ABSOLUTE CINEMA | Trash Taste #253
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- Hello and welcome to another episode of Trash Taste. I'm your host for today, Garnt. Joining me once again are the boys and, yeah, shit, I shouldn't swear at the beginning of a podcast. - Yeah, we gotta bleep that. - Oh. - Why do that? - I was like, I was like, I was like, screw it. - You've had one drink and now you're swearing? - Just get drunk. - Where's that half a grog and he's like, yeah, whatever.

As soon as I said it, I was like, wait, this is like the first five seconds. Yeah. God requested to have drinks today. Yeah. He did. Yeah. And we will suffice because. He twisted our arm. I didn't want to have a drink. It's always this man. I was going sober today. It's always this man. Came in and he was like, you must drink, Connie. You must. Don't worry. We got your bitch ass all freeze for you. What the heck? I was like, it's been a while since I had a drink with the boy. Yeah.

- It was the last time we had a drunk episode. I feel like it's been a while. - It's been a while. We've been good sober boys. - Speak for yourself. - We've been busy. - We've been busy. I mean, we didn't even, I think last time was probably- - Seven months ago? - No, we had one after this. - No, we had one after that. - We had one after this for sure. - Well, we drunk a little bit on the Sydney episode, but I barely drank anything. I was like,

I was just like alternating then. So I thought it'd be a great idea since Chad was lovely enough to send over some grog. And I say lovely enough, even though we are doing him a solid with that idea. It's free promo. It's free promo. Let's just get fucking shit-faced and just call it an episode. We have one trash taste beer there. We got one left. Wait, do we have any crates left or is it all gone now? I think we're all gone. Are you serious? I think we drank them all. Oh no.

- Oh, there's an empty crate. - Oh man, Sag. - Well, I mean, we have slowly chipped away at it. I've still got like two crates at my house. - Really? I'm all out. - Yeah, I don't really drink at home. - I mean, yeah, the only reason it's gone now is 'cause I have people over and I'm like, "Try a beer." - Yeah, that's how I've slowly gotten. 'Cause I don't wanna, I mean, I wanna drink 'cause eventually it goes bad, but I kinda just don't drink at home. - Not me either. - I kinda try not to. - Well, we had a Sydney's family stay over for like,

like a few weeks and get a fucking wisconsin dad in the house and japan where it's like harder to find craft beer like yeah in cans and it's like damn where did where did all our beer go yeah i had a bunch of beers in my fridge that my dad kind of chipped away through but he left all the ipas he doesn't like ipas yeah i had a bunch of really strange ipas that

There were like 7% heavily hop infused ones. I don't really like. There's too much for me. Fair enough. It's like drinking a blunt. It's too heavy. I don't know. It's so like hemp. Not hemp, but like, you know, because sometimes they infuse it with CBD as well, which is like crazy. Yeah. Did you say drinking a blunt? Yeah. It's like drinking a blunt. Dude, I got given this beer that was like from a friend that was, it was meant, it was like a CBD beer.

which seems counterintuitive. - Yeah. - What, it's got like CBD oil in it? - I think so, yeah. - Oh, word, all right. - And it genuinely felt like just drinking a blunt. - Did it taste like it? - It tastes really hempy. I just didn't like it. I was like, the worst part of weed is the smell. - Yeah, I don't fuck with the smell of weed. Sorry, LA residents or California residents. - I saw a meme, what was it? It was like stoners when they like can't wait to get.

- What? - You're like, "Can't wait to wake up at 9:00 AM." And I can't remember the word, like do nothing or like become dumb for the day.

- I just don't, I can't, I mean, I've never had like the hemp beer, but I can't imagine the taste of beer and the taste of hemp matching. - But the last shit you put in beer, the better it tastes. - Yeah, definitely. - Sometimes I have like, you know, the fucking fruit infused ones where it always sounds cool on a menu, but I swear every brewery just puts it on there just to have something a little bit different. - It always tastes kind of mid. - Yeah, you try it once and you're like,

Alright, let's just go back to the classics. I've never had a fruit beer where I'm like, wow, that was really delicious. I want another one. Yeah. CBD beer. Chill and relax. Is that what we want in a drink? No, you don't want CBD beer. Just give me a fucking beer. Drink a beer or have some CBD. Don't mix that shit. What are you guys up to?

Went to the cinema for the first time in a while. Just... Wait, how long has it been? He never goes. He never goes. Last time I went to the cinema was June 2. Okay. Oh, shit. But this was the first time in a while I just went. I think it's just June 2, as in like... June the 2nd. I was like, wow, that's oddly specific. Is it June or Dune? Dune. Sorry. Dune. Dune. Dune with the hard D. Okay, so what did you watch this time?

- I can't even remember the fucking film name. - Wow, must have been a great experience, dude. - It was all right. We watched the fucking Bob Dylan movie. - Oh, the one with Timothee Chalamet. - Why the fuck did you watch that? - I heard that was mid as fuck. - Yeah, anyone could have told you that was mid as fuck. - There's already a good Bob Dylan movie. - All right, look, it was between that and the new Captain America movie. - No, no, no, there was other films on guard.

- There's other films on. As someone who's watched other films right now. - I don't know if there was. - There's other films on, Garnt. - I don't know if there was. - Aki went to go see the new Captain America movie and I'm like, why? You don't even like Marvel. - Yeah. She saw America and she's like. - No, but she went to go see with her friend 'cause her friend wanted to go see and I'm just like, you wanna go? And I'm just like, nah, I don't give a fuck about Captain America. Like an hour into the movie, she texts me and she's like, I left.

- I'll be honest, what is the film name? It's like something unknown. - Brave New World. - No, not Captain, the Bob Dylan movie.

- Complete. - Bob the Dylan. - Bob the Dylan. - Can we fix it? - The unknown, the something unknown. - I'm fucking tired of these industry plant movies. - Why? I don't know why there is the complete unknown. I don't know why it was called that name. I don't know why. What is up with this trend of

of musician biopics. Dude, they're pumping them out and I can't stand it. I feel like this is becoming as mass produced as Marvel movies now. Yeah, they're like, who's an artist who's been around for a while and everyone kind of knows. Bob Dylan. I'm like, look, the story's probably good. Yeah. No, to be fair, there are some musician biopics that are genuinely fucking fantastic. The Johnny Cash one is phenomenal. Johnny Cash one was amazing. Bohemian Rhapsody was great. Johnny Cash is in this one as well. But I'll tell you what, Bohemian Rhapsody's not that great. I enjoyed it.

- Really? - It was fine. - I enjoyed it. - It was fine. - Yeah, it was good. I watched the Bob Marley one as well, that recently came out. - I didn't even know there was a Bob Marley one. - It was okay. - Everyone's got one gone. - Yeah, it was fine. - Are you an artist if you don't have one? - I knew they were like scraping the bottom of the barrel where they were like, "Robbie Williams." And I'm like,

- As a CGI monkey. - As a CGI monkey. - That Americans have never fucking heard of Robbie Williams. - Even as someone who has heard of Robbie Williams, who asked for this? Who actually asked for this? - Is there a single Robbie Williams fan in 2025? - I don't think so. - He was just only really popular in the UK. I don't think he was popular outside of the UK. I don't think he ever had like a really big hit in America. - Well, was he popular in Australia? - He was popular in Australia. - Yeah, yeah. - Yeah, but we're basically the same fucking country. - Yeah. - Yeah. - For like six months and then he kind of disappeared off the face of the planet. - Yeah, 'cause I was like naming off like,

artists that were popular in the UK and naming them to Sydney and like for example Kylie Minogue she was like who the fuck is that she's Australian right but she was pretty popular in the UK as well

So I actually did not know too much about Bob Dylan. Me and Sydney just kind of watched this film on a whim. She knew way more of the songs than I did. One thing about this film, they're doing like, it's the fucking Marvel moment that fucking takes me out of it sometimes where you're in the film and some character gets introduced. I know nothing about Bob Dylan or like the people we hung out with, but it's,

you know, someone, he'll introduce someone in the music recording and the camera pans in and it's like, "Hi, my name is this guy." And I'm like, and there's like a dramatic pause. And I'm like, "Who? Who should I know? Should I know this person?" I will say the biggest thing that stands out about this is that it does make Bob Dylan look like a dickhead. He's kind of a dickhead. - I mean, he was kind of a dickhead. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's good, though. I think it's better to have a movie be at least somewhat more realistic than opposed to just a glazed piece. Yeah. The biggest thing that stood out to me, and I don't know how dramatized this is, but... So Bob Dylan has multiple romantic partners within just this period of the film. But goddamn, the sexual tension between Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash is like...

- Is Johnny Cash in the movie? - Johnny Cash is in the movie and I would argue he is the main love interest in this movie. I don't know what it was like in the Johnny Cash biopic, but in this film. - Johnny Cash is so good. I mean, it's played by Joaquin Phoenix. - It's "Walk the Line", right? - Yeah, "Walk the Line". - Great movie. - I haven't seen that one. - You gotta watch it. It's a really, really good movie. - The thing I don't understand, a couple of things I don't understand about this new Bob Dylan movie. One, there's already been a Bob Dylan biopic that,

was just really good. So we didn't need another one. - One of them didn't have Timothée Chalamet. - Yeah, and two, when I saw that they were fucking casting Timothée Chalamet and I was like, you could have gotten anyone else to play as Bob Dylan. And of course you had to go with fucking Timothée Chalamet. - I like him too, but I felt like a, I don't know. - I'm so sick of him. - I'm just kind of, yeah, I'm kind of seeing too much. - Him and Zendaya, I'm fucking sick of.

He's just kind of, he isn't too much right now. Let him chill. Let him do some weird side roles for a little while. Hollywood needs to realize there are more actors than just Timothee Chalamet and Zendaya. Yeah. And I mean, he does a good job in this movie. I mean, that's the thing about Timothee Chalamet. He's a good actor. He's a good actor. But I'm just like, damn, he's just in everything. Every role, every... And when I fucking watched Interstellar and I saw him as a kid, I was like, fuck it, he's here as well. Is he in?

Is he an interstellar? Yeah, he's the kid. He's the kid. He's the son. No way. But he was really, really young. Yeah, I mean, I would say this biopic mostly focuses, I guess, you know, part of the big thing about biopics is that unless you know something about the storyline of

whoever, you know, whoever the biopic is about, you don't know what the main focus is. And this specifically focuses on, I think, the idea of what it's like when you are well known for a certain thing, like a certain genre of music. Like Bob Dylan, I guess, got famous for like folk music, country music, and then he kind of like switched genres. And the main conflict of this was...

you know, this idea about him trying to make a new genre of music, trying to break out of the mold he's created for himself. And that is the main conflict of the film. And I thought that was pretty interesting. I thought that was a little bit different from, you know, for someone who doesn't know much about Bob Dylan, because I feel like Bob Dylan is much more America centric. Yeah.

But having said that, as someone, unless you're a fan of this, I enjoyed the first half of this. And then it was just kind of like Bob Dylan being a cunt for like an hour. And the film is like an hour and 40 minutes or something like that. Would you rather it be that or like them just glaze the shit out of him? It's two and a half hours, dude. Two and a half hours, yeah. It felt like two and a half hours. I'm not going to lie. You know what's weird? I've never gotten into Bob Dylan's music. No.

And I think I respect him as an artist because he was very like forward thinking when it came to folk music. But just like, I cannot stand his singing. Like, did they play like a bunch of Bob Dylan songs in this movie? Yeah. And I was like, you know, there'd be like one song out of tens would be like, oh, that one. Like a Rolling Stone or like knocking on heaven's door or something. Yeah. I just can't stand his singing because it sounds like he's on like a merry-go-round.

You know what I mean? It's like, . - I feel like it resonates with some people. - Yeah, I mean, look, a lot of people love Bob Dylan, so I'm sorry if you like Bob Dylan. - What do you think about the Amity rating of 7.5 out of 10? Too high, too low? - I would say if you are into biopics and you're into Bob Dylan, you'd probably enjoy this film. It's surprising that it covered

actually like so little of his life, you know, considering how fucking massive his career is. And, you know, I mean, it's two hours and 21 minutes and it's still covered like- It's fucking long. It is way too fucking long. I watched September 5th. That was in theaters as well, right? What's that? That was really good. It was about the Munich 1972 terrorist hostage situation. Oh shit. Which I didn't even know about. No. It was pretty good. I like this film. And you know what? And it was an hour and a half.

7.1. Bring back the hour and a half long movie. It was an hour and a half. I didn't overstate it's welcome. I was like, you know what? That was fun. I enjoyed it. Good tension. Good actors. Good time. I'm happy. Alright. Be honest. Okay. When you decide to watch a film, do you...

Not necessarily reviews, but do you look at ratings before you get into a piece of thing? I do it after to see how far off the ball I am and how I feel, which happens a lot.

But yeah, I specifically try not to look at reviews. - Yeah, most of the time when I watch a movie, it's either because of someone's recommendation or it's because it's just a movie I wanna check out. Yeah, but like I would check it afterwards just to see if I, but like either way, it's like, you know, sometimes I don't align with it at all and I'm just like, nah. - It always ends up being a fucking seven out of 10. Everything you watch is seven out of 10. - See, like here's the thing, like, 'cause I am guilty of being someone who,

or not, not even, I don't watch, I don't go on reviews, but at least like check the score or like if it's video game, I check like the Metacritic score. Ah,

Rotten Tomatoes, I feel like I don't really align with Rotten Tomatoes. Rotten Tomatoes is so useless as a platform to judge. It's always either 95 or like 20. You're like, this doesn't fucking help me, man. And I don't know, like to me, if it's like seven out, like below seven out of 10, I'm like, damn, something must have gone really wrong. Except for horror movies. Horror movies is the one genre where for some reason, every great horror movie is like a 6.5. I don't know why, but any other genre- Sidney Pelt.

I'm not Sydney filled. I'm not Sydney filled. There are actually very few horror movies that are above seven out of 10. I don't know why. I don't know why. - Yeah.

films are so tough, man, because I just like going to the cinema and I think I will immediately enjoy a film more at the cinema, but I will equally hate it more because I paid to go to the cinema and sit down and watch something, which is like why, like if I'd watched the fucking Captain America film on streaming, I'd be like, okay, that was a whatever. Because I paid for a ticket, I sat through the commercials,

I sat through Harrison Ford just not wanting to be there. Like, it was miserable. It was such a shit experience. I just didn't enjoy it because I'd gone through this whole thing and yeah, I'd feel like if I just watched it at home, I'd think like, eh. If it was a TV movie, I'd be like, all right, whatever. Also, I feel like

- When you watch it on the TV, you can like, "I'm not feeling this. I'm just gonna turn it off." - Yeah, exactly. - You know, you're like- - Cinema, I'm locked in. 'Cause I pretty much never walk out of a film. I don't think I've ever done it. - I've done it once. - I've done it once. - I don't know what would have to happen for me to walk out. - What was your film? - Live action Dragon Ball Z. - No, I would stay to see it out. - Nah, I couldn't do it. - That's so funny. Mine was live action Ghost in the Shell.

- Really? - Yeah. - Damn. - And I walked out of it because I was like, this is so offensively mediocre that I'm like, it's not even- - I mean, that's the biggest crime, right? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - That's the biggest crime of all. - If it was like bad,

- I probably would have stayed for "Dragon Ball Evolution" 'cause I'm like- - I mean, I watched it afterwards, like in its entirety and I'm like, yeah, I made the right decision. - 'Cause I walked out 'cause I just had this like epiphany when I'm like, this is neither good nor bad and it's just a waste of my fucking time both ways. - Yeah, I couldn't walk out 'cause I was sponsored to go watch it. - What? - Yeah, I was sponsored to go watch the Ghost in the Shell live action.

Yeah. And I sat there in its entirety because I kind of needed to and I was like, it was fine. Whatever. You've never walked out of a cinema? No. Early. Do you normally go like by yourself? I buy myself a fair amount. Yeah. Okay. Because I sometimes like

the only time i would really consider it is probably when i'm by myself you know when you when you're with the group is a lot harder yeah but uh yeah i mean you if i saw as many films as you did and so i'd probably walk out of quite a lot yeah well i'm going for more of the experience right like i'm i'm trying to like i just enjoy the atmosphere i enjoy being there um

And it's a shame that most movies now, I end up being like, hmm. I told you guys about this, but I watched Bridge on the River Kwai in theaters. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because Japan, they show classic movies really early in the morning. Yeah. And they'll show a classic movie about two weeks and they'll swap.

So I mentioned that in the previous episode that I wanted to watch Space Odyssey because they're going to do that one. Yeah. I would love to see that in cinemas. Yeah, exactly right. So I watched Bridge on the River Kwai which came out in 1950 something. Yeah. Fucking amazing.

amazing it is so great film as well it's a dad film but look it's fucking phenomenal and i just watched uh laurence of arabia i didn't realize it was the same uh director oh okay so that was really cool but like i love the way that just i don't know man they made the movie like it was a fucking like epic like everything about the movie is epic

8.1 on IMDb. The amount of fucking extras they have on every scene is crazy as well. Yeah. I'm watching this shit and all the character arcs are really complicated. Like, there's no, you know, it's not clear who you're supposed to be rooting for or how you're supposed to feel. It's like, it's always, it's so complicated, but everything is just epic. It makes you appreciate what kind of

like filmmaking had to go to making these older films. Like the amount of extra, they had like no CG, no fucking like,

no thing to help them make some of these scenes you just needed to hire all the extras well that's why the animals this film's four hours long yeah yeah like this is a fucking this is a fucking epic yeah well that's why i love a lot of like kurosawa films as well in the same vein because it's like you know so many of them were filmed in like you know the 40s and 50s where it's like and you see some of these like large-scale battles that are happening with like

hundreds, sometimes thousands of extras in a single scene. I'm just like, my God, trying to organize all of that shit back then, especially, would have been fucking ridiculous. I think there was a Napoleon movie. I can't remember which one exactly where they had...

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troops from a certain country to pretty much learn all of the Napoleon army like marches. And they had like hundreds, if not, I think thousands of these extras marching the exact same way and in the formations that they would. I don't know which movie it was. Maybe someone in the chat, comments, let me know down below. Let me know down below which movie it was. But I know there's a lot of movies. There's a lot of movies that just, yeah, fucking masterpieces. Masterpieces. But yeah, no, I think,

Yeah, right now it's movies are aight right now. Movies are aight right now. It's actually...

make me want to go back and watch a lot of older movies if this the only problem with watching these older movies in japan right now specifically with this exact same time i watched it is that they only play about 9 45 a.m yeah i know oh shit i watched bridge on the river quiet 9 45 a.m i saw that's a heavy movie to watch in the morning i didn't mind but it was trippy waking up being like fuck and then immediately putting yourself in a dark room yeah and watching a three-hour epic

- 'Cause I was looking for just a film to watch at the cinema as well. And I saw fucking "Eraserhead" was playing. - Oh fuck. - Oh shit, I would love to watch this. 9:45 AM, I'd already missed it. I'm like, imagine waking up watching "Eraserhead" at 9:45 AM. - That's day ruined. - In the cinema, it was mainly older people and me and Pete.

Oh, I'm jealous because my area, my local cinema doesn't have those retro movies. It's all the Toho cinemas in Japan. Oh, really? Yeah, so check it out. Check out local Toho cinemas at 9.45am. Okay. They all play different movies depending on where you are in Japan. Okay. I think it's all Toho cinemas as well, if I'm not mistaken. I'm trying to figure out where the closest Toho cinema is. What's the best cinema experience you guys have ever had? Like the one time when you were in the cinema and it just, seeing something for the first time just blew your fucking mind.

- That's a great question. What would it be? - Bro, I remember for me fucking "Inception", man. That shit changed my brain. - I know this is like fucking cringe and a meme, but ironically watching "Avatar" was kind of fucking hype. It was kind of hype when it first came out. - Remember the first one with the 3D glasses as well? - Yeah. - 'Cause that was a movie where like, I remember, 'cause I wasn't old enough, 'cause I remember I was just, I was old enough to be taken to watch it. But I remember the adults around me talking about it and they were like, "I've watched it three times, four times.

I can't get enough of Avatar. And now it's kind of like a meme. Everyone's like, why were they so obsessed with Avatar? But like at the time it was kind of like the biggest fucking deal ever. It was kind of just like impossible to avoid. I just saw it, I think two, three times in cinemas. It was massive, dude. It was massive. Yeah. Because it just was such a big fucking spectacle that-

you'd never experienced before. And then you watch it now and it's fucking dumb blue people. It's stupid when you watch it now. You feel dumb, man. Genuinely though, this might be a cop-out answer, but like the first Dune movie.

The first Dune movie was amazing. The first Dune movie in cinemas, that blew my fucking mind because like, as a fan of the books and also as someone who had watched the fucking David Lynch movie, which was an absolute travesty to the Dune series, finally, actually finally seeing like Dune visually as it was supposed to be, I'm just like, oh my God.

Oh my God, this is crazy. Yeah, the cinematography in that film was fucking insane. I think I saw that in the cinemas like two or three times. It's so good. Yeah. Sometimes you just see that film because you see that film where it's just made for cinema. Any Christopher Nolan film as well, you sit down and you just fucking lock in. Another one. Another one. Star Wars Episode III.

- Really? - Yes. - I don't think I saw that in cinemas. - Wait, when did that come out? - It came out fucking ages ago. - Ages ago. - It was actually- - Oh, I thought it was in episode six. - No. - Okay, episode six. - 2005. - Revenge of the Sith. 'Cause I think this had just come out in cinemas when I could go to cinemas by myself. - Yeah. - Right, right. - And I remember it was like the fucking cinema was packed.

And we got like the last, it was me and my mate who got like the last two seats and it was like right at the front. And I fucking hate sitting at the same spot right at the front. It's the worst. I'm like, oh, I'm like fucking, I can't believe I'm watching Star Wars right at the front. It's going to ruin the experience for me. And then I just remember it's complete silence. Then my brain just gets bass boosted. Bam, ba-da-bam, ba-da-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba.

And I'm just like, oh my God. - I think I also watched this in cinemas, but I was nine years old. But I remember my cousin took me. - I think I watched it at home after it came out on like DVD and stuff. - You mean VHS? It was VHS time. - 2005? - Yeah, it was VHS. - Really? - Yeah. - Is this not DVD?

- This might've been right at the beginning of the DVD. - I think it's right at the beginning of the DVD. - I remember I had it on VHS. - My dad had on DVD, I think. So it must've been a while off. - Probably right in the beginning of the DVD VHS era. - Yeah.

- I mean, the only thing I can fucking remember from this movie is just do it. - Yeah. - That's all I remember. - I mean, it was cool seeing like, I mean, back I was 15 years old. All I wanted to see was like cool lightsabers, Yoda pop off. - Yeah. - The Yoda pop off. - And that's basically it. - Yeah. I mean the Count Dooku Yoda fight,

Fire. Yeah. Fire. Did you guys, were you guys ever able to like sneak into cinemas to watch films for, no, no, for like a film that you weren't old enough to watch? No. I accidentally did it with the first Saw movie. Yeah. So I, wait, wait, wait. Accidentally? Yeah. So I, we accidentally went into the wrong, we were watching a different movie. I forgot what it was. And my friend accidentally went into the wrong room.

and I had to go after him to get him. And I just remember it was like right when I guess it was like the first trap or something in the first Saw movie. And I was definitely not old enough to watch it, nor do I like those movies at all. So I just, just the panic of trying to find my friend in a dark room while there's like torture porn happening on the screen. I was just like, oh, get me out, please. I don't like this. Oh my God.

- That was horrible. - Oh my God, that would- - That traumatized me. I'm like, I'm never fucking watching this movie. - And I still have never watched a single- - Me neither, and I don't want to. I'm fine with it. - That is a part of horror that I never want to get into. - I'll stick to the YouTube videos of can you survive these saw traps? And that's it. - Sometimes I like get morbidly curious. So I see some of the traps, but I'm like,

- These are scenes that I have to watch sound off. I don't know why, but having sound on, it just makes it like 10 times fucking worse. Sometimes with sound off you're like, oh, that's just like prosthetics. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, it's fake, it's fake. - You can clearly tell. - You just have to keep telling yourself, it's like, no, it's fake, it's fake, they're fine. - It's like, have you ever seen, was it 128 hours? - Yeah, 127. - 27 hours. - So close. - Your brain added on one.

I think it was in the hospital on the 128th hour. The sound design for the scene where he cuts the arm off. That is what I think makes that scene so grotesque. Yeah. God damn. This movie was... Yeah. I definitely had to look away from it. This is the perfect example of an hour and a half film.

Yeah. And I just miss that we used to make hour and a half films. No, legit. Legit. I feel like, you know, hour and a half, it's like... It's perfect because you're just in-out. But I know that for the theater experience often can feel too short for some people because they feel like, I've got to get my money's worth. I've got to be here all night. It's like, I just...

- Thing that doesn't take the piss. - I don't feel that way. Sometimes, especially with a theater experience, I just want some, sometimes an hour and a half is the perfect amount when I don't need to worry about a piss break. That's the biggest thing. Anything above- - I just simply empty my bladder before I go in Garnt. - Nah, I can't do that. - You can't not piss for two and a half hours? - You've seen every Trash Taste recording. Garnt and I always take a piss break. - You guys need a bladder inspection. - Two hours is like, over two hours is when I need to start like,

strategically planning. - Oh no, that's why I figured out the strat. When I go to the cinemas, I just don't drink fluids. - Smart, smart man. - 'Cause the moment like I buy- - I double chug L's. - Yeah, the moment I like anyone orders like a Coke or like a bottle of water or anything I can like take a sip off of, it's donezo. I'm taking a piss break in the middle of that movie. - Yeah, but sometimes I just, I don't know, the fucking tango ice floss.

I fucking hate the tango ice blast. I love that tango ice blast, man. I don't like the normal fucking soda Pepsi stuff, but tango ice blast is... I'm just there for the popcorn. Everything else is in the way. Popcorn is the biggest scam in the fucking world, man. It is. You don't need popcorn to watch a film. I kind of have to agree.

- You do not need to watch a film. - What the fuck? - No. - What is wrong with you? - You've just been programmed. - Hollywood is hacking your brain. - I'm sure you have been brainwashed by some fucking businessman in the 60s that is just like, we have too much corn in America. How do we sell the corn? And people are like,

You know what? Let's just- - I'm not watching the movie if there's no popcorn. - That's so fucked up. - I will not go to the theater if I cannot get popcorn. - Because the thing is, the thing is, you say you're there for the popcorn, but it's impossible to have the popcorn and not have the drink because having a fucking box full of popcorn- - No, I get the drink. - dries up your mouth. - Yeah, I get the drink. - Yeah, but again, going back to the whole thing of if I drink in the cinemas, this is GG's, I'm missing at least- - Simply just get good. Get good. - I can't get good. - Get good, gentlemen. - Do you know what I hate about popcorn?

It's like you wanna have popcorn when you are hungry, right? - No. - No. - No. - Why the fuck do I want popcorn when I'm hungry? - Really? - Dude, popcorn is the least satiating food ever. - Popcorn on an empty stomach feels gross as well.

It's after you've eaten a bunch and then you're fucking like, dessert time. Well, because, yeah, that's what I hate about it. Because what I was going to say was, when I'm stuffed, I don't want popcorn. I don't want to eat anything. I'm not hungry. But when like- I'm not hungry, Garnt. Everything you misunderstand, my love. I'm not hungry. I eat it because I must.

- It's not about hunger, Garnt. I must eat popcorn. - I cannot concentrate. Otherwise it becomes second monitor. - Yeah, I'm not hungry, Garnt, okay? I just, there is no, I turn to the cinema. - The popcorn helps him walk in. - Because if I'm hungry- - Are you sure we don't have ADHD, Connor?

- Yeah, you sure you're not just like stimming right now? - No, because if I'm hungry, I eat it like a wild dog, you could say. When I'm not hungry, I perfectly eat it at a pace that is enjoyable for the movie. - No, that's why the issue with popcorn is that you never eat it

like to fully to satiate the whole movie experience. Anytime anyone- - It's a 30 minute thing. - It's a 15 minute thing. - Whoa, you're fast. You fished it? - Dude, by the time the ads before the movie starts, I'm done with half of it. - No. - Yes. - Right? - Yes. - It never lasts, like not even the first half of the movie. - I try my best, like some kind of like Mormon during like a fucking no nut November.

I like try to withhold myself. Like one at a time. I'm like left hand, one. Nah. And then when the movie starts, I'll occasionally start scooping. I'll scoop. I'll be like, like a fucking lion eating its prey. That's when I'm locked in. Oh my God. But only I withhold my satiation until the movie's begun. So only popcorn. You can't have, it needs to be popcorn. If I haven't had dinner, I'll get a hot dog too.

I'll do that sometimes. But I will say, though, going to the American cinemas, I feel like they just do it right. I feel like they've figured out pure cinema bliss because it should be gluttony mixed with cinematic joy because that one theater that I always go to, which is the Draft House in LA, I fucking love it because you can get like a full fucking meal. I get like a full wing set. I don't want a full meal. I want a full meal. I don't want a full meal. I want a full meal. And then I get the bottomless popcorn when I'm done.

It's beautiful. It's like 1500 calories. Meals are for YouTube videos, Connor, not cinema. Okay. Okay. This is the OG. No, no, no, no. Four meals are for some five hour documentary on some fucking niche game. You've never heard of before. I order like fucking, I order the full wings. I'll get some like fries too. And I'll get my little,

- No, no, no. Because if you order a full meal at the cinemas, you're too focused on the meal. - Yes, yes. Popcorn, okay. - The cinema becomes second model. - Popcorn, popcorn, you're just like, "Ooh, this is some fun mouthfeel." - It's something that's like double hacking my brain where I'm getting joy from the food and the movie. - I cannot, if I ordered wing, I mean, look, wings at a cinemas sounds great, but I just imagine if I have a fucking plate of wings and the cinema at the cinema. - No, 'cause I'm like this.

- No, I'd be too busy like. - My favorite part is that they always give me like salary sticks with it. And I have to like time it like gunshots. I remember I was watching Oppenheimer and I had to wait until it was like a part where he like gets fucking upset and then he goes, "Oh." It was like him talking about it. And then he'd go like, "Oh." So we'd go like.

- It was so good. - Oh my God, brother. - I loved it. I don't know, it was so fun. There's something about having a full fucking meal at the cinema that it hits me in the soul. - No, I could never. 'Cause like, okay, when you, okay, here's the thing. When you are, you finish dinner, or you guys, you fucking Uber Eats, you sit down, you don't fucking go on Netflix and be like, "I'm gonna watch like a critically acclaimed movie now." No, you put on some fucking brain slop. - What? - No, I put on a critically acclaimed movie. - What? - While you're eating? - Sometimes.

- Oh no. - Sometimes the best thing you can do is eat a ton of food and watch an amazing movie. - Sometimes I'm just like, I got my plate of food. I'm sitting on the couch. It's like, all right, let's put on a movie.

- You put on something casual, surely, surely you must- - Can you not eat food and focus? - If I'm putting on something critically acclaimed, I want my full focus to be on the movie. But if you're eating, then it's not like eating popcorn. It's not like eating a snack. You're committed- - I'm not talking about a fucking seven course meal here, knife and fork in hand. - Well, apparently with the fucking wings. - That is a seven course meal, but that's different.

- No, no, for me, because it's like, if I, okay, Aki has made me dinner and like, all right, let's watch a movie. I eat so fucking fast. - Yeah, it's gone in five minutes. - It's gone in five minutes. - It's gone in five minutes. - And then I put it away and then boom, I can focus on the rest of the movie. - And then I love that feeling of being full watching a movie. - Yeah. - It feels so good. 'Cause you're just like rubbing, I'm just like there rubbing my belly. - It's like, mm. - Oh, movie's so good.

- Like that. And then this place, dude, they got craft beers as well. It's amazing. - Okay, craft beers. - Craft beer with a- - Dude, they bring out, and you know the best part about it? It's like they bring out a craft beer, it's a pint in a glass. There's just something about just reclining your chair to max and just going like, "Oh, this is so fucking good."

- It's absolute privilege. Absolute fucking privilege. - In your household, were you a watch something while you have the family dinner? - Oh, no, no, no. - Or was that fucking banned? - You're not allowed. Banned, banned. - TV talk. - Perhaps that's why I seek it out so much. I seek out that experience. - 'Cause I always wanted to do that. - I never got it. - Okay, were you guys allowed to eat food in your bedroom? - No.

- No. - Never. - Like dinner? - Like dinner? - No. - Lunch? Anything? - No, never. - Oh wait, no, occasionally breakfast 'cause I was late to school. - Oh, okay, okay. - No, never. - 'Cause like I,

Like for me, when I have, I think this is programming my brain to like, when I have like a dinner, I can put something on, right? But it's mainly about the talking. It's mainly about the talking. It's mainly about having something like, literally second monitor stuff. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Right? Because the thing that I hate sometimes is, especially when I'm eating, like having to look down and having, it's such a small thing, but having to look down and having to look up. I remember one time I tried eating while watching Monogatari for the first time.

- Understandable. - I didn't understand Japanese at the time. So I looked down for a second, I've missed like half the fucking dialogue. - But like, see, that's just the poor choice because like, that's no different to like trying to read a book while you eat. - Yeah, reading a book while you eat is impossible. - Yeah, that which is impossible. - Yeah, okay. - Right? So it's like, that's just the poor choice of film. - What's like your peak genre then when you have a meal every day? - Anything that's fucking good.

- Anything that's good? - Yeah, just anything that doesn't require like 100% of my concentration. - You must have a comfort thing because otherwise you spend more time picking the thing you're gonna watch than just like fucking- - I fucking eat my food in like five minutes. I'm done so fast. I end up spending way more time looking for the YouTube video. - You know what's fucking weird? Like your brain knows that you're gonna be finished eating in five minutes, but you're like, nah, but I need something.

- Usually if I'm in my room, like if I'm home alone and I'm eating just in my room and I'm like, all right, let's find a YouTube video. I finished my meal by the time I found the video. - And also I can't sit still. So even when I'm done with the meal, I'm gonna be like, all right, I'm done now. I'm gonna do something else.

So like I need the YouTube video to be like short, but not too long. - Right. - But long enough to last the meal. - Yeah. - But not too long that I'm gonna sit there for more than 10 minutes. Like I think, you know what I mean? So it's kind of a criteria that's never gonna be fulfilled. - Then how the fuck are you having a full course meal in the cinemas? - Oh, I fucking love it there. - How are you not like, well, that was a great meal. - It's different, it's different. It's so fucking good 'cause I'm there for the movie and the food is just a bonus. - Right. - It's so fucking good.

- God, I love boneless popcorn. I need to piss as well actually, sorry, go on. - Double piss time. - How are you guys doing guys? What do you guys watch? How many of you guys are eating it now?

while you are and you decided to put on some trash taste uh as much as i stick by my boys i'm not gonna say that trash taste is pure fucking cinema so i wouldn't blame you guys for having this on as second money stuff while you're just chomping down on your delicious meal right now i don't know what kind of monologue is going on right now

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Shit, I need to piss as well.

- Guys, hurry up and piss. - What is up with like people where they grow up and they're like, actually, I kind of hate sugar. As a kid, that shit is crack. - Yeah, it really is. - It's because most adults discover crack. And they're like, oh, this is way better. - You know one thing I never got? Like as a kid, did you ever think like, damn, all these old folks being like, it's too sweet. How can something be too sweet? - What do you mean?

I remember thinking that doesn't compute in my head. I don't understand how things being more sweet equals bad. And now as an adult, I'm like, sometimes a dessert is just like, nah, that's too sweet for me, man. The biggest compliment that an adult can give to something is not too sweet. Yeah, right? It's like...

It's like having a drink that's like too sweet. It doesn't compute. Actually, I want more shitty bitter flavor. - I knew the moment my childhood died when I first had a coffee without any sugar and I'm like, this is delicious.

- You know, same here, same here. - I'm just like, damn, my childhood has just died. - We were just saying what the fuck happens when people grow up and they're like, actually sweet things, that's too fucking much. - Yeah. When was the moment where you were just like, nah, sugars, nah. - Age one.

Did you always hate sweet things? Yeah, I always hated sweet things. Really? Yeah. Damn. I think I liked those toxic waste things and the sour Haribo's and that kind of shit. But even then as a kid, I thought, wow, I feel sick after eating this. Yeah, I felt sick after eating it, but I was also like, mother, another one. I think I was more so obsessed with the colors and the branding than actually the flavor. You know what I mean? No, I fucked with the flavor. Because I was like, it's pink, it's neon, it's blue. And I was like, oh, my mom gives me green and brown.

So I think that was more exciting to me as a kid than the actual flavor. I actually didn't fuck with the flavor at all. - You hate Haribo? - I hate Haribo. I've never liked Haribo. - What? - What the hell is wrong with you? - It's like eating a fucking dog toy.

- You know what? Okay, I thought we had a place of commonality here, but you've gone far too far, 'cause as an adult, I still fuck with Harry. - I fucking love Harry. - You can enjoy Harry, but I just don't. I don't hate you for that. I don't hold it against you, lad. - I hate you for that. - Oh. - No, I hold it against you. - I assume you misunderstood where I stood in this situation. - I thought we were bonding. - It appears I have miscalculated. - I thought we were bonding here.

No, we don't do that. We don't do that here. All right. Speaking of speaking of movies, boys. Yeah. Have you seen the Shrek five trailer? No, but it's gonna be old. Super old news. It's gonna be old news by the time this comes out, but I know I need you guys to see this. I've seen it. I don't

I don't care. You don't care? No, I don't care. I've never felt- Why do you care so much? Because it's fucking Shrek! What did they do to my boy? Bro, do you really think Shrek 5 is gonna be a hit franchise? I didn't think it was gonna be like this. Oh my- Bro, they got Zendaya playing a kid. I know! This is not gonna be the movie you were hoping for. I've never stood up in anger in my life until after I watched- Why do you care, Joey? Why are you engaging?

It's because I recently rewatched Shrek 2 and I was like, damn. - We're never getting Shrek 2. - I know. - We're never getting Shrek 2. - I thought maybe. - No, we're never getting Shrek 2. - I was like 1%. - We're never getting Shrek 2. - 1% of me is just like, maybe they'll bring the shit back. - Don't engage. - And it's terrible. - Brother, there are other things like the Sonic movie. - Which I still haven't seen.

- You haven't seen Sonic? - I've only seen the first one. But that was like a couple of years ago. - That is, I feel like Sonic is just that genre film, whatever the fuck that genre film is done right. I don't know why. I really, I'm not even like a Sonic fan, but I fuck with the Sonic movie. - I think that's the general sentiment for the Sonic movies. - I don't know why, 'cause like Mario, it was all right. - It was fun. - The movie was all right, you know?

made for the most amount of people to please the most. Exactly. It felt like it was just a movie that was made by committee to be as marketable and as least offensive as possible. And I went in, I was like, had a good time. Don't really remember much about it. No, me neither. Sonic, for some reason, I'm just like, damn,

These are fucking fans, man. They're just having fun, you know? Like Jim Carrey doesn't give a shit anymore, but somehow he still gives a shit for Eggman. I'll like everyone. - Peak of his acting.

I don't know why. The thing is, as a Sonic fan, I do want to watch the rest of the movies, especially Sonic 3 because fucking Shadows, Keanu Reeves. That's all the reason I need to watch it. Even like Sonic 2 where Idris Elba played Knuckles. Yeah, right? And then now apparently Sonic 4, they're finally going to fucking get Amy out there. Probably going to be played by Zendaya for all we know.

Of course. Yeah. Of course. I mean, they've hinted at it. So you guys going to watch the Minecraft movie? I kind of want to just to see how bad it is.

I'm just those kinds that genre of movie. It looks too bad. Yeah, that genre of movie. I've just like, I know I'm not going to like this, but I kind of just want to be there for the memes. It's like they're going to you just feel like exactly 33 minutes into the movie. They can be like, it's Minecraft time or something. He's going to say shit like that. Yeah, I can't wait for Jack Black to be like, let's craft and mine, guys. How much do you want to bet?

There's going to be a YouTuber cameo in this. Probably. I mean, I think the Minecraft community would rage if there wasn't at least one YouTube cameo. They have a whole 20-minute segment about Dream calling people kittens.

- That's in the movie. - Guaranteed. - One of Dream's song is like part of the soundtrack. - The fucking mask song. - Oh, man. - Hey, I appreciate the fact that it's only an hour and 40 minutes though, because they could have easily fucking done a two hour- - When is this coming out? April 4th? - Fuck, that's not- - Oh, three days too late.

- Oh, that's not far away from where we are. - Actually, it might be out by the time this episode comes out. - Yeah, it'll already be out. - We're too far ahead to talk about anything current. - It's really not. - What have you been up to, Joey?

Yesterday I went to my first ever MMA event. What the fuck? Yeah, I got invited to go to this event called Breaking Down, which is a very famous MMA event hosted by Asakura Mikuru, who is a former pro boxer. At one point he was the lightweight or featherweight champion of the world, and then he was on this amazing streak, and then he fought Floyd Mayweather and got his ass beat.

So he started this event where it's literally Bucky in real life. It's the only way to describe it. So the show is they basically anybody can sign up for this. So a bunch of people sign up for it. They give their resumes and they're fighting history or just talking themselves up. And then they go into this audition phase.

where they invite all of these dudes into a room to like chat and like talk shit to one another and from there they create a roster like a yeah like a roster to basically go up against one another and it's really short each fight is only one minute long one round

But just it's a lot. It's kind of like MMA cross with WWE because the WWE aspect is like you get to hear about these guys like backstories and stuff like that. So there's a lot of like fans and stuff like that. So you had a lot of fun? It was so fun. I've never been to like any kind of like fighting event live before, but just seeing these guys. Mind you, all of these guys, like majority of them are not like famous people or anything like that. They're just dudes.

who live in Japan and are like, yeah, I want to fight. Like a lot of them are like former, I'm sure the majority of them are like former like Yakuza or like just like very shady backgrounds who like do a lot of street fights and stuff like that. I've never seen that high of a concentration of tatted up Japanese dudes in one room. Like even the audience members were like screaming out, like it literally sounded like a Baki fight.

But just hearing and seeing all of the backgrounds of these guys and why they want to be in the show and basically just...

The majority of it, all of them is just like, yeah, the only reason why I want to be in Breaking Down is because I want to prove that I'm the strongest. And I'm like, that's just barking. I mean, it's just a fucking tournament arc at the end of the day. That's just what MMA is. But some of these dudes, man, fucking... That guy looks like a salary man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But this dude, probably former Yakuza, because the moment he took his shirt off, he was nothing but tats.

Was there any fight that reached out to you? Ah,

Uh, yeah, there was one where I guess it was like a former, not a former champion, but like a, cause so this is breaking down 15. I went to, so this is the 15th event or the 15th season, I guess. Um, and some of these guys are like kind of recurring, like come back characters, side characters, side characters, if you will. Um, there was a dude who was going up. It was a guy who used to be like in the first couple of breaking down. So he's like a long running guy who's been in this tournament for a while and a newcomer.

And it's so funny because before the matches start, they play like a little clip of them, you know, like chatting shit and talking up themselves, being like, you know, like, I'll fucking destroy him, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, yeah. And there was one where literally, you know, the matches are quite short. It's only one minute, one round. Yeah. Right. And then it goes to a vote. There was one match that I think literally lasted three seconds.

Like, it just went ding. Guy ran up, just went bam, bam, bam. Knocked out. Wow. And everyone was like, yo!

- It was fucking hype, right? - It's so hype. And just what was so funny was just some of the entrance music that played for some of these dudes. 'Cause they get to pick like entrance pieces. There was a dude, I was saying this to Garnt earlier. There was a dude who unironically walked out to Darude Sandstorm. - Fuck yeah. - And I- - Fuck yeah. - Yeah, just when I heard Darude, I was like, no way. I said the, "D-D-D-D-D." I was like, "Yo."

But what was really funny, there's a couple of people who walked out to Still Dre by Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg. And I'm just like, are you just outing yourself that you've smoked weed in Japan before? Because otherwise you wouldn't know this song. It's just all the 90s classics. Yeah. But what kind of annoyed me? I was posting a bunch of Instagram stories from the event. And of course, I had to post about Darude Sandstorm because it was just funny. Right, of course. God, the amount of comments I got on that.

from I'm assuming people who are a lot younger than me. 'Cause so many of them were like, "I've never heard this song before, but it slaps." It's like, wow, this is like old school techno. One that pissed me off was someone went, "LOL, millennial coded." And I just, I was like, fuck you. - I mean, it is millennial coded. - But also fuck you. Do not talk down on my boy Darude. He made a banger.

But yeah, this is fucking great. So they do this event, I think once every like six months or so. So the next one is in like July in Osaka, I think. But yeah, it's fucking great. How many knockouts did you see? I think almost every round was a knockout. Fuck. Of some way. Only one minute as well? Yeah. So, I mean, I'm telling you like these guys, the moment the gong goes off. Yeah. Like no holds barred. They're fucking kicking. That's cool. They're punching the shit out of each other. How long was the event?

It was quite long. There's like 20 rounds or so. So I wasn't there for the whole time. Good time? Oh, fucking great time. There's just something primal about seeing someone knocked out. I always get sad when I see guys beat each other up. I don't know why. I feel bad. It's primal for a moment and then I'm like, oh, they're actually really hurting themselves. Yeah, yeah. You have too much compassion. In the moment, you see someone get knocked out and it's like, yo!

that dude just got like I know they both agreed and they both knew what they were getting themselves into but then I just empathized with like man imagine being the guy that got knocked the fuck out it's gotta be fucking miserable there was one fight actually that was the most hype it was a match between this like kind of former champion like he used to be like a pro boxer and he's like kind of a wholesome dude who was going up against this new guy who came in who is this fucking tiktoker

- Oh God. - And supposedly he hyped himself up in the video beforehand being like, yeah, I'm the biggest TikToker in all of Shinjuku. Like, you know, like I'm like the embodiment of the Kabukicho like vibe and energy. And like, he was total douchebag, right? - Yeah. - Maybe he's playing a character, I don't know, but he looked and sounded like an absolute total douchebag. The moment he came in,

everyone in the crowd is booing. - Hell yeah. - Everyone's like, "No boo, fuck this guy, fuck that." - That's great, that's great for the story. - Yeah. - Great for the story. - And then the contender came out and everyone was like, "Yeah, fuck him up, fuck him up." And they survived the first round. So there were no knockouts in the first round. And then it goes to a voting thing. So there's four judges and then there's an audience vote. - Interesting. - On like who they think won.

A lot of the times when it gets to that point, it usually ends in like a draw and they do an extra one minute match.

And they got to the draw and then the moment the second round started, dude just fucking wailed back and just knocked the fuck out of this TikToker out. Everyone stood up and was like, "Yeah!" It's like, "Fuck you!" - He held his own for a minute. - But also it was really funny 'cause I was there with a couple of friends and we were like, "Oh, okay, let's see who this like TikToker guy is." 'Cause I'd never heard of him. How many followers do you think he had? - 10,000. - 900.

And I'm just like, bro. - You have to give him credit for great story building. You got the whole audience against him and no one knew who the fuck he was. - He understood his role in the story. And he played it right. So I appreciate that. - Good heal is priceless. - Exactly. So I'm sure he gained a bunch of falls from that, but yeah, it was a lot of fun. - Going to go to a live event like this just makes you think like how fucking hype like,

OG gladiator matches were. Oh my God. You know, because that's basically what you're seeing. You know, you're seeing like a modern day Coliseum match. Back in the day, it was an actual like blood sports. Totally. You know, totally. I like, I've, I've never like properly gotten into MMA, but I have like a few friends who are like, like truly, truly like properly into MMA. They watch like every week. And it's,

- It's interesting seeing like the different ways to like appreciate it. Like there's a crowd that's just like, yo fucking man knocks man out, that's fucking hype. And then there's like the people who are like really appreciate like the technical aspect as well. 'Cause at a point it's kind of like you are, you know, you're watching two athletes at the top of the game.

with different tactics and different ways to win this match go about it. And it's, you know, I could definitely see myself getting into MMA like later on down in line. I feel like it goes hand in hand with like Jim Bros. - Oh, that's the TikTok guy by the way. - Is that a TikTok guy? - On the left. - Oh bro, he dressed up right for it. - Yeah. - Kabukimono? - Kabukimono, yeah. - This is gonna go like full like fucking Joe Rogan for a second, but have you seen that MMA fight where it's just like,

- That's the most Jorgen thing I've ever heard. - Where it's just two guys and it's round one and the bell goes and then they just stop. They just like give zero shits about defense and they just like start punching the shit out of each other and seeing who can like tank more. Bro. - I think I have seen this.

- Skip over to where the fight starts. - Oh, there you go. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Most replay. - Most replay, there we go. Wait, wait, wait, this part coming up. - Fucking take.

- Oh my God. - All right, that was it, yeah. - Dude, I'm like, imagine how hype it would be seeing that live, man. - Don Fry looks like a fucking like 1930s pugilist. He's just like, "Sing along." With the mustache and everything. - Yeah, the mustache is giving. - Hell yeah, dude. - This shit is out of a fucking Rocky movie, man. - Yeah, that's so good. - Fucking American shorts as well. - American shorts as well.

- This MMA fight lives with, like this clip lives with my mind. - Yeah, no, it's interesting, right? That you say that Connor, 'cause like I wasn't really interested or anything in like MMA or boxing either, but I think actually seeing an event, even though it's not a technically like the proper MMA fight, it kind of changed my mind on that. It's really high. - I just wanna see someone get punished.

- I didn't think so either. But when you get like characters like that are clearly playing the villain and then them getting what they deserve. There was a part of me that was- - Like I know everyone's down for it. Like I know everyone's like, you know, with it and they know they're getting punched and stuff. I don't know, man. Shit about it makes you feel weird. - Well, did you guys ever, ever in your life have like a wrestling phase or anything like that or just consumed it at all? - No, I got into my wrestling phase like during COVID.

Oh, you did? I admire the athleticism of wrestling. I understand it's very demanding on the body. I respect what they do, but I filmed videos with wrestlers and that was really interesting. But for me, I've always struggled to really connect with it on a personal level. But I always really enjoyed it. Which is hilarious because out of the three of us, you've definitely had the most fierce fights. Yeah, I mean, there's something about fighting when it's real versus when it's agreed upon. It's just so different. Yeah.

It's not raw enough. I think the rawness of aggression when it's necessary is what, I don't know, is what makes it feel necessary. I know. I...

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I've watched wrestling a few times and especially like, I think my cousin, like I, I, my only exposure to wrestling was my cousin was like really, really into wrestling in like the late nineties, early two thousands, basically when the rock was like at his peak or the WWF back at the time. And yeah,

I think I get it to a point, but the amount of investment it requires to follow every storyline. Cause like I, you know, you know, with the thing that I respect my wrestling fans is that it's the amount of time investment you need to,

follow all of these storylines for all of these different wrestlers. You know, it's, it is a new kind of like, it is a different level of rabbit hole than fucking- - It's like the Gundam franchise. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, right? But like, imagine that, but it's just never ending. - Yeah. - You know, and it's still continuing on to this day. - Like the Gundam franchise. - And I'm like, part of me,

is jealous of wrestling fans. 'Cause they talk about the experience. They talk about their experience of some of these major fucking moments in wrestling. And I get jealous of them 'cause I'm like, damn, I understand why you're a wrestling fan 'cause I want to feel the emotions that you- - They talk about it like it's like watching the Berlin Wall fall down. - Yeah, I wanna feel that. Wouldn't that be so hype? Like something happened recently where it was,

I saw some people talking about John Cena turning heel. - Yeah, into the villain arc. - Yeah, into the villain arc. - I saw that clip as well. - And I'm just like, even like my base knowledge of wrestling, right? I can only imagine the emotions you like wrestling fans would go through feeling that. - It's that clip of like when John Cena is going in to hug someone and The Rock is standing behind him and he just goes.

And everyone's like, "Oh shit!" - Like, I can't even imagine going like your whole life growing up. You see John Cena, Mr. America, Mr. Nice Guy. He's like, he stands for everything that's right. And then you were like grow up as an adult and you see that Villanoc, I'm like,

Damn, I'm jealous. I wish I could feel the betrayal and the emotions, even though it's scripted, even though it's- - That's the thing, and I mean this in the nicest way, for me, wrestling is my trash TV, where it's like, it's so like- - I mean, it's amazing. - It's so fun to watch, especially knowing like, you know, and that whole argument of like, oh, wrestling is fake, why would you even enjoy it? It's like, but that's why it's fun to watch because it's like,

watching a movie. - Why would you watch a movie if it's not real? - Exactly. - I think, yeah, I want to get into wrestling. - And as someone who used to, you know, kind of put down wrestling when I was younger, I was just being like, oh, it's fake. You know, why would you even enjoy this? Like as an adult now and getting into it over COVID, like I get it now. It's just like, it's again, it's like watching a great TV series. - Yeah. And like the only thing that's,

puts me off from getting into wrestling. It's just the time investment. That is literally it. When do you start? I'm like, where do I start to get into it? Which SmackDown do I start with? I also went to Himeji to do some fun stuff for the Welsh government. I saw that. It was really fun. Yeah, it was interesting. Obviously,

It's so unusual whenever I have to film for like, be a presenter for someone else and not like a YouTube video for like me or my friends. It was really interesting seeing the process of how they make videos. But it was also really interesting because basically like Himeji was also a fucking beautiful castle. And I think, I'm biased, but it's the best castle in Japan.

Mainly because it was never had any conflict ever and it was perfectly preserved. Because it never had any conflict ever. It was also built pretty late as well. It's a really fucking huge castle. Anyway, they have these grounds right in front of it where they'd set up a bunch of stalls that were kind of like mixed Welsh and Japanese things. Because it's St. David's Day, which is St. Dias Gualdewi in Welsh, which is kind of like the only really like big Welsh day, which is March 1st. And so...

Had a bunch of different Welsh things. By the time this is out,

The video will be out, the longer form video will be out, but we did a fun little promotion with them. And it was really interesting seeing how they were like, "Yeah, just kind of like do your thing." And I was like, "Oh, okay, I'll just do my thing." And so they asked, they were like, "Yeah, just speak more Japanese here." And I was like, "Well, think about that actually is kind of tough." - Fun fact. - Yeah, 'cause I went on, I had to go on stage and like the Japanese people who were talking to me, they were like, "Oh, please answer in Japanese." And I was like,

Okay. I'm like, are you okay with it sounding bad? Because it will sound bad. So they were like, you know, like, but luckily they gave me nice softball questions and it wasn't too bad in the end. I thought they were going to ask me some, you know, please explain. It was literally like, you know, you're in Himoji. What do you think of Himoji? And I'd be like, ah, Himoji wa kakui. E ga mitai deshone. And they were like, oh, nice. Yeah. So it wasn't too complicated. And I had to kind of talk to some Japanese people and kind of like get

Get them involved in the Welsh stuff. It was really fun. It was a good time. Hell yeah. It was cool, man. What did you do specifically? Like just a bunch of Welsh? So they had set up a stall where you could get like a stamp book. Yeah. Very Japanese. You could get these Welsh stamps if you did certain things, certain Welsh challenges.

So what's a Welsh challenge? Some of them were more Welsh and some of them weren't even challenges. It was all good fun. Like one of them was like, just accept a daffodil. And you were like, okay, cool. It's Welsh. Because they had like a thing of like, do what, you know. And then there's another one where it's like, do an origami of a dragon. I was like, oh, okay.

A little more difficult than the previous one. And one of them was like, get the AR dragon on your phone. So it was cool. It was interesting. And they posted a little something to their socials, which was cute. It was fun to get to work with the Welsh government. You're the Welsh representative of Japan, apparently. That's what everyone's saying. No. I just think I'm the only person who is Welsh who is also known for being in Japan.

- Right. - What is that? - Basically what I just said. - I guess. - How big is that Zen diagram? - They just hired me to make a video. - What other Welsh dude lives in Japan? - Like four probably. - Exactly.

some of the geeks who's welsh but i mean he didn't speak welsh yeah right there's a difference yeah it was fun though it was really interesting it was uh it was tough though because when they when they told me about it they're like yeah we'd love to get you to get the japanese people you know more involved with the booth yeah yeah that's gonna be tough i was like i was like is pete coming no pete could do this i was like ah this is this kind of stuff but it was good though they had like

700 stamp books that they apparently all, you know, had been fully taken. Oh, nice. Oh, yeah. And the whole time I found really interesting is that there was a sub-culture event going on the whole time. Oh, really? Yeah. Sub-culture event happening the entire time. Oh, sure. Which, I don't know if you know it. I didn't know this. I didn't know what sub-culture meant. Do you know what sub-culture means? Like, I mean, it's kind of a broad term. It was just anime. It was just anime.

- It was just weeb shit. - Oh, okay. - I mean, that's one subculture. - Yeah, that is a subculture. - So they told me, they were told me they were like, "Yeah, by the way, there's a subculture event going on." And they thought I was filming something for it. And I was like, "Oh, no, no, no, not at all." And I was there for two days 'cause I wanted to just chill in Himoji and check it around. 'Cause I haven't been to Himoji that much, I've only been twice. I wanted to kind of get to know it a little bit better. And so they had a subculture event for two days.

And it wasn't subculture. It was just weeb culture is what I learned. Which is the biggest subculture in Japan, I'd say. Dude, it was fucking cool because they had, while we were doing this Walsh thing and I was presenting and stuff, they had a march, a cosplay march.

So they did like this militaristic kind of march where all these cosplayers would march around the castle and go out in the cosplay. It was really cool. What was the cosplay? Anything, anything. It was literally everything. Like a normal convention you saw online. They were all marching around. It was really cool. And then when the day was done, I went to come check it out. There was a bunch of Itachas, which was really interesting. Very interesting, the waifus they chose. Nice.

Who did they choose? I saw Spy Family. I saw Hatsune Miku. I saw Free Ren. And then a bunch of girls from animes that I don't recognize but seem Love Live for Jason-esque. You know what I mean? Like that kind of waifu, you know? The idol girls. Yeah, stuff that I didn't know. And so then I saw the idol girls who were also performing and I saw their fanboys who were going, hey, hey. And they were getting into it. But the highlight easily was like, they had this guy...

Who's DJing songs. And I was, I'd never seen this before. He was DJing like Moe songs. I don't know. I don't know if there's a genre for this. You know what I mean? Bubblegum pop. Yeah. Bubblegum pop songs. Yeah. And the DJ was DJing. He was doing his thing. And these guys were doing that, the thing where they were doing the arm thing, like going crazy dancing.

And they all had towels. There was like 30 of them. They were going crazy. Oh, you're talking about like the, it's called Otage. Yes. Yeah. Where they're just like. Yeah. They were going fucking for the list. And they had a crowd of like a hundred people watching them. It was insane. And so they were doing it right. And.

The best part was occasionally they'd play a song and they'd all kind of like, they'd all kind of like go out back into the crowd. They'd disperse. They'd be like, I don't fuck with this one. Yeah. But then when the song came on that they liked, they'd go like, oh shit. And they'd all come in. They pointed the DJ like, no way, no way you put this one on. And then they'd start going fucking ballistic, fucking doing it. But they were all doing like a different routine. Yeah.

But they were going fucking ballistic. And I watched them for like 30 minutes because it was so fun to watch these guys just go crazy. And every single time the song changed, everyone went like, oh, shit. And they'd all come in and start going like, fucking shit.

Fucking going crazy. It was insane watching them. I got to take you to Mogra one of these days. Yeah. I've been to Mogra once. Oh, yeah? I haven't seen that, though. I went for, like, a party. It wasn't, like, an actual thing. A couple of times I went to Mogra. It's just all that. These guys. They go hard. Burning energy. They all had towels. They were all sweating. And they all looked, like, 40, 50. Yeah. And some of them, like, tatted up earrings. Like, they could have been in the user, but...

- They were just fucking going at it. - Idle fans are on a different level of commitment. - They really are. They really are. I'm almost jealous. - Yeah, same here. - Yeah, I just thought it was sick, man. I was like, dude, I wish I loved something this much. I wish I cared about something this much.

- I'd be ripped. - Oh yeah, oh yeah. - You become an idol fan, become an idol fan, get into this, put some like weights on. And you're like, damn, next Goku right here, man. Next Goku in the sky. - It's like, do you go to the gym? It's like, nah. - Nah, nah, bro. I just dance. - Here's my workout routine. - It just killed me, the interactions with the DJ. It was so funny. And the DJ was like that Shrek meme every time where he goes like, and every single song he'd be like, you guys like this one? And they'd all be like, no, fuck.

- Hell yeah. - And they proceeded to go ballistic and burn 1500 calories. - Fuck yeah. - So cool. - How is it representing Wales though? - It's cool.

I'm kidding. No, it was awesome. No, I mean, it's great. I'm really glad I got to do it. And it was really fun getting to use Japanese, English, and Welsh. It was like a government thing, right? Yeah, it's on the Welsh government tourist socials to promote Wales. Because right now is the year of Wales and Japan. Oh, shit. What makes it the year of Wales?

I don't know what decides that it's the year of whales. I think they just decided that they wanted to kind of, you know, it's just diplomacy. Look, I'm not going to sit here and pretend like I understand why diplomats do what they do or they just government decide. Fair enough. They do. But I guess they decided that they really wanted to promote Welsh interests in Japan. Because I think that there are quite a lot of factories. Like I think Sony...

and Panasonic and a bunch of these other companies have factories within Wales. Yeah. I think they're trying to promote. Yeah. I think I could be wrong in saying this. I think that a lot of the Sony cameras are assembled in Wales. Oh, wow. I know that Raspberry Pis are something like that. I'm not sure. So I think that there's a lot of business interests with kind of...

promoting the two right because like the mayor of himiji was there at this thing as well oh damn yeah so i think that there's a or 90 of camera production dwells uh just to tie a lot i just saw yes

But I think some of them were built in Wales or something like that. Hey, let's go. But I know that there's been like, you know. Yeah. I don't fully understand because to me, I feel like if I was running a business, having like a country just kind of like caught me a little bit wouldn't make me decide what exactly to do. But I also think it's good for, you know, I think Wales needs all the promotion it can get. Yeah. I think I'm happy to oblige. The great nation of Wales. What's the one thing about you guys' country that you get like people?

- Pedro, you gotta go bow. Like you're proud of this thing, man. - Fuck, I mean, I don't know. I think the language- - I've never seen you more proud of Australia than doing a shooie on stage, Joey. I'll be honest. - Yeah. It might possibly be the most degenerate reason. - I'm like, yeah, the language. He's like, yeah, shooie. - Nah, there's nothing that makes you be like, fuck yeah, Australia, when you do a shooie.

- But I think also like when you're Australia, you get to pick the shooie. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - You have the luxury of being Aussies. - There's that great news clip of the, it was a live news clip of a guy talking about something or whatever, the presenter is there. And I guess it was like a party or something. - Oh yeah, they put a shoe in his mouth. - There's a dude that comes out and he just starts doing a shooie and then he pulls the presenter's shooie and he does it. And all the comments are just like, "My man."

- Let's go. - He probably lost his job as well. - Nah, nah, he got the respect. - Hell yeah, hell yeah. - Yeah. - Fox Sports Reporter joins in. - Is it the Fox Reporter one? - Oh, it's a Fox News guy. - Is it? Wait, wait, wait, go on, go on. Play the clip.

- Oh, it's on fucking Facebook. - Fucking Facebook. - Nah, it should be on YouTube. - All right, well. - Yeah, whatever. - All right. - Anyway. - You get the point. - Yeah. - Yeah. - It's great. - Yeah, I'd say Shoei or, it's like weird, my English side and my Thai side is so different. Like the one thing I'm proudly,

weirdly proud of that any Brit can do is that this is going to be super fucking niche and weird. It's like our ability to make a football chant out of anything.

- That shit is funny. - Whenever I go on YouTube compilation, and it's just like the funniest football chants. And it's just like random Americans being like, how do English low British people like do this? - How does everyone know the words? - Yeah, and I'm like, wait, this is easy. - Yeah, 'cause you go to an American game and they have to like, they start the thing for you. They go dun dun dun dun for you. So that you're like, oh, I should chant now.

- Oh, now I should try. - Yeah, but in the UK, it's always just one fucking shit face dude. - He gets it started, man. - Who do we hate? - Yeah, it literally is just one like fucking shit face dude. And everyone in the crowd just knows that energy and just gets on it, man. - I love that shit. It's so funny. - Yeah. - Yeah, no, I mean, that's the same with me with like my Australian side and my Japanese side. My Japanese side is like, you know, oh, we have the fine arts. We have, you know,

traditional Japanese food and the food culture and the preserving of the culture. It's all grandiose and fine. Meanwhile in Australia it's like, yeah we got fucking shit face. Ha ha ha.

You! Couldn't be further from one another. Because like in Thailand, I'm like, yeah, I'm fucking proud of like our Muay Thai culture. Yeah. Like fucking cool as shit, man. Thai New Year's, you're not going to have a better fucking time. Britain, it's like fucking getting shit face. Chippies at the pub. Fucking spoonies? Spoonies! Oh, man. Goddamn. Oh, jeez.

- The difference between Asia and the West. - Yeah, pretty much. Well, at least you have a fucking dragon on your flag. - Yeah, exactly. - It's just a fucking dragon. - It's cool though, it's cool. - Yeah, but it's a fucking dragon. - It is, it is like how many other countries, I mean, one other country has a dragon on their flag, right?

Bhutan? Bhutan. Bhutan has a dragon on that flag. It's an anemic-looking dragon. I hate that one. I had a cold mouth. It's a weak dragon. Not as good as ours. They don't know a dragon. Oh, and Malta. Malta has a dragon? What? Wait, bring up the Malta flag. What? Where is it? It's probably hidden in there. Oh, is it in the fucking corner? It's hidden away. Oh, what the fuck? Nah. Show that dragon loud. That doesn't count. Loud and proud.

One thing, some of the flags I think are super weird is all like the American state flag. Like there's no, like I feel like with most flags in the world, there is a design philosophy and with some state flags, it's just kind of, some of them feel like, you know, it's just like a,

Third grade kids project where you just take like shock, man. I mean, you're doing a throwback to one of our first Trash Taste. Yeah, this is. They've already seen our opinions. We have a Trash Taste afterthought from like four years ago when we did this. Oh, man. Back in the day. I don't even remember what we agreed on was the best one. I don't know either.

Oh my God. Look at the Maryland flag, dude. That's just a Rorschach test. I like that one though. I like that one. Really? Yeah. I prefer that kind of like flag design than just here's a- That's like a quilt a serial killer makes. Yeah, that's epic. It looks cool, man. But we're not going to repeat our trash days after dark. Yeah, go watch that if you haven't. So I finally finished metaphor as well. Let's go.

So, out of 10? Fucking 10 out. No, no, it's not 10 out of 10. But it's better than Persona. It is a better story than Persona. Thank you. Any of the Personas? I feel like it has one of the strongest stories. I think it has one of the strongest stories. I think a big thing and a big factor into me saying this is they gave the main character a personality and I really fucking fuck with that. I'm so tired of JRPG characters being this...

lifeless husk. Yeah, the main character actually has dialogue. Yeah, he has dialogue, he has a personality. I mean, I like that. Which is all we wanted. But I will tell you, the thing that stops it from being a perfect game. Don't say what I think you're about to say.

- No romance options. - No! - No romance options. - Why would that make you good? - Huh? - Why would that make you good? - Look. - Why'd you just stick your dick in everything, Garnt? - I just, it's not even about sticking my dick in everything. - Just because you want to fuck the white girl, white haired girl. - No, no, no, no, no. Okay. - Nice shot. - Which first off, sorry. - Which is hilarious because I'm pretty sure she's tanned. - First off Joey.

- Yes. - I do have a white girl wife, yes. Second off Joey, come on, come on. It's look, there are so many, look, it wouldn't bother me as much

if they weren't fucking teasing. - No. - If it's specifically, I swear to God, it was almost as if like, you know, I don't think every game needs a romance option, but metaphor specifically, there are so many moments that I swear to God, they're teasing you with like dialogue or with options. And I'm like, this feels like it should have a romance option. - Especially the further you go in each of their social links, the sexual tension becomes palpable. - Yeah, so this is one scene where I'm like, okay,

This needs to have, this like, this feels like it was designed to have a romance option in it. It was with, one of the characters that shows up is a like princess kind of like leader of a tribe. And in like one of the very first scenes with her, she like, you asked for a handshake.

- You asked for a handshake. She's like, "Oh, handshakes means something different in my tribe." And I'm like, "Bro!" - She's so shy about it. - Bro! - Look, all I'm gonna say, what the fuck was the name again? - No, not Juna. - Not Juna. - Bring her up. - Metaphor characters. - Yeah, all I'm gonna say is if metaphor had a romance option,

- I would have picked her. That's all I'm gonna say. - Eufy. - Eufy, that's it. Yeah. Oh, was it Eu? - Yeah. Eufy. - Eufy. - Eufy, that's it. Yeah, Eufy.

That image is not doing her justice. Yeah, she's got three eyes. What the fuck? Because her entire tribe is three eyes. Yeah, her entire tribe is like three eyes. But as soon as they introduced her character, I was like, there is like several moments in metaphor where you have to like pick a basic date to hang out with. Which is a staple of like the Persona series as well, where there'll be these special events.

And yeah, I don't know. I don't want to be that gamer that is just like, just let me pick romance options. But in this case, I was like, you know what? Sometimes just give gamers what they want. No, you don't need romance. - I don't give a fuck about romancing these fucking- - Why? Why? - What do I get from that? - I don't know. - You get a fucking cute ass.

What else are you gonna get? - I don't know, I just don't need that. - That was the best part about the Persona game. Where it's like, at the end of all of the, after all the grinding and after all the, you know, all the story you've gone through and you're just like, I've picked that one character. - Yeah. - That I want that little extra scene. - Sometimes they're, I think I'm missing something. I just hate romance in games.

Really? Yeah, I hate romancing. Like the act of having two romance, not like a story. Not like having a romance in case. Yeah, yeah, I find romance, but the act where I have to fucking romance, I'm like, oh my fucking God. Why do you hate that? Why do you hate that? It's just so much fucking work, isn't it? For nothing. Oh, Jack.

- No, it's not for nothing. You gotta keep seeing out of it. - I don't wanna fuck these characters or romance them. - It's not even about- - In the Persona games, you get to kiss at the end. - I don't wanna kiss these characters. - I do. I wanna kiss them. They're cute as fuck. - I respect your opinion.

- The moment I find a cute character in any like Atlas games and Persona, Shin Megami Tensei games, I'm just like, I need to see the fucking main character and this girl kissing. Otherwise I can not stop the game. - Yes, you get it. You get it. - I need it. - Doesn't it suck though that every time they release a game now, if there's no romance, all the fans will be like, where's the romance? - If Persona 6 doesn't have romance,

- Okay, that feels a bit dramatic. - I need it. - Well, okay, that's how I felt towards metaphor because I know there is a lot of people

a lot of vocal people about "Metaphor" to say that it doesn't need romance. I know it doesn't- - In an aspect, it doesn't. - It doesn't need romance to be an amazing game. - It doesn't. - But I would like it. - But I would like it. Are you telling me that adding romance options to "Metaphor" would not have made my playing experience even better? - Would it have my play through though? - We're gonna show Connor the merchant-

- We gotta show Connor the merchant, MILF girl. - Okay, let me see if I change my mind real quick. - All right, I forgot her fucking name. Just type in a metaphor white haired character. Yeah, white haired girl. I forgot her name. Yeah, fucking what the fuck was her name again? Brigitte. - Brigitte. - Yeah. - Yeah. - Oh man. - How old is she? - Definitely an adult. Don't worry.

- Yeah, Brigitte. Brigitte, the part about Brigitte, Brigitte legitimately, look, I'm not into tsundere at all. - Okay, I would. - I wanna see age. - Okay, okay. - I need to see how much woman I'm working with. Can we get Brigitte age? - Who would you romance if you had to pick? 'Cause I went with Brigitte. - For me, it's either Brigitte or Yuffie. - Okay, yes. - Yeah. - Because like for me, the thing that sold me

was when she was like, she comes off this like cold ass business woman and she's like, yo, but can you like take care of my dog please?

- What is this game? What the fuck is this game? - The first like three stages of her social links, it's just like this kind of cold hearted, like has absolutely no empathy, anything like that, like purely business woman. But then when she takes on the role of looking after like a client's dog and she learns empathy from that and love,

And then when the dog gets kidnapped and she goes on a killing spree, I'm just like, oh no. I think this game needs romance. I think I've changed my mind. We need romance for Brigitte. Brigitte is so hot. I just think we need romance in this game. It's a crime to have it, honestly. Honestly, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. Something about my gamer brain. Maybe I've just been experiencing too many JRPGs. I swear. I feel like...

In traditional RPGs, you have shit like the Bioware stuff with Dragon Age and Mass Effect. And I feel like in JRPGs, romance always seems to...

it seems to be a part of the storyline very, very often. And I think that just like programmed in my brain to being like, give me romance. Give me a romance subplot or romance options. 'Cause I remember the, actually I remember the very first game where I discovered like romance options in RPG and it was actually like Knights of the Old Republic. I'm like, I remember being like- - You can romance in that? - Yeah. - Really? - Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, it's like the first Bioware game. - Oh shit, I never played it, so I don't know. - Oh, fucking brilliant game.

- That fucking unlocked something in my mind. 'Cause I remember being a kid. - Who do you romance in that? - Jar Jar. - Sorry? - Jar Jar? - No. - Jar Jar? No, no, can you search up Knights of the Old Republic? - I don't got enough dick for Jar Jar. - Can I fuck Boba Fett? - Yo. - No, it's, who are the romance options again? I completely forgot. - Damn, I never played this game. - Yeah, me neither. - Oh, this is a goaded game, man. Probably my favorite piece of Star Wars media.

- Bastila for male characters and Karth and Juhani for female players. - Man, female players got more options than male players? - What the fuck? - What was going on? - They don't understand gamers. - Yeah, 'cause I remember playing this as a kid and I was like, wait, some of these dialogue options sounds like flirting. What's up with that? - Me learning flirting. - Me learning flirting from like a fucking dialogue tree.

- Yeah, I mean, all I'm saying is, you know, if I was single and I was talking to a girl, if I don't get the option whenever I get like a good dialogue option, then I don't know if I'm- - I mean, bro, you grew up playing visual novels.

the fucking genre for romance. Yeah, but fucking visual novels like gives you a false sense of riz because it's just literally two options. That'd be a great name for an album. False sense of riz. That's my next album. Yeah, it gives you a false sense of riz because it's just like, oh, okay, you have this like dialogue option where it's like,

It's either the obvious correct answer or it's the I'm a fucking psychopath with no sympathy answer. - Yeah. - Oh, I wonder which one is gonna get the girl. - Okay, do you know the biggest things that, moving on, the biggest thing that pisses me off about the Persona series? - Go on. - So. - I'm listening. - Should be a station. - Okay, so in the- - That's a big shit navigate.

in the social links, right? You have to pick the right dialogue option in order to optimize how like friendly they are to you. - Yes. - Right? - Yes. - So to explain Connor, to increase your social link, you hang out with characters and you have to pick the right dialogue option for that personality type. Sometimes what dialogue option

is best for that character. It just seems fucking randomized, man. You're like, sometimes you're just like, do you think mass murder is wrong? And you have to pick like, and you pick like, no. - We should take both sides. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. And you'd be like, no. And that like, and that pisses off the character or something like that. And I'm just like, what is she saying? - Yeah, yeah, no, it'd be like, do you think mass murder is wrong? It's like, no, absolutely. It's terrible. And it's like, wow, what a fucking close minded statement. - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. - I'm just like, what the fuck?

I'm like, what are these dialogue options right now? Yeah, no, I feel that. I feel that. And I feel like Bioware has like, sometimes, I know how many RPGs you play, but sometimes you pick dialogue options. I think it's because, you know, sometimes you get the self-insert character. Yeah. And they would just say shit that I would never fucking say in that situation. I think that pisses me off. But that's why I liked metaphor, because it wasn't a self-insert character.

It was an actual character with personality. Yeah, it was a character with personality that clearly was just like a character that you're currently looking in the eyes of to experience the story, but it doesn't force you to be like, this is you. I think that sounds much

Much better than persona where it's supposed to be like a blank character for you to kind of be. And then oftentimes it's like, you know, maybe they're like, I would be like, that's fucking stupid. Like, no, say one of these two. And they're both basically saying the same thing, but slightly different. It's kind of like, I don't know. I feel like it's kind of like babyish. Yeah. It's like the dialogue is, it's like trying to give me the illusion of choice, which I never had. I think that the moment I see that I'm immediately turned off.

Whereas if it's a character, it's like, in some aspects, I appreciate they let me choose. But in other ways, I'm like, if it's a character, the dialogue should be written for him. Well, I should not have a say in what this character says. Do you...

Even if, because if there's an extreme option, why am I able to then just ignore that the next time, pretend like I never said the extreme option, right? Do you feel like you need to be able to relate to the character you're playing in order to appreciate the game? Because I feel like a lot of games, they try to make it a blank slate because they're like, oh, you could...

self insert yourself into this character. Whereas you have other games where it's like the main character is a specific character. I think it completely depends. Cause like sometimes I don't mind the self insert character. If I know that, you know, the stakes are maybe low or maybe I'm just there to kind of be there for the ride. But then there are some games where,

by the main character not being a self-insert, it further enhances the story experience. So it's like, you know, I don't mind the fact that for most Persona and Shin Megami Tensei games where the characters are the kind of blank slate self-insert type of characters because, you know, that's the kind of

point of the game, right? Like, you know, that's the world you want to explore. But, you know, if we're sticking to like Atlas, for example, you have games like Catherine where like the main character very much has his own type of personality that you can choose which direction you want to go in, but it's clearly not, even though you can dictate what kind of personality trait he's going to have for the remainder of the game, he still seems like his own character.

You know what I mean? And that's kind of like borrowing his, his story. Yeah. You're basically playing God and like pushing him in a direction to be like, you can be the good guy this time, or you can be the absolute dickhead. Yeah. And I feel like that's what the original mass effect did really well as well, where you can go like the good route or the evil route. But I think the base character was always there. And it was always, it always felt like if you picked like the good dialogue, then it was like, it still felt real.

right for that character being a good guy. And then if you've picked the bad dialogue, it was like, oh, it's just this character being an extra feeling kind of like assholey that day. Right. Right.

And the thing I appreciate about metaphor is that I had a good idea about what the main character was. It was just how sassy do I feel like on the day sometimes? You know what I mean? - Yeah, I understand that. - Where I'm like, I can be a good boy or I could just, I could be a good boy with just a little bit of sass. - I also hate choice when it's unimportant.

Yeah. I hate when they just give me a choice and it's meaningless. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Because I stress about it. I'm thinking about it and I'm like, you know, and I genuinely don't want to fuck something up. Yeah. And then you go through the game and be like, man, all the decisions are pointless. And then someone will be like, ah, you missed the one decision. That was actually pretty crucial. You should have known that you should have flipped the toast over. But that's what I like a lot about a lot of Atlus games specifically is that like,

They're so good, especially in games like Catherine or the Persona series where they build it up so that each decision doesn't necessarily create one large impact, but it's more so a collection of small impacts that eventually lead to a large impact. Yeah. So it's like, you know, because in, say, the Persona games or even Metaphor, when you're doing the social links,

The dialogue options that you can pick, they don't necessarily affect immediately how the story is going to go. But in the long run, it could get to the point where it's like, oh, because I made those small wrong decisions, my social link isn't as high as it is, which makes the end fight a little bit more difficult or maybe I'm missing out on a couple of things. So I think I prefer that rather than

one giant, like, this will decide whether you get the good ending or bad ending and then the rest of the dialogue just doesn't fucking matter. Yeah, I mean, me and Pete get into arguments pretty much every time we talk about Mass Effect. One of the biggest controversies about Mass Effect is that the ending of the final trilogy of Mass Effect was kind of like...

it didn't really matter too much. It was kind of like, just like no matter what choices you made leading up to that point, it was kind of like just three flavors of endings. And then that was it. But I still like, P hates that. And you know, I can understand that. But to me, it was the choices up to that point that really determined what journey you took. And to me, the journey was like, the amount of variation in the journey itself was like,

memorable enough that I didn't care so much that, hey, every choice mattered in terms of getting like 27 different endings. 'Cause one big pet peeve I have about games is that if there are like too many endings, I'm like, I just- - I hate when there's too many endings and they're only like tiny difference. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Like actually he's wearing a blue scarf in this ending, signaled that he did not approve. It's like, what? Why do they have to play five hours to get that? - Did you care about the ending of Elden Ring?

- No, not really. - "Elden Ring" is a journey. - That's like the journey kind of game. - There's nothing wrong with that. Like I think people are just sometimes unwilling to be like, "I played "Elden Ring" for the fucking game." Like, I'll be honest, I don't know what the fuck the hand shit was about. I don't know what all this shit was going on. Do you remember the fucking hand? - The hand monster? - No, there was just a hand. That was like the main like fucking like religion or some shit in this game.

You should know. You put how many hours into this game? Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. Reminds, reminds me. Hand of Millennia. This is like the fucking religion, bro. Yeah, yeah. I remember the hand monster. No, no, not the finger creeper. What's the law behind all the hand and finger themes? Yeah, it's like loads of law behind hands. And you know, when you're in the room with all the dead people. Yeah, yeah. There's a giant fucking hand in that room.

that you can like interact with. - Oh yeah. - Yeah, like, look, look, if you love that and that's your shit, you're gonna love it. But let's not pretend that the 95% of players, they don't even second guess. - You got into the story of Elden Ring, right? - Did I? - I'm pretty sure in your own words, you said on like your, like when you talk about Elden Ring, you're like- - The world building, world building. I thought the fucking world was sick. - Oh no, it was. - All of this like kind of,

I mean, it was very, not Tolkien, it was very George R.R. Martin, which I really enjoy his world building. I didn't pretend to know what the fuck the story's about. Yeah. But I love the world. Like, the world was awesome. And I think you don't need to understand what's happening to appreciate the world. Yeah. I just see, like, all the kind of things that look fucking cool. All the characters who talk to me are fucking cool. Like, I just love that. Yeah. But, like, I didn't understand what the story was. Like, the story was fucking complicated. And the video that tries to explain the story, I don't know if you've seen it,

It's fucking long. I mean, that's all Miyazaki. Yeah. But obviously this is like a team up between George RR Martin and Miyazaki. So it's extra complicated. I feel like because George RR Martin loves his fucking intense world building. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, like, I don't want to romance. I'm just sorry. Just getting that jab in there. I don't want to romance. You don't want to romance America? I don't want to fucking romance. I did go the romance reaction.

- There's a romance room in Elden Ring? - There is a romance room. - What? - Kinda. Well, because you have no maidens. You can get a maidens. - You have no maidens. - Oh, that's what that means. - You can get maidens. - Yeah. I burned it all down. - You burned it down? - Which is the ending that everyone hates, 'cause it's literally just chaos ending. - Oh, shit. - Chaos. - In my room, I got married. - Hell yeah. - This fucking guy, bro.

I'm like, we're playing chess. He's like, we married again. I'm like, what? It's chess, brother. What do you mean you married? Give me more romance options and I'm going to fucking take it. I guess it's, yeah. Different strokes for different folks. Yeah, yeah. And Garnt likes to stroke. Garnt likes to get stroked. What can I say? I'm a man who knows what I want. He wants his wifeies, bro. It is. I mean, you know, you, you know, even in Elden Ring, there are, you can take

I guess it's not really romance, but you know, whatever. - No, no, just say it's romance. - It's romance. You've literally put a ring on someone, you know? - If that isn't romance then- - If that isn't romance? - There is no romance. - Then romance is dead. - Love is not romance, Con. It is love. And it is the need of a bloodline.

I don't know Elden Ring. I just like the game and I like the world. When are you playing the fucking DLC? I'm going to play it. By the time this episode's out, I hopefully will have played it. You hopefully would have played it? Hopefully will have played it. No promises, no promises. Yeah, yeah. I want to try. Hopefully by the time you watch this episode, I'm already an Elden God, whatever it's called. Hopefully by the time you watch this episode, I will also be an Elden God. I still need to play the DLC.

- Yeah, you should need to play the fucking, don't fucking come at me when you haven't played the fucking DLC, mister. - Look, you said you didn't want to play it and I was just like- - No, I did want to play it. I didn't want to fucking go through the bollocks again of getting to the, 'cause I started a new game plus like an idiot. - You started a new game plus? - Yeah, 'cause I thought it was done. I thought I was done. - You not download like a save file? - That's what I'm gonna do. - Yeah. - Just download the fucking save file. - That's what I'm gonna do. Yo, this Grog got me pissing, huh?

I'm fucking shitface. Any pisses in the comments? You're shitface. I'm a little bit shitface. I'm a little bit shitface. It's like water. I'm fucking shitface. I don't drink that often. Look, it's the salad. I've only had a salad today. I think the piss is well though. Please continue. Please continue. Let's talk more about metaphor while we talk. Oh, bro. Actually, speaking of which, fucking Persona 6 apparently is in the works and it's going to come out soon. Of course. Of course it is.

What do you want to see? Okay. As a Persona fan, what do you want to see in Persona 6 is the question. Menus. Menus.

- Obviously. - Tell me I'm wrong. - Obviously. - Tell me I'm wrong. - Oh my God, I'm genuinely scared with like just how much Atlas' fucking UI game. Like, you know, we all play Persona 5 and we, and you know, people who play that for the first time or never played a Persona game were like, oh my God, this is the most beautiful menu I've ever seen. - Yeah. - Persona 3 Reload comes out. - Yeah. - It's just like, wow, how did they make it even better? Metaphor comes out and I'm just like, whew.

- Bruh, I'm scared. - I actually prefer the menus of Persona 5, I'm not gonna lie. - Really? I mean, it's great. - I prefer the story of metaphor, but like, I just feel like the aesthetic and the soundtrack of every other Persona game is like more iconic. Like Shoji Meguro really tried. He got a fucking monk just come out and just- - But I just feel like a fantasy soundtrack is just always gonna stand out less

than the different soundtracks. - Fucking jazz. - Yeah, well it's jazz. - Big band jazz. - It's like Persona 3. I thought Persona 5 would be my favorite soundtrack of all time. And then I played Persona 3 Reload and I'm like, holy shit. - Persona 3 has the most amazing soundtrack out of any JRPG. It's so fucking good. - And I like, I don't know.

I feel like my favorite Persona is always between Persona 3 and Persona 5. Persona 4 is always just that middle child where I'm like... You haven't played it, right? I have played it. Oh, yeah. I've played it. It's good. Yeah. It's... It's good. It's good. Yeah. It's good. At the time, Persona 4 had the best gameplay. Yeah. And then Persona 5 came out and...

Arguably, I prefer the gameplay of Persona 5, but that's just me. I prefer the gameplay of Persona 5. Yeah, but a lot of Persona fans will say that Persona 4 has the best gameplay out of all the Personas. But I'm genuinely scared that with just how much Atlus is just one-upping their UI game, that like, I don't know.

Persona 6, maybe Persona 7, whenever that happens, it's just going to get to the point where the moment I open the menu, I'm just going to not. I'm genuinely scared of like, how can you keep one-upping UI? I want to know what music Persona 6 has. That's what I'm most excited about. Actually, it's like, I give less of a shit about the story and characters than I do about what kind of soundtrack is going to be. Because it was so weird because I was playing Persona 3 Reload earlier this year. And...

It's rare that I have this moment where I'm experiencing something. Have you ever experienced something and you know you're going to get nostalgic over this even though you're experiencing it right then and there? I get it. It's just like walking through some of the Persona 3 Reload. It's the nighttime track. What's the nighttime track called? Which one? While You're in the City? Yeah, While You're in the City. Persona 3 nighttime track. I've never felt like I could...

- Nostalgic, the first time playing something. - "Color Your Night." - "Color Your Night." - Oh my God. - What a banger. - Oh, I fucking love this track. - No, I've never had that. - You've never had that? - No. - I am definitely gonna feel that with "Last Surprise" from Persona 5. - Oh yeah. - Like I probably heard that song, you know, you do one play through of Persona and you probably hear that track

I'd say 500 to a thousand times. Yeah. Like sometimes it doesn't get old. Sometimes you experience something and you're like, I don't know if this is going to be an out of pocket line, but sometimes you just feel your brain chemistry changing as you're experiencing the thing. And you're like, damn, I'm going to remember this. I never thought I'd appreciate game music as much as I do now. I remember hearing color of the night. Have you ever done this in a video game?

where you're playing it, you're doing game of moments and then maybe a song comes on or you climb up to the top of a mountain and you just see like this landscape and you're just like, you just, for a moment, you're just like,

You stop playing the game and you just like, you're just like- - I got Goblin Brain. - I had that with when the first time I played Mario 64 as a kid and I heard Jolly Roger Bay. I had to put the controller down. I was like, what am I listening to right now? What is this beautiful piece of music? - I wish I didn't have Goblin Brain. - That and the Donkey Kong Country 2,

- You didn't have that when you played Elden Ring and you go to the rural city and you walk into that fucking corridor. - Maybe I did, I was like, that's fucking sick. But I didn't like shit then go like, whoa. I just went like, all right, that's fucking sick, let's go. Let's go, let's get in there. Let's get in there lads. - That's the poops and beefs man we know a lot. - That was such an amazing moment. You see like the fucking spear coming out and just like the fucking city landscape looks beautiful and you're like, damn, what did I just feel?

- Fucking enter right now, man. - For real. - Bro, fucking, I don't know. Those moments for me in gaming are like some of the most like magical moments. - What's a one piece of video? I wanna know from you Connor, because you're a beeps and boops man. What's a one piece of video game music in your entire life where you're like, I'll probably remember that track for the rest of my life. - There isn't one. - Not a single one, not even from your childhood.

But you're like, you just hear the track and you're like, I remember playing this game. I remember like my life at that point, nothing. - All right, all right. - Head empty. - All right, all right. What is one gaming moment that you will remember?

- Preferably from a single player game. - Well, that's your first one. - Not shouting slurs in your cod fucking lobbies. All right, what's one single player gaming moment? - For me, and you'll appreciate this because you've just finished the game, in Final Fantasy VI, the final Kefka fight. For me, we'll live on, for one, that is one of the greatest pieces of- - What's so fucking hard?

Hard as shit. I died so many times as a kid trying to beat Kefka at the end, but the piece of music that plays, Dancing Mad, you beat it first time? First time. Damn, good shit. But the first time you encounter that final Kefka fight and that track that plays throughout the entire boss fight is one of the most fucking eye-opening gaming experiences I've ever had. I was like, oh my God, this is peak gaming for me.

Nothing will be better than this. And to this day- - You got nothing? - No, nothing. - You must have something. - I think it's the booze. Head empty. - No. - Are you drinking it all free? - Yeah, it's not funny. - I don't know, I can't think of anything. - Really? - This is like being on the spot, bro. When you ask your friend, like, "What's your favorite film?" And they're like, "What's your hobby?" They're like, "I got nothing." You're like, "You got no hobby." And they're like- - I can name like 10 moments. - You don't have a magical gaming moment that is just like-

- Fuck, that's cool as shit. - First time I fucking fought Mewtwo. - I'm sure there is, but like, I don't think there's one that pops to my head as being like worthy of that. - The first time you heard fucking Halo? - I don't remember the first time I heard Halo. - Oh my God. - The reason why Halo sticks in my head is because I heard it so many times. You know what I mean? Like, 'cause you keep hearing it. - First time, another one for me is the first time I fought Rayquaza in Pokemon Emerald.

- That shit blew my mind. I was like fucking God knows how old I was, 10. - No, first time in like- - Like Lugio Hoa. - Lugio Hoa. - I don't remember it though, but I know that I can like, it's like a crumb of like a strand of- - Dude, I remember where I was when I first fought Lugio and Hoa. I was at my grandma's house.

- I remember like playing Pokemon Gold, Silver and just like you beat like the elite four and then you meet yourself. - Holy yeah, Red. You meet Red and you're like no fucking way. - The song that plays when you find him on Mount Silver and you encounter the level 88 Pikachu. - Red is epic. - Kids will never understand. - I remember I was playing Pokemon Mystery Dungeon and I fucking killed Mewtwo and that broke my fucking heart.

And I had to go and redo the whole fucking dungeon again to floor 100 to find the new two and catch him. That fucking sucked. And like, why did I give a fuck? Because I catch him, what, to move on to the next game? Pretty much, yeah. Because by that point, you're already endgame, you know? You've already finished the game. Bastards. Fire. Bastards. Fire moments. What's the most progress on the game that you've lost?

- Ooh, that's a great question. - I would rather delete my Pokemon save. - Yeah, I think it was a- - No fucking way. Are you serious? - I think it was a Pokemon save for me as well. - You don't got this problem, man. You don't got this only- - You don't have the sibling problem. - Only child problem, bro.

- Like your brother's deleting your shit is a normal occurrence. - To be fair for me, the reason why I lost my progress is because I lost the game. - Well, he just clicked new game. - Oh no, for me, I maxed out the in-game timer on Pokemon Sapphire. - Yeah, how many channels about that? - And I lost the fucking cartridge on a camping trip.

I was playing it. I remember I was playing Pokemon Sapphire the entire car ride to the camping place and I put down my Game Boy Advance and I think I switched it out with another game because I wanted to play like Kirby or something and I fucking lost that. Ah, that fucking sucks.

I'm just like, I had, I literally had 999 hours on it. I'm just like, I'm going to kill myself. Remember the days of like memory cartridges? And I love the memory cartridges. That's sick. Sometimes like when they get corrupted, that was like world ending. That only happened like one time to me though. But like you remember that one time. Like when the memory card gets corrupted, you're like. But also I think at that point I was so addicted to gaming. I was like, hell yeah, I get to do it all over again.

I'm not a gamer because I have one life or because I have many. So I would just go at it. Damn. That was the hype part, man. Just getting to redo that shit. What's the one game that you'd say you'd put the most amount of hours in?

- League of Legends. - Yeah, League of Legends. I've probably got like 3K hours in League. - It's sad to me that I know the exact answer. - I genuinely think I have like 2K plus hours in League. - Yeah. - It could be like 3K. - Okay, okay. Let's give a real answer. - Yeah. - 'Cause like- - No, it's all like modern warfare for me or some shit. I'm getting outed as a toxic man. - What was it for you? - Single player game. - Single player game. Most hours. - Most hours.

Like in terms of not just like in a single sitting, but like maybe just like you've replayed it so many times. - Yeah. Probably. - For me it'd be Pokemon Ruby Sapphire. - Probably Tales of Symphonia. - Really? - Yeah. I replayed that three times. - Holy shit. - I think maybe four times. But I don't have. - Does it have that much replay value? 'Cause I've been once.

It doesn't looking back. We all do things like that. I was just, I had a very specific thing of what I was looking for in a JRPG. And at the time of release, Chels and Symphonia was the only thing that clicked every box. The JRPG. It's a fire game. Huh? It's a fire game. Great story. Um, it had a, most importantly, no random encounters and, um, a real time battle system. Yeah. And back then, uh,

with English releases of JRPGs, we got fucking nothing. That was the only thing. So I just like, I finished the game, replayed it, replayed it again, waiting for the next Tales series to come out. - Next one was Zestiria, right? - It was Vesperia. - Oh, Vesperia. - Vesperia was fucking fantastic. Yeah, aside from that.

Not much. Aside from League of Legends. We don't want to talk about League. We can't get into League. We can't. We can't do this. We've done it. We don't want to at any time. I'd be silent for the next 15 minutes. But what we can do is thank our beautiful patrons. Look at those patrons. Hey, let us know what game you put the most amount of hours in. I'd love to know. What game moment changed your brain chemistry? Connor couldn't ask us. Yeah, what's that one core gaming moment that you had? I'm a change man. I play JRPGs. I listen to the story now.

- I'm glad that you at least liked Final Fantasy 6. - I didn't like, I love Final Fantasy 6. It was amazing, bro. - I was so scared you were not gonna like it. - Why would I not like it? It's fucking peak. - I don't know. - It's peak. - Actually, I gotta ask you. What moment sold you on League of Legends? - Me? - Yeah, there must've been. - Honestly, watching the e-sports. - Was it? - Yeah, the e-sports, that was so fucking sick. - You got into the e-sport before you got into the game? - Yeah, I remember watching like the worlds and I was like, this is so fucking sick. - Really? - And I got into it.

- 'Cause I remember it was like, I was, 'cause I had a friend get me into League and it was like, okay, I know. - Are they your friend? - I don't know what friend they are. But I was like, okay, I'll play support. - Oh no. - And okay, you know, that's the thing. And I'm like, okay, I'm playing for my friends. And I think my first- - What are you, an anime character? - The power of friendship. - I'm doing it for my friends. - You know, it was a social experience back then. And then I think the first time that like I could feel like,

the fucking, my brain. Yeah, my dopamine come out from my brain. I was like, let me try ADC once. And I pick Lucian. And I'm like, I get that first kill. I'm like, holy shit. And then that ruined my life. That I can remember. I can remember the exact kill that ruins my life. - It didn't ruin your life.

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