THE RETURN OF LUDWIG (ft. @Ludwig) | Trash Taste #214
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- All right, welcome back to another episode of Trash Taste. Joining with us again is Ludwig. - Dude, you're a bad host. - I was trying to think, like I was not ready to do an intro, but obviously we've taken over the yard set. You took over the Trash Taste one. - Yes. - I'm actually present this time. - Yes, you are. Where were you last time? Where did you go? - I was sending my girlfriend to the hospital.

Right, okay, that's what it was. I was going to be mad. That's a good reason, though. It's probably the most legitimate reason. That's the best. It's number one. And we kind of don't care about where we film in foreign countries. I think in Japan we like doing it at offset. You're saying it like you've come to the slums. We don't even care. It can look ugly. It looks horrific. No, this is an upgrade from the one that I was on.

Because I haven't been on this set ever. Oh, yeah. You were in my attic. Yeah. Which was also cool, though. Yeah. It was like this, but like third the size, but somehow looked... Like on camera, it looks...

It doesn't look that much different. - God, only in America do you get enough size in your attic to have an entire set. - Yeah, right? - I mean, yeah, this room is like two floors worth, at least in Japan. - A lot of people think it's actually outside. It's not. So you guys can confirm. - Yeah. - Yeah. - No, don't say that. - Oh no, it is, it is. - Don't break the illusion. - Everything about this set is just cool. - Yeah, it's very cool. - I went down the slide earlier.

- Oh yeah, you went down the slide. I mean, I wouldn't say you went down the slide. You struggled down the slide. - I was just trying to think for a second. I was like, what should we talk about? But obviously the last time you came on was I think when we'd all just gotten to know each other kind of, right? 'Cause that was when I just started. - It was two years ago. - Yeah, I just started meeting. I think I just met you. That was the first time I met you. - We just hung out.

Yeah, we hung out a fair amount. And now we've turned friends to lovers. Oh, you're laughing so you don't say it in front of the camera. No, no, no, it's true. You say it on camera all day. You're my American husband. I'm your boyfriend.

- Boyfriend in America. - My secret Japanese lover. - Your roommate. What are you, I don't know. So I was trying to think like, what do we talk about? 'Cause there's a lot that we could. I don't know what- - It's just the boys. - It's just the boys. We're just chilling out. - Why do we need an itinerary to hang out? - You're right, we just run it. - We just got a vibe. Y'all just landed? - Yeah, we just landed. - Like actually today, today.

- I landed this morning. - Are you not fucked right now? - I am fucked right now. - We've done this before and you do this all the time. So you should not be surprised. - Yeah, every time I see you, you're like, I've just landed. I've got like three hours of sleep.

You just run. I feel that's most people though who come to Japan. They like land right in the morning and then they immediately take someone at like 9 a.m. and they're like, I'm ready to go. When we did my RV trip with when he joined, I was trying to convince him to come the day before because I thought I was going to be jet lagged and you just didn't want to. You just wanted to come the day off, which is fine. I know that like you can do that, but I wasn't sure because not everyone is built for jet lag.

Right. Some people absolutely crumble. Well, it's my biggest expense every year without fails flights. Yeah, I think for me too. Yeah. Same for us as well. I will spend... Because I also...

- I push for business. - Yeah. - Why? - I had no idea. - We all do that. - It's shameful, it's shameful. - I know, I feel bad about it. - I was buying tickets, this is the one time I didn't do it, but I was buying tickets to Paris, 'cause I'm going right before the Olympics. - Okay, okay, and the price is like astronomical. - Dude, a round trip is $13,000.

- For business class. - That's insane. - That's insane for business. - I think from Japan, it's only you're looking at like five.

if not a little bit more, but like that's max. - Also paying that much to go to Paris as well. - Yeah, Paris. - Oh my God. - To get bed bugs. - Did you land in Paris? You're like, why did I go here? - Paying 13 grand to land in Charles de Gaulle is like a war crime. - That is actually a punishment for most Americans. - LAX to Charles de Gaulle, that's back to back like awful.

- I didn't buy it. I'm buying like multiple stop flights. I'm going to Boston. 'Cause I'm going with my mom and my sister. - Okay, so that's how you're kind of like making a little cheaper. - Yeah. - Okay. - Would you, you would not have done, you would not have broken up one stopping to go with your sister. - If like, if I wasn't going with my family, I wouldn't have done a stop, you're saying? - Yeah. - No, I would have. 'Cause it's so much cheaper.

You don't care about miles as well. Oh, yeah. I don't do miles. Do you guys do that stuff? Yeah. I don't do it. He spends so much money on flights and you also buy nice flights. I was confused why you weren't doing mileage. I think it's a scam. Why do you think it's a scam? I just don't trust it. What do you mean? I think it's a scam. I don't trust it, folks. What kind of scam? With the amount you're flying and...

- I mean, if you should. - Do you have any points cards? - I just signed up for the United one. But the thing is they're all different, right? So you have to fly with the same airline, but I feel like I fly with so many different airlines. - But you're probably flying with max like three or four. And if you're flying a good amount, you can still get like some benefit. And a lot of them save your card.

So you don't need to do anything. - No, I mean like any points card in general, not just like flights, but like- - Oh, like credit cards? - Yeah, credit cards or supermarkets. - It's usually for like upgrades though, right?

I mean, it could be used for a lot of things. What have you gotten? What's the best thing you've gotten from churning points? So I was going to try. This is going to be an absolute slide against it. Let me start with this. I tried to book a flight to the UK and I used my miles to book the business class flight. It would have cost me like 200,000 miles. No, it's 100,000. Sorry. And I was put on the waiting list and they said, congratulations, you've got it.

And then I was like, oh, awesome. So I looked at it and I'd only gotten one way. And if I don't get the other way, you don't get either. You don't get anything. So I was kind of stressed out. I was like, oh shit, well, I might not get the other one. And I didn't. So in the end, two weeks out before I wanted to go, I was boned. I had no flight. They wouldn't even give me any. You just got scammed. So I got scammed. I've been saying. Weren't you supposed to defend? However, let me just say like there is, it is like kind of scoffed. But I mean, if you want to up,

Like, so we fly a lot with this ANA, right? And the one thing they got going for them is that you have miles, but then you have upgrade points separate. Yes. So you just get like a separate package just for upgrading. And you can, I think if you fly like,

Don't know it's pretty much as we do you can probably upgrade to like from economy to business quite easily like five six times a year Well, okay. I used to be a point churner. Okay, which is like there's subreddits dedicated to this Yeah, yeah, but then they'll be like they'll be like go in there go on the flight That's nine to nine hundred hours to max the the points I was doing I was like opening up chase cards and then maxing it out Amazon streams and merch and then like opening up new cars to do it. That's fun

- One time though, I had forgotten about like a card and it didn't have like auto pay. And then it dinged my credit score. I went from like, I have a really bad credit score. I don't know if you guys have credit scores over there. - Yeah, we have credit cards. - We have credit score? - Yes, we do Connor. - We do. - Do you use a credit card? Then you have a credit score. - Oh, yes I do, yeah.

- I got that shit on auto, like take it out of my account. - Right, so, well, but I was churning so much that I missed a card and my credit score hit five hundreds, which is like,

Really bad. Okay, like for I don't know what the stand so for reference like 600 is like, you know, that's like, okay It's good. You're starting out. Okay, the credit scores based off like it's kind of fuck It's kind of like you need to have it for a long time You need to have a balance like you can't be all paid off that hurts your credit Yeah, and then you need like a lot of different like credit sources. So anyway, well you can't pay it all off No that you need credit to build credit. So if you have zero credit on

then you're not gonna get a higher credit score. - Wait, so if I paid off at the end of every month? - That's fine. - Oh, that's what I'm doing. - Yeah, but as long as you're like actively spending money, actively in debt basically. - Yeah, like you wanna hit like a certain percentage of like how much credit you're using. - Okay, okay, okay. - But anyway, I hit like in my peak, like high 600s and 700s, like when you're great. Like that's what you want to like get a house, a car, whatever.

I did this, I plummeted to five. Bro, I dropped 103 months and I haven't bounced back still. 'Cause what I did is I got really mad. So I closed out all my credit cards. That hurts your credit score. - Yeah, it does. 'Cause then your credit history just gets wiped. - Yes. - Yeah.

And so now I'm sitting, I have like, it's embarrassing. I have like 605. I tell people they make fun of me. I watch some of those YouTube channels where they like review the financial history of like the viewer. Because I mean, it's just- I did not know that existed. Yeah. But I'm not surprised. How do I explain it? It's kind of like, I swear the content exists to make people feel better about themselves. Yeah.

Yeah, this is a very popular thing. It used to be big on radio, like Dave Ramsey. It's basically like how to take your current income and then balance your finances to be able to achieve your long-term goals. So they'll like bring a guy on who, and it varies. There's some people who are like pretty normal, but most of the time these people are just like beyond saving. Oh, I know Dave Ramsey stuff.

But this guy's like the modern version of YouTuber. And he's like, yeah, he's like, he's like, the titles aren't this crazy, but they'll be like, woke liberal spends 50,000 on just her hair color. I like, I like the videos, but I've watched a couple now and they're very, very repetitive. And,

- I discovered this because one of my viewers was on it. - No. - It's this guy. - Wait, no, I didn't see this one. - It's this guy and he pulls up in a Ludwig like mogul moves sweatshirt. - And he was like, "Mogul moves, I'm broke." - And dude, he was like this really bright kid. He's like an assistant manager and he's going to college. He makes like a shit ton of money for his age, making like 70K. And he's paying something like

$3,000 a month in car insurance because he wanted to buy a Mustang. Yeah, this is what the entire show essentially is. I want to say like 70% of the issues are people bought a car and then I didn't realize how expensive cars are now in America. Apparently like getting a car is like...

even like a piece of a dog shit one. It's like a couple of grand. I think the financing is the bigger issue. If you buy the car cash, it's ultimately not that bad. But when you get a loan. People are getting like 20% APRs on loan. So the car will be like a seven grand loan, but they'll be paying like an extra 300 bucks a month for the loan. And then they're not paying it off. So then anyway, so, but the point was is that on a lot of these shows, all of these people seem to, would literally tank their life for the credit score.

Like they would do really bad financial decisions, like take out more loans to pay off their credit cards in a certain way. And I was like, I never heard of the credit card score being this impactful that it was like worth ruining your life over. Well, so these people thought too. Yeah. I mean, it's what determines if you get a house or not.

- Yeah, that's crazy. I don't think it's the same in the UK though, is it? The credit score doesn't matter that much with it, does it? - Yes, it does. - I thought it was taxable income. - Man's never got a loan before. Are you serious? - Well, no, 'cause when I was looking for mortgages in the UK- - You just pay cash. - You just buy the house. - Everyone has cash. - Not a million quid, eh?

Trying to see what mortgage I could have gotten in the UK. And no point were they ever asking about credit score. It was always about tax, like how much they pay on tax. No, that's because you've never applied for a loan. They get you with like, you can get this amount of loan, assuming you have a good credit score because you're going to need to go to the bank and they're going to check your credit score.

to decide. Same thing applies in Japan as well. Yeah. Is it really? We don't get shit in Japan. I bet if we had like the world's best credit score and $1 billion in our bank account, they would still deny us in Japan. I've always been really scared of credit cards. So my current credit card, like the only credit card I have in my wallet has a $1,000 spending limit. Oh, okay. And then it caps out, which I can't buy like...

Anything. Yeah. You can buy Uber Eats. Yes. Exactly right. I can get like an Uber. I can get food delivered. My mom worked at a bank and she never told me to give her a credit card. So I assumed it wasn't like that big of a deal. But then I... Your mom fucked you up. Yeah. I think she was worried. She probably saw how addicted I was to games. She was probably like, don't give this kid a credit.

Don't put it in his head. - I can smell the microtransactions around the corner. - That wasn't a thing when I was younger. So luckily not, I don't know. If I was around when microtransactions were a thing and I was like 12, I think I would bankrupt my family. - That happens. - No, I know it does. I think I would have been that kid. I think I would have been that kid. - Would you give your kid a credit card? - Fuck no. - Yeah, you have to do,

You're not building the credit score. No, no, no. You got to get a joint account with them at 16. I got to teach him. You either got it in cash or you don't got it. All right. When you have a kid who's basically dead, you're going to be like, it's a cash aside. Cash is king still, kid. All right. Here's the big question, right? You have a kid. They're addicted to whatever game is out at the time. All right. And they want to buy a skin or something. Do you let them have it? Do you let them have it?

- Christmas present? - No, 'cause Faker doesn't use skins. So we should hear. Faker uses the base skin and that's fine. - Oh my God, did you see that clip of like, you know, when Faker picked Ari after his whole skin debacle? - Yeah, and he didn't even pick his like $400 skin. - You must've heard about this, right? - Yeah, I've heard about this. - Joey, how much do you know about this?

- Okay, so TLDR, they released a Hall of Famers of League of Legends. The only Hall of Famers. - Which I thought was like, when they announced it, I was like, "Oh, this is a pretty cool idea. We get to like, we get to celebrate the best players in the game." And then about two months later or a month later, I was like, "Oh, it makes sense why this is happening." So they released a skin set. And if you buy the entire skin sets for Faker's skin,

I think it came up to about- - 250. - 250, no, it was way more than that. - Wait, what did I think it was 500? - It was 500. - I think it was $500. - Yeah, I think it was like- - Either way, that's too much. - Yeah, yeah, it was far too much. - Yeah. - $430 for a skin. - For a skin? - Yes. - Yeah, for a skin, that's it.

And then Faker doesn't use skins and everyone started roasting Riot Games. Yeah. He famously doesn't use skins. Yeah. In a recent game, Faker picked that exact champion. Didn't pick the skin. He loaded up the skin and then it was like, the skin was loaded by default and he selected the default skin. Ha ha ha.

after they had like spent all this money advertising his like specific skin sets. - That like adds to like how cool of his legacy is. 'Cause it's like, man, he's a man of the people. - Okay, wait, can I? - He doesn't. - Can I give a conspiracy theory? - Okay, sure. - Okay, go on. - I think he knew about the prices.

Like, absolutely. He was in several conversations. He knew his cut. And then the moment like Riot was getting a bunch of shit, he was like, fuck this. I mean, there's like, obviously it's like being like an influencer or whatever it is. You're definitely in the position of being able to control the narrative. He would have had the leverage to be like, sell it for 20 bucks. A hundred percent. Yeah. Right. Yeah. I mean, they probably would have pushed for more expensive thing, but he definitely could have put his foot down and said no.

But it's funny because everyone's just mad at Riot. Everyone's like, Faker the goat. He can't miss. I wonder though. I mean, obviously I know, I imagine T1 pretty had a really big say in what's going on. And I imagine they were pushing. Right. So there's probably a lot of factors at play, but he definitely, yeah, you're right. He could have been like, I just think it should be 50.

- Also in terms of like poster boys for League, they could not have asked for like a better person to be the GOAT 'cause he's the least toxic player, you know, in like the entirety of League of Legends. - Which is saying something. - Yeah, which is saying something. - He got a lot.

- Oh my God. - Yeah, so you're going to Paris. You can speak French, right? - Yeah, I can speak French. - Do you get the Paris pass? Do they treat you well? - Do they treat you like a Parisian? - Yeah, yeah. - Last time I went, they treated me like a Canadian, which is way better than being treated like an American. 'Cause that is the ultimate sin is being American in Paris. - Right. - Okay, but then what if it was like British?

Oh, well, that's sorry. No, no, no. Those aren't real people. Oh, okay. Not in Paris. Are British lower than Americans? Yeah, of course. Of course. No. In Paris, they are. In Paris, they definitely are. You guys had a war.

- Listen, listen, all right? Okay, I'm getting into it. Historically speaking, we could have stopped you guys out. You guys were on the ropes and we were like, you know what? Germany's becoming a problem. - Oh, you're trying to say you could have won the Revolutionary War? - No, no, no, sorry, sorry, sorry, not Americans. We're French, we're French. After Napoleon, it was done. Like, French was over. But we were like, you know what? Maybe we should let France exist.

Literally. Literally. Literally. God damn. Every other European country was like, Napoleon, fuck this guy. He fucked it all up. France had nothing left. And they, I mean, I'm very oversimplifying this.

I can't wait for the moon on track. Bro, he fucked them. They were broke. They had nothing. All I know is that France, historically, their KDA is the best. Like, they have the highest win percentage in wars. Yeah, I watched the QI episode where the meme is that France surrenders a lot. But yeah, they actually, because of Napoleon, they won the most. But he made the one big blunder. Don't China have the biggest KDA?

Surely. Against themselves. Actual KDU, yeah. Why are we referring to it as KDU? Oh my God, God. I thought you meant like Battles 1. Yeah, I was like Battles 1 here. Okay, okay. I was like, yo. I'm just saying in terms of like history, like the entire history of China is just like, okay. The birds didn't suffer well. The birds. Well, so I think

- You were, you man, based on how many battles. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, yeah. - Battles more like win percentage. - Obviously they lost the one big battle that fucked everything up. - That's all that matters though. - I love how- - Sometimes you gotta perform when the pressure is on, you know? It doesn't matter how many times you perform on the group stages. - It only takes one elf

for your legacy if you're on forever. - It's all about the knockout stages, baby. - Everyone forgets about the legacy after you're won. - If they took it to the Netherlands, it was the fattest thing. - I mean, the past like 300 year of European battles are like, and they fought Russia and then it went badly.

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Yeah, welcome to Modern War. I'm actually going to Paris for chess boxing.

Oh, it's not my event. It started in Paris. It was a French comic artist who just thought of the idea and then made a comic about it. And then some French stunt dude was like, oh, I'll just do that. That'd be funny. So he did it himself. And then it became like a sport in France and in some places in Europe. And so anyway, for the Olympics, the IOC puts on an event for the Olympians.

So the week before the Olympics, they all go to whatever the event is of that Olympics. And this time it's just boxing. - Oh wow. - So they have like a bunch of chest boxing goats showing up fighting. I think the guy who made it to Ipe. - Is your friend telling you? - Matt? - Yeah. - Yeah, me and Matt are commentating it. So that's why I'm going.

- Are you commentating the event? - Yeah, yeah, I'm commentating the event. - For the Olympics? - Yeah, for the Olympians. It's not like, it's not like NBC Olympics. This is like a more chill. It's like a, still like a bigger, it's like a 10,000 person. - Who's paying for it? Like who's it like run by? - The IOC, the Olympic. - What? That's crazy. - International Olympic Committee, yeah. - Damn.

That's pretty sick. - Yeah, it should be fun. But I leave literally the day the Olympics start. Like I'm not actually there for any of the Olympics. - Right. - Which I think would be miserable anyway. - Yeah. - Yeah, then oh my God. - The Paris heat, bro. Smell like shit in that city. - Like if you see your family and stuff. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got some family from France you'll be visiting. - Then that's great. What a flex. Hey guys, come to my Olympic event. - Yeah. - If you're an Olympian, see me there.

What do you think the easiest Olympic sport is? What could you have the best chance if you dedicated the rest of your life to actually getting a medal in? Easy as in easy to win or easy to do? I guess easy to do from now to the rest of your days. What do you have the best chance of winning at?

So you're asking what sport are we good at? - Yeah, something not too physical, I guess. - Do you know what a sport is? - No, no, no, no. - They don't have like accounting. - All I'm saying is some sports are more physically demanding than other sports. - Some you lose off birth. - Yes. - That just guaranteed you are not going to win. - Yeah. - Okay, I guess I'll ask,

a counter question and then we'll get, we'll circle back. What do you think is the sport that requires you to be like most, like genetically, like born into it? It's gotta be like the very, very long distance running. Yeah. Or the very, very short distance. Wasn't it like

I don't know if I'm talking my ass. Isn't like swimming require, there's like a body type that is perfect for swimming. Oh, true. And- How so? Like aerodynamically? So yeah, there was something, there was like an interesting, I think John talked about it one time. He mentioned that a lot of people try to become, to get swimmers bodies by swimming, but swimmers, but a lot of swimmers have that body. Sorry, professional swimmers have that body type because-

- People think swimmers bodies is from doing the sport, but it's more like people who had that body become good swimmers. - Yeah, that's what I meant. Yeah, sorry, I'm dumb. This is why- - It's like selection bias. - This is why he's on the IOC thing. Yeah, everyone thinks that you can get that body, but generally it's a body. But again, I'm sure that's a lot of sports. Okay, now we circle back to the other question. Easiest sport.

- Shit, I mean, shot putt? - Archery? - Pause. There's not a shot in hell. - You think you can do shot putt? - Just gain a bunch of weight, get muscular. All I gotta do is just throw a ball. - Oh yeah, so easy. - Can we look at a picture of the guy who does the world record? - He is not my body type. But what I'm saying is if that was my whole purpose to lock in, I mean like,

I just got to throw a ball. - No amount of locking in. - No, okay. Let's say age six, age six, I lock in. I immediately start eating and aiming, striving for that body type to throw a ball. - It's from now. - It's from now. - It's from now. - Oh, okay. - You don't get to fuck in. 'Cause you're right, if you go back, you can pretty much do anything. - Yeah, but I feel like,

just 'cause the task is so straightforward. - Yeah. - Just throw the ball. - That's just the most monkey one. - Now I'm being very mean to shot putters. I know there is an awful lot of technique involved. - There is a lot of technique. - But what I'm saying is that if I don't know how to get me just running. - Just go for it. - I'm sorry, professional shot putters. I'm like. - Connor's like, "No, back in Wales, this is like what we did in the place." - We did this for fun. - For a big stone. For a big stone far.

I would say something like archery or something. Is archery a sport? Yeah, yeah, it is. That's like more technique, right? I'm sure there's... And also, like, there's a chance you just get it. Yeah, right? Okay. Yeah, you know what? Yeah, I like that. You've hit balls out before? Okay, so you're getting 300 pounds and becoming super fat and big and throwing a big ball. Darts. I was going to say darts. Is darts a sport now? No, that's not an Olympic sport. It's not an Olympic. It should be, though.

- If England couldn't get it to pass, then it's like no shot. - It's literally dominated by like chubby Englishmen. - It's impressive how good they are. - It'd be so funny if they jump from like the long jump with the fiercest athletes in the world who've been training for years and then they just cut to a pub. - A bunch of overweight, balding British dudes. - You cannot tell me it is insanely impressive how good they are. - It's crazy. - I spent 40 minutes at like a pub here trying to get triple 20. It's so hard to hit.

- Yeah. - Just one 20 is hard enough. - I hit triple 20. - We got it once. - Stop. - No, I literally, you could hit triple 20 once. - Yeah, but it like, it was the, like, it's not, it's just, it will happen after enough time. - Right, right, right. - But I'm not like- - You're not consciously aiming for it. - The fact that they hit one and then they still have enough room to sink two more.

- And it's just one fluid motion as well. It's like no stopping. - Yeah. I gotta ask, is like beer like a performance enhancing drug in darts? - Well, they say apparently one beer makes you better. Only one makes you better at darts. - 'Cause I feel like it's the same thing with like the pool. - It loosens you up. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's the same thing with driving.

That's actually the Italian way. Are we streaming on kick now? No, what's up? I was like that in Italy. When I went to Italy and I rented a Vespa, he told me I could have three to four glasses of wine.

That was all he told me. Really? What was the max? Three to four. He didn't tell me anything else about the Vespa. I turned up. I booked the Vespa and he didn't tell me anything. He was like, do you know how to ride a Vespa? I lied and said yes. I figured how hard could it be? Yeah. This is for a wine tour.

It wasn't for a wine tour. It was in a wine area. Okay. So he knew I was like a tourist. So he knew I was probably going to drink wine. But my plan was to not drink any wine while driving. Maybe like half a glass with like lunch or something. Because, you know, it's fine. Well, you shouldn't drink, but you know. But then he's out of the gate, unprompted goes, three to four glasses. And I was like, what? Without you even asking? Yeah. I was like, that seems like a lot. And also a wild thing to say. I think maybe he thought I was going to drink. So he was trying to tell me the limit.

Or he was like, I need three to four glasses. Go get them for me. Maybe a side quest. He also didn't ask for my license. He didn't check anything. I asked what time, do I got to bring it back? He said whenever, which I found weird. But that's what it was. That's what it was like when we rented the Vespas in Hawaii. Yeah, they're too chill. They didn't even check our driver's license or anything. We literally just showed up and we're like, yeah, four Vespas please. And they're like, okay. That's right.

Well, so you know I drive the Vespa now. Yeah. Yeah. You can see it out front? Yeah, I saw it. I was like, I knew immediately. We're at the right place. There are not a lot. It's very nice though. First day I called it, a guy called me gay on it.

Wait, who called you guys? So I was driving it and I was just driving it around and I was going from the dealership to like this warehouse. It's a very short drive. But I like didn't know how to open the thing. So I wasn't wearing my helmet, which you always should. And I always do usually. But anyway, I'm driving it and this guy in a Ford fucking F-350 pulls up next to me.

Rolls down his window and goes, "Where's your helmet?" And I goes, "Oh, I just picked it up. "It was maybe five minutes since I left." I was like, "I just picked it up. "I wear helmets." And he goes, "You should be riding a real bike."

I was like, I do. I have a real motorcycle actually. And he goes, you're driving a girl's bike. That's your girlfriend's bike. And I'm like, I have a real bike. I have a Trident Triumph. And like the lights turning green. He's like, hey, it's a gay bike. And he just drives away. I'm so mad. I'm trying to catch up. I'm like, I have a real motorcycle. I have one. This is literally the kid in primary school getting bullied. Yeah. He's got bullied by a guy in a Ford. He just drives off.

But the same thing happened to me in Italy too. - Where they told you what to drink or you get? - Honestly could be both. - Honestly, like I thought. - I don't know if I told you this before, we were doing a wine tour and it's supposed to be like a Jeep wine tour. And okay, me and my friend Aiden decided to take a little bit of psilocybin.

What is that? Hell yeah. It is the active chemical in mushrooms. Oh. But it's not as like when you take it in that form. Whatever. But I had never done it before. I had never done it before outside of actually one time we did it on a podcast. But anyway, I was like, oh, this would be fun on the wine tour, you know, when it's a cheap wine tour.

We get to the spot, we have this crazy Eastern European tour guide. And he's like, "Guys, way more fun than Jeep, Vespa." - Okay. - And I'm like, "Oof, don't love that." And he's like, and nobody there knows how to drive a Vespa. He's like, "Trust me, it's great." And so he has this fleet of Vespas. He's prepared for this. And he's like, "Everyone drives in a line, comes back. "If you do it, good, if not, bad. "And you have to be on the back of someone else."

Everyone goes through this. There's like 20 of us doing this. I go. I just, I fucking bank it. I just, I nail it, whatever. I come back. Only 10 people did it right.

which meant every single person who did it right had to not only ride a Vespa, but have somebody on their back. And I'm there with Cutie and she failed. She failed the test. She couldn't ride it. So it was basically like skip the tour or lock the fucking in. Wait, but you've taken the mushroom? Yes. Oh my God. But I'd never sobered up quicker in my life. I'm in the hills of Florence and I didn't blink for 45 minutes straight.

- And it went great, it went fine. - To be fair, it is very fun driving the Vespa throughout the wine area. - I thought you were gonna say on still a side, but I was like, no. I wouldn't recommend that.

But driving the Vesta was awesome. It was probably like the most fun part of when I was in Italy. Yeah, you guys should get scooters. I don't know why you don't have them in Japan. I feel like they'd be life changers. Well, I have one in Thailand. You said this to me and the thing is as well is that you're very fast and loose with a lot of things. Japan is not. You cannot just rip it and park it anywhere.

They will like, it'll be, yeah. Yeah, you have to register a parking spot in your like apartment or wherever you live. You can't always just like leave it on the side of a like sidewalk. It takes a bit of the fun out of it because it makes it way less convenient. And I'm assuming you can't lane split.

- I think you can. - Can you just go between lanes? - Do you see bikes do it? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can go between lanes. - It's only legal in California in the US. - As far as I know, I've seen people do it. - Yeah, I've seen people do it. - I'm not sure if it's legal, but I've seen people do it. - That's the problem with Japanese driving laws is so strict and also like the speed limit on the highway is, it's like 80 kilometers, which is like 50 miles an hour on the highways. - Really? - So no one follows it.

- Which is very confusing, 'cause Japan, they always follow the rules. But with the traffic rules, it feels like there's kind of like a weird kind of, yeah, you don't really go the speed limit. But I heard as well that only the person in the front who's speeding gets fined. - Yes. - Yeah.

- 'Cause everyone else is following the flow of traffic. - Yeah, which is also strange 'cause that feels very un-Japanese. - Japan is very collectivist at the end of the day, even for bad things. - So it's pretty weird. - The guy in the front just tanking it and everyone else just saluting. - Thank you, sir. - So what happens is you'll have the three lanes and people will go into the third lane and the moment three cars will come out and then that guy in the front will go in and then everyone else will go back in 'cause no one wants to be the guy in the front. And then you'll have some guy in a BMW that will just run it. - Zoom by.

the convenience of the Vespa and the scooters are kind of lost a little bit. You can definitely get

Like there are some, I think there's the lowest CC ones maybe you can get around it. You still have to park it on like bicycle places or car spots, which is still kind of annoying. - Yeah, and you need a motorcycle license for a Vespa at least. - Yeah, Vespa too. - Because the CC is just too high without a motorcycle license. - What is the CC, 50 is the limit? - 50. - 50 is the limit. - The limit, really? - And Vespas are normally one to five. - That's tiny. - Well, because it's a motorcycle license is anything above 50 CC, which you need to go to like driving school to have that for. - Yeah, here it's $150.

Right. And then you could just get a motorcycle license, like you said, just by fucking, you just said, yeah, you had it. Well, it didn't work. I tried that. I was renewing my license and I wanted to drive a motorcycle. Yeah. Specifically a Vespa because I got back from Italy and they were like, do you have a motorcycle license? Or like, are you renewing for a car or motorcycle or both? And I was like, both, fuck it. And then I did that and they were like, okay, it looks like you put in both. You have to take the test now. And I was like, oh,

And I tried to work my way out of it, but I couldn't get, I couldn't like change it. So I took the tests. It was like a written test. Okay. And I'm bombing every question. It's like, it's like if you want to turn right, do you push right? Lean right or push left, lean right or push left, lean left. I'm like, I don't fucking know.

So I fail, but they tell you when you fail what the right answer is. - Do you want to redo it? - And then after you fail the quiz, they're like, "Do you want to try again?" And I'm like, "Sure." And then I fail the second time. And then they're like, "Do you want to try again?" And apparently you're allowed to take it up to three times. So I just learned all the answers from getting them wrong and them telling me, and then just did it like a seven-year-old would.

And that's crazy. That is crazy on him and then I could and then I could drive on the highway Like this is why there are so many car crashes. Yeah Me and Michael Reeves have a theory because we we he got me into motorcycles is they do this to harvest your organs Because then they ask you if you want to be an organ donor and the highest percentage of organ donors are motorcycle drivers Okay. Well Okay, it's the state

Big states trying to harvest your organ. I would imagine that it is less efficient economically to have people die. You'd be surprised. Well, I guess maybe. It's like if you have a dangerous hobby anyway, you might as well make the most out of it. Sure, sure.

- Like they say, if you go bungee jumping or skydiving, they should just give you an organ donor for- - No, you ain't getting your organs back if you- - Oh, true. - Those things are ruptured. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. - They're not useful. - Goddamn. - Oh my God. - Yeah, 'cause I swear every motorcyclist that I've like met who was like older, they always have had like one

fucking awful crash. - Or know someone. - Yeah, or know someone. - They're very somber. It's good to talk to people like that 'cause they make sure that if you talk to people like that, you will never dress poorly for the ride. - Yeah. - Right. - Yeah. - Thinking about bikes and cars in Japan, I feel like cars are still pretty damn convenient in Japan 'cause you can just park anywhere.

If you're doing like a short stop. Yeah, because cars are way smaller in Japan. Yeah. You press the hazard button, you can stop anywhere in Japan. Yeah, that's... Which is crazy. I drove a bunch for the RV trip. You did, yeah. And you can just stop anywhere. Yeah. And I saw a lot of that. It's kind of fun to drive. I liked driving in Japan. It's relaxing because there's not much traffic. Skinny roads though. Yeah. Look at that.

Well, you nearly fucking sent the RV flying that one time. Okay, that's dramatic. You did. It took a bit of air. The car took air. Bit of excitement. Have you ever been in the car that took air? No. Yes.

Have you ever been in an RV that took air? No. Now, have you been in the back of an RV when it takes air? No. So he's fucking running it. I don't know why you... We were in like some mountain road in Izu and he's going so fast. No, no. It wasn't a speed thing. Oh, you hit a curb. Yeah. It was basically like the roads were so skinny and then the side of the road was like kind of like... What do you call them? It's like...

just like flat and it's just a line and it was like this is extra road and then it became a sidewalk and so it ramped up and I didn't realize I was on the ramp and then I just centered myself a bit to the road and then I just took off the ramp I went like I was in the back we were trying to get ready for the stream yeah and I remember I went like

Full on. And I was like, holy shit. And I was freaking out. I was like, what the fuck, Ludwig? And you were like, nah, baby, it's good. I'm like, I just went four meters in the air. It's not good. And I was like, did we fuck the RV? Although I had like every insurance, no matter

mad on that thing i think nothing came of it no nothing did luckily but yeah it worked out it was terrifying i just you drove a bunch i know on the first rv trip because you're the only one that could drive it was very helpful that you were willing to drive yeah and so i felt bad that you were driving all the time no that helped yeah i appreciate it uh but also it's nice being in the front you can chill out for a bit yeah the back the stream's normally in the back right yeah you don't have to be on the stream the whole time yeah that's why chris would hog the front yeah i didn't tell him off i was like he's a diva

He can be a D. I did tell him off after. He's like, Chris, you can't hog the front seat. We all need a break. We've got to rotate the front. Because he didn't want to drive. And he wasn't willing to give up. He would refuse to drive, but then the car would be locked. He'd be sitting in front of it like...

when are you unlocking this? I am waiting for my throne. - He does, he does, he does like funeral demons. - And then he gets on stream for a bit, he does a little Chris pit and he's like, all right, that's good. - He's a treasure. - He gets away with it, he gets away with it. - He met the emperor. - Yeah, he did. - How did that happen? - I suppose we'll have Chris on to tell the entire story. - Basically TLDR, apparently the aid to the king,

Huge fan of Chris. He said that apparently he loves the cyclathons. Wow. Apparently big, big fan of Japan. So why wouldn't you invite him? That's what I said. I was like, oh, he's a big fan of the cyclathons. Maybe it's a Welsh thing. They just don't want me there. Oh, yeah. They can't have a Welshman enter Buckingham Palace. Hasn't happened in 300 years. I just think that he knows that I would ask about the whole Prince of Wales stuff. When are we going to drop that? When are we going to give it back? Come on now. Wait, what is it?

Well, okay. So the Prince of Wales. Understand this will make sure you'll never be invited if you say this story. Well, no, it's fine. I mean, so the whole title of Prince of Wales was that back in like 16 something, eventually when Wales was like, all right, we'll stop killing people. If you promise to let the, at the time, the Prince, because Prince was a Roman term that was higher than King.

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So if someone's the prince, prince was the more, the higher title. So the guy had called himself the Prince of Wales at the time, whatever. He was like, all right, fine. We'll agree to join England. We'll stop fighting. If you let my son be the next King of the UK. And he was like, sure. So then he'll be the Prince of Wales. So then this was the title that kept going. And then as it was his turn, they were like, nah,

And they didn't let him be king. Oh. They like yoinked, like rug pulled. Didn't let him be king. And they just kept calling it Prince of Wales since. And I think that's super BM. Yeah, no, they kind of scammed him. Yeah, right? He scammed him. So I feel like that's an unfair thing. And a lot of like Welsh nationals hate it. Like when, did you watch The Crown? First two seasons. You watched The Crown, right? Yeah. You know when King Charles, or Prince Charles at the time, does like speech in the castle of Wales? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What they didn't show was that at the time, the Welsh people kept trying to call in bomb threats and threatened to blow it up. They were like, we do not want this guy here. They were hardcore. I don't know if they're as hardcore now. That was back in the 80s, but it was very hardcore. And even when I was growing up,

'Cause it came from a super Welsh region. They're always like, "Yeah, we hate the king. "We hate the royal family. "We don't recognize them. "We don't like this." - Well, I feel like the hatred is ingrained. - It is, yeah. - Even if it's like died down to more just like banter and friendly rivalry. - I can recognize there's some benefit to having the royal family, but I understand where they're coming from. It's like a pride thing. You're like, "Ah, we got fucked by England "and now we're still getting fucked." - Are you happy to call yourself British?

Yeah, I think being British is good. Okay. When people call me English, I don't like that. Right. Because I'm just not English. Yeah. I mean, it's cool. You know, like I... Scotland's cool.

Northern Ireland's cool. Ireland's cool. - One out there. - Literally every single place. - I think the Celtic boys should stick together. - Basically everyone hates England. - Well, yeah, that's kind of- - Yeah, yeah, which is kind of the thing, you know? - I'm sorry, Garnt, I'm sorry. - It's fine, it's fine. I'm Thai actually.

- I know the benefits of switch whenever we want. - Yeah, I can switch when it's convenient. When England are doing well in like the world cup or euros, I'm like, all right, I'm English actually. - Well, I mean, you must do that with French, right? - Oh, all the time. - You must play the, I'm French. - Oh, 100%. - When is that beneficial? - What, being Welsh? - No, being French.

- During the World Cup, during the Olympics, I'll be a hardcore French fan until like, you know. - America starts just winning everything. - Then I'm like back to America. I'll tell you when it came in handy is during the debates here in America.

presidential debates i'm french that day i mean french europe is also having their own yeah also not going no they are having some political turmoil there yeah whenever i see the tweets about being like wow i'm moving to europe fuck this all america bullshit i'm like you clearly don't know what's going on i'm like you know who's coming to power in all these countries um

Yeah, it's like France protesting. Are they rioting this time? Are they going through another revolution? Well, they protest all the time. Yeah. I swear they've been protesting about the age of retirement for like 19 years. Yeah, it works though. I know it works because people are going to vote, right? Yeah. They got that shit down. They have a seven-hour workday. The thing about retirement though is like it's such a hard one, right? Because how do you deal with just the population getting older? Like if people just live longer...

Borrow money. Let the next generation figure it out. That's the card. And it's worked for a generation. Only one generation. Sorry, sorry. That's why it's like a fucking huge issue. They're like, why are you living till 95 consistently? This is genuinely like too much.

Yeah, the combo of people having way better medicine to have their kids live and then also live way longer for a population boom is it's going to be devastating for, I mean, kind of us. Yeah. But more so our children.

- Well, yeah, but I mean- - Yeah, we're gonna see the tail end of it. And then they'll be like, "Peace out from the world, baby." - I don't think the solution is like make 80 year olds work. I don't think that's beneficial, but I don't know what you- - I don't know what to do. - No one seems to know what to do. - There's only so many taxi drivers in Japan. - We don't have any more jobs. - Yeah, literally. We don't have any more jobs. - Well, there's only so many jobs where we can have a guy outside of a parking lot go like this. How many of these jobs do we have?

- How hard is it to follow the curve? - Dude, I know, right? - We get that finance YouTuber to sit down with like Japan. - They'll be like, right, so you get $200 a month and oh wow, you only spend 150. Actually, I think you're good. - You're a great friend of school. - I think the Pinterest in Japan don't spend a whole lot. I think they don't even- - They don't know how to. - Yeah, I think if you gave an F,

An elderly Japanese man, like 100 bands, I don't think he would do much with it. I think he would just kind of be like, oh, groceries for a while, I guess. I think the lifestyle wouldn't change much. They have a really good Japanese TV show, which I love watching. I have no idea when it's on, though. Which one? Where...

I don't know what the show's called. They will literally just go to a station and ask a Japanese person, hey, can I just like come home and see what you do for the day? Oh, yes, yes, yes. And they'll just like go to his house, see what he does in his free time. Just day in the life of a random. It's really fun. Day in the life of a random dude. Yeah, because most of the old dudes when they do it, they're like, all right, I'm going to the bathhouse. And they'll go to the bathhouse, take the camera in. This must be pre-film, like pre-play. I don't think so. I think a lot of these TV, it's kind of crazy because-

- When you're us and we're trying to film stuff, the amount of questions we have to go through is insane. But when you're a well-established Japanese TV network, it seems like you can just rock up to places and people will just let you film. - Yeah, it's all the trust system. It's like, oh, most of the people you need permission from are of the older generation that watch these kinds of shows. - They were just pulled up to a bath house and just started filming.

Which is- That's crazy. Yeah. Which- Everyone get the fuck out. We're filming. But I know for a fact, because I've seen that like when we go to restaurants, we have to go through a whole thing, a whole permission thing to do it.

If they have like Degawa, who's like a really big personality, like one of the big comedians, he walks up to places with the crew and they're all just like, come on in. Yeah, like do it. - I think this became a problem because I don't remember which Japanese network. I think it might've been NHK. But they did that in America with Shohei. They filmed his house. - Oh, it was Fuji TV. - Yeah, Fuji TV. They filmed his house with like a drone and they like posted it on like television.

- You don't do that in America, right? You don't dox somebody. 'Cause doxing someone in America is way different than doxing someone in Japan. In Japan you're like, "Cool house." Here it's like, "SWAT team's coming." And so they got banned from using any of Shohei's footage, which is crazy. - Which is devastating because I wanna say at least every day there's like an hour or two of Shohei Ohtani news. - Really? - Dude, I go to the gym and they always play the news. It's just Shohei Ohtani.

He's treated like a god. Dude, they'll literally just do, they'll have someone standing outside of their practice every day just watching him. I mean, he's the best player in baseball and if he has a long career, we'll retire the goat. Yeah. What do you make of the whole, okay, a couple of questions about that.

Are you talking about how Ipe screwed him over and has tarnished his legacy in some way? Yeah. What do you think about that? It's a scam and a fraud against my King Shohei. Okay. I've talked to actually many of my friends who are like semi into sports or baseball or whatever. They all think Ipe's taking the fall.

- Yeah, so that was one thing that I found really interesting is that in Japan- - So do you wanna explain to me the controversy? - Okay, sorry, sorry. - So I would assume, 'cause living in Japan, living in Japan it was fucking impossible to not see anything about it. - Yeah, no, no, no, no. I know some things about it, but I haven't had the entire breakdown of it. - You can correct me if I'm wrong here. So what ended up happening is that some weird thing came out where they were like, "Wow, it looks like Shohei Ohtani was gambling

like millions of dollars on his own. - Who has like the transfer record for like the most expensive player, correct? - Yeah, so Shohei Ohtani had a contract. - He's the GOAT dude, okay? So he's one of the only people in baseball who can pitch and hit home run dingers, like Babe Ruth. And nobody's done it since Babe Ruth. - And he had a contract that was worth like 700. - $700 million. - Yeah, over the course of- - 10 years. - 10 years, yeah, so quite a long time. - Which is insane. It's like the highest contract in baseball history. - Incredible.

He basically... I don't know how it all broke, but essentially, initially it all kept... It was weird because the thing that was so strange about the story was that initially it broke from...

his interpreter's story, which was that apparently there was some accused of fraud that he was gambling his money. And then Shohei said, no, no, no, that's not what happened at all. And then it went back to, oh, no, no, he did spend his money. So he took...

the interpreter took Shohei Ohtani's money and gambled it on his games. - Right. - Yeah, it was found that his translator, his name's Ipe, was gambling. And then they looked into that and they're like, "You can't gamble." And then it was found that that was not only gambling, but gambling with Shohei's money. And then people were like, "Okay, is he gambling with Shohei's money, with Shohei's knowledge?"

Because that is a lot different. Yeah, of course. And to be clear, he was gambling, I think in total across several years, he had taken like $19 million from Shohei's account. What? I don't know if it's... I think it was dollars, not yet. I'm pretty sure it was $19 million. It was a lot. It was in like the... Which is crazy. And so then...

Everyone thinks like, okay, there's not a single universe that a human would not realize $19 million has left their account. Shohei must have known about this and been involved in some way. That's the anti-Shohei thought. The other one is that, hey, he's just really rich, loves baseball and his wife.

Can you blame a man for not looking at the finances? I can simplify this a little bit, you know, because we have like a Japanese count and I don't look at it that much because it's all in Japanese and I just look at it occasionally. So, I mean, if fraud happened, I probably wouldn't notice for like a day or two. I'd be like, as long as it's not zero. Yeah, I mean, I think I would notice if 19 million went, but I don't have 700 million, so I can't. Yeah, yeah. It's way, way more. I'll read it from the list.

Okay, so from an article? 142 million? Wow. Wow. 40 mil. Yeah, I mean, I think that there's no way he would ever... I mean, obviously he has access to that money because he was interpreting for him. But again, I think the situation was very...

There was a lot of questions that were left unanswered, but it was really interesting from the Japanese perspective, seeing it all play out because- I'm assuming they're all on Shohei's side and they're all apologists. Yeah, of course they are. Because they just want Shohei to be the GOAT. Yeah. Well, because they, I mean, I think it's, he is, for lack of better terms, probably like

the most famous person in Japan. I think so. Which is crazy. And what's also insane is that everywhere around Japan, every brand is ambassaded by Shohei. Like banks have Shohei banks. And then like every product you'll see will have Shohei on it. And you're like, how much are these paying? Dude, he must be closing in on a billion. So when it all came out, it was really interesting seeing everyone, at least the Japanese side, immediately jump on the...

it's all Ipe's fault. It's all Ipe's fault. And not really questioning, whereas there was a lot more, I feel like nuance into the situation on the American side where they were trying to figure out like, something's not right here. Like this doesn't end up, like this is too, this is not easy cut and dry. But I think in terms of in Japan, it's case- - I mean, I'm sure a lot of people want to be on Shohei's side because obviously with him making this- - I'm sure you want it as well, right? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's gotta be a lot of national pride as with any huge, you know,

local star that gets like international fame. - Also it doesn't fit the character that he's demonstrated that people know him for. - Yeah. - Yeah. - 'Cause like he gives to a lot of like local schools where he's from. - Yeah. - And like, I think even the fact- - Famously didn't like spend a lot of money. - And also like hid the fact that he had like a girlfriend and wife. - Yeah. - Which I think is like, it creates a basically a character of a person that you would not think is secretly trying to gamble millions of dollars. - Yeah. - Also when he has,

He got married. He announced in his statement, he was like, I'm married to a natural Japanese woman or something. What does that mean? He was trying to basically say that like,

I think, because if it had come out he'd married and he hadn't married a non-Japanese person, I think a lot of the Japanese people would be pissed off. Don't worry, I'm not poisoning the well. I'm keeping it pure, guys. Please don't harm me. And then also there was like, Japan loved that as well because his wife was seen wearing a lot of Uniqlo stuff, which they were like, wow, she's so inspirational. She's wearing like $30.

She's so humble. Still shops at Uniqlo. You know, I mean, to be fair, that's a lot of the Japanese mentality is to like, imagine the American version of that. It's like, I'm dating a Western European immigrant. Natural Western European. Never even left the States. Yeah, reading that, you're like, this is kind of crazy that you have to practice. Yeah. But obviously like, that is something that is cared about. I mean, it's just, it's really interesting being like,

they're in Japan watching all of this and seeing both sides. If I go on Twitter or whatever, I see the American side and just go to Japan, you just see. But dude, it's endless, the amount of news coverage. It's nonstop. - Do you have someone in Wales that you're like, fuck yeah, I'm proud of this guy's Welsh? - Isn't Christian Bale Welsh?

He's born in Wales, but he's basically English. Yeah. We don't claim. Even he's gone on record saying like, I don't really identify as Welsh. Right. Yeah. Anthony Hopkins, pretty cool. Wait, that's really cool. Yeah. You threw that out like it was a stinker. Sir Anthony Hopkins. I was trying to think. I was trying to like rip off the top of my head like famous Welsh people. Tom Jones, I guess. Kinda. He's kind of fell off. Is Tom Jones Welsh? He's Welsh. I didn't know.

I had no idea about that. Gareth Bale was the big one for a while. Yeah, Gareth Bale was, you know, but you don't care about football. I care about football. He's like, he was like, yeah, probably the best Welsh football player played for Real Madrid for a while as well. Yeah, he was very good. He was very, very successful. Anthony Hopkins is kind of

go. Yeah, you got a big one. I loved when Anthony Hopkins won the Oscar recently and he just didn't want to go to LA and he just filmed his speech in like a field in Wales. That's beautiful. Thanks, man. Love Wales though. Fuck yeah, man. I don't know. I don't know.

- Yeah, 'cause Thailand's pretty much, we've only got like Tony Jaa, I think, who's only like, I can't think of anyone else Thai who has gained international acclaim. - Who's Tony Jaa? - Tony Jaa did Ong Bak and a lot of other like martial arts films. - Okay, okay. An actor? - Yeah, an actor, like a martial artist.

- The most famous person from New Hampshire, my state, is Franklin Pierce. - Who's that? - Who? - I think he was the-- - The guy who killed Lincoln? - He was infamous, he was a president. He was a president of these United States and he is famous for--

causing genocide against the Native Americans. That was Franklin Pierce. It's a blight on New Hampshire history, but the only guy to serve from New Hampshire. So we're going to take a W. Most presidents from East Coast.

Are they mostly from like Virginia? West Virginia is the most politicians, I think. I think they're mostly state governors, often from Texas, California, Massachusetts or Virginia. Okay. I just thought, yeah, I don't know why I thought that. I think because the older ones, because we only had East Coast. Right, right.

- What about you Joey? Aussie pride. - There's a lot of Aussies. - Aussies got it down. - Mel Gibson just joked. - I'm joking. - Wait, is he Australian? - Yeah, he was born in Australia. - Oh shit. - We got Russell Crowe. - He's coming. - Okay, he's coming. - Hemsworths. - Hemsworths are good. - Hemsworth, yeah. - We got fucking, oh my God, what's his name? The guy who played the Joker in Dark Knight.

- Heath Ledger? - Heath Ledger? - He's Australian. - What? - I would not be able to tell. - I could not tell. - He's super Australian. Yeah, we have quite a few cool people. - Nah, yeah, Australia. - The most famous person from my school who went to the same high school as me is Baz Luhrmann, the director. - Oh. - Oh. - Yeah, the guy who did "Romeo and Juliet." - Oh, okay. - Oh, you watched "House of Dragon?" - Yeah. - You know the Otto Hightower? He went to my school.

Like eight billion years ago? Yeah, yeah. Literally when I was growing up. Have you ever watched the film Nottingham Hill? Yeah, of course. Hugh Grant? Yeah, the Hugh Grant one. Do you know he had the ginger roommate? That's him. And so when we were growing up, they were like, well, we don't have much, you know, but we have Rhys Evans. He was in Nottingham Hill, you know.

And now they get to say House of Dragons. Now they can say House of Dragons. That's an upgrade. Which is a big upgrade. He's firing that. He's so good. Oh, he's very good. He's so good. That show's good, dude. It's so good. You've got to watch it. It's so good. I do. I do got to watch it. You watched Game of Thrones, right? Yeah, I've watched Game of Thrones. I think. So far, like season one. Are you going to be that guy who's like, yes, it's better than Game of Thrones. Whoa, whoa, whoa. The beginning of Game of Thrones. You're wrong. What? You're so. Matt Smith is captivating in that as well. Season one, you're right. Season two is worse, though.

It's only just, we only have two episodes. Three. Have you watched all three? No. Season one of episode, sorry, episode one of episode two was so good. Yeah, the second one's the one that pissed me off. We'll talk about it after. We'll spoil it after. What's your split of live action shows versus anime? Oh,

- I mean, live action shows is what I watch for fun. Anime is what I watch for my job. - That's so funny. - Yeah, yeah. I've been watching Ted Lasso recently. - Oh yeah. - It's so fucking good. - It is, you gotta watch that. - Sorry? - I gotta watch that. - Yeah, you gotta watch it. I mean, I watched it because it's the Euros right now and I was like, "Oh, I feel like I'm in a football mood."

I did not know that Ted Lasso started from a parody YouTube video that got posted like 10 years ago. And they kept all of the actors in that original YouTube video as well. Yeah, it was a promo. Yeah, it was like a promo for an American channel getting the Premier League. And so the premise of Ted Lasso is that they hire an American football coach to coach a Premier League team. He doesn't know what he's doing. And what surprised me is that it's probably...

- The best way I can describe this, and I guess I use like anime terms for this. It's like Onizuka, it's like Onizuka becomes the coach of a premier league team because he knows nothing about football. And to be fair throughout like the first season and a bit, he still knows nothing about football. - Is Ted Lasso an isekai?

- No, it's not an Issa guy. - An American Issa guy to the UK. - Unless you count going to the UK being Issa guy. - American man reborn as a British coach. - But no, it's incredible how, I think the best thing about that show is that it's incredible how endearing they were able to make Ted Lasso because he's basically like, yeah, it's basically like watching Pete like coach a football team, you know, where it's like, he knows nothing about football, but I can tell you,

I kind of want him to get a W, man. But God damn, he gives the best advice. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. They give him like the full house treatment with like Danny Tanner and it's like that classic American father. Yeah. And then it's like, oh, wow, they transformed Bob Saget, one of the most like...

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I think weirdly, obviously we get a lot of American media. Stand-up comedy was the stuff that we just didn't get. Yeah. Because we had our own stand-up that was like... And I'm pretty sure Australia is very... And it's so different. Yeah. Like the stuff that they would make jokes about were so incredibly British. Like when I watch British stand-up, I don't think it would work for Americans. I think of Ricky Gervais. You can't say that. Oh, okay. I hate Ricky Gervais. Every time. His stand-up is so bad.

He just says, he says things you can't say, Connor. Okay. I liked Ricky Gervais hosting the awards. Yeah. Although I felt like the last one, everyone was like, wow, he's so brave. I was like, this is kind of like just watching a man have a mental breakdown. I felt like, I don't know. I mean, he's one of the better exports we've had because I swear, someone was like, who was that guy who hosts the-

- Gordon is a failure. - Gordon fucking hell man. - He's like not even welcome back in the UK now. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - We're like, no, no, no. - What a fucking dickhead. - There is like a betrayal if you do leave. Is it the same in Australia? If they go to like America and like do American things, we're like, you don't, you fucked up. - I think of Gordon Russell Brand as well was a big UK. - Which we don't care if British actors do American films, but for some reason doing like a late night show is like, how dare you?

- Well, I think it's like selling your soul. 'Cause I don't think anyone believes that James Corden is specifically passionate about doing carpool karaoke. He just does it 'cause it's successful. - Like yeah, America turned on him so fast. It seemed like he was doing all right. And then it just kind of overnight, everyone was like, fuck James Corden. - Yeah, now he's like the most hated person right now. - Well, he didn't help himself too fair. - He also had some bad stories about like, and this is like the ultimate one. Just being bad in front of no, like service workers. - Oh, I heard that. - Like treating service workers poorly.

And that's like- - Big no-no. - Yeah, obviously. 'Cause it's like, oh, you got rich and famous and then you turned on how you treat regular people. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, and I think it's especially like exacerbated by the fact that he is a late night host, because I think the whole point of being a late night host is that you have to be likable. - You're personable. - Yeah, you have to be personable, right? Whereas if you're like an actor or something, you can kind of, there's a little bit more leeway to be a dickhead.

- I think so, right? 'Cause you're a bit more like mythical, right? 'Cause you play these characters and you're not really yourself often. Same with musical artists, I feel like, 'cause you're often kind of playing up this persona. - You can have a huge ego. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I mean, Christian Bale, famously, right? He had the blow up on set. - People almost respected him, 'cause they're like, "Wow, he cares so much about the art form." - Yeah, 'cause it's like, it's his craft, it's his art.

He's allowed to be a total dickhead. But like, that was like a funny one because it was like listening to the context. I can just imagine I'm trying to act and a guy was walking across the set. You're like, God fucking damn it. I kind of see it, but I was like, yeah, you don't need to be that much of a cunt about it, right? Yeah. Blow up. But then I think we, I don't know. People kind of like a blow up sometimes. Yeah. I mean, people just love drama. True. We know that way with the doc things.

- Y'all talking about that? - You got the big tweet out of it. - Oh my gosh. - You got like a tweet that like 200K likes. - Well, something like that. It's just some tweet that unearthed, well, everyone knows about the doctor disrespect thing. I imagine we don't have to give too much context. But basically admitted to messaging a minor in Twitch whispers, which is insane. - Why did he admit to that? Was there any benefit to admitting to it?

- I think because it was known. - He was just trying to get over it? - Well, I think it was factually known by the people at Twitch. They knew it as fact. And so he can't, he can lie. - But as we've learned anything from the online climate now, even if there's literal photo proof of you standing there with a minor or something. - Yeah, true. - You could be like, "I don't know who that is." - People do the deny, deny, deny thing. - And it works. - I think in his mind, he wrote that long ass tweet

that included the phrase, yes, I did talk to an individual minor and then edited it out. But I think he sent that tweet and he's like, I'll send this, I'll come back and everyone will forget it.

Not what happened. No one's forgetting that. That tweet had like over like 200 million impressions. Yeah. 200 million? 200 million impressions. There's no recovering. Dude, I mean the most normie of normie people in my life were like, oh, I heard about this. This is Mr. Disrespect. Yeah.

Dude, watching that clip when he's playing Elden Ring. Or watching someone's career disappear from their eyes. I was just watching and I was like, damn, if I was acting, like if I was an actor and I was studying, this. This is crazy. He had sunglasses on and I could feel every ounce of emotion going through. It was crazy. He's basically playing Elden Ring and then

30 minutes after that portion of stream, a tweet comes from his AAA publishing studio about how they're dropping him. And it's what people think. I mean, it's not confirmed. To be like the text, that's like, hey, we're dropping you. Right. Yeah.

- Just seen his face, man. - The micro expressions, man. - Bro, if I found acting, I gotta study that. It's so raw. So raw. - With the Elden Ring music in the background as well. - It was literally perfect timing. - The ominous music. - He gets on the horse and just starts riding. - Sir Anthony Hopkins in Wales, like fuck. That's good shit. - That's hard. - I was thinking about it. I was like, what text would I have to receive to make me like,

A third tower's been hit. Wales is like sinking. Wales is being down. Wales is gone. I'd like to think if I had something bad that happened, I would try and play it off for like 10 minutes where I find a point that naturally feels like I'm going to end it. It would be a global catastrophe. It'd be like nuclear war. Yeah. If nuclear war broke out,

Then you're like, oh. That's bad. But like if to make me like fully end the stream on the spot, it'd have to be like devastating. I'm sorry. You're staying live after the nuclear war one? I think I would keep going. Because like what else am I going to do?

- Like, man, I can run it. - No, no, no. - Unless my viewers went to zero, everyone else was panicking. I'd be like, well, fuck it, I may as well land. - No, no, no, 'cause I asked the boys these questions before, but like, you know, 'cause like, remember the Hawaii missile thing? - Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I think I would go live. - You had an alert where you think missiles are about to hit where you live right now. You don't have enough time to like get up on a plane or escape. What'd you do? You have half an hour. - Stay alive. - Yeah, what'd you do? - It's 100% death.

Yeah, you assume. You assume, okay. You're assuming a nuclear warhead is on the way. You're like, fuck, there's nothing I can do. I have half an hour or however long it takes for the missile to hit. What do you do? I think, okay, well, for one, I don't think I would ever give up the hope. So I hop on my Vespa instantly. Yeah. I throw Cutie on the back. I stuff the pets into the carrier and then I start riding. But like, I guess in your universe, it's probably just calling people.

- Yeah. - That's what a lot of people did do. - But actually that wouldn't work. - Everyone would try to call. - Yeah, call service would go down for sure. - And you're on Hawaii by the way, which is an island. So there's only- - Oh, you're in Hawaii? - Yeah, yeah. 'Cause we're talking about the- - That's where the scare happened. - Yeah, that's where the scare happened. So you can't exactly just drive forever. - So if you were there all that day, I don't even remember what we said.

Connor would go live basically. - I think I said something like I just furiously J-O for the next 30 minutes. - Why is that like the one joy? That's the only joy you have. - Or it's like break every law. It's like, if I'm gonna die anyway, I might as well try all of that. - Everyone looks over, it's Joey Jaywalking, and you're like, what? - Yeah. - What are you gonna do about it? - Yeah, I feel like human survival instincts kick in. I started digging holes.

I'm like Shia LaBeouf out there. Oh, you're not giving up. Presumably, if you did just have a hole, it would probably kind of work. I'm certain. Well, like, look, I mean, like, think about it, right? Like, if you were somehow in a hole, right? And you managed to somehow dig a deep enough hole in like 30 minutes.

and then it depends where you're on the blast radius for sure but yeah like it would help a ton yeah if you're outside of like the initial fire blast area i think for sure yeah i'm not talking like in the black i mean yeah but like yeah right because it would you don't and even if you had fallout i mean it's not like a hundred percent like there's some people i feel like i mean i don't know but like it in a nuke oh yeah people have survived nukes yeah people have survived nukes yeah

- I mean, dirt is like a very good way of blocking out like a blast. - It's better than a fridge. - But I mean, the problem is how would you breathe if you dug yourself in a hole? - Small tube. - I think after like 30 minutes, you'd be so scared. I think you'd panic. I don't think anyone could stay at home. - Oh, I'd not be locked in.

You would not lock in. I'd lock in on that one. You would not lock in a hole. Are you shoveling the dirt in on yourselves? You'd like pull in. Yeah, it wouldn't work. That's what I'm saying. But I think you'd be able to protect yourself a little bit.

- I guess. - You know, let's test it. - Listen, there's a reason why bunkers work. - Yeah, I mean, bunkers aren't just, I put dirt on myself. - See, bunkers are meant to be like comfortable. I think the dirt is basically the big factor. - I do think a bunker is just a nicer dirt hole. - Yeah. - Yeah. - It's like a livable dirt hole. - Yeah, but could you dig that up in 30 minutes? - But there's only so long you'd want to live in a dirt hole, right? - Yeah, but like you look at like the blast crater of like a big bomb, right?

Pretty sizable, but outside of that, if you were underground, you'd be fine. I think we've all gone to that website and then just clicked the bomb. You ever go to that website where you can pick what bomb you want and then put it somewhere on the map? I've not done that. What website is this? American Pastime? Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, it's like a fifth grade thing. There's a website. You can pick a bomb and it'll show you the radius of...

the initial blast and then if it's like a nuclear weapon the radiation blasts and then you can put it over like different areas on the map and it'll tell you like expectations of it that's pretty big oh sure yeah what did you gain from

- Nothing, but if Sar Bomba hits, that shit gonna hurt. - I don't think my little dirt hole will help. - No, that one gets eaten. The dirt hole gets eaten. - Not to mention in this hypothetical Hawaii situation, you have 30 minutes. This ain't Looney Tunes. - You know when they had that, I also realized like we're fucking dumb as shit as humans.

Yeah. Because watching the... When you watch the Lebanon with the warehouse that blew up from the ammonia, that was a pretty sizable blast. Huge. But people were so far away, they just assumed they were safe from the shockwave. So they started filming it. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. They're all in front of the windows. Right next to the window as well. Yeah. And I'd like to think that I'm smart and I wouldn't do that, but there's a solid chance I would...

be on my balcony filming. - Yeah. - 'Cause I'd be like, "Yeah, I'm pretty far away." - You'd be like, "Chad, look at James Evans' crazy." - I'll be like, "This is a banger tweet right here." - 'Cause I think when you see an explosion far away, your brain is like, "I'm safe." So I think I would look. I think I'd watch. - Yeah. - I don't think I'd be under a table or something. - Dude, there's a picture that went viral this week. It was a UPS driver and a delivery man. And he's delivering a package, looks focused. Behind him, 9/11.

Just like actually happening. It's a real picture. It was the burning building, but he was just doing his job like 12 blocks away of delivering a package. And it's like, it's crazy that that happened. And you're like, yeah, I just got to get it done though. I,

- I guess if the building was on fire and you didn't know what was happening, you probably would be like, I guess I'll continue. - Brother, it looked like 9/11 back there. It was not like the building was like slightly fiery. - I feel like that's just New Yorkers though. New Yorkers are just built different sometimes. - I feel like until the tower fell, there was probably a good chunk of people that didn't take it seriously. - No, I think so too. I think it's similar to the blast, right? You don't understand the scope of it. - Yeah.

Oh, is that the picture there? Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, but like, yeah, I think if I was a New Yorker, I think I would just continue. I think I wouldn't, I would, until it was actually like horrific, I would continue. Yeah, I don't know what like, it, yeah,

- Honestly, I think I would. - It's crazy. - I don't know, but yeah. - That's huge. - I think if I saw that in Japan, I think I would just kind of trust that they had it under control. - See, this is a guy thing, I think, because you ever see that, it's a movie clip, but some people mistake it as a real clip. It's this family and they're at the ski resort and an avalanche comes

And then the dad's like, oh, wow, look at that. Yeah, it's the same thing. Yeah, the mom's like, we should go. And the dad's like, we're fine. And then it fucking comes and it hits them. And then the dad bolts and leaves the family. And the mom gets kind of owned and crushed by it. That's what you call killed? She doesn't die. She doesn't die. She doesn't die. But the movie is about the relationship. I thought it was a real clip for a long time. It turns out it's from a movie and it's about the relationship after the avalanche.

- 'Cause she's mad at him for not like listening to her and ignoring her and then leaving her. - Yeah, it's pretty serious, I think so. - Yeah, I mean, it makes you wonder how, you know, I think it comes down to like the survivor part of your brain where sometimes maybe how adept are you to like how dangerous something is, you know?

I'd like to think I am, but then I guess I'm not. I think men are worse at this. I think we are not meant for surviving. No, we are not. I also think that my brain has that thing of if far away, I'm fine, which is just totally not how that works. I think if I saw a tsunami approaching, I don't think I'd clock it.

You can't say you're good at surviving and then also have gone bungee jumping and let me drive a car for you. I wouldn't know, too. I got on the back of his Vespa this morning, and I felt like that was... When I asked you, I was shocked. You're a brave man. I drove good. I can't. Yeah, you did. I'm sure you do, but I'm not sitting on the back of a Vespa. You had a steady hand. Well, you know, I feel like I got to chill out a little bit, and I think you helped me learn how to chill out more.

- Bye baby. - 'Cause you're so extremely chill, way too much I think. And I'm normally not. So I feel that I'm trying to get better at it. And I think hanging out with you helps. - So you find yourself to be high strung normally? - I would say I was a solid three hour person at the airport and now I'm two. - Oh, I've cut you down. - I'm two now. - You were a three hour person at the airport? - I was a three hour before, no exceptions. Now I'm a two hour person. - I'm definitely a...

- Two hours, but mostly it's one and a half hours. - Well now domestic. - That's the uptime. - Domestic now, even domestic I would have done two hours. - You're talking about before they board? - Like two hours. - Before the time on the ticket. - For leaving or boarding though? - No, so if your flight is at nine, you're at the airport by six. - Right, okay, okay. - Oh yeah, I used to be six. Like if it was an international, I used to get six. - What are you? - I'm like two and a half, two hours. - Now I do two, now I do two. - I'm 45 minutes.

That's fucking. Dude, one time we did a domestic flight and I don't know if we, we definitely haven't told this on the pod, but we were going to, I don't know where the fuck we were going. NorCal. We're going to San Francisco, right? Is it? And you wanted to leave 40 minutes before the flight or 50 minutes before the flight. Yeah. Leave his house. It was a 20 minute drive. It's close. Okay. I was like, holy shit. And then of course, on the way over, he gets pulled over.

I forgot about that. I think it was that I didn't even stress because I didn't care because it wasn't my thing. So I had no reason to be stressed. But you were stressing for him. But now I started stressing because I was like, okay, now we're not going to make it. And this guy pulls over and he's just being Ludwig. He's been way too chill with the police officer.

And he's like, "Ah, what do you got?" And you had some kind of, I don't know, you were just chirping him. He was buying it. Whatever you were serving, it was working. - It's 'cause I had one of my lights don't work, I think. And so he was mad about the light. - Yeah, he was mad about that and your insurance hadn't been renewed.

- Yeah, I found out. - I feel like a little bigger one. - Well, I found out when he pulled me over that I didn't have insurance. - Yeah, 'cause he was, 'cause I didn't, I guess I didn't know this, but cops scan cars. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah. - I didn't know they could do this. They could just scan a ton of cars on the highway. - Look up your license plate. - Oh. - So they're scanning cars while driving on the highway. So obviously he did it. And I'm like, fuck me. Like now I'm wasting 15 minutes. We get to the airport 20 minutes before the flight boards and we make it. And I'm like, this is bad.

Like you shouldn't do this. Okay, can I tell you? This is reinforcing your bad habits. I love the adrenaline rush of getting there right before it closes. I live for that moment. Yeah, but I think flights are so inconvenient in the States that missing a flight is so detrimental. That's why you lock in. I don't know what to tell you. In Japan, I'm not worried because if I miss my flight to Sapporo, I'll be on another flight in an hour. We're guaranteed. I'll be on it. You ever miss the flight?

uh yeah I've missed it I've missed a couple of my day I've never missed a flight in my life but one of the ones that I missed I got to the airport early I fell asleep at the terminal I fell asleep and I woke up and and I and I was like oh where is everyone and I walked to the desk and they're like whispering to each other they're like oh

And then I was like, hey, where's the plane? And the lady went, oh, so you were on this flight. And they'd taken off. They'd taken off. No. Because I got there like an hour and a half early. I just slept. Oh, no. I was so sad. Oh, my God. And then that one time, last time I went to San Fran, because after the stream rewards, we did the sushi shoot. Oh, yeah. Which was also stressful because I was hungover.

because I set out a bit too late. You went home early, you were smart. But we got there and the flight had been delayed like two hours. And there was a whole film crew in San Francisco waiting for him and me to show up. And I was stressing for him.

- And what was the solution at the end of the day? Because he had customers coming in at four. - We pushed the shoot. Basically, it was a-- - You offered to pay for all the customers. - Yeah, well, because we did the video together. It's live now, but it was-- - Have you spoken about that at all? - I haven't said, I can't say some of that stuff. But we did a sushi video together. And we're supposed to do that at four. And then at nine, the actual chef had another group of customers come in. So I asked him if he could just push those customers through another day and I would pay the equivalent of what they would have paid him.

for the inconvenience and he was cool with that because Jackson's chill but that shoot was fun that was that was a good shoot yeah I was man I suck it Connor might be the worst chef I've ever seen in my life ever without a shadow of a doubt he is he is I just had to lie also I was so sad that

Most of my gold was caught from that video. I'm so sad. We were doing this sushi video. It was at a Michelin star restaurant, a former Michelin star. And yeah, we pretend to be the chefs. And Connor goes into this detailed story about how he's from Japan, moved there because he liked anime and then worked at an Izakaya. And then I just started. You trying to get sympathy points? No, I was trying to like set up the back stories.

And I was like, yeah, I was a ragtag. It's called character development. Well, and then he goes into his wife, his ex-wife, who he's bitch ex-wife specifically is what he said, who took everything in the divorce. So, because after about, because we did, you know what's crazy is that I, when I look back, I'm like,

we were bullshitting for like two hours straight back to back. Yeah, we're just riffing for two and a half hours. And I feel like after 30 minutes, we got really good at it. Yeah. Because we were drinking, I think. Yeah, we got a bit drunk. We were able to get more character. Which they were definitely concerned by. The customers were concerned. Oh, I got very drunk that day. I was like 12 sake shots deep. My explanation for this was I was like, no. So you see in the restaurant in Japan on a new menu, it's complimentary that the, sorry, customary that the chef drinks with the customers.

And they bought it. Well, because like everything that I lied about, they bought, because half the stuff I did tell them was true. - As soon as you say the words Japan and customary, they'll buy it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's so easy to bullshit about Japan, 'cause people believe it and like revere it. But a lot of the stuff I did tell them was true. Like when we were talking about like the, you know, they were like, the rice is from Niigata, which is a famous rice region, which it is, which is true. And there's some other stuff too. - It's customary for the chef to fart into the rice bowl.

Bro, I love Jackson. His sake prices are crazy. Oh, yeah. Jack that shit up. He charges primo on that. That's like $300 a bottle. For what? Sake. Dude, he has a bottle that's so good. It's the best sake I've ever had in my life. I find that hard to believe. Sake in Japan is generally one of the cheaper ones. Very cheap. There is some. What's the one that we really like? The one that we had in Hokkaido that was really good. Dasai. How much is that?

For the cheap bottle in Japan, maybe like 40 bucks 50 bucks. Yeah, three but they're they got 200 bucks Yeah, but like it's kind of unusual to have really really expensive sake. You can get you're getting that San Francisco up charge for sure Oh, absolutely. Yeah, dude and the one time when I nearly fucking folded which is such a dumb question Which I should have another so this entire video bullshitting immaculately It was going amazingly and then they asked me one question. They're like, where do you live in San Francisco?

And I just, for the life of me, I don't know why I just couldn't come up with some good bullshit. And I was like, I was like, um,

I was like, where do I live again? Because my reasoning was that I just got here, but they were not buying it. They were, I think they were definitely. Yeah, because you were like, they were like, what do you eat normally? And you're like, oh, you know, can't eat sushi because that's what I eat at work all day. So I eat like other Japanese foods and it's like, oh, you got a spot around here. You're like, ah, so many. And then you thought of a great idea. You were like, you would like, what was the name of the server who's helping us?

You were like, oh yeah, a blanket on her name. Yeah. You were like, yeah, yeah. Where do we eat again? And then she was like, um, I don't know. I was like, you know, the spot where we always eat. We just do it on the service. It was so much good stuff. Unfortunately, I didn't get cut for reasons, but, uh,

It was really fun. And then Connor ends it all by going, all right, a final kanpai to chin chin. And the whole restaurant's like, all right, to chin chin. He's like, he's the owner of this restaurant. I thought it was great. I thought it was great. It was fun. I thought it was great. It was good. It was good. That turned out well considering how scuffed it was. I didn't know anything about that.

you kind of like ran it you were like yeah we'll just do this thing it feels like just the way to go it feels like the way you do most i would not have a let's just do this thing and then when we turn up there's there's 15 cameramen like that's just like not right how i associate those like vibes yeah yeah you play your shit out meticulous if there's if there's that much you gotta do in japan at least no i know that's what it seems like it changes how you have to do content in general you know i think it makes it i think

I think that's why you're able to pump out as much as you do. Cause you're just like, guys, just show up with cameras and we're going to rip something. And I feel like in Japan, there's a lot more consideration for. It's like, all right, we'll plan it out. See you guys on the filming day a month from now. Oh,

- I was just gonna say, sometimes you get planning paralysis though, you know? - You do, absolutely. - That's what I always get nervous about. - You don't have a choice though, unfortunately. - Yeah. - But I agree though, like there's a lot of times where I won't do a video 'cause the thought of it stressing me out. Whereas if I had just locked in a date and showed up, it probably would have been fine. - Yeah, you've been on like MrBeast shoots before. How much planning do you think goes into like one of his videos? - Well, so it depends. I did the most recent or it'll come out soon for us, but it's already come out. It's the MrBeast.

50 YouTubers trapped in a glass box, like winner wins a million dollars. - Okay, so that was what everyone was posting about. - That's the one that all the YouTubers were at. And that one was planned in, I think six weeks or a month. 'Cause Mr. Beast, he called me and he was like, "Can you watch this video I have coming out?" Like, "Sure."

he's like the last two videos I posted are 10 out of 10 I'm gonna kill myself if I get a third and I go to look at the video it has 95 million views I'm like I'm like yeah I would off myself too 95 mil oh that's so funny but basically he he plans videos pretty far in advance it's like yeah with that amount of people of course you have to right so he plans them six months in advance but

The series that he used to do was like the defend this. I don't know if you've seen him. It's like defend this yacht. Yeah. A lot of people aren't. So he had planned a bunch of these out and they were all performing bad. Yeah. So he scrapped like two that he had planned. One that had already been filmed. Oh, wow. And he was like, I need a video that's going to crush. Yeah. So he went.

all money out and then did this youtuber video in the fastest turnaround he's done i think in recent times which is like again six weeks for this was crazy yeah and in that video that video was nuts i mean it's crazy you can just call up everyone yeah and you and you'll show up yeah i mean you'll miss the beast everyone will show up you will you will sign up yeah it's not yeah it's impressive mark rober bella porch moist critical like ksi logan paul it was crazy the names that he had did you win

- No. It'll be out, so I got top five. Jaden Animations won. - Oh shit. - Yeah, it was actually super, I was pumped she won, 'cause she was very cool. But the final game was basically like, it was kind of like Mafia in a way. - Right, right. - Like there was five people, everyone picks a briefcase, one has the million dollars in it,

and you have to vote somebody to leave. And so if you have the million, you wanna pretend you have nothing to be voted out to leave with the million. - Yeah. - Right. - But I was playing way too much of a town, so I was like, "I got zero dollars, I think they have zero dollars." And then they're like, "Well, I think he's got zero dollars." So they just voted me out. They voted me out instantly, and I was like Nixon. I was like, "All right, see you later, everyone." It's been fun. - You try to dominate too much. You try to-- - Yeah. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it was all right, 'cause we,

I think we can mention this now, but we'd made a pact. Because we were in there for 40 hours. Eat, sleep, shit, share meals in there. So we'd gotten pretty close. And so the final five before our challenge, we sat there for two hours. Everyone's kind of nervous. And I was like...

Guys, I have an idea. If I win, I will give each of you 100K, 'cause everyone had like something, you can't keep the money. The money has to be given to a viewer, and everyone had like something else. Like one guy wanted to build schools in Morocco. One guy wanted to, Jaden wanted to give it to people to get art degrees. And I'm like, these are all cool things. I don't know how I would spend a million dollars. I don't know. That is such an overwhelming, it's a responsibility. I'm like, I'll give each of you 100K to do what you wanna do, and then I'll still be left with 600K, which is enough.

So are you down for a pact? You can get one flight to France with that. So anyway, we all agreed to that pact. So I think I was not as sad because I still have $100,000 to play with. Right. That I can give to someone. Yeah, I'd be so sad about $100,000.

What a cool idea though. I mean, yeah, that level of planning is just so off the charts. But I mean, his team is hundreds. Yeah. So I mean, you know, I think planning becomes a lot easier. I mean, he's doing the big shoot now. Now is the way big shoot, the Beast Games. Oh. Amazon Prime.

- Yeah, Amazon Prime Video. - That's crazy. - I don't know how much money, 'cause I have a friend who actually got accepted to be a contestant in it. - Oh, wow. - And they were like, "Block off your calendar from now until September." - Jesus. - Yeah, I saw that. I saw that when he tweeted that out. - Yeah. - It was like three months. - Three months. - Yeah, that is absurd. - It's insane for a contestant. - I imagine...

the way he's pretty structured his business is really smart. 'Cause I imagine that, you know, normally there's so many different layers of production and who operates it. Having it all in under one is probably a lot more efficient. - Right. - It allows you to pretty make a lot more stuff. - Yeah, like owning the- - Yeah, in terms of like when you're at that scale. - Yeah. - You know, 'cause you basically make a TV. - Yeah, 100%. - So I imagine it, you know, you can put it, make some cool stuff. I mean, it's exciting.

- Yeah, cool. - You go to the town where he lives, he's like the fucking mayor, governor and president. - Well, of course, I've heard there's not much else going on in that town. - No. No, you drive through and every building is like Mr. Beast's. Anyone who lives there is like, "Oh yeah, I got a friend who's been on one of his." - Imagine if you live there, your odds of being on something Mr. Beast is like infinitely higher than the number

- Not right. - I'm sure career path in that town is just like, so I try to be on Mr. Beast videos. - It's worked. - Yeah, it has. - All of his like college videos are at the same college. I think it's just the closest one. - Yeah, right. - Mr. Beast funded, huh? Half the people there go to college. - He's funding half the people there. - You should be an alumni, an honorary. - I need to piss quickly. - Oh yeah, run it. - How long have we been going for?

Oh, God. Dude, okay. I have something I'm curious if you saw. Okay. Well, obviously Akira Toriyama passed away. Yes. Rest in peace, GOAT. Yep. I don't know if you saw what my co-host Slime said about this. No, I'm worried now. He got incredibly...

in trouble online because right when he passed, like the same day, he said, who else? I forget the exact tweet, but it was something to the language of like. And did he know Akira Toriyama had passed at this point? He had heard about the news and he knew about like Dragon Ball. Okay. But he didn't know Akira Toriyama's name until the day that he passed.

And that's what his tweet was. It was like, who else learned Akira Toriyama's name today? Which is like, that's the worst day to have said that. I feel like it's just a little insensitive. Yeah. Yeah. He loves fighting on Twitter. Do you get shit for that?

Oh, my. The most he's ever gotten ever, which for reference, like slime, very sweet guy if you meet him in person. But online is just like he's an online troll. That's what he enjoys doing. He does. And there's never been more backlash ever than that, which I think about sometimes the power. What kind of level?

- Just like, you know, people sliding in the DMs wishing upon his downfall. - Oh wow, okay. - I think he insulted all of like Latin America with that. - Right. Dude, I didn't realize how big Dragon Ball was in Latin America. - I didn't either until like now, like I literally hung out

you know, I hang out with someone who grew up in Mexico. Right. He was saying, yeah, they just play it at like bars and shit like that. It's just like, it's like an actual like fight. Like Goku is like the most famous thing. Yeah. I didn't know because I saw a video of that. It was a bar and they're just playing and it's just a song and it had Goku on the screen and that's it. It's just a static image of Goku and they're all staring at it. Who wouldn't? Who wouldn't?

- Yeah. - Like who's gonna win? Oh, it's Goku. - So what did you want? You want our take on it? What do you? - I have a take. - Okay. - Okay. - I think Dragon Ball is better than Dragon Ball Z. - Okay. - That's my take. - That is. Joey, do you agree with that take, Joey?

No. Really? Isn't the common consensus that- It's hard, right? Because Dragon Ball was still when, you know, Toriyama was getting off the doctor slump thing where he was doing more comedic bits and like light hearted jokes. Yeah, there's a lot of jokes. And then it was Dragon Ball Z where he fully committed to the whole thing that makes Dragon Ball Z possible today. I've never watched Dragon Ball, by the way.

- Oh wow, I think it's worthwhile. - It's a kid Goku. - Yeah, it's like kid Goku. - And it's a lot more, it starts off like a lot more like a gag, at least the manga, it starts off a lot more like a gag manga. And then it's not until probably around like the first Budokai arc where he's starting to show hints like, oh, and I can also do fight scenes. But then because the Budokai arc got so popular in Japan, everyone was like, just make it about that. Just make it about them fighting. And he's like, okay.

I just thought the characters were way more fun because I feel like they become so one-dimensional when it goes to Dragon Ball Z. And we're just fighting all the time. I mean, yeah. I feel like they needed more character to make the gag parts make more sense. Right. You think Vegeta's one-dimensional?

- No, he's actually deep twisted dark angel. He's actually one of the greatest characters. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, he is. - A lot are. You know, like a lot of like, Yamcha has to be a one note character. - I mean, Yamcha got done dirty in Dragon Ball. - But he was in Dragon Ball. - No, he was the goat, bro. The wolf fist. - Yamcha just got power crept. Like, that's what happens when you're like the first villain.

become useless side characters yeah it's so sad what happens to them because either you win it you don't yeah you're the powerful one or not yeah but then they end up all being like the other dudes on dude perfect we all know who the main character is do you know who the secret goat of dragon ball z is okay fucking krillin man

- He was like, he started off as a sidekick. - I mean, he bagged the baddest chick. - And then he got power crept and then he got like the hottest chick and then just got married and had kids. - The fact that he bagged the hottest chick. - Yeah, right. - While being a bald short king. - Wasn't the criticism of Dragon Ball was that like the power system's kind of like

one dimensional and like not very, they get rid of it after a while. Cause they start doing like, like, you know, power scanner and all this. And then it's like, Oh, the numbers are stupid now. Yeah. It's kind of like, I guess they've, they've actually done a good job in one piece. Cause like the, the, the bounty system's the same thing. Right. That's kind of how they reference it. Yeah. And like, there's a certain point where it's like, okay, the numbers are just dumb now. Yeah. This is absurd. It's like Venezuelan currency. Yeah.

- What I like about the one piece bounty system is that it's not like a direct correlation to power. - Notoriety, right? - Yeah, yeah. It's more of a direct correlation to like, oh, how big of a threat are you? - Yeah, I never really felt like the bounty was indicative of power. - But I guess it scales in terms of notoriety. - Yeah, yeah. - And that eventually will have a cap in the same way a power scaling does. - You know.

Also, it happens at a good time during the story where you can clearly see that the characters have gotten stronger. And the bounty is a proof of that. It's like, oh, okay, Luffy's actually leveled up. Now he's got that three million on him? It's validity for it. That tweet is terrible. I feel like it's just insensitive. I feel like there's no humor there. There's nothing funny about that. And even if it was the case, just shut up.

You know, just don't say it. Yeah, he deleted. He's a good boy now. Oh, that's good. That's good. Have you caught up on One Piece? I have. Yeah. How far? Like manga or anime? And I switched to the anime. Third act of Wano. Jesus, you switched to the anime? Well, yeah, because it got good.

- It got better. - It got passable to watch. - I'm still at like chapter 500. - I thought you're supposed to finish by, it's been years. - Yeah, I kind of got demoralized 'cause I somehow lost the footage of me reading one through 17, like chapter volume.

y'all oh which is like 150 chapters yeah what is that footage anyway yeah exactly that's why i'm also i'm also about that but then i'm like okay i have to like rethink the entire video just go to a cafe and just flip through yeah which is honestly what it would have been right but but i feel like the seeing me like i don't know just i thought there was kind of some charm in seeing the different locations right and the time yeah you lost it just lost the footage getting bold

No, I just couldn't find it. You're getting bald? Balding. Check. Me? Yeah. Why? You don't know I'm balding? It doesn't look that bad. Let's keep taking a... What is it? Finasteride? Finasteride, yeah. Oh my God. Same here. Do you still get a boner? Yes. Well, look, even you take it, right? It's not like you could just stop taking it.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. No, if you have side effects, you totally can. I think it's fine to take. I'm just curious if you've had any side effects. No, I haven't. That's why when people talked about it, like they would tell me like, dude, what if your dick doesn't work? I was like, there's such a low chance and you can just stop. It's like a 1% chance. Yeah, I was like, you don't need to keep taking like it. No one's making you like castrate yourself. Yeah, it doesn't like off your dick for the rest of the day. It's like, you just not take it. No, it filled off. I took it and it filled off. You know, it helped a lot and it was just frustrating because it was mainly like a thing of like, look, I don't want,

when I'm trying to do some content and then like if it, for some reason you can see the top of my head for like two seconds, it'll be all they'll talk about. - Oh, are you balding here in the crown? - Yeah, well, so like I'm like this right now. - Oh, I see. - Which is like, this is way better than it was. - Wait, it gets better?

- Well, no, so it just gets like, it gets like healthier. - Okay. - It's like, it doesn't get worse. - Like your follicles get thicker, right? - Yeah, so my hair got a lot thicker, which just makes it look better, 'cause now it's a bit more thicker. - Yeah. - Would you take it? - I am taking it. - Oh, you're taking it too? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Oh my God. - I'm the one who got it. - You got me on it. - Him on it. - Oh my God. - Yeah, because I was like every minute

- A man in my family went bald. And so I had this shit on like lockdown since like early 20s. - I wish I started sooner. 'Cause I could have prevented even having a bald spot in the first place. - You don't look like you take it. - Look at that head of hair. - Look at that man. - You're not gonna take it, right? - I don't take it. - You're so fucking lucky 'cause your hair looks fucking immaculate. - I do have thick ass hair. - Fucking so lucky. - I think I would take it though. - Listen, if I wasn't on camera, I would not have given a fuck. I would have just been done with it.

But I think that being on camera, aging is a vulnerable thing to have to do. And to have every daily age vlog of you where people could see you age is such a hard thing to kind of deal with when you realize it. Yeah, it makes it harder to age in peace.

- Yeah, right, 'cause normally you would just kind of be like, yeah, I guess I'm getting older and no one would give you trouble about it. But now you have to like slowly age, but I guess there's some grace in aging, but it's not always that simple. - No, zero grace in aging online. People call me Unk now. - That's fucked up. You're literally the same age. - I know, I know, I'm 28, but like today, for example, I'm gonna play basketball with this guy, Jason. He's like one of the upcoming streamers and he's 19 or 20 or something.

And so, yeah, when I'm going to stream, everyone's like, oh, I hit him with the classic, what's the shape of Italy? And then I said, boot, and then I ended the call. And then I was like, oh, classic. And then they go, unk joke, W unk joke. Brought that one out from the 1900s. Dusted off that one. I'm like, damn, I'm 28.

But it's how it goes. We're getting phased out. Yeah, but I'm okay with that. You're okay with... Didn't you want to do this for like five years tops anyway? Yeah, yeah. But also, I've just realized that obviously that generation watches that generation, but it's not like people who get to like 25 stop watching YouTube now. No. I prefer having an older audience anyway. It's more chill. I feel like there's a lot less...

There's a little less pressure. Yeah, there's way less pressure. Everyone's so much more chill. You guys are cool. You can get more understanding. You guys are cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. And also less of a need for like insane content and like fucking off the wall shit. Yeah, like screamy shit. Yeah, I mean like I can do a fucking stream where I just chill with Pete and that'll be great content because it's just like people just love seeing like just hanging out vibing. I don't need to do a crime. How long are you guys doing Trash Taste?

Where he just hit four years. Yeah. Just hit, just hit four years. Are you doing four more?

- Yeah, if it's still- - You made a noise. He said yeah within seconds. - Same one, same thing like yeah. Like what made it work? - I mean, it was more, I know the noise he made. It's like, if we get to four years. - Yeah, it's like, you know what? - Is it up to us? - Yeah. - I mean like, okay, this is a great question as an owner of a podcast yourself or co-owner. When is the time to stop doing podcasts? 'Cause what if we're all happy, but let's say the podcast has won

one 50th of the viewers. Like, is it better to pack it in before you, you have a decline or is it better to, you know, what, what is, what does the end of a podcast look like? Right. What does it Peter off? Do you do a big bang being like guys are ending it? Like, or like next week's the last episode because you know, as you, as you've also learned, uh, podcasts are very stable generally and they make generally pretty good money for what it is. Yeah. And for the ask,

So I think that, you know, it also allows us to, it's very creatively fulfilling, I think. Because then we then also have this podcast, which is very stable. And it gives us a stability to a job that is not stable. So you wouldn't do it if it didn't get that stability though. Like if this podcast dropped and we got 50 views.

I think we would do it... We would probably not be as intense about the weekly. Yeah. I think if we would get like 50 views, we'd be like, you know what? We're all traveling. Maybe we don't have to harass you to use your studio. Right. Skip a couple weeks. Yeah. I think we'd be like, you know what? We'll be back. Right. But I think...

But I also, I think I like that we have something that keeps us accountable. Yeah. I don't know about you guys, but I like that we have to. You're beholden to your audience. Yeah. I mean, I'm very like proud of ourselves. Yeah. We've never missed a week. 210 episodes. Four years is impressive. Yeah. Don't miss a single week. We have not.

We've done like intentional skips, I guess. Like we did like a end of year recaps. - Right, right. - And you also, I also, one thing that I noticed that you guys do, which I think that we don't do at all is that if you're not on it, they still film it. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - We've done it without everyone there. - Yeah. - For sure. But I think it's easier with four too. - Yeah, yeah. With three to two, it's a lot more noticeable, I think. - Yeah.

- It's a different show at that point. - Yeah, it's a different show. - I feel like it's a conversation. - So you guys are all actually gonna do it as long as it works, is what it sounds like. - Yeah, I could see myself doing it for another four. - Yeah, I could. - Do you not see yourself doing The Yard for another four? - Nah, man. - Bro, what are we gonna be talking about in four years? - Well, listen, okay, 'cause how many years is The Yard going for now? - Three. - So you're like a year behind us, right? - Yeah. - Do you already feel like you're running out of stuff to talk about weekly?

- Do you feel like you're repeating yourself in terms of like... - Oh, I do do that already. I've been doing it for years now. 'Cause I just forget what I've said. - So we have this problem now, well, I have this problem. Well, I think Garnt has told a story on the podcast, but he hasn't and I'll stop him from telling the story.

I'm like, God, you've already told the story. Like two levels deep. And then the comments get so pissed off at me because Garnt's told me it in private, but not on the part. But I could have sworn it was on the part. We don't know what's real and what's fiction. Yeah, it's a blending of like life. We've done this thing where we've gone down like a rabbit hole and then like it's the same conclusion that we got to. But we didn't know. But no, I don't think I could do it

Because I don't think anyone likes to do something until it fails. Because I think there's a level of grace to exiting on your own accord as opposed to being told, like, hey, you're past your prime or something. And I think that's very universal. But I also think, man, it's just like...

It's a lot. It's a lot of like, because you ever feel like, because a podcast, you're sharing your life and stuff. Yeah. But when you do it all the time, you don't live enough life to share. Yeah. Yeah, that's also true. That's also true. But I think we- We're streaming as well, right? Yeah. Yeah. 100%. Yeah. I mean, I definitely feel that with streaming. I definitely feel like I meet streamers

who I feel like haven't done anything. - No, especially if they start young. And then their life becomes very derivative of regurgitating stuff that they've done and heard on stream. - Yeah, 'cause I feel like the biggest disservice you can do to yourself is not being interesting, or not having anything to talk about. I feel like you repeating the same things is,

You know, you can do some, I feel like, it's like whenever you do anything, you take a, you do a bad decision because you know you're going to get a funny story out of it. Or you maybe do something that's less optimal because you're like, I don't think I'll have a fun experience out of this or something to look back on and talk about fondly. Yeah.

or like type two fun where you do something you know is not fun, but in hindsight will be fun. - The story, yeah. - I do that now. I feel like, I don't know about you guys, but I definitely do this now. I do that all the time. I will do things that are detrimental to have a fun story. - We're diseased. - But I think doing this has made me learn that I still probably do it if there wasn't a podcast. I mean, okay, let's say,

You give up being a YouTuber. Would you still like calm, would you calm down and not do all of these like things that you say yes to now? Or would you start, you know, just say no to things? I think I'd still say yes. Yeah. I think I'd say yes to more because I'd have more time to do it all. Yeah.

- 'Cause I think you're right. I think I might've initially started to do stuff 'cause it's like, oh, this could be fun to talk about or a good experience to share. But then it's like, oh, it was actually a good experience to live. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. - And maybe even share, but not in a public format, privately to people who you talk to in your life. - But I think also podcasts are great at helping you kind of, at least if you're doing entertainment like we are, is that you learn to, I suppose, have conversations better over time. You learn to be a more confident speaker.

I mean, ours is the opposite. I've lost the ability to. Actually, I have watched your show. Four white dudes talking about piss and cum. Yeah, you guys do talk about a lot of piss and cum. It's bad.

We talk about the occasional shitting, but you guys take it to a whole nother level. You guys are a lot more free. It's very rare for us to get to the piss and cum territory. That's how we start. Kick off with those ones. We're going to be really deep to get into that. All right. If you were ever to quit, then what do you think is like the point that you realize, all right, what's the line where you're like, we should consider stopping?

I think it would coincide. I don't think it'd be like... Like I couldn't stop the pod and then continue to stream at my cadence. Because then everyone would just be like, why did you stop live playing Valorant? That doesn't... So it would have to be a combined thing. Which I don't know when it'll be. Because I got to work for quite a bit longer, I think now. I thought I'd be able to get out of this, but...

But not anymore. I've been sucked into the black hole. Well, I mean, shit's expensive. Yeah. You gotta keep the lights on, you know? Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the big change is that with Offbrand, I just got a lot of employees. And I think if I quit, they all lose their job. And I think that's bad. Yeah, that's a responsibility. So it's, yeah, it is actually purely working out of responsibility. But I also think that's just the journey of man. Yeah, I also think there's nothing wrong with that. Like, I think that, you know, responsibility

we're put on this earth to coexist. And sometimes you have to be a part of something, you know, and there's no shame. There's, you know, I don't think you have to always do what you exactly want to do in life. No, I think it's like, it's a, it's a mixture of maybe some desire, but also like what you're good at. It's Ikigai. You know about Ikigai? It's a ancient Japanese phrase. The reason to live. Very Joseph. Okay. Thank you. I could explain it. No, it's okay. Okay.

How many books you been reading, man? I've been doing Japanese lessons. My Japanese teacher's crazy. Oh, shit. Where's your Japanese level at right now? I would say I'm at about a one-year-old level. I can't speak Japanese.

I was about to be like, let's have a conversation to find out. I can't speak or understand yet, but I hear the words. Okay, that's good. That's the stuff. I can read. I can read the letters. I just don't know what I'm reading. Well, I mean, to be fair. And I know 38 kanji characters. Okay, that's pretty cool. Out of how many? Yeah.

Thousands? Well, it depends. On paper, there's like 20,000. 20K? We're given more than that. Yeah, but the standard that every Japanese kid learns at the end of high school is 2,000. It's 38 out of 2,000? It's like English, right? 2%. Not even. Not even. It's like English. Like we have, how many goddamn words in English? But we use the same like 200 in daily conversation. Right, yeah, yeah. Like there are some words that you've probably heard of. You're like, what the fuck is that word?

No idea what that word means. Yeah. Right? I think it's the same with kanji. And also kanji, there's, because you can add the radicals. There are some really fucking obscure ones that are like really, really obscure. Oh, that like change it or something? Yeah. Oh. And town names. Some crazy town names. Yeah, town names are fucked. Not even Japanese people can read them. Because you literally, some town names you literally can't read unless you're from the town. They just have like a custom. Yeah, because, yeah, it's like. Well, I mean, up in Hokkaido, they're all not even based on the Japanese language. Yeah, right. It's based on the Ainu language.

- Oh, so it's like another layer. - So they've literally taken an Ainu word, converted it, like brute forced it into Kanji form. And they're like, this is how you read it, but only in this instance. - Yeah. - It's like how the fuck we're supposed to know that. - Welsh town names to English people, they're like, I don't know what the fuck this is. - Yeah, it's like, that's too many consonants. - Oh, geez.

I got some time though. I'm doing the, I'm trying to do a motorcycle trip across Japan with Michael Reeves. I know you keep telling me about it. That's what, that's why I'm trying to learn. Did you get a license for that? Oh yeah. Yeah. That's why I've, so I've had the license. I had the license. I did like a moto GP training too. Right. Which is like a bit overkill, but I think it like helped. You want me to do moto GP. It'll help like take curves at 79 miles an hour. You will not be going fast. Yeah. You will not be going fast at all. Uh,

But it builds like confidence on the bike. - Of course, of course. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - And then- - I mean, that's gonna be a long, are you trying to do all of Japan? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - South to north? - I think north to south. I think ending in Kyushu would be more pretty. - We did it in nine days and that was way too fast. - Yeah. - We did not get to see anything. - I think it'd be two weeks.

- Two weeks I think would be good. - Two weeks I think would be good. - You'll still be driving a lot. - Two to three weeks. - It'll be about six hours a day, I think. - It's quite a lot. - Yeah. - Yeah. - No, it will be a lot, but I mean, look, we gotta go across the whole damn country. - Are you streaming it or filming it? - No, I'll stream in a second. I think streaming on a bike is just a recipe for disaster. - Yeah. - Yeah. - No, we're just gonna record it, but it's mostly just for- - You just wanna do it. - Yeah, it's like an experiential thing. 'Cause me and Michael take like road trips a lot.

We'll do like, you know, two, three hours across California or something. Yeah. So we want to do this. Cool. I mean, that sounds awesome. Are you being like a whole crew for it or are you just doing it like... I'm like a follow car. Oh, cool. That'd be fun. Yeah. Like some crew. That'd be fun. But that's why I want to learn Japanese. But anyway, I got this Japanese teacher that...

was suggested to me because tens is using it okay right tens is japan because tens's fiance kaide's japanese and so he's trying to learn yeah uh can kate speak japanese yeah yeah she's yeah she can speak japanese i think she i don't know no she might i don't know if she's born in there or canada but but she can speak japanese fluently so uh anyway that was like the suggestion i was like cool so i get this japanese teacher and he's

He's a character. Okay. I feel like if he's Japanese and he left Japan. Yeah. So he left Japan. He lives in Ukraine. Already. Oh, Jesus. This is an interesting guy. I'm like, you live in Ukraine? He's like, yeah. I'm like, ain't there a war? And he's like, yeah, that's over in Kiev, though. I'm like down here. And so like the natural question is like, why did you move to Ukraine? Yeah, of course. And he's like...

Slavic bitches are the hottest. Did he say the word bitches? Oh, yeah. This is like the most un-Japanese person I've ever heard about. Yeah. There is a portion of Japanese people that are Japanese. But he says it all in like a very Japanese cadence, which makes it like a level funnier. Because he'll be like, Slavic women are very hot bitches. And it's like, okay, yeah. And then he's like, yeah, so I moved here. And then...

I think he's dating someone who I think is Japanese, which is funny. He's like, I love her very much, but it's not what I thought I would do when I moved here. She found the one other Japanese person in Ukraine. Yeah.

But then sometimes I can't make my classes. So were you having like Zoom calls with him? Yeah, it's basically like a Zoom call. But the way it works with this site is like he's in the Zoom call and then I join his call. Right. But sometimes like I'll just miss the whole class because like I'm stuck in a glass box with Mr. Beast or whatever. And it went longer than I thought. I didn't get to like cancel and tell him.

but one time i was just like running 15 minutes late because i had another call and i hop in and i enter the zoom call and the screen's blank but i hear like and i hear like a little like shuffling and i'm like uh yo and then he pop he pops over in the cam and i just see him shirtless and he's like a little sweaty he's like

Oh, Chotamate. And then he goes back out. And then his girl walks by. He was having sex. He was having sex. While his cam and mic was on. While the cam and mic was on. That's crazy. He was getting hot and heavy. And then he comes back in frame. He's still shirtless. And he's like, how are you doing? I'm like, I'm good. I'm like, how are you doing? He's like, I'm pretty good as you could guess. This is not normal Japanese behavior. No. But...

But, you know, I'm learning about Tayform, so he's doing something. I think the reason why a lot of Japanese people end up being like that when they move overseas is because they finally learn, like, oh, you can just be a rebel. Yeah, you can just vibe. Like, get by completely fine. Because they don't do that in Japan, you know? Yeah, I mean, I think he's lived an eccentric life because he had, like, he was in the service of...

um I some Yakuza group because he has like a tattoo that's like that they used to mark people or something you saw me about he's got a pinky it was something on his hand yeah I don't know exactly what um so he he's had some life that he's lived that I don't know a lot about but that's my teacher and then he's now teaching Japanese from Ukraine you can get a Japanese teacher in person here

Maybe, but it's more convenient. Is it? I guess so. Just to be able to hop in the call as opposed to drive somewhere. That makes sense. I mean, is it helping? Do you feel like? Oh, yeah, for sure. I mean, like what I've realized is language learning is, I mean, it's like learning anything. You get as much as you put into it. And so if all you do is show up to the lesson, like you're not going to get there. Like the same with piano, same with anything. Like you have to somewhat be passionate about it. Yeah. So, you know, I think...

I have to put in outside hours, which is like, I got like a little fucking Kanji app. - The one in County or whatever? - Yeah. - Oh yeah, yeah. - I got like a little, I do the little Duolingo birds sometimes. - Did you have a, like a weird hobby or something when you were a kid? 'Cause I feel like everyone did this weird thing or did this thing as a kid that they don't have time for anymore. Like, what do you define as weird? - No, no, no, no, no weird, but more like your parents like signed you up some classes to do this thing. - What did you do then?

- 'Cause you must have something if you're ripping that. - I mean, yeah, like I said, I did like ballroom and Latin America dancing for a while. - Oh yeah. - That's not weird, Garnt, that's awesome. - Okay, weird might've been the wrong word. It was just like something that people don't expect you to do. - I was in math club.

No, you know you don't seem like yeah, it was like this scholastic math club And it was all the kids who ended up being like valedictorian or salutatorian like the smartest kids in me Who graduated the 2.9 which for reference is like you know B minus B. Were you good at math? No

One time I asked my mom because they had like honors programs, which you had to place into. And I didn't get into it, but my friend did. And so you can get around it if you get a signed permission slip from your parent to basically complain to the school and be like, put my son in.

And so I begged my mom, I was like, put me in, put me in, I'll do great. And she's like, understand if you do, it's like on your shoulders to like do the extra work. I'm like, easy. I got a D plus in that class. I almost failed. It was really bad. But the Scholastic Math Club,

A couple of my other friends did it. I think it was basically a way to do daycare for older kids. I think that's why my mom did it. But we weren't good at math, so what we did... What we would do is we'd play... You ever play Marco Polo? Yes. We'd go to the bathroom...

at the school and we'd all be in the boys room and we play Marco Polo, which basically means the person has their eyes closed and then everybody else is climbing on the bathroom stalls and until you get tagged, you're safe.

And so it ends up in a position one time where it's like, I am sitting on the sink like this and my friend is planking on the bathroom stall. And then somebody else is hiding under the sink and he's like, Marco. And then a teacher walks in.

While we're doing it, must have thought we're doing the freakiest shit ever. And then you just everywhere. And then, yeah, then I got like my first attention. Wow. Playing Marco Polo in the bathroom. It's fun. We should play some time. Okay. It's a good time. Marco Polo? I haven't played that since I was a kid. Let me tell you, it's fun. Did you have a weird hobby in school?

I was in my school's debate team. Were you good? No. I don't think my parents understood. I had like a crippling fear of public speaking. Maybe they did understand. So maybe they were like, okay, we want you to get over that. So we'll put you in this debate team. But this might have worked, by the way. Yeah. Because you are now an orator. You're a modern day orator.

Like that's what you do. You speak in front of camera and people. Your parents hooked you up. I guess so. Yeah. Either that or they were just like, we need to give this kid a hobby. A debate team. That'll do. What do you make your kid do? No, that's the thing. Because I kind of realized thinking about it, why I guess so many parents do this shit is because when you're a kid, you just have free reign.

to be like, all right, you can try the weirdest. - You gotta make them do something. - You need to try something. Let's just like throw something at the wall and see what sticks. - I'm definitely getting my kid to play a musical instrument. - It does feel like, I don't know if I'm crazy. Is it like, do people just have like less clubs and hobbies now? Is it like? - I think a lot of things are held online. Like this in-person gathering is becoming rarer and rarer, but it doesn't mean it's not happening. It's just not happening in the- - As much, yeah. - Yeah. - My mom just made me do a lot of sports. There's a lot of sports and all I wanted to do was play RuneScape.

- Yeah, mom, give me RuneScape Club where we hang out at the Grand Exchange. - Well, I wish. Hey, that was the spot. - I'm not part of a club, I'm part of a guild. - Yeah, I played a lot of cards. - I'm not a gamer 'cause I have no life. - I just spoke to Americans. That was like my hobby when I was like 15. - Well, what do you make your kid do? - My kid? - With all your wisdom to make the coolest kid possible. The hop.

- I don't know. I feel like, okay, music instrument is cool. - Classic Celtic instrument. Good choice. - I was gonna say, get them to learn an instrument, but not like a one that everyone does.

- I don't want to learn piano. I'll just be like another Asian parent. - I think you're gonna learn like the lyre or something. - Yeah. - Like just something like, whoa, you can play that? - Just walking around with a French horn. - Yeah. - I don't even know what they look like. - How many harpists do you know? - I only know- - How many harpists? - Harp players? I don't know, harpists. - I went to a Welsh school. Half the kids played harp. - Are you serious? - Yeah, it's a fucking Celtic instrument. - I didn't see a harp until I was like 21. - Yeah. - What the fuck? There was a harp club in my school. - I only know one.

- That's weird. That's Welsh people are weird. - I know, 'cause it is. I think in like Irish, Welsh, and maybe Scottish schools. - No, yeah, we all grow out our hair and then cut it and use it to make harps at the end of every year in Wales. - You don't do that? - It's customary. It's customary. - What the fuck? What the fuck? - Made with the hair of our sad ass. - Listen, harps are bad as. - Yeah. - Okay. - It's like the most psychotic thing ever. - Why does it have to be an instrument? Why can't it be something else? - Well, it can be something else. - It can be. It can be. - He's saying his kids do it. - I'm saying the harp. - Origami.

- Why are you saying like a secret? - 'Cause your kid's gonna be lame, bro. - What the fuck, origami's cool. It's not in school. - It's definitely not in school. - I'm not saying origami's not cool, but like- - Oh, it has to be a school club that exists. - No, no, no, no. - That's a cool thing to be really good at as an adult. - Yeah. - But when you're a kid, people are gonna be like- - Yeah, so wait, are you trying to ask me- - You want the kid to live a good life, no? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Okay, well, a harp, I don't think is indicative of what is a good life.

I know a famous harp YouTuber. Shout out, Emily.

- In my chat all the time. - Listen, I love the hop, all right? I'm a hop enjoyer. I hop on about the hop. - I feel like the kid wouldn't get bullied for doing the hop. - I think origami is a good, it's cool. - It's cool? - But ultimately, I feel like if the kid's showing up with 40 paper trains. - Listen, if they were like fucking Pokemon,

Pokemon cranes shit, okay, you know that you did like you'd be like a squirrel if they're if you're gonna get the means of origami They really you could do Pokemon or a gong you're he'd never had a jaws on or got me bored in you're like you're like Hey, what one piece character like you make fucking like a white beard out of origami. I feel like shit. Okay Look my little brother he played I played the double bass growing up and I just felt like that was an excessive instrument Yeah, it was so big that is and he's so small. I

Yeah, but that's what makes it hilarious. Delvage also sounds badass though when you're playing it. Yeah, it's a sick instrument. It's the key to a lot of different types of music. Yeah. So you said something musical. Yeah, I'd get them to learn an instrument. What about fencing?

I was like, you're just trying to raise a rich kid. Yeah. I would like to raise a nepo baby. That's like, you know, like, cause I was talking about Chris. Cause did you know anyone that did fencing? No, Chris was like, yeah, we all did fencing. I was like, what?

- That doesn't surprise me that Chris knows. - I was like, what the fuck? - Chris is such a Southern boy, man. - Yeah, I was like, not only did I, nobody do fencing in my school, I didn't know a single school near me that did fencing. I didn't know a single person that did fencing. - It's like a private academy that they groom people to become presidents. - But Chris went to like a, I think a public school. - Really? And they had fencing? - Yeah. - Are you talking public school America term or public school English term? - English term.

- Isn't public school private school? - No, public. - What? - In England, right? - Oh yeah, you're saying it's like reverse in England? - There is something about, wait. - In US, public school is the one that you just go to 'cause you pay taxes. - Isn't that an old English term, public school, to mean that? But nowadays I think public school means what it means in the US. - I don't know, when I was in England, whenever someone said they went to public school, it was always, you know,

they went to private school. I'm getting confused. I don't know why that is. - I do think that you are right. 'Cause I think in old English public school meant private school. - So Chris went to a private school. - No, I don't think so. - 'Cause like when I was growing up, all the posh twats went to fucking public school, man. - Can you Google this? - What's the school you went to called?

- Just school. - There was school and then public school. - Basically, you tell the art, did you pay for your schooling? No. - So Chris went to a school that he didn't pay for, but still did fencing. - Which is crazy, 'cause I thought fencing and shit like that was only for like rich kids. But I thought it was cool, 'cause I just thought a sword is cool. - I thought of it. I'm raising a polyglot.

Every day, he's hanging out with someone from a different country. I'm getting like a group of them. And he's going to appreciate the cool. It doesn't matter. How the fuck do you get them to care about language, though? Because when he grows up, white guy orders in perfect style. He does.

God, I hate that. Show all the views. What I want is the opposite. I want an Asian to do Asian orders in perfect English. Those videos are funny. They do that. It's just an Asian American just being like, yeah, can I have the McDonald's?

I love when you sent me the video of him going to Wales and doing the Wales one. And he went to the one part of Wales where they don't speak Welsh. Oh my God, yeah. He was trying to like talk Welsh to the staff. And to be fair, he managed to find someone who spoke a bit of Welsh, but it was like- It was Shalma, right? Yeah, it was like days for, it was like baby's first Duolingo.

Yeah, he was like, he was like, shocks, you know, Welsh people and perfect. It was whatever. Most of these everyone he runs into didn't speak. It was fucking insane. Like every person's like, yeah. Oh, no, I know what you're saying. But like, I don't speak that. That's English. Yeah. Well, the people, I mean, he went to like Cardiff. They don't speak fucking well. Yeah. Yeah. How foolish to go to Cardiff. Yeah. Don't go to Cardiff. Shit. Go to North Wales.

That's where all the Welsh people are. - Have you guys done a special in Wales? - No. - We did a show in Wales. - We want to. I have a list of things that we can do. - Yeah? - Actually, I spoke- - Do they involve sheep? - Yeah, and harks. - Yes, I really wanted, 'cause there's a few things I really wanted to do. I want us to at least do something sheep related.

- Listen, we can do a few things. - Stop with the eyes. - Listen, we can do a few things. Well, listen, I thought it would be great to shear sheep, but it really depends on what time of year we have to go in August for that. But also if we can't do that, I'd love to get us doing a,

what is it? Where the sheep dogs, where you can- - Oh, herd them? - Yeah, you can herd sheep. - Call the commands? - It's so fucking sick. They do like competitive sheep herding. - Yeah. - They're like whistle- - Sounds like the most Welsh thing. - Dude, it's so sick. - If the Olympics was in Wales, that's like- - Well, they have the Royal Welsh. - That's the biggest sport. - Yeah, biggest sport. - They have the Royal Welsh. It's one of the- - They have the what? - The Royal Welsh show. And it's one of the- - Oh, this is where they get all the people herding? - Dude, it's crazy. You'll watch it and they'll be like, "This is Timothy Jones from-

This is what you should make your kid do. Yeah, and then he gets... So then he'll whistle three times and the dog will fucking rock it. And then all the sheep will... It's like Pikmin. They'll all do it really fast. It's like reverse Pikmin. It's insane. It's so cool. That is basically controlling Pikmin. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I thought we could do that. Or there was something else we could do. No, no.

Whoa. Are you sure? Fuck the sheep. Listen, we can do it. No, there's a bunch of other stuff we could do as well. But it's like festival thing that they have. They have. Yeah, they have like a very Welsh festival thing where they do a bunch of Welsh activities. Dude, I hate how ominously you talk about it. What is Welsh activities? You know, so they have a thing called Flaherty, which is kind of like stand up poetry.

Where you try and do like a, I don't know, like the most bomb poetry. Like slam poetry? Kind of. Like the roasting people? No, it's about delivering a longer poem, but it meant to be like poignant. And you win a chair.

What kind of chair? It's called a cadar, which means just a chair. You get like the chair. It's like the most prestigious. You show someone's house, they just have no chairs. I've never won. You don't get a chair. I've never won. And.

They do like Downshug Wedding, which is like folk dancing. And they'll see you can do like the most bomb folk dancing. That sounds fun. Which is actually kind of cool because they kind of go really hard with it. And it looks like something out of a movie. They just do a lot of like very Welsh things, which in terms of Welsh culture is just dancing, singing or poetry in some form.

And it's all just a lot of it. A lot of singing, a lot of singing competitions. - I think that's cool. I think singing is like, like I like when that's a part of a culture. 'Cause I hate when people are like shy about it. Maybe I just love karaoke.

- I like when people are like in a room and there's like drinks and stuff. - Listen, everything's improved with drinks. - A machine of sorts. Yeah, you guys, I feel like you should do a Trash Chase special in each of your respective countries. - Yeah, I've already got mine planned. - Oh, you already, so this is already an idea. - Oh yeah, 'cause we've done, we've just filmed the Australia one. - Ah, okay. - Which I don't think that'll happen. - It involves a lot of drinking. - Yeah, I think all of yours will.

- Yes. - Do they drink a lot in Thailand? - No, they don't drink too much. I mean, I'm gonna get these boys to do Muay Thai. So that's- - Do you know about the Muay Thai kid? - Which Muay Thai kid? - There's this like,

12 year old kid who was trying to get Instagram famous. Oh, yes. You heard about this? No, he's basically like he's like this little kid and he says alright guys If this gets a 10k likes I'll do whatever the top comment says and the top comment is this paragraph and it's like You will fly to Thailand. We'll start training Muay Thai for the rest of your days You will enter a Muay Thai contest and after you defeat your opponent you will say I learned to beat you because of this comment and

And then that got like 500,000 upvotes or likes, I guess, Instagram. And then that was it. That was like the one he had to do. And so then he was like, all right, guys, I guess I'm going to train for Muay Thai. It's like a 12 chubby kid from like...

Yeah. But every video he's made since, because that was like a year ago, is people in the comments roasting him. Like, why aren't you in Thailand yet? You should be in Thailand learning Muay Thai. It's his 12-year-old who's in public school. What do you want? He can't fly to Thailand. I did a bunch of...

Muay Thai pros reached out to him to help train him. - Oh, cool. - Right. - I think he's going in maybe for summer break or something, but it's brutal 'cause obviously he's not gonna leave his family. He's a child. But he's basically getting harassed every day nonstop 'cause of it. - He could just not post.

He is trash. He didn't need to post. Not to be a hater, but he does do posting a Muay Thai kick every day to practice. He's on day 100 and it looks like day 3. His heart's not in it. His heart's not in it.

But I guess it isn't because he's forced to do it because of a comment. I mean, he's getting bullied into it. Yeah, it's sad. He could just not. But if he becomes one of the best, imagine. It'd be beautiful. Talking about genetically made for an Olympic sport. I think that's like he, not quite. Oh, dude, you know what video I watch? I was crazy. Okay. You know that guy, the shit, what's his name? He lives in Japan. He does the food thing. He's friends with Chris. He came for the chess boxing.

Oh, Nick. Nick. Yeah, Nick. Nick Paytas. Yeah, Nick Paytas. Nick... Japan or the other stuff he's done. Yeah, he went to Japan to do, I think, kickboxing. Yeah. Yeah. Have you seen the fight of his... Yeah, Chris showed me. ...against the seven-foot guy? It looks like a joke. Dude, have you seen this? I haven't seen it. It's him. It's Nick who's like...

in my height, just absolutely kicking the shit out of a seven foot man. - And it looks like David versus Goliath 'cause they have well over a foot in height difference. And he's just kicking at his one leg like you would ax a tree. And eventually it works and the giant falls and he wins.

Like this impossible size difference fight. Jesus. He's a very, very physically intense guy. He's a beast of a man. He still is. He's a fearsome man. He's like 50 now. Yeah, he's got both his hips replaced too, but he still does sports like crazy. What does that mean? What does a hip replacement mean? You know, like because your hip, right? It's like a ball.

in a like socket. Yeah, it's a ball socket joint. Right. So I think after a while, if you do too much exercises, it grinds down. so they replaced the ball? Yeah, so they replaced the ball. Oh, okay. So, but it's, I'm like, how do you remove this whole thing? It's like asking like a hot, how do they get rid of the hot? Aren't you dead? Like, yeah,

- I don't know, we're not doctors. We're the real heroes. We make YouTube videos. - True. - I was looking up surgery videos the other night. They scare me. - Oh God, no. - Why would you do that? - Well, 'cause I have a pectus excavatum. - What the fuck is that? - What is that? - I got a chesty, like a chest hole.

Like I have a hole in my chest. This thing right here. I don't know why I stripped down every one of these pods. Yeah, you do. Oh, we've got the matching one. Oh. Wait, because I've got the out here. You've got the out like the pigeon chest. We fit in perfectly. Yeah, we fit into each other. Wait, so wait, wait.

To mine, there's no adverse side effects. Is there adverse side effects? Yeah, to mine, it can be called sunken chest. It's basically your ribs are inverted and caved in. And depending on the severity, it can impact breathing or sometimes even your heart. Even as you get older, it gets worse. So like...

some people need to get it surgically resolved. There's two ways to fix it. The first one's really funny. It just looks funny. It's called a vacuum bell and they basically shove a giant vacuum to your chest and then they get all the air out to like suck it up. So it's basically like one big hickey. Oh my God. And they suck the hole out. Oh my God.

And you have to do it like an hour a day for years. - So they're just like plunging your chest? - Yes, basically a giant fucking plunger. - That sounds horrific. - Well, that one's not bad 'cause it's non-surgical. It's just more like a lot of, you know, it's like wearing a retainer braces. It's no different. - It sounds painful. - I mean, like it's as painful as braces. - They probably knock you out, right? - No, no, no, for this one, no. 'Cause it's like, it's not like they're going- - Is it like permanently hickeyed?

- No, just for like, it's like a red mark for the day. But like, it's literally like braces. Like braces aren't overnight. It's more like slowly throughout time. But if you stop doing it, it stops working.

All right. And then the other one is a surgery. I looked up, it's called the NUS procedure. Some motherfucker named NUS came up with it. They literally just put a giant metal rod that like bends like this under your ribs. And then they flip it to just push your ribs forward. And I looked at the video, dude, it, it horrified me. I think about it sometimes. You shouldn't have done that. Yeah. I don't think mine's bad enough. I think it's just cosmetic and I don't mind having the chest hole. Yeah. Uh,

uh trusty brothers stand proud we are strong so i don't but it might get worse so i might eventually have to do it and it puts you on your ass like you can't do physical exercise for six months after i don't i don't think mine does anything mine i think mine's just called pigeon chest yeah no because you would you just have more room yeah you can get more air in there fit a third lung i might i might yeah i guess i got lucky huh

People always think I'm in better shape than I am because it always looks like I have a big pecs. Yeah, mine is the opposite because it makes me look like I have a big pecs. Thanks for coming on. Thanks a lot to Steelya Set as well, by the way. Yeah, thank you very much. Well, thank you all for coming. Hope you enjoy your solo pod adventures in the great city of Los Angeles, as no one says.

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