. Yeah. Rule
number one, stay hydrated.
Where we are, folks. Um, we got some like egg things going on here. And it
looks like you kind of make your own uh sort of delicious thing. We got some
like hot dogs. This is This isn't really that
different. Seafood wraps or seaweed wraps of some sort. Yeah. Yep. All look
good, actually. 7-Eleven. So, this is new. Well, we got
another note. We are in our room. We assumed you
would stay here lol. So, we've been on a a wild goose chase. How long we walked
like away from 7-Eleven? Where's their Where's their room? 1401.
Hello. Hi. Hi. Did you guys find SIM
cards? No, we couldn't get in. Did Did you like how the uh the directions were
to a place that the guy told us is like gone? What? Yeah.
So So we went down there, then we're like, "Oh, well, they're from North
America. Maybe they gravitated towards the 7-Eleven." You did? I
knew someone who's actually less adventurous than me. Can you walk me
through the uh foreign delicacies that you have on your plate here?
Uh I have uh what they call back over
here. Backan. Yeah. Back. And waffla.
Yeah. Uhhuh. And what were
these? Sauti. Sauti. Patas. Potatoes.
Okay. And this was salagas. Wow. Cool. Diesel,
can you explain to me why you did this?
Well, I thought I would clean up this mess because the guy who did it Linus.
Uh, sorry. Did you say slick? No, I said
Linus. Slick. Why would you put sausages in miso soup? You did. Yeah, that I
think this video record will prove that uh it was you.
Okay, so we're heading for the second tallest building in the world. I got
Jason from WD who is of course uh taking
pictures with someone else's cell phone other than mine. Hello. Thanks, man. Can
you want to get the building? Take you. Oh, gotcha. Just playing video right
now. Cool. So, yeah, we're going to head up there, which will be pretty exciting.
The highest I've ever been is uh hotel in Vegas, which was not this high.
Cool. I guess if I say the highest I've ever been is at a hotel in Vegas, that
could be interpreted sort of the wrong way, but Oh, Taipei 101. Slick. The only
building taller than you.
Uh, how do we get there? I'm assuming go up. Going up a tall building. Tall
building. Up as opposed to down.
Slick. How are your ears doing in the world's fastest elevator?
I can't see the thing tracking how quickly we're going there.
1,000 m per minute. That is quite the uh
My ears popped like multiple times on the way up here.
Is that healthy? Oh, it's probably fine.
So, there is bigger not that big. It's pretty cool, I guess. Yeah. No big deal.
Holy crap. It's cool because how the building's built, it comes out on an
angle. So when you look over, it feels like you're actually leaning over the
edge because it comes in. That is very
disorienting. I mean, that right there
must be like what a 30story building.
And this is just makes it look
stupid. You can see
everywhere. Sorry. Can Can you tell me can you tell me how normal this is? this
vibration we're feeling right now. This is my first time.
Okay. So, so the staff here on Taipei
101 is very reassuring. Everyone seems to be kind of heading for the elevator
over there.
Wow. Let's go. Okay, we can go.
There's like people running around with like messages and stuff.
It's funny cuz we were just in there talking about how the damper made it so
we couldn't feel anything.
All the elevators. We just earthquake inside.
Please be patient and wait for our next instruction. We thank you for your
understanding. to go down. WD wants to go down. I think
we're going down. So, we're going down 89 flights of stairs.
Nope. Nope. We're not going down any stairs.
Really? Even even
if we have earthquakes.
Sure. You know what's crazy is that's my
first time. We've had probably four or five earthquakes in Vancouver in my
life. That's the first time I've ever actually felt an earthquake. Felt an earthquake before. Yeah. I've always
slept through them or something. Okay. All the buildings in Taipei.
The biggest building in Taipei. That is awesome.
Oh, we're down on the lower level of the damper observatory.
Oh, I wish we'd been looking at the damper when uh our timing was almost
perfect. Yeah. Yeah. No, the after the aftershock is coming for sure, right?
Yes. So, it should be good. I'm just going to hide behind this dude. It's
funny because if you get him from the right angle, he looks really unhappy.
See, check this out. It's
like anything. Yeah, we're not allowed
to move. Apparently broken. The fastest elevator in the world is
broken. Is it broken or is they just not let us
They're not letting us walk down either. So, we're basically stuck in this building. See that? I don't Tell me how
you feel about traveling all the way around the world. I'm totally emailing
your mom and telling her there was an
earthquake more. Yeah. Uh yeah, Slick
Slick's mom is already super mad at me for letting him go halfway around the
world. So, uh the fact that we were 101 stories up during an earthquake is going
to really thrill her. You know, she follows me on Twitter. I think I just
have to tweet. Who she's going to kill? She's going to kill you, not me. That's
true. So, you're down. So, here. Let's just This I'm fine
for now. So, that was a 6.5 earthquake and this
is the line to go down.
So, I think I think we're here for a bit. I think we should buy some jewelry
and So, the entire team is getting uh
haircuts so that we look nice and slick for tomorrow. So, we have no idea what's
going on, but Albert from WD here is uh
guiding us guiding us through the process. And uh B-roll, he's Albert is
his new favorite person because they've been talking shop about cameras and
lenses and stuff I barely even understood the whole time they were talking. So, we've been told to relax
while we wait for our haircut. So, we got some pretty stylish chairs and they
brought a refreshing beverage. So, so it's a paper cup, but it comes in
a nice little plastic holder. I don't know what it is. It's
yellow. I hope it's not for like haircuts.
Okay. We're making sure the temperature is just right for
not not too picky. Lennis, how you want it? Um,
which shaved? No, not not shaved.
Just shorter in general. You know what? Whatever. Uh, whatever
they think is
But, but I need them to show me how to, you know, how to style it properly
after. He's taking a video. Yeah. So, this is
Diesel getting his eyebrow shaped to look his best while we're uh while we're
at the show there. Yeah. Let me get out of the way so you can get a better angle.
You know how to censor stuff. Sorry.
Yep. Yeah. There's nothing he can do right now cuz there's a straight edge
like an inch from his face or touching
it. She's really good with it. Yeah, she is. Yeah.
No, I I barely even felt the straight edge on on