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00:05We're here in Taipei, and over the next five days, we're going to race to every train station in Taiwan.
00:10Whoever gets more wins, but right now, it's 7.30 a.m., so we've got to go, go, go!
00:15All right, all right. Here we go, Matt!
00:18Let's go!
00:27Okay, here's the deal. There are 243 long-distance train stations in Taiwan.
00:32Over the next five days, we're going to be racing to see who can get more of them.
00:36That's a neat train! Look at the livery, yeah!
00:39Along the way, we'll be completing challenges.
00:41Estimate Monkey Mountain.
00:42Pitch a painting.
00:44Let's make a deal.
00:45Seeing sights.
00:46Yeah, that's sick.
00:47Look at the view.
00:48The view is great.
00:50Boy, we're, uh, it already feels like we are out here.
00:52And doing everything we can to stop the other team from claiming stations of their own.
00:56There was a problem with our passes, and now I think we might miss our train.
00:59Go, Sam, go!
01:00Go, Sam, go, go, go!
01:02Here's how it works.
01:06At the end of five days, the team with the most stations under their control wins.
01:10In order to take control of the station, teams must physically travel to it,
01:13and then place down some number of the game's currency, which we're calling chips.
01:17But we'll need to be careful because claiming a station doesn't mean we'll control it forever.
01:21If the other team goes to that same station and puts down more chips, they'll steal control of it.
01:26Each team starts with 50 chips, but can earn more by completing challenges, which are spread across the map.
01:32Each challenge is worth a different number of chips based on how hard or how risky it will be to
01:36complete it.
01:37For now, that's all you need to know.
01:38So now both teams have got to look at their options and decide where they'll want to head first to
01:42start earning chips and claiming stations.
01:45Welcome.
01:45You're our newest, quirked-up white boy.
01:47Hello.
01:48This is Mike.
01:49We'll introduce you more later.
01:50But first three challenges, we need to generate them.
01:52All right, Adam.
01:54We've got to generate the first challenges.
01:56Yep, yep, yep.
01:57Let's take a look here.
01:58Okay, so there's one in this cat village.
02:01That one's worth 25.
02:03I don't know what a cat village is.
02:06No.
02:07And then there's one sort of down the West Coast.
02:10Uh-huh.
02:10I think a big question right now is, like, what part of the board do we want to gain control
02:14of, right?
02:15Let me tell you.
02:16I don't like the East Coast.
02:18Okay.
02:19Strategically.
02:20We could go ahead and snag the West Coast line, which I think is the better line to start with.
02:26I think that, like, if we can have that under our control, it's going to throw a wrench in their
02:32works.
02:33Okay, then there's one worth 30 coins.
02:35That one is...
02:36Right here.
02:37Right here in Taipei.
02:38Oh, that's, like, right here.
02:41It's...
02:41We could get there in 19 minutes on the Metro.
02:43Would we want to do that?
02:44Yeah.
02:45And then once we complete it, it generates two more challenges.
02:47Two more ones.
02:48So we'd have more to choose from.
02:50I mean, the real question is, should we just go knock out this one that's close to us?
02:55Because, like, we don't have to travel there, right?
02:57We can go get those coins right now.
02:59They haven't made a move yet.
03:00I think we should do that.
03:02Oh, it looks like they're going.
03:03Okay, well, we're going too.
03:05I don't know where they're headed.
03:07Let's keep an eye on them.
03:08They're following us.
03:09Yeah.
03:09I think we can beat them.
03:11Are you sure we can beat them?
03:13I'm sure.
03:14It's going to be that kind of season.
03:15Yeah, I think they're headed to the park.
03:17Okay.
03:18I don't want to compete with them.
03:20I think we should go lock up the West Coast.
03:22I think we should maybe even arguably put, like, some decent claims down.
03:26Yeah.
03:26Let's go to the challenge that's on the West Coast.
03:28Okay.
03:29West Coast challenge.
03:30And on the way, we can get some claims.
03:31Okay.
03:37We want that.
03:39Got it.
03:42B-roll, B-roll, B-roll.
03:44I love it, B-roll.
03:47All right.
03:48We're on the move.
04:03Welcome to Taipei Main Station, Benjamin.
04:05I love being in Taipei Main Station.
04:08All right, then.
04:09All right.
04:09Okay, here we go.
04:11So, here are basically our options.
04:13We need to get to Zhenhuang Station, which is here.
04:17We can take the high speed, which would be about an hour and a half.
04:22Okay.
04:22Or we could take the low speed, which would be two hours.
04:25Now, we could claim a lot more stations on the low speed.
04:27We claim a lot more stations on the low speed.
04:29We can take this limited express that goes on the low speed route, but still hits all of the stations.
04:34To me, that's perfect.
04:35That's pretty good.
04:36That's in 13 minutes.
04:37That's pretty well timed.
04:37Let's do that.
04:39Where did we get this map?
04:41This is our own map that we made.
04:42Oh, they actually made it.
04:43No, you did not like this.
04:44This is our map.
04:45Sorry.
04:45Everyone wants our awesome map.
04:47Okay.
04:48Let's figure out where that is.
04:55So, we've got to go up and out.
04:58I think that's the park.
05:01That looks parky.
05:02It does look parky.
05:04This is a nice park.
05:05This is like the Central Park of Taipei.
05:07I don't think that's true, but...
05:09Oh, okay.
05:09I think it's a park.
05:12All right.
05:13All right.
05:13We made it to our spot.
05:14Challenge details.
05:15These are the mystery challenges.
05:17They're all numbered.
05:19Ready?
05:20It is called Go Birdwatching in Dayan Park.
05:28Go Birdwatching in Dayan Park.
05:30Dayan Park is an iconic birdwatching location in the heart of Taipei.
05:35Go to this sign, which lists 33 bird types that can be found in the park.
05:38One team member must attempt to memorize these birds.
05:41Once ready, the other team member will go and photograph a bird and then present it to the memorizer.
05:46The memorizer, without looking at the sign, gets one guest to successfully identify the bird.
05:51If they fail, they may reattempt once with a new bird.
05:54I've never had a good time with an animal challenge.
05:57I'm pretty good at spotting animals.
06:00I like this.
06:01I'm willing to let you do that.
06:02However, I will warn you, I am god-awful at memorizing things.
06:06Okay, well, then maybe we should switch.
06:07If you're halfway decent at memorizing, I think it's probably better.
06:10Okay, all right.
06:12Yeah, let's switch then.
06:13Well, nice pond.
06:15We're not here for that.
06:17We're here for the...
06:18Oh my gosh, there's a lot.
06:2032 birds...
06:2133 birds listed.
06:22So they do have...
06:23They have, like, the Latin name and the English name.
06:27That's a relief.
06:27I mean, I just want to point out, it's not like just a treepee.
06:32It's the gray treepee, and it's the black bull bull.
06:37What's the difference between a barbette and a nighthair?
06:40Oh, nighthair.
06:41All right, okay, let me...
06:42Give me two minutes to put this together.
06:44Cut away to Adam and Ben while I memorize.
06:46There's so many people here.
06:48Oh my gosh.
06:48Crazy.
06:55So we do have to decide...
06:56Yeah, how many chips do we want to put down on these?
06:58What kind of claims do we want to make?
07:00We have to go a lot of stations.
07:02Yeah, how many?
07:03So I think we just put down one on each.
07:04I mean, could we afford to do two?
07:07Let me look.
07:0822.
07:09So we could put down two.
07:11To me, that seems like a big risk.
07:13Yeah, I agree.
07:14We shouldn't be playing with that low of a balance.
07:16If we were to fail this challenge, we would be in huge trouble.
07:19All right, one chip each.
07:21I feel good about this.
07:22It's definitely...
07:23It's slow, but I think it's going to be a strong start.
07:26Now that Ben and Adam are heading west to claim their first stations of the game,
07:29I need to explain one last thing.
07:32While traveling is free, teams can only travel through stations that belong to them.
07:37If they're traveling through uninclaimed territory like they are right now,
07:40they need to put down at least one chip on each station to add them to their territory as they
07:44head down the line.
07:45If they ran out of chips, they'd only be able to travel back to stations they already own.
07:50That means that claiming stations is not only useful for earning points,
07:53but also for controlling certain parts of the map.
07:56If Mike and I want to travel along this same line,
07:58it's now going to cost us more because we have to flip each station to our side if we want
08:03to travel through them.
08:04Putting down big claims on important lines can be enough to completely block your opponent
08:08from entering certain parts of the map,
08:10and controlling the right areas at the right time is going to be the key to dominating this game.
08:15Here's one thing, Adam.
08:17So right now we're about to pass through this station, Bankiau.
08:21This is a station that is both high speed and low speed.
08:24Like if you want to go anywhere in the west, you've got to pass through here.
08:27So maybe it would be worth it to just fortify this station.
08:33Put like a five down.
08:34Just create like a wall.
08:36By the way, a team isn't allowed to control a station by more than five chips.
08:39So for an unclaimed station like Bankiau, five is the maximum amount Ben and Adam can put down.
08:45It'll encourage them to stay away.
08:48Take head east.
08:48I'm compelled by it.
08:49So that's a nifty little bit of strategy.
08:51Yeah, it's fun.
08:54Whoa.
08:55It's already pretty.
08:56Whoa, dude.
08:59Look at that.
09:00This is going to be like one of the prettiest seasons, I think.
09:04That's awesome.
09:16Okay, there's a bunch of pigeons, doves, turtle doves, spotted doves.
09:21There's magpies, moorhens.
09:26What's a drongo?
09:28All right, Mike.
09:30How are you feeling?
09:31Good, I think I'm feeling good enough to give it a first guess.
09:35So, you will find a bird, take a photo.
09:39Okay, this is a bird.
09:43All right, here's another one.
09:49Okay, maybe.
09:51This one could be decent.
09:53Could be.
09:54These birds are so cool.
09:55Look at that guy.
09:57Oh, it's really chilling.
10:00All right, this guy seems really distinctive.
10:04I really like this one.
10:07I think this one's pretty clear.
10:19You're feeling confident?
10:21I'm feeling confident.
10:22All right.
10:25I believe that to be a black-crowned night heron.
10:33I believe it to be this, which is number 12, which is a black-crowned night heron.
10:41Shopley looks like it.
10:43We're off to a good start.
10:47I learned all the pigeons and turtle doves and doves that they have.
10:51But you know what?
10:52I'm going to forget it all.
10:52Let's keep going.
10:53Ben, we have a message from Sam, and I would say I'm worried about how early he sent it.
10:58Yeah, that was fast.
10:59Okay.
11:00They have completed the challenge at Dawn Park.
11:02Well, that is quick.
11:04Well, let's see what the new challenges are, shall we?
11:06Yeah, let's see what's dropping now.
11:10We generate two.
11:11One of them is all the way down there.
11:16West Coast.
11:17The other one, it's to the east.
11:19Okay.
11:20It's at this hot springs, but it has a variable reward.
11:25So that means depending on how well you accomplish it or...
11:28Yeah.
11:28Well, an otter just...
11:30That's cool.
11:31That's not a bird.
11:33So I now suspect they'll probably go east.
11:36It would be pretty expensive for them to follow behind us and try and start taking our territory down.
11:43Yeah.
11:44I think they probably want to get some territory of their own.
11:47This is the awesome thing about having a beard is I feel like I can really...
11:50It helps me.
11:51Yeah.
11:52Yeah.
11:53I'm thinking you're really good now.
11:55We'll see what they do.
11:57Let's see which direction they are going.
11:58Oh, yeah.
11:59Where are they?
12:00We're going west.
12:00Okay.
12:01So do we want to go east?
12:03If we go west, that means we're fighting with them, taking chips off each other.
12:08If we go east, we're free for at least today, possibly tomorrow.
12:12Regardless, we want to get to Taipei Main Station.
12:14So how about let's get going and we figure it out on the way.
12:17Yeah.
12:21Sam, I have an idea for a team name.
12:24Ma'am.
12:24Thanks to the bird, I think we should be the night herons.
12:28Sounds cool.
12:30Normally, we just do like a portmanteau of our names.
12:32No, I'm just laughing.
12:33I mean, it was a very cool bird.
12:35It was a great bird.
12:36I would love to have its hairstyle.
12:38Yeah.
12:41I don't care.
12:43I'm just laughing.
12:45Sunday.
12:56Oh, yeah.
12:58I don't care.
12:58Oh, yeah.
12:59Oh, yeah.
13:02Oh, yeah.
13:06Oh, yeah.
13:06Oh, yeah.
13:06Oh, yeah.
13:07Yeah.
13:07Oh.
13:08Oh.
13:10it's pretty here benjamin it's pretty here this is what we've been told yeah that's what everyone
13:16said welcome to scene of chuan sing shang that's what it sounded like they said on the train
13:29announcement okay i don't trust either of us yeah the important thing is we have to get to the
13:34challenge is at the river we don't know what the challenge will be no but it's a little bit of
13:38a
13:38trek yeah well you know 40 chips is is pretty good it's nothing crazy so hopefully this challenge is
13:46not yeah i'm hoping this challenge is not super hard
14:05convenient for the camera we've already been there oh yeah waiting time we need to make some
14:09decisions well okay if you look at the map the west side has a lot more lines that cross the
14:14high speed
14:15rail regional rail whereas we go east there is one and only line so if we go that direction
14:22and we drop a bunch of chips on the first bunch of stations to essentially defend it then that gives
14:29us a lot of freedom to run without feeling like they'll take it over yeah and we can kind of
14:34build
14:34like a bit of a fortress from taipei to really disincentivize them from ever competing in the east
14:39right okay next question is what do we do on the line we're going to hutong what if we did
14:45three
14:46stations with five in a row yes build a wall yes then one on the rest that because we we
14:51do have a
14:51balance we do have a bigger balance i feel very good about that and then all the other ones we
14:55put
14:55once good on that strategy good on that should we get on the train let's go let's go i'm so
15:00excited
15:01to get on trains i want to see i want to see the sights we are pretty much out here
15:07oh look at that
15:08that's kind of cool i mean just this view this is a great view look at that you got the
15:12mountains
15:12and the bridge and the here do do a little zoom really frame that up
15:22yeah all right we haven't mentioned who are you by the way oh my name is mike i run a
15:26youtube channel
15:27called downy live and it's about fun things like riding trains or blimps or going to formula one
15:34races transportation type stuff formula one is transportation yeah they drive cars yeah
15:45all right our first train of the season
16:00oh wait have they started moving yet let's take a look yes predictably it looks like they're heading
16:05east i think that starting east is a mistake i think it's it definitely is going to reduce
16:11their flexibility yeah which we're gonna have a lot more options they've put five on
16:18a station down that way i mean we're both doing a little bit of defense yeah we have no interest
16:24in
16:24going that way at least not yet yeah but it's going to be a little bit annoying when we do
16:29eventually go that way yeah very possible we end up going along the east from all the way from the
16:35bottom i think that's very likely all right let's get to this river
16:43okay
16:46let's see what our challenge is are you ready i'm ready
16:52the floor is mostly lava
17:00the floor is mostly lava choose one team member to cross the tofu rocks there's only one correct
17:06path to the other side which they will have two minutes to memorize before they cross once they
17:10begin their attempt if they step on the wrong rock or deviate from the path in any way they are
17:15incinerated and the challenge is failed all right ben we have to pick one of us to memorize how
17:22confident do you feel um well i'll note that i'm very hungry um i was trying to get a snack
17:29earlier and i
17:30failed i do think that historically i have been slightly better at memorization challenges than you
17:36yeah that is pretty clever nope that is pretty clear
17:43oh i turned around too early the driver doesn't worry if he takes the journey slow
17:49driving no it's driving it's it's right he goes he now because we're talking about the drive i think
17:56you do have a very good memory so here's something that i think we could establish now before looking
18:03i can right now in my head decide what sort of mnemonic device i'm going right right like what is
18:09the best way to study because ultimately there's always going to be like eight ways you could go
18:14eight ways you could go right yeah then i just have to memorize a number
18:18yeah that's pretty good i think numbers will be a little bit easier okay i'm going to memorize it
18:22with numbers all right ben you got to have a timer ready i'm going to bring out my ipad so
18:27that i
18:27can be like translating it i'm ready now okay here we go two minutes on the clock wait oh no
18:35this is
18:36crazy it's offset no that this system isn't going to work there's actually five that surround them
18:45so it's going to have to be one two three four five six so it's going to be one one
18:53three three
18:58one one okay now i'm just gonna have to do it visually all right get that in your brain stick
19:05it in the
19:05brain stem i you know i wanted to mention by the way i realized that i think i think this
19:13season i
19:13i really want to win i really want to i really want to lock in i'm glad to hear that
19:20because
19:20that's the only reason i came sam let me do the take that we put in if we lose okay
19:26you know what i realized a couple seasons ago is like it's really not about winning
19:31yeah i just have to look at it
19:35all right that's time
19:39i shouldn't have been trying to i've got too fancy with it you're starting from that edge
19:45yeah okay i'll come down to with this all right
19:52all right i know the first one
20:09then it makes like a triangle
20:17yeah
20:22yeah
20:31all right this is where i completely lose it
20:43yeah
20:43yeah
20:44yeah
20:45yeah
20:53no
20:54was it that you had to go that way it was that way so just by the way ben and
21:00adam failing this
21:00challenge is going to create two big problems for them for one they're almost out of chips and
21:05they just waste a bunch of time for nothing the other problem though is that this challenge is
21:09going to stay on the board and the reward is now getting boosted they can't re-attempt it but
21:14mike and i can if we manage to complete it we'll earn a whopping 60 chips instead of the 40
21:19that ben
21:20and adam were competing for yikes all right well that's not so good no it's uh it's a tough loss
21:29uh of 40 coins um well we'll have to inform them that uh we failed here and that this challenge
21:38is
21:38now worth 60 if they're able to complete it but there's no way look i'll tell you what
21:44i don't think they're completing it i hope they come waste their time
21:50they failed it no no no no way okay we're off to a good start let's not get ahead of
22:00ourselves
22:00oh wow i did not expect that does that change anything we're winning that's what that's what's
22:08changed yeah it's not over yet sam no it's not the game's over no this is them being mclaren
22:15being disqualified the race and we're max verstappen it's inevitable it's inevitable max
22:23verstappen world drivers championship is inevitable so we're poor we're how many chips do we have
22:31i think we have 23 okay that's not a ton but we're right near the high speed line the fastest
22:37way to do this is to go up to the high speed go down and then transfer you can do
22:42it in five stations
22:43okay well i mean look i i certainly would love to be putting down bigger claims on the high speed
22:50but
22:51that is a luxury that we simply can't afford nope there's a train at 1107 so we should be able
22:58to make
22:58that if we leave right now okay oh sorry man it's okay i look i don't think i would have
23:04gotten that
23:05that's for sure shoot
23:26okay we are in hutong is that one more chip yes ready
23:34we'll just edit that in post so it works
23:39welcome
23:41oh it's chillier oh it's raining
23:43all right what do you reckon we got we got to do something cat related here surely
23:48yes okay cat village it's a village for cats i think it's yeah
23:56oh a black-breasted warbler is it
24:01do you assume every bird is that now yeah it's like an old rail yard nice
24:08cool this is it i mean you just never know where you're going to end up on jet lag do
24:11you
24:11yeah you ready yeah
24:14oh no cat ven gender cat venger hunt
24:23cat venger hunt
24:24once a rich coal mining town hutong is now best known for its massive population of stray cats
24:30you have one hour to find and photograph all of the following cats
24:33a cat that is asleep eating touching another cat more than 15 feet from any other cat
24:38and above you no cat may be used in multiple pictures okay okay those two cats are 15 feet
24:44apart under the woodshed and the white one do we have to photograph it you said we do
24:49those two are 15 feet apart they are right now i think that one's going to be easy i think
24:54the rain
24:55is going to make things trickier a cat eating is going to be tough oh there's food there
25:00hello you want to eat kitty cat hi oh there's no food in the bowl
25:06that guy okay we have found cats finding them above us they're not really going to be on a roof
25:12when
25:12it's raining no and eating is going to be hard okay i'm going to walk this one is our 15
25:18feet one
25:19yeah those two those are definitely more than 15 feet yes okay so we've got one touching another
25:24cat right that one's going to be tricky cats do not like associating they i agree above us oh there
25:32was one on that patio there was one do we stand under does one of us go up with the
25:36camera maybe
25:37because we can like squat wait oh wait oh no sniffing are you two going to touch
25:46wait okay but here's the thing
25:50oh is that above you he's definitely he's fully above me right yeah yeah that's a clear
25:56wait wait wait wait wait oh that's eating huge huge okay two and one oh these guys are so cute
26:05they're so cute oh oh my god and that's a little we're not allowed to double count but as in
26:11like
26:11if these two touch so i think oh okay so move on yeah okay do we want to just oh
26:16man these ones are so
26:17tiny so nice so cute man these cats are copious i think the touching surely there are a bunch of
26:24cats
26:24cats that are like hidden somewhere warm reaching out touching hands touching you
26:32sweet catchy line we don't have the rights to that oh i'll hit
26:43it's so serene are you feeling serene
26:49not really i would be feeling serene if i had walked on those uh rocks correctly well
26:57we'll get our serenity back
27:01i want serenity now we need a little sweet little kitty cat this one's so cute there was one in
27:08the
27:08station that was kind of sleeping on that water i agree thing we could go head back there
27:13yeah oh he's awake oh he's not sleepy oh underneath underneath the table
27:21oh there that's our sleeping cat that is a very sleepy cat very sleepy guy
27:28okay so we just need one more
27:33this is interesting though whoa what an overpass
27:37yeah that's a fancy overpass i feel like i'm on a movie set or like we're going into a haunted
27:43house
27:44excuse me do you know where more cats are i mean it's an appropriately named village there are a lot
27:50of cats here oh here's another cat let's let's let these two do their thing
27:55okay there you are
28:00oh oh oh step back step back let it happen
28:05no
28:08problem is cats don't like their cats
28:10i know but you
28:12they just swap spots
28:13like did those two yeah did you have to touch that one
28:18no
28:19oh but maybe they're getting mad at each other oh that one's about to throw up as you said
28:23maybe don't fight oh it just threw up oh it did too
28:28oh wait maybe a little maybe they'll maybe they'll touch off to each other
28:31no no okay
28:42all right we made it back to the station we got a pretty well timed train actually
28:47we're going to the high speed station and then down we go it does look like they're still at uh
28:52hutong
28:53wow they're really struggling
29:08there's another cat there and there's another cat this way will they touch
29:23oh come on either fight or love
29:26go nuzzle them yeah gotta be quick with the photo
29:31stealing your food
29:32oh we could be here for ages
29:36what's happening
29:38oh look at them look
29:41this went from very easy to very difficult to almost impossible very quickly
29:46it hasn't been that long
29:47it's not katash right look at the view
29:49i mean good point
29:53the view is great
29:54still an impossible task
29:57hello
29:59this looks like the sheriff in town
30:01yeah he looks he looks on a mission
30:04yeah there's another white one eating under there
30:07get this one i'm gonna get this one eating
30:10you got him eating i got him eating yeah
30:12and i'll prove that he was eating
30:16i think let's go check out that cage
30:18right so if we could swap those out
30:20yes
30:21the two touchy ones right
30:22we have the eating i'm not worried about the one above you i think that one we can get
30:26relatively easily
30:26okay so let's head back
30:27i'm feeling good about the cage they seem to like each other
30:30i agree
30:31i'm gonna get this one for one above
30:34in case we want to swap out
30:36he's definitely above you fully above you
30:39thanks buddy
30:40this cat's cooler than the others
30:43oh they might be touching right now
30:45oh they're awfully close
30:47oh come on
30:49okay what if we
30:51what if we give them some love
30:53okay all right okay
30:54you folks okay come on
30:56oh come on
30:57come on
30:58ah it's touching
30:59it was but i don't think you got the photo
31:01come on
31:01you can analyze the photo in a second
31:03the tactic works
31:05oh yeah aren't you jealous of this love
31:07come on up
31:08come on up
31:10yes yes
31:11oh no he's going away
31:12it's not touching
31:14that was it
31:15did you get it
31:16that was it
31:17all right we've analyzed the playback
31:19and at the moment of the photo taken
31:22they were indeed touching
31:24there was impact
31:25there was impact
31:26there was impact and we captured the impact
31:27so
31:29we've done it
31:30challenge accepted
31:35then we have a text from sam
31:36they have completed
31:38they have completed the catvenger challenge
31:41we're sort of getting out to the lead
31:43we're getting chip logged
31:46yeah
31:47but we're about to do so much awesome stuff
31:50so we don't even have to worry
31:53and also we should look at now
31:54two new challenges should be generated
31:57first we need to generate two challenges
31:58oh yeah
31:59so let's do that quickly
32:00oh there's one more
32:01south on the east
32:03variable reward
32:04oh that one's way down
32:06that's far the other way
32:08yeah
32:08so none of those i think should impact
32:10other movements
32:11right
32:12that much
32:13okay
32:13so a new one on the east coast
32:15it's west coast
32:1730 coins
32:18it's pretty far down
32:19it's further down
32:19yeah so i think there's no chance
32:21we want to go to that first
32:22well
32:23but we can go to it next
32:24that's not bad
32:25that's not bad
32:26this makes me think
32:27so we could we could go to what they just did
32:29tofu rocks
32:30but
32:30they failed it
32:31they failed it
32:32and we're also in no rush
32:34because they can't attempt it again
32:36this kind of makes me think
32:37continue to this challenge
32:39then consider turning back to taipei
32:41yep
32:43having really solidified this section
32:45yep
32:46and setting ourselves up
32:48for more competitive action
32:49on the west coast tomorrow
32:50i agree
32:51all right
32:52so wait for this train
32:53it's in 24 minutes
32:54perfect
32:55sounds good
32:55would you like a coffee
32:56i would love
32:58some
32:58i would love maybe some food
32:59a cat coffee
33:18i got it
33:20so we need to hurry a little bit
33:21okay
33:24train's in six minutes
33:26i see 11 22
33:28says it's on time
33:29it still shows
33:34you got that business guy
33:36to start running too
33:38invalid card
33:40uh oh
33:44no
33:44it's not working
33:46nope
33:46well ben we've missed our train
33:48yeah
33:49um our rail passes
33:51you have to show them
33:53to a person
33:53and so we
33:56we were moving too slowly
33:57but there's another one
33:59in 25 minutes
34:01we're off to a rough start
34:04this is not one of our finest starts
34:07i'll tell you that
34:08but it's okay
34:09it's gonna
34:09it's gonna put them at ease
34:11and then we will strike
34:13yeah
34:14yeah
34:14yeah
34:15for sure
34:15we've acquired uh
34:17uh
34:19milk tea
34:19milk tea boba
34:20and caffeine coffee
34:22that's interesting
34:22yeah
34:23this is great
34:25good
34:26let's see what they're doing
34:27oh so they're probably waiting
34:28oh
34:29the next highest we trained for them
34:31is not for another 29 minutes
34:32that is tough
34:33that was uh
34:34poor planning on their part
34:36man
34:37i don't want to get my hopes up
34:38because look
34:39luck is never on team sam's side
34:41you'll learn that with time
34:42and luck can turn quickly
34:44i mean it doesn't really turn
34:46if it's always bad luck for me
34:47which makes me think that
34:48there must be some roundabout way
34:50in which this is good for them
34:51ben
34:53yes
34:55what do you got
34:56we may be here
34:59did you forget where we are
35:01in cinshu station
35:03but in a larger
35:04more philosophical sense
35:07we are in
35:08the snack zone baby
35:17i love this so much
35:20welcome to the snack zone
35:21today we'll be trying
35:22coolish
35:28oh my god
35:30cool coolish
35:31more like
35:32the coolest snack around
35:42i think we have snack zone
35:44coolish before
35:45but
35:46it's extremely deserving
35:48of a second snack zone
35:50and a third and a fourth
35:51and we will keep snack zoning it
35:53every time we come across it
35:54because it is one of
35:56god's greatest gifts of man
36:01it's a very aesthetic coffee shop
36:02i can't take the coffee on the train
36:04so
36:04i gotta cool it off quickly
36:06down one
36:06suck it up
36:07just scold my throat
36:09my esophagus
36:09yeah
36:10you don't want to give back the joke
36:11fine
36:12back to the trains
36:14i think it is
36:16yeah
36:17self-bound
36:181a
36:19how do you know
36:201139
36:21i also speak mandarin
36:23that's amazing
36:24yep
36:24you didn't prep for the season
36:26i didn't take lessons for the last six months
36:29okay so before we get on
36:31what do we want to do for deposits
36:32i mean i think we agreed on our fortification plan
36:35and i'm happy with it as is
36:38unless you want to drop more
36:40i tend to think that considering there's no steel on the board
36:42i kind of want to keep budget
36:44yeah
36:44i agree
36:45so
36:45i think minimum deposit
36:47under the theory that we're probably gonna
36:49turn back towards type a
36:51yes
36:52train
36:52train
36:53this is a different train
36:54different rolling stock
36:55oh this is a cool red one
36:56oh i love the font
36:58taiwan font
37:05you're clapping for the train
37:07that's a neat train
37:08look at the livery
37:10yeah
37:10okay
37:15we missed
37:16we missed the shot of the train arriving
37:18sorry
37:26oh nice seats
37:28goodbye cats
37:30yeah
37:31bye
37:32kitties
37:35they're very good kitties
37:37very good kitties
37:38very good kitties
38:01okay
38:02we need to get to the local station
38:15off to cheng hua
38:16and then some chips
38:19finally
38:19please god
38:21yeah
38:21and we're just gonna put one chip down
38:22these next two
38:2312
38:39on
38:40i don't know
38:45on
38:45on
38:45on
38:46on
38:46on
38:46on
38:46on
38:46on
38:46on
38:46on
38:48ils
38:49like
38:5112
38:52on
38:53on
38:55watch your step thank you all right so we need we need an update how many stations do we check
39:00off
39:00we're at 24 i believe so they're still in the lead but not by that much but we have a
39:06whole
39:06heck of a lot more chips than they do and we're gonna nail this challenge that's right you know
39:12i think they're still pretty far from their challenge there's a chance we can complete
39:16this challenge before they even get their first challenge done or at least first challenge
39:19successful time okay so that gives us a strategic advantage yeah
39:29this is very pretty wow oh it's a little walkway you want to take it yeah i do i put
39:38it here
39:43that's very vibey very fun okay we're going to the hot spring park
39:48oh i hope means we're going to a hot spring that would be very nice at this moment
39:52i didn't bring a bathing suit
40:13all right benjamin we've made it to chang hua welcome to the wonderful plate i don't know if it's a
40:20city or a town
40:21welcome to the place chang hua look those those chips they're so close i can almost
40:26taste them they are actually sort of a 25 minute walk away that's close enough for me to taste yeah
40:32you have an incredible sense of taste yeah it's kind of awesome we need this one bad
40:36yeah we if we don't get this one we're in real big trouble yeah
40:44this is cool whatever it is yeah this is cool this isn't where we're going no this is not where
40:49we're
40:49going but it's neat i like that guy's vibe oh no oh ben yeah oh dear it's very much uphill
41:02i don't know if it's coming across on camera how steep this is it feels extremely uphill when you're
41:07here so look at the image here and then imagine it make it worse in your head make it like
41:13editors
41:14make it worse oh man how do we how do we pick the right challenges every time oh yeah we've
41:21been
41:21we've done good we're all right bird watching we're off to a hot start watching yeah hot springs
41:27oh it smells delightful incense gotta say this is lovely the vibes look at this place
41:38challenge time challenge number 49
41:44be in the hot seat that makes sense okay pause before i read this challenge i should explain how
41:50this kind of challenge works most challenges on the board are just worth a flat number of chips like
41:56that tofu rocks one but in a call your shot challenge like this one we set the reward ourselves
42:01the higher the reward we set the harder the challenge becomes and if we don't hit the level
42:06we set for ourselves we earn nothing instead there are a few other types of rewards that'll come up
42:11later like multiplier challenges that multiply our whole chip balance or seal challenges that steal a
42:16certain percentage of the other team's chips those are going to matter a lot but we don't have to worry
42:20about them until one comes up for now let me read the rules of this challenge be in the hot
42:26seat
42:26you are now at one of geoxy's many famous hot springs but you aren't here to relax you are in
42:32the hot seat while in a hot spring one team member must correctly answer as many trivia questions as
42:37they can in 60 seconds questions may be skipped but can only be answered once you can earn eight chips
42:42per correctly answered question but you must call your shot if you do not reach the number of correct
42:47answers you predicted within the 60 seconds you earn nothing and the challenge is failed the question
42:52asker can read the questions before you call your shot but cannot discuss any specifics with their
42:57teammates that makes sense at a hot springs so one person will ask the other person answers but it's
43:03a call your shot we have to decide in advance how many we think we'll get right okay then they
43:07appear
43:08to be doing a challenge at a hot spring this one was one of the variable ones yeah this is
43:12a call your
43:13shot so you know we have to hope that one of two things happens one they play it so conservative
43:21that they barely get anything yep or two they get cocky they call too high of a number and then
43:29they can't pull it off look if i were them i would be feeling pretty cocky right now i lean
43:34towards
43:34being pretty conservative okay what do you think uh i would rather we complete it yeah successfully
43:41than not like i would think that like three or four is probably the right answer okay i lean towards
43:46me doing the trivia i agree and you asking yes and i will make a conservative decision as to how
43:53many we should go for well the other thing it does it doesn't say you have to ask them in
43:57order
43:58so you could ask the questions that you think all the best at first right before you ask questions
44:03here's what i'll say i think pretty much everything i know is from writing videos so which is a lot
44:09that
44:09brings you a lot geography politics not great on history really bad at pop culture i was gonna say yeah
44:15um i can go
44:16away for a bit so you can talk with the camera okay about the questions okay and then i'll come
44:21back
44:21in like 60 seconds okay so it looks like at first here there are some questions regarding taiwan there
44:28are some questions regarding jet lag the game the youtube channel i'm glad we've decided to have sam
44:35answer these questions rather than myself because he should be able to answer at least the jet lag the game
44:42questions what is this this is a freaking airplane there's a giant statue of an airplane this is not
44:51the challenge location by the way no this is just here this is just here okay tell you what i
44:58saw this
44:59challenge and i was like well 25 minute walk at least it's not as bad as the walk to the
45:05to the rocks
45:06it's it's as bad no it's worse it's as bad yeah oh i think i see what it is yeah
45:16i think that like
45:17it's pretty chill to be here there are arcade games yeah yeah it's for him yeah him
45:27no it's not for him then you think it's about him probably oh that makes more sense
45:32all right we can set up an awesome shot here yeah ready yeah okay well we made it what do
45:41we got
45:41let's see we've got our challenge envelope here let's make a deal
45:52let's make a deal you may have noticed three tall structures in this park the big buddha and the two
45:58pagodas you will complete this challenge by selecting the right one and going to it
46:02which one is right head to this website to find out this challenge has its own website yes um well
46:09look amy does love to do things a little extra all right so we just we pick one of these
46:14and we go to
46:15the top okay we've selected the buddha statue and it says climb to the top of the great buddha statue
46:20click when you make it okay okay well look that is tall but we it's not as bad as
46:27we're getting up here we just kind of pretty tall pretty so i feel like it's going to be okay
46:31do you think the odds are that it is just the buddha it feels so hot if the buddha feels
46:35obvious
46:36but maybe amy is feeling merciful right this is pretty sick so it just fell up i guess let's go
46:46up
46:50oh yeah it's burning yeah oh i hit my head i hit my damn head careful i'm perfectly sized for
46:59this
46:59buddha all right seems we can go up no further okay we are at the top of the buddha here
47:07i'll click when
47:08i made it okay we've learned that north pagoda is incorrect this is the information we've earned we have
47:15great buddha selected would we like to keep it or switch to south pagoda okay we should switch
47:20because of monty hall problem isn't that like magic no no no monty hall problem is real that's math
47:26monty hall problem has never made sense to me but i believe you switch to south pagoda
47:30well it says now to find a south pagoda fine okay no problem at all all right watch your head
47:41oh okay south is that way so that would be the south you know the monty hall problem doesn't really
47:48make sense but it is true please in the comments explain the monty hall problem to us should i come
47:55back yeah you can come back okay so i have to come up with a number i haven't come up
47:59with a number yet
48:00but i'm going through we might not want to do too many how many does that mean i think three
48:06or four
48:08look i would not be disappointed if we went away here with 24 coins but i would be disappointed
48:13if we walked away with zero yeah okay let's go with we got to get three correct in 60 seconds
48:19yeah
48:19i'll ask the first three questions that i think are the easiest and after that we'll go through
48:23and we'll make guesses okay all right should we go find some hot springs let's go find the hot springs
48:28right now you've been told that one of them isn't right so you can switch to that one and there's
48:34now a 66.6 percent chance it's this now what's going to be really frustrating is if we're in the
48:3933.3 chance that it always was the buddha all right ben we have made it to the south pagoda
48:48okay here
48:49we go what does this say wrong choice oh we have to get to the top of to the great
48:54buddha statue in
48:55the next five minutes okay we could do that yep just we're being very respectful can we get up that
48:59way no i think yeah this makes it more free foot action for nebula subscribers only oh yeah this is
49:11for all the paying viewers right here nebula subscribers only as always that's our policy on feet
49:20oh that is lovely i know it says only one of us has to be in the hot seat but
49:24i'm going to
49:25stand in here i haven't it's delightful i haven't come all this way not to get in
49:29all right ladies and gentlemen welcome to in the hot seat with sam who is in the hot seat you're
49:34ready
49:34all right you know your order i know the order we are going for three questions we're gonna be
49:38we're gonna nail it we're gonna we're gonna nail it all right we're gonna start in three two one at
49:45the
49:45time of writing what is the most viewed video on the jet lag the game youtube channel skip skip
49:50okay um no um hide and seek japan episode one yes okay uh no skip okay including this one how
50:00many
50:00people have competed on at least one full season of jet lag the game michelle toby scotty adam ben sam
50:12brian um you um uh nine incorrect which of the u.s states is closest in land to taiwan maryland
50:23massachusetts connecticut um massachusetts incorrect keep going keep going four out of the ten north
50:32we're out of one we're out of time that was disappointing i feel like we should have been
50:45able to get that those questions were longer than i expected they were long-winded questions
50:50the other the other ones were harder i thought you geography i know geography i know i thought you'd get
50:55the jet lag questions i don't know i don't know i don't know you should listen to the layover i
50:59don't
50:59know anything about uh i don't like that because to be honest there's every there's every chance they
51:08can get that and they'll now have a 50 bonus okay well all we have to do now is head
51:12back to the train
51:14station and make the next train yeah let's not let this take the wind out of our sails i don't
51:21know my
51:22sails are pretty wind it's not over yet i don't know that just that felt like a fumble it didn't
51:26feel like bad it was it was it's gonna give them a lot of hope it's gonna put a lot
51:31of wind in their
51:32sails yeah oh good it's more up okay let's get up there
51:49come on buddy i'm coming oh no problem
52:01i made it nice recovery challenge
52:08yeah i had to work for this one yeah but we did it okay let's get out of the big
52:16buddha
52:18let's generate the new challenges and let's tell them oh i feel like michelle caray after she ran
52:26her seven marathons this is definitely just as hard okay option one whatever the we're done with
52:34the past is the past moving forward i feel like i needed i needed humbling i was getting a little
52:39too excited by our lead we had a hot start so our next our next challenge on the east coast
52:44i'm looking
52:45is is really far quite far south it's only it's actually well sorry it's a variable challenge so
52:49we don't even have a guarantee oh and after that i don't like very i don't either okay so then
52:55i think
52:55taipei i think we go to taipei we see what drops on the map yep when they populate it but
53:00like
53:00for the rest of today and tomorrow i want to be in the action okay
53:24big three all right oh wait ben sam texted
53:29us while we were doing the challenge that's good they failed they failed that's good they did get
53:38a little they got cocky they got a little big for their britches didn't they well well well well
53:44your britches have split and our britches are doing perfect they've been hatched and they can hold
53:51everything everything all right let's reveal the next two challenges ben 38 and six benjamin
53:59oh 38 is a steal near them bolstering did we just get new challenges gonna change things
54:11and we are back thank you for watching this episode on nebula why not listen to the layover
54:17podcast it's our podcast where we recap every episode of jet lag the game and this season of
54:22course michael downey will be on every episode with us uh to break down what happened in this episode
54:27uh a lot of stuff you know a complicated game a lot of strategy a lot of things that we're
54:33going
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54:54except he's just chilling out and having a good time yeah it is actually if you watch jet lag and
54:58you're like i like seeing stuff but i get really stressed out day pass is like it's like jet lag
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