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Jet Lag The Game S17E02 (2026)
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00:00Hello and welcome back to our five-day race to claim all the train stations in Taiwan.
00:04Right now, it's still day one, and both teams are just starting to form their strategies for getting control of
00:09the board.
00:10Mike and I have mostly stayed near Taipei, not claiming quite as many stations as Ben and Adam,
00:14but spending a little bit more to reinforce this part of the map and really lock it down.
00:19Ben and Adam, on the other hand, have continued much further down the west coast,
00:22claiming a bunch of stations and not doing much to protect them.
00:25At the end of the last episode, Ben and Adam completed a challenge in Changhua,
00:29earning enough chips for them to keep heading south.
00:32The problem for them, though, is that the new challenge that just generated is a steal that's closer to us.
00:38That means we now have two pretty enticing options.
00:41We can head straight for the steal in an attempt to nab some of Ben and Adam's budget,
00:45or we can backtrack to this challenge over here, which Ben and Adam failed this morning.
00:49Because they failed, its reward got boosted,
00:51but that also suggests that it's probably pretty hard and we might fail it too.
00:55Both options are high risk, high reward, and if we pick wrong, we might waste a ton of our own
01:00time.
01:01But either way, we need to decide fast, because every minute in this game counts.
01:06Probably bolstering.
01:08Do we just get new challenges?
01:11It's going to change things.
01:12Oh, a steal just dropped on the east coast.
01:15We're closer.
01:16Yes.
01:17But we're also going away from it right now.
01:20We can get off.
01:21Let's see where the other one is first.
01:22It's way down.
01:24So they're there.
01:25They now have a really attractive duo down there.
01:28I have to assume they're going to go down there.
01:30Right.
01:30I think we should stick to the west coast and claim as much of it as we can.
01:34I think we should go for that nearer challenge to us.
01:36It's going to take a while to get there.
01:38Okay.
01:39Let's get back to the train station.
01:40So I think our options are basically go here, which is going to take us three hours, attempt the thing
01:46that they've tried, or go for the steal.
01:49I think we've got to go for the steal.
01:51No, let me figure out our travel time, because I think that'll influence things a good bit.
01:56We can't get there.
01:57Actually, we can't get there by the end of the day.
01:59Oh, is it worth turning around and making most of our way down that way?
02:06This is a hard call.
02:07I think there's something to be said about giving them time to accumulate a budget that we can steal.
02:13I agree.
02:13I do agree with that.
02:15And we're kind of in the midst of action there.
02:17We're in the midst of the densest area.
02:19Yep.
02:19So we're positioned for more stuff.
02:21And we're still positioned well to go for the steal later.
02:24Look, if you think we can go accomplish a challenge today, have us finish the day in the lead with
02:32chips, so that tomorrow we can tackle the steal.
02:36I'm on board.
02:37I think we can.
02:38Are you happy with that?
02:39Yeah.
02:39You ready for a tunnel?
02:41Well, yay.
02:42Yay?
02:42I love tunnels.
02:44I'm ready for that.
02:45I am peachy keen on our plan.
02:48Oh, hey, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh.
02:53Good job.
03:00Made it back to the station.
03:02Oh, I'm feeling it.
03:04Yeah.
03:04So where are they?
03:06Did they go north?
03:08Yeah, I think they went back up.
03:10We'll see what they do, but that's very interesting.
03:12They're not going for the steal.
03:13Here's the tofu rocks.
03:15They might be trying to try this.
03:16Do you think if they are going for the tofu rocks right now, I think they are going to be
03:20very sorely disappointed.
03:22I think that's going to be a huge waste of time.
03:24Unless they nail it.
03:25They did that bird memorization challenge this morning.
03:28Yeah, but that's a whole different ball.
03:30Yeah, I'd say I'm scared.
03:32They have more coins than us.
03:35They have 69.
03:36Nice.
03:37We have 47.
03:38What I'm worried they're going to do is they're about to try to shut down the high speed.
03:42They're going to put five on everything.
03:43Yeah, they could do that pretty easy.
03:45We'll see what they do.
03:47We just got to go do this challenge.
04:13Let's go do this challenge.
04:23So follow the signs for the high speed rail?
04:26Yep.
04:26HSR.
04:27Oh, look at this.
04:29Teaches you about train crossings.
04:32Come sit in class.
04:33That's cute.
04:34See, we don't have this problem in America.
04:38Well, you have a problem with it, but Brightline is not.
04:41Yeah, Brightline just...
04:42Yeah, Brightline needs a classroom.
04:53Hell yeah.
04:55Heck yeah.
04:59I have to go vroom.
05:00Vroom, vroom.
05:01It's about to go...
05:03Yeah, I guess it is electric, but...
05:05We need to make some decisions.
05:07And what we could do is, like, next stop.
05:09I want to fade the big deposit down.
05:11We can free arms.
05:12Ten.
05:12I think we should.
05:14By the way, quick rules reminder.
05:16Teams can control stations by a maximum of five chips.
05:19Because Ben and Adam control Bankyo by five, Mike and I can put down ten to give ourselves
05:23a five-chip margin.
05:25It's going to create an arms race.
05:26The whole game is an arms race.
05:28Okay, I do like aggression.
05:30Yeah, we want to take that.
05:31Okay.
05:32I don't know if this is offense or defense, but I like it.
05:37Okay.
05:44Okay.
05:57It looks like they're going on the high speed.
05:59So they flipped Wanhua, and then they flipped Bankyo.
06:03They actually put ten on Bankyo.
06:06I mean, it does not feel great that they are already taking our territory.
06:11But only two.
06:12Only two.
06:13So far.
06:14So far.
06:15And look at how many more stations we're getting.
06:18We've got so...
06:19We're getting so many more now.
06:20We are getting so many more now.
06:21So it's literally fine, and I'm not even worried about it.
06:26No, we're only putting one on each.
06:34It's going to be great.
06:35We're going to...
06:36We're going to win.
06:38Don't even worry about it.
06:39It's going to be perfect.
06:41We're about to find out if they are getting off the train to go to the Tofu Rocks.
06:47If they are staying on the ice.
06:49Look, I would...
06:51I would just love it.
06:54Maybe.
06:55Michael Downey is really good at memorization book.
07:22All right.
07:25Let's do this.
07:32We almost didn't get off.
07:34Look at this!
07:36Okay, I think we're going over there.
07:38On the end of the river.
07:40Look at this.
07:42The American School of America.
07:46That's actually crazy that it just literally says in big letters, American School.
07:50In gold.
07:51Very fitting.
07:52What do you think they learned there?
07:53How do I ignore maps?
07:56And yet here you are, an exploratory American taking it all in.
08:00I'm Irish.
08:01Oh, my accent is a little weird, but I'm Irish.
08:04Ben, it seems they have gotten off the train at Sinshu, which means they have gotten off the train.
08:11A surprisingly risky move.
08:13Again, I think that the challenge is possible, but I think it's fine.
08:16I think that if I approached it differently, we haven't had a better challenge.
08:22It's very possible.
08:23And they could be walking away with 60 coins.
08:27But I mean, look, I think almost certainly this is going to be a huge waste of time for them.
08:34I think it's a huge mistake because it takes a really long time to get there.
08:38Seems like on the other side, it drops you off really far.
08:40I think this has saved us like 20, 30 minutes each way.
08:43We may have timed this to perfection, Sam.
08:46Yeah.
08:47End of the day, sun is setting.
08:48Golden hour.
08:49Coming down to the river.
08:50It's looking vibey.
08:52Look at the baseball field.
08:53They're really into baseball here.
08:54Yeah.
08:55Just follow the path, Sam says.
09:00Getting deep.
09:02There should be a path.
09:04Oh, this is, we found the path.
09:05He was right.
09:09Oh, yes.
09:11Okay.
09:12There we go.
09:13We've big brained it.
09:14That is a win.
09:15Okay, so we need to cross the other side because that's where the pin is, and then we can pull
09:18the challenge.
09:20They have arrived at the tofu race.
09:23Oh, boys.
09:25Oh, what are you in for?
09:27I will say that they did seem to find a faster way to get there.
09:30Yeah, they went to a different station, or they crossed the tofu rocks to get to it.
09:36Which is smart, and we should have done that.
09:38Maybe we'll do it.
09:40Look, we're good sports.
09:42We're good sports.
09:43We wish them the best of luck.
09:44I don't know.
09:45Okay.
09:45Well.
09:46This was worth 40 points.
09:49We weren't interested then.
09:51Bennett Adam failed, so it got a 50% increase.
09:54Making it up to 60.
09:55That would be huge.
09:56Our challenge is...
09:59The floor is mostly lava.
10:06The floor is mostly lava.
10:08Choose one team member to cross the tofu rocks.
10:11There's only one correct path to the other side, which they will have two minutes to memorize
10:15before they cross.
10:16Once they begin their attempt, if they step on the wrong rock or deviate from the path
10:20in any way, they are incinerated, and the challenge is failed.
10:24So we're going to get a route.
10:26Yeah.
10:27So we can strategize how to memorize it.
10:29And I think the key would be like, it's going to tell you like, okay, I need to go three
10:33forward, two to the right.
10:35Right.
10:35And we have to memorize that very quickly.
10:37In like a song or a...
10:39Yeah, but we only have two minutes.
10:40Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:40That's really not much.
10:41This is hard.
10:43I see why they failed this.
10:44I'm happy to attempt it, but if you want to switch it up, I'm also happy to let you go.
10:48I think I'm genuinely like bottom quartile in terms of memorization abilities.
10:52Okay.
10:53Do you want to practice?
10:55Sure.
10:55There's nothing saying we...
10:56Like, I could give you a fake...
10:58Yeah, yeah, yeah.
10:59Let's do that.
10:59Let's do it.
10:59La mock it up.
11:00I think that's a good idea.
11:01Look, we want to take our time on this.
11:03Yeah.
11:03We spend all this time to get here.
11:05Of course.
11:05So here's what this looks like.
11:07I'm going to draw you a route, and I'm going to give you two minutes, and then we'll test it.
11:11Ready?
11:12You want me to come...
11:13That's his route.
11:14All right.
11:14Let's try it.
11:15Ready?
11:15Yeah.
11:16Go.
11:17Four right.
11:18One, two.
11:20Angle right.
11:38Welcome to the Shint Show.
11:42The challenge pin was just, like, a couple blocks away.
11:44Look at this.
11:45They have a cool statue of pears, I think.
11:49Got a pear stack.
11:50Do you like pears, Ben?
11:53Um, I don't really see the point in pears, honestly.
11:57Isn't it, like, a worse apple?
11:59No.
12:01Well, Ben, the challenge spot is having McDonald's.
12:05This is where the pin is, Benjamin.
12:07Okay.
12:07Let's see what our challenge is.
12:11Taste test Taiwanese McDonald's.
12:18Taste test Taiwanese McDonald's.
12:20Taiwanese McDonald's has many exclusive items not available in America.
12:24Amy has secretly chosen one of them for you to try.
12:27One team member must taste test this item blindfolded, only taking one bite, before correctly guessing
12:32what it is.
12:33They may consult the menu afterwards to make their guess.
12:36If they guess wrong, this challenge has failed.
12:38I think we got this.
12:40You are great at tasting stuff.
12:42Yeah, I'm ready.
12:43You know, in fact, bring me the hardest item.
12:45Well, Amy decides what the item is.
12:47All right, Benjamin.
12:48I am going to go and purchase for you an item.
13:06One, two, three.
13:08One, two, three.
13:10Attempt it?
13:10Yeah.
13:11One, two, three, four.
13:17Two, three.
13:25Now, I'm going ahead five.
13:29Three, four.
13:32Somewhere here.
13:34Yeah.
13:35Left.
13:36Down to here.
13:38Then backwards one.
13:41Then over.
13:47And then on the...
13:53Let's feel really good about this.
13:55Okay, don't get...
13:56Don't feel too good.
13:57I have to feel good.
13:59You've got to go into these confidence.
14:00You've got to feel good.
14:01Just not...
14:02Not too good.
14:02Not overconfident.
14:04You're right.
14:04The practice is worth it.
14:05It's a balance.
14:06I mean, look, we can do this.
14:08Night herons!
14:14You get one bite of this item.
14:16I'm going to adjust it to try to ensure that you get everything.
14:20Sure.
14:21It is required.
14:22Like, really, really get it.
14:24Okay.
14:25Just really...
14:26I would sort of go as big as that mouth came.
14:28Sure.
14:29And it can go big.
14:37Oh, yeah.
14:38So, there's something crispy, crunchy in there.
14:40You know, something's been fried.
14:42They're typical condiments.
14:43And then there's a weird sauce.
14:45Sort of an unusual sauce.
14:47I suspect that this sauce may be the thing that makes it un-American.
14:52That sounded political, but it's not.
14:55I'm going to take this back from you.
14:57Now, go to the menu, the kiosk.
15:01Okay.
15:01It was clearly some kind of sandwich.
15:04I am seeing a sauce here on a Parmesan crispy chicken burger.
15:09I'm seeing that here.
15:10This is a thing that I don't believe we have in America.
15:15I'm seeing a spicy chicken filet burger, but I feel like this sauce is important.
15:22I think this is the situation.
15:24I think one of the bigger factors here is, like, did it have mushrooms?
15:28Is it a mushroom crispy chicken burger?
15:30But I don't know that I clocked mushrooms.
15:33I'm going to put in my guess as a Parmesan crispy chicken burger.
15:38Did I do it?
15:40Congratulations, Benjamin.
15:44Let's go 30 chips.
15:47And they taste as sweet as the Parmesan crispy chicken burger.
15:51We got 30 chips for this.
15:52And we only got 30 chips for this.
15:54Let's go 30 chips for this.
15:55Let's go 30 chips for this.
15:57All right, guys.
15:58We need to quickly generate new challenges.
16:00Let's see what they are, shall we?
16:02Okay.
16:03So the first challenge is back up in Taipei.
16:08Okay.
16:08It's a 50% steal.
16:10So there are two steals on the board.
16:12Yep.
16:14And they're closer to, actually, both of them.
16:16Yep.
16:17Okay, we just got new challenges.
16:19Oh, my God.
16:20Is that another?
16:22Another 50% steal.
16:24North!
16:25It's in Taipei.
16:27It's in Taipei.
16:28Let's go.
16:29Two steals that we're closer to, but we got a 70.
16:3370?
16:3570 chips all the way at the bottom of the East Coast.
16:37They're closer to that.
16:38I think we should just keep going south.
16:40It's unclaimed.
16:41There's challenges down there.
16:43Yeah.
16:43I think we just keep going south.
16:45So let's get back to the station and just...
16:47There's a train, actually, Ben, in nine minutes.
16:50Yeah, let's go.
16:51Let's get on that.
16:52We should get on that.
16:52Let's get on that.
16:54Are they still at the rocks?
16:56Maybe they're really taking their time to figure out, like, a system.
16:59Left three.
17:01Left one.
17:03Right three.
17:04One, two, three, four.
17:05Okay, so one, two, three, four.
17:07Nope.
17:08Nope.
17:09Oh, back to the right three.
17:11Angle backwards.
17:12One, two, three, four.
17:13Hard left.
17:14One, two, three.
17:15See?
17:16One, two, three.
17:17Do you want to do another press?
17:18One, two, three, four, five.
17:19This is hard.
17:20This is very hard.
17:21Yeah, they failed.
17:22One, and then one, two, three.
17:26Okay, to be honest, you're regressing.
17:27Let's make anything fair.
17:28I think we should do it.
17:30Adam?
17:30What's up?
17:31I feel like we're back in it.
17:33We're back in it, buddy.
17:34I'll tell you this.
17:35We have 50 chips in 53 stations.
17:38They have 45 chips in 29 stations.
17:40I love to hear this.
17:42We are winning at the Moat Benjamin.
17:44We are more fortified than we are, but we're not flirting about that.
17:49No, no.
17:49And if they succeed at this challenge, then that's going to change sort of everything.
17:53But they're not going?
17:54They won't.
17:55They're going to fail.
17:56All right.
17:56Let's go.
18:12What do you think?
18:13Is it time?
18:14I think this is as time as it's ever going to be.
18:16I'm hoping it's easier than what you've given us, but I don't know.
18:20Amy's pretty diabolical.
18:21It's probably harder.
18:22That's why we love her.
18:23Um.
18:24You ready?
18:25Ready.
18:26Three, two, one.
18:29Okay, so start.
18:31Shoot.
18:34It's tricky.
18:35I'm not going to lie.
18:35That is trickier than the ones I gave him.
18:38It's a lot more involved, like smaller movements and stuff.
18:41Well, it's a tough one.
18:43It's tough.
18:45Let's do your best.
18:47Five, four, three, two, one.
18:51Go right into it.
18:56I'm ready.
18:57I'm ready.
19:08I'm ready.
19:21I'm sorry.
19:21You missed one.
19:26Which one?
19:27That doesn't matter.
19:27It was four diagonal.
19:28Oh, that was.
19:29Yeah.
19:30You know what?
19:30That was as tricky as you were making them, if not to a further extent.
19:35No, that was trickier.
19:36Like, clearly you were good at it, and I don't think that's just such a tricky challenge.
19:41I appreciate you being kind.
19:43Well, let's get walking to the station.
19:44We can figure out what's next.
19:46Sorry to all those who were cheering for us.
19:48Oh.
20:06Hello.
20:08Welcome to Tainan.
20:09Just as we were pulling in, received a text invisible link from Sam Denby.
20:13Failed.
20:16Let's go.
20:19Huge waste of time, boys.
20:21That is a sweet way to end today.
20:24We should check what the new challenges are.
20:26Here's challenge one.
20:27It's pretty near them.
20:29Okay.
20:29Well, that's a 50 coin.
20:32Yeah, that's not great.
20:33Oh, it's very close to us.
20:3450 coins.
20:3650 coins is pretty good.
20:37It's a lot.
20:37It only takes 35 minutes to get up there.
20:39It's close.
20:40We should try and go for it tomorrow morning.
20:42So, there's a train.
20:43It's right at 7.30 a.m.
20:45So, we should go back in the station so we can start the day on the platform.
20:49Yeah.
20:49Let's see if we can figure out where it might possibly be.
20:52So, I do need to generate one more.
20:55So, it's towards them.
20:56From here, it's not very far.
20:57Yeah.
20:58That might be a first move.
20:59And then we go...
21:00And then Taipei.
21:01Taipei.
21:01All in all, I don't think we had a worse day than them.
21:04I think we are well-placed.
21:06And they maybe came out slightly ahead with a few more stations and a few more chips.
21:13Yep.
21:14It is about to be the end of the day.
21:17Are we ready?
21:18There we go.
21:19There we go.
21:20Okay.
21:20All right.
21:21We'll see you back here at 7.30 a.m.
21:24And hopefully, there will be a train here that has not closed its doors yet.
21:29Yep.
21:30Alas, it is 5.30.
21:32It is.
21:33So, this beautiful 7-Eleven will be our ending point.
21:36Day-wide.
21:36The world's going to be so huge, though.
21:38We're going to steal all their coins.
21:40All their coins are going to be gone.
21:41They don't know what's coming.
21:42They do not.
21:43Neither do you.
21:44See you then.
21:45All right.
21:46Good night.
21:46Good night.
21:47Well, now we are going to go to a really nice hotel because the conversion rate is really
21:52favorable to the U.S. dollar right now.
21:54And so, we get to stay in a much nicer hotel than we normally do.
21:58Good night.
22:00Okay.
22:01Now it's the rest period.
22:02We have 14 hours to eat, sleep, and hopefully bathe before we return to the exact same spot
22:07tomorrow morning.
22:08Day 2 is going to matter a lot.
22:10There's still a ton of map to fill out, and the teams are entering the day with some bold
22:14strategies.
22:15Mike and I are planning to use the looming threat of the steal to keep Ben and Adam off
22:19balance, but we don't actually want to do the steal until it has maximum impact.
22:23Meanwhile, Ben and Adam are hoping to disincentivize the steal by keeping a lean budget, earning,
22:27and then immediately dumping ships as they try to claim the remaining open territory.
22:31How will it all go?
22:33Let's find out.
22:34Good morning.
22:36Our train is pulling in.
22:40It is here.
22:41It's 728.
22:43And it's 728.
22:44We can leave this spot in about two minutes.
22:48The conductor is looking around.
22:51We just need to look like you're on your phone.
22:53You're trying to figure out if this is the right station.
22:56Okay, 15.
22:57All right, now I'm starting to feel kind of open.
22:58Five, four, three, two, one.
23:03All right.
23:04Go.
23:10Let's absolutely go.
23:12Good morning.
23:13We're back.
23:14We're so back.
23:15Day 2.
23:16And everything is going to go perfect today.
23:19Let's make it go perfect.
23:20We don't need to make it.
23:22It's just going to be it.
23:22It's always going to happen.
23:23It just will be.
23:24Oh, well, then this is going to be boring to watch
23:26because it's going to go so smoothly.
23:28This season is going to be very predictable.
23:30Okay, so I think we know our first move, right?
23:32Yep, to the high-speed rail station.
23:34And we want to go to that challenge
23:36that is about an hour south of here.
23:38Exactly.
23:38I think we know what we want to do out of there
23:40because we have some juicy steels on the board.
23:42Yeah.
23:42The reason we're not going for the steel in Taipei right now
23:45is that something involved with the challenge
23:47doesn't open until 10.
23:48Right.
23:50So we went there now.
23:51We would wait around and waste time,
23:52which we don't want to do.
23:53We don't want to waste time.
23:54And I wonder if we're going to be watching
23:55our first moves this morning
23:56to see if we head south.
23:58We need to really be keeping an eye on where they go.
24:00I really want to know if they're going north or south.
24:03So really quick, before we hit our first station here,
24:05we do have to decide if we want to fortify any of these.
24:08Here's the deal.
24:09We've got 47 ships right now.
24:11My big fear is they might be waiting
24:14to see if we succeed at this challenge
24:15before you start this deal.
24:17And then try it.
24:17But if we can deplete some of our budget here,
24:20let's put down two.
24:21Let's put down two per station.
24:23Two per station.
24:23Two more.
24:23I mean, that's a lot.
24:24We'd be down at 27.
24:27But then we're about to hopefully get 50 more.
24:29But I don't worry that much about only having 27.
24:31Because again, we'll be in our territory.
24:34And we can move freely.
24:36All right, let's do it.
24:36Let's fortify.
24:37Let's put down two on each
24:38and get our balance down
24:40to try to make it less attractive.
24:54I want the audience to know
24:56that I really try to film a lot,
24:58but Michael just keeps taking the camera.
25:01And look, I'm not complaining
25:02because he's doing the work for me.
25:05It's just my job.
25:06It's just habit for me to have it as well.
25:08I apologize.
25:09And also, you're welcome.
25:10Now, look, I love not having to do it myself.
25:17Look at this.
25:18I'm just going to point out the...
25:20I wonder where the driver sits.
25:22How cool is that?
25:24This is jet lag.
25:26This is what it's about.
25:28Looks like another busy one.
25:30Oh, yeah.
25:31Tip, get on last.
25:32So you're standing by the door
25:33so you get off first
25:34and you don't have to push through people.
25:36If we can get on,
25:38maybe let's go down.
25:40Oh, no.
25:41My jet lag chip did not work.
25:43Go, Sam.
25:43Go, go, go.
25:45They're whistling.
25:47Go, go, go, go.
25:48Go, go, go.
25:53Oh, thank you.
26:01Oh, I'm awake now.
26:03Oh, I'm awake now.
26:20They've left and they've gone south.
26:24Yeah, they're not heading for the steel.
26:25They're not going for the steel.
26:26Now...
26:26At least not yet.
26:27They're definitely encroaching further
26:30on our turf crew.
26:32Oh, yeah, it's beautiful.
26:34Oh, yeah.
26:38Should we thumbnail fees?
26:40Yeah.
26:41No, it's not even good.
26:42It's not even working.
26:43It's not even good.
26:44Okay.
26:45All right, let's start stopping.
26:50Welcome.
26:52Appreciate it.
26:55All right, where was it?
26:56It was right over here.
26:57It's there.
26:58It's by that nativity scene.
27:01All right, Benjamin.
27:02Let's see what our challenge is.
27:06Be alone in Xinyang.
27:13Be alone in the Xinyang district.
27:15Blurring strangers' faces is expensive.
27:18It's time to be alone.
27:19You must film one team member for 15 minutes straight
27:22with no other human beings or vehicles entering the frame.
27:25This team member must be at least one-eighth of a mile
27:27away from the camera,
27:28and the camera cannot be zoomed in at all.
27:31You get one attempt.
27:32If anyone else enters the frame after you start rolling,
27:35this challenge has failed.
27:36Let's look at a map and see if there's any spots that...
27:39Yeah, like how far do we need to go
27:41to be really not...
27:43If you, like, look on the other side.
27:45Okay.
27:45Yeah, yeah, yeah.
27:46There's, like, woods.
27:47Like, basically...
27:49Yeah.
27:50...ish.
27:51Yeah.
27:51I mean, that's definitely the area we want to be.
27:54We need to go that way and start to assess what the deal is.
27:57I would say that this seems very difficult,
28:00but it's 50 chips.
28:04I mean...
28:07It's already looking a lot emptier over here.
28:10Yeah, everything here at the Taiwan Water Corporation is empty, but...
28:14I don't think we can break in there.
28:16No.
28:17Oh, it looks like we can actually walk up to an area that overlooks the river.
28:21Right?
28:22Like, this is what I'm talking about.
28:24If you just went over there,
28:27but I went, right?
28:29Ain't gonna be people over there.
28:31You know?
28:32There's nobody over there.
28:33Here, let's investigate that.
28:35I do think those are stairs.
28:36Because, you see, this seems promising.
28:39Yeah, I agree.
29:07I agree.
29:13You know, Sam, I do.
29:14I do miss croissant.
29:16We should have some.
29:20Vending machine has trains.
29:23Oh, my gosh.
29:24See, we can get the high-speed rail.
29:28I've got steam trains.
29:29Oh, those are hefty.
29:30They're all packaged.
29:32That's pretty cool.
29:32Should we collect one of each train that we've been on on this trip?
29:35I don't think I have the backpack room for that.
29:37I'll be running around with gift bags.
29:41They appear to be down by a river.
29:43Maybe that's good news.
29:44Maybe they'll do a veil of another river thing.
29:46They're gonna have nightmares of their failed river challenge yesterday.
29:51Well, to be honest, I feel like, well, maybe I'm speaking on personal behalf.
29:55I had nightmares about it.
29:57Yeah.
29:59Do the trains keep getting better?
30:00Look how cool this thing looks.
30:02Cool livery, too.
30:03I like the silver bottom.
30:11All right, so the stations on this line, do you want to do it in a minute?
30:14I think just minimum.
30:16Yeah, minimum chips down on each of these stations.
30:19Yeah, and keep flexible.
30:20Yeah, I don't think any of this is vital or blocking much.
30:24You're ready.
30:33I mean, there are people.
30:34Oh, that's pretty cool.
30:35Look at that temple.
30:36They're working on it right now.
30:38Wow.
30:39Well, this is the thing that we found about Taiwan when we were doing research.
30:41It's like, you go to the most random places and there's something super cool there.
30:45That is why we're here.
30:47I think this is very promising.
30:49There's nobody out here.
30:50No.
30:50I mean, yeah, I should just go down to the edge of the river back there, right?
30:55All right, be careful.
30:57Yeah, yeah, this is good.
30:591x lens this way, framed down here, and I'll stand over there.
31:07You take the camera.
31:08I'm going to walk over there.
31:09I might have to, like, take my shoes off and kind of wade.
31:13All righty.
31:14Good luck.
31:16Whoa.
31:17Oh, my God.
31:18It's, you're sinking in there.
31:21Oh, I might be sinking too much.
31:25It's pretty muck forward.
31:31Oh, my God.
31:33That's crazy.
31:36Yeah, it's pretty mucky.
31:37No, I definitely can't do that.
31:38Hook up.
31:39New plan.
31:40New plan.
31:43New plan.
31:52So, welcome to Taichung.
31:54Wow.
31:55Look at a station.
31:57Wow, there's a lot going on over here.
31:59Look at, look at the old little station compared to the tall towers around it now.
32:04Oh, yeah, the station has grown up a little bit.
32:06The station has grown.
32:0720-minute walk from here?
32:09Yeah, roughly, yeah.
32:10All right, well, they're still challenging, seemingly.
32:12Okay.
32:12So, it's seemingly a pretty long one.
32:15All right, we're trying a different strategy.
32:19Hopefully, I can find a way down from up there.
32:21Okay, good luck.
32:24So, there's a little observation deck here that actually might be perfect.
32:30Oh, there are stairs.
32:32Oh, I do think I see.
32:45I'm feeling really good about our odds of completing this, at least.
32:48Look, it is taking us a little while, but I think we're going to get it.
32:53He's...
32:56There.
32:57There he is.
32:58Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I see you.
33:00Yeah.
33:01I see you for sure.
33:02Yeah, okay.
33:02This is easily 200.
33:04This is, like, more like a quarter mile, because you've got to shoot in one.
33:08But I think that what you should do is just make it so that you don't see anything above, basically,
33:14the grass.
33:15Yeah, yeah, just angle it down.
33:16So, now, I go back to one.
33:20Oh, man.
33:22I mean, look, I'll tell you what.
33:26When I'm in one, I can't quite make you out, but I can know for certain you're in there.
33:32There you are.
33:33Yeah, that's fine.
33:34If we can...
33:34There's Adam.
33:36But just through Zoom.
33:37There's Adam.
33:39And now, we're going to take it down here.
33:45And look, unless we run into a real maniac here, no one else is coming into this frame.
33:52All right, I'm going to start the timer.
33:54Go for it.
33:55Ready?
33:56Yep.
33:5715 minutes starts now.
34:01All right, well, now we just hang out for 15 minutes.
34:07Challenge pin takes us to that line there.
34:11The origin...
34:12Oh, it's the origin of pearl milk tea.
34:15This is the...
34:16Oh, it's where boba's from.
34:17Yeah.
34:21Play boba blow darts.
34:28Play boba blow darts.
34:30Welcome to Chung Shui Tong, the tea shop where bubble tea was invented.
34:34Order a small bubble tea and save the tapioca balls.
34:37Then, standing 10 feet apart, one team member must blow the balls through a straw at the
34:42other team member, who must attempt to catch them in the cup.
34:45You can earn three chips per boba cot, but you must call your shot before you play.
34:50If you run out of boba before reaching your predicted number, then you earn nothing, and
34:54this challenge is failed.
34:55Oh, no.
34:56Oh, yes.
34:57Oh, no.
34:58Well, let's start by ordering some boba.
35:00How about let's order two, because I want one for myself.
35:03Yeah.
35:03Wow, it's beautiful.
35:06Ooh.
35:08It's just crazy that this is the origin of boba.
35:11It's like everywhere in the world has boba.
35:16Two original pearl milk tea, I think.
35:20Adam is trying to think of a bit right now.
35:23I can see he's in the sort of physical position that he normally is in when he's trying to think
35:29of a bit.
35:30Okay, I'm just going to film a bunch of stuff that can be used to pass time.
35:33Maybe he is now executing on a bit.
35:48Yeah.
35:48Hey, hello.
35:4830 seconds left.
35:49Almost there.
35:51All right.
35:51All right.
35:52Here we go.
35:58and and that's that
36:03benjamin all right we've earned 50 wonderful chips and uh let's get out of here okay they
36:10just completed their challenge oh okay which that did take them like almost an hour all right ben
36:15what are our new challenges challenges number 35 and 37. oh no ben 35 is right where they are
36:24oh my god it's in taichung and it's a 45 percent multiplier is that gonna be good for them how
36:31much do they have right now i mean they don't have a ton right now but if they do well
36:34at the
36:34variable okay where's the other one the other one is um it's back up north it's in like sinchu
36:40they can get to cinch you on the high speed too yeah they're these are both really good for them
36:46and great for us we have new challenges oh yeah and let me tell you i like the locations
36:53oh right next to us the other one is back in the direction we want to go that's literally where
36:58we just work my my one fear with this is it coaxes them north i mean i think it'd be
37:03a mistake to try
37:03to go up past them no i think they've got we still got to go to kaos young but that
37:08sucks those are two
37:10that are so helpful to them it's fine we've got a pretty healthy balance now i think we can really
37:17lock up this part of the map and again there's so much stuff around kaos young look there's a train
37:23in 20 minutes down to kaos young we need to get on it all right let's let's get out of
37:28here
37:31not what i like to see no take out number 45 thank you thank you okay let's walk all right
37:40we got our boba we need to decide who is blowing his catching my hand-eye coordination is not great
37:46which is more of the catching side yeah but i think that would also influence the blowing side
37:50uh no i think that you can get by the blowing without any hand-eye coordination want me to blow
37:56yeah okay yeah i'll catch all right boba time oh good one good step okay i really need to make
38:03sure i
38:03don't get any balls i think you'll notice if you start sucking up balls those balls okay don't clip
38:12this oh my gosh look at this little dog look at these dogs look at these dogs oh they love
38:17smelling
38:18the exhaust coming from that car hi doggies just to bring it up we have a pretty well-timed itinerary
38:25to
38:25go all the way to that area in the southeast and that challenge is like 70 right it's a 70
38:30chip challenge
38:32because the thing is there's a limited express that gets us to that station quite efficiently
38:36and it seems like it runs every two hours we would just skip the kaos young challenge the
38:42kaos young challenge will always be there well maybe not always they might do it but i don't think
38:47they're going to at least not anytime soon we're getting on the same train without us let's book to
38:52ping tongue because we need to get a reservation hello um we want to book on the limited express to
39:01ping tongue jing ying it's a ping tongue okay the next one is sold out can we do standing room
39:09on
39:09the 9 30 standing room we don't have no okay we can take the 9 44 it's it's it's worse
39:17but it's the
39:18best option we have okay okay yeah let's do a little more research maybe to the right here yeah i
39:24want a
39:24nice private ball sucking spot i don't want people seeing me suck i'm gonna have to catch your balls
39:30you will have to catch all my balls this might be my might be getting too far
39:38i got too many walls in my mouth oh no this is a good ball sucking spot yeah we need
39:43to figure out
39:44how many balls we have to figure out what we won't call our shot as all right i need to
39:47get rid of all
39:51four everybody out all right make clips of ten five six seven eight nine no no no no those were
40:05bigger balls but also a bigger drink so i tend to think we have around 60 to 70. i tend
40:13to think that
40:13we will have decent aiming ability with these and you also have the ability to move it around to catch
40:19yes so let's say we got a third of them you think we can catch 20. no right that's way
40:25too much 10.
40:27that would give us or do we because we said earlier we don't want to miss we go eight yeah
40:31i just have
40:32a very bad grasp of how hard this is going to be i know with no practice yeah i don't
40:37want to be too
40:38risk averse but eight i tend to think that we're either going to get like in the 20s yeah or
40:43none okay and
40:45therefore the the small difference between i agree and i'll tell you what i'll i'm willing to go for
40:51it and up it to 12 now what you have convinced no 10. how about 10. 10. even 10. okay
40:56all right let's
40:56out the camera we're locking in 10. all right so if you stand right behind that great i think i
41:01think
41:01i would angle it more towards me yeah but i'm gonna have to move quickly
41:08where'd that even go ah i didn't see it at all i saw a lot of liquid i didn't see
41:13that at all either
41:14okay maybe go a little higher rather than oh you got me in the face oh that was close
41:22you got me in the face
41:28so we know it works that's disgusting that is pretty good oh that hit my finger
41:38i didn't see it at all it went high so the question is still which challenge do we want to
41:44go for
41:45yeah i mean i ultimately think that it's foolish to pass right by a challenge that we could do and
41:51get
41:52chips and we don't know what else is going to pop up i think we're going to see them complete
41:55a
41:56challenge soon also until like the map is going to change here's the thing we don't actually have
42:01to decide yet no let's get on this train let's just decide when we get off keep heading south
42:10so annoying we had that great train
42:20i'll be on this for a while
42:33oh i hit my thumb oh hit my eyebrow okay can you go higher like really lob it just a
42:41good arch
42:42because the blue sky is easier for me to see it got one we got one there we go okay
42:48we can get
42:48this left hand to catch here we go so the good lob into the sky
42:55that's two baby oh we doubted ourselves too much
43:02three oh this is trivial ah well let's get it okay and let's go
43:09three oh four oh five oh six i feel like an outfielder in the world series this is like my
43:18big moment
43:20oh oh i got it oh
43:24eight
43:27nine
43:31ten ladies and gentlemen
43:35that's 30 points man we could have racked up
43:40look how many are oh man look how many are left okay i think like that's a healthy 30 points
43:46but we
43:46could have racked up yeah but we didn't know we didn't racked up a hundred think of how
43:51devastated ben and how it would have been um they completed their challenge congratulations to sam
43:57and mike only 30 chips though never mind i take back my congratulations you guys suck i i want to
44:04say i think that was good decision making because i what i don't want us to do the next call
44:08your shot
44:09get overly like no we got our momentum back we're back in this that was good let's generate the
44:15challenge 47 oh that's that's that's a good location for us oh yes 47 is up by taipei that
44:22area by taipei is looking very attractive it's getting juicy what's annoying though they are
44:28very closer um i'll take your garbage do you want to finish that i want my balls okay
44:34so the second one was a 45 multiplier it's down south so they now potentially have a pretty
44:41attractive trio oh 10 is near us though okay 10 is um just southeast of calcium oh what is it
44:5045 percent multiplier okay this is this is very interesting to a guy like me so i think that what
44:56this means is i think we definitely want to get out we definitely want to get it off of calcium
45:00so
45:00that we can boost our balance before we hit the multiplier boom boom but this does i think clarify for
45:06us that we need to do we definitely just want to go to calcium they're right by the 45 multiplier
45:12they're
45:13literally right next to it so i just would be absolutely shocked if they don't go for it just a
45:19little bit ago another challenge generated in hinshu which is where we actually started our day today
45:25yes but i noticed it's an express train but it's not a high speed train so it takes the local
45:31tracks
45:32on the way up to hinshu and it doesn't seem like this is a train iteration that happens very often
45:39i'm tempted to take it even though there's a challenge that generated just on the other side
45:45of the city yeah i mean we just generated 30 chips if we go down drop one on each station
45:50yeah that's 20
45:52stations we're still and we're at another challenge we can do and even though it's on a slower train
45:57because it's express it doesn't take that much longer okay the one thing is since it apparently
46:02express trains are the only ones we need to see reservations on oh so we got to find someone at
46:06the station so let's see if we can do that quickly hi can you get a seat reservation for uh
46:19no standing ticket oh do you know what the next one is okay uh we will think about it we'll
46:30come
46:30back thank you thank you that's annoying because that was a really good train so we could wait 45
46:35minutes and seemingly take the same one is what she said well i mean the thing that we could consider
46:40is going together challenge here whereas going north for steel collecting all the stations and being
46:46in the right position and getting this challenge is a 55 point challenge okay let's keep moving
46:50that way okay so should we try to get that ticket yeah okay uh see reservation for uh okay no
46:58seats
46:59okay thank you all right so we gotta wait about 40 minutes now we are waiting a little while to
47:09take
47:09express train now but that'll be the highest ratio of stations claimed per minute i think of the game so
47:17far hopefully does this look crazy it's us chatting back to back
47:47all right
47:48all right ben we are about to arrive
47:50at the station usually this station is both a low and high speed station so we should five it
47:58i think we should five it i mean we're doing basically the same thing they're doing we both
48:01want to make it inconvenient for the other team to take high speed rail
48:17we've managed to find every challenge that involves them yeah it's not really what i want maybe we can store
48:23our bags here let's keep an eye out for lockers
48:29see lockers i don't yeah no lockers it's okay look amy's trying to kill us and she will succeed
48:37see that yeah see i don't like the look of that we're going to that that that is not good
48:42basically
48:43just straight shut down this way okay okay we're about to get on the train we don't really have
48:52enough budget to comfortably do double deposits no given how many stations we're about to pass
48:56through no should we just do minimum positive on this route i think minimum deposits i think
49:01middle way along more standing room yeah this this feels luxurious yeah the whole like three square
49:12feet to yourself yeah we have an hour on this about an hour yeah settle in
49:30and what are they up to are they still just waiting at taichung station they're going north
49:36are they not going to that challenge that's right next to them no that's crazy i bet they'll stop and
49:42cinch you and then do the steal there's a ton of stuff around taipei now so yeah okay well we're
49:49coming
49:49up on it here i think the pin is in front of that yeah that looks awesome hi everybody we
49:56have
49:56made it to the site of this challenge um and we have the envelope here adam would you like to
49:59do the
50:00honors i'd love to i've been reading all these envelopes estimate monkey mountain
50:11see a predictable number of monkeys you are now at the base of shoshan otherwise known as monkey
50:17mountain you have 40 minutes to ascend and explore the mountain and you can earn two chips per monkey
50:23spotted but you must call your shot before you begin your ascent research is permitted if you fail
50:28to spot as many monkeys as predicted you earn nothing and this challenge has failed two coins per monkey
50:34monkeys that seems low to me that suggests that we would see a lot of right that implies to me
50:42that
50:42there must be a lot of it says we're free to research what what it sounds like is that it's
50:47a
50:47hiking trail and there's where you see the monkeys i'm just cool i'm i'm looking up monkey monkeys of
50:55the monkey mountain okay i'm looking at a video i'm seeing all kinds of monkeys dude look at how many
51:01monkeys people like clipping their monkey highlights well but look just in this shot there's like 12 monkeys
51:07so it seems possible maybe there's a ton i think that we have the opportunity here
51:13to go big i am willing to take the risk because i i do think that it like doesn't really
51:18make sense
51:19to guess like 20. no because i think that it's just as likely that we see you know 40. 40.
51:26right and just
51:27as likely that we see none i think we should say 40 and we should hurry up because we want
51:32to get a train
51:33out of here and not too long okay 40 is the number that they like use in the bible to
51:37be like a lot
51:38it's true that's them being like a bajillion all right listen we are calling our shot
51:44we are going to see at least 40 monkeys our shot has been called
51:53hi there and thank you so much for watching on freaking nebula if you watch on nebula it means that
51:59we actually can keep uh making the show it's actually very important to us and that's why
52:03we're here to thank you how many monkeys do you think they're going to be 100 million thousand that
52:08that's not even a real number no there's going to be two you're hey you're cooked okay uh layover
52:15podcast you should listen to it because i'm going to talk about how cooked they're going to be on monkey
52:18mountain and a bunch of other stuff i think it's really interesting because there's always so much
52:23that doesn't make it into the episode and we like to discuss and so much going on in our minds
52:27uh i would say a lot in this season definitely a lot in this season yeah a lot of that
52:32strat yeah
52:33so go listen to that exclusive to you on nebula it's available to you already then what else should
52:37they watch or listen to i would recommend going to check out lindsey ellis's newest uh video essay
52:44about um about south park about like the media ethics of south park very great nostalgic uh video
52:51essay very funny very interesting um yeah if you like a video essay no one does it like lindsey so
52:57go check that out also on nebula while you're here thanks for watching on nebula bye bye
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