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is ncx.com. So B-roll and I had to stay in a little
bit this morning to edit. And while we stayed in, we heard this huge crackling
noise. I wasn't really sure what it was, but I was getting dressed so I wasn't too focused on it. We heard another huge
crackling noise. So I went to go look at the window and it's raining like crazy.
And ever since it started raining, I've been feeling homesick. And that's
probably the weirdest thing ever when rain is what makes you miss home. It's
cuz we live in BC, so it's raining all the time. And now it's raining like
crazy. And it feels like I'm in BC except for when everything looks like
minus the rain. So yeah. So we're in
Taiwan, as many of you know. And no matter how much $1,000 feels like in new
Taiwanese dollars, it's actually not that much. So, we had about three grand
and B-roll and I blew through it really, really quickly on food and taxi rides.
I'm a little bit shooken up cuz we just went to Family Mart to use their ATM. I
put my card in, withdraw some more money so that we could actually get around cuz
we want to go see Ducky today, which I was pretty excited about. And it gave me
the money, gave me the receipt, and did not give me my card.
I was like, I'm in a foreign country. I can't speak the language. anguage. I wish I could, but I can't speak the
language and there's my cards jammed inside of an ATM. So, I did two or three
fake transactions that I knew wouldn't work because I used the wrong options.
And then eventually, it was like, "Retchieve your card." And shot my card out, even though it said that three or
four times after doing fake transactions. Finally, it actually spat my card out.
So, that was freaky. Still a little bit shooken up, but we're going to keep
going. We got to get go see Ducky. So, we'll catch you guys later. They have the lightest lightest
the the best brown from that era,
you know the
And then this picture over here is actually can't really tell, but it's
actually just on my hat because it's all weird. But I
like my Canada because no one else has it in Canada. We're from Canada. So I
can if people are there's not that many people that they're talking about
Canada. I miss you Canada. I miss you Canada.
Oh, I miss you so much Canada. Where have
you been? I've been so long. It's been so long. It's been It's been so long. I
miss you so much. That thing is so cool. Like it's literally a sphere
carved out of logs. Awesome. Awesome.
Bye.
What just happened? I don't know. I have no idea. It was kind of cool.
Slick is totally signing his autograph to this lady. No, but actually, he's
probably just writing down our contact information. But what just happened was
these three girls over here asked to take a picture with him. Why? I'm not
completely sure. And then our nice
hostess here for our next Yoku remote
video also asked to take a picture with him. Again, I think it's just that Slick
is that famous in Taipei. Or maybe it's
just that he's super awesome. Who knows? All right, so we're here and I've been
to many conventions in my life because of how much I've gone to packs and land
parties and stuff where they give you these lanyards. And you'll notice if you
look around, I don't know how much you're going to be able to pick it up right now, but most people have them
hanging around their neck. All of those people are noobs. I'm here to tell you
guys a secret. What you do is you take your lanyard, you go to your belt loop,
put it through the first belt loop, put through the second belt loop, grab your
lanyard, put it through here. Boom.
Instantly pro. I learned that from my brother after going to PAX for quite a
few years and being a noob the entire time. Now I'm a pro. How you guys know?
You go to Lanner Convention, that's how you do it to this like boutiquey bakery for lunch.
And guess what happened? What happens? Like, so they give 10% off to people that are
going to copy decks. And as a pro, I
wear my tag down here. As a noob, B-roll wears his on his chest. Now, I would
like to put a disclaimer before I go through the rest of the thing. This was
very high above the table and almost chest height for most of the people that
were serving me. Just putting that out there. But I didn't get the discount
because I didn't realize how much compex cuz they were only looking for it around your neck.
Ah, so maybe you should wear it this way cuz trade shows.
No. No. So it started raining randomly and we
walked by someone giving out these bags and I thought I would give B-roll's
camera a hat because uh I guess you can't see but it's raining like crazy.
And as we have very not that long ago, we had a lot of problems with our FS700
having getting soaked and then almost breaking, we thought we'd give our
camera a hat and I thought it was hilarious. So, I just want to show you guys. Works well. It does work well
when in need. Yep. Okay, so I noticed something. Wait for it. Wait for it. Wait for it.
I don't know if you guys can hear that, but this hotel actually has a door knob.
Oh god, you have a key. Yes.
Just a I had a moment of terror there. Yes, I had moments over there.
Oh man. Okay, so he has a doororknob. I I knocked on his door and he didn't hear
me and then I knocked on his door really really hard and I was like, "Oh man, I'm
surprised like someone hasn't thought of a better way for this just in case someone has headphones on or something
cuz I knew he had noise cancelling headphones on." They have a door. That's
so cool. That is really cool. Not everything here is slick sized.
Uh it feels weird walking through here. Is your hair actually touching?
I don't know. No, I don't think so. That's awesome. This is part of our travel blog here. This is
Albert from WD. Hi, everybody. He has the freaking coolest car that
we've seen the whole time we're here. Please just Yeah. You know what? I think
it kind of speaks for itself. So, I'm going to get you to explain how you got
this like shiny silver finish with like
the matte black and like how Oh, this thing's awesome. So basically this is um
a a vinyl wrap uh which treated to have
that chrome effect. Uh the matte black
is also a stretchable vinyl. Um it's
very popular now here in Asia and other
part of the world that people like to do a little you know character into their
car or personal personalization to it.
Uh I did it because I think it's cool.
I hope you guys agree. And um you really
need a lot of guts to drive this car on the road. Uh you got to get used to a
lot of people's scares. The way people drive here, I'd be so
afraid to have anything nice on the road. Well, fortunately, we are it seems
chaotic, but there's certain rules and order in in a place. You just you just
have to be here to know that. And um once you get used to it
Yeah. Yeah. Sure. Minus. Yeah.
Feeling very authentic and Italian right now. We're at uh we're at a pasta
restaurant, which is of course, you know, very, you know, adventurous of us.
Hey, Slick. Thumbs up for adventurous.
There's like literally the size of
How many times has that happened today?
This is why I had the camera rolling. That's the second one for me.
Waiting for it to happen. Jeez.
I was I thought you were just filming the sushi thing. No, I know. I
No, I was waiting for I was waiting for you to walk into the door.
Yeah, I was like, "Okay, it's pretty expensive sushi, I guess." Yeah.
Are we are we going to see who it catches this time? Is that fine?
Well, I'm going out right away. First time last
Yeah. How's that, Quake?
That was uh refreshing. That was uh that was significantly more
than uh Taipei 101. I was a little bit tired. Now I'm
completely awake. Okay. Not even going the right way.
Yeah, that's the exit. Okay. No,
I was just going to head out cuz I didn't want to be in here.
Should at least What is it? 15 minutes.
15 minutes for aftershocks. Uh, something like that.
You guys just going to leave? Yep.
Possibly explain why you're bailing on us early. Cuz I want to go to Korea early
so that you can like go to some Starcraft thing.
Yes. But there's additional reasoning that I can't say because this will be a
public video. But I can say after I'm back.
What? Yeah, I told you about the the box and
the writing on the box.
You're confused. No, I'm not. See, you know what I'm talking about.
You're just letting everyone in the audience be confused. No, actually, I'm not. I have no idea
what you're talking about. Never mind.
Hello. That was weird.
I'm like the paparazzi of like the lamest person ever.
Well, apparently you're like, did you see the
every every lady here's favorite, but yeah, I did.
That was fantastic. I'm leaving really early. I suspected you guys were up.
Yeah, I'm up. What? You're trying to get away without
like a tearful goodbye?
I'm so sorry.
I'm going to tell all the ladies that are here that your beard is really sharp.
Is it? Yeah. Well, I've never like hugged a dude with
his like chin in my neck before. So, all
right. Well, have a good trip, sir. I will. I have to like try and navigate
the Taipei airport by myself. So, Oh, yeah. Good luck with that.
That's why I'm going so early. be safe because I have to explain it to your mom
if you die. So, yeah, that'll be Yeah.
Okay. Good luck if that's a problem. See you.