The 3rd Annual Trash Taste Awards | Trash Taste #150
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- I lightly tapped it. How did it come out? - It's ruined. - The Trash Taste Awards is already ruined. - Let's go, Clown Dog VA, as usual. - I got it, I got it. One take, guys, one take. That's all I need. - I lightly touched it and it just jumped out. - Holy fuck. - Where did that go? - Yeah, but like, did it jump up? - Yeah, oh yeah, it flew. - It hit the ceiling. - It like smashed into the ceiling. - Sorry, sorry, I can't hear.

- Sounds like a good start. - Of course Connor was gonna be the one to do that. - All over my JoJo suit, man. - Of course Connor starting off this Trash Taste Awards by throwing once again. He choked on just opening a bottle of champagne at the right time. - That's not my fault. I got done dirty. - I'm so glad the cameras are rolling. - That fucking shoot of champagne.

- Well, do you want some then? - Yes please, thank you. - Let's go, let's go baby. Three years, three years boys. - My production assistant is just cleaning up my mess. - You're giving me a fucking glass of bubbles. What the fuck is that? What is this head? - This is the head episode. - Did you learn this from Jean-Pierre III? - Jean-Pierre III gave me this, I'm gonna do me properly actually. - Wow. - I'm gonna treat me right. - Wow.

- Well, ladies and gentlemen, it is episode 150, which means it is the annual Trash Taste Awards. Three years, ladies and gentlemen. - We've been going at it for three years. Now, I do have something a little bit awkward to say because we chose 50 the first year 'cause it was a nice round number. And at that point we'd taken like two weeks off for like, I believe our drifting special and our...

cycling special. But now that we kind of upload specials in the middle of the week, we don't take a break any week for Trash Taste. So it's actually like two weeks from being a year of Trash Taste. - Technically. - Technically, technically. - But why did you say that? 'Cause now people are gonna be like, oh, looking forward to the next Trash Taste Awards in episode 204.

- So yes, like in about five years or something, we're gonna have like 10 episodes behind or something like that. And it's gonna be like half the year gone. - It doesn't matter. We're only thinking about the third year. Cheers, boys. - It's about now. - Cheers. - Cheers, boys. - Cheers. - So if you aren't familiar with the Trash Taste Awards, which you probably are if you're watching episode 150, it's the yearly recap of all the best moments of the show the past year from the specials to the stuff off camera a little bit and just,

the highlights of all the episodes. And so we have made some new categories. Previously we had many categories, but we've added some little fun new ones, taken out some that maybe didn't hit as hard as we'd liked. And we're just gonna go through all the moments and talk about the year. - This is great. I love the Trash Taste Awards because I actually get reminded of all the dumb and weird shit we said and did. 'Cause we didn't, I remember any of it. - We say a lot of shit. And especially during the nomination stage where we go through it and we kind of realize, oh, who said that?

- There's so many moments where one of us is like, did I say that? - Yeah, did I say that? I don't feel like I said that. But also the clips right there. - Yeah, I guess I did say that. - You know what guys, probably deep faked, right? We would have no idea. - AI generated, definitely. - It's AI generated. But yeah, this year we tried to chose categories that best encapsulated

everything and all the moments that happened in this year. And I feel like this year was the year that was encapsulated by us kind of like traveling around a lot, you know? The first two years we were definitely just stuck in Japan and we tried to make as much content from Japan as possible. But

- Doesn't it feel fucking insane thinking back that this is the year that we kind of got to meet a lot of like other fellow content creators who we like respected for like the longest time. And we kind of realized how much Trash Taste had grown this year, especially during our LA trip. - I remember like way during like the first couple of weeks we were like, oh yeah, this podcast maybe last like,

and then I'll just dip like all the other ones. Look at us, 150 baby. - That's way too many episodes. - That's way too many episodes. - We're somehow good at being consistent, but we're also very inconsistent with After Dark. This year we did way less After Dark.

But that's not from a lack of trying. We're just all over the place traveling. We're all doing our own things too. So it's kind of hard to line it all up, but Trash Taste is nailed every week though. Thank God we still haven't missed an episode. - We somehow have not missed an episode in three years and counting. - You know what?

for that one, that's impressive. - No season breaks, we just, we're back to back every single week. I don't know how we've done it. - I don't know how we've done it. - I feel like there's been some close calls where we were like, we have two days to get an episode out, we don't have one. So we gotta hurry the fuck up. - Yeah, we just landed in LA, we have two days, we have no equipment and we have nothing to air. What the fuck are we going to do? And somehow we still managed to get an episode out and not miss a week. - Hell yeah. - Yeah, it's, I think,

It's been a very, very busy year for all three of us on Trash Taste and outside of Trash Taste as well. So I think some of the awards and nominations don't just represent stuff that has happened on like, let's say our personal Trash Taste channels, but stuff that has happened in the wider Trash Taste universe. - Yeah. - MCU, the TCU, whatever. - The TTCU. - The TTCU, whatever you wanna call it, you know? - I like how we have kind of a mash this weird kind of like sitcom

We have people who come on and we always refer to Maylene and Maylene's like, "What do you guys say about me?" - Cue laughter. - It's always good fun. - Yeah, we've got the canned laughter, which is Nabi. - Nabi and Kai are the canned laughter. - All right. - Should we check out the nominations though? - Yeah. - We have a lot to go through, so let's check them out. - What's the first one? Oh, okay. - So just to list off the categories really quickly, we have the hottest take of the year, of course.

- We're starting things off strong. - Best out of context clip, screen grab of the year, most degenerate moment, US state we will not revisit, that's a new one. Saltiest moment, most monkey moment, wildest guest episode, 'cause we definitely had a lot of those. Best story, biggest clown, biggest Chad, all caps.

Biggest W of the year, very few to count. Best nickname, best meme, best Deez Nuts moment. 'Cause I feel there was like a renaissance of Deez Nuts jokes this year. - Yeah, most definitely. - Best drip, best argument, most wholesome moment, most privileged moment, biggest I made it the fuck up moment. - That's my favorite. - Best after dark moment and of course the best trash taste episode. - Yeah, so this is a pretty stacked awards and I feel like this encompasses everything that happened this year. - Yeah. - So,

Shall we get right on it? - Let's just jump right in. - Let's just jump right into it with the hottest take of the year. - Oh my God, where do you start? - As you know, Trash Taste is famous for a lot of our hot takes, our controversial takes.

And often we don't know what's gonna become an actual hot take until the episode airs, 'cause we just say shit. - Do you ever have that feeling when we're recording, when you say something like, "Oh, that's not gonna go down well." And then it doesn't? And then you say something completely normal, you're like, "Why do they hate me for this?" - Yeah, I think the hot takes that have been birthed were the ones where it didn't start off with, "I know this is a hot take, but..." It just ends up not being a hot take, and then just something you're just like, "Yeah, I think of this."

I don't know, I had a few this year where I'm like, I know it's all my opinion, but I'm like, I know this is going to be a hot take. There are some takes. - I feel like the audience takes turn bagging on us. Like they'll have a month where it's like, let's shit on Joey's opinions this month. And then it's Garnt and then it's me. And then they just take it in turns. - Cycle turn. - They're like, all right, now I'm thinking Garnt's takes not that good anymore. - There's a great antagonist every single one. - There's always some, there's always some hot take. - All right, let's go through the nominations. - Let's do it, let's do it.

- So this year we had oranges are the worst flavor known to mankind. - Orange is the worst flavoring known to man. I think orange is like orange. - What? - Which I believe is the exact quotes that Connor said. Do you know what's weird? You said this so long ago, I literally thought this was last year.

- Well, this is gonna happen a lot, I think, to this awards, where we confused last year and the sugars were in the same set. So I think that's like a hard way to memorize it. But yeah, I did say this, I stand by my opinion. I think orange is the worst flavor known to mankind. I'll be pissed off if this wins. - We also got a guest one, which is Emily taking the meat out of her ramen. - That's fucked up. - What the fuck, Emily? - I was like, is that racism? - If I get ramen, I take out the meat.

- What the fuck? - I mean, she's an Ivy fan. - It's cooked in the meat, in the bones. What do you mean? - The big difference this year is that because we had so many guest episodes, we could actually bring in what our guests have said on our podcast as well. So we're sharing the hot takes between everyone this year. - Absolutely. - Not just the three boys.

- We've also got a, I'm not proud of this one. Ava is not a mecha anime by yours truly. - Ava for me is really weird because it's like at first glance, it tries to present itself as a mecha. But then the further you go along, you realize,

It's not a mecha, it's just a fucking sci-fi. - I can't believe you just said this. I remember the exact moment this was happening because we were in a heated argument about whether "Attack on Titan" is a mecha anime or not. Then out of nowhere, like you just dropped this bombshell. And I don't know where this came from, Joe. - You know, this is one of those things where it sounded great in my head and then the moment it came out of my mouth, my brain just went, "You fucking idiot." - That's like half my jokes. - Why did you say that? - That's half my jokes.

- And then last but not least, we've got Garnt's opinion of Garnt preferring the latest seasons of Game of Thrones.

- I prefer the later seasons of Game of Thrones. - Fuck off. - Genuinely. Do you know what's funny? Sometimes I say some takes that I know are gonna be hot takes. I don't even think this is like my hottest take of the year, but like it surprised me the fucking reaction I got for this take just because I it's- - It is that shit. - I don't think it is.

- I don't know. I've never even seen Game of Thrones and I know it's a shit take. - I'm hoping that, you know, 'cause mine is very easy to have a stance on oranges, but maybe if you haven't seen Game of Thrones, you might not give a fuck about this take. - I don't think there's a person out there who hasn't had an orange before. - I'm hoping that people will hate Garnt's opinion so much that they will outnumber the people who care about oranges. - Guys, do we have only four nominations for this one?

- Okay, we have more nominations. - Oh, we have more nominations. - All right, all right, we have another slide. - Okay, so we also have a couple more. Garnt using light mode. - You dark mode motherfuckers play shit up too much, okay? Hi, I'm a light mode user. Yes, I'm out of myself right now. Okay, I know. Of course- - Yo, this is bad. This is bad. - Of course I knew this was going to be a hot take. This wasn't surprising, but you know what? I still use light mode. Look, look, look. - It's still cringe. - Let me go on Twitter right now, guys. Let me go on Twitter.

- There we go, let me go on YouTube, okay? There we go, there we go. - Have you ever questioned why you have shit eyesight? It's probably 'cause of that. - Yeah, probably. - No, I need this to give me like to make me see things better. Honestly, honestly, I need light mode, I need light mode. - All pastries are bread by Joey. - Yep.

- I don't even remember saying this to be honest with you. - All sports are the same. - Oh my God. - It is good. - Well, what's the difference? I mean, I know the difference, but like, isn't it the same concept with football? - Which football? Like British football or? - Either. - Or soccer. - Anything.

- It's just like, I don't know. - Are you saying all sports are the same? - It's actually the same. - Is that what you're trying to say? - I mean, it's not that far off, let's be honest here. - You know what, I hope that one wins. - All right. - Well, we have some really strong contenders right off the bat. We have some terrible takes, but which one did you vote as the hottest, AKA the worst or shittiest take of the year?

- What's your money on boys? What are you thinking? - I'm thinking it's either gonna be the orange one or- - I want it to be the orange one. - Or Sydney's one. - I want it to be Sydney or Game of Thrones. I do not want to see the orange one. - Yeah, there might be Game of Thrones as well. - I have a feeling it's between orange, Game of Thrones and all sports. - It's gotta be, right? - I think so. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Let's find out. - Let's find out. And the winner is oranges are the worst. - Yeah! - Is there a tie on this one?

- Oh, it's a tie? - This has never happened before. It's a tie with Garnt. - Oh, Garnt light mode. - Garnt using light mode. Wait, wait, what was the breakdown? - Fuck. - 20% for the top two. - Holy shit. - The worst flavor known to mankind and Garnt uses the light mode. - Okay. - Oh my God. - Followed by Garnt performing the latest seasons of Game of Thrones, which is 15.4. - Oh my God. - Oh, that was close. - Garnt collectively had the worst taste. - Followed by All Sports Are the Same from Sydney.

- Okay, okay. - So proven, I have the best takes on Trash Taste. - For this year, for this year, for this year. - Yeah, yeah, this year. - I had the best takes. - This year. - Listen to me more.

- I'm surprised about the light mode one because- - I'm not. - Are you not? - No, because like- - Light mode is so ass. - Same thing with oranges, right? Like there isn't a single person or there's very few people who don't have mobile phones nowadays, right? Especially smartphones. And it's just like a common meme on the internet now that light mode is shit.

- It's a general understanding. - It's not an understanding, it's a meme. - It's a way of life, guys. - It's a meme. I just still am wondering what oranges did to hurt Connor as a kid. 'Cause I've never- - It just tastes bad. - I just never seen someone so vehemently hate oranges

- I don't know if you guys have heard, oranges, like, Connor hates oranges more than like some like atrocious things that have happened. - There's a lot of things to hate in the world, but he chose oranges. - Oranges are just so bad, on artificial oranges are bad. - You're not allowed to talk anymore, you got the worst take. - I was very happy to be in Florida and to tell them that oranges suck. That was a great honor. All right, what's the next category? - Moving on, we have best out of context clip. - Oh my God.

- Oh yeah, I love this one. - So God apparently said Chinese food doesn't exist. - Okay, here's the thing. I don't think Chinese food exists, right? In the sense- - Bro, let me finish my point. Let me fucking finish my point. I can't believe you do me like that.

- I love the air quotations, like, "Exists." - They, them liberals, trying to tell me this Chinese food exists. I've never seen it. - What I love about that is just the pause before Joey just processing what I said. Just like, "No, no, no, hear me out, hear me out, guys. Let me cook, let me cook for a second." And then we got- - We got Assan St. Luffy's a terrorist. - First of all,

- Luffy is a terrorist. - I remember how like just out of left field that line was. - I mean, yeah. I was just like, that is the most Hasan thing that he's ever said on this podcast. - You know what? He's right. - Only Hasan can say that. - He's completely, there ain't no cap in that line, man. - He was completely right. - Now we're talking about uranium. - Oh, this is my fucking favorite. - Wait, what? - This is my favorite. - I don't remember this one. - I really hope this wins. - When I was making uranium glass,

I really want to be careful. - That's such a good sentence. - So what I remember about this that stood out to me, 'cause there was a lot of this conversation that stood out to me, but one thing I remember vividly was shouting at Nigel for being like, "You don't know where you got the uranium from? "The uranium?" 'Cause he was like, "Yeah, I don't remember "where I got the uranium from."

- He said, "I got it from an undisclosed address." - He's been trained. He knows what to say. - He does. - To not get in trouble. - I think this is Connor saying this. He said, "Uranus was creamy and I don't know if I was prepared for that."

- I love this whole exchange. It was just asking to be made. - Your ass is creamy. - I don't know if I was prepared for that.

- So good. - The screenshot of Joey looks horrible. This is the one that the Shindell. - Oh, this last one. This is when Joey's third eye opens. - This is me like realizing the truth of the world right here. Is Shindell saying what's not vanilla about birth? - It was. - How is birth not vanilla though?

- You have to ask what's happened to make you think that birth in pornography is vanilla. - Bro, he's seen some shit. - No, no, he hasn't seen some shit, he made the shit. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - What do you mean? He is the guy who makes you say you've seen shit.

- I think we've had an episode where I think we've been so concerned with the stuff that was said. We're like, maybe we should cut this and get rid of this. There's a lot that didn't make it into that episode. - Yeah. - God, my favorite part of that clip is just Joey reaching enlightenment in that single line. He's just like,

- I have found the promised land. I see everything now. Tags, doujin, they're all the same. - I just didn't realize you can ask that question and not explode. I'm like, oh my God. Did you really just ask that? - I have no idea what's gonna win this one. - Honestly, all of these are great. - I like all of them. I wish there was a better, like,

for like the Nile of Red conversation, but it's hard to- - There was so many little moments of like, what the fuck? - Yeah. - All of his episodes, I mean, all of the episode was just, Nigel says a line and we're like, what the fuck did you just say? Yo, yo, yo, go back, go back. - It's great 'cause sometimes when you have guests on and they say like, they explain in great detail about everything they do, but they don't realize that this shit is insane to anyone who doesn't do it. And he's great 'cause he's just going off. - Oh yeah.

- This is insane, Nigel. What is this? What am I like, what are we listening to here? No, we did not all play with fire and batteries as a kid. - We don't procure uranium. - Not every kid did this. - We didn't almost set a school on fire, you know? - We didn't make like chlorine gas in our free time growing up, Nigel. This is not normal, okay?

- Oh man, I really want the Nigel one to win, but also I just love that Shindo clip as well. - I love the Uranus clip as well. - Yeah, they're all good. - All right. But there can only be one winner. - Let him know. - And the winner for the best out of context clip is Luffy is a Terrorist.

- I wonder if there's a bit of recency bias, but also- - Maybe a recency bias, but congratulations. - It is a good out of context clip. Although honestly, not that much more context to it. - Yeah. Just makes you think. - Yeah. - Damn, makes you think. - It's kind of like, what this line reminds me of is, do you remember like the hits blunt meme from like fucking years ago? It's just like hits blunt, "Luffy is a terrorist."

- That can apply to anything though. That can apply to the what's not vanilla about birth as well. All right, but what's the breakdown, Kai? - Okay, so the winning vote, which is Lucio's a terrorist, won by 29.8%. - Oh, wow. - Oh, wow. - Followed by your ranks was creamy. I don't know if I was prepared for that.

- 21.9. - Oh, close. - One by a lot. - Followed by Garth's Chinese food doesn't exist for 18.7%. - Okay. - All right. - So those three took most of the votes. - All right. - All right. - All right, you know what? Well, there's a- - Congratulations, Hasan. - Congrats.

- All right, the next one is screen grab of the year. - Oh my God. - Now there are a lot of screen grabs from either Trash Taste episodes or stuff we got to off camera and on our own personal share as well. So let's have a look at what the nominations are this year. - Most of these are Connor.

- Okay, I love the first trucker Connor one. - I'm just saying this right now. I hope the trucker Connor wins. - I think that's gonna win. - I hope the trucker Connor wins. - I don't think this one is from this year, but I think it got more popular this year. - Yeah. - So I guess that kinda counts. - God, you look hideous in that. - Yeah, that was, Chris did me dirty in that.

- Super golf bros, what's happening here? - I was teaching Connor how to golf correctly. - You guys are like Jordan and gold experience. - I love how it's all stretched out. - Yeah, why is it stretched out? POV, you show your cousin domestic girlfriend for the eighth time.

- I love the hats. - Yeah, yeah, that was from the Jess episode. - That was from the Jess episode. Anymore? - Yeah, we got some more, I believe. - That's me holding a tango, no explanation there. Connor and PewDiePie sharing an opinion. - Why did Ludwig remove his like- - Oh, because he had like a tattoo on his leg, right?

- Yeah, and he wanted to ask if it was okay to go into the on-site. - But he didn't say he had a tattoo on his leg and he just started stripping. - Do you know what's bad? I obviously remember recording that episode, but I did not remember this happening until I saw out of context screenshots and I'm like, "It's from the episode, I feel like I would remember that."

- I love the bottom right one as well. - Yeah. - It's such a good one. - It's so perfectly your skin tone. - Yeah. - It's insane. - Oh, the body shoot? - The body shoot, but also the bottom left one as well. - That is just a "Trash Taste" episode, like in a nutshell, you know?

- All good screen grabs. - All great screen grabs, yeah. - But for me, let's go back to the trucker corner one. - It's gotta be trucker corner. - The fucking, the weak chin, man. The weak chin, it's gotta be the weak chin. - The leafy chin? - The leafy chin. - It has to be that one. - That is a work of art, man. - Compression did me dirty. In the only spot where it could make me look fucking weird. - Anywhere else would've been fine. - It's a combination of like the weak chin and just the trucker outfit. - The hat. - The hat.

- The position you're in as well, Lee. - Well, I guess we'll find out, Jerry. - Let's find out. - Who is the winner of the best screen grab of the year? - All right, winner of the best screen grab of the year 2023 is Trucker Connor. - Well done. - Well deserved, well deserved. - Leafy chin Connor, let's go. - I like how all the comments are F as well.

- Did that win by a lot? - Yeah, I wanna know how big this won by. - So Trucker Connor won by a shocking 39%. - 39%. - Holy fuck. - Fucking hell. - That's insane. - The biggest W so far. - Nearly half the people voted for that. - Yeah. - Oh my God. - Second place? - That's too much. - Before Cycleathon, - Oh my God, me ripped. - 13.1%.

- What? That's a massive discrepancy. - And then third place? - All right, not bad. - All good picks. - All great picks. - Hell yeah. - I'm gonna use that as my phone back. - I hope my chin never ever recedes to that. I'm hoping only your hairline can recede. 'Cause if my chin recedes, oh fuck. - Just be a nose breather, you'll be all right. - Dude, that's not even, I can only breathe. I got no mouth. It's gone.

- It's gone. - Oh my God. - Yeah, that's how Quentin Tarantino looks when he sees feet. - All right, next one. - All right. The most degenerate moment. - Now degeneracy is a normal thing on the Trash Taste podcast. - I think it runs through the blood. - It does, it does. And I think this has been an award every year so far because there has never been a year when there's not been some degenerate fucking shit happening.

- I don't even think I looked at the nominations. - Me neither. - All this is like, we said that. - Yeah. - All right, let's find out. Let's go through nominations. The Boy Review, "Sleepless: A Midsummer Night's Dream." - That's the milk one? - I want to wipe that from my memory, man. - The milk one with the pee-pee and the boba. - With the tapioca. - Oh my God.

- If you know, you know, if you don't know, congratulations, you're happy. - That whole episode, that Hentai episode just gave me nightmares, man. That was so cursed. That's when we went too far, I think. - And then we also got our boy Shindou El making a "Planet of the Apes" doujin, which I'm disappointed 'cause I haven't seen it yet. I really wanna read it. - Everything that man does is like,

- Okay, but why? Like just because you could, doesn't mean you should. It's like no one needed the planet of the apes dojo. I couldn't get over that in the episode. I was like, why? - Someone asked for it. - No one asked though, that's the thing. It's like, he was like, "Anybody want it?" "No, I'm gonna make it." - Yeah, it's surprising that in the entire episode we had to pick one moment 'cause I kinda just wanna put that and just Shindou El himself as like the most degenerate moment of "Trash Taste" 'cause that's what my vote would go to.

and then there's the boys watch "Rido of a Healer" or I guess it's me explaining "Rido of a Healer." - We had two explanation videos here. So we had Joey explains "Rido of a Healer" to Sykuno and Yarn explains "Domestic Girlfriend" to Sykuno as well.

- Which one's more degenerate? I will let you decide. - Psychino hasn't DM'd me back ever since we recorded that episode. - He just straight on. - Psychino man, I'm sorry, I swear to God. - Domestic girlfriend just sounds so degenerate. Like when you explain a lot, you're like, "God damn it, I'm a sad person watching this."

- Yeah, it's fun. - Yeah, it's good. I'm not gonna start again. - I don't wanna hear it. - I've done that enough. - What are the other clips? - "The major restoration led to hentai censorship in Japan," says Hassan. - Oh, yes, he's ranting about how he was unhappy that the porn was censored. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And he was going on a whole- - I'm like, "Join the club."

- And we had an entire history lesson of Japan that started from the Meiji restoration that led to like, Meiji restoration means pixelated dick and vagina in Japan. - Early reason why it happened. Nothing good came out of that. - It took the parents to a girls' spa. That's pretty degenerate. - That is pretty degenerate.

- Not as the generous Ludwig masturbated 18 times in one day. - I completely forgot that this was mentioned. - I don't believe him to this day. - To this day, I don't believe him. I think he's lying. There's no way, there's no way. - Absolutely no way. - I think the upper human limit, I could believe 10. Like I could believe that if you were really going for it and you took every aphrodisiac in Viagra, but like I just...

- 18, no way, bro. He did a marathon of jacking off. - Yeah, he did a marathon of Shindell's like bibliography. - That's on average, you've not had like 1.2 hours a day. - Yeah. - That's crazy.

- If you're awake, right? You're awake on average 16 hours a day. That means he was nodding on average just under every 30 minutes. - More than one hour. - Just under. - I take more than an hour just to recover from it. Let alone doing another one. - Absolutely no way. - So there's no way. The math doesn't add up. But only one can take it. And I genuinely have no idea who's gonna win this one. - There are a lot of degeneracy. There's a lot of degeneracy here.

Some may be less than others. I just don't want the MILF Manor to win. I don't want to relive that. I don't want to relive that. That's where degeneracy has gone too far. - I'm secretly hoping that Shindo will get the dub in this one. - I want Shindo. - I won't be surprised if Sydney takes this one as well. - You think so? - I think it could happen.

- I mean, considering what Sydney has done before, I would call that vanilla. - Sydney has ruined your bar for vanilla. The bar is still the same, Garnt, but your bar is ruined. So let's find out who the winner is. The winner of the most degenerate moment of the year, Ludwig masturbating 18 times in one day. That is, yeah, well, I mean,

- On paper that is just statistically the most degen moment. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Did it win by a lot? - Yeah, Ludwig won by 37%. - 37% of the vote Ludwig won because that is degen as fuck and no sane person would do it. So congratulations Ludwig. - Yeah. Do you remember what you jacked off to Ludwig? I'm just curious because that must've been some like top tier, S tier shit. - Shindelow probably. - Probably Shindelow.

- He ended it on the "Planets of the Apes" dojo. He went like backwards. He was like, "All right, I'm done now." - He was gonna go for the 19th. He's like, "Oh, it's "Planet of the Apes." - Yeah, yeah. - I think I'm good. - I can't, man, I can't. - It can't be done. It can't be done. All right, what's the next category? - This is a new one. This is the US state we are least likely to revisit. So the reason why we're putting this new category in is because for those of you who don't know, late last year, we did a US tour. We went to a bunch of states, some new, some old.

And I feel like we've got to experience like pretty much a good balance of all of the vibes of the States of the US, even though we didn't go to all of them. - Yeah. And so we decided to have an award for what the viewers would think out of just the stories and for everyone who went to the tour, what is the most likely state we're like, we're not going to revisit. That was the sentence I made in my head.

- Because we did have part of our show where we did vote, we did let the audience vote on which states did they least want to be isekai to. And we wanted to see if there was a general vibe we got on our tour. We wanted to see if the wider audience would have the same vibe as the people who went on the tour and actual Americans themselves as well. Because there was one clear winner

that was voted in our live shows. But the categories for this one were Florida, Ohio, Arizona, the entire Midwest. - Wait, why is the entire Midwest here?

So who's gonna win, one state or 12 states? - Ohio is in the midway. It's like putting out the cigarette butt on the orphan. You know what I mean? It's like, we don't wanna know. - Yeah. - Well, I have my answer. - I have my answer as well. - Okay, okay. So we all have our answers because we were on the tour.

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- Ohio, baby! Ohio with the dub once again. Congratulations, Ohio. You have now won the worldwide award for the least, the state that everyone loves to clown on the most. - You won the nationals and you won the internationals now. Dubs everywhere. - How much percentage was that one? - 51%. - 51%.

- I like the Midwest. I just didn't like Cleveland, Ohio. - No, no. - I heard Columbus is great. - Yeah? - I don't know if it is. - According to people in Ohio. - Yeah, Cincinnati's good, but Cleveland was a ghost town. - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah. I mean, I have to like the Midwest 'cause I'm bound there by fucking like blood and bond and marriage now. So I'm like, yeah. - That sounds like a you problem. - Wisconsin, that's good. That's cool. Cheese.

- Let's just say this wasn't a shocker. I think we're all expecting this because on tour was the exact same thing. - Honestly, I put this award category in 'cause I just wanted to give Ohio the- - Just one last time baby, one last time. - But before we go into our next category, we actually have a personal award as well because a big part of this year we felt like was the tour.

That was a massive part of the year. That was a big reason why we didn't get a lot of "After Dark" this year, 'cause we were doing "After Dark IRL." But unfortunately, a lot of you guys probably did not get to experience the tour. We have a big international audience. So we wanted to recount some of our personal favorite moments that happened on stage in that moment that not a lot of people might not know about unless you were at that specific

- Yeah. - So we all have a personal award that we're gonna give to one moment in one of the shows. - Yep. - Do you want me to start? - Yeah, go for it. - Yeah, go ahead.

- Okay, so the moment that stands out to me, I want to give an award to the Chicago show. - Okay. - Because, you know, Chicago show was incredible anyway, but there was one moment that I still think back to. As I'm about to go to sleep, I think back to this moment and I just smile. - Okay. - Because part of the show was we had to defend some of our shit takes.

- I think I know where you're going with this. - And sometimes we had to defend each other's take, even if we didn't agree with it. And I was up against Joey and Joey had to argue that steak was good.

And I had to argue that steak was bad for an American audience. - Oh yeah, this is good, I know this. - And what happened is I go first, I go up on stage and I present my argument, dead silence. - They're boring. - Okay, now I knew,

I knew I, there was no chance. I was coming in with the yell. I had to argue that steak was shit to an American audience. Presented my argument, I walk off dejected off stage and I'm like, Joey, present your fucking argument. Joey had the biggest guaranteed dub of all time. All he needed to do

was to like stick up for steak. And we had about 30 seconds to make an argument. Joey walks up, he gets applause. He hasn't even like started talking. He gets applause. Everyone's like, woo! And he goes, my fellow Americans, woo! Woo! Joey! Joey! And then he starts talking about steak. And then about 15 seconds in, he starts ranting on about, all types of steaks are good. Beef steak,

pork steak, chicken steak. And I've never seen an audience turn so fast with just a single line. 'Cause he went from like complete cheers to do what's being like, what the fuck did he say? And he's like, my fellow Americans, chicken steak, am I right? Pork steak, am I right? - And then they all were just, they were like boo. - And then they all booed you. - I still see that in my nightmares.

That is like actually the worst thing I've ever said. - And then they voted for Gantt to win. - And then they voted for Gantt to win. - And then I won. It's out of, we've had a lot of throws in Trash Taste history that have been on camera. That one unfortunately wasn't on camera, but I think in my eyes, that was the biggest throw

anyone has done in the history of Trash Taste. - It was an absolute, you say one thing and the mood just did a full 180. Like have you seen that meme of like the DJ guy, and he's like DJing for a crowd and he's like doing instrumental break and the crowd's getting into it and like blah, blah, blah. And then he goes to the mic and he goes, "Try to relax your anus." And then everyone in the crowd is like,

- What the fuck? That's what that was like. - Wait, wait. - Have you never seen that clip? - I gotta watch this clip. - You have to watch this clip. - I'm watching it right now. - It's exactly the same thing. Every time I see that meme, I'm like, I get war flashbacks to that moment where I said chicken steak and everyone just went, "What the fuck?" - What the fuck?

- You probably would get a louder chair if you said that rather than what you said. - Fuck me. - So the Chicago show gets my award for that one. - Yeah, Chicago show doesn't get my award for me, shocker, because of that. Mine is more like a just a general, I think like overall tour award of just us, you know, because one of the, I guess,

that we had to do 'cause we had like a punishment system at the end of each thing. And one that every time we pulled it, that the crowd fucking went bonkers for was that one of us had to sing the American national anthem. And thinking back on it now, when we first got it, I don't remember which one of us got it first. - I think you got it first. - I think so. But like, obviously because none of us are Americans, we don't know the fucking words, right? So we always had to like get a phone or get someone's phone or whatever to look at the lyrics.

But the glow up happened where by the end of the tour, like some of us were just able to sing it off by heart. - I remember I tried to go as long as I could without singing it. I think I went like 15 shows. And I was like, yes, I haven't sung it. But then I finally lost and I got it. And I was like, fuck. - I think I had to sing it like every like three or four shows. By the end of the tour, I remembered all the lyrics.

- God, I've never been so jealous of the American patriotism until like, it was the one that sticks out to me the most was the first one we had to do it, which was the Minnesota show, I believe. And then this was like our second or third show. So we didn't really know what to expect. We didn't know what kind of reaction to expect. And I remember one of us was singing and I remember like looking down and looking up and everyone had stood up. - People don't, in America they do not fuck around

- Everyone was doing this or this or something. - In the UK, people don't really care that much. It depends where you go really. But like I was shocked in like a casual audience of anime fans, but they all were like, "All right, it's America time, boys." - Yeah, yeah, yeah. And it was just like one of the few times when I'm like, "God fucking damn." - And I'm like, "Oh, this is what you guys rave on about." - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I get it now. - I feel patriotic now. I ain't even American, man.

- God, I will say, it's such a fucking banger of a national anthem. - It is. - I will give it to them. God fucking damn, man. - It's so fun to sing. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - What's the Australian national anthem?

- The Australian national anthem is like American, but not as high. - ♪ Australia, Australia ♪ - It's like ♪ Australians all in Australia ♪ It's really fun to sing drunk. We'll give it that, but it's nowhere near as powerful patriotic as the American one. I don't think there's a national anthem that's as powerful as the American one to sing. - I can't think of off the top of my head, but even just singing that, you just feel the power.

- Especially when we got to hold that big American flag and just waving that shit around. I'm just like, yeah. So I'd say that was the best moment on the tour for me. - All right. - Connor? - I think one standout moment was doing one of the argument segments and it was at the Tennessee show. And I had to defend my take of music

- Music is just beeps and boos. - And I was against Garnt and Garnt had like crushed it. It was like the argument was amazing. I think he sang and they like loved it. It went really well. And then it was my turn and I was just getting booed. Like it was like one minute of booing. And then right at the end of it, I was like, fuck this. I'm just gonna piss them off. I was like, so I'm ranting and I'm getting all boos and I go, by the way, Tennessee country music fucking sucks. And they go, yes!

and they just flipped. Like the whole crowd went from booing me to cheering. 'Cause I thought they loved country music. So I was trying to like insult them, but they loved it. They were like, "Yeah, fuck country music." - Yeah, to give a little bit of background. So Tennessee is the, I believe like the capital of- - Country music. - Of country music, or at least like live music in, not Australia, in America.

And Connor didn't just get an applause. He got- - A standing ovation. - Yeah, he got one of the few standing ovations out of like every show that we've had, that we had until. We had a few, but it wasn't like every show. - He was like passionately screamed, "Country music sucks." - Yeah. - Fucking sucks. - I always remember just 'cause like you're like getting booed and you're like, "You know what? I'm gonna say it."

Country music fucking sucks. Everyone's like, he said the thing. - And then I literally, I probably realized like, oh yeah, of course they're like anime fans in Tennessee. They hate country music. - Yeah, exactly. - You know what I mean? Like, yeah, it makes sense. But at the time I was like, I think we were all like, what the fuck is happening? - I remember we all looked at each other like, what? - Yeah, I was like, what is happening? I felt like Homelander at the end of like the last, where he like kills, or you know, I'm like, they're clapping for me.

- She's powerful. Honestly, there were so many good moments in the tour. It's hard to just pick one. - Yeah, but that's not all because we made some amazing memories in America this year. And it was such amazing memories that we wanted to do it again. So we thought this would be a good time to announce that we are going back

on tour this year. - Yay! - And this time, this time Europeans, we are coming to say hi. We're coming to say hi guys. - Trash Taste Europe Tour 2023 is official guys. - Yes. - So right now we don't have the specific dates for it, but we do have the cities that we'll be going to. So we can let you guys know on that right now. - Cities are as follows, I think, Dublin, London, Cardiff, Oslo, Copenhagen,

- Stockholm. - Stockholm, Berlin. - Yes. - And Amsterdam? - Yes. - Yes. - I think those are all of them. - They'll be on the screen as well. So don't worry. - They'll be on the screen. The venues are currently being booked right now. That's why we don't have the exact date, but it is going to be starting from August 30th to around September 13th. That's kind of the date range. - Late August. - I think one thing we learned from the last tour is it cannot be as long.

I think the other one was too long. It was a lot of fun, but it was just a little like a week or a week and a half too much. So we're doing a lot shorter and obviously we're mainly doing like North Northwest Europe. It's not really a European tour, but you know, we're going to Europe and we'll hopefully we'll see some of you guys then. - But we'll give you guys more details in the coming weeks. Right now tickets aren't on sale obviously, 'cause we're still trying to finalize everything.

We're letting you guys know right now so you guys can get prepared for it for when they do go live. - So my Welsh boys, I'll see you. - Europeans, we'll see you there. - I'm very excited to do a show in London in front of all of my friends and family. Germans, please, please go easy on me. Please, please. - I can't wait. - Rip him to shreds. - We have to roast him for his bread takes. - Germans, please.

- The first thing I'm doing when we go to Germany is I'm taking you to a goddamn bakery. It's gonna blow your mind. - All right, let's move on to the next award though, which is the saltiest moment. - Oh my God. I hope I'm not on here. - There's probably a lot of them. Let's look at them. All right, first one is ProCD after hearing Connor skips cut scenes and Garnt watches anime two times a day.

- I was salty with him when I heard this. - I feel like that has a very good shot of winning. It was a very iconic moment, I feel, for "Trash Taste." It was just the sheer disgust. - It's when someone who's not familiar with "Trash Taste" just kind of gets a shocking revelation about what the type of shit that we talk about. - It's like he almost forgot what the name of our show was. - Yes.

- I'm still salty about this one. I'm still salty about this one. The thing that makes me so salty about this one is that, if I was prepared for like second place, if I was prepared for like second place not being,

you know, having to go to the manga cafe, then I would be like, okay, whatever. It was in the agreement, you know? But the fucking Joey had to drag me down with him. - Yeah, because like we actually, we did have enough room for one more person in the five star hotel. And we were like, go on if you want to. And then Joey was like, no, you should,

- You should stay in the Minecraft world, mate. I think you were also kind of a little bit intrigued to see what it's like, but also you came to regret it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was not a good night's sleep that I got. - Also, that five star hotel is so overpriced for what it was. - That was from the Japan road trip special. - I still hear the sounds of just the dude fapping in the room. I can never unlive that now.

- Then we got Connor losing to Garnt in the extreme gamer quiz. - Fuck that, wasn't right. - That was, no one expected that one. - Yeah, yeah, that was one of the biggest surprises of the year. I did not expect it. - The one time where Connor could have gotten an easy die. - Why is it always a big surprise when it's me losing?

- Well, you know what I mean? Like I'm tired of this shit. When I win, it's not a big surprise, you know? This is fucked up. - You know, Connor, when you beat me on the anime quiz, you know, then you could say that. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Okay. - And then the boys after hearing Emily's noodle tier list. - That was pretty bad. - That was fucked up. - That was pretty shit. Sydney losing the wine tasting special.

- Yeah, that was a good moment actually. - That was fucking hilarious. - Actually, that is probably the saltiest moment. - Yeah, yeah, I think that was the saltiest moment out of everything this year. - And then Ludwig not being the biggest YouTuber from his school, which is now a famous story. - I think he's close though. - He's very close. - I think he actually might've overtaken him. - Oh really? - Maybe.

- That's the only reason he's continued YouTube. Just become the top YouTuber. - Contractual obligations. He's out of the game after that. - But they can only be one winner. What do you guys think it'll be? - Sydney. - I want, I mean- - Or ProZD. - Sydney or ProZD? - I want ProZD to win. - But also Sydney was the saltiest. - All right, let's find out. The saltiest moment of this year's Trash Taste is ProZD.

- It was- - Well deserved. - It was some good salt. - Well deserved. - I'm right there with you. - I feel like this was one of the most discussed moments in a lot of like our guest episodes. - It was the pain that he exuded. It was like he paused, he was like,

- Yeah, he didn't even like say anything. Just the sigh of disappointment was all that was needed to be said. - I think it started off like that, but like the more the podcast went on and the more he heard us talk, the more you could see that anger just boiling up and boiling up. - You're a voice actor, you skip cut scenes. - I remember Tim turning to Joey and being like, "What are you gonna say? "What's next Joey? "What are you gonna say now?"

- I'm on your side, I'm on your side. - What was the breakdown on this one? - So ProCD won by 43. - Wow. - Holy shit. - Followed by a final losing to Garmin in the spring game record which was 16.4%. - What? How is that even close? - Damn, that wasn't even close. - Damn. - Hell yeah, lots of people are on our side, let's go. - It makes sense. - Well deserved, ProCD, congratulations on being the saltiest moment of the year. - Congratulations.

- Sorry, someone I still sometimes watch anime two times speed. - It's all right, someone I'm on your side. - I skip. - Yeah. - Not on your side. - Disgusting. All right. Let's move on to the next one, which is the most monkey moment. - I think it's only fitting that I present this award. - Of course. - Of course. - Resident monkey in house expert. - Why don't you read out the nomination? - Let's see what we have.

- Connor flooding three hotel rooms because of TFT. - Are they all gonna be Connor? - What the fuck? - These are all just gonna be Connor. - Connor showing everyone how to open a banana. Okay, that just is a monkey thing. - That is literally a monkey moment. What else do we have? - Oh my God, okay. - Oh, that was a monkey moment. - That's another monkey moment right there. - I just wanted to get a better hold of this. Sydney getting tricked about a Tim Tam slam.

- That was my favorite. - Do you wanna explain what a Tim Tam Slam is while I fix this? - So a Tim Tam Slam, what a Tim Tam Slam is supposed to be is when you bite off- - So Tim Tam is an Australian biscuit. - Yes, it's a chocolate biscuit. And a Tim Tam Slam is when you bite off two ends of the biscuit and you use it as a straw to suck up your tea or coffee or whatever beverage you're having, milk sometimes.

But we, myself and the entire smash audience tricked Sydney into thinking that a Tim Tam slam was when you take a packet of Tim Tams and you slam it on the ground and then you open the packet and eat the crumbs. She believed that shit.

So much so to the point where she tried to do it at the signing that we did. - I had to stop her as being a good husband. - Everybody, everyone who was there was just like, "Gant, how dare you?" - And that's when, that was the exact moment when I realized that gaslighting foreigners is an Australian pastime.

I don't know how that started. Australians, I was like, what's Australian culture? People are just like, oh, you know, it's the wildlife or the fucking deer. No, like a true Australian will just try to gaslight a foreigner. That's the one thing I found in common with everyone that I've met in Australia. Oh yeah, absolutely. All right, fix my mic. Connor Segway fall on the road trip. Yes. Well, I mean, Connor is one, but also Garnt.

- Yeah, I think it's like broke my knee. - Yeah, I can't believe you broke something there. - That's true. - This one is, I, this one- - You know what the worst part was with that pad Thai? Wasn't even that good. Like it was a pretty bad pad Thai. - It wasn't even that good. - I thought, how could you fuck this up? - This is simultaneously the, like one of my most monkey moments listening to and one of my saltiest moments listening to as well. That was, I could not believe.

- My soul left my fucking body. - 'Cause how much is a pad thai usually? - It's like $3. - It's like $3 is still expensive. It's like, you can get some for like $1, $1.50. - I paid 20 bucks. - I just paid 20 bucks.

- I knew we were getting scams, but we were already sat down and I was like, fuck it. - Getting scammed in Pad Thai is like paying $7 for Pad Thai. - I think we got the extortion. - We went through the whole shame on me, shame on me twice. We did it like five times. Like shame on me five times, fuck me. - You got your bank accounts completely ripped, man. - I'm just helping the economy. - Yeah, man.

- You can't hate on me for that. - I mean, they're all honestly pretty monkey. Four of these include Connor, which is hilarious. - Four? Is it three? - You're in this one as well.

- So either way I'm taking it now. - Yeah. - I'm taking it now, Sydney, which I have a feeling is not gonna win. - I mean, I think the TFT thing is still pretty much. - I think it must be the TFT thing. - I remember the play by play of getting the message from Connor 'cause me and Connor were gonna meet up at the bar and he's like, "Oh, I'm gonna be late." And he texts me again, "Oh, I'm gonna be really late." And it was just like the progression of, I flooded my room. I flooded three rooms. I'm not dead. I flooded, people think I flooded my room because I was taking a bath.

- I was actually just playing TFT. It was just like the evolution of this story. - It just kept getting worse. - Hey, I got diamond though. So I'm still diamond to this day. - All right, let's find out who wins then. - The winner is Connor flooding three hotel. - Let's go.

- I bet it wasn't even close. What was it? - 57%. - 57%? That's fucked. - What was second place? - If I was showing everyone, I would've been a half-goat. - So I have over 90% of the vote. Okay, got it. It's just me. I'm just a monkey. - You're just a monkey. - Glad to be able to retain the title. Was I winning last year as well? - Of course you did. - Glad to be a returning champ at the monkey award. Gotta keep it true. Ugg. Ugg.

- All right. - Let's look at the next one then. Next one is the new one, wildest guest episode. - Yes, we did have a lot of guest episodes this year. A lot of them had a lot of wild moments, a lot of crazy moments, a lot of crazy stories. And we feel like it would only be fair to have some kind of representation of like all the guests and all the guest moments that happened this year.

which is why the nominations that you nominated were. - Now Red, Nigel, of course. - Yes. - We got Pete, Petter. - Yes. - We got the moist man himself, Charlie. We got Hassan, we got Michael Reeves and we got ProZD. - And we got Shindowell, Ludwig and of course Felix. - A lot of episodes. - That is a lot of episodes. - And that's only like the tip of the iceberg of the actual guest episodes we did this year. - And a lot of them, yeah,

- They did have some wild moments. They definitely had some wild moments. I mean, Nigel, that entire fucking episode, I have simultaneously wiped from my memory, but I remember like the emotions I felt during that episode. - I presume 'cause he was like a science YouTuber, he'd be more reserved. I was so wrong. He was off the charts. - He's a mad scientist. - Hasan, I'm just happy that we had an anime, basically an anime only episode. And it was actually one of like our most in depth anime

- Anime only episodes we've had in the history of this podcast, I think. - And then obviously Michael Reeves is just fucking insane all the time. So he brought it to trash days as well. Pete just is like the most amazing storyteller. - No one tells stories like Pete. - No one tells a story like Pete and no one has stories like Pete. And then of course, Charlie is, you know, just- - He finally got to defend his-

his Jojo take to us live in person. - And we didn't listen. - And we were like, still a shit take. - I think we forgave him, right?

- We kind of understood it a little bit more. - This is why talking your feelings out, don't be angry people online, just get them in the same room and just have a conversation about it. - We also got to see some of his contraptions as well. - Oh yeah. - Very, very interesting. - And then obviously someone- - Someone who is never coming back on this podcast because- - Definitely hates at least two hours. - I'm surprised he agreed to do a claw. I didn't expect that. - And then obviously Shindo making us all open our third eyes with-

Just the most wild interpretations of hentai. - Yes. - Ludwig just because he's Ludwig and Felix 'cause he's Felix. - Yeah, I mean the Felix episode, one of the things that stood out to me was he somehow agreed with at least one of each of our shit takes. He started like, he started- - He's the neutralizer. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. He started World War III and then became allies with everyone at the same time. I don't know how he managed to do that, but that was pretty impressive. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Who do you think is gonna win though?

- I think it might be between Pete and Nile Red. - I think it might be between. - I think those were fan favorites, but. - I think long-term viewers of Trash Taste, 'cause you know a lot of the guest episodes get a lot of viewers from outside communities. But I did notice that the Trash Taste community loved those two episodes. - Yeah, definitely. - I would say, I mean, I enjoyed recording all of these episodes. - All of these episodes were great. - All of these episodes were like really, really fun to enjoy. - Absolutely. - To record, sorry. But yeah, in terms of like wildest, I would say that

Now Red and Pete had the craziest stories because they went on some side quests in their lives. - Pete was just a man that said yes to everything for 30 years to 40 years of his life. And it's like, all right, now I have enough stories forever. - For a lifetime. - Yeah. And Now Red was just like, let's just try something crazy. I don't have like a danger function in my brain. - We're lucky that Now Red decided to be a YouTuber. I'm not an evil scientist. - We are. - We'd have had like...

- There's tales of a dangerous scientist who was grown up doing dangerous experiments, but there can only be one winner, unfortunately. - And the winner of the wildest guest episode is...

- It's now red. Well done. - Congrats, Nigel. - Thank you for not blowing up the earth. I hope you have remembered where you found that uranium from because I- - Keep him happy for another day. Please don't be angry, Nigel. - Yes, yes. I'm sure, you know, we find someone with a meth,

Kind of like if we find a meth lab in this place, I wouldn't be surprised, but whatever. - Just for a YouTube video, isn't it? - Just for a YouTube video. - Yeah, it's fine. - Yeah, it's a tax write off. - All right, let's move on to the next award, which is the best story.

Now, I mean, there's lots of great stories obviously from us, from guests, but they can only be one. So let's look at the nominations. We've got Connor Fortnite dancing at God's wedding, which is definitely the weirdest thing I've seen in my life. - That is a fever dream. - Pete's voice acting experience at a Japanese cult.

- I love this story. It just doesn't sound real. - Yeah. - And then obviously Nigel's entire origin story. - Just this entire, there wasn't one that we could pin down here. - There was too much. - There was too much. - Garnt's bird story. I think this is the one in Thailand. - Yeah. - You just watching like a fucking coming of age anime with two birds. - I love this next one.

- I was like, what is that? Oh, it's when Joey's like a thousand dollars getting a Mario Brothers ringtone. - That was not my proudest moment. - Why Joey, you fucking cunt. Why you playing all my moves? - Yeah, my dad just walks in. He's like, what the fuck is this? I got my ass beat that day. Then we got, Didis losing his rent money 'cause it flew out of his shoe. - It flew out of his shoe.

- I can't believe that. - That's awesome, great stories. - Yeah, this one is probably like the closest one 'cause normally for the last, I guess like two years of the best story awards, we've always had like a big between like one of the three of us having a big like revelation about our backstory that no one knew about and we've never mentioned to each other. - Backstory, like the fucking video game. - I guess so.

- The Connor law, you might be following it. - The Gant law, if you're following that. But this year it's been three years. You know a lot about us already. So it's just some wild shit that happened in other people's lives. - Yeah, honestly. - Yes. - But they can only be one winner. - Yeah, I don't know what, I actually don't know what's gonna win this one. - I have no idea either. But the winner of the best story is Pete's voice acting experience at a Japanese cult.

- Well done to Pete. - Dude, that thumbnail did him dirty. - That was an amazing story. - Yeah. - So funny and so engaging. - Yeah. - Just the wildest story. - He's such a good storyteller. - Amazing storyteller. - He definitely deserves the best story award. - Absolutely. - For this year. - What were the top three though? - Top three was Pete's voice acting experience in Japanese school was 29.9. - Holy shit.

So by now we've read this entire Oliver story with 21.1% and Connor fought by dancing it constantly.

- All right, nice, nice. - Good stories, good stories all around. Well, that's that category. The next one. - Do you know what's wild? Pete didn't even get for like half of the stories in his life that happened. - No, we need two more episodes at least to cover some ground. - Definitely. - Holy shit. - The next award is, and one close to my heart, the biggest clown. Now, of course I've been a champion of this two times in a row. So hoping finally that I don't win it this time 'cause I don't want this award anymore.

So the nominations are as follows. Joey. - What are these pictures? - Connor. - Aer Lingus. - Garnt. - And Chris. So I know which one I wanna win. - Yeah, same. - I know which one I wanna win. I think the real question is who comes second, all right? Because I think we can all know who's won this one. - Do we really know? - I really hope you guys pull through. - Well, there was one.

- One standout clown this year. - It really went above and beyond in clownery. - And the funny thing is, all of this was like off camera as well. But off camera became an entire story arc that people got invested in. It had its ups and downs. - Me bullying Aer Lingus on Twitter. - Retta was having a field day with this. - Yeah, we get one of the bags back and it turns out it wasn't the bag with the expensive equipment and just,

As soon as we had lost hope, it had been like nine months. You get the email, we get the email and it's like, we have your bag.

And we didn't believe it. We didn't believe it. I didn't believe it until I had the physical bag in my hand. Before I know, it was like someone else's bag. - Or empty, right? - It was an empty bag. Someone had stolen all our equipment. We didn't know. But it was an entire story arc that had a good ending. And we didn't think it did. - Doesn't make Aer Lingus any less of a clown though. - Who do you think is gonna come second? - Second? - I mean, one of us in this is wearing the clown costume. So I'm...

- People would just vote for me out of tradition. - Honestly, it might be Connor as well. - I feel like- - Or they'll troll Chris. - Yeah, I don't know. I feel like the Game of Thrones take, that produced, the Game of Thrones take, the light mode take, that produced so much heat on the Reddit that I think I might've swayed a few people there. - I know it's not gonna be me, that's for sure. - All right, all right. Well, let's find out who the winner is. The winner of Biggish Clown of 20, no, it's not years, it's just,

- Just 2023, that's fine. - Is... - Congratulations, Aer Lingus. The only award you're ever gonna get.

- Well deserved really. - Well deserved. - No one went quite as above and beyond in the act of being a clown as Aer Lingus. Every single opportunity they fumbled, every single aspect of communication was terrible, and every chance they had to redeem themselves, they missed. So they are indeed the biggest clown of this year. - How much did they win by though? - 55%. - 55.3%. - I thought it would be more honestly. - I thought it would be more as well. - So the question is who is second place?

- Who's third? - Let's go. - Why am I winning this again? Well, I didn't win, so it doesn't matter, but it doesn't matter if I'm second. - You got the silver, man. - It doesn't matter, it doesn't matter. - You got two golds and a silver. - All it took was one company making a monumental fuck up for nine months in order to take the biggest,

- And the votes, you still had some decent amount of votes. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - A quarter of them still voted for you. - All right, Garnt, what's the next category? - All right, but the next one, the opposite of clownery is of course biggest,

- We've had a lot of Chads on the show. - A lot of Chad moments, a lot of Chads in the show to like, I guess bring that up as well because we had a lot of guests this year as well. So there were a lot more nominations this year for biggest Chad, which is why this year's nominations were Chris. - Oh yeah, with the winning the chess boxing. - Of course, Peter, Garnt, of course. I don't know what that's a. - What the fuck is this edit? - What are these edits? - What the fuck is this?

- And we also got, of course Connor. - They didn't even try with Connor. - You could have used this out of context screenshot. - Yeah right. - We got Joey. - I look disgusting. - We got Hassan. - Who's the only real picture.

- We got Felix. - Oh, look at that Chad. - We got Noel. The Chad burning down the building. And we got Shindowel. - All right, not bad. A very stacked lineup. - Everybody's pretty Chad-ish. - We have a very, very stacked lineup this year for biggest Chad. - I mean, if we're going by the definition of the word, right? - Okay. - It's probably not gonna be any of us. - No. - Right? It's probably gonna be like a tie between like maybe Felix, Hasan, maybe even Chris for winning the chess boxing.

- I think that I could take it. Pete could take it too. - Pete could take it as well. - Chad of storytelling. - Yeah. - Who knows? Honestly, this is one of those categories where I don't expect anything and I won't be shocked by anything. This is one of ours. - All right. - Yeah. - So let's see who wins it. - I have no idea who's gonna win this actually. - Let's find out though. - You guys have voted. - The biggest Chad in the Trash Taste Awards is... - Pete!

- Well deserved, well deserved. - Holy fuck, holy fuck. Pete's sweet. - Gigant Chad with the stories. - He is sweeping this year, holy shit. - What was the breakdown of the votes? - So Pete, 27.3%. - Wow. - 27.3%. Who was second and third? I'm very curious. - 21.2%. - Chris is gonna be so salty. He fucking won the chess boxing and Pete's just like, nah, nah. - Pete just needed to be there.

- And who was third? - The top 16. - So none of us are at the top three. - As it should be. - As it should be, we are not charged. - All right, Terry, what's the next category? - All right, next one is a brand new one as well. We have the biggest W of the year. Now this is trash taste. There's not a lot to choose from. - We don't have many of those. - We don't have many of those, but let's see which ones we had this year. We had Connor winning the horse race in the road trip special. I mean,

- A small W, but sure. "Garnt Getting Married", that's a big W. "Connor's Cyclothon", also a big W. "Airling is Bad Returned". I mean, that's like a, is that a W? - It's a W considering the entire, everything that we went through. - It's a W on our wallets. - Yeah, W on our wallets. - It's a W on our wallets. - And then "Chris Winning the Chess Boxing", also a W. - Yeah, I mean, there were quite a few Ws this year. - Absolutely.

I realized none of these actually have anything to do with actual episodes, by the way. - No, they're special. We have the special. - Other than the special, everything is outside of the scope of a regular trash taste episode. - I feel like part of this was a lot of big things happened off camera for us as well.

- I don't think Chris should win anything for wearing those Dr. Jelly shorts. Those things are fucking hideous. - Excuse you, that's my face. - Why do you look so fucking awful in those pictures? It's like crispy. It's like crispy and like deep fried. - I'm gonna say this, I'm real happy that Chris won the chess boxing, but him throwing his queen, I still- - Yeah, that was a big out. - He went from like a guaranteed checkmate to throwing his queen, I believe. And I remember screaming at my television.

when that was happening. - I couldn't believe you did that. - I could not believe that. - Honestly, I kind of want to give it to Connor. I kind of like, Connor did something impressive this year. All I did was say I do. That was it, that was it guys. - That's a W that everyone hopes to get. - You arranged an all you can eat free oven baked pizza. And you paid for it. - And all you can drink espresso martini as well. - And an open bar.

We've made Garnt's wallet work for that bar. Poor Garnt. - All right, well, out of all of the W's, which one was the biggest one? Let's find out. The winner of the biggest W of the year is Garnt getting married!

- I'll take it. - Well deserved. - You will take it. - It is a big W. - I did say I do and I will always be known as a Grant for the rest of my life now because I can't believe that happened on the most important moment of my life. - It should be wedding times three.

- So good, we gotta do it two more times. - You stacked that. What was the top three though? - So, Garth won by 53 points. - Thank you. - Thank you very much guys. - Thank you very much.

- Followed by Connor Cyclophones with one by 21 points. - I'll take second. - Also well deserved. - Very well deserved. - Third place? - Third place was Chris Wins Chess Box with 24 points. - Makes sense. - Wow, okay. So most of those were those three. - Yeah. - Yeah. I mean, big W's all around. - Huge W's. - With the little W's we have on Trash Taste, we'll take all of them. - Yes, let's do it. - Thank you very much.

- All right, let's move on to the next one. - But of course, the next category, a favorite of ours, the best nickname of the year. - Do we have any new nicknames this year? - I don't know, I feel like we didn't. - I feel like we didn't, but some of our guests did. And we had some pretty funny ones as well, and stuff that happened off camera as well.

So these nominations are Bulge Lee. So actually I joined the stream, I joined your stream like two days in. How did this start? Do you wanna explain how this thing started? - So we were doing Kawara tile smashing, which is, you know, you just smash it. You've seen it in the movies and stuff, whatever. They'd show you, oh my God, he's so strong. He can hit an inanimate object hard. And so I put on an outfit and I guess my junk was just like enunciated

quite heavily in this junk. And it was all chat could talk about the whole time I was doing it.

And it was a Bruce Lee outfit. So they named me Bulge Lee. And it just kind of stuck, I guess. People loved it. And Didus was laughing his ass off the whole time saying, every time I walked out, he's like. - I feel like what made this nickname stick was the fact that he just ended up breaking the record. You cemented that. - I couldn't believe that. - During that moment. - Definitely having practice with the time we did it, I think helped a lot. I knew the technique going in.

- Last year we had affable Chris, this year we had haughty Connor. - Yeah, haughty Connor. - Which is, I don't know, like, I honestly had never heard of this word before you told this story. - I'd never heard of this word either. - And I was like, I can not find a word that more accurately represents you.

- It is so perfect. - That is now permanently engrained into my brain. - You can look at the depths of the thesaurus and there'll be nothing more that explains you. - Yeah, we gotta go through like all of us now. There must be like a new word to describe all of us every year. - I think so, I think so. - Yes. - And then we also have the greatest prank that was ever pulled, Barry Chops. - Barry Chops. - I was fucking dying in the taxi when you fell for that shit.

- Chris was like, "Ain't no way." He just can't pull one back. - Well, the next name, DiDussy, we're skipping the band Chopsticks. I don't remember this one. - I don't remember DiDussy. - But it makes sense. - Yeah, I don't remember when this was mentioned, but this was mentioned a few times on the nominations.

- And I'm like, it checks out, it checks out. - Sounds like something I would have said. - All right, so we have four nominations. Let's see who's taking it home. - Come on, let's find out. - Have your votes placed. - All right. - The winner is- - Barry Chopsticks, Barry Chopsticks, come on. - Barry Chopsticks.

- I'm surprised this didn't get nominated for best story as well. Such a bad story. - Such a good story. - I got unrightfully trolled. No reason, God damn it. - What's the breakdown? - Barry chopsticks with 48.4%. - 48.4%. - Oh God, what was second? - Balls with 19.6%. - That makes sense, that makes sense.

- Moving on to the next one, which is best meme. That is also me. So as you know, we always get some very, very good memes on the Reddit and a lot of Twitter posts. So we wanted to congratulate some people who actually went out of their way and made great memes out of the episodes and moments that have happened during the previous year. - All right.

- All right, let's check out the nominations. - And so the best memes are Connor Streamer Awards. - Is that a meme? - The Connor Streamer Award memes. There were a bunch of these on his- - There's one I really liked is when I woke up. People memed the woke up a bunch when it was like, you know, me when I get a triple kill on Fortnite. And it's me standing up going like,

- I think the reason, there's not one meme of this 'cause this spawned so many memes in the subreddit, but it was just your pure reaction of just shock and surprise. - Yeah, I didn't expect to win. Yeah, I was like, what the fuck? - Being like, whoa, whoa.

- Well, ripped Connor was also a big thing as well. That took over the subreddit. - I got like 90,000 likes when I tweeted that picture out. - Jesus Christ. - I think it's because some people, again, because it matches so perfectly with the skin tone, some people probably thought it was real. - On the first glance, it's real. And then you look at it for a second, you're like, oh, okay. But like for the first glance, you're like, oh God, whoa. - You can see where it ends. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'll be honest. When I first saw this pop up on the subreddit, 'cause I didn't get to watch the stream live, I was like,

"Oh my God, what the fuck has happened to Connor? "God fucking damn." - I wish, I drink far too much beer to ever get in that kind of body. - We've also got a Dr. Ligma Babyman.

- I've never seen this before. - That's such a good one. This was the aftermath of the dark timeline memes that spawns last year, which of course won last year. - That did win last year. - We got all of the wedding memes as well. - My favorite of the wedding memes is the Ava parody we did. - Oh yeah.

- I'm just like everyone, all the boys just like standing in front of Gargoyle going congratulations. - I got to thank you for that Joey because I always remember that moment where all the boys were together for a photo and Joey was like, this is a once in a lifetime opportunity. We should do the Ava congratulations right now. And I was like, oh my God, Joey, you are right.

- You're right. - It turned out so well. - Yes, and it was literally a once in a lifetime opportunity. So thank you very much to my boy for reminding me of that. - When Connor has an opinion. My favorite one of when Connor has an opinion is when I think it was a year or two ago, is of the slow motion footage of me and Garnt just like looking towards the camera. - There's so many variations of when Connor has an opinion.

- We got how these two look at each other whenever they be. - Holy fuck that's such a good edit. - Such a good edit.

- That's so good, holy fuck. - We got the level of disappointment in Prozied's eyes. Yeah, that's pretty much how that episode went. - Yeah. - I love this, the just saw a murder one when someone- - Wait, I don't even know about this one. - You did? - Yeah, this popped off. I remember seeing you all dying laughing. - Really? - It was, yeah. - It's got 11,000 upvotes. - Yeah. - Oh, you got reassured, I think as well. - Did I? - Yeah.

- How dare they get rid of Ash in the United States. They're just like, bro, you don't even want it. - God, I fucking hate Twitter. - Joey's finding out he got ratioed. - I just found out I got ratioed. - 11,000 likes of Joey getting ratioed. - Gone 0.1 seconds after getting married to an American.

- We got the 30 foot cartels. - We all go on. - You got Dr. Charlie. - Oh, the dark timeline trail. Okay, this one, I remember this. - It was good. - Should we watch this one? - This one deserves some screen time. - Fucking love that. - The one with Connor screaming is my favorite show, I think.

- This is way too well edited. Oh my God. - This is so much shit. - This is so good. Bro, holy fog. - Very nice, very good meme. - There's also the Trash Taste anime intro. - Yeah. Bro, this is, we should have used this as the intro for the Trash Taste awards this year. - Yeah, right? - This literally- - This is crazy. - Yeah. - What the actual fuck? - That's crazy.

- Holy fuck. - Damn. - That is- - Damn, dude, went hard. - GG to whoever made that. - That's insane, dude. What the hell? - I want that one. After seeing all that. - Yeah, I was gonna say, I think what I like about the Trash Taste After Dark was it was such a good meme that it kind of like, I see that as the end of the After Dark meme kind of like timeline. 'Cause I think everything kind of like tapered off after this meme was posted. - I think so. - Anime intro, I don't know.

I do not know how I missed this one. 'Cause that was fucking incredible. - Well damn, but there can only be one winner ladies and gentlemen today. - Yes, let's find out. - And Garnt, what is it? Tell us. - So there were a lot of nominations this year. - So many. - So many good memes. And so many good memes we just watched right now, fresh. But the best meme of the Trash Taste Awards this year goes to the Dark Timeline trailer.

- Honestly. - I'm surprised it won. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - I thought people wouldn't have the patience to sit through a one minute 30 video. - Sure. What was the top three though? - So the Dark Timeline trailer won by 26.8%. - Okay, okay. - Okay. - Followed by When Connor Has an Opinion, at 2.4%. - Fair enough, fair enough, fair enough. - And Rip Connor with 10%.

- All right, all right, checks out. Those did take over the subreddits. - True, true. - And I wanna give more awards to the anime opening. - Yeah, that was awesome. - Anime opening, I think it's a personal award. - That was so fucking good. - You get the personal award from us, man. - How the fuck? All right, what's up next, Joe? - All right, well, next one is a brand new one as well. We have the best Deez Nuts moment. 'Cause as I said at the beginning, there was a kind of a renaissance of Deez Nuts jokes among Trash Taste. And it kind of spread throughout.

- Yeah, so I think this started from the charity stream when I got these nuts about 36 billion times. And a big part of this year was us traveling to conventions and getting to interact with you guys. And what we realized after interacting with you guys is that,

"You guys just love to deez nuts us." - You're all children. - It was like a competition about who could one up with getting the best deez nuts moment on the boys. - I swear there was a moment, a brief moment where among the Trash Taste fan base where it was like, it was kind of like a badge of honor if you were like, "Yeah, I deez nutsed gone IRL." And everyone's like, "Whoa!"

Holy shit, he did it. But yeah, there were a lot of Deez Nuts, so let's go through all of them. Yeah, so. So we have. We have the truck couldn't Deez Nuts, which happened at AX to Connor. Which anime protagonist has the power sneak thieves? I don't watch enough anime to know this one. Sneak. Sneak Deez Nuts. Sneak Deez Nuts. Oh my God. Yay!

- Yeah baby! - Is that even a good one? Is it even a good one, sneak these nuts? - Not to mention that like Mouse like kind of said it before the two of us. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Mouse knew it was coming. Connor was like, "I don't know what's going on, man." - Next one is my personal favorite. My load on your face. - My load on, which isn't technically a deez nuts, but this one was a new one for us. - I guess deez nuts is more of the cadence. - Yeah, yeah, it's the cadence, yeah. - Last question today.

From Jaden. Do you know what Milo is? Yeah, it's in like most southeastern countries. Yeah, I mean it's pretty popular in Thailand. Yeah. Do you know what it is Connor? I don't drink chocolate milk, I'm a four. It's like chocolate chocolate. Well there's a second part to this answer that says, yeah my load in your face. Yeah.

- I love the way the MC says it as well. - The MC was committed to it. - He just says it so nonchalantly. - I think what makes this stand out in my mind so much was that we just had an entire conversation taking it seriously. It wasn't a quick one. It was just the, oh yeah, I know Milo. And we just had a full on fucking conversation about it. - Didn't expect it at all. - I did not expect that at all. And that was incredible.

The next one is probably the most recent one, which is Kawaii Condi's nuts. - What do you think Chore means? - Bill? I don't know. - I think they mean the explanation for Chore. Let me say the full sentence. - All right. - Paul Connor, you like Chore Condi? - It was just the vigor of which he said it. It was so intense.

- Sometimes you have to say Deez Nuts joke in all caps. - Respect to this guy 'cause this guy set the tone for this panel. Everyone was like- - He was the first one. - Yeah, he was the first question that was asked. - He also came to us later and nailed everything. Like he said like the Bangkok name, the Welsh town name. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - He said that monogatari tongue twister. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - The man was very talented. - Yeah. - And then this one is one of our own getting- - This is when we least expected it. - Have you tried rock on?

- For what? - Rock on. - What's that? - Rock on these nuts. - Let's go Kevin. - Let's fucking go. - Why is it always me? Why am I always the one people are asking these questions to? None of these moments are my favorite. All of them suck. None of them should win.

- I personally just want to give it to Rock On just because Kevin just, no one was expecting it and Kevin just nailed it. - I thought I was safe. - I trusted you, Kevin. You were in the circle of trust. Now you are out of the circle of trust. - Never trust Australians. That's the rule of thumb. - Fucking Australians, man.

But yeah, all really good nominations and some had some different buildups. I got to either give it to Kevin or Milo. - Yeah. - Because Milo, I literally did not see that one coming. - I think the Trotkin one's gonna win there. - You think so? - It was the one that was shared the most. - Ah, shit. - All right, let's find out. - Let's find out. - Here we go. The best Deez Nuts of the past year is... - Trotkin. - Oh, all right.

- He did start the trend. - It was just 'cause it was like the room was like a 1000 capacity filled room. It was like intense and yeah, it was just, it was a lot. - Yeah, true. - All right, what were the top two? - So, "Trap Queen" won by 49 points. - Oh shit. - See, I told you guys, I was not even remotely worried about that. - Okay, okay. - What was second? - Followed by "My Load on Your Face." - "My Load on Your Face."

That was a long buildup for that one. - Yeah, that's what made it so good. - Yeah, true. - That's the payoff, the payoff made it worth it. - Well, let's hope we don't have enough for this category next year. - All right. - Because I don't wanna get these nuts again. - Okay, now we are aware, guys. So next time we go to a convention, we're looking out for- - You gotta work extra hard. - You gotta work extra hard if you wanna get us next time. - The next award is,

- A classic, the best drip awards. - Best drip. - Now who will win the best drip award? - I mean, we had so many guests who just came in with the drip as well. So I think there's gonna be a few guest nominate, or I'm not sure about that. But let's look at the nominations, shall we? - Connor. - Connor. - That's me. - With the suit. - Yeah, Joey. - The one time Connor's not wearing the fresh taste shirt. - Consistent, consistent. Joey, gone.

- With the Miss soccer look. - Yeah, it is. - Not sure about that. - Anthony deserves. - Deserved, deserved. - And Garnt's dad. - All right, that's the nomination. Some tough competition this year. - Look at Garnt's dad, dude. - Look at that. - You can't beat that. - The energy from one picture I think is strong enough that it could take it. - Honestly. - It could take it. - I like how my dad's never been on any form of content aside from one picture that just got posted online or some shit. - It's the hair.

- The hat takes a level of confidence. - Only your dad can rock off that hat. - I'll be honest, when he first started wearing that, 'cause he first started wearing that,

in like my teenage years, I was like, "Dad, dad, are you gonna really wear a fedora? Come on, dad, really?" But like now that I've grown up, I'm like- - With the suit it works. - Yeah, your dad rocks the fedora. - With the suit it works. Yeah, I remember this picture just getting shared all over the Reddit, so that's not what I was expecting. - But who will it be? Who is the best strip of this year? - Let's find out. Hopefully it's not Chris. - Ladies and gentlemen, the winner of best strip 2023 is

- Gant's dad. - Congratulations, dad. - Let's go. - You probably don't even know you got nominated. - Gangster shit. - You probably didn't even know the internet were talking about you, dad, but congratulations. - All you need to know is you won an award, well deserved. - Everyone was talking about your dad, one picture and you won best rep. - Who was the top three? - Gant's dad won my 55. - Oh my God.

- 55% of the bullshit. - Oh my God. - Followed by Chris with 14.5%. - How? - What? - Followed by Connell with 11.6%. - What?

- What? - Wears a suit once, gets 10% of the votes. - I'm just gonna start wearing suits. - Yeah. - All right, well, that was Best Trip, well-deserved. Congratulations, Garnt Stant. Garnt, what's the next category? - The next category is we awarded Best Trip. Of course, we have to award Laziest Trip as well. - Oh no. - All right, Laziest Trip. And the Laziest Trip nominations are Connor. - Understandable. - Joey. - Cash. - Me. - Yes. - And Chris. - Is that it?

- Oh my God, why? - There's a one in four chance. - So there's a one in four chance. - It better be Chris. - That one of all three of us are gonna win. - It better be Chris. - It better be Chris. - As much as I do think Connor has the laziest drip, I kinda want Chris to win. - I kinda want Chris to win. - Chris has even lazier drip than me. - Yeah, I'd say Chris is lazy. - People love memeing me, but Chris just wears polo shirts.

- All black t-shirts. - Yeah, that's all he wears. - Yeah. I mean, Chris hasn't won an award this year yet. - We gotta give him a dub, right? - We gotta give him a dub rights. But there can only be one winner out of the four of us. - Let's find out. - And the winner for Laziest Trip goes to Connor. - Let's go. - What the fuck? - Don't worry Connor, this year I'll change you. - Oh shit. - Did I win by a lot?

- Yeah, 52. - 52? - At least tell me Chris got second. - Chris got second. - Silver medal. - It's called lazy, it's called consistent. There's a difference. Lazy would be putting no effort. I put a lot of effort into making sure I wear the same thing. - I put a lot of effort into buying the same shirts. - I do, I do. - All right. - Well, thank you. - All right. - Connor, congratulations. - Let's move on though to the next one, which is a pinnacle of trash days, the best argument.

- Yes. - Lots of arguments this year, as always on trash. - We always have arguments. - Let's look back on some of our best arguments, shall we? So we have again, light mode versus dark mode. That wasn't even an argument. That was just a beating, if I'm being honest. - It was me versus the world.

- And you lost. - And once again, it was both the top ones, just me versus the world. - What the fuck? - What the fuck guys? - Some of the returning hot takes from earlier, "Attack on Titan" is a mecha anime from Joey. Charlie prefers earlier JoJo parts.

- That was kind of, that's an argument that expanded across years. - Yeah. - And finally got resolved with this episode. - It finally got resolved in this one. - One piece being political. - Which is true. - Which is true. And the rice versus bread argument. - Oh God. - We've also got Sydney and Connor arguing about wine, which is just like, it's not even a trash tasting. That's just the daily thing. - Yeah. - And Felix agreeing with all the boys' bad takes.

- What did he agree with then again? I know he agreed with me on not watching Arcane. He agreed with you on, I think- - Skipping cut scenes. - Yeah, skipping cut scenes in video games. - Yeah, and he agreed with you on cutting off the crust of a pizza. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - When we saw him do that, I was like, that's actually fucked up. - Yeah, it was fucked up. - He literally cut out the middle. - I'm like, I finally found a fellow crust lover and then he had to agree with Connor on skipping cut scenes and I was like- - 'Cause he's smart. - And he didn't watch Arcane 'cause he's smart. - No, that's bad. - So who do you think is gonna win?

- This is actually a really tough one. I do think one of Garnt's takes might take it though. - I'm secretly hoping Light Mode versus Dark Mode gets two dubs today. - The rice versus bread could also be up there. - I think the attack on Titan is a Mecha anime could also be up there. That was a pretty,

fucking heated argument that got Joey to say that Ava is not a mecha anime. - Stop reminding me. - Out of like the heat of the moment, which I'm just like, I don't know. I don't know what that came from. - Don't make me eat my words. - Do you know how I know? Like, do you know how I know it's a good argument? When we get heated enough to say something really fucking stupid. That's how most of our shit tastes come from. We just get so heated that we just say a really, really shitty take. - That's true.

- They can only be one winner. - Only one. - Yes, only one. - Let's find out. The winner of the best argument of the year goes to Attack on Titan is a Mecha Anime. - Yay!

- Wow. - Honestly. - I'm shocked it won, honestly. - What did you think it was gonna win? - I thought it could have been one of Garnt's spicy takes. The hills he was dying on were not worth it. - I'm still down on the hills. - What are the results? - What are the top three? - So AOT won by 20.1%. - Ooh, 21.1%, that was close. - Fuse agreeing with all the boys' bad takes, 17.4%. - Wow. - I was not expecting that. - Very close, very close. - And Light Mode versus Dark Mode with 14.8%.

- So it was in the running. - Yeah, you got the bronze medal. - Yeah, I'll take it. - I'm shocked this one honestly, but it was a great argument. One of the best ones we'd had. It was fun to see Joey say something just flat out incorrect. - I instantly ate my words. It was like instant karma compilation. - Samurai Shambalu doesn't have samurais in it. - It's like, "Shit."

- All right, let's move on to the next one. Connor, what is it? - The next category is the most wholesome moment award. - We had a few wholesome moments. - I think we've had plenty of wholesome moments. - Yeah, I mean, I feel like this year, just because we've been traveling so much and a lot of us have been doing a lot of stuff off camera, that just ended up being, Trash Taste just ended up being a lot more wholesome than I guess we're used to. We thought- - That's why I had to do that hentai episode, really like, you know, kind of,

even it out, pull everyone back down. - A lot of trash taste is us arguing and shouting with each other, but at the end of the day, we're still friends. People can forget that sometimes. And there were some wholesome moments this year. - Let's check out the nominations though. - Yes. - So we have me and Garth.

- This one is wholesome because we didn't know we were being recorded. - We did, this was such a- - Can you play this one actually? - Play the video. - This might be my favorite video. - It's very wholesome. - Come here, man, come here. - That's that wholesome. - I have such a visceral memory of this hug. It was just like, I don't know, 'cause this was like the first song- - It's like when your dad comes back from getting the milk.

- I hugged in the same way. - He actually comes back. - Do you know how I know this is wholesome? This is so wholesome that it didn't get memed at all. People just posted the clip without caption or anything. - I did it, I memed it. - Connor was the first one to meme it. - We got Emily bringing the boys fruit gifts, which was very wholesome. We didn't know this was happening. - This was tough because we brought Emily on to destroy her for a few takes. And she comes on and disarms us and we're like, "Emily, what the fuck?"

- Fuck man, how can you do something so wholesome? - Just made it 10 times harder to roast you. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Smart, smart. - We got Garnt's bird story, as we mentioned earlier. - That was pretty wholesome. - Which is super wholesome. We got Connor completing the cycle for two. - Very, very wholesome. - That was not enough for one of the clips. - I guess so. And we got the end of Kevin's episode where he almost cried. - That was a cute one. - Bro, that was very wholesome. We had a big group hug.

- Oh, you so goddamn sweet. - I feel like what makes that so wholesome is that people forget now or people haven't forgotten but it feels like it's been such a long time since the world opened up again. We got to travel and people had been stuck in their homes for two years and just having Kevin just kind of be like, "Hey guys, I missed you guys. "Help me through a bad time." And I'm just like, fuck man. What a bro. - And then we got shit faced that night. - We got absolutely fucking shit faced.

- Honestly, all of these could win. I'm happy with any of these winning to be honest. - All of these are wholesome. - Yeah, all of these are wholesome. - Any of them deserve it. And they're all great memories that I think we all share. - Absolutely. - But there can only be one. - Let us know Connor. - Most wholesome and the award goes to

Don and Joey hugging. - Yay! - He's very wholesome, very wholesome, very wholesome. - This is gonna be one of those videos I'm gonna look back on in like 30 years and fucking cry. You know what I mean? Like the good old days, man. - It felt like watching the end of an anime. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, it did. - It's like, they did it!

- You did it. - Oh, hell yeah. Thank you guys. - Thank you very much. - What was the top three though? - So your video went by 36.5%. - Nice. - Good chunk. - Followed by "Connor completes 'Cycle 1-2' with 32.8%." - Oh wow, that was close. - I did not expect that to be up there. - Hell yeah. - I mean, that was very, very wholesome. - Indeed. - Appreciate it, appreciate it. - Third place? - And the end of the "Cabin" episode was 30. - Yeah, yeah, that's, yeah. - All right, I'm glad the "Cabin" episode got love because that definitely deserves an award. - That was a great moment. - Such a good moment. - Very wholesome moment. - So very wholesome moments. - Thank you guys.

- Now we're going the opposite direction of wholesome. - I wouldn't say the opposite of wholesome, but you know, we like to talk about a lot of our problems here on Trash Taste. Some of them are genuine problems. Some of them are the most fucking first world problems you could ever imagine. - What are you talking about? I don't have a suit off. God damn it's the first world.

- Because the next moment is the most privileged moment award. - There's plenty of those. - That's for sure. - Which are- - Got my greatest hits. - Yes, yes. - You know, did we have this in the first Trash Taste Awards? - No, we added it in the second one. - We added it in the second one. So we didn't know Trash Taste would blow up.

- We just got progressively more privileged every year. - What can we say guys? We're not relatable anymore. - No, we fell off. - We fell off and this award proves it because the most privileged moments of this year were gone having three weddings. - That's very privileged. - That is very, very privileged.

- I completely forgot this. - When did you do this? - This was in LA. This was- - Oh yeah. - 'Cause they wouldn't give him a beer. - Yeah, they wouldn't give me a beer and I had to like literally bring out my famous birthdays and my Wikipedia page as ID to try and buy a fucking beer. - That's a swag. - That's such a flex. - I'm not poor, Sydney.

- All right, keep saying that Sydney. - Yes, Joey getting Chad and Ludwig into a bar in Australia. - Oh, that was in Sydney. Yeah, yeah, 'cause the manager recognized me. Felix getting a private jet for his dog. That's mega privilege. And Connor's coffee machine. - Why is my coffee machine on here?

- I mean, 'cause how much did you spend on that fucking coffee machine? - It was like two grand. - Bruh. - Hey, hey, it was worth it. Actually no, it was two grand. - That's that privilege talking to a boy. - Listen, this fucking coffee machine, even if I've already traded my firstborn son like eight times already on this podcast, I'm trading him again for another one. - Bringing him back and then trading him again. - I don't think I've ever spent this much money on something that also gave me 10 times the amount of joy back. I would have paid more, honestly.

- It's so goddamn good that machine, I love it. - But out of all of these absolute privileged moments, there can only be one winner. - It's gotta be the three weddings. - It's gotta be the three weddings. - It's gotta be the three weddings. - It's gotta be. - It's gotta be. - It's gotta be. - If it's not, I'm gonna cry. - To balance out the most wholesome moment, it's gotta be the three weddings. - Let 'em know, let 'em know Garnt. - All right, and the winner of the most privileged moments of Trash Taste goes to

- Felix getting a private jet for his dog. - I think on the grand scale of things, this is probably the most privileged moment. - I'm gonna call it right now. I don't think this was his most privileged moment. - What was his most privileged moment? - Oh yeah. I think that's the most privileged Felix moment.

Private jet for his dog, his dog, I get it. If I was in Felix's shoes, I would do exactly the same thing. Never been to Greg's. - Yeah, that was- - After living in England? - That was crazy to me. - I have never heard privilege in one line until I heard Felix say that, man. - Oh my God, we completely forgot about that.

- That was insane. - Yeah, getting a private jet for your dog, I understand, I agree. I've never been to Greg's Felix, what the fuck man? What the fuck? You were living in England for how many years? - That's crazy. - Imagine having a loving wife who makes sandwiches for you. Like that's just ew, disgusting. - Fucked up, it ain't right. - I've been to the UK twice and I've been to Greg's. - What came second or third?

Second was God having three weddings, which was 21.5%. And third was I'm not poor from second. Well deserved.

- All deserved. - All deserved. - Great moments, all great moments. - All right, let's move on to the next one, which I think again is just a pinnacle of Trash Taste because you know, Trash Taste is definitely not a podcast where you come to- - You come. - Where you come to hear a bunch of men talking about very well researched things. - Yeah, we definitely are not. - And so this is the perfect award for that. - We don't have nuanced opinions. - No, of course not. We definitely do our research. - We just say shit. - So we have the

I made it the fuck up award, which just explains itself really. So let's look at the nominations. Aristotle invented thinking.

- Yeah, that was a- - That whole episode was a fucking fever dream, man. - Did I say this? - I think you said that. - Yeah. - I'm not happy about that one. - I love the fact that the thumbnail just has you with like pretentious- - Looking really haughty. - Such a perfect thumbnail. - We have Hunter x Hunter getting canceled. - Yeah, I remember this kind of like blew up on the Reddit 'cause I remember we,

recorded a few episodes in a row. And I think we just all misread the news and we're like, "Hunter x Hunter got canceled." And it hasn't actually been canceled. - No, just on hiatus again. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Bro, it may as well be canceled. It is never getting made. - Yeah, exactly. - It is never getting made. - And I believe it's getting moved over or something. I haven't actually read the news article in a while, so I can't remember.

- Why are they moving it over? There's not gonna be any fucking chapters to move over. - Okay, I'll be honest. I'm making shit up as I go along now. I don't actually know what happened. - I kept my mouth shut 'cause I don't want this moment to be next year's one. - I'm just saying shit. I can't actually remember the news article, but all I know is that it wasn't canceled. - No. - Yeah. - It may as well be. - It might as well be. 60 Hertz monitor is the same as 144 Hertz. - This is such a dog shit take. - That's not even like an I made it the fuck up. That's just my opinion.

- I think that is, I made it the fuck up. 'Cause that is a difference. - I guess so. - No, there is. - No, there isn't. It's the same. Michael Reeves boxing coach telling him he can't nut. - Oh, right. - Oh yeah. - He can't jack off. - He can't jack off. - 'Cause he could smell it apparently if he did. I don't know what that means. - Is that how that works? - I suppose so. - I don't know. Chris telling Connor he booked on the Barry Charles text. - Oh, I guess this came under the, I made it the fuck up award. - He did make it the fuck up. - I mean, he made the name the fuck up.

- And Garnt and Connor argue about the Richter scale. - I remember we kept getting confused between logarithmic and exponential. - And I believe we both made some points that were accurate and some points that were completely inaccurate. And we were just, it was like the dumbest argument on Trash Taste 'cause it was two engineers arguing for something that they studied in their degree and neither of them got it completely right. - I remember I was more right.

- It means anything. - Yeah. Is there more? Is that it? Okay, that's it. All right. - It's gotta be either.

- It's gotta be the Aristotle one, right? - I just love the Aristotle thing. I remember this episode. - That entire episode was just I Made It the Fuck Up. - Yeah, that entire episode. - I can also see Barry Chopsticks. - Yeah, I can see that as well. - Maybe the anime fans will come through for the "Hunt to Hunt" got canceled take as well. - Yes, we'll see which one won, Jared Letters. - Let's find out, shall we? The winner of the biggest I Made It the Fuck Up award goes to...

- Chris telling Connor he booked on the Barry Chopsticks. - Well done. - He didn't make it the fuck up. - Damn, Barry Chopsticks with the two doves this year. - Bro. - Holy shit. - What were the breakdowns? I'm curious. - So Barry Chopsticks was 32.5%. - Okay.

60 Hertz water is the same as 140. It was 18.2%. - That was close. - And at the third, aerosol. - Joey narrowly avoided his win twice. - I make up a lot of shit. - Everything. - Don't trust me.

- All right, let's see. Let's go onto the second to last one, I think. - Yeah, second to last award. This one is, you know, obviously we didn't have as many After Dark episodes this year. - Yes, yes. - But we still had enough to be able to do this category. We'd like to know what you guys thought was the strongest episode.

- This next award is the best trash taste after dark episode or moments. I don't know if it's episode here. Oh, I guess it's moment. - Moment. - So this is the best trash taste after dark moment. - All right, let's go through. - All right. - The boys handling animals in Australia.

- My favorite one of that is when I think, what was it? It was the baby crocodile or like the lizard or something was just freaking out in your hand. - Yeah, they did not like being in my hand. That was such a good episode though. - I remember this screenshot of me just petting that lizard, just spread around on the Reddit to be like, "Yes, we will take over the world. Don't you worry."

We got everyone not getting the Among Us sounds in the gamer quiz. - That hurt. - But I think the one that got clipped a lot was all three of us going, "It's Among Us!" All at the same time. Garnt winning the gamer quiz. We mentioned that earlier. Garnt accidentally opens up a cultured book. Oh yeah, I had to stop you from showing that on the stream.

We got Garnt spending $10 instead of $100 on the Christmas special. - This was, I feel like this was a personal favorite of mine 'cause

- The last challenge on the Christmas special, I feel like epitomizes trash taste in a nutshell. So we had a challenge to buy presents for each other and we had $100 to buy presents for each other. And we all did something different for this challenge because Joey followed the rules. I mistakenly mistook $100 for $10.

And Connor completely forgot about this challenge and just brought shit from his house. Which I feel epitomizes each of our personalities pretty well to a T. - What did I give you guys again? - I don't even fucking remember. I probably threw it out. - I gave you a kiddie pool. - Yeah, he gave me a kiddie pool. - Which I took back. - What did you give me? - I don't remember what I gave you. - I don't know, I was probably throwing it back. - Do you remember what I gave Joey? - One piece, one piece, manga, I think. - Oh yeah, one piece English manga. - Oh yeah, which I already had. - Yeah.

- That was a good gift. - And Joey actually tried and thought long and hard for the gifts that he gave each other. - Unbelievable. - Yeah. - And then last one is everyone gets drunk in the wine stream. - That was my favorite after dark stream. - Oh yeah, that was the one where the- - John Perry the third. - John Perry the third and the stream fucking destroying itself. - Yeah, like everyone got drunk, including the sets. - That was crazy.

- Jesus Christ. - Yeah. - Great episode, but there can only be one winner. What was the best moment of the After Dark episode voted by you at home? And the winner is, drum roll please. - Bam. - Everyone gets drunk in the wine stream.

- That was my favorite. - I do think that was a very, very good episode. - That was so fun. - Just involve alcohol and going on live. - We should get shit face more on stream. - Just being smug and beating Sydney. It was just such a good combination of, it was just great. I'm so happy. - It was that drunk energy as well. They just did it. - Sydney in this thumbnail looks.

- Moodon didn't see any dirty. - They got a screenshot, all right. - What was the top three? - So everyone gets drunk in the wine street with 18.2%. - Oh, that's actually quite close. - That's very close. - Okay. - In second place, the boys handling animals in Australia. - That was a very fun episode as well. - That was fun, yeah. - And in third, Garnt accidentally opens up a caution book on screen with 16.5%.

- That was funny. - Damn, 1% difference in all of them. - 1% very, very close. - Very, very close. - Well, glad to know you enjoyed those moments. But we have one award left. Isn't that right, Garnt? - Yes, we have one final award, which is the best trash taste ever.

- Episode of the year. - God, how do you decide? - Yeah, I don't know. I mean, the hardest part of this is that I can barely remember all the episodes of the year. So I don't know how you guys ended up voting on it yourselves, but there were a lot of memorable episodes this year, a lot of different guest episodes that were very, very memorable, which is why we decided to include it this year.

And yeah, should we get to the nomination? - Let's find out. - Best Trash Taste episodes this year. - So we have episode 120, Nile Red, episode 111, Pro ZD, episode 137, Pete, episode 123, Shower Thoughts, which is the first non-guest episode, episode 124, Felix, episode 127, Charlie, episode 145, Hassan, episode 114, Ludwig, episode 101, Emily. That was the first of this year.

the second hand type, so 144, the road trip special and our boy got married episode 107. So it's kind of all over the board. - Yeah, wholesome episodes, a lot of guest episodes, obviously 'cause they're very diverse, but some good triple trash taste ones in there. - I mean, I personally just wanna give it to the special, but like, I don't know. - Yeah, it's kind of tough really. I mean, all of these, I wouldn't be mad. - Yeah, all of them, I had a lot of fun filming, that's why they got nominated.

I feel the road trip special turned out pretty well as well, but it took so much fucking time and effort. - Way too much, way too much. - That we only ended up releasing one special this year, right? - Yeah, I think so. - Yeah. - Only one special, which we said we're gonna do more and we didn't. - Yeah. - So we're live. - Honestly, yeah, I'm okay with any of these winning. They're all fucking amazing episodes. Yeah, I don't know.

- Yeah, I don't know which one I want to win. It's all good memories. But there can only be one winner for what you guys voted as the best episode this year. To cap off this third year of Trash Taste. - All right, here we go. - Which is why the winner

- For the best Trash Taste episode in, I guess, season three. - Yeah. - Season three of Trash Taste is... The Pete episode! - Oh!

- Pete with the triple W. - Pete sweep, Pete sweep. - Pete sweep. - Baby. - Damn. - Well deserved. - If we did a season three popularity poll of characters, Pete would be number one. - I think it's just a testament to Pete's character and being able to tell a story that's engaging. A lot of people weren't familiar with Pete when they went into the episode. And I think they left feeling really engaged and really fascinated.

by a very talented storyteller. - Yeah, I mean, I think quality speaks for itself because when we first released the episode, going into like the analytics, the Pete episode performed pretty like average or even like maybe below average just because a lot of people didn't know Pete back then. And it soon over time turned out to be one of the most successful episodes. - I think it's got over 2 million views now. - Wow. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - That's crazy. - Which is just a testament to the quality of the episode itself. So congratulations Pete. - Congratulations Pete.

- You goddamn deserve it. - Well deserved, well deserved. - And thank you guys for tuning in to the annual Trash Taste Awards. - And thank you for another fucking amazing year of Trash Taste. - It's been a great year. - The fact that we're able to do this for 150 episodes and you guys are still loving it, still coming back every week, makes us just super fucking happy. So we appreciate you guys so much.

- On to season four, I guess. - On to season four. Yeah, I think the big thing this year I'll always remember is this is the year that we got to like interact with you guys for the first time after just being through a screen and just seeing comments and seeing the Reddit post. This was the year that we actually got to meet you guys, shake you guys' hand, maybe even perform in front of you guys.

And it was a fucking incredible feeling. And we hope to do more exciting things in the coming year. Some of which we've already announced the tour. We are very excited to go meet our Euro bros. - Keep your eyes out on that guys. - And I know we talk about this every year, but specials, but we actually have already some in the backlog. So do not worry about that.

There will definitely be more specials this year. - I think for us, it was the specials. We're just trying to get a better way of making them. All the other specials are just us making them. And the problem is that we all do our own things. We also struggle to just keep up with Trash Taste in general. - And our own personal stuff. - Yeah, so we're trying to try some new stuff out, maybe bring more people on board to try and help the process. So we want to get to the point where Trash Taste specials are more frequent and hopefully higher quality. So we're working on that.

We're not just doing nothing, stuff is coming. - Yeah, and of course it's all a big thanks to you guys who support us on the Patreon as well. If you guys weren't supporting us over on the Patreon over there, we wouldn't be able to do half the things that we do. So we super fucking appreciate you guys for sticking to the Patreon. And speaking of which, look at all of them. - Look at all these patrons right here. - Look at all these beautiful patrons who supported us again. - They all deserve an award. - Exactly, let's do a round of applause for the patrons.

- Thank you, patrons. - Thank you guys. - Thank you. - We appreciate it. - You can smash that link down below if you wanna maybe consider getting on that list. - If you guys would like to join us and support us for season four of Trash Taste, then head on over to our Patreon, patreon.com/trashtaste. Also as always, follow us on Twitter, send us your memes on the subreddit, and if you hate our face, listen to us on Spotify. And thank you for another 50 episodes.

We hope to go for, fuck, it's gonna be episode 200 the next. - Episode 200. - Oh my God. - Holy fuck. - That's insane. - Episode 200. That's so much content. - But before that, we have a full year of awesome content for you guys coming up and we hope to see you guys there. - Yeah. So we'll see you guys next week. - Bye.