A Very Drunk Start to the New Year (ft. Abroad in Japan) | Trash Taste #30
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- I'm the host for one time with a guest Chris Broad again. - Hello. - That was like the weakest intro I have ever heard. - Honestly, I'm a little disappointed. - Hello and welcome to this episode of Trash Taste. - I was talking Garnt. Unfortunately, as you know, Corona is still going on. So we weren't actually able to get any significant guests. So we asked Chris to come. - Heartbreaking. - Chris is like, please.

Bring me back on. I want a taste of that clown again. - I've been waiting for months. Every week I stand out in front of the studio waiting to be on. - Come on guys, this week. - No, not this week. But now finally I've been allowed back in. - He says he's our most viewed episode. - Yeah, exactly. - Thank you so much for coming back, Chris. - It's good to be back in the church, the anime bill. - Yeah, it's nice. - The church of anime.

- It's also nice getting to talk to you after we've become a bit more familiar. 'Cause actually it was the first time we'd ever met when you came on the podcast. - Yeah, it was really nerve wracking last time. - Was it really? - Scary. - What, really? - No, no, shut up. - But like, yeah, now we're friends. - Yeah, reluctantly of course. - Now we're friends. - Now you've helped us film like our drifting special. - The drifting, yeah. - We unfortunately like didn't get a proper chance to introduce you in that episode. And you were just kind of just there. - You kind of just showed up.

- It was very scuffed. - Very slipshod. I don't know what I was expecting, some sort of grand entrance. We talked about me like rocking up in a car and be like, "Hey everyone." In the end, I was like- - It's Chris Paul! - All abroad. - Now there's nothing. Just like me in the back of the car. - Your opening shot was just dying in the back of the car while Joey was in the front. - I'm really glad I got involved with that project. - It was like a really quick pan, it's like, "Oh!"

- It was honestly nice to be behind the camera watching Joey be sick and it's great. - It is nice shooting someone else's video 'cause you're like, if this facts up, not my problem. If it all goes wrong, I'm good. - It's fun just like flying the drone. I was trying to crash it into the car. - Yeah, I wanted you to. - When you were like charging towards it.

- Do you like being behind the camera more than in front of the camera or vice versa? - I do. - I like being behind the camera. - I do prefer being behind the camera. - Really? - I'm way more conscious of how I'm presenting and it's just fun filming, but presenting

It's tough. I get the impression you three prefer presenting more than filming, right? - Oh no, I mean, I prefer being in like the producer director role where I can just tell people what to do and I have like a vision of my project rather than being on the project itself. I am all for presenting I think and that's why these two are on camera more than me. - I just don't think I have enough experience behind the camera to really know if I like being behind the camera more than in front of it.

I do like presenting, but it really stressed me out when you're also presenting the director, the producer and everything is like, everyone's like looking at you for direction. It's like, well, I can't do everything. Come on. - Give me a hand here. - Yeah, 'cause there's some shoots obviously rock up to and like, they're like, so what have you got planned on? I'm like, I don't know. What do you mean? We were just gonna start filming stuff. Like I have no idea. And then it's a bit hard to present 'cause it's like, this is,

in this cafe and it's kind of awkward. It's like, yeah, we'll fix it in post. We'll fix it in post. - I just like to imagine like that's how you are on the actual filming day. And then somehow in post it just turns into, hey guys, welcome back. - There are lots of moments where I'm like, I'll just say something. And then obviously it just cuts into a smooth transition voiceover. What actually happens is I just say something and I'm like, is that good?

- Real good? And everyone's just like looking at me confused. And I'm like, "All right, we'll just do the next thing. We'll go on to the next thing." - Yeah. - Yeah. - That's what I learned from the Aqaba episode that we did where it was my first time actually filming out in the open. And I, because I,

- I didn't know when to stop talking. - A sentence is fine, you can cut. - When no one's directing you, I wasn't used to just being like, okay, silence, is that good? Did we cut there? Do I keep talking? I don't know, did I present enough information? - I guess, yeah, because all of Giga's videos are scripted, right? So it's like a completely different experience being like, well, I know if it's scripted where to pause and when to stop. - I've thought about this before. - You do get used to though, I think,

- Eventually just being like, all right, the camera's always on. It's whatever. I'll just relax when I'm done saying what I need to say. But I think when you initially have it, you're like, fuck, fuck, I'm being recorded. FBI is gonna get this footage somehow. - I'm just still not used to filming in public, I feel. Like I can do videos like off script 'cause I've done off script stuff, I've done on script stuff, but when it's outside,

with just random people watching me, I feel there's like a weird pressure of like, oh, people are probably watching me and judging me. - Judging you. - Yeah, and I can't, so that's why I could never understand people who have the balls to like walk out in the middle of Shinjuku or whatever and just start vlogging by themselves. I don't know how people do that. - I think that's why I like getting permission. 'Cause when I found permission, I feel like it's the green light. - Oh yeah, exactly. When there's no permission though, I kind of have to just be like, oh, they're doing fine. - Yeah, I hate secretly filming. - Hey guys, I'm here now.

- Shit like chin angle as well. - Shit chin angle. - It's like down here, it's like, hey guys. - Because when you did your recent amazing video series, Chris, really great stuff, your "Journey to Mount Fuji", right? - "Journey to Mount Fuji". - Is that the name of the series? - What is it called? I just watched it. - Your amazing series, I don't remember the name of it. What was it again?

- It's "Journey Across Japan, Escape to Fuji." - Fucking hell, Chris, that's a mouthful, isn't it? Come on, YouTube SEO needs to be a bit better. - I like how you went like the proper sequel title to that. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's like "Journey Across Japan, Escape to Fuji Edition." - I was wondering 'cause you filmed in Daiso. Did you have to ask them before or did you just rock up with the camera and stuff? - Daiso, fun fact, one of the only places in Japan you can film without needing permission. - Really? - I hope I'm not just making that up.

- As I've normalized now. - You can go in, you can film that. - Tomorrow news article breaks out. - Wait, wait, wait, how did you find that out? - Just common knowledge. - I know there's a silence like pictures are okay, but I don't know if that means rock up with your film crew and go inside and start, "This is Chris Broad."

And here is a plastic hand for 300 yen. - You make me sound so much better. - That was like David Attenborough. - Just because in my head, Chris sounds way more British than he is. So I think like, yeah, I'm sorry. - What do you mean? He's the most British man alive. - No, no, no, he's not, come on. - Connor's accent is more British than mine. - Really? - He's from Wales.

How does that work? I don't know. - There's people who watch me who say the opposite. They say that I don't sound British enough and that you sound proper British. - Well, because Chris Broad's voice and a Broad in Japan's voice, I feel are two different voices. - They definitely are. - Your presenting accent is a lot more British, I feel, than your just regular talking accent.

- I don't know. - I don't know, Chris. - I feel like it is. - I've known you long enough now where I can kind of differentiate. - I just get lost in the good content. - When you start talking, I know when you're in presenter mode. - I think, yeah, when I'm a presenter, I'm more cynical, sarcastic, and unpleasant.

- You're like that in real life, fuck off. You're like that normally. - Everyone was thinking it, but you were supposed to say it. Unbelievable. - It was fun, 'cause when we filmed the drifting video and we were in the hotel, I was like, oh my God, Chris is just like exactly like me. Just absolutely- - Chris is shit. - Chris is just fucking miserable and complains about everything. Oh my God, it's exactly the same. - I mean, that's just the most British trait you have. - That's like all British TV presenters are. - It is.

That's just any Brit who goes abroad, right? And that's why Brits rarely go like abroad to places that other Brits haven't already been to. Like hearing about a Brit who goes to Asia, we're like the weird ones. - To be fair, that's true. - Normally we just stick in Europe or like fucking Zante or one of the fucking islands, right? I don't fucking know. - Where the fuck is Zante? - It's one of the fucking islands, it's a bunch of party islands.

- They just sound like Game of Thrones locations to me. - What is this you've given me? - It's G Fuel. - It's G Fuel. - Our sponsor. - This is my first time to drink it. So I'm a bit nervous the way you're looking at me. Are you gamified now?

- Are you having like a trip? - It's delicious. - What is it? - It's like fizzy, it's not fizzy, but it's like really sour and sharp. - It's like an energy drink. - I don't know what flavor you have. - Pink lemonade. - Oh, you have pink lemonade. - Pink lemonade. Does it do something? - It energizes you, Chris. - It wanes you into an epic gamer girl. - When I saw Maylene pouring it, she was like.

- You're gonna enjoy this. - I mean, that's just Meilyne. - That's just Meilyne doing anything. - That's Meilyne with anything. - It's scary, but it tastes all right. - There's a little caffeine in it. - Probably. - What does that mean? - Oh yeah, because it's supposed to be, it's like energy drink, right? It's gamer fuel, G fuel. - How does the first drink of 2021 taste, Chris? - Oh yeah, this is the first episode of 2021. - Happy New Year to all of our viewers.

- We survived, lads. - We survived. Well, hopefully, 'cause this is filmed before the new year, so who knows? - Oh my God, that's morbid, isn't it? - It was the last time that the Trash Days boys were seen with Chris Broad. - But I mean, yeah, 2020, not a great year. Maybe this year will be good. - Hopefully. - Fingers crossed. - You guys have any hopes for the new year?

- I think 2020 has taught me to know my place with expectations. I think I've- - Don't get too optimistic about anything. - I thought maybe I could spend more than two hours outside at a time. - Yeah.

- I don't know. Just go, I went on the Psychio line today. Have you ever been on the Psychio line? - Psychio line? - Psychiocent. - Oh. - It's fucking- - I thought it was some sort of self-help line. - Honestly, honestly, honestly, I needed after going on it like this morning, 'cause I go to class at like 8:00 AM, so it's rush hour. - Right. - Yeah.

- Fucking insane. So when you go up to the platform, there's so many people waiting that like they go to the next platform and start like curling off the side. And then it's just a, it is literally like as you saw in the videos and they squish people on. I thought that was just like a, oh. - You've never been in that position before? - Well, I've been on that, now I have every week. But I never used to see it as a tourist because I never used to go at like the 8:00 AM trains. It's not as bad in the evenings.

but definitely in the morning, it's horrible. And right now with COVID, it's like- - If you're coming up to Tokyo, avoid trains between 7:00 to 8:30 AM. - I mean, I still think it's pretty bad in the evenings as well. - But not as bad.

when there's a question of, "Hmm, how many people do I have to push forward to get on this train?" And then maybe just about like cripple myself in it. Like that's a little bit too much. - I had that yesterday when I finished at around 6:00 PM. I feel like 6:00 PM is probably like the worst time to go home. 'Cause I remember it was the same point where, you know, like if you think about how to get in the train and I thought the best way to get in this train is to do a fucking run up.

- Rugby tackle them. - Rugby tackle my way through to get space and they just closed with my backpack, like touching the door. - Yeah. I love all these like just really, you know, skinny like,

train attendants just fucking doing a full on rummy slice. - Yeah, they push them in. - Just like a rugby match. - They treat it like a, you know how someone like get their car stuck in mud light. I'll get out, push it, give it a push. Get out, come on, come on Steve. Give it a good push.

I'm there and I'm like, is there an etiquette when the train is that packed? Like, because I'm crushing this, like these old ladies in this corner and I can't do anything 'cause I'm like fucking the force of Zeus against this door trying to like stop myself from, but when it's like eight people's just like squishing, I'm like, fuck.

- Good God. And you do that on a daily basis? - At least once a week, sometimes twice a week. - I think though the reason why they have to do that in the morning is because they don't want anyone to be late to work. - Yeah, but all those trains always are delayed, that one specifically. - Well, yeah, exactly. Because there's too many people, so counterintuitive. - And then when it gets delayed, more people are waiting for the train and it's an absolute mess. It's a shit storm. I don't appreciate it. Sort that out, Tokyo. And if I got the Rona, you know,

how the fuck would you contact Trace? - Oh my God. - I was on the Psycho line at 7:00 AM. - So who was in the train? Which 10,000 of you also had it? You know what I mean? It's scary. - It'd be easier to say who wasn't on the train. - Yeah, it's scary, man.

- Yeah. - Daunting. - I'm just like, what do I do? If I get it, fuck. All right, well shit. - Have you ever been on like that kind of morning rush? 'Cause you know when you're still in the country. - Yeah, I've come to Tokyo quite a bit and I, yeah, I've done it. And I learned my lesson never to do it again. - 'Cause it's not that bad up in the north, right? - Up in the north, no problem at all. - I'm sure if I started coughing, they'd all run away. They'd make room. - Have you done that? - No, no. Dude, when I get a sneeze now, I have like this zen moment of,

- Hold it, hold it, hold it. - Any form of coughing or any- - Any noise, bodily noise. - Coughing is okay, but sneezes like, it's fucking hard. - That's the scary one. - Because people always look. And even when I'm wearing a mask, I'm just like, do I just sneeze or do I sneeze into my hand?

- Elbow, elbow, elbow in the mask. - I sneeze way too loud to sneeze into my elbow. - You know what's the best way actually to stop a sneeze? There's a pressure point right here on your top lip and if you push that hard enough, it actually stops the sneeze. - You're not gonna do that in public, are you? - Well no, like, you know, like, how does that work? - I would rather sneeze. - It actually works. - I've had so many times where I've wanted to sneeze in public on a packed train. - There's a better technique. You rub here, right?

And that's better than going like that, isn't it? - I just scream really loudly. - I don't know, it's both the same. - Just go like that. It looks like you're just massaging your nose. - Well, yeah, I'm not saying to do this. I'm not saying to make it obvious.

- But like it does work. - You can kind of just like do like, I usually do it with my phone. - Just imagine Chris is on the train. - It's like what the fuck man. - He's pointing me on his knees but it looks like he just did a line of coke. - So good. - I feel like it after this.

- No, like I don't mean like doing it obviously like that, but I usually do it kind of like with my thumb, just very subtly like that. And it stops it every time. I thought it was bullshit too. 'Cause it's the one piece of information that I saw on Japanese TV. And I was like, oh wow. - Oh, come on. - They say stuff like, yeah, shit your pants to get rid of Rona. People would start fucking doing it. They're an absolute bunch of nonsense. - That's why I thought, oh, it's probably bullshit. But you know what? I'll give it a go. And I tried it out once and I was like,

- Okay, maybe that was a coincidence. You did it twice, I was like, you know what? There might be some actual like,

- I want a subreddit for things of, it's probably bullshit, but I'll give it a go. It's like the r/slap, you know what I mean? - I'm pretty sure there is a subreddit or something like that. - I hope so. - Like your fucking grandma's tales or whatever. - r/JapaneseTV facts. - I'm curious about 2020, 'cause obviously you've been making content in Japan. How much has it changed making content traveling around Japan and what kind of like big differences have you seen? Has there been any like major differences apart from the lack of people? - Well, you've got to wear a mask. That's a one change.

- It's a bit hard to present in a mask. - It's been a nightmare presenting with a mask outdoors. - I gotta say, one of the highlights of 2020 was watching Chris with a beer go through his spam comments. - I'm always on the hunt for ridiculous comments. And we certainly had a few. On the second day of the road trip we did, somebody told me I was disrespectful for not enjoying the taste of- - Oh, the bee larvae, right? - Hornet bee larvae.

- Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Natsuki was sick. And someone was like, "You're disrespectful to the Japanese for not liking hornet larvae." - I was like, "But the woman who sold it to us-" - What fucking planet are you on? - Yeah, the woman who sold it to us was like, "I don't like this." - This is shit. - It's not like you said to her, "Oh, this looks fucking disgusting." - It was really weird, that sort of comment.

- Triggered me, that triggered me. - It was a trigger. - Oh wow, wow Chris. - As if that person commenting was like, "Well, I personally love bee larvae." - How dare you? - The hornet larvae. - My family's been producing bee larvae for generations, I'll have you know. - I'm a third generation bee larvae harvester. - Oh, it's like foreign folks who feel they need to defend Japan often come up a lot in my comments. - But people like that, I find usually,

- They never actually traveled to Japan, right? - Have never traveled outside of their country usually. - Right, yeah. Like it's got nothing to do with their culture. Like I would understand a little more if it was a Japanese person who was getting offended for Japanese culture, right? That makes sense. But usually it's like, it's not. - It's just people being like woke, you know?

- Yeah. - Yeah. Like I remember back when I was living in Thailand, like my mom tried to get Sydney to wear like this very traditional Thai dress and Sydney was like, yeah, I don't know about that because like a lot of people can get offended because of like cultural appropriation and stuff like that. And my mom was like, what's cultural appropriation? And like having to explain the concept of cultural appropriation was just completely

- It's completely fucking impossible to like, you know, like a Asian mom. - Right. - It just like did not compute that. Why would anyone get offended on behalf of my, of me? - Yeah. - It's because before the word cultural appropriation came about, it was called cultural appreciation. And now there's such a thin line between what is appreciation and what is appropriation. - Right, right, yeah. It's if you take too much, you know,

- Right, it's like, is a white person wearing a kimono? Is that appreciation or is that appropriation? - If someone started shagging sheep, I would be like, hold on, that's my thing. - I'll take your appropriate. - Come off it. I think a lot of the time, like you said, it's the people themselves are like, yeah, dude, we want you to experience our culture. We want you to share it. - It's like a fucking all these like people who are, you know, when Ghost of Tsushima came out,

And so many people were like, oh, this game is such cultural appropriation to the whole like samurai culture thing. - People said that? - Yeah, when the game first came out, I saw there was this huge thing about it. And it was really funny 'cause there was a guy who gathered a bunch of,

or reviews or like, I guess like, you know, customer reviews of Japanese people who play the game. And they were like, nah, dude, it's cool. - It's epic. - Yeah. White people, please go ahead. Make a game about Samurais. It's fucking cool. - If it's like, if they're obviously respectful towards it, who doesn't want a fucking video game about where they like, their history is like badass. - But there was this whole thing of like, oh, it's a Western company making a game about Japanese culture. And it's like, so?

If they can do it correctly, then what's the problem? - How dare Japanese people make bread? We started that. How dare they make our bread? - How dare white people cook rice? How dare they appropriate? - Sorry, I don't wanna get too anti-woke, but you know what I mean. It just goes too far.

- It's just dumb. I've seen like, especially recently just with the whole PC culture thing, it's just, there's no one can be culturally appreciative of things anymore without at least one person saying, how dare you? That's offensive.

- I think because it's like, people want brownie points on Twitter, right? - Right. - And because there are legitimate cases of people just being straight up disrespectful to culture. - Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. - I think some people see that and they're like, oh, if I do that next time, I'll get Twitter clout, I'll get followers, right? So the next opportunity that comes up, they're like immediately like on it. And then everyone's like, whoa, I mean,

- I mean, not really. - But that's the thing, right? It's like, you know bad intent when you see it. - Oh yeah. - Yeah. - Right? And just some people are just so clouded by that. - I mean, you think you know bad intent when you see it, but some people, it feels like- - Some people are good at bullshitting. - Intent is just lost in a lot of cases. And sometimes it's just hard, especially on Twitter. And like you said, some people are like chasing for this. Some people are like actively looking for any example that they can see.

And it's created a culture where, you know, sometimes you wanna do something where you wanna post something on Twitter, but you don't know who is gonna offend sometimes. - Right, right. - Yeah, it's- - Chris, right? - Yeah. - It's tightrope, isn't it? - I'm scared of saying anything at this point. - Yeah, yeah, no, no. - I like things and everyone. Let's all be happy in 2021. Let's be happy. - Yeah, let's just like stop it. - And what better way to be happy?

than having some sake. - Oh, wow. - So in Japan you drink a lot of sake at the start of the new year. I think I might've just made that up. You do now. - Is this commonly known knowledge? Is it on the side of a Daiso, Chris? - There is a thing, we have Kagami Biraki, right? Break in the mirror at the start of the new year when you work in a Japanese office or a school like I used to like, you had to break a barrel of sake with the principal. And it's really awkward 'cause you got the principal, 100 teachers watching in a barrel.

- You probably see footage of like in front of like shrines and stuff where there's like three or four priests who like get like a wooden mallet and they just crack it. - Oh, I have seen that. - It's really fucking awkward 'cause you smash it and it just goes by the principal and you just feel like a dick. Oh, sorry. - You can't drink it either, right? It's got on the floor.

- Suck it everywhere. - Stuck in. - Fucking chaos, Connor. But we're not gonna do that. But hopefully at some point we can drink that today. - Fantastic. - Mix it with your Kool-Aid. - I don't think we're gonna mix it. - But yeah, this looks good. - I did some socket tasting last week. I tried 14 different types of socket. - Was that for a video? - That was the best. - Oh yeah? - It wasn't for a video. - Are you a fan of socket? - It wasn't for a video. - I am, but I can't tell you the first thing about it.

- It's got floral undertone. - I find. - I mean like the only thing I know is like, yeah, this is the unfiltered stuff, which is gingell. - It tends to give awful hangovers though. - Yeah, I haven't gotten used to sake because it's like- - It terrifies me. - Out of every drink, I'm terrified of getting sake hangovers.

Like every time, like I remember when I came to Japan as a tourist and I would be like, I would drink all you can drink sake all day long. And then I realized, holy shit, I just wanna die the day after. - Oh dude, like I usually get pretty bad hangovers if I drink a lot, but when it's like a sake exclusive, for some reason it gives me the worst headaches.

- It's like, I usually get like the stomach hangovers where my stomach gets really queasy. But with sake, it all goes to the head. And I just wake up with a blistering headache. I don't know why. - I think it's 'cause you drink more of it because it tastes, it doesn't have a strong flavor. - Yeah, like water. - It looks like water. You think, oh, it's pure. And then you have like three and then four and then you're fucked.

- Oh, it's pure. - It's the pure shit. - It's pure. - It doesn't burn nearly as much as vodka. - No, no. - Especially the good ones as well. - Yeah. - Yeah, I enjoy the taste of sake. I just don't like the aftermath. - Yeah. - You wake up in the morning- - I do avoid it. It's one of those things where like sometimes Japanese people will invite you to be like, "Do you wanna come and have sake with us?" And I'm like, "Yeah, of course, of course." And then I'm drinking it, I'm like.

- There are some pretty dicey ones, but that's good stuff. - Yeah, we'll definitely crack this open. - I've got something to show. - Oh. - New Year's celebrations. - I'll put it over here. - Stick it in there. - Mike Wazowski can have a sip. - It's not sake, it's more wine. - Oh my gosh. - Recently I came back from Koshu Valley, which is basically, it's not very well known, but it's kind of like the Napa Valley of Japan where it's this area

and they make a fuck ton of wine. And it's me and Sydney go on it on a yearly trip where we go to the wine tasting place where you pay like, it's now 15 bucks, but you go down to this cellar and there's like hundreds of different wines that you can try unlimited amounts. - British people. - But this time we tried going to some of the local wine makers as well. And there's like a bunch.

Like there's a bunch just in walking distance. And this is one of the wines that I picked. - I love how this podcast has slowly become an excuse for us to just keep buying each other alcohol and being like, "Oh, isn't this nice?" - That's what I've noticed though recently is that like the best, it gets to the age where I'm just like, "Man, what do people want for Christmas or birthday?" - Wine. - Booze. - I'll go on it. - Booze. - 'Cause wine looks pleasing as well. Like to give it, it's like, "You're classy. I respect you. You're class. Take this."

- And I also have some wine grape raisins. - Wine grape raisins? - Yes. - Oh God. - And some wine grape cakes. - Wine grape cake? - Yes. - I love the English on this. - One letter away from sounding terrible. - A lavish taste for adults. A simple and homemade style taste.

- Please enjoy the elegant and delicate savor. - Can't wait to destroy those with some sake and wine. - Yeah, like I don't know when I reached the age that I started to appreciate wine because I remember when I was a kid, these would give me the worst hangovers. It wasn't like sake, it was wine. - Boxed wine.

- Yeah, boxed wine, right? - Well, yeah, of course, boxed wine. It's like drinking petrol, basically. - Echo Falls in the UK, does that? - The big old, like, they're talking about the five pound box. - Yeah, you can get like three liters of wine for like five or four pound 20 or something. - Oh, God, why? - To get smashed, right? - That's horrible. - You're a student, you gotta share. - I remember when I was a first year student, I used to drink like two bottles of red wine every day.

- Fucking hell. - Fucking hell. - The things I did. - Were you okay? - No. I was in a bad place. I think I did like a relationship had ended just before university. And I was like, I'm just gonna ruin myself this year. And so I turned to wine and the results were just dreadful. Don't do that, avoid wine. - You must have gained a lot of weight from that. - Yeah, I mean the hangovers and the things I did.

- So you know when you just wanna wipe a whole year? - Yeah. - From your mind. - Kinda like this year basically. - Yeah. - I guess that's what all this is for, huh? - Yeah, right? - Jesus Christ. - What are your hopes for 2021 then after? I mean, I think we all had hopes for 2020 that went down the toilet. - Do you not feel that like surviving a year on YouTube is a success almost? Like every year you still do it. - No, I'm like, I come into every year thinking this is my last year.

- I've said that for about 10 years now. - I think if you get too comfortable, this platform has a way of sweeping it under you. - As a YouTuber, you just see people who just fall off the face of the planet in the span of like a month. It's scary.

- Like so many channels disappear as quickly as they come and then are quickly replaced with new and upcoming channels. What defines, what leads to a channel to sort of disappear do you think? - I think as Connor said, like most of the time it's comfort. - I think it's complacency. - Over comfort just being like, you know, I have all these subscribers, you know, a lot, of course I don't wanna say any names,

but there's a lot of channels that are much more in the higher subscriber range who kind of are just like, I can make anything at this point and it'll probably still get used. - I hear you're in a good spot where you kind of have to keep going to new things with your content. The way you've built it has forced you to do that.

for a channel like my own, I could do, I have reoccurring series and I could just pump the same ones out. - But you say that, but the videos that tend to do the best on Abroad in Japan, I'm usually just me in my room. - Right, the comments, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. - But I feel maybe it's because you do that now so very often compared to what you used to. - But you have to on YouTube, right? 'Cause you can't constantly be going, doing these week long drives. - But that's what I'm saying. If Chris did videos where you were just in your room reading hate comments or going through your spam or just commentating

verbally rather than showing it, then I feel people would start to be like, oh, this is kind of repetitive. Yeah, but I think it's the fact that you just every so now and then throw it in.

I think I just try and mix everything up with the content. One week I've got like a bullet train, next week I've got hate mail, the week after that I'll do a lovely tale. And that's usually the best, that's usually the channels I feel that survive is the ones that have variety. I feel like you've got to just keep surprising your audience. I agree. Fresh and original. This episode is sponsored by ExpressVPN. Going online without ExpressVPN is like not having a case on your phone.

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"This guy's run out of ideas." - Once or twice a year, I read it and I wanna punch someone. - We all get it. - I've been getting that. - Next "The Broad in Japan" video now, that comment's just gonna be spammed. - It's just like, "Come on, look at the stuff I've tried to do this year." There's so much weird shit.

- I've always wanted to ask people like what constitutes as running out of ideas? - I don't know. - Like, what is it? - Well, it's odd, right? Because I feel like a lot of YouTube comments are like, do the same thing again. Like they're like, but then on the other hand, there's people like that. - But at the same time, they're like, he's run out of ideas. - Run out of ideas.

- But what I don't understand is that there are always people who every single upload, no matter what you do, there'll always be comments that say, oh, it's run out of ideas. I'm like, you wouldn't think that if I had actually run out of ideas, I wouldn't be uploading at all. - I've had it every year for like eight years now. After a year of doing it, I was like, "Have I dosed?" My sister's like, "Yeah, I have, well, I better end now." - It's like, shit, he's right. - And every year someone will be like, "This channel's peaked." So I'm like 2014, this channel's reached its zenith. It's not gonna, it's gonna be shit now.

And then it went on to get better. So that's the comment that- - I know more about your channel than you do. - Everyone does think they're an expert on YouTube because they watch a lot. - And it always sucks as well because whenever I've had, at least with me, I've had a few times where I have genuinely been like, "Oh shit, I don't know what to do now." - You have ideas. - Yeah, yeah. - You have ideas.

- You hear that guys? He's actually ran out of ideas. - Well, you know, like where I get like an artist block and I don't know what to do. - Right. - And I think I'm gonna ask my audience. - Right.

- That's always the worst idea. - And I go on Twitter being like, "Hey guys, what content would you like to see?" And there's always that really one popular vote that's like very vocally spoken about. And you're like, "Well, I guess people wanna see it." 99% of the time you make a video like that, it gets shit views. - Yeah. - And I'm like, "Oh, it's the fucking vocal minority." - To be fair, I do ask sometimes, 'cause like,

sometimes there is like a genius idea, like one. But I've never had more than one good idea. - It's rarely the top voted one. - No, it's never. - It's never the top voted one and most of the ideas you get are just kind of like just recycled ideas that anyone could think of. - All the top comments are just like, "React to Reddit memes, please." It's like, no.

No, I'm good, man. I'm really good. Yeah. Audience suggestions can be a slippery slope. Yeah, when is the audience going to get what they want? Chris Broad reacts to people reacting to Chris Broad. You got to do that. We got comments. People want us to do like a boat ride on Journey Across Japan. A boat ride? Do an episode on a boat.

- That's actually quite fun though. - That's a good idea. I was like, that's not on a boat. - What are you gonna do on the boat? Just complain about how- - It's gonna be amazing. This boat series. - We're gonna like circumnavigate Japan on a boat.

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- There's funny and then there's like crossing the line and crashing, like dying in a car crash with Joey covered in custard. It's a terrible way to go. - It's like, I don't know about your like personal fetishes dude, but I don't think anyone wants to watch two dudes covered in custard for an entire video. - But then again, saying it out loud, kind of on it, no? - Yeah, but even if you did that, right? There'd be more comments to be like, how dare Chris put other people's lives in danger for his shitty YouTube video. - How dare he's wasting food.

Disrespectful to the custard Custard appropriation You know it would happen We did it In the fourth Or the fifth episode Joey and I Sat in some plant pots Which were like These bathtubs I saw that When you did it In your video Yeah yeah yeah Catch a hotel With some plant pots Identical matching Plant pot Shaped bathtubs Someone commented Saying That was disrespectful To the plant

- Like to Japanese- - To the plant pot. - To the plant pot. - It's disrespectful to the plant pot. - How is that offensive? - It's because I think some viewers have this notion of Japan of everything is very meticulous and careful. - Everything is cultural and everything is traditional. - Plant pot bathtubs are not a part of Japanese culture. - If I go to a hotel and it's shit, I'm reviewing it and saying that it's shit. And if they give me a plant pot for a bath, I'm probably gonna be like, "Well, that's a bit of shit, isn't it? "Where's the porcelain bath? Come on."

- Exactly. - I mean, you know, we were like, oh, this is a unique, weird thing that might spice up the video a little bit. I don't know how the fuck we were disrespecting. - I've been in another place that had a bath like that. And it was just uncomfortable. - It was very uncomfortable. I got stuck in it. - 'Cause you're like a fucking like gremlin in this thing, just like.

- That's what I was like in the video. - Sorry, just put my ass in Chris's face. Enter Chris. - Oh God. - That was a very flexible position. I wasn't expecting that. - Call Chris off guard too. Abroad in Connor. - Journey across Connor. - Oh God.

- Bring me along, I'll give Natsuki a run for his money. - I really want to meet Natsuki. - Such a fucking character. - That was like the first time I probably got to speak and hang out with Natsuki. I mean, I've met Natsuki once at like an event that you did after the first Journey Across Japan. - Does he still call you Jelly? - Yeah, he still calls me Jelly. - Yeah. I think he genuinely thought my name was Jelly at first. - Well, he did, yeah. He was like, "Where's Jelly?"

- You mean Joey, right? - Joey, yeah. - I don't mind. It's an endearing nickname. - But I mean, go back to the comments. For all these silly comments, for the vast majority, the comments are nice. - Oh yeah, so-so. - Somebody said to me, when you reach a million subscribers, you're not supposed to read the comments. But I do, I do enjoy doing it, 'cause it feels like,

produce a video it feels like having a party and when you release the video you kind of want to be there and you want to talk to people and see what they think it's the only way you can have that engagement with the audience I think I read the comments on the first day or so yeah and I think my face on YouTube is

- Yeah, but then if the video especially gets in like recommended and starts really taking off is when you start seeing the really fucking stupid comments. - On trending. - On trending or if it starts like if the views start climbing really fast and then you start getting the people who don't know who you are and it won't leave their recommended. - I don't know how I got here comments. - I don't know who this is. - Who's this British knob?

- Do you guys get like, have like a honeymoon period with your videos where you have like this, after you finished like a big project or something, you'd like the first two, three days, you go through every comment, you're just reading it all the time. And then it just, and then you kind of just don't care about it anymore and you move on. - I'd say it's accurate. - Well, because YouTube forces you to be like, oh, you've cured cancer? All right, now cure something else, please. It's like, no matter what you do, it's never, that was a terrible analogy by the way.

It's never good enough for YouTube. - The victory lap is always short, right? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like it doesn't matter how big or how amazing you did. I mean, like look at the like Unus Annus, that channel, right? Like they did like a whole year's worth of content, deleted it, it was a giant thing and now they have to get on about it. - It's weird and scary how short internet memory is. - Crazy. - It's like Unus Annus was an amazing concept, an amazing idea and it's like so impressive that they pulled it off.

But how long is it gonna actually remain in people's memories, you reckon? - It's gonna be tough, man. - It's hard to say because there's like, basically all evidence of it has been removed now as they wanted to. - Do you know what that is, by the way? - Oh, okay. - So there's these two YouTubers, well, Markiplier is one of them and CrankGameplays Ethan. They basically did a channel where they uploaded daily and at the end of it, they were taking it all down. And that was the whole premise. - So in Latin means one year.

- Right. - So basically they would upload every day for 365 days. And then on the 365th day, they would delete their channel. - And they did. - Interesting concept. - Yeah, and then they take down any videos that are re-uploaded. So the whole point of it was to be like in the memory of the people. - Yeah, that's quite cool. - It's really cool.

But again, it's one of those things just like, oh my God, they pulled it off. They did videos that long. And then now it's like, okay, cool, now what? - The only thing that remains now is like just the merch that they released throughout the year long run. - I mean, it's literally like- - It's cool. It's so cool as a creator. - It's such a cool concept. Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's literally like the end of the Truman Show. You know what I mean? Like if you guys seen the Truman Show, like when that ends, people were just like, all right, what's next?

That's literally what it's like being a YouTuber and like making content on the internet. - Yeah, well, you know, it was always morbid. Cause I was always watching Casey Neistat back when he was starting to blow up and doing daily vlogs. And this man was literally sharing like every aspect of his life. And then it's still like, but we want more. Like what else do you have? Show us everything.

And it's like, this man is literally like doing everything the world has to offer. YouTube is like, come on. - Keep going. - And then he stops and then, you know, this channel didn't do very well for a while. Didn't grow 'cause he took a break. 'Cause obviously you're gonna get burned out from doing that. - Oh yeah. - But now he's back. I think he's doing like sparingly. - Is he? - He seems to be happy. Yeah, he seems to be pretty chill. It's crazy though. It scares me that.

- What? - Just having to do that. I think my version of hell is daily uploads. - Daily vlogs. - Daily vlogs and then having to edit that said daily vlog. - It's not just daily vlogs, it was like highly produced daily vlogs. - Yeah, it was insane. - Kind of like what you were trying to do with Journey Across Japan, the first one. Let's not talk about that.

I'd love to see daily Seadog VA. What would it be like? We'd just be sitting in a chair like... It'd be me grumbling for like four hours, playing a video game and then just doing nothing. I'd watch that. Would you? Yeah, yeah.

- I'd be like in the room with you, be like, wow. - I've always wanted, you know how you see those like, those really like shitty BBC, like three documentaries about like unamusing things and like the YouTuber ones. I really want like a BBC four or something to come and be like, follow me for a day and just be like, yeah. So I just kind of sit here all day really and just chat shit online. - You've been playing league for the past.

- What now? It's like, oh, maybe another four more. - I'm gonna talk to people online for three hours. - Yeah, get angry. And then go jack off. - I'm changing the life of a YouTuber. - Conor's gonna go to the supermarket and eat food like normal humans and then go back to his house and eat it. - But with that voiceover, it kind of works. - Maybe.

- He could sell it to me, that's a good concept. - I really want to do something like that just so I can like fuck with the footage constantly while I'm recording. Like put this in, keep that out. - What about doing like daily videos just for a week thing?

- That's scary. That's a lot of work, Chris. - You're not the editor though, are you? - No, but what would I do daily? Like, would it be like the way that you did the Fuji video where it's like- - Just go on a journey across Japan. - Escape. - But don't call it that because that's copyright. - Call it like Japan journey or something. - I was gonna call it- - Japan journey. - I was thinking,

- Perhaps transportation across Japan. - Moving across Nippon. - Each day a different form of transport, a bicycle, a skateboard, a horse. I would watch that. - A horse? - I feel like we're building something here. - I feel like you shouldn't give me a horse 'cause I already call people peasants unironically and I think that'll raise the bar, you know what I mean? - You're gonna like commit like fully dressed up like a prince. Hello peasants. - I actually drove across Japan, well not across,

I drove in Hokkaido recently and that was pretty fun. It was pretty relaxing. - You drove in Hokkaido? - Yeah, it was really relaxing. There was no snow, thank God. - Oh wow. - But it was really chill. It was nice. - Where'd you go? - I drove from Toyoko to, what did I drive? Hakodate? Like Sapporo? - No, no, did you get in the Bori Betsy? Hot Springs?

- I did stop there, but then I was like, fuck. - It's hot, isn't it? - It's kind of like nothing else here. - It's like Japan's number three hot spring resort. - Is it actually? - It's like one of the biggest, best hot spring resorts in Japan. - I was hungry. - Where's McDonald's? - Where's the Burger King?

- I'll go back again. - You gotta go back now. - There was the go-to travel thing. So I saved a fuck ton of money. That's insane. So Japan, inside of Japan for domestic travelers, they're actually giving you 30, 35% off your trip. So hotel, transportation. And then when you got to your hotel, they gave you vouchers as well.

- Yeah. - So I, it's a spend at like the nearby, like the towns like food. - So I stayed in a place that was like $500 a night normally. And it was down to 300 and it included like an eight course gourmet meal. And it was like a private onset. And then on top of that, they're like, here's $200 to spend, which you can also spend to pay on like stuff in the hotel, which I was like, wow, that's epic that is.

- Sounds very familiar. - 'Cause we got like $500 of vouchers or something one night on a journey across Japan and we spent it all in Family Mart. - Oh yeah, that's all right. - Yeah, you can spend it anywhere. - 'Cause we had like one day to spend it and you can only spend it in the same prefecture. - Yeah, I remember that. - 'Cause like four of us just stayed in one hotel room. We got 30%- - So what did you buy? - Just like a fuck ton of booze and snacks. - Really? - $500 worth? - Beer and crisps. - Yeah, there was four of us. It was like a hundred bucks worth of-

- Could you imagine something like that happening in the UK? It would be a fucking frenzy if you told people that 30% off plus get free money to spend. - The Japanese government just went mental with this. - And they're extending it now as well. Did you see that? - Oh God. - They're extending it until like June or something. - Originally it was until the end of March, right? But now it's until like June, July, something like that. - Which is crazy because stuff's already, I think the,

stuff is pretty cheap already here travel wise compared to the UK. - I didn't realize how much Japan's economy relied on tourism until I moved to Japan and I've realized how much people like value tourism here, like traveling. - I mean, scary like in like July,

- Me and Aki went up to Kyoto for our anniversary. - It was dead. - It was scary. I've never seen Kyoto that empty in my life. And we went on a week, like we went to Inari Taisha, the thousand- - Yeah, I've been there as well. - Yeah, on a weekend. It was like a Saturday at like 1:00 PM. So normally I would never go there on a weekend. And when we went, there was like four people there. - Yeah, I went there as well, there was no one there. - It was scary. - It was because of you telling me that.

that I'm actually going to Kyoto tomorrow. - Oh really? - So I'm just gonna be walking around. - Probably perfect time to film. - It was actually like a ghost town, all of Kyoto. There was no one. - I can't imagine going there now when the country opens back up. - Yeah. - I had like the best experience being like, "Oh, Kyoto's pretty chill, isn't it?" - Yeah, yeah. - No tourists, no nothing.

- Yeah, that was literally my impression of it. - And now that I've seen pictures of what Kyoto is usually like, and it looks like literally my hell. - Oh, it's ridiculous. - Yeah, pretty much never want to go back. - You know in Thai shows, you go on a weekend or even a weekday, it's just shoulder to shoulder people everywhere you go. - 'Cause one thing that really turns me off going anywhere, if it's a big tourist, I hate crowds and I hate seeing the tourist selfie, five people doing the same fucking poses and the same fucking selfies.

I'd rather just like chill out at my fucking hotel at that point. - Yeah. - Well now's the perfect place to perfect time to go to like Osaka, Kyoto, all those places. - I just like being fucking lazy. I just like on a vacation, I don't wanna go to a museum or anything like that. - What do you wanna do in Kyoto, Connor? - Nothing, absolutely fucking not. I'll do the obligatory, all right, fine, let's go and see the shit. And then for the other days- - Go and see the shit. - Go and see the fucking- - I wanna watch a travel series with you in it. It would just be-

- I went to that like the thousand, what is it? The thousand shine. And I'm like, oh, it's cool. And I'm like, where are we eating though? - Me and Connery are exactly the same in that sense because like, when you go on a trip with someone and they bring out a schedule, I'm just like, oh God. - No, no, no. Tell me the restaurants we're going to. What are they specializing? And also, are we gonna have at least four meals a day? If not, I'm gonna have a problem because when I travel, I want four meals a day.

Like I'm just gonna eat, eat, eat. Like I'm just an absolute pig. - But you can do that and also in between the meals you can go. - It's stressful, it's stressful. Like I wanna go to a place and I just wanna have no pressure to go anywhere. If I wanna go see something, I will go see something. But like if I feel like I'm pressured into going somewhere that just automatically makes me not wanna go somewhere unless it's a nice restaurant. - Also it's vacation, right? I don't wanna fucking work.

I'd work walking places. - Wow. - Going to see the shrine. - Would you ever consider being a tour guide for your viewers for the right price? - Sure, Chris. - You'll do anything for the right price. - I don't mind. I mean, doing the, oh, we can't talk about that yet. Okay. All right, it was the Trash Taste Special. That was a nice view that we had. I could appreciate that. But then also at the same time, it's like, this is fun for 10 seconds.

but then what are we eating? - Yeah, well, I mean, let's be real. Like we probably would have not gone there if it wasn't for- - To be fair, I don't, like for me, when I go to a place, I don't remember what I saw or what I did. I remember what I ate.

- Why is that? That's not weird. Come on. - That's not weird. I'm the same. - I don't remember what I did in Hokkaido, but I remember the meals. - Really? - Vividly. - I'm kind of the opposite actually. - I had a big fat crab and they murdered that crab in front of me and it was delicious. - I'm actually the opposite. - No, Chris, you added to the flavor. - I'm kidding. - Poor old king crab.

- As much as I love the food, especially in Hokkaido, wherever I am, and especially anywhere you go in Japan, the food's always gonna be good. But I don't know, I'm always kind of the one who was like, yes, I remember going here, here, here, here, here. I'm more of a location person than a food person. - I'll just see like a tourist thing pop up and I went, "Oh, I wouldn't know, it's a bit shit."

- Well, maybe that's the problem. You're kind of going into it with like a negative mentality, right? - I just wanna eat. - What is so special about this place? I think I grew up with it because anytime my parents would take me to this place, we'd like take the tourist pictures. - Oh my God, yeah, my parents would do that as well. - Yeah, and I'm just like, I don't fucking care. I just wanna be in my hotel room and play my fucking Game Boy. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Sometimes you just wanna chill in the hotel room and just like get some food and watch the shit. - I think you just like don't like traveling.

- No, I love traveling, but I hate doing tourist stuff. - As long as there's food. - I like being in a new place. I just don't like actively going to, I like the environment. I like a new environment. I don't give a shit about like sports, hotspots. - I wanna meet people, like chat, drink.

and just eat and chill. - I wanna do something active. Something active. To me, like going to a place and taking pictures is not like an active thing that I enjoy. If there's like an activity there or something I could do, then yeah, great, I'll fucking go to it. - Well, it's weird for me because I like, I don't go to the locations to take photos. If anything, I very rarely take photos at tourist locations because I feel that,

by taking a photo of something, it's like the only thing you're gonna remember is what's in the photo. Whereas like, I wanna actually remember me going there. - That's some hipster shit right there, Joe. - Then rather than like taking- - I'm the opposite, I just forget everything. So I need to have a photo of me being like, "Ew." And that rekindles the memories that I've lost. - Really?

With my trip to Kyoto, I've got no plan though. Like going on what you guys have been saying, like this time I'm there for a week, no plan. Is it vacation or are you filming? Kind of half and half. Like I'm doing a documentary on old dilapidated Kyoto houses that have been redone and whatnot. Mm.

and whatnot, that'd be really nice. But like really no plan. I can just walk around and see what I can kind of find. - Also I like the feeling of discovery as well. I like going somewhere and not knowing what I'm gonna see. If it's like, if it's all planned and you know, people have like research this place and I'm like, I know a really cool place 'cause I've read up, read about it and everything.

It feels less special than just like driving around and seeing a cool place and just being like, that sounds, that looks cool. - You're completely right. Like my cousin came over last year to Kyoto. We had like one day and we literally just got in a taxi. I was like, I had a king kakujy, go to the Fushimi in Aria, we'll just do it. Went to all these like five places. It was all right. He saw everything, got the photos, but it wasn't really any good memories or experiences as a result.

- Well, I mean, I don't like, whenever I go somewhere, I'm not the one to be like, all right, these are all the tourist locations, let's go here. Like I'm still very like picky choosy on where I want to go. - 'Cause to me it feels like playing an open world game where you have all of like the checkpoints like marked out already. Well, I like a breath of the wild kind of experience where I'm just like exploring that place.

- Yeah, I mean that's- - You do get that in Kyoto though. Like Kyoto you really do feel like a video game. You can discover little shrines, little restaurants. - Oh, there's so many. - Coffee shops, there's so many cool- - Well, especially with Kyoto, I actually, if anything, I avoid taking the trains anywhere. We always walk from one location to another because the walk along the way is where you find all the cool shit. And then on top of that, you get to go to a tourist destination. So it's like best of both worlds in my opinion.

- Absolutely. - Yeah, like for me, my ultimate holiday or my ultimate tourist spot is just put me in like a cool place and just don't tell me anything about that place and just let me just go with myself.

- Fuck, it was so hot in Kyoto. I remember I was sweating my ass off there. - Well, when did you go? - It was awful. - When did you go? - It was summer, like July or something. - Yeah, we went there too. - I thought I was gonna die. Did not like that. Did not like Japanese summer. It was as bad as everyone said it was going to be, but I thought everyone was exaggerating. 'Cause I was like, there's no way it can be that awful, but it was. - No, it's pretty bad. - Finna open this sake and have a bit of a taste test. - So Chris, what are your new year's resolutions for this year? - To be on Trash Taste.

- A third time. - A third time. - A third time after this, after this, yeah. - Well, you are the first guest of 2021. - I'm the first reoccurring guest. - First reoccurring guest. - And I got my thing up on the wall. I love you guys, especially Jay. - How do you feel with all these like, little more elaborate skissies? - I put a lot more effort into theirs than I did. I look like I was like scribbling it the last minute before I got on a train or something. New Year's resolution.

I think I say that every year. - That's like the most generic New Year's resolution anyone could- - Are you actually going to though? - I would do something really bold, right? I'm gonna say, I wanna make Natsuki famous, my good friend Natsuki. - I would argue that Natsuki is kind of already famous. - Like world level, global, Tom Cruise level famous. - Is that possible? How would you go about doing something like that? - I think at first you would have to get to that point, right? You said I'm not world famous.

The wall frame is Chris Broad. Fucking hell, Joey, that's a lot, isn't it? Jesus Christ. I'm going to be in a hospital by the end of this. But for hers as well. For him. Is it smelling? Interesting fact, depending on how you drink sake, like in a cup or a glass, it smells and tastes differently.

- That's kind of like how wine works, right? - It tastes differently because if your nose is over the glass, you get more of the scent. - That's commonly known. - Common noise, common noise, right? - Somebody's gonna destroy me in the comments. He's wrong about everything. - It's okay, nobody comes here for actual knowledge. - 2021, 2021, let's make it a good one.

- Yes. - Let's see how this tastes then Chris, see if you've got shit taste. See if you've got the trash taste on. - That's very smooth. - That goes down smoothly. - It's very smooth. - Felt like James Bond where they have to say the title of the Bond film every time.

- Have you guys ever had a New Year's- - Oh, come off it. - Oh my God. - It's good. That costs like $12. - $12? - That's good stuff. - He's being a baby. - That's expensive for sake. Some sake bottles are like four bucks. - No expense spared for you, Connor. - It tastes like a sour barrel. - Oh. - But thank you, Chris. - Is that cultural appropriation?

- You're disrespectful to the people who made the sake. - You disgust me. - It's not bad, it's not bad. It's just, I don't really drink like strong liquor.

- I'm a bit of a little bitch with that stuff, I won't lie. I'll do a shot reluctantly, but you know, when we go out to a cigar bar or whatever, we'll go- - You go to a cigar bar? - Yeah, we went to a cigar bar. - We're gonna take you. - We're gonna take you. - Oh my God, Chris, come on. So we'll go and these boys will be like, "We have to get whiskey 'cause we're civilized men." And I'm like, "I'll have the pinkest drink that you have." And I have no problem with doing that because I know what I like, Chris. - Does the drink name have the word bitch in it? I'll have it.

- Which one has glitter in it? Tell me that. - Have you brought out your own like trash taste sake yet? - No. - Is that something you could hook up for us, Chris? Do you know a guy? - Can we make that a new year's resolution for trash taste? - Release a trash taste sake. - You could each like make the drink. You could like choose what's in the sake or the beer. - Can we actually do that? - With each person? Yeah.

- And my sake brewery that I have now. - Wow. - In my imagination. - We need to do that for a special and have Chris be the chief taste tester. - I would be up for that. - You would be, of course you would. - I would do that. - Okay, okay. - I will choose the best sake. - I've actually looked into like crafting my own beer and your own wine and apparently it's illegal in Japan

Apparently, even though you can buy kits in Japan, but it's illegal to make it, but you can buy the kits. - What the fuck you do with the kits? You just pop it up on a shelf. - It's like- - My prized sake building kit right here. - It's good like they have like radios as well. Like when we did, when we got walkie talkies, the laws in Japan were really strict with walkie talkies, given that you can't use some frequencies. Half the shit on Amazon in Japan is like the illegal frequencies. And it's like, why are these being sold? What?

- Good God. Did you get like police on it while you were- - You could, you might accidentally get like the police like picking you up, you know, being like- - Get the FBI on it. - It'd be pretty scary, wouldn't it? - You're on the other end of it. - Or you'd see your ass and then a police officer's like talking shit to you. Oh my God. - I was trying to ask this earlier, but have you guys ever had a New Year's resolution that you've actually kept to or-

- Have you guys actually had a New Year's resolution period? - I did actually have one to lose weight and I did actually lose weight that year. - How much? - Fuck you, Chris. I'm kidding. I think I lost eight kilograms that year. - Eight kilograms? That's pretty good. - Or was that the year where you ate nothing but chicken and broccoli? - Yeah, yeah. I was a bit of a chonker, dude. I was a little bit of a chubby boy. - That's the thing though.

- You were saying like, oh yeah, I wanna lose weight. - Dude, look at my old videos, dude. I was chubby. - No, no, that's the thing. I have old photos of you and you're in some of my old videos as well. And back then I was like, no, he's fine. He looks like a healthy weight. But then I look at you now. - Why are you laughing at my meals, Chris? - Just picture you with chicken and broccoli every day. - Yeah, it was depressing. It was fucking awful. - It's a full night again.

- Day 100 chicken and broccoli. - I pretty much just was like, all right, the highlight of my day was the protein shake, which was somewhat sweet. I was like, oh, this is amazing. - Chicken and broccoli in it.

- No, sadly, I would have my like- - It's just chicken and broccoli in a blend. - It would be like white chocolate protein shake and it would not taste like white chocolate. And then I would go home and be depressed and cook fucking chicken and broccoli for like the fifth time that week. - I just imagine you like in the supermarket and your trolley's just full of nothing but chicken and broccoli. - My roommate hated it because we would take turns cooking.

So they would cook something. If it was not very good for you, all right, fine. But then I'd be like, guess what? We're having tonight. Guess what I'm making tonight? It's the Connor specialty. It's steamed chicken and broccoli. I think that should be your resolution for this year. Chicken and broccoli on a daily basis. For the whole year. To be fair, not that difficult. Because in the family mart, you can get those chicken tikka breads.

- So did you like mix up the dish every day? Like one day it was like chicken and broccoli in a curry, next day- - No, it was just- - Oh my God. - It's literally just chicken and broccoli. - I would boil the broccoli and I would chuck the chicken in the oven with some like peri-peri like seasoning. And that was it, every day. - I always make a C-Dog VA cookbook. - Chicken and broccoli cookbook. - I feel so sorry for Cena, man. - I mean, okay, it's like,

- It's tough because at the time, I think the problem is now is that I socialize. Because I think when you actually have friends that you go out with, because in the UK, you don't actually go out that much with your friends. Like I think, I think it's a bit of an event. - In the UK, it's more of like a weekend thing.

Whereas moving to Japan, especially as a- - You do it in the week a lot. - Yeah, you go out during the week a lot, even if it's just good to go out for like lunch or dinner. - Yeah, I think I meet people for lunch or dinner at least three times a week now. And like, it's so hard to diet when you're going out and you're having lunches and you're, 'cause normally when you have lunch on your own, you might have a sandwich. When you go to a restaurant to have lunch, it's always just, it's so fucking much. Why have you got that face, Chris? - It's chicken and broccoli.

So if you don't socialize, it's really easy to just feed yourself fucking garbage and just like, you'd be like, all right, fucking chicken and broccoli. - Yeah, I mean, in the UK, you go out to meet a mate and it's either a sesh or hard sesh or like a fucking disgusting sesh. - And you have like a fucking giant curry or a kebab, you know, and you fucking kill yourself. But if you're at home, you know, it's really easy to just,

eat a lot of broccoli. - I could probably eat chicken and broccoli if it was peri-peri seasoning. Honestly, like I- - Yeah, because like when you said like chicken and broccoli, I thought like maybe like salt and pepper. - Yeah, salt and pepper, yeah, of course. - But if it's like peri-peri seasoning or like some kind of like marinate, then it's a little better. - Not much. I would buy this like pre-packaged garbage and it would like, you would have to put it on the chicken before you cooked it. And they would say like, oh, it'd be,

in the picture it looked like absolutely coated. But what would end up happening is one splodge of this chicken would have a fuck ton of seasoning and the rest of the chicken was bone dry 'cause I just burned the shit out of it. - I got desperate the other day and I was like really missing, I was really missing Nando's. I looked up if there was like anywhere you could import Nando's sauce. It was like 50 quid for a bottle of Nando's sauce. And I was just like,

and I click the buy button. And I've never felt so disappointed in myself that I've gotten to the point where I've spent 50 quid to buy a bottle of Nando's sauce. - How much sauce are we talking? - It's like a medium bottle. So it's not even that big. I was just missing Nando's so much. I miss Perry Perry, man. I miss my Perry Perry chicken. - How much wealth is too much? - It'll be worth it when you...

- Plop it on your feed. - Plop it on your chicken and broccoli. - What's the Chris Broad diet then? If you're mocking my chicken and broccoli, you're just fucking winging it. Just every day you wake up, you're like, fuck it, might have a chicken tikka. - The only thing I can cook is omelets. So it's either omelets or more omelets. - Wait, so what are you eating when you're dieting then? - Omelets, innit?

- Just omelets every meal. It's like, oh, it's five o'clock. Know what time that is? Another omelet. - You can mix it up though. You can have like cheese in it. You can have chicken. - You can't have cheese on your diet. - Chicken and broccoli omelet. - You shouldn't be having cheese when you're dieting, Chris. Come on, that's awful for you. - It's protein, isn't it? - Cheese and protein? - So is chicken and broccoli. - You know what would spice up an omelet?

- Chicken and broccoli. - Take the trash taste diet ladies and gentlemen, chicken and broccoli for a week. - You don't lose on chicken and broccoli, Chris. You just win. - You should try a chicken and broccoli omelet next. - I also followed this strange YouTube guide that was like, it was apparently this soup that would make you lose weight 'cause it would have negative calories. - What? - But you would have like mad thoughts.

- Well, essentially, yeah, because you would put- - Okay, okay, wait, wait, wait. How would you have negative calories? - So the ingredients in it would actually make you like, so like celery, for example. - Like celery, right. - It had a lot of celery in it. So you would end up, it actually took more calories to quote unquote, digest it than it was to eat it. - Really? - And I would make this giant thing of it. And it was just a bunch of fucking vegetables, like onions, cabbage. - How did it taste? - Like fine, because you would put like onion soup powder in it.

and like a can of tin tomatoes. So it just tastes like a shitty minestrone soup. But you would have like a giant fucking bowl of this shit. And you're like, oh my God, oh my God. 20 minutes later, your stomach is still full, but you're like, I'm hungry.

I'm so hungry and you're full, but you're like, you're farting nonstop as well. It was awful. I couldn't stop farting. - That's all the calories. - Yeah, and the comments on this video are all about how people cannot stop farting and about how it's causing problems. - That's what you use all the calories for, like for the violent shit. - Honestly, it was embarrassing. I was on like the train. I just, every time I managed to hold one in 10 seconds later, another one would claw its way out.

I was like, "Should I just give up and start farting?" 'Cause I was also trying to exercise as well. And there's nothing worse than needing to fart while you're running. 'Cause how do you, 'cause when you're- - That's how you shock yourself. - Because when you're sitting down, you can kind of like,

- You can gauge if there's a soul in the room. - You can kind of maneuver it out. You can kind of like massage it out of your cheeks. But you're farting, when you're running, it's like, do I just let this boy come out at full speed? But then you realize the treadmill is so fucking loud that you're like, just fart away. No one's gonna care. - Disgrace, disgraceful. - Fuck off. - The British gentlemen. - There's no way they'll hear, 'cause I'm fucking on the treadmill.

Well, I've told you my New Year's resolution. But like, and you said like, is there a resolution you can keep? The only way is to do like, become a better person. Keep it vague, right? And then you can decide the parameters on the fly. How many times? If it's a bad...

- At some point then you might as well just say stay alive. Become a better person. - Eat food. - I'm going to eat this shit. - Take a shit. - What's your resolution? - I never really like made resolutions 'cause like I used to when I was little because my entire family would. So I was like, I guess I have to make one too. But then I don't think I've ever kept a resolution my entire life.

- I don't know, maybe it's because I'm too over ambitious with my resolutions. - The most ambitious resolution you've ever seen. - Oh, I don't know. - YouTuber edition. - Top 10 ambitions. - My new year's resolution this year is to do a video with Chris Broad on my channel. But I don't know what the fuck to do with you, Chris. - Broccoli and chicken. Chicken and broccoli special.

- A broad in a pan, my spin off channel. - A broad in a pan. - Master Chef with Chris Broad, who makes the best omelet. - You ever heard of homelets before? It's gonna be great.

- My real resolution is to do a life-changing event this year. - What does that mean, Chris? - It's positive. Something good, something big. - It's positive. - What counts as a life-changing event? - Sounds really bad, like breaking my arm for fun. But like, I don't know, like making something or doing a challenge, like doing a really crazy challenge that is like amazing and wow.

- It's very vague, isn't it? - Please help me with ideas in the comments. - How about a race across Japan? - Race. - Race to Mount Fuji. - Race to Mount Fuji again. - I wanna do something really big, really stupid and awesome that will define me for the rest of my life. That is my New Year's resolution. - That's like a fucking massive goal 'cause how would you define- - Yeah, I was about to say, don't be too overambitious. - Talking about overambitious resolutions. - Yeah, that sounds hella overambitious. - Why not?

- I'm 31 this year. - I want Chris to have his own NHK show. I want Chris on TV. I want your own TV show. I want your own TV show called "Are You YouTuber?" Where you interview different YouTubers. - I mean, I've, yeah. - Like a street interview thing where you go off to like random foreigners in Japan and go, "Are you YouTuber?" - Oh gosh. I mean, yeah. - I have a second TED talk.

- Yeah. - How can you top that? - That's my resolution. I wanna do a TED talk. - On what? - Anything. - Anything. - Anime tiddy. - Yeah, anything. - I don't fucking know. - If the offer comes up and it's like, I don't care if it's like YouTube based or anime based or I don't know, maybe Japanese based or something. - Joey, the University of Tokyo needs your help. We need anime tiddy experts.

for our centerpiece TED talk. - I've seen so many TEDx talks where I just like,

- There's not a whole lot of like educational value. It's just fun. - The problem with TED talks in general is that they'll often propose a problem, like the world's gonna end and they'll make you depressed. And then you're kind of waiting for a solution. Then they're like, good luck with that everyone. And then they walk off stage, it's like, you told us the problem, great, what's the solution? I feel like they don't do that enough in a lot of TED talks. - My favorite one is when they talk about something for like 20 minutes and they segue into the actual topic and there's like three minutes left. Those are my favorite TED talks.

- But that's what I've noticed, right? Like a lot of TEDx talks are just kind of, let's get this person who's really passionate about something and just make them spew their passion for 15 to 20 minutes. - Spew their passion. - Well, I think Adam Savage did a really good one, right? About cosplay. - Yeah, his love letter to cosplay. - That was really good. - That one was really good. - I haven't seen that one. - Yeah, it's basically him just saying like, yeah, I've been to Comic-Cons and comic conventions for the past like 15 years and I've always cosplayed at one

So apparently there was a, I forgot which one it was, but there was like, I think it was like New York Comic Con or something where he cosplayed as No Face from Spirited Away. And you know, in that one, it's like a full on costume. And because the character doesn't talk, no one knew it was him.

until after the convention when he said, "Yeah, that was me." - That's trippy. - And everyone was like, "But I talked to you and took a photo with you, what?" - That's pretty cool. - Didn't Bryan Cranston cosplay as Bryan Cranston from like "Breaking Bad"? Like, no, no, he like, no, no, he wore like a Bryan Cranston mask in like one of the Comic-Cons and like, you know, wore like the ball to white costume and just walked around and no one knew it was Bryan Cranston the entire time. - Oh, that's so right. - That is insane. - We gotta cook, Jesse.

It's like, wow, you do a really good impression. - Oh my God. - That'd be cool. - I guess my new year's resolution is to

- Get a schedule for my uploads, I think. - Good one Garnt, good one, good one, I appreciate it. - You've been saying that for the past 10 years, Eric. - As long as I've known Garnt, there has been a mystical schedule somewhere that exists in the sky. - I mean, I can relate to you. What dictates your schedule? 'Cause my schedule used to be really chaotic. - Yeah, right now, like before, okay, so there was my schedule before Trash Taste and then after Trash Taste.

And before Trash Taste, there was less of a schedule, but at least I could guarantee, hey, I will make like at least two videos a month and it will come out. And now it's just, okay, I finished the video. I don't know when the next video is going to be. And yeah, it's, I mean, my personal schedule this year, especially for the last six months has been like way more chaotic compared to my entire five-year career on like YouTube or whatever. - It's funny.

- You managed to get a schedule for Trash Taste in six months and you've been doing your own channel for 13 years and you still can't get a schedule going. - It's weird talking to Joey and Connor and hanging out with them and like,

and hearing how you can be ahead of the schedule and have videos planned out ahead. And I'm just like, what is this five head move that I've never heard of before? - I mean like that would just fucking, that would freak me and stress me the fuck out if I brought out a video and I had nothing. - Nothing else ready, yeah. - Welcome to my world, Joey. - Yeah, well, welcome to my world. - I don't know how you two do it. Like, well, the pressure's on to make the videos count.

- Do you not feel like though, like the moment, like you can't enjoy your weekend or whatever 'cause sometimes you're just worrying about like, fuck, I haven't got the video done. - Yeah, that is a big problem that I'm trying to solve. Like I see you guys on weekends, I'm just like, well, these guys don't look stressed about making videos at all. - I try to, try to say at least seven times

Saturday and maybe Sunday off, but I always try at least take one day off where I don't do something. But I normally always fail. - Yeah, I always try and take at least like two days off. Like it doesn't have to be a weekend, just any two days within the week, just a day where I'm just not working on a video, not planning anything, just chilling, doing hobbies or whatever. Maybe I should just change my content. - 'Cause otherwise I'd go in. - I mean, like simpler videos, like me just reacting. - Yeah, Chris reacting to people reacting to Chris. - But here's the thing, it's like,

at least my personal goal for 2021 of YouTube is to be like a lot more ambitious in my videos, but the problem with more ambitious content. - Why are you laughing? - What do you mean by ambitious? As in like videos that take more preparation to like actually film and kind of construct and you know, a lot more like narrative based, I guess that requires a little more preparation than just,

writing a script or just flicking on a camera and starting to talk, right? But the problem is with that is that if I wanna also maintain a schedule, which I would like to, then I also have to plan things way ahead of time as well. So like, as of right now, I am...

like about a month and a half ahead in terms of videos. - Oh God, you bastards. - Yeah, I have like- - Yeah, I know, right? - That's my exact reaction. Like, fuck you. - I've got like the next video filmed and I've got to edit it. And then I've got like another two ready to go. - Yeah, I've already filmed like six videos. That's just waiting to get edited. - Oh, fuck. - Yeah, 'cause I think hanging out with you guys, I've realized I've just kind of normalized working every day. And then I realized that's just not normal. - Yeah, right. - Well, but the thing is, is that like, I'm also working every day, but also,

making content for the Anime Man channel is not the only thing I do now. I have like Trash Taste and I have like my other hobbies that I wanna put in. - You've been everywhere the last few months. - Yeah. - You've collabed with like everyone and their mum over the last three months. - Pretty much, yeah. - I've seen like Joey again. Oh, is Joey there? - Yeah, but- - Even in my videos, he's there. - Yeah, I know. - He's everywhere. It's mental.

- Yeah, so many people are like, I think there was one week where you uploaded an episode of Journey Across Japan and then I also did a video on the same day. - Jack set to go as well. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. And people are like, how is he at home filming with Jack when he's on a road trip with Chris right now? - How can he do that? - How is he doing it? - I don't know. - Did he like go back home quickly and then like join up again with Chris afterwards?

- I would like to get more collab into my content. That's another new year's resolution. I wanna make, I wanna shift my content that's more friendly for collabs. 'Cause like, I don't think I've, I think I've done one collab in my life.

And that's been pretty much it for my entire time on YouTube. And that's just because my content doesn't really lend well for collabs because the only way I could collab is if I can have like a guest reviewer. And like what I think when I see guest reviewer is like, remember those like, oh, that guy with the glasses? - I hate that. - Review collabs where it's just like, hey, here's an expert on the subject. And it would be like the most awkward scripted

- Joke to introduce them. - And then they're not as charismatic and it's like, oh, well I kind of- - I've made those videos back in my day where like when I had like more of like the scripted like rant type of videos, I would always have like a friend of mine come in being like, what are you doing here? - Yeah, that exact thing. - I'm here to talk about this. - It's so not- - What is that?

- That's literally what it was like. - How did this man get a YouTube channel? How did he make it grow? That's what I wanted to know. - It was the most unnatural Guy Fieri-esque, like, "I'm here now, let's talk about what's up."

- The worst parts, the worst ones were when it was scripted as if you both didn't know you were going to be in this video. You know what I mean? - Yeah, it's the, "Whoa, what are you doing here?" type of thing. You can make that funny, but when it's like a scripted type of like discussion-based video, there is no natural way to write that in a script. - I've always found it awkward and cringy as fuck.

- And that's why I stopped doing it. 'Cause I look back at those videos, I'm like, oh, that was a mistake. - Right. - I shouldn't have done that. - And I guess like I've been in plenty of collabs this year and I kind of realized, ah, this is kind of fun. I wanna do this stuff. - I'm the same. I didn't really collab much. You were the first person I did a collab with on the original "Journey Across Japan." - Oh yeah. - And you got a bit of hate for it, I find. - Yeah. - 'Cause like, you know, at first your viewers are like, who's this person in your videos? They've kind of broken into the world, right? They always feel like,

It's nice to have a personal connection. - Especially when it's another YouTuber. - Yeah, another YouTuber. But this time there was nothing like that. Everyone loved you because it's been accepted. And I do quite like doing collabs now. It's quite fun. - You just have to find the balance of course. - You have to find the right people. - The right situation. - Yeah. - Sometimes like you take a look at a...

- Sometimes like I've done so many collabs in my time where I've kind of figured out like just because you're friends with a particular YouTube and just because you guys can, you know, supposedly talk about whatever in your off time, it doesn't necessarily mean that they can be in any video you want on it. - Yeah, and I typically wait until I've known that person like a year

like a year or two. - Yeah, exactly. - You've got another year. - Fuck, Chris. I've got a calendar on my wall to count down to collab with Chris. - Maybe a news resolution for 2022. Your news resolution for 2021 is get friendly with Chris. - You also, at the end of the day, it's kind of awkward, right? If like you bring a nonstop bunch of guests off and what if they're just more entertaining than you?

Like constantly, like every single guest you bring on. - But that's the other thing, right? It's like, that's the other thing. Like you, if you hang out with a person enough and that, you know, you especially work in the same field, you kind of get the idea of like, okay, this is their video, right? - Yeah. - Like you can't out-channel like- - It's like a unspoken etiquette.

- Right. - You know what I mean? - Like, I'm not gonna like, you know, 'cause I did my best to not, you know, fucking take too much of the spotlight away from Chris. - Take my spotlight. - 'Cause I'm like, this is Chris, like, I understand this is Chris's channel, this is his show. - And I was like that in your video, when you did the capsule hotel. - Yeah, right? - The shipping container. - Yeah. - And I was just like, I'll just,

- You just kind of like follow, you kind of follow their lead, right? 'Cause they're gonna do the over the top intro or whatever. - Right, right. So like you kind of just have to learn that through experience, I find. - You just gotta be the, you just gotta like be subservient. - No, no, no, no. - Be the dog that you are.

- I was gonna say be the supporting cast member. - Right, right. - That's a little more positive, there we go. - Servant. - Be the pet. - The dog. - Oh God, oh God. - Know your place. - Yes, dear. - Shall we get naked and in the bath now? We're doing a shot.

and you're going to like it. - That's kind of like what it was. - That's what happened in "The Thousand Year Old Love." - Joey, Joey. - Where is he? - Oh God. - Yeah, I don't know. I also wanna keep doing collabs as well, but I kind of, again- - You're the collab king. - Yeah. - When I look at it, I look at- - Supposedly. - People I know who have done collaborations with more YouTubers, you all have probably done it more than anyone. - Yeah, I mean- - The man who doesn't say no. - Right, I don't know, I just have like a,

I feel there's like a totally different quality to doing a collab regardless of what the content might be. Like in my opinion, if someone told me, okay, you can make a YouTube channel and you can have all these millions of subscribers with millions of views, but you can't collab with anyone. I kind of be like, well then what's the point? - That's a fucking lie. - Fuck off. - Because like legit, if I did an entire year worth of content, if I did an entire- - Why are you laughing?

- If I did it like legit, like if I did an entire year worth of content just by myself. - It wouldn't be fun. - I would be like, it's not fun, but I'm still getting paid. Fuck it, I'll do it. - I'm gonna be honest lads, the suck is hitting and I don't know why. - Go finish the bowl.

- It's delicious, what can I say? - It's like drinking fucking paint cleaner straight from the barrel. - I bought this just for you Connor. - No you didn't Chris. - You wanna be friends with Chris, right? - You probably bought too much and you were like, fuck it, let's unload one on the boys.

- How dare you? How dare you, Connor? - I know you have the British mindset. I know how it is with gifts and us, come on. It's a last minute thing and you're like, "Oh, fuck it." - $12, Connor, I spent that. - I'll pay you $12 to not bring it next time.

- Send it back. - To get me something else, get me a wine. - Okay, then like who, say if like gone Chris, like who is like other than the people you already know, who is a YouTuber that you would want to probably collab with the most? - Well, I mean, Chris, you have to say my name that quickly. I mean, come on. - It's a really difficult question.

- Like, is there a title or like maybe not a particular person, but like, is there a type of YouTuber? - Susan Wojcicki maybe? - Yeah. - Yeah, Wojcicki. - I don't fucking know. - Susan Wojcicki. - Wozowski. - Wozowski. - Yeah. - Oh yeah. - YouTube CEO, your best friend now. - Best friend. - Your biggest fan. - Yeah, I saw that, I couldn't believe it.

That was really weird. - That was surreal, that. - I couldn't believe that either. And also YouTube, the actual official YouTube channel commented on our video when we saw Mount Fuji saying congratulations. - Oh, was that on our video? - I didn't even know YouTube had an official- - I thought it was the Fukushima video that they commented on. - No, they commented on us. Oh no, that was Susan. Yeah, that was Susan.

but the YouTube official channel, when we saw Fuji, we were like, "Well done, lads." And I was like, "Is that someone?" - Hell yeah. - YouTube has an official channel with 35 million subscribers. They wished us good luck. - Goddamn. - Thanks, YouTube. - Thank you, YouTube. - Now stop demonetizing my content, please. - Yeah, I don't know who I'd want to collab with. I feel like if I knew who I wanted to collab with, I'd need to- - You would've done it by now. - Yeah. I need to figure out what's,

- The thing I hate the most is seeing collab content that's very obviously, very forced collab content. - Desperate. - In your recent one, it makes sense to have someone else there to play off of, right? And yeah, sorry. - Yeah, I'm right here. - This guy. - I mean, Jason. - Unfortunately, I refuse to say his name since he took my spot.

- Chris promised this spot for me and then Joey came in and swooped it away. I couldn't believe it. The audacity. I'm kidding, by the way. - Oh my fucking God. - Oh, you fucked it. - Oh wow. - Uh oh. - It's this wine bottle opener. This is the $1 fucking wine bottle opener for Daiso. - That's fucked up. - You didn't need to drink that anyway. - That's the wine out the window. - It gives it a more earthy texture anyway. - This is good wine as well.

- I used to work at a castle and I did that an awful lot. When I was serving guests, I'd fuck it up. - You worked at a castle? - What was significant about the castle here? - Hold on a second, you worked at a castle? - Which castle? - Didn't I mention I served Prince Andrew and Elon Musk? Not to say no, that'd be mental. - Wait, how is this the first I'm hearing of this?

- This is the first time hearing of this from me. - Please expand. - It's not the sake talking. - Come on. - I worked at a castle on Elon Musk's birthday. - Which castle? - I can't say. - I didn't really want to say. - Windsor? - Windsor Castle. - It's more than Windsor Castle. - I don't know, it's the only one I know. - Every town in the UK has a castle somewhere. - There's like four next to where I grew up. - All right. - Yeah, Elon Musk's birthday.

And I had to bring out his rocket shaped birthday cake and sing happy birthday. - Did he actually? Does he also have a Lightning McQueen bed at home? - Did he rock up with just the biggest blunt in his hand? - No. - What? - Well, yeah. - No, he did. - He did. He did. No defamation here. - Oh, oh, oh. - Oh, oh, oh. - Oh no, it's breaking. - Grab it by the hand.

This is so tense. - So I did see, Chris, that there was a Japan Times article that heavily featured you, which was discussing the reaction videos about Japan. - Yeah. - Was there a Japan Times article? - Yeah, there was. - It was a Japan Times article. - That was the first time I really heard about it. For some reason, since September, there's been about 25,

reaction videos for Brawl in Japan from primarily Japanese YouTubers. And I didn't know that. I thought there was like two or three. Then I read the article on Japan Times. It's weird they felt that was a topic. Right, right. Great they did. Thank you, Japan Times. But they were like, it's becoming really popular. I think people are getting really interested in

hearing what Japanese people think of foreigners living in Japan and kind of reacting to it. - But then when you ask them, they're just like, "I don't fucking care." - Yeah, they're just like, "They're there." - I think people want it to be a lot more interesting than it actually is. - Yeah, and I've watched a few and they're not-

- That's the thing, I'd be more inclined to hear what a Japanese person would think if they were actually giving an opinion. But they're not, they're usually just like, mm. - I mean, as someone who doesn't really understand why reaction videos are good, I found it quite difficult to grasp. And I've watched a few.

'cause they're Japanese, they're very nice and kind and polite. - Right. - They're British, they'd be like, "This guy's a prick. "What's he talking about?" - But I would argue that's more of an interesting content, right? At least you get to hear someone's opinion, whether it be positive or negative, rather than just on the fence type of like, "Oh yes, yes, this is a video indeed." - If someone watches your video and they're silent and they get a million views, there's something about that that's like... - But one guy did do that. - Yeah, yeah. - He's just going,

- It's just me saying something like, "Don't do this in Japan." - It's literally just a million people who came for anime reaction noises. - So like how many videos does your original video, I mean, how many- - How much sake have you had? - Let me rephrase that. How many views does your original video have? - So I- - I don't actually know. It's like 10 million views on the- - It's ridiculous. - It's the 12 things- - 12 things I was doing in Japan. And it's got like 10 million views. - Disgusting. - And that is the one they have been reacting to most, I think.

- Right. - Yeah, 'cause I find that like I have like a few select videos that people react to as well. And for some reason, like all of them just blow up. And like compared to like any of my other videos, they all like do amazingly well. So I feel like, you know, it's weird seeing someone react to your videos, especially if it's just like, okay. And it's, I don't know how, so I assume you've watched people react to your videos. - I've watched like two or three and they're all right. They're nice, they're great, respectful.

The one that I did, I think the most successful one that's got millions of views. It's weird, someone's got millions of views reacting to my video. That's kind of surreal. How do you feel about them possibly making a few thousand dollars off of that?

I don't really mind, to be honest. I'm not that bothered. - I'm just curious, 'cause every creator tends to have a different kind of- - How would you feel about it? And you've probably had that. - I've had that. - I can't remember if I have. I don't think I have, but I think it would probably... I'm just clearly not interesting enough, Chris, compared to yours truly. - I'm joking roughly. - I mean, it's, I guess,

Again, I wouldn't do anything, but I might just like, I might be like, oh. I think if they're funny, I'll be like, "Cracking, that's fantastic." But if they're just kind of like you said, just kind of, mm, mm.

I do get a bit agitated. One of them, the main one, the guy who's got the most views, he's a nice bloke. He disagrees with my number one point on my what to do in Japan list. How dare he? Number one point is don't walk down the street in Japan and eat and drink while you're walking. It's not like a law, right? You're not going to get arrested for doing that. But people will be like, it's just like social etiquette. People will look at you and be like, what the fuck are they doing? Because in Japan, there's not that many like,

- You never see anyone like- - Or trash cans or something. Trash cans in the street, right? And so you can't throw your stuff away. - There's a reason why the streets of Japan are so clean. - They're very clean. - And people don't tend to eat and walk. But this guy was like, "Oh no, we do do that in Japan."

But in Osaka you can do it. It's like Osaka's different and in downtown Osaka you can do it because there's lots of stands for like takoyaki fried octopus balls and there's kind of that culture. Street food culture, right? It is, but that's only really in Osaka and there's not many other places that you can do that. Maybe Asakusa in Tokyo but in North Japan if you do that people will be like bloody foreigner walking down the street with his McDonald's. Yeah.

I will admit I do do it when I'm in a bit of a rush. - You're breaking the rule. - Yeah, Chris, I'm breaking the law. What am I gonna do? - Disrespecting the culture as always. - Listen, sometimes I gotta be somewhere and I need fucking food and I haven't got time to sit here and give a shit about like standing in the family mart depressed and eating it. I'm gonna fucking walk and shove it down my throat. Why are you laughing, Chris? It is how it is. - What you just described is something I do like every week.

- Because you see them there in the family mart looking out the window like caged animals, like just wishing they could walk free and eat their chicken. But sadly they can't. - But like, yeah, I think that was the only point you disagreed with. And it made the video feel a bit redundant. - Yeah, I feel like if they almost- - It's almost like, oh, he's a foreigner in Japan. - Right, right. - He doesn't know what he's talking about. - Maybe he's not good 'cause he's not Japanese, you know? - If you just say- - I'm sure that's not what they're going for, I don't know.

- I'm not gonna start any problems online. I'm thinking of doing like a react video to the react videos in a reaction video. - Please do. - That would be amazing. - Those are always the funniest. - I've got a headache just saying it out loud. But it would be like inception of reaction. I've got like 25 videos that I can go through. - You have to do it now 'cause you've said it.

- That will get a million views as well. - That'll get a lot of views. - What would I call the video? - Chris Broad reacts to Japanese people reacting to Chris Broad. - That's the most confusing thing. - That's amazing 'cause you see that in your sub box, you're like, well, I have to watch this. This is a fucking mess. - I think Felix did that a while back where he did a PewDiePie reacts to,

it was like one of the fine bros episodes of them reacting to PewDiePie. - Yeah, then sometimes fine bros even gone far enough as to show that and do like four levels of reactions. - It's like a reply chain. - For me, it's just like the lowest form of content, isn't it? - Go for it. - Every reaction channels just. - Okay, what's the bottom of the barrel? Describe to me the bottom of the barrel content. - I'm not going down the barrel. - Why not Chris? - I watch a lot of reactions to video games and things,

- Yeah, I don't know. - Do you mean Let's Plays? - You sound like a dad. - Some reactions and stuff's good, but I feel like it's very much like, as someone who spends way too much time trying to make their bloody videos, as you know, as well, to see someone just watch my video and be like, "Oh shit, it's good." And then get a million views, it's like, "Oh fuck sake, why would I bother?" Why not do that? Maybe I should be a React YouTuber.

And then you try it and you just like, I can't. - Drink sake, I'll be really bitter and angry and I'll swear loads, it'll be brilliant. - That'd be hilarious to watch personally. - Let's do it live, let's do it now. - Trash Taste reacts. - Why me? - Pole dancing away. - Did you like my pole dancing, Chris? - You three, such interesting trio of characters. You've got Garnt who does these slickly produced videos. And then you've got Joey's at the forefront of,

Otaku culture and anime, just Connors pole dancing and running host club. - I love how you slipped into your abroad in Japan voice there. - Yeah, right? - There's a difference. - Look at these three YouTubers. - I guess my channel is the throw shit at the wall and just make it all stick. If not just glue it back on if it falls off.

- Three very diverse kind of characters, three diverse topics. - I mean, I feel like this year, Trash Taste has pretty much been the only big thing that's happened to me this year. - Last year, come on. - Fuck, yeah. - It's last year. - It's 2021. - We're not filming this in 2020, I'm sorry. - No, I'm sorry. This is being produced live, apparently.

- Only hours after recording. - This man has four sips of sake and forgets the English language. - I had a fucking power salad. - There's vodka in it. - I will drink it all, Chris. - We've all drunk the sake.

- What is a New Year's episode without the host getting like belligerently drunk? You know what I mean? - What a great introduction to 2021. - I'm not seeing enough movement. - Let's turn it from a discussion to a fucking just a bar conversation. If I was just fucking shouting at each other. - I'm not gonna lie, half the time I've forgotten. - Do we even have a topic at this point? We're just chatting shit. We're just literally chatting shit. - It's the shittiest episode.

Sorry, Chris. Do you have a topic?

- No. - Fantastic, all right. - Why don't you like anime, Chris? What's up with that? - I got nothing. Anime is great. - Why do you hate people who like anime? - The thing with anime is I watch it and I go, "That's good." - That's good? No, the same way a dad sees his son's hobby and is like, "That's fine, dude, go ahead." - I watch it and I think, "Anime is good, isn't it?" But I don't know where to go from there. I don't know what's the next level. - So you're saying if we give you a detailed guide on how to watch anime, you will then go ahead? - Well, isn't that what we were supposed to do in the first place? - No, we are supposed to do that.

- Yeah, we won. - I mean- - That was a bunch of bullshit. - What do you get from anime that you don't get from live action kind of films? - Sakuga. - Have you heard of that word? - No. - Then why were you saying that shit to her? - Why? 'Cause that's the first thing I thought of. - Of course he's not gonna know what that word is. - The first thing I thought of.

- That's like trying to explain what a VTuber is to your parents. - Oh yeah, that's true, that's true. - Because right, Japan has a few TV options, right? For example, they have this amazing anime with incredible animation, voice acting, really crazy plots, or Chris, you can watch 24, the Japan remake. Did you know that's a thing?

- I thought I heard about it. - It's brand new. It's airing now and it's- - Anime? - No, no, no. - Or just actual live action? - No, live action. They're completely remaking, but I think in their own plot, 24, but just Japan. - You know what it's called? - It's called 24 Japan. - That doesn't really work though, does it? - No. - Oh, you're self aware. - And it's pretty bad. - Have you watched it? - Yeah, I watched an episode and it was as shit as you thought it. - Is it like really low budget?

- Do they have like a Japanese Jack Bauer? - Yeah. - Do they actually? The entire cast is Japanese. - I just figured Jack Bauer personality-esque doesn't really work with- - No, not in Japanese culture. - Just find Japanese TV's very low budget. Like Trash Taste probably has a bigger budget than most Japanese TV shows. - I don't know about that. We haven't got a guy reacting. Can we have Chris's face whenever on their camera? - That's why you hate React channels is because that's most of like Japanese TV. - You need a React cam in the corner, right?

- Absolutely. - Or just someone going. - I was watching, who's that really famous comedy and also director guy in Japan? He's always on that billboard in Shibuya. - Oh, Kitano Takeshi? - I saw him and he was on Japanese TV and he was reacting to this thing and it was like LGBT stuff. He had never seen such minimal reaction in my life. He was like a bulldog, just like. And then it cut to a guy in an onsen giggling and he was like .

And I was like, well, I think I know what he likes. I don't care for this nonsense, get that off. It was just funny. It was just like, why there's like eight hosts and they refuse to take the camera off him. It was just, let's keep him. - I think Kitano Takishida was at the point

- He just doesn't give a fuck. - As long as he's on the show, people will watch. - It doesn't matter, yeah. - It's just name branded. - Yeah, it's name branded. - So do you wanna explain to the audience who he might be? - Okay, so Kusato Takeshi, or Beat Takeshi as he's called. - Takeshi's Castle. - Yeah, he's founder Takeshi's Castle, is where the name comes from. But originally he was a Japanese comedian and he's basically the reason why the whole, Jesus Christ, you all right? - What are you doing?

- I'm trying to talk about B Takashi. - You fuck. - Drink this up. - Anyway. - Sorry, go ahead. - I mean, anyway, so yeah, so Kitano Takashi, he was like, he basically founded the whole Japanese comedy scene back in the seventies. And he's the big reason why- - Wait, there was no comedy before him? - Not in Tokyo.

- No jokes allowed. - No, so in the, so the whole like- - He invented comedy. - Like what? - No, so, okay, so. - Okay, so in, so the whole idea of like, manzai standup comedy, which is a very like Japanese form of standup comedy, where it's like, you know, one mic in the middle.

- He's just giggling at everything. - It's like, just shut up for a second. - Just like, so basically like the whole, it's called manzai, which is like, there's usually one mic in the middle and two people standing in front of the one mic, you know, doing a whole comedy routine. And that was really big in Osaka or like in Kansai region. - It's not just standup comedy. - Well, yeah, it's a little bit different than just standup comedy. 'Cause a lot of standup comedy, at least in the West is usually like one person.

- Yeah. - Right. - Like it's just one person kind of telling an anecdote and then throwing a joke within the anecdote. Like that's, you know, very general standup comedy. But Manzai is kind of like that, but if you split the anecdote and the jokes into two different people. So basically there's one guy who sets up the joke and then there's one guy who throws the punchline. And then the guy who sets up the joke reacts to the joke and it's that whole dynamic. - Is it like two person rocker go?

- Essentially, yeah. So like "Rakugo" is more similar to Western standup comedy in that sense. 'Cause "Rakugo" is all about like telling an anecdote and then throwing in a punchline at the end. - "Rakugo" just seems like standup comedy hard mode. 'Cause like imagine standup comedy, but you have to sit in this one place and you can't move and you have limited body movements. - Right, exactly. But like "Rakugo" is like so fucking ancient in Japan. It's been doing it since like, I don't even know how long, but it's very, very old form of comedy. But basically the whole manzai type of comedy

- Really originally started in like the fifties and sixties in Osaka. - Why is he laughing? - Why is he laughing? He just love laughing about that much. But basically that was only really a scene that existed in Osaka. And that's why like a lot of comedians- - They're all from Osaka. - They're all from Osaka. - I do, I've noticed that. - And they all speak in Kansai dialect, right? And, but beat Takeshi and his group, he was in a duo called Tsubito. And he was basically the first like really big manzai act to make it big in the Tokyo scene.

And it was because of his success that Manzai moved to Tokyo.

as well in like the Tokyo area. So that's why he's kind of just known as like a legend. - A godfather. - Yeah, he's basically the godfather of like Tokyo Manza. - But he's also a very good director and actor. Like we've seen in "Hanabi Fireworks." - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - They put him in "Ghost of the Shell" movie. - The dude's done everything. Like he like paints, he directs, he's like, he developed his own game once. - Was he in the original "Battle Royale" as well? - Yes. - Oh yeah, of course. That was one of his biggest roles. - He's pretty good in that.

- He's really good at that. - He's a great actor, yeah. - Fuck me while I'm just fucking eating chicken and broccoli every night, not achieving anything. - Where's your man's voice? - Where's my man's voice? - I didn't realize he was a comedian. - Yeah, he's originally a comedian. - 'Cause I only know him as like an actor director. - It's quite weird 'cause he's this comedian, but he's also this incredibly stoic. - Yeah, I noticed that. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - In every film he's very like,

- I can't imagine him being a comedian because in every film he's played, he's like super serious, super hot. - Right, right, right. - You watch some like old, like seventies footage of him while he was still in Tsubito and he's just the most, he was actually the guy who was like responsible for like telling the butt of the joke.

So he was always the like kind of the clown on the show. So it's really weird now watching like "Ghost in the Shell" watching this like hard face seriously. Yes, I am the bad-ass in this movie. Just fucking go and be like, yeah, I'm the clown. It's just, I don't know. I find it really cool. - Do you like the movie?

- Likes a strong word. - Okay, okay. - It's fine. - It's fucking shit. - Wait, wait, what movie were you talking about? - Ghost in the Shell. - Ghost in the Shell live action. - Okay. - I liked it as shit. - I liked it if it wasn't a Ghost in the Shell movie. - Right. - Why is it shit, Chris? - It's so boring. - As a Ghost in the Shell- - The original anime film. - Right, but that's what I'm saying. As a Ghost in the Shell movie, it was really bad.

but as a just a standalone like sci-fi movie, it was okay. - I thought it was, I literally walked out of the theater. - Really? - Yeah, because- - Did you? - Yeah. - That's very un-British of you. - Or just 'cause you're like bored. - I was just so bored. - I was really bored. - It wasn't- - I haven't watched it by the way. - It wasn't good. It obviously wasn't good, but it wasn't offensively bad.

- So what's the premise of the film by the way? I have no fucking clue. I know "Ghost in the Shell" but I haven't seen it. - It's basically the first movie but with a bit of a twist. - What do you know about "Ghost in the Shell"? - I've watched all of "Standalone Complex". - Okay, so you basically know the best parts of "Ghost in the Shell". Don't worry about the movie. It's just a rehash. - Take "Standalone Complex", smash it into two hours and take away all the interesting things. - Okay, and you walked out? - Huh? - And you walked out of that? - Yeah.

- How far in were you when you walked out? - I was like- - Did you get to like the first fight scene? Like with the invisible guy? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I got like 45 minutes in before I realized I'm like, I'm about to fall asleep now. - Yeah, that was probably, the first 45 minutes was probably the best part of the movie. - The seats are comfortable though. - The second half, the way that the movie just ended where they were just kind of throwing in the whole like cultural thing was just bullshit. - I feel Scott Hansen was very well cut.

- No, I don't. - Great actress, but not for that role. - Yeah, I really respect Scarlett Johansson as an actress, but she just really, it felt like she didn't care at all. - There was no acting, no one really gave a shit. - It's like, I get you're supposed to be a cyborg, but.

- She did that a bit too well. So you're a robot right now. And she's like, say no more. I got it. - I understand. - Yeah, I don't remember much about that movie, which is, I've only walked out of one movie.

in the cinemas and that was a Dragon Ball evolution. - You watched that in cinemas? - I would not walk out of that movie. I would be like, I would be having a great time watching Dragon Ball evolution. - I thought so too. Cause I watched the trailer and I was like, God, this looks like shit. I'm gonna go watch it. And then it was so much more boring than I thought it was. It wasn't even like, it wasn't like the so bad that it was good level. It was just really bad. - I thought it was fucking hilarious. - I think it's hilarious. Wait, Chris, have you walked out of a movie theater? I've never walked out of a movie theater.

- This is the only one. - There was one that I just stopped caring really bad, like very close. - That's life in general. - Downsizing with Matt Damon. - Oh my God, Matt Damon, that's a terrible film. That is an airplane movie. - I couldn't work out what was going on. If it was a comedy, if it was a drama, it was just all over the place. - Okay, but like how many times have you been to the cinema by yourself?

- A lot, I used to go all the time. Yeah, I used to go like once a week in London. - 'Cause like if you're seeing a film with mates, like you're there for better or worse, even if your mates drag you to this shitty fucking Adam Sandler comedy, like whatever. - Yeah, I mean, okay, one, I would watch this shitty Adam Sandler movie,

I mean, if I've planned to do it, it's normally in the evening and I wanna admit that my evening was tarnished by this film 'cause I'm still gonna enjoy the popcorn no matter what, right? Like, and maybe I get a little nap in as well. I text my few mates, tell them about it. I'm shitting it. Text Chris being like, "Chris, when we collab in this film sucks, dude." - I don't know, like I-

- I rarely go to cinemas anyway, so. - Wow, I love cinemas. - I love them. - There's just something nice and relaxing and when you- - Especially in Japan. In the UK people just throw popcorn and it's a fucking mess. - Popcorn's so good in Japan as well. - There's rarely films that I think, yeah, I need to go see this now. - No, I don't think that with any of the films I watch. I just think like, I wanna go to the cinema 'cause I want the popcorn. - You just want the experience. - And I like the experience. I like sitting down, relaxing. - Did you watch "Tenet"? - I did.

- I haven't seen it, no. - It's all right. - Well, I mean, considering there's nothing out right now, I thought it was nice to watch something. - What about the Demon Slayer movie? - I'm not watching the Demon Slayer, but I don't understand it. - If I understood Japanese, then I would go to the cinema so much more often because I love watching anime movies 'cause I'm actually invested in movies. - They have tons of foreign films there.

- So this is gonna be the worst transition in the world 'cause we were just talking about films, but off camera, Quish is- - Hold up, hold up, wait, wait, first of all, before we transition into that, we should finish talking about "Tenant" or some shit.

- 10 out, it's all right, seven out of 10. - All right. - No, no, no. - Done. - Five out. - Okay, done. - So Chris just told us how he ate a bear last week. - I was like walking through the forest, I went, "Oh, it's a bear. "I'll get my knife and fork out and eat it." In Aomori, North Japan, they eat bears 'cause there's too many of them. - Do they actually? - Yeah, there's too many bears. - I've eaten bear before.

- How was it? - What does it taste like? - Not good. - A part of me feels sad, but then why would I feel sad about a bear and not other animals? - I don't know about you, but did you have it as like a proper dish? - Yeah, I cooked it on a grill. - Oh, 'cause I had it in a can. - That sounds unbearable. - What? - Unbearable. - Can bear. - Wait, wait, is it just very gamey?

- It's very fatty. - It's firm. It's like beef that's hard. - Why did you make the word firm sound so disgusting? - It's like beef that's very hard. - It's like chewing on leather, essentially. - And it can. Where did you get this from? - You can get it in the supermarket.

- What? - Yeah. I mean, you underestimate like how many different types of food you can get in a can. - It was also like, I was in Hakodate, they were just selling whale in like cans and that's very controversial, obviously. - You can get like dolphin in a can as well. - The thing is, it's sad though, isn't it? I mean, 'cause it's on one half, it's like, you don't wanna be like, "Hey Japan, stop doing that." Because it's your culture. But on the other half,

please stop killing whales. Yeah. And dolphins. On the subject of bears, there's a lot of bloody bears that run wild and go into towns, especially at the moment because...

a lot of the rural population is going down and towns are actually becoming quite empty, especially in places like Tohoku. And bears are like, oh, there's nobody there. I'm going to get in. I'm going to get a piece of the action. Then the hunters come and shoot them. They're like, well, we could just leave it for dead or we could eat it. And then they sell it. I think I saw a piece of news the other day where it was like, I think this year there was like the most amount of bear attacks in like the last like 10, 15 years or something. But in Hokkaido, they have brown bears. On the mainland, we've just only got black bears, which are kind of small. They only eat like...

- People? - Only vegetables. - Carnivorous bastards they are, those bears. - But the brown bears in Hokkaido, they were just fucking inhumans. - When I was driving, I saw a bunch of signs. - You didn't see any bears? - No, I didn't see any, but there were signs everywhere saying bears. - Like three years ago, there were like 20 people camping in Hokkaido and a bear just turned up and ate everyone. - Everyone? - Everyone. They all died. - The bear had a fucking feast.

- Lucky bear. - How does a bear kill a bear? - How do you defend yourself from a bear attack in Japan? 'Cause at least in like America, people can carry guns. - Bear spray.

- That's a thing, that's a thing. - Does that work? Does it work? Does anyone know? - It's like pepper spray for bears. - But I think by the time the bear gets that close, you're already kind of fucked. The bear's gonna be like, "Oh, I've got my spray." - If a bear hits you, you're dead. - Not necessarily. - Not if Chris is there, Chris Broadhead. - I read an article that there was a bear turned up on a...

an orchard in Elmorey there's lots of apples and they were like just do the orchard you know like you do like a farmer and a bear just turned up and was like rawr and this old man just went and just punched it in the face the bear was like shit and just ran away so you can you know you've got to defend yourself against the bear just punch it where is Chris Broad punching a bear video I

- I wanna raise the level this year, I did say. - That would be a life changing experience. - I defended myself from a bear. - I like bears and you know, they're nice. - 'Cause obviously, you know too, I think it's hard 'cause I think a lot of audiences would see that and would be a bit put off and it's kind of hard to, I guess, there are a lot of things like that where it's like you do wanna kind of be like, well, this is what they do.

and this is how they've always done it. It's almost like, who are you to say they can't do it? But at times again, it's like the whale stuff, right? It's like, it's pretty iffy. It's a difficult subject. - I had whale once to know to never have whale again. Like it doesn't even taste good. - No. - It's cruel, isn't it? - I was like, well, you know, I was served it and ate it. I was like, what was that? And they were like, oh, it's whale. I was like, oh, that's why it tastes like crap. - I hated knowing what it was and I was just like, I don't even like this.

- What's 'cause- - I can't even get behind it anyway. - What is it, like most countries have agreed to stop it and Japan just like, "Hmm." - Japan's just like, "Put it to traditional food." - It's not that popular in Japan. The reason it still does well is the politicians in power, their air is fish for whale. So they kind of, to get voted, it's all rather political. It's not because people actually enjoy the taste of whale. - A lot of the older generation do, like still, 'cause a lot of them like grew up eating it. - At least after World War II, there was a lot of whales. - Is it the same thing with dolphins? - I would assume so. - Do they eat dolphins?

- No, only in Wakayama I think in that little neighborhood. - So sad, they're such happy creatures, aren't they? - Japan eats a lot of weird food. - It does feel like they just go through like the fucking Little Mermaid and just like, "I'll have that." - But I think most people, I don't think I've met anyone who's eaten dolphin before in Japan. - I've never eaten dolphin.

but I've seen it being sold. - Which is why when that documentary came out, what was it called? - "The Cove." - "The Cove." - Japan got loads of hate. Most Japanese people are like, "Oh, we don't eat dolphin, what?" - They were surprised as well. - You never see it in Tokyo. - That little fishing community in Wakayama. - I've seen it being sold before, but I've never known anyone who's actually eaten it, when I've enjoyed it. - It's very easy to lump a country together, really, unfortunately. I mean, Japan is quite huge.

- And all the different prefectures do feel really different to each other. - Absolutely. - They have like their own special thing. - Right, right, right. - You go to every different prefecture and you're like, what's the specialty here? And I like living in Japan, I kind of like understand the gift culture a bit more here because like everywhere you travel to, there's something unique

- Well, Yamanashi famous for its wine. - Yeah, exactly. There's something unique about every place you go to. And I don't know if they've just like five headed like the tourists kind of gift giving. - I'm pretty sure they have. - Yeah. But it feels good to like come back from a place and actually have a souvenir that's unique to that place. - You can only get it in that prefecture, right?

- We've all been to like this kind of country or this place where you're like, you feel like you have to get a souvenir just to get a souvenir and you get like the most tacky little fucking key chain or something like that. - Would you like a fridge magnet? - Yeah, exactly. - I do feel like in the UK, I don't know, did you ever do souvenirs? I never fucking brought souvenirs back, but I feel obliged to here. - Rock candy. - Rock candy. - In North, UK. - In Wales, Wales is a little rock candy.

- Oh yeah. - Same thing in Brighton, we have a Brighton rock. - It's near beaches, they have it. - Like the chocolates that look like- - If you wanna fuck up your teeth, it is amazing. - It's like just this sugar, it has the, I guess the structure of rock.

but it's just sugar and you just fucking- - It just sounds like a lump of sugar. - That's why British people don't have teeth. - That's why I like compared to other places, tourism in the UK, like within the UK- - So shit. - It's just like, it's non-existent. - It's fucking butlins, that's all it is. - Like you go to one sea and it's like, okay, here's a sea. And then you go to another sea,

- I want to visit every Weatherspoons in the UK. - Like what are you gonna do in the sea? Oh, let's go to the pub. What are you gonna do in Newcastle? Oh, let's go to the pub. What are you gonna do in Liverpool? Oh, let's go to the pub. You know, it's, it's, it's. - To be fair, that's me in Japan.

But I mean, Japan has a really strong tourism industry because people don't want to travel overseas a lot of the time. Yeah. And there's quite a lot of population in Japan don't actually have passports. And they don't have much time for holiday. Holiday leave's really bad here. It's all the work culture. People don't have much choice. They just stay here and they travel the country. So domestic tourism in Japan is really big business. And each place has their own unique thing. So you can sort of cross the border and be like, wow, it's really different in the next kind of prefecture. Yeah. I did notice when I stayed in the Ryokan that I parked...

and there was tons of cars. I stayed two nights. But when I went there, every single car in this car park had left. So clearly everyone was only staying one night, which was odd. - Most people only stay one night. - I've noticed that they stay one night and then they're like done. But I was like, man, I want multiple days of this. Are you kidding me? - Well, it's probably because like a lot of them, you know, with the whole work culture thing, they just can't have more than one day off. - Having more than two days off is like a luxury. - I think I read a statistic that most people in Japan only take half their holiday leave. Out of 20 days, they only take 10. - That's crazy.

Why is that, do you reckon? Pressure. Because your boss will be like, you've abandoned the team. How dare you? It's pretty... When I was a teacher, it could be quite stressful taking holiday leave. Even more ridiculous. One time I took three days off. And they were like, okay. And I have to get it signed by a supervisor. And then the headmaster and the headmaster's mum. They all have to sign it. And then I decided, actually, I don't need that holiday. I'll just stay. And they got really angry. They're like, what? You want to stay now? What?

"Don't do this again. You're not allowed to do that." And like, they were really angry. - Really? - I didn't really know why. - How dare you come back and not work? - How dare you have my work? Like, it was really- - How dare you like your job? - And it's like, I don't know why, maybe it's 'cause they had to get teachers to look at, like, do my job for me and they had to do sorts of things, but I don't know. But like taking holiday in Japan is not fun and you're lucky that you work for Trash Taste as a result. You're your own boss. - We don't work for Trash Taste. - We are Trash Taste. - We are Trash Taste. - We are the system.

- Make a t-shirt. - We are trash taste. - We are trash taste. - I'm wearing the trash taste t-shirt. - Yeah, do it. - I remember working in the UK. I mean, you feel pressured to take all your holiday. They like kind of like if you have any holiday late days left over, then that's like, well, you can take that. That's just free time off. Why are you not taking it? But in here it's like the complete opposite. And I'm not sure if it's the same in other Asian countries. I feel like it would be less of a pressure than it is in Japan because

- Work culture in Japan is-- - It's just seen as letting down your team. And if you do take holiday leave, you're less likely to get that promotion. If you two work for my company and you decide to take all your holiday leave, like you can legally be entitled to, but you don't, I'd be like,

let's promote gun because connor fucked off to hokkaido and ate some crap didn't didn't somebody like a famous uh i mean a politician got like it was like newsworthy that he took maternity leave a man yeah like it was new it was newsworthy that the man took a week off yeah yeah he took his paternity leave really the man took his his entitled one week off and it was it was literally country news and he was allowed to but again totally allowed most people don't

- Especially for maternity, I think they think that that's the mother's job, right? - Yeah. That's the thing. I feel Japan in a lot of sense is like the societal law, like almost exceeds the actual law. - It's like five steps forward in technology and then their culture is like, hold up. - It's like 50 steps back, right? Hold up, here's a fax machine. - Yeah. - That's why I always say to people coming to Japan to work, be careful where you work.

companies operating in Japan don't usually have those sort of rules and parameters so that's always a bonus but be careful where you work because I know a lot of people that work in jobs they don't get any free time they're expected to go out and drink a lot after work there's no border between free time and work time it's hard drinking all the time isn't it Chris it's hard I bet Chris is just like oh a

Another night out, really? Oh, I guess so. In Japan, do you have to drink to show respect? No, it's kind of camaraderie, right? Your boss will open up and talk to you about things they wouldn't normally do when they're sober in the office. Even working in a school, my teachers that I worked with would open up massively after one drink. They wouldn't even be drunk. It was almost like having alcohol would initiate being able to be open. It's like being in that environment. It opens them up.

And I had teaching colleagues who would just be like, "I hate that colleague. "I hate X, Y, Z." - Wow, really? - I fucking hate them. And I'd be like, "Oh, okay." - I was like, "All right, maybe we should-" - Two beers. - "Maybe we shouldn't have had a drink." - Yeah, the floodgates open. It's quite a fascinating thing to experience. - I love how two hours in we're finally starting to sound like an actual podcast. - I still keep laughing intermittently because seeing Connor die every time he takes a sip of sake is fucking hilarious to me. - Let's do it together. - Do what together? - Come on, drink the whole thing.

- This is my second bar. - Fuck off, look at that. - This is my second bar. - Are you trying to get me drunk? - It's because you've been having fucking baby bird sips and that shit. - So fuck, all right, cheers, Chris. Thank you for this beautiful drink and beverage. I hope I don't throw up. - It's a Sea Dog VA. - I love how you're all strange here. - Oh, he's actually downing it, okay. - You know what? I love the fact that this is gonna be more edited than our hentai video. - Yeah, right.

- That's so disgusting. - Never shot sake, it's not designed for that. - Sesh, sesh, sesh, sesh. - Come on. - It's in the same glass as well. It's contaminated with the shit that you bought. - Wine and sake. - Chris made me down this disgusting abomination. - That is the finest sake in all of Giffy Breaker. - I bet this is the Carlsberg of sake. I bet this is, if you don't know, Carlsberg is a fucking god awful beer.

- Have you noticed that in Japan, sometimes they'll have Carlsberg or Carling and they'll be like foreign beer. And I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. I know that's- - Foreign dirt water. - Yeah, basically. They'll be like, it's called Miller Lite. It's an exquisite foreign beer. - VB. - You know, and you're like, no, no, no. I know what this is. - This is the good stuff. - Fuck off, is this the good stuff, Chris? - This is the funny stuff you give me back. - But then again, right? Like, again, like as we were saying,

- Connor's not a sake drinker in the same way that he's not a whiskey drinker. - Well, you've got wine now, so. - I used to be. - You've got Garnt's white wine from Yamanashi. - You know, when I first came to Japan, I desperately wanted to be that guy who was like, "I love everything Japan. I'm a connoisseur of Japan. I'm obsessed with sake." - Press X to doubt. He was never fucking like that. That was like, I can't believe you just looked at my face and lied like that. - No, no, no, no, no. Okay, when I wasn't with you, when I go to a bar and they ask, "What drink do you want?" I'd be like,

- Sake, of course. - Every time he wasn't with us. - Yeah. - Of course. - Because I knew that you would call me out on that shit if I go to a bar and I'm like- - But then when Connor's there, he's just like, "Mill the light, please." - Yeah, yeah. When I'm actually with you guys, I'm like, "Beer, please." 'Cause I don't wanna be called out. 'Cause if I'm with everyone, right, and everyone orders beer, and one person who's on their first vacation to Japan goes, "I want a sake, actually," I'd be like,

- I love a sake. - Fuck off, you're just getting too into the Japan atmosphere, but it tastes like shit. There's a reason why a bottle of sake never costs more than $20. - Okay, here's the thing I've noticed very quickly about sake that I noticed about just regular wine is that

- I fucking hate sake normally, but if I have it with a good meal and like a meal that fits the sake. - I disagree. - Then I fucking love it. - We've had no meal though. - That's why it took me a little longer than usual to down that sake. - What got me to like wine was having my first red wine with a nice steak. - Okay, to be honest, wine goes fantastically with meals. I agree. It's not- - Soda sake. - No, it's not.

- Wine isn't too strong where like it's overpowering. Sake is like when you have your steak, whatever, and you have a sake, it's like great, now I'm just fucking- - Who the fuck drinks sake with their steak? - What do you eat it with? - It's usually fish. - All right, you have fish, right? Whatever the fuck, I don't give a shit, same thing. - There's a reason why they serve a lot of sake at like sushi restaurants.

- Yeah, but when you have it, you have this fucking fish. - Raging debate, Garnt and I just like, you have the debate. - Chris, help me out here, Chris. - No, no, no, Chris, Chris, this is what happens when we talk about food on the podcast, okay? - It's pretty heated. - We always have the most heated debates about food. - Like, whenever food's brought up, we turn into a bunch of fucking apes, I swear to God. - Like, when people drink like hard liquor with a meal or something, I'm like, you are immediately just like absolutely bombing your mouth. - Sake's not a hard liquor, it's a wine.

- It's like 20%. - It's called rice wine. - It's 20%. - So is wine. - Chris, what are your opinion as the adjudicator of this argument? - Help me. Get me out of here, viewers. - Dude, red wine is 15 to 20%. Sake is 15- - 20%? Name a 20% wine, Joey. - You fucking wine sommelier? - There is no wine that is 20%. That is, I've never seen that.

- I have seen that. - There's probably a wine that exists. - Yeah, but they're 12, come on. - It's rare, but no, I much prefer wine over sake. - I feel like 12 to 15% is the perfect zone. Anything above that starts to get like taste like vodka, right? And sake, 18%, but that still tastes like a hard alcohol, right? - No, it doesn't burn. - Did you lie? - It doesn't burn.

- Wait, did that burn for you? - Yes. - 18%. - 18%, like Chris said. - That's not, vodka's 37.5%. - Yeah, but the thing is, I can't distinguish the difference between that and vodka. - That is why you fail. What do you want? - No, no, no, no. - What's wrong with you? - I'm not- - I was part of-

on your side until you had the audacity to say that. - For someone who loves food so much, you can barely taste the difference between vodka and wine. - No, what I think is that that is strong enough where it's in the same category as a vodka tasting. - No. - No. - Vodka makes me want to die more, 100%, but sake does still have the same kind of quality of like, I drink it and I'm like, "Ugh," immediately.

Whereas the wine, I'm like, I drink it and I'm like, ooh. - I can't believe what I'm hearing. - Fuck off, chicken and broccoli. - Joey, we get it, you're Japanese, okay? You're a fan. - Chicken and broccoli, fuck off, broccoli. - Go eat some fucking whale. - All that chicken and broccoli has fucked your taste buds up. Seriously. Sucky on the same level as vodka, you disgust me. - Listen, they both taste like shit in my...

- I mean, I'm not gonna fucking down a vodka on the rock. - I love how we've gotten two hours into this and we just drank a fuck ton of sake unwillingly and now it's a mess or a podcast. Thank you, Chris. - I think if you watch this episode with a bit of suckings, chicken and broccoli, it'll be the best 4D experience ever. - Now that we're on the topic of alcohol. - Fine.

- Okay, your least favorite alcohol. - Vodka. - Is it all on the same level because anything above 20% is the fucking same to you then? - Honestly, anything like in vodka, tequila, whiskey. Okay, gin I actually like. Gin I actually like.

- This man contradicting himself. I wanna be like Phoenix Wright right now. Being like, "Objection! There is a contradiction in your statement, sir." - Gin actually tastes nice. Now I'm not saying that because I'm British and that's our cultural export. - Wait, wait, wait. Are we talking like just gin on its own or like a gin and tonic?

- A gin and tonic. - Okay, gin and tonic is on a different level. - Gin and tonics. - Name one person who drinks gin straight. - No one. - No one, exactly. Because you don't hear, like when you have vodka and Coke, what do you think? I think depressing university days, like I'm desperate to get drunk. Yeah, right, Chris? Yeah, exactly. - Ever. - When's the last time you had a vodka and Coke, Chris? - I have vodka tonic every week. - Are you okay, Chris? Are you okay? - No, I'm depressed. I've established this by now.

- Okay, a whiskey you have straight, right? You never like, okay, whiskey and Coke sounds like an abomination, right? - Whiskey and Coke's great. - Whiskey and Coke's all right. But I mean, like I rarely drink whiskey. Whiskey is more of a mood setter. Whiskey is there for like- - Yeah, you don't wanna get drunk on whiskey. - No, no. - If people would get drunk on whiskey, are drinking whiskey way too fast for me to keep up with. - Whiskey's like kind of a drink that you just kind of like, it warms you up. - But either way, I don't care for it.

- It's like a nightcap, basically. - We all know the superior drink is an espresso martini, gentlemen, right? - No, that's because your body is just addicted to caffeine. - I am, I am, okay. - This boy drinks like fucking eight cups of coffee every day. - Get that wine down here.

- Go on. - Let's try the wine. It's tainted with sake cup now. You poured it in the same disgusting cup. - Drink for the people. - You'd be a terrible sommelier. - Down in one. - No, no. - Well, this wine's really bad. - I'll be a terrible sommelier. A terrible sommelier. - Sommelier? - Sommelier. - You said you'd be a terrible sommelier. - No, I didn't. - Yes, you did. - Did you mean sommelier? - Sommelier, isn't it? - Isn't it sommelier? - I thought it was a bit,

- I don't know. - I don't fucking know. - Depends how fancy you wanna be. - Someone French can know that. - I would not be a terrible Somalian. I'm gonna get that out there right now. - Jordan, how is it pronounced? - Somalia. - There we go. - That was closer to my pronunciation. That's closer to my pronunciation. You did an English button. - No, you said Somalian. - Somalia. - Somalians watching this are frothing right now. - Oh my God, come on. - It's like they noticed us. - We have a resident French man who sounded closer to my pronunciation than yours.

- What do you want? - I will fight this battle to the death. I'm known for being stubborn and I won't quit. - Have you boys ever had soju? - Yeah. - Yeah, it's good. - Okay. - Why are you asking me? Like, you know I have. - No, no, no, 'cause of course I know you had soju. Okay, so like,

- I can't stand pure soju, but for some reason, flavored soju is just like S tier alcohol. - So shoju is like Korean kind of- - Korean rice wine? - Yeah, it's Korean sake basically. - How much is it? 20% is it? - It's way more. - The pure one is like 30%. - I don't drink the pure one, I drink the flavored ones. 'Cause they're like 20% and I can do it. - The pure one tastes like hand sanitizer. I fucking hate it. - Oh, it's gross. - It's gross.

- Soju is the only like kind of- - I agree with that. I can do that. - Shot that goes well with beer. I don't know why- - It actually does. It actually does. - I say this and then because you think of mixing anything with beer, right? And it sounds awful. Soju goes fucking amazing with beer, especially flavored soju. - Pour a beer and then drop the little shot in.

- If you want a great but awful night afterwards, because again, that's like awful hangover. It will fuck you up. - I don't know if our editor will include this 'cause he's the editor, but there was one after the night where we bought like, we bought, so for a party in the UK we did, 'cause we were going to Japan. So we wanted to do one last big party with all our friends to celebrate. And our editor came from Estonia. - We're calling you out now.

And we had, I went to New Malden in London, which is the Korean area of London. And I went to the Korean supermarket and I went and bought like three crates of 20 of these bottles. - Crates? - Yeah. - Yeah, crates. - 'Cause there was about, how many of us was like 20? - It was more than three crates.

- It was four crates, four crates of this. And they're all, you know, like- - So we had 80 bottles of soju. - And they're all like 750 milliliters each. - When I bought it as well, they were like, "You know how strong this is, right?" And I'm like, "Yeah, it's all good." - Yeah, I know, I know. - But like, "It's 20%, right?" And I'm like, "Yeah, it's all good." - So before Connor was buying them, he was like, "How many crates should we buy?"

'cause he was posting this in the group party chat and everyone was just like, "Hey, more crates, whatever." So he rocks up with four crates of soju. And we all look at this being like, we've completely overestimated. - Best 80 quid I've ever spent in my life.

We've completely overestimated this. And so what happens is one of us brought, you know one of those like beer and empty beer dispensers where you can fill up with beer. So we just filled up this beer dispenser with pure soju, right? So this entire party, instead of like having pints of beer, we would literally like just go to this soju dispenser, get a glass and just,

- We just pour ourselves a full glass of soju. - It was awful. - We drank like nearly all the crates in the first night. - Yeah, on the first night we went through three and a half crates of soju between like about 25 of us. - So we had bunk beds in this place. So naturally- - Covered in sick. - No, no, no, no, no, no. Actually no one threw up I think actually. - What? - So I'm sleeping in a bunk bed with our editor and he's above, not inside same bed. I wish though.

So I'm sleeping in the same bunk bed, he's above me. And I wake up at like 6:00 AM. 'Cause obviously sometimes, you know, when you have to drink, you wake up a little bit. And I see him on the floor like this. I'm sitting on the bottom bunk and I'm like, just like this.

at like 6:00 AM and I'm like, "You okay?" He's like, "It hurts, it hurts so much." And I'm like, "What's wrong?" He's like, "I'm so hung over and it hurts so much." And I'm like, "Understandable, I'm going back to bed." - Have a nice day. - Bye bye, I'm going back to bed. - Oh my God. - He was out of operation the whole day, it was so funny. He's a great editor though, thank God. - Estonian, man.

- Estonians man. - That was a good party. - So Chris, when are you gonna come to a party in the UK with us? We'll make sure you- - Whenever it is. - Fantastic. - Whenever the world opens up. - Chris abroad in the UK. - What is it with Estonians? I got really drunk and nearly hijacked a boat with my Estonian friend in London. - Wait, wait, wait. You can't just say that. - I can't go into detail. - Come on, Chris. - Every fucking time the camera shuts off, you just say this offhand comment and we're just like,

- Whoa, chota mate, can you explain that? - Next episode of Trash Chase, Chris is gonna be like, "This one time I accidentally stole the Declaration of Independence. Totally funny story. Can't talk about it then." - Gotta be careful. - Come on, come on, set the scene. - Got really drunk, nearly hijacked a boat on Halloween. - Well, how? How do you nearly hijack a boat? - A millionaire guy in the River Thames had a yacht they had a party on, and me and my Estonian friend crashed it. - Okay. - Drunk and nearly cast off.

How did you nearly cast off? Well, I was really drunk and I found my way into the engine room with the steering wheel. Are you kidding me? You don't just find your way into the engine room. I think we were actively trying. This is some 24 shit. He's on an espionage mission. I am an esteemed YouTuber. I cannot talk about food.

- I'm a nice person. - Yeah, I had a shot of whiskey and found myself in fucking MI6. That's kinda what it sounds like. - It was one kilometer from MI6 on the river. I could see MI6 from the boat. - I love how MI6, you know, this very secretive thing is like, that's the building, man. - It's like a giant MI6 sign on the building. It's like, oh, there it is. - Yeah, good times. - Oh my God. - I feel like, I love how you made the most interesting story into the most throwaway tidbit.

- Along the times where I used to rule Kazakhstan as well, you know, classic stories from me, Chris. - I accidentally became the king of Kazakhstan. - There'll be a book one day, it'll be a very good book. - I hope to promote it on Crested. - Chris Bord, king of Kazakhstan. - Chris Bord? - Chris Bord, king of Kazakhstan. - Chris Bord because he's done too much and now he's bored in life. - Someone's been scamming people under my name. - Oh yeah, Chris Borad, right? - Chris Borad of a brown-

Of a brone in Japan. Of a brone.

- No way, you're kidding me. - No, no, he tweeted about it. There was a screenshot. It was a Facebook page of a screenshot and it had Chris's face on it with the logo as like the banner from the thing. And it was like- - Show me this. - On one look, you were like, oh, that's Chris's Facebook page. But then when you look closely- - Christopher Broad. - Christopher Borat of a Brown in Japan.

- Apparently if you get this message, you've won $5,000. If you haven't won $5,000, you've just been scammed. - I wish my viewers were that creative to come up with those kinds of things. - I had a brain in Japan. - You know what the worst, the most awkward thing I've ever had was in that kind of sense?

is that one time, this is really back when I started, I must have like maybe like 80K subs. So, you know, still quite small. And one time I got a Skype friend ad from someone back when Skype was like still not a boomer thing. - That's how you know it's like OG now. - And I added it and I was like, okay, sure. This is back when you would just be like, fuck it, yeah, I'll add it. - Just add anyone, yeah. - And they were like,

"Why aren't you replying to my messages when I added them?" And I'm like, "What? Who are you? What are you?" And they're like, "Why did you block me in your other account?" I'm like, "What other account?"

So what happened was, turns out, right, that someone had been pretending to be me on a YouTube channel. - Right. - Right? And they had, and so I got on call with them, 'cause I was like, fuck it, why not? Let's get on call with this. Let's just see what's going on. Right? So I called them up and they're like, they were like absolutely panicking. So I'm like, all right, hold on, what's going on? Tell them what's going on.

I was dating you and then you stopped messaging me and I'm like, you were dating me. And I'm like, this is news to me. And they were like, yeah, I met you through a YouTube channel. And then they linked me my YouTube channel. And it was someone who had like Pokemon like Ruby plastered all over their thing called like Sea Dog VA. And they were American doing a terrible British accent pretending to be me. So I was like, huh?

And so you think this is me? And they were like, yeah, they said that this was your second channel. And I'm like, you have to be kidding me. - I thought they were dating you. - They thought they were dating me. - Over the internet. - Yeah, because this guy apparently was talking to her often and I'm like, did he sound like me? And she's like, yeah, yeah, he did. So I looked on the YouTube videos. He sounded American as fuck. - How did he sound? Do your voice. - Hey, what's up guys? It's C Dog VA here.

back with another Pokemon Ruby Let's Play. And it was like totally, I was dumbfounded at how, 'cause at one part I felt sorry for this woman 'cause she was hysterical, but on the other I'm like, how do you fall for this? I feel like you're gonna lose your credit card at some point to some Somalian like Chris. And I was like dumbfounded, and I calmed her down. I was like, listen, right? - Did you meet up with her though?

- I did not Chris. That could have been the saga. - The resolution. - Reach out to me if you... 'Cause they were clearly like, you know, dumb. - How dare you? - You know, I don't like to call my viewers dumb, but, but. - You can't say but. - Listen, Chris, if you fall for that, you're dumb. If a guy has a fucking groud on us, their profile picture, there should be alarm bells in your head as to it not being me. - Well, maybe you kinda like the groud on. - Listen, there is some...

- You have to feel, okay, I feel sorry for someone who would, if they fell for something, if they were pretending to be me, but there are certain levels of disbelief where I'm like, this has got to be on you. This is, you know, it wasn't even a British accent. That's where I draw the line. - Wasn't even British.

- Do you even watch my content? - The amount of videos there are people like impersonating me for like funny videos. Some of them are quite good, but there's so many where it doesn't not even remotely sound like me and people are falling. - People impersonate you? - Yeah, for videos. - Like how? - So they'll go on Discord servers with the name CdogVA. They'll go in and they'll start talking and like a fake. - Is this in your own Discord? - No, no, no. Sometimes my Discord, other Discord too. - Like they go into voice chat and stuff? - Right. - And random servers, random servers.

It's for like funny videos. Some of them are quite funny actually. - Yeah. - And they'll just do a really bad British accent and everyone will be like, "Oh my God, it's Sea Dog VA. Oh my God, it's him." And I'm sitting here at home like, "Seriously, that's all it takes?" - Apparently there's like a demographic of your fans who watch your videos muted. - Everyone who is British sounds like Connor.

- I mean, definitely a lot of Americans can't tell the difference between a lot of British accents. - Well, I can get that. Yeah, I've had a lot of American folks like, "Where are you from in Australia?" I'm like, "I'm not Australian." I don't know why British and Australian seems to- - We do get mixed up quite a lot, even though I think to us it's like the complete opposite. - To me, Australian accents are really different.

- He doesn't sound that Australian. - I don't sound as- - Yeah, he doesn't sound that Australian. - He does. - He's not that Australian. - No, no, he doesn't sound that Australian. - I don't sound as Australian as I used to.

- YouTube does that to a man. - If you go back like the early in my channel, I sound Australian as fuck. - Same for me, I sounded very Northern. - YouTube neutralizes Jackson. - Why are you laughing? - I mean, do you not sound less British as you've gone on? - Yeah, you've seen his earlier videos. - I remember on the day I arrived in Japan, week one, I landed in Yamagata and my three teachers who I was gonna work with and meet me at the airport. And I was like, "Fuck it up, I had such a long flight, "I'm really tired and I can't do it." And they're like,

And for one hour we ate like a Denny's and they just kept talking and talking. They kept going. And then afterwards they were like, we don't, we didn't know what, what you were saying. We don't understand. I don't know what to do with the Japanese kind of voice. They're like, we didn't know what you were saying. Oh. And from then on I was like, hello, my name is Chris. I'm from London area in London.

"I'm from the UK and I have to change my voice." - But you do. - Is that really like royal pronunciation? Like, "All right, mate, how you doing? "It's been a long time, that's how I used to speak." - Do you find sometimes that you speak almost like broken English sometimes to- - I've tried to stop doing that. A lot of English teachers in Japan do the stupid voice.

I went shopping with my friends yesterday. And they'll like do like really. - Sometimes I'll talk to people and I'll just deconstruct my English live just because I'm like, I think they'll understand if I say it this way. But then I'll go on to speak to Garnt and I'll be like, hi.

- I can't. How are you today? I'm, you know, I don't really know. - Well, I lived in an environment where for weeks at a time, I was the only foreigner around speaking English. - Right, right, right. - And like my English level actually went down living in that environment. - Is it weird not being able to speak English for like a month? - Yeah, it's really weird. - I've had that before as well. - I had all sorts of bizarre issues as a result. But like, yeah, my vocabulary never went down. I couldn't say words like,

- Inconsequential. That wouldn't come to my mind. - That's what got me. - That just came to your mind. I was just like- - What word is he gonna pick? - A word, I just wouldn't be able to get it. I'd be like, it just wouldn't come out. - I had that too though. Like when I first worked in Japanese, I worked in Nisico.

which is like a big ski resort in Hokkaido. - Yes. - And I worked there for a month. It was like a kind of show snow shovel, general stuff around the lobbies and stuff. But all of the people who I worked with were just a hundred percent from Hokkaido, like all Japanese people. So I was forced to basically speak Japanese for a month straight. And I remember I came back to Australia and I was like, oh, it's only been a month, right? Like, of course, English is my first language. Of course, I'm not gonna forget it. But then I came back to Australia and I was like, shit, what was that word again?

- I would actually forget some words. - Inconsequential. - Yeah, I was like, what? - Inconstra something or other, fuck. I don't know how to say it, hard. It was just really difficult. - But in terms of dumbing down your language when speaking to Japanese speakers, I feel like anyone who has come from a bilingual parents or is bilingual and has had Asian or parents who don't speak your native language as well, it's something I've just grown up with. 'Cause whenever I speak to my parents,

like mostly like for example, when I speak to my mom, I mostly speak in Thai, but when I have to express something in English, I like very much have to dumb down my language and be very careful about how I word things. 'Cause especially like learning a language, you know how their grammar structure is. So you know,

like sometimes you hear a Japanese people, like Japanese person speak, try to speak English and you like, you understand what their like mentality is or what they're like train of thought is when they're trying to like construct a sentence. And you kind of like, what you kind of learn to do is kind of mirror the way that they would construct

so that they would more easily understand. - Yeah, that's basically what I find myself doing. But also, dude, I forget like, so I'll think of a word in Welsh and I'll remember the Japanese word for it. And I'm like, what the fuck is it? Which one is it? And vice versa, I'll be speaking Japanese. And I'll be like, why is the Welsh word keep popping up

in my head when I'm trying to think of the right word. It's a mess. 'Cause I obviously don't use those languages as much as I use English. So in my head, they slowly like amalgamating together and it's awful. - I guess you're kind of getting to the point and you as well Garnt, you guys are getting to the point where you're learning a third language, right? - I mean, yeah. I mean, I try and use it. - Japanese for you guys is technically like a third language you're trying to learn, right? - Yeah, I try and use it as much as possible. I mean, I'm doing like on my new second channel,

- Oh, wow, wow, yeah, plug. I do a series where I'm, I guess, playing games with Japanese people and using what broken Japanese I have. And sometimes I'm like about to say a word, I'm like, nope, that's the Welsh word. But if you haven't watched that, you should go and watch it. If you wanna see my terrible Japanese in action. But I do find that that has been the best practice I've had though, which is just talking. Because unfortunately I'm in a very privileged situation where I don't need to talk to Japanese people.

- If you get a Japanese girlfriend, every day is a language lesson. - What if they speak fluent English? - Well, you're screwed. - You're just gonna be speaking English. - Would you not find that communication would be an issue if you could? - It was, right? - When I dated a Japanese girl, we used to have arguments. I just didn't know what was going on. - Right, right. - I'm like, oh yeah. - Well, 'cause in English. - You get really angry,

she didn't speak English very well, I didn't speak Japanese very well at the time. Didn't know what we were arguing about. - You might have just had your phones out of the Google train. - 'Cause when you think about it- - I hate you, translate. - When you think about it in English, we have so many ways to convey levels of upset

that are so precise I feel, that it's almost like impossible to translate that to a non-native speaker almost. - I mean, it's the whole idea of like the word fuck, right? Like that could be used in literally any emotion ever. But trying to, I had to explain that to one of my Japanese friends.

'cause he had heard of that word before, but he was like, "What does it actually mean?" I was like, "Well, it's kind of-" - Use your imagination. - Yeah, when I said it can mean anything, he was just like, "What? What does that mean?" - From my experience teaching my Japanese friends the word fuck is dangerous 'cause they'll just use it. - They use it every time. - Big fuck. - Natsuki's like the sole example. - Big fuck.

- He went to like this abandoned love hotel when he referred to it as a scary fuck point. - The thing is he would be completely correct in that. - I wasn't at a hotel, scary fuck point. - What he was trying to say was this is a fucking scary place. - Yeah. - Scary fuck point. - For some reason, when I've been meeting Japanese people online on video games, they seem to only know the worst words. Like for one, this one guy kept telling me he had a magnum o chin chin.

And I was like, how do you know the word magnum? That is such a, how would you know who taught you this? How do you find this out? - I love how he knows the word magnum, but not the word for penis.

- It was just the, yeah, the dichotomy of Magnum O Chin Chin. It was so strange. - It sounds like a rock star. - Yeah. - Or a rock band. - Please welcome Magnum O Chin Chin. - I wanna be in that band. - It was great. They'd ask me about my dick size live on stream and I'm like, "Are you sure you wanna ask that?"

- They're good sports though, they're good sports. - It's so good. - I learned that there's also a, they have a term in gaming in Japan where they have real tomo. - Idea tomo? - Yeah, so when you game online with people, they're not the real friends. And then when sometimes if you're busy, you're like, oh, I'm playing with real tomo.

- Yeah, it's like the equivalent of like IRL friends. - Yeah, which is like funny 'cause it's like, you're not real. - You're my gaming friend, you're not my real friend. - Yeah, I've been learning a lot through doing that. - Yeah, there's a lot of like Japanese, I guess like internet slang you'll learn from playing with Japanese players. - Yeah, luckily I've been playing with one guy and he's been figuring out how to like dumb things down for me, which is good because sometimes he talks too fast. - If he was like throwing out like two-chan lingo,

- They never use like any, they always use like plain form and stuff like that and throw a lap mirror.

I don't like my classes. What's all this nonsense? - Where is the . - He even said whatashiwa once. What's up? What's going on here? I feel like whatashiwa is the biggest fucking lie you learn. - Yeah. - On Duolingo. - Nobody says that. - On Duolingo, it constantly throws watashi nonstop at you. - It's the first thing you learn. - Right. - Every Japanese textbook in every classroom. - And then you talk to them and you're like, so that was a fucking lie.

- I have to say now to everyone who messaged me every day saying they've learned Japanese from Duolingo, it doesn't prepare you for Japanese. Duolingo is fun, it's quite fun, but like it won't prepare you on the ground. - It's a little mini game it is. - It helps with vocab, but that's honestly as far as it goes. But even then, 'cause sometimes Duolingo will try and teach you Kanji

before it's even taught you all the Hiragana and Katakana. - What? - Which blows my mind. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - It's insane. - It did do that. I think we've talked about this before. - That's like teaching you algebra before you've learned multiplication, right? It's like, why? - Yeah, Duolingo's all right, but like, Human Japanese, really good app I recommend. It is paid for, but it's like a free lite version. - Yeah, but I don't mind paying for an app that actually is good. - It is really, I used it my first year. Human Japanese, Human Japanese Intermediate. Everyone I've recommended to loves it.

So if you're learning Japanese, you're like really starting tomorrow afternoon, human Japanese, amazing. Do you recommend the Genki textbooks? They're good after like you've done Japanese studying for like six months. Human Japanese, you've started studying tomorrow, you come to Japan, that is the app you get.

And that really helped me in my first year coming here as a teacher. Can't recommend it enough. - Not sponsored. - Not sponsored, it's a bloody good app. - Well, that's been this episode of Trash Taste. It's been the messiest episode of Trash Taste. - I like how this is gonna be even more edited than the hentai video. And I'm just like, how, how?

- Thank you to our Patreons. - That's it, Patreons here. - Look at all these lovely people who are helping us support. - This is the second time we've said it 'cause Joey said it like a fucking hour ago and then we did like- - We were just getting the flow of chat and shit. - I guess so, I don't know. I'm not in the right place. - I hope you've enjoyed this recorded bar episode.

- Blame Chris if this is a mess. It's Chris's fault. - It's like being at the Trash Taste Pub. - 'Cause Chris bought his equivalent of boxed wine sake. Fucking abomination to sake. - That was $12. - Why do you talk about $12? Like you're in uni still. Like that's like, this is the top shit. - That was good stuff, that.

If you'd like to support the show, then make sure to go to patreon.com/trashtaste. Also go follow us on Twitter and our subreddit. And also if you're an audio listener, go check us out on Spotify. Also go check out the first episode that Chris is in. - Yeah, you gotta check it out. - That was like how many episodes ago? - A long time ago. - A long time ago. - Six months ago. - Good riddance. - That was like right at the beginning of "Trash Taste". - Back when the set was still bland, right? It was completely empty, wasn't it? - Yes. - Did we have figures? - Good now. - No, it was right after the episode. - It was like the one after.

- Right, right, it's still very barren though, but yes. - Will we ever see Chris on for the third time? Who knows? - Probably. - Please have me back. - Unfortunately. - I used to write every day the last time, please have me back on Mr. Connor and Joey. - It's getting really annoying hearing the banging outside all the time. - Let me come back, let me back. But no, I've had a lot of fun today. - All right, fantastic. - Well done guys for turning Trash Taste into a success. Like the first time I came very early on, now it's an empire no less. - Empire.

- I prefer a monopoly, thank you very much. - We live in a society. - You're close to a million subscribers, so that's pretty awesome achievement, in a very short space of time. You're gonna hit that.

- Very soon in 2021. - I hope so. - So well done for making a great show. - Happy new year. - Yeah, happy new year. - To 2021, tons of trash taste to come. - Hopefully you guys got as drunk as we did on New Year's Eve. - You should definitely watch this with a drink of wine or sake or whatever. - I really shouldn't have had a power salad before I came on because I didn't. - You guys are fucked.

- I would like to say before these boys start rambling more, you can expect all the good shit from Trash Taste this year. We've only been around for like half a year now, but we've done some good stuff so far and you can expect even better stuff coming this year. - Absolutely. - It's a Trash Taste promise, whatever that means. - Trash Taste promise? - Whatever that means. - Just wait until the country opens up and then we can reach our final form. - All right, thank you very much for watching. I've been your boy and I've been with

the not so good boy. - It's your boy. - It's your boy, Chris. Goodbye. Good day to you, sir. - Cheers. - Have a good one, guys. - Cheers to that. - Cheers, boys. - Thanks, guys. Thanks for watching. - Bye. - To continuing this off camera. - God damn it. God, I hate Chris and his fucking sake.

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