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Have a good night!

New York traffic got the better of us. I'm just gonna walk it from here. So, this is New York City

I gotta say it doesn't disappoint

It is literally exactly what you would expect. My hotel is right here. I'm going to be staying at the Intercontinental

At Times Square. Let's head in

Thank you

Not too bad of a room, let's check out the view.

I noticed the closet had house coats so naturally

This tastes as good as it looks

It is quarter to eleven o'clock in the morning

I ended up staying up until 4 o'clock to finish up my video and get it uploaded and well this this is just

Also a huge shoutout to ivideo for this router right here that I was using in Canada and

Just in case brought along to the states in the hopes that it would work and it works so ivideo not just for Japan

Alright gotta be downstairs in five minutes. Worst part is I was in such a rush. I didn't even have coffee yet

Alright just met up with the team Reinas dressed kind of funky

Dude I scared everybody on the f*cking elevator it was so... I'm sorry can I curse? I can curse right? ok! I'm sorry.

There's a lot of suits

Yeah, it was rough. It feels like it's right on par with New York City though

I'm a little bit afraid I'm gonna get featured on subway preachers

Like are you ready for this? Hell yeah

I never really covered what I'm doing here in New York. I guess this is a pretty good time to cover it

I'm here for anime NYC

it's gonna be Crazy

How many of these do you do a year usually?

I try to keep it to less than five.

I did two you this & it was the least that I've ever done

A different hotel room tonight same hotel just different room and *door shuts* I knew that was coming

But look at that view am I smiling too much? I feel like I'm smiling too much

The whole room is like this. I got the corner room here tonight. So

whoo

I might be falling in love with New York

Stepping out briefly to make some content for Yahoo! Because well, New York

Thank you very much

Oh boy Time Square is an experience people liken it to the Shibuya crossing, but it's

This is an experience. All of its own. I'm glad I came out here. It is quarter after 10:00 p.m

Right now just a little bit of a run in the shop to grab myself

Drinks and snacks, smart food popcorn really is the best

as cool as it is to be New York City it is just as cool that this is my

Second anime convention of this year earlier this year

I went to Animazement in North Carolina and brought two shamisen players with me if you haven't seen it

I'll link a video up there

But what I love more than anything is the convention

Culture this group of people just sharing something that they love even if you're not super deep into anime

There's something so beautiful about the energy and the atmosphere

It's really hard to put into words. Like for example, my little brother Alexander is a huge otaku

He loves anime. Probably more than anybody I know

And I like anime

But I've never been anywhere near as into it as him and he's taken me to

Conventions a year after year as a visitor and I guess and it's something I've always enjoyed

Just because there's something truly beautiful about being in a safe space where people can just completely express

Their passion and their love and just who they are

Through something that they love like anime and that's one of the things that I love about these Conventions

As I walked through the convention today, I just found myself, Smiling

I found myself honestly and truly, Happy

like I'm here for work

But being in that atmosphere around all those people, it's I think we all need that

We all need a safe place where we can just geek out and do the things that we love the most

That's why I love hanging out with other shamisen players

That's why I love hanging out with other

content creators because in both of those categories I get to just geek out to the max and I absolutely

Love that and that that that's the whole rant that that's the whole thing. I will

I'll see you guys in the morning

I grossly misestimated how difficult two plus hours of biking the first thing in the morning on an empty stomach would be

Just finished up at the convention

there's actually only one spot that I

Really wanted to see in New York other than the bike ride that I did this morning and there it is

And well everything I've done on here has been really really short and condensed

I've actually made dedicated videos for each one of these spots over on Yahoo, Japan

I'll link it below in case you're interested in seeing any of them. They'll probably

Be going up maybe in December. I think in December anyways

Let's head up and check it out

I am so glad that I came up and did this! I'm going to head back to the hotel for now.

It is windy up here I tell ya. It is windy.

I started to lose light

Really quick also both my shoelaces just came untied at the exact same time

Just got in from

dinner

Breakfast for dinner that's always nice. The TC team is off doing a basketball game right now and

Now the editing starts

And it turns out that bicycle ride. I did today was close to 20 kilometers and my legs they were not ready for that

I will tell you it but you know what New York is has been has been a lot of fun

6:00 a.m. I have a car waiting downstairs

and by the way in the last video a bunch of people asked what this weird shoulder bag thing is it's kind of like a

Holster for cameras my video Wi-Fi charging cables and whatnot

As soon as I get back to Toronto there's a couple boxes of Japanese snacks that we need in purpose

Maybe I can rope my brother's into this