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Hello, welcome to another episode of the Trash Taste Podcast. I'm your host Joey, and I'm with the boys as per usual, but we're in a different location! Where are we? We're back in England, baby! Let's go! We're back in the UK! Very gracious of the sidemen to let us take over their set today. Yeah. Thank you. We've got these nice little sidemen. Yeah.

Why don't we have branded cushions? Look at that. We need branded cushions. Every time I go to a different YouTuber studio, I'm like, God damn, everyone has so much space. Yeah, it's like our studio is shit. But we just finished our European tour. Yeah. Yeah. God damn. Yesterday. Yesterday. Literally yesterday. So literally the grind doesn't stop. We finished nine shows and then we're like, let's record a bunch of podcast episodes because we have not had enough of talking. Yeah. Right.

Was it nine shows or ten shows? It was nine shows. Oh, shit. Yeah, nine shows were done. Yeah.

But unlike the America tour, it was way... Would you say it was more intense or less intense? It was more and less intense at the same time. And unfortunately, we don't have a beer on us, so we can only cheers with our drinks. But cheers to another tour over, guys. But yeah, in the America tour, we had, I think, 24 shows in six weeks. Six or seven weeks.

And in this tour, we had nine shows in about a week and a half. So technically it was more intense, but I think just because it was like a way shorter time, it felt less intense overall. Yeah, I think because like near the second half of the tour, we got a lot of questions being like, oh, you know, we saw the schedule. Like you guys did like six shows in a row in six days in five different countries. Does that not just like fuck you up? And like, I don't know.

because we did three shows in a row for the America tour, right? Like, right near the end. And I felt dead after the third one. Yeah, that fucked us up. So I was dreading the six days in a row thing. I was just like, oh, God, I'm going to be dead by the end of it. But weirdly enough, it wasn't that bad. No, I don't know why. I mean, I think the reason why is because America all looks the same. And...

It was fucking my head up when I would travel 15 hours and it looked exactly the same. It looked exactly the same. A lot of the middle America looks so similar. That is true. I think just waking up in a new kind of

every time. It's like, wow, cool. Yeah, and a lot of the countries were all about first time, right? So it was a little bit more exciting, I feel. Yeah, and like, I think like comparing to some of the American cities that we went to, we went to some amazing American cities. And then we also went to fucking Ohio as well. There's no Ohio's on this. Yeah, there is a big difference between waking up and being like, oh, I'm in Amsterdam today. Oh, wait, Copenhagen, Stockholm. And then waking up and seeing a COD zombie map. And I'm like, oh, we are...

- Yeah. - Okay. - I'm celebrating my birthday here. - Yeah, yeah. So the vibe was just very different just because every city, every country was just a different culture. We tried different foods every day. - Yeah. - So that's enough of a being nice. We got to tier list the countries now. - Tier list the countries? - Tier list the countries. - Let's- - All right, racism speed. - All right. - So what we found out, gladly, let's just get this out.

France is the Ohio of Europe. That is something that we have found out. I'm so glad because I thought it was going to be the UK. Funnily enough, not many countries clowned on the UK. Yeah, for context, at the show, we asked the audience to name a country in Europe they would not like to be isekai to. Yeah. France was generally number one.

There's only a few exceptions, like when Sweden and Denmark wanted to beef it out. But everyone pretty much said France all the time, which I was proud of. See, because as someone who's not from Europe, I didn't know that as just a thing. Well, do Australians like French people? Do you have any opinions on them? Not really. Not really, because it's just so far away where it's like, I mean, you're never going to interact with like,

French people from France in Australia maybe every now and then so it's like I don't know we're too busy beefing with New Zealand yeah I was gonna ask if we do a show in Australia do you guys think you'd put New Zealand on there? Oh 100% I would be shocked if New Zealand is not at least in the top 3 or fucking Tasmania or something hey I don't know I've never been to Tasmania might be nice who knows I'm not gonna jump to conclusions there tier list food ratings

European food rating. All right. Fucking Denmark hot dogs changed my life, man. I went to like spend six weeks in America. I think I had one hot dog and I was satisfied. I had two days in Denmark. I had four hot dogs and that was not enough for me. I had four hot dogs. I had two. Wow. I love sausages. Yeah, it was definitely a sleeper hit. I mean, I'd never heard of

people saying that hot dogs in Denmark are good. No, no. But then apparently all Danish people were like, yeah, hot dogs are good. Yeah. But why aren't they like flaunting it more? Well, because I think it's someone saying it's owned by the government or something. Yeah, it's government subsidized, right? Or like the quality is controlled by the government or something. Which is so big

Yeah, so cuz all the hot dogs are just great Yeah fucking good and they had like the you had like different toppings on it as well So you could basically build your own hot dogs with some of these stands and so many of these stands So there wasn't really like a hot dog kind of like brands that you buy there most of them were like I think it was a brand

Was it? Well, there were brands, but a lot of them, there were just a lot of independent sellers as well. And like some of the hot dog stands had just like homemade sauces and all of them were just godlike. Dude, I knew it was going to be goaded because the first hot dog we had was the airport hot dog. Yeah. And like normally airport food, you're kind of just like,

give or take but we had it and we were just like oh my god it was just a big brain idea I've never seen an airport do this in Denmark as you're waiting for your bags there's just tons of food and drink places literally like 10 meters from where you get the bags why do airports not do that

because they want to make you feel like shit yeah clearly i don't know maybe there's some some weird rules around selling it at the baggage i don't fucking know because no one no one does this no i've never seen like it was because i wasn't gonna have a hot dog uh because i wasn't even hungry uh then we were just waiting for baggage and i think our bags were late and then i think it was one of you two that was just like i'm gonna get a hot dog yeah i'm like all right you know you you know i've been to america i've had hot dogs before i don't i don't want a hot dog in

Denmark? Ew. And then I saw the hot dog and it was the fattest looking hot dog I've ever seen with all these different kinds of toppings. It was a lazy Max. Trest taste conversation. Fucking 10 minutes gushing over a hot dog. It is really good. I do recommend it. I mean, Copenhagen is renowned for having some of the best food in the world. Yeah.

but my God, that glizzy's gotta be up there. - Yeah. - Oh, 100%. - And do you know what sold me? Do you know the biggest thing that sold me? - What? - The hot dog was like twice the size of the bun. You know, sometimes you have a hot dog and it's just a fucking tiny ass hot dog with all bun. - Controversial opinion, I kinda like it when the hot dog fits the bun. - Oh, fuck off. - Why is that bad? Why is that bad?

If I had to choose I would definitely choose the more sauce. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah You gotta have a few bites with just the dog and then the dog a little bit of like tip There's no way you can source it and it'll be stabilized on the hot dog because I want to taste like a little bit of like what the hot dog tastes by itself, you know, I want to have the taste of the meat and then you have like the combination afterwards and

And then you end up with a bit of- You just don't like bread, so- Actually, well, I've been on a fucking bread, uh, odyssey on this Europe trip, so in every single show, I got asked the question, "Sagan, has your opinion on bread changed?" Yeah. And, uh, I can confirm that, uh, bread does taste different, guys. What can I say? Wow, they've got a revelation. What bugged me, Garnt, is that you were coping and you were like, "We shouldn't have good bread in the UK." I was like, "No,

We don't. Okay, I stick by that. We do. I stick by that. You just never looked for it, Garnt. Well, well, well.

Like listen, it's okay. It's okay. It's not easily accessible. I go to the fucking Tesco's I go to the Sainsbury's and it's all the fucking same fucking friends. It doesn't exist. It's like going to fucking 7-Eleven in America and being like, why is there no fresh food? You go into fucking Europe and you trip over like a bakery every time. You go into a restaurant and they give you like a basket of bread every fucking time. Would you get that in fucking spoons? No, you don't. That's the

point, right? It's just not as like easily. It's not as like common, but we have it. It's there, Garnt. I'm sure we have it, but like, that's like saying, okay, yeah, I want to find a good Italian restaurant. You have to search up Italian food, you know, that doesn't mean it's like Wait, what?

- Can you believe I have to look up a restaurant? - No, if you want like good food that is not from like your cuisine, then you have to like look up a restaurant that's not only does the cuisine, but does it well, right? In the UK, it's just like, it's just harder to find access to good bread and the most mass produced bread. It's just the same old fucking white bread.

- Okay, okay. Okay, that's absolutely not. Absolutely not. - Oh, we actually have a tier list. - Yeah, we have a tier list. - That's so handy. Oh wow, we have them already. Okay, this is actually super helpful. - Okay, so let's start from the top actually. So the first stop was Ireland. - First stop was Ireland. - Okay, we have Ireland there. - Yeah. - Ireland was solid.

I think... Which is like the nicest thing I can say without talking shit. You know, I really, really fucking love Ireland. Yeah. I do think Dublin is the... I wouldn't even say like the worst place, just like the weakest place that Ireland has. Really? Because you go outside of Dublin and everything's fucking beautiful. And you go to Dublin and it's just like, oh, what's there to do there? There's the Guinness factory and there's a whiskey tasting. Yeah, I will say...

I've never seen a higher concentration of white Americans than in the Dublin tour. I think I saw more Americans in Dublin than I think Irish people in Dublin. I'd never, yeah, I can't even imagine, maybe like the Daytona 500 is where you would see that many other white people, but it was insane. It was, the entire Guinness tour was just Americans. Really? Yeah. And actually, to be fair, one thing that we learned while we were in Dublin is that apparently they're like, they're obsessed with Chinese food. Like,

Like, Ireland has an obsession with, like, their version of Chinese food. Yeah. Because John took us to some Chinese food. And it was good, but I don't think it stood out compared to the other countries you went to. Dog, I ain't going all the way to Dublin to eat Chinese food. That's just not how that works, in my mind. I think Ireland could go in...

Oh, God. Oh, yeah, Spice Bag. That's like a comment. We didn't even have to try that. We didn't know that was a... I don't know if it's a Dublin special or an Ireland special. If Ireland's food was not compared to the other countries that we're talking with here, it would be a solid... It would hire. But I think because we have these other countries, we need to thin out this tier list. I'm going to say C tier.

Sea tier? Are we talking about just the food or? Just the food only. Oh, just the food. Vibes don't count. Vibes don't count. No, because then that's a tier list in countries and that feels weirder. Racism speed. I think we do the food and I think Ireland is a solid C. I think Irish people will agree because unless we're counting Guinness as food. I mean, it's liquid food. That's for sure. I mean, I will say B.

just for the Guinness alone. I had too much fucking Guinness. Yeah, I'm going to rate the Guinness and I'm going to put it in a B. Guinness counts as a meal, right? That's definitely a meal. 100%, that's a meal. Okay. Our second show was in Copenhagen in Denmark. Are we basing that just off the hot dogs? Yes, the hot dogs were that. The hot dogs were that OP. A triple S tier. We also had...

Thai food Which actually was some of the best Thai food I've had not in Thailand. That was insane. Yeah wholesome I was like can you can you can you talk to them? I think that the woman over there is Thai

Yeah. No, because you don't understand, right? When you go to a restaurant that is Thai outside of Thailand and the staff are Thai, if they know that one of you speaks Thai, it's just a different restaurant. Yeah. It's just a different meal. And so I think this is... I think anyone from, like, Southeast Asia or maybe even, like, the South American countries can, like, relate to this. But so, you know, the person running the restaurant was kind of like a Thai auntie kind of thing, you know? You know, she was, you know, obviously an older Thai woman. And, you know...

We come in, we start off speaking English, you know, she gives us the normal treatment. And then as soon as I start speaking Thai, she goes on full auntie mode. All right. She, she, and because I was, I asked her in Thai, yo, I'm looking to, you know, show my friends some good Thai food. Do you like, I was thinking of ordering this, this, this. And she goes, okay, one thing about Thai,

especially Southeast Asian aunties. Anyone who's been to a family gathering knows the men don't run ship. It is the aunties that call the shots, okay? You might think the men run things in Southeast Asia. No, once the aunties want to do something, they are getting it done. They're the secret maids.

Yeah, they are the secret mafia boss. So I was like, I'm thinking you're ordering this, this, this. And she goes, no, no, no, no, no. I'll order for you. You need this, this, this, this, and this. It was all really good. Yeah, yeah. And it was insane. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We also had, went to some other kind of, I think we went to like a Danish restaurant where it was like lamb. Yeah, that's right. Some other stuff. It was pretty good. I honestly, you guys said S tier. I think hot dogs are carrying it, but I think it's A. I think it's A tier. Nah.

The hot dogs are S tier. 100% agree if we have a separate category for hot dogs. Oh, no, man. That lamb was pretty dope. It was good, but I feel like we had better meals. Really? We didn't all share the same meals, though, as well. That is true. That is true. No, I still think it's S tier. I'm still sticking with S tier. I'm sticking with S tier. You may say the hot dogs are carrying, but I'm happy for hot dogs to solo carry. Those hot dogs are life-changing. I cannot have an American hot dog ever.

Ever again. Because I'm just going to be thinking how much better the Danish hot dogs are. Listen, I think the Costco hot dog has a soft spot in my heart. Get the fuck out of here, dude. It's $1.50. What the fuck?

Are you saying the Costco hot dogs are better than the Danish glizzies? I did not say that. I said I had a soft spot in my heart because they're cheap, affordable, and they're great. I can't go back, man. Question then. Did you have a better meal than in Denmark? Don't tell me where, but do you think you had a meal that was better than Denmark? Because we don't have too many S-Tiers. A meal that was better than Denmark? In your head. For you, Joey.

No, okay gone. I have one that was equal and

Okay, I know which one it is. Okay, yeah, yeah. We both know which one it is. After Denmark, you went to Amsterdam, right? Yeah. Look at that beautiful glizzy. Look at that. Look how long that is. $1.50 for all that? That's too much bun, bro. Too much bun. That looks like it's a $1.50 hot dog, man. Come on. Where are the toppings, man? That looks naked compared to some of the Danish. There is a topping station, Garnt. Did you know that if the hot dog Costco had closed,

gone with inflation, as in, like, when it was originally priced at $1.50, it should be, like, $4.50-something. Yeah, didn't the Costco hot dog go up in price at one point? No, no, no. The CEO or the COO or one of them was in a meeting and was like...

I will kill you if you raise the price of the hot dogs. It was great. He was like, you will not raise, because they lose money on the hot dogs. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is, which I just love that, that they're like, we're making so much money. They're just, they're making so much money at other places, like, we cannot raise this fucking hot dog price. There will be a

public outrage. No, because what I would like about the Danish hot dogs is that there's not just one. You have like so many different varieties as well. You have some of the spicy hot dogs, the bacon-wrapped hot dogs, you know, the usual hot dogs as well, the thin hot dogs. There's just so much choice. I don't know how this is even an argument. Look at this. It's such value that you get with the Costco hot dogs. How can you bet again? $4 it should cost. It hasn't changed since the 80s.

No. That's crazy. Isn't that crazy? That's fucking wild. 40 years of value. Goddamn. That's just beaten inflation. Yeah. Just absolute, you know. I mean, I think that them keeping that price at $1.50 has done more good PR for Costco than anything else. Oh, 100%. Okay. Okay. So after that, we went to Amsterdam. Well, Rotterdam and then Amsterdam. Yeah. So this is a little bit biased because this is the only country where we did two shows in. I don't remember the meals I had.

Yeah. Actually, no. You know what? Despite the French, best croissant of my life, I had it. Really? In Amsterdam. Yeah, actually, I agree. It was serious shit because we were sitting down at the cafe and we could smell the croissants and we were like, oh, can we get one of those? She's like, oh, it takes 30 minutes. It's baked to order. Yeah. And I was like, okay. Jesus Christ. Let's do it. I had...

the best, I can't remember what it's called. What's the one where it's like a poached egg and hollandaise sauce? Eggs Benedict. Eggs Benedict. I had the best, best Eggs Benedict of my life. Really? In Amsterdam. Yeah. There's one core memory I have for it though. I'm calling you out, Naby. Naby, we were in the, we were in this cafe, right? Yeah. And it was kind of, it was kind of slow. Uh,

And there's like one thing you can never do in European restaurants. You cannot do this. Which you do do in Japanese restaurants. So we're sitting down and, you know, I was on a bit of a time crunch and we were just kind of trying to get their attention. And then Debbie goes from across the restaurant and goes, excuse me.

And you can see me and Connor just recoil into our seats like this. It was only made worse by the fact that she goes, yes, I'm coming. I was like, no, no.

No, you can't do that. You can't do that. At most, you can do the half hand raise. The way we do it in Europe is you awkwardly wait for eye contact and you're just like, excuse me. It's a very inefficient system. We could do with a sumo, Sam, but I think people would abuse it.

Yeah, that's true. But I think the croissants would help. Okay, I've been to France a lot. That was the best croissant I've ever had in my life. Okay, not going to lie, I don't remember a single meal. Are you rating it C tier then or B tier? Like, I can't even rate it. I don't remember anything I ate. I had something called wild beer. What? Wild beer. I went to this...

I thought it was for food, but I guess it was beer. And I kind of felt pressured into getting a beer because the guy was like, we don't have anything but beer. I was like, okay.

It was a cafe, so I was like okay. Is your coffee's like no just beer And he he's like do you want something basic? He said the word basic. Okay? Do you want something interesting so yeah? It's I guess it's kind of like this. Yeah, it's Pulling it up now. It's like this. It wasn't like a brand It was like a style of beer and I knew it was kind of weird when he brought out a glass bottle and had a cork in it and

What? And he uncorked the beer and it tastes like wine and it was like 9% and it was extremely sour. I remember you talking about this. Yeah, he was trying to explain to me what it was and I couldn't for the life of you tell me. It sounded like he was like, yeah, we just throw it in the casket and then we open it up and then figure it out. That's wild looking. This episode is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Going online without ExpressVPN is like not having a case on your phone.

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It was, yeah, he said it was like they have it in like a keg and they bottle it and put it in a cork. It was so interesting. I do remember, actually, it's not a meal, but I do remember a core memory. Because we went to McDonald's. What?

That's the one meal I remember. You went to Amsterdam and you're like, I'm going to try the peak. You're saying that? You can't now put them low? Because then it'll seem like you just copped out. I'm not saying anything. It's up to you guys. But the one cool memory I had was me and a bunch of the crew. And we were like, you know what? Let's just go get something really quick. Because we're not even that hungry. Just a quick bite to eat. We saw a McDonald's. It was five minutes down the road.

And obviously, you know, because it's Amsterdam, right? Like, every street has bike lanes and everyone's biking everywhere. Yep. And I don't know what these, like, kids' problems were, but there were two kids on bikes that were just, like, constantly circling the block that we were on. And then, out of nowhere, they just threw, like, a Twix bar at us. What? What?

Like, straight up, like, this kid on a bike had, like, I don't know if he had, like, a box of Twix or something, like, in his backpack, but he just, like, pulled one out and just pegged it at us. Hit Sarah on the head, our VIP manager, on the head. And then Mike and Guy, our staff, were just like, I'm gonna fucking kill those kids.

And yeah, that's the only thing I remember about Amsterdam. That's funny because when we were in Copenhagen, it's funny that, you know, generally Danish people seem pretty chill. They were like very, very polite and chill. One of like the politest shows we've had, which doesn't say much about Europe because everyone there is polite. And everyone's chill. Except when you fuck up on the bike lane.

If you don't know the exact bike etiquette, I've never had so much abuse thrown at me just by passing cyclists. And they do it in such a calm demeanor as well. It's never like a shout or like a

big exaggeration it's just you know if like I had that once where like I almost fucking ran into another cyclist because I didn't realize that oh there's red lights for bikes yeah in Denmark and I didn't see that I ran through almost hit a guy and as I was passing through him in the calmest voice he was just like what the fuck

I was just like, oh, I feel so bad. I'm sorry. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, I didn't know you were meant to do, like, this when you were, like, stopping as well. So, when you're about to, like, stop. Or, like, doing this when you, like, turn, right? Yeah, so when you're about to stop. So, I just, like, slowly slowed down, right? And I thought that was, like, the head skirt. Just, like, don't stop immediately. Just, like, slow down and come to a stop. And then, as I do, I haven't...

And older Dutch women just like cycle past me and just go, asshole. I'm like, whoa, what? It's just...

It's because they're so chill it feels so bad. I know, I know. Yeah, it's the chill way they say it, you know? If they shout it at me, I'll just be like, oh, okay. It's the passive aggressiveness. Yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. All right, well, I have no room to rate Netherlands food because I had McDonald's, so what do you guys think? I'm purely not remembering anything other than the croissant. I'm just going to put it in C just because something needs to go in C. All right. Do you agree with that, Gont?

No, like I said, best eggs Benedict I've had. Okay, fine. We'll bump it a B. I'll agree on a B. I don't know. It feels bad putting anything in like B tier. Listen, this is in reference. I mean, we have to thin this out because we can't just put everything in S and X as a cop-out.

Yeah, you know as much as we you guys big up the leek soup, right? Yeah, we better breathe goes hard beating it to eat that that's fine Okay, so after that was Sweden Sweden that was by far Esther Esther. Yes. Yeah. Yeah, we okay. Here's what I did. I

We got there and I messaged Felix. I was like, where do I go? Because Felix is not from Stockholm, but he's been there. He's from Gothenburg, yeah. Yeah, and he was like...

I was like, is there one spot I gotta go eat? And so he sent me this restaurant. He was like, yeah, this is where I would go to eat if I was in Stockholm. Okay. And I went there and it was insane. It was so good. Yeah, the meatballs, right? Oh my God. Oh my God. I'm sad I didn't get to try the meatballs. Yeah, I had two life-changing meals here. One was in Denmark and one was in Sweden. Meatballs and hot dogs. Yeah, meatballs and hot dogs. Literally,

You know when you have one of those meals where you're like, I'm going to remember this meal for the rest of my life? It's called Memory Unlocked. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That happened twice on this tour. I have never personally been a big meatballs person. Nor have I. Me neither. Generally, they're pretty average for me. But my God, these were just...

These were just another level. Yeah. Insane. Me and Connor ordered one to share between us and I wish we'd ordered like one each. Yeah. It was... Because we bought... We got like three menu items. They were all pretty good, but the meatballs were just... And then, dude, I had like a dessert. I got like apple pie. Best apple pie of my life. Yeah. Hands down. I had...

another gluesy. Fuck's sake, Joe. Did you only get fucking hot dogs at McDonald's? And honestly, Swedish hot dogs also goaded. You try to make this the American tour. How do they compare to the... Okay, so unlike in Denmark, right, where, like, you know, you have, like, a shitload of toppings you can put on it to add, like, that much more flavor, the Swedish hot dogs are just, like...

your bog standard like you know ketchup mustard and you talk and you talk about the costco the fattest fucking glizzy i've seen in my life like this guy was girthy as fuck with a tiny tiny bun

Really cheap as well. And yeah, it was fucking great. Loved it. I knew the restaurant was going to be good. Then when I walked in, I did not see a single person under 40 in the restaurant. Yeah. I was just like, oh, this seems like a place Felix would go to. Yeah, yeah. But yeah, I mean, it was, I will never forget. What the fuck is this? What?

Thank you for sharing this. Yeah, it was about that. But yeah, I mean, like, I'm going to remember the first time I had a Danish hot dog. And now I'm going to remember the very first time I had a Swedish meatball. Because every time I have a meatball afterwards, I'm going to compare it to that one. And I don't think it's ever going to match up, honestly. Like, it was like the first time I had Tsukiman.

It was just like on that level of just like core memory. I want to cry because this meal is so fucking good and I feel like I'm unlocking new taste buds now. Yeah, it was insane. I have nothing bad to say about the meals I had in Sweden. Actually, we should preface so that we can give ourselves some kind of

out here if people disagree with our takes. We should be like, these are based on just the meals we had, not the entire cuisine. Yeah, absolutely. So, you know, unfortunately this is going to be based on pure gatchalock on whether we went to a good restaurant or not. So if you're from this country, don't be offended. Wales is on this list, I'm sure. It won't get rated highly, so I'll be sad. After that was Oslo, Norway.

Which I booked me and Garnt a nice restaurant for lunch. And it's pretty good. It was like, how do I describe it? It tasted very healthy, is what I would say. What did you get? It was like a sharing experience or something. We had some veal. We had beets. Yeah, that was amazing. We had like red beets on...

Toast? With some special sauce? With like sauce and some onions. And it sounds so not exciting, but it was really, really good. It was the star of the entire, like everything that we got given. Yeah. We had sour, it was like sour cream with some really nice flatbread. Yeah. Uh,

and cauliflower wings. So they were like cauliflower that were cooked like chicken wings. It was a solid meal. I think it was not as good as Sweden and Denmark, but I think it was better for me than Ireland and Netherlands. So I think I'd put it A, personally. A too?

- Yeah, I wouldn't disagree with that. - Unless you think B. - Yeah, I think B. - You think B? - Yeah. - What did you, what did you eat in Norway? - Honestly, if it was up to me, I would rate Netherlands A. - Really? - Like, I thought it was less impressive than the croissant and the Benedict cycle. - We gotta figure this out. - Okay, Joe, what did you eat in Norway?

- Dead ass don't remember. - For fuck sake James. - 'Cause like we got, 'cause like this- - Joey's just like- - Okay, because this was during the time where- - I had a hot dog actually. - Let me guess, let me guess, a burger or a pizza. - I think I'm actually- - No, you had noodles. - Did I have noodles? - We had noodles.

Oh yeah, in the green room. That was in the show though. Yeah, that was in the show. I don't really count that. That was like takeaway. See, but that's the problem, right? Is that this was like right in the middle of that six show like streak. And so we were constantly just on this like grind of like, okay, you know, fucking get to the destination, immediately start, you know, go to the venue, try and walk around for a little bit to see at least a little bit of the city. And then if you have time, you might have something to eat. See, this is where the difference in priority lies. Joey just wanted to explore like the city and stuff. Me and Connor are like, all right, we need a good meal.

Where we want to try the local cuisine. I clown on the French, but I think there's one part of me that is French, and it's the fact that no matter where I went, I was like, I want a fucking three-course meal. I was like, I got one hour. We can make it work. I just wanted to see the city. I was like, what's the highest-rated restaurant that's near a walking distance and is also part of the local cuisine? All right, we're going there. We're going there. That was my experience of every country. Yeah, pretty much would squeeze in...

lunch like meal because I thought in my head the way that I judge if I want to come back to a country is like do I have did I have like amazing restaurant experiences because that then makes me think oh there's so much good food that I can get excited for so I really wanted to just try some really good food in each country so that I could think okay when I come back

I know that there's like at least one good place that I like and that I'm sure is reflective of the culinary experience. - Yeah, I think this really shows like our differences in how we treat like visiting a place. 'Cause like I'm much more focused on like sightseeing and just like getting the vibe of the actual

like city or wherever I am and like the food is for me is kind of just like optional nah that's like the stuff if I'm going sightseeing I need a nice meal at the end of the sightseeing it's like when people go to Japan and they're like oh yeah I'm just gonna eat the family mart sandwiches I'm like at least get the onigiri like come on man like at least try yeah yeah

Okay, so what? You guys both think B then? If it were up to me, Netherlands would be A and Norway would be B. I'm going to say... Oh, man. Okay, well... Okay, okay. How should we do this? Maybe on the record, I'm saying Norway is A, but fine, we can put it in B. Yeah, we'll put Norway in B. Yeah. All right. All right. After that was Germany. Which leads us to Germany. Berlin. Berlin.

The fucking Wiener Schnitzel I had was so good. Was it that good? I really liked it. But then again, I'm a sucker for Wiener Schnitzel. I'm also easy to please with German food. All right. So I got to say, I really, really fucking enjoyed the Germany show. I really felt like for once I connected with the Germans.

You know, like... How so? I was just like, you know what? Your bread actually fucking goaded. I felt like I was on a new character arc. And I got a really good reception at the German show, which was surprising to me. It felt like... It wasn't quite the public mascot we were intending. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I felt like... What's the word I'm looking for? Um...

Not rehabilitation, but... What's rehabilitation? Yeah, it was kind of rehabilitation. They gave me a standing ovation when I said, bread is good. I was like, wow. Standard German behaviour. I don't know, redemption. It felt like, you know, I had a little redemption arc to the Germans.

Which pains me to say that I'm about to make an enemy of the Germans again. No. Because I just had a redemption arc, and I gotta say, so I didn't just spend a day in Berlin, I spent like five days in Cologne as well, trying as much German cuisine as I could. Sure.

I think British cuisine is better. - Ain't no fucking way. - I think British cuisine is better than German cuisine. - I genuinely, I- - Wait, did you say that on the Germany show? - No.

Yeah, good. You would have been murdered. You would have absolutely been murdered. Okay, before I judge you, what are your reasonings? What are my reasonings? Okay, so a lot of dishes kind of feel similar to like British cuisine. And when I had like a German like dish, something like schnitzel, for example, I would just, I was just like...

I'd rather have fish and chips, you know? I'd rather have like a good fish and chips. The schnitzel was fine. It was fine. I'd rather have fish and chips, you know? That's fair. I think Germany, I like it and I like the food. I'm blinded by the bread and the, like, just a press. Yeah, okay. So when I say cuisine, you guys beat us in beer and bread. That's not even a fucking argument.

But in just like the dishes, the traditional German dishes that you had, I was just like, you know what? I think there's more in British cuisine, you know? I think a lot of people clown on British cuisine and I've had enough because now that I've been abroad, I'm like, you know what? I actually think I like British food more as well. I mean, I think on average... Yes! Yes! Let's go! I think just because...

Like, so many meals in Germany, I'll get thing... I'll get, like, a dish. Yeah. And I'll only, like, the main part of the dish. Yeah. And everything around it, I'm like, I don't really... Yeah. I don't really care. I mean... I had a currywurst, and it was probably the worst currywurst I've had in Germany. I've had two currywursts in Germany, and I'm like, this...

I mean, this is your strongest curry? This is your strongest fighter? Really? I'm also just not a fan of like boiled potatoes. And there's so many times you get boiled potatoes with stuff in it. What the fuck do you mean? Boiled potatoes is in UK as well. Not often. We normally get the chips. We have roasted potatoes though, which is so much better. Roasted potatoes are better. You have the crisp, fluffy, you have the crisp outside.

You got the rosemary and the fluffy inside as well. That being said, I think it was probably the weakest meal of the tour we had because I think we just didn't go to the best spot. We went to a beer garden and I felt like it was just overly touristy and it was just... I don't think it was great food.

I liked it. I know you liked it. The beer was great, though. The beer was great. The beer was great. I really liked it. And it was like the Berlin beer, which is like one of the, I think, worst ones. And it was still pretty good. Yeah, the weakest beer was still better than any beers you can get in England. I will say that. It does feel like they put all the points in bread and beer, which are essentially just different forms of each other. Bro, I'm not complaining. Dude, don't get me wrong. I could live off bread and beer. That's like half the British diet. I know you couldn't.

I couldn't. And I'd be, I'd be very happy. But I think on average, like I would, I mean, what even is British? British food is so fucking weird. British food is not even a food anymore. It's like a conglomeration of things. Well, that's why I'm fucking holding up the fact you guys rate that higher than the German food. I think British food is a thing. It's like a combination of like a lot of things. I think, uh,

Uh, it's very, like, when people think British food, they think, like, fucking fish and chips. I like fish and chips. What else do you think when you think British food, actually? Actually, from someone not from England, what do you think when you think British food? Fish and chips. Toast sandwich. Toast sandwich.

Beans. Okay, actually, beans are goated, all right? Let's not shit-talk the beans here, Joey. I'm not shit-talking the beans. It's just the first three things I think of here. Our American tour manager came to the UK, and they had an English breakfast. And she shared as the... I was like, can I see a picture of it? And the sausage looked mummified. It looked like it had been dried for years. And I think they had, like, eggs. It looked awful. It just looked terrible. She was like, it's good. I was like, this looks fucking horrible.

Horrible. Yeah, it was a nightmare. See, it's easy to just post a picture of like a shitty British meal and be like, haha, the British have no taste. But, you know, I think, you know, now that, you know, traveling around, I really rate our fucking pasties and I think our savory pastries. To be fair, yes, I do rate that. Fucking anything you can get in Greggs, man. How does that always happen? We talk about Germany, it comes back to the UK. Exactly.

Let's go back to Germany. Let's rate Germany. Well, the UK is after Germany. Okay, so are we putting Germany in C tier or D tier? What do you want? The hell no, bro. What the fuck? I was thinking A tier. Oh, hell no. I'm based off our meal. Yes. No. No. I'm not. No.

- I am not a standout for Germany. - No, no, no. - Absolutely not. - Ireland, Amsterdam and Norway were better than Germany, the meals we had. - I don't fucking remember anything I had in Amsterdam and Norway. I went to McDonald's. - That's why you don't remember, Joey. - That's your fault. - That is your fault. - All right, so what, C or D, guys?

- Are we gonna put anything in D because- - I don't think I have anything else that would go in D. - No, I'll put it C then. Yeah, I'll put it C. - So D is not being used, is it? - Yeah, I guess D is not being used. I feel wrong to put something in D too. - Put Germany in D for Deutschland. - No. - That's true, that's true. - Put UK in C. - Just to suck. - Deutschland in D, UK in C.

- I mean, I had one of the, I had an amazing curry the other night in London. That was great. - Yeah, I did have a really good spending date in London. - See, we sometimes use the spices that we stole. You know, that's one thing I can tell. - When it counts, you know. - When it counts, you know. - I think,

I honestly, I always have feel like I enjoy my meals in the UK. It's always a solid time. I honestly think that the quality of food in England is very different though. London is different. But, you know, I generally think the quality of food in England has just gone up.

As time's gone by. I just disagree that Irish food was better than stuff in London. Okay, yeah. Actually, I can't say I agree with that. This is why I said Ireland should go and sit. You guys didn't believe me. You just wanted to be nice. You're right. I had Guinness on my mind, you know. Oh, my God. That's my meal. I just wanted to put Guinness on there. Let's be honest. But, yeah. I think that...

Great. I'm going to now make Enemy of the Irish. I think UK food was better than the Ireland food as well. Okay. So where's... Joey, don't look at me like that, Joey. What did you eat in Ireland? I don't know.

I know what you ate. What did I eat in Ireland? Yeah. What did I... Tell me. You ate Nando's. Yeah, fuck yeah. Which doesn't... Which doesn't fucking count. And you know what I had in the UK? Nando's. Nando's. And Greg's? And Greg's. Greg's is British though. Greg's is... Okay, to be fair, you recommended me like the new... So I've had Greg's once before this and it was... I just had like a sausage roll, which is...

Which is good. Which is fine. It's the basic. It's good. But the one you recommended, the fucking beans, cheese, and sausage pasty, was it? That's the one. Yeah. That was bomb. That was so good. That was classic. Yeah. So where's the UK going? I think it's going high C. I think it's... I don't think it's on the same level as other European countries right now, but if we're taking on the Germans and the Irish...

I think we're better. I think we're better and I'm sticking with that and I don't care if that's the hot take of the day but I think UK food should it's not a high tier cuisine I'm not going to call it that but it's definitely not as low as the entire world says it is. You know you think

You know, we got Sunday roasts. We got fucking afternoon tea as well. Also, like, I think full English breakfast pasties. Yeah, we got good sausages here. That's the one. Yeah, I think it's way better than people give it credit for.

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I've never been to India, but out of all the places where I've had Indian food, the UK is normally my favorite place to have it. I mean, that's just like, could be a bad take. I think low B. You think low B? I'll allow it. I'll allow it.

I just, we gotta be higher than that. Hey, let's fucking go. That finishes off with Wales, which is known for having no food normally. Well, yeah. The producers here are probably pretty vocal about their feelings on it. To be fair, the burger I had was pretty fucking lit.

Is it Welsh food? No. Welsh food really struggles to find an identity, I think. What is Welsh food? It's the kindest way I can describe it. It's sheep, or lamb, leek, and cakes, typically. None of which you guys have. Mainly because we were in Cardiff, and Cardiff...

It is like the least Welsh place in Wales. Right. It really did just feel like England 2.0. Yeah. Well, yeah, Cardiff is just an extension of... Because it's so close to England. It's also a major city and historical reason. But I think, I mean, honestly, I don't even think... We had a burger.

We had a burger and a wrap from an African restaurant. I mean, I think it was about the same as Irish, maybe less than Irish food. D? I think the Germans would be so pissed off to have it higher, but I think it's... Yeah, I mean... Let's piss off the Germans. Sure. Higher than D? High D or low C? Low C. Low C? Well, I'm surprised you guys are giving this a low C.

- The producers are in awe. They're like, I can't believe it. - That's our tier list of the meals that we had on our Europe tour. - That was a one hour segment. - Hi Germany. - Germans are frothing at the mouth right now with this one. - My redemption arc lasted about 0.1 seconds. The moment a German disappeared from your line of sight, it's just like, let's talk shit.

Fuck the Germans. Oh my God. Okay, so yeah, I will admit I was wrong about your bread, but I'm sticking with this new take I have. British cuisine? Yeah, British cuisine, uh, solos, German cuisine. That's so unbelievably cap. I can't believe what you just said. Oh my God. How did you guys find the shows? Dude,

Dude, it was crazy because it's like, I think, you know, after we did the America shows, we obviously with an American crowd, right? Like we knew that we're going to be rowdy because they're fucking Americans. Yeah. The Americans will cheer for anything. They will cheer for literally anything. And they did. And so like, you know, our producers were saying like, oh, you know, especially up in like Scandinavia, but a lot of parts of Europe, they might be a little more reserved. So it might be some quieter show. So you're going to maybe...

require a little bit more riling up of the crowd to really get them into the movie. But no, I think just our fans are just fucking wild. Anywhere in the world. So we were warned before by our tour staff that we should expect kind of more of more reserved crowd, especially in the Scandinavian countries where they have this kind of philosophy. I can't remember. I think it's like the law of Jante or something where it's kind of like they have to be

think that they're not better than anyone and be like... Like humble, right? Very humble. They were some of the... Like the European crowd, we did not have a single quiet crowd. No. Everyone was... On average, I think they were louder than the Americans. Yeah. Sorry, Americans. Actually, I think the Europeans were actually louder. I don't know if it's just because they had like one night just to really let loose and let go. I think it's because like, you know, in America, you have such a...

Vast choice of options is like somebody's into more niche hobbies like anime or gaming to kind of have opportunities to really Go to events with like minor people And feel like you're in a comfortable space to like express and you know kind of a little wild and I think Going to Europe and kind of bring this show format and what we talk about we have like a fucking 10-minute segment on hentai and

Like I think like no other show is doing that in Scandinavia and Europe So I think there's like it's kind of like a fun vibe where it's like fuck you I can just fucking like what watch a show from something I would never get to watch I think it's also due to the fact that you know like I think that the main consensus is like oh There's always like tools and like shows and stuff like that in America right? Yeah, that's like the hub to do shows like that. Yeah very rarely do like

you know, YouTubers or like any kind of like stage shows actually do tours in Europe. So like the few times that it does happen, everyone gets hyped up. I know because it's exactly the same in Australia. Right. Like every time I see like a famous artist that's doing like a world tour and they're not stopping in Australia, I'm just like, what the fuck? This is bullshit. But when they do come to Australia, it is hype as shit. So I totally get it.

Yeah, I mean, I also think there's a big drinking culture in Europe as well. Yes. One thing I found funny was when we performed in the Apollo in England, it was the only venue we've ever done where it was contractual for us to take a 20-minute intermission. And you might be wondering, why do we need to take a 20-minute intermission? What's up with that? Why is it on the contract? Well...

It's so that people can go out and buy drinks. That is the most British thing I've ever heard in my life. No, guys, guys, you need to stop the show so people can get more fucking pissed. They need to top up. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They need some time to top up. Yeah, not even Ireland did that. Yeah, not even Ireland did that. But Ireland, they preloaded. So everyone would come in. Yeah.

This one dude rocks up with four Guinnesses, sits down and he's like, I'm ready. I asked him, are they for your mates? He's like, no, for me. I was like, damn, boy's committed. He's

- He's timed it out. It's like the speed run strategy. - Like every 30 minutes. - Yeah, yeah. He had like two in the VIP and then during VIP, he went out and got four. So he had six Guinnesses throughout the entire show. - He did it so elegantly, so I remember he asked his question and then the moment he was finished, he was like, "All right, I'm gonna head out." - Yeah, yeah. - What do you think was the rowdiest crowd? I think also it does, what I realized is that absolutely the day of the week

very much to talk about. If it's a Saturday, obviously it's going to be a lot louder. If it's a Monday, it's going to be a lot quieter. I think the one that sticks out to me the most was probably the Germany show. Germans were rad. I think the one in London obviously had an advantage because it was the biggest show we'd ever done by about 1,500 people, I think. But I think in terms of like...

average person being the loudest. It's probably the Germans. Yeah. So loud. I think Rotterdam was pretty damn loud. Amsterdam was loud. Amsterdam was also loud. They were all fucking loud. Yeah.

Yeah, like we said, we didn't have a quiet show. There was no quiet show. There was loud or fucking you got like... You lost your hearing at the end of the show. That was kind of it. But one thing I liked about our show is that, you know, we do this show and we get to learn a little bit about our countries as well. And I think...

Alex our content producer killed it because of the first game we you know, we had a bunch of questions related Yes, if you see that country in the trash taste America tour that we released it's kind of a similar format, but we changed the first game Yeah to kind of focus more on the place the country that we're in and we found out what people got to patriotic about Yeah, the biggest cheer in the German show was

Was finding out that they have a childhood mascot, which is like a depressed piece of bread. Do you guys remember this? Yeah, I remember this. They lost it. They were wild. They were wild. Or was it burnt dust broad or something? Yeah, burnt dust broad or something like that. They lost it. They fucking lost it. They were like, oh my god!

I've never seen a childhood mascot that looks like that looks like this as well. Of course. It's German. So, of course, it's a piece of bread. It's so hideous. It's the most German looking cartoon character ever. I remember this when I, whenever I was, yeah, look at this.

What a fucking nightmare. I remember that when I, because I used to go to, when I was growing up, my dad worked in Germany a lot. So I'd go to Germany all the time. And I remember whenever we used to go to any of the like middle European countries, they always had the fucking ugliest cartoons. Always the ugliest cartoons. And look at this fucking horrific thing. Yeah.

- Could you imagine looking at this and be like, "Ah yes, my childhood." - The bread with warts. - The bread with warts and a unibrow. - The way that they designed him with the most atrocious eye bags possible. This is a man who's watched NTR and has lived to see another day. Look at that shit. - Oh my God, so gross. - And I found out, as a Brit, what us Brits get the most patriotic about,

It's not football. It's not football. It's when Henry the Hoover got shown on screen and got a standing ovation. I'm gonna get my jacket. Yeah. Dude. Henry the Hoover was just...

what was your reaction to seeing, uh, did you even know what, uh, what Henry was? No. Like when it came up? No, I didn't. Like for one, I'd never seen it before. I think I said in the show, it looks like the fucking thing in Teletubbies that feeds them the custom. Oh, Nunu? Yeah, Nunu. It looks like Nunu. UK icon. But then it was fucking wild because that night when we got back to the hotel, uh,

there was a dude vacuuming and it was fucking Henry and it had the name Henry on it. And I'm just like, Oh my God, this is actually everywhere. If you want a vacuum that doesn't break, you got to get the Henry on. They're like notorious for being like very. Did you, did you guys have a Henry while you were living in here? I did, but then you kind of, this is a good, this is a classic. Yeah.

I love this fucking video. It's such a good video. Yeah. They're notorious for being very good, but they often lose suction after a while. It's the one Hoover you normally see

in every like establishment has one. Most uni halls have one because it's like pretty cheap compared to like other vacuum cleaners as well. And I didn't realize this until going, living outside of the UK that I've only seen it in the UK. And you don't notice it, but once you point it out, you realize, oh, you see Henry-

Everywhere. It's everywhere. Yeah, yeah. It's crazy. Because even like there was a lot of people who went to our show who flew in from abroad or something and they were like, I was so confused and then I saw so many posts and replies to my Twitter thread being like, holy shit, I see Henry in my fucking hotel. Oh my God, he's right there. He follows me. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What the fuck? Look at all the colors you've got. They've got Charles as well. Yeah. Is it Hetty?

His wife? Hettie, yeah. What an awful 80s. Ain't no way. They couldn't think of a better name. Oh my God. Got the whole family. Oh, there is a Harry. Oh my God. I didn't know. Dude, so I was right. Yeah, so. You only ever see the red one.

Yeah, you see the red one. So the question was on the stage of the show, what was the name of this British icon? And for some reason, Joey answers Harry. So I didn't know there was a Harry on there. So technically I got it right. No, no, no, you should Norman.

I was going to say Harry, but I was like, no, that's dumb. Yeah. And we, like, it's so weird finding out about other different cultures as well. We found out that the Dutch have, like, their own tics. They're, like, they...

in school right they you know the teachers don't do like this got a fucking massive cheer but yeah i didn't know they don't have their own like a tick is too much effort apparently it's too little it's too little they needed to really extravagant swirl yeah it looks like a really fancy end sign it's like yeah yeah yeah i can't remember what the exact name of it was um but

But then they also, we also found out about the, yeah, that's it. That's it. The Flourish of Approval. Wow, that's such a nice name. Flourish of Approval. God damn. Yeah, I don't know how this became a thing, but that's very fancy and I left a lot of cool memories. I love how you could Google Dutch tick alternative and it came up with pets.

I just don't like the normal tics. I want alternative tics. I want those Dutch tics. Also, Dutch people, what the fuck is up with your toilets? Why do you- Oh my god, yeah. I didn't come across a Dutch toilet. There was one at the venue. What's a Dutch toilet? Okay, so you know how normally- Yeah, that one.

Yeah, the one on the left. So you know how normally the bowl is kind of like right- The water bowl is right underneath your ass, right? For most normal toilets. Oh, I have seen these before. Dutch toilets, for some reason, it's like right in front of you like this. Yeah. So it's just like a little water slide for your shit. Yeah, so- Is that like a splashback countermeasure? No, no, no. You get splashback. What?

- Because from the shit, because the ceramic is so close to your ass that sometimes you get fucking splashed back if it's not. - No way. - Yeah. - And then when you go to wipe your ass, you have to like make eye contact with your shit. 'Cause it's just right here. - And you have to risk. - Are you above seeing your own shit, Joey?

Um, you know what? I'm good. I don't need it. I don't need to check it. You know, I want to look at it. I don't want to look at it. I want to see if it's healthy. Yeah. So I was, I saw this. I was like, what the fuck? Why, why do you want to inspect your shit? And, uh,

Is it until you inspect your shit? You know, sometimes you need to see it. You gotta see it. I mean, sure, but... Too quick are we to not appreciate the wonders of plumbing and flush it away without a second thought. I usually can gauge if my shit is good while it's coming out. I don't need to see it. Like, you know, sometimes when it's coming out and you're like, oh, this is a bad one.

I don't even need to see it. I know that's a bad one. Yeah. And then sometimes it's so clean, just swish doesn't even touch the room. You know, uh, what else happened in Amsterdam? I feel like there was other stuff that, Oh, you speak of toilets. I went to, um, and when we were in Rotterdam, there's a game, uh, that I've played a bunch. Uh,

called We Were Here or We Were Together or something. I think it's We Were Here. And they have like a bunch of puzzle games and the game devs are in Rotterdam. Right. And so they invited me and Rainhow to go and play the game. So we went to the studio

They were super chill everyone was really nice, and I asked I was like hey, so where's the uh was it was the toilet at and they're like I just got to a natural light. Oh, and don't worry about the what's in there. I was like what what do you mean? Don't worry about it. Okay, so I walk in and I Opened the toilet and I look up and there's a noose hanging from the top of the toilet, and I was like There's a noose a noose on top of the toilet, and I I go outside, and I'm like hey

Hey, so what's the deal with the noose? And they were like, oh, um, crunch time. I was like, man, I know you guys are working for rock star. They said it was a Halloween decoration. And I was like, from like two months earlier or from 10 months ago. So yeah, it was a Halloween decoration, but it was a very funny image. I took a picture. It looks fantastic.

It looks so funny because it's just a toilet with a noose coming down from it. And I was like, wow, that's a... Holy shit. Game devs must be working hard. Crunch time. God damn. It was very funny. But they were all really sweet and that was cool. That's kind of when I like touring the most is when we get to kind of do these cool opportunities that... Because I would never be in Rotterdam. I would never go to Rotterdam otherwise. There's no reason I would ever be there.

Unless I was just there casually and I feel like if I was there casually, I wouldn't mention it, right? I wouldn't make a big deal about it. So it's really cool. That's what I really like about doing the tours. You get to kind of do these really interesting experiences that you never would have the chance to do. Yeah, because like I feel like having, you know, we had sometimes less than a day in the city, but it's weird. Sometimes you just get the vibe of a city and a place. You get a vibe of like if you'd want to come back, you know, like for example, I've...

I could see myself coming back to, I think, like, I think Copenhagen. I really want to come back to Copenhagen to try out all of the hot dogs as well. I think a place like... Mostly the hot dogs. Yeah, I think a place like Oslo, I got the vibe. And if I go back to Norway, I'd rather go far up north. Yeah. You know, rather than going to the city. I think I'd rather explore the rest...

of Norway. Yeah. One place that really stuck out to me was Stockholm just because like I kind of got the chance to actually like go into the city center and like kind of It's very green. It's beautiful. Like very, very traditional like kind of old Europe style. Yeah.

I went to like a bunch of record stores in Stockholm and it was just like the vibe was like perfect for me. And I'm just like, I want to come back here and actually like, you know, maybe go to like, you know, the outskirts of Sweden and stuff like that. Actually go see the countryside. I think it'd be really dope. Also, I don't know if it was just like, uh,

subliminal thing, but for some reason I stepped out of the airport in Stockholm and I'm like, I think this is the cleanest air I've ever breathed in my life in a city. I don't know, it just felt super fucking clean. Don't you have like a super sense for like... No, I think it was something there was some factoid or something that it was like, yeah, Sweden has...

like the greenest cities in the world. It was just clean. Like everything was just so clean and like pristine. And, but like, it's still kind of had that like liveliness of a big city. And it was just, I don't know how they did it, but you guys did it. Yeah. Fun vibe. Yeah. Honestly, we didn't go to a place that was bad. That's all probably because we didn't stop off in Paris, you know? Yes.

So to any French people who went to our shows, we are sorry. But also, you know, we have to play to the crowd. You saw it coming. Come on. Apparently everyone in Europe loves to clown on France. Oh, they love clowning on France. Yeah. Yeah. Especially French cuisine as well.

Yeah, French cuisine, because we have a question in the show that was, we'd ask the audience to fill out a QR code, like in the America Tour. We'd ask them which country has the most overrated cuisine. And without fail, France was number one every single show. It wasn't even close. Yeah, sometimes it was like,

50% of the vote or four times the next one. It was like, it was pretty impressive how universally people agreed that French food was overrated. Do you know what surprised me though? Because we, we, we talk about French food being number one in every show, but I'll tell you what was also in every show. Oh yeah. Italian food being second. Yeah.

Every show, every single European country agreed that Italian food was overrated, which is weird. Yeah, that's a weird take. I've never heard anyone say they thought Italian food was overrated. Yeah. I've never heard that opinion. Like, what about Italian food is overrated? I don't know. Maybe it's because everyone just likes it. Pizza, pasta, overrated. Maybe because it's just...

so you know you can get it anywhere and it's been so commercialized i mean granted you know not every like italian restaurant i've been to has been like fucking 10 out of 10 or anything like sure there's some bad italian restaurants but like i've never thought it to be like overrated yeah no no that's that's a different vibe it is you know i was also impressed by uh we asked the audience as well in every show to name which anime they thought had the worst fandom oh yeah

And I don't know, how do they all just do this? Every single show said My Hero Academia. How do they all know this? Every single one. As number one. I'm just like, how do they all come together and have this all collective experience? Also, almost every single one, second place was One Piece. Not every one, though. Not every one. Almost. Not every one. It was top three. It was always top three. Always top three. That's...

I mean, that didn't surprise me so much. But why is My Hero always... My Hero surprised me the most because I thought everyone thought that most people had just stopped watching My Hero. I thought it had to have a fan base. They definitely are not the most vocal fan base anymore. I'd even say... Yeah, because I was surprised because Demon Slayer never got up there. Demon Slayer never got up there. It's too generic. You know?

You know, like Jujutsu Kaisen never got up there either. Sometimes Fate got up there a few times. SAO got up there a few times. JoJo. Attack on Titan. Wait, there's a subreddit called My Hero Academia Cringe? MHA Cringe. I didn't know this. Yeah, but the entire anime fandom came together to clown on My Hero Academia fans. And God knows they're taking enough L's, guys. Come on. Do we really need to give them another one? The show is already pretty...

rough it's not doing well so bless their hearts what season are we fucking on right now like six or something seven seven seasons we're going on season seven yeah wait really yeah yeah oh my god how is there seven seasons yeah and it sucks because season six was the best season in a long time and then everyone's still clowning on them I was like yikes

Oh man. You hate to see it. You hate to see it. You hate to see it. They're trying their best. But how was it, um, for you guys, you guys got to play in front of, you know, your home crowd, you know, Wales and London. Like how, how was that for you guys? Yeah. Um, I was fucking, so to me, like, I've never seen you that nervous. Uh,

Yeah, I was I wasn't like okay, so there's like two kind of like nervous right? There's one where you're kind of like dreading it and there's one where you just want to do it on there You want to be on there? And you just want it to be the best thing it can be sure I got like the second kind of nervous where I was just like it was my home You know in my home country all of my friends and family were there. I had like I think over

over half of the people that attended my wedding were at this show oh shit um so like so many of my family members were there so i just wanted to get on and make sure that it was like the best that it can be and more importantly that i was like in top form as well uh and yeah i think the london show was fucking incredible but it was surreal like performing in front of friends and family uh

Yeah, I was trying to think back because we like do you guys have a routine when you go on at all? Do you guys have like a way to like mentally prep yourself? Well, you played chess this time. I just sit there. I'm just like, all right. I just try not to talk. Yeah. Because I'm going to talk so much for two hours. Yeah. One thing because one thing I did realize is that talking before the show actually makes it worse for me. Really? You know, I'd rather sit in silence the hour before the show. Yeah.

But when I had like this many friends and family, I was just like, all right, guys, I'm going to talk for five minutes and then I'm going to go. I'm sorry. I need time to like decompress and just like get in like the right mental state before going on stage. But it was also, yeah, because we hadn't seen our friends in so long and they were super excited to talk. I'm fucking honing my chi right now.

It's like fucking sage mode where he has to sit still and not be touched That's like me before going on stage, but it's such a weird Thing to explain to people because I guess if you've never done it you've been on stage before If you ever been on stage, I feel like you probably relate to it. I

Because you just need that you just need to focus. I don't know why yeah You like not think and just just have a blank slate when you go out there. Yeah, you can push everything onto it. Yeah I don't really have like a routine or anything if anything I think sitting in silence for me makes me more nervous. I

Right. Because like, it makes me think about, oh, I have to go on stage. Whereas if I'm talking to someone, just chatting and bantering, then it kind of distracts me from the fact that I need to go on. And so when the time, you know, when it is time to go up on stage, I'm like, oh, okay, it's time.

yeah and then i'm nervous for maybe like you know 30 seconds before we go on and then i'm good yeah but if i sit there in silence and i'm then i'm just gonna be ruminating over the fact that it's like okay i gotta nail this i gotta nail this i gotta make sure this joke hits i gotta make sure this all goes well and it just i think it just adds more pressure yeah in a weird way i don't know it's weird yeah i mean i think what i've you know what you realize that everyone has a different kind of like

approach into especially like a high-pressure moment because I attribute it this is gonna sound like a weird fucking comparison but I attribute it to doing my final exams in uni right okay so like you have like you have like two hours and all of your year has led up to this one moment and you've studied for it hopefully hopefully you've studied for it but you know that the last 10 minutes the

No matter how much you try to cram none of it's gonna stick in so like for me the best thing the best thing I tried to do before going into my final exams was just like fucking chill out and try to calm my mind Yeah, so that was kind of like the same kind of mental state as I had when I was gonna go on stage performing It's like it's like competing if you ever competed anything like and

and you've cared a lot about it. It's that 10 minutes before you have to go and do the match or something. You're like, oh, okay, all right. I've got to hone my energy and I've got to feel like I focus when I get out there. It's kind of like that too. But after a while, I mean, we've done the show

30 plus times now 33 times I feel like I could do it in my sleep yeah I mean definitely like I think now it's just like kind of in our system now where we don't even really think about it anymore you know I feel the show some instances it got a little bit scuffed we got the same thing so yeah how was it for you performing in front of your parents

It was fun. My parents and two of my brothers came to the Dublin show, which was fun. I think they were more excited to go to Dublin than Wales. They didn't come to Wales. They came to Dublin. But actually, it's about the same time to get to each because you can just get the ferry from North Wales over, so it's pretty easy to get there. And I think they all just like going to Ireland. I mean, Ireland's nice. How was it performing in Wales, though?

Wales, it was cool. I mean, the Welsh crowd was definitely... I think it was a Monday. It was definitely some really loud people and then some people who were very quiet. And it was fun trying to get their energy out of them sometimes. It was the smallest show as well, to be fair. It was a small show, but they were still loud at times. It was good. I think I was definitely more nervous performing in front of my parents than in front of Welsh people. Because Welsh people, I'm like, yeah, let's fucking go. Let's do it. But yeah, in front of my parents, it was...

Interesting. Because there's one part on the show where we have to name a hentai category we secretly like. That was what I was nervous about as well. You have to mention like a porn category basically that you like. And I was like, well...

I probably shouldn't say milf. So I didn't say it. It was the only time I ever didn't say milf. I was like, all right, well, it was fun. What did you say? I think I said vanilla or something. I was like, yes, of course. Yeah, because I did it on a London show as well. Well, missionary, of course. Post-marital.

Yeah, they loved it though. They really liked it. Yeah, because I think what made me more nervous on the day of like the London show was I had like the guest list of like friends and family. And like in the most like big Asian family way possible, I get like a message about like six hours before the show saying,

and they were like, "Oh, a cousin just said he's free. He wants to come to the show." Yeah, go on, your family was like 900 people. And then like, progressively, they were like, "Oh wait, another cousin is also free. Oh, another cousin's coming, actually." And I think I had like an extra six to seven people just like, progressively in the day being like, "Actually, uh, family, I'm free." So... Dude, it was crazy, like, throughout the entire day, it was just like a posse of people just like rocking up, and I'm like, "What the f-?"

Say how many are there back here? Yeah And you know a lot of them, but I pretty much every one of them did not know anything about trash taste or the show Had one cousin that I had not seen in about Like a decade just because we've always with like we've always been living in different countries So we've never kind of like matched up so he was like a

Actually on there on the day and it was the first time seen in him in over a decade Last time we'd kind of like talks I did not do YouTube or you know still I think this was like still when I was in university Yeah, not even this was like pre BBC eras. So when he heard I was doing a show in London

He assumed it was nine and a half pounds. Your school band? Yeah, he thought I was like doing a fucking band performance in London. You know, we did get our friend's good kid to open for us at the London show. Should have just got nine and a half pounds. Should have just got nine and a half pounds. Do a double show, go on. So he was like, oh, wait, you're not doing a music show? This isn't a band? What are you guys doing? And I was just like...

Oh my god, we have so much to catch on. How do I even begin to explain what we're doing right now? Game show that's kind of funny? A game told show, comedy show type thing. Yeah, but I was impressed because pretty much everyone enjoyed themselves even if they have no interest in anime, manga, or YouTube. Yeah, it's like, I think we, when we were making the tour, that was one thing. We said this on the America tour thing as well. We were like, yeah, we just wanted to make it so that anyone could watch it. Yeah. But if you're a fan of Trash Taste, then there's those added bonuses, right? Yeah. Yeah.

But I think, yeah, knowing that our parents really enjoyed their time there. I think also parents, like, it's just kind of a cool experience to get to go, like, backstage and then be like, hang out and just be like, all right, go to your seat now. Someone will help you, you know. It's such a fun experience. I think it's, like, a cool experience because, like, I think a lot of people just don't get to do that as well.

Oh, yeah. Oh, totally. So I think my parents, I know my mom and dad loved that. They were like, my dad was like, why don't we get to have free beer? I was like, yeah. Well, it's our beer. It's not free, but yep, it's free for you. It was a totally different experience for me. I had like my entire family come back. Garnt had like 40 people. I was like, holy fuck, Garnt. And he was just like...

And everyone's like, let's take a picture. And I'm like, okay, how many different combinations am I taking today? Ah, okay. It was kind of ridiculous. I was like, oh my God. I was like, God's family came out. Like five people. And I was like, oh, that's nice. And then four more Thai people came out. Five more Thai people.

five more typos. I was like, oh my god. It's like a clown card. I didn't even take them to the green room because the green room would not fit my family, so I just took them out back by the bus. Even without your family, two of the green rooms were just completely full. I'm just like, what the fuck? Yeah, but that's why the London show meant a lot to me and I'm glad to say that

It went out really well. I'm glad to see. I actually have a pretty funny story of something that happened not during the tour, but this was like before the tour. So I get a message from my mom, right?

So I get a message from my mom being like all excited because my dad had just come home and apparently he was shopping in town. And someone looked at him and he was just like, oh, that's an interesting shirt you're wearing. Why are you wearing the shirt? And he was like, oh, my son's a YouTuber. And with zero context, but the shop clerk was like, oh, is your...

is your son gigak and he was like yeah how could you know and like you took a picture and i was like i i asked my mom mom how did he know uh that uh uh that my dad was in town or how could he guess that i was the son so this is the shirt that my dad

I was moved and I'll send this to you. I can't believe your dad wore that shirt. I can't believe he wore that shirt. It says oppai. It says insert oppai here. It is one of my old shirts that one of my old meme shirts that I had just lying about and my dad just decided to wear it and go into town. When your dad rocked up to the show he was wearing the purple shirt I always wore. Oh he was. I was like damn.

Good drip. He got that drip down. Hell yeah. He's like your number one fan. Oh, he is now. Yeah. He's so on board. I love it. I love how intuitive your dad is. Yeah. Every time we get a new merch drop, my dad's like, give me everything. Give me each. That's so sweet. Give me your tool. One thing I was nervous about, though, was not my dad, but...

My cousin wanted to bring my nephew over, and I was very much warning my cousin, yo, at certain points in the show, please take them out, because... Not appropriate. Yeah, it is not appropriate for their age. But it was weird seeing how, you know, it oddly made me proud as an uncle, being like, shit, he is...

really fucking excited and like being able to show him the bus I was like oh shit the tour bus is always like me

impresses people the most. Oh, absolutely. It's so hard to believe a bus can be so comfortable. And like so, I guess. And it's like you guys drive to different countries in that thing? It's crazy. It was such like a wholesome moment for me because normally he's like a really shy kid. Kind of like me when I was a kid. Super shy, doesn't say much. When he was on the bus, he was asking like a million questions. Oh, that's so cute. Aww.

That's so cute, man. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, amazing experience doing it in front of my friends and family. I think like this, it kind of felt like a lot of the tour was like me, like preparing for, you know, performing in front of,

my friends and family. Yeah, totally. I'm sure for you as well for the Wales show and performing in front of like your friends and family on Wales as well. I guess our first show was the one in front of my parents. So I kind of was just like, I hope I remember how to do this. No, you guys both crushed it. Luckily it all worked out. It was a really fun show. I mean, Dublin's just a great... Dublin is a very fun city to be in. Yeah, the people are so fun there. Yeah, and I think... Yeah, I was just glad because I haven't seen...

I haven't seen that much of my family all in one place in a while. So yeah, it was really cool. - Real question is, are you gonna wanna perform in Australia?

Well, that's the question we've been getting, isn't it? Like, now that we've done a tour in America... I'm assuming your parents are going to go to that, right? I mean, I assume so. Unless my dad's like, nah, can't be fucked. Nah, I don't think they'll say that. We could do a one-off show in Australia. I mean, yeah. Again, like, the biggest question we've been getting now that we've finished the European tour is like, well, Asia tour next? Yeah. If that's the case, we have to go to Australia. I think...

We'd have to figure out... We kind of figured out in the Europe tour how much harder logistics was compared to America. Yeah, which is like the merch, because you can't travel with merch across borders. Otherwise, you pay taxes. So you have to get it delivered. And obviously, as you all know, if you've ever lived in Europe...

Deliveries are not Reliable at all One of the shows The merch guys fucked up And we almost weren't able to sell merch No it was Rotterdam Yeah Rotterdam or Amsterdam I can't remember maybe it was Denmark The merch didn't show up until after the show Yes that's right Because one of the drivers of the delivery company Missed the shipment

So our fucking team, actually like I want to big it up to our team who were fucking goaded and sorted out somehow. So professional. So they hired someone to take seven or ten or something, a ridiculous amount of boxes. A shitload of boxes.

To Amsterdam, no, no, no, to Denmark, sorry. So we can get to our show on time, because we were this close to not having any merch at that show. Yeah, because that's how you kind of make a lot of the shows profitable and make sense to do. Because a lot of the times, that's how... I'm sure you all know if you've watched music, that's how bands make most of their money. Yeah, and they somehow managed to make it happen. And that wasn't even one of the most impressive things, because...

We found out, I think three days before our Cardiff show, that our venue had just closed. It just closed. It was so funny. So I was sitting on the bus, and I haven't used the BBC News app in a long time because they changed it and the layout of it is now shit. And so I stopped using it because it was so annoying to navigate. And for some reason, I was on the back of the bus and we were on our way to the Berlin show.

and I and the the One of our tour staff was in the back with us And I was just scrolling on it and I saw this news article that says and it was posted two minutes ago It was like st. David's Hall closed in Wales and I was like, huh? Let's say sure sounds like the venue that we're performing in and

But the poster real quick but saying David's in Wales that's everywhere the same this he's like our only dude Yeah, I was like well. I'll take a look where it is. It's like st. David's Hall in Cardiff I was like huh? Maybe there's two holes in Cardiff because we're having a show in a few days. There's no way it's closing Yeah, and then I look up online. Oh yeah, that's our venue It's closed and the reason why it's closed is because in the UK right now. There's this whole thing with that there's a big scare going on because some buildings used aerated concrete and

Which I'd never heard of until this. Which, my God. What?

UK construction, man. I mean, of course we would use that because we also use like an ungodly amount of asbestos as well. Yeah, so what, why? Why did we use aerated concrete? Oh, it's cheaper, I see. Obviously, if you use less concrete, then it's aerated. It's cheaper, but it's also more brutal. It's ridiculous, yeah. So the venue was shot and I think it was a brief moment when we all thought,

oh, well, I guess the tour's finishing in London. Yeah. Because it just seemed like it was logistically impossible to get a show in Wales. We had three days to find and set up a new venue. Which is normally an impossible task. Because we had a venue that was 1,200. Yeah. And you can't just transfer that size. But I think luckily we'd sold...

Less tickets, which is normally a lucky thing, but it worked out that we could find another venue last minute. Yeah. And it all worked out somehow. At the university, right? Yeah, the Students' Union University. Which was kind of fun because it was actually like a really cozy venue. It was cool. We were really close to the audience, even though there was 700 people there. Totally. It was a nice send-off to the show. It was a nice, like, chill...

vibe going back to uni everyone in Wales was super nice yeah I gotta say big up to my Welsh viewers you guys were by far and it was I mean you had some competition but everyone was super super polite oh totally yeah totally like I was going in and out of the venue a lot and people were like oh hi Connor

Yeah. And they would just be like, oh, have a nice day. And they'd hold the door open for me and stuff. And I was like, dude, what the heck? That's so nice. Not that like, it's just because like sometimes we were running and being rushing and I feel bad when I would be like, I can't, I can't stop and talk. I'm sorry. They're like, oh, go ahead. See ya. Good, good Bosh boys. Yeah. One thing I found funny when we were in Wales actually is when we went to Cardiff, Cardiff Castle.

And there was one super proud Welshman there, just like telling us the history, because we were talking about how we were performing and our venue had closed down due to structural issues. And he was talking about, well, you should have just fucking performed here, you know? And Cardiff Castle. Yeah, and he's been like, we've been invaded by the English, the Romans. We've been invaded so many times, they kicked our ass and we're still here. And they're like, are you?

Most Welsh thing I've ever heard. And I'm like, what's the cap of this place? Like 20? I realize how I don't come across as Welsh at all because people kept asking me. They're like, is this your first time in Wales?

Really? Yeah, in all the stores I went to. And I was like, no. I guess it's because you've lost your accent. Well, I never had a Welsh accent, but I don't sound Welsh. And I was like, yeah, no, I'm Welsh. And she's like, oh, cool. I actually was talking to the one store clerk, and I knew right away. She thought I was doing that American thing where you say, oh, no, I'm Irish. Oh. I'm one eighth Welsh. 100%. I knew she was thinking that. Because the way that she responded to me was like, oh, that's nice. Yeah.

And I was like, no, I didn't say anything. I put my head. I was like, no, I speak the language. I'm Welsh. I'm as Welsh as it gets. You know what? I will say I do enjoy traveling, especially to European countries with Americans.

Because they are so easily impressed. Oh my god. Jessie, our tour manager, everywhere she went, she was just bright-eyed. She was like, I fucking love it here. I am so jealous of their energy. Because growing up in England, it's a fucking castle. We got so many of them here. And every time they'd see anything in Europe, it's just like, oh my god, that's so amazing. Like,

Like, we were walking around Copenhagen, and our tour manager was so fucking enamored with, like, this European city, with Copenhagen, that we went to, I believe, like, another castle there or something.

And there was this Danish like guard like you know one of the traditional Danish guards there And he was just like marching like he had a gun which he was like carrying this gun like a baby I've never seen someone handle a gun so delicately before. I've seen a picture of this Danish guy. Yeah, and he was just he was just like marching across like the castle and our tour manager goes

Oh my God, just look at the way he walks. He puts one foot in front of the other foot. It's just amazing. And I'm like, Jesse, that's just typically how people walk. You just described walking like... Oh wow, they look...

They look like British ones. What the fuck? Why did they steal our thing? This guy was like hugging this fucking AK. And it was crazy. Is that a standard issue in Denmark? It was like a semi-automatic. It was a gun. We don't know our guns. Joey just said AK. I don't think it was an AK. I don't know what it was. It was a big gun. Yeah, I mean, it's kind of... It's going to be really cool seeing how...

You travel a few hours and it's a completely different culture. Yeah, totally. I mean, I think one thing that I've always felt and one thing I've always kind of tried to explain is that I think the vastness of America is lost on Americans a lot of the time, too. It's so big and it's really hard to appreciate that there are differences in America. But I think just because of how kind of...

You all are so insular yet so separated at the same time. The fact that it's a six-hour flight from one side of America to the other is insane. It's such a large country. But that being said, when you go to Europe, you're like, I drove an hour and it's a different country and different culture and different language. It's got to be such a freaky experience. For me, the concept of just driving to another country is so foreign to me.

Because Australia and Japan can't do that shit. So it was really cool just like, you know, because I thought it was cool on the first America tour where it was just like, oh cool, we're in like a different state. You know, I just fucking fast travel to another city. When this one, it was like, I just fast travel to another country.

Yeah. And that was like wild to me. Yeah. And you didn't need to show your passport as well. No. That's nice. I did have... I know this. This is going to stand out for the rest of my life. I remember this wasn't on the tour. This was like my first time in Europe for a while. So this was when I went to Cologne for Gamescom. Yeah. So I land there.

And there is two queues to get in the borders. One is the EU line and one is the rest of the world line. Yeah. Right? And I'm like, last time I came here, it was like post-Brexit, but they still allowed us to go to the EU line. Right. So I go to like the nearest clerk. I'm like, I have this passport. Can I go in the EU line? She looks at it, looks at me, and just goes, ha ha.

I was just like, oh, fuck. Brexit has happened, man. Join the rest of the peasants. It was in Germany, so she was just like that. Nice try. When I went to Italy last year, I was like, yeah, I know. I didn't vote for this. Also, when we flew from Germany to London and

I knew that we should go in the all other passports. Yeah in Europe. Yeah But obviously, I mean you look at me and a lot of people are like no no you can go you on the EU on yeah I this happen in America. They think no no go to the citizens line I'm not I'm not I wish I know you get the fast pass a lot of the a lot of the times they yeah So we were walking and they were like, oh no the EU passports that way and I show him our British passport and guards with me and he goes

He literally said, as he looked at the British passport and I was like, what the fuck? I'm leaving. I'm getting out of here. He like shuddered. It was like, ew. I was like, we can't catch a fucking break. It's funny. Tumblr, Tumblr, 2013 era, British people were on top, dude. We had a passport, game was strong. We were revered.

Now, man, 10 years later, we are bottom of the barrel. Now being British is a downside. Fuck, our passport's dog shit. It's funny because I have the opposite every time I re-enter Japan. You know, because I look like this. So there's the Japan line and then there's the rest of the world line. And I...

I always just, you know, without thinking, I just like start rocking up to the Japanese line. Always the dude like in the middle is just like, "Oh, excuse me, a foreign passport." And I just fucking pull that shit out. Just like, "Do you see this?" Every time the guy's like, "I'm so sorry." - Even when you're a foreign resident in Japan, you have to, if you're going to fill out this form every single time you leave. I don't know if you have to do this in other countries, 'cause I've never had a visa in another country. I don't think you do.

But in Japan, when you leave Japan, you have to fill out a form at the airport saying you're going to come back to Japan if you have a visa. Right, right. Which is so annoying doing this every single time. Yeah. But...

Even then when I go in that line, they'll be like, oh no no tourists this way and I was like This is literally for foreign residents. I am the person who's supposed to be in this one. Do you see my card? So that's always a little fun. Little micro complaints you're like it's just kind of fun to have like to feel special for a moment Yeah, yeah, I'm different

It's great whenever I go back in Japan, I see the fucking massive line for the tourists and I'm like... The tourist line is so long in Japan. It's gone so long. The skipping line, which is the residence card. And then there's us with the residence card line, which is just like... It's like 10 seconds. I can reliably time because I've flown into...

Haneda Airport to Japan so many times. Yeah. I can, I think I can like to a five minute accuracy tell you when I'm going to get out of the airport because I've done it so many times. If I go now, it's a gold split. Yeah. By the time the plane lands, it's 15 minutes till I'm out of the airport every time. It's super fast. If you get your bags instantly. If you don't have checked bags. Yeah. Even then, you get your bags so fast in Japan. It's crazy how quickly it is.

And you do like the customs thing online beforehand. You scan your QR code. You scan your QR code. Little life hacks. You literally leave the terminal and the taxi rank is like two seconds away. You go right down the stairs, boom, get in the taxi. I'm home in like 40 minutes. I'm like, all right, I'm chilling.

Speedrun. It's so good. I love airports, 80%. 100% 80%. Canada is such a good airport. Please don't ever fly into Narita if you can. Yeah. It's gotten to the point now because we've flown a lot this year for business that I've noticed little things about airports that I never noticed before. Whenever we go through security...

and it's like the giga chat fucking security machine. You know the big ones where you do not have to remove your electronics or any like liquids. I'm like, oh, this is going to be a good experience. And then you go to like the beta little like fucking micro machines where I bring like everything with me. You know, it depends how beige and gray it looks.

The more beige and grey it looks, the more shit the security is going to be. If it looks really bright and modern, it's just easy. Yeah, like the ones in Hunterdale, like the huge white machines, you know? Like a space portal. They're so fucking good. Yeah, those are the good ones. It's like, oh, do I have to take my laptop out? And it's like, no, you don't. It's like, oh, thank God! Which one of you was that guy giving a hard time at? One of the airports. One of you were getting grilled by the guy. Oh, that was gone, I think. Yeah, that was me and Nabi.

I was literally standing right next to you. Was it in Dublin? It was Dublin, right? Yeah, Dublin. And then they made you take off your shoes, right? Yeah, they made me take off my shoes. It was so weird. I was like sandwiched in between them and I'm like, we are literally all the same and I'm just chilling. I mean, I thought I had it bad because I had to take my shoes off. This guy asked only Joey to take his shoes off. It was so weird.

And then I was like, all right, that's a bit weird, but whatever. Did it. Went through fine. I was like, okay, whatever. I look back. Garnt is emptying out his bag. Garnt was getting the full course. Like, the full probe. Yeah. This has never happened to me before, but I took my liquids and my laptops every lecture. I've done this enough times. And for some reason, they were all like, oh, we need to re-put your bag in. So I just thought, oh, maybe they need to re-put their bag in. Uh.

And they asked me to like empty everything. I was like, what is going on? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pour them on the table. They literally like laid it out like it was a CSI crime scene, you know? And they took out, did they do that for you as well, Nabi? Did they lay it out like a crime scene and just had on the tray and just like put it all back in? Yeah, like exhibit A. And I was just like, what is going on? And I felt so bad because I saw you two just waiting for me. And I'm like, guys, I don't know what's going on. This has never happened before.

I'm just trying to get through. It was funny. Yeah. Yeah, sometimes you get a little bit of privilege. Yeah, I don't know. It could have been anything. I don't know. I mean, I never get stopped. I've never been stopped. I've never been stopped at an airport. Really? I mean, look at me. Look at me.

look so basic I also like don't even I'm so bad now I've gotten to the point where they always scan my bag anyway because I bring so many batteries and weird stuff in yeah I don't even take the laptops out anymore sometimes I just leave it all in because they're gonna scan it anyway yeah so I'm like I just leave it all in and they're like why do you take it out I'm like I forgot

And then they forget about it. It's like, it's like two, I save time. Cause I don't want, dude, it's so annoying. I'm gonna fuck around with four trays and then everyone's fighting to get in. And I'm like, I'm just gonna put it all in one. And then I'm going to deal with the guy. And it's always like the laptop always needs to be in a separate tray from the bag. And do you ever get those times where, cause I take a laptop and,

and like a switch. - Yeah. - And they don't want them on top of each other. - And the tray is almost, is big enough for one of them, but it's just about too small just to have them both together. - Yeah, it's like the laptop is like here and then the switch is like kind of leaning off

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. And the guy's just like, no, no, no, no, you can't do that. You need another extra tray. And I'm like, oh. Yeah. It'd be like that. It'd be like that. Yeah, it do be like that. But yeah, honestly, this was... Literally first world problems. Yeah, I mean, listen, when you spend like...

how many days a year we spend in the airport, you notice, you're like, damn, these little efficiencies piss me off. I genuinely wonder this year, since we've been doing so much traveling, like, if we were to calculate it, how many days do you reckon we've been at an airport? I was thinking about this the other day. I was thinking about how much time I've spent flying. Yeah. I think we would easily calculate it. You reckon? I think I've spent, like...

At least 10 days in the air this year, at least. Yeah. Well, the thing that I've kind of like taken, like my mentality has changed right now is, you know, there can be some places like even flying to Europe where in your mind it's like, oh, it's just an hour and a half flight. What you don't really factor in for is the travel time to the airport, how long you have to stay in the airport, how long you have to like the kind of like the...

hustle and bustle getting through customs and everything like that. An hour and a half flight to a different country turns into like a four hour journey of

out of your day four to five hours yeah sorry bullet trains are good yeah yeah yeah right which is rock up five minutes before get on chilling get some coffee and then you're off in like two hours yeah yeah so good it's just like travel days are more than just the time on the vehicle it's like everything around the day as well which you don't really factor into but if you do enough times you're like oh this is a lot of hours in my life that i'm losing like traveling i do think when you travel

Lot you get this really weird perspective of travel Where I used to think of it as such a huge event that I was like traveling and then now I'm like, oh no It's just I just don't think about it. Okay. I'll do like a four-hour travel day and I'll be like, oh, that's okay. I

Yeah. I still have lunch and dinner. Yeah. That's the kind of like, the only thing that throws me off if I can't have like a lunch or dinner. Yeah. I'm like, I can't really like pinpoint where I'm at in the day. Like, does the travel time feel shorter for you? Yeah. Like, because like I've done shoots where I've,

taken the bullet train to Kyoto and then come back in the evening. And I'm like, that's weird because that's like a five-hour total journey. Yeah, that's a long time. But it doesn't feel that bad when you kind of, it's like spread out and then you're also so used to traveling. And also you have a, you get really good at finding what to do while traveling. I think that's something. Yeah. Like I used to always download like 500 Netflix shows and I used to like prepare everything I was going to watch or what I was going to read. So what's your go-to now?

No, I just, I figure out 10 minutes before I get on the plane. I'm like, okay, I'll download this one Netflix thing and I'll probably sleep and then I'll buy the wifi and play some chess or like, I don't think about it too much. I'm the opposite. I know you do. I know you do. I constantly have a library of things that I can watch. I love, I love traveling.

because it's my one time on stuff. Yeah. Yeah. It's my one time when I can just shut off the world. I never buy the online wifi. I never do that. I always buy the online wifi. No, no, no. I buy it. I, I, I maybe play a game on my switch or I watch a movie or watch a,

some anime that i need to catch up on it's great it's just a time where i can shut off from the world and just do shit that i don't have to feel guilty you know doing i guess and no one can fault you for it because you're on a plane yeah yeah yeah exactly exactly i just i just say oh yeah i'm sorry guys i'm not gonna reply i want to play yeah but i have internet i'm just not reading well sometimes you like it's just like you don't have the vibe you know also you know what pissed me off as well that i found out uh i

Was like okay the first time we ever took a I got I ever took a business class flight was like last year I was super stoked about it I was super pumped because I thought like you see all these videos you like it so it looks so luxurious And I was like oh hell yeah, you pay so much money for it's like a ridiculous amount and I was like oh man I can't wait sit down. I open the Wi-Fi. I'm like excuse me. How do I how do I get on the Wi-Fi? Try make me pay she's like I don't know you have to pay for the Wi-Fi. I was like what I

I just, what? This is like a $5,000 plane seat. I have to pay $20 for the Wi-Fi?

What? How does that make sense? Another reason why I don't pay for online flight Wi-Fi. That is like the single biggest scam in business class or whatever that they still make you pay for Wi-Fi. And I found out it's because it's not run by the plane. It's like separately contracted. It's some fucking weird thing like that. But I was like, that's fucking dumb. What a dumbass fucking... Why should I... You already paid an ungodly amount for like just a

basically that's slightly bigger. What the fuck? A chair that's slightly bigger. Okay, it can recline. Yeah, it can turn into a bed. Yeah, it's the game changer. Exactly. That does make a 12-hour flight a lot easier. Oh my god, totally. Yeah, I mean, would you guys...

I don't know. Are you guys thinking about traveling as much next year? Because we did a lot this year. I mean, I say no, but I will. Yeah. That's kind of what I figured out. Because like, you know, last year I said the exact same thing about 2023. I was like, damn, I did so much traveling in 2022. 2023 is going to be the chill year.

Turns out I've traveled more this year than I think I have in my entire life combined. I think I only feel like I've really traveled a big amount if it's longer than a week. If it's less than a week, I don't think about it much. I'm like, oh, that's chill. That's true. But if it's over than a week, it's kind of a big deal. Yeah, I think that's what I want to do more next year is just kind of non-work related short travel. Maybe less than a week type of travel just because I want to go somewhere. I still want to explore a ton of Southeast Asian countries because I just feel like it's a waste to not

go there living in Asia you know so I want to do more of that next year with Aki and like yeah I don't know but again we say all of this it's probably going to be more traveling next year let's be real I mean traveling to America is a must for work I want to travel more for holiday I want to take more holiday next year this has been a great

That's why October, November for me, I'm fucking staying in Japan. I'm not going anywhere. I say that, but I'm going to Okinawa. So you're not staying. It's still Japan, technically. Yeah. Just a three-hour flight. Just a three-hour flight. All right. Completely changing gears since this is a current episode. More current than it has been for a while. So let's use the opportunity to talk about something current. So aside from bread, one question we got asked at...

every show was our opinion of the One Piece live action which by the time this has come out should have come out about two weeks ago three weeks ago maybe I got one episode left to watch so I've watched seven episodes I've only seen the first two and I'm saving the rest of it for my flight back I've watched it all it's eight episodes right? yeah it's fun

And that's that review. Thank you very much. That's that segment, everyone. Listen, like, I'm watching it and I'm having a good time, but it's like...

I'm not like desperate to keep watching. Do you know what I mean? Like I don't feel like that's because you already are into one piece. I think there's definitely part of that. I would love to be able to watch it with a fresh perspective. Yeah. Cause I feel like it's way easier to go from that to the manga rather than vice versa. Yeah. Yes. Totally. Cause like, obviously I have preconceived notions of segments I really liked and when they changed them, I was like, Oh yeah. Why?

yeah it's it's hard to get rid of that so like yeah i think i think like honestly this is honestly like one of the best live action adaptations i've ever seen i think yeah it's as an adaptation it is 10 out of 10 yeah as a standalone tv series which i think is important to judge yeah not just as an adaptation i think it's like a fun seven or eight out of ten i'd say i'd say i would give the entire one piece live action like an

or 7.5 maybe? Yeah, it's like- Which for a live action is crazy. Like I don't feel like I could show it to normies. No, actually- I don't think I could. I think- I think- I think- Okay, here's the thing- Like proper normies? Yeah, yeah, no, no, okay. This is- This showed me- The One Piece live action showed me the power of like why people are trying to make live action anime adaptations.

So I get a message from my cousin before the show, and he's like the biggest fucking normie of all time, you know what I mean? And it's not just him, his wife as well. Both totally uninteresting anime at all, and I get a message being like, oh, I know this is totally not anime, but we watched the One Piece live action episode

And we're actually, like, not just me, but my wife as well, we're actually really interested in getting into the anime. Good fucking luck with that. And I was talking to Sydney's brother as well, who, you know, is more of a nerd, but definitely not the anime type of nerd, you know? He watched the One Piece live action, and he was like, fuck, I did not think I would enjoy that, but that was really good. Oh, wow.

Maybe I'm too, you know, we've had to hide in the shadows for so long, anime fans. Be very careful about which anime I recommend. It's the preconceived notion of like, oh, the live action is for the anime fans only. But I think that's like, so like watching live action, I think there's two amazing things that they did. One was obviously, I think like one of the biggest weaknesses was, you know, there are some moments, especially I think during Arlong Park that don't,

hit as hard as they did in the original anime or manga. Yeah. And, you know, I think, like, in my personal opinion, Arlong, the Arlong Park arc, needed maybe an extra episode just to really flesh out... Dude, it's kind of...

Did you feel like other segments had too many episodes? Yes, I felt like Usopp's arc had one too many episodes. It was too long. I felt like Ah Long Pa could have used that extra episode because that was like one of the hardest hitting moments. I mean, it wasn't like the moment was bad. It just definitely did not hit as hard as it did in the anime or manga just because there was way less screen time.

But, you know, you still had the important moments and everything like that. Sanji having a British accent took me by surprise. I'm not going to lie. Like a London accent. I was like, well, I did not expect that for Sanji. I mean, I thought... Oh, Luffy, it's Sanji. I agree. He's kind of like, well, you've been my cook, it's bad. I agree.

I really like that. Like Gar being Scottish. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It just like works. I think it all... I actually like the casting. I actually all... There's not a single casting I didn't enjoy. Yeah. I thought all of them were pretty spot on. I also like the fact that they didn't resort to using high profile actors and actresses as well. I also like that there's a lot of...

a lot of the, it looked kind of goofy at times, but a lot of them were like, just like practical effects for the costumes. Yeah. Like they were like, like Arlong looks fucking weird, but he would look weird. So I'm kind of glad he looks fucking weird and cursed. The best way I can say it, which is one amazing thing that they did is despite how fucking goofy and stupid all the character designs are, they never felt like anime, you know, they, they, they felt like they, some of them felt anime.

I mean, they always felt like they existed in its own fictional world, right? It didn't feel like I was watching a Japanese live-action anime adaptation where it was just like everyone... Where they try to act like anime characters. I just felt like these just were goofy characters in a goofy world. It almost felt like... You know how...

Have you guys ever seen a stage play or something like that? Yeah, of course. So you know how when you're watching a stage play, you have props that are meant to represent something. It's not like a fucking Hollywood set. It's just a simple stage set or a prop that is just meant to give you the idea. That's what it felt like. You knew that these practical effects and these makeup effects, you knew that it doesn't exist in the real world, but they sold it enough that...

in your mind, you kind of like, you allowed your suspension of disbelief to really go into this fictional world. Because one of the thing I really think that the One Piece live action did correctly was really sell you on the whole world of One Piece. You know, this fictional world building of One Piece with like all of these different factions, the fishmen and everything as well. I didn't realize how, I won't lie, it did piss me off after a while where he kept saying, I'm going to become king of the pirates. Yeah.

When you read it, it isn't that annoying. But he said it like every two minutes and I was like, okay, I get it. I get it, Luffy. I get it. I get it that it's your thing and you do this a lot. But my God, stop. And also, there was a few moments, like, again, like I think it did a lot of amazing things and it was really fun. There were a few moments where the dialogue really did take me out of it for a moment and I felt like it could have been a little bit better. Like how so?

Oh, fuck. I was watching episode six, and it felt like there was one scene where I think they were around the bed, and there was just this scene where it felt like they were all just talking separately, and they weren't talking to each other, and it was really weird. It was very bizarre. It was like a really weird conversation, because then there was some other conversations that were really good, like every Garp scene, I kind of thought that it was kind of interesting how they did this dialogue. And there's also... Did you see the...

When I watched it, I thought it was a weird transition. And then I'm so glad that someone posted it on Twitter and thought this was a weird transition because I felt so validated. There's a transition where they did with the Go board. Oh, I remember that. And it was so fucking weird. They did a transition where they put a piece on the Go board and then the Go piece...

into Luffy's hat top down. It was a very janky transition. And then they also walked on their mark, kind of weird. Like, Luffy didn't start walking until someone walked next to him. So as if, like, to say his mark. It was kind of weird. It was a very nitpick, but it was those kind of things that, like, kind of

you kind of get like for a moment you're like oh yeah this is okay this is a show yeah and you know those are very very very slight nitpicks but i think yeah i think i think it's you should when you watch a show like this and everyone's getting so hyped around it i think it is fair to be like hey there it's okay to have some things you didn't like yeah and have some concerns because i i do feel like they there were so many micro decisions that i noticed that and

maybe not a lot of people noticed that I think really works well. - Yeah, there's some very good quality of life changes. - Yeah, like I felt it was fucking genius to have only certain characters shout out attack names, right? - Right. - Because I think there is only Luffy, Buggy and at the end Sanji who shouts out attack names. - Right. - And it all felt in character. Like, you know, like, 'cause I was wondering, I was wondering when I was watching the trailer,

if people shout out attack names, it's going to be cheesy as fuck. But you know, when Luffy shouts out, when Buggy shouts out, I'm like, all right. You know, that's because it's Luffy and Buggy. That's their character. Yeah, yeah. But everyone else is just like, it's just a normal fight scene. And I thought that was fucking genius. Yeah. Because I don't know if I could, you know, like maybe take Zoro seriously. If he was like, Onigiri! Satoru! Satoru! With like a fucking sword in his mouth. And I'd be like, Onigiri!

Yeah. I guess my, now that I'm really done with it and I'm like, I would like to watch more. Yeah. My concern is how do you make more? How do you make Chopper? Okay. That's the biggest question I have. There's a lot of characters, a lot of fights that get really weird, really bizarre. And I feel like

The start of One Piece is when it's most adaptable in terms of one-to-one live action. It's like simplicity, right? Because it's still... The gum... You know, the gum-gum shit is weird, but that's... They did a great job animating that stuff. Yeah. But how... When it gets really fucking weird or so long, we...

These characters are going to get old. The characters are going to get old. The budget is crazy. How do you go about this? I would like to see more. That's why I actually really hope that... Yeah, I want more. I definitely want more because I feel like they would give a little more time now, now that I know that it is a success. It is popular, especially when it gets Alabasta. That gets more than two episodes. What was it, like $17 million on average an episode, was it? Sheesh. Where'd you get that from? I don't know. I saw it.

Can we fact check? Yeah. How much, what was the budget for the One Piece live action? I guess to answer your question while we're checking, one thing that I was actually like very impressed with in terms of like the writing, which was like, I was so scared of going into the One Piece live action is, I call it fucking Marvel syndrome.

Yeah, $17.27 million per episode. $138 million for the first season. I mean, okay, that's a lot of money.

the level of success that it needs to sustain that is good. I think it's got it. I think it's, it's, it's proven that it's value in it. Yeah. The set design was insane. Yeah. I mean, I just hope that they can keep the budget going and the show can keep popping off. Cause I, again, I want to see more of it. Yeah. Because like, I was like, as I was saying, I think, I think the reason why the goofiness kind of work,

was like it didn't do this thing which i think a lot of hollywood films and especially marvel movies do where you know when like something weird happens especially like there's a there's a thing in like ant-man uh the new ant-man where one of the characters looks fucking like atrocious like an abomination and the entire joke is just everyone laughing at how stupid this guy looks look at this big guy with this like wide face haha it's so funny um

And considering how many weird things happen in one piece, there was never a single moment where the joke was, wow, this is, that just happened. That was weird. I just saw a clown. Yeah, they never pointed out how weird things were. Yeah, they never pointed it out. And that, yeah, that, like that, look at that, look at that. And, and,

They trusted the joke. Yeah. They had faith in it. Yeah. And I think like subconsciously because none of the characters felt it was weird. Yeah. I didn't think it was weird because no one pointed out how weird it was. So I was like, oh, this is just normal to exist in this world. Yeah. So even if some things looked out of place, none of the characters really drew attention to it. So I didn't draw attention to it. And I thought that was fucking genius in terms of the writing. Yeah.

I hope we get more and I hope it doesn't take forever. Obviously, there's a lot of strikes going on right now, so we're probably not going to see it. Probably not going to be for a while. Which sucks because I wonder if they're going to have to do like a James Cameron approach where you film as much of it now while the actors are all still young. Because, oh my God, this is going to be... If they do it...

If they film it as they're like, I guess reaching it it'll be like what like 15 years Well, how long did the one piece live-action take for production again? It was like I don't know - two years - three years. I think it was longer than that Yeah, I mean, it's like four or five years

Apparently the script's ready, the next one. Oh, really? But they just need to... The strikes need to be agreed on, the prices and stuff, which obviously means that it's... We're not going to see it for a while, which is kind of sad because the one thing that kind of sucks about current TV is that because they have to wait to see how...

a show does we often have massive gaps between season one and two of shows because you know back in the day they'd be like oh yeah this is a good pilot give it 900 episodes yeah uh you know so you get a lot and it was it was good uh yeah late 2024 early 2025 that means early 2025 for sure yeah that definitely means early 2025 earliest there's no way yeah so we're gonna have to wait like two years so i don't know if this is a hot take it might be a hot take okay

I think that the One Piece live action is a better introduction than the anime. Okay, wait, do you... Okay, does this include the manga? It does...

I think the anime is fine to say that. I think a lot of people agree that the anime is extremely slow when it starts and the pacing is the main issue and the reason why a lot of people get turned off. I mean, the fact that we get through 10 volumes in what doesn't feel like too long, I think that's fair. So, yes.

If I knew the person was an anime fan or like already into like anime and manga, I would recommend the manga. But if it's someone who maybe has no interest in anime or manga, I would actually recommend the live action over any other One Piece media to get them into the world of One Piece. How many episodes does it take for them to finish Aolong Park in the anime?

52 yeah, yeah, it's a lot. That's just too much. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's just too much Yeah, I mean that's what if you cut down the one piece I've actually beat what 20 episode. Yeah, cuz it's like about an hour I think I think you know, I think our long park is definitely stronger in the anime for sure I think for like the trade-off you get for like the impact of our long park is

And maybe some of Sanji's arc hitting less strongly with the anime. I think that's offset by just how streamlined the live action is. It feels way more streamlined. There's a lot of fat that has been trimmed off. And just the way that characters get introduced. I feel like, because you know in the anime or the manga, it's like every character, one episode at a time, gets introduced and you're like, okay...

when we're going on this adventure it's a very sluggish start whereas in the live action we get like Nami and Zoro just introduced at once and you get that you get that all one thing I really like you almost get that instant chemistry between the like the banter between the three of them almost like after episode one

That's what I love about One Piece. Yeah, I think it makes sense though because like especially with the manga for instance like you know it was the story was just starting off so I think Oda was still trying to get a footing on like okay what's the like the general vibe I want to go with when introducing these characters or like you know what's like the most best way to do it so I think he was like kind of testing out a lot of things in terms of like how to streamline that story whereas now that it's been so established it's

And, you know, he was part of the writing team for the live action. He was just like, all right, I know exactly what I did right, what I did wrong when I first started the manga. So we're just going to cut off all the, you know, shit parts that I included in the manga and just like make it so that it's just straight up. I was very skeptical. I was like, I don't know how well he'll know how to translate it to film or be able to assist with that. Obviously, I think...

the writing team crushed it and obviously having his supervision probably definitely helped. It's cool. I'm just glad it worked out. I'm just happy. I'm happy we got something that's great and I just hope that now it doesn't struggle to

get off and get into season two and three. I really hope it doesn't start a trend of now. I mean, it's already started the trend. Live action? Everyone wants to do live action anime now. I mean, look at... Well, Mike, your academia live action is in the works right now. But I mean, look at the budget and the amount of time and the amount of care that's to go into making just a good live action adaptation. Like, this is just... This is un...

ungodly amounts of resources to make this work. Oh my god, Yu Yu Hakusho! The problem is, if you cannot make Death Note work as a live action, you are beyond all hope of saving. It is such an easy formula for a good thriller.

Like, it's such a straightforward premise that the only hard thing to kind of really fit in is the Shinigami. Yeah. And if you can nail that, the story's laid out for you. Like, I don't feel like it should be that hard. And yet they still fucked it up. And they still fucked it up. Yeah. Which I'm hoping...

Bro, if we can't get a fucking good... I mean, they fucked up the first one so badly. Wait, there's a Pokemon live action coming out too? I could see that working. I mean, I guess, yeah. As a Saturday show kind of... Detective Pikachu worked, so... Detective Pikachu was great. Yeah, yeah. That's true, that's true. This one, My Hero Academia, I'm scared about. I'm very scared of that one. I'm very, very scared about. Yeah, yeah.

And it's Zack Snyder as well. Is it Disney? Oh, it's Disney. I know. Oh, no, no, no. It's not. It's Netflix. Okay. Yeah. Well, they nailed the online. What is it? Let's go. Actually, okay. Hear me out. Hear me out, guys. No, fuck off. Maybe they can make it better. They can improve it. Here's the deal. Here's the deal. Netflix now gets one good anime adaptation, Faith. They get one. We're all going to be like, guys, hear them out.

And if they fuck it up, we're all going to go back to being like One Piece was a fluke. It was a one-off. This doesn't happen. Because the problem with One Piece is that on paper, it shouldn't have worked like that. Out of every live action adaptation. I think every single One Piece fan thought it was going to be dog. Oh, yeah. Totally. Holy shit, yeah. And it was just One Piece. Maybe I'm being that toxic One Piece fan right now, but maybe it's just because- That's why it's the goat!

Maybe it's just cause one piece is goaded. You know, maybe that was the reason. Okay. All right. All right. All right. All right. Well, that's our thoughts on one piece. Uh, everyone has been asking us, there it is. That's it. And that's how the European tour went. Thank you to, uh, everyone who came out to see us. It was absolutely awesome. And, uh,

Germans, I am sorry. It'll take another two years, but maybe I'll have another redemption arc. It's time to redeem himself. Well, I'm in the same boat as you, Garnt, and I've been to Germany a lot, so they hate me now. I got your backs, Germans. Don't worry about it. But, Jerry, do the thing. Hey, look at all these patrons, though. Do you see them on the screen right now?

Oh my god, there's so many of them. Hey, if you'd like to support us, then go over to our Patreon, patreon.com slash TrashDays. Also follow us on Twitter, send us your memes on the subreddit, and if you hate our face, listen to us on Spotify. And we're going to do a few more episodes in this studio, so get used to it. Alright, see you guys. Bye! Buenos dias, world, from the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance. I'm Marco Wendt. And I'm Rick Schwartz.

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