Ruining the Purest Mind on YouTube | Trash Taste #143
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- Welcome back to another episode of Trash Taste. I'm here with the boys as usual, Garnt and Joey. And today joining us is Sycuno. Welcome. - Yes, welcome. - Was I not? - No, no, no. You're gonna have to get close to the mic as well. This mic is a sensitive boy. - Oh, yeah. - We're gonna have to eat one. - Eat a mic, yeah. - I have one of these.

- So like, do you want to, we get this like comment all the time, just in case, you know, do you want to explain who you are, what you do, kind of like what you're known for? - Self-intro. - Yeah, self-intro. - Oh man, what am I know? I play video games a lot. - Who doesn't? - Yeah.

- That's most of it, yeah. - I mean, you just kind of explained every Twitch stream out there, right? - Yeah, that's most, well, not all of them. A lot of them don't play video games. - I try to play some, but I don't play a lot as much as I should. - Variety streamer of the year, right here? - This is probably age poorly. - Are you coming to the award? - I am, yeah, I'll be there. This episode will be out way after this has all happened.

- Oh, okay. - But I am going, so hopefully it will win. - Hopefully it's not poorly aged. - Wait, wait, wait, wait. - This is gonna be poorly aged. - You should do your victory speech now. - No. - No. - Wait, wait, wait. - Do the victory speech now, the exact same as you would do it if you had just won, and then when you actually do it in real life, they'll be like, "Oh my." - I'm not gonna win. There's no shot I'm gonna win.

- Why don't we cover all the bases then? Do a victory speech and then immediately afterwards do a speech of like, you know what, I didn't win but- - And the editor will cut the one that's correct. - The editor will put the wrong one. - Exactly, it'll be even funnier.

- I don't know, I don't think about a speech. I don't want a speech. - I did vote for you though. - You could just go to it and just be like, thanks. - Well, hopefully the one vote is the Cheeto in the door. - I actually didn't like lock click the vote, but I pulled it up on stream and went through and said, this is who I would vote for.

- Why didn't you lock it in? - Well, I'm on incognito. The votes are connected to your Google account. - Oh, okay. - And I'm on incognito 'cause I don't wanna leak something. So I was like, I would vote for this guy. And then I didn't lock it in. - Well, thank you, I appreciate that. - See, yeah, you didn't even get the one vote. You don't need it. It's 'cause you don't need it. - Hey man, every vote counts, man. - I can't wait for the results to come out. - And he lost by one vote.

- One vote everyone, it was tied. - That would be absolutely terrible. - I was just happy to be nominated. I didn't expect that. So I was pretty happy with that. - You're here for the anime awards, right? 'Cause you're presenting an award at the anime awards. - Crunchyroll anime awards. - How did it go? 'Cause it's happened. It went great, right?

- Do you want to cover all bases? - Yeah, let's run through the whole thing. - I haven't looked at my script, I don't even know what's up. - Do you know what award you're presenting? Which will be out by the time this is already out. - I think I'm presenting the last one. I don't know. I actually don't know the exact one. They told me it was the last one, I think. This will be really awkward if it's not the last one. Cut this out if it's not the last one, but that's what they told me, but plans change. - Are you a big anime fan in general?

- I think I might've watched more anime than you actually. - Is that a challenge? - I'm joking. - This year probably, but I don't know about overall. - I will say I talked to him about One Piece. - Okay. - And he hasn't seen much One Piece. - It's super long. You could watch like a hundred anime in the time you could watch One Piece. - Sakuya is ahead in One Piece more than I am. - Okay. - You're the anime man. - He can compete with me.

- Oh right, you're the anime guy. - Yeah, that's it. - That's your thing. - Not anymore though. - Oh right, Connor was telling me this podcast doesn't talk about anime. - We don't. - Is that true? - I'm glad you're on here because the only time we actually talk about anime is when we have guests on as an excuse to talk about anime. - Okay. - Yeah, yeah. - Are you generally unfamiliar with the podcast? Have you ever seen any of this? - I've seen like,

- I've never seen a full episode of it, but I've seen like clips from it. - I mean, it's long, I get it. We talk about poop a lot. - Why is that? - Just a guy thing. - 'Cause everyone poops, man. - You don't poop?

- Well, I just don't talk about, is this a guy thing? - I thought it was a guy thing. - You ever thought you want to like figure out if the way you do it is different? Like if you do something special. - You know what I do like a lot? - What? - The toilets with the button. I've never seen it until I came to Japan. They have the button that opens, like lifts up the seat for you. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, I feel like I'm gonna go back and just not be used to it. 'Cause like now I go to the bathroom

And I'm like, boop. And it just opens. And then you can close it before you flush, which I'm too lazy to do back at home. Yeah.

- There's also the ones where if you, in some fancy hotels in Japan, you open the bathroom door. - Oh wait, that does that too. It's a little creepy actually. It feels like the toilet's trying to speak to me. - It's like, come on in. - There's a few things that are automatic here in Japan that I've gotten used to. Like taxi doors here close automatically. Like the taxi driver will close the door for you. - Even the regular, like there's the ones that slide, right? That makes sense to me. I think on the way here, I got in like a Camry or something.

- Right. - That was also automatic. - Yeah. - I didn't know Camry's even had that option. Is that like custom made for Japan? - I think it's a custom thing, yeah. 'Cause you could see that hydraulic thing pushing it. - Yeah, my sister drives a Camry and that was not an option when she bought it. So I don't think that's normal. - Next time your sister picks you up, you're just gonna be standing in front of the door, it's like,

- Yeah. - Is it gonna open or? - Yours doesn't open, huh? - Yeah. Like every time I go back to the US and the UK, I always have this one awkward taxi ride. The first time I come back from Japan, I walk out of the taxi and I just walk away and I don't shut the door. And they have to like call me back and be like, "Sir, excuse me, can you shut the door please?" I was like, "Oh yes." I'm back in my home country now.

living in the 20th century. - Yeah, but you know, some toilets also they, you know, in fancy ones, they'll have the ones that the cover opens and also the ones where you walk away and it'll flush for you. - Oh yeah. - That one does that too, but I like the manual control of it. I push the flush button. I will say there's two, there's one for peeing and one for pooping. I don't know how to read Japanese, so I've been pushing both at the same time, no matter what I'm doing and hoping it does the right thing.

- Have you encountered a toilet in a bar where it's male or female, but it's in Kanji? So you can- - No, I have not. - Okay. - I haven't been any bars or anything. I just been like, so my day has been wake up, sneak up to steal some sandwiches from the fridge that Hassan usually buys and leaves in there. I hear him streaming and he usually doesn't notice 'cause he's streaming. And then I get ready and then we go IRL stream. And we're so tired by like 3:00 PM.

We just go home and sleep. And then I wake up at like 3 a.m. randomly, try to go back to bed, watch some Japanese TikToks, get really weird ads that I think it's because they know I'm in Japan, right? And Japanese ads are so strange.

I don't know what they're trying to sell me. Like by the end of it, I'm like, I don't know what he was trying to sell me. That guy looked crazy though. - Japanese TikTok is very horny as well. - Oh, it's so horny. - A lot of- - I haven't seen that. What do you see on it? - When I made a new account, the first 10 scrolls were just women dancing. - Yeah. - I was like, is this just a thing about male? - Very scandalously. - Yeah, I was like, did you just saw I was a male and I just did this? This fucked up.

It's like, how does it know? - How did it know that that's exactly what he wanted? - Yeah, how did it know? How did it go? How did it know? Now I think I've tailored it to be, a lot of my videos,

- I've never seen that. - Why Vietnamese people particularly? - I don't know why. I think the police have like, they got something against them. - Are they speaking Japanese to them? Like when they- - Yeah, yeah, yeah. But with a very like a Vietnamese accent. - Right.

- Right. - It was very like strong. - I've heard Vietnamese sounds aggressive. - I'm not sure. I don't know exactly. - Well, it's a very tonal language. - Yeah, I'm half Vietnamese. So I feel like it's sometimes very aggressive. - Oh, okay. Can you speak Vietnamese or?

- No, no. - What was the pause? - You thought about that for a second. - Okay, so if you can say some food names like pho, you can't really speak it. - Isn't it pho? - Yes, I was trying to see if anyone corrected me. I just was curious. - You passed the test. - I passed the test. I got my V card. - Yeah, I guess they argue with the police a lot here. I don't know why.

- I think that's just a Southeast Asian thing. - Dude, I'll just be scrolling through and I'll just be standoff after standoff with them just shouting at each other. I don't know why there's so many. - It's a big problem. - It's a big problem? - It's specifically Vietnamese. - Is it specifically Vietnamese? - Why? - Because they hire a lot of labor from Vietnam. - Oh, okay, okay. - Oh, right, right. - There's loads of videos of people screaming in apartment complexes at like 2:00 AM arguing with each other and someone just filming it.

- It's really weird suggestions if you can tailor it. - I have not seen any of that. - You have to skip past everything that is even remotely like, I guess sexy. And then the moment you get to someone fighting, you have to stop and watch it. And then it will slowly start figuring out what you like.

- You let the algorithm go. - Yeah, yeah. - So you have two evils, either sexy TikTok or random Vietnamese people arguing with policemen. - World star, Japan edition. - I mean, it's interesting 'cause you never get to see this side. Well, at least I don't. - I haven't seen that at all. Everyone seems so polite. - Yeah, yeah.

- All's too polite. I went on the train a few times and everyone just does their own thing on their phones. - It's like the quietest train ride in the world. - Yeah, it's a little too quiet. Like, I mean, have you guys been to the Bay? Like San Francisco has this thing called the BART. It's not as nice, definitely not as clean. It smells like pee. And when it rains, it smells like Omega Pee. And if that's a real thing. - Omega Pee. - I feel like here it's quiet. Everyone does their own thing. You can actually sit in the seats, which is nice.

- Well, that depends on what train you're taking. Sometimes it can get a bit too busy where there is nowhere to sit or nowhere to stand. - I haven't run into that yet. Maybe I've gone at the- - You've been going at non-peak times. - Yeah. - You also mentioned this was your first time ever outside of the US. - Yeah, yeah. - That's crazy to me. - Damn. - It's crazy, it's definitely crazy. It's been a long journey. - How was your first, I guess, international flight?

- It was delayed by like nine hours, which was absolutely terrible. I think we got here like four or 5:00 AM. Jesus, so that was crazy. - How was the airport experience coming into a new country?

- It was pretty okay. I mean, we showed up at a weird time. - Yeah, I feel like you got the best though. 'Cause like Japanese immigration is like, it's barely immigration. - Yeah, they kinda just let us through. I was like slightly worried. And then like a lot of it's electronic. It's really nice. We filled out this thing on the phone and then you just scan your code and then you just get in. - You got the nice version, like,

during last year especially, we had like 10 steps we needed to go before we could even get on the plane. - Probably because of COVID? - Yeah, COVID, yeah. And the regulations were so much more strict than going to every other country. So you actually got in at a nice time. - I've heard that. - Every time you have to come back into the country, you have to fill out this form to prove you have a vaccine passport.

but I don't understand why I have to do it every single time. Like I've already proved it like multiple times. Why do I still have to resubmit it every single time I leave the country? - It's like, I'm not gonna like unvaccinate. - Yeah, like I'm gonna suck it up. Like what am I gonna do? Like, you know what I mean? - Like sucking the snake bait out of your face.

- Get out of here! - I don't get it. Why can I not just show the same thing every time? - What I don't understand is especially if it's someone who's been traveling in and out of Japan a lot, right? Like you have the travel records on your passport. So you can just be like, well, I'm mad at- - With a little sticker. - Yeah, so it's like I got in back into Japan after I traveled overseas. So obviously I have the vaccine passport. So why can't you just look at that? And they're like, oh, but we can't confirm it. I'm like,

There's a literal physical stamp on my passport that confirms it. - All right, so you've been around Japan for like a few days now. - A few days. - You said you've tried the different sandwiches that Hassan's bought. Have you tried a lot more Konbini food as well?

Um, so we were talking about this last night a little bit. You told us that the one we liked the most was the worst one. What do you think is the best food? Go on, say it. Um, I want you to say it. Like just in like the type of food or like the... Sure, sure. In terms of like... I like the sandwiches a lot. Okay. Especially because you can just save them. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. You can throw them in the fridge and they're still good. Yeah. And they're so inexpensive. Everything here is crazily inexpensive. I feel like

I think most of the sandwiches including conversion is like $2 or something, which is- - Less than I think. - Yeah, you can't get anything for that's not even a McChicken and McChickens aren't that good. I'm never getting sponsored by it, cut that out. They're pretty good, but they're like where I live, it's like still like $3 or so. - Have you always been on like West Coast America? - I pretty much lived in California like my whole life.

- So you've been used to high prices your entire life. - Yeah. - Do you not miss the crust of your sandwiches? - Not really. - Fuck, I miss the crust. - Connor doesn't like the bread. - No, I like the bread. - Oh, wait. - I remember you mentioned it wasn't like- - Oh, Japanese bread sucks compared to like European bread. It's so bad. But then below Japanese bread is American bread.

Which is like the worst. - What exactly is American bread? - Wonder bread is awesome. - Is that what American bread is? - Yeah, that's American bread. - I've actually never had that before, so. - What?

- How have I had it? - Does anyone go to the store and buy Wonder Bread? - Well, I mean the fact that they're still selling it, I assume so. - But like just the general on the shelf bread that you get in America is pretty bad. - Yeah, like the supermarket kind of bread. I remember the first time I was staying in Wisconsin for like two months or something. And I remember buying a loaf of bread there. And in England, I'm used to you buy a loaf of bread and you either finish it in a week. - A week, that's too long.

- Yeah, I was like, you either finish it in a week. - That's the absolute max. - Yeah, that's like the max, right? You have to finish it within a week or you're gonna get mold in it. And I remember I'd forgotten I'd bought this bread and I've looked at it two weeks later

- And Sydney was like, "Oh yeah, that's still like totally fine. Don't worry about it." Totally fine. It's like three weeks to a month or something and you can still eat it. - What the fuck? - Insane. - Meanwhile in Japan, it's like you buy a loaf of bread, it's like, "Eat it within the next 20 minutes or it's gonna go bad." - Oh man. - That's true actually.

It reminds me of a charity. We did a charity stream. We were doing a week-long charity events. One of them was where we could buy a lot of stuff from small businesses and shout out to small business if it's good. There's one where it was jam. Eat jam with bread, right? We had bread that was, I think, a month past the best by date and we just ate it anyway.

- Oh my God. - It's pretty fine because you're in America, right? - I mean, we did get sick, so. - It's all that Benzaldehyde in that shit. - Have you seen that video where it's some guy took an extended shot of McDonald's and he left it out and then the fries were just like indestructible.

- Oh yeah, they were immune. - A year later. - Yeah, they were just immune. - Yeah, they just like a year later, they looked exactly the same. And I'm like, I had a feeling something like this would happen, but seeing it just right in front of my face. - Yeah, it's probably because of all the oil they use. It's just like mummified the fries. - There's gotta be some more than oil. - Yeah, honestly, yeah. - A little more than oil, sure. - Definitely, oil alone can't do that. It's immortality.

- Otherwise we just like soak ourselves in McDonald's oil and just find the secret to immortality. - Anti-Asian. - McDonald's oil. - The ancient Egyptians could have learned from McDonald's or something. - Yeah, it's just like, you know, like, you know, there's people in Japan that just lived like 110 or something. Like, what's your secret? And it's just like- - It's like, I stay up late to get the oil from McDonald's. - I eat McDonald's every day of my life.

- That's my secret. - Jesus. - That could be it, maybe. - Yeah. What's like your, so since this is your first time out of the US, what's been your first experiences of just like another culture?

It's cleaner and safer is the craziest thing. Yeah. Like there's like, they just leave their bikes around. Yeah. Free bikes. It's crazy. Cause in LA, right? If you leave your bike, even if you lock it, like you can lock your bike to a post. Right. And if it's not a good enough lock, or even if it is, and it's a nice bike, it'll be gone in like five minutes. Usually. London's kind of the same. Yeah. I know that you always walk past bikes where the chain is still on, but both wheels are gone. Yeah. Oh, that happens often. Yeah. And it's like, God damn.

- I think though in the case of Japan, the reason why, I mean, it's mostly also just the fact that people just aren't willing to steal shit in general. But I think in case with bikes, the reason why people aren't just going around breaking locks is because like most people have their own bikes.

And also a lot of the bikes are very inexpensive. - People steal it to sell it, I think, in the States. - Oh, right. - If you see a thousand dollar bike just sitting there, that's a free thousand dollars. - Okay, nevermind. - I can't defend it. - But also in Japan, like a lot of the bikes are like a hundred dollars. They're very cheap bikes. And it's like, is it really worth potentially going to prison for stealing a tire from a hundred dollar bike? - Yeah.

I mean, I have an expensive bike and I've left it unlocked. - Will the police actually try and hunt someone down here? Like in the States you can get robbed, call the police and they'll be like, "We'll think about helping you at some point." - It has to be really valuable, right? - Yeah. - Yeah, even if it's really valuable, I'm not. So I don't know if we should talk. Some of our friends' cars got stolen. - Oh yeah, well I saw Ludwig's one got stolen. - Yeah, Ludwig's got stolen. I believe Mith's got stolen too.

I don't think the police did much for us. - Yeah, Ludwig on his video said that he called the police and they were like, "Oh no, no, that department isn't working today." - Yeah, yeah, they just don't care. I think Mith's car, he has a pretty expensive car. I don't know the exact price. They just don't care. They'll be like, "Oh, your car's stolen?"

we'll think about it and they'll just hang up or something. - Well, didn't he have to track it himself or something? 'Cause I saw he put out a tweet being like, "If anyone has seen this car, please let us know." Don't let the police know, just let us know. - So what had happened from what I heard was he actually found the car himself. And instead of just trying to steal it back, he was like, "I'm gonna call the police and they'll handle it." So he called the police and was like, "Hey, my car was stolen, I guess."

I found it. Can you help me get it back? And they just never showed up, I guess. And he just took it back himself. It's the story I heard. So I was like, yeah, I feel like, I don't know if you told me they would try and catch a guy for stealing a bike. I'd be like, nah, there's no way. Right. But like, if you think about it, is it considered stealing if you're just taking back something that someone stole from you?

- Oh no, I meant like the- - Oh, the guy who stole it. - I guess it's also dangerous as well in the US. Bro, I'm not, guys wanna steal a car. Who knows what other crimes you wanna commit? - That's true, that's true. - Yeah. - I don't know, in Japan, a lot of the- - They don't have guns here. - There is no guns. Yeah. Well, you can get guns, but you have to, it's, well, it's like hunting guns and you've gone through an extremely long process and it's like- - You gotta get a license for it. - It takes a while, but I mean like-

- I mean, the police in Japan don't have a lot going on and they have a lot of police, a lot. For like how much they need to do. 'Cause the government likes giving jobs to people. And so they're just like, you just become a policeman. So they have like tiers of policemen on like how useful they are.

- That whole thing though about like the department being unavailable is wild. - Could you imagine if you like broke your arm and you like called up a hospital and be like, oh sorry, the doctor's just not interested. - Well I think it's specifically police, right? I think 'cause the police are like, nah, it's not. I know like during the pandemic, they were like, if the item stolen is below this amount, the police won't show up.

Like if it was under a thousand dollars, the police won't show up. - That's crazy. - 'Cause it's not worth the time to send the police. - It's like the opposite in Japan where police look for any excuse to do something. Even if it's like the most minor misdemeanor,

or something like that. They'll like the entire army will show up. - They spawn like in cyberpunk. Like if you're doing something, yeah. Like if you were like, you're having a bad interaction with a cop within five minutes, there'll be 20 more. - It's like, you know, you are trip over the wrong guy and then you immediately get five stars

- Yeah, I remember once Connor pressed the wrong button on his intercom, which he didn't know at the time, but was a security button that you press in case something was happening. - I was worried you pressed it when you guys were messing with the AC at your Airbnb. - Oh wait, yeah, there was a button where I was like,

I was trying to turn the lights on and off and like there are all the, all the buttons are labeled. Some of them actually have English. A lot of them just have like, you know, the letter, or I don't know what it's called. Like it can't, the characters. Yeah. Yeah. And I was like, I don't know what this means. Trying to figure out which one turns on which light. And I'm like, Oh, this one doesn't do anything. I pushed it a few times and I'm like, maybe I should stop pushing it. No police showed up. I still don't know what the button does, but it did something.

- Yeah, I remember we were around Connor's place the other day and I think he had a few people over and Rob CD was there. And someone called the intercom and Connor was like, "Oh, can someone like get that please?" Rob presses a button and he was like, "I don't know what button I just pressed."

he takes his finger off and we realize it's the security button. And we were like, "Connor, get here now, otherwise 10 policemen are about to come here." - They'll think you're breaking in. - Yeah, exactly. - Well, they call you back and they're like, "Was that an accident?" And you're like, "Yes." They're like, "Okay." - Say it as panicked as possible. You're like, "Yes, it was an accident." - Most departments have this and you pay monthly for it. You don't even get a choice. Like I can't be like, "No, I don't want it."

Like they force you to pay for it. And yeah, but essentially it's like a private army that will show up. - Yeah, Sekoumo I think it's called. - Yeah, yeah. It's like one company that runs it all in Japan. - Oh, is it a private company? - It's private, yeah. - That's interesting, that's interesting. - Yeah, and they're scary. I pressed it also, my like first few weeks in Japan, I pressed it at someone else's house.

And I'm like, now I'm just gonna be afraid to push any button. If I go to anyone's house, I'll be like, could you turn the lights on? - So here's the trick. It'll be red. No other button should be red. And if it is, they're absolutely trolling you and it's not your fault. - Oh, like the huge button itself. - No, no, the kanji will be red. Everything else should be black or another color, but the kanji one will be red. And it's normally like a, it should be pretty small, but the-

But for some reason in this apartment, it was huge. And it was dead center. And so the thing started ringing and they weren't there and I pressed it. And then I think they called them, but they missed it. And I was just waiting for them to come back and I'm just chilling in the living room. - That's scary.

And then I start seeing like flashing lights outside. I thought, oh, well, you know, someone, some idiot, it's got a police called on them. - Yeah. - Yeah. - The idiot was you. - And then my friend came back and they got a phone call and they were like, why do I have eight missed calls? I was like, I don't know. I was watching like Japanese Master Chef or something. - Oh God. - Playing TFT. - Yeah, I'm playing TFT. I'm playing TFT.

They get another call and they start freaking out. And I'm like, "What, what's wrong?" And they look out the window and they're like, "Oh my God." And I'm like, "What?" - It's like eight police cars. - They're like, "Yeah, all those police cars are here for us." And I was like, "What? Why?" - 'Cause none of the calls were picked up. They're like, "This guy's being killed." - Yeah, 'cause no one had picked up the calls.

So if you do press it, not the end of the world, just make sure whoever's there answers the thing and explains. And then like a whole dude, it was like a comedy skit. Slowly they knock on the door and open it up and slowly opening up this door and this tiny Japanese like apartment foyer area where like, 'cause you know, like the room between apartments is tiny. You open it up and there's like eight dudes in full like SWAT armor.

- Oh God. - We were just there. And then there's just like, like in like a movie, there's this tiny dude comes around the corner, like four foot, whips out a notebook and is like, "Well, well, well." - Oh God. - "What we got here then, huh?" "Gaijin, I see." - Oh no. - "Foreigner, huh?" I need his details. Grilled me, took all my information, asked me about all my employment and everything for like an hour and then they finally left me alone. Even though my friend was like, "No, dude, just chill." And I was like, "What the fuck?"

That does not sound true. - Yeah, that's where I learned the Kanji for, I don't know what it means, but I know not to press that Kanji. - Don't press. - What does the Kanji really say? - I don't know, it depends. - It's the same Kanji everywhere. - Maybe Kinkyu maybe, which is like emergency. - Yeah, it might be Kinkyu. I know what it looks like. If you told me, I'm like, don't press that Kanji. - I just won't turn any lights on.

in anyone's house. - Just be careful where you're going. - Usually the light switches are like white. - It's on the intercom. - Don't touch the intercom. - I won't touch anything. - Don't touch the intercom. - I'll be like, is this the one? Could you turn the light on please? I need to go to the bathroom. I think when I first walked in, I didn't turn the light on. That was on purpose. - Right. - Just kidding. I couldn't find the lights. Outside, I'm used to the light switch being in the bathroom. - In the bathroom. - Isn't that kind of a weird, what if I'm in the bathroom up there?

And you're just like, I'm gonna play a prank on this guy. And you just turn the light off. - That's fun. - Oh, hotel rules. - It's fine. - I can't see anything. I'll be like. - Ah, well, you gotta poop in the dark. - I've got carpet in my bathroom, in the place we're staying. I've got carpet in the toilet. - I'm not a fan of that. - Oh, I don't like that. - I'm like, what if I miss? Not that I'm going to. - I'm a shit pisser, so. - Are you? - Yeah. - Do you guys sit when you're peeing? - Every now and then. - The bidets are so warm.

- Oh, they are warm. - Also it's my job to clean the toilet in my house and I don't want to do the work. - Oh. - I only have to clean it if it's my toilet. So me and Sydney have both of our own toilets. - I guess we just have cleaners come every once in a while. - LA lifestyle, man. - Bro.

- I'm worse than Kuno is one of us. - Yeah. - He was one of the real ones. - It helps, I mean it's. - I thought you were relatable bro. - Yeah, streamers be like, yeah because like, you know, I've heard about stream houses sometimes just being an absolute fucking mess just because you guys are live like most the house of the day. - I do think the standards have gone up.

- Really? - So I haven't streamed super long, but a lot of my friends have been streaming for a long time. They'd have those gamer houses. They were really, really dank, not in a good way. I feel like the standard's gone up these days. - Oh, okay. People actually taking care of themselves. - Streamers discovered me. - I think every single quote unquote streamer house has been the most excessive thing I've ever seen in my life. - Yeah, I do think it,

partially just because streamers make more money than before maybe and they can afford cleaners. I don't think they're necessarily cleaner themselves, but they can afford someone to help them with it. - Yeah, and I think like security over there needs to be so much tighter as well. - Oh yeah. - Because I guess like we don't have any fear of being, not docks, but at least like swatted or shit like that, you know? - Oh, it'd probably be more difficult too

- How the fuck are you gonna tell the Japanese police to come to my house or something? You know what I mean? It's like, all right, good luck. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Yeah, they're like, this is the address and they look at the address and it's like, oh fuck, that's way too long. - So this is a challenge, anybody who knows Japanese. - No, no, no, this is not a challenge. But it's a nice layer of added security on top of it where you're like, all right, first of all, you gotta translate this address into Japanese and then you gotta say it and then you gotta help them take it. - I convince the Japanese. - Yeah, then you gotta convince them. Which they don't do shit.

- Well, it's another thing about like a lot of American friends I've like I have, have talked about having their car broken into. And I don't know if you guys have ever- - That happens a lot, yeah. - That's such a weird thing to me because I've never had even in England, like my car getting broken into. - No. - Yeah, have you? - No, never. - Yeah, I just, I just,

like when when i when i went to america to uh meet my cousin she was like make sure there is nothing on the back seats like no phones yeah don't show off anything nice yeah you got a nice bag don't put it there yeah you gotta put it in the trunk maybe even when you're just parking at the grocery store or something it's always something i i would even also recommend just don't leave anything expensive out yeah because people definitely just smack the window grab it yeah that mock roba video i had a friend who uh was living in san francisco oh that's at the capital of

- Yeah, and she told me one day, yeah, I just went to go to work and I got to my car and there was just a guy in there. And there was just a guy sleeping in there. - Sleeping in there? - Yeah, sleeping in the car. - That's crazier than I've heard of. Robbed, I would have easily believed that. That's crazy. - Maybe he like tried to like, you know, hotwire the car and he's just like, this isn't working. I'll figure it out.

- Yeah, it's absolutely like different kind of environment for me. What'd you think of Japanese food so far? 'Cause you must get it quite a lot in California already, right? How does it compare? - It's really, really good here and it's much less expensive I think. So there's a Japanese curry place I like in California. And I think for the curry, like literally just the plate of curry with meats, like regular plates, it's like 20 something dollars.

- What? - It's pretty expensive, but I like it. And there aren't that many of them. So I'm like, I get it sometimes. And then here we went to a place that was literally better. And I think it was $7. - Is it Kokoichi? - Kokoichi? - Yeah. Oh no, it was a different one. I don't even know the name of it actually. - Go Go Curry? - It was just like a small one. - Oh, okay. - Oh, if it's just a local one. - Yeah, yeah. - Those are the best ones. - And it was much better.

- It's $7 and they do like, you choose your size, it's the same price no matter what, which is crazy. - Oh, let me just put that story. Yeah, I'm thinking of Coco-Echi. - Yeah. - A little extra for some things. - Yeah, there are some things where,

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- Yeah, it's a lot nicer. - Yeah, curry is just like the cheap food here. It's super easy to mass produce. - Yeah, that's one of my favorite foods though. - Japanese curry specifically? - Japanese curry specifically. - I think Indian curry is way better. - I think Indian curry is really good too. - It depends on the mood. - Better. - It depends on the mood. - Just in general. - Yeah, 'cause I love both, but like,

I have the cravings for like Japanese curry sometimes 'cause it is different, right? And it's like, not to say one is better than the other, but like- - It's the safe option, you know? It's the most inoffensive curry you could have out of all the world curries. - It's like if you took Indian curry, like how do you make less flavor and less harsh? And then you have Japanese curry. - It's a little more like,

acceptable for a light palette. Even though it's like compared to other foods, it's still heavy, but compared to other curries, I mean, I'm gonna be patriotic for a second Thai curry fucking. - Oh wait, yeah, Thai curry is one of the best too. - Yeah, Thai curry. - I feel like I just like any kind of curry. - Who doesn't like curry? It's so good. - It's pretty hard to have a bad curry. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - You know in the UK, curry is the national dish. Did you know that?

- Is that? - Yeah. - I've never had UK, is it called UK curry? - The national dish of UK is actually chicken tikka masala. I don't know if you've had that before. - I have, but how did that? - Because it's not from India. - It's from Scotland. - Yeah, it's from Scotland. - I've only had it at Indian places. - Yeah, so it's like a Western kind of thing, but it was made by like some people in Scotland. - Yeah. - Wow. - It's like the equivalent of,

- I didn't know that. - Am I being gas lit? - No, no, no, I'm serious. - I can't tell if you all were like, we're gonna trick him into- - Genuinely, no. - He's gonna go to someone and be like, do you know chicken tikka masala is from Scotland? And someone's gonna think I'm absolutely insane. - I'm 100% sure it is. - It's definitely not Indian. - It's like the equivalent of calling sweet and sour chicken or orange chicken Chinese food, right? Because it is kind of based on Chinese Cantonese dishes, but it was that part of it

part of like, you know, that specific dish was invented in I believe America or definitely some Western country. - Yeah, I think so, yeah. - Yeah, so you can't get it in most, if you go to China, you can't get it in most Chinese places. They'll be like, "What the hell is sweet and sour chicken?" - It's from Scotland? - Yeah. - Oh! - It's crazy. - Most like, if you go to a pub,

most of them will give curry. Like we'll serve it if you want. - So if I want to get the best chicken tikka masala, I got to go to Scotland. - No, no, no, no, no. - If you want to get the best- - That's what I thought you were about to say. - No, no, no, I'm just saying like we, it's just like, it's weird how I think curry is, regardless of where you are in the world, everyone fucking loves just soup and meat.

kind of combined with starch. - Yeah, with a little bit of either potato or rice. - Yeah, some kind of starch to go with it. - That's probably one of my favorite things, yeah. - It's good. - It's like, I don't think like,

- On the tier of like, you know, Indian curries, chicken tikka masala is like, you know, bottom tier for me. You know, there are better curries you can get. - You gotta try Hokkaido soup curry. That's the shit. - How are you with spicy food? - I like spicy food, yeah. - Okay, okay. - Okay, but- - Okay, as a Thai person, you know, I've met enough people that are just like, "I like spicy food." And then I always have to ask like, "How spicy can you go?" You know, I'm trying,

- Like, okay, what's, is there like- - Have you done the hot ones challenge? - Okay, hot ones challenge, that's a good barometer. - You had any of those hot sauces? - I think I've had some of them. And I think there's one called the bomb or something. That was like the max level that I wasn't just absolutely suffering on. And I think it was the third hottest in the set. We bought like a box. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay, okay. - I think it was the third hottest and that was the absolute max, but I still would go less than that if I wanted to be happy. But that was the max where I'm like,

I just wouldn't eat it unless I'm like doing some kind of challenge or- - That's the Vietnamese blood in you, man. - Yeah. - It's in your bloodline. - Yeah, so. - Yeah, but like if you can handle like spicy food, Hokkaido soup curry, they just like load the shit up with spices and sometimes you can get it like really, really spicy. A little bit milder as well if you can't handle that. - Even mild, it's fucking awesome. - It's so good. - Yeah. - It's just curry but-

- Soup. - I do like curry udon that's sort of like a- - No, I don't like curry udon. - It's similar consistency, yeah. - You like udon? - Yeah. Is udon bad? - I like udon. - They like udon. I think udon's too thick.

- Ramen's way better, I think. - Okay, Connor doesn't like it thick. - Don't like it thick. - Interesting. - Have you had any ramen or any other kinds of noodles aside from udon? - We actually, okay, this is absolutely wild, but we, so the first foods you think of when going to Japan

At least for me, it's probably like curry, ramen, and sushi. Sushi, yep. We haven't had any sushi because Hassan doesn't eat seafood. Yep. We're going to try and go at some point. All right. We also haven't gone to any ramen places because usually when it sounds like you'll go like later at night or something or whatever. Yeah.

We've been so tired that we just haven't done it. So we've been here for only for a few days, right? But we just haven't done like two of the three things. I feel like they're the instant things you think of when you get out. - Right, right. - So. - Yeah, I mean, in terms of sushi, I don't know if this is a hot take or not, but

- I don't think sushi is like, people have this idea that they go to Japan, they go to a local sushi place and it's just gonna be like, God like, like nothing they've ever tasted before. But I think you get a little bit of an improvement, but not as much as a lot of people think you get.

- I think it depends on the price point, right? Like in terms of like, just like regular conveyor belt sushi, like I say there's like a slight increase like you're talking about, but like if you want like the shit that will change your life, then you need to be paying like egregious amounts of money for it. - I mean, it's expensive. - Yeah, and even then it's like, if you're not that well versed in sushi, you're probably not gonna taste the difference. - Yeah, I have not had like life-changing sushi, even at some like really, really expensive, like, you know,

posh sushi chains. - Right. - There's a slight increase, but in my mind, there's only so many ways you can present fish. You can use fish, wasabi, rice and vinegar, right? And you can play around with the ratio, but there's only so much you can do to get that as good as it can possibly be. - Sushi chefs be crying right now.

- Your work is fucking meaningless, quit. - I trained a decade for this shit. - Seven generations of sushi chefs and this guy on his podcast just says it's not worth it. - Sushi ro's better, dog. - Sushi chefs are quaking. - And I say this as someone who fucking loves sushi. The thing I love about Japanese sushi is that you can get fucking amazing sushi for a good price. If you wanna get sushi outside of Japan, you have to pay like a fucking- - Well, yeah, that's where I think Japan sushi is at its best is that it's not that like,

somehow the fish is magically better. I just think that at an affordable price point, that's much higher quality than what you would get. Like in the UK you could buy, you go to the supermarket and get a sushi tray. And it was like, you'd bite into the prawn or the shrimp and it would like bounce back. Like your teeth wouldn't bounce into it. - And there'll be like that aftertaste sometimes. - And salmon would be tough. And you're like, damn here it's like, it doesn't matter where I get salmon. It's like, it's always good. Even though it's not even from Japan.

And I guess if you compare it to like a lot of like American restaurants where you can get sushi there, it's like...

I think the biggest benefit is that you pay less for more fish. So it's like the cuts are bigger and also it's like fresher, I guess, if you can like taste the difference. But like, I think that's like the biggest selling point. It's like, oh, I get this much fish for like half the price that I can get in the US. Okay, that's pretty life-changing. - I feel like everything's just been less expensive. Like clothing. - Especially compared to California. - Oh, you're from California. - California is like the most expensive place on earth. - Might be in the wrong place, but yeah, it's like,

What's it called? Yeah, the food is cheaper. The clothing even is cheap. I think March bought a jacket. Right. Pretty nice jacket. And it was like...

I think it was like almost 30% off basically just 'cause of the conversion rate. - Right, right. - Which is crazy. I was like, I can't believe, I feel like I should buy everything I can. Everything's basically on sale just purely 'cause it's- - Yeah, the conversion rate is like really, really bad for Japan right now, which is great if you're coming to visit as a foreigner 'cause everything's on discount, like 30% or something like that. - It's 0.7 for every, around 0.7. I mean, it changes.

- Yeah, it used to be a lot more, but yeah, since Japan closed off its country for so long, the kind of the conversion rate just- - That's why foreigners love Japan, right? That makes them feel way more richer. - Yeah. - It used to be closer, a lot closer. It used to be like 100 Yen was nearly a dollar. - Yeah. - And it's way easier to convert stuff, but now it's like, I don't fucking know. - I would say they use a lot of cash here. - They do, yeah. - Yeah, and my wallet doesn't have a coin.

- Oh, I have a coin purse. - And I just don't know what to do with the coins. I've been giving all my coins to March 'cause I'm like, I don't know what, I can't just keep all these coins in my pocket. So I'm like, here's all the coins, use them somewhere 'cause I don't know how to hold all these coins. The craziest thing is when you have like a certain amount of coins and I guess there's a hundred coins. You give them the coin, you're like, finally, I'm getting rid of these coins. They give you your change and you get more coins back.

And I'm like, I'm trying to get rid of the coins. But now I got four coins from my one 100 coin. And it's crazy because you can buy stuff for less than a dollar. I feel like in the US it's like,

you can't buy anything for a dollar. Then you go to the $1 store and they have things that cost more than a dollar. It's crazy. Went to the $1 store and I was like, "Oh, this looks nice. It's like $12." I was like, "Why is it called the $1 store?" - I will say there's nothing more satisfying than paying for, like you go to a Konbini and you pay for the amount that you buy for the exact change and just getting rid of all that change. I remember like when I first moved to Japan, I was

super like worried and anxious about like holding up a line and just like getting the perfect change. But like after a year of living here, I'm like, no, you can wait. I'm going to get rid of all of the coins I have. I've literally like min maxed the amount of change I get. So I get like the least amount of change every time I go to the company. - I also like that there's a $5 coin. I think that's nice.

I don't want $1 bills. That's so much effort and $5 bills. It's nice to have all the bills be like high denominations of money. It's just nice. I like that. And the coin feels powerful.

- Yeah, sure. - I'm curious because I only know you from streaming. When did you start streaming and what were you doing before streaming? 'Cause I don't know. - So I started streaming just about three years ago. So it's been a pretty quick- - It's only been three years. I feel like you've been on the platform forever. - I'm like one of the newer streamers, I guess. But I just got lucky, I guess.

and pretty well in the short time. Like, cause all my friends, right? Like I think Leslie just hit her eight year streaming thing. I think Lily hit like 10 or 11 years or something. Like everyone's been doing stuff for a long time. I've been streaming for like three years, basically right before COVID basically. - What were you doing before streaming? - Before that I was a software developer.

So I pretty much had a regular job and everything. I went back to school to try and get a better job because it's hard to get promoted. The tech industry is usually you never get promoted. You have to apply to a different company. And if you apply with a better degree, you'll get a better job. Doesn't matter what you're doing. So did you grow up in LA? Grew up in LA, went to the Bay Area for school, worked in the Bay Area and then went to school. And then...

This is kind of weird, but I'm not good at making friends kind of thing. So what I used to do was I would leave streams on because it felt like people were talking to me.

It's really cringe. It's really cringe. That's endearing. Basically, I would just go to work or I would just go to school, come home and just play League of Legends. That's what I did back then. And then I started streaming because I watched a lot of streams. Because it just felt like you had someone else talking to you when you came home. Because it was like school...

I would talk to classmates, but it's not like we were friends that would hang out. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that. And then you'd come home and there's just no one to talk to, completely quiet, kind of weird. Right. So I'd leave streams on in the background to just have some noise of someone talking. Yeah. And then I started streaming to kind of do the reverse, and I was like, oh, maybe I'll make some friends. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I made tons of friends, so that worked pretty well, like you guys. Yeah.

- You sound so confident. - Yeah, well, I mean, so I've played with Connor. - Yeah, we've played a few games before. - Yeah, yeah. And then I don't think we've ever played, but I've met you a couple of times. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And I said hi to you once. - We had like a two second interaction. - Yeah. - What do you think is like the best game to make friends with?

- Definitely not among us. - That's how you lose friendships. - Yeah, honestly. - But I don't, I'm not actually sure, like probably a teamwork maybe. - Right. - But I think the biggest thing is when you play multiple different games. - Yeah. - Right.

Like when it's just someone you just asked to play a random game. - Yeah, I agree. - What was the game for you in your case? Like what was the one that really- - Probably Minecraft was the first one. - Oh really? - Yeah, that makes sense. - So I'm assuming you guys know OTV, right? - Yes. - I was friends with Lily. She invited me to the Minecraft server. - Were you friends before streaming or? - Yeah, yeah. - Oh wow. - She was actually the one who told me I should try streaming. - Oh wow. - Oh nice.

And then she just invited me to the Minecraft server, met a lot of people there. And that's pretty much how it mostly started. Cause I was going to say, I was like, it seems, uh,

I'm sure anyone who's watched this has tried streaming or being a YouTuber. It's like, you know, it's really hard to get that initial kind of growth. - Yeah. - From like one viewer to a hundred is like very hard. - Especially on Twitch. - Yeah, Twitch is impossible. - For small creators it's like impossible to find. - Where no one will ever find you. - Exactly. - Yeah, yeah. - And so how did you go from like one viewer to 10 or a hundred? Is it purely from the collabs or? - I really don't know. I just played games with the people that liked playing games with me and that's,

- Since I had like a regular job, I never really thought about, I didn't really care, right? I was just like, this is really just for fun. - Well, did you quit because, yeah, I've always been curious. Did you quit your job because you were like, okay, I actually really enjoy streaming. This is the job I want to do. Or did you just kind of like hate your job and were looking for something new?

- Mostly just 'cause streaming was more fun and just made more sense. And I think I've made more money streaming anyway. So it kind of worked out. - Yeah, 'cause I think we all have a similar experience where we went to school, studied for a certain subject, found out we hated the subjects and kind of like, yeah, let's try content creation. - Yeah, I've not used my mechanical engineering degree. - Oh man. - So, we'll see you one day.

- One day. - One day I'll build like a table. - On stream. - Ikea table. - I'll build an Ikea table. Then I feel like I'm getting value out of it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Hearing your story reminds me, have you seen "Bocce the Rock?"

- Oh, that's one of my favorites recently. So I have to- - Of course you'd like it. - I have to confess I haven't watched the whole thing, but I've seen clips and I like the clips I've seen. - That's like Bochy, like you are kind of like Bochy's final form, I think. Like the end of like the journey, you know, start off with like a lot of like anxiety and just want to make friends and look at him now guys, look at him now. - He's on Trash Taste now. - Yeah, in Japan, yeah. - The biggest success I've made being on Trash Taste podcast.

- Let's go. - We hear that a lot. - How did you come up with the name Trash Taste? Is that? - So we were kind of brainstorming a lot of different names 'cause we knew we wanted to make a podcast.

And we weren't gonna let Joey name it 'cause he would name it the anime podcast or something. - Or the podcast. - Or the podcast. - Didn't you have a podcast called the anime podcast? - I did, yeah. - Oh my God, I forgot you did. - No, no, it was the anime. - So that's a real thing. - It was the anime show. But to be fair, I wasn't the one that came up with that name.

It was the radio company that I was doing. - It fits the anime guy. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So I was like, I was doing a radio show in Australia and they wanted me and my girlfriend to do like an anime themed podcast. And they were like, "Let's just call it the anime show." And I was like,

"Well, fuck, I don't have any other ideas, so sure. Let's do that." - Joey was like, "Well, that was my first suggestion actually." - Yeah, yeah. - "You read my mind." - I think that's good though. I think a lot of people, when you're trying to come up with an idea, a lot of content creators struggle with, they plan too much and don't actually do it. 'Cause they're worried about making it perfect from the start. I think it's better just do it.

- Yeah, I agree. - Not great, just do it. It'll get better over time. - Exactly, exactly. So we knew that we wanted to kind of market ourselves as an anime podcast initially, but also we knew we wanted to branch out of anime. So we wanted something that was like- - You thought about this. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - I learned my lesson especially, 'cause it's like calling myself the anime man. I was like, I basically just pigeonholed myself into that kind of- - So instead you called yourself Trash.

- It was one of three names that we narrowed it down to. One was Trash Taste, one was Men of Culture. - I'm glad you didn't go with that one for some reason. - And the last one was The Salt Room. - All terrible names. - Trash Taste sounds really nice. It sounds better than before all of a sudden. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - When you compare it to the other options. - I'm liking it even more.

- Yeah, so we ended up with Trash Chase. Yeah, because we've all been creating content for quite a long time. So we had learnt, you know, some people they just go with their first username that comes up with, you know, that they come up with. - I went with Sycoon. I've had it since I was like 10 years old. - That's good man. - I was gonna ask you like, where'd that name come from? - I just made it up when I was like 10 years old, thought it sounded cool.

- It still does, I think. - It's a pretty sick name. - I think I was smarter when I was 10 than right now. I feel like I was more creative or something. - How do you have a better sense at naming shit at 10 years old than I do at age 28? - I have no clue, but I don't think I could do it again. - My first username was donkeyman5, but I spelled donkey incorrectly and it didn't have a Y at the end 'cause I didn't know how to spell it. - So it's donkeyman. - It was donkey. - There's a guy who spelled donkey incorrectly and he's pretty cool, I've heard. - Really? - His name's Donkey.

- Oh, that too. - Yeah. - Hilarious guy. - Why did they take five though? Why men five? Like surely Donkey Man was, I don't fucking know. But luckily I didn't stick with that name. - People are randomly calling you Donkey Man. - They'll probably call me that now. - It would have been a really different podcast if it was the Anime Man gig and Donkey Man five.

- That would have been funny. - And so I chose Cdog, which isn't that much better, but at least there's no fucking weird name, number in it. - Yeah, I kind of lucked out. - Oh, numbers are always bad, I think. - Oh yeah, numbers are always bad, yeah. I kind of lucked out with my username. People think, "Oh, it's such a cool name, and such a unique name." And luckily it was just like a family nickname that I had growing up, and it was my very first account, which was a Hotmail account.

- Yes, that's showing my age right now. - Dude, your mom came in clutch with that one. - Yeah, my mom came in clutch. Thank you very much, mom. - Yeah, that'd be nice to inherit usernames, actually. We should start that. Like, your kid has to inherit your username online. - Sounds crazy. - No, that sounds great, because then we'll get like- - What if your kid's not as cool as you are?

- My name is not cool. - And they're constantly being shamed for it. You're a pretty cool guy. - No, I'm not. - He is a cool guy. - No, no. - He's actually a cool guy. - We could take it so that like after like five generations, it'll start sounding really fucking weird and fucked up. - It's like, so son, no matter what you do, your nickname will be Boris McSweaty. That's just the username. - Yeah, 'cause the like cursed names will be fun. Like this should be like a thing, like a government rule. - Yeah. - That all usernames have to be. - Usernames should have second names as well, like surnames.

- Oh yeah, I'm from the Gigguk bloodline actually. - Yeah, that's what I mean. We should have it. - What about those guys whose usernames are like XXNaruto420? - That's great. Imagine that you're signing, you go to the doctor like, "Yeah, sorry, is XXNaruto here?" - Yeah. - Yes. - XXNaruto420. - Two people with their hands up like, "What?" - It's like, "Wait, you too?" It's like, "No, the one with the 69 in his hands." - Yeah, it's like a Narusasu69,

Do we have anyone here? - It's like, is that with or without an underscore? - I've had a bunch of different shitty names 'cause I could never decide on one I liked. I think one of them was Xbox best CMC as well. - Were you one of those dudes who would fight the PS5 and Xbox and be like, this one's better? - For sure, yeah. - Connor was definitely that toxic. - I was like a super toxic gamer. I was that annoying 14 year old you hear on Xbox way back. - Oh God. - Squeaker.

- Not a squeaky, 'cause I had a deep voice. - You seem competitive. - Oh, super competitive. - I feel like you're a competitive. - Super competitive. - In the few times we've played, I feel like you are a competitive. - Yeah, very much so. - What was it that, I think I saw Ludwig beat Jump King. - Yeah. - And you were like, "I'm beating Jump King now." - Yeah, I beat all the Jump Kings that he beat.

- Yeah. - Conor will not get invested in the game unless it's competitive. - Unless he's beating someone. - Yeah, unless he's beating someone. - And you'll just admit to that. You'll be like, I did it to beat Luton. - Yeah, yeah, for sure. - He doesn't take the L lying down. - Did you beat his like timer? I don't know. - I think his first attempt, but he's definitely done better runs, which I should be. - His tone of voice changed a little when he talked about the,

the competitive, he's like, well, I think he did a little better. - He definitely is still better than me at it. I gotta get better though. But I did some of the maps quicker than him. - Okay. - Meanwhile, me and Joey are just single player games, which is probably why we haven't played anything together yet. - Yeah. - We're just like, I'm- - Elden Ring, have you played that? There's a new expansion I've heard. - Is it competitive?

- There was the PVP one, I didn't play that personally. - Elden Ring sucks in PVP, it's boring. - Well, you do that cheese strat where you roll around in the spikes. I heard it got patched though. - It's just over so quick and it's kind of like, I imagine how it feels like to duel in real life, where it's like you just get shot and you're like, oh, well this is- - And then it ends in a split second. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. You're kind of like, well, that's not fun. - Yeah, yeah.

- But then I just watch occasional YouTube videos where someone owns someone with a 10,000 gigabrain strat and then you're like, okay, that's fun. - Make sure a funny video. - But how many times did it take you to get this to work? Like this probably took like thousands of attempts. - They recorded for like 10 hours. - Yeah, yeah. - 30 second clip. - Yeah, probably, yeah.

- Yeah, no, I'm definitely gonna play "Elden Ring" sometime. I'm that kind of guy who- - No, you're not. - Didn't it win game of the year? - It did win, okay. I'm that guy who- - You're that guy. - Yeah, no, no, no. - You're that guy. - I am that guy. - You're that guy. - But I'm that guy who,

I just only watch or play things when I feel like it. One day, I know this, like this happened plenty of times with like different anime or different movies where it's always been on my to watch list. - Wait, you haven't watched it either? - You haven't watched it yet? - I haven't watched, like I kind of know what happens 'cause it's such a big show. - Oh yeah, I feel like I could recite like 70. - So we'll watch it together.

Which means we still won't have to watch it. Or maybe. He's never going to watch it. He's never going to watch it. Yeah, probably neither will I. Now we can just blame each other. Exactly. I'll be like, well, it's like, you know how much we get. I promise to watch it with Giga up here. And we just haven't gotten around to it. We can just use each other. If anyone's like, why haven't you watched? It's one of the greatest. I'll be like, I promise to watch it with a friend. And we just haven't gotten around to it. Our schedules aren't just matching. We're from Japan. It's time zones.

Now we both have a good excuse. - Yeah, okay, I'm saying this now, you know, I'll watch Fullmetal Alchemist when Sycuna watches it. - Same, same. - All right, all right. - And I'm leaving Japan in a few days. - Yeah, but like, I'll just wake up one day sometimes and I will just be like, feel like playing or watching this random movie or game that I haven't like heard of or remembered from like years ago. And I'll just like marathon it all in one day. - That is exactly what I do sometimes too. - Yeah.

And like, I just, sometimes I get so hyped for a game that by the time it comes out, I'm just not hyped for it anymore. Like, - Oh yeah. - Yeah, hype fatigue. - That happens so many times. - Yeah, like it happened with Cyberpunk. I was so, so fucking hyped for Cyberpunk. Then obviously it came out even before like the whole controversy with the bugs or stuff. I just, you know, I was just like, well, I'm done.

I was like, I got my hype and then I didn't even play it. And I'm like, okay, I don't feel like playing it. And then everything came out. And then one day I just woke up like a month ago and I was like, I feel like playing cyberpunk now. - After watching the anime. - Actually yes, after watching the anime, that was it. - And it was good. - I watched the anime, I was like, I feel like playing cyberpunk now and marathoned it all in a week. And I was like, yeah, I had a good time. I'm glad I waited for the bugs to get fixed. - Yeah. - No, that was part of the fun.

- What? - Was it? - Yeah, it was all broken and shit. And it was all funny. - You must've liked Skyrim or something. - Yeah, I have never played Skyrim. I'm more of a competitive gamer. I don't like competitive games. - Did you like Sonic the Monk? - No, it was terrible, but it was funny when it broke. - Okay, so he didn't like the game. He liked that it was funny. - I'm kind of glad that it did have a lot of bugs 'cause it made it more bearable. 'Cause at least it would like laugh. - Well, you enjoyed it 'cause you were streaming it, right? - The bugs made it more bearable.

- Well, 'cause it was like, you'd be doing this shit mission where you're just shooting a guy for 10 minutes and then he'd start floating. - I think there were bullet sponges. That was a thing. - There's so many bullet sponges, so many. - I was in there for the world and the characters and the story and two different games. - You're the 1%. - It looked cool, like aesthetically looked cool. - I think Cyberpunk is, as a non-game here, I think 2077 is highly underrated.

I think CD Projekt Red did a fucking fantastic job building this world. - As a non-gamer. - Yeah, as a non-gamer. As the non-gamer. Like I think the, unfortunately the best content in Cyberpunk 2077 is the side missions. I think the main story was a bit cliche a lot of the times, but there was some really fucking interesting side missions, which Connor will skip. So he didn't get the best. - I don't do any side missions.

- I wanted to be done. - There are two types of games. - You mainly play competitive games those as well. - Yeah, like Valorant or something like that. - You're very competitive. You pretend not to be, but you definitely are. I can tell, I can sense it. It's like an aura. - Kind of, but the- - He's just like me for real. - I know, I know. I know when someone's competitive. - My competition is sort of different. Like I don't try to be good because I want to win. I want to do weird stuff. So like a lot of people will see like, and Valorant is a good example.

I try to get good enough where I can do silly plays that look funny. Knifing people is like, it's just not a thing you normally do. I try to do it because it's funny. So I waste a lot of time trying to figure out how to do that better. It's not good at ranking up. It's not good for winning, but it's good at making good clips. There's a time where I played against like a pro player. I knifed him like multiple times and he was losing it. It was really, really funny.

So I'm competitive in the sense where I want to be good enough to do funny things, but I'm not competitive because I want to win the thing. Right, right, right. I feel like...

- It was after the Among Us era where even people who didn't say they were competitive, they started to get like a competitive side to them. 'Cause I kind of missed the whole, I didn't miss the Among Us craze. I was very, very late to it. And I played my first game like a month after the craze started or something. And I remember by the time I started my first game, everyone had like min maxed everything. They were like, okay, well, where were you? What room were you in? What challenges were you doing? And I was like, I was, what?

- I haven't even learned the math. - I think I played one game with Toast and Toast have just memorized literally everything in existence. And I was like, well, this fucking sucks. - That happened in our group a lot. We had to do a lot of mods, a lot of weird stuff to spruce it up, which made it fun, but definitely to some extent we were just like, we've done everything there was to have been done. - Yeah, I had another friend who lost it

'cause I voted him out 'cause he was being sweaty and he wasn't the imposter and he lost it. He went like full like light, like at the end of Death Note speech. Connor you idiot, what are you doing?

I'm not the imposter. I'm not sus. And then he was like, go. And I was like, well, I just kind of made the game less fun. So bye-bye. Oh my God. That is probably the biggest insult you could give someone. Because I've got a crazy question for you guys. Okay. Podcast is called Trash Taste, which I would assume means...

- Bad taste? - Yes. - Who amongst you three have the most trash taste? - Gaunt. - What would you say? - Gaunt. - Oh, well, you didn't even think. - Gaunt, it's Gaunt. - For me, it's kind of Gaunt. - Okay, so he's the only one I could trust. - Depends on which category you're talking about. - Have you heard of Domestic Girlfriend? He's obsessed with this piece of shit thing. - No, but the title sounds like a...

- Is that a good show? - No, it's terrible. - It's incredible. - Can you describe the plot? Okay, how about let's do this. - Describe the plot, Garnt. - He describes the plot to me. And then you describe, maybe Connor describe it first and then we'll see. - I only know it through him, so I can only guess what it is. But I know roughly what kind of happens. - What would you guess? I mean, just like once.

- Just guess what you think it's about. - I think, okay, no, correct if I'm wrong. This might be funny for you. 'Cause this is purely what I've picked up. - I just want your description and then his description. - Before you say anything, do you like vanilla sweet storylines, like sweet romances or do you want something that's got a little bit more drama into it? - I liked like "Toradora" was good. - Okay. - Is that vanilla? - It's like "Toradora", yeah.

- Yeah, that was a cute one. - Okay, so that's some drama in it. This goes a little bit further. - Yeah, so to my memory and in my memory of nothing, I've just gone mentioning things and occasionally things. I think it's about a story where there's a teacher, but then the teacher becomes the main character's step sister. And then they start like getting freaky, but then he has a girlfriend, I think already, I think. And then he's like kind of,

- Figuring out who to fuck between the teacher who now is now his step sister and his girlfriend. - He likes his anime. - He loves his anime. It's one of his favorite. He had an interview with the author. - A teacher and a student. Isn't that like a, like that? - Well they're step brothers and step sisters as well. - Step brother, teacher. - I feel like it's like, you know how in- - It just sounds really sus. - Yeah, well, I guess it's kind of like, I imagine- - And he's not interrupting you.

- This sounds like it's all true. - Well, I think- - This just sounds like it's all true. - You know what? The reality is actually worse than what he said. - Okay. - Wait, wait, wait. - I was like, "What is going in easy, right?" - Really? I know, I remember seeing a scene where

- He's in the bathroom and she sits on his face or something in school. - And this is a regular, like it's not one of those, those like 18 plus animals? - No, no, it's not a regular animal. - It's a regular animal. - It could probably be in the 18. - Okay, okay. - I'll describe it. - Okay, now he'll explain it better. - Okay. - He's great at this. - 'Cause you glossed over the surface. - Yeah, I think so, yeah. - Oh my God.

- Okay, anime opens up. Okay, the anime literally opens up with the main character and he's just finished sleeping. He's just lost his virginity. He's just finished sleeping with a girl that he met randomly. - Literally scene one of episode one. - Literally scene one of episode one. - So is he like a Jigga Chad that girls are just into him or? - No, no, no, he literally just lost his virginity. - How, what's, is there a story? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. So he randomly met a girl at like a kind of like a karaoke meetup.

And the girl was like, "I feel like losing my virginity. I choose you like a fucking Pokemon. I don't fucking know." Like she just woke up that day. She was like, "I wanna know what it feels like to be an adult, I guess." - I want my hymen gone. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. So that happened. - Is this the scene that hooked you in on the anime or what? - Honestly, I'm gonna be honest. Yes, because how many...

How many anime have you seen where the characters actually have sex or do something adult or do something more than just kissing? - Well, first of all, I'm going to say I haven't seen any. And I'll also say, I believe there's a different

for shows like that. - Yeah, it's called hentai. - But you know, I will say that, hey, hey, you know, adult relationships, human relationships go further than just handholding and having one kiss. - Yes, I get that. But you know, even porn has like a beginning plot

before they start talking. - No, no, no. The point is it was shocking just to see an anime like open up on that. I'm like, oh, okay. They're taking risks. - You liked that it was shocking. - Yeah, yeah. I'm like it was doing something different, which this definitely does. - That sounded very different from the description I just had heard.

- And this is one of your favorites. - Yeah, I genuinely like the manga. I think it's the best way I can describe it. It's like the most trashy soap opera you can ever imagine. Like, you know, you see scenes of out of context Indian soap operas or favelas or stuff like that. This is like on that level of like drama. So the scenes, that's how it starts off. And then after that happens, he goes to school and we find out that this person has a crush with his teacher.

- And his teacher is like a female teacher? - Yeah, female teacher. - And they're step-sister? - We'll get to that, we'll get to that. - Is there an age difference? I always imagine like a teacher is like much older.

- She's like what, in her late twenties maybe? - Yeah. - And the guy is- - 16. - Yeah. - Like he's a high school student. - Yeah. - And that's okay in Japan or is this- - I wouldn't say it's okay. It's very, very tough. - What do you like about this anime? - So what happens is, he has a crush on his teacher. His teacher obviously is just like, "No, you are a child."

But then he comes home and he realizes his dad's like, "Son, we need to have a talk. "I'm getting remarried." And because his father's divorced and then he reveals his new mother-in-law. He's like, "Great, I have a mom now. "That's awesome." But then it's revealed that his mother-in-law has two daughters. And who are his two daughters? One is the girl that he just slept with and the other is his teacher.

- I didn't know it was that bad. - So at first the teacher says, no, you're too young. And then their step sister, she becomes a step sister and now thinks it's okay? - No, no. - 'Cause that's what it sounded like. Maybe I'm misunderstanding. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. And so now they become, and so now they, all of them become one big family. So they're living in one roof and there's,

- A lot of tension in the house because- - We're tainting a poor innocent mind. - I'm sure. - I feel bad. - The way he's describing this sounds insane. - It is insane. - It is insane. - It is insane. - It is insane. - Oh, okay. - And mind you, all of that happens in episode one. - Yeah, that's episode one. - Okay.

And so the story just kind of evolves from there from being just this insane kind of premise of just all three of them living under one roof and just fucking figuring out feelings and shit. - This is one of the anime you would say gives him like not highly rated on his taste. - Yeah, this is a terrible show. - What's one that would make him say you have bad taste? - Anon.

- Well, he did say you have, he voted for you. - Not an anime, my anime tastes are the best. - Anime tastes. - That is the most. - What do you have bad taste in, would you say? - Nothing. - You don't like 86? - Yeah, you don't like 86. - 86 is bad, have you seen 86? - Don't know what that is. I think someone brought it up to me and I thought they were talking about Initial D.

- 'Cause of the car? - Oh yeah. - I feel like, I definitely feel like you've probably watched more, the thing you just described, I've never heard anything like even similar to that. - Okay, here's- - Very surface anime though, I guess. 'Cause that's like- - I watched most of the main stuff. - Right, right, right. - I haven't watched too much crazy different. - Okay, yeah, yeah. I mean like the anime I described,

I wouldn't actually call it good. It's more like a guilty pleasure kind of show to be like, oh my God, this is so awful. - If you thought it was actually good, I would be judging you so hard right now. - But he loves it. He always talks about it. - Yeah, because the guilty pleasure. - He seemed passionate. - He's very passionate about it. - It seemed like he liked it quite a bit. - Yeah, it's definitely a guilty pleasure. - Usually the guilty pleasure ones are the ones you get the most passion. - I just couldn't get over this interview you did with the author. And it was like the most polite thing ever. And it's like, so...

- Why do this? - I feel like, 'cause,

- That's how it always is in Japan. - That's how it always is, especially with authors. - Authors are always so like timid and reserved, but then like the stuff they write is like, holy fuck. - Well, yeah, I mean, I did that interview with the author of "Rido of a Healer." - You know "Rido of a Healer?" - Do you know "Rido of Healer?" - It sounds like an Isekai. - That's my guilty pleasure. - It's almost an Isekai. - It's almost an Isekai. - But you liked that show? - It's kind of a guilty pleasure. - You know what terrible experience I did have? So I had just finished watching, I think "KonoSuba" and "The Shining"

ReZero, I think it was. I watched those two. And someone told me, I think Goblin Slayer was also sort of like similar because they had like adventures in a party, right? Yeah. Because like Konosuba had like, you know, the mage, the, you know, stuff like that. Yeah, it's also like that. And I watched, I started watching the first episode. Yeah. And I was like, oh, this is like, this is Aqua. This is like, you know, because they had the whole party. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then it was not like that. No.

- This was not the show I thought it was. I thought it was like that. They have like a little adventuring party. They're gonna go on adventures. And I, 'cause I had just come from those two other anime. Totally different. And I did not watch another episode of that. - All right. - I taint Sykuno's mind right now. Do you want to explain redo of a healer? - Okay. So re...

- This is not hentai by the way. - And this is the guy with the best taste in anime out of you three. - Absolutely. - He's seen them absolutely. - And he thinks this is a good anime. - No, no, no. This is definitely not a good anime. - It's a guilty pleasure. - Why are you telling me? - It's a guilty pleasure. - I think it's disgusting. - So, "Rido of Hila", it starts off, the main character is the healer in the party. And it's like a standard party. You got your sword,

- That's interesting 'cause usually you'd think the main character is like the warrior or something. - Yeah, like the hero, right? - Yeah, so there's the hero, there's the mage, there's the tank, and then the main character is the healer. But this party treats this healer like absolute shit. Like they basically treat him like a slave.

- Just like in real video games. - Just like in real video games, the healer is the slave, right? And so it's the anime starts off and they're fighting the, I guess the final boss, the demon Lord or whatever. And they get to it and it's a really like tough battle. So much so to the point where basically the party gets pretty much wiped out.

- Is it like sword art when you die, you die in real life? - No, no, no, no. This is just like a standard fantasy world. - So they just regular die? - Yeah, yeah. - I thought it was a video game. - They straight up die. So they're basically, they have like maybe one HP left and they're like, "Healer man, please help us out. Even though we treated you like shit." And then the healer's like,

now's my time for revenge. And basically what he does- - Oh, so the main character becomes a bad guy. - Yeah. - Basically becomes like an antagonist, right? Because it's like, you've treated me like shit this whole time. And now you're begging for me to heal you, but I'm not gonna do that. I've trained up my healing power so much so to the point where I've become ultra powerful basically. And so what he does is he basically kills his party

and then kills the demon lord, gains his power and learns the ability to basically go back in time, but he regains his memories.

- Okay. - So what he does is he's because he's regained his memories, he basically goes on a quest to basically relive his life with that party that treated him like shit. But now he's gonna try and do the most like horrendous shit to them as like payback. - It's some like weird, sick power fantasy show. - But he already killed them all. - Yeah. - Yeah, but he's gonna kill them again. - He's gonna kill them again? - And kind of like make it- - But torture them. - Yeah, torture them. - Well, 'cause they did some very disturbing things to him. - Yeah. - So this is one of those, you know like those dark,

What's the name for that genre? - Dark fantasy? - The ones where it's like an evil kind of thing and a lot of people die. - Maybe dark fantasy. - This one's more of like one- - Oh, like "Made in the Abyss." - Oh, it's definitely- - Like a dark fantasy, right? Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, like that. - It is very different. - I don't know the name of the genre. - Two very different shows. - So that one was good. I liked "Made in the Abyss."

- And that is like objectively a great show. - Not evil, but it's like, it's dark. - It's very dark. - Or "Promise Neverland" also. - This one feels more, not so much a good story, more like an incels like rambling. - Where did the incel part come from? - Big incel vibes. - There is a lot of- - R word?

Yeah. Yeah. What type of anime is this? This is a crazy question. Is this, this is not on Crunchyroll. Uh, I,

- It was on Hi-Dive. - What is Hi-Dive? - It's another streaming platform. - There's too many streaming platforms. - I like the one there's like Peacock now, there's a show I wanted to watch. - No one watches Peacock. - No one uses Peacock. - I don't know. - I think it's on ABC. - He was telling me the show is good. The second I saw it was on Peacock, I was like, I'm never watching it, sorry.

- I just don't know what to say. - Yeah, 'cause all the good TV shows are on like different platforms. There's Severance that was only on Apple. - Yeah, it's on too many places. - I was like, "What the fuck? I ain't got anything Apple to... How am I gonna watch this?" - Oh, you don't use Apple like anything. - Nothing Apple.

- Oh, okay. - I'm not a California boy like you. - Well, I actually used to not use Apple. - Oh, okay. - But my family would get mad at me because the text messages were green. - What? - That's the thing though. - What? You got bullied by your family? - I don't know what the difference is. It's just a different color. The words are the same words. I don't know what changes when it's blue.

- Most people I met in California all had like Apple everything. - It's actually like a lot of America. It actually surprised me the percentage of people that use Apple in America versus the rest of the world because yeah, hearing about the blue bubble, green bubble controversy. - I don't even know what the difference is. - I think the green one is they have to like pay per text. - No, no, no, no, no. It's blue is for iPhone.

- So when iPhone takes an iPhone, it's blue. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - So you can send bigger files, you can send video files as you text. But they basically, can I call it class segregation? Where they're all like, "Oh, filthy fucking Samsung user, you are a fucking green bubble." - Yeah, filthy green bubble. - Yeah, that's what my family did to me. And they're like, "Please get it so our family group chat is no longer green." - That's so dumb.

I don't want to be judged at work. - I don't know what the difference is. I mean. - Oh my God. - Yeah, so it's basically like a soft way for Apple to make sure that if everyone is on like one kind of system, then it pressures other people to join us. - Speaking of things, there's a lot of, there's no Teslas here.

- There is very little. - I have not seen a single one. - It's very, very little. - I think that in California and even Las Vegas, they're everywhere. - I think the reason is because there aren't that many charging stations in Japan. And also a lot of the streets are just too narrow to drive Teslas down. - Also, Japan produces the most cars in the world and Toyota runs everything here and Nissan. - Toyota, Suzuki, Honda. - They own it all. So they're like, "We don't want no...

'Cause if you have a foreign car here, it's like a, seems like a luxury car. So if you drive like a BMW or a Mercedes, Mercedes is like the, if you have a Mercedes in Japan, they fucking love it. - They're like, ooh, Benz. - Yeah, they love the Mercedes. - I saw an initial D is when I saw it. They're like, the Benz. - Yeah, dude, dude. - Is that crazy?

- Where we live, we see them a lot. - Yeah. - 'Cause in like the UK, there was never this like, obviously Mercedes was still a great brand, but like it's nowhere near like revered as much as it is here. - They're not like, oh, the Benz. - Yeah, they're like, oh, Mercedes Benz. - Yeah, you're not gonna be in LA and be like, whoa, he's got a Toyota.

- Like, "Yoda, step back." - Yeah, I mean, even the car that Ludwig bought for himself was a little Japanese car, wasn't it? - It's cute. - It's funny. - But that's considerable luxury in the States, I feel, is because it's an old Japanese car. And that's like the prime time. - It's like an 80s car. - It's like a vintage car. - Right, exactly. - It's quirky. - Yeah, it's quirky. - It's different. - Yeah, very quirky. - I feel like the Japanese strawberries are so good.

- It's 'cause you have American ones. - Yeah, like I barely eat fruits and then I came here and I'm like, every strawberry is good. - Also he hates strawberries. - I don't like fruit that much. - I don't like fruit either. - They made me eat a cream and kiwi and pineapple sandwich. - Oh, the whipped cream sandwiches? - Yeah, it was fucking gross. Like Japan needs to stop doing this.

- It's not fair. - Do you hear that convenience stores? Connor doesn't like it. You should be shaking your hands. - Fruit sandwich is the dumbest thing ever. I just think they're so bad. - Oh my God. - They are. They're so bad. - I agree. I just, fruits should not be sandwiches. - No. - They're not as good as the other ones. - Yeah. - Just like have a- - Just eat a fruit cake at that point.

- Yeah, or just eat the fruit. Why do we have to cover it with cream on a bread? - Actually, I think I would like that. Just the fruit in like a little container. - The fruit tasted good, so just give me that. Like, don't give me this shit. I hate it so much. - Yeah, like if I want to like a kind of like something filling with the fruit, it would be cake. It wouldn't be spread, you know? - Like a shortcake or something. - Yeah, like a shortcake or something.

- They're going for a scuffed version of it with like just the bread, like, you know what I mean? - You know, I would prefer like a crisp sandwich to a fruit sandwich, honestly. - Sure. - Not that I wouldn't, you know, I don't eat crisps. - A crisp sandwich, is that like chips? - Oh yeah, it's like chips. - Oh man, my brain took a second to figure that out. - Chips, yeah. - It's like a British delicacy. - Oh wait, and chips would be fries.

- Not for me though. - Oh, okay. Where are you from? - Australia. - Australia. - So fries, like thin, long, thick ones, which are very normal in the UK. You get those more than you get the thin ones. Those are chips. - Oh, okay. - Yeah. - But some people refer to French fries as chips still. - Yeah, we call them hot chips. - Oh, okay. - Hot chips. - It's kind of, it depends where you go. - Is there such a thing as a cold chip? - No, that would just be chips.

- Okay, I'm just curious. - I mean, unless you've had hot potato chips before, which I have. - How long have you guys all lived here? Like same, did you all move at the same time? - No, no. - I've lived here like close to half my life. - Half of your life? - Yes. - Like accumulatively, yes. - That was a very funny yes. - How good is your Japanese? - It's my first language. - It's your first, first language? I thought you were from Australia. Guy tells me he's from Australia. I'd like to, I would imagine. - He's super fluent in Japanese.

- Well, why wouldn't you say you're from Japan then? - No, no, because I was born and raised in Australia. - Born and raised in Australia and they only taught you Japanese? - No, they taught me English. - Oh, okay. - I'm speaking English, right? - Oh yeah, yeah, but it was your first language, so I'm like, what? - Well, it's like English and Japanese, I have like two first languages. So basically when I was born, my mom taught me Japanese and my dad taught me English. - Oh, so you're like part Japanese? - Yeah, I'm half Japanese. - Yeah. - Okay. - I just don't look it. - Yeah, what did you think he was? Yeah, I'm curious.

You can say anything. I've had everything thrown at me. - I actually, I don't know what I would have guessed. - Yeah, what did you think, Gordy? - What would you have said just from looking at me? - I don't know. - Try not to get canceled 20%. - Maybe, I wouldn't have guessed Japanese. - No, no one ever does. - So do the Japanese people. - Yeah, no one ever does. - Maybe somewhere from Europe, I don't know. - Well, I'm not European. - I feel like if you were a soccer player, I'd be like, yeah, he's a pretty cool looking soccer player.

or football player, football player, I don't know. - Do you know what I think it is? It's the beard. - It is the beard. - The beard, yeah. - Yeah, yeah, because, okay. Yeah, like when I went back to Thailand this one time, it's obviously like within the time I've been living in Japan, I've grown a beard. Normally I'm like completely clean shaven. And it's like every single, like every Thai person, even my own family members were just like, "I've never seen this boy in my life." - You Thai?

- You Thai boy? Who are you right now? - Oh man. - Yeah, I don't know. - Beards aren't really a thing in Thailand, I noticed. - No, they're not. - There's just no beards. - I mean, not a lot of Asians can grow beards. - Yeah, exactly. - Yeah, I grow a little hair here, a little hair here.

And that's it. And then like a little here. But like I'll never get anything anywhere around like there. Yeah, yeah. You're the rare breed that can actually grow a clean beard. Yeah, I'm the rare breed. This is like a few days of growing. Yeah, yeah. I remember when we did a...

we did a road trip across Japan and my beard at the end of that road trip, even though it was only five days, it looked like I just emerged from a cave, man. Holy shit. - Like a hermit. - Yeah, like a hermit, man. - Wait, was he in the RV thing or a different road trip? - Garnt joined at the end. He's referring to a different road trip. - Oh, okay. - Yeah.

It's fun in Japan. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Driving's fun in Japan. I don't know. America is like mind numbing. You just drive eight hours. There's a lot of grass and cows in between. Yeah. So yeah, that's like, but that's not much though. Right? Like in Japan, there's always cool stuff to do along the way. You're never far away from something. Yeah. So what other plans do you have now that you're here in Japan? Anything you want to do or where you feel like we're actually low on time? Like we've got tomorrow and then,

Well, tomorrow we actually have a rehearsal for the event. So that's going to be a thing. So basically tomorrow, can't do much. Day after is the awards show. So that'll be gone. Then I'm leaving the next day. What's your anime of the year if you're presenting that? My anime of the year? Wait, did you vote on the anime awards?

And they said, "Come present an award. We'll pay for all your stuff." And I was like, "Sure, I'll go. Let me know a day I got to show up." And that was about it. So I don't even know how to vote, but I mean, well, I will think it's cool. Like they didn't make me do a bunch of shout outs or anything. They just show up and you're good. So very nice of them. - What would you have voted as your anime of the year?

- So for 2022, I imagine. I didn't watch too much anime there. - It's okay, these boys didn't even- - I watched a fair amount. - Okay, let's all go through and say ours and maybe it'll change my, let's start over there. - No, no, no, no, no, no. - No, no, you should say yours first 'cause we're gonna sway your opinion. - I'll go lost, I'll go lost. - So Bochy the Rock is not from last year.

- Technically it is. - Or maybe Spy Family. - Is it nominated? - It's not nominated. - I feel like Spy Family is a good one. - Spy Family, that's from last year. - That's a really good one that I did watch. - That was a good one. - I guess I'd go with that just because I did watch it. - Wait, Fall isn't included? - Yeah, I don't know why. - Only recency buys, right? - Yeah, I think too. - 'Cause they had problems with that a few years ago. - But we'll include Fall in our Atomy of the Year prediction. - Yeah, I'd just go for Spy Family 'cause I,

I watched it the whole way through. - It's just a nice wholesome show. - I didn't finish it. - Good show. - I got bored. - You got bored? - Really? - Yeah, this is Connor's game of brain going. - All right, so you go next. - When is your gonna like do assassinating? When is that gonna happen again? Like it's like she just became a housewife and she like actually became a housewife. - Yeah, but that's what people like, right? - No, he's still doing spy shit. Why isn't she being an assassin still? It's fucked up. - It's called spy family, not assassin family. - Yeah, yeah.

- I feel like they had a really cool character and they just left it. They were like, well, fuck it. I don't know. Yeah, it should be housewife now. My anime of the year. I mean, I did the low hanging fruit chainsaw man, but it kind of was there. - Was that last year too? - Yeah, that was technically. - Technically, yeah. - It's like, I don't think anything blew my mind more. - I honestly kind of agree with you. Like, I hate being that guy who goes for it, but it,

- It kind of was the ghost. - It was pretty fucking amazing. - It was kind of fucking amazing. I don't know how to be like, no. And then Guts whip out something crazy now. - I'm just "Made in Abyss 2" was fucking insane. - I haven't watched "Made in Abyss 2." - Yeah, that was not nominated. - What? - Yeah, not many people

- I feel like it wouldn't have gotten the votes yet. I think it's really good too. - Yeah, yeah. - I don't think it would get votes. - It didn't get nominated. I don't know how, what I think is going to win the anime awards. I'm gonna make this prediction now. So if it's correct by the time- - Oh, here's what we do. Say like five anime right now and you'll look like a genius. They'll edit out the wrong one. So just list them off. Chainsaw Man. - I know what's gonna win. Attack on Titan is gonna win.

- Oh, it's Attack on Titan, that's gonna win. - For the final season, part one. - The last few parts have been so underwhelming.

- Really? - I thought so. - You thought last part of Attack on Titan was underwhelming? - I just liked the memes, honestly. The memes were the best part. - Yeah, I've seen the memes and I haven't watched. - The Eren talking to, well, I guess I'm not gonna spoil it, but you know, the meme with Eren talking, that one's good. - Hold on a second, why do you think it's underwhelming? I think Attack on Titan is like right at its best right now. Like the previous season without spoiling the plot twists that happened in the previous season,

And some of the hype shit that happens, that's fucking- - Definitely the crazy stuff's happening. - Yeah, yeah. Why do you think it's-

- I think just the way that they're releasing it. - I think it's the way they're releasing it has been really killing. - Yeah, hype fatigue, right? - Dude, like I thought- - Final season. - I was so ready for this to be the final season. And when I kind of figured out it wasn't gonna be, I was like, oh my God. - It's like final season, final edition, part three. - It's just, yeah, I think- - It's gotten a little crazy. - As we've discussed before with like, you know, Netflix jail and stuff like that, like how a show releases is really impactful in terms of my own enjoyment. - Oh yeah, absolutely. - And I find that the way they've been releasing Attack on Titan and you know,

I don't know whose fault it is or where the blame should be put, but I think it's been killing the hype for me. - They're milking it. - I don't even know if they're milking it. I don't know if it's a mess of, 'cause they changed studio as well, which means like, what was that about? - I would say, I don't think they're milking it. Maybe in terms of the- - I feel like they might be dragging it out. - Maybe in terms of like the release schedule, because it takes-

a long fucking time to make Attack on Titan as good as it is. I think- - It does, I wish they would just stop. - And I think I would prefer them to just have a more extended break rather than split up into 5 million different parts. - Yeah, that's been killing my enjoyment. 'Cause it's like the, when did they release the code, did you watch Code Geass? They released a key to the exile, but it was like, this is way, way back by the way.

And this was like, I fucking love Code Kiosk. And they just kind of released these parts, four parts just all over the place. It was like, they dropped one, they were like, "It's coming next year." Nothing. And then they just dropped two parts in one day. Didn't say anything. It's like, what the fuck? Can we get some kind of consistency going on here? It's like having the accurate amount of enjoyment or expectation, knowing what to come in with it and what to expect helps so much with kind of figuring it out. - They should give you a date.

- Yeah, or just tell me when it's actually gonna end. Stop calling it the final season. Stop telling me the shit and it's fucking with my expectations. - They're naming this shit like fucking Photoshop files. - Final edit one. - This is the real final. - Actual final edition version two.

- I feel like to actually enjoy Attack on Titan, I need to wait till it's done and go back and rewatch all of it again in like one sitting almost like one kind of just to get a real good enjoyment out of it. - This is why I don't watch anime weekly because I feel like some in cases like this, you just, you enjoy them and just drops. I'm kind of like a marathon kind of guy. I want it all in one go and it just, I think- - And I agree, but also I really love the public discourse that goes on every week.

- Oh, same, same. - I love like, you know, "Last of Us." I love watching people get angry every week at dumb stuff that doesn't matter. - Try watching "One Piece" weekly. - Oh, God.

- Nothing happened again. - Most weeks nothing happens, but every once in a while, one episode is really, really good. - Yeah. - That's when you like, being in the end on that feels so great. Like being able to have a shared experience with thousands of other people without knowing anything about each other is kind of cool. - So what I do is I just open up Twitter and if I see One Piece trending, I'm like,

- I literally did the same thing where something big happened in the last arc of One Piece. And I was like, all right, it's time to catch up to One Piece, I guess. - Yeah. - Yeah. Like, I don't know, there are a lot of content creators who can do like weekly One Piece content or weekly like Naruto content when that was still airing. And I'm like, how the fuck do you have enough to talk about? - There are some content creators who are still doing weekly Naruto content. - I did see a lot of,

- No, I think it was Sasuke fighting dinosaurs from Jurassic Park. - Oh yeah, the Boruto. - Yeah, did you guys see that? - I've heard of this. - I thought it was an edit. - This cannot be legit.

And I'm just thinking back to all like the barter fans that are like, yeah, it gets good later on. Yeah. And then we get that. So the crazy thing is I saw one week. Yeah. And I swear this, I didn't watch it, but I swear the arc must've gone on for like a month at least. Cause I, at first it was one like Raptor and I was like, haha, that's funny. It's probably a one-off episode. Nothing can happen.

Next week I see more clips. Sakura gets attacked by a brontosaurus. And then there's pterodactyls flying in, lightning, and I'm like, what is happening now? This has gone crazy. And there's even one scene where he's like, genjutsu doesn't work on this raptor. And I'm like, what on earth is happening?

I was so confused, but I don't know. It could have been an edit. I don't know. - No, no, I'm pretty sure that's just Boruto. Every time I like, every time I like watch a clip of Boruto, I just like, what have you done to my boy? What have you done to my boy? I just imagine like Masashi Kishimoto, just like a single tear like goes down.

- He's like, it wasn't worth the money. I gave him the rights. - He wipes his ear with like a stack of bills. I'm so sad. - Add more raptors.

- So why are they fighting Raptors? - I don't know. - Because Boruto. - Oh, okay, okay. Sorry, I shouldn't ask. That was a dumb question. - I did think it was crazy that it happens. - Yeah, I mean, I think Naruto should have just ended if I'm being honest. - Well, like- - What a hot take. - I mean, I feel like if you're gonna make a new series with Naruto or with a big franchise like Naruto, just wait a few years, you know, wait for the death

of the franchise to kick in before you suddenly just reboot it and do something new. - I feel for someone like Kishimoto and a series like Naruto, it would be almost impossible to like move on from that. 'Cause you know, remember he tried to release Samurai 8

- Which is that like other manga that he started. - No, no, no, no. - I don't remember that. - Of course you don't. - Because no one read it. Because no one read it and it got canceled after like three volumes because it's like, no one read it. Everyone was like, we just want more Naruto. And it's like, I feel for like an artist like that, it's so hard to like move on from something else unless the thing you move on from is like even better than what you were originally known for. - Which is tough. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And like the only example of like,

an artist who's successfully done that, it would probably be like, you know, going from Yu Yu Hakusho to Hunter x Hunter. - Oh wow, those are the same dudes. - It's the same guy. - Wow, yeah, they did great. - Yeah, same guy. - Like Yu Yu Hakusho was already amazing. And then he was like, okay, I'm gonna try and one up it. And he did. - Joey still needs to watch Hunter x Hunter. - Yeah, I'm saying this as someone who's never seen Hunter x Hunter. - Oh, it was good. - One of my favorites. - Yeah, exactly. And it's like, just, and I feel that's the only way that like, Kishimoto would be able to like,

and actually like move on from Naruto. - So no more ninjas or? - I don't know. But then he was like, I'll just do a spinoff of his son. - Yeah. - Nobody wants that. - Nobody ever wants the son. - Yeah, I think it's actually a different Magika. So he's only- - He's like overseeing it. - He's overseeing it. But I mean, what does overseeing mean? - Which means he's retired with stacks of cards.

- Yeah, which means he's on the payroll, chilling out with mimosas, having a good time. - He basically learned from Toriyama and he's like, "Oh, you made how much off GT?" It's like, "Oh, I'll do the same thing, yeah." - He gets in a Zoom meeting and he's just like, "Oh yeah, we're thinking about adding dinosaurs to Naruto. Is that cool with you?" - He's like, "Yes, that's perfect, keep going." - He's like, "I don't see why not."

- Jurassic park did well. - Yeah, exactly. - Speaking of hunter hunter though, they finally announced that it's not going on hiatus anymore. - It's just straight up canceled. - It's just straight up canceled. - Oh, I was hoping for something else. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Why?

- Why now? It feels like just commit to the hiatus 'cause that's what they've been doing for like 20 years. - I'm glad that they just committed to the fact that we're never gonna see the end of the story because we never were even with the hiatus. - He teased coming back last year like four times. - Yeah, I saw that and my hopes were high. - He had like 2 million likes on a tweet of him just being like, "I might come back." - He drew a tree and it got 2 million likes. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was like, "What the fuck?" - Yeah.

- I think it's because they finally realized that just like, like Togashi was just huffing copium when it came to like coming back. He's just like, yeah, I'm definitely coming back. - Maybe, yeah, I could do that. - Such a good fucking show. - And he took a nap and woke up. Nah, nevermind. - He took a nap, woke up and it was six years later. He was like, oh shit, okay. - He's like, all right, I can't do it anymore guys. Yeah, but I'm glad it's at least like,

I'm glad it's not on hiatus because I can like put in my mind, okay, this is finished now. I can put it away in my memories. - But it doesn't have an ending, right? It's just stopped.

- Yeah. - Well. - That's so shit. - Yeah. I mean, Berserk fans are like, first time? - Continuing Berserk? - Yeah, but it's not the same. - Yeah, I mean, it's a different, you know, it's a different author. So there's always, no matter what, even if it like fucking slaps, there's always gonna be that group of people who are like, well, is this the Berserk that was going to happen though? You know? - Yeah. - Did you read Berserk at all?

- No, no, it's good actually. - Well, I was telling you about "Redo of Hila" being a dark fantasy. I think the best dark fantasy is "Berserk." - Which one would you recommend someone start with if I've never watched anything like in that type of show? - Not "Redo of Hila." - "Berserk" is definitely, 'cause like "Berserk" is inspired

- I've watched anime, but I don't read manga like ever. - Okay, if don't watch the Berserk anime. - Except the 90s one. - 90s one is decent. - I like the 90s one. - The 90s one is decent. - I feel like if you are ever interested in manga, if you start off with Berserk, that's where like the peak

of manga is. - Yeah. - If you ever were interested in reading manga. - You like Elden Ring, right? - Yeah. - Elden Ring is like that all that kind of imagery and the scale of the monsters and all that is all very berserk. - Miyazaki, the creator of the Soul series has said that his biggest influence was berserk.

- I mean, I have seen the guy with the big sword, which does remind me a lot of- - Yeah, which is the- - Style looks like it. - Yeah. Was Elden Ring your game of the year? - Yeah, it was one of my favorites. I think they actually have his sword in the game or a sword that looks very similar. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I used it for ages. You can dual wield them as well.

- Oh shit. - Yeah, which is- - Not even Gus could do that. - Gus didn't do the dual wield. - You don't get too much benefit from dual wielding the big- - You don't get that much. In fact, it's actually worse, I'm pretty sure. - But it looks cool. - It looks cool. - It looks badass. - It's a statement at that point, you know? - What would you say then is like your all time favorite anime that you've seen? Like if you had to pick one. - Oh man, that's- - I know that's a hard question. - That's really difficult.

And I'm sort of the dude. So I will say my choice wouldn't be based on what I objectively think is the best anime. I don't know the answer for that either. Yeah. It would pretty much just be the one I grew up with. Right. It has the best memories, right? Yeah. So it'd probably be like Naruto or One Piece because those are the first ones I watched. So it's kind of like, I don't know if they're the best objective anime ever.

- Well, it depends on which fan base you ask. - Oh yeah. - I mean, I still think they're both great shows, but "One Piece" especially, that's still going strong. In fact, "One Piece" is going stronger than ever after what, 20 years now? - Yeah, "Wano" was- - Almost 30 now. - Yeah, "Wano" was fucking insane. - Just can't take it.

- So long. - Yeah. - I'm right there with you. - So long. - Yeah, even Joey needs to catch up now. - Yeah. - But, yeah. - My one piece video is just gonna be a business class flight review at this point. 'Cause I am only reading it on flights. - Oh really? - That's actually what a lot of people. - Yeah, 'cause I just stick a GoPro and I just fucking read it. And then I'm like, all right, cool. - This video is gonna take like 12 years to make. - And it's just all gonna be flights. - Yeah. - I don't know why you,

are doing it all in one video, you could easily like split that up into seven. - I just wanna make like just one giant video. - 'Cause like One Piece fans are like kind of like JoJo fans and that's- - Yeah, they want anything. - As soon as you finish an arc, they're like, "What did you think of that arc? Tell me everything. What does it rank? I need to know." - I just wanna go through it, then I'll make a bunch of One Piece content afterwards. But I wanna make one giant One Piece video. I'm like, "That is it.

go to that video if you ever wanna hear me talk about One Piece. - I thought about doing that for the JoJo video as well. I was like, eh, it's just easy if I just do it all in one big video. - Yeah, I think so too. - Yeah, well, look forward to Connor's video in about 10 years. - It'll be, I think it'll come out either late this year or early next year.

- Okay. - It's gonna take forever. - You heard it here, guys. - I think I've been doing it for like seven months. - Okay, let's get an update. Where are you at right now? - I'm at halfway, nearly. - Halfway? - Nearly halfway.

- Arc? - Which arc? - Thriller Bar. - Thriller Bar. - Okay, okay, okay. - That one wasn't my favorite arc, personally. - It was all right. - It was all right. - It wasn't my favorite 'cause I don't wanna say too much. - I don't wanna hear any further. - I'm trying my best not to talk about it. - Yeah.

But I mean, I'm enjoying it. I'll just say that much. - Okay, that's good. - I'll save it for the video. - Yeah, we'll save it for- - Hyping up this video like Jesus Christ, like a second coming of Christ himself. - Another year. - Another year of hyping it up and saying I'm not gonna talk about it.

And then it's gonna come out this year. - Well, maybe next year. We'll see how it goes. - Oh wait, he's backpedaling. - Just don't like CD Projekt Red that shit. - Yeah, yeah. Sorry guys, we're delaying the video one week. Sorry guys. - So did you watch all of Naruto then? Or did you read the manga at some point? - So I watched up to most of Shippuden. And that was most of it.

- Okay, so was it like, did you get to the fourth Ninja War arc at all? 'Cause that's when I started. - I don't know if I did because, so I watched a lot when I was like really, really young and I'd go to, so the anime wasn't so big back then. What would happen is you would buy ripped burned CDs from the local scuffed DVD store. My uncle owned the store.

And that's where I would get it from. And I would get like "Naruto" episode one to 10 super late, by the way, like you wouldn't see it weekly. And I just watched the original "Naruto" way back in the day. - Hell yeah. - That's very similar to how I first started "Naruto" actually. My first ever first purchase with anime was on eBay. And I thought I was getting an official DVD.

- No, it was just burnt DVDs. - Just a random burn. - Yeah, yeah, it was just a random burnt DVDs. - Yeah, I wrote on it with a Sharpie. - Yes, someone wrote on a Sharpie. - Mine was like Naruto 1 to 10. - It was just a CD folder with burnt CDs on it. And that's how I got into anime. - I'd rather that than subscribe to Peacock

- I'll say that much. - Same, same. - I'm rather than like sub Espanol part eight. - Wait, I used to watch that on YouTube 'cause for some reason they wouldn't get mad at the Spanish subbed ones. For some reason, I don't know why that was a thing. - Those were the only ones that existed on YouTube. - How could you read the subs?

- You kind of couldn't, but you would sometimes they would have the added captions or someone in the comments. But I did take Spanish in high school so I could sort of understand some. But a lot of times it was just like, just see what happens and you can kind of tell from the pictures. - There's a lot of Spanish in California. A lot of Spanish, like you just see Spanish everywhere. Spanish TV. - It's quite common, like at least in LA. Every school would be like,

well, at least my school would be like, you have to learn a foreign language. They recommend Spanish 'cause there's a lot of Spanish. - Right, right. - That makes sense. - I mean, for us it was French mostly. I took Spanish in high school as well, though I've forgotten all of it. So it's completely useless to me right now. - Yeah. - Did you have to do anything in Australian? Like what's on the Australian curriculum?

- So it depends on the school, but my school only offered one language and it was Japanese. - Well, that's awfully lucky. - And I'm like, well, easy curriculum for me then. - That's awfully, that's really- - I literally sat back- - That's so strange, really? - Yeah, it was only Japanese. And it's like, I mean, again, it depends on the school 'cause like a lot of like the other schools in the area were offering like, you know, the standard like Spanish and French and you know, all that kind of stuff. Yeah, but for some reason our school was like only Japanese.

And I was like, okay. So I would just sit in the back of the class and they'd be teaching them like standard, like, are you ill and like hearing on and stuff. And it's like,

- I was just sitting in the back of the classroom. - I can't believe the teacher made you turn up to that. - Yeah, I had to turn up to it 'cause it was in year eight, it was a compulsory subject. - Guy speaks better than the teacher. - Yeah, I literally had moments where the teacher would be teaching me something, teaching the class something and then just every now and then they'll be like, "That was correct, right Joey?" And I'm like, "Yeah, yeah, yeah."

- I'm getting paid for this, right? - You're like, yes, goes back to playing Final Fantasy or something. - Yeah, I was just playing on my DS the whole time. I'm like, it was great. - You guys got another recording today. - Yep. - You guys are gonna be absolutely juiced, packed up. 'Cause you got someone coming soon, right? - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I think, well, Hassan's almost here, I think. - Yeah, yeah. - Hassan's.

- If he ended his stream, he's on the way here. An absolute workaholic, there's no chance he's dawdling around somewhere. - Okay. - Kind of a little worrying, but you know. - Some streamers just like that. They've just min max. - He gets to where he is by working like that. - Yeah. - I respect that. - I can imagine. I'm glad to be a YouTuber. - Yeah. That's why I could never be a Twitch streamer. - Oh, that's, I went to a YouTube summit thing that I was invited to 'cause you know, YouTube contracted me.

And like, I think we were the only few stream, you know, streaming is not huge on YouTube. Yeah. Compared to Twitch. So like I went there and I noticed the biggest difference between talking to streamers and YouTubers. They actually take breaks. Like I feel like for me. Yeah.

I'm taking like eight days off streaming. Absolutely insane. Like nobody does that. It's just crazy to do that. Usually I'll take one day off maybe. Maybe one day off a week. Is that why you haven't, is this why this is the first time you've traveled outside the country? Well, that's-

- Well, that's just 'cause I didn't have a passport and I never found a reason to. - Oh, okay. - But yeah, I feel like streamers don't take many days off. - Yeah, it's 'cause you can't. You are locked in that grind 'cause I mean, I've tried several parts to try streaming more and then I realized if I just take one week break, your viewership just halves immediately. - It's not good for that and you lose a lot of your subs, a lot of your revenue too. So it's just bad all viewership down, revenue down.

everything down. And also you just know you're not, cause like I know a lot of streamers and when I talk to them, they're like, when I have the stream on, money's going up, I'm making money. So it's very easy to be like, why am I not doing that? Why am I not monetizing this? Yeah. Like I can turn this on and I get paid and I got bills to pay everything. So I feel like it's very easy for streamers to just be like, oh, I could do this.

do that today yeah make certain amount of money like i know some people who uh will be like i make this amount of money every day yeah and if they take a day off they'll be like i just lost some amount of money like and they'll be and they'll just feel bad about it and it'll bother them i think it's

- Hard to like get away from the mindset. - I find it's a really unhealthy mindset. - Oh, for sure. - I feel like that's why, yes. - The man is outside, so I'm good. - Hassan's outside? - Yeah. - Okay. And I feel like that's why it's so easy just to get caught in like streamer burnout. I feel like it's way more prevalent than YouTuber burnout. - Extremely common, yeah. - Because even taking a day off, you feel super, super. - A lot of YouTubers that I met there are like, I make a video every few months.

And then the rest of the time I'm doing whatever. And I'm like, Oh wow. That's, that's pretty nice. Yeah. Like I've gone, I've gone down to like a video or at most two videos, like a month. And I'm like, yeah, it's pretty good. Yeah. Hey, have you guys met Michael before? Um,

- Yeah, yeah. - Reeves? - Yeah, yeah. He'll make a video maybe once a year. - Once a year, yeah. - He does- - He's doing great. - But every video is a fucking banger, man. You know, and his views- - He works very hard on it. - Yeah, every time he uploads a video, views are always banging. It's always a banger video. And I really respect him as a content creator. - He's one of the content creators. I watch every video he makes. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Which is a low effort commitment 'cause it's once a year. - It's like Christmas. - Yeah, exactly. - I love his videos though, for sure. - Yeah, Michael Reeves. - Oh, yeah. - What'd you do on holiday?

- You take a break, what'd you do? - You don't take breaks. - Yeah, exactly. - He's always live. - Yeah, that's why I'm asking. - Most streamers are. I mean, I'm not as bad as Azan, say that. I do think moving to YouTube helped a lot. 'Cause now I get paid, you know, like can't say too much obviously, but now I get paid no matter what. Like I'll make enough where I don't have to be like, if I'm not streaming this day, I'm not making this money that I might need for something or something. So I think moving to YouTube

let me do a lot of things where i can be like i don't have to stream this day i still got to do it like you still feel it but it's like do you count this as a holiday at all i'd like to but my body's telling me otherwise because we've been getting up at like 6 a.m every day we come back you saw us at that dinner ray was like falling asleep yeah yeah like hassan's still kind of alive because he was hopped up on coffee and stuff like the rest of us are like guys we're

Yeah, I can't wait to go back after eating. Ray's like, if I drink a sip of alcohol, I'm going to KO. Like, I'm so tired. It was, yeah, so it's like sort of, yeah, I mean, it definitely was fun. I enjoyed it. Do you want to travel more at all? I want to come back to Japan, actually. There's so much we didn't get to do. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. You're here for such a short time.

You should definitely come back and try this one more. - And we missed our first day 'cause of the delays and all that. - Right, right. So you missed out on quite a lot. - Exactly. I feel like you've spent all the time in Tokyo and rightly so, there's enough to do to put your time in just purely Tokyo, but there's so much of Japan that's interesting as well. - I feel like there's stuff to do.

Compared to like LA, there's stuff to do. Oh yeah. Go around and do things. There's stuff to do as well in like close proximity to everything. Yeah. That you can just go to. And I'm like, wow, I could like go somewhere new every week. Yeah. If you lived here, for example. Yeah. You could work and stuff. And then every weekend or something, I don't know. Maybe not weekends usually. So this is a pro content creator tip. Just don't go out on the weekends because that's when all the regular people go. Always go out on like a weekday when you're like on a Monday afternoon. This is my first week doing...

- You wouldn't believe it, but a lot of people like are just, we were booking a vacation in a Big Bear recently. We just got it a weekend instinctively. Cause that's normally what you do. There's so much traffic. I didn't even get to ski cause it was packed. And I was like, guys, why did we come here? - On a weekend when you all could have. - When we all could have just showed up at any time, like on a Monday at midnight and like absolutely had no one to, you know, like,

you know, being crowded with. - I think the only thing that happens when you, I guess maybe become a, I noticed when you become a bigger influencer or whatever you want to call it, you still kind of do have this weird notion of weekends are kind of a bit more free because more often than not, maybe your agent is trying to contact you throughout the week and he's like, "Hey, I got this deal." - Oh man, let me tell you, I'm the least,

I believe that. I believe it. All my friends have like assistants. They have like teams. I'm like, I'm just the dude who just plays games. So I'm very not, not very professional. This is so funny because when I was talking to YouTube about them buying me, I was like, you know what I mean? Right. And then I was just like,

Um, yeah, I don't really have they're like so would you have any crazy plans coming up and I'm like now I'm probably just gonna keep playing games and they're like, okay, okay Do you want any help doing things and I'm like now I was just gonna play some more among us and like some other games And they're like, okay. Do you what kind of content do you want to make and I was like? I'm just gonna play games with my friends and then I don't know if that hurt my negotiation at all, but I'm definitely like not as

you know, professional, I don't know what you would call. I'm not like a real content creator. I just- - You just go with the flow, right? - Yeah, I kind of just played games- - Maybe some would argue that makes you even a real content creator. - Maybe, well, you are so nice, Connor. - I don't know about that. Just wait, we gotta have more food and drinks. - We gotta bring the real side. - No, I'm being nice now. - My mouth always says nice things about you. - No, I'm terrible, I'm terrible.

- No, I'm kidding. - No, that's true, that's true. - She does, everybody does actually. - Yeah, I've definitely been enjoying my weekends more. I've had to learn as a content grader how to enjoy my weekends.

- No, it's true. - Genuinely, when you first start, you're like, I can work any day and then take a break any day. But the point is, I feel still like it feels weird taking breaks on weekdays, you know? 'Cause everyone else is grinding and you just feel like, I could be working right now 'cause everyone else is working. You see like the messages from your agency and people are still in the office and you just like, it doesn't feel like a proper break, but.

especially like, you know, making friends who aren't content creators as well, especially in hang out with them. I've learned to appreciate my weekends more 'cause it feels like nobody's working now. So I don't feel guilty for not working as well. - 'Cause I think even just seeing messages about work can sometimes drag you back into that kind of work mindset. So that kind of ruins, if you had a good vibe going on, you're like,

- Damn it, I gotta stop what I'm doing and reply to it. - You gotta pause this game and reply to the email. - The game is the work though. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I gotta stop work to do that. - Do you have a game off stream? - Oh, all the time. - Oh really? You're just addicted? - I just like playing games. I do think the biggest thing that stops me from ultra streaming

is just my voice gets tired when you talk. So I typically stream six to eight hours every day. - That's a lot. - That's a lot of talking. - It's a lot of talking. - So at some point, like I physically will like, there's a time where I just lost my voice.

And I was like, I've just been talking too much. I think it's like- - I love that's where you draw the line. - Yeah, like when you just can't, and I'll still be playing the same game off stream. I just can't talk. I feel like it's like Disneyland. - Yeah, so do you have games that you play on stream or games you play off stream or is it always the same game? - Usually the same actually. Sometimes there's a few games I just play off stream 'cause like-

- Maybe it's not fit for stream or something. - Yeah, like if I can't talk while playing, like if I have to focus a lot, I feel bad if I'm not talking 'cause it's like, that's the point of the stream kind of. - Yeah, for sure. - It does depend on the game. - You're a more truer gamer than Connor is, man. - I mean, I just play TFT off stream. - I play that off stream too. - 'Cause no one wants to watch you play TFT. - And I just don't know what to talk about. I can't be like, yo guys, I'm rolling the best. You know, like it's hard to like be excited

nothing crazy. Yeah. It's also like a lot of,

- A lot of information being taken in if you don't know it and it makes no sense. - And a lot of back seating. - So much back seating from chess. - Which makes it a struggle, a bit of a struggle. - Yeah, there's some games that are just awful at back seating. - Yeah, chess is bad. - Oh my God, I remember trying to play chess. - Chess is so bad on stream. - My ELO reduced by 200 messages. Sorry, 200 points just by streaming it. - Unironically, I believe I was 100 ELO chess player.

Well, first of all, I only did the bong cloud because I thought it was funny. Throw that in with the fact I'm actually just bad at the game and it was an absolute disaster.

- Connor's pretty good. - No, I'm not as good as Garnt as I've lost. - Oh, okay. - Yeah. - He lost to Garnt. - Yeah. - Like once or I mean- - Well, when it mattered, twice. - The one time when it mattered. - When it matters. - We had a tournament and I lost. So it's a shame I try not to relive. - But it's okay. He won at the chess boxing. - I did beat Lovato at chess boxing. That was fun. - Slapping. Were you ready for that? You looked kind of surprised.

Well, I didn't know until like three hours before. Oh, I mean when he slapped you. Oh. I thought you maybe thought he wasn't going to like actually hit you. No, no. I don't know. I think I knew it was going to happen. I just, I guess you don't know. How can you prepare for a slap? If you were hitting him first, would you have gone easy? Uh,

- I feel like I definitely would have. If I was there and I was against my friend, I'd be like, "No, we're not doing this for real, right guys?" And I'd be like, "Oh, there you go." And then- - I feel like we think the same on a lot of things. So I kind of just knew telepathically with him. I was like, "All right, I know how hard we're going." - And it was very hard.

- It wasn't that hard, I think. I have a video that is out right now where I got slapped by muscle girls and they definitely went way harder. - Probably buffer than Ludwig, I bet. - Most certainly buffer than Ludwig. - There's like a muscle girl box. - Yeah, it was that one. Yeah, 18 of them beat me up.

- You got, what were they just line up? 18 of them just walked by and smacked you? - Yeah, 18 of them, yeah. - You got dog piled by. - I did. - How did you come across this? Like, did you just walked in and you're like, excuse me, could you all slap me? - You can pay for that normally, yeah. - You pay them to slap me? - Oh, I didn't. - Japan is an interesting place. - Some guys are into that. - Well, that's a lot of the customers that go. They love being slapped. - Yeah, there's so many weird bars here that you can pay for weird services. - Would you like to be slapped by a muscle girl or is that not really your thing?

- Probably not. - You should try. We should see if it's- - Especially if I have to pay money. - Don't knock until you try it. - It feels more clean if you pay for money for it, right? It feels like I've done something wrong if I got slapped normally. But if I pay money, it's like it's a transaction. I did not pay money for it though.

- So it felt good 'cause it's free still. - I was like, I'm getting a steal and I'm getting content. But the slapping pot was the worst part of the whole transaction. - So how much did it cost? Like is it like 10 bucks a slap? - I think it was 30 bucks. - 30 bucks for a slap. - I think it was. - And you got 18 of them.

- Yeah, I guess so. - They just gave you like 600 smackers worth of value. - That's good math. - Well, nearly, I mean, just- - No, you're close enough. - Yeah. - Yeah, that's a bargain. - Good value for money. - That's what I thought when I was getting beaten up. I was like, "This is great value for money!" - Dying on the floor, you're like, "Yeah, I'm getting my money, this is great." Got like 600 bucks. - Can't say I don't like a deal though. - Better than designer clothing.

- It's just like, actually I don't get paid in money anymore. Just pay me in slaps. That's my currency now. - There was like a part of me for a brief second that got it until I got slapped a second time and I was like, I don't get it anymore. And I was like, this is just dirt. But for the first slap, I was like, ah, I see. I see what this- - I'm like water chump. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,

I was like, I kind of got it for a brief second until it actually started hurting. And I was like, no more, no more of this. Stop, stop. - Do you guys also enjoy the slapping? - No, I'm good. - I definitely have a little bit of masochistic traits. There's part of me that does like get it like a little, you know, when you get- - I think everyone does secretly. - Yeah, just not. - He's like, no, he's not. - It's a different levels, right? - You want to try a little bit?

No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, I can't. Jerry will do it. Wait,

- Wait, actually? - It's a hate crime if I do it, he can do it. - I feel like it's better if I do it. - No, no, no. - Of the three guys here, I know you the best. - No, no, no, I don't want to. - I have rings on, so I'm gonna hurt him. - Take the rings off. - Oh my God. - Take the ring, slowly take them off. - I just thought it'd be funny. - I don't wanna slap you. - It's not hard, you're not actually hurting me. - I can't hold back, it's not possible, I'm competitive. I'm competitive. I'd go for the kill. - Ken Potsy from Bleach.

- I'd slap you full pound, go like that was only 10%. - Oh my God. - Shaggy. - Was it a dude from Yu Yu Hakusho? - Yu Yu Hakusho? - Yeah, yeah. I pronounced things wrong on purpose. - Okay, okay. - Yeah, no, but.

- Yeah, there's a lot of weird services you get here in Japan. I don't get the slapping. - Have you partaken in them outside? So he's got a weird slapping. - Outside of work I don't. - He has a wife that's super into it. - Which one did you enjoy the most of the weird services? - None of them. - None of them. - Which one did you dislike the least? - Oh, that's good to do it for me. - If you had to do one right again and you're like, I'm gonna not hate this one. - Dislike the least, okay. So there's two.

Out of everything my wife has forced me to do, this is gonna sound so bad, right? 'Cause either option is bad, but the one I dislike the least out of everything she's forced me to do is probably getting whipped. That is...

- 'Cause you like the pain. 'Cause the pain is not bad. - You know what? 'Cause okay, okay, here's what she wants me to do. - I have a weird question. Did your wife do it to you or did she make someone else do it to you? - She made someone else do it to me. - That's crazy. - Well, you paid for it. - Keep going with it. - They paid for it. - Okay, so out of everything- - Did she watch?

- Yeah, she was there. - Wow, you and your wife are very, keep going. - We went to this bar and I was like, my wife covers a lot of like weird bars. So she was like, pick a bar that we're gonna film a video in together. - Whipping bar. - Yeah, so I picked what I thought was the most family friendly sounding bar. It was a steampunk bar. I was like, great, steampunk. I love steampunk. I've seen.

- Oh yes, steampunk famous for their whipping. - Yeah, for "Metal Alchemist." I was like, what's the worst thing that could happen at this bar? And so there were a few like punishment games that you could pay for at this bar. And I thought they were just gonna be a very, very strong drink or something. So the first punishment was labeled milk, right? So I was like, oh, it's just gonna be like,

- Like the gallon of milk challenge? You drink a lot of milk until you throw up. - Yeah, yeah, it's just gonna be like they spike some milk with alcohol or something. - Okay. - Yeah, I thought it was gonna be that. - That does sound kind of gross. - Yeah. - Milk and alcohol. - Yeah, but it was like a punishment that I was like, okay, I'll do it for the content. It wasn't alcoholic milk. - What was it? - So the first thing they did was they go to the back room and the first thing they emerge out with is a bib and a baby bottle. And I'm like,

- Where is this going right now? - Okay. - And so they get you to go on your knees and they put the bib on you and then you have to make baby noises. - Your wife made you go to this.

- We know who wears the pants in the relationship. - It's okay, it's okay. I feel that pain. - I mean, it birthed an amazing meme. - And then they feed you through the baby bottle. And that was one of the most embarrassing experiences of my life. - That was worse than the whipping. - Obviously steampunk. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Honestly, between that and getting whipped,

I'd pick getting whipped. I'd get whipped too. That just sounds absolutely great. Oh my God. And the craziest thing is your wife wanted you to do this. Yeah. She paid for it. She paid for it. My wife paid for it. Well, you know, great content. Sometimes you gotta be the boyfriend test. She just watched you do it. Did she get a kick out? I mean,

- I mean, okay, so she did a punishment as well, which wasn't as bad as mine. It was like, they, I feel like she knew what she was doing. She was like, you can get the milk one. That sounds like the tame one. - Yeah, that doesn't sound too bad. - Yeah, that doesn't sound too bad. - Baby bottle. - Yeah, meanwhile, she was like, she got a fake interrogation with Anlan. Yeah, she was in like a fake interrogation and the bar maids were like faking like a really, really harsh interrogation. And then they had like a syringe full of alcohol that which they like, you know,

kind of like forced her to drink. That was easy. - That almost sounds like exciting. - Yeah, exactly. - Compared to the strange baby bottle with the whipping and the noises. - Yeah. - Weird. - Yeah. - Yeah, that's interesting. - So that's what you can look forward to when you come to Japan. - Next time you're in Japan. - Next time you're in Japan. - Yeah, so if you were to recommend me a strange experience, it'd be the whipping. - Okay, honestly, honestly,

- Whatever you're into. - I don't think I'm into anything, but like, I don't know. - You don't know until you try. - I feel like you have the purest mind and we could really just taint that so easily. - Have you done any of these weird? - I've done some weird stuff. - Have you been whipped? - No, no, I haven't. I've worked in a strip club here for a while. - You worked in it? - Well, I've like an hour or two. - You stripped? - Yeah, not very well.

I didn't make a lot of money. - Oh my God. - It's on YouTube, you can watch it. - Is that allowed on YouTube? - A lot of it isn't, so I blurred a lot of it. - Yeah, okay. - Yeah, they were nice. It was good fun time. - Wow, okay, all right. Now tell me your crazy story. He's dressed up as a baby, gotten whipped. He's been a stripper. - Have you seen Violet Evergarden, the anime?

- No, but the music's amazing in that. - Yeah, you know about it though, right? - Yeah, I know the general- - So I watched a porn star dressed up as Violet from "Violet Evergarden" get DP'd and I put it on YouTube. - What? Like in live? - No, it's not on the video. - No, it's not on the video. - No, I mean like you were there in the room. - I was there, I made eye contact with her.

- That is so strange. - Yeah. - That's a thing, you just pay, what? You just paid money and just walked in? - No, no, I got it for free. - You just need to do a video about it. - Somebody could just walk in and like- - I did a video about it. - No, no, no, no, no, no, no. - So I did like a behind the scenes of a porn studio. - With your followers though, if you want to, it should be fine. - Yeah, no, no, I was just shocked that that's a thing.

- I'm kidding, I'm kidding. - I had to ask permission, obviously. - Well, yeah, but I mean, like I just- - You just turned up. - So I heard you're doing a- - So my question for you is, where did you, did you come up with this idea? You talked to your team and you're like, "Guys, I really wanna see this happen." - No, no, we have a mutual friend who used to be a Japanese porn star and she got me the roots. - Yeah. - Oh, okay. - And she was like, "Are you interested?"

Yeah, I was more wondering if it was your idea. Man, I gotta see this happen. It wasn't all my idea. I'm gonna go look for it. I'm getting my team on it. They're gonna find the studio. Look for where they're filming this. Get me in. Right now. Violet Evergarden's my favorite.

- I must say after that, it no longer became my favorite show. - I can imagine. You guys are crazy. - I mean, it's like as soon as you realize, as soon as you get in contact with one of these bars or one of these like weird places, a lot of them know each other. So a lot of them will recommend you to go to other places as well 'cause they're really, really well connected. So you wanna make a good impression because if you can make a good impression with one that just kind of opens the door for literally anything in Japan. - This country is just a treasure trove of content.

- Yeah, we're very sorry for tainting your innocent mind. I feel very, very bad right now. - I mean, I'll probably never see this stuff, I guess. - Yeah, unless you are. - I mean, I don't even think I'd be able to find it if I want. Well, I haven't even been able to get around for the most part. I've always been like, "Hey, can you help me get around?" Like when I came here,

I got March to just be, I was like, March, call the thing and I'll just get in and they'll drop me off, right? He's like, yeah, I can do that. And I'm just like, okay. Gotten lost on the train system a couple times. So that's a whole thing. And I haven't gotten on a train that goes the opposite direction yet. So I haven't gotten that lost. I still do that.

- Yeah, a lot of times I have gone to like the wrong tunnel. - Right, right. - I don't know if that makes sense. - Sometimes, yeah, that can happen. - Yeah. - Well, I'm sure next time you'll have much more luck. - Yeah, thank you very much for coming on. - Thanks so much for coming on. - It was fun, thanks guys. - Yeah, I mean, obviously go check out Saikyo No Stuff, link's in the description. And hey, look at all these patrons. You see all of these? - Which patrons? - Which one? - Behind the paywall stuff? - No, no, no, we don't do paywall. - Point to your favorite patron, it's on the screen right now. - Oh, but if you did, you would, it's on the screen.

- Well, yeah, there's a patron right on the screen right now. - They're all there. Look at them all. - It's the one you like. - Oh, is that Iron Mask? - Maybe we'll take you to one of the bars and put that behind a paywall. - Yeah. - Okay. - He sounds excited. - I'll do it if Connor does it. - Why do I have to go?

I'll just feel more comfortable. - All right, fine. - This guy's already crazy. This guy will pretend to be a baby. I won't feel as awkward. - Getting slapped by an 18 buff woman isn't crazy anymore? Okay. - Well, he was just standing there taking it. - Yeah, you wanted something. - It was like a JoJo fight for me. I was like. - I was just being a good husband actually. - Yeah, he's right. - That's what they all say. - I mean, hey, if you like, he didn't want to be there. He didn't want to be there. - He didn't want to be there. - He just had to. Would you go again?

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