Nice | Trash Taste #69

(whoosh) (pops) - [Connor] Ooh! - Wait, how do you do that? (whoosh) (farts) - Yeah, you wish you knew the powers of my (farts). (laughs) Okay, hold on. (pops) - Oh, it's bass. (calm music) - [Connor] Where's my lid? - [Ashley] You need the lid? - Of course I need to lid, it's a collection item. - Whoa! (loopy tune) - It needs the lid. - Why do you have a mug with no liquid in it? - [Ashley] Yeah. - Yeah, why are you asking for a lid? - Well, why are you asking for a lid if you're not gonna drink coffee out of it? - [Ashley] Do you need coffee? - I need this air to be nice and cool. - I do actually, but also you know, I think of this mug as a collectors piece, as should the viewers who bought it, and it should always have the lid on it. - Yeah, but there's... - Yeah, you don't have like Santa Claus without the red suit on, you know what I mean? Like you don't have the Trash Taste mug without the lid. - Yeah, but you just gotta, you have like a coffee cup right there. And you have like a mug that's just unused. - Here, get this outta here, why is there a lid on the floor? - Did you drink the coffee not out of the Trash Taste mug? - [Connor] No. - [Navi] This dude has been doing that for a lot of things. - I don't like transferring liquids from like... - Fake Trash Taste fan. - I also want my Trash Taste mug. - I don't like transferring liquids (laughs). - I like the mug. Look at this man's mug! Look at this shit! How did you get this shit all on there? - Dude, I've been drinking out of it. - This doesn't look like drinking. - This is a used mug. - Used? You fucking slobbered all over it, half the coffees on the fucking mug. - Have you seen this man drink? - Yeah, he (licks). - He's like, he doesn't know where his mouth is. - Garnt is like a person who used to be a dog in another life, but just never forgot how to. - He drinks like his mouth. - Are you kidding me, I would love to be a dog in my next life, or this current life. Dogs have the easiest fucking lives in existence. Dogs and cats. You just do nothing all day. - They piss, shit and unconditionally love, that's all they do. (laughs) - Right? - That's what a dog is. - I watched a... - Have we done our intro yet? - No, we haven't. - Hi, this is the intro, Joey's the host. - Yes, hello Sonic fans, I'm Joey, welcome to Trash Taste. I'm with Garnt and Connor. - Episode 69, this deserves more. - Hey! - More of an intro than that. - I texted Felix earlier when we found out that this was episode 69, 'cause a little backstory. So, you know, Felix, who, PewDiePie, who we've been trying to get on the show, can't come to Japan 'cause you know, obviously 'cause of the world situation. So, well we hoped that by episode 69, hopefully, he would have been able to come. Obviously he couldn't. So I texted him and said, I'm sorry, man. - Didn't he specifically say reserve episode 69? - Yeah, he was like, Joey, if I'm not on episode 69, I am just not coming on. - 'Cause I remember you telling me that in like episode two or three or something just when Trash Taste started and I'm just like, are we even gonna be around for episode 69? Are we even gonna have an audience by then? - Yeah, I was like, wow, Felix, you're very positive thinker to be like, thinking 65 episodes ahead. - I was just like, I couldn't even envision episode 69 'cause I was just like, I'll be happy if we can last a year. - Yeah. - Break even with the podcast. - It's weird to think that we're probably gonna reach a 100 episodes. - That's scary isn't it? - I was gonna be like, which episode Trash Taste did this in? Oh, it's 179, actually. - Yeah, right? - That's weird to think that that could be a thing. - Scary. - 'Cause when I see Joe Rogan, it's like episode 800 or something, I'm like fuck! - But doesn't he record three episodes a week or something like that? - It's once every two days. - [Connor] Holy, and they're four hours long. - The man loves to talk, man. - Holy fuck. I thought I run out of topics to talk about. - Yeah, right? - Oh my God. - You know, just sitting through one episode of Joe Rogan really makes me appreciate just how much shit, A, he knows and B, how good he is at stretching out a single topic. No, but seriously, because after 800-something episodes, four hours at a time, you have to learn to like... - Well, I feel like when you're very, you do talk about current topics and you very much get involved with politics. - But as well, even if it's not current topics, he's very good at kind of really extensively going into a topic to the point where a topic that can last maybe, what, 10 minutes on Trash Taste, can last up to an hour on the Joe Rogan show. - He really stretching out that 15 minute mark. - He's really thinning out his call center. I'm just kidding (laughs). - How many ads can we fit in here? No, I mean, when you talk about politics, they suddenly turn what could be two-minute conversations into 10 hours. - That is true. Maybe we should do that. - Are you fucking kidding me? - I don't wanna do that. - Are you kidding me? I think the reason people come to watch Trash Taste is to escape political nonsense. - I come to Trash Taste to escape a lot of political nonsense. I'm just like, I just wanna talk with the boys. - Everyone who talks about it, I feel like it's not, I'd feel like no one is educated enough about it. And so, when everyone talks about it, I don't know which level of education you need in this topic. But I feel that no one has enough 'cause everyone seems to always have some fucking argument that I'm like, what the fuck is going on? - The problem with a lot of political topics is... - Ah, thank you man, is that the Trash Taste mug? - Are you gonna drink coffee out of it? - You bet your ass I am. - Yeah, I'll take the lid as well, give me the lids. - No, 'cause I completely agree. 'Cause a lot of the times there are some topics where you just genuinely don't know which side to listen to 'cause both sides are just at each other's throat. And I'm just like, I don't feel like. - Every time someone brings up some kind of political conversation because I, A, just don't really care about politics in general and B, I'm again, not knowledgeable about it anyway. - You don't care about politics in general? - No. - That's taking a stance in itself, Joey. - Yeah, wow, right. - See that's privilege, to be able to not care. - But like everything, it doesn't matter what it is. It could be like the most far left thing, it could be the most far right thing. And my only two answers is just, "Oh, that sucks". Or, "Oh, that's good", I guess. - I keep up with it, but I do also really despise the era we're in where it's all. - Everything is political? - Well, yeah. - No, it's not that everything's political, it's everyone has to be involved in it, and has to be educated in it. - Everyone needs an opinion about it. - I feel like the main players are all just YouTubers, and I'm like, I don't trust YouTubers. I'm a YouTuber, I don't trust other YouTubers. - I don't trust myself. (laughs) Don't trust yourself. - I know what we're like. And I know for a fact that these people cannot be doing that good of a job. And when I listen to them, I'm like, okay, this is fine. You know, to me, it's also been highly monetized now. I feel like money has become such a big player in it that I don't wanna watch any of these people on YouTube telling me about why they believe X person has no rights or whatever. 'Cause it's like, you got a horse in this race to talk about it. You gotta get people angry and upset about it so you can get dollars. - There's something in it for you. - Which is why I also hate it a lot and I also just don't really like talking about it online 'cause it's a shitshow. And also, everyone has their own opinions. - It is a shitshow and I just feel like some things are just better discussed in private with the person, because there's only so much you can say in 140 characters on Twitter. And that's unfortunately where a lot of these opinions are being spread and it's easy to, one, misrepresent your own ideas and two, other people to misrepresent your ideas. - And might take it out of context. - It just seems like a lose-lose situation for me, and two, I don't know why it's just so bad or why more people just don't agree that sometimes you just aren't educated enough or you just don't know enough about a topic to just have an opinion on it. - Yeah, and you say that and, I feel like there's so many things now where we just have so much information on topics, where, yeah okay, maybe someone can, two parties can present the complete opposite argument, but there's enough information where they can kind of both make that point because they have enough points that work with one person and enough points that work with the other. It's like, okay, well I can get educated on all of it. And then when you do try and educate yourself on everything in a certain situation, you just realize, I just hate all of this. Everything is just fucked and nothing works. - Pretty much. - There's no right answer. - What do I do? - Yeah, I've gotten to that point a lot of times where it's just like, how do I fix this problem? I have absolutely no fucking clue. I don't even know where to start. The more I read, the more depressed I feel. - And the rest of the world was like, first time? No one knows the answer and that's why we're arguing. - It's like the whole thing with the, you should reduce your energy usage to help combat global warming. And then it's just the whole thing of, but then also like BP is like spilling the entire oil supply to the ocean. And it's like, well, I feel like I'm not really the problem. I feel like it's not really me, but then you see that and people get angry and then it's like, well, but then you're like, well change it, we should vote against these companies. But that's been proven that doesn't, it doesn't really fucking work half the time. 'Cause clearly someone makes a new rule that they can go and harvest.. - The whole game is busted. So no matter how many times you change the rules, it's just not gonna turn out to be the game that you wanna play. - It sucks! It all fucking sucks. - It does, and that's why we don't talk about it on Trash Taste. - It always goes to the negative for me, which is why I'm just like, I'm on Trash Taste with the boys, I just wanna shut off the internet for a while. - I wanna talk about how I wanna be reincarnated as a dog. - It's okay to stop caring, you know, there's just too much, there's way too much. - 'Cause right now we're just so overloaded with information and things to care about. - I literally gotta shit myself if somebody sneeze within two feet of me, and now I gotta worry about what's going on? You know, in multiple countries now. I'm a UK, I live in Japan, gotta keep up with dual politics? - That's the biggest thing that's changed, right? Because before, everyone only needed to care about what was around them. And now being people on the internet, I have to care about everything going on globally. And it gets to the point where there are so many different cultures, so many different points of view, so many different like experiences that each individual has had, that sometimes it's impossible for a lot of people to get the same viewpoint on things. Because even for us who've lived in multiple countries and have had experience with multiple cultures. You can say we're cultured ourselves. (laughs) Saying this in like the pure, unironic sense, because you get this sense whenever I go home, or whenever I hear about any of us going home and you see people who have stayed in their home towns and you see people who have not left their home towns and they have the exact same viewpoint that they got raised on, right? And coming from the place, you kind of understand how they got that viewpoint even though you don't agree with it. You know what I mean? But you also understand that they don't have anything to really change their viewpoint in there because they've never experienced anything else. - There's no new information that comes in to stimulate that change in thought process. So forever they just think, well this is correct, because this is what it was like around me. I don't know about anything else that's happening in the world, so this is just how I'm going to see the world. But then, for instance, I remember when I first came back to Australia after I was living here and I would go see my friends and stuff like that who have been there the entire time. I dunno, things that I remember I used to be able to very heavily relate with and kind of almost agree upon, I found myself to be like, oh, is this how I felt? Is this really what my thought process was like? And it's so weird because like that didn't even happen in that much of a large space of time. Like that only maybe happened in two years or something, of just living here. And I think definitely doing YouTube and stuff like that has got me to interact with so many more different nationalities and cultures and stuff like that. Doing this job, you're almost forced to be up-to-date with everything that's happening in the world because you have people all over the world who are viewing you, right? So I have this weird pressure of being, I don't want this one person from this one country coming into my streams or whatever and being, do you know what's happening in my country right now? And me going, no, I don't. - Yeah, you get that, like what do you think about the current gentrification of Southeast Macau, and you're like, what the fuck? How the fuck would I know that. - Wat is Macau? (laughs) - You get that a lot. You surely can't expect me to have a horse in this race, please, come on. - I'm just kidding people from Macau, I know what Macau is. But that's the thing, you're almost pressured to be up to date on that kind of stuff, because you don't wanna leave any of your viewers out and stuff like that. And so, that causes you to just, it absorbs so much information about the world that when I go back to my hometown and I meet people who aren't up to date on that kind of stuff who have completely different viewpoints of the world, because the amount of information that they absorb about the world is on a different level. It's, I dunno, it's a bit of a whiplash. I'd be like, ooh, I can't believe I used to think like that. That's kinda weird. - I don't even know my I'm blood type, so I don't even expect people to learn about the outside. How do people expect me to keep up with weird news in some country I've never heard of. I think you should be the one to know your own blood type. - I'm sure I should, I have a blood disease as well. (laughs) - I have a blood disease, I don't know what my blood type is though. - I don't know. - It's pretty irresponsible. You also had to do a blood test here, and you were shown your blood type. Having said that, I don't know my blood type either, I got the same... - What! - I'm just as monkey-brained as him apparently. - I know it's in the alphabet. Like it's one of them. - It's in the alphabet! - It's one of the four. - What is your blood type? Sigma. (laughs) - Delta, alpha, sigma. - Alpha, sigma. - I'm like, decaf? I don't know. (laughs) I don't know, and I do, like you said, you do try to educate yourself on some things, but there's just so, you know, you can't be expected to keep up with so many things. - Like here's a question then, do you feel like there's a big difference between explaining to someone your perspective and actually having the person really experience it and empathize with you? 'Cause I feel like those are two different things. - Yeah, I can sit here, I could go back to Wales and explain Japanese culture all day and they just won't understand it. - Yeah, exactly. - Why would you do that? Why would you bow at every single, every word? Why would you say, excuse me, every 10 seconds. - To me, it's kind of very similar to, let's say learning a language, where you can explain a language, you can explain grammar structures and you can explain how the writing system and stuff works. But there's a difference between understanding how a language works and actually just absorbing it and really getting a feel for the language yourself. I know there's a word for it, acquisition, language acquisition, versus just learning how it works on a logical sense. And I feel the exact same way when it comes to cultures and perspective where there's been so many times where someone has told me about a perspective and you're logically like, "Yeah, I agree with that". You know, they could be making the most sense, but then you kind of maybe move to the country that they're living in or you go travel there or you meet more people from that same culture. And you're like, oh, I think I actually get what you're talking about now, you know? - Yeah, I think it's like how when you're growing up and you hear about other countries and you think, oh, it's that funny little thing that country does. I know they would probably do this about Japan a lot, they would just show with things like Sumo, and they'd be like, isn't that so strange. - These big men in diapers pushing each other around. - It's one of those things, aint it? But I think that when you get to experience more cultures, your mindset on when you see stuff like that changes a lot. You go from thinking, oh, that funny thing, that weird, strange thing, to thinking I'm sure there's a story behind it. I'm sure there's a history, there's a culture behind it. - I definitely felt that, especially after I started dating Aki and you know, through YouTube meeting a lot of Americans, because in Australia, the image of America is not that glamorous or positive in any way. I'm just saying it's straight up. - I don't think the image of Americans in America. I love that the Americans are often the first people to bash their own country. - Right, exactly. - I love you, America. - It depends on where they're from. - Yeah, it depends. But after actually going to America and talking to Americans and stuff like that, that completely flipped it over and I realized, oh, the problem was just kind of my environment that was pushing that agenda and the media that I consumed that was kind of pushing this sort of negative agenda about American culture and stuff like that. But then when you actually go and you live it out, you see it firsthand and you see everything else that they don't show and you're like, oh, actually it's not as insane or wacky as the TV shows or the shit my friends were talking about, make it out to be, you know? - Yeah, but I remember when I first started dating Sydney. I remember when we first met and first started dating, I remember early on, 'cause she mentioned this to me the other day. I asked her, so out of curiosity, what do you actually think about America? And she was like, oh, greatest country in the world. And I remember. - Was she dead-ass when she said it? - Imagine, she came from a small town in the Midwest - Oh when you first started dating? - Yeah, when I first started dating her five, six years ago, shit, seven years ago now actually. It was a long time ago and I remember that was the first time she had basically traveled out of America, and she came from a very small town in the Midwest and got raised with the values that you would expect a small town to get raised in. I remember she said, oh yeah, America is the greatest country in the world, obviously. And I remember, apparently she said, I was just like, "Hmm". (laughs) Like that. - And she said to me at the time, she got like genuinely offended, right? She straight up, she got genuinely angry at me at the time for doing that. She was like, what'd you mean, why? Why did you make that sound? She said to me, and I was like, so what constitutes the greatest country? And why is America the greatest country? And she was like, oh, land of the free, isn't it? We got freedom. - I was about to say. And second, I'm like, "Hmm". - I was about to say, if she's about to drop the freedom bomb, I don't know what I can say to that. - No, because to me at the time, it was just living up to the stereotypical patriotic American, 'cause America is a good country, you know? But my issue is, the more I travel, the more I'm just like, is there a greatest country in the world? And there's no way you can define the greatest country in the world. - Otherwise everyone will be living there. - Yeah, exactly. And to me, patriotism, as a British person, is just so weird. Like, you see it, I see American patriotism where, you know, not saying every American like this, but especially some of the Americans I've met who were raised in small towns, especially when I go back to Sydney's hometown, it's just, you see this culture that's been, and this idea that's just been propagated through the small town, and there's not really been any other perspective to really change that perspective. They probably believe, by their belief, they probably believe that America is the greatest country in the world and there is no other thing that can challenge that. And it's just, I can't blame them for that. - No of course not. - And I'm not even saying America isn't the greatest country in the world. I'm just saying that because their belief has been permeated so deeply that there's been nothing to really break that mold for them. And it took years for Sydney to really kinda change her perspective. It didn't take like just one trip to England. It took years for her traveling to living with me in England and living with me in Thailand and living with me in Japan, for her to like really open up her perspective to be like, you know what, maybe there are some other good places in the world as well. You know, maybe some other places do things as good. And now she has recently just gone back to America to visit her family and she's like, wow, I really don't fit there anymore. - Really? - Yeah, it felt weird, 'cause she told me that she just didn't feel as settled as she used to be. - Mhmm. - Ah, I get that too. - She feels like an outsider almost. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, I definitely got that when I was back in Wales last time. I don't know, I love my hometown and I love my friends, but you definitely feel like 'cause you've been doing so many things and exploring so many different cultures, you definitely feel like, God, I must sound like that weird fucking gap student who come back, like, I've traveled the world now, I'm better than all of you. - 'Cause I really don't wanna sound like that. - Yeah, no, but it does open your perspective a lot and you do think, oh shit, it really just made you look at stuff in your tiny town a lot differently. And you know, how homogenous it is. - The tiny town just feels so much more tinier, weirdly. And you know, again, I don't blame Sydney or anyone from the small towns who think that way, because again, I feel, especially in America, it really is just kind of enclosed when it comes to the information that you can get about the rest of the world. It still blows my mind that in America, for example, 24-hour news channels are a thing, but it's not world news, it's American news for 24-hours. And I'm like, what? It's just insane to think, for one, there's so much news happening in America that you can just constantly run news stories. But also, there's just so little access or ease of access to information outside of America. - Same in the UK though, really. We get like, we get trickled down to America. We don't really get to see a lot of inside America. A lot of British people don't really know many of the states outside the very famous ones. - Oh, I'm sure it's the same in Australia as well, though. - Stuff like that. And we have very rudimentary knowledge of outside of Europe, really. - But do you guys have world news on your TV? - Yeah, we do, we do. - But like world news is just mostly, it's mostly the Middle East conflict. - Yeah, stuff that we fucked up, really. Stuff that we had a hand in. - Yeah, fair enough. (laughs) - It's rare that we hear anything about Japan or Asia in general, unless something massive has happened. - Well, 'cause of the Olympics normally. Because BBC scarcely reports on Japan. I have the BBC app and I set the Japan section, they don't do an article every three days on Japan. And it would be very, it'd probably be quite high profile stuff in Japan. Or very wacky, whoa! They open up a new store with M&M's, whoa! - Whoa! - Also, I do think as well, the fact that a lot of people think, one of the reasons why people already think America is terrible is, in the UK and also in Japan I feel this as well. A lot of this bad stuff and injustices, if you will, in the UK and I think Japan as well, probably don't get as much spotlight as they do in America. And also everything is fucking filmed in America. - [Joey] True. - Literally everything is on camera. - True, true, true. - So I feel like it's way easier to catch the stuff that makes your country look fucking insane. - Yeah. - Yeah. - When there's cameras all the fucking time, capturing everything. I feel like one of the main reasons why we see so many insane stuff for America looks good and you hear all these horrible injustices that have been done is 'cause there's just so much video and there's so much attention brought to it by the media. - I mean, it's also as well the fact that just simply the population difference is one thing as well. But it's also, again, it's just that whole cultural mentality or I guess group mentality of, it's me versus the world, you know? 'Cause it's very much an individualistic society where it's like, I'm the center... - We have that in the UK as well to some extent. - I think the UK way more. I think that's definitely one of the biggest difference between East and West that I've felt living in both different places. - Yeah, and whereas in Japan it's like, oh, I don't wanna stick out too much 'cause otherwise the camera might get stuck on me. - But it's hard right? 'Cause on one hand you get society where everyone's comfortable nobody oversteps their boundaries, but everyone's fucking miserable. - Exactly. - You can't have this utopian ideal Japan without also having a depressed society where no one can have fun. - And I feel that's like problem right now is that regardless of if you're an individualistic society versus a collective society, there's still shit that happens right? - Yeah, like the stuff I love about the UK is also, I'm near certain, the stuff that I love, or is also the reason why we have a lot of the stuff I don't like about the UK. - Yeah, exactly. I mean, same thing with Japan. - You don't get the good things and not the bad things. - No, there's no perfect country. - There's no perfect country and I don't think there's a perfect system. - Denmark's just like, hello. Allow me to. - Switzerland is like. - I read an article that was like, people who live in Denmark that are unhappy are extremely unhappy because they're supposed to be the happiest country on Earth. So the people who get sad there or their life isn't going the way they want, they feel more depressed because they're supposed to be. - Because everyone around them is happy. - You're supposed to be in the happiest place on Earth. You can't fucking win. No matter what goes wrong, you can't win. But I think, obviously, that also depends on if you can afford to be healthy and all that stuff. So that all changes, obviously. Being healthy is pretty good. This video is sponsored by ExpressVPN. - Did you ever read the fine print that appears when you stop browsing in Incognito mode? - No, I don't think I did. - Well, it says that your activity might still be visible to your employer, your school or your internet service provider. How could they even call it Incognito! 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Patriotism in Wales is not like the rest of the world patriotism where it's like, go us! It's just fuck England. - I feel like that's just - That's literally all it is. - Wales, Scotland and Irish? Like Northern Irish patriotism. - Right, that's why, I feel like UK patriotism is a completely different brand to other. 'Cause we get very proud of Welsh people, obviously. But we get the most proud when it is to the detriment of England. So when people are like, oh, you're English though, right? It's like, no, I'm not even, I have no. There is absolutely nothing about me that is English. I'm British and Welsh, but not English. So a lot of people always like, well, that's English, right? No, no, no, no, I despise. But I despise it in a very fun way. It's very much like. - Tongue in cheek. - There's a lot of fun stories. - It's a bit of banter, right? - Yeah, yeah, have you watched "Archer", the TV show? - A little bits of it, yeah. - Yeah, there's a really weird thing that just completely caught me off guard. So they did an episode about a very famous Welsh event that happened. And it was very weird that "Archer", an American comedy TV show did this. So, there's a thing called a Tryweryn in Wales. And it's a small town that no longer exists because Liverpool, which is a city in England, wanted a reservoir. So their solution to getting a reservoir was to just flood this town so they could get water. - Holy shit. - I shit you not. So they had to evacuate, they literally just made people just move. - Wow, okay. - And Welsh people weren't allowed to vote on whether this was. - So they had no say. - They had no say. So they just flooded this town, called Tryweryn and turned it into a reservoir. Turned out, they didn't even need it in the end. And they killed four people as well because some people refuse to leave. - Holy shit. - So they flooded it. It's legit, you can go there. It's depressing as fuck because they're just like buildings underneath this reservoir. And there's a bunch, around the area is a ton of like, remember Tryweryn and stuff like that. And it's seen as one of the most like injustices that were done to Wales. - Well, yeah, that's pretty shitty. - It was fairly recent as well. - How recent we're talking? - Think '60s, can you Google it? It's like '60s, '80s, around that time, I think. Just Tryweryn, T-R-Y-W-E-N - I pretty sure that's just the plot to Higarashi, isn't it? Didn't Higarashi get to build a dam and then there were protests to stop the people from getting out? - It just acts as a reservoir so English people could drink water and then they didn't even use it. (laughs) It's like, what the fuck? And then also "Archer" just did an episode about it. And they did a whole thing of, they were like. - [Navi] About Tryweryn? - Yeah. - [Navi] 1965. - Yeah '65 - 1965. - They did a whole joke about it 'cause they were like, it's one of the most, and they were all like, nah, don't worry about it. It's your justice. - Wow. - That's something everyone needs to care about. - That is something. Now, you're all educated on Tryweryn. That's the very basic story, there's a lot more that other people can tell, more in depth story.. - I feel like when you're from a small nation that just doesn't get a lot of attention from the world media in general, 'cause that's me whenever like Thailand gets mentioned anywhere. I'm just happy if Thailand is just brought up in any kind of capacity, I'm just everyone knows my country now! - I love it though, they get insanely excited. Like anything happens, like they're just insane, it's great. - I remember when I went. - I wish I had that passion about anything. - I remember when I went to a con in Singapore. - Oh and they were shouting at you in public? - No, no, no, no, yeah that one but like I remember I did a panel there and I literally, all I literally said was hello, Singapore. And I've never heard a crowd of people like crying and screaming. - That's us! - That's us! - Whoo! It was as if fucking Elvis Presley came on stage and like said their country's name. It's like, he said the country name! - Ladies and gentlemen, Singapore. - Whoo! (laughs) - Honestly, the Singapore convention was like crazy. - That was insane. - Don't fucking rub it in. I wasn't invited. - I mean, I wasn't invited, I was just there for the ride. - He was just there. - We weren't ties at this point. We knew each other, I wasn't like that. And plus, I was on the other side of the world. - I was already in Thailand. - He was literally just next door. - Yeah, he's like, I'm a pop down to Singapore. - Yeah, no, the guy literally texted me and was like, oh, you're in Singapore? Think I'll pop down for a quick second. - Yeah, it's so weird sometimes where we are, as Southeast Asians, are proud of sometimes. 'Cause I swear to God, every time I meet a fellow Southeast Asian from a different country, we get competitive over like the weirdest things, right? Because the first thing we compare is how shit it is to drive on our roads. I don't know why we do that! - It's like, yeah, you're still alive, nice. - It's just like, oh, this one time in Bangkok, I was in traffic for one hour. Oh you think one hour's bad? When I was in Jakarta, it was a three-hour traffic jam once. And I'm just like, thinking about this, I'm just like, why are we comparing? This is like the weirdest dick size comparison I can think of you. - Oh, you survived two car crashes? I survived four. Like, that's not something to be proud of. - 'Cause I was just like. - I caused all of them. - 'Cause after living in two years, Sydney just went around to other people being like, you know, Thailand is second on the most dangerous place to drive in the world and I lived there. And I'm just like, Sydney, why are you boasting about that? - Did she even drive there? - She didn't even drive. - Why are we boasting about that? - She's saying all this in the passenger seat. (laughs) - It's like when I went to go to, my university town was number one for heroin usage in the UK. And we were like, yeah, number one, yeah. (laughs) - Yeah, number one. Yeah, most heroin addicts! - Heroin, number one! - Heroin, number one! - Wales, let's go! (laughs) Where I grew up was number one for teen pregnancy in the UK as well. And that was just a fact. They were like, good, be proud of it, be proud of it. - Well, finally, number one in something. - So, all of your parents here are still teenagers? Congratulations. - That's kind of what it's like in a small town. I just realized that's exactly the same way as where Sydney comes from. 'Cause the first thing she boasts about from Wisconsin, it's just two things, we're like number one in cheese, biz and serial killers. I don't think that's a good thing, Sydney. - Being number one in cheese in the U.S. is not, that's like saying you're number one landlocked country in some fucking, I don't know, town, oh fuck it's a terrible comparison. - I know what you mean. It's not something to be like, oh wow, amazing. I mean, what is amazing is the fact that that state has the most serial killers. Like that's pretty impressive, honestly. - I liked the Midwest, it was pretty chill. - Where have you been in the Midwest? - I've been to Minnesota. - Minnesota, really? - It's probably my favorite state I've been to in the U.S.. - I've got deported from there. (laughs) Thanks Minnesota. - Well, I don't know about you, I had a very warm welcome in Minnesota. - Oh, I did not. - I was not deported. - They bring out the red carpet. They're like, yes, sir CdawgVA. - They're like, your passport? No, we don't need to check that, go right in. - Oh Mr Anime Man, welcome to Minnesota, get the fuck out. - You said they were really nice though, when they weren't deporting you though. - No the were nice because they were nice about it, at least, they were like, "Hey, it's not your fault, man" it happens all the time kinda thing. But you also have to fly immediately to Amsterdam, and then from Amsterdam back to Tokyo. - Are you allowed to say why you got deported? Is that like something you'd like to talk about? - Ah, just Visa mix-ups basically. I mean like. - You just got the wrong Visa? - Yeah, basically I had the wrong Visa. Apparently I asked the immigration officer in Minnesota. He was like, yeah, this happens all the fucking time. So it's like, you are definitely not in the wrong for not knowing this shit. Like it is really confusing, but he's like, just go home, get this particular Visa and then you'll be good for like the next 10 years, at least. - Sounds really cool saying you got deported. - Yeah. - Sounds like you. - Until you get deported! - Yeah. - But I'm sure getting deported wasn't cool? - No, getting deported wasn't cool. But the fact that I literally flew around the world in 48 hours. You just did a fucking speed run, right? I basically speed-ran around the world. - Yeah, what the fuck took them 80 days the first time? You know what I mean? - Just get deported bro! - So I use the. - Around the world deportation hut. - I used the deported skip here. - The first time to the U.S., I didn't know you needed a Visa. I was like, what? So what happened was. We did need a Visa before. - No, we did, we need the ESTA. - That was introduced pretty recently. - Yeah, before the ESTA you didn't need it. - The first time I went to America, you didn't need an ESTA. - How long ago was this? - ESTA was like 10, 15 years ago? - Yeah, something like that. It was within my lifetime that the legislation changed. - Well, 'cause you've been traveling through Europe, all my life, and I just assumed you just turn out where you want to go with a passport. - Oh, well, yeah that makes sense. - So, I didn't know that. And so, I booked my flight to the U.S., this is when the ESTA was a thing. Which is bullshit because America can come to the UK, no documentation needed, just a passport. - Oh, really? - Yeah. - When we have to go to America, we have to get this ESTA nonsense, right? So I'm getting all my stuff ready, this is my first flight ever to America. I'm on my own, I'm like oh my God, it's midnight and my flight's at 9:00 AM. My dad came to my room, he's like, did you get the Visa? I'm like, what? What do you mean? Yeah, you gotta get a Visa. I'm like, no one told me this! How do I get a Visa? I'm like 19 as well, I've never heard of this. When do I have to get a Visa? Apparently your supposed to get it three days before? - Yeah, you are. - Like more than three days before. Yeah, but luckily it came in 15 minutes online, so I was very lucky. I also did that in Japan as well. - Yeah, Aki had to do that at the airport once. because she realized her ESTA had run out. - You just have a really shit track record at getting into countries. Like losing your passport before we go to Japan. - Oh, yeah, I remember that. - I totally forgot 'cause it only lasts for two years. When you go to the U.S. you have to get from most countries. And also Canada, if you get one too? You just apply for a thing called NASTA, costs $15, you do it online. If your passport is like normal, you have no criminal record or anything, you should get it in like 15 minutes. - Yeah, like immediately. - But do it three days just in case, that's what they suggest, and it lasts two years. And when I moved to Japan, I was gonna go to San Francisco and I totally forgot it expired until I was on the way to the airport when I realized it had expired. So I was applying for it on my phone on the way. And luckily, right before I was going out to check in, I just got it. - Ah, nice. - I was like, nice. - That's gold split right there. - Yeah, I told my company, I'm like, hey, I forgot to get the ESTA. And they were like, what? And I was like, yeah, so I applied for it, it should be fine, we'll see. - We'll see. - We'll see. Luckily it all worked out. - At least you weren't on the plane when you realized that. - It's weird though, 'cause they don't ask me for it and they don't ask me for the, they don't ask you for the ESTA at any point. So I wonder, is it just on a system? They only ask you for it when you're immigrating into the country that you just landed in. - What airline did you fly with? - I don't know, British Airways? They've never asked me for it. - Really? - Because I normally get asked when I'm queuing up to check in if I have a Visa. - They never ask me that. - Oh really? I've never been asked that. - Maybe I'm just so charming they're like, no, no, no, go in, go in. - Of course this charming man doesn't have the. - They see the brown man and they're just like, oh. (laughs) Excuse me, sir. - Or the family guy skin color thing. - Excuse me, sir, do you have a Visa to get into our country? - Shit. This is me sharing my privilege right now, fuck. - No, but like especially coming from having dual citizenship in UK and Thailand, it just makes me realize, man, we are very privileged to have certain passports because it is literally just some passports are completely useless. - Well, yeah, Japan is like the most OP passport. - It's the most powerful passport in the world. - But only 20% of people have them here. Can you believe that? The fucking audacity. - And also, yeah, there's so many weird other rules that come with it. And again, it's like you were saying, it's the most powerful possible in the world and yet, barely any Japanese people fly out of Japan because the tourism industry here is just so powerful. - Go on, sorry, I interrupted you. - I completely forgot, I was just gonna say that some passports are pretty OP and that makes me jealous of your Japanese passport because you can get in like, what can Japan get in without a Visa that the UK can't? - I'm sure there's some other countries, put it on the screen. Obviously we not be bothered to look. - I don't think about this, but I think in the UK, it's something like 70 to 80% of people have a passport. In America it's like 40 or 50? - Yeah, it was so weird for me going to a country and just meeting people without a passport. - Yeah, everyone just has one in the UK, everyone I know has one. - In Australia as well, almost everyone has one. - Yeah. - Yeah, I guess it's just like a difference in culture. But I couldn't imagine not having a passport. - What are you gonna go and do in the UK? Just go to like a field and be like, sick, this is great vacation. - Or I could get a passport, go to another country and go to that field. - Yeah, exactly, but you know, there's. - Have you seen our beaches? It's amazing. As someone who's brought up in Brighton, don't we have amazing beaches? You want sand beaches? No, we got stone beaches! - [Joey] Stone beaches. - Can't even walk on it. - UK tourism is the most depressing thing on Earth. It's just shit, it's so shit. - Well, what would you recommend? To someone who's never been to the UK. - When people come to the UK- - Don't. (laughs) - No, no, no, go go to London. But that's the thing, is that the reason why I think the UK works as a tourist destination is 'cause you don't know anything about it. When you know about the UK, it's a terrible place. - I think most people's imaginations of the UK is the queen, Harry Potter and... - Pretty much. - If you go to London, you get a very sanitized view of the UK and you can have a great time because you only see London, and London is very well kept. - The charming part. - All the fucking money's in London. - I'd say some of the countrysides are pretty good as well. - But that's why I really appreciate it when I meet people who love castles and love going around Wales and stuff like that, I'm like, nice. - [Navi] Oxford is fine. - Oxford's nice, yeah. - And honestly, if you wanna go to the countryside though, I'd say Ireland is better. Ireland's fucking beautiful. I've been to the countryside in Ireland and it's so fucking nice. - Wales is good. (laughs) - Patriotism showing there. - Yeah, exactly. - I remember when I first found out that people just didn't live near castles, I thought that was weird when I first found that out. I live near three castles growing up and I was like. - See out of context, that sounds so fucking privileged. (laughs) - Why, what are you gonna do with it? What it's not my castle. - Well, no, but that's the thing. If you said that to a Japanese person, they'd be like, what are you, the prince of Wales? - No, it's 'cause there's so many castles in the UK. One of them was very dangerous and rundown and climbing is just a safety hazard. I don't know how it's still allowed, you're allowed to go and do... But there's one really cool castle near me, it's called Conwy Castle. - I feel Wales to castles is very much Japan to temples. - Yeah. - Yeah, maybe. - Because I think if you said to someone who has like no idea of like Asian culture or anything like that and said, oh yeah, there's three temples around my house. They'd be like, whoa, you fucking bougie motherfucker. - Well, Japan did have a lot of castles, they were just burnt down. - Well, yeah, most of them are gone. - There is one and there's a really big one in what Kochi, there's a massive one. - Yeah. - It's really fucking cool. - A lot of them, though, are recreation's. That were built much, much later. I think there's only like a handful of castles from that time that are still standing to this day. - A lot of the ones in the UK are run down as well. Out of the three near me, one of them is well kept and that's mainly for tourist reasons. The other two are completely run down and just like, but it's cool that it's a bunch of rubble, you're like, sick. - But you can buy that, right? You can purchase that as property? - Some of them. - Some of them. - Normally the big ones you can't, they're normally heritage sites. So, you can't buy them, yhey're like public. - And at that point, people who buy it just buy it for a flex. 'Cause who actually lives in a castle nowadays? - I believe I read something about France or something has the most abandoned castles and the most castles for sale out of any country. - Oh really? - Apparently you can just buy chateaus and castles and all nonsense. - That's pretty bougie. - All right, you say UK is good for travel. - No I didn't, I never said that. - Well, what did you say? You say, come to the UK. - You say just go to London. - Go to London? - Go to London, yeah. - Well, okay, genuine question. Someone's coming to travel to the UK, you wanna show them British culture, where'd you take them to? - First of all, the one question you have to ask someone who comes to the UK, is do you drink alcohol? - Do you drink? - Of course, of course. - And if you don't, you're gonna have a bad time. - If you love a beer, you love drinking with people. You can have a two week trip and you'll have a great time. If you don't drink alcohol, here's a three day criteria. - If you don't drink alcohol, I hope you like castles. - You know, I genuinely think, 'cause you can do nearly everything in London that's worth seeing in one day. - Like, one or two days. - Three days if you don't wanna rush. But all the major things are within walking distance of each other. - Do you take them to like the tourist sites and everything like that? Yeah, very fast, I'm like, here's Buckingham Palace, have a look. All right, here's the Big Ben have a look, it's shit, don't pay it, it's like $90 to go on it. It's a rip off, don't do it. - Well, when we went it was in fucking scaffolding. So I didn't even get to see it. - Oh and London Eye, sorry London Eye's shit. Big Ben looks pretty cool actually, I like that. But you know, normally it's like, you wanna see Big Ben? We can go and drink in the park in front of Big Ben, you wanna do that? - Yeah, that's cool. - There's the arcade that's now closing. - It's closed now, yeah. - Is that the one with Shrek at the front? - Yeah. - [All] Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Yeah, that's an arcade. - It was a Namco Funscape, there was a shit arcade, it was all right, but it's closing. But it was the only arcade. What else can you do in London? - Dunno. - Maybe take them on the boat. - On the boat? - So you know how there's public transport, there's the tube? Part of the network is a boat. - Oh, like a ferry system? - That you can just cross the, yeah, it goes from, I think, Greenwich to Westminster or something? - Yeah. - Yeah, Greenwich, I really like taking people to Greenwich. Greenwich is a really nice area. You can go and I can be like, look, here's where time star is. (laughs) - Yeah, that's all I know about Greenwich. - It's a very nice area actually, it's really well done. - [Navi] There's a warship in Belfast, in front of the. - Belfast's like six hours away, you can't go to the Belfast. - [Navi] The warship. - The Cutty Sark. - [Navi] It's right in front of the, not palace, right next to the bridge. - Greenwich? - [Navi] It's not Greenwich. - You're talking about the HMS Belfast? - Yeah. - Oh, that one. - I don't know. - Don't know that one either. - If you go to Greenwich as well, there's a massive boat that's been restored on land, a pirate ship, it's fucking massive. - Damn. - [Navi] Apparently they actually collabed with Azur Lane. - The UK government should just hire me, I'll make right. - What would you add? - Spoons, go to Wetherspoons. - Tesco meal deal? - Tesco. - Tesco meal deal. - Honestly, I would take them to Spoons as well. - Spoons is great. - You did take us to Spoons. - Yeah, I did! I should just ask you Joey, where did we take you again? - No, we did shit with Joey, it was terrible. - We went to the Shrek arcade and Spoons. - We went to the fucking gaming bar as well. - The gaming bar. - The gaming bar. - It was terrible. - It was literally just a pub with a Wi in it. (laughs) - You can game in that bar. - British culture, man. - Yeah, it's sick. - 'Cause like pubs in London are where all the best food are as well. It's all the best food. - Dude, fair, that pub did have some good food. - 'Cause the way I see it, right, because the way I see it, when I go travel to a place, I very rarely want to go to the big tourist spots. - I Just wanna eat. - I want cool places to see, but just like not the, here's just a landmark that everyone takes a fucking picture around. I just want cool local places. And as someone who lived in London for close to three years, if it doesn't revolve around alcohol, I don't know the cool places to take people. - Oh, there's Afternoon Tea? - Oh Afternoon Tea, actually that. - The home of Afternoon Tea. - Yeah, of course, of course, I completely forgot about Afternoon Tea. That's pretty much the only part of like British food that I'm just like, yep, Afternoon Tea fucking slaps. - To be fair, I feel Australia would be the exact same thing if it wasn't for the fact that we have some of the best beaches in the world. 'Cause at least we can take you to the beach. - You got it easy, man. - Yeah, but if you don't like beaches, then I hope you like drinking. 'Cause we're going to be doing a lot of that. - Yeah. It's kinda hard, I've had friends, normally Americans, who are like, no, I don't drink, and I'm like, I honestly don't know what to do. I can show you Big Ben. - I have the same thing when friends come to Australia and I have to take them around like a couple of times I'm like, do you wanna see Sydney Opera House? - I swear, I'm not an alcoholic, but it's just the culture. - No, no, it is. - I don't know what to do. - That's kinda why I wanted to move out of England because it just felt like if you didn't drink, then there was nothing else to do to have fun or just like chill out, that's a big thing. - No one does anything on weekdays in the UK. Like weekdays is strictly for working and then going home and being depressed. That's all you do. - Now, I feel that's just. - No one goes out in the UK, it's always the weekend. - Oh really, like even after work? - No, no one really goes out. - Really? - Yeah, I agree with that. - It's normally older people, they normally will go off to the pub after work when they're like 40s, 'cause of their lot. - I would have you know, some people will go to the pub after work. - No, I know, if I worked in office, I would love to go. But as a YouTuber, no one wanted to go out in the weekday. So it was an absolute uphill battle trying to get people to do anything in the UK. - So you have to wait till the weekend. - Yes, so I never did anything during the week. I just worked on videos, I think, and played video games. I don't really know what I did. (laughs) I don't know what I did in London. - What did I do? - What did I do in London? I don't know, went to coffee? We have a lot of good cafes. - Do we? - Compared to Europe? - We are, we were in Europe. - You guys are European. - We were in Europe. - Well, we're not in Europe anymore. - Yeah, 'cause it's easy to get stuff from like Italy and whatever. - It's true, that's true. That's the one thing I miss about, that sucks about Japan is that importing anything from Europe is like 20 times the price. - [Joey] Well, yeah. - It's like a block of cheese that I would pay 10 pounds for in the UK imported from France, which is seen as like a luxury, expensive item. - Yeah, fucking first time I was in Australia, it's like, literally, off the side of the planet. - It's depressing, I bought a wine bottle and I looked at it and it was like 30 pounds in the UK. And it was like 90 pounds here in Japan. And I was like, fuck. - Jesus Christ. - Yeah. - Fuck. - Which is such a flip to whenever, well, when someone's gonna come visit us in Japan. Because like when a friend comes to visit in Japan, you're just like, what kind of experience do you want? 'Cause like you can do anything. - Do you wanna see nature or do you wanna see the city? Do you wanna see culture? - But do you ever get sick ushering people around Japan? 'Cause you were always the go-to guy who had to take people around Japan. - Yeah, I was, but after a while, it depends who I'm with. If I'm with a person who I'm not super buddy-buddy with, and obviously I want them to have a good time and have a good impression. But if I'm just like, it's just like a fucking mate from school or whatever, then I used to do this thing where I would take them to all these places, but then pretend I couldn't speak a word of Japanese just to piss them off. 'Cause I was like, I don't wanna be the translator this week, so you know what? Let's see how you like it. So, we would go to a restaurant and I would be reading the menu and I'll be like (speaks in foreign language). So, you just fucking pretend that I was foreign. 'Cause if I don't speak Japanese, they'll never fucking know. So that was just like, come on Joey, just fucking help us. Help me translate this fucking thing. And I was like, (speaks in foreign language), I'm sorry. - Yeah, Japan is just like local guide, easy mode. You go to a fucking family mart and they blow their minds. - Yeah, right? I just take 'em like, Ikebukuro and it's done for the day. - Yeah, I know right. - It's so easy. - One place in Tokyo, and that's their entire itinerary done for the day. - Yeah, honestly. - Take them to a ramen place, though, oh my gosh ramen. - Well that's the thing, if you take them to like, Shibuya, you're easily like, two days you can spend there. If you take them to Akihabara, that's a whole day again. - Akihabara is several days. - Yeah, that's true. - If you go there for one day and they're like, "Can we go back to Akihabara please?" - I miss when I thought Akihabara was like super fun and amazing. - You don't think so anymore? - I miss that as well. - Well, it's just 'cause all the figures, you know that the price is always cheaper elsewhere. - I've just found that the more times I've gone to Akihabara, the more I realized that there was just so much cool, hidden shit there. That really, if you're not there with someone who knows the area really well, it really just does seem like here's the place to buy anime figurines. Here's the place to buy weird shit. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I just don't have the time to explre it anymore. - Also, nearly all the restaurants I've been to in Akihabara are severely disappointing. - Fucking awesome. - I mean awful, awful. (laughs) I said awes, awful. - I've had pretty the worst meals in Japan, consistently, in Akihabara. - Yeah, same here. - I don't know why, I think 'cause it's just on the front and then everyone's like, come in our store. - Well that's the thing, no one really thinks to themselves, oh, I want a really nice meal, let's go to Akihabara. - Also, I hate the maids who are like, come in our store, please, please! - Yeah, that is really annoying. - And they're like, (speaks in Japanese). And I'm like, fuck off! (laughs) - If it's (speaks in Japanese), they'd give this, fuck off! - I'm British, I say to my head, I'm like, please leave me alone. - Human interaction, get outta here, get outta here. - Be gone (). (laughs) - One time we walked past and there was a maid that was like, Joey? Do you remember that? - No. - What do you say, you were there, she started screaming, like one of the maids. - Oh the maid who recognized me? - Yeah, yeah. - I don't remember. How do you remember this? - Wait, no actually what happened was, I was with you, we were walking and I saw the girl looking at you and we kept on walking and then I just heard her go, "Joey?". - Oh yes, I do remember! - And I feel like you didn't pay any attention, you were like, whatever and just kept walking. (laughs) - And then I was like, (speaks in Japanese) - I do remember that actually because it's like, yeah, I heard her say my name, but I thought like, I didn't hear it as my name until I walked past her. And then I processed, I was like, I think she was calling my name. But then at that point it was too late to turn around and be like, me? I don't wanna be that guy. - I'm famous, yes. - I was like, I'll just be the cool guy and keep walking. - I feel so unguarded whenever I get recognized in Japan. 'Cause I'm just like what, what? - It really catches me of guard. - Yeah, it really is scary. - 'Cause I know like, one, it's surprising to hear someone speak English as well here or just on the streets, and two, someone who speaks English and also recognizes you. And it's, especially I think, since Trash Taste has started as well. Like, I don't know how I'm gonna handle going to my next anime convention and there's just gonna be like, 70 million people calling me Grant, and I'm not gonna be able to tell the difference. Like if they're just meming or if they actually think my name is Grant. - I hope at the airport, they're like welcome Garnt, Grant, sorry. - Welcome, Grant. (laughs) - Yeah, 'cause people already fuck up my username. They're like, yo, you're the anime guy, right? Or it's like, your the animae dude. I'm like, I can't wait to just be called all these fucking nicknames. I'm just like, do you actually know I am, or are you just like taking the piss? 'Cause sometimes I don't even know. Like when a person comes up to me and goes, are you the anime guy? I don't know if I'm supposed to go, I'm the Anime Man, or if I'm supposed to go nah. - Who's that, who's that? - I'm not that guy. - Who is that? - I don't know who that is. - I don't know who that guy is. - Why hello there, it is I, Anime Zone. And while Connor's not here, I'm going to hijack this podcast to talk about anime. 'Cause you know what? This episode is sponsored by Crunchyroll. This fall season Crunchyroll is simulcasting a bunch of new seasons of classics like "Boruto", "Case Closed" and of course, the "Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Mugan Train TV Arc" and "Entertainment District Arc". Not to miss this season, "One Piece" is airing it's one thousandth episode. Can you believe it? And a lineup of fresh titles like "Platinum End", "Sakugan" and "Blade Runner Black Lotus". As you know, I am the last remaining Trash Taste member who actually watches anime. 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Tell me when you've been recognized in the UK. - Have you actually been? - Yeah, I've been recognized once, I feel, I think in an Argos in Brighton. - Argos? - Yeah. - Holy fuck. - What's an Argos? - Oh God, it's a terrible store. So it's, the whole gimmick of this store is that you don't actually get to look at the products due to the warehouse, but you get to look at the massive 10 page, no not 10 page, 400 page book, and you get to pick. - Oh, is this the place where you were talking about like a Christmas gift or whatever? - Yeah it's fucking terrible. - Yeah, basically just imagine Amazon. - IRL. - Except, you have to go there and you don't have a computer screen to browse everything. You just have a massive book. - Lord knows how they're still in business with that model. - That sounds very outdated. - It's kinda like the Blockbuster now. - So, you got recognized in Argos? - Yeah, it's really weird, just one of the cashiers recognize me, it's not a very exciting story. - Give you discount? - Huh? - They give you a discount? - No. - Fuck. - Have you ever gotten that before? Where someone working at an establishment recognize you and you got a thing out of it? - No, but if they do, I'm very open to that. - I've heard stories about, now, about some of, well, Sydney just went back to America and apparently she was just in a bar and she got recognized. - Oh sick. (laughs) - Oh shit, but that's not good, that's not good, it's Sydney's content. - Yeah, yeah. Well, no, she got recognized because she was obviously my fiance and she was just, and all the guy said was just, "Oh, are you Sydney?", and she's like, yeah. "Oh, where's Garnt?". (laughs) She's like, "Oh, he didn't come here". And he was like, "Oh, say hi to Garnt for me". - Ah, no! - Ah, no! - Don't do that! - Yeah, don't do that. - I hate it when people would be like, say hi to Joey and Garnt for me. I'm like, and what? What am I gonna say? - Yeah, by the way, a random dude I just met says hi. It's like, what do we say to that? Look, we appreciate you guys coming up to us and saying, hi. That's cool and all. But don't make us be the messenger for another person, no one appreciates that. - You know, the 800th century, I'm not a messenger. I'm not like here to convey messages for you. I got recognized one time at midnight on a bus, which is terrifying. - Oh God. - I was going to the gym. And yeah, the bus went right outside my house to the gym, it was perfect, it was 24 hours as well so it was good. And I was on my way back from the gym. I was extremely sweaty and there's only two people on this bus, me and him. And he was right at the back wearing a hoodie in the back, just like. - Ah, shit. - And I was like, what the fuck. Then I'm sitting close to the front on the second level and I'm just listening to music. And I'm like, yeah, mmhmm. And then I feel like on my back, like a tapping. - Well, that's scary. - And I'm like (startles). I'm like what, what? He's like, "Are you Cdawg?". And I was like, "Yeah, yeah, I'm Cdawg, what's up?". And he's like, "Love your videos". And I'm like, "Thanks, man". And he just walked off. (laughs) I was like, I was like, what? - That's so scary. - I was like, what? He was like still hoodie and everything on when he came up to me. It's like, "Are you Cdawg?". - Just brick shithouse. - Yeah, he was massive. - And I was like, "Ah, thanks man nice." And I was like, this is my house. - I got recognized in Akihabara. Used to get recognized a lot, obviously. - Yeah, every time we used to go with you there. - I always, that's when my people are. - I feel like Akihabara's like a cheat code. 'Cause that's like saying you got recognized at an anime convention. - Yeah, because it's also, Akihabara's surprisingly has the most foreigners. - Yeah, it does. I mean, it's one of the most sensationalized, wacky to look at places in Tokyo. But I was recognized, I get recognized pretty much every time I go to Akihabara. But the one time I went to, you know, I was like, running a little short on my hentai. Might pop into a Melonbooks, which is a store where you can buy hentai and peruse the goods. - Oh shit, are you The Anime Man? - Yeah, and as I was perusing through some stuff, I got a tap on the shoulder and he's like, "Are you Joey?" And I'm like. - I thought you were gonna be like, the lowest section's over there. - Wrong place man. And he's like, yeah. Well, I'm like, yeah, I am, hi. And I was like, oh no, of all... And I was like holding a doujin I was about to buy as well. I'm like, worst timing and he had like a bag as well. So he obviously just like finished at the cash register. And the guy was like, "What are you doing here?". I'm like, "What the fuck do you think I'm doing here?" - I jack off, we all jack off. - Like really, are you sure you're a fan of me? 'Cause if you are, you wouldn't know exactly what I am doing here. I am holding the thing I am about to buy, you can see that. So all I said was just, just buying some hentai? (laughs) And he was like, "Ah, sick dude, all right bey!". And he just walked out. - It's just like, what kind of interaction can you have in that place? 'Cause I have exactly the same experience, 'cause the place I can recognized the most is that. - Yeah, is that Melonbooks, right? - It's that store! - I'd be recognized like three times in a Melonbooks. And I'm like, why? Is it just known? - Is that just a doujin store? - Yeah, Melonbooks is like a huge. - It's a complete doujin store. Basically when Sydney's just running out of ideas for content, she just goes there and she's like, oh, this shit. - And then the cashier's like, is Garnt with you? (laughs) - Yeah, Melonbooks and Toranoana are the two big, big hentai stores in Akihabara. - I always get recognized, and I haven't been recognized often but when I do, it's always when I look like shit. It's never when I've made an effort to look good, it's never in the JoJo suit. It's never when I've got my drip game on. It's when I'm in fucking sweatpants. - But like how often. - Yeah, how often are you in (). - How often is that though Connor? - Listen. (laughs) - I, every single day I leave the house. I remember one time I went to a Sainsbury's near me, which is just a normal supermarket. - Yeah. - Yeah. - And I was wearing sweatpants, flip flops, you know, the shit which I actually don't even normally do that. I would normally put the effort in to wear jeans. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Actually, no, I lie. This is back when I thought that wearing jeans was a luxury. If I was working. - Why is it a luxury? - 'Cause those are work pants. - Actually I'm gonna, I'm just gonna go on a detour, 'cause it was a story anyway. But I basically got recognized in sweat pants, not funny. - Is this why you refuse to wear washed jeans? 'Cause it's a luxury? - No, no, that's a different shit take. - No, no, no, that's not a shit take, let's go right there. So I had this thing for a very long time where this isn't a meeting, this is a general thing. I used to just only wear like sweatpants when I was at home. If I wasn't leaving the house, I wouldn't wear jeans, I would just wear sweat pants. - I still do that. - But now I changed my mind. And now I only wear jeans in the house. - What? How do you bring yourself to do that? - I do that. - What? - Because what happened. - I always wear jeans. - What happened, is that I started just feeling like shit, I'm just like not working. And so I was like, maybe if I like dress like I'm not slob, I might work a little better. - You laugh but it's a real fucking thing. - And it actually worked. - Like I wear jeans not because I want to, but because it's the only way I'm gonna look good. - But when you're wearing a pair of jeans nicely, they feel better than anything. - I feel like my day hasn't started until I put on my jeans. Sometimes I try to work. - Like an American fighting for freedom. I'm just haven't started my day until I put on my denim jeans. - Honestly, sometimes I try to work and I'm in like sweat pants or sometimes just in my fucking boxes 'cause I sleep in my boxes and I just don't get anything done. As soon as I put on my jeans, the day has started. - Amen. - I am ready to work. - I don't know, man. I just wake up and go, time to work, and then I just start working. - If you go to jeans. - Mind over matter man. - Yeah, but if you go to jeans. - You just work harder. - And like one time I even went so far as to start wearing nice shirts. - Like a suit shirt. - Yeah, but the suit shirts when I was making videos. 'Cause I was convinced that this is the next step to increasing my productivity. Yeah, turns out it didn't work, I just hated it. But I found the happy medium at jeans and a shirt. I felt like if I can dress enough. - Are we talking like a t-shirt or a college shirts? - No like this. - Oh , yeah, yeah. - But I think the sweatpants were the big player, because I basically got to the mindset of, I wanna wear outfits that I could just go out to any social gathering or I can wear this to anywhere. And so, I felt like it helped my productivity. So if you work at home a lot and you've gotten into the habit of sweatpants-ing all the time, maybe give a try. - Just try wearing what you would wear to work. - Okay, but what would you do during the summer then? - I still wear jeans. - You still wear full on jeans? - I'm not gonna wear jorts. - Are you gonna wear jorts? - Fuck no. Jeans, AC blasting. - I mean, I wear whatever I would wear to the Trash Tatse office. That's basically my dress code at home. But I would never wear anything too comfy, I guess. - Comfort is the enemy of productivity. - Well, 'cause if I'm wearing sweatpants, I feel like I should be in my bedroom or on the couch. - Yeah, no I get that. - Watching TV just chilling out. - One thing I do do in the morning to get me into the work mode if I'm at home all day is that I don't wear like my pajama shirt. I like change to a different shirt. - What's a pajama shirt? You have a pajama shirt? - Yeah, just like old shirts that I don't wear. - You wear shirts to bed? Why don't you do that? - I wear shirts to bed. - Why? - 'Cause I don't wanna. - Why do people do this? - 'Cause I don't wanna be naked. - Because it just feels. - I wear boxers, just boxes. - I don't know, It just doesn't feel comfortable. It feels like, unless I'm in a sleeping bag, I don't have enough cover over me. - Yeah, I feel really bare. - Yeah. - And unprotected. - Like boxers? Boxers I'm fine with. - I love using the body parts as temperature control. So I put some out, put some in, depending on how cold or hot I need to be. - Okay, but do you, do you wear boxers to bed? - Yeah, sometimes naked, sometimes boxers. - See, I need wear boxers to bed. Sleeping completely naked just feels weird. - It's a getting used to thing. 'Cause the nut sack is a very delicate thing to kind of like. (laugh) You laugh, but that's the main problem. Your nuts go everywhere and sometimes they're more elastic than other times. - What? - Sometimes you just don't want your nut sack rubbing against your leg. You know like, I dunno, for me. - Are your nuts so huge that they're like a fucking sack of potatoes, like oh fuck it's gone away. - I've got to forklift them out of the way. - When I'm not wearing a shirt to sleep, it just feels weird to feel my own skin on my skin. - No, I get that. Like you know, it's exactly the same thing. - But the only time I will. - What the fuck, you've been brainwashed. - The only time where I will go to bed without a shirt on is if it's excruciatingly hot, to the point where even the AC on blast isn't gonna do it for me. - What? - To me, I need some fabric on me to stop myself from touching myself. - Use the bedsheets. - No, no, it's an embrace. You're lightly embraced by the shirt. It's like, go to sleep. - It's like an extra layer of skin that you're not, that sounded really like. - Epidermis 2.0 right here. - I feel like you're just giving me a very shit reason as to why you wear a shirt to bed. - It's comfortable, end of story. - I don't understand why you would feel uncomfortable without a shirt on. - And then another thing, sometimes if I'm not wearing a shirt, my body gets even hotter. Because you have like a natural body temperature and if it's like skin on skin, sometimes it's like a loop system where it warms itself up a bit more. I don't know if that's just me. - I think that's bullshit, I think you've got insulation with more shirt. - It's like an eddy current up here. (laughs) - Surely the shirt keeps in the heat more, no? - No, I mean like insulation works both ways, right? Like if you put, if you put a jacket on a snowman, right? It insulates the heat in, it insulates the cold in. - They actually say to preserve body heat, like in super cold temperatures when you sleep, it's actually better to sleep naked than to wear something. - I just, why wouldn't you wanna. I just think that you're meant to sleep naked. I juts thought that's what you're supposed to do. - Where'd you get this idea from? - [Joey] The fucking cavemen. - Isn't that how God intended? - Well, God sleeps naked. - Why wear clothes then? - It just seems like a lot more effort to be wearing clothes to bed, why are you complicating it? - Effort? - Yeah, just go naked. - How hard is it to put a shirt on for you? - I just think why are you adding shirts into an equation that doesn't need it? You know. - Why do you use blankets then? - Okay, question then. - Yeah, why need blankets? - All right, here's a question then. - Why not just sleep on a slab of rock? - No, I have a serious question. - So then when you start doing the business, don't you just throw the shirt off? - Yeah. - Yeah. - No, that just seems like a lot of work. (laughs) I'm always ready. - It's two seconds, it's just whoop, you're done. - When you jack off, do you wear a shirt? - Depends where I am. - It's never really part of the equation of jacking off. I'm just like, do I have my shirt on? - I feel like I'm like the Michellin man when I'm jacking off wearing a shirt, I feel like I'm constricted. I'm like, fucking hell, get this shirt off me. - Do you fucking bulk up when you. - Have you never done the business with a shirt on? - I have, I don't like it. It feels like I'm in some kind of like constriction. (laughs) I don't like it at all. - You don't like it? - No, it feels dreadful. - I don't mind it. - Yeah, sometimes you need to, something it's nice. - There's a reason why, in porn, they take the short off. It's 'cause you want to get like. - Well, that's because they're on fucking camera mate. - Yeah, but also. - Are you on camera? - I might be. Don't know what I'm into. - Gotta know I'm fucking. - Next sponsor. But it's also like when you're pooping sometimes, you have to take your shirt off. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, I get that. - But that's more of just like. - The same kind of energy. - Well, that's the thing, if it gets intense I'll take the shirt off. - Not every poop, you need to take your shirt off. - I would prefer if possible. - Speak for yourself. - When you wake up, right, and you have the first poop, do you take the shirt off when you do it? Or do you just like to. - No. - No, I keep it on. - Like the shirt-taking-off-poops are for the poops that fight back. It's when you need to like, you need that extra push and that. - Those are the poops that are like, no, I'm staying here. The ones in the morning are kind of just like, all right, it was a good night. - I generally prefer to just take it off when I poop anyway. - Why? - Not during the day, if I'm out in a public restroom. I'm like, time to undress. (laughs) - Connor goes for a poop and just and he takes off the JoJo suit, puts it over, takes off the tie, takes off the shirt. - And I'd still poop faster than Garnt. - I don't know, it's just a placebo, right? I just feel more comfortable wearing a shirt to bed. I dunno what it is. - I think you've nerfed yourself. - In what way have we nerfed ourselves? - How? - I feel like you've nerfed yourself. - No, 'cause I can poop without any requirements. - You know what it also is as well? - It doesn't sound like that. Because it sounds like the requirement is that you need to take a shirt off. You need to have nothing on. - I just prefer it. - That's literally a requirement. I can sleep naked, I just prefer to have a shirt on.. - What of you're stranded without a shirt. - Then I'll sleep with my shirt off. He's the reason. - But you'll be complaining the whole time. - He's the reason as well though, because I've actually experienced this where in the middle of the night, we're in Japan, right? Earthquakes, right? They happened all the fucking time, right? If there's a massive earthquake in the middle of the night, I don't wanna be that weirdo running out of my house, butt fucking naked. - You have time to grab your clothes. - Well the why don't you just wear the shirt at that point, then, if you have the time to wear a shirt escaping from an earthquake, why not just sleep with it. - I'm not Jason Bourne, I don't need to be ready for combat situations every fucking night. I haven't got a drawer full of passports ready to go in case I need to be deported. This t-shirt is on the floor, this one extra second of putting on the t-shirt, which I can do on the way to the elevator or some shit. I don't need to. - On the way to an elevator in an earthquake. - Nothing is, I'm not walking downstairs. - I just have this mental image of just like, if an earthquake happens when Connor is either sleeping or on the toilet, it's just gonna be that scene from Borat out all over again. (laughs) Connor just emerges butt naked. - Completely butt naked. - If I'm shitting in the middle of an earthquake, I'm taking my chances, I'm gonna carry on doing what I'm doing. I'm not, why would I run out? I feel like running out is just a stupid idea. Just stay in your house. Maybe, yeah, if you die, you die. - No, it is a very specific situation. - No, of course. - When we evacuated in LA, I felt like we did not need to evacuate. I felt like we should've just stayed in our room. I dunno what they what the recommended guideline is, but I'm pretty sure running down to the bottom floor is not the right idea. - [Navi] Nor is the elevator. - Yeah, you can't use the elevator. - [Joey] I ran all the way down. - Navi ran 51 stories. - I would say not using the elevator during an earthquake is probably at the top of things not to do. - Yeah, I just had shit to do after it, so I really wanted to get down fast. - Those Chick-fil-A nuggets weren't gonna eat themselves. - That as well. And also, the moment that I was immediately put off going down the stairs, was when we ran past the American family and that guy was acting like we were in a Hollywood movie. And he had like three kids and he was like, kids stay with me, stay with your daddy! We're gonna go down together, as a team, hold hands! And I was like, I'm not being in this guy's movie. I'm gonna do my own thing. I don't want to be part of this. That's when I decided that I was not doing the stairs. - It was a pretty tense situation. But the moment I heard that dad say that. I was just like, pfft. - The earthquake had ended, it was like, whatever. I was not really scared anymore. The building was still shaking, but I was like, whatever, it's not a big deal. - The building's built for it. - Yeah, the building's built different to withstand it. - To withstand those, yeah. - So I was pretty confident that we were gonna be fine. So I was like, whatever. I think I'll take the elevator. I realized that. - Don't take emergency advice from Connor. - I'm not recommending it, I just, I'm lazy. - He just does it anyway. - I was just, you know, I felt confident enough that I was gonna be fine. And if I died, you know, sure, I can have my Darwin award in peace, 'cause I'm dead. - I can kind of relate to that in like a tangential sense where you just willingly put your life in danger, just for a bit of convenience. - I don't feel like he was endanger, I didn't feel that way. - Because living in Thailand, this is going on a complete tangent. - Every time you get in the car. - No, no, no, no, no. - Take your shirt off. - No, no, that's not risking your life, okay? Bangkok is the only place I've lived in where people willingly risked their lives on the daily by taking a motorcycle taxi daily in some of the most dangerous roads in the world just to save yourself 30 minutes of traffic. And we do that on a daily and I do that on a daily. I'm just like, that's weird when you think about it. - I can't really describe why I just wanted to take the elevator. But I think I just realized, I could either walk down 70 floors of stairs or I could just risk it and take the elevator. And I think at that point in time, to me, taking 70 flights of stairs was not worth my life. - Well, I mean, I can't argue against that 'cause I also went in the elevator. (laughs) - I think it was one of those things where it was like, Connor's going in the elevator. All right if he's stupid enough to risk his life, I guess I feel confident enough where I'll go in with it. I can blame Connor if I die. - Yeah, exactly. - I don't know, I know that I shouldn't do it, but I did. - I mean, we ended up not going down anyway. - Yeah, so what ended up happening was cosmic justice, is that the elevator to get down, you had to go up to the 70th floor, to the lobby, to then get down and when we got to the 70th floor, they stopped all the elevators. - So basically, we went down about 35 stairs for nothing. So basically just instant karma. - Instant karma compilation. - And then we waited 10 minutes and the elevator started working. - Yeah, and then there was no problems. - And I was very delighted by it. - [Navi] I literally looked back and was like, where the fuck are they? - Meanwhile, Navi was like, went down 70 flights of stairs, turned around, was like. - But you know, when stuff like that happens, I feel like I don't wanna be that guy who's panicking and running around like all these people. - No that's the worst thing to do. I just feel like this is. - Dopey sheep. - Wake up sheeple. - This is how you're inviting a shitty situation to happen. You know, I also don't wanna try my chances on the road. 'Cause when you leave the hotel, you're just facing the road. I don't want to try my chance with stuff falling or people driving on the road in an earthquake. I was pretty content that my room was fine. I was like, oh whatever. - Well, that's the thing, in some situations it's actually more dangerous to go out on the road because in the case with Japan, we have so much like electrical wiring from the roads that if those fall and snap, they can easily electrocute you fucking traffic signs can come down, hurt you. - I feel like the safest place is just to probably be on the ground floor. - Yes. - Of a building. - I dunno but you get way more like earthquake vibrations on the first floor. - Do you? - Yeah, the higher up the building, the less you get. You just get swaying if you're up top. And when you're down below you get the fucking violent shaking. - Yeah, the best thing to do is to just go out into like a really, really open field. - I feel like this is a point in my life where I'm just like, I don't know if I should listen to this advice. - Well, 'cause the really tall buildings are built on like rolling mechanics. So when the building, you fucking experienced it. - What'd you mean? - The hotel we stayed in? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's built on rollers so that when the earthquake happens, it starts rolling. - Yeah, but on the ground floor. Sometimes you literally don't even feel the earthquake. Because there's no swaying or anything like that. - No, 'cause you're getting like the actual fucking earth shaking. - That's not what it feels like on the ground floor. - Yeah, it does! - You've had an earthquake on the ground floor, right? - Yeah. - It feels very violently shaking. - Yeah, but it's kind of the same as being on the building. - When I experienced both in Japan, I definitely prefer in LA when the building was just swaying. I liked that a lot more. - I was literally on the street and sometimes I didn't even notice that there was an earthquake when people will. - What? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 'Cause there's nothing to like, how can I put this? There's nothing to put your perspective in that you're in an earthquake. You just feel a bit wobbly. - The floor is moving. - The floor doesn't move, it shakes. - Does it? - It shakes but a lot of the times you can't actually see it moving until you look at something. - Yeah, there's nothing to ground your perspective. - Whereas, if you're in a building, you can see other buildings doing this. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - I don't really mind though. Most of the times, I don't even realize I'm in an earthquake until I have something to like ground that perspective. Sometime like living in Japan, sometimes I just get up, get a head rush, I'm like, ooh, was that an earthquake? - Like do you ever get that? - Yeah, but because there's so many light earthquakes. But you know when you're getting an earthquake, 'cause it used to be like, just fucking. - My mom has this story of when she was in school, she was like running along the tracks at school. And you know when you're running, your entire world is doing this. So she was running and she was looking at the school building and then she stopped and the building just kept doing this and she realized she was in an earthquake. And she didn't realize until she stopped because to her perspective, it's already going up and down. But then, I think again, it's that like perspective of being, that's not moving the way it's intended to. - But also, the swaying and all that stuff, I don't really give a shit, as long as the building isn't falling down. - Yeah. - And I just don't want my stuff to break. - Well, yeah, that's the biggest thing is just shit falling down, isn't it? - Yeah, that's why if I ever knew there was an earthquake, I would just rush to my like camera gear. I'm like hold my shirt and coat. - Protect, protect. - JoJo figures, please. - Me and my anime figures. - No, no! - Those are the real casualties in earthquakes. - I had those 400, $500 Jojo figures that were like very finely balanced. That were balanced, the weight was like this. So that the center of gravity was very worrying. And during earthquakes, I immediately had to just like go to them if I was there. And during, we had one pretty big earthquake and I was surprised 'cause my figures just stayed up. - Well, I mean same with the studio as well. - Yeah, yours didn't. - Yeah. - It's weird 'cause the figures that had fallen looked like pretty normal figures but the one that I really expect to break, didn't move at all. - Well, I mean, it's the same here as well. Like at the old track station. - I expected Rohan to just be over. - All of these knockedover, but the only casualty we had was fucking Mike. - Fucking Mike. - Every time I'm not at my house and there's an earthquake in Japan, I just assume my house is gonna be demolished when I'm back. I'm like, everything's fucked, I have to rebuild my whole life, it's all ruined. - Do you guys have like the anti-earthquake proof stuff in your cabinets? - No. - You probably should do that. - No. - It really does make a difference. - Does it? - Yeah. - What is it? - So basically like, or, I mean there's lots of different variations of it. - Do you need it for most stuff though? I feel like it's for very specific things. - We put it on most stuff. Like most of the big stuff will sound like, if you have figuring cabinets or like bookshelves, this is like little, kind of like, they look like little rubber doorstoppers. - Yeah, I know what they are, I know what they are. - And you put them underneath and it completely stops the shaking from happening. - I wanted to get the figures to stop shaking. - Yes I have them under like all of my bookshelves and figuring cabinets and stuff like that. And you know, I've seen the move in an earthquake. That shit doesn't budge. So that's really good. And also like there's also these little sticky pads kind of thing that you can put on some figurines and stuff like that stops them from falling over. - It's just weird that you have to live in a country and you can just worry about like instant death just happening. In the UK nothing kills you. - Instant death, I mean it;snot exactly instant death - I was just worried, well, I mean, it might be. - If you're in the wrong situation. - Yeah. - Yeah. - I suppose we've been lucky enough to had never have been in a bad earthquake. I don't know, I feel like we've never. - Garnt says this, don't fucking say it. Well they've been predicting the mega-quake for a few years now in Tokyo. Where there's bound to be some kind of magnitude eight or nine fucking earthquake in Tokyo and I hope to God it happens in the next three weeks so I'm not here. (laughs) - Jesus Christ. - I bet you'll wish you were on the ground floor then, Connor. - Yeah, exactly. - Well, I felt like the shaking was very violent. I used to live on the 4 to 5th floor and it used to shake really weirdly, I didn't like it. I felt like it was just high enough up where I got really violent shakes. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Yeah, I got, I was on the 8th floor, and I think with the biggest earthcake we were in, which was the one where, - Earthcake. - Earthcake, earthquake, (laughs) earthcake. The biggest earthquake we were in, which was the one where my figures fell over, I was in the toilet at the time, but. - That's the safest room to be in. - I was in the bath one time as well. - But that earthquake just lasted for so fucking long. It felt like it lasted like two minutes or something like that. - At least, yeah. - Yeah, go on. - Yeah, 'cause it just started and like at which point, 'cause you have to make this mental judgment of, at which point do I start giving a shit? - Yeah, yeah. (laughs) Yeah, because most of the time it's a little shake. - 'Cause it happens so often. - It happens so often, so I'm just like, uh, is this the one I should start caring. It's not stopping, should I start caring now? - But also, what are you gonna do if you give a shit? Like, what am I gonna do? Just be like, oh shit, I'm worried. - Well, you have to like evacuate to your nearest evacuation point, which everyone should know when you move. Do you know where is it? - Fuck no. (laughs) - You gotta get under the doorframe, right? - Doorframe, but also like if it gets really bad, then there's like in your local town, there's usually like evacuation points that you have to go to. - That's normally if your water and shit turns off and all that, is right? - No, in a lot of situations it's like earthquakes and floods and stuff like that, yeah. - But why would you leave your house in an earthquake if it's like, that's surely if it's unstable, no? - Well, I mean, what if. - The building's unstable. - It's usually in the case of like, if the earthquake is really powerful that your water stops or your electricity stops, your gas stops. - That's what I thought, right, to get supplies and shelter. - Yeah. - 'Cause if the winter, if it's really fucking cold and your electricity turns off. - Yeah, then you're kind of screwed it. - I'm kind of fucked because I am not stocked up on any kind of emergency or disaster. - Yeah, we recently restocked our shit. So it's all in the front. - I need to. I've been meaning to, it's been two years. - Been meaning to. - Two years now I've been meaning to do that. I'll get around to it. I'll get around to it. - Not to wait. 'Cause I remember for "Journey Across Japan", we went to like, Sakurajima, which is that island volcano in Kagoshima. And I remember two weeks after we left there, it fucking erupted. And it's like. - But high though? Yeah, it's pretty big as well. And it made me realize, I was like, oh yeah, earthquakes are like the least of my worries 'cause Japan is like fucking volcanic area. There's like so many active volcanoes, like Mount Fuji's a fucking active volcano. - Is it? - Yeah. - Yeah, it is. - It is, it's an active volcano and it last erupted, I think, about 250 years ago. And they're expecting it to- - 250 years ago? - Yeah, in the edo period, it last erupted. - Oh! - And they're expecting it to erupt soon. - Sick. - So, I'm like, sick. (laughs) - [Navi] They actually did a simulation if it erupts completely, it actually reaches all the way to Hachioji. - Oh shit. - [Navi] It's still that fucked. - Yeah. - Wow. - It's kinda like Yellowstone, right, in America? Where that's like one of the biggest active, super volcanoes in the world. And if that erupts then it's just, kind of like the end of civilization for a lot of people. - Yeah, exactly. - Makes a lot of the waters at Yellowstone boiling hot, like the lakes. - Yeah, yeah, exactly. - Some horrifying stories of people jumping in the water, thinking that they can swim in it, and it's boiling. - They just get boiled away. - Yeah, pretty grim. - That's pretty grim. - But I don't know when it's so bad, when do I leave my house? I don't know that. Is there a hard guide on when to leave your house? - I mean, I'm pretty sure you'll know when you'll know. You know what I mean? - Like when it gets to the point where it's like, oh, I can't be here for a multitude of reasons, then it's time to go. - Yeah, the ones that I don't really get scared of the earthquakes in Japan, but the ones that do kind of make me uncomfortable is when it starts small and it just keeps getting bigger. And then you're like, when will it stop? Will it keep escalating? Because when it starts off big and it doesn't get any worse, I'm like, okay cool. - It's the long ones for me. - Yeah, where it starts, it shakes, shakes, shakes! And you're like, please, okay please, please stop. - This is like when is this gonna peak? Where's the peak, this is the peak? No, it's not peaking yet. I just feel like it's the British in me, where you just don't take any kind of like natural disaster seriously. - I'm just like, come on, pack it in. All right, stop this now, come on. I've had enough of this, I'm finished, come on. - It's a natural disaster. Come on, there's no natural disasters in the world. - So you guys don't have any natural disaster? - No. - No. - There's some flooding, but very light. It's not really. - Right, right. - We have flooding here. - I hear of like a weather warning in Japan. I'm just like, what the fuck's a weather warning? - How can weather kill you? - My phone has been on permanent weather warnings since I've moved here, I'm pretty sure. I'd love to imagine the first time a British person like went abroad, in 1600s and there's an earthquake, like what the fuck was that? What the fuck was that? And they're like, yeah, that happens all the time. What do you mean that happens all the time? The Earth just moves? - Yeah the Earth just moves. - And you're all okay with this? You haven't asked management what's going on? - It's a living. - And they're like, yeah, yeah, and sometimes the mountain explodes. The mountain explodes? And fire? - The mountain explodes, we get these things called typhoons. - Yeah, they're like, what do you mean lava? That's hell, that's hell coming out. We've only seen that in the books, this doesn't happen? This is nonsense. - It's 20,000 leagues under the sea. - And you accept this? Is this okay with you? - It's like, what is a typhoon? It's just a bit of wind aint it? Bit of wind's never hurt anyone. It's just a bit of rain, we get that all the time. - It's a bit of rain and wind. - What do you mean nature destroyed your house, and did you get a refund? What is all this? - What is a Tsunami, it's just waves, aint it? Yeah, when we think about it, Japan really is world number one when it comes to the variety of fucking things that can kill you in nature. We really do have everything. - 'Cause I remember before I moved out of England, you'd hear about these disasters that happened all the way on the other side of the world. Like the Japan tsunami, which was an awful tragedy that happens. And you just didn't, it never quite sank in. - It never felt real. - Like how bad it was. Like I remember just before we moved to Japan where you guys are having like super bad typhoons and like the videos that came out just look super bad and I was just like. It still doesn't sink into me that it's just this bad here in Japan, as a British person, 'cause I've just never experienced it IRL, in real life. It's never just happened right in front of me. - It really is completely different, you can watch like, hundreds of videos on it and the one that you've actually experienced in real life is unlike anything you would ever imagine. It's like those typhoons look bad, it's a hundred times worse in real life. - Watching earthquakes from the 2011 earthquake is like, really fucking weird. - It's fucking terrifying, dude. - Just seeing people just everything's shaking super badly, I'm like, oh gosh. - And just like the water level rising and shit is like terrifying. That happened 10 years ago, man. - Yeah time flies. - Yeah, 2011. - Holy shit, I was still in university. - I would gladly take volcanoes if we can get onsens. Stick a volcano somewhere in Wales, I will have an onsen. - Would onsen culture work in the UK? - If we had volcanoes, yeah. - You sure? - Yeah, I think so. - I wouldn't. - I agree. They'd serve alcohol. - You just want it to work. - I'll make it work, we'll serve beer. - Not if people have to get naked in front of each other. - I think you underestimate how. - I think that culture just wouldn't work in the UK. - It wouldn't work. - I think it could work. - If you teach them from a young age. Listen, get naked. Getting naked is normal with your homies. - You can teach a group of people cannibalism from a young age and they'll think it's all right. - Yeah, we're not talking about, like if the entire history of the UK had changed to introduce this culture from the beginning, 'cause then they'd just be fucking Japan, wouldn't they? - If you gave them a free beer at the end of it, you go in naked with your boys, you get a free beer, they'd do it. - You sure? - 100% - I doubt. If I went up to a guy from the UK, like born and bred, never left the country and I said, I'll give you a beer if you get in this bath with this other dude naked. - When you say it like that, that sounds way worse 'cause that's. - So that's what an onsen is. - 'Cause they're probably imagining some tight traditional bath where their dicks are touching and they're like, oh God, oh, I'm so scared of penises. - I mean there are onsens like that though. - Yeah, but not really public ones though. - Oh, well, I mean, we've been in one. - Have we? - Yeah, remember. - Yeah. - We've been pretty close together in an onsen. - Yeah at the end of the cycling tour. We went in that really, really tight onsen. - It was like me, you, Joey and Chris and our legs were definitely touching. - Yeah. - I don't remember this. (laughs) - That just shows how used to it you've gotten, right? - Yeah, it's just like nothing to you. - I'm sure someone who's not used to that type of culture would find that traumatizing. - Especially a lot of Brits, you know? - Imagine being scared of a penis though. I just couldn't imagine it. - I mean, you'd be surprised. Like not even being scared of penises, but just the social boundary of seeing your mate's penis or seeing someone close to you and just knowing what they look like naked. I mean, I'm totally fine with it now, but that's because I've done it since I was with you boys right. - It's that one thing of just getting to that point and once you're over it, then you're over it. But I think for a lot of people, it stops at getting to that point. - Yeah, maybe in the UK, if it was in the UK, I would think it's weird. - Which is why for me, it's such a shame because when people from overseas come to Japan for the first time and they're like, I wanna know everything about the culture, you know? What are some really unique Japanese things. And of course the first thing I think all of his onsens. But immediately I always hesitate, being like, I get this, you're about to see my dick, but in like a cool way. - I said cyber punk music, when you said that. - In a nice relaxing way. We're in a bath together and yes, we're naked, but it's not weird, it's not weird, trust me. And we're with other random people as well, but it's not weird, you know. - The first thing I tell people now, it's just like, you wanna come to Japan? You want me to take you around? We'll go into an onsen right? Just get that out of the way. - I think if someone's willing to go to the onsen with you. - They probably will be up for anything, right? - Yeah everything Japanese culture. I feel like if you can't put your own cultural differences aside to participate in another culture, then I don't think you're. - I agree. - And yeah, again, that's what I kind of use as a gauge of like cultural understanding for that person. It's like, if they can get over this, then you'll be fine in Japan. - I'm very open to some things, but there are some things where I've seen in like, you know when they had, what was it? Was it a TV show called "Tribe" in the UK. It's dude who went around tribes in the Amazon or something. And there was one thing that he did that I was like, "Okay, I don't think I'd that," and it was like a penis inverting ceremony or something. - Oh that! - Oh that one! - Did you see the video where the guy faints when they do it to him? I was like, yeah, you know what, I thought I was up for a lot but I think that's where I'm good. - Have you seen the one where they have to wear that glove of just like bullet ants? - Yeah, oh my God. - Oh, yeah, yeah. - And I'm just like, why would anyone wanna do this? - If I was, you gave me enough beers, maybe I do the ants thing but. - Let's go! - But it's the video of that guy, the tribal chief does it to him and he just faints immediately. Oh God, it sounded terrible. - Yeah, I think there are many penises going, ah, just listening to you, right? Just like, aah! - Yeah, I'm pretty much up for anything that doesn't involve destroying my body or pain or stuff like that. I'm pretty much down for anything. - Yeah, I'm usually down for anything when it comes to like, especially when it comes to things like food and drinks. - Yeah, which is why I hate it when people lie to me about their, they make a joke that like, yeah, our culture, we do this and then they just lie to me. I didn't have to put my penis out in public. I'm kidding. But this is why I trust my friends when I go somewhere new and they're like, this is what we do here. I'm like, I trust you, that sounds weird, but I trust you, please don't fuck me. Like Garnt could be like, yeah, so in Thailand we get our dicks out in restaurants and swing them around and be like, all right, well, okay. - This is the culture. - When in Rome, do as the Romans. I would trust Garnt if Garnt told something like that. Garnt was like, yeah, you have to spit on the food before you eat it. - I'm just waiting for the perfect opportunity to abuse that power. - He's gonna do it, he's gonna fucking do it, I know he is as well, that's the worst part. - I'm just waiting for the perfect opportunity to abuse that power. - And I'm gonna do it. - 'Cause I've only got one chance to do it before I completely lose that trust. - It's like Joey in Australia, he'll be like, yeah, you have to snort all your alcohol and I'll be like, oh okay. - You have to drink alcohol through your eye. - I think a few Australians do do that. - Yeah, we do do that. - It's called a suicide shot I'm pretty sure. - To be fair we used to have a lot of shows in the UK that would cover binge drinking and clubbing. I don't know why we had TV shows about this. And there'd be this one show and this is where I first discovered that people did vodka shots through their eyeball. - Yeah, yeah. And it was weird and they would do it and they'd ask them, the interviewer would ask them, why did you do it? He's like, 'cause I just get drunk so fast. And I'm like, is drinking not fast enough? It's pretty fast, it's pretty damn instant. It's pretty fucking fast. And then it just immediately cut to a doctor who was like, yeah well actually, you know, inserting any kind of alcohol in your eye is extremely dangerous and can remove the lipid layer of an eye and can permanently damage and possibly blind you. - Yeah, of course. - And I was like, oh. - I don't need a professional doctor telling me that. Like it should be common sense. - Yeah it's like a splinter in your butt. It's like, I didn't need a doctor to tell me that that didn't need to go there. It's weird, man. It's so strange 'cause I feel like in the UK with partying and all that, there's so many stuff that you just do it 'cause everyone else tells you to do it. And I would just always sat there thinking like what the fuck is going on. - Yeah, it's definitely, especially in a university where- - Oh my God. - Just the idea of doing a dirty shot now just makes me feel sick. - What is a dirty shot? Explain to the viewers Garnt, and me, 'cause I forgot. - Yeah, I don't know what it is either. - Or I dirty pint. You just, you play probably most of the time it's fucking ring of fire, which is the university game. And then you have this pint glass in the middle where, whenever you draw certain cards, you have to fill up with whatever alcohol. - I feel sick hearing that. - Whatever alcohol that person is drinking. - Yeah. - And sometimes if you're in like an ultra hardcore party, then you fill up with like other shit that you would never put in a fucking drink. Shit like washing up liquid or stuff like that. - Yeah, they would do it. - Or Tabasco sauce. Or Nandos sauce. - We had a rule in ours where whoever lost, they had to leave the room for 30 seconds. And anything in the kitchen could be put in the drink. - Yeah. - People would put like pepper grains, washing up liquid and they would drink it. - I understand pepper grains and Tabasco, but washing up liquid? - You'd immediately throw it up, there's no way you could - Yeah. I've actually done it before, when I was 17. - You fucking idiot. - Yeah you're a fucking ass. - I'm lucky, for some reason during my whole time at university when I played this game, I never got it. But I would've refused. - I mean, we played that game, but we made it stuff that you could actually drink. - Yeah it's really disgusting. - That's the civilized thing to do. - I had food poisoning yesterday and I feel dreadful and hearing this makes you feel even more dreadful. - Why did you get food poisoning Conor? - I ate a bad sausage. - You had a bad sausage. - I ordered two sausages, I cut one up and it was very, very pink on the inside. - That's a bad sign. - And I thought no, I'm not eating that one. But I cut up the other one and it looked okay. - And you ate it, and it was not. - What kinda sausage was it? - Was it Italian sausage? - A fucking terrible sausage. - Narrator, and it was not okay. - I feel sick describing it. - You have Connoren food poisoning. - Yeah, you are so susceptible to it. I think since you've been in Japan, you've had food poisoning at least three or four times from my memory. - Three times. - What's the worst food poisoning you've ever had? - The () one? - () one? - Yeah, that was the worst one. - You had food poisoning for a week. - I was shitting and vomiting for a week straight It was terrible. God it was so bad. - I think I've only had food poisoning once. - In Japan, 'cause they should have so much raw shit. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Like you know, they serve raw chicken here, you know? And they say like, ah, there's no salmonella. There is salmonella, there's just way less of it right? - You're just less likely to get it. It doesn't mean you can't get it. - I'm not being funny, but you should not eat raw chicken. Like I don't care if Japan is like, yeah, it's safe. No. - I've had it before. - Yeah, but it's not. - It's not even that good. - It's not that good and you all rolling a dice. - Yeah. - You can eat it, but you are rolling a dice. - Well, I had raw chicken at an Izakaya that specialized in raw chicken. 'Cause there's a lot of Izakayas that just like give it to you. - I still wouldn't. - It's a cultural thing, right? Where people would just like, this is safe, this is safe. And I'm just like, is it though, is it? Is it safe? - It's like you are eating it and there is a risk, there is still a risk. - Of course there's a risk. - But you are unlikely to get food poisoning from eating the raw chicken, but there was still a chance you can get it. - Yeah, you can still get it, especially if your stomach's not used to it. - Way more than other foods. - But, I mean, a lot of things, especially I feel like in Asia, which just has a lot of, a lot less standards when it comes to say the health and safety of the food you serve. I feel like even like Japan compared to the rest of Asia has really, really good food standards, compared to fucking Southeast Asia. - Oh, yeah. - Oh my God. - But Japan compared to the UK is like Japan doesn't bat an eye if it's like pinkish and I'm like, oof, my chicken's pink in the middle. I'm like, oh God, don't know if I can eat that. - I mean yeah, the only time I got food poisoning was when I went to the Philippines for the first time. And of all things I could have got food poisoning from, it wasn't the duck fetus, it wasn't even the water, it was a fucking mango shake. I ate a fucking mango straight off the fucking street vendor, and that's what gave me food poisoning. I'm like cool, amazing. It was a fantastic shake, but man, I was shitting, I was pissing out my ass for about two days. It was horrible. - Yeah, I think the worst food poisoning I've ever got was from China actually when I was still living there. And you know, when you live in China like, the food there is fucking great, especially the street food, but it's just trying to pinpoint where you got food poisoning there is like. - A needle in a haystack. - It's kinda like a needle in a haystack. You're just like, where did, which one of these food stands did I get food poisoning from, it could be any one of them. - Could be like a culmination of all of them too, just come together as one. - I remember it was so bad that I almost had to go to the hospital because I remember it was new year's Eve for one of the years, I can't remember which year, exact year it was. But I remember I was sitting on the toilet and I needed to throw up at the same time that I was shitting. (laugh) - Those are the worst. - You laugh but it was a traumatic experience for me. - What were you just alternating? - I was trying. - Or did you have to like. - I was trying to keep it in, but that one time, one time I literally could not like hold either one. So I literally didn't like needed to like, I was sitting on the toilet and I needed to like try to like aim. - I can't listen to this. - It's awful, I don't wanna get too graphic. - I've done that before. - But it was the most awful food poisoning experience I've ever had. It's kind of like a scene out of "South Park" where. - I know which one you're. - Where he literally shits and then pukes up and then has a nose bleed at the same time. That was my experience. - Yeah, say what you will about fast food chains. I've never gotten food poisoning from a fast food chain. - I've never gotten food poisoning, you mean like junk food and stuff like that? - Yeah like McDonald's whatever. I've never gotten. - I've never gotten food poisoning from it personally, but I have gotten very sick. - I felt bad, but I've never had to throw up after eating like KFC or something. I don't know about America, I've seen some really ghastly ones in America. But in the UK and Japan I've had nothing but good experiences. - No, Japan is really good with fast food. I think like the few times that I've had McDonald's in America, I was like, I really wanna throw up. - I feel so rough. - I really wanna throw this up, yeah, it's horrible. - I don't know how they make burgers tastes so bad at McDonald's in America. I don't know what they do. - I dunno, man. - It's 'cause McDonald's just makes enough money worldwide and in America there's just so much better burgers right, that it doesn't matter. - There's more higher-end burgers in America. - There's way more competition in America, I feel. I feel like in America, McDonald's lives off the reputation of how would. - It's the American burger. - The rest of the world, right? This episode is sponsored by Bokksu. - Bokksu is a monthly snack box subscription service that delivers original assortments of premium Japanese snacks and tea pairings. 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Speaking of traveling and stuff, this is the last podcast before we head back to the UK, me and you, so you're not going to see a break, but we're going to have about like a six, seven week? - Yeah, like a month and a half break, basically. Yeah, a six week break. - Which is the longest break we've ever taken from Trash Taste. - I wanna see people who are like bingeing Trash Taste. Like watching this episode and then going to the next and being like, what the fuck happened? - I wonder if there's any difference? Like what if I just get a scar, like a really cool scar? - You just come back and you're just like completely bald. Just got an eye patch on or something like that. Woohaa! - It's been really with me for the past few weeks because I've been living alone, I guess, for like the past two, three weeks? - Oh yeah, 'cause Sydney went back to America? - Yeah, Sydney, she's back in America. I think this is like the longest we've been apart. - First time, huh? (laughs) - And it's so weird not having a partner home. And it's just one, the home feels so empty. Like my God, like if it wasn't for Corona lockdown, I would want to meet so many people 'cause I'm just like, I need to do something to remind me. - You need someone to talk to. - I need someone to talk to and I need someone to fill in the gap of having no one in your house. I've forgotten what that felt like, right? - I feel that, I feel that. - It's just 'cause you're used to it right? To me, it's like, I don't feel that way. - Yeah, I now see why you try to meet up with as many people as you can. 'Cause if I was in your shoes I would do the same 'cause it's lonely without having someone just there to talk to whenever you want to. - I also just really like being alone sometimes. I really value being able to just like do whatever I want. - No, I like my alone time too. - No, but like. - But only to a certain extent. - I like it a lot, a lot. - I like my alone time as well and I feel like any healthy relationship, you have space to have your alone time. But if you're feeling lonely, there's just someone there. Also, not a thing is that the chores are now, like I'm in charge of all the chores, and I'm just like, what is this? Like, this is gonna sound a bit misogynistic. But like in my household, I'm in charge of the washing up, and Sydney is in charge of the laundry, right? And so I was just used to only do the washing up and having the woman doing the laundry, right? - Why did you have to say it like that? - I just wanted it to sound as misogynist as I can. because now I am, there's no one to do the laundry and I'm just like, woman, where is my laundry done! And I just realized, I have to do it myself now. - I just like to imagine I just slowly enter Garnt's house, and from across the house, I just hear, "Woman, I need a fresh pair of underwear!" - You really got done dirty 'cause laundry is like the easiest of the household tasks. - Yeah, I'm the one that does the laundry in our house. - I think washing up the dishes is far more painful. - Oh, I hate washing up the dishes. - Why did you agree to that? - Because I also hate doing the laundry as well. - No I like the laundry. - Why? - Laundry's nice bro. Fresh sheets. - I mean, now that we've bought a washing machine with a built-in dryer. All I have to do is just fucking take it out and fold it up. But I liked the process of folding up washing, I don't know why I hate that. - It's meditative. - It's so unoptimized. Because the thing is, the thing about the laundry is that at least with washing up, it's just a one activity thing, you get it over with laundry, you have to put it in and then you have to remember that you put the laundry in and sometimes I'm such a forgetful little shit, that like you forget hours afterwards that you had laundry in the laundry machine and then you take it out and it fucking stinks because you left it in there for so long. So then you have to re-laundry your fucking laundry! - Well that just sounds like a you problem. - That is a me problem, gonna hate laundry. - The laundry machines often have this very loud thing called a beeping noise? - Yeah, it goes, (beeps) when it's done. - Yeah, but sometimes you just. - You might have heard it on your microwave, kinda same thing. - Sometimes you're just doing shit, sometimes you're just like, oh, let me just finish up this piece of work and then I'll do the laundry and then you just forget that you hear that. - It sounds like a you problem, 'cause if I'm doing work and then I hear from my laundry machine going (beeps), I'm like, all right time to do the laundry. I don't know how hard it is. - Really not that difficult. Also, I don't have to worry about dishes anymore because we have a dishwasher. - I wish, I wish, I wish that was me. - I feel like I'm like a cave man just evolving. - I feel like discovering civilization for the first time. - Yeah, I mean dishes I was used to doing, but with laundry, is this how men felt in the '60s? (laughs) - We're gonna get canceled for this episode. - I'm not saying shit bro. - Garnt's gonna cancel this episode. I disagree with all of Garnt's opinions here. - Because in our house I have to do the laundry and the dishes because that's the one chore that Arki hates doing. So she does like the vacuuming and like the cleaning up and stuff like that because I fucking hate vacuuming the house. - I also hate vacuuming the house. - Imagine doing all of it yourself. - Yeah, exactly. - Well, I had to do that when I was living on my own. - That's crazy. - But now I feel bad 'cause my two chores, which is the laundry and the dishes, I just let the machine do it. So I literally just press a button, I'm like, done. And it's great. - I wish that was me. I have to wash my dishes by hand and my laundry doesn't have a dryer as well. - Dude, I'm telling you, man, when you. - I don't really like the dryers in laundry machines, I feel like they ruin the clothes. - I don't like the dryer either. - Really? - But I also hate having to put out the laundry to dry. - Yeah, I hate having to put up the laundry more. - There's something good about an old-fashioned, natural dryer that just kind of gets to me. - It does, it does. But the problem with that, is that you are at the mercy of the weather right? - Yeah. - Because what are you meant to do in the winter time. - Hang it inside, right? - The best, the best. - Why, just hang it outside, what are you talking about? - What, in the rain? - It's not permanently raining in the winter. - Yeah but what if you have laundry that just finished and it starts raining. - Yeah, it's unfortunate but you can just hang it up somewhere else. - Yeah, inside. So basically what I just fucking said! - You can do it outside, it's not a big deal. - No it is a big deal 'cause it's gonna get dirty again from the rain. - You wash it against, it's even more clean. - See that's what someone living on their own would say. - Yeah, I know, right? - I would've said the same thing if I was living alone because it's like, oh, it's my clothes, fuck it, who cares? But I have to take care of another person's clothes and she doesn't quite like that. - Does Aki get like, no, you have to do it this way. - Well, no, it's not so much Aki's preference, it's more so just fucking common sense. Don't try and dry washing in the rain. - Don't you put it out when it's raining. Sometimes you put it out, then it starts raining, you forget that it's raining, 'cause you didn't notice right away, and it's a little wet, fuck I have to do it again. - At that point that's just annoying right? 'Cause then you just take, I feel like leaving it out in the rain, I have to rewash it. Because that washes out the good stuff about the laundry. - I'm simply one man, I cannot conquer nature. I've accepted that. - Right, so that's why I bought a washing machine that has a really good dryer attached to it. - You're trying to play God. - No, no, no, no, no, no, because here's the thing, right? Here's the thing. Because if you dry your clothes in the dryer, then you're gonna need to iron your shirts, right? - Yeah. - I feel if it's like naturally dried, sometimes if you get it out just fresh out of the washing, you like, what's? - Whip it? - Whip it. I was trying to think of the English word 'cause I just knew the Thai word for it. You fucking whip the clothes and it dries naturally, you just get the creases out. And it's like a nice. - Sometimes. - A lot of the time, unless you're wearing a really expensive shirt or something that needs to be ironed. Most of the time for like a natural t-shirt you get the creases out. So that's why I've always hated actually having to use the dryer. - Well, I get that, but there's also like, we use like these kind of drying sheets that you throw into the washing machine after it's done, that creates less creases in the clothes. It's like a thing, apparently, I didn't know. Aki found on Amazon and I was like. - But pants are sort of bullshit like this, that sometimes works, sometimes it doesn't. - Yeah, true. - It sounds like yeah, put this in your fridge and it'll make it smell like oranges. And then it like smells like oranges. - Like my last washing machine supposedly had a dryer inside of it and I span it for like three hours and I was like, oh cool, it's just a little less damp than was before. - Japan's the king at selling you shit that you think you need, that you don't actually need and it doesn't work. - I just remember, so do you guys have an issue of like, your fucking trash really, really stinking in the summer. - Yeah. - Like no, I remember when I go to your house, your trash, for some reason, always smells dreadful. - I'd don't know why. - My trash doesn't smell that bad. - Like, the burner balls sometimes. 'Cause like we don't cook often right? So sometimes it's just, we have like a little trash there, but especially in the summer, sometimes it's just fucking decomposes in the summer. - How fucking long are you leaving the this there for? - Do you not throw it out every week? - Uh, no. - Well, there's your problem. - Why are you not throwing it out every week? - Because it doesn't get full every week. - It doesn't matter, you should throw it out. - How do you, as a couple, not get it full every week. I get it for every week on my own. - You're burnables? - Yeah, every week. - Yeah, I get ours full every week, man. We sometimes have to go through two bags, we have to go through two bags of burnables a week. - Like I dunno, we finish our foods. - I finished my food too, what are you trying to say Garnt? - Then how are you filling, what are you, what is it filled with? - Sometimes Amazon comes in the box, it's burnable stuff. - But that's cardboard? - No, no, no, no, like sometimes they give material, that's not the polystyrene and it's not bubble wrap. It's like the shit that's burnable. - Yeah, and then if you for example, if you get Uber Eats, for example, right? - I get a lot of Uber Eats. Yeah like the boxes and stuff like that, the food scraps, that's all burnable. - I feel very excited. - You wash the boxes? - Do you not wash the boxes? - Depends on the box, what type of material. - I do not wash the box. I just throw it all in the burnables. - Wow, wow Joey! - Wait, so why does yours stink then? - Yeah, why is your stinking worse? - Because I don't push the box in the burnables. The burnables is purely just food waste. - Well, that's why it stinks. - Well, of course! - Where are you putting the other burnables? - Yeah, where are you putting the boxes. - What other burnables are there? - A lot of the food trays. - Like food scraps. - And they'll say if you have like certain materials, if it gets oily or if it gets stuff on it, it's, yeah. - Wait, wait, so when you order a pizza, do you wash the pizza box when it's done? - Like, it goes on with the cardboard. - No, no! - Your supposed to put in the burnables dude. - Yes, that's grease, there's grease in it. - No because most of the time, if it comes in like a plastic tray or plastic whatever, you can just wash it and then put it in the plastics. - Plastics yeah. But a lot of the food trays aren't plastic. - They're cardboard like, paper. - No? - Like styrofoam stuff. - Most of it is plastic. Most of everything I get is plastic. - Most of the stuff I get is styrofoam. - So, what happens right is, unfortunately, most of my burnables like pretty much 90% of my burnables is pure food waste. - Yeah. - And that just, we don't have a lot of food waste. So it just ends up that a lot of food just accumulates. Not a lot of food, a little bit of food accumulates there and because it's in the summer, it just decomposes so quickly. - Well, that's all the more reason to take it out every week, even if it's not full. - I have a small bag that's attached to the kitchen counter because I go through so much tea and tea decomposes very fast. - Yeah. - That's where all the tea and all the small bits of food that I don't eat goes. So it's a tiny plastic bag that I can tie up and take out every week if I want to, and it doesn't smell. - I think it's not actually just the food it's just 'cause it's so humid as well that just like. - You should definitely get the thing out of the house. - Like the humidity condenses inside the bag so it ends up that you have like the garbage water at the bottom as well. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - You can throw out tiny bags, you know, that's allowed. It doesn't have to be big bags of trash. You can throw out little. - You can throw out little bit konbini bag levels of trash. - Sometimes you just forget. - Again, that sounds like a you problem, bro. - This feels like consulting people on their recycling. - No, I mean, what I was going to say was, so obviously the trash ended up smelling at least like, sometimes we throw it out every week in the summer, but it's sometimes still just smelled. - I really only get smelly trash when I open the trash. - In my case, if I open up the trash and it really stinks like that decomposing smell, I just double bag it. So I close up the first bag, and I get a second bag and I wrap that up again. And then boom, there you go, the smell's gone. - Yeah, because what we did was we, there was this device from a Daiso, right? I think it's Daiso, or like Amazon. - Already red flags. - There was this device from Daiso. - Stink be gone. - That was basically like, you know that thing you put on the toilet to make it smell nice whenever you flush. - Yeah, yeah. - It was like the equivalent of that, but you put it on the bottom of the lid of the garbage can and completely solved the issue. Our bins smelled great, it smelled fresh. - Japan is the only country on Earth that gives a shit what the shit smells like. - It smelled fresh and I was like, great, this is a fucking amazing device. Oh my God, this has just saved me, this has made my kitchen actually pleasant to be in. Until about a month in, when we needed to take out the trash. And we noticed that there were a lot of flies. Like I don't know how the flies, where the flies came from. - You never know where the flies come from. - I didn't know where the flies came from. - Oh, yeah you had a lot of flies, I remember this. - And I was like, where are these flies coming from? And why are they gathering all around the bin? 'Cause this never happened before, right? And so Sydney opens the lid, and there's like a few, we could see literally like a few fly eggs on the lid, on the lid cover. And I was like, what the fuck, how did this get here? And then, and then I had to wash it, right, obviously. 'Cause Sydney was scared of it, so I had to wash it. And then I was like, okay, I gotta take off the nice smelling thing. Take it off and, okay it's like a rectangle, it's like a rectangle patch, and I took off the rectangle patch and the entire patch was filled with eggs. I had like an entire patch of fly eggs that were just covered because of this one patch. So this nice-smelling patch had just attracted all the fucking flies in the vicinity. - Why? - I have no idea! I have no fucking idea. - Damn, you gotta do something about that shit bro. - I had to quarantine the place, my God. Like the thing, the thing was like. - I would throw the trashcan out, just gone. - The thing was like fucking Chernobyl. - Like I have to like quarantine the entire kitchen. - Hazmat on. - That is so disgusting. - Dude, I dunno what it is, it doesn't matter if you have like the cleanest kitchen in the world. I don't know where the fuck these flies are coming from, they're just like, it's like the kitchen is a respawn point for some of these fucking flies. Like they just appear out of thin air. It's like, I am here now, time to terrorize. - Yeah, this is like, you know in like a Junji Ito Manga, where you turn the panel and you see like the monster? That was there when I shredded off that fucking patch. - Ah, I feel shit, shut the fuck up, stop, you're gonna make me throw up please. - It's like a page-turn jump scare. (laughs) It's like, ah! - To talk about something more pleasant, though. Going back to laundry. - Yeah. - Like I remember when I moved out. - Opened up my laundry and there was flies? - I remember moving out of my mom's place, I was just like laundry. All you need to put is a bit of detergent there, and laundry is done. My God, I didn't know how fucking OP fabric softener was until I started doing my laundry. Like not many people talk about it, but my God, fabric softener is one of the, is a life hack that actually works. - I literally do like the two shots of vodka meme with my. - Two shots of fabric softener. - Honestly, I go through detergent so slowly. - It's like one cup of Vodka. And it's like the whole fucking jug I put in. I know it's bad for your clothes, but I don't give a shit, it's so comfy. - I put a tiny amount in and it works. - 'Cause I feel like with clothes, and especially with your bed covers, I don't know how people sleep without not putting fabric softener on their bed covers and bed sheets and stuff. - Yeah, sure, I wanna be in that maximum comfort man. - Damn. - I wanna be embraced. - Embraced. - I wanna be embraced. It's like a light hug from your mom. - You don't wanna sleep naked. - Exactly. - You don't wanna sleep naked. - I want my nut sack to feel the fabric softener. - I want my nut sacks to be embraced. - I want them to be cradled by my sheets. Bathed in the God's liquid known as fabric softener. I can't wait. It's gonna be weird though, It's gonna be weird coming back. - Yeah. - Yeah. Are you guys excited? - Yeah, of course. Not excited for all the quarantining we have to do. - Oh shit, I mean, it's been what, like a full almost two years now since you guys were in the UK last? - Yeah, I haven't seen anyone. It's weird. It's weird, I've never gone two years without seeing my family. Yeah, it is a massive pain in the ass to travel right now. - Yeah, just seeing all the paperwork you guys have to do to get through. - Ah, fuck man, Jesus Christ. - Like getting gout the country seems pretty simple and easy. It's getting back in the country that is, that sounds we're gonna save our experiences for when we actually come back. From third hand experiences, it actually sounds like a prison camp. Like I'm not joking. Like my mate who went out, went back in, like the experience he told me, it's not like a prison camp, but then he sent me an article of some of the Olympic athletes that had to come in the country and had to quarantine. And they literally also said that prison camps will probably, they would probably would probably be better treated in prison camps than they were in like the quarantine hotels that they were in. - Yikes. - Well, I'm gonna read a lot of manga. - Yeah, just stock up on all the manga man. Like, dude, you can finally catch up with "One Piece". - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - [Joey] While you're in quarantine. Just read "One Piece", man. Yeah, do it. - Hope I don't gain too much weight. 'Cause God knows, I'm just gonna eat and drink all the time when I'm back. - Yeah, I know. - You should like weigh yourself before just as an experiment. - I don't wanna know. I don't wanna know. - You should. I wanna know. - Fuck. - It's gonna be like Christmas holidays all over again. - Exactly. - Christmas holidays. I don't know like, do you guys gain weight during the Christmas holidays? - Of course, yeah. - I gain weight generally. I breathe near McDonald's and I gain weight. - Yeah, but hopefully you guys make it back all right. I mean, I'm sure it'll be all right. - Hope so. - Yeah, I hope so. - The first thing I'm gonna do is go to a fucking Nando's. I'm not even joking. Like before I hug my mum, before I say hello, before I see the family, get myself to a Nando's. - It's like, mom, hold on, hold on for a second. - I'm gonna go to Greg's and get a vegan sausage roll. - Vegan. - Vegan. - And a Tesco meal deal, perhaps two maybe. - Oh, wow, spoiling yourself. - Because I can. - 'Cause I'm an adult. - Don't want a normal portion size? No, don't think I will. I think I'll get whatever the fuck I want. - And then I'll cry because I'll cry when I've realized that there's no good food options where I live. - I think I'm gonna miss Japan a lot more than I think I will. - I think so. - Like you guys, yeah, I reckon you guys will obviously you know, have that like great rush of, yeah, I'm back home, I'm seeing my family, I'm seeing my mates. But then you'll realize, man, there's just so much shit to do in Japan I can't do here. - Yeah, I am looking forward to ordering a coffee in English, that's very exciting. Very exciting times. - I am like looking forward to going to a Tesco's, which is our konbinis and also doing that in English and having the clerk respond to me. - Having an English conversation with another person. - Like being asked if I want a plastic bag and not a fukuro. That'd be nice. That'd be nice. - Yeah, they'd be like, do you want a bag with that? (speaks in Japanese) Ah sorry, sorry fuck, nah, I'm good. - (speaks in Japanese) - I gotta realize I haven't paid with my card in so long. In the UK you just tap it. - [Joey] Yeah. - So I'm excited for that. - Oh yeah, that's a thing! - You just tap. - Tap and go. - Well, I actually can't do that straight away because all my cards have expired. All my UK cards have expired, so yeah, I'm lucky to have a bit of UK cash on me. 'Cause I've only got my Japanese card on me right now, but it's not either Visa or MasterCard, which is the two companies that everyone else uses. It's like JCB or something like that, which I've only ever heard in Japan. - Yeah, that's only in Japan. - And I don't think anywhere else except it. - Japan Credit Bureau. - Is it? I thought it was Japan Central Bank? - I thought it was Japan credit Bureau. - I don't know, it's Japan something so it doesn't work outside Japan. - It's all nonsense. - It's all nonsense. Well, hopefully, I mean, luckily I guess the good thing is that, yeah, since it will be six weeks we're gonna have a lot to talk about next episode. - Yeah! - Yeah. - Hopefully, you'll know if things have gone smoothly if Trash Taste is uninterrupted. - Yeah, exactly. - If one of us get stuck or for some reason RIP Trash taste. - How's it gonna feel for you Joey? Not being in, not having Trash Taste record every week? - I mean, September is just gonna be a very slow months for me. It's gonna be weird waking up on a Tuesday morning being like, wait, I don't have to go to the office. It's not a work day today, what the fuck? Yeah, but I think for me, 'cause I'm not gonna go back to Australia 'cause I don't wanna go through that whole process, but I'm gonna go see my family in Japan, who I haven't seen in two years. So that's gonna be nice to finally catch up with them. 'Cause they're all a vaccine now. - Fuck yeah. - So, yeah, it's gonna be nice to just live how I used to live three years ago when everything was a lot more simple. - I'm waiting for the day until they actually let tourists in here. - Oh dude. - Yeah, I think that's why I wanna go back now, 'cause I'm like I don't see it happening any time soon. If I go now, I'm fine if it takes another two years. - Yeah definitely. - You think it's gonna take two years? - No, but if it does, it does. - It could. - I don't know how long it's gonna take. - Yeah, but uh, - But anyway, I guess we'll wrap it up there. - We'll wrap it up here. Hey, look at all these patreons though, they're pretty cool. - Ooh, look at them - Thank you, thank you. - Amazing patrons, hey guys, if you wanna support us on Patreon and support the show, then make sure to go to patreon on patreon.com/trashtaste. Also, follow us on Twitter. Send us your memes on the subreddit. And if you hate our face, listen to us on Spotify. But yeah, guys, have a good. - I feel gross now, after hearing that fly story. Sorry, I just feel disgusting, and I feel sick too. I'm surprised I made it for this episode. - I feel gross just having to say it. I literally think back and I'm just, I needed to tell someone because I'm still scarred. It was like a fucking horror story, it sucked. - Free story for you man. - I interrupted you Joey, again. - No, no I was just gonna say I hope you guys have a good trip. - I hope so too. - And see you guys in six weeks and we'll see you guys next week. - Next week. - Nothing has changed. - Like nothing has changed! - If we did our job right and we get back okay. - And we are in the country okay. I know problems happens, which are touch wood. Fucking slam that wood. - Fucking slam wood. Al lright guys have a good one. - [All] Bye! (calm music)

Channel: Trash Taste

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Keywords: TrashTaste, Trash, Trash Taste, Taste, Trash Taste Podcast, Anime, Manga, CDawgVA, Gigguk, TheAnimeMan, Joey, Connor, Garnt, Podcast

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Length: 124min 51sec (7491 seconds)

Published: Fri Oct 08 2021

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